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Les Jeunes Artistes, Contes. Léon le Jeune Graveur. Valérie la Jeune Artiste Peintre. Prosper le Jeune Sculpteur. Emmeline la Jeune Musicienne. Quatrième ...

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG WOMAN. 8vo. (4), 384 pp, plus steel-engr. frontispiece and three further plates, each with original tissue guard. Including divisional half-titles. Bound in ...

Published by: Didier, Paris, 1854
US$ 450.00
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Ehret die Frauen. MDCCCXXXVIII.

A RARE LONDON-PRINTED GERMAN ANNUAL, BY THE JEWISH PURVEYOR OF GERMAN BOOKS FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Sm 4to. [20 x 13.5]. (40) pp, plus engr. frontispiece and 17 [of 18?] stipple-engraved, ...

Published by: Abraham Asher & Co., Fleet Street, London, 1838
US$ 550.00
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Novena in Onore di Gesù Nazareno la di cui Immagine fatta Schiava da’ Mori Africani e Redenta dai PP. Trinitari Scalzi del Riscatto degli Schiavi. Si ...

12mo. 51, (1) pp. Modern grey wrappers; edges speckled in blue. Very good.

, Forlì, Barbiani, 1777
US$ 850.00
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Explication des Ouvrages de Peinture, Sculpture, Architecture et Gravure, des Artistes vivans, Exposés au Musée Napoléon, le 14 Octobre 1808, Second ...

THE SALON OF 1808, TABULATED BY A CONTEMPORARY (RUSSIAN?) CRITIC. 8vo. (2) ff, 120 pp. Bound in 19th century green marbled boards with a cloth spine. This copy showing concerted signs of use: the ...

Published by: Dubray, Imprimeur du Musée Napoléon, Paris, 1808
US$ 450.00
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Pratica dell’ Estimatore… con cui si da un chiaro ragguaglio del valore de’ materiali, la quantità d’essi, e fatture che si richiedono per la ...

A HANDY GUIDE FOR THE LATE 18TH CENTURY CONTRACTOR AND RENOVATOR. 8vo. Engr. title-page, IV pp, (5)-206 pp, (2). Bound in original printed pink wrappers, now rather worn. Occasional dogearing, ...

Published by: Davico, Torino, 1790
US$ 950.00
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Indice delle Stampe Intagliate in Rame a bulino, e in acqua forte, Esistente nella Stamperia di Domenico de’ Rossi, erede di Gio. Giacomo, Apresso Santa ...

A CONTEMPORARY CATALOGUE INCLUDING PRINTS AND SEPARATELY-ISSUED VIEWS OF ROME; NO COPY IN AUCTION RECORDS OF THE LAST 50 YEARS. Tall 12mo. [15.3 x 8.8 cm]. 105 pp, (3). Bound in 18th century ...

Published by: [Antonio de’ Rossi], Rome, 1724
US$ 2,250.00
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Stammbuch / Album amicorum of Frau E. E. Dressel

A WOMAN'S ALBUM AMICORUM FROM THE GOETHEZEIT, 1802-1810. Oblong 8vo., 18 x 12 cm. (88) pp, including approximately 50 entries as well as 7 colored ink sketches, 2 bistre ink sketches, 1 pencil ...

, Coburg [Oberbayern], 1802
US$ 850.00
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Descripcion artistica del Real Monasterio de S. Lorenzo del Escorial, y sus Preciosidades despues de la Invasion de los Franceses

A DESCRIPTIVE TOUR OF THE ESCORIAL’S ART COLLECTIONS, WITH LOSSES AND RESTITUTIONS DUE TO NAPOLEON’S ARMIES. 8vo. XII pp, 400 [i.e. 401] pp, (3). Bound in contemporary tree calf with gilt ...

Published by: Rosa Sanz, Madrid, 1820
US$ 1,450.00
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Numismata omnium Imperatorum Romanorum mnemonica, ordine descripta, et imaginibus accuratis repraesentata. Opus vere regium, omnibus omnium ordinum, utile ...

8vo. (20), 7-223, (1) pp. With 28 full-page engraved plates tipped in and engraved vignette of "Christian Wermuth, Medallator" on title-page. Bound in late 18th century half-vellum over speckled ...

, Gotha, Christoph Reyher, 1715
US$ 2,000.00
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De Minnende Siele. Gheschoncken aen alle Lief-Hebbers Godts voor een Nieuw-Jaer. - [bound with] - De Lydende Siele. Gheschoncken voor een Nieuw-Jaer tot ...

1) 12mo. (4), 7-46, (2) pp., including engraved frontispiece and 14 half-page emblems in text, as well as engr. frame on B12r. Lacking letterpress half-title (A1). Old paper repair to margin of A4 ...

, Antwerp, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1665
US$ 2,450.00
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La Noblesse de Lorraine.

12 etchings, each 14.5 x 9.5 cm on laid paper. Mounted in a charming album of yellow and blue hand-coloured borders also on laid paper, except for the last plate, affixed casually to a blank leaf. ...

, Paris, Isaac Silvestre, ca. 1625 / 18th c
US$ 2,450.00
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Les Merveilles de l'Amour Divin... Enrichie des Figures.

4to. (6) ff, 323 [i.e. 327] pp, (1), including additional engraved title signed C. Galle after N. van der Horst, vignette on title-page, frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee (Mademoiselle ...

, Brussels, Francois Vivien, 1633
US$ 2,250.00
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Collection of 61 prints by the Flemish engraver Pieter Fierens (ca. 1580-1636).

