Low Countries
101 items found
Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. [Complete, in four volumes].
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1,636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (two showing adjacent regions). Original uniform quarter cloth over printed boards.
Read moreRonner, L.
De eerste vijf der AGS 1918-1923. [AND] De tweede vijf der AGS 1918-1928.
Amsterdam, Amsterdamsche Grafische School, 1923-1928. In two volumes. Square 4to (25.0 x 24.0 cm). 96 [33; 63] pp.; 35 [35; 0] plates (including several in full colour). Numerous text illustrations, including portraits (tipped-in). Pictorial wrappers in three colours.
Read moreLorentz, H. A.
De electrische stroom. Oude en nieuwe denkbeelden. In: Herdenking van het 150-jarige bestaan van het Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam. 1769 - 17 augustus - 1919.
Rotterdam, Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam, 1919. 4to (26.0 x 22.0 cm). 25 [49] pp.; 12 text figures. Later quarter cloth over original printed wrappers (society's logo printed on rear wrapper).
Read moreSchlegel, H.
De vogels van Nederland. Tweede herziene druk. Eerste deel - Tweede deel. [Complete].
Amsterdam, G. L. Funke, 1878. 8vo (21.9 x 14.5 cm). Half-title, title page, lxxi, 135 pp.; second half-title and title, ii, 136 pp., for a total of 344 pp.; half-title to the plates; 35 chromolithographed plates; half-title to "tafereelen" (views) 18 chromolithographed and tinted lithographed plates, for a total of 53 plates. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt bird vignettes and gilt title. Blueish-grey endpapers. Sprinkled edges.
Read moreNuyens, A.
De vogelwereld. Handboek voor liefhebbers van kamer- en parkvogels. Met driehonderd afbeeldingen in chromolithographie.
Groningen, J. B. Wolters, 1886. Folio (36.8 x 27.3 cm). Two title pages, 274 [xvi, 156; (ii), 100] pp.; 48 [26; 22] large chromolithographed plates. Publisher's decorative full cloth with gilt and black embossing on the front board and spine; large pictorial panel of an Arcadian landscape with a peacock and swans on the front board, and gilt title on the spine. Bevelled edges. Iridescent silk endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreJung, M. B.
De wijnroei- en peilkunde, gemakkelijk en eenvoudig voorgesteld, voornamelijk het werkdadige dezer wetenschap, door vele voorbeelden opgehelderd, ten dienste van ambtenaren bij de in- en uitgaande regten en accijnsen.
Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1842. 8vo (23.1 x 13.8 cm). Half-title, title page, 173 [viii, 164, 3] pp. Original blind wrappers.
Read more[J. Brandt & Zoon]
Decorative leathers applied to modern furniture.
Amsterdam, J. Brandt & Zoon, ca. 1910-1916. Folio (37.0 x 30.0 cm). With 36 original photographs of furniture leather crafting such as, chairs, clocks and smoking stands, each with a handwritten caption, on 34 leaves. Original full leather, with gilt title and vignette on the front board. Marbled endpapers.
Read more[Villanova, A. de]
Den groten herbarius met al den figuerender cruyden. Om die crachten d' cruyden te onderkennen ... Een tractaet om alle orijnen te iudicerene.
Utrecht, Jan van Doesborch, 1532. Folio (26.1 x 19.2 cm). 392 pp., including title in red and black with three woodcuts; a further 697 woodcuts including two page-sized: one, on p. 335, of a human skeleton, the other on the final page; numerous woodcut capitals and ornaments. Near contemporary blind vellum. Script title in an old hand on the spine. Edges speckled red.
Read moreKoninck, L. [G.] de
Description des animaux fossiles, qui se trouvent dans le terrain carbonifère de Belgique. Supplément.
Liège, H. Dessain, 1851. 4to (29.9 x 21.8 cm). 76 pp.; five lithographed, tinted plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands; gilt ornamental bands and title. Marbled endpapers; marbled edges.
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