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Fables et contes.Parma, Bodoni, 1792. 2 volumes. 12mo. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf by Loutrel, with a pink morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, a blind-tooled single fillet border on both boards, fleurons on the spine, head edge gilt, marbled endpapers.
Fables et contes.Parma, Bodoni, 1792. 2 volumes. 12mo. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf by Loutrel, with a pink morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, a blind-tooled single fillet border on both boards, fleurons on the spine, head edge gilt, marbled endpapers.
MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon Pierre. · 1749
€5,850.00 ($6,447.91 | £4,879.75 | ¥1,029,771)
44, 25 (bis.) - 44 (bis.), 45-144; [8], 168 pp.Extremely rare imprint, limited to only 25 copies, all printed on "paper vélin". This copy nearly matches one recorded in the BNF. However, ours has additional title pages to both parts, both of which carry the author's name, as w...
Nuovo metodo, che facilita la lingua Toscana disteso con regole grammaticali, ...Rome, Paolo Moneta, 1683. Small 12mo (14 x 8 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers.
Nuovo metodo, che facilita la lingua Toscana disteso con regole grammaticali, ...Rome, Paolo Moneta, 1683. Small 12mo (14 x 8 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers.
SEBASTIANI, Pietro de’. · 1677
€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)
[4], 47, [1 blank] pp.Unrecorded first and only edition of a concise grammar of and guide to the Italian language (in its Tuscan variant, which had already spread to Rome by this date), dedicated to Massimiliano di Bethune, Prince of Henrichemont. Pietro de' Sebastiani, profes...
Korte schets van het voor gevallene gedurende het bombardement van het citadel van Antwerpen. Saint Omer, 24 April 1833. 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm). Manuscript in Dutch, written in ink on laid paper with no watermark.
Korte schets van het voor gevallene gedurende het bombardement van het citadel van Antwerpen. Saint Omer, 24 April 1833. 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm). Manuscript in Dutch, written in ink on laid paper with no watermark.
[DEFOURNY, Pierre Josephus?]. · 1832
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
10 pp.A very lively day-to-day eyewitness account of the siege of the Antwerp citadel from 12 November 1832 to the author’s imprisonment in St. Omer as a result of the 23 December 1832 surrender. He remained in prison until June 1833, when he returned to Amsterdam. The account...
Dialectica ... nunc recens Hermani Raiani Welsdalii fructuosis scholiis illustrata, & in multis locis emendata. Accessit huic Ioanni Murmelii Isagoge in decem Aristotelis Praedicamentas.Venice, Giovanni Maria Leni, 1579. 8vo. With Leni’s woodcut device on the title-page (a figure holding a set square up to the sun, in a scrollwork cartouche with motto, “In eo qui fecit me omnia possum”) which has the letterpress title “Dialectica” in a woodcut factotum with scrollwork and putti at the head, and woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic type with occasional Greek. Contemporary vellum.
Dialectica ... nunc recens Hermani Raiani Welsdalii fructuosis scholiis illustrata, & in multis locis emendata. Accessit huic Ioanni Murmelii Isagoge in decem Aristotelis Praedicamentas.Venice, Giovanni Maria Leni, 1579. 8vo. With Leni’s woodcut device on the title-page (a figure holding a set square up to the sun, in a scrollwork cartouche with motto, “In eo qui fecit me omnia possum”) which has the letterpress title “Dialectica” in a woodcut factotum with scrollwork and putti at the head, and woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic type with occasional Greek. Contemporary vellum.
CAESARIUS, Johannes. · 1468
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
189 [= 179], [1 blank] ll.Rare edition of a popular school textbook on dialectics (logic) by the important German humanist Johannes Caesarius (Jülich ca. 1468-Weidenbach near Cologne 1550). Here edited and enlarged with notes by his student Hermann Rayanus (Welsdalius) (fl. 15...
Mémoire sur l'origine des constellations, et sur l'explication de la fable, par le moyen de l'astronomie.Paris, widow Desaint, 1781. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary cat's paw calf, gold-tooled spine.
Mémoire sur l'origine des constellations, et sur l'explication de la fable, par le moyen de l'astronomie.Paris, widow Desaint, 1781. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary cat's paw calf, gold-tooled spine.
DUPUIS, Charles-François. · 1736
€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)
228 pp.First separate edition of an erudite treatise on the astronomical foundations of religion and mythology. In the late 18th century, the notion of a common origin of all religions had become popular among French Enlightenment radicals, thereby challenging the Church's cla...
