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1733biblio308Amsterdam: Chatelain 1733. <p>Gravure sur cuivreLa feuille = 310 X 460 mm la cuvette = 255 x 352 mm quelques rousseurs en marge image propre</p> Chatelain unknown
1733biblio315Amsterdam: Chatelain 1733. <p>Gravure sur cuivre La feuille = 310 X 460 mm la cuvette = 255 x 352 mm quelques rousseurs en marge image propre</p> Chatelain unknown
1731biblio305Amsterdam: Chatelain 1731. <p>Gravure sur cuivreLa feuille = 310 X 460 mm la cuvette = 255 x 352 mm quelques rousseurs en marge image propre</p> Chatelain unknown
1733biblio302Amsterdam: Chatelain 1733. <p>Gravure sur cuivre La feuille = 310 X 460 mm la cuvette = 255 x 352 mm quelques rousseurs en marge image propre</p> Chatelain unknown
1733biblio311Amsterdam: Chatelain 1733. <p>Gravure sur cuivre La feuille = 310 X 460 mm la cuvette = 255 x 352 mm quelques rousseurs en marge image propre</p> Chatelain unknown
172944168London: Printed for J. Tonson 1729. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Duodecimo. 1 plate 24pp. 1 plate 348pp. 11 plates with tissue guards. 19th century three-quarter calf with gilt lettering on black label of spine over marbled boards with guilt ruling; raised bands protected by modern mylar. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Historiated and decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials.<br /> <br /> Content: Sapho to Phaon; The Fame wholly translated by Mr. Pope; Canace to Macareus Edward Poley; The same by Ed. Floyd; Hypermnestra to Linus; Ariadne to Theseus; Hermione to Orestes; Leander to Hero; Hero to Leander; Laodamia to Protesilaus; O Enone to Paris; A Paraphrase on O Enone to Paris; Paris to Helen; Helen to Paris; Penelope to Ulysses; The Fame by Mrs. Wharton; Hypsipyle to Jason; Medea to Jason; Phaedra to Hippolytus; Dido to Aeneas; The fame by another hand; Briseis to Achilles; Dejanira to Herculus; The fame by another hand; Acontius to Cydippe; Cydippe to Acontius; Ulysses to Penelope; Demophoon to Phillis; Paris to E Enone; Ovid's Amours. In Three Books. Illustrated with thirteen steel plate engravings with tissue guards. Binding with some scuffing along edges. Block somewhat age toned. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Printed for J. Tonson hardcover
1745855Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer et al. 1745. First edition. Very good. <p>Mezzotint engraving printed in color finished by hand 12.75 x 8.25 inches platemark approx; 15.25 x 9.5 inches overall approx. Left edge retains sewing stabs neatly disbound in some earlier century else a very vibrant example of a hand colored mezzotint engraving. The individual botanicals in this plate are: a. Phaseolus flore puniceo b. Phaseolus major c. Phaseolus orthocaulus d. Phaseolus Indicus e. Phaseolus major seu Faba purgatrioc. <br /> <br /> Drawn from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia this dazzling print is part of a riotous celebration of plants trees shrubs herbs flowers fruits mushrooms and trailing vines. Printed in color and delicately finished by hand the series stands among the earliest triumphs of color printing and marks the first published collection to feature the work of George Dionysus Ehret one of the eighteenth century's most admired botanical artists. Other artists/engravers included in this work are Bartholomaus Seuter Johann Elias Ridinger and Johann Jakob Haid. In Great Flower Books Satcheverall Sitwell refers to this set as the "pioneering work of botanical prints engraved to be inked in color."</p> . <p>NISSEN2126. DUNTHORNE 327. SITWELL/BLUNT Great Flower Books p. 151 166.</p> . H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, et al. unknown
1760047298Tubingen Germany: Johann Ulrich Cotta 1760. In German. Two thick volumes first and second parts both title pages dated 1760. Volume I has been professionally rebound in the same style as the second. Extensively illustrated with full page and folding engravings including folding tables and maps frontis portraits of the emperor and eagle engraving on title pages. Full mottled leather with newer gilt and dark green spine labels raised spine bands all edges tinted red original marbled endpapers with additional new endpapers in first part. Part I is 1000 pages and is very good with faint dampstains to the lower corners of pages 993-1000 very minor worming to the bottom of one folding table short closed tear to one map. Part II has some edgewear and small area of worming to the outer edge of the front cover 28 1024 pages margins of two folding maps trimmed a little closely. Overall quite a nice set sturdy bindings good to very good throughout. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Johann Ulrich Cotta Hardcover
