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116 items found
[Bergk, J. A.]
Die Wunder des Himmels und das System des Weltalls, in einem faßlichen Vortrage zur Beforderung und Erleichterung der astronomischen Kenntnisse für Jedermann. Mit 12 Tafeln. Aus dem Englischen.
Leipzig, Industrie Comptoir, F. F. Bohn, [1823]. 8vo (20.5 x 11.9 cm). Large, folded, lithographed frontispiece (= Plate 1); title page, viii, 104 pp. [pp. 99-104 form a publisher's catalogue]; 11 plates (numbered 2-12) on ten folded sheets. Contemporary marbled boards. Spine with later paper label with gilt title. All edges red.
Read more[Röntgen,W.]
Deutsche medicinische Wochenschrift. [The first papers on the application of Röntgen or X rays in medicine].
Leipzig und Berlin, [Thieme], 1896. Folio (31.5 x 23.6 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations including original, mounted photos. Later half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreBreitschwert, 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.
Read moreBrokatpapier [gilt-printed paper]
A large, gilt-embossed sheet.
[Augsburg, probably J. C. Munck, ca. 1780]. A large, oblong folio sheet of orange/terracotta painted wove paper, printed in gilt. (35.0 x 43.0 cm; printed area 30.6 x 35.6 cm, i.e., with ample margins) Loose, as issued.
Read moreBauer, H. [Brade, L.]
L. Brade's illustriertes Buchbinderbuch. Ein Lehr- und Handbuch der gesamten Buchbinderei und aller in diesen Fach einschlagenden Kunsttechniken. Fünfte neu verbesserte Auflage.
Halle, H. Bauer, 1909. 8vo (23.9 x 17.1 cm). xvii, 465, 24 pp.; 224 text illustrations, 21 plates, 20 examples of marbled paper tipped in. Early 20th-century full morocco. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt geometric patterns and morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers with gilt-ornamented red morocco borders. Gilt, red, white and black ornamental edges.
Read moreKayser, J. C.
Deutschlands Schmetterlinge mit Berücksichtigung sämmtlicher Europäischer Arten.
Leipzig, Ambr. Abel, [1852]-1859. Two parts (text, atlas) in two. 8vo (23.9 x 16.5 cm). Half title, title, 617 pp. (viii, 608; [i]); 153 engraved plates of which 152 originally hand-coloured, and one plain (and without a number), as intended. Uniform blind, pebbled half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreReineck, A.
Anglertagebuch. Meine Erlebnisse am Wasser.
[Frankfurt am Main, unpublished, 1930-1933]. Oblong folio (20.5 x 26.4 cm). "Frontispiece" self-portrait of the author in pencil and watercolour; 40 pp. with handwritten text [in German] and numerous illustrations in pencil or ink, a cut-out ink drawing by the author mounted on the rear board. Bound in gilt-green-black pochoir "camouflage" boards. In a custom-made marbled slipcase (27.3 x 22.4 x 1.9 cm), with a photocopy of the latter drawing mounted on the front board.
Read moreHill, J.
Johann Hills Beschreibung der äusserlichen Theile der Pflanzen oder allgemeine Einleitung in die Botanik.
Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilschern, 1782. 8vo (20.0 x 12.0 cm). iv, 74, [ii] pp., 49 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands bordered with gilt lines, and morocco label with gilt title. Red edges.
Read more[Sturm, J. (AND) Frauenholz, J. M.]
Original hand-coloured proof plates for Bilder für Kinder mit Hinsicht auf die von Herrn Andre und Bechstein herausgegebenen Spaziergänge, gesammelt von I. F. Frauenholz.
Nürnberg, Frauenholz, [1792]-1793-1795. Five plates. Oblong (19.5 x 22.5 cm), and near square (22.0 x 19.0 cm). Engraved and finely coloured by hand, one with handwritten captions. On loose sheets; versos blank.
Read moreBrown, E.
[Wunderkammer - Giant Library] Durch Niederland, Teutschland, Hungarn, Serbien, Bulgarien, Macedonien, Thessalien, Oesterreich, Steirmarck, Kärnthen, Carniolen, Friaul, &c. gethane ganz sonderbare Reisen...
Nürnberg, Johann Ziegler, 1685. 4to (20.3 x 16.5 cm). Engraved title, letterpress title in black and red; [viii], 334, [xii] pp.; 18 engraved plates, of which several larger, folding. Later blind vellum.
