Sales catalogue 92: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/6
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 92: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    per Z DAVIS & ORIOLI, BOOKSELLERS, 14 Art.—Orlandi (Pellegrino Antonio) L’Abcedario Pittorico. Bologna, C. Pisarri, 4to. Old vellum. 519 pp. A dictionary of artists, containing short biographical notes. At the end are several tables showing their monograms. 15 Paoli (Paulus Antonius) Avanzi delle Antichita esistenti a Pozzuoli Cuma e Baja. Florence, 1768 16s Folio. Old calf. 68 engraved plates of Antiquities. 16 ——— Percier—Fontaine. Palais, Maisons, et autres Edifices Modernes, dessinés a Rome ; publié a Paris, par Charles Percier et P. F. L. Fontaine, en 1798. Paris, [1798] £2 Ss Folio. Half calf. With 100 engraved plates. L7, Passeri (Jo. Bapt.) Picturae Etruscorum in vasculis nunc primum in unum collectae. Rome, 1767 10s 6d Folio. Contemporary half calf. 2 vols. With very fine colour plate frontispieces and very many fine coloured - plates of Etruscan vases. 18 Phillipps (Evelyn March) The Venetian School of Painting. London, 1912 3s 6d 8vo. Cloth. With 20 plates. ifs) Reichel (Anton) Die Clair Obscur Schnitte des XVI., XVII. und XVIIIten Jahr- hinderts. Leipzig, Zurich; etc., 1926 £3 Folio. Original folder. With 100 plates of reproductions. Rubeis (Jacobus de) Insignium Romae Templorum Prospectus exteriores interi- oresque a celebrioribus architectis inventi. Rome, 1684 12s 6d Folio. Half calf. Engraved title with dedication to Innocent XI. Full-page allegorical front. and 72 fine engravings of views and plans of Roman Renaissance architecture. Weale (W. H. J.) and Brockwell (M. W.) The Van Eycks and their Art. London, 1912 4s 6d 8vo. Original cloth. With 34 plates. 20 21 22 Whitehouse (J. H.) and Rocke (Colin) The Master. A Study of Michelangelo. London, 1934 4s 6d 8vo. Cloth. With 31 plates. 23 —— Winckelmann (Giovanni) Monumenti Antichi Inediti. Rome, A Spese dell’ autore, 1767 8s 6d Folio. Old calf, backs broken. 2 vols. Title printed in red and black. 208 plates. First Epition. Rare. Brunet V., 1463 (“ Ouvrage trés recherché ’’). 24 Astrology. —Albumasar.—De magnis coniunctionibus annorum revolutionibus ac earum profectionibus octo continens tractatus. Venice, Jacobus Pentius for M. Sessa, 1515 £4 10s 4to. Original limp vellum (loose). Large woodcut on title and a fine series of astrological woodcuts in text. Gothic characters. Fine copy. Lilly (William) An Astrological Prediction of the Occurrences in England, Part of 29 4to. Wrappers. Rare work of one of the most famous English astrologers. 26 Astronomy.—Bagay (V.) Nouvelles Tables Astronomiques et Hydrographiques. Edition Stéréotype. Paris, 1829 10s 4to. Half calf. 7 Hevelius (Johannes) Selenographia sive Lunae Descriptio atque accurata tam Macularum eius quam motuum diversorum ... delineatio. Danzig, Typis Hiinefeldianis, 1647 £3 10s Folio. Old calf. 14 1l., 563 pp. Printed title in red and black, engraved title showing Alhazen and Galileo. 110 plates (some double-page) and 24 engravings in text, showing pictures of the surface of the Moon, the Satellites of Jupiter, Sun Spots, etc. ORIGINAL Epirion of the earliest scientific book on the geographyof the moon and the aspects of the planets. The account of the telescope and its manufacture, contained in the first two chapters, is of special interest. one plate has been torn away, otherwise an excellent copy. 28 Aviation.—Parcieux (M. de) Dissertation sur les Globes Aerostatiques. Paris; chez Vauteur, 1783 35s 8vo. Orig. wrap.pers, uncut. 2 tables, 2 plates. Rare. Fine state. 29 Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva Sylvarum of A Natural History ... whereunto is added the History and Experimental of Life and Death of the prolongation of Life. The Tenth in English. London, Thomas Lee, 1676 8s 6d Small folio. Old calf. With a portrait of Bacon (the lower blank margin of which is cut away). Morosini. Venice, L. Pavini, 1763 Folio. Half vellum. Engraved throughout. Engraved frontispiece, head and tail pieces and each page surrounded by an elaborate ornamental border. The decoration of this book is by Bartolozzi. Bound with :—Componimenti Petici per l’ingresso . . . di Lodovico Manin, Venice, Albrizzi, ca. 1764. Like the above, surrounded by decorative borders 30s 31 Bembo (Pietro) Prose. Florence, Torrentino, 1549 12s 6d 8vo. Old vellum. Beautifully printed edition. INLAND TELEGRAMS: AVORIOLOR, WESTCENT, LONDON.