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BELON, PIERRE. 1517-1564.:L\'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, naifs portraicts retirez du naturel. Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1555.
Folio (320 x 218 mm). 7 parts in one volume. Woodcut printer\'s device on title and six sectional titles, woodcut portrait of Belon on title verso, two woodcuts of human and bird skeletons and 158 large woodcuts in text of birds by Pierre Gourdelle and others, numerous 11-line and smaller ornamental woodcut initials and head-pieces. Mid-18th-century vellum (endpapers watermarked 1742). Two leaves (l1 and g5) with repaired tears crossing text, some minor staining.

FIRST EDITION (Cavellat issue). One of the most important ornithological works of the Renaissance illustrated with beautiful woodcuts drawn from observation of live specimens. Belon, \"one of the founders of the renewed studies of birds ... mentions about two hundred different birds, mainly European, but some foreign. He made many original observations ... [also treating] anatomical and morphological conditions\" (Anker), whilst also drawing upon earlier writers such as Aristotle and Pliny. Schwerdt notes that the second part \"is interesting to falconers,\" the fine woodcut illustrations including a depiction of a falconer luring a bird, and several of owls, \"including the eagle owl, much used in hawking.\" Anker pp 9-10; BM/STC French p 46; Garrison-Morton-Norman 283 (Cavellat issue); Harvard/Mortimer French 50; Nissen IVB 86; Norman 180.

贝隆，皮埃尔。1517-1564. 奥赛奥克斯的自然历史，连同他们的描述和侏儒肖像画从自然中移除。巴黎：纪尧姆·卡韦拉特，1555年。

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CASTELL, WILLIAM. D. 1645. :A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America. London: [no printer], 1644.
8vo (163 x 94 mm). Title and dedication supplied in early expert manuscript facsimile (see below), and signature B (4 leaves) lacking, some pagination along top edges shaved, four leaves at beginning repaired along upper margin twice affecting first line of text, a few other small repairs. 19th century calf gilt by Pratt, hinges split, light rubbing to spine ends and corners.
Provenance: Henry Stevens (bound by W. Pratt for H. Stevens, 1860, binder\'s stamp on front free endpaper, his sale \"Bibliotheca Americana\" Puttick and Simpson, 7 March, 1861, lot 514); Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913) bibliographer (bookplate, his sale Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 November 1948, lot 58).

FIRST EDITION, THE MOST ACCURATE ENGLISH DESCRIPTION OF NEW YORK BEFORE 1650, from the collection of noted bibliographers and Americana collectors Henry Stevens and Anson Phelps Stokes. The full title reads: A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America, From the Equinoctiall Northward, and of the adjacent Isles. Whereunto is prefixed the Authors Petition to this present Parliament, for the propagation of the Gospell in America; attested by many eminent English and Scottish Divines. And a late Ordinance of Parliament for that purpose, and for the better government of the English Plantations there. Together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers Speech in Parliament, 21. Jan. concerning America. Stevens states that this work \"should find a place in every collection of the so-called \'Eliot Tracts,\' for herein is contained the embryo idea or suggestion that Parliament should recognize the benefits to be derived by the colonies from cultivating the friendship of the Indians. EXCEEDINGLY RARE, only one other copy sold at auction (according to American Book Prices Current) in the past 45 years. Church 461; OCLC : 1238118938; Sabin 11398; Stevens, Bibliotheca Americana Vol 1, p 123; Wing C-1231.

威廉·卡斯特尔。D、 1645年。 美国海岸和大陆的短暂发现。伦敦：（没有打印机），1644年。

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安迪·沃霍尔，当代艺术I-

Andy Warhol - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Pittsburgh 1928-1987 New York)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, from Reigning Queens, 1985, signed in pencil and numbered 9/40, screenprint in colours on Lenox Museum Board with the blindstamp of the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, published by George C.P. Mulder, Amsterdam, 100 x 80 cm, In plexiglass case

This is no. 9 from an edition of 40 + 10 artist’s proofs

Provenance:
Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, Inc., New York (label on the reverse)
European private collection

Literature:
F. Feldman J. Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, II. 334-349, p. 138 with ill.

For the realisation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, a photograph taken on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee, the 25th anniversary of her reign, was used as a reference. The sitter\'s pose remains unaltered, retaining the structure and grandeur that are typical of classical portraiture. Warhol adds the commercial medium, emphasising it. His are classical depictions that praise the importance and solemnity of the subject depicted.

