Sam Gatteño Books: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks
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Sculptura-historico-technica: or The history and art of ingraving.
London: Printed for S. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1747. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 112, [i], 112-225, [i]pp. A6, B12-K12, L6 (- L6 blank). First edition. With a folding chart at the end. Publisher's advertisement, [1] p. at end. Pages 111-112 repeated in numbering; signature F has 13 leaves. Contemporary calf, double rule fillets, repaired. With ten engraved plates of the techniques of engraving. Large folding letterpress table of artists bound between pp. 162 & 163, and numerous metalcut artists' marks and cyphers to the text. Bigmore & Wyman II, 332; Levis, The Bibliography of Engraving, p. 37; ESTC T84861. From the library of Sir Edward Littleton, Barrister. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2029
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Ausführliche Anleitung zu der gantzen Civil-Bau-Kunst, worinnen nebst denen Lebens-Beschreibungen und der fünf Ordnungen von J. Bar. De Vignola. [Detailed guidance for civic architecture,... ]
Augsburg: Bey Johann Georg Hertel, 1747. 0. Hardcover. Small quarto. [30], 402, [25]pp. )( 2, a1, b4-c4, d2, )( 3-4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ggg4, Hhh2. Title-page in red-and-black. Third edition of L. C. Surm's German language adaptation. Contemporary calf, repaired. With 84 full-page illustrations in the text and 56 double-page plates, all with French captions, numbered sequentially 1-139 (57 used twice). In addition, there are 12 folding plates with German captions, numbered 'Fig. 1 (-12),' to illustrate Sturm's notes and small unnumbered illustrations on pp. 160 (engraved), 361 (woodcut), and 402 (woodcut). Lacks all 56 double-page plates, the last two folding plates and the second plate 57. Millard, Northern European Books I; RIBA, Early Printed Books 164 note. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1238
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Raccolta di alcuni opuscoli sopra varie materie di pittura, scultura e architettura scritti in diverse occasioni da Filippo Baldinucci. Con un Ragionamento di Francesco Bocchi sull'eccellenza della statua di S. Giorgio fatta da Donatello ...
Firenze: Appresso Andrea Bonducci, 1765. 0. Hardcover. Octavo in fours. viii, 171pp. a4, A4-V4, X6. Decorative initials and tail-pieces throughout. Contemporary boards, leather label. Top and bottom of spine slightly worn. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 59; Schlosser-Magnino, La letteratura artistica p. 623; Gamba 1764; Brunet I, 623; Razzolini 36. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 887
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Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks
Keywords: Art
Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe.
Paris: Durand, 1746. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [iii], xiii, [5], 291, [13]pp. pi6, a8, b1, A8-T8 (T8+1). First edition. With a title vignette. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Repaired. With a frontispiece and vignettes by Eisen after Delafosse. Cohen-DeRicci 120; Lewine 48; Brunet I, 701; Schlosser 650; Cicognara 6 (1747); Boissais et Deleplanque, p. 45. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 493
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Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks
A poetical epistle to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. and president of the Royal Academy.
London: printed for Fielding and Walker, No. 20, Pater-Noster-Row, 1777. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [viii], 20pp. []2, A2-F2. Half-title present. Cloth spine over marbled boards. ESTC T42712. Deaccessioned from Harvard College Library. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1948
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Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks
Anecdotes of the Arts in England; or, Comparative remarks on architecture, sculpture, and painting, chiefly illustrated by specimens at Oxford.
London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. xxi, [2], 526pp. a8, b4, B8-LL8. Large-paper copy. With an additional title-page engraved and a final advertisement leaf. Modern half green morocco over marbled boards. Additional title-page engraved by Girtin. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 368; ESTC T141212. Some foxing. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19
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The Practice of Perspective: or, an easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of Art. A work highly necessary for Painters, Engravers, Architects.
London: Printed for John Bowles . and Carrington Bowles, 1765. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. xvi, xvi, [1], 18, [2], 19-41, [2], 42-121, [2], 122-128, [2], 129-150, [1]pp. A4, a4, C4-Z4, Aa4-Uu4. Fourth English edition. Collation and catchwords erratic. Even though signatures A4 and B4 seem to be missing and the catchword at the end of a4 seems to indicate a missing quire, there is nothing missing. Nineteenth-century red half morocco over marbled boards, slightly rubbed. With 2 folding plates and 150 copperplate engravings. Fowler 110. Stained and browned. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1962
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The art of painting by C. A. Du Fresnoy; with remarks; translated into English, with an original preface, containing a parallel between painting and poetry, by Mr. Dryden; as also a short account of the most eminent painters, both ancient and modern, ...
