- Cut just outside the borderline, lower margin up to the caption; a few closed tears and holes; somewhat soiled and agetoned.
= From the series Christ, the twelve apostles and St Paul with the Creed (14 engravings).
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline; vague brown spot in upper part.
= Filedt Kok 24; New Hollstein 104, only state: "Probably impression of a silver medallion."
= Vincent Jacobsz. Coster, alias Sente Peylder, born about 1553, was an official city wine gauger (for collecting excise on wine). New Hollstein 242.
- Partly waterst. in lower blank margin (not affecting image); title duststoiled and reattached; sl. fingersoiled; a few prints trifle yellowed and foxed; 2 heraldic bookpates on upper pastedown; binding w. minor imperfections.
= Hollstein 340b and 341-457; cf. Cockle 79 (English ed., 1607); cf. Lipperheide Qb18 (Dutch ed. 1607); Jähns p.1005ff. The famous manual on handling muskets and pikes by Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1629). For the complex history of publication of the various (Dutch, German, English, French and Danish) editions in the years 1607-1608, see catalogue Le héraut du dix-septième siècle. Dessins et gravures de Jacques de Gheyn II et III, no.37 (Paris, Institut Néerlandais, 1985, with literature).
- Trimmed on/ just inside the bordeline. Hollstein 86 yellowed. = New Hollstein 86, 88, 89, 95 and 99, all the first state (of 2); Hollstein Dolendo 30ff.
- Agetoned; sl. soiled; w. paper flaw.
= New Hollstein 176 copy a: "Engravings in same direction, same size and with the same text of the complete set, published by Assuerus Londerseel, before 1595."
- Mostly fine, a few w. sm. defects.
= New Hollstein 340, 4th state of 4 (French edition), 341, 342, 348, 358, 359, 361, 363, 365, 377, 379, 385, 386, 388, 389, 399, 409, 413, 422, 427, 431, 435, 438, 439, 445, 450, 452, 454, 457.
- One print "Sforza" lower right corner torn off, repaired and entirely redrawn; 2x trimmed on the platemark; (partly) trimmed to the borderline.
= New Hollstein 234-237, 1st state of 2.
- Vague horizontal fold; tipped onto mount.
= Bartsch 38; Lewis & Lewis 36, the third state (of 4). From a series of 7 designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau.
- Doubled. Trimmed just inside the borderline.
= Bartsch 42; Lewis & Lewis 42, the 7th and final state. With the collector's stamp of Winfield Robbins of verso (not in Lugt).
- Soiled and stained; lower left corner lacks portion and repaired (not affecting the image).
= State before the name of Carlo Maratti in the lower left corner. Formerly attributed to Pier Francesco Mola. Cf. Bartsch p.203,2 (Mola), and The Illustrated Bartsch (Commentary, Giovane) 007. With the collector's mark of the sculptor Ernest-Theophile Devaulx (1831-1901) (Lugt 670), dated 1879.
AND 3 others.
- All w. ample margins; occas. trifle frayed/ soiled in blank margins; mostly fine.
= This complete series with splendid views is the only etched work by Thomas Girtin. The aquatint additions were made by several contemporary artists, such as Joseph Constantine Stadler and Frederick Christian Lewis. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Cut on/ just within the borderline; sm. waterstain in lower left corner; paper flaw/ crease in right part.
= Rare. With the manuscript collector's mark of "Jo: Schwarzenbold, pictor Augspurg 1813" (not in Lugt). Perhaps Joseph Schwarzenbold (1786-after 1860?). New Hollstein 335.
- Trimmed to the image; sl. fingersoiled and agetoned.
= New Hollstein 14, 5th state of 6 (with the outlines still visible). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Trimmed just outside the platemark; a few closed holes in upper part and sm. tear in right margin; agetoned.
= New Hollstein 14, 6th state of 6 (all outlines removed).
- Fingersoiled; trimmed 1 mm. outside the borderline.
= Rare. New Hollstein 127, only state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Doubled; sm. restoration in pen to borderline in lower right corner; trifle foxed. Otherwise fine.
= F.M. 627; New Hollstein 203: "Attributed to Goltzius by Bartsch. Rejected by Hirschmann as 'random attribution' (p.166) and by Strauss and TIB. Attribution to Goltzius confirmed by a document of 1580 according to which the city council of Haarlem payed Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert as publisher and Hendrick Goltzius as engraver for this plate: 'zeekere plaet in coper gesneden nopende de clachte der laste van Haerlem aen den Prince van Orangien.'" Rare print.
