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Extremely rare second bilingual (Dutch and French) edition of a classic architectural work on the five orders of classical
columns, here with all texts and materials from the two different issues. The book first appeared in Latin at Zrich in 1550 and
was translated into numerous languages, including Dutch in 1592. Visscher published a Dutch edition in 1617 and the first
bilingual (Dutch & French) edition in 1623. The book was originally illustrated with large-scale diagrammatic woodcuts (here,
as in most 17th-century editions, with copperplates) that could easily be understood and that certainly helped to assure the
books popularity throughout Europe for over a century.
The present copy may be called the Dutch issue, for the illustrations are printed next to the Dutch text and the book begins with
the Dutch preliminaries, but the French preliminaries have been included between the Dutch preliminaries and the main text.
Although both title-pages say printed by Visscher, this refers to the printing of the copperplates. He must have farmed out the
letterpress printing, for its type, initials and ornaments clearly identify the printer as Paulus van Ravesteyn.
Rather worn, with a tear across the title-page repaired at an early date (using a strip of paper from a 17th or 18th century
drawing of children or putti, pasted to the blank back of the leaf), some leaves reinforced at the edges, some water stains and
soiling. The paper sides are damaged. A rare and attractive edition of an architectural classic, combining all material from two
different issues.
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) XXXVIII, pp. 159-160, 392-413 note; De Long & De Groot I, 319, c. 1-5; STCN (1 copy); WorldCat (2 copies of French issue);
cf. BAL 311-313 and 881; Harris & Savage, British architectural books, p. 121.
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Much ado about the faade of Milan Cathedral, with unexecuted designs
First edition of a charming treatise with beautiful engraved plates with plans, cross-sections, an elevation of the stage and a
plan of the decorated ceiling for a proposed design for a new comedy theatre to be built in Paris, by the famous graphic artist,
draughtsman and engraver Charles Nicholas Cochin the younger (1715-1790). Like his father, the son worked mainly as a book
illustrator, producing print series for Lafontaines tales and the works of Rousseau, Boccaccio, Tasso, etc. He also collaborated
with the architect Bellicard to produce a work on Roman antiquities. His designs for the festivals and splendid ceremonies at the
court of Louis XV became especially famous. All six plates are signed by the engraver Maroye, who collaborated with Cochin on
several projects. The book was printed in Paris.
The title-page is a cancel and the watermarks confirm that the cancel title-page was printed with the second quire as the last leaf
B12, so the book is not a reissue and the title-page may therefore have been cancelled to correct an error discovered during the
printing.
Lacking the initial blank leaf, A1. With the engraved bookplate (signed Stern graveur) of Ludovic Halvy (1834 -1908),
literary author and poet of Offenbach librettos. Very good copy, with only occasional very minor foxing, and nearly untrimmed
(retaining some deckles and point holes).
Cioranesco 19932; not in BAL; Cohen-De Ricci.
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5. [DRAWINGS - ARCHITECTURAL]. [On front wrapper:] Dissegno per la fabrica della Libreria Canonicale.
[Verona, ca. 1720/25]. Folio (38.5 x 25.5 cm). With 4 architectural drawings, 3 double-page (ca. 37 x 50 cm at a scale of about 1:60)
and 1 loosely inserted full-page (24 x 35 cm at a scale of about 1:107), skillfully drawn in brown ink and several shades of grey
watercolour. Two of the double-page drawings are elevations (1 partly in cross-section), the other 2 drawings are floor plans,
each plan with a folding flap tipped on showing the plan of a higher level. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. 25.000
The original designs for the alterations to the chapter library
at Verona, situated in the Church of St. Helena, abutting the
famous Cathedral of San Zeno (the common wall appears
in the drawings). The alteration was ordered by Scipione
Maffei (1675-1755) and Jacopo(?) Muselli and executed by the
architect Lodovico Perini; it was finished in 1726.
