Art, Architecture & Photography

VOLTAIRE. Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.
Kehl, Société Littéraire Typographique, 1785-1789. 92 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and a portrait of the author in volume 1. Further with 18 portraits (including 4 repeats on different paper), 106 plates (including 17 repeats on different paper), 14 folding mathematical plates in volume 31 (on Newtons physics), 1 engraved map, and 10 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary uniform marbled calf. All volumes vary between approximately 350 and 600 pages. The majority have ca. 450-500 pp. Full description

VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. De quatuor artibus popularibus, grammatistice, gymnastice, musice, & graphice, liber.
Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1650. Small 4to. With Blaeus woodcut device on the title-page, 3 woodcut decorated initials. Later blue paper wrappers, title label pasted on spine. [14], 94, [12] pp. Full description

VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Jan (Hans), Antonio LABACCO, Giacomo Barozzio da VIGNOLA and others. [Collection of architectural and decoration prints including fortification plans, garden plans and architectural decoration].
Antwerp, Venice, Rome, various publishers, [engraved] 1561-1585, [printed 1580-ca. 1600]. Large folio & small 1mo (38.5 x 27 cm). Collection of 4 separately published prints (3 large full-sheet & 1 small full-sheet), plus 67 prints from 9 series (including 3 double-page prints and a 1½-sheet plan of classical Roman ports printed from 2 copperplates). Contemporary or near contemporary limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1600?). [77] engraved ll. containing [71] prints. Full description

VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Johannes (Hans). Pictores, statuarii, architecti, latomi, et quicunque principum magnificorumque virorum memoriae aeternae inservitis, adeste: et hunc libellum varias Coenotaphiorum, tumulorum, et mortuorum formas typis elegantissimis in aere exaratus comprehendentem inspicite, emite, utimini: et ingeniose manui Ioannis Vredemanni, qui has excogitavit, bene favete, e valete.
(Antwerp, Philipp Galle, 1563). Oblong 4to. With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added. 19th century pigskin. Full description

WAD, Gregers. Fossilia Aegyptiaca Musei Borgiani Velitris.
Velletri, 1794. 4to. Contemporary boards. VIII, 32 pp. Full description

WALDORP, Jan Gerard. [Design for the frontispiece of Betje Wolff's Proeve over de opvoeding].
[Amsterdam, 1779]. Drawing in black ink with grey watercolour washes (14 x 9 cm) on laid paper, tipped onto a larger leaf (30 x 21.5 cm). Full description

[WATERCOLOURS - CHINESE - MARITIME]. [Four fine gouache paintings on board of Chinese junks].
[China, ca. 1840]. With 4 watercolours (2 ca. 20 x 23 cm and the other 2 ca. 15 x 22 cm). Framed behind glass in 19th-century dark brown wooden frame, with a gilt inner frame, and a top-mounted hanging eye on the back. Full description

WATIN, Jean Felix. L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes fortes de sujets et batimens, meubles, bijoux, equipages, &c. in-8o de plus de 400 pages en trois parties. Quatrieme édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée.
Paris, [printed by l'imprimerie de la Veuve Herissant] for the author, 1785. 8vo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf. XXXII, 380, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[WEAVING]. Schnürungsbuch.
"Vaals-Aachen" [on the Dutch-German border], Höhere technische Schule für Tuchfabrikation, [ca. 1900]. Oblong folio (24 x 32 cm). Manuscript in German, written in black ink in a neat and legible Latin hand on paperboard leaves, comprising short instructional texts and about 2000 colour-coded weaving patterns and small samples of woven cloth mounted on both sides of the leaves. Contemporary beige half cloth. [2 blank], [117], [1 blank] pp. Full description

WELCKER VON GONTERHAUSEN, Heinrich. Neu eröffnetes Magazin musikalischer Tonwerkzeuge, dargestellt in technischen Zeichnungen alle Saiten-, Blas-, Schlag-, & Friktions- Intrumente unter Aufnahme der neusten Verbesserungen und darauf bezüglichen statistischen Notizen, nebst geschichtlicher Uebersicht der Musik und Instrumente vom ersten Ursprung bis in die jetztzeit, mit specieller Beschreibung ihres Baues, Tonumfangs und fasslicher Angabe ihrer Behandlung und Erhaltung.
Frankfurt, im Selbst-Verlag des Verfassers (printed by Reinhold Baist), 1855. Large 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece, 140 lithographed illustrations in the text, and 3 folding lithographed plates. Contemporary gold foil stamped burgundy velvet, with the author and title in gold on the spine, an elaborate decorative frame on both boards, surrounded by a wide single fillet frame, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. The work is housed in a red cloth solander box. 439, [3] pp. Full description