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From a series of "the finest engravings of flowers ever made" by the teacher of Redouté

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Pivoine double. Paeonia officinalis L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Paeonia officinalis showing two branches with one flower each, signed "Carrée sculp." Framed (67 x 50 cm). Full description
€ 2,950
Colour Printing / Chromolithography Flowering Plants France Italy Prints & Print Series Switzerland
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9 drawings of magnificent triumphal arches and funeral biers erected in Siena for its leading family
and for the Grand Duke of Toscany Cosimo III de Medici and his wife and son

[SPLENDID CEREMONIES]. [Triumphal arches and catafalques (elaborate funeral biers) erected in the years 1715, 1721-1723 and 1737].
[Sienna, ca. 1728, with 1 addition ca. 1737]. Folio (ca. 29 x 21 cm). 8 original drawings in black ink with ink washes plus 1 additional line drawing of a catafalque added about a decade later. Never bound, but formerly sewn. ll. 28-31, 34-37. Full description
€ 9,500
Architecture Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Drawings & Watercolours Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Italy Malta
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Romantic travels in Germany, Switzerland and Italy

STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch.
Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. Contemporary half calf. XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Germany Italy Switzerland Travel & Voyages Europe
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Suetonius on the emperors of Rome, with the prize stamp of Gorinchem

[PRIZE BINDING - GORINCHEM]. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius. Ex recensione Joannis Georgii Graevii cum ejusdem animadversionibus, ut et commentario integro Laevini Torrentii, Isaaci Casauboni, Theodori Marcilii, et cum notis ac numismatibus quibus illustratus est a Carolo Patino accedunt notae selectiores aliorum.
Utrecht, Anthonius Schouten, 1703. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a title vignette, numerous illustrations of roman coins in the text, and 2 folding textual cenotaphs. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a floral ornament in each compartment of the spine, the arms of Gorinchem in the centre of both boards surrounded by two ornamental borders, red and blue sprinkled edges. [14], 829, [2], 110, [152] pp. Full description
€ 750
Armorial Bindings Bindings Classical Antiquity Italy
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The visit of a Siamese embassy to Rome, during the Siamese revolution of 1688

[TACHARD, Guy]. [Drop-title:] Breve ragguaglio di quanto è accaduto in Roma à Sig: Mandarini venuti co[n] il P: Guido Tasciard della compagnia di Giesù, inviato straordinario dal rè di Siam dopo l'Udienza hauuta da N.S. Innocenzo XI.
(Colophon: Rome, Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1689). Small 4to (21.5 x 15.5 cm). With decorated woodcut initial on the first page. Disbound. 8 pp. Full description
€ 3,800
Italy Jesuits Southeast Asia
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A year in Rome: life, spectacle, and the romantic eye

THOMAS, Antoine Jean Baptiste. Un an a Rome et dans ses environs. recueil de dessins lithographés, représentant les costumes, les usages et les cérémonies civiles et religieuses des états romains, et généralement tout ce qu'on y volt de remarquable pendant le cours d'une année; dessiné et publié ...
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1830. Folio. With a lithographed vignette on the title page and 72 hand-coloured tinted lithograph plates by Jean-François Villain. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper sides. [4], 44 pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Italy Prints & Print Series
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Richly illustrated journey of Nicholas II of Russia through Asia

UKHTOMSKY (UCHTOMSKIJ), Esper Esperovich and Hermann BRUNNHOFER (translator). Orientreise seiner kaiserlichen Hoheit des Grossfürsten-Thronfolgers Nikolaus Alexandrowitsch von Russland, 1890-1891.
Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1894-1899. 2 volumes. 4to. With engraved portrait of Nicholas, 7 photogravures, 541 wood engravings after drawings and photographs and 5 chromolithographed maps. Publisher's cloth, richly blocked in black, gold and grey, gilt edges. [4], 476; [4], 482 pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Austria Balkan & Greece Central Europe China Eastern Europe Egypt India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Italy North Africa Russia (incl. Siberia) Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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Death sentence for noble Venetian traitor who evaded assassins for 18 years

[VENICE - COUNCIL OF TEN]. Sententia dell' Eccelso Conseglio di Diece. Contra Anzolo Badoer cavalier. | Sententie vanden Hoogen Raedt van de Thiene. Teghens Anzolo Badoer ridder.
The Hague, Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1612. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on title-page, 2 woodcut decorated initials (2 series, both arabesque). With the Italian text in italic, the Dutch text in textura and with incidental roman. Sewn in later plain paper wrapper. [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 500
History / 17th Century Italy Law & Politics
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Obsequies "in absentia"

VENUTI, Niccolo Marcello. Esequie di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, celebrate in Firenze nella Chiesa di S. Maria Novella ... il di XXVI di Ottobre ...Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). With 5 large, folding engraved plates by Ferdinando Ruggieri. With: BOCCADIFERRO, Camillo Antonio. Delle lodi di Luigi I, Cattolico Re delle Spagne, orazione ... recitata pubblicamente dallautore nellEsequie celebrate in Firenze dal ... Padre Fr. Salvatore Ascanio ...Florence, nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1724. Contemporary vellum. xxiii, [1 blank]; 12 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Architecture Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Italy Prints & Print Series
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