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From a series of "the finest engravings of flowers ever made" by the teacher of Redouté

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Grande Capucine. Tropaeolum majus L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Oblong folio. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (38 x 55.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a branch of the Tropaeolum majus showing three flowers and six buds in various stages. In passepartout. Full description
€ 2,750
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From a series of "the finest engravings of flowers ever made" by the teacher of Redouté

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Pivoine double. Paeonia officinalis L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Paeonia officinalis showing two branches with one flower each, signed "Carrée sculp." Framed (67 x 50 cm). Full description
€ 2,950
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From a series of "the finest engravings of flowers ever made" by the teacher of Redouté

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Mufle de veau. Antirrhinum majus. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (54.5 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Antirrhinum majus showing a branched stem with flowers in various stages, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description
€ 2,750
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From a series of "the finest engravings of flowers ever made" by the teacher of Redouté

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Maïs, Blé de Turquie. Zea mays L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (54 x 39 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of an ear of corn, with 6 leaves and part of the stalk, on a stone wall, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In a passepartout. Full description
€ 2,750
Agriculture Gastronomy Prints & Print Series
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Fine coloured stipple engraving by one of the masters of Dutch flower painting

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Jacinthe double. Hyacinthus orientalis L. from: [Fleurs Dessinées d'Après Nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Folio. Stipple engraved plate, printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Common Hyacinth, Garden Hyacinth or Dutch Hyacinth with at the left a blue hyacinth without leaves, right a lilac hyacinth with leaves. Signed 'P.F. Le Grand sculp.' Framed. Full description
€ 2,750
Colour Printing / Chromolithography Flowering Plants Horticulture Prints & Print Series
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Fine coloured stipple engraving by one of the masters of Dutch flower painting

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Seringat odorant. Philadelphus coronarius L. from: [Fleurs Dessinées d'Après Nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Folio. Stipple engraved plate, printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Sweet Mock-orange or English Dogwood showing six clusters of flowers of which one is out of flower, signed 'P.F. Le Grand sculp.'
In passepartout. Full description
€ 2,750
Colour Printing / Chromolithography Flowering Plants Prints & Print Series
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Fine coloured stipple engraving by one of the masters of Dutch flower painting

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Sceau de Salomon. Convallaria multiflora. L. from: [Fleurs Dessinées d'Après Nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].

[Paris, 1799-1801]. Folio. Stipple engraved plate, printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Solomons Seal showing a branch with flowers and leaves. Not signed. In passepartout. Full description
€ 2,750
Colour Printing / Chromolithography Flowering Plants Prints & Print Series
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The bombardment of Alexandria, a night-attack of jihadic troops in Sudan and a survey in the Far East and Australia

SPINKS, Walter. [Album of watercolours drawn aboard HMS Myrmidon].
On board HMS Myrmidon, [1884-]1886[-1887]. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 25 cm). With 25 watercolours (including 1 double-page) and 13 pencil drawings, most of them captioned in pencil. Contemporary half-sheepskin album. [32] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Marvelously illustrated emblematic work on moral education

SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Leerzaame zinnebeelden, ... Tweede druk.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1757. With engraved frontispiece and 50 beautifully engraved emblems in text.
With: (2) SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der Leerzaame zinnenbeelden, Spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. With same engraved frontispiece (with revisions), 30 engraved emblems in text and 4 engraved emblems on plates with letterpress text. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled, tanned sheepskin. [16], 220, [3, 1 blank]; [8], XII, 144, 90, [2] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Dutch Literature Emblem & Songbooks
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9 drawings of magnificent triumphal arches and funeral biers erected in Siena for its leading family
and for the Grand Duke of Toscany Cosimo III de Medici and his wife and son

[SPLENDID CEREMONIES]. [Triumphal arches and catafalques (elaborate funeral biers) erected in the years 1715, 1721-1723 and 1737].
[Sienna, ca. 1728, with 1 addition ca. 1737]. Folio (ca. 29 x 21 cm). 8 original drawings in black ink with ink washes plus 1 additional line drawing of a catafalque added about a decade later. Never bound, but formerly sewn. ll. 28-31, 34-37. Full description
€ 9,500
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