Sales catalogue 118: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/25
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 118: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AGRICULTURE. 1 Bradley (Richard, F.R.8.) New Improve- ments of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical, explaining the Motion of the Sap and Generation of Plants with other Discoveries never before made publick, for the Improvement of Forest- Trees, Flower-Gardens, or Parterres London, 1717 8vo. Wrappers. First Edition. 70 pp. With a folding plate. An Appendix to the New Improvement of Planting and Gardening, containing the Culture of Forest-Trees . . . the method of raising the Truffle, Morille and Mushroom, of the production of the Chadock-Orange ...a particularly easy method of managing the Ananas or Pine-Apple, the Bananas, the Guava, the Mango and other fruit of the hottest climates. London, 1726 £2 2s 8vo. Old paper boards. With 2 folding plates. 2 Gyllenborg (Gustavus Adolphus) A Natural and Chemical Treatise on Agriculture... with practical remarks and additions by W. Pilkington. Published by subscription, Ply- mouth-Dock, 1818 30s 8vo. Original boards, paper label, UNCUT. 208 pp. Presumably the first English translation of one of the most important scientific treatises on agricultural chemistry. 3 Markham. Cheape and Good Husbandry for the well ordering of all beasts and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases ... together with the use and profit of bees, the making of Fish-ponds and the taking of all sorts of Fish. London, T. 8. for Roger Jackson, 1623 £5 5s 4to. Modern half calf. 12 leaves (the first blank), 179 pp. 4 Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. Edinburgh, 1814 £2 2s 8vo. 3 vols. Half calf. With several engraved plates. An uncommon book containing contribu- tions by many Scotch and other gardeners describing innovations in gardening and agriculture. ART. 5 Boschini (Marco) Le Minere della Pittura ...non sole delle Pitture publiche di Venezia, ma dell’Isole ancora circonvicine. Venice, 1664 £2 10s 12mo. Old boards. 18 leaves. 572 pp., 1 leaf. With engraved frontispiece and six engraved plates in the text. 6 Cellini (Benvenuto) The Life of Benvenuto. Cellini, a Florentine Artist . . . written by himself in the Tuscan language and trans- lated from the original by Thomas Nugent. London, 1771 £3 10s 8vo. Contemporary calf. 2 vols. With the en- graved portrait of Cellini by Collyer after Vasari. First English edition of Cellini’s famous autobio- graphy. 7 Dietterlein (Wendel) Architectura. Von Ausstheilung Symmetria und Proportion der Fiinff Seulen und ailer daraus folgender Kunstarbeit von Fenstern, Caminen, Thiire- gerichten, Portalen, Bronnen und KEpi- taphien. Nuremberg, Paul Fiirst, 1658 £15 15s Folic. Vellum. 209 leaves. With the engravec title, portrait of author and the beautiful series of full- page copperplates showing designs for mantelpieces: doors, windows, monuments, cclumns, interior de-~ corations of all kinds, fountains, etc., etc. <A reprint of the 1598 edition, actuelly containing the same sheets, but a new date on the first titlepage. The finest and most important work on Germar Renaissance ornament and of the greatest interest tc any student of art, showing how the ideas of the Italian Renaissance were transformed and adapted in Germany, some plates foreshadowing distinctly the later baroque developments. 8 Pailadio (Andrea) The First Book of Archi- tecture ... translated out of Italian, with an Index touching Doors and Windows by Pr. Le Muet, translated out of French, by G. R. ; to which are added designes of Floors lately made at Somerset House, and the Framing of Houses after the best manner of English Building with their Proportions and Scantlings. London, 1663 £3 10s. Ato. Old calf, rebacked. Collation A-GG4 HH2 (with two extra plates between C3 and 4), but ap- parently lacking sig. N2 and 3. Many engraved plates. First Edition of this celebrated work, which was of such great influence on the development of English Architecture. It is of the utmost rarity. The British Museum Library does not have a copy, they have only the second edition of 1668. No copy has been sold by auction in England. Hiazlitt’s collation is not correct, but our copy lacks apparently two leaves as mentioned. 9 Strange (Sir Robert) An Inquiry into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts, to which is prefixed A Letter to the Earl of Bute. London, 1775. . 25s 8vo. Unbound. 4 Il., 141 pp. An interesting pamphlet by the famous engraver, in which he expresses his grievances against the newly established Royal Academy. All engravers were excluded from membership and Strange attributed this to intrigues which had been carried on against him at the Court. He also explains his own concep- tion of the Royal Academy, which he wanted to make much less exclusive. BODONI PRESS. 10 Anacreon. Odaria. Parma, Bodoni, 1785 £5 10s 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt. Engraved vignette on title and at beginning of dedication. Beautifully printed in capital letters throughout. Gray sopra un Cimitero Campestre traspor- tata in Verso Italiano da Giuseppe Torelli Veronese. Parma, Bodoni, 1793 £3 10s Small folio. New quarter morocco. English and Italian text printed on opposite sides. An uncut copy. Opera Omnia. Parma, Bodoni, 1785 £12128 4to. Contemporary green morocco, decorative gilt border on sides, flat back decorated with tulips and numerous small tools, g.e. Printed in Greek and Latin. A very fine copy. De Lama, II, 36-7. 13 Horatius Flaccus. Opera Omnia. Parma, Bodoni, 1791 £10 10s Perhaps the finest and most De Lama II, 63-4. Folio. Half morocco. famous of the Bodoni classics. 14 Horatius Flaccus. Opera. Parma, Bodoni 1793 £7 10s Large 4to. Contemporary vellum, gilt, g.e. A very fine copy.
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