La situazione poetica 1938-1968: Luciano Chefchi and Edizioni del Naviglio
Signed first edition of a visual poetry manifesto, testament to Milan's avant-garde movements of the 1960s
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Buon Fine e Miglior Principio: Pivano & Sottsass, 1953
A hand-painted New Year's greeting documents the convergence of American literature and Italian design in the postwar era
Read article →Ungaretti autograph: unpublished 1927 poem in French first edition
Les Cinq Livres (Gallimard, 1954) with four autograph verses in green ink and documented provenance
Read article →Giuseppe Capogrossi and D'Ars Agency: a Milanese bulletin from 1963
When Italian Arte Informale became chronicle: the 1963 issue No. 2 with original cover by the master of abstraction
Read article →Farfa: Ovabere. Sincopatie Futuriste with autograph, 1933
First edition of Vittorio Osvaldo Tommasini's parole in libertà collection, enhanced by autograph dedication on personal letterhead
Read article →Jean Ferrero: female portrait in motion, vintage print from the Seventies
Gelatin silver print signed by the artist, testament to the Nice photographer's aesthetic research on time and gesture
Read article →Vat.lat.172: A Fifteenth-Century Pseudo-Dionysius Transmission
Mid-Renaissance Vatican manuscript of the Pseudo-Areopagite corpus reveals scribal practices and textual genealogy of late-medieval Dionysian scholarship.
Read article →L'Esprit NRF 1908-1940: Anthology of French Modernism
Pierre Hebey's anthology documenting the golden age of the Nouvelle Revue Française, from Gide's foundation to the Occupation
Read article →Hasius and Biblical Cartography: The Kingdoms of David and Solomon (1739)
A monumental work from Officina Homanniana featuring six hand-coloured geographical maps and fourteen plates devoted to the historical geography of the Holy Land
Read article →Montesquieu's 1749 Leiden Edition: The Spirit of Laws Across Borders
How the Leyde 1749 quarto reveals institutional gaps in Enlightenment book history and shifts dealer valuation of foundational political philosophy.
Read article →Madrigali by Libero de Libero: Artist's Plaquette with Gentilini Etching
Numbered 1967 edition hand-printed by Franco Prete, featuring an original etching by Franco Gentilini of the Scuola Romana
Read article →Il Sacro Animale by Giacomo Manzi: Edizioni del Cavallino, 1966
First numbered edition of 400 copies: a rare Venetian artist's book from the golden age of Carlo Cardazzo's legendary gallery
Read article →Friedrich Stowasser 1943-1949: the Albertina catalogue of young Hundertwasser
First edition of the Viennese catalogue documenting the formative years of the Austrian master, from the Stowasser signature to the birth of Hundertwasser
Read article →Claude Berge, Sculptures Multipètres (1962): mathematics meets surrealism
A rare plaquette documenting the encounter between graph theory and objet trouvé, prefaced by Philippe Soupault
Read article →Dada Zurich: the revolutionary 1920 manifesto that brought avant-garde to Italy
The exceptionally rare first Italian edition edited by Tristan Tzara, a graphic and literary testament to the movement that subverted European art
Read article →Agenore Fabbri: colour lithograph with seated figure and abstract signs
Limited edition 33/75, 1970s: when Tuscan sculpture meets lyrical abstraction on paper
Read article →Zancanaro, 12 Lithographs: Stamperia del Cavallino Rarity (1950)
Complete portfolio of twelve original lithographs, copy 117/150, hand-printed by Giuseppe Rosa for Edizioni del Cavallino, Venice
Read article →Anvouaiaje par in ninbesil avec de zimaje by Jean Dubuffet (1950)
Exceptionally rare livre d'artiste in pataphonie with 9 signed original lithographs, edition of only 23 copies
Read article →Victor Brauner Drawing for Milena Milani: Totemic Cat from 1961
A dedication-work by the Romanian Surrealist master to the Italian writer and collector, testament to a cross-Alpine artistic friendship
Read article →Eugenio Vaquer, Il Procuratore (1955): autograph dedication to Milena Milani
First Bompiani edition with author's dedication to the writer at the centre of the 1966 obscenity trial
Read article →Kandinsky's Spiritual in Art: the 1949 French Edition
A copy of the first French translation of the founding manifesto of abstract art, published in the Le Cavalier d'Épée collection
Read article →Cicero's Laelius in French: The 1902 Bucharest Edition
A fin-de-siècle annotated Latin text from two German exemplars, preserved in Romania's National Heritage Institute
Read article →Franco Gentilini at Fuji Art Gallery: signed Tokyo 1969 catalogue
Rare document of the Faentine master's Japanese visit, with autograph dedication and original tricolour design
Read article →Capogrossi Autograph Drawing on Naviglio Gallery Invitation, 1963
Rare ephemeron bearing the artist's signature comb motif and personal dedication
Read article →Signed Cardarelli: Prologhi Viaggi Favole in the 1916 Carabba Edition
Numbered copy 853 with red ink autograph, witness to Italian art prose on the threshold of La Ronda
Read article →Railway Ausweis from the German occupation of Rome, 1943-44
Bilingual identity document issued by the Bevollmächtigter Reichsbahn Italien for an Italian civilian worker during the nine months of Nazi occupation of the capital
Read article →Le Livre des Mères by Victor Hugo: Hetzel illustrated edition by Froment
Scarce edition from the Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation with decorated binding, witness to late nineteenth-century children's publishing
Read article →Jean Dubuffet's Autograph Inscription to Milena Milani in 'Lo Scrittoio' (1960)
An exceptional document of post-war Franco-Italian cultural networks, with Milani-Cardazzo provenance
Read article →Vat.lat.191: A Mid-Fifteenth Century Tertullian in Vatican Archives
How a handsome humanist copy of early Christian polemic reveals the learned tastes of Renaissance scriptoria and the textual genealogy of patristic recovery.
