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Italian translation of an important work on military and civic architecture, with 54 engraved plates

1. BÉLIDOR, Bernard Forest de. La scienza degli ingegneri nella direzione delle opere di fortificazione e d’architettura civile … Seconda edizione con nuove aggiunte e correzioni.Milan, Perelli and Mariani, 1840. 2 volumes (text volume and atlas volume). 4º. Atlas volume with 54 aquatint plates, all double-page except 3 folding plates and 2 single-page. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment. € 1250

Second edition of the Italian translation of a work on military and civil architecture, written by the French engineer Bernard Forest de Bélidor (1698–1761) and translated by Luigi Masieri. The book opens with a preface to the present edition, a preface by the author and a table of contents. The book is divided into six parts, dealing with the theory of mechanics, masonry and the con-struction of vaults and arches; properties of materials (including for the first time the soil), planning and construction of urban and military service buildings, decoration and ornaments (an entire section is devoted to the five orders of columns), surveying and estimated costs.With some occasional foxing in both volumes and a faint water stain in the second half of the atlas volume. Bindings rubbed along the extremities, with a tear along the spine of the text volume. Otherwise in good condition.

Jordan 0244; not in Jähns; Sloos, Warfare.

A splendid work on Rome, lavishly illustrated with fine engraved views of historical sights2. DESEINE , François. Beschryving van oud en niew Rome, verdeelt in drie deelen.Including: BA RTOLI, Pietro Santi and Giovanni Pietro BELLOR I . Oude of antyke schilderyen, gevonden in het graf der nazoonen op den Flaminischen weg buiten Rome.Amsterdam, François Halma, 1704. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large 2º (53.5 × 31.5 cm). With 3 engraved frontispieces and 112 plates and maps (many double-page; the first map hand-coloured) on 101 leaves. Further with 22 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spines. Restored. € 8500

A remarkably large copy (53.5 × 31.5 cm) of a sumptuous publica-tion on ancient and modern Rome. It was first published in French as Description da la ville de Rome (1690) and includes translations of Pietro Santi Bartoli and Giovanni Pietro Bellori’s Le pitture antiche del sepolchro de’ Nasonii (Rome 1680). Deseine’s work was originally published as a slender guidebook for tourists in four volumes. The present lavish Dutch edition was clearly intended for a different audience. The first volume is devoted to ancient Rome, describing its history and its quarters with their many famous sights; the second volume is devoted to mordern Rome. It is finely illustrated with maps and plates, including splendid views by Livien Cruyl, large maps by Giovanni Battista Falda, Gerrit Droogenham and Sanson d’Abbeville, and many plates after drawings by Jan Goeree, including views of the Colosseum, Tiber Island, Trajan’s Column, House of Augustus, Arch of Constantine, Monte Tastaccio, Mausoleum of Hadrian, Pyramid of Cestius, Mauseleum of Augustus, Campus Martius, Theatre of Marcellus, etc. Schudt rightly calls it a “glänzend ausgestattetes Tafelwerk” (p. 130).The present copy is printed on large, unwatermarked paper, some 14 cm taller than the Millard copy (39 × 24.2 cm).Some spotting and light soiling, overall in very good condition. The bindings chafed and professionally restored (as noted).

Klaversma & Hannema 436; Millard III, 24 (bound with Aalhoudheden van Rome, 39 × 24.2 cm); Schudt 555.

War of words on perspective, conic sections, cutting architectural stones and making sundials: the Jesuit versus the Cartesian

3. [DUBR EUIL , Jean] and others. Advis charitables sur les diverses oeuvres, et feuilles volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois. Publiees sous les titres. I. De Brouïllon Projet d’une atteinte aux evenements des rencontres du cone avec un plan: … II. De Brouïllon Projet d’exemple d’une maniere universelle, touchant la pratique du traict a preuves, pour la couppe des pierres en l’architecture. III. D’une maniere de tracer tous quadrans d’heures égales au soleil, au moyen du style posé: … Mis au jour. …With: [DUBR EUIL , Jean]. Diverses methodes universelles, et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie pour faire des perspectives. … Tirees pour la plus-part du contenu du livre de La perspective pratique. Ce qui servira de plus de response aux deux affiches du Sieur Desargues, contre ladite Perspective pratique.Paris, Melchior Tavernier, François l’Anglois, dit Chartres, 1642. 2 works (4 & 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4º (25.5 × 18 cm). The first work in 4 parts. It lacks two small engraved plates. The second work with 10 full-page engravings on integral leaves. Half white sheepskin parchment (ca. 1900?). € 22 500

Very rare and important first editions forming the culmination of an on-going war of words on perspective, conic sections, cutting stones for architectural use and making sundials, with the Parisian Jesuit architect Jean Dubreuil (1602–1670) attacking the Lyonese mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues (1591–1661), who spent much time in Paris in the circles of Descartes, Fermat and Pascal (the young Blaise and his father) and pioneered the modern principles of perspective drawing. Ironically the publications on both sides of this war came from the same printing and publishing office. Desargues’s rigorously mathematical Exemple de l’une des manieres universelles … touchant la practique de la perspective … (Paris, 1636), is now recognized as the pioneer-ing work on the mathematics of projective geometry, the key to understanding the principles of perspective. Although Dubreil’s two present works do not explicitly cite it, both respond to Desargues’s criticisms and the title-page of the Advis charitables cites Desargues’s later publications that reiterated parts of his 1636 treatise and added further material.With a neat manuscript list of the contents and reference to the 1864 edition of Desargues’s works on the front paste-down. Two parts of the first work each lacking one small engraved plate, as noted, but no complete copy with all parts has been located. Otherwise a good copy and including the two integral blank leaves. With traces of a blue, 19th-century blue paper wrapper stuck to the first title-page, covering two letters in the title, and some water stains and spotting in the second work. A very rare pair of works on perspective and related matter, part of a dispute concerning methods of using perspective.Extensive description available on request.

