A group of thirty-one prints and materials related to distillation

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VARIOUS ARTISTS (17TH - 20TH CENTURIES)
A group of thirty-one prints and materials related to distillation
eight engravings, seven lithographs, six lithographs with hand-coloring, four engravings with hand-coloring, three lithographs in colors, one aquatint, one woodcut and one engraved book titled L'Art du Distillateur Liquoriste, circa 17th - 20th centuries, on laid and wove papers, most with margins, a few engravings trimmed to the platemarks, all with light- and time staining, surface soiling to varying degrees, soft handling creases mostly in the margins, most with small tears and losses to the margin edges, some with scattered foxing or moisture staining mostly in the margins and central vertical folds where previously bound, a few with old hinge remains at the reverse of the upper margin edges, other minor defects, twelve not examined out of the frames, eighteen unframed, one bound
various sizes (31)

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Including:
ARTIST UNKNOWN (17TH CENTURY), Saint Félix, circa 1680; ARTIST UNKNOWN (18TH CENTURY), L'Heureux Buveur, circa 1720; ARTIST UNKNOWN (18TH CENTURY), Crieur d'Eau de Vie, circa 1720; ARTIST UNKNOWN (20TH CENTURY), Saint Vernier, 1945; H. BERTHOUD (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY), AFTER JACQUES ALPHONSE TESTARD (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY), Halle Aux Vins, circa 1840; JULIUS BIEN [PUBLISHER] (1826-1902), Distillation and Bale Band Tighteners (two lithographs on one sheet of wove paper), circa 1890; AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER (1703-1770), [Puti Pulling a Goat]; AFTER CANTON (ACTIVE 18TH CENTURY), [Distillation], 1799; DAVID COSTER (1696-1752), Bacchanale, 1730; DEFEHRT, AFTER LOUIS-JACQUES GOUSSIER, Distillateur d'Eau-de-Vie.; and Le Distillateur, from Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire des Science, des Arts et des Metiers., circa 1650 ACHILLE DEVERIA (1800-1857), Distillateur., circa 1850; JULES RENARD DRANER (1833-1923), Actualités; Effet de la Prime d'un Million; Le Nectar des Souverains; Les Vendages a Argenteuil; Oh!...et toi? Moi aussi!; Société Catholique du Baptême Organisée pour le Salut des Buveurs Parisiens; Un remède inventé par un horticulteur qui dans sa jeunesse avait été apothicaire., circa 1850; DUCOLLEN (ACTIVE 18TH CENTURY), [Mythical Figures Celebrating the Harvest]; SUZANNE FERRAND (ACTIVE 20TH CENTURY), Réservez le Vin Pour Nos Poilus, circa 1930; PHILIP GALLE (1537-1612), AFTER STRADANUS (1523-1605), Distillatio., circa 1600; CLAUDE GILLOT (1673-1722), Feste de Bacchus, celebrée par des Satyres et des Bacchantes, circa 1720; KELLOGGS & COMSTOCK [PUBLISHERS] (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY), California Gold Diggers; and The Independent Gold Hunter on his way to California, circa 1850; NICHOLAS DE LARMESSIN (1640-1725), AFTER NICHOLAS LANCRET (1690-1743), Les Troqueurs, circa 1720; SARONY & MAJOR [PUBLISHERS] (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY), "Old Rough and Ready", 1846; G. SEVEREYNS (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY), Raisin blanc de Malingre; and Tokay des jardins ou fondant roux, circa 1860; CLAUDE HENRI WATELET (1718-1786), AFTER GASPAR POUSSIN (1615-1675), [Pan and the Dancing Nymph]

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