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Windsor, and its environs. Containing the curiosities of the town and palace, the Royal chapel of St. George, and the seats in the neigbourhood of Windsor. With a particular account of the ceremonies of the installation of the Knights of the Garter.

By: N/A

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: London: printed for Newbery and Carnan, at No. 65, the North Side of St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Blakeney, in Windsor, 1768.:

Seller ID: 2746

Duodecimo. [iv], 94, [ii]pp. First edition. With final leaf of addenda and errata. Below imprint in square brackets: price One Shilling. Nineteenth-century red morocco over marbled boards. With two frontispieces. ESTC T65422; Roscoe, A631 (1). With the armorial bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, Second Baronet, as well as his signature and acquisition date, August 1771, on title-page. ESTC records copies at the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Bodleian, Harvard, McMaster, and Northwestern (the on-line catalogue does not record it).
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Dialoghi di D. Antonio Agostini Arcivescovo di Tarracona; sopra le Medaglie, Iscrizioni, e altre Antichita; tradotti da lingua Spagnuala in Italiana da Dionigi Ottaviano Sada.

By: Agostini, Antonio.

Price: $900.00

Publisher: In Roma: Presso Michel'Angelo, e Pier Vincenzo Rossi, 1698.:

Seller ID: 1510

Folio. [20], 318, [30]pp. []4, +4, ++4, A4-Rr4, a4-d4. Woodcut title within architectural border. Sixth Italian edition. Contemporary vellum, respined, with original spine pasted on. Illustrated extensively with woodcuts of coins and monuments, large woodcut on Rr4 recto. Palau 4106; Cicognara 2727; Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 11; Graesse I, 252. This edition, like all later editions, includes an additional twelfth dialogue, set in Antwerp, in which the participants are André Schott, the cartographer Abraham Ortelius and the humanist Laevinus Torrentius (Lieven van der Beke), Bi...
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The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. Valombrosa, Camaldori, Laverna: A Poem, with Historical and Legendary Notices. By the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Bury. Illustrated by Engravings of the Scenery from Original Drawings, by the Late Reverend Edward Bury.

By: Bury, Lady Charlotte [Susan Maria (Campbell)].

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London: John Murray, 1833.:

Seller ID: 2256

Oblong folio. xi, [1 leaf]list of royal subscribers, 139pp. First edition. Black cloth. With frontispiece etched by Thomas Landseer & Thomas Lupton, engraved portrait of Lady Bury on India paper, mounted, & 6 sepia mezzotint plates engraved by Thomas Lupton after the drawings of Edmund Bury. NCBEL III, 713; Pine-Coffin, Bibliography of British and American Travel in Italy to 1860 8152; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 49 (recorded under Lady Charlotte Campbell). Lady Bury visited the three principal Sanctuaries of Tuscany, the Certosa of Valombrosa and the Convents of Camaldoli and Lavern...
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Image for 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,... ]

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,... ]

By: D'Aviler, Charles Augustin.

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Augsburg: Bey Johann Georg Hertel, 1747.:

Seller ID: 1238

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, ...
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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.

By: Dubreuil, Jean.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London: Printed for John Bowles ... and Carrington Bowles, 1765.:

Seller ID: 1962

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.
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Walter Gropius: Mensch und Werk.

By: Giedion, Siegfried.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Stuttgart: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1954.:

Seller ID: 741

Octavo. First edition. Black and blue cloth. Dustwrapper, some tears and soiling. Illustrated. With the previous owner's ex-libris rubber stamp on the front and the back of the book as well as his ownership inscription in the front. There is also an inscription in German in the front.
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Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening: with Some Remarks on Domestic architecture, as Connected with Scenery.

By: Gilpin, William.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London: printed for T. Cadell, 1835.:

Seller ID: 1972

Octavo. xii, 235pp. Second edition. Publisher's original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid on. Illustrated with 16 black and white lithographs.
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Del Teatro Olimpico di Andrea Palladio in Vicenza.

By: Montenari, Giovanni.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Padova: Stamperia del Seminario, 1749.:

Seller ID: 2014

Octavo. xii, [4], 153pp. a8, A8-I8, K8, []1. Second edition. Rebound in calf. With a frontispiece portrait of Palladio and 5 folding plates. The plates show plans, interior views, with one analysing the proportions of the columns. Berlin Katalog 2803; Cicognara 767. Not in Millard, or Schlosser-Magnino.
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A Treatise of the Five Orders Of Columns in Architecture, viz. Tuscan, Doric, Ionic Corinthian and Composite, wherein The Proportions and Characters of the Members of their several Pedestals, Colums and Entablatures, are distinctly consider'd, ...

By: Perrault, Claude.

Price: $9,500.00

Publisher: London: printed by Benj. Motte. Sold by John Sturt, 1708.:

Seller ID: 2733

Folio. Two parts in one volume. First English edition. 2ff., xxipp., 2 engraved ff. of subscribers, 131pp., 2ff. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page with vignette, engraved dedication with vignette, 6 engraved plates, 7 textual illustrations, 40 vignettes and 24 historiated initials, all by John Sturt. Colvin, p. 316; Fowler 248; Park 66; Harris 700; RIBA 2498; ESTC T114390. With two final leaves of errata and advertisements. First published in French: Paris: J. B. Coignard, 1683.
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L'Architettura di M. Vitruvio Pollione colla traduzione Italiana e comento del Marchese Berardo Galiani ...

By: Vitruvius, Marcus Pollio.

Price: $2,100.00

Publisher: In Napoli: Nella Stamperia Simoniana, 1758.:

Seller ID: 2037

Folio. [vi], xxxii, 462pp. []3, a4-d4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank). Historiated woodcut initials. Quarter calf over cloth-covered boards. Bottom of spine slightly worn, lower end of upper cover bumped and a small part of the hinge cracked. With textual engravings and 25 folding plates. Engraved frontispiece in facsimile.
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Storia delle Arti del disegno presso gli antichi di Giovanni Winkelmann tradotta dal Tedesco e in questa edizione corretta e aumentata dall'abate Carlo Fea ...

By: Wincklemann, Johann J.

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: In Roma: Dalla Stamperia Pagliarini, 1783-1784.:

Seller ID: 2040

Quarto. Three volumes. I: [iv], xcvi, 451, [i]pp.; II: 427pp.; III: xii, 604, 40pp. I: []2, a4-m4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Iii4, Kkk6; II: []4, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4, Ggg6; III: a6, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Xxx4, Yyy2-Zzz2, Aaaa2-Pppp2, a4-e4. Second Italian edition. With half-titles present. Contemporary stiff vellum. With 3 frontispieces, numerous engraved textual illustrations, and 59 engraved plates. Brunet V, 1463; Schlosser-Magnino 676-7; Cicognara 59; Olschki, Choix 13020; Millard, Italian and Spanish Books 165; Ruppert, Winckelmann-Bibliographie (1942), 15; PMM 210; A. Schnapp, Th...
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