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Begas-Parmentier, Luise (Wien 1850-Berlin 1920). View of a canal in Venetia/Venice. Fine etching depicting a canal with boats in Venice, figures on a bridge, some palazzi in the background. At bottom, below right corner, signed in pencil 'L. Parmentier'. 22,5 x 17,2 cm (plate-mark). (# 5916)

The Austrian female painter and etcher Luise Begas-Von Parmentier (according to some born in 1843), was active in Berlin. Before her marriage in 1877 to the painter Adalbert Begas, she travelled to Italy. In her exquisite architectural pictures and landscapes she has represented Italian motives almost exclusively, among these are her views of Venice. See: Thieme-Becker III, 187. - A few light brown spots in blank margins; with very large margins.

Blondel, D. Familier esclaircissement de la question si une femme a esté assise au siege papal de Rome entre Leon IV, & Benoist III. Seconde édition, plus correcte que la première. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1649. With printer's mark on title. 109 pp. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum. (# 1366)

Haag II, 308. Erudite and successfull criticism of the myth of Pope Joan. David Blondel (1590-1655), French ecclesiastical historian, Professor at Saumur and at the Ecole Illustre at Amsterdam. All his works were put on the Index. - Engraved book-plate, slightly browned.

Brennhäuser, A.W. (Nürnberg 1819-München 1865). Die Brautfahrt; after Johann Heinrich Ramberg (Hannover 1763-1840). (Leipzig, Dresden, A.H. Payne, c. 1850). Charming steelengraving, by Andreas Wolfgang Brennhäuser after Johann Heinrich Ramberg, showing three young peasant women from Dachau, Bavaria, on a bridal journey, dressed in traditional Dachau costumes 'Trachten' in front of a corn-field, in the back-ground the silhouette of München. 18,1 x 21,5 cm. (# 5809)

In Datenbank Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin. - Thread margins, slightly foxed.

Heyden, Fr. von. Das Wort der Frau. Eine Festgabe. 14. Auflage. Leipzig, Fr. Brandstetter, 1866. With 7 coloured plates by W. Georgy. 28, 171 pp. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped cloth, on front-cover an oval-shaped inlay, containing a circular representation of some German castle on the Rhine(?), gilt edges (corners and spine-ends slightly damaged). (# 5391)

In German verse. - Somewhat browned.

In praise of the Virtuous Woman. (The Book of Proverbs, chapter 31: 10-31. English translation by the Jewish Publication Society of America). Zuilichem, The Catharijne Press, 1994. With frontispiece after Auk de Boer. Large Hebrew letter, from alef to tav, at the top of each text-page. 32 pp., 2 lvs. Miniature book, 61 x 40 mm. Bound by Luce Thürkôw in white silk, with title printed in black on front-cover. (# 5865)

Charming miniature book. No. 55 of a limited edition of 175 copies; typography Jessica Zeelenberg, who also re-designed the large Hebrew Alef-Bet; printing Jan de Jong. - Added the original prospectus (2 lvs.). Well preserved.

Kayser, S. (praes.) - (Froelich, E. (resp.)) Dissertatio de numis monetariorum veterum culpa vitiosis... Viennae Austriae (Vienna), Maria Theresia Voigtin vidua, 1736. With 28 engravings of coins in the text. 4 lvs., 111 pp., 4 lvs. 8vo. Modern three-quarter calf. (# 1158)

De Backer-Sommervogel IV, 952 (Kayser) and III, 1018/19 (Froelich). First edition. According to the Backer-Sommervogel the anonymous author of this dissertation was the Jesuit Erasmus Froelich (Graz 1700 - Vienna 1758), teacher at the Jesuit college at Vienna and one of the best numismaticians of his day. Sëbastien Kayser (Vienna 1702 - 1739) was a Jesuit teacher in Vienna and Graz. - Occasionally foxed.

