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Eight magnificent and very rare suites of eighteenth-century, uniformly coloured costumes plates: the Ottoman Empire - Germany (Nürnberg, Strassbourg) - Switserland (Zürich) - World (incl. American Indians) - French army View picture(s) 1 (COSTUMES). Eight suites with 180 engraved coloured costume plates. Augsburg, Jean André Pfeffel (1), Jeremias Wolff (2-6) & Paris, F. Chereau (7) and Le Rouge (8), ca. 1720-1750. 8 suites. Folio. Contemporary half calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold: "Costumes en Couleurs", red painted edges. Two engraved titles, one engraved dedication leaf, and 180 costume plates, all uniformly coloured by hand and most of them heightened with gold (ca. 1750), many within yellow painted frame. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, Central  America, South  Costumes  France  Germany  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Print Series  Switzerland  Turkey  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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An experienced traveller sharing his knowledge View picture(s) 2 AANMERKINGEN van eenen reiziger, over Hollandt, Duitschlandt, Italie, Spanje, Portugaal, Brazilie, Africa. En eenige eilanden in de Middelandsche Zee. Behelzende, een korte, dog naaukeurige beschryving van hunnen opkomst, voortgang, regeering, koophandel rykdommen en magt; beneffens den aert, zeden, godsdienst en gewoontens van ieder naatsie. Als mede het karakter van verscheide, heden nog in leven zynde beroemde mannen. Uit het Fransch vertaalt. Amsterdam, Andriaan Wor & heirs of Gerard onder de Linden for the translator, 1729. 4to. Later half vellum, spine ribbed with title lettered in ink, boards covered with blue paper, red sprinkled edges. With a fine engraving by A. van Laan on title, title printed in red and black. (16), 183, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Brazil  Cartography  Germany  Italy  Netherlands  Portugal  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The trading of Prussia with China View picture(s) 3 AUSFÜHRLICHE NACHRICHT VON DER OCTROYRTEN KÖNIGLICH PREUßICHEN ASIATISCHEN COMPAGNIE IN EMDEN NACH CANTON IN CHINA. Emden, Brantgums Schrifften, 1751. 4to. Without wrappers. 14 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  Friesland  Germany  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Affirming the rights of Emperor Charles V on the Duchy of Gelre and the County of Zutphen View picture(s) 4 BESCHEET, HET -, vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uitgegheven inden rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche. Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, (1541). 4to. 19th century half calf. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V on title. (64) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Germany  History  Law  Low Countries  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated Luther Bible View picture(s) 5 BIBLIA. GERMAN. Biblia, das ist:  die ganze Heilige Schrift. Alten und Neuen Testaments, von Herrn D. Martin Luther ins Teutsche übersetzt: samt denen Apocryphis. Nach den besten Exemplarien aufs neu durchsehen; mit des seligen Ubersetzers lehrreichen Vorreden und eingeruckten Glossen, auch vielen gleichlautenden Schrift-stellen, dessgleichen mit eines jeden Capitels Abtheilungen und Summarien, (welche man durchgehends gehöriger Orten eingeschaltet hat) dann mit schönen Kupfern ausgeziert und an das Licht gebracht. Nürnberg, heirs & son of Johann Andrea Endters, 1717. 2 parts in one. 4to. Later red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt: stars in three of the four compartments, with title lettered in gold, covers with gilt ruling and corner pieces, gilt inner dentelles with corner pieces, marbled endpapers, red edges, 2 copper clasps & catches. With 3 engraved frontispieces: one facing the general title, those for the O.T. and N.T. by Hier. Bölmann, 2 titles printed in red & black, engraved portrait of Luther, 9 full-page engraved portraits: Moses, and the three prophets Isaia, Jeremia and Ezechiel by Joan Alex. Baener (one dated 1686), and Daniel by Sartorius and the four evangelists, 39 full-page numbered engraved plates with 3-6 scenes in decorative borders by Cornelis Nicolas Schurts, Joseph à Montalegre, and L. Heckenauer (NT), 2 half-titles for the New and Old Testament in woodcut cartouches. (39), 1192; (6), 336, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Germany  Luther  Protestantism  Reformation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Robinson Crusoe teaching German children to read View picture(s) 6 BILDER-FIBEL, NEUE-, für fleissige Kinder. Nr. VI. Neu Ruppin, Oehmigke & Riemschneider, (ca. 1850). Sm.8vo. Orig. handcoloured lithographed boards. With handcoloured illustrations with text on 7 lithographed plates. 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  ABC Books  Children's Books  Education  German  Germany  Picture Books  Robinson Crusoe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare pasquinade against an 18th century travel account View picture(s) 7 IRRENDE DON QUITSCHOT UNSRER ZEIT, Der, oder Beylage zu den dreyen Sendschreiben des k.k. Rittmeisters, und Auditors bey dem löblichen Dragonner Regimente Savoyen, J. Sulzers über seine litterarische Reise an Herrn Prediger Theodor Lang zu Cronstatt in Siebenbürgen. N.pl., n.publ., 1783. Small 8vo. Later plain boards. Title within ornamental woodcut border, woodcut headpiece. 