Italy
LA METEMPSICOSI DI UN LIBRO: Almanacco
Milano: Santo Bravetta, circa 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo: 172, [20] pp. with 8 full-page plates, all etchings with tissue guards. Half-title page and title page with hand-colored lettering and decorative devices; chapter heads, index..... More
VENETIAN NARRATIVE PAINTING IN THE AGE OF CARPACCIO
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Second printing. "During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Venetians lined their government council chambers and religious fraternities with narrative paintings of pageantry, diplomacy and..... More
BRONZINO'S CHAPEL OF ELEONORA IN THE PALAZZO VECCHIO
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. "Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 1540s by Agnolo Bronzino..... More
THE ART OF MANTUA: Power and Patronage in the Renaissance
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the Italian by A. Lawrence Jenkens. This book traces the rich history of the northern Italian city..... More
GENOA THE SUPERB: The City of Columbus
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 20 illustrations. Octavo. Original white cloth binding, with elaborate gilt, blue, and red stamping, and a ribbon marker. Small ink signature to the title page, with an..... More
AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SEXTET: Six Tales in Historical Context
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Hardcover. Inscribed by translator Murtha Baca on the title page. "This collection of six tales offers enticing views into the history of Renaissance Italy, with fiction and fictional modes..... More
The City of Rome ATLAS OF ROME The Form of the City on a 1:1000 Scale Photomap and Line Map
New York: Marsilio, 1992. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the Italian by Chris Heffer and David Kerr. "Each of the 276 color aerial photographs is accompanied by its respective line map, a...... More
THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE: Dante, Giotto, Savonarola, and Their City
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Hardcover. An extra illustrated edition of this cultural history of Florence told through the lives of significant figures from the Italian Renaissance. Octavo: xx, 422 pp. with..... More
THROUGH ITALY WITH CAR AND CAMERA
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. The first of two European travelogues Platt wrote, preceding Automobiling in Europe Before the War (1916). A noted art collector, Platt (1873-1937) was also..... More