HOLLAR, Wenceslaus (1606-1677) -- Francis BARLOW [A Sammelband of various works including Severall Wayes of Hunting, Hawking and Fishing . London: after 1671]. Oblong 4° (200 x 290mm.) 11 engraved plates (of 12) by Hollar after Francis Barlow (Lacking the title and hare hunting plate); bound together with a selection of natural history plates from six different works [Paris & London: no dates but all printed c. 1690?]. 43 engraved plates by Le Roy, Hollar and others. (Some tears and light surface damage to a few plates.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with elaborate overall tooling with an outer border of a roll-tool with triple fillet, the inner design of a lozenge intersecting a rectangle delineated using numerous small tools including a sun with a face, drawer-handle tools, stars, volutes, various cornerpieces, one a stylised vase of flowers, the other stylised foliage (some neat repairs, upper cover with old cut marks). Provenance : William Gilbert & Armine Gosling (bookplate). A FINE COLLECTION, INCLUDING THE WORK OF SOME OF THE BEST NATURAL HISTORY ENGRAVERS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. The hunting scenes after Barlow are very attractive and are mostly in second states. Pennington 2030-2040; Harting 33. The collection is bound as follows: 1. Francis Barlow Livres de Plusieurs Animaux Inventez par Barlou . [Paris:] de Poilly, [no date] [Thiebaud 56], title and 5 plates (of 10); 2. Francis Barlow [ Severall wayes of Hunting, Hawking and Fishing ], etched by W. Hollar [London: after 1671]; 3. W. Hollar. Muscarum Scarabeorum , Paris:1651 [but later?], 11 plates; 4. Henri Le Roy Le Volière des Oiseaux [Paris: no date] [Nissen IVB 544], 10 plates including examples from both series; 5. Charles d'Arcussia. La Fauconnerie [no place, no date] [cf. Nissen IVB 35], 5 plates of hawks and falcons, printed from the plates used to print the full-page illustrations in d'Arcussia's famous work, here printed without the letterpress that mars the image in the earlier published work. 6. Le Pautre. 6 plates from an unidentified work by Le Pautre depicting bucolic scenes from country life; 7. De Poilly (publisher). 5 plates from an unidentified work intended as a teaching aid in the art of drawing.
HOLLAR, Wenceslaus (1606-1677) -- Francis BARLOW [A Sammelband of various works including Severall Wayes of Hunting, Hawking and Fishing . London: after 1671]. Oblong 4° (200 x 290mm.) 11 engraved plates (of 12) by Hollar after Francis Barlow (Lacking the title and hare hunting plate); bound together with a selection of natural history plates from six different works [Paris & London: no dates but all printed c. 1690?]. 43 engraved plates by Le Roy, Hollar and others. (Some tears and light surface damage to a few plates.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with elaborate overall tooling with an outer border of a roll-tool with triple fillet, the inner design of a lozenge intersecting a rectangle delineated using numerous small tools including a sun with a face, drawer-handle tools, stars, volutes, various cornerpieces, one a stylised vase of flowers, the other stylised foliage (some neat repairs, upper cover with old cut marks). Provenance : William Gilbert & Armine Gosling (bookplate). A FINE COLLECTION, INCLUDING THE WORK OF SOME OF THE BEST NATURAL HISTORY ENGRAVERS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. The hunting scenes after Barlow are very attractive and are mostly in second states. Pennington 2030-2040; Harting 33. The collection is bound as follows: 1. Francis Barlow Livres de Plusieurs Animaux Inventez par Barlou . [Paris:] de Poilly, [no date] [Thiebaud 56], title and 5 plates (of 10); 2. Francis Barlow [ Severall wayes of Hunting, Hawking and Fishing ], etched by W. Hollar [London: after 1671]; 3. W. Hollar. Muscarum Scarabeorum , Paris:1651 [but later?], 11 plates; 4. Henri Le Roy Le Volière des Oiseaux [Paris: no date] [Nissen IVB 544], 10 plates including examples from both series; 5. Charles d'Arcussia. La Fauconnerie [no place, no date] [cf. Nissen IVB 35], 5 plates of hawks and falcons, printed from the plates used to print the full-page illustrations in d'Arcussia's famous work, here printed without the letterpress that mars the image in the earlier published work. 6. Le Pautre. 6 plates from an unidentified work by Le Pautre depicting bucolic scenes from country life; 7. De Poilly (publisher). 5 plates from an unidentified work intended as a teaching aid in the art of drawing.
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