Art, Architecture & Photography / Caricature, Costume & Satire

[ARIF PACHA, Muchir]. [Les anciens costumes de l'empire Ottoman, depuis l'origine de la monarchie jusqu'a la reforme du Sultan Mahmoud. Volume I = all published].
[Paris, Lemercier, 1863]. 1mo (54.5 x 40 cm). With lithographic portrait of Arif Pacha, drawn on stone by M. Julien, printed on India paper, cut in an oval and mounted on a leaf of stiff paper, with caption and imprint lithographed directly on the leaf, 16 tinted lithographic plates after Arif Pacha (image size 24.5 x 34 cm). Lacking lithographed title-page. Contemporary black half morocco. 24 ll. printed both sides, plus plates Full description

ARIF PACHA, Muchir. Les Anciens Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman, depuis l'origine de la monarchie jusqu'a la reforme du Sultan Mahmoud ... Tome 1er [all published].
Paris, Lemercier, 1863. Folio (54.8 x 40 cm). With lithographic portrait of Arif Pacha, drawn on stone by M. Julien, printed on India paper, with caption and imprint lithographed directly on the leaf, 16 tinted lithographic plates after Arif Pacha (image size 24.5 x 34 cm), coloured and finished by hand. Modern cloth. 24 ll. printed both sides, plus plates. Full description

[AUCTION CATALOGUES - FICTITIOUS]. Beredeneerde catalogus van een zeer fraaie, capitaale en pragtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den Heere G. R. Zullende ... by exëcutie verkogt worden binnen London, ... in ... May of Juny deezes jaars. Door de makelaers Thomas Brandi, William Roastbeuf en James Punch, ... Derde druk.
Amsterdam, Johannes Geyger, [1781].
With:
(2) Commissie brief van den heere Wilhelmus Batavus, een aanzienlyke Nederlandsche patriot, aan den heere Lambertus Koopmans, commissionair te Londen. Benevens een notitie der commissien, door gemelden heer Batavus gegeeven, op de fraaye capitaale en prachtige inbedoel des heeren G.R.
[The Hague?, 1781].
(3) Catalogus van eene zo ongemeene zeldzaame, als uitmuntende verzameling van manuschripten[!]. ... byeen vergadert door den Lord W. Gordon ...
London [= Amsterdam or The Hague?], sold by Thomas Henly, [1781].
(4) Beredeneerde notitie van 't vorstlyke poppe- en speel-goed, der kinderen van den heere G.R. ...
[Amsterdam?, 1781].
(5) Sleutel of noodige ophelderingen der onlangs uitgekomene catalogus, van een fraaije capitaale en prachtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den heere G.R. ...
Dordrecht, Abraham and Pieter Blussé; Rotterdam, Cornelis van den Dries; etc., [1781].
(6) Beredeneerde catalogus eener verzameling van schilderyen, der eerste meesters van Nederland.
The Hague, Thomas Pietersz. van Os, [1783/1789?].
(7) Beredeneerde catalogus, van eene uitmuntende verzameling schilderyen, door de vermaardste Nederlandsche meesters, uit het Fransch vertaald.
Holland, 1783.
7 fictitious auction catalogues in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 2: the introductory letter, from "Wilhelmus Batavus" to "Lambertus Koopmans" is dated from The Hague, 15 February 1781. Ad 3: the introductory letter, from Thomas Henly, is dated 2 February 1781. Ad 4: this catalogue presents itself as a second appendix to ad 1. Both the original catalogue and the first appendix describing themselves as catalogues for the sale in May or June 1781. Ad 6: with the supposedly authenticating woodcut on the title-page, showing the coat of arms of William the Silent hanging from a memorial cross. Contemporary half mottled calf, brown spine label with blind-tooled text and with some gold-tooled floral decorations, 20th-century marbled sides and endpapers. [4], 27, [1]; 16; 16; 16; 15, [1]; 32; 37, [2 blank] pp. Full description

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atque utilitatem.
Paris, Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], (colophon: 13 April) 1541. Small 8vo (ca. 16.5 x 10.5 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards with the title printed in black on the spine, red sprinkled edges. 68, [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BERG, Johan August. Bilder ur svenska folklifvet.
Gothenburg, D. F. Bonniers Förlag, 1855. Oblong folio (ca. 39.5 x 50 cm). With 12 full-page chromolithographed plates, separated by tissue paper guards. Contemporary quarter gold-tooled brown leather, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [24] pp. Full description

[BEROALDO, Filippo, and anonymous adaptor]. Het stichtigh ende vermakelijck proces van drie ghebroeders, edel-lieden. Den eenen zijnde een dronkaert. [Den] tweden een hoer-eerder. [Den] derden een speelder. Dat wie bevonden sal worden vande drie ghebreken het kleenste begaen te hebben, het meeste erven sal van zijn vaders nae ghelatene goederen, volghens het testament daer af sijnde ghevonden, wesende onder sekere oude papieren, van M. P. v. O.
Including: RULANT, H. Satyra ofte lofsang van droncken drincken.
[Amsterdam?, Jacob Aertsz. Colom?], 1635. Small 8vo (14.5×9 cm). Half calf (ca. 1830s), with the binder's stamp on an endleaf (F. DUQUESNE À GAND). 136, [1], [1 blank]; [30] pp. Full description

