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Containing the first 'edition' ever of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting, now known as the 'Libro di pittura' View picture(s) 1 ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum, rests of ties. With large engraved vignette with the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Carlo de Medici on title, woodcut printer's device on the recto of the last leaf, and 92 woodcut figures, diagrams and perspectival illustrations, including a staircase and a lute in text, 7 of which are full-page; woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. [12], 152, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The holy places of the Holy Land View picture(s) 2 AMICO DA GALLIPOLI, Bernadino. Trattato delle piante & immagini de sacri edifizi di Terra Santa. Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, (1619)-1620. Folio (205 x 295 mm). Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title "Amico" to spine, red edges. With engrageved title page, large woodcut printer's device on reverse of final leaf, and 34 double-page-sized etchings by Jacques Callot, printed from 38 plates, with 46 numbered illustrations. Bound first is a large, folding engraved map of the eastern Mediterranean with insets of Palestine and Jerusalem, engraved by Nicolas Sanson: "Iesu Christi Salvatoris Nostri et Apostolorum Petri, et Pauli Mansiones, Itinera, Peregrinationes &c. per Galilaeam, Samariam, Iudaeam; et per Aegyptum, Asiam, Europam" (from: Sanson, Geographia Sacra. Paris, Mariette, 1665). (8), 65, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Holy Land  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Convolute of very rare, early French works on (filtering) fountains and water sanitation, with handcoloured plates View picture(s) 3 AMY, [Joseph]. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives. Paris, A. Boudet, 1752. Two parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with gilt compartments. 6 folding woodcut plates, 1 other woodcut plate and 7 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text. VIII, 72, 46 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  France  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Metals  Militaria  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Modern theories View picture(s) 4 ARCHITECTURE. Moderne Bauformen. Monatshefte für Architektur.- Baukunst und Innendekoration auf der Ausstellung für Christliche Kunst (Year 9, vol. VIII).- Architekt Albert Eitel in Stuttgart (Year 4, vol. IX).- Heinrich Tscharmann, Dresden (Year 6, vol X). Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, (ca. 1910). 3 issues in 1 vol. Contemp. half cloth, marbled boards. With numerous photographs, drawings and plans of sculptures, glass, paintings and the ex- and interior of churches and houses. 71; 47; 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  German  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated edition of the reconstruction and description of the famous gardens of Plinius View picture(s) 5 AVAUX, Félibien DES. Les Plans et les Descriptions de deux des plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline le consul. Avec des remarques sur tous ses bâtimens, et une dissertation touchant l'architecture antique & l'architecture gotique. Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1706. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With 7 engraved plates, five folding, with plans and views of Plinius' houses and gardens. 112, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of the first edition of this important comprehensive manual of civil and military engineering View picture(s) 6 BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de. La science des ingenieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile. Dedié au Roy. Paris, Claude Jombert, 1729. 6 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, marbled emdpapers, red painted edges. With engraved frontispiece by Rigault, and 53 engraved numbered plates, 51 of which are double-page and 2 full-page; plates 16-19 showing military gates are after the drawings by Comte Thomassin. One engraved head-piece by Filloeul and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (16), 80, 64, 96, 104, 80, 80, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Engineering  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded original issue of a series of 16 views of the Honselaarsdijk palace, coloured by hand View picture(s) 7 BLOOTELING, Abraham. Series of 16 views of Honselaarsdijk. (Amsterdam, ca. 1683). Oblong 8vo. Modern half vellum, boards pasted with paper decorated with small flowers. With 16 fine numbered engraved views (ca. 13 x 16 cm), signed by Abraham Blooteling, tipped in on blank leaves (17 x 23 cm), all hand coloured. 16 lvs. with engravings. