Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Eighteen - International League ...

First edition of the first dictionary of art terminology, dedicated to the
Accademia della Crusca, and in fact cited in the 1691 edition of the Vocabolario
della Crusca. Baldinucci (1624–1696), an Italian art historian,
businessman and writer, provides an extensive dictionary of the technical
language of painting, sculpture and architecture. ‘Il primo tentativo di un
lessico del linguaggio artistico, secondo lo spirito dei ‘puristi’ della Crusca,
ma importante perchè sorto su questo terreno di antica tradizione artistica’
(Schlosser-Magnino, La letteratura artistica, p. 407).
Interestingly Baldinucci not only explains the proper terms and
expressions of the fine arts, including painting, sculpture and architecture,
but also includes the vocabulary of the ‘minor’ arts, of decorative arts and
design. Thus he introduces the vocabulary of jewellery and precious stones,
metals, semi-precious stones, marble, timber, colour pigments and recipes,
artists’ tools, and other materials connected with the artists’ and artisans’
world. The Vocabulario is of great importance, not only within art history
and for the study of language, but also as an expression of style and taste at
the end of the seventeenth century.
Brunet I, 622; Cicognara 2146; Gamba 95; Graesse I, 280; Michel, I, 352–11;
Parenti 49; Vinciana IV, 4326; Zischka p. 120.
8. [BAPTISMAL CERTIFICATE.] Tauf-Schein. Ephrata, S.
Bauman, ca. 1810. £800
Broadside (335 x 418mm), woodblock printed, with typographical
decoration, hand-coloured (possibly slightly later) and completed in
ink, untrimmed, as issued.
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An appealing wood-block printed Pennsylvania German baptismal certificate
from the press of S. Bauman in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. The central text is
surrounded by a series of charming wood-block flower sprigs, animals and
birds, together with typographical ornaments with a distinctly eighteenth
century feel. The baptism certificate is made out for Michael Hattorf, born
27 September 1803 to Johannes and Katharina Hattorf. The witnesses are
also listed.
There was a Bauman printing family in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Samuel
Bauman (1788–1820) was the son of the original founder, John Bauman.
Samuel’s father, John, died in 1810, so Samuel took on the business.
He mostly printed broadsides, such as baptismal certificates and house
blessings.
FLP 261 (variant – same imprint, different woodcut), Weiser 113; Arndt not
cited.
Multi-Lingual Phrase Book
9. [BARLEMONT, Noel de.] Colloquia et Dictionariolum
Colloquia et Dictionariolum octo Linguarum, Latinae, Gallicae,
Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae, et Portugallicae.
Liber omnibus linguarum studiosis domi, ac forris apprimè
necessarius. Bologna, de Longhis, 1692. £1,000
Oblong 8vo, pp. 398, possibly lacking advertisement or blank at end;
each page in 4 columns, with eight languages across one opening;
decorative initial and endpiece; a few signatures a little browned, due
to paper stock, faint damp-staining affecting outer margin of a few
signatures; contemporary full calf, spine decoratively gilt, with giltlettered
spine label; head and tail of spine chipped.
Later edition of a popular multi-lingual phrase book and dictionary for
tourists and business travellers. Eight languages are covered, Latin, French,
Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and Portuguese, printed in four
columns per page. According to Claes, Verdeyen, and Van Loonen the first
edition, in French and Dutch only, had been composed by an Antwerp
schoolteacher, Noel de Barlaimont (or Barlemont), and was published in
1530. The earliest edition with English text was published in Antwerp in
1576. The first part of the work consists of extensive dialogues, covering
all manner of situations, such as dinner party conversation, buying and
selling, demanding payment, asking directions, general conversation at an
inn, getting up in the morning, writing letters, etc. The second part is a
dictionary, following the Dutch alphabet.
See Alston II 55 for earlier edition; uncommon, no copy in OCLC, ICCU lists
two copies in Italy.