[BIDLOO, Govert]. Beurze-Stryd, of Saemen-Spraek tusschen Galenus, en Baldus.
[The Hague, Meyndert Uytwerf?], 1692. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Bound on two modern chords. [8], 9-24 pp. Full description

BING, Valentijn & Jan BRAET VON UEBERFELDT. Nederlandsche Kleederdragten, naar de natuur getekend. Costumes des Pays-Bas dessinés d'après nature.
Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en zonen, 1857.
With:
(2) BING, Valentijn & Jan BRAET VON UEBERFELDT. Nederlandsche zeden en gebruiken. Naar de natuur getekend. Moeurs et usages de la Hollande dessinés d'après nature.
[Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en zonen, 1859].
2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (ca. 57 x 41 cm). Ad 1 with 56 large lithographed plates showing Dutch costumes, printed in colour. Ad 2 with 18 lithographed Dutch folkloristic and costume plates, printed in colour and finished by hand. Contemporary three quarter buckram with the title and the name of the author lettered in gold on the front board and on the spine. [15] ll. and 56 lithographed plates; [6] ll. and 18 lithographed plates. Full description

BOELEN, Jacobus. Reize naar de oost- en westkust van Zuid-Amerika, en, van daar, naar de Sandwichs- en Philippijnsche eilanden, China enz. gedaan, in de jaren 1826, 1827, 1828 en 1829. Met het koopvaardijschip Wilhelmina en Maria.
Amsterdam, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1835-1836. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a different view on each of the 3 engraved title-pages, by Dirk Sluyter, 5 folding lithographed maps by Daniel Veelwaard (1 hand coloured in outline), 8 lithographed views (3 folding) by Desgerrois & Co., and 6 hand-coloured engraved plates by Dirk Sluyter, mostly of costumes. Modern black half sheepskin. [4], X, 379, [1]; VIII, 445, [3]; VIII, 396, [4] pp. Full description

BORCHT, Willem van der (Guilielmus a CASTRO). Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ...
Brussels, Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4to. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum. [16], 271, [1] pp. Full description

BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph. La Russie, ou moeurs, usages, et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire.
Paris, Nepveu, 1813. 6 volumes. 12mo or 18mo. With 111 mostly engraved plates (4 folding facing title-pages of volumes 1-4). Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, uniformly bound. Full description

[CALLOT, Jacques, Carel ALLARD & others]. [Collection of 120 engravings by French, Dutch, Italian and German artists].
Venice, Paris, [Amsterdam], etc., 1601-1725 (album ca. 1745?), with additions [1788] & [ca. 1790]. 8vo, 4to, etc. (19 x 13 cm). 120 engraved prints, namely 44 from 4 complete print series (1 with a title-print), 57 (including 3 title-prints) from 10 or 11 other series and 19 prints apparently not from any series, by Jacques Callot (1 complete series), Odoardo Fialetti, Herman Weyen, Balthasar Moncornet, Henri Bonnart, Carel Allard (3 complete series), P. Landry and others (see contents, below). Mottled sheepskin (ca. 1745?). 95 ll. Full description

CALLOT, Jacques. Capitayn van de bende.
[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1645]. A series of 24 numbered engraved plates by Claes Jansz. Visscher after Jacques Callot (some copied in mirror image), the first with the title on a banner carried by the beggar in plate 1.
With: (2) QUAST, Pieter Jansz. T is al verwart-gaeren.
[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1652. With 24 (of 26) numbered engraved plates, the first with the title at the foot. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 19.5 cm). 18th-century paste paper over boards. 24; 1-2, 5-26 (of 26) engr. ll. Full description

CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent. Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès.
Paris, Nepveu, 1812. 6 volumes. 18mo (14 x 9 cm). With 75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece in each volume and 17, 17, 9, and 26 plates in volumes 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold. Contemporary gold- and blined-toole purpleish-black morocco. Full description

CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. Navis carmen.
Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, 1695. With a folding engraved plate of a 44-gun ship.
With: (2) CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. Simius carmen.
Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, [ca. 1695]. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. 34, [2 blank], 31 pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK - GEOGRAPHY - ANTHROPOLOGY]. Kleine Völker-Gallerie für Kinder in unterhaltenden Erzählungen von den Sitten, Meinungen, Gebräuchen und Kleidungen fremder Nationen, mit vier und zwanzig kolorirten Kupfern.
Köln, 1811. 12mo. With 24 numbered engravings (7 x 3 cm) showing the peoples discussed in their traditional costumes, each mounted on a blank leaf. With the engravings coloured as published, as indicated on the title-page. Later gold-tooled half red morocco, red paper over boards, with the title in gold on the spine. 170, [4] pp. Full description

[COLLAERT, Adriaen?]. [The five senses:] Visus ... Gustus ... Tactus ... Olfactus ... Auditus.
Antwerp, Jan Adriaensz. Collaert, [ca. 1618/28]. Large 24mo(?) album (14.5 x 10.5 cm). A complete series of 5 engraved prints on vellum (13 x 8.5 cm; oval image 10 x 7.5 cm) each illustrating one of the five senses with a female figure. Richly and very beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, in colour gouaches (red, blue, purple and green), extensively highlighted with gold. Each print mounted on a paper leaf in a small album. Green silk (ca. 1820?) over flexible boards. [5] engraved ll. Full description

