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A list of Books and Drawings on

Architecture & Perspective

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2013 Architecture
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Bilingual architectural classic, with copperplate illustrations

1. BLUM (BLOEM), Hans. Beschryvinghe van de vijf colomnen, van architecture.
With the preliminaries of the French issue added: Description des cinq ordres de colomnes.
Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher [letterpress text printed by Paulus van Ravesteyn], 1634. Folio. With engraved vignette on the
Dutch title-page; woodcut ornament on the French title-page; 16 half-page engraved plates (ca. 25 x 9.5 cm, printed on the inside
columns) by Claes Jansz. Visscher after the original woodcuts; 5 full-page numbered engravings of the five orders of columns
after Wendel Dieterlin, and 1 full-page engraving of decorative pilasters. 18th(?)-century half sheepskin parchment.
 5.000

Extremely rare second bilingual (Dutch and French) edition of a classic architectural work on the five orders of classical
columns, here with all texts and materials from the two different issues. The book first appeared in Latin at Zrich in 1550 and
was translated into numerous languages, including Dutch in 1592. Visscher published a Dutch edition in 1617 and the first
bilingual (Dutch & French) edition in 1623. The book was originally illustrated with large-scale diagrammatic woodcuts (here,
as in most 17th-century editions, with copperplates) that could easily be understood and that certainly helped to assure the
books popularity throughout Europe for over a century.
The present copy may be called the Dutch issue, for the illustrations are printed next to the Dutch text and the book begins with
the Dutch preliminaries, but the French preliminaries have been included between the Dutch preliminaries and the main text.
Although both title-pages say printed by Visscher, this refers to the printing of the copperplates. He must have farmed out the
letterpress printing, for its type, initials and ornaments clearly identify the printer as Paulus van Ravesteyn.
Rather worn, with a tear across the title-page repaired at an early date (using a strip of paper from a 17th or 18th century
drawing of children or putti, pasted to the blank back of the leaf), some leaves reinforced at the edges, some water stains and
soiling. The paper sides are damaged. A rare and attractive edition of an architectural classic, combining all material from two
different issues.
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) XXXVIII, pp. 159-160, 392-413 note; De Long & De Groot I, 319, c. 1-5; STCN (1 copy); WorldCat (2 copies of French issue);
cf. BAL 311-313 and 881; Harris & Savage, British architectural books, p. 121.

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Two 17-century Dutch classics on architecture and perspective

2. BOSBOOM, Symon. Cort onderwys vande vyf colommen ... uyt den
scherpsinnigen Vinsent Schamozzy getrocken en in minuten gestelt seer
gemacklick voor de jonge leerlingen en dienstich voor alle jonge liefhebbers
der bouw-const.
Amsterdam, Jochem Bormeester, Sander Wybrants vande Jouwer, 1694. With
an engraved title-page, 48 irregularly numbered engraved plates (2 folding),
and a half-page engraved table in text. Lacking 1 letterpress leaf, probably
with a small engraved illustration.
With: (2) HONDIUS, Henricus. Grondige onderrichtinge in de optica, ofte
perspective konste, ...
Amsterdam, Frederick de Wit, [1697?]. With a letterpress title-page, the
engraved architectural title-page of the Latin editions, Institutio artis
perspectivae, originally dated 1622, changed in the plate to 1647 and in
manuscript to 1697. With 2 folding and 34 full-page engraved plates (1
with unnumbered figures and 35 with figures 1-43), showing diagrams and
perspective views of geometrical figures and solids, rooms, a courtyard,
staircases, furniture, buildings, interiors and gardens (of the prince of
Orange), vaults, arches, galleries, a standing screw press for linens, a
landscape with two figures, etc. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (30.5 x 20
cm). Early 18th-century overlapping sheepskin parchment (re-backed).

7.500
Ad 1: Unrecorded 1694 issue, apparently the same edition as the 1694 Gerhard
Valk issue, of a well-known and influential simple practical manual on the five
orders of columns, written for the use of craftsmen by Symon Bosboom (16141662), Dutch architect and Amsterdams official city stonemason (stadts
steen-houwer). He discusses and extensively illustrates the Tuscan, Doric,
Ionic, Composite (here called Roman) and Corinthian orders of column, along
with doorways, arches, facades, etc., using them. Other illustrations show
fireplaces, a church interior and exterior, geometrical diagrams, ornaments,
etc.
Bosboom had worked together with Jacob van Campen on the building of
Amsterdams new city hall, where he was responsible for the hundreds of capitals and column bases. Cornelis de Bies Gulden
Cabinet (Antwerp 1661) calls Bosboom the actual designer of the plastic details of the Amsterdam city hall.
Ad 2: Rare Dutch edition, published by De Wit in 1697 and printed from the original plate of the 1622 first edition, of one of
the most popular books on the art of perspective, by the engraver, publisher and expert on fortifications Henricus Hondius the
elder (1573-1650). The book gives thorough review of the most famous earlier authors on perspective, including the founder
of the genre Hans Vredeman de Vries. The book provides a series of neatly conceived demonstrations of perspective in its
abstract and applied forms and gives an original if brief analysis of the upwards convergence of tall verticals to a contre-poinct
when viewed with a plane tilted slightly toward the spectator (Kemp, p. 112). The plates served also as models for subsequent
authors: Joseph Moxons Practical perspective (London 1670), for example, copies many of the present plates in mirror image.
The Bosboom lacks 1 text leaf, but both works are otherwise in good condition, with some mostly marginal stains and some
marginal restorations. The binding has been rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. Two 17th-century classics on
architecture and perspective.
Ad 1: Cf. BAL 330-1 (1682 ed.); Berlin Kat. 2222-2223 (1657 ed. & ca. 1726/42 Ottens ed.); Fowler 54 (1686 Danckerts ed.); STCN (1 copy of 1694 Valk
issue); WorldCat (2 copies of 1694 Valk issue); ad 2: Kemp, The science of art, pp. 111-112; New Hollstein, H. Hondius (1994), 259-294; Vagnetti EIIIb10;
STCN (3 copies).

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Much ado about the faade of Milan Cathedral, with unexecuted designs

3. CASTELLI, Francesco. Per la facciata del duomo do Milano.

[Milan, 1654]. Folio. With 6 unnumbered engraved plates, 5 showing designs for facades for the Cathedral (4 with small plans
at the foot) and 1 showing a floor plan (5 folding, including 1 with three engraved slips showing alternative designs for parts of
the facade). 18th-century flexible boards covered with 2 sheets of the same gold brocade paper, with a pattern of red flowers on
a gold background. 
25.000
First edition of the extensive defense by Francesco Castelli (1599-1667) of his 1648 designs for a new faade for the Milan
Cathedral (plates 4-6), published as a result of the rejection of his designs. A second edition or reissue with additional material
appeared in 1656. There is no full-fledged title-page, but a sort of half-title without the authors name or imprint. Although
many architects, including no less a figure than Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, had endorsed Castellis designs (all published in this
work), the design of his competitor Carlo Buzzi (ca. 1585-1658) was chosen (plate 3). Buzzi had been recently and unexpectedly
appointed head of the church factory of the Cathedral, succeeding Francesco Maria Richini (1584-1658), who had also designed
a new faade elaborating on earlier designs by Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527-1596) (plates 1-2).
Richinis design was romanesque in style and Buzzis gothic, while Castellis combined gothic and baroque elements. The
judgments of many Italian architects on such a controversial project as the replacement of the faade of one of the most
important cathedrals in Italy provides us with a highly interesting discussion. We are given a clear insight into how the most
important Italian architects of the mid-17th century (Bernini among them) viewed the different architectural styles, and it
gives us an impression of their preferences. This extremely rare work is therefore of the utmost importance for the history of
architecture and the role of the different styles in 17th-century Italy.
In very good condition. On the spine the red in the pattern paper has faded away. A rare architectural work giving detailed
images of and commentary on unexecuted designs for Milan Cathedral.
ICCU (3 copies described as [1656] with additional material); Thieme & Becker VI, pp. 152-153.
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Proposal for a Paris comedy theatre, with 6 folding plates

