A fine image showing yard and street cleaners at study. - The Russian photographer Ermakov trained as a military topographer and took part in the Russo-Turkish War before setting up his photographic business in Tbilisi. He travelled extensively as far as Iran and took part in several archaeological expeditions in the Caucasus, leaving a series of unique photographs. {BN#46938}

Erró (born Guðmundur Guðmundsson), the "Roy Lichtenstein of Iceland", is a visual artist and painter best known for his painted pop-art collages of images from comic books and advertisements. {BN#49495}

Mittig gefaltet, etwas angestaubt und mit kleinen Randläsuren. {BN#35178}

After having studied at the Academy of Arts in his native Berlin, Richard Fuchs specialized on oriental scenes. He remained based in Germany, but spent most of the year in Italy and northern Africa (cf. Thieme/Becker), reflected in the splendid colours of many of his works. Margins rubbed (minor loss to image), some insignificant cracks in the paint and slightly dustsoiled. Elaborately framed. {BN#47510}

Schönes Wappenaquarell des 16. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem Kauf der Grafschaft Kirchberg und der Herrschaft Weißenhorn durch Jakob Fugger im Jahre 1507 begann der Aufstieg der Fugger "von der Lilie" in den Adel. Schon 1511 wurde der bürgerliche Unternehmer Jakob Fugger (1459-1525) aus lehensrechtlichen Gründen in den Adelsstand erhoben; die Erhebung eines Kaufmanns in den Freiherrenstand war ein Vorgang ohne Parallele im Reich. Nach dem Tod des kinderlos verstorbenen Jakob übernahm dessen Neffe Anton Fugger (1493-1560) das Familienunternehmen; mit seinem Tod endete das "Zeitalter der Fugger". - Papierverlust in der unteren linken Ecke (bis knapp ans Bild reichend) fachmännisch hinterlegt. {BN#33964}

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Das Brustbild in Rund von Lips gilt als eines der schönsten graphischen Bildnisse Goethes. Prägnanter Abzug in tadelloser Erhaltung. - Johann Heinrich Lips gilt als künstlerischer Ziehsohn von Lavater, der seine Begabung früh entdeckte und ihn wie einen Vater förderte. Über Lavater lernte Lips auch Goethe kennen, auf dessen Verwendung hin er 1789 eine Professur an der Zeichenakademie zu Weimar erhielt. {BN#46913}

Sechs Bleistift- bzw. Tuschzeichnungen eines wohl österreichischen Soldaten des Ersten Weltkriegs, der die Landschaft und Armeelager seiner Stationierungsorte im Feld festhielt. Neben einem Geschütz und den Mannschaftsbaracken sind mehrere mit genauen Höhenbezeichnungen versehene Landschaftspanoramen zu sehen, manche bezeichnet ("Zur Erinnerung an den 20. October 1914 wo hier die Serben eine starcke Niederlage hatten"; Ortsangaben u. a. Romanja Planina, Kukor, Grabavik, Krs; Gradiste, Daganj, Trebervic). Außerdem findet sich die Propagandazeichnung eines den russischen Bären, englischen Löwen und belgischen Igel mit dem Gewehrkolben erschlagenden deutschen Soldaten. Am Schluss hat sich 1916 ein Wiener "Freund und Kriegskollege", Andreas Seidlitzky aus Simmering, mit einem Gedenkvers "zur ewigen Erinnerung" eingetragen. - Am vorderen Innendeckel Marke der Papierhandlung Simon Kattan, Sarajevo. Wohlerhalten. {BN#46953}

First edition; assembled by Franz von Hauslab and lithographed by Joseph Trentsensky. Extremely rare. Contains an introduction on the various regiments, followed by 36 chapters, each of which concerns a single army unit, with all the ranks discusses separately. The numerous illustrations of the soldiers are coloured in full detail, allowing for an exact reconstruction of the historical uniforms. The binding design is a splendid example of the neo-gothic style of Romanticism. - Lithogr. bookplate "A. Balsan" on front pastedown, probably the library of the industrialist and politician Auguste-Jean-Jacques-Martin Balsan (1836-96); ms. ownership "Bauer Lieutnant" on flyleaf. - Lacking the separately issued folio appendix (20 ff. of artillery and wagons). Hinges beginning to spilt; binding rubbed, otherwise very well preserved. The Austrian National Library holds only the 1975 facsimile. {BN#29801}

Prachtvoller, kräftiger Probedruck des Plakats vor der Schrift. Im Museum für Angewandte Kunst Wien existiert das seltene Plakat mit separat eingedruckter Aufschrift: "Große Sonnenwendfeier der Deutschen Wiens am 15. Juni 1913. Ob schön! Ob Regen! Deutsches Volksfest. Bund der Deutschen in Niederösterreich. Fackelreigen, Musikvorträge, Gesangsvorträge, Wiesenspiele, Volksbelustigungen" (MAK, Plakatsammlung PI 1747). - Auf Japan doubliert. {BN#17974}

