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3 Shapero Rare Books Fine Illustrated Books 2013 item 31 BLAEU, Joannes. Grooten Atlas 32 Saint George Street, London W1S 2EA Tel:

4 From top left: item 3 BERTHOLDUS. Horologium devotionis circa vitam Christi., item 66 KNIPHOF, Johann Hieronymus. Botanica in originali, seu Herbarium vivum.,item 26 [BAKST] - LEVINSON, Andre. Bakst., item 72 MALPIERE, D. Bazin de. La Chine., item 64 JENKINS, James. The Naval achievements of Great Britain., item 56 [GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851]. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, From top left: item 33 BONNARD, Pierre, illustrator; Octave MIRBEAU. Dingo., 91.SAINT-NON, L Abbe Richard de. Voyage Pittoresque ou description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile., item 47 DANIELL, William and Thomas. A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China. item 29 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The early work; [with] The uncollected work; [with] The later work., item 67 KNORR, Georg Wolfgang. Recueil de monumens des catastrophes que le globe la terre a essuiees, contenant des petrifications..., item 76 MAYER, Luigi. Views in Egypt.

5 Contents Illustrated Incunabula items 1-10 Illustrated Books from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century items item 40 [CHINA]. An album of Chinese costume figures in silk and paper relief.

6 1. Itinerarium Beatae Virginis Mariae. Lienhart Ysenhut, [Basel], [about 1489]. A richly illustrated devotional work of great rarity: no example could be traced at auction in the last 35 years and only 10 complete copies are kept in public institutions, including 7 in Germany and Switzerland, and only 2 in the USA (Pierpont Morgan and Library of Congress). The Itinerarium Beatae Virginis Mariae [...] has the life of Mary as its starting and ending point but as its centre has the life of Christ. It consciously adapts the central portion of a Book of Hours, the Hours of the Virgin, in its seven-part division corresponding to the seven joys and sorrows of Mary and the seven canonical hours commemorating them, but it leaves Mary aside with the birth of Christ. It is His life which occupies the third through sixth parts. The Itinerarium is didactic not only in teaching the story of both Mary and Jesus, but also in leading the reader to purer, more spiritual life. [...] Just as the components of prayer and Biblical history work together to edify the soul, so too do the illustrations which are integral to the text. The Itinerarium involves both passive and active participation of the reader to impress itself on the heart and soul. (M. Ford, BPH Catalogue). This is one of the few books printed by Ysenhut, a wood-cutter; interestingly, all his books are illustrated. This is the second edition in Latin, the original language of the Itinerarium, after the first published in Ulm in Provenance: J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #123, acquired from Tenschert, 1989). 8vo. (14.3 x 9.9 cm). 108 ll., with overhead caption on b8r upside-down as Murray EGB 224, 54 woodcuts and Maiblumen capitals; occasional notes in contemporary and later hands, the most important on the blank space of the last leaves. Modern blue morocco janseniste by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt border to turn-ins. HC 9324; Goff I-219; GW M15411; ISTC ii ; not in BMC but a copy in the BL. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 11

7 FROM ONE CHRONICLER TO ANOTHER: A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY 2. BERGAMO, Jacobus Philippus; Albertus de Placentia; Augustinus de Casali Maiori (editors). De claris mulieribus. Laurentius de Rebeis, de Valentia, Ferrara, 29 April The beautiful Schedel-Fugger-Landau hand-coloured copy of the first edition of the first encyclopedia of women, one of the finest early Italian illustrated books and the first to attempt life-like portraits. The final seven portraits were actually contemporaries of the author. Unlike other woodcuts in the book, these were not repeated. An Augustinian monk, Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo ( ) draws here from Boccaccio s own De claris mulieribus, but develops a different approach - instead of choosing lesser known female figures to rediscover them for posterity, he instead makes a catalogue of important women in the history of humanity, including for example the Joan of Arc, Pope Joan, Margaret Queen of England and Margaret Queen of Scotland - as well as mystics such as Birgitta and Catherine of Siena. The fine woodcuts appear here for the first time. They range from full architectural borders to the numerous portrait cuts of women. Although unidentified, two artists may be detected in the woodcuts, working in contrasting Florentine and Venetian styles. One woodcut border is signed S and dated This detail, coupled with the fact that Beatrice of Aragon, the book s dedicatee, died in 1491, suggests that the work was planned for earlier publication but then delayed. With a superb contemporary provenance. Bergamo s other work, the Supplementum chronicarum, was first printed in Venice in just 10 years before the publication of one of the most famous and best selling books of the fifteenth century, the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel ( ). The present copy [...] is from the 15th century library of Schedel (R. Stauber, Die Schedelsche Bibliothek, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1908). [It was rubricated and foliated by him and sold by his grandson.] It was formerly the first in a volume containing two other works, the Polybius, Historiarum libri quinque (Venice, 1498), now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and Lupoldus Bambergensis Germanorum veterum principum zelus (Basel, 1497) (M.Ford, BPH catalogue). Provenance: Hartmann Schedel (Moor s head arms at base of each woodcut border, sold by his grandson, Melchior Schedel in 1552 to); Johann Jakob Fugger; Royal Library, Munich (19th-c. withdrawal stamp); Baron Horace de Landau (bookplate with monogram HL, sale Kundig, 25 June 1948, lot 19); Charles van der Elst (bookplate); J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #126, acquired from Kraus, 1987). Folio (31.2 x 20.7 cm). 176 leaves, 45 lines and headline, printed marginalia, xylographic title-page, 2 full-page woodcuts within woodcut border, a second border framing first text page, 172 woodcut portraits from 56 blocks, one historiated woodcut capital M, ornamental capitals, printer s device, full-page illustrations, borders and first two portraits hand-coloured, woodcut capitals and lombards coloured alternately in red and blue, paragraph-marks in red or blue, capital-strokes and ms foliation ( apparently once including two blank preliminary leaves) supplied in red; some foxing to extreme edges. Nineteenth-century brown crushed morocco janseniste by Duru et Chambolle, 1862, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges marbled and gilt, marbled endpapers; lightly rubbed. HC(+Add) *2813; BMC VI, 613; Goff J-204; ISTC ij ; Sander 915; Brunet I, 787 ( édition bien imprimée et devenue rare ). ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 13

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9 3. BERTHOLDUS. Horologium devotionis circa vitam Christi. [bound with] Thomas a KEMPIS. De vita et beneficiis salvatoris Jesu Christi devotissime meditationes cum gratiaru[m] actione. [And with] GERARDUS ZERBOLD DE ZUTPHANIA. Tractatus de spiritualibus ascensionibus [with] David de AUGUSTA. De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione Lib. II, 1 (de quatuor in quibus incipientes deo servire debent esse cauti). Johann Amerbach and Johann Petri de Langendtorff, Basel, [not after ]. Lovely hand-coloured Sammelband in an attractive contemporary binding. Amerbach s production is noteworthy for its woodcuts. From the 36 printed in Bertholdus second Basel edition, seven are after the Master of the Haintz Narr, and 23 are clearly inspired from the Cologne tradition, as found in Zell s 1488 edition. They are nicely intertwined with the text, printed in different type sizes, and show, next to the Passion, the traditional key events of the life of Christ. Bertholdus was a Dominican of the mid-14th century, who first wrote his Zeitglöcklein des Lebens und Leidens Christi in his native language, German. They were however never published in the original German, but the Latin version (by the author himself) was first published in about 1488 at Cologne and enjoyed considerable popularity up to about 1510, mostly in Germany (see GW 4166 sqq.). As in the present case, it often found bound together with the two other works. They were popular devotional texts from the Devotio Moderna movement, a remarkable religious phenomenon of the late 14th century. Thomas a Kempis is probably the most famous name associated with it, as he wrote biographies of prominent members: Gerard Groote the founder, Florens Randewijns, John van de Gronde and John Brinckerinck. Provenance: Ludovicus Anetenwyl, 1569 (date purchase inscription on first title; monasterii s[ancti] urbani ); J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, # , acquired 1990). Four works published in three (the last edition consisting of two works) in one volume octavo (13.9 x 10 cm). I. 65 leaves (of 66, without final blank), 30 lines, 36 near half-page woodcuts hand-coloured, 3- and 5-line initials in red or blue; II. 72 leaves, 30 lines, 3-line initials in red, II. 68 leaves, 30 lines, 3-line initials in red, all three works rubricated with printed guide-letters, paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red, margins ruled; occasional marginal soiling, I. with marginal notes washed on leaves a3-4, II. with tear in lower margin of last leaf mended without affecting text, old ms note on final blank and on front pastedown in same hand, III. with outer third of title page and lower half of last leaf renewed without loss of text. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in compartments, panel design with crossed diagonal rules and small floral stamps in central panel, brass bosses and corner-pieces, clasps and catches; a bit rubbed, lacking 3 of 8 corner-pieces, a few small tears and repairs on spine, housed in a green cloth drop-box. I. H *2990 = HC *2993 = H*8928, HC*10992 and *16296; GW 4175, M46915 and 10689; BMC III, 753 and 752; Goff B-506, M-432 and G-177; ISTC ib , im and ig ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 17

10 4. BIRGITTA OF SWEDEN [BRIDGIT, Saint]. Revelationes. Bartholomaeus Ghotan [for Wadstena Monastery, Lübeck, before 25 Nov] The earliest extant Latin edition of the revelationes - the fine Broxbourne copy with contemporary provenance. Only two earlier editions are mentioned by GW, but these are only known from printer s waste, and neither of which were completed. The present edition is known to have been printed for the monastery at Vadstena, the motherhouse of the Bridgettine order, from the Diarium Vazstenese, where it is stated that a priest, Petrus Ingemari, and a lay brother, Gerhardus, went to Lübeck in 1491 to see the edition through the press. 16 copies of the Revelationes were printed on vellum as well as 800 paper copies. Printing was completed the following year, probably in the autumn, as the two returned to Vadstena on 24 November Gerhardus is described in the Diarium for 1487 as a German qui novit sculpere & depingere ( who knows how to engrave and draw ), and it is probable that he executed the superb woodcuts in this volume. Especially remarkable are the full-page illustrations composed of several smaller woodcuts combined with explanatory type-printed text. This system allows repeating the depictions of Christ and the Virgin Mary in heaven and of St Bridget receiving her vision, while the subjects of the revelations change. This illustration was of considerable influence, as a copy of the present edition served as a prototype to Anton Koberger for his reprint of the Revelationes in As far as their religious as well as artistic impact is concerned, the Revelations the literary bequest of St Bridget ( , canonized in 1391, founder of the Order of St Saviour or Bridgettine Order) - are the most important example of Scandinavian literature of the Middle Ages. Written and dictated in Swedish by Bridget herself, they were translated into Latin by her spiritual advisors. The most important portion of the text comprises revelations, in the narrow sense of the word, that are rich in ideas and that show an affinity to German mysticism. One theme pervades the entire text: powerful warnings are addressed to princes and to the popes concerning the decadence of the church. Included in the text are the Prologues of Magister Mathias of Sweden and Johannes de Turrecremata, the papal bull of Bridget s canonisation, and her vita complement the edition. Provenance: Johannes and Cunigunde Schwan (dated inscription on dd10v in. nomine Ihesu Christi filii Virginis Marie amen. Ego iohannes Schwan: coniux mea Cunigundis fecimus [?] per mea petitionem in Altomunster anno etc. 93 die proxima post assumptionis Marie [16 August 1493], the date 1493 occurs again in manuscript at the end of the Tabula ); Altomunster abbey (contemporary ownership inscription at end, partly shaved; note dated Altomunster 1651; binding stamped with abbey s initials A.M ); Broxbourne copy (Sotheby s, sale 15 Nov. 1977, lot 321); J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #234). Folio (31 x 21.5 cm). 422 leaves, double column, 46 lines and headline, gothic letter, 16 (14 historiated, 2 ornamental) woodcut initials, woodcut printer s device and 15 woodcut illustrations: 4 full-page woodcuts, 1 half-page cut, and 10 full-page illustrations composed of 22 woodblocks and printed text; f.1 recto (blank) laid down onto flyleaf obscuring early inscriptions, some early mss notes and underscores, a very little brownstaining, minor worming at the upper margins of the final leaves. German 17th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, five raised bands, two clasps. H *3204; GW 4391; BMC II, 554; Goff B-687; ISTC ib ; Klemming 1; Fairfax Murray 72. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 19

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12 AN EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL PROVENANCE 5. COLUMNA, Franciscus [but Eliseo da TREVISO] and Benedetto BORDONE (artist; attributed to). Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Venice, December The Oronce Finé-Enschedé-Fiske Harris copy of the most admired of Renaissance illustrated books, a celebrated masterpiece of Italian art and typography, bringing together the Aldine mastery of type, illustration, design and execution (M. Ford, BPH catalogue). It is of utmost rarity to find a work which belonged to Oronce Finé, one the greatest minds of the early sixteenth century. Son and grandson of physicians, Finé ( ) was a significant and prolific mathematician and cartographer. His most important contributions to human knowledge were a close approximation of pi as well as a ground-breaking map of the world, represented for the first time in the shape of a heart. This cordiform map became very famous thanks to the frequent use by other cartographers such as Apian and Mercator. The Hypnerotomachia takes the author and the reader in a fantastic poetical, artistic, magic and even alchemical journey through a dream-world of pyramids and obelisks, classical gardens, ruined temples and bacchanalian festivals, before gaining ultimate enlightenment at the temple of Venus. The unique title summarises the intricacy of the text: it is a specific construction, based on Greek words blending dream, passion, struggle, antiquity, love, Polia (the author s love) and multiplicity. Interpretations among scholars have been many, up to Carl Jung s description of the black tulip in the midst of [Alde s] classical texts ; a recent investigation into explicative near-contemporary annotations written into a copy at Modena shows that it served as a sort of humanist encyclopedia. Recent scholarship ascribes the Hypnerotomachia to Eliseo da Treviso rather than Columna/Colonna, whose name appears in the acrostic formed by the woodcut initials. Provenance: Oronce Finé (inscriptions on first and fifth leaves; 18th-c. inscription about Finé in Dutch, maybe by); Johannes Enschedé (probably Johannes I or II, 18th-c. Dutch typographers and three generations of book collectors, sale Muller & Nijhoff in 1867, to); Caleb Fiske Harris ( , important American collector, armorial bookplate with motto Kur deu res pur tra ); J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #72, acquired from Quaritch, 1984). Folio (30.3 x 20.2 cm). 233 leaves (of 234, without final F4 with errata and colophon), Greek and Hebrew catchwords, 172 woodcuts, including 11 full-page woodcuts, several hand-coloured in red, blue and yellowwash, woodcut initials forming acrostic giving author s name; light occasional spotting, mainly marginal, a bit stronger at beginning and end, first leaf with erased inscription and repaired abrasions in places. Eighteenth-century French polished calf, triple fillet border to covers, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, brown morocco label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; paper shelf label on spine partly gone, joints and spine extremities repaired, a bit rubbed and stained overall. HC*5501; GW 7223; BMC V,561; Goff C-767; ISTC ic ; Sander 2056; for provenance Rogers, Private libraries of Providence, Providence, 1878, 190. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 23

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14 6. DE CLUSA, Jacobus. Tractatus de apparitionibus et receptaculis animarum exutarum corporibus. [With] TUNDALUS. De raptu animae et eius visione. [With] Johannes GOBIUS. De spiritu Guidonis. [With] Guillermus HOUPPELANDE. De immortalitate animae. [And with] Antonius LIBER. Epigramma in laudem urbis Coloniae. Hermann Bumgart, Cologne, 8 May Very attractive hand-coloured example of this rare edition of four works on ghosts, visions of the after-life in Ireland and immortality of the soul. ISTC lists 13 complete copies outside Germany, only three in North America (Houston, Yale and Lib. of Congress) and two in the UK (BL and Rylands). No copy can be traced at auction in the past 35 years. Each of the four works is preceded by a lovely woodcut, one of which shows Tundalus der Sitter in full armour. They were copied from the series used by Johann and Conrad Hist, printers in Speyer, to illustrate their editions of the Visio Tundali from 1483 onwards. The Visio Tundali is a twelfth century text reporting the otherworldly visions of the Irish knight Tnugdalus during the journey of the soul through Heaven and Hell. Brother Marcus, an itinerant monk, wrote this fantastic tale circa 1150 in the Scots Monastery in Regensburg; being Irish, he set the story in Cork, Ireland. The work became a very popular piece of visionary literature, and more than 170 manuscript copies are now known. Jacobus de Clusa ( , also known as J. de Jüterbog) was a Carthusian from Erfurt and a zealous Church reformer. He wrote about 80 treatises, mostly on theological and canonical subjects, and the present one deals with the condition of the human soul after death. It is accompanied by the dialogue-vision of Guido, attributed to the early fourteenth century French Dominican Johannes Gobius (the source of the Middle English poem The Ghost of Guy ), and the Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul by Guillaume Houpppelande (d. 1492), a theology master at the University of Paris and canon of Notre-Dame. The last page contains distichs in praise of the city of Cologne, asserting its superiority over Rome, Athens, Venice and Paris. Provenance : J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #271, possibly from Quaritch, pencil note, 2001). Five works in one volume 4to (19.6 x 13.6 cm.). 40 leaves (final blank), 46 lines, rubricated, 4 woodcuts with contemporary hand-colour, 5- and 6-line initials in blue with red flourishing, 2- and 3-line initials in blue and red; lightly annotated in an early hand, a few leaves at beginning and end reattached in gutter. Modern morocco gilt, extremities slightly rubbed. HC 15543; GW M10837; BMC I, 300; Goff J-24; ISTC ij ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 27