In 1713 Maffei, a leading scholar, poet and man of letters,
had made a remarkable discovery in the library: in its
old cupboards he found late-classical and early Christian
manuscripts from the 5th to 9th century, stored there
centuries earlier, apparently to protect them against danger
of flooding of the river Adige. On the basis of these old
manuscripts and helped by the Canon Carlo Carinelli,
Maffei formulated a completely new and epoch-making
theory regarding the development of the Latin script in
three variants: the Roman majuscule, the minuscule and
the cursive hand, showing an uninterrupted evolution from
Roman Antiquity to the Renaissance. Maffei published
the results of his studies in his Istoria diplomatica (1727)
and Verona illustrata (1742). The rediscovery of these old
manuscripts also resulted in a revival of Patristic studies and
many new editions of the works of the Church Fathers.
With some faint stains near the fore-edges (an one edge of the loosely inserted drawing) and a couple rust spots in the paper,
but still in very good condition.
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Presentation copy,
with more than 100 garden drawings & plans
7. FORESTIER, Jean-Claude-Nicolas. Jardins: carnet de plans et de
dessins.
Paris, mile-Paul frres, 1920. Royal 4to (33 x 26.5 cm). With an
engraved garden scene on the front wrapper and more than 100
drawings and plans printed from line blocks, many full-page.
Black morocco presentation binding, gold-tooled, with the original
publishers wrappers.
475
A French bibliophile and hortophile publication, with the authors
numerous large plans and drawings of gardens that range from 300
to 5000 square metres. One of 45 copies sur grand papier dArches.
Forestier (1861-1930) presented it in 1924 to the futur professeur
J.M. Duvernay. Binding good, with the front wrapper slightly dirty
and with a small abrasion, and the morocco binding worn at the back
hinge and the corners. Presentation copy, in very good condition, of
a lovely garden book, with numerous large drawings and plans.
Not in Kew Lib. Cat. on-line; Springer, Bibl. Overzicht.
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Three rare architectural print series, the rarest devoted to French pipe organs
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12. HORST, Tileman van der and Jacob POLLEY. Theatrum machinarum universale; of keurige verzameling van verscheide
grote en zeer fraaie waterwerken, schutsluizen, waterkeringen, ophaal- en draaibruggen.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), 1757-1774. Imperial folio (50 x 34 cm). With 2 title-pages in red
and black, each with the same engraved allegorical device, a double-page engraved dedication plate and 41 double-page and 7
larger folding engraved illustration plates. Red half sheepskin, blue-grey paper sides (ca. 1800). 3.250
Second edition of both volumes of a remarkably detailed set of scale construction drawings (plans, sections, elevations,
perspective views, etc., including many detail drawings of individual parts) of 18th-century Dutch waterworks, with the
accompanying letterpress descriptions and notes. It includes locks, sluices, bridges, pumps, pile drivers, an ice-breaker, an
elaborate water-bailing mill and more. Most of the plates measure about 45 x 54 cm, with the folding ones about 52 x 76 cm.
At least most of the plates depict existing works, and the text occasionally gives some historical information. The drawings are
so detailed and give such a clear picture of how the mechanisms functioned that one could use them to reconstruct the works
shown. A fine copy, nearly untrimmed, with only some false folds in the half-title and an occasional minor defect in the paper.
Plate 23 in volume 1 has no number, but it may have been trimmed off at the head. The inside front hinge has partly separated
from the book-block, but the binding is otherwise good. A fine copy of a magnificent display of Dutch hydraulic engineering.
Bierens de Haan [3818.5] & [4839.5] (vol. II only, with later ed. of vol. I); STCN (2 & 4 copies of the 2 volumes); not in Berlin Kat.; Roberts & Trent, Bibl.
Mechanica.
