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BESLER, M. R.
Gazophylacium Rerum Naturalium e regno Vegetabili, Animali et Minerali depromptarum, nunquam hactenus in lucem editarum, fidelis cum figuris aeneis ad vivum incisis repraesentatio...
[Nuremberg], 1642. Folio (450 x 290mm). ff. 35, comprising engraved title and 34 engraved plates.Contemporary full tan calf. First edition. Basil Besler's Wunderkammer was inherited and added to by his nephew Michael Rupert, who here published a catalogue of his additions. This 'treasury of natural things from the vegetable, animal, and mineral kingdoms' exhibits such typical Wunderkammer contents as corals, a unicorn horn, a hyoidal bone of a swan, a beak of a hornbill, a bird of paradise, a carved nautilus shell, an 'Arcimboldo' grotesques of shells, pyritised ammonites, asbestos, 'ruin' marble, engraved gems and antique coins, along with such unica as Johann Zizka's sword. Many rare plants and birds are figured, along with ethnographic objects such as a Brazilian Indian girdle made from the nuts of the Brazilian tree Cerbera ahovai. The image of this plate was used for the border of Valentini's Museum museorum, Frankfurt 1714. The fine engraved title features a number of emblematic medallions, with a rhinocerus, a unicorn, an ostrich, an elephant, Flora holding a cornucopia, and flowers in a walled garden, and an alchemical emblem. Michael Rupert (1607-61), a physician and pharmacist in Nuremberg, was a virtuoso scholar-collector, and also assembled an important collection of art and antiquities. This work is exceptionally rare. Cobres p. 101 n. 8 ('Diese Auflage ist selten'); Hunt 238; Nissen ZBI 346 (not seen by him); Pritzel 747 (24 plates only); NUC: NNBG MiU (24 plates only). [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Junk B.V. (Natural History]
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"BESLER, Michael Rupert"
"Gazophylacium Rerum Naturalium e regno Vegetabili, Animali et Minerali depromptarum, nunquam hactenus in lucem editarum, fidelis cum figuris aeneis ad vivum incisis repraesentatio..."
[Nuremberg] 1642 "Folio (450 x 290 mm), ff 35, comprising engraved title and 34 engraved plates; a fine copy in contemporary English sheep. £30,000First edition, of great rarity. Basil Besler's Wunderkammer was inherited and added to by his nephew Michael Rupert, who here published a catalogue of his additions. This ‘treasury of natural things from the vegetable, animal, and mineral kingdoms’ exhibits such typical Wunderkammer contents as corals, a unicorn horn, a hyoidal bone of a swan, a beak of a hornbill, a bird of paradise, a carved nautilus shell, ‘Arcimboldo’ grotesques of shells, pyritised ammonites, asbestos, ‘ruin’ marble, engraved gems and antique coins, along with such unica as Johann Zizka’s sword. Many rare plants and birds are figured, along with ethnographic objects such as a Brazilian Indian girdle made from the nuts of the Brazilian tree Cerbera ahovai. The image of this plate was used for the border of Valentini’s Museum museorum, Frankfurt 1714. The fine engraved title features a number of emblematic medallions, with a rhinocerus, a unicorn, an ostrich, an elephant, Flora holding a cornucopia, and flowers in a walled garden, and an alchemical emblem.Michael Rupert (1607-61), a physician and pharmacist in Nuremberg, was a virtuoso scholar-collector, and also assembled an important collection of art and antiquities.This work was apparently reissued in 1663. OCLC records copies with an additional leaf of contents, with imprint reading ‘Lipsiae: Typis Wittigau’ and dated 1663. Because of the copy-and-paste nature of many OCLC library records its not clear which copies are which issue.This work is exceptionally rare. Cobres p 101 n 8 ('Diese Auflage ist selten'); Hunt 238; Nissen ZBI 346 (not seen by him); Pritzel 747 (24 plates only); NUC: NNBG MiU (24 plates only); OCLC adds Illinois, Linda Hall, and the Bancroft (confusingly described as the first issue but giving the imprint details of the second)" Natural History Botany Geology 1642 [Bookseller: W P Watson Antiquarian Books]
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MERIAN, Matthäus.
A famous work on Switzerland grangerized with 67 engravings Topographia Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätte und Plätz, in der hochlöblichen Eydgnoßschafft, Grawbündten, Walliß, und etlicher zugewanten Orten.
Frankfurt am Main, Matthäus Merian, 1642.. Folio. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title label, lettered in gold, red painted edges. Richly engraved allegorical title, depicting with the coats of arms of the different Swiss cantons, the stork as the printer's device of Merian, an the inscription 'Concordiae et pacis autor ichoua', two general maps (of Germany and Switzerland), and 74 copper-engraved views on 55 plates by Merian and others. 72, (8) pp.. First edition of Matthäus Merian's (1593-1650) famous and richly illustrated topography of Switzerland. The main interest of the work is in the engravings, which are of a high artistic level, nearly all double-page or folding, with finely executed plans and views of the towns and areas mentioned. The text is by Martin Zeiler (1589-1661).This is the first of Merian's topographical works, dealing with his native country, Switzerland. Extra added are 67 engravings, collected by Alb. Müller, who acquired the book in 1819, all cut out and pasted on paper and dealing with Switzerland as well and bound in to the suitable chapters:1. Schloss Angenstein, engraved by Matthäus Merian.2. Die gantze Eydtgnosschafft, engraved by Georg Seiler, printed by Emanuel Hurter, Schaffhausen.3-5. Nouvelle carte geographique de la Suisse, engraved by Jacques Scheuchzer, printed by R. & J. Wetstein and Guil. Smith, Amsterdam.6. Eijgentliche Vorstelung des Brunen Thurns so Ao. 1724 erbauen nebst umligendem Prospect.7. Kronenporten in Zurich.8. Plan des Zürich-Sees.9-11. Abbildung aller in dem Zürich See und der Limat sich befindende Gattung Fische.12. Prospect gegen dem Schloss Pfungen im Zürich Gebieth, engraved by Georg Seiler.13. Prospect der Statt Winerthur, engraved by Vitodur after Ulr. Schellenberg (folding) (Lonchamp 2629 & 2633).14-15. Entdeckung einiger Römischer Alterthümer, welche Ao. 1759 in der Herrschafft Regensperg, auf einer Anhöhe ob Buchs unter der Burg ist gemachet worden, engraved by J. R. Holzhalb after J. Müller (2 plates Lonchamp 2157).16. Prospect beij Thun in der Landtschafft Bern, engraved by J. G. Seiler after Felix Meijer.17. Prospect des obern Theils von dem Genffer See, zu Chardone beij Vivis, engraved by G. Seiler after Felix Meijer.18. Pierre d'un dragon a Lucerne, vue de ses deux cotez, engraved by Joh. Meijer.19. Prospect eines Walserfahls in Underwalden, engraved by J. G. Seiler after Felix Meijer (Lonchamp 2045?).20-31. Series of landscapes in the surroundings of Basle: Kleyben bey Basel, Prospect bey Basel, Wisen bey Basel, An der Wisen bey Basel, Hiltelingen, Hiltelingen bey Basel, Biersee bey Basel, Brigligen bey Basel, Prospect bey Basel, Bey Hinningen, and Wasserfall bey Liechstahl, all engraved by Claes Jansz. Vischer after Matthäus Merian.32. Hermitage a deux lieues de Fribourg, engraved by J. P. le Bas in 1775.33. Environs de Fribourg, engraved by J. P. le Bas in 1775.34. Cataracta Rheni - Der Rhein-Fall, engraved by Andreas Hoffer after Melchior Füßlin.35. Vue des environs de Schaffhausen en Suisse, engraved by P. Rücker in 1790 after C. Schneider.36. L'agreable solitaire aupres du lac qui s'appelle Katzen-See, engraved by I. S. Negges.37. Wahrhafte Abbildung der Stadt Wyhl, samt der Attaquen, engraved by Melchior Füßlin.38. Carte de la principaute de Neuchatel et Vallangin en Suisse, engraved by D. F. Merveilleux in 1708.39. Große Gletscher oder Eijs Berg, aus dem Ursprung der Rhosne, an der Furca, zu oberst in Wallis.40. Schloss Münchenstein im Canton Basel, designed by Matthäus Merian.41-65. Kupferstiche von Versteinerungen, designed and engraved by Johann Melchior Füßlin, from: Scheuchzer, Natur Geschichte des Schweizerlandes... Zürich, 1746 (Lonchamp 2645). 66-67. Lauffen, engraved by Matthäus Merian. Good complete collector's copy with extra engravings.- (Occasionly sl. browned). Schuchhard 62; Eckardt pp. 48-52; introd. to the facsimile ed. of the second ed.: Kassel 1960; Wüthrich IV, 4. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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War on perspective COLLECTION of Jesuit broadsides, letters and pamphlets against Girard Desargues about the new "perspective universelle".
