WILDE, Jacob de - Lot 38

WILDE, Jacob de Signa Antiqua e Museo Jacobi de Wilde, veterum poetarum carminibus illustrata, et per Mariam filiam aeri inscripta Amsterdam, at the author's expense, 1700 PRIVATE CATALOG OF A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUES ENTIRELY PURCHASED BY CZAR PIERRE THE GREAT. ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTY PLATES BY MARIA DE WILDE, COLLECTOR'S DAUGHTER ORIGINAL EDITION In-4 (232 x 183 mm). Vignette on title page engraved on copper by Schoonebeeck, woodcut initials. COLLATION AND CONTENTS: A2 B4 with poems by P. Francius, Janus Broukhusius, Cornelius van Arckel, J. Vollenhove, Joannes Brandt and J. Plumier ILLUSTRATION: 2 frontispieces including 1 fold-out (220 x 360 mm) depicting the "Museum Wildianum", 1 full-page portrait of Maria de Wilde by P. van de Berge engraved by David Hoogstraten, 60 copper-engraved plates by Maria de Wilde. Vellum, framed decoration with cold-stamped fillets and fleurons, speckled edges. PROVENANCE: Philippe-Augustin-Nicolas Toursel, médecin d'Arras, dit Toursel fils (1749-1829; bookplate) -- baron Louis-Philippe-François de Warenghien (1771-1854; bookplate; Paris, July 9-29, 1855, no. 3203) -- Charles-Joseph-Honoré Van der Helle de Perdekerchof (bookplate, Paris, February 10, 1868, no. 954) Cracked vellum at upper hinge, one fold of fold-out frontispiece cracked but not missing. This is the private catalog of the antique collection of numismatist and scholar Jacob de Wilde (1645-1725?), Master of Accounts at the Amsterdam Admiralty. His collection of Egyptian statues, Roman lamps, marble busts and sarcophagi was acquired by Tsar Peter the Great, as were those of Nicolas Chevalier and the physician Ruysch. The fold-out frontispiece shows the Tsar of all the Russias conversing with Jacob de Wilde. The double-headed eagle and the imperial guest's clothes are clearly in evidence. The first of the Romanovs had in fact spent several months between 1697 and 1698 in Amsterdam with the East India Company. BIBLIOGRAPHY : Brunet V, col. 1447 -- Cicognara no. 3564 -- Graesse, VI, 450