EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION OF CARDINAL-INFANTE FERDINAND’S ENTRANCE INTO GHENT Broadsheet folio (20 ¾” x 15 13/16” 528mm x 401mm): *–****1 A–Nn1 [$1 signed]. 40 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 4pp. list of office officials), 1 2–68 [4] (plate list, 2pp. index of historical narrations, blank). With an engraved.....
WATTEAU’S RARE GALANTE ETCHINGS ex-coll. MAX MACHANEK and JACQUES LEVY Paris: Thomassin, [ca. 1709-1710]. First edition, first state. Etched-engraved title-page and seven etched-engraved plates (variable, ca. 4 15/16” x 3 ¼”, 125mm x 82mm). Unbound (disbound?). Lightly tanned, with mild foxing. Two plates sometime folded in half vertically. Traces of.....
Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, (1 March) 1549. First edition in Italian. Pot quarto (8 ¼” x 5 13/16”, 209mm x 148mm): A-O4 P2 [$3 signed; –A1]. 58 leaves, pp. [4] (title, privilege, 2pp. dedication), [112]. With 15 full-page woodcuts (after Bernard Salomon, integral with the text) and many 5-, 6- and.....
THE IPERS-GOURARY COPY Amsterdam: Johann & Cornelius Blaeu, 1638. First edition, with first-state plates. Folio in 4s (15 11/16” x 10 ¾”, 398mm x 273mm): binder’s blank, A6 (A1 blank) B-H4 I4 (I4 blank), binder’s blank [$3; –A2, I3]. With an etched-engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 folding etched-engraved plates.....
Nozze: Florence: Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1637. First edition.Relazione: Florence: [Amadore] Massi and [Lorenzo] Landi, 1637. First edition. Quarto (9 5/8” x 6 ¾”, 236mm x 172mm): †4 A-N4, 2A-F4 2G2 [$2 signed; –†1, 2A1]. 82 leaves (56, 26), pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 2pp. to the reader, 2pp. dramatis personae), 1-104; 21-2 23-50, [2] (privilege and.....