Paris, Melchior Tavernier, François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1641-1642. 6 works in 1 vol. 4to. Half vellum, with black morocco title-label. With perspecitive plans and designs on 10 full-page engraved plates in the last work. The collection contains: 1. (DUBREUIL, J.). Advis charitables sur les diverses oeuvres, et feuilles volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois. Publiees sous les titres. I. De Brouillon Proiet d'une atteinte aux evenements des rencontres du cone avec un plan: & des contrarietez d'entre les actions des puissances ou forces. II. De Brouillon Proiet d'exemple d'une maniere universelle, touchant la pratique du traicts a preuves, pour la couppe des pierres en l'architecture. III. D'une maniere de tracer tous quadrans d'heures égales au soleil, au moyen du style posé: & d'une maniere universelle de poser le style, & tracer les lignes d'un quadran, &c. Mis au jour. Pour satisfaire au desir qu'il en a tesmoigné publiquement, avec quelque sorte de deffy, es dernieres lignes du susdit Brouillon Proiet de la pratique du traict a preuves de la couppe de pierres, es deux placards affichez au mois de janvier dernier en plusieurs endroits de la ville de Paris, commençans par les mots, d'Erreurs incroyables, & de fautes & faussetez enormes, etc. Et au receuil intitulé six erreurs, folio 2. D'ou l'on pourra iuger de la verité, universalité, facilité, & brieveté de ses inventions, & recognoistre facilement si elles sont appuyées sur des fondements & remargues, dont il ne paroisse qu'aucun autre ait eu la pensée qui luy. Paris, Melchior Tavernier & Fr. l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1642. (4) pp.- Attack by the Jesuit Père Jean Dubreuil (1602-1670), architect and author of "La perspective practique", published in 1642 as the standard work on practical perspective, but threatened by the new and easy "perspective universelle" proposed by Girard Deargues in 1636 in an only recently recovered pamphlet, and promoted and exposed by Abraham Bosse and the newly founded Académie Royale. Dubreuil of course advices against using Desargues method. 2. EXTRACT d'UNE LETTRE de Mr. R., touchant les erreurs pretendus dans le livre de la perspective practique. (Paris, 1642). 4 pp., printed in Italics.- Really a defence of Dubreuil's Perspective Practique, as is to be noted from the expression "pretended errors".3. (DUBREUL, J.). Response a un ami, contenant un examen d'un brouillon proiect, donné au public depuis quelques années en ça par le Sieur Desargues, sur le fait particulierement d'un exemple qu'il propose d'une manier universelle touchant la pratique du trait à preuve, pour la coupe des pierres en l'architecture. (Paris, ca. 1641). 14, (2 blank) pp.- Critical revue of the one of Desargues' writings, explaining his "perspective universelle" for the cutting of stone in architecture. Dubreuil renounces Desargues' theorem comparing it with his own rules and theories on perspective. 4. (DUBREUIL, J.). Examen de la maniere de faire des quadrans, enseigné à la fine du Brouillon Projet de la coupe des pierres &. Par G. D. L. (Paris, 1641). 17 (3 blank) pp.- Another detailed criticisms of the the theorem of "universal perspective" proposed by Desargues in a broadside published in August 1640, as is stated in the introduction. All statements made by Desargues are quoted and printed in Italics, and are extensively contradicted by Dubreuil. 5. BEAUGRAND, M. DE. Lettre sur le suject des feuilles intitulees: Brouillon Project d'une attainte aux evenements des rencontres du cone avec un plan, & aux evenements des contrareitez, entre les actions des puissances. Par le S. G. D. L. Avec Privilege. 1639. Paris, 1640. 10 pp.- An attack again on one of the broadsides of Desargues, on the perspective of the cone, and stating that Desargues had heavily borrowed from the works of Guidobaldo and Apollonius. The author calls himself "Secretaire du Roy", but no further information on the author could be found.6. (DUBREUIL, J.). Diverses methodes univeselles, et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie pour faire des perspectives. Avec la liberté d [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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GEVAERTS, Jean Gaspard (= Caspar
The most important Antwerp Splendid Ceremony, designed by Rubens Pompa Introitus Honori Ser. Principis Ferdinandi Austriaci Hispaniarum Infantis S.R.E. Card. Belgarum et Burgundionum Gubernatoris, etc. a S.P.Q. Antwerp. Decreta et adornata.
Antwerp, Ioannes Meursius for Theod. van Thulden, 1642. . Large folio (56 x 41 cm). Contemporary vellum, spine gilt, sides with gilt armorial center-piece and on frontcover in gilt 'Ieremias Wildens'. With richly designed triumphal arch full of allegorical figures by Pieter Paul Rubens serving as frontispiece and title, engraved by Iac. Neeffs, 46 engravings in text mostly of coins and medals, and 43 numbered etched plates illustrating the rich allegorical and phantastic ornamental triumphal arches and festive decorations, paintings, statues, etc., designed by Pieter Paul Rubens for the Splendid Entry of the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp, including a splendidly designed equestrian portrait of Ferdinand, and a large triumphal car by Pieter Paul Rubens, and also including a second portrait of Ferdinand, a large view and plan of Antwerp, a view of the fireworks behind the cathedral and two views of festive processions by Theod. van Thulden, who etched all the plates. (8), 189, (13) pp. . Splendid monument of Baroque book illustration, easily the most superbly illustrated book of the 17th century. The designing and planning of the city's triumphal arches and decorations to celebrate the "Splendid Entry" of Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp in May 1635 was the largest order Pieter Paul Rubens ever received, offering him the occasion to fully display his rich imagination and to let go free his wildest phantasies. The festivities themselves had been so magnificent and the decorations and lightning had been so fairy-like that the city magistrats ordered the painter and engraver Theodor Van Thulden, a pupil of Rubens, to make a record of it for posterity. The work was held up by the city's secretary who was to supply the text, and when the text was ready at last, both Rubens and Ferdinand had died, in 1640 and 1641 respectively. Still, the delay had some good points too, as now the magistrats ordered an extra print to honor Ferdinand's memory, and a magnificent drawing by Rubens of a triumphal car was added to the book. Also the text had grown from simple explanations of the mythological figures and recordings of inscriptions into a most scholarly edition, with all mythological allegories philologically explained with quotations from the Classics, and richly illustrated by engravings of ancient coins and medals as well. Full source references were given and indices added. The costs of publication were enormous and although the preface is dated July 1641, and the colophon dates the printing of the text 1642, it was only at the end of January 1643 that the book came officially on the market. The "Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi" easily belongs to the most expensive book productions illustrating Baroque festivities, caused also by its extra large folio size. This on the other hand greatly enhanced the beauty of the prints, as Van Thulden was now more able to depict in all details the very elaborate and luxurious designs of Rubens. Good copy.- (With library stamps of 'Bibliotheca publica Antwerpiensis' and another Antwerp library on verso frontispiece; rebound, new endpapers). The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, Northern European Books, Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries , 38, pp. 163-7; Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies , 99, listing all plates; Von Roeder-Baumbach, Versier. Blijde Inkomsten , 28; Berlin Kat. 2947; Atlas Van Stolk II, 1764; Muller, Hist.pl., 1728; Arents, "Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Bijdr. Rubensbibliogr.", in: De Gulden Passer 27 (1949), p. 81; ff. Hofer, Baroque Book Illustr. , 128. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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GEVAERTS, JEAN GASPARD (= CASPAR
POMPA INTROITUS HONORI SER. PRINCIPIS FERDINANDI AUSTRIACI HISPANIARUM INFANTIS S.R.E. CARD. BELGARUM ET BURGUNDIONUM GUBERNATORIS, ETC. A S.P.Q. ANTWERP. DECRETA ET ADORNATA. ANTWERP, IOANNES MEURSIUS FOR THEOD. VAN THULDEN, 1642.
