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One of the last manuals on sailing ships before mechanical propulsion took over View picture(s) 21 FUNCH, Diderik Hansteen. Dansk Marine-Ordbog. Copenhagen, Trykt paa Forsatterens Forlag hos Bianco Luno, 1846-1852. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 4to. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt. With numerous illustrations on all ship-parts, the armament and rigging of a seaproof sailing ship on 67 full-page engraved plates, partly coloured by hand, and  incl. 7 folding plates with views of a finished ship, a ship at full sails, with all arms and full rigging, etc. (4), 169, (3); 152 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Denmark  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An architectural tour through Italy View picture(s) 22 FURTTENBACH, Joseph. Newes Itinerarium Italiae: In welchem der Reifende nicht allein gründtlichen Bericht durch die herzlichfte namhaffteste örter Italiae fein Reiß wol zubeftellen: ... Alles auß eygener vieljäriger Experientz zusammen gebracht.... Ulm, Johan Saurn, 1627. Oblong 4to. Contemporary overlapping sprinkled boards. Folding engraved map, 29 engraved plates. (32), 259, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Art  German  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on fortification printed by the Elzeviers View picture(s) 23 GOLDMAN, Nicolas. La nouvelle fortification. Leiden, (Bonaventura & Abraham) Elzevier, 1645. Folio. Full contemporary brown morocco, with gilt ornamental roll along the edges, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With allegorical frontispiece with the title in a wreath in the midle and a fortified town at the bottom, engraved by Adr. Matham, 52 half page engravings of mathematical and geometrical figures as well as of (details of) fortifications in the text, 22 of which are repeated one to four times, making the total number 94, interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces and numerous printed tables in the text. (16), 224 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Fortification  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All you need to know about life in the country View picture(s) 24 GROEN, Jan van der & Pieter NIJLANDT. Den Nederlantschen Hovenier, zijnde het 1. deel van  het vermakelijk land-leven. beschrijvende alderhande  prinçelijke en heerlijke lust-hoven en hof-steden,  en hoe men deselve, met veelderley uytnemenede boomen,  bloemen en kruyden, kan beplanten, bezaeijen, en verçieren.  Met noch omtrent 200. modellen van bloem-perken, parterres,  dool-hoven, priëlen, lat-werken, en zonne-wysers.-  Den Verstandigen Hovenier, over de twaelf maenden van  't jaer. zijnde het ii. deel van het vermakelyk lant-leven.  Beschrijvende , hoe men op de beste en bequaemste maniere  sal hoven, thuynen, lust-hoven en boomgaerden verordineren,  bereyden, beplanten, en bezaeijen. Als mede, Hoe men  alderhande ooft en fruyt, kruyden en bloemen, wortelen  en zaden, op sijn behoorlijke tijt zal vergaderen.-  De Medicyn-winkel, of ervaren huys-houder: zijnde het  iii. deel van het vermakelyk land-leven. Onderwijsende,  hoe men binnen en buyten de steden heylsame medicijnen  voor de gebreken van menschen en beesten, sal toemaken  en bereyden. Als mede Den naerstigen byen-Houder. Noch is hier achter bygevoeght Den Verstandigen Kok. Amsterdam, Wed. van Gijsbert de Groot, 1711-1721. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Later half marbled calf, with paper title-label mounted on spine. With engraved frontispiece, 2 titles, 71 full-page plates, mostly engraved, partly in woodcut, showing views of famous houses and gardens, illustrations of garden-work, garden architecture, numerous plans of gardens, and 7 woodcuts in text in the 1st part; engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations of garden-work on full-page engraved plate, and 2 woodcuts in text, one showing a view in a vineyard, in the 2nd part; and large engraved illustration on 3 titles, respectively showing a pharmacy for men and beasts, a bee-hive-yard, and cooks in their kitchen, full-page woodcut plate of a horse and a cow, and 2 woodcuts in text on distilling in the 3rd part. (30), 103, (3); (8), 84, (4); 88 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Dutch  Engravings  Gardens  Gastronomy  Medicine  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ideas for (re)decorating your garden(s) View picture(s) 25 GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût. Première edition Italienne avec des additions de bâtimens du meilleur goût. Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. 19th century green marbled boards, blue sprinkled edges. Engraved title and 37 engraved plates with numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs and tables. 38 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fortification and military architecture, artillery and fireworks View picture(s) 26 GRUBER, Johann Sebastian. Neuer und gründlicher Unterricht, von der heutigen Fortification und Artillerie : in zwey Bücher verfasset : worinnen in dem Ersten bey der Fortification gehandelt wird, was so wol in Auferbauung, als Attaquirung und Defendirung einer Vestung in acht zu nehmen. Nebenst einem kurzen Begriff von dem nöthigsten Stücken der Arithmetic und Geometrie : in dem Andern aber bey der Artillerie wird gewiesen, wie deren gebräuchliche Sorten in allen gebührend zu verfertigen, un so wol off- als defensive zu Wasser und Land, Nachts und Tages, recht und mit Nutzen zu gebrauchen. Nebenst einem Bericht von Zubereitung einiger Ernst-Feuerwerckes-Kugeln. Nürnberg, Johann Hoffmanns seel. Wittib, Engelbert Strecken, Abraham von Werth, 1700. 