Bry Theodor, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "9 parts in 2 volumes, folio (13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.; 34.9 x 24.1 cm). Contemporary French calf, spine in 7 compartments with raised bands; joints rubbed and starting, repairs to spine ends of vol. 2, a few old scrapes on lower boards of both volumes. PROVENANCE: De Bry family of Frankfurt, publishers and engravers of the series of Great Voyages, by descent (engraved bookplate on front pastedowns; Stanley Paul Sax, his sale of Highly Important Americana, Sotheby's New York, 16-17 January 1998, lot 173. PART I. FIRST EDITION, MOSTLY FIRST ISSUE: ADMIRANDA NARRATIO FIDA TAMEN, DE COMMODIS ET INCOLARUM RITIBUS VIRGINIAE. [Hariot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia]. Frankfurt: Johannes Wechel for Theodor de Bry, 1590. Engraved title-page, engraved vignette of arms on dedication leaf (a2), first state of headpiece on a4 with cherub at center and the page number "7" on the outside corner, engraved plate of Adam & Eve, double-page engraved map of Virginia, 23 fine engraved plates (some double or folding) mostly after John White, all plates except 3-4 and 7-8 in the first state, 5 engraved plates of the Picts, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. All plates, except Adam and Eve, bear the initials "T.B." except plates 5, 6, 11 and 15 which are engraved "G. VEEN." Plates II-XVI and XIX-XXIII and I-V of the Picts are numbered with arabic numerals on the plate. (Church 140 and 141). PART II. SECOND EDITION. BREVIS NARRATIO EORUM QUAE IN FLORIDA AMERICAE PROVI[N]CIA GALLIS ACCIDERUNT [Le Moyne's Florida]. Frankfurt: Johannes Wechel, 1591 [1609]. Engraved title-page, engraved vignette of arms, engraved plate of Noah and his Ark on the notice to the reader, engraved folding map of Florida and Cuba, 42 engraved plates, woodcut initials head- and tailpieces. (Church 146). PART III. SECOND EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. AMERICAE TERTIA PARS MEMORABILEM PROVINCIAE BRASILAE HISTORIAM CONTINENS, GERMANICO PRIMUM SERMONE SCRIPTAM A IOANNE STADIO. [Stadius's Brazil]. Frankfurt: Matthias Becker, 1605 [section title and colophon]. Engraved title-page, engraved arms on dedication leaf a2r (leaf a2r is wrongly marked a1r), engraved plate of armorial shields and virtues (a3r), engraved folding map of Mexico, Central and South America, engraved plate of Adam and Eve on p. 144, 45 engraved plates (of which 13 are repeats), woodcut printed music, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Church 151). PART IV. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. AMERICAE PARS QUARTA, SIVE, INSIGNIS & ADMIRANDA HISTORIA DE REPERTA PRIMUM OCCIDENTALI INDIA À CHRISTOPHORO COLUMBO ANNO M.CCCCXCII SCRIPTA AB HIERONYMO BEZONO MEDIOLANENSE [Benzoni's History of the New World]. Frankfurt: Johann Feyrabend, 1594. Two engraved title-pages (one is a repeat), second issue, with "Ad |Invistis. Rudolphus II. Rom. Imperator. | Cum privilegio [not prevelegio] S.C."; full-page engraving of armorial shields and virtues, double-page folding engraved map of the Caribbean and adjacent areas, engraved text illustration of Columbus led by marine deities, engraved allegorical text illustration "Americae retectio," 24 engraved plates , second issue, with roman numerals in the letterpress titling and ar abic numerals on the plates. The numbers 2, 6, and 6 in 16 were engraved in reverse. Has blank leaves R6 and 2F6. O3 correctly signed, contrary to Church. (Church 154). PART V. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. AMERICAE PARS QUINTA SECUNDAE SECTIONIS HIA [HISTORIAE] HISPANORUM [Benzoni's History, continued]. Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1595. Engraved title-page (with one repeat), double-page engraved map of Mexico, engraved portrait of Columbus on a2r of preface, 20 (of 22) numbered engraved plates, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, with blank leaves l3-4 and F4. With points: c2 is signed C2; d1 is signed D, e2 is signed E2; k2 is incorrectly signed k3. Page 6 is unnumbered, p. 26 misnumbered 29; p. 74 misnumbered 24, and pp. 79-82 numbered 89-92. (Church 156). PART VI. FIRST EDITION. AMERIC". Signed by Author(s).