71 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Germany  Pamphlets  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming maps of western Europe View picture(s) 8 KAART-BOEKJE OF ZAK-ATLAS, Accuraat geografisch -, van het keyzerryk en geheel Duytsland, de Oostenrykse Nederlanden, nevens een groot gedeelte van Vrankryk, het Canaal, de hoek van Engeland, en verder aangrenzende landschappen; alwaar den tegenwoordigen oorlog gevoerd wordt. Tot nut en gemak geschikt voor alle heeren officieren, reyzigers en andere liefhebbers der geographie, om in de zak gedragen te worden. Haarlem, Bernardus Cleynhens, (ca. 1730). 16mo. Later half cloth, marbled boards. 25 double-page engraved maps, of which 2 are also folding, all coloured by hand. 40, 24 (last blank) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases  Atlases, Pocket  Austria  Germany  Maps  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare and lavishly illustrated description of the river Rhine View picture(s) 9 RHIJN-STROOM, Beknopte beschrijving van den. Benevens de steden, dorpen en plaatsen, aan deszelfs oevers gelegen. Verijkt met eene nieuwe kaart van den loop des Rhijns, van deszelfs oirsprong in Zwitserland, tot aan deszelfs einde, in de duinen bij Katwijk; met alle de omliggende landen, enz. en vier-en-dertig gezichten van de voornaamste steden, plaatsen, gebergten, enz. Tweede, verbeterde en vermeerderde, druk. Amsterdam, A. B. Saakes, 1746. 4to. Contemporary half red roan with marbled boards, gilt spine (rebacked). Double page frontispiece with title ('De Rhijn-stroom') and view of the source of the river Rhine and the pierced rock near Basel, engraved  by A.B. Saakes, large folding map of the river basin of the Rhine from its source in Switserland to the Dutch coast (645x395mm): 'Nieuwe kaart van de rivier de Ryn ... Amsterdam, A.B. Saakes 1797' engraved by C. van Baarsel, and coloured in outlines, 13 double page and 20 half-page views on 10 leaves with views on the Rhine. 58 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Germany  Print Series  Switzerland  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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265 portraits of celebrities in 10 different editions, from the library of Jean de Boulonois View picture(s) 10 SAXONIAE ducum caesarib. creand. viivirum; et caeserorum a Friderico I. ad Christianum II. fratres et agnatos. Genuinae effig: Cum collect. et epigramm. Marci Henningi. A. Augsburg, Ex caelatura et officina. Dominicus Custos eiconoge, 1601. Folio. Contemporary full brown calf, both sides magnificently tooled in gold with a floral roll along the edges and four cornerpieces, an oval gilt coat of arms in a wreath with the motto 'Ad Aethera virtus' in the centre, spine profusely gilt in compartments and lettered in gold.The coat of arms is of Jean de Boulonois a clergyman from the Collège at Abbeville and so the book was in his possession ('un chevron chargé de trois besants (boules=Boulonnois) acc. de trois étoiles'). With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II. 34 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Germany  History  Netherlands  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ems depicted View picture(s) 11 SOUVENIRS D'EMS et de ses environs. Darmstadt, (etc.), G.G. Lange, (ca. 1850). Oblong small folio. Origninal gilt cloth, g.e. With 18 steel-engraved views of Ems and surroundings in Switzerland, mostly after L. Rohbock, all with protective sheets. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  Topography  Views  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting for the history of the study of incunables, with an autograph letter of William Blades View picture(s) 12 STATUTA SYNODALIA HERBIPOLENSIA. (Two quires). (Würzburg, Georg Reyser, ca. 1486). Folio. Later bound in two leaves from a 13th-century vellum theological manuscript, rubricated and decorated with alternating red and blue initials with penwork. Printed in red and black in gothic type. With cut out (fragments of?) 15th-century woodcuts of ca. 21 x 14 cm. pasted on the inside of the front (Annunciation) and back cover (Christophorus, with the year 'cccc xx tercio'). (12) lvs. 32 lines; written space: 180x120mm; Type: 112a. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  History of Printing  Incunabula  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming set of illusionist cards View picture(s) 13 ZAUBER BILDER. (Germany, ca. 1890). 9 x 6 cm. Printed slipcase with a magician with a green hat. Set of 8 cards printed in red and blue and one card with the same size with horizontal cut outs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Games & Pastimes  Germany  Magic & Conjuring  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the festivities on the occasion of the wedding in 1873 of the son of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl Alexander and Grand Duchess Sophie (the daughter of King William II of the Netherlands) View picture(s) 14 [MANUSCRIPT] GEDENK-BUCH. 1873. Zum Einzuge Ihrer Koniglichen Hoheiten des Erbgrossherzogs und der Erbgrossherzogin (Poem: pp. 3-5); Die Einzugsfeierlichkeiten in Weimar (pp. 5-32); Nachträge zu den Berichten über die Festlichkeiten am 6. September (pp. 32-39); Die Einzugsfeierlichkeiten in Eisenach ( 20-22 September; pp. 39-73); Der Einzug Ihrer Koniglichen Hoheiten des Erbgrossherzogs und der Frau Erbgrossherzogin von Sachsen in Jena (13 November; pp. 73-78). Added on pp. 79-95: (Otto DEVRIENT), Festspiel der Erholungsgesellschaft am 10. September 1873 (p. 78: 'Zu Ehren des Einzugs des Erbgrossherzoglichen Paares fand in den Räumen der Erholungsgesellschaft am 10. September das nachfolgende Festspiel statt'). (Weimar), 1873. Folio (330 x 200mm). Red-brown buckram with gilt title ('Gedenk - Buch. 1873') and cornerpieces. (95) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Germany  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous chronicle on Paderborn View picture(s) 15 (FÜRSTENBERG, Ferdinand von). Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta et novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis & notis illustrata. Francofurti et Lipsiae, Christoph Riegel, 1713. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red speckled edges. With engraved author's portrait, engraved title, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding engraved views, 26 full-page engraved plates, some small woodcut illustrations in text. (48), 309, (19) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Germany  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the cathedral of Freising with a very large plate of the interior in perspective View picture(s) 16 (HECKENSTALLER, Joseph Jac. von). Dissertatio historica de antiquitate, et aliis quibusdam memorabilibus Cathedralis Ecclesiae Frisingensis una cum serie episcoporum, praepositorum, et decanorum Frisingensium. Munich, Michael Lindauer, 1824. Large folio (420 x 260 mm). Contemporary boards covered with red painted paper. With 7 large plates, five of which are folded. One is a folded early lithographed plate of the 'Gruft im Dom zu Freijsing' and six are engraved plates: three plans of the church (470 x 600mm) by X. Mettenleiter after Th. Heigl, two full-page plates of church entrances and a very lage plate (820 x 540 mm) of the interior of the church by F.I. Mörl after C.D. Asam. (2), 52 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  German  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of the famous collector J. Gomez de la Cortina: the famous Vitae Patrum once owned by the Carthusians at Wesel, Germany View picture(s) 17 (HIERONYMUS, Pseudo -). Vitae patrum sanctorum, sive vitas patrum. (Cologne, Bartholomaeus de Unckel, ca. 1480). Folio. 19th-century full brown calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt title in second compartment, blind and double gilt fillet lines on both sides, enclosing the large gilt coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Fully rubricated in red, red lombards of 2-4 lines, two red decorated initials of 5 lines and 19 blue initials for the prologues and beginnings of the four first books, the first with elaborate red penwork extending in the top and inner margin. 160 lvs., printed in two columns, 41 lines, written space 210 x 133mm.- Collation: a10-1 (first blank missing), b-d10, e-f8, g-l10, m-n6, o-q10, r8, s6-1 (last blank missing). Type 103 (BMC, I, Pl. XXIII). Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Catholicism  Germany  Incunabula  Provenance  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous, albeit very rare suite of 76 portraits of the delegates and negotiators of the Westphalian Peace Treaty in 1648 View picture(s) 18 (HULLE, Anselmus). Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati. (Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649) Folio. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt double fillets and corner pieces enclosing a large ornamental gilt center piece on both sides, g.e. With 76 magnificent portraits of ca. 300x200mm. in oval with coat-of-arms and mostly with Latin motto circumscribed and Latin poem underneath, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2)  -2 are unsigned -, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. The portraits are cut out and pasted to the leaves of an album measuring 348x230mm. (76 lvs) Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Germany  History  Netherlands  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early writing masters book and an artist manual View picture(s) 19 (MIETH, Johann Christoph (Ed.)). Der Curiose Schreiber/ von allerley künstlichen und erdencklichen Arthen zu schreiben/ ist mit vielen andern Raritaten/ auch Figuren/ die Proportion der Buchstaben betreffend/ vermehrter; samt dem curiosen Mahler/ darinne von Oehl- und Wasserfarben/ dieselben zu misschen/ zu vertieffen und zu erhöhen/ Nebst unterschiedenen anderen Curiositäten/ die Farben zuzurichten. Mit shursürlistl. Sächs. Freiheit ans Licht gebracht. Dresden, Johann Christoph Mieth, Johann Christoph Zimmermann, 1695. 2 parts in one vol. Small 8vo. Contemporary half vellum. Title printed in red and black, 3 folding engraved plates, 4 double-page engraved plates, 10 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (10), 94, (8); (16), 272, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Calligraphy  Germany  Modelbooks  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bloody combats near Leipzig: The battle of the Nations View picture(s) 20 (SHOBERL, Frederic). Verhaal der merkwaardigste gebeurtenissen die plaats gehad hebben in- en nabij Leipzig, onmiddelijk voor, gedurende, en na de veelvuldige bloedige gevechten tusschen de geallieerde legers en de Franschen, van den 14den tot den 19den October 1813. Door een ooggetuige te boek gesteld, verrijkt door een zeer onderhoudend bijvoegsel. Uit het Engelsch en Hoogduitsch vertaald. Rotterdam, bij de Wed. Locke en Zoon, 1814. Large 8vo. Contemporary marbled paper over hard boards. (2), 146, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  French  Germany  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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