[Rarebooks] FS: 1620 Illustrated Architecture of the Holy Land

[Charles Agvent]

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AMICO, Bernardino [Jacques Callot]. TRATTATO DELLE PIANTE & IMMAGINI DE 
SACRI EDIFIZI DI TERRA SANTA DISEGNATE IN JERUSALEMME SECONDO LE REGOLE 
DELLA PERSPECTTIVA... Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620. First Callot 
Edition. Small folio (7-1/8" x 10-1/4") bound in 18th century tree calf 
leather, gilt ruled and decorated spine with the cypher "RD" or "RLD," 
edges speckled blue-green; marbled endpapers; [10], 65, [1] pages: [1], 
[4], A2, B1, C2-F2, G1, H2-I2, L2, M1, N2-R2, S1, T2-V2, X1, Y2-Z2, 
Aa-Cc2, Dd1, Ee2-Qq2, Rr1, Ss2-Vv2. Engraved architectural title page, 
34 double-page plates showing 46 plans and views by Jacques Callot, 
including a plan of Jerusalem after Antonio de Angelis (1578), woodcut 
printer's device at end. The first edition of this rare work was 
published in 1609 in Rome with plates by Antoine Tempesta, with whom the 
celebrated French engraver Jacques Callot (1592-1635) later worked and 
with whom he went to Florence in 1614. It was there that the dedicatee 
of this edition, Cosimo II de'Medici, commissioned the plates for this 
edition. Callot reworked several of the original plates and added 9 new 
ones. They are unique in the work of Callot and made at the beginning of 
his most productive period. The format of the work is unusual. The 
plates were apparently printed first, on double-page sheets, then 
descriptive letterpress for each plate was set up to be printed on the 
versos of the plates. If there was more text than could be accommodated 
on the two versos, a single leaf was set up to print the remainder of 
the text. These odd leaves were signed as part of the ordinary 
alphabetic sequence. The author, the Franciscan Bernardo Amico, was 
Prior of his Order at Jerusalem from 1596 onwards for a period of five 
years. Many of the buildings now lost are described as they were still 
preserved at the turn of the sixteenth century." [Blackmer Catalog] 
Atabey 20 [this copy, not mentioning the excision]; Sotheby's Atabey 
Catalog 2002 lot 25 (this copy, mentioning the excision). Old owner's 
name on colophon "Manuel de la Pena" with a manuscript salutation at the 
end of the preface in a fine hand which is nearly the same as the 
printed one at the end of the dedication (Could this be authorial?).  
Small Ex libris of Sefik E. Atabey on front pastedown; ink stains on the 
title page and last leaf with some slight transference to other pages. 
Small hole from ink in last leaf affecting one letter, small hole in the 
title page blank margin from ink, piece excised (2-3/4" x 4-3/4") from 
upper corner of plate 43 with no apparent loss of image; minor marginal 
stains; burn hole in F1, no loss of text. A Very Good copy.

Rembrandt owned a copy of the second edition and borrowed from it 
Amico's rendering of the Temple of Jerusalem as a domed octagonal 
building. (#018484)        $3,500.00

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