Sandrart, Joachim von. A fine seven-volume set of Sandrart's works on architecture, art and antiquities, 1675-1692, comprising:
L' Academia Todesca della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura: Oder Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste: Darinn enthalten Ein gründlicher Unterricht, von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, Lehr-Sätzen und Geheimnißen, von den Bau-Steinen und fünferley Bau-Arten, von den Statuen und ihrer Zugehör, von der Erfind- und Zeichnung. Nuremberg and Frankfurt: Jacob von Sandrart, Mathaeus Merian, 1675. 2 volumes. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title-page and engraved portrait in both volumes, woodcut initials, tailpieces and illustrations in the text, engraved headpieces, tailpieces and illustrations in the text, 267 engraved plates, including a double-page map and a large folding map in volume 2 (Volume 1: E4v engraving pasted down, D5r correction pasted down at foot) [VD17 3:608226Z]
Bartoli, Pietro Santi. Ubrig geliebene Merckzeichen von den Römischen Antiquitäten in der Bild-Hauer-Kunst der Alten in Basso-Relievo... Nuremberg: Sandrart, 1692. Half-title, engraved title-page, engraved headpieces and initials, woodcut initials, 70 engraved plates, 40 of which are double-page. [VD17 23:301171B] [bound with:]Mander, Carel van. Auslegung des Ovidii Metamorphosis. 1679. Additional engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with engraved device, woodcut initials and tailpieces, several engraved illustrations, 29 leaves of engravings, most with two engravings printed on the same sheet. [USTC 2652467, VD17 1:072040Q]
Sculpturae veteris admiranda, sive delineatio vera perfectissimarum eminentissimarumque statuarum, una cum artis huius nobilissimae theoria. Nuremberg, 1680. Half-title, title with engraving, engraved frontispiece, engraved headpieces and initials, engraved portrait, 70 engraved plates, 6 of which double page. [VD17 3:610296P]
Iconologia deorum, oder Abbildung der Götter, welche von den Alten verehret worden. Nuremberg, 1680. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title page with woodcut device, woodcut initials, engraved portrait, 34 engraved plates. [VD17 3:312576U]
Academia Nobilissimae Artis Pictoriae. Nuremberg, 1683. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title-page with engraved vignette, engraved portrait, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 49 engraved plates, 2 of which are double page and 1 folding (folding plate with small tear at fold.) [VD17 23:000561N]
Romae antiquae et novae theatrum. Nuremberg: Christian Sigismund Froberg for the author, 1684. Title with woodcut device, double-page engraved frontispiece, engraved headpieces, initials and tailpieces, woodcut initials, double-page map of ancient Rome, large folding map of modern Rome, 69 engraved plates, 34 of which are double page. [VD17 23:300768B] [bound with:]Falda, Giovanni Battista. Romanorum fontinalia. Nuremberg: Froberg for Sandrart, 1685. Title-page with woodcut device, 42 engraved plates, 40 of which are double page (Repair to verso of plate XXXVIII.) [BAL RIBA 2894 & 1016; Rossetti 9144 & 9146; VD17 12:643106X]
First edition of Joachim von Sandrart's Teutsche Academie, a significant collection of works on art history and theory, antiquities, and artists' biography, including a biography of Sandrart himself. Sandrart (1606-1688) was and artist and printmaker from Frankfurt but travelled widely in Italy and settled in Nuremberg in 1674. This collection of works includes texts by him as well as translations, and like Vasari, his fame rests more on this lavish publication than on his art works.
7 volumes, folio (245 x 380-389 mm).
binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt (ca 400 x 255 mm), gilt turn-ins, edges gilt, marbled end-papers. (A few small scrapes to covers, bindings slightly rubbed particularly at edges of spine bands, some spine ends frayed.)
provenance: Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), bookplates (except in first volume), sale of the Hamilton Palace library, Sotheby’s, 1 May 1884, lots 1773-1778 — Librairie Henri Lefèvre, Paris, bookseller's labels — sale, Binoche & Giquello, Paris, 2018. acquisition: Purchased in 2019 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris.
