A rare survival of such an ephemeral piece (unrecorded on ICCU): a large broadside issued during the nine-month occupation of Rome following the fall of the Roman Republic, and proclaiming a complete revision of the running of the city’s public market to prevent “hoarders and scalpers” from inflating food prices..... More

Rare first edition of this illustrated treatise on the art of sculpture by Carradori, a neoclassical sculptor and professor at the Florentine Academy. The work considers basic tools and materials of the craft: clay, wax, stucco, stone and marble as well as the straw, wire, cloth and glue for ephemeral..... More

First edition, with watermarks dated 1796, of “one of the basic works on Turkish costume, which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material” (Atabey). Dalvimart’s vivid plates primarily depict the vibrant attire of the ruling classes and their servants, but they also showcase traditional garments—especially those worn by..... More

First and only edition of this Spanish classic on fencing, composed of 24 chapters and 18 finely engraved informative full-page illustrations. The book deals with the Iberian style of swordmanship called Verdadera Destreza (“the true one”). Brea, one of the last masters of this art, modified the principle of Verdadera..... More

This charming almanac features a short biography of Madame de La Fayette, the celebrated French woman writer, and excerpts from her works. The Bibliothèque Nationale of France, citing Barbier and Quérard, identifies the work’s author as François-Marie Mayeur de Saint-Paul (1758-1818), an actor, playwright and theater director, who is also..... More

Rare, first and sole American edition of this comprehensive guide by a Liverpool wine and spirit merchant to making and maintaining liquors, wines, beers and a wide assortment of alcoholic beverages (first edition 1805). In addition to the grape based wines, the work treats more than three dozen wines produced..... More

First edition of an historically important volume describing the Dendera Affair, the Egyptian archaeological expedition of 1820 led by Saulnier, an antiquarian and treasure-hunter, and J.-B. Lelorrain, the master mason he hired to remove the bas-relief zodiac from Egypt’s Temple of Dendera and smuggle it to Paris. Until it was..... More

[bound with:] Nouvelles vues de Saint-Pétersbourg Dessinées d’après nature, par divers Artistes. Second Cahier [– Quatrième Cahier]. A Saint-Pétersbourg, Au dépôt lithographique, chez Alexandre Pluchart, Imprimeur-Libraire, Editeur. M. DCCC.XXII [1822]. Separate index title and 6 views.  [bound with:] Nouvelles vues de Saint-Pétersbourg Dessinées d’après nature, par divers Artistes. Troisième Cahier..... More

Rare first and only edition – illustrated with 2 large folding lithographs – of an ambitious early 19th-century project proposal for improving the navigability of the Seine between Paris and the port of Le Havre. Jacques-Joseph Frimot (1790-1866), hydraulic engineer of the Corps Royal des Ponts et Chaussées, here confronts..... More

Rare first edition of this study which attempts to identify and distinguish various Roman temples to the two-faced god, by the archaeologist and painter Piale (1753-1835). Relying largely on literary sources (Martial, Ovid, Macrobius and Procopius), the work is of interest for both the state of archaeology at the beginning..... More

An exceedingly rare booklet (no recorded copies in OCLC) on roofing materials, illustrated with a large folding chromolithographic plate. Noting the various disadvantages of lead, zinc, copper, and brick tiles, the author advocates for the use of slate in roofing (fig. D on the plate): “The proposed roof, made from..... More

Very rare first and only edition of this travel guide to Europe, written, as the title suggests, for young readers in a pocket 12mo format. The guide moves from tours of Italy and Switzerland all the way to Poland, Lithuania, and Turkey, as well as Great Britain, providing 8 lithograph..... More

Very rare first edition, and likely a pre-journal ‘off-print,’ of this report on the wines presented and judged at the Vienna World’s Fair of 1873, with special focus on the wines of Spain, written by the chief of the Spanish Agricultural Commission. Santos’ work begins with a description of recent..... More