- Plates sl. foxed; textp. worse. Hinges weak. Covers partly waterst. and worn along extremities; spine partly dam.
= Wittrock,18-28; Adriani, 16-26. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION by Henri Gabriel IBELS on first blank. The plates by Lautrec depict the following artists and persons: 1. Jane Avril; 2. Yvette Guilbert; 3. Paula Brébion; 4. Mary Hamilton; 5. Edmée Lescot; 6. Madame Abdala; 7. Aristide Bruant; 8. Caudieux; Petit Casino; 9. Ducarre aux Ambassadeurs; 10. Une Spectatrice; 11. Comique Excentrique Anglais.
- Second print w. tear in lower margin (affecting captions) and oblique fold.
= Niemeijer 699T. With a duplicate of the first print.
AND 1 other.
= Cf. Niemeijer 653-656. Forms a humorous visual story in which we see how a pleasant evening of a group of respectable gentlemen starts off very nicely and gets completely out of hand because of excessive drinking. The name of the series, NELRI, is a combination of the initials of the five Latin titles. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Very fine condition.
= The text below the prints consists of the 7 lines of "Our Father Who art in Heaven" (one line to each print) and of the parallel response of the traditional Swiss Alpine farmer to the consequences of the French Revolution in Unterwalden which ruins him.
= Hollstein 43, 2nd state of 2. From the series of 3 etchings The theft of Apollo's cattle (Metamorphoses by Ovid).
AND 5 others, i.a. by Stefano DELLA BELLA and Egidius SADELER.
- Trimmed to the image on three sides. = Hollstein 83.
- Trifle foxed; vague ms. correction of the numb. 12 in pen and ink. = Hollstein 227, 2nd (?) state (of 6).
Genoels, Abraham (1640-1723). The tree trunk near the waterfall. Etching, 19,7x15 cm. (platemark), signed "J Genoels".
- Brown spot in lower section.
= Hollstein 21. With an unidentified circular collector's mark with monogram "G+W D" (not in Lugt).
Idem. (Terrace garden view with flight of stairs). Etching, ±14x20 cm., signed in the plate, w. the address of A.F. Van Meulen.
- Sl. foxed. = Hollstein 47. From the series of 6 garden views.
AND 3 others: an arcadian landscape by Franciscus de NEVE (w. brown stains. Hollstein 6) and two bookills. by Adriaen van der VENNE.
- Trifle browned/ foxed. = Hollstein 281, 2nd state (of 3).
- Old flattened midde-fold. Fine impression with ample margins. = Hollstein 193, the second state of 2.
AND an etching by Pieter van OS (right margin cut short).
- Dark impression with ample margins on paper with foolscap with 7-pointed collar watermark; large portion of upper left margin torn off and sl. irregularly re-attached (affecting a very sm. portion of the upper left corner, just inside the borderline); sm. manuscript number in upper right blank margin; some creases; sky sl. stained in upper right corner.
= Hollstein 352, 3rd state (of 3); cat. Harlemia Illustrata 105.
- Later impression (19th cent.?). Fine, dark impression w. narrow magins. = Hollstein 10, only state.
Idem. Bull standing in water. Etching from the series of 10 Different animals, 1657, 10,8x13 cm., "A.V.Velde. f." in upper left corner.
- Later impression (19th cent.?). Fine, dark impression w. wide magins (±1 cm.). = Hollstein 6, only state.
- Sl. fingersoiled in margins; good dark impression, with ample margins on thick 18th century laid paper.
= Bartsch 423.
- Without the title-print; sl. yellowed and foxed.
= Rare series of Paris street vendors. Lipperheide Fd18; Colas 2986; Hiler p.874; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 121: "This celebrated series, prized by the sociologist as well as the historian of costume, has become almost unfindable complete because of an unsatiable demand from hotelkeepers seeking wall decorations". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Trimmed on/ just outside the borderline; chip in right margin; horizontal fold; a few spots.
= Part of the large print series Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, started by Antonio Lafreri and Salamanca. On 16th century laid paper with a watermark showing a fleur-de-lis within a circle topped by the letter M (cf. Briquet 7121 (Ferrara 1587)).
- Blank lvs. and backwr. w. 2 circular dents; otherwise contents fine. Wrappers worn along extremities.
= Extremely rare. Cf. Hollstein XXXVII, p.78, describing a similar album composed by Van der Vinne (1707) and p.80-222 listing the woodcuts in the album, also incl. woodcuts from the present album. See also C.H. Schuckman, "Gebruiksgrafiek bewaard: handelsmerken door Izaak Vincentsz van der Vinne", Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, nieuwe reeks nr.16 (1990), p.155-176. The marks are numbered by hand and have mottoes in a variety of European languages. The images show a large variety, with i.a. black people, Homer, a dancer, Atlas, a skater, town-views, ships, Jean Bart and a violin-player. The collection offers a fascinating view of the branche of Haarlem thread-merchants by the end of the 17th and the early 18th century. The variety of languages also gives an indication of the breadth of the trade. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Slightly foxed (mainly) in blank margins.
= Attractive print, with a fine profile of Haarlem in the background. The date tree symbolizes virtue. Hollstein 116, 2nd state (of 2). Rare. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Yellowed; partly trimmed to the platemark. = Hollstein 53, 5th state (of 5).
Canot, Pierre-Charles (1710-1777). "Les Plaisirs de l'Hiver". Engraving after Jean PILLEMENT, 43x50 cm., engr. caption below, London, "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament December 26th, 1759".
- Margins doubled/ restored; waterst. in caption.
- Cut on the platemark; trifle soiled.
= Hollstein 50, 4th state of 6. "The advice by [the engraver F.] Basan to young engravers, to copy the style of Cornelis Visscher, was widely followed, the rat-catcher favoured by many later engravers as the model for Visscher's oeuvre." (Hollstein). With the manuscript collector's mark of Jean Martin Frederic Geissler ("graveur en paysages a Paris"), dated 1810 (Lugt 1072) and an unidentified manuscript (collector's?) mark "Fo. B.No.".
- Cut on the platemark; a few vague creases in the corners.
= Hollstein 119, first state of 2. With the manuscript collector's mark of P. Mariette (dated 1668) (Lugt 1789) on verso.
AND 9 others after Nicolaas BERCHEM, mostly by Johannes DE VISSCHER, i.a. Herdsman caressing a girl (Hollstein 99, 1st state of 3); A Shepherdess at a spring (Hollstein 58, 4th state of 4);