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A fine scrapbook album of original artwork and early prints with a focus on horses and the art of hunting dating from the early Renaissance, privately compiled by the German entrepreneur Hans Dedi (1918-2016). The very first of the many fine drawings is a pencil, ink and wash hunting scene, dated 1759 (p. 1): the original design for the title of the monumental Baroque plan showing the "Parc d'Eisenstatt" by the Esterházys' engineer and architect Nicolaus Jacoby, signed by the artist (the engraving was subsequently prepared by Martin Tyroff). Most of Jacoby's work for the Eisenstadt palace is kept in the palace archives, making this a rare item. It is followed by an appealing, unsigned ink hunting scene, ca. 1700 (p. 5) and a pencil and wash greyhound, signed by the Dutch-Roman painter Pieter De Laer, ca. 1640 (p. 6). Also, three ink and wash scenes (horses, hunter, hare) on one sheet (p. 7): patterns for metalwork by a German master, ca. 1570, signed "Hanns Lederschmid [changed soon after to: Hanns Jakob Vogel] ist dieses ghüs [i.e. Gehäuse, frame]" (from the collection of Eugène Rodrigues, 1853-1928, his stamp: Lugt 897; sold as no. 76 in the catalogue of F. Muller, Amsterdam, 12/13 July 1921). Pages 8-9 comprise a total of eight watercolour deer and shooting scenes on 2 sheets, ca. 1800; p. 10 shows a cut out ink and wash design for a gun wheellock with a hunting scene. An ink and wash scene of a bear at bay after Jost Amman, ca. 1600, adorns p. 22; p. 31 bears a gouache on vellum (large boar in rocky landscape), attributed to Johann Christoph Dietzsch, ca. 1760; p. 32 has a a scene of hunter and dog (cut out pencil and wash on vellum, decoration for a snuff or pill box); p. 33 shows a pen and ink wash of trapping birds. On page 34 is a large Persian watercolour, ca. 1460/80, depicting the Persian ruler Bahram Gur shooting a lion and a wild ass with a single arrow (from a MS of Nezami's "Haft Peykar"); p. 47 shows an ink and wash of a stag set upon by hounds, by Joseph Georg Winter (with later attribution on verso). - The prints are consistently of a similarly high quality. They include the complete publication of Johann Elias Ridinger's set of canines, "Neues Thier Reis-Büchl. Erster Theil, allerley Art Hunde vorstellend" (Augsburg, 1728) comprising the title and 11 plates (ZBI 3409; Th. 725-736). Other engravings worthy of mention include two woodcut riding scenes from Theuerdank, 1517 (p. 2-3, including an early proof without text on verso); an engraved boar hunting scene by Augustin Hirschvogel, 1569 version (p. 4); four engraved hunting scenes after Bartholomaeus van Lochom, ca. 1640 (pp. 14-17); two woodcut hunting scenes after Jost Amman (p. 18); two engraved hunting scenes by Johann Siebmacher, ca. 1600 (p. 23); a woodcut of King Henry the Fowler with a falcon, 1621, representing the relief in Regensburg's Dollingersaal (p. 24); six engraved hunting scenes by Aubry after Matthäus Merian (pp. 25-30); a hunting scene (Hercules and the Ceryneian Hind, Bartsch 95, Holstein S 50) by Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550 (p. 33); 12 engraved hunting scenes by Claude Savary and B. Gaultier, from the collection of William A. Baillie-Grohman (1851-1921) with his stamp, Lugt 370 (pp. 35-46); a stag by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649, after a drawing by Albrecht Dürer from 1518 (p. 61); Hollar's large hunting still life after Peter Boel, from the collection of the counts of Fries with Franz Rechberger's signature (1802) on verso (p. 62); a hunter with rifle and hounds, by Johann Jakob Biedermann, ca. 1820, with stamp of the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung im Museum zu Basel, Lugt 222a (p. 63); and a stag hunt scene by Pierre Firens, ca. 1620 (p. 64), with several others. - Binding a little rubbed in places. A fine anthology, personally compiled over several decades through private purchases in the trade and at auction, frequently drawing on material formerly in notable 18th, 19th and earlier 20th century collections, by the Swiss-born German merchant and entrepreneur Hans Dedi, chairman of the "Quelle" mail order concern and the Schickedanz business group, with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his handwritten annotations and acquisition notes on loosely inserted sheets. {BN#48369}

An imaginative rendering of the Masjid-i Jahan-Numa (World-reflecting Mosque) in Delhi, shown here in the midst of a desert, with camels and bedouins in the foreground. - Mounted on cardboard; two small tears to lower edge. {BN#47512}