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2 woodblock printsBiblio.com

Kokuka 73 <Japanese Version>

18952092902141000046Kokka-sha 1895. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B4 Kokka-sha paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour245,00 $US≈ 207,29 €

2 woodblock printsBiblio.com

Spring Summer Fall Winter Keisen Tomita <Japanese Version>

19282092902141000629Takashimaya 1928. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B3 Takashimaya paperback

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2 woodcut printsBiblio.com

Kokuka 21 <Japanese Version>

18912092902141000087Kokka-sha 1891. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B4 Kokka-sha paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour288,00 $US≈ 243,68 €

2 woodcut printsBiblio.com

Kokuka 23 <Japanese Version>

18912092902141000085Kokka-sha 1891. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B4 Kokka-sha paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour288,00 $US≈ 243,68 €

2 woodcut printsBiblio.com

Kokuka 24 <Japanese Version>

18912092902141000112Kokka-sha 1891. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B4 Kokka-sha paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour288,00 $US≈ 243,68 €

5 woodblock printsBiblio.com

Kokuiki 3 Poor Picture Hermit: A History of Madness <Japanese Version>

18912092902141001271Kuni iki-sha 1891. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: A4 Kuni iki-sha paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour103,00 $US≈ 87,15 €

6 out of 92/92 pages with commentary booklet missing 1 out of 10 separate printsBiblio.com

13th Kakiemon Hen Upper and Lower 2 Volumes

19772081402110005058Binobi 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Binobi paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour173,00 $US≈ 146,38 €

[ Japanese woodblock prints].Biblio.com

23162Shogakukan 1971. Folio 220pp. Original cloth-backed boards in dustwrapper.Over 100 full-page coloured plates some folding. A near fine copy. First edition. Text in Japanese. English index. Shogakukan, 1971. hardcover

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[ Japanese woodblock prints].Biblio.com

Colours of Japan Number 17

23161Shogakukan 1967. Folio 228pp. Original cloth-backed boards in dustwrapper.Over 100 full-page coloured plates some folding. A near fine copy. First edition. Text in Japanese. English index. Shogakukan, 1967. hardcover

Grant's Bookshop · Australie137,50 $AU≈ 90,63 €

[Botanical Prints]. WEINMANN, Johann WilhelmBiblio.com

PHYTHANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA. Pl. 808

1745855Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer et al. 1745. First edition. Very good. Mezzotint engraving printed in color finished by hand 12.75 x 8.25 inches platemark approx; 15.25 x 9.5 inches overall approx. Left edge retains sewing stabs neatly disbound in some earlier century else a very vibrant example of a hand colored mezzotint engraving. The individual botanicals in this plate are: a. Phaseolus flore puniceo b. Phaseolus major c. Phaseolus orthocaulus d. Phaseolus Indicus e. Phaseolus major seu Faba purgatrioc. Drawn from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia this dazzling print is part of a riotous celebration of plants trees shrubs herbs flowers fruits mushrooms and trailing vines. Printed in color and delicately finished by hand the series stands among the earliest triumphs of color printing and marks the first published collection to feature the work of George Dionysus Ehret one of the eighteenth century's most admired botanical artists. Other artists/engravers included in this work are Bartholomaus Seuter Johann Elias Ridinger and Johann Jakob Haid. In Great Flower Books Satcheverall Sitwell refers to this set as the "pioneering work of botanical prints engraved to be inked in color." . NISSEN2126. DUNTHORNE 327. SITWELL/BLUNT Great Flower Books p. 151 166. . H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, et al. unknown

