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Pozzuoli and Campania: the guidebook for the European Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century View picture(s) 21 SARNELLI, Pompeo & Antonio BULIFON. La guide des etrangers curieux de voir les choses plus memorables de Poussol, et de ses environs. Traduite en François, & aumentè par Antoine Bulifon, et dediée par le même a son Excellence Monseigneur Victor Marie Comte d'Estrees Vice-admiral de France, Lieutenant General des Mers d'Espagne, Commandant les armées navales de leurs Majestés. Nouvelle edition. Naples, no publisher, 1702. 12vo. Contemporary vellum with title written on spine. Engraved  portrait of the translator Antonio Bulifon by Andrea Magliar, engraved frontispiece with the Italian title 'Guida de' Forestieri per Pozzoli' by Magliar after Giov. F. Queuquelair Fiamengo, large folding bird's eye map (213 x 316 mm) of the 'Pianta di Pozzoli e suo tenitorio' by the same artists, and dated 1696, one folded, one double-page and 31 full-page engraved plates, 10 of which numbered 1-10, several signed by the same artists, and some dated between 1695 and 1701; woodcut inscription, head- and end pieces and initials in text. (12), 368 (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Italy  Manuals  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On vinegar View picture(s) 22 SCHILPEROORT, T. Olivier. De azijnmaker; of volledige beschrijving van de nuttigheid en den aart des azijns, met de konst om derzelver verschillende soorten te bereiden. Dordrecht, A. Blussé en zoon, 1803. Orig. boards. With 3 folding engraved plates, showing the working process of the vinegar-maker. (6), 38, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Crafts  Dutch  Manuals  Professions  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Clear instructions for making clocks View picture(s) 23 STÖCKEL, Johann Matthias. Praktische Lehre oder Anweisung über den Uhrenbau in seinem ganzen Umfange, nach welcher ein jeder Liebhaber die besten und richtigen Uhren aller Art selbst auf eine leichte und faßliche Art verfertigen kann. München, Joseph Lindauer, 1820. 8vo. Orig. boards. With 49 illustrations on 16 folding lithographed plates. XII, II, 199 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  Horology  Manuals  Mechanics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The classic manual for anglers View picture(s) 24 WALTON, Izaak & Charles COTTON. The complete angler. To which are added, an introductory essay; the linnaean arrangement of the various river fish delineated in the work. Second edition. London, John Major, 1824. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo Contemporary gilt and blindstamped full calf, gilt and deocrated spine with two red morocco title labes lettered in gold, marbled endpapers and edges. Part I: Frontispiece engraved portrait of I. Walton after H. Slous, printed title-page, 10 full-page engraved plates, numerous illustrations in text. Part II: Frontispiece engraved portrait of C. Cotton after H. Corbould, printed title-page, 3 full-page engraved plates, numerous illustrations in text. LVIII, 1-262; 263-416 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  Fishing  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On life after death by one of the most popular English writers of his days View picture(s) 25 WATTS, Isaac, Daniël GERDES & Theodorus van SCHELLUYNE. De toekomende wereld, of redevoeringen over de vreugde en smerten der afgescheide zielen na de dood. Als mede over de heerlykheid en over de vreeslykheid der opstanding. Vooraf gaat een vertoog, om te bewyzen de afgescheide staat der zielen na de dood. By deze Nederduitsche uitgave zyn gevoegt twee briefsgewyze verhandelingen door de heeren Daniel Gerdes en Theodorus van Schelluyne. Amsterdam, Jacobus Haffman, 1746. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Full-page allegorical frontispiece designed and engraved by J.C. Philips dated 1745, with an explanation of the verso of the half-title, woodcut end-pieces and initials. (12), LXXI (3), 357 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Manuals  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare popular medical handbook with one of the first cookery books in Dutch View picture(s) 26 WIRTSUNG (or WIRSUNG), Christopher. Medicyn-boeck, daerinne alle gebreken des menschlijcken lichaems, mitsgaders de remedien der selven, claerlijck aenghewesen wordt.  In 't Hooch-duytsch beschreven ende in de Nederlantsche tale overgheset door D. Carolum Battum ordinaris medicijn der stadt Dordrecht. Hier is by-ghevoeght een uytnemenden coock-boeck. Dese sevende editie, is van nieus oversien ende van ontakkijcke menichsuldighe fauten ghesuyvert, ende ghebetert, oock is hier by ghevoecht, een treffelijcke observatie ende cure van een sware gheschoten wonde. Mitsgaders een tractaet vande verbrantheydt. Int Latijn beschreven door Wilhel. Hildanum. Ende nu uyt t' Latijn vertaelt door Iohannem Burgundum chirurgijn tot Amsterdam. Amsterdam, for Michiel Colijn, 1627. 