[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1810 Book on Venetian Crushed-Stone Floors

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Rodlich, H.F.  "Praktische Anweisung zur Verfertigung der Venezianischen
Estriche"

Berlin; C.H. Platen: 1810.

A very lovely book on the art of making Venetian crushed-stone floors
which illustrates the tools and the step-by-step processes involved.
Venetian crushed stone floors are a rather difficult subject -very little
material about them is available in the literature. Certainly the
neo-classic elements are unmistakable, and the influence of recently
excavated Roman ruins must have played a part in their popularity in Italy
and, as this book illustrates, Germany.

The plates show the stone being prepared and colored, the floor surface
being planned, laid-out and prepared, and the stone being applied and
smoothed. The workmen are all stylishly dressed for such a dirty job, and
appear very happy at their tasks. Young boys help with the work in a
number of plates. Obviously a labor and time-intensive task, the laying of
a stone floor is chronicled here in hand-colored plates that can only be
described as jewel-like, and yet are also fairly realistic.

Hardcover. 8.5"x10.5", 28 pages of text plus 24 hand-colored engraved
plates on 12 leaves. Bound in new quarter leather with marbled boards.
Very slight stains in several places, several very discreet remnants of
old institutional stamps, but overall an exceptional copy of a rare work. 
[30821]  $8500.00

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