Large folio (56 x 41 cm). Contemporary vellum, spine gilt, sides with gilt armorial center-piece and on frontcover in gilt 'Ieremias Wildens'. With richly designed triumphal arch full of allegorical figures by Pieter Paul Rubens serving as frontispiece and title, engraved by Iac. Neeffs, 46 engravings in text mostly of coins and medals, and 43 numbered etched plates illustrating the rich allegorical and phantastic ornamental triumphal arches and festive decorations, paintings, statues, etc., designed by Pieter Paul Rubens for the Splendid Entry of the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp, including a splendidly designed equestrian portrait of Ferdinand, and a large triumphal car by Pieter Paul Rubens, and also including a second portrait of Ferdinand, a large view and plan of Antwerp, a view of the fireworks behind the cathedral and two views of festive processions by Theod. van Thulden, who etched all the plates. (8), 189, (13) pp. Splendid monument of Baroque book illustration, easily the most superbly illustrated book of the 17th century. The designing and planning of the city's triumphal arches and decorations to celebrate the "Splendid Entry" of Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp in May 1635 was the largest order Pieter Paul Rubens ever received, offering him the occasion to fully display his rich imagination and to let go free his wildest phantasies. The festivities themselves had been so magnificent and the decorations and lightning had been so fairy-like that the city magistrats ordered the painter and engraver Theodor Van Thulden, a pupil of Rubens, to make a record of it for posterity. The work was held up by the city's secretary who was to supply the text, and when the text was ready at last, both Rubens and Ferdinand had died, in 1640 and 1641 respectively. Still, the delay had some good points too, as now the magistrats ordered an extra print to honor Ferdinand's memory, and a magnificent drawing by Rubens of a triumphal car was added to the book. Also the text had grown from simple explanations of the mythological figures and recordings of inscriptions into a most scholarly edition, with all mythological allegories philologically explained with quotations from the Classics, and richly illustrated by engravings of ancient coins and medals as well. Full source references were given and indices added. The costs of publication were enormous and although the preface is dated July 1641, and the colophon dates the printing of the text 1642, it was only at the end of January 1643 that the book came officially on the market. The "Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi" easily belongs to the most expensive book productions illustrating Baroque festivities, caused also by its extra large folio size. This on the other hand greatly enhanced the beauty of the prints, as Van Thulden was now more able to depict in all details the very elaborate and luxurious designs of Rubens. Good copy.- (With library stamps of 'Bibliotheca publica Antwerpiensis' and another Antwerp library on verso frontispiece; rebound, new endpapers). The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection,Northern European Books, Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries, 38, pp. 163-7; Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies, 99, listing all plates; Von Roeder-Baumbach, Versier. Blijde Inkomsten, 28; Berlin Kat. 2947; Atlas Van Stolk II, 1764; Muller, Hist.pl., 1728; Arents, "Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Bijdr. Rubensbibliogr.", in: De Gulden Passer 27 (1949), p. 81; ff. Hofer, Baroque Book Illustr., 128. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV - 't Goy-Houten - ]
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DUBREUIL, Jean.
A collection of Jesuit works against Girard Desargues and the new "perspective universelle".]
Paris: Melchior Tavernier & François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1641-1642. 2 works in 1 volume (the first incorporating 5 others), as listed below, 4to. With perspective plans and designs on 10 full-page engraved plates in the last work. Small stain in inner margin of first title, faint dampstain in lower margin of last 10 leaves. Later half vellum, with black morocco title-label, former owner’s note on front endpaper. 1. [DUBREUIL, Jean.] Advis Charitables sur les Diverses Oeuvres, et Feuilles Volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois. Publiees sous les titres. I. De Brouillon Proiet d’une atteinte aux evenements des rencontres du Cone avec un Plan: & des contrarietez d’entre les actions des puissances ou forces. II. De Brouillon Proiet d’exemple d’une maniere universelle, touchant la pratique du traicts a preuves, pour la couppe des pierres en l’Architecture. III. D’une maniere de tracer tous quadrans d’heures égales au Soleil, au moyen du style posé: & d’une maniere universelle de poser le style, & tracer les lignes d’un quadran, &c. Paris: Melchior Tavernier & François l’Anglois, dit Chartres, 1642. An attack on Desargues’ new and easy "perspective universelle" by the Jesuit Jean Dubreuil (1602–1670), architect and author of La Perspective Practique, published in 1642 as the standard work on practical perspective, but threatened by Desargues. Girard Desargues’ method, proposed in 1636, was promoted by Abraham Bosse and the newly founded Académie Royale. (4) pages. 2 copies in NUC. [Incorporating:]2. Extraict d’une lettre de Mr. R., touchant les erreurs pretendus dans le livre de la Perspective Practique. [Paris, 1642.] A defence of Dubreuil’s Perspective Practique. 4 pages, printed in italics. Not in the NUC copy. [And:]3. [DUBREUIL, Jean.] Response a un Ami, Contenant un examen d’un brouillon proiect, donné au public depuis quelques années en ça par le Sieur Desargues, sur le fait particulierement d’un exemple qu’il propose d’une manier universelle touchant la pratique du trait à preuve, pour la coupe des pierres en l’Architecture. [Paris, c. 1641.] A critical review of one of Desargues’ writings, explaining his "perspective universelle" for the cutting of stone in architecture. Dubreuil renounces Desargues’ theory, comparing it with his own rules and theories of perspective. 14 + (2 blank) pages. [And:]4. [DUBREUIL, Jean.] Examen de la Maniere de faire des Quadrants, enseignée à la fin du Brouillon Projet de la coupe des pierres &. Par G.D.L. [Paris, 1641.] Another detailed criticism of the the theory of "universal perspective" proposed by Desargues in a broadside published in August 1640. Statements made by Desargues are quoted and printed in italics, and are extensively contradicted by Dubreuil. 17 + (3 blank) pages. [And:]5. BEAUGRAND, [Jean] de. Lettre.sur le suject des feuilles intitulees: Brouillon Project d’une attainte aux evenements des rencontres du Cone avec un plan, & aux evenements des contrarietez, d’entre les actions des puissances. Par le S.G.D.L. [Paris, 1640?] Another attack on a broadside of Desargues, on the perspective of the cone, stating that Desargues had borrowed heavily from the works of Guidobaldo and Apollonius. The author calls himself "Secretaire du Roy", but no further information on the author has been found. 10 pages. [Bound with:]6. [DUBREUIL, Jean.] Diverses Methodes Universelles, et Nouvelles, en tout ou en partie pour faire des Perspectives. Paris: Melchior Tavernier. 1642. Exposition of various practical methods of universal perspective offered by Dubreuil as an answer to the criticisms that Desargues had published, on two posters in Paris listing all the errors of Dubreuil’s recently published La Perspective Pratique. (13) pages + 11 leaves. With ingenious perspective plans and designs according to ‘universal methods’ on 10 full-page engraved plates. 3 copies in NUC.A collection of extremely rare and important works published by the Jesuit school of perspective in defence of their practical method of perspective and fiercely attacking the new theory of "uni [Bookseller: Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB]
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JOUSSE, Mathurin.
The first treatise devoted entirely to stereotomy Le secret d'architectvre de'covvrant fidelement les traits geometriqves, covppes, et derobemens necessaries dans les bastiments. enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures, adiouftees fur chaque discours pour l'explication d'iceux.
