Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/121
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quarto, contemporary limp vellum, blind arabesque tooling, lettered and dated HSC 1584. Augsburg: 1575; at end: 20 Marti 1584 (in gold). $450.00 Most delicately executed German Renaissance writing book by a prominent disciple of the first German calligrapher, Johann Neudorfer the elder. Some of the large initials—with great flourishes—are masterfully executed in gold, gold and ink, and red and gold, respectively. Of special interest are the fine examples of writing in Roman letters, which are very rare. A few of the large initials are very slightly shaved at top; otherwise splendidly preserved. See Doppelmair, Historische Nachrichten... p. 201. 11. [CALLIGRAPHY]. L. Senault. Livre des rares & curieuses Es- critures Italienne bastarde a la mode et Pratiquées en ce Royaume dedié au Roy. Engraved title and 29 plates of engraved calligraphic writing and decorated lettering, printed on one side only. Oblong folio (15 x 914 inches), old marbled wrappers. Paris: F. Poilly, ca. 1670. $165.00 One of the rarest and most delightful French writing books of the period. The title and nearly every page has calligraphic birds incorporated in the border, com- posed of flourishes of the pen. BERLIN 5113 12. CAMOTIO, G. F. Isole famose Porti, Fortezze e Terre maritime sottoposte alla Serma. Sigria. di Venetia, ad altri principi Christiani, et al. Sig. Turco... Engraved title and 83 maps, numbered 1-84, finely colored in outline at the time of publication. Oblong small folio, original vellum binding with a coat of arms on sides. Venice, alla Libreria del Segno di S. Marco [1574]. $985.00 A fine and absolutely complete copy of this very famous and extremely rare atlas, of which R. Gallo has given us a detailed study in Imago Mundi, VII (1950), see especially pp. 97ff. It comprises maps of the coasts and of the most important ports of Austria, Iurkey, Greece, and of the principal islands of the Mediterranean sea; also of Italy, England, Ireland and Iceland (probably one of the earliest detailed maps of Iceland). Gallo bases his detailed enumeration of the maps on copies in the Marciana, two of which have 88 maps. The additional four prints do vot belong to this atlas, all being dated 1566 and dealing with an extraneous subject: Vienna, Gyula, Javarin and Ziget. Our collection of maps illustrates the so-called fourth war between Turkey and Venice (1570-73). Although signalized by the glorious victory of the Venetians at Lepanto (see map no. 38, a plan of the battle), Cyprus was taken from her and Venice lost eventually her commercial supremacy. This atlas, however, still shows Venice’s con- siderable wealth, her extensive possessions and desperate effort to defend her trade routes. There are hardly any copies outside of Italy, and the Library of Congress copy (Phillips 2815) lacks 10 maps of 79. Our copy is untouched and unrepaired. See also BAGRow, Geschichte der Kartographie, p. 336.
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