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EARLY ART LITERATURE Catalogue 139

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1 AN ALBUM OF BAROQUE REPRODUCTIVE PRINTS. 4 (ALGAROTTI COLLECTION) [SELVA, GIOVANNI

75 seventeenth- and eighteenth-century etchings and engravings, ANTONIO]. Catalogue des tableaux, des desseins et des livres
mounted on 71 leaves. Folio. Nineteenth-century English marbled qui traitent de l’art du dessein, de la galerie du feu Comte
boards, 3/4 morocco gilt (rubbed). The album includes, among other Algarotti à Venise. (8), lxxx pp. Handsome engraved headpiece at
contents, Agostino Carracci’s “Saint Francis Consoled by the Musi- the outset, by Volpato. Lrg. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wraps.,
cal Angel” after Vanni (cf. Bohlin 204) and his “Ecce Homo” after backed in the 19th century with cloth tape.
Correggio (cf. Bohlin 143); Michel Dorigny’s “The Academy of The privately printed catalogue of the collection of Count
Art,” and Cornelis Cort’s “Rest on the Flight to Egypt” after Baroc- Francesco Algarotti and his brother Count Bonomo Algarotti,
ci. There are several partial or nearly complete reproductive series, simultaneously issued in Italian and (per Schlosser) in German. All
including Dietrich-Theodor Crüger after Sarto’s Life of the Baptist three issues are very rare. Though not stated, the catalogue was
(17 plates on 15); Pietro Santi Bartoli after Lanfranco (16 plates, compiled by the Venetian architect, garden designer and writer Gio-
including title); and 22 various plates after Vouet by Dorigny, Torte- vanni Antonio Selva (1751-1819), with contributions by Pietro
bat, Daret and others. There are also single prints and series by G.B. Edwards. By the time of its publication, twelve years after
Mercati, Cornelis Bloemaert, Fr. Aquila and Pietro Testa. Condition Francesco Algarotti’s death in 1764, the collection had passed in its
of the prints varies greatly, from trimmed worn impressions, to fine entirety to his brother Bonomo, himself a connoisseur of great taste,
impressions with large margins and in fine state. who had actively collaborated in its formation. Francesco Algarotti
$5,500.00 (1712-1764) was one of the most brilliant and influential patrons
and critics of the Settecento, and his collection included some 200
2 AN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF EGYPT. Late nine- paintings, including 13 by his friend Giambattista Tiepolo (who
teenth-century. 90 albumen and silver print photographs, mounted also advised him in his acquisitions for the royal collections of
on heavy card leaves in a contemporary album. Image size: ca. 210 Frederick-Augustus II, Elector of Saxony). His drawings collection
x 275 mm. (ca. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches). Massive oblong folio. Full was rich in works by the Tiepolo, Canaletto, Galli-Bibiena, Sebas-
heavy polished black leather gilt (expertly rebacked). T.e.g. The tiano Ricci, Maratta and Hogarth. Of great interest at the end of the
album focuses both on the well-known monuments of ancient catalogue is an extensive listing of his books on art, architecture,
Egypt—the architecture and bas-reliefs of Karnak, Luxor, the Great aesthetics and antiquities. Wrappers a little worn, but a nice copy
Sphinx, Dashur, Sakharah, Abydos, Dendera, Kom, Edfu, Phylae, with large margins. Very rare.
and others—and also on contemporary scenes: the harbor at Dana- N.p., n.d. [Venezia, 1776]. $3,000.00
bieh, cataracts at Aswan, dervishes and belly dancers and others Borroni I.150.1; Cicognara 4591; Melzi I.184; cf.: Schlosser p.
(some in studio portraits), the camel market at Bedrechem, dhows 564; Haskell, Francis: Patrons and Painters (New Haven, 1980), p.
on the Nile, as well as on Cairene mosques and other edifices. Most 355, 347ff.
of the photographs are credited and captioned in the image, to Edit.
Schroeder & Cie., Zürich (42 prints), to Art. G. Lekegian & Cie. (34 5 (ALIBERT SALE) PARIS. FRANÇ. LÉAND. REG-
prints) or Zangaki (10); 4 are not credited. Fine condition. NAULT. Catalogue d’une nombreuse collection d’estampes et
Egypt, n.d. $4,500.00 de dessins de grands maîtres, après le décès de Madame Alib-
ert, et cessation de commerce de J. Guill. Alibert, marchand d’e-
3 [ALGAROTTI, FRANCESCO]. Saggio sopra la pittura. stampes. Vente, 25-30 avril, 2-5 mai 1803. Catalogue by Franç.
184, (2)pp. Engraved title-page vignette. Contemporary speckled Léand. Regnault. viii, 167, (1)pp. Lrg. 8vo. Nineteenth-century
wraps. Uncut. First published Bologna, 1762, and duly translated marbled boards, 1/4 cloth. Unopened. 552 lots of prints are cata-
into English (London, 1764), French (Paris, 1769) and German logued (including groups of as many as 900 portraits after van Dyck
(Kassel, 1769); a number of editions such as this appeared in Italy entered as a single lot). A little light waterstaining and foxing but a
before the end of the eighteenth century. Count Francesco Algarot- good copy.
ti (Venice, 1712-1764) was internationally esteemed as a connois- Paris, 1803. $375.00
seur, particularly in Germany, where he was an agent and advisor to Lugt 6612
Frederick the Great, Augustus III and Count Brühl. A nice copy.
Livorno (Marco Coltellini), 1763. $600.00 6 ALLEGRANZA, GIUSEPPE. De sepulcris Christianis in
Cf., citing various editions: Borroni I.854; Borroni I.854; Schlosser aedibus sacris. Accedunt inscriptiones sepulcrales Christianae
p. 682; Cicognara 7 seculo septimo antiquiores in Insubria Austriacae repertae. Item
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inscriptiones sepulcrales ecclesiarum. lxiv, (2), 162, (10)pp., 1 fold- co in 1749. He adds a discussion of Palladio’s original plans for the
ing plate with 30 engraved Christian symbols and 30 Christian Teatro Olimpico. A few tears to the plates, well mended; two
monograms. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt at spine. Lacking front charming early wash drawings (a soldier, a man’s head) on the last
flyleaf, otherwise a neat copy. blank leaf; a few plates touched with wash; occasional light foxing;
[Milano] (Apud Joseph Galeatium), 1773. $850.00 a fine copy.
Cicognara 3929; Brunet 22315; Graesse I.80 Vicenza (Antonio Veronese), 1762. $3,000.00
Berlin 2790; cf. Cicognara 750 (misstating date); cf. Schlosser p.
7 ARNALDI, ENEA. Idea di un teatro nelle principali sue 568 (misstating date); Brunet 9790
parti simile a’ teatri antichi, all’uso moderno accomodato. Con
due discorsi, l’uno che versa intorno a’ teatri in generale, riguardo 8 BALDINUCCI, FILIPPO. Lezione di Filippo Baldinucci,
solo al coperto della scene esteriore, l’altro intorno al soffito di nell’Accademia della Crusca il Lustrato, detta da lui essa
quella del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, opera dell’insigne Andrea accademia in due recite, ne’ giorni 29. di dicembre, e 5. di gen-
Palladio. (4), xxxii, 82, (2), 58, (2)pp., 6 fine folding engraved naio 1691. 32pp. Large woodcut publisher’s device on title-page.
plates. Wood-engraved culs-de-lampe, lettrines. 4to. Contemporary 4to. Early vellum over boards. First edition; a second edition was
heavy wraps. Count Arnaldi’s proposal, based on Palladian proto- not issued until 1755 (in the “Raccolta di alcuni opuscoli sopra
types but with noteworthy innovations of his own, was originally varie materie di pittura, scultura ed architettura”). A literary dis-
prompted by the destruction by fire of Bibiena’s Teatro Filarmoni- course comparing the painters of ancient Greece and Rome with
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those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anticipating the engraved culs-de-lampe, lettrines. Sm. 4to. Nineteenth-century
French “querelle des anciens et des modernes.” “Rarissimo a speckled boards, 1/4 calf (backstrip mended). Light wear.
trovarsi nell’edizione originale” (Cicognara) Eighteenth-century Ferrara (Giuseppe Rinaldi), 1770. $1,200.00
engraved ex-libris “Marius Marefuschus,” with cardinal’s hat. Schlosser p. 584; Cicognara 4196; Fossati Bellani 2787; Lichten-
Firenze (Nella Stamperia di Pier Matini all’Insegna del Lione), thal p. 167
1692. $1,800.00
Borroni I.1440; Schlosser p. 623; Cicognara 2196; Brunet I.622; 11 (BELLE) Paris. F.L. Regnault-Delalande. Catalogue du cab-
Haym IV.138 inet de feu M.r BELLE, peintre.... Sale, 18-20 January 1809. xi,
(1), 28pp. Woodcut title-page vignette and cul-de-lampe. Sm. 4to.
9 BARDI, GIROLAMO. Dichiaratione di tutte l’historie, Self-wraps., stitched. Printed on uncut heavy paper. The estate sale
che si contengono ne i quadri posti nuovamente nelle Sale del of the painter Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle, 1722-1806.
Scrutinio, & del gran Consiglio del Palazzo Ducale della Paris, 1809. $500.00
Sereniss. Republ. di Venetia, nella quale si hà piena intelligenza Lugt 7504
delle più segnalate vittorie, conseguite da varie nationi del mondo
da i Venetiani. 162pp. Tall 12mo. Nineteenth-century marbled 12 BELLINI, VINCENZO. De monetis Italiae medii aevii
boards, 3/4 calf (front hinge cracked). The final edition of this hactenus non evulgatis, quae in suo musaeo servantur. viii,
important guide, first published in 1587, describing the painting 116pp. Prof. illus. throughout with woodcut numismatic figures.
cycles created by Veronese, Tintoretto, Francesco Bassano and oth- Fine engraved headpiece; ornaments. 4to. Contemporary flexible
ers for the Sala del Maggior Consiglio and the adjacent Sala dello boards, stitched. A supplemental volume (subtitled ‘Altera Disser-
Scrutinio of the Ducal Palace of Venice following the disastrous fire tatio’) was published in 1767.
of 1577. The author, a learned Camaldolese monk, was a member Ferrara (Typis Bernardini Pomatelli Impress.), 1755. $750.00
of the commmittee formed to devise the iconographic program of Graesse I.329; cf. Cicognara 2762 (citing 1767 supplement)
the cycle, which is explained at length in the booklet. Prior to this,
the work was reissued in 1601, 1602 and 1606. 13 BORGHINI, RAFFAELLO. Il riposo. 3 vols. vii, 295, 260,
Venezia (Nicolo Pezzana), 1660. $750.00 235pp. Fully engraved title-pages; culs-de-lampe. Sm. 4to. Con-
Cicogna 4669; Schlosser pp. 369, 379, 564; Lozzi 5896; cf. Cicog- temporary mottled calf gilt. The third edition of the work, first pub-
nara 4348-4349; Schulz, Juergen: Venetian Painted Ceilings of the lished in 1584 and annotated by Bottari in the Florence edition of
Renaissance (Berkeley, 1968), p. 109. 1730. “The work is divided into four books, the first two are of a the-
oretical nature, while the third and fourth contain important infor-
10 BAROTTI, CESARE. Pitture e scolture che si trovano mation on the artistic and cultural world of Florence. In the ‘Riposo’
nelle chiese, luoghi publici, e sobborghi della città di Ferrara. Borghini relied for information mainly on Vasari, and he may be
223pp. Large folding engraved bird’s-eye view after Barotti. Wood- considered Vasari’s successor. Although much of the treatise lacks
originality, it is useful as a source where it deals with artists con- 15 BRUGSCH, HEINRICH. Wanderung nach den Türkis-
temporaneous with the author, such as those who worked in the stu- Minen und der Sinai-Halbinsel. xiii, (3), 96pp., 3 folding plates.
diolo of Francesco I, or Francesco Zuccari or sculptors such as 8vo. Orig. boards. First Edition. An exceptionally fine copy of a
Giambologna, who was also probably a friend of Borghini” very rare book.
(Donatella Pegazzano, in The Dictionary of Art). A handsome set. Leipzig (J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung), 1866. $1,350.00
Siena (Dai Torchi Pazzini Carli), 1787. $1,500.00 Beinlich-Seeber 4101; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 100 (with false colla-
Schlosser p. 373; cf. Arntzen/Rainwater H34 tion)

14 [BROSSES, CHARLES DE.] Du culte des dieux fétiches. 16 BRÜNNER, JOHANN JACOB. Vorschrift zu nützlicher
Ou parallèle de l’ancienne religion de l’Égypte avec la religion Nachahmung und einer fleissigen Uebung zu gutem vorgestellt
actuelle de Nigritie. 285, (1)pp. Early nineteenth-century boards, und geschrieben durch Joh. Jacob Brünner älter von Basel.
1/4 calf (backstrip a bit worn). Published anonymously, with state- 17ff., including fully engraved title and dedication leaves, and 15
ment neither of the author’s name nor place of publication. Charles engraved plates (mostly through-numbered), of which 2 dated
de Brosses (1709-1777), the author of the well-known “Lettres 1767. Oblong folio. Flexible boards, covered with fine contempo-
familières,” based on his artistic and archaeological tour of Italy in rary pink Buntpapier, printed in gold with a rich design of animals,
1739-1740, was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et including elephants, leopards, boars, foxes, monkeys in costume,
Belles Lettres, and an antiquarian who wrote on Herculaneum etc. Intermittent very light soiling; boards slightly chipped.
(1750) and other subjects of classical interest. “De Brosses was a Bern (Carl Gottlieb Guttenberger), 1766 [1767]. $3,000.00
pioneer of the science of comparative religion. In his memoir ‘Du Berlin 4912; Becker, David P.: The Practice of Letters: The Hofer
culte des dieux fétiches,’ reprinted in the Encylopédie, he combat- Collection of Writing Manuals, 1514-1800 (Cambridge: Harvard
ted the then prevailing tendency to interpret ancient mythologies College Library, 1997), no. 173; Bonacini 286 (with false colla-
and religious systems, notably that of Egypt, as profound symbol- tion); Doede 190
ism and upheld the thesis that ancient Egyptian religion did not dif-
fer substantially from the primitive cults of native Africa. The work, 17 CALDERARI, OTTONE. Disegni e scritti di architettura
which the French Academy refused to print in its transactions and del Co. Ottone Calderari. Edited by A. Diedo, G. Marangoni, A.
which gave rise to violent attacks, anticipates the modern anthro- Rigato, and A, Vivorio. Elogio by Arnaldo Arnaldi I. Tornieri. 2
pological method of approach to the history of religions” (Ency- vols. (4), 42, (2)pp., 47 engraved plates; 30, (8)pp., 43 engraved
clopaedia of the Social Sciences, V.31). First blank leaf clipped at plates. Lrg. folio. Publisher’s printed heavy blue wraps. Uncut. The
top corner. Vicenzan architect and theorist Ottone Calderari (1730-1803), pro-
[Geneva] 1760. $950.00 lifically active in the Veneto, designed a number of grand palazzi in
Barbier I.828e; Caillet 1693; Gay: L’Afrique 331; Brunet I.1277; Vicenza, as well as villas and churches. Heavily influenced by
Graesse VIII.122; not in Hilmy or in the Wilbour Library Bertotti Scamozzi’s publication of Palladio in 1776-1783, he built