4. [COCHIN, Charles Nicholas the younger]. Projet dune salle de spectacle pour un thatre de comdie.
London, Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1765. 12mo (18 x 11 cm). With floor plans, interior elevations, sections and a plan of the
ceiling decoration of a theatre on 6 folding engraved plates, and decorations built up from rococo fleurons. Late 19th-century
red half cloth.

3.750

First edition of a charming treatise with beautiful engraved plates with plans, cross-sections, an elevation of the stage and a
plan of the decorated ceiling for a proposed design for a new comedy theatre to be built in Paris, by the famous graphic artist,
draughtsman and engraver Charles Nicholas Cochin the younger (1715-1790). Like his father, the son worked mainly as a book
illustrator, producing print series for Lafontaines tales and the works of Rousseau, Boccaccio, Tasso, etc. He also collaborated
with the architect Bellicard to produce a work on Roman antiquities. His designs for the festivals and splendid ceremonies at the
court of Louis XV became especially famous. All six plates are signed by the engraver Maroye, who collaborated with Cochin on
several projects. The book was printed in Paris.
The title-page is a cancel and the watermarks confirm that the cancel title-page was printed with the second quire as the last leaf
B12, so the book is not a reissue and the title-page may therefore have been cancelled to correct an error discovered during the
printing.
Lacking the initial blank leaf, A1. With the engraved bookplate (signed Stern graveur) of Ludovic Halvy (1834 -1908),
literary author and poet of Offenbach librettos. Very good copy, with only occasional very minor foxing, and nearly untrimmed
(retaining some deckles and point holes).
Cioranesco 19932; not in BAL; Cohen-De Ricci.

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Architectural drawings for alterations to an important Veronese library

5. [DRAWINGS - ARCHITECTURAL]. [On front wrapper:] Dissegno per la fabrica della Libreria Canonicale.
[Verona, ca. 1720/25]. Folio (38.5 x 25.5 cm). With 4 architectural drawings, 3 double-page (ca. 37 x 50 cm at a scale of about 1:60)
and 1 loosely inserted full-page (24 x 35 cm at a scale of about 1:107), skillfully drawn in brown ink and several shades of grey
watercolour. Two of the double-page drawings are elevations (1 partly in cross-section), the other 2 drawings are floor plans,
each plan with a folding flap tipped on showing the plan of a higher level. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers.  25.000
The original designs for the alterations to the chapter library
at Verona, situated in the Church of St. Helena, abutting the
famous Cathedral of San Zeno (the common wall appears
in the drawings). The alteration was ordered by Scipione
Maffei (1675-1755) and Jacopo(?) Muselli and executed by the
architect Lodovico Perini; it was finished in 1726.
In 1713 Maffei, a leading scholar, poet and man of letters,
had made a remarkable discovery in the library: in its
old cupboards he found late-classical and early Christian
manuscripts from the 5th to 9th century, stored there
centuries earlier, apparently to protect them against danger
of flooding of the river Adige. On the basis of these old
manuscripts and helped by the Canon Carlo Carinelli,
Maffei formulated a completely new and epoch-making
theory regarding the development of the Latin script in
three variants: the Roman majuscule, the minuscule and
the cursive hand, showing an uninterrupted evolution from
Roman Antiquity to the Renaissance. Maffei published
the results of his studies in his Istoria diplomatica (1727)
and Verona illustrata (1742). The rediscovery of these old
manuscripts also resulted in a revival of Patristic studies and
many new editions of the works of the Church Fathers.
With some faint stains near the fore-edges (an one edge of the loosely inserted drawing) and a couple rust spots in the paper,
but still in very good condition.

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40 colour drawings of mosaic marble floors from Roman churches

6. [DRAWINGS - MOSAIC FLOORS]. [Mosaic marble tile
floors from five churches, most or all in Rome].
[Rome?, ca. 1662 or 18th century]. Small folio (26 x 19.5 cm). 40
ink and watercolour drawings (28 round and 12 square, each
ca. 11 x 11 cm) showing the decorative patterns and coloured
marbles from the floors of 5 churches. Each has a triple-rule
border in black ink with a panel at the foot containing the name
of the church. Contemporary(?) boards covered with later (ca.
1840?) Storemont on shell marbled paper.  17.500
A book of 40 detailed colour drawings showing the elaborate
patterns in the mosaic marble tile floors of five different
churches, with eight examples from each church: Santa Maria
Maggiore (1-8), Santi Giovanni e Paolo (9-16), San Marco (17-24),
Sant Alessio (25-32) and Sant Ivo (33-40). All probably refer to
the Roman churches of these names, though the Basilica di San
Marco in Venice also has elaborate mosaic floors. Some of the
mosaics are in the Mediaeval Italian style called Cosmatesque,
but some may date from the Renaissance. Besides a wide variety
of triangular, square, rectangular, diamond, hexagonal, and
octagonal tiles, there are many cut with circular edges and a few
irregular quadrilaterals. Some are assembled to form stars in a
hexagonal grid, round sunburst patterns and an endless variety
of other patterns. All patterns show a rotational symmetry
around the centre point or a repeating pattern in a square or
hexagonal grid. The colouring of many of the tiles shows various
styles and colours of marble veins.
The drawings are difficult to date exactly. The leaves used for
the drawings show a single paper stock, very close to Piccard
VI, watermarks V.423 & V.424 (Rome 1662). The drawings could
have been made as early as ca. 1662, but the lettering of the
names of the churches seems more likely to date from the 18th
century.
In 1752, Monsignor Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, a prelate from
Bergamo, published an illustrated book on mosaics from classical
Rome to his own day: De Musivis, Rome, 1752. This marked a new interest in such antiquities, but he illustrates mainly earlier
examples and we find little link with the present examples, which were probably drawn before his book appeared.
With smudges on a few pages, one slightly affecting the edge of one drawing, but otherwise in very good condition, with only a
light marginal water stain in the last few leaves. The front hinge is broken and the spine and edges of the binding are somewhat
tattered. Since many floor mosaics have been destroyed or damaged over the centuries, the present book provides a unique
historical record of some of the designs.

Presentation copy,
with more than 100 garden drawings & plans
7. FORESTIER, Jean-Claude-Nicolas. Jardins: carnet de plans et de
dessins.
Paris, mile-Paul frres, 1920. Royal 4to (33 x 26.5 cm). With an
engraved garden scene on the front wrapper and more than 100
drawings and plans printed from line blocks, many full-page.
Black morocco presentation binding, gold-tooled, with the original
publishers wrappers.

