Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair 2025
Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair 2025
98 items found
[19th-Century Chinese Artist]
[Fish Album].
China, ca. 1850. Oblong accordion (leporello) album (15.0 x 20.0 cm) with original watercolour illustrations on rice paper, augmented with gold or silver, of freshwater fish, including a goldfish; all in blue paper frames. Marbled boards.
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Aa, P. van der [publisher]
Habillemens de plusieurs nations, représentez au naturel, en cent trente sept belles figures. [Excessively rare complete copy].
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, [ca. 1725]. Oblong folio (17.3 x 22.9 cm). Pictorial, engraved title page; 136 engraved and numbered plates [1-119; 2*, 9*, 13*, 17*, 21*, 34*, 35*, 59*. 60*, 83*, 93*, 98*, 116*, 21**, 35**, 93**,116**]. 19th-century red polished quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt and black lines and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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[Alkemade, C. Van]
Verissimae Imagines Comitum Hollandiae delineatae juxta vetustissimas picturas, in coenobio Carmelitano Harlemensi repertas. Accedit & Effigies Nob[ili]mi. Gerardi à Velsen. Waare Afbeeldingen van de Hollandse Graaven en Gravinnen, nevens de Afbeelding van Hr. Geraard van Velsen, en de Graf-kist van Graaf Floris, geschetst naa de Aaloude Schilderijen, gevonden van ouds in het Karmeliten Klooster, tot Haarlem.
[Leiden, Johannes de Vivie and Izaak Severinus, 1699]. Folio (33.9 x 22.0 cm). Letterpress title, Herault's poem, frontispiece engraving of a herault with index on verso; thirty-four engraved plates (one double-sized). Contemporary limp red-died and blind-stamped vellum, with large floral vignettes on front and rear board.
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Anonymous Bavarian botanist
Herbarium. "Souvenir".
Germany, Bavaria, ca. 1848. One cardboard "Title" with printed, and finely hand-coloured pictorial vignette, with a rectangular gilt paper border (verso pink), and 39 cards with dried (flowering) plants mounted (16.0 x 10.5 cm). Loose in a contemporary cardboard box (17.4 x 12.0 x 3.6 cm) resembling a book with the "spine" and "boards" covered in blue, white and silver patterned paper, and the "edges" full gilt. Front (top) board with diamond shaped vignette titled souvenir. Interior covered with iridescent pink paper. Preserved in a contemporary iridescent green wrapper and green paper covered slipcase with gilt edges (17.7 x 12.3 x 4.0 cm).
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Bergier, N. S.
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Théologie. I-III. [Complete].
Paris, Panckoucke, 1787-1791. Three volumes in three. 4to (25.0 x 19.8 cm). Three titles to the Encyclopédie, three titles with wood-engraved vignette, to the Théologie volumes; 2383 pp. [viii, 736; 780; 859]. Uniform contemporary mottled half calf (corners vellum) over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; compartments with gilt snowflake vignettes and red and black morocco labels with double-gilt borders and title. Edges speckled red.
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[Berkeley, M. J. (ed.)]
Lancashire fungi. [An album of original watercolours]
Lancashire, unpublished manuscript, 1872-1885. Folio (33.0 x 25.5 cm). 61 leaves, each with one or more (up to five) original watercolours - several heightened with gum arabic - mounted on rectos, and several additional ones on versos. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five gilt-bordered, raised bands and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with double, gilt borders and gilt daisy corner pieces, and blind-rolled border, with blind-tooled fleur-de-lis motif corner pieces. Marbled endpapers with blind-tooled floral dentelles. All edges gilt.
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Brauer, A.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Die Tiefsee-Fische. I. Systematischer Teil. II. Anatomischer Teil. Text und Atlas. [Complete].
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1906-1908. Two volumes in two. 4to (34.5 x 25.5 cm). 697 pp.; 16 fine chromolithographed plates (several double-sized, several heightened with silver), two folded maps and 26 tinted and folded lithographed plates. Uniform quarter cloth with original printed limp boards (Part I), and stiff boards and spine covers (Part II).
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Breitschwert, W. von
Das wunderbare Bilderbuch. Ein Festgeschenk voll komischer Sachen, zum Staunen und Lachen für heitere Kinder. Dritte Auflage.
Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann (R. Thienemann), ca. 1870. Folio (27.6 x 21.8 cm). Title page; twelve hand-coloured lithographed plates with ditto (partial) overlays. Red pebbled half cloth over full colour pictorial front board and marbled rear board.
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Broeck, [J.] E. van den [vanden Broeck]
Esquisse géologique et paléontologique des dépôts pliocènes des environs d'Anvers. [Author's copy - interleaved, with handwritten additions and emendations].
