100 books : The collection of a Gentleman

100 books : The collection of a Gentleman

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  • [Facsimile] Dante.  Codice Cassinese della Divina
    Lot 49

    Alighieri Dante, Il Codice Cassinese della Divina Commedia per la prima volta letteralmente messo a stampa per cura dei monaci Benedettini, Monte Cassino: Tipografia di Montecassino, 1865.


    4to grande (mm 385x265). Pagine [4], LV, 592, [2]. Portrait of Dante and many photographic facsimiles of Dante's Code and others of the Archivio Cassinese.


  • [Art]  Pottier .  Histoire de la faience de Rouen
    Lot 50

    Pottier, Andre. Histoire de la faience de Rouen / par Andre' Pottier ; ouvrage posthume publié par les soins de l'abbé Colas, Gustave Gouellain, & Raymond Bordeaux . Rouen : A. Le Brumet, 1870.

    4to, full calf binding, with gilt decoration at boards, pp. XII, 420, LVIII plates.


    Important reference work on the Ceramics of Rouen.


  • [Map, Travels] Bergamo, 1896
    Lot 51

    Pianta topo-idrografica della citta' di Bergamo e sobborghi dell'Istituto Geografico Militare, compilata e disegnata dall'Ing. Roberto Fuzier nel 1896, 1:5000

  • [History - Croatia] Montona. 1875
    Lot 52

    Kandler, Pietro. Notizie storiche di Montona : con appendice / [di] Pietro Kandler. Trieste : Tip. del Lloyd austro-ungarico, 1875

    4to, half leather on coloured paper, pp. 289, 1 folded plate. At title page :” Sul front.: Edito per cura del Municipio di Montona ;

  • [Novels] Contes et Nouvelles, 1879
    Lot 53

    Illustrated collection of French Novel

    Contes et nouvelles en vers. Rouen : Lemonnyer, 1879.

    2vols, decorated paper on board, pp. IV, 268, V, 309, 2 engraved portrait vignettes on title pages, 76 text coppers. One of a total of 354 copies.

    Nice collection of illustrated novel by Voltaire, Vergier, Seneca, Perrault, Moncrif, Ducerceau, Grecourt, Saint Lambert, etc.

  • [Biography] Comte de Hoym, 1880
    Lot 54

    6 Plates

    Vie de Charles-Henry Comte de Hoym ambassadeur de Saxe-Pologne en France 1694-1736 : publie par la societe des Bibliophiles francois. Paris : chez Techener, 1880


    2 VOLS, Contemporary half calf bindng on handcoloured paper, Vol I, XXXIX, 247 p. ; 26 cm; Vol 2 VIII, 359 p.

    6 plates (3 folding)


    Provenance: paper ex libris A.L. McLaughhlin pasted at front inside board



  • [Heraldry] Albanes, Armorial, 1884
    Lot 55

    Albanes, Joseph Hyacinthe. Armorial et sigillographie des eveques de Marseille avec des notices historiques sur chacun de ces prelats / Joseph Hycacinthe Albanes. Marseille : M. Olive, 1884.

    4to, contempory half calf in red morocco, on handmade paper, pp. XV, 192.



    Armorial and sigillography of the bishops of Marseille with historical notes on each of these prelates.

    Vignettes in black along the text, numerous reproductions of coats of arms and seals.

  • [Art] Die kunstschätze Italiens, 1884
    Lot 56

    Karl Friedrich Arnold von Lützow. Die kunstschatze Italiens : in geographisch-historischer Uebersicht geschildert. Gera : C.B. Griesbach, [1884]

    Folio, red leather binding, cc 7, pp. 520, 50 plates.


    Wonderful etchings, representing a beautiful journey through the art of Italy, not only representing masterpiece of arts, but also landscape and buildings in different italian cities, Milan, Venice, Verona, etc.


  • [Maps] Central europe, 1885
    Lot 57

    FRANZ, J. Post- und Eisenbahn-Reise-Karte von Central-Europa nach Handtke`s Post- und Reise-Karte . Glogau, Carl Flemming 1884.

    [80 x 70]. Contemporary yellow card paper boarding.


    Colored German Post and railway travel map of Central Europe, in 28 folding parts

  • [Art] Maillard, 1898
    Lot 58

    Leon Maillard. Les menus et programmes illustres : invitations, billets de faire part, cartes d'adresse, petites estampes du XVIIe siecle jusqu'a nos jours . Paris : Boudet [etc.], 1898.

    4to, quarter calf binding on coloured paper pp. VIII, 402 .