Folio. Bound in 9 uniform magnificent late 19th century full green morocco bindings with gilt centrepieces, gilt lines to edges of boards and gilt line-frames to inside of boards. All edges gilt and all volumes signed W. Pratt. A lovely set, exquisitely and uniformly bound, magnificently restored in the most gentle and respectful of manners, of the entire original run of De Bry's "Great American Voyages" (supplied by extra variant copies of volumes IV and VIII), the magnificent work that is responsible for shaping the European image of the New World, inventing it in the minds of the masses. Presenting a broad view of European conquests in America and the first contact with the American Indians, De Bry's Great American Voyages represents the first attempt to introduce in Europe - and on a large scale - a pictorial image of the New World as a whole. With it, the first iconography of the American Indian had been created, and most Europeans glimpsed for the first time the wonders of the New World in the illustrations present here. For more than a century, the European view of the New World was dominated by the present work. Theodor de Bry himself published the first six parts (in German and Latin simultaneously), and after his death, his widow and his two sons issued the three following parts. "It appears that they intended to stop there" (Sabin III, 20). However, 17 years later, Johann Theodor decided to publish another three volumes (1619-24). These are not present here. The present set is a mix of the German and Latin volumes (which appeared simultaneously), and as always in a mix of editions and issues. Due to the great scarcity as well as the complex bibliographical nature of "The Great American Voyages", no sets of this great work are said to be alike. They are always made up of different languages, editions, and issues, and there is said to be no such thing as a "complete set". Copies of sets are almost always in very poor condition. - Gentle washing, pressing, and a few restorations; some maps neatly mounted, 2 maps supplied in facsimile (being the map in both copies of vol. VIII, which is not always present and thus technically not lacking), and a few leaves supposedly supplied from other copies. Occasional slight cropping. All in all a very handsome and well preserved copy. - With the bookplate of John Jay Paul (dated 1913 and 1914) to each volume, and each volume with a tipped-in manuscript note describing issue points and/or the main restoration work (one dated 1919).

Portrait of Johann Sebastian Pfauser, theologian. Signed with the artist's monogram within the image and titled at top: 'IO SEBASTIANUS PFAURSERUS D. MAXIMIL II ADIG ECCLESIAS', inscribed below: 'Nascitur ad Iacum / Bodamicu An 1520 / Obijt lauringa an / 1569' and in the margin: 'Cesare qui eoram spargebas verba salutis / Cesareo felix mumre Praesul eras'. l Engraving on paper, with margins; platemark: 138 x 105 mm; total: 170 x 130 mm.

Kupferstich im Tondo von Johann Theodor de Bry nach Abraham Bloemaert, 1608. Durchmesser ca. 16,3 cm. Oben Mitte auf Banderole bezeichnet "L'aage premier d'vne innocence [.] d'Or fut nommé."; oben Mitte links und rechts von Kartusche datiert "A° // 1608"; unten Mitte auf Kartusche bezeichnet "Aurea Saturno Rutilabant secula Rege / Nectaris et passim flumina lactis erant / Sponte decus florum tellus jnculta ferebat / Bacchiq[ue] et Cereris sponte ferebat opes."; unten Mitte auf Banderole bezeichnet und signiert "Abram Blommaert Jnuentor. / Johan Theodore de Brÿ excudebat". Seitenverkehrte Wiederholung von Nicolaas de Bruyns großem Kupferstich durch Johann Theodor de Bry. Rückseitig kleiner Sammlerstempel (Lugt L. 2635, Sammlung Woldemar Kunis). Unscheinbare (nur von der Rückseite sichtbaren) Knicke.