BAL 338 note (mentioning ad 1 & ad 2, without noting ad 1 part I); Taton, L’oeuvre … de G. Desargues (1951), pp. 50 ff. (ad 1 & ad 2); WorldCat (7 copies of ad 1, none with all parts and plates; 7 copies of ad 2).

The life of the Virgin, engraved ca. 1506 by Raimondi after Dürer:

stunning series of 17 very large prints4. DÜR ER, Albrecht and Marcantonio R A IMONDI . [Life of the Virgin Mary].[Bologna?, ca. 1685/90 (engraved Bologna, ca. 1506)]. 1º (40 × 29 cm) A series of 17 very large numbered engraved prints. Each with Dürer’s AD monogram and the last also with Raimondi’s MAF monogram. Late 18th-century boards, in a paste-paper slipcase with an engraved label showing the coat of arms of the Count of Somaglia, (Don Gaetano?) Cavazzi in Milan. € 22 500

A complete series of 17 engraved prints of the life of the Virgin Mary, printed in Italy ca. 1685/90 from the original copper plates engraved ca. 1506 by Marcantonio Raimondi (ca. 1480–ca. 1527/34) after the 17 woodcuts that had so far been completed of what was to be a series of 20 by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). Together with Lucas van Leyden, Dürer and Raimondi were the great pioneers of 16th-cen-tury graphic art, and Raimondi in particular established the copperplate print as the medium of choice for reproducing works of art from other media. The series is important both as a high point in the history of art and engraving and for its religious content, but also for the views it gives of life ca. 1500.The coat of arms on the slipcase matches Rietstap’s arms for the Milan family Cavazzi, Counts of Somaglia. In very good condition and with large margins. Binding somewhat worn and with a few cracks and minor stains.

Bartsch 621–637 (also in The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. XXVII); BDPI 1630611; Delaborde 235–251; Shoemaker et al., The engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi (1981), pp. 22 et al.

Basics of miniature drawing and painting5. EELK EM A, Eelke Jelles and André Léon L A RUE . Grondig onderrigt in de teeken- en schilderkunst, inzonderheid in miniatuur, ten nutte van jonge kunstoefenaren. Naar het Fransch van Mansion.Leeuwarden, Lambertus Schierbeek, 1830. 12º (15.5 × 9 cm). With folding lithographed frontispiece, coloured by hand, showing a palette of colours. Contemporay purple half morocco, gold- and blind-tooled spine. € 500

Rare first edition of a schoolbook on art, teaching beginners the basic rules of drawing and painting, especially in miniature. Eelke Jelles Eelkema, an artist himself, adapted the book after a French work by the miniaturist painter André Léon Larue (known as Mansion), for use of his own pupils. It contains 32 brief chapters covering a wide array of subjects: how to polish ivory, how to draw an old man’s face, how to choose the right brushes, how to paint velvet or lace, how to position and enlighten the model, etc.In very good condition, only very slightly browned with a few small spots. Binding very slightly rubbed, but also very good.

WorldCat (4 copies); NCC (same 4 copies).

The fountains of Rome, with 42 beautiful plates, mostly double-page6. FA LDA, Giovanni Battista. Der römischen Fontanen wahre Abbildung wie solche, so wohl auf offentlichen Plätzen und Palatien, als auch Frescada Tivoli und denen Lust-Gärten, mit ihren Prospecten, der Zeit allda zu ersehen sind.Nuremberg, Sandrart (printed by Christian Sigmund Froberg), 1685. 2º. With 2 engravings and 1 woodcut in text and 42 numbered engraved plates (40 double-page) of fountains and gardens. Near contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine. € 11 500

Very rare first and only German edition of a collection of views of the fountains of Rome by Giovanni Battista Falda, first published in Italian in 4 parts from 1675 to 1685. The present German edition was issued simultaneously with a Latin edition by the same printer and publisher. It is one of a series of Sandrart editions of collections of plates first published by the de’Rossi firm in Rome. The 42 engraved plates are beautifully and skillfully designed and engraved. All show fountains, mostly in Rome’s city squares with an entourage of people.

Most follow the original plates in parts 1 and 2 of De’Rossi’s Italian edition of Falda’s Le fontane di Roma, ca. 1675–1676, but plate I was newly made for this edition; pl. XV is follows one in part 3 of Le fontane and pl. XXXXII, a view of the Villa Pamphili in Rome, follows one in another de’Rossi production. Every engraving is accompanied by a text in Latin and German. A number of the plates are signed by the engravers Hans Franck, Johann Meyer, Susanna van Sandrart and Johann Azelt. Falda’s work is an important source not only for the topography and history of the city of Rome, but also for the terminology of art and architecture.In good condition. The spine is worn, with damage at the head and foot, the hinges cracked and the boards show some surface defects, but the binding is structurally sound. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce on the back of the title-page.

