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Fine uncut copy with coloured maps and aquatint profiles View picture(s) 41 BOUGARD, René and John Thomas SERRES. The little sea torch: or, true guide for coasting pilots: ... London, J. Debrett for the "author" [Serres], G. & W. Nicol, et al. [printed by T. Rickaby], 1801. Large folio (47 x 30 cm). Contemporary boards, blue-grey paper sides. With the early 20th-century heraldic bookplate of Moncure Biddle by W. & A. Mussett. With 20 numbered aquatint plates containing 137 coastal profiles, and 12 partly numbered engraved plates containing 24 maps of port cities, harbours, islands and the Strait of Gibraltar. All coastal profiles and maps beautifully and subtly coloured by a contemporary hand. VI, 144, [5] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of "Contes à Ma Fille" View picture(s) 42 BOUILLY, Jean Nicolas. Vertellingen aan mijne dochter; naar het Fransch. Amst., Schalekamp & Van de Grampel, 1812. Sm.8vo. Contemp. half morocco. With illustration on engraved title and with 4 full-page engraved plates, all beautifully coloured by hand. (2), 298 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the designer of the first railroad in the Netherlands View picture(s) 43 BRADE, Willem Christiaan. Theoretisch en practisch bouwkundig handboek, ten dienste van ingenieurs, architecten, opzigters, timmerlieden, metselaars en verdere bouwkundigen. The Hague, A.J. & J.A. Van Weelden, 1827-34. 4 vols. 4to. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, modern marbled boards. Vol 1: Table in text, 24 numbered tables at the end; vol. 2: 18 folding engraved plates by J.C. Zurcher and Verbeke of foundations, brick- and stonework and wood constructions, 2 tables in text; vol. 3: 17 double-page engraved plates by J.C. Zurcher and Verbeke of the classical orders, and designs of various buildings (theatres, manor houses, town halls, etc.; vol. 4:  Engraved frontispiece (90 x 125 mm) of the opening of the first English railroad, 2 folding engraved plates of (1) details of railroads and wheels and (2) one of the first locomotives, and 5 tables in text. XII, 178, (24); (4), IV, 192; (6), II, 71, (3); VIII, 166 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  Dutch  Engineering  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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ABC after the newly invented method by the Rector of the Gymnasium at Zug View picture(s) 44 BRANDENBERG, [Franz Xaver Dominik]. Neueingerichtes Namen- und Buchstabirbüchlein zum Gebrauche  in den deutschen Elementarschulen. Für die erste Klasse. Achtzehnte mit Holzschnitten vermehrte Ausgabe. Zug, J.M.A. Blunschi, 1834. Sm.8vo. Orig. decoratively coloured papered boards. With titel printed in red and black, 2 spelling-tables within red-lined borders and 2 pages with reading exercises entirely printed in red, woodcut vignette on title and 7 woodcut illustrations to the fables in text. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  ABC Books  Children's Books  Education  German  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Travel adventures of the first Swedish feminist View picture(s) 45 BREMER, Frederika. Italië in zijn natuur en volksleven, geschets. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald door W.C. Mauve. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1862. 2 vols. Contemporary boards. With 2 lithographed frontispeces, each showing 2 views, of Rome, Turin, and the mountain Baziglia. VI, 310; VI, 363, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Italy  Sweden  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reading book about the Dutch explorers View picture(s) 46 BRINKMAN, J. Verzameling van korte Nederlandsche reisbeschrijvingen, een leesboek voor de jeugd. Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1823. Sm.8vo. Orig. wrappers. 118 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  East Indies  Education  Geography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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9 catalogues in one binding View picture(s) 47 BRISART, R. Catalogue de la magnifique et précieuse collection de livres, manuscrits, dessins et estampes, formant le cabinet de Mr. R. Brisart, Rentier, a Gand. Gand, Ad. van der Meersch, 1849. 9 catalogues in 1 vol. 8vo. Half calf. With ms. annotations of the prices in margins. X, 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Belgicana  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Libraries & Collections  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful children's picture and reading book View picture(s) 48 BROEK, Lambrecht van den. Oost, West, 't Huis Best. Poezy en Proza voor het opkomend geslacht. Warmond, H.J.T. Matveld, (1853). Orig. red half cloth, with blue papered covers with title within a richly lithographed border printed in gold on front cover, and small gilt vignette on back cover. With 8 full-page richly illustrated lithographed plates, all finely coloured by hand. 36 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Entirely lithographed popular book of verse View picture(s) 49 BROEK, Lambrecht van den. Versjes. Warmond, H.J.T. Matveld, J.C. Thomasze, (ca. 1835). Sm.8vo. Orig. richly lithographed wrappers. With lithographed title, and 8 full-page lithographed plates, all coloured by hand, with 4-line verse underneath, lithographed on the plate, all within decorative borders, verso blank. (9) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most extensive manual on the beetles of New Zealand View picture(s) 50 BROUN, Thomas. Manual of the New Zealand coleoptera. Wellington, James Hughes, 1880-1893. 7 parts (all published) in 3 volumes. 8vo. 20th-century blue half cloth with gilt lettered spines, marbled boards, original front wrappers of part 2-4 preserved. [2], XIX, [1 blank], 651, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Entomology  Manuals  Natural History  New Zealand  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First French edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin View picture(s) 51 BROWNING, Robert. L'homme à la flûte. Interprétation de J. Girardin. Paris, Librarie Hachette et Cie, 1889. Boards. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  France  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting illustrated work on the construction of banks, roads, canals and railways View picture(s) 52 BRUÈRE, René. Traité de consolidation des talus, routes, canaux et chemins de fer. Contenant des explications fort étendues  sur les causes des éboulements, la description des  procédés de consolidation, le prix de revient obtenu  pour 296,000 mètres carrés de talus, et une analyse  des systèmes les plus connus avec un examen des principes.  Précédé d'une préface de A. Perdonnet. Paris & Liège, A. Hennuyer for the Librairie Polytechnique, J. Baudry, 1873. 2 vols.: text-vol. 8vo and atlas-vol. large 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spines gilt, marbled endpapers. With numerous illustrations on 25 double-page steel-engraved numbered plates (ca. 20 x 24cm.) by L. Guiguet in atlas-vol. Text vol.: XI, 311 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Engineering  French  Railways  Technics  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch grammer with Flemish spelling View picture(s) 53 BRUGGEN, Jan Abraham ter. Nederduytsche spraek-konst, ten gebruyke der schoolen, uytgegeéven op last van het Antwerpsch tael- en dicht- lievend genoótschap, onder de zin-spreuk: tot nut der jeugd. Antwerpen, J.S. Schoesetters, 1818. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Old vellum manuscript leaf used for wrappers. 108, (2); 107, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Belgicana  Dutch  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Five rare works by the Italian orthopaedist Lorenzo Bruni (1804-1848) bound together View picture(s) 54 BRUNI, Lorenzo. Sopra la sezione del tendine d'achille e di qualche altro tendine come mezzo curativo dei piedi torti. Seconda edizione. 1845.- Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano... offre e dedica nel presente atlante ripristinate nel loro stato naturale le varie deformita che nello spazio di un quinquennio ha avuto a curore nella clinica. 1845.- Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale. 1844.- Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841.- Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842. Naples, 1841-1845. 5 works in 1 vol. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. Ad 2: 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs. Ad 4: 4 folding lithographed plates of 20 x 24 cm. Ad 5: 3 lithographed plates, of which one folding (19,5 x 23,5 cm). 24; (38); 14, (2 blank); (4), 24; (2), 43, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Italy  Lithographs  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the finest examples of books presenting the American landscape of ca. 1870; from the library of Sir Edward Tate View picture(s) 55 BRYANT, William Cullen (Ed.). Picturesque America; or, the land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. New York, D. Appelton and Company, 1872 & 1874. 2 vols. Folio. Original full brown publisher's roan over beveled boards, decorated in Art Nouveau style with gilt decorated title within blind tooled border on both front covers, spines raised in five compartments with gilt title, gilt and decorated inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. Vol. I: Full-page steel-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved title, 22 full-page steel-engraved plates. Vol. II: Full-page steel-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved title, 23 full-page steel-engraved plates. Numerous steel- and wood engraved illustrations in text. VIII, 568; VI, 576 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'First Australian treatise on bankruptcy' (Sweet & Maxwell). Dedication copy by the author View picture(s) 56 BURTON, William Westbrooke. The insolvent law of New South Wales, with practical directions and forms. Sydney, published by W.F. Moffitt, 1842. 8vo. Original straight grained red roan, spine with title lettered in gold and pasted shelf number (W. MOFFITT, SYDNEY). VIII, 202 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Economy  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first European to visit Timbuktu View picture(s) 57 CAILLIÉ, René-Auguste. Dagverhaal eener reize naar Temboektoe, van de westkust af van Afrika, door de binnenlanden, over Jenné, Kabra, Arawan en vele andere opmerkelijke plaatsen, de groote woestijn door, op Tanger... Uit het Fransch overgebragt door Herman van Lil. Haarlem, widow A. Loosjes, 1831. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. With two engraved frontispieces (author's portrait and a view of Timbuktu) by D. and A. Veelvaard, and a large folding map (41.5 x 28.5 cm) after E.F. Jomard. XVI, 496; [4], 622 [= 582] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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English translation of the Dutch adaptation of Richardson's Clarissa View picture(s) 58 CAMBON [-VAN DE WERKEN, Maria Geertuida DE]. Letters and Conversations between several Young Ladies, on Interesting and Improving Subjects. Translated from the Dutch, with Alterations and Improvements. London, Printed for C. Dilly, 1792. Contemp. half morocco. (4), 414, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Adventures in India View picture(s) 59 CAMPBELL, Donald. A narrative of the extraordinary adventures, and sufferings by shipwreck & Imprisonment of Donald Campbell, Esq. of Barbreck: With the singular humours of his tartar guide, Hassan Artaz: comprising the occurrences of four years and five days in an overland journey to India. London, Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1796. 8vo. 19th century cloth with black title label. Frontispiece. XI, 1 blank, 276 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  India  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First illustrated edition View picture(s) 60 CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Belangrijke reisverhalen. 2e druk. Amst., M. Westerman & Zoon, (ca. 1830). Sm. 8vo. Orig. boards. With illustration of Patagonians on engraved title, coloured by hand, and 2 full-page engraved plates by D. Sluijter after J. Steyn. (2), 249 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Schoolbooks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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