- Greyish impression on 18th cent.(?) paper.
= New Hollstein 46, 7th state (of 7).
- Grey, sl. weak impression; sl. browned along edges. = New Hollstein 47, 3rd state (possibly 2nd?) (of 5).
- Browned/ foxed; tipped onto mount; closed tear (?) in lower left corner. Sold w.a.f.
= New Hollstein 21, 8th and final state. On laid paper.
- Cut on the borderline.
= New Hollstein 21, 8th and final state. On laid paper with bunch of grapes watermark.
AND 2 others: a copy in reverse of the same composition above (New Hollstein copies, copy G, without the address of Gerard Valk) and a print drawing by Ploos van Amstel after the artist.
= Etchings prob. from the series of Six landscapes with animals and figures (Wurzbach 2).
- All taken from the second edition (Arnhem, 1607).
- Doubled; washed; trimmed ±2 mm. outside the border line.
= Hollstein 6, only state. Fine print by the daughter of Crispijn de Passe the Old (I), showing Latona changing the farmers into frogs.
- Cut just outside the platemark; sm. printing flaw in the face of Abraham.
= From the series of five Die Geschichte des Abraham; Hollstein 2.
- Thread margins; right margin strengthened on verso.
= Partly after Michelangelo. Hollstein 18, only state. With the (cancellation) stamps of Kupferstichkabinett Berlin on verso.
- Thread margins (2nd print 2 margins cut just inside the borderline); both prints margins strengthened on verso.
= Hollstein 2 and 5, both only state. Nagler XII, p.207ff: "Pencz ist (...) als Kupferstecher ausgezeichnet. In seinen Blätter ist ebenfalls eine Vereinigung des italienischen Stils mit dem deutschen sichtbar, und dabei sind sie von einer Kraft und Eleganz des Stiches, von einer Korrektheit der Zeichnung, wie Dürer sie nicht erreichte. Im Vortrag hat er selbst seinen Meister Marc Anton übertroffen, welchem er auch noch darin vorgeht, dass er selbst ein erfindungsreicher, begeisterter Künstler gewesen ist.". With the collector's stamp of K.F.F. von Nagler (Lugt 2529) (1x) and both with (cancellation) stamps of Kupferstichkabinett Berlin on verso.
- Upper margin cut just outside/ on the borderline. = LeBlanc 85. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
= Probably part of the same series, untraced in Le Blanc.
AND 3 others similar by the same or Adam PERELLE, showing travellers in a landscape (2x w. "Ce vend a Paris chez N. Poilly rue St. Jacques a la belle image" engr. below).
- Trimmed within the platemark; left margin dam. in lower right corner (just outside the image).
Idem. (Two men in conversation on a road along a river with houses and a stone bridge on the right). Etching, 24,5x32 cm. (platemark), w. the address of Pierre Mariette, signed "Perelle invent et fecit" and numb. "6" in the plate.
- Sl. foxed in wide margins; flattened vertical central fold.
Idem. (The Holy family on the Flight to Egypt in an Italianate river landscape). Etching and engraving, 24,4x32 cm. (platemark), w. the address of Le Blond, signed "Perelle in. et fc" in the plate.
- Duststained in margins; trimmed well outside the platemark.
AND 15 others by the same, i.a. The Entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem and 5 circular landscapes (incl. a circular landscape representing Winter (part of a series of the Four Seasons)).
- Three prints dam. (tears into image); otherwise fine but occas. w. small tears/ waterstains sytrictin blank margin(s).
= Le Blanc lists several print series by two members of the Perelle family that may be the reference for these prints: see Le Blanc (Gabriel Perelle) 20-25 and (Nicolas) 153. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- First 13 leaves w. receding small waterstain in upper inner blank margin (not touching the etchings). Fine copy.
= Orn.-Kat. Bln. 4202. A sl. later impression of the first edition, with a mix of the 3rd and 5th state of the frontispiece listed by Robert Dumesnil in his Peintre-graveur vol. VI, p.177. Bolten, Dutch and Flemish drawingbooks, note 307: "The editio princeps of Perrier's famous work is quite rare. Only a few copies have survived in the Netherlands. In the library of the Victoria & Albert Museum (...) an edition with frontispiece, dedicated to Roger Duplessis, with 100 plates and an index and published in Rome in 1638". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
BOUND WITH: Carstens, A.J. Les Argonautes, selon Pindare, Orphée et Apollonius de Rhodes. Rome, n.publ., 1799, 4 textp., engr. title-p. and 24 plates by J. KOCH after A.J. CARSTENS.
- Fine copy.
- All tipped onto mount; sl. foxed. = Nissen ZBI, 3149
= From A. MOUBACH, Naaukeurige beschryving der uitwendige godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt (The Hague, 1727).
AND 14 other large bible prints, partly after the same and C. HOET.
- Six plates (sl.) frayed; occas. sl. yellowed. Wrappers worn/ dam./ splitting on spine.
= According to the subscription conditions printed on verso of the backwr. of year 1, subscribers would receive a minimum of 48 plates per year in 12 monthly issues per year of 4 plates. A rare artist's manual.
AND a similar issue of a French drawing manual: Petit cours de Dessin. Études de Têtes. 2me Cahier (Paris, ±1840, 4 lithogr. by H.J. GOBLET after M. LEMIRE ainé, orig. (sl. soiled) wr. Plates sl. yellowed).
= Borders incl. scenes from the bible book of the Apocalypse.