Beschreibung:

Album of 85 engraved and etched landscapes by Louis Germain (1733-circa 1791), Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houel (1735-1813), Jean Pillement (1728-1808), Gabriel Perelle (1604-1677), Pierre Viel (1755-1810), Ferdinand Kobell (1740-1799), Stefano della Bella (1610-1664), and others, circa 1680-1780, a collection of landscape engravings and etchings, mostly rustic scenes, coastal and river views in Italy, including Rome, France, etc., some marks and soiling, several plates with ink splashes and some pencil marks, plate size 110 x 170 mm (4.3 x 6.7 ins), and smaller, sheet size 123 x 187 mm (4.8 x 7.4 ins), bound in late 19th or early 20th century vellum with marbled endpapers, oblong 8vo (128 x 195 mm) Contains a group of 12 engraved landscapes by Houel, including 2 titles, both bearing the title 'Livre de Paysages' (one dated 1758), a group of 5 etched landscapes by Floding after Pillement, including title page Livre de 8 Paisages de Fantesie, dated 1761, a series of 5 engraved landscapes by Gabriel Perelle numbered 1-5 and published by Mariette, Paris, 4 rustic landscapes by John Smith (circa 1652-1742) after George Smith published by Francis Vivares, a set of 6 engraved views by Quintin-Pierre Schedel (1705-1762) entitled Observationib. Astronom. Regiae Paris. Scient. Acad. Promontorium Palmam Aequatori subjacere compertum est, 1736, 4 plates from Kobell's Six Paysages, Paris, Hess, 1769, 6 etched plates of shipping by Stefano della Bella published by Israel Silvestre (1621-1691), etc. (1)