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The best copy on the market!

Wirsing, A. L.

Marmora et adfines aliquos lapides coloribus suis/ Afbeelding der Marmer soorten.../ Abbildungen der Marmor-Arten.../ A representation of different sort of marble.../ Représentation de marbres...

Amsterdam, Johann Christian Sepp, 1776. 4to (30.3 x 24.3 cm). Five printed titles in Latin, Dutch, German, English and French, five introduction leaves in these languages; 50 leaves of text (including ten subtitles), describing plates 1-68. With 98 (of 100) beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary style full red morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes, corner pieces and title. Panels with gilt-rolled floral borders and corner pieces. Gilt-lined edges; gilt floral inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers.

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A rare set with a huge amount of partly unfolded plates

[Various authors]

Annales des Mines. Series III-VI. Atlases.

Paris, Ecole de Mines, 1832-1866. Two series in four. Oblong folio (40.5 x 22.0 cm) with 758 (of 759? see below) engraved and lithographed plates and maps, of which 29 are hand-coloured geological maps or profiles. Contemporary uniform red cloth. Gilt titles on the spines and front boards. Marbled endpapers.

€5,500.00

Rare complete with the atlas

Hague, J. D. and C. King

United States geological exploration of the fortieth parallel. Volume III. Mining industry by James D. Hague. With geological contributions by Clarence King. [AND] Mining Industry atlas. [COMPLETE including the nearly always missing Atlas].

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1870; New York, NY, Julies Bien, [1870]. Large 4to (29.2 x 23.2 cm) and very large, oblong folio (49.0 x 64.2 cm). Lithographed frontispiece, xiii, 646 pp.; 37 plates and maps (text volume); [AND] title page; 14 large maps, of which all but one hand-coloured or colour-printed (atlas volume). Original green cloth with embossed boards and gilt title on the spine (text volume); [AND] original green half roan over green cloth. Front boar with gilt title (atlas volume).

€3,500.00

The rare start of the richest source of original geographical exploration with numerous fine maps

Petermann, A. [H.] (ed.)

Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen. Volumes 1-12. [Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem gesammtgebiete der Geographie von Doktor A. Petermann].

Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1855-1865. 12 volumes in 12. 4to (22.2 x 26.8 cm). Over 3,500 pp., numerous maps of which many large, folded, and nearly all in fine chromolithography. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt and black-lined bands, red and black morocco labels with gilt title, number and year (volumes 1-9), and gilt ornaments and title (volumes 10-12). Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

€2,900.00

Magnificent early view on the Lutchinen waterfalls

Belanger, L. and P. Vanlerberghe and S. Malgo

View of the torrent of the Lutschinen, and of the glaciers where it takes its source – Vue du torrent de la Lutschinen en Suisse, et des glaciers ou il prend sa source.

€2,250.00

The rare, important and profusely illustrated mining and mineralogy section of the first true encyclopaedia

Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)

Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres mis en ordre par Mons. Diderot. Histoire naturelle. Règne mineral.

€2,000.00

An important contribution to the geology of the Mediterranean island volcanoes north of Sicily

Dolomieu, D. [G. S. T.], De

Reise nach den liparischen Insuln oder Nachricht von den äolischen Insuln zur nähern Aufklärung der Geschichte der Vulkane. Nebst einer Abhandlung über eine Art von Luftvulkan, und einer andern über die Temperatur des Clima auf Maltha und die Verschiedenheit der wahren und fühlbaren Wärme.

€1,800.00

Most richly illustrated edition of this influential work on the history, geography, and natural history of the Near and Middle East

Belon, P.

Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvees en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois liures. Reueuz de nouveau & augmentez de figures. Le catalogue contenant le plus notables choses, est en la page fuyuante.

€1,750.00

Rare complete copy of Zannoni's rarest atlas

Zannoni, R.

Atlas historique de la France ancienne et moderne contenant tous les lieux illustrés par les événements les plus mémorables de notre histoire; ... depuis Pharamond jusqu'a Louis XV....

Paris, S. Desnos, 1782. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.2 cm). Beautifully engraved double-sized title page; similar folding dedication page (by Desnos and Zannoni), 16 pp.; 59 hand-coloured engraved maps (56 double-sized with ornamental borders; two much larger, of which one dated 1774, and the other 1776). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral patterns and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red.

€1,400.00

Rare and important work on oryctognosy with handwritten dedication by the author

Widenmann, J. F. W.

Handbuch des oryktognostischen Theils der Mineralogie.

€1,300.00

An attractive, uniformly bound set of one of the best-illustrated "Buffons"

Buffon, [G. L. L. Comte de]

Oeuvres complètes de Buffon avec la nomenclature Linnéenne et la classification de Cuvier. Revues sur l'édition in 4to de l'Imprimerie Royale et annotées par M. Flourens.

Paris, Garnier frères, 1853-1855. In 12 volumes. Very large 8vo (26.7 x 17.8 cm). Text with one engraved frontispiece, one hand-coloured frontispiece, one engraved portrait of Buffon, and 160 hand-coloured engraved plates and maps, for a total of 163 plates outside the text. Contemporary uniform dark blue half calf over pebbled boards; spines with four raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and titles. Iridescent endpapers. All edges gilt.

€1,250.00

A fine collection of astronomical, geographical, mathematical and other researches

Clairaut, J. B., a.o.

Miscellanea Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum ex scriptis Societati Regiae Scientiarum exhibitis. Edita, continuatio III, sive Tomus IV. Cum figuris et indice materiarum.