A la Fleche, George Griveau 1642. . Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. 112 (misnumbered 113, but plate 29 was never printed) full-page woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, 12 of which are folding. (8), 227 pp. . Very rare first and only edition of 'the first treatise devoted entirely to stereotomy' (Wiebenson), the practical application of geometry to stonecutting for architects and master masons. Jousse writes in the preface that there is nothing on the subject in the ancient architectural treatises, and among the Moderns, there were only Books 3 & 4 of De L'Orme's Architecture, which he complains are too abstract to be of practical use. By contrast, this work is composed of an extended series of exercises on the drawing of vaults, making it of some interest for strengths of material as well. Jousse made the first French translation of the perspective classic De artificialis perspectiva by Pelerin, and the woodcuts in Le Secret are reminiscent of that work's illustrations. Illustrated French architectural treatises of the 17th century usually hail from major printing centres (Paris or Lyons), not from provincial towns in the Loire region, and the work is, accordingly, of interest for the history of regional building techniques. Jousse, writer, architect, mason and locksmith, was connected with the college of Jesuits, which he might have built, in his native town La Fleche. NUC records Yale, Columbia and Boston Public, to which should be added the copy at the National Gallery, described in Millard. Good copy with illegible inscription of a convent on title page along with an inscription of Robert S. Roes. -(Soiled at edges of covers. Even toning and light browning throughout, along with some minor foxing; small wormhole on p. 3-4, without loss; a few leaves dog-eared). Berlin Kat . 2538; Wiebenson (ed.), Architectural theory and practice from Alberti to Ledoux , nr. III-C-6; Fowler 160; Millard I, 82. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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A Nineteenth-Century Mexican "Lienzo" (Illuminated Document) featuring the Coat of Arms of the Conde de Salvatierra, Viceroy of New Spain from 1642-49
Mexico A FASCINATING EXAMPLE OF THE ROMANTICIZATION OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEXICO Single sheet, in ink and colors, highlighted in gold, "amate" (fig-tree bark paper) paper Framed size: 46 1/2" x 32 3/4" Sheet size: approx. 40 3/4" x 26 3/4" Provenance: General Miguel Miramon (1832-1867), companion of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, executed with him in 1867 at Queretaro; by descent. This exceptionally rare, illuminated document (lienzo) represents a fascinating attempt by a nineteenth-century Mexican artist to revive the arts and practices of the Aztec Empire. This work was constructed out of amate, or fig-tree bark paper, and depicts, at its center, the magnificent coat of arms of Don Garcia Sarmieno de Sotomayor, conde de Salvatierra (viceroy of New Spain from 1642 to 1649). The large seal is flanked on each of its sides by two mythical creatures. Below these winged creatures are four throned figures who encircle a pool of water. Within the pool are representations of a seated male and female couple and a diving female figure residing in a small disc surrounded by fish. A cactus emerges from the top portion of the pool, providing a link between the water below and the coat of arms above. Immediately surrounding the cactus are depictions of a water god and sacrificial heart excision. All of these disparate elements were intended to affirm conde de Salvatierra's proprietorship over the lands represented by each of the outlying glyphs. During the nineteenth century, many Mexicans struggled to establish a distinct national identity. As such, many of them started to take a renewed interest in the Native American traditions that rooted their civilization. In direct keeping with this trend, this document purposefully duplicates many of the elements found in pre-colonial titulos primordials, communal Aztec documents that portrayed historical events and delineated territories. For example, though most colonial lienzos, or illuminated documents, were painted on cloth, this one was painted on the more archaic support of tree-bark paper. The document also lacks any glossing inscriptions, the intended effect being to imply that it originated before knowledge of a written language. In addition, the four figures seated on thrones were intended by the artist to represent Aztec lords, while the place glyphs are of Mixtec style. The document also borrows images from well-known pre-Columbian and early colonial manuscripts, including the Codex Laux (Bodleian Library, Laud misc. 678) and the Codex Rios (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), which were both published by Lord Kingsborough between 1831 and 1848, suggesting that this manuscript was produced after these dates. This vibrant and colorful manuscript represents a remarkable example of a nineteenth-century Mexican artist’s attempt to glorify Native American ancestry and to give it an added element of European legitimacy. It is an an utterly unique composition. [Bookseller: W. Graham Arader III gallery]
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HULSIUS, Bartholomaeus.
Celebrating Gustav Adolf II, 'The Lion of the North' and champion of Protestantism, magnificently illustrated by Crispijn vande Passe II Den onderganck des Roomschen Arents, door den Noordschen Leeuw. Af-ghebeeldt in verscheyden konstige figuren, met sin-rijcke verklaringhen der selver, beydes in en buyten rijm, vertoonende, in 't kort, de gedenckwaerdighste saken, die van den beginne, tot noch toe, in dese oorlogen zyn omgegaen. Met een verhael van den doodt des Koninghs. Hier zyn noch by ghevoeght de victorien der Croon Sweden, sedert de doodt des auteurs vercreghen.
Amsterdam, Crispijn vande Passe, 1642. . 4to. Beautifully bound in nineteenth century light brown calf, both sides with triple gilt lines along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with red and green title labels lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers (by "PETIT SUCCr DE SIMIER"). Engraved allegorical title-page with engraved title underneath 'Fame' sitting on a swan, blowing a trumpet ("Volat Fama per orbem") and holding the hat of freedom in her left hand; left the full-length portrait of Gustav Adolf of Sweden, holding a sword in his right hand and trampling the French rooster; right a mourning widow: "Desolata Germania" (Desolate Germany) with the mutilated bodies of three children at her feet; vignette on printed title with the coat-of-arms of Gustav Adolf and the motto 'Gloria eius immortalis', and 29 engraved and etched allegorical and emblematical half-page plates in the text (ca. 71 x 113 mm) by Crispyn de Passe the Younger. (12), 91 (1 blank) pp. . Very rare first and only edition of this political and emblematical/allegorical work with texts by Bartholomaeus Hulsius (1601-before 1642), a reformed minister in Cillaarshoek till his retirement in 1635 ( NNBW VIII, col. 889). The book was printed for Crispijn de Passe by an unknown printer, possibly Jan van Hilten, who specialized in political pamphlets.The book deals with the struggle between the Protestant parts of Europe and the Imperial armies (the so-called 'League') under the command of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II, and the generals Tilly and Wallenstein, known as the Thirty Year's War. The triumph of Protestantism over Catholicism became possible through the arrival of the Swedish King Gustav Adolf II the Great (1594-1632) - one of the greatest generals of all times - in Northern Germany in 1630. His most famous victory was in the battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. The King was referred to by contemporary protestants as 'the Lion of the North', such as he also appears in the title of this book. In the text all the victories, including Gustav's victorious battle near Lützen during which battle Gustav Adolf was deadly wounded on 6 November 1632, and those after the death of Hulsius (probably written by Crispijn vande Passe himself), are described in detail by Hulsius and illustrated in an allegorical and moralistic manner. Some of the plates, however, are strictly historical, such as the first one, which shows Gustav Adolf on horseback and crowned with laurels, and nr. 13, in which he lies mortally wounded on the battle field at Lützen. Germany is again portrayed as a mourning widow in the following scene and is followed by allegories of Gustav's virtues.The beautiful plates are by Crispijn vande Passe the Younger (ca. 1597-ca. 1670), who worked in Amsterdam since 1640. The last five are etchings, which Franken believed that they were not by Crispijn. Veldman, however, disagrees and attributes them in view of their high quality to Vande Passe. Gustav Adolph played also an important role in the emerging movement of the Rosicrucians in the beginning of the seventeenth century. The movement represents a phase in which the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition received the influx of another Hermetic tradition, that of Alchemy. Men as John Dee and Comenius in Bohemia together with contemporary protestant movements in South Germany culminated in the short-lived reign of Frederich, Elector Palatinate and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of King James I, as 'Winter King and Queen' of Bohemia. It was also involved in some kind of alliance of Protestant sympathiers formed to counteract the Catholic League of Catholic powers formed in the wake of the Counter Reformation. In the years after 1620 the combination of the Habsburg Empire with Counter Reformation Catholicism came near to absolute victory, having - as one of the successes - removed Frederick (d. 1642) and Elizabeth from Bohemia in 1621. Referred to as 'the Lion' in contemporary literature, Frederick had lost his lands and lived in exile in The Hague, kept by the court of the Dutch Stadholder. He represented, as it were, the failure and despair of Prostestant Europe, till in 1630 a new 'Lion', 'The Lion of the North' at last arrived. Ultimately Gustav Adolph made it certain that Prostestantism would survive in Europe and undoubtedly he was welcomed warmly at the 'Bohemian court'in The Hague where men as Samuel Hartlib, Comenius, the English ambassador Sir William Boswell and Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to Guistav Adolph for whom Frederick and Elizabeth were symbol of the Protestant Elizabethan tradition in monarchy.No wonder that Gustav Adolph was the 'hero' of these circles and it is probably also in this context that our book is to be seen. Gorgeous copy from the library of Mme Pouilier-Ketele (Auction 1924, nr. 192).- (19th-century annotation on p. 90; tear in margin of f. G4 repaired). Franken, 1373; De Vries 177; Knuttel 4872; Landwehr, Low Countries 360; Landwehr, Emblem books 248; Hollstein XVI, p. 146; Veldman, Crispijn de Passe , p. 334-7. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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Grotius, Hugo, Philosoph und
Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("H. de Groot").
Paris, 28. III. 1642. ½ S. auf Doppelblatt. 4to. Mit eh. Adresse und Siegelspur (Faltbrief). An den schwäbischen Heerführer Christoph Martin Frh. von Degenfeld (1599-1653), unter dem Grotius' Sohn in der schwedischen Armee gedient hat und dem er seine Treue und Gefolgschaft versichert: "Nous touts qui sommes icy, moi, les Dames, le filz et la fille remercions vostre Illustrete de la souvenance qu'elle a de nous: et la prions de croire que ce qui a manque au traittement deu a ses qualitez est supple par l'affection qui a este, est, et sera toujours tres sincere [.]". - Degenfeld, der sich zunächst im Gefolge Wallensteins ausgezeichnet hatte, kämpfte schließlich auf der Seite der Schweden und mußte nach dem kaiserlichen Sieg 1634 nach Straßburg fliehen. Als Oberster General der fremden Reiterei in französischen Diensten überwarf er sich im Jahr der Abfassung des vorliegenden Briefes mit Kardinal Richelieu und trat als Generalgouverneur von Dalmatien und Albanien in venezianische Dienste. Hierauf dürfte sich Grotius mit der Erwähnung von Degenfelds neuem "lieu de repos" im vorliegenden Schreiben beziehen. Grotius selbst war zum damaligen Zeitpunkt schwedischer Botschafter in Paris; durch sein 1625 erschienes Hauptwerk "De jure belli ac pacis" gilt er als Begründer des internationalen Völkerrechts. - Briefe Grotius' sind von größter Seltenheit; der vorliegende ist der einzige, der seit 1950 auf dt. Auktionen nachweisbar war (Autographensammlung Dr. Robert Amman, Stargardt 16. XI. 1961, Nr. 353). [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS]
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HULSIUS, BARTHOLOMAEUS.
