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Arabic geometrical ornaments View picture(s) 1 BOURGOIN, Jules. Les élements De L'art Arabe: le trait des Entrelacs. Paris, Didot, 1879. 4to. Loose in contemporary green slipcase with green marbled boards, spine with title lettered in gold, green ties. With 190 numbered lithographed plates (some with red patterns) of geometrical patterns, and 10 numbered chromolithographed plates (some with gold) a.o. with a door decorated in Arabic style, decorative woodwork, mosaics, an elaborately decorated ceiling. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Art  Ornaments  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) 2 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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Over 400 variations of snowflakes View picture(s) 3 ENGELMAN, Jan. Het regt gebruik der natuurbeschouwingen, geschetst in eene verhandeling over de sneeuwfiguuren. Haarlem, Izaak vander Vinne, 1747. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, marbled edges. Title printed in red and black, 29 full-page engraved plates (of which the first unnumbered, the rest numbered  1-28) with over 400 illustrations of snowflakes, 5 folding tables. 178, (1), (2 errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Meteorology  Natural History  Ornaments  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare ornamental model book View picture(s) 4 ERASMUS, Georg Caspar. Seülen-Buch. Oder Gründlicher Bericht von den fünff seülen, denen beygefügt fünff Termes; wie solche von Vitruvio Barrozzio, Blühmen, &c und andern berühmten Baumeistern, sein zusammen getragen, und in gewiese abtheilungen verfasset worden. Neurenberg, Johann Hofmann, (ca. 1670). 3 parts in 1 vol. Sm.folio. Contemporary boards. With 3 richly engraved architectural and ornamental titles, and numerous elaborate ornamental architectural designs, mainly of columns and parts of columns, rooftrees, chimney cornices, ceiling ledges, door and window frames, etc. on 39 full-page engraved plates, 11 with a second plate adjoined underneath. (42) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Flower artist's unique engraved & hand-coloured samplebook View picture(s) 5 FREUDENBERG, Caroline von. Neue Blumenstraüsse, oder Muster zur feinen Stickkunst. Nuremberg, Joh. Bernh. Geyer, [ca. 1825]. Oblong folio (24 x 37 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers with engraved orange title-label. Samplebook of flower engravings comprising title-plate with wreath of flowers, and 5 sample plates with 6 engravings, the plates numbered [1], 2-6. Hand-coloured. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Embroidery  Natural History  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ideas for (re)decorating your garden(s) View picture(s) 6 GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût. Première edition Italienne avec des additions de bâtimens du meilleur goût. Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. 19th century green marbled boards, blue sprinkled edges. Engraved title and 37 engraved plates with numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs and tables. 38 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Artistic designs View picture(s) 7 JOMBERT, Charles-Antoine. Nouvelle methode pour apprendre a dessiner sans maitre. Où l'on explique par de nouvelles démonstrations les premiers elémens & les regles generales de ce grand art, avec la maniere de l'étudier pour s'y perfectionner en peu de tems. Le tout accompagné de quantité d'exemples, de plusieurs figures académiques dessinées d'après nature, & des proportions du corps humain d'après l'antique. Enrichi de cent vingt planches. Paris, 1740. 2 parts in 1 vol. Small folio. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, red morocco title-label, red edges. Engraved device on title, 6 engravings in text, 4 engraved head- and tail pieces, 121 engraving on 82 leaves. 37, (3) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Ornaments  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fantastic and decorative grotesques View picture(s) 8 LEMOYNE, Jean. Ornements Pour Servir aux Peintres.- IDEM. Ornemens  Inventez & gravez. Paris, G. Duchange; Jean Bairain, 1710, 1676. 2 works in 1 vol. Folio. Half calf. With engraved frontispiece and 5 (of 6) full-page engraved ornamental plates; engraved frontispiece and 5 full-page engraved plates, depicting divine and human figures, cherubs and several animals within a rich ornamental design. 13 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The French Royal navy just before the Revolution View picture(s) 9 OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie. (FRENCH NAVY). Three rare print series from his Marine militaire ou recueil des differens vaisseaux qui servent a la guerre suivis des Manœuvres qui ont le plus de raport au combat ainsi qua l'ataque et la defense des ports, together with another series of vessels and galleys, a series of military trophies, all printed  by Chereau; and two series of portraits of Spanish famous military men, and great artists, poets, authors and scholars. Paris, Widow of F., and J. François Chereau, (ca. 1762-80). Folio (425 x 280 mm). Contemporary calf, gilt spine, sides decorated with an elaborate gilt Rococo ornamental border around a blind stamped central panel, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. With in total 62 full-page engraved plates. 62 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Maritime History  Militaria  Ornaments  Portraits  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful engravings by Jean Le Pautre View picture(s) 10 PHILIPPON, Adam. Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques, et modernes, tant dans la Ville de Rome, ques autres villes et lieux d'Italie. Croissant, Chez l'auteur, 1645. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Engraved title, letter-engraved dedication, letter-engraved leaf with privilege, 50 engraved plates (numbered 3-49, 10,12 and 2), engraved by Jean Le Pautre. 