Sales catalogue 106: Davis & Orioli

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/16

Credit: Sales catalogue 106: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Angling—continued. of fishing. Some slight spotting of the paper, but a nice copy. 85 Walton (Isaac) and Cotton (Charles) The Compleat Angler: or Contemplative Man’s Recreation in two parts correctly published by Moses Browne. The seventh edition, very much enlarged and improved. London, 1759 25s 12mo. Old calf. With 10 engraved plates. HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE. 86 Algarotti (Count) An Essay on Painting. Written in Italian. Dublin, 1765 8s 6d 8vo. Old calf. 8-+136 pp. f 87 Bartolomeo Co. dal Pozzo (Ir.) Le Vite de’Pittori de gli Scultori et Architetti Veronese raccolte da vari autori stampati e manuscritti a da altre particolari memorie. Verona, 1718 £2 10s 4to. Vellum. 313+42pp. | ; 88 Blondel (Jacques Francois) De la Dis- tribution des Maisons de Plaisance et de la Decoration des Edifices en general. Paris, Ch. A. Jombert, 1737 £10 10s 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt back. 2 vols. With engraved frontispiece and 155 fine engraved plates, many of which are folding. One of the finest 18th century books on the architecture and decorations of the small country house. There are designs for gardens and num- erous details of interior decoration. Fine copy. 89 [Briseux (Charles Etienne)} Architecture Moderne ou Art de bien batir pour toutes sortes de personnes tant pour les maisons des particuliers que pour les palais. Paris, Jombert, 1728 £4 4s 4to. Contemporary mottled calf. 2 vols. En- graved frontispiece to each volume and 143 double-page engraved plates. First Epition. This work was later supple- mented by Blondel’s ‘‘ Traité de la décoration des edifices.”’ It is a very full account of French building practice at the beginning of the 18th century. The fine plates show ground plans and also many fine facades, etc. There is a long section on building materials and all sorts of technical questions are dealt with. Very fine copy. : 90 Ganova (Antonio) The Works of Antonio Canova in Sculpture and Modelling, engraved in outline by Henry Moses, with descriptions from the Italian of the Countess Albrizzi and a_ biographical xxiv, 340 pp., 4 ll. memoir by Count Cicognara. London, 1824 7s 6d 4to. Cloth, backs a little defective. Many plates. 2 vols. 91 Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux du Roy avec un Abrégé de la Vie des Paintres. Tome Premier contenant 1’Ecole Florentine et 1’Ecole Romaine, par M. Lépicié. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1752 6s 4to. Old calf. 92 Cellini. Symonps (John Addington) The Life of Benventuo Cellini newly translated into English. London, 1925 3s 8vo. Cloth. Portrait. 93 Du Fresnoy (C. A.) De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting .’. . translated into English, together with an original preface containing a parallel betwixt painting and poetry by Mr. Dryden ... also a short: account of the most eminent painters by’ another hand. London, 1695 4to. Original panelled calf. With engraved | frontispiece. Title printed in red and black.. 62 pp., 1 leaf of table, 355 pp. English version by ° Dryden of this famous poem written in 549 Latin ; verses by Charles Alph. du Fresnoy, the French: painter. First published in 1668, it had a great: success and was translated into many European | languages. The books also contains short notices on many painters of the time and old masters Fine copy. 94 Fialetti (Odoardo) Scherzi d’Amore. Venice, 1617 £3 353 Small folio. Old calf. The complete series, , consisting of the title and 13 engraved plates. Bartsch XVII. 267-270. {ie 95 Fusseli( Henry) Reflections on the Painting; and Sculpture of the Greeks; witht Instructions for the Connoisseur and an} Essay on Grace in Works of Art translated | from the German Original of the Abbé: Winckelmann. London, 1765 12s 6d! 8vo. Old calf, hinges weak. 6+287 pp. En-- graved vignette on title. A reply to this book wass written by James Barry, the painter (possibly; the Letter containing Objections against the fore- - going reflections printed in this volume is thiss reply). 96 Gori Gandellini (Giovanni) Notizie Isto-- riche degli Intagliatori. Secunda Edizione. Siena, 1808-1816 £2 10s; 8vo. Half vellum. 15 vols bound in seven. With2a an engraved frontispiece and portrait. A very fine set of this most important dictionaryy of early engravers. GUIDE BOOKS. We are offering below a collection ofi Italian Guide Books. Owing to _ theirr ephemeral nature these books have become: increasingly rare and they are, of course,, highly important to the historian of art ini giving the exact location of many works ofi art subsequently dispersed or destroyed. 97 Itinéraire del’Italie... guide indispensable: aux Etrangers, Curieux et Négotians.. Zem é€dition. Paris, H. Langlois, 1819) oss 12mo. Half calf. With 3 folding route maps,), printed in colour. 98 Lassels (Richard) The Voyage of Italy, or a compleat journey through Italy. London, J. Starkey, 1670 £2 2ss 8vo. Old calf. 24 ll., 251 pp.; 447 pp., 2-111} Engraved frontispiece. 2 parts in one volume. First Epition of one of the most interestingy early English books of travel to Italy, giving full) particulars of the artistic riches of the towns visited 99 Misson. Nouveau Voyage d’Italie avec un Mémoire contenant des avis utiles a ceux\ qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. 4iéme edition. The Hague, 1702 30ss 8vo. Panelled calf, gilt, g.e. 3 vols. Frontis-i- piece and many engraved folding plates. Finee copy with bookplates of John Hunter, Huth andj Frances Mary Richardson Currer. 100 Misson (M.) A New Voyage to Italy with: curious observations on several otherr countries as Germany, Switzerland, Savoy,,$

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