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[Antique print, etching and engraving, Rome] Veduta della Bas.ca di S. Lorenzo; From:'Nuova Raccolta di 25 vedute antiche e moderne di Roma e sue vicinanze, incise a bulino da celebri incisori' N. de Antoni, published ca. 1800.

Pietro Barboni (fl. 19th century) after Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€108.90 ($120.03 | £90.85 | ¥19,161)

View on the basilica of S. Lorenzo fuori le mura, in Rome. From a series of views of Rome.Titled at the bottom in Italian and French: 'Veduta della Bas.ca di S. Lorenzo fuori le mura edifi= / cata da Costantino Magno sopra al Cimitero di S. Ciria.ca // Vue de la Bas.que de S.t L…

[Antique print, engraving] Gorcúm in Hollandt (Gorinchem/Gorkum), published ca. 1640.

Daniel Meisner (1585-1625) · 1640 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€133.10 ($146.70 | £111.04 | ¥23,419)

View of the Dutch city of Gorinchem. Accompanied by the Latin motto 'Sinimium Intensus Subitò Tunc Frangitur Arcus', meaning 'When expectations run too high, the bow can break, as one needs to be aware that the sound of a lute or the reading of a word can go too far'. Further de…

[Antique print, hand colored engraving] Amors-fort (Amersfoort), published ca. 1640.

Daniel Meisner (1585-1625) · 1638 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€181.50 ($200.05 | £151.42 | ¥31,935)

Hand coloured print of the Dutch city of Amersfoort. Accompanied by the Latin motto 'Prius Mori, Qvam Fidem Fallere', meaning 'To die first, than to break his faith'. Further description in Latin and German on the bottom of the print. The motto is pictured in front of the city b…

[Antique print, engraving] Hooren in Westvrieslant (Hoorn), published ca. 1612-48.

Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589) · 1612 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€121.00 ($133.37 | £100.95 | ¥21,290)

View of the Dutch city of Hoorn, as seen from above. With explanatory title (Hooren in Westvrieslant) in the upper left corner; a cartouche in the bottom left corner (panegyric (Dutch)description (Latin)) and the number 49 in the bottom right corner. With the crest of Hoorn, hel…

[Antique title page, 1750] Poetry and History, published 1750, 1 p.

Jan Caspar Philips (1680/1700-1775) · 1749 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€60.50 ($66.68 | £50.47 | ¥10,645)

Signed and dated on the bottom left: 'J.C. Philips inv. et fecit 1749' and further address of the publisher and year of publication: 'te Amsterdam by THEODORUS CRAJENSCHOT, Boekverkoper, 1750.'Allegorical frontispiece to an unknown publication: the personification of poetry, dre…

[Optica print] Gesicht bij de Doelen over de Korte Vijverberg; tot Gravenhaghe, published ca. 1770.

Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) · 1770 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€266.20 ($293.41 | £222.08 | ¥46,838)

Beautiful view on the Korte Vijverberg, next to the Hofvijver in The Hague (Den Haag). On the left side of the busy street you see Peter Post's building 'Het Mauritshuis'. The print is hand coloured. The colours green and orange dominate the picture. On the back the edges are st…

Vuë de la Rue de Fauxbourg a Dordrecht proche de la Porte du grand Cour (mirrored)

Leizelt, Balthazar Friedrich (active 1726-1735) · 1720 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€266.20 ($293.41 | £222.08 | ¥46,838)

1720-1760 290 x 409 mm Etching/engraving/watercolour Collection des Prospects. Vuë de la Rue de Fauxbourg a Dordrecht proche de la Porte du grand Cour. Gravé par Balth. Fredric Leizelt. Prospect von der Vorstadt auf der Rietdijksche Strass zu Dordrecht nahe beij dem Thor des gro…

Antique print, mezzotint | Portrait of Jacob Moelaert (1649-c. 1727), published ca. 1740, 1 p.

Nicolaas Verkolie (1673-1746), after Arnold Houbraken (1660-1719) · 1649 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€338.80 ($373.43 | £282.65 | ¥59,612)

Portrait of Jacob Moelaert (1649-c. 1727) dilettante painter, art collector schilder, pupil of Nicolaes Maes; history and portrait painter. Here the artist is portrayed at a window with an opened album of prints and drawings in front of him, holding a large print in his hands. A…

[Antique print, engraving and etching] A female peasant resting on a rock, published ca. 1682.

Frederik Bloemaert (1614/17–1690) after Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) · 1682 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€121.00 ($133.37 | £100.95 | ¥21,290)

A peasant resting on a rock. Numbered: '89' on the bottom left.As the watermark suggests [a crowned es­cutcheon charged with a Strasbourg Lily], this impression comes from one of the first editions by Nicolaus Visscher from around 1682.The engraving was realized by Frederik Bloe…

Antique Print, Engraving 1602 - The Unequal Couple - After H. Goltzius, published 1602, 1 p.

after Goltzius, Hendrick (1558-1617) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€484.00 ($533.46 | £403.79 | ¥85,160)

A young woman and an old man, or an ill-matched couple, a theme that was quite popular in the seventeenth century. The young woman anxiously covers a jug with er hand. Below an inscription comments on this detail: 'Decrepitus juvenem lepidamque movere Puellam / Conatur, turpi vi…

[Antique print, engraving ca 1592] Portrait of Maerten de Vos, A. Saedeler, ca. 1592, 1 p.

