Catalogue 36
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Art History
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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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With Remarkable Views of Rome
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MEYER, Cornelius. L'Arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigatione del suo tevere. Rome, Lazzari Varese, 1685.
Unusually fine copy of this handsome work by Cornelius Meyer (1640-1700), the Dutch-born hydraulic engineer and inventor who successfully effected the restitution of the Tiber.
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Classic Work on Engraving Technique
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PAPILLON, Jean Michel. Trait istorique et Pratique de la Gravure en Bois. Paris, Guillaume Simon, 1766.
First edition of the best work on woodcut engraving published in France during the 18th century, and to this day an indispensable reference work on the subject.
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