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La commedia - Dante Alighieri
€1,300.00Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer. This edition was printed by Alberto Tallone in Alpignano in 1967-68.
Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) printed by Alberto Tallone in 1967-68.
Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition.
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20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. III)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
This unique type specimen book allows to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso
€2,600.00Only copy. It includes an original watercolor. Italian edition.
Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language.
This edition is limited to 33 unique copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.
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Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso
€2,800.00Only copy. It includes an original watercolor. Italian edition.
Fictional novel.
Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language.
This edition is limited to 33 unique copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.
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Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso
€2,500.00It includes an original watercolor painted by the author.
Italian edition.Fictional novel.
Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language.
This edition is limited to 33 copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.
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improbabile chimera - s. bandirali
€250.00Collection of 7 poems, dedicated to Dino Campana and his love for Sibilla Aleramo.
73 copies letterpress printed. Texts have been set by hand in original foundry types. Woodcut by Edoardo Fontana.
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Lamine d'oro orfiche
€900.00Limited edition of 2 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.
Language: Greek and Italian.
The ‘Orphic’ gold tablets are tiny scraps of gold foils engraved with precepts meant as instructions to enter the Afterlife. Those fascinating invocations are one of the first evidence of ancient Greek religion, and exerted a great influence on later Greek culture. -
19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 1)
€720.00The masterpieces of 19th-century type design.
A collection of 50 specimens typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable metal types.
Limited and numbered edition of 150 copies.
This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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Sonnet - Leonardo da Vinci
€40.00Sonnet improvised by Leonardo in front of Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan.
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Sator Arepo
€60.00The renowned Christian palindrome, which hides the "Our Father" prayer, which became a powerful talisman during Middle Ages, and was found engraved all across the continent, from England to Syria.Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper. -
Hippocratic Oath
€40.00The Code of Medical Ethics is still inspired by the Hippocratic Oath, the first text to establish the ethical standards of the medical profession.
Hippocrates (V-VI century BC) required his students to swear to respect their teachers, to teach medicine only to those who had sworn the same oath and to do that without reward, to visit the sick and treat them with the aim of healing and never using violence, to not prescribe deadly drugs even when requested, and to not divulge confidential information learned in the practice of their profession.
A limited edition typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and sealed in a clear-plastic sleeve.
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Recueillement - Charles Baudelaire
€60.00Sonnet from the collection “Le fleurs du mal”.Typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf.