[46 VARIOUS COPPER ENGRAVINGS 18th-early 19th century] Late - Lot 421

Lot n° 421
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[46 VARIOUS COPPER ENGRAVINGS 18th-early 19th century] Late - Lot 421
[46 VARIOUS COPPER ENGRAVINGS 18th-early 19th century] Late 18th or early 19th century prints depicting book frontispieces, mythology, reproductions of paintings etc., most of them glued to the corners. Formats in-4°, in-8° and in-12°. In-4° : 2 plates by PIRANESE; Insidias crimine a bono, by LAIRESSE; 3 frontispieces by PICARD, by EDELINCK and by VLEUGHELS; The Dutch Household engraved by MARTINY after OSTADE ; suite in-12 of 6 engravings after MÜLLER for Voltaire's Lettres sur Swift; various plates from illustrated works; 2 prints after MELLAN; cut-out vignettes and culs-de-lampe; 3 landscapes in reprint by WEIROTTER. Fair condition, some foxing in the margins and other minor defects. of a set of about 500 prints of various sizes from the 16th to the 19th century, coming from the Touraine descent of the collection of Jean-Joseph CARLIER (1794-1874), historian and writer, continued by his son Louis CARLIER (1846-1921), journalist close to the Saint-Simonian movement, and his grandson Pierre CARLIER (1877-1923), former consul general in Usbuk (Turkey). This collection, started and formed mainly in the early and mid-19th century, includes five prints from the MARIETTE collection, initialled and dated on the back in pen and ink by Pierre II MARIETTE (1634-1716). These last ones come most probably from the MARIETTE sale of 1775. Some lots have been joined with the handwritten documents concerning them by Jean-Joseph CARLIER. The description has been as precise as possible, but does not exclude small defects, visible on the photos. The prints are almost all copper engravings, etchings or burins, and unless otherwise stated, are fixed by glue dots on 19th century strong paper and are sold as is. The dimensions are taken at the bowl unless otherwise stated.
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