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réf. 46461730 pp. report on prisons and prison labor in early 20th century Italy organized by type of intuition youth reformatory house of corrections agricultural penal colony and region illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs showing prison buildings inmates working conditions and the produce of prison labor. Light foxing and page browning throughout. 4to. Recent-cloth backed boards. Rome Tipografia delle Mantellate 1923. A work that provides much rich documentation of prison conditions and inmate labor in early 20th century Italy. Extremely scarce in institutional collections. As of June 2015 WorldCat locates only one copy in North America. hardcover books
réf. 154932 vols. 200 294 pp. detailed crit. catalogue by Paola della Pergola of paintings in the collection annotated digest of 260 documents and inventories including some transcriptions chronological bibliographies concordance tables indices 3 text illus. 557 illus. on plates. Small 4to. Orig. printed bds. Rome Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato 1955-1959. Cataloghi dei Musei e Gallerie d'Italia. The collection now state-owned was started by the Borghese Popes and their family in the 16th and 17th centuries and boasts such treasures as Titian's "Sacred and Profane Love" and Correggio's "Danae." unknown books
réf. 102660hardcover. very good/very good. Illus. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y. 1967. unknown books
1880réf. 42095Roma: A. Olivieri Fotografo 49-50 Piazza di Spagna via Frattina 151 e 152 1880. 60 photographs of Rome and photos of painting tipped-in on thick cards 165 x 105 mm. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 255 x 185 mm. Bound in full white vellum with rectangular gilt stamped red morocco onlays on upper and lower covers. "Roma" stamped in upper central panel gilt-stamped spine with "Olivieri leg." on bottom panel. Bookplate of Jacob Sloat Fassett. Fine. 60 photographs of Rome and photos of painting tipped-in on thick cards 165 x 105 mm. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 255 x 185 mm. A. Olivieri, Fotografo, 49-50 Piazza di Spagna, via Frattina 151 e 152 unknown books
réf. 34351ARDENE Jean Paul de Rome d'. TRAITE DES TULIPES. Avignon: Louis Chambeau 1760. 12mo. Nineteenth-century cloth spine marbled boards. 252 4 pages 2 folding plates. First edition. Written by this noted French priest and botanist this is only the second boo devoted entirely to the tulip. The first also by Ardene was published in 1754. The text offers a detailed history of the flower instructions on its care and cultivation and a glossary of technical terms. Rare. Only four copies cited by OCLC as being in American libraries. Folding plates by P. Duflos. Very good. unknown books
réf. 34413ARDENE Jean Paul. TRAITE DE LA CULTURE DES RENONCULES. Paris: Saugrain 1754. 12mo. Contemporary cat's paw calf. xxxviii 447 4 pages. First edition. A valuable work on the cultivation violets tulips and similar plants. Arde was a French Jesuit. He describes the specific characteristics of the plants their cultivation places of growth and time of flowering. Very good in an ornately gilt handsome French binding. unknown books
réf. 34353ARDENE Jean Paul de Rome d'. TRAITE DES RENONCULES. Paris: Lottin 1746. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf. Frontispiece ix 279 3 pages 6 plates. First edition. Oak Spring Flora 76 Hunt 526. The first edition of this detailed study of the Ranunculus flower also known Crowfoot or Buttercup. The work describes the plant's history and medicinal use. The alegorical frontispiece and six plates four of which are folding by Benoit Audran and Nicholas Le Sueur. Small library stamp on title page a marginal stain to the tips on some pages light cover wear. unknown books
1723réf. 214670London: Printed for Abel Roper 1723. First edition. 6 352 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original full calf. Spine label intact upper hinge and joint roughly repaired rear hinge and joint cracked. Internally Fine. First edition. 6 352 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for Abel Roper unknown books
1825réf. 61801Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute 1825. New Edition Revised and Corrected. 4 folding maps. 5 vols. 8vo. Early half calf and boards edges a bit rubbed foot of vol. I chipped. Very good copy. New Edition Revised and Corrected. 4 folding maps. 5 vols. 8vo. Feguson's History of the Reublic was so well received in his own lifetime as to become regarded as the standard account in English. Bell & Bradfute unknown books
réf. 41776Early Nineteenth Century. 10 x 16 inches Image Size. Framed and glazed. 10 x 16 inches Image Size. unknown books
réf. 57312Second half of the 18th C. 12-1/2/ x 17 inches. Bordered in green paper. Edges rubbed with small tears not affecting image light browning to upper half else very good. 12-1/2/ x 17 inches. unknown books
1886réf. 35403Rome 1886. Images neatly captioned on the mount by the traveler who assembled them often with pertinent remarks and historical observations and with lengthy quotation from Rogers's "Italy" to open the album. 1 vols. Most of the photographs measure approximately 10 x 8 inches. Each photo is mounted to the recto of a leaf of the album bound in green pebble cloth of the period lettered in gilt on the upper cover "Roma." Label of Garroni Piazzi Trevi on the pastedown. Images neatly captioned on the mount by the traveler who assembled them often with pertinent remarks and historical observations and with lengthy quotation from Rogers's "Italy" to open the album. 1 vols. Most of the photographs measure approximately 10 x 8 inches. Fine Photo Album of Rome. Wonderful assemblage of period photos of the Eternal City assembled by a tourist in 1886 comprising portraits views of the city and surrounding landscapes architecture works of art antiquities street scenes etc. Signed on the flyleaf by the original owner-compiler and dated "Margaret Willing Chisholm. Rome January 9th/86 unknown books
