18th century graphics and drawings
A carriage design
Daniel Marot[workshop] - Design for a carriage coupé, shown from the side.
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A newly discovered drawing by Austria’s greatest baroque architect
FISCHER VON ERLACH, Johann Bernhard - Design for the gateway of Schloss Klessheim near Salzburg. c. 1700.
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A triumphal arch for Charles VI
Johann Maximilian von Welsch
(Kronach 1671 - 1745 Mainz)
Design of an ephemeral triumphal arch for a Royal entry of Charles VI.
Grotesque caricatures of dwarfs inspired by Jacques Callot
Il Callotto Resuscitato, oder, Neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet [...]. Amsterdam, Wilhelm Engelbert Koning, 1716. Three parts. With Engraved title, two page engraved list of plates and 69 engraved plates. Contemporary full vellum.
EUR 9500,-
Signed drawing by one of the most employed baroque architects in Austria
MARTINELLI, Anton Erhard (Vienna 1684 - 1747 Vienna). Signed Architectural drawing of a castle or palais. Brown ink and grey wash. 445 x285 mm
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Rare composite atlas with panoramical town views
WERNER, Friedrich Bernhard - Rare Sammelband with 59 engraved, panoramic town views. Folio. Augsburg, Leopold, circa 1730. Contemporary half vellum.
EUR 19500,-
Early 18th-century scrapbook
Scrapbook with about 84 cut-out images from engraved prints by Martin Engelbrecht. France, n.d. (c. 1740). Contemporary vellum.
EUR 2500,-
The newly discovered, unpublished watercolor drawings for Jean Baptiste de Lamarck’s first book Flore Francaise
BULLIARD, Jean Baptiste Francois (* 1752 Aubepierre-sur-Aube; † 1793 Paris) and LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de (* 1744 Bazentin-le-Petit; † 1829 Paris) - 467 original watercolour drawings on 239 leaves, with handwritten descriptions and notes. n.d. (c. 1776-1778). Contemporary leather with blank spine label. 230x297 mm.
This very important manuscript represents the previously unknown botanical drawings for Lamarck's Flore Francaise and demonstrates the hitherto fameless cooperation between two of the foremost French botanists from the 18th century.
EUR 550.000,-
Visiting cards from the 18th century
Album with visiting-cards from the 1780's -- Contemporary Boards. Gr-8°. With 202 mounted visiting cards.
EUR 9500,-
Important Spanish manuscript signal book
ANONYMOUS - "Plano de las Senales practicas del Commercio que se Executan en la Torre de Tavira de Esta Ciudad de Cadiz Ano de 1793." Cadiz, 1793.
EUR 7500,-