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Exceedingly rare View picture(s) 101 MONTENAY, Georgette de. Emblemes ou Devises Chrestiennes. Lyon, Jean Marcorelle, 1571. 4to. Fullgrained orange morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt double fillet borders on sides with the gilt armorial supralibros of Prince d'Essling in center, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CUZIN). With woodcut author's monogram device on title and 100 fine engraved large emblems by Pierre Woeiriot, with the captions incorporated in the emblems and 8-line verse printed  underneath, the cancel to emblem 18 in first state before the numbering and printed text on extra leaf bound with, all verso blank. (7, 1 blank), 100, (=101), (8) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art General  Bindings  Emblem Books  Engravings  French  Reformation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The world's inhabitants in a very fine series of pictures View picture(s) 102 MÜLLER, Elisabeth. Le monde en estampes. Géographie pittoresque. Types et costumes lithographiés d'après les tableaux de mm. Leloir et Fossey. Nouvelle édition revue. Paris, Amédée Bédelet, (1858). Oblong, 4to. riginal half red morocco, spine ribbed with gilt ornaments, gilt title and name of the publisher on front cover, gilt edges. 24 tinted lithographs including the title made by Bocquin after the originals bij Leloir and Fossey. Every plate represents a "typical" scene from the described country or part of the world. (4), 46, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Costumes  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reveals the secrets of anamorphosis View picture(s) 103 NICERON, (J. F.). La perspective curieuse, divisée en quatre livres. Avec l'optique et la catoptrique du (J.) Mersenne, mise in lumiere après la mort de l'autheur. Oeuvre tres-utile aux peintres, architectes, sculpteurs, graveurs, & à tous autres qui se meslent du dessein. Paris, Widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651-1652. Folio. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt double fillet borders on sides, red painted edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by Daret, woodcut vignette on title, full-page engraved portrait of Niceron by M. Lasne, several woodcut figures in text, numerous illustrations of drawing in perspective, in optical illusions, and in trompe l'oeil on 49 full-page plates, and one double-page engraved plate in the main work, and numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in text in the added work. (12), 191, (1); (12), 134 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anamorphoses  Art General  Dürer  Engravings  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded, interesting work on the painting of textiles View picture(s) 104 NICOLAI, Gerbrand. Een cleyn verff-boecxken inhoudende seer constighe saeyet verwen, nut ende profytelijck voor breyders ende oock voor andere persoonen, die haer dit werck mede wille bemoeyen. Den tweeden druck, op nieuws overghesien ende verbetert. Leeuwarden, Eysbert Sybes, 1638. Small 8vo. Modern wrappers. (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Applied Arts  Art General  Drawing & Painting  Textile  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of 'The Spanish Vasari' View picture(s) 105 PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, Antonio Aciscio. El museo pictorico, y escala optica. Tomo I. Theorica de la pintura, en que se describe su origen, essencia, especies, y qualidades, con todos los demàs accidentes, que la enriquezen, è ilustran. Y se prueban, con demostraciones mathematicas, y filosoficas, sus mas radicales fundamentos.- Tomo segundo. Practica de la pintura, en que se trata de el modo de pintar à el olio, temple, y fresco, con la resolucion de todas las dudas, que en su manipulacion pueden ocurir. Y de la perspectiva comun, la de techos, angulos, teatros, y monumentos de perspectiva, y otras cosas muy especiales, con la direccion, y documentos para las ideas, o assumptos de las obras, de que se ponen algunos exemplares. Madrid, (Vol. 1:) Lucas Antonio de Bedmar, Impressor del Reyno; (vol. 2:) the widow of Juan Garcia Infançon, 1715-1724. 3 parts, containing book 1-9 and the 'Parnaso', in 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum; title written on spines. Vol. 1: engraved frontispiece by Rovira (Dated: Valencia 1715) after the design by the author Ant. Palomino, title in ornamental woodcut border with engraved coat-of-arms of Philip II on top, and 4 numbered full-page engraved plates with geometrivcal figures, numerous woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces; vol. 2: engraved frontispiece by Joan Palomino (dated 1726) after the design by Antonio Palomino, title in ornamental woodcut border, and 13 numbered engraved full-page plates by Joan Palomino of the human body, architectural orders, buildings in perspective, etc. and numerous woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (34), 306, (46); (28), 498, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Biography  Drawing & Painting  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine set of the rarest of great French gardening books View picture(s) 106 PANSERON, (P.). Recueil de jardinage. (Ier) - IVme Volume.