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![[Lot of 4 title Title pages] America Tertia Pars](/uploads/cache/IMG_0094-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 4 title Title pages] America Tertia Pars
The beautiful frontispice of the Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's 'Grand Voyages'- the description of the Americas - Part III, which describes the land of Brazil bas...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1542
![[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]](/uploads/cache/24000-250x250.jpg)
[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]
Fine print made by Bernardo Daddi (1512 - 1570) and published by Antonio Lafreri. Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them, and a small dog bites one on the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1550
Selling price: $750
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Niche in the form of a cartouche.
A lavishly decorated etching by the famous brother's Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum, after Cornelis II de Vriendt or better known as Cornelis FLORIS (1514 - 1572 or 1575)...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1556
Selling price: $500
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Patientia (Patience)
Engraving after a design by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and engraved by Pieter van der Heyden. From the series "The Seven Virtues".Published in Antwerp by Hieronym...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1557
Selling price: $30250
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View of a farm with a large barn.
The Van Doetecum brothers were active as engravers in the second half of the 16th. Century. They made many prints for the Antwerp market. They later worked in Haarlem. R...
Place & Date: 1559-1561
Selling price: $350
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Astrologia-allegory of Astrology
After the design by Frans Floris, published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp. Cornelis Cort (1533-1578) was a renowned Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He was known as Cornel...
Place & Date: 1565
Selling price: $205
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Two genii holding a coat of arms.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden. Lucas van Leyden was amo...
Place & Date: 1527-ca. 1575
Selling price: $300
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Sic hastile vagis errantes montibus apres - culpide, vel flamma rumpit precordia plumbum.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1577
Selling price: $200
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The apostle St. Andrew.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden. Lucas van Leyden was amo...
Place & Date: ca. 1510/1580
Selling price: $230
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Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
Men's Bathhouse.
Albrecht Dürer made this large-scale woodcut, shortly after his first trip to Italy (1494–95), he exploited the traditional setting of an outdoor bathhouse to demonstr...
Place & Date: Nüremberg, ca. 1496 but c.1580
Selling price: $600
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America, sive Bresilia. . .
Allegorical print of the continent of America. Engraved by Jan Sadeler (1550-1601) after Theodor Bernard, dated 1581. Rare print and one of the earliest representations o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1581
Selling price: $400
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![Isarides suasu matris benedicitur, atque Efficitur foelix a genitore suo Gene[sis]](/uploads/cache/48558-250x250.jpg)
Isarides suasu matris benedicitur, atque Efficitur foelix a genitore suo Gene[sis]
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. A blind Isaac is blessing Jacob.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum hist...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
![Beniamin adducto repetunt cum munere Joseph, Quos fratres tendem prodidit esse suos. Gene[sis] 43](/uploads/cache/47692-250x250.jpg)
Beniamin adducto repetunt cum munere Joseph, Quos fratres tendem prodidit esse suos. Gene[sis] 43
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph receives his brothers and Benjamin.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sac...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $200
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![Insidijs circumuentum, puteo que profundo. . . Gene[sis] 37](/uploads/cache/47691-250x250.jpg)
Insidijs circumuentum, puteo que profundo. . . Gene[sis] 37
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph is taken out of the pit and sold by his brothers to a group of Ishmaelites. From ther...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $200
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Sic capiunt Ibices iaculo, sic cuspide ferri, / Vel canibus, duro aut flammantis turbinis ictu.
A fine early illustration of capturing a mountain goat hunt. In the left foreground, a group of hunters rest, three dead mountain goats lying beside them; to the right, a...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Rhetorica.
Rhetorica, engraving by Joan Sadeler (1550-1600),after Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). One of the seven liberal arts.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1600
Selling price: $300
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Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by Johann Sadeler I after M. de Vos.
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600
Geometrica.
Geometrica, engraving by Joan Sadeler (1550-1600), after Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). One fo the seven liberal arts.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1600
Selling price: $300
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QUONIAM TUUM EST REGNUM ET POTENTIA ET GLORIA IN SECULA AMEN
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER, AMEN.Adoration of the Trinity. In the centre of the sun, the Hebrew name of the LORD, Yahweh, and around...
Place & Date: Amstserdam, ca 1600
A set of four landscapes with the story of the Good Samaritan.
After designs by Paul Bril (1554-1626). Raphael Sadeler (1584-1632) was a Flemish engraver, part of the very active Sadeler family. Paul Bril (1554-1626) was a landscape ...
