Art, Architecture & Photography / Drawings, Prints & Watercolours

[CORNELIUS, Andreas]. Croniicke, ende warachtige beschryvinghe van Vrieslant. Beginnende nae des werelts scheppinghe drie duysent ende tseventich jaer: ende deurende voorts tot na de gheboorte Christi, duysent, vijf-hondert, vijf en tsestich ...
Leeuwarden, Jacob Jansen, sold by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam, 1597. (colophon: printed in Amsterdam, Nicolaes Biestkens, 1596). Folio. With a half-page engraved map of old-Friesland, "Veterum Frisiorum Habitus" with the coat of arms of Friesland at the top, the map is flanked by 8 full-length portraits of inhabitants of old-Friesland; a double-page engraved map of Friesland and Groningen, "Frisiae Occidentalis Typus" by Cornelis Claesz (= first state, first appearance); a double-page plan of Leeuwarden, "Lewardum Occidentalis Frisiae Opp.", and full page plan of Franeker, "Franicher" with text on its verso. Further with woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. With nine extra drawings (made after 1622) after the well-known series of etched illustrations of Frisian rulers by Simon Frisius in the first edition of Pierius Winsemius, Chronique ofte Historische Geschiedenisse van Vrieslant ...
Original dark brown polished calf over beveled wooden boards. [2 with drawings], [8], "124" [= 122], [2] ll. Full description

[COSTUMES - CARNIVAL]. Taschenbuch für das Carneval. Erstes Jahr. - Le carnaval ou representation d'une collection d'habits de masques. L'an premier.
Leipzig, Friedrich August Leo, 1804. 16mo? (14 x 10.5 cm). With 12 numbered engraved plates by Friedrich Wilhelm Nettling, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's paperboards, printed from an engraved plate and hand-coloured. 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[COSTUMES - NETHERLANDS]. Costumes de Hollande.
(ca. 1800). (ca. 28.2 x 20.1 cm). Green sheepskin with gilt single fillet and blind tooled decorative panel on boards. [24] pp. Full description

CUSTOS, Raphael. Patriciarum stirpium in S. Rom. Imp. Urbe Augusta Vindelicor ... | Der herren Gschlechter deß Hail. Röm. Reichs Statt Augspurg ...
Augsburg, Christoph Mang, 1613. 4to. With an engraved title, and 122 numbered engraved full-page illustrations of knights. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with a floral ornament within an oval frame in the centre of both boards, set within a double fillet frame with floral corner pieces, remnants of closing ties, gilt edges. [24], "123" [= 124] ll., 124-136, [1 blank] pp. Full description

DEELEMAN, Charles Theodore. Bataviaasch album. Verzameling van een tiental gezigten van de hoofdstad van Nederlandsch Indië. Opgedragen aan Zijne Exellentie den Minister van Staat J.J. Rochussen.
Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., [1859-1860]. Large oblong folio (33.5 x 44 cm). With 10 beautiful tinted lithographs (ca. 18.5 x 26 cm). Modern half calf, with the original blue printed paper wrappers bound in. Full description

DEJEAN, Jean-François-Aimé. Plan de Gertruidenberg et de l'attaque de cette place par les Français. N. L'attaque a été commencée le 22 nivose an 3me. Rép. (11 janvier 1795) et la garnison s'est rendue prisonnière de guerre le 29 nivose (18 janvier 95 vieux stile).
[Netherlands, ca. 1800]. Manuscript fortification plan (49 x 61.6 cm) on paper in ink and green and red watercolour. With large frame in the bottom left with keys to important locations, including the locations of the troops during the attack. Signed "Vu Dejean". Full description

DELARUE, Claire. [Watercolour with flowers and fruits on vellum, signed].
[Paris, ca. 1840]. (43.5 x 35 cm). With peaches, raspberries and blue flax. Framed. Full description

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. [Gebeden en evangelien op de zondagen].
[Antwerp, Johannes Carolus Craen or his son-in-law Hendrik Leys, late 18th- or early 19th century]. 16mo (ca. 13 x 9.5 cm). 351 devotional engravings (including 8 repeats), printed on wove paper, engraved by several 17th-century engravers, printed from the original copper plates at the end of the 18th- or beginning of the 19th century. Early 19th-century(?) gold-tooled red sheepskin, with a general title in Dutch lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [351] ll. Full description

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. [Collection of 37 devotional prints and drawings].
[Flanders and Paris, various publishers, ca. 1630-1850]. 2 volumes. Oblong folio (ca. 29 x 42.5 cm); sheet size ca. 12 x 9 to 35 x 23 cm. With 24 contemporary hand-coloured engravings, of which some heightened with gold, 1 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration, 1 chromolithographed print, 7 watercolour drawings (including 2 on vellum), 3 silk embroidered prints in various sizes, and 1 image made of paper ornaments glued onto a black netting fabric. Further with a folded alphabetical list of the Antwerp printers and engravers of devotional prints in a 19th-century hand tipped onto the first leaf of the album. Several prints are tipped into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco album, a blind-tooled ornament in the centre of both boards with the crowned initials "J.B." on the front, surrounded by a double fillet frame with elaborate corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. The work is housed in a 19th-century marbled slipcase, with a paper label with the name of Countess Julie Visart de Bocarmé mounted on the front. The remaining prints have been tipped onto a sheet of sturdy paper, inserted into a clear plastic file folder, which are loosely inserted into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled purple morocco album, with the word "album" lettered in gold on the front, surrounded by a blind-tooled Gothic style border and an elaborate gold-tooled border, gilt edges, black watered silk end papers. Full description

DICKEN, Charles Shortt and DICKEN FAMILY. [Album containing illustrations and photographs of Australia and India]. [Illustrated title-page:] Contributions thankfully received.
Australia [and England and India?], 1870s. Oblong album (ca. 23 x 30 cm). With 36 albumen prints, including 14 photographs of Australia. These include houses, churches, buildings in Springsure, Queensland around 1870, photos of Charles with his horse, a wonderful picture of an "Alligator killed in the Mackay River" and "bottle trees near Taroon", 5 photographs of India: Bengal Camp Delhi, multiple group photos in Darjeeling, a group photo in front of the government house in Calcutta, and the crew of the H.M.S. Narcissus, 17 photographs of Gibraltar, America, Switserland, art pieces and the Dicken family. Further with 24 watercolour paintings of flowers, landscapes and people, including two of the Taj Mahal, and 17 coloured pencil and ink drawings of people. The drawings and paintings are almost all signed S. P. D. or F. E. D., who were likely members of the Dicken family. Most photographs and art pieces are captioned in pencil or brown ink, several leaves are decorated with additional drawings or dried plants. Contemporary maroon cloth, embroidered with yellow flowers. Comes in a custom-made black-cloth clamshell box (internally covered in burgundy cloth), with a black morocco title-label on the spine, lettered in gold, and a folding liner of the same burgundy cloth. [50] ll. Full description