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Extremely rare complete copy of the second edition of a very important work for its time (Een voor dien tijd zeer belangrijk
werk, Springer) of engraved garden designs, by the renowned architect and draughtsman Jean Charles Krafft (1764-1833),
with explanations of the plates in French, English and German. The plates illustrate the most beautiful picturesque gardens,
landscapes and related designs (including castles, mansions, etc.), in France, England and Germany, including the estate of
the Prince of Montelbeliard in Alsace (designed by Jean Baptiste Kleber), the garden and castle of Harnoit in Picardie (by
Huvet), the garden of Htel de Soubise (by M Jacques Cellerier), the gardens of Schwetzingen Castle, the gardens of Stowe at
Buckinghamshire, and the gardens of the castle of the Marquis de Floriment (by Kleber). The designs are primarily form the
18th and 19th century and were designed in various styles including Egyptian, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Gothic, Greec, Roman
and French.
The series was originally published in 24 monthly instalments in 1809/10 as Plans des plus beaux jardins pittoresques de France,
dAngleterre et dAllemagne.
With contemporary owners inscription of L. Reijff on each of the boards. The text of instalment 7, part 1, is erroneously bound
in instalment 7 of part 2, and the text of the latter is bound after the text of instalment 6, part 2. With some occasional minor
foxing and the paper of the bindings with some ears and abrasions. A very good copy of the extremely rare second edition of a
collection of engraved gardens designs, in the original publishers printed boards.
WorldCat (4 copies, incl. 2 with part 1 only); for the first edition see: BAL 1694; Berlin Kat. 3312a (lacking 1 plate); Brunet III, col. 694; Ganay 168bis
(Second part with 12 plates only); Graesse IV, p. 46 (first part only); Springer, Tuinkunst, p. 80, no. 331.
8 large plans and elevations of an innovative 1687 house on an island in the River Vecht
15. KRAMER, Herbert. [Huis te Nigtevecht, incipit:] Aan den edelen agtbaren heer Pieter Reael, heere tot Nigtevegt,
oud-schepen en raad der stad Amsterdam. ende aan syn eds. waarde gemalinne mevrou Maria Eleonora Huidecoper van
Maarseveen, vrouwe tot Nigtevegt. werden dese gronden en gezigten van haar edd. huys, met schuldige eerbiedigheyt
opgedragen.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckerts the younger, [ca. 1696]. Royal folio (44.5 x 29.5). With 8 double-page engraved plates (plate
size mostly ca. 29.5 x 35.5 cm) by Bastiaan Stopendaal after the designs of Herbert Kramer, showing plans and elevations of the
house designed for Pieter Reael and his wife Maria Eleonora Huydekoper and the surrounding water and drawbridge; a halfpage engraved coats-of-arms of Reael and his wife on the back of the dedication page; and a woodcut decorated initial. Modern
half maroon goatskin morocco, marbled sides. 4.500
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Rare first and only edition of an architectural print series of 3 elevations and 5 plans of the stately manor house Huis te
Nigtevecht also known as De Nes, designed by the Amsterdam architect Herbert Kramer (d. 1705). The house nearly fills
a small square island in the Vecht river, near Vreeland, southeast of Amsterdam. One plan includes the surrounding water
and the drawbridge that gave access to the house, and another shows the roof. The house was built in 1687 for Pieter Reael
(1650-1701), Lord of Nigtevecht, after his 1683 marriage with Maria Eleonora Huydecoper (1658-1706), the daughter of the
magistrate, burgomaster of Amsterdam and humanist Balthasar Huydecoper. Huis te Nigtevecht was torn down in 1829/30, so
the present print series gives us our best record of its original form. Its large octagonal hall looking on to the garden is of special
architectural interest, for it may be the earliest example of this form, which shows French influences. Otherwise it follows
the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch manor house architecture and resembles Oud-Poelgeest (1667) near Leiden and
Trompenburg (ca. 1675) in s-Graveland. The 1719 Zegepraalende Vecht includes an engraving with a view of the house and its
drawbridge by Daniel Stoopendael.
