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Lot 138
  • 138

Drawings and prints.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 7 volumes and loose in a portfolio, including:
  • paper
Mérimée, Prosper. Two watercolours on one sheet (recto and verso), 205 x 155mm., both of a kneeling eastern figure smoking; in a portfolio with other drawing and prints, including 3 hand-coloured engraved vues d'optiques by Probst of the Jardin de Ciprés, Palais de Topkapi
[Salver, J.] Breve compendium de origine... Hospitalis Beatae Mariae Virginis Teutonicorum in Hierusalem. [Wurzburg, c.1720], folio (315 x 200mm.), 2 double-page engraved plates and 48 single-page portraits, contemporary calf gilt, with papal arms (Clement XI), binding very slightly worn
Rubens, P.P. La gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg. Paris, 1710, folio (640 x 465mm.), engraved title, avertissement and portrait and 21 plates (of 24) after Rubens, one double-page, later half morocco, lacking 3 plates (17, 18 and 20), some spotting and browning, binding somewhat worn
Restif de la Bretonne, N.E. Monument du costume physique & moral de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1876, folio (535 x 360mm.), limited to 500 copies, engraved frontispiece (hand-coloured) and 26 plates after Moreau le Jeune and others, contemporary morocco-backed boards, slightly spotted in margins, spine slightly faded
Valentini, A., pub. La Patriarcale Basilico Lateranense... descritta da Filippo Gerardi. Rome, 1832-1834, 2 vol. in one; Ibid. La Patriarcale Basilico Liberiana. Rome, 1839, 2 works in 2 vol., folio (475 x 315mm.), 239 engraved plates (56+80+103), nineteenth-century red half morocco, somewhat spotted
and 2 other books (8)

Catalogue Note

Other books in this lot are:

Lenfant, J. Histoire du Concile de Constance. Amsterdam, 1714, 4to, engraved portraits
Musée du Louvre. Galerie de Rubens dite du Luxembourg. Paris, 1877, folio, plates