- Browned; not examined outside frame.
= Showing parts or present day Uskudar and Istanbul. From C. DE BRUYN, Voyage au Levant (...) (1698 or 1700).
- Some vague browned/ waterst. stains; trifle frayed.
ADDED: an 18th cent. engr. view on Agra by J. VAN SCHLEY.
- A few sm. stains in caption; one tiny hole in left blank margin. = Sixt v. Kapff K177.
AND 1 other: "Gezicht van de Oude Waalen-Kerk, tot Amsterdam".
- Sl. dustsoiled in margins; vague vertical fold in centre; lower left corner/ lower margin (sl.) creased.
= Fine skating-view. Sixt-Von Kapff K-188. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Captions cut off and mounted on verso mount.
= "De Hel", "Het Bosch", "De Italiaansche Straat", "De Klooster Kerk", "Zonnehof", "De Behangen Kamer" and "De Berg van Parnas". Nice views of seven of the standard stage designs of the Amsterdam City Theatre. These views are part of a series of 14 views made on occasion of the centenary of the building, which was built in 1638 on the Keizersgracht after a design by Jacob van Campen and which would burn down in 1772.
"Afbeelding van de Schouwplaats, gedurende den Brand van den Schouwburg te Amsterdam; den 11 den May, 1772." Contemp. handcol. engr. view in optica style by C. BOGERTS after P. BARBIERS, Amst., T. Crajenschot, 1772.
- Waterst. in right blank and lower blank margin. = F.M. 4252.
- Margins soiled (stained) and sl. creased; lower margin cut to the platemark; mounted on contemp. stiff paper w. 18th cent. Dutch manuscript caption on verso.
AND 3 others from the same series of Augsburg fountains by Leizelt, all in similar condition (some margins frayed): "Prospect des Herkules Brunnen in Augsburg (...)", "Prospect des Kayser Augustus Brunnen (...)" and "Prospect des Hans Felbers Brunnen in Augsburg (...)" (brown stain in lower right corner, just touching the image).
= Sixt v. Kapff K330.
ADDED: 2 others, both sl. mediocre copies, i.a. "Vuë de la Place de St. Jean de Lateran (...)".
- Soiled margins (but image mostly fine); edges sl. frayed; lower margin cut to the platemark; laid down on stiff contemp. paper.
= Complete series. Sixt von Kapff K321-324.
- Margins soiled; lower margin cut to the platemark; upper edge sl. frayed; mounted on contemp. stiff paper w. 18th cent. Dutch manuscript caption on verso.
AND 3 others from the same series of Bremen, all in similar condition: "Prospect in Bremen beij der Allee von der Alt- und Neustadt die Weser hinunter", "Prospect in Bremen beij der grossen Brücke die Wesser hinauf", "Prospect beij der Allée von der Alt- und Neustadt die Weser hinauf".
- Margins (sl.) frayed; soiled and browned in margins; mounted on contemp. stiff paper and w. 18th century Dutch manuscript caption on verso.
- Margins cut short.
= Perforated and backed w. handcol. paper for candlelight viewing. Sixt v. Kapff K419.
AND 2 others, both perforated for candlelight viewing, i.a. "Vue perspective du superbe Palais d'Alexandre en Egipte".
- Trifle foxed; some rubbed spots in left margin.
ADDED 2 others: "Vuë du Vieux Caire, et d'une Pyramide a perte de vuë" (engr. view from F.L. NORDEN, Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie (1755)) and "Z.M. Stoomschip Borneo, kruisende op de rivier Sambas (...)" (tinted lithograph, ±1850).
- One tiny tear in upper margin; left (blank) margin sl. dampstained. = Fine and rare view.
- Finger- and dustsoiled in margins; laid down on stiff contemp. paper w. Dutch manuscript caption on verso.
AND 3 others from the same series of Dresden: "Prospect von Dresden nach der Seite des Zwingers" (by G.F. RIEDEL), "Ansicht von Dresden nebst der Elbe Brucke gegen Mitternacht" (by the same) and "Prospect des Churfürstlichen Pallais im grossen Garten zu Dresden" (by NABHOLZ after ROLLWAGEN).
- All in similar condition.
- Outer margins frayed (2x touching the image); yellow/ brown offsetting in margins.
- (Dust/ finger) soiled in margins; upper margin heavily frayed, just within the platemark.
= Lively winter scene with horsedrawn sledges.
AND 3 others similar of Göttingen by the same publisher and artist: "Der Medicinische Universitaets Garten zu Goettingen", "Prospect von der Pauliner Strasse u. Universitaets Kirche zu Göttinge" and "Prospect der Allee in Göttingen nebst der Schencke, die Stadt London genannt".
- All mounted on contemp. stiff paper and w. 18th century Dutch manuscript caption on verso; all w. similar defects as the first print.
- Blank margins sl. unevenly trimmed. = Sixt v. Kapff K379.
ADDED: 1 other publ. by the same, "Gezigt van den Doelen" (Dordrecht) (Sixt v. Kapff K205).
- All prints margins dust- and fingersoiled; all edges sl. creased and frayed; all laid down on contemp. stiff paper w. Dutch manuscript caption on verso; lower margins (and partly upper margins) cut to the plate mark.
= Rare complete series.
- Finger- and dustsoiled margins (sm. waterstain in lower margin), image fine; lower margin cut to the platemark; laid down on contemp. stiff paper w. Dutch manuscript caption on verso.
AND 2 others from the same series, with similar defects: "Lust-Hoff und Prospect des Meeres zu Livorno" and "Lust-Hauss zu Livorno gegen das Meer gelegen, wo man die Schiffe und Galeeren von weitem her schon ankommen Sehen kan".