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[Antique print, etching, Piranesi] Pianta del Mausoleo di Costanza. (Plan of mausoleum of Constantia, daughter of Emperor Constantine), published 1756-1784, 1 p.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) · 1756 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€193.60 ($213.39 | £161.52 | ¥34,064)

Plate XXI from the II out of four volumes collection <em>Le Antichità Romane </em>collecting plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, firstly published by Angelo Rotili in Rome between 1756 and 1757. The second edition appeared in 1784. Original wide margins, no traces of binding o…

[Antique print, etching, Piranesi] Ornamenti di Stucco, esistenti nella Volta della Stanza Sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio (stucco decoration on the tomb of L. Arruntius), published 1756-1784, 1 p.

Jean Barbault (ca. 1718-1762), and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) · 1756 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€254.10 ($280.07 | £211.99 | ¥44,709)

Plate XII from the II out of four volumes collection <em>Le Antichità Romane </em>collecting plates by Giovanni Battist Piranesi, firstly published by Angelo Rotili in Rome between 1756 and 1757. The second edition appeared in 1784. Original wide margins, no traces of binding or…

[Devotional print, canivet] C. Letaille / E. Boumard SAINT ANTOINE DE PADOUE, 19th century.

Charles Letaille (fl. 19th c.), Eugene Boumard (fl. 19th c.) · 1700 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€30.25 ($33.34 | £25.24 | ¥5,323)

<div><span lang="EN-US">S. Anthony of Padua. Holy card decorated external margins, looking like paper embroidery. Beneath the representation of S. Anthony holding the infant Jesus in his arms, along with a book and a lily, the text of a prayer in French. Titled below: 'SAINT ANT…

Manuscripts [1767] | Large legal manuscript consisting of 4 handwritten pages on parchment (each 60 x 73 cm) signed by three persons with red seals: Indenture (contract) [1767], 3 pp.

[4 aktes op perkament Engeland 1767] · 1767 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€453.75 ($500.12 | £378.55 | ¥79,838)

Legal parchment document concerning William Driver, Thomas Burch and John Simmons. In the text: Their executoro Administratoro, rent, payment sum, parcels of ground, Thomas Mainwaring, administratoro, assuquo, statutos merchant, Thomas Webbe, indentures of lease, etc.Leave 3: St…

Antique book illustration, handcolored woodcut doublesided | [Christ and his animal attributes], published 1491, 1 p.

Michel Wolgemut (1434-1519) · 1491 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€968.00 ($1,066.93 | £807.58 | ¥170,321)

Christ in a garden surrounded by animals, his allegorical attributes.Among others, the <strong>pelican</strong>, the symbol of Christ that gives himself through Eucharist; the <strong>owl</strong>, "[...] seen as a synthesis of the silent power of divine beauty, as the soul of t…

French history 1814-1816 | Histoire de France pendant les guerres de Religion; par Charles Lacretelle, Tome Second (1814), Troisieme (1815) et Quatrieme (1816), Paris Delaunay, 449+490+463 pp.

Lacretelle, Charles · 1766 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€98.10 ($108.13 | £81.84 | ¥17,261)

Attractive half leather bindings, all alike with a green shield on the spine with gilt text 'Histoire de France). Missing volume 1. In volume 4 2 pages are loose in the binding, non disturbing. Interior with light foxing.History of France during the wars of religion, written by …

Photography carte-de-visite | Portrait photo of actress Maude with tangled hair by photographer Jose Maria Mora from New York, ca 1870?, 1 p.

Mora, Jose Maria from New York. · 1849 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€96.80 ($106.69 | £80.76 | ¥17,032)

Photography, Vintage albumen print. A photo of the actress Maud / Maude Branscombe with tangles in her hair by the American photographer Jose Maria Mora, 707 Broadway, New York. He was a photographer of the Rich and Famous during the Gilded age.Mora was a young dashing Cuban ref…

Rare Book, 1654, Roman History | M. Velleius Paterculus cum notis Gerardi Vossii G.F., Lugd. Batavorum, Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1654, [12] 116 [28] 229 pp.

1654 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€207.10 ($228.27 | £172.78 | ¥36,439)

A 1654 edition of <span dir="ltr">Marcus Velleius Paterculus' <i>Historiae Romanae</i>, accompanied by a section of annotations by Gerardus Johannes Vossius. The dedication is followed by an introduction on Paterculus and his work. Engraved title page. </span>The original title …

History Celts 1770 I Histoire des Celtes, A Paris, Imprimerie de Quillau, tome 1-8, 1770-1771. Complete series of 8 volumes.

Pelloutier, Simon and De Chiniac, M. · 1740 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€817.50 ($901.05 | £682.02 | ¥143,840)

Full leather bindings with goldprint on the spine and flower decorations. Bindings used so with some wear. Text in French. Some minor foxing on the pages but further in very good condition.Full title: Histoire des Celtes et particulierement des Gaulois et des Germains, depuis le…

Rare poetry book 1709 | The Wife, a Poem. Expressed in a Compleat Wife with an Elegy on the Untimely Death of the Author, Poyson'd in the Tower, &C. By Sir Thomas Overbury, London, the seventeenth Edition, Printed and Sold by H. Hills, the seventeenth Edition, 1709, 16 pp.

Sir Thomas Overbury. · 1614 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€190.75 ($210.24 | £159.14 | ¥33,563)

Marbled decorated paper cover, bookblock loose. Origininally published in 1614 as 'A wife, now a widowe'. Also issued as part of 'A collection of the best English poetry by several hands', 1717.Written by Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613). He was an English poet and essayist and v…

[Antique print, etching] NOVA NUPTA IN GENIALI THALAMO [The Aldobrandini Wedding], published ca. 1680.

Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) and Giovan Giacomo de Rossi (1627-1691) · 1600 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€302.50 ($333.42 | £252.37 | ¥53,225)

Etching on two plates depicting the so called "Aldobrandini Marriage", a portion of a large fresco discovered about the year 1600 from the masonry of a house near the Arch of Gallienus on the Esquiline Hill, Roma, Italy. Then, it was in possession of the Aldobrandini family. Unt…

[19th/20th century heliogravure] after L. Siceram (fl. 1623) BEATA IDA DE LOVANIO (Roosendael Abbey Leuven).

after Siceram, Louis (fl. 1650) · 1640 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€96.80 ($106.69 | £80.76 | ¥17,032)

An extremely curious print, a photogravure copy of an engraving ca 1640 with the stories of the Beata Ida from Leuven [Roosendael Abbey (the abbey of the valley of roses)] who perished around 1300. The plate is impressed on modern paper that seems cotton based and has no chains.…

[Antique title page, 1591] ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI, published 1591, 1 p.

2005 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€223.85 ($246.73 | £186.75 | ¥39,387)

Allegorical frontispiece featuring St. Peter, St. Paul, Ecclesia - or Catholic Church - and Heresy and Paganism at the very bottom. Above two angels hold an oval frame with the Madonna and Child on a moon crescent. The frontispiece is arranged as an ideal architecture in the cen…

[Original etching/ets] Hadrian and his wife; Mars and Venus ['Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum.', 1638]/Hadrianus en zijn vrouw, Mars en Venus.

Perrier, François (1594-1649) · 1807 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€102.85 ($113.36 | £85.81 | ¥18,097)

A female figure adjusting a baldric slung across the chest of a nude, bearded man wearing a helmet; after a Roman statue formerly in the Borghese collection (Borgesius collectie). The statue is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris [inv. MR 316]; it was acquired from Prince Borghese…

[Antique drawing] Portrait of an unknown man, ca. 1851-1852.

Richard Dighton (1795-1880) · 1851 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€423.50 ($466.78 | £353.32 | ¥74,515)

Full-length portrait of an unknown man with an umbrella under his arm. Typical profile portrait by caricaturist and watercolor portrait painter (an unfortunate art thief) Richard Dighton. His father Robert Dighton,had been a clever social satirist.Signed on the verso in pencil: …

The Virgin [Canivet] (De Maagd Maria).

Unknown maker · 1700 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€36.30 ($40.01 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Decorated holy card, with punctured borders, with second margin in gold. In an oval the Virgin Mary with crossed hands on her chest. On the verso French text and some scribbles in pen. Titled: 'vierge imma[...]llée' 'Holy cards/immaginette are small, mass-produced, wallet-sized…

[Antique drawing] Trompe l'oeil with print portrait of Gerardus Kulenkamp (1700-1789) and paper on a wooden board, ca. 1750.

H. Hoffham (fl. 1750-51), after Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780) after Jan Maurits Quinkhard (1688-1772) · 1700 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€1,452.00 ($1,600.39 | £1,211.37 | ¥255,481)

Trompe l'oeil of a wall on which a print and some paper are hanging.The print is a portrait of Gerardus Kulenkamp (1700-1789), born in Bremen, preacher in Nieuw-Loosdrecht, Delft and Amsterdam.The painter copied with some modification a portrait drawn by Jan Maurits Quinkhard (1…

Convolute dissertations Rostock 1615-1616 | Rostock Bigae juridico-politicae. XIV disputationibus absoluta & completa. (1) De ortu reipublicae, eius progressu, definitione, statu integritatis, &c.; (2) De reip.(ublicae) materia; (3) De matrimonio, et tribus domesticae societatis speciebus, conjugali, paternâ, et herili; (4) De liberorum educatione, institutione, scholis, professoribus, studiosis, peregrinatione; etc. Rostock 1615-1616.

Nordanus, Fridericus, uit Lübeck (1) ; Dorne, Hermannus a, uit Lübeck (2) ; Jessenius, Johannes, uit Flensburg (3 en 10) ; Noldius, Jacobus, uit Malmö (4) ; Osterhoff, Michael, uit Lübeck (5) ; Salfelt, Jacobus, uit Jena (6) · 1615 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€463.25 ($510.59 | £386.48 | ¥81,509)

No binding, last page loose, further complete. Complete set of dissertations under Johann Ulrich Wolff or Johann von Elswych. A complete course of political and constitutional theory from Rostock University, published on the eve of the Thirty Years' War, under the young jurist J…

[Drawing Die Bremer Stadsmuzikanten, de Bremer Stadsmuzikanten 1825] Drawing by Friedrich Adolf Dreyer (Bremen 1780-1850), signed “Bremen 1825”, 23,5×47 cm. A parade of music making bears with city view of Bremer in the back.

Friedrich Adolf Dreyer (1780-1850) · 1825 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€484.00 ($533.46 | £403.79 | ¥85,160)

M6811 [Drawing Die Bremer Stadsmuzikanten, de Bremer Stadsmuzikanten 1825] Drawing by Friedrich Adolf Dreyer (Bremen 1780-1850), signed “Bremen 1825”, 23,5×47 cm. A parade of music making bears with city view of Bremer in the back.<span class="relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounde…

Manuscript 1851 | Letter of August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887), d.d. Halle 1851.

1833 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€49.05 ($54.06 | £40.92 | ¥8,630)

M4663. Pott was a prominent German linguist and is considered one of the founding figures of Indo-Europoean historical linguistics. In 1833, he was appointed professor of general linguistics at the University of Halle, where he continued to teach until his death. Pott’s work lai…