(FABRONI, Angelo).

Dissertazione sulle statue appartenenti alla favola di Niobe a sua altezza reale Pietro Leopoldo.

Firenze. nella Stamperia di Francesco Moucke. 1779. Folio. pp. 24 + 19 engraved plates without ... (more)

Only edition, simultaneously published in French, of this sumptuous publication celebrating the ... (more)

£1,400

ref: 33660

(FUMAGALLI, Paolo).

Le Ruine di Pompeia. Trattato Pittorico, Istorico e Geometrico. Opera Disegnata Negli Anni 1822, 1823 e 1824.

Florence. 1826. Folio. pp. 60; 5. Aquatint title, 'avvertimento', text and 'Spiegazione', 54 ... (more)

A fine copy of Fumagalli's comprehensive work on Pompeii as it was at the beginning of the ... (more)

£3,750

ref: 33665

ALLASON, Thomas.

Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola, in Istria.

London. John Murray. 1819. Folio. Title page, dedication leaf, list of plates + (8), 65 (misnumbered 67 by skipping 23-24). Engraved frontispiece & 9 engraved plates on India paper; 4 large engraved vignettes in the text. Later red half-morocco; marbled boards.

Thomas Allason was an architectural draughtsman turned villa architect and landscape gardener, whose ... (more)

£1,200

ref: 17945

BELLORI, Giovanni Pietro.

Le Pitture Antiche del Sepolcro de' Nasonii nella Via Flaminia. Disegnate, ed intagliate alla similitudine degli Antichi Originali da Pietro Santi Bartoli.

Rome. Antonio de Rossi. 1702. 4to. Irregular pagination: 1-16, 35-50, 65-76. With 35 engraved plates, one folding. Contemporary full mottled calf, red leather title label on banded spine. Gilt armorial on front and rear boards.

Second edition (first published 1680). One of the most important archaeological finds of the ... (more)

£1,800

ref: 21602

BONFILS, F. &c.

An Album of Nineteenth Century Photographs of Egypt.

(c.1870). Folio. Contains 61 sepia mounted photographs, mostly albumen prints. Contained in contemporary morocco-backed portfolio.

A collection of photographs of Egypt, the majority of which are views of classic Egyptian ... (more)

£6,500

ref: 19036

BOUCHARDON, Edme.

Premier (Second) livre de vases.

Paris. Huquier. (c.1735). Folio. 24 etched plates including two titles, in two suites lettered A ... (more)

Series of urns (etched by G. Huquier) of relatively simple basic shape usually with one complex ... (more)

£2,250

ref: 19501

CONSTABLE.

English Landscape Scenery: A Series of Forty Mezzotinto Engravings on Steel, by David Lucas.

London. Henry G. Bohn. 1855. Folio. (432 x 325 mm). pp. [viii] . Title, leaf with 'Introduction', two leaves with the 'Description of the Plates' and 40 engraved mezzotint plates, each with guard-leaf, by Lucas after Constable. Later maroon cloth, boards with gilt rules, title gilt to spine, t.e.g.

Forty mezzotint plates after paintings and drawings by Constable. Illustrations include views ... (more)

£850

ref: 40722

DATI, Carlo Roberto.

Vite de pittori antichi.

Naples. Francesco Ricciardi. 1730. Small 4to. pp. (xiv), 180. 19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards.

Second edition of Dati's biographies of Zeuxis of Heraclea, Parrhasius of Ephesus, Apelles of Colophon and Protogenes of Caria.
[Cicognara 2252].

£145

ref: 38234

DATI, Carlo Roberto.

Vite de pittori antichi.

Florence. Stamperia della Stella. 1667. Small 4to. pp. (xii), 184. Title printed in red and black, woodcut Crusca device on title, repeated occasionally in the text. Contemporary full vellum, later black morocco title label and paper location label on spine.

First edition of Dati's biographies of Zeuxis of Heraclea, Parrhasius of Ephesus, Apelles of Colophon and Protogenes of Caria.
[Cicognara 2251].

£245

ref: 38383

DODWELL, Edward.

Views in Greece, from drawings by Edward Dodwell.

London. Rodwell & Martin. 1821. Folio. Title with aquatint vignette, note, list of plates and 30 ... (more)

[PROVENANCE: gilt armorial tool to upper board: 'Camperdown Library'. Camperdown Park, built in ... (more)

£40,000

ref: 35085

FORBIN, [Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste], Comte de.

Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818.

Paris. L'Imprimerie Royale. 1819. Elephant folio. (742 x 557 mm). Half-title, title with woodcut ... (more)

A large copy of the first edition - limited to 325 copies - with uncut sheets. Forbin had been ... (more)

£22,500

ref: 40324

FROEHNER, W..

Terres Cuites d'Asie de la Collection Julien Greau.

Paris. 1886. 2 vols. Large 4to. pp. vi, xvi, 105. Illustrated with 120 phototypes (many tinted). Red half-calf, printed endpapers, t.e.g. Ex library. Classification numbers on spines, perforated stamps on title-page and one leaf, reference no. stamped on margins of four pages. Otherwise a very good set.

Greau was one of the foremost European collectors of the 19th century. This book details the Greek terra-cottas contained in his collection, the majority of the items are of Lydian and Phrygian origin.

£550

ref: 38570

GIRTIN.

A Selection of Twenty of the most Picturesque Views in Paris, and its environs, drawn and etched in the year 1802, by the late Thomas Girtin.

London. M.A. & John Girtin. 1803. Oblong folio. Dedication leaf & 20 aquatint plates, with titles ... (more)

Several of the prints are trimmed in the outer margin within plate mark, with no loss of image ... (more)

£3,800

ref: 25060

HAVERFIELD.

Some observations on the Inscriptions of the Rosetta Stone.

London. Day & Son. c.1862. Tall 4to. pp. 48. With 3 large folded lithographed plates illustrating ... (more)

A facsimile-style reproduction of Haverfield's handwritten text, one of the earliest attempts to unravel the mysteries of the Rosetta stone.

£550

ref: 38353

HILL.

Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire drawn from nature and on stone by D.O. Hill.

Perth. Thos. Hill. 1821. Folio. Lithographed title page and 30 lithographed plates. Bound in later nineteenth century red half-morocco, re-spined.

Originally issued in six parts, each with its own title page. The first half of the set was ... (more)

£2,750

ref: 38562