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STEENKAMP, Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo. [Album with drawings by Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo Steenkamp].
[Aceh, Sumatra; the Netherlands; Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), ca. 1895-1930]. Ca. 35.5 x 32 cm. With 4 calligraphed title pages and 64 original drawings and coloured aquatints mounted onto the leaves of the album, all views of encampments, villages and landscapes in Atjeh (Aceh, Sumatra), the Netherlands, and Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), most signed and captioned in Dutch. Further with 5 drawings by Steenkamp and other artists loosely inserted. Twentieth-century silver-tooled green imitation leather with Steenkamp's monogram on the spine and the front board, further with "Tekeningen J.C.P.W.A. Steenkamp" lettered in white on the front board. [47] ll. Full description

STEINBART, Johann Christian Anweisung zum Seidenbau, wie solcher auf das leichteste und vortheilhafteste zu treiben sey. Aus den richtigsten und zuverlässigsten, theils fremden, theils eigenen vieljährigen Erfahrungen des Züllichauischen Waysenhauses mitgetheilet.
Züllichau, R.S. Frommann, 1761. 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). Contemporary wrappers, stapled. [12], 212 pp. Full description

STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch.
Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. Contemporary half calf. XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp. Full description

STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Newe Keijser Chronick: das ist, warhaffte und vollkommene Beschreibung aller Römischen Keyser, so wol deren gegen Nider- als gegen Auffgang, von C. Julio Caesare, dem ersten Römischen Monarchen, biss auff jetztregierende Keyserl. May. Ferdinandum II. und das Jahr 1628 ...
Frankfurt am Main, Eberhard Kieser, 1629.
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(2) STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Continuation der Keyser Chronick, oder eigentliche, und wahrhaftige, historische Beschreibung der Leben unnd Thaten, beyder grossmächtigen Römischen Keyser, Matthiae I. und der jetznoch regierenden Keys. May. Ferdinandi II. Königen in Böhmen, &c. ...
Frankfurt am Main, Caspar Röteln for Eberhardt Kieser, 1628.
(3) STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Genealogia, das ist, Geschlecht Register, oder Stammbaum, und Verzeichnusz aller Potentaten, Keyser, Königen, Ertzhertzogen und Fürsten ...
Frankfurt am Main, for Eberhard Kieser, 1629. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with the title set in a richly engraved border, a half page engraving of the coat of arms of the dedicatee Don Guillermo Verdugo on f. (2)r, and numerous engravings of coins with the portraits of the emperors in the text. Ad 2: with 10 engravings of both sides of coins in the text. Ad 3: with a large folding engraving (92 x 46.5 cm.) of the genealogical tree of the Dukes and Archidukes of Austria. With numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. (Near?) Contemporary mottled calf with a large gold-tooled armorial centre piece on both arms (of the Czernin family, a Czech noble family), a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, red and light blue sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [4], 596, [10], [2 blank]; 87, [1 blank]; 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von and Josef Vicente TOMÁS Y CATALÁ (translator). Nueva descripcion geographica del imperio Ruso, en particular y en general de todas las provincias que componen aquel dilatado imperio, con muchas noticias historicas antiguas y modernas.
Valencia, Francisco Burguete, 1780. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on both title-pages (of part 1 and part 2) and two decorated initials (one at the start of each part). Contemporary vellum with ink-lettering to spine. [28], 188; [8], 237, [1] pp. Full description

STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm. Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est, Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et aliarum gentium monarchae potentissimi, cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum rege florentissimo comparatio: utriusq[ue] regis historiam breviter complectens, quam regum & principum speculum possis appellare.
(Colophon: Zürich, Johann Wolf), 1592. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a woodcut portrait of Charlemagne and Henry IV on title-page, two woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device on the last leaf. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 79, [1] ll. Full description

STURM, Jacob [Ernst Hans Ludwig KRAUSE eds.]. Flora von Deutschland in Abbildungen nach der Natur. 1. Abteilung: Phanerogamen.
Stuttgart, Verlag von K.G. Lutz, 1900-1907. 15 volumes. Small 8vo. With 832 coloured plates, 56 uncoloured plates and 397 figures in the text. Original publisher's decorated cloth. 192; 160; 175, [1]; 256; 320; 256; 224; 191, [1]; 287, [1]; 224; 223, [1 blank]; 288; 224; 191, [1]; 320 pp. Full description

SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Christobal (Thomaso GARZONI). Plaza universal de todas ciencias, y artes, parte traduzida de Toscano, y parte compuesta por el doctor Christoval Suearez de Figueroa.
Perpignan, Luis Roure, 1630 (colophon: 1629). 4to. With title printed in woodcut border with large woodcut coat of arms; interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf. [8], 379, [1 blank] ll. Full description

SUNDEVALL, Carl Jacob and Carl Fredric FALLÉN. Specimen academicum genera araneidum Sveciæ exhibens.
Lund, Berling, 1823. 4to. Disbound. 22 pp. Full description

[TACHARD, Guy]. [Drop-title:] Breve ragguaglio di quanto è accaduto in Roma à Sig: Mandarini venuti co[n] il P: Guido Tasciard della compagnia di Giesù, inviato straordinario dal rè di Siam dopo l'Udienza hauuta da N.S. Innocenzo XI.
(Colophon: Rome, Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1689). Small 4to (21.5 x 15.5 cm). With decorated woodcut initial on the first page. Disbound. 8 pp. Full description