Showing posts with label bookplates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bookplates. Show all posts
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Hendrick Hondius... POST FUNERA VITA: AFTER BURIAL, LIFE..1690

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Monograms of deceased artists on pyramids: AD (Albrecht Dürer) L (Lucas van Leyden)  MVH (Maarten van Heemskerk) AG (Heinrich Aldegreve...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Bookplate ... from the library of the masons lodge Zu den drei Cedern...1808

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Bookplate...Francisco Hernández...1651...natural treasures of the new world

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Bookplate...1700's... Mexican Sun Chart

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Giovanni Veneroni (1642-1708) ... Bookplate 1737... Satyr

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Miscellanea curiosa... bookplate...c1706

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Johannes von Schwarzenberg... bookplate...1534

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a scan from The Devious and Grotesque in Art by Wilhelm Michel 1919
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

H Meyer...Bookplate... c1793

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bookplate from Letters to the advancement of humanity by Johann Gottfried von Herder
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)...Zur Farbenlehre ...bookplate 1810

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"To divide the united, to unite the divided, is the life of nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal collapsi...
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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Pinax microcosmographicus...Johann Remmelin & Hara Sanshin ...Flap books

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Johann Remmelin's Pinax Microcosmographicus  1667 Japanese version of Johann Remmelin's Pinax Microcosmographicus. Copy made ...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Aztec Idol ... Vitzilipuztli ... bookplates 1700s

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click on image to enlarge A. Aveline  - 1720 click on image to enlarge 1725
Monday, October 3, 2011

MURILLO Y VELARDE, TOMÁS DE...ratado de raras, y peregrinas yervas . . . y sus maravillosas virtudes 1674

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  a work by the physician to King Philip IV of Spain on the qualities and medicinal properties of southernwood, ox-eye camomile, and man...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Mynde J... bookplate ... 18thc

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Monday, September 19, 2011

Cherubino Alberti... Fame blowing trumpet...1628

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Bookplate...Christoph Heinrich...1747

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Diophantus of Alexandria ... bookplate... 1575

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Victor Brown.... bookplate for Lily Yeats

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from Poems by WB Yeats, Cuala Press 1935 "There's nothing but our own red blood Can make a right Rose Tree..." wb yeats
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Saturday reading... Erotica 1800's

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Dance Macabre...Bookplate... Antonio Steinhauer 1744..

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Maurice Scève (1501-c.1560)...Delie ...Emblems of Desire 1544

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Delie object de plus hault vertu was first published in 1544 in Lyon by Sulpice Sabon for the bookseller, Antoine Constantin. The subs...