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London: L-13, 2010. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition (so stated), one of only 500 copies privately published for subscribers. Oblong royal 8vo (210 x 230): [2],7-230pp, copiously illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's saffron quarter-cloth over thick card boards, spine lettered in black, paper AHH label in green, red, and black tipped to upper board, decorated end sheets; issued without dust jacket. Signed on opening night of L-13 Art Hate Exhibition in 2011 by Billy Childish (as Reginald Dada, the artist Childish created for the exhibition); James (Jimmy) Cauty, artist and musician (KLF), and Steve Lowe (as Harold Rosenbloom, founder of Jews Against Art and L-13, and half, with Adam Wood, of the pseudonym Harry Adams). With Tracey Emin's quote to rear board, "Where ART HATE goes commerce follows," later redacted and attributed to CCAHA (Central Committee of ART HATE Artists). Very light bumping to corners and slight soiling to card covers, else Fine. Childish (born Steven John Hamper), an…
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AHH 2: Love the ART HATE: ART HATE Graphics 1972-2010 [Signed]
by CHILDISH, Billy (b. 1959); Harry Adams
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Abel redevivus : or, The dead yet speaking. The lives and deaths of the moderne divines. Written by severall able and learned men (whose names ye shall finde in the epistle to the reader.) And now digested into one volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of piety and virtue
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London: printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, dwelling in Brides Churchyard, neer Fleetstreet, 1651. First Edition. Fine. First Issue, with engraved title page signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp:" and imprint "Sould by Iohn Stafford in Brides Churchyard 1651." Small 4to: [10],440,[20],441-596pp, with additional engraved title page and forty-three engraved portraits in the text. There are numerous errors in paging, including: final page misnumbered 599, p. 221 misnumbered 211, p. 22 misnumbered 21. The section on Lancelot Andrewes (including blank page and portrait plate) covers 10 unpaged leaves, inserted between pp. 440-441. (The "Life & Death of Lancelot Andrews" was also issued separately, in 1650 [Wing / I-1058]). The engraved portrait of Jerome of Prague on page 21. often missing, is present. The portrait of Thomas Fuller, according to Bibliotheca Bibliographici, was only was added in later editions. Contemporary calf, covers framed with gilt roll, respined to match in six compartments between…
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American Notes for General Circulation
by DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)
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New York: D. Appleton, 1868. First Edition thus. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-point in Dickens's career." (Literary Encyclopedia) Crown 8vo (188 x 122mm): 104,[4]pp, text printed in double columns. Publisher's peach pictorial wrappers printed in brown, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, publisher's advertisement for the works of Louisa Mühlbach printed on deep pink stock and tipped to title page. A tad worn and slightly soiled, occasional light creasing and foxing, but securely bound and generally clean throughout. A collectible copy of this fragile production. This edition not in Gimbel, Eckel, or Smith, but see Howes D-316, Sabin 19996, and Wilkins, pp. 22-24 for other American printings. Dickens sailed from Liverpool on January 3, 1842, and visited…
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[American Revolution] Travels through the interior parts of America. In a series of letters. By an officer
by ANBUREY, Thomas (active late 1700s)
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London: printed for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, 1789. First Edition. Half-Morocco. Fine. First Edition (preceding the French edition by one year) of this eighteenth-century travel account of Canada and the Northeast by an officer who served with Burgoyne. Complete in two octavo volumes, including plate list, subscribers and errata (rebound without half titles). [2],vii,[21],467,[1]1; [2],558pp, with frontispiece folding map ("delineating the March of the Army"), 5 engraved views (4 folding), folding plan, and facsimiles of American currency in red and black on two leaves. Recent burgundy half-morocco, marbled boards, end papers renewed. A superb set, short stained streaks to fore-edge of vol. I, affecting margins only of several leaves, very faint offsetting from plates, else clean and bright throughout with rich impressions of the plates. Clark I 192. Lande (Redpath) 7. Sabin 1366-67. TPL 541. Bibliotheca Americana (Stevens), p. 27. Howes A-226 ("Capt. Anburey served with Burgoyne, but this…
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[American Indians] Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws. Containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions; together with observations on the manners of the Indians. Embellished with copper-plates. By William Bartram
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London: reprinted for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1794. Three-Quarter Calf. Fine. Styled on title page "Second Edition in London" (although only the title page differs from the first London edition, according to Sabin, and indeed, in our copy, is on heavier stock) of this classic account of natural history and exploration, including much on southern Indian tribes. Crown 8vo (203 x 120mm): xxiv,520,[8index & binding directions]pp, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Mico Chlucco (from Bartram's own drawing), seven numbered natural history plates (one folding), and folding map (showing eastern coast of Florida from the River St. John to near Cape Canaveral). Beautifully bound in period-style three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards (c. 1900, judging from supplied end sheets), spine in six richly gilt compartments divided by raised bands, black morocco lettering piece gilt, gilded top edge, marbled end sheets. Small edge chip to frontispiece (far from image), else superb, tightly bound,…
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The American grape grower's guide : intended especially for the American climate. Being a practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape-vine in each department of hot house, cold grapery, retarding house, and out door culture. With plans for the construction of the requisite buildings, and giving the best methods of heating the same. Every department being fully illustrated [Original Cloth]
by CHORLTON, William (1811-1889)
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New York: C. M. Saxton, 25 Park Row, 1862. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Early printing of this detailed guide to cultivating grapes in the New World. Crown 8vo (182 x 114mm): xii,[1],12-204pp, with frontispiece and 32 illustrations in text. Publisher's brown cloth, covers elaborately blind-stamped with grape-and-vine motif, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Light occasional spotting, but an excellent example in original cloth (and scarce thus), tightly bound and generally clean throughout. Noling, p.105. Amerine & Borg 887 (first edition). Gabler G16220 (Orange Judd edition). Originally published in 1852 (also published in New York the same year by Orange Judd & Company), followed by second edition in 1860, with many subsequent and revised editions attesting to its popularity. Includes list of European grapes suitable for indoor cultivation and discusses such American varieties as isabella, catawba, diana, and concord for outdoor planting; with plans for construction of hot houses and greenhouses and…
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[Angling] A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England
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Boston / New York: Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled cloth, covers paneled in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, brown coated end papers. Lightly rubbed, but a handsome copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Bruns C66 ("Salt water fishing on the New England Coast from sand dabs to pollack"). Bartlett, p. 16. First published the previous year. According to the preface, Carter's narrative originally appeared in the form of letters to the New York Tribune. His account was immensely popular, going through subsequent editions in 1870, 1888, and 1889. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are…
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[Antiquitates Rutupinae] [Antiquities of Richborough] Joannis Battely S.T.P. Archidiaconi Cantuariensis opera posthuma. Viz. Antiquitates Rutupinæ et Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi ad annum 1272 perductæ
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Oxoniæ [Oxford]: e theatro Sheldoniano, 1745. First Edition thus. Quarter-Calf. Fine. Two works bound in one, each with half-title and title page, registration, and pagination. Text in Latin (an English translation, in octavo, appeared in 1774). 4to: [12],138,[4]; [4],164pp, with 16 plates (including seven folding and one double-page) and four vignettes. Modern calf-backed brown linen, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, second compartment titled direct in gilt, tan end papers (renewed). A spectacular, wide-margined (perhaps large paper) copy, crisp and clean throughout, with strong impressions of the plates. Anderson (British Topography), p. 145. Upcott I, pp. 429-30. Lowndes, p. 130 ("an elegant posthumous discourse"). Cox III, p. 469. These two works, beautifully illustrated, together represent the span of Battely's historical interests, ranging geographically from Suffolk to Kent. The first work, 'Antiquitates Rutupinæ,' a consideration of the Roman antiquities and ancient…
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[Arctic] Letters from a Globetrotter. Written for Members of the Round-The-World Society
by RAYMOND, Elmer D.
