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Berardi, Fabio (Siena 1728-Venice 1788). Italianate wooded river landscape with a shepherd and two women, a village with church in the background to the left, after Francesco Zuccarelli. Italy, between 1742-1788. Very large oblong etched and engraved pastoral scene, in foreground a standing shepherd with shepherd's pipe addresses two seated peasant women with a jar, resting beside a lake, at background to left an Italian village with church and a river, at bottom signed in the plate "Zuccarelli Pinx. Berardi Scul". 36,3 x 48,2 cm. (# 5857)

Thieme-Becker III, 368: "nach Zuccarelli (vier Landschaften mit Hirten)". Not in Le Blanc, Nagler. The Italian and British painter Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702-Florence 1788), worked in Rome, settled 1732 in Venice where he became famous as one of the most desired landscape painters of the 18th century; from 1752-1773 he lived in England, where he was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in London; 1773 he settled in Florence. The Italian printmaker Fabio Berardi (Burradi), moved to Venice c. 1742. - Sharp impression on watermarked laid paper. Small margins, right lower blank corner nearly cut to plate-mark, just touching word "Scul". On verso handwritten annotation: "1832 18. Dec. ...".

(Du Rosoi, B. Farmian dit). Les sens, poëme en six chants. Londres (i.e. Paris), (no printer), 1766. With charming engraved frontispiece, 6 pretty plates, 8 vignette head- and tail-pieces engraved by De Longueil after Eisen and Wille, and 2 engraved pp. of musical notation. 2 lvs., 184 pp. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped boards (lower part of back gone, top of spine and corners damaged, faded). (# 4762)

Sander No. 594. Gay-Lemonnier III, 1095. Salomons, Eisen, 94. Cohen 339-340. First edition of these erotic poems on the senses and a delightful example of French rococo book illustration. The French author Barn. Farmian du Rosoi (Paris 1745 - 1792) was decapitated for high treason and conspiracy in favour of Louis XVI. This book marks the maiden attempt of the son of the famous engraver Wille. - Foxed; outer top corner, especially of the plates, stained; upper blank part of title restored. Ownership entry on title of L. la Verlette. Contemporary advertisement pasted inside front-cover: "Häussler in Ulm, Sattler ... empfehlt sich in allen Sattler-Riemer-Tapezir- und Taschner-Arbeiten, sowohl zum Verkauf als auch Einkauf... Auch giebt er lehnungsweise her ... und verspricht in allem schnelle und gute Bedienung und die billigsten Preise".

Gura, Eugen (Saatz 1842-Aufhausen 1906). Assenhausen. 1887. Fine etching on chine collé of a landscape with a lake, hills and trees, in the centre a person walking on a path, in the distance a village; in lower left bottom signed in the plate "nach der Nat. gez. u. rad v. Eugen Gura 1887". 24 x 29,5 cm (plate mark). (# 5840)

Eugen Gura was born in Pressern near Saatz/Saaz then in Bohemia, nowadays Zatec, Czech Republic. He was at first educated as a painter at Wien and München, and is listed in the Matrikelbücher der Kunstakademie München (http://matrikel.adbk.de). He became later a very famous bass-baritone singer. In 1865 he made his debut at the opera of München, worked at Leipzig till 1876 and then at Hamburg till 1883. He sang in Wagner's Ring at Bayreuth and other Wagner opera's, sang the role of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, in London in 1882, with very great success. In later years he was wellknown for his singing of German Lieder. He died in Aufhausen in Bayern/Bavaria. Rare example of Gura'a work as an etcher. Assenhausen (an old ascription) is situated at the Starnberger See in Bavaria. - 3 tiny rubbed spots; Good impression, with large margins.

Kamphuyzen, D.R. Stichtelyke rymen, om te lezen of te zingen: onderscheyden in IV deelen; geheel op nooten. Na de voysen van R. Rooleeuw. Rotterdam, I. Naeranus, 1698. Musical notation throughout. 10 lvs., 762 pp., 5 lvs., 24 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf over wood (clasps gone, heavily rubbed and somewhat damaged). (# 3281)

Scheurleer 40. Cf. Eitner II, 297-298. Very popular collection of pious verse, the first edition to contain the musical notation by R. Rooleeuw. Diederik Rafaelsz Camphuysen (Gorkum 1568 - Dokkum 1619), at first a painter, became later a theologian and zealous follower of Socinianism. - Slightly waterstained, a small wormhole in a few leaves just touching a few letters.

