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Collection of letters by the French sinologist Hervey de Saint Denys View picture(s) 61 [AUTOGRAPH]. HERVEY DE SAINT DENYS, Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis de. [Collection of 6 autograph letters signed to unknown recipients]. Chateau du Breau, (Seine-et-Marne), and 9 Av. Bosquet, 24th June 1878- 9th June 1889. (20.7 x 13.4 to 11.1 x 9 cm). In French. Most letters with 1 or 2 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Autographs, Letters & Documents  China  Linguistics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Letter by Pacific explorer Laplace, written during his stay at the French Antilles View picture(s) 62 [AUTOGRAPH]. LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. [Autograph letter signed, to an unknown recipient]. Fort-Royal (Martinique), December 1844. Folded leaf (21 x 13.5 cm). In French. 1 p. text with signature on verso. Full description >> Related Subjects: Autographs, Letters & Documents  Circumnavigation  France  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Celebrating the wedding of Cosimo III de' Medici's parents, 15 July 1637 View picture(s) 63 [BARDI, Ferdinando, Count of Vernio]. Descrizione delle feste fatte in Firenze per le reali nozze de serenissimi sposi Ferdinando II Gran Duca di Toscana, e Vittoria principessa d'Urbino. Florence, Zonobi Pignoni, 1637. 4to. Mid 19th-century blue-green half goatskin, red title label lettered in gold, boards covered with colour-decorated "papier coulé". With the engraved coat of arms of Ferdinando II de' Medici impaled with that of his bride on the title and a large folding engraved plate (32.5 x 44 cm) with 16 small views surrounding a large central view, tipped onto the flyleaf at the end. 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Festival Books  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bodoni's exquisite 4to edition of Anacreon's odes View picture(s) 64 [BODONI]. ANACREON. Anakreontos têiou melê. Anacreontis teii odaria praefixo commentario quo poetae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lectionibus. Additis var. lectionibus. Parma, Ex Regio Typographeio [= Giambatista Bodoni], (colophon: 1785). Large 4to (21.5 x 29 cm). Contemporary calf, blind-tooled covers, spine richly gilt, gilt inside dentelles, silk endpapers, gilt edges; kept in drop-back box. With an engraved vignette on the title-page, engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee, Nicolaus De Azara, by Cagnoni. [4] XCIV, 100, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Carriages and horses: 45 hand-coloured plates with moveable parts View picture(s) 65 [CARRIAGES - HORSES]. [Die neuesten Wiener-Wägen und Pferdergeschirre]. [Vienna, H.F. Müller, ca. 1840]. Oblong 4to (19.6 x 24.7 cm). 19th-century half calf. With 45 hand-coloured lithographed and engraved plates, most with moveable parts. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Austria  Colour Platebooks  Horses & Horsemanship  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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8 magnificent and very rare suites of 18th-century, uniformly coloured costumes plates View picture(s) 66 [COLOUR PLATE BOOK - COSTUMES]. [Eight suites with a total of 180 engraved coloured costume plates]. Augsburg, Jean André Pfeffel (1), Jeremias Wolff (2-6) & Paris, F. Chereau (7) and Le Rouge (8), [ca. 1720-1750]. 8 suites. Folio. Contemporary half calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold: "Costumes en Couleurs", red painted edges. With two engraved title-pages, one engraved dedication leaf, and 180 costume plates, all uniformly coloured by hand and most of them heightened with gold (ca. 1750), many within yellow painted frame. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  Costumes  France  Germany  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Print Series  Switzerland  Turkey  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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34 hand-coloured miniatures of women in traditional Swiss costumes View picture(s) 67 [COSTUMES - SWITZERLAND]. Collection des costumes Suisses. [Switzerland, early 19th century?]. Contemporary green morocco, in matching gold-tooled slipcase with title. Small oblong booklet (ca. 6 x 10 cm), with large folded paper, making separate leaves with backs together. Containing 34 numbered hand-coloured miniature costume engravings (ca. 3 x 3.8 cm), mounted 2 on a leaf. Full description >> Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully coloured composite atlas View picture(s) 68 [DANCKERTS, ALLARD, VISSCHER, DE WIT, MORTIER and others]. Atlas. [Amsterdam, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts(?), ca. 1706 (dated maps 1694-1706]. Imperial folio (53.5 x 33.5 cm). Modern maroon sheepskin, printed "marbled"-paper sides. Composite atlas, with an engraved title-page, 43 double-page engraved maps and 4 double-page engraved tables, all beautifully coloured in a consistent and balanced manner by a contemporary hand, probably in the workshop of the publisher. With maps by Johannes, Justus, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts, Carel and Abraham Allard, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Frederik de Wit, Pieter Mortier, Caspar Specht and even Alexis-Hubert Jaillot in Paris. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Amsterdam  Atlases  Atlases [General]  Atlases [World]  Charts [Sea]  Maps  Maps - 17th Century  Maps - 18th Century  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The extremely rare 35 non-ornithological coloured plates View picture(s) 69 [DAUBENTON, Edme Louis, George Louis Leclerc de BUFFON] and François Nicolas MARTINET. [Planches enluminées]. [Paris, Pancoucke, ca. 1765-1770]. Large folio (45 x 31 cm). Loose sheets in modern yellow cloth box. 35 finely hand-coloured engraved plates drawn and engraved by François Nicolas Martinet, including 2 plates primarily printed in red à la poupée (plate size: each ca. 22 x 17.5 cm). The plates depict butterflies (17), phalenes (5), coleoptera (6), corals (4), a spectre (1) and amphibians (3). Each engraving has several numbered figures and the names are given in the engraved text beneath the lower border. The plates are numbered irregularly in the upper left corner. With the name of Martinet in the lower left corner. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Colour Platebooks  Engravings  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original architectural and perspectival drawings by an Italian architect from the last quarter of the 18th century; together with two important 17th-century architectural printed books View picture(s) 70 [DRAWINGS - ARCHITECTURE]. FRANCESCHINI, Lodovico. [Architectural and perspectival drawings]. [Rome (?), last quarter 18th century]. Folio. (36.5 x 26 cm). 18th-century full calf, both sides blind-tooled with ornamental and floral stamps, with a 'B' inscribed in ink on front cover, six templates for decorative motifs pasted on inside boards. With 48 mostly full-page (2 double-page) original architectural and perspectival drawings, including many designs for tile-floors, mainly executed in ink and coloured washes, 4 of which are signed by Lodovico Franceschini and 3 dated '1789'. Interleaved with the 44, resp. 21 plates of the Regula by Vignola (Siena, Bernardino Oppi, 1635), resp. the Tabernacoli diversi by Giovanni Battista Montano (Rome, Giovanni Jacomo de Rossi, 1684, Pt. 5). [70] ll., each mostly consisting of two plates pasted together and pasted to stubs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Drawing & Painting  Drawings  Italy  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early telephone directory for the Hawaiian Islands in custom made Kapa ring binder View picture(s) 71 [HAWAII]. Telephone directory. Territory of Hawaii. Winter 1930. For the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Kauai. (Hawaii, Mutual Telephone Company, November 1930). (27 x 18.5 cm). Original grey wrappers printed in red and blue. Preserved in a 2-ring binder of Kapa cloth, custom made for The Royal Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu, with gilt title label on front cover, inside front cover with printed image of the hotel and inside back cover with printed postcard reproduction showing various scenes from around Hawaii. With many advertisements in black throughout. 4, [2], 4, 112, 30, 18, 12, 6 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Hawaii  Textile  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Only Hawaiian edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature View picture(s) 72 [HAWAII]. BUNYAN, John. [The Pilgrims progress]. Ka Hele Malihini Ana mai Keia Ao Aku a Hiki i Kela Ao... Honolulu, Mea Paipalapala a na Misionari, 1842. 12mo (17 x 11.5 cm). Early 20th-century limp suede covers as issued, front cover with title 'Buniana' on in- and outside, both sides with pasted fragments of early Hawaiian printing. With woodcut frontispiece showing Bunyan dreaming, and 7 full-page woodcut plates. 418 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Hawaii  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Costumes in colour View picture(s) 73 [JESSEN, Heinrich]. (Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg). (Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others), [ca. 1850]. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front cover with title lettered in gold. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) heightened with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), of which 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Germany  Lithographs  Professions  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare Jesuit letter from Macau View picture(s) 74 [JESUITS - CHINA - MACAU]. Lettre ecrite de Macao en Chine, par un missionnaire a un de ses amis. Paris, P.G. le Mercier, 1756. 