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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Le Cabinet de beaux Arts ou Recueil d'Estampes gravées d'apres les Tableaux d'un plafond ou les beaux Arts sont representés Avec l'explication de ces memes Tableaux MDCXC.
Se vend AParis Chez G. Edelinck Ruë St Jacques au Seraphin avec Privilege du Roy { Et chez André Charles Boulle aux Galleries du Louvre [1790].
Rare Oblong 4to, marbled boards; engraved title, 3 engraved text plates (first with engraved vignettes) & 42 numbered engraved text plates (last with engraved tailpiece); frontispiece and 11 plates (one folding). Binding distressed, front endpaper detached, engraved title creased with old ink mss., tear in folding plate.
Twelve plates depicting a ceiling painting with images of the classical gods and allegories of the liberal arts. The frontispiece is of an ornate doorway into a library. This later edition has the additional publisher, André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), the famed French cabinetmaker and marquetry-maker.
BM: 1849,1031.463-478, with list of plates and artists.
[Ref: 66536] £850.00 view all images for this item
Se vend AParis Chez G. Edelinck Ruë St Jacques au Seraphin avec Privilege du Roy { Et chez André Charles Boulle aux Galleries du Louvre [1790].
Rare Oblong 4to, marbled boards; engraved title, 3 engraved text plates (first with engraved vignettes) & 42 numbered engraved text plates (last with engraved tailpiece); frontispiece and 11 plates (one folding). Binding distressed, front endpaper detached, engraved title creased with old ink mss., tear in folding plate.
Twelve plates depicting a ceiling painting with images of the classical gods and allegories of the liberal arts. The frontispiece is of an ornate doorway into a library. This later edition has the additional publisher, André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), the famed French cabinetmaker and marquetry-maker.
BM: 1849,1031.463-478, with list of plates and artists.
[Ref: 66536] £850.00 view all images for this item
Etchings by S.F. Every.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Folio, original cloth gilt; 32 etchings on 17 sheets, interleaved with tissue. Foxing, ex libris label on front pastedown.
A collection of etchings of various subjects, dates 1832-4, including Italian landscapes and ruins, portraits of street people (many copied from old masters), and a view of Knowles Church. A Derbyshire-born artist, Simon Frederick Every (1804-1888) emigrated to New Zealand in 1856. The bookplate is of Sir Tonman Mosley of Rolleston Hall, great-grandfather of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
[Ref: 66535] £380.00 view all images for this item
[n.d., c.1835.]
Folio, original cloth gilt; 32 etchings on 17 sheets, interleaved with tissue. Foxing, ex libris label on front pastedown.
A collection of etchings of various subjects, dates 1832-4, including Italian landscapes and ruins, portraits of street people (many copied from old masters), and a view of Knowles Church. A Derbyshire-born artist, Simon Frederick Every (1804-1888) emigrated to New Zealand in 1856. The bookplate is of Sir Tonman Mosley of Rolleston Hall, great-grandfather of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
[Ref: 66535] £380.00 view all images for this item