[COSTUMES - CARNIVAL]. Taschenbuch für das Carneval. Erstes Jahr. - Le carnaval ou representation d'une collection d'habits de masques. L'an premier.
Leipzig, Friedrich August Leo, 1804. 16mo? (14 x10.5 cm). With 12 numbered engraved plates by Friedrich Wilhelm Nettling, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's paperboards, printed from an engraved plate and hand-coloured. 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CROCE, Giulio Cesare and Nikola PALIKUCA (translator). Himbenost pritankogh Veleznanstva Nasradinova.
Ancona, Pietro Paolo Ferri, 1771. 12mo. With a woodcut of the main character on the title-page. Contemporary plain wrappers. 71 pp. Full description

DENIS, Ferdinand. Buenos Ayrès et le Paraguay; ou histoire, moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans de cette partie de l'Amérique.
Paris, Nepveu, 1823. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 9 engraved plates, 2 double page in the first volume, and 9 engraved plates, 4 double-page in the second volume, all plates finely coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. 199, [1]; 211, [1] pp. Full description

[DORDRECHT]. Missive van Parnas, geschreven door Hugo de Groot, aen N.N. syn goede vriend in s Gravenhage, in dato den 22 January 1685.
[Dordrecht?], [no publisher], [1685]. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. 8 pp. Full description

ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. Tableau du royaume de Caboul, et de ses dépendances, dans la Perse, la Tartarie et l'Inde, offrant les moeurs, usages et costumes de cet empire, ... traduit et abrégé de l'anglais, par M. Breton.
Paris, Nepveu, 1817. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 14 engraved plates depicting various costumes, lords on horseback, etc., all beautifully coloured by hand. Original publisher's printed wrappers, each volume with wood engraved illustrations on front, back and spine. Preserved in a modern gold-tooled green morocco box. XLIV, 189 [3]; [4], 222, [2]; [4], 223 [1] pp. Full description

[FRENCH COURT]. Recueil de diverses pièces, servans à lhistoire de Henry III Roy de France wet de Pologne dont les tiltres se trouvent en la page suivante.
Cologne [= Leiden?] Pierre du Marteau [= Jean Elzevier?], 1662. 12mo. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco in 17th-century style, each board with the coat-of-arms of Henri III in the centre (the azure represented by black), in a frame of double fillets with corner pieces, gold-tooled spine with the monogram of Henry III in the compartments, gilt edges. 468 pp. Full description

[GAETE, Hendrik van de]. De ontmantelde apotheker, met de gefopte hoorndrager, blyspel.
Gouda, heirs of Lucas Kloppenburg, after 1712. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting the last scene of the comedy and a woodcut title-vignette. Disbound in modern blue paper wrapper. [16], 29, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

[GARTH, Samuel]. The dispensary. A poem. In six cantos. The ninth edition. With several descriptions and episodes never before printed.
London, printed for J.T. and sold by Tho. Astley, 1726. 12mo. With frontispiece and 6 full-page plates, one for each of the cantos engraved by Lud. Du Guernier (included in the collation), many woodcut head- and tailpieces. Calf over boards, gold-tooled spine. [24], 84, 36 pp. Full description

GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb. Russland. Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reiches, ihrer Lebensart, Religion, Gebräuche, Wohnungen, Kleidungen und übrigen Merkwürdigkeiten.
Leipzig, Dyk, 1783. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 etched hand-coloured frontispieces by Schoenberg (coloured by Capieux), and several delicate engraved head- and tailpieces in the text by C.M. Roth. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled boards. [4], XII, [5], [1 blank], 271, [1 blank]; [2], 273-530, [10] pp. Full description

GHEYN, Jacob II de. The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes, and pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange Count of Nassau etc.
The Hague, [1607 (added in manuscript on the title page)]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 37 x 27 cm). With engraved title page with at the head of the page the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Prince Henry Frederick, eldest son of King James I of England within a wreath of lilies and roses, which - together with the title and the imprint were engraved on 3 separate slips of paper pasted over areas left blank for that purpose; and 117 (including one repeat) expertly engraved plates (ca. 26 x 19 cm): 42 numbered plates in part 1, 43 partly-numbered plates in part 2 and 32 numbered plates in part 3. All engravings including the engraved title-page are magnificently coloured and highlighted in gold and silver by a contemporary hand. The plates show exercises with the arquebus (part 1), musket (part 2), and pike (part 3). Mid-19th-century gold-tooled half (faded) red morocco and red cloth sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, bound in 1840-ca. 1860 by the celebrated British bookbinder Robert Riviere (1808-1882) with his stamp "Bound by Riviere" in the bottom outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. [4]; [2]; [3] ll. Full description