Aegidius Saedeler (ca. 1570-1629), after Joseph Heintz I (1564-1609) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€544.50 ($600.15 | £454.26 | ¥95,805)

Portrait of the Antwerp painter Maerten de Vos, as 60 years old man. Two allegorical figures on the sides, Minerva and Rhetoric, are holding a laurel wreath above the portrait. Within the wreath an emblem with a bird on a fox, most likely a reference to the surname of the painte…

[Antique drawing] The village of Overschie in Zuid-Holland, Dirk Verrijk, dated 1761, 1 p.

Dirk Verrijk (1734-1786) · 1725 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€1,815.00 ($2,000.49 | £1,514.21 | ¥319,351)

Skilful drawing of the village of Overschie seen from the water. At the centre the village church surrounded by several houses, several figures alongside the canal and a small sailing boat on the canal. The viewing point and composition used by Verrijk strongly resemble, but are…

[Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] AMPHITHEATRI ... Views of Rome [Set title] (Amphitheatrum Castrense), published 1705, 1 p.

Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713) · 1575 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€96.80 ($106.69 | £80.76 | ¥17,032)

Fourth plate of 100 portraying Rome's palaces and ruins and even reconstruction of ancient buildings in Rome.The second state of these etchings were collected in the publication by Peter Schenck:'Roma aeterna, sive ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum, integrorium collapsorumque, consp…

[Antique print, engraving] Portrait of Frederik de Vries, pupil of Hendrick Goltzius, published ca. 1600, 1 p.

Raffaello Guidi (1540-1615) after Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) · 1829 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€592.90 ($653.49 | £494.64 | ¥104,321)

Portrait of Frederik de Vries as young boy playing with Goltzius' dog. He was the son of the painter Dirck de Vries, a pupil of Goltzius. The boy is trying to get on the back of the dog while holding a bird in his hand.On the cartouche below some text in Latin. The text on the b…

[Antique print, etching and engraving, 1610] [21] Lucae Gasselo Helmontano Pictori (Pictorum aliquot celebrium, præcipué Germaniæ Inferioris, effigies; series title), 1 p.

Hondius, Hendick I (1573-ca. 1649) · 1572 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€42.35 ($46.68 | £35.33 | ¥7,452)

Portrait of Lucas Gassel wearing a hat. In the background to the right a coat of arm is hanging from the wall. 21st plate of the series; I part. Without monogram Hh. ex in the left background: 'Hh. ex.' Inscription on the bottom: 'LUCÆ GASSELO HELMONTANO PICTORI. / Salve omnes, …

[Antique print, etching] T. Lundh (?) after P. Potter, The Plough Horses, 1896, 1 p.

Teodor Lundh (1812-1896), after Paulus Potter (1625-1654) · 1896 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€302.50 ($333.42 | £252.37 | ¥53,225)

Two worn-out plough horses; at left a tree trunk and section of fence; close-by the first horse seen from the rear; in the centre, the second horse in three quarter view facing towards the right; in the middle-distance cows in a meadow; beyond them a village with trees, a church…

Antique book 1847 Judaica I Kalender und Jahrbuch für Israeliten auf das Schaltjahr (1848) 5608, Wien 1847 Von Schmid Wien 1847, 308 pp.

Busch, Isidor. · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€98.10 ($108.13 | £81.84 | ¥17,261)

Decorated hardcover binding with damages. Rare yearbook published by the leadership of the Jewish community in Vienna with a Jewish calender for the year 5608 as well as numerous articles on Jewish figures and on Jewish theology and other issues. Text in gothic German and Hebrew…

[Criminality, legal history, illicit love, 1747-1751] Causes celebres et interessantes avec les jugemens qui les ont decidées. 22 volumes, Den Haag, Jean Neaulme, 1747-1751.

Pitaval, Gayot de. · 1673 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€1,635.00 ($1,802.10 | £1,364.04 | ¥287,680)

Full leather bindings, 22 volumes. With library stamps on the inside. C0865Francois Gayot de Pitaval (1673-1743) was a lawyer in Paris and described several spectaculair criminal procedures in this book. Central themes are divorce, bigami, child murder, elopement, rape and illic…

French edition of Depuy 1659 | Histoire des plus illustres favoris anciens et modernes (...) avec un journal de ce qui s'est passe a la mort du marechal D'Ancre. A Paris, sur l'imprime a Leyde, J. Elzevier, 1659, (16)+514+120 pp. .

P.D.P. [= Pierre Dupuy] · 1659 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€190.75 ($210.24 | £159.14 | ¥33,563)

Full contemporary parchment with minor smudges, 12°. Hinges a bit weak but further in good condition.  Rare French edition in 12° (ca 15x9 cm) of the original edition in quarto, 4°, that was published in the same year 1659 by Elzevier (Elzevir, Jean Elsevier) in Leiden. On the t…

[Antique print, etching and letterpress] L'Europe allarmée pour le fils d'un meunier, published 1689, 1 p.

Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€181.50 ($200.05 | £151.42 | ¥31,935)

Satirical print from the first years from the fall of Jacobus II. On the left foreground the prince in a crib on a table. On the left his natural mother with father Peters, on the right his second mother, the Queen who is talking to Jacobus II. Behind him Harlequin (Louis XIV) w…