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Very well preserved broadsheet with attractive hand-coloured aquatint commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar

DODD, Robert. Plan of the attack by Lord Nelson, on the combined fleet, October 21st 1805.
London, printed by J. Smeeton for Robert Dodd, November 1805. Aquatint plan (26.5 x 36.5 cm) coloured by a contemporary hand on a broadsheet (66 x 44 cm), with letterpress text below. Framed (85 x 60 cm). Full description
€ 2,800
Battle Plans & Siegecraft Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets France Military History (19th Century) Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom
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Discussing whether Venetian art is better than Tuscan

DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 headpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. Later half vellum, title in ink on spine. 60 ll. Full description
€ 5,000
Art & Art History Early Printing - 16th century Italy
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A dialogue on painting between Pietro Aretino and John Francis Fabrini

DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 headpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. Slightly later vellum. 60 ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Art & Art History Early Printing - 16th century Italy
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Eight year old King Sebastião's speech for the Council of Trent

[DOM SEBASTIÃO, King of Portugal and Giovanni STROZZI (attributed)]. Oratio habita serenissimi Portugaliae Algarbiorumque Regis Sebastiani Nomine, in Concilio Tridentino. Die IX. februarij. M.D.LXII. Unva cum responsione Sanctae Synodi.
Ripae [= Riva del Garda], Italy, Pietro Antonio Alciatis, 1562. 4to (18.2 x 13.4 cm). With the woodcut coat-of-arms of the Medici popes and a woodcut head-piece on the title-page, 2 large woodcut decorated initials in the text, a woodcut head-piece at the start of the text and two ornaments at the start and end of the text. Mid 19th-century marbled paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [6] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Portugal Religion (16th Century)
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Humanizing the abstract

DONI, Anton Francesco. Pitture. Nelle quali si mostra di nuova inventione: amore, fortuna, tempo, castità, religione, sdegno, riforma, morte, sonno & sogno, huomo, republica, & magnanimità; divise in due trattati.
Padua, Perchacino, 1564. 4to. With a printer's device on the title page, and 26 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary Italian or Iberian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. 64 ll. Full description
€ 3,000
Early Printing - 16th century Italian Literature Italy
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Francis Drake’s failed attempt to depose the King of Spain and Portugal

DRAKE, Francis (subject). Brevis & fida narratio, et continuatio rerum omnium a Drako et Norreysio (post ex Occidentalibus Insulis, reditum) in sua expeditione Portugallensi singulis diebus gestarum.
Frankfurt am Main, Paul Brachfeldt, 1590. 4to. With the woodcut arms on the title-page, the upper related to that of Queen Elizabeth of England and the lower that of King Philip I of Portugal (Philip II of Spain), each supported by putti, a full-page woodcut standing soldier with sword and spear, perhaps intended as Francis Drake. Gold-tooled green morocco (2nd half of 19th century). [2], 29, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Portugal UK - United Kingdom
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3 magnificent drawings of fireworks erected in Siena 1729-1734

[DRAWINGS - FIREWORKS]. [Fireworks erected in Siena on the occasion of festivities between the years 1729 and 1734, celebrating the creation of 3 cardinals, two of them born in Siena].
[Siena, 1729-1734]. Folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). 3 ink wash and aquatints drawings on paper, each drawn on one side, showing the designs of the fireworks. 3 ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Drawings & Watercolours Italy
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Important account of the Great Siege of Gibraltar, with 10 engraved maps and views

DRINKWATER BETHUNE, John. A history of the late Siege of Gibraltar. With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods. ... Third edition.
London, T. Spilsbury, 1786. 4to. With an engraved device on title-page, 4 folding engraved maps and 6 folding engraved views. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. XXIV, 356 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Battle Plans & Siegecraft Military History (18th Century) Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom
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