The single letterpress leaf preceding the plates serves as title-page, but gives no title. It opens with the dedication to Pieter
Reael and his wife, signed by the architect Herbert Cramer, stads mr. metselaar en keurmeester van de gebakken steen over
Amsterdam (official master brick mason and inspector of brick for the city of Amsterdam). Although the last date mentioned
in the text is 1688 and the plates must have been engraved before Stoopendaels death in 1693, Danckerts took occupancy at the
address in the imprint only when he married the daughter of the late Albertus Magnus and his widow in 1696. He probably
published the print series in or soon after that year, and clearly before Reaels death in 1701.
The name HB Kramer has been supposed to refer to a Hendrick Kramer, but is almost certainly the Herbert who signed the
dedication and the man of that name buried in Amsterdam in 1705. He is likely the voornaam liefhebber, H.K. who drew
the illustrations for the undated Architecture van verscheidene nieuwe poorten; f deuren van huisen, engraved and published by
Danckerts from the same address.
In very good condition, with only some browning near some of the folds (from the guards of an earlier binding) and
occasionally along the edges.
BAL 796 note; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemmish) XXVIII, p. 132, 25; Munnig Schmidt & A.J.A.M. Lisman, Plaatsen aan de Vecht en de Angstel (1997), p.
16; on Reael and the house: Elias 173; J. Broerstra, Verdwenen buitenplaatsen in Vreeland. De Nes, in: Jaarb. Oudheidk. Genootsch. Niftarlake, 1989, pp.
23-37.
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17. LETH, Hendrik de. [Views of the Dutch royal estate Soestdijk].
[Amsterdam], Hendrik de Leth, [ca. 1731]. Royal folio (55 x 34 cm). With large double-page general birds-eye view of the Dutch
royal estate Soestdijk (image size 35 x 47 cm) by B. Stoopendaal after B. Stuyvenburgh, and 16 numbered engraved views of
details of the palace, gardens and other buildings (image size 12 x 16 cm) printed on 8 leaves. Modern half parchment. 4.750
Very rare print series of the palace, gardens and other buildings of the Dutch royal estate Soestdijk, built mostly by Willem III,
Prince of Orange, Dutch head of state and from 1689 also King of England. The estate passed to his son and then his grandson
Willem Karel Hendrik Friso (1711-1751), Prince of Orange, who became the Dutch head of state in 1731 as Stadholder Willem IV.
The large general view, with the city of Utrecht barely visible on the horizon, is rarely found with the series, but De Leth seems
likely to have issued them together. Bastiaen Stoopendael (1637-1693) engraved and published the general view soon after
Willem was crowned King William III of England in 1689. Hendrik de Leth (1703-1766) and his father Andries published views
of Diemermeer by Stoopendaels son Daniel in 1725 and Hendrik seems likely to have added his name to the general view and
published it together with the present numbered series soon after his fathers death in 1731, perhaps for the occasion of Willem
IVs appointment as Stadholder in that year. Well-printed with ample margins. The 16 views have been cut down, leaving a
margin of about 2 mm, and mounted two to a leaf on 18th-century(?) unwatermarked laid paper. Very good copy of a very rare
print series of King William IIIs Dutch royal palace and gardens.
The Anglo-Dutch Garden 24 (ca. 1690 state of general view only); Springer, p. 45 (without the general view); Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) XXVIII, B.
Stoopendael 24 (ca. 1690 state of general view only); not in Berlin Kat.
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Fine set of the rarest of great French garden landscaping, art & architecture books
20. PANSERON, Pierre. Recueil de jardinage. [Ier]- IVme volume. [vols. 2-4 with title: Recueil de jardins Anglois et Chinois].
Paris, the author, Denos, Mondare, Basan (vols. 3-4: the author only), 1783-1788. With 4 engraved title-pages, 2 engraved ll. with
explanatory text, and 110 engraved illustrations on 109 plates. At least the present copy also includes a 3-page engraved price
list for both the Recueil de jardins and the Recueil des dcorations.
