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Italian Antique Castelli Ceramic Plate, End 19th Century
By Castelli
Located in Madrid , ES
Castelli had been widespread in Italy, as recorded in ancient books kept in the City Hall archives.”
On
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Late 19th Century Italian Classical Roman Antique Italian Books
Materials
Ceramic
Beautiful 17th Century Oil on Canvas by Ciro Ferri
By Ciro Ferri
Located in Madrid, ES
University Press.
Wittkower, Rudolph (1980). Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750. Penguin Books. pp. 328
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Mid-17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Italian Books
Materials
Canvas
Alphabet Letter "S", Saint, Religious
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the
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1860s Academic Antique Italian Books
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "T"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the
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1860s Academic Antique Italian Books
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "K" Religious Saint
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the
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1860s Academic Antique Italian Books
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "P"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the
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1860s Academic Antique Italian Books
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "F"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the
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1860s Academic Antique Italian Books
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "K"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the
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1860s Academic Antique Italian Books
Materials
Gold
19th c. Italian velum backed books
Located in Round Top, TX
Set of Four Italian "Pallavicino" titled books from Rome dated 1833.
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19th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
18th Century Set of Italian Vellum Books
Located in Round Top, TX
A beautiful collection of seven Italian 18th century vellum books. Lined up side by side, the books
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
$2,950 / set
18th Century Set of Italian Vellum Books
Located in Round Top, TX
A very handsome set of 11 18th century Italian vellum books. Lined up side by side, the set
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
$3,950 / set
10 Early Vellum Books
Located in Palm Springs, CA
10 miscellaneous vellum covered texts. These date from the 18th and 19th centuries and range in size from 14 x 9 inches the largest and 7 x 4 to the smallest. They are in various sta...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
$3,800
Set of 7 Vellum Books
Located in Atlanta, GA
Set of 7 Vellum Books dated c. 1721, Italian.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Italian Books
$7,875
Nice Collection of 18th Century Weathered Spanish/ Italian Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Nice collection of three extremely weathered vellum books, Spain/ Italy 18th century. Weathered and
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Early 18th Century Spanish Antique Italian Books
Materials
Parchment Paper
Set of 5 Italian 18th Century Vellum Books in Light Cream Color
Located in Atlanta, GA
A handsome collection of 5 Italian 18th century vellum bound books. This set of religious books
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Set of 5 18th Century Italian Vellum Bound Books in Cream Color
Located in Atlanta, GA
A handsome collection of 5 Italian 18th century vellum bound books. This set of religious
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Set of 135 circa 1900-1939 Italian Leather Bound Legal Books
Located in Atlanta, GA
The largest of the books measure 12" high, 8.5" depth, 3.5" width.
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Early 20th Century Antique Italian Books
4 17th century vellum covered books
Located in Palm Springs, CA
4 vellum covered books from the 1600's although one dates to the 1700's. One is a volume of Flavius
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18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Parchment Paper, Paper
Fabulous Collection of 15 Early Latin Books w/Vellum Bindings
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Most of these exquisite antique Latin books retaining their original vellum bindings range in date
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Italian Books
Antique Italian Cherub Bookends
Located in London, GB
Antique Italian cherub bookends
We are proud to offer a matched pair of early 20th century Italian
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Early 1900s Italian Victorian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Pine
Italian 34 Volume Set of Encyclopedias
Located in Round Top, TX
A wonderful 34 volume set of Italian vellum spine'd encyclopedias published in Milano. Lined up
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
$5,950 / set
18th Century Italian Book Slant/Holder
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th century. Italian book slant/holder. Retains a distressed old green paint and gilt finish. Good
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Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Italian Books
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Paint
Set of 62 Volumes, "IL FORO ITALIANO", Italy
Located in Atlanta, GA
these volumes hold the following:
repertorio generale annuale di giurisprudenza, bibliografia di legislazione in materia di diritto civile, commerciale, penale e amministrativo
...
