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Famous work on English garden designs View picture(s) 41 HIRSCHFELD, Christian Cay L. Theorie der Gartenkunst. Leipzig, M.G. Weidmanns Erben, Reich, 1779-1785. 5 volumes. 4to. Early 19th-century half calf. With fine engraved garden view on 5 titles, 231 engravings in text, many full-page, and 6 full-page and 1 folding engraved plate. XIV, 230, [2]; IV, 200, [2]; IV, 251, [5]; IV, 252, [2]; VIII, 368, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Engravings  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A collection of Dutch orations on drawing and painting View picture(s) 42 HOEVENAAR, Adrianus. Redenvoering gehouden ter gelegenheid van de inwying; van het teken-collegie, op de nieuw gebouwde zaal, boven het Zegelhuis der stad Utrecht. Utrecht, Justus Visch, 1778. 8vo. Half calf with gilt spine. Engraved title-page. (4), 32 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  19th Century  Art  Drawings  Dutch  Education  Engravings  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the description and depiction of the public gardens at Gottingen View picture(s) 43 HOFFMANN, Georg Franz. Hortus Gottingensis, quem proponit simulque orationem inchoandae professioni sacram indicit. Gottingen, Leipzig, S.L. Crusius for the author, 1793. Folio. Contemporary half calf. With 2 engraved views of Gottingen and its gardens, one on title and the other at the head of text, both beautifully coloured by hand, and large folding engraved plan of the garden, signed by E. Reepens. (2), 14 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany [Herbals]  Engravings  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventures of the children of Robinson Crusoe View picture(s) 44 HÖLDER, Louise. Robinson Crusoë ten tweeden male op zijn eiland; zijn uiteinde, en de lotgevallen zyner kinderen aldaar: als natuur- en zedekundig leesboek voor de jeugd beschreven. Tweede druk. Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Arum, (1826). Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. With steel-engraved title vignette and 4 full-page steel-engraved plates, all in contemporary handcolouring. IV, 127 (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Engravings  Robinson Crusoe  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A magnificent collection of contemporary portraits of the most important artists from the Netherlands working in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries View picture(s) 45 HONDIUS, Henricus (& Simon FRISIUS, Andries STOCK, and Robert de BAUDOUS). Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipué Germaniae Inferioris, effigies. Pars I. The Hague, Henricus Hondius, (ca. 1610). Folio. Contemporary half calf. With engraved title, engraved plate with three putti, both by Hendrick Hondius, 41 full-page (ca. 200 x 120 mm) engraved portraits by Hendrich Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5), and full-page allegorical plate by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself (163 x 110 mm; mounted). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Dutch  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The influential first German encyclopaedia translated into Dutch View picture(s) 46 HÜBNER, Johann. De nieuwe, vermeerderde en verbeterde kouranten-tolk, of zakelyk, historisch- en staatkundig woordenboek, waar in zo wel van den lateren als tot den tegenwoordigen tyd de verscheide godsdiensten en geestelyke ordens; de landen, koningryken, republyken, staaten, steden, vestingen, kastelen, en passen; de zeën, meiren, eylanden, rivieren, havens, bergen, voorgebergtens, en bosschen; de namen der gekroonde hoofden, de geslachtliniën der vorstelyke en grafelyke huizen; de gezamentlyke ridder-ordens; societeiten, wapens; ryks-en-land-dagen; gerichtshoven; civile en militaire bedieningen te water en te land; benevens het onderscheid der mylen, der munten; maten en gewichten; de benamingen der zaken, die in de bouw- en krygskunde, artillery, campementen, slagordens, belegeringen, scheepvaarten, zee costuimen enz. in gebruik zyn ... Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans en Zoon, 1748. 4to. Contemporary blind tooled vellum, title in ink on ribbed spine. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black, woodcut head-pieces and initials. (8), 1260 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Art  Dictionaries  Dutch  Engravings  Netherlands  Science  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The last work written by Christiaan Huygens in English translation View picture(s) 47 HUYGENS, Christiaan. The celestial worlds discover'd: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. London, James Knapton, 1722. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red sprinkled edges. With spherical illustrations on 5 folding engraved plates. VI, 162 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Dutch  English  Engravings  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the best illustrated books on the history of music of the 18th century View picture(s) 48 LA BORDE, Jean-Benjamin de. Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne. Paris, l'Imprimerie de Philippe-Denys Pierres et Eugène Onfroy, 1780-81. 4 parts and a supplement in 4 vols. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt spines with red morocco labels lettered in gold, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With engraved vignettes on the titles and numerous very interesting head- and tailpieces by Malapeau and Masquelier; many staves and musical notations in the text. Vol. 1 (part 1): 3 folding and 57 full-page engraved plates of Arabic and Asiatic musical instruments, musical notations and tables; vol. 2 (part 2): 2 folded engraved plates with musical notations, 2 full-page engraved plates and 220 engraved plates with musical notations and poems, the last 177 as chap. XII (separately numbered 1-178); vol. 3 (part 3): 2 folded tables and 3 full-page engraved plates with musical notations; vol. 4 (Suppl.): 3 times 59 (=177) full-page engraved plates with musical notations and poems. Vol.1: (4), 5, (3), V-XX, 200, XX, 201-445; vol.2: (4), 444, 178; vol. 3: (4), 702; vol. 4: (4), 476, 27, 8, LVI (General index), (4), XIV, 70, 59, 59, 59 pp. (Supplement). Vol. 1: (4), 5, (3), V-XX, 200, XX, 201-445; vol. 2: (4), 444, 178; vol. 3: (4), 702; vol. 4: (4), 4 Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  French  Music  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by the best Dutch artists View picture(s) 49 LA FONTAINE, Jean DE. Fabelen, In Nederduitsche vaerzen overgebragt door J. Nomsz. Amsterdam, Allart & Holtrop, 1786. 5 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with black title-labels. With 2 richly engraved frontispieces, one by R. Vinkeles after J. Buys and the other by Reinier Vinkeles after Oudry, portrait of La Fontaine by B. Picart, engraved vignettes by R. Vinkeles on 5 titles, and 276 full-page engraved plates by J. Punt, A. Delfos, and R. Vinkeles, all after designs by Jean Baptiste Oudry. VIII, 162; VIII, 192; VIII, 181 (1 blank); VIII, 189, (1 blank); IV, 203, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Dutch  Engravings  Fable Books  La Fontaine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Including a treatise by Venette View picture(s) 50 LA QUINTINIE, Jean Baptiste de. Instruction pour les Jardins Fruitiers et Potagers. Avec un traité des Orangers, Et des Réflexions sur l'Agriculture. Nouvelle édition revüe, corrigée Et  augmenté d'une Instruction pour la Culture des Fleurs. Paris, la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1730. 2 vols. 4to Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-labels. With large folding engraved plan of La Quintinie's kitchen- and fruit-gardens at Versailles, 12 full-page engraved plates, one folding, with illustrations on planting, grafting and lopping trees, including their instruments, 8 fine engraved headpieces in text, with garden-views, and several woodcut illustrations and figures in text. XLVIII, (8), 591, (1); (12), 587, (29) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Engravings  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Religious print-series designed by Romeyn de Hooghe View picture(s) 51 LA VIGNE, David de & Mr. De CHERTABLON. La maniere de se bien preparer a la mort, par des considerations sur la cene, la passion & la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de très-belles estampes emblematiques, expliquées par Mr. De Chertablon. Antwerp (Amsterdam?), George Gallet, 1700. 4to. Contemporary light brown calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, gilt borders along the edges of both sides with large gilt coat-of-arms of the Duke De Richelieu in centre, gilt binding-edges, gilt dentelles, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. Title printed in red and black, engraved emblematic frontispiece with Death knocking on the door (A), 39 beautifully designed and engraved full-page plates showing people on their deathbed being shown the Crucifix and scenes of Christ's Passion on paintings held up high by little cherubs (numbered 1-39) and 2 full-page emblematic plates, numbered B-C, with death symbols, all copies (the most in reverse) of the etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe. 63, (1) pp. (Collation: A-H4). Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Dutch  Engravings  Print Series  Religion  Romeyn de Hooghe  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) 52 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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Langendijk's collected works View picture(s) 53 LANGENDIJK, Pieter. Gedichten. Haarlem, J. Bosch, (1751)-60. 4 vols. Large 4to. Contemporary blindstamped vellum with title in ink on spine, speckled edges. Vol. I: Engraved title by and after J. Wandelaar dated Amsterdam, widow B. Visscher, 1721, printed title in red & black with engraved vignette, engraved author's portrait by J. Houbraken, 3 full-page engraved plates with coins, woodcut endpieces and initials. Vol II: Engraved vignette by J. Wandelaar on title, woodcut endpieces and initials. Vol. III: Engraved author's portrait by J. Houbraken after C. Pronk, 2 folding engraved plates by and after J. Punt, 2 full-page engraved plates by and after J. Wandelaar, woodcut endpieces and initials. Vol. IV: Engraved vignette on title, woodcut endpieces and initials. (40), 494, (5, 1 blank); (14), 1-422, (2), 423-495, (3); VII, (12), 504, (11, 1 blank); 8, (4), 1-136, (4), 137-174, (2), 175-382, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Engravings  Poetry  Portraits  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Only edition of a work on French Brabant View picture(s) 54 LE ROY, Jacques. Topographia historica Gallo-Brabantiae. Quâ Romanduae oppida municipia & dominia illustrantur, atque monasteria, nobiliumque praetoria castellaque in aes exhibentur. Amsterdam, Herman Allard, 1692. Folio. Contemporary calf, spine covered with green morocco, ribbed and gilt. Engraved frontispiece by A. à Diepenbeke, engraved map by Harrewijn, engraved vignette at dedication, engraved coat of arms in text (both by Erfinger), 7 woodcut coat of arms in text, 36 engraved illustrations in text and 19 engraved plates by Harrewijn, de Bruyn and van Weerden, of which 2 double page. (10), 272, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Brabant  Engravings  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the finest 18th century works on microscopy, beautifully illustrated View picture(s) 55 LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius. Mikroskoopische vermaaklykheden, zo voor de oogen als voor den geest, behelzende de afbeeldingen van veelerley voorwerpen, zo van dierlyke lighaamen, als van planten en delfstoffen. Thans aanmerkelyk vermeerderd door A.W. Winterschmidt, mr. teekenaar, konst- en musiekverkoper te Neuremburg. Amsterdam, Erven van F. Houttuyn, 1776. 4 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt, with red morocco title-labels. With illustrations on 174 full-page engraved plates mostly by Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733-1796) after the author, all beautifully coloured by hand. (8), 78; (4), 88; (4), 80; (4), 58, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Engravings  Microscopy  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare print series illustrating the Creed of the Apostles View picture(s) 56 LEU, Thomas de (or De LEEUW). XII fidei apostolici symbola iconibus artificiosiss. (Paris), Thomas de Leu, (ca. 1600). Oblong 4to. Modern marbled boards, spine with brown title label lettered in gold (HONNELAITRE). Engraved allegorical title (124 x 176 mm), 12 numbered engraved plates (ca. 130--5 x 172-8 mm) after designs of Johannes Sadeler/ Martin de Vos, engraved by Thomas de Leu, (last engraving with monogram IS) with one line verse beneath. 13 lvs. (168 x 225 mm). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Print Series  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to become a good florist View picture(s) 57 LIGER, Louis. Le jardinier fleuriste, ou la culture universelle des fleurs, arbres, arbustes, arbrisseaux servant à l'embellissement des jardins. Contenant plusieurs parterres sur des dessins nouveaux, bosquets, boulingrins, salles, sallons, & autres ornemens de jardin. Avec la maniere de rechercher les eaux, de les conduire dans les jardins, & une instruction sur les bassins: ouvrage ou tous les curieux trouveront de quoi s'amuser agréablement. Nouvelle edition, revûe, corrigée & augmentée considérablement. Paris, Saugrain Fils, 1742. Avec approbation et privilege du Roi. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title lable, red painted edges. With 8 woodcut figures in text, and 14 folding engraved plates with variable sizes. XIV, (6), 514, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  French  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Everything about horses, and more ... View picture(s) 58 LÖHNEISEN (LÖHNEYSS), Georg Engelhard. Neu-eröffnete Hof- Kriegs- und Reit-Schul. Das ist gründlicher Bericht della Cavalleria, oder von allen was zur Reuterey gehörig und einem Cavalier davon zu wissen gebühret. Nach den ersten Titul diese überaus rar-wordenes Buches, welches aber anjetzo in einen gantz andern Stand gesetzet, verneuert und mit ausführlichen schönen Noten, auch gantzen Capiteln vermehret und verbessert worden, so daß ein Cavalier, oder anderer Liebhaber der Pferde alles darinnen findet, was er von dem Geschlecht der Pferde, derer verschiedenen Arten, guten und bösen Eigenschafften, schöner und heßlicher Gestalt, Mängel und Gebrechen, nebst wolbewährten raren Arcanis und Recepten, wie selbige bald un glücklich zu curiren. Nicht weniger von Fort-pflanzung, Erziehung, Wart und künstlicher Abrichtung, denen hierzu dienlichen Zäumungs-mitteln, Stangen und Gebißen, zu wissen verlanget; so einem jeden, der mit Pferden umzugehen hat, vornehmlich Stall-meistern, Bereutern und Roß-aertzten sehr dienlich und nutzlich sein kan. Deme vorgestzet in denen ersten zweyen Theilen eine gründlich und richtige Anweisung wie man junge van Adel auferziehen soll daß sie entweder wohl qualificirte Hof-leute, gute Soldaten, oder verständige und kluge Oeconomos in ihrer eigenen Haußhaltung abgeben können. Nebst allen diesen wird gehandelt von denen Turnieren der Alten, Lanzenbrechen, Quintan-, Kopff- Ring- und Carrousel-Rennen; curieusen Inventionen, artigen Aufzügen, Schlittenfahrten und dergleichen. Nuremberg, Paul Lochner, 1729. 6 parts in 1 volume Folio. Later light brown chequered calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, blind and black fillet borders around a large gilt central ornament on both sides, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, 6 interesting engraved headpieces and engraved initials, one to each part (the first with a portrait of the author in a roundel), engraved plate with coat of arms of the dedicatee 'Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Marggraffen zu Brandenburg', and 61 engraved plates, (9 double page, 52 full page). [28], 66; 96; 114; 136; 144; 104, [8 (of 10, last leaf of index missing)] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  German  Horses & Horsemanship  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Accepted by Franklin as proof for his theories View picture(s) 59 MARUM, Martinus van. Beschreibung einer ungemein großen Elektrisier-Maschine und der damit im Teylerschen Museum zu Haarlem agestelten Versuche. Aus dem Holländisch übersetzt. Leipzig, Schwickert, 1786-1798. 3 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards. 27 engraved plates (18 folding and 9 beautifully handcoloured). VIII, 42, 4; VIII, 72; VIII, 84 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Haarlem  Netherlands  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Queen Charlotte Sophia's copy View picture(s) 60 MILLER, John. Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaei.- An Illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus. London, by the Author, [1770-1777]. 3 volumes. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt,  with red and green title labels, gilt decorated  borders on sides, gilt side dentelles, g.e. With full-page manuscript allegorical dedicational drawing in watercolour to Queen Charlotte of England on one of the blank front leaves of the first volume, richly engraved frontispiece with the medaillon portraits of Miller and Linnaeus at the top, 2 series of 104 full-page engraved botanical plates, 1 beautifully handcoloured  in proof-state, the other in black and white with numbers  and titles, 4 added plates with finely handcoloured plant leaves.4 preliminary lvs., and one leaf text in Latin and  English to each plate of the black and white  series. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Colour Platebooks  Engravings  Natural History  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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