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Imperatorum romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines by Strada, Jacopo (1507-1588); Gessner, Andreas (1513-1559)

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Title: Imperatorum romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines
Author: Strada, Jacopo (1507-1588); Gessner, Andreas (1513-1559)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Zurich: Andreas Gessner, 1559. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum (mild soiling, a bit rumpled, re-cased, endpapers renewed, lacking ties), the boards blind-ruled with a large central compartment with small tools at the corners and a central armorial stamp. (re-cased, endpapers renewed) A fine copy with light marginal soiling and minor foxing. The individual leaves are on guards, with some early staining and small paper flaws in the innermost part of the gutter. Discreet marginal paper repairs to title, leaves of first gathering, and final leaf (decorative border at bottom of final leaf perhaps inlaid from another copy). With the bookplate of the German mathematician Constantin Carathédory (1873-1950) on the front pastedown; ink stamp on the title page verso of the Ducal Library of Gotha. A landmark in numismatic literature and the history of coin collecting. Magnificently illustrated with 118 extremely large woodcut medallion portraits of Roman, Carolingian, and Holy Roman emperors, surrounded by inscriptions in imitation of coins. Each portrait image is set within an elaborate ornamental frame with grotesques, putti, cherubs, and arrangements of fruit. The woodcut borders, signed R W (with a quill pen) and HR MD (with a wood engraver's knife) are, according to Nagler, the work of the Zürich woodcutter and painter Rudolf Wyssenbach (active 1545-1560) and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-1571). The text pages, which also have woodcut borders, also feature elaborate decorative patterns, designed for intarsia and metalwork by Peter Flötner, and first printed in his "Kunstbuch"(Zurich, 1549). The title page border (signed C.S.) is by Christoph Schweitzer (active 1558-1562), and was possibly designed by Jos Murer (1530-1580). I. "The Most Accurate Likenesses of All of the Roman Emperors of the Eastern and Western Empires"(1559) SOLE EDITION of this masterpiece of book design by the Swiss publisher Andreas Gessner, inspired by the numismatic encyclopedia compiled by the antiquarian, goldsmith, architect, collector and antiquities dealer Jacopo Strada (1507-1588). The book shares strong affinities with Strada's great, unpublished, multi-volume thesaurus of coins and medals (about which see below), which had been commissioned by the German banker, collector, and art patron Hans Jacob Fugger (1516-1557). In 1553, Jacopo Strada had published an epitome of his growing numismatic collection in a quarto volume entitled "Epitome Thesauri Antiquitatum", which featured coin-sized (4 cm.) woodcuts of 391 of imperial coins from his collection. These were accompanied by letterpress transcriptions of the coins' inscriptions and biographies of the subjects. In 1557, Andreas Gessner printed a new edition of Strada's "Epitome", also with small woodcuts. For his monumental 1559 "Imagines"("The Most Accurate Likenesses of All of the Roman Emperors of the Eastern and Western Empires"), Gessner reprinted Strada's biographies and inscriptions. For the 118 woodcut medallion portraits, Gessner drew from the images in Strada's "Epitome" as well as the important coin books of Andrea Fulvio (1517), Johann Huttich (1534), and Guillaume Rouille (1553). He has also copied some actual coins. In his introduction to this 1559 volume, Andreas Gessner explains his motivations for producing this book of nearly life-sized Roman imperial portraits, executed in profile in the manner or coins and medals. Gessner tells us that he had been working for some time on portraits of the Roman emperors to be used as decoration -in the manner of Paolo Giovio- in dining rooms and banqueting halls. The grand, single-sheet portraits in the "Imagines" can now serve this function for purchasers wishing to decorate their own homes (presumably they are to serve as models for artists to render paintings.) The lives of the emperors, taken from Jacopo Strada's illustrated "Epitome" of his coin collection, will edify and provide grist for dinner conversation. For the antiquarian interested in numismatics, Gessner set out to improve upon earlier coin books, in which the coins and medals were illustrated by small woodcuts. These required keen eyesight to study. The much larger format of the "Imagines" has allowed for more accurate depictions of the emperors and, consequently, will make consultation of the portraits much easier. Gessner has divided his series into three "classes": the ancient emperors from Julius Caesar to Constantine; from Constantine to Charlemagne; and from Charlemagne to the reigning emperor, Ferdinand I. Although the last portrait is that of Ferdinand's