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Books in Multiple Volumes PHILLIP J PHILLIP J. PIRAGES Books in Multiple Volumes PHILLIP J. PIRAGES Fine Books and Manuscripts 1709 NE 27th Street, Suite G McMinnville, OR 97128 P: (503) 472-0476 Toll Free: (800) 962-6666 F: (503) 472-5029 [email protected] www.pirages.com Special Issue Catalogue: Sets and Books in More Than Two Volumes Please send orders and inquiries to the above physical or electronic address, and do not hesitate to telephone at any time. At this time, we are not accepting visits from new clients. Established clients may request a visit, but must contact us in advance. In addition, our website is always open. Prices are in American dollars. Shipping costs are extra. We try to build trust by offering fine quality items and by striving for precision of description because we want you to feel that you can buy from us with confidence. As part of this effort, we want you to understand that your satisfaction is unconditionally guaranteed. If you buy an item from us and are not satisfied with it, you may return it within 30 days of receipt for a refund, so long as the item has not been damaged. Most of the text of this catalogue was written by Cokie Anderson and Kaitlin Manning. Jill Mann is responsible for photography and layout. Essential administrative support has been provided by Tammy Opheim. We are pleased and grateful when you tell someone about our catalogue and when you let us know of other parties to whom we might send our publications. And we are, of course, always happy to discuss fine and interesting items that we might purchase. Click on the pictures or text in an item to go to that item on our website, where you will find additional images and a link to purchase. BACON, FRANCIS. THE WORKS. WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY BASIL MONTAGU, ESQ. (Philadelphia: 1 A. Hart, 1852) 262 x 178 mm. (10 5/16 x 7”). Three volumes. Very attractive contemporary light tan half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spines heavily gilt in latticed compartments, black and brown morocco labels. Front free endpaper with ink ownership inscription of Irving Maury(?) of Auburn, dated April 14, 1853 (with a note that he paid $8 for the set). One volume with small snag at head of spine, extremities with minor rubbing, leather just a bit dry and with small roughened patches in a few places, one page with ink splatter across (but not obscuring) text, other trivial imperfections, but an excellent set, the text very smooth and clean, and the bindings solid and attractive on the shelf. $250 The American publishers of Bacon’s works used the excellent Basil Montagu edition issued in London by Pickering, but excluded the original Latin text, choosing to provide only Montagu’s translation. The editing of Bacon was a major achievement in the life of Montagu (1770-1851), a legal and miscellaneous writer and intimate friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge at Cambridge. In addition to prefatory matter and footnotes, Montagu provides in our edition a 117-page biography of the author. Statesman, author, philosopher, and scientist Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) rose to the position of lord chancellor in the reign of James I, but fell from grace in 1621, charged with bribery and corrupt practices. His works include some of the most profound considerations of scientific issues of his day, and his “Essays” have been an abiding contribution to popular thought. (ST15557-11) An Extraordinarily Fine Copy of the Most Impressive Combination of Biblical Exegesis and Scientific Illustration to Be Found in Any Printed Book (BIBLE - NATURAL HISTORY OF). SCHEUCHZER, 2 JOHANN JAKOB. GEESTELYKE NATUURKUNDE. (Amsterdam: Petrus Shenk, 1735-38) 415 x 264 mm. (16 3/8 x 10 3/8”). Entirely complete (with continuous pagination, but with a jump in page numbering from the end of book XIII to the beginning of XIV, as usual). 15 parts in eight volumes. Translated by Florentius H. J. van Halen. First Edition in Dutch. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY VELLUM, covers with large gilt entrelac centerpiece framed with gilt floral rule with bouquet-like cornerpieces, gilt floral border, raised bands, compartments richly gilt, titles and volume numbers handwritten in ink on spines, all edges gilt. With head- and tail-pieces, 15 engraved titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, and complete with frontispiece, two engraved portraits of the author and the engraver (the latter with shorter margins, probably tipped-in), and 760 OFTEN STRIKING COPPER ENGRAVINGS (on 758 plates), one with partial hand coloring, a few double-page. Front pastedown of first volume with handwritten note in French on lined paper; with additional black & white title to first work erroneously dated 1728. Nissen ZBI 3661; see also: Faber du Faur, “German Baroque Literature,” p. 472. Trivial soiling to the vellum, the seventh volume with a faint marginal dampstain affecting a few quires (but not touching engravings), the odd negligible blemish, but AN OUTSTANDING SET, the