DECKER, Paul, the Elder (1677-1713), Paul DECKER the Younger (1685-1742), Georg Philipp (I) RUGENDAS (1666-1742), Abraham DRENTWETT the Elder (1647-1729), and other artists

Lot 74
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 22 680
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Lot 74 | DECKER, Paul, the Elder (1677-1713), Paul DECKER the Younger (1685-1742), Georg Philipp (I) RUGENDAS (1666-1742), Abraham DRENTWETT the Elder (1647-1729), and other artists
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
DECKER, Paul, the Elder (1677-1713), Paul DECKER the Younger (1685-1742), Georg Philipp (I) RUGENDAS (1666-1742), Abraham DRENTWETT the Elder (1647-1729), and other artists

Repraesentatio Belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico ... Der Spanische Successions Krieg. Augsburg: heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1714.

Very rare set of plates illustrating scenes from the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), all beautifully coloured and heightened in gilt by a contemporary hand. The plates have strong impressions, and are set within frames, some with titles within large ornamental cartouches. There are both naval and military scenes, with the following depictions of battles with small, but highly detailed maps: Augsburg, Barcelona (2), Bethune, Bonn, Brugge, Casale, Douai, Gaeta, Ghent, Gibraltar (2), Huy, Kaiserswerth, Landau, Lisbon, Liege, Milan, Mallorca, Nenen, Nons, Oostende, Oudenaarde, Rissel (Lille), Sardinia, Schellenberg, Susa, Tortona, Tournai, Traben-Trarbach, Turin, Ulm, etc. Berlin Kat. 103 (incomplete); Bobins III, 1165; Brunet V, 626 (French edition). No other copy with hand-coloured plates has appeared at auction (RBH).



Folio (554 x 423mm). Engraved title and 56 plates, by Johann August Corvinus, Johann Jacob Kleinschmid, Karl Rembshart, Martin Engelbrecht, Georg Heinrich Schifflin after Paul Decker the Elder, Paul decker the Younger, Georg Philipp (I) Rugendas, Abraham Drentwett the Elder and others, one letterpress text leaf in German (occasional faint offsetting and spotting). Contemporary calf, covers with wide elaborate gilt neoclassical borders, composed of fillets, foliate and rope-work tools and a large foliate scroll of helianthus with vases on two sides and grotesque masks at corners, framing a gilt central lozenge filled with foliate tools surrounding an astrantia tool within wheel, the grotesque mask tools repeated, gilt spine and turn-ins, red speckled edges (expertly re-backed, new spine richly gilt and tooled, extremities lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped).





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