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[Botany; Prints]Biblio.com

Portraits of the Founding Fathers of Botanical Study

1850247341850. Very good condition. An archive of 27 portraits of the founding fathers of botany including Dodoens Leeuwenhoek Grew Hill Aldrovandi Smith Desfontaines Palisot Gessner Everard Bonnet Banks Buffon Gray Evelyn Linnaeus Cuvier Klein Clusius and Agassiz. 1. Rembert Dodoens born Rembert Van Joenckema 1517 – 1585 was a Flemish physician and botanist. Rembert Dodoens Rembertus Dodonaeus was one of the great botanists of the 16th century who pursued a knowledge of plants in their own right not simply for medicinal uses. Contemporary copper engraving 4 7/8 x 7" on 7 3/8 x 10 1/2". 2. Antonius Leeuwenhoek 1632 - 1723 Dutch "Father of Microbiology" with botanical importance who worked with William III of Orange and his wife Mary II of England and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Copper engraving 5 1/2 x 7 1/8". 3. Nehemiah Grew 1641 – 1712 was an English plant anatomist and physiologist known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Copper engraving 5 3/4 x 9 1/4". 4. John Hill ca. 1714 – 1775 was an English author and botanist who contributed to contemporary periodicals including the botanical compendium 'The Vegetable System'. Copper engraving 8 7/8 x 11 1/4" on 9 5/8 x 12 1/2". 5. Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 – 1605 was an Italian naturalist professor of botany and one of the founders of the Bologna's botanical garden one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the Comte de Buffon considered Aldrovandi the father of natural history studies. 5 7/8 x 8 3/8". 6. Sir James Edward Smith 1759 – 1828 was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society 5 x 7" on 8 7/8 x 11 5/8". 7. Rene Louiche Desfontaines 1750 – 1833 was a French botanist who studied medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier at the Jardin des Plantes 9 1/4 x 12 1/4". 8. Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel 1776 – 1854 was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology 9 1/2 x 12 1/2". 9. Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot Baron de Beauvois 1752 - 1820 Paris was a French naturalist who was trained as a botanist and published an important paper on American entomology 9 x 12". 10. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 1748 – 1836 was a French botanist notably the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; his system remains largely in use today 9 1/2 x 12 1/2". 11. Conrad Gessner 1516 – 1565 was a Swiss physician and naturalist regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography zoology and botany. Gessner was working on a major botanical text at the time of his early death from the plague 3 5/8 x 5 1/8" on 6 1/8 x 7 7/8". 12. Michael Rotenbeck 1569 - 1623 physician and collector of botanical works. Copper engraving 7 5/8 x 4 3/4" on 13 x 8 1/2". 13. Dr. Giles Everard or Gilles Everaerts 16th century; active in 1580s Dutch physician who wrote works on the beneficial medicinal effects of tobacco smoking. Copper engraving 4 7/8 x 6" on 8 1/2 x 10". 14. Charles Bonnet 1720 – 1793 Naturalist and philosophical writer. He coined the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. 8 1/2 x 12 1/2". 15. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopediste. Buffon was the director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon published 36 quarto volumes of his 'Histoire Naturelle' during his lifetime. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". 4 1/2 x 6 3/8" on 9 x 11 1/2". 16. Sir Joseph Banks 1st Baronet GCB PRS 1743 – 1820 English naturalist botanist and patron of the natural sciences. 7 x 10 3/8". 17. Asa Gray 1810 – 1888 is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was significant as an explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was convinced that a genetic connection existed between all members of a species. He was opposed to the idea of hybridization within one generation and believed evolution was guided by a Creator. 6 x 8 5/8". 18. John Evelyn 1620 - 1706 author and botanist noted for his knowledge of trees. Evelyn's treatise Sylva or A Discourse of Forest-Trees 1664 was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for the English navy. 8 x 10". 19. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778 Carl von Linne was a Swedish botanist physician and zoologist who formalized binomial nomenclature the modern system of naming organisms. 6 images: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" 6 x 8 1/2" 4 7/8 x 8 5 1/2 x 9" 7 x 10 1/2" 6 1/4 x 8 1/2". 20. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Baron Cuvier 1769 – 1832 known as Georges Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. 4 images: 5 x 8 1/4" 6 3/4 x 9 7/8" 6 x 9" 7 1/2 x 10". 21. Jacob Theodor Klein 1685 – 1759 was a German jurist historian botanist zoologist mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II the Strong. 9 x 14 5/8" on 9 1/2 x 15 1/2". 22. Charles de l'Ecluse L'Escluse or Carolus Clusius 1526 – 1609 was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. 4 5/8 x 6 5/8". 23. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807 – 1873 was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4". 24. John Lindley 1799 - 1865 English botanist and orchidologist whose orchid collection was housed at Kew's herbarium noted for his 'Theory and Practice of Horticulture'. 25. Joseph Decaise 1807 - 1882 French botanist and agronomist. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4". 26. Louis Van Houtte 1810 -1876. Belgian horticulturist. Published the "Journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe". 5 1/2 x 8 3/4". 27. Georg Eberhard Rumphius Rumpf 1627 - 1702 Batavian botanist best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense a catalogue of the plants of the island of Amboina Indonesia. 9 1/2 x 14". The portraits mainly steel engraved some lithographic mostly 4to. All in very good condition. unknown

Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

[BRITISH INDIA - 1870S ENGRAVINGS]Biblio.com

Quinine Culture - The Cinchona Plantations at Darjeeling Bengal.

1872195548New York.: Harper's Weekly. 23 November1872. Five engravings in three columns 23.5 x 10 cms; on a single newspaper leaf 28.7 x 40.8 cm unrelated text on the verso lower margin creased with a small central tear affecting the caption no loss the image sin very good condition. Engravings from Harper's Weekly in November 1872 all centred on the quinine production in Darjeeling. Production began in the 1860s from seeds sent by the famed botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Quinine proved indispensable to British rule in India and they invested heavily in plantations to sure up supply.The anti-malarial was vital for colonial expansion "quinine coursed through the bloodstream of empire" Townsend Middleton "Becoming after: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains" in Cultural Anthropology Vol. 36 Issue 2 pp. 282-311 2014 although probably known more to the readers of Harper's Weekly as an essential for gin and tonic. The five engravings: Foot-Bridge over the River Rungbee Buttress of Suspension Bridge over the River Teestah Cinchona Succirubra Thirty Feet High signed but indecipherable Native of Sikkim Cane Suspension Bridge over the Great Runjeet. . Harper's Weekly. unknown

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[CHINA - ANTIQUE ENGRAVINGS] FRESCHI, ANDREA (ENGRAVER).Biblio.com

China Making. with China-Wheel. with China Manufactory.

1812195892London.: J. J. Stockdale. 1812. Three handcoloured engravings 10.5 x 17.5 cms landscape and two portrait partial watermark sheets toned handsomely preserved in cerulean card window mounts all in very good condition. Three European engravings illustrating three stages in the manufacture of Chinese porcelain from an edition of "China: Its Costume Arts Manufactures &c." by Breton de la Martiniere very attractively handcoloured. . J. J. Stockdale. unknown

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[CHINA - SILK TRADE - ANTIQUE ENGRAVINGS] PARR, NATHANIEL (ENGRAVER).Biblio.com

The Silk Manufacture from Du Halde. caption title

1745199414London. 1745-1747. Ten copperplate engravings arranged as storyboards on two leaves 21 x 16.5 cms border; 26 x 20 cms sheets including captions and platemark sheets a little age-toned with faint offsetting but in very good condition. Each of the ten engravings shows a stage in the production of silk. The two leaves of engravings Plates 25 and 26 were published as part of Du Halde's account of China included in an important 18th century compendium of travel writing: "A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels" known as the Astley Collection for its publisher. . hardcover

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[Christyn, Jean-Baptiste] (Text by); Pieter Danoot (Engravings by)Biblio.com

Jurisprudentia heroica sive de Jure Belgarum circa nobilitatem et insignia Demonstrato in Commentario ad Edictum Serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae Emulgatum 14. Decembris 1616 . 2-vol. in one Complete

