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Five Soldiers (The Bathers). Detail from the Battle of Cascina by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564). Michele Lucchese (active 1534-1564) after Agostino Veneziano (1490-1540)

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Seller: Liber Antiquus

Title: Five Soldiers (The Bathers). Detail from the Battle of Cascina
Author: MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564). Michele Lucchese (active 1534-1564) after Agostino Veneziano (1490-1540)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Rome: Michele Lucchese, ca. 1534-, 1564. SECOND STATE (of 5). With “Michaelan/gelus. Buona/rotus. Inuentor” on the plaque at center and “.M.L./cum priuile-/gio.” on the slab at lower right. Hardcover. Fine. A fine, rich impression and a very fine example, with ample margins and only some marginal blemishes. This is a reversed copy of an engraving by Agostino Veneziano (1490-1540), published in 1523, of five figures from Michelangelo’s cartoon for the Battle of Cascina, a grouping sometimes referred to as “the bathers”. The drummers seen in the distance, which Vasari tells us appeared in Michelangelo’s original cartoon, show that Veneziano was either familiar with Michelangelo’s original -now lost- or with early copies made from it. “The cartoon created by Michelangelo between 1504 and 1505 for the fresco that, together with Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari, was supposed to decorate the Hall of the Great Council (Salone dei Cinquecento) in the Palazzo della Signoria (Palazzo Vecchio) in Florence, was dismembered and dispersed within a decade of its completion. “Prepared and drawn in the great hall of the Hospital of Sant'Onofrio, the cartoon was displayed for some time in the Palazzo della Signoria, in what was to have been its final location, and from there it was first taken to the Sala del Papa at Santa Maria Novella, then—before 1515—to the family palace on Via Larga, ‘in the great hall above’ (Vasari, Michelangelo, ed. 1962, ii, p. 261). Several artists were able to access it during this period and, even after its dismemberment, to copy it. “The most complete visual record of the lost composition is the grisaille by Bastiano (called Aristotile) da Sangallo, preserved in Norfolk and identifiable as the "chiaroscuro oil painting" painted by Bastiano in 1542 "at the persuasion of Giorgio Vasari, his close friend.”(Vasari, ed. 1966-1987, v, 1984, p. 393). “The cartoon's popularity through prints, however, is limited to single figures or groups of figures and can be traced, as far as signed or clearly attributed works are concerned, to the work of two engravers: Marcantonio Raimondi for the foreground of the leftmost part of the composition (a group often referred to as the “climbers”, and Agostino Veneziano for the standing soldier dressing and the righthand part of the composition (the group referred to as the “bathers”). “It is now widely believed that Raimondi personally examined the original during his journey from Bologna to Rome in early 1509… The circumstances under which Agostino Veneziano learned about Michelangelo's model are still unclear. His first engraving with a subject from the Battle of Cascina is from 1517, shortly after his arrival in Rome in 1516 (Minonzio, 1990). It is possible, as Konrad Oberhuber suggested (in Raffaello in Vaticano, 1984, p. 333), that a complete drawing of all the bathers by Raimondi was available in his workshop, where Agostino worked, but it is more likely that he encountered the work during his Florentine period (1515-1516), when Veneziano engraved for Andrea del Sarto and Bandinelli, the latter of whom, according to Vasari, ‘having a forged key’ had regular access to Michelangelo’s original cartoon… “This successful print is the subject of a curious critical history. As highlighted in the bibliography section (below), it has been sometimes treated as the work of Michele Lucchese, at times as the work of an anonymous artist close to Agostino Veneziano, whose monogram was added (as has been laboriously reconstructed after examining many examples) only towards the end of the sixteenth century, after the edition published by Pietro de' Nobili… “The first state, as often with the works of Michele Lucchese (ALBERTI, 2014-2015), has no inscriptions; the second state [the one offered here] refers to Michelangelo as inventor and has Michele Lucchese's privilege (“.M.L. cum privilegio”); the third state shows that the plate passed to the publisher Pietro de' Nobili in the 1580s. Subsequently, the Lucchese mark and de' Nobili's address were erased, and Veneziano's false date and monogram were added. A large number of the copies found belong to the late eighteenth-century edition edited by Carlo Losi, who engraved his name on the matrix in 1773 (and whose sales catalog still lists it in 1790, Index, 1790, p. 8, no. 7), but which, very curiously, has been systematically erased from the paper on the prints. Subsequently, all trace of the plate was lost: It is not difficult to imagine that, given the obscene subject matter, it may have been among the coppers sent to be melted down in the Tivoli copperworks by order of Leo XII, Pope from 1823 to 1829 (we have not conducted any archival research in this regard).”(Alberti, Rovetta, and Salsi, “D'après Michelangelo”(2015), p. 22 ff., and catalogue number 12.).

