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Two beautiful suites of landscapes, fortifications, etc.: drawing lessons by Callot, Silvestre and others View picture(s) 21 CALLOT, Jacques. Livre des paysages de Callot. Propre à la noblesse et aux ingenieurs pour apprendre a dessiner à la plume avec liberté, et en peu de temps. Paris, Nicolas Langlois, (ca. 1660-1680). Oblong 8vo. 177 x 242 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments. Engraved title  in cartouche, engraved by J. Mariette (nr. 1), 2 engraved plates 'Advertissement' (nrs. 2-3), and 19 numbered engraved plates (nrs. 4-22; ca. 85 x 165 mm) of which one (rather clumsily) hand coloured, with landscapes and scenery, engraved by Israel Henriet after the designs by Jacques Callot. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Drawings  Engravings  Etchings  Fortification  French  Italy  Landscape  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The treasures of the Paris Museum of Natural History View picture(s) 22 CAP, Paul-Antoine. Le muséum d'histoire naturelle. Histoire de la fondation des développements successifs de l'établissement; biographie  des hommes célèbres qui y ont contribué (...), histoire  des recherches, des voyages, des applications utiles  (...) pour les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture (...), description des galeries, du jardin, des serres et  de la ménagerie. Paris, L. Curmer, 1854. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Contemporary richly gilt and colour-printed cloth, g.e. With general title, and 2 richly illustr. woodengraved half titles, 5 plans, of which 3 double-page, 5 full-page engraved plates and views, 16 full-page portraits, 15 plates beautifully coloured by hand, incl. the front., of flowers and birds, and numerous woodengraved plans, portraits, and illustrations in text. 180; 238 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Engravings  French  History  Museums  Natural History  Views  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Enjoy the scenery of the Netherlands and Southern Germany View picture(s) 23 CARR, John. A tour through Holland, along the right and left, banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany in the summer and autumn of 1806. London, Richard Philips, 1807. Original half calf with gilt title on decorated spine, marbled boards. With 20 full-page engraved aquatint plates and one engraved full-page map. XVI, 468 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Germany  Netherlands  Topography  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Ottoman Empire from a beautiful French miniature perspective View picture(s) 24 CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent. Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès. Paris, Nepveu, 1812. 6 volumes. 18mo. Contemporary black morocco, spines gilt, sides with blind tooled floral border and gilt corner ornaments, gilt inner dentelles over marbled endpapers, g.e. 75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold. 20, XXXI, (1), 120; (4), 225, (3); (4), 251, (1); (4), 282, (2); (4), 231, (1); (4), 235, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the most important work by 'Father Cats' View picture(s) 25 CATS, Jacob. 's Werelts begin, midden, eynde besloten in den trou-ringh, met den proef-steen van den selven. Dordrecht, Mathias Havius, 1637. 4to. 18th century half calf with red morocco title-label on spine. Tiltle in red & black 3 engraved frontispieces of which one a double-page. 2 engraved portraits, one of Anna Maria Schurmans and one of Jacob Cats. 51 engravings in text. Some woodcut initials and end pieces. (31), 772; (10), 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Engravings  Literature  Poetry  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A who is who of British portrait engravers View picture(s) 26 CAULFIELD, James. Calcographiana: the printsellers chronicle and collectors guide to the knowledge and value of engraved British portraits. London, G. Smeeton, 1814. 8vo. Contemporary boards with paper title label pasted on spine.. Engraved portrait of the author after  a drawing by Walton, engraved by Cooper, title printed in red and black. VIII, 163, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Engravings  Printing  Printing & Publishing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Violence and murder illustrated by Crispyn de Passe View picture(s) 27 CIEGLERUS, Georgius. Konst-Spigel der weereldlikke vermaken. Vertoonende het wonderlik gewoel der kaizeren, koningen, vorsten en geleerde lieden, om te koomen tot de bezittinge van het hoogste goed. Zeer geleerdelik door-wrocht met de hoedanigheden der opperste heerschappyen, op-bouwingen en verwoestinge der voornaamste steden, hooven en slooten: uit-voeringen van manlikke daaden, listige vonden, liefde en gramschap. Altzaamen door-wrocht met aartige staat- plicht- en zeede-rijmen, op de verhandelde stoffe gevoegt. Nu in 't Nederduitsch overgeset. Amst., Niclaes Franzen, 1652. