Art, Architecture & Photography

LIENDER, Paulus van. [Collection of four pen drawings of (ruinous) castles].
[The Netherlands, second half of the 18th century]. Ca. 9.7 x 15.3 cm. Black crayon and pen, black and brown wash. Full description

[COROMANDEL COAST]. LIPS, Johann Heinrich. Die Küste Coromandel.
[Zürich, 1803]. Pen drawing (10.3 x 6.3 cm) in grey ink with washes on paper (12.5 x 8.5 cm), signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the illustration and with the title in pencil in the lower margin. The whole mounted on a larger paper leaf (with notes: "dessin no 522" and "Lips f." in ink), with a passepartout and in a gilt wooden frame. Full description

[LONGUEVILLE, Peter]. De kluizenaar; of de weergalooze rampen, en verwonderenswaerdige gevallen van Filip Quarll, Engelschman.
Rotterdam, Jan Daniel Beman, 1728. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, signed by Collan, a folding map of Quarll's island, and a folding plate of the shipwreck. The title page is printed in red and black and shows a small woodcut ornamental vignette, the work includes headpieces built up from typographic material, woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, sprinkled paper sides, and a red paper label on the spine. [16], 292, 189, [1] pp. Full description

LOOSJES, Adriaan. Hollands arkadia of wandelingen in de omstreeken van Haarlem.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title with a hand coloured view by F.A. Milatz, an engraved silhouette portrait of Hermina Christina Bicker in the text, 4 engraved folding views of Haarlem, Beverwijk and surroundings, all beautifully hand coloured, and 9 full-page engraved plates with musical scores. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. VI, 532 pp. Full description

LOSTELNEAU, Colbert de. Le mareschal de bataille. Contenant le maniement des armes. Les evolutions. Plusieurs bataillons, tant contre l'infanterie que contre la cavalerie. Divers ordres de batailles ...
Paris, Toussainct Quinet (printed by Estienne Migon), 1647. Folio. With 48 full-page engraved plates of French infantry-men exercising with musket (35) and pike (13), after the models of Jacques de Gheyn, 400 full-page (or larger folding) woodcut diagrams of battle formations, all printed in red and black, some also in yellow, with troops represented by red and black dots and a few smaller woodcut illustrations. Dark brown gold-tooled calf (ca. 1700?). XII, 459 pp. Full description

LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus. [Five small watercolours of four country houses: "Slotzicht" at Vreeland (2x), Zuylestein Castle near Leersum, "Hoog Beek en Royen" at Zeist and "Huis ter Wegen" at Sassenheim].
1863-1864. With 5 watercolours (ca. 6 x 10 cm), all signed and dated in the lower left hand margin, and titled on the back. Four of the watercolours are mounted on thin cardboard (ca. 6.5 x 10 cm), and the fifth is mounted in a late-19th-century blind-stamped passepartout (ca. 10 x 13 cm), with gold edges. Full description

LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus. Gezigten in de omstreken van Utrecht, opgedragen aan H.M. de Koningin der Nederlanden. Naar de natuur geteekend en op steen gebragt door P.J. Lutgers met geschiedkundige aanteekeningen van W.J. Hofdijk.
[The Hague, J.D. Steuerwald], 1869. Folio. With a lithographed title-page (with a separately tinted lithographed view) and 87 tinted lithographed plates (ca. 16.5 x 22.5 cm), designed and lithographed by P.J. Lutgers. Near contemporary half sheepskin by J.A. Loebèr, Leiden [8], XVIII pp. + 87 plates. Full description

[LUTZ, J.A. (engraver) and Haatje Pieters OOSTERHUIS (draughtsman)]. De roemryke overwinning, der Palembangsche expeditie op de rivier de Sounsang in de Oost-Indien, door de Nederlandsche land en zeemagt op den 24 Juny 1821.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
With:
(2) IDEM. Het naar boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin naar Z: M: Schooner de Johanna op de rivier de Sousang in de Oost-Indien op den 27 Junij 1821, na de roemrijke overwinning der Palembangsche expeditie.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
Plate size ca. 32.5 x 43.5 cm. Two hand-coloured aquatint plates with engraved Dutch title and "Proefdruk" below the image. In passepartouts and uniformly framed behind glass (ca. 53.5 x 63.5 cm). Full description

LUYKEN, Jan & Caspar and Anthony JANSSEN van ter GOES. Afbeelding der menschelyke bezigheden, bestaande in hondert onderscheiden printverbeeldingen.
Amsterdam, Reinier & Josua Ottens, [ca. 1726/50]. 4to. With richly engraved emblematic frontispiece, engraved publisher's device on title-page, and 100 numbered engraved plates (plate size ca. 12 x 8 cm) of trades and professions, engraved after the designs by Jan and Caspar Luyken. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, gilt and gauffered edges. [1] letterpress leaf plus [1], 100 engraved ll. Full description

LUYNES, Honoré d'Albert de. Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain. ... Oeuvre posthume publiée par ses petit-fils sous la direction de M. le Comte de Vogüé.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand (on back of half-title: printed by E. Martinet (vols. 1-2) and Arnous de Rivière (vol. 3)), [1874]. 3 volumes of text and 1 atlas of plates. Imperial 4to (35.2 x 26.5 cm). With 14 numbered lithographed plates in volume 3 (4 double-page chromolithographed maps, views and geological sections; 2 further geological plates and 8 plates showing archaeological specimens), 85 plates in the atlas volume (including 65 photogravures and double-page chromolithographed maps) and numerous wood-engravings in the text. Set in roman and italic types with occasional passages in Greek and especially Arabic. Text volumes in original publisher's letterpress-printed light blue wrappers, atlas in half cloth portfolio with the original publisher's letterpress-printed paper sides, matching the text volumes; the 4 volumes preserved in 2 modern black half calf clamshell boxes. [8], 388; [6], 226; [4], VI, 326; [4] pp. Full description