Lippmann's Facsimiles ENGRAVINGS AND WOODCUTS BY OLD MASTERS. Sec. XV-XIX, reproduced in facsimile by the Imperial Press at Berlin, and published under the direction of Dr. Fr. Lippmann, 10 Parts, impl. folio, 500 splendid Engravings, cloth 1893-99 The Ten Series taken together are charged £42. Issued under the direction of Mr. GEORGE WILLIAM REID, F.S.A., Keeper of ITALIAN ENGRAVERS OF THE XVTH CENTURY. This Series commences with the three illustrations to IL MONTE SANCTO DI DIO, published at Florence in 1477, which have been assigned to Baccio Baldini, executed from designs by SANDRO BOTTICELLI, followed by The twenty illustrations to the DIVINA COMEDIA of DANTE, which have also been assigned to the same artists, and were published by Landino at Florence in 1481. The six engravings to the TRIUMPHS of PETRARCH, attributed by Adam Bartsch to NICOLETTO DE MODENA, but which more probably were the conceptions of FRA FILIPPO LIPPI,-together 29 engravings, reproduced in exact facsimile from copperplates, with text, in portfolio, nearly out of print, £1. 10s 1883 As an indication of the extreme care which is being taken in selecting the best prints for these reproductions, it may be stated that the Dante Series comprises examples chosen from seven different copies of the work. To show the high value set upon these early works of art, the Royal Library of Berlin paid £1200 for a proof set of the plates to Dante, and the Trustees of the British Museum have purchased a set of early impressions of the Triumphs which came from the Sunderland Library at Blenheim at the price of £2050. Fagan's WILLIAM FAITHORNE: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of William Faithorne, by Louis Fagan, impl. 8vo. xiii and 101 pp. cloth, 21s the same, VELLUM PAPER, impl. 8vo. bd. £2. 28 1888 1888 "Mr. Fagan's compilation attests his industry and the ample resources to which he has had access in the British Museum, which is peculiarly well endowed with specimens of Faithorne. One of the best draughtsmen of his time, Faithorne left his work on the practical methods of his art in this country, and may be said to have secured, if he did not lay the foundation of, that great reputation which it enjoyed in the middle of the last and the earlier part of the present century."-The Athenæum, August 18th, 1888. Falconer's and Cautley's Fauna Antiqua Sivaleusis, or the Fossil Zoology of the Sewalik Hills in the North of India, 9 parts, royal folio, map and 107 plates by FORD, representing in many cases the fossils of the natural size, with Letter-press description to Part 1, all issued MURCHISON'S (C.) Description of the Plates of Fauna Antiqua Svalensis, from Memoranda by the late HUGH FALCONER, 8vo. 1867 (pub. at £10), in parts, £1. 168 1846-49-67 Parts I-VI contain PROBOSCIDEA.-Part VII, HIPPOPOTAMIDE.-Part VIII, SUIDE and RHINOCEROTIDE.-Part IX, EQUIDE, RUMINANTIA, CAMELIDE, and SIVATHERIUM. : Falconry HARTING'S BIBLIOTHECA ACCIPITRARIA: A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern, relating to Falconry; with Critical Notes, GLOSSARY and POLYGLOTT VOCABULARY, by JAMES EDMUND HARTING, Librarian to the Linnean Society of London, 1 vol. 8vo. viii and 254 pp. with 16 plates of famous Falconers, the frontispiece in colours, Roxburghe, subscription price, £1. 11s 6d Only 300 copies are printed. 1891 Falconry, like other Field Sports, has its literature. It would be strange if it were not so; for, on turning over the pages of the world's history, it is apparent that for centuries it has played a conspicuous part amongst the diversions of people of all nations. But the literature of the subject has been much neglected. The older treatises in all languages have become scarce and costly, and of the rest the booksellers are unable to supply, or even to name, a tithe of them. This, perhaps, is partly due to the circumstances that no Bibliography of Falconry having any claim to completeness exists. Fitzgerald (Edward) Portrait of the Translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, etched by Costello, 28 6d PROFESSOR COWELL writes as follows: 1886 "CAMBRIDGE, April 3rd, 1886. "MY DEAR SIR,-I am very much obliged to you for the portrait of Edward Fitzgerald which you have kindly sent me. The portrait vividly brings back my dear old Friend to me. We shall never look upon his like again. "I remain, yours sincerely, E. B. COWELL." Gilbert (William) of Colchester, Physician of London, on the LOADSTONE and MAGNETIC BODIES, and