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Item #55769 [VELVET, SILK, LINEN, GOLD AND SILVER – A PROTECTIONIST AND ZWINGLIAN ORDER OF...

[VELVET, SILK, LINEN, GOLD AND SILVER – A PROTECTIONIST AND ZWINGLIAN ORDER OF MATERIALS] Ordnung wider den Pracht Und Uberfluß in Kleideren, Wie auch Andere Excessen und Uppigkeiten In der Statt Berm [Order against pomp and extravagance in clothing, as well as other excesses and extravagances in the city of Berm].

Cantzley Bern [State Chancellery of Bern].

Bern: Hoch-Oberkeitliche Druckerei, 1715. Small quarto (19.9 × 15.6 cm). Later colored paper wrappers; 44 pp. with a title woodcut of the Bern coat of arms. Toned and slightly fox-stained, with punched hole along the top edge and a silk ribbon threaded through. Early printing of this Bernese regulation on..... More

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[ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE – CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY – COUNTER-REFORMATION] De sacris aedificiis a Constantino Magno constructis. Synopsis Historica [On the Sacral Buildings Constructed by Constantine the Great. Historical Summary].

Ciampini, Giovanni [Giustino].

Rome: Johann Jakob Komarek, 1693. Quarto (33.3 × 23.3 cm). Contemporary vellum binding; [16], 217, [3] pp. With engraved frontispiece (drawn by Giovanni Battista Lenardi and engraved by Arnoldo van Westerhout) and 35 copper engraved plates, 23 of which are folded and 4 double-page. Occasional leaves with tiny wormholes and..... More

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[KEY WORK OF THE PARISIAN ‘PERSPECTIVE WAR’ – ARTISTIC PRAGMATISM VS. GEOMETRICAL RATIONALISM] Examen des oeuvres du Sr. Desargues [Examination of the works by Sr. Desargues]. Two parts in one volume. – BOUND WITH: Foiblesse pitoyable du Sr. Desargues employée contre l'Examen fait de ses oeuvres [Mr. Desargues' pathetic attempt to defend himself against the examination of his works].

Curabelle, J[acques].

Paris: Henault for Langlois, 1644. Folio (29.5 × 21 cm). Red marocco binding in the style of the seventeenth century, with spine and edges richly gilt; 81, [1] pp. with 17 copper engravings in the pagination (including engraved title and 8 full-page engravings) – Appended text: Paris: n.p., 1644. 9..... More

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[FOUNDATIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY – BEGINNING OF THE PARISIAN ‘PERSPECTIVE WAR’ – THE MACCLESFIELD COPY] La perspective pratique: nécessaire à tous peintres, graveurs, sculpteurs, architectes, orfèvres, brodeurs, tapissiers, et autres qui se meslent de desseigner [Practical perspective: necessary for all painters, engravers, sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, embroiderers, upholsterers, and others who engage in drawing]. Three volumes (all published). – BOUND WITH: Three related pamphlets of the Parisian 'Perspective War' (see below).

[Dubreuil, Jean].

Paris: L'Anglois, 1647–1651. Quarto (27.8 × 21 cm). Eighteenth-century leather bindings, each with two colored spine labels and gilt ornaments and fillets to spines and boards; 2 blank leaves, [49] pp., 172 [recte 173] numbered leaves and [36] pp. interspersed between the seven parts, [11] pp., 4 blank leaves; 4..... More

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[RHYMED VITA OF SAINT FRANCIS – THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND THE "POEMA SACRO"] Il seraffico San Francesco di Fra Giacomo Garibi da Porto Mauritio... [Il seraffico San Francesco di Fra Giacomo Garibi da Porto Mauritio...].

Garibi, Giacomo.

Genoa: Per gli Heredi de Girol. Bartoli, 1595. Small octavo (14.7 × 9.7 cm). Contemporary full limp vellum with title to spine, upper, and lower edge; [16], 470, [40] pp. Woodcut vignette to title depicting the saint receiving the stigmata; three additional small illustrations, one of which repeats the title..... More

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[CHARLES BORROMEO – A JESUIT ABUSE SCANDAL – COUNTER-REFORMATION – SOURCE OF BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE AND ICONOGRAPHY] Vita di S. Carlo Borromeo prete cardinale del titolo di Santa Prassede Arcivescovo di Milano [Life of St. Charles Borromeo, cardinal priest of the title of Santa Prassede Archbishop of Milan].