166842902Bruxeelis Brussels: Balthazaris Vivien 1668. First edition. Hardcover. g to g. Folio 14 1/4 x 9". 1 leaf Frontispiece 12pp 586 30pp. Vol. 1; 4 174 8pp. Vol. 2. Modern half dark brown calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Allegorical frontispiece engraved by Pieter Danoot after Er. Quellinius Erasmus Quellin. Engraved vignette on title. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. First edition of this remarkable work on the Belgian nobility its history and legislation splendidly illustrated throughout with 126 in-text engravings of armorial shields including 14 double-leaved plates of coats of arms and 5 full-page engravings depicting dignitaries fully dressed in the costume of their order. Binding partly rubbed along spine. Contemporary previous owner's inscription in ink on half-title and at upper margin of frontispiece not affecting the image. Sporadic age-toning and foxing throughout. Some closed tears at verso of six double-leaved plates were repaired with tape. Minor and sporadic previous owner's underlining in blue ink throughout. Fore-edge of a few pages in second part are partly water-stained never affecting lettering. Text in Latin with some French. Binding in overall good interior in good to good condition. About the author: Jean-Baptiste Christyn 1622-1690 baron of Meerbeek was a jurist and diplomat in the Spanish Netherlands and Chancellor of Brabant from 1687 to 1690. Balthazaris Vivien hardcover

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[CONVERSATION PIECE ENGRAVINGS].Biblio.com

A suite of four hand coloured engravings.

112186n.p. n.d. eighteenth century circa 1750. . A suite of four original hand coloured engravings titled in Spanish and French La Manna Le Matin; El Mediodia Le Midi; Eldespues de Comer L'Apres Diner and Le Soir La Tarde each approx. 50 x 68 cm modern gilt frames. An exquisite suite of four eighteenth century conversation piece engravings in the rococo style showing the nobility at leisure dining and dancing outdoors in a bucolic setting. Each image is beautifully set within delicately coloured scrolled borders featuring flowers foliage leafy tendrils and fruit. These prints capture the privilege and lifestyle of the aristocracy and are typical of French decorative art in the early to mid eighteenth century. n.p., n.d. [eighteenth century, circa 1750]. unknown

Shapero Rare Books · Royaume-Uni4 500,00 £GB≈ 5 138,10 €

[COSTUME - ANTIQUE ENGRAVINGS]Biblio.com

Twelve costume cards

178023Mid 19th Century. 12 hand-coloured engravings laid onto card rounded corners each approx 11.3 x 7.8cm title text in English Italian French and German slight toning and edgewear one with a chipped corner but overall in good condition. Single figure costume engravings likely prepared for an educational work for children these a larger format than those by Bauer the German family of globe makers. Ten of the cards are paired male and female examples: Spanish Russians "Black Peter" Gipsies a pair from Syria and two of female figures from the Tyrol and Greenland. This item is held off-site. Please note there may be a few days delay while it is brought into our shop for viewing or mailing to you. Thank you for your understanding. . unknown

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[COSTUME TURKEY - OTTOMAN EMPIRE PRINTS]Biblio.com

Turkish Sultan and his Troops

1840177838circa 1840-1850s. Pair of hand-coloured lithographs highlighted with gum arabic 32.2 x 25.1 cm trimmed spotting to the upper corners affecting the sky only paper adhesions on the verso but the images in very good bright condition. Two finely coloured lithographs one of a Turkish Sultan in military costume with the skyline of Constantinople in the background and another of lower rank perhaps issued in the period of the Crimean War. Trimmed and possibly from an album or scrapbook. . unknown

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[Creative Prints] SHINOHARA Cao, artistBiblio.com

HISHÔ NO SHINTAN

1970898071970. Creative Prints SHINOHARA Cao artist. HISHÔ NO SHINTAN. Shôwa 45 1970 A small 7.5 x 7.5 cm western style square book bound in white leather. Illustrated through in tiny engravings some colored signed by Shinohara numbered 83 of 100 copies. In a lovely little leather slipcase and wraparond paper like new. A very unusual work from the heyday of Japanese artist books after the War. unknown