[GIFFART, Pierre]. L'art militaire françois, contenant l'exercice & le maniement des armes, tant des officiers que des soldats, réprésenté par des figures en taille-douce dessinées d'après nature. Avec un petit abregé d'exercice comme il se fait aujourd'hui. Dédié à Monseigneur le Marechal Duc de Boufflers.
"Paris" [printed in the Netherlands?], "Pierre Giffart" [publisher unknown], 1697. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 85 full-page engraved illustrations (12 x 7.5 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [14], 178 pp. Full description

[WATERCOLOUR PAINTING]. [GIUDICE, Luigi del (attributed)]. [Festivities and costumes at a southern Italian festival].
[Southern Italy], "1817" [=1816]. Watercolour on paper (ca 51 x 71 cm), dated in the lower left corner. Gilded frame (ca. 56 x 76 cm). Full description

GREEVEN, Hendrik. Tableaux des costumes, moeurs, coutumes et vues, de la Nord-Hollande, de Zaandam, Broek, Alkmaar, Assendelft et de l'Île de Marken.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. 1826]. Oblong 4to (22.5 x 29 cm). With an engraved map of North Holland by C.H. Koning on title-page and 11 engraved plates, mostly engraved by Willem van Senus after Hendrik Greeven, all protected by tissue guards. Contemporary boards; preserved in a modern cloth clamshell box. [2] ll. + 10 plates. Full description

GREEVEN, Hendrik (artist) and Justin Vallou VALLON DE VILLENEUVE (lithographer). Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas | Verzameling der kleederdragten in de nordelijke provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.
Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons; Paris, Engelmann et cie. (printed by Thierry brothers). 1828[-1829]. With lithographed title-page, lithographed index and 20 numbered lithographed plates, all captioned in French and Dutch below and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand.
With: (2) [GREEVEN, Hendrik, Luigi CALAMATTA and others]. Souvenirs de la Hollande.
Amsterdam, Buffa brothers and co., 1838. With a hand-coloured engraving mounted on the title-page and 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates (7 of Dutch views and 7 of women's folk costumes). 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (32 x 24 cm). Contemporary boards with marbled sides. [24] ll. text in French and English. Full description

[COSTUMES]. HECKEL, Catharina SPERLING. [Four young ladies in fancy gowns].
[Augsburg, ca. 1725?]. Four drawings in brown ink, watercolour and coloured gouaches on vellum, highlighted with gold (each 5.9 x 9.0 cm). Each mounted in a later passe-partout with a gold border, in an ebonized wooden frame (23.5 x 20.5 cm). Full description

[HOLBERG, Ludvig von]. Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum novam telluris theoriam ac historiam quintae monarchiae adhuc nobis incognitae, exhibens e bibliotheca B. Abelini.
Copenhagen and Leipzig, Friedrich Christian Pelt, 1754. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, folding map and 6 full-page plates, engraved by Brühl. 19th-century boards, covered with marbled paper. [12], 366 pp. 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

[HOUTMAN, Johannes Paulus (lithographer)]. [Uniformen van militairen en vrijwilligers, schutter- en jagercorpsen].
[Utrecht, J. P. Houtman, ca. 1831]. Folio (ca. 25 x 21 cm). With 234 hand-coloured lithographic plates (169 unique plates, 65 duplicates) tipped onto the leaves. Further with a detailed handwritten index, a short lithographed index, and a three page lithographed description of the flags tipped onto the first leaf. Later gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco. [176] ll. Full description

HULSEN, Esaias von. Aigentliche Wahrhaffte Delineatio[n] unnd Abbildung aller Fürstlichen Auffzüg und Rütterspilen ....
[Stuttgart], Esaias von Hulsen, [1617]. With an engraved allegorical title-page and 91 (out of 92) numbered engraved plates.
With: (2) WECKHERLIN, Georg Rodolf. Kurtze Beschreibung dess zu Stutgarten, bey den fürstlichen Kindtauf und Hochzeit jüngst-gehaltenen Frewden-Fests. Tübingen, Dietrich Werlin, 1618. An extra leaf is bound between pp. 4 and 5: "Cartel, und Articul beym Ringrennen". 2 volumes in 1. Oblong folio (28 x 35 cm). Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin, remnants of ties. [2], 1-50, 52-92 ll.; [2], 4, [2], 71, [1] pp. Full description

[JESSEN, Heinrich]. [Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg].
[Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others], [ca. 1850]. 8vo. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) highlighted with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), including 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front board with title lettered in gold. [50] plates. Full description

LE VAILLANT, François. Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique.
Paris, Leroy (colophon vol. 2: printed by Lottin l'aîné & Lottin), 1790. 2 volumes. 8vo. With the publisher's woodcut device on each title-page, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved views and 9 numbered engraved plates (7 costume figures of indigenous Africans and 2 illustrations of giraffes).With the 9 numbered plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, richly gold-tooled flat spines. XXIV, 383; 403 pp. Full description

[LONGUEVILLE, Peter]. De kluizenaar; of de weergalooze rampen, en verwonderenswaerdige gevallen van Filip Quarll, Engelschman.
Rotterdam, Jan Daniel Beman, 1728. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, signed by Collan, a folding map of Quarll's island, and a folding plate of the shipwreck. The title page is printed in red and black and shows a small woodcut ornamental vignette, the work includes headpieces built up from typographic material, woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, sprinkled paper sides, and a red paper label on the spine. [16], 292, 189, [1] pp. Full description

