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Credit: Sales catalogue 119: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![>) 36 Cabinet Jabach.—Recueil de 283 Estampes Gravées 4 Eau forte..... d’aprés les Desseins des Grands Maitres que possedoit autrefois M. Jabach et qui depuis ont passé au Cabinet du Roi. Paris, 1754 £,6/10/- Oblong folio. Old mottled calf, gilt back. A series of engravings from important old drawings, mostly of the Italian school. 37 Laborde (Comte Léon de) Voyages en Orient. [Asia Minor, Syria and Pales- tine]. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1837-1838 £6/10/- 2 vols. Folio. Half calf, back defective. 162 pages of lithographs, tinted or printed in colour, many containing two views on a page showing views of places and native costumes, mainly from drawings by the author, and | front. in chromolithograph of a desert caravan after Marichat. This copy contains the plates without the text. A fine specimen of early lithographical work. 38 Lauder of Grange (Sir Thomas Dick) A series of 25 etchings of subjects in Switzerland and Italy, dated 1820-1822 30/- Old half calf, binding broken. Appears to be rare. Not mentioned among the author’s works in the D.N.B. 39 Lavallée (Joseph) Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l’Istrie et de la Dalmatie rédigé d’aprés l’Intinéraire de L. F. Cassas. Paris, 1802 £15/15/- Folio. Calf. With 63 fine engraved plates, several folding, showing views and antiquities, map, engraved title and frontispiece, engraved head-pieces. An excellent, clean copy. 40 Le Brun. Recueil de divers Desseins de Fontaines et de Frises Maritimes. Paris, Chez Edelinck, (ca. 1770) £7/10/- Folio. Old boards. 20 engraved plates, showing designs for fountains. The complete series contains 41 plates (see Guilmard, p. 77). 41 Le Lorrain (Claude) Liber Veritatis, or a Collection of Two Hundred Prints after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, executed by Richard Earlom. London, John Boydell, 1777 £15/15/- Folio. Half green morocco, gilt, t.e.g. 2 vols. 200 aquatint plates. There is a very faint damp-stain in the blank margins or corner of a few pages in vol. II, otherwise a fine uncut copy. 42 Lenoir (Alexandre) Receuil de Gravures pour servir 4 lHistoire des Arts en France, prouvée par les monumens. Paris, 1811 £2/10/- Folio. Half morocco. The Atlas of 164 engravings of French Art Treasures. The descriptive text is not present. 43 Merigot.—A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity, recently executed from drawings made upon the spot. London, (1798) £10/10/- Folio. Old half calf, rubbed. With 62 coloured aquatint plates. 44 Metz (C. M.) Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings, from the Restoration of the Arts in Italy to the present Time, together with a chronological account of the artists. London, 1798 £12/12/- Italian drawings. 45 Mitelli (Gioseppe) L’Arti Pervia disegnate, intagliate et offerte al Grande et alto Nettuno Gigante Sig. della Piazza di Bologna. Bologna, 1660 £10/10/- Folio. Old polished calf, rebacked. Engraved titlepage and 40 engraved plates showing the Itinerant Traders of Bologna. Diversi Utili ad Argentieri Intagliatori Ricamatori et altri Professori dell’ Buon Arti del Disegno. Rome, 1698 Oblong folio. -Old calf. 32 plates, including title. A very beautiful and extremely rare book of Italian baroque ornament, it includes designs for altar pieces, various other Church ornament, most elaborate design for carriages, beds, cradles, etc. Guilmard, p. 319. Cable Address : ‘‘ AVORIOLOR, WESDO, LONDON.” é](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156888_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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