Search Results: Architecture from Sam Gatteno Books

Augsburg: Bey Johann Georg Hertel, 1747.. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto. [30], 402, [25]pp. )( 2, a1, b4-c4, d2, )( 3-4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ggg4, Hhh2. Title-page in red-and-black. Third edition of L. C. Surm's German language adaptation. Contemporary calf, repaired. With 84 full-page illustrations in the text and 56 double-page plates, all with French captions, numbered sequentially 1-139 (57 used twice). In addition, there are 12 folding plates with German captions, numbered 'Fig. 1 (-12),' to illustrate Sturm's notes and small unnumbered illustrations on pp. 160 (engraved), 361 (woodcut), and 402 (woodcut). Lacks all 56 double-page plates, the last two folding plates and the second plate 57. Millard, Northern European Books I; RIBA, Early Printed Books 164 note.

Padova: Stamperia del Seminario, 1749.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xii, [4], 153pp. a8, A8-I8, K8, []1. Second edition. Rebound in calf. With a frontispiece portrait of Palladio and 5 folding plates. The plates show plans, interior views, with one analysing the proportions of the columns. Berlin Katalog 2803; Cicognara 767. Not in Millard, or Schlosser-Magnino.

In Roma: Presso Michel'Angelo, e Pier Vincenzo Rossi, 1698.. Hardcover. Good. Folio. [20], 318, [30]pp. []4, +4, ++4, A4-Rr4, a4-d4. Woodcut title within architectural border. Sixth Italian edition. Contemporary vellum, respined, with original spine pasted on. Illustrated extensively with woodcuts of coins and monuments, large woodcut on Rr4 recto. Palau 4106; Cicognara 2727; Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 11; Graesse I, 252. This edition, like all later editions, includes an additional twelfth dialogue, set in Antwerp, in which the participants are André Schott, the cartographer Abraham Ortelius and the humanist Laevinus Torrentius (Lieven van der Beke), Bishop of Antwerp from 1586 to 1595.

In Napoli: Nella Stamperia Simoniana, 1758.. Hardcover. Good. Folio. [vi], xxxii, 462pp. []3, a4-d4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank). Historiated woodcut initials. Quarter calf over cloth-covered boards. Bottom of spine slightly worn, lower end of upper cover bumped and a small part of the hinge cracked. With textual engravings and 25 folding plates. Engraved frontispiece in facsimile.

London: Printed for John Bowles ... and Carrington Bowles, 1765.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. xvi, xvi, [1], 18, [2], 19-41, [2], 42-121, [2], 122-128, [2], 129-150, [1]pp. A4, a4, C4-Z4, Aa4-Uu4. Fourth English edition. Collation and catchwords erratic. Even though signatures A4 and B4 seem to be missing and the catchword at the end of a4 seems to indicate a missing quire, there is nothing missing. Nineteenth-century red half morocco over marbled boards, slightly rubbed. With 2 folding plates and 150 copperplate engravings. Fowler 110. Stained and browned.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1838.. Hardcover. Good. Large folio. [vi], 148, [vi]pp. Second edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. With etched frontispiece and title, and 120 full-page etched plates, of which 25 are fully hand-colored, 10 washed with a single color, 2 are folding and 1 double-page. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 238; Brunet I, 1604; Lowndes, 379-80. First published in parts between 1780 and 1794, Specimens was intended "to shew the rise and progress of sculpture and painting in England; to explain obscure and doubtful parts of history, and to preserve the portraits of great and eminent personages." Carter, a defender of the Gothic style, particularly for ecclesiastical architecture, "had the reputation of being 'Antiquity's most resolute friend.' He inveighed ceaselessly against the thoughtless destruction and misguided restoration of ancient buildings" (Colvin, 126).

In Roma: Dalla Stamperia Pagliarini, 1783-1784.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Three volumes. I: [iv], xcvi, 451, [i]pp.; II: 427pp.; III: xii, 604, 40pp. I: []2, a4-m4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Iii4, Kkk6; II: []4, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4, Ggg6; III: a6, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Xxx4, Yyy2-Zzz2, Aaaa2-Pppp2, a4-e4. Second Italian edition. With half-titles present. Contemporary stiff vellum. With 3 frontispieces, numerous engraved textual illustrations, and 59 engraved plates. Brunet V, 1463; Schlosser-Magnino 676-7; Cicognara 59; Olschki, Choix 13020; Millard, Italian and Spanish Books 165; Ruppert, Winckelmann-Bibliographie (1942), 15; PMM 210; A. Schnapp, The Discovery of the Past, pp. 258-266.

London: printed for Newbery and Carnan, at No. 65, the North Side of St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Blakeney, in Windsor, 1768.. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. [iv], 94, [ii]pp. First edition. With final leaf of addenda and errata. Below imprint in square brackets: price One Shilling. Nineteenth-century red morocco over marbled boards. With two frontispieces. ESTC T65422; Roscoe, A631 (1). With the armorial bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, Second Baronet, as well as his signature and acquisition date, August 1771, on title-page. ESTC records copies at the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Bodleian, Harvard, McMaster, and Northwestern (the on-line catalogue does not record it).