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Extracten uit de Resolutien van de edele mogende Heeren Raaden van Staate der Vereenigde Nederlanden.
Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé [for the Raadt van Staate der Vereenigde Nederlanden], [1578] 1778. Folio (32.5 x 22.0 cm) [33.0 x 22.6 cm]. [vi], [66], [i] pp. Contemporary, probably original mottled burgundy morocco. Spine with six raised, gilt-rolled bands; compartments with gilt floral corner pices and central vignette. Boards with intricate gilt floral borders, gilt dentelles and gilt vignette of the Dutch lion. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreWirsing, 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.
Read moreCuvier, G. [L. C. F. D.]
Le Regne animal distribué d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. Avec figures, dessinées d'après nature.
Paris, Deterville, 1817. Four volumes in four. 8vo (21.0 x 13.4 cm). 2072 pp. [I: xxxvii, 540; II: xviii, 532; III: xxix, 653; IV: viii, 255]; 15 engraved plates. Uniform contemporary full mottled calf. Spines rich gilt with floral vignettes and ornamental, straight and stippled bands; two red morocco labels with gilt title. Boards with elaborate gilt borders. Edges gilt-lined; gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges.
Read moreSéguy, E. A.
Prismes. 40 planches de dessins et coloris nouveaux.
Paris, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1931]. Folio portfolio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). [iv] pp. (half-title and title page); 40 very fine full colour pochoir plates. The original publisher's full-colour pictorial portfolio.
Read moreFeuillée, L. [É.] (Huth, G. L., ed.)
Des Pater Ludwig Feuillee, Ordensmönchen des Heil. Francisci von Paula, Königlichen Mathematici und Botanisten, wie auch Correspondentens der Königl. Academie der Wissenschaften, Beschreibung zur Arzeney dienlicher Pflanzen, welche in den Reichen des mittägigen America, in Peru und Chily vorzüglich im Gebrauch sind, in dem Land selbst auf königl. Befehl, in den Jahren von 1709. 1710. und 1711. Aufgesezet, nebst verschiedenen andern aus eben desselben Tageregister physischer Beobachtungen gesammelten und zur natürlichen Historie gehörigen Anmerkungen. Aus dem französischen ins Deutsche übersezet.
Nürnberg, Johann Michael Seeligmann, 1756-1758. Two volumes in two. 4to (26.1 x 22.2 cm). Title pages, 368 pp. (I: [vi], 3-136, [vi]; II: [ii], 208, [xii]; 102 [ 50; 52 (two unnumbered, opposite pp. 126, 148] engraved and finely hand-coloured plates. Original hand-coloured woodcut head piece. Uniform full mottled calf. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and borders, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt dentelles.
Read moreLinnaeus, C.
Amoenitates academicae seu dissertationes variae physicae, medicae botanicae antehac seorsim editae nunc collectae et auctae ... editio tertia curante D. Jo. Christiano Daniele Schrebero.
Erlangen, J. Jacob Palm, 1787-1790. Ten volumes in ten. 8vo. Title pages, 4,691 pp. (1: [ii], 571; 2: [ii], 472; 3: [ii], 464; 4: [ii], 600, [ii]; 5: [ii], 583, [ix]; 6: [ii], 486, [vi]; 7: [ii], 506, [iv]; 8: [ii], 332, [i]; 9: [ii], 331; 10: [iii], 172, 131); 59 folded, engraved plates [17;4;4;4;11 [numbered I-III, I-VIII];6;7;6;0;0]. Uniform contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spines with gilt bands and two light brown, gilt-bordered morocco labels with gilt titles and volume numbers (small, oval labels).
Read moreDaudin, F. [M.]
Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds.
Paris, Levrault, An XI (1802). 4to (28.7 x 22.2 cm). 108 pp.; 38 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Early 19th-century polished, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt vignettes, and with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreRouffaer, G. P. and H. H. Juynboll
Die Batik-Kunst in Niederländisch-Indien und ihre Geschichte bearbeitet auf Grund von dem im Reichs Museum für Volkerkunde und öffentlichen wie privaten Sammlungen in den Niederlanden befindlichen, reichhaltigen Material. De batik-kunst in Nederlandsch-Indië en haar geschiedenis. Op grond van materiaal aanwezig in 's Rijks Ethnographisch Museum en andere openbare en particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland.
