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On the caves and the flora of the St. Pietersmountain at Maastricht View picture(s) 1 BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste Georges Geneviève Marcellin & Léon DUFOUR. Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour. Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, red gilt title label. Folding map of the St. Pietersberg (St. Pietersmountain) at Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after the drawings by the author, 3 full-page lithographed views a.o.  a view on the large cave entrance along the road to Kanne (Belgium) and a view at the Lichtenberg cave entrance. (4), 381 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Archaeology  Earth Sciences [General]  Limburg  Mountaineering  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the coins of Ancient France by the intendant of Quebec View picture(s) 2 BOUTEROUE D'AUBIGNY, Claude. Recherches curieuses des monoyes de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie. Paris, Edme Martin, 1666. Folio. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, ribbed spine with red title label lettered in gold, covers with gilt central armorial piece of 'The Society of writers to the Signet' and gilt triple ruling, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Title printed in red and black with engraved allegorical vignette by N. Bonnart, showing a press for coinage, numerous engravings in text of which seven full-page (on pp. 336, 342, 349, 354, 359, 364 and 370), engraved headpiece and initial, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (16), 398, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Canada  Classical Antiquity  Economy  France  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In memory of Classical Antiquity View picture(s) 3 BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius & [Tobias FENDT]. Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis. Utrecht, Gysbert van Zyl, 1671. Folio. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red label with title lettered in gold, blindstamped sides, blue edges. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved  plates (of which 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all with grave-stones and tombs of famous Italian men. (2), 176, 8, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Classical Antiquity  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare and important work on fossils View picture(s) 4 BUCH, Christian Leopold von. Recueil de planches pétrifications remarquables. Berlin, Académie Royale des Sciences, 1831. Folio. Contemporary green morocco, the boards covered with the original publisher's printed paper wrappers. With 8 lithographed plates. [22] pp. [incl. 7 blank]. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Earth Sciences [Geology]  Lithographs  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Erotic imagery from the secret cabinet of the King of Naples View picture(s) 5 C.F. (= FAMIN, Cesar). Musée Royal de Naples. Peintures, bronzes et statues erotiques de Cabinet Secret, Avec leur explication par M.C.F. Paris, Abel Ledoux, 1836. 4to. Contemporary green half leather with matching marbled boards, gilt spine. With engraved frontispiece, 60 handcoloured numbered engraved plates by A. Delvaux, some printed in colour. (4), XXX, (1), 159, (1 blank), (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Classical Antiquity  Erotica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pompei wall paintings beautifully chromolithographed View picture(s) 6 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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The best description of Constantinople - with a letter by the author View picture(s) 7 DALLAWAY, James. Constantinople ancient and modern, with excursions to the shores and islands of the archipelago and to the Troad. London, T. Bensley, 1797. 4to. Contemporary black calf, spine ribbed and gilt, covers richly decorated with arabesque central design, and with floral decoration, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Engraved title with aquatint, 10 full-page aquatints with scenic views, sites where scenes from the Trojan War presumably took place, archeological sites with ruins from classical Greece, drawn by Marcati and engraved by Stadler. XI, (1), 415, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Etchings  Mythology  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the origins of cults View picture(s) 8 DUPUIS, [Charles François]. Planches de l'origine de tous les cultes, avec leur explication. Paris, H. Agasse, An III de la République (1795). 4to. Contemp. half calf. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, zodiac signs, ancient and archaeological artefacts suchs as vases and coins on 22 folding engraved plates. 16 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Astronomy  Cultural History  History  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a plate depicting the pagan altars of the Zeeland goddess Nehalennia View picture(s) 9 HEUSSEN, Hugo Franciscus van & H. van RIJN. Oudheden en gestichten van Zeeland, behelzende de oudheden, opkomsten, en benaamingen van de eylanden onder Zeeland behoorende, en van de steden en dorpen, in die eylanden gelegen: beneffens de stichtingen der geestelijke gebouwen, kerken, abdyen, kloosteren, kapellen: de kerk- en klooster-oversten, geleerde mannen, enz. Eerste deel. Van de oudheden en gestichten  van de eylanden Walcheren, Noortbeveland, Wolfertsdijk, en de daar gelege steden en dorpen. (Tweede deel. Van de oudheden en gestichten van de eylanden Borsselen, Schouwen, Zuidbeveland, Tertolen, en van de onderhoorige steden en dorpen). Uyt het Latijn vertaald. En met aantekeningen opgehelderd. Leiden, Christiaan Vermey, 1722. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemp. vellum with ink titles on spines. With 19 folding plates: map of Zeeland, 4 plans of Middelburg, Veere, Vlissingen and Zierikzee (signed by P. Vogelaar); 11 views of Middelburg (2), Arnemuiden, Domburg, Zierikzee, Brouwershaven, Oosterland, Haamstede, Remmerswaal, Goes and Tholen; and 2 plates (loosely inserted) of pagan altars from Roman times mostly dedicated to the mysterious local goddess Nehalennia, and one plate of ancient coins and statues, and engraved by Jan de Mel. (4), 184, 304, (24); (4), 56, 210, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Classical Antiquity  Topography  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Archaeological adventures in Kleve View picture(s) 10 JANSSEN, Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich. Gedenkteekenen der Germanen en Romeinen, aan den Linker Oever van den Neder-Rijn, ontdekt en opgehelderd. Utrecht, Robert Natan, 1836. 8vo. Original printed boards. With 18 lithographed plates, a folding map, and a folding plan by Romen à Emmeric. XI, [3], 226, [18] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Archaeology  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Germany  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The second voyage of Paul Lucas through the Levant View picture(s) 11 LUCAS, Paul. Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait par ordre du Roi dans la Grèce, L'Asie Mineure, La Macedoine et L'Afrique. Contenant la description de la Natolie, de la Caramanie, & de la Macedoine. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary half calf with richly gilt spine and white gilt title label, red edges. Two titles printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces, 9 folding engraved plates with a.o. pyramids, archeological findings and the Holy Grave and inscriptions, 2 folding engraved maps a.o.  of the Levant (engraved by B. Ruyter), and of Fioum, the Nile and surroundings in Egypt, 8 full-page engraved plates. (30), 323; (10), 328 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Asia Minor  Egypt  Greece  Holy Land  Romania  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare and important humanist studies on ancient Dutch and German history View picture(s) 12 ORTELIUS, Abraham & Johannes VIVIANUS. Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 folding engraved plates, and 3 large engravings and some woodcut inscriptions in text. 76, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Archaeology  Dutch  France  Geography  History  Mercator  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Splendid work on the Graeco-Roman city of Paestum, with 65 plates View picture(s) 13 PAOLI, Paolo Antonio. Paestana dissertationes ... Della città di Pesto dissertazioni. (Colophon: Rome, in Typographio Paleariniano [= Fratelli Pagliarini], 1784). Large Folio (50.5 x 37.5 cm). 19th-century half roan. With 65 engraved and etched plates (2 engraved title-pages, an engraved dedication, 43 full-page and 5 folding plates, 14 vignettes and headpieces), and 6 engraved and etched and initials. 181, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Architecture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A contemporary glimpse of one of the most famous French 'Wunderkammer' View picture(s) 14 PETAU, Paul (Paulus PETAVIUS). Explication de plusieurs antiquités. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half vellum. With 47 full-page plates and a series of 21 plates, all engraved. The first 13 plates are coloured by a contemporary hand. 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Cabinet of Curiosities  Classical Antiquity  Egypt  Engravings  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First notable work on Egyptology View picture(s) 15 PIGNORIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo). Mensa Isiaca, qua sacrorum apud Aegyptios ratio & simulacra subjectis aeneis simul exhibentur  & explicantur. - With separate title-page: IDEM. Magnae Deum matris idae ae & Attidis initia. Ex vetustis monumentis nuper Tornaci & Nerviorum erutis. Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1669-1670. 2 works in one (as published). 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text. (8), 96, (11); (8), 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Egypt  Libraries & Collections  Numismatics  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Essays on archaeology by a supporter of Linnaeus View picture(s) 16 STOBAEUS, Kilian. Opuscula, in quibus Petrefactorum, Numismatum et Antiquitatum Historia Illustratur, in unum volumen collecta. Danzig, G.M. Knochium, 1752-1753. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With 15 engraved plates, some folding, and 10 woodcuts in text. [14], 1-182 [= 184], [2], 183-327 [= 328], [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Archaeology  Natural History  Numismatics  Sweden  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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