Search Results: Authors starting with O from Liber Antiquus

Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1628. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary limp vellum in fine condition (paste-down torn). The text is in excellent condition with a few instances of light toning (in gatherings O, S, and X), and a small worm-track in the margin of the first few lvs. The text is illustrated with woodcut diagrams. An extremely rare book. OCLC cites only 1 copy in North America (Columbia University) and 5 other institutional copies outside of Italy (two in Denmark, two in France, one in Switzerland). Vagnetti described the book without having seen a copy. Riccardi described an incomplete copy. First (and only) edition of this wide-ranging work on selected problems in perspective and its underlying geometry, largely organized around what the author considers to be commonly found theoretical or practical errors. Diano proves himself to be well read in the contemporary literature of optics and perspective, citing Kepler, Maurolico, Aguilon, and others. The final two chapters describe… Read More

London: Printed by J[ohn] L[egat] for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1640. SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION (1st 1632) of Sandys' landmark translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th c. speckled calf, worn at the corners and extremities, re-backed. In addition to the engraved title, there is a full-paged engraving (with a medallion portrait) of Ovid, and fifteen full-page engravings by Salomon Savery (1594-1665) after drawings by Francis Clein (1582-1658). This copy is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the complete suite of 59 plates from Michel de Marolles' "Tableaux du Temple des Muses" (Paris 1655), comprising a portrait of Marolles and 58 plates of emblematic engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeeck (with two after Pierre Brébiette). A number of the engravings depict scenes from Ovid. A very good copy, engraved portrait frontispiece engraved title-page lightly soiled and with light marginal staining, title with short marginal tears;… Read More