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Important manual on palaeontology View picture(s) 1 (BOURGUET, Louis). Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire Naturelle des Pétrifications dans les quatre parties du monde. La Haye, Jean Neaulme, 1742. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Modern half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with green gilt title label. With title printed in red and black, and 60 folding engraved plates with 441 illustrations of fossils & shells, woodcut headpieces. XVI, 163, (1 blank); 91, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Conchology  Geology  Natural History  Palaeontology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the caves and the flora of the St. Pietersmountain at Maastricht View picture(s) 2 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 & Mining  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) 3 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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Very rare and important work on fossils 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  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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The best description of Constantinople - with a letter by the author View picture(s) 6 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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Sumptuous coloured lithographs of Mayan antiquities bound for Czar Alexander II View picture(s) 7 DUPAIX, Guillermo, Alexandre LENOIR, David Bailie WARDEN, et al. Antiquités Mexicaines. Relation des trois expéditions du Capitaine Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque. Paris, Jules Didot l'ainé, 1834. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large folio (55.5 x 36 cm). Gold-tooled red morocco, ca. 1855, with the arms of Czar Alexander II of Russia on the covers. With 3 title-pages, numerous half-titles, lithographed frontispiece and 161 (numbered as 166) lithographed plates (1 double-page and 160 full-page), nearly half beautifully hand-coloured and most of the rest tinted or double-tinted. Lacking (as usual) the map mentioned on the title-page. (4), xiv, (1), (1 blank), 20, 56, 40, 88, (4); 82, 224, (4); (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Armorial Bindings  Art  Bindings  Colour Plate Books  Discovery & Exploration  Libraries & Collections  Lithographs  Mexico  Russia  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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On the origins of cults View picture(s) 8 DUPUIS, (CH.F.) 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, H. 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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The second voyage of Paul Lucas through the Levant View picture(s) 10 LUCAS, P. 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  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on Roman antiquity View picture(s) 11 MAZZELLA, Scipione. Sito, et antichita della citta di Pozzuolo, e del suo amenissimo distretto, con la descrittione di tutti i luoghi notabili, e degni di memoria, e di Cuma, e di Baia, e di Miseno, e degli altri luoghi conuicini. Postovi medesimamente tutti i Bagni, e loro proprietà di Pozzuolo, e di Baia; dell'Isola d'Ischia. Et in questa ultima edittione aggiuntovi un ricco Apparato delle Statue ritrovate in Cuma, à Gennaro dell anno 1606. Napoli, Tarquinio Longo, 1606. Three parts in 1 volume, paginated as two parts. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title written in ink on spine. With a large woodcut vignette on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces and 19 woodcut illustrations of architecture and landscapes in text and one woodcut folding plate of Pozzolo and it's environments. (16), 284, (4), 103 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Architecture  Classical Antiquity  Sculpture  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. Sm.8vo. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt. 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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A contemporary glimpse of one of the most famous French 'Wunderkammer' View picture(s) 13 PETAU, Paul (Paulus PETAVIUS). Explication de plusieurs antiquités. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757. 2 parts in one. 4to. Half contemporary vellum. 