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Allioni's first publication on Piedmont flora View picture(s) 1 ALLIONI, Carlo. Rariorum pedemontii stirpium. Specimen primum. Turin, Zappata and Avondus, 1755. 4to. Contemporary green painted vellum. With the title-page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates. X, 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Illustrated Books  Italy  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Dutch text with a famous English print series illustrating Biblical scenes View picture(s) 2 AMORIE VAN DER HOEVEN, Abraham des. Bijbelsche landschappen, naar afbeeldingen op de plaats zelve vervaardigd, met bijgevoegde tafereelen. Amsterdam, C.A. Spin for G.J.A. Beijerinck, (1836-) 1838-1839. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, raised bands. Two engraved frontispieces, 96 full-page steel-engraved plates, including the two frontispieces, by W. Finden after the drawings by C. Stanfield, J.M.W. Turner, J.D. Harding and others, of biblical locations in the Holy Land: the Death Sea, Ararat, Sinai, Jordan, Babylon, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Hebron, Petra, Libanon, Baalbec, Sidon, Patmos, Nile, etc. (8), VIII, (6), 96; (6), 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibles  Egypt  Holy Land  Illustrated Books  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Convolute of very rare, early French works on (filtering) fountains and water sanitation, with handcoloured plates View picture(s) 3 AMY, [Joseph]. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives. Paris, A. Boudet, 1752. Two parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with gilt compartments. 6 folding woodcut plates, 1 other woodcut plate and 7 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text. VIII, 72, 46 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  France  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Metals  Militaria  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by Arthur Rackham View picture(s) 4 BARRIE, James Matthew. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From the Little White Bird. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. 4to. Orig. gilt green cloth. With 50 mostly colour-printed plates by Arthur Rackham. (8), 126 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Music theory by a famous Dutch organ player View picture(s) 5 BLANKENBURG, Quirinus VAN. Elementa musica of niew licht tot het welverstaan van de musiec ende bas-continuo. Door regelen, met reden en bewys, gebouwd op een klare ontledinge der eerste beginselen. Na een voorafgaande wederlegging van de dwalingen dezes tyds; waar nevens: De vinding en opkomst der konst; De musiec der Ouden; De redenmaat der klanken; De ontdekking van een wiskunstige cirkel, waar in de wet der Nature al de toonen verdeelt; De stelkonst; De speeltuigen en de grondlegging van de zangkunst. Eerste & tweede deel. 's Gravenhage, Laurens Berkoske, 1739. 2 parts in one vol. 4to. Later half roan. With 28 full-page engraved plates with musical scores of which 3 with movable parts, 3 half -page engraved plates in text, woodcut head- and tail pieces. (30), 200, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Illustrated Books  Music  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First combined edition of the beautiful woodcut print-bible by Christoffel van Sichem and the biblical verses by Blens View picture(s) 6 BLENS, B. & SICHEM, CHR. VAN. Bybels Lusthof, ofte Twee Hondert en Veertig, zoo Historien als Leeringen, der Bybels; uyt het Oude- en Nieuwe Testament, met de Schriftuurplaatsen daar toe dienende. Zeer nuttig voor de Jeugd, om zig aan des Heeren Woord te gewennen, en in de Bybelsche Geschiedenissen ervaren te werden. Amst., Jan Klooster, 1743. 4to. Contemp. full calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with black title-label, with gilt fillet border on sides. With 240 woodcut plates, 120 for the Old and 120 for the New Testament, by Christoph van Sichem. (8), 240 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Illustrated Books  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sixteenth century illustrated French edition of Boccaccio's first work View picture(s) 7 BOCCACCIO. Le Philocope, Contenant l'histoire de Fleury & Blanchefleur, divise en sept livres traduictz d'Italien en Francoys par Adrian Sevin. Paris, Denys Ianot for Iehan André, 24 February 1542. Folio. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with black title-label, with blindstamped fillet borders on sides, g.e. With woodcut device of Iehan André on title and 36 woodcuts in text within four-part borders of various design, several with a coat-of-arms in the lower border. 6, 174 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  French  Illustrated Books  Italy  Literature  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch verses to a famous Biblical woodcut series by Bernard Salomon View picture(s) 8 BORLUYT, Guillaume. Ghesneden figueren uuyten ouden testamente naer tlevene met huerlier bedietsele. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1557. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt dentelles around double inside fillet borders with ornamental fleurons at the corners on covers, gilt binding edges, blue marbled edges. Title within ornamental woodcut borders, woodcut initials and head-and tailpieces, woodcut printer's device with banderolle "Son Art en Dieu" at end of the first part and 231 fine woodcuts by Bernard Salomon with title above and 4-line verse underneath. 