VENNE, Adriaen Pietersz van der. Proteus ofte Minne-Beelden. Verandert in Sinne-Beelden. By Jacob Cats. [8], 35, [1]; 315, [1] pp. Illustrated by Adriaen Pietersz van der Venne with a full-page frontispiece and 52 circular emblematic copperplates in full contemporary Dutch colouring and illuminated in gold. The first two emblematic plates...
Item nr. 148358
Price: $87,500.00
ANTOLINI, Giovanni Antonio. Projetto sul Foro Bonaparte che doveva Eseguirsi in Milano in 24 Gran Tavole. Title-page and Suite of twenty-four plates, comprising 14 magnificent double-page aquatint views printed in shades of sepia ink and 10 double-page engraved floor-plans and scaled architectural drawings. Large folio, 572 x 440 mm, bound...
Item nr. 168399
Price: $35,000.00
TANGRAM. Enigmes Chinoises. 4 pp text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, two bound in black and white engraved tangram diagrams plus three loose folded boards with hand-coloured tangram diagrams affixed to both sides for a total of six. Also includes a set of original wooden tangram pieces. 12mo., text, plates...
Item nr. 165759
Price: $2,500.00
SCHEYB, Franz Christof von. Theresiade, ein Ehren-Gedicht. Two parts in one volume. [369] pp. Engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, engraved dedication leaf, 13 historiated engraved initials, and 29 engraved vignettes by Salomon Kleiner after his own designs and those of Preissler and Buch. Each leaf is enclosed by...
Item nr. 168271
Price: $4,500.00
RUBENS, Peter Paul. Théorie de la Figure Humaine: considérée dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement. Ouvrage traduit du Latin de Pierre-Paul Rubens, avec XLIV planches gravées par Pierre Aveline, d'après les desseins de ce célebre artiste. xi, [1], 55, [1] pp. With an engraved full-page self-portrait of.....
Item nr. 167421
Price: $3,750.00
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AMMAN, Jost. Enchiridion artis pingendi, fingendi & sculpendi. [112] leaves. Collation: (:)4, A-Z4, a-d4. Title-page within a woodcut border, 3 ff. (dedication to Hieronymus August von Holtzhusen, with woodcut arms), plus 107 woodcuts by Jost Amman, and with the final letterpress leaf (colophon). Small 4to., 168...
Item nr. 167311
Price: $27,500.00
VASI, Mariano and Antonio NIBBY. New Guide of Rome, and the Environs Naples and their Environs according to Vasi and Nibby, from the Italian of Vasi and Nibby. Carefully Revised, and Enlarged with an Account of the Latest Antiquarian Researches. xlii, 532 pp. Illustrated with 28 engraved plates plus a....
Item nr. 167027
Price: $975.00
PATCH, Thomas. The Life of Frá Bartolommeo della Porta, a Tuscan Painter, with his Works engraved from the original Pictures, dedicated to the Honorable Horace Walpole. [2] pp, illustrated with 24 etched and engraved plates printed in black, red or ochre. [Florence: Thomas Patch, 1772]. BOUND WITH:
Al Nobil uomo il...
Item nr. 167025
Price: $13,500.00
WRIGHT, Arnold, ed. Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. 916 pp. Extra-illustrated with black-and-white photographs illustrating the people, costumes, architecture, etc. Bound in full maroon morocco, raised bands on spine, spine gilt, elephant image gilt on front cover, a.e.g. London: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing.....
Item nr. 166980
Price: $2,500.00
PLUMIER, Charles. Traité des fougères de l'Amérique. [4], xxxvi, 1-93, 98-146, [10] pp. Illustrated with 172 full-page engravings of ferns. Folio, 167 x 106 mm, bound in contemporary limp vellum, title in MS on spine, pair of fore-edge ties. Preserved in beige linen slipcase. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1705.
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Item nr. 166971
Price: $18,500.00
PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. La Gerusalemme Liberata. By Torquato Tasso. [12], 254 (i.e., 258) ff. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, title vignette, dedicatory portrait of Maria Teresa by Polanzani after Piazzetta, 20 full-page engraved plates surrounded with etched ornamental borders, 20 half-page headpieces containing the "argomenti" to each Canto, 20 culs-de-lampe, 22...
Item nr. 166968
Price: $38,500.00
PERELLE, Gabriel, Adam and Nicholas. Recueil de Veues des Plus Beaux Lieux de France. Comprised of seven parts in one volume, each part with individual title. Illustrated with a total 281 etched and/or engraved plates on 253 leaves, comprising 267 views and 14 plans and/or maps (3 being large folding)...