475
A French bibliophile and hortophile publication, with the authors
numerous large plans and drawings of gardens that range from 300
to 5000 square metres. One of 45 copies sur grand papier dArches.
Forestier (1861-1930) presented it in 1924 to the futur professeur
J.M. Duvernay. Binding good, with the front wrapper slightly dirty
and with a small abrasion, and the morocco binding worn at the back
hinge and the corners. Presentation copy, in very good condition, of
a lovely garden book, with numerous large drawings and plans.
Not in Kew Lib. Cat. on-line; Springer, Bibl. Overzicht.

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Illustrated work on fortification and military architecture

8. GRUBER, Johann Sebastian. Neuer und
grndlicher Unterricht, von der heutigen Fortification
und Artillerie... Nebenst einem Bericht von
Zubereitung einiger Ernst-Feuerwerckes-Kugeln.
Nuremberg, Johann Hoffmanns seel. Wittib,
Engelbert Strecken, Abraham von Werth, 1700. 8vo.
With engraved double-page frontispiece with a.o. a
fortification and an explosion, title in red & black, 10
numbered engraved full-page plates & a folding table
in the first part and 6 full-page engraved plates (I-VI)
in the second part. Blue paper covered boards.
 1.950
Second edition of an interesting, illustrated work on
fortification and military architecture, artillery and
fireworks by Johann Sebastian Gruber. It is divided
into two parts. The second part starts with the half
title Das andere Buch von der Artillerie nebest einem
Unterricht/ von Zubereitung einiger Ernst Feuer
werckss Kugeln and deals mainly with artillery and
fireworks.
Frontispiece with foxing and paper loss in margin
not affecting plate, library stamp on title, some minor
foxing and browning; hinges weak. Good copy of
an interesting work on fortification and military
architecture, artillery and fireworks.
Jhns 1395 & 1230 (first ed.); Jordan, Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Festungbaues von den Anfangen bis 1914, 1519 (lists 6 copies); Marini 187;
Guarnieri 57.

Finely illustrated work on garden design and layout

9. [GUIOL]. Essai sur la composition et lornement
des jardins; ou recueil de plans de jardins de ville et de
campagne, de fabriques propres a leur dcoration, et de
machines pour lever les eaux.
Paris, Audot, 1823. Oblong 4to. With 107 engraved plates
on 82 leaves. Contemporary marbled calf, richly goldtooled spine.

3.450
Second edition of finely illustrated and rare work on
garden design and layout, which appeared as sequel to
the Almanach du Bon Jardinier. The first 37 pages contain
the Essai, which refers often to the illustrations bound
in at the end of the work. The author gives a general
introduction on gardens and objects which can be used
for adornment, such as bridges, all sorts of buildings,
fountains, etc. This part is followed by a section with
tables of edible plants, ornamental plants, low, medium
and high trees, bushes etc. Guiol specifies for each
species the preferable type of soil, whether it needs sun
or shade, height, colour, flowering time, etc. With the
general indications, the information of the tables and
the examples of possible layouts, labyrinths, bridges,
pavilions, temples, fountains and other possible garden
constructions, the reader is equipped with sufficient
knowledge to lay out a garden. A very nice copy.
Barbier II, col. 237 note; Springer, Bibl. Overzicht, p. 77 (see also pp.
79-80); not in Cat. Lindley Libr., Nissen, Pritzel, etc.

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Three rare architectural print series, the rarest devoted to French pipe organs

10. HTZL, Georg. Gartten-Parterres.

Augsburg, Jeremias Wolff, [1690/1703]. With a title-print followed by 12 garden plans, numbered 1-13.
With:
(2) SAENGER, Johann J. Vorstellung einiger modernen Gebude zum Pracht, zum Zierde und zur Bequemlichkeit eingerichtet.
Neurenberg, Johann Christoph Weigel, [ca. 1700/1725]. With a title-print followed by 15 elevations and plans of contemporary
stately residences, all but the title-print lettered a-i, k-p.
(3) CHEREAU, Jacques. [Elevations and plans of pipe organs in 3 Paris churches and of pipe organs by Feillet].
Paris, Jacques Chereau, [ca. 1700/50]. With 16 finely engraved elevations and plans of pipe organs, numbered 1-16. 3 works in 1
volume. Oblong small 1mo (ad 1) & large folio (ad 2-3). Early 19th-century half red roan (sheepskin), Stormont on shell marbled
sides. 
9.500
Fine collection of 3 rare series of architectural prints, the third series (showing elevations and plans of existing and newly
designed pipe organs) is especially rare. The first series, with 12 large plans of classical gardens, is dedicated to the Holy
Roman Emperor and King of Hungary, Joseph I in Vienna. Its title-print includes a beautiful birds eye view of a palace and its
gardens. The title describes the designer of the garden plans, Georg Htzl, as Royal art and pleasure gardener at Schnbrnn,
near Vienna. The title-plate was engraved by Jakob Mller (ca. 1670-1703) in Augsburg. The palace does not appear to be either
Schnbrunn or Hofburg.
The second print series shows a splendid arch with columns and sculpture, bearing the title on a large rectangular panel and
the imprint on a scrollwork cartouche. It is followed by 15 beautiful elevations and plans of Royal summer houses and gardens,
Princely country houses and gardens, large garden halls, etc., and includes a splendid Royal building that could be used as a
Town Hall or Court House as well.
The extremely rare third print series shows 16 elevations and plans of pipe organs in their architectural context. It was sold
and presumably engraved by the copperplate engraver Jacques Chereau (1688-1776) in Paris. The name Chereau appears
with the address (Paris ... ru St. Jacques au Grand St. Remy) on plates 2 and 11, and other engravings with the same address
identify him as Jacques. Each print has a title engraved on the plate, but there is no general title. The series includes a plan and
two elevations of the large and richly decorated organ of the Abbaye de St. Victor, a plan and two elevations of the organ of the
Church of St. Genevive, and a plan and two elevations of the richly decorated organ of the Abbaye de Saint Germain-des-Prs,
all at Paris, and 7 plans and elevations of pipe organs drawn by a certain Feillet, whom we have not identified.
With a bookplate on the front paste-down indicating that the book came from the library of the late Isaac La Lau and was given
by his son to the society Mathesis Scientiarum Genitrix in Leiden, and with the societys label on the front board. In very good
condition and with generous margins, with only an occasional minor stain or fold. Binding slightly rubbed. The prints in the
second series are bound out of order.
Ad 1: Berlin Kat. 3321; WorldCat (4 copies); not in BAL; ad 2: Berlin Kat. 1997; WorldCat (9 copies incl. 1 incomplete); not in BAL; Bauer, Christoph
Weigel; ad 3: CatzArts (www.beauxartsparis.fr/ow2/catzarts) (individual prints); not in BAL; Berlin Kat.; WorldCat; for Jacques Chereau: Thieme-Becker VI,
pp. 461-462.

