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Vite dei pittori scultori ed architetti napoletani
Naples, Tipografia Trani, 1840-1846Four volumes (23 cm), I (1840): ix (3), 384 pp. II (1843): 412 (2) pp. III (1844): 588 (2) pp. IV (1846): 664 pp. Uniformly bound in early 20th century Italian patterned-paper boards (upper cover of original printed wrappers retained in each volume). ¶ Exlibris Massimo Listri. Backs sunned and lightly waterstained; occasional internal foxing. -
Early Italian engraving : a critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described
London & New York, M. Knoedler & Co. / Bernard Quaritch, 1938-1948Two parts in seven volumes (34 cm), I (Catalogue, Part I, 1938): xxvi (2), 345 (1) pp., frontispiece. Copy 93 (of 375). II (Plates, 1938): (8) pp., plates 1-171. Copy 93 (of 375). III (Plates, 1938): (8) pp., plates 172-319. Copy 93 (of 375). IV (Plates, 1938): (8) pp., plates 320-485. Copy 93 (of 375). V (Catalogue, Part II, 1948): xxii, 347 (1) pp., frontispiece. Copy 99 (of 275). VI (Plates 1948): (8) pp., plates 486-698. Copy 178 (of 275). VII (Plates, 1948): (8) pp., plates 699-916. Copy 251 (of 275). Uniform publisher’s blue buckram. - The core of this monumental work is Hind’s study of the collection of early Italian engravings in the British Museum. The first part (vols. I-IV) is devoted to “Florentine engravings and Anonymous prints of other Schools” (catalogue and 714 illustrations on 488 plates) and the second part (vols. V-VII) to “Known Masters other than Florentine”, Monogrammists, and Anonymous Masters (catalogue and 692 illustrations on 431 plates). Biographical and bibliographical information on each artist is followed by a list of his works. The edition was limited to 375 copies (vols. I-IV) or 275 copies (vols. V-VII); both text volumes are inscribed by the author, as usual. The author presented his manuscript to Lessing Rosenwald in 1948 (now Library of Congress, Rosenwald Collection, NE659.H.48). ¶ From the auction sale of the Handbibliothek L’Art Ancien, Zürich (Auktion 3/I), conducted by F. Zisska & R. Kistner, Munich, 27-28 March 1984, lot 671. Occasional pencil annotations by the proprietor of the firm, Erwin Rosenthal (1889-1981). Excellent set. -
Le incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli : Catalogo critico
Milan, Istituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche di Bergamo / Comune di Milano, 1940(33 cm), xxxi, 165 pp., illustrations, 19 plates. Publisher’s printed wrapper, two-colour pictorial dust jacket. - Catalogue of prints produced by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718): 679 prints by, 9 doubtful and rejected prints. Bibliography for each entry. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Jacopo de’ Barbari
Padua, Le Tre Venezie, 1944(25 cm), 245 pp., frontispiece portrait and 90 plates on 45 leaves. Publisher’s cloth. - Discussion of the thirty intaglio prints by Jacopo de’ Barbari (1440-1515). ¶ Binding sunned and slightly worn. -
Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum [1]. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries § [2]. Michelangelo and his studio § [3]. Raphael and his circle : Giulio Romano, G.F. Penni, Perino del Vaga, Giovanni da Udine, Tommaso Vincidor, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Timoteo Viti and Girolamo Genga. Also Sebastiano del Piombo § [4]. Artists working in Parma in the sixteenth century : Correggio, Anselmi, Rondani, Gatti, Gambara, Orsi, Parmigianino, Bedoli, Betoja § [5]. Artists working in Rome, c. 1550 to c. 1640
London, British Museum / British Museum Publications Limited, 1950-1983Five parts in nine volumes (25 cm), uniformly bound in publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jackets. - First editions, except for part II (Michelangelo and his studio) in reprint of 1953 edition, published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Not included is part [6] Roman Baroque drawings, c. 1620 to c. 1700, by Nicholas Turner, with the assistance of Rhoda Eitel-Porter, published in 1999 (can be supplied separately, price approximately £90). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copies. -
Disegni dì Ferdinando Fuga e di altri architetti del Settecento (catalogue for an exhibition organised by the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Farnesina alla Lungara, Rome; XLII Esposizione)
Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, 1955(20.5 cm), xiii, 113 pp., [16] leaves of plates. 108 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue for an exhibition centred on a group of 86 architectural drawings by Fuga for projects in Rome, from 1722 until 1751. Drawings by Fuga of ephemeral constructions (macchine for fireworks and catafalques) are included. Also shown were drawings by lesser contemporaries: Luigi Vanvitelli, Giovanni Antinori, Giacinto Ballerini, Filippo Cesari, and G.A. Bianchi; nearly half the exhibited works are reproduced. “The catalogue provides the material for a complete reassessment of the achievement of Fuga, whose anti-baroque, proto-neo-classic style emerges as having its source in his birthplace Florence rather than Rome, the city of his adoption… [It] will be of permanent value to anyone interested in Roman architecture of the first half of the eighteenth century, a subject which has at present received very little attention” (from a notice by F.J.B. Watson, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 98, August 1956, pp.287-288). ¶ From the library of Joseph Clemens, Prinz von Bayern (1902-1990), sold by Schneider-Henn, Kunstbücher und Dokumentation aus der Bibliothek Joseph Clemens Prinz von Bayern, Munich, 11-12 May 1992, lot 894. Clean tear in lower wrapper (2 cm). -
Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della Pittura : Treatise on painting : a bibliography of the printed editions 1651-1956… Preceded by a study of its sources and illustrations (Library Research Monographs, 5)
Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1958(25.5 cm), 243 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The bibliography (62 editions) is preceded by an account of the original manuscript attributed to Leonardo’s pupil, Francesco Melzi, and of more than thirty manuscript copies, all previous to the first edition printed in 1651. The printed editions are then related to their manuscript sources, and to each other; a number of “ghosts” appearing in Verga’s Bibliografia Vinciana (1931) are exorcised. ¶ Author’s presentation copy, inscribed by Steinitz “To my friends | One of the first 25 copies, each one signed no. 1” and a list of errata also in her hand. Loosely inserted are two copies of the publisher’s prospectus; and an offprint of Kate Steinitz, “Bibliography never ends…” from Raccolta Vinciana, volume 18 (1980), pp.97-111. -
Giacomo Torelli and Baroque stage design (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Figura, Nova Series, 2)
Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell, 1961(26.5 cm), 270 (2) pp., numerous illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes a useful chronological list of illustrated libretti published by Torelli 1641-1677, stating the number of plates in each and their engravers. ¶ Short tears in wrapper along joints; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. Loosely inserted is an Invitation to public disputation, 18 March 1961 (this was the author’s dissertation, Faculty of Arts, University of Uppsala). -
The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo
Boston, Boston Book & Art Shop, 1962(28 cm), 101 pp., 96 illustrations on 49 leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - A selection of 96 drawings. ¶ Fine copy. -
Salvator Rosa (Collana d’arte del Club del Libro, 5)
Milan, Edizioni per il Club del Libro, 1963(25.5 cm), 332 (2) pp., with 113 black & white illustrations, 24 colour plates, 4 fold-out plates, included in pagination. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket, publisher’s pictorial slipcase. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Fortuna di Michelangelo nell’incisore : catalogo della mostra (catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museo del Sannio, Benevento, 3 October-3 December 1964)
Benevento, Azienda Beneventana Tipografica Editoriale, 1964(22 cm), 144 pp., 65 illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Exhibition of reproductive prints derived from Michelangelo. ¶ Fine copy. -
Il Carteggio di Michelangelo
Florence, Sansoni / Studio per Edizioni Scelte, 1965-1983Five volumes (27 cm), I (Lettere di Michelangelo e suoi corrispondenti dal 2 luglio 1496 al 27 aprile 1518; 1965): xxiv, 429 pp. II (Lettere di Michelangelo e suoi corrispondenti dall’[1-8 maggio 1518] al 9 agosto 1523; 1967): xi, 431 pp. III (Lettere di Michelangelo e suoi corrispondenti dal 25 novembre [1523] all’[1 gennaio 1533]; 1973): x, 486 pp. IV (Lettere di Michelangelo e suoi corrispondenti dall’1 gennaio [1533] al [1552]; 1980): xiii, 434 pp. V (Lettere di Michelangelo e suoi corrispondenti dal 23 marzo 1553 al 14 febbraio 1564; 1983): xv, 457 pp. Uniform publisher’s cloth bindings. - Edition of Michelangelo’s correspondence, which contains all known letters written by and to the artist. On the problems encountered in completing Poggi’s edition, see the editors’ “A proposito dell’edizione de Il Carteggio di Michelangelo” in Rinascimento, volume 25 (1985), pp.269-274. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in an edition of 2000 copies (volume 5: 1300 copies). ¶ Excellent set. -
