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Il ritratto overo le cose più notabili di Venezia: diviso in due parti. Nella prima, si descrivono brevemente tutte le chiese della città, con le memorie più illustri, depositi, epitaffii, inscrizioni, scolture, e pitture più conspicue, con le dichiarazioni, & autori di esse. Nella seconda, si da breve relazione del governo della republica, delli magistrati, delle fabriche publiche, e più riguardeueli &c.
Venice, Lorenzo Baseggio, 1705 (sub-title: 1704)Second edition of an extraordinarily detailed guidebook for visitors to Venice, previously published in 1684, and here “Ampliato con la relazione delle Fabriche Publiche, e private, & altre cose più notabili successe dall’anno 1682 sino al presente 1704 da D.L.G.S.V.” (i.e. Don Lorenzo Ganassa, Sacerdote Veneto). -
Manuscript diary of his travels in Italy, 1739-1740, in the company of Charles de Brosses; bound circa 1754 with manuscripts by other authors, relating their own travels to Italy (in 1623 and 1664)
[Dijon & Italy], 1739-1740The journal of a tour through Italy made in 1739-1740 by Abraham-Guy de Migieu, the elder son of Abraham-François de Migieu (1682-1735), marquis de Savigny-sous-Beaune, président à mortier of the Parlement of Dijon. Written with different pens and inks, with phrases scored out, and other corrections, the manuscript seems the actual document compiled by the young traveller during his itinerary. The writer follows the usual conventions of manuscript travel diaries, presenting geographical, historical, and architectural information on major locations and landmarks, interlaced with his own observations and opinions. Some of the latter concern one of his travelling companions, Charles de Brosses (1709-1777), and offer an enlightening perspective on De Brosses’ published account of their journey. The free expression of the author’s feelings strongly suggests that he wrote for his own reference, and did not intend that his memoir should circulate among family and friends.
Bound with [Anonymous], Mémoire des plus excellens tableaux et statues qui sont dans les églises de Rome.
Bound with [Anonymous], Remarques sur le voyage d’Italie – Voyage d’Italie fait en 1664.
Bound with [Anonymous], Traité des anciennes familles de Rome.
Bound with [Anonymous], Traité du gouvernement civil et ecclésiastique de Rome.
Bound with [Cudanson, Guillaume (c. 1575-1640)?], Mémoire de mon voiage d’Italye commencé le jour de feste de la nostre dame d’aoust de l’année 1623.The manuscript was preserved after Abraham-Guy’s death in 1749 by his younger brother, the bibliophile Anthelme-Michel-Laurent de Migieu (1723-1788). In 1754, Anthelme caused it be bound with other manuscript accounts of journeys made in Italy, recording the date and the price of the binding on the lower endpaper: 1754 | 4 li[vres] 10 s[ols]. He placed Abraham-Guy’s manuscript (15 folios) at the front of the volume, supplying himself a handwritten “title-page”: Voyage d’Italie par Abraham Guy Demigieu conseiller au parlement de dijon en 1739. An earlier manuscript journal, documenting a voyage to Italy undertaken by ‘Cudanson’ in 1623, was placed at the end: Mémoire de mon voiage d’Italye commencé le jour de feste de la nostre dame d’aoust de l’année 1623 (39 folios). In between were bound seventy folios of blank paper. On these blank leaves Anthelme copied four accounts of Italy which he found in manuscripts in the libraries of two friends, Charles-Marie Févret de Fontette (1710-1772) and abbé Jérôme Richard (1720-1795).