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a career based on the Palladian style (Quatremère de Quincy called 19 CAPRA, ALESSANDRO. La nuova architettura civile, e
him “a rejuvenated Palladio”), while assimilating contemporary militare. Divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligen-
ideas on functional planning. The two volumes of this work were temente corretta, ed accresciuta. 2 vols. in 1. (28), 356, (12),
published not long after his death, in 1808 and 1815, by Paroni in 184pp. Most prof. illus. in woodcut (including 7 folding plates
Vicenza; the sheets were then reissued in new wrappers in Venezia hors texte, 44 numbered plates mostly full-page, and two fron-
in 1817, by Alvisopoli. A third volume in quarto, containing Calder- tispiece portraits). Stout 4to. Contemporary plain heavy wraps.
ari’s writings on architecture, was planned but never issued (though First collected edition of these two treatises, first published in
a collection of his “Scritture inedite in materia di architettura” was Cremona in 1678 (as “La nuova architettura famigliare”) and 1683
collected by Antonio Magini in 1847). Uncut. Some waterstaining (“La nuova architettura militare”). Martha Pollak, in the Millard
and spotting, predominantly in the second volume; a few marginal catalogue, points out that these two Capra’s books on architecture
mends; wrappers somewhat worn, expertly rebacked. are among the few theoretical treatises on architecture published in
Vicenza/ Venezia (Tipografia Paroni/ Tipografia Alvisopoli), 1808- Italy in the seventeenth century. For the most part, his are quite
1815 [1817]. $8,000.00 practical in nature. “Capra, typically, does not take on aesthetic
The Dictionary of Art: “Ottone Calderari” (unsigned).; Cicognara philosophy, since the beautiful has already been linked to taste...
457; Brunet I.1470; Graesse II.14 and thus relativized. Capra does not consider architecture as the art
of building, but as a science with a strong engineering aspect. In
18 (CALLOT, JACQUES) Peri, Giovanni Domenico. Fiesole his work, he provides the embryonic theoretical distinction
distrutta. Di Giovanni Domenico Peri, contadino d’Arcidosso. (4), between architecture and building. The singularity of Capra’s
197, (3)pp. Fully etched title-page and etched frontispiece portrait works lies in the localized quality of his references and his focus
of the author, both by Jacques Callot. Woodcut lettrines, culs-de- on the technical aspects of architecture; all his precepts are tech-
lampe. Sm. 4to. Late eighteenth-century dark blue straightgrain nological.” The first work, “La nuova architettura famigliare” is
morocco gilt (somewhat rubbed). A.e.g. First edition; a second, divided into five books, nominally devoted to the orders (includ-
with corrections, was published in 1621. ing Tuscan and Composite) but actually concerned with estate
A long epic poem in ottava rima by a farm laborer “endowed by management, construction costs and materials, the principles of
nature with the genius of poetry” (Belloni). “To provide a book with surveying, geometry and measurement, and, most interestingly,
the portrait of the author or the person to whom it was dedicated, with machinery of all kinds, featuring powerful, full-page woodcut
surrounded by a rich allegorical and emblematic frame, was a diagrams and illustrations of mills, kneading devices, and ingen-
Baroque custom. Callot designed several of these portraits. The most ious designs for air-conditioning systems, portable perpetual foun-
charming is that of Giovanni Domenico Peri, heading his book tains, and an odometer. The second work, “La nuova architettura
‘Fiesole distrutta,’ published in 1619. Peri was a maître populaire, a militare,” is divided into three books, of which Pollak considers
Douanier Rousseau of poetry, a simple peasant from Arcidosso who, the second, in which Capra compares Italian and Dutch fortifica-
under the influence of Ariosto and Tasso, wrote verses dedicated to tions, an original contribution to the subject, particularly his
the Grand Duke Cosimo, his Maecenas. Callot surrounded the effi- scheme for an octagonal fortress. One leaf with small clean mar-
gy with the implements of the author’s calling: hay-forks, rakes, ginal tear; a fine, bright, unsophisticated copy, with the stamp of
shovels, baskets, a ploughshare, and two stately oxen. The hub of the the architectural historian Maria Luisa Gatti Perer on the verso of
wheel, cleverly devised, serves as an inkstand” (Benesch). Callot’s the title-page.
title-page, equally lovely and often lacking, is a composition known Cremona (Pietro Ricchini), 1717. $4,500.00
as “La bella giardiniera.” Some light wear and light foxing through- Cicognara 462; Cf. (citing first editions of 1678 and 1683): Millard
out, the two etchings neatly reinserted, with slight loss at the top left Italian 27-28; Berlin 2752, 3534; Fowler 79-80; Schlosser p. 625;
margin of the title (not within the platemark); inscription on the Besterman p. 20; Riccardi I.234-235; Brunet VI.583
verso of the title. Ex-libris Sir Thomas Brooke. Front flyleaf and
frontispiece neatly loosened from binding. 20 CARASI, CARLO. Le pubbliche pitture di Piacenza. 158,
Firenze (Nella Stamperia di Zanobi Pignoni ), 1619. $2,500.00 (6)pp. Handsome engraved title-page vignette. Sm. 4to. Early nine-
Lieure: Callot, 304-305; Brunet IV.498; Graesse V.202; Benesch, teenth-century boards.
Otto: Artistic and Intellectual Trends from Rubens to Daumier as Piacenza (Giuseppe Tedeschi), 1780. $750.00
Shown in Book Illustration (Cambridge, 1943), p. 17f. Schlosser p. 577; Cicognara 4307; Fossati Bellani 2857
21 (CARRACCI) Bellavia, Marcantonio. Pensieri diversi lin-
eati et intagliati d’Anibale Caracci [sic]. Fully engraved allegor-
ical title, credited to Cornelis Bloemaert, portrait of Annibale Car-
racci, putatively a self-portrait drawn and engraved by Annibale,
and 44 engraved plates, printed on heavy wove stock, of which 1-
38 through-numbered with roman numerals and signed “A.C. inc.”,
and 6 following unsigned and hors-serie. Large margins. Lrg. 4to.
Early nineteenth-century marbled boards, 1/4 calf. Second edition,
following a prior issue by the Roman publisher Vincenzo Billy.
This eighteenth-century publication brings together a group of sev-
enteenth-century engravings by Marcantonio Bellavia after sacred
or mythological compositions by Annibale Carracci. Bellavia, born
in Palermo, was a student of Pietro da Cortona, active in Rome in
the late 1660s, and is known today primarily as a printmaker, and
forger. The addition of Annibale’s initials to the prints in this group
was undoubtedly meant to mislead buyers into purchasing them as
originals. The six plates following the numbered series are by var-
ious hands, after Lanfranco, Michelangelo (a late impression of one
of Adamo Scultori’s ignudi, from the Sistine series first published
ca. 1548-1555), and others; the first, an unsigned horizontal com-
position of three portrait studies of men’s heads, is of exceptional
delicacy. An extremely fine copy, fresh, crisp and bright.
[Roma] (Venanzio Monaldini), ca. 1770-1780. $6,000.00
Cicognara 2005; Graesse II.54; Rome: Istituto Nazionale per la
Grafica/ École française de Rome: Annibale Carracci e i suoi 19
incisori (1986), pp. xxvi, 309f.; Bellini, Paolo & Leach, Mark
Carter (eds.): The Illustrated Bartsch, Vol. 44: Italian Masters of xvi, 318pp. Woodcut title page vignette and lettrines; title set in red
the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1983) and black. 4to. Contemporary speckled boards, 1/4 green leather
gilt. The famous counterfeit issued by Bartolini in Florence in 1792,
22 CELLINI, BENVENUTO. Vita di Benvenuto Cellini of the first edition, which had been published in Naples by Pietro
orefice e scultore fiorentino, da lui medesimo scritta, nella quale Martello in 1728. The present issue is distinguishable from the true
molte curiose particolarità si toccano appartenenti alle arti ed all’is- first edition in the design of the woodcut mask on the title-page,
toria del suo tempo, tratta da un’ottimo manoscrito, e dedicata the number of lines on the first page of the dedication, and the pag-
all’eccelenza di Mylord Riccardo Boyle, Conte di Burlington.... ination of the index; the paper, too, is different. Cellini’s autobiog-
raphy is both a major literary text of the Renaissance and one of
the crucial art-historical sources of its time; its survival, unpub-
lished, until the early eighteenth century, is in itself remarkable. An
attractive copy.
Colonia [vere Firenze] (Pietro Martello [vere Bartolini]), n.d.
[1792]. $1,500.00
Cicognara 2232; Brunet I.1725; Graesse II.99; Cf.: Schlosser p.
375f., Gamba 337

23 CHAMBERS, WILLIAM. Designs of Chinese Buildings,

Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils. Engraved by the
best hands, from the originals drawn in China, by Mr. Chambers,
architect, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence. To
which is annexed, a description of their temples, houses, gardens,
&c. (10), 19, (1)pp., 21 engraved plates, by J. Fougeron, P. Four-
drinier, E. Rooker, Paul Sandby (1), and C. Grignion. Folio. Fine
modern marbled boards, 1/4 brown calf with gilt label. First edi-
tion. “From 1755 Chambers had been anxious to enhance his sta-
tus through the publishing of architectural treatises. First, he drew
on his experiences in Canton and produced ‘Designs of Chinese
Buildings’ (1757), a pioneering work that contained original obser-
vations on Chinese architecture. Curiously, it had little effect in
England at first, because the fashion for chinoiserie had been in
vogue since the 1730s (reaching a climax in the late 1740s) and
was therefore already established as an alternative style to Roco-
co-Gothic. The powerful effect of Chambers’ book was not to be
realized in England until the early 19th century, with John Nash
and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton; however, on the Continent it
quickly established itself as the principal source of Chinese design,

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and its influence can be seen in France and Germany , especially 26 CHISHULL, EDMUND. Antiquitates Asiaticae Chris-
at Wörlitz (Halle), from the 1760s to the end of the century” (Erika tianam Aeram antecedentes; ex primariis Monumentis graecis
Billeter, in the Dictionary of Art). Occasional light browning and descriptae, Latinè versae, Notisque & Commentariis illustratae.
spotting, as usual; last few plates slightly frayed at right edge (small (12), 207, (1), 8, (2)pp., 2 engraved plates. Numerous engraved
marginal loss in corner of one plate). A handsomely bound copy. illus. throughout, integrated with text. Folio.Contemporary mottled
London (The Author), 1757. $5,000.00 calf (corners rubbed, hairline cracks at spine).
Harris 113; Millard British 12; Cico 1623; Schlosser p. 673; Berlin First edition. “This work contains the inscriptions collected by
2784 (citing French edn. 1757); Dobai II.527ff. Chishull while he was chaplain to the Levant Company at Smyrna
from 1698 to 1702, and also those communicated to him by
24 CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, JACQUES-JOSEPH. Samuel Lisle, chaplain at Smyrna from 1710 to 1719, and by
Résumé complet d’archéologie. (Encyclopédie Portative, ou Tournefort, who was in Smyrna in 1701. These last include the
Résumé Universel des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts. Archéolo- famous Monumentum Ancyranum and the important Sigean
gie. Première [-Deuxième] partie.) x, 227, (1), 324pp., 4 folding Inscription from the Troad, which is illustrated in one of the
plates with multiple engraved figs. 2 lithographic frontispieces. engraved plates. A verse-epistle, describing Chishull’s travels in
12mo. Later full vellum over boards. Orig. printed wraps. bound in. the Levant, ‘Iter Asiae Poeticum,’ appears in the four-leaf appen-
Uncut. First edition; a second was published Paris 1843 with the dix. Chishull had begun to issue a second part, ‘Antiquitates Asi-
altered title “Traité élémentaire d’archéologie.” Covers slightly aticae Pars Altera...Ephesus,’ but only 12 pages were printed
bowed; intermittent foxing. Scarce. before his death. Some copies of the ‘Antiquitates Asiaticae’ have
Paris (Bureau de l’Encyclopédie Portative/ Bureau Central de this 12-page supplement bound in, as well as a leaf of corrections
Souscription), 1825-1826. $350.00 to page 61” (Blackmer). This copy, like the Blackmer copy, does
Hilmy I.132; Beinlich-Seeber 5394 not have the supplement, but does have the leaf of corrections,
which the Blackmer copy lacked. The engravings are of a high
25 [CHARDIN, JEAN.] Le couronnement de Soleïmaan standard. Front flyleaf loose; a fresh and clean copy.
troisième, roy de Perse, et ce qui s’est passé de plus mémorable London (William Bowyer), 1728. $1,800.00
dans les deux premières années de son règne. 38, 460 [vere 476], Blackmer 340; Lascarides 22; Spencer p. 139ff.
(2)pp. Fully engraved dec. half-title, depicting the coronation cere-
mony, and 1 hors-texte plate depicting the crown, and sword and 27 CHIZZOLA, LUIGI. Le pitture e sculture di Brescia che
dagger. 3 fine figurative culs-de-lampe; engraved lettrines. Con- sono esposte al pubblico. Con un’ appendice di alcune private
temporary French gilt-panelled red morocco (rebacked, retaining gallerie. xxiv, 196pp. Very fine unsigned etched decorations
original backstrip). A.e.g. First edition. “[A] titillating account of throughout, including allegorical frontispiece, title-page, 4 culs-
the intricate court politics which provoked the succession crisis sur- de-lampe and 2 lettrines, all by the same artist; 1 additional cul-
rounding the coronation of Suleiman III...the first of many literary de-lampe by a different hand. Sm. 4to. Contemporary heavy drab
enterprises which in time established Chardin’s reputation as a paper wraps. Though the work was published by Luigi Chizzola,
careful and astute orientalist” (ODNB). The French merchant-jew- who also contributed the preface, it is based on the researches of
eller Chardin (1643-1712) attended the 1669 coronation returning the Brescian sculptor G.B. Carboni (d. 1783), who is often named
from India during his second journey to the East. Light wear; a as its author. The etchings are quite artistic, the culs-de-lampe
handsome copy. being rococo compositions reminiscent of Piranesi, incorporating
Paris (Claude Barbin), 1671. $4,500.00 monuments of the city. This copy has occasional intelligent

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annotations in two contemporary hands. A fine copy, uncut and as sang, & grand prieur de France. Sale, 8 April - 6 June 1777. (2), ii,
issued. viii, 417, (3)pp. Fine engraved allegorical half-title by Martini after
Brescia (Dalle Stampe di Giambatista Bossini), 1760. $1,250.00 Moreau. Contemporary mottled calf gilt. This copy lacks the
Schlosser p. 569; Cicognara 4185; Fossati Bellani 2101; Lichten- engraved half-title. A highly important sale, “une des ventes les
thal p. 5 plus importantes du XVIIIe siècle” (Duplessis).
Paris (Muzier père/ Pierre Remy), 1777 . $850.00
28 CIOCCHI, GIOVANNI MARIA. La pittura in Parnaso. Lugt 2671; Duplessis 971; Cicognara 4468
xxiv, 310pp. Wood-engraved culs-de-lampe, lettrines. 4to. Very
handsome contemporary pastepaper over boards (in two different 30 Leoni, Michele. Pitture di Antonio Allegri da CORREG-
patterns, one at the spine, one on the covers). In this classic GIO. 125, (1)pp. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards, ¼ leather. Orig. wraps.
paragone by Giovanni Maria Ciocchi, personifications of Pittura bound in (lightly soiled). Ex-libris Bibliotheca Lindesiana.
and Scultura ascend Mount Parnassus, where Pittura is found supe- Modena (Tipografia Vincenzi e Rossi), 1841. $85.00
rior to sculpture, though both are daughters of Disegno. Schlosser
notes its reliance on time-honored models such as Alessandro Tas- 31 CRÖKER, JOHANN MELCHIOR. Der wohl
soni’s “Paragone degli ingegni antichi e moderni” of 1620. The anfuehrende Mahler, welcher curioese Liebhaber lehret, wie
work treats an elaborate selection of topics, including proportion, man sich zur Mahlerei zubereiten, mit Oel-Farben umgehen,
color, sacred subjects, the estimation of painting in ‘barbarous Gründe, Fürnisse, und andere dazu nöthige Sachen verfertigen, die
nations,’ and architecture, with considered remarks on Borghini’s Gemählde geschickt auszieren, vergülden, versilbern, accurat lac-
“Riposo.” A few traces of wear; a very fine copy. quiren, und saubere Kupffer-Stiche ausarbeiten solle. Diesem ist
Firenze (Nestenus), 1725. $4,000.00 noch beygefüget Ein Kunst-Cabinet rarer und geheim gehaltener
Borroni I.1455; Schlosser pp. 664,682; Cicognara 102; Graesse Erfindungen, Alles aus eigener Erfahrung aufgezeichnet. Neue
II.188 vervielvermehrte und verbesserte [Auflage]. (14), 536, (8)pp.
Engraved allegorical frontispiece (signed Krügner after Hoffmann).
29 (CONTI SALE) PARIS. PALAIS DU TEMPLE. Cata- Wood-engraved figs. throughout, primarily depicting tools, vessels
logue d’une riche collection de tableaux des maîtres les plus and equipment. Sm. stout 8vo. Nineteenth-century marbled boards,
célèbres des trois écoles; aussi des plus grands maîtres, sous verre 1/4 cloth.
& en feuilles, bronzes, marbres, terre cuite du Quesnoi, de Enlarged and revised edition of this manual, first published in 1729
Bouchardon, &c., pierres gravées antiques, pendules, montres, & and reissued several times throughout the eighteenth century. It
bijoux, & autres objets curieux, qui composent le cabinet de feu contains a wide variety of recipes and formulas for the preparation
Son Altesse Sérenissime Monseigneur le Prince de Conti, prince du and use of pigments, varnishes and lacquers, inks, etching acids,
 return, through Arabia, Cyprus, Malta and Sicily. “Della Valle left
Venice in 1614 on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. From there he
travelled through Syria to Persia, where he married the Circassian
Setti Manni and spent some time at the Court of Shah Abbas. He
carried on his travels to the west coast of India, finally returning to
Italy in 1626. The greatest number of letters are dated from Per-
sia.... Ten letters are dated from Constantinople” (Blackmer). A
very handsome and fresh copy, with the rococo ex-libris throughout
of M. Huvier du Mée.
Rouen (Robert Machuel), 1745. $4,500.00
Cf. (citing various editions): Blackmer 1712; Tobler 95; Cox I.273;
Wilson p. 234