Like Thomas de Leu, Fierens left Antwerp for Paris in the early 17th century but maintained ties with his native city, bringing with him the Jesuit visual culture so dominant in Antwerp and ...

Published by: various publishers, Paris, ca. 1610
US$ 4,500.00
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Avvenimenti amorosi di Psiche; Poema Eroico... Nuovamente arricchito di vaghi argomenti dal Clariss. Sig. Francesco Contarini.

Small 8vo. (8) ff, 171 [i.e. 175] pp (61-4 repeated in pagination), with engraved title and 8 full-page integral engraved plates. 18th century velum over boards with manuscript title on spine, all ...

, Venice, [Giambattista] Ciotti, 1617
US$ 1,650.00
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Vero disegno, e dichiarazione dello stendardo reale preso al Gran Visir nella presente battaglia, e mandato alla santità di nostro signore papa Innocenzo ...

4to. 4 pp. With a large woodcut on the title-page. Bound in modern half vellum with papered boards using a red and black Greek liturgical print. Extremely rare description of the silk flag of ...

, Rome, Giovanni Francesco Buagni for Francesco Leone, 1691
US$ 1,500.00
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Vitae et icones sultanorum Turcicorum, principum Persarum aliorumque illustrium heroum heroinarumque ab Osmane usque ad Mahometem II.

HOEFNAGEL’S MASTERFUL PORTRAITS OF SULTANS AND SULTANAS, SOME FINISHED IN (CONTEMPORARY?) COLOR. 4to. 5 ff., 356 (i.e. 353) pp, (5) pp. Engraved title page and 47 full-page portrait engravings ...

Published by: Theodor de Bry, Frankfurt, 1596
US$ 18,500.00
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[The Tomb of Urban VIII].

“POTREBBE ESSERE LA PIÙ ANTICA TRADUZIONE DEL SEPOLCRO DI URBANO VIII…” (CIUFFA). Engraving, 65 x 39 cm to platemarks, on sheet 66 x 42 cm. Printed on laid, unwatermarked paper. Two ...

Published by: “Gio. Giacomo Rossi li stampa alla Pace all'Insegna di Parigi, Rome, after 1653?
US$ 1,850.00
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[The Tomb of Urban VIII].

BERNINI UNCENSORED: THE EARLIEST PRINTED DEPICTION OF THE TOMB OF URBAN VIII (CIUFFA). Engraving, 65 x 39 cm to platemarks, on sheet 67.5 x 42.5 cm. Printed on laid paper, watermarked indistinctly ...

Published by: “Gio. Domenico Rossi li stampa in Navona all'Insegna di Parigi, Rome, ca. 1650
US$ 2,250.00
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Description d'un Sceau d'Or de Louis XII

THE GOLDEN SEAL OF LOUIS XII: A POLITICALLY-INFLECTED NUMISMATIC TREATISE. Large 8vo. [23.3 x 14.8 cm]. (7), 8-29 pp, (1), plus folding engr. plate signed R. de Launay. Bound in publisher’s pink ...

Published by: C. Wasermann, Paris, 1814
US$ 650.00
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Wie boren zynen staet, verwaent zich durf verheffen, en stecken overdwaas den Hemel naar zyn Kroon

ENGLAND’S GLORIOUS REVOLUTION, FROM A DUTCH PERSPECTIVE. Single-sheet broadside, 56 x 40.5 cm, consisting of engraved image [29.6 x 38.5 cm] and letterpress verses. A dark, rich impression with ...

, Netherlands, 1688
US$ 2,250.00
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Courte Description des Choses plus Remarquables du Palais Grimani a Sainte Marie Formosa.

A STROLL THROUGH THE MUSEO GRIMANI. 12mo. 12 pp, plus initial and terminal blanks, and with a folding engr. plate of the Palazzo’s façade. Bound in modern card covers. Single pinhole-sized ...

Published by: [no printer], [Venice], ca. 1820
US$ 550.00
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Roma Triumphans seu Actus inaugurationum & coronationum Pontificum Romanum, & in spetie. Innocentii X. Pont. Max. Brevis Descriptio, Cum omnibus triumphis & ...

PROCESSIONS AND FIREWORKS FOR THE NEW POPE: A TINY FESTIVAL BOOK. 12mo. [13 x 7 cm]. (24) pp including added engr. title-page and full-page portrait of Innocent X, 480 pp, (84) pp, plus 14 further ...

Published by: Johann Arcer, Franeker [Friesland], 1656
US$ 2,850.00
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De Schilderkonst, eerst in Latynze Vaerzen Beschreven door C. A. du Fresnoy; in ‘t Frans gebragt, en met Aantekeningen verrykt door den Heer de Piles. ...

FRENCH ART THEORY REACHES HOLLAND. 8vo. (44) pp including engr. frontispiece, 173 pp plus 1 further engr. plate, (21) pp, 30 pp, 62 pp. Both plates signed by the translator, Johannes Verhoek, as ...

Published by: Balthazar Lakeman, Amsterdam, 1722
US$ 1,450.00
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Les Aventures du Jeune Pretty

BRIGANDS, THE WANDERING JEW, AND AN ELEPHANT: THE ADVENTURES OF ‘PRETTY’. Small 4to. (4), 124 pp, plus engr. title-page and 17 further plates. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over ...

Published by: Louis Janet, Paris, [1836?]
US$ 950.00
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