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[various places], [925]. Near Fine+. Travelogue in the form of subscription letters written by Elmer D. Raymond, founder and president of the Round-the-World Society. Demy 8vo (232 x 160mm): frontispiece of clipper ship from sketch by Raymond and title page in red and black, folding map of the world, two-page forward (printed rectos only), and 53 mimeographed stamped and postmarked letter sheets (each folded twice, creating an address panel and three stenciled pages), addressed to Mrs. David R Doru of Coopers Town, N.Y.; with sixteen black-and-white plates from photographs of various locations Raymond visited ("From the mighty metropolises of European civilization, from the squalid villages of African savagery, from the icy waters of the Arctic, from the barren sands of the deserts"), and an original radiogram announcing Raymond's approach to the North Pole. The first twenty-seven letters are unnumbered, followed by numbers XXVII [sic] through LII. Bound in pebbled black limp leatherette fastened…
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Argon, A New Constituent of the Atmosphere
by [Nobel Laureates] RAYLEIGH, Lord John William Strutt (1842-1919) and Professor William Ramsay (1852-1916)
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City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Printing. Original Cloth. Fine. First separate appearance of this scientific paper reporting discovery of the first inert gas, for which Rayleigh and Ramsay were awarded the Nobel prize. Royal 8vo (322 x 242mm): [4],43,[1]pp, with tables and five text woodcut illustrations. Original forest green publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, yellow coated end papers. Publisher catalog slip laid-in. Wanting the plain-paper dust jacket. A Fine, bright copy, pristine inside and out. Dibner 50 (for original periodical appearance). Originally published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in 1895. Both Rayleigh and Ramsay claimed priority for the discovery of argon; they eventually agreed to submit a jointly authored paper. Both later won the Nobel prize (Rayleigh for Physics, Ramsay for Chemistry), and their discovery was a major factor in both awards. "Rayleigh and Ramsay had noted…
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[Armorial Binding] Praedium Rusticum
by VANIÈRE, Jacques (1664-1739)
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Paris [Lutetiae Parisiorum]: Apud Joannem Le Clerc, 1707. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine-. 12mo: [6],268,[12], with engraved initials and head and tail pieces, and 10 charming full-page plates by Laurent Cars after Dumesnil, one at the beginning of each book. In Latin. Full speckled calf, contemporary to publication, covers framed in blind with gilt-stamped coat-of-arms on both, spine in six compartments richly gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red, marbled end papers. About Fine, joints skillfully reinforced; clean, well-margined leaves with occasional mild foxing and edge stains; most plates with faint tide mark to upper edge. Huzard II 944. Thiébaud 917-918. Schwerdt II, p. 278-79. First Edition (according to Schwerdt, but Thiébaud calls the Paris edition of 1696, which is "fort rare," the "Édition originale") of this didactic poem in ten books praising the pleasures of life in the countryside. Vanière instructs on the art of gardening while inspiring, in picturesque…
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[Armorial Binding] An accurate and descriptive catalogue of the several paintings in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid; with some account of the pictures in the Buen-Retiro. By Richard Cumberland, Author of The Anecdotes of Eminent Painters in Spain
by CUMBERLAND, Richard (1732-1811); Christian Samuel Kalthoeber (binder)
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London: printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and J. Walter, Charing-Cross, 1787. Full Calf. Fine. First (and only) edition of this brief survey of the Spanish royal collections, in Madrid. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 91mm): iv,131,[1]pp. Contemporary full tree calf binding by C. [Christian Samuel] Kalthoeber, London (orange ticket to front fly-leaf verso), binder to George III and Catherine the Great, with beautifully tooled coat of arms in gilt to both covers; covers framed in gilt with Greek key role, spine in six compartments between gilt-decorated raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges gilt, red silk page marker laid in. Provenance: Several lines of evidence convincingly point to the book having been bound for William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844), the novelist and art collector. The coat of arms in gilt to both covers is that of the order of the garter ("honi soit qui mal y pense"), founded by Edward III. Beckford claimed descent from Edward and appropriated the arms and symbols of…
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[Art Journal] Noise 5; [with] Noise 6; [and with] Noise 15/16