Sandrart, Joachim von. A fine seven-volume set of Sandrart's works on architecture, art and antiquities, 1675-1692, comprising:
L' Academia Todesca della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura: Oder Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste: Darinn enthalten Ein gründlicher Unterricht, von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, Lehr-Sätzen und Geheimnißen, von den Bau-Steinen und fünferley Bau-Arten, von den Statuen und ihrer Zugehör, von der Erfind- und Zeichnung. Nuremberg and Frankfurt: Jacob von Sandrart, Mathaeus Merian, 1675. 2 volumes. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title-page and engraved portrait in both volumes, woodcut initials, tailpieces and illustrations in the text, engraved headpieces, tailpieces and illustrations in the text, 267 engraved plates, including a double-page map and a large folding map in volume 2 (Volume 1: E4v engraving pasted down, D5r correction pasted down at foot) [VD17 3:608226Z]
Bartoli, Pietro Santi. Ubrig geliebene Merckzeichen von den Römischen Antiquitäten in der Bild-Hauer-Kunst der Alten in Basso-Relievo... Nuremberg: Sandrart, 1692. Half-title, engraved title-page, engraved headpieces and initials, woodcut initials, 70 engraved plates, 40 of which are double-page. [VD17 23:301171B] [bound with:]Mander, Carel van. Auslegung des Ovidii Metamorphosis. 1679. Additional engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with engraved device, woodcut initials and tailpieces, several engraved illustrations, 29 leaves of engravings, most with two engravings printed on the same sheet. [USTC 2652467, VD17 1:072040Q]
Sculpturae veteris admiranda, sive delineatio vera perfectissimarum eminentissimarumque statuarum, una cum artis huius nobilissimae theoria. Nuremberg, 1680. Half-title, title with engraving, engraved frontispiece, engraved headpieces and initials, engraved portrait, 70 engraved plates, 6 of which double page. [VD17 3:610296P]
Iconologia deorum, oder Abbildung der Götter, welche von den Alten verehret worden. Nuremberg, 1680. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title page with woodcut device, woodcut initials, engraved portrait, 34 engraved plates. [VD17 3:312576U]
Academia Nobilissimae Artis Pictoriae. Nuremberg, 1683. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title-page with engraved vignette, engraved portrait, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 49 engraved plates, 2 of which are double page and 1 folding (folding plate with small tear at fold.) [VD17 23:000561N]
Romae antiquae et novae theatrum. Nuremberg: Christian Sigismund Froberg for the author, 1684. Title with woodcut device, double-page engraved frontispiece, engraved headpieces, initials and tailpieces, woodcut initials, double-page map of ancient Rome, large folding map of modern Rome, 69 engraved plates, 34 of which are double page. [VD17 23:300768B] [bound with:]Falda, Giovanni Battista. Romanorum fontinalia. Nuremberg: Froberg for Sandrart, 1685. Title-page with woodcut device, 42 engraved plates, 40 of which are double page (Repair to verso of plate XXXVIII.) [BAL RIBA 2894 & 1016; Rossetti 9144 & 9146; VD17 12:643106X]
First edition of Joachim von Sandrart's Teutsche Academie, a significant collection of works on art history and theory, antiquities, and artists' biography, including a biography of Sandrart himself. Sandrart (1606-1688) was and artist and printmaker from Frankfurt but travelled widely in Italy and settled in Nuremberg in 1674. This collection of works includes texts by him as well as translations, and like Vasari, his fame rests more on this lavish publication than on his art works.
7 volumes, folio (245 x 380-389 mm).
binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt (ca 400 x 255 mm), gilt turn-ins, edges gilt, marbled end-papers. (A few small scrapes to covers, bindings slightly rubbed particularly at edges of spine bands, some spine ends frayed.)
provenance: Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), bookplates (except in first volume), sale of the Hamilton Palace library, Sotheby’s, 1 May 1884, lots 1773-1778 — Librairie Henri Lefèvre, Paris, bookseller's labels — sale, Binoche & Giquello, Paris, 2018. acquisition: Purchased in 2019 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris.
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