50 Fine Books 2014

Shapero Rare Books 50 Fine Books 2014 Shapero Rare Books 1 2 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 3 From top left: From top left: item 39 - ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia, item 29 - GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds. item 45 - VAN DER MEULEN, Adam François. [Recueil de vues de Versailles...]. item 7 - BOYDELL, John and Josiah. An history of the Principal item 16 - [COSTUMES]. Costumes of various countries., item 1 - ACCADEMIA ERCOLANESE DI ARCHAEOLGIA. Le Antichita di Ercolano. Rivers of Great Britain.’ item 23 - [EROTICA] - BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Le Decameron de Jean Boccace. item 28 - GOULD, John. The Birds item 20 - D’HANCARVILLE, Baron [Pierre-Francois Hugues]. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, And Roman Antiquities. of Great Britain. item 5. - BLOUET, GUILLEME A BEL. Shapero Rare Books 50 Fine Books 2014 32 Saint George Street, London W1S 2EA Tel: +44 207 493 0876 • [email protected] • www.shapero.com GREAT DISCOVERIES AT HERCULANEUM 1. ACCADEMIA ERCOLANESE DI ARCHAEOLGIA. Le Antichita di Ercolano [WITH] Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, Catalogo degli antichi monumenti. Regia Stamperia, Naples, 1755-60-62-65-67-71-79-92. Le Antichita di Ercolano Ercoanese. This academy was founded in 1755 by edict of Charles III, king of the Two at Herculaneum. Lavishly illustrated and imperially sized, the Antichita di Ercolano were intended only for private circulation. The individual volumes, published by the royal press, were issued separately and were not sold but presented to deserving visitors and to courtiers. Volumes were also sent as diplomatic gifts to foreign courts. The years 1738 to 1765 marked the heroic period of excavations at Hercuaneum, some removal of the objects found were meant to provide an unparalleled art collection as part of Charles III’s intention to raise the cultural position of Naples. Although the excavations were shrouded in secrecy, word of the discoveries spread rapidly and caused a sensation affecting international taste and design “from St Petersburg to Edinburgh” (Harold Acton). Antichita is divided into 5 volumes on the Pitture and 3 volumes on the Bronzi. Provenance: Private European collection. First editions. Together 9 volumes, large folio (49 x 37 cm). 9 engraved frontispieces, numerous Millard, Italian 1. ref: 89829 £25,000 8 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 9 FOUNDATION WORK OF NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE 2. ADAM, ROBERT. Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. For the Author, London, 1764. ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL. In July 1757, in company with the French architect C.L. Clerisseau and two other draughtsmen, Adam visited Spalatro (Split) in order to explore and measure the ruins of the great Palace of Diocletian. He seems to have been travelling with the intention of producing a book which would establish his reputation “with a great puff” and apparently chose Spalatro because of its residential character, so different from the Greek and Roman architectural monuments being illustrated by his contemporaries found in those earlier works which seem a little dry in comparison. The text to this work was written by Adam’s cousin William Robertson and Bartolozzi later work and in the work of other Neo-classicists. ref: 89660 £15,000 10 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 11 3. [BAKST] - ALEXANDRE, Arsene; Jean Cocteau. L’Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. Maurice de Brunoff, Paris, 1913. BEAUTIFUL, FRESH EXAMPLE OF THIS MAJOR LUXURY WORK ON BAKST’S ART. “Born in Russia in 1866, Léon Bakst belonged to that young generation of European artists who rebelled against 19th century stage realism, which had become pedantic and literal, without imagination or theatricality. There were no specialist trained theatre designers, so painters like Léon Bakst turned their painting skills to theatre design. Bakst’s fame lay in the ballets he designed for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and huge pageant spectaculars for dancer and patron, Ida Rubinstein. He died in 1924 but after nearly 100 such that people who have never heard his name now see the world in a different way” (V&A). Folio (41.3 x 28.5 cm). Photographic portrait frontispiece, title, [4] ll., 50 pp. and [12] ll., [ref: 89485] £3,950 12 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 13 “WHEN RUSSIA RESURRECTED” BEING DESTROYED IN T HE 1812 FIRE OF MOSCOW. This lovely work is the only printed visual record of Tsar Mikhail’s wedding, and one of the very few illustrating 17th-century Russia - “a time when Russia, we could say, resurrected and, by shaking off its encroachers, regained its authentic soul” as Beketov emphized it in the preface. As always, he used a historical source: in this case he published an “ancient manuscript with images” (Smirnov-Sok.) which went through the hands of the paleographer and archaeographer Malinovskiy (1762-1840). The scenes, engraved in the 17th-c. style of the manuscript, show the preparations, some Russian orthodox Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, which was to rule the Russian Empire during 300 years. His wife Evdokiya Lukyanovna Streshneva (1608-45) was the daughter of the nobleman Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev. Folio (32 x 24.2 cm). 