Bubb Kuyper

FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS

Auction 83, 24-28 November 2025

88 lotti

Lotto 5736

[Paris]. "La Porte St. Martin, sortant de Paris." "L'Isle St. Louis, et le Pont de la Tournelle a Paris."

Two contemp. handcol. engr. optical views, engr. captions in Latin and French below, Paris, Daumont, ±1770. AND 7 others similar, i.a. "I.er Vuë des Boulevard pris de la Porte St. Antoine" (ibid., Mondhare, ±1770. Large waterstain in blank margins); "Decoration de Théatre, representant une Gallerie Sepulchrale" (ibid., Daumont, ±1770. Foxed in blank margins) and "L'Interieur de la Paroisse de St. Roch a Paris" (ibid., idem, ±1770. Closed tears in (blank) margins).

Stima 100 € – 150 €

Lotto 5738

[Paris]. "Vue perspective du Feu d'Artifice qui doit etre tiré sur l'Eeau pres la Place de Louis XV. en rejouissance de la Paix le vingt deux Juin 1763."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, Paris, Basset, ±1790. "Vue de la Porte de la Treille de l'Incendie de la Foire St. Germain à Paris, arrivé la nuit du 16 au 17 Mars 1762." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., J.F. Chéreau, ±1795. AND 2 others: "Vue de la nouvelle Decoration de la Foire St. Germain" (ibid., Le Bel, ±1770. False vertical crease; stained) and "Vüe d'Optique nouvelle, representant la Foire St. Ovide, qui se tient dans la place Vendôme, a Paris" (ibid., J.F. Chéreau, 1795).

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 180 €

Lotto 5741

[Peepshows]. (View of Augsburg).

Perspective scene, consisting of 7 contemp. handcol. engr. scenes, numb. "442" - "448" above and 2nd-7th scene numb. "1" - "6" in upper right corner, all ±19x21,5 cm., 1st scene w. contemp. manuscript "Vue d'Ausbourg", Augsb., M. Engelbrecht, ±1760.

Stima 250 € – 350 €Aggiudicato 400 €

Lotto 5742

[Pondicherry]. "Prospectus Cameratae Vineae in Hortis Gubernatoris Pondicherii in Indiis Orientalibus ad oram Coromandelis."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in Latin and "D d 4" below, without address, ±1770. - ADDED 2 others: "Avenues du Grand Sultan vers le Jardin de Ciprés" (Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1770. Waterstained; creased in upper right corner) and "Le festin de Tifflis donné par le grand visir au Grand Caire en Turquie" (Paris, J.F. Chéreau, ±1795. Portion of lower left blank corner torn off).

Stima 50 € – 70 €Aggiudicato 50 €

Lotto 5743

[Potsdam]. "Prospect des alten Marckts zu Potsdam".

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and captions in German and French below, Augsb., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1770, mounted on board. AND 1 other similar publ. by the same: "Prospect der sammtlichen Gebäude des neuen Königl. Palais beij Potsdam" (ibid., ±1770. Frayed/ sl. stained).

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 120 €

Lotto 5745

[Rome]. "Ruines de l'ancienne Rome, avec la vüe du fameux Colissées, dans l'eloignement."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, Paris, Huquier fils, ±1765. "Prospectus Basilicae Sti. Petri in Vaticano. La Vuë de St. Pierre de Rome". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Latin and French below, ibid., Daumont, ±1770. - AND 1 other: "Vuë du derriere de L'Eglise de St. Pierre à Rome" (Augsb., "au Negoce commun (...)", ±1770. A few pinholes; sl. browned).

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 100 €

Lotto 5747

[Rotterdam]. "Vue de l'entrée du Port de Roterdam".

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view after C. LORRAIN, engr. caption in French above and below, Paris/ Rouen, Mondhare/ Lucas, ±1770. "A View of the Exchange the South and North Blaak taken from the Gaapers Bridge". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and captions in English and French below, without address, 1752. AND 2 others similar publ. by Remondini (±1780): "Forum Argentarium Roterodami" and "Facies Portus Mosae occidentalis Roterodami" (both trimmed within the plate mark and w. restored dam. spot).

