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Rare Post-incunable describing of 'German' Europe in the early 16th century, and an early Americanum as well View picture(s) 41 PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio. Augsburg, Heirich Stainer, 1530. 8vo. Modern boards covered with brown marbled paper. Printed title within broad woodcut ornamented border with five dancing putti in the lower section; 2 woodcut historiated initials. (36) lvs., including the last blank; collation: A-D8, E4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [Central]  Americana  Geography  Germany  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to increase your luck View picture(s) 42 PRAETORIUS, Johann. Philologemata abstrusa de pollice: in quibus singularia animadversa vom Diebes-Daüme et manu: item de patibulo, virgula Mercuriali, alruna, esu casei magico &c. Gerrae profanorum refutatae, cum revelata origine vera et admiranda superstitionum; et virga critica castigata habentur aliquot loca ambigua primaria celeberrimorum grammaticorum. Leipzig, Elias Fiebig, 1677. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges, green ties. Woodcut on title of a hand with turned up thumb and one woodcut in text of a hand divided in alphabetic compartments. 216 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Germany  Superstition  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Using spiders to predict the weather, leading to French victory in the Netherlands View picture(s) 43 QUATREMERE DISJONVAL, Denis Bernard. Neueste Entdeckungen über die Natur der Spinnen und vorzüglich über deren Verhältniß mit den Veränderungen in der Atmosphäre, in wie fern sie nämlich die Beschaffenheit der Witterung voraus anzeigen. Aus dem französischen der zweiten Ausgabe frei übersetzt. Berlin, Leipzig, (no publisher), 1801. Small 8vo. Original boards with red gilt title label on spine. 148 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Entomology  Germany  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three rare German treatises, including one of the first works on wigs and a work on the night View picture(s) 44 RANGO, Konrad Tiburtius. De capillamentis seu vulgô Paruquen, liber singularis. Magdeburg, Tobias Schröter/ Johan Müller, 1663. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with manuscript title on spine. Engraved title-page and 1 engraved plate by A. Fröhlich after the author, woodcut vignette on letterpress title-page. (2),254 [=256] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Costumes  Fashion  Forbidden Books  Germany  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An illustrated tour along the Rhine View picture(s) 45 ROBIDA, Albert. Les Veilles Villes du Rhin. A travers la Suisse, l'Alsace, l'Allemagne et la Hollande. Paris, Librairie Dorbon Ainé, (1911). Large 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, top gilt, orig. colour-printed lithographed wrappers preserved. With etched view printed in sepia for frontispiece, and  numerous plates with views and views in text, all after drawings by the author. (4), 309, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Germany  Switzerland  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On petrifaction in, and of parts of, the human body View picture(s) 46 SCHENCK, Johann Georg . Lithogenesia sive de microcosmi membris petrefactis: et de calculis eidem microcosmo per varias matricis innatis: pathologia historica, per theorian & autopsian demonstrata. Frankfurt am Main, printed by Matthias Becker for the widow of Theodor de Bry and his two sons, 1608. 4to. 19th-century marbled boards. With engraved printer's device on title-page, numerous small woodcut illustrations and 6 full-page engravings in the text. [14], 69, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Germany  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Five letters by Schlosser and Boddaert on a newly discovered lizard, rare fish, reptiles and amphibians View picture(s) 47 SCHLOSSER, Johan Albert. Epistola ad Ferdinandum Dejean, De lacerta Amboinensi. Brief ... aan Ferdinand Dejean, Behelzende eene naauwkeurige beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis. Amsterdam, for the author, 1768. 5 works in one volume. Large 4to. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, red title label on spine. With folding engraved plate of the Amboinese lizard in two copies, one of which is beautifully handcoloured. (2), 18 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  Ichthyology  Natural History  Reptiles & Amphibians  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Seventeenth-century research into the historicity of the Pied Piper of Hamelin View picture(s) 48 SCHOOCKIUS, Martinus. Fabula Hamelensis, sive disquisitio historica, qua ostenditur fabulis accenseri debere, quod refertur de infausto exitu puerorum Hamelensium, qui inciderit in annum a Christo nato MCCLXXXII. Praemissa est dissertatio generalis de judicio circa historicas narrationes instituendo: atque in examine fabulae, distincte respondetur D.M. Samuelis Erich libello, qui inscribitur Exodus Hamelensis. Groningen, Frans Bronckhorst, 1659. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title. (16), 212 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Anthropology  Fable Books  Folklore  Germany  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Monograph on mulleins View picture(s) 49 SCHRADER, Heinrich Adolph. Monographia Generis Verbasci. Göttingen, H. Dieterich, 1813-1823. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Pastepaper boards. With 2 title-pages, 8 folding engraved plates. 40; (1-2), 5-58 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Botany  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Vacationing in the German mountains View picture(s) 50 SPRENGER VAN EYK, Jacobus Petrus. Het Hartzgebergte, een der fraaiste en belangrijkste gedeelten van Noordwestelijk-Duitschland bezocht op eene reis in 1828. Rotterdam, Wed. J. Allart, 1829. 8vo. Contemp. half morocco, spine ribbed and gilt with the gilt crowned coat of arms of Leyden in three compartments. With view near Thale on lithographed title, fine lithographed frontispiece-view of Wildeman by Desguerrois after a design by the author, and 2 full-page lithographed views by J.B. Breukelman. 238, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Geography  Germany  Prize Binding  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Limited edition of a famous German philosophical work View picture(s) 51 STIRNER, M. (Pseudonym of J.C. Schmidt). Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum. (Charlottenburg, John Henry Mackay, 1911) 4to. Leather, uncut. 354 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Germany  Philosophy  Private Press Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Romantic travels in Germany, Switzerland and Italy View picture(s) 52 STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, with red title-labels. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Germany  Italy  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare history of the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire View picture(s) 53 STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Newe Keijser Chronick: das ist, warhaffte und vollkommene Beschreibung aller Römischen Keyser, so wol deren gegen Nider- als gegen Auffgang, von C. Julio Caesare, dem ersten Römischen Monarchen, biss auff jetztregierende Keyserl. May. Ferdinandum II. und das Jahr 1628 ... Erstlich durch Herrn Octavium de Strada à Rosberg ... in Lateinischer Sprach beschrieben, und durch Octavium de Strada à Rosberg ... fil. ins Teutsch transferirt, mit mehrern Antiquiteten gezieret und vermehret. Nunmehr aber biss auff gegenwertige Zeit ... Aug. 1628 ... continuirt. Frankfurt a/M, Eberhard Kieser, 1629. Folio. Contemporary full mottled calf with gilt large ornamental crowned coat of arms in the center of both sides (with letters 'R.M.F.'); spine gilt in compartments with red label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, sprenkled edges. Beautiful engraved title page with letterpress title in the center, half page engraving of the coat of arms of Don Guillermo Verdugo, the dedicatee on f. (2)r and very numerous engravings of coins with the portraits of the emperors in the text. (6), 596, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Europe  German  Germany  History  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first successful manual by one of the most important German jurists of the Seventeenth century View picture(s) 54 STRUVE, Georg Adam. Syntagma juris feudaluis, quo solida hujus juris fundamenta traduntur; textus perspicuè explicantur ... Cui accesserunt Observationes feudales ... Editio sexta. Frankfurt & Jena, for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, printed by Johannes Nisius, 1685 (appeared nor before 1688). 4to. Contemporary mottled calf with double fillet lines along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with paper title label lettered in ink, sprinkled edges. Title printed in red and black, with engraved allegorical frontispiece, woodcut initials. (40), 696, (70); (8), 177, (23) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Germany  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch edition of one of the greatest 18th-century botanical books View picture(s) 55 TREW, Christoph Jacob. Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, [1769-] 1771 [-1773]. Large folio (575 x 320mm). Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold, red painted edges. With 100 numbered fine hand-coloured engraved plates after Georg Dionysius Ehret by Johann Jakob Haid (plates XCI-C signed by Johann Jakob Haid), each with the first word of the caption highlighted in gold (33-46 x 22-30 cm). Portraits not present. [4], VI, 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  Germany  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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The dehydration of a coniferous forest View picture(s) 56 TRZEBITZKY, Franz Xaver. Physikalisch-ökonomische Bemerkungen über die sich so sehr verbreitende Trockniß de Nadelwaldungen nebst Vorbauungs- und Hülfsmitteln darwider. Zweite Auflage. Prague, Heer, Ökonomisch-patriotischen Gesellschaft in Böhmen, Heerschen Buchhandlung, 1809. 8vo. Contemporary boards. With 3 folding engraved plates, contemporary handcoloured (numbered X-XII). (4), 59 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Butterflies  Entomology  Forestry  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two influential philosophical works by an acquaintance and admirer of Spinoza and Descartes and inventor of European porcelain View picture(s) 57 TSCHIRNHAUS, Ehrenfried Walther von. Medicina mentis, sive Tentamen genuinæ logicæ, in quâ differitur de methodo detegendi incognitas veritates.- IDEM. Medicina corporis, seu cognitationes admodum probabiles de conservandâ sanitate. Amsterdam, Albertus Magnus, & Johannes Rieuwerts Junior, 1686-1687. 2 works in one vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in ms. in ink on spine, two clasps. Half title,  woodcut devices on each of the two titles, 4 engravings in text, several woodcut diagrams in text. (16), 224; (4), 59, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Enlightenment  Germany  Mathematics  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important contemporary historical work on the last years of Napoleon: 'The Northern Liberation War' View picture(s) 58 VENTURINI, Karl Heinrich Georg. Geschiedenis van den oorlog, in de jaren 1812-1815. Amsterdam, C.& H. Timmer, 1816-1819. 8 parts in 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half motled calf, gilt spines with two title labels lettered in gold, marbled boards. Each vol. with an engraved vignette with different scenes of the war by P. Velijn. (4), IV, 313; (2), 310; (4), 342; (2), 346; (4), 312; (2), 318; (4), 334; (2), 333 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Germany  History  Militaria  Napoleon  Russia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Printed in the Alsace for Koberger in Nuremberg with 10 magnificent woodcuts by the 'Master I S' from the school of Hans Schäufelein View picture(s) 59 VIGERIUS, Marcus. Decachordum Christianum Julio II. Pont. Max. dicatum. Controversia de excellentia instrumentorum Dominicae passionis, per eundem Dn. Marcum Vigerium discussa. [Hagenau, printed by Th. Anselm & Joh. Albertus for Joh. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1517]. Folio. Contemporary full calf over wooden boards, both sides tooled in blind: chequered pattern with floral stamps, one in the form of an onion (6.5 x 4.5 cm) and smaller triangular stamps with a dragon, a small rectangular stamp with leaves and a round one with trefoil; two brass clasps, title written on fore-edge. Leaves from a fourteenth-century liturgical manuscript pasted on the inner sides of the boards. From the 'Koberger Werkstatt'. Title in woodcut border of 4 pieces by Urs Graf and 10 beaufiful full-page woodcuts (ca. 139-144x97-102mm) in a border of 4 woodblocks measuring together ca. 188-191x139-144mm. by the painter and woodcutter the 'Master I S with the shovel', a pupil of Hans Schäufelein: apart from the first, all the woodcuts are signed with the monogram 'I S' on the blade of a shovel. [6], 204, [14] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Germany  Liturgy  Theology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The 'Welser-Chronik': the most important early history of Augsburg View picture(s) 60 WELSER, Marcus & Achilles Pirmin GASSER. Chronica der weitberuempten keyserlichen, freyen und deß h. Reichs Statt Augspurg in Schwaben, von derselben altem Ursprung, schöne gelegene, zierlichen Gebäwen unnd namhafften gedenkwürdigen Geschichten (...) in unser teutschen Spraach in Truck verfertigt, durch Engelbertum Werlichium, der Historien Liebhabern. Frankfurt am Main, Heirs of Chr. Egenolff, 1595. 3 parts in one volume. Folio. Eighteenth century full calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with light-brown morocco title label lettered in gold. Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr. (8), 110; 282; 141 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Germany  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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