Art, Architecture & Photography / Art & Art History

[DRAWING - GERMANY]. View of a church and a ruin on a hill.
[Germany, early 19th century]. Pen and ink with a grey wash (ca. 15,1 x 21 cm). Kept in a white passe-partout. Full description

[DREESING, Harmanus]. [Drop-title:] Notitie van een groote party curieuse kanten, stokgronden en spiegeltralies, als mede Haarlemmer kant, mionetten, pieten, genayde kant, tippen en bandonnen, voor-en achter- werken, langetten, geborduurde schorteldoeken, neusdoeken en dassen, gestikte mans en vrouwe mussen, &c. ... nagelaten by Adriana Smits, wed. van Jan Calenberg. Welke goederen verkogt zullen werden op vrydag, den 15. December 1724. Ten huyze van Harmanus Dreesing in de Keyzers Kroon, in de Kalverstraat ...
Amsterdam, Marten Smets, [1724]. 4to (16.5 x 21 cm). Formerly sewn through 3 holes but never bound. [8] pp. Full description

DRIELST, Egbert van. [Two landscape drawings with grey and sepia wash of Eext, Drenthe].
[The Netherlands, after 1772]. 2 drawings. Ca. 29.7 x 45 cm, and ca. 29 x 45 cm. Pen and ink with grey and sepia washes on paper. Both mounted on card. Full description

DUPUY DU GREZ, Bernard. Traité sur la peinture pour en apprendre la teorie, & se perfectionner dans la pratique.
Toulouse, Widow of J. Pech, and A. Pech, 1699. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 4 full-page engraved allegorical plates after A. Rivatz, the first dated 1694, and 8 engravings showing perspecive, 2 of which are full-page. Further with large flowered and emblematic woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf. [20], 396 pp. Full description

DYLIUS, Joannes (compiler). Dagwyzer der geschiedenissen ... Benevens de geboorte, en sterfdagen, van hooge, en laage stands persoonen ...
[Amsterdam, (frontispiece:) 1778]. Narrow 8vo (16.5 x 9.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, written in Dutch in a neat and clear but minute Latin hand, forming a calendar of historical events from 17 CE to 28 November 1777, with a grey ink and ink-wash allegorical frontispiece title, dated 1778 but signed by the artist "A:C. 1777.", and a title page in 8 styles of plain and decorated Latin and gothic lettering. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, the spine with a green morocco label, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges. Bound by the so-called "Rocaille-and-flower bindery" (Storm van Leeuwen). [8 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [187], [9 blank] pp. including frontispiece. Full description

EEGHEN, P. van and J. Ph van der KELLEN. Het werk van Jan en Caspar Luyken … met 56 platen. Deel I[-II].
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co., 1905. 2 volumes. With 56 plates. Contemporary half morocco, gold-tooled spine. Full description

EELKEMA, Eelke Jelles and André Léon LARUE (MANSION). Grondig onderrigt in de teeken- en schilderkunst, inzonderheid in miniatuur, ten nutte van jonge kunstoefenaren. Naar het Fransch van Mansion.
Leeuwarden, Lambertus Schierbeek, 1830. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). With folding lithographed frontispiece, coloured by hand, showing a palette of colours. Contemporay purple half morocco, gold- and blind-tooled spine. XII (incl. frontispiece), 131, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[EROTICA]. De belydenis van een lichtmis ...
[The Netherlands, ca. 1770]. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates. Contemporary red half roan, gold-tooled spine. [2], 184 pp. Full description

[EROTICA - DRAWINGS]. [Album of erotic drawings].
[France?, ca. 1815?]. 4to (26 x 21.5 cm). A matching set of 12 erotic drawings (image area about 20 x 16 cm) in coloured gouaches. Each is drawn on thick paperboard and mounted on the album leaves. 20th-century red goatskin morocco. Full description

ES, N.J.A.P.H. van. De hippische sport en het korps rijdende artillerie 1793-1908 … 1e gedeelte [valkerij]. 2e gedeelte [hippische sport].
Arnhem, Coers & Roest and G.J. Thieme, [1913]. 2 volumes. Large 4to (37.5 x 31 cm). With ca. 80 lithographed plates and numerous illustrations and decorations in text, many beautifully coloured by hand and some highlighted with silver and/or gold. Original publisher's gold-blocked blue cloth, with a coloured hooded hawk on front boards, upper edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. [16], 172, [18], [2 blank]; [14], 221, [1 blank], [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description