Art, Architecture & Photography

ROUSSEAU, Henri-Émilien. [Bedouin falconer].
[Morocco, 1920s]. Oil on wooden panel (21 x 16 cm), signed at the lower left "Henri Rousseau". Contemporary gilded wooden frame (33 x 28 cm). Full description

ROUSSEAU, Jean Baptiste. Odes sacrées ..., détachées du corps de ses ouvrages.
Brussels, Gilles Stryckwant, 1738. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms of Austria on title-page. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board edges. [6], 109, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ROY, Jacob le. Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ, coenobiaque celebriora, ad vivum delineata, in quatuor partes divisa: complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antverpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem. Cum brevi eorundem descriptione, & gentilitiis toparcharum insignibus/ Chateaux et maisons de campagne des gentilhommes du Brabant (...)/ Kasteelen en heeren huysen der edelen van Brabant (...).
Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1699. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece to part 1, 2 engraved title vignettes, 2 full-page engraved dedicatory plates, 1 engraved headpiece, vol. 1 with 211 engravings (4 folding maps, 1 folding plan, 14 folding plates, and 192 views in the text); vol. 2 with 1 folding map and 7 engraved illustrations in the text. With: [IDEM]. L'erection de toutes les terres, seigneuries, & familles titrees du Brabant.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1699. Contemporary sprinkled quarter calf. [6], 143, [4], 108 ll. Full description

RUE, Louis Félix de la. Etat armorial de noblesse, chevalerie, & dignités accordés par S.M.I.R.A. depuis son avenement au Thrône jusqu' aujourd'hui dédié a monsieur de Wavrans ...
Brussels, 1775.
With: [Collection of hand-painted coats of arms of European noble families in the Southern Netherlands].
8vo. With an engraved title page and 16 engraved plates containing a total of 342 coats of arms (6 blank; mostly 20 or 24 to a page), together with a collection of 415 hand-drawn and painted coats of arms (6 to a page), vividly coloured and highlighted with gold and silver paint, with the names of the noble families captioned below in a neat 18th-century hand in brown ink. Later half calf, marbled paper sides, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers, red edges. 45, [2], [1 blank]; [102] ll. including some blanks. Full description

RUMPHIUS, Georg Everhard. d'Amboinsche rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van aleerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weete raare krabben, kreeften, en diergelyke zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche zee vindt: daar benevens zommigen mineraalen, gesteenten, en soorten van aarde, die in d'Amboinsche, en zommige omleggende eilanden gevonden worden.
Amsterdam, Jan Roman de jonge, 1741. Royal folio (44 x 27.5 cm). With engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait, 60 engraved plates and 5 engraved vignettes. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin). [24], 340, [43], [1 blank] pp. Full description

RYAN, William Redmond. Avonturen gedurende een tweejarig verblijf in Californië en zijne mijnen.
Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1850. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With two lithographed title pages and 20 lithographed illustrations on 10 plates, all drawn by Carel Christiaan Anthony Last after the author. Modern half cloth. [2], 308; VIII, 325 pp. Full description

SABBATTINI, Nicola. Pratica di fabricar scene, e machine ne'teatri.
Pesaro, Flaminio Concordia, 1637. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Grimaldi on the title page and 49 woodcut diagrams and illustrations of decors and stage settings in the text, many illustrating the use of perspective to give an illusion of three dimensions and some showing mechanical systems, such as screens raised and lowered with pulleys. Decorated paper wrappers (ca. 1700?). [4], 89, [2] pp. Full description

SADIQ BEY, Muhammad, Christiaan SNOUCK HURGRONJE and Al-Sayyid ‘Abd al-GHAFFÂR. [5 photographic lantern slides of Mecca and Medina (silver gelatin glass positives), taken in the years 1880 to 1889].
Stuttgart, Lichtbilderverlag Theodor Benzinger, [ca. 1910]. 5 glass positive lantern slides (8.5 x 10 cm), each with a black paper mask, paper tape around the edges, a letterpress slip at the foot giving the publisher's name and city, and a slip at the head with the manuscript title. Kept in a contemporary purpose-made wooden box with brass fittings, with the word "Mekka" on the top of the hinged lid. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY – EROTICA – SADOMASOCHISM]. RABIER, Hector (compiler). [Binding title:] Peines [et] supplices.
[France/Belgium, early 20th century]. 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). Album containing 24 small contact prints and 153 albumen or gelatin silver prints, 16 photographic reproductions of paintings or drawings, 2 albumen prints of nudes and 17 silver gelatin prints of sadomasochistic scenes. Contemporary black cloth, with the title ("H. Rabier - peines - supplices") on the spine. [52 pp.] Full description

SAINT-AUBIN, Augustin de. C'est-ici les différens jeux de petits polissons de Paris.
Paris, 1770. 4to (ca. 24.5 x 18.5 cm). A series of 6 unnumbered engraved prints (ca. 17 x 22 cm) representing children playing games. Each print is mounted on a paper leaf in a passe-partout (30 x 24 cm). Full description