[ARCHIVALIA] – [NIEUWKOOPSE PLASSEN] – “ONTWERP tot droogmaking van den Nieuwkoopschen Plas”. Small collection of Dutch manuscripts, letters & documents related to a late 19th-cent. plan by the Dutch merchant & politician PETRUS HENDRIK HOLTZMAN (1831-1916) for drainage & reclamation of a lake near Nieuwkoop.

“Races de l’Archipel Indien” [=title on letterpiece]. MANUSCRIPT with 4 French texts in black ink on 36 numb. leaves (recto & verso, ca. 27 x 21 cm.), 1 manuscript index-leaf & 8 (of 10) plates (of which 7 lithographs & 1 original drawing in pencil). Bound into late 19th-cent. half-percaline, spine with red mor. letterpiece.

[MANUSCRIPT] – [LATIN MISSAL] – “CANON MISSAE AD USUM PRAELATORUM”. Early 20th-cent. MANUSCRIPT with Latin text (within blue borders) in red, brown & green ink (partly heightened with GOLD) on paper (recto & verso, ca. 36 x 27 cm.) consisting of a title-leaf, 64 text-leaves (incl. musical scores with Gregorian chant-notation) numbered “1-127” (with small circular watercolour (partly heightened with gold, ca. 8,5 x 8,5 cm.) on verso page 127 and 10 leaves with mounted red silk thumb-index), 6 additional text-leaves (incl. musical scores with Gregorian chant-notation) numbered “1-11 (with general index on verso page 11*) & a colophon-leaf (with small circular watercolour (partly heightened with gold, ca. 7,5 x 7,5 cm.) dep. the Virgin Mary & Child Jesus) with French text: “Chanoinesses Regulieres De St. Augustijn/ De La Congregration De/ Notre Dame De Jupille/ Monastere De S. Paulo Brasil/ Juillet De L’An 1928”. With 4 full-page GOUACHES (partly heightened with gold) on smooth paper (ca. 35,5 x 26,5 cm.) dep. various religious scenes executed in the style of medieval miniatures (of which 2 with Latin text: “Deus in adiutorium/ meum intende/ Domine ad adiuvandum/ me festina” & “Fulget Crvcis mysterivm/ qva vita mortem pertvlit/ et morte vitam protvlit”), 22 large historiated capitals (in watercolour, partly heightened with gold), 11 head- & tail-pieces (in watercolour, partly heightened with GOLD) and num. smaller capitals & initials (in red & blue ink, partly heightened with gold). Small folio (ca. 37,5 x 30 cm.), both wooden covers with marquetry & decorative wood-veneer inlay patterns (with “Canon Missae” central on upper cover & a floral decoration central on lower cover), red silk doublures, gilt ribbed calf spine, all edges gilt.

[MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS] – LOT of 3 odd 15th-cent. manuscript leaves (bifolia) with Latin text in black ink (capital letters in red or blue ink) on recto & verso (15 lines in a single column rubricated in ink) on VELLUM. All leaves ca. 16 x 25 cm. – ADDED: 3 large-sized late 19th-cent. English manuscript documents on vellum (ca. 1889, various sizes, all folded). (6x)

Etching after N. Berchem. Publ. by N. Visscher. Ca. 19 x 14 cm. Mounted onto a mount, behind passepartout & framed. – IDEM. Lot of 2 etchings (both dep. rustic landscapes) after N. Berchem. Both publ. by P. Landry. Resp. ca. 17 x 22,5 cm. & ca. 16,5 x 23 cm. Both mounted onto a mount, behind passepartout & uniformly framed. – ADDED: 2 19th-cent. etchings by J.-F. Portaels (1818-1895) & G.A. Guillaumet (1840-1887). (5x)

Etching. Signed “K.Dv.Iardin”, dated “1659” & numb. “18” in the plate. Ca. 14 x 17,5 cm. Behind passepartout & framed. – IDEM. (Two sleeping hunting dogs with a fence in the background). Etching. Signed “K.Dv.I” & numb. “5” in the plate. Ca. 15 x 13,5 cm. Behind passepartout & framed. – IDEM. (Two bulls of which one is scratching his head on a wooden pole). Etching. Numb. “24” in the plate. Ca. 14 x 18,5 cm. Behind passepartout & framed. – And 1 similar by Karel Dujardin. – ADDED: 1 other etching. (5x)

“ODORATUS. Der Geruch [..]”. Contemp. handcol. engraving (partly heightened with GOLD) with Latin & German caption. Publ. by M. Engelbrecht (Augsburg, ca. 1730). Ca. 21,5 x 31 cm. Framed. – “VER FLORIDUM. Der blühende Frühling [..]”. Contemp. handcol. engraving (with Latin & German caption). Publ. by M. Engelbrecht (Augsburg, ca. 1730). Ca. 19,5 x 29,5 cm. Framed. (2x)

'Dr. A. Welcker. O Vitam misero longam felici brevem'

[Acht chinesische Erzählungen]. Berlin, Eigenbrödler Verlag, [ca. 1925], [4],78,[3] pp. With 5 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS by EMIL ORLIK (all signed in pencil, various sizes) & 24 plates (of which 7 col.) after Emil Orlik. Large 8vo, orig. dec. gilt cloth (des. by Emil Orlik), top edge gilt.