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Magnificent plates of Freising Cathedral

11. [HECKENSTALLER, Joseph Jacob von]. Dissertatio historica de antiquitate, et aliis quibusdam memorabilibus Cathedralis
Ecclesiae Frisingensis una cum serie episcoporum, praepositorum, et decanorum Frisingensium.
Munich, Michael Lindauer, 1824. Large folio (42 x 26 cm). With 7 large plates (5 folding). One folding plate is an early
lithographed plate of the crypt Gruft im Dom zu Freijsing. The other plates are engraved: 3 folding plans of the church (47 x
60 cm) by X. Mettenleiter after Th. Heigl, 2 full-page plates of church entrances and a very large folding plate (82 x 54 cm) of the
interior of the church by F.I. Mrl after C.D. Asam. Contemporary boards covered with red-orange textured paper.
 3.250
Rare first edition of a magnificently illustrated history and description of Freising Cathedral, by Joseph Jacob von Heckenstaller
(1748-1832) deacon of the Cathedral. The diocese of Freising, on the river Isar, near Munich, was founded by St. Corbinianus
ca. 725/30. It remained an independent diocese until united with the diocese of Munich as the archbishopric of Munich/Freising
in 1821. During the 1720s the interior of the cathedral was completely redecorated in the new rococo style by the brothers C.D.
(1686-1739) and Egid Quirin Asam who were called to Freising by the bishop in 1723. The brothers Asam were responsible
for the many characteristic stucco decorations as well as the five large ceiling frescos and numerous smaller frescos, all clearly
visible on the large plate. A second edition in 1854 apparently had only one plate.
A stamp on the title-page covered with paper, and a small tear in the largest folding plate repaired. The spine is frayed, with
some loss at the head and foot. With very large margins and in very good condition.
Holzmann-B VII, 2833; Thieme & Becker XXV, p. 13 (Mrl) & II, p. 171 (Asam).

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Fine copy of splendid hydraulic engineering drawings

12. HORST, Tileman van der and Jacob POLLEY. Theatrum machinarum universale; of keurige verzameling van verscheide
grote en zeer fraaie waterwerken, schutsluizen, waterkeringen, ophaal- en draaibruggen.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), 1757-1774. Imperial folio (50 x 34 cm). With 2 title-pages in red
and black, each with the same engraved allegorical device, a double-page engraved dedication plate and 41 double-page and 7
larger folding engraved illustration plates. Red half sheepskin, blue-grey paper sides (ca. 1800).  3.250
Second edition of both volumes of a remarkably detailed set of scale construction drawings (plans, sections, elevations,
perspective views, etc., including many detail drawings of individual parts) of 18th-century Dutch waterworks, with the
accompanying letterpress descriptions and notes. It includes locks, sluices, bridges, pumps, pile drivers, an ice-breaker, an
elaborate water-bailing mill and more. Most of the plates measure about 45 x 54 cm, with the folding ones about 52 x 76 cm.
At least most of the plates depict existing works, and the text occasionally gives some historical information. The drawings are
so detailed and give such a clear picture of how the mechanisms functioned that one could use them to reconstruct the works
shown. A fine copy, nearly untrimmed, with only some false folds in the half-title and an occasional minor defect in the paper.
Plate 23 in volume 1 has no number, but it may have been trimmed off at the head. The inside front hinge has partly separated
from the book-block, but the binding is otherwise good. A fine copy of a magnificent display of Dutch hydraulic engineering.
Bierens de Haan [3818.5] & [4839.5] (vol. II only, with later ed. of vol. I); STCN (2 & 4 copies of the 2 volumes); not in Berlin Kat.; Roberts & Trent, Bibl.
Mechanica.

Construction drawings for staircases, skylights and their decoration

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13. HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum

universale, of nieuwe algemeene bouwkunde, waarin op eene
naauwkeurige, klaare en wiskundige wijze wordt voorgesteld
en geleerd het maaken van veelerleije soorten van trappen,
met derzelver gronden en opstallen, mitsgaders het uitslaan
derzelven, als mede ... Lantaarens, en wat meer tot dit soort van
bouwkunde behoort: ...
Amsterdam, J.S. van Esveldt-Holtrop, [ca. 1810]. Large folio
(49 x 35 cm). With title-page in red & black, with an engraved
vignette on the title-page and 30 double-page engraved plates
by Jan Schenk. 19th-century half-calf, with marbled sides.
 1.750
Very rare second edition of this classic set of architectural
construction drawings in 30 large double-page plates primarily
showing staircases and their decoration, but with the last
five plates covering skylights intended for stairwells, some
in the form of elaborate cupolas. The plates show straight,
spiral and more complicated staircases, with their geometrical
constructions, as well as many elaborate decorative forms for
the posts, railings, skylights, etc.
The publisher of the undated plates-volume was active from 1793 to post-1825, but both the French modern types (perhaps
from Gando) and the watermark of the preliminaries (Voorn 100) point to a date around 1810. The plates are printed on
unwatermarked wove paper. The first endleaf has an 1825 presentation inscription from the board of the Genootschap Mathesis
Scientiarum Genitria in Leiden to Johannes Holtz, who taught architectural drawing and mathematics at their school (it is
signed by P. Koppeschaar and A. van de Snoek).
A few plates with brown stains, mostly in the margins, small marginal tears (some repaired) or minor offsetting. A very good
copy of Horsts famous staircase book.
BAL 3929 (note); cf. Berlin Kat. 2253 (1739 ed.); STCN (1739 ed.); not in Fowler.

Complete set of 166 engraved designs

of gardens in France, Germany and England,
in the extremely rare second edition
14. KRAFFT, Jean Charles. Constructions plans et dcorations des jardins de France dAngleterre et dAllemagne recueil
contenant des plans de jardins connus, extrmement pittoresques, des projets non moins satisfaisans, des lvations de fabriques
de tout genre darchitecture gyptienne, Chinoise, Arabe, Turque, gothique, Grecque, Romaine et Franaise, des ornemens
analogues et des dtails essentiels pour lexcution, avec texte explicatif en trois langues. Nouvelle dition. Premire
[-seconde] partie.
Paris, Bance ain (printed by Ducessois), 1831. 2 parts, each in 12 instalments. Large oblong 4to (25 x 33.5 cm). With an engraved
frontispiece and 96 numbered engraved plates in the first part and an engraved frontispiece and 70 engraved plates (numbered
1-96, including 17 double-page and 3 four-page) in the second part. Each instalment in publishers original boards cover with
brown paper, printed in letterpress on the front (with a wide decorative border built up from fleurons), all identical except for
the manuscript part and instalment numbers. Later endpapers. 
7.500

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Extremely rare complete copy of the second edition of a very important work for its time (Een voor dien tijd zeer belangrijk
werk, Springer) of engraved garden designs, by the renowned architect and draughtsman Jean Charles Krafft (1764-1833),
with explanations of the plates in French, English and German. The plates illustrate the most beautiful picturesque gardens,
landscapes and related designs (including castles, mansions, etc.), in France, England and Germany, including the estate of
the Prince of Montelbeliard in Alsace (designed by Jean Baptiste Kleber), the garden and castle of Harnoit in Picardie (by
Huvet), the garden of Htel de Soubise (by M Jacques Cellerier), the gardens of Schwetzingen Castle, the gardens of Stowe at
Buckinghamshire, and the gardens of the castle of the Marquis de Floriment (by Kleber). The designs are primarily form the
18th and 19th century and were designed in various styles including Egyptian, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Gothic, Greec, Roman
and French.
The series was originally published in 24 monthly instalments in 1809/10 as Plans des plus beaux jardins pittoresques de France,
dAngleterre et dAllemagne.
With contemporary owners inscription of L. Reijff on each of the boards. The text of instalment 7, part 1, is erroneously bound
in instalment 7 of part 2, and the text of the latter is bound after the text of instalment 6, part 2. With some occasional minor
foxing and the paper of the bindings with some ears and abrasions. A very good copy of the extremely rare second edition of a
collection of engraved gardens designs, in the original publishers printed boards.
WorldCat (4 copies, incl. 2 with part 1 only); for the first edition see: BAL 1694; Berlin Kat. 3312a (lacking 1 plate); Brunet III, col. 694; Ganay 168bis
(Second part with 12 plates only); Graesse IV, p. 46 (first part only); Springer, Tuinkunst, p. 80, no. 331.