Catalogue of drawings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, the Property of The Rt. Hon. the Earl Beauchamp, D.L., J.P., which will be sold at auction… on Tuesday, June 15, 1965
London, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, 1965(25 cm), 60 pp., 169 plates. Lots numbered 1-167. Publisher’s printed boards. - The contents of an album assembled circa 1783-1793, possibly by Francesco Guardi (Giandomenico’s nephew), reputedly later in the library of Horace Walpole. ¶ Fine copy. -
Pisanello’s medallion of the Emperor John VIII Palaeologus
London, [Printed at the University Press, Oxford, by Vivian Ridler, for] The British Museum, 1966(21 cm), 32 pp., frontispiece (in colour) and 16 p. of black & white plates (pls.I-XVI). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - An account of the first renaissance portrait medal (1438-39), examining Pisanello’s position as a medallist, the circumstances of the commission, and the iconography of the medal itself. ¶ Excellent copy. -
Giovanni Battista Piranesi : Prolegomena to the Princeton collections § Piranesi desiderata for Princeton
Princeton,, Princeton University Library, 1970; 1971(24 and 25.5 cm), Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Two offprints from The Princeton University Library Chronicle (volume 31, Spring 1970, pp.165-206; volume 32, Winter 1971, pp.129-131). ¶ Ink inscription (”Piranesi”) on one upper wrapper. -
I Ricordi di Michelangelo
Florence, Sansoni, 1970(27 cm), xxxvi, 505 pp. Publisher’s cloth binding. - Gathered in this volume for the first time are the 318 surviving memoranda of the artist (financial records and receipts on loose sheets of paper), the majority in the artist’s hand, the others written for him by assistants and relatives. “Dry in appearance, this collection is of enormous interest and the editors have provided a precision tool which is likely to remain definitive” (Paul Joannides, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 115, 1973, p.332). Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in an edition of 2000 copies. ¶ Fine copy. -
Salvator Rosa. His etchings; and engravings after his works (catalogue of an exhibition held at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 4 November-5 December 1971)
Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1971(21.5 × 28 cm), 36 pp., illustrations. Errata slip inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Exhibition of 90 etchings, four comparative etchings, and 32 etchings after Rosa’s works by some twenty different artists. The Ringling Museum owns more paintings by Rosa than any other in North America. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione : Master draughtsman of the Italian Baroque (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 17 September-28 November 1971)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971(30 cm), 161 pp., illustrations numbered 1-130, 1-53. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The artist’s etchings and monotypes are described pp.136-156. Foreword by Anthony Blunt. ¶ Fine copy. -
Stefano Della Bella : Catalogue raisonné : With an introduction and additions by Phyllis Dearborn Massar
New York, Collector's Editions, 1971Two volumes (32 cm), I (Text): viii, 230 pp., with 12 illustrations. Errata sheet loosely inserted. II (Plates): 241 pp., with approximately 1050 illustrations on 235 plates. Uniform publisher’s grey cloth (issued without dust jackets). - The standard catalogue raisonné (1158 prints, by and after). Reprint of the section on Della Bella in Alexandre de Vesme’s Le peintre-graveur italien (Milan 1906), pp.66-332, with extensive additional information and a volume of plates. ¶ Fine copy. -
Italian Paintings : a catalogue of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Florentine School § Venetian school § Sienese and Central Italian Schools § North Italian School
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Graphic Society, 1971-1986Four volumes (25 cm), I (1971): (12) 141 (3) pp., 125 black & white plates (pls.1-125). II (1973): (10) 114 (2) pp., 107 black & white plates (pls.1-107). III (1980): (10), 119 (1) pp., 112 black & white plates (pls.1-112). IV (1986): (10) 98 (2) pp., 77 black & white plates (pls.1-77). Uniform publisher’s brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket (except vol. II, in publisher’s printed wrapper, with pictorial dust jacket). - Catalogues of some 400 Italian paintings in the Metropolitan Museum. Each catalogue is arranged alphabetically by artist; a brief biography of each artist is given, and every painting is illustrated. ¶ Fine set with minimal traces of use and no marks of ownership.
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