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Fountains of Rome; Fontana e castello dell'Acqua
by Falda, Giovanni Battista
Rome: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, 1625. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (222 x 286 mm), full margins. In good condition with some light yellow discoloration in the margins and on the verso, the image area remains clean and bright. The inscription in the lower margin reads Paulus Quintus Pont. Maxim ... anno DNI MDCXII Pontif.s sui Septimo' and in the margin 'Fontana e castello dell'acqua Paola a S.Pietro Montorio sul Gianicolo, condotta da Paolo V, vicino a Bracciano,...
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£526.04
Two men standing ankle-deep in a body of water with a rocky outcrop behind them, to the left a rocky bank, trees and a hilltop beyond
by Dujardin, Karel
Amsterdam, 1658. Etching on light, fibrous, laid Japon paper, 5 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (132 x 158 mm), full margins. Scattered moderate foxing throughout, very minor printing creases (innate), and one small vertical adhesive-tape shaped stain along the extreme center-right sheet edge, well outside of image area. The lower left sheet corner is dog-eared with a very small associated loss, well outside of the platemark. All condition issues are consistent with age. [Hollstein VI.32.10.2]. An impression of...
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£404.65
Pontus Euxinus
by JANSSON, J
Amsterdam: Jansson, J.. unbound. Map. Hand colored engraving. Image measures 14.1/2" x 18 3/4".<br/><br/> This impressive map of the Black Sea and the Crimean Peninsula with its surrounding regions dates to circa 1650. Covers parts of the Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Romania and Turkey. The map displayed detailed geographical and topographical features with mountains and forests beautifully rendered. Ships can be seen sailing in the Black Sea. A beautiful title cartouche adorns the...
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£606.98
THE GREAT CIVIL WAR IN MIDLAND PARISHES : THE PEOPLE PAY
by Guttery, D. R
Cornish Brothers Limited. Good with no dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. Hardback without dustjacket; foxing to edge of pages, otherwise good in faded, marked and scuffed boards. ; The course of the English Civil War and effects on the inhabitants. Illustrations & maps. ; 136 pages .
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£10.00
Voyage En Divers Etats D'europe et d'Asie, Entrespris Pour Decouvrir Un Nouveau Chemin a La Chine
by [Avril (Pere Philippe)]
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1692. Hardback, later mottled calf, gilt title to spine label. 24.5cm x 19cm. Engraved portrait of Stanislaus Jablonowski by Picart, one folding map, 3 engraved plates, engraved headpieces, all by Vallet, historiated initials. 1st edition 1692. Binding is slightly rubbed and worn, with a few very small worm holes, not going all the way through. Some dampstaining to front free end-paper and to inner lower margin of last few pages of the Table at rear, but otherwise contents is...
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£1,200.00
![The Third Volume of the Weekly Pacquets of Advice from Rome: or, History of Popery [with] The History of Popery; or Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome : The Fourth Volume [with] The History of Popery; or Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome The Fifth Volume](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/944/627/1519627944.0.b.jpg)
The Third Volume of the Weekly Pacquets of Advice from Rome: or, History of Popery [with] The History of Popery; or Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome : The Fourth Volume [with] The History of Popery; or Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome The Fifth Volume
by Care, Henry
London: Printed for, and are to be sold by Langley Curtis, 1682. Hardback, original calf. 20 x 15cm. Single volume contains various issues from the Third, Fourth and Fifth volumes of the Weekly Pacquet bound together. Volume 3: [8], 337-640pp, [8]. Numbers 43 to 80. Volume 4: [10], 280pp. Numbers 1 to 35. Volume 4: no title or prelims. 40pp. Numbers 1 to 5. Boards worn and rubbed. Spine relaid with new labels. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.
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£500.00
The Spectacle Seller
by Ostade, Adriaen van
1646. Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 4 x 3 3/8 inches (102 x 86 mm), 1/4 inch margins. Signed in the plate, lower left corner. The 3rd state (of 6), after the rounding of the plate corners and the reworked borderline, but before the addition of the fine vertical lines of shading on the bright side of the pedlar's basket (4th state). In good condition with light toning on the verso. [Bartsch 29; Godefroy 29.III; Hollstein 29].
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£1,618.60
Judith Grasping The Head Of Holofernes By The Hair And Looking To The Left, and Old Woman to the Right
by Sirani, Giovanni Andrea (after Guido Reni)
1640. Etching on cream laid paper with a foolscap watermark, 10 x 7 inches (254 x 177 mm), thin margins. In good condition with some light discoloration around the margins, mostly in the area of the margins on the verso. Light handling creases, minor skinning in the lower left corner on the verso. All condition issues are consistent with age. Potentially an early impression before the addition of extra horizontal lines in the area of drapery. [Bartsch XVIII.314.1]. An impression of this work may be...