Haarlem, H. Kleinmann & Co.; Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1899-1914. Two volumes in two (text, atlas). Large 4to (33.5 x 25.8 cm). Double title pages (in German and Dutch), 646 pp. (15, [iii], xxx, 534, xxix, xxxi-lxv); several text illustrations (1914 text volume); ix pp.; 100 plates (many double-sized, and/or in colour), one very large, double folded map (in red and black) of Java and Madura (1899 atlas volume), a second map, of "Voor India" (i.e., India proper) in red and black, double folded, tipped in between plates 80 and 81. Uniform full batik cloth. Patterned endpapers.
Read moreSalm, A.
Java. Naar schilderijen en teekeningen van A. Salm, lid der Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam. Op steen gebracht door J. C. Greive, Jr.
Amsterdam, Frans Buffa & Zonen, [1865]-1872. Folio (64.0 x 48.0 cm). Title page in red and black. 24 fine chromolithographed plates, finished by hand and heightened with gom arabic, mounted on larger sheets, and each with an original, small, printed caption mounted. Original green grained cloth portfolio with gilt title on the front board. A second, smaller, duplicating title-index leaf on thick paper, also printed in red and black (43.0 x 28.3 cm) loosely inserted.
Read moreVerbeek, R. D. M.
Krakatau. Album bevattende 25 teekeningen in kleuren van de verwoeste gedeelten van Straat Soenda, genomen twee maanden na de uitbarsting van Krakatau. Uitgegeven op last van Zijne Excellentie den Goeverneur-Generaal van Nederlandsch-Indie. [AND] Krakatau. Eerste gedeelte -Tweede gedeelte. [Complete text].
Brussel, Nationaal Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, [N.D. but 1885] [AND] Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1884-1885. Two parts in two. Atlas: Very large oblong portfolio (40.0 x 59.0 cm), title page, index (contents), and 25 fine chromolithographs, finished by hand, on nine plates. Original red cloth with gilt short-title on the front board. Patterned endpapers. Text volume: 8vo (25.7 x 17.4 cm). 693 pp. [viii, 100; xxxix, 546]. Slightly later green half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Brown endpapers.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. 4.e Partie: Paléontologie.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1842. Folio (34.0 x 25.9 cm). Title page, half-title, 182 pp.; 22 finely lithographed plates. Spine with gilt lines and title. Later blind linen spine over contemporary boards. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreBecker, W.
Album of the finest birds of all countries.
Philadelphia, PA, Weik & Wieck, [1854]. Oblong folio (27.2 x 36.0 cm). 25 finely lithographed plates, all in accurate original hand-colouring (14 plates with American birds; five European; one Asian; five Australian). Publisher's moiré silk-covered boards, with elaborate polychrome floral pattern larded with figures of birds and two gilt dragons. All edges gilt.
Read moreLiénard, [J.] F.
Catalogue des champignons observée et recuillis dans le dept de la Meuse et figurant dans le collection de Monsieur F. Liénard.
[Verdun], not published, 1855-[1871-1875]-1880. Folio (28.1 x 19.2 cm). 382 leaves of which three with a handwritten index; 23 with a handwritten half-title, and 356 with delicately drawn and coloured mushrooms. Somewhat later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands. Compartments with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreDescourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent toucan plates. Plates 12 and 14. Ramphastos ariel and Ramphastos dicolorus, and Pteroglossus aracari and Pteroglossus ulocomus. [Ariel toucan and green-billed toucan; and black-necked aracari and curl-crested aracari].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read moreDresser, H. E.
A monograph of the Coraciidae or family of the rollers.
Farnborough, the author, 1893. Folio (37.6 x 28.3 cm). Title page with woodcut vignette (owl) and quote in Greek; xx, 111; 27 lithographed plates, all in a most careful and beautiful original hand-colouring. Contemporary full red pebbled morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with central gilt vignettes and title. Boards with intricate gilt floral borders and woodcut vignette (an owl - as on the title page), bevelled edges, gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
Read morePückler-Muskau, H. L. H. Graf von
Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei verbunden mit der Beschreibung ihrer praktischen Anwendung in Muskau. [Atlas].
Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Louis Friedrich Sachse), 1834. Oblong folio (34.0 x 48.5 cm). 45 finely engraved and original hand-coloured plates (numbered I-XXIX, XXXI-XXXXIV, XXXIII[bis], XXXIV[bis]), of which two much larger, folded, and three with originally hand-coloured overlays, partly augmented with gum arabic. Contemporary full straight-grained green morocco. Spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented green bands, and gilt ornamental head and tail pieces; boards with quadruple gilt-lined borders with floral gilt cornerpieces. Original marbled slipcase with a red morocco label with gilt ornamental border and gilt title on the front board.
Read moreSclater, P. L.
A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulidae and Bucconidae.
London, the author, 1879-1882. Folio (32.3 x 25.5 cm). lii, [i], 171 pp.; 55 lithographed and finely hand-coloured plates, 13 groups of steel engravings in the text, showing taxonomically important parts, including heads, bills, etc. Contemporary red half morocco over gilt-bordered, red pebbled cloth. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands. Compartments with gilt floral vignettes, title and date. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original printed [and dated] wrappers, of all seven instalments, bound in rear.
Read moreAckermann, R. (publisher) [Hodson, T. and J. Dougall]
The Cabinet of the Arts, being a new & universal drawing book, illustrated by 130 engravings from drawings by various masters. Second edition with additions. [Atlas].
London, R. Ackermann, [1821]. Folio (28.2 x 22.5 cm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title; 126 engraved and aquatint plates, of which 31 originally coloured by hand. Later half calf over contemporary plain boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title. Olive endpapers; speckled edges.
Read moreJerdon, T. C.
Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.
Madras, P. R. Hunt, American Mission Press, [1844]-1847. 4to (30.5 x 23.0 cm). Title page, contents leaf, introduction; 50 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, each with extensive descriptive text. Contemporary, gilt-bordered brown half calf over linen boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title. Blue endpapers.
Read moreVincent, H. A.
Collection de 24 bouquets de fleurs.
Paris, Lambert, 1835. Small folio (27.0 x 20.7 cm). Hand-coloured engraved title; 24 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreLiron d'Airoles, J. de
Album de la Civélière, contenant les figures et descriptions des principales introductions agrico-horticoles qui y on été faites depuis l’année 1851. [Royal dedication copy].
Bruxelles, F. Parent, 1855. Large 4to (36.5 x 28.0 cm). Half-title, letterpress title with woodcut floral vignette; additional pictorial lithographed title with woodcut vignette on verso; dedication leaf by the author to the Comte de Chambord; ix, 64 pp.; 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates with explanatory text. Original printed wrappers, loosely inserted into a contemporary - custom made - dark blue pebbled morocco portfolio. "Spine" with five raised bands and gilt title; front (upper) board with gilt title. Iridescent silky paper on pastedowns.
Read moreWolff, J. F.
Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].
Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (25.2 x 20.1 cm). First title page (verso blank), [ii (preface)], [iv], [ii], [iii-iv; vii-viii; v-[vi], 208 pp. (with second title [1801], third title [1802], fourth title [1804], and fifth (last) title [1811]); 20 finely engraved plates with beautiful original hand-colouring. Later 19th-century full embossed cloth. Spine with gilt ornaments and title; boards with blind-stamped ornamental borders. Marbled edges.
Read moreCosta, E. Mendes da
Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French.
London, for the Author, 1778. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.3 cm). xii, 254, viii pp. 17 finely engraved plates in excellent original hand-colouring. 19th-century French red half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral vignette and title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreGötz, T. [M. G.]
Monographie des Hundes, oder: Beschreibung seiner Zucht, Wartung und Pflege sämtlicher Racen, deren Krankheiten und der Gebrauchsmittel dagegen, sowie Bekanntmachung des ursprünglichen Vaterlandes und Gebrauchs jeder Race. Für alle, deren Geschäft und Stand es erfordert, dieses Thier-Geschlecht halten zu müssen, so wie für jeden Liebhaber desselben. Gesammelt und herausgegeben.
