Art, Architecture & Photography

[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

[WATERCOLOURS - ENGLAND]. [Two views of Great Yarmouth bridge and harbour].
[Yarmouth], 6 December 1797. With 2 watercolours (each ca. 11.5 x 18 cm), with manuscript captions in French. Full description

[WATERCOLOURS - GERMANY - BADENWEILER CASTLE]. [Three watercolours of Badenweiler Castle and its surroundings].
1796-1797. With three watercolours (each ca. 11.5 x 17.7 cm), with manuscript captions in French. Full description

[WATERCOLOURS - GERMANY - BERTRICH]. [Four views on the city and waters of Bertrich].
[Bertrich, Germany, July and August 1792]. With 4 watercolours (each ca. 11.5 x 17.5 cm), with manuscript captions in French. Full description

[WATERCOLOURS - GERMANY - ORSINGEN]. [Three watercolours of Orsingen and its inhabitants].
[Orsingen, southern Germany], 15-18 May 1797. With three watercolours (each ca. 11.5 x 17.5 cm), with manuscript captions in French. Full description

[WATERCOLOURS - GERMANY - WINTERSPÜREN]. [Two watercolours of Winterspüren].
[Winterspüren], 20 May and 11 July 1797. With two watercolours (each ca. 11.5 x 17.5 cm), with manuscript captions in French. Full description

[WATERCOLOURS - MILITARY]. [Collection of nine watercolour military scenes].
[France and Germany, 1795-1797]. With 9 watercolours (each ca. 11.5 x 17.5 cm), all captioned in French. Full description

[WATERCOLOUR - SULZBURG]. [Watercolour view of Sulzburg].
[Sulzburg, southern Germany], November 1796. Ca. 11.5 x 17.5 cm. 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

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