Piazza, Moses Aaron Rachamim. Orah ve-Simchah ve-hu quntres ... el na'arei bnei Yisrael ve-yaldei sa'asu'im ... le-avodat yemei ha-Purim (prayers, songs and poems for Purim). Livorno, Abraham Isaac Castello and Eliezer Sa'adon, 1786. Printed in Hebrew and Judeo-Italian, also in Hebrew letters. On recto of first leaf a 17 lines acrostichon surrounded by a border of Hebrew text referring to the content of the book. On verso of leaf 7 a full-page woodcut printer's mark showing a book and inkpot in an ornamental cartouche. 56 lvs. 8vo. Contemporary boards, sides covered with marbled paper (rubbed, back slightly damaged). (# 1441)

Vinograd, Leghorn (= Livorno) No. 221. Not in Steinschneider CB, not in Fürst. Zedner 595 (suggesting as author Moses Aaron Foa). Roest 932. Benjacob p. 29/544. Only edition of this important collection of Purim songs from Livorno, partly in Judeo-Italian dialect. Among Italian Jews, Purim was celebrated as a highly elaborate carnival which included musical and theatrical presentations. The present work contains the piyyut for Purim "Ach zeh ha-yom quvviti (fol 49b) with the following title: "Shir pashut le-shabbat zakhor ... Lah'an con gran placer senores", composed by an anonymous local rabbi. The melody of this song and the song "Fate onore al bel Purim" was also used in Livorno to sing Lecha Dodi on the Shabbat preceding Purim. The name of the author, Moses Aaron Rachamim Piazza (died 1808) can be found as acrostichon in several poems, lvs. 50b-51b (see: Roest). - Lightly browned.

Picart, Bernard (Paris 1673-Amsterdam 1733). L'accord de la Religion avec la Philosophie, ou de la Raison avec la Foy. Paris, 1708. Fine oblong allegorical etching: the agreement between Religion and Philosophy, or between Reason and Faith; Philosophy, personified by a woman crowned with stars, shakes hand with Religion, who stands at the top of some steps, next to the Bible; on the right stand Faith, covered by a veil, and Hope, carrying an anchor and praying; on the left the daughters of Philosophy (Poetry, Geometry, Grammar, Chemistry, Painting, Rhetoric and Music). At bottom signed in the plate "Inventé et gravé par B. Picart en 1708". 9,7 x 15,3 cm. (# 5872)

Dimier I, 391, No. 492. Picart did this engraving to accompany a Sorbonne thesis in philosophy that exists now, however, only in manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. In database British Museum, another, probably later, state surmounts an engraved explanatory text by Prosper Marchand: there the scene and the text are printed from two separate plates on a single sheet. The printmaker Bernard Picart, trained in Paris but worked in the Netherlands 1696-1698, returned to Paris and after the death of his wife and children turned Huguenot, and left definitively for Holland in 1710, settled initially in The Hague, then in 1711 in Amsterdam. - Trimmed inside plate mark. Bright impression on strong paper. Collector's stamp on verso of "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

Venezia. Gl'Illustrissimi, & eccellentissimi Signori Capi dell'Eccelso Consiglio di Dieci infrascritti, attese le relazioni avute; che da alcuni titolati di varie parochie di questa città non venga adempito colla dovuta puntualità quanto resta prescritto dal decreto del detto Eccelso Consiglio de 24 Marzo 1676, regolato col posteriore de'14 Luglio 1678, ... di nuovo stampati in un sollo foglio, e ne sia mandata in ciascuna Chiesa Parochiale... Antonio Nani, Antonio Loredan, Andrea Renier... 1732. 21. Agosto. (Venice), Z. Antonio & Almoro Pinelli, Stampatori Ducali, (1732). Broadsheet, printed on one side, with a woodcut of the winked Lion of St. Mark (il Leone di S. Marco) in top, with 2 ornamental initials. Folio. ca. 42,3 x 28 cm. (# 5793)

Not listed in KVK, Picarta, Worldcat, etc. Rare ordinance relating to Church law, issued by the Venetian Republic. Also dealing with music in the Church "alle Sacre funtioni di Divini Officii nel Coro, come sono tenuti...". - Three small holes, just affecting a few letters, upper margin shaved, small tear in woodcut, slightly browned, some contemporary underlinings in brown ink.