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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 18th century

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1. Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabve in qva, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell'arti di pittura, scultura, e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca, e gottica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all' antica loro perfezione. Opera di Filippo Baldinvcci Fiorentino distinta in secoli, e decennali ...

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Creator:
Baldinucci, Filippo, 1625–1696
Date:
1681-1728
Physical Description:
6 v. in 3. fold. geneal. tables. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Les delices de l'Italie : contenant une description exacte du pais, des principales villes, de toutes les antiquitez, & de toutes les raretez qui s'y trouvent : ouvrage enrichi d'un tres-grand nombre de figures en taille-douce.

Les delices de l'Italie : contenant une description exacte du pais, des principales villes, de toutes les antiquitez, & de toutes les raretez qui s'y trouvent : ouvrage enrichi d'un tres-grand nombre de figures en taille-douce.
Creator:
Rogissart, sieur de, fl. 1706
Date:
1707
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles

3. The travels of the learned Father Montfaucon, from Paris thro' Italy.

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Creator:
Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655–1741
Date:
1712
Physical Description:
vii, 463 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Choice observations upon the art of painting : together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms.

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Creator:
Aglionby, William, d. 1705
Date:
1719
Physical Description:
[36], 374 [i.e. 387], [2] p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Roma illustrata, or, A description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome.

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Creator:
Raguenet, François, 1660?-1722
Date:
[172-?]
Physical Description:
[20], 195, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

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Creator:
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The villas of the ancients illustrated / by Robert Castell.

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Creator:
Castell, Robert
Date:
1728
Physical Description:
[4], 35, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates (9 folded) : ill. ; 54 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni ... da Lione Pascoli.

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Creator:
Pascoli, Lione, 1674–1744
Date:
1730-1736
Physical Description:
2 v. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti perugini / scritta, e dedicate alla maesta di Carlo Emanuel re di Sardegna da Lione Pascoli.

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Creator:
Pascoli, Lione, 1674–1744
Date:
MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:
[12], 259, [9] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

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Creator:
Guarini, Guarino, 1624–1683
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
[8], 307, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Arcus Trajano dedicatus Beneventi porta aurea dictus, sculpturis et mole omnium facile princeps.

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Creator:
Pò, Teresa del, d. 1716
Date:
MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:
1 album (10 prints) : copper engravings ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Collection of engravings after paintings by Gaspard Poussin, Lorrain, Rosa, Lauro, Courtois, and Rembrandt] [graphic].

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Date:
1741-1746
Physical Description:
44 prints in 1 volume : engravings ; binding 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England. : Adorned with copper plates ...

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Creator:
Russel, James, ca. 1720–1763
Date:
MDCCXLVIII [1748]
Physical Description:
viii, 283 p., [5] p., 5 leaves of plates (2 folded, 2 double) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. [Biblical playing cards].

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Creator:
Visentini, Antonio, 1688–1782
Date:
[1748]
Physical Description:
52 cards : etching ; 100 x 55 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. [Book of ruins].

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Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
[ca. 1745?]
Physical Description:
6 prints : etchings ; plate mark 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts