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brown leather bound book on white background with copy space for textan old book with a brown cover sitting on top of a white surfacean old book opened to show a photograph of the exhibitionan old black and white photo of a woman sitting in a chairan old book with a picture of an old man holding a canean old black and white photo of a woman sitting in a chair
Gros & Delettrez

60 - [HOFSTEDE DE GROOT, C. Dr].
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Estimate €300 - €400
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[HOFSTEDE DE GROOT, C. Dr]. REMBRANDT. 26 photogravures after the finest pictures from the exhibitions in Amsterdam [bound with] REMBRANDT. 40 photogravures Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema’s bookshop, 1899. In-plano, (9) leaves, 26 plates and (18) leaves, 40 plates, titles in red and black. The Supplement bound before the first volume. Garnet half-maroquin with period corners, triple gilt fillets on the covers, ribbed spine highlighted with gilt roulettes alternating with gilt fillets, title, place and date in gilt, gilt head (jaws rubbed and split over 10 cm at the top, a few folios slightly misaligned in the text of the Supplement, slight oxidation of the edges, gilt bands slightly oxidised with occasional tears, spine tail partially detached but still secured). A superb, renowned and rare Dutch art edition from the late 19th century, printed entirely on Japanese paper. The first series and its Supplement bound together in a single volume. Limited edition of 25 copies on Japanese paper for the first volume, this being no. 4. Limited edition of 25 copies on Japanese paper for the Supplement, this being no. 1. A fine, complete copy comprising 40 and 26 high-quality heliogravure plates reproducing the Baroque painter’s masterpieces exhibited at the famous exhibitions in Amsterdam in 1898 and at the Royal Academy in London in 1899. The plates are in fine condition, bearing the handwritten ‘HD’ mark on the reverse, inscribed in pencil, on the last engraving of each series. Partially untrimmed.
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Auction time 10/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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