Collected volume of ornament prints. Augsburg: Jeremias Wolff, [ca. 1712-1724].
Broadsheets (378 x 301 mm). [58] leaves of engravings by various German engravers, mainly after Jean Bérain. Platemarks av. 34 x 28 mm. Condition: Fine impressions; old traces of horizontal folds to plates, occasional small marginal dampstain in last few plates, lower margin of last plate strengthened and verso stained... More about Collected volume of ornament prints
Esemplari di caratteri scritti e incisi... Livorno: Calcografia Vignozzi, 1830-1852.
Oblong (170 x 338 mm). [18] leaves. Engraved title dated 1830, 16 engraved plates of calligraphic specimens by Cominotti, extra inserted leaf dated 1852, engraved by C. Castellini. Leaves of varying heights, some deckle edges. Occasional light foxing. Stab-stitched in original yellow printed wrappers, dated 1852, title on front cover... More about Esemplari di caratteri scritti e incisi
24 etched designs for cartouches and other ornaments. Etched text on first plate: All’ Ill.mo Sig.r Fran.co Bandini. Humilissimo servitore Giovan Batista Paganelli DD. Agost.o Mitelli In Ventor [sic]. [Milan: Giovanni Battista Paganelli, after 1650].
Sheet size 267 x 195 mm. 24 unnumbered plates of etchings after Mitelli by an unknown engraver, including title etching, on stubs. Platemarks: 241/ 246 x 166/168 mm. Most printed in brown ink (bistre). Watermarks: six-pointed star (cf. Briquet 6033) or no watermark. First plate slightly soiled and with small... More about 24 etched designs for cartouches and other ornaments. Etched text on first plate: All’ Ill.mo...
An embroidered letter-holder or pocketbook. [France, second quarter of the 18th century].
Rectangular envelope-style pocketbook with flap, 110 x 179 mm., pasteboards covered in ivory silk embroidered with polychrome and silver-gilt silk thread (red, blue, several shades of green, brown, pink, orange, beige), the covers each with a different floral decor consisting of a large flowering plant with a straight stem entwined... More about An embroidered letter-holder or pocketbook
Paravent de six feuilles. Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid & son, [ca. 1750].
Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching (platemarks 400 x 207 mm., sheets 435 x 277 mm., deckle edges), numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right, imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius, excudit A. V. [Augustae Vindelicorum]. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine.*** Rare suite of six... More about Paravent de six feuilles