brother and predecessor, Charles V (abdicated 1556, died 1558), the inscription reads "Charles reigns in the west Ferdinand in the east. How well is rule divided between two brothers!" I. The Paper Museum: Gessner's "Imagines" & Strada's "Magnum ac Novum Opus": "I have not limited myself merely to know the names and to recognize the portraits of the ancient personalities [depicted on the coins], but have learnt by long and assiduous study not only to draw them on paper, but also to model them both in gold and other metals and in marble." -Jacopo Strada to King Maximilian II, June 1559 A renowned antiquarian and artist, Jacopo Strada served as official antiquary to three emperors: Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II. He was an avid collector of antiquities, particularly of coins, and served as an agent for great collectors, most notably the German banker and arts patron Hans Jacob Fugger (1516-1557). In Titian's well-known portrait of Strada, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, the richly-dressed antiquarian is shown handling an ancient sculpture over a table on which lies another, fragmentary sculpture and a number of coins. Beginning around 1550, Strada began work on his monumental 36-volume manuscript catalogue of imperial medals and coins, commissioned by Hans Jacob Fugger (1516-1557), titled "Magnum ac Novum Opus continens descriptionem imaginum, numismatum omnium tam Orientalium quam Occidentalium Imperatorum ac Tyrannorum". Strada's manuscript "includes more than 9,000 large and very detailed illustrations of coins and medals executed in pen and ink on folio. Together with the rest of Fugger's library and collection, the volumes became the property of Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria in 1566." The catalogue is "the most comprehensive corpus of ancient coins and medals composed during the sixteenth century. Therefore, it constitutes one of the central works in the history of numismatics as a scholarly discipline."(Heenes, Jacopo da Strada) Strada, His Network, & His Sources: "Strada's understanding of the antiquary as a profession was not limited to numismatics, his own specialism... Besides documenting ancient coins, Strada himself also engaged in measuring Roman ruins and commissioned documentation of ancient sculpture and other figurative antiquities from other artists, implying that all such remains of ancient civilizations were worthy of careful study and were relevant to his 'profession' as an antiquary. Strada asserted that the knowledge of such material remains, and the art of correctly interpreting them, required both practical experience and specialized knowledge. These are professional qualifications... "Born in Mantua around 1515, in his youth Strada travelled widely in Italy and perhaps beyond, and then around 1540 moved to Germany, where he lived and worked in Nuremberg. In the early 1550s he again spent some years in travel, living in Lyon, Rome and Venice. Even after 1558, when he settled in Vienna as architect and antiquary to Emperor Ferdinand I, his business affairs often took him to Germany and Italy. On the basis of the provenances Strada gives for the coins he illustrates, it is possible not only to reconstruct in part his own, personal coin collection, but also to find out more about some of the most important collections of the mid-sixteenth century, for example those of his teacher Giulio Romano, of Antonio Agustín, Archbishop of Tarragona, and of the antiquarian Enea Vico. "In 1553, Strada travelled from Lyon, where he met Guillaume Du Choul and Sebastiano Serlio, to Rome. In the eternal city, he acquired antiquities during the following two years on behalf of his patron Johann Jakob Fugger, and amassed an extensive collection of drawings of antiquarian and artistic content. This collection, which may be considered a predecessor of Cassiano dal Pozzo's Museo cartaceo ("paper museum"), formed the basis of a very ambitious programme of publications, which however failed. Strada's commission of the numismatic drawings for the 'Magnum Opus' was an integral part of this programme of collecting of documentation, as it is clear from a description of Strada's activities in the 'Trattato della pittura' of the artist Giovanni Battista Armenini, who had been part of the team."(Heenes, "Jacopo Strada's 'Magnum Opus ac Novum Opus': a Sixteenth-century Numismatic Corpus") For a comprehensive treatment of Strada, see Dirk Jacob Hansen, "Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court" (2019) Note: It has been conjectured by some that it was Strada who planned this deluxe edition as a tribute to his new patron, Ferdinand I of Austria, elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1556, who owned an important numismatic collection. Ferdinand took Strada into his service in the spring of 1558 and, in 1560, appointed him imperial architect for the emperor's projects in Vienna. But in the absence of a dedication by Strada and the clear intention of the publisher, this is unlikely.

Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu A.-C. Patu de Mello, suivi de la Notice d'une Collection précieuse d'Instrumens de Physique, de Chymie, de Mathématiques, d'Astronomie, d'Optique, etc. provenant de sa Succession by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: PATU DE MELLO, André Claude)

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Title: Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu A.-C. Patu de Mello, suivi de la Notice d'une Collection précieuse d'Instrumens de Physique, de Chymie, de Mathématiques, d'Astronomie, d'Optique, etc. provenant de sa Succession
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: PATU DE MELLO, André Claude)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: xii, [3], 250 pp.; 8 pp. Two vols. 8vo, attractive antique mottled half-calf & grey boards, spines gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spines. Paris: Veuve Tilliard et Fils, n.d. [sale: 20 Feb. 1800]. Very rare. “Ce catalogue renferme des articles précieux. M. André-Claude Patu de Mello, ancien payeur des rentes de l’hôtel-de-ville de Paris, né en 1726, est mort en 1799…M. Patu de Mello…possédoit un très beau cabinet de machines de physique et d’astronomie.”–Peignot, p. 117. Patu de Mello had strong scientific interests and the catalogue of his library lists 1957 lots, which for the largest part consisted of books on natural history, medicine, and the physical sciences. It is followed by the catalogue of his scientific instruments, here separately bound, describing 77 lots of magnets, electrical machines, barometers, thermometers, microscopes, astronomical instruments, and pendulums. The catalogue contains interesting notes concerning provenance, questions of bibliographical priority, and medical curiosities. Fine set. With the three-page schedule of the sale. ❧ Gustave Brunet, Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique, col. 509–“Collection importante sur la physique et les sciences naturelles.” Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions...1643-1830, 402.

Cuffee Whipple to please to let me have two Dollares for me to get a hoggs head of flour June 3rd 2 $ [signed] Dinah Whipple by Whipple, Dinah (Portsmouth, New Hampshire]

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Title: Cuffee Whipple to please to let me have two Dollares for me to get a hoggs head of flour June 3rd 2 $ [signed] Dinah Whipple
Author: Whipple, Dinah (Portsmouth, New Hampshire]
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Portsmouth, N. H.], n.d.. Very Good. Small unevenly oblong document torn from a larger sheet. Approx. 19 x 7 cm. Incomplete notation on back: "To Cuffee Whipp." Text clearly readable. Dinah Chase, an African American, was born circa 1760 enslaved by Peter Chase, a Congregational minister in New Hampshire. After Dinah, who could read and write, was freed by her owner in 1781, she moved to nearby Portsmouth, New Hampshire where she married Prince Whipple. Prince, a formerly enslaved African American, had come to America as a child, and is generally regarded as having been accompanied by Cuffee, a younger brother or cousin. Prince served honorably in the Revolutionary War with his enslaver William Whipple, who later rose to the rank of General and who promised to free Prince after his service (and did so). Prince died in 1796. Cuffee had been enslaved by aother Whipple (Joseph) and was also freed after the revolution. He is decribed as a talented musician. Dinah opened a school a decade or so later after the death of Prince. The school known as the Ladies Charitable African School may have been in Dinah's home which was owned by the Whipples and was at one point occupied by Prince and Dinah and Cuffee and his wife Rebecca. It seems clear tha Dinah was not prosperous, especially after the death of Prince. Earnings, if any, from the school would have been meager. This document which probably dates sometime after the death of Prince, suggests that Dinah asked Cuffee for help from time to time.

The Atlas: A Select Literary And Historical Journal, Volume IV

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Title: The Atlas: A Select Literary And Historical Journal, Volume IV
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fair (boards heavily scuffed, scratched, rubbed & stained. leather corners harshly rubbed & stained; lower front discolored/blac
Description: New York: T.D. Porter & E. Prescott, 1831. Hardcover. Fair (boards heavily scuffed, scratched, rubbed & stained. leather corners harshly rubbed & stained; lower front discolored/blackened. leather spine highly scuffed, scratched & rubbed; ends rubbed. front end paper has large area torn & removed; back endpaper is a fragment with what appears to be remnants of pg 415.). overzied blue boards w/ red leather spine & corners; gilt spine printing. 414 pgs. Both hinges split with majority of joints intact; front hinge has one cracked joint and the board is very rattled. Dampstaining evident to front endpapers, title page and opening pages. Pages aged tanned with varying intensities of spotted and speckled foxing; foxing is primarily isolated to page edges, but there are instances of light to dark spots and speckles to text. Text remains dark and detailed. This volume comprises the year 1831 through '32.

