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Manuel des Amphitryons - Grimod de la Reynière
€480.00Limited edition of 200 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
French edition. «Ouvrage indispensable a tous ceux qui sont jaloux de faire bonne chère, et de la faire faire aux autres».
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Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni (1500-1588)
€460.00Limited edition of 16 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
A debate between advocates of the ongoing superiority of Latin and Greek, and proponents of vernacular, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.
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De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi
€430.00Limited edition of 46 copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on cotton paper made in Sicily with water from the volcano Etna. Etching by Walter Valentini. This edition printed in Latin is a tribute to the famous incunabulum printed by Aldus Manutius in 1495, which is considered to be the first modern book.
Bembo tells about his trip to Sicily to learn Greek and about his ascent to the top of volcano Etna. -
Masterpieces of type design for advertising - VOL. I
€420.00Limited edition of 150. The only collectable series typeset by hand in original 20th-century foundry types, which represent the pinnacle of modern aesthetic.
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Masterpieces of type design for advertising - VOL. II
€420.00Limited edition of 150. The only collectable series typeset by hand in original 20th-century foundry types, which represent the pinnacle of modern aesthetic.
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Qohélet (o L'Ecclesiaste)
€400.00Limited and numbered edition of 62 copies printed on pure cotton cream-colored Magnani paper made in Pescia, Tuscany.
Italian edition of the Old Testament's "Ecclesiastes"
New translation from Hebrew by Guido Ceronetti. -
Poems - Emily Dickinson
€350.00Limited edition of 258 copies typeset by hand, numbered and letterpress printed. English edition. Collection of 130 poems by the intelligent, ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all times.
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Visioni della vita rapita – Davide Rondoni
€300.00Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
First Italian anthology of Davide Rondoni’s poetry. It includes 50 poems, out of which 16 are unedited.
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Luca Pacioli - Sergio Castrucci
€300.00Limited edition of 42 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
The adventurous life of Luca Pacioli, the inventor of the double-entry accounting system, who befriended Leonardo da Vinci and designed the so-called "dignissimus" alphabet.
It includes 3 original woodcuts, made expressly for this edition.
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L’Infinito - Giacomo Leopardi
€280.00Limited edition of 31 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
Poem commented by Davide Rondoni, who unveils the secrets and meanings of this universal sonnet.
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Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni
€280.00Limited edition of 118 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
A debate between advocates of the ongoing superiority of Latin and Greek, and proponents of vernacular, already fully affirmed in the 16th century, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.
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KUPAHÚBA, canto della foresta Amazzonica
€280.00Limited edition of 320 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
Collection of inedited poems by Márcia Theóphilo, dedicated to the Amazon Forest, where the author spent her infancy, living there with her grandmother, and where she goes back as an antropologist to study and preserve the oral culture of Indian tribes.
Includes an original etching singed by the artist.