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How to create a perfect garden View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas. L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant  la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs. Traduit de l'Allemand avec des remarques. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1720. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed, decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in gold. With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates. (8), 261 (1 blank); (4), 146, 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Engravings  French  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The holy places of the Holy Land View picture(s) 2 AMICO DA GALLIPOLI, Bernadino. Trattato delle piante & immagini de sacri edifizi di Terra Santa. Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, (1619)-1620. Folio (205 x 295 mm). Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title "Amico" to spine, red edges. With engrageved title page, large woodcut printer's device on reverse of final leaf, and 34 double-page-sized etchings by Jacques Callot, printed from 38 plates, with 46 numbered illustrations. Bound first is a large, folding engraved map of the eastern Mediterranean with insets of Palestine and Jerusalem, engraved by Nicolas Sanson: "Iesu Christi Salvatoris Nostri et Apostolorum Petri, et Pauli Mansiones, Itinera, Peregrinationes &c. per Galilaeam, Samariam, Iudaeam; et per Aegyptum, Asiam, Europam" (from: Sanson, Geographia Sacra. Paris, Mariette, 1665). (8), 65, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Holy Land  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art collection of Mariette Bouchardon View picture(s) 3 BASAN, Pierre François. Catalogue des estampes des plus grands maîtres Italiens, Flamands & François, de divers recueils d'estampes, d'architecture de différents maîtres, & autres traités sur les arts, dépendants de la succession de M. Mariette, contrôleur-général de la grande-chancellerie de France, honoraire amateur de l'Academie Royale de peinture & sculpture, & de l'Academie de Florence, dont la vente commencera le Ier février 1775, de relevée, & jours suivants, sans interruption, dans une salle des Grands-Agustins. Paris, Basan et Chariot, (1775). 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and gilt with black morocco title-label, red painted edges. VIII, 80 (last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Drawing & Painting  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important military treatises of the 17th century View picture(s) 4 BASTA, Conte d'Hust, Giorgio. Il governo della cavalleria leggiera: Trattato che concerne anchi quanto basta alla grave per intelligenza de capitani. Oppenheim, Jeronimo Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1616. Small folio. Contemporary limp vellum. With richly engraved allegorical title-border, full-page portrait of the author, and numerous illustrations of fortified military camps, and march- and battle-arrays of the cavalry on 12 double-page engraved plates, including 2 folding, by Johann Theodor de Bry. 8, 73, [11] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Horses & Horsemanship  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine plate book with 62 steel-engraved plates after Robert Batty depecting the scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland View picture(s) 5 BATTY, [Robert]. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland, from drawings by Captn. Batty, of the Grenadier Guards F.R.S. Member of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne. London, Robert Jennings, 1826. Folio. Contemp. half calf, gilt title on spine, gilt raised bands. With 62 steel-engraved plates (frontispiece and tail-piece included). Each plate is present two times (in different states). All plates are after drawings by the author engraved by a.o. W.R. Smith, E. Finden, R. Wallis, W. Woolnoth, etc. (189 lvs). Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Engravings  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most illustrious of all celestial atlases View picture(s) 6 BAYER, Johannes. Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa. Ulm, Johannes Görlin, 1639. Folio (31.5 x 41 cm). Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, double blind filet along sides. With engraved architectural title and 51 full-page engraved maps of stellar constellations by Alexander Mair. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astronomy  Atlases  Engravings  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare print series with naval subjects View picture(s) 7 BEECQ, Jan Karel Donatus van. Plusieurs Pieces Maritimes. Paris, [ca. 1690]. 2 works in 1 volume. Oblong folio. Contemporary calf. With engraved frontispiece, and 5 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, and 5 engraved plates. All plates depict several ships. (12) ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the pleasures of a countryman's table View picture(s) 8 BERCHOUX, Joseph de. La gastronomia ó los placeres de la mesa. Poema. Traducido libremente del Frances al verso Español por Don José de Urcullu, capitan graduado, teniente del regimiento infantería de Leon. Valencia, La imprenta de Estévan, 1820. 12vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title label. Full-page engraving of a merry company drinking coffee in a garden by T. de Rocafort. XII, 228 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Coffee & Tea  Engravings  Gastronomy  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a detailed description of the city of Schoonhoven View picture(s) 9 BERKUM, Hendrik van. Beschryving der stadt Schoonhoven (...). Nader overzien en merkelyk vermeerdert door J.A.B(lock). Gouda, Gysbert en Willem de Vry, 1762. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With large woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Schoonhoven in title, folding genealogical table, large folding general view by Jan Punt after W. Fortuijn, large folding plan by Isaac Tirion, and 2 folding engraved views, one of the city-hall and the other of the Barthlemy Church, by Jan Punt after W. Fortuijn. (28), 616, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Netherlands  Topography  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Paulus van Uchelen copy View picture(s) 10 BLAEU, Joan. Vyfde Stuck der Aerdrycksbeschryving, welck vervat Schotlandt en Yrlandt. Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. Large folio. Strong ivory vellum, bound by Magnus for the Dutch collector Paulo van Uchelen, with gilt crowns in the four corners. With engraved architectural title, with large coat of arms on the upper half, 55 double-page engraved maps, including one full-page of the Irish County Caterlogh, all beautifully coloured by hand and heightened with gold, and often richly adorned with additional cartouches with regional scenes, but  most often with rows or bunches of richly coloured and gilt coats-of-arms, all maps of the first variant, without added ships and compass roses. (8), 189, (1 blank), 70, (1, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases  Atlases [General]  Cartography  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded original issue of a series of 16 views of the Honselaarsdijk palace, coloured by hand View picture(s) 11 BLOOTELING, Abraham. Series of 16 views of Honselaarsdijk. (Amsterdam, ca. 1683). Oblong 8vo. Modern half vellum, boards pasted with paper decorated with small flowers. With 16 fine numbered engraved views (ca. 13 x 16 cm), signed by Abraham Blooteling, tipped in on blank leaves (17 x 23 cm), all hand coloured. 16 lvs. with engravings. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Gardens  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Luxuriously produced bibliophile edition View picture(s) 12 BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas. Oeuvres. Avec des Éclaircissemens Historiques, donnez par lui-même. Nouvelle Edition revuë, corrigée & augmentée de diverses Remarques. Amsterdam, D. Mortier, 1718. 2 vols. Folio. Contemp. blue morocco, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, including a portrait of the author, engraved vignette with portrait of Erasmus on 2 titles, titles printed in red and black, all text-pages within fine typographical woodcut borders, fine engraved frontispiece and 6 full-page engraved plates to "Le Lutrin", 2 engraved headpieces and 2 engraved initials, and 27 fine engraved tailpieces, some repeated, by Bernard Picart. (4), XVIII, (4), 450; (4), VII, (1), 370, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bibliophily  Engravings  French  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The three architectural treatises by Bosse in their 1688 issues, considered as a unit and often described as a single book View picture(s) 13 BOSSE, Abraham. Traité des manieres de dessiner les o'rdres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties. Paris, Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery & Charles Clousier, (ca. 1688). 3 works in one. Folio. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold on red morocco label, gilt and decorated binding edges, red speckled edges. Full-page engraved title-page in elongated octagonal tablet with olive wrath moulding, imprint in rectangular block below, full-page engraved frontispiece showing female statues of 'Le Solide' &  'La Agréable' in wall-niches, with free-standing statues of 'La Théorie' and 'La Pratique' flanking a flight of steps inscribed 'Le Commode' leading to a monumental figure representing 'La Raison sur tout' set under a projecting Ionic portico, the attic and frieze of which is inscribed 'Traité sur la pratique des ordres de colomnes de l architecture nommée antique (and in the soffit space) par A. Bosse, 44 full-page engraved plates (ca. 31 x 20 cm) numbered I-XLIV top right with demonstrations on how to draw, proportion, applying the orders and their members, plans and elevations of staircases and banisters and demonstrations of the shading of solid geometrical bodies, moulding etc., one unnumbered double-page engraved plate of the Corinthian order. Engraved throughout, including the texts. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Art  Engravings  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With beautiful engraved illustrations and maps of Spanish cities and twelve figures illustrating the traditional bullfights View picture(s) 14 BOURGOING, Jean Francois. Atlas pour servir au tableau de l' Espagne moderne. Paris, Tourneisen fils, 1807. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments with ligt brown title label lettered in gold. With 15 full-page beautifully engraved illustrations of Spanish buildings, monuments and landscapes, one large folding map of the roads of Spain (395 x 490 mm), one of Madrid (225 x 345 mm) by P.F. Tardieu, 2 folding plates of bullfights (260 x 285 mm), full-page map of the bay of Cadiz, double-page view of Gibraltar by Tardieu 9200 x 310 mm), full-page map of the attack of the naval batteries before Gibraltar and one of the Alhambra, and 2 full-page plans of Spanish architecture. (2), (25) lvs. of which 6 folding. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important Dutch illustrated military book with unrecorded frontispiece View picture(s) 15 BOXEL, Johan. Exercitie memorie vande compagnie guardes van de Ed. Groot Mog. Heeren Staten van Holland en West-Vrieslandt. Bestaende in 't exerceren van 't musquet, spies, ende de generale exercitie. The Hague, Nicolaas van Coevenhoven, (1669). 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title label lettered in gold, gilt oval coat of arms of the Van Ilten family stamped in centre front cover. Title printed in red and black, with 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces and 82 full-page engraved plates of exercising soldiers and companies. (8), (4), (4), (4), (6) lvs., 11 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Engravings  Militaria  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Selected works of a liberal Professor of Theology from Groningen View picture(s) 16 BRAUN, Johannes. Selecta sacra. Libri quinque. Cum indicibus locupletissimis, & tabulis aeneis elegantissimis. Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1700. 4to. Contemporary blind stamped vellum, ribbed spine with title in ink. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Mulder after Ph. Tieleman, title printed in red & black with woodcut vignette, 13 engraved plates (of which 5 folding), woodcut head-and end pieces, woodcut initials. 53, (11), 805, (113) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Engravings  Judaica  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare print series engraved by Simon Frisius View picture(s) 17 BRIL, Matthaeus. Topographia variarum regionum. Inventa a Mathaeo Bril, aeri incisa à Simone Frisio. Ab C.J. Visscherio excusa. (Amsterdam), Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1651. Oblong 8vo. Later half cloth with green boards and white label with title in ink in ms. pasted on front cover. Engraved title, and 24 engraved full-page numbered plates, numbered 1-25 (ca. 110 x 158 mm. (borderlines: ca. 95 x 150-5 mm). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the finest examples of books presenting the American landscape of ca. 1870; from the library of Sir Edward Tate View picture(s) 18 BRYANT, William Cullen (Ed.). Picturesque America; or, the land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. New York, D. Appelton and Company, 1872 & 1874. 2 vols. Folio. Original full brown publisher's roan over beveled boards, decorated in Art Nouveau style with gilt decorated title within blind tooled border on both front covers, spines raised in five compartments with gilt title, gilt and decorated inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. Vol. I: Full-page steel-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved title, 22 full-page steel-engraved plates. Vol. II: Full-page steel-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved title, 23 full-page steel-engraved plates. Numerous steel- and wood engraved illustrations in text. VIII, 568; VI, 576 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French description of the world with 18 maps View picture(s) 19 BUFFIER, Claude. Géographie universelle, exposée dans les differentes métodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude & faciliter l'usage de cette sience. Avec le secours des vers artificiels. Sixième édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée des changemens de domination arivés récemment dans les Etats de'l'Europe: 2. d'une préface sur la méthode d'aprendre la Géographie ... 3. d'une table des noms de pays en françois & en latin ... Paris, Pierre-François Giffart, 1739. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. 18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's. XXIV, 413 (3), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America, North  Antarctica  Asia  Atlases [General]  Atlases [Pocket]  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  France  Geography  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early description of colour printing, based on the experiments of the author View picture(s) 20 BYLAERT, Joannis Jacobus. Nieuwe manier om plaet-tekeningen in 't koper te brengen, van een, twee of meer couleuren, soo datse de natuur van tekeningen behouden, al schoon dezelve op eene ordinaire plaet-perse gedrukt worden. - Nouvelle maniere de graver en cuivre des estampes coloriées; de façon que, quoiqu'imprimées dans une presse ordinaire, elles conservent l'air & le caractère du dessein. Traduit du Hollandais, par L.G.F. Kerroux. Leiden, Samuel & Johannes Luchtmans, 1772. 8vo. Contemporary red paper over boards, gilt spine lettered in gold. With 2 folding engraved plates, numbered A-B. 77, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Colour Printing  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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