very attractive original bindings showing only insignificant wear, and THE CONTENTS ESPECIALLY FRESH AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, WITH VERY FINE IMPRESSIONS OF THE PLATES. $16,000 This is the first Dutch translation of Scheuchzer’s “Sacred Nature,” one of the most splendid German illustrated books of the 18th century, presenting what surely is the most impressive combination of biblical exegesis and scientific illustration to be found in any printed book. First published in 1731-35 as the “Physica Sacra” in Latin, and as the “Kupfer-Bibel” in German (so- named for the amazing array of copperplate engravings), this work is arranged according to the progression of books in the Bible, citing passages from those chapters where phenomena from the natural world are mentioned. The typical pattern here includes a textual citation followed by the author’s often lengthy remarks on the passage and, in many cases, a dramatic engraving to illustrate what is said. The plates are identical to the earlier editions (retaining the inscriptions in Latin and German) and are the work of Johann-Melchior Fuseli, of the well-known Zurich family of 18th and 19th century artists. The engraved scenes are always executed with great skill, are generally very animated, and are often fascinating. Of the 760 images meant to illustrate the text, many are strictly or primarily depictions of biblical scenes; several are simply illustrations of specimens of nature; and a large number, perhaps half, offer a kind of combination. An example of this last type includes a wonderful scene showing the birth of Man (as related in Genesis 1:26-27) depicting not only a startled Adam in his fecund paradise, but also 10 images of fetuses, placentas, and the skeletons of children, attached like mounted specimens to the architectural frame of the illustration. According to Faber du Faur, it is in this work that “the Baroque attains, philosophically as well as artistically, its high point and its conclusion. It is the last of those elegant works which do not really contain illustrations to a text but which are, in effect, composed of splendid plates with a text to accompany them.” Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a prolific naturalist who promoted at every opportunity the most modern scientific ideas, though without wanting to risk the accusation of being irreverent. He says that the present work represents an attempt at finding a harmony between reason and revelation, though it can also be seen as an effort to promulgate progressive theories under the venerable cloak of biblical commentary. The bibliographies disagree about the number of plates that ought to be present in this work and in other editions, but ours corresponds to copies previously sold at auction as complete. Copies of the “Physica Sacra” and its translations show up regularly for sale, but almost never does one see the work both complete and, as here, with a clean and fresh text in remarkably well-preserved and attractive contemporary bindings. (ST15556) Bound in Glowing, Lavish Morocco by the Andreoli Brothers for A Florentine Couple from the Prominent Machiavelli and Bacelli Families (BINDINGS - ANDREOLI/ROSPIGLIOSI BINDERY). FRANCESCO DI SALES. LE OPERE. (Venetia [Venice]: 3 Bertani, 1667) 143 x 77 mm. (5 5/8 x 3”). Five Volumes. Translated from the French into Italian by Daniello de Nobili. With a life of the saint by Father Giuseppe Fozi, S. J. SUPERB CONTEMPORARY ROMAN BROWN MOROCCO, LAVISHLY GILT, BY THE ANDREOLI BINDERY, covers with decorative gilt roll frame enclosing central panel with elaborate cornerpieces of fleurons, scrolls, and small tools, the arms of the Machiavelli and Bacelli families at center surrounded by gilt filigree and flanked by two putti holding a crown above it, flat spine with repeating lozenges composed of floral tools, gilt titling at head, all edges gilt. Engraved publisher’s device, decorative initials, tailpieces. For the binding: “Legatura romana barocca” plate 66 (diamond stamp), and plate 68 (outer border). One leaf with short closed tear into text (no loss), occasional small stains, creases, or other trivial defects, but the text clean, fresh, and mostly rather bright; upper board of first volume with small patch of lost patina from insect activity, tiny wormhole to a couple of joints, a breath of rubbing to extremities, but AN EXTRAORDINARILY FINE SET OF BINDINGS, GLOWING WITH GILT and showing only negligible signs of wear. $7,500 This is a lovely example of the celebrated work produced in the heyday of the bindery operated by Gregorio and Giovanni Andreoli, dubbed the “Rospigliosi Bindery” by Hobson because it was the favored atelier of Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (1600-69), later Pope Clement IX. In addition to work done for Rospigliosi and other princes of the Church, the Andreolis bound books for merchant princes like the Medici and Borghese, and for real royalty, notably Queen Christina of Sweden, who called on them to bind books for the library she created at her Roman palazzo.
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