8vo. Blue paper covered boards. Engraved double-page frontispiece with a.o. a fortification and an explosion, title in red & black, 10 numbered engraved full-page plates & a folding table in the first part and 6 full-page engraved plates (I-VI) in the second part. (6), 290, (2 pp. blank), (6); (2), 316, (2 blank), (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Arms & Armour  Fireworks  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on carpet-gardening View picture(s) 27 HAMPEL, Wilhelm. Die moderne Teppichgärtnerei. Sechste Auflage. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1901. Large 8vo. Contemporary cloth. With 150 lithographed plans, often full-page, several double-page, six printed in colours. 150, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Gardens  Lithographs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare work on the basics of perspective View picture(s) 28 HOUTEN, Hendrik van. Verhandelinge van de grontregelen der doorzigtkunde, of tekenkonst (perspectief,) leerende de middelen en wyze, hoe alles in de doorzigtkunde, kan werden afgeteekend. Zeer dienstig voor bouwmeesters, schilders, teekenaars, enz. Op een korte manier afgebeeld en voorgedraagen. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1705. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards. With large allegorical engraving on title, several woodcut figures in text, 20 basic mathematical figures  on a folding engraved plate, and numerous models of perspective drawings on 52 numbered folding engraved plates. (4), 72 [=76] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art  Drawings  Perspective  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first book entirely devoted to carpentry View picture(s) 29 JOUSSE, Mathurin. Le theatre de l'art de c(h)arpentier enrichi de diverses figures avec linterpretation dicelles faict & dresse par Mathurin Jousse. Fleche, Georges Griveau, 1627. Folio. 19th-century green three-quarter morocco, spine lettered and ornamented in gold, boards covered with marbled paper, marbled endpapers. Richly engraved title in a triumphal arch and 125 mostly full-page, several double-page, woodcut perspectival model drawings for carpenters for a wide variety of wooden constructions, from timber-frames for all sorts of buildings, roofs, towers, fortreese, barns, bridges, theatres, etc. to staircases, balconies, pidgeon coops, etc. in the main work; and five large half-page woodcuts of exemplary model drawings of the five architectural orders with proportional measures at either side, and 2 general perspectival model designs on 2 full-page woodcut plates in the added treatise; many interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (4), 176, 14 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A highly influential work on French 18th century garden and landscape design View picture(s) 30 LABORDE, Alexandre, Comte de. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses anciens chateaux, mêlée d'observations sur la vie de la campagne et la composition des jardins.- Description of the modern gardens and ancient castles in France with local observations on rural life and gardening.- Beschreibung der neuen Gärten und alten Schlösser in Frankreich mit Bemerkungen über Landleben und Gartenanlagen. Paris, Delance, 1808 (-1814). Folio. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco with marbled boards, gilt spine. Engraved vignette on title by Baltard, engraved title with view on the gardens of Méréville by Constant Bourgeois, engraved map of Northern France indicating the gardens and chateaux which are described and illustrated, 2 engraved plans of Malmaison and Ermenonville and 130 engraved plates with views of gardens on 91 lvs. and one plate with engraved figures depicting geological figures. (6), 226 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Castles  Engravings  France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by the father of Anna Maria Sibylla Merian View picture(s) 31 LAUREMBERGIUS, Peter. Horticultura, Libri II. comprehensa; Huic nostro coelo & solo accommodata; Regulis, Observationibus, Experimentis, & Figuris novis instructa: In qua quicquid ad Hortum proficue colendum, et eleganter instruendum facit, explicatur.- Apparatus Plantarius: Tributus in duos libros. I. De Plantis Bulbosis. II. De Plantis Tuberosis. Quibus Exhibentur praeter Nomenclaturas, Multiplices earum Differentiae & Species; Vires; Usas tam culinarius quam Medicus: Cultura sive ratio eas plantandi, conservandi, propagandi. Itemque quae Poetae, Philologi, Philosophi, sacrae litterae, &c. de iis memoratu digna annotarunt. Frankfurt, Matthaeus Merian, 1654. 2 works in 1 vol. 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. With 2 titles within richly engraved emblematic borders, 29 full-page engraved plates on gardens and gardening in the first work, and 36 engraved plates with flowers in the second work, by Matthias Merian. 165, 43, (1 blank); 168 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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60 designs of interior decorations for the houses and palaces of the French nobility at the end of the 17th century View picture(s) 32 LE PAUTRE, Jean. [Collection of 10 print series of 6 plates each with model leaves for the design of Altars, tabernacles, armorial trophies, chimney-pieces, monumental doors, wainscotting, panelling, and ceilings.] Paris, Pierre Mariette, Le Blond, [ca.1655-1670]. 10 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. Contemporary marbled gold-tooled calf. With a total of 60 full-page engraved plates. 