MAASKAMP, Evert. Afbeeldingen van de kleedingen, zeden en gewoonten in Holland, met den aanvang der negentiende eeuw. ... Tableaux des habillements, des moeurs et des coutumes en Hollande, au commencement du dix-neuvième siècle. ...
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [1811?]. Imperial 4to (30 x 25.5 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece dated 1805, and 20 numbered engraved plates of Dutch costumes, all dated 1811, frontispiece and plates coloured for the publisher by the painter Jan Willem Pieneman. Contemporary boards, orange paper sides edged with a gold-tooled roll. Rebacked in red morocco (ca. 1900?). [28] ll. (15 printed on both sides) plus 21 plates. Full description

[MAASKAMP, Evert]. Reis door België in het jaar 1814.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp; Brussels, P.J. de Mat, 1815. 8vo. With a lithographed title-page, 3 folding engraved plates (1 hand coloured in outline), 3 aquatint plates printed in sepia, 2 engraved plates printed in sepia (1 double-page) and 2 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin. XX, 200, [2 blank], [10] pp. Full description

MANUEL, Henri. [Collection of 33 Paris fashion photographs from the 1910s].
Paris, Henri Manuel, [ca. 1910/20]. 33 albumen prints , 3 oval (ca. 19 x 15 cm) and 30 rectangular (ca. 27 x 16 cm), including 5 duplicates (with tint variations). The faces on two of the photographs are lightly tinted. Each photograph is mounted on a sheet of paper and signed in pencil "Henri Manuel Paris". Three photographs are also signed in the plate. Full description

[MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE, Philips van]. Binenkorb dess Heyl. Römischen Imenschwarms, seiner Hummelszellen (oder Himmelszellen) Hurnausnäster,Brämen- geschwürm und Wäspengestöss. Sampt Läuterung der H. Römischen Kirchen Honigwaben; Einweihung und Beräuchung oder Segfeurung der Imenstöck: und Erlesung der Bussenblumen, des heydnischen Klosterhysops, der Suiter Säudisteln, der saurbonischen Säubonen, dess Magisnostrischen Liripipesenchets, und dess Imenplatts der Plakimen: auch dess Messthaues und H Saffts von Wunderbäumen, &c. Alles nach dem rechten Himelstau oder Manna justirt, und mit Mentzerkletten durchzirt.
Christlingen [= Strassbourg], Ursino Gottgewin [= Bernard Jobin], 1580. Small 8vo. The title-page, with the woodcut illustration of a beehive, is printed in red and black, the same woodcut repeated in the text, and a devotional woodcut by T. Stimmer in the text. 19th century half vellum. 246, [18] ll. Full description

MELON, Jean-François. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes.
Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and turn-ins, both boards with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Louis Marie Alexandre, Duc d'Aumont, gilt edges. [2], VI, 162, [4] pp. Full description

[MILITARY COSTUMES - CENTRAL EUROPE]. Portraits des Hongrois, des Pandoures ou Croates, des Waradins ou Esclavoniens, et des Ulans, &c. Qui sont au services de SS. MM. l'Empereur & le Roi de Prusse. ... | Afbeelding van de Hongaren, Panduuren of Croaten, Waradynen of Slavoniers, Ulanen, &c. Die in dienst zyn van Zyn Keyzerlyke Majesteit, en van Zyn Majesteit de Koning van Pruyssen. ...
[The Netherlands (The Hague?), after 1780? (1787?)]. 8vo. With 6 full-page numbered engraved plates, vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Kept in a custom burgundy cloth case with a leather label on the spine lettered in gold. 16 pp. Full description

[MILITARY UNIFORMS]. [De schutter- en jagerkorpsen. De legerkorpsen | Infanterie. De Oost- en West-Indische korpsen en marine | Kavallerie, artillerie, genie, etc.].
[Utrecht, Johannes Paulus Houtman, 1831-1832]. 8vo (17.5 x 11.5 cm). 73 unnumbered lithographed prints plus 3 duplicates (leaf size 17 x 11 cm) with a brief caption in a round-hand script below each image, showing Dutch military personnel (including 1 woman) in their uniforms, the cavalry often shown on horseback and many others with flags, musical instruments, swords, firearms, backpacks, etc., coloured by a contemporary hand, probably for the publisher. Contemporary paperboard portfolio in a paperboard slipcase. [73] prints plus [3] duplicates. Full description

MÜLLER, Franz Hubert and Joseph VÖLLINGER. Grossherzoglich Hessisches Militair. Nach der Natur aufgenommen von . . . der Grossherzoglichen Gemaelde Gallerie in Darmstadt und auf Stein gezeichnet von J. Völlinger.
Karlsruhe, Johann Velten, [ca. 1830]. Royal folio (45×32 cm.) With a lithographic title page and dedication to the Archduke Ludwig von Hessen (both by Johann Evangel. Mettenleiter), contents list and 30 numbered lithographs of army officers and enlisted men, many on horseback, all beautifully coloured by hand with watercolour, gouache and glazed highlights. Modern red half morocco. [2], 30, [1] ll. Full description