Le negoce d'Amsterdam, ou traité de sa banque, de ses changes, des Compagnies Orientales & Occidentales, des marchandises qu'on tire de cette ville, & qu'on y porte de toutes les parties de monde, des poids, des mesures, des aunages, & du tarif. ... Including: MONDOTEGUY, Jacques. Traité des arbitrages qui se sont par change sur les principales villes de l'Europe, ou la ville d'Amsterdam à change ouvert. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1710. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century half vellum.
Le negoce d'Amsterdam, ou traité de sa banque, de ses changes, des Compagnies Orientales & Occidentales, des marchandises qu'on tire de cette ville, & qu'on y porte de toutes les parties de monde, des poids, des mesures, des aunages, & du tarif. ... Including: MONDOTEGUY, Jacques. Traité des arbitrages qui se sont par change sur les principales villes de l'Europe, ou la ville d'Amsterdam à change ouvert. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1710. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century half vellum.
LE MOINE DE L'ESPINE, Jacques. · 1696
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[4], 388, [2] pp.Rare second and greatly expanded French edition of an important treatise on the trade and commerce of the city of Amsterdam by the art dealer Jacques Le Moine de l'Espine (d. 1696), first published in both Dutch and French in 1694. It gives detailed informatio...
Mathematicum opus absolutissimum: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturae & perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, & figuras perfectissimas. Studio atque opera Alberti Girardi, ... Recognitum ac multis notis illustratum.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1638 [altered in manuscript to 1658]. 7 parts (paginated as 6) in 2 volumes. Folio. The general title printed letterpress on a slip of paper pasted over the 1638 engraved title-page of the French edition, 7 letterpress part-titles, each with the same Janssonius woodcut device, with all together 271 double-page engraved plates, partly by Henricus Hondius. Further with several woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 5 double thongs, in a panel design made with a large roll and triple fillets, new endpapers.With:(2) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometria theoretica ac practica: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633. With 47 double-page engraved plates, numbered 1-42 and 1-5.(3) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis, pars prima: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1644.(4) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Fortificationis, sive artis muniendi, pars secunda.Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1644. With 40 double-page engraved plates.(5) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Architectura: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1633. With 30 double-page engraved plates by Henricus Hondius after the designs by Vredeman de Vries, one dated 1601.(6) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Opticae, sive perspectivae, pars prima: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius 1633. With 80 double-page engraved plates, some by Henricus Hondius, incl. 6 views of buildings in Rome (nos. 54-59) in roundels, after the drawings by Petrus Stephanus.(7) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectiva theoretica ac practica.Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633.(8) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectivae pars II: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1632. With 49, 24 (+ 1) numbered double-page engraved plates depicting geometrical and mathematical figures on perspective.
Mathematicum opus absolutissimum: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturae & perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, & figuras perfectissimas. Studio atque opera Alberti Girardi, ... Recognitum ac multis notis illustratum.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1638 [altered in manuscript to 1658]. 7 parts (paginated as 6) in 2 volumes. Folio. The general title printed letterpress on a slip of paper pasted over the 1638 engraved title-page of the French edition, 7 letterpress part-titles, each with the same Janssonius woodcut device, with all together 271 double-page engraved plates, partly by Henricus Hondius. Further with several woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 5 double thongs, in a panel design made with a large roll and triple fillets, new endpapers.With:(2) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometria theoretica ac practica: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633. With 47 double-page engraved plates, numbered 1-42 and 1-5.(3) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis, pars prima: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1644.(4) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Fortificationis, sive artis muniendi, pars secunda.Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1644. With 40 double-page engraved plates.(5) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Architectura: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1633. With 30 double-page engraved plates by Henricus Hondius after the designs by Vredeman de Vries, one dated 1601.(6) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Opticae, sive perspectivae, pars prima: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius 1633. With 80 double-page engraved plates, some by Henricus Hondius, incl. 6 views of buildings in Rome (nos. 54-59) in roundels, after the drawings by Petrus Stephanus.(7) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectiva theoretica ac practica.Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633.(8) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectivae pars II: ...Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1632. With 49, 24 (+ 1) numbered double-page engraved plates depicting geometrical and mathematical figures on perspective.