Read moreBraun, J. H.
[BINDING]. Exercitatio academica ex antiquitatibus Germanicis et Francicis de Butigulariis, praecipue iis qui Norimbergae olim floruerunt quam sub praesidio Christiani Gotlib. Schwarzii com. palat. caes. et prof. publ. a.d. viii decembr a.r.s. mdccxxiii in academico disputantium circulo as disquirendum proponit a. et r. Iohannes Hieronymus Braun. Norimbergensis.
Altorfii Noricorum (Nürnberg), Iod. G. Kohlesius, 1723. Small 4to (19.0 x 16.2 cm). Title page, [ii], 100 pp.; one engraved map of the Nürenberg area and one peculiar engraving showing a crossbowman on a beehive with two coats-of-arms: one of Crenan, Leidlarius, Eschanson and Butigul, and one engraved initial letter. Wonderful medieval-style contemporary parchment binding decorated with blind-tooled roller stamp decoration of hunting scenes including deer, birds and lions. Edges red.
Read morePraetorius, J. [H. Schultze]
Collegium curiosum privatissimum physiognom-chiromant-metoposcop-anthropologicum ... Oder ein sehr nützliches Werck, darinnen curieus und doch vollkömmlich abgehandelt wird, was zur Physiognomie, Chiromantie, Metoposcopie und Anthropologie gehöret. [BOUND WITH] Die von Aberglauben Vanitaeten und Zeuscherey gereinigte Chiromantia und Physiognomia.
Frankfurt und Leipzig, Philipp Wilhelm Stock, 1713. Small 8vo (16.4 x 9.6 cm). Title page in red and black; [xii], 128 pp.; nine (five copper-engraved, four woodcuts) multi-folded plates, three large text woodcuts. [AND] Title in red and black, 61 pp.; engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved plates; a few woodcut endpieces. Contemporary full vellum. Gilt title between gilt ornamental lines on the spine. Speckled edges.
Read moreClairaut, 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.
Berolini, Johann Andreas Rüdiger, 1734. Small 4to (20.5 x 16.0 cm). vi, 405 pp.; 11 mostly folded engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt, red morocco label with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
Read moreLeydig, F.
Die in Deutschland lebenden Arten der Saurier.
Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1872. 4to (30.6 x 23.3 cm). 270 pp.; 12 lithographed plates of which three partly tinted, each with an explanatory text leaf. Later gilt-bordered grained half calf over buckram boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreDelaunay, S.
Simultané. [by Sonia Delaunay].
Bielefeld, Bielefelder Spielkarten GmbH, 1964. 16 pp. booklet, partly printed in colour (12.6 x 9.0 cm) and 110 playing cards (9.2 x 6.0 cm) [two French decks with differently coloured backs in blue, black and white, combined with, respectively, red or green, each consisting of 52 standard cards and three jokers] in original transparent plastic box (13.2 x 9.8 cm).
Read moreThaer, A. [D.] (ed.)
Annalen des Ackerbaues herausgegeben von Albrecht Thaer. [AND] Annalen der Fortschritte der Landwirthschaft in Theorie und Praxis herausgegeben von Albrecht Thaer. [Together in 16 volumes].
Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung [and Rücker und Reimer], 1805-1812. 16 volumes in 16. Small 8vo (16.7 x 10.2 cm). 12,573 pp.; 29 folding tables, ten folding plates, six folding maps. Original uniform half calf over tree-calf resembling paper boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands, red morocco label with gilt title and green oval morocco label with gilt ornamental border and gilt volume number. All edges red.
Read moreBrokatpapier [gilt-printed paper]
Two identical, large, gilt-embossed sheets.
[Augsburg, probably J. C. Munck, ca. 1780]. Two large, oblong folio sheets of orange/terracotta painted wove paper, printed in gilt. (each 35.1 x 43.1 cm; printed areas 29.7 x 34.8 cm, i.e., with ample margins). Loose, as issued.
Read moreLamarck, J. B. P. A. de Monet de
Considérations sur quelques faits applicables à la théorie du globe, observés par M. Péron dans son voyage aux Terres Australes, et sur quelques questions géologiques qui naissent de la connoissance de ces faits.
Paris, Levrault Schoell, et Cie., An XIII - 1805. 4to (27.5 x 21.3 cm). 27 pp. [numbered 26-52]. Original printed wrappers.
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