[Book trade, printers and collectors] - +/- 75 engravings and publications, 18th - 19th c.; various authors, formats and techniques, some in orig. col. Some foxing & staining, some sm. tears otherwise good general condition.
Estimation :
€350/550
Adjudication :
260 €
Description
Most interesting lot concerning book trade, printers and collectors: 23 portrait plates: engravings 17th c.: “georg Willer, Bunchändler in augsburg”, “sigmund Feyerabend, Buchhândler in Franckfurt an Mayn”, “Lucas Cranach Consul Wittenberg”, etc., steel engr. and lithogr., 18th - 19th c.: “Portrait d’un savant” (after P.P. Rubens), Louis XVIII, Ch. van Hulthem, etc. - 10 engravings, Paris, deneufforge, 18th c. very nice engrs by the renown Flemish architect & engraver deneufforge, showing maps and decoration designs for libraries. - 19 plates, engravings, lithogr. & steel engr., 18th - 19th c., showing libraries and bookshops: suite of 4 beautiful pl. of a library in Zürich, “Bibliotheca realis philosophica” of Franckfurt by Haffner, Ackermans’library, Lackington, allen & c°, etc. - 9 caricatures, 19th c., lithogr.: “Dr. Syntak & bookseller”, “L’étalagiste”, “Le plus chic des bouquinistes”, portrait of a. de vigny, etc. - 5 other engrs. - 3 ordonnances: by Joseph ii, Brussels, Pauwels, 1788, concerning injurious writings and drawings by the revolutionnary. - by Maria-theresia, Brussels, koninglyke druckerye, [1768], concerning the prohibition on selling & distribution of certain books. - by the Duke of Lorraine, Namur, Lafontaine, 1768, concerning the prohibition on selling certain books.
