Bartsch ill nr 3 (I/II). Very good impression trimmed at the platemark, of first state (of 2), before Mariette’s address. Some small foxings and very sligt stains. Camillo Procaccini n’exécuta que six eaux-fortes. Les traces de polissage du cuivre demeurent très visibles on our impression.
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 […]
Good impression avec le texte typographié, d’une édition incertaine, but very probably before 1500. Slight oxidation on the edges; some very light stains and two very short tear at feet. Plate illustrating l’ouvrage de Sebastien Brandt, “La Nef des fols de ce monde”, 1494 (for the first edition). Watermark : fragment de tête de boeuf.
Robert Dumesnil nr225 to 236 (I/II); exhib “La gravure française à la renaissance” nr 106; J. Rohou “Gravure Renaissance, Étienne Delaune et les arts décoratifs” n°37a. Very good impressions trimmed at the borderline or slightly into this one, of first state (of 2), before F. Langlois’s address. Rests of mounting paper on the back of […]
cf Bartsch XIV-242. Very good impression trimmed in the platemark, before the letter. A few short tears; long diagonal break at left; creases and other small defects. Our engraving copy in the same direction that of Marco Dente, but without the letter nor certain minors works.