The Health of the Child is the Power of the Nation by Mora, Francis Luis - POSTER DESIGN

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Title: The Health of the Child is the Power of the Nation
Author: Mora, Francis Luis - POSTER DESIGN
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; some buckling. Excellent color.
Description: April, 1918. Unique. As accomplished; tacked into a frame (easily removed).. Very good; some buckling. Excellent color.. 17 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches (painted surface). Gouache on paper board. The original art for the Year of the Child poster. Signed by Mora. The "year of the child" was declared by Woodrow Wilson to be 1918. This the result of the failure rate of recruits to the armed services in their medical examinations. Wilson's declaration was the first step in efforts to improve the health of the public and especially young men. The execution fell to the US Children's Bureau and Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. The Bureau was established in 1912 to, " ... investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children ...." It became a center for public health initiatives. The Council was established in 1916 to coordinate resources and industries for the war effort. Numerous subordinate agencies and committees were formed. Evolving out of the National American Woman Suffrage Association the Woman's Committee - in structure and resource - was almost pre-formed. As a result it was very effective in marshalling the clubs and associations of women across the nation to further Wilson's purpose. Pursuant to this Francis Luis Mora designed this poster to advertise the bureau (the poster was issued with modified text well into the 1930s - see LC website for the entry) as well as poster work for the bond campaigns for the Liberty Loan boards (under the direction of the Committee for Public Information). He was a well established artist and illustrator before and after WWI with numerous public and private commissions.

New , Easy, and Complete Grammar of the Spanish Language Commercial and Military by Mordente, J E

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Title: New , Easy, and Complete Grammar of the Spanish Language Commercial and Military
Author: Mordente, J E
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A good copy with some wear to the binding.
Description: London: Lackington ...., 1813. Third Edition.. full contemp. calf.. A good copy with some wear to the binding.. 12mo. A grammar and vocabulary directed at merchants and military men.

The Fall River Tragedy by Porter, Edwin H.

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Title: The Fall River Tragedy
Author: Porter, Edwin H.
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Fall River, MA: Geo. R.H. Buffington, 1893. Hardcover. 212 pp. Title on cover faded. Owned by Lizzie D. Estabrook, 292 Pine Street, Fall River, Mass. It appears Estabrook lived in Fall River at the time of the murders. Pine Street is a three minute walk to the Borden house. Interestingly when Borden was acquitted, she went to the home of Charles Holmes who lived on Pine St. for a reception.

Tim and the Dusty Man by Ames, Mrs. Ernest

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Title: Tim and the Dusty Man
Author: Ames, Mrs. Ernest
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: Grant Richards, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Assumed First Edition, no mention of later printing. Scarce. Good book, shows minor wear, stains and scratches on front and back cover, water damage on front cover, light foxing on front free end paper, darkening on edges of pages, darkening on spine, binding is showing on front and back pastedown, tear on last two page of book, rubbing on all corners of front and back cover and edges of spine, and stamp on second to last page of book.

Agricultural Chemistry for Young Farmers. by Johnson, Cuthbert.

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Title: Agricultural Chemistry for Young Farmers.
Author: Johnson, Cuthbert.
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Book. London: James Ridgeway, [1843]. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. Pp. 92, uncut. A fine copy. Sole edition of a rare little work, by the respected agricultural authority and author of the popular Farmer's Encyclopedia. A choice copy. Not in the NUC..

TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS A printer's journey through a half century, 1925-1975 by Blumenthal, Joseph. (Spiral Press)

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Title: TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS A printer's journey through a half century, 1925-1975
Author: Blumenthal, Joseph. (Spiral Press)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Frederic C. Biel, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket, inscribed by typographer and book designer Joe Blumenthal to Mike McCabe, owner of the former Lion's Head Books in Salisbury CT, the premises of which are now Johnnycake Books: "for Mike best of country neighbors. Joe Spiral April / '83" Bluemnthal in his signatur eis referring, of course, to his Spiral Press, and the neighbors refers to the NW corner of Connecticut, where Salisbury is, and where McCabe and Blumenthal had homes, in Falls Village and Cornwall, respectively. BOOK ARTS TYPOGRAPHY BOOK DESIGN PRINTING HISTORY.

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