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Biblia, dat is, de gantsche heylige schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.Leiden, widow and heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 3 volumes bound as 2, with the prints and maps bound in. Large folio (44.5 x 28 cm). The Elzevier Bible with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 letterpress title-pages (the general title-page in red and black, the others for the New Testament and Apocrypha). Picart's wholly engraved print-Bible with an allegorical frontispiece, a half-title and 209 finely engraved Bible scenes (29 double-page) by Gerard Hoet, Bernard Picart, etc. Further with a series of 6 double-page engraved plates, namely 5 maps plus a plan of Jerusalem, all by Nicolaas I Visscher. Below the privilege from the city of Leiden, the city secretary’s clerk Jacob vander Werve has authenticated the book by stamping the Leiden coat of arms and signing his name below it. Richly gold-tooled black goatskin morocco (ca. 1725) over bevelled wooden boards, bound and decorated by the so-called STAG BINDERY, Rotterdam. From the collection of Hendrik Adriaan or Hendricus Hadrianus vander Marck (ca. 1667-1726).
Biblia, dat is, de gantsche heylige schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.Leiden, widow and heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 3 volumes bound as 2, with the prints and maps bound in. Large folio (44.5 x 28 cm). The Elzevier Bible with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 letterpress title-pages (the general title-page in red and black, the others for the New Testament and Apocrypha). Picart's wholly engraved print-Bible with an allegorical frontispiece, a half-title and 209 finely engraved Bible scenes (29 double-page) by Gerard Hoet, Bernard Picart, etc. Further with a series of 6 double-page engraved plates, namely 5 maps plus a plan of Jerusalem, all by Nicolaas I Visscher. Below the privilege from the city of Leiden, the city secretary’s clerk Jacob vander Werve has authenticated the book by stamping the Leiden coat of arms and signing his name below it. Richly gold-tooled black goatskin morocco (ca. 1725) over bevelled wooden boards, bound and decorated by the so-called STAG BINDERY, Rotterdam. From the collection of Hendrik Adriaan or Hendricus Hadrianus vander Marck (ca. 1667-1726).
[BIBLE - DUTCH]. · 1663
€70,000.00 ($77,154.49 | £58,390.15 | ¥12,322,048)
[22], “468” [= 470]; [13], [1 blank], “167” [= 168]; [4], 77, [1 blank] ll. plus the print-Bible and maps.The famous and magnificent 1663 Elsevier edition of the 1637 authorized Dutch States translation of the Bible (Old and New Testament plus the Apocrypha), the only early ed...
Eerste (-derde) deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679. With: (2) [ULAEUS, Johannes & Willem Godschalk van FOCQUENBROCH]. De herders-sangen van Virgilius Maro, in Nederduyts gesongen, op twee verscheydene toonen. Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679.(3) FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Min in 't Lazarus-huys, blyspel. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, 1674. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 8vo. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a large engraved vignette on the separate title to ad 3, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.
Eerste (-derde) deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679. With: (2) [ULAEUS, Johannes & Willem Godschalk van FOCQUENBROCH]. De herders-sangen van Virgilius Maro, in Nederduyts gesongen, op twee verscheydene toonen. Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679.(3) FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Min in 't Lazarus-huys, blyspel. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, 1674. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 8vo. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a large engraved vignette on the separate title to ad 3, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.
FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. · 1682
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[16], 447, [1 blank]; [16], 223, [1]; [16], 112; [8], 77, [3 blank] pp.Rare collection of the most important of Focquenborch's works, incorporating all three parts of the Thalia, a translation of Virgil's Bucolica, and the play Min in 't Lazarus-huys. The present copy includes...
Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Arabe & du Turc.Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins.
Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Arabe & du Turc.Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins.
DIGEON, J.M. · 1745
€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)
VIII, 347 [1 blank]; [2], 278, [4] pp.First edition of both an historical work describing the Ottoman and Egyptian rulers from the founder of the Ottoman empire, Sultan Osman I (1258-1326), to the year 1745, and a collection of Turkish and Arabic tales, gathered, translated an...
