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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…
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.
BRMS 4
In 1496 the Poor Clares at the Convento di Santa Chiara Novella in Florence commissioned the Ugolino Verino to write this "Life of St. Clare" in Italian so members of the order could read about their founder. This edition is an illuminated manuscript…
BRMS 4
In 1496 the Poor Clares at the Convento di Santa Chiara Novella in Florence commissioned the Florentine humanist Ugolino Verino to write this Life of St. Clare in Italian, so that those sisters who lacked Latin education could read of their founder's…
BRC0006
Juan de Valverde was a student of Realdo Columbo, a professor of anatomy and surgeon at the University of Padua who studied under Vesalius. Valverde became the most important anatomy specialist in Spain in the late sixteenth century and wrote…
BRB1175
This otherwise unrecorded broadside presents a diagrammatic view of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, the road by which Christ was led to his Crucifixion. The image was created by a Franciscan friar in order to arouse the devout interest of the…
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…
BRB0444
In this later edition of Savonarola's Lenten sermons on Amos, the eleven leaves containing the prohibited Sermon 12 were excised by a censor.
BRB0392
Reprint of etchings of biblical frescoes illustrated by Raphael. In this edition, human forms of God have been replaced by the name of God in Hebrew.
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…
BRB0325 - tav 3
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 - tav 12
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 - 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…
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.”
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.
AFH9023
This biography presents Suor Domenica da Paradiso as a model for monastic behavior in order to promote her case for saintly canonization. The book's engraved frontispiece offers a lively (albeit imaginary) portrayal of this monastic founder and…
AFD4633/B
The title and the epigrams are translated into Italian while the text above the images remains in Latin., The Old Woman, The Astrologer, Extra illustrated with three woodcuts from unidentified edition (ca. 16th century) of Imagines or Icones mortis…
AEY8119
The more complete removal of the same prohibited sermon on Ruth in this earlier edition had drastic consequences for the physical book as a whole. When the censor cut out all seven leaves of Sermon 7, he also removed the ending of Sermon 6 and the…
AEW1008
Parallel Latin and Italian with notes in Italian and includes indexes. Included is a lithographic illustration of Samuel and Eli done by American John Singleton Copley (1738–1815).
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.
AER4308
A chivalric romance based on Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1534). Written by famous poet and writer Laura Terracina.
AER1212
This goatskin binding has a circular cameo of the Pietà.
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