Berlin Kat. 3604; BAL 1015; P. Bellini, “Per una definizione dell’opera di G. Batt. Falda”, in: Arte Cristiano, 695 (1983); cf: Fowler 117 .

Illustrated descriptions of the old and new theatre of Amsterdam7. [FOK K E , Jan or Myndert DE BOER (attributed to)]. Historie van den Amsterdamschen schouwburg.With: (2) Historie van den nieuwen Amsterdamschen schouwburg.Amsterdam, Gerrit Warnars and Petrus den Hengst, 1772–1775. 2 works in 1 volume. 4º. With an engraved frontispiece, a small engraved illus-tration by Noach van der Meer II on both title-pages, 4 folding engraved plates of the old theatre; 5 folding engraved plates of the new theatre, all engraved by the publishers after designs by Van der Meer and 1 by Simon Fokke. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine. € 1500

Large-paper copies of the first editions of two works on the schouwburg (theatre) of Amsterdam, the first on the old theatre, which burned down in 1772, and the second on the new theatre, which was built on the Leidseplein and finished in 1775. The large engraved plates show the exterior of the new theatre, together with the sur-rounding buildings and with people on the foreground, and the interior of both the theatres (the balconies and stages). Two plates depict the old theatre going up in flames and another plate shows the ruins. The text gives a history of both the theatres, including a description of the building process, the restorations and renovations, the staff, the stage equipment (lightning, decor, hoist tools, costumes, etc.), and also including a vivid descrip-tion of the fire. The first work is often ascribed to Jan Fokke, but both works are also frequently ascribed to Myndert de Boer, who wrote the long poems in both works.With bookplates. Binding rubbed along the extremities, slightly worn at the head and foot of the spine. The plate of the external fire with a large tear, some occasional spots and stains, but otherwise in very good condition.

Van Aken III, p. 65 & 70; Muller, Historieplaten 4253a & 4283a; cf. Sluijter-Seijffert, “De Amsterdamse schouwburg van 1774”, in: Oud Holland XC, 1 (1976), pp. 21–64.

Original architectural drawings by an Italian architect ca. 1789, plus 2 important series of 17th-century engraved architectural plates

8. FR A NCESCHINI, Lodovico. [Architectural drawings].[Rome?, ca. 1789]. 2º (36.5 × 26 cm). With 48 mostly full-page (2 double-page) original architectural drawings, including floor plans, elevations, cross-sections, many designs for tile floors, ornamental detail, an illustration of a pantograph, diagrams illustrating the con-struction of figures, projections, perspective, etc., mainly executed in ink and coloured washes. 4 drawings are signed by Lodovico Franceschini and 3 dated “1789”. The 44 plates of Vignola’s Regula (Siena, Bernardino Oppi, 1635) and the 21 plates of Giovanni Battista Montano’s Tabernacoli diversi by (Rome, Giovanni Jacomo de Rossi, 1684, pt. 5) are interspersed among the drawings, often with an engraving and a related drawing on facing pages. Contemporary blind-tooled tanned goatskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, each board divided into 16 triangular fields by horizontal, vertical and diagonal 5-line fillets, each triangle with 3 impressions of a 6-petalled flower and 1 impression of a larger floral ornament, 5-line fillets on spine, with a roman capital “B” (replacing a fainter “A”) inscribed in black ink on front board, 6 paper templates (ca. 1800?) for decorative motifs (for cartouches?) pasted on paste-downs. € 36 500

A very interesting and intriguing architectural album, probably compiled in Rome ca. 1789 by a hitherto unknown and unrecorded Italian architect and designer: Lodovico Franceschini. In most cases each leaf has been constructed by pasting 2 leaves together, with the drawings or engravings on the outside, and mounting the double leaf on a stub. The often magnificent drawings clearly illustrate the developing insights into and extensions of classical architecture as represented by the standard textbooks of Vignola and others, by a practising or teaching architect at the end of the 18th century. In part it is a reformulation of classical architecture on the basis of more elementary and consistent geometrical principles. The drawings, executed for the most part in ink and coloured washes, illustrate the classical orders of columns, doorways, fenestration, fireplaces, altars, mouldings and complex floor tile designs, as well as a pantograph and geometrical figures to illustrate the principals of the construction of figures, projections, perspective, etc. There are five sophisticated drawings (plans, sections and elevations) for a single(?) large theatre, and two double-page drawings for an ambitious church (plan, section and elevation, dated 1789), symmet-rical in a 90 degree rotation, except for the doorway, entry stairs and awning(?) on one side.Minor worming in most leaves, some browning and water stains, but the drawings remain in good condition. The binding with an ink stain on front board and some small tears and abrasions, but still good. Magnificent drawings by an unrecorded Italian architect.

BAL 3451 (Vignola) and 2171, part V (Montano).

