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16191516Hantvverpen Antwerp: Hieronymus Verdussen 1619. First Edition in book form. Near Fine. Bloemart Abraham. 4to 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches 251 x 171 mm. ix pp 51 sheets on cream laid paper text in Dutch gothic letters. 50 numbered full page copperplate engravings of Christian hermit saints 25 male 25 female printed recto with text pages on verso. Full-page frontispiece for the work and with an additional full-page frontispiece for each of the two sections. Full contemporary vellum untitled with some handling discoloration but the vellum remains supple and the binding is tight. Pages clean and bright with a couple of foxing spots and a small brown stain on the 2nd frontis titled "Sacra Eremus ascetarum"; toned page edges. Previous owner's name and date in ink on front flyleaf and small pencil and ink notations inside back cover; bookplate of Buijnsters Smets pasted inside front cover.<br /> De Backer/ Sommervogel VII 194-5; Hollstein 355-403; Roethlisberger 163 ill. 262-317<br /> <br /> Full title: 't Bosch der Eremyten ende eremilinnen van Aegypten ende Palestinen met figuren van Abraham Blommaert door Ghristophorus a Sichem. Met kort verhael van een yders leven getrocken uyt het Vadersboeck door H. Jan van Gorcum Priesler ende H. R. Societatus sic Jesu. The Forest of the Hermits of Egypt and Palestine with illustrations by Abraham Blommaert engraved by Ghristophorus a Sichem. With brief stories of their lives taken from the book of the Fathers by H. Jan van Gorcum priest of the Society of Jesus. A fine series of engravings of the early Christian male and female hermits living in the Egyptian and Palestinian desert engraved in copper by Boetius A Balswert on drawings by Abraham Bloemart 1566 - 1651 the Dutch painter and engraver know mostly for his historical subjects and for being a central figure and teacher among the Utrecht Caravaggisti. <br /> Provenance: the library of the book- and art-historians Piet Buijnsters and Leontine Smets. Hieronymus Verdussen unknown
166472500Amsterdam: Dancker Danckertsz. 1664. 163 cm. vellum. 2 white frontispiece840 frontispiece 41-172title175-288 pp. 1 unnumbered textplate opposite page 153 157 numbered plates with plate 156 present twice probably because the accompanying text for this plate needs 2 pages. Bound with: frontispiecetitle3-32frontispiece25-6433-72 2 white pp. Pagenumbers 25-32 used twice so after the second frontispiece or page 32 pagenumbers are incorrect. 32 plates 1 folding. A good and complete copy though with some signs of use page edges and some browning of most plates. See pictures Dancker Danckertsz. hardcover
16679027Paris 1667. 8vo 17.5 x 12 cm. Abraham Bosse Sprinkled calf ca. 1700 sewn on 5 cords 3 attached to the boards the other 2 cut flush with the bookblock richly gold-tooled spine with black morocco spine label gold-tooled board edges brown sprinkled edges. With engraved allegorical title-print 45 full-page plate size mostly ca. 13.5 x 8.5 cm and 1 double-page ca. 16.5 x 15 cm engraved plates of faces hands feet ears and other parts of the human body a camera obscura battles landscapes perspective drawings human bodies and skeletons all intended as models for artists to follow. 47; 30; 4; 4; 11 2 added engraved prints. Highly interesting collection of five 17th-century print series one a set of plates for an illustrated book all in the field of art drawing and ornamentation. They seem likely to have been printed together sometime around or soon after 1688.Ad 1: A beautiful print series intended as plates for a manual to learn the art of drawing and painting ranging from images of the human body to battle fields by the famous French artist Abraham Bosse 1602-1676. In the event the plates were published on their own and the makeup varies from set to set. Ad 2: A numbered series of 30 engravings of ornamentation that could be used in sculptural architectural art and book illustration including putti grotesque masks garlands etc. Paolo Farinati 1524-1606 worked mostly in his native city of Verona. Ad 3: A series of 4 prints showing artists at work intended to illustrate art technique. Two are devoted to drawing and the other two are devoted to painting. These prints are often considered part of the larger series described here separately as ad 1.Ad 4: A beautiful series of 4 prints representing the four elements in the form of two male and two female figures elegantly dressed with various items related to the relevant element. Blum tentatively dates the series to 1630 making it one of Bosse's earliest mature works.Ad 5: A complete set of the plates made to illustrate the first and only edition of Pierre Bullet's work on surveying Paris 1688. With a few plates primarily in ad 2 spotted but otherwise a good copy. The binding is somewhat worn and the front hinge cracked.l BAL 494 ad 5; Berlin Kat. 4355 ad 2 1736 ed.; A. Blum L'oeurve gravé d'Abraham Bosse 358-387 ad 2 940-943 ad 4 1101-1152 ads 1 3; for Bosse: Thieme & Becker IV pp. 402-403. ABE CAT Architecture ABE CAT Art History hardcover
