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Audran, Benoît and Jean Audran (publishers). La famille de Darius aux pieds d'Alexandre le Grand (Tent of Darius), after Charles le Brun. Paris, Benoît Audran I and Jean Audran, 1699-1708. Fine oblong etching and engraving showing Alexander the Great, accompanied by Hephaestion, meeting Stateira, Sisygambis and the rest of Darius's family, gathered under a tent, signed in the plate "Car. le Brun pinxit. Audran excudit". With 4 lines of engraved text in French and Latin in the plate's lower margin:"Il est d'un Roy de se vaincre soy mesme. Alexandre, ayant vaincu Darius pres la ville d'Isse entre dans une tente... Sui victoria indicat regem. Alexander, Dario ad Issum...". Two eagles flanking Mansart's arms in centre of the bottom margin. 28,6 x 35,9 cm. (# 5824)

Not in I.F.F. In database Getty Research Library. In database British Museum, state "before rest of inscriptions?". Lettered in lower margin with publication lines: "Se vend a Paris chez B. et I. Audran ruë de Faubourg St. Jâque vis a vis la ruë St. Dominique". After a painting made by Charles le Brun (Paris 1619-Paris 1690) in 1661, now in the Salon de Mars, Musée du Château, Versailles. The painting The Family of Darius before Alexander, was Le Brun's first royal commission and it established his favor with the French King Louis XIV, who demanded Charles le Brun to paint a large series of paintings depicting the history and battles of Alexander the Great. Benoît Audran I (1661-1721), his brother Jean Audran (1667-1756) and others made prints after these paintings, at the request of Louis XIV. Jules Hardouin Mansart, was Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi, a charge he held from 1699 to his death in 1708. - Good impression, with small margins, the paper slightly discoloured. Collector's stamp on verso of "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

Audran, Jean (Lyon 1667-Paris 1756). La vraye valeur est toujours invincible. Porus abandonné des siens blessa plusieurs de ceux qui l'environnoient, tua le frère de Taxile, & apres ce dernier éfort de courage il tomba luy même accablé de coups de dessus son elephant. Virtus timoris nescia sordidi... Paris, chez B. Audran et chez I. Audran, 1699-1708. Beautiful large oblong etching and engraving by Jean Audran after Charles le Brun, depicting the Battle of Hydaspes, 326 BC, where Alexander the Great fought against King Porus; with the latter riding an elephant at centre, and trying to repel the Greek soldiers surrounding him; two eagles flanking Mansart's arms in the bottom margin. Signed in the plate: C. le Brun in. I. Audran ex.; with 5 lines of engraved text in French and Latin underneath (see above); and dedication to Jules Hardouin Mansart by J. Audran. 29,1 x 59,6 cm. (# 5830)

Not. in I.F.F. In database of British Museum. Very fine and rare etching/engraving after Charles le Brun (Paris 1619-Paris 1690). Alexander the Great fought 326 BC at the battle of Hydaspes, nowadays in Pakistan, against the Indian Râja Pûru, named Poros by the Greek. Alexander won, but his army refused to go further into India, also because they encountered for the first time war elephants. The French King Louis XIV demanded Charles le Brun to paint a large series of paintings depicting the History of Alexander the Great. Several of those paintings, painted 1665-1673, are now in the Louvre; others were not executed and exist only in drawn preparatory studies. J. Audran, his brother B. Audran and others made prints after these paintings, at the request of Louis XIV. According to Claudia Sommer, Leiterin der Graphischen Sammlung des SPSG, Potsdamer neueste Nachrichten (18.07.09), the painting for our print stayed unfinished and existed only as a preliminary drawing on canvas. The plate is dedicated to Julles Hardouin Mansart, Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi, a charge he held from 1699 to 1708. - Fine impression, cut to the plate mark, mounted. Collector's stamp on verso of "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

Bury, (R.) de. Histoire de Philippe, et d'Alexandre le Grand, Rois de Macédoine. Paris, l'auteur, d'Houry, and Debure l'aîné, 1760. 1 lf., 18, 587 pp. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, back gilt (rubbed, somewhat stained, corners and spine-ends defective). (# 4881)

Quérard, La France litt. I, 574. Oettinger, Bibliogr. Biographique Univ. II, 1415. First edition of this history of the Macedonian Kings Phillip (reign 359 - 336 BC) and his son Alexander the Great (reign 336 - 323 BC), who conquered many countries and founded the large Macedonian Empire on the Balkan, in Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, Iran (Persia) and eastwards as far as northern India. The French jurist and historiographer Richard de Bury (Paris 1730 - 1794) was a prolific author. - Copy containing two versions of the pages 393 - 396, the second set is bound at the end; A few leaves slightly foxed.

