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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
1786376505Venezia 1786. Ora la prima volta con le stampe pubblicate. Engraved title page with vignette. Engraved Title portrait and 24 leaves of plates XIII page of text. Frontispiece & 15 engraved plates. 1 vols. Folio. Quarter morocco and green boards. Binding showing signs of wear. Interior with light foxing but overall Near Fine. Bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby. Ora la prima volta con le stampe pubblicate" Engraved title page with vignette. Engraved Title portrait and 24 leaves of plates XIII page of text. Frontispiece & 15 engraved plates. 1 vols. Folio. Including engravings after the works of great Venetian Renaissance painters Giorgione Titian Tintoretto Zelotti and Veronese. With Titian's frescoes for the exterior of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice which have since perished. Also with engravings after the great draftsman Parmigianino.<br /> <br /> Antonio Maria Zanetti is known as a printmaker for his contributions to the style of chiaroscuro woodcuts as well as for his career as an art dealer and collector. Girolamo Francesco Zanetti was a historian and philologist known for being the first to publish one of the oldest Venetian chronicles the Chronicon Altinate. OCLC 272605179. Provenance: Bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby d.1887 of Ecton Hall Northampton England unknown
172130780Londini London: Typis Gulielmi Bowyer 1721. Very Good-. Londini London: Typis Gilielmi Bowyer 1721. First Edition. Octavo 24cm; contemporary paneled calf gilt spine in six compartments all edges speckled; 6646444pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates including one other portrait and a folding table. Leather quite scuffed and rather dried joints rubbed with exposure of spine chords spine gilt mostly effaced 20th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper else a Good to Very Good internally clean and sound copy. Preliminary text includes the extensive list of subscribers.<br /> <br /> Posthumously-published biography of the late Dean of St. Paul's John Barwick 1612-1664 by his brother Peter 1619-1705. "Begun in 1671 Vita was clearly intended as more than simply a memoir of Barwick's brother; it is perhaps better understood as a statement of his own commitment and lifelong zeal for the restored Anglican church and its royal head" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br /> <br /> ESTC T088503. Typis Gulielmi Bowyer unknown