Art, Architecture & Photography

DAMSEAUX, Émile de. La Belgique pittoresque. Les chateaux.
Mons, J. Dacquin; Paris, Aug. Ghio, 1872 [-1878]. 7 volumes. Oblong (ca. 21 x 30 cm). With 168 full-page lithographs. Original publisher's gold- and blind-stamped purple cloth. Each volume contains 24 lithographed plates. Full description

DE BEUNIE, Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk zyn de profytelykste planten van dit land, ende welk is hun gebruyk zoo in de medicynen als in andere konsten.
With:
(2) DU RONDEAU, François. Mémoires sur la question: quelles sont les plantes les plus utiles des Pays-Bas, & que lest leur usage dans la medicine & dans les arts.
(3) DE BEUNIE, Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk is de beste ende onkostbaerste maniere van vlasse gaeren ende andere vegitabile stoffen swert te verwen, ...
Brussels, Antonius dOurs, 1772. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Modern blue paper wrappers. 70; 18; 30 pp. Full description

DECKER, Jeremias de. Lof der geldsucht, ofte vervolg der rijm-oeffeningen. Verdeelt in twee boecken. Behelsende gedichten van verscheydene stoffe.
Amsterdam, Widow of Marten Jansz. Brandt, Abraham vanden Burgh (colophon: Pieter Dirksz Boeteman), 1667. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 51 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [16], 128, [4], 108 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

DENIS, Ferdinand. Buenos Ayrès et le Paraguay; ou histoire, moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans de cette partie de l'Amérique.
Paris, Nepveu, 1823. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 9 engraved plates, 2 double page in the first volume, and 9 engraved plates, 4 double-page in the second volume, all plates finely coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. 199, [1]; 211, [1] pp. Full description

DENYS DE MONTFORT, Pierre. Conchyliogie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles; ...
Paris, F. Schoell, 1808-1810. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 261 woodcut illustrations of shells (most nearly full-page). Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, red ribbon marker. LXXXVII, [1], 409, [1]; [4], 676 pp. 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