Search Results: Titles starting with V from Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB

THE FINEST COPY OF A SPLENDID WORK ON THE ARABIC MSS AT THE ESCORIAL.CASIRI, Miguel. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis; sive librorum omnium mss. quos Arabice ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis Compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatioMadrid, Antonius Perez de Soto imprimebat, 1760-1770.FIRST EDITION. Folio, 2 vols: pp. [16], xxiv, 544; [8], 352 and 107 leaves of index and final errata. With text in Latin and Arabic. Woodcut vignette on both t-ps, head and tailpieces. A bright, crisp and clean copy excellently bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorations to spine and gilt borders on covers. All edges red. Silk ribbon bookmarks. Original marbled endpapers. Fine copy.A real publishing enterprise by the Maronite scholar Miguel Casiri, who transcribed and cataloged about 1800 manuscripts in Arabic preserved in the royal monastery of San Lorenzo, better known by the name of Escorial. The work, which contains texts dating for the most part to… Read More

Large folio. 2 parts in 1 vol.: 1) engraved t-p with portrait of Vignola within beautiful architectural border and 36 full-page copperplate engravings; 2) engraved t-p and 17 full-page copperplate engravings, 2 of which are folding, bound at end and showing with bird's-eye view and plan of the Caprarola Palace. 55 plate in total including the t-ps. Very light dampstaining to blank lower corner of second work. minimal wear to spine caps. Plates clean, with very good impression on strong paper. Overall an excellent copy bound in contemporary stiff vellum.The work is dedicated to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, later Pope Paul III, who acquired the estate at Caprarola in 1504. First printed in 1562, Regola, or Rule, is one of the most influential and famous architectural treatises of the 16th century; surely one of the foremost Renaissance works on classical architecture. It remained a standard textbook on the five architectural orders for the following centuries. Most likely, this work was originally… Read More

RICHLY ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHER'S BINDING, SIGNED AND VERY WELL PRESERVEDFIRST EDITION. 8vo, [iv], 540 pp., with vignette on t-p and 21 engraved plates including frontispiece, 8 of which are coloured. Black cloth with cloth-backed spine and corners reinforced, gilt-stamped borders on covers with green, pink, yellow, red and white heightening. Bookbinder's signature to foot of spine "LENÈGRE REL." A.e.g.Famous account of a journey by journalist Charles de Saint-Julien (1802-1869), who travelled from Saint-Petersburg to the Caucasus via Finland, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. It follows a trip from Saint-Petersburg to Kamtchatka.Vicaire, Livres du XIXe siècle, VII, 24.