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First edition of this rare fortification work View picture(s) 81 REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of verhandeling om de facen, door middel van het metzelwerk, en derzelver zamenstel, tegen de vyandlyke artillery en mines bestendiger en geduurzaamer te doen zyn dan de tegenwoordige. Amsterdam, voor den autheur en zyn te bekomen by Jan Punt junior, (1759). 4to. Contemporary full marbled calf with gilt ornamental lines on sides, gilt and decorated ribbed spine in 6 compartments with gilt title on red label in second compartment. With 3 large engraved folding plates of ca. 490 x 260 mm by J. Punt after drawings by the author, 2 engravings in text by D. van Duffel, woodcut head- and endpieces. XVI, 122 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Artillery  Dutch  Engravings  Fortification  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rarest of all Redoutés major works View picture(s) 82 REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph. Album de Redouté. Paris, Galerie de Bossange Père, [1824]. Folio. Original publishers boards covered with yellow paper, stipple-engraved floral wreath, lithographed dedication to the Duchesse de Berry and her wood-engraved coat of arms on front cover, set within a lithographed ornamental border. Preserved in a 20th-century green straight-grained morocco box with gold-tooled borders on covers and gilt and decorated spine. With title printed in gold within stipple-engraved floral wreath printed in colour and finished by hand by Charlin after Redouté, 24 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand after Redouté by Couten (1), Langlois (6), Charlin (1), Bessin (2), De Gouy (8), Tassaert (2), Allais (3) and Chaponnier (1). [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Armorial Bindings  Botany  Colour Platebooks  Engravings  French  Gardens  Horticulture  Redouté  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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Rare complete series of 127 attractive animal-plates View picture(s) 83 RIDINGER, Johann Elias. (Naturhistorisches Original-Thierwerk). (Augsburg, Engelbrecht, 1825). Oblong folio. Contemporary diced half calf with gilt, ribbed spine, marbled covers. 127 numbered engraved plates incl. frontispiece incorporating a small portrait of Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) in profile on a base with his name and profession, surrounded by animals, and plates of all kinds of animals classified in 9 sections. 28 letterpress pp. with descriptions of the animals. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Natural History  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the architecture of hothouses View picture(s) 84 ROBERTSON, William. Collection de Differentes Espèces de Serres Chaudes,  pour forcer des Ananas, des Arbres Fruitiers, et pour  préserver des Plantes Exotiques Délicates; calculée  pour l'usage des amateurs et celui des étudians de  la Botanique et du Jardinage. Traduit de l'Anglois. Paris, Londres, (ca. 1790). Oblong folio. Or. wrappers. With plans and views of garden hothouse architecture on 24 full-page engraved plates. (32) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  Gardens  Modelbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Love poetry in a beautiful binding View picture(s) 85 ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo de. Scherzi poetici e pittorici. Rome, Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1795. 8vo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, one with black morocco title-label and 5 with gilt ornaments on oval inlaid black morocco pieces, sides with triple fillet borders and gilt corner ornaments with same inlaid oval black morocco pieces as on spine, central oval ornament executed in gilt green morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (R. PETIT). 41 engravings, incl. frontispiece (ca. 70x112mm). 52 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Engravings  Erotica  Literature  Poetry  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The various grades of nobility View picture(s) 86 ROU(C)K, Thomas de. Adelyk tooneel, of historische beschrijvinge, van allerley trappen van adeldom, en riddelijke ordens, met haar oorspronk. Mitsgaders der zelfder wapen-schilden, en toestel, in koningrijken, gemeene-besten, steden en volkeren, van oude tijden af, tot deze eeuw toe in gebruyk geweest zijnde. Amsterdam, Hendrik en Dirk Boom, 1673. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum with title on spine. Title in red & black with woodcut vignette, engraved frontispiece, 7 almost full-page engraved portraits in text, 3 almost full-page plates with coats of arms in text (2 engraved, 1 woodcut), many double-page woodcut genealogical trees in text, numerous smaller woodcut illustrations of crowns, escutcheons, coins, insignias, coats of arms and cuirasses in text, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (12), 370 (1, 1 blank); 56 (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Engravings  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Coloured by Maria Sibylla Merian View picture(s) 87 RUMPHIUS, Georg Everhard. d'Amboinsche rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te  weeten raare krabben, kreeften, en diergelyke zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt... Amsterdam, F. Halma, 1705. Folio. 