Live auction - Lot 48
16 hand-coloured plates from "Wapenhandelinghe".
Subject: [Dutch]
DE GHEYN, Jacques II
Hammer price: €
800
€ 700 / 900
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Lot description
Amsterdam/The Hague, ca. 1608
Engravings, ca. 25,5 x 19 cm, laid paper, numbered in the plate, hand-coloured (some browning or spotting at blank margins, 1 blank corner repaired, a few upper corners torn off or remounted, 1 pl. sl. soiled).
Mounted by upper corners under passe-partout.
Nicely hand-coloured set coming from an edition of "Wapenhandelinghe van roers, musquetten, ende spiessen", a systematic manual on how to use a pike, a musket and other weapons, by Jacques de Gheyn II (Antwerp 1565-1629 The Hague).
Ref. New Hollstein (Jacques de Gheyn II) 340-457.
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