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Les Aventures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse. Nouvelle Edition Enrichie de Figures en taille-douce et de Notes Historiques, Politiques, et Morales
by Fénelon, Francois, de Salignac de La Mothe
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Venise: chez Guillaume Zerletii, 1768. Two volumes. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm. (9 x 6 inches). xlviii, 272 pp.; 262, 2 pp. Engraved frontispiece, two engraved title-pages, folding map and 24 vignettes. Bound in contemporary paste-paper boards, soiled but sound; some staining to lower right corner of some of the leaves. With faults an acceptable copy. Appears to be the first edition printed by Zerletti, who published a more expensive edition in 1788. This is the first appearance of the engravings by Giovanni Volpato (1740-1803), a professional engraver from Bassano, who worked with the Remondinis' publishing house. "In 1762 he was brought by Bartolozzi to Joseph Wagner's shop in Venice" and worked with several printers until 1772 when he moved to Rome to run his own shop and open a school of engraving. In 1786 he published a book with 36 plates entitled, Principi del Disegno. Raphael Morghen was among his many pupils in Rome. The in this edition of Les Aventures de Télémaque Volpato's his engravings are in the classical style and some of them demonstrate his skill capturing the moment and highlighting the action of the scene. He is best remembered for series of plates after the frescos in the Vatican. Hind, Short History of Engraving and Etching p. 209. Claudia Lazzaro, Eighteenth Century Italian Prints, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus S. Sopher, 1980, p. 37. See Morazoni p. 229 for a description of the 1788 edition by Zerletti. (94).
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- 94
- Title
- Les Aventures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse. Nouvelle Edition Enrichie de Figures en taille-douce et de Notes Historiques, Politiques, et Morales
- Author
- Fénelon, Francois, de Salignac de La Mothe
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- chez Guillaume Zerletii
- Place of Publication
- Venise
- Date Published
- 1768
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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