Folio from a Guy u Chawgan (The ball and the polo-mallet), verso: A polo game: the dervish and the shah on the polo field

7 41/64 in.x 4 27/32 in.; ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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Aztec; 2 ft. 7 11/16 in.x 1 ft. 1 27/64 in.x 1 ft. 1 1/32 in.; sandstone

Ordenliche Beschreibung, welcher Gestalt die nachbarliche Bündnuss vnd Verain der dreyen löblichen freien Stätt Zürich, Bern vnd Strassburg, dieses gegenwertigen 1588. Jars im Monat Maio ist ernewert, bestättigt vnd vollzogen worden : sampt etlichen poetischen Glückwünschungen vnd sonsten nötige Erinnerung vnd Vorred : auch Figuren, vnd der gemelten drey Stätt Contrafacturen.

Signatures: )(⁴ A-H⁴.

Raccolta di diverse antiche inscrizioni e medaglie epitalamiche ritrovate negli stati di S.R.M. Il Re di Sardegna : et due dissertazioni sopra un antico turibolo, e campanello /

Illustrations: Engraved title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, plates; woodcut illustrations in the text.

Museum etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis C.C. nunc primum edita et illustrata /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Le antiche iscrizioni di Palermo : raccolte, e spiegate sotto gli auspizj dell' eccellentissimo Senato palermitano, grande di Spagna di prima classe.

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Applavsi festivi fatti in Roma per l'elezzione di Ferdinando III. al regno de' romani dal ser.mo princ. Mavrizio card. di Savoia /

Illustrations: allegorical title page and eleven plates, some of them numbered. Four plates depict decorations designed by the architect Orazio Turriani: the colonnade on the Piazza della Spada in Rome, two plates of a triumphal arch, and a fountain structured as a nymphaea. Seven plates depict temporary structures used for fireworks display, including 2 states of plate numbered "70" or "02". The plates are etched by Luca Ciamberlano after Niccolò Tornioli.

Thesaurus gemmarum antiquarum astriferarum : quae e compluribus dactyliothecis selectae aereis tabulis CC insculptae observationibus inlustrantur : adiectis parergis LX, Atlante Farnesiano prolegomenis, diatribis III, dissertationibus XV et indicibus /

The 200 etched plates in v. 1 are partly signed by Ioannes Franceschini (some repeated in v. 3). Etched head- and tail-pieces signed J. Verkruys, as is one of 7 folded plates in v. 3. Occasional in-text woodcuts.

Vlyssis Aldrouandi philosophi, et medici Bononiensis De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor : post mortem eius editi : nempe de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis, et zoophytis.

Engraved portrait and title-page within architectural border; woodcut illustrations throughout the text.

Oevvre de la diversite des termes, dont on vse en architecture,

Signatures: A-K⁴.

Osservazioni del signor abate Giambattista Passeri ... sopra l'avorio fossile, e sopra alcuni monumenti greci e latini, conservati in Venezia nel museo dell' eccellentissima patrizia famiglia Nani de' SS. Gervasio e Protasio.

Tailpieces at pt. 2, p. XXI and pt. 4, p. LIII are signed : AP. Novelli inv., MP. inc.

Arco trionfale eretto alle glorie dell'eminentiss.mo e rev.mo prencipe il sig.re cardinale Gio. Stefano Donghi : ossequio poetico /

Signatures: pi² A-C⁴.

Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De vrbibvs, arcibvs, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot : praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissimae : nunc recens è lingua Germanica in Latinam traductae.

Signatures (irregular, due to integration of text and double-page ill.): a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ d⁴ e⁶ f⁶ g⁴ h⁶ ("c5" and "f5" are the stubs [uncut] of c2 and f2).

Modéle qui offre la restauration du Colisée de Rome tel qu'il était originairement : de la soixantième partie de la réalité mesure linéaire /

Mode of access: Internet.

Pavli Iovii novocomensis episcopi nvcerini Elogia virorum literis illustrium : quotquot vel nostra vel avorum memoria vixere : ex eiusdem Mvsaeo (cuius descriptionem vnà exhibemus) ad viuum expressis imaginibus exornata.

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