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SPECIALIZING IN CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS, FORE - EDGE PAINTINGS, SETS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, VOYAGES & TRAVELS.
Includes bird's eye views of major cities and ports (New York, Boston, Santiago, Lima, etc., islands of Central America (Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, etc.); 35 other plates depict phenomena particular to the Americas, including toucans, bison, penguins; industrial methods for indigo, tobacco, and sugar production; and construction methods for Native boats.
Published in Livorno, this is an expanded Italian edition of the American Gazetteer published in London a year earlier.
“Livorno, as a free port, maintained intense commercial ties with England while supporting a large population of foreigners, many of them English. It should be no surprise that it was in Livorno, in 1762, that there began to be prepared and then published an Italian translation of the American Gazetteer of London: the Gazzettiere Americano. It was no less than an ongoing encyclopedia of the Americas, with a large share dedicated to the Atlantic colonies, heir growing populations and their commerce.”
(Tortarolo in Connell & Pugliese, 2018)
Price (USD) $6,000.00
(Rustic Furniture) IDEAS FOR RUSTIC FURNITURE PROPER FOR GARDEN SEATS, SUMMER HOUSES, HERMITAGES, COTTAGES, ETC.
London: I. & J. Taylor, (circa 1790).
8vo. Contemporary blue wrappers. 25 engraved plates, including title leaf. First edition. "One of the rarest of eighteenth-century furniture plate books," it was the subject of an article by Morrison Heckscher, "Eighteenth Century Rustic
Furniture Designs," (Furniture History, XI, 1975, pages 59-65). Heckscher further says,
"There is a consistency about the style of all these pieces. All have a delicate and ordered rusticity what had been described as a 'regular twiginess.' All of the wooden framing elements are made from what appears to be thin, untrimmed branches. The branches of some pieces are nailed together, but more often they are lashed together with rope. Many of the chair and settee backs are 'woven' out of one or two unnaturally long branches."
