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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[The Story of Esther.]](jpegs/58989.jpg)
[The Story of Esther.] .I.
Martynus Heemskerck Inventor. PGalle Fecit.
[n.d. c.1564.]
Engraving, sheet 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired loss on corners, nick on top right corner, stain on top left corner, slightly foxed, one wormhole.
Esther, the Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. She kneels before him as he stands before a throne and places a crown over her head. The first of a series of eight plates.
New Hollstein: 151.1.
[Ref: 58989] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Martynus Heemskerck Inventor. PGalle Fecit.
[n.d. c.1564.]
Engraving, sheet 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired loss on corners, nick on top right corner, stain on top left corner, slightly foxed, one wormhole.
Esther, the Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. She kneels before him as he stands before a throne and places a crown over her head. The first of a series of eight plates.
New Hollstein: 151.1.
[Ref: 58989] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Portrait of Ortelius.]](jpegs/61517.jpg)
[Portrait of Ortelius.]
[Drawn & engraved by Philips Galle.]
[Antwerp, n.d., c.1590.]
Engraving with hand colour. 320 x 215mm. (12½ x 8½"), with large margins. Shallow tears in top left hand corner and some creasing confined to margins.
Portrait of the famous Dutch cartographer, an oval within a fine strapwork cartouche, published in posthumous editions of his atlas, the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. The motto reads: 'By looking, Ortelius gave mortal beings the world; by looking at his face, Galleus gave them Ortelius'. Galle engraved many of the maps in the Theatrum.
[Ref: 61517] £380.00
[Drawn & engraved by Philips Galle.]
[Antwerp, n.d., c.1590.]
Engraving with hand colour. 320 x 215mm. (12½ x 8½"), with large margins. Shallow tears in top left hand corner and some creasing confined to margins.
Portrait of the famous Dutch cartographer, an oval within a fine strapwork cartouche, published in posthumous editions of his atlas, the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. The motto reads: 'By looking, Ortelius gave mortal beings the world; by looking at his face, Galleus gave them Ortelius'. Galle engraved many of the maps in the Theatrum.
[Ref: 61517] £380.00
![[The Triumph of Time] Sum Tempus Volucre [...]](jpegs/64985.jpg)
[The Triumph of Time] Sum Tempus Volucre [...]
Mee. [Maarten van Heemskerck] In. v. PG. [Philips Galle] F.
[n.d., c.1565.]
Etching with engraving. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"). Narrow margins, mounted on album paper, damp stain, small sliver of paper pasted over top left corner.
The winged figure of Time sits in a chariot drawn by two deer, passing the ruins of a classical city accompanied by male figures of the Four Seasons running beside. 'Spring' holds a bow and a hooded falcon. From the series 'The Triumphs of Petrarch'
[Ref: 64985] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Mee. [Maarten van Heemskerck] In. v. PG. [Philips Galle] F.
[n.d., c.1565.]
Etching with engraving. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"). Narrow margins, mounted on album paper, damp stain, small sliver of paper pasted over top left corner.
The winged figure of Time sits in a chariot drawn by two deer, passing the ruins of a classical city accompanied by male figures of the Four Seasons running beside. 'Spring' holds a bow and a hooded falcon. From the series 'The Triumphs of Petrarch'
[Ref: 64985] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Ignibus accensis Antris Vulpecula fallax Fallitur, hirsutis que frigora pellibus arcet. 57.
Ioann. Stradanus inven. P. Galle excu. 1577.
[n.d. c.1578.]
Engraving with large margins; verso in ink W. Wood. Plate 214 x 279mm (8½ x 11"). Some foxing and creasing.
Fox Hunt: on a hillock in the foreground, a hunter, armed with a spear from which dangles a dead fox, stands beside a donkey, laden with the kill, both viewed from behind; he and a mounted hunstman observe a fox hunt in the left background, within an enclosure; in the right foreground, a fox is cornered by two dogs, while behind them two huntsmen smoke the foxes out from underground; beyond, to the right, a hunter aims at foxes with a shotgun; on the horizon, to the left, a grand house is seen. From a series of 104 plates dedicated to the jurist Henricus van Osthoorn en Sonnevelt, "Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnae Bestiariorum: & mutuae Bestiarum".
[Ref: 28570] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Ioann. Stradanus inven. P. Galle excu. 1577.
[n.d. c.1578.]
Engraving with large margins; verso in ink W. Wood. Plate 214 x 279mm (8½ x 11"). Some foxing and creasing.
Fox Hunt: on a hillock in the foreground, a hunter, armed with a spear from which dangles a dead fox, stands beside a donkey, laden with the kill, both viewed from behind; he and a mounted hunstman observe a fox hunt in the left background, within an enclosure; in the right foreground, a fox is cornered by two dogs, while behind them two huntsmen smoke the foxes out from underground; beyond, to the right, a hunter aims at foxes with a shotgun; on the horizon, to the left, a grand house is seen. From a series of 104 plates dedicated to the jurist Henricus van Osthoorn en Sonnevelt, "Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnae Bestiariorum: & mutuae Bestiarum".
[Ref: 28570] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)