173642844Amsterdam: J. Wetstein; G. Smith 1736. First French-language edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto 10 1/4 x 8". 14 lxxv 1 696pp; 4 848pp. Modern half brown calf over light green cloth with gold lettering and tooling to spines retaining the original gilt-lettered leather titles. All paper edges red. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and engraved portrait of Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II by George Vertue. Title vignettes. Title pages in red and black lettering. <br /> <br /> This work was originally published in London in 1619 by Paolo Sarpi 1552-1623 an Italian historian prelate scientist canon lawyer and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict 1605-1607 and its war 1615-1617 with Austria over the Uskok pirates. The author published it under the name of Pietro Soave Polano an anagram of Paolo Sarpi Veneto plus o. <br /> <br /> The book's emphasis was on the role of the Papal Curia and its slant on the Curia hostile. Sarpi's work attained such fame that the Vatican opened its archives to Cardinal Pietro Sforza Pallavicino whom it commissioned to write a three volume rebuttal entitled the "Istoria del Concilio di Trento scritta dal P. Sforza Pallavicino della Comp. di Giesù ove insieme rifiutasi con auterevoli testimonianze un Istoria falsa divolgata nello stesso argomento sotto nome di Petro Soave Polano" "The History of the Council of Trent written by P. Sforza Pallavicino of the Company of Jesus in which a false history upon the same argument put forth under the name of Petro Soave Polano is refuted by means of authoritative testimony" 1656-1657.<br /> <br /> Sporadic foxing and offsetting throughout. Bindings in overall very good interior in good to very good condition. J. Wetstein; G. Smith hardcover
17950009005York UK: E. and R. Peck 1795. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo vi 153 pages full tree calf tender joints red morocco spine label. Ex libris with the motto "Gaudet Tentamine Virtus Strength Rejoices in the Challenge ". This was engraved by John Thomson d. 1847 the principal engraver at Belfast. Note: this aristocratic bookplate in a break with tradition states "Drawn & Engraved by J. Thomson Belfast adding the first four words ". Discreetly signed on the title-page by William Legg likely the master of Malone House in Belfast and High Sheriff of County Antrim . <br/><br/>Blind Jack blind since the age of 6 was in the public notice as "a most EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER." Remarkably hew was the first professional road builder in the industrial Revolution. Undaunted he also drove stagecoaches twice a week although I do not know how. This was the only 18th century edition of this biography. E. and R. Peck hardcover
1764001R83Various publishers including . Paris &/or Geneva: -1769. 1764 Fourteen 14 Rare French Literary Pamphlets in two volumes. All 8vo. 205 mm. Leather backed marbled boards very slightly worn. Hardbound. Text in fine condition; some offsetting from the engravings. Contents include: Vol. I - 1. LETTRE AMOUREUSE D'HELOISE A ABAILARD. Translation of: Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope. New Edition corrected by the autor. Chez la veuve Duchesne Paris: 1766. 30 p. large engraving by Eisen; Engraved headpiece by Colardeau. 2. LETTRE DE DON CARLOS A ELISABETH SUIVIE DUN PASSAGE DE L'AMINTE DU TASSE TRADUIT EN VERS & Du Poeme De La Nuit imite de Gesner. Panckoucke Paris & Duchesne Lille: 1768. pp. VIII 29 Gravelot engraved plate. 3. LETTRE DE JULIE FILLE D'AUGUSTE A OVIDE. By Claude Dorat. A Geneve Et se trouve a Paris: Chez Bauche: 1766. 23p. With Engraved head and tail pieces by Eisen and Massard. 4. LETTRE D'OVIDE A JULIE PRECEDEE DUNE LETTRE EN PROSE A M. DIDEROT. By the Marquis de Pezay. Geneva: 1767. 32p. Full page engraved plate and vignettes after Eisen. 5. LETTRE DE SAPHO A PHAON Precedee d'une Epitre a Rosine D'une vie de Sapho & suivie d'une Traduction en Vers des Ouvrages de ce Poete. By Blin de Sainmore. Sebastien Jorry Paris: 1766. 32 p. Engraved plate by Aliamet after Gravelot; Vignettes by Ghendt after Eisen another by Choffard. 6. LETTRE DE CATON D'UTIQUE A CESAR. By Abbe Parmentier. Lambert Paris: 1766. 34 p. Engraved plate after Gravelot. 7. LETTRE D'ALCIBIADE A GLICERE: Bouquetiere d'Athenes suivie d'une Lettre de Venus a Paris et d'une Epitre a la Maitresse que J'Aurai. By Marquis de Pezay. S. Jorry Geneva & Paris: 1764. 