- Sl. duststained in upper left corner; sm. restored spot in lower left corner; remnants of tape in corners on verso.
= Hollstein 16, the only state.
= Hollstein 42.
Wagner, Joseph (1706-1780). (Two ltalian village scenes). Two etchings after Franz de PAULA FERG, 27x31,8 and 25,7x31 cm., both w. the Venice address of the artist "Ex calcographia I. Wagner Ven.a.".
- Both sl. dustsoiled.
AND 1 other by the same after David TENIERS.
- Good impressions on laid paper with small margins. = Hollstein 73ff.
= Hollstein 504. From the series Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti (...)
AND 28 other sm. etchings and engravings, from various works, i.a. by Matthäus MERIAN (i.a. from T. TASSO, Gottfried oder erlösetes Jerusalem, 1651), Th. MATHAM, P. SERWOUTERS and Jan LUIKEN.
- Fine impressions with ample margins. = Hollstein 921ff, all first states (lacks 922, 923, 935, 939, 941 and 945).
- The last engraving trimmed just outside the upper border line; otherwise good margins; occas. some very vague foxing; nevertheless a fine set.
= Hollstein (De Vos) 166-171, the 2nd state (of 2) with the address of C.J. Visscher. Very rare. All with unidentified collector's mark "CvS" on verso (not in Lugt). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Old bookplate of "M. Gherardo Molza" on upper pastdown; 20th cent. bookplate and modern dedication in pen on upper pastedown; modern owner's stamp on title-p. ("Jan van der Meulen (...) Cleveland Ohio 44113"); "X" in pen and ink in upper blank left corner of title-p.; blank margins occas. sl. foxed (a few also sl. thumbsoiled); hinges weak. Covers rubbed/ worn and wormholed. Otherwise fine.
= Hollstein 51-71, 3rd state (of 3) with the plates numb. "1" to "20:"; Kat. Orn. Berlin 2216. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Small architectural perspective views. Series of 28 etchings, each 14,4x21 cm., (Antw., Th. Galle, ±1601).
- Without the dedication leaf (= H.72). = Hollstein 73-100, 3rd state (of 4), with plates numbered "21" to "49".
AND WITH: Idem. "Pictores, Satuarii, Architecti, Latomi, et Quicunque Principum Magnificorumque Virorum memoriae aeternae inservitis, adeste: (...) varias Coenotaphiorum, tumulorum & mortuorum monumentorum formas typis elegantissimis in aere exaratas (...)." Series of 27 engravings, all 16,7x20,9 cm., n.pl., H. Cock, 1563.
- All prints trimmed to/ just outside border line and all prints laid down; all prints sl. foxed/ sl. yellowed.
= Hollstein, Coenotaphiorum no.137-163.
AND WITH: Idem. Small wells. Series of 24 engravings, all 14x19,9 cm., n.pl., Ph. Galle, n.d. (±1574).
- All prints trimmed to/ just outside border line and all prints laid down; all prints sl. foxed/ sl. yellowed.
= Hollstein, no. 384-407, 1st state (of 2).
- First print w. a few very light foxed spots, otherwise fine. Second print browned and w. sm. paper flaw.
= Hollstein 22, 3rd state (of 3) (Basan ed.) and 30, 2nd state (of 2) (Basan ed.).
AND 4 others, i.a. an etching by Abraham BLOOTELING after Jacob VAN RUISDAEL (Hollstein 108).
- Ample margins. = Hollstein 3-6, 3rd state (of 4).
- Tear in lower blank margin. = Laanstra E50-2; Kramm 15.
AND 11 lithographs by Frederik Hendrik WEISSENBRUCH, after i.a. Jacob MARIS, Anton MAUVE and Charles ROUSSEAU.
- Vague brownish stain in lower half; yellowed; laid down w. a large number of flattened creases.
= "The United States of America (...) have authorized the World's Columbian Commission at the International Exhibition held in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, in the year 1893, to degree a medal for specific merit which is set forth below over the name of an international judge acting as an examiner, upon the finding of a board of international judges, to J.H. Weissenbruch, Holland. the Hague. Exhibit: water colors (...)".
