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Pietro Martire Felini; [Andrea Palladio]; [Prospero
Parisio]. Trattato Nuovo delle Cose Maravigliose
dell’alma Città di Roma, Ornato de Molte Figure,
nel quale si discorre di 300. & piu Chiese.
Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1610. Octavo,
contemporary vellum, ink manuscript titles to spine and upper wrapper. Pictorial title
printed in red and black, more than 200 architectural woodcuts throughout text. $3500.
First illustrated edition of Felini’s influential guidebook to Rome.
Trattato Nuovo
builds on an already established genre of “Roma antica e moderna,” borrowing
liberally fromAndrea Palladio’s 1554
L’Antichità di Roma
and a series of modern
illustrated guides published in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Felini’s “groundbreaking” contribution to the tradition, outlined by Ludwig Schudt
in
Le Guide de Roma
(1930), was his pointed integration of Renaissance art history
into the well-tread topography of ancient Rome.
Trattato Nuovo
offers an
architectural history of St. Peter’s, the first description of the transept decoration
of St. John Lateran, and detailed attention to the monuments of sixteenth-century
Rome, including Michelangelo’s statue of Moses at San Pietro in Vincoli and the
obelisks restored and raised by Sixtus V. The text is illustrated with hundreds of
woodcuts, offering readers at home a visual and virtual tour of the Eternal City.
Text in Italian. A very good example of a scarce and important Roman guidebook.
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[David Lyndsay]; [Walter Sholto Douglas]; [Mary Diana Dods]; [Mary Shelley].
Tales of the Wild and Wonderful.
London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1825. Octavo,
original boards. Early owner signature. Housed in a custom box. $3250.
First edition of this anonymously published collection of five sensational gothic
tales, one of only two books byWalter Sholto Douglas (1790-1830), born Mary
Diana Dods, who lived as a man on the page and in life. The illegitimate child of a
Scottish peer, Dods adopted the pen name “David Lyndsay” while writing for
Blackwood’s Magazine
; the publisher’s correspondence related to
Tales of theWild
andWonderful
was conducted under Lyndsay’s name. Dods eventually chose to
live openly as a man, “Walter Sholto Douglas,” a transition not understood by
historians until Betty Bennett, while researching Mary Shelley’s letters, discovered
that Mary Diana Dods, David Lyndsay, andWalter Sholto Douglas were in fact the
same person. In 1827, Shelley secured an official passport for her friend “Doddy”
in the name of Douglas, identified as the husband of their mutual friend Isabella
Robinson, who had just given birth to a child out of wedlock. Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas then entered Parisian society as husband and wife, accompanied by
their daughter Adeline. Laid into this copy of
Tales of theWild andWonderful
is
an early bookseller description attributing the book’s authorship to George
Borrow, as formerly believed. A scarce collection by an increasingly recognized
gender nonconforming writer, in original boards.
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