DEN ONDERGANCK DES ROOMSCHEN ARENTS, DOOR DEN NOORDSCHEN LEEUW. AF-GHEBEELDT IN VERSCHEYDEN KONSTIGE FIGUREN, MET SIN-RIJCKE VERKLARINGHEN DER SELVER, BEYDES IN EN BUYTEN RIJM, VERTOONENDE, IN 'T KORT, DE GEDENCKWAERDIGHSTE SAKEN, DIE VAN DEN BEGINNE, TOT NOCH TOE, IN DESE OORLOGEN ZYN OMGEGAEN. MET EEN VERHAEL VAN DEN DOODT DES KONINGHS. HIER ZYN NOCH BY GHEVOEGHT DE VICTORIEN DER CROON SWEDEN, SEDERT DE DOODT DES AUTEURS VERCREGHEN. AMSTERDAM, CRISPIJN VANDE PASSE, 1642.
4to. Beautifully bound in nineteenth century light brown calf, both sides with triple gilt lines along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with red and green title labels lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers (by "PETIT SUCCr DE SIMIER"). Engraved allegorical title-page with engraved title underneath 'Fame' sitting on a swan, blowing a trumpet ("Volat Fama per orbem") and holding the hat of freedom in her left hand; left the full-length portrait of Gustav Adolf of Sweden, holding a sword in his right hand and trampling the French rooster; right a mourning widow: "Desolata Germania" (Desolate Germany) with the mutilated bodies of three children at her feet; vignette on printed title with the coat-of-arms of Gustav Adolf and the motto 'Gloria eius immortalis', and 29 engraved and etched allegorical and emblematical half-page plates in the text (ca. 71 x 113 mm) by Crispyn de Passe the Younger. (12), 91 (1 blank) pp. Very rare first and only edition of this political and emblematical/allegorical work with texts by Bartholomaeus Hulsius (1601-before 1642), a reformed minister in Cillaarshoek till his retirement in 1635 (NNBW VIII, col. 889). The book was printed for Crispijn de Passe by an unknown printer, possibly Jan van Hilten, who specialized in political pamphlets.The book deals with the struggle between the Protestant parts of Europe and the Imperial armies (the so-called 'League') under the command of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II, and the generals Tilly and Wallenstein, known as the Thirty Year's War. The triumph of Protestantism over Catholicism became possible through the arrival of the Swedish King Gustav Adolf II the Great (1594-1632) - one of the greatest generals of all times - in Northern Germany in 1630. His most famous victory was in the battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. The King was referred to by contemporary protestants as 'the Lion of the North', such as he also appears in the title of this book. In the text all the victories, including Gustav's victorious battle near Luetzen during which battle Gustav Adolf was deadly wounded on 6 November 1632, and those after the death of Hulsius (probably written by Crispijn vande Passe himself), are described in detail by Hulsius and illustrated in an allegorical and moralistic manner. Some of the plates, however, are strictly historical, such as the first one, which shows Gustav Adolf on horseback and crowned with laurels, and nr. 13, in which he lies mortally wounded on the battle field at Luetzen. Germany is again portrayed as a mourning widow in the following scene and is followed by allegories of Gustav's virtues.The beautiful plates are by Crispijn vande Passe the Younger (ca. 1597-ca. 1670), who worked in Amsterdam since 1640. The last five are etchings, which Franken believed that they were not by Crispijn. Veldman, however, disagrees and attributes them in view of their high quality to Vande Passe. Gustav Adolph played also an important role in the emerging movement of the Rosicrucians in the beginning of the seventeenth century. The movement represents a phase in which the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition received the influx of another Hermetic tradition, that of Alchemy. Men as John Dee and Comenius in Bohemia together with contemporary protestant movements in South Germany culminated in the short-lived reign of Frederich, Elector Palatinate and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of King James I, as 'Winter King and Queen' of Bohemia. It was also involved in some kind of alliance of Protestant sympathiers formed to counteract the Catholic League of Catholic powers formed in the wake of the Counter Reformation. In the years after 1620 the combination of the Habsburg Empire with Counter Reformation Catholicism came near to absolute victory, having - as one of the successes - removed Frederick (d. 1642) and Elizabeth from Bohemia in 1621. Referred to as 'the Lion' in contemporary literature, Frederick had lost his lands and lived [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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PASSE, Crispijn II de.
Oficina arcularia in qua sunt ad spectantia diversa eximia exempla ex variis autoribus collecta.- Bouticque menuserie d'dans laquelle sont compris les plus notable fondaments, non moins arichesse avecq des nouvelles inventons (sic).- Schriner Laden in wilchem begriffen seijn underscheidtliche schoene fondamenten zu nutz deren Const liebhaberen.- Schrinwerckers winckel waer in begrepen sijn de principaelste stucken der schreinwerckers const fondamentlick gestelt ende mit nieuuwe inventien verciert.
The architectural plates by Crispijn II de Passe Amsterdam, Crispijn de Passe, 1642. Large folio. Loose lvs. in half vellum cover, sides covered with marbled paper. The lvs. have been provisionally bound together: traces of binding in the left margins. 31 large engraved architectural plates of classical columns, wooden furniture, ornaments, fountains, doorways, designs of Dutch houses of ca. 300 x 200 mm. by Crispijn II de Passe and Paulus van Vianen; added are 2 smaller plates of ornamented fire-places (ca. 220 x 150 mm.). 17 (out of 19 or 20) large engraved plates of the second very enlarged edition of this series of architectonical plates by Crispijn II de Passe. The first edition of this series, consisting of only 14 plates (numbered A (title), and A-N) of expensive and fashionable pieces of furniture of French and Dutch design, was published by Crispijn I de Passe in Utrecht in 1621 (see reproduction of the title in Veldman, fig. 139). The title of this series Oficina arcularia (The cabinetmaker's shop ...), with the translation of the title in French, German and Dutch, shows that the publisher was aiming at an international market. They also demonstrate that Crispijn II not only had a thorough knowledge of the latest developments in furniture-making and styles of ornament, but also that he was well acquainted with the work of his predecessor Hans Vredeman de Vries's Differents pourtraicts de menuiserie which was published by Philips Galle in Antwerp around 1583, containing 16 plates with furniture designs and an engraved title in an ornamental surround which is very similar to Crispijn's (see Hollstein XLVIII, part 2, 491-507).In the 1642 edition there are 6 more plates, while one of the first edition is missing. A third edition appeared in 1651:A: Title within an asymmetrical Corinthian frame (see Veldman, fig. 139).A [bis] - B: measured elevations and details of the five orders.C: decoration for furniture (mantelpieces?).D: a half symmetry view of designs for an ornate bed.E-M: further furniture designs, often half-symmetry. Plate G is called 'G2'. As the BAL copy has only plate 'G1', this is possibly an unrecorded variant (altered for the third edition of 1651?). Plate K is lacking.N: six chairs and three tables.O: a half of a pulpit, attributed to Hendrick de Keyser. The 'O' was probably added for the 1651 edition and was originally plate XXIII in section 1 of part 2 (see below). P is lacking.Q: three grotesque cartouches ('O' in the BAL copy!)R: swags and grotesque masks.S: six herms and other supporters.(T: there is no plate T in this copy, but it is suggested that most copies don't have that plate at all).The work is evidently printed at the same time as two other parts which were probably sold both separately and together as part 1-3. The first part was Jacob Barozzio de Vignola's Regola de'cinque ordini d'architettura ... Con la nuova aggionta di Michel-Angelo Buonaroti (together with title in Dutch, French and German); the second part: La ii parte dell architettura dell Vignola e'altri famossi architetti ... and the third part was our Oficina arcularia. The first title has the imprint: Amsterdam, (Crispijn de Passe) for Jan Jansz. & Jan van Hilten, 1642.The present collection of plates includes the following 14 large engraved and etched plates from part 2 (containing a total of 83 plates, divided in 2 sections: (1) plates I-XXVI and (2) 5 series of resp. 6, 6, 10, 6 and 29 plates):- from section 1: all the 4 plates of designs by Dutch architects and artists (the other 22 plates are by Italian architects): - (plate XXIII: a half of a pulpit, attributed to Hendrick de Keyser, transferred as plate 'O' to part 3 (see above)). - plate XXIIII: a font or fountain signed 'M.M. Keyser inventor'. - plate XXIIIII (partly errased): a fountain signed 'Paulus van Vianen inven:'. - plate XXVI (partly errased): a fountain signed 'Paulus van Vianen delin: F.'