Vat.lat.90: The Psalter Commentary of Peter Lombard
A twelfth-century Vatican manuscript reveals textual refinement and the intellectual reach of Parisian scholasticism into the Italian scriptoria.
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Editorial notes, market reasoning and curator essays on the rare book, manuscript and autograph market.
Nicolaus de Lyra's Vat.lat.157: A Late-Medieval Postillae Codex
Vatican manuscript of the Franciscan exegete's biblical commentary, late 14th century; textual authority, provenance, and market precedent for major postillae traditions.
Read article →Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B Major: A 1956 Spanish Score
Digitised performance material in the Virtual Library of Bibliographical Heritage reveals Bach transmission through mid-twentieth-century Iberian musical culture.
Read article →Vat.lat.188: Irenaeus's Contra Haereses in Fifteenth-Century Italy
A meticulous humanist copy of the foundational anti-heretical treatise, revealing scribal practice and textual transmission in Renaissance Vatican scriptoria.
Read article →Vat.lat.198: Cyprian's Opera and Quattrocento Humanism
A 1449 Vatican manuscript of the African bishop's theological corpus reveals the textual politics of mid-fifteenth-century Roman scriptoria.
Read article →Milton's Poetical Works 1861: The Gilfillan-Clarke Edition at Oxford
How a Victorian critical apparatus became the standard text for collectors, and what the Bodleian copy reveals about nineteenth-century editorial practice.
Read article →Vat.lat.247: Eusebius' Chronicle in Quattrocento Script
A fifteenth-century witness to the textual transmission of Eusebius' Chronicon; codicological analysis and market assessment for collectors.
Read article →Nicolaus de Lyra's Postillae: Vat.lat.166 and Exegetical Authority
A fourteenth-century papal manuscript preserving the most influential biblical commentary of the medieval period—and what its textual state reveals about late-medieval scriptorial practice.
Read article →Chesterton's Paradoxes in Spanish Archives: A 1995 Digital Record
How the Virtual Library of Historical Press preserves a critical study of paradoxical thought in Chesterton scholarship.
Read article →Vat.lat.197: Cyprian's Opera in Fifteenth-Century Vellum
A Vatican manuscript of the African father's complete works reveals rare humanist engagement with early Christian apologetics during the Italian Renaissance.
Read article →Vat.lat.182: Philo's Renaissance Translation and Humanist Philology
How Lilio Tifernate's vernacular Philo shaped early modern Neoplatonism and rare-book valuation.
Read article →Cicero's Philippics in Romanian: A 1968 Translation Reconsidered
A critical examination of the National Heritage Institute's postwar Ciceronian translation and its place in Romanian humanist scholarship.
Read article →Vat.lat.165: Lyra's Postillae in a 1385 Florentine Hand
A Vatican autograph postil manuscript reveals Nicolaus de Lyra's prophetic exegesis at the height of his textual authority in late Trecento Italy.
Read article →Vat.lat.223: Lactantius in Papal Script, 1454
A mid-fifteenth-century Vatican humanist copy of Lactantius Firmianus—textual witness, scriptorium attribution, and market rarity
Read article →Hawthorne's Spanish Parables: A 1996 Press Survey Recovered
How Spain's Virtual Library of Historical Press preserves a twentieth-century critical essay on American allegory in the Hispanic archive.
Read article →Romi's Factories of Glory: editorial satire in 1953 France
First edition of 'Usines à Gloire', second volume in the Copies Conformes series: an ironic analysis of success in modern society with surrealist graphics
Read article →Les Vampires by Tony Faivre: pioneering study of an immortal myth
First edition 1962 of the seminal essay published by Le Terrain Vague, with dust jacket illustrated by Gustave Doré
Read article →Vat.lat.222: Lactantius in Quattrocento Script and Authority
A 1462 Roman codex of Lactantius Firmianus preserves three opera in humanist script, illuminating the circulation and copying practices of patristic texts at the papal court.
