Sales catalogue 113: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 113: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An interesting specimen of Italian copperplate book illustration. No copy inthe British Museum Library. 2524 Poesie per lIngresso Solenne di Sua Eccellenza [1 Signor Gio. Antonio Gabriel Cavaliere e Cancellier Grande. Venice, Alessandri e Cattaglia (ca. 1760) £6 10s Small folio. In the very attractive original green wrappers, gilt devices and decorations on sides, but a little rubbed. 100 pp. Engraved frontispiece with portrait, engraved title-page, engraving at end. Each page is surrounded bya fine engraved border. There are four or five types of border which are repeated throughout. A perfect example of the baroque art of the Venetian 18th century, which can hold its own in comparison with the highly valued engraved French books of the period, for which many times the price would be asked which we are asking for this Italian book. These books, especially in their original wrappers, are now becoming very rare. 253 Poesie per lIngresso Solenne di Sua Excellenza I] Signor Cav. Francesco Moro- sini all dignita di Procuratore di 8. Marco. Venice, Luigi Pavini, 1763 21s Smal! folio. Old paper boards. 56 pp. Engraved frontispiece and printed throughout from engraved plates. Head-and-tail pieces and each page sur- rounded by an engraved decorative border. A nice example of the fine 18th century engraved books produced in Venice. A stain in the upper inner margins. 254 Vermehr (Paul) Jesus und Seine Kirche. Dresden, J. J. Winckler & Leipzig, J. Gros- sen, 1713 £4 4s Folio. Old calf. Binding a little worn. Engraved title & 100 pages of sonnets on episodes from the epistles & gospels, at the head of each of which are two beautiful emblematic plates. A little-known but really decorative illustrated book, representative of the art of the early 18th century in Germany. FACETIAE. 255 Democritus Ridens sive Campus Recrea- tionum: Honestarum cum Exorcismo Melan- choliae. Danzig, Aeg. Janssonius, 1696 15s 12mo. Early 19th century green morocco, gilt borderlines, fleurons, gilt back, g.e. FENCING AND DUELLING. 256 Agrippa (Camillo) Trattato di Scienza d’Arme et un Dialogo in detta materia. Venice, A. Pinargenti, 1568 £8 10s Small 4to. 19th century French green levant morocco interior dentelles. Engraved front. with portrait of author & 55 fine engravings of fencing attitudes by an artist of the school of Michelangelo. Second edition containing the same plates as the first. 257 Angelo. The School of Fencing, with a general explanation of the principal atti- tudes & positions peculiar to the art. London, 8. Hooper, 1765 Los5s Oblong folio. Old half boards. With 47 fine plates, showing fencing attitudes. Text in English & French. Uncut copy. 258 Gessi (Berlingiero) La Spada di Honore Libro Primo delle Osseruazioni Caualeresche. Bologna, D. Barbieri, 1671 £4 10s 4to. Contemporary vellum, line tooled sides, fleurons at angles & arms of the Actieri in gilt on sides. En- graved front. & 8 full-page engraved emblematic plates printed within borders. A very rare work on the laws of honour, illustrated with emblems. Very . fine copy. 259 Hope (Sir William) A New, Short and Easy Method of Fencing ; or the Art of the Broad and Small Sword rectified. . . 4to. Contemporary calf. 15-+288 pp. and errata leaf. 1 folding table and a folding plate with 16 figures. Fine copy. Thimm, p. 139. Master ; in which is fully described all the Guards, Parades and Lessons belonging to the Small-Sword. ... The third edition. London, W. Taylor, 1710 £2, 25 8vo. Contemporary calf. 11 leaves, 167 pp., 8 Il. With 12 engraved plates. A reproduction of the Scot’s Fencing Master of 1687. Possibly leaf A2 is missing, but as we cannot find an accurate biblio- graphical description of this edition nor another copy and as it is an exact reprint of the 1692 edition to which our copy conforms in every detail, we cannot be certain. ; True Art of Self-Defence, with a proposal to the Honourable Members of Parliament for erecting a Court of Honour in Great- Brvain: ase tog whichis annexed! “acl > . Memorial for Sword-Men. Edinburgh, William Brown, 1724 £3 10s Svo.. -Oldicality 12 le 176 spp, oO li Eneraved frontispiece and a large folding plate with 16 figures. First EDITION. Fine copy, from the Gordon Castle library, with bookplate. Thimm, p. 139. FETES BOOKS. Mémoires pour servir a Vhistoire de la Féte des Foux qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs Eglises. Lausanne & Geneva, M. M. Bousquet, 1741 £2 10s 4to. Original French calf. 12 plates at end. An interesting account of the Compagnie des Fous & the Féte des Fous, in Dijon, a clear survival of the Roman saturnalia, with poems in the form of dialogue. between vignerons in the Burgundy dialect. Rare, de fa Golombierre. Le Vray Theatre d’Honneur et de Chevalerie ou le Miroir Heroique de la Noblesse . .. avec le formulaire d’un Tournay tel qu’on le pourroit faire a present avec les armes dont les Gentilshommes se servent 4 la Guerre. Paris, Augustin Courbe, 1638 £10 10s 2 vols. Folio. .Old French calf, gilt back. En- graved front. both vols., portrait of author after Nanteuil, repeated in both vols, emblematic engrav- ing & 6 magnificent folding plates of tournaments & jousts, including a fine engraving of the Carrousel in the Place Royale at Paris. An important work on the history of chivalry, knighthood, duelling, the laws of honour. I[t contains an account of the tournament held by Rene d’Anjou, extracted from an autograph MS. in the Bibliotheque Royalle, & many similar festivities right down to the period when the author wrote. Fine copy. FLEAS. Gedichtum Versicale de Flochis Schwarzis ilis Thiericulis qui omnes fere Menschos, Manros Weibras, Jungfras, Kindros, ete. behupfere spitzibus suis Schnabis stechere et beissere solent. S.ln.d. [Germany, ec. 1600} £2 5s Small 4to. 4 ff. Calf. Engraving on title showing the not very delicate efforts of men & women to rid themselves of fleas.» A very rare poem in macaronic German. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. (Benjamin) Political, laneous and Philosophical Pieces, . Miscel- .. Now
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