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Gardens  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The three architectural treatises by Bosse in their 1688 issues, considered as a unit and often described as a single book View picture(s) 8 BOSSE, Abraham. Traité des manieres de dessiner les o'rdres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties. Paris, Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery & Charles Clousier, (ca. 1688). 3 works in one. Folio. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold on red morocco label, gilt and decorated binding edges, red speckled edges. Full-page engraved title-page in elongated octagonal tablet with olive wrath moulding, imprint in rectangular block below, full-page engraved frontispiece showing female statues of 'Le Solide' &  'La Agréable' in wall-niches, with free-standing statues of 'La Théorie' and 'La Pratique' flanking a flight of steps inscribed 'Le Commode' leading to a monumental figure representing 'La Raison sur tout' set under a projecting Ionic portico, the attic and frieze of which is inscribed 'Traité sur la pratique des ordres de colomnes de l architecture nommée antique (and in the soffit space) par A. Bosse, 44 full-page engraved plates (ca. 31 x 20 cm) numbered I-XLIV top right with demonstrations on how to draw, proportion, applying the orders and their members, plans and elevations of staircases and banisters and demonstrations of the shading of solid geometrical bodies, moulding etc., one unnumbered double-page engraved plate of the Corinthian order. Engraved throughout, including the texts. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Art  Engravings  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful fountains by the king's own painter View picture(s) 9 BOUCHER, François. Recueil de Fontaines Inventées.- Second Livre de Fontaines Inventées. Paris, Chez Huquier, (1736). 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. 19th century dark marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides, with gilt floral ornaments at the four corners, gilt triple inner fillets, g.e. With 2 series of 7 fine engraved plates of water fountains, including 2 titles, the first series engraved by Huguier, and the second series by P. Aveline, both after rich and decorative designs by François Boucher. 14 lvs., versos blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With beautiful engraved illustrations and maps of Spanish cities and twelve figures illustrating the traditional bullfights View picture(s) 10 BOURGOING, Jean Francois. Atlas pour servir au tableau de l' Espagne moderne. Paris, Tourneisen fils, 1807. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments with ligt brown title label lettered in gold. With 15 full-page beautifully engraved illustrations of Spanish buildings, monuments and landscapes, one large folding map of the roads of Spain (395 x 490 mm), one of Madrid (225 x 345 mm) by P.F. Tardieu, 2 folding plates of bullfights (260 x 285 mm), full-page map of the bay of Cadiz, double-page view of Gibraltar by Tardieu 9200 x 310 mm), full-page map of the attack of the naval batteries before Gibraltar and one of the Alhambra, and 2 full-page plans of Spanish architecture. (2), (25) lvs. of which 6 folding. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the designer of the first railroad in the Netherlands View picture(s) 11 BRADE, Willem Christiaan. Theoretisch en practisch bouwkundig handboek, ten dienste van ingenieurs, architecten, opzigters, timmerlieden, metselaars en verdere bouwkundigen. The Hague, A.J. & J.A. Van Weelden, 1827-34. 4 vols. 4to. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, modern marbled boards. Vol 1: Table in text, 24 numbered tables at the end; vol. 2: 18 folding engraved plates by J.C. Zurcher and Verbeke of foundations, brick- and stonework and wood constructions, 2 tables in text; vol. 3: 17 double-page engraved plates by J.C. Zurcher and Verbeke of the classical orders, and designs of various buildings (theatres, manor houses, town halls, etc.; vol. 4:  Engraved frontispiece (90 x 125 mm) of the opening of the first English railroad, 2 folding engraved plates of (1) details of railroads and wheels and (2) one of the first locomotives, and 5 tables in text. XII, 178, (24); (4), IV, 192; (6), II, 71, (3); VIII, 166 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  Dutch  Engineering  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With 10 unrecorded extra views of Danish houses and castles View picture(s) 12 BRUUN, Johan Jacob. Novus atlas Daniae, eller prospecter af alle Hoved- og Kiöbstaederne, af alle kongelige Slotte, samt andre Kongelige Lyst-Slotte og Staeder udi Begge Konge-Rigerne Dannemark og Norge og Underliggende Fyrstendömme. Iste Tome af Siaelland. Copenhagen, Johan Jacob Bruun, 1761. Oblong folio. Contemporary marbled calf. With 60 full-page engraved views of Danish views of Copenhagen, castles, country houses, royal houses and gardens, etc., including one folding, with a view of