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 17 full-page engraved plates by Crispyn de Passe. (12), 621, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Dutch  Engravings  Nobility  Politics  Popular Books  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the major works on Amsterdam, richly illustrated View picture(s) 28 COMMELIN, Casparus. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, zynde een naukeurige verhandelinge van desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt de huyse der heeren van Amstel, en Amstellant, haar vergrootingen, rykdom, en wyze van regeeringe, tot den jare 1691. Voor dezen uit verscheide oude historie-schryvers by gesteld, en uitgegeven; en nu uit een meenigte van oude schriften, authentyke stukken, en met kopere afbeeldingen verciert, nooit voor desen gedrukt geweest. Amsterdam, wed. Aart Dirksz. Oossaan, 1726. 2 vols. Folio (31 x 20cm). Contemporary blind stamped vellum with title, part and author's name written in ink on spine. Engraved title, woodcut title vignet with the coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam, 46 folding and double-page engravings, 11 full-page engraved plates and 77 engravings in the text and some woodcut illustrations of coat of arms and seals. (20), 600; 601-1223, (1 blank), (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Dutch  Engravings  History  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of 11 suites with 120 engraved and etched plates of Parisian buildings, churches, altars and architectonical details View picture(s) 29 COTTART, Pierre. Receuil, des plus beaux portails de plusieures eglises de Paris. Paris, Van Merle, 1660. Oblong 4to. Contemporary limp vellum with a round label lettered in ink pasted to the front cover. Engraved title within a chimney piece design and 11 full-page engravings (ca. 160-210 x 112-135 mm) of Parisian churches, portals and altars, numbered 3-12 (Nr. 2 missing). The plates,  by Pierre Cottart (ca. 1648-1686), give elevations and plans of 17th-century baroque church portals in Paris. The plates are unsigned, though some captions credit the architect: Mansart, Brosse, and Le Mercier. New issue of the original edition of 1648. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  France  Modelbooks  Ornaments  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Garden plans by the court-gardener of the Palace of Mirabell in Austria View picture(s) 30 DANREITER, Franz Anton. Vier und Zwantzig Gärten-Grund-risse, neu entworffen und unterthänig überraichet Dem Hochgeb. H.H. Frans Lactans des Heil. Röm. Reichs Frey-Herrn von Firmian.- Vingt quatre Plans des Jardins, nouvellement inventées et dediées A son Exc. Mr. le Baron Lactance de Firmian. Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, (1730). Folio. Contemporary half vellum. With engraved title, including the coat of arms of Baron de Firmian, and 24 full-page engraved plates with garden-plans. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Gardens  Modelbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The (dis)advantages of marriage View picture(s) 31 DEUTEL, Jan Jansz. Huwelijckx weegh-schael. Waer in, door t'samen-spreeckinge, tusschen den huwelijcks-beminnende Jacob en de echt-hatende Maria, vermaeckelijck en stichtelijck werdt overwoghen: of 't huwelijck goet of quaet is, en wat het is. Nu mede vermeerdert met verscheyden nieuwe ghefanghen. Hoorn, Abraham Isaacxsz. van der Beeck for the widow of Jan Jansz. Deutel, 1662. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red speckled endpapers, marbled edges. Full-page engraved frontispiece dated 1661, title with woodcut ornament, and second title on p. 127 (Stichtelijck vermaeck der deught-lievende jonckheydt (Hoorn, 1662)) with printer's device, 7 half-page engravings in text in the first part, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (16), 393 (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Poetry  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous book on fruit trees in a beautiful contemporary hand-colouring View picture(s) 32 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri Louis. Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c. Paris, Saillant Desaint, 1768. 2 volumes. Large 4to (32.5 x 25 cm). Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spines with raised bands, gilt fillets on sides, blue speckled edges.            