Art, Architecture & Photography / Drawings, Prints & Watercolours

[VIEW - AMSTERDAM]. Amsterdam. (Caption:) Amsterdam, ville du Comté de Hollande et la plus considérable des Provinces Unies.
[Amsterdam, between 1660 and 1668 (ca. 1665)]. Engraving: ca. 38.5 x 50 cm; frame: 66.5 x 76 cm. In a passe partout, framed in a modern wooden frame. Full description

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - AMSTERDAM]. BAST, Pieter. Amstelredam.
[Antwerp], Pieter Bast, 1599. Large engraved panorama on 2 sheets (ca. 27 x 76 cm as assembled). Framed. Full description

[VIEWS - DUTCH]. Verzameling van honderd afbeeldingen, bestaande in: land- en watergezigten, oudheden, landhuizen, hofsteden, tuinen, lusthoven, enz. allen naar het leven geteekend en in koper gebragt door de Hollandsche meesters A. Rademaker, J.C. Philipo, J. Punt en anderen; tot nut van teeken-, schilder- en bouwkundigen.
Amsterdam, D. da Cunha & J.D. Gertner, [ca. 1835-1850]. Oblong 4to. With a title page and 100 views (one double) and plans (ca. 16.5 x 20 cm), partly numbered. The numbered ones are views of manor houses and have a more elaborate frame (except for 57, 59 and 71 which have the number of their original series): they come from the Zegepralend Kennemerland and Het Verheerlykt Watergraafs- of Diemer-Meer. Later (ca. 1900) three-quarter vellum, spine with old red Morocco label lettered in gold, and marbled sides. Full description

VIGERIUS, Marcus. Decachordum Christianum Julio II. Pont. Max. dicatum. Controversia de excellentia instrumentorum Dominicae passionis, per eundem Dn. Marcum Vigerium discussa.
[Hagenau, printed by Th. Anselm & Joh. Albertus for Joh. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1517]. Folio. With title in woodcut border by Urs Graf and 10 beautiful full-page woodcuts (ca. 13.9-14.4 x 9.7-10.2 cm) by the "Master I S with the shovel", a pupil of Hans Schäufelein. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled side, two brass clasps. Leaves from a 14th-century liturgical manuscript pasted on the inner sides of the boards. From the "Koberger Werkstatt". [6], 204, [14] pp. Full description

VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da. Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura ... | Regel vande vijf ordens der architecture ... | Reigle des cinq ordres d'architecture … | The rule of the V. orders of architecture …
Utrecht, Crispijn van de Passe, 1629.
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(2) VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da. La ii parte dell architetura dell Vignola e'altri famossi architetti | Het tweede deel van de architectura …
[Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonius and Jan van Hilten?, ca. 1642].
(3) PASSE, Crispijn van de. Oficina arcularia in qua sunt ad spectantia diversa eximia exempla... | Bouticque menuserie ... | Schriner Laden ... | Schrinwerckers winckel.
Amsterdam, Crispijn van de Passe, 1642. 3 complementary works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with a full-page engraved author's portrait and 42 numbered engraved plates, versos with letterpress text in Italian, Dutch, French, and German and/or English. Plates III and XXXIIII are cancels. Ad 2: with an engraved title page and 42 numbered engraved plates. Plates 1-13 with letterpress text printed on the verso describing the facing page. Ad 3: with an engraved title-page and 46 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Full description

[VINNE, Jan Jansz. van der]. [Celosia cristata].
[Lekzigt near Dordrecht?, 1780?]. Watercolour on a half sheet of laid paper (42.5 x 27.5 cm), mounted on wove paper. In a passepartout. Full description

VINNE, Jan Jansz. van der. [Passiflora caerula or blue passion flower].
[Lekzigt, near Dordrecht?, ca. 1780?]. Folio. (43 x 27.5 cm). Watercolour drawing on laid paper, signed on the back by the artist, "J. van der Vinne Jzn.". Attached by the top corners to a (19th-century?) wove millboard mount kept in a modern passe-partout. Full description

[VINNE, Jan Jansz. van der]. [Tiger lily].
[Netherlands, ca. 1780?]. Watercolour on a half sheet of laid paper (42.5 x 27.5 cm), mounted on wove paper. In a passepartout. Full description

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Cort verhael ende afbeeldinghe der justitie, geschiet den 5. mey 1623. in 'sGravenhaghe.
Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623. Oblong 1mo. Engraved illustration (26.5 x 14.5 cm), giving four circular portraits and 10 separate scenes, flanked by a letterpress description in Dutch. Full description

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Hendrick Danielsz Slatius, gewesene predicant tot Bleijswyck, naert 'tleven afgebeelt den 12 maert 1623.
[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623]. Engraved illustration (22 x 12.5 cm), with an engraved title in Dutch at the head and Visscher's name at the foot, and with two letterpress poems in French on the left signed "A. Lancel."(measuring 24.5 x 25 in tital). Mounted on a larger blank leaf (36 x 41 cm). Full description