15 7. Epistolae et evangelia (Plenarium). Hie vahet sich an ein plenari. Anton Sorg, Augsburg, 7 May The Dyson Perrins-Doheny-BPH copy of this lovely edition, presenting for the first time its 41 woodblocks, here all fully hand-coloured. Of great rarity: we couldn t trace any other example at auction in the last 35 years, and only seven complete copies in public institutions, including just one in the UK (BL) and one in the Americas (Library of Congress). A lay devotional text, the Plenarium consists of translations of the epistle and Gospel readings for the mass throughout the year. This is Anton Sorg s first edition, and the fifth edition overall - all published in the same town. The woodcuts are original to Sorg and include a fine full-page crucifixion with symbols of the evangelists, the sun and moon; they were used again by Sorg in later editions. Provenance: C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate, sale Sotheby s 10 March 1947, lot 578, 110 to Maggs for); Estelle Doheny (red morroco booklabel, sale Christie s NY, 22 October 1987, lot 45, to H.P. Kraus for); J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #160). Small folio (26 x 19.4 cm), 325 leaves (of 326, without the first blank leaf), 34 lines and headline, 49 woodcuts (with 8 repeats) incl. one full-page, 9-line woodcut initials on leafy grounds, all with contemporary hand-colour; occasional spotting, small rust hole through final leaves, leaves 8 and 1 [second series] extended at foremargin and clean tears mended. Vellum made up of manuscript choir books over boards. H 6737; GW M34092; BMC II, 346 & III, 860; Goff E-76; ISTC ie ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 29

16 8. FIRMICUS MATERNUS, Julius; Franciscus Niger (editor). Mathesis (De nativitatibus). Marcus MANILIUS. Astronomicon. ARATUS. Phaenomena [in Greek and Latin]. THEON. Commentaria in Aratum [in Greek]. PROCLUS. Diadochus. Sphaera [in Greek and Latin]. Aldus Manutius, Venice, June and [17] October A hand-coloured example, with a beautifully illuminated initial and lovely historiated decorations, of this important Aldine collection of classical astronomic texts, presenting the first edition in Greek of Aratus Phaenomena and Proclus Sphaera. The major extant work of the Greek poet Aratus (ca BC), the Phaenomena was popular in Antiquity and much translated. In his typical scholarly approach, Aldus publishes here, next to his own introduction, three major Latin versions ( Germanicus Caesar, Cicero and Rufius Festus Avienus) - before the Greek text which itself is surrounded with Greek commentary. He also decided to enhance Germanicus text with beautiful woodcuts, inspired by the influential 1482 edition of Hyginus published by Ratdolt. Firmicus Maternus De nativitatibus, also entitled Mathesis, ranks as the most comprehensive textbook of astrology of ancient times (Stillwell, Awakening, I:56). It represents popular traditions and sets out practical astrological method, citing Hermes, Orpheus, Abraham and Aesculapius as sources. It also comprises a defence of astrology, the effects of the planets, the moon, the signs, and horoscopes. Book VII is marked by undue attention to sexual and moral deviates (DSB IV, 622).] Following Bevilaqua s 1497 edition, this is the second edition of the text; since however Niger s dedication to Hyppolyto d Este is also dated 1497, it seems that work was clearly well underway when Bevilaqua s edition appeared on the market. The present copy is annotated throughout by Marquardus Husen, councillor of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, showing him to be an intelligent reader engaging deeply with the text. Provenance: Husen and Hall de Suntheim families (contemporary inscription and arms on title); Christopher von Husen, canon at the cathedral church at Speier (inscription on pi6v recording his gift to Joannes Marquardus Husen juris consultus and councillor to Emperor Charles V, annotations throughout, including one noting an event on 24 April 1547); J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #273, acquired from Christie s, 29 Nov. 2000, lot 49, possibly through Quaritch, pencil note). Six works in one volume folio (31 x 21.1 cm). 376 leaves, 38 lines and headline, 2- to 10-line initial spaces with guide-letters, Greek texts with 40 and 42 lines, opening text page (a1) illuminated with 10-line foliate initial in pink and ochre with burnished gold infill with damascene effect of scrolling fronds in yellow wash, polychrome foliate extensions, lower margin with a bird and arms in silver, orange and blue, woodcut diagrams, 39 astrological woodcuts, all with contemporary hand-colour, 6- to 8-line book initials in red or blue, often interlocking, with purple penwork decoration, occasionally historiated with a face or animal, 6- to 8-line polychrome initials with foliate decoration and historiated penwork extensions, 3- to 4-line initials in red or blue, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, blue paragraph marks in headline; very occasional light spotting, small stain on title, a1 lower margin reinforced on verso and preserved by folding in, neat repaired tear in B3 and H7, sheet F2.5 browned. Early 20th-century vellum, spine lettered and with painted astrological design, green edges; damage to hinge, lower edge of rear cover bumped. H *14559; GW 9981; BMC V, 560; Goff F-191; ISTC if ; Sander ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 31

17 9. RETZA, Franciscus de. De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae virginatatis Mariae. [Johann and Konrad Hist, Speyer, about 1484]. Fine, fully hand-coloured example of this lovely production - a rare work, as we could trace only one example of any incunable edition at auction in the last 40 years. The last copy at auction of the present, second edition was apparently offered in 1966 and sold for $3,080. The Defensorium follows the late medieval tradition of didactic, typological books and presents a series of pictures accompanied by a two-line verse in Latin with a fourline German translation. [It] draws its lessons from natural history, world history and mythology. Rather than developing a story-book version of Scripture, it aims to provide a full range of symbols which prove the virginity of Mary. As with the other books of its genre, the integration of text and picture is central to its didacticism; the eye beholds the image while the soul takes in the words, impressing the whole more firmly on the mind and leading to devotion. Thus, a picture with a unicorn in the lap of a virgin is accompanied by the text telling that the unicorn, eluding all hunters, comes willingly to sleep in the lap of the virgin. On the Christological level, this represents Christ, the World Incarnate, coming willingly to humanity. Only one illustration is specifically scriptural, and it shows the annunciation and birth of Christ. Here that woodcut appears as the first scene, in other versions it appears as the central image (M. Ford, BPH Catalogue). Provenance: Frater Ioannes Georgius Molitor Carmelita Sigmaringensis (in Schwabia, inscription on first leaf, and in another hand requiescit in pace ) ; ct+ (small stamp on 1/2r; Lugt 642d); J.R. Ritman (BPH bookplate, #87, acquired from Tenschert, 1988). Quarto (18.5 x 12.6 cm). 30 ll with 53 woodcuts incl. 2 full-page, handcoloured primarily in red and brown,1- to 5-line initials, paragraph marks and capital-strokes in red, apparently extracted from a Sammelband, the ms. foliation numbered ; occasional light spotting. Nineteenth-century red morocco decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges, by F.Bedford; a bit rubbed at extremities. H *6084; GW 10274; BMC II, 503; Goff R-152; ISTC ir ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 33

18 10. ROLEWINCK, Werner. Dat boek dat men hiet fasciculus temporum. Johann Veldener, Utrecht, 14 February The first Dutch edition of the first printed chronological history of the world, the most widely used historical reference work of the incunable period: the Broxbourne copy, with all woodcuts, borders, initials, coats-of-arms and roundels fully hand-coloured. The greatest work of a prolific Carthusian monk, the Fasciculus temporum is an attempt to resolve the thorny problem of reconciling the history of the world (anno mundi, dating from the creation in 5199 BC) with anno domini dating (from the birth of Christ). It does so through a highly innovative page design. The flow of the document is shifted 90 degrees to take the reader horizontally across each page, not down it, and the two different chronologies are represented above and below the central line. The focus on dating is evident, with each roundel enclosing the name of a historical or biblical figure, alongside a statement of the length of his life or reign in years, months and days, with the dates since the beginning of the world and the birth of Christ at the top and bottom of the roundel. Floods and wonders such as earthquakes, rains of blood, the falling of huge stones from the sky, unusual flights of birds, and comets feature greatly in its content, as do events pertinent to Rolewinck s city, Cologne (including a story of a bolt of lightning in the form of a dragon which struck the church of St. Peter in Cologne in 840, killing three and leaving six half alive). Rolewinck was a bookish man, and his interest in libraries is evident: he comments on the destruction of the library of 400,000 books in Egypt in the time of Julius Caesar, stating from this it is clear what great diligence ancient times showed in collecting books. Let those blush for shame who do not acquire a good supply of books when it can be done, of course, by small cost. This is the second edition of the work printed by Veldener, whose Latin edition appeared in 1475 in Louvain and supplied eight of the woodblocks used here. Supplementing these are twelve new woodcuts, several of which are strongly dependent on cuts in the Rudimentum Novitiorum (Lübeck, 1475), plus the coats-of-arms and printer s device, all of which are the work of the Utrecht woodcutter (Conway p.209). Veldener designed the type employed here ( West Flanders style) for printing his books in the vernacular, which he did exclusively while in Utrecht and Culemborg (M. Ford, BPH Catalogue). Provenance: Six van Hillegom (Amsterdam family, armorial bookplate with motto Stella Duce, sale Mensing/Muller, Amsterdam, 17 Oct. 1928, lot 237, to Berkelam); Albert Ehrman ( ; armorial bookplate with motto Pro viribus summis contendo, bookplate of Broxbourne Library and monogram stamp inside lower cover, sale Sotheby s, 9 May 1978, lot 621 to Traylen); J.R. Ritman, (BPH bookplate, #169, acquired from Tenschert). Small folio (27 x 20 cm.). 338 leaves, woodcut armorial device left blank with printer s device above within an acanthus border on leaf 1v, 15-line woodcut initial and full border on leaf 2r, 12-line historiated woodcut and full border on leaf 9r, 35 other woodcut scenes printed from 20 blocks, diagrams, and coats of arms, all woodcuts with contemporary hand-colour, 3- and 4-line initials in blue with printed guide letters, paragraphmarks in alternating red and blue, capital-strokes and underlining in red; woodcut borders cropped, occasional light spotting, occasional marginal note or pointing hand, leaf 218 mended in fore-margin, leaf 279 mended in lower margin touching a letter. Seventeenth-century blind-ruled vellum in a panel design with stamped arabesque in central panel of each cover, edges sprinkled red; slightly rubbed and soiled. HC 6946; GW M38760; BMC IX, 12; Goff R-278; ISTC ir ; IDL 3950 ; Le Cinquième centenaire de l imprimerie dans les anciens Pays-Bas, exhibition cat. Brussels, 1973, 76. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 35

19 11. ADAM, Robert. The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam. For the authors, London, 1778 (but ), A fine, fresh copy, with Russian imperial provenance, of the first issue of the first edition of the designs of the Adam brothers. The first volume appeared in parts between 1773 and 1778 and the second volume followed in Between them they illustrate many of Robert Adam s major domestic commissions - Kenwood, Sion, Luton Hoo, and the London houses of Lord Shelburne and Sir W. W. Wynn - and they were the main means by which knowledge of the Adam style in architecture and interior design spread in Britain and Europe. The splendid plates, engraved by Pastorini, Bartolozzi, Piranesi, Cunego, etc., illustrate interiors, furnishings and decorative details as well as the architecture of the buildings concerned. The aim... was to establish the primacy of the Adams in creating and establishing a new style of architecture and in publicizing their abilities - and availability - in this respect. But the book was by no means a survey of their built work. Robert aimed to indicate the quality of their connections - the empress of Russia; Queen Charlotte; the princess dowager of Wales; the dukes of Montagu and Northumberland; the earls of Bute, Derby, Mansfield and Shelburne; and Sir Watkins William Wynn - and to present a tantalizing glimpse of the realms that he had created for such notabilities. (Millard p. 13). Provenance: Maximilian de Beauharnais, third Duke of Leuchtenberg ( , sonin-law of Tsar Nicholas I, engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); La Tour d Auvergne Lauragais. Two volumes in one large folio (66.5 x 50 cm). Printed title leaf to each vol., engraved allegorical frontispiece by Bartolozzi, after Zucchi, part title to each part, prefaces (as called for) and Explanation of the plates for each part and 80 engraved plates (40 in each volume), issued in suites of 8 plates (parts bound out of order), plates engraved by Piranesi, Pastorini, Cunesco, Bartolozzi etc. after original designs by Robert and James Adam. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paste-paper boards, banded spine with decorative tooling in gilt and blind in seven compartments, pale blue endpapers, blue speckled edges. Berlin 2341; Millard, British, 2. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 37

20 12. ALEXANDER, William. The costume of China, illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings. William Miller, London China in the eighteenth century was largely a closed world to Europeans, known only through the artefacts that had filtered west and guessed at only from the rare accounts of the travellers who had penetrated into the mainland. William Alexander, an artist from Maidstone, Kent, was the draughtsman officially attached to the 1792 embassy of Lord Macartney to the Emperor of China, and the record he has left provides an essential document for understanding pre-modern China. First edition. 4to, (32.5 x 25.5 cm approx.), half-title, title, 48 text leaves, 2 pages index, 48 plates of which 47 are hand-coloured aquatints, and 1 plate, the dedication, is an uncoloured soft-ground etching, some light toning, later half calf gilt. Abbey Travel 534; Colas 74; Cordier ; Martin Hardie p151; Prideaux p250 & p317; Tooley 18. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 39

21 13. ALKEN, Henry. The national sports of Great Britain. Thomas McLean, London., The size and beauty of the plates make this the cornerstone of any Alken collection (Tooley). The second issue in a contemporary morocco binding. Though not yet rare in its second state, comments Tooley, numerous copies have been broken up, and the tendency is for the work to become scarcer and scarcer. One of the great nineteenth century colour-plate works. Illustrated with 50 fine aquatints of exceptional quality, it is probably Alken s finest achievement. The work depicts the whole gamut of British sporting life from racing to hunting, shooting and fishing Folio. (48.7 x 30cm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 50 plates by J. Clark after Alken, with tissue guards, parallel text in English and French. Guards browned and offset, a few isolated spots in engraved areas, occasional light soiling of plate margins, a few text leaves spotted. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt, gilt edges, slipcase, neat repair to upper joint, an excellent copy. Mellon/Podeschi 111; Schwerdt I, p. 19 & IV, p. 4; Siltzer p. 70; Tooley 41. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 41

22 14. ALKEN, Henry. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting, and other sports [but watermarked ]. Rare. Alken s soft-ground etchings, comprising seven suites each with six plates, show imminent dangers, the moment of impact and the sometimes cruel aftermath of accidents to man and horse. As Schwerdt states, the draftsmanship is good, the colouring vivid, and the inscriptions on the plates, humorous. Provenance: Forrester Britton (engraved bookplate). Folio. (32.5 x 21.9cm). 42 hand-coloured etched plates, heightened with gum arabic, occasional short tears and stab holes in some lower margins where previously bound as landscape folio, tiny chipping to some edges, a little marginal soiling, this issue with special facsimile title by Riviere. Full red levant morocco gilt by Riviere, sides with multiple fillets, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins and edges, original paper label preserved at rear (lower corners bumped). A very handsome copy. Mellon 104; Schwerdt I, p. 17; Siltzer p. 72; Tooley 36. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 43

23 15. ALKEN, Henry. [The Seven Ages of the Horse.] London: S. & J. Fuller, An important work showing the progression of a race horse through successive stages of life, at one point pampered and adored, at another rejected and scorned by man. Landscape 4to. (28.4 x 38.2cm), 7 hand-coloured etched plates. (Expert repairs to plate corners, light marginal finger-soiling, occasional browning, plates 2 and 4 with very minor marginal tears with two very small repairs to versos.) Red half morocco by Riviere, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Dixon 80; Mellon/Snelgrove 62; Tooley 48. ref: , ALKEN, Henry. Qualified Horses And Unqualified Riders, or the reverse of Sporting Phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable Accomplishments. S& J Fuller, London Early issue. The first of Alken s works to have a title-page, lacking from a great many copies (Dixon). Signed Ben Tally Ho, the title good-humouredly explains that the plates are a reply to Robert Frankland s Indispensable Accomplishments, a set of six Leicestershire hunting prints published in June Where Frankland blames the horse for any failures, Alken aims to show how a perfectly good horse can be handicapped by an unqualified or untrained rider. Provenance: Alfred N. Beadleston (bookplate). First edition, landscape folio (25 x 34.4cm), engraved title-page, 7 hand coloured engraved plates by Alken, (plate 5 with J. Whatman 1819 mark), light browning to sky areas and plate margins, later red hard-grained half morocco, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, rebacked preserving spine, an excellent copy. Dixon 4 (two plates watermarked 1819); Mellon/Snelgrove 3; Schwerdt I, p. 20 (1813 watermark); Siltzer p. 69 and p. 74; Tooley 44. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 45

24 17. ALKEN, Henry. Scraps from the sketch-book. Thomas M Lean, London 1823 [plates water-marked ]. An eclectic selection of designs, to be either copied or placed in scrap albums, including fox hunters, jockeys, coach-drivers, huzzars, oriental horsemen, and sports ranging from bowling to bull fighting. Provenance: Schwerdt-Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester copy with both bookplates. Landscape folio, 42 hand-coloured soft-ground etchings, occasional spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, later half burgundy straight-grain morocco, gilt, by Morrell, gilt-stamped morocco label on upper cover, spine gilt, top edges gilt, very slightly rubbed at edges, an excellent copy. Schwerdt I p21; Siltzer p70. ref: , ALKEN, Henry. Illustrations to popular songs. Thomas McLean, London 1823 [plates watermarked ]. Second issue. The three extra illustrations are tipped-in opposite the plate which they relate to. One has contemporary ink captions which have been partly cropped, another pencil captions, and a third later ink captions. In all three cases, Alken has executed the reverse design in pencil on the back. Provenance: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (bookplate). Landscape 4to. (25.2 x 35cm), hand-coloured etched frontispiece dated 1822, letterpress title and address leaf, 42 hand-coloured plates signed Hy. Alken Del. Extra illustrated with two etchings and one original pencil drawing by Alken (20.3 x 25.1; 19.6 x 24.3; 19.6 x 23.7cm), back of each with original drawing by Alken of the same image in reverse, unsigned. Some soiling and staining, mainly marginal, occasional spotting, one plate slightly water-stained, extra illustrations lightly sunned and with two small repairs. Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco, gilt-lettered morocco cover label, lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. Dixon 60 (in 7 original parts); Mellon/Podeschi 118; Siltzer p. 71 & Tooley 37 (1822 first issue). ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 47

