Catalog

  • Dal paradiso o un poco più in basso – Giovanni Gastel

    €1,800.00

    This edition brings together for the first time poems and photographs by Giovanni Gastel. The book includes three unpublished poems and three original photographs. 

    Print run of 30 copies.

  • De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi

    €630.00

    Limited edition of 23 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on pure cotton paper made with the groundwater from the volcano Etna. 

    Etching by Walter Valentini, signed and numbered, made expressly for this edition.

    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 ascent to the top of the volcano Etna, during his stay in Sicily between 1492 and 1494, where he went to perfect his knowledge of Greek. This is one of the first description of the volcano ever made. The story is the background to a series of literary-scientific considerations and learned quotations from Latin and Greek classics.

  • De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi

    €430.00

    Limited edition of 46 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on cotton paper made in Sicily with the groundwater from the volcano Etna

    Etching by Walter Valentini, signed and numbered, made expressly for this edition.

    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 ascent to the top of the volcano Etna, during his stay in Sicily between 1492 and 1494, where he went to perfect his knowledge of Greek. This is one of the first description of the volcano ever made. The story is the background to a series of literary-scientific considerations and learned quotations from Latin and Greek classics.

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni

    €800.00

    Limited edition of 9 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, now fully affirmed, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni

    €280.00

    Limited 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.

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni (1500-1588)

    €460.00

    Limited 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.

  • Diario di bordo di C. Colombo - J. Arce

    €170.00

    Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.
    Typeset by hand and printed letterpress in the fifth centenary year of the discovery of America (1492-1992). 
    The attractiveness of seas never seen before, the unknown ways of life, the need to exalt and even exaggerate the qualities of the new lands to impress the King, all of this transforms what could have been an arid logbook into a testimony of exceptional importance.

  • Discurso de Stockholm - Pablo Neruda

    €3,200.00

    FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION (1972)

    Limited edition of 35 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. In Spanish. 

    One of the most memorable speech ever delivered by a Nobel laureate.  

    Moving speech held by Pablo Neruda in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony.

    This copy, which comes from the printer’s collection, has been put on sale in conjunction with the 50th anniversary year of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda (1971-2021).

  • Discurso de Stockholm - Pablo Neruda

    €1,100.00

    FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION (1969)

    Limited edition of 270 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. In Spanish.

    One of the most memorable speech ever delivered by a Nobel laureate.
    Moving speech held by Pablo Neruda in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony (1971).

    This copy, which comes from the printer’s collection, has been put on sale in conjunction with the 50th anniversary year of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda (1971-2021).

  • Do it anyway - Saint Teresa of Calcucca

    €40.00
    Found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, these precepts informed Mother Teresa’s own life and choices.
    Typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.

  • FIVE BALLETS IN THE KITCHEN

    €100.00

    Limited edition of 74 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Cesare Giaccone from Langhe (Piedmont) is considered by the New York Times to be one of the absolute protagonists of contemporary haute cuisine.

    With Autumn in sight, which evokes the pleasure of good food more than any other season, chef Cesare offers us five new recipes.

  • Giulio Da Milano creatore di tipi

    €120.00

    Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand and letterpress-printed.
    First and comprehensive typographic tribute to one of the most inventive 20th-century Italian type designers who created four iconic typefaces.