.Plates XXIIIII-XXVI are etched by the famous silversmith Paulus van Vianen and are probably published here for the first time.- from section 2: - the complete second series of 6 plates, numbered I-VI: six elevations of Dutch houses. Plates II-IV are signed as drawn by P. (Philips or Pieter) and Pieter Vingboons. Plates I and V may not be by Vingboons, and were not among the designs published in his Afbeelsels der voornaemste gebouwen, which included re-engraved versions of plates II-IV and VI. - plates II-VI of the 4th series, consisting of 6 plates: five elevations and plans for doorways and porticos. Plate II has the title: " Porta del inventione de Joan de Santen Archite (sic) Romano. Poort naer de inventie van Joan van Santen Architeckt tot Roomen" .So this additional collection of 14 beautiful large architectural plates are all the plates designed by Dutch architects and engraved by Crispijn II de Passe (and 2 by Paulus van Vianen) from the second part of the 1642 edition of the famous Regola delli cinque ordini d'architectura by Vignola. Added are 2 smaller engraved plates of ornamented fire-places, numbered 18 and 21, from an unidentified edition. The plates are in fair condition all with a small blue stamp (with the monogram 'AA'?).- (Some staining and tears (repaired), some margins strengthened, 4 plates mounted). Ilja Veldman, Crispijn de Passe and his progeny (2001), p. 263, 337 and figs. 139 and 140; Hollstein XVI, 174; Jervis, Printed furniture designs (1974), p. 41 and figs. 291-308; BAL 3452 (s.v. Vignola); Berlin Kat. 1223, 2586; Casotti 39; Fowler 241, 362. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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JOUSSE, Mathurin
Le Secret d'architecture découvrant fidèlement les traits géométriques, couppes, et dérobemens nécessaires dans les bastiments
La Flèche George Griveau 1642 folio, [8], 228 p., with 112 (misnumbered 113) full-page woodcut illustrations, of which 12 are folding, some slight browning of the paper & a few light stains, but good copy in contemporary limp vellum Fowler 160; Millard I, 82; Berlin Kat. 2538. Only edition, and an interesting provincial imprint, from La Flèche in the Loire region. Jousse (1607- 1692) also wrote treatises on locks and on carpentry, but here he tackles a more difficult technical subject for architects and master masons, ‘stereotomy’, or the application of geometry to stone-cutting. Philibert de l’Orme had touched on this, but Jousse supersedes his work. Some of the illustrations are similar to the drawings Jousse did for the French edition of Pélerin’s book on perspective. As the only really thorough practical handbook available the book was read to pieces, and is very rare today; it is significant that the only recent copy at auction, from the superb Macclesfield library, was seriously imperfect. OCLC records in 3 American libraries, U.Penn., Yale and the Canadian Center; Millard references the copy at National Gallery in Washington; at least at the time of NUC there was one at Boston Public. In 1984 this copy passed through the hands of E.P.Goldschmidt (with their stock code), who listed it at $9500 (then between £7000 and £8000): ‘the first copy we have ever seen’. [Bookseller: Sevin Seydi Rare Books]
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TETIUS, HIERONYMUS.
Aedes Barberinae ad Quirinalem.
Romae, Excudebat Mascardus, 1642. Folio. Beautiful red full morocco w. richly gilt back. Boards w. gilt ornamental borders, inside which another square gilt border w. a large diamond-shaped border inside, gilt corner-ornamentations. Triple blind-stamped line-borders following the gilt ones (gift-binding). On both boards a centre-ornamentation (weapon?) has been removed (to hide provenance?), revealing beautiful, cont. but vague drawings of angels on both boards, inside the gilt border, surrounding the missing centrepiece. All edges gilt, capitals, hinges and corners professionally restored. Lacking ties. Inside of boards and endpapers w. insect-bites. A cont. owner's name has been removed from top of frontispiece (same provenance as that of the removed weapons?). Some brownspotting and overall wear. Some leaves w. small holes to margins, none affecting illustrations or text. A few of the folded plates w. tears and a few w. repairs. Engr. frontispiece/ t-p., numerous large engr. head- and tail-pieces and initials, engr. text-illustrations, 18 full-page engr. plates and 11 folded engr. plates. (6), 221, (1), (30) pp. Very scarce first edition, only printed in very few copies, which were probably all given as gift-copies to the Barberini-family and friends, with "Donum auctoris" printed at bottom of title-page. A second enlarged edition appeared in 1647 after the death of Tetius and Pope Urban the VIII, it was printed in much larger numbers and is more common than the first, though still a rarity. "Il a étè réimpr. en 1647, sur plus grand papier; mais on préfère la première édition." (Brunet V: 765-66). This richly illustrated work is renowned for its beauty. It contains the beautiful and famous engravings of the treasures and interior of the Barberini Palace in Rome. It was printed to celebrate the building of Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) and his nephew Cardinal Francesco Barberini's then new palace on the Quirinal at Rome. Many of the folded plates depict the famous fresco-ceiling by Pietro da Cortona in the Palazzo Barberini Salone. The illustrations are so excellent that Tetius himself described the work as a second palace serving as a stand-in for the real one and being equivalent to a visit to it. The plate with the portrait of Pope Urban VIII is drawn by Andreas Camass and executed by Jo. Frederic Greuter, other plates are by Cungius, Petrus Berettius da Cortona & Cornelius Bloemaert, and Camillus C.The book seems to be complete, as it collates as thus: Engr. frontispiece (or t-p.), t-p. w. large engr. vignette, one unnumbered leaf w. 2 engr. vignettes (probably misbound and should have been pp. 5-6 (A3) ), p.1 (A1) w. engr. vignette and engr. initial, p. 3 (A2) w. engr. vignette (no A3, as this is probably the leaf bound in as the 3rd unnumbered leaf), p.7 (A4) w. engr. vignette and engr. initial, p. 9 (B1) w. engr. vignette, p. 10 (verso of B1) w. large vignette/ illustr., full-page engr. portrait of Pope Urban VIII, p. 11 (B2) w. engr. vignette and engr. initial, p. 41 (F1) w. engr. end-vignette, p. 42 (verso of F1) w. engr. vignette/ illustr., full-page engr. plate of the Barberini Palace with garden, p. 43 (F2) w. engr. vignette and engr. initial, p 46 (verso of F3) w. engr. end-vignette, 4 large folded engr. plates of the fresco-ceiling, p. 48 (verso of F4) w. engr. end-vignette, 1 large folded engr. plate (fresco-ceiling), p. 54 (verso of G3) w. engr. end-vignette, 1 large folded engr. plate (fresco-ceiling), p. 58 (verso of H1) w. large engr. illustr., p. 59 (H2) w. engr. vignette and engr. initial, p. 67 (I2) w. engr. portrait inside Barberini-border, p. 71 (I3) w. engr. portrait inside Barberini-border, p. 73 (I4) w. engr. portrait inside Barberini-border, p. 75 (K2) w. engr. portrait inside Barberini-border, p. 82 (verso of K4) w. engr. illustr. and engr. vignette, p. 83 (L2) w. engr. vignette and engr. initial, p. 96 (verso of L4) w. engr. end-vignette/ -illustration, p. 97 (N1) w. engr. vignette and engr [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn ILAB-LILA]
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Guerreiro, B.
Gloriosa coroa.da Companhia de Jesu
Lisbon, Alvarez, 1642 (Streit I, 485; Innocencio I, 332; Cordier, 354, de Matos, p 317) Quarto, contemporary full blindstamped calf over wooden boards, later rebound. Part of one of the two clasps missing. Engraved title page. Mint condition.Broad history of Jesuits in Europe and their mission activities in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Text in Portuguese. [Bookseller: Frederik Muller Rare Books BV*]
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Hexham, Captain Henry.
The Three Principles of the Art Military.
