Hollstein nr 23. Good impression trimmed at the subject, d’un édition indéterminée but very certainly of XVIth century. Angle supérieur gauche anciennement restauré; small hole restauré près du bord droit; six wormholes; rests of glue and of mounting paper on the back; other smamll defects. Last plate to a set of quatorze illustrant la “Passion”.

Traces of adhésive in the upper corners; vertical stains in the lower part; small lack in the angles. On the back an old inscription by brown ink in italian.

Lieure nr 476 (I/II). Good impression of first state (of 2), before the engraved number. Glued in part on old laid paper; slight small stains. Thread margins. Plate of the set of “Caprices” engraving in Nancy.

cf Guilmard p.85. Very good impression for a set of “Corbeille” (?). Creases mostly marginal; slight vertical median crease; many small foxings mostly marginal and on the back. Watermark : coat of arms of Le Tellier (close to Gaudriault nr 132), ca 1680

New Hollstein nr 282 (II/II). Good impression of 2nd state (of two). Significant vertical tear restored about 40mm at top; small marginal lacq restaured at top and in the upper right corner; some small thin paper areas. Thread margins. Edition ogf XVIIIth century.

Recueil composé de six bois; le clown, l’homme orchestre, l’écuyère, la folle, le pirate, le vieil. La planche de titre (jaunie) numbered and signed à la plume by the artist. Impressions on thin japan paper, chacune sous passe-partout de l’époque. Le tout dans une chemise cartonnée avec une vignette collée de l’artiste. Rare foxings à […]

Good impression on wove paper printed in Colors, annotated “Epreuve (not corrected)”, signed and annotated again at foot. Some creases; tiny stain and slight marginal oxidation.

Good impression glued by three angles on strong old laid paper; rests of glued on the back; rare small stains. Copy executed in the same direction as that of Étienne Delaune, engraved two years later.

Good impression on laid paper in colors of the time. Small stain (?) in the middle towards the rights and probable trace of passe-partout at the window of the mounting. Small margins. Framed : not examined outside the frame.

Collection of engraved portraits, titled “Le Cours des Écclésiastiques”. Very high volume formed in the middle of the XVIIth century compresing about 331 glued portraits, mostly of religious persons, french and flemish, of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. In folio, in brownish calf binding of the time (ca 1660). Some defects to the binding. We […]

Impression on strong wove paper, signed. Some small tears in the wide margins and uniform oxidation. Publisher’s stamp Hessèle (Lugt n°554).

Wilton-Ely n°49. Very good impression on laid paper. Good margins. Planche des différents travaux d’architecture, perspectives, grotesques and antiquités. Watermark : fleur de lys encerclée.

Robert-Dumesnil nr 1 (II/IV). Malgouyres, exhib. “Mellin” nr 18a (II/V). Very good impression of 2d state (of 5), before all letter. Some tiny thin paper areas at foot; two or three tiny marginal tears and slight horizontal median crease. Small margins on three sides. Our impression, on an italian paper, is rare. None impression of […]

Good impression on wove paper printed in black and red chalk at the location. Some rare foxings, mostly visible on the back; some small snags on the subject, one causing a tiny hole; slight small break at center. Good margins.

Drawing rubbed with red chalk on the reverse. Rests of backed paper on the backside.

Bartsch Ill. nr 47 (II/II) and 32. Very good impressions trimmed at the platemark, of the only state or of 2nd state (of 2). Some thin paper areas on the corners; rests of mounting paper on the back side and some small stains mostly visible on the back side. Plate for “Petites études de têtes […]