5733 - 5857 FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS
- Foxed in blank margins.
- Slightly soiled in vertical margins.
"Urbis et Pontis Londini Prospectus. La Ville et le Pont de Londres". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, Paris, Daumont, ±1770.
- A few brown specks in sky area; partly trimmed to the border line w. loss of caption/ address.
AND 4 others, i.a. "Prospectus monumenti erecti in memoriam funesto incendii anno MDCLXVI Londini" (Bassano, Remondini, ±1780. Mounted; pinhole in lower margin) and "Ironmonger's Hall with a View of Fenchurch Street" (London, T. Bowles a.o., 1753. Mounted; a few stains).
- Sl. foxed in blank margins.
"Vüe Perspective du G.d Etang de Buen Retiro, Maison de plaisance du Roy d'Espagne." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, ibid., idem, ±1770, w. caption cut off and laid down on verso.
- Trimmed to the border line; doubled.
AND 2 others: "Vue général du Mont Serra en Espagne" (ibid., Mondhare, ±1770) and a duplicate of the first view.
- Doubled; a few marginal tears. = Nice view w. many ships.
- Oblique crease in left part.
"Vuë perspective du Chateau R.le de Marly". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French below, without address, ±1770.
- Slightly browned; (pin)holes in blank margins.
= Attractive view.
"Première Partie de la Ville et du Port de Bordeaux. Prise du Coté des Salinieres". Contemp. handcol. optical view by B.F. LEIZELT after J. VERNET, w. engr. captions in German and French below image and in French above image, ibid., idem, ±1770. - AND 1 other: "La Ville de Paris prise entre le Piont Royal et le Pont Neuf" (contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, w. captions below and above the image, Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1770. Six v. Kapff, K-113).
= Showing the famous Chinampas, artificial islands used for growing crops.
- Without the captions. = Sixt v. Kapff K141. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
(Veduta del Palazzo fabbricato sul Quirinale (...)). Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, w. perforations backed w. col. paper for candle-light viewing, within blackened borders, numb. "138" in upper right corner, ibid., idem, ±1750.
- Captions cut off. Otherwise fine. = Sixt v. Kapff K153.
AND 1 other: (Rome dans son Ancienne Splendeur) (contemp. handcol. optical view, Paris, Daumont, ±1770. Captions partly cut off). - ADDED: "Vue perspective du Chateau du Roy d'Espagne aux environs de Madrid" (contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, Paris, Basset, ±1770).
- Fine copy. = Sixt v. Kapff K 141.
- Closed tear in right margin, sl. affecting image. = Sixt v. Kapff K 140.
"Veduta del Cortile del Palazzo Arcivescovale con una parte del Duomo in Milano." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Italian and French below, without address, ±1770.
- Slightly waterst.; a few (sm.) tears in blank margins.
AND 1 other similar: "Die Dom und St. Ambrosii Kirche in der Stadt Maijland" (Augsb., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1770. Dam. in blank margins; waterst.).
- Second print w. oblique crease in right part. Good/ fine copies.
- Vague vertical crease.
"Vue perspective de la Bataille Remportée par les Troupes Espagnoles et Françoises aux ordres de Mr. le Comte d'Aranda (...)". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., Basset, ±1790.
- Vague crease in left part.
= View of the battle of Salvaterra de Magos, where Spanish and French troops invaded Portugal during the final stage of the Seven Years' War.
AND 1 other: "Siege d'ypres prise par les François, la nuit du 24. au 25 mars 1678" (without address, ±1770. Slightly foxed in blank margins).
- A few vague creases; waterst. in blank margins.
- Some stains in blank margins.
ADDED: "Prospect des Königl. Dänischen Lust-Schlosses Fridrichsburg." Contemp. handcol. optical view, w. engr. captions below and above image, Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1770 (Sixt v. Kapff, K.93).
- Some marginal tears; otherwise fine. = Sixt v. Kapff K 73.