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MOSTLY 18TH CENTURY
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A Collection Of Gunsmith's Designs, Sporting, Duelling, Military, And Other Related Subjects
Mostly 18th Century
Comprising a copy in reverse after P.C. Daubigny's designs for wheel-lock and flintlock firearms: four plates on one; J. Sandrart, Plusieurs pièces et ornements darquebuzerie...: four plates, and two on one, Nuremberg, n.d.; De Lacollombe, Nouveaux Dessins d'Arquebuseries...: frontispiece and three plates, Paris, 1730; three other earlier plates by De Lacollombe, one dated 1702; N. Guérard, Direrses pièces d'arquebuserie..., two plates, Paris, n.d.; G. de Marteau, Nouveaux Ornemens D'Arquebuseries...: two plates, Paris, dated respectively 1743 and 1744; a contemporary engraving of two Gauvain pistols exhibited at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851, one of them one of a pair sold at Christie's East, New York, 17 November 1983, lot 260; a design by J.A. Messonnier for royal gold small-sword hilts of 1725; and twenty-two other items, some by or after J. Stradanus and others
Engravings, etchings and woodcuts, a few with hand-colouring, the majority with margins, some staining and other slight defects (41)
Mostly 18th Century
Comprising a copy in reverse after P.C. Daubigny's designs for wheel-lock and flintlock firearms: four plates on one; J. Sandrart, Plusieurs pièces et ornements darquebuzerie...: four plates, and two on one, Nuremberg, n.d.; De Lacollombe, Nouveaux Dessins d'Arquebuseries...: frontispiece and three plates, Paris, 1730; three other earlier plates by De Lacollombe, one dated 1702; N. Guérard, Direrses pièces d'arquebuserie..., two plates, Paris, n.d.; G. de Marteau, Nouveaux Ornemens D'Arquebuseries...: two plates, Paris, dated respectively 1743 and 1744; a contemporary engraving of two Gauvain pistols exhibited at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851, one of them one of a pair sold at Christie's East, New York, 17 November 1983, lot 260; a design by J.A. Messonnier for royal gold small-sword hilts of 1725; and twenty-two other items, some by or after J. Stradanus and others
Engravings, etchings and woodcuts, a few with hand-colouring, the majority with margins, some staining and other slight defects (41)
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