The same image of the queen appears in each of her four prints but they vary in colour. This one in particular has a primarily red background, and features graphic shapes printed from separate screens. Warhol began working in this style in the mid-1970s, fragmenting the image with various overlayed shapes and patches of colour.

The association of commercial medium and traditional portraiture is key, allowing Warhol to create a product that would subsequently be hailed as a work of art. Seriality, consumerism, the concept of fame and social hierarchy emanate from the superimposition of colour fields that enhance the subject\'s femininity. The pronounced make-up and bright colours denote the Pop character of mass culture, emphasising appearance and conveying a certain frivolity - unlike traditional portraits, where character and gravitas prevailed over aesthetics. Despite beginning with an impersonal approach and a mechanical reproduction of the subject, these interventions in the image gave the work a deliberately ‘artistic’ look. In many of his female portraits, such as here, the multicoloured surfaces and suggestion of make-up enhance the glamour and femininity of the subjects. With characteristic ambivalence, Warhol explained his additions to these later prints as immaterial:

‘I really would still rather do just a silkscreen of the face without all the rest, but people expect just a little bit more. That’s why I put in all the drawing.’ (Barry Blinderman, ‘Modern Myths: An Interview with Andy Warhol’, Arts, October 1981, p.145.)

This work is published in an edition of forty with ten artist’s proofs, five printer’s proofs and three hors commerce. The work is also published as a Royal Edition with diamond dust on the drawing lines, published in an edition of thirty with five artist’s proofs, two printer’s proofs and two hors commerce.

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MUNDINUS (DI LUZZI, MONDINO). 1275–1326.:MELLERSTADT, MARTINUS, editor. c.1455-1513. Anathomia Mundini emendata per doctorem melerstat. [Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, 1493.]
4to (200 x 140 mm). 40 leaves, 34 lines, title with full-page woodcut of an anatomical scene. Modern calf antique. Inner margin of title neatly reinforced, tiny repair to blank outer margin of last leaf, illegible old library stamp to lower margin of title page, scattered light browning, mostly marginal.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE FIRST DEDICATED ANATOMY BOOK. \"The first modern book devoted solely to anatomy ... Mundinus re-introduced human dissection, which had been neglected for 1500 years before him; he was the most noted dissector of his period, and he set forth the medieval anatomical vocabulary, deriving it mainly from Arabic\" (Garrison). Mondino de\' Luzzi, professor at Bologna, is considered to be the founder of anatomy in the Middle Ages. His treatise remained popular until the beginning of the 16th-century and appeared in multiple editions.

\"The subject of anatomy was not taught either by lectures or by dissection in the universities at the middle of the fifteenth century. An occasional \'anatomy\' was held, but the neglect of the subject is well illustrated by the absence of anatomical books. There is only one in the list, that of Mundinus . . . Mundinus was a professor at Bologna from 1306 to 1326, and was the first to teach anatomy from the subject, usually the corpse of a condemned criminal; but there is the record of a procedure in 1319 against four medical students for body-snatching. His Anatomia, written in 1316, was for two hundred years the popular text book\" (Osler).

In the introduction of the book, Mundinus says, \"proposui meis scholaribus in medicina quoddam opus componere, \'I have proposed to compose a work in medicine for my scholars.\" The work \"met a need universally felt just at that time and commended itself for its brevity, conciseness, and completeness, as well as for the fact that it taught for each separate organ the necessary anatomic technique, as. for example, in the first chapter: \'Situato itaque corpore vel homine mortuo per decollationem vel suspensionem supino\', etc., \'accordingly, laying out the body of a man dead by decapitation or hanging, etc....\" (Choulant). VERY RARE: According to American Book Prices Current no copy sold in the past 42 years. Choulant-Frank History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration (Chicago 1920, pp 88-93); Garrison-Morton-Norman 361 (for the 1478 edition); Goff M-874; GW M-25671 (recording only 2 copies/fragments); Hain 11633; see Osler Incunabula Medica 156; Wellcome I, 4484.

