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BRB0325 - portrait
Engraved, illustrated t.p., frontispiece portrait and 38 numbered plates with explanatory text; engraved throughout by Giuseppe Filosi after Giacomo Tanaglia. Enlarged borders with decorations in red ink (black ink on frontispiece). Two designs: one…
BRB0325 - title
Engraved, illustrated t.p., frontispiece portrait and 38 numbered plates with explanatory text; engraved throughout by Giuseppe Filosi after Giacomo Tanaglia. Enlarged borders with decorations in red ink (black ink on frontispiece). Two designs: one…
BRA0924
This Italian edition, the original text is attributed to Gerson. The woodcut on the titlepage shows Christ reaching out to a believer.
BRA0851
Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican" remains one of the most significant books in the history of science. Controversy arose over Galileo's proof of the Copernican cosmology, which placed the sun, not…
BRA0851
One of the most significant books in the history of science. Galileo's proof of the Copernican cosmology resulted in his censure and imprisonment in 1633.
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Traditional-style full leather binding with tight joints and tight back, covered in natural (undyed) Niger goatskin over sculpted boards; upper and lower boards with onlays of multiple leathers embossed with linoleum cuts and with blind, gold, and…
AFC 3154 -
Laudes Creaturarum
This publication offers a contrast of carefully set type and broad gestural strokes
Prothro B-122
First Italian Protestant translation from Hebrew and Greek. It was widely used by Italian Protestants well into the twentieth century.
Prothro B-122
First edition of Italian Bible translated from the Hebrew and Greek. This translation is still the basis for Bibles used by Italian Protestants today.
07041
Among the first women known to have been directly involved in the production of printed books were the Dominican nuns at the Convent of San Jacopo di Ripoli in Florence. The exhibited book, the first vernacular edition of this early Latin biography…
BRB0981
Illustrated with thirteen masterful woodcuts, this vernacular Italian retelling of Christ's Passion was composed by a disciple of St. Catherine of Siena. The text, written in ottava rima (with an "abababcc" rhyme scheme), was performed as a sacra…
BRA2195
Suor Isabella Piccini engraved this portrayal of St. Teresa of Ávila in 1720, when the plate was used as the frontispiece for the first edition of the saint’s “Spiritual Advice.”
AER4418
A heroic poem on the theme of the biblical King David. Dedicated to Maria Maddalena de' Medici, the Archduchess of Austria and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, the poem also included flattering allusions to contemporary Florentine nobles.
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