60 ll. (numbered in pencil: 4-63). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  France  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to plan your own garden View picture(s) 33 LECOQ, [Louis-Marie]. Le Paysagiste. Nouveau traîté d'architecture de parcs et jardins. (École moderne). Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1860. Folio. Original green cloth. With over 100 steel-engraved garden plans on 32 plates. XII, (148) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  France  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A 19th century architect inspired by a 16th century colleague View picture(s) 34 LEVEIL, Jean-Arnoud. Traité élémentaire pratique d'architecture ou étude des cinq ordres d' après Jacques Barozzio Vignole. Ouvrage divisé en soixante-douze planches comprenant les cinq ordres avec l' indication des ombres nécessaires au lavis, le tracé des frontons, etc, etc., et des exemples relatifs aux ordres. Paris, Dopter & Co., (ca. 1860). 4to. Contemporary half calf, with title lettered in gold on gilt spine, marbled endpapers. With 72 full-page engravings after drawings by Leveil and engraved by Hibon. (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Shining examples View picture(s) 35 LOON, Sophia van. Nuttige voorbeelden, bijeengezameld. Gouda, G.B. van Goor, (ca. 1850). Sm.8vo. Orig. lithographed boards, with illustration of a little bird on front cover. With 4 full-page lithographed plates, all nicely coloured by hand. VI, (2), 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art  Biography  Education  Painting & Drawing  Philosophy  Poetry  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous 'Utrechtse Lustwarande' depicted View picture(s) 36 LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus. Gezigten in de omstreken van Utrecht, opgedragen aan H.M. de Koninging der Nederlanden. Naar de natuur getekend en op steen gebragt door P.J. Lutgers met geschiedkundige aanteekeningen van W.J. Hofdijk. (The Hague, J.D. Steuerwald), 1869. Folio. Contemporary dark green half morocco, spine elaborately gilt and lettered in gold. Lithographed title with tinted vignette with the ruins of the castle at Wijk bij Duurstede, and 87 lithographed tinted plates (ca. 165 x 225 mm) with views of manor houses and stately homes in Utrecht and surroundings, designed and lithographed by P.J. Lutgers. (8), XVIII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Landscape  Lithographs  Topography  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The starting point of a German school on the creative and technical planning and designing of gardens View picture(s) 37 MEYER, Gustav. Lehrbuch der Schönen Gartenkunst. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die praktische Ausführung von Gärten, Parkanlagen u.s.w. Berlin, Riegel's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1860. Folio. Contemporary half morocco. With 24 lithographed plates, 2 double-page, mostly printed in colours, showing plans and designs of gardens, and with some woodengraved illustrations and figures in text. (4) pp., 234 columns, (1) p. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Botany  Gardens  Lithographs  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The infrastructure of Utrecht View picture(s) 38 MONDE, Nicolaas van der. Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Beschrijving van de Pleinen, Straten, Stegen, Waterleidingen, Wedden, Putten en Pompen der Stad Utrecht. Bevattende een overzigt van de oude plaatselijke gesteldheid der stad, van hare bewaking, verlichting en verdere maatregelen, tot veiligheid en gemak der ingezetenen, op de openbare wegen genomen. Utrecht, N. van der Monde, 1844-1846. 3 volumes. Modern half leather with marbled boards. With 3 lithographed frontispieces, printed in red and black, large folding lithographed map by P.W. de Weijer, designed by the author after the original in the City Files, the map with the plan of Utrecht set as a jewel in the middle coloured by hand, 4 folding engraved parts of a plan of Utrecht, 3 folding engraved and lithographed plans, of Utrecht and the castle Vredenburg, and 4 lithographed views, 3 folding. XVI, 375, (3); VIII, 380, (2); VIII, 370, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  History  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The top of Dutch garden art: castle Heemstede near Houten View picture(s) 39 MOUCHERON, Isaac de. Plusieurs belles, et plaisante veües et la cour de Heemstede, dans la Province d'Utrecht.- Verscheyde schoone en vermaakelyke gezigten van Heemstede, gelegen in de Provintie van Utrecht. (Amsterdam), Widow of Nicolaas Visscher, ca. 1702. Oblong 4to. 19th-century half green cloth, marbled sides. Richly engraved title (nr.1) and 25 engraved views (nrs. 2-26) of the castle and gardens of Heemstede, a country estate near Houten, Utrecht by Isaac de Moucheron (measureing ca. 165/170 x 198/215 mm; 12-13, 25: 168 x 157 mm). 26 leaves Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Print Series  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A fine example of a "William and Mary House and Gardens" View picture(s) 40 MULDER, Joseph and DE LESPINE. Veues de Gunterstein. Dediees A Madame de Gunterstein et de Thienhoven. Amsterdam, Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 8vo. Old boards. With richely engraved allegorical title by J. Mulder, and 15 fine engraved views of the House and Gardens of Gunterstein, on the Vecht near Breukelen, engraved by De Lespine. (16) ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Gardens  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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