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The Libreria Antiquaria was founded in 1973 by Alberto Govi. After graduating in aesthetics in Bologna with Luciano Anceschi, he spent some years in Milan at the Garzanti publishing house and then decided to start a completely new activity within the rare books business. The great number of catalogues he has produced over the years testify to his competence and passion for the old book, as well as to the richness and variety of the works offered.
In 1996, Alberto is joined in the activity by his son Fabrizio, who, after graduating in Bologna with the art historian Anna Ottani Cavina, began a long and exciting apprenticeship in the world of antiquarian books.
A distinctive mark of the Libreria Alberto Govi is the philological rigor with which all books (regardless of their value) are examined before being offered to customers. The bibliographical care applied to both the collation and physical analysis of the book, as well as to the research of scientific documentation, that can help to understand the historical significance of a work, is another important criterion of dealing with rare books [more ...]
La Libreria Antiquaria Alberto Govi si occupa di acquisto e vendita di libri antichi, manoscritti, incunaboli e cinquecentine. Se siete interessati all'acquisto o alla vendita di un libro antico, manoscritto, incunabolo o cinquecentina rivolgetevi a noi con fiducia. Gli altri nostri servizi comprendono perizie bibliografiche, consulenze bibliografiche, studio bibliografico, cataloghi bibliografici, stime libri antichi, consulenze libri antichi, stime manoscritti.
FEATURED BOOKS
Autore: INGEGNERI, Angelo (1550-1613)Tipografo: Stamperia Nuova
Dati tipografici: Vicenza, 1584
Autore: ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)Tipografo: Marc Michel Rey
Dati tipografici: Amsterdam, 1762
Autore: PONTINI, GiovanniTipografo: Giandomenico Occhi
Dati tipografici: Vicenza, 1758
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Italian printing and the mind of man
Similar to a famous work of the Sixties’, Printing and the Mind of Man, in which the main fields of knowledge are described in over four hundred printed works that had a significant impact on the history of mankind, I classici che hanno fatto l’Italia (“The classics that have made Italy”), proposes an ideal library of Italian authors (for birth or of adoption), and at the same time aims to illustrate an outline of Italian cultural history from the Quattrocento to the present, through a very personal, but representative selection of titles and editions.