on the great magnet of the Earth. A new physiology demonstrated with many arguments and experiments. A translation by P. FLEURY MOTTELAY, 8vo. portrait, figures, and numerous facsimiles, cloth, 178 6d New York and London, 1893 The translation De Magnete has been a task of no ordinary difficulty; it has brought up problems innumerable, the solution of which has involved much laborious research- -as the result was meant to be a clear and competent presentation of the author in idiomatic English, and not merely a substitution of English words for Latin. Nor would I have ventured to appear as the English interpreter of the great Gilbert," father of the Magnetic philosophy," but for the hearty encouragement and very material aid, in translating and otherwise, extended by many literary and scientific friends, amongst whom must be especially mentioned Mr. Joseph Fitzgerald, Mr. E. McMillan, Mr. Josepy Wetzler, Dr. Joseph V. Livingstone, Hon. Park Benjamin, and Prof. Alfred H. Mayer. I am likewise indebted to Prof. Chas. Sanders Pierce, to Mr. Latimer Clark, F.R.S., to Dr. Isaac H. Hall, and to Dr. Charlton T. Lewis for valuable suggestions as to the general treatment of the work; and, in the word of the celebrated mathematician, Edward Wright, I doubt not that our united efforts "will find the heartiest approval among all intellectual men and children of the magnetic science." "The year 1600," observes the English historian Henry Hallam," was the first in which England produced a remarkable work in Physical Science; but this was one sufficient to raise a lasting reputation for its author. Gilbert, a physician, in his treatise on the Magnet, not only collected all the knowledge which others possessed on the subject, but became at once the father of experimental philosophy in this island; and, by a singular felicity and acuteness of genius, the founder of theories, which have been revived after a lapse of ages, and are almost received into the creed of Science. . . . Gilbert was one of the earliest Copernicans-at least as to the rotation of the earth-and, with his usual sagacity, inferred, before the invention of the telescope, that there are a multitude of fixed stars beyond the reach of our vision." While Dr. Whewell observes that "Gilbert's work contains all the fundamental facts of the science, so fully examined, indeed, that even at this day we have very little to add to them," Dr. Thomas Thomson says that De Magnete "is one of the finest examples of inductive philosophy that has ever been presented to the world." Poggendorff, from whose "Geschichte der Physik" (page 286) this is extracted, calls Gilbert "the Galileo of Magnetism." By Dr. Priestley he was named "the father of modern electricity. In an article written not long since, Mr. Conrad W. Cooke, of London, notes the high opinion of Gilbert's work entertained-more particularly by Nathaniel Carpenter, William Barlowe, Francis Bacon, Galileo, and Humboldt, and he adds: "There is abundant testimony extant that this De Magnete of Gilbert's produced a profound sensation, not only in this country but throughout the then civilized world; and it is a singularly curious fact that the brilliancy of a reputation so great and so original should have been allowed in subsequent generations to have been lost sight of."-Preface. Gruner's Italian Frescoes. An almost UNIQUE copy, all the frescoes coloured by hand, atlas folio, red mor. extra, by Bedford, in a leather case, £90. 1854 This magnificent work is no less valuable to the Architect than to the Painter. It does not profess (says the Quarterly Review in an elaborate article) to exhibit fresh decorative painting in that highest walk chosen by Michael Angelo and Raffaelle (except as a handmaid), but as a purely decorative Art and subservient to Architecture. Owing its very existence to the exigencies of the sovereign art, and deriving its appropriate locality, scale and effect from the edifice, it no less assists the Architecture, in return, by its arabesques and other tasteful accessories. LIST OF PLATES TO GRUNER'S ITALIAN FRESCOES. The progressive number of the Plates is to be found at the bottom in the centre of each Plate. PALACES AND VILLAS. Cortile of San Damaso in the Vatican, by Raphael and his School. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. Perspective View of the First Loggia. 2. Section of Part of the same. 2 a. Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican. 3. Perspective View of the third Loggia. 