蒙迪尼斯（DI LUZZI，MONDINO）。1275–1326. 阿纳托米娅·蒙迪尼由梅勒斯塔特医生修正。[莱比锡：马丁·兰茨贝格，1493年。]

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BIBLE IN ENGLISH: THE GREAT \"SHE\" BIBLE.:The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. London: Robert Barker, [1613] - 1611. Folio (390 x 257 mm). title and final leaf supplied in facsimile, lacking 2 quires A and F, and with 19 leaves supplied from a later edition, engraved map of Canaan by John Speed, loosely inserted, and with its margins restored with some loss. Title to New Testament title dated 1611, set within wide woodcut pictorial borders, wood-cut head and tail pieces, calendar and almanack printed in red and black, occasional light toning, a few upper margins cut slightly close to border line. Paneled calf, antique, red speckled edges.
Collation: A1 (General Title, a facsimile of the He Bible and dated 1611), A2-4 (a2 margin slightly restored, a few restored holes affecting letters), B1-4, C1-6, D1-4: Quire A1-6 lacking (Title to genealogies and first 11 pages), B-E6, (Lacking quire F1-6), G-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6 (rrr1 outer and lower margins torn with loss), Aaaa-Zzzz6, Aaaaa-Ccccc6;
New Testament: A-Z6 (with 15 leaves P1-6, S3-4, V5, X2-6 and Z3 all silked and damaged, and supplied from a shorter later edition, possibly the 1617 folio edition), 6A 1-5 supplied from another folio edition, 6A6 a facsimile leaf.
Provenance: Exhibited by Mr. Young (of Leicester, UK) in the early 20th Century, with a printed and manuscript exhibition label, containing manuscript notes on the typographical errors in the \"SHE\" Bible, the label loosely inserted at the front.

THE KING JAMES\' GREAT \"SHE\' BIBLE, THE SECOND FOLIO EDITION, with the reading in Ruth 3:15 corrected to \"She went into the citie,\" and with other errors including Matthew 26:36 where Judas appears for Jesus, but in this copy that error has been a corrected in an 18th century manuscript hand.

The King James Great Bible is considered to be the most important English Bible to have been printed. The biblical scholar Francis Fry described the \"SHE\" Bible as the first edition second issue without reprints, printed within two years of the first issue to correct typographical errors that were found in the text. The King James Bible was drawn up to reconcile the versions of the bible used by the Clergy, on the one hand, and the laity on the other. The translators, who numbered around 50, were divided into committees based in Oxford. Cambridge and London, and they were instructed to take the Bishops Bible as their basis and then consult with Tyndale\'s, Coverdale\'s, Matthew\'s, Whitchurch\'s and the Geneva versions to come up with an authorized text. This copy, although with facsimile first and last leaves, and two quires lacking, is substantially complete. \"From about the middle of the seventeenth century until the appearance of the Revised Bible of 1881-5, the King James\' version reigned without rival\"(Herbert 319). cf. PMM 114; STC 2224.

英语圣经：伟大的“她”圣经。 《圣经》、《旧约》和《新约》。伦敦：罗伯特·巴克，[1613]-1611。

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NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.:SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum [in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493.
Imperial folio (472 x 325 mm). 297 leaves (of 298, without final blank). 59-64 lines and headline, table and parts of the text in two columns. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines), c. 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer, comprising 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page woodcuts and double-page maps of the World [Shirley 19] and of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs. Contemporary Nuremberg pigskin over wooden boards, stained pink, ruled and stamped in blind, upper cover lettered in German: \"Cronica von anfang der welt\" [\"Chronical of the beginning of the world\"] brass clasps and catch-plates. Some minor marginal tears and occasional light staining, a few leaves (138-150) with repair to inner margins slightly affecting woodcuts or text, leaf 281 loose, spine ends neatly repaired.
Provenance: Georg Frauenlob Landt, gift inscription to Wolfgang Häberl, dated 18 August 1599 (first numbered leaf verso); Häberl, Wolfgang (*1553) from Berchtesgaden, Pastor of the parish church of St. Martin in Thalgau, and motto dated 1595 (inscription \"Sum ex libris Wolfgangi Häberl Berchtersgadiam / Ecclesiae parochialis S. Martini in Talgeio Pastoris. / Honesti cultor uirtute content. 1599\" on title page).

FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in the same year as the Latin edition. The German and Latin editions were planned simultaneously, with the German edition of Georg Alt\'s translation appearing five months after the Latin edition. A TALL COPY of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. The 29 large double-page city views, many illustrated for the first time, are accurate in depicting distinguished features of each city. In addition, it includes many details of 15th-century daily life: carpenters with their tools, astronomers and their instruments, a chess player, archers, bridges, derricks, dishes, furniture, windmills, ships, beds, houses, fortifications, weapons, tents, wharves, ferries, books, drawing materials, dogs, horses, and other animals, as well as costumes. Hartmann Schedel\'s Nuremberg Chronicle epitomizes \"the commercial sophistication, economic power and technical virtuosity that brought the art of print to this extraordinary climax\" (Pettegree). Reference: BMC II 437; BSB-Ink. S-197; Bod-Inc. S-110; Goff S-309; GW M40796; HC *14510; Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance, New Haven, 2011 p. 42; Reske, The Production of Schedel\'s Nuremberg Chronicle Wiesbaden, 2000; Ellen Shaffer The Nuremberg Chronicle, Los Angeles, 1950; Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle Amsterdam, 1976.

纽伦堡编年史。 Liber chronicarum[德语：《克洛诺斯和故事书》]。纽伦堡：Anton Koberger代表Sebald Schreyer和Sebastian Kammermeister，1493年12月23日。

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皮耶罗·多拉齐奥-

Piero Dorazio * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Rome 1927–2005 Perugia)
Untitled [Contro il rassegnarsi], 1967, Signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 100 x 100, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
V. Pirozzi Collection, Rome
Sale Farsetti, Prato, 27 May 2000, lot 303
Anfiteatro Arte, Milan
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Milan, Galleria Anfiteatro Arte, 1999, exh. cat. p. 47 no. 15 with ill.
Genoa, Dorazio, Marco Canepa Arte Contemporanea, 2006, exh. cat. with ill.
Padua, Piero Dorazio, Anfiteatro Arte, 1 February – 18 March 2007, exh. cat. p. 74 and 75 with ill. (label on the reverse)


Literature:
M. Volpi Orandini, J. Lassaigne, G. Crisafi, Dorazio Catalogo ragionato delle opere, Alfieri Editore, 1977, no. 8 (in the addenda at the end of the catalogue)

The subject of the painting always drives from the previous painting, hence there is no reason for inspiration. One tries again, keeps on trying to do what he has already done…
Piero Dorazio

Of all the great first and second generation 美国 painters I have known since 1953 (the third generation is not yet discernable), Kenneth Noland is a truly singular case.

He is from North Carolina and Washington, i.e. the provinces, rather than the artistic milieu of New York.

[...]In the 1950s and 1960s I never understood whether some artistic circles in the Metropolis or certain isolated artists like Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, Georgia O\'Keeffe in New Mexico or Andrew Wyeth in Pennsylvania were more provincial. Although isolated, Louis and Noland were already the most modern of modern 美国 painters in the early 1960s. They were a surprising revelation when discovered and presented by the critic Clement Greenberg at the 法国 and Co. Gallery in New York. Their exhibitions in that gallery between \'59 and \'60 remain by far the most exciting of the decade.

Kenneth Noland\'s painting has nothing to do, therefore, with all the clichés of 美国 painting disseminated here by European critics who have framed all expressions into schools or categories or groups (Action Painting, New Dada, Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimal Art etc.) letting what were actually the most creative values and personalities slip through their fingers. [...]

Ken Noland established himself, from the late 1960s and 1970s, among those few artists defined as \'Colour field painters\' or \'Post Painterly Abstraction\' not as a group but rather as a trend: Helen Frankenhaler, Morris Louis, Jules Olitsky, Friedel Dzubas, Larry Poons. There was a convergence of interests among these painters for colour as an element that defines large spaces and long periods of time for the observer, who is induced to meditate because he is immersed in the rhythm of the lines and chromatic masses of a truly abstract painting, devoid of any allusion or reference to the real, the metaphysical or the subjective temperament. Painting that refers on the one hand to the decorative character of early Matisse, and on the other to the secular spirit of Constructivism. Among those painters, Noland was always the one who, with tenacity and clarity of purpose, was best able to sublimate \'pure visibility\' into a highly lyrical personal poetics. His nature as a colourist and his technique inspired his constant formal research into surface-colour and material-colour relationships. [...]

In these works chromatic fantasy and refined sensitivity, arranged in a precise structural order, bring the brushstrokes and pictorial matter to life in decisive and delicate spaces and lights and rhythms, expressing a constant reflection on the inevitable characteristics of reality. Constancy and appearance, the negative and the positive, fullness and emptiness; our gaze is entertained and delighted by this repertoire of perception, emotion and mind.

(Piero Dorazio, Il singolare caso di Kenenth Noland, in “Rigando dritto. Piero Dorazio Scritti 1945-2004, pp. 425-427)