Giussano, Giovanni Pietro.

Rome: Stamperia della Camera Apostolica, 1610. Octavo (22.5 × 16.5 cm). Contemporary full vellum with mounted spine label; [12]; pag. 716 [recte: 692], [56] pp. with woodcut title page and some woodcut vignettes and initials. Pagination skips forward from page 97 to 113 and from page 145 to 153; bottom..... More

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[AN ADMIRER OF THE HOLY SAVONAROLA – NO COPIES IN NORTH AMERICA] Vita della venerabile serva di Dio Suor Catarina de Ricci: Fondatrice del Monastero di San Vincenzo di Prato [Life of the Venerable Servant of God Sister Catarina de Ricci: Founder of the Monastery of St. Vincent in Prato].

Marchese, Domenico Maria.

Rome: Nella Stamperia della Rev. Camera Apostolica, 1683. Small quarto (20.9 × 14.8 cm). Early nineteenth-century quarter vellum, marbled paper covered boards; [10], 441, [1] pp. Text with occasional foxing and toning, a few pages more heavily; a few small stains and spotting to margins; else good or better. First..... More

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[THE SACRED COURTESAN – WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN SPIRITUALITY – ELABORATELY ILLUSTRATED WORK OF FLEMISH BAROQUE AND COUNTER-REFORMATION] La Magdeleine de F. Remi de Beauvais capucin de la province des Pais-Bas [La Magdeleine by F. Remi de Beauvais, Capuchin monk from the province of the Netherlands].

Remi de Beauvais [Clément Lucien Mollet] (author), Martin Baes, Cornelis Galle, Jean Collaert, and Peter Paul Rubens (artists).

Tournay: Charles Martin, 1617. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Contemporary vellum binding with contemporary neatly written title on the spine and green (later?) textile ties; 746 [recte 744, pagination jumps from 458 to 460], [5] pp., 1 errata leaf, with copperplate title (with Noli me tangere, blood-nourishing pelican and resurrected..... More

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[ECSTASIES AND VISIONS BETWEEN MYSTICAL EROS AND HELLISH TORMENTS – NO COPIES IN NORTH AMERICA] Vita di Francesca Maffei, Vergine Bolognese scritta dal Padre Carlo Scalpellini da Belvedere d' Iesi, Sacerdote de Chierici Regolari Minori [Life of Francesca Maffei, Virgin of Bologna, written by Father Carlo Scalpellini da Belvedere d'Iesi, Priest of the Minor Clerics Regular].

Scalpellini da Celvedere, Carlo.

Rome: Appresso gli eredi del Corbelletti, 1664. Small quarto (21.5 × 15 cm). Contemporary full calf over five raised bands; sewn headbands; edges green; [8], 542 [recte 544], [8] pp. with engraved frontis portrait signed B. Thiboust, as well as numerous woodcut vignettes and initials. Pagination jumps back from 473..... More

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[THE "MOST COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPT OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY IN THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE SPHERE"] Der auserleßneste und nach den Regeln der antiquen Bau-Kunst sowohl, als nach dem heutigen Gusto verneuerte Goldmann, als der rechtschaffenste Bau-Meister, oder die gantze Civil-Bau-Kunst, in unterschiedlichen vollständigen Anweisungen (...) abgehandelt [The most elaborate and according to the rules of the ancient art of building as well as according to today's taste renewed Goldmann, as the most righteous building master, or the whole civil architecture art, treated in different complete instructions (...)]. 16 parts and 5 (of 6) supplements, together 21 parts in 4 volumes.

Sturm, Leonhard Christoph.

Augsburg: printed by Peter Detleffsen for Jeremias Wolff, 1716–1760. Folio (34 × 22 cm). Half leather bindings of the early nineteenth century with labels and gilt to spines; [20] (index); 32; [68]; 18; 18; 16; 12; [16]; 39, [1]; 26; 24; 18; 42; 10; 8; 84, [4]; [20]; 18; 28;..... More

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