![[BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRINTING HISTORY] – [HEINECKEN, Karl Heinrich, Baron von (1706-91).] Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure & sur les premiers livres d'images. Leipzig and Vienna: J.P. Kraus, 1771. 8° (210 x 133mm). With 32 engraved and woodcut facsimile plates, most folding, and one engraved text-illustration. (Occasional faint spotting.) 20th-century half morocco by P. Eenhaes of Brussels, top edge gilt, others uncut. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC GUIDE TO COLLECTING PRINTS, blockbooks and the earliest illustrated printed books. The author was a minister at the Court of Saxony, director of the Dresden Print Cabinet, and the owner of one of the finest print collections in Germany. Brunet III, 82; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 311-320; BBB Wittockiana 14.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0370_000(bibliography_and_printing_history_heinecken_karl_heinrich_baron_von_id052143).jpg?w=1)
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[BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRINTING HISTORY] – [HEINECKEN, Karl Heinrich, Baron von (1706-91).] Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure & sur les premiers livres d'images. Leipzig and Vienna: J.P. Kraus, 1771. 8° (210 x 133mm). With 32 engraved and woodcut facsimile plates, most folding, and one engraved text-illustration. (Occasional faint spotting.) 20th-century half morocco by P. Eenhaes of Brussels, top edge gilt, others uncut. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC GUIDE TO COLLECTING PRINTS, blockbooks and the earliest illustrated printed books. The author was a minister at the Court of Saxony, director of the Dresden Print Cabinet, and the owner of one of the finest print collections in Germany. Brunet III, 82; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 311-320; BBB Wittockiana 14.
[PLANTIN PRESS] -- ROOSES, Max. Correspondence de Christophe Plantin. Antwerp and Gent, 1883. 2 vols, 8° (230 x 150mm). 20th-century half morocco by R. de Coverly, gilt spines, top edges gilt, others uncut. ROOSES, Max. Les Rimes de Christophe Plantin. Lisbon: Imprimerie Nationale, 1890. Large 8° (273 x 189mm).Title and initials printed in red and black. 20th-century half morocco preserving original wrappers. ROOSES, Max. Plantin et l’Imprimerie Plantinienne. Gent: Ad. Hoste, 1878. 8° (193 x 112mm). 20th-century quarter roan. DEGEORGE, Léon. La Maison Plantin a Anvers … troisième edition. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1886. 8° (214 x 140mm). Portrait. 20th-century three-quarter morocco gilt by Co-operative Bookbinders, London, preserving original wrappers. All the above from the library of S.A. Thompson Yates.
[HAMILTON COLLECTION]. Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton by Kirk. London: William Miller, 1804. 4° (281 x 225mm). 62 engraved plates. (Without half-title, occasional faint offsetting and spotting.) Later half vellum, gilt spine, gilt edges (spine lightly soiled). Provenance: R. Bright (stamp to title) -- H. Bright (bookplate). Sold with 17 other volumes.
[PLANTIN PRESS] -- ROOSES, Max. Correspondence de Christophe Plantin. Antwerp and Gent, 1883. 2 vols, 8° (230 x 150mm). 20th-century half morocco by R. de Coverly, gilt spines, top edges gilt, others uncut. ROOSES, Max. Les Rimes de Christophe Plantin. Lisbon: Imprimerie Nationale, 1890. Large 8° (273 x 189mm).Title and initials printed in red and black. 20th-century half morocco preserving original wrappers. ROOSES, Max. Plantin et l’Imprimerie Plantinienne. Gent: Ad. Hoste, 1878. 8° (193 x 112mm). 20th-century quarter roan. DEGEORGE, Léon. La Maison Plantin a Anvers … troisième edition. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1886. 8° (214 x 140mm). Portrait. 20th-century three-quarter morocco gilt by Co-operative Bookbinders, London, preserving original wrappers. All the above from the library of S.A. Thompson Yates.
[HAMILTON COLLECTION]. Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton by Kirk. London: William Miller, 1804. 4° (281 x 225mm). 62 engraved plates. (Without half-title, occasional faint offsetting and spotting.) Later half vellum, gilt spine, gilt edges (spine lightly soiled). Provenance: R. Bright (stamp to title) -- H. Bright (bookplate). Sold with 17 other volumes.
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