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SOYTER, Magnus. [Collection of watercolour drawings with manuscript captions].
[Augsburg], 1849-1853. 13 loose wove paper folio leaves and 1 loose wove paper bifolium. Large folio (55 x 35 cm). With 64 watercolours and manuscript captions on 15 leaves (each leaf drawn on one side only). [15] ll. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Pivoine double. Paeonia officinalis L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Paeonia officinalis showing two branches with one flower each, signed "Carrée sculp." Framed (67 x 50 cm). Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56.5 x 42 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Mespilus germanica, showing a branch with five medlars in various sizes, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Anemone double. Anemone coronaria. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Poppy anemone or Spanish marigold showing six branches with one flower each: three pink-red, two lilac, and one light-green, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Mufle de veau. Antirrhinum majus. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (54.5 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Antirrhinum majus showing a branched stem with flowers in various stages, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Chène commun. Quercus robur L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Quercus robur including two acorns, an empty shell and two buds, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Souci des jardins. Calendula officinalis. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Calendula officinalis showing two branches with seven flowers and buds in various stages, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

[SPAIN - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Pharmacopoea Hispana. Editio quarta.
Madrid, M. Repullés, 1817. 8vo. With allegorical steel engraving by B. Ametler after Luiz Paret, dated 1794 (date of the first edition) with the motto Ars cum Natura ad Salutem conspirans (85 x 97 mm). Mottled calf. [2], VIII, [4], 358 pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SPAIN - PORTUGAL]. Espagne - Portugal 1899.
[Spain?, Hauser & Menet and others?], 1896-1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). An album with 58 photographic prints (including one tinted) varying in size (20.5 x 15.5 to 27.5 x 21.5 cm ), each on thick paperboard. Half black leather, blind-stamped boards (title in gold on front board). [58] ll. Full description

[SPANISH TYRANNY]. Warachtighe beschrijvinghe ende levendighe afbeeldinghe vande meer dan onmenschelijcke ende barbarische tyrannije bedreven by de Spaengiaerden inde Nederlandes: onder de regieringen van den Keyser Carel V. Philips II. en Philips III. Coningen van Spaengien. [Half-title:] De onmenschelicke, barbarische, en grouwelijcke tyerannije der Spangniaerden in Nederlandt.
[Northern Netherlands (Amsterdam?)], [printed by Barent Otsz.?], 1621. Oblong 4to (18 x 22 cm). With an integral engraved frontispiece (15.5 x 20 cm, with 1 large and 3 small views of Spanish atrocities), letterpress title-page with a small bear as ornament (a mounted casting made from a woodcut), 36 full-page engraved city views on integral leaves showing Spanish atrocities (plate size about 13.5 x 16.5 cm, irregularly numbered 3 to 236 and not quite in numerical order), each with a 4-line Latin caption engraved in 2 columns, and 3 engraved portraits on integral leaves (plate size 14 x 12.5 cm). Early 18th-century vellum, sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints. [8], 278 pp. Full description