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Serie di LXXXV. disegni in varie grandezze composti dal celebre pittore Salvator Rosa publicati ed incisi da Carlo Antonini by ROSA, Salvator (1615-1673)

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Title: Serie di LXXXV. disegni in varie grandezze composti dal celebre pittore Salvator Rosa publicati ed incisi da Carlo Antonini
Author: ROSA, Salvator (1615-1673)
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Rome: nella Stamperia dei Casaletti, 1780. Large folio (498 x 364 mm). 5, [1 blank] pages, engraved arms of the dedicatee Stanislas Potocki, engraved initial and tail-piece; 85 etchings printed in sanguine, by Carlo Antonini after Salvator Rosa, on 36 leaves, of which the last four full-sheet and folding, text and plates printed on thick paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lys in a double circle above initial B (Heawood 1600). An excellent copy, the etchings in deep, clear impressions (small black smudges on first folding plate, a few pale spots from damp to the other folding plates). Original parchment-backed pink pastepaper-covered boards, spine gold-tooled and -lettered “Rosa” (spine worn and torn, corners rubbed).*** Only Edition, issue with the engravings printed in sanguine, and with printed title and dedication, of a magnificent suite of etchings after the Neapolitan Baroque artist Salvator Rosa. Testifying to his popularity over a century after his death, Antonini’s etchings are precise reproductions, in the same direction and size, of Rosa’s nearly complete etched oeuvre (one etching of a shepherd, Bartsch 22, was not reproduced). Rosa, who also acted, and probably wrote verse, epitomized the artist-poet, two centuries before the Romantic movement swept Europe. Perpetually pushing the limits of the genres he painted, his landscapes and dramatic battle scenes were swathed in a faintly oppressive mystery. His earliest experiments in printmaking date to 1660, late in his career. He completed 86 etchings. Rosa was keenly concerned with maintaining control of his production and ownership of his plates, and he supervised the printing and marketing of the prints, and their distribution to dealers north of the Alps (probably through the firm of Giovanni Giacomo Rossi). Rosa used his prints as a vehicle for advertising his skills, and even tried to sell paintings through his etchings before creating them (cf. Griffiths, p. 260). One aspect of Rosa’s strategic self-marketing was his discipline in selling his prints as series, and most collections of his etchings, in so-called “Rosa albums,” mirror the contents of this album, with the series arranged in the same order. The plates were kept in Rosa’s family, and deposited in the eighteenth century in the Calcografia Apostolica. The resulting scarcity of available impressions left the public unsatisfied; hence the production of imitations, copies and piracies, which made their way into European collections. Some inferior copies were later mistaken for Rosa’s originals (which may have negatively distorted his artistic reputation). In contrast, the engraver and architect Carlo Antonini here presents his luxuriously printed series honestly, for the use of amateurs of design, students of art, or as artists in training, to use as models. Rosa’s influence beyond Italy, particularly in 18th- and 19th-century England, “not only on its art but also on its modes of vision, taste, art criticism and theory philosophy, literature and gardening” (Wallace, p. 108), was largely made possible through the propagation of his etchings, and perhaps even more to the copies of his etchings. Antonini’s skills as a reproductive engraver allowed him to reproduce the overall impact of Rosa’s etchings, from the small, hugely influential Figurine, to the vast, dreamlike etchings of historical or mythological scenes. In Antonini’s version these impressively large prints still fulfill retain Rosa’s intention that they be regarded “as matched pairs, and [they] relate best visually when seen from some distance, especially the largest of them [the last four folded plates in this volume], the Death of Attius Regulus, with the Polycrates, and the Giants with the Oedipus. The latter pair in particular have the scale, sweep, and breadth of monumental paintings, with the Giants being the graphic equivalent of a Roman High Baroque ceiling painting” (Wallace, p. xx). Dedicated to the young Polish count and art collector Stanisław Kostka Potocki, who was living in Rome in 1780, the album contains the 62 small etchings of the Figurine series (on 16 leaves, of which 15 with four etchings per page and one leaf with two etchings), 6 other small prints (on three leaves, two to a page) of Tritons and River Gods, 13 full-page etchings and 4 very large etchings printed on folding full sheets. The larger etchings comprise: Jason and the Dragon; Albert, disciple of St. William of Maleval; Glaucus and Scylla; Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl; Ceres and Phytalos; St. William of Maleval; the Dream of Aeneas; Alexander in the Studio of Apelles; Diogenes casting away his bowl; Democritus in Meditation; Diogenes and Alexander; The Academy of Plato; the Genius of Salvator Rosa; The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus; The Fall of the Giants; The Crucifixion of Polycrates; and The Death of Atilius Regulus, showing him being nailed into a tub by the Carthaginians. The last 10 plates include engraved captions. The suite was also published without text, with the plates printed in black. It is thus often catalogued under the title of the first etching, Salvatoris Rosa Varia et concinna delineamenta. The last four full-sheet prints are sometimes bound with the centerfold hinged to a guard. Copies of this issue in the US are held by the Frick, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, Boston Athenaeum, Houghton, National Gallery of Art, Free Library and CA State (Sacramento); copies of the prints without text are at the Getty, Mills College, and University of Virginia. Bartsch, XX.279.25 (copy); The Illustrated Bartsch, Commentary 4512, Appendix, no. IX, p. 431 (copies); R. W. Wallace, The Etchings of Salvator Rosa (1979), catalogue no. 138, and chapter VII, “The Influence of Salvator Rosa’s Etchings”; M. C. Cola, “La fortuna di Salvator Rosa nel Settecento: la raccolta di incisioni di Carlo Antonini,” Salvator Rosa e il suo tempo (2010), pp. 315-331; A. Griffiiths, “On Some Albums of Etchings by Salvator Rosa,” Print Quarterly, 9, no. 3 (1992): 251–260. JC. Hartley. "On Compiling an Album of Etchings by Salvator Rosa." Print Quarterly 9, no. 3 (1992): 260-67. Thieme Becker 29:1 (Rosa) and 1:576 (Antonini).

“Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung.” In Physikalische Zeitschrift, XVIII, pp. 121-128 by EINSTEIN, Albert

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Title: “Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung.” In Physikalische Zeitschrift, XVIII, pp. 121-128
Author: EINSTEIN, Albert
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, preserved in a morocco slipcase. An excellent clean copy. First edition of this classic work on the quantum theory of radiation by Einstein in which he predicts the existence of the phenomenon of stimulated emission of radiation. He here analyzes the properties of photons and demonsrtrtes that Planck’s law is directly deducible from quantum theory and the concept of transition probabilities. Four decades later MASER and LASER devices are operated to prove him right. Boni 95; Weil, 91.

A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare Engravings in First States and Proofs forming the Collection at 40, Grosvenor Square of… by (TENNANT, Sir Charles, 1st Baronet)

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Title: A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare Engravings in First States and Proofs forming the Collection at 40, Grosvenor Square of…
Author: (TENNANT, Sir Charles, 1st Baronet)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1 p.l., 110 pp. 4to, attractive modern green cloth, upper cover gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g. London: [Chiswick Press], 1898. Second edition, enlarged with recent acquisitions; limited to 75 copies. An earlier, smaller, edition appeared in 1884. Tennant (1823-1906), was a Scottish industrialist who greatly expanded the chemicals company started by his grandfather…He was one of the earliest provincial industrialists to become a major metropolitan figure, and held magnificent parties at his great house in Grosvenor Square.”–ODNB. This catalogue enumerates Tennant’s exceptional collection of hundreds of engravings by artists such as Rembrandt, Joshua Reynolds, and J.M.W. Turner. There is an index of artists at the end. Nice copy printed on fine paper. Inscribed by Tennant: “To Lord Ribblesdale from Charles Tennant, 1st May 1898.” The 4th Baron Ribblesdale (1854-1925), was Tennant’s son-in-law, who married his second daughter Charlotte in 1877. WorldCat locates only three copies in North America.

