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The most beautiful work on Dutch military uniforms

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826.
With: TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume.
Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. [1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Linear perspective for aspiring artists, posthumously published

THIBAULT, Jean Thomas. Application de la perspective linéaire aux arts du dessin, ouvrage posthume, mis au jour par Chapuis.
Paris, Paul Renouard for Mesdames Thibault, Jules Renouard, Bance ainé & Carilian Goeury, 1827. Folio. With a full page engraved portrait, an engraved frontispiece (bound after p. 168), and 53 full page, numbered, engraved plates. 19th-century gold- and blind tooled brown half calf. XV, [1 blank], 168 pp. Full description
€ 950
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A year in Rome: life, spectacle, and the romantic eye

THOMAS, Antoine Jean Baptiste. Un an a Rome et dans ses environs. recueil de dessins lithographés, représentant les costumes, les usages et les cérémonies civiles et religieuses des états romains, et généralement tout ce qu'on y volt de remarquable pendant le cours d'une année; dessiné et publié ...
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1830. Folio. With a lithographed vignette on the title page and 72 hand-coloured tinted lithograph plates by Jean-François Villain. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper sides. [4], 44 pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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Photographs of the Persian Gulf Command during the Second World War

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. THOMAS, Colonel S. Morgan (compiler). [Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Col. S. M. Thomas. Iran.
[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 76 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, the name of the owner painted in silver, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board. [23], [4 blank] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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The statues and ornaments of Versailles' gardens

THOMASSIN, Simon. Recueil des statues, groupes, fontaines, termes, vases, et autres magnifiques ornements du chateau & parc de Versailles. Avec les explications en François, Latin, Italien & Hollandois.
The Hague, Rutgert Alberts, 1724. 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). With the title printed in red and black, fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, large folding engraved plan of the town and the castle of Versailles, and 218 finely engraved numbered plates, 5 of which are folding by several artists such as P. le Gros, Garnier, I. la Clerion, N. Coustous, Cornu, and more, all after the designs by Simon Thomassin, illustrating the garden sculpture at Versailles. Contemporary marbled calf. 59 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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A description of Sachsen-Altenburg, with 38 brightly coloured engraved portraits

THÜMMEL, Hans Wilhelm von. Historische, statistische, geographische und topographische Beiträge zur kenntniss des herzogthums Altenburg.
Altenburg, 1818. Folio. With 38 hand-coloured engraved portraits (a few with signatures of the subjects), 1 uncoloured engraved portrait, engraved map of the area by L. Michaelis after A. Krehan, small engraved map in text showing the districts Paditz and Kotteritz, and 1 engraved text. Contemporary boards. 3-112, 8, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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Unique source for the early 19th-century Utrecht ceramic tile art industry

[TILES - MODEL BOOK]. [Model book of Dutch tile designs].
[Utrecht?, ca. 1810?]. Small square 4to (20 x 19 cm). With 111 pen and wash model drawings for Dutch tiles on the rectos of 105 leaves, most in greys but many in brown or a beautiful Delft blue. Several combine more than one colour, all in the actual size of tiles. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. [2 blank], 105, [6 blank] ll. Full description
€ 35,000
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Rare illustrated catalogue of French trademark designs and commercial packaging in the 19th century

[TRADEMARKS - FRANCE]. Les marques de fabrique Françaises. Sauvegarde du producteur français.
Paris, Nélaton & Cie., 1876 (Preface dated 31 December 1875). Oblong folio. With 93 full-page lithographed plates with product logos, several leaves with chromolithographed product labels mounted onto the page. Contemporary gold- and blind-stamped red cloth by Charles Magnier. [10], 93 ll. Full description
€ 2,500
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18th-century travel account along the estates and country houses of the Netherlands

[TRAVEL - LOW COUNTRIES] Het avantuurlyk zomer-tochtje, of omlands reisje, uit Holland door 't Sticht Utrecht, Over-Yssel, Gelderland, Cleeffland, de Myery van den Bosch, Breda, enz. Behelzende eenige nauwkeurige beschryvinge van vele aardige gevallen, vermakelyke gesprekken en aangename historien, op die reize gebeurt of gehoort. Opgestelt door iemand welke dat tochtje zelf met gezelschap gedaan heeft.
[Amsterdam?], printed for the author, 1735. Small 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [8], 439 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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