5323 - 5647 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Vague oblique fold mainly in blank margin lower right corner. = F.M. 4252-a/3.
- Waterstain in blank margin in lower right corner. = F.M. 4256-a.
= Not in Nissen.
= From the series Diverses especes de Poissons de Mer. Bartsch 18; Dumesnil 432, 1st state (of 2). With the manuscript collector's marks of F. Rosenstock (not in Lugt) and an unread collector ("P. ?").
AND 2 others by the same from the series of the fishes: "Encrasicholus, L'Anchoie" (Bartsch 26, 2nd state (of 2). Ample browned margins) and "Gabius sive fundulus. Le Goujon" (Bartsch 54, 2nd state (of 2). Foxed).
- Ample margins, sl. agetoned; formerly bound.
= Robert-Dumesnil 537, 2nd state of 2. From a series of 6 views.
AND 2 others by the same, from the series of 12 views of the surroundings of Paris: view of the village of Gentilly (Robert-Dumesnil 507, 2nd state of 3) and view of Fauxbourg.
- 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.
- A few creases and sm. restorations to paper; not examined outside frame.
= Wessely 146; Le Blanc 55; Hollstein 8. The very rare coloured version of this mezzotint. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE
"Malus sive Poma Adami spinosum. (...) Quissen Apfel. (...) gehörnte Quissen." Col. etching, 32,5x20,5 cm., numb. "N.703" in top corner, from the same work as the preceding.
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Both prints w. sl. unevenly trimmed left blank margin (remaining width of blank margin still at least 1 cm.).
- Fine. = Nissen, BBI 1341. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
AND 4 handcol. steelengravings of insects from C. D'ORBIGNY, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, 1849 (Nissen, ZBI 4617).