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Medicea Hospes, sive descriptio publicæ gratulationis qua Serenissimam, Augustissimamque Reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit Senatus Populusque Amstelodamensis. Auctore Caspare Barlæo.
Amsterodami, Johannis & Cornelii Blaeu, MDCXXXVIII [1638].
Folio, with the arms of Charles Butleav on the cover, full calf gilt, rebacked; pp. (x)+62; frontispiece portrait, 15 (of 16) numbered plates (14 double-page, 1 folding), extra illustrated with one double-page plate. Front board severely strained, extra plate trimmed to image and remargined.
A record of the arrival of Maria de Medici into Amsterdam after her exile from the French court, with allegorical plates representing the fall and rise of France under Henry III and IV. The plates have numbers added lower right. The missing plate is 'Arrival in the Haarlemmermeer'. The extra plate is 'Effigies nobilissimorum et amplissimorum Dd. consulum qui reip. Amstelodamensi præfuere tunc' drawn by Thomas de Keijser and engraved by Jonas Suijderhoef, showing the four Amsterdam burgomasters hearing of Maria de' Medici's arrival. This plate was frequently added to the work.
With the bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill.
[Ref: 57460] £980.00 view all images for this item
Amsterodami, Johannis & Cornelii Blaeu, MDCXXXVIII [1638].
Folio, with the arms of Charles Butleav on the cover, full calf gilt, rebacked; pp. (x)+62; frontispiece portrait, 15 (of 16) numbered plates (14 double-page, 1 folding), extra illustrated with one double-page plate. Front board severely strained, extra plate trimmed to image and remargined.
A record of the arrival of Maria de Medici into Amsterdam after her exile from the French court, with allegorical plates representing the fall and rise of France under Henry III and IV. The plates have numbers added lower right. The missing plate is 'Arrival in the Haarlemmermeer'. The extra plate is 'Effigies nobilissimorum et amplissimorum Dd. consulum qui reip. Amstelodamensi præfuere tunc' drawn by Thomas de Keijser and engraved by Jonas Suijderhoef, showing the four Amsterdam burgomasters hearing of Maria de' Medici's arrival. This plate was frequently added to the work.
With the bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill.
[Ref: 57460] £980.00 view all images for this item
The Lives of the Reformers, Both Englishmen and Foreigners. comprehending the General History of the reformation; From its Beginning, in 1360, by Dr. John Wickliffe, To its Establishment, in 166, under Queen Elizabeth. With an Introduction; wherein The Reformation is amply vindicated, and its Necessity filly shewn, from the Degeneracy of the Clergy, and the Tyranny of the Popes. By Mr. Rolt. The Whole embellished with the Heads of the Reformers, Elegantly done in Mezzotinto, by Mr Houston. [In ink on Fontis "Thos. Norris"].
London: Printed for E. Bakewell and H. Parker, opposite Birchin-Lane, Cornhill; J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street; and T. Pote in Fleet-Street. MDCLIX [1759].
Folio, large paper copy, later full calf and marbled endpapers; pp (xiv)+202; 21 fine mezzotint portraits, as called for. Front board detached, inner hinge of back board taped.
Richard Rolt (1724-70) also wrote poems and librettos: his 'Almena, an English Opera', with music by Thomas Arne, successfully produced at Drury Lane Theatre in 1764. The plates were actually engraved by John Faber senior c.1715; they were eventually acquired by the Bakewells, who had them retouched by Richard Houston, who substituted his own name.
CS: Faber snr 58.
[Ref: 57456] £1,850.00 view all images for this item
London: Printed for E. Bakewell and H. Parker, opposite Birchin-Lane, Cornhill; J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street; and T. Pote in Fleet-Street. MDCLIX [1759].
Folio, large paper copy, later full calf and marbled endpapers; pp (xiv)+202; 21 fine mezzotint portraits, as called for. Front board detached, inner hinge of back board taped.
Richard Rolt (1724-70) also wrote poems and librettos: his 'Almena, an English Opera', with music by Thomas Arne, successfully produced at Drury Lane Theatre in 1764. The plates were actually engraved by John Faber senior c.1715; they were eventually acquired by the Bakewells, who had them retouched by Richard Houston, who substituted his own name.
CS: Faber snr 58.
[Ref: 57456] £1,850.00 view all images for this item