Large Romeyn de Hooghe wall print depicting Charles II of Spain

as a Roman Emperor, in its rare first state9. HOOGHE , Romeyn de. [King Charles II of Spain].Brussels, Jean Leonard, [ca. 1685]. 60×50 cm. Allegorical portrait of King Charles II of Spainas a Roman Emperor, with a globe showing the Americas, numerous allegorical figures and classical gods, his arms on the wall in the background and his crowned CC II monogram on a staff with a banner. Framed, in a passe partout. € 2500

Allegorical etching and engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708), especially rare in its present first state, depicting King Charles II of Spain(1661–1700) in Imperial Roman armour, perhaps based on the statue of the Emperor Trajan. It was meant to suggest that his American colonies made him a great emperor. In very good condition.

Atlas van Stolk 3106 note; Landwehr, De Hooghe Etcher, p. 235; cf. Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) IX, p. 126, De Hooghe 250 (1704 state); Muller, Historieplaten, 3329 (1704 state).

The paintings by Gerard de Lairesse in the Court of Justice at The Hague

10. L A IR ESSE , Gerard de. Tafereelen, geschilderd door Gerard de Lairesse, in de Raadkamer van den Hove van Justitie van Holland, Zeeland, en Westvriesland; … Les tableaux qui se trouvent a la Haye, dans la Chambre du Conseil de Justice de la Cour d’Holande, de Zelande, & de Westvrise.Amsterdam, printed for Nikolaas Verkolje, 1737. Large 2º. With 7 engraved plates illustrating 7 paintings by Larisse at the old provincial Court of Justice in the Binnenhof at The Hague, engraved by Pierre Tamjé and Claude Duflos after drawings by Verkolje. 19th-century half roan, marbled boards. € 3250

First and only edition of a set of plates illustrating seven paintings by Gerard de Lairesse (1640–1711) in the council room of the former Court of Justice of Holland, Zeeland and West Friesland (now called the Lairesse room) in the Binnenhof in The Hague. The Court commissioned the paintings in 1684 and they were completed by 1688. They depict Aeneas carrying his father Anchises, an allegorical figure of Justice and five scenes from ancient Roman history, each representing a different virtue: Pompey (prudence), Scipio (modera-tion), Horatius Cocles (courage), Scipio again (steadfastness) and Papyrius (clemency). The printed image of each plate measures about 40 × 28 cm. In three cases the painting fills the plate; the other four paintings, being more or less square (about 23 × 23 cm to 29 × 29 cm in the plates), are depicted within the architectural context. Binding used. A very good copy.

Timmer, Gerard Lairesse (1942), p. 83, nr. 26; cf. Snoep, “Gerard Lairesse als plafond-en kamerschilder”, in: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, Vol. 18 (1970), Nr. 4, pp. 198–209.

Rare and beautiful model prints for flower painting, intended for young women, by a leading Meissen porcelain painter

11. LÜCK, Johann Friedrich (or a son). Eerste handleiding tot de bloem- teken- schilder- en borduurkonst, in XXIV. voorbeelden van bloemen en vruchten, in omtrekken en kleuren, nevens eene tafel der onderscheidene verwen.Amsterdam, W. Holtrop, 1802. Oblong 8º (text) and oblong small 4º (plates) (12 × 17.5 cm). With loose full-page engraved colour-key plate showing 66 numbered small rectangles, hand-coloured as samples of watercolours, and 24 loose full-page engraved plates, each with a pair (or in one case 2 pair) of nearly identical flowering or fruit-bearing plants (plate size 9.5 × 14 cm), the left-hand examples left uncoloured and the right-hand examples coloured as a guide. Complete with the undated prospectus (one 8º leaf, 22.5 × 12.5 cm, printed on both sides) with an engraved tulip at the head, nearly identical to no. 13 in the plates, but differently coloured. Loose in (later?) green paper wrapper, in contemporary slipcase covered with marbled paper. The 25 prints with gilt edges. € 15 000

Rare first and only edition of an exceptionally beautiful model book for painting, colouring and embroidery, mainly of flowers and fruits, designed by a painter from the famous Saxon porcelain factory at Meissen. The title-page merely calls him “Lück”, but he must be either Johann Heinrich Lück (1727–1797), one of the most famous Meissen porcelain painters, or (since it does not indicate that he had recently died) possibly a son. The booklet accompanying the prints includes 11 pages of instructions and advice, and a numbered list of the 66 pigments used for the colour key.The prospectus includes a numbered list of the flower plates (and notes the colour key), a French poem by De Lille (both also present in the album itself), and a letter by the publisher addressed to “Nederlandsche Juffers” (Dutch young ladies), especially recommending Lück’s models for their “creations with brush and needle”. If accepted gratefully, the publisher would consider a second volume as well, but none appeared. We have located only one other copy (at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam).In fine condition. Rare popular guide to flower painting, intended for young ladies, by a leading painter of Meissen porcelain.

Saalmink, p. 1195 (1 copy); Picarta (same copy); WorldCat (same copy).

