Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

China, Beijing Map of Beijing. [nineteenth century] ﻿ woodcut on paper (610 x 960mm.), laid down on an Admiralty chart (dated 1844), some repairs to folds, marginal fraying and soiling A RARE MAP OF BEIJING.

View 1 of Lot 162: China, Beijing | Woodcut map on paper, 19th century

china, beijing | woodcut map on paper, 19th century

Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music 

CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA, SAINT [Southern Germany (Lake Constance?), c. 1470-1480] single sheet woodcut (193 x 142mm.; image 187 x 126mm.), with early hand-colouring, verso blank, no watermark, trimmed at edges A rare survival of a single sheet woodcut, a fine example of what would have been a relatively inexpensive devotional image. Its artistic qualities are limited (but not crude); there is a sense of perspective and movement to the stance of the executioner and the folds of drapery are delineated well, but the importance of the image was in the subject matter rather than the artistry. Three different woodcuts of St Catherine are recorded as belonging to a Dominican convent in Nuremberg (Origins of European Printmaking, p.47). LITERATURE: Schreiber 1338a (listing a copy in Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum) PROVENANCE: from the collection of a German noble family

beheading of st catherine of alexandria, single sheet woodcut, [southern germany, c. 1470-1480]

Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

Pietro Andrea Mattioli Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus eodem authore. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1554 FIRST LATIN EDITION, AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, folio (327 x 232mm.), numerous woodcut illustrations, all but one hand-coloured in an early modern hand, EXTENSIVE MARGINAL ANNOTATIONS BY THREE EARLY MODERN ANNOTATORS (in Latin, Spanish, and English), later vellum with yapp edges, probably supplied from another volume, red edges, lacking title-page, some preliminary leaves, and final text leaf (α1-3, α5, α7-8 lacking; α4, α6 used as pastedowns; α7, α8 lacking; Nn6 lacking), old tear extending across pp1, old staining from α4-b6 with slight loss of text, illustration of fish on p6 crudely cut out by an early reader, z1 torn at outer margin with loss of some text, marginal closed tears to f2 and g5 This edition includes the first appearance of this set of woodcuts by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck. Mattioli is most famous for his work on botany and medicine, though he wrote on various subjects, and his translations of/ commentaries on Dioscorides' De medica materia are his best known writings. His first Italian translation from the Greek was published in Venice in 1544, and was produced with the practical purpose of providing doctors with a treatise which would enable them to identify the medicinal plants described by Dioscorides. The success of this edition, and subsequent expanded editions in Italian published in 1548, 1550, and 1552, encouraged Mattioli to translate the work into Latin. This particular copy is interesting for its annotations in the hands of three early modern readers. Two of these annotators appear to be continental owners, writing in Latin and Spanish respectively. The third, ?eighteenth century English annotator often writes the common English names of plants in the margins, occasionally accompanying these manuscript captions with a rhyming couplet (e.g. "No poyson fear | When Sage and Rue grow near" (p. 348)). However, this English reader clearly had a Classical education, and at the lower margin of the final index leaf transcribes the Latin inscription found on the tombstone of Mattioli in the Cathedral of Trento, suggesting that the book might perhaps have been acquired on a Grand Tour. REFERENCES: Edit16 37627

View 1 of Lot 92: Pietro Andrea Mattioli | Commentarii, in libros sex Dioscoridis de medica materia, Venice, 1554, hand-coloured woodcuts and early modern annotations

pietro andrea mattioli | commentarii, in libros sex dioscoridis de medica materia, venice, 1554, hand-coloured woodcuts and early modern annotations

Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts

VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS De re militari. [Erfurt: Hans Knappe, c. 1512] folio (299 x 215mm.), A-P6 Q8, comprising full-page woodcut illustrations only, later limp vellum, lacking quires D-G6, a few small tears to binding A publication containing the fine woodcut illustrations to Vegetius but without the actual text; Hans Knappe of Erfurt had previously issued an edition of the text in German translation in 1511, with most of the woodcuts (VD16 V465), but this edition contains an additional seventy odd illustrations not issued with that text. The woodcuts are partly based on an earlier Vegetius printed in Augsburg in around 1475, and contain anachronistic illustrations of cannons and soldiers in contemporary costume, indicating that the book was intended for practical rather than academic use. VD16 ascribes the woodcuts to Peter von Mainz, an artist working in Erfurt at the time, whose initials appear on the title-page woodcut. LITERATURE: VD16 ZV 9905 (listing 2 copies, Munich and Schweinfurt only) PROVENANCE: George John Warren, 5th baron Vernon (1803-1866), of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, monogrammed bookplate with motto "Vernon semper viret", sale, Sotheby's, 12 June 1918, lot 510, extract from sale catalogue pasted to front flyleaf Please note: Condition 11 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot. To view Shipping Calculator, please click here

vegetius, de re militari, [erfurt, c. 1512], woodcuts only, later limp vellum, vernon copy

Modern & Contemporary African Art

Cecil Skotnes South African 1926-2009 Untitled signed (lower right) oil on incised wooden panel 90.2 by 91.5cm., 35½ by 36in.

woodcut

Prints & Multiples

Roy Lichtenstein 1923 - 1997 The Student, from Expressionist Woodcuts (C. 176) signed in pencil, dated and numbered 38/50 woodcut printed in colours with embossing on Arches Cover paper image: 805 by 690 mm. 31¾ by 37¾ in. sheet: 975 by 860 mm. 38⅜ by 33⅞ in. Executed in 1980, this impression is number 38 from the edition of 50 plus 13 artist's proofs, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L.

View 1 of Lot 28: The Student, from Expressionist Woodcuts (C. 176)

the student, from expressionist woodcuts (c. 176)

Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein 1923 - 1997 The Couple, from the Expressionist Woodcut series signed, dated '80 and inscribed AP 6/13 (lower right) woodcut printed in colors with embossing on Arches Cover paper image: 33 ½ by 29 ½ in. 85.5 by 74.8 cm. sheet: 40 ⅛ by 36 in. 101.9 by 91.3 cm. Executed in 1980, this impression is one of 13 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 50, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso.

View 1 of Lot 78: The Couple, from the Expressionist Woodcut series

the couple, from the expressionist woodcut series

Contemporary Discoveries

Property from the Petersburg Press Archives

Property from the Petersburg Press Archives Roy Lichtenstein 1923 - 1997 Vertical Apple, from Seven Apple Woodcuts (Corlett 199) woodcut printed in colors on handmade Iwano Kizuki Hosho paper sheet: 37 ¾ by 32 ½ in. (96 by 82 cm.) Executed in 1982, this impression is an archive proof aside from the numbered edition of 60 plus 14 artist's proofs, published by Petersburg Press.

View 1 of Lot 234: Vertical Apple, from Seven Apple Woodcuts (Corlett 199)

vertical apple, from seven apple woodcuts (corlett 199)

Vija Celmins b.1938 Night Sky Woodcut (Rippner p. 53) Woodcut, 1997, signed in pencil, dated, numbered 29/30, on Kozo-Gampi paper mounted on Fabriano Tiepolo paper (as issued), framed image: 219 by 245mm 8 ⅞ by 9 ⅞ in sheet: 448 by 318mm 17 ⅝ by 12 ½ in

night sky woodcut (rippner p. 53)

Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany

GART DER GESUNDHEIT [EDITED BY JOHANN VON CUBE]. AUGSBURG: JOHANN SCHÖNSPERGER, 7 MARCH 1487 Chancery folio (240 x 180mm.), an incomplete copy comprising leaves e2-e7, f2-y4, y6-G7, I1, I3-7, H1-5 (complete collation of 262 leaves: [4] a-v w-z A-D8 E6 F8 G-H6 I8, first and last leaves blank), double column, gothic type, 42 lines, numerous woodcuts with colour washes, later boards with manuscript title "Kreüter Buech" on upper cover, e5 torn without loss, k1 torn with loss at lower corner, n8 torn with loss of almost half the leaf, A1 torn with slight loss, other more marginal tearing and staining, some leaves detached, binding worn; sold not subject to return A coloured copy of this popular and comprehensive manual of botany and medicine. The editor, Johann von Cube or Wonnecke, was a Frankfurt physician who compiled this manual using the works of Dioscorides, Galen and Pliny as well as contemporary writers. The Latin text of the manual was first printed (and commissioned?) by Peter Schöffer in 1484, who subsequently published a German translation the following March. This vernacular version was quickly copied by other printers; Schönsperger's first version appeared in August 1485 and he produced at least six more editions, including the present one. The indexes contain lists of receipts and ailments. LITERATURE: ISTC ig00102000 (listing 14 copies, many incomplete) To view Shipping Calculator, please click here

gart der gesundheit | augsburg, 1487, coloured woodcuts, later boards

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

LORENZO GIUSTINIANI. Dottrina della vita monastica. [Venice: Bernardino Benali, for Lazzaro Suardi?], 20 October 1494

LORENZO GIUSTINIANI. Dottrina della vita monastica. [Venice: Bernardino Benali, for Lazzaro Suardi?], 20 October 1494 An unusual printing with woodcuts on the first and last leaves, acting as temporary decorative wrappers, in the manner of the modern dust-jacket, with the letterpress title printed above both woodcuts. These woodcut wrappers are found on a group of nine Venetian devotional works in the vernacular, printed in 1493 and 1494, and all produced by Benalius. The privilege for the present work was granted to Benalius in February 1494, and as Lazarus de Soardis was also granted a privilege on the same day, it can be inferred that the two were working together, presumably as printer and publisher. The woodcut wrappers depict St John the Baptist and St Peter on the upper cover, and St John the Evangelist and St Francis on the lower cover, each pair of figures holding up a cartouche containing a holy name. The third woodcut, opposite the start of the text, depicts the author, Lorenzo Giustiniani (1381-1456), holding a book while in the process of blessing, which is a reverse copy of Gentile Bellini’s portrait of Giustiniani (now in the Museo dell’Accademia, Venice).

View 1 of Lot 1147: Lorenzo Giustiniani, Doctrina della vita monastica, [Venice], 1494, woodcut pictorial paper wrappers

lorenzo giustiniani, doctrina della vita monastica, [venice], 1494, woodcut pictorial paper wrappers

Modern & Contemporary Art

Property from a Private European Collection

Property from a Private European Collection OTTO DIX 1891 - 1969 Neun Holzschnitte (K. 23-31) (Nine woodcuts (K. 23-31)) The complete portfolio, comprising nine woodcuts, 1919-21, each signed in pencil, dated, titled, numbered 24/30, accompanied by the title page and text, published by Heinar Schilling, Dresdner Verlag, Dresden, on fibrous laid paper each sheet: approx. 43.5 by 35.5 cm. 17⅛ by 14 in.

View 1 of Lot 60: Neun Holzschnitte (K. 23-31) (Nine woodcuts (K. 23-31)) 

neun holzschnitte (k. 23-31) (nine woodcuts (k. 23-31))

The Ricky Jay Collection

[Binding] A Ventriloquist. Np, [early 19th century] Pamphlet of 4 bifolia, sewn (160 x 95 mm). Pictorial wrapper with a hand-colored woodcut vignette depicting a ventriloquist and birds, ruled in decorative woodcut border; wrapper worn at extremities and soiled. Blank book with handwritten recipes in ink and pencil; pages foxed and worn. An early American blank book. The woodcut featured on the wrapper was frequently used on playbills advertising the ventriloquists Richard Potter and John Rannie. Potter, who has been called America's first Black celebrity, was the first American-born magician to gain acclaim. Dinah, Potter’s mother, was enslaved in Guinea as a teenager and brought to Massachusetts. She was emancipated when the Massachusetts Constitution abolished slavery—decades before the Emancipation Proclamation—and Potter, born in 1783, lived as a free man. He likely traveled to Europe when he was only ten years old, where he joined a circus and became an apprentice under the Scottish magician John Rannie. The two returned to the United States in 1800, where both grew famous for their ventriloquism, rope dancing, balancing, and acting. Rannie, upon retiring and returning to Scotland in 1811, encouraged Potter to continue as a solo act, which he did to great success. He eventually purchased land in Andover, New Hampshire, where he built his home. REFERENCE: Fulton, Jacqui. N.H. Firsts: The Magical World of Richard Potter. New Hampshire Public Radio, 2018

