Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1873
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . PIRANESI, OPERE. Tue Correcrion ‘ OF SPLENDID works ON Roman ANTI- QUITIES, ARCHITECTURE, anp CLAS- SICAL ORNAMENTS, ENGRAVED BY THE two PIRANESI, viz. :— I. If, Antichit’ Romane, 4 vols. in 2, 222 plates including titles, dedication and portrait Ill. Lapides Capitolini, 3 plates, one is com- posed of several sheets Antichita di Cora, 11 plates Rovine del Castello dell Acqua Giulia, 19 plates (1764) Raccolta di Tempi Antichi (Sciographia quatuor Templorum Veterum) viz, di Vesta, della Sibilli, dell’ Onore e della Virtu, 20 plates 1780 Panteon di Marco Agrippa, (with the title “ Sciographia”) 29 plates 1790 IV. Romanorum Magnificentia ct Architectura, title, dedication, portrait of Pope Clement AIL. and 39 plates 1761 Supplement to ‘ Romanorum Magnificentia,”’ (entitled Osservazioni ‘sopra la Lettre de M. Mariette), title and 9 plates 1765 Antichita d’Albano e di Castel Gandolfo, title, dedication, large plan of Rome, and 49 plates 1764 V. Architetture Prospettive, 37 plates Carceri d’Invenzione (Prisons), 16 plates Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri Monu- menti, 32 plates 1748 Trofei d’ Ottaviano Augusto, 13 plates 1753 Sepolcri dei Scipioni, 6 plates -VI. Campo Marzio, 49 plates, one very large Ruines de Pestum, 21 large plates including Jrontispiece Teatro d’ Ercolano, front. and 9 plates 1783 VII. Ville Vasi, Candelabri, Sarcofagi, Cippi. number of plates, viz. 112 1X. Colonna Trajana, 23 plates, of which plate together | Colonna, Antonina, the elevation, 5 sheets form- ing one large plate graved title and 70 plates of interior decora- tions (1769) X. XI. Vedute di Roma, 2 vols. 137 magnificent Plates of Public Buildings, Interiors, ete. XI. Scholia Italica Picture, cura et impensis Gavini Hamilton, 42 plates after Paintings by Raffaele, Caraccit, and the most eminent Italian Masters Roma, 1773 Statue Antiche, 40 plates XI. Raccolta di Disegni del Guercino, 28 lished by Piranesi Peintures de la Sala Borgia, peintes par Ra- phael, 12 plates, on six sheets Paris, 1803 Peintures de la Villa Lante, par Piroli d’aprés les dessins de Jules Romain, 16 plates on eight sheets Paris, 1803 Peintures du Cabinet de Jules I. par Piroli (aprés Raphael Paris, 1803 —together 32 vols. in 13, atlas folio, containing —y newly one thousand magnificent engravings, uniform in hf. calf, marbled edges, £55. Roma e Parigi, 1748-1803 It will be seen from the above list, that this copy is almost a perfect set of these great works, several of which are extremely rare; but to get them into a convenient compass, the letterpress has been omitted; the sct as usual with Piranesi's publications, will not be sold subject to col- lation, but 18 offered a bargain as per above list. An oppor- tunity is thus offered to an Architect or Artist, to secure a good working copy at a reasonable rate. Piranesi (Architetio Venzeiano) le Antichita Romane, 4 vols. atlas folio, with nearly 300 Jine large engravings of Roman Architectural Antiquities, with details and accwrate mea- surements, calf neat, Lord Yarborough’s copy, £6. 15s Roma, 1756 } Fine original Roman impressions. Pithou, Commentaire sur le Traité des Libertez de ’Eglise Gallicane, sm. 4to. fine copy, veaw fawve, 18s Paris, 1652 Pitts, Religion and Manners of the Moham- metans, and a Relation of their Pilgrimage to Mecca, 8vo. calf, 5s 1704 Pluquet, Contes Populaires, Préjugés, Patois, Proverbes, noms de lieux, de]’ Arrondissement de Bayeux, 8vo. sewed, 3s ib. 1834 Platon, Cuvres, traduites par Victor Cousin, 12 vols. 8vo. calf gilt, £5. Paris, 1822-39 Playfair and Giinther, Fishes of Zanzibar, impl. 4to. 21 plates of which 5 are colowred, cloth, £2. 10s Van Voorst, 1866 Plays. SIXTY-TWO COMEDIES, HISTO- RIES, TRAGEDIES, anp MASQUES by various Authors from 1631 to 1697, including one by SHAKESPEARE, one attributed to him, one by MASsINGER, eight by SuirtEy, two by Hrywoop, and several by D’Urrey, FLETCHER, ForpD, GREENE, GLAPTHORNE, and Heywoop, mostly FIRST EDITIONS, bound in 13 vols, sm. 4to. 2f. morocco, a valuable collection from the Library of the late Sir John Pennefather, £30. 1631-1697 Contents :— Vol. I. St. Serfe (T.) Tarugo’s Wiles, or the Coffee House 1668 Howard (J.) All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple 1672 Lacy (J.) The Dumb Lady 1672 Ravenscroft (E.) Mamamouchi, a Comedy} 1675 Vol, Il. Goffe (T.) The Raging Turke, or Baiazet the Second, a Tragedy 1631 —— The Tragedy of Orestes 1633 —-— The Couragious Turke, or Amurath the First, a Tragedie 1632 - —— The Queen, published by Alex.Gough 1652 Vol. JI. Surrey (Jas.) The Example 1637 —— The Young Admiral 1637 —— The Gentleman of Venice 1655 —— Hide Parke 1637 —— and Chapman, the Ball 1639 Vol. IV. Sir Gyies Gonse-Cappe, Knight, a Comedy 1636 GLAPTHORNE (H.) Argalus and Parthenia 1639 Hey for Honesty, translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus, by Tho, Randolph 1651 Vol. V. Surrey, The Grateful Servant W. Leake, n. d. (1655) The Tragedy of Hoffman, no title, dedication signed Hugh Perry SHIRLEY, the Humorous Courtier * 1640 Heywoop (Tho.) and Rowly (W.) Fortune by Land and Sea 1655 HeEywoop (Tho.) The Rovall King and the Loyall Subject 1637 Vol. VI. The Beau Defeated, a Comedy n. a. (1690) Buckingham (Duke of) the Chances 1692 (Bourne, R.) The Contented Cuckold 1692 The Destruction of Jerusalem, imp/t. cd. 1692