Gotha, Hennings und Hopf, 1834. 8vo (18.3 x 11.3 cm) [vi], 114, [6] pp.; engraved, very large, folding frontispiece and 39 hand-coloured plates (several larger, folded). Contemporary sprinkled boards. Spine with gilt bands and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red.
Read moreHumboldt F. [H.] A. von [Freiherr]
Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. [Complete set of five text volumes and the authorized atlas by Bromme].
Stuttgart and Tübingen, J. C. Cotta, 1845-1862. Six volumes (text and atlas) in seven. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). 3546 pp. (1 [1845]: xvi, 394; 2 [1847]: 544; 3 [1850] 645; 4 [1858] 650; 5.1-5.2 [1862] 1-592; 593-1297). Atlas in two parts (descriptive text; maps) oblong 4to (28.1 x 34.1 cm); two title pages, [ii], 136 pp. (for a total of 3674 pp.); 42 lithographed and engraved maps of which 39 originally hand-coloured. Text volumes: Uniform brown, grained half morocco over pebbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and vignettes. Yellow endpapers. Mottled edges. Atlas volumes: uniform brown full cloth. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and title. Original printed wrapper bound in.
Read moreMéheut, M.
Études d'animaux. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].
Paris, Albert Lévy, 1911. Two parts in two [and an addition, described below]. Folio (44.0 x 34.0 cm). Title page in red and black, pp. 5-9 (introduction), index leaf; second title page in red and black, half-title; 100 [42; 58] loose, unnumbered plates in original, printed passepartouts. Uniform quarter cloth portfolios (45.0 x 35.0 cm); front boards with large vignette and printed title.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 3.e Partie: Mollusques.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1834-[1847]. In two volumes (text and atlas). Large 4to and folio (33.0 x 25.4 cm). Half-title to the Voyage, title to the Mollusques, half-title to the Mollusques; xliii, 758 pp.; 86 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-85; 41bis; plates 83-85 not coloured, as always]. Uniform period style half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read more[Trade Catalogue]
Walking stick knobs and handles. [Original drawings]
France, unpublished, ca. 1880-1900. Folio (39.0 x 28.0 cm). 151 cards, each with one to four individual pencil or ink designs, mounted on 52 stiff paper leaves. Dark green limp cloth. Spine with blind-stamped rectangular compartments, central floral vignettes and title; front board with gilt and black ornamental border, rear board with large, black intricate, oriental vignette.
Read more[Women's Liberation] [André Citroën]
Application de la main-d'oeuvre féminine au travail des obus. [AND] Usines André Citroën. Vues photographiques des usines André Citroën de mars a ocobre 1915 [at] 143 quai de javel, Paris.
Paris, Citroën, [1915]-1916. In two volumes. Oblong folio (31.5 x 43.7 cm). 71 original photographs (22.0 x 28.5-35.5 cm) mounted on grey cardboard with printed captions [60; 11]. Uniform full mottled calf. Boards with double gilt-rolled ornamental borders and gilt title.
Read more[Trade Catalogue - Japanese Silk]
Well-known raw silk producers and their trade marks - Empire of Japan - Compiled for Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904.
Tokio [Tokyo], The Japan Sericultural Association, 1904. Folio (29.6 x 22.0 cm). Preliminary leaf, title page, (xiv [advertisements]), 166, 7, [ix] pp. 144 text illustrations (logos), of which 142 in colour - mostly in full colour chromolithography, a few partly printed in silver. Additional full-colour illustrations in the advertisement sections. Original multi-colour pochoir wrappers, with two silk ties. Printed erratum leaf tipped in.
Read moreBourguet, [L.]
Traité des pétrifications. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée.
Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1778. 8vo (19.7 x 12.3 cm). Half-title, title page, 349 pp. (xvii, 326, [vii], and 4; 16 with advertisements); 441 engravings on 60 plates. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].
[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single, oblong sheet (17.5 x 24.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of greyish-brown paper (25.0 x 32.5 cm).
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Verdin, Auriparus flaviceps. [Original watercolour].