Scherzi poetici e pittorici. (Colophon: Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1795). 8vo (22 x 14 cm). With engraved title-page and 40 engraved plates (plate size: ca. 7 x 11 cm). Richly gold-tooled red morocco by Rémy Petit (active 1855-1900), spine with 5 raised bands resulting in 6 compartments, one with black title-label and the other five gold-tooled with black oval inlays; the sides with gilt triple fillet borders, corner ornaments with same oval inlays and a central oval ornament (gold on green); further with gilt fillets on board edges and richly gold-tooled turn-ins with a floral motive, gilt edges.
Scherzi poetici e pittorici. (Colophon: Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1795). 8vo (22 x 14 cm). With engraved title-page and 40 engraved plates (plate size: ca. 7 x 11 cm). Richly gold-tooled red morocco by Rémy Petit (active 1855-1900), spine with 5 raised bands resulting in 6 compartments, one with black title-label and the other five gold-tooled with black oval inlays; the sides with gilt triple fillet borders, corner ornaments with same oval inlays and a central oval ornament (gold on green); further with gilt fillets on board edges and richly gold-tooled turn-ins with a floral motive, gilt edges.
[ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo de]. · 1754
€7,200.00 ($7,935.89 | £6,005.84 | ¥1,267,411)
[52] ll.One of the several issues of the elegant first edition of a collection of allegorical poetry by the playwright, poet and scholar Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi (1754-1827), containing epigrams, sonnets and other poems dedicated to love, featuring Venus and Cupid. It is one...
Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.Paris, “l'autheur” and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker.
Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.Paris, “l'autheur” and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker.
SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). · 1660
€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)
[1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece.Beautiful, wholly engraved calligraphic book of hours originally dedicated to Marie Anne Christine Victoire de Bavière (1660-1690), dauphine of France from 1680 to her death in 1690, in a luxurious ...
Instruction détaillée pour porter les lunettes de toutes les différentes especes au plus haut degré de perfection dont elles sont susceptibles tirée de la théorie dioptrique de Mr. Euler le pere et mise a la portée de tous les ouvriers en ce genre. Avec la description dún microscope qui peut passer pour le plus parfait dans son espèce et qui est propre à produire tous les grossissemens qu'on voudra.St. Petersburg, Académie Imp. des Sciences, 1774. 4to. With 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary Russian mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. Rebacked (ca. 1810?).
Instruction détaillée pour porter les lunettes de toutes les différentes especes au plus haut degré de perfection dont elles sont susceptibles tirée de la théorie dioptrique de Mr. Euler le pere et mise a la portée de tous les ouvriers en ce genre. Avec la description dún microscope qui peut passer pour le plus parfait dans son espèce et qui est propre à produire tous les grossissemens qu'on voudra.St. Petersburg, Académie Imp. des Sciences, 1774. 4to. With 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary Russian mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. Rebacked (ca. 1810?).
FUSS, Nicolas. · 1755
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[10], 83, [1 blank] pp. plus plates.First and only edition of an important manual on the construction of telescopes and microscopes, the first publication by Nicolas Fuss (1755-1826), who grew up in a modest Swiss family but was to become one of the leading mathematicians and ...
The Rèpublic of Mexico in 1876. A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants. Mexico City, La Enseñanza, 1876. 8vo. With 8 chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, double-page map, and 4 leaves with printed music on both sides. 19th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards, gold-tooled turin-ins, gilt edges.
The Rèpublic of Mexico in 1876. A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants. Mexico City, La Enseñanza, 1876. 8vo. With 8 chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, double-page map, and 4 leaves with printed music on both sides. 19th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards, gold-tooled turin-ins, gilt edges.
GARCIA CUBAS, Antonio. · 1832
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
130, [12] pp.Interesting work on the politics, history and ethnography of Mexico, by the Mexican scientist Antonio Garcia Cubas (1832-1912). In the third part on ethnography the focus is on several indigenous Mexican Indian families. "For a better knowledge of the races, their...
