[Antique satirical print, aviation, luchtvaart, ca 1845] Antique print of flying rocket with a man on it, (Vroege, handgekleurde litho, van een soort vliegende raket met een man erop). Titled: Dampfmaschinen Pferd worauf man in einer Stunde von Paris nach Petersburg reiten kann. 21x26 cm., 1 p.

Futuristic card of man on flying rocket.Published between 1829 - 1845. Caricature, Satirical print, spotprent, German version of 'The Flight of Intellect: Mr. Golightly' with passenger on a steam riding rocket, above landscape and church spires'. Satirising steam powered travel. M13941 Lithography, handcolored, paper browned and with small damages (see photo). 210 x 260 mm.

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Book number: 57722

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[Antique print, Optica, Roma] Vüe du Campidole Romaine, avec l'Escalier vers l Eglise s'Araceli (Church Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Capotolijn kerk), 1 p.

Georg Balthasar Probst, Augsbourg ca. 1750-1800 317 x 427 mm Etching/engraving/watercolour Prospectus Campidolü Romanum, cum Scala versus Tempe Araceli; Vüe du Campidole Romaine, avec l'Escalier vers l Eglise s'Araceli; Veduta del Romano (…); Gesicht des Romanschen (…); Med. Fol. No. 6; C.P.S.C.M.; Georg Balthasar Probst, excudit, A.V. Pasted onto cardboard. Small tears in the margins ('repaired' by pasting to cardboard). Light discolouration. Small hole underneath the horse wagon. Overall state good. Hand coloured optical view of the Campidoglio and the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome. The square, of which the entrance is guarded by two enormous statues of horsemen, is designed by Michelangelo. Next to this square on the Capitol Hill lies the basilica from 12th century. This print gives a beautiful overview of the architectural delights. It is hand coloured in green, orange and yellow tones.

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Book number: 61236

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[Antique title page, 1718-1740] COMOEDIA VETUS of BOOTSMANS PRAATJE Door Eenige Aentekeninge opgeheldert en vermeerdert, published ca. 1718/1740, 1 p.

Engraved frontispiece of an eighteenth century edition of the political pamphlet 'Comoedia Vetus'. Though anonymously published, it is commonly accepted that the author was Willem Meerman (?-1612), a seafaring man.First published in 1612, the year that Meerman embarked on a voyage to America, from which he never returned. In this pamplet, Meerman uses maritime expressions as an allegory on the political situation in Holland. The pamphlet is written in a clear and witty style. It attacks the protestant clergy in Holland as being little better than their Catholic predecessors. Hence the title, which translates as the old game. The illustrated titlepage print shows prince Maurits, seated at a table with seven other gentlemen. He holds a stick, a man with a head shaped like church pulls at the other end of the stick. At the front of the scene, several sailors are approaching and watch the scene in surprise. At the foot of the title are the words Eij Maat, siet is 't lant vol gekken Oom wil mijn Heer de stock ontrekken.Several reprints were issued in the eighteenth century and this impression might come from one of these [1718, 1730, 1732 or 1740]. On the verso collector's mark: Gemeente Museum of The Hague (L. 1096); here are also pencil scribbles.[NL] Titelprent van het pamflet Comoedia Vetus, voor het eerst in 1612 uitgegeven. Bovenaan prins Maurits gezeten aan een tafel met zeven heren. Hij houdt een stok in de hand waarvan een man met een hoofddeksel in de vorm van een kerkgebouw aan het andere eind trekt. Op de voorgrond komen enkele matrozen aan land en wijzen in verbazing naar het bovenstaande tafereel. Met onderschrift van 2 regels in het Nederlands. Etching and engraving on paper, with some little margin; plate mark: 158 x 103 mm; total: 164 x 110 mm; traces of previous mounting on the verso; some glue passed through the paper above on the right.

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Book number: 61663

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[Abel Langelier (or L'Angelier) (1553?-1610)]

[Antique title page, 1608] LE SECOND TOME DES OEUVRES DE IEAN BACQUET ADVOCAT DU ROY EN LA CHAMBRE DU THRESOR..., published 1608, 1 p.

Title page to the second volume of works by Bacquet, Jean (15..-1597) with large oval printer's device of Abel Langelier (or L'Angelier) (1553?-1610) representing a shepherd kneeling in front of a fire and an angel coming from the sky. On the frame: 'SACRUM PINGUE DABO NEC MACRUM SACRIFICABO'. It might hint to Abel, one of the sons of Adam and Eve, as the first name of the publisher is Abel.Allegorical figures populate the outer frame. Monogrammed in a shield beneath the representation.Date of print: 1608, published in Paris. Letterpress and wood engraving on laid paper; total: 352 x 222 mm; despite a light pink shadow on the top left margin, in good condition, mounted on cardboard decorated with a line frame in black ink.