137 pp. incl. title, introduction, half-title and 65 hand-coloured full-page ref: 88525 £25,000 14 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 15 5. BLOUET, GUILLEME A BEL. Didot, Paris, 1831. WHICH MARKED A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND SERVED AS A MODEL FOR OTHER WORKS OF A SIMILAR KIND” (Blackmer). Expedition, a work modelled on the French Mission to Egypt. The mission arrived in Greece in 1829 but its members were worn down by sickness and most returned to France after a short time. However an amazing amount of work was carried out. The plan of the work follows the itinerary of the expedition, which included Byzantine, early Christian, and medieval antiquities along with more exhaustive surveys of the principal Provenance: Private European collection. Three volumes, folio (57.5 x 43 cm), half-titles, engraved additional titles and 262 plates, Blackmer 153; BAL RIBA 1009. ref: 89830 £22,500 16 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 17 FINE HAND COLOURED SET. 6. BODMER, Karl (artist) and Prinz Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wield- Neuwied. Reise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. RECORDING THE 1832-34 TRAVELS OF THE GERMAN PRINCE MAXIMILIAN AND THE SWISS ARTIST KARL BODMER ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER. Prince Maximilian, whose military career in the Prussian army ended with the victory order to study and report on the native American tribes of the Upper Missouri, the Prince came to America in 1832 accompanied by the Karl Bodmer who was to serve as the expedition’s artist. Arriving in the fall of 1832, the Prince ascended the Missouri The expedition proceeded to Fort Mackenzie in present-day Montana where he spent the summer months. He wintered at Fort Clark amongst the Mandans, whose customs had particularly attracted his attention. In the spring of 1834 they returned to Europe, Prince Maximilian and Bodmer were able to record in words and pictures the Plains tribes in their heyday. They were witness to hunting parties, dances, ceremonies and life among the Mandans and other tribes, as well as the incredible scenery on the upper Missouri before the era of mass settlement from the west. native American life. Each illustration is printed on papier velin, and bears Bodmer’s blind- stamp.They show people - mostly chiefs and warriors - including Mato-Tope, Wahk- Ta-Ge-Li, Pehriska-Ruhpa, and Abdih-Hiddisch; as well as tribal customs, settlements, hunting scenes, dances (INCLUDING THE ICONIC PORTRAIT OF PEHRISKA-RUPHA, THE MOENNITARRI WARRIOR, IN THE COSTUME OF THE DOG DANCE), weapons, tools and utensils. 18 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 19 In addition to the representations of native American peoples and customs, there are and Missouri, the Lake Erie and the frontier Forts Pierre, Union Clarke, etc. The text in the last third of volume II deals with details of the Indian languages, including sign languages and speech samples of various Indian tribes. This part was not included in the French and English translations. A MOVING ELEGY TO A VANISHED WAY OF LIFE FOR NORTH AMERICA’S ORIGINAL INHABITANTS. THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED WORK ON NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. Provenance: Ducal Library of Sachsen-Meiningen (stamp “Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek” to verso of text voumes and upper pastedown of atlas volumes); E.H.L.K. (modern engraved bookplates onto the Ducal Library stamps). Two volumes 4to (32.5 x 27 cm) text (in German) and 2 folio (46 x 31.5 and 62 x 45.5 Plains and the Rockies 76. ref: 88834 £225,000 20 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 21 WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 7. BOYDELL, John and Josiah. An history of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain (An History of the River Thames) THE PRESENT COPY IS PARTICULARLY DESIRABLE AS IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY TEN ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY FARINGTON FIVE OF WHICH WERE USED IN THE BOOK. ALTHOUGH NOT THE FIRST COLOURED AQUATINT BOOK, IT WAS THE FIRST MAJOR ONE, AND IT WAS TO SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE TYPE OF ILLUSTRATION THAT WAS TO ENJOY WIDESPREAD POPULARITY IN ENGLAND FOR SOME FORTY YEARS which were removed from later impressions. British prints a viable economic commodity and helped to make artists independent of aristocratic patronage by providing commercial opportunities for them. London architectural landmarks, Lambeth Palace, the Tower, the Palace of Greenwich THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS ARE; WOBURN AND CHERTSEY BRIDGE (PLATE 43); LONDON BRIDGE FROM SOMERSET TERRACE; BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE; BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE (DETAIL); GREENWICH HOSPITAL FROM BLACKHEATH POINT (PLATE 21); GREENWICH HOSPITAL FROM THE RIVER; WOOLWICH (PLATE 22); ERITH (PLATE 23); GRAVESEND; SHEERNESS (PLATE 30).

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