Raspe r rudolph e erich (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First American Edition. Viii, 104 Pp. 13" X 9 1/2". Red Cloth Spine, Gilt Title And Decorations, Olive Board With Printed Color Illustration And Small Label With Publisher's Name At Bottom Of Front Board. , Rear Board Printed In Black. Yellow Endpapers. Eighteen Full Color Chromolithographic Plates Including Frontispiece, Each With A Protective Full Blank Sheet (Not A Tissue Guard). Covers With Wear At Corners, Some Fraying To Paper, Covers With Hint Of Wear But No Identifiable Scratches Or White Areas. Hinges Tight And Strong, But Frontispiece Neatly Detached At Spine Edge, And Worn Right Along Fore Edge; Other Pages Are Square, Unworn, Undamaged, But With A Little Foxing To Some Pages (Minimal). Bookstore Label Of Brentano Books, Ny, Circa 1886, At Bottom Of Rear Pastedown. No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates.…

Half-leather bound. Condizione: Sehr gut. vii, 148 p. First and only edition; an important and rare work. Best known as the author of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, in 1779, "Raspe, supported by a number of influential friends, discovered the manuscript De arte pingendi by the medieval German monk Theophilus Presbyter, which is kept in the University Library of Cambridge, and was a significant discovery for the history of oil painting. With the help of this manuscript, he was able to confirm the theory that oil painting had been invented before the Flemish painters and (supposed) brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck. The English writer and art collector Horace Walpole had already expressed this view in 1762 and now saw his opinion confirmed by the discovery of the German exile. A tailor had had Raspe arrested because of his debts. Walpole paid a release bond and also helped financially so that Raspe could have his Critical Essay on the Origins of Oil Painting printed in 1781" (transl. from wikipedia). Only few leaves mildly foxed, otherwise very good. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 452.…