34 LE DICTIONAIRE DES ARTS ET SCIENCES. De M.

D.C. de l’Académie Françoise. Nouvelle édition revûe, corrigée &
augmenté par M. *** de l’Académie Royale des Sciences. 2 vols.
(8), 678, 645, (3)pp. Engraved culs-de-lampe, lettrines. Folio. Con-
temporary calf (hinges cracked; backstrips crudely taped). The
1694 edition of the work is given by Graesse to Thomas Corneille,
an ascription which may be doubtful (the playwright’s initials not
having been ‘D.C.’ after all). NUC cites only the 1694 edition. Ex-
libris Viscount Bruce of Ampthill.
Paris (Rollin Père), 1732. $225.00
Cf. Graesse II.269; Cicognara 2158

35 DIETTERLIN, WENDEL. Architectura von Auss-

28
theilung, Symmetria und Proportion der Fünff Seulen. Und
and other artists’ materials, as well as copious instructions of all aller darauss volgender Kunst Arbeit, von Fenstern, Caminen,
kinds, such as for typefounding and cutting blocks for woodcuts, Thürgerichten, Portalen, Bronnen, und Epitaphien.... 5 parts in 1.
and for making mirrors, Japanese lanterns, gilt papers, and a range 209ff. Etched portrait, 5 etched titles, and 195 etched plates in text;
of decorative objects. Cut a little close at top, with occasional loss 1 copperplate-engraved half-page diagram. Sm. folio. Early full
at heading or page number; discreet early annotations on rear fly- leather (renewed at spine and hinges, preserving nearly all of the
leaf. Ownership inscription of Hubert Wittmann, Augsburg on title- original backstrip).
page, with his red wax seal. First published in parts in 1593-1594, and as a collected edition (in
Jena (Joh. Rudolph Crökers seel. Wittve), 1753. $1,800.00 several issues, in Latin, German and French) in Nürnberg, 1598.
Berlin 4630 (citing 1743 edition) We quote at length from Harry Francis Mallgrave’s remarks about
the book in his essay in the Millard catalogue. “One of the most
32 DATI, CARLO RUBERTO, ET AL. Scrittori di belle arti. interesting and important architectural works of sixteenth-century
Carlo Ruberto Dati, Luigi Lanzi, Francesco Algarotti. viii, 587, northern Europe is the ‘Architectura von Ausstheilung, Symmetria
(1)pp. 4to. Nineteenth-century pastepaper boards, 3/4 vellum, und Proportia der fünff Seulen’ of Dietterlin... [Dietterlin’s] artistic
mounted with original wraps. (worn). Uncut. The volume include’s fame and influence was unparalleled in Germany in the first two
Dati’s “Vite de’ pittori antichi,” Lanzi’s “Storie pittoriche dal decades of the seventeenth-century, and in this respect and others,
risorgimento delle belle arti fin presso al fine del XVIII secolo,” his significance, especially in his dissemination of Renaissance
and Algarotti’s “Saggio sull’architettura e sulla pittura.” The edito- decorative forms in Germany, parallels and even transcends that of
rial preface is initialled “A.M.” (unidentified by Borroni). Some- Vredeman in the Netherlands.... What makes Dietterlin’s decorative
what worn. style so unique and important for architecture is twofold: first, the
Milano (Nicolò Bettoni), 1831. $100.00 very high artistic quality of the 203 engraved plates; and second,
Borroni I.854.5 the way in which the painter (as he identifies himself on the title-
page) attempts to interpret the Vitruvian and Serlian tradition of
33 DELLA VALLE, PIETRO. Voyages de Pietro Della Valle, classical architecture in a private, lively, and imaginative style that
gentilhomme romain, dans la Turquie, l’Égypte, la Palestine, la was, as one of his earlier biographers phrased it, ‘almost impres-
Perse, les Indes Orientales, & autres lieux. Nouvelle édition, sionistic,’ if not a forerunner to the German baroque. Dietterlin, in
revuë, corrigée & augmentée. 8 vols. 2 engraved portraits, and 6 effect, mediates or filters the tradition of Vitruvius or Serlio through
copper-engraved plates (of which 5 are plans). Fine contemporary such column books as that of Blum, but even here important dis-
mottled calf, handsomely gilt at spine. tinctions or departures are already in evidence.... Each of the five
A later French edition of the work first published in Rome in 1650- books is devoted to one order and iconographic theme based on the
1653, written in the form of 54 letters from the author to the Vitruvian explanation of its origin. Each book begins with plates
Neapolitan physician Schipano; the first French translation relating the order’s basic geometry or proportions, before passing to
appeared in 1661-1664. “The prince of all such travellers is Pietro its decorative appurtenances with a lively if not sometimes night-
de la Valle, the most insatiate in curiosity, the most intelligent in marish sensitivity. Terror and dementia are sometimes the impres-
apprehension, the fullest and most accurate in description” (H. sions evoked by these images, as Dietterlin combines architectonic,
Yule, after Cox). Della Valle’s journey, undertaken over twelve human and animal forms with a pre-Piranesian sense of fantasy and
years, took him through the Near East, Persia, and India, and, on his humor that is unparalleled within the architectural literature of this
time. There is scarcely a distinction in his forms between what is
organic or inorganic, as walls, portals and windows breathe with
empathetic life. Humanist architecture for Dietterlin is entirely cor-
poreal, moving, and animate.... The technical or artistic execution
of the plates also elevates the book above any other northern trea-
tise of the sixteenth century, but this achievement is so self-evident
to the reader that it is scarcely worth noting.”
Consistently (and sometimes obtrusively) foxed in the margins, as
usual, generally outside the image; one plate with early extension at
outer margin, and with a small hole within the etching. This copy
with strong impressions of the plates, and complete with the por-
trait, which is often missing.
Nürnberg (Paulus Fürst), 1655. $7,500.00
Cf. (citing various editions and issues): Millard Northern Euro-
pean p. 25ff., nos. 28-29; Berlin 1942; Cicognara 49; Schlosser p.
421; Guilmard p. 378; Fairfax Murray Early German 134; Bester-
man p. 29; Brunet II.706; Graesse II.391; Ornament und Entwurf
50; Kunstbibliothek Berlin: Architektur in Darstellung und Theorie
100; Brown University: Ornament and Architecture 40; Dumbarton
Oaks: Fons Sapientiae 11

36 EIJNDEN, ROELAND VAN & WILLIGEN, ADRIAAN

VAN DER. Geschiedenis der vaterlandsche schilderkunst
sedert de helft der XVIII eeuw. 2 vols. (4), iv, 462, (2)pp., 4
engraved plates; (2), 513, (1)pp., 4 engraved plates. 4to. Wraps.
Haarlem (A. Loosjes), 1816-1817. $300.00

37 FERRARIO, GIULIO. Monumenti sacri e profani del-

l’imperiale e reale basilica di Sant’Ambrogio di Milano. (6),
224, (4)pp., 32 aquatint plates (nearly all printed in color), of which
28 in this copy are elaborately finished by hand in color (a few with
touches in gold). Hand-colored aquatint vignette view on title-page.
Sm. folio. Modern Egyptian full polished leather gilt. Uncut. An 35
exceptional copy, with brilliant and carefully detailed hand-col-
printed in both regular and deluxe hand-colored editions; the pres-
oring throughout. This scholarly study of the medieval basilica of
ent work was undoubtedly issued on the same basis, of which this
Sant’Ambrogio in Milan is finely illustrated with aquatint etchings
copy would represent the deluxe edition. Stamps neatly effaced on
by leading Milanese artists and engravers, most notably the impor-
versos of plates; mended loss at foot of title; occasional very light
tant theatrical designer Alessandro Sanquirico (1774-1849): a per-
foxing (in text only). A handsome copy. Rare.
spective down the nave, with Romantic chiaroscuro, and two exte-
Milano (Dalla tipographia dell’autore), 1824. $3,500.00
rior views (each printed in both blue and black inks) of the presby-
Brunet II.1233; Graesse II.571; Schlosser p. 573
tery and cloisters, both designed by Bramante. Other plates depict
the antiquities and Early Christian and medieval bas-reliefs, pulpit,
38 FERRERIO, PIETRO & FALDA, GIOVANNI BAT-
high altar, sarcophagi, mosaics, and other treasure and architectur-
TISTA. Two major works by Ferrerio and Falda, the “Palazzi
al elements, as well as elevations and sections of various portions
di Roma” (in two parts) and “Li giardini di Roma,” bound
of the fabric. Ferrari is known for his massive, 13-volume publica-
together in fine contemporary Roman red morocco. Oblong
tion “Costume ancien et moderne” (Milano, 1817-1827), privately
folio. Contemporary Roman red morocco gilt, with inner fillets
with floral cornerpieces, on both covers. A.e.g. Slightly rubbed at
spine; occasional very light foxing; a very handsome copy. Con-
tents as follows:
1. Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti. Disegnati da Pietro
Ferrerio pittore et architetto. Libro Primo. [Falda, Giovanni-Bat-
tista. Nuovi disegni dell’architetture, e piante de’ Palazzi di Roma
de’ più celebri architetti disegnati et intagliati da Gio. Battista
Falda.... Libro secondo.] I: Engraved title incorporating dedication
and 42 etched and engraved plates; II: Engraved title incorporating
dedication and 59 etched and engraved plates. This set is a rare
early issue, with plates before numbers (though after the addition
of the mention of “Libro primo” and “Libro secondo” on the title
pages, which had not appeared in the first issue). It also contains the
correct complement of 103 plates (including titles) which charac-
terizes the first issue; in contrast, later issues contain a total of 105,
including two plates added by Domenico de’ Rossi to the second
book after 1691.
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“This is the first publication to provide systematic, measured and original state. The extremely accurate and exquisite plates, which
uniformly scaled illustrations of Roman palaces built in the fif- alternately present bird’s-eye views and prospects, are by both
teenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By focusing exclusive- Falda and Simone Felice.
ly on the palace, this book becomes a compendium of exempla, not Roma (Gio. Giacomo de’ Rossi) [circa or post 1683]
only illustrating the houses of a very special city, but also estab- Berlin 3492; Olschki 16895; Brunet II.1172; Graesse II.549
lishing the typology of the residential palace.... Ferrerio’s collection $20,000.00
of palace façades and plans provided an important model for what
became a distinct type of publication.... This trendsetting book on 39 GAUTIER, HENRI. L’art de laver, oder Die Kunst zu
Roman palaces is divided into two parts. Ferrerio was the author of Tuschen. Das ist: Die allerneueste Manier Bestungen und andere
most of the illustrations in the first part, except for one sheet Risse mit gehörigen Farben zu mahlen und zu tuschen....
engraved by Giovanni Battista Falda, who was also responsible for Anfangs in französischenr Sprach herausgegeben... Nunmehro
forty of the sixty sheets of the second part. While Falda’s work and aber ins Teutsche übersetzt, vermehrt und mit dienlichen Kupf-
successful career as an engraver associated with the Roman pub- fern versehen.... Nunmehro aber ins Teutsche übersetzt, ver-
lisher Giovanni Giacomo de’ Rossi have been amply documented, mehrt und mit dienlichen Kupffern versehen. (14), 96pp.
much less is known about Ferrerio, who seems to have practiced as Engraved frontis., 1 large folding engraved plate of fortifica-
an architect and engraver, and whose principal claim to recognition tions hors texte. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards, 1/4
is this album of palace illustrations” (Millard). calf, finely gilt at spine.
Roma (Gio. Jacomo Rossi/ Gio. Giacomo de’ Rossi) [before 1691]. Nürnberg (Peter Conrad Monath), 1716.
Millard IV.37; Cicognara 3719; Fowler 120; Berlin 2665; Bester- Bound with:
man: Old Art Books 40; Brunet II.1235; Graesse II.573 J., J.N. Gründlicher Unterricht von der Graphice, oder Zeichen=
2. Li giardini di Roma con le loro piante alzate e vedute in und Mahl=Kunst, worinn von derselben Beschaffenheit unter-
prospettiva. 21 through-numbered etched and engraved plates, schiedlichen Arten.... 106, (2)pp. Engraved frontis.
including engraved title and magnificent allegorical dedication leaf, Halle (Zu finden im Wäysenhause), 1717.
by Giovanni Battista Manelli after Arnold van Westerhout, of the Bound with:
garden of the “Roman Hesperides.” Both artistically and historical- Olearius, Johann Christoph. Curiose Münz=Wissen=schafft,
ly, a very important publication on nine of the most celebrated gar- darinne von dero unfehlbaren Nussbarkeit allerhand merckwürdi-
dens of Rome—at the Vatican and Quirinal palaces, and the villas gen Münz=Arten so auch nöthigsten darzugehörigen Mitteln aus-
Borghese, Medici, Pamphili, Mattei, Farnese, Ludovisi and Savel- führlich gehandelt hat. 116pp.
li-Peretti—of which only three survive in anything resembling their Jena (Johann Bielcke), 1701.
A handsome small Sammelband of three quite rare treatises, manu-
als devoted to the practice of watercolor and drawing, and coins and
medals. The first, by Henri Gautier of Nîmes (1660-1737), was
originally published in Lyon in 1687. Title-page expertly rebacked
at an early date. From the library of the Earls of Macclesfield at
Shirburn Castle, (with armorial ex-libris of the South Library and
blindstamp on title and frontis.). Very fine. $3,000.00

40 GAUTRUCHE, PIERRE. The Poetical Histories. Being a

compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect under-
standing of the Greek and Latine poets and other ancient authors,
written originally in French by the learned Jesuite P. Galtruchius.
Now Englisht and enriched with observations concerning the gods
worshipped by our ancestors in this island by the Phoenicians and
Syrians in Asia, with many useful notes and occasional proverbs....
Unto which are added two treatises. One of the curiosities of old
Rome.... The other containing the most remarkable hieroglyphicks
of Aegypt. By Marius D’Assigni, B.D. (24), 285, (1), 200, (23)pp.
Stout 8vo. Modern full calf. Translated from Gautruche’s “Histoire
poétique pour l’intelligence des poétes.” Trimmed a little close in
places, at top, without loss; some 30pp. with loss at wormholes in
outer margin, without affecting text; other incidental soiling and wear.
Occasional contemporary and later annotations, in several hands.
London (Printed by B.G., to be sold by Moses Pitt), 1671. $950.00
Wing G384

41 (GAVARNI) Méry, Joseph. Les parures. Fantaisie par

Gavarni. Texte par Méry. Histoire de la mode par le Cte. Foelix.
(Perles et Parures.) (2), 300pp. Frontispiece and 15 steel engraved
plates hors texte, the whole finished by hand in colors, and the
plates themselves printed on doilies tipped onto pink guards, the
pink visible throughout the elaborately full percaline, elaborately
gilt and colored with designs on both covers and spine. 4to. Pub-
lisher’s original full percaline, elaborately gilt and colored identi-
cally on each companion volume. A.e.g. Tissue guards. Later pro-
tective chemise.
Together with:
Les joyaux. Fantaisie par Gavarni. Texte par Méry. Minéralogie des
dames par Cte. Foelix. (Perles et Parues.) (2), 316pp. Frontispiece 53
and 16 steel-engraved plates hors texte, the whole finished by hand
in colors, and the plates printed on doilies in the same format as the
foregoing.
“These books contain thirty-two engravings on steel by Geoffroy
after Gavarni. They are studies of beautiful women, fashionably
attired for the most part, which were drawn in London. Méry wrote
the ‘fantasy’ accompanying them to fit Gavarni’s designs...” (Gor-
don Ray). After mentioning the ordinary edition of the work, Ray
proceeds to discuss this “far more appealing...special edition, in
which the steel engravings are printed and delicately colored on
paper with borders cut to various lace patterns. So presented,
Gavarni’s designs became fashion plates of the first order.” Inter-
mittent light foxing, mostly on the tissue guards and not the plates;
a very desirable set, the original bindings still brilliant.
Paris/Leipzig (G. de Gonet/ Charles Twietmeyer), n.d. [1850].
$1,250.00
Carteret III.461; Ray 209a-210; Sander 468