25 19. [ALKEN, Henry. Field Sports]. R. Ackermann, London Rare Miniaturised Scenes, each plate forming an entire narrative on Shooting, Coursing, Hunting, and Racing. Not located in the usual bibliographies. A set of 4 numbered hand-coloured aquatint plates (24.6 x 40cm), each containing six scenes, unsigned but attributed to Alken, window-mounted in a folio album (32.7 x 49.6cm) with modern letterpress title. (Light spotting to plate 2, mostly at blank margins, a few spots on plate 4.) Blue half morocco by Aquarius, gilt-lettered spine and cover label. ref: , ALKEN, Henry. One of the flowers of our hunt. Rudolph Ackermann, London 1 March An unusual sartorial satire. The consummate dandyism of the huntsman figured in each plate draws a comparison with a flower named in the caption below. With series title in block capitals above each plate. Not in Mellon or Siltzer. A set of 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Harris after Alken, heightened in gum arabic (35 x 44cm), window-mounted in a landscape folio album (45.6 x 56cm), with modern letterpress title. (Plate 5 with closed tear in sky area, some light even browning and spotting.) Modern red half morocco by Aquarius, gilt-lettered spine and cover label, a fine copy. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 49

26 21. ALKEN, Henry. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse. S. and J. Fuller, London [1816]. An uncut copy in original pictorial boards of the first book published under Alken s name. He mentions his habit of riding young and violent horses with fox-hounds, and of having a mare which caused him four or five falls a day upon an average, and all in consequence of her violent bucking leaps. Provenance: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (bookplate). First edition. 4to., engraved title with circular vignette, 18 hand-coloured etched plates, uncut in original boards, worn at joints at extremities. Huth p85; Mellon/Snelgrove 73; Mennessier de la Lance, p 14; Schwerdt I, p12; Tooley 20. ref: [APPERLEY, Charles James.] The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod. Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, London First edition, first issue, in the original cloth. Considered by many to be the premier colour plate sporting book in the 19th century (Tooley). Provenance: James George Robarts (bookplate, signature dated 15 November 1845) -- Hermann Marx (bookplate). 8vo., viii, 402pp., ten pages of ads at end, hand-coloured aquatint additional title, frontispiece and 34 plates, all by Henry Alken, four of these plates on india and mounted on leaves with printed captions, some spotting and minor soiling, some plates without tissue guards. Publisher s original blue cloth, the spine and upper side stamped in gilt, the sides with scrolling border stamped in blind, edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers, extremities rubbed, spine with some wear, joints starting with some staining and wear; later morocco-backed case. an excellent copy. Dixon 111: one of the finest of the books illustrated by Alken ; Mellon/Podeschi 167; Schwerdt I, p.36; Tooley 65. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 51

27 23. ANGAS, George French. The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakoza Tribes. London: J. Hogarth, First edition of this important work, including outstanding portraits, particularly of the Zulus. The plates also include views of Cape Town, Hottentot Holland, Somerset West and Durban. The three large works by George French Angas, The Kaffirs, New Zealanders and South Australia are amongst the most important of the illustrated travel books of their period... Of the three works, the Kaffirs is the most uncommon (Tooley). Angas, born in Newcastle in 1822, travelled to South Africa in 1847.He next spent two years there, and in 1849 published the present work, several of the original drawings for which were bought for the print-room of the British Museum. In the introduction to The Kafirs Illustrated he remarks I have had more real enjoyment of existence during the many months I have passed amongst Kafirs and New Zealanders, than I ever had amid the anxieties and conventionalities of a more refined life. Folio (54.3 x 35.9cm). Lithographic portrait frontispiece of the author on india paper mounted, 35 handcoloured tinted lithographic plates on 30 sheets after Angas, drawn on stone by Angas, J. Needham, A. Laby, B.W. Hawkins or W. Wing, printed by Charles Lovell, M. & N. Hanhart, Hullmandel & Walton, wood-engraved vignette illustrations. Margins of portrait lightly evenly browned, list of illustrations leaf lightly creased, some even light browning to text leaves, occasional light scattered spotting, mostly marginal, short marginal tear to text-leaf for plate XX without loss. Modern red crushed half morocco, top edge gilt two tiny spots to upper cover, an excellent copy. Abbey Travel 339; Colas 134; Mendelssohn I, pp.45-6; Tooley 60. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 53

28 24. ATKINSON, John Augustus; James Walker. A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians. Bulmer for Atkinson & Walker, and Boydell, London, Alici, St. Petersburg, and Riss & Saucet, Moscow, Fine copy of the first edition of one of the most desirable English colour-plate books. This is the second of Atkinson s works to be published after his return from St. Petersburg. He accompanied his uncle James Walker there when the latter had been appointed engraver to the Empress Catherine and had returned in 1801 after 18 years spent in Russia. Dedicated to Alexander I, whose portrait is in frontispiece. Roskoshnoe khudozhestvennoe izdanie s prevoskhodnymi risunkami, ispolnennymi s natury angl. khudozhnikom Atkinsonom dolgoe vremya zhivshim v Rossii. Redka (Solovev, marking it at 125 roubles in 1910). 25. AURE, Antonie Cartier de. Traite d equitation. Mme Leclere, Paris, First edition, rare hand-coloured copy. D Aure was riding master at the Ecole de Versailles and, later, Saumur. Traite is his first major work and was often reissued in the 19th-century, but it is rare: it is not in Huth, and ABPC records no copy at auction in over 35 years. Provenance: Gaston Guitton ( , sculptor, title stamp). 4to (29.7 x 23 cm), with errata leaf, lithographed frontispiece and 26 hand-coloured plates by Frey after Ledieu (Some small marginal repairs, occasional spotting and offsetting, the colour in some plates oxidised) Contemporary half-leather, spine gilt in compartments light wear to head of spine Nissen ZBI 165 ref: ,000 Provenance: W. Bulmer? (the printer; pencil note to upper fly-leaf). Three parts in one volume folio (49 x 36 cm). Half-title, frontispiece portrait by E. Scriven after G. Kugelgen, title of first part, [4] ll. dedications and prefaces, each part with own title and list of plates, 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Atkinson, each with text leaf in English and French, watermarked ; light spotting on a few leaves only. Contemporary burgundy half-morocco over red pebble-grained cloth boards, spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, the others uncut, marbled endpapers; slightly rubbed and stained. Abbey Travel 23; Bobins 180; Colas 171; Lipperheide 1343; Prideaux ; Solovev Kat.105, 318 (125 rub.!); Tooley 72. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 55

29 26. [BAKST] - LEVINSON, Andre. Bakst. The Story of the Artist s Life. Bayard Press, London, Fine, uncut example, in its original binding, of this celebrated edition, limited to 315 copies only, this one being number 210. The numerous plates represent not only Bakst s most celebrated costumes, but also drawings and theatre settings. Provenance: Willoughby Norman (ex-libris to upper pastedown). Folio (37.5 x 29 cm). 240 pp., 68 plates, some in colour, with numerous engravings and illustrations in text. Original publisher s vellum, title stamped in brown on upper board, spine with raised bands with lettering and ornaments in brown; slightly rubbed and soiled. ref: , [BALLETS RUSSES] - BAKST, Leon. Programme Officiel de la Saison Russe a l Opera: [7th and 9th of June 1910]. Comœdia illustré, Paris, Fine example of this rare and important programme presenting the first ever production of the famous Firebird composed by 28-year old Stravinsky. It also included Diaghilev s productions of Sheherazade and Carnival. Firebird was to originally be danced by Anna Pavlova, but when she heard Stravinsky s music she declared it noise and refused to dance to it. Tamara Karsavina was given the iconic role. The programme features multiple photographs of the dancers, as well as colour illustrations of Bakst s costumes and set designs - some of the most famous ones being drawn for Firebird. Dancers include all stars of the early Ballet Russes team: Pavlova, Karsavina, Nijinskiy, etc. Folio (32 x 25 cm). 48 pp., illustrated throughout, with an additional programme for the 11th, 14th and 16th of June loosely inserted; without [4] pp. of errata of programme changes. Original colour printed wrappers; slightly soiled. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 57

30 28. [BALLETS RUSSES] - BAKST, Leon. Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes: [29th and 31st of May, 1st and 3rd of June 1912]. Septieme saison des Ballets Russes organisee par M. Serge de Diaghilew avec le concours de M. Gabriel Astruc. Theatre du Chatelet. Brunoff, Comoedia Illustre, Paris, Fine copy, in the original fragile wrappers, of this early programme lavishly produced by Brunoff together with Diaghilev and showing all main Russian stars (Nizhinskiy, Karsavina, Fokin, Nelidova, etc.) together with colourful costumes by Bakst, all framed in gilt or silver borders. During the seventh season Diaghilev presented four new productions: Daphnis et Chloé, Thamar, Le Dieu Bleu, and L après-midi d un Faune, which was inspired by Claude Debussy s languorous and shimmering score and choreographed by Nizhinskiy himself. Provenance: A. Fildier (stamp to verso of upper cover). 29. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The early work; [with] The uncollected work; [with] The later work. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1899, 1901, Aubrey Beardsley (21 August March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. The present work gathers together all of his work for the first time. First editions. 3 volumes, 4to., 3 frontispieces and 155 and 161 and 173 illustrations respectively after Bearsley, bound for Sotherans in tan half morocco gilt, raised bands marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, a fine set. ref: ,750 Folio (32 x 25 cm). 68 pp, with many photographic and colour illustrations, the latter mostly after Bakst, with additional programmes for the 3rd and 10th of June loosely inserted. Original wrappers printed in gilt, colour covers illustrated by Bakst; slightly spotted, upper margin with small hole. ref: Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 59

31 Exceptional photographs of Corfu 30. BEER, Alois. [Corfu album] n.d. circa Alois Beer ( ) was a professional photographer working from a studio in Klagenfurt, Austria. He left Vienna in 1867 to set up this studio. He made 2 journeys to Greece and the surrounding islands in 1885 and 1889 and it is presumed that this album was prepared after one of these trips. The images show not only of the towns of Corfu but also the surroundng countryside. A very rare and extremely attractive album showing Corfu in all its splendour. Landscape folio album (43 x 32cm), containing 40 photographs of Corfu (typical size 26.4 x 19cm), all photographs with printed titles in gilt below image, bound in original brown morocco gilt, gilt clasp, all edges gilt, watered silk end leaves, corners worn and light edge wear, an excellent example. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 61

32 The greatest and finest atlas ever published 31. BLAEU, Joannes. Grooten Atlas, oft werelt beschryving, in welcke t aerdryck, de zee, en hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven. Blaeu, Amsterdam, A beautiful example, in an unusual deluxe binding and vibrant hand-colouring, of the greatest and finest atlas ever published (Koeman). With 600 hand-coloured engraved maps in 9 volumes covering the entire known world, the Atlas Maior was also the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. With its high typographic standard, lavish presentation in vivid colours, and often luxurious bindings, Blaeu s Atlas remained the standard world atlas and premier product of the Dutch publishing industry, the most prestigious in the world, for over a hundred years and frequently served as the official gift of the Dutch Republic. The atlas is justly famed for its carte-aux-figures maps of the continents, the 58 maps devoted to England and Wales, the first printed atlas of Scotland, the suite of 25 maps of America, including important early maps of Virginia, New England and Brazil, and Martini s Atlas of China, the first European atlas of China. The scale and success of Blaeu s atlas is due in no small part to the impetus provided by the fierce competition between the Blaeu and Janssonius publishing houses. Until the late 1620s, the European market for world atlases was dominated by the Mercator maps published by Jodocus Hondius II and, later, by Johannes Jannsonius. However, following Hondius death in 1629, and the growing competition in publishing sea charts and pilot books, the Blaeu business seized its opportunity to publish a grand world atlas: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum or Atlas novus. The project did not get off to a swift start and, at the time of the death of Willem Janszoon Blaeu ( ), only two volumes had been published. However, his eldest son, Dr Joan Blaeu had joined the business in the 1630s and continued the task, publishing a volume for Italy in 1640, one for England in 1645, and another for Scotland in In doing so Joan Blaeu eclipsed his chief rival, Johannes Janssonius, who, from this time, never matched the quantity of volumes and maps in Blaeu s magnificent atlas (Fleet). The present Dutch edition comprises is very much influenced in its structure by the Toonnel des Aerdryck. Unlike the Latin edition, the volumes have different dates, as follows: Volume I: World, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (1664). 90 maps and plates, including 5 plans and 9 plates illustrating Tycho Brahe s astronomical observatory on the island of Ven in Oresund (after the woodcuts in Brahe s Astronomiae instauratae mechanicae, published at Wandsbeck in 1598), where Johannes Blaeu s father, Willem, was assistant and student for a time. The maps of Slesvig are part of the series originally published in Caspar Danckwerth and Johannes Mejer s Newe Landesbeschreibung der zweij Herzogthumer Schleswig und Holstein ([Hamburg?] 1652). Volume II: Germany, Switzerland and South-East Europe (1664). 107 maps, including the balance of the Danckwerth and Mejer maps of Volume III: The Netherlands and the United Netherlands (1664). 65 maps. Volume IV: England and Wales (1662). 58 maps. Volume V: Scotland and Ireland (1662). 55 maps: Koeman s table (pp ) calls for only 54. His numbering omits map [386] t Eylandt Glotta, of Arran, which should come between the maps of Kintyre and of Bute. Most of the maps are based on the manuscript surveys of Timothy Pont and Robert Gordon, and which were printed for the first time in Of all the component parts of the Blaeu atlas, the Scotland and 62 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 63

33 Ireland volume is the best documented, and there is a considerable body of surviving manuscript drafts and documentary material relating to its history (see: J.C. Stone, The Pont Manuscript Maps of Scotland, 1989). Volume VI: France (no date). 66 maps. Volume VII: Italy and Greece (no date). 67 maps. Volume VIII: Spain, Africa and the Americas (1665). 64 maps, largely based on the works of Johannes de Laet, as well as the fine group of Brazilian maps showing the (by then) former Dutch colonies. These are after the series originally published by Blaeu in 1647 in Caspar Barlaeus Rerum per octennium in Brasilia and show the remarkable vignettes after the designs of the painter Frans Janszoon Post (c ), which in this copy are coloured to a fine effect. Volume IX: Asia, China and Japan (1664). 28 maps. Essentially two atlases in one, these maps include the set of 17 of China and Japan after Martino Martini, SJ, which first appeared in the Novus atlas sinensis which Blaeu had issued in These maps in particular were highly praised by the great French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, who wrote that Martini knew better than the others the proportion between the Latitudes and Longitudes, or because his maps had been engraved and printed in Holland where there are persons who have handled too many Maps not to know this proportion.... The delicate chinoiserie designs of the cartouches of these maps are coloured to a high degree. Provenance: European private collection. Thirteen parts in 9 volumes folio (57.3 x 38 cm). Printed general title, engraved allegorical title, 9 printed or engraved titles within engraved borders, 7 printed divisional titles, and 600 engraved maps, plans, views and plates, mostly double-page, all with contemporary hand-colour, the title and many maps heightened with gold; occasional browning, light occasional spotting. Publisher s full vellum, covers panelled in gilt with stylized grapes and foliate-roll, large gilt central medallion, gilt edges, flat spines gilt in compartments incorporating a small central rose tool; light occasional rubbing and soiling. Van der Krogt 2:61. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 65

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35 32. BLOME, Richard. The Gentleman s Recreation: in two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences... the second part treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture: with a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them... Roycroft, London, Richard Blome was one of the most interesting, and most active, publishers of illustrated books in post-restoration London. Best known for his cartographic works, he also produced many other fine volumes. The Gentlemen s Recreation contains an enormous store of information and is compiled in two parts, of which the former treats of geography and navigation, while the latter deals with field sports and agriculture. - Schwerdt. The engraved plates provide an excellent visual record of an important part of the social history of the seventeenth century. First edition. Folio. Approbation leaf (creased), title-page in red and black, dedication to James II, emblematic frontispiece, 10 full-page engraved plates of Arms of Subscribers, 30 pates of the Arts & Sciences (the oval plates just shaved on fore-edge), 45 sporting plates, eighteenth century sprinkled calf, red morocco lettering piece, raised bands ruled in gilt, rebacked preserving spine, a fine copy. Schwerdt I, pp ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 69

36 33. BONNARD, Pierre, illustrator; Octave MIRBEAU. Dingo. Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Mirbeau s story of a semi-wild Australian pup s life in France and his attempts to accommodate civilization, first published in 1912 but probably known best today through this edition published by Vollard with Bonnard s etched illustrations. The project was Bonnard s first extended use of etching and drypoint, He began working on the illustrative possibilities of the novel after its initial publication, and his first sketches were published the following year (1913) in Les Cahiers d aujourd hui. The Vollard edition did not appear until 10 years later. The collaboration between the publisher and art dealer, Vollard, and Bonnard was of the greatest significance in the development of modern art and particularly the Livre de peinture. their first collaboration was an edition of Verlaine s Parallèlement (1900), which is generally taken as the starting point of these magnificent artist s books. Germaine de Coster ( ), worked extensively with books, both as an illustrator and as a finisher of fine bindings. One of the most accomplished finishers of the twentieth century, her work is informed by her talent as an artist. 4to., (37.7 x 27 cm), copy number 261 of an edition of 370 copies, one of 280 copies on vergé d Arches, etching on original upper wrapper and title-page, a total of 55 illustrations, including 14 full-page, all by Bonnard. Binding by Germaine de Coster of navy crushed morocco, upper cover with green and orange morocco onlays in the shape of two dogs with multiple gilt fillets radiating out and smooth black morocco inset sections, lower cover with similar gilt fillet and inset pattern, spine lettered in gilt with gilt fillet decoration, top edge gilt others uncut, green suede endleaves, in navy crushed morocco-backed chemise also with spine lettered in gilt, in board slipcase; chemise cracking at hinges, a most attractive binding. The Artist and the Book 30; Carteret IV, 282 ( Edition recherchée et cotée ); Rauch 26; Monod ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 71