[binding] | a woodcut also used to advertise john rannie and richard potter—the first black ventriloquist

Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

BIBLE. LATIN Biblia utriusque testamenti iuxta vulgatam translationem, & eam, quam haberi potuit, emendatissimam... Lyon: Hugues de la Porte (Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel), 1538 folio (338 x 230mm.), first word of title printed xylographically in a cartouche, woodcut device on title-page and at end, woodcut initials and illustrations, old vellum, a few manuscript annotations (including corrections to the text), title-page repaired at foredge, occasional browning, staining or light spotting, i6 torn in gutter without loss, BB8 misbound after BB1, rebacked with vellum THE FIRST BIBLE TO CONTAIN HOLBEIN'S ILLUSTRATIONS. The woodcuts for the Old Testament were also issued by Trechsel under the title Historiarum veteris instrumenti icones ad vivum expressae (Mortimer, Harvard French 276), later in 1538. Holbein's woodcuts, possibly cut by Hans Lützenberger, were greatly influential in the development of bible illustrations and widely imitated in subsequent Lyon bibles. The text used here by Trechsel was based on Robert Estienne's of 1528, though it is suggested that it was edited by Michael Servetus, who was employed by the Trechsels at the time this text was first printed by them, in 1532 (see Darlow & Moule, under entry 6112; Fulton, Servetus, 26-27). LITERATURE: von Gültlingen, Trechsel 100; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 72 (1544 reprint) PROVENANCE: "Pertinet ad locum santi Bonaventurae Civitatis [--]", convent of St Bonaventura, inscription on title-page, and two small library stamps, together with a warning to the reader that that book is full of errors; Hartung & Hartung (Hamburg), sale, 8 November 1983, lot 114

bible, latin, lyon, trechsel, 1538, old vellum, woodcuts by holbein

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History 

ENGLAND A collection of 20 engraved county maps and views. [Sixteenth-nineteenth century] Münster, Sebastian. Tabula Europae I. [1542, or later], hand-coloured woodcut map, (296 x 367mm.), minor spotting and tape remnants Speed, John. The Counti of Warwick. The Shire, Towne and Citie of Coventre. [c.1612-1616], hand-coloured engraved map (420 x 543mm.), a few marginal tears Blaeu, Joan. Wigorniensis comitatus et comitatus Warwicensis. [c.1645], hand-coloured engraved map, (450 x 550mm.), minor repairs, laid down on cloth [Merian, Matthaus] Abbildung der Statt und Revier von Rochester, Chetham, [and]Prospect dess England Shepeij, [c.1672], two engraved hand-coloured views on one sheet, (336 x 382mm.), minor browning and remnants of tape [Merian, Matthaus] Abbildung wie die Königin von Gross Britanien zu Portsmouth [and] Abbildung wie die Statt London], [c.1672], two engraved hand-coloured views on one sheet, (336 x 400mm.), minor browning and remnants of tape Ogilby, John. The Road from Glocester to Coventry. [c.1680], hand-coloured engraved map, minor browning and remnants of tape Münster, Sebastian. Von den Britannischen inseln Albione das ist Engelland und Hibernia. [c.1550], woodcut map on text leaf, (274 x 168mm., text leaf) Warwicksire, engraved hand-coloured circular map, on text leaf, mounted, (150 x 88mm.) Warwickshire, engraved hand-coloured map on text leaf, (178 x 136mm.) Warwickshire, engraved hand-coloured map, (270 x 215mm.) Gloucestershire, engraved hand-coloured map, (273 x 215mm.) Dorsetshire, engraved hand-coloured map, (214 x 271mm.) Lincolnshire, engraved hand-coloured map, (270 x 215mm.) Shropshire, engraved hand-coloured map, mounted, (265 x 197mm.) Derbyshire, engraved hand-coloured map, matted and mounted (265 x 200mm.) Worcestershire, engraved hand-coloured map, matted and mounted (265 x 200mm.) Staffordshire, engraved hand-coloured map, matted and mounted (265 x 200mm.) Warwickeshire, engraved hand-coloured map, text to verso, mounted, (97 x 140mm.) Warwick Sh:, engraved map, matted, (103 x 63mm.) Warwickshire, hand-coloured map, (209 x 165mm.) sold as collection not subject to return