36 p. Large engraved plate and vignettes by Eisen. Vol. II - 1. LETTRE DU COMTE DE COMMINGES A SA MERE: Suivie d'une Lettre de Philomele a Progne. By Claude-Joseph Dorat. S. Jorry Paris: 1764. 68 p. Two full page engravings vignettes by Eisen & Massard. 2. L'HEUREUX JOUR EPITRE A MON AMI. By le Parquis de Pezay. Duchene Paris: 1768. pp. 29 1. Engraved title full page engraving & vignettes by Eisen & Massard. Cohen p. 797. 3. LISLE MERVEILLEUSE. Poeme en Trois Chants Traduit du Grec Suivi d'Alphonse ou de l'Alcide Espagnol Conte tres Moral. By C. J. Dorat. Geneva: 1768. 85 p. Engraved plate after Eisen. 4. L'HOPITAL DES FOUS Aesculapius - or The Hospital of Fools by William Walsh. A Play translated by De La Flotte. Jorry Paris: 1765. Large plate head-piece and tail-piece engraved by Delafosse after Eisen. Two lines of French manuscript about Fools. 5. EXTRAIT DE QUELQUES PIECES PRESENTEES A L'ACADEMIE FRANCOISE Pour concourir au Prix de poesie de L'Annee 1766. Regnard Paris: 1766. 27 p. 6. EPITRE AUX MALHEUREUX Piece qui a Eu L'Accessit du Prix de l'Academie Francois 1766. par M G.-H. Gaillard. Paris Regnard: 1766. 10p. 7. EPITRE A UN AMI SUR LA RECHERCHE DU BONHEUR. Cette Piece a concouru au Price de l'Academie Francois 1766. par M.D. Avocat au Parlement Cuissart & Regnard Paris: 1766. 19p. Small circular stain on first 10 pages. This collection is sometimes found with the texts in a different order and with different pagings and signatures and/or with one or more pieces omitted. There are often different printers and publishers where identified. The artists and engravers were among the best of this great era in illustration: Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen 1720-1778; Charles-Pierre Colardeau 1732-1776; Hubert Francois Gravelot 1699-1773; Jacques Aliamet 1726-1788; Jean Francois Rousseau; Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt 1738-1815; Joseph de Longueil 1730-1792; Jean Massard 1740-1822; Pierre-Philippe Choffard 1730-1809. A classic of 18th century French book illustration. CHEST 2/1. Hardcover. Very Good. Various publishers, including . Paris &/or Geneva: -1769. hardcover
176626551Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. An aquatint in terracotta on a black background with highlighting in light rose showing a man leading three children they are all wearing laurels and bearing leaves for sacrifice. As they approach the altar two objects hover above one of which is likely a basin or kylix the other resembles a stylized head of a horned animal. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 14" the image approximately 5.5" X 7.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
176626547Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows three maidens one of which is brandishing a sword. The middle female holds a paten in her left hand. The image may be part of a bacchanal scene. The background is black the image coloured with shades of tan brown terra-cotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 15" the image approximately 9.5" X 7.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
176626548Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a seated muscular long-haired man he holds the head of a dwarf or murdered reveler in his left hand his right hand holds a spear. In front of this man there stands a satyr holding a spear and wine bucket. The background is black the image coloured with shades of tan brown terra-cotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 13" the image approximately 11.25" X 11.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
1759848041759. T. Kinnersley. London. 1759. In Two Volumes II and III and contains the whole set for the year 1759. Bound in 18th century quarter brown calf gilt very worn and rubbed and lacking portions of leather from heads and tails of spine. Joints tender but holding. Vol. II; ii 372 pages plus 4pages of index. Vignette to general title-page and engraved head-piece for each month. 6 engraved plates of unusual and more ordinary fauna including the dodo the rhinoceros sea hedge-hog the horned didapper flying fish and cassowary. 1 portrait plate of Magliabechi 14 full page engraved maps and plans. Vol. III; ii. 404 pages plus 4 page index. Engr. vignette to general title-page and engraved head-pieces or decorations to each month 4 engraved plates of fauna one portrait plate of Major General Wolfe 1 incredible engraved plate displaying the Torments Inflicted by the Dutch on the English in Amboyna plus the engraved frontis. to Pope's Essay on Man. Three engraved plates - 1 map and 2 plans. A wonderful insight into what interested people in the mid-18th century. Pages browned and occasionally foxed but otherwise a very useful set. hardcover
