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Rare work on the basics of perspective

HOUTEN, Hendrik van. Verhandelinge van de grontregelen der doorzigtkunde, of tekenkonst (perspectief,) ...
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1705. 4to. With a large allegorical engraving on the title page, several woodcut figures in the text, 20 basic mathematical figures on a folding engraved plate, and numerous models of perspective drawings on 52 numbered folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards. [4], 72 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Architecture Optics & Perspective
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The most complete collection known, from the library of F.C. Koch

[HOUTMAN, Johannes Paulus (lithographer)]. [Uniformen van militairen en vrijwilligers, schutter- en jagercorpsen].
[Utrecht, J. P. Houtman, ca. 1831]. Folio (ca. 25 x 21 cm). With 234 hand-coloured lithographic plates (169 unique plates, 65 duplicates) tipped onto the leaves. Further with a detailed handwritten index, a short lithographed index, and a three page lithographed description of the flags tipped onto the first leaf. Later gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco. [176] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Military History (19th Century) Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Extremely rare botanical print series of flowers and fruits

HUET Jean-Baptiste (the younger); Benoît-Louis or Jean-Louis PRÉVOST. Fleurs & fruits des quatre parties du monde desseine par Prévost & gravé par J.B. Huet.
Paris, Dauty, [ca. 1837/1838]. Folio (ca. 35 x 26.5 cm). With an engraved title-page and 11 (of 23) engraved botanical prints: 4 showing 5 kinds of fruits each, 3 showing 9 types of flowers each and 4 showing flower bouquets. All prints are stipple engravings and coloured by a contemporary hand, some parts glazed with egg white. Contemporary half sheepskin. [12] ll. Full description
€ 3,250
Flowering Plants Fruit Culture Prints & Print Series
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Beautiful 19th-century illustrations for all of Victor Hugo's plays, printed on silk

[HUGO, Victor]. [Théatre. Gravures sur soie].
[Paris, J. Lemmonyer, G. Richard and Cie, E. Testard, between 1885-1895]. 4to (ca. 27 x 24.5 cm). With 30 full-page engravings on silk. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, marbled end papers. Bound by the French bookbinder Louis Guétant (1848-1936), signed in the bottom turn in of the front board. [30] silk ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Art & Art History Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography France French Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Prints & Print Series
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Famous and very rare suite of 76 portraits of the delegates and negotiators
of the Westphalian Peace Treaty in 1648

[HULLE, Anselmus]. [Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati].
[Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649]. Folio. With 76 full-page engraved portraits mounted onto the leaves of an album, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2), and 2 unsigned, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [76] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Art & Art History Germany History / 17th Century Law & Politics Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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