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£1,618.60
Turquie Septentrionale en Europe
by MANESSON-MALLET, Allain
Paris: Denys Thierry, 1682. unbound. Miniature map. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 5 3/4" x 4". Sheet measures 6 1/4" x 5 3/8". Paris: Denys Thierry, (1682).<br/> <br/> This lovely miniature map of the Balkans is from the original French edition of Manesson-Mallet's "Description de L'Univers." The map depicts the region between the Adriatic and the Black Sea, with the Danube River transecting the map. Poland, Hungary,...
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£109.26
Topographia Enchusae
by BLAEU, Johannes
Amsterdam. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.5" x 20".<br/> <br/> Exquisite town plan of Enkhuizen, circa 1649, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view. Beautifully detailed, with delicately rendered ships in the various waterways around the city. Includes two coats of arms. Dutch text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Tooneel der Steden van der Vereenighde...
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£687.90
An Exact Collection of All Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proclamations, Petitions, Messages, Answers and other Remarkable Passages betweene the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and his High Court of Parliament...
by Anon
London: Edward Husbands, T. Warren, R. Best, 1643. Hardback, later half-calf with marbled paper covered boards. 19.5 x 14.5cm. [x], 955pp, [20]. With engraved frontispiece. Frontis and title frayed to edges with small losses. Previous owner's details erased from verso of title and trimmed from upper margin of a3. Pages 59/60 and p. 955 replaced with photocopy facsimiles. Some foxing and browning to paper throughout. End-papers replaced, firm binding. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.
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£420.00
![Memoires de Jaques Melvil ... Principalement par raport à L'Angleterre & à l'Ecosse, sous le régne de la reine Elizabeth, de Marie Stuard, et de Jaques I [avec] Le caractere de la reine Elizabet...ses vertus, ses défauts, & sa politique,...](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/225/587/1466587225.0.b.jpg)
Memoires de Jaques Melvil ... Principalement par raport à L'Angleterre & à l'Ecosse, sous le régne de la reine Elizabeth, de Marie Stuard, et de Jaques I [avec] Le caractere de la reine Elizabet...ses vertus, ses défauts, & sa politique,...
by Melville, James Sir ;Bohun, Edmund
La Haye : A. Moetjens et Chez Jean Alberts, 1694. Hardback, full vellum. 15.5cm x 10cm. Two works bound together. Memoires de Jaques Melvil: [60], 624pp, [40]. Le caractere de la reine Elizabet: 428pp. Portraits of Mary and Elizabeth bound into the front of the book. Woodcut decorations. Vellum a little wrom and discoloured. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A few contemporary annotations but generally clean. First French editions of two works first published in English a year earlier....
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£200.00
The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt: Old Master Prints from the Art Gallery of South Australia. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
by Robinson, Julie
Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of South Australia. 1993. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Full page black & white reproductions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 87 pages. The informative and well illustrated catalogue of the 1994 exhibition. . 1st Edition. Card Covers.
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£18.50
Study of a Head
by Hollar, Wenceslaus (after Jan Van Bylert (Biler))
1635. Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/16 x 2 3/4 inches (87 x 70 mm), thread margins. Lacking the inscription in the plate; "Felix Biler in: W Hollar fee: 1635," generally found in the top left image. In very good condition with a minor area of skinning in the top left sheet edge on the verso. Printed later. [Hollstein p. 71].
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£647.44
Krishna with his beloved, Radha; An illuminated page from the epic of Mahabharata
by Rajput School, 17th century
1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (247 x 145 mm), with margins. Some scattered insect damage, along with age related toning and some handling creases, minor edge tears and losses, and scattered inscriptions. Condition issues are largely in the area of the margins, outside of the image area. Extensive inscriptions in red and black ink on the verso. The color is exceptionally fresh, rich, and saturated. The scene depicts Vishnu in the form of Krishna,...
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£971.16
The Peasant Settling His Debt
by Ostade, Adriaen van (after)
1647. Etching on cream wove paper, 3 7/8 x 3 inches (98 x 75 mm), narrow margins. The lower left corner has been repaired with in-painting and paper tape, and at the area of the right corner on the verso there is a partial collectors stamp which has been obscured by adhesive residue. Adhesive residue at each of the four corners on the verso. Moderate toning. Printed later, likely late 18th century. [Bartsch 42].