Paris, Larousse, [ca. 1970, but published 2013]. Single sheet (24.4 x 17.5 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of grey paper (32.4 x 25.0 cm).
Read moreBruyas, G.
Guillaume Bruyas & Fils Lyon. [Trade Catalogue of locks, chains, guns, and other metalware - original watercolours]
Lyon, Guillaume Bruyas, ca. 1860-1870. Oblong folio (26.6 x 40.2 cm). 92 leaves with 1734 original watercolour illustrations (a few leaves with blank versos, a few larger, folded, a few with printed illustrations, mounted). Original full calf. Front board with blind-stamped and gilt borders, gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreEilenburg, C. H.
Kurzer Entwurf der königlichen Naturalienkammer zu Dresden.
Dresden and Leipzig, Walther, 1755. Folio (27.8 x 20.9 cm). Title page with engraved armorial vignette; 102 pp.; two very large, multi-folded engraved plans; several engraved pictorial headpieces and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title in gilt, ornamental border; boards with ruled borders. Colour-stamped floral endpapers. Edges marbled blue.
Read moreEscher, M. C.
Escher Adventures in Perception. [With handwritten letter by Maurits Escher to Han van Gelder, who produced an Oscar-nominated film about the artist and his work].
Laren, the artist, 1970. Handwritten letter in black pen, dated "Laren, 27-XII-'70", written on a folded postcard featuring Escher's "Cycle", produced in 1970 by The Vorpal Galleries in San Francisco, CA.
Read moreHoogstraeten, S. van
Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der Schilderkonst: Anders de Zichtbaere Werelt. Verdeelt in negen Leerwinkels, yder bestiert door eene der Zanggodinnen.
Rotterdam, F. van Hoogstraeten, 1678. Small 4to (20.1 x 15.5 cm). Engraved title, letterpress title in red and black; [xiv], 361, [viii] pp.; Engraved frontispiece portrait by J. Oudaan; 14 folded plates, four text engravings. Contemporary full, polished calf. Spine with five raised bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and cornerpieces, and red morocco label with gilt title; boards with gilt double fillet borders and gilt floral corner-pieces; gilt floral-ruled board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
Read moreJonston, J. [AND] N. Robert [P. J. Buc'hoz (ed.)]
Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares, gravés et dessinés d'après nature, pour servir d'intelligence a l'histoire naturelle et raisonnée des differens oiseaux qui habite le globe. Contenant leurs noms en différentes langues d'Europe, leurs descriptions, les couleurs de leurs plumages, leurs dimensions, le temps de leur ponte, la structure de leurs nids, la grosseur de leurs oeufs, leurs charactère, & enfin tous les usages pour lesquels on peut les employer, tant pour la médecine que pour l'économie domestique. Traduite du Latin de Jonston, considérablement augmentée, & mise à la portée d'un chacun. De laquelle on a fait précéder l'histoire particulière des oiseaux de la Ménagerie du Roi, peints d'après nature par le celébre Robert, & gravés par lui-même. Le tout orné de quatre-vingt-cinq planches; qui renferment près de neuf cens especes différentes & divisé en trois parties, dont la premiere traite des oiseaux de la Ménagerie Royale, la seconde & la troisieme, sont l'ouvrage & les planches même Jonston, dont le mérite est très-connu. Pour servir du suite à l'Histoire des Insectes & Plantes de Madamoiselle de Merian.
Paris, Desnos, 1772. Folio (49.5 x 33.0 cm). Engraved, hand-coloured frontispiece, letterpress title with wood-engraved vignette; 64 pp.; double suite of 170 engraved plates, of which half originally hand-coloured, and the other half plain. Contemporary full calf. Spine with six raised, gilt-ornamented bands, compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and corner pieces, and two red morocco labels with gilt title. Boards with triple-gilt borders, double gilt-lined edges and gilt zig-zag inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read more[Paper Peepshow]
Large garden concert.
[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht, [ca. 1750]. Seven large, oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 16.0 x 20.0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, being six cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a garden concert scene. Preserved in contemporary wrappers with handwritten text Concert de Musique.