176626550Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a bacchanal scene-- a youth in peplos reclines on an ornate couch he holds a large bowl in his left hand his right gestures toward a kylix above--all within a Greek-key tondo. Above him there are three dancing satyrs. This is a nicely detailed image on a black background coloured in shades of brown tan terracotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 15" the image approximately 8.25" X 10". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
179946241Philadelphia: Robert Campbell 1799. First American edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Large octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". xxiii 1 297 1pp Vol. 1; 267 1 xxivpp Vol. 2. Modern brown cloth with gold lettered leather title label to spine. Engraved frontispiece to both volumes. Lacking the separately printed atlas as usual.<br /> <br /> First American edition of this official report on the British Macartney Embassy to China that took place between 1792 and 1794. It was written after the return to England by the Secretary to the mission Sir George Leonard Staunton 1st Baronet 1737-1801 based on his own observations and notes from other crewmembers including his twelve-year-old son Sir George Thomas Staunton 2nd Baronet. <br /> <br /> "The account offers rich insights into the beginnings of British Imperialism in China and thus makes it an important primary source for the historiography of Sino-Western relations. There is an academic dispute whether the account marks a sudden turning point in British-Chinese dynamics or reflects a slow and complex divergence. <br /> <br /> While the political and economic ambitions of the embassy failed the account by Staunton brought back detailed descriptions of and observations on the Chinese culture that were received with curiosity in the West and led to the commercial success of the book and the publication of several translations and subsequent writings on the Macartney Mission." From Wikipedia<br /> <br /> This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with eight stunning engravings by Samuel Seymour two in volume one six in volume two including the frontispieces as called for in the directions to the binder. The xxiv page appendix contains detailed tables and charts dealing with population and socio-economic information.<br /> <br /> Previous owner's stamp E. W. Sage at verso of first frontispiece and at upper margin of first title. Moderate and sporadic foxing / age-toning throughout. Binding in very good interior in good to very good condition. Robert Campbell hardcover
1776DEMO016704IGeneve SW 1776. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate engravings. 12mos contemporary full tree calf extra extra-gilt spines marbled papers. <br/><br/>Edited by Mons. Voltaire. Originally published in 1774. Very handsome set for one of France's greatest dramatists. Ex libris Sir Richard Bedingfeld probably the 5th Baronet Bedingfeld of Oxborough 1767-1829; however vol. 8 has an inked inscription indicating it was given to C. Bedingfeld -probably his wife Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham Bedingfeld. Note: the frontispiece to vol. 1 identifies its artist as Elizabeth Thiebau. Copperplate engravings. hardcover
176626519Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a confrontation between two men one brandishing a sword with cloak draped over his left arm the other attempting to ward him off a stylized tree flanks the illustration. The background is black the image coloured with shades of tan terra-cotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 13" the image approximately 11.5" X 9.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
174318928Utrecht: Hermanus Besseling 1743. Second edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Folio 15 6/8 x 10 1/2". XVIII 652 pp; folding engraved map. Text in Dutch. Contemporary full calf with gold lettering and tooling to spine front joint tender. Raised bands. Additional engraved title by Bernard Picart. Title in red and black lettering. Publisher's vignette on title page. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. This handsome second edition of "Biblia Sacra" is splendidly illustrated throughout with 35 double-page engraved plates of 36 lacking plate #1 depicting the Creation from Johannes Luyken's "Icones Biblicae Veteris et N.Testamenti 1729" as well as 2 folded maps and one folded plan of Jerusalem. This is the first volume containing the entire Old Testament. Binding rubbed along edges and on covers. Head and tail of spine partly chipped. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in Dutch with plate captions in Dutch and French. A good copy with clean fresh plates throughout. Hermanus Besseling hardcover
