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Contact information: The Owl at the Bridge
25 Berwick Lane, Cranston, Rhode Island, 02905-3708, United States
Phone: 401/ 467-7362
Email: Owlbridge@verizon.net
Website URL:
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The Owl at the Bridge, in business since 1981, specializes in scholarly, rare, and unusual out-of-print books. We stock a wide range of titles in many subjects and can supply printed lists on request. Our primary areas of interest include Italian history & culture (particularly the Renaissance) and American industrial silver (especially Gorham).
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Item number:
OB318.
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527
Tutte L'Opere Di Niccolo Machiavelli Segretario E Cittadino Fiorentino. Con Una Prefazione Di Giuseppe Baretti. Volume Primo [Secondo e Terzo
Publisher: Londra [London] Stampata Per Tommaso Davis, MDCCLXXII. [1772]. Three volumes: [10], lx, 4, 407, [3]; [6], 453, [3], [2] p., 3 tables; [6], 580, [2] p.; 30 cm. Frontispiece of vol 1 is portrait of Machiavelli signed ”G. Collyer, sculp.” Bertelli/ Innocenti, Bibliografia Machiavelliana, 18th Cent., 106; Burd p. 4. This Italian edition printed in London was edited by Giuseppe Baretti, 1719-1789, Turin-born writer, critic in London, and a friend of the Thrales, he knew Johnson Garrick and is mentioned in Boswell. He published a Dictionary and Grammar of the Italian Language. Baretti shared in the English Commonwealthman, as well as the Italian, tradition of reading Machiavelli as a Republican and a nationalist. This copy has the bookplates of George Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln. Pretyman (1750-1827) was William Pitt the Younger's Cambridge ”governor” and close friend to whom Pitt left his papers. Pretyman was elevated to Lincoln in 1787 and in 1803, upon falling heir to a large estate, changed his name to Tomline. OB 318. Very good copy bound in modern half leather. Italian literature History Political Science
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AUD 1,639.34
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CAD 1,606.00
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EUR 1,008.74
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21060.
Hough, Samuel J. & Penelope Hough.
The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College...
Publisher: Gainesville, Fla. UP [1994]. xi, 414 p., index, plates; 29 cm. Title continues: A Catalog of Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Maps, and Drawings, 1521-1860. A large and interesting collection of approximately 1000 printed works, 1000 manuscripts, and numerous maps, sketches, and paintings, built over a long relationship between Walter Beinecke and the Motts. Color pictorial dj; new from publisher. Signed on request. Stock#21060x.
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AUD 163.93
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CAD 160.60
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EUR 100.87
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GBP 90.85
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JPY 13,636.36
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MXN 1,948.05
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ZAR 1,136.36
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42327.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Coffin, Sarah.
Feeding Desire. Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005 [by] Sarah D. Coffin et al.
Publisher: New York, Assouline in association with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, c2006. 288 p., illus. (some color); 31 cm. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition... at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, May 5 - October 29, 2006; ...also on view at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, Napa, California, Januray 26 - April 30, 2007"--T.p. verso. Bibliography p. 282-[285]. "The first book to showcase the Museum's astonishing permanent collection of American and European cutlery. Seven original essays are accompanied by over 200 lavish color and black-and-white illustrations, relating the surprisingly different histories of the knife, spoon, and fork, and revealing how cutlery has influenced food, fashion, design, mobility, hygiene, and consumption over the centuries." Stock#42327x. Fine, new from publisher.
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CAD 69.59
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JPY 5,909.09
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MXN 844.16
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ZAR 492.42
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1078.
Cartaro, Mario, engraver.
Infirmità Che Possono Venire A Uno Cavallo Et Per Ogni Infirmità Il Suo Remedio.
Publisher: Mario Cartaro Fecit. Napoli, 1592; facsimile reprint The Owl at the Bridge 1990. "Ailments which can occur in a horse, and for each infirmity a remedy." The conjunction of Renaissance Italian equestrian art and veterinary medicine, this beautiful and previously unknown engraving depicts a rearing stallion with accompanying descriptions of 60 equine ailments and how to treat each one. Facsimile; 21" x 15.5", the full size of the original, on Mohawk Superfine 65-weight soft white stock suitable for framing. May be used as competition prize or gift. stock#1078x. Trade discounts available.
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36293.
Pristo, L. J. (Larry), Ph.D.
Martelé / Martele, Gorham's Nouveau Art Silver.
Publisher: Phoenix, Heritage Antiques, 2001. 600 p., 542 b/w illus., 5 color plates, 29 cm. If Larry Pristo hasn't identified every piece of Martelé, it isn't from lack of effort. This work lists every one, when it was made and who made it (when known). Pristo's work about doubles the number of known Martelé objects to 8000 from the 4000-some in Charles Carpenter's book. One reason for the gaps in Carpenter's lists was his inclusion of only samples but not the special-order wares. Pristo's is the book to begin with for anyone interested in research on Martelé. 36293x. New from publisher; dj new.
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AUD 147.54
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CAD 144.54
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EUR 90.79
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GBP 81.77
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JPY 12,272.73
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MXN 1,753.25
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ZAR 1,022.73
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Shipping: US media mail $4.75 (1-30 days); priority $11 (4-10 days); both include delivery confirmation. International by weight; we charge actual shipping (the USPS no longer offers surface mail). Please provide the name of the bank owning your credit card. You may also pay via Western Union, IMO (International Money Order), or bank transfer. Your charge appears as from A Book CoOp, the former name of TomFolio. On request, we provide additional services (insurance), or a different carrier (UPS, FedEx, DHL). We sell on approval; an item may be returned within 10 days of receipt. We invoice established institutions. This is a secure site for credit transactions; use Visa, Mastercard, or American Express. This bookseller does not use paypal.
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