Delf, Holland. Various printers for separate sections. -1643. 1642 2nd Edition 1642. (Newly corrected and amended.) VG. HB. 9" x 13.5", deep cream kid leather covered boards, no cover titles, front and back have double line gilt impressed border, small gilt decoration in each corner, and central impressed gilt Roman Catholic Bishop's Armorial, with 3 rows of tassels, each row exceeds by one the number in that above it, (i.e 6 tassels on each side of the shield), the shield has 6 six-pointed stars, pendant from silk cords which issue from either side of the bishop's hat, which is placed over the shield, plus lavish decoration around the shield, all gilt. Spine has six double line gilt bands, with gilt decoration in each panel. No inscription. Covers showing handling wear commensurate with age, some crinkling of the kid leather, and a little wear at corners, particularly foot front corner. End papers appear to have been replaced at some stage, FEP and FFEP clean, but showing light ageing. RFEP clean, but has damp mark along front edge. REP clean with one or patches of light foxing. Title page to the 1st edition is included and is ragged around the edges. Title page to this edition is dusted and slightly aged around edges. There follows a two page letter to William Prince of Orange, and 4 pages detailing the Officers and Duties belonging to a Foote Compagnie through all their degrees from a private soldier to a captaine. This is followed by pages numbered 5-43, entitled 'Followes the Postures of the Pike, and Musket'. Then follow 12 pages numbered 1-12, 'Instructions of the Duties of a Horseman and Several Officers belonging to a Troupe of Horse under the command of the Prince of Orange. Next is the Title Page to 'The Second Part of Principles of Art Military' stating as practised in the Warres of the United Provinces, consisting of the severall formes of battels, represented by the Illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange, and His Highness Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Captaine Generall of the Army, giving the order and forme of Quartering, Encamping, and Approching in a Warre offensive and defensive. This section was printed at Delf, in Holland, by Anthony of Heusden, 1642. Then follows a letter from the author to Lord George Goring, Baron of Hosperpoint, Vice-Chancellor to his Majesty. A 1 page Index to the second part, with instructions to the bookbinder. Next is a 56 numbered page section on 'The Severall Duties of the Officers of the field belonging to an Armie'. Then follows the Title Page to the Third Part, 'Treating of Severall Peeces of Ordnance, Carriages, Engines, Quadrants, Morters, Petards, and also instructions for Master Gunners, and Canoniers, with diverse Instruments and Materials belonging to a Warre'. This section was printed at the Hagh, in Holland, by Francis vander Spruyt, 1640. Title page followed by a letter from the author to His Hignesse Charles Lodowick, Prince Electovr, County Palatine of the Rhene, and Duke of Bavaria. This is followed by A Briefe Treatise of eight severall peeces of ordnance. This section contains 50 pages, variously numbered and unnumbered, not consecutive, and appears to have been prepared for publishing from relevant sections of other works. Next section of 19 pages, is an Appendix of Lavves, Articles, and Ordinances established for Martial Discipline under the Command of the Prince of Orange, (translated from the Dutch by Captayne Henry Hexham), and printed in the Hagh by Isaac Burchoorn, 1643. This title page has a small b/w etching, and contains Articles of Quarter for the Ransoming of Officers and Souldiers, agreed and concluded between the King of Spayne on the on side, and the States Generall of the united Provinces on the other. Of the 19 pages, from page 3 there is a damp mark in the front edge head margin, which does not affect the text. similar mark on pages 18-46. The Title Page is followed by a letter from Henry Hexham, from the Citie of Delph, in Holland, 30th Januarij, 1643; to his cousins John Heydon, Esquire, of his Lordship of [Bookseller: Cheshire Book Centre]
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MARIETTE (Pierre);HONDIUS
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydpographica tabula auct: Jud. Hondio.
Paris de l'Impression de Mariette rue St Jacques à l'ìsperance 1642 [1643] 378 x 553 mm. Publiée par Pierre Mariette en 1643 dans le Théâtre géographique de France, cette très rare mappemonde est basée sur la carte de Hondius de 1617. Seulement deux états de cette édition de Mariette sont connus. Notre exemplaire, en état 1, est daté de 1642 et porte la mention "de l'impression de Mariette". Elle est ornée de deux cartes célestes, de diagrammes circulaires contenant les tables des vents, les mouvements des planètes et un calendrier perpétuel commençant en 1637. Des vignettes de monstres marins, de vaisseaux et d'un Neptune s'ajoutent à la décoration de cette carte magnifiquement gravée. Pliure centrale restaurée, sinon très bel exemplaire, de la plus grande rareté. This rare and beautiful world map was based on the map by Hondius of 1617. It was published by Pierre Mariette in 1643 in his Théâtre géographique de France. Only two states of this map are known. Our copy is in state 1, dated 1642 with the imprint of Pierre Mariette. It is superbly engraved and decorated with two celestial maps, circular diagrams containing tables of the winds and movements of the planets, and a perpetual calendar starting in 1637. The map is also embellished with vignettes of sea monsters, sailing ships and a Neptune. Centerfold restored, otherwise an excellent copy. Shirley, 358. [Bookseller: Librairie Le Bail]
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ALDROVANDI ULISSE -
Monstrorum historia cum paralipomenis historia omnium animalium. Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... composit.
Bologna, Tebaldini, 1642. In folio leg. piena pelle antica, titolo e freg in oro al dorso, a sei snodi, front. inc. da G.B. Coriolano, pp. (8)-748-(28)-159 (6) con 477 inc. xil. (moltissime a piena pag) bella marca tip. in fine. Manca all'inizio una carta bianca ed una lieve gora di circa un cm. (per dieci circa) accompagna la parte bianca sup. di tutto il volume. Nissen ZBI, 74. [Bookseller: Libreria Naturalistica snc]
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MARIETTE (Pierre);HONDIUS
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydpographica tabula auct: Jud. Hondio.
Paris de l'Impression de Mariette rue St Jacques à l'Ésperance 1642 [1643] 378 x 553 mm. Publiée par Pierre Mariette en 1643 dans le Théâtre géographique de France, cette très rare mappemonde est basée sur la carte de Hondius de 1617. Seulement deux états de cette édition de Mariette sont connus. Notre exemplaire, en état 1, est daté de 1642 et porte la mention "de l'impression de Mariette". Elle est ornée de deux cartes célestes, de diagrammes circulaires contenant les tables des vents, les mouvements des planètes et un calendrier perpétuel commençant en 1637. Des vignettes de monstres marins, de vaisseaux et d'un Neptune s'ajoutent à la décoration de cette carte magnifiquement gravée. Pliure centrale restaurée, sinon très bel exemplaire, de la plus grande rareté. This rare and beautiful world map was based on the map by Hondius of 1617. It was published by Pierre Mariette in 1643 in his Théâtre géographique de France. Only two states of this map are known. Our copy is in state 1, dated 1642 with the imprint of Pierre Mariette. It is superbly engraved and decorated with two celestial maps, circular diagrams containing tables of the winds and movements of the planets, and a perpetual calendar starting in 1637. The map is also embellished with vignettes of sea monsters, sailing ships and a Neptune. Centerfold restored, otherwise an excellent copy. Shirley, 358. [Bookseller: Librairie Le Bail]
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SALA (Gaspard).
Abbrégé du Commencement et des Progrez de la Guerre de Catalogne és années 1640 et 1641. Ensemble la Signalée Victoire de Monjuique . Traduit fidellement de l'Espagnol en François. A Rouen, Chez Iean Berthelin, 1642. (Relié à la suite:) 2). (DU MEME) Secret Publiques de Catalogne ou la Pierre de touche des intentions de l'Ennemy avec un éclaircissement de la vérité qui fait voir les finesses et tromperies de certains Papiers volans que l'Ennemy va distribuant par la Principauté de Catalogne Traduit fidellement de Catalan en François. Rouen, Iean Berthelin, 1642. 3). APPUY DE LA VERITE CATALANE, oppugnée par un libelle qui commence 'La Justification Royale'. Rouen, Iean Berhelin, 1642.
3 ouvrages en 1 volume in-4. 1). 80pp. 2). 44pp. 3). 87pp. Plein veau, dos à nerfs orné, filets dorés sur les plats, tranches dorées (Reliure de l'époque). Réunion très rare de 3 ouvrages importants pour l'histoire de la Catalogne, traduits en Français. Ils concernent le conflit connu sous le nom de "Guerra dels Segadors", qui opposa les Catalans au Roi d'Espagne entre 1640 et 1652, date à laquelle la capitulation de Barcelone après un long siège, mit fin au conflit. Ces traductions françaises, imprimées dans la ville normande de Rouen, sont très rares. Palau ne connaissait, des deux premiers textes, que les exemplaires de la Biblioteca de Catalunya. Ces ouvrages ont été publiés séparément mais ils se trouvent ici réunis par l'éditeur qui a fait imprimer le titre collectif suivant: "Histoire de tout ce qui s'est passé en la Catalogne depuis qu'elle a secoué le joug de l'Espagnol .". Palau ne connaissait pas ce tirage particulier. Quelques traces d'usure à la reliure, des rousseurs. Bon exemplaire. [Bookseller: Librería Comellas]
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DUBREUIL, Jean.
