Antiquariatsmesse Stuttgart 2022 - Katalog

projects for buildings in Moscow … During his long
and busy Russian career, Quarenghi designed numerous
public and private buildings, churches, palaces,
country houses, military installations, and triumphal
arches” (Millard).
Ringelberg, Ioachim Fortius. Ioachimi Fortii
Ringelbergii Andoverpiani opera, quae proxima pagina
enumerantur. 664, [2] pp. Profusely illustrated
with Woodcuts. Small 8vo., 165 × 100 mm, bound in
contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with a Roman
goddess on the front cover, and a portrait of Luther
on the back cover. Lyon: M. Sylvius for J. Frellonius,
1556. € 4400,–
An exceptional copy of the third edition of Ringelberg’s
Collected Works divided in 6 parts: 1. “Ad Grammaticen
pertinent”. 2. “Ad Dialecticen”. 3. “Ad Rhetoricen”.
4. “Ad Mathematicen”. 5. “Ad Diviniationem”.
& 6. “Communis quisdam Naturae sunt”. – Siehe
Abbildung.
Roisecco, Gregorio. Roma Antica e Moderna o
sia nuova descrizione di tutti gl’Edificj Antichi,
e Moderni Sagri, e Profani della Città di Roma.
Three volumes. With a frontispiece, 1 double-page
folding map of Rome, 40 folding engraved plates,
125 full-page engravings in the text, and numerous
wood-cut engravings throughout. 8vo., 167 × 110
mm, uniformly bound in contemporary Italian vellum,
beige spine labels. Rome: Niccola Roisecco,
1765. € 3500,–
Third and Most Complete Edition of Roisecco’s indepth
guide to the antiquities of Rome, profusely illustrated
with full- and double-page engravings throughout.
The work expands upon the researches of Totti and
de Rossi, and includes a third volume on the history
of Rome, complete with a monumental historical, political,
and artistic chronology of the city. Cicognara
discusses the author’s achievement: “Quest’opera serve
notabilmente a chi non sia fornito degli autori da cui
furono tratte le notizie, ed è bastevole per dare un’idea
generale delle cose Romane.”
Schenk, Petrus. Afbeeldinge der voornaamste
Gebouwen van Amsterdam. Contents include: title-page,
index and 100 fine engraved views with
captions in Latin and Dutch. Small oblong folio,
210 × 265 mm, bound in contemporary full English
calf with red morocco spine label. Amsterdam:
1700. € 11 000,–
A rare complete copy of this engraved survey of Amsterdam
and its surrounding regions produced by the
prolific engraver and map publisher Petrus Schenk the
Elder (1660–1711). A fine copy with crisp, dark impressions.
The work’s importance is attested by several
twentieth century reprints.
Vasari, Giorgio. Ragionamenti del Sig. Cavaliere
Giorgio Vasari. Sopra le inventioni da lui dipinte
in Firenze nel Palazzo di loro Altezze Serenissime.
Insieme con la inventione della Pittura da lui
cominciata nella Cupola. [8], 186, [18] pp. Illustrated
with the Giunta printing device with initial “F” on
title-page and, in a different form, on the colophon.
Plus the full-page woodcut portrait of Vasari from
the “Vite” facing page 1. 8vo., 217 × 150 mm, bound
in contemporary Italian limp vellum, title in brown
ink on spine. Florence: Appresso Filippo Giunti,
1588. € 6750,–
First Edition. Giorgio Vasari, considered to be the first
art historian and often referred to as the “father of art
history”, wrote the “Ragionamenti” between 1557 and
1560. A completed first draft was brought to Rome by
Vasari in ca. 1560, where it was read by Annibale Caro,
Michelangelo, Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, Vincenzo
Borghini, and Jacopo Guidi, among others.
The work is written in dialogue form taking place over
a period of three days. The two characters were Vasari
himself and the young Francesco de’ Medici, to whom
the book is dedicated. Although the core text revolves
around the painted commissions Vasari executed in
the Palazzo Vecchio, the “Ragionamenti” can also be
viewed as a supplement to his “Le Vite de’ Piu Eccellenti
Pittori, Scultori, E Architettori”.
Vredeman de Vries, Hans. XII Caesarum Romanorum
Imagines. E numismatibus expressae,
et historica narratione illustrata. By Franciscus
Sweertius. 30 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece
and 12 engraved portraits with elaborate
borders by Hans Vredeman de Vries. Small 4to.,
200 × 140 mm, bound in eighteenth-century Dutch
calf, spine gilt. Antwerp: Ionnus Baptista Vrintius,
1603. € 6750,–
First Edition in book form with the text by Franciscus
Sweertius (1567–1629). A finely engraved series of
portraits of the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to
Domitian, each set in elaborate grotesque borders designed
by Hans Vredeman de Vries. Vredeman de Vries
(ca. 1527–1604) was a much celebrated Dutch architect
and draughtsman whose model books and works on
perspective disseminated the new artistic innovations
of Renaissance Italy to Northern Europe. The present
borders feature a harmoniously intertwined cornucopia
of ornamental and allegorical subject matter that
surely would have been used as models for artists and
designers.
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