- Cut just outside the borderline, lower margin up to the caption; a few closed tears and holes; somewhat soiled and agetoned.
= From the series Christ, the twelve apostles and St Paul with the Creed (14 engravings). New Hollstein 82, 1st state of 2.
- Partly waterst. in lower blank margin (not affecting image); title duststoiled and reattached; sl. fingersoiled; a few prints trifle yellowed and foxed; 2 heraldic bookpates on upper pastedown; binding w. minor imperfections.
= New Hollstein 340b and 341-457; cf. Cockle 79 (English ed., 1607); cf. Lipperheide Qb18 (Dutch ed. 1607); Jähns p.1005ff. The famous manual on handling muskets and pikes by Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1629). For the complex history of publication of the various (Dutch, German, English, French and Danish) editions in the years 1607-1608, see catalogue Le héraut du dix-septième siècle. Dessins et gravures de Jacques de Gheyn II et III, no.37 (Paris, Institut Néerlandais, 1985, with literature). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- One print "Sforza" lower right corner torn off, repaired and entirely redrawn; 2x trimmed on the platemark; (partly) trimmed to the borderline.
= New Hollstein 234-237, 1st state of 2.
- Vague horizontal fold; tipped onto mount.
= Bartsch 38; Lewis & Lewis 36, the third state (of 4). From a series of 7 designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau.
- Doubled. Trimmed just inside the borderline.
= Bartsch 42; Lewis & Lewis 42, the 7th and final state. With the collector's stamp of Winfield Robbins of verso (not in Lugt).
- Various defects. = Hollstein 10, 15, 17 and 21.
AND 2 others by the same: after Gerard de LAIRESSE and after Gaspar DUGHET.
- Sl. grey impression. = Hollstein 103, only state; F.M. 4028.
AND 3 etchings by Adriaen van OSTADE, all later impressions and partly w. some defects, i.a. Interior of a barn with a peasant woman at work ('The Barn') (margins laid down on mount).
- Sl. soiled; paper remnants on verso, from former mount.
= Hollstein 317. Part of a rare series apparently representing the 4 Seasons, but which are cartoons on the hostilities between France and the Netherlands, probably during the Nine Year war. In 1688 the French troops crossed the Rhine and devastated much of the Electoral Palatinate (the 'wyn berg' in the rhyme). The Grand Alliance headed by William III of Orange was forged to counter the French expansion, which resulted in the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697. The French text can roughly be translated as: Far from possessing the sweet juice of the grape harvest, I find myself deprived of it by that of the orange. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
= New Hollstein 74, 3rd state of 5.
- Cut just outside the borderline, laid down on mount; foxed. = New Hollstein 273.
- Sm. brown spot in blank area of the print. = New Hollstein 275. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- Cut 1 to 2 mm outside the platemark; a few (very) vague sm. stains; sl. agetoned.
= New Hollstein 262, 2nd state of 2; Strauss 143, the second and final state. Companion piece to "William of Orange". With the collection's marks of the print cabinet of the University of Leyden (Lugt 1665) and its doublure stamp (Lugt 700b).
- Wide margins; a few brown spots; sm. professionially closed hole in orb.
= On laid paper, no watermark visible. New Hollstein 41; Hollstein 34, the 3rd state of 6; Strauss 273. From the series Christ, The Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed.
Idem. St. Bartholomew. Engraving, 15,2x10,5 cm. (platemark), monogrammed, numb. "VI" and "6" in the plate below.
- Trimmed to the platemark; a few brown spots.
= On laid paper with foolscap watermark. New Hollstein 40. From the same series.
Idem. St. Philip. Engraving, 14,7x10 cm. (image incl. caption), monogrammed, numb. "V" and "5" in the plate.
- Trimmed to the borderline; somewhat fingersoiled. = New Hollstein 39. From the same series.
Idem. St. Judas Thaddeus. Engraving, 15,2x10,4 cm. (platemark), monogrammed, "XI" and "12" in the plate.
- Wide margins; grey impression from an unclean/ sl. worn plate; a few brown spots.
= New Hollstein 46.
- Large tear in image (repaired w. tape); tears in margins (touching the image); margins strengthened on verso w. tape; very vaguely waterstained; old creases.
= New Hollstein 11, 2nd state of 2; Strauss 322; Hollstein 12. Between 2nd and 3rd state (of 5) (with the numeral 4, but watermark with "IV" and w. coat of arms with Fleur-de-Lis (not crowned)). The scene is located in the St. Bavo cathedral in Haarlem.
AND 1 other from the same series: The Adoration of the Magi (poor copy, dam. New Hollstein 12, 1st state of 2).
=The lot sold w.a.f., not subject to return.
- Cut on the borderline. = New Hollstein 60, 2nd state of 2.
- Cut just within the outer borderline and tipped onto contemporary paper; trifle foxed, more on verso.
= New Hollstein 215, 4th or 5th state of 5. A vanitas portrait.
= New Hollstein 253, first and only state. Taken from G. STEWECHIUS, Commentarius ad Flavii Vegetii De re militari (Antw., 1585).
- Cut to/ just outside the borderline w. the caption cut off; lower left and upper right corner w. a repair; tiny closed tear/ thin spot in left margin, ±0,5 mm. within the image; overall sl. fingersoiled. Good strong impression.
= Hollstein 255 ; New Hollstein 288. With the doublet stamp of the print cabinet of Leyden University (Lugt 700b) on verso.
- Trimmed on the platemark; a few brown spots in lower part.
= On laid paper with unidentified watermark. New Hollstein 209, 1st state of 2.
- Trimmed 1 or 2 mm within the image; sl. browned.
= New Hollstein 209, 1st state of 2, before the address of Hondius.



























