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Complete set in four volumes of Dezallier-Argenville's famous Lives of the most famous painters with their portraits on copperplateComplete with frontispiece, 4 vignettes and 255 copperplate engravings by Fessard and Aubert in decorative frames (13 empty frames as published)Volume 1: Italian school artists from Rome, Florence and Venice322 pages, 51 of 51 plates, and frontispiece by Boucher and vignetteVolume 2: Italian school artists from Lombardy, Napoli, Spain and Genoa 428 pages, 44 of 44 platesVolume 3: Flemish school, German, Swiss, Dutch, Flemish and English artists, 473 pages, 97 of 97 plates and vignetteVolume 4: French school 494 pages, 62 of 62 plates and vignetteMany Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Velazquez, Durer, Holbein, Lucas von Leiden, Pieter Breughel, Rubens, Watteau, Poussin, Titian, Van Dyck, etc. Includes several women artists such as Maria Sibylla Merian, Marietta Robusti (Tintoretto's daughter), Rosalba Carriera, Elisabeth Sophie… Read More

30 portraits of the most famous actors and actresses on the Paris stage during the 18th century.
Illustrated with 30 copperplate stipple engravings coloured by hand after illustrations by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.With several famous opera singers, performers in the commedia dell'arte (Harlequin, Colombina, Pantalon), and scandalous, bisexual actresses.
1. Mlle Lecouvreur. Theatre Francais. Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress who developed a naturalistic style of acting, 1692-1730. Performed in plays by Moliere, Racine, Corneille, etc.
2. P. Grandval. Theatre Francais. Role of Misanthrope. Pierre Racot de Grandval, French comic actor who debuted at the Comedie-Francais in 1729, performed in plays by Moliere, Voltaire, and others, 1711-1784.
3. Mlle Dangeville. Theatre Francais. Marie-Anne Botot, French comic actress, 1714-1796.
4. Auger. Theatre Francais. Francois Augé or Auger, French actor, 1763-1782.
5. Mlle Silvia. Theatre de l'Opera comique. Jeanne-Rose Benozzi, Gianetta Rosa Benozzi,… Read More

Very good copy of the first edition, complete with all 50 copperplate engravings
Two volumes bound in one, title page to Vol. 1 only bound in at front
Subjects range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and include Lady Margaret Beaufort (mother to Henry VII), traitors Thomas Percy and Sir John Hotham, knight in armour Sir George Villiers, judge Sir Henry Martin, Frances Lady Seymour (in bosom-revealing Elizabethan dress), archbishop Richard Stearne, courtier Sir Henry Sidney, politicians Claud Hamilton and Sir Edward Seymour, Henrietta Anne Duchess of Orleans (daughter of Charles I), adventurer Sir Robert Shirley in Persian costume, Lord Chancellor Philip Yorke, and Rachel Russell, Anne Howard, Countess Portland, Lady Seymour, etc., the famous "Petworth Beauties" in decollete dresses.
The portraits taken from paintings by Sir Peter Lely, Jean Charles Nocret, William Nelson Gardiner, Michael Dahl, William Hoare, Arnold Bronckorst, William Larkin, tomb effigies by Nicholas Stone, rare prints, busts and… Read More

Rare complete set of 60 portraits of important figures from the French Revolution published in the Directoire era.
Featuring King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, revolutionary leaders Robespierre, Marat, Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Charlotte Corday, Napoleon Bonaparte and the revolutionary generals Victor Moreau, Alexandre Berthier, Barthelemy Joubert, Andre Massena, etc.
Each page with portrait, vignette of an important scene in their life, and a short text biography all within a decorative engraved frame.
The portraits (fine mezzotint etchings with stipple engraving on velin paper) were engraved by Charles-Francois-Gabriel Levachez after various artists. The vignettes of historical scenes were designed, drawn and etched by Jean Duplessis Berteaux.
Published by Chez Auber to follow a series of scenes depicting the French Revolution, Tableaux historiques de la Revolution francaise, and a series of scenes from the Italian campaigns, Campagnes d'Italie, by Carle Vernet.
Jean Duplessis-Bertaux or… Read More

