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A classic for the history of 16th-century Italian painting View picture(s) 21 ARMENINI, Giovanni Battista. De veri precetti della pittura. Libi tre. Ne'quali con bell'ordine d'utili, & buoni avertimenti, per chi desidera in essa farsi con prestezza eccellente; si dimostrano i moda principiali del disegnare, & del dipignere, & di fare le pitture, che si conuengono alle conditioni de' luoghi, & delle persone. Ravenna, Francesco Tebaldini, for Tomaso Pasini, Bologna, 1587. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine with title label. Woodcut printer's device on title. (20), 229, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art General  Drawing & Painting  Perspective  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) 22 AVAUX, F. 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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Maria de Medici's visit to Amsterdam with plates in early states View picture(s) 23 BARLAEUS, Caspar. Marie de Medicis, entrant dans Amsterdam: ou histoire de la reception faicte à la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien, par les bourgmaistres & bourgeoisie de la ville d'Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Jean & Corneille Blaeu, 1638. Folio. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, double gilt fillets on sides, gilt central coat-of-arms of Amsterdam on both sides, with ties. With woodcut coat-of-arms of Amsterdam on title, full-page engraved portrait of Maria de Medici with terras and view on the Amstel after G. Honthorst, the extremely rare print of the "4 burgomasters", and 16 double-page, 2 double-page folding, fine engraved views of Amsterdam and of the splendid ceremonies at the occasion of Maria de Medici's visit to Amsterdam by S. Savery, several after S. de Vlieger, and P. Nolpe after Cl. Moyaert. All engravings are in early states, before numbers, letters, etc. (14), 76, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Art General  Print Series  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Maria de Medici's visit to Amsterdam with plates in first and second states View picture(s) 24 BARLAEUS, Caspar. Medicea hospes, sive descriptio publicae gratulationis, qua serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit senatus populusque Amstelodamensis. Amsterdam, Johan & Cornelius Blaeu, 1638. Folio. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. With woodcut coat-of-arms of Amsterdam on title, full-page engraved portrait of Maria de Medici with terras and view on the Amstel after G. Honthorst, 16 double-page, 2 double-page folding, fine engraved views of Amsterdam and of the splendid ceremonies at the occasion of Maria de Medici's visit to Amsterdam by S. Savery, several after S. de Vlieger, and P. Nolpe after Cl. Moyaert. All engravings are in either early or first states, before numbers, letters, etc. (14), 76, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Print Series  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Maria de Medici's visit to Amsterdam with plates in first states View picture(s) 25 BARLAEUS, Caspar. Medicea hospes, sive descriptio publicae gratulationis, qua serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit senatus populusque Amstelodamensis. Amsterdam, Johan & Cornelius Blaeu, 1638. Folio. Contemporary Russia, with gilt central ornament. With woodcut coat of arms of Amsterdam on title, full-page engraved portrait of Maria de Medici with terras and view on the Amstel after G. Honthorst, 16 double-page, 2 double-page folding, fine engraved views of Amsterdam and of the splendid ceremonies at the occasion of Maria de Medici's visit to Amsterdam by S. Savery, several after S. de Vlieger, and P. Nolpe after Cl. Moyaert. All engravings are in first states, before numbers, letters, etc. (14), 76, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Print Series  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art collection of Mariette Bouchardon View picture(s) 26 BASAN, F. Catalogue des estampes des plus grands maîtres Italiens, Flamands & François, de divers recueils d'estampes, d'architecture de différents maîtres, & autres traités sur les arts, dépendants de la succession de M. Mariette, contrôleur-général de la grande-chancellerie de France, honoraire amateur de l'Academie Royale de peinture & sculpture, & de l'Academie de Florence, dont la vente commencera le Ier février 1775, de relevée, & jours suivants, sans interruption, dans une salle des Grands-Agustins. Paris, Basan et Chariot, (1775). 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and gilt with black morocco title-label, red painted edges. VIII, 80 (last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Drawing & Painting  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous writing-book View picture(s) 27 BEAUCHESNE, Jean de. Le tresor d'escriture, auquel est continu tout ce qui est requis & necessaire à tous amateurs dudict art. Lyon, for the Author, 1580. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum. Finely calligraphed woodcut title within richly designed grotesque ornamental borders, comprising cherubs, dogs, rabbits, geese, a full-breasted woman's bust, and cornucopia, beautiful woodcut borders around five pages with preliminary letter-press, all different, comprising cherubs holding a cat in front of a chained dog, a man's torso, birds, masks, a young man's naked upper body, full-length classical figues holding shields, coat of arms with three fleurs-de-lis, etc., and calligraphic specimens, alphabets in various hands, richly designed monograms, designs of alphabets for printing in undercast and capitals in white against black, etc. on 62 full-page woodcut plates, all within rich ornamental and grotesque borders printed from 6 different blocks. (4, 62) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art General  Calligraphy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The science of perspective and measurement in numerous problems View picture(s) 28 BELLI, SILVIO. Libro del Misurar con la Vista. Ne quale s'insegna, senza travagliar con numeri, a misurar facillissimamente le distantie, l'altezze, e le profondita con il Quadrato Geometrico, e con altri stromenti, de'qua;i in ogni luogo, quasi in un subito si puo provedere. Si mostra ancora una bellisima via di ritrovare la profondita di qualsi voglia mare; & un modo industrioso di misurar il circuito di tutta la Terra. Venice, Giordano Ziletti, 1570. 4to. Modern boards, with red morocco title-label on spine. With title within richly illustrated woodcut borders, full-page woodcut printer's device on last blank, and 54 almost half-page woodcut illustrations of perspective and measurement in text. (8), 131, (3, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spain in contemporary colour View picture(s) 29 BERGE, Pieter vanden. Theatrum Hispaniae, exhibens regni urbes, villas ac viridaria magis illustria. Het aanmerkelykste en voortreffelykste in Spanjen, vertoond in haar voornaamste steden en koninglyke paleizen, als Madrid en haare uytmuntende gebouwen en gezichten, benevens Granada, Toledo, Sivilien, Cadix, Lissebon, Burgos, Segovia, Barcelone, enz: wyders een curieuse afbeelding van het Escurial, Aranjues, Prado, Buen Retiro, Casa del Campo, enz.- El mas nombrado de todos en Espagna, mostrado en el principal vistas de las cidades, palacios, castillos, jardines, casas de plazer y fuentes.- Theatre de l'Espagne ou la représentation exacte des principales villes d'Espagne, avec leurs embellissements anciens & modernes; comme aussi des agreables vuës, de l'Escurial, Aranjuez, el Prado, Buen Retiro, Casa del Campo, & autres superbes chateaux, maisons royales &c. Amsterdam, Pieter vanden Berge, (ca. 1700). Oblong folio. Red morocco, gilt spine, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Engraved vignette on title, and another vignette on verso title-page, 60 beautiful full-page engraved plates, depicting several views of Spanish cities like Madrid, Granada, Sevilla, Toledo and Barcelona, including a large folding plan of Madrid. All vignettes and plates beautifully contemporary coloured by hand and heightened with gold. (61) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Colour Plate Books  Portugal  Print Series  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the founder of the famous dynasty of scenographic designers View picture(s) 30 BIBIENA, F. GALLI. Direzioni A' Giovani Studenti nel Desegno dell'  Architettura Civile, nell' Academia Clementina Dell'  Instituto delle Scienze.- Direzioni Della Prospettiva Teorica, Correspondenti a quelle dell' Architettura Instruzione A' Giovani Studenti di Pittura, e Architettura  nell' Academia Clementina Dell' Instututo delle Scienze. Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum, red marbled edges. With numerous geometrical figures and architectural plans and designs on 74 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and numerous perspective projections and perspective architectural plans and designs on 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, of which 18 folding. (12), 143, (1); 159, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Egyptian cities and their surroundings View picture(s) 31 BIDA, Alex. and E. BARBOT. Souvenirs d'Egypte. Paris, Lemercier, (1850). Large folio. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red title-label. Lithographed title and 24 tinted lithographs of which the first 12 depict costumes, designed and lithographed by Bida and the last 12 depict views, designed by Barbot and lithographed by Cicéri. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Costumes  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Ottens-edition of a famous drawing book View picture(s) 32 BLOEMAERT, A. Eerste beginselen der Teken-Kunst, Vervattende in haar veelerlei Oogen, Neusen, Monden, Ooren, Als meede natuurlyke Beweegingen van Hoofden, Troniën, Handen, Voeten, Armen, Beenen, enz. Mitsgaders veele volkomene Beelden, soo Mannen, Vrouwen, als Kinderen; In hunne verscheyde Gestaltens, als Leggende, Zittende, Staande, Loopende, Rustende, Vliegende, enz. Vertoont worden. Bestaande in 7 Deelen, in zig begrypende 140 Plaaten. Amsterdam, R. & J. Ottens, (ca. 1700). Folio. 19th century half marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red title-label, red marbled edges. With 140 numbered engraved plates with drawing models of parts of the human body, such as eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts and heads, hairdresses and beards of men, women and little children, and of human figures and characters in various postures and movement, also of men, women and little children, and including 4 plates with drawing models of animals and animal's heads, of horses, cats, a dog, a fish, a lion and cattle, and also including 7 engraved half-titles, the first showing the portrait of Abraham Bloemaert aged 44, all executed by Joachim Ottens after drawings by Abraham Bloemaert. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Drawing & Painting  Modelbooks  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First exposition of Desargues' Perspective Universelle View picture(s) 33 BOSSE, A. Maniere universelle de Mr. Desargues, pour pratiquer la perspective par petit-pied, comme le geometral. Ensemble les places et proportions des fortes & foibles touches, teintes ou couleurs. Paris, Pierre Des-Hayes, 1648. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Original vellum. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved armorial dedication to Michel Larcher, full-page engraved portrait of Michel Larcher, engraved allegorical title next to the lettterpress title, engraved table at the end, and numerous plans and designs of perspective on 158 full-page engraved plates, all by Abraham Bosse. (16), 342, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Expounding the new "universal" system of practical perspective based on projective geometry View picture(s) 34 BOSSE, A. Moyen universel de pratiquer la perspective sur les tableaux, ou surfaces irregulieres. Ensemble quelque particularitez concernant cet art, & celui de la graveure en taille-douce. Paris, the author, 1653. 2 works in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum, red title label on spine Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved dedication, separate engraved title to the plates, and 31 engraved plates on perspective, one folding, all engraved and designed by Abraham Bosse. (8), 75 (=79), (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive pictorial course View picture(s) 35 BRETEZ, L. La Perspective Pratique de l'Architecture. Contenant  par Leçons une Manière Nouvelle, courte et aisée pour  représenter en Perspective les Ordonnances d'Architecture  & les Places fortifiées. Ouvrage tres-utile aux Peintres,  Architectes, Ingénieurs, & autres Dessinateurs. Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1751. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red title-label, red painted edges. With fine engraved architectural frontispiece, 2 plates with engraved text, and numerous architectural perspectival plans and designs on 52 numbered full-page engraved plates and on 5 additional engraved plates, many with explanatory text engraved on the plates. Title and 1 leaf of printed text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With King Louis-Philippe's monogram View picture(s) 36 BRETON, Louis Le. Marines de tous les pays. (Collection of lithographs on ships and fishing). Paris; London, E. Savary, Me Ve Turgis; Gambart, (1853). Oblong folio. Contemporary half roan, gilt crowned monogram L.P. on spine, title in gilt on front cover. The monogram was used by king Louis Philippe, and became part of his son's coat of arms. With 34 lithographed coloured plates, depicting different ships from all over the world. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Art General  Bindings  Lithographs  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of an Italian manual on varnishing View picture(s) 37 BUONANNI, Filippo. Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chineesch vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc. In 't Italiaansch beschreeve, en nu uyt de Fransche inde Nederduytsche taal overgebragt. Leiden, Jacobus Willeke, 1742. 8vo. Wrappers. Title printed in red and black, 4 full-page engraved plates illustrating the necessities for varnishing and lacquering. 16, 218, (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Art General  Drawing & Painting  Dutch  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With etching by Balthasar Moncornet & bound by Derôme le jeune View picture(s) 38 BURGUNDIA, ANTONIUS à. Linguae Vitia & Remedia, Emblematice expressa. Antwerp, Ioan. Cnobbaert, 1631. Oblong 32mo. 18th century full-grained green morocco, spine gilt, with decorative gilt borders on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (DEROME). With finely engraved emblematic title, 4 full-page general emblematic engravings, and 90 finely designed full-page emblems, 45 for the defects of speech, and 45 for the remedies, engraved by J. Neefs and A. Pauwels after Abraham van Diepenbeek. (22), 191, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Emblem Books  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Remarkable Spanish theoretical treatise on the liberal art of Spain View picture(s) 39 BUTRON, Juan Alonso de. Discursos apologeticos, en que se defiende la ingenvidad del arte de la pintura; Que es liberal, de todos derechos, no inferior a las sie te que comunmente te se reciben. De Don Ivan de Butron, professor de ambos derechos. A Don Fernando de la Hoz, gentilhombre de la casa de su Magestad. Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1626. 4to. 19th century marbled calf with 5 ornamental gilt flowers and red morocco title-label on spine, gilt fillets and border on both sides, blue marbled endpapers, marbled edges.  With richly illustrated engraved frontispiece in architectural setting with three coats of arms by J. Schorquens. (36), 122, (37) pp., last page blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art General  Drawing & Painting  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Discussing all aspects of dancing View picture(s) 40 CAHUSAC, (L.) DE. La danse ancienne et moderne ou traité historique de la danse. The Hague, J. Neaulme, 1754. 3 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt, marbled edges. XXXII, (4), 168, (18); 180, (18); 168, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Children's Books  Dance  Music  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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