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Book number: 61707

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[Mathieu Guillemot (15..-1610)]

[Antique title page, 1621] RECUEIL DE PLUISIEURS EDICTS LETTRES PATENTES DECLARATIONS ARRETS SENTENCES, published 1621, 1 p.

Title page with large printer's device of Mathieu Guillemot (15.. -1610) representing a bush of roses in the middle and two garlic plants, one on each side of the roses. Monogrammed just below the roses, within the representation. On the oval frame surrounding the main scene inscription: 'PER OPPOSITA'. The device continues along the corners, on the bottom with two opposite cornucopias and above two angels playing with flowers and fruits.RECUEIL DE PLUISIEURS EDICTS LETTRES PATENTES DECLARATIONS ARRETS SENTENCES ... de la chambre du Thresor & Conservation du Domaine du Roy.Date of print: 1621, published in Paris. Letterpress and wood engraving on laid paper; total: 347 x 219 mm; light damp stains along the corners; mounted on cardboard decorated with a line frame in black ink. Pencil scribbles above, on the mount.

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Book number: 61709

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[Antique optical view, OPTICA prent, ca. 1750] Prospectus portus marini Urbis Genuae (Genua), published ca. 1750, 1 p.

Georg Balthasar Probst, Augsbourg. ca. 1750. 35 x 51 cm (plate: 31,7 x 43,4 cm). Handcoloured copperplate engraving on handlaid paper.Prospectus portus marini Urbis Genuae (...), Med. Fol. No. 30. C.P.S.C.M. Georg Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V.With a multi linguistic description in Latin, French, Italian and German.Some age related discolouration and a damp stain in the top right margin (not visible when put into a passe-partout). Slightly folded and scuffed around the edges. Overall state is very good. Beautifully hand coloured optical view of the Italian harbor of Genoa as seen from land. In the foreground, soldiers and merchants make themselfs ready to go on board the ships. Behind the dock ships are leaving the harbor. On the right a small piece of the city is visible.

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Book number: 61997

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Antique colored etching | Waaier om de vliegen te verjaagen met deszelfs steelen, published 1803, 1 p.

Rare image of a Non-European (most likely Tahiti) flycatcher. Plate 6 from the book Reizen rondom de waereld, James Cook 1728-1779 and J.D. Pasteur, 1753-1804. Published in 1803. Coloured etching and letterpress text under etching, in passepartout, 420 mm x 290 mm, plate mark: 160 x 110 mm. In good condition, nice colours.

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Book number: 65798

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[Antique title page, 1796] De verteller, of De twee posthuizen; blyspel, published 1796, 1 p.

Title page of Louis Benoît Picard's (1769-1828) De verteller, of De twee posthuizen; blyspel. published in Haarlem in 1796.At the center, a vignette signed J. de Vosm(?) featuring some tools of the artist - palette, brushes, and maulstick - a lyre and a branch with some leaves. On verso the list of personages in letterpress.Publishing date title page 1796. Etching, engraving and letterpress on paper; total: 157 x 91 mm; despite some minor staining in good condition.

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Book number: 66224

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[Antique title page, 1799] Armoede en grootheid, tooneelspel, published 1799, 1 p.

Title page of August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue's (1761-1819) Armoede en grootheid, tooneelspel.; as from the title itself, this title page is the third edition and the vignette decorating it was impressed from a very tired plate.The names of the artists are not readable anymore and the rays departing from the laurel wreath at the top center are completely invisible due to the flattening of the plate's printing surface. Etching, engraving and letterpress on paper; total: 164 x 103 mm; despite some minor creases and light dirt in good condition. Publishing date title page 1799.

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Book number: 66225

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[Antique title page, 1657] URBIUM Totius BELGII SEV GERMANIAE INFERIORIS..., published 1657, 1 p.

Title page to:'URBIUM Totius BELGII SEV GERMANIAE INFERIORIS...' with the printer's device at middle bottom. The device features a flying Fama at top playing two trumpets; at center an armillary sphere on which sides are a farmer and a man looking at the sky with a Jacob's staff. A motto on a ribbon reads: 'VIVITUR INGENIO'.The book collected views of the cities from above.Date of print 1657, published in Amsterdam by Jan Janssonium. Letterpress and wooduct on paper; total: 480 x 301 mm; despite some age discoloration on the paper, in good condition. Mounted on a cardboard mat.

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Book number: 66240

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[Antique title page, 1672] ANTONII MATTHAEI A.F. A.N. COMMENTARIUS AD INSTITUTIONES SS. PRINCIPIS JUSTINIANI [...], published 1672, 1 p.

Title page with Elzevier's printer device, featuring Minerva (owl, helmet, lance, Aegis), patroness of the city of Utrecht, sitting under a tree with an open book. On the banderole attached to her lance the inscription: 'PALLAS TRAIECTINA SEMPER AUGUSTA' and at bottom: 'HONOS ALIT ARTES.'Date of print 1672, published by Peter Elzevier (Elsevier). Woodcut and letterpress on paper, in two colors; total: 229 x 182 mm; mounted on cardboard mat; despite some staining in good condition.

