The Alcoran of the Franciscans- a Heap of Blasphemous Doctrines – a Sink of Lyes VERY INFLUENTIAL ON THE SPANISH MISSION IN THE NEW WORLD DEMONSTRATES THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF ST. FRANCIS IN RENAISSANCE ART AND LITERATURE The Book: [Liber conformitatum vite Beati Francisci ad vitam Jesu Christi, ed. J. Mapellus.] [Bartholomeus, de Pisis]. Opus...
68 etched and engraved plates containing 554 plans Giambattista Morandi. Historia botanica practica; sev, Plantarum, quae ad usum medicinae pertinent, nomenclatura descriptio, et virtutes, cum ab antiquis, tum a recentibus celebrium auctorum scriptis desumptae, ac aeneis tabulis delineatae, atque ad vivum ex prototypo expressae, nec non in classes XXV. distributae. (Milan) Mediolani, Apud J. Galeatium,...
WITH TITIAN’S FAMOUS DEVICE OF A BEAR LICKING HER CUBS SIXTY-FOUR (64) beautiful and enigmatic emblematic plates PITTONI, BATTISTA (1520-1583) and LODOVICO DOLCE (1508-1659.) Imprese nobili et ingeniose di diversi Principi et d’ altre personaggi illustri nell’ arme et nelle lettere : con le diciarationi in versi Venetia, 1578. 4to., 27 cm., wide margined and...
109 BEAUTIFUL FULL PLATE ETCHINGS The Book: COLONNA, Fabio (1567-?1650). Minus cognitarum stirpium aliquot ac etiam rariorum nostro coelo orientium [in Greek: Ekphrasis], Rome: Faciotti, 1606. 4to., 215 x 163mm., title in red and black with woodcut printer’s device, engraved portrait of Colonna on verso, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 109 etched full-page plates of...