4 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary polished calf in early sixteenth-century style, both sides panelled in blind with three decorative rolls and filets (rebacked), with the two original brass clasps and catches in their place. Title with woodcut portrait of Hippocrates, the two part-titles with woodcut device, 15 woodcut illustrations in text of the two added treatises, woodcut endpieces. (20), 676, (96: the three indices); (28) pp, incl. the last 2 blank: the Coc-boeck); (2), XI (=X) lvs.: Observatie geschoten wondes; lvs. XII-XXIV, (1): Tractaet vande Verbrantheydt. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Cook  Dutch  Gastronomy  Manuals  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Managing housekeeping costs in early 19th-century Netherlands View picture(s) 27 [DOUARIAIRE VAN ATHLONE, geb. VAN TUYL VAN SEROOSKERKEN]. Voor de huishouding, ten nutte van alle standen, en van al de geenen, die voor de orde zyn, om eene gemaklyke en naauwkeurige rekening van de kosten hunner huidhouding te houden, door berekenings-tafelen te zamen gesteld; en op de ondervinding gestaafd. The Hague, Pieter van Daalen-Wetters, 1804. (= The Hague, G. Bakhuysen, 1815). Small folio. Original blue paper wrappers. (52) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Gastronomy  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Useful manual for merchants active in Europe View picture(s) 28 [ECONOMY]. Tablettes pour les négocians et les banquiers. Amsterdam, J. H. Schneider, 1772. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title label, red painted edges. With richly engraved title depicting the Amsterdam stock exchange. (2), 30, II, 160 p. Full description >> Related Subjects: Economy  Manuals  Numismatics  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Popular text book on a game of cards View picture(s) 29 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. Le jeu de l'hombre augmenté des decisions nouvelles sur les difficultez et incidens de ce jeu. Paris, Pierre Ribou, 1709. 12mo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, binding edges gilt decorated, red marbled edges. With a finely etched frontipiece showing three card players at a table, a women, a nobleman and a clergyman, by Jean Baptist Bonnart, some woodcut figures in text, and woodcut illustrations of card games and problems on 21 pages, with the cards showing charming figures of jacks, queens and kings. (12), 166; (12), 33, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  Manuals  Playing Cards  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Manual on the making of inexpensive liquor View picture(s) 30 [PONCELET, Polycarpe]. Chimie du gout et de l'odorat, ou principes pour composer  facilement, & à peu de frais, les liqueurs à boire,  & les eaux de senteurs. Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1755. 8vo. Contemp. calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With engraved frontispiece of a distillery by B. Audran after a drawing by the author and 6 engraved plates of distillatory instruments, woodcut of musical notation, each note designating a particular essence, charming engraved headpiece by Audran. XXVI, 27-390, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Chemistry  France  Gastronomy  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Instructions for the French Royal army: on camping, marching, manoeuvring and fighting View picture(s) 31 [SPAR, Joseph Ignace Magnus, le comte de]. Instructions militaires. Paris, Briasson, 1753. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red speckled edges. With 17 folding numbered engraved plates, woodcut vignette on title, woodcut headpieces and initials. XIV, (2), 174, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  French  Manuals  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare edition of a manual on the notary's practice View picture(s) 32 [THUYS, Jacob]. Ars notariatus: dat is konste ende stijl van notarischap: begrepen in theorijcke ende practijcke. Met verklaringe van vele duystere, zo Latijnsche als Fransoysche woorden ende termen diemen gemeynlijc inde practijcke is gebruyckende. Allen practisinen, rentieren, kooplieden, ende andere, zeer nut, oirboir, ende dienstelijc. Desen lesten druc grootelijcx vermeerdert ende verbetert. Antwerp, Herman Monicx, 1613. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, remnants of ties, red painted edges. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (32), 213 (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Law  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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