= I.a. a large number by J. Houbraken.
- Laid down on paper along upper margin; trifle creased/ thumbed.
= Cf. Hollstein 7, this one in reverse w. a resting cow added to the left.
AND 4 others similar showing animals, i.a. by Marcus DE BEY.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Leather clasp broken; panels (sl.) scratched.
= Large print stand, with the possibility of displaying large prints when the frontpanel is folded 90 degrees.
= From i.a. A. VAN ST. CLARA, Iets voor Allen, Zynde een Verhandeling en Verbeelding Van allerhande Standen, Studien, Konsten, Wetenschappen, Handwerken enz. (...) (Amst., 1740); J. and K. LUIKEN, Spiegel van het menselyk Bedryf (Amst., 1749); J.P. VOIT, Faßliche Beschreibung der gemeinnützlichsten Künste und Handwerke (Nuremb., 1790) and The Book of English trades, and library of the useful arts (London, ±1825).
AND ±20 mostly handcol. steelengravings, various sizes, 19th cent., by i.a. A.H. PAYNE and W. FRENCH, mostly under passepartout.
- Cut on the platemark.
= Andresen 101. According to Andresen the final word of the caption reads "(...) plures Edocuit". But not in our copy. So perhaps a different state.
- Trimmed ±4 mm outside the platemark. = New Hollstein 189, 8th state, (of 9).
- Trimmed to/ just inside the plate mark; thin spot from former tipping-in in both lower corners. Tipped onto mount at upper corners. Otherwise fine.
= Provenance: Robelot (red collector's mark stamped on verso, Lugt 2141 (first quarter of the 19th cent.)). New Hollstein 139, 2nd state (of 4), the false biting reworked w. fine hatching, but before rework by the H.L. Basan workshop. No discernible watermark. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Trimmed to 1-2 mm outside platemark (lower and right margin) and to/ just inside the platemark of upper and left margin.extended (japanese paper) margins. Fine impression with some burr.
= Provenance: "Door Johan Huizinga gekocht via Jan Veth" (modern annot. on board formerly covering the back of frame). New Hollstein 280, 3rd state (of 5). On the watermark see Hinterding, Arms of Amsterdam G-b-a. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Trimmed just outside the platemark.
= Printed on thick laid paper, no watermark. New Hollstein 216, 7th state of 9. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Cut ±5 mm. outside the platemark; yellowed; w. modern ballpoint in lower margin, i.a. "col. Weynbert".
= New Hollstein 270, 7th state of 7. Completey reworked by the Basan workshop(?), the scholar/ alchemist is now a young man. On laid paper with crowned coat of arms with fleur-de-lis.
- Soiled and stained in lower blank margin; unevenly browned and w. duststains.
= New Hollstein 185, 4th state of 4: "Complete(ly) reworked in aquatint. Not by Rembrandt (18th century)". On 18th century laid paper.
AND 5 others, all after Rembrandt.
- Sl. soiled in margins and w. a few sm. defects: left corners repaired.
= New Hollstein 306, copy a, 1st state of 2. With the manuscript collector's mark of William Esdaile (Lugt 2617) on recto and verso. With the auvergne watermark.
- Trifle foxed and sl. fingersoiled; wide margins.
= New Hollstein 308, copy. Copy in reverse. Perhaps by Hertel himself.
- Fine. = Posthumous edition. Delteil 4, first and only state.
= Delteil 8, the second state (of 2). Probably a posthumous impression.
= Delteil 40.
= Comprises i.a. snakes, frogs, lizards, turtles and chameleons. Nissen, ZBI 4617.