The art of drawing landscapes12. M A A SK A MP, Evert. Handleiding voor jonge kunstenaars, in het teekenen van landschappen naar de natuur; de behandeling van papier, waterverwen, oostindische inkt, biestre- en neutrale kleur; benevens onderigting in het aanleggen der luchten, verschieten en voorgronden; het kleuren en opwerken; mitsgaders het kleuren van gravures. Naar de beroemdste Zwitzersche en Engelsche kunstenaars, en uit eigene ondervinding.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1827. 8º. With folding engraved frontispiece and 6 plates (2 engraved plates and 4 aquatints, incl. 1 coloured by hand). Contemporary boards. € 750

First edition of a guide for young artists detailing the craft of drawing landscapes, including the appliance of shadows, water colour, and the hand colouring of engraved prints. All but one of the plates are made by the author, Evert Maaskamp (1769–1834), at the time a well-known Dutch engraver and print publisher. They include the same two landscape scenes in two and three different techniques (engraving, aquatint, and hand-coloured aquatint), a romantic scene with a tree in the foreground and a bridge in the back, and frontispiece with guide lines for (horizon) perspective.A 5 cm. tear along a fold of the frontispiece and a tiny tear in the margin, the boards slightly rubbed along the extremities, and the spine discoloured. Generally in good condition.

Cf. V.d. Aa XII, p. 22 (2nd ed.).

Enormous panoramic Middle Eastern view with ruins, nearly 6 metres long13. [MIDDLE E A ST]. [Mountainous landscape with Middle Eastern and classical Roman ruins, 6 shepherds with their flocks, several figures riding dromedaries and one riding a donkey, (date?) palms, lakes, etc.].[Palestine?, ca. 1910?]. An enormous panoramic view drawn in coloured gouaches on a single, continuous roll of paper (70 × 583 cm), the drawing running to the edges of the paper. € 35 000

A panoramic view of what appears to be a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape, with spectacular mountains in the background, a body of water near each end, and a wide variety of buildings and ruins, some clearly classical Roman and others Middle Eastern. The combination of classical Roman architecture with dromedaries and other Middle Eastern features places it very likely in Palestine, but we have not been able to identify specific buildings. The most distinctive ruin, a round Roman temple with five columns on the viewer’s side, an entablature above them and a vertical base below them, looks more like the Temple of the Vesta at Tivoli than like any known in the Middle East (the columns are not rendered in sufficient detail to determine their order, but they are almost certainly not Ionic and are probably Corinthian). There are also classical Roman aqueducts. The six shepherds with their flocks all wear broad-brimmed hats and have staffs, and two are blowing long, slightly curved horns. Several more figures with broad-brimmed hats and staffs might be pilgrims, one together with what is presumably his wife.With a 33 cm tear into the left end, a few insignificant and much smaller tears and with pin holes about 1 cm from the edges from mounting on a wall, but otherwise in very good condition and with the colours fresh and bright. A spectacular panoramic view of the Middle East, including many classical Roman ruins.

Unrecorded edition of an extremely rare picture book for children

14. NUM A N, Hendrik and Christoffel van SICHEM . Extra fraai kinder prent-boek, zynde voorzien met differente afbeeldingen, benevens verscheide beesten en vogelen, . . . Waar agter ook gevoegd zyn de zeven wonderen der waereld.Rotterdam, Jacobus Thompson, [ca. 1790]. 4º. With 25 nearly full-page woodcuts by Hendrik Numan (each ca. 12.5×15 cm) and 7 smaller woodcuts by Christoffel van Sichem (each ca. 4×7.5 cm). Modern boards. € 2500

Unrecorded edition of an extremely rare picture book for children with woodcuts of various professions, children’s games and animals (including a peacock spreading his tail and an elephant drawn after life), with a letterpress title and a descrip-tive four-line verse beneath, by the Dutch illustrator Hendrik Numan (1736–1788), followed by a series of smaller woodcuts illustrating the wonders of the world, each with a descriptive six-line verse beneath, by Christoffel van Sichem IV (1642–ca. 1698), a Dutch artist from a well-known family of illustrators.Very good copy, slightly browned along the edges, but all plates with good impressions.

Cf. Buijnsters, BNK 1618–1619; Buijnsters “De Amsterdamse uitgever willem Houtgraaf (1763–1791) en het achttiende-eeuwse prentenboek voor kinderen” in: E Codicibus Impressisque vol. II (2004), p. 440–441; STCN (1 copy of an Egmont edition); WorldCat (2 copies of an Egmont edition.

Costume and profession print series for art students, engraved ca. 1790,

with 2 extra colour-printed versions15. [PER KOIS, Jacob and Johannes Hubertus PR INS]. [Print series from: Verzameling van verschillende gekleede mans- en vrouwen-standen, ter oefening van jonge schilders en liefhebbers, naar ‘t leven geteekend].[Rotterdam, J. Immerzeel, 1818 (engraved ca. 1790)]. 4º or cut down 2º. A series of 32 (of 33) numbered full-page aquatint and stipple-engraved prints. Lacking plate 5, which has been replaced by an aquatint of a woman cleaning fish by Hermanus Fock. With 2 extra prints loosely inserted: colour-printed versions (inked a la poupée) of plates 20 and 25. Mid-19th-century half maroon sheepskin. € 1750

An aquatint and stipple-engraved print series of costumes and professions. They were drawn by Perkois (1756–1804) and Prins (1757–1806) ca. 1790 and engraved by Sallieth (1749–1791) as models for young artists to follow. The 1818 publica-tion indicates that they had previously been issued individually but never before collected for publication in book form. The two loosely inserted prints have the exposed skin of the faces, necks, arms and hands printed in a soft shade of red with the rest in black, inked a la poupée.With a tear in one plate, not affecting the image (repaired with tape), 3 plates foxed and a few others with minor foxing, but still in very good condition.

Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam II, p. 777; Colas 2311; Landwehr, Colour plates 389; Lipperheide Gb 46 note.

100 plates of classical statues then surviving in Rome, with a portrait of the dedicatee,

Christian Eberhard of Ostfriesland16. PER R IER, François and Petrus SCHENCK . Signorum et statuarum symbola Perreriana; eleganti coelo denuo exsculpta, & novo nitore edita à Petro Schenck.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenck, 1702. 2º. With a full-page mezzotint portrait (27.5×17.5 cm) of the dedicatee Christian Eberhard, Fürst of Ostfriesland, an engraved dedication plate, and 100 numbered engraved sculpture plates (98 full-page and 2 double-page). Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. € 9500

Rare first and only edition printed from Schenck’s plates, of a set of illustrations of statues that survived in Rome, originally drawn, engraved and published by François Perrier (1590–1650) in 1638. Except for plates 22 and 23, Schenk’s plates appear in mirror image. Among the statues are the Laocoon group, Marcus Aurelius, Cleopatra and many other great works of classical art. The contents (Latin and Dutch in parallel columns) divide the plates into three groups: upright male figures , upright female figures and reclining figures, but in fact the two double-page plates are large groups of upright figures forming scenes. Like the engraved contents list in Perrier’s 1638 print series, this list gives some information about the statues, including their locations.The book is dedicated to Christian Eberhard, Fürst of Ostfriesland with an illus-trated dedication plate with the Ostfriesland arms and a mezzotint portrait following the title-page. These do not appear in all copies: Picarta lists 3 copies of the present edition, but mentions no portrait.In good condition, with tears expertly and unobtrusively repaired in 3 plates (49–50, 88). Binding with light stains. An attractive presentation of 100 statues or groups of statues from classical antiquity.

Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) XXV, 542 (portrait) & 1836–1936; 7 copies located in libraries worldwide; cf. Thieme & Becker XXX, pp. 29–30.

Auction catalogue of one of the most celebrated collections of the 18th century

17. [R A NDON DE BOISSET, Louis Paul Randon]. Catalogue des tableaux & desseins précieux des maîtres célebres des trois écoles, figures marbres, de bronze & de terre cuite, estampes en feuilles & autres objets du cabinet de feu M. Randon de Boisset, receveur géneral des finances. … On a joint à ce catalogue celui des vases, colonnes de marbres, porcelaines, des laques, des meubles de boule & d’’ autres effets précieux, par C.F. Julliot. La vente se fera le jeudi 27 février 1777 … Vêndome.Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, 1777. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12º. Contemporary red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, an gold fillets on bards and board edges, gilt edges. € 1750

First and only edition of the auction catalogue of one of the most celebrated collections of the 18th century, the art collection of Pierre Louis Paul Randon de Boisset (1708–1776), a high financial official of the French government. The collection contained paintings from the Italian school (Carraci, Reni etc.), Dutch and Flemish school (Rubens, Bril, Jordaens, Van Goyen, Rembrandt etc.), French School (Poussin, Watteau etc.), marble and bronze sculptures, drawings and prints, a large collection of vases and other objects made of precious stones, Japanese lacquer, precious stones, furniture, porcelain etc.Lacking, as usual, the 8 pp. supplement with lots 888–904, otherwise a very good copy, priced throughout in a contemporary hand.

Jammes, Cabinets de Curiosités 291; Lugt 2652; Duplessis 965 (mentions an 8 pp. supplement).

A colourful mounted Bedouin falconer by leading orientalist painter

18. ROUSSE AU, Henri-Émilien. [Bedouin falconer].[Morocco, 1920s]. Oil on wooden panel (21 × 16 cm), signed at the lower left “Henri Rousseau”. Contemporary gilded wooden frame (33 × 28 cm). € 28 000

Colourful panel painting by the leading orientalist painter Henri-Émilien Rousseau of a mounted Bedouin falconer, one of Rousseau’s favourite subjects. While the sport of falconry was an important status symbol in the Middle East and Europe generally, for the Bedouins it was a means of survival.Rousseau (1875–1933) was a Cairo-born French painter who divided his childhood between North Africa and France, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under the great Orientalist painter, Jean-Léon Gérôme. He broke from the style of his master, however, and started to paint in a more impressionistic style. Between 1920 and 1930 he travelled extensively through the Rif and Atlas mountains of Morocco, where he befriended the chiefs of several nomad tribes. It was probably here that Rousseau fell under the spell of the Bedouin horsemen, which came to char-acterize his compositions. In 1927 more than 80 of his works from this period were displayed at the gallery of the influential Parisian art dealer Georges Petit. This was followed by an exhi-bition at the Exposition Universelle of 1931.The panel is cracked in the length, leading to a 4 cm crack in the paint to the right of the rider’s head, a 1 cm crack below the horse’s left hind hoof, and a 7 cm crack from the top left to the horse’s head, but these cracks are only noticeable on close inspec-tion and no paint has been lost. Some minor craquelure in the dark red patch connecting the rider and the saddle. Otherwise a well-executed and clean painting.