The practical manual on perspective La perspective practique.- Diverses methodes universelles et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie por faire des perspectives.
Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1642. . 4to. Later overlapping vellum with brown leather ties. Engraving on title, added engraved title, 150 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the first part, 10 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the second part, engraved head- and endpieces, engraved initials. (24), 150, 10; 25 pp. . First edition of this practical manual on perspective used a.o. by painters, engravers and architects. The added engraved title page depicts, under a cartouche at the top, an artist seated before an easel with Minerva standing at his side guiding his brush, and a cherub at his feet with an open book showing the upper part of plate 58, which the artist is copying. This work was very popular in England where two different translations were made. Although the title page is dated 1642, this work had probably appeared by the end of 1641, since by January 1642 Paris was covered with pamphlets accusing the author of plagiarism and misrepresentation. Fine copy.- (Small stain on 3 lvs). Cicognara 823; Brunet IV, 523; Berlin Kat., 4714; Fowler 108; Nicholas Savage (ed.), Early printed books, 1478-1840, Catalogue of the British Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection I, 921. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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WILLIAM & JOAN BLAEU
["Tooneel des Aerdrycx, oft Nievwe Atlas uytgegeven door Wilhelm en Johan Blaev..."].
Part of the atlas, folio 52,5x33cm. Modern full calf. Engraved title page, 4pp "Voor - Reden", 10pp"Inleyding tot de beschrijving der Wereld", 3pp "Oude en nieuwe Schipssvaert" and 9 double page maps of Scandinavia with text. AMSTERDAM c. 1642 - 47 - (1650). A COMPLETE SET OF 9 MAPS OF SCANDINAVIA PUBLISHED BEFORE "ATLAS MAJOR". THE MAPS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH WIDE MARGINS AND ARE FINELY COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, THE TITLE PAGE ALSO HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD. The Scandinavian part of the atlas "Tooneel des Aerdrycx" published in a few editions until c. 1650. The title page belongs to the 1650 edition, and the maps seem to belong to Koeman Bl.26A + B, 1642 and Koeman Bl. 29A, 1647. [Bookseller: Kunstantikvariat Pama AS]
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DUBREUIL, Jean.
The practical manual on perspective La perspective practique.- Diverses methodes universelles et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie por faire des perspectives.
Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1642. 4to. Later overlapping vellum with brown leather ties. Engraving on title, added engraved title, 150 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the first part, 10 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the second part, engraved head- and endpieces, engraved initials. (24), 150, 10; 25 pp. First edition of this practical manual on perspective used a.o. by painters, engravers and architects. The added engraved title page depicts, under a cartouche at the top, an artist seated before an easel with Minerva standing at his side guiding his brush, and a cherub at his feet with an open book showing the upper part of plate 58, which the artist is copying. This work was very popular in England where two different translations were made. Although the title page is dated 1642, this work had probably appeared by the end of 1641, since by January 1642 Paris was covered with pamphlets accusing the author of plagiarism and misrepresentation. Fine copy.- (Small stain on 3 lvs). Cicognara 823; Brunet IV, 523; Berlin Kat., 4714; Fowler 108; Nicholas Savage (ed.), Early printed books, 1478-1840, Catalogue of the British Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection I, 921. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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VEEN, JAN VAN DER.
ZINNE-BEELDEN, OFT ADAMS APPEL. MITSGADERS SYNE OUDE ENDE NIEUWE ONGEMEENE BRUYDT-LOFS ENDE ZEGE-ZANGEN. AMSTERDAM, EVERHARD CLOPPENBURGH, 1642.
4to. 19th century fullgrained red morocco, spine with raised bands with finely gilt stamped decoration, geometrically gilt stamped panel on sides with finely gilt stamped ornaments, and the gilt stamped armorial supra-libros of the Earl of Spencer in center, richly gilt inner dentelles, fully gilt edges, gauffered.at borders and corners With large emblematic engraving on title, and 50 full-page engraved emblems by S. Savry. (24), 523 (1 blank) pp. Rare first edition of Jan van der Veen's famous emblembook, to which his popular songbook, enlarged with new songs, is added. The book is dedicated to the magistrates of the city of Deventer in the eastern Netherlands, where the poet lived and kept a pharmacy, probably also running a grocery-store. The beautiful large emblems, here in first impressions, by the sensitive artist Salomon Savry, or Saverij (Amsterdam 1594-1678), all have a two-lined motto in Dutch above and in French below. Emblem XIV is mounted in correction as it should be in the first edition. The present first edition is the only one with French text, and the only one in quarto. The book was republished till the middle of the 18th century, but all in octavo. Beautiful copy with a great provenance, in special binding of the famous library of the Earl of Spencer, and with the book-label of Althorp.- (Binding sl. rubbed at corners). Landwehr 842; Praz pp. 522-523; De Vries 167; Scheurleer, Liedboeken, p. 156; Hollstein XXIV, 181; Nagler 30. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV - 't Goy-Houten - ]
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MARIETTE (Pierre);HONDIUS
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydpographica tabula auct: Jud. Hondio.
Paris de l'Impression de Mariette rue St Jacques à l'Ésperance 1642 [1643] - 378 x 553 mm. Publiée par Pierre Mariette en 1643 dans le Théâtre géographique de France, cette très rare mappemonde est basée sur la carte de Hondius de 1617. Seulement deux états de cette édition de Mariette sont connus. Notre exemplaire, en état 1, est daté de 1642 et porte la mention "de l'impression de Mariette". Elle est ornée de deux cartes célestes, de diagrammes circulaires contenant les tables des vents, les mouvements des planètes et un calendrier perpétuel commençant en 1637. Des vignettes de monstres marins, de vaisseaux et d'un Neptune s'ajoutent à la décoration de cette carte magnifiquement gravée. Pliure centrale restaurée, sinon très bel exemplaire, de la plus grande rareté. This rare and beautiful world map was based on the map by Hondius of 1617. It was published by Pierre Mariette in 1643 in his Théâtre géographique de France. Only two states of this map are known. Our copy is in state 1, dated 1642 with the imprint of Pierre Mariette. It is superbly engraved and decorated with two celestial maps, circular diagrams containing tables of the winds and movements of the planets, and a perpetual calendar starting in 1637. The map is also embellished with vignettes of sea monsters, sailing ships and a Neptune. Centerfold restored, otherwise an excellent copy. Shirley, 358. [Bookseller: Librairie Le Bail]
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TETIUS, HIERONYMUS. - [THE BARBERINI
Aedes Barberinae ad Quirinalem.
Romae, Excudebat Mascardus, 1642. Folio. Beautiful red full morocco w. richly gilt back. Boards w. gilt ornamental borders, inside which another square gilt border w. a large diamond-shaped border inside, gilt corner-ornamentations. Triple blind-stamped line-borders following the gilt ones (gift-binding). On both boards a centre-ornamentation (weapon?) has been removed (to hide provenance?), revealing beautiful, cont. but vague drawings of angels on both boards, inside the gilt border, surrounding the missing centrepiece. All edges gilt, capitals, hinges and corners professionally restored. Lacking ties. Inside of boards and endpapers w. insect-bites. A cont. owner's name has been removed from top of frontispiece (same provenance as that of the removed weapons?). Some brownspotting and overall wear. Some leaves w. small holes to margins, none affecting illustrations or text. A few of the folded plates w. tears and a few w. repairs. Engr. frontispiece/ t-p., numerous large engr. head- and tail-pieces and initials, engr. text-illustrations, 18 full-page engr. plates and 11 folded engr. plates. (6), 221, (1), (30) pp. [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn A/S]
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DUBREUIL, Jean.
La perspective practique.- Diverses methodes universelles et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie por faire des perspectives.
The practical manual on perspective Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1642. 4to. Later overlapping vellum with brown leather ties. Engraving on title, added engraved title, 150 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the first part, 10 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the second part, engraved head- and endpieces, engraved initials. (24), 150, 10; 25 pp. First edition of this practical manual on perspective used a.o. by painters, engravers and architects. The added engraved title page depicts, under a cartouche at the top, an artist seated before an easel with Minerva standing at his side guiding his brush, and a cherub at his feet with an open book showing the upper part of pla