4. Details of the Pavement. 5. Elevation, Section, and Architectural Details of the whole Loggiato. Villa Madama, by Raphael, Giulio · Romano, and Giovanni da Udine. 6. Plan, View, and Section of the House and Gardens. 7. 8. 7. Longitudinal Section of the Loggia. 8. Decoration of the Dome A. 9. 11. 9, 10. Decorations of the Arched Ceilings. 11. Details of the Decorations of the Vestibule B, and of the Walls. 12. 13. 12. Details of the Paintings on the Arched Ceilings C and D, and the Mosaics of the Fountain f. Various Palaces. 19. 17 a. Loggia of Psyche, in the Palazzo Farnesina. 20. 18. Paintings of the Ceiling A. Villa Lante. Giulio Romano. 21, 22. 19, 20. Decorations of the Arched Ceilings and Frieze. 23. 20 a. Decorations of the Arched Ceiling Palazzo del T, in Mantua, by Giulio 24. 21. Plan, Elevations, and Details. 27. 24. Decorations of the Uffizio della Scal- 25. Galleria de' Marmi. 27. Arabesques and coloured Stuccoes of 27 a. Decorations of a Small Loggia overlooking the Giardino Pensile. 28. 29. 30. 35. 31. Bath-Room of Pope Clement VII. By Giulio Romano. DECORATIONS OF ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS. The Certosa, near Pavia, by Ambrogio da Fossano, Bramantino, and Bernardino Luini. 36. I. Exterior of the Church. 38. III. The principal Front of the Vestibule. 46. X. Details of the Decorations. 47. XI. The Monastero Maggiore at Milan. By Bernardino Luini. 48. XII. Libreria of the Cathedral of Siena. By Pinturicchio. 49. XIII. The Groined Ceiling of the Choir in Cathedral of St. Cecilia, at Alby, 50. XIV. Paintings of one of the Compart- Villa Belcaro, near Siena. 51. XV. The Chapel, built and painted by Balthazar Peruzzi. Published under the patronage of H.M.'s Government. Gruner's Specimens of Ornamental Art; Selected from the best Models of the Classical Epochs (RAPHAEL, &c.), atlas folio, 80 very large plates, most of which are most SPLENDIDLY EXECUTED IN GOLD AND COLOURS, with a 4to. vol. of Descriptions (pub. at £12. 12s in cloth), 2 vols. new hf. morocco, gilt edges, £6. 10s 1850 The work has now become very scarce, and is in general request as the best BOOK of CLASSICAL ORNAMENT. Copies have sold at sales for £14. 14s and upwards. A MORE MAGNIFICENT VOLUME than the above has never been produced in any country. It is difficult to conceive the gorgeous yet harmonious effect of the colours, which could only have been produced by the Litho-chromatographic process. The plates are of a very large size, and present some of the most tasteful specimens of Decorative Art of every description by the greatest Masters, including RAPHAEL, GIULIO ROMANO, PRIMATICCIO, HOLBEIN, GIOTTO, &c. LIST OF PLATES. I: ARCHITECTURAL ORNA MENTS, MONOCHROME 1. Doors of the Classical Orders. 2. Mode of Constructing the Curves of some of the Etruscan Vases. 3. Bronze Candelabrum. Museum of Naples 4. Two Bronze Candelabra. Same Museum. 5. Richly Chased Arms. XV and XVI │ Centuries. Historical Museum, Dresden. 6. Cup designed by Holbein for Henry VIII. British Museum. . Bookbinding, XVI Century. From the Vatican. 8. Flowers from Nature, ornamentally arranged. 9. Hawthorn in Flower and Fruit, from Nature. II: POMPEIANA. 30. Arrangement of the Paintings in the House of the Second Fountain. 31. Portion of the same. 32. Column from a Wall-Painting. 34. Frieze with Children, from a similar painting. 10. Convolvulus and French Bean, from 35. Painted Wall in the House of the Nature. 11. Part of a Frieze, XVI Century. 12. Capital of a Pilaster, from the Temple of Mars the Avenger, at Rome. 13. Greek Frieze in Terra Cotta, from the Collection of the Cavaliere Campana, at Rome. 14. Two Friezes in Terra Cotta, from the same Collection. 15. Part of an Ancient Pilaster in the Villa Medici at Rome. 16. Ancient Car or Biga, from the Vatican. 17. Part of an Ancient Column, ditto. 18. Frieze by Andrea del Monte Sansovino, XVI Century. 19. Festoon by the same. 20. Tarsia or Inlaid Wood, by Fra Giovanni, XV Cent. S. Maria in Organo, Verona. 21. Inlaid Wood, by the same. 22. Inlaid Wood, by the same. 23. Inlaid Wood, by the same. 24. Inlaid Wood, by the same. Labyrinth. 36. Mosaic Fountain in the House of Medusa III: CHURCH ORNAMENTS. 37. Mosaic Lunette above the High Altar of St. Clemente. Rome, XII Century. 38. Mosaic Lunette in St. John Lateran, by Jacobo della Turreta, XIII Century. 39. Mosaic Arabesks by Jacobo della Turreta, in the same Church. 40. Painted Details of Lower Church of San 41. Painted Pillar and Ribs by Giotto, Assisi. 