= Kennedy 114.
- All plates (sl.) foxed in margins; occas. w. stains in margins; a few plates browned; all ample margins.
= Belg. Typogr. 6376: "Cette magnifique suite de gravures"; cf. Adams N-56. The greater part of the plates after Bernardo Passaro (9 after M. de Vos and 1 after J. Wierix), all but a few engraved by the three brothers Jean, Jérôme and Antoine Wierix (132 plates); Hollstein, Wierix Book illustrations 65; Cat. Berès, Pays-Bas anciens, no.176: "Cette suite est l'une des plus belles séries de gravures du seizième siècle Flamand et l'une des grandes oeuvres de l'art graphique". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
= Part of a double portrait with his wife Isabella. Rare. Hollstein 2041; Macquoy-Hendrickx 1760.
Noorde, Cornelis van (1731-1795). (Portrait of Jan Christiaansz van der Winde, centenarian from Haarlem). Etching, 24,5x17,7 cm. (platemark), 1764.
- Somewhat foxed.
AND 7 other portraits of centenarians, i.a. 3 others by Cornelis van NOORDE.
- Sl. foxed/ yellowed; some wrinkles.
= Hollstein, De Vos 158-161; Mauquoy-Hendrickx I,38-41. The 2nd-5th state (of 2-5). With the extra plate "The people of Niniveh repenting after hearing the prophecy of Jonah": "In fact the fourth print of a series first published by Philips Galle. In its second state added by Claes Jansz. Visscher as no.4 to the Jonah-set of the Wierix brothers." (Hollstein 160).
= Hollstein 267 and Mauquoy- Hendricks 2046, 1st state of 3. From the series Evangelicae historiae imagines. Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia quae in sacrosancto missae sacrificio tot anno leguntur (Antw., 1593).
AND 24 others from the same series, by the WIERIX brothers and the COLLAERT brothers (2x).
= On the whole series: the greater part of the plates after Bernardo Passaro (9 after M. de Vos and 1 after J. Wierix), all but a few engraved by the three brothers Jean, Jérôme and Antoine Wierix (132 plates); Hollstein, Wierix Book illustrations 65; Cat. Berès, Pays-Bas anciens, no.176: "Cette suite est l'une des plus belles séries de gravures du seizième siècle Flamand et l'une des grandes oeuvres de l'art graphique".
AND 7 others by M. NATALIS, all from the series Abrégé histoire de la vie et passion de notre suveur Jesus Christ (Paris, 1663), all copied after the series above.
- Remargined; sl. fingersoiled at lower edge.
AND 1 other: "Les differentes Nations de l'Asie" (engraving after Charles LE BRUN, engr. caption below).
- Sl. foxed/ (dust)soiled; repaired tear in lower blank margin; mounted under passepartout w. sellotape.
= Reichelt 160; cat. Mensch und Tod 1143; "Ihr müßt alle nach meiner Pfeife tanzen" p. 23; cf. Oppermann 1125b. Warthin p.38: "Among the most interesting of the incunabula woodcuts, in which this death motive is introduced, is one in the "Weltchronik" of Dr. Schedel, Nürnberg, 1493. The picture, most probably the work of Wohlgemut, shows five deaths celebrating the feast of Resurrection. One blows the flute, the others dance a solemn cancan. The deaths show different stages of dissolution; two are almost completely skeletonized. An interesting tale is told of the artist's difficulty in drawing skeletons. He wished to borrow a skeleton from Schedel to serve as a model. Schedel, however, possessed only a thigh bone; from this the artist developed the whole of the extremities. This woodcut is an amusing and sophisticated caricature of the Totentanz motive, perhaps as a comeback to the special satire against the physician of the Dance of Death." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Sl. foxed, yellowed and (water)stained (one print considerably worse).
= Mostly scenes with horses (hunting parties, military men etc.).