Napoli: Associazione Napoletana per i Monumenti e il Paesaggio / Tipografia Gennaro D'Agostino, 1965. Gigante, Achille. Limited Edition. Trade Paperback.
Limited edition, #398 of 550. Light wear to corners.
310, [5] pp. Plain wrappers, printed dust jacket. Italian text. 1965 reissue of Alvino's 1845 account of 19th century Naples, with.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Hard Cover.
Gallus: Front hinge weakening. Both volumes: Some loss to spine head and to spine base, ink stamp and ink name on front endpapers.
xxi, 535; xxi, 512 pp. Two volume set. Wilhelm Adolf Becker's classics works on life in ancient Greece and.....
![Item #2342405 Viaggiatori stranieri in terra di Siena [ITALIAN TEXT]. Attilio Brilli](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2342405.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735328637)
Roma: Monte Dei Paschi di Siena, 1986. Large Hardcover.
Scratch on rear jacket panel. Top page ridge foxed.
331, [2] pp. Italian text. A tour of Sienna profusely illustrated with color photographs and illustrations, and reproductions of historical illustrations and documents.
New York: Osprey, 2005. Hook, Adam. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Covers lightly toned.
64 pp. Sieges played a central role in many conflicts of the ancient world and generals, including Darius, Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Scipio Africanus successfully used siegecraft to gain their objectives. As siege tactics.....
. Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1986. Hard Cover.
Owner bookplate on front endpaper.
346 pp. 8vo. Italian text. 1986 facsimile of the edition published in Pistoia in 1889-90. A guide to the Italian province of Arezzo, including a fold-out map and a fold-out statistical table.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1923. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1923 printing of the 'cheap edition' first released in 1915. Spines faded, otherwise excellent. Bindings tight, pages clean and unmarked.
xxiii, [1], 392, [4]; xiii, [3], 419 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and rules. Black-and-white frontispieces and plates. A biography.....
New York: Oriole Editions, 1972. Hard Cover.
A few tears to jacket edges. Ink name on front free endpaper.
xvi, 137 pp. A bibliography with 1416 entries of books about Italians in America. Subjects covered are Italian Emigration to America, sociology of Italian American life, and the Italian American in.....
London/New York: Brentano's, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bookplate on front endpaper.
269 pp. Beatrice d'Este (29 June 1475 - 3 January 1497) was Duchess of Bari and Milan by marriage to Ludovico Sforza (known as "il Moro"). She was one of the most important personalities of the.....
New York: Palgrave, 2008. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Minimal wear to corners, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
209 pp. Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes.....
Paris: Chez Anthe. Boucher, Imprim.-Librairie, 1824. Soft Cover.
Spine lightly creased with a few splits starting, corners rubbed and lightly curled, light stain to rear wrapper and last few pages.
viij, 545 pp. 12mo. 5 5/8 x 3 3/4. French text. Printed wrappers. Engraved frontispiece of St. Pierre de Rome.....
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New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909. Hard Cover.
U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him) with his bookplate on front endpaper. No jacket. Rear hinge starting.....
Epernay: Veuve Fievet, 1853. Hard Cover.
Rebound in quarter leather with marbled boards and new endpapers and flyleaves, with original printed wrappers bound in. Ink name and brief note on front wrapper, minor loss from wrapper corners, scattered faint foxing to text.
332 pp. A 19th century French-language guide to.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Boards soiled, spine leans forward, ink mark on bottom edge, label remnant and ink stamp on rear endpaper.
381 pp. Giuseppe Mazzini, (born June 22, 1805, Genoa [Italy] - died March 10, 1872, Pisa, Italy), Genoese propagandist.....
Marlboro, Vermont: The Marlboro Press, 1988. Pennell, Joseph. Trade Paperback.
Page ridges foxed.
268 pp. Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Caught in bureaucratic limbo as he waited to hear whether his tenure as a consul in Venice was concluded, William Dean Howells decided to spend three months exploring some little-known regions.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Pencil name on front endpaper, minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
302 pp. Teal-grey cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates.....
New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1985. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
1985 reissue with new conclusion by author. Spine faded, minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xix, 384, [1] pp. A vivid account of the personality of Danilo Dolci and the heroic work that he did.....
New York: Osprey, 2011. Ruggeri, Raffaele. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Minor general wear.
48 pp. In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbors in creating an international empire. Italy's eyes turned towards Africa as a source of potential colonies.....
New York: Penguin Books, 2005. 8th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Eighth printing. Remainder mark on page base, minor wear to corners.
xiv, 622 pp. For five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci has stood alone as the quintessential Renaissance man - the incomparable artist, writer, thinker, and inventor who most powerfully transformed his.....
Milan: Chez Epimaque et Pascal Artaria, 1834. Hard Cover.
Nicely rebound - red cloth spine, paper over boards, gilt titles. Small stamp of Peabody Library appears twice inside, with their number on title page, owner bookplate on front endpaper, ink initials on half-title page.
264, viii pp. 12mo. 5 3/4.....
Firenze: Presso Ferdinando Formigli in Via Della Condotta, 1861. Reissue. Hard Cover.
New edition. Edges rubbed with small tears and minor loss to spine head and foot, front and end matter and page ridges foxed, 2 inch closed tear to front fold-out, owner bookplate on front endpaper.
vii, [3], 310.....
Florence: Chez Gaspard Ricci Marchand Libraire, 1844. Reissue. Hard Cover.
New edition. Boards toned and lightly rubbed, front and end matter foxed, a few text pages foxed, owner bookplate on front endpaper.
293, 210 pp. 12mo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4. French text. A 19th century guide to Florence. Fold-out.....
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1954. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Jacket rubbed with portion of spine removed and a few small tears and creases, edges and endpapers lightly foxed.
vii, 481 pp. Reissue of work first published by Oxford University Press. A cultural study of Italy, examining the social and.....
London: Osprey Colour Series, 1984. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. First few pages lightly foxed.
128 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Pesaro--the brothers and de Tomaso--Benelli; Rimin--Blanchi, MOrri e TAmburini--Bimota; Varese--Aermacchi, then Harley-Davidson--Cagiva; Bologna--Taglioni's desmodromics--Ducati; Mandello del Lario--Carcano's heritage--Guzzi; Breganze--for racing the Dolomite foothills--Laverda; Bologna--the other side of town--Morini; Verghera--nothing but.....
Venise: Chez Francois Andreola, 1828. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover.
Fourth edition, second in French. Rebound in cloth. Former copy of Troy Public Library, with their marks on prelims.
xlvii, [1], 404, [4] pp. 16mo. 6 1/16 x 4 1/8. Twenty-two leaves of plates (three folding). French text. An illustrated 19th.....
Charleston, South Carolina: Tempus, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor wear to corners, jacket price clipped.
192 pp. An analysis of the changes (especially in the visual arts) between AD 150 and 600. Almost 100 illustrations, a quarter of which are in full color.