37 34. BROOKE, E. Adveno. The Gardens of England. T. McLean, London, [1857]. A rare, large format work providing superb depictions of English country house gardens in Victorian times, and giving an insight into the taste of the great estate owners. Many of the gardens were begun in earlier times, but most feature later additions, sometimes in the Italian style, which proved a major attraction for Brooke. The magnificent gardens depicted include those at Trentham Park (laid out by Capability Brown with additions by Charles Barry in the 1840 s), Enville Hall (gardens extended in the mid-nineteenth century and celebrated for its fountains, its floral display, and its domed and turreted oriental palace of a conservatory), Bowood House (originally laid out by Brown but with later Italianate terraces added), Alton Towers ( The work of a morbid imagination joined to the command of unlimited resources (J. C. Loudon), Elvaston Castle (famous for its splendid arboretum), Shrublands Hall (Italianate terraces by Barry), Woburn Abbey (a Repton masterpiece), Holkham House (William Kent- Capability Brown, with extensive 1850 s additions including a parterrre with the Earl of Leicester s initials in box, and a pair of flower beds in a Louis XIV pattern accompanying a fountain representing St. George and the dragon), Castle Howard ( whose modern additions included a new parterre using yew hedges to frame the lawns and the Triton Fountain taken from the Great Exhibition), and many others. Brooke was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy and British Institution in the period between 1853 and First edition. Folio, title-page and 25 lithographed plates printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, lithographed dedication leaf, letterpress text, 16 lithographed vignettes on india paper pasted into text, recently bound in green half morocco, spine gilt decorated, red morocco label, gilt lettered by Aquarius. Abbey, Scenery 392. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 73

38 35. BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc. The natural history of birds. Strahan, London 1793 This edition edited by William Smellie with additions by the well-known British ornithologists, John Latham and Thomas Pennant. The preface contains interesting information about Buffon s sources, and mentions how the Nile explorer, James Bruce, passed some time with Buffon on his return from Abyssinia and provided him with natural history drawings. A very fine set from a library notable for the condition of the books. Provenance: Sir Richard Johnstone (armorial bookplate). 9 volumes, 8vo., 262 copperplate engravings, contemporary tree calf gilt, red morocco labels, a fine set. Nissen ZVB 719. ref: , BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc Natural History general and peculiar Strahan, London 1785 A most attractive set in a fine contemporary binding. Edited by the Scottish author, printer and natural historian, William Smellie, the present work proved a great success and was still being reprinted as late as For the purpose of providing the translation, Smellie taught himself French. Provenannce; Sir Richard Johnstone (armorial bookplate). 9 volumes, 8vo., 308 copper engraved plates, 7 folding plates, 2 maps, contemporary calf, red and green morocco labels, a fine set. Nissen ZBI 718. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 75

39 Mad, bad, and dangerous to know 37. BYRON, Lord [George Gordon]. The poetical works of Lord Byron. To which are added his life and letters. [BOUND WITH] Byron and his Contemporaries by Leigh Hunt and Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted during a residence with his Lordship at Pisa in the years 1821 and 1822 by Thomas Medwin. John Murray, London A magnificent set of Byron s works, a fitting monument to a poet of genius, a hero of the Greek Revolution, and a man celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. The set features topographical engravings of Greece and the Levant after Stackleburg, Grecian Williams, Allom, etc. In addition there are numerous portraits including some Greek Heroes, many uncommon, and include mezzotints, silhouettes, and other media apart from the usual steel engravings. 25 volumes. 4to. (29 x 22 cm). Extra-illustrated with 2480 plates, some in colour and several double-page. Bound by J. Wright in full dark green morocco with gilt stamped decoration to upper and lower boards, spine with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt rules to compartments, inner dentelles gilt, top edges gilt, light shelf-wear to bindings, some off-setting from plates to text, some intermittent light foxing and toning, contents generally clean and fresh. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 77

40 38. CADDY, John Herbert. Views of Niagara Falls. [Second half of the 19th century]. A beautiful pair of views by a renowned Canadian landscape artist who documented in watercolour the Hamilton - Niagara Falls area John Herbert Caddy was born in Quebec in 1801 into a family of military engineers. His grandfather had been sent to Newfoundland in the 18th century to build a fort. Caddy was sent to England for his education before returning to Canada. Caddy was a painstaking artist who worked slowly and carefully from pencil sketches made on the scene, through sepia drafts, to the finished picture. Apparently he sometimes completed several versions of the finished landscape but rarely, if ever, signed his work. He exhibited water-colours and oils in the annual provincial exhibitions from 1858 to 1868, winning awards for his meticulous landscapes, marines, and animal and flower studies. Pair of watercolours, each 30.5 x 42cm (12 x 16 1/2in). Framed and glazed. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 79

41 39. CHAMBERS, William. Plans, elevations, sections and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew in Surrey, the seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales. Haberkorn for the author, London, First edition of this superb record of the early architectural high points of the Royal Horticultural Society s most famous garden. The short text provided by way of introduction to the plates describes the intended route through the garden, beginning at the palace, proceeding to the Greenhouse or Orangery, the Temple of the Sun, on to the enclosed Physic or Exotic Garden, then to the Flower Garden and Aviary, and the Menagerie or Pheasant Garden with its Chinese Pavilion and so on. The forty-three plates were arranged roughly in this sequence... Though Chambers offers no hint of the significance intended by the extraordinary array of pavilions and features, it is clear that he was leading his visitors through an image of the world, both past and present... Several themes are invoked, Frederick s [The Prince of Wales] exotic interests; the advance in husbandry, botany, and engineering in contemporary Britain; and most significantly, its new imperial role. The building of Kew coincides precisely with the waging of the Seven Years War, the first truly global conflict. Britain s empire is commemorated again and again. Thus the ruined arch on one side of the great lawn is countered on the other by the Gothic cathedral - the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire even, overtaken by an image of British faith. The Temple of Victory, intended to commemorate the Battle of Minden, of 1 August when the French were defeated by combined British and Hanoverian force under Augusta s brother, was set midway in the garden, on a mount, serving as a platform to view both the palace at one end and the Great Pagoda at the other. At the far end of the meadow three buildings were erected to mark the ends of the earth - the Turkish mosque and the Alhambra, facing one another on a cross-axis, denoting the eastern and western ends of the Mediterranean trading basin, and, at the furthest point, the Great Pagoda, rivaling in height Nanking s Porcelain Tower, an emblem of the civilization most remote from Britain, but nonetheless clearly open to mercantile endeavour - Millard. Folio, title, dedication leaf, 8pp. text, 43 engraved plates and plans by Rooker, Woollett, Grignion, Paul Sandby, et al., after William Kent, Chambers, Smeaton, Sandby, Cipriani, and others, uncut, modern half calf gilt, a fine copy. Millard, British Books, 14; Berlin Kat. 2337; Fowler 87. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 81

42 40. [CHINA]. An album of Chinese costume figures in silk and paper relief. Shanghai, 13th year of Guangxu, [1887] The figures represent Chinese society, professions, trades, and deities, including highranking officials, a tea-picker, an opium smoker, a woman spinning, another feeding silk worms, a condemned prisoner, a fisherman, a fortune teller, a monk, a mandarin and a bride and bridegroom. Some of the figures are accompanied with a banner or colophon providing the name of the maker and date, as well as the name of some of the people represented. Such albums were produced as souvenirs for foreigners living in Shanghai. Provenance: George Herbert Moule (pencil note in the margin of the first subject from his dear Chinese friend Li Ling-Sang and a paper label on the upper cover G.H.M. brought home in 1889 Folio (36.8 x 25.8cm.), 32 figures in silk and hand-painted paper relief, Chinese captions in ink, occasional additional captions in English in pencil, each mounted on paper, bound concertina-style within green silk mounts, green painted (?bamboo) boards, some light browning and spotting, some wear and fading to silk edges, binding rubbed. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 83

43 41. [CHINESE SCHOOL] - Watercolours of Important Figures. Early 19th century]. A fine collection of high quality watercolours, where each leaf is painted with different figures depicting scholars, deities and emperors. Each image captioned in Chinese manuscript. The condition of the watercolours is extremely fresh. Concertina album (24.5 x 13.5 cm) comprising 70 watercolours on paper, many heightened with gold, with inscriptions in Chinese calligraphy, each leaf painted to both sides. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 85

44 42. CLAUDE LORRAIN [i.e. Claude Gelee]. Liber veritatis. Or, A Collection of Two Hundred Prints, after the Original Designs... in the Collection of... the Duke of Devonshire. John Boydell [volumes I-II] and Thomas Davison for Hurst, Robinson, and Co. [volume III], London A landmark in the history of reproduction of master drawings (Abbey). Claude s Liber veritatis was a bound volume in which he drew copies of his own paintings and recorded details of commissions from about Although there are omissions -- particularly in the early years -- the Liber veritatis is a record of a major artist s oeuvre without parallel until the 20th century, and one which served in Claude s own lifetime both as a safeguard against forgeries and as a visual resource. The volume of drawings was eventually acquired by the Dukes of Devonshire, and Boydell s Liber veritatis reproduces both these drawings and examples of Claude s works from the great English collections of the period, including those of Richard Payne Knight, Alderman Hibbert, the Earl Spencer, Charles Lambert, Joseph Farrington, George Gosling, and Edmund Turnor. The accompanying text not only translates and transcribes Claude s annotations on the versos of the drawings, but also gives the names of the contemporary owners of the pictures, and details of engravings of the pictures. The purpose of the work was to establish a corpus of works known to be by the artist, in order to facilitate the detection of forgeries and the correct identification of genuine drawings, and, as Abbey states, the result was a real catalogue raisonne. This is a mixed set comprising early editions of volumes I and II, and a later edition of volume III (1819 rather than 1817). Provenance: British Museum (inkstamps on verso of volume I title and verso of volume II, plate 200; Duplicate for Sale blindstamp on margin of volume II, plate 200); from the library of Beriah Botfield at Longleat, sale at Christie s, 13th June 2002, lot 82 3 volumes, folio (41.5 x 27.1cm), mezzotint frontispiece portraits of Claude Lorrain (volume I) and of Richard Earlom and John Boydell (both volume III), 300 etched mezzotint and aquatint plates by Earlom after Claude printed in bistre and black, additional variant state of volume I, plate 17 loosely inserted, contemporary crushed green morocco gilt, covers bordered by foliate rolls within broad and narrow rules and pointille rolls, gilt turn-ins, spines gilt in compartments, edges gilt, occasional light browning and spotting, volume III plates 6 and 94 trimmed across platemark, small loss to upper cover of volume I affecting gilt border, other covers and extremities lightly rubbed, spines faded. Brunet III, 1169; Cohen-De Ricci col.242; Lewine p.325; Lowndes p.1398; Abbey Life 200 (variant imprints on titles; calling for pp.[1]-14 in vol.i rather than pp.[1]-12 as here). ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 87

45 43. CLERISSEAU, Charles Louis. [Raccolta di veduta nella citta di Roma e nella Sicilia]. Rome nd [c.1780] This fine and rare suite contains the following views: 1.Inside the Temple of Concord - Intérieur du temple de la Concorde. 2. Arch of Septimus Severus and Caracalla - Arc de Septime Severe et de Caracalla. 3. Temple of Antonius and Faustina - Temple d Antonin et de Faustine. 4. Amphitheatre of Capua - Amphitheatre de Capoue. 5. Tomb of Virgil - Tombeau de Virgile. 6.Temple of Venus - Temple de Venus. 7. Temple of Serapis - Temple de Serapis. 8.Amphitheatre of Beneventum - Amphitheatre de Benevent. 9.Ancient Sepulchre - Ancien Tombeau. 10. Arch of Traian - Arc de Traian. 11.Port of Cuma - Porte de Cumes. 12.Temple of Pola in Istria - Temple de Pola en Istrie. 13.Arch of Pola in Istria - Arc de Pola en Istrie. 14.Temple of Iupiter Staton - Temple de Iupiter Staton. Charles Louis Clerisseau ( ) was a well known artist. draughtsman and archaeologist. His fine drawings of the Roman ruins in Italy were greatly appreciated by the English and notably by Robert and James Adams who then commissioned him to execute the illustrations for their Ruins of Spalatro. In 1771 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, with great success. Provenance: Henry Barrett Lennard (bookplate). Folio, (64 x 54 cm), manuscript title-page, a series of 14 double-page etched plates captioned in English and in French, engraved by Domenico Cunego, Pomardi and Morelli after Clerisseau, in addition, one extra engraved plate, Vue de l exterieur de la maison quarrée has been tipped-in at the end), some intermittent foxing to a few plates, mainly marginal., small book-plate, later boards, recently rebacked. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 89

46 44. CRUIKSHANK, Robert. Bacchus and the tee-totallers. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, London Rare. A attractively illustrated attack on the temperance movement. Provenance: Leveson Douglas Stewart Glenogil (armorial bookplate). First edition. 8vo (21.5 x 18.4cm). 6 hand-coloured aquatints, offsetting from and onto plates, polished tree calf by Bedford, with the original gilt cloth from the upper board bound in, gilt edges, rebacked preserving much of the spine, corners rubbed. 45. DAGLEY, Richard. Takings; or, the life of a collegian. A poem. Warren, London First edition, 26 hand-coloured etched plates after Richard Dagley, occasional light spotting or soiling, later dark blue morocco, gilt, by Wood, spine gilt in compartments with floral sprays, top edge gilt, others uncut, a very attractive copy. ref: ref: Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 91

47 46. DANIELL, Thomas; William Daniell. Oriental Scenery. London: Free-School Press for Thomas and William Daniell, [text watermarked ]. First quarto edition of the Daniells most celebrated work. Thomas Daniell, assisted by his nephew William, produced his best-known work Oriental Scenery (issued in six series) of Indian views making a total of 144 hand-coloured aquatint views of India. These represent Mughal and Dravidian monuments, cityscapes and sublime views of mountains and waterfalls and formed the most extensive work of its kind, finding subscribers throughout Britain as well as in Calcutta and Madras (ODNB). This work contains plates carefully reduced and copied from the large folio edition, published between 1795 and 1808, under the Daniells direction. Provenance: Herbert Octavius Moore (bookplate). 6 parts in 2 volumes, landscape 4to (25.5 x 35.5 cm). Typographic titles to first and fourth parts serving as general titles to volumes. 158 engraved plates comprising 144 views, 6 title-pages and 8 plans. (Title and introductory leaf of text to vol. I creased and lightly soiled, tiny marginal worming to text-leaf to pl. II and pl. III, very short marginal tear to text-leaf to pl. VI, scattered spotting throughout). Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Abbey Travel 432; Archer p.235; Sutton 13. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 93

48 47. DANIELL, William and Thomas. A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China. Longmans, London, Rarely found in this condition, a fine copy of the first edition of this illustrated voyage, which shows well the Daniells love of river scenes not just bare statements of fact but pleasant, well-balanced compositions (Sutton). The pictures of Calcutta are particularlty noteworthy; Calcutta from the Garden Reach is one of the most famous of the Daniell pictures. It is one of the rare instances in which reference was made at a later date to a drawing by another artist, as certain of the buildings shown were not in existence during the Daniells time in India. The penultimate plate shows the Old Fort Gaut containing the notorious Black Hole of Calcutta. Other plates show Malaya, Java, Straits of Malacca, approximately 22 plates of China, and the remaining five of India, Bay of Bengal and two on the River Hoogly. Folio, 50 handcoloured aquatint plates on thick paper with ruled and grey wash borders, contemporary French green straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt, neat repairs to joints, a fine copy. Abbey Travel 516; Archer p12; Colas 797; Lipperheide 1523; Sutton 19-20; Bastin & Brommer 70. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 95

49 48. DIDEROT, Denis; Jean Le Rond D Alembert. Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers [...] Briasson, D. Le Breton, Durand, & Neuchatel, Faulche, Paris and MM Rey, Amsterdam, First edition of the finest, most extensive and famous encyclopedic work on the sciences, arts and professions of the 18th century, a revolutionary monument in the history of European thought. The importance of the frequently republished but never surpassed first edition is to be found in the contributions of over 200 philosophers, writers, scientists and jurists of the era of Enlightenment, like Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Buffon, Marmontel, Necker, Condorcet, Turgot and others. The greater part of the entries however, was written by the editors Diderot ( ) and d Alembert ( ), followed by Baron Holbach (who contributed about 400 articles). Moreover, the encyclopaedia is famous for its fine and accurate engravings, and is still a primary source for the study of 18th century civilisation. It contains, according to the number of plates given on the title-pages, 3129 plates because double, triple or quadruple folding plates are counted as 2, 3, or 4, adding up to the amount of 2796 plates (as in our copy). The first seven volumes, with articles by Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and many other figureheads of the Enlightenment, were published at Paris under a royal privilege, which was however withdrawn in 1759, after which the project was closed down. The remaining volumes were printed secretly with a fictitious imprint. The plate-vols. have a different history, since they were not considered being subversive; they were published in Paris between The supplement volumes were published in one edition only, but in two issues, one with a Paris imprint, the other with an Amsterdam imprint, edited by Jean Baptiste Rene Robinet ( ). The supplementary volume of plates has the imprint Amst. and Paris. The two-vol. index was published in 1780 and edited by Pierre Mouchon ( ). 35 volumes, folio (39 x 25cm). Half-titles (except in text volumes 8-17), woodcut device to title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 7 folding letterpress tables, engraved frontispiece in volume 1, 2796 engraved plates including some double-page or folding, a few woodcut illustrations; explanation of the frontispiece cut down and mounted, occasional light browning or spotting, a few small tears, one folding table repaired without loss. Contemporary uniform marbled calf gilt (one volume in similar but not identical binding), spines gilt in compartments, speckled edges; some spines slightly chipped, a few short splits to joints, a very good set. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 97