Place & Date: ca. 1610
Selling price: $275
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![Rosa lutea flore simplici [Austrian Brier]; Rosa Cinnamomea [Cinnamon Rose]; Rosa rubra præcox flore simplici [Wild Alpine Rose]; Rosa præcox spinosa flore albo [Burnet Rose]](/uploads/cache/besler_rose_01-250x250.jpg)
Rosa lutea flore simplici [Austrian Brier]; Rosa Cinnamomea [Cinnamon Rose]; Rosa rubra præcox flore simplici [Wild Alpine Rose]; Rosa præcox spinosa flore albo [Burnet Rose]
Besler was a botanist who managed the gardens of Johann Conrad in Eichstatt, Germany. The roses from Besler belong to the most sought after print depicting flowers. Note ...
Place & Date: Eichstatt, 1613
Emblem, Vulcan with winds.
Crispijn van de Passe(1589-1637), Vulcan with four winds, "Adversis clarius ardet" from Rollenhaegen "Selectorum emblematum" , 1613-1614. In perfect c...
Place & Date: 1613-1614
Selling price: $140
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Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, ...
Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein.. .Finely executed engraving by Matthäus Merian, taken from &quo...
Place & Date: Hulsen, Stuttgart, 1616
Selling price: $90
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Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein.. .
Finely executed engraving by Matthäus Merian, taken from "Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein. ...
Place & Date: Hulsen, Stuttgart, 1616
Selling price: $50
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A village fair.
By an anonymous engraver after a design by Jan van de Velde. Jan van de Velde II (1593-1641) came from the southern Netherlands as a fugitive around 1600 to the Netherlan...
Place & Date: 1623
Selling price: $275
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The denial of the apostle Peter.
Willem Outgerz. Akersloot (active ca. 1624-1634) worked in Haarlem. Pieter Molijn (1595-1661) was a pupil of Esaias van de Velde. He was the tutor of many dutch painters ...
Place & Date: Haarlem, 1626
Selling price: $300
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Felsenlandschaft mit kleinem Hang und einem Was.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a rocky landscape with a small slope, from a series of nine landscapes. Isaak Major, born around 1576 in ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $100
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Landschaft mit Wasserfall rechts eines Felsblocks.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a landscape with a waterfall to the right of a boulder, from a series of nine landscapes. Isaak Major, bo...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $175
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Wasserfall rechts von einem Felsentor.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting two draughtsmen drawing a waterfall next to a natural arch, the draughtsmen at left, from a series of nin...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $175
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Naturlandschaft mit Wasserfällen und einem Haus in der Ferne mit vier Männern.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a nature landscape with waterfalls and a house in the distance, with four men. Large print edited by Jere...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $120
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Blick auf einen Fluss mit einem natürlichen bogen links.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a view of a River with a Natural Arch at Left. Large print edited by Jeremius Wolf in Augsburg. Signed in...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Selling price: $100
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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife.
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife depicts a story from the Bible, wherein Potiphar's Wife attempts to seduce Joseph. This etching is signed and dated "Rembrandt f. 1634&quo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $3300
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A colored man on horseback.
Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) originated from Florence and was later active as a graphic artist in Paris. He produced a wide variety of prints, with all kinds of subjec...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Selling price: $147
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ALBUM with 170 engravings of animals, landscapes, months, figures, ornamentations, etc. from the 17th century.
A collection of 170 engravings, for the greater part engraved by Jacob Honervogt but also by Mérian, Tempesta and others. - LANGLOIS (François). A series of 12 plate...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1642
Depiction of a cook in his kitchen.
From a series of months after designs of Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688). Theodor (Dirck) Matham (Haarlem 1605-1676 Amstedam) was a Dutch engraver. Joachim von Sandrart ...
Place & Date: 1645
Selling price: $115
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Eiecitg Adam et collocauitante paradisium uouptatis cherubim . . . (Plate 7)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating an angel casting Adam and Eve out of the para...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $20
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Stetit David Super goliath praecidito caput eius et consurgentes viri israel persecuti sunt philisthaeos ( Plate 42)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating David over Goliath about to cut his head.From...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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Ad Testem, in Iudicio, Naturam vocavit Sapientiss. Salomon et vera Mater Filium dimidiari non est passa. ( Plate 46)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the judgment of Solomon.From the first Parisi...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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Arcam sibi fecit Noë ex mandato Domini ad effugiendam pluuiam sup terram . . . (Plate 9)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the construction of Noah's Arc.From the f...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $30
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