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GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit. Verscheide soorten van Hollandse vaartuigen geteekent en gesneeden door G. Groenewegen 1786 ... | Plusieurs sortes de batiments hollandoise dessiné et gravé par G. Groenewegen ...
Rotterdam, 1801. Oblong 4to (19.5 x 24.5 cm). 84 etched plates in 7 parts of 12 plates each, numbered A-F/1-12 and 1-12, each with a Dutch caption below. With:
(2) GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit. [Seascapes with ships]. [Rotterdam, J. van den Brink?], "1795" [= 1829?]. Set of 6 numbered etchings, signed and dated "G. Groenewegen 1795". 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 7 parts. Late 19th-century cloth, gold-tooled title on front board. Full description

GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit (engraver). Verzameling van vier en tachtig stuks Hollandsche schepen, geteekend en in koper gebragt door G. Groenewegen.
Rotterdam, J. van den Brink, [1829]. Oblong 4to (ca. 17.5 x 22.5 cm). With a letterpress title page and 84 finely designed and engraved views of Dutch sailing vessels (image size ca. 13.5 x 15.5 cm), divided into 7 series of 12 etchings each, lettered A-F (the 7th and last series without a letter) and numbered 1-12 in the plates, all with a Dutch title below. The first plates of the first and second series show the author's name and the original title in Dutch and French in the main sail, the first plates of the other series are signed by Groenewegen in the upper blank part of the plate. Modern vellum with the name of G. Groenewegen written in black ink on the spine. [85] ll. Full description

[GRONINGEN]. Effigies & vitae professorum academiae Groningae & Omlandiae; cum historiolâ fundationis ejusdem acad.
Groningen, Johannes Nicolai (colophon: Hindrick Lussinck), 1654. Small folio (ca. 29 x 19 cm). With an engraved title page, and 31 full-page engraved portraits. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 225, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[GUANGZHOU SCHOOL]. [A bird's-eye view of Macao].
[Macao, ca. 1849-1865]. Painting 350 x 150 cm. Watercolour on paper on contemporary wooden roll. Full description

GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. Les differens batimens de la mer oceanne, ...
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(2) GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. Les differens batimens de la Mer Mediterranée, ...
(3) GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. Petits batimens de l'ocean.
Paris, Pierre Giffart, [titles of parts 2 & 3 dated 1709]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Oblong Imperial 16mo (12.5 x 16.5 cm). Part 1 with 30 engraved leaves including the title-page, part 2 with 30 engraved leaves including the title-page, and part 3 with 16 engraved leaves. All together 76 plates (plate size mostly ca. 7 x 11 cm, the title plates to parts 1 & 2 ca. 10 x 12 cm) depicting a wide variety of boats and ships, each with a caption identifying the type of ship. Contemporary French gold-tooled calf. Subtly rebacked with the original back-strip laid down. 30; 30; 16 engr. ll. Full description

GUILLOT, P. Cours de dessin géométrique. Projections et perspective.
De Villeneuve, Les Béziers, 1878. Oblong large folio (31.4 x 48.7 cm). With manuscript title in black and grey ink and 39 full-page manuscript plates with beautifully drawn and professionally executed washed pendrawings and watercolours of the projections of solid bodies and of plans and designs on perspective for architects and stone cutters, all versos blank. Contemporary half red calf. [1 blank], [40], [2 blank] ll. Full description

HALL, Harry (by and/or after), and others. Segrare i Derby & Oaks [Winners at the Derby & Oaks].
[England and/or Sweden], ca. 1835?-ca. 1855. 4to (24.5 x 18 cm). 36 pencil drawings of English thoroughbred race horses (7.5 x 11.5 to 11 x 16 cm), 1 finished in ink washes and a few touched up with white or light brown. Each drawing mounted on (or occasionally drawn on) a card, loose in a Swedish blind-blocked, textured red cloth portfolio (ca. 1860?). [36] loose ll. Full description

HALMA, François. Het kasteel van Aigermont, en d'omleggende landtstreeken in de heerlykheit van Nederkan, nevens de stadt Maastricht.
Leeuwarden, François Halma, 1715. 4to. With the title page and dedication printed in red and black, an engraved printer's device on the title page, 3 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double page), 4 decorated woodcut initials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf. [20], 60 pp. Full description

HARVEY, William. Selections from the Royal stud, being portraits taken in October 1837, at Hampton Court, from life by William Harvey. Drawn on stone by and under the direction of R.J. Lane A.R.A. lithographer to Her Majesty.
London, Thomas McLean (printed by Alfred Ducôte and J. Graf), 1838. 1mo (55.5 x 38 cm). With a lithographed title page, a lithographed list of plates, and 12 tinted lithographed plates by Richard James Lane and W.J. Giles after William Harvey. Contemporary cloth, gold title on front board ("The royal stud at Hampton Court"); rebacked in modern, brown half sheepskin. Full description

[COSTUMES]. HECKEL, Catharina SPERLING. [Four young ladies in fancy gowns].
[Augsburg, ca. 1725?]. Four drawings in brown ink, watercolour and coloured gouaches on vellum, highlighted with gold (each 5.9 x 9.0 cm). Each mounted in a later passe-partout with a gold border, in an ebonized wooden frame (23.5 x 20.5 cm). Full description