Art, Architecture & Photography

VIRGILIUS, Polydorus. Waerachtige beschryvinghe. Inhoudende wie de eerste autheuren ende vinders aller verscheyden consten, inventien, ende hantwercken zijn gheweest … uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederlantsche tale … overgeset, door E.M.G.
Amsterdam, Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, 1612. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled half mottled calf. [14], 327, [9] pp. Full description

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Cort verhael ende afbeeldinghe der justitie, geschiet den 5. mey 1623. in 'sGravenhaghe.
Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623. Oblong 1mo. Engraved illustration (26.5 x 14.5 cm), giving four circular portraits and 10 separate scenes, flanked by a letterpress description in Dutch. Full description

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. Hendrick Danielsz Slatius, gewesene predicant tot Bleijswyck, naert 'tleven afgebeelt den 12 maert 1623.
[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623]. Engraved illustration (22 x 12.5 cm), with an engraved title in Dutch at the head and Visscher's name at the foot, and with two letterpress poems in French on the left signed "A. Lancel."(measuring 24.5 x 25 in tital). Mounted on a larger blank leaf (36 x 41 cm). Full description

[VLIEGER, Simon de]. [Hilly and wooded landscape with a bridge over a stream in the foreground].
[The Netherlands?, ca. 1620/40]. 43 x 56 cm. Landscape drawing in black chalk(?) and white chalk on paper. Under glass in a black and gold wooden frame. Full description

[VODDIGEL, Jan Simon & Ferdinand Karl KLIMSCH]. [Album von Wiesbaden].
Wiesbaden, C.W. Kreidel, [1852]. Small oblong folio (30 x 23 cm). Suite of 10 steel-engraved views, all finely hand-coloured and highlighted with gum arabic, tipped onto thick brown leaves with printed decorative borders and captions. Contemporary decorated red cloth, gold-tooled spine, new endpapers. [10] engraved views. Full description

[VOIRIOT, Guillaume]. [Portrait of Joseph-Jérôme le Français de Lalande].
Late 18th century (ca. 1780). Oil on canvas (88 x 68 cm). In an elegant contemporary gilt frame with pearled inner border. Full description

VOIT, Johann Michael. Handbuch der landwirtschaftlichen Baukunst.
Augsburg, Von Jenisch und Stagesche Verlagshandlung, 1840. 2 volumes. With numerous illustrations and figures of detailed construction-plans of all sorts of farm buildings on 20 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half blue decorative cloth, marbled paper sides, gold-stamped spines. XVIII, 292; X, 294 pp. Full description

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 Newton's 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 Blaeu's 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