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Published by Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Ceylon, 1972
Seller: David H. Gerber Books (gerberbooks), Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Second Impression. 27pp+ Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.
Published by Buddhist Publication, Kandy, 1966
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. 16mo. Po's name to front cover.Browning to spine. Spotting to front leading edge. Book.
Published by Buddhist Publication, Kandy, 1966
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. 16mo. Po's name to front cover.Browning to spine. Book.
Published by Broadway Publ. Co., New York, 1911
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. First edition. 152 pp. Sm. 8vo. Scarce. A very good copy with small soiled spot on front board, owner's name on free front endpaper.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1912 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 20 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Publication Date: 2023
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1912 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 20 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Publication Date: 2023
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1912 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 14 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Publication Date: 2022
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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1911 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 168 Language: English Pages: 168.
Published by The Order of the Great Companions, Chatham, England, 1929
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Soft cover has a worn spine area that is reinforced with tape and there is some chipping to the cover edges, light age toning inside. SCARCE We have a number of Will Hayes books--email us for a full list. We ship fast.
Publication Date: 1929
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Together with a plea for a larger lectionary. 1929 Order of Great Companions, cover fragile & chipped, 46pp contents clean, Professional booksellers since 1981.
Published by Order of the Great Companions, Dublin, 1929
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 46pp; blue card covers with fading to edges both sides front and rear, black title to front cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Order of the Great Companions, Dublin, 1929
Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. 46pp; blue card covers, black title to front. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Engraved portrait of the Arminian preacher Hendrick Danielsz. Slatius (1585-1623), wearing handcuffs and the clothes of a farmer. Slatius was arrested (and later executed) as one of the conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange, in 1623. The print was issued with either Dutch or French poems at the left.A heated theological and political conflict had raged in the Low Countries between the Arminians (from 1610 also called Remonstrants) and Gomarists for more than a decade when it came to a head with the Synod of Dort (1618/19), which decided in favour of the Gomarists. The Synod led to the 1619 execution of the Republic's greatest statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, who had supported the Arminian cause. In revenge his sons Reinier and Willem conspired to assassinate the (Gomarist) Dutch stadholder Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange. Other prominent members of Dutch society who had political, religious or personal grudges against the Prince lent their support. The plot was betrayed in February 1623, and the conspirators arrested and executed from March to May. A very good copy.l Atlas van Stolk 1575 (Dutch issue); Hollstein XXXVIII, p. 30, no. 45 (all issues, 5 copies); Knuttel 3449 (this issue); Muller, Historieplaten 1495c (this issue).
Portraits; The portraits depict members of a wealthy Belgian-French family around the end of the 19th century. On one of the pictures one deciphers the names of Baron Joseph de Zegwaard, Knight Schouthede, Legrelle (-Borrekens).These names are written on a ribbon attached to a birth-gift bouquet. Binding; Full blue morocco binding, on the front-cover in large blind-tooled letters;raits. Back with 6 raised bands. Endpapers in blue watered silk, first and last endpaper mounted in a gilt ornamental border. Signed on the second leaf; Giraudon, Paris, rue Thérèse, Avenue de l'Opéra. Apart from a small restauration at one of the hinge a nice binding. Photograph portrait album of a rich family of Belgian-French nobility. Although none of the pictures are signed some of them have a real artistic merit. Quite a number of the photographs offer also a great interest for the elaborate costumes worn by the sitters.
Attractive design in black ink with grey washes by Jan Gerard Waldorp, for the frontispiece of Betje Wolff's pedagogical essay Proeve over de opvoeding (1779). The drawing shows a lady entering a room where a mother is sitting with a baby, a cradle beside her, and several other children in the room reading and playing, with a bookcase in the background, with a globe on top. Noach van der Meer the younger engraved the frontispiece after this drawing, and Allart in Amsterdam published the book jointly with Isaac van Cleef in The Hague in 1779. The essay is the only pedagogical work of the important eighteenth-century Dutch women writer s duo Wolff and Deken. Wolff (1738-1804) discusses the importance of the mother s role in raising children: a mother should read a lot to educate her children in a broad range of subjects and she should not tell, or let her children read, foolish folk tales, but instead present them with stories from the Bible, classical antiquity and Dutch history.Waldorp (1740-1806) was a contemporary of Jacobus Buijs and Reinier Vinkeles. He was director of the Drawing Academy in Haarlem, and from 1779 to 1781 director of the Drawing Academy in Amsterdam, and later conservator of the national gallery (predecessor of the Rijksmuseum) in The Hague. He also designed stage sets for the new theatre in Amsterdam. The present drawing is very interesting for its vivid design of the interior as well as the clothing of a Dutch middle-class family in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.In very good condition.l For the book: Buijnsters, Bibl. Wolff & Deken 50; Heimeriks & Toorn, De hele Bibelebontse berg, pp. 216-217 ; for Waldorp: Scheen II, p. 560; Thieme & Becker XXXV, p. 79; Waller, p. 354; Wurzbach II, p. 839.