[MÖRNER, Carl Gustaf Hjalmar]. Il carnevale di Roma.
Rome, F. Bourlié, 1820. Oblong folio (ca. 42 x 57 cm). With 20 numbered copper-engravings. Grey paper wrappers. [1 blank], [2], [20] ll. Full description

[NÉEL, Louis-Balthazar]. Voyage de Paris a St. Cloud par mer, et retour de St. Cloud a Paros par terre. Quatrieme édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée, avec une carte très-exacte, dont le plan a éte levé sur les lieux.
Paris, Duchesne, 1762. 8vo. Woodcut headpieces and endpieces, initials [1,5 x 1,5 cm], bound with fold out map [16 x 25.5 cm]. Contemporary vellum binding. xxvj, 118, [2], 120 pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - NEW ZEALAND - TASMANIA]. [Collection of 18 photographs of New Zealand and Tasmania].
[New Zealand, ca. 1890]. Including 13 Maori portraits, 4 albumen prints of Hobart and locality, a loose albumen print of the North Shore Native and Aquatic Regatta at Auckland in 1898. Full description

[NICOLAY, Nicolas]. Plusieurs descriptions des accoustremens, tant des magistrats et officiers de la Porte de l' Empereur des Turcs, que des peuples assujectis à son Empire. Avec les figurs des representant le tout au naturel, tirees des medailles antiques & descriptions de ceux qui ont frequenté parmy ces nations, ou des bons autheurs qui en ont escrit.
Including: THOMAS, Artus. Tableaux prophetiques des empereur severe et leon, avec leurs epigrammes predisans la ruine de la monarchie des Turcs.
[Paris, widow of Abel L'Angelier, 1620]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 79 engraved plates, including 62 costume plates (ca. 27.5 x 17.5 cm) after Nicolas Nicolay. With an additional loosely inserted engraving of a "Marchant Juif". All the plates have explanatory texts on the versos of the preceding plates. 19th-century green half morocco. "64" [=65] ll., 65-114, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

OGAWA Kazamusa. Famous castles & temples in Japan.
Tokio, [Kazamusa Ogawa?], (colophon in Japanese: Meiji 28 = 1895). Oblong (27 x 36.5 cm). With 35 hand-coloured collotypes, with captions. Slightly later black, gold-tooled morocco, with initials C.R. at the foot of the spine. 36 ll. Full description

[ORANGISTS]. Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.
The Hague, Gidion Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound. 28 pp. Full description

[ORANGISTS]. Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.
The Hague, Gideon Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound. 28 pp. Full description

OVERMEER FISSCHER, Johannes Frederik van. Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.
Amsterdam, J. Müller & Comp., printed by C. A. Spin, 1833. 4to. With a hand coloured lithographic frontispiece, and 14 hand coloured full-page lithographic plates, all highlighted with gum arabic. Contemporary richly gold-and blind-tooled brown calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, blind-tooled boards edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. VII, [3], 320 pp. Full description

[PAINTINGS - DENMARK]. Four miniatures of people wearing pearl earrings.
[Denmark?, first half 18th century?]. Collection of four paintings, oil on paper or paperboard, two measuring 8 x 5.5 cm (frame 10.5 x 7.5 cm) and two measuring 8.5 x 5.5 cm (frame 10 x 7 cm), all with a gilt wooden frame. Full description

[PALHARES, João]. [Costumes Portugueses].
[Lisbon, ca. 1850]. Folio. With 46 contemporary hand coloured numbered lithographs showing Portuguese dress. Contemporary gold-tooled, quarter green buckram, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, green (pseudo-) marbled paper sides. 46 ll. Full description

[PERKOIS, Jacob and Johannes Hubertus PRINS]. [Print series from: Verzameling van verschillende gekleede mans- en vrouwen-standen, ter oefening van jonge schilders en liefhebbers, naar 't leven geteekend].
[Rotterdam, J. Immerzeel, 1818 (engraved ca. 1790)]. 4to or cut down folio. A series of 32 (of 33) numbered full-page aquatint and stipple-engraved prints. Lacking plate 5, which has been replaced by an aquatint of a woman cleaning fish by Hermanus Fock. With 2 extra prints loosely inserted: colour-printed versions (inked a la poupée) of plates 20 and 25. Mid-19th-century half maroon sheepskin. 33 engr. ll. Full description

PICART, Bernard. Explication des vignettes de la seconde edition des oeuvres de Boileau ...
Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1729. Oblong 4to. With 25 engraved vignettes and 2 engraved initials on 25 leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins. 8 pp., [25] ll. Full description

PICART, Bernard. Diverses modes dessinées d'après nature.
Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1728. Oblong 4to (21 x 27.5 cm). Series of 12 engraved prints: 11 costume prints plus a title-page (title in a stunning and delicate cartouche, plate size: 12.5 x 7 cm) on 6 oblong 4to leaves (which could make 12 8vo leaves). 6 of the plates are signed by the engraver Gaspard Duchange, all after the designs of Bernard Picart. Unbound. Full description

