- Good impression, cut on/ just inside the borderline (right margin w. sl. more loss). Formerly folded; a few tiny holes/ tears (restored) and some foxing; some thin scribbling in pen and ink on verso ln lower margin.
= Meder 123, copy before the text but without watermark. Schoch/ Mende/ Scherbaum 162. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
- Fine impression with good clarity and contrast, cut on/ just inside the borderline. Sl. soiled and a few small foxed spots. Verso partly sl. (water)stained, occas. shining through i.a. in lower right corner).
= Meder 105a, with watermark Meder 314 with letter L and pendant letter B; Schoch, Mende and Scherbaum 102. SEE ILLUSTRATION ON THE TITLE-PAGE.
- Trimmed 1,5 mm outside the borderline; a few sm. repairs/ strengthening in corners and along edges on verso; closed vertical tear (±2 cm) near upper edge and one near lower edge; agetoned. A good strong impression with even inking.
= Meder 59, probably a; Schoch etc. 70; Hollstein 59. On laid paper, no watermarks visible. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
- Left and upper margin cut short, w. sl. loss of image (±2 mm), otherwise cut on/ just within the borderline; browned/ foxed; upper left corner w. sm. section torn off; closed tear from the right edge to below the hips of Anna (±1,5 cm.).
= Meder 189, on sixteenth century laid paper with the fish bladder watermark (Meder watermark 309). Part of the series The Life of the Holy Virgin.
- Sm. repair in lower right corner; left edge partly strengthened on verso in lower part; yellowed.
= Meder 122, from the 1511 text edition of the Large Passion (with the text on verso), with the watermark showing the tower (Meder 259). With the collector's mark (?) of the artist W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp: "verz W.O.J.N." in pen and ink on verso (not in Lugt).
- Lacks part of the upper margin (±9,4x21,2 cm.); large closed tear. Sold w.a.f.
= Meder 200; Schoch/ Mende/ Scherbaum 178. Copy before the text, but without watermark.
- Good impression, cut just outside/ to the borderline. Verso remains of former mounting; restoration in lower margin just affecting the image.
= Meder 154. Copy without text. With the collector's mark of Abraham Gerson on verso (Lugt 1156a).
- Mediocre copy. Grey and worn impression; torn in half (restored).
= Hollstein and Meder 18c, without watermark; Schoch/ Mende/ Scherbaum 60.
- Restored small/ tiny holes and some restored tears.
= Cf. Meder 107g, with only 21 birds in the sky; Hollstein 107; Schoch, Mende and Scherbaum 127.
- A strong and dark impression; paper somewhat yellowed; trimmed on the platemark.
= On (probably) 16th cent. laid paper, no watermark visible. Bartsch 96; Schoch 42; Meder 93, c (w. the scratches). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
- Right margin trimmed short, w. sl. loss of image along right edge in lower half; trimmed on/ just within the borderline; all corners repaired/ strengthened on verso, perhaps w. tiny additions in pen; various sm. repairs along edges,
= On 16th century laid paper with tiny portion of an unidentified watermark in the upper right corner. Meder 223, (prob.) b; Schoch 228.
- Cut just outside/ inside the borderline. Restored copy, i.a. new lower corners and small piece lacking from upper right corner (affecting monogram) and closed tear in right margin; a few foxed spots; outer margins laid down on mount.
= Meder 37, b or c, without watermark; Bartsch 32.
- Sl. grey impression; cut just outside/ on the platemark. Sl. browned; verso w. contemp. manuscript text in Latin (shining through).
= Meder 103. On 16th cent. paper (±1576) with a lion, diamonds, Reichsapfel en shield head watermark.
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline; all w. attached margins or laid down (1x); all (sl.) soiled; Christ at Getsamene (Meder 135) w. a few sm. closed tears.
= Meder 134, 135, 145, 150 (copy by Johannes Mommard), 151, 156, 157 (copy by Johannes Mommard) and 160. Meder 151 (Descent from the Cross) on velin paper. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Verso traces of glue from former mounting and paper tape round sides.
= Meder 164; Schoch a.o. 112; Bartsch 61. Probably late 17th/ early 18th impression.
= Official facsimile (helio)engraving printed by the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin with their stamp on verso.
= i.a. from U. MEGERLE, De Gekheydt der Wereldt, 1737 (Landwehr, Emblem Books 5; Klaversma/ Hannema 25) and J. CATS, Alle de Wercken, 1712 (Cats STCN 8; Mus. Catsianum 6). Including some duplicates (in reverse).
- With various sm. repairs and strengthened spots on verso.
= An extremely rare surviving copy of a paper crown (one copy traced in the Museum van Gijn, Dordrecht). Buijnsters, Paper Toys, p.115 (mentioning the copy in this auction) and p.22: "Efemere gebruiksstukken als koningskronen zijn uiteraard slechts bij hoge uitzondering bewaard gebleven". On laid paper with part of a watermark, probably a 'Pro Patria' watermark. Cf. the article by Martin Royalton Kisch in the Print Quarterly vol. I, issue no.I (March 1984) depicting the sheet in this auction. These paper crowns were worn on the occasion of Epiphany, i.a. during a festive meal with a role playing game (i.a. painted by Jacob Jordaens). One of the earliest or the earliest depictions of these paper crowns can be found in the paintings of Pieter Brueghel de Oude, i.a. in 'The Gloomy Day' and "Fight between Carnival and Lent' (in the lower left corner). In both of these paintings the crown is worn by a child. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
= Hollstein 27, 2nd state (before the reworking of the sky) and the 3rd and final state (trifle foxed).
Idem. The cascade near the mill. Etching and drypoint, 13,7x19,9 cm., monogrammed in the plate.
- Cut well ±8 mm outside the platemark. = Hollstein 102, 5th and final state.
AND 1 other by the same: The Mill-stone near the cask (Hollstein 9, 3rd and final state).
- Plates only; most plates in mediocre condition, w. (large) tears, frayed and w. mould stains; partly loose or almost detached. Sold w.a.f.
= Originally a splendid publication by Christoph Weigel with 100 plates by Luiken, showing costumes of people from various (mostly) European nations and a few contemporary portraits of rulers, all around 1700. I.a. various costume plates showing people from the Viennese court including the Holy Roman emperor, but also Dutchmen, the Doge of Venice and Venetians, Jews from Poland and Frankfurt. Lipperheide Ac 2; cf. Colas 2189; Hiler s.3; Goedeke III, 240, 23; Klaversma/Hannema 21.