Souvenirs d'Egypte.Paris, Lemercier, [ca. 1850]. Large folio (55 x 41 cm). With a lithographed title-page and 24 tinted lithographs with captions in Arabic, French and English, all mounted on cloth. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Souvenirs d'Egypte.Paris, Lemercier, [ca. 1850]. Large folio (55 x 41 cm). With a lithographed title-page and 24 tinted lithographs with captions in Arabic, French and English, all mounted on cloth. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
BIDA, Alexandre and Prosper BARBOT. · 1823
€19,000.00 ($20,941.93 | £15,848.76 | ¥3,344,556)
First edition of a beautiful album with 24 spectacular plates. The first 12 plates, made by and after Bida, consist of character studies of people encountered in the region, such as a veiled woman, a horse groom, a dancing girl and an Arabic man from Hedjaz. The other 12 views...
Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.[Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch, 1642?]. Small 8vo. With Van Esch's woodcut Maid of Dordrecht device on the title-page, a woodcut tail-piece, a woodcut factotum and 2 woodcut decorative initials. Wrappers (ca. 1800?) made from laid paper coloured green and glazed on the outer surface.
Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.[Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch, 1642?]. Small 8vo. With Van Esch's woodcut Maid of Dordrecht device on the title-page, a woodcut tail-piece, a woodcut factotum and 2 woodcut decorative initials. Wrappers (ca. 1800?) made from laid paper coloured green and glazed on the outer surface.
[BEVERWIJCK, Jan van]. · 1594
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
152 pp.Second edition of an interesting medical work by Jan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647), a Dutch translation of his Medicinae encomium, Dordrecht, 1633, in praise of medicine, first translated into Dutch for a 1635 folio edition, printed and published by ...
Traktaat van vriendschap, scheepvaart en handel, tusschen de Nederlanden, en de Vereenigde Staten van Mexico. | Traité d'amitié, de navigation et de commerce, conclu entre le Roi des Pays-Bas, et les États-Unis du Mexique.[Brussels], November 1828. 8vo. Sewn.
Traktaat van vriendschap, scheepvaart en handel, tusschen de Nederlanden, en de Vereenigde Staten van Mexico. | Traité d'amitié, de navigation et de commerce, conclu entre le Roi des Pays-Bas, et les États-Unis du Mexique.[Brussels], November 1828. 8vo. Sewn.
[MEXICO]. · 1827
€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)
27, [1 blank] pp.Second copy located of a treaty of friendship, navigation and trade between The Netherlands and the United States of Mexico. This treaty was closed on 15 June 1827 and presented November 1828 to the parliament of the States General by Willem, King William I, k...
Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c. depuis le prémier avril 1750. jusqu'au 26. juin 1752.Milan, Les Freres Reycends, 1771. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers.
Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c. depuis le prémier avril 1750. jusqu'au 26. juin 1752.Milan, Les Freres Reycends, 1771. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers.
TORÉN, Olof. · 1718
€2,400.00 ($2,645.30 | £2,001.95 | ¥422,470)
92 pp.First edition of the French translation of an account of the travels of the Swedish botanist Olof Torén (1718-1753), who served as chaplain to a Swedish East India Company voyage to China and India in the years 1750 and 1752. Torén recounted his voyage in a series of let...
Nieuwe atlas van de provincie Friesland, bevattende kaarten van de dertig grietenijen of gemeenten, met de daarin gelegene elf steden en haar grondgebied, alsmede van de eilanden Ameland en Schiermonnikoog. Leeuwarden, W. Eekhoff, 1849-1859. Large folio (68 x 41 cm). With 32 large double-page maps, of which 2 folding, engraved by D. & H. Veelwaard after J.W. Witteveen. Further with the engraved coat of arms of the Province of Friesland on the title page. Contemporary half brown morocco and pebble-grained brown cloth sides.
