L’opera “De Maximis et Minimis” di Vincenzo Viviani riveste notevole importanza nella storia della matematica poiché rappresenta uno dei primi…
An important edition of the Institutio. The “Institutio Christianae Religionis” (Institutes of the Christian Religion) by Jean Calvin is a…
Only a few books attract the interest of collectors for centuries. One of those is Achille Marozzo’s “Arte delle Armi”,…
Giambattista Della Porta’s fame (Napoli 1535 -1615) is linked to the extraordinary best-seller De Magia Naturalis (1558) and the life-long…
Con un’asta a tempo chiusasi lunedi 4 ottobre Sotheby’s ha proposto a Milano un gran numero di edizioni incunabole, un…
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is known to historians, orientalists, esoterics and naturalists as “the last man to know everything” and the…
Contento che la tenacia dell’organizzatrice nel volere la fiera permetta di incontrarci e di scambiar libri oltre che opinioni, aneddoti…
The combination of successful intuition, scientific knowledge and entrepreneurship enabled the doctor and humanist Mattioli and his Venetian publisher Valgrisi…
The 1564 edition is the first by the Venetian typographer Sessa. Upon humanist Francesco Sansovino’s initiative the volume came out…
In the middle of the 19th century the photo-portrait is already widespread when, in 1854, the Parisian André Adolphe Eugène…