With two title-pages, two half-titles, full-page engraved frontispiece, 180 full-page engraved plates, depicting various types of fruits, woodcut head- and tailpieces, all in a beautiful contemporary hand-colouring. [4], XXXII, 338, [2]; [4], 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Engravings  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare print series depicting the execution of Mary Stuart in 1587 View picture(s) 33 GARDINER, William Nelson. Execution de Marie Stuart, Reine d'Ecosse, en sept estampes gravées. London, (Tebaldo Monzani, 1791). Oblong folio. Contemporary light-brown polished calf with decorated gilt spine, covers with decorated gilt border along the edgess, front cover with gilt green morocco inlay with title lettered in gold, decorated gilt binding edges, pastedowns and first and last flyleaf of paper decorated in eighteenth-century style with a pattern of red dots and trefoils. With seven full-page stipple-engraved plates (ca. 200 x 250 mm) printed in brown by W.N. Gardiner after the designs of J.F. Rigaud. (4) pp. with title and explanatory text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  England  Engravings  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best edition of Gresset's complete poems View picture(s) 34 GRESSET, [Jean Baptiste Louis]. Oeuvres.- Le Parrain Magnifique, Poëme en dix chants. Ouvrage posthume. Paris, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811. 2 vols. Contemp. fulgrained red morocco, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt fillet borders on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CAPE). With stipple-engraved portrait of the author by Nattier, engraved by A. St. Aubin, in 2 states, one in proof and the other with the text, and 8 full-page fine engraved plates by F.M. Moreau, engraved by Simonet, all in 2 states, one in proof and the other with text, and 8 extra added plates: the 5 variant plates by Moreau, engraved by Simonet, Duhamel and Dupréel for the  Gresset-edition by Didot, 1779, one plate by Marillier, engraved by De Launay, 1779, one plate by Moreau for "Le Méchant", engraved by N. Thomas, from the "Rep.Théatre français", and one plate by Desenne, engraved by Royer for the  Gresset-edition by Janet, 1823. LXXII, 383; 444; (4), 93 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Engravings  French  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All you need to know about life in the country View picture(s) 35 GROEN, Jan van der & Pieter NIJLANDT. Den Nederlantschen Hovenier, zijnde het 1. deel van  het vermakelijk land-leven. beschrijvende alderhande  prinçelijke en heerlijke lust-hoven en hof-steden,  en hoe men deselve, met veelderley uytnemenede boomen,  bloemen en kruyden, kan beplanten, bezaeijen, en verçieren.  Met noch omtrent 200. modellen van bloem-perken, parterres,  dool-hoven, priëlen, lat-werken, en zonne-wysers.-  Den Verstandigen Hovenier, over de twaelf maenden van  't jaer. zijnde het ii. deel van het vermakelyk lant-leven.  Beschrijvende , hoe men op de beste en bequaemste maniere  sal hoven, thuynen, lust-hoven en boomgaerden verordineren,  bereyden, beplanten, en bezaeijen. Als mede, Hoe men  alderhande ooft en fruyt, kruyden en bloemen, wortelen  en zaden, op sijn behoorlijke tijt zal vergaderen.-  De Medicyn-winkel, of ervaren huys-houder: zijnde het  iii. deel van het vermakelyk land-leven. Onderwijsende,  hoe men binnen en buyten de steden heylsame medicijnen  voor de gebreken van menschen en beesten, sal toemaken  en bereyden. Als mede Den naerstigen byen-Houder. Noch is hier achter bygevoeght Den Verstandigen Kok. Amsterdam, Wed. van Gijsbert de Groot, 1711-1721. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Later half marbled calf, with paper title-label mounted on spine. With engraved frontispiece, 2 titles, 71 full-page plates, mostly engraved, partly in woodcut, showing views of famous houses and gardens, illustrations of garden-work, garden architecture, numerous plans of gardens, and 7 woodcuts in text in the 1st part; engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations of garden-work on full-page engraved plate, and 2 woodcuts in text, one showing a view in a vineyard, in the 2nd part; and large engraved illustration on 3 titles, respectively showing a pharmacy for men and beasts, a bee-hive-yard, and cooks in their kitchen, full-page woodcut plate of a horse and a cow, and 2 woodcuts in text on distilling in the 3rd part. (30), 103, (3); (8), 84, (4); 88 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Dutch  Engravings  Gardens  Gastronomy  Medicine  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well illustrated popular description of exotic Turkey View picture(s) 36 GUER, Jean Antoine. Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur governement civil, militaire et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire Ottomane. Paris, Widow Delatour, for Coustelier, 1746-1747. 2 vols. Large 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, with red title-labels, gilt tripple fillet borders on sides, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, g.e. With 2 engraved frontispieces, engraved vignette on 2 titles, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces, most of them illustrating the text, interesting engraved initials. Large folding view of the Serail in Constantinople (280x920mm, mistakingly bound in vol. 1),  folding view of the city of Constantinople, 4 double-page engraved views and plates, and 22 full-page engraved plates, all within decorative borders, and all engraved by Cl. Duflos, several after F. Boucher and N. Halle. XXIV, 453, (19); VIII, 537, (2, 3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First original French edition of a magnificent work on travels to, and history of China and the Philippines View picture(s) 37 GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de. Voyages à Peking, Manille et l'Ile de France, faits dans l'intervalle des années 1784 a 1801. Paris, L'Imprimerie impériale (J.J. Marcel), for sale at MM. Treuttel & Würtz, 1808. 4 volumes: 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo (text) and folio (atlas).. Text volumes in19th-century half calf, atlas volume in contemporary half calf. The atlas with 92 engraved illustrations on 61 leaves by De Guines after Deserve and 5 engraved maps of which folding, by D'Houdan. [4], LXIII, 439; [4] 476; [4], 488 pp.; atlas: 4 pp. text (title and index). Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  China  Engravings  Philippines  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to mix paint and to prepare different colours View picture(s) 38 HELMREICH, Andreas. Kunstbüchlein. Wie man auff Marmelstein, Kupffer, Messing, Zihn, Stahl, Eisen, Harnisch und Waffen, ic. etzen, und künstlich vergülden soll. Mit vorgehendem Bericht, wie man Dinten, Dintenpulver, Prisilgen, und alle Metallfarben zum schreiben. Mancherley Farben, Pergament, Federn zu färben. Alle Metallen aus der Federn zu schreiben, Gold und Silber, Fundamentlein und Goldwasser auff allerley Ballerey, und dergleichen mehr, machen und temperieren soll. Zu Dienst und Ehren allen Schreibern, auch den unerfahrnen der Etzkunst, zusammen gebracht. Von neuen übersehen, gemehret, und corrigirt, und in Druck gebracht. (N.pl., n.p.), 1660. Small 8vo. Without binding. Title-page printed in red & black. (48) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Engravings  German  History of Printing  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The castle of Buren View picture(s) 39 HEUFF, Johan Adriaan Az. Het graafschap Buren en het Burensche weeshuis. Haarlem, 1883. Half cloth. With 5 wood-engravings of the orphanage and castle of Buren. 32 pp.- Good copy.- Not in Brinkman. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Castles  Dutch  Engravings  Netherlands  Orphans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Drilling the Dutch army on the battle field View picture(s) 40 HEXHAM, Henry. Principii; ofte de eerste gronden vande oorloghs-konste. Ghelijckse in dese vereenichde Nederlanden ghepractiseert wort, onder het gouvernement van den Prince van Orangien. Aengaende de exercitie van wapenen voor de compagnien soo te voet als te paerde, voorghestelt door figuren, woorden van commando, ende andere aenwijsinghen, ten dienste van alle jonghe soldaten ende liefhebbers der militaire scientie. Beschreven eerst in het Engelsch, ende nu in het Nederduytsch overgeset. The Hague, Aert Meurs, 1642. Folio. Modern blind wrappers. With 33 illustrations of a soldier's exercises with a spear on 2 full-page engraved plates (A-B), 32 illustrations of a soldier's exercises with a musket on 2 full-page engraved plates (C-D), 16 illustrations of a soldier's exercises with a musket on a standard one 1 full-page (E), 45 engravings in text: 8 half-page 7 full-page, some repeated several times of exercises of an entire company arranged on the battle field including 2 movable plates on two circles drawn by hand, and 24 illustrations of a cavallerist's exercises with a pistol on 2 full-page engraved plates. (4), 60 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Militaria  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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