PORTER, Robert Ker. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808.
London, for John Stockdale (back of title-page: Strahan and Preston), 1813. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 41 etched plates (12 sepia washed views, 1 uncoloured portrait, and 28 aquatint costume-plates) by J.C. Stadler after drawings by the author. Contemporary half cloth. XII, 303, [1 blank]; VIII, 296 pp. Full description

[PORTUGAL - PAMPHLET]. Noticia breve das novidades da Azia mandadas de Ali-Xarife da cidade de Babilonia; para Soliman morador na Corte de Constantinopla, e desta para a cidade de Sevilha a hum contratador de vidros.
(Colophon: Madrid, heirs of Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1742). 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). Disbound. 7, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Émile. Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile.
London, James Madden, 1848. Imperial folio (52.5 x 37.5 cm). With an additional decorative title-page, separately chromolithographed in black, gold and 7 colours, tinted and hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee, and 30 tinted and hand-coloured lithographs. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Modern half calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [6], 60 pp. Full description

PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Émile. Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile.
London, James Madden (back of title-page: printed by John Wertheimer & Co.), 1851. Super Royal folio (33 x 45.5 cm). With 31 tinted and hand-coloured lithographed plates, including the frontispiece, and a black-and-white illustration on the title-page. Contemporary gold-tooled red half morocco. [5], [1 blank], 60 pp. plus plates. Full description

[REICHARD, Heinrich August O.]. Malerische Reise durch einen großen Theil der Schweiz vor und nach der Revolution.
Jena, H.W.Ch. Seidler, 1805. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece with 4 medallion portraits, engraved title-page with the title on a rock in an alpine scene, 54 numbered engraved plates (1 folding) and 2 folding leaves with built-up letterpress music. With the 4 costume plates hand-coloured. Later 19th-century half cloth. XVI, 414, [2] pp. Full description

REITZ, Johann Frederik, and others. Oude en nieuwe staat van't Russische of Moskovische Keizerryk, behelzende eene uitvoerige historie van Rusland en deszelfs groot-vorsten; benevens de beschryvinge van dat uitgestrekte ryk, de zeden en godsdienst der inwoneren: zyne opkomst en voortgang in koophandel, kunsten, land- en zeemacht, oproeren, oorlogen en verdere wisselvalligheden, tot dezen tegenwoordigen tydt toe.
Utrecht, Johannes Broedelet, 1744. 4 volumes. 4to. With 4 folding maps, 3 folding plates and a folding letterpress table. Early 19th-century half red sheepskin. [2], 296; [2], 200, 200a-200d; [2], 501; [2], 830 pp. Full description

[DRAWING]. SAUNDERS, John. [John Sturges in Turkish costume with turban and gold-trimmed coat].
Peterborough, 1739. Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas (41 x 30.5 cm), stretched over (original?) wooden board. Full description

SCHÜTZERCRANTZ, Adolf Ulrik. Reseminnen från Orienten.
Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1839. Folio. With 6 lithographed plates by Schützercrantz. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers mounted on a larger sheet serving as a folder. 4 pp. Full description

[SERMON ON KINGS AND WHORES]. Koninglyke dwaesheid, of het gevaer van de verleidingh der hoeren. Vertoont in een predikaetie uitgesprooken te Oxfordt, ... Uit het Engelsch vertaalt.
Haarlem, Jan van Lee, 1743. 4to. With a woodcut emblematic device on title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 21, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SILVESTRE, Charles-François?]. l[']Art de bien dessiner a la plume nouvellement mis au jour pour l[']utilité de la jeunesse.
Including:
(2): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Diverses figures Turcs propre à dessiner a la plume.
(3): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Second livre de figures Turcs propre à déssiner à la plume.
(4): [SILVESTRE, Charles François?]. Diverses figures de caprice propre a dessigner a la plume.
[Paris?, ca. 1700?]. 4 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 16mo (13 x 16 cm). Each part with an engraved title page and each with 11 unnumbered engraved plates. Contemporary French sprinkled, gold-tooled calf. [12], [12], [12], [12] engr. ll. Full description

SPAAN, Gerrit van. Het koddig en vermakelyk leven van Louwtje van Zevenhuizen, of het schermschool der huislieden, vervat in twee deelen. Waar agter gevoegt is de Afrikaansche en Aziaansche weg-wijzer, ...
Rotterdam, Pieter de Vries, 1752. 4 parts in 2 volumes, bound as 1. 8vo. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, a letterpress general title-page, 4 part-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [20], 483 pp. Full description

