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South Africa at the beginning of the 19th century View picture(s) 21 LATROBE, Rev. C.I. Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4to. Contemporary three quarter calf, spine raised in 6 compartments with decorated ornaments and author's name and tiltle in gilt. Marbled sides. Folding map with red and blue lines of the route of the journey of the Southern division of the Cape of Good Hope colony, engraved for Latrobe's journal, (53 x 27 cm). 12 full page coloured aquatints by J. Bluck after R. Cocking from the original sketches by Latrobe, 4 full page engravings of coastal views. VII, (1), 406, (2). Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Aquatints  Discovery & Exploration  Illustrated Books  Mission  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the time when unicorns and dragons were still a common sight View picture(s) 22 MERCKLEIN, Georg Abraham. Neu ausgefertigtes historisch-medicinisches Thier-Buch in vier besonderen Theilen verabfasset; I. Von vierfüssigen Thieren ... II. Von Vögeln ..., III. Von Fischen ..., IV. Von Gewürm ... Sammt eine jeden Thiers Namen, Gestalt ... Eigenschaft. Wobei verschiedene, wieder allerhand Kranckheiten bewehrte Geness-Mittel: angezeiget. Nuremberg, Johan Friedrich Rüdiger, 1714. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Double-page engraved allegorical frontispiece engraved by Johan Lorentz Hönnig (Nurenberg), title printed in red and black on two facing pages, 95 full-page engraved plates each depicting two, three or more animals. [26], 732, [72] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ichthyology  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Natural History  Ornithology  Textile  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of 60 copies on Japon Imperiale View picture(s) 23 NERVAL, Gérard de. La main enchantée. Histoire macaronique. Augmentée d'une préface de Henri Regnier. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1920. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt and ribbed, original wrappers preserved. With illlustrations by Daragnès. 89, (6) pp.- Fine copy.- One of 60 copies on Japon Imperiale. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  France  Illustrated Books  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedicated to two young boys as a paradigm of the lessons of life View picture(s) 24 OVID. Metamorphoses, Argumentis Brevioribus ex Luctatio Grammatico collectis expositae: una cum vivis singularum Transformationum iconibus in aes incisis. Antwerp, Ex off. Plantiniana, Widow and Jan Moretus, (1591). Oblong 16mo. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, red painted edges. With richly illustrated etched title, full-page etched portrait of Ovid within grotesque ornamental borders, full-page etched printer's device at the end, and 178 full-page fine etched plates by Pieter van der Borcht. 362, (20, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By "one of the most important founders of comparative anatomy" View picture(s) 25 PALLAS, Peter Simon. Spicilegia Zoologica quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur. Berlin, Gottl. August. Lange, 1767. 4 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary three quarter vellum, marbled covers. 13 full page engraved plates. (6), 3-44; 32; 35; 23 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Illustrated Books  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Corporate work by the family De Passe View picture(s) 26 PASSE, Crispijn de. Duodecim Sibyllarum Imagines: In Aes Eleganter incisae:  Additae insuper singularum breves decriptiones. Una  cum Praecipuis Oraculorum Mysteriis Versibus Expressis. Studio Labore et Aere. Arnhem, Ioannes Iansonius, 1615. Folio. Sewn, in modern half red morocco slipcase with marbled boards. 12 full-page engraved portraits of sibyls designed by C. De Passe I by himself (3), by C. De passe II (3),  Magdalena de Passe (4), Simond de Passe (1) and Crispijn Queborn (1). (13) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Dutch  Engravings  Flemish  Illustrated Books  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"the finest of all wrestling books and deservedly the most famous" View picture(s) 27 PETTER, Nicolaes. Klare onderrichtinge der voortreffelijcke worstel-konst, verhandelende hoemen in alle voorvallen van twist in handtgemeenschap, sich kan hoeden: en alle aengrepen, borst-stooten, vuyst-slagen &c. versetten. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1674. 4to. 19th-century red morocco, gilt fillet borders along the edges, gold-tooled spine in compartments, inner dentelles, green silk pastedowns, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (GRUEL). With woodcut vignette on title-page and 71 full-page etched plates (ca. 17.5-19.5 x 14.5-16.5 cm) by Romeyn de Hooghe. [8], 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Print Series  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Convolute of two very rare series of engraved views on Rome and other European cities View picture(s) 28 SCHENK, Pieter. Roma aeterna, sive ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum, integrorium  collapsorumque, conspectus duplex. (Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, ca. 1705). Oblong 4to (bookblock measuring 194 x 255 mm.). Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, with red morocco title label lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. With engraved title, and 100 full-page views of the city of Rome, with  2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate, all plates signed Pet: Schenck. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Cartography  House of Orange  Illustrated Books  Italy  Netherlands  Prints  Rome  The Hague  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Enlarged Dutch edition of the most complete, richly illustrated surgical handbook of the seventeenth century View picture(s) 29 SCULTETUS (SCHULTES), Johannes. Het vermeerderde wapenhuis der heel-meesters. Waar in alle de kunstbewerkingen en afbeeldingen der werktuigen tot de heelkunst nodig, gevonden worden. Als meede deszelfs aanmerkingen. En hondert heel-kundige waarnemingen, verzamelt van Dr. Joh. Baptista van Lamzweerde. Waar by gevoegt zyn twee aanhangzels over dezelve stof van voornaame Nederlandsche genees- en heel-kundigen. En eenige aanmerkingen van wylen den ervaaren heelmeester, Pieter Adriaanze Verduin. Beneffens een kort begrip of te inleiding tot de chirurgie. Alles na de laatste Latynsche druk in 't Neerduitsch vertaalt, in beter order gebragt, en met eenige byvoegingen en aanmerkingen opgeheldert en vermeerdert, door Gerardus Dicten. Amsterdam, Hendrik Janssonius van Waesberge, 1748 (and 1747). 2 vols. 8vo. Fine modern crushed green morocco in antique style, spines ribbed and gilt. Vol. 1 with engraved frontispiece depicting surgeons treating a patient and 54 folding engraved plates with surgeon's tools and illustrations of treatments of various illnesses; vol. 2 with 32 similar folding engraved plates. (42), 548; (4), 551-1094, (84 index) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Obstetrics  Surgery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a very interesting account of the first Swedish circumnavigation View picture(s) 30 SKOGMAN, Carl Johan Alfred. Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden, Åren 1851-1853, under befäl af C.A. Virgin. Stockholm, Adolf Bonnier, (1855). 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter calf with gilt lettering on spine, marbled covers. With 3 folding tinted lithographed maps, 26 plates (6 full-page wood-engravings, 20 full-page chromo-lithograps) 18 wood-engraved illustrations in text. VI, 250, [2]; V, [3], 224, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Circumnavigation  Colour Platebooks  Illustrated Books  Pacific  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Earliest Dutch monograph on fungi, presentation copy View picture(s) 31 STERBEECK, Franciscus van. Theatrum fungorum, oft het tooneel der campernoelien waer inne vertoont wort de gedaante, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught. Antwerp, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title and date in ink on spine. With folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee (the Antwerp town-physician Joh. van Buyten) by Arn. van Westerhout after Car. E. Biset, and numerous illustrations of fungi on 36 mostly folding engraved plates by P. van Sickeleers. [38], 396 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  Illustrated Books  Mycology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of the finest collection of microscopical observations ever produced and published at the instigation of Boerhaave View picture(s) 32 SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Biblia Naturae; sive Historia Insectorum, in Classes certas redacta, nec non exemplis, et Anatomico variorum animalculorum examine, aeneisque Tabulis Illustrata. Insertis numerosis rariorum naturae observationibus. Omnia in Lingua Batava.. Acc. Praefatio, in qua vitam auctoris descripsit H. Boerhaave.. Latinam versionem adscripsit H.D. Gaubius. Leyden, Isaak Severinus, Boudewijn Vander Aa & Pieter Vander Aa, 1737-1738. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary vellum with author and title in ink on spine. With Latin and Dutch titles printed in red and black, with engraved vignette on titles, and numerous illustrations of insects and insect anatomy on 53 full-page engraved plates by J. van der Spyk after the author. (62), 364, (4), 367-910, 36, 124 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Illustrated Books  Microscopy  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Indian fairy tale illustrated by Rie Cramer View picture(s) 33 TAGORE, Rabindranath. De Brief van den Koning. (The Post Office). Nederlandsche vertaling van H. Borel. Spel in twee bedrijven. Utrecht, W. de Haan, (1919). Small 4to. Orig. illustrated colour-printed cloth by Rie Cramer. With frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations by Rie Cramer. 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Children's Books  Fairy Tales  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Magnificently bound View picture(s) 34 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet De. La pucelle d'Orléans, poëme en vingt-un chants. Paris, Didot le jeune, L’An Troisième (=1795). 2 parts in one vol. Large 4to (26 x 34cm). Ninetheenth century red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with title lettered in gold, gilt fillets on sides, inner filet borders (F. BEDFORD), marbled endpapers, g.e. With 2 engraved frontispieces of which one with portrait of Jeanne d'Arc by Gaucher and 20 full-page  engraved plates after drawings by C.S. Gaucher , N. Monsieau, C. Monnet, Le Barbier and Marillier and engraved by a.o. C. Ponce, C.L.  