BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

Naples, 1791.Rare work unrecorded at auction (RBH), documenting the discovery of a large greek vase among the ruins of Locri and offering a concis...

1782.First edition, a fresh copy with the plates in excellent condition. Count de Borch visited Sicily between 1776 and 1777 and produced this hig...

di Sicilia sull'origine della decadenza di questo studio- sù i suoi vantaggi, e i mezzi di promuoverlo con sicurezza. Recitato... nell'Accademia d...

sunt. Palermo: Felicella, 1741.Important compilation of the capitula ; the principal collections of laws, statutes, and legal provisions of the Ki...

l'ambra siciliana, sopra il melo ibleo e la città d'Ibla Megara, sopra Nasso e Callipoli. Palermo: Reale Stamperia, 1804.Rare first edition in con...

A genuine copy of this literary work on fishing, never recorded at auction (RBH), gathering twenty-five idylls in verse, with notes and dedication...

[WITH:] Inno alla Musa Etnea. Naples: Marotta, 1822.Two rare compositions by the noble poet from Syracuse, Tommaso da Gargallo, never recorded at ...

Reale Stamperia, 1823.Wide-margined copy of the first edition of this work attributed to the Greek philosopher Archestratus. Born in Gela, Sicily,...

e privata felicità della Sicilia [WITH:] Saggi politici ed economici su la publica e la privata felicità della Sicilia. Palermo: Solli, 1788.Copie...

vicine a S. Maria di Niscemi nel Val di Noto in Sicilia. Hamburg: Bartels, 1792.Extremely rare work, with only one other copy known, of this detai...

della Sicilia antica e moderna colle nuove divisioni in intendenze, e sottointendenze. Palermo: Abbate, 1819.First edition, with no records at auc...

First edition of this rare local history of Sicily, unrecorded in auction records (RBH), illustrated with plates drawn by Mariano Amendolia. Divid...

dell'origine, e progresso della poesia nell'isola di Sicilia. Naples: Alecci, 1663.First edition, not recorded in RBH, of this rare work by the Si...

usata da Maltesi. Rome: Salomoni, 1750.First edition of this rare work on the Maltese language, which also puts forward the hypothesis of its orig...

exercito de Soliman II. Madrid: Villapando, 1796.First and only Spanish edition, rare, with only one known auction record (Sotheby's, 1966 accordi...

Synthetica, Hermeneutica. Malta: Joao Mallia, 1787.Rare first edition ' the last recorded auction appearance dates to 1959 (RBH) ' of the Tratado ...

Rare and elegant illustrated work, the fourth revision of the Statutes of the Hospitallers of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Edited by Comm...

half of the 17th century].Fascinating manuscript tracing the history, statutes, and institutional structure of the Order of Malta, beginning in 10...

privilegiorum religionis sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani. Rome: Blado, 1591.Extremely rare papal bull (no copies recorded outside of Italy) confirm...

ricevuti nella veneranda lingua d'Italia della sacra religione Gerosolimitana. Catania: Pastore, 1781.Rare work, unrecorded at auction (RBH) and k...

Series of six views (all photographs, c. 1890-1910) depicting the church and adjoining buildings of the Order of Malta on the Aventine Hill in Rom...

Portocarrero...la gran croce ottogona di tela bianca sopra la mozzetta cardinalizia. Roma: Camera Apostolica, 1745.A work unrecorded at auction (R...

Magistrale... pro Barone Emmanuele Muscat Cassia Xara. Malta: Mallia, 1796.A lot of three legal documents concerning members of the Order of Malta...

et primogeniturae seu feudi... pro Emanuele Muscati Xara Cassia... contra Claram Sant Bonnici. Malta: Mallia, 1795.A lot of three legal documents ...

caussa feudi Hariesciem responsum pro...Emanuele Muscat Xara Cassia. Malta: Mallia, 1795.A lot of three legal documents concerning members of the ...

of Naples, one in Malta and one in Venice. [c. 1790].Extensive lot of legal documents relating to the Order of Malta and the members of the Grand ...

Congresses of Vienna and Aachen. 1814-1818.Rare lot of contemporary pamphlets defending Maltese sovereignty in the aftermath of the Congress of Vi...

Napoleonic conquest of the island.[WORKS:] GUIRAN LA BRILLANE, Henri-François de (18th century). Memoire de l'ordre de Malte. Paris: D'Houry et De...

verità o sia confutazione degli errori, e falsità sparsi fin ora senza veruna prova sulla caduta di Malta in mano de' Francesi. Rome: De Romanis, ...