MAROLOIS, Samuel. · 1572
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
[4], 51, [1 blank]; 39, [1 blank]; 40; [20]; [2], 50; [2], 24 pp.Complete works of Samuel Marolois (1572-1627), including the works of his predecessor Jan Vredeman de Vries (1527-ca. 1606/08) that were edited with numerous additions by Marolois. Marolois was a French mathemati...
Betrugslexicon, worinnen die meisten Betrügereyen in allen Ständen, nebst denen darwider guten Theils dienenden Mitteln, ...Coburg, Johann Carl Findeisen, 1761. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper over boards, red edges.
Betrugslexicon, worinnen die meisten Betrügereyen in allen Ständen, nebst denen darwider guten Theils dienenden Mitteln, ...Coburg, Johann Carl Findeisen, 1761. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper over boards, red edges.
HÖNN, Georg Paul. · 1662
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[16], 524, [4] pp.Satirical and humoristic compilation written in German describing the several tricks, frauds and deceits performed by all kinds of persons and professions, together with methods on how best to avoid them and not becoming the victim of their contrived behaviou...
Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.Geneva & Paris, Pierre François Didot le jeune, 1779. Small 8vo. Later mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, red sprinkled edges.
Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.Geneva & Paris, Pierre François Didot le jeune, 1779. Small 8vo. Later mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, red sprinkled edges.
MESMER, Franz Anton. · 1733
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[1], [1 blank], VI, 85, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a famous (or infamous) treatise by Anton Mesmer (1733-1815) on the medical and healing use of magnetism and the healing magnetic power in his own hands, which he called “animal magnetism”. His theories gave us the English w...
Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. in rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude en nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kronijken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen, ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd, ende bevestigd. Mitsgaders Petri Scriverii laure-kranz voor Laurens Koster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boek-druckerye. de voor-rede aen den leser geeft enig onderwijs van onse Nederduytsche sprake, ende spellinge, in desen gebruykt, onder den tytel ofte opschrift van Nederlandsch tael-bericht: handeld ook een weynig van rijm-konste, tot nut ende lust der weet-gierigen.Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With large printer's device at the end of the first part and on title of the second part, richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with view of Haarlem at the top by T. Matham after I. Bouchorst, 3 full-page engraved plates, 1 with the coat-of-arms of Haarlem by J. van Velde, 1 with the seals of the city of Haarlem, and a view of a printing shop, both by J. van Velde after Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 11 double-page engraved plans and views of Haarlem by J. van Velde and W. Akersloot after designs by Saenredam, and 2 original full-page etchings by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam: of the Houses of Assumberg and of Berkenroede. Ad 2 With a full-page engraved portrait of Laurens Koster after J. van Campen and a second, different view of a printing shop. With: (2) SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery. Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink.
Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. in rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude en nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kronijken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen, ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd, ende bevestigd. Mitsgaders Petri Scriverii laure-kranz voor Laurens Koster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boek-druckerye. de voor-rede aen den leser geeft enig onderwijs van onse Nederduytsche sprake, ende spellinge, in desen gebruykt, onder den tytel ofte opschrift van Nederlandsch tael-bericht: handeld ook een weynig van rijm-konste, tot nut ende lust der weet-gierigen.Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With large printer's device at the end of the first part and on title of the second part, richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with view of Haarlem at the top by T. Matham after I. Bouchorst, 3 full-page engraved plates, 1 with the coat-of-arms of Haarlem by J. van Velde, 1 with the seals of the city of Haarlem, and a view of a printing shop, both by J. van Velde after Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 11 double-page engraved plans and views of Haarlem by J. van Velde and W. Akersloot after designs by Saenredam, and 2 original full-page etchings by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam: of the Houses of Assumberg and of Berkenroede. Ad 2 With a full-page engraved portrait of Laurens Koster after J. van Campen and a second, different view of a printing shop. With: (2) SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery. Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink.
AMPZING, Samuel. · 1597
€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)
(88), 520; 124, (6) p.First edition of Ampzing's description of Haarlem, famous for more than one reason. First of course, for containing two of the rare original etchings Saenredam made for book illustration. Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-1665), among the many famous 17th cen...
Plaza universal de todas ciencias, y artes, parte traduzida de Toscano, y parte compuesta por el doctor Christoval Suearez de Figueroa.Perpignan, Luis Roure, 1630 (colophon: 1629). 4to. With title printed in woodcut border with large woodcut coat of arms; interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf.