Bruxelles, G. Mayolez, 1876-[1878]. 8vo (25.0 x16.3 cm). 296 pp. (printed), 296 pp. (ruled, partly annotated); folded and coloured topographical map of Antwerp and surroundings and one folding table. Original printed boards.
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Buc'hoz [P. J.]
Herbier ou collection des plantes medicinales de la Chine d'après un manuscrit peint et unique qui se trouve dans la Bibliotheque de l'Empereur de la Chine, pour servir de suitte a la collection des fleurs qui se cultivent dans les Jardins de la Chine et de l'Europe. [AND] Collection précieuse et enluminée des fleurs plus belles et les plus curieuses qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la Chine, que dans ceux d'Europe, dirigée par le soince et sous la conduittes de Mr. Buc'hoz. Ouvrage egalement utile aux naturalistes, aux fleuristes, aux peintres, aux dessinateurs, aux directeurs des manufactures en porcelaine, en fayance et en etoffes de soye, de laine, de coton et autres artistes. Pour servir de Suite à l'Histoire naturelle et Oeconomique des 3. regnes de la nature. Partie II. Plantes les plus belles qui se cultivent dans les jardins de l'Europe.
Paris, Lacombe, [AND] Chez l'Auteur, [1776]-1781. Two works in one. Folio (49.0 x 30.0 cm). Title pages (first in sepia, second in black); [ii] pp. (explanatory leaves); 201 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Fabulous period-style full red morocco binding. Spine with five gilt-ornamented raised bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and borders, and gilt title. Boards with gilt-rolled floral borders and corner-pieces; gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers.
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Buffon, [G. L. L. Comte de]
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux 1-9. [The complete birds, including supplement].
Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1783. Nine parts in nine. 4to (25.3 x 19.3 cm). Title pages with allegorical engraved vignettes, numerous engraved head and tail pieces. 5617 pp. (I. (1770) [iv], xxiv, 496; II. (1771) [v], 560; III. (1775) iv, [xi], 502, xcvii; IV. (1778) v-xvi, 590, xxviii; V. (1778) v-xv, 546, xxix; VI. (1779) iii-xvi, 703; VII. (1780) xvi, 554, xcvi; VIII. (1781) viii, 498, xlii; IX. (1783) v-viii, 438, xxx, 284). 262 engraved plates [29; 27; 31; 27; 22; 25; 31; 39; 31]. Uniform contemporary full tree calf. Spines with five raised bands, rich gilt compartments with floral vignettes, two morocco labels with gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges.
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Buller, W. L.
A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
London, John Van Voorst, 1873. Large 4to (30.3 x 23.7 cm). xxiii, [i], 384 pp.; 36 finely lithographed plates, of which 35 in delicate original hand-colouring, and one (frontispiece) only tinted, as intended. Contemporary red half morocco over pebbled, triple-gilt-bordered linen boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-rolled bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Buqcellos [Blocquel, S. F.]
Nouveau cabinet du jeune naturaliste; par Buqcellos. Édition ornée de 205 figures en taille-douce, et augmentée d'un grand nombre d'anecdotes curieuses et instructives tirées de l'histoire des animaux. 1. Quadrupèdes, première partie. 2. Quadrupèdes, deuxième partie. 3. Oiseaux, première partie 4. Oiseaux, deuxième partie. 5. Poissons, cétacés et crustacées. 6. Reptiles, insects, vers, etc. [Complete].
Paris, Delarue, ca. 1825. Six parts in three. Small square quarto (12.5 x 10.3 cm). Six title pages, 864 pp. [5-148; 5-148; 5-148; 5-148; 5-147; 5-147]; 84 engraved plates [12; 17; 12; 11; 16; 16]. Uniform contemporary speckled full calf. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and red and green morocco labels. Marbled endpapers.
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Capitani, F. di
Francesco di Capitani. [Manuscript design examples].
Roma, di Capitani, [ca. 1935]. Large, oblong cardboard binder with two metal pins. Folio (36.5 x 53.5 cm). 64 leaves with original drawings, of which 61 in full colour (crayon). Black morocco boards with embossed title and patterned pastedowns. Stiff brown endpapers.
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Chamisso, A. de and C. G. Eysenhardt
De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione terrae auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff, duce Ottone de Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta observatis. Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. Cum tabulis XI aeneis pictis.
Berlin, [F. Dümmler], 1821. 4to (26.1 x 20.5 cm). Title page, 30 pp. [numbered: (345)-374]; finely engraved and ten originally hand-coloured plates [numbered XXIV-XXXIII]. 20th century blue buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Chun, C.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Achtzehnter Band. Die Cephalopoden; I. Teil: Oegopsida. Atlas.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1910. 4to (34.5 x 26.0 cm). 61 lithographed plates (mostly in chromolithography), of which several double-sized, and their explanatory text leaves. Original quarter black cloth over printed, orange boards and matching original spine cover. Printed endpapers.