[14], 282 ll.First edition of an important work on the history of Genoa from its beginnings to 1527, finely bound by Albert Magnus. Though primarily concerned with Italian history it also discusses America, containing under the year 1493 (leaf 249) an interesting account of Christopher Columbus - a native from Genoa - called "the inventor of the navigation to the New World". This copy has a very interesting provenance: it was in the possession of the great Dutch book collector Paulo van Uchelen (ca. 1641/42-1702), who had it bound by the most famous bookbinder of the Dutch golden age, Albert Magnus. In 1970 Herman de la Fontaine Verwey noted that Van Uchelen appeared to have had many of his books bound by a single workshop following a sort of Van Uchelen house style (the 1703 catalogue itself notes the great consistency of the bindings): gold-tooled vellum, each board with a frame of double fillets, with a crown inside each corner. With an early manuscript name on the title-page in brown ink: "M. Fr[.?] L (?) Seim (?)". After Van Uchelen s death, the work came into possession of Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), as the gold-tooled elephant at the top of the spine shows. He was one of the most renowned connoisseurs of his day, with unrivalled collections of classical antiquities, coins, miniatures and books. We suppose he bought it at the 1703 Van Uchelen auction. From 1725, he was Vice-Chamberlain to Princess, later Queen Caroline, and succeeded Sir Isaac Newton in 1727 as Master of the Mint.Bifolium z4.5 is lacking in the bound book, which instead contains a second copy of bifolium z3.6, but z4.5 has been added separately in a portfolio. With minor water stains, but otherwise a fine copy, finely bound by Albert Magnus for Paulo van Uchelen.l Adams G751; BMC STC Italian p. 306; Catalogus van de treffelijke vergadering van kunst en boeken van . Paulus van Uchelen, Amsterdam, 1703, under "historici in folio", p. 24, no. 196. (auction cat. UB Amsterdam NV 63); Harisse 220; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana (1687), no. 642; Sabin 27518; USTC 833550; for Magnus and Van Uchelen: H. de la Fontaine Verwey, "De binder Albertus Magnus", in: Uit de wereld van het boek II, pp. 147-169, at pp. 161-162.
Skilfully executed pen and ink drawing by the notable Swiss draughtsman Johann Heinrich Lips (1758-1817), showing a naval officer on a tropical beach on the Coromandel Coast, being welcomed by four half-naked local women with their five children. In the background are three native men in a small rowing boat touching the beach. The present drawing was made for an illustration in Johann Georg Jacobi's Iris. Ein Taschenbuch für 1804 to accompany a text by Franz Xaver Schnetzler titled "Le Vaillant und Mungo Park" (pp. 157-184). The illustration was engraved by Lips himself and contains, besides the caption "Die Küste von Coromandel", the subtitle "Au seiner französischen Handschrift", suggesting the drawing was made after one found in a French manuscript.Slightly browned along the edges of the paper (covered by the passepartout) and a few tiny specks. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cf. Andreas Klein, Johann Georg Jacobi (2012), 359; Nagler VIII, pp. 555-558; Thieme & Becker XXXIII, p. 279.