Boston Book Company · États-Unis375,00 $US≈ 317,29 €

[CREATIVE PRINTS] WATARAI Jun'suke, artistBiblio.com

KOROPOKKURU NO SHI

89806CREATIVE PRINTS WATARAI Jun'suke artist. KOROPOKKURU NO SHI. a little 9.8 x 7.4 cm leather wraparound box gold embossed with 13 copperengravings inside illustrating a text of POEMS OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE the little people being humanculi of Ainu legend who "take their ease under the trees" of the great northern forests. Though undated this copy is #9 of 50 copies and was produced by Sawamura Gallery probably in the 1970s. In perfect condition throughout with the original wraparounds the text pamphlet and the outer shipping box as well. unknown

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[DANCE OF DEATH -- WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS]. HERMANN-PAUL, [Rene Georges]Biblio.com

La danse macabre. . . gravures sur bois par. . . .

191962005Paris: Chez l’imprimeur Leon Pichon 5 Rue Christine 1919. 12mo. 6.5 x 6.5 3 leaves unnumbered. title w/ woodcut borders & printer’s device 20 numbered woodcut engraved plates. Softcovers minor shelfwear w/ woodcut-decorated jacket folded over the covers minor spotting foxing on back cover very minor bumping to corners still VG copy numbered on colophon & ownership markings on ffep. First edition No. 353 of 400 copies printed of the noted engraver’s first major post-World War I work as a Dance of Death depicting Death’s passage in the blighted and stricken era and a firm protest against modern mechanized warfare. Hermann-Paul 1864-1940 rose to fame during the Belle Epoque with his cutting satiric depiction of the foibles of French Society was a noted defender of Alfred Dreyfus whom after the war departed from his previously leftist ideals of the Parisian art scene and spent much of the between-the-wars period as an outsider. Chez l’imprimeur Leon Pichon, 5, Rue Christine, paperback

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[Design Binding] [Botelho, Camille] Parmenides | Bringhurst, Robert (trans); wood engravings by Richard WagenerBiblio.com

The Fragments of Parmenides & an English Translation by Robert Bringhurst

10427Berkeley CA: Editions Koch 2003. Full Leather. Fine binding. Folio. 44 pp. frontis plates. Limited edition one of 120 copies this copy out of series; there are also 26 lettered deluxe copies with a suite of 10 engravings. All are signed by Bringhurst Wagener and Peter Koch at the colophon. Bound by Camille Botelho in black box calf with inlays and onlays of dyed calf vinyl snakeskin painted paper mylar laminates and a porcupine quill; hand embroidered endbands; vinyl snakeskin doublures. A fine copy in clamshell box. True to form Peter Koch has produced a marvelous edition of what remains of Parmenides's poem "On Nature." The fragments of the poem are rendered in this opposite page bilingual edition with the Greek on the left and Bringhurst's English translation on the right. The poetry is brilliantly accompanied by Wagner's striking engravings a frontispiece and 4 additional wood engravings in red and orange. Given it survives only in fragments there is some debate as to the "meaning" of the symbolism of Parmenides's poem making it a work ripe for interpretation. But at base his view of reality is one of stasis unchangeable. And while that enduring Greek logic marks the work Wagener introduces remarkably abstract and kinetic illustrations printed in an urgent deep red and orange—projecting anything but stasis. It is the discord between the logical understanding or reality and the emotional understanding of it that spoke to Botelho and informed her design of this incredible binding. She writes: "In the design I thought of Parmenides looking out past shadowy arches from within a dark room to find total chaos beyond. The curve of the Mylar inlay and the curve of the porcupine quill mimic a column marking a threshold beyond which is uncontrolled noise and movement and mess. I wanted the disparity between the smoothness of the box calf and the chaos of the inlays and yellow foiling to be a comment on how frightening examining one's reality can be." Magnificently achieved Botelho has created an exceptional binding that bridges Parmenides and Wagener giving voice to the paradox she sees in this metaphysical conversation on the nature of reality. Editions Koch unknown

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[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS].Biblio.com

Collection of 37 devotional prints and drawings.

