Art, Architecture & Photography / Drawings, Prints & Watercolours

[SWANENBURG, Isaac Claesz. van (after); DOLENDO, Zacharias?]. Vertoninghe der tegenwoordighe stant int vrye-Nederlandt.
[The Netherlands], 1618. (ca. 22 x 29,5 cm). Engraved print on paper. In passe-partout. Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. [Collection of satirical plates and illustrated poems related to Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid].
Including:
-11 very rare broadsheets, each of the first 10 with a satirical poem and 1 or more woodcut illustrations, the last with a verse by Joost van den Vondel and an engraved illustration.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720] (items 1-10); Rotterdam, Pieter vander Veer, 1721 (item 11). 1mo. Modern green half cloth.
-8 engraved prints with letterpress text by Jan de Ridder.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720]. Folio. Modern green half cloth.
-45 engraved satirical plates (including 2 made up of 4 separate prints each, and with a duplicate plate).
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats. Each in passepartout.
-12 separate prints (a few with letterpress text) and 2 copies of an engraved map in 2 parts, showing the coast of South America and the South Sea.
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats.
The whole kept together in a large 20th-century green half cloth portfolio (50×70 cm). Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. De vervallen actionisten hersteld, door den triompheerden Arlequin. [The ruined share-holders restored by the triumphant Harlequin].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1720]. Bifolium (31.5 x 40 cm). Engraved print, with title on top and engraved verse in Dutch below, in 4 columns. The illustration coloured by hand. In passepartout (40 x 50 cm). Full description

TARENGHI, Enrico. [Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].
[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic. Full description

[INDIA]. TAYLER, William. Sketches illustrating the manners and customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians.
London, Thomas McLean, 1842. Large folio (54,5 x 37,5 cm.). With 6 hand coloured lithograph plates and a lithographed title. Contemporary half calf with cloth sides, gold tooled title on front cover. [16] pp; [6] plates. Full description

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826.
With: IDEM. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume.
Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. [1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp. Full description

[TILES - MODEL BOOK]. [Model book of Dutch tile designs].
[Utrecht?, ca. 1810?]. Small square 4to (20 x 19 cm). With 111 pen and wash model drawings for Dutch tiles on the rectos of 105 leaves, most in greys but many in brown or a beautiful Delft blue. Several combine more than one colour, all in the actual size of tiles. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. [2 blank], 105, [6 blank] ll. Full description

[TRAVEL ALBUM - CHINA - INDIA - JAPAN]. [Travel album containing Chinese, Japanese, and Indian artworks].
[Asia, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (ca. 20.5 x 26 cm). With 16 gouache paintings on pith paper framed by silk ribbons, 4 partly coloured woodcut illustrations, and 11 prints and drawings of India. Early or mid-19th-century gold- and blind-stamped beige calf, with a gold-stamped single fillet frame on the diamond-patterned boards, floral blind-stamping and the words "scrap book" lettered in gold on the spine. [1 blank], [31], [38 blank] ll. Full description

USTERI, Martin (artist) and Marquard WOCHER (engraver). L'oraison dominicale d'un habitant d'Unterwalde; suite de sept scènes de la Révolution helvétique.
Basel, the author and Schoell et Cie, 1803. 4to (29.5 x 22 cm). With 8 brush etchings or aquatints, including the title page, mounted on green paper with letterpress captions, interleaved with tissue guards. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, black sheepskin spine-label, gilt edges. Full description

VALERIANI, Domenico and Girolamo SEGATO. Nuova illustrazione istorico-monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.
Including: Atlante monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.
Florence, Paolo Fumagalli, 1836-1837 (text) & 1837-1841 (plates). 2 text volumes (8vo) and 2 plates volumes (large folio). With engraved portrait of Segato as frontispiece in the first text volume and the plate volumes with 160 engraved and aquatint plates (7 double-page), including 51 tinted and/or coloured by a contemporary hand; many plates contain multiple illustrations, making 309 illustrations in total. Contemporary green (text vols.) and brown (plates vols.) half morocco. [2], 491, [1 blank], [4]; 788, [6] pp. text Full description