59 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Roman emperors portrayed by the King of the Architects View picture(s) 11 SWEERTIUS, Franciscus. XII Caesarum Romanorum Imagines. E numismatibus expressae, et historica narratione illustrata. Antwerpen, Ioannus Baptista Vrintius, 1603. Sm.4to. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label. With title within richly engraved ornamental borders, with a small circular illustration of Romulus and Remus with the she-woolf above, and a bust with lauer-wreath below, and 12 full-page engraved plates with small oval portraits of  the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian within large square ornaments, richly engraved with numerous figures, animals, grotesque scenery etc. against a hatched background, by Hans Vredeman de Vries. 29, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Classical Antiquity  Ornaments  Portraits  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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600 examples of monograms View picture(s) 12 SYMPSON, Samuel. A new book of cyphers, more compleat & regular than any ever published wherein the whole alphabet twice over consisting of 600 cyphers, is variously chang'd interwoven & reverse'd. Very entertaining toy curious & useful to all sorts of artificers. London, for John Bowles and Son, (1750). Sm. 4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed in 6 compartments. Engraved title, 102 full-page engraved plates each with 6 monograms, of which last plate with crowns and helmets of the nobility. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Applied Arts  England  Ornaments  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the few seventeenth-century literary bibliographies View picture(s) 13 TEISSIER, Antoine. (TEISSERIUS). Catalogus auctorum qui librorum catalogos, indices, bibliothecas, virorum litteratorum elogia, vitas, aut orationes funebres, scriptis consignarunt: Ab Antonio Teisserio, uno è viginti sex Academiae Regiae Nemausensis adornatus. Cum Philippi Labbaei bibliotheca nummaria in duas partes tributa. I. De antiquis numismatibus, Hebraeis, Graecis, & Romanis. II. De monetis, ponderibus & mensuris. Et mantissa antiquariae supellectilis, ex annulis, sigillis, gemmis, lapidibus, statuis, obeliscis, inscriptionibus, ritibus, similibusque, romanae praesertim antiquitatis, monimentis collecta. Geneva, Samuel de Tournes, 1686. Large 8vo. Contemporary blind stamped vellum, title in ink on spine. Title page printed red and black. (8), 559, (1), 27, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Classical Antiquity  Libraries & Collections  Numismatics  Ornaments  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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16th century designs for tombs and funeral monuments View picture(s) 14 VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Johannes (Hans). Pictores, statuarii, architecti, latomi, et quicunque principum magnificorumque virorum memoriae aeternae inservitis, adeste: et hunc libellum varias Coenotaphiorum, tumulorum, et mortuorum formas typis elegantissimis in aere exaratus comprehendentem inspicite, emite, utimini: et ingeniose manui Ioannis Vredemanni, qui has excogitavit, bene favete, e valete. (Antwerp, Philipp Galle, 1563). 4to oblong. 19th century pigskin, gilt fillet along the edges, title on spine, lettered in gold, g.e. With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Architecture  Ornaments  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare work on inscriptions in Roman cathedral, bound by Albertus Magnus for the library of Paulus van Uchelen View picture(s) 15 [MARGARINI, Cornelio]. Inscriptiones antiquae basilicae S. Pauli ad viam Ostiensem. Rome, Franciscus Moneta, 1654. Folio. Seventeenth-century strong ivory vellum, bound by Albert Magnus for the Dutch collector Paulus van Uchelen, sides with double gilt fillet borders, inner borders with the gilt crowns in the four corners, spine gilt with seven raised bands and seven lozenge-shaped ornaments, red sprinkled edges. Engraved coat of arms of Pope Innocent X, the dedicatee, on title, many small woodcut figures in text, engraved illustration of Carolus Magnus or Charles the Fifth. (4), LXIV, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  History  Ornaments  Religion  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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1747: After half a century a stadholder again View picture(s) 16 [THE HAGUE]. Haga comitis illustrata; of het verheelykt en verligt 's Gravenhage: bestaende in eene naeuwkeurige verzameling van honderd-en-zestien onderscheidene en in het koper gebragte afbeeldingen, der aldaer te zien en geillumineerd geweest zynde decoratien en zinnebeelden, benevens de verdere vreugde-bedryven en illuminatien, ter geleegenheid der allerheughelykste verkiezinge, proclamatie en installatie van zyne doorlugtige hoogheit Willem Carel Hendrik Friso, Prince van Oranje en Nassau, enz.enz.enz. tot stadhouder, capitein en admirael-generael van Holland en West-Vriesland; voorgevallen den III. en XV. may 1747. The Hague, Anthoni de Groot & sons, 1751. Large folio. Contemporary half roan. With title and dedication printed in red and black, large woodcut armorial vignette on title, large engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 2 engravings on coins in text, 4 fine large woodcut head- and tailpieces in text, and 116 illustrations on 48 engraved plates on 16 lvs., verso blank, of the allegorical decorations and illuminations at the splendid installation of the Prince of Oranje as stadtholder, and general and adimiral of the Dutch Army and Navy, at the Hague. 24 pp. explanatory text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Engravings  House of Orange  Ornaments  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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