english county maps | a collection of 20 engraved or woodcut maps, [sixteenth-nineteenth century]

Important Prints & Multiples

Damien Hirst b. 1965 Fenbufen, from 40 Woodcut Spots signed in pencil and numbered 9/55 woodcut printed in colors on Somerset paper sheet: 18 by 18 in. 459 by 458 mm. Executed in 2011; this impression is number 9 from the edition of 55 plus 15 artist's proofs, published by Paragon Press.

View 1 of Lot 78: Fenbufen, from 40 Woodcut Spots

fenbufen, from 40 woodcut spots

The Cottesloe Military Library

VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS De re militari. [Erfurt: Hans Knappe, c. 1512] folio (311 x 215mm.), 195 full-page woodcut illustrations, later limp vellum, manuscript title on flyleaf "Demostrazio matematiche e militari di Monsieur Desmaretz", occasional dampstaining, a few leaves wormed and stained in gutter, pastedowns browned, binding slightly soiled A publication containing the fine woodcut illustrations to Vegetius but without the actual text; Hans Knappe of Erfurt had previously issued an edition of the text in German translation in 1511, with most of the woodcuts (VD16 V465), but this edition contains an additional seventy odd illustrations not issued with that text. Some of the woodcuts are signed HK (Knappe) and MS (Melchior Schwarreberg). The woodcuts are partly based on an earlier illustrated Vegetius printed in Augsburg in around 1475. They contain anachronistic illustrations of cannons and soldiers in contemporary costume, indicating that the book was intended for practical rather than academic use. LITERATURE: VD16 ZV 9905 (listing 2 copies, Munich and Schweinfurt only) PROVENANCE: purchased from Sotheran's, December 1936

vegetius, de re militari, [erfurt, c. 1512], woodcuts only, later vellum

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Alphabetum Graecum. Alphabetum Graecum. De potestate literarum, ac divisione earundem... [Venice: Giovanni Varisco?, not before 1558]

Alphabetum Graecum. Alphabetum Graecum. De potestate literarum, ac divisione earundem... [Venice: Giovanni Varisco?, not before 1558] Exceedingly rare contemporary pictorial printed wrappers. 8vo (148 x 101 mm). Roman and Greek type, 27 lines plus headline. collation: A8: 8 leaves. Woodcut printer's device of a siren (CNCM 1435, used by Ravani 1538-1556 and Varisco 1558-1566). (Early ownership inscription to title-page effaced, light marginal soiling.) binding: Contemporary wrappers printed with woodcut illustrations (148 x 101 mm), the upper cover depicting a knight with helm and armor on horseback, the rear cover a knight dressed for court on a rearing horse. Housed in a blue morocco pull-off case. (Scattered soiling to covers, mostly marginal, skillful repairs to spine and edges, wormhole on rear cover repaired.) provenance: Reiss & Sohn, Königstein, 28-29 April 2020, lot 115. acquisition: Purchased from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan, 2022. references: Edit16 1231

View 1 of Lot 114:  Alphabetum graecum, [Venice, c. 1558], contemporary paper binding decorated with woodcuts

alphabetum graecum, [venice, c. 1558], contemporary paper binding decorated with woodcuts

VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS De re militari. [Erfurt: Hans Knappe, c. 1512] folio (299 x 215mm.), A-P6 Q8, comprising full-page woodcut illustrations only, later limp vellum, lacking quires D-G6, a few small tears to binding A publication containing the fine woodcut illustrations to Vegetius but without the actual text; Hans Knappe of Erfurt had previously issued an edition of the text in German translation in 1511, with most of the woodcuts (VD16 V465), but this edition contains an additional seventy odd illustrations not issued with that text. The woodcuts are partly based on an earlier Vegetius printed in Augsburg in around 1475, and contain anachronistic illustrations of cannons and soldiers in contemporary costume, indicating that the book was intended for practical rather than academic use. VD16 ascribes the woodcuts to Peter von Mainz, an artist working in Erfurt at the time, whose initials appear on the title-page woodcut. LITERATURE: VD16 ZV 9905 (listing 2 copies, Munich and Schweinfurt only) PROVENANCE: George John Warren, 5th baron Vernon (1803-1866), of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, monogrammed bookplate with motto "Vernon semper viret", sale, Sotheby's, 12 June 1918, lot 510, extract from sale catalogue pasted to front flyleaf

View 1 of Lot 116: Vegetius, De re militari, [Erfurt, c. 1512], woodcuts only, later limp vellum, Vernon copy

The Leslie & Johanna Garfield Collection: A Celebration of Prints

The Leslie & Johanna Garfield Collection: A Celebration of Prints Walter J. Phillips 1884 - 1963 The Field Barn; and Warren's Landing, Lake Winnipeg, from Ten Woodcuts each signed in pencil, the first titled and numbered 46/100 two woodcuts printed in colors on Japan paper the largest sheet: 11 by 11¾ in. 280 by 288 mm. Executed in 1925 and 1931 respectively; these impressions are from editions no larger than 200. (2 prints)

View 1 of Lot 37: The Field Barn; and Warren's Landing, Lake Winnipeg, from Ten Woodcuts

the field barn; and warren's landing, lake winnipeg, from ten woodcuts

Books and Manuscripts: 19th and 20th Century

John Ruskin Autograph letter signed, to S.C. Galpin complaining about the poor quality of the woodcuts in the Magazine of Art, edited by Galpin ("...I have dwelt repeatedly on the increasing danger, and mischief, of making the black ground of the woodcut a source of false sensation..."), 3 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, 11 November 1886; with autograph envelope The issue of the Magazine of Art that had been sent to Ruskin included a number of woodcuts by Carl van Haanen of Venetian subjects. After expressing his disappointment at dark and gloomy woodcuts (and indeed a poor quality reproduction of Turner's 'Fighting Temeraire'), Ruskin concludes his letter with the hope that Gilpin will in the future commission woodcuts that express "the beauty of nature and art - not their terrors, or grotesqueness".

View 1 of Lot 148: John Ruskin | Autograph letter signed, to S.C. Galpin, complaining of poor quality woodcuts, 11 November 1886

john ruskin | autograph letter signed, to s.c. galpin, complaining of poor quality woodcuts, 11 november 1886

Property from the Petersburg Press Archives Roy Lichtenstein 1923 - 1997 Seven Apple Woodcut Series (see Corlett 193-199) each bearing the inscription Exhibition Proof on the verso the complete set of seven woodcuts printed in colors on handmade Iwano Kizuki Hosho paper largest sheet: 37⅜ by 32⅝ in. 950 by 830 mm. Executed in 1983, this set is aside from the numbered edition of 60 plus 14 artist's proofs, published by Petersburg Press. (7 prints)

View 1 of Lot 55: Seven Apple Woodcut Series (see Corlett 193-199)

seven apple woodcut series (see corlett 193-199)

