Arader Galleries, Rare Books

Item #JLR0818 Observations on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some...

Repton, Humphry

Observations on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts. By H. Repton, Esq.

London: T. Bensley for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library; 1805. Second edition. Quarto (13 7/16” x 10 7/8”, 341mm x 276mm): binder’s blank, A4 πB4 B-2F4, binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 120 leaves, pp. 1-5 (title, blank, dedication, blank, advertisement) 6-16, 21 22-222 [2] (2pp. index). With 28 hors-texte plates.....

Price: $9,750

Item #JLR0812 Bath, illustrated by a series of views, from the drawings of John Claude Nattes;...

Nattes, John Claude

Bath, illustrated by a series of views, from the drawings of John Claude Nattes; with descriptions to each plate

BATH at its REGENCY FINEST London: W. Bulmer for William Miller and William Sheppard, 1806. First edition. Folio (18 7/8” x 13 1/8”, 478mm x 334mm): 3 binder’s blanks, π-2π2 B-D2 χ-11χ2, 3 binder’s blanks [$1 signed]. 32 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, blank, title, blank) i ii-iii [1] (list.....

Price: $20,000

[Zocchi, Giuseppe]

Raccolta Delle più belle Vedute e Prospettive della Città di Firenze

[Florence:] Niccolò Pagni and Giuseppe Bardi[, ca. 1785.] Oblong folio (16 1/16” x 22”, 409mm x 558mm): with an engraved title-page and 24 engraved plates. Bound in later (XIXc?) half tree-marbled sheep backed in blue cloth. Fore-corners worn, with some rubbing and wear at the extremities. Scratches to the front.....

Price: $28,000

Item #JLR0580 Six ink-and-wash paintings over etched lines from his series "Journées...

Uggeri, Angelo

Six ink-and-wash paintings over etched lines from his series "Journées pittoresques des édifices antiques dans les environs de Rome"

Rome: A. Fulgoni, 1804[–1810]. Porte Capene ou Capouane[1] (9” x 11 7/8”, 229mm x 302mm); no. 4, pt. I (1804). Cella Mortuaria[2] (9 3/16” x 11 15/16”, 233mm x 303mm); no. 10, pt. I (1804). Ruines de la Pinacothéque de Domitien (9 3/16” x 11 15/16”, 233mm x 303mm);.....

Price: $4,200

Item #JLR0248 Galerie antique. Jacques Guillaume Legrand

Legrand, Jacques Guillaume

Galerie antique. Monumens de la grèce ou collection des chefs-dœuvre d'architecture, de sculpture et de peinture antique. Gravés d'après les meilleurs auteurs, comparés entre eux et accompagnés d'un texte historique, analytique & descriptif. Par J. G. Legrand. Première Division. Tome 1er à Paris. 1808

THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF LEGRAND’S UNFINISHED TREATISE ON THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE Legrand, Jacques Guillaume. Galerie antique. Monumens de la grèce ou collection des chefs-dœuvre d’architecture, de sculpture et de peinture antique. Gravés d’après les meilleurs auteurs, comparés entre eux et accomagnés d’un texte historique, analytique & descriptif.....

Price: $85,000

Akin, Louis

El Tovar (Hotel; Grand Canyon)

[New York: W.J. Black,] 1906. Chromolithograph (sheet 8" x 17", frame 12 1/4" x 20 7/8"). Faint stain to the lower-left corner. Else fine (not examined out of frame) in an old oak frame with a brass title-plaque. Louis Benton Akin (1868-1912) was born in Oregon but trained in.....

Price: $2,800

Item #JLR0487 Li cinque ordini di architettura. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da

Li cinque ordini di architettura et agiuntade lopere del Eccmo M. Giacomo Baroci da Vignola con un ragionamento alli architeti, di M. Ottaviano Ridolfi. Intorno alla perfetione di tutti gli cinque ordini di detta Architetura Con la noua agiunta di Michiel Angielo Bona Rotta Fiorentino

Bassano: Remondini, [ca. 1648]. Folio in 8s (17 ½” x 11 ¾”, 445mm x 296mm): A-D8 E10 [$8 signed]. 42 leaves; engraved title and 41 engraved plates (numbered [1] IIII-XXXII [11]), all blank verso. Bound in early (XVIIIc?) stab-bound paste-paper wraps. Presented in a beige cloth clam-shell box with a......

Price: $4,500

Item #JLR0483 Raccolta di varie Decorazioni Sceniche inventate e dipinte dal Pittore Alessandro...