8 large plans and elevations of an innovative 1687 house on an island in the River Vecht
15. KRAMER, Herbert. [Huis te Nigtevecht, incipit:] Aan den edelen agtbaren heer Pieter Reael, heere tot Nigtevegt,
oud-schepen en raad der stad Amsterdam. ende aan syn eds. waarde gemalinne mevrou Maria Eleonora Huidecoper van
Maarseveen, vrouwe tot Nigtevegt. werden dese gronden en gezigten van haar edd. huys, met schuldige eerbiedigheyt
opgedragen.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckerts the younger, [ca. 1696]. Royal folio (44.5 x 29.5). With 8 double-page engraved plates (plate
size mostly ca. 29.5 x 35.5 cm) by Bastiaan Stopendaal after the designs of Herbert Kramer, showing plans and elevations of the
house designed for Pieter Reael and his wife Maria Eleonora Huydekoper and the surrounding water and drawbridge; a halfpage engraved coats-of-arms of Reael and his wife on the back of the dedication page; and a woodcut decorated initial. Modern
half maroon goatskin morocco, marbled sides.  4.500

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Rare first and only edition of an architectural print series of 3 elevations and 5 plans of the stately manor house Huis te
Nigtevecht also known as De Nes, designed by the Amsterdam architect Herbert Kramer (d. 1705). The house nearly fills
a small square island in the Vecht river, near Vreeland, southeast of Amsterdam. One plan includes the surrounding water
and the drawbridge that gave access to the house, and another shows the roof. The house was built in 1687 for Pieter Reael
(1650-1701), Lord of Nigtevecht, after his 1683 marriage with Maria Eleonora Huydecoper (1658-1706), the daughter of the
magistrate, burgomaster of Amsterdam and humanist Balthasar Huydecoper. Huis te Nigtevecht was torn down in 1829/30, so
the present print series gives us our best record of its original form. Its large octagonal hall looking on to the garden is of special
architectural interest, for it may be the earliest example of this form, which shows French influences. Otherwise it follows
the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch manor house architecture and resembles Oud-Poelgeest (1667) near Leiden and
Trompenburg (ca. 1675) in s-Graveland. The 1719 Zegepraalende Vecht includes an engraving with a view of the house and its
drawbridge by Daniel Stoopendael.
The single letterpress leaf preceding the plates serves as title-page, but gives no title. It opens with the dedication to Pieter
Reael and his wife, signed by the architect Herbert Cramer, stads mr. metselaar en keurmeester van de gebakken steen over
Amsterdam (official master brick mason and inspector of brick for the city of Amsterdam). Although the last date mentioned
in the text is 1688 and the plates must have been engraved before Stoopendaels death in 1693, Danckerts took occupancy at the
address in the imprint only when he married the daughter of the late Albertus Magnus and his widow in 1696. He probably
published the print series in or soon after that year, and clearly before Reaels death in 1701.
The name HB Kramer has been supposed to refer to a Hendrick Kramer, but is almost certainly the Herbert who signed the
dedication and the man of that name buried in Amsterdam in 1705. He is likely the voornaam liefhebber, H.K. who drew
the illustrations for the undated Architecture van verscheidene nieuwe poorten; f deuren van huisen, engraved and published by
Danckerts from the same address.
In very good condition, with only some browning near some of the folds (from the guards of an earlier binding) and
occasionally along the edges.
BAL 796 note; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemmish) XXVIII, p. 132, 25; Munnig Schmidt & A.J.A.M. Lisman, Plaatsen aan de Vecht en de Angstel (1997), p.
16; on Reael and the house: Elias 173; J. Broerstra, Verdwenen buitenplaatsen in Vreeland. De Nes, in: Jaarb. Oudheidk. Genootsch. Niftarlake, 1989, pp.
23-37.

Remarkable collection of 40 print series of ornamental architectural designs

16. LE PAUTRE (POUTRE), Jean. [Extensive overview of
the architectural and ornamental work].
Paris, Franois Jollain, Pierre Mariette, Jean Le Blond,
Nicolas Langlois, 1651-1670. 41 parts in 1 volume. Folio.
With 40 engraved print-series nearly all by Jean Le Pautre.
Further with 1 duplicate series and 6 individual plates
not in these series. With a total of 253 full-page engraved
plates: 33 complete series of 6 plates, 1 complete series of
12 plates, and 6 incomplete series (lacking 10 of 42 plates)
plus an incomplete duplicate of one of the complete series
(5 of 6 plates), and the 6 individual plates. About half the
series cut down and mounted on blank leaves or on the
back of engraved leaves. 18th-century mottled calf.

22.500
Remarkable collection of 40 print series of ornamental
architectural designs nearly all by the most important and
imaginative ornament engraver of the 17th century, the
famous French architectural designer Jean le Pautre (16181682). It includes designs for altars, altar-pieces, church
portals, tabernacles, gateways, doors, chimneys, wall
decorations, wainscotting, cabinets, ceilings, fountains,
frames for paintings, armorial ornaments, grotesques,
vessels and vases, etc. His work served as models for
architects, sculptors, silversmiths, engravers and others, so
that the present collection gives an excellent overview of
Paris fashions at the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV,
not only in architecture and interior decoration but also in
the decorative arts in general.
With an owners inscription at the head of the first plate,
by the Antwerp author on gardening, mushrooms and
food, Franciscus van Sterbeeck, dated 20 February 1670.
Binding worn and cracked with the leather flaking and
the last quire slightly loose. Interior very good, with
only occasional minor stains. A magnificent collection of
architectural and other decoration.
BAL 1833-1863 passim; Berlin Kat. 313-314 passim; Fuhring,
Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum, passim; cf. Guilmard, Maitres
Ornemanistes, pp. 70-75 passim (later printings).