With:
(2) PANSERON, Pierre. Recueil des dcorations propre a embellir les jardins Anglois et Chinois.
Paris, the author, 1785. With engraved title-page and 56 engraved plates in ten series.
(3) PANSERON, Pierre. Catalogue des ouvrages darchitecture du Sieur Panseron.
Paris, the author, [ca. 1783]. 2 works plus publishers catalogue in 5 volumes. 4to. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled
spines. Panserons price list offered copies bound in bazanne, so the present copy may be in the publishers own binding.
60.000
Fine set of the rarest of great French gardening books by Pierre Panseron (ca. 1736-1787), a well-known Paris architect and Royal
engraver. The Recueil de jardinage is divided into many smaller parts, which were also sold separately. Panseron had studied
with the great French architect Jacques Franois Blondel and had been building inspector for the Prince de Conti and professor
of drawing at the Royal Military Academy before he settled at Paris as a private tutor of architecture and drawing. He published
a number of architectural and gardening atlases, the full catalogues of which are added to volume four, both in letterpress
and on engraved leaves. All plates were designed and engraved by Panseron. The plates of the present works are printed on
strong paper with slightly bluish cast, some of it by Arthaud in Auvergne. They present a rich and wonderful survey of garden
landscaping, art and architecture in France in the second half of the 18th century when English and Chinese gardens were en
vogue. The bindings show surface damage and some professional restorations, but most of the plates are in fine condition. An
important garden publication of the utmost rarity.
De Ganay 111 (description based on a 1931 sale catalogue) & 113; KVK & WorldCat (4 copies with 4 vols. but reporting only 28 plates; 1 copy with vols.
1-3; a few single vols.); not in Springer; Fowler; Berlin Kat.
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8 complete print series with text, forming the collected architectural work of Pieter Post
21. POST, Pieter. Les ouvrages darchitecture.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1715. 8 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (46 x 29.5 cm). With an engraved general title-page. letterpress
general title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, 8 letterpress part-titles, each repeating the vignette of the general
title-page, 3 engraved part-titles, engraved dedication, a folding engraved portrait of Prince Maurits after Govert Flinck by C.
van Dalen, and 8 series of 6, 12, 8, 5, 11, 7, 4 and 23 mostly double-page and some larger folding etched and engraved numbered
plates (including the 3 engraved title-pages already noted) by Jan Mathijs & P. Nolpe after designs by Pieter Post, showing
architectural plans, elevations, sections, etc. In total about 80 copperplates. Mottled calf (ca. 1750), richly gold-tooled spine,
marbled endpapers.
12.500
Splendid collected works of the most famous Dutch architect and master builder of the 17th century, Pieter Post (1608-1669),
including the enormous folding portrait of his patron Johan Maurits, governor of Brasil, not included in all copies. Each of the
first 7 parts is devoted to a single building by Pieter Post, and they are high points in the history of Dutch architecture. Among
them are the house of Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange in The Hague (now the Mauritshuis Museum); the house and
gardens of Amalia van Solms (now the Huis ten Bosch, residence of the Dutch Royal family); the Maastricht city hall and the
weigh house in Gouda.
With small tears in the portrait where the folds cross, one plate slightly slurred by the printer and some leaves restored, but still
in good condition. 2 plates of the 2nd series are mistakenly bound with the 8th series. The binding has a tear in the spine and
various smaller tears, scrapes and scratches, the foot of the spine and a few smaller parts have been restored. Splendid collected
works of the most famous Dutch architect and master builder of the 17th century.
BAL 2603; Berlin Kat. 2231; Cicognara 621; Weinreb, Catalogue 2, 119; modern reprint (Soest 1970); not in Fowler.
engraved headpiece, 100 numbered half-page engraved views on 50 leaves, 2 additional engravings bound in facing the leaf
with engravings 79-80.
(6) [BRUIN, Claas and Daniel STOOPENDAAL]. De Vechtstroom van Utrecht tot Muiden, ... Les dlices de la rivire le Vecht,
dUtrecht Muiden ...
