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Leonardo da Vinci's resume
€5,000.00Limited edition of 24 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
One of 24 copies with a drypoint etching by Giuseppe Penone.
The first modern curriculum vitae, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness. Its ten-point structure describes a man so versatile and polymath that it would be difficult for any other candidate to compete with that.
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Manuale Tipografico III - Enrico Tallone et al.
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Limited edition of 358 copies typeset by hand in movable types, numbered and letterpress printed.
Dedicated to the aesthetic of papers, watermarks and inks.
It includes more than a hundred original samples of ancient papers (starting from the 15-16th century), as well as original samples of the finest 20th-century typographic inks and papers (among which those used in the 1930s-1950s by Mondrian, Léger, Picasso, Chagall, De Chirico, Aristide Maillol and the greatest artists based in Paris). -
Manuale Tipografico IV - Enrico Tallone et al.
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– STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER –Dedicated to the engraving, founding and printing techniques in favour of the aesthetic of the book.
Centuries of typographical civilization described through original ancient watermarks from the 16th century onwards, and specimens handset in original foundry types cast from the 17th century onwards.
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De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi
€430.00Limited 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. -
Messia - Guido Ceronetti
€280.00First edition in Italian. Limited edition of 56 copies typeset by hand, numbered and letterpress printed.
Poems and proses dedicated to the figure of the Messiah. Written by Guido Ceronetti, Ionesco, Virgil, Eraclitus, Isaiah, Black Elk, Rimbaud, Bloy, Beckett, Joyce, Mansour, Sibony.
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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"
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Sonatina - Rubén Darío
€180.00A young, beautiful princess is longing for the prince of her dreams to come to her palace and put an end to her loneliness. Her longing for love is beautifully expressed in musical, rhythmic verses which evokes a chivalric and fairy-tale atmosphere. The happy ending of the poem depicts a charming prince on a winged horse heading straight to the palace, who is soon to “ignite her lips with one amorous kiss”.
Bilingual Spanish-Italian edition.
Typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
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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.French edition.«Ouvrage indispensable a tous ceux qui sont jaloux de faire bonne chère, et de la faire faire aux autres». -
Poems - Emily Dickinson
€350.00Limited edition of 258 copies typeset by hand, numbered and letterpress printed.
English edition.Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all times.