50 49. FERRIOL, Charles de, Marquis. Recueil de cent estampes representante differentes nations du Levant, tirees sur les tableaux peints d apres nature en 1707 et Le Hay & Duchange, Paris This important work forms the basic prototype for Levantine costume plates (Atabey). The plates for this work were commissioned by Charles de Ferriol French Ambassador to the Porte between 1699 and 1709; they were engraved after drawings by the Flemish artist J.B. van Mour, who lived and worked in Constantinople for many years during the first part of the eighteenth century. Van Mour s paintings (and the plates that derive from them) show Constantinople as a cosmopolitan place with Muslims and non-muslims uniting in shared Ottoman pleasures. Armenians, Franks, Greeks and Persians are shown drinking coffee, playing mankeh (a version of backgammon), or making music. In addition to the sixty or so plates depicting Turkish Court, noble, military and other costume, the work illustrates the regional, religious or national costume of several other parts of the Turkish Empire. These include Greeks (10); Albanians (2); Jews (3); Hungarians (2); Wallachians (3); Bulgarians (2); Crimean Tartars (1); Armenians (5); Persians (2); Indians (2); Arabs (1); Barbary Coast (4); and Moors (1). First edition. Folio (53 x 34.5cm. approx.), xivpp, engraved calligraphic title page, engraved leaf of music and 102 engraved plates, all captioned and numbered 1-100, 2 are unnumbered, 3 are double-page, occasional light spotting to margins, later tan half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, marbled boards, neat repairs to extremities, an excellent copy. Atabey 429; Blackmer 591; Cohen de Ricci 619; Colas 1819, 1820; Lipperheide 413, 414. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 99

51 50. FORREST, Lieut-Col. Charles Ramus. A picturesque tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India. L. Harrison for R. Ackermann, London, 1824 [text watermarked 1824; plates, ]. First edition of this cornerstone work on the Indian sub-continent. Forrest s views are thought to exceed those of all other amateur artists, two especially fine plates along the Yamuna being those of the Taj Mahal and the Palace of the King of Delhi. The drawings are all attentively copied from nature, and in many instances coloured on the spot, and always the magic effects of the scenes represented were still impressed on [Forrest s]... mental vision. The reader will recollect with indulgence, that the colouring of these views, which so far exceeds that of the scenery of Europe, is but a just portrait of the enchanting features of India, eternally glowing in the brilliant glory of the resplendent Asiatic sun (Preface). Large 4to (33.5 x 27.2cm). Title and final text leaf with hand-coloured aquatint vignettes, engraved folding map, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint views by G. Hunt and T. Sutherland after Forrest. (Some light offsetting to text and plates, verso of last leaf and free endpapers unevenly browned). Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, gilt spine, gilt edges (rebacked and recornered with leather, the original defective backstrip laid down, covers unevenly stained). Abbey Travel 441; Tooley 227. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 101

52 51. FOSSATI, Gaspard. Aya Sofia Constantinople, as recently restored by order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid. Colnaghi, London, First edition of the first modern record of both the exterior and interior of Aghia Sophia, important for the understanding of this stupendous monument (Atabey). Court architect to the Russian royal family, Fossati travelled to Constantinople in 1837 to work on the building for the Russian Embassy. He completed the project in 1845 and entered the service of the Porte, designing the archives building, the telegraphoffice, the hospital of the Ministry of War, as well as churches and private villas. In 1847, he was charged with the restoration of Aghia Sophia; this took two years and involved the removal of buttresses which had been added to protect the structure and the uncovering of valuable mosaics. The mosaics were subsequently covered up and are not illustrated in the present work, Fossati planning to issue another book on the subject but this never materialised. Large folio (57 x 38 cm approx.). Chromolithographed title, 25 tinted plates lithographed by Louis Haghe, 6 pp.; very light occasional spotting, some plates with marginal repairs, original roan-backed cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, flat spine lettered in gilt; a bit worn and discoloured, neat restoration to spine. Abbey, Travel, 397; Atabey 454; Blackmer 619. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 103

53 52. [FRENCH CAVALRY]. Ecole de Cavalarie de Saumur. Javaud, Saumur [1869] A scarce and important work on cavalary training, noted for its accurate representations of the horse exercises and military costumes. First edition. Large folio (70.5 x 57.5cm), lithographed title-page by A.Adam, 13 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates after T.Drake by Adam., tinted lithographed view of the training grounds, lithographed section-title to plates, modern red half morocco gilt, an excellent copy. Mennessier 1:436. (Not in Colas or Lipperheide). ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 105

54 Signed and numbered by artist 53. FRINK, Elisabeth; Geoffrey Chaucer. Etchings illustrating Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. Introduction and Translation by Nevill Coghill. Waddington Galleries, London A monumental book with striking full-page etchings by Frink depicting the figures, animals and birds that characterise her work. The etchings were printed by Cliff White at White Ink Ltd., London and illustrate The Prologue, The Knight s Tale, The Miller s Tale I, The Miller s Tale II, The Reeve s Tale, The Shipman s Tale, The Prioress s Tale, Chaucer s Tale of Sir Topaz, The Nun s Priest s Tale, The Physician s Tale, The Pardoner s Tale, The Wife of Bath s Tale, The Summoner s Tale, The Clerk s Tale, The Merchant s Tale, The Squire s Tale, The Franklin s Tale, The Second Nun s Tale and The Manciple s Tale. Her Canterbury Tales contains nineteen etchings drawn directly onto copper plates and etched by Frink, and the book was issued in three limited editions. Her illustrations have been both excessively praised as amongst the most successful illustrations of the century, encompassing the mood of the text in concise delineations and disarmingly ribald humour. (Sarah Kent, in Houfe 1994: 203). Elisabeth Frink was born in Suffolk in 1930 and became one of Britain s most eminent sculptors. She had attended Guildford School of Art, followed by Chelsea School of Art and had her first major exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London, when she was only twenty-two. Throughout her lifetime she was known as one of the most accomplished sculptors of animal and human forms: men, dogs, horses and birds were a constant subject-matter throughout. Her graphic work and drawings followed the same themes, being executed with the simplicity and also feeling for surface texture that is to be found in her sculptural work. Large folio. (64.8 x 92.8 cm) one of 25 Hors de Commerce copies, one signed by the artist, 19 original fullpage etchings by Elisabeth Frink.with aquatint in black on J. Barcham Green paper. Publisher s full green cloth with gold-blocked bird design on the front cover, extreme edges somewhat rubbed, else fine. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 107

55 54. GAIL, Wilhelm. Erinnerungen aus Spanien. Nach der Natur und auf Stein gezeichnete Skizzen aus dem Leben in den Provinzen Catalonien, Valencia, Andalusien, Granada und Castilien, mit Fragmenten Maurischer und Altspanischer Architectur und Veduten nebst erlauternden auzugen aus dem Tagebuche der Herausgebers. Munchen, [ca. 1837]. A fine copy of the first edition. Gail was a landscape painter and painter and engraver of architectural subjects. After studying at the Munich Academy he travelled abroad, visiting Spain in the early 1830 s. He studied the Moorish architecture of Spain, and this collection of plates reflects this interest. Also included are a series of plates showing scenes of bull fighting. Folio, viii, 8pp., woodcut vignette on printed title,additional lithographed title, lithographed dedication leaf, 30 tinted lithographed plates, wood-engravings in text, original decorative wrappers bound-in, modern half calf gilt. Palau ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 109

56 55. GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Francisco Jose de). [La tauromaquia] La taureaumachie. Recueil de quarante estampes inventées et gravées a l eau-forte. Loizelet, Paris, [1876]. The first complete edition. In this remarkable series, Goya has immortalised the valour and skill of his [bull-fighting] contemporaries (Harris). The Tauromaquia, is a faithful reflection of the passion that Goya felt for bullfighting. It was a work in which he tried to catch, in his own words an idea of the beginnings, progress and present state of these celebrations in Spain. First published in 1816 in a series of 33 plates, and again in 1855, this third edition printed in Paris by Loizelet is the first to include seven rejected plates. As with the previous edition Harris notes the edition appears to have been small. Third edition. Landscape folio (32 x 47.8cm.), engraved title printed in black and red with engraved portrait and vignettes by Loizelet, letterpress title printed in red and black, engraved portrait (without letters) by Loizelet, 40 ETCHED PLATES BY GOYA (numbered 1-33, and A-G) on laid paper watermarked Arches, blindstamp in blank margin of titles, portrait and plate one, occasional marginal spotting, half morocco by Chivers, rebacked and recornered in green morocco gilt, an excellent copy. Harris ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 111

57 56. [GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851]. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Reports by the juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. First Report of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 [and] Case containing the Five Exhibition Medals. Spicer Brothers...W. Clowes & Sons, The Great Exhibition catalogue and report of the juries - a complete presentation copy beautifully bound in red morocco with the rare medals and 154 original calotypes. The set presented by the Exhibition Commissioners to one of their own, Philip Pusey. Nikolaas Henneman (Talbot s one time photographic assistant) was responsible for printing all 20,150 photographs needed for the Reports (assuming that the figure of 130 completed copies is true), from albumenised glass plate negatives and calotype paper negatives by Claude Marie Ferrier and Hugh Owen respectively. Henneman was commissioned by the Royal Commissioners and Executive Committee of the Great Exhibition to undertake the printing of the positives on Talbot s silver chloride paper. However, as Talbot commented at the time, [the Committee] are so extraordinarily stingy, notwithstanding they have a surplus of 200,000, and make such hard conditions with [Henneman], that it is doubtful whether he will earn anything by his labour (Gernsheim, p.207). If 130 copies were completed it is slightly surprising that sets are as rare as they seem to be. Provenance: Philip Pusey ( ; agriculturist, long-time MP for Berkshire, and brother of the high churchman Edward Bouverie. Pusey established a formidable reputation as an agricultural improver, and it was probably no surprise that he should be chosen as a Commissioner, and given the responsibility for the agricultural implement section of the Exhibition. He arranged for 500 labourers to visit the Exhibition, generosity that was recognised by the presentation of a snuff box. It should be added that Pusey was a member of the first committee of the London Library, 1840). Five works in nine volumes, folio (34.7 x 25cm.). I. Four vols. 154 mounted calotypes, captioned on the mounts, images 17.5 x 22.4cm., 3 chromolithographed plates by Day & Son; II. Three vols., 398 plates, a large folding plan and the double-page view of the Shield presented by the King of Prussia; III. 2 large coloured folding plans, and a coloured diagrammatic plate, 8 plates (2 folding, 5 of Medals); each volume with a specially printed presentation leaf; some light occasional spotting, light red library stamps on the versos of titles and plates, and occasionally elsewhere. Uniform red morocco over heavy boards by Riviere, lettered in gilt on upper covers and spines, imperial blue silk doublures with royal arms in gilt and the initials for Victoria and Albert entwined, gilt edges, the medal case to match with brass hinges and clasps and with the presentation printed in gilt on the case doublure; a bit rubbed. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 113

58 57. HALES, W. [Botanical albums]. (late nineteenth-early twentieth century). Highly decorative compositions of flowers and fruit, probably for porcelain painting, the flowers predominantly orchids and roses, but also carnations, lilies, irises, tulips and others, also flower-pieces and fruit-pieces, occasionally in Staffordshire pottery vases and bowls, Almost certainly the work of a fine Staffordshire porcelain artist. 2 landscape folio albums containing 115 watercolours (64 in one album and 51 in the other) on thick wove paper, each circa 35 x 26cm., all titled verso, bound in two morocco-backed albums, rubbed, both gilt-lettered Studies of Orchids & Roses on upper board, with Painted by W. Hales on gilt-lettered morocco labels mounted on front pastedowns, a late 19th century North Staffordshire photographic studio portrait of the artist loosely inserted in one album. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 115

59 Extremely rare 58. HERRING, John Frederick, Senior. Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes. From the year 1815 to the present year inclusive L. Harrison for S. and J. Fuller, London 1829 Herring s finest work, the outcome of his fascination with horse racing, and the St. Leger in particular. In the writer s estimation, the first series of the St. Leger winners contains the very best of Herring prints... they were engraved by Sutherland, a more competant aquatinter and colourist than his successors who handled these racehorses. - Siltzer. Herring spent the first eighteen years of his life in London, where his father, an American, was a fringe-maker in Newgate Street. Having married against his father s wishes, he went to Doncaster, where he arrived during the races in September 1814, and saw the Duke of Hamilton s horse, William, win the St. Leger. The sight inspired him to attempt the art of animal-painting, in which he subsequently excelled. He painted Filho da Puta, the winner of the St. Leger in 1815, and for the following thirty-two years painted each winner in succession. Herring s series of Portraits... were painted annually and quickly reproduced in large showy aquatints, the horses made literally glossy by the application of varnish to the paper (Diana Donald, Picturing Animals in Britain , New Haven, CT, 2007, p.215). This is the second edition of this series of wonderful racehorse portraits. It was first published as a suite of 10 plates in 1824 by Sheardown and Son of Doncaster, S. and J. Fuller of London purchased these in 1827, and continued to publish, periodically, the St. Leger winner series up to The earlier plates were all recaptioned with Fuller s imprint - and the first plate in the present work, Filho da Puta, is on paper watermarked Extremely rare (Tooley). Second edition. Large folio (42 x 60cm), Letterpress title with engraved vignette, list of subscribers, winners of the St Leger , 14 hand -coloured aquatint plates by T. Sutherland and R.G. Reeve after Herring, each with letterpress description of riders and winners of other races and the St Leger stakes for each year, ( plates watermarked ) very slight offsetting to text, bound in recent half burgundy morocco with contemporary drab boards with large printed label on upper cover, extremities rubbed; otherwise a superb example of this rare work. Siltzer pp ; Mellon Horsemanship, 128. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 117

60 59. HOCKNEY, David. Off the wall Hockney posters. Pavilion Books, London Inscribed on the half-title: For Andrew / David Hockney. This text offers a selection of posters by David Hockney taken from Brian Baggot s collection. It features 38 images reproduced as full size colour posters, as well as a complete colour pictorial index, including Hockney s whole output of posters from 1961 up to 1994, arranged in chronological order. Hockney s interest in a variety of media enables his work to travel across cultures and to cross the boundaries of fine art. His posters illustrate this diversity. They have been used to advertise his own exhibitions and shows, as well as plays, operas and dance performances. Hockney follows on in the artistic tradition of Toulouse-Lautrec and German art of the 1920s. He uses experimental techniques or unusual materials to create the overall effect. This effect often uses typographical features and verbal puns which become central elements in the design. 60. [Hand coloured CHIVALRY]. The tournament, or days of chivalry. William Sams, London Rare. Fine hand-coloured aquatint plates. First edition. 8vo. (23.5 x 14.6cm). Half-title, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, plate 23 margin trimmed, contemporary calf by Riviere, gilt; modern red quarter morocco box and slipcase, an excellent copy. ref: ,250 First edition. Folio. INSCRIBED BY HOCKNEY, 220pp., illustrated throughout, original cloth, dust-wrapper, lightly soiled, an excellent copy. ref: Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 119

61 The Doheny copy superbly bound 61. HOLBEIN, Hans. Imitations of original drawings [...] in the collection of his Majesty, for the portraits of illustrious persons of the court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. W. Bulmer and Co. for J. Chamberlaine, London, 1792-[1800]. First edition, first impression - a magnificent copy. The finest early example of English colour printing (Ray). This remarkable work was published in 14 parts between 1792 and 1800, and contains a series of engravings on tinted paper of Holbein s drawings by Bartolozzi, his pupil Metz, and Knight: as Abbey notes, the colour printing reproduc[es] with extraordinary fidelity the original designs. Lowndes states that the first impressions are printed on tinted paper, mostly the size of the page ; in this copy 69 of the 83 plates are printed on full-sized pink sheets, some watermarked Edited by John Chamberlaine. t Provenance: John Yenn (armorial bookplate); Estelle Doheny (booklabel). 14 parts bound in 2 volumes, Folio (56 x 43cm). 83 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours by F. Bartolozzi [79], C. Metz [3] and C. Knight [1] after Holbein, the double portrait of Henry and Charles Brandon finished by hand. Red morocco gilt by Kalthober with his ticket, covers with broad gilt borders enclosing cenrtre-panel elaborately tooled at corners, spines in 8 compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth, others richly gilt, gilt inner dentelles, double raised bands, all edges gilt, a fine set. Abbey Life 205; Brunet III, ( ouvrage magnifique ); Lewine pp.243-4; Lowndes p.405; Ray England 19. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 121