169219621692. Each a lithograph with hand coloring on watermarked Arches wove paper with a deckle edge. Each 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 412 x 312 mm; sheet 26 x 19 3/4 inches 661 x 502 mm each with full margins. Specimens include Alliarai; Ellebore; Lunaria; Sisymbrium. There are two impressions of each Alliaria Ellebore Lunaria and one impression of Sisymbrium. WITH: one reproduction of a floral composition by Joseph Redouté. Each printed later likely 20th century. Each in generally good condition with minor age tone. unknown
164340393Paris: Pierre De-Hayes. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1643. First Edition. Full stiff vellum. Diagrams; 12mo ; BOSSE Abraham 1604-1676 artist and engraver. Girard DESARGUES 1591-1661. La Maniere Universelle de Mr. Desargues Lyonnois Pour Poser L'essieu & placer les heures & autres choses aux Cadrans au Soleil. Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes 1643.8vo 175 x 125 mm. Two frontis'. Engraved allegorical title-page engraved dedication engraved title-page 66 engraved plates. Some staining some annotations. Contemporary stiff vellum some soiling some light wear book sellers description pasted to front flyleaf. FIRST EDITION of this important manual for setting up sundials including many engraved diagrams of sundials by artist and engraver Abraham Bosse. Berlin Kat. 4716; Brunet I 1127; Cicognara 817; Fowler 56. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust Chicago. Illinois. The entire book is bound in full entire stiff vellum. It is preserved in a neat library Thomas Sills Trust folder. No library markings on the book or in the text. . Pierre De-Hayes hardcover
16362226<p>Le Blond 1636. Etching. A good impression on paper without a watermark. Trimmed just showing the platemark all around. 259mm x 324mm. G.D. 1080 Blum 154 only state Paris/Tours 2004 No. 128</p> Le Blond,
16671000441667. Paris Abraham Bosse 1667. Engraved frontispiece 87220pp. With an engraved dedication page. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf spine and corners expertly restored. Some browning. Bound in at the end the last 20 pages are: 1 - A. Bosse au lecteur sur les causes qu'il croit avoir euës de discontinuer le cours de ses leçons geometrales et perspectives dedans l'Academie Royale de la Peinture et de la Sculpture & mesme de s'en retirer. Paris A. Bosse 1667. 15pp. And: 2 - Discours tendant a desabuser ceux qui ont creu que l'Auteur d'un Traité qui a pour Titre Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes; avoit pretendu m'attaquer dans sa Préface. Paris A. Bosse 1667. 4pp. This scarce book is written in the form of a dialogue between Ariste an amateur who would like to build an architect a painter a "disciple" and the author himself. All the representatives of these different arts are asking for Bosse's advice. This allows Bosse to express once again his ideas regarding perspective in painting and architecture. Abraham Bosse who was born in Tours in 1602 is best known as an engraver but he was also the first professor of perspective at the newly founded Académie Royale from 1648 to 1661 when he was forced to leave due to disagreements with other Académicians. The two addresses that follow the book explain why in Bosse's own opinion he had been forced to leave his lob at the Académie and they also respond to comments made about Bosse by Félibien in the preface to the first part of the latter's Entretiens published a year earlier. c.f. Cicognara 91; Berlin cat. 2381; Abraham Bosse Savant Graveur # 310 311 & 312. unknown
1648001623Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes 1648. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. xviii 342 pages of text. Defective copy lacking five plates the frontis and a final engraved table. Attractive early-to-mid-18th century leather binding with moderate wear to the hinges spine extremities and corners. Raised bands gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Decorative marbled endpapers and blank endsheets supplied at time of binding. Present is the full-page engraved portrait of Michel Larcher engraved armorial dedication to Larcher and the engraved title page following page 58. A complete copy has the plate numbers 151 and 156 used twice totalling 158 plates showing plans and designs of perspective of which 153 only are present in this copy. Lacks plate numbers 110 151 both 154 and 155. However early hand-drawn facsimiles of plates 151 one of two and 155 are supplied and bound-in leaving three images unrepresented. The