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1880s Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
$5,600 / set
19th Century Italian Antique Large Museum Iron Book Press
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
were intended only for presses in use by important owners. Provenance of the Italian private collection
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1870s Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Iron
Antique Book, Dante
s Inferno, Italian Language, Divine Comedy, Georgian, 1816
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique copy of Dante's Inferno (1265 - 1321). An Italian language, hard bound book
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1810s Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Antique Book La Divina Commedia, Italian Language, Dante, Divine Comedy, 1855
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique copy of The Divine Comedy by Dante (1265 - 1321). An Italian language, bound
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Antique Travel Book, Baedeker’s Northern Italy, Maps, Guide, Edwardian, C.1903
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique copy of Baedeker’s Northern Italy, a bound and illustrated travel guide book
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Early 20th Century British Edwardian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Dodgson
Lewis Carroll
, Le Avventure D
Alice, First Italian Edition, 1872
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Meraviglie.
Publisher: London: Macmillan & Co., 1872.
Description: First Italian Edition. 1 vol
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1870s British Antique Italian Books
Materials
Fabric
The Clarance H. Mackay Collection, Italian Schools, by William R. Valentiner
Located in Tarrytown, NY
56 Photogravure plates. Privately printed in 1926 by Witherspoon & Co. Cover bound in Moroccan crimson leather with gilt flower motifs.
Privately printed catalogue limited to 100 nu...
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1920s Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Orlando Furioso Translated from the Italian by John Hoole, 2nd Edition 1785
By Orlando Furiso
Located in San Francisco, CA
A five volume leather-bound set, Orlando Furioso, translated from the Italian by John Poole
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Late 18th Century English Antique Italian Books
Materials
Leather
16 Volume Book Set of the Literature of Italy from 1265-1907 for Walter Rawlings
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This 16 volume set of books was published by the National Allumni and is numbered 97 out of a
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Early 20th Century Classical Roman Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Early 18th Century Human Body Medical Book
Located in London, GB
human body, sits firmly in its 19th century rebound leather cover. Block printed in Italian with over 11
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18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
1921 Edition of Dante
s "Divine Comedy" Illustrated by A.Nattini
By Amos Nattini
Located in Paris, FR
1921 Italian edition of Dante's "Divine Comedy", with color illustrations by amos Nattini; bound in
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Early 20th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Dante Alighieri ‘The New Life’ And Boccaccio Selected Novels of Decameron
Located in Sofia, BG
Library of Italian classics Italian library volume of Italian classics. Edited by Giuseppe Rua
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Early 1900s Italian Renaissance Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Set 24 Book Framed Plaster Grand Tour Intaglios Emperors Artists 19th Century
Located in London, GB
intaglios was carefully made in Italy by Bartolomeo Paoletti and Pietro Figlio, in their workshop in Piazza
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1820s Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Plaster
Grand Tour Intaglio Collection
Located in Stamford, CT
Superb set of Italian Grand Tour plaster intaglios depicting famous art works of The Museo
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Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Italian Books
1668 Vellum Covered Text Published in Rome
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A real treasure from the annals of history is this 1668 book covered in vellum or parchment. The full title is as follows;
Vita Del V.p.f. Domenico Di Giesu Maria Gia Preposito Gener...
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17th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Rare 1624 vellum covered Ecclesiastical Annals by Cesare Baronio
Located in Palm Springs, CA
people have one or two of the books. Here are 5 volumes, the first which is called Primus, 5,6,7 and 11
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18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Parchment Paper, Paper
La Divina Commedia
Dante Alighieri 1861 Gustavo Doré Four Volume
By Gustave Doré
Located in Sofia, BG
Gustave Doré (1832-1883) illustrations and Dante's Divine Comedy have become so intimately connected that even today, nearly 150 years after their initial publication, the artist's r...
