- Leather over panels sl. worn and dam. along upper edge and at corners.
= 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 C. 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.
- Trifle foxed (mostly in blank margins).
= Delteil, Oeuvres Apocryphes (first print of a series of six etchings). Marius Raffaelli was a younger brother of Jean-Francois Raffaëlli who died at the age of 22.
- Cut to/ just inside the borderline. Sl. grey impression w. old repairs (marginals tears etc.); sl. foxed.
= Bartsch 417. With the collector's stamp of Fred Bianchi (Lugt 3761) on verso.
- All fine, 1x doubled(?).
= Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings, Landscapes and Portraits, of the late David Charles Read of Salisbury (London, 1874): 90, 96, 99, 104 and 125. Two etchings with the collector's stamp of Richard Jung on verso (Lugt 3791).
- Margins for the greater part trimmed in various degrees; a few (sl.) foxed/ soiled.
= I.a. after various Dutch masters, i.a. Rembrandt, van Ostade, Terborch, P. Wouwerman. Catalogue of the collection of the French statesman Etienne-François, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785), a favorite of madame de Pompadour. In 1771 he asked Basan to create a visual catalogue of his art collection. In 1772 De Pompadour died and Du Choiseul fell from grace and he was forced to sell a part of his collection that same year.
AND 4 others similar from other collections.
- Trimmed ±0,5 cm outside the platemark; four tiny pinholes in outer blank margins. Fine copy.
= On thick (18th cent.?) laid paper. New Hollstein 45, 2nd state of 3, before the re-biting by the Basan workshop, but with the horizontal scratch between figures, common in the later impressions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Modern impression on laid paper w. margins trimmed outside the platemark (±0,5 cm.). Two tiny holes in centre of image.
= New Hollstein 281, only state; White/ Boon 64, only state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Trimmed on or just outside the platemark; edges partly strengthened on verso w. Japanese paper, prob. taken from an earlier mount; sl. grey impression. Good copy
= With an unidentified collector's mark on verso "E" (or K or H) (blue stamp). New Hollstein 233, 5th state (of 8). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Yellowed/ browned and scattered thin spots. = New Hollstein 185, 3rd state of 4.
- On thin late 18th cent. laid paper w. a few weak spots and offsetting in blank margins.
= Hollstein 238, copy a.
- 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.
- Numerous restored tears around the edges, all affecting the image; cut on/ just inside the border line; yellowed. Not subject to return.
= New Hollstein 206, the 2nd state (of 2); White/ Boon 72, the 2nd state (of 2). Later impression possibly by Pierre-François BASAN.
AND an early 20th cent. facs. reprint after the same: Christ preaching ('La petite tombe') (Cf. New Hollstein 298).
- Trimmed to the borderline and laid down on mount; sl. foxed and stained; sl. browned along edges.
= Bartsch 53.
- Trifle browned; w. a few sm. brownish stains. = Delteil 12, only state.
AND 1 other engraving by Alphonse LEGROS.
- Sl. foxed. Spine partly split.
= Cf. Rümann, Das ill. Buch des 19. Jhdt 252: "Rethel hat mit diesen 6 Blättern das Grösste geschaffen, was die Kunst neben Daumiers Rue Transnonain dem Geist einer Revolution verdanken kann". Schultz-Jacobi 189. Published against the revolutionary movement in Germany in the year 1848.
- Trifle foxed (mainly) in blank margins.
- Leaf browned. = From the first edition of The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.
AND 3 others similar by the same, similar defects.
- Fine. = Hollstein 1, the 3rd and final state. On laid paper with "DG" watermark.