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [32], 1492, [59], [1 blank] pp.Third and last revised Dutch edition of a classic herbal. The Cruydt-Boeck, not to be confused with the Cruydeboeck first published in 1554, was largely a Dutch translation of the Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, libri XXX, first published by Plantin at Antwerp in 1583. The Stirpium represents Dodoens best and last great work: a monumental botanical study divided into 6 large sections, each containing 5 books, with the plants classified in 26 groups. This system was far superior to all his earlier classifications. Joost van Ravelinghen or Justus Raphelengius (1573-1628) at Leiden, Christophe Plantin s grandson, first published the present translation in 1608, adding extra information in a smaller type at the end of each chapter. These additions give information on the qualities of the plant taken from the Cruydeboeck, if not present in the Stirpium, as well as new information or descriptions of new plants taken from the work of other authors, including Carolus Clusius and Mathias de Lobel. At the end Van Ravelinghen added a whole new part on exotic plants taken from the works of Clusius, Garcia da Orta, Nic. Monardès, Chr. Acosta and others. The present 1644 edition follows the 1618 edition, apparently a copy annotated by Van Ravelinghen, so that it provides his final thoughts. The printer-publisher was Plantin s great grandson, who had succeeded to his famous Antwerp printing office and publishing house.The woodcut illustrations in the first Dutch edition are for the most part the same as in the Stirpium, but there were several alterations made and some replacements, while 25 new woodcuts of new plants were added, not counting the 52 new woodcuts in the extra supplement on exotic plants. In the second Dutch edition of 1618 Van Ravelingen again added substantial information, following the second Latin edition (Antwerp, 1616). The present 1644 edition does not name Van Ravelingen on the title-page, but includes his name at the end of his 1618 note to the reader. It adds 14 new woodcuts, replaces 18, moves 3 from the supplement to the main work, and omits 3. With a contemporary(?) manuscript annotation describing the book and its author in French in brown ink on the verso of the first free end leaf. With one (of two) brass clasp remaining, professionally reattached to the anchor plate. The boards and the spine are somewhat scuffed (mainly the back board), but the detailed gold- and blind-tooling is still clearly visible. The hinges have been professionally restored. A few leaves show minor tears or small defects to the margins, without affecting the text. The edges of the book block and thus the edges of the leaves are very slightly browned, internally very slightly browned and foxed, without affecting the clarity of the woodcut botanical illustrations. Otherwise in good condition.l Bibl. Belg. II, pp. 226-227 (D121); Nissen, BBI 518; Pritzel 2345; Stafleu & Cowan 1492; STCN 31381001X (9 copies); cf. Van Meerbeeck, Dodoens, pp. 277-278 & passim; Dodonaeus in Japan. pp. 191-363.
[1], [3 blank], 164 pp., ll. 165-171, [172], pp. 173-197, 197 [bis], 198-289, [24 blank, partly numbered].An extensive manuscript manual on fortification in French, discussing the design, construction and defence of a wide variety of regular and irregular fortifications, gates, bridges, etc., and with chapters on attacking fortifications, mines and other subjects. It is extensively illustrated, including many full-page or folding fortification plans, with one folding fortification plan and one folding cross-section of fortifications in colour.The text notes in several places that it is based on the work of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), so it was almost certainly written after he began to publish his work on fortification in 1673, and probably no earlier than the 1680s, when he fully developed his methods and published more detailed works on fortification. Although written in French it seems likely to come from northern Germany.Much of the paper is slightly browned, and the ink has left a shadow on the back of the pages or the facing pages. The corner of one leaf was restored before the manuscript was written. One leaf (a cancel, blank except for a page number) is detached, and some of the slips extending the margins have come partly loose. A long tear along the fold of 1 folding leaf professionally restored. Some worm holes in the gutter margin of about 30 leaves, not affecting the text or drawings. Most leaves are in good condition. Binding professionally restored with only some minor worn to the boards. An interesting illustrated manuscript fortifications manual, in French but probably from northern Germany.
A collection of about 275 photographs made by an RAF pilot, Sergeant William Reynish, during his service in Iraq ca. 1928-1933 and Malta 1933, and during a brief visit to Egypt. Most have captions written on the album leaves clearly identifying the scenes. Some photos show scenes of daily life in Iraq (Bagdad, Hinaidi, Mosul and other cities, as well as the surrounding countryside) with local people, shops, buildings, landscapes, ruins, monuments, etc. Others show the British troops and their activities, vehicles, airplanes (including crashed ones), etc. The portraits include an unidentified sheik with a falcon and an Arabic man smoking a hookha water pipe. The Kurdish Sheik Mahmud Barzanji of Sulaimaniyah, rebelled against the Iraqi army around June 1930 but the RAF bombed his people's villages from September 1930 to April 1931, when he finally surrendered to Major W.C.F.A. Wilson, administrative inspector at Mosul. Several photographs cover the sheik and his surrender.The surviving corner mounts show that three photographs have been removed from the album. A few photographs are slightly blurry or faded, but most are very sharp and in very good condition. The inside front hinge of one album has broken, but the albums are otherwise in good condition. A wealth of informative images from pre-War Iraq, most clearly identified in the captions.
