Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS 74 Mayton Street, London N7 6QT Leo's Lockdown List GUIDE TO ART IN DESTROYED CHURCHES 1. [Antwerp. Art works:] Beschrijvinghe van de konstige schilderijen belthouwerijen, als oock eenige grafschriften de welcke soo in de Cathedrale, Parochiale, als Religieuse Kercken, ende op den Raet- Huijse te sien syn binnen de stadt Antwerpen 1765. [Antwerp] [1765-1777]. 8vo. (16 cms. x 10.2 cms.), pp. [4] 52 [12], including initial and final blanks. Light foxing and browning, very good. Interleaved in the 19th century into a larger-format volume (22.4 cms. x 13.5 cms. in binding), with marbled boards, leather spine and roan corners (binding rubbed and somewhat worn, tear to tail of spine). The interleavings left blank. Unpublished manuscript guide to art in Antwerp. The modestly presented book describes works in situ - and the artistic wealth of the city - prior to destruction and removal under the Austrian and French regimes. Artists featured include Caravaggio, Reni, van Dyck, and Peter Paul Rubens. The Caravaggio, +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] 'The Madonna of the Rosary', was removed from Antwerp's Dominican church (where it is here) and sent to Vienna in 1786. The tour includes important art-repository churches which have since been destroyed or decommissioned: St. Michael’s Abbey church (26-27), the church of the Friars Minor Recollects (Minderbroeders) (35-38), the church of the Calced Carmelites (Lieve Vrouwe broeders) (46-50), and the church of the Discalced Carmelites (50-51). In all, thirty places are visited and works of art by 65 artists is recorded. The tour begins in the cathedral, and includes here the Rubens triptych 'The Resurrection of Christ' commissioned by the family of the printer Jan Moretus, and a work by Jacobus de Backer made for the monument to Moretus’ father-in-law Christopher Plantin. At the end of the manuscript, after the indexes but before the final blank, is a transcription of an epitaph for his parents given by one Edward Emmanuel Berthout and placed in the cathedral in 1777. This Berthout may perhaps be the author. See Cécile Kruyfhooft, review of Valérie Herremans, ‘Rubens unveiled, paintings from lost Antwerp churches’ (Ghent, 2013), in ‘Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews’ at hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/rubens-unveiled-paintings-lost-antwerp-churches/ (accessed 5 May 2020). [ref: 3525 ] £1200 ‘INCA LITERATURE’ - MEDICINAL USES OF THE DONKEY 2. [Banchieri, Adriano]: La nobiltà dell’ asino di Attabalippa dal Perù Provincia del Mondonovo, tradotta in lingua Italiana. Nella quale dopò l’haver descritta la natura del Leone, e dell’ altre Bestie più famose, perferendo[sic.] a tutte l’asino, con sì faceto & piacevole discorso si raccontano tutte le sue facultà, proprietà, virtù, & eccellenze, che’l lettore con suo gentil piacere, senza noia asinesca, apprende à pieno l’utilità, gli agi, e le commodità, che ritrare si possono dall’ asino. Con la tavola di tutte le cose piu notabili. In Pavia, appresso Andrea Viani 1592. Small octavo (14.7 cms. x 9.6 cms.), pp. [10], 70. Woodcut vignette of unicorn to title-page, woodcut initials, printed sidenotes in a minuscule type. Browning and staining, careful repairs t gutters and to verso of title-page (a clean mend), bottom margins shaved (with loss of the odd guideword). Bound in attractive 19th-cent. paper boards, paper label to spine. One of two editions from first located year of printing (the other, Venice), this facetious Italian chapbook, purported to be by the +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] last Inca emperor Atahualpa (d.1533), is on the nobility of the donkey. The work starts with studies of the dog, the horse, the lion, the monkey, and the elephant, before the examination proper of the donkey begins. The author catalogues the appearance of the ass in literature, history, place-names, proverbs, popular speech, fountains, and gravestones. There are accounts of its tastinesss as a meat, of the high price an ass’s head has reached, and of the medicinal uses of the ass, including of the ass’s milk, its liver, and of donkey dung. “If I had a hundred tongues and as many mouths, and a voice of iron or bronze, it wouldn’t be enough to convey the thousandth part of the praise merited by this stupendous animal”. The present edition contains a foreword not found in the other 1592 printing; this is by Bartolomeo Cerviati, and addressed to Gio. Battista Massarengo, Pavia 20 October 1592. Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) was an Olivetan monk of Bologna, a poet, and an organist and composer and musical theorist of importance. He was to found in 1615 the Bolognese musical academy the Accademia dei Floridi, which was visited by Monteverdi in 1620. Banchieri’s biographer Oscar Mischiati (Dizionario biografico degli italiani) notes “his personality, so endowed with facetious and joking spirit and inclined to the bizarre, the paradox”. The present work was translated into English (1595) (as ‘The noblenesse of the asse’), and into German in 1617. CNCE 4062 (two copies, Milan and Bergamo). Not in OCLC - which only shows the other edition of 1592 (Venice), with copies outside European mainland at NYPL, Yale and Cambridge (with European Americana, which does not have our edition, adding (592/4a) (same criteria) Harvard and BL). A 1588 edition in European Americana (no locations, sourced from Brunet and Graesse) is almost certainly a ghost. My thanks to Dan Slive for providing the European Americana citations. [ref: 3605 ] £1800 ILLUSTRATED EDITION 3. [Banchieri, Adriano]: La nobiltà dell’ asino di Attabalippa dal Perù rifformata da Griffagno delli Impacci, et accresciuta di molte cose non solo piacevoli curiose, e di diletto: ma notabili, e degne d’ogni asinina lode. In Venetia, appresso Camillo Bortoli 1664. First edition thus. Small 8vo. (15 cms. x 10.3 cms.), pp. 95 [1]. With seven woodcut illustrations. Title within borders and with vignette, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Light browning and slight staining, two bifolia loose, early extensions to side-margins +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] of leaves,still an attractive copy, bound in early block-printed wrappers with old repairs. Early marginalium at foot of p. 71. Rare illustrated edition of this chapbook on the subject of the donkey, first recorded printed in 1592 and purported to be by the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa (d.1533). A witness to the continued popularity of this text, this has naive woodcuts borrowing in part from the first fully illustrated edition of Venice, 1599, but mostly new to the work. A veritable bestiary, depicted in our booklet are a dog, a monkey, a horse with knight, lion, elephant, and two different donkeys. The dog (p.3) is based on the 1599 picture, the monkey (p.16) appears to use the actual woodblock of the animal in that edition, but the others are all compositions that did not appear earlier. These seem to be old woodblocks (not just the monkey), and the lion has a constellation of stars which suggests it appeared in a popular astronomical work. These Italian chapbooks are called ‘libri da risma’, lit. ‘books in reams’, books “sold loose (not folded or collated) on average at 12 Venetian lire for every five hundred sheets” (Carnelos, tr.), usually by itinerant salesman. These were ephemeral works with a huge destruction rate. The first illustrated was arguably produced in England in 1595, as a donkey vignette there to title-page is repeated in the text. Between 1599 and ours of 1664 we have located only one other with illustrations, the German-language version of Strasbourg, 1617. IT\ICCU\BA1E\001443 (three locations; one further for a variant with different imprint). OCLC shows locations for 1664 edition outside Italy at John Carter Brown, Staatsbiblothek zu Berlin, and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Michel I 369, 32. 1666 edition only in Vinciana (3334). Laura Carnelos, ‘I libri da risma. Contributo allo studio dell’editoria popolare nell’Italia del ’700’ (n.pl. n.d.), at ilscmilano.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/carnelos.pdf (accessed 7 May 2020), 8. [ref: 3606 ] £1250 WATERS OF THE IRON MINES OF ELBA 4. Buzzegoli, Alberto Giuseppe: Dell’ acqua marziale di Rio nell'isola dell'Elba e dell'uso di essa in medicina e chirurgia trattato storico-fisico-medico d'Alberto Giuseppe Buzzegoli fiorentino, Pubblico Professore di Medicina Pratica e Filosofia in Rio, dedicato al nobiliss. e clariss. sig. senat. marchese Lorenzo Ginori, balì di Sinigaglia, Conte di Urbech, Ciamberlano delle MM. LL. Imperiali ec. ec. In Firenze, appresso Andrea Bonducci 1762. 4to. (23.3 cms. x 17 cms.), pp. XX, 259 [1]. Small woodcut decoration to title-page, woodcut head-and tail-pieces and initials, p. VIII with a small woodcut figure of a naked man with cloak, lyre and brazier, within a wreath. Light age-yellowing, light foxing, a very good copy bound in contemporary drab cartonnage. First edition of this study of waters of the island of Elba off the coast of Tuscany in Italy. The work initiated a period of international interest in the mineralogy of Elba (Repetti). The waters are found in the iron mines of the +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] Elban town of Rio. The book includes a description of the island (3-14); the iron mines themselves (14-31); where the springs in the mines are located (32-46); the waters of a spot called Vigneria (46-58); the history of the medical use of the waters (58-66). 67-152 comprises discussion of chemical analysis and experiments, and 153-259 contains medical studies.