Pure City. Pp. [xii]+404(last blank), 32 plates (16 coloured), black & white pictorial headpieces, coloured pictorial endpapers, full page map, chronology, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; bookplate of Melbourne architect Peter Corrigan on both the upper endpapers, the title page and the lower free endpaper, the half-title... More
Photographs by Hugh Palmer. With 288 colour illustrations. Pp. 224, pictorial double title page, plus numerous coloured illustrations (many full page), full page map printed in blue & black, select bibliography; roy. 4to; maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; dust wrapper, the... More
Pp. xiv+488, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 16 plates, plus 272 pages of black & white plates at end, index; tall cr. 4to; tiny scar to top edge of lower board and short split at foot of upper joint; dust wrapper with rectangular coloured pictorial onlay on front panel, a trifle... More
The city of the Virgin. Translated into English by Margaret McDonough Brown. With colour photographs by the author. Pp. viii+126, 28 hand-tipped coloured plates, plus numerous black & white illustrations (including 16 plates within pagination); demy 4to; tan cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, the spine faintly faded... More
The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Pp. x+302, 16 plates, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown. More
Pp. 172(including the upper endpapers, illustrated in colour throughout, black & white plan, selected bibliography, index; small med. 4to; dust wrapper; Paul Hamlyn, London, 1971. First U.K. edition. Great Museums of the World series. *Originally published in Italian. The Brera gallery in Milan was founded in 1809 as part of... More
[Photographs by Giancarlo Gasponi]. Artistic collaboration Rouhyeh Avaregan. Introduction Giorgio Montefoschi. Text Luciano Zeppegno. Translated by Felicity Lutz. Pp. [192], profusely illustrated in colour (mostly full, some double page); med. 4to; dust wrapper; within pictorial glazed papered slipcase; Editoria, Trento, 1984. First edition in English? *Photographic survey of the fountains... More
Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands. Photos by Sheila Nardulli. Pp. 152, illustrated in colour throughout (many full page); dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1991. First edition. More
Michelangelo's Roman Capitol. Photographs by Alexander Liberman. With an essay by Joseph Brodsky. Pp. 208, profusely illustrated in colour throughout (many double page); roy. 4to; dust wrapper; Random House, New York, 1995. First edition. More
Translated by David McDougall. Pp. 144, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, index; small cr. 4to; boards a trifle soiled; dust wrapper, laminate creasing; outer leaves slightly soiled; Minerva, Geneva, 1972. More
English language translation by Peter Lauritzen, John Harper and Stephen Sartarelli. Introduction by James S. Ackerman. Pp. 498(including the upper endpapers, last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page), double page coloured map, index of names, places and subjects; super roy. 4to; upper... More
A Russian writer's travels in Italy and the United States. Translated from the Russian, and with an introduction by Elias Kulukundis. Pp. 192; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1964. First English edition. *Nekrasov's first novel "In the Trenches of Stalingrad" won the Stalin Prize in 1947. More
Text: Giandomenico Romanelli, Giuseppe Pugliese, Jose Sasportes, Patrizia Veroli. Photographs: Graziano Arici. Pp. illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page), pictorial endpapers; super roy. 4to; printed papered boards, slightly bruised at foot of spine; dust wrapper; Evergreen, Padua, Italy, 1999. First edition in English... More
Pp. xxvi+450(last blank), coloured frontispiece, plus 192 black & white plates, text figures, full page map, notes and bibliography, index; cr. 4to; red/brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with gilt lettered black leather title label on spine, boards faintly scuffed; top edges grey; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and..... More