A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name):
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. Treatise of statues, Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. Account of architects and architecture, and Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Elements of architecture
Subject (Topic):
Architecture --Orders
Collection Created:
London : Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay,
Imperfect: plates 4, 27 and 37 wanting; 2 maps (Nova tabula insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis ... and Ailhae cidade de Goa ...) wanting. The other map and plate issued with this part, and 4 maps issued with part 3, are bound preceeding this part in the following order: [1] A cidade de Angra ... (40 x 55 cm. on sheet 41 x 57 cm, folded to 30 x 15); [2] Descriptio Hydrograhica accomodata ad Battavorum navagatione in Javam isulam Indiae Orientalis... (34 x 65 cm, on sheet 36 x 65 cm, folded to 29 x 18 cm); [3] Insula D. Helenae ... (22 x 28 cm, on sheet 30 x 31); [4] Munken so in den Orientalischen Indien ... (14 x 18 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [5] Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Ascenstio ... (15 x 22 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [6] Insulae et arcis Mocambique ...(21 x 27 cm, on sheet 31 x 30 cm). Some text has been censored in black ink. No. 2 of 3 titles bound together.
Publisher:
Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri,
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611. Navigatio in Orientem.
Various illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian and others[?] employing alchemical symbols and icons.
Description:
Added t.p.; title within engraved border., Folded plate: Figura I measures 34 x 33 cm., Folded plate: Figura II measures 39 x 31 cm., Folded plate: Figura III measures 35 x 35 cm., Folded plate: Figura IV measures 35 x 39 cm., and Many of the tracts have special t.ps. dated 1677.
Sculptura, or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper : with an ample
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Bound with Faithorne, W. The art of graveing London, 1662. "An advertisement" of Abraham Bosse’s "Traicte des manieres de graver en taille douce sur l’airain": [3] p. at end. and Dedication signed: J. Evelyn.
Subject (Topic):
Engraving --Early works to 1800, Engraving --History, and Mezzotint engraving--17th century
Collection Created:
London : Printed by J.C. for G. Beedle, and T. Collins, at the Middle-Temple Gate, and J. Crook in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1662