Read article →Georges Mathieu: lyrical lithograph with autograph dedication, 1965
A signed multiple from French gestural abstraction, enriched by the artist's personal inscription on verso
Read article →Capogrossi 1954: Seuphor and Original Lithographs from Cavallino
First edition monograph with original lithographic plates, documenting Italian abstraction at its zenith
Read article →Vat.lat.267: A Carolingian Ambrose in the Vatican Library
How a ninth-century miscellany of Augustine's teacher preserves textual variants that reshape our understanding of patristic transmission in the early medieval West.
Read article →Arp by Jean Cathelin (1959): pocket monograph with autograph signature
First edition from Le Musée de Poche series bearing apparent autograph signature of Hans Arp on half-title, a rare associative element
Read article →Sonia Delaunay Bielefeld 1958 Catalogue: Orphism in Postwar Germany
Rare witness to the solo exhibition at Städtisches Kunsthaus with photographs by Florence Henri and Maywald
Read article →Tauromaquia by Salvador Aulestia: bullfighting art and poetry in 1953 Mexico
A rare publication uniting ten modernist drawings and ten poems, testament to Basque exile and Mexican bullfighting culture
Read article →Lucio Fontana: Drawings and Graphic Works from the Teresita Fontana Collection
The 1987 Rome exhibition catalogue documenting the graphic legacy of Spatialism through the artist's widow's collection
Read article →Marie-Laure de Noailles at Galleria del Naviglio, 1962
Catalogue of the 355th Exhibition: when the Surrealist patroness exhibited in Milan
Read article →Wedel's Aphorismi Aphorismorum: Hippocrates Revisited at Jena, 1695
First edition of ducal physician Georg Wolfgang Wedel's Hippocratic commentary, in contemporary vellum with Fossati provenance
Read article →Michel Seuphor on Capogrossi: the first monograph on the Informale master
Edizioni del Cavallino, 1954: foundational document of Italian sign abstraction with original artist dust jacket
Read article →Max Ernst 1950: livre d'artiste with signed original lithographs
Copy 50/50 of the rare Berggruen edition with two pencil-signed colour lithographs, testament to the Ernst-Berggruen partnership in post-war Paris
Read article →Henri Michaux's Meidosems: Visionary Lithographs from 1948
First edition of Michaux's lithographic masterwork, copy 51 of 250 on pur fil Johannot, with twelve original lithographs
Read article →Giuseppe Santomaso 1972 DMA Exhibition Poster with Milena Milani Dedication
Original lithographic poster for the Dallas retrospective, inscribed to the Venetian critic: a document of Italian Informalism in America
Read article →Farfa il futurista: autograph dedication to Milena Milani in 1959 catalogue
Rare Milan exhibition catalogue with dedication from the poet-painter to Fontana's companion, testament to the dialogue between Futurism and Spatialism
Read article →Capogrossi at Rive Gauche: catalogue of the 1956 Paris exhibition
Rare document of the Roman artist's international consecration, witness to his partnership with Carlo Cardazzo and the Spatialist period
Read article →Cicero's Pro Milone, 1918: A French Edition Across Borders
A Romanian institutional copy of Cicero's courtroom oration, rendered in French and Latin, reveals patterns of classical pedagogy and European book circulation in the early 20th century.
Read article →Kant in Milena Milani's Library: An Annotated 1932 Edition
The first Italian edition of the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals with manuscript notes attributed to the writer and artist
Read article →Griffe de Picasso with autograph signature and Cardazzo provenance
Museum-quality first edition 1961 inscribed to Carlo Cardazzo, the gallerist who transformed postwar Italian collecting
Read article →Georges Mathieu: Autograph Dedication to Milena Milani in 1979 Catalogue
A personally inscribed copy documenting the dialogue between the master of Lyrical Abstraction and a leading figure of twentieth-century Italian culture
Read article →Vat.lat.92: Peter Lombard's Psalm Commentary in the Fourteenth Century
A rare Parisian recension of the Magna Glossa, copied in the 1300s and preserved in Vatican codex 92, illuminates fourteenth-century psalm exegesis and textual circulation.
Read article →Vat.lat.95: Peter Lombard's Psalms Commentary in the Trecento
A 14th-century Vatican psalter commentary reveals the enduring textual authority of Petrus Lombardus and the sophisticated working practices of Italian academic scriptoria.
Read article →Milton's Lost Paradise in Leibniz's Germany: The 1754 Edition
A neglected German translation reveals 18th-century debates over plagiarism, textual authority, and literary ownership in the Bavarian State Library's holdings.
Read article →Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus in Vatican Vat.lat.173
A Fifteenth-Century Witness to Medieval Mystical Theology—Market Implications for Neoplatonic Texts
Read article →Galileo's Dialogue in Madrid: The 1632 Edition at Spain's Virtual Library
How a landmark work of scientific revolution survives in Spanish institutional memory and what its digital record reveals about rare-book stewardship.
Read article →Vat.lat.189: Tertullian's Opera in Quattrocento Script
A mid-15th-century Vatican codex preserving the African Father's polemical corpus—palaeographic landmarks and textual transmission in the early humanist scriptorium.
Read article →Vat.lat.164: Lyra's Postillae in Fifteenth-Century Vatican Hands
A Vatican autograph-era copy of Nicolaus de Lyra's biblical commentary reveals early circulation patterns and scriptorium practice in early Renaissance Rome.
Read article →Vat.lat.169: A Fifteenth-Century Codex of Pseudo-Dionysian Theology
Mid-Quattrocento Italian manuscript of the Areopagite's opuscola reveals continuity in late-medieval scholastic engagement with Christian Neoplatonism.
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