62 62. HOUEL, Jean Pierre Louis Laurent. Voyage pittoresque des isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari, où l on traite des antiquités qui s y trouvent encore; des principaux phénomènes que la nature y offre; du costume des habitants, & de quelques usages. De l imprimerie de Monsieur, Paris, The first edition of a beautiful work on the islands of Sicily, Malta and Lipari, here in a glorious near contemporary binding by Simier, from the library of the Duke of Buccleuch. Jean Houel, an eminent painter, engraver, a nd author, was admitted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in After establishing a reputation for himself, Houel traveled to Sicily in the 1770 s. He remained there for several years, during which he executed numerous sketches and paintings of the landscape, inhabitants, antiquities, and ancient sites of Sicily and the neighbouring islands of Malta and Lipari. Upon returning to Paris in 1779, he exhibited several of his Italian views at the Salon (with Catherine II of Russia purchasing hundreds of his original drawings). This success led to Houel publishing his views in the present four-volume work between 1782 and His atmospheric renderings were highly esteemed and constitute an invaluable record of many historical monuments and classical ruins that no longer exist today. Provenance: Charles William Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch (gilt arms on all covers). Four volumes folio. 264 aquatint plates by and after Houel, on 263 leaves (plates 245 and 246 printed on the same leaf), all printed in sepia. Near contemporary red straight grain morocco gilt by Simier (signed at foot of spine volume I), covers with broad gilt borders, arms to covers, spines in seven compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth, others richly gilt, raised band, all edges gilt, a fine set. Blackmer 834; Cohen-de-Ricci 500; Beraldi Les Reliures I p.35; C. Ramsden French Bookbinders p ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 123

63 63. JALLAND, G.H. A Season with the Southwold [volume II: ] Jalland s apparently unpublished designs capture the humorous incidents of two seasons hunting with the Southwold, with illustrious provenance. Provenance: I. The artist (inscription); II. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (bookplate). 2 volumes, landscape folio (37 x 26.5cm). 54 pen, ink and watercolour drawings, including titles, most with pencilled captions, the majority of those in the first album with small pen-and-ink drawings in the margins, all on wove paper. Contemporary dark blue half morocco lettered in gilt ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 125

64 64. JENKINS, James. The Naval achievements of Great Britain from the year 1793 to Jenkins, London, [ca. 1820]. Fine copy of the finest pictorial record of the naval engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. As a record of naval events spanning a period of over twenty years Jenkins Naval Achievements has no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted such a complete volume of documentary naval prints It is the quality of the accuracy which makes Jenkins so valuable above all, and it is the pictures rather than the text to which the value can be attributed. (Roger Quarm, the National Maritime Museum). 4to. (34.5 x 28.5cm), engraved calligraphic title with uncoloured pictorial vignette, dedication leaf (ii), introduction (viii), list of plates (ii), 148pp letterpress, subscribers list (ii), 55 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, text watermarked , some plates watermarked 1820; bound without portraits as often, modern blue morocco gilt by the Chelsea Bindery, moire silk doublures, morocco-edged slipcase, a fine copy. Abbey Life 337; Tooley 282. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 127

65 65. JERDON, Thomas Caverhill. Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India. P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press, Madras, Jerdon ( ), in his capacity as assistant surgeon to the East India Company, arrived in Madras in In his introduction the author notes that of the forty-seven species depicted the great majority of them are figured here for the first time, and either improved figures, or different states of plumage, compose the remainder of the drawings. Three of the birds are from the Himalayas, one from Ceylon, and the rest inhabit the peninsula of India. On several plates the early owner, a Major in the 66th Regiment, has noted when and where he has shot specimens, if common, and that several he has sent to England. Provenance: Ownership inscription of Major Benson, HM S 66 Regiment...June 10, 1859 and another (1895) on title. First edition. 4to., (30 x 23.5cm), 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates; ink note, circa 1858/1860, in lower blank margin of plate 20, without half-title, repairs to margin of 2 text leaves, Modern red half morocco gilt. Nissen IVB 477; Fine Bird Books, p.83; Anker 231; Wood, p.407; Zimmer, p.335. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 129

66 Magnificent red morocco 66. KNIPHOF, Johann Hieronymus. Botanica in originali, seu Herbarium vivum. Halae Magderburgicae, [1757]-67. A magnificently bound example of a landmark in botanical illustration and nature-printing, as well as being one of the earliest works to adopt the Linnaen system, and being the most complete local flora produced up to that time. Kniphof ( ), lived and died in the city of Erfut.He became a member of the academy of naturalists of his city in 1733, about the time he first published natureprinted pictures, and later became its librarian. From 1737 he was professor of medicine at the University of Erfut, and from 1745 professor of anatomy, surgery, and botany. Nature printing itself is a printing process, developed in the eighteenth century, that uses the plants, animals, rocks and other natural subjects to produce an image. The subject undergoes several stages to give a direct impression on paper. The impressions were produced by the substitution of printer s ink for lampblack and flat pressure for the smoothing bone. They were then coloured by hand according to Nature, a proceeding which greatly contributed to the beauty and fidelity of the images, although it had the disadvantage of sometimes rendering indistinct the tender structure of finer veins and fibres. Nature printing reached a peak of popularity in the nineteenth century. Eighteenth century examples such as the present work are few and because of the laborious, hand-made process of producing the book, most copies will show some difference in contents. In this context it is quite usual for the number of index pages to vary from one copy to another. Because of the fragile nature of the treated plant, only a very few copies could be produced, making such books inherently rare and expensive. The present work is also notable for being an early example of Taxonomic arrangement according to the Linnean system. Carl Linneaus introduced this in his work Systema Naturae in Furthermore, it also serves as a concrete record of the plants found in Germany, and particularly in and aroud Erfut, at that time. The rarity of the book combined with its superb state of preservation in fine fresh contemporary red morocco, makes the present copy particularly desirable. First edition. 12 parts in 4 volumes, folio (39 x 26cm. approx), 12 pictorial title-pages (only 11 were actually issued - there was only one title-page for volumes I & II, in the present copy a duplicate of the title for part VIII has been adapted for use as title for vol I) and 1200 plates, nature printed, coloured by hand, sometimes printed in a coloured or grey ink, particularly the title-pages with different floral borders. A total of 20 preliminary text pages along with 18 pages (of 30) of indices, together with the 4 page dedication to Frederic V of Denmark, without the 16pp of general index sometimes found in vol XII, usual offsetting to plates, contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with gilt ruled borders, spines 7 compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and third, others with gilt floral and other tools, raised bands, all edges gilt, a fine set. Dunthorne 170; Nissen BBI 1076; Stafleu ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 131

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68 67. KNORR, Georg Wolfgang; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch. Recueil de monumens des catastrophes que le globe la terre a essuiees, contenant des petrifications... continue par J. E. E. Walch [P.J. Felssecker for Knorrs Heirs], Nuremberg, A magnificent copy in contemporary red morocco, of the most important work on fossils of the eighteenth century. As the Dictionary of Scientific Biography says of the Knorr illustrations, the detail and accuracy... not only made possible zoological classification but firmly established the distinction between fossils of organic origin and sports of nature (DSB 7:412). The plates were largely made from drawings after samples supplied by the owners of cabinets such as J. C. Gmelinus, pharmacist in Turingen, Johann Gessner, professor in Bern, Collison, Knoerr, Trew, and others. Some 58 plates feature fossils found at the quarries of Solenhofen. Four volumes bound in 5, folio (41 x 24.5cm), 2 portraits, 273 engraved plates coloured by hand, some folding, by G. A. Grundler Halle and Johann Felix Corrodius S. Leiner, Andreas Hoffer, Trautner, Tyroff, and Bischoff, finely bound in contemporary French red morocco gilt, spine in six compartments, green morocco labels to second and third, others richly gilt with floral and other illustrations, raised bands, all edges gilt, an exceptional example. Brunet III 682; Nissen ZBI ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 135

69 Shocking originality (moma) 68. KRUCHENYKH, A[leksey Eliseevich] and O[lga Vladimirovna] ROZANOVA (artist). Utinoye gnezdyshko durnykh slov [Little Duck s Nest of Bad Words]. EUY, Petrograd, Fine, fresh example of one of the greatest Cubo-Futurist productions of the early Russian avant-garde - one of only 500 copies, this one with the collage title on the upper cover. A radical, futurist and innovative poet, Kruchenykh ( ) challenged the traditional book arts through experimentation with language, typography, illustration, reproduction techniques, and even variations of paper stocks. He quickly became known as the wild man of Russian literature. Originally a painter, he later worked in collaboration with other artists for his publications: first with Larionov and Goncharova in 1912, then extensively with Rozanova from 1913 onwards. The Duck s Nest is one of most striking examples of Kruchenykh s creations, remarkable less for their poetic innovations thank for their being presented in lithographed manuscript [entirely drawn by Rozanova]. In one fell swoop, Kruchenykh eliminated typeset printing from the picture, replacing it with manuscript culture (G. Janacek, in MoMA). Octavo (19 x 13.5 cm). Title, 20 lithographs; light inscription to title. Collage on blue paper wrappers; spine partially split. MoMA 43, ill. pp (col.), essay pp ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 137

70 Russian life and costumes 69. LE PRINCE, Jean-Baptiste. Oeuvres. Contenant plus de cent soixante planches gravées à l eau-forte, & à l imitation des dessins lavés au bistre; le tout d après ses compositions, representant divers Costumes & Habillemens de différens Peuples du Nord, où ce célèbre Artiste et sejourné quelque tems. Paris, Bazan, This beautiful, entirely uncut collection is the first printing of the works of the painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Le Prince ( ), who was a pupil of Boucher and Vien. He is credited with being the first artist to work in aquatint (in 1768), and the present publication contains more than 70 plates in that manner. The subjects represented are almost exclusively Russian: Le Prince spent indeed five years in Russia ( ), where, among other projects, he contributed to the Voyage en Sibérie of Chappe d Auteroche. The suites contained in the collection are as follows: Divers habillements des prêtres de Russie (10 plates) - Les Strelits (8 plates) - Divers ajustements et usages de Russie (10 plates) - Suite de divers habillements des peuples du Nord (6 plates) - Première suite de cris et divers marchands de Petersbourg et de Moscou (6 plates) - 2me suite de cris et divers marchands de Russie (6 plates) - III suite de divers cris de marchands de Russie (6 plates) - Divers habillements des femmes de Moscovie (6 plates) - II suite d habillement des femmes de Moscovie (6 plates) - Habillements de diverses nations (6 plates) - Various subjects (10 plates) - I suite de Coiffures (6 plates) - II suite d habillements de diverses nations (6 plates) - Various subjects (62 plates) including Les Sens (5 plates), Le Roue vertueux (6 plates) for the book by Coqueley de Chaussepierre; La vertu au cabaret, La Musicienne; L Adoration des anges d après Vienet, La Maîtresse d école d après Boucher, the only hommage to his teachers by Le Prince, Les Nouvellistes, Le Poele, les Oeufs cassés, Le Berceau, La Ferme, La Pompe, Le Cabaret de Moskou, Vue des environs de Nerva, Les Filets, etc., etc. Eleven large plates; Jesus dans le Temple, I Pastoral, II Pastoral, Les Batteaux russes, Le Coche d eau, La Récréation champêtre, La Danse russe, Les Pécheurs, Les Laveuses, Le Repos, and O Fortunatos minimum. The work was originally advertised to have more than 160 plates but although copies vary the most complete we have traced is 157 plates on 62 leaves. Folio. Title-page, 154 original subjects, printed on 59 leaves consisting of 80 etchings (on 29 leaves) and 74 aquatints (on 30 leaves); occasional light spotting and waterstaining. Uncut in modern calf antique, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments. Cohen, ; Colas 1850; Lipperheide ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 139

71 70. LUGAR, Robert. Plans and views of ornamental domestic buildings, executed in the castellated and other styles. M. Taylor, London, Robert Lugar developed a very widespread practice as a country-house architect, which extended to Scotland and Wales as well as throughout much of England. He also published a number of books of his designs, which doubtless served to publicize his name. He was a practitioner of the Picturesque after the manner of John Nash and Repton, working in a wide variety of architectural styles including the Grecian, the Tudor Gothic, and that of the cottage ornée as well as the castellated. Second edition, folio (39.5 x 18.5cm), 33pp., 32 engraved plates 16 hand-coloured, text and plain plates browned, colour plates clean and fresh,contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, marbled boards, corners bumped, lightly rubbed, a very good copy. Abbey Life 33 (for first edition). ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 141

72 71. MADDOX, Willes. Views of Lansdown Tower, Bath. The favourite edifice of the late William Beckford Esq. Edmund English, Bath, Built on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, and standing 120 feet high, this neo-classical architectural folly was completed in 1827 for William Beckford to a design by Henry Goodridge. Beckford, who wished that he had built it forty feet higher, but admitted that such as it is, it is a famous landmark for drunken farmers on their way home from market, used the tower as both a library and a retreat, located at the end of pleasure gardens called Beckford s Ride which ran from his house in Lansdown Crescent up to the Tower at the top of Lansdown Hill; he made it his habit to ride up to the tower, view the progress of gardens and works, and walk down to breakfast. Beckford s own choice of the best of works of art, books and prints and rich furnishings from his previous residence, Fonthill Abbey, which he had sold in 1822, were re-housed in his double adjoining houses in Bath and at. Lansdown Tower. One long narrow room there was fitted out as an Oratory, where all the paintings were of devotional subjects and a marble Virgin and Child was bathed in light from a hidden skylight. The most striking feature of the Tower is the topmost gilded lantern, based on the temple at Tivoli and the Tower of the Winds at Athens, reached by a spiral staircase and offering excellent views over the surrounding countryside, but not open to the public. With a strong spyglass, Beckford could make out shipping in the Bristol Channel. Provenance: Knight & Son, 10 Milsom Street, Bath (inscription to front pastedown). First edition. Folio. Hand-coloured pictorial lithograph title-page on card as issued, engraved dedication with list of plates to verso, tipped-in publisher s note, to the Reader leaf with facsimile to verso, 2 page subscribers list (109 entries), 10 pages letterpress with 6 lithograph vignettes and engraved tailpiece, 13 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates by C. J. Richardson after Maddox, all mounted on card as issued with ruled borders, original morocco-backed cloth boards recorned, title with short repair to blank margin (lightly soiled), binding a little worn and soiled, recased with new linen tabs. t Abbey Scenery 420. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 143

73 Imperial copy 72. MALPIERE, D. Bazin de. La Chine, moeurs, usages, costumes, arts et metiers, peines civiles et militaires, ceremonies et religieuses, monuments et paysages. Chez l Editeur, Paris, A very good copy of a scarce book with Imperial provenance, being from the library of Napoleon s second wife Marie Louise, Empress of France. The present work was issued in 30 parts, each containing 6 hand-coloured lithographic plates and is seldom found complete. Consists of a huge collection of attractively lithographed copies of scenes from Chinese life of the mid-ch ing period (Lust). Provenance: Marie Louise, Empress of France (gilt monogram to spines). 2 volumes, 4to., large paper copy (37 x 28 cm), 2 hand-coloured lithograph frontispieces and 180 handcoloured lithograph plates by Deveria, Regnier, Schaal, Schmit and Vidal after Castiglione, Pu-Qua, W. Alexander, Chambers, Dadley and others, 4 leaves of engraved music, one with coloured vignette, marginal waterstaining in vol 1, some light marginal browning, contemporary red morocco-backed boards gilt, gilt monogram to head of spines. Colas 1957; Cordier Sinica I, 69; Lipperheide 1532; Lust 60. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 145

74 73. MALTON, James A picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin. n.d. circa 1818 The very rare coloured issue. The finest colour plate book on Ireland. One of the earliest and best books with coloured aquatints... Malton as a topographical draughtsman had few equals, and the plates have a distinction of their own in addition to their value as an architectural record (Hardie). Originally published uncoloured in parts between , this coloured version came out a few years later with the aquatint being light sepia and blue, thus suitable for colouring, whereas the earlier issue was printed in dark sepia. Landscape folio, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of the City Arms, engraved title and dedication leaves, engraved panorama and 2 engraved plans of Dublin Bay and the City, 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after James Malton, later green half morocco gilt. Abbey Scenery 474; Tooley 315; Prideaux pp262-3, 343, and plate 18; Hardie p141. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 147

75 74. MASSON, André; Jacques Lassaigne. L Odyssée. Douze eaux-fortes originales. [Paris, 1978]. A beautiful livre d artiste - the twelve aquatints illustrate themes from the Odyssey: Athena, Penelope, Ulysses and Nausica, Cyclops, Circe, Trojan Horse, Sirens, &c. The French artist and surrealist André Masson ( ) produced the etchings between December 1977 to May 1978 at the famous Atelier Crommelynck in aid of the Unesco campaign to save the Acropolis in Athens. The plates were destroyed after the edition was printed. First Edition. Limited to 120 copies, large folio. (68 x 53 cm). 12 original coloured aquatints on vélin de Rives paper, each print signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, tissue guards, uncut and unstitched as issued in original wrappers with glassine, original light blue clamshell cloth box lettered in black. As new. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 149

