Catalogue 36
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How to Illuminate Manuscripts
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[BOOK OF SECRETS] Anonymous. A very proper treatise, wherein is breefely set foorth the art of Limming, which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of leters, Vinets, Flowers, Armes, and Imagerye... London, Thomas Purfoot, the assigne of Richard Tottill, 1588.
Rare early English instruction manual for painting and illuminating books, manuscripts and other works.
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The Sculptural Reliefs of the Santa Casa di Loreto
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[LORETO] Anonymous. Spiegazione delli Quattro prospetti dei bassi rilievi in marmo che circondano le mura della S. Casa di Loreto: qui anessi in puntata, oltre l'altro prospetto del palazzo pontificio, facciata del tempio, campanile, e cupola. Loreto, Federico Sartori, c. 1800.
Very rare pilgrim's souvenir album showing some of the artistic treasures of the Santa Casa di Loreto, one of the principal shrines for Marian devotion from the late 13th century to the present day.
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Catalogue of Sculptures in Ivory
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BOSSUYT, Francis van/GRAAT, Barent. Cabinet de l'art de sculpture ex't'n yvoire, ou uchn terre, grav' d'aprles desseins de Barent Graat par Mattys Pool. Amsterdam, Mattys Pool, 1729.
Rare first edition of a series of plates illustrating the ivory, terra cotta and boxwood sculptures and reliefs by the famous Flemish sculptor Francis van Bossuyt. The engravings are by Mattys Pool after drawings by the Dutch painter Barent Graat.
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Extremely Rare German Version
Of Mitelli's Proverbi FIgurati in Stunning Contemporary Color
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KOLB, Johann Christoph. Proverbii verificati, per l'esperienza cotidiana, come li megliori e piu piacevoli informatori di massime solutifere. Augsburg, J. H. Kolb, 1718.
Extremely rare German edition of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Proverbi Figurati (Bologna, 1678) by the Augsburg engraver Johann Christoph Kolb, which copies 25 of the original 48 engravings in reverse, reprinting the 3-line Italian proverb alongside a generally less concise German translation.
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The (Catholic) Pearl of Scotland
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LESLEO, Guglielmo Luigi [aka LESLIE, William Lewis.]. Vita di Santa Margherita Regina di Scozia Raccolta da diversi autori data in luce. Rome, Michel Ercole, 1675.
Rare first edition and most likely a presentation copy of this life of Queen Margaret of Scotland (c. 1047-93), unique among female saints for her status not as a virgin but as a mother of eight. Her successful reform of the lax Scottish church five centuries earlier made her an ideal example for Counter-Reformation propagandists.
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