44. Details of Church of St. Andrea, Vercelli. Numismatics: CUNNINGHAM (Sir Alexander) Coins of the Indo-Skythians: Sakas and Kushans, 5 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. map, 27 plates of Coins, alphabets, etc.; cloth, 308 1893 This is a collection of six papers printed in the Numismatic Chronicle, but here reduced to a whole in order to facilitate the attentive study which they demand. Their combination forms the most serious and important contribution yet made to the history of the dynasties that ruled in the countries between Persia and Sind during a few centuries before and after the Christian era. The art in the coins, and much of the lettering, is borrowed from the Greek kingdom of Bactria, was declining when the Scythian invasions began. EVANS, COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS, arranged and described by JOHN EVANS, D.C.L., LL.D., D.SC., F.R.S., F.G.S., President of the Society of Antiquaries, and of the Numismatic Society, etc.; with the SUPPLEMENT, one stout volume, 8vo. map and numerous plates and woodcuts by Fairholt and Sellier, Roxburghe, scarce The SUPPLEMENT SEPARATELY, entitled: 1864-90 THE COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS, by JOHN EVANS, 8vo. map of England and Wales, showing the Localities where ancient British inscribed Coins have been found, all dating from the first century after Christ, 10 engraved plates and some woodcuts, cloth, 128 1890 This Supplement will be bought by all who possess Dr. Evans's original work, "The Coins of the Ancient Britons," 1 vol. 1864, now out of print. "THE HORSEMEN" OF TARENTUM: a Contribution towards the Numismatic History of Great Greece, by ARTHUR J. EVANS, 8vo. cloth, 128 6d 1889 EVANS (A. J.) SYRACUSAN MEDALLIONS, in the light of recent finds, 8vo. xvi and 216 pp. and 10 plates, cloth, £1. 1s 1892 Includes an Essay on some new Artists' signatures on Sicilian Coins. KENYON. THE GOLD COINS OF ENGLAND, arranged and described by R. LL. KENYON, Editor of the second edition of" Hawkins's Silver Coins of England," 1 vol. demy 8vo., 218 pp., and 2 plates, engraved by F. J. LEES, Member of the Numismatic Society, Roxburghe, gilt top, 24s 1893 This work contains a complete account of the English current gold coins, from the earliest Saxon times to the present reign, with 200 illustrations, and includes a description of gold coins attributed to the first half of the seventh century. It is uniform with the second edition of "Hawkins's Silver Coins," and it is hoped that the light which an examination of the gold coins throws upon the proper appropriation of the silver, as for instance in the reigns of Henry V and VI and of Edward V, together with the information about the history of the coinage which this volume contains, may make it acceptable to collectors, even though their cabinets may not contain a great number of gold coins. HAWKINS' SILVER COINS OF ENGLAND arranged and described, with remarks on British Money, previous to the Saxon Dynasties, by E. HAWKINS, Keeper of Coins and Antiquities in the British Museum, THIRD EDITION, revised and enlarged by R. Ll. KENYON, ESQ. thick 8vo. viii and 508 pp., 55 plates containing figures of about 650 Coins, by F. W. Fairholt and F. J. Lees, Roxburghe, 368 1887 "A third edition having been called for, the text has been carefully revised, and the coins found and published during the last ten years have been described in their proper places. Several additions have been made to the lists of the mints before the Conquest, and some additions and alterations have been made throughout the work. But the most important alteration has been in the reign of Edward III, where it is shown that all the coins hitherto attributed to him were struck subsequently to 1351, and that those struck before, during, and after the Treaty of Bretigny may be distinguished by the titles inscribed on them; in accordance with the arrangement adopted by the editor in his book on English Gold Coins. This will clear the way for a more satisfactory arrangement than has hitherto been possible of the coins which have been attributed to Edward I and II, but some of which must now be given to the first half of Edward III's reign; but such a redistribution can only be made after careful examination of a very large number of these coins, and for such examination the editor has lately had neither time nor opportunity."-Preface to the Third Edition. |