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KYOTO PALACE & TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE, CARPENTRY, & DECORATIONBiblio.com

Archive of ca. 60 or more architectural drawings on sheets of various sizes of paper

réf. 11071Brush & ink some in color or heightened in color. Late Edo. A fascinating collection of fine and detailed architectural drawings of the Kyoto Palace several Kyoto temples and mansions. This collection can be divided very roughly into three groups: 1. Palace: The Kyoto Palace burned down many times in its long history and the most recent reconstruction was completed in 1855. About 17 sheets of varying sizes some quite large depict ornamental details; floor plans; details of sliding doors; plans for guard offices at entrances buildings for ladies-in-waiting and entranceways to court offices; ornaments for bathrooms; floor plans of the inner palace including the emperor’s residence seiryÅden 清涼殿 the tutors’ living quarters and teaching rooms the layout of the roof beams for the seiryÅden beam measurements sumigi 隅木 roof styles metalwork designs for shitomi 蔀 traditional shutters or doors another complete floor plan of the seiryÅden with labels for placement for each decorative work of art and a diagram of the placement of the weight-bearing wooden pillars color-coded to support the floors; roof-beam styles; palace outer buildings’ floor plans; a very large hand-colored illustration of a decorative drum to perform gagaku 雅楽; pattern sheet of the drum; and a bundle of seven sheets of various palace buildings some in color. 2. Temples: a drawing of a model of elaborate woodwork; ornamental roof details in color; layout for roof beams; a rubbing of an architectural detail; floor plan of the building containing the Great Buddha of the HÅkÅji temple; detailed measurements of the roof beams of the Rokkaku-do temple; plan for a two-story pagoda sheet measuring 1210 x 760 mm.; the design of an ornamental bottle-shaped strut taiheizuka å¤§ç“¶æŸ; and a sheet with actual size drawings of other ornaments. Some have the name of the creator Tanaka Heibei 田中平兵衛 a Kyoto ornamental woodcarver. 3. Miscellaneous: drawings of ornamental aspects of unnamed buildings about 30 sheets of varying sizes. In very good condition. unknown

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis3 750,00 $US≈ 3 350,31 €

KYOTO PALACE & TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE, CARPENTRY, & DECORATIONABAA

Archive of ca. 60 or more architectural drawings on sheets of various sizes of paper

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis3 750,00 $US≈ 3 350,31 €

(ARCHITECTURE - ANCIENT GREEK WORLD). MAJOR, THOMAS, EngraverBiblio.com

LES RUINES DE PAESTUM OU DE POSIDONIE DANS LA GRANDE GRECE

1768réf. ST17496-011London: Chez l'auteur 1768. First Edition in French. 590 x 380 mm. 23 1/4 x 15". 52 2 pp. Modern brown quarter morocco over green linen boards brown morocco label with gilt lettering on smooth spine edges untrimmed. WITH 25 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVED PLATES OF GRECIAN RUINS and seven smaller engraved plates in text including one on dedication page. A Large Paper Copy. Fowler p. 157; Millard British 41; Blackmer 1065; Brunet III 1329. Head of spine partly torn but with no loss contents with not infrequent light marginal soiling though plates uniformly clean other minor imperfections but an excellent copy with greatly generous margins with deep impressions of the type and with strong impressions of the plates. This work is the first significant account of the ancient city of Paestum being in the words of Blackmer "larger and much more complete than any of the previous publications." Located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of southern Italy Paestum or Poseidonia in Greek was founded by Greek colonists in the sixth century B.C. and still contains beautifully preserved ruins from that period including temples an amphitheater and painted tombs. Abandoned in the Medieval period Paestum wasn't rediscovered by the West until the 18th century with the first modern publication of the site not appearing until 1764 when a suite of plans by G. P. M. Dumont appeared with no text based on the observations of Jacques-Germain Soufflot. As Millard indicates the genesis of the present publication has an extremely complex history we do not even know with certainty who wrote the text but we do know that engraver Thomas Major 1729-99 whom DNB calls "the first great English landscape engraver" was responsible for preparing the plates. Because he had no first-hand knowledge of the site Major relied on images by other artists including Antonio Joli Gaetano Magri Robert Mylne and Jacques-Germain Soufflot. The text was first published in English and then in French the same year. According to Fowler "this work . . . was an important eighteenth-century pioneer contribution to the knowledge of Greek architecture in England"; and Millard tells us that "the book was surprisingly well received by reviewers" in both England and France remaining "the standard reference to Paestum until 'Les Ruines de Paestum ou Posidonia' by C.-M. Delagardette was issued in 1798.". Chez l'auteur unknown