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Garnet Valley, PA, United States
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DECEMBER 4 | From the William Roberts Library
Briggs Auction, Inc.
A fine estate collection drawn from the imposing Rittenhouse Square townhouse-turned-private library of the late Bill Roberts, longtime partner at Blank Rome, we offer a selection of the high points of his favorite subjects: Music, Classics, Botany, Poetry, Art and Law.
Music is represented by volumes on Baroque music, the lute, violins and violin-making; Classics by a selection of early editions of Virgil and a variety of standard references and foundational texts; Botany by good 18th and 19th C. titles in the field, especially those focused on Mosses; Poetry by a fine collection of first editions of the works of Wallace Stevens; Art by volumes focused on the Italian Renaissance and the art of the 20th century; Law by choice 18th and early 19th century American law books. These are surrounded and supported by a potpourri of other fine and select titles.
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![[Law] Jure Balli ac Pacis Libri Tres](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779874_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1764094892)
![[Music] Le Chansonnier Cordiforme Facsimile](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779917_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1764094897)
![[Poetry] Stevens Wallace Ideas of Order](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220780001_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1764094899)
![[Architecture] Renzo Piano: Buchanan, Peter., Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Volume One. London: Phaidon, 1993 (2005 reprint); Buchanan, Peter. Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Volume Four. Phaidon, 2000 (2nd printing, 2002);](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779737_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094887)
![[Architecture] Andrea Palladio: [9 vols] Beltramini, Guido. Andrea Palladio: The Complete Illustrated Works. New York: Universe, 2001 (1st US edition); Cooper, Tracey. Palladio's Venice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 (2](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779738_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094898)
![[Architecture] Sebastiano Serlio & Alberti: [2 vols] Hart, Vaughan & Hicks, Peter. Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture Volume One. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996; Tavernor, Robert. On Alberti and the Art of Building. Yale, 1998. | You](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779739_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094905)
![[Paris] Urban History: [4 vols] Hurtaut & Magny. Dictionnaire Historique de la Ville de Paris. Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1974. Complete in four volumes; facsimile of the 1779 edition. | You have additional shipping options,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779740_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094903)
![[Venice] Topographical Description of Venice: [4 vols] Quadri, Antonio. Descrizione topografica di Venezia e delle adiacenti lagune. [Wickham Market]: Arnaldo Forni Editione, [1986]. Reprint of the 1844 edition, cloth-covered folio containing 32](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779741_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094905)
![[Venice] Atlas of Venice: Salzano, Edoardo. An Atlas of Venice, Princeton: Commune di Venezia/Princeton Architectural Press, 1989. This copy from the third edition of January, 1990. In publisher's pictorial slipcase, as](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779742_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094904)
![[Archeology] Encyclopedia of Classical Sites: Stillwell, Richard (ed), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. | You have additional shipping options, and are not required to use Live Shipping.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779743_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094905)
![[Archeology] Atlas of Ancient Rome: [2 vols] Carandini, Andrea with Carafa, Paolo (eds). The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. First edition, first printing, in](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779744_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094905)
![[Archeology] Barrington Atlas Greek & Roman World: Talbert, Richard (ed). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. | You have additional shipping options, and are not required to use Live Shipping.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779745_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094905)
![[Art] Ancient Greek: [17 vols] Berve, Helmut & Gruben. Gottfried, Greek Temples Theatres and Shrines. New York: Harry Abrams, [1962]; Boardman, John (et al.). Greek Art and Architecture. Abrams, [1967]; Boardman, John.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779746_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094887)
![[Art] Titian - 6 Volumes: [6 vols] Goffen, Rona. Titian's Women. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; Jannides, Paul. Titian to 1518. Yale, 2001; Meilman, Patricia (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Titan. Cambridge:](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779747_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094888)
![[Art] Titian Paintings - 3 Vols: [3 vols] Wethey, Harold. The Paintings of Titian: I. The Religious Paintings. London: Phaidon, 1969; Wethey, Harold. The Paintings of Titian: II. The Portraits. Phaidon, 1971; Wethey, Harold. Titian](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779748_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094891)
![[Art] Titian Complete Paintings: [2 vols] Humfrey, Peter. Titian: The Complete Paintings. Ghent: Ludion, 2007. Two copies. | You have additional shipping options, and are not required to use Live Shipping. Additional third-party](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779749_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094890)
![[Art] Italian Renaissance - Carlo Crivelli: Lightbrown, Richard. Carlo Crivelli. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. | You have additional shipping options, and are not required to use Live Shipping. Additional third-party shipper details;](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779750_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094892)
![[Art] Italian Renaissance - 9 vols: [9 vols] Bambach, Carmen. Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003; Brown, David & Ferino-Pagden, Sylvia, Bellini. Giorgione Titian and the Renaissance of](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779751_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094894)
![[Art] Paul Cezanne: [5 vols] Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina. Cezanne and Provence: The Artist in His Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003; Conisbee, Philip & Coutagne, Denis. Cezanne in Provence.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779752_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094894)
![[Art] Duchamp & Dada: [3 vols] Hulten, Pontus. Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993; Dachy, Marc. The Dada Movement 1915-1923. New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1990; Naumann, Francis. New York Dada 1915-1923.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779753_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094896)
![[Art] Cartier-Bresson Decisive Moment: Cartier-Bresson, Herni. The Decisive Moment. [no place]: Steidl, [2014]. Facsimile reproduction of the photographer's foundational book, with cover design by Henri Matisse. In publisher's pictorial](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779754_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094895)
![[Art] Modern - 5 Vols: [5 vols] Bishop, Janet & Rothkop, Katherine. Matisse/Diebenkorn. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2017; de Luca, Mattia. Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended. Milan: Skira, 2023; Leiber, David. Giorgio](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779755_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094896)
![[Art] Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonne: [4 vols, slipcase] Livingston, Jane & Liguori, Andrea. Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonne. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 4 volumes in publisher's slipcase. | You have additional](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779756_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094898)
![[Art] History of a Color: [6 vols] The History of a Color series: Pastoureau, Michel. Black. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008; Pastoureau, Michel. Green. Princeton, 2014 (2 copies); Pastoureau, Michel. Blue.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779757_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094897)
![[Science] - Color Theory: [12 vols] Chirimuuta. M, Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017; Christie, Robert. Colour Chemistry. Cambridge: Royal Society of](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779758_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094900)
![[Ornithology] Cape May New Jersey: [2 vols] Stone, Wilmer. Bird Studies at Old Cape May: An Ornithology of Coastal New Jersey. Philadelphia: Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 1937. Complete in two volumes. | You have additional](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779759_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094900)
![[Biochemistry] Two Volumes: [2 vols] Buchanan, Bob, Gruissem, Wilhelm, & Jones, Russell. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2015 (Second Edition); Alberts, Bruce et al. Molecular Biology of](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/881/397694/220779760_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1764094899)