42 GIORGI, FELICE. Descrizione istorica del teatro di Tor

di Nona. 55, (1)pp., 9 folding engraved plates. 1 half-page
engraved illustration in text. Sm. 4to. Eighteenth-century pastepa-
per wraps. In 1670, Catherine the Great commissioned Carlo
Fontana to build what was to be the first public theatre in
Rome, called the Tor di Nona for its location near the ancient
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Torre dell’Annona. Following a fire, and its demolition, the neoclassical binding, from the library of the architect E. Sanson,
building was reconstructed first by G. Tarquinio in 1784-85, and with his stamp on the half-title.
then in 1795 by the author of this book, Felice Giorgi, who called Paris (P. Didot l’ainé), 1815. $2,500.00
it the Teatro Apollo, a name it retained until it was razed in 1888. Dictionary of Art 13.295f. (article by Ramón Gutiérrez)
Felici, an architect in the service of the Pope, here provides a
description of the new edifice, with two large plans and two fine 45 GREAVES, JOHN. Pyramidographia: or A Description of
views of the interior, and a history of its construction. Donald C. the Pyramids in Egypt. (14), 142pp. [recte 120]. 7 engraved illus.,
Mullin, in his study “The Development of the Playhouse,” writes of which 2 folding hors texte (1 plate incomplete). 1 woodcut fig.
“The form selected for the shape of the auditorium altered from the Sm. 8vo. Fine contemporary English blindstamped calf, recently
simple U popular in the XVIIth century to the shape of an egg. In rebacked in calf with leather label; endpapers and flyleaves
such plans, the geometry of the auditorium was related to that of the renewed. “Greaves was a professor of astronomy at Oxford. He
stage scene. Examples may be seen in plans of the Teatro di Tor di went to Egypt in 1637. Here he spent some time visiting and meas-
Nona after 1671, in which the extreme side boxes of the house are uring the objects he describes”(Cox I p. 359). One of the folding
arranged to follow the same line as the diminishing perspective of plates lacking the extension beyond the foldline; trimmed close,
the scene. The illusion of distance was accomplished by having with a few words shaved. Extremely rare.
each succeeding pair of wings placed a little further onstage, and by London (George Badger), 1646. $3,000.00
having the stage floor raked up from front to back.” A fine copy. Hilmy I.276; Wing G1804
Roma (Dalle stampe del Cannetti), 1795. $3,750.00
Berlin 2814; Cicognara 758; Lozzi 4356 (stating only 8 plates); cf. 46 GROBERT, J. Description des pyramides de Ghizé, de la
Mullin, Donald C.: The Development of the Playhouse (Berkeley, ville du Kaire et de ses environs. (4), 160pp., 6 engraved plates (3
1970) folding), including 1 illustrated plan. Lrg. 4to. Boards, 3/4 leather
(spine defective). First edition; a German translation appeared in
43 GOETGHEBUER, P.J. Choix des monumens, édifices et the same year. “Grobert, a colonel in the artillery, was apparently
maisons les plus remarquables du royaume de Pays-Bas. (6), xii, commandant at Ghize after the French conquest of Egypt. Most of
81, (1), vii, (1)., 120 fine line-engraved plates (some with aquatint). the plates, engraved by Huet after Grobert’s drawings, consist of
Lrg. folio. Contemporary mottled calf gilt. The work was first pub- measured diagrams and sections of the pyramids. There is also a
lished by the author in livraisons of six plates each, 1821-1826, the plan of Cairo” (Blackmer). A very good copy.
format following the model of the French “Grands prix d’architec- Paris (Logeret-Petiet/ Rémont), an IX [1801]. $2,000.00
ture” folios. Though it treats buildings of earlier periods, the focus Blackmer 757; Hilmy I.278; de Meulenaere 106
is on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century neoclassical edifices.
Intermittent light foxing, hinges renewed. 47 (GROS SALE) PARIS. J.B.P. LE BRUN. Catalogue de
Gand (Imprimerie de A.B. Stéven), 1827. $3,500.00 tableaux des écoles hollandoise, flamande et françoise, dessins
Brunet II.1643f.; Graesse III.103 de Fragonard, Robert & autres; bronzes, porcelaines: prove-
nans du cabinet de M. Gros, peintre. Sale, 14 April 1778 and
44 GRANDJEAN DE MONTIGNY, A. & FAMIN, A. Archi- days thereafter. 39, (1)pp. Contemporary marbled wraps. (some-
tecture toscane, ou palais, maisons, et autres édifices de la what worn). The collections of the miniaturist Jean-Antoine Gros,
Toscane, mesurés et dessinés. vii, 50pp., engraved frontispiece father of Antoine-Jean, baron Gros. Priced in pencil, with some
and 110 line-engraved plates (1-109 plus 12a). Folio. Contempo- buyers noted (including Oudry). Foxed and somewhat worn.
rary red boards, 1/4 red straightgrain morocco, finely gilt in neo- Paris, 1778. $650.00
classical taste. Divided into eighteen cahiers, the work illustrates Lugt 2835; Duplessis 1039
major monuments of Florentine and other Tuscan Renaissance
architecture in exceptionally beautiful and elaborate neoclassical 48 GUARINI, MARC’ANTONIO. Compendio historico del-
line drawings, including highly wrought ornamental frontispieces l’origine, accrescimento, e prerogative delle chiese, e luoghi pij
for each of the eighteen parts. della città, e diocesi di Ferrara. E delle memorie di que’ person-
The French architect and urban planner Auguste-Henri-Victor aggi di pregio, che in esse son sepelliti: in cui incidentemente si fà
Grandjean de Montigny (1776-1850), a student of Percier and menzione di reliquie, pitture, sculture, ed altri ornamenti al decoro
Fontaine at the École des Beaux-Arts, won the Prix de Rome in così di esse chiese, come della città appartenenti. (8), 475, (9)pp.
1799, and moved to Italy in 1801 to complete his studies at the Woodcut title-page device, culs-de-lampe, lettrines. Sm. 4to. Con-
French Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. “There he restored (1803) temporary heavy wraps., titled in pen at spine. Schlosser mentions
the early imperial tomb of Caecilia Metella on the via Appia, and also a supplement published later in the century by Borselli (1670).
laid out the gardens of the Villa Medici, which was acquired by the A little light wear, generally fresh.
French government in 1804. He travelled throughout Italy, study- Ferrara (Heredi di Vittorio Baldini), 1621. $1,800.00
ing, sketching, and executing various designs, among them one for Schlosser p. 584; Fossati Bellani 2782
a theatre at Naples. In conjunction with Auguste Famin (1776-
1859), he wrote ‘L’Architecture de la Toscane’ (1815), which was 49 I paesi del Cavalier Gianfrancesco Barbieri, detto GUER-
widely read at the time by architects in search of details of early CINO da Cento. Da esso inventati ed espressi in XIV. vedute, ed
Renaissance buildings” (Dictionary of Art). Following an interval intagliati in Rame da Giovanni Penna in Parigi. Letterpress title,
in the employ of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, Grandjean printed in red and black, with elaborate vignette (Piazzetta?),
de Montigny joined a French artistic mission to the Portuguese engraved dedication after Cesare Gennari, and 14 engraved plates
court in Brazil, where he remained for the rest of his career, becom- by Penna after Guercino. Oblong folio. Modern boards, 3/4 leather,
ing acting director of the Royal Academy in Rio de Janeiro, and the front cover mounted with an early nineteenth-century red
assuming a major role in the formation of Brazilian neoclassical morocco label. The work was printed at the instigation of Benedet-
taste and urban planning. Lightly rubbed; a very fine copy in a fine to and Cesare Gennari, and dedicated to Francesco II, Duke of
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Modena. The very fine engravings after Guercino landscape draw- 51 HEINECKEN, K.H. VON. Idée générale d’une collection
ings are by Jean Pesne (Rouen 1623 - Paris 1700). Title-page cut complette d’estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l’origine de la
down and mounted; central fold in dedication, with unobtrusive gravure & sur les premiers livres d’images. (16), 520, (32)pp. 28
mend at foot. plates hors texte, with 31 illus. (mostly folding). 4to. Fine nine-
Venezia (Giambattista Albrizzi ), 1754. $4,500.00 teenth-century polished calf gilt. A.e.g. Inner dentelles. The cata-
logue has always been admired for its carefulness and erudition,
50 HAMILTON, WILLIAM. Remarks on Several Parts of and the excellent quality of the facsimile plates. Published anony-
Turkey. Part I [all published]: Aegyptiaca, or some account of mously, it is based on the holdings of the Dresden Kupferstichkabi-
the antient and modern state of Egypt, as obtained in the years nett, of which Heinecken was keeper. Front cover detached, other-
1801, 1802. Atlas of plates only, without the text. 1 engraved map, wise a handsome copy.
and 24 hinged plates by J. Powell, in soft-ground etching (1 with Leipzig/Wien (Jean Paul Kraus), 1771. $1,200.00
aquatint; 13 double-page, several folding). Lrg. folio. Modern Schlosser p. 491; Cicognara 4451; Brunet III.82; Graesse III.231f.;
cloth, 3/4 polished calf gilt, preserving early marbled endpapers; Cohen-de Ricci 477
raised bands.
First edition. “Hamilton went out to Constantinople as Elgin’s 52 HOBBES, JAMES R. The Picture Collector’s Manual.
secretary in 1799. In 1801 Elgin sent him to Egypt, as a member Adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. Being a diction-
of the British Mission attached to the Turkish Army, but his main ary of painters, ....Together with an alphabetical arrangement of the
job was to seize the collections of Egyptian antiquities made by scholars, imitators, and copyists of the various masters. And a clas-
the French, and to prevent their removal. In this effort he was sification of subjects,... 2 vols. Vol. I: Dictionary of Names. xxii,
joined by Edward Clarke. ‘Aegyptiaca’ is Hamilton’s most impor- 508pp. Vol. II.: Alphabetical Arrangement of Scholars and Masters,
tant work, and it is concerned principally with upper Egypt. He and Classification of Subjects. 640pp. Sm. 4to. Pub. orig. cloth
intended it as a supplement to Pococke and Norden. The plates, (faded).
etchings by J. Powell, are after drawings by Charles Hayes, who London (T. & W. Boone), 1849. $250.00
had been in Egypt since 1800 with Sir Ralph Abercrombie’s force.
In October 1801, he was nominated to join Hamilton and Leake in 53 HOLLAR, WENCESLAUS. Ornatus muliebris Angli-
their journey to Upper Egypt; earlier that same year he had assist- canus, or The Severall Habits of English Women, from the Nobili-
ed in a survey of the country around Alexandria. He died of fever tie to the contry woman, as they are in these times, 1640. 27 etched
in Egypt in 1803” (Blackmer). Intermittent light foxing, not plates by Wenceslaus Hollar (including a duplicate of plate 25),
affecting most plates; an unusually fresh and clean copy, with no each bordered by hand in red with a frame of double lines. Three
browning, rare thus. plates (the title, the duplicate no. 25, and no. 26) are trimmed to the
London (T. Payne), 1809. $2,500.00 plate line, and skillfully laid down on the mounts, conforming to the
Blackmer 780; Hilmy I.285; Gay 2055; Wilbour Library catalogue format of the rest of the suite. 4to. Early nineteenth-century mottled
268; cf. Engelmann 202, Paulitschke I.85 boards, 3/4 leather gilt (rubbed at spine and extremities; front cover
detached). A.e.g. Originally published circa 1640, Hollar’s famous depart from the ‘ideal’ proportions that were accepted as standard
series of fashion plates of English gentlewomen (actually twenty- in Jeffries’ time” (Sinkankas). The plates include numerous dia-
five ladies and one kitchenmaid) was frequently reissued, even into grams of diamond cuts. The work was first published in 1750.
the early nineteenth century. In his catalogue raisonné, Pennington Paris (Debure l’aîné/ N. Tillard), 1753. $1,500.00
enumerates as many as nine issues of the suite on the basis of pub- Sinkankas 3198; Brunet III.526; Graesse III.458; Ebert 10764
lishers’ information.. This copy corresponds to Pennington’s state
V, dated between circa 1710 and 1717. As he points out, copies are 55 JONES, OWEN & GOURY, JULES. Plans, Elevations,
often composed of mixed states of the prints. Here, the trimmed Sections and Details of the Alhambra from Drawings Taken on
duplicate of plate 25 is actually the first state of the print, whereas the Spot in 1834 by the late M. Jules Goury and in 1834 and
the integral example of it is in the second state, as are most others 1837 by Owen Jones. With a complete translation of the Arabic
in this issue, which is printed on fine early eighteenth-century laid inscriptions and an historical notice of the Kings of Granada from
paper. Occasional very light foxing and wear. A fine copy, with the conquest of that city by the Arabs to the expulsion of the Moors,
armorial ex-libris and shelf ticket of Lambton Castle. by Mr. Pasqual de Gayanos. 2 vols. Chromolithographic and print-
London (Sold by H. Overton at the White Horse without Newgate), ed titles for each volume, dedication and advertisement leaves, lists
1640. $4,500.00 of subscribers and of plates, text (20pp.), and 101 plates, plus chro-
Pennington, Richard: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work molithographic tail piece. Of the 104 plates and preliminaries, 69
of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607-1677 (Cambridge/New York, 1982), are chromolithographs. Lrg. folio. Marbled boards, 3/4 dark green
nos. 1778-1801; Lipperheide Gca 3; Colas 1464 morocco (slightly rubbed). Large paper subscriber’s edition.
Jones’ fascination with Islamic art and decoration began in 1833, on
54 JEFFRIES, DAVID. Traité des diamants et des perles, où a trip to Egypt and Turkey in the company of Jules Goury, a French
l’on considère leur importance, on établit des régles certaines pour architect whom he had met in Greece, who shared Jones’ interest in
en connoître la juste valeur, et l’on donne la vraie méthode de les architectural polychromy. In the following year, Jones and Goury
tailler. On y trouve aussi des observations curieuses, également visited Granada, making extensive, very exacting drawings, with
utiles aux négociants, & aux voyageurs, & qui intéressent même la ambitious plans for a publication on the Alhambra and its orna-
politique. Ouvrage traduit de l’anglois, sur la seconde édition qui a mental decoration. Following Goury’s sudden death there from
été considérablement augmentée. (6), xxxv, 104pp., 10 copper- cholera, Jones was obliged to continue the work on his own, mak-
engraved plates with multiple illustrations. Headpiece by Baquoy ing a second trip to Granada in 1837 to make additional sketches.
after C.N. Cochin fils; wood-engraved culs-de-lampe. Contempo- The reluctance of London printers to take on the project, and Jones’
rary mottled calf gilt. First French edition of “the first book in Eng- particular need for flat, opaque and accurate color schemes to
lish to describe how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the reproduce decorative motifs, led him to set up his own lithograph-
basis of the factors of size (or weight), and style of cut, with ic firm in London, to undertake what was to be the first significant
allowances being made in the case of diamonds where cut stones chomolithographic publication in England. Three trial numbers (of
ten planned) were issued in 1836-37; the final book did not appear
until 1842-1845. Front flyleaf of Vol. I remargined; faint, unobtru-
sive, marginal waterstain in Vol. II. Occasional spotting as usual. A
nice copy.
London (Published for Owen Jones), 1842-1845. $20,000.00
Abbey: Travel 156; Friedman, Joan M.: Color Printing in England
1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1978), 145; Hardie p. 252f.;
McLean p. 77f.

