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Original Dutch Tobacco-Label Woodblock
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[TOBACCO] Annonymous. Wood-block with medallion-shaped design of a Red Indian smoking a pipe against a background of the sea and 2 sailing ships with the legend De Jonge Amerikaan. . The Netherlands, c.1820.
Original woodblock with the trademark of an early nineteenth-century Dutch tobacco manufacturing firm used for stamping bale labels or wrappers for snuff tobacco (“Rappee”) consignments.
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NO COPY IN AMERICA
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EYSLER, Johann Leonhard. Inventiones von Mascam und Ornamenten sehr dienlich vor viele Künstler, Erster- / Anderer Theil. Nuremberg, Johannes Christoph Weigel, c. 1710.
Extremely rare set of ornamental prints for artists and sculptors designed by Johann Leonard Eysler, a member of a prominent Augsburg family of silversmiths, unusual even among Mannerist productions for its visages expressing extreme emotional states: fear, rage and terror.
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With 42 Mezzotint Emblems
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MAYER, Joseph. Vortrefflich-Hoch-Adeliches Controfée, das ist: Vollkommener Adel…Des Hoch-Fürstl. Und Hochgräfflich-Uralten Hauses von Lamberg…. Vienna, Andreas Heyinger, 1709.
Rare, sole edition of this mezzotint emblem book, an elegantly produced homage to the Austrian Lamberg family, "one of the oldest, illustrious, and most enlightened families of the [Habsburg empire]" (Wurzbach).
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THE EMBLEM BOOK MEETS HUMAN ANATOMY
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SCARLATINI, Ottavio. L’huomo e sue parti figurato e simbolico. Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1684.
First edition, second issue (?) of this emblematic description of the microcosm/macrocosm whose striking iconography draws systematically on the discrete and disembodied elements of the human body.
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