19th-century green half calf. With hand-coloured engraved title, engraved portrait of the author, and 60 engraved plates after designs by Maria Sibylla Merian, who also coloured all of the plates. [32], 340, [44] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Conchology  Earth Sciences [Geology]  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Engravings  Ichthyology  Natural History  Shells  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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Ruysch's anatomical specimen: "The eight wonder of the world" View picture(s) 88 RUYSCH, Frederik. Alle de ontleed- genees- en heelkundige werken. Meerendeels in 't Nederduyts vertaalt door Ysbrand Gysbert Arlebout. Amsterdam, Janssoons van Waesberge, 1744. 3 vols. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt with red-morocco title-labels. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 titles in red & black, engraved portrait of Ruysch designed by I. Wandelaar and executed by D. Hoogstraten, 7 engraved illustrations in text, 2 woodcut illustrations in text and 133 engraved folding plates with anatomical designs and anatomical specimen. (4), 1280, (184) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Engravings  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Stories for the holidays by Alida de Savignac View picture(s) 89 SAVIGNAC, Alida de. Les vacances. Paris, (ca. 1835). 4 vols. Sm.8vo. Orig. illustrated wrappers preserved in orig. illustrated cardboard box. With in total 4 coloured and 3 b/w engravings. 31, (1); 27 (1); 35, (1); 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Engravings  France  French  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Designing fortifications View picture(s) 90 SCALA, Giovanni. Delle fortificationi. Nuovamente ristampate con agiunta d'diverse piante e fortezze. Roma, Gioseppe de Rossi, 1627. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. With engraved title within richly designed military emblematic borders with coat of arms at the top and a plan of fortification at the bottom, 100 elaborately designed and engraved plans and perspectival drawings of detailed parts of fortifications on 50 numbered plates, 10 engraved plans and perspectival designs of full fortifications on 5 plates, 2 engraved illustrations of a canon on 1 plate, and 5 double-page engraved plates with perspectival designs and full plans of fortifications, including a beautiful bird's eye view of the heavily fortified harbour of La Rochelle. (70) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engineering  Engravings  Fortification  Militaria  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On constructing fountains, buildings and bridges View picture(s) 91 SCALETTA, Carlo Cesare. Scuola mecanico-speculativo-pratica. In cui si esamina la proporzione, che ha la potenza alla resistenza del corpo grave; per l'uso civile, e militare utile e necessaria ad ogni matematico, ingegnerio, architetto, machinista, e bombardiere. Edizione prima Veneta. Venice, Antonio Mora, 1745. Folio. Contemporary vellum, spine ribbed. Title in red & black, engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved plates with many mechanical and perspectival figures. (16), 204 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  Mathematics  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive and detailed print series containing views of one of the most sumptuous Manor house and gardens of the seventeenth century View picture(s) 92 SCHENK, Pieter (ed.) Delineatio Domus recreatricis adjacentiumque prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem, auspiciis & iussu Illustr. Dni. Arnoldi Justi Toparchae in Keppel, Comitis de Albemarle etc. etc. etc. structorum per cl. postri temporis Magistrum, Jacobum Roman Sereniss. Britann. Regis architectum, accurate sculpta & Illustrissimo nomini humillimé inscripta à Petro Schenkio sculptore Amstelod. cum privil. Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, (ca. 1700). 4to oblong. Later wrappers of green marbled paper. With engraved title, and 16 fine engraved views of the Manor house and gardens of "De Voorst", near Zutphen in the Eastern part of the Netherlands by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  Gardens  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful views of The Hague View picture(s) 93 SCHEURLEER, Hendrik Florisz. Views of The Hague. (The Hague), H. Scheurleer, 1755-1761. Oblong folio. Contemporary half calf. 17 large etchings (all ca. 420 x 300 mm) with views of The Hague. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Engravings  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The finest 18th-century Dutch botanical work View picture(s) 94 SCHNEEVOOGT, George Voorhelm. Icones Rariorum. Delineavit et in aes incidit Henricus Schwegman; Scriptionem inspexit S.J. van Geuns.- Afbeeldingen van zeldzaame en fraaje Bloem- en Plant-Gewassen, naar 't leven getekend, gegraveerd en gecouleerd door Hendrik Schwegman. Uitgegeven onder het opzigt van S.J. van Geuns. Haarlem, C. Plaat, 1793. Large folio. Contemporary half calf. With 48 full-page plates of rare flowers, drawn, engraved and coloured by hand by Hendrik Schwegman. (4), 4, (96) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Botany [Herbals]  Colour Platebooks  Engravings  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classical chronicle of the counts of Holland View picture(s) 95 SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Het oude Goutsche chronyxken van Hollandt, Zeelandt, Vrieslandt en Utrecht. Op nieus oversien en verbetert. Als mede met een byvoeghsel en toet-steen vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Jan Hendricksz Boom, Joost Pluymer & Caspar Commelijn, 1663. 