56 LA FONTAINE [JEAN DE]. Fables choisies, mise en vers.

4 vols. I: (2), xxx, xviii, 124pp. II: (2), ii, 135, (1)pp. III: (2), iv,
146pp. IV: (2), ii, 188pp. Frontispiece and 275 full-page plates hors
texte, after Jean-Baptiste Oudry by Charles-Nicolas Cochin,
engraved by Cochin himself, Aliamet, Aubert, Aveline, Baquoy,
Beauvarlet, Cars, Choffard, Dupuis, Flipart, Galimard, Le Mire,
Moitte, Radigues, Surugue, Tardieu, Teucher, and numerous others.
Inserted in the first volume, the portrait of Oudry by Tardieu after
Largillière (“found in some copies but not integral” per Gordon N.
Ray). Folio. Contemporary full mottled calf, the spines gilt in 8
compartments.
A large-paper copy, of which only 100 examples were printed. We
quote from David Becker’s remarks in Regency to Empire on the
history of the work: “Oudry began a series of drawings to illustrate
the fables of La Fontaine around 1729, more than twenty-five years
before their publication in this lavish four-volume set. They were
executed during the artist’s leisure hours away from his duties as
painter for the royal tapestry works at Beauvais. He made a total of
275 designs for the fables, all of which were engraved for the book.
The original drawings are often signed and dated, ranging as late as
1734, with a frontispiece added in 1752.... It was not until 1751
when the complete set of drawings for the project was acquired by
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the financier Montenault that their publication was undertaken. plexity of the engraved plates opposite and are sometimes allegori-
While securing a team of no fewer than forty-two engravers, Mon- cal in nature. In fact, P.P. Choffard issued a suite of metal-engraved
tenault also commissioned Charles-Nicolas Cochin fils to redraw copies of these tailpieces soon after their initial publication (ca.
Oudry’s designs, because their technique was deemed too free and 1760).”
loose for the engravers to follow. Cochin drew his more precise Exceptionally tall, this copy measures 479 x 330 mm. (18 7/8 x 13
designs in the same format as Oudry’s, and the subsequent engrav- inches), substantially larger than those at the Pierpont Morgan
ings were also executed in the same size. Several of the finished Library, Harvard and the National Gallery. The plate for fable
engravings were exhibited in the 1753 Salon, and the first three vol- CLXXII, “Le singe et le léopard” is in the second state, as is nor-
umes of the book were published in 1755 and 1756. A royal grant mal in the large-paper edition. Some rubbing and chipping at the
enabled the final volume to appear in 1759 after the publishers extremities and hinges of the bindings, with small losses at head
encountered financial difficulties.... The volumes were printed in a and feet of backstrips; intermittent unobtrusive dustiness and pale
very grand format, among the largest of any illustrated book of the foxing; withal an excellent copy, bearing the engraved ex-libris of
time save for certain royal festival books. Three different sizes and the Bibliothèque de Champy fils aîné in each volume.
types of paper were used for the text and the plates, with two Paris (Desaint & Saillant/ Durand), 1755-1759. $18,000.00
grander formats issued in one hundred copies each. Oudry’s full- Ray 5; Cohen-de Ricci 548-550, supplement 280; Portalis 483-489;
page plates were embellished with borders and titles, and the flower Girardin (1913); Rochambeau 86; Tchemerzine VI.390f.; Brunet
painter Jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724-1806) was commissioned to III.753; Graesse IV.73; Guilmard p. 150; Cicognara 1125; Bland
design decorative tailpieces to fill in the spaces at the end of each (1958) p. 209f.; Blumenthal, Joseph: Art of the Printed Book 1455-
fable. His ornamental, rustic designs were engraved on wood by 1955 (New York, 1973), p. 29; Regency to Empire: French Print-
Jean-Michel Papillon (1698-1776) and Nicolas Le Sueur (1691- making, 1715-1814 (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1984), no. 41;
1764). These decorations often serve to counterbalance the com- Opperman, Hal: J.B. Oudry (Fort Worth, 1983), p. 146f.
57 LABORDE, ALEXANDRE DE. Description d’un pavé en engraved figs. and diagrams. Culs-de-lampe. Lrg. 4to. Contempo-
mosaïque découvert dans l’ancienne ville d’Italica, aujourd’hui rary mottled calf gilt.
le village de Santiponce près de Séville; suivie de recherches sur “This book, in which the methods of the great Le Nôtre (1613-
la peinture en mosaïque chez les anciens, et les monuments en ce 1700) were reduced to a system, remains to this day the standard
genre qui n’ont point encore été publiés. (2), 103pp., 21 engraved authority on the formal garden. It was written by D’Argenville the
plates (of which 18 printed in colors, and also finished by hand in elder under the instructions and supervision of the architect, J.B.
color, of which 1 double-page folding). Dec. half-title, printed in Alexandre Le Blond [1679-1719], with whose designs, engraved by
color and finished by hand in color. 4 elaborate vignettes and culs- Mariette, the book is illustrated. The work is often entered under
de-lampe (2 of each finished by hand in color). Massive lrg. folio. Dezallier D’Argenville” (Fowler). “Le Blond was involved with the
Contemporary calf, gilt in neoclassical taste with fillet borders illustration and publication of a number of books on both architec-
(hinges cracked but sound; rubbed at extremities, with abrasions at ture and garden design. He contributed five of the twelve plates in
corners). Pink watered silk doublures and endpapers. Edition limit- J.F. Félibien’s ‘Histoire de l’abbaye royale de Saint Denis en
ed to 160 copies in all. France’ (1706). He added a 32-page supplement and 29 plates to the
This imposingly grand work was originally to have formed a part of edition of 1710 of Augustin-Charles d’Aviler’s ‘Cour complet d’ar-
the “Voyage en Espagne” (Paris 1806-1820). “La description de chitecture’ (1691), and he is believed to have produced almost all
cette mosaïque devoit faire partie d’un voyage pittoresque d’Es- the illustrations (and possibly some of the text) in the third edition
pagne, et ne paroître que dans un an; mais les éclaircissements (1722) of Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville’s ‘Théorie et
qu’elle donne aux amateurs de l’Antiquité sur plusieurs points physique du jardinage’ (1709). This latter publication popularized
intéressants m’ont déterminé à en faire un ouvrage particulier, et the French formal garden throughout Europe. In it, Le Blond
par conséquent plus détaillé.... Le pavé dont on donne ici la descrip- stressed four main principles: that design should be subject to
tion est le plus considérable qui ait été découvert” (from the intro- nature; that the garden must not be too shady; that the garden must
duction). The magnificent color plates are based on drawings by not be too exposed; and that the design should enhance the feeling
Laborde himself. The pavement was discovered on 12 December of the size of the garden. He stressed the importance of the garden
1799, and Laborde hastened to publish it, magnificently printed by designer, describing him as a ‘geometrician, architect, draughts-
Didot, before launching the “Voyage d’Espagne” itself. “Edizione man, [one who] knows the character of plants and ornament.’
di massimo lusso” (Cicognara). A few very pale traces of foxing, a Although the book encouraged varierty in the selection of plants, it
few small stains; in general an unusually clean copy of this warned against too much dividing and subdividing of space and
extremely rare work. ornamental shell work and basins” (Kathleen Russo, in the “Dictio-
Paris (P. Didot l’aîné), 1802. $7,500.00 nary of Art”). Hinges worn but sound; trace of foxing; a pleasant
Borroni II.6354; Cicognara 3960; Vicaire IV.741; Brunet III.714; copy, with the exlibrises of Sir John Stirling Maxwell and Donald
Graesse IV.59 & Mary Hyde.
Paris (Jean Mariette), 1722. $2,750.00
58 LE BLOND, ALEXANDRE. La théorie et la pratique du Cf. Fowler 170; Berlin 3463-3464
jardinage. Où l’on traite à fond des beaux jardins apellés com-
munément les jardins de plaisance et de propreté, composés de 59 LENORMANT, CHARLES. Musée des Antiquités Égypti-
parterres, de bosquets, de boulingrins, &c. Contenant plusieurs ennes, ou Recueil des monuments égyptiens, architecture, statuaire,
plans et dispositions générales de jardins; nouveaux desseins de glyptique et peinture, accompagné d’un texte explicatif. ii, 75,
parterres, de bosquets, de boulingrins, labirinthes, salles, galeries, (1)pp., 39 engraved plates. Numerous text illus. Lrg. folio. Marbled
portiques & cabinets de treillages, terrasses, escaliers, fontaines, boards, 1/4 leather (head of spine missing). Internally a very fine
cascades, & autres ornemens servant à la décoration & embellisse- copy.
ment des jardins.... Nouvelle édition. (8), 293, (11)pp., 38 hinged Paris (Leleux), 1841. $6,500.00
double-page engraved plates (4 folding). Occasional wood- Beinlich-Seeber 11913; cf. Brunet III.979, Graesse IV.162

57
 at spine (slightly chafed at head and foot). A.e.g. First edition; a
second edition, in French, was issued by the same publisher in
1780. Part II of the work is a compendium of biographical notices
of the artists represented in the collection; this is sometimes
encountered as a separate work, which is probably a later issue of
the original sheets by the publishers, without change in date. Fanti,
a portrait painter, succeeded his father Ercole Gaetano Fanti, as
keeper of the Liechtenstein gallery. The work is finely printed, with
exceedingly fine engraved decorations. A superb copy, with an
eighteenth-century engraved armorial ex-libris.
Vienna (Giovanni Tommaso de Trattnern), 1767. $4,000.00
Schlosser p. 497; Cicognara 3389; cf. Borroni II.567 (citing 1780
64
edn.)
60 LEUNCLAVIUS, JOANNES. Annales Sultanorum Oth-
manidarum, a Turcis sua lingua scripti. Hieronymi Beck a 62 MAZZINELLI, ALESSANDRO. Ufficio della settimana
Leopoldstorf, Marci fil. studio & diligentia Constantinopli aduecti santa e dell’ottava di Pasqua. Colle rubriche volgari, argomenti
MDLI, Diuo Ferdinando Caes. Opt. Max. D.D. iussuque Caes. a de’ Salmi, spiegazione delle cerimonie, e misterj, con osservazioni,
Joanne Gaudier dicto Spiegel, interprete Turcico Germanice trans- e riflessioni divote.... Rivista ed accresciuta. Seconda edizione.
lati. Cum omnium memorabilium, toto opere contentorum, acu- xxiv, 612pp. 11 engraved plates after Giuseppe Passeri, Puccetti
ratissime elaborati Indicis accessione. Editio Altera. 260, (26)pp., 1 and others, by Westerhout et al. Engraved rococo culs-de-lampe
folding genealogical chart. Wood-engraved title-page vignette, cul- throughout, of putti. Headings and initials in red. 4to. Full leather,
de-lampe, lettrines. Lrg. 4to. 17th-century vellum over boards, gilt. A.e.g.
rebacked in vellum at an early date, titled in pen on the spine; raised Roma (Apresso Giovanni Maria Salvioni, Stampator Pontificio Vat-
bands. icano), 1744. $650.00
Second edition; the first edition was published in 1588. “This is a
translation of the work of the 16th. c. Turkish historian Muhammed 63 (MICHELANGELO) Lawrence Gallery. A series of fac-
ibn Hasanjan, called Saadeddin. The original Turkish text contin- similes of original drawings by M. Angel Buonarotti, selected
ued to the year 1550 and was brought from Constantinople in 1551 from the matchless collection formed by Sir Thomas Lawrence,
by Hieronymus Beck. A German translation was produced by the late President of the Royal Academy. (4)pp., 31 lithographic
Emperor Ferdinand I’s interpreter Joannes Gaudier, or Spiegel, and plates (many printed in tone, 17 mounted), Folio. Orig. wraps.
it was this German version which Leunclavius translated into Latin (battered and chipped, partly disbound). Wrappers much worn; a
and augmented, continuing the history to 1588, when the first edi- little unobtrusive foxing; nonetheless still a good copy of this
tion was printed. The German version appeared two years later. extremely rare folio.
Leunclavius (or Löwenklau) a historian and jurist, travelled in London (S. and A. Woodburn), 1853. $1,200.00
Turkey about three years, departing for Constantinople in 1582. He Steinmann, Ernst & Wittkower, Rudolf: Michelangelo Bibliografie
learned Turkish and travelled extensively before returning to estab- (Hildesheim, 1967), 1151
lish himself in Vienna in about 1585. In 1591 he produced ‘Histo-
riae Musulmanae Turcarum libri 18,’ and he also translated many of 64 MILLINGEN, JAMES. Peintures antiques de vases grecs
the works of the Byzantine historians into Latin” (Blackmer). de la collection de Sir John Coghill Bart. (2), xx, 48pp., 52 cop-
The usage ‘Saaadedin’ is now properly given as Sa’d al-Din, and is per-engraved plates (2 folding). Finely printed on heavy paper.
a shortened form of Khodja Efendi, Sa’d al-Din b. Hasan Djan b. Folio. Contemporary marbled boards, 1/4 vellum, handsomely gilt
Hafiz Muhammad Isfahani. Sa’d al-Din (1536-1599) was a highly at spine (somewhat rubbed). “First and only edition. The Coghill
influential statesman as well as historian; this work (“Tadj al- collection was composed of two collections—that of de Lalò, and
tawarikh”), a history of the Ottomans from their beginnings to the that of Bonnet. The de Lalò collection was acquired originally by
death of Selim I, is regarded as his masterpiece, noted for its criti- de Rossi, who had 39 engravings made of the most interesting of
cal accuracy and its elegance of style. Browning throughout, as the vases. When Coghill decided to publish the collection, he used
usual, due to the paper stock; a little light wormholing in flyleaves. the 39 plates made by de Rossi and added 13 new plates from his
Early collector’s mark on the title-page. other acquisitions. The text includes three letters from Gherardo de
Frankfurt (Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium, & Ioan. Rossi to Millingen. The Coghill collection passed eventually into
Aubrium), 1596. $3,000.00 the hands of Henry Englefield and Thomas Hope” (Blackmer).
Blackmer 1014; Adams S51; Göllner 2203; Brunet III.1032;
Graesse IV.188; cf. Encyclopedia of Islam (1986) V.27f.

61 (LIECHTENSTEIN COLLECTION) FANTI, VINCEN-

ZIO. Descrizzione completa di tutto ciò che trovarsi nella galle-
ria di pittura e scultura di Sua Altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao del
S.R.I. Principe Regnante della casa di Lichtenstein.... Dove
chiara apparisce tanto la spiegazione de’ pensieri di tutti gli autori,
quanto il pregio delle storie, e delle favole che ne’ quadri si trovano
espresse unitamente al compendio delle vite degl’istessi pittori. (6),
107, (1), 144, (16)pp. 6 fine engraved decorations by Schmutzer
after Fanti (1 full-page frontispiece to Part II, and 5 culs-de-lampe).
4to. Very fine German (?) contemporary russet leather, heavily gilt
61
 marriage of the Duke Paolo Spinola to the Princes Anna Colonna,
and bears the date Perugia 1653; the arms of the two families are
engraved on the tilted cartouches at top. The title-page also carries
the credit, in the architrave below the dedication, “Gio. Jacomo
Rossi formis Romae alla Pace, all insegna di Parigi.” The water-
mark is not in Briquet. Intermittent foxing and occasional light soil-
ing; one plate with a clean tear at one corner, with old mend; a few
light touches in pencil; nice impressions.
Bologna (Ag.o Parisini For.), 1636. $3,750.00
Berlin 562; Guilmard p. 314 no. 26; Los Angeles County Museum
of Art: Drawings from the Kunstbibliothek Berlin (1965), p. 76
SEE FRONT COVER

66 (MOITTE SALE) Paris. F.-L. Regnault de Lalande. Cata-

logue de tableaux, dessins encadrés, en feuilles et en recueils;
statues en bronze; plâtres et cire...blocs de marbre blanc statuaire,
et outils de sculpteur; après le décès de M. Moitte, statuaire.... Sale,
7-8 June 1810. viii, 16pp. Sm. 4to. Plain pink wraps., stitched.
Printed on uncut heavy paper. With an 8-pp. prefatory notice of the
Jean-Guillaume Moitte, 1746-1810, “statuaire de l’ancienne
Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Professeur à l’Ecole
des Arts,” etc.
Paris, 1810. $450.00
Lugt 7806