[39], [1 blank] ll.Album containing a collection of 45 engravings and etching by Jacques Callot (1592-1635), from different series, spanning his whole career. Callot was a French print maker with a remarkable production of 1400 prints and 2000 drawings on various subjects. Although he was born in Nancy in France, he worked in Rome from 1608-1611, in Florence for the Medici family from 1612 to 1621 and then returned to Nancy, where he settled for the rest of his life. He is often considered one of the greatest printmakers of the 17th century, not only because he invented a new type of etching ground and the échoppe (a type of etching-needle), but also because he sometimes combined engraving with etching, allowing him constantly to create subtle gradations of line. His prints were extremely popular and much copied and he influenced generations of European artists, including the great Dutch master Rembrandt and the Italian etcher Stefano della Bella. He produced particularly military or religious illustrations.The present collection includes mainly etchings or engravings on religious subjects. They were mostly (perhaps all, but some are unsigned) printed by Israel Silvestre (1621-1691) and his uncle Israel Henriet (1590-1661). Henriet was not only Callot's best friend, but is also especially known as his publisher, signing most of his plates with "Israel' instead of "Henriet". One of the series in the present album is the Les quatre banquets (The four feasts), including the Marriage at Cana, the Feast of the Pharisees, the Supper at Emmaus and the Last Supper. This series appears here in two states, the first with the prints unnumbered and with the imprint of Israel Silvestre. Other series in the present collection include the Lux Claustri or La Lumière du Cloitre, many plates of the series Les grandes Apôtres and also some prints from a series depicting paintings and sculptures from churches in Rome, for example a statue of Saint Helena. The album also includes the etching and engraving, La massacre des innocents (The Massacre of the Innocents), illustrating the macabre Bible episode, with Herod looking on from the balcony on the left while the street soldiers take the newborns and kill them in front of their mothers. The plate, here in the second state, was engraved while Callot was working in Florence for the Medici family. Two other remarkable prints in this collection demand mention here: an engraving (here in the second state) depicting Judith placing the head of Holofernes on a tray held by an attendant, with the body of Holofernes on a canopied bed; and an etching entitled Les martyrs du Japon (The martyrs of Japan), which is interesting because it documents what was still a recent event. It shows us the crucifixion of twenty-six Christians in Japan in 1597, executed on the order of Emperor Taikosama. The martyrs depicted included several European missionaries. Callot likely made this etching on the occasion of the beatification of the martyrs by Pope Urban VIII in 1627, beautifully showing that he not only depicted historical or Biblical scenes and figures, but also responded to important (Christian) events in his own time.With the armorial bookplate of Moncure Biddle (1882-1956) on the front paste-down. Binding only very slightly worn around the edges, with some minor foxing and some staining in only three plates. Overall in very good condition. A very interesting collection of etchings and engravings, covering most of the highlights of Jacques Callot's work.l Meaume 6 ("La massacre des innocents"), 48-51 ("Le quatre banquets"), 155 ("Les martyrs du Japon"), 234-260 ("Lux Claustri" or "La lumiere du Cloistre").
