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Author's copy, presented to him by the publisher, with added drawingsSamuel Prout (1783-1852).
Sketches at Home and Abroad. Hints on the Acquirement of Freedom of Execution and Breadth of Effect in Landscape Painting. To which are added, Simple Instructions, on the proper uses and application of Colour.
London, Marco A. Nattali, printed by Hullmandel & Walton, London. 1844.
Very large 4° (38 x 28 cm). 16 pp, 48 ll. With a lithographed additional title (with chine collé lithographed vignette on India paper); 48 lithographed plates printed chine collé on India paper; lithographed plate list at end with chine collé lithographed vignette. Also with two additional original drawings tipped on front free endpaper: one by Samuel Prout in crayon of Weymouth in Dorset, England and one by his son Samuel Gillespie Prout in pencil and blue watercolour of Herstmonceaux Castle in Sussex.
Dark green half morocco with marbled sides, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands and gilt title, gilt edges,… Read More

A masterpiece of Dutch Golden Age printmaking
Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629).
Maniement d'armes d'arqvebuses, movsquets, et piqves. En conformité de l'ordre de Monseigneur le Prince Maurice, Prince d'Orange, Comte de Nassau etc. Gouverneur et Capitain General de Geldres, Hollande, Zeelande, Utrecht, Overijssel etc. Representé par figures, par Jaques de Gheijn. Ensemble les enseignemens par escrit, a l'utilite de tous amateurs des armes, et ausi pour tous capitaines & commandeurs, pour par cecy, pouvoir plus facillement enseigner a leurs soldatz inexperimentez, l'entier et parfait maniement dicelles armes […].
Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, On les vend' ausi a Amsterdam chez Henrij Laurens, 1608 [= imprint date changed in the plate from 1607 to 1608, but according to STCN, in fact not before 1610].
Folio. Three parts in one volume. [5], 42 pl.; [4], 43 pl.; [5], 32 pl.
Collates: π, X, A-B1, 42 ll; A-B1, 43 ll; a-b1, [c]1, 32 ll.
Getty: [14] p., 32, 43, 42 leaves of plates.
Contemporary vellum… Read More

Calvert's rarest print album
London, Hodgson & Co, 1823.
Oblong 4°
(24 x 16,5 cm.). With 24 soft ground etched plates and title. Original publisher's half morocco with printed front cover. With original tissue guards.
Very rare plate album by Irish landscape painter Frederick Calvert, complete with 24 "picturesque views" and in the original binding. Calvert moved to England in 1815 and, besides painting, produced a number of print albums and model books, a.o. The young artist's instructor (London, Hodgson and Co., 1823) and Rural scenery (London, Hodgson and Co., ca. 1825). He designed plates for Picturesque views ... in Staffordshire and Shropshire (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830-1831), and for A new and compendious history, of the county of Warwick (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830). Perhaps his most famous work was for The Isle of Wight illustrated (1846).
The present work is the rarest of Calvert's published oeuvre, with just 4 copies recorded in WorldCat and none at auction. It formed the basis… Read More

Large VOC watercolour view of Porto Praia, Cape Verde
Johann Christian Friderici [= Frederici] (Heldburg 1766 - Cape Town 1804).
Prospect van het eyland, en de rheede van St. Iago. Geteekend van Johann Christian Friderici / Verbeelding van de inwoonders op St Iago.
Porto Praia, Cape Verde, 1783.
Watercolour with ruled black ink border on laid paper, watermarked Pro Patria with Maid of Dort. 29,5 x 120,5 cm.
The largest recorded early modern panoramic view of Cape Verde, by "the best VOC map maker in South Africa" (Koeman). This is his earliest known work.Santiago's Porto Praia is the main harbour of Cape Verde. It served as an important transportation hub of enslaved African people to the Americas and for the restocking of ships bound for the Cape with salt and fresh foods. These two functions of the island are depicted in the cartouche in the top right. It shows an African family and examples of livestock: a turkey and a goat. The man wears clothes that are also seen in depictions of plantation… Read More

English Rococo furniture models
[London, John Weale, ca. 1830].
Folio (33x26 cm.). 24 leaves with 24 numbered engraved plates. Green morocco with gilt title on spine.
Large model book for carpenters giving designs for highly rococo tables, mirrors, chimney-pieces, and cartouches. The designs were made by the two leading artists in mid-18th century wood carving and design: Thomas Chippendale and Matthias Lock. This is one of two such model books, the other being a smaller oblong with the name Mathew Lock at the end of the title instead of Chippendale, see Rijksmuseum RP-P-2020-106. The present folio album has six cartouches depicting large Rococo designs against a landscape with classical ruins were probably by Chippendale and the rest by Lock.
Their work remained influential in the early 19th century as the summum of good taste. "It is by means of such a charming book of designs as the above that Art taste will be instilled into the minds of the working Artists and Mechanics. It is Books versus the… Read More