Books and Manuscripts, Medieval to Modern

Herbal Manuscript herbal in Dutch on paper. [Holland, early eighteenth century] folio (445 x 278mm.), ff. 2 (blank, with woodcut border pasted to verso of first leaf), 75 (text A-Z), 1 (blank except for blue-printed border pasted in with arms of Amsterdam), 49 (another text A-Z), [stubs from around 20 excised leaves], 44 (blank leaves), all ruled in red, manuscript text with hand-coloured woodcut illustrations pasted in, one cut-out illustration loose at front, a few loose sheets of manuscript text, paper by J. Villedary watermarked with a Strassburg bend and lily and the countermark IV (Churchill 437, dated to 1722), contemporary vellum, one catchplate remaining from two clasps, flyleaves slightly soiled and torn, leaf with Atriplex olidae torn, a few small tears or stains, hinges broken, binding soiled This attractive manuscript contains two series of alphabetical descriptions of plants, with woodcut illustrations cut out from the 1568 Antwerp edition of the Cruyde-boeck by Rembert Dodoens and pasted next to the relevant text. The text, however, is not that of Dodoens, and is arranged in two alphabetical sequences (Abies alba-Winteranus cortex; Abutilon-Zeopyron). PROVENANCE Received from the Hartkamp the sum of 7[?]-10 stuivers on [?] February 1782, manuscript note in Dutch on front flyleaf; crossed-through inscription at end mentioning Catharina and the date 21 August 1764

View 1 of Lot 189: Herbal | Manuscript in Dutch with coloured woodcuts, early eighteenth century, vellum

herbal | manuscript in dutch with coloured woodcuts, early eighteenth century, vellum

Vija Celmins b.1938 Ocean Surface Woodcut 1992 (R. p. 52) Woodcut, 1992, signed in pencil, dated, numbered 9/50, on Whatman 1953 paper, framed image: 225 by 305mm 8 ⅞ by 12in sheet: 495 by 394mm 19 ½ by 15 ½ in

ocean surface woodcut 1992 (r. p. 52)

Important Prints and Multiples Day Sale  

VIJA CELMINS b.1939 NIGHT SKY WOODCUT Woodcut, 1997, signed in pencil, dated and numbered 13/30 (total edition includes 20 artist's proofs), on Kozo/Gampi appliqué with a Fabriano Tiepolo support, printed and published by Grenfell Press, New York, framed image: 224 by 250 mm 8⅞ by 9⅞ in sheet: 448 by 317 mm 17⅝ by 12½ in

vija celmins | night sky woodcut

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Lot Comprises: Friedrich Lippmann, The Art of Wood‐Engraving in Italy in the Fifteenth Century, London, Bernard Quaritch, 1888, fol., brown morocco over simulated brown leather, bookplate of Leona Rostenberg Achim Gnann, David Ekserdjian & Michael Foster, Chiaroscuro: Renaissance Woodcuts from the Collections of Georg Bazelitz and the Albertina, Vienna, Exhibition Cat., Royal Academy of Arts, Mar. 15 – June 8, 2014, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2014, fol., stiff paper covers Peter Parshall & Rainer Schoch, et al., Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Their Public, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2005, fol., publisher's orange cloth, dust jacket Martinus J. Schretlen, Dutch and Flemish Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century, Boston & New York, 1925, fol., publisher's brown cloth Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art Richard S. Field, ed., Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Washington, n.d. Washington, DC, Library of Congress Daniel De Simone, ed., A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books (Illustrated Books Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the Sale of the Library of C. W. Dyson Perrins), New York & Washington, 2004, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket Sold as a group, not subject to return.

prints, woodcut

Prints & Multiples featuring Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. 

Roy Lichtenstein 1923 - 1997 Morton A. Mort, from Expressionist Woodcut Series signed in pencil, dated and numbered 33/50 woodcut printed in colours on Arches wove paper image: 580 by 825 mm. 22⅞ by 32½ in. sheet: 742 by 990 mm. 29¼ by 38⅜ in. Executed in 1980; this impression is number 33 from the edition of 50 plus 13 artist's proofs, with the blindstamp of the printer and publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, and with their inkstamp verso.