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King William III of Englands Dutch palace and gardens

17. LETH, Hendrik de. [Views of the Dutch royal estate Soestdijk].
[Amsterdam], Hendrik de Leth, [ca. 1731]. Royal folio (55 x 34 cm). With large double-page general birds-eye view of the Dutch
royal estate Soestdijk (image size 35 x 47 cm) by B. Stoopendaal after B. Stuyvenburgh, and 16 numbered engraved views of
details of the palace, gardens and other buildings (image size 12 x 16 cm) printed on 8 leaves. Modern half parchment. 4.750
Very rare print series of the palace, gardens and other buildings of the Dutch royal estate Soestdijk, built mostly by Willem III,
Prince of Orange, Dutch head of state and from 1689 also King of England. The estate passed to his son and then his grandson
Willem Karel Hendrik Friso (1711-1751), Prince of Orange, who became the Dutch head of state in 1731 as Stadholder Willem IV.
The large general view, with the city of Utrecht barely visible on the horizon, is rarely found with the series, but De Leth seems
likely to have issued them together. Bastiaen Stoopendael (1637-1693) engraved and published the general view soon after
Willem was crowned King William III of England in 1689. Hendrik de Leth (1703-1766) and his father Andries published views
of Diemermeer by Stoopendaels son Daniel in 1725 and Hendrik seems likely to have added his name to the general view and
published it together with the present numbered series soon after his fathers death in 1731, perhaps for the occasion of Willem
IVs appointment as Stadholder in that year. Well-printed with ample margins. The 16 views have been cut down, leaving a
margin of about 2 mm, and mounted two to a leaf on 18th-century(?) unwatermarked laid paper. Very good copy of a very rare
print series of King William IIIs Dutch royal palace and gardens.
The Anglo-Dutch Garden 24 (ca. 1690 state of general view only); Springer, p. 45 (without the general view); Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) XXVIII, B.
Stoopendael 24 (ca. 1690 state of general view only); not in Berlin Kat.

The first systematic work on military architecture

18. LORINI, Buonaiuto. Delle fortificationi, libri cinque. Ne quali si mostra con le piu facili regole la scienza con la pratica, di
fortificare le citta, & altri luoghi sopra diversi siti.
Venice, Gio. Antonio Rampazetto, 1597 (colophon: 1596). Folio. With engraved vignette on the title-page, full-page engraved
portrait of the author, and hundreds of woodcut illustrations and figures in the text, mostly half- to full-page, several even
double-page. Contemporary limp vellum, painted orange, with green ties. 
3.250

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First edition of the first systematic course of instruction in all aspects

of military architecture, and the first work to give measured plans
in its illustrations (Breman). Buonaiuto Lorini (ca. 1538-ca. 1611), a
Florentine nobleman, had a great reputation in the 16th-century for
his intelligent fortifications and the way he fiercely defended cities. He
was employed by the kings of France and Spain, as well the Doges of
Venice. The present work contains a wealth of practical detail and
a long and detailed section on the machine tools of construction ...
(Breman).
This first edition consists of two issues, differing in the preliminaries
only. According to Cockle, only a very few copies were printed, and
these for presentation to certain Christian princes only, each having
a special Dedicatory Epistle. Our copy has a dedicatory letter to
Fernando de Medici, dated May 1597. With the bookplate of Comes de
Solms. Good copy with ample margins of this pivotal work on military
architecture.
Breman, 163; Breman, One hundred books on military architecture, 48; Bury &
Breman p. 62; Cockle 791 (of the greatest rarity); Jhns p. 845; Jordan 2220; Riccardi
I, L-cols. 52-53; cf. BMC STC Italian, p. 393 (ed. 1596).

A fine example of a William and Mary House and Gardens

19. MULDER, Joseph and DE LESPINE. Veues de Gunterstein. Dediees A Madame de Gunterstein et de Thienhoven.
Amsterdam, Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 4to (20.5 x 28 cm). With richely engraved allegorical title by J. Mulder, and 15
fine engraved views of the House and Gardens of Gunterstein, on the Vecht near Breukelen, engraved by De Lespine.
Old boards. 
4.500
Rare print-series, the first to depict a William and Mary House and Gardens along the river Vecht, between Amsterdam and
Utrecht. Gunterstein (still existing) greatly influenced the development of country estates on the Vecht. In 1680 Magdalena
Poelle bought the ruins of the old castle and became Lady Gunterstein. The new mansion and gardens she built were inspired
by the new French-orientated classicist style.
All plates mounted, including margins, on blank leaves in old boards album. Fine copy.
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) XIV, p. 99, 27-42 ; Springer, Bibl. Overzicht, p. 45; Hunt & De Jong, Anglo-Dutch Gardens, 11.

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Fine set of the rarest of great French garden landscaping, art & architecture books

20. PANSERON, Pierre. Recueil de jardinage. [Ier]- IVme volume. [vols. 2-4 with title: Recueil de jardins Anglois et Chinois].
Paris, the author, Denos, Mondare, Basan (vols. 3-4: the author only), 1783-1788. With 4 engraved title-pages, 2 engraved ll. with
explanatory text, and 110 engraved illustrations on 109 plates. At least the present copy also includes a 3-page engraved price
list for both the Recueil de jardins and the Recueil des dcorations.
With:
(2) PANSERON, Pierre. Recueil des dcorations propre a embellir les jardins Anglois et Chinois.
Paris, the author, 1785. With engraved title-page and 56 engraved plates in ten series.
(3) PANSERON, Pierre. Catalogue des ouvrages darchitecture du Sieur Panseron.
Paris, the author, [ca. 1783]. 2 works plus publishers catalogue in 5 volumes. 4to. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled
spines. Panserons price list offered copies bound in bazanne, so the present copy may be in the publishers own binding.


60.000
Fine set of the rarest of great French gardening books by Pierre Panseron (ca. 1736-1787), a well-known Paris architect and Royal
engraver. The Recueil de jardinage is divided into many smaller parts, which were also sold separately. Panseron had studied
with the great French architect Jacques Franois Blondel and had been building inspector for the Prince de Conti and professor
of drawing at the Royal Military Academy before he settled at Paris as a private tutor of architecture and drawing. He published
a number of architectural and gardening atlases, the full catalogues of which are added to volume four, both in letterpress
and on engraved leaves. All plates were designed and engraved by Panseron. The plates of the present works are printed on
strong paper with slightly bluish cast, some of it by Arthaud in Auvergne. They present a rich and wonderful survey of garden
landscaping, art and architecture in France in the second half of the 18th century when English and Chinese gardens were en
vogue. The bindings show surface damage and some professional restorations, but most of the plates are in fine condition. An
important garden publication of the utmost rarity.
De Ganay 111 (description based on a 1931 sale catalogue) & 113; KVK & WorldCat (4 copies with 4 vols. but reporting only 28 plates; 1 copy with vols.
1-3; a few single vols.); not in Springer; Fowler; Berlin Kat.