Read moreSepp, J. C. [S. C. Snellen Van Vollenhoven]
Proof prints from: Nederlandsche insecten, naar hunne aanmerkelijke huishouding, verwonderlijke gedaantewisseling en andere wetenswaardige bijzonderheden, beschreven en afgebeeld door Jan Christiaan Sepp. Tweede Serie. Eerste - Tweede deel.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp & Zoon, 1860-1870. 79 folio sheets (26.5 x 21.3 cm), numbered V-L (first part), and I-XXXIII (second part).
Read moreStradanus, J. [J. van Straet]
Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum.
[Antwerpen,] Philip Galle, [ca. 1600]. Oblong folio (27.4 x 35.5 cm). Engraved allegorical titlepage; 21 engraved plates with engraved captions. Near contemporary blind quarter vellum over marbled boards.
Read moreTooverschijf - Magic Disc - Phenakistiscope
Iets over de Tooverschijf. [Something About the Magic Disc or Phenakistiscope].
Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Arum, 1834. 8vo (22.7 x 14.0 cm). 5 pp.; one large, triple-folded engraved plate (14.0 x 36.7 cm) in original hand-colouring. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreSeder, A.
Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. I. Serie. Die Wasserthiere [AND] II. Serie. Vögel. [Complete]. Together with two amazing original watercolours (of plates 21 and 25) drawn by the artist himself.
Wien, Gerlach & Schenk, 1896. Two large folio portfolios (57.9 x 44.3 cm) with one page of text, one illustrated title page and 29 stunning chromolithographed plates showing animals in a fabulous Art Nouveau style. Each original quarter linen portfolios has an impressive dragon on front, with the title artistically arranged around it [AND] Two original watercolours by Seder, being the originals examples for plates 21 and 25.
Read moreAgassiz, L.
Untersuchungen über die Gletscher. [Complete text and atlas].
Solothurn, Jent & Gassmann, 1840-1841; Neuchatel, H. Nicolet, 1840. Text: 8vo (21.5 x 14.2 cm). xii, 326, [i] pp. 19th-century pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Greenish endpapers. Subtly marbled edges. Atlas: Oblong folio (29.7 x 44.0 cm). 18 lithographed plates of which 14 with printed overlays (as intended). Contemporary green quarter calf over green boards. Spine with gilt bands. Original pictorial title mounted on front board.
Read more[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.
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Elements of conchology: or, an introduction to the knowledge of shells. With seven plates containing figures of every genus of shells.
London, Benjamin White, 1776. 8vo (21.4 x 13.0 cm). viii, iii-vi, 319, [i] pp.; seven large, folded, finely hand-coloured engraved plates, two large, folded charts. Contemporary full speckled calf. Boards with gilt vignette and monogram; spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt stars, vignettes; greek key bands at head and foot, and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read more[Deslongchamps, J. L. A. Loiseleur] [AND] [P. A. J.] Drapiez
Herbier de l'amateur de fleurs.
Bruxelles, Veuve P. J. De Mat, 1828-1835. Eight volumes in four. 4to (27.1 x 20.2 cm). Eight half-titles and titles; 44 pp. (introduction); 600 finely engraved plates in beautiful original hand-colouring, and with explanatory text leaves, and indexes to Parts 1-3, 1-5, 1-6, 1-7, and 1-8. Contemporary uniform mottled half calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised, flat-topped embossed bands; compartments with gilt floral bands, and green morocco label with gilt title. Front boards with gilt armorial vignette. Patterned endpapers.
Read moreDucrotay de Blainville, H. M.
Osteographie ou description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères récents et fossiles pour servir de base a la zoologie et a la geologie. Ouvrage accompagné de 329 planches lithographiées sous sa direction par M. J. C. Werner. Précédé d'une étude sur la vie et les travaux de M. De Blainville par M. P. Nicard. Atlas. Tome premier - quatrième. [The complete atlas].
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1839-1864. Four parts in two. Folio (54.1 x 34.9 cm). Four title pages, five contents leaves; 323 [59; 117; 54; 93] lithographed plates of which five partly hand-coloured, and one double-sized. Contemporary black half morocco over pebbled boards. First volume's spine with four raised, gilt-rolled bands and gilt title. Second volume with a similar, blind spine. Marbled endpapers.
