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(8) A DESIGN-BOOK WITH SIX COPPER-ENGRAVINGS OF CHARIOT-ORNAMENTS ESSAI DE DESSEINS DE BAS-RELIEF... BY CHR. WEIGEL, 18TH CENTURY The title page with a cartouche inscribed in French Essai de desseins de bas-relief, servant a l'embelissem.t des carosses de ceremonie, de zuadres, de panneaux et d'une infinite d'ouvrages de sculpture et de fonte, d'un gout exquis et tout nouveau, a la Francoise above a translation in German Versuch verschiedener...beliebten gusto and Chr. Weigel/Vidua exc. 40 cm. high x 26 cm. wide (sheet) Together with a serie of various copper-engravings on coaches and chariots from the Encyclopédie Diderot D'Alembert, Paris, circa 1765, titled: Sellier-Carossier; Menusiers en Voitures; Taillander; Marechal Ferrant; Bourrelier et Bourrelier-Bastier and Charron; and a serie of eight woodcuts of Der Triumphzug des Kaisers Maximilian I, after Albrecht Dürer, reprinted by the Albertina Museum, Vienna, circa 1790 (8)

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