River of the West. Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, etc. etc by Victor, Frances Fuller [Grinnell, George Bird association]

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Title: River of the West. Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, etc. etc
Author: Victor, Frances Fuller [Grinnell, George Bird association]
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hartford: Columbian Book Company, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. Full brown cloth with gilt stamped bear to front cover, brown clay-coated endpapers, frontispiece of Joseph Meek and both plate and in-text illustrations, 602 pp. + ad for Kane at rear. Professionally restored joints & hinges. Ownership inscription of George Bird Grinnell in pencil to first blank page. Grinnell was deeply interested in both natural history and Native Americans, and this book certainly fits in with his main areas of interest.

BATTLE OF ANGELS by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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Title: BATTLE OF ANGELS
Author: WILLIAMS, Tennessee
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Condition: Small stain on front cover near spine; upper corner of text bumped. Still a Fine, bright copy, rather uncommon in this condition
Description: Murray, UT: Pharos, Spring 1945. First Edition. softcover. Small stain on front cover near spine; upper corner of text bumped. Still a Fine, bright copy, rather uncommon in this condition. Pharos: Numbers 1 & 2. Playwright's first play and first book, a double number of this periodical in original pale blue-gray wraps with yapped edges printed in red.

Recollections of The Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of The Mississippi, From Pittsburg and The Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and From Florida to the Spanish Frontier; in a Series of Letters to Rev. James Flint of Salem Massachusetts by [AMERICANA] FLINT, Timothy

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Title: Recollections of The Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of The Mississippi, From Pittsburg and The Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and From Florida to the Spanish Frontier; in a Series of Letters to Rev. James Flint of Salem Massachusetts
Author: [AMERICANA] FLINT, Timothy
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, 1826. First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Bound in a 20th century institutional brown cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 395pp. The binding is strong, tight, and eminently functional; internally clean, almost entirely untrimmed, endpapers contemporary with the binding, lacking a half-title, there are marginal repairs to the title page which has been laid down onto archival backing, some chipping to the edges of the prelims not interfering with the text, ink ownership stamp of "Jos. H. Alexander, St. Charles, MO" to title page and upper margin of first page, the paper is of sturdy but indifferent quality, and is toned and lightly discolore throughout, with pencil emphasis and corrections in places and an old manuscript biography of Flint to the verso of the final leaf. A good, strong copy of a scarce and important title, with some sophistication, and cosmetic defects. A significant travel account, extremely detailed and coherent, incorporating records of Here is a more academic revision with a formal tone and smoother structure: > New Orleans, Covington, Alexandria, Cape Girardeau, St. Charles, and New Madrid are among the locations he discusses. Flint offers candid observations on a wide range of regional conditions; commerce, slavery, moral practices, geography, agriculture, transportation etc.. He devotes particular attention to the widespread phenomenon of frenzied land speculation.

Sacco and Vanzetti; The Anarchist Background by [ANARCHISM] AVRICH, Paul

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Title: Sacco and Vanzetti; The Anarchist Background
Author: [ANARCHISM] AVRICH, Paul
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 265pp. Minor wear and scuffing to board edges and apine ends, a little residue or soiling to the cloth in places, internally clean with some light staining, in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket. A very good copy. An academic reassessment of the importance of anarchist thought, practice, and community in the Sacco & Vanzetti case.

Independent Courier, Vol. III, No. 47

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Title: Independent Courier, Vol. III, No. 47
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: Ellsworth, Maine: Grant & Moore, 1830. NEWSPAPER]. January 7, 1830. Folio (20" x 14"); [4 pp]; creased edges, previous owner name on top of first page, folded horizontally and vertically at center; good plus. Not found in OCLC. Contents include a description of White House, President Jackson, land claims; descriptions of the east rooms of the President's House, religious articles, mention of President Jackson and his report on the state of the Country, land claims in the west, Indian translations of the Bible and the 209th anniversary of the Pilgrim's landing.

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