- Cut on the borderline; lower margin cut short, w. partial loss of the letters; waterstained along lower edge; vertical central fold partly strengthened in upper part; left part unevenly browned/ stained.
= Hollstein 4; New Hollstein 2, prob. 4th or 5ths state of 5, w. the address below the text cut off. With a large unidentified watermark showing two climbing lions under a large crown.
- First print w. closed marginal and 2 larger tears; both prints w. closed central vertical tear on fold.
= The artist is only known for the 4 circular prints he made for the alchemist treatise by Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae (Hamburg, 1595). The first edition is still without the double-page plates and the circular engravings are with a large border with a copious text. Caillet 5747 (mentioning the Hanau edition of 1609). "La Planche qui représente Khunrath entouré de ses ennemis (...) manque dans presque tous les exemplaires. Il en est de mème pour les 2 tableaux synoptiques de Kabbale synthétisée (...)". On laid paper with a coat of arms showing a castle with a fish below its gate and a monogram "HR" (found on paper used in 1604 in Celle). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
Anonymous (early 17th cent.). (Symbolic landscape with large rock "pyramidum" containing a alchemist text). Engraving, 28x32,5 cm., "M.DC.II" (1602) in the plate.
- Central fold strengthened on verso and a few closed marginal tears.
= On laid paper with the same watermark as above. The style is cruder then the circular engravings, so not by Van der Doort. The caption below is signed by Heinrich Khunrath. The text on the rock is in Latin and a German translation and signed "Mercurius Trismegistus in Pimandro".
- With central fold and sl. (finger)soiled; trimmed on the platemark. = Hollstein 6, 2nd state of 3.
Fyt, Jan (1611-1661). The sleeping dogs. Etching, 16,7x22 cm., "Fyt" in the plate.
- Large closed tear in upper left corner; trimmed just outside the borderline.
= Hollstein 15, prob. 2nd state of 3. With the collector's mark of Juan Jorge Peoli (1825-1893, Lugt 2020), the manuscript collector's mark of Leonard and Lisa Baskin (1922-2000, Lugt 4475) and annotations in pencil "M.F.A. Boston" and "H.F. Sewall" and "dupl." (but not the usual marks of these 2 collections).
- Cut just outside the borderline; both sl. grey impressions.
= Hollstein 7, 2nd or 3rd state and 8, 2nd or 3rd state.
Idem. The two swine. The three swine near the edge. Two etchings, each 12x15,1 cm.
- Trimmed just outside the platemark.
= Hollstein 15, 1st state of 2, before the number and Hollstein 16, 2nd state of 2, with the number.
Idem. The Village on the hill. Etching, 12,1x15,5 cm.
- Trimmed just outside the platemark; fine impression.
= Hollstein 9. With the number 9, not mentioned by Hollstein. With the collector's mark of Albert van den Briel (Lugt 407a).
Idem. The two horses with the plough. The ox and the ass. Two etchings, each 15,3x18,1 cm.
- Trimmed just outside the platemark; 2nd print w. a few sm. grease stains.
= Hollstein 25 and 26, 2nd state of 3, with the number but before the reduced height. H.25 with the manuscript collector's mark of Adam Vassilievitch Olsoufiev (1721-1784) on recto (his initials (Lugt 1752) and Van Doorne and Bianchi on verso.
AND 7 others by the same: The Ruins of a temple (Hollstein 12); The Four Sheep (Hollstein 14, 3rd state w. the number); The cow, The bull and the calf (Hollstein 34, 2nd state of 3); The Tree with the Rootslaid bare (Hollstein 17, 2nd state w. the number); The Four mountains (Hollstein 18, 3rd state w. the number); The packer and the two asses (Hollstein 19, 2nd state w. the number) and the Savoyard (Hollstein 52, 2nd state w. the number).
- Good impression cut on/ just outside the borderline. Partly irregularly browned/ waterst.
= Meder 205c; Schoch/ Mende/ Scherbaum 183. Copy before the text with "Fischblase" watermark. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
- 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.
- Small closed tear in upper margin just affecting the image.
= Atlas van Stolk 3085; F.M.3297: "Zeldzaam. Waar dit vuurwerk te 's Hage is afgestoken, kan ik nergens vinden noch nagaan, want rondom den tempel (...) voeren tal van schepen (...) wat mijns erachtens niet in het water van den Vijverberg kan geschied zijn". Hollstein 12, situating the print in Leeuwarden. Sievernich, Das Buch der Feuerwerkskunst, 1987, p.124, with ill.: "Von einem raketenzaun umgebenes illuminiertes Monument... auf dem Vijver in Den Haag 1702".
- Very fine handcolouring.
= With the "Egypte ancienne et moderne" watermark, and produced by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Henri-Joseph Redouté.
- Vague oblique fold; trifle foxed.
= Very rare engraving possibly from a very rare publication or one of its reprints. On the work: Hunt 343; Nissen BBI 502; Pritzel 2341.