Item nr. 166967
Price: $22,500.00
MONTANUS, Arnoldus. Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische Maetschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland, aen de Kaisaren van Japan: vervatende wonderlyke voorvallen op de togt der Nederlandtsche Gesanten: beschryving van de dorpen, sterkten, steden, landtschappen, tempels, Gods-diensten, dragten, gebouwen, dieren, gewasschen, bergen, fonteinen, vereeuwde en nieuwe oorlogs-daaden der Japanders. [8], 456, [16] pp...
Item nr. 166966
Price: $12,500.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [54], 339, [21]; 356, [24]; 414, [20] pp. With with 37 fold-out engraved plates, and 40 full-page engraved plates. 12mo., 170 x 110 mm, bound in contemporary...
Item nr. 166965
Price: $3,850.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [26], 248, [21]; 352, [28]; [18], 413 (i.e., 417), [21] pp. Illustrated with a total of 65 engraved plates of which 39 are folding, plus one folding...
Item nr. 166964
Price: $15,000.00
LEONARDO DA VINCI. Trattato della pittura di Leonardo Da Vinci. Edited by Raphael du Fresne. [20], 58, 61-64, 63-112, [16] pp. Illustrated with engraved additional title-page with portrait of Leonardo, large vignette on title-page, dedication headpiece of Queen Christina of Sweden, 9 engraved head-and tailpieces, 3 engraved initials and 57...
Item nr. 166960
Price: $19,750.00
MENESTRIER, Claude-François. -- LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE, Louis Charles de, Prince de Turenne. Ludovico Magno theses ex universa philosophia dicat et consecrat Ludovicus a Turre-Arverniæ princeps Turennius. [16] pp., (page [4] blank). Engraved throughout: calligraphic title and text engraved by Louis Michault within elaborate emblematic and historiated borders engraved by Louis...
Item nr. 166958
Price: $18,500.00
HOGARTH, William. The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. And, Rules for drawing caricaturas: with An essay on comic painting by Francis Grose. [iii]-vii, [1], xxx, [3] 34-240, 24 pp. With 7 leaves of plates, of which 2 are triple-page and folding...
Item nr. 166954
Price: $1,750.00
GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. The Royal Commentaries of Peru... Illustrated with sculptures. Written originally in Spanish, by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega, and rendered into English, by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt. viii, 1019, [9] pp. (pages 23-26 omitted in numbering). With an engraved portrait of the translator and 10...
Item nr. 166951
Price: $4,750.00
EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS. EVELYN, John. Mensa Isiaca. [Bembine Tablet of Isis.] Engraving (293 x 443 mm) reproducing the 1st century CE Egyptian bronze tablet known variously as the "Mensa Isiaca," "Isiac Table" (or Tablet), or "Bembine Tablet of Isis." The present engraving was extracted by Evelyn from his copy of Johann...
Item nr. 166948
Price: $15,000.00
DE MONTENAY, Georgette. Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes. [8, including blank], 100, [8] ff. Illustrated with wood engraved title-vignette and 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on facing pages. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary vellum, early manuscript title on spine. La Rochelle: Jean Dinet, 1620.
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Item nr. 166944
Price: $25,000.00
DE MONTENAY, Georgette. Emblematum Christianorum Centuria / Cent Emblemes Chrestiens. [8], 100, [8, incl. final blank] ff. Illustrated with an etched portrait of the author and 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on rectos. Small 4to., 192 x 147 mm, bound in nineteenth-century purple crushed morocco by Lortic, gilt-lettered...
Item nr. 166943
Price: $22,500.00
DANREITER, Franz Anton. Die Saltzburgische Kirchen-Prospect. / Les Prospects des Eglises de Salsbourg... Illustrated with an etched title and 20 engraved plates. Augsburg: Johann Andreas Pfeffel, ca. 1730. Millard, Northern 19. BOUND WITH:
_____________. [Schloss Mirabell, Salzberg]. Illustrated with etched and engraved dedication leaf and 5 engraved plates. Augsburg: Johann Andreas...
Item nr. 166942
Price: $35,000.00
CERVANTES. Les Principals Aventures de Don Quichote. Complete suite of 31 plates, 1 headpiece, and 1 vignette, by Coypel, Picart et al., some mounted on strong paper. Folio, 368 x 252 mm, bound in nineteenth-century French red half morocco over embossed paper boards, embossed white endpapers. The Hague: De Hondt...
Item nr. 166941
Price: $3,500.00
COWLEY, John Lodge. The Theory of Perspective Demonstrated; in a Method Entirely New. By which the Several Planes, Lines, and Points, used in this Art, are shewn by Moveable Schemes, in the True Positions in which they are to be Considered. [6], xi, [1], 117, [1] pp. With 11 full-page...
Item nr. 166940
Price: $15,000.00