Nieuwe atlas van de provincie Friesland, bevattende kaarten van de dertig grietenijen of gemeenten, met de daarin gelegene elf steden en haar grondgebied, alsmede van de eilanden Ameland en Schiermonnikoog. Leeuwarden, W. Eekhoff, 1849-1859. Large folio (68 x 41 cm). With 32 large double-page maps, of which 2 folding, engraved by D. & H. Veelwaard after J.W. Witteveen. Further with the engraved coat of arms of the Province of Friesland on the title page. Contemporary half brown morocco and pebble-grained brown cloth sides.
EEKHOFF, Wopke.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[4] pp. + 32 maps.First and only edition of a detailed and accurate atlas of Friesland, one of the most detailed regional mapping projects of its period. The paper was especially made by J. Honig, Zaandijk. According to the preface there were 286 subscribers to the atlas, whic...
Zee-politie der Vereenichde Nederlanden verthoont in een tafel, ende twee kleyne boecken … Waer achter ghevoecht zijn eenighe saecken tot onderrechtinge en kennisse tot de politie dienende.The Hague, Johan Veely, 1652. 4to. Contemporary vellum.
Zee-politie der Vereenichde Nederlanden verthoont in een tafel, ende twee kleyne boecken … Waer achter ghevoecht zijn eenighe saecken tot onderrechtinge en kennisse tot de politie dienende.The Hague, Johan Veely, 1652. 4to. Contemporary vellum.
TJASSENS, Johan. · 1518
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
[36], 276 pp.First edition of rare and important work on regulations for maritime trade and the navy. The first part of the work deals with the hierarchy in the Board of Admiralty, naval and mercantile ships, personnel functions, and equipment of ships with arms, food, and per...
Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, depuis son origine jusqu'a l'établissement de l'École d'Alexandrie.Paris, Debure brothers, 1775. 4to. With 3 numbered folding engraved plates. Beautiful contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, each board with coat of arms of Simon-Pierre Merard de Saint-Just in the centre, marbled endpapers. In modern slipcase covered with marbled paper.
Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, depuis son origine jusqu'a l'établissement de l'École d'Alexandrie.Paris, Debure brothers, 1775. 4to. With 3 numbered folding engraved plates. Beautiful contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, each board with coat of arms of Simon-Pierre Merard de Saint-Just in the centre, marbled endpapers. In modern slipcase covered with marbled paper.
BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain. · 1794
€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)
[2], XXII, 526 pp.First edition of a history of astronomy from prehistoric times to the Alexandrian school in the third century BC, by Jean-Sylvain Bailly. It covers not only European and biblical sources but also the cosmographical concepts of Chinese, Egyptian, Persian and C...
La chasse du prince ou relation de la reception faite à S. A. Monsieur le Prince d'Orange Guillaume III. en la Zelande. Et de son installation là mé en la dignité de premier noble. Arrivèes les 18. & 19. septembre 1668.[Amsterdam, Abraham Wolgang for Daniël Elzevier], 1668. Small 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown calf by Thouvenin. Bound with the original vellum wrappers.
La chasse du prince ou relation de la reception faite à S. A. Monsieur le Prince d'Orange Guillaume III. en la Zelande. Et de son installation là mé en la dignité de premier noble. Arrivèes les 18. & 19. septembre 1668.[Amsterdam, Abraham Wolgang for Daniël Elzevier], 1668. Small 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown calf by Thouvenin. Bound with the original vellum wrappers.
[SPLENDID CEREMONIES - HOUSE OF ORANGE - ZEELAND]. · 1650
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[2], 46 pp.First and only edition of an account of the ceremonies and festivities held on the occasion of the installation of William III, Prince of Orange (1650-1702), as First Nobleman (le premier noble) of the province of Zeeland. The work is exceptionally rare, as we have ...
De nutritione foetus in utero paradoxa.Danzig, G. Förster, 1655. 4to. With an engraved title. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title, author, and year of publication on the spine, a single fillet border on both boards.
