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their proper place and extensive additions to six chapters. The fourth edition
of 1835 adds only an index.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 27926 ; Van Sinderen 45.
The Technical Language of Arts and Crafts
15 BALDINUCCI, Filippo. Vocabolario Toscano dell’Arte del
Disegno, nel quale si explicano i propri termini e voci, non solo della
Pittura, Scultura, & Architettura; ma ancora di altre Arti a quelle
subordinate, e che abbiano per fondamento il Disegno. Firenze,
Franchi, 1681. £1200
4to, pp. xii, 178, [177] blank, 178–188, xiii–xix, [1] colophon; printed
in double columns, with decorative head and tail-pieces and initials;
occasional light browning, old repair to tear in O4; contemporary full
vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; a very Wne and wide-margined
copy.
First edition, uncommon, of the Wrst dictionary of art terminology, dedicated
to the Accademia della Crusca, and in fact cited by the 1691 edition of
the Vocabolario della Crusca. Baldinucci (1624–1696), an Italian art historian,
businessman and writer, provides an extensive dictionary of the technical
language of painting, sculpture and architecture. Interestingly,
Baldinucci not only explains the proper terms and expressions of the Wne
arts, but also includes the vocabulary of the ‘minor’ arts. Thus he introduces
the vocabulary of jewellery and precious stones, metals, semi-precious
stones, marble, timber, colour pigments and recipes, artists’ tools, and
other materials.
In this copy, a second version of pp. 177/178 has been added, which
contains a few changes from the original, and deletes a long section on
‘Ventiera’.
Cicognara 2146; Gamba 95; Graesse I, 280; Michel, I, 352–11; Parenti 49;
Vinciana IV, 4326; Zischka p. 120.
Italian Manners and Customs
16 BARETTI, Giuseppe. Beschreibung der Sitten und Gebräuche
in Italien. Aus der zweyten Englischen Ausgabe übersetzt, und mit
Anmerkungen und Zusätzen begleitet von Johann Gottlieb
Schummel. Breslau, Joh. G. Korn, 1781. £480
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. x, [vi], 288; [viii], 263, with two folding leaves
of printed music; paper lightly browned; contemporary sprinkled
boards, a little rubbed and extremities a bit worn; still a nice set from a
convent library.
First edition in German of Baretti’s An Account of the Manners and Customs
of Italy, written in response to Samuel Sharp’s Letters from Italy, which Baretti
considered a grossly unfair and unXattering portrayal of his native land.
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Baretti (1719–89), an Italian writer and lexicographer, was a member of
Samuel Johnson’s circle and for many years lived in the house of Johnson’s
patron, Mrs. Thrale. Baretti’s amusing descriptions of his travels were arguably
responsible for the popularity of Italian literature in England in the
eighteenth century. Dr Johnson commented on his book: ‘His account of
Italy is a very entertaining book; and, sir, I know no man who carries his
head higher in conversation than Baretti’.
Hayn-G III 467; NUC and RLIN locate just one copy at Harvard.
17 BARETTI, Giuseppe. A Dictionary of the English and Italian
Languages ... to which is preWxed an Italian and English Grammar.
A new Edition. London J. F. and C. Rivington et al, 1790. £250
Two volumes, 4to, pp. [iii–xxxiv], A4–3M4, 3N; [ii], xxxix, [i] blank,
A4–Ggg2; unpaginated, printed in three columns; second volume with
faint damp-staining to upper margin of Wrst signature, else clean and
crisp; contemporary full sprinkled calf, boards with single gilt rule,
spine in compartments, with two gilt lettered spine labels; joints cracked
but cords holding Wrm.
First published in 1760, Baretti’s dictionary remained the ‘most authoritative
and most consulted Italian and English dictionary in the hundred years
after 1760’ (O’Connor p. 88). The current edition, published a year after
Baretti’s death, was revised by Peter Ricci Rota, master of languages.
Alston XII, 126; ESTC t 083928; Kennedy 2876*.
Rare Baudeau Printing
18 BAUDEAU, Nicolas abbé. Avis aux Honêtes Gens qui veulent
bien faire ... Sur le Commerce du Bled. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel
Rey, 1769. £1000
8vo, pp. 94; engraved title vignette and headpiece; uncut, stitched as
issued in contemporary pattern paper wrappers; some discreet
reinforcement to wrappers; insigniWcant dampstain to lower outer
corner; corners a little frayed, else a Wne copy.
Very rare separate printing of ideas Wrst put forward by Baudeau in two
articles published in the Ephémérides, written as a result of the scarcity of
corn after the bad harvest of 1767 which had driven up prices. Baudeau
points out that an improved system for grinding corn and baking bread
would enable bakeries to sell Xour and bread at a cheaper rate. Mirabeau set
up one of these economical Xour-mills, and sold good quality bread at one
third less than the current price. Baudeau argues that, despite the decrees of
1764, free trade in grain was not guaranteed.
Not found in NUC or RLIN; OCLC locates two copies in France (Haute-Alsace);
see Higgs 4377, INED 274, and Kress 6517 for the 1768 separate edition of Avis
aux honnêtes gens, published by Desaint.