Eire

Ireland, Koenigreich. With title-cartouches and notes in two further. Map of the kingdom by Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839). Steel engraving coloured in outline. 1836. 29 x 24.7 cm.

With  road  net  and local details. – Not quite fresh. A light water streak top left. – Still with Edinburgh.
Offer no. 14,414 / EUR  75. (c. US$ 98.) + shipping

Vdrone, Irlandiae, In Catherlagh Baronia. With finely decorated title-cartouche incl. miles indicator. Coloured map engraving 1 : 70,000 by Gerard Mercator I (Rupelmonde 1512 – Duisburg 1594). 34.7 x 28.2 cm.

Keuning 84; Koeman 89. – Posthumously published in 1595 and offered here from the 1630 Hondius edition, Koeman Me 29A. On the back the historical and geographic description in Latin. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,415 / EUR  380. / export price EUR  361. (c. US$ 471.) + shipping

Vltoniae Orientalis Pars. With finely decorated title-cartouche incl. miles indicator. Coloured map engraving 1 : 500,000 by Gerard Mercator I (Rupelmonde 1512 – Duisburg 1594). 35.2 x 38.4 cm.

Keuning 83; Koeman 88. – Posthumously published in 1595 and offered here from the 1630 Hondius edition, Koeman Me 29A. – On the back the historical and geographic description in Latin. –  Very  fine  map  of the northeastern with Belfast and Dundalk. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,416 / EUR  435. / export price EUR  413. (c. US$ 539.) + shipping

Dargent, Jean Edouard (called Yan’Dargent, St.-Servais, Brittany 1824 – Paris 1899). Une Chasse à l’Homme en Irlande (Enrolement). Recruitment in the old manner. Here presumably for the union of the Fenians operating against London during the 60s. At the crude table of the inn the closely packed groups talking politics unless they are not lying already under the same, being carried off or staggering on own feet into the night. Shortly, the state of a gay companionableness. Toned wood engraving by Jules Huyot (Toulouse 1842 – after 1882). Ca. 1870. 21.7 x 31.6 cm.
Offer no. 12,010 / EUR  107. (c. US$ 140.) + shipping

Dublin, St. Georges Church. Front view with figurines on the place in front. Steel engraving by R. Winkles after William Henry Bartlett (Kentish Town 1805 – Malta/Marseille 1854) for Fisher & Son, Ldn. 1829. 16.5 x 10.3 cm.
Offer no. 7,043 / EUR  29. (c. US$ 38.) + shipping

Wright, G. N. Ireland Illustrated, in a Series of Views, of Cities, Towns, Public Buildings, Streets, Docks, Churches, Antiquities, Abbeys, Towers, Castles, Seats of the Nobility, etc. etc. From Original Drawings, by G. Petrie, W. H. Bartlett, & T. M. Baynes. Engraved on Steel, under the direction of E. Goodall, etc. etc. With Historical & Topographical Descriptions. London, H. Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1831. Sm.-4to. 2 ll. title + preface, 80 pp. With engraved illustrated title and

46  ( of  80 )  steel  engravings

(ca. 11 x 16 cm), mostly in oblong format, on 23 plts. Contemp. marbled h. calf with leather corners and green back-plate. Yellow edges.

Text complete and nearly quite fresh. Most plates fresh or only a little marginal foxed, some more, and four really strong. Back a little rubbed, the covers with a negligible brown spot.
Offer no. 14,369 / EUR  205. (c. US$ 267.) + shipping

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). S. Caecilia. Three-quarter figure of Saint Cecilia, looking at the beholder, in rich garment and turban-like head-dress, here with the harp as rarer attribute, adorned with martyr’s palm leaf + the head of an angel. Beside her a nearly unclothed sympathetic young angel reading the notes. Mezzotint engraving. Inscribed: Ioh. El. Ridinger excud. A. V., otherwise as before inside of a large shell-cartouche in the lower margin. 51.2 x 38.8 cm.

Stillfried (1876) 1420. – Not in Thienemann (1856) and with the exception of the Counts of Faber-Castell (1958) here not provable elsewhere, too. – Size variant unknown to Schwarz (1910) who lists per same number 1420 Baron Gutmann’s copy in the size of 61.5 x 38.8 cm thinking Count Stillfried’s specification could be incorrect. – Per corner mounting by old hand laid on especially wide margined heavy hand-made paper. – Partly with a little margin, otherwise trimmed to platemark.

The  rich  sheet  in  rarer  composition

in the excellent copy concerning printing and conservation of a cultivated collection perfectly brighting in all parts. And in such a manner of quite extraordinary rarity not only on the market as quoted above, but in general, too. Already in 1675 the expert von Sandrart numbered „clean prints“ of the velvety mezzotint manner at only ca. „50 or 60“ (!). „Soon after (the picture) grinds off for it not goes deeply into the copper.“ Corresponding to Thienemann in 1856 :

„ The mezzotints are almost not to be acquired on the market anymore …
and the by far larger part (of them) … (I have) only found (in the printroom) at Dresden. “

Not even there then the one here described only 20 years later by Stillfried for the first time!

Having made to the inventor of the organ by the legend the 22^nd November is the day of the ritual remembrance of this noble Roman of the 3^rd century. But for the full year and for all she is the patroness of music, in particular of sacred music. Here then  With  The  Harp  As  Very  Seldom .
Offer no. 28,402 / EUR  1738. / export price EUR  1651. (c. US$ 2154.) + shipping

“ Thank you very much for your prompt and very cooperative handling of this order. I very much look forward to seeing the map ”

(Mr. D. R.-H., January 26, 2005)