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Interesting and intimate photograph album showing buildings, views, people and life in Calcutta in the 1870s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA]. [Manuscript title on the front paste-down:] Views of Calcutta.
Calcutta, [ca. 1874/79]. Oblong 8vo. With 33 mounted sepia albumen prints (ca. 15/15.5 x 10.5/11 cm), all captioned. Manuscript title and captions of the pictures in English, written in brown ink in a neat 19th-century cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco, brown cloth sides. [2 blank], [25], [1 blank], [8], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Architecture India & Sri Lanka Photography
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Photographs and illustrations of a British warship's travels in Latin America

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LATIN AMERICA]. [Album with photographs, engravings, and drawings relating to Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile].
[ca. 1885]. Oblong (ca. 38 x 27.5 cm). With 20 albumen prints, 43 plates (engraved and lithographed), and 3 drawings. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco, brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides, with a paper label ("3") mounted on the front. [31] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Argentina Brazil Drawings & Watercolours Naval History North Africa Photography South America Travel & Voyages South America UK - United Kingdom
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Celebrations in 19th-century Moscow: photographic prints showing an Imperial coronation
and the consecration of a cathedral

[PHOTOGRAPHY - RUSSIA - MIECZKOWSKI, Jan]. [Collection of photographic prints depicting Moscow during the coronation of Alexander III & Maria Feodorovna and the consecration of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in May 1883].
[Russian Empire (probably Warsaw in present-day Poland)], Mechkovsky (= Jan Mieczkowski), [1883]. 9 photographic prints mounted on large white paper boards, captioned in Russian above and below the image. Kept together in a clear plastic sleeve. Full description
€ 18,000
Photography Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Western tourists in Israel shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967 captured by a Dutch photographer

[PHOTOGRAPHY - THIRD ARAB-ISRAELI WAR - ISRAEL] DONY, Bianca. [Album with photographs showing parts of Israeli captured territories including the Golan Heights, the West Bank, parts of Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula].
Israel, 1967. Oblong album (ca. 20 x 26 cm); photographs in slightly varying sizes (ca. 18.5 x 24 cm). 44 silver gelatin photographs (including 2 duplicates and 1 other loosely inserted). Grey faux-leather photo album with a small white label on the front board: "42 x Israël 1967 23-24-25 Juli". 44 photographs in an album with 30 clear plastic inserts. Full description
€ 4,500
Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Photography
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Plates of Duke of Osunas ornate sculptural coach,
used for his entry during the Treaty of Utrecht

PICART, Bernard. Premier des magnifiques carosses de Monseigneur de le duc d'Ossuna, ambassadeur extraordinaire et premier plenipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Catholique Philippe: V. pour la paix faits pour l'entreé publique de son Excellence a Utrecht MDCCXIII.
Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1714. Folio. Series of 7 engraved plates (including title-page and 1 double-page). 19th-century gold-tooled green morocco, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gilt edges; bound by Durvand Thivet. Full description
€ 17,500
Art & Art History Horses & Horsemanship Netherlands Portugal Prints & Print Series Wine / Viticulture
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Series of 12 prints showing Dutch and Frisian costumes

PICART, Bernard. Diverses modes dessinées d'après nature.
Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1728. Oblong 4to (21 x 27.5 cm). Series of 12 engraved prints: 11 costume prints plus a title-page (title in a stunning and delicate cartouche, plate size: 12.5 x 7 cm) on 6 oblong 4to leaves (which could make 12 8vo leaves). 6 of the plates are signed by the engraver Gaspard Duchange, all after the designs of Bernard Picart. Unbound. Full description
€ 3,500
Costumes & Uniforms Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Picart's 42 lion prints, including 8 by Picart from life and 18 after Rembrandt

PICART, Bernard, partly after REMBRANDT and others. Recueil de lions, dessinez d'après nature par divers maitres & gravez, ... Divisé en six livres chacun de six feuilles.
Amsterdam, Bernard Picart [title-print also: Paris, François Chereau], 1729 (engraved 1728-1729). Oblong 4to (18.5 x 24 cm). With a letterpress title-page in red and black with Picart's engraved "device, 1 title-print and 42 lion prints in 6 series, on 37 leaves, all engraved by Bernard Picart after drawings made by himself (8, all from life), Rembrandt (18), Charles le Brun (6), Albrecht Dürer (1), Paulus Potter (1) and unattributed (8). Late 19th-century pimpled red cloth with the spine at the head of the pages. Rebacked in red cloth. [1], [1 blank], 6 pp. plus 37 engraved plates with title-print & 42 lion prints. Full description
€ 5,000
Art & Art History Mammals Prints & Print Series
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Beautifully hand-coloured proofs of very rare prints of stud horses

PIRSCHER, Karl Dietrich. Abbildungen Herzoglich-Braunschweigischer Gestüt-Pferde ... 1tes Heft.
Braunschweig, 1827-1828. Oblong 1mo (47.5 x 63 cm). First instalment of 6 lithographed plates of horses, plus 1 additional lithographed view, all beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand with highlights in gum arabic, and including two with the captions and artists name in manuscript. All loosely preserved in a proof state of the original publisher's lithographed paper wrappers, including a list of plates. Preserved in a modern portfolio. Full description
€ 75,000
Germany Horses & Horsemanship Iran / Persia Mammals Prints & Print Series
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