majority of the plates are double-sided. Plate 156 is in less than good condition with heavy staining and soiling. Engraved title page is repaired with early conservator's tape with no loss. Pages 168 through 193 are bound out of order. Several leaves are affected by damp staining and minor rippling; approximately 15 front and 30 rear. The title page and several adjacent leaves as well as a few at the rear of the text are heavily stained. Some of the staining appears to originate from washed-out markings -- notations to which an attempt at removal were made -- that are in blank areas mainly in the front and rear pages but also in the blank areas in the introduction. Includes Desargues New Theory at the end with demonstrations. Protected in a modern circa 1950 slipcase decorated with marbled endpaper the seams of which are detached at the top edge. Desargues 1593-1661 was a French mathemetician and a founder of modern Geometry. With Pascal he introduced the method of perspective; treated conic sections as projections of circles formulated the so-called Arguesian transformation; developed the theory of involution and of transversals; defined parallels as lines that intersect at infinity. Measures 6-5/8" tall by 4-1/2" wide; printed on thick paper with ample margins. 20th century bookplate of Paul and Verner Mac Alister on front pastedown and a neatly handwritten identification on the 2nd front endpaper. On the same leaf is a contemporary name or marking. French France Fortifications Conics Cartography Projective and Descriptive Geometry. Early editions of Desargues works are quite uncommon. Pierre Des-Hayes Hardcover
1670989Paris 1670. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches 170 x 123 mm narrow margins. In very good condition with extremely minor areas of light discoloration in the areas of the sheet corners. Adhered to archival board. The inscription below the image roughly translates to This is the portrait of Guillery who was a great thief stealing from a woman. unknown
1665102684<p>Paris chez l'auteur 1665. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece titlepage xiv 140 pp engraved title plus 69 plates numbered 1 - 67 plates 6 & 7 present twice; plate 67 is double-page. Modern full calf pastiche binding spine with five raised bands and red titleshield.<em> Some copies have overlays on plate 50 some don't ours has no overlays.</em> paper slightly browned.</p><p>Abraham Bosse 1604-1676 famous for his etchings was also the first teacher of perspective at the Academy Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture that was founded in 1648. Bosse a mathematician and geometrician was extremely interested in the work of Girard Desargues and published several works on perspective. The present work was published in 1665. He wanted it to be the definite text on the subject that he taught but he was expelled from the Academy for lack of flexibility before its publication. Most of the 47 pages of the introduction deal with the principal errors that painters can make if they are not aware of the rules of perspective. The 67 plates and their explications deal with the necessary knowledge to apply perspective correctly. And these echo the lessons Bosse gave to his students at the Academy. He also deals with perspective in architecture.</p> chez l'auteur
16421661642. Etching and engraving. Duplessis 1386; Blum 204 only state. Image: 10 x 12 with small margins. Foxing traces of old fold in the legend.
1629001352Rome: Typis Vaticanis / Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apost. 1629. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Silvester Caesius of Aquitaine Son of the Supreme Pontiff; by Abraham Bzowski a Pole Master of Sacred Theology of the Order of Preachers. Appended is the Life of Saint Adalbert the Martyr Published by the Same Silvester Defended by the Same Abraham Bzovius on Behalf of Its Author and Illustrated with Notes. Rome Printed at the Vatican Press 1629. --- together with --- The Life and Passion of Saint Adalbert Count Ursinus of Rosenberg Bishop of Prague Archbishop of Gniezno and Martyr; Apostle of the Bohemians Hungarians Poles and Prussians. Written by His Contemporary and Close Companion Pope Silvester II. Now for the First Time Vindicated on Behalf of Its Author by Abraham Bzowski a Pole Master of Sacred Theology of the Order of Preachers Divided into Chapters and Illustrated with Clearer Notes. Rome From the Press of the Apostolic Chamber 1629. The first and principal work in this volume is an exceedingly rare early modern biography of Pope Sylvester II Gerbert of Aurillac renowned as a mathematician philosopher and the first French pope. Writing in defence of Sylvester's legacy Bzowski refutes longstanding legends of sorcery and presents the pontiff as a model of intellectual virtue and