Moyreau, Jean (Orléans 1691-Paris 1762). Les adieux d'Hector et d'Andromaque, after Bon Boullogne. Paris, 1726. Nice oblong etching, showing at centre Hector, the commander of the Trojan armies, bidding farewell to his wife Andromache and their son Astyanax, who being frightened by Hector's helmet flings himself into the arms of his nurse; Hector in battle dress steps on a chariot drawn by two horses; soldiers, Andromeda's maids and inhabitants of Troy are surrounding the family. In the background the walls and a monumental gateway of Troy; signed in the plate "De Boulogne lainé inv. J. Moyreau sculp. Pont S. Michel au chat d'Espagne, 1726". With 2 columns of 4 lines of etched French text below (see note). 29 x 38,2 cm. (# 5832)

Le Blanc III, 60 No. 6. Nagler XI, 47 No. 10. Etched after the painting Les Adieu d'Hector et d'Andromaque, painted c. 1699 by Bon Boullogne, also named Boullogne l'Ainé (Paris 1649-Paris 1717), which is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Troyes. Jean Moyreau was a pupil of Bon Boullogne. Inscription underneath: "Hector, dont le destin devoit bientost arrêter le Cour de sa vie: sort de Troye pour combâtre et repousser les Grecs. Il dit adieu à sa chere Andromaque, qui, pour le retenir luy presente son fils Astianax; afin de l'empêcher d'aller chercher la mort, prédite par Cassandre: Mais ce heros voulant secourir sa patrie et toûché de voir sa famille affligée il precipite son départ; apres avoir embrassé son fils; qui effrayé de voir le casque sur la teste de son pere, se jette entre les bras de sa nourice. Illiade I.6". - Good impression, with margins, paper very lightly discoloured. Collector's stamp on verso of "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

The Royal Kalendar: and court and city register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, for the year 1839. Including a correct list of the thirteenth Imperial Parliament, summoned to meet for their first session November 15, 1837. London, T.C. Hansard, (1839). 34, 408 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf (corners damaged, rubbed). (# 5264)

Includes an almanac for the year 1839. Contains the names of the members of Parliament, officers of the state, law, army and navy, ecclesiastical establishments, literary, scientific and charitable institutions, commercial companies, insurance societies, universities, etc. Among the British colonies and islands: Malta, Ionian Islands (i.a. Corfu), Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, Trinidad, Bermuda, Bahama, Ceylon, Australia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Gambia, etc. - Very slightly browned.

Verdier, François (1651-1730). Recueil de plusieurs figures d'academie dessinées d'après le naturel par F. Verdier peintre ordinaire du Roy et gravées par J. Bap. de Poilly. Paris, rue St. Jacques a la belle Image C(um).P(rivilegio).R(egis). (1747?). 7 (of 18) engraved plates showing male nudes, possibly representing pagan deities from Greek mythology. Folio, c. 26 x 20 cm on leaves of 32 x 23 cm. Bound together with original thread. (# 5812)

Thieme-Becker XXXIV, 233. Royal Academy of Arts, www.racollection.org.uk, No. 06/6059. French pattern book with life drawings, 'Academy' figures. The engraver Nicolas Jean-Baptiste de Poilly lived from 1712 - after 1758. - Without title and 10 plates. Dampstains, especially in blank margins; small hole in 1 plate, few blank margins frayed.

Vossius, G.J. Ars historica, sive de historiae, & historices naturâ, historiaeque scribendae praeceptis, commentatio. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), J. Maire, 1623. Woodcut printer's mark on title. 4 lvs., 153 pp., 1 lf. - Bound with: Vossius, G.J. De historicis Graecis libri quatuor. Lugduni Batavorum, J. Maire, 1624. Woodcut printer's mark on title. Numerous passages in Greek. 4 lvs., 467 pp., 6 lvs. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum (lower spine-end slightly damaged). (# 1457)

Ad I: Breugelmans, Maire, 202. First edition. - Ad II: Breugelmans, Maire, 211: "Variant state of the 1623 (= the first) edition, the only difference being the year 1624 on the title-page". Besterman 1406. Also important as bibliography, describes the books of over 1000 authors. Two important historical works by the prominent Dutch scholar Gerardus Joh. Vossius (Heidelberg 1577 - Amsterdam 1649), professor at Leiden and rector of the Athenaeum Illustre at Amsterdam. - Occasionally a few light marginal waterstains.