View 1 of Lot 39: Morton A. Mort, from Expressionist Woodcut Series

morton a. mort, from expressionist woodcut series

Books, Manuscripts & Music, from Medieval to Modern

Leonhard Thurneisser Historia und Beschreibung, influentischer, elementischer und natürlicher Wirckungen... Berlin: Michael Hentzske, 1578 Folio (376 x 245 mm), COLLATION: )(-A6 B7 C-P6, hand-coloured woodcut title-page, 42 arabesque initials, 12 hand-coloured astrological diagrams, 100 small woodcut figures (some hand-coloured), 36 botanical woodcuts within figured borders, portrait of the author, allegorical figure within elaborate border, printer's device (all hand-coloured), contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, minor loss to margins of first few leaves, endpapers becoming detached, upper hinge cracked, boards worn and bowed with loss to both covers, FIRST GERMAN EDITION (the first Latin edition was published by Hentzske the same year). Some of the tooling used on the binding of the present copy (Einbanddatenbank no. r003237) can be traced back to a workshop in Nuremberg, as suggested by a folio polygot bible printed in Munich displaying the same tooling. PROVENANCE: Winkler Bücherei, Innsbruck: bookplate LITERATURE: Ferguson II, 451; Hunt 135

View 1 of Lot 44: Leonhard Thurneisser | Historia und Beschreibung Influentischer, Elementischer und Natürlicher..., 1578, first German edition, contemporary pigskin, hand-coloured woodcuts

leonhard thurneisser | historia und beschreibung influentischer, elementischer und natürlicher..., 1578, first german edition, contemporary pigskin, hand-coloured woodcuts

Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

Gart der Gesundheit [Edited by Johann von Cube]. Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, 7 March 1487 Chancery folio (240 x 180mm.), an incomplete copy comprising leaves e2-e7, f2-y4, y6-G7, I1, I3-7, H1-5 (complete collation of 262 leaves: [4] a-v w-z A-D8 E6 F8 G-H6 I8, first and last leaves blank), double column, gothic type, 42 lines, numerous woodcuts with colour washes, later boards with manuscript title "Kreüter Buech" on upper cover, e5 torn without loss, k1 torn with loss at lower corner, n8 torn with loss of almost half the leaf, A1 torn with slight loss, other more marginal tearing and staining, some leaves detached, binding worn; sold not subject to return A coloured copy of this popular and comprehensive manual of botany and medicine. The editor, Johann von Cube or Wonnecke, was a Frankfurt physician who compiled this manual using the works of Dioscorides, Galen and Pliny as well as contemporary writers. The Latin text of the manual was first printed (and commissioned?) by Peter Schöffer in 1484, who subsequently published a German translation the following March. This vernacular version was quickly copied by other printers; Schönsperger's first version appeared in August 1485 and he produced at least six more editions, including the present one. The indexes contain lists of receipts and ailments. LITERATURE: ISTC ig00102000 (listing 14 copies, many incomplete)

View 1 of Lot 123: Gart der Gesundheit, Augsburg, 1487, coloured woodcuts, later boards

gart der gesundheit, augsburg, 1487, coloured woodcuts, later boards

Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein 1923 - 1997 Dr. Waldmann, from the Expressionist Woodcut series signed, dated '80 and inscribed AP 6/13 (lower right) woodcut printed in colors with embossing on Arches Cover paper image: 35 by 27 ½ in. 89 by 70 cm. sheet: 41 ⅝ by 34 ¼ in. 105.6 by 86.7 cm. Executed in 1980, this impression is one of 13 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 50, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso.

View 1 of Lot 80: Dr. Waldmann, from the Expressionist Woodcut series

dr. waldmann, from the expressionist woodcut series

Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein 1923 - 1997 Reclining Nude, from the Expressionist Woodcut series signed, dated '80 and inscribed AP 4/13 (lower right) woodcut printed in colors with embossing on Arches Cover paper image: 28 ¼ by 33 ½ in. 71.5 by 85 cm. sheet: 35 by 40 ¼ in. 88.9 by 102.1 cm. Executed in 1980, this impression is one of 13 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 50, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., and with their inkstamp on the verso.

View 1 of Lot 79: Reclining Nude, from the Expressionist Woodcut series

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