    Over 460 reproductions, many in color.


    A splendid and dynamic presentation of wining and dining. A survey of the art of menus and theatre programmes during the Belle Epoque.


  • [Art] Venturi, 1901
    Lot 59

    First Edition


    Venturi, Adolfo.Storia dell'arte italiana. Milano, Hoepli, 1901-40.

    4to, contemporary original paper binding by Giuseppe Cellini, Duilio Cambellotti, Edoardo Gioia and Giulio Cisari, preserved inside a xx century full calf binding by Gozzi, 11 parts in 25 volumes. About 18.000 images along the text.

    FIRST EDITION of this monumental and still very authoritative work that deals with the history of Italian art from the beginnings of Christian art to the sixteenth century. .


  • [Art] Musee National du Louvre. Donation du Baron de
    Lot 60

    ROTHSCHILD Baron Adolphe de. Musee National du Louvre. Donation du Baron de Rothschild. Catalogue par Emile Molinier. Paris Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts - Emile Levy 1902.

    Folio, green paper binding (slightly worn), pp 40, portrait of baron de Rothschild, 37 plates (8 colored), UNCUT.

  • [Poetry]  Under   the   Hill , 1904
    Lot 61

    First UK Edition

    Beardsley, Aubrey. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse. London: John Lane Publisher the Bodley Head, 1904



    4to, Publisher's original bright ocean-blue cloth with bold peacock-feather designs in gilt on upper cover, top edge gilt, Photographic frontispiece portrait of Beardsley at Mentone and 16 full page illustrations.



    Under the Hill is an unfinished erotic novel by Aubrey Beardsley, based on the legend of Tannhäuser. The first parts of it were published in The Savoy and later issued in book form



    Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872-16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death from tuberculosis.

  • [Facsimile] Messale del Cardinale di Aragona, 1906
    Lot 62

    Il messale miniato del Card. Nicolo' Roselli, detto il cardinale d'Aragona.Torino, Bocca, 1906

    Folio, quarter calf binding on coloured paper, pp 31.

    134 plates reproducing in black and white the renowned manuscript, now at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria in Torino.

  • [Art] Bronze Statues, 1906
    Lot 63

    Die italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance. Berlin : Verlag von Bruno Cassirer, 1906-1912.

    3 volumes folio, contemporary paper boards, 264 plates



    Important historical publication and inventory catalogue of the figurative bronze works of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, today's Bode-Museum with an introductory essay "The bronze art of the late Renaissance" by Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929).



  • [Numismatics] CORPUS NUMMORUM. 1910-1940
    Lot 64

    Rare complete set

    CORPUS NUMMORUM ITALICORUM Primo tentativo di un Catalogo generale delle monete medievali e moderne coniate in Italia, o da italiani all'estero. Roma : Accademia dei Lincei : [then] Cecchini : [then] Colombo. 1910-1940.

    Volumes I-XX, complete. Full stiff vellum binding with gilt titles.


    The standard reference on Italian coins from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.

    Vol. I: Casa Savoia - Vol. II: Piemonte-Sardegna - Vol. III: Liguria-Isola di Corsica - Vol. IV: Lombardia (Zecche minori) - Vol. V: Lombardia (Milano) - Vol. VI: Veneto (Zecche minori), Dalmazia, Albania - Vol. VII: Veneto (Venezia), parte I - Vol. VIII: Veneto (Venezia), parte II - Volume IX: Emilia. Parte I (Parma, Piacenza, Modena, Reggio) - Vol. X: Emilia. Parte II (Bologna e Ferrara, Ravenna e Rimini) - Vol. XI: Toscana (Zecche minori) - Vol. XII: Toscana (Firenze) - Vol. XIII: Marche - Vol. XIV: Umbria - Vol. XV: Roma. Parte I - Vol. XVI: Roma. Parte II - Vol. XVII: Roma. Parte III - Vol. XVIII: Italia meridionale continentale (Zecche minori) - Vol. XIX: Italia meridionale continentale (Napoli). Parte I - Vol. XX: Italia meridionale continentale (Napoli). Parte II.



  • [Art] Les dessins de Jacopo Bellini, 1912
    Lot 65

    Goloubew, Victor. Les dessins de Jacopo Bellini au Louvre et au British Museum. I. Le livres d'esquisses de Londres. II. Le livres d'esquisses de Paris. Bruxelles : G. Van Oest & C.ie, 1908-1912.