London: Printed for Henry Lintot, 1750. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [xiv], lxvi, [iv], 397, [vii]pp. Includes index. Contemporary calf, repaired. With a frontispiece. ESTC T122964. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 190
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Promptuarium artis argentariæ: ex quo, centum exquisito studio inventis, delineatis, ac in ære incisis tabulis propositis, elegantissimæ, ac innumeræ educi possunt novissimæ ideæ ...
Romae: Sumptibus Fausti Amidei, 1750. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Two parts. Half grey calf over blue cloth. Black title label. With 100 plates. This copy has 101 plates. A later edition of Giardini's 'Disegni diversi . intagliati da Massimiliano Giuseppe Limpach.' Rome, 1714. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1967
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Observations, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland.
London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1792. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. I: xxxiv, xvi, 238pp.; II: 264, xivpp, and errata leaf. I: a8-b8, c2 [c2 blank], d8, B8-Q8 [Q8 blank]; II: []1, B8-R8, S4, a8. With the half-title to volume I. Third edition. Contemporary mottled calf, repaired. W ith 30 plates, 15 tinted aquatint plates in volume I, and 9 tinted aquatint plates and 6 tinted etched plates in volume II. ESTC T99001. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1969
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Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views. (Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty) illustrated by Scenes of the New Forest in Hampshire.
London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1794. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. I: vii, 340pp.; II: iv, 310pp. I: []2, b4, B8-Y8, Z4; II: []2, B8-U8, X4, []4, a8-b8, []1, b8, c2. Second edition. With a half-title to each volume and a leaf of advertisements after the text in volume II. "A catalogue of the prints" (v.2, p. ii at end). Contemporary mottled calf, repaired. With a double-page map and 31 plates, most aquatint. Statement of responsibility follows the edition statement on title-page. "Of these drawings all the landscape-part . was executed by Mr. Alkin [i.e. Samuel Alken]"--Cf. The animals are by Sawry Gilpin. ESTC T82380. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1973
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Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape: to which is added a poem, on Landscape Painting.
London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1792. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 88, v, 44, iiipp. (explanation of the plates & errata). pi2, A4, B8-G8, AA4-CC4, DD8, EE2, *2. First edition. With a half-title presnt. "The poem has divisional title "On landscape painting, a poem", separate pagination and signatures. Final p. blank." Errata on p. iii at end. Bookseller's advertisement on p. iii at end. Slip cancel at p. 85. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked. With six aquatint plates, lacking one facing page 75. ESTC T99007; Abbey, Life 129. Interleaved copy, but without a single entry. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1974
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Monumentum, sive columbarium libertorum et servorum Liviae Augustae et Caesarum, Romae detectum in Via Appia, anno 1726. Ab Antonio Francisco Gorio ... Descriptum & XX. aere incisis tabulis illustratum; adjectis notis ... Antonii Mariae Salvinii.
Florentiae: typis Regiae Celsitudinis, apud Tartinium & Franchium, 1727. 0. Soft cover. Folio in fours. xxxvi, 254, [2]pp. *4-***4, ****6. A4-Z4, AA4-II4. Title-page in red-and-black. With the half-title present. Engraved title vignette. Eighteenth-century paper boards, repaired. With 21 plates, 13 double-page. Some are plans. First plate after p. 25; the others gathered at the end. Textual illustrations throughout. Cicognara, 3750; Brunet II, 1670; Olschki, Choix 17047; Kissner, 180. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1975
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Essai de Perspective.
A La Haye: Chez la veuve d'Abraham Troyel, 1711. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [xxiv], 200, [viii], 38, [ii]pp. *12, A12-K12, L4. First edition of author's first book. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Top of spine chipped. With 78 diagrams on 32 folding plates. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1300
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Zergliederung der Schönheit, die schwankenden Begriffe von dem Geschmack festzusetzen.
Berlin und Potsdam: bey Christian Friederich Voß, 1754. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [28], viii, 111, [1]pp. a4-c4, d2, A4-P4. Contemporary half calf over boards, repaired. With a woodcut title vignette and two folding copperplates. First German translation of the 'Analysis of Beauty.' Goedeke IV/1,367,56; Müncker 360; Seifert 1732; Books on Art I, 848. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1988
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