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Paris: Maeght Editeur [through 1992], 1986. Three issues of Maeght Editeur's beautifully produced, outsized contemporary art and literary journal, Noise, all Fine and profusely illustrated in color. Crown Folio (368 x 268mm): 56; 56; 80pp, with numerous reproductions of original lithographs (mostly double-page, on card and included in pagination). Publisher's wraparound pictorial stiff-card perfect bindings. Text in French. One of 2000 standard copies (120 were issued on vellum). No. 5, with contributions by Mattia Bonetti, Werner Büttner, Graziella da Gioz, André Derain, Barry Flanagan, Elizabeth Garouste, Witold Gombrowicz, Philippe Lacque-Labarthe, Françoise Martin, Pierre Moignard, Frederic Paul, Jacques Perry, François Martin, and Andrea Zanzotto. No. 6, with contributions by Edouard Pignon, Stefano Benni, Vincent Corpet, Luis Mizón, Antonio Saura, Marc Le Bot, Peter Chevalier, Pascal Bonafoux, Hélène Delprat, and Juan Manuel Bonet. No. 15/16 (double issue), with contributions by Tristan…
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Art and Illusion. A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by GOMBRICH, E. H. (Sir Ernst Hans, 1909-2001)
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London: Phaidon Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Printing of this path-breaking work in the psychology of perception that influenced thinkers as diverse as Carlo Ginzburg, Nelson Goodman, and Umberto Eco. Thick royal 8vo (254 x 187mm): xxxi,[1],466pp, with 319 illustrations, some folding and in color. Publisher's original scarlet linen, spine lettered in gold within black title black, beige dust jacket printed in red and black and priced 70s. Printed on heavy coated stock. About Fine, tightly bound, clean and bright throughout; Near Fine or better jacket with faint spotting to upper cover panel, closed tear along bottom spine panel fold with degree or two of lightening to red lettering. No. 35 in the Bollingen series. Arntzen R1. Originally given as the A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D. C., in 1956. "Considered a classic by all who seek for a meeting ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion…
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[Auction Catalogues] The W. H. Bruton Collections. Catalogue of the very choice collections of printed books, autograph letters and book illustrations, also drawings by Thomas Rowlandson : the property of the late Henry William Bruton, Esq., Bewick House, Gloucester . . . including one of the finest known copies of The Pickwick Papers . . . very fine unpublished drawings . . . by Thomas Rowlandson . . . books illustrated by George Cruikshank . . . ; [with] frontispiece to Roland's Comic Songs by Cruikshank; [and with] The Chignon, etching by Cruikshank
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London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1921. Limited Edition. Half-Morocco. Fine. Large Paper copies, each number 3 of 125 sets of which 60 were for sale, with printed prices and buyer's names. Complete in two volumes (Printed Books and Old Engravings). Royal 8vo (277 x 182mm): [2],iv,62,[2],vii,[1], with portrait frontispiece and twelve tissue-guarded leaves of plates; [2],iv,3-39,[1],iv, with portrait frontispiece and eight tissue-guarded leaves of plates. Bound in half crushed morocco by Riviere, original bluish-green wrappers printed in black bound in, top edges gilt, note on the extra illustrations bound in following the preface to Printed Books. Loosely inserted (and not called for) are the frontispiece to Roland's Comic Songs by Cruikshank (see book catalogue item 387, where this engraving is described as "excessively scarce") and The Chignon, colored etching by Cruikshank. Apart from these two laid-in illustrations, a number of plates were specially printed from Cruikshank's original copper…
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[Auction Catalog] The Ducal Estate of Stowe, Near Buckingham. The Historical Seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos and for some years the residence of the Late Comte de Paris. Messrs. Jackson Stops will Sell by Auction, at Stowe House, on Monday, July 4th, 1921, at 1 o'clock the Freehold of the Historic Mansion & Estate . . . On the Eighteen Days following (from July 5th to July 28th . . . will be Sold the Contents of the Mansion
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Northampton and Towcester Buckingham; London: Messrs. Jackson Stops [and others], 1921. Limited Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Near Fine+. Catalog of the auctioneer Jackson Stops announcing the sale of the historical seat of the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, the "most magnificent of [Britain's] private estates" and the "most celebrated English landscape of the day," (Jellicoe) No. 769, Colonel Seton of Mounie's copy, with his armorial book plate to front paste-down and letters relating to the sale tipped in. Royal 8vo (374 x 249mm): 232,[2]pp, extensively illustrated with map, four colored plans (two folding), and 59 full-page plates from photographs on glossy stock inserted. Original cloth-backed buff boards printed in black, upper cover inset with armorial coat of arms, stamped with copy number, and signed by Seton. Green broadsheet sale advertisement printed in black laid in; one of two permits to view estate removed from rear (presumably by Seton). Some prices realized neatly noted (generally…
