Art, Architecture & Photography

[SCHOUMAN, Aert]. [Proboscidea louisianica].
[Netherlands, 2nd half of the 18th-century]. Watercolour on laid paper (40.5 x 27 cm) of a flowering Proboscidea louisianica, with fruit and a horned seedpod on the ground. In passepartout (55 x 40 cm). Full description

SCHÜTZERCRANTZ, Adolf Ulrik. Reseminnen från Orienten.
Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1839. Folio. With 6 lithographed plates by Schützercrantz. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers mounted on a larger sheet serving as a folder. 4 pp. Full description

SCHULZ, Walter Philipp. Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans.
Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1914. 2 volumes. Folio. With 200 full-page table illustrations in volume 2, mostly black-white. Contemporary blind-tooled red cloth, with the title on the spine, and a decorated title and printer's mark on the front board. [XVIII], 246, [2]; [XVI], [400], [2]. Full description

[SCRAP ALBUM]. VISSCHER, J. (compiler or recipient). [Ausschneidebilder].
[The Netherlands?], 28 January 1777 (some of the prints themselves: Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, [ca. 1750?]). 4to. A scrap album containing about 330 cut-out images from engraved prints, most neatly and uniformly coloured by a contemporary hand (probably for the publisher or publishers). Contemporary half roan sheepskin, sewn on 2 vellum tapes, red-sprinkled paper sides, red-sprinkled edges, with a heart-shaped paper label on the front board with the manuscript inscription, "J. Visscher" above the date (1 above 28, flanked by "17 ... 77"). [1], 170, [1] ll. including integral paste-downs. Full description

SÉBAH, Jean Pascal (photographer). [Raka'ah demonstration].
[Late 19th century]. Two albumen prints (each ca. 27 x 21 cm), signed and numbered in the negative. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] photographs. Full description

SEBAH, Pascal and Antoine BEATO. Nine photographs of Egypt.
[Egypt], 1880. 9 albumen prints (approx. 340 x 260 mm), each mounted on backing cardboard (ca. 400 x 340 mm). Three edges gilt. Full description

SÉBAH, Pascal (photographer). [Festivities in Cairo].
[Late 19th century]. Three albumen prints (each ca. 19.5 x 26 cm).
Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [3] photographs. Full description

SÉBAH, Pascal, and others. [Photograph album with views of Egypt and Switzerland].
Egypt and Switzerland, [1880s-1890s]. 4to (29.5 x 23.5 cm). 50 photographs of Egypt (albumen prints and cyanotypes) and approximately 40 albumen prints of Switzerland. Contemporary black half morocco. Full description

SEBAH, Pascal, LEHNERT & LANDROCK, Wilhelm HAMMERSCHMIDT, SCHROEDER & Cie and Enrico VAN LINT. [Photographs, mostly of Egypt].
[Egypt and elsewhere], [ca. 1860-ca. 1914]. With 9 carte de visite albumen prints (ca. 8.5 x 5.5 cm) by Hammerschmidt and Van Lint, two albumen prints (9.5 x 12.5 cm) by Sébah mounted on paper, one silver gelatin print (8.5 x 11.5 cm) by Lehnert & Landrock and one silver gelatin print (27 x 21 cm) by Schroeder & Cie in a passepartout. Full description

SEGALEN, Victor, Gilbert de VOISINS and Jean LARTIGUE. Mission archéologique en Chine (1914). L'art funéraire a l'époque des Han.
Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1923-1935. 3 volumes (1 text and 2 atlases). 4to (text) and 38.5 x 28 cm (atlases). With 121 illustrations in text and 144 collotype plates in the atlas. Text volume in original printed paper wrappers. Atlas in original half cloth, printed paper sides. [3] ll., 304 pp.; XI, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp.; 4 ll. Full description