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Chun, C.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Achtzehnter Band. Die Cephalopoden; II. Teil: Myopsida. Octopoda.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1914. 4to (34.5 x 26.0 cm). Title page to the part, 148 pp. [numbered 405-552], title page to the complete 18th volume (bound in rear); 39 text illustrations, 33 chromolithographed plates [numbered 63-95 (of which several double-sized), and their explanatory text leaves. Original quarter black cloth over printed, orange boards and matching original orange spine cover. Printed endpapers.
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Cranwell, T.
New Zealand ferns. Prepared and mounted by T. Cranwell.
Auckland (Parnell), T. Cranwell, no date [before 1877]. Small folio (27.8 x 22.3 cm). 30 sheets with mounted ferns, each with a small, mounted label with the Latin name. Original green leather spine and carved rimu wood-panels. Marbled endpapers. Contained in recent clamshell box (30.6 x 24.7 x 4.9 cm) of black cloth with black morocco label with gilt ornamental bands and title on the 'spine'.
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Delarue, J. [B. A.]
Album d'Oiseaux.
Paris, Arnauld de Vresse, [between 1857-1871]. Oblong folio (16.4 x 26.3 cm). Title page in red and black; 16 pp. of explanatory text; 18 finely lithographed plates, originally coloured by hand. Original pebbled, blind-stamped burgundy cloth. Front board with gilt floral arabesques and gilt title.
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Descole, H.
Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum. I-V. [A complete set].
Buenos Aires, Guillermo Kraft, 1943-1956. Folio (49.3 x 34.3 cm), five volumes in seven. With, in total, 1936 pages of text and 811 fine plates [149, 175, 133, 221, 133], of which 141 [20, 26, 54, 22, 19] printed in full colour and tissue-guarded. Original uniform decorated green cloth, with floral patterns on spine and blind-stamped tooling on boards. Pictorial (floral) endpapers. All edges red.
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"Eine Hamburgerin" [E. S. E. Hornbostel]
Sammlung neuer Muster zum Sticken in Plattstich und Tambourin gezeichnet von einer Hamburgerin.
Hamburg, Friedrich Perthes, 1813. Oblong folio (24.5 x 38.2 cm). Title page, [ii] pp.; 16 engraved plates [numbered LI-LXVI], of which several larger, folded; all with several numbered illustrations each [numbered 294-438. Original limp blue boards. Front cover with original engraved, oval vignette with printed ornamental border and title.
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Escher, M. C.
Vissen. [In: De Tekens van de Dierenriem - limited edition, with extra letter and invitations to exhibitions of the artwork].
Amsterdam, De Grafische, 1963. Square 4to (20.4 x 20.5 cm). Title page; 36 pp., all with blank versos. Original pictorial soft cover (Lumbeck binding). Printed invitations tipped in.
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Ettingshausen, C. Von and A Pokorny
Physiotypia Plantarum Austriacarum. Der Naturselbstdruck in seiner Anwendung auf die Gefässpflanzen [Nature-printed plates 197-198]
Wien, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei [1855-1856]. Folio nature-printed plates (each 56.5 x 39.5 cm, circa 43 x 30 cm for printed area). With very wide, uniform margins.
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Fauché, B.
Histoire naturelle, botanique.
[France, unpublished, ca. 1850]. Folio (39.8 x 28.8 cm). Title page with polychrome title and vignette, heightened with gold; 15 tissue-guarded plates with watercolour images of fungi (1) and flowering plants with explanatory text leaves in fine calligraphy. Original full embossed and pebbled black calf; gilt-stippled board edges and fine gilt inner dentelles. Iridescent endpapers. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title; front board with gilt initials "B. F." (= Berthe Fauché); rear board with gilt vignette "Maison des Oiseaux". All edges gilt.
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Gleichen Russworm, W. F. Von [Rußwurm, Rusworm]
Das Neueste aus dem Reiche der Pflanzen oder mikroskopische Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen der geheimen Zeugungstheile der Pflanzen in ihren Blüten, und der in denselben befindlichen Insekten; nebst einigen Versuchen von dem Keim, und einem Anhang vermischter Beobachtungen, beschrieben, und mit Farben nach der Natur vorgestellet. Herausgegeben, verlegt und mit den nöhtigen in Kupfer gestochenen und illuminirten Abbildungen versehen von Johann Christoph Keller.
