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![An important guide to eighteenth-century Venice, owned by a contemporary artist: [ALBRIZZI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA] Forestiero illuminato intorno le cose piu' rare, e curiose antiche, e moderne, della citta' di Venezia. Venezia: Giambattista Albrizzi. 1765. Second edition, significantl](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229071023_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)

![Baskerville's De rerum natura: [BASKERVILLE PRESS] LUCRETIUS. Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, blind-stamped spine and boards,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229071025_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)
![Ancient portraiture, illustrated, in a handsome contemporary binding: [URSINUS, FULVIUS] Johannes Faber, editor and Theodore Galle, illustrator. Illustrium imagines, ex antiquis maroribus, nomismatibus, et gemmis expressae. Antwerp: Plantin, 1606. First edition with Joh](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229071003_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)
![The first printing of Parliament's debates on Abolition: [SLAVERY] Substance of the Debates on the Bill for Abolishing the Slave. London: W. Phillips and John Hatchard, 1808. First edition. Contemporary half calf, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (19 3/4 x 13 1/4 cm). iv,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229071135_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)
![Boschini's guide to Venetian painting: BOSCHINI, MARCO Le minere della pittura. Venezia: Francesco Nicolini, 1664. First edition. Contemporary vellum, 5 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches (14.5 x 8 cm). [36] 572 [4] pp. Binding worn, with both hinges crac](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229071010_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)

![The first systematic study of natural history by an Englishman: WOTTON, EDWARD De differentiis animalium libri decem. Paris: Michel Vascosan, 1552 [colophon: 1551]. First (and sole) edition. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine. 13 1/2 x 9 inches (3](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229070990_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)

![The first edition of Doni's I Marmi, with manuscript binder's waste: DONI, [ANTON FRANCESCO] I Marmi del Doni. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1552. Contemporary vellum with manuscript spine title, manuscript waste sewing guards, 8 x 6 1/4 inches (20 x 16 cm). Collation:](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229070991_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)
![18th century French manuscript on venereal diseases: [VENEREAL DISEASE] Traité des maux vénériens. [n.p., circa 1757]. Manuscript on paper in contemporary brown calf binding, 6 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches (17 x 12 1/4 cm). [ii], 1-175, [10] pp. Bi](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229071075_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)
![Three Elzevir publications on Venice: [VENICE] [Giannotti, Donato.] Donati Iannotii Florentini dialogi de Repub. Venetorum. Leiden: Elzevir, 1631. First Elzevir edition. Contemporary vellum, 4 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches. Binding slightly worn, wi](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/292/411922/229071005_1_x.jpg?height=280&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774646235&width=280)












