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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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Italian Translation of Hero's Pneumatics
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[FETE] HERO OF ALEXANDRIA. Gli Artificiosi et curiosi moti spiritali. Bologna, Carlo Zenero, 1647.
Second edition of Aleotti's Italian translation of Hero's Pneumatics, , of interest for 17th-century theatrical machinery and festival productions.
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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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Mortier's Bible:
Calvinism Meets
Contemporary Citron Morocco
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[Bible] MORTIER, Pierre / MARTIN, David. L'Histoire du vieux et du Nouveau Testament, Enrichie de plus de quatre cens Figures en Taille Douce, &c. Avec Privilege de nos Seigneurs les etats de Holland et de West-Frise. Amsterdam/Antwerp, Pierre Mortier, 1700.
First edition, first issue and a magnificent copy of this sumptuously illustrated print Bible.
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