- Lower margin w. the caption repaired and strengthened along the edge on verso: lower left corner lacks portion (incl. the printed number "1"), repaired w. later paper and sm. section of image replaced in pen and ink; sm. closed tear (next to the monogram) in upper edge; trimmed 1-2 mm outside the borderline; lower margin trimnmed short, just within the caption.
= Rare. New Hollstein 144.
= New Hollstein 275. Rare. With the collector's mark of Albert Pieter van den Briel (Lugt 407a) and the doublette mark of the Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g), and the manuscript collector's mark of Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716), dated 1669 (Lugt 1790).
- Second print trimmed to the image, lacking the caption; first print trimmed just outside/ on the borderline, sl. yellowed.
= New Hollstein 129, 2nd or 3rd state of 4 and 131, 2nd state.
- Doubled; trimmed to/ just outside the borderline. Sl. grey impression.
= Strauss 344; Hollstein 218, 2nd state (of 3). The famous "Goltzius dog".
- Cut to/ just outside the borderline w. the caption cut off; upper right corner w. a repair; tiny closed tear in left margin, ±0,5 mm within the image; overall sl. fingersoiled. Good strong impression
= Hollstein 255 ; New Hollstein 288. With the doublette stamp of the print cabinet of Leyden University (Lugt 700b) on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
- Sl. foxing, mostly in lower part; vague horizontal crease, w. 2 tiny holes. On thick laid paper.
= New Hollstein 13, 3rd state of 3; Hollstein 14, the 3rd state (of 5), the number "6" added, before the address of C.J. Visscher. Strauss 317: "this "Holy Family" is counted among Goltzius' "master engravings"". From the series of 6 engravings depicting the life of the virgin, the so-called Master pieces. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
= Hollstein 34, the second state (of 2).
- A few specks; trimmed on/ just outside the border line; a few brown stains on verso.
= New Hollstein 31, 2nd state of 2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
- Grey impression; cut just outside the borderline. = New Hollstein 234.
- First print trimmed on/ just within the borderline; 2nd print somewhat unevenly browned; trimmed just outside the borderline.
= New Hollstein 130, 3rd state of 3 (numb. 63) and 131, 2nd state of 3 (numb. 3).
- Trimmed outside the border line, prob. on the platemark.
= Dark, strong impression. Rare. Hollstein 168; New Hollstein 170. Plate 7 (of 8) of the series of Roman Heroes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
- Closed tears/ repaired sections near centre and in lower left corner; foxed spots, mostly in lower part; unevenly browned; a few worn/ nibbled spots; trimmed on/ just within the borderline.
= (Very) rare. New Hollstein 311, 1st state of 3.
- Trimmed to the borderline.
= Rare. New Hollstein 149, possibly part of an unfinished series of the Seven planets.
= From the series of the Four Elements. New Hollstein 653, 3rd state of 3. With the collector's mark of Friedrich II August of Saxony (Lugt 971) on recto.
- Dam. (repaired) spot in upper margin. = Hollstein 731 copy a/I; Bartsch 84.
- Cut on/ just within the platemark; some parts strengthened on verso; a few sm. tiny closed marginal tears; sl. fingersoiled.
= New Hollstein 398, attributed to Jan SAENREDAM. From the series of The Wives of Patriarchs.
- Narrow paper strip on verso outer edges (from former mount/ passepartout); trimmed to the image.
= On contemporary laid paper. With 19th century manuscript collectors mark not found in Lugt ("A. W...?" and "847") and a collectors's mark "PMMH" (Pieter Hoogeweegen?, not in Lugt) and Albert Pieter van den Briel (Lugt 407a); Hollstein 2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.
- Some small marginal tears; verso upper margin traces of former mounting.
= Delteil 16; Harris13, 3rd edition.
- First two and final etching (badly) browned; a few etchings w. some smudgy colouring; sl. fingersoiled; partly printed eskew. Sold w.a.f.
= Series A, no.10-12; series B, no.1-12 (complete); series C, no. 3-6 (or 7) and 8-12; series D, no.1-4 and 8-12; series E, no.1, 4-7 and 10-12; series F, no.1-11; without series number, no. 1-4.
