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A German city punished by the hand of God View picture(s) 1 ACHILLES, Augustus Andreas. Eine durch ein unerhörtes Zornfeuer Gottes ganz und gar verstöhrte Stadt stellete am 6. April 1766. als Dominica Quasimodogeniti bey Gelegenheit der am 2ten eiusdem erfolgten erschrecklichen Feuerbrunst wodurch die Stadt Muszkau in der Oberlausitz in einen Aschenhaufen verwandelt, und gänzlich zerstöhret worden, Seiner mit diesem Zornfeuer heimgesuchten, und in das höchste Elend versetzten Gemeinde. Dreszden, gedruckt mit Krausischen Schriften, (1766). 4to. Contemp. boards. (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chapbooks  Fire Fighting  German  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Modern theories View picture(s) 2 ARCHITECTURE. Moderne Bauformen. Monatshefte für Architektur.- Baukunst und Innendekoration auf der Ausstellung für Christliche Kunst (Year 9, vol. VIII).- Architekt Albert Eitel in Stuttgart (Year 4, vol. IX).- Heinrich Tscharmann, Dresden (Year 6, vol X). Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, (ca. 1910). 3 issues in 1 vol. Contemp. half cloth, marbled boards. With numerous photographs, drawings and plans of sculptures, glass, paintings and the ex- and interior of churches and houses. 71; 47; 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  German  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Italian for beginners View picture(s) 3 BARNABÈ, Stephanus. Teutsche und Italianische Discurs, Sambt etlichen Proverbien, Historien und Fabeln. München, In Verlag Johan Herman von Gelder, Gedruckt bey Sebastian Rauch, 1673. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, sides richly blind stamped in panel design with the armorial supralibros of the "Conventus Lincensis Carmelitar Discalceator" on frontcover, with 2 small brass clasps. 229, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Children's Books  Education  Fable Books  Fairy Tales  German  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest enlightened philosophical works published in Germany View picture(s) 4 BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Philalethie. Neue Aussichten in die Wahrheiten und  Religion der Vernunft bis in die Gränzen der glaubwürdigen Offenbarung, dem denkenden Publico eröffnet. Altona, David Iversen, 1764. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemp. boards, uncut. With engraved allegorical vignette on first title and engraved allegorical frontispiece by Fritzsch, showing a dark landscape at night with a moon and stars and the motto underneath: "Auch diess sind Strahle der Sonne". (24), 748, (10, 2 blank); (6), 448 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Enlightenment  German  Pedagogy & Didactics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Human behaviour View picture(s) 5 BAUMEISTER, Joseph Edlem von. Die Welt in Bildern, vorzüglich zum Vergnügen und Unterricht  der Jugend. Fünfter Band. Wien, Seb. Hartl, 1793. 4to. 19th century half calf, with orange title-label. With large engraving on title and 50 full-page engraved plates by Cl. Kohl after Sollerer. (4), 200, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Education  German  Schoolbooks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated writing book View picture(s) 6 BAURENFEIND, Michael. Vollkommene Wieder-Herstellung bissher Sehr in Verfall gekommenen gründlich-und zierlichen Schreib-Kunst, worinnen Der Jügend ein Sicherer und angenehmer Wege, wie Sie mit sonderbarem Vortheil ohne einige Information von selbsten hierinnen sich gar leicht belehren - eine erwachsene Person aber der gründrichtigen Lehr-Art und der zu Ersetzung der bissherigen Mangels dargestelten Versalien mit gütem Nützen bedienen kan, getreulich und auffrichtig gezeiget wird. Neurenberg, Christoph Weigel, (1716). Oblong folio. Contemp. half calf. With engraved architectural title within richly designed allegorical borders comprising numerous baby children writing in different hand-writing styles on writing tables, and with a large number of writing implements scattered about in the foreground, 9 woodcut illustrations and folding table in the explanatory text, and numerous alphabets and writing models in various hands on 59 full-page engraved plates, including architectural ornaments, elaborate penwork, richly decorated initials, a large mathematically designed printing type alphabet, texts printed in white against black, writing in the form of a labyrinth, arranging texts in tables, etc., etc. (4), 39, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Calligraphy  German  Modelbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Epoch-making work on historicalness of nature View picture(s) 7 BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Zweyte durchgehends verbesserte Ausgabe. Göttingen, J.Chr. Dieterich, 1782. 