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£40.46
The Plank Bridge; Landschap met een bruggetje van planken
by Waterloo, Anthonie
1650. Etching on thin cream laid paper with a partial "M" or "W" watermark, 5 x 5 15/16 inches (126 x 150 mm), thread margins. Inscribed in the plate in the upper-right: "Antoni Waterlo fe. et in." In very good condition with light toning in the top right and left corners, at the location of a former mount, and scattered inscriptions in pencil on the verso. With a charming ovoid beehive collectors stamp in purple ink on the verso (Lugt 2732). Because this impression lacks the additional cross hatching...
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£2,225.58
La Gerusalemme Liberata; Di Torquato Tasso Figurata da Bernardo Castello con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili, e di Giulio Guastavini e li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti
by Tasso, Torquato (1544 - 1595)
Genova: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617. Very good. Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco after Bernardo Castello. Folio, 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in (297 x 197 mm); xvi + 255 +72 (notes) + 36 (places and allegory) + vi (index of names). 2 engraved titles, 20 full-page engraved illustrations set within architectural frames located at the beginning of each Canto. Two of the illustrations were printed separately and neatly laid down within the architectural frame, as illustrated in our photo no. 5. Each book also features...
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£3,641.85
Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol)
by Bretherton, James (after Rembrandt van Rijn)
1775. Etching and drypoint on heavy cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches (96 x 83 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with some minor surface soiling. [Björklund's second state (of 2) copy].
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£971.16
Die Letzten Tage von Konstantinopel (von Ivákna), Die Normannen in Thessalonike (Hunger)
by Hunger, Herbert, Von Ivánka, Endre
Some age darkening, particularly on back covers. Otherwise, all pages tight, clean and unmarked, no stickers, not ex-library. Very slight tear in dust jacket of Die Normannen. Bear light pencil mark on both covers, Die Letzten Tage bears name in ink of distinguished medievalist Prof. K. M. Setton (1914 - 1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.
Either volume available separately for $30.00.
Prof. Endre Von Ivánka (1902-1974) was a German-Hungarian theologian and philologist. He was Professor... Read more about this item
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Prof. Endre Von Ivánka (1902-1974) was a German-Hungarian theologian and philologist. He was Professor... Read more about this item
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£44.51
Jeux de boules; Near the city gate
by Swanevelt, Herman Van
1650. Etching on cream laid paper, 6 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (175 x 275 mm), thin margins. Some minor surface soiling and paper tape residue in four areas along the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in good condition. From a series of 12 Landscapes, fourth state (of 4), printed in the 18th century [Hollstein 96].
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£202.33
Malum Citreum Multiforme
by FERRARI, Giovanni Baptista
Rome: Herman Scheus, 1646. Engraving with hand coloring. Plate 77. Image measures 12 X 8 inches. Foxing along right margin.<br/><br/> Unusually large floating lime in actual size depiction with ribbon title in latin from 'Hesperides, Sive, de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor', published in Rome in 1646, the first book entirely devoted to citrus fruit, with many depicted in actual size. In cooler parts of Europe, citrus fruit was grown in orangeries starting in the 17th...
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£323.72
Le Tour de Clermont en Dauphine apartenant a Monsieur de Tonnerre
by Silvestre, Israel
1650. Etching and engraving on handmade cream laid paper, 3 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches (97 x 173 mm), full margins. In good condition, consistent with age. Several small notations in pencil in the lower margin recto, as well as some toning at the sheet edges. On the verso there are several small spots of adhesive residue in the margin (does not show through to recto). The sheet is mounted at the lower right and left corners with archival material.
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£323.72
A Map of the Isthmus of Darien & Bay of Panama
by MOLL, Herman
London: Knapton, James, 1697. unbound. Moll, Herman. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 6" x 6". Page measures 6.5" x 7.5".<br/><br/> Map of the Isthmus of Darien and Bay of Panama, with North South Sea Coasts inset at top. From 'A New Voyage around the World', Volume I of 'Voyages and Descriptions in Three Parts, viz.' by Captain William Dampier. Dotted line on map indicates Dampier's route. In very good condition. Some staining and foxing to...
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£242.79
Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans
by Zoras, George
In Greek. Volume in Fine condition, with a couple of small stains on spine and two spots on title page; no tears, no corner bumping, all pages tight and bright, binding like new. Bears signature and bookplate of K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.The Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans found in the Barberini Greek Codex lll in the critical edition with commentary, name tables and notes published by Professor George Zoras of the University of Athens.This book is rare.
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£202.33
