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Important for the history of early 19th-century sporting life View picture(s) 1 NIMROD (= Charles James APPERLEY). Memoirs of the life of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire; formerly M. P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth, and major of the north Shropshire yeomanry cavalry, with notices of his shooting, driving, racing, eccentric, and extravagant exploits. London, Rudolph Ackerman, Eclipse Sporting Gallery & N. S. M Office, 1837. 8vo. Contemporary burgundy morocco, gilt & ribbed spine with gilt foxheads and horseshoes title lettered in gold, both covers with gilt tooling and gilt foxheads as cornerpieces, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, (RODT & SON). Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events. IX, (1), 206, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aquatints  Colour Platebooks  Hunting  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare works on hydraulic engineering View picture(s) 2 REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. La nouvelle ecluse à coulisses.- La nouvelle machine à creuser, les ports et les rivieres. Traduit du Hollandois. La Haye, Amsterdam, for the author, H.C. Gutteling, Yntema et Tieboel, 1774. 2 works in one. Large folio. Modern half vellum, with brown sprinkled boards. With numerous illustrations on the construction of a lift-lock on 6 folding engraved plates in the first work, and on the construction of a dredging-machine  on 3 folding engraved plates in the second work. XII, 18; VIII, 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Science  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Empress Marie-Louise Duchess of Parma, the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte View picture(s) 3 SACK, Baron Albert von. Beschreibung einer Reise nach Surinam und des Aufenthaltes daselbst in den Jahren 1805, 1806, 1807, so wie von des Verfassers Rückkehr nach Europa über Nord-Amerika. (Vol. 2:) Beschreibung einer Reise nach Surinam und des Aufenthaltes daselbst in den Jahren 1810, 1811, 1812, so wie von des Verfassers Rückkehr nach Europa über Nord-Amerika. Berlin, in der Haude und Spenerschen Buchhandlung, 1821. 2 vols. Large 4to (235 x 287 mm). Contemporary half red morocco with gilt spine with title lettered in gold, crowned gilt monogram of Marie Louise in centre of both sides, which are covered with red paper. Vol. I: Engraved title with large vignette by S. Middiman after W.M. Craig, frontispiece, map of Surinam 'nach M.A. de Laveaux entworfen' (here bound in vol. 2), and 4 full-page engraved plates (numbered I-IV); Nrs. II and IV by J. Pye after W.M. Craig, from the first English translation which had been published in 1810 in London by Nicol; vol II: engraved title, frontispiece, full-page engraved map of the interior of Surinam by F. Guimpel, and 4 full-page engraved plates, two of which by Lud. Meyer after W.M. Craig (numbered V-XI); some tables in text. XVIII, 240; XXX, 186 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Geography  Geography & Demography  Surinam  Topography  Trade  Transport  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Carriages and horses: 45 hand-coloured plates with moveable parts View picture(s) 4 [CARRIAGES - HORSES]. [Die neuesten Wiener-Wägen und Pferdergeschirre]. [Vienna, H.F. Müller, ca. 1840]. Oblong 4to (19.6 x 24.7 cm). 19th-century half calf. With 45 hand-coloured lithographed and engraved plates, most with moveable parts. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Austria  Colour Platebooks  Horses & Horsemanship  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Gelderland water rights View picture(s) 5 [WATER RIGHTS - GELDERLAND]. Waterrecht waar nae een yder in het Furstendom Gelre en Graafschap Zutphen, sich voortaen zal hebben te reguleren. Arnhem, widow of J.F. Hagen/De Haas, 1715. 4to. Modern vellum. With a woodcut Gelderland coat of arms on the title-page and 8 folding engraved maps (18.5 x 28.5 cm), designated A-C and 1-5. Further with 1 woodcut decorated initial and bands of cast fleurons. (1), (1 blank), 24 pp. plus plates. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Gelderland  Law  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An important source for Veere's economical connections with Scotland and vice versa View picture(s) 6 [YAIR, James & Charles STEWART]. The staple contract, betwixt the Royal Burrows of Scotland, and the city Campvere in Zealand. With the several amplifications, prolongations, and the ratifications thereof. Published by order of the General Convention of Royal Burrows, in July 1749. To which is prefixed, an historical account of the staple, by a private gentleman. Edinburgh, James Donaldson, 1776. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter calf with marbled boards. (2), XXVIII, 97, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  Politics  Scotland  Trade  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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