Art, Architecture & Photography

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Groot schilderboek ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, both title pages with a woodcut vignette, title to part 1 printed in red and black, an engraved portrait of De Laraisse, and 64 engraved plates. 19th-century richly gold-tooled mottled calf (dated 1841). The work has been re-backed with the original spine laid down. [3], [1 blank], [52], 434, [33], [1 blank]; 400, [28] pp. Full description

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, opus elegantissimum, Amstelaedami ipsa manu tam aeri incisum, quam inventum.
Including: [LAIRESSE, Gerard de, and Nicolaas VISSCHER II]. Appendix. Diversae de signationes, Lairessaea quidem manu inventae et pictae, at aliorum sculptorum manibus artificiosissime aeri incisae et sumptibus Nicolai Visscher editae.
[Amsterdam], [Nicolaas Visscher II], [ca. 1690?]. 1mo (52 x 39 cm). With a double-page engraved title-page, an engraved title-page of the appendix and more than 100 engraved illustrations on 56 large double leaves, including 31 double-page engravings. 18th-century half gold-tooled, sprinkled calf, decorated paper over boards, with a gold-tooled red morocco title-label on the spine. [50]; [8] double ll. Full description

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Grondlegginge ter [!] teekenkonst, zynde een korte en zekere weg om door middel van de geometrie of meetkunde, de teekenkonst volkomen te leeren ...
Amsterdam, Jan Hartig, 1727. 3 works in 3 volumes, the second in 2 parts. 4to. Ad 1 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 8 full-page engraved plates (of which one by Matthijs Pool after Philip Tideman, facing p. 35) including one mezzotint portrait of a young woman and 7 (half- or three-quarter) engravings in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, 6 full-page engraved plates, including one mezzotint portrait of an old woman, 6 (half- or three-quarter) engravings in the text, and 3 folding engraved plates depicting 15 illustrations in the additional part on lamp-designs by J.A. von Segner. Ad 3 with an ornamental vignette on the title page, an allegorical vignette engraved by Reinier Vinkeles after Jacobus Buys, 21 full-page engraved plates including 6 plates (nos. 22-27) of the musculatures printed in sanguine. With: (2) LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Grondlegginge der teeken-konst, zynde een korte en zeekere weg om door middel van de geometrie of meetkunde, de teeken-konst volkomen te leeren ... Eerste deel. Tweede druk.
Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1766.
Including: SEGNER, Johann Andreas von. Beschryving van twee verscheide zeer bekwame en zuinige als mede het gezicht bewarende Lampen.
With: (3) PLOOS VAN AMSTEL, Cornelis. Aanleiding tot de kennis der anatomie, in de tekenkunst, betreklyk tot het menschbeeld. Met eenige plaaten, en daar bygevoegde verklaaringen ...
Amsterdam, J. Yntema, 1783.
Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a green (ads 1 and 2) or red (3) morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a round green morocco label lettered in gold in a gilt laurel wreath in the centre of both boards, with the text "Vernuft en vlyt" on the front, and the date "26 June 1822" on the back of ad 1, and 26 August 1795 on the backs of ads 2 and 3, two ornamental borders on the boards of ads 1 and 3, and one border on ad 2, gold-tooled edges, marbled edges, ad 1 with marbled endpapers, and ads 2 and 3 with paste paper endpapers, a round red wax seal of the Academy of drawing at Middelburg on the front pastedown. [14], 115; [16], 115, [1 blank], [4], 16; [12], IV, 12, 114, [2 blank] pp. Full description

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Tafereelen, geschilderd door Gerard de Lairesse, in de Raadkamer van den Hove van Justitie van Holland, Zeeland, en Westvriesland; ... Les tableaux qui se trouvent a la Haye, dans la Chambre du Conseil de Justice de la Cour d'Holande, de Zelande, & de Westvrise.
Amsterdam, printed for Nikolaas Verkolje, 1737. Large folio. With 7 engraved plates illustrating 7 paintings by Larisse at the old provincial Court of Justice in the Binnenhof at The Hague, engraved by Pierre Tamjé and Claude Duflos after drawings by Verkolje. 19th-century half roan, marbled boards. [4 = title, privilege, explanation] ll. Full description

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Grondlegginge der teeken-konst, zynde een korte en zeekere weg om door middel van de geometrie of meetkunde, de teeken-konst volkomen te leeren. ... Tweede druk.Including: SEGNER, Johann Andreas. Beschryving van twee verscheide zeer bekwame en zuinige als mede het gezicht bewarende lampen, ...
Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1766. 4to. With a engraved illustration on title-page, 8 engraved plates (including one mezzotint) and 6 engravings in text, mostly after designs by the author, and ad 2 with 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf, gilt edges. [16], 115, [1 blank]; [4], 16 pp. Full description

LA MOTTE, Antoine Houdar de. Fables nouvelles, dédiées au Roy. Avec un discours sur la fable.
Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719. 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by N. Tardieu after Charles Coypel, engraved vignette on title-page by C. Simeneau after N. Vleughels and 100 engraved illustrations to the fables by and after Claude Gillot, Charles Antoine Coypel, Jean Ranc, Bernard Picart, Jean Baptiste Massé, etc. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. XLII, [4], 358, [2] pp. Full description

[LANGENDIJK, Jan Anthonie]. [Watercolour of a train of the Batavian Republics horse artillery].
[North Holland?, 1799-1800]. Pencil, ink and watercolour drawing on wove paper (22 x 42.5 cm) mounted on a larger sheet. Full description

[LANGENDIJK, Jan Anthonie]. [Watercolour of Russian and British prisoners-of-war in the Batavian Republic].
[North Holland?, 1799-1800]. Pencil, ink and watercolour drawing on wove paper (22 x 42.5 cm) mounted on a larger sheet. Full description

LA RUE, Jean Baptiste de. Traité de la coupe des pierres, ou methode facile & abregée, pour aisément se perfectionner en cette science.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, Pierre-Alexandre Martin, 1738. Large folio (43.5 x 29.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece by Thomassin after Bertin and numerous architectural plans and views (in orthographic projections and in perspective) and designs for stone cutters printed from 97 engraved copper plates (96 full-page and 1 larger than double-page on a folding sheet of larger format). A. Coquart signed or initialed most of the plates. Further with 3 engraved headpieces (plus 3 repeats) showing putti cutting and hauling stone at building sites and 2 engraved decorated initials. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. [16], 185, [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description

[LA SALE, Antoine de (attributed)]. Les quinze joyes de mariage, extraicts d'un vieil exemplaire escrit à la main, passez sont quatre cens ans.
Rouen, Raphaël du petit Val, 1596. 12mo (ca. 14x8 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a woodcut illustration, and several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold tooled dark brown goatskin, with the title and publication details lettered in gold on the spine, a central ornament on both boards surrounded by two single fillet borders, gilt edges, marbled end papers, and "Bound by F. Bedford" stamped in gold on the front-turn in. 186, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description