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With attractive engravings of amalgamation machinery View picture(s) 1 BORN, Ignaz Edler von. Ueber das Anquicken der gold- und silberhältigen Erze, Rohsteine, Schwarzkupfer und Hüttenspeise. Vienna, Christian Friederich Wappler, 1786. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With full-page engraved frontispiece, 21 folding engraved plates, 2 engraved vignettes in text and 1 on title-page, the vignettes are hand-coloured. [16], 227, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Earth Sciences [General]  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Gold  Metals  Silver  Technics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three works on metallurgy and chemistry in one View picture(s) 2 FACHS, Modestin. Nunmehro zum neundten mahl herausgegebenes Probier-Büchlein. Darinnen gründlicher Bericht vermeldet wird wie man alle Metall und derselben zugehörende Metallische  Ertzte und Getöchte ein jedes auff seine Eigenschafft und Metall recht probiren soll; dessgleichen Lehr und Unterricht der rechten Probier-Ofen, Gewichten, Capellen und Flüssen. Leipzig, Johann Grosse, 1689. 4 parts. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Title printed in red and black, folding engraved plate with cross-section of an oven. (20), 185, (9); 51, (1); 173 (1); 69, (7), (2) blank pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Chemistry  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Gold  Magnetism  Medicine  Metals  Science  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to shoot a musket and other things you needed to know in 1703 View picture(s) 3 NIEROP, Pieter Rembrantsz. van. Stichters borger wacht-almanach, voor 't jaer onses Heeren /1703. Met de maens op en ondergang. En de watertijden. Amsterdam, J. Stichter, & Constant van de Be, (1703). 16mo (8 x 8,7 cm). Contemporary overlapping vellum, tooled with silver, frontcover with in the centre a crowned coat of arms of Amsterdam  and caption 'Amsterdam' underneath, backcover is decorated in the centre with a depiction of three drummers, with a caption in Dutch underneath, both covers handcoloured in red, blue and yellow. Title printed in red and black and woodcut vignette with a procession of parading drummers, woodcut headpieces and woodcuts with scenes relating to drummers and nightwatchmen to each month in text. (32) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Almanacs & Calendars  Amsterdam  Arms & Armour  Bindings  Militaria  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare imprint of Bogota View picture(s) 4 WILLS, Guillermo (William). Consideraciones sobre de la moneda y la mineria de plata en la Nueva Grenada. Bogota, Impr. de N. Lora, 1833. 8vo. Later marroon with marbled boards and endpapers. (1), 44 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Earth Sciences [General]  Economy  Silver  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bible illustrations in contemporary colour and heightened with gold View picture(s) 5 [BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen  Testaments. Amsterdam, widow of Paulus Aertsz. van Ravesteyn, 1660. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary black shark's skin, spine ribbed, with 8 large silver corner-pieces and 2 large silver clasps, richly incised with ornamental shell-design, fully gilt and partly gauffered edges. With engraved general title, 2 separate titles, 6 double-page engraved maps by Nic. Visscher, including a worldmap and a plan of Jerusalem, all beautifully coloured by hand and heightened with gold, and 336 bible-illustrations on 42 leaves, all richly coloured by hand and heightened with gold. [20], 302, [2], 149; 164, [10]; [2], 66 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Bindings  Colour Platebooks  Dutch  Engravings  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A New Testament in French, attractively bound together with the Psalms in the Marot/Beza version View picture(s) 6 [BIBLE - FRENCH]. Le Nouveau Testament, c'est à dire, La Nouvelle Alliance de nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ. Charenton (Paris), Antoine Cellier, 1672. 12mo. Contemporary richly gilt green painted vellum, rebacked with ribbed plain vellum with matching gilt decoration in compartments, two silver clasps (one clasp with engraved initials 'RB' on the inside) and catches, gilt edges, marbled end-papers. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's mark title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (292) pp. (Collation: A-2R6, 2S4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bibles  Bindings  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly decorated early 18th-century Dutch silver binding View picture(s) 7 [BINDING - SILVER]. Pair of embossed silver book covers, with two silver clasps. (The Netherlands, first quarter of the 18th cent.) Both covers measuring 342 x 250 mm. Frontcover with Crucifixion with Mary and St. John, surrounded by four cornerpiece portraits of the four Old Testament Patriarchs, within a baroque cartouche frame , backcover with the Resurrection of Christ with the angel  and two astonished guards, surrounded by four cornerpiece portraits  of the Evangelists, both covers within a fine scroll  border and with a similar background of baroque acanthus. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Religion  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Laws for mining in Peru and Mexico View picture(s) 8 [CARVALLO, Manuel (ed.)]. Reales ordenanzas para la direccion, rejimen y gobierno del importante cuerpo de la mineria de Nueva-España, y de su real tribunal jeneral. De orden de su Majestad. Impresa en Madrid año de 1783. Santiago de Chile, Imprenta de la Opinion, R. Rengifo, 1833. Folio. Original blue wrappers. (4), IV, 108, 36, XXXIII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Chile  Earth Sciences [General]  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Law  Metals  Mexico  Peru  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The heritage of a 19th century Dutch collector View picture(s) 9 [ROELOFS, Jacobus]. Catalogus van eenen deftigen inboedel, bestaand in: gemonteerde koralen, uitmuntende zakhorlogien...zilverwerk... porseleinen, ... lijnwaden.. meubelen.. boeken,.. schilderijen.. nagelaten door.. Jacobus Roelofs. Al hetwelk verkocht op den dinsdag 27sten october 1846... (Amsterdam, Ipenbuur & Van Seldam, 1846). 2 parts in one. 8vo. Half cloth with orig. boards. (2), 44, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Libraries & Collections  Painting & Drawing  Porcelain  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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