A lot of rare contemporary pamphlets concerning the relationship between the Order of Malta and the Russian Empire following Napoleon's invasion o...

Malta: Mallia, 1789.Rare work, unrecorded at auction (RBH) and known in only one copy in OPAC SBN, providing a detailed account of the Order of Ma...

September 1777. Malta: Mallia, 1778.Rare work, unrecorded at auction (RBH), outlining the rules and duties that each officer of the Order of Malta...

sacro ordine gerosolimitano...gran priorato di Venezia... nell'archivio dall'anno 1451. Venezia: Fenzo, [1783].Rare work, unrecorded at auction (R...

magistero di S.A.E. fra D. Emmanuele Pinto. [Naples, c. 1750].Rare work, no complete copy recorded at auction (RBH), illustrating through finely e...

de' piloti. Venice: Recurti, 1750.First edition of this rare treatise on astronomy and navigation, illustrated with plates depicting celestial sph...

Rohan. Malta: Mallia, 1780.Apparently unique copy, unrecorded in public libraries or bibliographies, of this mathematical essay written by four st...

Gerosolimitano della veneranda lingua d'Italia. Naples: Orsino, 1785.Rare and significant work on the recognition of nobility within the Order of ...

Roma. Roma: Montagnani, 1794Beautiful collection of plates illustrating the principal works of statuary in Roman collections, engraved by Giovanni...

Famous and magnificent edition illustrated with superb engravings by Bartolozzi, de Ghendt, Launay, Longueil, and others after drawings by Cochin,...

This lot includes the first and only edition of a historical-archaeological study on the precious Byzantine reliquary of the True Cross, donated b...

pittore. Florence: Vangelisti, 1682.First edition of this important source for the history of art.4to (265 × 190mm). Half-title, portrait of Berni...

Stamperia Reale, 1768-1770.Good edition of this important source for the history of art.2 volumes, 4to (255 × 195mm). Copper-engraved frontispiece...

de monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul. Paris, 1771.The Osborne Library copy of this important collection of over 120 engravings depicting works from t...

Arti in Bologna. Bologna, 1830.A copy in contemporary morocco, from the library of Lord Northwick, of the catalogue of paintings held at the Accad...

Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. [Venice: Viero?, ca. 1790].Second edition of the Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores, the celebrated series...

Venice: Alvisopoli, 1823. 8vo (258 x 150mm), in contemporary publisher's wrappers. [IN LOT WITH:] Orazione letta in Possagno ne' solenni funerali ...

1590-1600].Agostino Carracci's final engraving, left unfinished at his death. According to an attribution already proposed by Malvasia, the work w...

Refined illustrated edition of the complete works of Jacob Cats, accompanied by his celebrated emblems. The work, complete in two parts, is enrich...

studiosis et virtutis amantibus. Rome, [c. 1595].A collection of 148 full-page copper engravings depicting ancient Roman statues, an important vis...

della gran metropolitana dell'Insubria volgarmente detta il Duomo di Milano. Milan, Pietro Antonio Frigerio: [1739].An interesting popular work de...

Monumental commemorative engraving celebrating the greatness of Louis XIV, based on a design by Charles Le Brun (1619-1690).Copper engraving (1110...

cabinet secret du Muséè Royal de Naples. Paris: Ledoux, 1832.First complete edition of these 41 erotic plates illustrating objects and sculptures ...

supra novi circi pro nundinis quae in foro maximo Venetiis festo dominicae ascensionis die quotannis indicuntur scenographiam. Venice: [s.n.], 177...

A wide-margined copy with the plates in the first state, before numbering, in a period binding, of this classic of 18th-century French book design...

1808-16.Second edition, of this fundamental source for the history of art, expanded with 'interesting information ... with the continuation of the...

Works include: DELAUNE, Etienne (1518-1583). Plate 8 from the Combats and Triumphs series. c. 1550. Copper engraving (70 x 225mm) on paper with in...

London: Baldwin, Cradock, [1830].Monumental edition gathering the complete works of Hogarth.Atlas folio (640 x 490mm). 116 plates on 115 leaves, i...

1810.Wide-margined copy of this celebrated first illustrated edition on Leonardo's Last Supper. A key work in art historiography, this volume anal...

Maestà la principessa imperiale Maria Luigia arciduchessa d'Austria duchessa di Parma. Parma: Bodoni, 1824.Scarce work (only 2 at auction in the l...

Elisabetta Farnese. Parma: Stamperia di S.A.S., 1717.Magnificent commemorative volume celebrating the wedding of King Philip V of Spain (1683-1746...