Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards..... More
Padova: CAVART, 1975. 25.5 x 21 cm. Red printed wrappers. 64 pp. Very slight creasing to corners of covers, first page stamped "Distribuzione Centro di Firenze", overall about very good. Edited and published by CAVART, an art group comprised of Pier Paola Bortolami, Piero Brombin, Michele De Lucchi, Boris Pasteovicchio..... More
Double-sided poster/catalog from the first major exhibition of abstract art in Italy, held in Rome at the Galleria Roma from March through April 1948, containing a sort of manifesto about abstract art, a statement on the exhibition from Ettore Sottsass Jr., additional texts from Piet Mondrian, George Morris, G. Formaggio..... More
Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian..... More
Unpaginated (26 leaves, some printed recto only, some printed recto and verso) catalogue printed on the occasion of the Festival of East-West Music organized by Fabio Sargentini at L'Attico in Rome, held June 3 through June 17, 1974, the catalogue consisting of black and white photographs of each of the..... More
Double-sided poster containing: the program of the festival, taking place through May, June, and July of 1965; lists of participants which included Mario Bucci, Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Emilio Isgrò, Lucia Marcucci, Lamberto Pignotti, Aldo Rossi, Adriano Spatola, Luigi Tola, Antonio Bueno, Silvio Loffredo, Elio Marchegiani, Luciano Ori, Dick Higgins..... More
102, 56, pp. reprint edition of the complete run of a short-lived periodical devoted to the arts, published in Florence 1873-1874, incl. essays, reviews, coverage of exhibitions, material on the then flourishing Macchiaoli, discussion of monuments, etc., XXV pp. critical discussion of the serial and index by Fernando Tempesti. 4to..... More
Unpaginated (circa 208 pp.) reprint of the renowned Italian socialist journal, commenting on the political situation in Italy and around the world following WWI from a communist viewpoint. Lg. folio. 1/2 cloth and boards. Milan (Feltrinelli Reprint) 1966. During the course of its publication, Il Soviet was the official organ..... More
193 pp. catalogue of entries for the design competition for the cathedral of La Spezia, all of which are illustrated by an exterior view, floorplan and interior view, outline of rules, list of competitors, 167 plates. 8vo. Boards. La Spezia (Commissione Esecutrice della Cattedrale) n.d. (ca. 1930). As of April..... More
296 pp. text edited by Patrizio Pensabene describing over seven hundred column capitals, including discussions about the various techniques employed in their creation, materials, motifs, etc., extensive scholarly notes, indices, hundreds of photographic illustrations and line drawing recreations on 107 plates. Large 4to. Cloth. Rome (Libreria dello Stato) 1973. One..... More
A complete run in 7 issues, each issue approx. 8 pages, of the anarchist Italian journal, containing alternative history stories which allude to real-life events, provocative stories, and essays on topics such as eroticism, homosexuality, and Dadaism. Illustrated profusely throughout. Some minor scattered toning, edgewear, minor chipping, marginal dampstaining to..... More
A sequential run of 60 issues in 49 fascicules of the long-running Italian journal founded originally in 1932 by the Piemontese division of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, under the initial editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti and later Giovanni Astengo, with the aim of promoting and spreading urban studies and..... More
558 pp. text on 15th-century painting in and near Genoa, its emergence from the Middle Ages, foreign influences, in particular Flemish, and Lorenzo Fasolo, Carlo Braccesco, and their contemporaries, ext. notes, appendix of bio-bibliographical notices on the artists, chronological bibliography, index, 446 illus. (a considerable number in color). Large 4to..... More
1957. 4 vols.: Venetian School. 2 vols., XIV, 206 pp. text, 46 pp. topographical index, 1336 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color); and Florentine School. 2 vols., XIV, 222 pp. text, 39 pp. topographical index, 1480 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth. London/New York (Phaidon)..... More
207 pp. descriptive catalogue of the museum's collection of 466 Italian and Spanish Renaissance and Baroque sculptures (excluding bronzes), notes, bibl., all 466 illus. in the text, many with multiple views and details. Lg. 4to. Printed cloth. Berlin (Reimer) 1913. Ex-library copy (bookplate on endpaper). An ex-library copy in excellent..... More
257 pp. descriptive and critical catalogue, by Frida Schottmuller, of Spanish and Italian sculptures of the 15th through 18th centuries including pieces in marble, clay, ceramic, wood and stone, notes, indices, all works reproduced in the text. Last few pp. neatly repaired. Large 4to. Cloth. Berlin/Leipzig (De Gruyter) 1933. Second..... More
Rome: Edoardo Tinto Editore; Edizioni della Casa d'Arte Bragaglia, 1923–1928. Various sizes, most ca. 19.0 × 13.5 cm. Original printed self-wrappers; between 16 and 24 pp. per issue. Most issues very good or better; occasional faint postal stamps or light spotting; issue no. 85 with pencil scribblings to cover and..... More
Bernini. 2 vols., 205, 23 pp. text on various aspects of the master's drawings, extensive scholarly notes, bibliography, concordances, indices, 198 fine plates showing preparatory works for sculptures, architectural sketches and plans, figure drawings, caricatures, etc. Large 4to. Cloth, spine of Vol. 2 slightly torn. Berlin (Heinrich Keller) 1931. (Romische..... More
3 pp. biographical introduction by P.M. Martini, 101 nice annotated plates from photographs showing interior and exterior architectural views. Lg. 4to. All loose as issued, guard tissues chipped at edges, in dec. cloth portf., sl. soiled. Milan (Bestetti e Tumminelli) n.d. (ca. 1913). A testament to the vision of a...... More
Sangallo. 3 vols., LV, 404, 433, 416 pp. history of the family of Florentine Renaissance architects and artists, including Giuliano, the Antonios and Battista, their works and their relations with the Medicis and the Popes, index, bibliography, numerous illustrations and plans. Some foxing throughout. 4to. 3/4 leather and boards, a...... More
xv, 206 pp. catalogue and description of the paintings in the new Vatican art gallery, heavily annotated, with index, 63 text illustrations, 126 fine plates including 10 in full color. Folio. Leather-backed boards, binding professionally repaired, some edgewear and chipping, contents in good condition. Bergamo (Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche) 1914..... More
308 pp. text on Roman fountains, thoroughly annotated, bibliography, indices, 251 fine illus. on plates from photographs by Max Dellacher and from reproductions of old drawings and engravings. 4to. Orig. dec. cloth. Rome (Staderini) 1962. Second ed. More
XVI, 438 pp. treatise on the life, works and miracles of St. Francis, the history of his order and treatment of St. Francis in art, introduction by Pope Leo XIII, bibliographic notes, profusely illustrated, 35 plates. Lg. 4to. Boards. Paris (E. Plon, Nourrit) 1885. More
219 pp. history, by De Filippis, Domenico Moscati, et al., of one of the most famous Italian theaters, after the transformations and revolutionary events in its early history, and of its musicians, singers, decorators, distinguished visitors and their opinions, the cartoonist Delfico, etc., notes, list of first performances, 90 text..... More
346 pp. study of 17th century developments in the coastal town in the Marche region of Italy, including a compendium of essays on art, architecture, goverment, and religious and secular life, including essays, extensive annotation and documentation, bibliography, indices, and over 100 illustrations in the text and on plates (many..... More