1630ABC_49153Flanders and Paris: various publishers 1630. Several prints are tipped into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco album a blind-tooled ornament in the centre of both boards with the crowned initials J.B. on the front surrounded by a double fillet frame with elaborate corner pieces gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins gilt edges white watered silk endpapers. The work is housed in a 19th-century marbled slipcase with a paper label with the name of Countess Julie Visart de Bocarmé mounted on the front. The remaining prints have been tipped onto a sheet of sturdy paper inserted into a clear plastic file folder which are loosely inserted into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled purple morocco album with the word "album" lettered in gold on the front surrounded by a blind-tooled Gothic style border and an elaborate gold-tooled border gilt edges black watered silk end papers. Oblong folio ca. 29 x 42.5 cm; sheet size ca. 12 x 9 to 35 x 23 cm. With 24 contemporary hand-coloured engravings of which some heightened with gold 1 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration 1 chromolithographed print 7 watercolour drawings including 2 on vellum 3 silk embroidered prints in various sizes and 1 image made of paper ornaments glued onto a black netting fabric. Further with a folded alphabetical list of the Antwerp printers and engravers of devotional prints in a 19th-century hand tipped onto the first leaf of the album. 2 volumes. Remarkable collection of 37 devotional prints and drawings including fifteen printed on vellum and two "clad" prints. The majority of the prints and drawings were made in the 17th and 18th centuries but a small number of 19th-century examples is also included. The prints all depicting Catholic saints and scenery are decorated with a wide variety of techniques. Most are hand coloured and heightened with gold but several are clad in fabric embroidered cut out to resemble lace sometimes backed with coloured paper or metal foil to highlight the cut outs and one was made by gluing paper ornaments onto a black netting fabric. The present collection which was owned and probably compiled by the Belgian Countess Julie Alexandrine Marie Josèphe Visart de Bocarmé 1823-1862 not only offers a fascinating sample of popular printing culture in Flanders but also highlights the endless creativity of both the creators and consumers of these prints.Devotional prints were initially used as images for the illiterate replacing written or printed texts. They were intended for private devotion and often bought and decorated by women. The present prints were mainly engraved by 17th-century Flemish printmakers such as Cornelius de Boudt 1660-1738 Michiel Cabbaey 1660-1722 Guillaume Collaert ca. 1595-ca. 1651 Lodewijk Joseph Fruytiers 1713-1782 Jacob de Man ca. 1643-1719 and Theodoor van Merlen III 1661-1749. In contrast to most examples of this genre most of the present engravings are printed on vellum and beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand partly heightened in gold for the halos of the saints. The prints include biblical scenes showing Christ on the Cross Joseph Mary the Apostles and John the Baptist. The majority of the prints depict portraits of Catholic saints such as Anthony of Padua 1195-1231 Apollonia of Alexandria d. 249 Dorothea of Caesarea d. ca. 311 Francis of Assisi ca. 1181-1226 Francis Xavier 1506-1552 Helena of Constantinople ca. 246-330 Peter of Alcántara 1499-1562 and Rosalia of Palermo 1130-1166. A complete list of contents is available upon request.With the initials of Belgian Countess Julie Visart de Bocarmé stamped in gold on the front board and her manuscript ownerships label Julie Visart de Bocarmé Baronesse G.v.Z.v.N. mounted on the front of the slipcase. Further with the printed label of Cabasson Successeur de Terzuolo-Despilly Papetier du Roi Rue de la Chaussée dAntin No. 15 mounted on the verso of the first flyleaf of the brown album all prints and drawings have been tipped onto a white sheet of paper with a manuscript collection number at the top. The boards are slightly rubbed and scratched. The first few leaves of the purple album have been removed to make space for the collection. The prints and drawing show traces of use with some browning and occasional creasing soiling or foxing. The edges and corners of the slipcase are scuffed and the lower right corner of the paper label is torn off. Otherwise in good condition.l K. van den Bergh Bidprentjes in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden 1975; J.A.J.M. Verspaandonk Het hemels prentenboek. Devotie- en bidprentjes vanaf de 17e eeuw tot het begin van de 20e eeuw 1975. various publishers, hardcover

Antiquariaat FORUM BV · Pays-Bas16 500,00 €

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