119 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  Illustrated Books  Popular Books  Print Series  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Leporello book with 32 continuing views on the city of Utrecht, taken from the opposite side of the city canal over the complete 360 degrees around Utrecht View picture(s) 9 BOS, Jan & Pieter Wilhelmus van de WEIJER. Panorama van Utrecht vervaardigd in het etablissement van P.W. van de Weijer. Utrecht, Widow Herfkens & Son. (1859-60). 32 views, each 78 x 362 mm) Contemporary blind stamped red buckram with the gilt title 'Panorama van Utrecht', together with the coat-of-arms of Utrecht on the front cover, pink silk endpapers. 32 coloured lithographs of 78 x 362 mm. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Illustrated Books  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare and important devotional post-incunable: the first French edition of the lavishly illustrated 'Life of Christ' by a Carthusian monk from Antwerp View picture(s) 10 BRANTEGHEM, Guilielmus de. La vie de nostre Seigneur Jesu Christ par figures, selon le texte des quattre evangelistes, avec toutes les evangiles epistres & propheties de toute lannee, chantee en loffice de la Messe, avec aucunes oraisons. Antwerp, Adriaan Kempe de Bouchot & Matthieu Crom, 1539. 8vo. Modern violet morocco, spine ribbed and lettered in gold, gilt lines on binding edges and inside covers, marbled endpapers, g.e. Full-page woodcut title: Moses with the Tables of the Law and the Descent of the Holy Ghost (115x78mm) with title and mention of the privilege in letterpress and a woodcut tail piece underneath; full-page  woodcut border with the instruments of the passion and the flagellation for the beginning of "La Passion" on p. 255; 2 full-page woodcuts: (1) the Lineage of Christ, according to Matt. 1:1-16 (111x76mm.) and (2) the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2:1-13 (113x75mm); 185 half-page woodcuts (ca. 50x70mm.): 153 in the Life of Christ, 30 in the Passion and 2 in the Table; a few blocks used twice). The woodcuts are designed, and perhaps also cut (?), by Lieven de Witte; numerous tail-pieces and 28 small vignettes representing the tetragramme and biblical quotations (Veldman & Van Schaik (1989), figs. v and 187-208), used repeatedly for filing the blank spaces (sometimes more than one tail-piece - on p. (16) even 7 - on top of each other), and many charming woodcut initials. (16), 1-128, 119-294, (176) pp.- Collation: +8, A-Z8, a-g8 (248 lvs.). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Illustrated Books  Low Countries  Post Incunabula  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First French edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin View picture(s) 11 BROWNING, Robert. L'homme à la flûte. Interprétation de J. Girardin. Paris, Librarie Hachette et Cie, 1889. Boards. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  France  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important editions of Cats's complete works: a monument of Dutch 17th century Dutch literature and book-illustration View picture(s) 12 CATS, Jacob. Alle wercken, soo oude als nieuwe,.. De laatste druk. Hier komen noch by des Dichters gedachten op slapeloose nachten, nevens zijn gantsche twee en tachtig jarige leven. Amsterdam & Utrecht, Daniel van den Dale, François Halma, Widow A. van Someren & Utrecht, J. and Willem van de Water, 1700. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary red morocco with richly gilt spine and green morocco volume and title label, sides with gilt ornament within two gilt inner and outer dentelles, all edges gilt. This edition contains the same plates as in the first edition of Cats's collected works (Amsterdam 1655): including the portrait of the author, 96 emblems by J. Swelinck after A. van de Venne to the Sinnebeelden and the Emblemata moralia et Oeconomica;  the plates to Selfstryt (4 plates); Toneel der mannelicke achtbaerheyt (5 plates), Houwelick (39 plates after A. van de Venne, including the famous plates with the children's plays on the quare in Middelburg); the two portraits of Galathea;  129 emblematical plates to the Spiegel van den ouden en nieuwen tijdt most by W.H. Hondius, C. van Queboren, A. Matham a.o. after A. van de Venne, the portrait of Anna Maria van Schuurman and the 59 plates to the Trou-ringh and Toetssteen by Van Queboren, A. Matham, D. van Bremden a.o. after A. van de Venne; 27 plates to Ouderdom, Buiten-leven en Hof=gedachten; 19 plates to the Invallende gedachten after A. van de Venne; double-page plate of the Huwelick's Fuyck after Van de Venne; Dood-kiste: 24 plates after Van de Venne and a double-page plate 'Sic transit gloria mundi'; double-page plate of Stadholder Frederick Henrick on his deathbed; and 16 plates to the later works. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Illustrated Books  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A treatise on the muscular and bone structure of the head by a student of Albinus View picture(s) 13 COURCELLES, David Cornelis de. Icones musculorum capitis, utpote faciei, aurium, oculorum, linguae, pharyngis, ossis hyodis, colli, ut et eorum, qui capiti adnectuntur; cum expositione papillarum cutanearum icone singulari. Met een Nederduitsche verklaring over de selve. Leyden, Ex typographia Dammeana (H. van Damme), for the author, 1743. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red morocco title label, lettered in gold, red painted edges. With 8 folding engraved plates. (4), 83, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Medicine & Anatomy & Physiology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Friesland during the French annexation of the Netherlands (1810-13) by a French official stationed at Sneek View picture(s) 14 GAUTHIER-STIRUM, Pierre-Joseph. Voyage pittoresque dans La Frise, une des sept Provinces-Unies. Auxonne & Seurre, X.-T. Saunié & J.-A. Tramaux-Malhet, 1836. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, gilt binding edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. With 6 full-page lithographed plates. 315, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Friesland  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fake auctioncatalogues as political weapons View picture(s) 15 HENLY, Thomas, (W. GORDON). Catalogus van eene zo ongemeene zeldzaame, als uitmuntende verzameling van manuscripten. Betreffende den voorleedene en tegenwoordige staat van Engeland. Bestaande buiten de pakketten in 341 deelen in folio, alle in Engelsche banden, fraay gebonden, en eene menigte andere in kleinder formaat. .... Lord W. Gordon. Het welke verkocht zal worden den 20ste maart 1781 ten huize van Thomas Henley, boekhandelaar te Londen. (London, 1781). With 13 parts in one. 8vo. Contemporary boards. 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibliography  Catalogues  Children's Books  Dutch  Fictitious Imprints  Illustrated Books  Pamphlets  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A magnificent collection of contemporary portraits of the most important artists from the Netherlands working in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries View picture(s) 16 HONDIUS, Henricus (& Simon FRISIUS, Andries STOCK, and Robert de BAUDOUS). Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipué Germaniae Inferioris, effigies. Pars I. The Hague, Henricus Hondius, (ca. 1610). Folio. Contemporary half calf. With engraved title, engraved plate with three putti, both by Hendrick Hondius, 41 full-page (ca. 200 x 120 mm) engraved portraits by Hendrich Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5), and full-page allegorical plate by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Franciscus Boultats after the design by Hondius himself (163 x 110 mm; mounted). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Dutch  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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China in Swedish View picture(s) 17 KJELLMAN-GÖRANSON, Julius Axel. Kina. Land och folk. Skidradt efter de bästa källor. Stockholm, P.A. Huldbergs Bokhandel, (1860). Blind-stamped dark blue cloth with gilt image of an empress on her thrown with two of her servants on front cover, gilt and decorated spine. With steel-engraved view on title and 34 steel-engraved plates, showing scenes from the daily life in China, Chinese cities, harbors and several views of the Chinese landscape. (4), 236 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the masterpieces of French eighteenth-century book illustration View picture(s) 18 LA FONTAINE, [Jean] de. Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam (=Paris), (Duchesne), 1762. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, spine with gilt flowers and calf title-label, covers with triple-fillet gilt borders and a gilt flower in every corner, inside covers gilt as well, g.e. 2 volumes preserved together in modern slipcase. First volume contains 1 engraved portrait of La Fontaine, and 39 engraved plates illustrating the fables, second volume with an engraved portrait of Charles Eisen and 41 engraved plates. In total 4 vignettes and 53 beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces adorn the 2 volumes. XIV, 268, (2), 16; VIII, 306, (8 + 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fable Books  Fairy Tales  Illustrated Books  La Fontaine  Literature  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic work on garden architecture View picture(s) 19 LAAR, Gijsbert van. Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden; of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maaken zijn. Getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gronden van dit koningrijk gewijzigd, en met vele nieuwe platte gronden en sieraaden vermeerderd. Amsterdam, Jacobus de Ruyter, (1819). 4to. Modern half calf, gilt spine with red title label lettered in gold. Engraved title, numerous illustrations of garden architecture, garden furniture, and plans of gardens on 190 numbered full-page engraved plates. (4), IV, 120 (=118), VIII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gardens  Horticulture  Illustrated Books  Landscape  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Limited edition printed on velin de Cuve of Marais View picture(s) 20 LACRETELLE, Jacques DE & Marie LAURENCIN. Lettres Espagnoles. Paris, Societe d'edition ''Le Livre', 1926. Contemporary half, green morocco with marbled boards, gilt and ribbed spine, top gilt, orig. wrappers preserved (E.P. VAN BOMMEL?). With 11 etchings by Marie Laurencin. (8), 181 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Illustrated Books  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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