46, [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 34; 64; 51, [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only Latin editions (probably the first and only early editions in any language) of four closely related polemical pamphlets on European policy toward the Ottoman Empire. The publication was instigated by the prominent Nürnberg poet and jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607-1658), who somehow got access to the French manuscripts of the pro-Richelieu Peristromata Turcica (Turkish carpets), and the anti-Richelieu Gallia deplorata, translated them into Latin, edited them for publication and added what is believed to be his own anti-French Latin rebuttal of the former, Germania deplorata. On 26 November 1641 he sent all three to the Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, founding president of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft in Weimar, who found the Peristromata Turcica shocking and dangerous, not only for its content but also because its remarkable and "seductive" graphic form. At a spring 1642 meeting of the society Ludwig initiated the writing and production of an emblematic rebuttal, the Aulaea Romana (Roman tapestries). Besides the political importance of these pamphlets as records of differing European attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire, they are remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing and important emblemata. In 1536 François I had formed an alliance with the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, and for a century Franco-Ottoman relations swung between extremes. Around 1626 Cardinal Richelieu began to encourage noblemen to strengthen France's economy by expanding its maritime trade in the Middle East, Near East and beyond. But with its great maritime power, the Ottoman Empire was not only a potentially valuable trading partner but also a fierce competitor and even a military threat to Europe's trade in those regions. Richelieu therefore attempted to form a Catholic union with the Holy Roman Empire and others to fight against the Ottomans.With owner s inscription of the lawyer and diplomat Georg Achatz Heher (1601-1667) and bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), one of the greatest book collectors of all time. With the last quires (E-H) of the Aulaea Romana misbound following the last quire (G) of Gallia. With a small marginal worm hole in the first work and the first leaves of the second, and an occasional small marginal chip or tear, but still in good condition. The binding with cracks in the hinges and some wear at the extremities, but otherwise good. Although these four editions were clearly designed to be published together, only about a dozen complete sets are known to survive, nearly all in Germany, Austria and Poland.l Faber de Four 497-500; Praz, pp. 448-449; M. Reinhart, "Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and the emblematic pamphlets of 1641-42 .", in: Emblemata XX (2013), pp. 313-376 & XXI (2014), pp. 277-375; Stijnman & Savage, p. 46 (ad 1); not in Atabey; Blackmer.
[10], 189, [13] pp. plus 38 plates.One of the 200 deluxe copies reserved for the Antwerp magistrates, printed on heavy Venetian paper and including the equestrian portrait of Ferdinand, of a splendid monument of Baroque book illustration by Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the greatest Flemish artist of the 17th century: one of the most sumptuously illustrated books of the 17th century. It illustrates and describes the spectacular triumphal entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (1609-1641), Infante of Spain, into the city of Antwerp on 16 May 1635, after his victory at the Battle of Nördingen in 1634. The city was richly decorated for his triumphal procession with wooden arches, stages and paintings by Rubens. The present work, commissioned by the Antwerp city magistrates to commemorate the procession and festivities, records Ferdinand s entry into Antwerp in great detail, in both words and images.Arents notes two different Van Thulden states of the imprint and dates the present one with "veneunt exemplaria apud ." before that with "venduntur apud", and the deluxe copies for the magistrates appear to more-or-less randomly show either imprint with either the 1641 or the 1642 colophon, so these may not distinguish different issues. Arents describes the present half-title (wholly lacking in some copies) as the first of three versions (beginning "Pompa introitus Ferdinandi", while the others begin "Pompa triumphalis Ferdinandi" and "Pompa triumphanalis introitus"), but again it is not clear that this has any significance for the issue. The book, one of the most monumental publications of the 17th century, has a complicated publishing history occupying more than seven years, with publication delayed by the deaths of Rubens in 1640 and Ferdinand in 1641. The colophon of the present copy is dated 1641, but it includes plate 43, which the Antwerp magistrates commissioned from Van Thulden on 9 December 1641, so that it was certainly printed in 1642: Ferdinand s magnificent triumphal chariot with numerous allegorical figures and an inset view of his victory at the Battle of Kallo (20 June 1638) after a design by Rubens.Its large size and numerous copperplate illustrations made it one of the most expensive books produced in the 17th century, but the large plates also allowed Van Thulden to enhance the quality of the illustrations, depicting the arches and stages designed by Rubens for the Baroque festivities in great detail. The present copy is one of the 200 deluxe copies reserved for the Antwerp city magistrates. These copies were printed on heavier Venetian paper, watermarked: anchor in a circle, topped by a star.Binding with only a few spots and some scratches. With a few minor spots in the text and on the plates, some foxing on the back of plate 33, some leaves a bit crinkled (for example the half-title), with a few minor tears in some plates (mostly on the folds of the folding plates), not affecting the images, otherwise in very good condition. A beautiful deluxe copy of a splendid display of Rubens s magnificent illustrations of Ferdinand of Austria s triumphal entry into Antwerp in 1635.l Atlas Van Stolk II, 1764; Prosper Arents, "Pompa introitus Ferdinandi: bijdrage tot de Rubensbibliografie", in: De Gulden Passer, 27 (1949), pp. 81-340; Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, "Coins and classical imagery in the time of Rubens: the stage of welcome in Caspar Gevartius's Pompa introitus Fernandi", in: Knaap & Putnam, Art, music, and spectacle in the age of Rubens: the Pompa introitus Fernandi (2013), pp. 189-215; Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 99; Muller, Historieplaten 1727; STCV 12858454; Millard architectural collection, northern European books 38; Von Roeder-Raumbach & Evers 28.
