Art, Architecture & Photography

HONDIUS, Hendrik (& Simon FRISIUS, Andries STOCK and Robert de BAUDOUS). Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipué Germaniae Inferioris, effigies. Pars I.
The Hague, Henricus Hondius, [ca. 1610]. Folio. An engraved print series with an architectural title-page with allegorical figures, 41 engraved portraits (20 x 12 cm) by Hendrik Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5); and an allegorical closing print (a skeleton holding an hour glass and an arrow, not in the copy on Google Books). The three plates outside the portraits are all by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra added portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Fredericus Boultats after a drawing by Hondius himself (16.5 x 11 cm; mounted on a blank leaf). Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides. [44] engraved ll. plus [1] letterpress leaf. Full description

HONDIUS, Hendrick (I). [Tweede basuyne. en t boosdoens heylige wraeck-spiegel ...].
[Netherlands, Hendrick Hondius (I), 1623]. Broadside (51 x 26.5 cm). Two separate leaves, one with the engraving (plate size 14 x 17.5 cm) and the other with letterpress verses (37 x 26.5 cm), originally assembled to form a single broadside. The leaf with the engraving lacking the letterpress heading with the title and the letterpress psalm in 2 columns that flanked the engraving. Mounted on a paper support. With a second copy of the text leaf loosely inserted. Full description

HÖNN, Georg Paul. Betrugslexicon, worinnen die meisten Betrügereyen in allen Ständen, nebst denen darwider guten Theils dienenden Mitteln, ...
Coburg, Johann Carl Findeisen, 1761. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper over boards, red edges. [16], 524, [4] pp. Full description

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Schouburgh der Nederlandse veranderingen ...
Amsterdam, the author, 1674. Small folio (28.5 x 19 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 6 large engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum. 36 pp. Full description

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Voyage de sa Majesté Britannique en Hollande.
The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1692. Large folio (49.5 x 36 cm.). With an engraved portrait of King William III by Pieter van Gunst after J. Brandon, 11 full-page engraved plates (32.5 x 44 cm) and 4 half-page engraved plates (32.5 x 21.5 cm., including the engraved title-page) all finely engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe. Later half vellum and yellow paper side, with a brown leather title-label lettered in gold on the spine. [14] ll. Full description

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. [King Charles II of Spain].
Brussels, Jean Leonard, [ca. 1685]. 60×50 cm. Allegorical portrait of King Charles II of Spainas a Roman Emperor, with a globe showing the Americas, numerous allegorical figures and classical gods, his arms on the wall in the background and his crowned CC II monogram on a staff with a banner. Framed, in a passe partout. Full description

[HORSES - MILITARY]. Anecdoten van paarde kenners, paarde liefhebbers, ruijters en ross-kammers. Naar waarheid en eijge ondervinding opgesteld. Door een gepensioneerd cavallerie officier.
[The Netherlands, ca. 1815]. Folio (38 x 24 cm). Manuscript on paper written in brown ink in a readable Latin hand, with the title on p. 72, illustrated with 30 small watercolour drawings of horses mounted on the leaves (mostly about 8.5 x 11 cm), and a washed pen drawing with 5 caricature figures before a monument (9.5 x 16 cm), mounted above the dedication. Half vellum (1930s?), gold-tooled spine. [4 blank], 248, 251-254, 257-267, [9 blank] pp. Full description

[RACE HORSES - RUSSIA]. [12 photographs of race horses].
[Russia, ca. 1900]. Each photo ca. 27 x 37 cm. Pasted on cardboard. Full description

HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouwkunde, waar in ... werd voorgestelt en geleerdt het maaken van veelerley soorten van trappen.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With engraved half-title, engraved title-page (with engraved device), engraved dedication and 30 double-page engraved plates by Jan Schenk.
With: (2) HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouw-kunde; ...
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With woodcut vignette on title-page. 2 volumes: Folio (plates) and 4to (text). Contemporary red half roan. [3], [60] ll.; [8], 72 pp. Full description

HORST, Tileman van der and Jacob POLLEY. Theatrum machinarum universale; of keurige verzameling van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie waterwerken, schutsluizen, waterkeringen, ophaal- en draaibruggen.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), 1757-1774. Imperial folio (50 x 34 cm). With a double-page engraved dedication plate and 41 double-page and 7 larger folding engraved illustration plates. Red half sheepskin (ca. 1800). [3], [1 blank], 14; [1], [1 blank], 9 pp. + plates. Full description