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19th Century Italian Romantic Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Vignola, "Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture, " 1617, Villamena Edition
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Regola de cingue ordini d'architettura di M. Iacomo Barozzio Da Vignola. libro primo et originale. Bound with Iacomo Barozzi Vignola: Alcune opere d'architettura. Rome: Francesco Vil...
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17th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Leather, Paper, Wood
Lives of the Artists
, Four Complete Volumes, Giorgio Vasari, Florence 1568
By Giorgio Vasari, Ruffo Giuntini
Located in Sofia, BG
4 volumes of "Lives of the excellent painters, sculptors and architects" written by Giorgio Vasari Pit. et Archit. Aretino with their portraits et with and new lives from 1550 to 15...
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15th Century and Earlier Italian Renaissance Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Antique Pair of White Carrara Marble Statues, Teachers with Books, 1700, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Ancient pair of Carrara white marble statues, full-length portraits of professors with books, 18th
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18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Carrara Marble
Set of 5 Fabri Concionum opus vellum books from 1872
Located in Winnetka, IL
A rare set of 5 vellum books from 1872
The dimensions are for the 5 books stacked together
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1870s Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Unusual Pair of Neoclassical Italian Bookends
By Borghese
Located in Middleburg, VA
This unusual pair of neoclassical Italian bookends will have your books standing at attention. Faux
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Early 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Italian Books
Materials
Wood
$1,100 / set
ORIGiNAL 1643 THE TWELVE MONTHS OF THE YEAR AFTER JOACHIM VON SANDART THE ELDER
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
. He received 3000 guilders for 2 books of his Italian drawings, that according to Houbraken were
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1640s European Charles II Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
Italian "Books" Casket Box, Hidden Compartment, Walnut, Ebony, Maple, circa 1900
Located in Regensburg, DE
Lovely Italian jewelry casket box with Hidden compartment in the bottom.
Woods: Walnut with inlays
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Early 1900s Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Italian Books
Materials
Ebony, Maple, Walnut
Nice Collection of 18th Century Italian Weathered Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Nice collection of five weathered but very decorative vellum books from Venice/Napels Italy, 1763
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18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper, Vellum
Nice Collection of 18th Century Weathered Italian Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Nice collection of five extremely weathered but very decorative vellum books from Venice Italy 1777
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper, Vellum
Great Collection of Five Italian/Spanish 18th Century Weathered Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful collection of five rare Italian and Spanish vellum books
Italy and Spain 1782,1795, 1799
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Collection of Antique Velum Books
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
Collection of three wonderful velum books, two being 18th century and one 17th century, wonderful
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Great Collection of Five Italian Very Large 18th Century Weathered Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful collection of five vellum books
Italy, Venice dated 1769
Weathered, small losses
Size
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Nice Collection of 18th/ 19th Century Weathered Spanish/ Italian Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Nice collection of four extremely weathered vellum books, Spain/ Italy 18th / 19th century
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18th Century Spanish Antique Italian Books
Materials
Parchment Paper
Great Collection of four Italian or Spanish Large 17th-18th Century Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful collection of four large weathered vellum books
Italy and Spain 1693, 1712, 1718, 1760
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18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Pair of Early 18th Century Pig Vellum Books
Located in San Francisco, CA
Two antique books bound in pig vellum and written in Latin, circa 1741 and 1755.
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Animal Skin, Paper
Fabulous Collection of 11 Early Latin Books w/Vellum Bindings
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Most of these exquisite antique Latin books retaining their original vellum bindings range in date
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Italian Books
Italian 17th Century Porte-Livre Précieux, Precious Book Carrier
Located in Round Top, TX
of Italy. Beautifully crafted from leather and iron. A wonderful accessory piece for any library or
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Late 17th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Iron
20th Century Italian Set of Seven Antique Opera Librettos Printed in 1903
Located in Sofia, BG
Set seven of opera librettos printed in early 20th Century in Italy.
G.Verdi Rigoletto, G.Verdi
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Early 20th Century Italian Antique Italian Books
Materials
Paper
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