Good copy of this suite of 10 portraits of English Victorian beauties
The 10 beauties include royalty (Queen Victoria herself), aristocrats, and various sultry ladies in off-the-shoulder gowns making eyes at the portraitist.
The exquisite portraits by eminent artists John Hayter, William Drummond and Claude-Marie Dubufe, stipple engraved on steel by William Henry Mote, H. Hall, W.F. Holl, H. Robinson and W.H. Eagleton.
Supervised by Charles Heath, 1785-1848, British engraver, currency and stamp printer, publisher and illustrator.
The subjects include:
Queen Victoria, when a young beauty (she was just 23 when this book was published).
Lady Grey Egerton, possibly Mary Anne Elizabeth Egerton, only daughter of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 9th Baronet.
Lady Jane Georgiana Seymour, later Duchess of Somerset, 1809-1884. In medieval costume as the Queen of Beauty, with crown over headdress, fur-lined cape over bejeweled robe.
Honourable Louisa Hay, daughter of 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, later Lady Louisa Jane… Read More

Suite of 2 frontispieces and 61 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's History of England, Scotland and Ireland 1713-1730.

All portraits by Dutch Baroque master Adriaen van der Werff.

Copperplates engraved by Pieter Stevens van Gunst and others including Gerard Valck, Cornelis Vermeulen, Nicholas Pitaut, Benedict Audran, Jean Audran, Charles Simonneau, Pierre Drevet, Etienne Desrochers and Willem van der Gouwen.

Allegorical frontispiece (by Bernard Picart) and 28 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, Reinier Leers, Amsterdam, 1713.

Allegorical frontispiece and 33 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, Johann Covens and Cornelis Mortier, Amsterdam, 1730.

Plates mostly by Pieter Stevens van Gunst, and others including Gerard Valck, Cornelis Vermeulen, Nicholas Pitaut, Benedict Audran, Jean Audran, Charles Simonneau, Pierre Drevet, and Etienne Desrochers.

A sumptuous collection of oval portraits in decorative Baroque frames… Read More

Very good copy of Pinkerton's collection of rare portraits of Scottish royalty, clergy and celebrities.

Complete with 63 finely engraved copperplates.

With portrait of cross-dressing Frances Stuart as frontispiece, engraved title page dated 1797, list of subscribers, advertisement to Part I, advertisement to Part III dated 1796, and 56 other portraits (one folding) and six engraved plates of royal seals.

With three portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, and King James IV, two portraits of King James V, and individual portraits of Alexander III, David I, Malcom I, Robert II, Robert III, James I, James II, James III, James VI (later James I of England) and Scottish queens Mary of Guise, Margaret of Denmark, Anne of Denmark.

Among the other interesting characters are the Scottish polymath James Crichton, aka the Admirable Crichton, and Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, a famous beauty at the court of King Charles II of England, cross-dressing as a man, as well as statesmen, clergy, martyrs, etc.… Read More

Fair copy only of a rare collection of lithographic portraits of famous artists.Impressive set of 18 large, bold portraits of the Old MastersSix numbers with 18 plates and text biographies only (it ran to 20 numbers with 60 plates), lacking title pagePlates drawn by HvH, mostly after self-portraits by the original artistsPrinted by Godefroy Engelmann, 1788-1839, the pioneer Franco-German lithographerThe subjects include:Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist, 1599-1641Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish Baroque painter, 1618-1682Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance artist, 1452-1519David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter, 1610 -1690Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter, 1475-1564 Frans Snyders, Flemish painter 1579-1657Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque painter, 1615-1673Nicolas Poussin, French Baroque artist, 1594-1665. Albrecht Durer, German Renaissance painter, 1471-1528Hans Holbein the younger, German Renaissance artist,1497-1543Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter,… Read More

First edition complete with all 60 plates
[In about 1815, the portraits were retouched and re-issued with an additional 40 plates, including some by the engraver Robert Dunkarton, to bring the total to 100.]
Engraved in mezzotinto from original pictures, miniatures, etc.
Includes Queen Elizabeth I as a princess, writer William Shakespeare, famous actress and Charles II's lover Nell Gwyn, Henry VIII's Lord High Chancellor Sir Thomas More, Henrietta Duchess of Orleans, Oliver Cromwell's mother, etc.
Contents: 1 Anne Duchess of Albermarle, 2 Dr Bailey, 3 Isaac Barrow, 4 George Earl of Berkeley, 5 Robert Blake, 6 George Duke of Buckingham, 7 Elizabeth Cromwell, 8 Richard Cromwell, 9 Henry Cromwell, 10 George Earl of Cumberland, 11 Thomas Dalyell, 12 Lady Denham, 13 Charlotte Countess of Derby, 14 Charles Earl of Derby, 15 Sir Dudley Digges, 16 Queen Elizabeth I, 17 Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, 18 Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, 19 Lord Ferdinando Fairfax, 20 Lord Thomas Fairfax, 21 Lady Fairfax, 22 Lucius… Read More

