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Italian Books III
The third installment of our Italian Books catalogue series is now available, featuring a selection of books and artifacts produced in Italy, as well as works by Italian writers printed abroad.
Italian Books II
The second catalogue of our series Italian Books is a special issue, devoted entirely to printing on blue paper. The forty-four volumes presented here – often unique copies but all of the greatest rarity, and extending from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century – trace an itinerary in printing on this coloured paper, and in blue-paper collecting as well.
A new release for the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, March 5-8, 2020.
Picasso: Les livres d’artiste
The collection of Mr. A***
An art lover’s stunning collection of Picasso’s illustrated books, amassed over a 25-year period and comprising 120 livres d’artiste spanning the artist’s entire career. The exhibition includes numerous presentation copies, designer bindings, and rare examples from extremely limited editions.
Exhibition dates: October 25-November 23, 2019
Opening reception: Thursday, October 24, 6-9 pm
Books on the Run
On the occasion of Banned Books Week 2019, we are pleased to present the catalogue Books on the run, a selection of early books which, in different ways, were all involved with censorship, either during the lifetime of their authors, or posthumously.
Italian Books
Philobiblon’s newest publishing initiative, Italian Books is a series of numbered catalogues devoted to the important place of Italian culture on the world stage. The catalogues will feature manuscripts, documents, printed books, engravings, drawings, and artist’s books produced in Italy, as well as Italian books printed outside the country, translations attesting to the impact of Italian culture abroad, including volumes finely bound by sought-after Italian binders, and those once owned by great protagonists of Italian book collecting. Together these selections will illuminate a journey into the multifarious Italian book world in the broadest and richest sense.
Philobiblon: One Thousand Years of Bibliophily
This three-volume catalogue, published in 2018, celebrates first five years since the 2013 opening of PrPh Gallery in New York with an inauguration speech by the master of Italian culture Umberto Eco, who sadly passed away two years ago.
Sul Tremuoto
Books on Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Orlando Furioso
Five exceptional copies, including the editio princeps
Cicero's Rethorica vetus
From a Medieval German Scriptorium
Myriobiblon I: Lexica & Grammaticae &
Myriobiblon II.1 Scriptores Graeci A-H
The rebirth of Hellenistic studies in the West
Dante Fifty Books
Hand printed in 205 copies
Font: Dante, invented by Hans Mardersteig
Hand printed in 205 copies
Font: Dante, invented by Hans Mardersteig
Printed on Nebiolo Atena Cylinder at Cornuda on Treviso Paper: 145g Zerkall-Btten
Colored papers were scanned and printed by Grafiche Antiga Catalog
Edited by Margherita Palumbo and Filippo Rotundo
Photos by Takakazu Katsunosuke, Grzegorz Lozowski and Mario Setter
5 copies in Roman numerals dedicated to Filippo Rotundo, Umberto Pregliasco, Livio Ambrogio (Dante collector), Margherita Palumbo (curator), and Silvio Antiga (printer); 50 copies per person - not numbered 150 Arabic numerals, the copies 01 to 150 are bound with half vellum (the other copies in full vellum)
Number of pages: 160