Stima 100 € – 150 €

Lotto 5749

[San Ildefonso]. "Vue des Cascades du Jardin de St. Ildephonse, en Espagne."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, Paris, J.F. Chéreau, ±1795. "Vue du fond du Jardin de St. Ildephonse, appartenant au Roy d'Espagne." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., Basset, ±1790. AND 1 other: "Vue du Chateau de St. Ildephonse, prise en fasce des Appartements du Roy d'Espagne" (ibid., Maillet, ±1770).

Stima 80 € – 100 €Aggiudicato 80 €

Lotto 5750

[Ships]. "Vüe de Marine en vent fort."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view by J. HEUDELOT, 26x38,2 cm., engr. text in French (in reverse) above and captions in French below, Paris, Huquier, ±1760. ADDED: "Mars, planetarum tertius, ejusque influentia." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. text in French (in reverse) above and captions in Latin, French, Italian and German below, numb. "223", Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1750 (blank margins heavily gluestained).

Stima 40 € – 60 €

Lotto 5752

[St. Petersburg]. "Prospectus collegiorum imperialium et fundorum orientalium mercatorum Petersburgi". "Apotheca Aulica comparationis, ad fluvium Fontacka Petroburgae".

Two contemp. handcol. engr. optical views, both w. engr. captions in Latin and Spanish below, Bassano, Remondini, ±1780. AND 1 other similar: "Elevation Perspective de la nouvelle Place de Petersbourg suivant le projet determinée au mois de Juin 1760" (Paris, Mondhare, ±1770. Closed tear).

Stima 80 € – 100 €Aggiudicato 100 €

Lotto 5753

[St. Petersburg]. "Prospectus de Neva, orientem versus aditus que in galeram Petroburgae".

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. captions in Latin and Spanish below, Bassano, Remondini, ±1780. AND 3 others similar, i.a. "A View of the Exchange at Petersburg in Russie" (without address, 1755. Vertical crease) and "The Buiheigs [sic] of the Imperial Colleges in St. Petersburg on the Leftside And the Ware houses for Merchants on ye right" (without address, 1750. Doubled; sl. stained).

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 130 €

Lotto 5754

[St. Petersburg]. "A View of the antient [sic] Winter Palace belonging to her Imperial Majesty and of the Canal which Joins the Moika to the Neva, at St. Petersburg."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and captions in English and French below, Paris, Basset, ±1790. "The Buiheigs [sic] of the Imperial Colleges in St. Petersburg on the Leftside And the Ware houses for Merchants on ye right." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and captions in English and French below, without address, ±1750. AND 2 others similar of St. Petersburg, publ. by Daumont and Mondhare.

Stima 70 € – 90 €Aggiudicato 110 €

Lotto 5755

[St. Petersburg]. "Vüe de l'Amphithéatre pour la Promenade Publique, à l'Isle Kammanoi Ostrow sur la petite Newa près de Saint Petersbourg, app.te à M.de la Comtesse de Bestoucheff."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, Paris, Huquier fils, ±1760. "Vue de la superbe Gallerie de Petersbourg en Russie". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., Mondhare, ±1770. - AND 1 other similar publ. by G.B. Probst: "Prospect der Käyserl. Collegien u. der Magazin der Orientalischen Kauf-Leute zu Petersburg" (Sixt v. Kapff K 280. Trimmed; sl. stained/ dam.).

Stima 100 € – 150 €Aggiudicato 100 €

Lotto 5758

[The Hague]. "Gesicht by de Koekamp; tot aan de Leidsche Brug, tot Grafenhaghe."

Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, laid down on board w. perforations backed w. handcol. engr. and colour paper for candlelight viewing, within black painted borders, Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1770. ADDED 2 others, i.a. one publ. by the same: "Vuë du Pont Notre Dame, vers le Louvre a Paris" (ibid., ±1770. Sl. fingersoiled).

Stima 70 € – 90 €Aggiudicato 130 €

Lotto 5762

[Zograscopes]. Wooden (oak) zograscope,

prob. Dutch, 19th cent., consisting of a convex lens (Ø 12,5 cm.) and a mirror on a wooden stand (height 54 cm.).

Stima 150 € – 250 €Aggiudicato 275 €

Lotto 5763

[Zograscopes]. Wooden zograscope,

prob. Dutch, 19th cent., consisting of a convex lens (Ø 11,5 cm.) and a mirror on a wooden stand (height 55 cm.).

Stima 150 € – 250 €Aggiudicato 220 €