Plaza universal de todas ciencias, y artes, parte traduzida de Toscano, y parte compuesta por el doctor Christoval Suearez de Figueroa.Perpignan, Luis Roure, 1630 (colophon: 1629). 4to. With title printed in woodcut border with large woodcut coat of arms; interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf.
SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Christobal (Thomaso GARZONI). · 1571
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
[8], 379, [1 blank] ll.Rare second edition of an encyclopaedic work on all the arts and sciences as well as their practitioners, by Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa (1571-1645). The first edition was published by Luis Sanchez in Madrid in 1615. The book is partly a translation, pa...
Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França.Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges.
Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França.Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges.
HARPER, Robert Goodloe. · 1765
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
322 pp.Influential and impassioned defense of Jay's Treaty by Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a lawyer and politician. The work is also of maritime interest, because of the exhaustive treatment of French, British and American positions and policies on impressment, privateer...
An account of the inquisition at Goa, in India; translated from the French. With an appendix; containing an account of the escape of Archibald Bower, from the inquisition of Italy.Boston, Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. 12mo. Later half gilt calf.
An account of the inquisition at Goa, in India; translated from the French. With an appendix; containing an account of the escape of Archibald Bower, from the inquisition of Italy.Boston, Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. 12mo. Later half gilt calf.
DELLON, Charles & Archibald BOWER. · 1649
€1,850.00 ($2,039.08 | £1,543.17 | ¥325,654)
214, (2) pp.Two rare accounts of victims of the Inquisition, printed in Boston! The work starts with the story of Charles Dellon (1649- ca. 1709), a member of the protestant church, who left France for the Indies in 1668. He worked as a physician in Daman, where he was arreste...
Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne. Paris, Pierre Didot l'aîné, 1806-1820. 2 volumes, each in 2 parts, bound as 4. 1mo (57 x 44 cm). With engraved illustrated title-page by Du Parc after Charles Percier, 4 letterpress title-pages, each with a different engraved illustration, 272 engraved plates and 2 large double-page engraved maps, of Spain and Portugal. Contemporary green half morocco.
Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne. Paris, Pierre Didot l'aîné, 1806-1820. 2 volumes, each in 2 parts, bound as 4. 1mo (57 x 44 cm). With engraved illustrated title-page by Du Parc after Charles Percier, 4 letterpress title-pages, each with a different engraved illustration, 272 engraved plates and 2 large double-page engraved maps, of Spain and Portugal. Contemporary green half morocco.
LABORDE, Alexandre de. · 1774
€17,500.00 ($19,288.62 | £14,597.54 | ¥3,080,512)
XLVI, 72, [2]; 73-132; XLV, [1 blank], 33, [1 blank] [2]; XCI [= LXXXI], [1 blank] pp.First edition of Laborde's splendid 4-volume work on Spain and Portugal, abundantly illustrated with engraved views, by Alexandre Louis Joseph Laborde (1774-1842). The work is divided in four...
Vers de M. de Beaumarchais sur Ameliswert pres d'Utrecht au Marquis de Saint Simon. [Amsterdam, ca. 1793]. Folio. Poem written on paper in brown ink in a regular cursive hand in two columns of 46 lines each on recto and finished on one column on verso with another 8 lines, followed by an "Envoi" of 22 lines. Folded.
Vers de M. de Beaumarchais sur Ameliswert pres d'Utrecht au Marquis de Saint Simon. [Amsterdam, ca. 1793]. Folio. Poem written on paper in brown ink in a regular cursive hand in two columns of 46 lines each on recto and finished on one column on verso with another 8 lines, followed by an "Envoi" of 22 lines. Folded.
BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin CARON DE. · 1732
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
[2] pp.Laudatory poem on the old country-seat "Amelisweert", near Utrecht, written in honor of his host, the Marquis de Saint Simon, by the famous French author of the "Mariage de Figaro", Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799). Having won great fame and fortune by ...
Alder-doorluchtichste, … heeren … die dese opene letteren sullen sien … doen wy burgermeesteren .. der stadt Amsterdam te weten, dat schipper Jurriaen Gerritsz. van Amsterdam … dat het schip genaemt de Helena …Amsterdam, 7 November 1710. 41 x 30.5 cm. Letterpress passport, with a large woodcut initial and spaces where the city, skipper, ship and size are filled in in manuscript, with two seals, signed in the left margin by François Fagel (1659-1746) and at the foot by J. Aley(?).