    2 vols Folio, quarter vellum binding on green paper, gilt title at board, titles printed in black at spine,


    Monumental publication about the famous Venetian painter Jacopo Bellini, 234 plates preceded by an explanatory note for each work.


  • [Art] Lemoisne. Eugene Lami , 1912
    Lot 66

    Lemoisne, Paul-Andre'. Eugene Lami : 1800-1890 . Paris : Goupil ; Manzi, Joyant, 1912.

    Folio, full leather binding with gilt decorations, pp. 206.

    Copy # 367 out of 500


    Illustrations from original paintings and drawings of Lami.

    Eugene Louis Lami (12 January 1800 - 19 December 1890) was a French painter, watercolorist, lithographer, illustrator and designer. He was a painter of fashionable Paris during the period of the July Monarchy and the Second French Empire and also made history paintings and illustrations for books such as Gil Blas and Manon Lescaut.

  • [Art] Disegni della  Galleria degli Uffizi, 1913-1922
    Lot 67

    Disegni della R. Galleria degli Uffizi in Firenze. Firenze, Leo S Olschki, Editore, 1913-22

    10 parts in 10 volumes in folio, red quarter calf on handmade paper at boards.

    488 plates, many with two mounted illustrations representing the drawing collection at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, in original colors.

  • [Bibliography] Fumagalli, L'Arte della Legatura , 1913
    Lot 68

    FUMAGALLI, Giuseppe. L'Arte della Legatura alla Corte degli Estensi, a Ferrara e a Modena, dal Sec. XV al XIX, col catalogo delle legature pregevoli della Biblioteca Estense di Modena . Florence: Stabilimento Tipografico Aldino for Libreria Antiquaria T. de Marinis, 1913.



    Folio, half calf on colored paper, 32 plates in B&W and 11 illustration along the text

  • [Art] Frans Hals. His life and work, 1914
    Lot 69

    Wilhelm von Bode; M J Binder. Frans Hals; his life and work. Berlin: Photographsche Gesellschaft, 1914.


    2 vols in folio, quarter vellum binding on cloth boards, edited by Wilhelm von Bode. With an essay by M.J. Binder.



    Translated by Maurice Walter Brockwell. Title-page in red and black.
    "The English edition of this work is limited to thirty-five copies on handmade Japanese paper, numbered 1 to 35, and two hundred copies on handmade Van Gelder paper, numbered 1 to 200.

    This copy is printed on Van Gelder paper numbered 71.


    Frans Hals the Elder (1582 - 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture. He is known for his loose painterly brushwork

  • [Art] Bronzi Italiani, 1922
    Lot 70

    Bronzi italiani : (Trecento-Settecento) / pubblicati da Lodovico Pollak ; con prefazione di Guglielmo Bode. Roma : [s.n.], 1922 [Bergamo : Istituto italiano d'arti Grafiche].

    Folio, full leather binding, gilt title on leather label at spine, gilt ruler and central decoration at boards, pp. 150, 50 plates.


    109 illustrations of bronzes on L plates


    Printed in 150 copies signed by Alfredo Barsanti and Lodovico Pollak this superb catalog from the collection of the Roman antiquarian.


    Important work on statuary from the XIV to the XVIII Century from the collection of Alfredo Barsanti, still kept in the museums of Palazzo Venezia, with preface by Wilhelm Bode.


  • [Art, Bronze] Camillo Castiglioni, 1923
    Lot 71

    Castiglioni, Camillo. Catalogo dei bronzi / con introduzione e note descrittive di Leo Planiscig. Vienna : A. Schroll, 1923.

    Folio, quarter calf on red colored paper, pp. 52, 105 plates. Images by Martino Gerlach.



    Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of bronze statues by Camillo Castiglioni based on two cornerstones: on the one hand the Paduan workshop by Riccio, on the other Giambologna and the Florentine school.



    Camillo Castiglioni (22 October 1879 - 18 December 1957) was an Italian-Austrian Jewish financier and banker, and was the wealthiest man in Central Europe during World War I.

    Nicknamed "Austrian Stinnes", he was active in aviation's pioneering days and invested in the arts. Castiglioni was credited as being instrumental to the founding of what would eventually become BMW AG.



  • [Art] Mac Orlan, Pierre. Malice, 1924
    Lot 72

    Mac Orlan, Pierre. Malice . Paris : H. Jonquieres & Cie, 1924

    4to, full blue Morocco binding (Hinges cracked), pp.145 p., [10] coloured plates by CHAS LABORDE.


    Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan (born Pierre Dumarchey, February 26, 1882 - June 27, 1970), was a French novelist and songwriter.

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