Near fine copy of the First Series of these charming portraits of the children of English aristocracy
Complere with 10 very fine steel engravings of chocolate-box Victoriana
Toddlers and teenagers in ringlets, satin and taffeta, both boys and girls in cute dresses.
One poem by Benjamin Disraeli, MP, who mourns the death of one of the subjects, Susannah Copley, at the tender age of 15.
The portraits by eminent artists such as Alfred Edward Chalon, John Bostock, and Daniel Maclise. The engravings by William Henry Mote, Henry Cook, H. Robinson and J. Thomson.
Supervised by Charles Heath, 1785-1848, British engraver, currency and stamp printer, publisher and illustrator.
Edited by Louisa Fairlie (1881-1843), writer and editor, wife of John Fairlie, niece of Lady Blessington (who contributes one poem).
The poems dedicated to the children by a variety of authors including Benjamin Disraeli MP (future Prime Minister), Lady Blessington (Irish novelist Marguerite Gardiner), Henry Lytton Bulwer (future MP),… Read More

Very good collection of the portrait plates only from the last part of the multi-volume Museum Florentinum
With 218 (of 220) portrait plates of Renaissance and Baroque artists
Variant issue with extra plates of the artists' self-portraits published by Niccolo Pagni and Guiseppe Bardi, Florence (originally published with 220 plates by Francesco Moucke in 1752-62).
With engraved title page and 218 fine copperplates, most under tissue guards
The last part of the Museo Fiorentino, an ambitious catalogue of the Medici collection of artworks published by Antonio Francesco Gori (1691-1757) and Francesco Moucke between 1731 and 1766. The first six volumes published from 1731-42 covered gems I-II, statues III and coins IV-VI. The Serie di Ritratti was issued as volumes VII-X and included superb facsimile engravings of the famous self-portraits now in the Uffizi Gallery.
Plates numbered 1-220, missing 23 numbered plates, several bound out of order, plus 21 unnumbered plates bound in at the rear. Total of 218… Read More

Very good copy of Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection of intimate family sketches12 charming portraits on steel, hand tinted to give the impression of pastel sketchesFrontispiece engraved bust, engraved title page and 12 hand-coloured engraved plates.A snapshot of the family and friends of the most popular portrait artist in Georgian EnglandThe subjects include:Lady Emma Hamilton, scandalous mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson, in see-through dress and turban, looking up most ravishingly.Self-portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and portraits of his innkeeper father Thomas Lawrence and mother Lucy Read, depicted close to death. Cute portraits of his nephews Thomas Lawrence Bloxam, Rowland Bloxam and Henry Bloxam, all in dresses and ribbons.Two depictions of his niece Mary Isabella Bloxam, as a young girl and once again as a young woman.The Calmeady children in an embrace.Two unknown girls, one in a lace bonnet. His niece Lucy Meredith.Lady Augusta Lowther, Countess of Fane, wife of the 1st Earl of Lonsdale. Sir… Read More

Illustrative of Granger's Biographical History of England, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, Burnet's History of his own Time, Pennant's London, etc.
Very good copy of the First Edition complete with all 200 copperplate engravings
An eclectic collection of engraved portraits of "persons celebrated for their diplomatic services, military or naval achievements, literary acquirements, eccentric habits, or some peculiar feature in their lives." Includes many equestrian prints from the Illustrated Clarendon, 12 portraits of King Charles I and II, printers Laurence Koster, William Caxton and John Guttemberg, poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, assassinated bishop Thomas Becket with a sword in his head, Kings Edward I-VI, several portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Guy Fawkes and his conspirators, pickpocket Cut-Purse Moll, Kings Henry I-VIII, death of King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, water-spouter Floram Marchand, the great eater Benjamin Marriott, dandy Nym the… Read More