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Verona, Italy
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33 Ghosts, Unique or Scarcest Books
A collection of Ghost or scarcest Books, including unique copies printed on vellum, editions unknown to reference books or lacking to all collections and worldwide public libraries.
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![[Arabic Medicine] Abynzohar (Ibn Zuhr), Al-Taysir, 1496](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/26085454_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Incunable] Catherina de Alexandria, 1489, unique copy](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870174_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Aldine counterfeit] Dante, Divine Comedy, Lyon, 1502-3](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870178_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Arabic Medicine] Abynzohar (Ibn Zuhr), Al-Taysir, 1496: EXCESSIVELY SCARCE INCUNABLE OF TWO CORNERSTONES OF ARABIC MEDICINE AVENZOHAR [Abd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʼ Ibn Zuhr]. Tajsīr fi Ôl-mudāwāt wa Ôt-tadbīr.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/26085454_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Renaissance binding] Aristotle, 1560: VERY SCARCE SAMPLE OF RENAISSANCE BINDING WITH GILT, EMBOSSED AND WATER-COLOURED EDGES CONTAINING ARISTOTLE’S POETICS AND RHETORIC ARISTOTLE. Rhet. et mor. Tomus tertius operum. Aristotelis](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870160_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Neapolitan Theatre] Barone, Gianfecondo, 1745: EXCEEDINGLY RARE COMEDY, ONLY THREE SURVING COPIES KNOWNBarone, Domenico. Il Gianfecondo, Commedia di Domenico Barone, Baron di Liveri. Napoli, Angelo Vocola, 1745. 8vo (168 x 109 mm), contemporary](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870164_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Medicine, Plague] Bazzicaluve, 1721: EXCESSIVELY RARE TREATISE ON THE PLAGUE ONLY TWO SURVIVING COPIES Bazzicaluve, Ascanio Maria. Nuovo trattato della peste e del contagio e nuovo metodo curativo e preservativo. Lucca, Sebastiano](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870166_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Philosophy] Bergier, Materialisme 1838, blue and green: UNUSUAL IMPRINT IN GREEN AND BLUE PAPER Bergier, Nicolas Sylvestre. Examen du matérialisme ou Réfutation du système de la nature. Casterman, Tournay, 1838. 2 volumes 4to, (233 x 142 mm),](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870168_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Masonry, French Revolution] Cagliostro, Memoria, 1786: CAGLIOSTRO’S DEFENSIVE MEMORY IN THE FAMOUS AFFAIR OF THE QUEEN’S NECKLACEEDITION UNKNOWN TO LATTANZI Cagliostro (Giuseppe Balsamo). Memoria in difesa del Conte di Caglyostro accusato contra il](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870170_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Occult, Alchemy] Cardano, De subtilitate, 1578: EXCESSIVELY RARE EDITION OF CARDANO’S MASTERWORK ON THE HIDDEN PROPERTIES OF STONES, METALS AND PLANTSONLY THREE COPIES RECORDED IN WORLDWIDE PUBLIC LIBRARIES CARDANO, GIROLAMO. Les Livres de](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870172_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Incunable] Catherina de Alexandria, 1489, unique copy: UNIQUE COPY, UNKNOWN TO ALL BIBLIOGRAPHIES,OF THE LIFE OF CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIATHE ARCHETYPE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD’S LEARNED WOMANVita de la beata Khaterina. [Roma: Eucharius Silber?, ca. 1489].](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870174_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Astronomy, Astrology] Cigalini, Coelum Sydereum, 1655: VERY SCARCE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF TWO ALMOST UNKNOWN ASTRONOMICAL-MATHEMATICAL TREATISES Cigalini, Francesco. Coelum sydereum ab omnium ingenuarum artium professore d. Francisco Cigalino medico](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870176_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Aldine counterfeit] Dante, Divine Comedy, Lyon, 1502-3: THE EXTREMELY RARE LYON COUNTERFEIT OF THE ALDINE EDITION IN A PRECIOUS BINDING SIGNED AND DATED BY NIEDRÉE Alighieri, Dante [Divine Comedy]. Le Terze rime di Dante. [Lyon, Balthazard de Gabiano,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870178_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Poetry, Venice] Dorisso Pireno, Bertoldo, 1758: EXTREMELY SCARCE EDITION IN VENETIAN LANGUAGE: ONLY ONE COPY KNOWN Dorisso Pireno (pseudonym). Bertoldo in ottave veniziane, cantae sul Canachion da Dorisso Pireno. Venice: Benedetto Milocco, 1758.