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8 complete print series with text, forming the collected architectural work of Pieter Post
21. POST, Pieter. Les ouvrages darchitecture.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1715. 8 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (46 x 29.5 cm). With an engraved general title-page. letterpress
general title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, 8 letterpress part-titles, each repeating the vignette of the general
title-page, 3 engraved part-titles, engraved dedication, a folding engraved portrait of Prince Maurits after Govert Flinck by C.
van Dalen, and 8 series of 6, 12, 8, 5, 11, 7, 4 and 23 mostly double-page and some larger folding etched and engraved numbered
plates (including the 3 engraved title-pages already noted) by Jan Mathijs & P. Nolpe after designs by Pieter Post, showing
architectural plans, elevations, sections, etc. In total about 80 copperplates. Mottled calf (ca. 1750), richly gold-tooled spine,
marbled endpapers. 
12.500

Splendid collected works of the most famous Dutch architect and master builder of the 17th century, Pieter Post (1608-1669),
including the enormous folding portrait of his patron Johan Maurits, governor of Brasil, not included in all copies. Each of the
first 7 parts is devoted to a single building by Pieter Post, and they are high points in the history of Dutch architecture. Among
them are the house of Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange in The Hague (now the Mauritshuis Museum); the house and
gardens of Amalia van Solms (now the Huis ten Bosch, residence of the Dutch Royal family); the Maastricht city hall and the
weigh house in Gouda.
With small tears in the portrait where the folds cross, one plate slightly slurred by the printer and some leaves restored, but still
in good condition. 2 plates of the 2nd series are mistakenly bound with the 8th series. The binding has a tear in the spine and
various smaller tears, scrapes and scratches, the foot of the spine and a few smaller parts have been restored. Splendid collected
works of the most famous Dutch architect and master builder of the 17th century.
BAL 2603; Berlin Kat. 2231; Cicognara 621; Weinreb, Catalogue 2, 119; modern reprint (Soest 1970); not in Fowler.

6 famous works bound together,

with over 400 views of Dutch country estates
22. RADEMAKER, Abraham. Hollands Arcadia, of de vermaarde rivier den Amstel; ... lArcadie Hollandoise, ou la fameuse
riviere de lAmstel, ...
Amsterdam, Leonardus Schenk, 1730. With engraved view of the locks where the Amstel reaches Amsterdam (with the towers
of the city visible behind it) on the title-page and 100 numbered half-page engraved views on 50 leaves. Lacking the leaf with
the dedication to Egidius van den Bempden and Jan Six.
With:
(2) BROURIUS VAN NIDEK, Matthaeus and Daniel STOOPENDAAL. Het Verheerlykt Watergraefs- of Diemer-Meer, by de
stadt Amsterdam, vertoont in verscheide vermakelyke gezichten ... Les Delices du Watergraefs- ou Diemer-Meer, ...
Amsterdam, Andries and Hendrik de Leth, 1725. With engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved maps (ca. 35 x 39.5 cm & 29 x
38.5 cm), and 60 numbered half-page engravings (2 maps and 58 views) on 30 leaves.
(3) RADEMAKER, Abraham [and Gysbert TYSENS]. Spiegel van Amsterdams Zomervreugd, ... Miroir des delices dans la
belle saison dAmsterdam ...
Amsterdam, Leonardus Schenk, [1728?]. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and 20 half-page engraved views on 10
leaves.
(4) RADEMAKER, Abraham [and Gysbert TYSENS]. Hollands Tempe Verhrelykt, ... La Hollande en tout son clat & beaut ...
Amsterdam, Leonardus Schenk, [1728]. With 30 numbered half-page engraved views on 15 leaves.
(5) BROUERIUS VAN NIDEK, Matthaeus and Hendrik de LETH. Het zegenpralent Kennemerlant, vertoont in veele heerelyke
gezichten ...
Amsterdam, Andries and Hendrik de Leth, [1729-1732]. 2 volumes. With folding engraved map showing a part of the north of
Kennemerland (ca. 59 x 24 cm), 2 engraved frontispieces (repeated), 1 letterpress title-page with engraved printers vignette, 1
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engraved headpiece, 100 numbered half-page engraved views on 50 leaves, 2 additional engravings bound in facing the leaf
with engravings 79-80.
(6) [BRUIN, Claas and Daniel STOOPENDAAL]. De Vechtstroom van Utrecht tot Muiden, ... Les dlices de la rivire le Vecht,
dUtrecht Muiden ...
Amsterdam, H. Gartman, W. Vermandel and J. Smit, 1791. With engraved frontispiece, engraved map showing the places and
estates from Utrecht to Muiden, 102 numbered half-page engraved views (including the 4 bis plates) on 51 leaves. 6 works in
7 volumes, bound as 1. Later (mid-20th-century?) gold-tooled vellum, spine with gold-tooled red morocco label in 2nd of 6
compartments. 
12.500
Beautiful collection of 6 famous works with over 400 views of country estates, including inns, gardens, churches, windmills, and
in many cases the estates of wealthy merchants and noblemen, mostly from Amsterdam but also from Utrecht, The Hague and
other cities in the region of Holland. Engraved and drawn by Abraham Rademaker, Hendrik de Leth and Daniel Stoopendaal.
Containing:
1)The first edition of Hollands Arcadia, a series of views of the stately houses and their gardens, inns and factories, as well as the
towns and villages, along the Amstel river from Amsterdam to Loenersloot castle, about 20 kilometres south of the city. With
the views engraved and drawn from life by Abraham Rademaker (1676/77-1735), one of the most important topographic artists
of his day, and a large poem by Gysbert Tysens.
2 ) The first edition of Het Verheerlykt Watergraefs- of Diemer-Meer, with Stoopendaals finely engraved views of country houses,
public buildings, parks and gardens in the Diemermeer, south of the city of Amsterdam. Stoopendaal (1672-1726) was one of the
leading artists of his day. The Diemermeer lake (610 hectares) was diked and drained from 1624 to 1629, but a 1651 flood wiped
out nearly all that had been built there. It was rebuilt, the large country houses and estates of wealthy Amsterdam citizens
competing with each other for the splendour of their gardens, illustrated for the first time in the present work.
3) First edition of Spiegel van Amsterdams Zomervreugd, with 20 views of stately houses, churches, factories, canals, row houses
and other sights in Amsterdam and neighbouring villages by Rademaker, accompanied by a descriptive poem of nearly 600
lines by Tysens.
4) First edition of Hollands Tempe Verhrelykt, with 30 views of stately houses and gardens, churches, windmills, public buildings
and other sights along the Haarlemse Trekvaart, the canal connecting Amsterdam and Haarlem, accompanied by a descriptive
poem of well over 1000 lines by Tysens.
5) First edition of Het zegenpralent Kennemerlant, with 100 views and plans of estates, gardens, buildings and ruins in
Kennemerland, a region near the Dutch coast, west of Amsterdam and north of Haarlem. The accompanying text by the leading
Amsterdam jurist, antiquarian and poet Matthaeus Brouerius van Nidek (1677-1742) discusses the history and topography
of the region. He also wrote the poem that faces the frontispiece. The views, map and frontispiece were engraved and mostly
drawn by Hendrik de Leth (1703-1766).
6) Third folio edition of Stoopendaals views of the Vecht region, the favourite area for wealthy people from Amsterdam and
Utrecht to build their country houses.
In very good condition, with some minor stains, few pages slightly foxed and browned, but the plates in fine condition. The first
work is lacking the dedication leaf. Binding in fine condition.
Bodel Nijenhuis 1566 (ad 3),1567 (ad 1); Berlin Kat. 2246.5 (ad 1), 2246.2 (ad 2), 2246.3 (ad 3), 2246.4 (ad 4); 2246.8 (ad 5) 2246.1 (ad 6); Springer, Bibl.
Overzicht, p. 46 (ad 1, 3, 4), p. 47 (ad 2, 5, 6); Tiele, Bibl. 51 (ad 1-6).

