Calendar blocks 1947 - 8 - 9. by READ, C.H. & CO. - LONDON - 1947

1736. A Paris, chez A. Jombert, 1736. 4to. (page size 215 x 270 mm, most plates about 170 x 125 mm). 30 leaves of numbered engraved plates (22 plates of cupids - including engraved title, 8 plates of masks). Plus, bound as preliminaries, are the engraved titlepage and the second plate of Abraham Bosse's Differents Manières de Dessiner et Peindre. Later 3/4 buckram with marbled boards. Buckram a bit soiled. Plate 13 cut a bit short and plate 18 with a stain in the upper margin, not affecting the plate. Re-issue of this appealing series of engravings by Abraham Bosse after designs by the Italian artist and draughtsman Paolo Farinato (1524 - 1606). Farinati's chiaroscuro drawings were often used as 'modelli'. The first edition was published in 1644. The highly decorative images were intended to be copied as wall decoration, door headings, etc. They show cupids and angels with swags of flowers, bows and arrows, cornucopiae, grape vines, etc. On this work Join-Lambert & Préaud say: "Bosse avait commencé… Read More

Rothomagi [Rotterdam], sumptibus Ionnis & Davidis Berthelin, 1653. Folio. pp. [xxxii], cols. 1624, 104, pp. [xxiii]. Greek and Latin parallel text. Eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt. Edges sprinkled red. Top and bottom of spine damaged, hinges cracked but holding well. Bookplates on inside front cover and first flyleaf, some tiny manuscript notes in ink in an old hand on the first and last flyleaves. Some browning and foxing. Old repair on F4 but all in all a good copy.Photius (c. 810/820 - 893), one of the most powerful and influential church leaders of Constantinople, is also viewed as the most important intellectual of his time. His house was the centre of intellectual life in the Byzantine capital. The Myriobyblon contains abridgements and extracts of some 280 volumes of classical authors, the originals of which are now to a great extent lost and for which this is the most important surviving record. The best edition of this important work. [c.f. Brunet IV, 624; Peignot 579].

Three titles in one volume. 8vo. All three: Third editions, Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1697. [12], 151; 92; 111 pp. With two engraved frontispieces (for the first two titles) and a few copper engravings, one of them full-page. Some foxing and browning. Half calf with paste paper boards, edges sprinkled red. (binding rubbed and spine damaged at the top and bottom, part of the hinges cracked, interior fine). All in all a good copy.Willem Goeree (1635-1711), the son of a physician and born in Middelburg, was unable to go to University because of his father's early death. He then chose to become a printer and bookseller, first in Middelburg from 1666 to 1677 and then in Amsterdam but he also wrote books on antiquities and art like the present work. His works, published during the Golden Age of Dutch painting were some of the most popular manuals on painting and remained so into the eighteenth century. They also give valuable insight into this golden age of Dutch painting. It is probable that many… Read More

Nova ediçao, Lisboa, na typographia Rollandiana, 1848. 294 pp. Unbound and in sheets as published. Printed label for the binder to use on the temporary wrappers next to page 289. Some light staining throughout.

(Paris, 1815). Parchemin (40 x 49,5 cm) (lég. poussiéreux). Document imprimé par P. Didot l'aîné et gravé par Adam, avec mentions manuscrits et signature de Charles Philippe de France (griffe), futur Charles X, et contresignature du duc de Montmorency, sceau sous papier (lég. bruniss. et trace de grattage), autres mentions mss au verso. Daté Paris 15 Janvier 1815. Prov. E. Samain (cachet rouge).Accorde à François Chapuy, né à Versailles en 1768, le droit de porter la décoration du Lys. Belle ornementation emblématique gravée.

Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, n.d. (1923?). 57pp. text + 55 full-page facsimiles (several in colour) and 18 facs. of initials in the text. Sm. folio. Halfcloth (rebacked).

Grenoble, Alexandre Giroud, 1701. 4to. 8pp. Reminder of the rules and regulations relevant to the printing trade given in VIII articles.

Three titles in one volume. 8vo. All three: Third editions, Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1697. [12], 151; 92; 111 pp. With two engraved frontispieces (for the first two titles) and a few copper engravings, one of them full-page. Some foxing and browning. Half calf with paste paper boards, edges sprinkled red. (binding rubbed and spine damaged at the top and bottom, part of the hinges cracked, interior fine). All in all a good copy.Willem Goeree (1635-1711), the son of a physician and born in Middelburg, was unable to go to University because of his father's early death. He then chose to become a printer and bookseller, first in Middelburg from 1666 to 1677 and then in Amsterdam but he also wrote books on antiquities and art like the present work. His works, published during the Golden Age of Dutch painting were some of the most popular manuals on painting and remained so into the eighteenth century. They also give valuable insight into this golden age of Dutch painting. It is probable that many… Read More

Nova ediçao, Lisboa, na typographia Rollandiana, 1848. 294 pp. Unbound and in sheets as published. Printed label for the binder to use on the temporary wrappers next to page 289. Some light staining throughout.

No place, no date (but Paris, 1748). Folio. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title, engraved dedication to the King, 78 engraved plates. Some (water)staining but still a good clean copy bound in nineteenth century 3/4 red morocco & red buckram boards. Edges stained red.Second, last and best edition of this collection of engravings of medals commemorating the real and imagined triumphs of Louis XV's reign.