De nutritione foetus in utero paradoxa.Danzig, G. Förster, 1655. 4to. With an engraved title. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title, author, and year of publication on the spine, a single fillet border on both boards.
LA COURVEE, Jean-Claude de. · 1615
€3,750.00 ($4,133.28 | £3,128.04 | ¥660,110)
[22], 254 pp.First edition of a Harveianum of great importance and rarity. Jean-Claude de La Courvee (ca. 1615-1664) studied medicine in Paris, and became physician to the Queen of Poland. In a publication on the use and abuse of bloodletting (Paris, 1647), he declared himself...
Le joli Pont-Neuf, ou recueil de chansons; vaudevilles, &c. Almanach nouveau."Amsterdam" [= Paris?], sold in Paris, Duchesne, [1763]. 24mo (9.5 x 5.6 cm). Each page printed in simple woodcut border, with several small head and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled French red morocco, fine green, gold, and white brocade paper endpapers with a foral pattern.
Le joli Pont-Neuf, ou recueil de chansons; vaudevilles, &c. Almanach nouveau."Amsterdam" [= Paris?], sold in Paris, Duchesne, [1763]. 24mo (9.5 x 5.6 cm). Each page printed in simple woodcut border, with several small head and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled French red morocco, fine green, gold, and white brocade paper endpapers with a foral pattern.
[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. · 1763
€1,700.00 ($1,873.75 | £1,418.05 | ¥299,250)
[40] ll.Only known copy of a beautifully bound French almanach for the year 1763, accompanied by many popular songs. The survival of the present almanach is extremely rare, as we have not been able to trace any other copy from the same year and only one set of similar almanach...
Lettres d'un François a un Hollandois au sujet des differends survenus entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, touchant leurs possessions respectives dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.“Paris” [The Netherlands?], “P. La Rive”, 1755. 4to. Early 20th-century half cloth, with the original marbled wrappers bound in.
Lettres d'un François a un Hollandois au sujet des differends survenus entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, touchant leurs possessions respectives dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.“Paris” [The Netherlands?], “P. La Rive”, 1755. 4to. Early 20th-century half cloth, with the original marbled wrappers bound in.
[MOREAU, Jacob-Nicolas]. · 1754
€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)
90 pp.Rare 4to edition, printed and published (probably in the Netherlands) in the same year as the more common first 12mo edition, of a political pamphlet on French-English relations and hostilities, presented as a series of four letters from a Frenchman to a Dutchman during ...
Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano.Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 headpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. Later half vellum, title in ink on spine.
Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano.Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 headpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. Later half vellum, title in ink on spine.
DOLCE, Lodovico. · 1568
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
60 ll.First edition of a dialogue on painting between Pietro Aretino and John Francis Fabrini, written by Lodovico Dolce (1568). The discussion concentrates on the particular merits of works of art and artists, the question whether Venetian or Tuscan art is "better". It is mos...
Discursos apologeticos, en que se defiende la ingenvidad del arte de la pintura; que es liberal, de todos derechos, no inferior a las sie te que comunmente te se reciben.Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1626. 4to. With an engraved architectural title-page by Juan Schorquens. Early 19th-century Spanish gold-tooled, sheepskin (root or maroquin pattern).
Discursos apologeticos, en que se defiende la ingenvidad del arte de la pintura; que es liberal, de todos derechos, no inferior a las sie te que comunmente te se reciben.Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1626. 4to. With an engraved architectural title-page by Juan Schorquens. Early 19th-century Spanish gold-tooled, sheepskin (root or maroquin pattern).
BUTRON, Juan Alonso de. · 1626
€5,500.00 ($6,062.14 | £4,587.80 | ¥968,161)
[36], 122, [37] pp.First edition, in the original Spanish, of an important treatise on the value and quality of the art of painting, containing many interesting observations and remarks on the fine arts and its relation to other liberal arts, such as dialectics, rhetoric and a...