[SUNQUA (attributed)]. [Album with twelve Chinese pith paintings of court officials].
[Guangzhou (Canton), before 1850]. Folio (ca. 34.5 x 24.5 cm). Gouache and gold on pith paper (ca. 26.5 x 17.5 cm), each drawing is mounted by its corners in an album of mulberry-bark(?) paper (ca. 34 x 24 cm) and framed with a light blue silk ribbon. Contemporary green silk brocade with a floral pattern, pink closing ties. [12] ll. Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. [Collection of satirical plates and illustrated poems related to Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid].
Including:
-11 very rare broadsheets, each of the first 10 with a satirical poem and 1 or more woodcut illustrations, the last with a verse by Joost van den Vondel and an engraved illustration.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720] (items 1-10); Rotterdam, Pieter vander Veer, 1721 (item 11). 1mo. Modern green half cloth.
-8 engraved prints with letterpress text by Jan de Ridder.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720]. Folio. Modern green half cloth.
-45 engraved satirical plates (including 2 made up of 4 separate prints each, and with a duplicate plate).
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats. Each in passepartout.
-12 separate prints (a few with letterpress text) and 2 copies of an engraved map in 2 parts, showing the coast of South America and the South Sea.
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats.
The whole kept together in a large 20th-century green half cloth portfolio (50×70 cm). Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankrijk, Engeland en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX.
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio (ca. 39 x 25.5 cm). With the title-page printed in red and black and 76 engraved plates, mostly double-page and several are larger folding sheets, including several maps, the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards, and an extra copy of plate 18 (Muller) loosely inserted at the front of the work. Contemporary elaboratly gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine and with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, bound by the so-called Double Drawer Handle Bindery in Amsterdam (between 1720 and 1742? - Storm van Leeuwen) [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, "31" [= 29), [1 blank], 8, 10 pp. and engraved ll. Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. De vervallen actionisten hersteld, door den triompheerden Arlequin. [The ruined share-holders restored by the triumphant Harlequin].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1720]. Bifolium (31.5 x 40 cm). Engraved print, with title on top and engraved verse in Dutch below, in 4 columns. The illustration coloured by hand. In passepartout (40 x 50 cm). Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid ...
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black, 78 mostly double-page or folding engraved plates with caricatures on the 1720 Bubble, and a double-page hand-coloured plate of the foundations of a house near Leiden loosely inserted in the back. Contemporary gold-tooled half blueish green roan, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, blue paste paper sides. [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, "31" [= 29], [1 blank], 8, 9, [1 blank] pp. and engraved ll. Full description

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826.
With: IDEM. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume.
Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. [1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp. Full description

THÜMMEL, Hans Wilhelm von. Historische, statistische, geographische und topographische Beiträge zur kenntniss des herzogthums Altenburg.
Altenburg, 1818. Folio. With 38 hand-coloured engraved portraits (a few with signatures of the subjects), 1 uncoloured engraved portrait, engraved map of the area by L. Michaelis after A. Krehan, small engraved map in text showing the districts Paditz and Kotteritz, and 1 engraved text. Contemporary boards. 3-112, 8, [4] pp. Full description

USTERI, Martin (artist) and Marquard WOCHER (engraver). L'oraison dominicale d'un habitant d'Unterwalde; suite de sept scènes de la Révolution helvétique.
Basel, the author and Schoell et Cie, 1803. 4to (29.5 x 22 cm). With 8 brush etchings or aquatints, including the title page, mounted on green paper with letterpress captions, interleaved with tissue guards. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, black sheepskin spine-label, gilt edges. Full description

[WILLIAM III, Count of Holland]. [SILLEMANS, Experiens?]. Justitie van Willem de Goede Grave van Holl[and]. etc. over de[n] Bailju van Zuyt-Hollant.
Amsterdam, Hugo Allard the elder, [ca. 1660/80?]. Broadside (40 x 50.5 cm). An engraved print with extensive engraved texts in Dutch, the central scene (33.5 x 30.5 cm) flanked by 6 smaller scenes, with the title above the central scene, 2 verse couplets below each smaller scene and the story in prose in the foot of the engraving. Full description

XAVERY, Gerard Joseph. Het nieuw geopend Italiaans tóneel, vertonende de wonderlijke ziekte bezwangerheid en baring van Arlequin: benevens de opvoeding van des zelfs jongen zoon.
With: (2) XAVERY, Gerard Joseph. Het Italjaansch tooneel voortreffelijk in 16 verbeeldingen uytgevoert ..., verrijkt met Nederduytsche en Fransche vaarzen door Florentius H. J. van Halen.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk II, [1728?] & [1735?]. Royal 4to (30.5 x 26 cm). With 2 engraved title prints, each followed by 16 numbered prints (pictorial images ca. 15 x 19 cm; plate size ca. 23.5 x 21 cm), with verses engraved in the feet of the plates. With all 34 engravings coloured by a contemporary hand and varnished, probably for the publisher. Contemporary vellum. [1], 16; [1], 16 engraved ll. Full description

ZEHENDTNER VOM ZEHENDTGRÜB, Paul. Ordenliche Beschreibung mit was stattlichen Ceremonien und Zierlichheiten, die Röm. Kay. May. unser aller gnedigster Herr, samt etlich andern Ertzhertzogen, Fürsten und Herrn, den Orden dess Guldin Flüss, in disem [15]85. Jahr zu Prag und Landshüt, empfangen und angenommen.
Dillingen, Johann Mayer, 1587. 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). With title printed in red and black, 7 full-page engraved illustrations (showing the collar (chain) of the Order, the Emperor Rudolf II in his robes and 5 coat-of-arms), and 13 large folding engraved plates showing the splendid ceremonies held at Prague and Landshut, probably all drawn by Anthony Boys. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin; rebacked with most of the original backstrip laid down. [1], [1 blank], 155, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description