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The travel adventures of a famous book and art collector View picture(s) 61 WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche, en van daar door Zwitserland en langs de Rhijn, terug naar Holland. Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with orange title-labels. With large stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author by Velyn after a painting by W. Hendriks on engraved general title, 3 separate titles, and 13 full-page engraved views and costume-plates by J. P. Visscher Bender after H. Gotta, J. Grandjean, etc., incl. several after his own designs, all versos blank. VIII, 269, (1); IV, 292; VIII, 322; VIII (=6), 405, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dutch  Germany  Italy  Literature  Popular Books  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Robinson Crusoe teaching German children to read View picture(s) 62 [ABC BOOKS]. Neue Bilder-Fibel 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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Important for the history of scholarly life in Holland and Northern Germany, bound in a gorgeous 'Bauerneinband' View picture(s) 63 [ALBUM AMICORUM] EELKING, Martinus Martens. Manuscript on paper. Bremen, Frankfurt (Oder), Harderwijk, Leiden, etc 1731-1745. Oblong 4to. Bound in a magnificent contemporary 'Bauerneinband': full vellum, both sides as well as the spine richly decorated with floral motives, ornamental borders and little stamps, all beautifully coloured in pink, green, yellow, black and gold; varnished; gilt edges . With 3 coloured coat-of-arms of the Dutch families Van Brienen (Apeldoorn), De Vries (Vianen), and Gallis (Hoorn). 162, [138 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Alba Amicorum  Bindings  Germany  Netherlands  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming maps of western Europe View picture(s) 64 [ATLAS - EUROPE]. Accuraat geografisch kaart-boekje of zak-atlas 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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Signed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI View picture(s) 65 [AUTOGRAPH]. CHARLES VI. [Autograph letter to Moritz Wilhelm, Count of Solms and Lord of Münzenberg.] Vienna, 20 January 1719 (received 14 February). Folio (32.5 x 21 cm). Letter on double-leaf, written in brown ink on paper by a clerk and signed by Charles VI and two others. With large (diameter 7 cm) round blind-stamped white seal of Charles VI with two-headed eagle holding a sword, an orb and the emperor's coat of arms, with text: 'CAROL · VI. · D.G · ROM : IMP : S · A · GER : HISP : HUNG : BOH :[UTR:SIC] : HYER : ET INDIARU : RX · ARC : D · AUS · D : BURG : BRAB : MEDIOL · PR : SUEV : CATAL · MAR · S · R · I · COM : HABS · FL : TYR'. [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Autographs, Letters & Documents  Germany  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A romantic voyage along the Rhine by Lord Lytton View picture(s) 66 [BULWER-LYTTON, Edward G.]. The Pilgrims of the Rhine, by the author of "Pelham", "Eugene Aram", &c. London, Saunders and Otley, 1834. 8vo. Contemporary richly gilt brown morocco, gilt edges. With 27 steel-engraved plates and vignettes. XXXVI, 341 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Europe  Germany  Low Countries  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th-century German perpetual wall calendar View picture(s) 67 [CALENDAR]. [Perpetual wall calendar]. [Germany, 19th century]. Calendar in wooden box (12 x 19 cm). Decorated with small coloured strips pasted on top and sides and contemporary cloth fastener. With two wood-engraved and letterpress volvelles indicating 12 months and 31 days in German, controlled by 4 wooden knobs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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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) 68 [COSTUMES - WORLD]. 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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On the public utility of the sciences and art by a friend of Goethe, Schiller and Wieland, printed by Bodoni View picture(s) 69 [DALBERG, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von]. De l'influence des sciences et des beaux-arts sur la tranquillité publique. Parma, Bodoni, 1802. Large 8vo. Contemporary green morocco, spine richly gilt with red title-label, richly gilt ornamental border on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (8), 90, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Art  Bindings  Bodoni  Germany  Literary History  Literature  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Engraved portrait of the important mathematician Johann Faulhaber View picture(s) 70 [FAULHABER, Johann]. Aigendliche Bildnuß deß Ehrnvösten und weitberümbten Herren Johannis Faulhabern, bestelten Mathematici inn Ulm seines Alter fünff und dreyssig Jar. Augsburg, printed by David Francken for Steffan Müchelspacher, 1615. (15x28 cm). Engraved portrait (10 x 12.5 cm) with letterpress title and a list of Faulhaber's printed works, within a frame build up out of fleurons (sheet measuring: 28 x 15 cm). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Germany  Mathematics  Portraits  Rosicrucians  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous chronicle on Paderborn View picture(s) 71 [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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A former priest exposing all uses and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church View picture(s) 72 [GAVIN, Antoine]. Reyze door Vrankryk, Italien, Duytsland, Switserland, &c., Behelsende, een nette verklaring en beschryving  van de regte toestand aller Roomse kerken, kloosters, konventen, en ordens van geestelijken, van allerley zoort… Hier is bygevoegt een kort verhaal van den oorspronk en natuur van het Roomse Jubel-jaar. Uyt 't Engelsch vertaalt. The Hague, Meyndert Uytwerf & Engelbregt Boucquet, 1700. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with red title-label. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 8 full-page engraved plates by Hillebrand van der Aa. [8], 456, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  France  Germany  Italy  Switzerland  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) 73 [GELDERLAND]. Het bescheet 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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Famous and very rare suite of 76 portraits of the delegates and negotiators of the Westphalian Peace Treaty in 1648 View picture(s) 74 [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 and gold-tooled calf, g.e. With 76 magnificent portraits (ca. 30 x 20 cm) 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 34.8 x 23 cm. [76] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Germany  History  Netherlands  Portraits  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) 75 [INCUNABLE - ENGLAND]. 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?) reproductions of 19th-/ early 20th-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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Costumes in colour View picture(s) 76 [JESSEN, Heinrich]. (Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg). Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilh. Jowien, [ca. 1850]. 8vo. Contemporary blindstamped red decorated cloth, front cover with title lettered in gold. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates heightened with egg-white, (of which 44 lithographs, 3 engravings and 3 wood-engravings), mostly signed by H. Jessen. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Germany  Lithographs  Professions  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming set of illusionist cards View picture(s) 77 [MAGIC - CONJURING]. 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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Early writing masters book and an artist manual View picture(s) 78 [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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With an engraving of the Virgin Mary by Johannes Everaerts View picture(s) 79 [PRAYERBOOK]. Prayerbook in German. Germany (Cologne?), Mid-18th century. 8vo. (lvs. ca. 187 x 122 mm). Contemporary blind ruled calf, spine ribbed, brass clasps and catches. With one engraving (118 x 85 mm) of Maria with folded hands and the crescent moon and H. Ghost by Joh. Everaerts pasted to fol. 1r. Written in red (rubrics and titles) and black; written space: 155 x 95 mm. between 2 horizontals and 17-19 verticals ruled in pencil; 16-18 lines to a page. (6), 157, (8) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: German  Germany  Manuscripts  Prayer Books  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) 80 [RHINE]. Beknopte beschrijving van den Rhijn-stroom. 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, 1796. 4to. Contemporary red  half roan with marbled boards, gilt spine (rebacked). With a double page frontispiece and view of the source of the river Rhine and the pierced rock near Basel, large folding map of the river basin of the Rhine from its source in Switserland to the Dutch coast (64.5 x 39.5 cm): 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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