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Axel's Castle : A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
by WILSON, Edmund (1895-1972)
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First printing (with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page) of Wilson's first collection of critical essays, charting the influence of the French Symbolist poets on such revolutionary twentieth-century texts as Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Crown 8vo (203 x 136mm): [12],319,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven navy blue cloth, paper spine label printed in black, fore-edge untrimmed; putty grey typographic dust jacket printed in black and priced $2.50. Clamshell case. A truly spectacular example, tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and spotless throughout. Jacket spine panel darkened a degree or two, else virtually pristine. Modern Movement 71 ("ends with a capital and little known account of the Dada movement by Tristan Tzara"). The introductory essay on Symbolism (tracing its origins in the works of Poe, first translated into French by Baudelaire) is followed by chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul…
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[Bermuda] [Jamaica] [Barbados] The West Indies and the Spanish Main
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Fourth Edition (in format identical to the first) of this chronicle of Trollope's travels through Barbados, the Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, New Granada, St. Thomas, and Trinidad, written while he was on post office business in the West Indies. Crown 8vo (196 x 118mm): iv,5-371,[1],32[publishers' catalogue dated February, 1860]pp, with colored folding map frontispiece. Original grained maroon cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind, spine lettered in gold, edges uncut, pale yellow end papers. Binding lightly rubbed, but tightly bound and clean throughout, a collectible copy. Sadleir 9 (incorrectly dating this edition 1861). Terry, pp. 582-84. The first of Trollope's travel books, originally published the previous year. "Trollope sailed for the West Indies on 17 November 1858, his second postal mission . . . He checked postal routes meticulously . . . prescribed economies, and initiated changes. . . . Henceforth travel would become more…
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Bibliografia di Bernard Berenson [Inscribed]
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Milano: Published by Electa Editrice, 1955. Fine. Limited Edition, No. 48 of 1000 copies, of Berenson's bibliography of books and articles on the history of art, notably Renaissance Italian painting. Royal 8vo (249 x 174mm): 74 French-folded leaves (printed on one side of the leaf), with four tipped-in facsimiles of holograph letters and other documents. Publisher's melon-colored paper over limp covers, paper title labels printed in black to spine and in red and black to upper cover, title page printed in red and black. Inscribed "affectionately" by Berenson ("B. B.") on front fly-leaf and dated July '55. A superb presentation copy, virtually pristine. Besterman (Art and Architecture), p.180. Besterman (World Bibliographies) I, 740. Lists Berenson's works chronologically through 1955, beginning with The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, first published in 1894. "Among Berenson's greatest contributions to the field of art were his Italian Renaissance scholarship and his impact on American public…
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[Binding] Epitome rerum romanarum cum notis integris Cl. Salmasii, & selectis variorum. Accedunt Jo. Georgii Graevii annotationes longe auctiores & correctiores; nec non numismata et antiqua monumenta . . . In fine additus est L. Ampelius ex bibiotheca Cl. Salmasii
by FLORUS, L[ucius] Annaeus, c. 74 AD - c. 130 AD [Claude Saumaise, Joannes Georgius Graevius, Johan Heinrich Wetstein]
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Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: apud H. Westenium, 1692. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine. So-called second edition of "by far the most critical edition of Florus that appeared in the seventeenth century." (Dibdin) Edited by the German classical scholar Johann Georg Graevius, with extensive notes by the French classical scholar Claudius Salmasius at the foot of each page. Small, thick 8vo: [22],672,[673-674],561-588,[108],46pp, with engraved title page (by Romeyn de Hooghe) depicting the goddess Roma enthroned and adored by peoples of the world, letterpress title page in red and black with vignette, 29 copper-engraved full-page plates depicting medals and coins, folding table, ornamental borders, and decorative initials. Full contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in five compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, covers ruled with corner pieces in blind, edges speckled red, plain period end papers with engraved armorial book plate of E[dwarf]. W[iliac]. Steakhouse (Franks…
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