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Five interesting and important early humanistic works printed in the second decade of the 16th century, bound together View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Rudolphus. Dialectica. Dorpius studiosis. Ut rectis studiis consulator studiosi, excusa sunt vobis haec Agricola dialectica. Louvain, Theodor [Dirk] Martens, 1515, 4 January. With title-page printed in red and black with the famous large printer's device of Theodorus Martens (13.2 x 9 cm) flanked by 10 separate decorated and floral woodblocks. 62 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  Church History  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Law  Mathematics  Netherlands  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Appier's influential pyrotechnic manual View picture(s) 2 APPIER dit HANZELET, Jean. La pyrotechnie de Hanzelet de Lorrain ou sont representez les plus rares & plus appreuvez secrets des machines & des feux artificiels. Pont-à-Mousson, I. & Gaspard Bernard, 1630. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With an engraved title-page, numerous etched illustrations (including several full-page) in text, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. [8], 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fireworks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Highly popular geographical compendium View picture(s) 3 BERCKENMEYER, Paul Ludolph. Vermehrter curieuser antiquarius, das ist: allerhand auserlesene geographische und historische Merckwürdigkeiten, so in denen europæischen Ländern zu finden. Hamburg, widow of Benjamin Schiller & Johann Christoph Kissner vol. 1), heirs of Benjamin Schiller (vol. 2), 1720. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with initials 'I.C.P.' and date '1788' stamped on front cover, gilt and gauffered edges. With title-pages in red and black to each part, engraved frontispiece to each part, 31 plates in total (30 engravings, 1 woodcut). [96], 936; [60], 418, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Asia  Europe  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Splendid description of orchids from Dutch East Indies and Japan, with 70 plates View picture(s) 4 BLUME, Carl Ludwig. Collection des orchidées les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1858[-1859]. Large folio (44.5 x 29 cm). Contemporary brown half sheepskin, decorated paper (embossed flower pattern) sides. With hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 70 lithographed plates (numbered 1-66, 9b, 9c, 9d and 12b, including 1 double-page plate), 56 hand-coloured. [8], VI, 190 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Colour Platebooks  East Indies  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With attractive engravings of amalgamation machinery View picture(s) 5 BORN, Ignaz Edler von. Ueber das Anquicken der gold- und silberhältigen Erze, Rohsteine, Schwarzkupfer und Hüttenspeise. Vienna, Christian Friederich Wappler, 1786. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With full-page engraved frontispiece, 21 folding engraved plates, 2 engraved vignettes in text and 1 on title-page, the vignettes are hand-coloured. [16], 227, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Earth Sciences [General]  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Gold  Metals  Silver  Technics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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17th-century atlas of the Greek archipelago View picture(s) 6 BOSCHINI, Marco. L'arcipelago contutte le isole, scogli secche, e bassi fondi, con i mari, golfi, seni, porti, citta e castelli... Venice, Francesco Nicolini, 1658. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards. With the title-page within border build up out of fleurons, etched plate with the coat of arms of the Farnese family and 49 etched maps (3 folding outside text, 46 full-page in text). [5], [1 blank], 101, [3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greece  Italy  Levant  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pompei wall paintings beautifully chromolithographed View picture(s) 7 CERILLO, Eduardo. Dipinti murali di Pompei - Medaglie Instituto d'Incoraggiomento di Napoli. Espozioni di Londra e Milano. Naples, proprietà Cav. Uff. Pasquale d'Amelio, (lithographed by) Richter & Co., [ca. 1886]. Large folio (ca. 62 x 43 cm). Contemporary half vellum (J. A. LOEBER, Leiden), original front wrapper with title "Dipinti murali scelti di Pompei" bound in. With lithographed title in red and black with vignette, and 20 fine chromo-lithographed plates numbered I-XX by and after Vincenzo Loria. With bilingual text (Italian and French) in 2 columns. IX, [1 blank], 20 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Archaeology  Art  Chromolithography  Colour Platebooks  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French officer on Arabian horses View picture(s) 8 CHATELAIN, Rene Julian. Mémoire sur les chevaux Arabes. Paris, Madame Huzard (née Vallat la Chapelle), 1816. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. With a frontispiece of a 'Cheval Arabe' after C. Vernet. 158 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Horses & Horsemanship  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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16th-century woodcuts on food & drink View picture(s) 9 CURIO, Joannes (ed.). Conservandae Bonae Valetudinis Praecepta Longe Saluberrima, Regi Angliæ quondam à Doctoribus Scholæ Salernitanæ versibus conscripta. Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Christian Egenolph, 1582. With title-page in red and black, 65 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a couple repeats), 1 woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a woodcut tailpiece. [8], 280, [4] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anatomy  Gastronomy  Medicine  Oenology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous book on fruit trees in a beautiful contemporary hand-colouring View picture(s) 10 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri Louis. Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c. Paris, Saillant Desaint, 1768. 2 volumes. Large 4to (32.5 x 25 cm). Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spines with raised bands, gilt fillets on sides, blue speckled edges.            With two title-pages, two half-titles, full-page engraved frontispiece, 180 full-page engraved plates, depicting various types of fruits, woodcut head- and tailpieces, all in a beautiful contemporary hand-colouring. [4], XXXII, 338, [2]; [4], 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Engravings  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a detailed account of whale fishery View picture(s) 11 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. Allgemeine Abhandlung von den Fischereyen, und Geschichte der Fische ... Von Herrn Duhamel du Moceau ... imgleichen von Herrn de la Marre. Leipzig & Königsberg, Johann Jacob Kanter, 1772-1775. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. With 3 title-pages, 6 half-titles of which one engraved half-title, 98 folding plates, 1 folding table, numerous tables in volume 1, a few head-pieces. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ocean waves, flooding & hydraulic engineering, well-illustrated View picture(s) 12 EMY, Amand Rose. Ueber die Bewegung der Wellen und über den Bau am Meere und im Meere. ... Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von C. Wiesenfeld, ... Mit 10 Kupfertafeln [sic]. Vienna, Ludwig Förster's artistischer Anstalt (on reverse of title-page: printed by J.P. Sollinger), 1839. 8vo. 19-century blue cloth, red spine label. With 10 folding lithographic plates (23 x 39 to 54 cm) with 75 figures showing diagrams of wave forms and motions, and plans and cross-sections of coasts, man-made barriers, buildings, hydraulic devices, etc. Set in fraktur types. [2], XIV, 242, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Engineering  Hydraulics  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early catalogue of the famous Liechtenstein collection of paintings View picture(s) 13 FANTI, Vincenzio. Descrizzione completa di tutto cio che ritrovasi nella galleria di pittura e scultura di Giuseppe Wenceslao del s.r.i. principe regnante della casa di Lichtenstein. Vienna, Giovanni Tommaso de Trattnern, 1767. 4to. Contemporary half calf, red mottled edges. With large folding allegorical frontispiece, and 4 fine engraved large tailpieces, all engraved by J. Schmutzer after designs by the author. [6], 16, [92], 144, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Collections  Drawing & Painting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Faulhaber's mystical arithmetics, pyramidal numbers as key to biblical prophecies View picture(s) 14 FAULHABER, Johann. Andeutung, Einer unerhörten newen Wunderkunst. Welche der Geist Gottes, in etlichen Prophetischen, und Biblischen Geheimnuss Zahlen, bis auff die letzte Zeit hat wöllen versiegelt und verborgen halten. Darauss dann abzunehmen, das Gott zu allen zeiten die Ordnung gehalten, dass er in den fürnembsten General Propheceyungen, über die Hauptverenderungen sich der Piramidal Zahlen gebraucht wann er ein gewisse Zeit bestimmet. Ulm, Lorentz Miller, Nuremberg, Abraham Wagenmann, 1613. 4to. 19th-century half cloth, with paper title label on spine and side. [12] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Mathematics  Mystics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An encyclopaedic survey of exotic cultures, with 50 plates View picture(s) 15 FRANCISCI (VON FINX), Erasmus. Neu-polirter Geschicht- Kunst- und Sitten-Spiegel ausländischer Völker: fürnemlich der Sineser, Japaner, Indostaner, Javaner, Malabaren, Peguaner, Siammer, Peruaner, Mexicaner, Brasilianer, ... und theils anderer Nationen mehr. Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endters & the hiers of Wolfgang the Younger, 1670. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With title-page printed in red & black, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved coat of arms, engraved dedication, and 50 plates (of which 2 double-page) by Cornelis Nicolai Schurtz. [28], 1550, [30] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Brazil  China  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An interesting treatise on brothels View picture(s) 16 FRANCUS, Georgio (Georg FRANCK VON FRANCKENAU). Tractatio qua lupanaria, vulgo Huren-Häuser, ex principiis medicis improbantur. Halle, Joh. Chr. Hendel, 1743. 4to. Modern wrappers. With woodcut vignet on title, woodcut headpiece, and large woodcut initial in text. 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Anne Frank's diary in its first edition View picture(s) 17 FRANK, Anne. Het achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven van 12 juni 1942 - 1 augustus 1944. Met een woord vooraf door Annie Romein-Verschoor. Amsterdam, Contact, [June 1947]. 8vo. Original decorated boards. With 5 plates. [2], IX, 253, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Hebraica & Judaica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Corrected edition of the first German work on internal medicine View picture(s) 18 FRIES, Lorenz. Spiegel der artzney ... Gebessert und und wiederumb fleissig übersehen durch Othonem Brunfels. Strasbourg, Balthasar Beck, 18 August 1529. Folio. Contemporary elaborately blind-stamped and blind-tooled calf, spine ribbed, rests of leather ties. With title-page within beautiful large historiated border with portraits of Galienus and Aesculapius , and a full-page woodcut. CXLI ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Gastronomy  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Vivid illustrations of military life in the 16th century View picture(s) 19 FRONSPERGER, Leonhardt. Kriegsbuch, erster [- dritter] Theil ... Jetzt von neuwem mit sonderm Fleiß ubersehen, und an vielen Örtern gemehrt und gebessert, auch mit schönen neuwen Figuren vnd Kupfferstücken geziert, sampt ordenlichen Registern. Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Sigmund Feyerabend, 1596. 3 volumes bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum on wooden boards with portrait of Emperor Charles V, and 2 brass clasps. With large woodcuts on 3 title-pages, the title-page printed in red and black, woodcut author's portrait, large woodcut publisher's device on penultimate blank leaf, 3 folding woodcut plates, an extra folding engraved plate at the end of the second volume, a series of 21 folding engraved plates, and 334 large woodcuts by Jobst Amman in text, (several repeated). [6], CLXVII, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [4], CLXIII, [3], [1 blank]; [6], CCLXVI, [4], [2 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Costumes  Cultural History  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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16 hand-coloured caricatures of Nuremberg citizens View picture(s) 20 GABLER, Ambrosius. 160 Nürnberger Schimpfwörter auf 16 Tafeln bildlich dargestellt und in Kupfer radirt von A. Gabler. Nuremberg, J.L. Lotzbeck, [ca. 1850]. Oblong folio. Original boards with printed title label on front cover. With 16 hand-coloured etched plates. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Caricature  Colour Platebooks  German  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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