For the artist: Thieme & Becker XXIX, p. 113.

Collection of architectural designs by Schinkel, “the most highly-regarded architect of his generation”

19. SCHINK EL , Carl Friedrich. Sammlung architektonischer Entwürfe enhaltend theils Werke, welche ausgeführt sind, theils Gegenstände, deren Ausführing beabsichtigt wurde.Berlin, Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich, 1819–1840. 28 parts (30 instalments) in 1 volume. Oblong 1º (41.5 × 52 cm). With 170 (of 174) engraved plates after drawings and designs by Schinkel. Modern grey cloth. € 7850

First edition of a collection of architectural designs by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), “the most highly-regarded architect of his generation, whose influence is comparable with that of Percier and Fontaine in France” (BAL). It includes a total of 170 large engravings after Schinkel’s drawings and ground plans for many important German monumental buildings, manors, churches, monuments etc., including around 10 plates of the Schauspielhaus (Konzerthaus) in Berlin, one of his major projects. “Between about 1800 and 1840 he [Schinkel] produced a large number of architectural drawings, latterly in relation to commissions which he obtained as his fame spread (more than 500 drawings were in existence at his death, many of which are now in the Nationalgalerie in Berlin). It was from this body of work that Schinkel made his own selection for the present work” (BAL). “He left his mark German architecture of the 19th century and beyond like no architect since” (Steffens).Corner of title-page torn off, restored, several plates heavily browned or foxed, a few others with tears, all restored. Lacking plates 4, 5, 15 and 90. Binding with some water stains, otherwise in good condition.

BAL 2934; M. Steffens, K. F. Schinkel 1781–1841 (2003), p. 12.

Stylized leaf and flower ornament, with 24 chromolithographed plates

20. SCHOOP, Ulrich. Das farbige Ornament. Stilisirte Blatt-und Blüthenformen mit Beispielen über deren Verwendung für den Schulzeichenunterricht. 24 Blätter in monochromem und polychromem Farbendruck mit einer kurzen Farbenlehre.Zürich, Orell Füssli & Co., 1880. 4º. With 24 numbered chromolitho-graphed plates (each printed in 2 to 6 colours). Contemporary red half morocco. € 1500

Extremely rare first impression of the first and only edition of 24 colour-printed plates showing ornamental designs using stylized leaves and flowers. Some of the ornamentation is almost Art Nouveau avant la lettre and all plates are printed entirely with areas of solid colour (with 2 to 6 colours in each plate). The work was meant for education and contains a short introduction covering colour theory. The designs and text were made by professor Ulrich Schoop (1830–1911), who was the author of a dozen other educational works covering the art of drawing, ornamentation and perspective.Text leaves slightly browned in the margins, primarily along the edges, and some faint browning in the head margin of the first few plates; spine slightly rubbed near the edges and with small cracks in the front joint. Very good copy of a rare and interesting work on colour ornament.

Cf. GVK (1 copy of 3rd impression); WorldCat (4 copies of 2nd and/or 3rd impression, incl. the copy in GVK); not in Berlin Kat.

Scrap album with hand-coloured engraved pictures from numerous series:

Islamic and Far Eastern figures, Robinson Crusoe, Le monde renversé and many more

21. [SCR A P A LBUM]. [Scrap album of pictures cut out of prints].[Netherlands?, ca. 1790]. 2º (33 × 20.5 cm). A scrap album containing about 350 pictures clipped out of hand-coloured engraved prints, some with engraved texts in Dutch, French or German, and 5 of birds with real feathers in many colours mounted on the engraving to make the birds’ bodies. Modern sheepskin made from old materials. € 6500

A scrap album compiled ca. 1790 by clipping about 350 pictures out of hand-coloured engraved prints covering a wide variety of subjects and mounting them on the rectos of the album leaves. Each picture (from 1.5 × 2.5 cm to 19 × 29 cm) has been carefully cut out just outside the lines of the image itself, sometimes including thin lines connecting different parts of a scene. Several include engraved texts in Dutch, French or German, which (along with the Dutch paper of the album leaves) suggests a Dutch origin. Several series can be recognised. The prints include a French political cartoon only months before the beginning of the French Revolution, Islamic figures with German captions including one signed by the Nürnberg print publisher Johann Christoph Schmidhammer (ca. 1715?-ca. 1775/85?), a group of Far Eastern figures including one signed by the Augsburg print engraver and publisher Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756), and the other prints seem likely to date from the period ca. 1750–ca. 1790 as well. They include series of costumes, trades, hunting scenes, carriages, musicians, military scenes, ships and boats, village and pastoral scenes, plants, animals, Jewish religious ceremo-nies, and more. Twenty-eight or twenty-nine come from an engraved Robinson Crusoe with French captions.The last leaf with a hole torn in the gutter margin, and a stain (from a plant pressed in the book?) slightly affecting one print, but generally in fine condition. Binding very good. A fascinating collection of pictures from 18th-century coloured prints, many from very rare series.

Finely illustrated manuscript handbook for architects, engineers, etc.