Amsterdam, H. Gartman, W. Vermandel and J. Smit, 1791. With engraved frontispiece, engraved map showing the places and
estates from Utrecht to Muiden, 102 numbered half-page engraved views (including the 4 bis plates) on 51 leaves. 6 works in
7 volumes, bound as 1. Later (mid-20th-century?) gold-tooled vellum, spine with gold-tooled red morocco label in 2nd of 6
compartments.
12.500
Beautiful collection of 6 famous works with over 400 views of country estates, including inns, gardens, churches, windmills, and
in many cases the estates of wealthy merchants and noblemen, mostly from Amsterdam but also from Utrecht, The Hague and
other cities in the region of Holland. Engraved and drawn by Abraham Rademaker, Hendrik de Leth and Daniel Stoopendaal.
Containing:
1)The first edition of Hollands Arcadia, a series of views of the stately houses and their gardens, inns and factories, as well as the
towns and villages, along the Amstel river from Amsterdam to Loenersloot castle, about 20 kilometres south of the city. With
the views engraved and drawn from life by Abraham Rademaker (1676/77-1735), one of the most important topographic artists
of his day, and a large poem by Gysbert Tysens.
2 ) The first edition of Het Verheerlykt Watergraefs- of Diemer-Meer, with Stoopendaals finely engraved views of country houses,
public buildings, parks and gardens in the Diemermeer, south of the city of Amsterdam. Stoopendaal (1672-1726) was one of the
leading artists of his day. The Diemermeer lake (610 hectares) was diked and drained from 1624 to 1629, but a 1651 flood wiped
out nearly all that had been built there. It was rebuilt, the large country houses and estates of wealthy Amsterdam citizens
competing with each other for the splendour of their gardens, illustrated for the first time in the present work.
3) First edition of Spiegel van Amsterdams Zomervreugd, with 20 views of stately houses, churches, factories, canals, row houses
and other sights in Amsterdam and neighbouring villages by Rademaker, accompanied by a descriptive poem of nearly 600
lines by Tysens.
4) First edition of Hollands Tempe Verhrelykt, with 30 views of stately houses and gardens, churches, windmills, public buildings
and other sights along the Haarlemse Trekvaart, the canal connecting Amsterdam and Haarlem, accompanied by a descriptive
poem of well over 1000 lines by Tysens.
5) First edition of Het zegenpralent Kennemerlant, with 100 views and plans of estates, gardens, buildings and ruins in
Kennemerland, a region near the Dutch coast, west of Amsterdam and north of Haarlem. The accompanying text by the leading
Amsterdam jurist, antiquarian and poet Matthaeus Brouerius van Nidek (1677-1742) discusses the history and topography
of the region. He also wrote the poem that faces the frontispiece. The views, map and frontispiece were engraved and mostly
drawn by Hendrik de Leth (1703-1766).
6) Third folio edition of Stoopendaals views of the Vecht region, the favourite area for wealthy people from Amsterdam and
Utrecht to build their country houses.
In very good condition, with some minor stains, few pages slightly foxed and browned, but the plates in fine condition. The first
work is lacking the dedication leaf. Binding in fine condition.
Bodel Nijenhuis 1566 (ad 3),1567 (ad 1); Berlin Kat. 2246.5 (ad 1), 2246.2 (ad 2), 2246.3 (ad 3), 2246.4 (ad 4); 2246.8 (ad 5) 2246.1 (ad 6); Springer, Bibl.
Overzicht, p. 46 (ad 1, 3, 4), p. 47 (ad 2, 5, 6); Tiele, Bibl. 51 (ad 1-6).
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Architecture of greenhouses
24. ROBERTSON, William. Collection de differntes espces de serres chaudes, pour forcer des ananas, des arbres fruitiers, et
pour prserver des plantes exotiques dlicates; calcule pour lusage des amateurs et celui des tudians de la botanique et du
jardinage. Traduit de lAnglois.