- Recueil des décorations propre à embellir les jardins Anglois et Chinois. Paris, by the Author, 1783-1785. 5 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt monogram 'AS' in centre of the front covers, red painted edges. With 167 beautiful plans and views of French, English and Chinese gardens, incl. labyrints, grottes, amphitheatres, etc., also garden architecture, incl. orangeries, pavilions, bridges, ruins, etc. ,106 plates folding, incl. 2 large folding counting for 2 plates, all designed as well as engraved by the author. 5 engraved titles, 2 engraved lvs. with explanatory text, and 4 engraved and 4 letterpres pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Botany  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fine art of woodcutting View picture(s) 107 PAPILLON, J.M. Traité Historique de la Gravure en Bois. Ouvrage enrichie des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure. Volume I. Contenant toute la partie Historique. Volume II. Contenant tous les principes de cet Art. Volume III. Supplément. Contenant plusieurs faits historiques, de nouvelles manieres, servant à perfectionner cet Art, les Arrêts rendus en faveur de la Gravure, & une Table des Matieres des trois Volumes. Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1766. 3 parts in 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt, red edges. With woodcut frontispiece-portrait of the author, large woodcut vignettes on 3 titles, full-page armorial woodcut to the dedication to Marquis de Boyer de Bandol, full-page woodcut portrait of Saint Andrew printed in chiaroscuro in the first historical part; 16 full-page woodcut plates illustrating the tools and technique of the art of woodcutting and 5 full-page plates illustrating the various stages of woodcut colour-printing in chiaroscuro in the second practical part; 2 full-page plates with 12 small woodcut illustrations each and 2 woodcut plates showing the tools and technique of erasing and of making shadows in woodcuts in the supplement; and numerous woodcut head-and tail-pieces, monograms, vignettes and illustrations in text, several full-page, throughout the whole work. XXXII, 540; XV, (1), 388; (4), 124 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Printing Techniques  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Dutch edition with 100 plates of statues in Rome, copied by Corn. van Dalen Sr. and Jr. View picture(s) 108 PERRIER, François. Eigentlyke afbeeldinge van hondert der aldervermaerdste statuten, of antique-beelden, staande binnen Romen. Nu in cooper gesneden door Cornelis van Dalen de oude ende de jonge. Dienstigh en vermakelijk, voor alle Edelluy(den) en Studenten die tot Romen geweest sijn. Ook voor alle oeffenaers en liefhebbers der teicken-const. Hier is mede bijgevoecht onder elck beeld syn naam, en waerze staen binnen Romen. The Hague, J.L. Versteegh, ca. 1730. Large folio. 19th century half brown morocco,spine with raised bands and richly gilt, marbled boards. With richly engraved allegorical title, and 100 full-page plates of Roman classical statues, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, both the Elder and the Younger, after designs by François Perrier. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Italy  Modelbooks  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Third Dutch edition with 100 plates of statues in Rome, enlarged with extensive explanatory text View picture(s) 109 PERRIER, François. Kunstkabinet, besluitende hondert der allerberoemste antique stantbeelden staende binnen Rome. Op eene uitvoerige wyze, naer de origineele afgeteekend, denende tot een vervolgh op de Beschryving van het oude en nieuwe Rome van den heer François Desseine, en, om hunne uitmuntentheit, in het koper gebraght door de twee Cornelissen van Daelen. Een werk zeer nuttigh voor alle beeldhouwers, schilders, graveerders en teekenaers. Hier by komt eene uitvoerige Beschryving van yder stantbeeld, aentoonende de plaetsen alwaer de zelve vertoond werden, de naemen der werkmeesters en de historie der zelve, Alles uit de oudheit der Schryvers opgedolven. The Hague, Bernardus van der Cloese, 1737. Large folio. Contemporary vellum, spine ribbed and blind-stamped with title in ink, with double fillet blind-stamped filets on sides,  inner panel with corner pieces and large blind-stamped ornament in centre, gilt edges. With large engraved printer's device on title, title printed in red and black, richly engraved allegorical title heading the print-series, and 100 full-page plates of Roman classical statues, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, both the Elder and the Younger, after designs by François Perrier. (2), 54, (2) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Classical Antiquity  Modelbooks  Rome  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Perspective of the air View picture(s) 110 PETZOLD, E. Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei. Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1853. Sm.4to. Contemp. half cloth, orig. front wrapper mounted. With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand. IX, (3), 68 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Art General  Engravings  Gardens  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first Dutch edition of a work on the art of illumination View picture(s) 111 PICTORIUS, Johann Baptist. Den geheimen illumineer-kunst. Behelzende hoe men alle verwen kunstig bereiden en tot nut gebruyken zal. Als mede een zeer duydelyke onderrichting om allerhande menschen, beesten, viervoetige en kruipende gedierten, voogelen, visschen, boomen, velden, waters, gebouwen, allerhande vruchten, bloemen &c. &c. na het leven aftezetten en te schilderen. En alles wat tot die wetenschap nodig is, zeer nauwkeurig vertoont wert. Item: Alle metalen te vergulden, te doen smelten, tot poejer te maken, daar mede aant te leggen, en uit de pen te schryven. Alle, zo inlandsche als uitheemsche vernissen te maken en derzelver nuttig gebruik. Ivoor, been, veren en hout te verwen. Plyster werken aanteleggen. Hoorn week te maken, en figuren en beeldwerk daar van te drukken. Onderrichting om op alle metalen te etzen. Verheven Indiaans kabinet werk te maken en uit te graveren, &c. Eyndelyk: een zeer rare en tot nog toe onbekende kunstige verlakkunst, en zeer veel andere verborge wetenschappen. Leyden, Wed. en zoon van Jan vander Deyster, 1747. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. Engraved frontispiece. (6), 464, (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Crafts  Drawing & Painting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important treatise on surveying with applications to cartography View picture(s) 112 POMODORO, Giovanni. La geometri prattica. Cavata dagli elementi di Euclide e d'altri famosi autori, con l'esposizione di Giovanni Scala famoso matematico ridotta in cinquanta tavola scolpite in rame dale quali con facilita si possono apprendere tutte le cose, che al buon geometra appartengono. Opere necessaria a misuratori, ad architetti e geografi, a cosmografi, a bombardieri, a ingegneri, a soldati ed a capitani d'eserciti. Rome, Gio. Angelo Ruffinelli, 1624 (on colophon last leaf: appresso Andrea Fei, Small folio. Contemporary vellum. Engraved allegorical and architectural title and 51 full-page engraved illustrations, numbered 1-44 and 1-7, all depicting many geometrical, architectural and perspectival figures and illustrations, large woodcut vignette on verso last printed leaf. 58 leaves (last blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Geometry  Militaria  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to calculate the local time View picture(s) 113 PUTEUS, Augustinus A. Gnomonices biformis, geometriae, scilicet, & arithmeticae synopsis, in quatuor partes divisa. Quarum qualibet est completus gnomonicae tractatus, ad usum totius orbis terrarum; ut plenius conversa pagina, singularum partium indicat epilogismus. Opusculum matheseos candidatis perutile; quippe in quo iucundissima praxi, ea maxime ex parte degustare valent, quae summis ingenij laboribus, ac studio, ex Elementis Euclidis, ex Sphaericis Theodisij, & ex Conicis Apollonij exantlarunt. Venice, Antonius Bosius, 1679. 4 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum on wooden boards, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in panel design with the Jesuit device in centre on both sides, with 2 brass clasps, red painted edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on 4 titles, 73 engraved perspectival illustrations and figures in text, large folding plate and 183 full-page plates with tables and diagrams, and folding engraved plate and 2 full-page plates of the globe's declinations. (24), 136; (8), 88; (8), 12; 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Astronomy & Cosmography  Engravings  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important illustrated handbook on perspective and architecture in plano View picture(s) 114 QUAGLIO, Johann Maria von. Praktische Anleitung zur Perspektiv mit Anwendungen auf die Baukunst. Zweyte Auflage. Munich, In der lithographischen Kunst-Anstalt, 1823. Folio. In plano, in dark blue portfolio with cloth ties. With 30 wood-engraved plates. 18 lvs. with the title and text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Visiting famous art collections on the continent View picture(s) 115 RICHARDSON Sen., J. & J. RICHARDSON Jun. An account of some of the statues, bas-reliefs, drawings and pictures in Italy, etc. with remarks. London, J. Knapton, 1722. 8vo. Contemporary light brown mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt-lined with red title-label, with gilt fillet borders on sides, red mottled edges. With title set within black lines. (24), 357, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of one of the most important manuals on Rembrandt and his contemporaries View picture(s) 116 RIPA, Cesare. Iconologia, of uytbeeldingen des verstands. Waer in verscheiden afbeeldingen van deughden, ondeughden, genegentheden, menschelijcke hertztochten, konsten, leeringen, sinlijckheden, elementen, hemelsche lichamen, landschappen van Italien, revieren van alle deelen des werrelts, en alle andere ontallijcke stoffen, met hare verklaringen, werden verhandelt. Een werck dat dienstigh is, allen reedenaers, poëten, schilders, beeldhouwers, teyckenaers, en alle andere konst-beminners en liefhebbers der geleertheyt en eerlijcke wetenschappen. Om uyt te drucken, en te vinden, 't begrip van alle sinnebeelden, invallen, devijsen of sinteykenen. Oock om te spreecken, van allerleye toerustingen, 't zy op bruyloften, lijckstaetien en zeege-feesten. Mede om te vertoonen, de gedichten der tonneelspeelders, en om uyt te beelden, met haere eygene teyckenen, al het geene, eenighsins, in der menschen gedachte, kan vallen. Amsterdam, Jacob Lescaille (colophon) for Dirck Pietersz Pers, 1644. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, red painted edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by Reinier à Persyn (1616-1668) after A. Nieuwland and 196 emblematical woodcut illustrations (ca. 85 x 60mm) in text. (14), 636, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art General  Dutch  Education  Emblem  Emblem Books  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rustic architecture in pretty colours View picture(s) 117 ROBERTSON, W. Desseins d'Architecture, représentans des Sièges de Jardins, des Portes de Maisons de Campagne, des Entrées de Parcs, des Volières, des Temples, des Hangars pour des Bateaux, des Mausolées et des Ponts, avec leurs Plans, leurs Élévations, leurs Sections et des Ornemens. Traduit de l'Anglais. London, A. Dulau et Co. & L. Nardini, for R. Ackermann & for J.G. Beygand, Leipzig, 1800. Oblong large folio. Contemporar half calf. With numerous perspective plans and designs of garden architecture on 24 beautifully coloured aquatint plates, all with publisher's address engraved on the plates. (2, 12) lvs. explanatory text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Doing away with the repulsive difficulties of the subject View picture(s) 118 RUSKIN, J. The elements of perspective arranged for the use of schools and intended to be read in connexion with the first three books of Euclid. London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1859. Cloth. With several perspectival figures in text. XII, (1, 1 blank), 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated concise course in the art of perspectival drawing and ornamental designing View picture(s) 119 SCHUBLER, J.J. Grondige en duydelyke Onderwyzing Der volkomen Kolommen-Ordening, Zoo als men dezelve in de Heedendaagse-Boukunst, Gewoon is te gebruyken. Waar by dat wert aangewezen, hoe alles wat  daar toe behoort, zoo wel door den gewoonelyken in dertig gedeelden maatzet, als door den gemeene twaalfduymigen Werkvoet, zonder eenige Prentverbeeldingen niet alleen gemakkelyk is te begrypen, maar ook vaardig en regt na te maken zy. Benevens nog een nuttelyk Aanhangsel, van nieuwe en zeer fray geordineerde Uytstekvensteren, sierlyke Kleder-kassen, Stoof- of Kamer-kagchels, van een nieuwe uytvinding, en meer andere nutbaare zaken.- Het Tweede Deel, Waar in voorgestelt word zes nieuwe geinventeerde Portaalen met sierlyke Balkons op vrystaande Kolommen; desgelyks zesderley soort van sierlyke Sluytsteenen, en daar onder gebragt seer sierlyk en na vereysch des Ordenings welvoegende houte Deuren; en daarby onderscheydentlyk aangewezen tot uyt- of inwendige Bouwing. In behoorlyke evenmatigheyd gestelt uyt de verdeelde Hooft-lystwerken. Waer by kortelyk werd aangeweezen, hoe dat de Kolommen op de gebruykelykste wyzen zyn uyt te buygen, en hoe deszelfs Platte Grond te maken, en hoe te verstaan zy; also ook uyt den zelven het Profilé, en den Doorsné op een byzondere manier seer behendig (insonderheyt het bladwerk aan de Korintische  Kapiteelen) uyt haar regte Fondament op te trekken zyn. Hier by nog een Aanhangsel gevoegt van nieuw geinventeerde, (en na welbevattelyke Leerwyze) van opgemaakte Fransche Parade-koetsen; als ook eenige Modellen van Jagt-Chaisen, bekwaame Draag-stoelen, Lust- en Arresleeden, etc. En uyt de Hoogduytse in de Neederlandse spraak overgezet door H. van Oord. Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1728. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Modern half calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With large engraved illustration of a patrician's residence on first title, fine engraved architectural frontispiece including a medallion portrait of Vitruvius and all the instruments of the architect's art, and numerous detailed perspectival designs and projections of the five columns and their ornamental capitals, and several rich desigs of bays, wardrobes, tables, stoves, etc. on 17 full-page engraved plates by Renz and Montalegre and the author, all after designs by the author in the first part; and the same large engraved illustration of a city residence on title, fine architectural frontispiece of an inner yard by Joh.Chr. Weigel, and numerous detailed perspectival designs of porches with columns, balconies and doors, and several rich designs of carriages, sedans, sledges, etc. mostly engraved and designed by the author in the second part. 16; 22 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Monumental garden ornaments View picture(s) 120 SCHYNVOET, S. Voorbeelden der Lusthof-Cieraden, zynde Piramiden, Eerzuylen en andere Bywerken. (Amsterdam, H. de Wit, 1704). Folio. Modern half cloth. With richly designed print-series of garden and park ornaments, with 30 full-page plates showing piramyds, obelisks, fontaines, statues in labyrinths and grotto's, festive wedding monuments, memorial monuments with inscriptions, etc., drawn and engraved by Jacobus Schynvoet and J. Goeree after designs by Simon Schynvoet, and including a dedicatory monument for Christoffel van Brants, consul of Czar Peter of Russia set within a huge gate hung with views of Russia on eiter side, this plate drawn and engraved by J. Ruyter. 30 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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