8vo. Later boards covered with blue paper. With 3 folding engraved tables. (8), 561, (27) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  German  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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ABC after the newly invented method by the Rector of the Gymnasium at Zug View picture(s) 8 BRANDENBERG, [Franz Xaver Dominik]. Neueingerichtes Namen- und Buchstabirbüchlein zum Gebrauche  in den deutschen Elementarschulen. Für die erste Klasse. Achtzehnte mit Holzschnitten vermehrte Ausgabe. Zug, J.M.A. Blunschi, 1834. Sm.8vo. Orig. decoratively coloured papered boards. With titel printed in red and black, 2 spelling-tables within red-lined borders and 2 pages with reading exercises entirely printed in red, woodcut vignette on title and 7 woodcut illustrations to the fables in text. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  ABC Books  Children's Books  Education  German  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important second edition of the best English translation - together with the Latin translation - of the 'Ship Of Fooles' View picture(s) 9 BRANT, Sebastian. Stultifera navis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum utilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. / The ship of fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay priest. London, John Cawood, 1570. Folio (25,8 x17,6 cm.). Brown 19th-century gilt tooled morocco, gilt fillets, floral borders and centre-piece on covers; spine gilt in compartments, one lettered in gold ('Barclay's Ship of Fooles'), dated ('1570') at foot, floral gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Kept in modern green cloth drop back box with morocco letter-piece on spine. Large woodcut with four ships filled with fools (15,6 x 10 cm) on title, 116 woodcuts (ca. 11  x 8 cm) in text, 8 of which are repeated twice and one woodcut once. The woodcuts are placed between a floral woodcut border to the left and to the right. Interesting woodcut initials, typographical ornaments in the margins and tail-pieces. Printed in Roman and Gothic. Collation: ¶ - ¶¶6, A-Z, Aa-Vv6, Xx4 ([12], 259, [3] ll.); A-G 6 ([42] ll.); A-D6 ([24] ll.). Full description >> Related Subjects: German  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Literature  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Piracy & shipwrecks: travelling to the Indies via the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century View picture(s) 10 BUCQUOY, Jacob de. Sechzehenjährige Reise nach Indien; Aus dem Holländischen nach der 2. Ausg. übersetzt: Nebst einem Auszuge aus Jakob Frankens unglücklichen Reise in den Jahren 1756-1760. Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1771. 8vo. Modern mottled boards with grey label on spine. With 2 folding engraved plates (a map of the coast of Malabar & Coromandel, and a map & coastal view). [24], 326 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  East Indies  German  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated second Aldus edition of Caesar View picture(s) 11 CAESAR, Gaius Julius. Hoc volumine continentur haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. Pictura totius Galliae, & Hispaniae secundum C. Caesaris commentarios. Nomina locorum, urbiumque, & populorum Galliae, & hispaniae, ut olim dicebantur latine, & nunc dicantur, secundum orinem alphabeti. Pictura pontis in Rheno. Item Auarici, Alexiae. Uxelloduni. Massiliae. Venice, Aldus Manutius & André d'Asola ('In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri'), January 1518 - November 1519. 8vo. Later vellum, gilt and gauffered front edge. With three woodcut Aldine printer's' devices, 2 double-page woodcut maps of France and Spain, and 5 full-page woodcuts. [15], 296 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  France  German  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The last voyage of Captain Cook explained to children View picture(s) 12 CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Nuttig en Leerzaam Onderhoud, in fraaije Verhalen voor de Lieve Jeugd. Tweede vermeerderde en verbeterde druk. Amst., Ten Brink & De Vries, 1827. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With illustration of natives on engraved title and 2 full-page engraved plates by D. Sluyter after H.P. Oosterhuis. VIII, 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Americana  Australia & New Zealand  Children's Books  Cook  Dutch  German  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First critical text-edition of this heroic poem View picture(s) 13 CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. De raptu Proserpine, ed. by Jacob Locher. [(in large textualis type:) Hoc in volumine infra scripta continentur. (in smaller roman type:) ¶ Epistola dedicatoria Philomusi Ad Reuerendum ac nobilem patrem dominum Georgium truchses Auhusensis monasterii: ad Varaniae fluminis ripam siti ... ¶ Catalogus Illustrium auditorum eiusdem Philomusi. ¶ Opus aureum Clau. Claudiani De raptu Proserpinae; cum quibusdam declaratoriis glossematibus ... que ex Servio, Paulo Marso, Parrhasio Philomusus transsumpsit ... Eiusdem Philomusi argumenta in singulos libros, cum epistola ad iuventutem exhortatoria. ¶ Elegia eiusdem, de origine et officio poetarum. Ad nobilem et studiosum iuvenem Eustachium von der Alben, cum Epistolio.] Nuremberg, Fridericus Peypus, 5 November 1518. 4to. 19th century gilt vellum, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank. (4), (40) lvs. Collation (A4), B-L4, including last blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  German  Humanism  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two religious emblem books: A mixture of humor, intelligence, and protestant severity View picture(s) 14 DILHERR, Johann Michael. Heilig-Epistolischer Bericht, Licht, Geleit und Freud. Das ist: Emblematische Fürstellung, der heiligen sonn- und festtäglichen Episteln. Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolffgang der Jüngere, 1663. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device and 85 large engraved emblems by M. Küsell after G. Strauch, and with numerous woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. [8 blank], [30], 631, [33] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Emblem Books  German  Poetry  Protestantism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Jewish prayer book in German, especially for Jewish women and gentiles View picture(s) 15 EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen. Zweite Auflage. Vienna, J.B. Zweck, 1813. Sm.8vo. Original half calf with red title label. (4), 394, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  Hebraica  Judaica  Prayer Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare early scientific schoolbooks View picture(s) 16 FINE, Oronce. Liber de geometria practica. Strasbourg, printed by Georg Messerschmidt for Johann Knobloch, 1544. With folding woodcut plate and 97 geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text.  [4], 133, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  German  Mathematics  Schoolbooks  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An architectural tour through Italy View picture(s) 17 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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16 hand-coloured caricatures of Nuremberg citizens View picture(s) 18 GABLER, Ambrosius. 160 Nürnberger Schimpfwörter auf 16 Tafeln bildlich dargestellt und in Kupfer radirt von A. Gabler. Nuremberg, J.L. Lotzbeck, [ca. 1850]. Oblong folio. Original boards with printed title label on front cover. With 16 hand-coloured etched plates. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Caricature  Colour Platebooks  German  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of the greatest rarity View picture(s) 19 GHEYN, Jacob II de. Waffenhandlung von den Röhren, Mussqueten und Spiessen.  Gestalt nach der Ordnung dess hochgebornen Fürsten und Herrn Moritzen, Printzen zu Oranien. Mit beygefügter schriftlicher Unterrichtung, wie alle Hauptleute und Befehlichshaber ihre junge und unerfahrne Soldaten zur vollkommenen Handlungen derselben Waffen desto besser abrichten köndten.- Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquetz, & piques. En conformite de Lordre de Maurice, Prince d'Orange. Ensemble les enseignemens par escrit, à l'utilite de tous capitaines & commandeurs, pour par cecy, pouvoir plus facilement enseigner à leurs soldatz inexperimentez, l'entier & parfait maniement dicettes armes. Frankfurt, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1609. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemp. vellum. Title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 3 series of 42, 43, and 32 full-page woodcut plates, resp. showing exercises with the musket, the firelock, and the pike. (48; 44; 36) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  German  Militaria  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the rare Glatz-titles in Dutch published at Delft View picture(s) 20 GLATZ, Jacob. De Kinder-Wereld, in Vertellingen voor de Jeugd. Naar het Hoogduitsch. Nieuwe Uitgave. Delft, A. van Alphen, 1834. Sm.8vo. Orig. half cloth, with oblong title-label on spine. With 12 full-page engraved plates showing scenes from childrens' daily life and games, all beautifully coloured by hand. VIII, 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  German  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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