ecclesiastical reform. The work exemplifies Dominican historical scholarship and forms part of Bzowski larger project to continue and expand Cesare Baronio's Annales Ecclesiastici. This book also contains his important Latin biography and scholarly vindication of Saint Adalbert also known as Wojciech a Bohemian nobleman from the Ursini-Rosenberg family bishop of Prague and missionary archbishop of Gniezno. He is one of the earliest and most important Christian evangelists in Central and Eastern Europe revered as the "Apostle of the Bohemians Hungarians Poles and Prussians." The book is an important celebration of Polish history as well as that of Eastern Europe more broadly. Born in Proszowice in 1567 Abraham Bzowski was a precocious scholar mastering Latin and music by the age of ten and studying under French humanists in Secemin. He joined the Dominican Order in Krakow later teaching philosophy and theology in Ferrara and Milan. After serving as prior in Krakow and Wroclaw he was summoned to Rome in 1610 by Pope Paul V and commissioned to continue Cesare Baronio's monumental Annales Ecclesiastici. Bzowski authored nine folio volumes covering 1198-1571 noted for their fidelity to Dominican perspectives though not without criticism. Among his other works are the Quadraginta Sermones super Canticum Salve Regina 1598 the Sacrum Pancarpium 1611 and updated papal biographies including those of Paul V and Gregory XV. His Silvester II Caesius 1629 offered here reflects both his historical scholarship and his interest in Polish and papal history. Bzowski died in Rome on 31 January 1637 having spent his final years in monastic seclusion after a personal tragedy. Size: 191 x 268 mm approx. Condition: 1 4 a6 A-O4 P6 Q2; 4 A-D4 E6 1 Contemporary full limp vellum title in contemporary MS to head of spine with 20th century tape affixed across the foot of the spine and going on to the boards. Binding secure with boards securely attached. Foxing throughout toned 20th century ownership marks including blindstamps of the Rare Book Collection of The New York General Theological Seminary Library. Collates as complete including the finely engraved portrait of Sylvester II. Both parts are present. Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Rare Book Library at the New York Theological Seminary USA. Typis Vaticanis / Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apost. Hardcover
1656151129Paris: Chez Augustin Courbe 1656. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 45 522 12 p. 39 cm folio. Engraved frontispiece title page vignette decorations on dedication page and preface. Each chapter has full-page engraving and page top decoration making 12 of each as well as decorated first letters. Illustrations are by painter Claude Vignon engraved by Abraham Bosse. Two called-for portraits by Robert de Nanteuil are not present. Rebound in burgundy leather with 6 raised bands gilt impressing on spine. New endpapers. Title has chipped top corner. Faint dampstain on text block edge. Some small stains and darkened pages. French text. <br/><br/>Note the dedication to the Duke of Longueville. Chapelain received a pension from this nobleman allowing him to write this heroic epic about Joan of Arc. The poem's subject also allowed him to celebrate Jean de Dunois a medieval ancestor of the house of Longueville who was one of the great military leaders of the Hundred Years War. Apparently Chapelain let thirty years go by before he published the first half of this masterpiece leading some to argue that Chapelain wished to spin out his pension as long as he could. <br /> <br />This is one of the first French books engraved by a painter. Claude Vignon 1593 1670 was a French painter printmaker and illustrator who worked in a wide range of genres. Abraham Bosse ca. 1604 1676 was another French artist mainly as a printmaker and etcher. Most of his output was illustrations for books but many were also sold separately. Chez Augustin Courbe hardcover
1603M10773Antwerp Belgium c.1603. Very Good margins extended. Notes: Important map of United Kingdom by Ortelius based on an earlier map by Christopher Saxton in 1579. Size : 384x483 mm 15.12x19.02 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps Europe United Kingdom England; Maps Europe Ireland; Maps Europe United Kingdom Wales; unknown
