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Beautifully illustrated Dutch flower book, with more than 50 hand-coloured plates

[NEDERLANDSCH BLOEMWERK]. Nederlandsch bloemwerk. Door een gezelschap geleerden.
Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1794. 4to. With 54 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates of flowers, including an engraved title page signed by Paul Theodor van Brussel and Hendrik Leffert Myling. (Near-) contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [2 blank], [6], 128, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Flowering Plants Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Delicately painted 17th-century initial, attributed to the circle of Portugal's finest miniature artist

[NETO, Estêvao Gonçalves, circle of (attributed)]. [Historiated initial - Capital "G"].
[Viseu?, first quarter of the 17th century]. Frame: ca. 36.5 x 33.5 cm. Tempera on parchment (ca. 20 x 21 cm), heightened with gold. Mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 28.5 x 25.5 cm), framed behind glass in a later gold frame. Full description
€ 8,500
Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Portugal
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Vibrant 17th-century illuminated initial, which has been featured in two exhibitions about Portuguese art

[NETO, Estêvao Gonçalves, circle of (attributed)]. [Illuminated initial - Capital "S"].
[Viseu?], 1617. Frame: ca. 39.5 x 38 cm. Tempera and gold leaf on parchment (ca. 33 x 30 cm). Mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 33.5 x 32.5 cm), framed behind glass in a later gold frame. Full description
€ 8,500
Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Manuscripts & Documents Portugal
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Travel by carriage and its mishaps in the early Victorian English countryside

NEWHOUSE, Charles B. The roadsters album.
London, George Thomas Fores & Arthur Blücher Fores, 1845. Large folio (38 x 28.5 cm). With an extensively illustrated aquatint title-page, unsigned, but drawn by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), and 16 aquatint plates drawn by Newhouse. Title-page and plates coloured in great detail by a contemporary hand in opaque gouaches and watercolours, and highlighted with shellac. Gold-tooled, red morocco for Henry Arthur Johnstone (ca. 1900), leather endleaves with Johnstone's 1899 blind-stamped ex-libris, top edge gilt. Full description
€ 18,000
Horses & Horsemanship Prints & Print Series UK - United Kingdom
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Oil painting of ships in search of a Northwest Passage in 1845/46

[NORTHWEST PASSAGE - PAINTING]. [The ships Erebus and Terror in the Arctic].
[England?, ca. 1850?]. Oil painting on canvas (65.5 x 91 cm), showing 2 ships in a rough sea amid dangerous rocks and ice. Later mounted on another canvas and stretched over a wooden frame, with a handwritten note about the painting pasted on the back. Full description
€ 9,500
Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Drawings & Watercolours North America Ships & Shipbuilding Travel & Voyages North America
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Magnificent and very rare series of 24 aquatints, coloured by hand, of 24 country houses
and their gardens in the surroundings of Amsterdam, the Gooi, Haarlem and the Vecht River

NUMAN, Hermannus. Vierentwintig printtekeningen met couleuren, verbeeldende Hollandsche buitenplaatzen, met derzelver beschrijvingen. Na het leven getekent en in plaat gebracht .... Vingtquatre vues des maisons de campagne, situees en Hollande ...
Amsterdam, [H. Numan, J. Yver and J.W. Smit], 1797. Oblong 4to (ca. 23.5 x 27 cm). With 24 full-page hand-coloured aquatints of various country houses. Contemporary or slightly later quarter brown paper, sprinkled paper sides. 15 ll. + 24 plates. Full description
€ 18,000
Castles, Gardens & Mansions Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Collection of collotype views showing the waters and the architecture of the delightful city of Venice

ONGANIA, Ferdinando (ed.). Calli e canali e isole della laguna [frontispiece: "Calli et canali in Venezia"].
Venice, Tipografia Emiliana, 1894-1895. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece showing a gondola in a Venice canal and 100 colletypes of the Venice canals, streets and buildings, mounted on guards and covered with flyleaves, index printed in red and black. Original publishers half brown sheepskin, beige cloth sides with blind-tooled frame on the front and back board and with a centrepiece with a boat in the lagoon of Venice and the gold-stamped title and author's name on the front board. [6] including the frontispiece, plus 100 collotypes. Full description
€ 2,500
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