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698-Augsburg 1767). A nude young woman sitting on a galloping horse, drawn by Johann Elias Ridinger, engraved and published by Johann Esaias Nilson. Augsburg, Johann Esaias Nilson, (no date). Oblong engraving of the female personification of the fleeting moment: a nude woman, bald with only a tuft of hair on the forehead, sitting astride on a galloping horse, in a landscape. In bottom margin lettered with quotation from Cato's Moralia 'Fronte capillata est posthaec Occasio calva.' (Chance has hair over her forehead, but behind she's bald). 14,1 x 20,5 cm. (# 5870)

Thienemann No. 1309. Rather rare emblematical engraving, only mentioned by Thienemann in the section 'Nachträge'. Plate 2 from a series of 2 emblems representing Time; the other engraving (with series number XXXIIII) however is not designed by Ridinger, but by Georg Philipp Rugendas; both are engraved and published in Augsburg by Johann Esaias Nilson (Augsburg 1721-Augsburg 1788). The image of hair hanging on the forehead and a bald nucha was asscociated in Roman times to the goddess Fortuna and the concept of Occasia: a favourable opportunity must be grasped, otherwise the moment is gone. The German painter, etcher and publisher of prints and drawings Johann Elias Ridinger was born in Ulm 1698, came to Augsburg 1713/14, and 1718/19 back to Augsburg, after three years of being in Regensburg. 1759 he became director of the 'Stadtakademie Augsburg', where he died in 1767. - Good impression on strong paper, trimmed inside plate-mark.

Serviez, (J. Roergas de). Storia della vita delle Imperadrici Romane, e delle principesse del loro sangue ... Traduzione Italiana corretta. Venezia, L. Bassaglia, 1785 - 1787. Printer's mark on each title. 3 volumes. 4 lvs., 358, 1 pp.; 2 lvs., 348 pp.; 2 lvs., 306 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, backs richly gilt with labels (slightly rubbed), nice decorated end-papers. (# 5349)

Cf. Gay-Lemonnyer II 289. Italian translation of 'Histoire de la vie et des intrigues des femmes des douze Césars'. This history of the lives and amours of the Empresses and consorts to the first 12 Caesars, was first published in 1718 by the French historian Jacques Roergas de Serviez (1679 - 1727). It was reprinted very often and translated into many languages. - A few leaves slightly waterstained.

Stirnn, J. Tractatio juridica de eo quod justum est circa nuptas, vom Recht der Ehe-Weiber; in celeberrima Marburgensium universitate anno 1693 edita. Halae Magdeburgicae (Halle), litteris Hendelianis, 1734. Vignette on title. 56 pp. 4to. Sewn. (# 4142)

Juridical treatise about the rights of married women and in case of a divorce. - Light marginal dampstain, title slightly frayed.

Strixner, Nepomuk (Altötting 1782-München 1855). Hl. Katharina; after Bernardino Luini (Luini/Lago Maggiore 1480/85-Milano before 1532). München, 1817. Large chalk and pen lithograph printed with light yellow tone plate; showing St. Catherine of Alexandria, half-length, holding a palm leaf in her right hand, her left hand pointing upwards; the spiked wheel in the bottom right corner, a town and landscape in the distance. Lettered in lower margin 'Luini pinx:' and 'N. Strixner del:' 48,5 x 36,3 cm. (# 5903)

Winkler No. 831, 56. Dussler, (München IV), p. 168, No. 29. In database British Museum. Incunable of lithography. Johann Nepomuk Strixner was lithographer in München. Saint Catherine of Alexandria (female saint/martyr, early 4th c.) is venerated as Christian saint and virgin martyr, patron of education and learning; mystically 'married' to Christ. Said to have been executed by the Roman emperor Maxentius. Her attribute is a (broken) wheel, representing the first attempt to kill her when the wheel to which she had been tied was struck by a thunderbolt and destroyed. She was subsequently beheaded. From: 'Chr. von Mannlich. Königlich Bayerischer Gemäldesaal zu München und Schleissheim'. Published under the direction of Strixner, Ferdinand Piloty & Cie, 1817 ff. With 200 lithographs (the first 112 published until 1821, as incunables of lithography). - Ample margins.