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Book number: 66241

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[Antique title page, 1619] Clauis regiae sacerdotum, casuum conscientiae, siue theologiae moralis thesauri pars secunda, published 1619, 1 p.

Title page of a religious work by Gregory Sayer with a beautiful printer's device of Marci Wyon, with a Phoenyx and his monogram at bottom.Titled: 'Clauis regiae sacerdotum, casuum conscientiae, siue theologiae moralis thesauri pars secunda, in quibus tractatur De dominio, possessione, furto, rapina, restitutione in genere, & in particulari, de iudicibus, aduocatis, & notarijs...'Inscribed in the ovel frame: 'VIVO VT VIVAT VITAM AETERNAM'. Date of print 1619, published in Douai by Marci Wyon. Letterpress and woodcut on paper, total: 331 x 200 mm; mounted on cardboard mat, in good condition despite some light smudges.

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Book number: 66242

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[Antique title page, 1591] ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI, published 1591, 1 p.

Allegorical frontispiece featuring St. Peter, St. Paul, Ecclesia - or Catholic Church - and Heresy and Paganism at the very bottom. Above two angels hold an oval frame with the Madonna and Child on a moon crescent. The frontispiece is arranged as an ideal architecture in the center of which is the title and the details concerning the publisher and date. ÁNNALES | ECCLESIASTICI | AVCTORE | CAESARE BARONIO | SORANO | CONGREGATIONIS | ORATORII | PRESBITERO. || Tomus Secundus, | ab eodem recognitus et emendatus. || ANTVERPIAE | Ex officina Plantiniana, | M.D.XCI.' Inscribed below: 'IN PETRA EXALTAVIT ME, ET NVNC EXALTAVIT CAPVT MEVM SVPER INIMICOS MEOS.'This title plate has a peculiar history, as documented in the article by Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof, 18,257 Impressions from a Plate, in Print Quarterly, vol 22, no. 3, 2005, pp. 265-279. The article discusses the unusual amount of information concerning the various editions of Baronius' Annales. In particular, on p. 270, the authors suggest: 'Four distinct title-plates are known to have been used at the Plantin-Moretus Press to mark the start of the various volumes of Baronius's Annales published there: three plates in the period 1589-1600 and one in the period 1601-1658. The documents related to the first year inform roughly on the payments for the impressions of the title-plate. Between 1589 and 1593 these were made to Mynken Liefrinck. Therefore, she received the payment also for the 1591 edition of which the present title-page is an expression (Museum Plantijn Moretus Arch. 21, fol. 98). In a more recent publication, Imhof confirms that Between 16 July and 13 September 1591 Mynken Liefrinck was paid for 875 impressions of the title page and 850 impressions of the two other intaglios (...) [Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press: A Bibliography of the Works published and printed by Jan Moretus I in Antwerp (1589-1610), 2014, pp. 47-49].This is the first impression presenting two incinerators on each side of the top part of the architecture. This feature will disappear in the following etched impressions, substituted with only one smoking vase. Later copies published in Venice and in Meintz some nine or ten years hereafter, present the same composition but in reverse, evidence of the success of its iconography.Date of print 1591, published in Antwerp by Jan Moretus I. Engraving on paper; plate mark: 317 x 189 mm, total: 344 x 203 mm; mounted on cardboard; some lacunas filled in with reuse of paper from other prints. These lacunas are located one on the left external margin, and one on the top right corner, where the drawn contour of the picture is replaced in pen and dark brown ink. Some staining and foldings, dirt but understandable given age. Rare from the first edition of the second volume.

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Book number: 66251

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[Antique title page, 1606] Decisiones Rotae Provinciae Marchiae, published 1606, 1 p.

Title-page to Stefano Gratiano's publication concerning his work at the Sacra Rota court.Below the printer's device, featuring Athena in an allegorical frame.Date of print 1606, published in Frankfurt by Zacharias Palthenius (1570–1615). Letterpress and woodcut on paper; total: 350 x 206 mm; mounted on cardboard mat; damp stains on the corners pencil scribbling above, some dirt and small wormholes on the bottom margin. Some creases above.

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Book number: 66252

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[Antique title page, 1539] DE GERMANORUM PRIMA ORIGINE, MORIBUS, INSTITUTIONIS, published 1539, 1 p.

Title page of one of the first histories of the Germans.A printer's device towards the bottom. Handwritten in pen and brown ink: 'bibliothece Diligemensis' [Dieleghem Abbey, in Jette, Belgium, Abdij van Dielegem aka Abdij van Diligem].Date of print 1539, published in Basel by Henricus Petrus. Letterpress and woodcut on paper; total: 303 x 195 mm; mounted on cardboard mat; despite minor darkenings on the margins in great condition.

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Book number: 66253

Keywords: Allegories|Frontispiece|Onderwerpen|Switserland