Bust-length photograph of the noted Austrian composer and conductor in formal attire, cigarette in hand, signed, inscribed "Herrn Emil Mösslinger allerherzlichst," and dated September [19]65 by STOLZ, Robert 1880-1975

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Title: Bust-length photograph of the noted Austrian composer and conductor in formal attire, cigarette in hand, signed, inscribed "Herrn Emil Mösslinger allerherzlichst," and dated September [19]65
Author: STOLZ, Robert 1880-1975
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Ca. 148 x 105 mm. Very slight smudging to one syllable of inscription and first letter of signature, not affecting legibility; minor annotations in pencil and slight remnants of adhesive to verso. "Besides his stage and film works [Stolz] composed several hundred individual songs and dances, and received many honours including Academy Awards, honorary citizenship of Vienna (1970) and a statue in his native city (1972). Stolz's longevity and his extensive promotion of his own music on LPs have led to him being ranked among the leading names of classical Viennese operetta. However, his more ambitious scores are less effective than the lighter songs he wrote for films and song-and-dance musicals, where he was able to display his melodic touch and rhythmic invention to particular effect." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.

Petits animaux by [ANONYMOUS]

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Title: Petits animaux
Author: [ANONYMOUS]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Zurich: Max Künzli Verlag, 1970. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 12mo (6 5/16" x 7"); [12pp]; chromolithographed pictorial of anthropomorphic insects on stiff wrapper, a butterfly wedding on the front, and a queen bee riding on a flower petal on the rear; 2 staple binding; produced as a coloring guide book with text, color pictorial to one page and the facing page in black outline; light crease to bottom corner; near fine. Not recorded. The publisher, Max Künzli, of Zurich, Switzerland, had a long history of high quality chromolithography. The family was in the printing business from before 1880, and established several companies in Zurich. After his father's death, Max took over the management of the business, Carl Künzli-Tobler, and changed the name to Max Künzli. Max's son, Raymond, took over the business in 1965, and it closed in 1974. [Alan Petrulis, Metropostcards (dot) com]. During its heyday, it was known as a printer of viewbooks, greeting cards, and postcards, most notably, what became known as the Mainzer Cat series after Alfred Mainzer Inc of New York acquired the rights of these humorous drawings by artist Eugen Hartung. The dressed, anthropomorphic cats continue to be a highly collected postcard series today. Following in this vein of humorous anthropomorphic animals, this little coloring book features insects, reptiles, birds, and small mammals involved in play. Not in any WorldCat library and not found in the marketplace.

thru the blue wall. by ABRAMSON, Martin A.

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Title: thru the blue wall.
Author: ABRAMSON, Martin A.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: NY: (np), (1965).. First edition.. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Short poems, most only a few words. Epigraph reads, "We're finally doing waiting. -Mac Low.

SUSANNAH AND ONE OTHER by Albanesi, E. Maria

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Title: SUSANNAH AND ONE OTHER
Author: Albanesi, E. Maria
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Description: New York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. Very Good. 1904. Hardcover. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. 324pp., a clean, Very Good copy, no DJ. .

To The Keeper of the House of Correction, At Barking, In the County.. by Poor Law; Great Britain

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Title: To The Keeper of the House of Correction, At Barking, In the County..
Author: Poor Law; Great Britain
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Description: 1800. [Poor Law]. [Great Britain]. To The Keeper of the House of Correction, At Barking, In the County of Essex, To Receive and Convey; And to the Church-Wardens, Chapel-Wardens, And Overseers of the Poor of the Parish, Place or Precinct of _____ in the _____ of _____ or Either of Them, To receive and Obey. [London]: Johnson, Printer, Whitechapel Rd., [c. 1800-1810]. 4 pp. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Light soiling, some toning and faint dampstaining to margins, small chip to fore-edge. $25. * Partly printed two-part blank document for conveying "vagrants" to overseers of the poor. Blank forms such as these are interesting and scarce survivals that provide insight into their production and use.

The Noh Drama: Ten Plays from the Japanese: Selected and Translated by the Special Noh Committee, Japanese Classics Translation Committee, Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai

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Title: The Noh Drama: Ten Plays from the Japanese: Selected and Translated by the Special Noh Committee, Japanese Classics Translation Committee, Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sixth printing. 192pp. Purple cloth edges mildly sunned, else fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear. "Unesco Collection of Representative Works: Japanese Series.

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