Medallion with the bust of the "Merchant of Weisheit" (portrait of William of Orange, Willem van Oranje). In the border grotesques with various scenes such as the judgment of Solomon and a representation of the devout monarch, unaffected by death and destruction. Plate from series of four designs for tazzas, with a medallion within a wide border with figures, animals and vines on a dark ground. The border around the medallion and the outer edge include Dutch and French verses. Signed 'THE DE BRI F ET EX' and 'J Wolff ex', possibly Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724), German publisher of the seventeenth century. l Engraving on paper, trimmed within platemark; diameter: 123 mm; undocumented state II/2; some soiling, damaged along the border, yellowed and traces of former mounting on the verso; Hollstein 178 (second state undocumented); Guilmard 368; Atlas van Stolk.

DE BRY, Johann Theodor and J. I. DE BRY. Nova Alphati Effictio histories ad singulas literas correspondentibus, et toreumate Bryanaeo artificiose in aes incises illustrate. Engraved title-page, 24 elaborately engraved plates of letters, all with grotesque Mannerist ornamentation. 4to., 325 x 212 mm, bound by Rivière in full crushed brown morocco, triple gilt fillet on covers, floral gilt ornaments in corners, spine with intricate floral tooling in compartments, a.e.g. Frankfurt: [De Bry], 1595. First Edition of this celebrated and rare Renaissance Alphabet Book. "Elles représentent un grand Alphabet majuscule dont les lettres sont formées par découpures mouvementées ornées de figures de trophées, d'oiseaux, de fleurs et de fruits" (Guilmard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, p. 368). The letters appear in uppercase and are embedded within elaborate ornamentation consisting of Biblical figures, nymphs, fauns, musical instruments, cherubs, lovers, insects, fruits, birds, trophies, fish, lobsters, flowers, splendid entrelacs and luxurious arabesques. These extravagant illustrations are characterized by a disintegration of reality, in which the forms have been redistributed in accordance with the fantasy of the De Bry brothers. The mixture of grotesque, classical and symbolic imagery executed with supreme artistic bravado elevates this work to the pinnacle of published ornamental alphabet books. Each engraving is accompanied by a letterpress text in German and Latin on the verso, where the subject matter is identified. The engravings are individually "signed" with "J.T.B. fe." A second edition of the work appeared at Cologne in 1613. The rarity of this first edition is attested by the recent facsimile of it (Ravensburg, 1997). No copies sold at auction as listed by ABPC; OCLC lists 7 copies in America (at Houghton, Morgan Library, NYPL, Walters Art Gallery, RISD, Newberry and the University of Virginia). There are also 7 copies listed in European institutions. This copy had the engravings cut out and mounted during the nineteenth century on large papier Hollande in a folio format. However, the size of the cut-out sheets (195 x 150 mm) remains fully intact; the folio sheets measure 325 x 212 mm. Some insignificant spots to interleaved sheets, binding with minor rubbing to extremities. This copy lacks the two dedication leaves, which includes the text to the letter A on the verso of the second leaf. A desirable copy nonetheless. PROVENANCE: Sir John Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878) with his private ex-libris, his sale Christie's London 1958, Lot 59 and with the Nether Pollok "Arts of Design" ex-libris. Berlin Katalog 5281. Guimard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, p. 368, No. 38. Bonacini 292 ("estremamente rara"). Brunet I, 1309. BMC German 161. See: Becker, The Practice of Letters, The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals, 1514-1800, for the 1596 German edition of Alphabeten.

Representation visually divided in two: on the one side a loggia qieh bathing people below and music making personages above. On the right a fountain where elderly and people are entering to bathe to become healthy and young again. Below a Latin inscription: 'Balnea Mundanae non ultima gaudia vitae.Circum ignem ducunt, multus quem scipio pascit.'. Signed below in the center:'Io. Theo de bry fe.' monogrammed above on the right:'HSB'. On the verso Collector's mark of D.U. Lugt 796. l Engraving on paper; total: 88 x 214 mm; only state; Hollstein 11, W 11 OMP (Old Masters Prints Black Folders) Br-Bz (4).

Marching soldiers: at the center a soldier with a huge flag and a couple with musical instruments. Signed on the bottom right: 'Ioa Theodor de Bry', From the collection M. Paulme (Lugt 1910) and R. Ph. Goldschmidt (1840-1914) (Lugt 2926) l Engraving on paper with margins; platemark: 47 x 286 mm; total: 54 x 292 mm; only state Hollstein 26, Wurzbach 20; OMP (Old Masters Prints Black Folders) Br-Bz (4).