Art, Architecture & Photography / Architecture & Gardens

[FÜRSTENBERG, Ferdinand von]. Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta et novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis & notis illustrata. ... Editio tertia ...
Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel (printed by Johann Ernest Adelbulner [in Nürnberg]), 1713. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with an engraved device, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding engraved views, 26 further engraved plates and some small woodcut illustrations in text.
Including (with a drop-title): [HORION, J. de]. Paneygyricus, die natali Academiae Theodorianae Paderbornensis.
[Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1713]. With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved title-page and one engraved plate. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. [48], 309, [19]; [14], 134, [34] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - GARDENING]. Introduction à la théorie de l'art des jardins.
Ca. 1775-1800. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in several, slightly different neat 18th-century hands. Later red decorated paper over stiff paperboards, spines covered with brown paper, black morocco spine labels with titles and volume numbers in gold. [2], 2, 46 pp., 47-76 ll., 60 pp.; 129, [3], 83, 96, 20 pp. plus 2 ll.with the table of contents. Full description

GARZÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Rafael. [Photography - Spain]. Toledo, Córdoba, Granada.
1890. Large oblong album (32 x 40 cm). 89 original photographs, mostly 20 x 26 cm. Half blind-tooled greenish brown calf and grey/green net grained cloth over boards, with the title in gold on the front board, red edges and decorated endpapers. [52] ll. interleaved with tissue paper. Full description

GOES, Willem and Nicolas RIGAULT Rei agrariae auctores legesque variae. Quaedam nunc primum, caetera emendatiora prodeunt curâ.
Including: Antiquitatum agrariarum liber singularis.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1674. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an integral engraved allegorical frontispiece, a general title-page with a woodcut decoration, 6 integral divisional titles including one for the Antiquitatum agrariarum, 3 folding engraved plates, 55 further engravings on integral leaves (15 full page), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly geometric diagrams) and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges. [20], 360, [60]; 328 pp. Full description

GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût.
Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. With an engraved title-page and 37 numbered engraved plates showing numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs, and tables. 19th-century gold-stamped artificial green leather, marbled paper over boards, blue sprinkled edges. [38] leaves. Full description

GWILT, Joseph. Sciography; or, examples of shadows; and rules for their projection: intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen.
London, J. Taylor (back of title-page: printed by J. Moyes, London), 1822. Large 8vo. With 18 folding lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf. 43, [5], 20 pp. Full description

[HAARLEM]. KRUYFF, Cornelis de & Frederik Christiaan BIERWEILER. Vue du Pavillon de Harlem, prise vis à vis du bois.
Amsterdam, F. Buffa et fils, [1830-1850]. Framed (61,5 x 75,5 cm). Full description

HÉDOUIN, Pierre. Souvenirs historiques et pittoresques du nord de la France, ou Collection des plus belles vues et des plus beaux monumens, de cette partie de la France.
Paris, Dondey-Dupré, père et fils, 1830. Super Royal 4to (34.5 x 27 cm). With a letterpress half-title, title-page, 4-page letterpress introductory letter from Hédouin (dated 14 August) and 25 somewhat irregularly numbered, finely lithographed plates (mostly in landscape orientation with image size ca. 14.5 x 20 cm but the largest in portrait orientation 23.5 x 18 cm), printed on thin so-called "China" paper and mounted on blank leaves, each with a view of a site in northern France, by Pierre Langlumé after various artists, each followed by a letterpress account of the site. Modern half calf over contemporary boards with shell on shell marbled sides. [56] pp. Full description

HOGARTH, David George. The penetration of Arabia.
London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1904. Large 8vo. With 50 photographs of Medina, Mecca (incl. the Kabah, pilgrims camping outside the city praying in the Great Mosque-Precinct and at the Tomb, mostly after the photographs of Snouck Hurgronje), Maskat, Sana, Jidda; portraits of explorers such as Carsten Niebuhr, J.L. Burckhardt, G.A. Wallin, Richard Burton, J. Snouck Hurgronje, Jos. Halévy, W.G. Palgrave, W.S. and Lady Anne Blunt and others, maps of their routes through Arabia and several maps and plans of Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Mecca, Medina, Sana, Riad, etc.; the Teima stone, the first published Himyaritic inscriptions, etc. At the end are bound two folding coloured maps on one large leaf (345 x 675 mm) containing (1) the orthographical, and (2) the land surface features of Arabia. Original green publisher's cloth, title in gold on the front board with a gold-tooled section of a compass with the signs of the zodiac, title in gold on the spine. XV, 359 pp. Full description

HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouwkunde, waar in ... werd voorgestelt en geleerdt het maaken van veelerley soorten van trappen.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With engraved half-title, engraved title-page (with engraved device), engraved dedication and 30 double-page engraved plates by Jan Schenk.
With: (2) HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouw-kunde; ...
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With woodcut vignette on title-page. 2 volumes: Folio (plates) and 4to (text). Contemporary red half roan. [3], [60] ll.; [8], 72 pp. Full description