Paris; London, [R. Ackermann]; (Leipzig, F.G. Baumgrtner), [1798]. Oblong folio. With plans and views of garden hothouse
architecture on 24 full-page aquatints. Original paper wrappers.
4.750
First and only edition of the simultaneously published French translation of a popular model book on the garden architecture
of greenhouses, published in English as A collection of various forms of stoves (London, 1798). This edition is known with
two different imprints: London, Ackermann, and ours from London and Paris but, apparently published at Leipzig, by F.G.
Baumgrtner, according to the pasted title-label on the wrappers.
Text pages slightly browned and foxed. Frayed edges. Binding rubbed and strengthened at spine. Good large-paper copy with
wide margins, uncut, of a model book on greenhouses.
Plesch, p. 383 (aquatint); WorldCat (3 copies). Cf. Lindley library, p. 375 & Online Cat. (English ed.). Not in Springer; Henrey.
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Beautiful work on the antiquities of Oxfordshire with impressive views of buildings and artefacts. The plates were executed by
the eminent engraver and publisher Joseph Skelton (1783-1871), some in collaboration with others and mostly after drawings
by Frederick Mackenzie (1788(?)-1854). The work was issued in 13 parts between 1823 and 1827, the last part including a list of
subscribers. Soiling and foxing throughout; binding soiled and damaged. Good copy of a sumptuously illustrated work.
BAL 3050; Lowndes V, p. 2409.
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Richly illustrated second edition of an architectural manual compiled by a master mason, first published in 1664 (the first
edition was also reissued in 1667). Although the title-page calls it the first volume, Vermaarsch never published a second. He
openly borrows from architectural classics, naming Scamozzi, Palladio and Viniola on his title-page. He discusses mathematical
projection, architectural decoration, the five orders of columns of classical architecture, and more specifically the theories of
Scamozzi, Palladio and Vignola, each treated in a separately paginated chapter. As a practicing master mason in Leiden the
authors views are of special interest when he discusses the design of decorative brick and plaster work for bases and capitals of
columns for doors, gateways, windows, etc., freezes, ceilings and other works of masonry. He notes that all these designs can be
constructed with only the very simplest measuring tools. The plates clearly illustrate his points and provide numerous models
for brick and plaster decorations.
Very good copy with generous margins, with printed memorial label on the pastedown, stating that the book was presented
to the mathematical society Mathesis Scientiarum Genetrix after Isaac La Laus 1849 death by his son J.G. La Lau. Both were
leading members of the society.
Bierens de Haan 5021; Cat. Rijksmuseum III, p. 22; STCN (5 copies); cf. Berlin Kat. 2225 (1667 issue of 1664 ed.); not in BAL.
Enlarged isue of a very rare series of engraved views of Danish castles, mansions, houses, gardens and city views, by the Danish
landscape painter Johan Jacob Bruun (1715-1789). It was first published in 1761, containing 50 views of buildings on the Danish
island Zealand, as the first volume of a planned series covering whole Denmark. The other volumes never appeared, but 10
additional views were already engraved (dated 1760-1762) and included in the present issue, with all plates on the same French
paperstocks mostly watermarked: S. SAZERAC & C (probably Simon Sazerac, according to Gaudriault active in 1789) and
FIN DANGOUMOIS (similar to Heawood 3252 dated 1782). When Bruun died in 1789 the plates were bought by the engraver
Gerhard Ludwig Lahde and later published with new descriptions in Dannemarks kibstder og slotte i kobbere af Brun (1799-1806).
With plate numbers in manuscript on the back of the plates and some occasional faint thumbing in the margins. Binding
rubbed. Very good copy of a very rare series of views of Denmark.
WorldCat (4 copies of all issues); cf. Thieme & Becker V, p. 152; Weilbach, Dansk Kustnerlex. I, 1896; not in BAL; Fowler.
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