- Three plates w. sm. brown stain in lower (blank) margin. A good/ fine copy.
= Complete set of all 7 series (marked A to F, the last series without letter), each print w. series letter, number (1 to 12) and title engr. in caption. The 2nd state (of 3) of this fine series of Dutch sailing vessels. See De Groot/ Vorstman p.8 ("The most specialized artist in the field at the end of the eighteenth century was Gerrit Groenewegen, with his views of the port of Rotterdam and his series of eighty-four ship types, which was published in instalments"), p.20ff and no.191-202.
- Rebacked; binding browned and sl. rubbed. A fine copy.
= Complete set of all 7 series (marked A to F, the last series without letter), each print w. series letter, number (1 to 12) and title engr. in caption. The 2nd state (of 3) of this fine series of Dutch sailing vessels. See De Groot/ Vorstman p.8 ("The most specialized artist in the field at the end of the eighteenth century was Gerrit Groenewegen, with his views of the port of Rotterdam and his series of eighty-four ship types, which was published in instalments"), p.20ff and no.191-202.
- Two engravings very vaguely waterst.; otherwise fine.
= See De Groot/ Vorstman p.8: "The most specialized artist in the field at the end of the eighteenth century was Gerrit Groenewegen, with his views of the port of Rotterdam and his series of eighty-four ship types, which was published in instalments".
- Occas. browned.
Roux, Jacob, Christian (early 19th cent.). (Anatomical view of the male erogenous zones, showing arteries). Two partly handcol. lithogr. plates, each 71x51 cm., from TIEDEMANN, Tabulae arteriarum corporis humani, 1822.
- Each sl. foxed.
- Occas. sl. grey impressions; a few leaves restored w. Japanese or paper strip along outer or upper margin; a few leaves sl. browned in upper/ lower margin. Very fine copy.
= A fine collection of Hogenberg's Geschichtsblätter, rarely found thus complete. The series contains 2 extra unnumb. plates and 1 extra (unnumb.) portrait. The plate numbering skips one plate (no.184). F.M. 413: "Prentwerk (...) over de gebeurtenissen in Nederland, Frankrijk, Duitschland, enz., van 1558-1610, ook over het jaar 1535, en eenige platen over 1611-1632; te zamen 375 à 400 platen (...) Iedere plaat met een 12- of 16 reg. Duitsch vers (...). Dit uiterst belangrijke en vrij zeldzame werk is voor de kennis der Nederl. geschiedenis van groot gewigt, daar het ten tijde der gebeurtenissen zelve vervaardigd en uitgegeven is. (...) de meeste Exemplaren bevatten 375 à 400 platen; doch al die verschillende platen bijeengenomen wordt het een getal van 482, die zeker nooit bijeen te vinden zijn, en waarvan vele slechts in 1 of 2 Exemplaren werden gevonden. (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE CXVII.
= Showing the events during the Dutch Revolt in the southern and northern Netherlands: the siege of Steenwijk, the battle near Aumale and The fall of Kinsale to the English in 1602.
= With engr. caption below the portrait reading "Gerardi Mercatoris Rupelmundi Effigiem annorduorum et sex-aginta, sui erga ipsum studii causa depingi curabat Franc. Hog. M.D.LXXIV." New Hollstein 36, 3rd state (of 4): "frontispiece in: Italiae, Sclavoniae, et Graeciae tabulae geographice (...) per Gerardum Mercatorem Cosmographum."
AND a small print of "De Compasse-maaker" (handcol. engr. by J. LUYKEN, framed).
- Small closed split on the plate mark near lower left corner.
= New Hollstein 1034, 3rd state (of 4). The letterpress Dutch commentary reads: "De Toorn van Antwerpen is in alle deelen een wonderlijk werk van het menschelijk vernuft, ende een groot gedenkteken van oude magt en Rijkdom, op het werk is in den jare 1518, het kruys geset."
- Horizontal fold in centre, strengthened on verso; ample margins.
= New Hollstein 1034, 2nd state of 4. Parthey/ Pennington 824.
- Some foxing in upper part. = Pennington 598.
- Vague vertical fold in left part; trimmed just outside the borderline.
= Originally the frontispiece of T. SPRAT, The History of the Royal Society of London (1667). New Hollstein 1966 and Pennington 459.
- Some creases in (ample) blank margins; image fine. = New Hollstein 7.