4to. Contemporary full calf, gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece with the allegorical figure and coat of arms of the Dutch States of Holland, Zeeland, Friesland and Utrecht, and with 36 large full-length engraved portraits of the Counts of Holland in text by Adriaan Matham of which the first and last are dated 1620. (8), 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Engravings  History  Nobility  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Haarlem 'prize binding' with work celebrating the invention of printing in that city View picture(s) 96 SEIZ, Joannes Christianus. Annus tertius saecularis inventae artis typographicae, sive brevis historica enarratio de inventione noblissimae artis typographicae, in qua ostenditur, quo tempore, à quo & ubi locorum ea primum fuerit inventa ... Haarlem, Isaac et Joannes Enschede, (1742). 8vo. 'Prize binding' from Haarlem: contemporary vellum, richly gilt with two borders, centre-pieces and in the centre of both sides the Haarlem virgin in arms with the coat of arms of Haarlem; spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gold: 'Ars typogr. a L. Kostero inventa'; inner dentelles; gilt edges. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece with four Latin verses by Petrus Scriverius underneath (dated 1741), engraved vignette on title (also dated 1741) and engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, all by A. van der Laan; 4 full-page engraved plates showing the statue of Laurens Jansz. Koster by A. van der Laan (1740), and three plates with memorial medals; and a folding engraved view of Haarlem, showing Coster's house, by H. Spilman. Added and mounted on the verso of the half-title is the engraved portrait of Coster by J. van Velde after the painting by Jacob van Campen with the four lines of Latin poetry by Petrus Scriverius. XXIV, 248, 14 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Book History  Engravings  Haarlem  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a rare complete set of 'De Buitenman' View picture(s) 97 SERRURIER, Jakob Frederik. De Buitenman. 's-Gravenhage, J. Allart. 1820-1829. 4 vols. Contemporary boards. Each volume with engraved title by D. Veelwaard after J. van Meurs and some woodcuts and/or tabels in text. Volume II has 2 nicely engraved full-page plates. Vol. 1: IV, 416; Vol. 2: IV, 416; Vol. 3: 406, III, (1 blank); Vol. 4: IV, 422 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Dutch  Engravings  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classicist epic poem in Dutch with beautiful hand coloured frontispiece after Reinier Vinkeles View picture(s) 98 STEENWYK, Frans van. Klaudius Civilis, in zestien zangen. Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1774. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with sm. oval green label with '1774' stamped in gold. With large engraved allegorical vignette on title by Reinier Vinkeles, dated 1773, and fine engraved frontispiece by Pieter Meijer after Reinier Vinkeles in two states, one beautifully coloured by hand and heightened with gold. (4), 395, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Gorgeous copy View picture(s) 99 STOOPENDAAL, Daniel. De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheide gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Utrecht en met Muyden besluytende.- La triomphante riviere de Vecht, remonstrant diverses veües des lieux de plaisances & maisons seignorales & villages; commençant de Uitrecht & finissant avec Muyden. Amsterdam, Wed. Nicolaus Visscher, 1719. Large folio. Contemp. vellum, ribbed spine,  blindtooled centre piece on covers, gilt title, red sprinkled edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. van der Laan after A. de Lairesse, full-page engraved  map of the river Vecht, and 98 beautiful views of country houses and gardens along the river Vecht, designed and engraved by Daniel Stoopendaal. (2), 16, 37, (1 blank) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Maps  Print Series  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of this exuberantly illustrated highlight of 19th century Dutch topography View picture(s) 100 TERWEN, Johannes Leonardus. Het koningrijk der Nederlanden, voorgesteld in eene reeks van naar de natuur geteekende schilderachtige gezigten. Gouda, G.B. van Goor, 1858-1861/1862. 3 vols. 8vo. Original richly gilt and decorated purple cloth with blind stamped ornaments and filets on covers, gilt coat of arms of Holland and several others on front cover, gilt and decorated spine. With in total 3 steel-engraved frontispieces and 136 steel-engraved plates. 820 pp. (Vol. 1: pp. 1-240; vol. 2: pp. 341-488; vol. 3: pp. 489-820). Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Amsterdam  Armorial Bindings  Dutch  Engravings  Friesland  Netherlands  Topography  Views  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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