76 75. MAXIMILIAN I; Marx Treitzsaurwein. Kaiser Maximilians I. Triumph. Le triomphe de l empereur Maximilien I... d après les desseins de Hans Burgmair. Edited by Adam Bartsch. [WITH] Ehrenpforte. Arc triomphal de l empereur Maximilien I... d après les dessins d Albert Durer. Edited by Adam Bartsch. I. Vienna: Andrée Schmidt & London: J. Edwards, II. Vienna: widow of Alberti for T. Mollo, 1796 & Both works are printed from the original 16th-century blocks, now preserved at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. They were conceived to establish Emperor Maximilian I s place in the imperial Roman tradition and depict on a monumental scale a triumphal procession and arch which were purely imaginary compositions on paper, the most grandiloquent expression of the art of engraving (Bliss, p.126). Among the fine woodcuts is Dürer s Small Triumphal Chariot, celebrating Maximilian s marriage to Mary of Burgundy. Each woodblock was inscribed on the reverse with the name of the woodcutter and date of delivery - valuable for our knowledge of 16th-century print-making - and a manuscript table transcribing the artists s names included in the Seilern copy may provide information no longer fully recoverable from the blocks themselves. The present 1796 edition is the third, but the first to include the design programme written by Treitzsaurwein (1512) in accordance with the emperor s instructions. The Triumphal Arch, the complement of the Triumphal Procession, was originally conceived by the Tyrolean court painter and architect, Jörg Kolderer, as a miniature and developed under the direction of the Emperor by Johannes Stabius. Dürer supervised its execution in print and contributed ornamental details (cf. Strauss p. 504). The arch depicts Maximilian s political history, accomplishments such as his prowess in the chase and experience of artillery, and the genealogy of the House of Hapsburg. Editions were published in , , and The present fourth edition of 1799 was printed from 174 surviving blocks, while 18 etchings by Bartsch supplied the place of the rest. Provenance: some plate numbers in vol. II corrected by the publisher; contemporary 4-page ms. Table des noms et remarques écrites sur le dos des planches inserted in vol. I, and inscribed in pencil No in La Vallière Cat. Vol. I pt. 2 ; Henry Beaufoy (19th-century bookplate); Count Oswald Seilern ( ; booklabel; sale Christie s, 26 March 2003, lot 80). First work: 2 volumes, Folio (45 x 30cm). 135 numbered double-page woodcuts, 67 after Burgkmaier. (Plate 70 browned, plate 110 spotted, guards restored.) Second work: Folio (634 x 480mm). Double-page letterpress title and avertissement leaf. 50 numbered woodcuts on 43 double-page sheets, the entire design made up from 174 original blocks, and 18 pasted on etchings by Bartsch. Double-page letterpress avis au relieur at end. A few plates lightly browned, guards restored. Together, 3 volumes, uniformly bound in contemporary diced russia gilt, rebacked, corners rubbed. I. Brunet V, 933; Dodgson II, p. 96/ ; Graesse VII, 193; Hollstein V, Burgkmaier ; Lipperheide Sba2; Meder Dürer 251 (p. 223); Strauss Dürer Woodcuts 187. II. Dodgson I, p. 311/ ; Hollstein VII, Dürer 251; Meder Dürer 251 (p. 215); Strauss Dürer Woodcuts 175. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 151

77 76. MAYER, Luigi. Views in Egypt, Palestine, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. Thomas Bensley for R. Bowyer,London This work contains views and accounts of travel in pre-napoleonic Egypt, Palestine and in Caramania, a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored, along with some curious selections from the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and the celebrated cities of Corinth, Carthage, and Tripoli. A student of Piranesi, Mayer ( ) made the illustrations when he was employed as the personal view painter for Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador at Constantinople from Houfe says that Mayer was the most accurate delineator of the Near East before David Roberts. The scenes here are quite memorable, not only for the impressive views of ancient monuments, but for their glimpses in to the lives and culture of the people. In addition to rather thrilling depictions of the exploration of Egyptian tombs, we see the luxurious domain of the wife of a Cairo merchant and the military exercises of the mamalukes, soldier-slaves who served the Ottoman provincial rulers--both of these things that would not be encountered by the ordinary traveller. Ainslie was an especially successful envoy, who adopted the Turkish manner of living and was thus more accepted and respected by the Ottomans than most foreigners. His good relations with his hosts no doubt procured access for his artist to areas generally barred to Westerners. The fine binding is by the German immigrant binders Staggemeier and Welcher, who were in partnership in London from about 1799 to Like Kalthoeber and several others German binders, they came to England to satisfy the fashionable need among gentry and nobility for elegant bindings, and in their heyday Staggemeier and Welcher were one of the most prolific workshops producing extra quality work in London. (Maggs Catalogue 1212) They were known for bindings with typically tasteful and often elaborate gilt decoration. The unusual hieroglyphic stamps used on the spine decoration are particularly appropriate and may have been developed expressly for copies of this work. The British Library Database of Bookbindings lists a copy of Views of Egypt in black stright-grain morocco by Staggemeier and Welcher decorated with Egyptian symbols. Provenance: Dayton Art Institute (bookplate). First editions. Three separately published works bound in one volume, folio (48.3 x 33.3cm.), engraved frontispiece portrait, 96 hand-coloured aquatint views, very fine contemporary russia, elaborately gilt, by Staggemeier & Welcher,(their ticket on front flyleaf), covers gilt with frame of Greek-key rolls on either side of a cresting roll, this frame enclosing another role of linked palmettes, raised bands, spine expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip, its compartments with unusual Egyptian hieroglypic designs, turn-ins with gilt chain roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece portrait of the artist and 96 Corners slightly bumped, a few small portions of the spine with vague crackles, occasional minor offsetting from plates, isolated faint marginal foxing, thumbing, or rust spots, but still a fine copy. Abbey Travel 369; Colas 2018, 2020, 2012; Lipperheide 1461; Brunet III, ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 153

78 77. MELLING, Antoine Ignace. Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore. Treuttel Et Würtz, Paris, A handsome copy of the grandest book of engraved views of Constantinople. Uncut: this is a particularly large copy. Antoine Ignace Melling ( ), provided the earliest interior views and plans of the harem and palaces of Sultan Selim III. After completing a number of building projects for Selim, he returned to Paris in about 1803 and in 1804 issued a prospectus for this work. Publication eventually began in 1809 and thirteen livraisons were issued, the work being completed by The outstanding success of the exhibition of the paintings on which the Voyage pittoresque was based earned Melling the title of painter to the Empress Joséphine. First edition, 2 volumes bound in one, folio (72.2 x 54 cm). Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of Sultan Selim III, letterpress title with gold printed tughra, engraved double-page title, 3 double-page maps and plans, 48 double-page plates, all in proof state before letters and many before numbers, by Duparc, Schroeder, Née, Dupréel, Dessaulx, Marillier and others after Melling, uncut; without the engraved title to accompany the text, somewhat spotted, occasionally heavy, edge of some text leaves a bit browned or soiled. Near contemporary red half calf; slightly rubbed, split at foot of upper joint. Atabey 798; Blackmer ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 155

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80 78. MONSON, Frederick John, Baron. Views in the department of the Isere and the High Alps. W.H. Dalton, London, Very good copy of the first edition of this large format record of the French High Alps, which the young Monson ( ) delineated to complement the better documented Vaudois. His introduction gives an account of the topography, customs and manners of the region. First edition. Folio. (63 x 48 cm), French and English text. Lithographic title and 21 views by Louis Haghe after Monson, on india paper mounted, engraved map by John Arrowsmith with routes in blue, some plates with slight spotting mainly marginal; bound in contemporary half red morocco with green cloth boards, gilt lettered; a very good copy. Abbey Travel 60. ref: , MOORE, Thomas; William P. Ayres. The Gardeners Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science. William S. Orr, London, In 1848 Moore was appointed curator of the Society of Apothecaries botanic garden in Chelsea (the Chelsea Physic Garden). He remained at Chelsea for the rest of his life. Moore spent much of his time on horticultural journalism. Apart from the present work he published the Garden Companion and Florists Guide in 1852, the Floral Magazine in , the Gardeners Chronicle from 1866 to 1882 (with Lindley), the Florist and Pomologist from 1868 to 1874, and the Orchid Album from 1881 to First edition. Three volumes 4to., 100 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, 11 uncoloured plates of ferns by S. Holden and C. T. Rosenberg, additional hand-coloured lithographed title by H. N. Humphreys in vol. 1, numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Contemporary tan half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, spines faded, a little worn, an attractive set. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 159

81 80. [SELLER, John]. The English Pilot. Part I Describing The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head- Lands, Bays, Roads, Harbours, Rivers and Ports [ ] of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Straights Mouth, with the Coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madera, Cape Verde, and Western Islands. Richard Mount and Thomas Page, London, Attractive example of this rare edition of the first series of chart-books published in England - possibly the only extant copy of this edition, which is not recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue and which we couldn t trace in British institutions. Adams & Waters record one example only, in the trade. While not the earliest English map- and chart-publisher, there is truth in the statement that Seller is the father of the English map trade, directly connected to many of the leading figures in the map trade into the 19th century. He was also the first English chartpublisher to make a real attempt to break the dominance of Dutch marine publishers such as the Blaeus, Coloms, Doncker, Goos and de Wit. One of the lasting monuments of his career is The English Pilot, a series of volumes giving sailing directions that remained in print from the late 17th century through most of the 18th. It was published in Navigations - Part I (this book) was the Southern Navigation (covering the sea-route from the Thames Estuary and southern North Sea to the Straits of Gibraltar); Part II was the Northern Navigation (Scandinavia and the North Sea), Book III (Mediterranean), Book IV (North America and the West Indies) and Book V (Africa). Confusingly, the volume for the Oriental Navigation was called Book III. The Southern Navigation was first published in 1672; it was of great utility and so was very successful, with 38 editions published up to The present edition is early, and important thus, made up of a mixture of plates from the stock of the publisher, Richard Mount and his partner Thomas Page. The detailed collation is available on request. Folio. Title, 82 pp. and 31 double-page engraved charts, one engraved map and numerous woodblock coastal profiles within text. Eighteenth-century straight-grain red morocco gilt, neatly rebacked to style. Adams & Waters, English Maritime Books 861. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 161

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83 Nolli s great plan of Rome in its original presentation 81. NOLLI, Giambattista. Nuova pianta di Roma. Rome, Giambattista Nolli ( ) was an architect and surveyor who lived in Rome and devoted his life to documenting the architectural and urban foundations of the city. The fruit of his labour, La Pianta Grande di Roma is one of the most revealing and artistically designed urban plans of all time. The Nolli map is an ichnographic plan map of the city, as opposed to a bird s eye perspective, which was the dominant cartographic representation style prevalent before his work. Not only was Nolli one of the first people to construct an ichnographic map of Rome, his unique perspective has been copied ever since. The map depicts the city in astonishing detail, incorporating almost eight square miles, nearly two thousand sites of cultural significance, and 1320 buildings and monuments numbered and named in the accompanying index. Nolli accomplished this by using scientific surveying techniques, careful base drawings, and minutely prepared engravings. The map s graphic representations include a precise architectural scale, as well as a prominent compass rose, which notes both magnetic and astronomical north. The Nolli map is the first accurate map of Rome since antiquity and captures the city at the height of its cultural and artistic achievements (Tice et al.). The accompanying maps are the Giambattista Piranesi and Nolli s reduction of the larger map, and Nolli s tribute republication of the first true plan of Rome by Leonardo Bufalini. By re-producing Bufalini s map of 1551 on the same scale as his own Pianta Piccola, Nolli acknowledges his debt to his predecessor. Bufalini in turn relied on the ichnographic plan tradition best exemplified by Leonardo Da Vinci s plan of Imola, which itself drew upon Leon Battista Alberti s technique of city measurement through the use of polar coordinates. Interestingly, Alberti developed this system in Rome by recording the angles of sightings of major landmarks in the city from the tower on the Campidoglio s Palazzo Senatorio, and plotting these against distances measured from the tower to the same landmarks. Only Alberti s measurements survive; his map, if ever drawn, does not. Nolli used this technique and complemented it with innumerable triangulations in the field. This is illustrated in the ornamental vignette by Stefano Pozzi at the bottom right of the plan by the two putti measuring distances with a surveyor s folding chain and by the putto recording the results on a plane-table upon which rests an alidade for taking sightings. Folio (48.5 x 38 cm). Engraved title, Advice to the reader, double-page maps of modern and ancient Rome, large plan on 12 engraved double-page mapsheets (app. 43 x 67 cm each), 4 pp. alphabetical index, 4pp. numerical index; map of modern Rome supplied from shorter copy, occasional spotting. Contemporary green calf over marbled boards; rubbed. Frutaz, A.P., Piante di Roma, 1962, CLXIX; Tice et al., The Nolli Map Website : ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 165

84 82. OSTROUMOVA[-LEBEDEVA], A[nna] P[etrovna] (artist) and Aleksandr [Nikolaevich] BENUA [BENOIS]. Peterburg: avtolitografii [Saint Petersburg: Autolithographs]. Komitet Pop.Khud. Izd., Skt. Peterburg, Very good and fresh example of this artistic record of the Russian northern capital at a major turn of its history: just after the Revolution and the year when it officially lost its status as capital of the new country. One of 400 copies only. Ostroumova-Lebedeva ( ) studied in Russia with Ilya Repin and worked in the studio of James McNeill Whistler in Paris. It was while learning watercolor technique with Leon Bakst that she followed him as a member of the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group. She became a gifted printmaker and is best remembered for her panoramic studies of St. Petersburg as in this famous suite of autolithographs with an introduction by Benois, also a member of Mir Iskusstva. Landscape folio (31.3 x 41 cm). Half-title, title, [4] pp., table of contents with 2 lithographs, 12 lithograph plates all signed in the plate. Original printed wrappers; inscriptions on the front cover, small repairs. ref: , PALLAS, P[eter] S[imon] and C[hristian] G[ottfried] H[einrich] GEISSLER (artist). Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and A. Strahan for T.N. Longman, O. Rees and others, London, Fresh example of the first edition in English of an extremely charming colour plate book [which] deserves a place in every colour plate book collection for its numerous attractive coloured vignettes, an unusual feature (Tooley). Pallas second and most picturesque travel, which lasted 6 years from 1768 to 1774, took his team (including the artist Geissler) in a scientific journey along the Volga to Astrakhan, the Caspian Sea, and then the Caucasus and Taurida, that is the Crimea, to which the entire second volume is dedicated. A handsome production due mainly to the numerous attractive and charming handcoloured illustrations which appear as vignettes in the text as well as additional plates. They depict the natives of the regions traversed, their costumes and occupations, the scenery and landscapes, showing for example fine views of Bakhchisaray, the Sebastopol and Balaklava bays. Two volumes 4to (27.3 x 22.5 cm). xxiii including title, 552; xxx incl. title, 523 pp., in all with 28 vignettes including 23 hand-coloured, 51 numbered plates of which 25 folding and 44 hand-coloured, all after Geissler mostly engraved by him and Metland, 4 engr. maps including one hand-coloured and 3 folding by Russel, most engravings protected by tissue guards; occasionnal offsetting or spotting. Contemporary speckled calf, covers with gilt border, spines with raised bands, gilt in compartments, morocco labels lettered in gilt to two, green edges; neatly rebacked preserving original spines. Abbey Travel 222; Tooley 357. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 167

85 84. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Diverse maniere d adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall architettura Egizia, Etrusca, Greca. Rome: Generoso Salomon, A handbook for stone carvers and decorators, Piranesi proposes the adoption of decorative details of an imaginary Egyptian and Greek style and mingling it with Roman- and Etruscan-derived compositions. Piranesi s celebrated chimneypiece designs very effectively demonstrate this imaginative application of the past to the present since this interior feature had no precedent in antiquity. Amongst the designs executed was one for the Earl of Exeter at Burghly House. The work also provided new inspiration for Robert Adam. Folio. (50 x 41cm). Texts in Italian, English, and French. Additional double-page etched and engraved title, 70 etched plates (one with 2 illustrations), 2 etchings in text, modern mottled calf gilt. Brunet IV:672; Hind p. 86; Millard, Italian, 100; Wilton-Ely pp. 886 ff. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 169

86 85. PLOOS van Amstel, Jacob Cornelis; Christian Josi. Collection d imitations de dessins d apres les principaux maitres Hollandais et Flamands A rare work limited to 100 sets. Abbey considers it one of the most important collections of engravings ever published... [and] one of the most important productions in the history of illustration that has ever appeared. Jacob Ploos van Amstel perfected a method of reproducing paintings that was never revealed to others, and when he died in 1798, he took the secrets of his worskshop with him. It was not until 1821 that his relative and apprentice, Christian Josi, was able to begin publication of the works owned by Ploos. Mention must be made of the unusually interesting preface, full of historical anecdotes about 18th-century collecting and collectors. Provenance: From the library of Beriah Botfield at Longleat, sale at Christie s, 13th June 2002, lot volumes, large broadsheet folio (53.5 x 41.7cm), engraved titles, mounted engraved portrait frontispiece and 105 engraved plates (mounted on 103 leaves) in various techniques including mezzotint, aquatint and roulette work (in some plates combined), printed in colour, grey or sepia, with occasional hand-colouring, by Ploos van Amstel, Josi and others after Rembrandt, van Ostade, Rubens, Goltzius, van Dyke, Goyen and others, each plate mounted or window-mounted, some mounts with ink and wash borders, some captioned in pencil in the lower left, contemporary red morocco gilt by J. Wright, covers with decorative border of fillets and various roll tools, spine gilt in seven compartments with raised bands, green morocco lettering pieces in two, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, spotting to title of vol.ii, Paysage d Italie (Abbey s plate number 104) and about 18 mounts, not affecting prints, covers slightly rubbed in places, corners very slightly bumped, joints slightly worn. Abbey Life 211; Hardie p.57; Hind p.302; Landwehr p.11. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 171