Read article →Tristan Tzara's Phases inscribed to Milena Milani (1951)
First edition 1949 inscribed by the author to the Italian writer and artist, documenting a Parisian encounter between European avant-garde luminaries
Read article →Niki de Saint Phalle: Unique Manuscript Artist's Book from the 1970s
Autograph exemplar with signed original illustration by the creator of the Nanas, rare testimony to the creative process of the Nouveau Réalisme icon
Read article →Fontana Exhibition Catalogue, Barcelona 1988: Spatialism in Iberia
First edition of the Barcelona retrospective catalogue devoted to the Italian-Argentine master, witness to Spatialism's diffusion in Spain
Read article →Lucio Fontana, Edizioni del Cavallino 1953: A Spatialist Document
The first Venetian monograph on the master of Spatialism, with screenprinted cover and original frontispiece, testament to Fontana's aesthetic revolution
Read article →Griffe de Picasso: autograph signature and dedication to Carlo Cardazzo
First edition 1961 with original Picasso cover and dual autograph: a capital document for the history of Italian collecting
Read article →Fontana Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria L'Attico Rome 1959
Bibliographic record of the historic Roman solo show during the golden period of Spatial Concepts, featuring works from the Cavellini collection
Read article →Henri Michaux: Peintures et Dessins, 1946 – Numbered copy of the first edition
A foundational document on the Belgian poet-artist's pictorial work, copy 333/900 on Rives B.F.K. paper in morocco binding
Read article →Nerio Tebano tra poesia e pittura: Double Dedication to Milena Milani
First edition 1980 with autograph dedication from the artist to writer and poet Milena Milani, testament to a dialogue between art and literature
Read article →Joan Miró, Peintures sur papier: Maeght catalogue with original lithograph
The 1971 Paris exhibition catalogue with original lithograph by the Catalan master, testament to the Miró-Maeght collaboration
Read article →Vat.lat.97: Thirteenth-Century Psalter Commentary in Vatican Hands
A forensic study of Peter the Lombard's exegetical legacy in a prestigious Paris-trained manuscript, with market implications for Parisian thirteenth-century theology codices.
Read article →Petrarch's Consolation in German: The 1551 Brant Edition
Sebastian Brant's vernacular translation of Petrarch's remedies for fortune finds new scholarly urgency through Bavarian State Library holdings and digital recovery.
Read article →Venetian Proclamation of 1621 on Grain Trade: Document of the Magistratura alle Biaue
Rare printed edict of the Serenissima regulating cereal supply, with woodcut of the Lion of Saint Mark
Read article →René Herbst: Pioneer of the Modern Movement – Delaporte Monograph 2004
First edition of the definitive study on the UAM co-founder and master of French rationalist design
Read article →Soled Out: The Golden Age of Sneaker Advertising by Phaidon Press
The 2021 first edition curated by Sneaker Freaker chronicles decades of sports marketing that shaped contemporary urban culture
Read article →Reasoned Index to Napoleon's Civil Code, Brescia 1806
A legal tool from the Bettoni press: witness to Napoleonic reception in the Kingdom of Italy
Read article →Nature Form & Spirit: Mira Nakashima and Her Father's Craft Legacy
The 2003 monograph documenting George Nakashima's organic design mastery and American Craft legacy
Read article →Eiko on Stage: Callaway's Monograph on the Visionary Genius of Eiko Ishioka
First edition 2000 monograph dedicated to the Oscar-winning Japanese designer, with essay by Francis Ford Coppola
Read article →Vat.lat.163: Nicholas of Lyra's Psalter Commentary
A fourteenth-century Franciscan exegesis that shaped Reformation hermeneutics—textual authority, hand analysis, and market precedent.
Read article →Shiro Kuramata: The Phaidon Monograph Defining a Design Master
The definitive two-volume work on the visionary Japanese postmodernist, with essays by Miyake, Ando and Pawson and over 600 documented projects
Read article →Autograph Postcard by Joan Miró to Carlo Cardazzo, Paris 1953
Signed epistolary document from the Catalan master to the Milanese gallerist, testament to the dialogue between European avant-garde and post-war Italian art market
Read article →Gianfranco Donegà in Stockholm: 1963 exhibition catalogue
A refined exhibition document from Konstsalongen Samlaren witnessing the international reach of Italian Informalism in Scandinavia
Read article →Fontana at the Triennale: Farabola prints document the birth of Spatialism
Pair of 1951 vintage photographs immortalise the revolutionary light ceiling anticipating the famous Cuts
Read article →Kandinsky in his Paris atelier: vintage photograph from 1936
Rare photographic testimony of the abstract master during his French exile, among pigments and biomorphic forms
Read article →Kandinsky and Nina in the Dessau garden: vintage photograph 1930
Rare silver gelatin print documents the domestic intimacy of the Bauhaus master with manuscript inscription on verso
Read article →Kandinsky in his studio: vintage photograph of the abstraction master
Rare photographic testimony from circa 1913 depicting the Russian artist during the crucial period of his turn to lyrical abstraction
Read article →Kandinsky in Munich: vintage photograph of the father of abstraction
Rare gelatin silver print from the Munich period, with French and Italian editorial annotations (ca. 1910, print 1920s-50s)
Read article →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
Read article →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
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