47 engraved full-page plates (numbered 1-22, (A=23)  A-X, 24-27), with over 500 figures of Egyptian, Roman and medieval antiquities, sculptures, monuments, coins utensils, including a full-page portrait of author at his age of 41 (1609)  and a series of 21 plates (A-X) of antique and Carolingian coins with separate engraved title (plate 23/A): Veterum nummorum gnorisma (Paris, 1610). 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) 14 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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"One of the monuments of French eighteenth-century book production" View picture(s) 15 SAINT NON (Saint-Nom-la-Bretêche), Abbé Jean Claude Richard de. Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie. Paris, Clousier, 1781-86. 4 parts in 5 vols. (Vol. 1 issued in 2 parts (part 2 taking the place of vol. 2), vol. 4 issued in 2 Large folio (51,5 x 35,5 cm.). 20th centruy half calf, with the old spines preserved and mounted: richly gilt in compartments with red and black title labels, lettered in gold. Each vol. with half-title, title with engraved vignette (four by Fragonard, one by Bertheaut) and many beautiful vignettes. In total: one folding, 8 double-page and one full-page maps, and 278 full-page plates with 363 plans, views and illustrations of paintings and antiquities. Vol. 1: with engraved dedication to the Queen, one folding map (unnumb.) of the 'Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile by Clermont', dated 1780, two double-page maps of The Golf of Naples and surroundings, numbered 118 and 110), one full-page plan of Naples, numbered 46 and 47 full-page plates, numbered: 16-7, 47-8, 33, 41-2, 40, 44, 60, 39, 57, 37, 15, 52, 89, 67, 92, 71, 70, 20, 8, 1, 9, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 56, 58, 66, 106, 93, 30-2, 35, 25, 64, 43-4, 53, 117, 111, 103, and 102; Vol. 2: one double-page map of the 'Golfe de Pouzzoles', numbered 96, one full-page unnumbered map of Naples and surroundings, and 79 full-page plates, numbered: 36, 30, 91, 61, 54, 62, 68, 38, 21-2, 55, 100, 109, 99, 104, 65, 114-5, 3-4, 13, 45, 101, 108, 107, 95, 28-9, 1bis-8bis, 73-88, 72, 63, 69, 5, 7, 6, 112-3, 105, 19, 59, 51, 27, 90, 49, 14, 23, 50, 116, 123, 125-6, 124, 119-22 (missing are plate 75bis and the unnumbered plate with antique phalluses, (not called for in the book, but according to Brunet to be present); 26 of the vignettes in this volume of antique works of art - most by Saint Non, one by Plessis Bertaux after a plate by Winkelman - are coloured in sepia;  Vol. 3: 4 double-page maps, numbered 11 (Southern Italy & Sicily), 25 (Region Bari, Otranto, Brindisi), 54 (Southern Italy) and one unnumbered: the Peutinger map, not called for in the book, and 60 full-page plates, 37 of which contain two views, numbered series 'Grand Grèce', 1-10, 12-24, 26-53, 55-86, 13 (=87), 24bis (=88; both those plates in first state (see Brunet)), 89-100; Vol. 4-5: one double-page map of Sicily (1784, numbered 1, 91 full-page plates of maps (nrs. 39 and 82), plans (nrs. 79, 106, 109), 48 of which contain two views; the plates are numbered 2-140. With numerous head and tail pieces and vignettes, including the 14 large vignettes (the 'doubles médailles') at the end of Chapter 1-14 of vol. 4,1 (Brunet calls for 14 extra leaves on which these vignettes are repated and separately bound in). The plates are designed, engraved and finished by many different, partly very famous artists of the time, including A(l)lix, Aubin, Auguste de S., Auvrai, Bertheaut, Bretin, Brunsault, Carpentier, Casas, Chasselet, Chastelet, Chofferd, Coyni, Dambrum, De Bosredon, De Ghendt, De Longueil, Delvaux, Denijs, Joh., Desmoulins, Desprès, Desquauvilliers, Du Parc, Du Plessis Bertaux, Duflos, P., Dumoulin, Durameau, Embrun, Epire, Fessard, Fragonard, H., Germain, Germain, Guttenberg, Charles, Guttenberg, H., Hovet, B., Lienard, Macret, Malbeste, Marilier, Martini, Masquelier, Mathieu, Nicollet, Paris, Queverdo, Queverdo, Racine, J.B., Renard, Robert, H., Sellier, Stagnon, Tierce, J.B., Vangelisti, Varin, Vernet, Volaire, and Weisbrod. (4), XV, 252; xxviii, 1-78, (2), 79-108, (6), 109- 284; (4), iv, xl, 1-112, (4), 113-130, 8, 131-201, 7-22; (4), xviii, (4), 292; iv, (2), 293-430 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Archaeology  Classical Antiquity  Illustrated Books  Italy  Sicily  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collected works on archeology View picture(s) 16 STOBAEUS, K. Opuscula, in quibus Petrefactorum, Numismatum et Antiquitatum Historia Illustratur, in unum volumen collecta. Dantici, G.M. Knochium, 1752. 4to. Half calf. With 15 plates, some fold., and 10 woodcuts in text. (14), 327, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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