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(Devéria). Collection de 25 portraits des personnages les plus célèbres du siècle de Louis XIV, avec une notice sur chacun. Paris, Lemarchand, 1829. With 25 fine steel-engraved plates showing portraits of Mme de Sévigné, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Turenne, Le Rochefoucauld, Bossuet, Descartes, Molière, La Fontaine, Boileau, Corneille, Racine, etc., engraved by different artists after Devéria. 55 pp. 8vo. Original wrappers (slightly foxed, small defects to spine-ends), uncut. (# 5347)

The engravers are Dien, Tavernier, Decauvilliers, Wegwood, Sixdeniers, Muller, Adam, Johanneau, etc. Each portrait is accompanied by a biography of the depicted person. On the front-cover is printed: "Pour faire suite à toutes les éditions des lettres de Mme de Sévigné". - Slightly foxed.

Hondius, H., the Elder (Duffel 1573 - Den Haag 1650). Augustinus Marloratus. ca. 1610. Very fine engraved portrait. 165 x 121 mm. (# 5455)

The New Hollstein, Hondius, No. 190. Not in Wurzbach. 2nd state (of 2). Fine imprint on laid paper. With signature H fe(cit) in right upper corner. With engraved name in lower margin "Augustinus Marloratus" and four lines Latin text underneath: "Huic Augustino regnabat pectore candor, Huic uni caelum cura laborque fuit. Ex monarcho factus, purus sanctusque minister Divini verbi: martij amore Dei". In margin right: "cum privill." Hendrik Hondius first lived in Mechelen, Antwerpen and Brussel, for a short period in Amsterdam and Leiden, but mostly in Den Haag. The French Reformer Augustin Marlorat (Bar le Duc 1506 - Rouen 1562), minister at Rouen and the author of several theological books, became a Protestant martyr. He worked some time in Geneva and Lausanne (see: Haag, La France Protestante VII, 256-259). - Tear in background, not touching portrait. With margins, top margin trimmed within the borderline.

Neureuther, Eugen (München 1806 - 1882). Christmas-tree decorated by 10 members of the Münchner Radirklub (Munich Etching-club). München, 1843. Very funny etching showing the portraits of E. Neureuther himself, E. Kirchner, Chr. Morgenstern, H. Dyck, etc., growing out of flower-buds. 14 x 18,3 cm. (# 2240)

Nagler, Monogrammisten II, 635 No. 12. Title-leaf of 1843, for the 'Radirungen des Münchner Radirklubs, München 1844'. - Slightly foxed. Good impression, ample margins.

Neureuther, Eugen (München 1806 - 1882). Christmas-tree decorated by 10 members of the Münchner Radirklub (Munich Etching-club). München, 1843. Very funny etching showing the portraits of E. Neureuther himself, E. Kirchner, Chr. Morgenstern, H. Dyck, etc., growing out of flower-buds. 14 x 18,3 cm. (# 2242)

Nagler, Monogrammisten II, 635 No. 12. Title-leaf of 1843, for the 'Radirungen des Münchner Radirklubs, München 1844'. - Good impression, trimmed on the platemark, laid down.

Sabbatai Zvi. - Sabatai Sevi oder der Falsche Messias der Juden. (Germany, ca. 1666). Engraved full-length portrait of Sabbatai Zvi, dressed in a long garment, holding a staff in his left hand, looking to the left, with egraved title at the top, by an anonymous artist. ca. 14,5 x 8,6 cm, with margins. (# 5779)

Not listed in any of the reference works we were able to consult. Very rare portrait of the false Messiah Sabatai Zwi (Smyrna 1626 - Dulcini in Montenegro 1676). He was a Jewish mystic, studied Kabbalah and was ordained as a rabbi when he was 18. When he proclaimed himself the Messiah, the rabbis of Smyrna banished him and he became a wanderer. He travelled to Greece, Thrace, Constantinople, Jerusalem and Cairo. News of the Jewish Messiah spread to Italy, Holland, Germany, Poland, country after country. He gathered a huge host of adherents, amoung them many prominent rabbis. The delirious joy of his followers knew no bounds. Many Jews began to prepare for the trip to the Holy Land. The Turkish authorities arrested him in 1666 and he was given the choice of immediate death or conversion to Islam. He chose Islam. - Well preserved.

(Wagner, F.) Vita, et virtutes Mariae Elisabethae, archiducis Austriae, Belgii Austriaci gubernatricis. Viennae Austriae, G. Kurtzböck, 1746. With engraved folding portrait of Maria Elisabeth by F.L. Schmitner. 11 lvs., 220 pp., 2 lvs. 8vo. Contemporary calf, back gilt (spine-ends and corners damaged, rubbed). (# 4770)

Cf. De Backer-Sommervogel VIII, 946, No. 21 (edition of 1745). The biography of Maria Elisabeth (1680 - 1741), daughter of Leopold I. Her brother Emperor Charles VI appointed her in 1725 as governess of the Netherlands. The Jesuit François Wagner (Wangen in Swabia 1675 - Vienna 1748) taught grammar and rhetoric at Krembs, Presbourg and Tyrnau and was director of the Jesuit seminar in Vienna. He was the author of numerous works. - Somewhat browned.