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A remarkable volume containing eight books of ornament and seven suites of prints, published at Amsterdam, Antwerp, Augsburg, Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Prague, and Strasbourg, between circa 1562 and 1605, together with three series of drawings executed by a single hand on related papers manufactured at Bern in Switzerland between 1601 and 1608. The paper used by the binder for the paste-downs also was made at Bern, circa 1601-1608, and it may be inferred that the volume was assembled and bound there, probably about 1605
[Bern], c. 1562-1605This highly interesting and well-preserved volume was compiled at Bern about 1605 to provide an architect or artisan with a convenient repertory of exempla for the ornamentation of architecture, sculpture, and metalwork. In it the owner assembled contemporary printed ornament and safe-guarded some drawings – probably his own – to ensure they were easily accessible whenever need for them arose.
At the time our volume was assembled, Daniel Heintz the Younger (1574-1633) was establishing himself as the pre-eminent architect of Bern. Heintz gave his library to his nephew, the architect, painter, and cartographer Joseph Plepp, and some books eventually passed into the Burgerbibliothek Bern. Mostly architectural treatises and compendia of ornament, those “Heintz-Plepp” volumes contain no marks of ownership, and are identifiable only through entries in the Library’s “Donationenbuch”. Several books are in Bernese bindings and for one (a Sammelband of models of Schweifwerk ornament) the binder employed a paper stock found in our volume. There is additional, circumstantial evidence that suggests Daniel II Heintz was the compiler-owner of our volume.
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The Arabian Antiquities of Spain
London, Cadell & Davies, 1815 [-1816]A superbly-bound copy of Murphy’s posthumous work on the Islamic architecture and art of Spain, edited by Thomas Hartwell Horne, and published serially between July 1815 and mid-1816, with the complete volume offered for sale later in that year. The ninety-eight plates are architectural plans, elevations, exterior and interior views; topographical views; and reproductions of antiquities, including the famed Alhambra vases, mosaic pavements, mural paintings, and inscriptions. -
Tafelzier des Barock
Munich, Editions Schneider, 1974(29 cm), 343 (1) pp., 313 black & white plates (pp.144-321 inclusive). Publisher’s green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A beautifully produced publication on the objets d’art fashioned for the table during the age of the Baroque, primarily in Germany, with illustrations taken from contemporary pattern books, festival books, cookbooks, etc, and many bibliographical detail. ¶ Short tear in dust jacket. Excellent copy. -
Virtuoso goldsmiths and the triumph of Mannerism 1540-1620
London, Sotheby Parke Bernet / Rizzoli International, 1976(34 cm), 751 (1) pp., 740 black & white illustrations, 24 full-page colour plates. Publisher’s grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A comprehensive study of European goldsmith work, “one of the most important contributions to the history of the decorative arts of the renaissance produced in this century” (from a review by R.W. Lightbown, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 125, June 1983, p.361). Hayward was a pioneer in reviving the neglected study of drawings and engravings, and among the plates are over 200 examples of graphic work, either pure ornamental design or studies for vessels. Arntzen & Rainwater P-476. ¶ Dust jacket worn (without losses); otherwise an excellent, unmarked copy. -
Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500-1700 (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 28 June-15 September 1985)
Munich, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1985(27 cm), (12) 531 (1) pp., 16 p. of colour plates (Farbabb.1-20), black & white text illustrations. 800 catalogue entries. Publisher’s laminated pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue and thirteen essays, including Günter Irmscher, “Der Nürnberger Ornamentstich im 16. u. 17 Jahrhundert” (catalogue nos. 337-497 are “Ornamentstiche und Vorlageblätter”). “Meisterliste der Nürnberger Goldschmiede 1514-1700” (pp.491-509). ¶ Very good copy. -
Patterns of style : Designs for Ornament & the decorative arts 1675-1850 from the collection of Edmond L. Lincoln : A handlist for viewing the exhibition (held in the Grolier Club, 1 April 1993-21 May 1993)
New York, Grolier Club / the author, 1993(28 cm), [16] leaves of reproduced typescript (single-sided). Stapled. - About seventy items were exhibited. “Collector’s statement” (folio [2]). Evidently scarce; we trace only the copy offered in the Helmut N. Friedlaender sale (Christie’s, New York, 24 April 2001, part lot 316). The publication is not recorded by George Ong & Eric Holzenberg, For Jean Grolier & His Friends: 125 Years of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications, 1884-2009 (New York 2009), S227. ¶ Good copy. -
Silber und Gold : Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst für die Höfe Europas (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 23 February-29 May 1994)
Munich, Hirmer Verlag, 1994(29 × 23 cm), 613 (3), lxxiv pp., numerous colour and black & white illustrations. Publisher’s blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Catalogue with 178 entries for an exhibition of 16th-18th century Augsburg goldsmith’s and silversmith’s craft. Includes Annette Schommers, “Biographien der Augsburger Goldschmiede” (pp.viii-xxix). ¶ Superior copy in almost new condition.