67 NORDEN, FREDERICK LEWIS. Voyage d’Égypte et de

Nubie. Ouvrage enrichi de cartes & de figures dessinées sur les
lieux, par l’auteur même. 2 vols. (40), 288pp. Frontis. portrait and
grandly elaborate allegorical frontis. by Tuscher, and 159 numbered
and 5 unnumbered engraved plates, on 162 leaves, including 4 half-
page plates and 5 double-page plates (plate LXXXVI with pasted
engraved overslip on caption). Fine engraved archaeological and
decorative culs-de-lampe (by Tuscher, Preisler, and Cramer) and
lettrines throughout. Folio. Contemporary mottled calf gilt.
“Norden was a captain in the Danish navy and had studied drawing
and engraving as part of his duties. He had spent nearly three years
in Italy studying art when Christian VI of Denmark ordered him to
67 go to Egypt in 1737 on an exploratory mission where he made
Millingen (1774-1845), who settled in Italy after the French Revo- drawings on the spot. He spent about a year in Egypt and was the
lution, was renowned as a connoisseur of classical art, and portions first European to penetrate as far as Derr in Nubia and to publish
of his own collection were acquired by the British Museum. A little descriptions of any Nubian temples. This important work was the
light foxing; a handsome copy. Rare. earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt, and its plates
Rome (Imprimé par De Romanis), 1817. $3,500.00 are the most significant previous to those of Denon” (Blackmer,
Blackmer 1134; Vinet 1541; Dobai III.131, 1387; Michaelis p. 163; describing the first English edition of 1757). Hinges with unobtru-
Brunet III.1723 sive splits, held secure by the original stitching; a fine copy, clean
and crisp, with the 18th-century armorial ex-libris of John, Earl of
65 MITELLI, AGOSTINO. All’Ill. Sig. Francesco Maria Hyndford, in each volume (dated 1743).
Zambeccari come a suo singolar.mo Padrone Agostino Mitelli Copenhague (La Maison Royale des Orphelins), 1755. $12,500.00
D.D.D. 24 unnumbered etched plates, loose as issued, printed on Blackmer 1211 (for the English edition, 1757); Hilmy II.74; Brunet
buff-colored paper (watermarked with a paschal lamb in a circle IV.101
surmounted by the initial A). 250 x 170 mm. (ca. 9 7/8 x 6 5/8 inch-
es). Sm. 4to. Portfolio (modern gilt boards, 1/4 red morocco). 68 ORLANDI, PELLEGRINO ANTONIO. L’abecedario pit-
This untitled suite of exuberant, often fantastical, decorative car- torico. Dall’autore ristampato corretto et accresciuto di molti pro-
touches and other ornaments is one of four sets of prints by Agosti- fessori e di altre notizie spettanti alla pittura. 519, (1)pp. 5 woodcut
no Mitelli (1606-1660), the renowned Bolognese quadratura plates in text with 158 artists’ monograms. Woodcut lettrines and
painter, father of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli. Dated 1636, dedicated to culs-de-lampe. 4to. Contemporary calf gilt (a bit rubbed). First pub-
Count Zambeccari,and printed and/or published by Agostino Parisi- lished Bologna, 1704; this second, expanded edition is dedicated to
ni, it is known in several editions or issues. In one, the title-page Pierre Crozat, and contains a verse in his honor at the end. A
was reworked with the “inscription Rousel exc.”; in another , with biograpical dictionary, the work contains one of the first bibliogra-
the name of Giovan Batista Paganelli, D.D. and a new dedication to phies of art literature, as well a section on artists’ monograms and
Francesco Bandini. In the present copy, as in the set in the Victoria cyphers. “Un’opera molto notevole per il tempo suo, e che può
and Albert, one plate was reworked as a title-page in honor of the anche oggi rendere telvolta utili servizi” (Schlosser). From the
 the top of the first six leaves of Vol. II, slightly affecting title and
text.
[Utrecht] (Justum Reers), 1736. $850.00
Blackmer 1286; Hilmy II.102; Graesse V.203; Brunet IV.501

71 (PIAZZETTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA). Nouveau livre

du dessein qui contient XXV figures dessinée par le célèbre
Jean Baptista Piazzeta [sic]. 24 engraved plates (through-num-
bered A1-8, B1-8, C1-8, including title-page). Sm. 4to. Contempo-
rary heavy wraps., stitched as issued. This extremely rare book con-
tains three unsigned suites of engravings after academies by
Piazzetta, all of male figures, including one of Bacchus. It was
undoubtedly published for the use of art students, and may in fact
have been engraved by one. While in fine condition, this copy bears
a few suggestive small smudges in red and green paint, traces of the
studio. The title-page, showing an elegantly dressed woman paint-
ing at an easel beneath putti, is a charmingly naïve invention.
Though stated to contain 25 plates, this copy (like that at the Getty),
with its three signatures of 8 plates each, would appear to be com-
plete with 24. A little light foxing.
N.p., n.d. [circa 1775]. $2,000.00
Venezia (Comune di): Giambattista Piazzetta, suo tempo, la sua
scuola (1983), no. 120 (entry by Filippo Pedrocco).

72 PORCACCHI, TOMMASO. Funerali antichi di diversi

popoli, et nationi; forma, ordine, et pompa di sepolture, di esse-
71 quie, di consecrationi antiche et d’altro, descritti in dialogo. Con le
library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, with the figure in rame di Girolamo Porro padovano. (8), 109, (3)pp. Fully
Macclesfield blindstamp and ex-libris. engraved dec. title and 23 numbered engravings by Girolamo Porro
Bologna (Costantino Pisarri), 1719. $1,650.00 in text (approx. 92 x 155 mm. each). Wood-engraved lettrines. 4to.
Arntzen/Rainwater H110; Chamberlin 2023; Schlosser pp. 485, Contemporary limp vellum, titled in pen at the spine.
508; Borroni I.580.1; Comolli II.93; Haym IV.144; cf. Cicognara First edition; a second edition was published in 1591, in which the
2169 copperplates appear worn and somewhat reworked. This treatise on
the funerary customs of the ancients (Roman, Greek, Egyptian,
69 OTTLEY, WILLIAM YOUNG. Engravings of the Most Indian, Scythian and other) was used as a handbook by planners of
Noble The Marquess of Stafford’s Collection of Pictures, in princely funerals; Vincenzo Borghini, for example, is known to
London, Arranged According to Schools and in Chronological have consulted it for the obsequies of Cosimo I de’ Medici. The text
Order, with Remarks on Each Picture. The executive part under is in the form of a dialogue about the plates, and begins with a dis-
the management of Peltro William Tomkins, Historical Engraver to cussion of the illustrator, Girolamo Porro, who is described as the
Her Majesty. 4 vols. in 2. 106 hors-texte plates with 291 engravings inventor of a flying machine, as well as an artist of remarkable gifts.
on chine appliqué. Lrg. folio. Early nineteenth-century full straight- Porcacchi and Porro collaborated on another work shortly before
grain morocco, richly gilt. A.e.g. Text on Whatman paper. Intermit- this, ‘L’isole piu famoso del mondo’ (Venice, 1572). Binding some-
tent light foxing; the binding rather rubbed and worn. Ex-libris Sir what spotted, waterstain affecting lower portion of preliminaries,
Charles Bagot, with gilt supralibros. intermittent soiling.
London (Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme and Brown; Cadell and Venetia (Simone Galignani), 1574. $2,200.00
Davies; P.W. Tomkins), 1818. $850.00 Borroni II.13439; Cicognara 1766; Mortimer Italian 395; Brunet
Dobai III.1384,.1530 IV.820; Graesse V.414; Adams P1903

70 PERIZONIUS, JACOBUS. Origines Babylonicae et 73 PORTA, GIACOMO DELLA. Autograph receipt, signed,
Aegyptiacae tomis II. Quorum prior Babylonica, & turris in terra dated Roma 22 agosto 1589. 1f. (on one side of a formerly folded
Sinear exstructae, ac dispersionis hominum ex ea, rationem ac his- quarto sheet). 7 full lines. Io. Jac.o della Porta ho ricevuto da Vir-
toriam continet. Editio secunda, cui praefationem et alia quaedam gilioPanzaroli ...Camerlengo della Compagnia della Sant.a Trinità
addidit Carl Andreas Dukerus. [...Aegyptiarum originum et tempo- scudi sessanta quali sono per frutti della Compagnia d’Uffizio....
rum antiquissimorum investigatio, in qua Marshami chronologia On the verso, a directive by Panzaroli for the payment. A few loss-
funditus evertitur, tum illae Usserii, Cappelli, Pezronii, aliorumque, es along the path of the ink.
examinantur & confutantur.] 2 vols. (48), 4097, (17)pp.; (20), 30, Roma, 1589. $3,000.00
554, (30)pp. Culs-de-lampe; titles in red and black. Stout 8vo. Early
speckled boards, 3/4 calf gilt. 74 PRIMISSER, ALOIS. Die kaiserlich-königliche Ambras-
“Second and most complete edition of this work. It was first print- er-Sammlung. x, (2), 401, (1)pp. 2 lithographic plates (frontis. and
ed at Leyden in 1711. This edition was edited by Charles Andre page of monograms). Contemporary speckled boards. A handsome
Duker, Perizonius’s student. Perizonius was named professor of copy, with an additional page of notes in a careful hand, dated 1822.
Greek at the University of Leyden in 1693; he was the most respect- Wien (Im Verlage des Verfassers und in Commission bey J.G.
ed classicist of his time after Bentley” (Blackmer). Wormholes at Heubner), 1819. $375.00
75 PROCOPIOS OF CAESAREA. De gli edifici di Giustini- inscription in the blank margin at the head of the title, from the emi-
ano imperatore. Di greco in volgare tradotti per Benedetto Egio da nent French Salon painter and Prix de Rome winner Émile Lévy to
Spoleti. (16)pp., 59ff. (lacking final blank). Elaborate woodcut his son Auguste, February 1844.
title-page publisher’s device (“Sybilla”), repeated on the last leaf. Rome (P. Mariette) [1843]. $2,800.00
Sm. 8vo. Eighteenth-century stiff vellum. First edition after the Raphael Invenit: Logge VI (p. 86ff.); Brunet IV.1108; Graesse VI.26
Latin. Written circa 553-555, and probably commissioned by the
Emperor Justinian, the work is rich in information on temples, are- 78 RIEM, A. Über die Malerei der Alten. Ein Beitrag zur
nas, fortifications, hospices and other buildings constructed by Jus- Geschichte der Kunst. Veranlasst von B. Rode. (2), iv, (4), 163
tinian throughout his reign; it is especially notable as the first book [recte 161], (1)pp. Etched frontispiece portrait of Zeuxis after the
to discuss edifices in Constantinople that were built, restored, or antique; 1 full-page etched plate hors texte, printed in ochre with
altered by Justinian. Intermittent light browning, a few stains, cov- aquaint; 23 copperplate-engraved illus. and vignettes, all by Rode.
ers bowed; a few neat contemporary annotations. Eighteenth-centu- 4to. Contemporary boards, 1/4 calf gilt, with gilt-embossed rococo
ry armorial ex libris Marchionis Salsae, printed in blue. supralibros on front cover. Vorzugsausgabe, on Swiss laid paper, of
Venezia (Michel Tramezino), 1547. $1,200.00 the only edition. Riem, a controversial Enlightenment theologian,
Cicognara 3314; Graesse V.455; Adams P2151 collaborated on this study of painting in the ancient world with the
history painter and etcher Christian Bernhard Rode (1725-1797);
76 PROUT, SAMUEL. Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flan- both held positions at the time at the Berliner Akademie der Kün-
ders and Germany, and Drawn on Stone. Title, dedication and 50 ste. The work drew furthermore on remarks by the late artist Ben-
plates, all lithographed by Hullmandel. Guards. Folio. Contempo- jamin Calau (1724-1785), while the quite attractive etchings are
rary cloth, 3/4 leather (disbound and worn). “Prout was a pioneer based, for the most part, on drawings by the painter and etcher
lithographer who employed the process as early as 1817, when Frederic Reclam (1734-1774). A feature of considerable interest is
most of his fellow artists were ignorant or contemptuous of it. His the mention of Aztec art (with one plate), in addition to Egyptian
friend and disciple Ruskin specifically exempted Prout from his and classical art. Binding lightly rubbed; a fine copy.
dismissal of lithography in ‘The Elements of Drawing,’ noting that Berlin (Friedrich Maurer), 1787. $2,500.00
‘all of his published lithographic sketches are of the greatest value, Hirschberg 414; cf., on Rode: Dictionary of Art 26.506; Thieme-
wholly unrivalled in power of composition, and in love and feeling Becker XXVIII.457
of architectural subjects.’ Joseph Pennell had reservations about
some of Prout’s lithographs, but even he endorsed what Ruskin 79 ROSE, JOH. GOTTLIEB. Dissertatio Academica de Mole
called ‘the grand subjects’ of ‘Flanders and Germany.’ Unfortu- Adrian hodie Castello S. Angeli, hoc est Die Engels-Burg. Quam
nately these lithographs are now assiduously sought after as single incluti sapientum ordinis consensu in Academia Lipsiensi d. I. Sep-
prints, and complete copies of the book have virtually disappeared” tembr. M.DCC.XXIII. Publico eruditorum examini subjiciet prae-
(Ray). Ray calls for two leaves of letterpress not present in this ses M. Joh. Gottlieb Rose, mittweyda-misnicus respondente Adamo
copy, or others we have noted. Title and dedication leaves quite Grenzio, Rochlitio-misn, SS. Theol. Cult. 40pp. Wood-engraved
spotted, as usual; intermittent foxing, usually confined to the mar- lettrine. Modern pastepaper boards. Trimmed a little close. Rare.
gins; some plates chipped at edges and some guards torn; library Leipzig (Immanuelis Titii), 1723. $450.00
stamp at foot of title. Borroni II.8096
[London] (C. Hullmandel’s Lithography) [1833]. $1,800.00
Ray, Gordon N.: The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790
to 1914 (New York, 1976), no. 83