Sanquirico, Alessandro

Raccolta di varie Decorazioni Sceniche inventate e dipinte dal Pittore Alessandro Sanquirico per per l’I:R: Teatro alla Scala in Milano

PRESENTATION COPY TO MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF FRANCE & DUCHESS OF PARMA [Milan: ca. 1826.] Oblong folio (15 7/16” x 18 7/16”, 392mm x 469mm). With a calligraphic ink manuscript title-page; graphite, ink and water-color dedication to Maria Luisa, heightened in gold; a calligraphic ink manuscript dedication to Maria Luisa;.....

Price: $78,000

Item #JLR0469 M. Vitruvii Pollionis de Architectura libri decem. ed. Jean de Laet Vitruvius

Vitruvius, ed. Jean de Laet

M. Vitruvii Pollionis de Architectura libri decem. Cum Notis, Castigationibus & Observationibus. Guilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis. Præmittuntur elementa architecturæ Collecta ab Illustri Viro Henrico Wottono Equite Anglo. Accedunt Lexicon vitruvianum Bernardini Baldi Urbinatis Guastellæ Abbatis; Et ejusdem Scamilli impares vitruviani. De pictura Libri tres Absolutissimi Leonis Baptistæ de Albertis. De Sculptura Excerpta maxime animadvertenda ex Dialogo Pomponii Gavrici Neapolit. Ludovici Demontiosii commentarius de sculptura et pictura. Cum variis Indicibus copiosissimis. Omnia in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Ioanne de Laet Antwerpiano

Amsterdam: Lodewyk (III) Elzevier, 1649. Folio in 4s (12” x 7 11/16”, 305mm x 195mm): binder’s blank, *4 †a-†d4 A-Gg4 Hh6 Ii-Kk4 Ll6 χ1 2Ii6 2Kk4 2A-T4 2V6, a-i4, 2 binder’s blanks [$3 signed; –*1, *2, 2Kk1]. 289 leaves, pp. [8] (engraved title, blank, letterpress title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 2pp.....

Price: $5,400

Item #JLR0206 Le antichita romane opera del cavaliere Giambatista Piranesi architetto veneziano...

Piranesi, Francesco [(ed.), and Giambattista Piranesi]

Le antichita romane opera del cavaliere Giambatista Piranesi architetto veneziano divisa in quattro tomi nel primo de' quali si contengono Gli avanzi degli antichi Edifizj di Roma, disposti in Tavola Topografica secondo l'odierna loro esistenza; ed illustrati co' frammenti dell'antica Icnografia marmorea, e con un Indice critico della loro denominazione arrichito di tavole suppletorie Fralle quali si dimostrano l'elevazione degli stessi avanzi : l'andamento degli antichi Aquedotti nelle vicinanze e nel dentro di Roma, correlativo al Commentario Frontiniano ivi esposto in compendio : la Pianta delle Terme le più cospicue : del Foro Romano colle contrade circonvicine : del Monte Capitolino : ed altre le più riguardevoli. . .

Rome: Stamperia Salomoni, 1784. Second edition. Folio (21 ½” x 15 13/16”, 546mm x 401mm): π-3π, A1 B-V1, 2A-E1 2F1, χ1, a-b1, *1 2χ-3χ1 [$1 signed; b bound verso-first]. With 46 (of 43) engraved plates: 35 single (including the portrait frontispiece of G.B. Piranesi), 8 double-page and 3 folding. The.....

Price: $18,000

Item #JLR0203 Oxonia Illustrata sive Omnium Celeberrimæ istius Universitatis Collegiorum,...

Loggan, David

Oxonia Illustrata sive Omnium Celeberrimæ istius Universitatis Collegiorum, Aularum, Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, Scholarum Publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non Urbis Totius Scenographia. Delineavit & Sculpsit Dav: Loggan Univ. Oxon. Chalcographus

Oxford: [Oxford University Press] “e Theatro Sheldoniano,” 1675. First edition. Folio (16 13/16” x 12 9/16”, 427mm x 294mm): 5 preliminary engraved pages (title-page, dedication, to the reader, mezzotint portrait of James Butler (2nd Duke of Ormonde), privilege) and 40 engraved double-page engravings (with pl. 27, Christ Church, folding), and.....

Price: $28,000

Item #JLR0202 Oxonia Illustrata sive Omnium Celeberrimæ istius Universitatis Collegiorum,...

Loggan, David

Oxonia Illustrata sive Omnium Celeberrimæ istius Universitatis Collegiorum, Aularum, Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, Scholarum Publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non Urbis Totius Scenographia. Delineavit & Sculpsit Dav: Loggan Univ. Oxon. Chalcographus

THE GORDON DUFF COPY Oxford: [Oxford University Press] “e Theatro Sheldoniano,” 1675. First edition. Folio (16 7/8” x 11 5/8”, 431mm x 295mm): binder’s blank, 5 preliminary engraved pages (title-page (London imprint), title-page, dedication, privilege, to the reader) and 40 engraved double-page engravings (with pl. 27, Christ Church, folding).....

Price: $22,500