30, [1], [1 blank] pp.; plus 100 lithographed plates.Extremely rare first edition, of the complete collection of plates prepared from drawings made by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) at his Oak Park Studio, illustrating seventy buildings and projects completed between 1893 and 1909. It is the first major publication by one of the greatest innovators of modern architecture. The work boosted Wright's fame in European architectural circles and influenced key figures in contemporary architecture including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Peter Behrens and Le Corbusier. The plates show perspective views, plans, sections and interior and exterior details. Plate LVI, with an interior view of the living room of the Coonley House, is one of the most important and desirable of the series. The edition is scarce due to a fire at Wright s home and studio, Taliesin, in August 1914. The later portfolio worn: a little stained, edges a little worn, head and outer protective flap half loose, bottom protective flap loose but present, linen ties somewhat frayed. Two ties of the second plates portfolio are torn and frayed. Text volume, some plates and the wrappers of both portfolios somewhat foxed, some plates with occasional marginal tears (never affecting the image), overlays a little toned. Overall a complete set with the plates, booklet and the two original publisher's portfolios still in good condition, being Wright's extremely rare magnum opus that secured his status in Europe: one of the most influential architectural publications of the century.l Kruft 210; Robert L. Sweeney, Frank Lloyd Wright: an annotated bibliography, 1978, 87; Thieme-Becker XXXVI, 279.
[1 blank, 3], "136" [= 135 (of 136)], [1] ll.The second Dutch edition of Otto von Passau's religious instructive work, first published at Utrecht in 1480. The golden throne of the 24 elders is the only work known to survive by Otto von Passau, a Franciscan preacher who lived in the second half of the 14th century. It has been dated ca. 1383 and represents a subtle mixture of Christian and Pagan wisdom. It is divided into 24 chapters, each containing a lecture about the Apocalypse by one of the male elders. It is supposed to teach nuns and brothers of lay orders a way of life that will lead them to the "Golden Throne" of eternal bliss. Each lecture has its own theme, like the essence of God and man, mourning, confession and penance, love, hope, the sacraments, friendship, death, the chosen, hell, the last things, etc. The work remained popular into the beginning of the 17th century. The present edition is well printed in two columns, with 39 lines of textura type to each column. It is also most attractively illustrated with charming woodcuts, printed from four different blocks, which came originally from Haarlem block books. "It is primarily Bellaert's illustration-material which makes him such an interesting figure in the history of book-production in the Low Countries. . here Bellaert's independence of Leeu finds clear expression. . he succeeded . in giving his editions a style of their own." (Hellinga). The first four leaves contain the table of contents and prologue. The excellent textura type made its first appearance in Bellaert's first books in 1483 and then in Gheraert Leeu's books at Gouda in 1484. Leeu must have taken his matrices with him to Antwerp in that year, for Bellaert's and Leeu's versions of the types introduce independent variations in later years. The present copy is furthermore richly and beautifully adorned with decorated initials in colour supplied by hand, and is rubricated throughout. With contemporary owner's inscription on verso of first blank, the blank shield in the printer's device filled in with the motto "Versint eer ghij begint" and in the upper half a monogram LSvH[?] and a personal mark, and in the lower half a fleur-de-lis with clusters of black and white lozenges. On the blank page facing the opening of the text the bookbinder and teacher Leonardus Lendert Nabben (1588-post 1633) in Venray (not named here) has recorded exact details of the birth of his 7 children from 1613 to 1633 (see www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stambook-hendrix/I4074.php). Below the colophon is a 17th-century(?) inscription clarifying the colophon, a 1732 inscription above it calculating the age of the book, and an 1801 inscription below it, again calculating the age of the book. Lacking leaf 137 (the second to last text leaf) and the final blank, with marginal restorations in the last 9 leaves and marginal water stains in those and a few others. Otherwise in good condition and with very large margins (3.5 to 5 cm, giving a leaf size of 28.5 x 20.5 cm).l BMC IX, 101; Campbell 1343; Goff O125; Hain-Copinger 12132; Oates 3649; Polain 2941; Proctor 9171; Van Thienen & Goldfinch, ILC 1675.