Lingée,  Bacquoy, Choffard, Delignon, Delvaux, Duhamel, Dupréel, Lemire, Malbeste, Patas, Pauquet, and Romanet. 211; 212 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Erotica  France  Illustrated Books  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by the author after designs by Jan en Caspar Luyken View picture(s) 35 WEIGEL, Johann Christoph. Ethica naturalis, seu documenta moralia e variis rerum naturalium proprietatibus virtutum vitiorumque symbolicis imaginibus collecta. Nuremberg, [ca. 1700]. 4to. 19th-century gilt-stamped brown morocco, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. With engraved title, 100 engraved emblems (ca. 10.5 x 12 cm) by Jan and Caspar Luyken, versos blank. Each emblem with letterpress title, motto and a 10-line Latin verse in letterpress. [101] ll., including title. Full description >> Related Subjects: Emblem Books  German  Illustrated Books  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring the Middle East View picture(s) 36 WILSON, Charles. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. Edited by Colonel Wilson, R.E, C.B., F.R.S. formerly engineer to the Palestine exploration society. Assisted by the most eminent Palestine explorers etc. With numerous engravings on steel and wood. London, Virtue and Co,. [ca.1870]. 4 volumes. Large 4to (33 x 25 cm). Contemporary half roan, buckram covers and gilt center piece on front cover. With the title-pages to each volume in red and black, 42 plates (incl. 4 different steel-engraved frontispieces and 4 different large steel-engraved title vignettes), and 2 double-page engraved maps of Egypt and Sinai, printed in brown. [2], X, 240; [2], VI, 240; [2], IV, 240; [2], IV, 236 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Egypt  Holy Land  Illustrated Books  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The ancient world in 345 plates View picture(s) 37 [BARDON, Michel-Francois Dandré]. Gewoonten der aloude volken: behelzende de godsdienstige, burgelyke en krygsgebruiken der Grieken, Romeinen, Israëliten en Hebreeuwen, Egyptenaaren, Persiaanen, Scythiërs, Amazonen, Parthiërs, Daciërs, Sarmatiërs, en andere zo oostersche als wetsersche volken.  Versierd met drie-honderd-zes-en-vyftig koperen plaaten, vervaardigd door en onder het opzigt van den beroemden heer Cochin, ridder en orde van St. Michiel, en geheimschryver van de koninklyke akademie der schilder- en beeldhouwkunde te parys. Amsterdam, Joh. Allart en W. Holtrop, 1786. 4 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf. 345 full page engravings. I-VIII, 32 pp; (1), 40 pp; IV, 41 pp; (1), 22 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  History  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rotterdam binder equal to Magnus View picture(s) 38 [BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia, dat is, de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Leyden, heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 2 volumes. Folio. Contemporary black morocco over wooden boards, spines ribbed  and richly gilt, with broad gilt decorative borders on sides  and richly gilt borders around inner panel, with gilt ornaments at the four corners, the four inner corners filled with richly gilt ornamental design, and with large gilt ornament in centre, with in its blank inner square - gilt-divided in four - the fine gilt stamps of springing deer, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (HERTEN-BINDERIJ, Rotterdam). With 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, one for the Elsevier Bible and one for Picart's Print-Bible, engraved half-title for Picart's Print-Bible, 6 double-page engraved maps and plan of Jerusalem by Nic. Visscher in the Elsevier Bible, and 209 full-page (incl. 29 double-page, fine engraved  plates by G. Hoet, B. Picart, etc. in the Print-Bible). [22], 468; [13, 1 blank], 167; [4], 77 [1 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Bindings  Dutch  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Religion  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to behave well View picture(s) 39 [CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. De wellevendheid in afbeeldingen.- La civilité, en estampes. Turnhout, Glénisson, Van Genechten, (ca. 1830). Oblong small 8vo. Original lithographed wrappers. With 11 lithographed plates, all beautiful coloured by hand, showing scenes of children's good and bad behaviour. 22 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Courtesy Books  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fable book illustrated by one of the best Swiss engravers View picture(s) 40 [FABLE BOOKS]. Vingt fables en prose et en vers, tirées de l'Allemand et du François. Berne, La Nouvelle Société Typographique, for Henri Steiner & Compagnie, Winterthur, 1780. Contemporary olive morocco, spine richly gilt, gilt borders on sides, with gilt ornament in centre with red morocco inlaid on both sides, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece with the title 'Recueil de fables gravées à l'eauforte par I.R. Schellenberg. 1780', woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-pieces, and 20 numbered beautifully engraved full-page plates by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg. (4), 60 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fable Books  Fairy Tales  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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