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Istruzione di quanto può vedersi di più bello in Genova in pittura, scultura, ed architettura
Genoa, Paolo & Adamo Scionico, 1766The first guidebook to Genoa, compiled by the painter Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, director of the School of Painting at the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, and dedicated to Girolamo Durazzo by its publisher. This first edition is scarce: no copy has yet been obtained by the Getty Research Institute, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Canadian Centre for Architecture, or Bibliotheca Hertziana, all in recent years active collectors of “Le fonti della storia dell’ arte”. -
The unedited Antiquities of Attica; comprising the architectural remains of Eleusis, Rhamnus, Sunium, and Thoricus
London, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and John Murray, 1817Fine copy of the first edition. This work was the result of the second Ionian expedition sent by the Society of the Dilettanti to the Levant, undertaken between November 1811 and the summer of 1813. Its members included William Gell, Francis Bedford, and John Gandy. Their greatest discovery was the Temples of Ceres (now called Demeter) and other buildings on the site of the famous Eleusinian mysteries, and Eleusis is the subject of the first five chapters. -
Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Espagne
Paris, De l’Imprimerie de P. Didot l’aîné́ avec les caractères de Bodoni, 1807-1820Fine copy of this encyclopaedic work, composed of plates complementary to a series of historical discourses, remarks on the geography and natural history, manners and customs, of the different regions of Spain. -
Antiquities of Athens and other places in Greece, Sicily etc. Supplementary to the Antiquities of Athens by James Stuart…and Nicholas Revett, Delineated and illustrated by C.R. Cockerell… W. Kinnard, T.L. Donaldson, W. Jenkins, W. Railton, Architects
London, Priestley and Weale, 1830A finely-bound copy of the supplementary volume to James Stuart and Nicholas Revett’s Antiquities of Athens (three volumes, 1762-1794), intended by its publishers to rival the so-called “fourth volume”, edited by James Woods from material left by Stuart and Revett, and published by Josiah Taylor in 1816. The work records the discoveries of later travellers to Greece: Charles Cockerell describes the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum; Thomas L. Donaldson, the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae; William Railton, the Greek Doric Temple at Kardaki on Corfu; William Kinnard, the editor of the volume, contributes an essay on Greek ornament; and William Jenkins another on entasis. “The original plan to include engravings of all the sculptures of the Parthenon was abandoned in favour of a section on the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae” (Age of Neo-classicism). -
I Libri di viaggio e le guide della Raccolta Luigi Vittorio Fossati Bellani. Catalogo descrittivo (Sussidi Eruditi, 9-11)
Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1957Three volumes (25 cm), I: lxviii, 637 pp. II: 644 pp. III: 659 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers, original card slipcase. - Original, limited edition (700 copies) of the catalogue of the library of travel books and Italian local history collected by Luigi Vittorio Fossati Bellani (1889-1944), since 1958 in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan. ¶ Fine copy. -
Italienreisen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Römische Forschungen; 15)
Vienna & Munich, Schroll Verlag, 1959(28.5 cm), 448 pp., 128 black & white illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - An analysis of the contents of travel reports and guidebooks to Italy (to about 1750), by the librarian of the Hertziana library in Rome, author of the invaluable annotated bibliography Le Guide di Roma (Vienna 1930). In an early chapter Schudt deals with guides for the traveller in his quest for art, and in the last one (about 100 pages) he considers the travellers’ opinions on specific art works, either quoting directly or summing up briefly whatever the author has to say. A list is provided of old art collections arranged by cities and of authors who mention them. ¶ Tears in dust jacket; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
A Journey from London to Genoa, Through England, Portugal, Spain, and France… With an Introduction by Ian Robertson
New York, Praeger Publishers, 1970(29 cm), (2), xv (1), 419 (5) pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - The Journey was written at the recommendation of Dr Johnson and “in the urbane quality of its writing… the influence of Johnson is often apparent” (editor’s Introduction, p.xii). Facsimile reprint of the second edition of 1770. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
The celebrated library of Boies Penrose Esq, FSA, FRGS, removed from Barbados Hill, Devon, Pennsylvania. The first portion: Travel & exploration, navigation & trade, A-L § The second portion: travel & exploration, navigation & trade, M-Z; Fourteen geographical manuscripts, English & Continental books of the fifteenth, sixteenth & seventeenth centuries (catalogues for auctions conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 7 June 1971 and 9 November 1971)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1971Two volumes (25.5 cm), I (7 June 1971): (2) 106 (4) pp., [4] leaves of plates (inserted after pp.46, 60, 96, 100), text illustrations. Lots numbered 1-152. II (9 November 1971): 161 (3) pp. (some folding), folding colour frontispiece, [9] leaves plates (inserted after pp.68, 104, 106, 108, 112, 116, 140, 152, 156), text illustrations. Lots numbered 153-366. Typed List of prices realised and buyers’ names (Part I); printed List (Part II). Uniform publisher’s printed green boards. - Fine collection of pre-1641 travel and exploration, containing a manuscript of Sir John Mandevilles’ travels in English (extracted from the Clopton Manuscript, a devotional miscellany, c. 1403-1425; now Princeton University, R.H. Taylor Ms 10), a 1520 manuscript by Marco Polo, an early 15th-century manuscript of Chaucer’s Treatise on the astrolabe (ex-E.P. Goldschmidt; now Toshiyuki Takamiya Collection, Japan), the Basel Columbus Letter of 1494, and important maps and atlases. A magnificent English manuscript map of Guiana of c. 1596-1599 was bought by the Duke of Northumberland. Penrose commenced collecting in 1926 and had sold books previously at Sotheby’s in 1934 and at Parke-Bernet in 1945-1947. Percy Muir, “Private Libraries, VII: Boies Penrose” in The Times Literary Supplement, 17 September 1938, p.604; cf. Donald C. Dickinson, Dictionary of American Book Collectors (New York 1986), pp.256-257; William H. Helfand, in Grolier 2000: a further Grolier Club biographical retrospective (New York 2000), pp.284-286. ¶ Unmarked copies. -