(Bust of a laughing peasant). – (Bust of a female peasant laughing). Tog. 2 etchings. Both monogrammed “AO” in the plate. Both ca. 3 x 2,8 cm. Both mounted onto a mount, behind passepartout & in one frame.

Coranna. Eine Indianergeschichte. Berlin, Verlag von Paul Cassirer, [1908], 66,[2] pp. With col. frontispiece, title-vignette & 34 text-ills. (of which 5 full-p.) after Max Slevogt. 4to, orig. dec. cloth (des. by Max Slevogt).

Max Slevogt. Berlin, Verlag Neue Kunsthandlung, 1922, 18 text-pp. & a colophon-leaf. With 1 ORIGINAL ETCHING by MAX SLEVOGT (signed & numb. “28/L” in pencil, ca. 12 x 9 cm.) as frontispiece & 32 plain plates (numb. “19-50” as continuation of the pagination) after Max Slevogt. 8vo, orig. gilt(-lettered) green MOROCCO, top edge gilt.

SLEVOGT, F.Th.M. (Max) (1868-1932) – ”MENU 16. Februar 1927”. Lot of 2 ORIGINAL PRINTS (of which 1 PROOF printed on thin paper) depicting a menu-card for a dinner (held on 16 February 1927 by János Plesch & his wife) of which text & illustrations are executed by MAX SLEVOGT. Both prints probably hectographs (jellygraphs or gelatin duplicators) signed in the plate, the proof signed & “Probedrück für Plesch” in pencil. Resp. ca. 35,5 x 27,5 cm. & ca. 23,5 x 19 cm. Both mounted onto a paper mount & framed. (2x)

Schatten u[nd]. Träume. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1926, consisting of a letterpress index-leaf (with letterpress colophon & lithogr. ill. by Max Slevogt on verso), 12 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS by MAX SLEVOGT (all signed in pencil, various sizes) and 1 ETCHED SELF-PORTRAIT by MAX SLEVOGT (unsigned, printed on different paper, ca. 13 x 12 cm., under passepartout) mounted on lower paste-down. Small folio oblong (ca. 30 x 42 cm.), orig. vellum-backed cloth (vellum backstrip perforated by a leather cord) with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR by MAX SLEVOGT (on vellum-paper) mounted on upper cover (signed in the left margin, ca. 13,5 x 20 cm.) depicting a reclining leopard grooming itself.

Engraving after G.B. Piazzetta. Ca. 35 x 49,5 cm. Behind passepartout & framed.

Etching after Nicolaes Berghem. Publ. by “C.D. Jongen” [=Clement De Jonghe]. Ca. 19 x 14 cm. Mounted onto a mount, behind passepartout & framed.

Various sizes. (26x)

[CHINESE SCHOOL] – COLLECTION of 10 late 19th-/ early 20th-cent. Chinese paintings on pith paper (dep. various torture scenes). All ca. 7 x 10 cm., behind a passepartout of blue paper & mounted onto a paper mount, in a red silk portfolio with 2 green ties.

[CHINESE SCHOOL] – LOT of 2 20th-cent. watercolours (dep. birds). Both ca. 32 x 32 cm. Both behind passepartout & framed. (2x)

Tog. 2 engr. profile views (both by Jan Luyken after C. de Bruyn). (Publ. in: De Bruyn, “Reizen Van Cornelis de Bruyn, Door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, [..]”, 1698). Resp. ca. 28,5 x 63 cm. & ca. 21 x 62 cm. Both behind passepartout & uniformly framed. (2x)

Collection of ca. 45 late 16th-cent. engravings dep. various costumes. (Taken from: “Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae gentium habitus [..]”, publ. by J. de Bosscher, after 1581). Various sizes, in a 20th-cent. stiff paper portfolio. (ca. 45x)

(Portrait of a man wearing glasses). Drawing (in black crayon). Signed “Otto Dicke”. Ca. 34 x 30 cm. Behind passepartout & framed.

Drawing (in brown ink & watercolour) on paper. Signed “P Stortenbeker” in lower right corner. Ca. 13,5 x 20,5 cm. Behind passepartout & framed.

Early 19th-cent. drawing (in ink & watercolour) on paper (with inscription in black ink: “Na ’t Leven getek[end]./ door JG Visser 1803”). Ca. 45 x 56 cm.

Late 18th-/ early 19th-cent. drawing (in ink & watercolour) on paper. Ca. 20,5 x 27,5 cm.

Early 19th-cent. drawing (in brown ink & grey wash) on paper. Ca. 20,5 x 28 cm. Tipped onto a mount.