164948861Amsterdam: For Gerrit Willemsz by Adriaan Roest 1649. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three parts small octavo. A-X8 168 leaves: G5 signed F5; I2 as H2; I4 as H4. 18 293 25 indexpp. Woodcut printer’s device at title woodcut lettrines. Contemporary vellum with exposed thongs lightly soiled. Old entry at front pastedown. Occasional faint dampstain at bottom margin else a very good copy with clean text throughout.<br /> <br /> Second edition of this polemical history by “a strident condemner of the Jews†Sprunger. First published at Rotterdam by Jan van Waesberghe in 1608 the present work is the earliest reaction in print to the presence of Jews and their religion in the Dutch Republic van Rooden. Citing M. Bodian’s Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation R. Po-Chia Hsia describes the cultural context: “Coming initially in the 1590s as Portuguese merchants and Christian converts the so-called ‘New Christians’ Sephardic Jews in fact were welcomed by the Regents of Holland but were strongly opposed by the Reformed clergy. When the conversos reverted to the open practice of Judaism reaction from the Reformed Church was fierce. The predikant Abraham Coster 1575-1620 attacked the Sephardim as an ‘unclean people’ who sought to build a public synagogue ‘in which they can perform their evil and foolish ceremonies and spew forth their gross blasphemies against Christ and his holy gospels as well as their curses against the Christians and Christian authorities’â€. The present edition was later re-issued the following year with identical collation and pagination but designated as “Den 2den druck van nieuws oversienâ€. References: R. Po-Chia Hsia “Introduction†& P. van Rooden “Jews and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Republic†in: Calvinism and Religious Toleration 3; 137. Sprunger Trumpets from the Tower 81. NNBW 8 320: “Dit werk is een poging om de Amsterdamsche vroedschap te bewegen het bouwen van een nieuwe openbare synagoge te belettenâ€. For Gerrit Willemsz (by Adriaan Roest) hardcover
166818089<p><b>1668 1ed Abraham Cowley English Poetry Mistress Motto Pindar Ode Davideis Sylva</b></p><p><i>"What shall I do to be for ever known</i></p><p><i>And make the Age to come own"</i></p><p><i>I shall like beasts or common people die </i></p><p><i> Unless you write my elegy." </i>– Abraham Cowley <i>The Motto</i></p><p>Abraham Cowley was one of the leading English poets during the 17th-century. This charming and rare sixth edition was the last edition of the original one-volume printing. Following this edition the works were printed in multiple volumes. Famous poems such as '<i>The Motto</i>' '<i>The Mistress</i>' '<i>Ode to Pindar</i>' and '<i>Davideis'</i>are all included in this collection. The Pindaric Ode is especially interesting in that Cowley attempted to reproduce Pindar's works but in doing so he misinterpreted the metrical patterns and in doing so did not accurately reflect Pindar's poetry. He did however create one of the most famous odes ever written which would become the influence for William Wordsworth's famous ode<i> "Intimations of Immortality."</i></p><p>This impressive 1668 first edition includes a biography of Thomas Spratt.</p><p>Item number: #18089</p><p>Price: $750</p><p>COWLEY Abraham</p><p><b><i>The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley : consisting of those which were formerly printed: and those which he design'd for the press now published out of the authors original copies</i></b></p><p>London: Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman. 1668. First edition.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o Biography and Miscellanies – 42 41 1</p><p>o The Mistress – 80</p><p>o Pindarique Odes – 4 70 i.e. 68</p><p>o Davideis – 154 23</p><p>o Other verses and works – 148</p><p>· References: Lowndes 539; Perkin B 7.</p><p>· Language: English</p><p>· Binding: Leather; secure</p><p>· Size: ~11.75in X 7.75in 30cm x 19.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>18089</p><p><br /></p><p>Photos available upon request.</p> J.M. for Henry Herringman hardcover
166816395<p><b>1668 HERBAL Abe Cowley English Poetry Thomas Sprat London Plants Herbs Botany</b></p><p>Abraham Cowley was one of the leading English poets during the 17th-century. Cowley wrote poems on a variety of subjects most famously an '<i>Ode to Pindar'</i>. These poems many of which were written about flowers and agriculture were published throughout his lifetime as well as frequently republished following his death in 1667. This 1668 edition of the works of Cowley includes a life of Cowley by Thomas Sprat the editor of this edition.</p><p>Item number: #16395</p><p>Price: $550</p><p>COWLEY Abraham</p><p><b><i>Abrahami Couleij Angli poemata Latina : in quibus continentur sex libri plantarum viz. duo herbarum florum sylvarum et unus miscellaneorum.</i></b></p><p>Londini : Typis T. Roycroft impensis Jo. Martyn 1668.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 34 420 i.e. 416</p><p>o Pagination errors as expected</p><p>· Language: Latin </p><p>· Binding: Leather</p><p>o Visible repair at inner hinges</p><p>· Size: ~7in X 4.75in 18cm x 12cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>16395</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> T. Roycroft, impensis Jo. Martyn hardcover
