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A mathematical perception on cartwheels View picture(s) 1 AENEAE, Henricus. Wiskundige beschouwing van een hellend water-scheprad, nieuwlings door den heer A.G. Eckhardt in 's Haage uitgevonden. Waar in de voordelen van dit rad boven het gewoone scheprad wiskundig betoogd, en teffens de nadeelen, waar aan het onderheeevig zoude kunnen zijn, in overweeging genomen worden, en de middelen aangetoond hoe dezelve weg te neemen of te verhelpen zijn. Amsterdam, Gerrit Warnars, 1774. 8vo. With 7 engraved folding plates showing parts of a cartwheel. XVI, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Hydraulics  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to create a perfect garden View picture(s) 2 AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas. L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant  la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs. Traduit de l'Allemand avec des remarques. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1720. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed, decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in gold. With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates. (8), 261 (1 blank); (4), 146, 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Engravings  French  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On astronomical navigation View picture(s) 3 ALCALA-GALIANO, D. Dionisio. Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar, por d. Dionisio Alcala-Galiano, capitan de navio de la Real Armada. (Madrid), Imprenta de la Viudad de D. Joachin Ibarra, 1796. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco title-label, gilt outside dentelles, marbled endpapers, yellow edges. With 7 folding engraved plates with tables. (2), 87, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Astronomy  Navigation  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Accounts of two Synods held in Santiago de Chile in 1688 and 1763 View picture(s) 4 ALDAY Y AZPEE ASPEE, Manuel de. Synodo Diocesana,… Lima, Oficina de la Calle de la Encarnacion, 1764. 2 works in one. Folio. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. With the title-page in ornamented border printed in red and black, text printed in frames of printed lines and many head- and tailpieces. [8], 170, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  America [South]  Chile  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First collected edition of the edifying poetry by a famous Dutch poet View picture(s) 5 ALPHEN, Hieronymus van & Pieter Leonard VAN DE KASTEELE. Stigtelijke mengelpoëzij. Utrecht, Widow of Jan van Terveen & Son, 1782. 8vo. Contemp. boards. (2), 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early modernist art theory View picture(s) 6 ALPHEN, Hieronymus van. Theorie der schoone kunsten en wetenschappen, grootendeels overgenomen uit het Hoogduitsch van F.J. Riedel, en met bijvoegselen, aanteekeningen, en eene inleiding vermeerderd. Utrecht, G.T. van Paddenburg, Wed. J. van Schoonhoven, G. van den Brink, Jansz., 1778-1780. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. XCVI, 384; LXVI, 311, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Convolute of very rare, early French works on (filtering) fountains and water sanitation, with handcoloured plates View picture(s) 7 AMY, [Joseph]. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives. Paris, A. Boudet, 1752. Two parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with gilt compartments. 6 folding woodcut plates, 1 other woodcut plate and 7 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text. VIII, 72, 46 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  France  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Metals  Militaria  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful Bodoni edition from the library of one of the most outstanding book collectors of 19th century Russia View picture(s) 8 ANACREON. Anakreontos Teiou mele praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lect. Parma, in aedibus Palatinis (Typis Bodonianis), 1791. Sm. 4to in quires of f leaves (151 x 110 mm). Contemporary full green morocco with gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, gilt inside dentelles, purple endpapers: the pastedowns with a frame of small silver leaves pasted on. Engraved vignette of Anacreon in a roundel on title, engraved vignette of the dedicatee Jos. Nic. de Azara in a roundel on dedication page. (4), CXVIII, (2), 111 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Poetry  Provenance  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nil volentibus arduum View picture(s) 9 ARENTS, Thomas. Mengel poëzy. Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1724. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title on spine. With engraved frontispiece. (48), 344, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Literary History  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare edition of an interesting collection of works by Arrian View picture(s) 10 ARRIAN(US), Lucius Flavius. [Title in Greek & Latin] Ars tactica, aciers contra Alanos periplus Ponti Euxini, periplus Maris Erytraei, Liber de venatione, Epicteti Enchiridion, ejusdem Apopthegmata et fragmenta, quae in Joannis Stobaei Florilegio, et in Agelli noctibus Atticis supersunt. um interpretationibus Latinis, & notis ex reccensione & museo Nicolai Blancardi. Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arksteus & Merkus, 1750. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (dated Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesbergen, 1683), 2 folding engraved maps of the Indian Ocean (397 x 467mm), and the Black Sea (170 x 215mm), and folding engraved battle plan (265 x 412mm), 4 full-page and 7 half-page engraved battle plans in text, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Facing Greek and Latin texts. (14, incl. frontispiece), 450, (4, Errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Printing [Greek]  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very prestigious copy of a juridical dissertation, bound by the 'Dissertation Bindery' at Utrecht View picture(s) 11 BARNAART, Willem Philip. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de sortis usu et abusu. Quam ... ex autoritate Magnifici Rectoris Jacobi Alberti Vos ... pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in utroque jure honoribus ... submittit Willem Philip Barnaart ... ad diem II. Maji MDCCLXXIV. Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg, 1774. Large 4to. Contemporary mottled calf with two floral gilt borders with gilt centre piece on both sides, spine gilt in compartments, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, g.e. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by S. Fokke with the 'Sol justitiae', the emblem of the Utrecht University at the top. (4), 76, (4, the last 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Law  Universities  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare first edition of the first educational children's book published by Johann Bernardt Basedow (1724-1790) View picture(s) 12 BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht der Jugend in der Religion und Sittenlehre der Vernunft, nach dem in der Philalethie angegebenen Plane.- Methodischer Unterricht in der überzeugenden Erkenntniss der biblischen Religion, zur vorgesetzten Ausführung des in der Philalethie angegebenen Plans. Altona, David Iversen, 1764. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm.8vo. Contemp. brown marbled boards, spine gilt with yellow title-label, red mottled edges. With engraved illustration on 2 titles, the first showing a teacher with two children in a natural landscape, with the motto "denket selbst", and the second showing a teacher with two children in an architectural garden with a bible laying in centre on a table, with the motto "leset selbst". LXII, 272; XXXII, 224, 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Education  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early plan to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific oceans; with the often lacking map View picture(s) 13 BASTIDE, Martin (de) la. Mémoire sur un Nouveau Passage de la Mer du Nord à la Mer du Sud. Paris, De l´Imprimerie de Didot fils aîné, 1791. 8vo. Original wrappers. With a large folding engraved map showing the greater part of Nicaragua, including the big lakes, parts of Costa Rica, the river systems (River St. Juan), mountain ranges, and the more important cities and volcanoes: 'Carte du Lac de Nicaragua et de la Rivière St. Juan sur laquelle on a marqué le passage proposé pour faire communiquer l'Ocean à la Mer du Sud', dated 1791. (4), 70 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [Central]  Hydraulics  Navigation  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Human behaviour View picture(s) 14 BAUMEISTER, Joseph Edlem von. Die Welt in Bildern, vorzüglich zum Vergnügen und Unterricht  der Jugend. Fünfter Band. Wien, Seb. Hartl, 1793. 4to. 19th century half calf, with orange title-label. With large engraving on title and 50 full-page engraved plates by Cl. Kohl after Sollerer. (4), 200, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Education  German  Schoolbooks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated writing book View picture(s) 15 BAURENFEIND, Michael. Vollkommene Wieder-Herstellung bissher Sehr in Verfall gekommenen gründlich-und zierlichen Schreib-Kunst, worinnen Der Jügend ein Sicherer und angenehmer Wege, wie Sie mit sonderbarem Vortheil ohne einige Information von selbsten hierinnen sich gar leicht belehren - eine erwachsene Person aber der gründrichtigen Lehr-Art und der zu Ersetzung der bissherigen Mangels dargestelten Versalien mit gütem Nützen bedienen kan, getreulich und auffrichtig gezeiget wird. Neurenberg, Christoph Weigel, (1716). Oblong folio. Contemp. half calf. With engraved architectural title within richly designed allegorical borders comprising numerous baby children writing in different hand-writing styles on writing tables, and with a large number of writing implements scattered about in the foreground, 9 woodcut illustrations and folding table in the explanatory text, and numerous alphabets and writing models in various hands on 59 full-page engraved plates, including architectural ornaments, elaborate penwork, richly decorated initials, a large mathematically designed printing type alphabet, texts printed in white against black, writing in the form of a labyrinth, arranging texts in tables, etc., etc. (4), 39, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Calligraphy  German  Modelbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Biography of the well-known martyr Ignacio de Azevedo View picture(s) 16 BEAUVAIS, Gilles-François. La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo, with quires in 4 & 8. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with ornamental flowers, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title and some head- and tailpieces. XLIII, (5), 300 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Biography  Brazil  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Major work on subterranean physics View picture(s) 17 BECHER, Johann Joachim. Physica subterranea, profundam subterraneorum genesin è principiis hucusque ignotis, ostendens. Leipzig, Joh. Ludov. Gleditsch, 1703. 8vo. Later half vellum, speckled boards. Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece. [32], 560, [2], 561-822, [3], 836-1008, [36], [8], 304, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of the first edition of this important comprehensive manual of civil and military engineering View picture(s) 18 BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de. La science des ingenieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile. Dedié au Roy. Paris, Claude Jombert, 1729. 6 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, marbled emdpapers, red painted edges. With engraved frontispiece by Rigault, and 53 engraved numbered plates, 51 of which are double-page and 2 full-page; plates 16-19 showing military gates are after the drawings by Comte Thomassin. One engraved head-piece by Filloeul and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (16), 80, 64, 96, 104, 80, 80, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Engineering  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated by Georg Paul Busch View picture(s) 19 BELLEGARDE, [Jean Baptiste MORVAN DE]. Les fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enrichie de discours moraux &  historiques, & de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours.  On a joint à cette nouvelle traduction les fables diverses de gabrias, d'aviénus, & les contes d'Esope. Amsterdam, Jean Pierre Schmid, 1736. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, red mottled edges. With richly engraved frontispiece showing Aesop on a raised stage talking to the people surrounding him, including children, and a group of wild and domestic animals standing and lying down below, engraved emblematic device on title, title printed in red and black, full-page engraved plate illustrating Aesop's life in 6 small scenes, and illustrations to 117 fables of Aesop on 59 full-page engraved plates, all engraved by Berolini after beautiful and strong designs by G.P. Busch. 477, (9) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Fable Books  French  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Four rare political tracts View picture(s) 20 BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY). Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs. London (i.e. Amsterdam), Th. Cooper, 1743. 8vo. Contemporary full caf with pasted titles and former shelfmark on spine. Title in red & black with engraved vignette, head- and endpieces. 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Militaria  Nobility  Politics  Religion  Royalty  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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