176629450Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. An aquatint printed as a black background over terracotta with highlighting in light gray/white. The image shows three figures one a warrior draped in animal skins carries a club stands before another figure with a thin staff who stands next to a flaming brazier. A third figure with a shorter staff walks way from the scene. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring larger than 18" x 12" the image approximately 12" X 7.75" now very handsomely presented in cream mounting approximately 24 by 18 inches with ornate gilt framework design around the leaf glazed and now under archival glass in a very attractive frame of gilded red wood and black enamel. In all a very impressive display. Very fine and in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. unknown
176629242Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. An aquatint printed as a black background over terracotta with highlighting in light gray. The image shows a woman bending to pick up a child who squats before her. Objects hover above one is a shield another is a rope or cord. The image is numbered T6 in the top left corner and P6 in the top right it is numbered in Roman VIII at the bottom. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring larger than 18" x 12" the image approximately 9" X 7.25". Now very handsomely presented in cream mounting approximately 24 x 18 inches with ornate gilt framework design glazed under archival glass within a very attractive frame of gilded red wood and black enamel. In all a very impressive display. A very beautiful presentation and in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes.<br> While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. unknown
1779D7139Paris et Dijon: les Auteurs et Frantin 1779-1781. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary mottled calf lavishly gilt-stamped spine gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label original decorative endpapers; 8vo 120x 202 mm 3 volumes; with half-titles 3 additional titles 2 allegorical frontispieces 50 plates 39 of them with double views of Paris and 2 full-page vignettes. Some very light scuffing at spine tips and along joints; occasional light toning and marginal soiling. A handsome set with the bookplates of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich. Cohen-de Ricci 692. <br/><br/> les Auteurs, et Frantin hardcover
1800ABC_49334Antwerp 1800. 16mo ca. 13 x 9.5 cm. Johannes Carolus Craen or his son-in-law Hendrik Leys Early 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin with a general title in Dutch lettered in gold on the spine gold-tooled board edges marbled endpapers gilt edges. 351 devotional engravings including 8 repeats printed on wove paper engraved by several 17th-century engravers printed from the original copper plates at the end of the 18th- or beginning of the 19th century. 351 ll. Intriguing and extensive collection of 351 devotional prints comprising ca. 16 print series and several separate engraved title pages of print series and some separate devotional prints. Each print shows a small engraving depicting a religious theme for almost every occasion and especially for the important days of the liturgical year. These prints were engraved and published in Antwerp which is considered to be the centre of production and publishing of devotional prints in the 17th- and 18th centuries. The majority of these praying cards were originally published by Franciscus Huberti or Frans Huybrechts 1630-1687 who seems to have been the first engraver and publisher to produce these types of works in Antwerp. He was mostly known for publishing so-called "gerijmde gebedsprentjes" rhymed devotional prints/prayer cards. After his death his plates were sold and used by others to republish the prints for example by Michiel Bunel 1670-1739 and later by Carolus Craen 1733-1799. Craen's plates were next used by Hendrik Leys d. 1853 not to be confused with the Antwerp painter Henri Leys. In 1805 Leys had married Craen's daughter and