- Slightly foxed (mainly) in blank margins.
= Attractive print, with a fine profile of Haarlem in the background. The date tree symbolizes virtue. Hollstein 116, 2nd state (of 2). Rare. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Yellowed; partly trimmed to the platemark. = Hollstein 53, 5th state (of 5).
Canot, Pierre-Charles (1710-1777). "Les Plaisirs de l'Hiver". Engraving after Jean PILLEMENT, 43x50 cm., engr. caption below, London, "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament December 26th, 1759".
- Margins doubled/ restored; waterst. in caption.
- Cut on the platemark; trifle soiled.
= Hollstein 50, 4th state of 6. "The advice by [the engraver F.] Basan to young engravers, to copy the style of Cornelis Visscher, was widely followed, the rat-catcher favoured by many later engravers as the model for Visscher's oeuvre." (Hollstein). With the manuscript collector's mark of Jean Martin Frederic Geissler ("graveur en paysages a Paris"), dated 1810 (Lugt 1072) and an unidentified manuscript (collector's?) mark "Fo. B.No.".
- Cut on the platemark; a few vague creases in the corners.
= Hollstein 119, first state of 2. With the manuscript collector's mark of P. Mariette (dated 1668) (Lugt 1789) on verso.
AND 9 others after Nicolaas BERCHEM, mostly by Johannes DE VISSCHER, i.a. Herdsman caressing a girl (Hollstein 99, 1st state of 3); A Shepherdess at a spring (Hollstein 58, 4th state of 4);
- Sl. duststained in upper left corner; sm. restored spot in lower left corner; remnants of tape in corners on verso.
= Hollstein 16, the only state.
= Hollstein 42.
Wagner, Joseph (1706-1780). (Two ltalian village scenes). Two etchings after Franz de PAULA FERG, 27x31,8 and 25,7x31 cm., both w. the Venice address of the artist "Ex calcographia I. Wagner Ven.a.".
- Both sl. dustsoiled.
AND 1 other by the same after David TENIERS.
- Good impressions on laid paper with small margins. = Hollstein 73ff.
= Hollstein 504. From the series Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti (...)
AND 28 other sm. etchings and engravings, from various works, i.a. by Matthäus MERIAN (i.a. from T. TASSO, Gottfried oder erlösetes Jerusalem, 1651), Th. MATHAM, P. SERWOUTERS and Jan LUIKEN.
- Fine impressions with ample margins. = Hollstein 921ff, all first states (lacks 922, 923, 935, 939, 941 and 945).
- The last engraving trimmed just outside the upper border line; otherwise good margins; occas. some very vague foxing; nevertheless a fine set.
= Hollstein (De Vos) 166-171, the 2nd state (of 2) with the address of C.J. Visscher. Very rare. All with unidentified collector's mark "CvS" on verso (not in Lugt). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Old bookplate of "M. Gherardo Molza" on upper pastdown; 20th cent. bookplate and modern dedication in pen on upper pastedown; modern owner's stamp on title-p. ("Jan van der Meulen (...) Cleveland Ohio 44113"); "X" in pen and ink in upper blank left corner of title-p.; blank margins occas. sl. foxed (a few also sl. thumbsoiled); hinges weak. Covers rubbed/ worn and wormholed. Otherwise fine.
= Hollstein 51-71, 3rd state (of 3) with the plates numb. "1" to "20:"; Kat. Orn. Berlin 2216. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Small architectural perspective views. Series of 28 etchings, each 14,4x21 cm., (Antw., Th. Galle, ±1601).
- Without the dedication leaf (= H.72). = Hollstein 73-100, 3rd state (of 4), with plates numbered "21" to "49".
AND WITH: Idem. "Pictores, Satuarii, Architecti, Latomi, et Quicunque Principum Magnificorumque Virorum memoriae aeternae inservitis, adeste: (...) varias Coenotaphiorum, tumulorum & mortuorum monumentorum formas typis elegantissimis in aere exaratas (...)." Series of 27 engravings, all 16,7x20,9 cm., n.pl., H. Cock, 1563.
- All prints trimmed to/ just outside border line and all prints laid down; all prints sl. foxed/ sl. yellowed.
= Hollstein, Coenotaphiorum no.137-163.
AND WITH: Idem. Small wells. Series of 24 engravings, all 14x19,9 cm., n.pl., Ph. Galle, n.d. (±1574).
- All prints trimmed to/ just outside border line and all prints laid down; all prints sl. foxed/ sl. yellowed.
= Hollstein, no. 384-407, 1st state (of 2).
- First print w. a few very light foxed spots, otherwise fine. Second print browned and w. sm. paper flaw.
= Hollstein 22, 3rd state (of 3) (Basan ed.) and 30, 2nd state (of 2) (Basan ed.).
AND 4 others, i.a. an etching by Abraham BLOOTELING after Jacob VAN RUISDAEL (Hollstein 108).
- Ample margins. = Hollstein 3-6, 3rd state (of 4).
- Tear in lower blank margin. = Laanstra E50-2; Kramm 15.
AND 11 lithographs by Frederik Hendrik WEISSENBRUCH, after i.a. Jacob MARIS, Anton MAUVE and Charles ROUSSEAU.
- Vague brownish stain in lower half; yellowed; laid down w. a large number of flattened creases.
= "The United States of America (...) have authorized the World's Columbian Commission at the International Exhibition held in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, in the year 1893, to degree a medal for specific merit which is set forth below over the name of an international judge acting as an examiner, upon the finding of a board of international judges, to J.H. Weissenbruch, Holland. the Hague. Exhibit: water colors (...)".
= Kennedy 114.
- All plates (sl.) foxed in margins; occas. w. stains in margins; a few plates browned; all ample margins.
= Belg. Typogr. 6376: "Cette magnifique suite de gravures"; cf. Adams N-56. The greater part of the plates after Bernardo Passaro (9 after M. de Vos and 1 after J. Wierix), all but a few engraved by the three brothers Jean, Jérôme and Antoine Wierix (132 plates); Hollstein, Wierix Book illustrations 65; Cat. Berès, Pays-Bas anciens, no.176: "Cette suite est l'une des plus belles séries de gravures du seizième siècle Flamand et l'une des grandes oeuvres de l'art graphique". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
= Part of a double portrait with his wife Isabella. Rare. Hollstein 2041; Macquoy-Hendrickx 1760.
Noorde, Cornelis van (1731-1795). (Portrait of Jan Christiaansz van der Winde, centenarian from Haarlem). Etching, 24,5x17,7 cm. (platemark), 1764.
- Somewhat foxed.
AND 7 other portraits of centenarians, i.a. 3 others by Cornelis van NOORDE.
- Sl. foxed/ yellowed; some wrinkles.
= Hollstein, De Vos 158-161; Mauquoy-Hendrickx I,38-41. The 2nd-5th state (of 2-5). With the extra plate "The people of Niniveh repenting after hearing the prophecy of Jonah": "In fact the fourth print of a series first published by Philips Galle. In its second state added by Claes Jansz. Visscher as no.4 to the Jonah-set of the Wierix brothers." (Hollstein 160).



















