87 86. [POLAND] - STRYJENSKA, Zofja (artist). Tance Polskie. 11 wielobarwnych rotograwjur. Drukarnia Narodowa, Krakow, Fine copy of Stryjenska s famous series of colourful dance lithographs including peasants, nobility, Jews etc., each with the original tissue guard printed with lines of music for each type of dance. Known as the Polish Princess of Art, she was born in In 1911 disguised a man, she studied art at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich for one year until her true identity was discovered and she was sent back to Krakow. Foreword by Arthur Schroeder. [12] pp. incl. title and last blank, 11 colour plates with printed tissue guards, signature of Stryjenska in the plates, dated 1927; occasional light soiling, guards with light creases. Loose as issued in original publisher s blue cloth portfolio, gilt decoration and device to upper cover; slightly rubbed. ref: , PONTING, Herbert George. Midnight in Antarctic Summer. [1913.] A very evocative photograph, showing icebergs across a bay, taken by Ponting on Captain Scott s last (Terra Nova) expedition. Ponting was with Scott on the Terra Nova expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole. He is regarded as the pioneer of modern polar photography in that he was the first person to combine the science of recording polar expeditions with fine art photography and was the first professional photographer to be employed on an Antarctic expedition. His magnificent blue-green pigment carbon prints are among the finest examples of oversize pictorial photographs in the history of photography and were widely exhibited during his lifetime. Ponting mastered the difficult and most spectacular of all photographic print techniques, the carbon process, which captured the dramatic nature of the Antarctic Midnight sun. This image was later published as The summer glory of the midnight sun opposite page 198 in The Great White South by Ponting in Blue toned carbon print (53 x 73.6cm). The photographer s blindstamp H.G. Ponting. (lower right), titled and numbered 96 on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse. In fine condition. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 173

88 88. REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph]. Floral Watercolour on Vellum A beautiful watercolour on vellum by the greatest flower painter of all time. Belgian born Redouté ( ) achieved success as a painter working for the French royal court as a tutor to Marie Antoinette and later from 1798 was appointed to paint the flowers of Malmaison by Josephine Bonaparte. His famous published works include Les Liliacées and Les Roses. A fine example of Redoute s art, showing his delicacy and natural softness, a round and rich white rose together with two smaller specimens and four light red flowers. Pencil and watercolour on vellum, 21 x 15.8cm, signed and dated at the lower right, sometime laid-down on paper, recently framed and glazed. ref: , ROBERTS, James, illustrator.the Sportsman s pocket companion: being a striking likeness or portraiture of the most eminent race horses and stallions...drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts. Printed for r. & R. Baldwin, London, n.d. circa1760 RARE. ESTC records two issues, one published and sold by Henry Roberts, the other printed for R. and R. Baldwin (as here): just one location is given for the first issue (Winterthur), and one for the second (BL). Huth records the work under a variant title, and also notes an 1820 edition. The thoroughbreds depicted were actually running from the 1720s to 1750s. 8vo (21.8 x 14 cm). 40 engraved plates, some with vignette at foot, engraved index leaf; pl. 12 shorter at margins, some spotting and browning, heavier at margins. Modern olive green morocco gilt by Eighton, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, a most handsome copy. Huth p. 38. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 175

89 90. ROSCOE, Margaret. Floral Illustrations of the Seasons. Thomas Richardson, London, [early 19th-c.]. Fine, fresh copy of the first edition. A representation drawn from Nature of some of the most beautiful, hardy and rare Hebraceous Plants cultivated in the Flower Garden (Dunthorne). The author was William Roscoe s daughter-in-law and the mother of the poet and novelist Margaret Sandbach ( ), better known as a botanical artist under her maiden name of Margaret Lace. Quarto. Engraved title, 55 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates by Robert Havell jun. after Roscoe, some partially printed in colour. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt. BM(NH) IV, p. 1729; Brunet IV, ; Dunthorne 266; Great Flower Books p. 133; Nissen BBI 1676; Stafleu and Cowan ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 177

90 91. SAINT-NON, L Abbe Richard de. Voyage Pittoresque ou description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile...contenant un precis historique de leurs revolutions. Les cartes, plans & vues du royaume & de la ville de Naples. Ses palais, ses eglises, ses tombeaux. Ses poetes, peintres & musiciens celebres. Le Vesuve, avec l histoire de ses eeruptions les plus connues. Les moeurs & usages du peuple Napolitain, ainsi qu une idee de son gouvernement, du commerce & des productions naturelles de ce pays. Clousier, Paris A superb copy bound by Derome le jeune. Saint-Non originally travelled to Italy in 1759 with Fragonard and Robert. He produced a series of collections of engravings as a result and, encouraged by the success of these, in 1777 he planned the far more ambitious Voyage Pittoresque, an account of his travels in Southern Italy. Although he already had much material, it needed to be supplemented with more contemporary accounts and illustrations of the eruption of Vesuvius etc. An expedition was sent through Naples and Sicily under Denon whilst Saint-Non remained in France to supervise the production of the prints and to organize the material for publication. The work was arranged in narrative style freely borrowing from D Hancarville, Hamilton and others for additional material. Some of the most important illustrators of the time were used including Cochin and Saint-Aubin. Throughout the work Saint-Non strove to maintain the interest of his subscribers by making the work entertaining, often including popular spectacles at the expense of more worthy historical material. The completed work is one of the most beautiful that a private person has ever produced, and it is unparalled among the sumptuous voyages pittoresques publications. The ambitious undertaking became the model for later voyages pittoresques. (Millard). First edition. 4 volumes bound in 5, large folio (52 x 35 cm approx.), 5 title vignettes, engraved dedication to the Queen, 384 engraved plates (including 7 maps), some showing 2 subjects, 4 additional maps and plans, 15 head- and 96 tail-pieces, complete with the Phallus plate in vol ii, and the 14 engraved plates of medals known as planches doubles de medailles in vol iv (not always present). this copy collated against Brunet and complete both in text and illustration, with occasional trivial differences to plate order, with plates 87 and 88 in vol. iii marked 15 and 24bis which Brunet calls premieres epreuves, plates 84, 85, and 86 in the same volume numbered 24, 11, and 12 as in the Millard copy, occasional browning, contemporary red morocco gilt by Derome le jeune with his ticket, covers with gilt borders, spines in eight compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and third, others with gilt panels and small centre-tool, raised bands, all edges gilt, a magnificent copy. Brunet V, 55; Millard, French Books 148; Cohen de Ricci 928. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 179

91 92. SEYMOUR, James. [Twelve prints of hunters and running horses taken in various actions]. London: Bowles & Carver, [ca. 1800]. Numerous engravings after Seymour helped to popularize sporting art (ODNB). His paintings of horses lack the anatomical knowledge which Stubbs was to bring to the art, but his originality laid in his ability to enliven the conventional horse portrait by conveying, sometimes humorously, some sense of the personality of a horse, and of its accompanying groom or dog. 93. SHIELDS, Henry; James Meikle. Famous Clyde Yachts Oatts & Runciman, Glasgow & London A fine pictorial record based on watercolours by Henry Shields, of some the best-known racing yachts of the Clyde Yacht Club, at that time the leading yacht club in Britain. Folio, frontispiece and 31 mounted chromolithograph plates, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, rebacked with brown morocco, covers lightly soiled, a very good copy. ref: ,000 Provenance: 5th Earl of Rosebery, armorial bookplate. (23 x 37.5cm). 12 hand-coloured engraved plates after Seymour, some marginal soiling, modern red half morocco by Riviere, a few small stains, generally an excellent copy. Schwerdt 2:160. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 181

92 94. SHIRINSKIY-SHIKHMATOV, Prince Andrey [Aleksandrovich] and A. S. STEPANOV (artist). Albom severnykh sobak Laek. Album of Northern dogs Laïkas. Vypusk 1. Part 1 [all published]. J. Barnett, Moscow, Excellent, complete copy of this rare and beautifully produced publication on husky breeds, the first serious work dealing with northern dogs (Preface, by Leonid Sabaneyev). While the upper cover is in Russian, the text and tables are all in English, and divided in two parts: Korelskaya/Korel-Laïka; and Zyryanskaya/Zirian-Laïka. This album of striking images of laïkas, or Northern dogs, is drawn from data collected by Shirinskiy-Shihmatov ( ), a passionate bear hunter accross Russia - and also great art collector. Being much interested in the natural sagacity and hunting capacity of the laïkas he procured some hundreds of specimens of different varieties and applied himself seriously to their study and breeding. (Preface) Interestingly it can be noted that all the receipt [sic] is to be employed for the foundation of the leper s colony in the government of Yacootsk [Yakutsk]. Dedicated to Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolaevich, another famous princely hunter using Russian hounds. 95. [SPEED, John.] A New and Accurat Map of the World. [London:] Roger Rea, 1651 [but c ]. Uncommon survival of the rea brother s publication of speed s world map. The map is principally based on William Grent s world map of 1625 and on Jodocus Hondius s world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed s A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World (London, 1627). The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in Speed s atlas. Early hand-coloured engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 3 (Rea imprint erased in the plate but just legible), decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses (tiny chip to right-hand edge), 39.8 x 52.6cm. Shirley 317. ref: ,000 Landscape folio (32 x 48 cm). 38 ll. including title printed in brown with decorative lettering and integral vignette illustrations, dedication, preface, 2 letterpress tables, a Profiles of the Skulls plate printed in two colours, a chromolithographic map, one blue-toned photogravure after Stepanov, 30 blue- or brown-toned photogravures after photographs with surrounding vignette illustrations after Stepanov. Unbound as issued within original green cloth portfolio, upper cover blocked in gilt with titling in Russian, white-watered silk lining, cloth ties; very slightly rubbed at extremities. Jones Bibliography of the Dog ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 183

93 Jeanson copy of the first depiction of a corrida 96. STRADANUS Joannes. Ventationes, ferrarum, avium, piscium... [WITH] Equile seu speculum equorum, in quo omnis generis generosissimorum equorum ex variis orbis partibus insignis delectus. Ad vivum omnes delinead a... Stradano. Johannes Galle, Antwerp, [early 17th century]. A fine example with outstanding provenance. This fine volume contains two scarce works by Stradanus, or Jan van der Straet, who worked mainly drawing cartoons for tapestries. He was employed by Cosimo de Medici from to design a series of lavish representations of hunting, fowling and fishing to hang in the rooms of the Palace of Peggio-a-Cajano. The Venationes magnificently commemorates these designs (and many others) depicting the traditional hunting methods of the renaissance with fanciful subjects of Eastern origin. It is a striking collection of scenes of hunting on land, in the air and on water, mixed with several semimythological scenes of dragons, sea-monsters and gods. The present edition does not contain the dedication leaf to Cosimo de Medici found in the first edition. The second work is a rare collection of plates of horses drawn from those in the stables of Don John of Austria and depicts forty breeds set against landscape backgrounds. Provenance: Koch collection (owl and book bookplate to upper pastedown); H. Gallice (bookplate); Marcel Jeanson (bookplate, his sale Sotheby s Monaco, 1st March 1987, lot 542). Landscape folio (31 x 39 cm). I. Second edition (?). Engraved title-page and 40 plates numbered 1-41 by Stradanus engraved by A. Collaert, H. Wierix and H. Goltzius, each plate with 4 lines of Latin verse. II. Engraved title-page, 104 engraved plates by Stradanus engraved by C. de Mallery, C. Galle, T. Galle and J. Collaert, plates numbered (some misbound), each plate with either 2 or 4 lines of Latin verse, occasional marginal waterstaining, eighteenth century blindstamped vellum. Westwood-Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria 206; Menessier de la Lance II, ; Graesse S, 504; Cicognara p. 363, n. 2110; Brunet VI, 558 (Phil. Galle); Schwertd, Hunting, hawking, shooting III, : We have come to the conclusion, after long study and much comparison, that there is a great deal of uncertainty about the various issues, because they were published gradually, as many as were ready being issued at the time with or without numerals. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 185

94 97. SWEET, Robert. Flora Australica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species... James Ridgway, London The most attractive Australian flora, from the early decades of settlement, and a fundamental work of Australian botany. In this handsome work the European public had a beautiful and extensively illustrated catalogue of newly-discovered South Seas flowering plants for the first time. Robert Sweet was an English professional horticulturalist with an interest in plants that were handsome and curious. He promoted exotics for English gardens and hothouses. One of his finest works is the Flora Australica. Of special note is the fact that Sweet grew nearly all the specimens hiimself in London from seed sent from Australia by William Baxter. This makes this the first work of Australian botany based entirely on living specimens. The present copy is extra-illustrated with 92 plates of exotics (principally from South Africa, China, and the Americas) taken from Sydenham Edwards Botanical Register. This was an illustrated horticultural magazine that ran from 1815 to Edwards illustrations turned out to be enormously popular. He flourished during a period when adventure-filled collecting expeditions were made to previously unknown corners of the earth. These expeditions gripped the public imagination and the desire for new plants and illustrations seemed to be endless. First edition. Royal 8vo., iv, 112pp., 56 hand-coloured engraved plates, some folding, by S. Watts after Edwin Dalton Smith, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 92 hand-coloured plates and text from Sydenham Edwards Botanical Register, contemporary green half morocco, rebacked preserving most of spine, rather rubbed, marbled boards renewed. Ferguson 1144; Great flower Books p143; Nissen BBI ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 187

95 98. WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas; Samuel Howett Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civit, and other undomesticated animals: as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents. Edward Orme, London [1805] The most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence (Schwerdt). A fine, fresh copy of the first edition of this celebrated work on hunting. Captain Williamson was an extremely talented amateur artist who had built up a fine collection of sketches suitable for turning in to aquatint. He teamed up with Howett - a notable sportsman as well as an industrious engraver of animals to produce this magnificent work, widely considered to contain the finest images of field sports of the Orient. By their very nature aquatint books were always very expensive, but the British public had a great curiosity about India and Williamson s work helped satisfy this desire to know more about the customs of Britain s new addition to the empire. Provenance: A pencil note states that this was purchased at Viscount Selby s sale in 1948 for 47, and that the binding cost 6.10s.0d. Large landscape folio (59 x 47cm. approx.), iii, 150 pp., hand-coloured pictorial half-title, 40 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, Plate XXXI is in Tooley s presumed first issue, reading Hunting Jackals (and not Jackals rescuing a hunted brother ), plates dated 1805, 1806 and 1807, modern brown half morocco gilt by Bayntun. Abbey Travel 427; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 88; Nissen ZBI 4416; Schwerdt II, pp ; Tooley 508 ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 189

96 99. WOOD, William. A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta. William Wood, London, An early series of lithographed views of the city. Wood arrived in Calcutta in 1828 to assist his brother, George, who was the superintendent of the Asiatic Lithographic Press, established at Park Street in the 1820 s. His series of prints presents an almost continuous panorama of buildings as viewed from the Maidan. Starting with Chandpal Ghat, they extend along Esplanade Row and then turn into Chowringhee. Several mansions appear still under construction using bamboo scaffolding; in the foreground, people tend their animals, wash their clothes or themselves in the public tanks and relax in groups, smoking their hookahs. First edition. 7 parts in one volume, folio (54.6 x 36.7cm). General typographic title. 28 lithographic plates on regular paper. (Scattered spotting). Modern green leather, preserving the original wrappers with upper lithographic covers and lists of subscribers to versos bound in (tiny adhesion spot to upper wrapper of part one, upper wrapper to part 6 unevenly browned). Abbey Travel 495 (describing a defective copy and suggesting publication in 5 parts) ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 191

97 100. ZOCCHI, Giuseppe. Scelta di XXIV vedute delle principali Contrade, Piazze, Chiese e Palazzi della città di Firenze. Dedicata a Maria Teresa, Regina d Ungheria e di Boemia, Arciduchessa d Austria e Granduchessa di Toscana &c. &c. &c. Giuseppe Allegrini, Firenze [1744] A complete set of the finest pictorial record of the historical architecture of Florence in the eighteenth century. Zocchi, a painter, draftsman, and etcher, was the protege of Gerini who commissioned these prints and also paid for his artistic education in Rome, Bologna, and Lombardy. Although he painted easel and mural paintings, Zocchi s oeuvre is richest in drawings and prints. The present series was etched by a team of twelve artists after Zocchi s designs. The four most important squares are shown during a significant festivity and are possibly the earliest views Zocchi made for this series. The broadest depictions of the city are found in the six views structured around the River Arno. They display the uses of the river, the splendid bridges that cross it, and the great buildings along its shore. The other views are a mixture of secular and religious spaces and buildings. They present Florence in a fine light; beautiful architecture combined with a lively population. Consistently celebrative and accomplished, this collection shows a city striving to maintain a placid and prosperous appearance; Zocchi s limpid vision, similar to Carlevaris and Visentini s interpretations of Venice, endow the city with cohesion and serenity (Millard). Broadsheet folio (76.5 x 61cm). Double-page engraved allegorical title page, engraved dedication, engraved map, 24 double-page etched and engraved plates numbered I-XXIV, engraved by Corsi, Franceschini, Gabuggiani, Gregori, Papini, Muller, Marieschi, Monaco, Pazzi Pfeffel, Seuter, Sgrilli, Vasi, after drawings by Zocchi, modern red morocco-backed Itlalian marbled boards, vellum tips by Aquarius, verso of map with old repair, a fine copy. Millard, Italian Books, 170. ref: , Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 193

98 Shapero Rare Books 32 Saint George Street London W1S 2EA Tel: TERMS AND CONDITIONS The conditions of all books has been described; all items in this catalogue are guaranteed to be complete unless otherwise stated. All prices are nett and do not include postage and packing. Invoices will be rendered in sterling. The title of goods does not pass to the purchaser until the invoice is paid in full. VAT Number G.B Front cover image - item 41 [CHINESE SCHOOL] - Watercolours of Important Figures. Inside front cover image - item 43 CLERISSEAU, Charles Louis. [Raccolta di veduta nella citta di Roma e nella Sicilia]. Back cover image - item 57 HALES, W. [Botanical albums]. Inside back cover - item 51 FOSSATI, Gaspard. Aya Sofia Constantinople NB: The illustrations are not equally scaled. Exact dimensions will be provided on request. Compiled by Julian MacKenzie Design and Photography by Ivone Chao. Items 1-10 photography by Louie Fasciolo. Printed by Park Communications on FSC certified paper. Park is an EMAS certified CarbonNeutral Company and its Environmental Management System is certified to ISO % of the inks used are vegetable oil based, 95% of press chemicals are recycled for further use and, on average 99% of any waste associated with this production will be recycled. Shapero Rare Books 195

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