took over the publishing and printing business of his mother-in-law immediately after. He mostly continued publishing prints using older copperplates that were already part of the business since his father-in-law ran it and was one of the last printer-publishers to use copperplates in a time when lithography became more and more popular. At the end of his life Leys owned approximately 12000 usable copperplates made or sold by a whole host of 17th- and 18th-century engravers and/or publishers of devotional prints such as the Wierix-Barbé family Huberti Galle Van der Sande Bunel and the Van Merlen family. Cornelis van Merlen 1654-1723 was a publisher and engraver active in Antwerp. The Van Merlen family were important engravers and publishers of devotional engravings in Antwerp during the 17th- and 18th centuries. In 1687 he married Sara Maria Huybrechts who was the daughter of publisher and engraver Gaspar Huberti and Sara Voet and niece of the Antwerp engraver Franciscus Huberti 1630-1687 whose engravings make up the majority of the present work. The majority of the present work is most likely made up of Craen's or Leys' prints of the plates by Huberti Jacobus de Man Anton Wierix the Van Merlen family of engravers and others.A complete list of contents is available upon request.With a manuscript owner's inscription on the verso of the first flyleaf "Mimi Josephine Cogels 1822" a manuscript inscription on the recto of the second flyleaf "le 1er Avril 1822 1831" and some faint pencil annotations on the verso of the second to last flyleaf and the recto of the final flyleaf. The binding shows some slight rubbing the front joint is slightly weakened without any loss lacking the fore edge margin of the engraving of S. Gregorius no. 351 not affecting the engraving possibly lacking the 352nd engraving only a stub of paper remains possibly lacking the engraving of S. Ioannes Neponucenus by C. van Merlen a few leaves show minor marginal tears not affecting the engravings and with a brown stain on the final two flyleaves. Otherwise in very good condition.l Thijs A.K.L. Antwerpen: internationaal uitgeverscentrum van devotieprenten 17e - 18e eeuw Leuven 1993; Miscellanea Neerlandica 7 passim; cf. for the publishers see: https://archief.museumplantinmoretus.be/doc/au::108950 Huberti; https://archief.museumplantinmoretus.be/doc/au::109845:1 Craen; https://archief.museumplantinmoretus.be/doc/au::109887 Leys. unknown
17713835<p>Three engravings by Paul Revere are certainly the most distinctive feature of this Boston almanac for 1772 namely:</p><p>Miss Emma Leach a dwarf born in Beverley Massachusetts on front cover.</p><p>The Patriotic American Farmer John Dickinson.</p><p>Mrs. Catharine M'Caulay.</p><p>Almanac making in colonial America was a rather unscrupulous affair at times. The notion of copyright was unknown among publishers. Indeed almanac piracy or perhaps liberal borrowing was the accepted industry practice.</p><p>The present almanac offers an excellent example of heavy borrowing. The Boston Ames <em>Almanack </em>for 1772 was published in two versions: one by Ezekiel Russell and the other a pirated version by an unnamed printer/publisher. The text and images of the two are very similar although the cuts of the three subjects differ very slightly between the two almanacs. Paul Revere's daybook for December 1771 identifies <strong>two</strong> purchasers of plates for a 1772 Ames almanac Ezekiel Russell and Edes & Gill. Within a matter of a week it's apparent that Revere produced two sets of plates of the same subjects for competing almanacs.</p><p>In an advertisement for Russell's version of the Ames almanac he "hopes that the publick with their usual impartiality will give him preference in buying of his Ames' genuine almanac before any pirated edition." Revere's contributions were in both the original and this pirated edition of the almanac.</p><p><strong>References: </strong> Evans: 11961; Drake <em>Almanacs of the U.S</em>.: 3205; Brigham <em>Paul Revere's Engravings</em>: pp. 202-203; Hamilton <em>Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers</em>: 56; O'Neal <em>Early American Almanacs</em>: 115 mistakenly citing Russell as publisher.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Disbound; leaves are separated with a later paper reinforcement in the gutter of two leaves. Chipping to lower corners of two leaves. Scattered mostly light staining and a few spots of foxing. Good.</p><p>ICN 7815.</p> [Printed by T. & J. Fleet and Edes & Gill. Price 2s. 8d. per dozen, and six coppers single. ]