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870180_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Turkey, Turkish war] Giovio Turchi, circa 1535: AN EXCESSIVELY SCARCE EDITION OF GIOVIO’S «COMMENTARIES ON TURKISH AFFAIRS»ONLY ONE COPY IN CENSIMENTOGiovio, Paolo. Comentario de le cose de’ Turchi, di Paulo Iouio, vescovo di Nocera, a Carlo](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870182_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Health, Vegetarianism] Knott, 1795: EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN EARLY TREATISE TO SUPPORT VEGETARIANISM NO COMPLETE COPY IN USAHealth-Vegetarianism. Knott, Thomas. Remarks on cruelty to animals. Containing observations and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870186_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1404408493)
![[Pillone, Jewish War] Josephus, 1486, unique copy: THE UNIQUE PILLONE COPY OF JOSEPHUS’ «ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS» AND «JEWISH WAR» Josephus, Flavius [Joseph Ben Matityahu]. De antiquitate Judaica. De bello iudaico. Venice: Rossi, 23 October](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870188_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Unique copy] Lodi/Mezzofanti, 1838, printed in colors: VERY UNUSUAL, PROBABLY UNIQUE COPY, OF AN IMPRINT IN MULTIPLE COLORS Various Authors.Tributo di lodi a Giuseppe Mezzofanti Bolognese, creato Cardinale il XII Febbraio MDCCCXXXVIII. Tipi del Nobili e](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870190_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![Missale, 1498, printed on vellum: THE ONLY COPY OF A MISSAL INCUNABLE PRINTED ON VELLUMUNKNOWN TO ALL BIBLIOGRAPHIES MISSALE ROMANUM. Missale s[ecundu]m usum sanctae Romane [sic] ecclesie. [at colophon:] Impressum iussu et](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870194_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[History, Politics] Montague, Repubbliche, 1804: EXTREMELY SCARCE MONTAGUE'S ITALIAN EDITION, ONLY ANOTHER SURVIVING COPY Montague, Edward Wortley. Riflessioni sopra l’origine e caduta delle antiche Repubbliche adattate allo stato presente della](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870196_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Office of the Virgin] Officium, 1577: EXCESSIVELY RARE RENAISSANCE «OFFICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN» ONLY ANOTHER COPY KNOWNLittle Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary Officium B(eatae). Mariae Virginis. Nuper reformatum, & Pii V Pont. Max.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870198_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Holy Face of Lucca] Palmieri, 1650: ALMOST A GHOST EDITION ONLY ONE INCOMPLETE COPY KNOWN Palmieri, Giovanni. Historia del volto santo di lucca, Detto comunemente S. Croce. Cauata da quella, che già compose il R. P. Cesare](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870202_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)

![[Shakespeare, Blackfriars] Petrarca, 1553, Kendall copy: THE PETRARCH BELONGED TO THOMAS KENDALL, THE FINANCIER OF SHAKESPEARE’S BLACKFRIARS THEATRE Francesco Petrarca. Il Petrarcha con l'espositione di m. Giouanni Andrea Gesualdo, nuouamente](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870206_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Manuscript, Arabic Magic] Picatrix, 1624, unique copy: UNIQUE AND ONLY KNOWN CIRCULATING EVIDENCE OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE PICATRIX THE MOST FAMOUS ARABIC ESSAY ON CEREMONIAL MAGIC ALSO KNOWN AS «THE STAIRWAY TO HELL»MASLAMA AL-MAGRITI. Di Magia](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870208_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Poetry, blue paper] Pieri, Poesie, 1800, unique copy: UNIQUE COPY PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER Trivoli Pieri, Antonio. Poesie di Antonio Trivóli Pieri, gentiluomo di Corfù. Venice: Stamperia Palese, 1800. 4to, (230x 144 mm), contemporary half calf](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870212_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
![[Printed on vellum] Pius V, Extensio, 1567: VERY SCARCE COPY PRINTED ON VELLUMTHE COPY QUOTED BY BRUNET, WITH CARDINAL ORSINI’S SIGNATUREPIUS V (POPE). EXTENSIO, AMPLIATIO | NOVA CONCESSIO, ET CON- | FIRMATIO PRIVILEGIORVM | SANCTISS. AC](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/49240/27870216_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1403099843)
