Ongania ferdinando editor (2 resultados)

Loose sheets in portfolio. Condición: Very good. Lg. Portfolio. 16 x 12 3/4". Title page, plus 69 beautifully engraved (heliographic) color plates, in printed paper folder. This copy with custom clamshell box, with leather labels. Plates number 1-38, but with 6 plates of extra details (2b,9a,9b,9c,24a,24aa) plus 25 plates lettered A-Z (missing a plate for letter "J", but that seems to be true for all copies). Folder has 1883 date, cover is worn, 2/3 of the fold is torn. Plates inside are very clean and nice. Ferdinando Ongania (18 July 1842 - 20-21 August 1911) was a Venetian publisher and bookseller best known for publishing the monumental book La Basilica San Marco in Venezia. Ongania published more than 170 books, mainly about Venice. He was particularly significant for using the latest photographic techniques to create reproductions of great Venetian artworks. In particular, his heliographic prints were remarkable for their clarity.…

Venezia, Ferdinando Ongania edit., 1881, in-folio, 3 original half cloth portfolio, with ties, (2)nn pp (title) + 5 litho plates ( groundfloors) + 188 photo engravings ( héliotypies, eliotipies ) Original portfolio's with tipped-on title leaf. Portfolio a bit dustsoiled but interior with plates very fine with only a few plates with some marginal dustsoiling or minor marginal foxing spots. This is a second part of Ongania's iconographical description of the San Marco Basilica dealing with the sculpture of the basilica. It comprises 12 instalments (numbered I -> XII), containing in all 188 plates. All the plates of the instalments are here. The complete publication, containing 425 photo engravings was the first serious iconographical study of the Basilica. It was also a milestone in Italy for the use of photo engraving as a mean to illustrate studies on architectural monuments. (See P. Costantini '' Ferdinando Ongania editore veneziano e l'illustrazione della Basilica di San Marco'' in Fotologia N. 1 june 1984, pp 4-10), also in English ; '' Ferdinando Ongania and the Golden Basilica.''.).…