Nürnberg, Christian de Launoy seel[ig] Erben, [1763]-1764-[1766]. Folio (40.2 x 25.8 cm). Title page with motto on verso, half-title with motto on verso; 159 pp. [(iv), 8, (iv), 72, 40, (vi), 26]; 51 engraved plates [numbered I-V, IIb (all showing microscopes); I-IV, A-E, V-XXX (mainly showing flowers); 1-10 (mainly showing insects)], all in fine, original hand-colouring; and decorated with several large, finely engraved headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine with seven raised, gilt-lined bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and corner pieces; brown morocco label with gilt title. Board edges gilt-rolled. Marbled pastedowns. All edges red.
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Godart, J. B. and P. A. J. Duponchel
Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères ou papillons de France. [Volumes] I-XI (AND) suppléments. [Volumes] I-IV (AND) Iconographie des chenilles. [Volumes] I-II. [Complete].
Paris, Crevot et Mequignon-Marvis, 1821-1831. 17 volumes in 19. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). With 546 engraved plates, all but one nicely hand-coloured. Contemporary near uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt linings (more elaborate at spine ends), black or brown morocco labels with gilt titles. Marbled flyleaves.
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Groen, J. van der and P. Nylandt
Het vermakelyk land-leven. I. Deel. Den Nederlantsen hovenier, zijnde het I. Deel van het Vermakelijk Land-leven. Beschrijvende allerhande prinçelike en heerlijke lust-hoven en hof-steden, en hoe men deselve, met veelderley uytnemende boomen, bloemen en kruyden, kan beplanten, bezaeijen, en verçieren. ... Desen laetsten druk is doorgaens verbetert. [AND] De verstandige hovenier. Over de twaelf maenden van 't jaer. Zijnde het II. deel van het vermakelyk lant-leven. [AND] De medicyn-winkel, of ervaren huys-houder: zijnde het III. deel van het vermakelyk landleven.
Amsterdam, Weduwe Gijsbert De Groot, [1696-]1711-1721. Three parts in one. 4to (20.1 x 15.3 cm cm). Engraved title (or frontispiece, with "consent en privilegie" printed on verso), dated 1696; letterpress title page with wood-engraved vignette (dated 1721); [xxvii], 103, [iii] pp., including 69 full-page engraved plates (mainly garden designs, pergolas, etc.), and a few text engravings [AND] Engraved frontispiece, letterpress title page with engraved vignette (dated 1711), [v], 84, [iv] pp., including one engraved plate. [AND] Title page with large copper engraving (dated 1711), pp. [2]-38; half-title Den naerstigen byen-houder, with large copper engraving (verso blank), pp. 41-53, [54-56]; half-title De verstandige kok (dated 1711) with large copper engraving and "Privilegie" on verso, pp. [59-60], 61-88. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, and morocco label with gilt ornamental borders and title.
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Haecker, [F. C.] V.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Vierzehnter Band. Tiefsee-Radiolarien.
Jena, Gustav Fisher, 1908. Four parts in three. Large 4to (33.1 x 24.3 cm). x, 706 pp.; 87 mostly chromolithographed plates, two partly coloured maps, 225 text figures. Uniform 20th-century half cloth over patterned boards. Gilt title on the spines. Several original printed wrappers bound in.
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Hamond, W.
A paradox: prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the World. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true description of that island: the nature of the climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other nations. With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East-Indies.
London, Nathaniell Butter, 1640. 4to (18.7 x 14.4 cm). Original second blank; title page, half title, half-title (placed after 12th text page) [xii, xxi] pp., Mid-19th century brown crushed morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title; boards with triple gilt borders and rosettes; gilt-lined edges and elaborate gilt inner dentelles.
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Hauck, G. (ed.)
Festschrift der Königlichen technischen Hochschule zu Berlin. Zur Feier der Einweihung ihres neuen Gebäudes am 2. November 1884.
Berlin, [Königliche technische Hochschule], 1884. Large 4to (30.8 x 22.4 cm). viic [sic! = xciii], 337 pp.; several text figures, ten plates including three fine, chromolithographed plates (one larger, folded), several original, mounted photos including one in full colour (an early example), and two large ones (20.1 x 15.8 cm; 13.9 x 19.9 cm [oblong]). Original printed wrappers.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 1.3.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 2.11.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 3.4.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Kéralio, L. F. Guynement de, et al.
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Art Militaire. I-IV. [= I-III + Supplément] [Complete text, and plates].
Paris, Panckoucke, 1784-1797. Five volumes in five. 4to (25.5 x 20.2 cm). Four titles to the Encyclopédie, four titles with wood-engraved vignette, to the Arts militaires volumes; 3334 pp. [viii, 783; 800; 753; 990]; two large, folded, engraved plates in the fourth text volume, 59 plates of which 31 double-sized in the plate volume. Uniform contemporary mottled half calf (corners vellum) over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; compartments with gilt snowflake vignettes and red and black morocco labels with double-gilt borders and title. Edges speckled red (text volumes); Later marbled boards (plate volume).
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