- Two tiny unobtrusive tears in centre; 3 vertical folds; a few sm. stains near left edge in the image.
= F.M. 4206a.
AND 1 other by Jan Casper PHILIPS after M. SCHLUYMER: "Afbeeldinge der voorschreeve illuminatie van de drie andere zyden gezien" (F.M. 3843.4).
- Without the text part. Very fine.
= Rare collection of engravings on occasion of the funeral procession of Princess Anna van Hannover. F.M. 4097.1; Atlas van Stolk 4081.
AND 4 sm. engr. portraits of Anna van Hannover and 2 sm.engr. portraits of Willem IV.
- With 2 vertical folds; sl. soiled; sl. rubbed near right margin; sm. closed tear near lower right corner.
= Rare. Part of a series of 3 prints to commemorate the start of the Twelve Year Truce in 1609. The meeting of stadtholder prince Maurits and the Spanish general Spinola outside The Hague (skyline in the background). New Hollstein 61; F.M. 1249.
- Cut just outside the borderline.
= (Very) rare. New Hollstein 154. From a series of 2 landscapes after Vinckboons. On laid paper with a partial watermark of a vase or jug. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- First print sl. browned, ample margins; 2nd and 3rd print both fine, trimmed ±8-15 mm outside the platemark.
= The Old St. Anthonis Gate, New Hollstein 90, 1st state of 3; The Houtewael, NH 91, 2nd state of 2; The old Reguliers Gate, NG 92, 1st state (?), without the number 3 (not mentioned by New Hollstein!). First print with the collector's mark of Albert den Briel (Lugt 407a); 2nd print w. the (manuscript) collector's marks of J.F. Bianchi (Lugt 3761), Heinrich Buttstaedt (died in 1876, Lugt 320) and an unread collector's mark ("P. D...."); 3rd print w. the collector's mark of J.F. Bianchi.
- All but one sl. soiled in margins; Jesaja cut to the platemark, all others w. wide margins.
= Portraits of Jesaja (4), Jeremias (5), Daniel (8), Hosea (9), Amos (11), Obadja (12), Jonas (13) (w. on verso an engraving of Jonas in the whale), Micha (14), Habbakuk (16), Sophonias (17), Haggai (18). All from the series Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti. Hollstein 4-30.
- Fine impressions with ample margins. Lacks plates 33 and 34. All fingersoiled (a few incl. title worse), for the greater part in blank margins.
= New Hollstein 187ff.
- Fine.
= Cf. Garrison-Morton 398: "Remarkable for its striking mezzotints printed in color". Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Lower margin diagonally trimmed short (0-1,5 cm.), without loss of vital aspects of the image; tiny tear in right margin touching the image; nevertheless an attractive print.
= Cf. Garrison-Morton 398: "Remarkable for its striking mezzotints printed in color". Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- Partly vaguely foxed; some vague handling creases.
= Armelaut/ Bocher 34, the 2nd state (of 5), before the title.
- Vertical closed tear in centre of caption and ±5 cm. into the image; sm. restorations on verso in upper corners; one sm. wormhole; agetoned w. a few brown specks.
= Very rare. Hollstein 7, 1st state. Part of a series of 4 prints showing Allegories on the medical profession. Partly copied (in reverse) after the series on the same subject by the atelier of Hendrick Goltzius. SEE ILLUSTRATI
- Cut on the platemark; sl. agetoned; a few specks and spots in the margins.
= New Hollstein (de Gheyn), 64-67; New Hollstein (Goltzius) 4456-459. All four with the doublure stamp of the print cabinet of University of Leyden (Lugt 700b) on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Fine impression cut just outside/ on the borderline. Small repaired hole above the right eye; old marginal restorations; old flattened middle-fold; some vague handling creases; sl. foxed/ duststained. Verso with unidentified collector's mark.
= New Hollstein 170, the second state (of 2); Hollstein 298. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Sl. agetoned; trimmed on the platemark. = New Hollstein 186, 1st state of 3.
- Sm. section (±2,5 cm.) of margin cut short, just touching the image; vague sm. stain in margin; tipped onto mount, attached thin cellulose paper sl. yellowed and sl. shining through.
= Hollstein 141, 2nd state of 3. With the collector's marks of Julius Hoffmann (1840-1913) (Lugt 1264), Constant Moyaux (1835-1911) (Lugt 1829a) and Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891) (Lugt 1687). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Sl. agetoned; cut ±1 cm outside the platemark; sl. grey impression; sm. repair in lower left blank margin.
= New Hollstein 184, 1st state of 3.
= New Hollstein 246, 2nd state (of 2), with the fault at the top.
- Sl. agetoned; trimmed ±0,5 cm. outside the platemark; manuscript annot. or collector's mark in pen and brown ink in upper left corner.
= New Hollstein 183, 2nd state of 2.