the Royal Castle near Copenhagen, all engraved by Hans Quist after designs by Johan Jacob Bruun. [8] pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Atlases  Denmark  Gardens  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Much ado about the façade of the Duomo in Milan View picture(s) 13 CASTELLI, Francesco. Per la facciata del duomo do Milano. [Milan, no printer, 1654]. Folio. Contemporary gilt (wall?) paper decorated with a pattern of red flowers stamped in, over boards. With 3 folding, 2 double-page and one full-page engraved plates and 5 smaller mathematical woodcuts in the text. 35 + 1 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Churches  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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History of the monastery of Sancta Giustina at Padua View picture(s) 14 CAVACCIO, Giacomo (or: Jacobus CAVACIUS). Historiarum coenobii D. Iustinae Patavinae, libri sex. Quibus Casinensis ongregationis origo, & plurima ad urbem Tatavium, ac finitimos, attinentia opportune interseruntur. Venice, Andreas Muschius, 1606. 4to. Early English 19th-century red morocco with elaborately gilt spine, lettered in gold, gilt floral rolls along the edges of both sides, inner dentelles, g.e. Woodcut coat of arms on the title, nice woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, printed in italics. (24), 306 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Italy  Religious Orders  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on fortification View picture(s) 15 CLAIRAC, Louis André, Le Chevalier de. L'ingenieur de campagne, ou traité de la fortification passagere. Seconde édition. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1757. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red title label lettered in gold, with the arms of the 'Hotel de l'école royale militaires' stamped in gilt on both covers, marbled endpapers, e.g. With 36 numbered folding engraved plates with fortifications, and engraved arms of the dedicatee, some signed by C.C. Riolet. (3), IV-XXIV, 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Fortification  France  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of 11 suites with 120 engraved and etched plates of Parisian buildings, churches, altars and architectonical details View picture(s) 16 COTTART, Pierre. Receuil, des plus beaux portails de plusieures eglises de Paris. Paris, Van Merle, 1660. Oblong 4to. Contemporary limp vellum with a round label lettered in ink pasted to the front cover. Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  France  Modelbooks  Ornaments  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work from the Father of Gothic Revival View picture(s) 17 CUYPERS, Petrus Josephus Hubertus. & Jan KALF. De katholieke kerken in Nederland. Dat is de tegenwoordige staat dier kerken met hunne meubeling en versiering beschreven en afgebeeld. Amsterdam, 1906. Folio. Original richly illustrated boards. With numerous illustrations, plans, and phototypies of (interiors of) Catholic churches in The Netherlands, such as Abcoude, Amsterdam, Breukelen Haarlem, Kampen, Tiel, Wassenaar and Maastricht. VIII, 590 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Church History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On handmade paper View picture(s) 18 DÖHMANN, Karl & Willem Hendrik DINGELDEIN. Singraven. De geschiedenis van een Twentsche havezate. (Brussels, Librairie nationale d'art et d'histoire), 1934. 4 vols. Folio. Blue leather, gilt title on spine. Richly illustrated. (6), X, 252; (4), 268; (4), 286; (4), 325 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Genealogy & Heraldry  Topography  Twente  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to build your own barns and stables View picture(s) 19 ENGEL, F. Handboek der landhuishoudelijke bouwkunde voor bouwkundigen en landeigenaren. Naar het Hoogduitsch. Gorinchem, A. van der Mast, 1857. Contemporary half cloth. With 32 folding technical and architectural plans. (4), 503, XXII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Dutch  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare ornamental model book View picture(s) 20 ERASMUS, Georg Caspar. Seülen-Buch. Oder Gründlicher Bericht von den fünff seülen, denen beygefügt fünff Termes; wie solche von Vitruvio Barrozzio, Blühmen, &c und andern berühmten Baumeistern, sein zusammen getragen, und in gewiese abtheilungen verfasset worden. Neurenberg, Johann Hofmann, (ca. 1670). 3 parts in 1 vol. Sm.folio. Contemporary boards. With 3 richly engraved architectural and ornamental titles, and numerous elaborate ornamental architectural designs, mainly of columns and parts of columns, rooftrees, chimney cornices, ceiling ledges, door and window frames, etc. on 39 full-page engraved plates, 11 with a second plate adjoined underneath. (42) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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