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XAVIERO MANETTI (1723-1784), LORENZO LORENZI and VIOLANTE VANNI
Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo... Ornithologia methodice digesta. Florence: heirs of Mouck (vols. 1-3), Cajetanum Cambiasium (vol. 4), Giuseppe Vanni (vol.5), 1767-1776. 5 volumes in 10 (text vols.: 480 x 370mm., plates vols.: 363 x 315mm.). Text in Italian and Latin. 5 vols. of text (bound in 6) each with letterpress titles in Italian and Latin, engraved frontispiece on verso of Italian titles, engraved dedications by L. Lorenzi in vols. IV and V, engraved portrait of Giovanni Gerini by Vanni after Zocchi, 600 fine hand-coloured etched plates after Vanni, Lorenzi and Manetti, plus 12 hand coloured etched plates by Martinet representing birds. (Plates mounted back to back, slightly worn, some torn. Later gouache border and watercolour cartouche containing plate number added to each plate. Quires *2 A-H2 I1 from vol. I and quires P-Z2 Aa-Bb2 from vol. V, bound in vol. VI). Text vols.: half vellum (spine of vol. IV split and coners damaged, and upper joint of vol. V slightly torn); plates vols.: later red calf-backed cloth (upper joint of volume 2 slightly torn).
FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE HALF-DOZEN OR SO GREAT BIRD BOOKS IN THE COLLECTOR'S SENSE" (Fine Bird Books). "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and completed ten years later, it was large, better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous book on birds, but these are not its only claim to faem. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting, parading, posturing, and occasionally flying over its 600 hand-coloured plates are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them, and not without reason, for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy, the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. Nonetheless his book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books, if only for its magnificent comicality" (S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London: 1978).
Dance 70; Fine Bird Books p.92; Nissen VB 588; Wood p.450; Zimmer p.241. (10)
Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo... Ornithologia methodice digesta. Florence: heirs of Mouck (vols. 1-3), Cajetanum Cambiasium (vol. 4), Giuseppe Vanni (vol.5), 1767-1776. 5 volumes in 10 (text vols.: 480 x 370mm., plates vols.: 363 x 315mm.). Text in Italian and Latin. 5 vols. of text (bound in 6) each with letterpress titles in Italian and Latin, engraved frontispiece on verso of Italian titles, engraved dedications by L. Lorenzi in vols. IV and V, engraved portrait of Giovanni Gerini by Vanni after Zocchi, 600 fine hand-coloured etched plates after Vanni, Lorenzi and Manetti, plus 12 hand coloured etched plates by Martinet representing birds. (Plates mounted back to back, slightly worn, some torn. Later gouache border and watercolour cartouche containing plate number added to each plate. Quires *
FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE HALF-DOZEN OR SO GREAT BIRD BOOKS IN THE COLLECTOR'S SENSE" (Fine Bird Books). "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and completed ten years later, it was large, better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous book on birds, but these are not its only claim to faem. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting, parading, posturing, and occasionally flying over its 600 hand-coloured plates are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them, and not without reason, for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy, the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. Nonetheless his book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books, if only for its magnificent comicality" (S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London: 1978).
Dance 70; Fine Bird Books p.92; Nissen VB 588; Wood p.450; Zimmer p.241. (10)