12mo. Disbound. With a woodcut ornament on the title-page, woodcut headpiece and initial. 67, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  China  Japan  Jesuits  Macao  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine watercolours of interior decoration View picture(s) 75 [MANUSCRIPT - INTERIOR DECORATION]. [LAUREYS, H. and E. HERSSENS]. Propriété de madame Hubert le Hardy de Beaulieu. [Belgium(?), ca. 1890]. Oblong large folio (66 x 49.5 cm). Contemporary green cloth with gilt lines on covers, endpapers with green floral pattern. With title-page in watercolour, leaf with watercoloured coat of arms, 8 watercolours showing interior views (most of which heightened with silver and gold, one signed 'Herssens'), last leaf with manuscript inscription reading 'Les Ateliers H. Laureys étudié par E. Herssens', all interleaved with tissue-guards. Full description >> Related Subjects: Antiques  Applied Arts  Architecture  Decorative  Drawing & Painting  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully executed 18th-century manuscript music album with 24 songs to guitar accompaniment by Laborde View picture(s) 76 [MANUSCRIPT - MUSIC - GUITAR]. LABORDE, Jean Benjamin de. Recueil d'airs avec accompagnement & guittare par Mr. de Laborde. [France, 2nd half of the 18th century]. Oblong 4to (20.5 x 26.5). Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco, with gilt edges and silk endleaves. With decorated title-page and half-title, pages with hand-coloured wood-engraved floral border, songs, music notation (including both regular notes and tablature) in neat manuscript with gilt decorations and initials and title calligraphed in gold. [1, 2 blank], 152, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Calligraphy  France  Manuscripts  Music  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Logs and ledgers of voyages to the Dutch East Indies and Japan including Assendelft's journey to Japan as retold in his memoir "Mijn verblijf in Japan" (1856) View picture(s) 77 [MANUSCRIPT - SHIPS' LOGS]. VAN OVERZEE & CO. (shipping company). [Collection of logs and ledgers of the Dutch ships "Joän" and "Catharina Maria"]. [On board the ships], 1849-1861. 5 volumes. Large 4to (33 x 27 cm) and small Folio (33 x 20.5 cm). All in contemporary half cloth, one with and additional canvas cover. With several additional manuscript documents. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  East Indies  Economy  Japan  Log-Books  Manuscripts  Rotterdam  Ships & Shipbuilding  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A wall map of India by the father of Indian geography, together with the accompanying text volume View picture(s) 78 [MAP - INDIA]. RENNELL, James. A map of Hindoostan, or the Mogul Empire: from the latest authorities. Inscribed to Sir Joseph Banks. London, James Rennell, 1 January 1788. Text in 19th-century gold-tooled calf (re-backed) and the map preserved in 19th-century box matching the text. Wall map of India (108 x 137.5 cm), hand-coloured in outline and mounted on cloth in 36 pieces. The map is engraved by J. Phillips and W. Harrison and the text by T. Harmar. [4], XVIII, [3], XX-CXL, [2], 428 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Cartography  India  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Depicting theatrical life in Vienna. Over 200 hand-coloured plates with theatre costumes, rebuses and caricatures. View picture(s) 79 [PERIODICAL - AUSTRIA - COLOURED PLATES]. BÄUERLE, Adolf (editor). [Collection of over 200 plates for the Wiener Theaterzeitung]. Vienna, Bureau der allgemeinen Theaterzeitung, 1841-1843, [1847-1848?]. 4to (29.5 x 23 cm). Contemporary brown cloth with gilt title 'Theater Zeitung' on front cover and spine. With 4 title-pages (a general one titled 'Wien und die Wiener ... Neue Beilage zur Theaterzeitung' and title-pages to the years of publication 1841, 1843, 1843), and 201 plates, some mounted, and of which the majority copper engravings by Andreas Geiger after 'Cajetan' (= Anton Elfinger 1821-1864), all hand-coloured. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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24 glass slides of photographs of the ancient city of Petra and contemporary Syria View picture(s) 80 [PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Collection of 24 glass slides]. [1900-1908]. In modern archival box. Collection of 24 glass slides of photographs, including 9 coloured and 15 black-and-white. 20 slides are from the "Visual instruction division" of the University of the State of New York and 4 from the keystone View Company from Meadville, Pennsylvania. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Archaeology  Middle East  Photography  Syria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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