Sixteenth century European printed works on the first Japanese mission to Europe : a descriptive bibliography
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1973(25 cm), xix, 196 pp., including 84 illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth (no dust jacket issued). - Describes 76 books published in Europe between 1585 and 1593 which refer to the mission to Lisbon and Rome in 1585 of four young Japanese; two books on the same subject published in Goa and Macao are described in an appendix. Sixteen additional works which the author knows only second-hand are scrupulously listed in another appendix. Out of print (www.brill.com; link). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
Bibliography of British and American travel in Italy to 1860 (Biblioteca di Bibliografica Italiana, 76) § … Additions and corrections (reprinted from La Bibliofilía, volume LXXXIII, 1981)
Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 1974; 1981Two parts in one volume (25 cm), I (1974): (2) 371 (3) pp., [13] leaves of plates. II (1981): [26] pp. (paginated 237-261). Bound together in blue buckram, a collector’s binding (printed wrappers of “Additions and Corrections” bound in). - A bibliography of first-hand accounts of Italy, chronologically arranged, and fundamentally useful. Only copies without illustrations are obtainable from the publisher, price €98 (“Tranne qualche eccezione, tutti i volumi fino al 1990 non dispongono del testo illustrativo”; www.olschki.it/libro/9788822221698). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. Loosely inserted: “Guidebooks and Tourism: The British in Italy”, handlist for an exhibition in The British Library, 25 July-26 October 1980 (4 pp.). -
Viaggiatori tedeschi in Italia 1452-1870 : Saggio bibliografico
Rome, Bulzoni Editore, 1975-1977Two volumes (21 cm), I: viii, 82 pp. II: 93 pp., 102 illustrations on 66 plates. Uniform publisher’s printed wrappers. - 243 entries. ¶ Fine copy. -
The library of Henry Myron Blackmer II, sold by order of the executor (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 11-13 October 1989)
London, Sotheby's, 1989(28 cm), (18) 636 (18) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 1515 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s blue cloth. - The celebrated collection of books on Greece and the Levant. “Many of the highest prices appeared to be the result of competition between a Turkish collector and the Turkish Ministry of Culture. With the help of these and other bidders the sale total was £2,600,000, a sum considerably in excess of the most sanguine pre-sale estimates” (John Collins, in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1990, no. 1, p.263). Additional books from the Blackmer library were sold by Sotheby’s on 3-4 and 13 July 1989. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. -
Grand Tour : the lure of Italy in the eighteenth century (catalogue of an exhibition held in the Tate Gallery, London, 10 October 1996-5 January 1997; latterly shown elsewhere)
London, Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd, 1996(30 cm), 328 pp., 265 illustrations (many in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - An ambitious exhibition of 265 paintings, sculptures, watercolours, prints and objets d’art, documenting the attraction of Italy to northern Europeans (and the English aristocracy in particular). ¶ Fine copy. -
A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800. Compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive
New Haven & London, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1997(24 cm), lii, 1070 pp., black & white photograph of Brinsley Ford. Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jacket. - Identifies over 6000 British and Irish travellers who toured Italy in the 18th century. Provides brief formal biographies of these travellers, their Italian itineraries and selective accounts of their experiences as described in contemporary sources; alphabetical and chronological lists of British and Irish artists in Italy are appended. “The historian of bibliophily, bibliography and especially provenance will find much of interest, for this is fundamentally a dictionary of people who could afford to travel and, more importantly, to pick up souvenirs along the way” (from a review by Ian Jackson, in The Book Collector, Winter 1999, pp.620-622). ¶ Excellent copy. -
The Grand Tour : an exhibition held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 15 January through 31 March [1998]
New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1998(30.5 × 24 cm), 39 (3) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s plain wrappers, pictorial dust jacket. ¶ Excellent copy. -
The Grand Tour. An exhibition held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 15 January through 31 March [1998]
New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1998(30.5 × 24 cm), 39 (3) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s plain wrappers, pictorial dust jacket. ¶ Light stain in corner of upper wrapper; otherwise as new. -
Französische Venedig-Reisen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert : Wandlungen des Venedigs-Bildes und der Reisebeschreibung (Kölner Romanistische Arbeitens, Neue Folge, Heft 82)
Geneva, Librairie Droz, 2002(25 cm), 298 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Analysis of about seventy travel accounts (revision of a doctoral thesis, Universität zu Köln, 1997). Reviewed by U. Tucci, in Studi Veneziani, volume 47 (2004). Publishers' retail price €35 (www.droz.org; link). ¶ Fine copy.
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