1964réf. 2753London: Hutchinson 1964. Cloth. Good . Edition not stated. Maps on endapers. Many color and black and white photos. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed at edges. The authors were the first westerners in Tibet after the Chinese takeover in 1951. Hutchinson hardcover books
1967réf. 269611London: Hutchinson 1967. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated with black and white photographs as well as colored frontispiece portrait. 8vo black cloth dust wrapper dust wrapper has a few chips. London: Hutchinson 1967. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Hutchinson unknown books
réf. 17821Rome Italy Interesting view of this Rome Italy fountain & the surrounding architectural features with about 30 men and boys loosely grouped in front of the fountain on the pavement facing the camera do not appear to be any women present; no date or photographer and circa 1880; title caption at base of image; 10" x 8" size approximate; on original black cardstock mount; a little wear to the mount card bending; very good condition. Very Good. unknown books
réf. 3007Italian text and English Text; 32 views in black and white circa 1890's no autos nice 5-panel fold-out panorama of the city; 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" size; map of inner city on inside paste--down pages; decorative color lithographed front board; slight tips edgewear to binding; a very good copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books
1914réf. 2308844S.N 1914. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Ink gift note on verso of one page. 1914 Hard Cover. Both parts of a two-volume accordion-fold photographic viewbook of Rome the first including a four-panel panoramic view and 26 individual photographs and the second 32 individual photographs of important sites throughout the city captioned in Italian on the front with more detailed captions in Italian French English and German on the reverse. The paste-down endpaper of each which continues across the inside binding edge forms a two-panel map of Rome. A photograph of the Basilica of St. Peter is mounted on the front board of the first volume with another photographic view on the back and the front board of the second volume is a colorized photograph. S.N hardcover books
1912réf. 86703Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1912. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. This volume only. 94 black & white plates printed on one side and numbered 1-34 34A and 35-93. Original cloth-backed boards. 34cm. Uneven cover fading and some small holes and other wear along rear joint. Modest wear along extremities. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
1715réf. 2135233Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts 1715. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor loss from spine head & foot ink name on front flyleaf. 1715 Full-Leather. viii 141 2 pp. Full calf gilt titles decorations & rules marbled endpapers. Latin text. A work of history by a contemporary of Hadrian. Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts hardcover books
1981réf. 1341330Hyderabad: The Burney Academy 1981. Revised edition. Hardcover. Octavo; Revised edition; G; Hardcover; Spine green with silver print; Boards in green cloth with silver print mild wear to spine caps and corners else clean and strong; Text block has puckering to pastedowns front and rear clean text; Text in Arabic transliterated Arabic and English translation in parallel columns on each page; xxxv 605 pages. 1341330. FP New Rockville Stock. The Burney Academy hardcover books
1963réf. 286082Rome: Rotograph Roma 1963. unbound. very good. Rotograph backed with paper. 26.75" x 38". Shows some small tears and chips to edges of mounted paper image unaffected. Original fold lines are present but faint. In very good condition. Original movie poster for the Italian release of Columbia Picture's 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole Alec Guiness and Anthony Quinn. Rotograph Roma unknown books
1627réf. 266707Leiden: Jacob Marcus 1627. hardcover. 2 parts in one with continuous pagination. 282 pages. 32mo bound in contemporary vellum. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex officina Iacobi Marci 1627. Editio sexta. A very good clean copy. The Julian has separate half-title "D. Iuliani Imperatoris Cæsares sive Satyra in Romanos Imperatores. Interprete Petro Cunæo. In limine est eiusdem Præfatio in Iulianum." Jacob Marcus unknown books
1974réf. 254422London: Routledge 1974. hardcover. near fine/very good. 244 pages. 8vo red cloth dust wrapper. London: Routledge 1974. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Routledge unknown books
1960réf. 2379571960. unbound. Inscribed photograph signed in full -- a 10 x 8-inch black-and-white publicity still of Rome sitting on a piano stool and smoking his trademark cigar. No place no date circa 1960. Inscribed: "For the Allens with my best Harold Rome." The first letter of the word "For" is smudged but the rest of the inscription and signature is flawless; very good condition. American composer best known for such musicals as" Fanny" and "Call Me Mister." unknown books
1969réf. 211550New York 1969. unbound. 1 pages 10.25 x 7 inches New York March 27 1969. Brief letter signed "Harold" to Carl Miller thanking him for the copies of "Wish you Were Here." The letter says in part: ".It's a lovely job and I still marvel at how much you're able to do in that small office." Two horizontal folds; one tiny spot on the bottom portion of the page. Very good condition. unknown books
