Art, Architecture & Photography / Drawings, Prints & Watercolours

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid ...
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black, 78 mostly double-page or folding engraved plates with caricatures on the 1720 Bubble, and a double-page hand-coloured plate of the foundations of a house near Leiden loosely inserted in the back. Contemporary gold-tooled half blueish green roan, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, blue paste paper sides. [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, "31" [= 29], [1 blank], 8, 9, [1 blank] pp. and engraved ll. Full description

TARENGHI, Enrico. [Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].
[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic. Full description

[INDIA]. TAYLER, William. Sketches illustrating the manners and customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians.
London, Thomas McLean, 1842. Large folio (54,5 x 37,5 cm.). With 6 hand coloured lithograph plates and a lithographed title. Contemporary half calf with cloth sides, gold tooled title on front cover. [16] pp; [6] plates. Full description

[TENGNAGEL, Mattheus Ganzneb]. Het leven van Konstance: waer af volgt het tooneelspel, de Spaensche heidin.
Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn, voor Johannes Jacott, 1643. Small 4to. With 6 full-page etchings by Pieter Nolpe after Simon de Vlieger, Pieter Quast, and Izak Izaksoon, musical scores by Gerret Bolhamer, a woodcut device on the title-page, 15 decorated woodcut initials of different sizes, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, 171, [1 blank] pp. Full description

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826.
With: IDEM. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume.
Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. [1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp. Full description

[TILES - MODEL BOOK]. [Model book of Dutch tile designs].
[Utrecht?, ca. 1810?]. Small square 4to (20 x 19 cm). With 111 pen and wash model drawings for Dutch tiles on the rectos of 105 leaves, most in greys but many in brown or a beautiful Delft blue. Several combine more than one colour, all in the actual size of tiles. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. [2 blank], 105, [6 blank] ll. Full description

[TRAVEL ALBUM - CHINA - INDIA - JAPAN]. [Travel album containing Chinese, Japanese, and Indian artworks].
[Asia, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (ca. 20.5 x 26 cm). With 16 gouache paintings on pith paper framed by silk ribbons, 4 partly coloured woodcut illustrations, and 11 prints and drawings of India. Early or mid-19th-century gold- and blind-stamped beige calf, with a gold-stamped single fillet frame on the diamond-patterned boards, floral blind-stamping and the words "scrap book" lettered in gold on the spine. [1 blank], [31], [38 blank] ll. Full description

USTERI, Martin (artist) and Marquard WOCHER (engraver). L'oraison dominicale d'un habitant d'Unterwalde; suite de sept scènes de la Révolution helvétique.
Basel, the author and Schoell et Cie, 1803. 4to (29.5 x 22 cm). With 8 brush etchings or aquatints, including the title page, mounted on green paper with letterpress captions, interleaved with tissue guards. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, black sheepskin spine-label, gilt edges. Full description

VALERIANI, Domenico and Girolamo SEGATO. Nuova illustrazione istorico-monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.
Including: Atlante monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.
Florence, Paolo Fumagalli, 1836-1837 (text) & 1837-1841 (plates). 2 text volumes (8vo) and 2 plates volumes (large folio). With engraved portrait of Segato as frontispiece in the first text volume and the plate volumes with 160 engraved and aquatint plates (7 double-page), including 51 tinted and/or coloured by a contemporary hand; many plates contain multiple illustrations, making 309 illustrations in total. Contemporary green (text vols.) and brown (plates vols.) half morocco. [2], 491, [1 blank], [4]; 788, [6] pp. text Full description

[HORSE RACING TRACK]. [VANDERBILT, William Kissam]. Hippodrome de Carrieres-sous-Poissy, Seine et Oise, appartenant a Mr. Vanderbilt W. K.
Poissy, Ch[arles] Robin, 1903-1904-1911. Large hand-coloured four-sheet plan (90 x 170 cm as assembled). Drawn in pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper mounted on canvas. Framed (105 x 205 cm). Full description