Very good impressions. Some very rares stains or marginal creases; a yellowed leaf. Wide margins. Set of 24 flowers représentation on twelve sheets, the whole thing held together by a thread (except the last one). Set perhaps complete. Rare. Watermark : Le Tellier’ arms and other

Rizzi nr 47. Good impression on laid paper of 4th or 5th state (of 5). Slight horizontal crease. Edition about 1850. Good margins. Plate to a set of sixteen illustrating “Via Crucis”.

Le Blanc nr 1. Very good impression on strong laid paper. Two small tears reinforced in the letter and one at top, outside the engraved part; some other small defects mostly marginal. Small margins on three sides.

Lieure nr 511 (II/II). Very good impression of 2nd state (of 2), with the inscriptions. Glued by the angles on old laid paper; stains and foxings on the old mounting. Small margins. Rare. “Le frontispice du recueil des sermons de l’Avent du P. André de l’Ange… publiée en 1623…est la plus belle introduction que Callot […]

New Hollstein nr 189. Good impression of the only state. Finely and anciently backed; some rare pinpoints; rare small marginal defects; oxidation of the sheet and slight creases. Small margins. Plate isolated, no part of the set of twelve “Officers and soldiers” in 1587.

I.F.F. nr 312 (II/II). Good impression. Slight median creases; some small skinned paper areas and small accidents on the edges; small tear in the sky. Watermark : double-headed eagle.

I.F.F. nr 7. Good impression trimmed at the platemark of the only state. Horizontal break at right; some small stains and creases. Plate for the “Nouveau Recueil d’Ostéologie et de Myologie…”

P. de Baudicour nr 37. Good impression. Diagonal strong fold; some other creases and small defects. Plate engraving for the first part of “Recueil d’Ostéologie et de Myologie” by Gamelin, Toulouse, 1779. The title “real” in the book is “Vignette au bas de l’explication pour un enfant âgé de cinq ans”.

New Hollstein nr 81 (III/III). Very good impression trimmed at the platemark. Ex collection Valentin (Lugt nr 2498).

New Hollstein nr 3 (V/VI). Good impression of 5 state (of 6), les initiales de G. Hendrick effacées. Oxidation of the sheet; slight pli d’impression dans l’angle inférieur droit. Wide margins. Watermark : grapes.

Cf Portalis and Beraldi page 270. Good impressions trimmed out the borderline, forming pair. Contrecollées sur vélin; foxings; strong stains and oxidation.

New Hollstein nr 325 (I/III). Good impression of first state (of three), before la modification de l’adresse. Forte oxydation du feuillet; traces de pli vertical médian; some tiny pinhole and innombrable small rousseurs éparses. Good margins. Watermark : double C couronné. Plate to the set of “Nouvelles inventions des Temps Modernes”, 1588-1591.

Bartsch nr 25 (U. da Carpi); Bartsch Ill nr 25; cf Takahatake “The chiarosccuro wwodcut in Renaissance Italy” p. 130. Good impression printed in two plates of tons and a plate of trait, of 2nd state (of 2), du tirage d’A. Andreani ca 1608-1609. Vertical median fold; some rare creases; contrecollée.

Very good impression provenant probablement d’un ouvrage. Slight vertical median crease; two tiny thin paper areas. Thread margins.

New Hollstein nr 32 (V/V). Very good impression trimmed at the platemark, of the definitive state, with the last small retouches. Some very légères creases and some very slight stains visible on the back. Edition of XVIIIth century.

New Hollstein nr 88 (II/II). Impression widely trimmed on three sides (160 x 118 instead of 177 x 160); of 2nd state (of 2), the platemark used but very probably printing in XVIIth century. Some strong thin paper areas reinforced on the back, some se déchirant; a pinpoint on the cuisse; old inscription on the […]