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One of the oldest spa towns of Europe: Wiesbaden in Hesse depicted in a suite of views

[VODDIGEL, Jan Simon & Ferdinand Karl KLIMSCH]. [Album von Wiesbaden].
Wiesbaden, C.W. Kreidel, [1852]. Small oblong folio (30 x 23 cm). Suite of 10 steel-engraved views, all finely hand-coloured and highlighted with gum arabic, tipped onto thick brown leaves with printed decorative borders and captions. Contemporary decorated red cloth, gold-tooled spine, new endpapers. [10] engraved views. Full description
€ 4,800
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Best edition of an extensive manual on agricultural architecture

VOIT, Johann Michael. Handbuch der landwirtschaftlichen Baukunst.
Augsburg, Von Jenisch und Stagesche Verlagshandlung, 1840. 2 volumes. With numerous illustrations and figures of detailed construction-plans of all sorts of farm buildings on 20 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half blue decorative cloth, marbled paper sides, gold-stamped spines. XVIII, 292; X, 294 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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The Enlightenment in 92 volumes: Voltaire's Oeuvres from the Société Littéraire Typographique.

VOLTAIRE. Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.
Kehl, Société Littéraire Typographique, 1785-1789. 92 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and a portrait of the author in volume 1. Further with 18 portraits (including 4 repeats on different paper), 106 plates (including 17 repeats on different paper), 14 folding mathematical plates in volume 31 (on Newtons physics), 1 engraved map, and 10 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary uniform marbled calf. All volumes vary between approximately 350 and 600 pages. The majority have ca. 450-500 pp. Full description
€ 12,000
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71 excellent large prints (1561-ca. 1600) on architecture and decoration

VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Jan (Hans), Antonio LABACCO, Giacomo Barozzio da VIGNOLA and others. [Collection of architectural and decoration prints including fortification plans, garden plans and architectural decoration].
Antwerp, Venice, Rome, various publishers, [engraved] 1561-1585, [printed 1580-ca. 1600]. Large folio & small 1mo (38.5 x 27 cm). Collection of 4 separately published prints (3 large full-sheet & 1 small full-sheet), plus 67 prints from 9 series (including 3 double-page prints and a 1½-sheet plan of classical Roman ports printed from 2 copperplates). Contemporary or near contemporary limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1600?). [77] engraved ll. containing [71] prints. Full description
€ 15,000
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Sailing the waters of China: a maritime series of Chinese junks

[WATERCOLOURS - CHINESE - MARITIME]. [Four fine gouache paintings on board of Chinese junks].
[China, ca. 1840]. With 4 watercolours (2 ca. 20 x 23 cm and the other 2 ca. 15 x 22 cm). Framed behind glass in 19th-century dark brown wooden frame, with a gilt inner frame, and a top-mounted hanging eye on the back. Full description
€ 3,500
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