77 (RAPHAEL) Chaperon, Nicolas. Sacrae historiae acta a

Raphaele Urbin. in Vaticanis xystis ad picturae miraculum
expressa. Fully engraved allegorical title and dedication leaves, 52
through-numbered engraved plates. Oblong folio. Mid-nineteenth
century black pebbled cloth, with gilt supralibros “A.L.” Fourth
state, slightly retouched from the third state of 1649 and on a dif-
ferent paper stock. “La serie delle 51 incisioni dalle Logge Vaticane
realizzate da Nicolas Chaperon è da considerare —come rilevava
già il Mariette (‘Notes Manoscriptes,’ p. 130) co il suo attento
occhio critico—la piú riuscita e la piú aderente allo spirito raf-
faellesco fra quelle eseguite nel XVII secolo. Essa infatti costituisce
l’espressione piú alta del gusto classicistico francese dominato a
Roma in quegli anni dalla personalità di Nicolas Poussin. Gravitan-
do a Roma proprio nell’orbita del Poussin, lo Chaperon incise le
Logge nel 1649 sembra—come riporta la Daclos (1977, p. 5)—per
incarico dello stesso pittore che aveva avuto dal re di Francia l’or-
dine di far incidere tali opere allo scopo di farle conoscere e studi-
are ai giovani pittori francesi non presenti a Roma” (Simonetta
Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, in “Raphael Invenit”). Two plates supplied
from another copy, trimmed and laid down (one with Parisian pur-
chase annotations on the verso, dated 1808); one plate with small
stain in image; generally a clean copy set, with occasional small
stains confined to margins; light wear to the binding. Presentation
78
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80 RUSCA, LUIGI. Recueil de dessins de différens bâtimens St. Petersburg [Paris: Crapelet], 1810. $11,000.00
construits à Saint-Pétersbourg et dans l’intérieure de l’Empire Millard: Northern European 109; Berlin 2775; Avery’s Choice 313;
de Russie / Raccolta dei disegni di diversi fabbriche costrutte in Brunet IV.1462; Graesse VI.194
Pietroburgo e nell’interno dell’Impero Russo. (6), 69, (1)pp., 180
line-engraved plates (including 2 allegorical frontispieces and a 81 [RUSIUS, LAURENTIUS.] La mareschalerie de Laurent
scale of comparative Russian and French measurements) after Rusé, ou sont contenuz remedes tres-singuliers contre les
designs by Rusca, by J.E. Thierry. Large folio. Nineteenth-century malades des chevaux: Avec plusieurs figures de mors. En laque-
boards, 1/4 morocco (battered and rubbed). Parallel texts in French lle y avons adiousté un autre traicté de remedes: le tout nouvelle-
and Italian. ment reveu, corrigé & augmenté sus un vieil original. (6), (113)ff.
“The Italian Rusca [1762-1822] was born in Lugano and trained (misnumbered 112). Woodcut title-page vignette (publisher’s
under Giuseppe Piermarini. In 1782 he was called by Catherine the device), cul-de-lampe, lettrine, and 64 full-page woodcuts: 63 illus-
Great to Saint Petersburg, where he first assisted Giacomo trating horse-bits, and 1, by Hans Sebald Beham, of a horse in pro-
Quarenghi and Vincenzo Brenna. The list of his own accomplish- file. Rusius’ “Hippiatria s. marescalia” was first published in Rome,
ments in Russia is impressive—works ranging from restorations of 1490, but the relevant precursors are really the Paris editions of
the Anichkov and Tauride Palaces (1801-1802) to the design of the Chrestien Wechel (1533, revised 1541) and Ch. Perier (1558,
portico along Nevsky Prospect (1802-1806). He was also responsi- 1563). Beham’s woodcut first appeared in a treatise on the propor-
ble for various urban design proposals and changes. His ‘Recueil de tion and measurement of horses, Nürnberg, 1528.
dessins’ of 1810 records many of his works, which in their colum- Bound with:
nar character very much follow the accomplished style of [Grisone, Federico.] L’escuirie du S. Federic Grison gentilhomme
Quarenghi. In the preface Rusca speaks of the reforms that archi- napolitain. En laquelle est monstré l’ordre & l’art de choysir, don-
tecture has undergone in recent times, and of ‘a certain character of ter, picquer, dresser & manier les chevaux, tant pour l’usage de la
simplicity and propriety’ that is captured, he feels, in his own work” guerre, qu’autre commodité de l’homme. Avec figures de diverses
(Harry Francis Mallgrave, in Millard). The extremely impressive sortes de mors de bride. Nagueres traduicte d’Italien en François,
scale of many of the projects—palaces, grand churches and & nouvellement reveuë & augmentee. (8), 192, (8)pp. Woodcut
mosques, vast military barracks and regimental offices, elegant title-page vignette (publisher’s device), cul-de-lampe, lettrines,
libraries, theatres, and hospitals—is captured in the plates, which, and 54 full-page illustrations, including 51 of bridles. First pub-
in addition to plans, sections and elevations, include a number of lished Naples 1550, and translated into French by 1559 (Paris, Ch.
richly pictorial prospects of harbor scenes and squares, with Perier); the first Adrian Perier imprint was 1589. Paris (Adrian
staffage, and delicately detailed interiors and decorative schemes, Perier), 1615.
reminiscent of Percier and Fontaine. Printed on heavy laid paper. A 4to. Contemporary limp vellum, titled in pen at spine. Two early
little spotting and wear to first title, front flyleaf partly loose, oth- ownership inscriptions on front and back flyleaves, one dated Lei-
erwise internally very fine, the plates fresh. den 1639, and the other—with several freely inscribed mottoes
 Leonardo and Cornelis de Bie among others. While Sandrart’s
modifications to the theoretical sections seem designed only to
modernize or play down certain aspects in a pragmatic way, the
lives of the German and contemporary artists reveal numerous orig-
inal insights. The ‘Teutsche Academie’ remains the most important
source for information on Grünewald, Elsheimer, Johann Liss and
numerous other 17th-century German painters, as well as for artis-
tic life in Rome, c. 1630: thus also for Claude’s early period and for
Testa.... The extensive biography of Sandrart himself, added in
1675 and 1683, remains the classic portrayal of the most famous
German painter of the day, and the most important German art
writer between Dürer and Johann Joachim Winckelmann” (Christ-
ian Klemm, in “The Dictionary of Art”). Clean tear at the top of the
title-page; a very fine copy, with rich impressions of the plates and
in fine crisp condition. From the library of the Earls of Macclesfield
at Shirburn Castle, with the Macclesfield blindstamp and ex-libris.
Nürnberg/Frankfurt (C. S. Froberger for the author/ M. & J.F.
Endter, and Johann von Sandrart), 1683. $2,500.00
Schlosser p. 490; Cicognara 203; Besterman Old Art Books p. 90;
Brunet V.125; Graesse VI.264

83 Pompei, Alessandro. Li cinque ordini dell’architettura

civile di MICHEL SANMICHELI. Rilevati dalle sue fabriche, e
descritti e publicati con quelli di Vitruvio, Alberti, Palladio,
Scamozzi, Serlio, e Vignola. 112pp. Superb etched frontispiece
by Antonio Balestra, with medallion of Sanmicheli admired by
the personification of Architecture and a putto; etched title-page
vignette, also by Balestra, of a putto with drawing instruments;
6 etched headpieces (4 with portrait roundels of architects); 37
full-page etched plates in text, by Pompei after Gaudenzio
Bellini; 1 half-page etched plate. Sm. folio. Early buff heavy
wraps., backed with marbled paper. First edition, intermediate
issue, with title identical to that described in the RIBA and
Fowler catalogues, but collating like that in the Millard collec-
83 tion, which has a variant title. Millard states that priority of
(“L’amour et la guerre me conduirent et (?)...”), dated 1650. Occa- one issue over the other cannot be assigned with certainty.
sional light wear and staining; the first work with waterstain, and This is the first monograph on Sanmicheli. Its author, Count
front flyleaf and title-page mended and renewed at marginal losses. Alessandro Pompei, whose family seat, the Palazzo Pompei in
Paris (Adrian Perier), 1610. $2,250.00 Verona, was designed by Sanmicheli, was also a practicing archi-
Brunet IV.1464; Graesse VI.195; cf. (for the 1531 edition): Lipper- tect of some distinction, thoroughly steeped in Vitruvianism. The
heide Tc1; Berlin 1392; Grisone: cf. Brunet II.1759; Graesse book was extremely influential. “Noting the lack of extant drawings
III.160; Lipperheide Tc2; Berlin 1399 by Sanmicheli and the absence of theoretical contributions on his
part, Pompei analyzed Sanmicheli’s orders of architecture, compar-
82 SANDRART, JOACHIM VON. Academia nobilissimae ing them with those of the most outstanding published masters, in
artis pictoriae. Sive de veris & genuinis hujusdem proprietatibus, a project that parallels closely (though on a smaller scale) the
theorematibus, secretis atque requisitis aliis; nimirum de inven- reëlaboration of Andrea Palladio by Ottavio Bertotti-Scamozzi.
tione, delineatione, eurythmia & proportione corporum; de picturis Despite the rhetorical and aridly generalized methods—there are no
in albario recente, sive fresco, in tabulis item, atque linteis.... (16), references to actual buildings—Pompei’s study had significant con-
401, (21), 16pp. Engraved allegorical frontispiece and portrait, and sequences, reinforcing the interest of neoclassical criticism in San-
48 engraved plates hors texte (3 double-page; many with multiple micheli, already nurtured in the writings of Francesco Milizia and
illustrations); fine engraved title-page vignette, culs-de-lampe, and Tommaso Temanza, and providing a foundation for Ferdinando
half-page illustrations, lettrines. Folio. Contemporary calf gilt, Albertolli, Francesco Ronzani, and Girolamo Luciolli” (Millard). It
spine gilt in compartments (backstrip a bit rubbed). also contains discussions of the origin of architecture, and of clas-
A Latin translation by Christianus Rhodius of sections of Sandrart’s sical models from antiquity through the Renaissance, and stinging
“L’academia todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura: oder criticism of baroque architects, who, he suggests, have corrupted a
Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste” native Italian precedent with watered-down foreign distortions. The
(Nürnberg’Frankfurt, 1675-79). Primarily devoted to the lives of magnificent frontispiece by the painter Antonio Balestra (1666-
the artists, the portions selected are “erster Theil, 3. Buch,” “zweit- 1740), the teacher of Pietro Longhi and Rosalba Carriera, shows in
er Theil,” Register, and “Lebens-Lauf.” The volume is lavishly turn the influence of Giambattista Tiepolo. One plate with very
illustrated throughout with vibrantly animated medallion portraits small hole at margin; a very fine, fresh copy.
of artists, usually six to a page, from Zeuxis to Kneller. “[The] the- Verona (Jacopo Vallarsi), 1735. $5,500.00
oretical sections dealing with painting and the lives of the older Millard Italian 106; Fowler 286; Cicognara 647; Berlin 2631;
artists drew principally on Karel van Mander and Vasari, as well as Comolli IV.227-235
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84 SAVARY [CLAUDE ÉTIENNE]. Letters on Egypt. Con- 85 SERRADIFALCO, DOMENICO LO FASO PIETRA-
taining, a parallel between the manners of its ancient and modern SANTA, DUCA DI. Del Duomo di Monreale e di altre chiese
inhabitants, its commerce, agriculture, government and religion; siculo normanne. Ragionamenti tre. 87, (3)pp., 38 plates (partly
with the descent of Louis IX at Damietta. Extracted from Joinville, folding; 1 lithographic). 5 text illus. Lrg. folio. Marbled boards, 3/4
and Arabian authors. Translated from the French. Second edition. 2 leather (rebacked). Intermittent light foxing.
vols. xi, (1), 467, (1), (2), 490, (14)pp., 4 folding engraved plates, Palermo (Tipografia Roberti), 1838. $1,500.00
including 3 maps and 1 a “Plan of the Inside of the Great Pyramid.” Brunet V.311; Graesse VI.372
Sm. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in new calf with
leather labels. 86 SONNINI, C.S. [CHARLES NICHOLAS SIGISBERT].
Second English-language edition, following the first and second Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, Undertaken by Order of
editions in French and English, 1785-1786. “[Savary’s] description the Old Government of France. Illustrated by engravings, con-
of Egypt, together with Volney’s account, became the manual for sisting of portraits, views, plans, antiquities, plants, animals, &c.,
scholarly travellers to the country. Savary’s work is particularly drawn on the spot, under the author’s inspection. To which is sub-
interesting because, as Carré says, he was the first Frenchman to joined a map of the country. Translated from the French. (2), xl,
cite Arab texts” (Blackmer). Corners a little rubbed. 730, 14pp., frontispiece, folding map and 28 engraved plates with
London (G.G.J. and J. Robinson), 1787. $800.00 numerous figs. Lrg. stout 4to. New library buckram. Second edition
Cf. Blackmer 1492 ; Hilmy II.314 in English, following on the three-volume octavo edition published
 plates with etched vignette illustrations of no fewer than 920 paint-
ings and 230 sculptures and reliefs. With these elegant, accurate
and finely detailed reproductions, the “Prodromus” provides a
remarkable visual catalogue of the Hapsburg collection in the art
gallery at the Imperial Palace in Vienna. The collection, which
today is the heart of the Gemäldegalerie at the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, was assembled largely by the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm
of Austria in the mid-seventeenth century, with the aid of the
painter David Teniers, who served as the Archduke’s curator and
published engravings of some 243 of the best Italian paintings.
“Favoured by the political events at the end of the Thirty Years War,
and by the sale of the collection of Charles I, King of England and
Scotland, he was able to build up his collection by judicious pur-
chases at auctions during his governorship of the Netherlands”
(Schleicher). Venetian and Netherlandish pictures of the 15th and
16th century were its greatest strength, but the collection was rich
in masterpieces by German, Dutch and Spanish painters through the
seventeenth century, as well as works of the Italian Baroque. The
Stampart and Brenner “Prodromus,” commissioned by Charles VI,
was unprecedented in presenting a collection in this exhaustive
visual format, and is of great interest in showing the frames and
complete arrangement of the hang, invaluable for understanding the
context in which the works were seen in the eighteenth century. A
few unobtrusive smudges; a fine copy in entirely original,
unpressed condition, with fine impressions of the plates.
Wien (Johann Peter van Ghelen), 1735. $6,000.00
Berlin 3965; Brunet V.508; Graesse VI.477; cf. Holst, Niels von:
Creators, Collectors and Connoisseurs (New York, 1967), p. 134ff.;
Dictionary of Art, XIII.919f.: “Habsburg, Leopold William” (arti-
cle by Elisabeth Schleicher).
82
88 TESTELIN, HENRI. Sentiments des plus habiles peintres
in 1799, and here with plates reduced from the first French edition, sur la pratique de la peinture et sculpture. Mis en tables de pré-
Paris 1799. “Sonnini embarked for Alexandria in 1777 with Tott’s ceptes, avec plusieurs discours académiques. Ou conférences
mission. There he received orders from Louis XVI to explore tenues en l’Académie Royale desdits Arts, en présence de Monsieur
Egypt. He spent three years traveling through the country, as far as Colbert, Conseilleur du Roi en tous ses Conseils.... Par Henry
Aswan. He then went on to Greece and Turkey, returning to France Testelin. 40pp., 12 hinged double-page engraved plates (including
in 1780.... His work on Egypt is full of important information: ‘un dedication, six tables, and 5 pictorial subjects after Le Brun,
réel intérêt par l’ampleur, la variété et la précision de ses informa- Poussin, Raphael, and Testelin himself, the latter by Audran).
tions,’ ‘son ouvrage est plus complet que celui de Volney et de Engraved title-page vignette, 1 allegorical cul-de-lampe after Le
Savary’ (—Carré)” (Blackmer). Intermittent browning and foxing; Brun, by Sébastien Le Clerc. Sm. folio. Nineteenth-century boards,
clean tears in frontis. and map. 1/4 calf. The painter, printmaker and writer Henri Testelin (1616-
London (J. Debrett), 1800. $900.00 1695) was an influential academician in the circle of Charles Le
Blackmer 1573, cf. 1572; Hilmy II.245 Brun, whose precepts, and those of the Académie Royale, are
reflected in this treatise on line, proportion, expression, chiaroscuro
87 STAMPART, FRANCISCO DE & BRENNER, ANTONIO and color. The first edition, published in Paris in 1680, was dedi-
DE. Prodromus, seu praeambulare lumen reserati portentosae cated to Le Brun; this second edition, published after Le Brun’s
magnificentiae theatri. Quo omnia ad aulam caesaream in death, is dedicated “Aux amateurs de la peinture,” with a double
Augustissimae Suae Caesareae & Regiae Catholicae Majestatis frieze of physiognomic masks drawn from Le Brun’s teachings.
nostri gloriosissimè Regnantis Monaechae Caroli VI. metropoli, et Title-page foxed, intermittent wear and soiling, binding rubbed.
residentia Viennae recondita artificiorum, et pretiositatum decora Paris (La veuve Mabre-Cramoisy), 1696. $1,200.00
praecipuè copiosissima, quae ibidem asservantur. tabularum, pic- Schlosser p. 635; Cicognara 360; Brunet 9246
turarum, statuarum, imaginum, aliorumque ab artificum principibus
elaboratum operum miracula fideliter, & absque defectu aeri sunt 89 THOMPSON, CHARLES. Travels through Turkey in
incisa, & annexa brevi introdutione moecenatum utilitati, & volup- Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and Other Parts of the
tati edita..../ Prodromus order Vor- Licht des eröffneten Schau- und World: Giving a particular and faithful account of what is most
Wunder-Prachtes...Kunst-Schätzen und Kostbarkeiten.... 10ff. remarkable in the manners, religion, polity, antiquities, and natural
(including etched index leaf), 30 etched plates (including allegori- history of those countries: with a curious description of Jerusalem,
cal dedication leaf, with medallion portrait). Elaborate etched cul- as it now appears, and other places mentioned in the Holy Scrip-
de-lampe. Folio. Orig. drab boards (lacking portions of backstrip). tures. Interspersed with the remarks of several other modern trav-
The first two plates provide a floorplan and six views of the interi- ellers; illustrated with notes, historical, geographical and miscella-
ors of the galleries (and portraits of the book’s two collaborators, neous. vi, 476pp. Sm. 4to. New marbled boards, 1/2 calf antique. A
the court painters Stampart and Brenner); following this are 27 later edition of the popular work first published in Reading in 1744.
 92

