Sam Gatteño Books: Eighteenth Century Books, Artbooks, Illustrated Books
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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
USD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 607.25 | £UK 520.25 | JP¥ 102841]
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
USD 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 887.5 | £UK 760.5 | JP¥ 150306]
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
USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 420.5 | £UK 360.25 | JP¥ 71198]
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
USD 6500.00 [Appr.: EURO 6071.5 | £UK 5202.5 | JP¥ 1028412]
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
USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 560.5 | £UK 480.25 | JP¥ 94930]
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
USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 303.75 | £UK 260.25 | JP¥ 51421]
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
USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 233.75 | £UK 200.25 | JP¥ 39554]
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
USD 1900.00 [Appr.: EURO 1774.75 | £UK 1520.75 | JP¥ 300613]
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
USD 4900.00 [Appr.: EURO 4577 | £UK 3922 | JP¥ 775264]
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
USD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 607.25 | £UK 520.25 | JP¥ 102841]
Dictionnaire Historique de la Ville de Paris et de ses Environs Dans lequel on trouve la description des monumens (sic) et curiosités de cette capitale; l'établissement des maisons religieuses, celui des communautés d'artistes et d'artisans; ...
A Paris: Chez Moutard, imprimeur-libraire de la Reine, Ho^tel de Cluny, rue des Mathurins, 1779, 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Four volumes. I: [iv], VIII, [viii], 720pp.; II: [iv], 792pp.; III: [iv], 784pp.; IV: [iv], 847, [iii]pp. First edition. I: A-B; II: C-E, III: F-P; and IV: P-Z. Mottled calf, spines gilt, all edges marbled. Spine ends chipped, bindings rubbed. Engraved folding map and plan of Paris. Descriptions of the sights of the French capitol and the surrounding area. Short stub tears to maps. Light foxing; very good. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 790
USD 895.00 [Appr.: EURO 836 | £UK 716.5 | JP¥ 141604]
Keywords: Paris Guide
Essays on the Physiognomy.
London: printed for John Murray, No. 32, Fleet-Street; H. Hunter, D.D. Charles's-Square; and T. Holloway, No. 11, Bache's-Row, Hoxton, 1789-1798. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. Three volumes in five. Volume II, part 2 and volume III, part 2 have half-titles only. Contemporary rose diced russia, fillet borders. With engraved vignettes on 3 titles, 174 plates & 366 text illustrations. Illustrations by Blake, Bartolozzi, et. al. Bentley & Nurmi 390; Garrison-Morton 154; Keynes 102; Ray 20; Osler 3178; Essick XIX; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, pp. 297-298; ESTC T139902. Very Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 241
USD 2500.00 [Appr.: EURO 2335.25 | £UK 2001 | JP¥ 395543]
Galliae antiquitates quaedam selectae atque in plures epistolas distributae.
Parisiis: sub oliva Caroli Osmont, 1733. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. viii, 174pp. []2, a4, A4-Y4, Z2. First edition. Vignette on the title-page. With the half-title present. Title-page in red-and-black. With 3 leaves concerning the announcement of the publication of the complete works of St Jerome by the publishers Vallarsi and Berno of Verona. Contemporary calf, rebacked poorly, with parts of the original spine retained. With a vignette on the title-page, 8 engravings in the text, and 2 folding plates. Quérard, V. 424; Brunet, II, 1467. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2004
USD 1575.00 [Appr.: EURO 1471.25 | £UK 1260.75 | JP¥ 249192]
Traité de la Peinture, par Léonard de Vinci.
Paris: Chez Deterville, An IV [1796]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii], lix, 333pp. []2, a8-c8, d6, A8-X8 (X8 blank). With the half-title present. New edition. Nineteenth-century quarter black morocco over black cloth, repaired. With 34 plates, some folding and woodcut illustrations in the text. Brunet V, 1258. Old and faded stain to first 40 to 50 leaves. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2036
USD 625.00 [Appr.: EURO 584 | £UK 500.25 | JP¥ 98886]
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