Rome: Antoine Lafréry, 1549.
Price: $2,800.00
Signed and dated in the plate by the publisher: “Antonii Lafrerii Romae 1549”. Paper with a hard to discern circular watermark. A fine copy, the impression sharp and with good contrast. Very faint foxing and very light soiling to the blank margins.The tomb of Caecilia Metella, one of the best-known...
![Item #4433 Plans et Elevations du Corps de L'Eglize du Port Royal [and other series]. Antoine...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4433.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675705002)
Paris: No printer stated, 1652.
Price: $12,000.00
A superb album OF NINETY-ONE PLATES IN RICH EARLY IMPRESSIONS presents the work of three French and one Dutch artists, including the Parisian architect Antoine Le Pautre’s ideal and realized designs for exteriors and interiors at the height of the French Baroque. All eight suites are in excellent condition. Bound...
Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.
Price: $2,600.00
Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo...
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Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.
Price: $150,000.00
A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, later red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration to...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires François rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1761.
Price: $16,000.00
Magnificently illustrated with 73 etched and engraved plates comprising 88 half-page and 29 full-page images of ancient Roman architecture and sculpture. These were designed by Barbault (83 engravings), Carlo Nolli (1), and L. Bufalino (1) and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagù (52), Giuseppe? Bouchard (6), and Freicenet (4). The...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.
Price: $18,000.00
This is a very fine, broad-margined copy bound in 19th c. half vellum (worn, small splits at head and foot of spine and another along the spine. The text and plates are in excellent condition with only a few instances of light marginal foxing or the occasional light blemish. One...
Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.
Price: $3,500.00
First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...
[Rome:]: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, after, 1638.
Price: $3,800.00
Lettered title across top, extensive description throughout. At right dedication to Cardinal Barberini and lower right 'Romae Superior licentia Anno 1635.' At left, beneath the cartouche: “La presente Pianta ridotta nella forma che al presente si ritrova con le Quattro Capelle fatte dalla Sat m. di Urbano VIII disegata. da...
[Rome:]: no printer, no date, ca. 1574-, 1584.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment, title label with gilt lettering. A fine, wide-margined copy with beautiful, rich impressions of the plates. Title lightly soiled and with upper blank margin restored (not affecting the plate.) A few spots in the blank, inner margin of the first plate, far from the...
Florence: Giunti, 1574.
Price: $2,500.00
Title page within an architectural woodcut border containing the Medici coat-of-arms and a small view of Florence. Printer’s device at the colophon. Woodcut portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici on the verso of the title-page. Foxed. Bound in attractive 18th-century colored paper over thin boards. Extremely rare. No copies in North...
Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...
Antwerp: [Printed by Henry Loë and sold] at London by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the Signe of the Swanne, 1578.
Price: $25,000.00
A fine copy in eighteenth-century calf, very nicely re-backed; boards ruled in gold, minor wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Illustrated with more than 850 quarter-paged woodcuts of plants in the text. The title is framed by an elaborate woodcut border by Arnold Nicolai after Pierre van der Borcht, depicting...
Germany: ca. 1496.
Price: $12,000.00
A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...
Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725.
Price: $3,200.00
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition.An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30...
Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by...
Florence: Appresso Bartolomeo Sermartelli e frateli, 1608.
Price: $5,800.00
Bound in early 20th c. quarter red Morocco and marbled boards (small repairs to head and foot of spine). A fine copy with scattered mild spotting. Complete with the folding plate of the banquet (signed “Mattheus Greuter excudit”.) Two lines have been erased from the plate, as is the case...
Florence: Appresso Cristofano Marescotti, 1608.
Price: $2,100.00
Recently bound in early parchment (slight wear). The text is in very good condition with scattered mild foxing. Early ink note at head of title (illegible). Small woodcut (impaled arms of Cosimo II and Maria Magdalena) on the title. PROVENANCE: 1. Unidentified collector’s stamp (three hills with initials PLT, surmounted...
Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602.
Price: $16,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very...
Rome: Matteo Gregorio de Rossi, 1692.
Price: $5,800.00
An excellent, bright copy with the image in very sharp impression. Light soiling to the blank margins, far from the plate mark.A splendid view of Ponte and Castel Sant’ Angelo with the Girandola. The print shows Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome, decorated with sculptures of the angels designed by...
No place or printer: printed for the author (, 1798.
Price: $2,800.00
Bound in contemporary speckled paper over stiff boards (worn, paper chipped at extremities, esp. the lower margin of the upper board and the head of the spine, but sound.) A tall copy, the contents clean and untrimmed (title very lightly foxed). The 18 plates are in excellent condition.A wonderful artist’s...
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Strasbourg: [Bartholomaeus Kistler], after 31 Dec. 1499.
Price: $45,000.00
Further fifteenth-century editions were published in Latin, German, and Italian versions. This edition, printed by Kistler, is number 11 in Kurze’s census of editions in all languages (for the date, see the bib. notes at the end of this description). Illustrated with 46 woodcut illustrations in text, including large vignette...
Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.
Price: $15,000.00
This is an exceptionally large copy, with none of the usual trimming to the oversized woodcuts that illustrate the volume. It is one of the two largest copies that I have handled. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, laced through with the original rawhide sewing supports intact. The binding is entirely...
Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.
Price: $18,000.00
Complete with the folding engraved map of Rome by Palatino (Frutaz 12). The often-lacking colophon leaf with the full-paged Pegasus printer’s device (Ascarelli fig. 24) is also present. This copy has features that will be of interest to the bibliographer. It has all of the points of the first issue...
Florence: Per Gaetano Cambiagi, 1792.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound with: Massi, Pasquale, da Cesena Indicazione Antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano, stesa da Pasquale Mass Cesenate Custode del Museo Stesso/ Catalogue Indicatif des Antiquitès Composant Le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican par Paschal Massi de Cesèns Garde du dit Musèe. Roma: Presso Lazzarini, 1792...
Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1628.
Price: $12,000.00
Contemporary limp vellum in fine condition (paste-down torn). The text is in excellent condition with a few instances of light toning (in gatherings O, S, and X), and a small worm-track in the margin of the first few lvs. The text is illustrated with woodcut diagrams. An extremely rare book...