With reference to the first edition, Blackmer notes that “Nothing is Constantinople, des côtes de la Mer Noire, de l’Armenie, de la
known of either the so-called author or editor. It has been suggest- Georgie, des frontières de Perse, & de l’Asie Mineure.... 3
ed that this is a fictional voyage similar to Guillet’s.” Even brown- vols. (22), 379, 448, 404, (60)pp., 153 engraved plates, plans and
ing throughout. A handsomely bound copy. maps (6 folding). Stout 8vo. Eighteenth-century French tree-calf
Carlisle (Archibald Loudon), 1813. $450.00 gilt, raised bands, with red and green morocco lettering pieces.
Cf. Blackmer 1653; Cf. Hilmy II.285 A.e.g. Second edition of the work, published in the same year as the
Paris first edition, in quarto; a third edition was issued in 1718
90 (TITIAN) Ticozzi, Stefano. Vite dei pittori Vecelli di (Amsterdam), as was an English translation. “The botanist Pitton de
Cadore. Libri quattro. (6), 336pp. 4to. Nineteenth-century marbled Tournefort was sent on a mission to the Levant by Louis XIV in
boards, 1/4 cloth. Principally concerning Titian, but with notices also 1700. He was accompanied by the artist Claude Aubriet and the doc-
of Francesco, Orazio, and other members of the Vecellio family. tor Gundelsheimer. Pitton de Tournefort traveled extensively in the
Milano (Antonio Fortunato Stella), 1817. $275.00 Archipelago, visiting most of the islands in the Cyclades... He also
Freitag 12478; Schlosser p. 561; Cicognara 2381 spent a considerable period in Crete before going to Constantinople
and Asia Minor, the coasts of the Black Sea and then overland
91 TOTT, FRANÇOIS, BARON DE. Memoirs. Containing the through Armenia to Persia. The travellers returned to Paris in June
state of the Turkish empire and the Crimea, during the late war with 1702.... The text takes the form of letters to M. de Pontchartrain,
Russia. With numerous anecdotes, facts, and observations on the who sponsored Pitton’s mission. The very fine plates are after Aubri-
manners and customs of the Turks and Tartars. Translated from the et’s drawings, and illustrate costumes, botanical and zoological
French. 4 parts in 2 vols. xxxv, (1), 238, (2), 236, 204, 160, (18)pp. specimens, views and maps” (Leonora Navari, in the Blackmer cat-
Sm. 4to. New cloth. One of two English editions issued in 1785, a alogue). An elegant copy.
year after the first edition was published (in French) in Amsterdam. Lyons (Anisson et Posuel), 1717. $4,000.00
De Tott was a Hungarian in the French service who made several Cf.: Blackmer 1318; Hilmy II.292; Atabey 960; Cox I.221; Weber
trips to Constantinople between 1755 and 1769. Back in France in 458; Brunet V.903; Graesse VII.180f.; Wilson p. 230
1776, he “was appointed inspector general of the consulates of the
Levant, and accompanied by Sonnini, departed immediately on a 93 VALERIANI, DOMENICO. Nuova illustrazione istorico-
tour of inspection which lasted till 1778. According to Herold, monumentale del basso e dell’alto Egitto. Con atlante. Text: 2
‘Bonaparte in Egypt,’ de Tott was in fact an agent of the French vols. in 3 parts. 491, (5)pp. Frontis. portrait; 788, (6)pp. 4to. Orig.
secret service, and his inspection tour was a cover for exploring printed yellow wraps. Entirely uncut; partly unopened. Plates:
the possibility of a French seizure of Egypt; he prepared a spe- Atlante monumentale del basso e dell’alto Egitto illustrato dal prof.
cial report on this subject for the French Foreign Office. His Domenico Valeriani e compilato dal fu Girolamo Segato. Coi dis-
memoirs had a great success; they provide objective information egni tratti dalle opere di Denon, della Commissione Francese, di
and a new unromantic view of the Ottoman Empire” (Blackmer). Gau, di Caillaud e di Rosellini e con quelli dall stesso compilatore
Intermittent light foxing. eseguiti sul luogo. 2 vols. 99 plates (7 folding; 44 hand-colored).
London (G.G.J. and J. Robinson), 1785. $550.00 Lrg. folio. Fine new boards, 1/4 calf gilt. Leonora Navari comments
Cf. Blackmer 1667 on the Blackmer copy (which was of the atlas only, and lacked the
text): “First edition, published in parts, of the atlas.... This was
92 TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE. Relation d’un accompanied by 2 vols. of 8vo text.... Segato went to Egypt in 1818
voyage du Levant, fair par ordre du Roy. Contenant l’his- to work for a commercial enterprise. He explored and mapped a
toire ancienne et moderne de plusieurs isles de l’archipel, de large area south of Wady Halfa in 1821-2. He was a friend of
93
Champollion, although his collaborator Valeriani was hostile to
Champollion’s system of decipherment of the hieroglyphs. Most of
the plates have been re-engraved from standard works by Denon,
Gau, etc., but a number are after drawings by Segato himself.” A
very fine copy of a very rare book; only 8 complete copies listed
in OCLC.
Firenze (Paolo Fumagalli), 1836-1838. $17,500.00
Blackmer 1521; Hilmy p. 301; Beinlich-Seeber 20002; Brunet
V.1042

94 VALERIANO BOLZANI, GIOVANNI PIERO. Hiero-

glyphica, sive de sacris aegyptiorum, aliarumque gentium
literis commentarii. A Celio Augustino Curione duobis libris auc-
tii, & multis imaginibus illustrati. (10)ff., 12pp., 13-441ff., 25ff.
Woodcut title-page vignette, splendid full-page portrait by Tobias
Stimmer in elaborate ornamental frame, and 273 woodcut illus. Let-
trines and schematic figs. in text. Stout folio. Contemporary calf,
handsomely blindstamped with fillets and oval device at the center
of each cover; handsome seventeenth-century calligraphed paper
labels on spine, lettered in red and black.
A book of pivotal importance in late Renaissance iconography,
first published in Basel, 1556; the present edition follows that of
1567, which was the first to contain the two additional books by
Caelio Augustino Curio. Dedicated to Cosimo I de’ Medici, Vale-
riano’s “Hieroglyphica” is “a vast compilation of all the hiero-
glyphic knowledge of his time; it drew on Horapollo, the ‘Physi-
ologus,’ the obelisks he saw in Rome, the Cabala and the Bible as
sources. It was so popular that eleven editions were published in 94
the first seventy years. At the time it was believed that hiero-
glyphs were a purely ideographical form of writing used by Antonio Francisco Gorio florentino, et Rodulphino Venuti corto-
ancient Egyptian priests to foreshadow divine ideas, and that the nense notis illustratum. xviii, 126pp., 85 through-numbered copper-
Greek philosophers had tapped into ‘hieroglyphic wisdom.’ In the engraved plates by P.S. Bartoli. Engraved title-page vignette and
dedication of his ‘Hieroglyphica,’ Valeriano writes, ‘[To] speak preliminary headpiece; historiated initials. Sm. folio. Contempo-
hieroglyphically is nothing else but to disclose the true nature of rary vellum over boards.
things divine and human. He contributed no revolutionary ideas to The first catalogue of bronzes, bas-reliefs, and engraved gems in
the field, but his compilation was instrumental in changing the the collection of the Etruscan Academy at Cortona, founded by
study of hieroglyphic symbols from a philosophical to a philolog- Ridolfino Venuti and, by the mid-eighteenth century, a renowned
ical pursuit” (Funk). Valeriano (1477-1558) was Vasari’s Latin center of intellectual antiquarianism, which numbered Voltaire and
teacher, and tutor to Giovanni de’ Medici (the future Pope Leo X); Winckelmann among its members. Edited by Valesio, Venuti and
in 1509, as the private secretary of Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, he Anton Francesco Gori, the catalogue focuses primarily on the
travelled to Rome, where he studied the city’s antiquities. The gems, a subject in which the Etruscan scholar Gori in particular was
“Hieroglyphica” provided a fountain of emblematic imagery for noted for his expertise. Trace of pale foxing; a handsome copy,
leading artists, while the inscriptions in his historical material printed on strong paper.
were utilized by humanist historians. It was unquestionably the Roma (sumptibus Fausti Amidei), 1750. $3,000.00
most important source for Ripa’s “Iconologia” (1593 and after). Borroni II.1467; Cicognara 3418; Sinkankas 6791; Vinet 1674;
“Valeriano supplied Ripa not only with separate figures and with Murray II.193; Brunet V.1053; Graesse VII.247
countless individual attributes, but also with many learned refer-
ences and explanations for the images and attributes that he bor- 96 VASARI, GIORGIO. Ragionamenti.... sopra le invenzioni
rowed from other sources” (Elizabeth McGrath, in the Dictionary da lui dipinte in Firenze nel palazzo di loro altezze serenissime, con
of Art). Contemporary ownership inscription effaced on title- illustriss. ed eccellentiss. signore D. Francesco Medici allora
page, with two small losses (affecting border of the portrait on principe di Firenze. Insieme con la invenzione della pittura da lui
verso); intermittent light browning; binding rubbed, with small cominciata nella cupola. Seconda edizione. x, 174pp. Engraved
losses at hinges and corners. frontispiece portrait and title-page vignette; wood-engraved culs-
Basel (Thomas Guarinus), March 1575. $5,000.00 de-lampe, lettrines. 4to. Early pastepaper wraps.
Praz 521; Landwehr: German Emblem Books 616; Adams V.52; The first edition was published in Florence in 1588. As is noted
Thorndike VI.447; Hilmy II.301; for various editions, cf. Berlin by both Cicognara and Schlosser, this is in fact a third issue of
4503; Cicognara 1966f.; Encyclopedia of the History of Classical the work, a reprint of the original having appeared in Florence
Archaeology II.1143 (article by David Funk) in 1619 under the title “Trattato della pittura.” “The ‘Ragiona-
menti,’ his explanation of the paintings in the Palazzo Vecchio,
95 VALESIO, FRANCESCO, ET AL. Museum Cortonense, was published posthumously by his nephew, Giorgio Vasari il
in quo Vetera Monumenta comprehenduntur Anaglypha, giovane, in 1588 from a non-autograph manuscript. This text was
Thoreumata, Gemmae Inscalptae, Insculptaeque quae in Accade- known in Vasari’s lifetime, however, and is mentioned several
mia Etrusca... adservantur... atque a Francisco Valesio romano, times in the ‘Vite.’ It is the first of a series of similar descriptions of
 100

complex palazzo decorations published by artists or their advisors 98 VOCABOLARIO DEGLI ACCADEMICI DELLA
in the last quarter of the 16th century” (Julian Kliemann, in The CRUSCA. Compendiato secondo la quarta, ed ultima impres-
Dictionary of Art). A little light wear. sione di Firenze, corretta, ed accresciuta, cominciata l’anno 1729, e
Arezzo (Michele Bellotti), 1762. $1,200.00 terminata nel MDCCXXXVIII. 5 vols. lxxxiv, 640, 621, 506, 556,
Schlosser p. 345; Cicognara 227; cf. Gamba 1729 246, 440pp. 4to. Full vellum over boards. The work is based on the
1729-1738 edition published in Florence by D.-M. Manni, in 6 vols.
97 VIGNOLA, GIACOMO BAROZZI DA. Regola delli The substantial second edition of Vol. V contains the “Indice delle voci,
cinque ordini d’architettura. xxxxv pp. (through-numbered, e locuzioni latine.” Intermittent light foxing, otherwise a nice copy.
including dec. title and dedication), fully engraved throughout. Venezia (Appresso Lorenzo Baseggio), 1741. $650.00
Folio. Modern full blindstamped pigskin. Raised bands. Brunet V.1338; Graesse VII.382
This edition is a reissue of the 1635 Siena edition, published by
Bernardino Oppi, whose signed dedication , dated 18 August 1635, 99 VOLNEY, C.-F. Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the
is reprinted without change. The plates and title-pages of the latter Years 1783, 1784, and 1785. Containing the present natural and
are for the most part reversed copies of those in the 1607-1610 edi- political state of those countries, their productions, arts, manufac-
tion. Title-page trimmed to platemark, and laid down; plate 45 laid tures, and commerce; with observations on the manners, customs
down; repaired tears on 5 leaves (some extending visibly into text and government of the Turks and Arabs. Translated from the
and image, with minor losses); intermittent light soiling and wear; French. 2 vols. in 1. xvi, 557, (17)pp. Sm. 4to. Contemporary calf,
two lines of contemporary annotation on the dedication leaf. handsomely rebacked, preserving the original label. A little pale
Bologna (Giuseppe Longhi) [circa 1635]. $2,500.00 dampstaining in the index.
Spinelli, A.G.: Bio-bibliografia dei due Vignola (Vignola, 1908), p. Dublin (Messrs. White, Byrne, W. Porter, Moore, Dornin, and Wm.
31; Cf., citing 1635 Siena edition: Fowler 359; Berlin 2585; Jones), 1793. $500.00
Cicognara 417 Cf. Blackmer 1748
100 WEIROTTER, FRANZ EDMUND, et al. A Sammelband 3. Cochin [Charles-Nicholas, Cochin fils]. Livre de paysages,
of five separate suites of etchings: two by Weirotter, one by gravé d’apres Mr. Cochin. 1758. 8 through-numbered plates with
Charles-Nicholas Cochin (Cochin fils), one unsigned, and one 29 original etchings after Cochin, including the title and 28 etchings
further (incomplete) signed P.P., after F.A. Simonini, Antonio arranged four to the page thereafter, each image individually signed
Tempesta, Aureliano Milani, and P.F.Calza. Oblong 4to. Very “Cochin in.” Plate size of title etching: 150 x 194 mm. (5 7/8 x 7
fine contemporary German half calf, handsomely gilt at spine; 5/8 inches); image size of each of the etchings grouped on the fol-
exceptional marbled endpapers. From the libraries of Jean Fursten- lowing pages (within comprehensive platemark): 57 x 80 mm. (2
berg (with his ex-libris) and Otto Schäfer. 1/4 x 3 1/8 inches).
The gifted and short-lived paysagiste Franz Edmund Weirotter Paris (Chés la Ve. de F. Chéreau, rue St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d’Or),
(1730-1771) was born in Innsbruck and studied with J.G. Wille in 1758
Paris; he travelled after to Italy, returning with a great many sketch- 4. Unsigned. A suite of 10 through-numbered etchings of
es, and was appointed professor at the Vienna Academy in 1767. Roman ruins, printed in pairs, on five plates (bound out of
His work is unjustly neglected, as Bénézit, among others, has sequence). Each plate has been trimmed close to the platemarks at
remarked (“Ce charmante artiste, très injustement délaissé, possède the end of the pair, and then mounted in the album. Image size
une forme très personnelle et fort intéressant”). These suites pre- ranges from 82 x 63 mm. to 109 x 95 mm.(4 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches).
cede the collected edition of Weirotter which was published in 1775 This very interesting suite opens with a memento mori allegory
by Basan, and the impressions are often much superior, particular- with putto, skeleton holding an hourglass, and a wall clock; fol-
ly the two very striking mezzotint compositions in the second suite. lowing this are images of ruinous triumphal arches and monuments.
The emulation of Rembrandt in both suites is unmistakable, and It is very sensitively drawn. In more than one respect the series is
extremely interesting in its own right. quite reminiscent of Hubert Robert’s “Les soirées de Rome” and
Contents as follows: the little book by Louis Subleyras, “Nella veduta in Roma di
1. Weirotter, Franz Edmund. Suite de paysages. Dédié à Mon- madame le Comte e dei signori Watelet e Copette,” both of which
sieur Wille, Graveur du Roi, de l’Académie Royale de Peinture et commemorate a visit by Weirotter, Watelet and others in their cir-
de Sculpture.... 12 through-numbered original etchings, the first cle to the Accademia di San Luca in 1764. It may well be the work
signed “Dessinés d’après nature et gravés par Fr. E. Weirotter. Plate of someone in the Watelet entourage.
size: 95 x 182 mm. to 120 x 200 mm. (4 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches). 2 5. Untitled suite of battle pieces, military subjects and genre
through-numbered original etchings, the first signed “Dessinés compositions by “P.P.,” after Antonio Tempesta (4), Francesco
d’après nature et gravés par Fr. E. Weirotter. Plate size: 95 x 182 Simonini (13), Aureliano Milani, and Francesco Calza (4). 22 plates
mm. to 120 x 200 mm. (4 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches). of a through-numbered sequence up to 29, inconsistently designat-
2. Weirotter, Franz Edmund. XII. vues de la Normandie. ed but apparently integral, each trimmed to small margins and
Dédiéea [sic] à Monsieur Brillon Duperon, Ecuyer. 12 through-num- mounted. Plate size: ca. 120 x 170 mm. (4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches). The
bered original etchings (two with mezzotint), the first signed “Dessiné etcher is presumably Bolognese, like all of the foregoing except
d’après nature et gravé par F.E. Weirotter,” and the rest “F.E. Weirot- Tempesta. The Simonini genre compositions are exceptional.
ter fecit.” Plate size (varying slightly from oblong to squarer format): Bologna (Luigi Guidotti), n.d. $6,500.00
152 x 157 mm. to 155x 210 mm. (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches).

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