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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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Collected Capra
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CAPRA, Allessandro. La Nuova Architectura Civile, e Militare... divisa in due tomi... Cremona, n.p., 1717.
Profusely illustrated first collected edition of Capra's two major works, La Nuova Architectura Famigliare, 1678, and La Nuova Architectura Militare, 1683.
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Cinquecento Romance Printed In Parma
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CAVICEO, Jacopo. Libro del Peregrino Novamente Impresso e Redutto alla sua Syncerita cum la Vita de lo Autore. Parma, Otaviano Salado & Francisco Ugoleto, 1513.
Exceedingly rare, second, and earliest acquirable edition of this romance in the tradition of Boccacio's Filocolo, often compared on a variety of grounds (theme, fantastic elements and language) with the Hypnerotamachia Poliphili.
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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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