Art, Architecture & Photography

[PAUWELS, Jan Antoon Frans]. Berigt, van constig-gemaeckte sneeuwe beelden van half Januario tot het begin Februarii tot Antwerpen gezien . . .
Antwerp, Joannes Petrus de Cort, 1772. 4to. With title-page in a geometric border built up from cast fleurons and each page in a thick-thin border built up from cast units. 19th-century(?) decorated cloth, modern endpapers. 30 pp. Full description

[OTTOMAN PORT]. [PEETERS, Johannes (Jan) (after)]. [Ladimistri nel' archipelago].
[The Netherlands(?), ca. 1720?]. Oblong folio (19.5 x 31.5 cm). Pen and blue-black ink-wash drawing on laid paper, showing the city of Edremit, its harbour and fortifications, with an Ottoman and a Dutch(?) ship, and a lighthouse, in a brown thick-thin-thin border, signed in the border below right, but difficult to read (I. P. Sto...?, I. P. Ste...?). Framed (37 x 49 cm). Full description

PELLY, Lewis Remarks on the Pearl Oyster Beds in the Persian Gulf. [In:] The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. Volume XVIII.
Bombay, printed at the Education Societys Press, Byculla, 1868. 8vo (14.5 x 21.7 cm). With 5 folding maps, including 3 hand-coloured, and an illustration in the text. Contemporary half green calf and marbled paper over boards. 16, cxiii, [1 blank], 117 pp. [The article: pp. 32-35]. Full description

[PERAU, Gabriel-Louis Calabre]. L'Ordre des Francs-Maçons trahi, et le secret des mopses revelé.
Amsterdam, 1745. 8vo. With vignette on the title-page and 14 engraved plates (4 folding). 19th-century half calf. [16], 174, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PERKOIS, Jacob and Johannes Hubertus PRINS]. [Print series from: Verzameling van verschillende gekleede mans- en vrouwen-standen, ter oefening van jonge schilders en liefhebbers, naar 't leven geteekend].
[Rotterdam, J. Immerzeel, 1818 (engraved ca. 1790)]. 4to or cut down folio. A series of 32 (of 33) numbered full-page aquatint and stipple-engraved prints. Lacking plate 5, which has been replaced by an aquatint of a woman cleaning fish by Hermanus Fock. With 2 extra prints loosely inserted: colour-printed versions (inked a la poupée) of plates 20 and 25. Mid-19th-century half maroon sheepskin. 33 engr. ll. Full description

PERLING, Ambrosius. Exemplaar-boek inhoudende verscheyde nodige geschriften, tot dienst van de leergierige ieught.
Amsterdam, Wilhem de Broen, [1721 or later]. Oblong folio (20 x 30 cm). With 51 plates drawn and engraved by the author. With a loose transparent paper sheet with a calligraphic drawing in ink. Contemporary red roan (sheepskin), marbled sides. [51] ll. Full description

PERRIER, François. Kunstkabinet, besluitende hondert der allerberoemste antique stantbeelden staende binnen Rome. Op eene uitvoerige wyze, naer de origineele afgeteekend, denende tot een vervolgh op de beschryving van het oude en nieuwe Rome van den heer François Desseine, en, om hunne uitmuntentheit, in het koper gebraght door de twee Cornelissen van Daelen. Een werk zeer nuttigh voor alle beeldhouwers, schilders, graveerders en teekenaers. Hier by komt eene uitvoerige beschryving van yder stantbeeld, aentoonende de plaetsen alwaer de zelve vertoond werden, de naemen der werkmeesters en de historie der zelve. Alles uit de oudheit der schryvers opgedolven.
The Hague, Bernardus van der Cloesen, 1737. Large folio. With a large engraved printer's device on the title page, the title printed in red and black, a richly engraved allegorical title page heading the print-series, and 100 full-page plates of Roman classical statues, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, both the Elder and the Younger, after designs by François Perrier. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 54, [2] pp. + 100 plates. Full description

[PERRY, Matthew Calbraith]. Ethiopian concert. United States steam frigate Powhatan, Hakodadi, Island of Yesso, Empire of Japan, May 29th [1854]. An Ethiopian entertainment will be given by the Japanese Olio Minstrels, on board this ship, this evening, weather favorable, to which the Officers invite your attendance.
[On board the Powhatan], Japan Expedition Press, [1854]. 19 x 26 cm as opened flat. A programme and invitation, printed letterpress on washi mulberry tissue paper with a lace-like decorative flower pattern in white. Full description

PETIT, Jean François le. La grande chronique ancienne et moderne, de Hollande, Selande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'an 1600.
Dordrecht, Jacob Canin (and volume 2: G. Guillemot), 1601. 2 volumes. Folio (30.5 x 19 cm). With 2 hand-coloured engraved title pages, a hand-coloured engraved portrait of the author, a contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration in the text, heightened with gold, and 56 engraved illustrations in the text (of which 55 contemporary hand-coloured and heightened with gold). Late 17th- or early 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. [22], "652" [= 658], 240, [18]; [16], "779" [= 774], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PETZOLD, Eduard. Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei.
Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1853. Small 4to (ca. 23 x 18.5 cm). With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum printed on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand. Contemporary quarter black cloth. IX, [3], 68 pp. Full description