Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair 2024
Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair 2024
100 items found
Trog, J. G.
Die essbaren, verdächtigen & giftigen Schwaemme der Schweiz.
Bern, [privately published], [1843-1850 or 1866]. Folio (38.3 x 28.5 cm). Title (mounted), 46, [ii] pp.; 36 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary dark green grained paper boards. Gilt lines on the spine.
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Wyder, J. F.
Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des serpens de la Suisse.
Genève, Barbezat et Delarue; Paris, Naudin, 1826. 8vo (20.7 x 13.0 cm). Engraved title page, iv, 7-90 pp.; two large, folded, finely engraved and contemporary hand-coloured plates. 20th-century half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt-bordered, raised bands. Original wrappers, with neatly handwritten title in an old hand, bound in the rear.
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X-Rays: Friedrich Haller & Söhne Atélier und Laboratorium mit Röntgen'schen Strahlen
Very early applied radiology [Röntgen photographs, X-rays] including the first use of X-rays in authentication of fine art (i.e. painting by Albrecht Dürer).
Munich, Friedrich Haller & Söhne, Atélier und Laboratorium mit Röntgen'schen Strahlen, 1897. Loose in folio album. Set of nine extremely early, mint conditioned X-Ray-photographs mounted on six presentation cardboards (three with two photographs each) and with manuscript descriptions; the photographs measuring between 6.6 x 5.6 cm, and 34.4 x 23.6 cm, all housed in contemporary gilt cloth portfolio titled Album.
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