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Rare text books on architecture and philosophy bound together

23. RAUSCH DE TRAUBENBERG, Franciscus. Elementa architecturae,
ad structura oeconomicas applicatae, in usum academiarum per Regnum
Hungariae et eidem annexas provincias.
Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. With numerous architectural
illustrations and figures on 11 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) BAUMEISTER, Friedrich Christian. Philosophiae moralis
institutiones ius naturae, ethicam, et politicam complexae.
Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo.
Contemporary marbled calf. 
800
Two rare text books published by and for the University of Budapest in
Hungary. The first is an original edition of a practical manual on contemporary
architecture, of interest for the views on economic architecture in Hungary in
the 18th century. The second is a Budapest University imprint of one of the
popular text books on philosophy by the Rector of the Latin School at Grlitz
in Germany, Friedrich Christian Baumeister (1709-1785), a follower of the
German Philosophical School of Wolf. Good copies.
Ad 1: Poggendorff II, p. 576.

Architecture of greenhouses
24. ROBERTSON, William. Collection de differntes espces de serres chaudes, pour forcer des ananas, des arbres fruitiers, et
pour prserver des plantes exotiques dlicates; calcule pour lusage des amateurs et celui des tudians de la botanique et du
jardinage. Traduit de lAnglois.
Paris; London, [R. Ackermann]; (Leipzig, F.G. Baumgrtner), [1798]. Oblong folio. With plans and views of garden hothouse
architecture on 24 full-page aquatints. Original paper wrappers.

4.750

First and only edition of the simultaneously published French translation of a popular model book on the garden architecture
of greenhouses, published in English as A collection of various forms of stoves (London, 1798). This edition is known with
two different imprints: London, Ackermann, and ours from London and Paris but, apparently published at Leipzig, by F.G.
Baumgrtner, according to the pasted title-label on the wrappers.
Text pages slightly browned and foxed. Frayed edges. Binding rubbed and strengthened at spine. Good large-paper copy with
wide margins, uncut, of a model book on greenhouses.
Plesch, p. 383 (aquatint); WorldCat (3 copies). Cf. Lindley library, p. 375 & Online Cat. (English ed.). Not in Springer; Henrey.

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Striking illustrations of the antiquities of Oxfordshire

25. SKELTON, Joseph. Skeltons engraved illustrations of the principal antiquities of Oxfordshire, from original drawings.
Oxford, Joseph Skelton, 1823 - [1827]. Folio (41 x 32 cm). With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page showing Wroxton
Abbey, 50 full-page engraved and etched plates (including a map) after drawings by F. Mackenzie and others, numerous
engraved and etched illustrations in text. Contemporary three quarter roan, gilt edges.

750

Beautiful work on the antiquities of Oxfordshire with impressive views of buildings and artefacts. The plates were executed by
the eminent engraver and publisher Joseph Skelton (1783-1871), some in collaboration with others and mostly after drawings
by Frederick Mackenzie (1788(?)-1854). The work was issued in 13 parts between 1823 and 1827, the last part including a list of
subscribers. Soiling and foxing throughout; binding soiled and damaged. Good copy of a sumptuously illustrated work.
BAL 3050; Lowndes V, p. 2409.

Architectural manual by a practicing mason, with 46 plates

26. VERMAARSCH, Joost. Eerste deel der bouw-kunst, ofte Grondige bewijs-redenen, over den sin ende practijck van den
autheur Vincent Scamozzi, waer in grondigh wert bewesen, dat men door den middel van den autheur Scamozzi, Palladio en
Vinjola hare vijf colommen kan uytwercken; als oock van alle de voornaemste meesters der bouw-kunst, ende dat alleen met het
verdeelen van een duym-stock, of voet-maet.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Doncker, 1678. 4to. With an engraved architectural frontispiece by G. Wingendorp, engraved vignette
with carpenters and masons tools on title-page, and hundreds of diagrams, measured drawings of columns, architectural
ornament and other architectural elements, orthographic projections, etc., on 46 engraved plates (including 5 folding). 19thcentury half cloth, paste-paper sides. 
1.950

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Richly illustrated second edition of an architectural manual compiled by a master mason, first published in 1664 (the first
edition was also reissued in 1667). Although the title-page calls it the first volume, Vermaarsch never published a second. He
openly borrows from architectural classics, naming Scamozzi, Palladio and Viniola on his title-page. He discusses mathematical
projection, architectural decoration, the five orders of columns of classical architecture, and more specifically the theories of
Scamozzi, Palladio and Vignola, each treated in a separately paginated chapter. As a practicing master mason in Leiden the
authors views are of special interest when he discusses the design of decorative brick and plaster work for bases and capitals of
columns for doors, gateways, windows, etc., freezes, ceilings and other works of masonry. He notes that all these designs can be
constructed with only the very simplest measuring tools. The plates clearly illustrate his points and provide numerous models
for brick and plaster decorations.
Very good copy with generous margins, with printed memorial label on the pastedown, stating that the book was presented
to the mathematical society Mathesis Scientiarum Genetrix after Isaac La Laus 1849 death by his son J.G. La Lau. Both were
leading members of the society.
Bierens de Haan 5021; Cat. Rijksmuseum III, p. 22; STCN (5 copies); cf. Berlin Kat. 2225 (1667 issue of 1664 ed.); not in BAL.

Enlarged issue of a series of views of Danish buildings, gardens and cities

27. [VIEWS - DENMARK]. BRUUN, Johan Jacob. Novus atlas Daniae eller Prospecter af alle hoved-og kibstaederne, af alle
kongelige slotte, samt andre kongelige lyst-slotte og staeder udi begge konge-rigerne Dannemark og Norge og underliggende
fyrstendmme. Iste tome af Siaelland.
Copenhagen, Johan Jacob Bruun, 1761[-ca. 1789?]. Oblong folio (26.5 x 40 cm), preliminaries upright folio, bound with foot
folded in. With 60 engraved views, including one folding plate with a view of the Royal Castle near Copenhagen, engraved by
Jonas Haas and Hans Quist after designs by Johan Jacob Bruun. Contemporary Danish mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled
spine. 
16.000

Enlarged isue of a very rare series of engraved views of Danish castles, mansions, houses, gardens and city views, by the Danish
landscape painter Johan Jacob Bruun (1715-1789). It was first published in 1761, containing 50 views of buildings on the Danish
island Zealand, as the first volume of a planned series covering whole Denmark. The other volumes never appeared, but 10
additional views were already engraved (dated 1760-1762) and included in the present issue, with all plates on the same French
paperstocks mostly watermarked: S. SAZERAC & C (probably Simon Sazerac, according to Gaudriault active in 1789) and
FIN DANGOUMOIS (similar to Heawood 3252 dated 1782). When Bruun died in 1789 the plates were bought by the engraver
Gerhard Ludwig Lahde and later published with new descriptions in Dannemarks kibstder og slotte i kobbere af Brun (1799-1806).
With plate numbers in manuscript on the back of the plates and some occasional faint thumbing in the margins. Binding
rubbed. Very good copy of a very rare series of views of Denmark.
WorldCat (4 copies of all issues); cf. Thieme & Becker V, p. 152; Weilbach, Dansk Kustnerlex. I, 1896; not in BAL; Fowler.

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