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Art History
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The First Monograph Devoted
To A Celebrated Work Of Art
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BOCCHI, Francesco. Eccellenza della Statua del San Giorgio di Donatello Scultore Fiorentino, posta nella facciata di fuori d'Orsan Michele dove si tratta del Costume, della Vivacit della Bellezza di detta Statua. Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584.
Rare first edition of the earliest monograph devoted to a specific work of art (Schlosser, p. 391), an enthusiastic appraisal of Donatello's statue of St. George commissioned for Orsan Michele and now in the Bargello.
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Physiognomy For Artists
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ELSHOLTZ, Joannis Sigismund. Anthropometria Accessit Doctrina Naevorum. Padua, Matthaeus Cadorini, 1654.
Rare first edition of this erudite physiognomical treatise designed for artists and sculptors as well as physicians and a wide lay audience, developing the analogy between the human body and the universe, and its proper proportions and symmetry.
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Lamy On Perspective
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LAMY, Bernard. Traite Perspective, o't contenus les fondemens de la Peinture. Paris, Anisson, 1701.
First edition of Lamy's handsomely illustrated perspective textbook.
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An Early Illustrated Work On Physiognomy
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PORTA, Giovanni Battista della. De humana physiognomonica. Vico Equebse, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1586.
Scarce first edition, first issue of one of the first works on physiognomy to be illustrated, "a fore-runner of Lavater in estimating human character by the features" - Garrison, History, p. 231.
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