22. SIMMONDS, J. Hints, tables &ca [for mining, military engineering, architecture, etc.].[England], 1840. (16.5 × 12 cm). Manuscript in ink on paper, in English, with numerous architectural and other illustrations in pencil and ink, many with grey and/or pink washes, on 30 pages, numerous manuscript tables. Written and illustrated partly on rectos only and partly on both rectos and versos. Contemporary English dark green gold-tooled calf, gold-tooled board edges, gold fillets on turn-ins, green ribbon marker, gilt edges. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. € 2500

Very neatly written and delicately illustrated manuscript manual of applied mathe-matics for architects, builders, military engineers, surveyors and others, with headings including “mining”, “fractions” (and logarithms), “profils” (discussing the construction of defensive walls), (military) “batteries”, “trigonometry”, “surveying”, “protracting”, “levelling”, “to conduct water”, “extraction of [mathematical] roots”, “theory of walls”, “counterforts” (butresses), “the theory of arches”, “mensuration of vaults and arches”, “theory of timber” (on the loading of beams, etc.), “mechanic powers” (levers, pulleys, screws, etc.), “mensuration” (of surfaces and solids), “Hadley’s quadrant” (actually a reflecting octant of the modern sort, presented by Hadley in 1731), “architecture”, and other topics. Many chapters include specific examples, often presented as problems for the reader to solve.The many delicate and precisely drafted illustrations both illustrate and clarify the theories and problems in presented in the text, often including construction lines and/or measurements.First leaf (with only the author’s name and date) with a waterstain in the lower inside corner, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding neatly re-backed and with corners neatly restored. Delicately and precisely illustrated manuscript handbook of applied mathematics for architecture, military engineering, mining, etc.

Vignola’s classic account of the five orders with “La ij parte” and Crispijn de Passe’s “Officina arcularia“, with a total of 131 plates

23. V IGNOL A, Giacomo Barozzio 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. With 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.With:(2) V IGNOL A, Giacomo Barozzio da. La ij parte dell architetura dell Vignola e’altri famossi architetti | Het tweede deel van de architectura …[Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonius and Jan van Hilten?, ca. 1642]. With engraved title-page and 42 numbered engraved plates. Plates 1–13 with letterpress text printed on the verso describing the facing page.(3) PA SSE , 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. With engraved title-page and 46 engraved plates. 3 complemen-tary works in 1 volume. 2º. Contemporary vellum. € 12 500

Rare multilingual edition of Vignola’s Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura, a classic account of the five orders of architecture, with the continuation (La ij parte) and Crispijn de Passe’s related Officina arcularia. Vignola (1507–1573), Italian painter, architect and theorist, “emerged in the 1550s as the leading architect in Rome after Michelangelo and was in papal service for over three decades. … His Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura (1562), a concise illustrated tract on the five orders, enjoyed immense popular and academic success throughout Europe and was the most influential book on classical architecture until the advent of Modernism” (Turtle).The continuation, La ij parte dell architetura dell Vignola, shows partial elevations, sections and plans of Italian churches, views of altars, fountains, elevations of Dutch houses (some by Pieter Vinckebooms) and elevations of fireplaces and chimney-pieces, partly engraved by Crispijn I and II van de Passe. In some copies these plates are divided into 5 separately numbered series; here the plates were renumbered and rearranged so as to form one series of 42 plates. La ij Parte is followed by De Passe’s Oficina arcularia, showing designs for altars, tombs and monuments, partly already published separately in 1621. BAL believes the first series of these plates, numbered 1–28, to be part of the La ij Parte dell architetura.The three works are often found bound together and it seems that they were published together, but they were also sold separately. The make up differs from copy to copy and the publication history is complicated.Some soiling and browning, gutter margin of title-page slightly damaged, few leaves with marginal waterstain, otherwise in very good condition. Binding soiled, spine and corners damaged, otherwise good and structually sound.

Ad 1: WorldCat (5 copies); not in BAL; Fowler; Millard; STCN; ad 2 & ad3: BAL 3452; Fowler 362; Franken, Van de Passe 1357; ad 3: Hollstein XVI, p. 138, nr 174/II; STCN (5 copies, with only 42 plates); for Vignola: Turtle, “Vignola, Jacopo”, in: Grove Art Online.

Beautiful watercolour drawing of a passion flower

24. V IN NE , Jan Jansz. van der. [Passiflora caerula or blue passion flower].[Lekzigt, near Dordrecht?, ca. 1780?]. 2º. (43 × 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. € 16 500

A beautiful, large watercolour drawing of a blue passion flower (Passiflora caerula, image 42 × 27 cm), by the Haarlem painter Jan Jansz. van der Vinne (1734–1805), showing a vine with two flowers fully opened and another closed, as well as numerous leaves, buds and runners. The passion flower is indigenous to South America, but became a popular ornamental plant in Europe due to its exotic and spectacular appearance. Jan Jansz. van der Vinne no doubt learned to paint from his father Jan van der Vinne (1699–1753), a member of the Haarlem painters’ guild best known for his flower and landscape drawings. Before Jan Jansz.’s botanical drawings came to light he was best known for his landscape drawings and etchings, but it now appears that his flower drawings were his most important work.In fine condition. A beautiful botanical watercolour, showing the spectacular passion flower.

Hans van Leeuwen Collection II: 18th and early 19th century Dutch and Flemish master drawings, Amsterdam, Christie’s, 24 November 1992, lot 430; for the Van der Vinne family: Scheen, p. 551.

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