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VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da. Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura ... | Regel vande vijf ordens der architecture ... | Reigle des cinq ordres d'architecture ... | The rule of the V. orders of architecture ...
Utrecht, Crispijn van de Passe, 1629.
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(2) VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da. La ii parte dell architetura dell Vignola e'altri famossi architetti | Het tweede deel van de architectura ...
[Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonius and Jan van Hilten?, ca. 1642].
(3) PASSE, Crispijn van de. Oficina arcularia in qua sunt ad spectantia diversa eximia exempla... | Bouticque menuserie ... | Schriner Laden ... | Schrinwerckers winckel.
Amsterdam, Crispijn van de Passe, 1642. 3 complementary works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with a full-page engraved author's portrait and 42 numbered engraved plates, versos with letterpress text in Italian, Dutch, French, and German and/or English. Plates III and XXXIIII are cancels. Ad 2: with an engraved title-page and 42 numbered engraved plates. Plates 1-13 with letterpress text printed on the verso describing the facing page. Ad 3: with an engraved title-page and 46 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Full description

[LETTER]. VOYSIN, Daniel. [Signed letter to Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine].
Versailles, 27 April 1710. Half sheet (32 x 21 cm). French letter in dark brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand, written on both sides, with a small part of the letter ending on the back, followed by the address and the Voysin's signature; the latter in black ink. [2] pp. Full description

[WALDENSIANS]. Recit de ce qu'il y a de plus considerable aux affaires des eglises reformées des vallées de Piedmont, depuis les massacres de l'année 1655.
[Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang(?), after 1663]. 4to. Contemporary wrappers. [4], 60 pp. Full description

[WATERCOLOUR PAINTING]. [GIUDICE, Luigi del (attributed)]. [Festivities and costumes at a southern Italian festival].
[Southern Italy], "1817" [=1816]. Watercolour on paper (ca 51 x 71 cm), dated in the lower left corner. Gilded frame (ca. 56 x 76 cm). Full description

[WATERMARK - ELEPHANT]. [A blank half-sheet of paper of the size called "Elephant"].
[France?, used in the Netherlands?], [ca. 1650]. Elephant folio leaf (35 x 52 cm). With a large (87 x 162 mm) elephant watermark. Full description

WATIN, Jean Felix. L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes fortes de sujets et batimens, meubles, bijoux, equipages, &c. in-8o de plus de 400 pages en trois parties. Quatrieme édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée.
Paris, [printed by l'imprimerie de la Veuve Herissant] for the author, 1785. 8vo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf. XXXII, 380, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche en van daar door Zwitserland en langs den Rhijn terug naar Holland.
Haarlem, Adriaan Loosjes, (back of half-title parts 2-4: Utrecht, G. Post), 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With an engraved title-page to the first part (with a stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author) and 13 engraved plates by J. P. Visscher Bender. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines. VIII, 269, [1]; IV, 292; VIII, 322; "VIII"[=6], 405, [3] pp. Full description