Alder-doorluchtichste, … heeren … die dese opene letteren sullen sien … doen wy burgermeesteren .. der stadt Amsterdam te weten, dat schipper Jurriaen Gerritsz. van Amsterdam … dat het schip genaemt de Helena …Amsterdam, 7 November 1710. 41 x 30.5 cm. Letterpress passport, with a large woodcut initial and spaces where the city, skipper, ship and size are filled in in manuscript, with two seals, signed in the left margin by François Fagel (1659-1746) and at the foot by J. Aley(?).
[PASSPORT].
€675.00 ($743.99 | £563.05 | ¥118,820)
Letterpress passport issued by the city of Amsterdam for Jurriaen Gerritsz., skipper of the Helena, asking the reader to receive the bearer well and justly and to give him passage on all main waterways. With manuscript additions for the specific holder of the passport, signed ...
[Manuscript letter to Hans Hartwich, Capiteyn op s'landts oorlogschip Harderwijk]. The Hague, 29 July 1690. Small folio (31 x 20.5 cm). Manuscript letter in in 7 lines on one page, with the signatures of Wicher Wichers and François Fagel, followed by two blank pages, and the name of the addressee in manuscript on the fourth page with a seal.
[Manuscript letter to Hans Hartwich, Capiteyn op s'landts oorlogschip Harderwijk]. The Hague, 29 July 1690. Small folio (31 x 20.5 cm). Manuscript letter in in 7 lines on one page, with the signatures of Wicher Wichers and François Fagel, followed by two blank pages, and the name of the addressee in manuscript on the fourth page with a seal.
WICHERS, Wicher. · 1630
€575.00 ($633.77 | £479.63 | ¥101,217)
[1], [2 blank], [1] pp.Manuscript letter ordering Hans Hartwich (1630-1692), captain of the warship Harderwijk, to set sail for the island of Texel. Hartwich was a captain in charge of the Amsterdam admiralty and was present at the burial of Cornelis Tromp in 1691. At the time...
[Watercolour with fruits on paper].[Netherlands, ca. 1733-1777]. 18.5 x 30.5 cm. Watercolour on paper with a branch of redberries, two peaches, a blue plum, an opened walnut, an opened hazel nut and a large green/blue pumpkin.
[Watercolour with fruits on paper].[Netherlands, ca. 1733-1777]. 18.5 x 30.5 cm. Watercolour on paper with a branch of redberries, two peaches, a blue plum, an opened walnut, an opened hazel nut and a large green/blue pumpkin.
[HUYSUM, Michiel van]. · 1703
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
Beautiful still life of fruits by Michiel van Huysum (1703-1777), a painter of flowers and fruits. He was a brother of the famous still life painter Jan van Huysum (1682-1740). Michiel van Huysum's active working years are estimated between 1729 and 1759, his work is extremely...
[Watercolour with flowers and fruits on vellum, signed].[Paris, ca. 1840]. (43.5 x 35 cm). With peaches, raspberries and blue flax. Framed.
[Watercolour with flowers and fruits on vellum, signed].[Paris, ca. 1840]. (43.5 x 35 cm). With peaches, raspberries and blue flax. Framed.
DELARUE, Claire. · 1821
€17,500.00 ($19,288.62 | £14,597.54 | ¥3,080,512)
Delicate watercolour drawing by Claire Delarue (1821-1906), a pupil of Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Redouté had a class of talented upper-class female pupils, among them Queen Hortense, the wife of Louis Napoleon. They specialized in gouaches of flowers and fruits on vellum in the s...
[Proboscidea louisianica].[Netherlands, 2nd half of the 18th-century]. Watercolour on laid paper (40.5 x 27 cm) of a flowering Proboscidea louisianica, with fruit and a horned seedpod on the ground. In passepartout (55 x 40 cm).
[Proboscidea louisianica].[Netherlands, 2nd half of the 18th-century]. Watercolour on laid paper (40.5 x 27 cm) of a flowering Proboscidea louisianica, with fruit and a horned seedpod on the ground. In passepartout (55 x 40 cm).
[SCHOUMAN, Aert]. · 1710
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
Beautiful watercolour drawing of a Proboscidea louisianica by the notable and versatile Dutch artist Aert Schouman (1710-1792). "He was best known for his ornithological studies rather than for his botanical work, but the latter are so pleasing, with the plants in their pale, ...