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Decorative flower studies. For the use of artists, designers, students, and others. A series of forty coloured plates printed in facsimile of the original drawings, accompanied by studies of detail from each subject, and descriptive notes.
London, B. T. Batsford, 1901. Folio (37.6 x 27.2 cm). Half-title, title page, [iv] pp.; 40 delicate lithographed plates with pochoir colouring and with explanatory text leaves. Pictorial cloth boards. Pictorial endpapers.
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Kunstformen der Natur. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, Allgemeine Erläuterung und systematische Übersicht.
Leipzig and Wien, Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1904. Small folio (35.4 x 26.3 cm). Title page, [ii] pp.; 100 breathtakingly beautiful, mostly lithographed plates of which the majority are coloured or tinted, some with overlays, and each with explanatory text leaf. Original printed Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) printed cloth. Patterned endpapers. Marbled edges.
Read moreHalley, E. [Newton, I.]
The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, intituled, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James.
London, The Royal Society, 1697. 4to (22.3 x 16.2 cm). [2], 13 pp. (numbered 445-457); two engraved text illustrations. Spine with marbled paper cover.
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Astronomical observations on the rotations of the planets round their axes, made with a view to determine whether the Earth's diurnal motion is perfectly equable.
London, The Royal Society, 1781. 4to (24.5 x 19.5 cm). 24 pp. (numbered 115-138); two large, foldout plates. Spine with marbled paper cover.
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Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope.
London, The Royal Society, 1795. Large 4to (29.5 x 23.2 cm). Title page to the Volume. pp. 347-399, plus 19 folding plates (numbered XXIV - XLII) showing a total of 47 figures, including the famous huge foldout plate of this enormous telescope. Later marbled boards. Front board with printed title mounted.
Read moreHooke, R. [and] G. Cassini [and] R. Boyle
An account of a new kind of baroscope..., [AND] The particulars of those observations of the planet Mars...made at London..., [AND] Observations made in Italy...fixing the period of the revolution of Mars, [AND] Some observations...concerning the planet Jupiter, [AND] A late observation about Saturn... (etc.). [The original issue 14 of the first year of publication of the Philosophical Transactions].
London, The Royal Society, 1666. 4to (21.5 x 16.8 cm). The complete issue, consisting of pp. 231-254 plus one foldout plate. Spine with marbled paper cover.
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Endymion. A Poetic Romance by John Keats, with engravings by John Buckland-Wright. [With a bookplate designed by Maurits Escher].
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. Tall 4to (32.5 x 20.1 cm). 152 pp.; many woodcut illustrations (several page-sized). Original vellum over boards. Front board with gilt vignette.
Read moreLamarck, J. B. [P. A. de Monet de]
Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leurs distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Hist. Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, l'an 8 de la republique.
Paris, l'Auteur, Deterville, 1801. 8vo (19.2 x 12.0 cm). viii, 432 pp.; seven tables (six larger, folded). Contemporary full tree calf. Spine rich gilt in Empire style with vases and intricate patterns including stars, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-rolled borders. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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Plantarum rariorum Horti Upsaliensis. Fasciculus primus sistens descriptiones et figuras plantarum minus cognitarum.
Lipsiae, Siegfried Lebrecht [Leberecht] Crusius, 1767. Folio (38.5 x 24.2 cm). Title page with engraved pictorial vignette, [i], 20 pp; ten engraved plates. Marbled boards with facsimile of title mounted.
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Hortus Upsaliensis, quem cum consensu ampliss. facult. medicae in regio ad salam lyceo, sub praesidio viri celeberrimi, d:ni doct. Caroli Linnaei, med. et botan. profess. reg. et ord. acad. imper. Regg. Monspel. Stoch. et Upsal. socio hujusque secretario. Speciminis academicvi loco, publicae disquisitioni subjicit Samuel Naucler.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], [the author], 1745. Small 4to (17.7 x 14.1 cm). [iii], 48 pp.; folded view, folded map, and two engraved plates. Early 19th-century half vellum over marbled boards. Edges speckled red.
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Meridienne de Sain-Port ou Saint Assise. [Manuscript].
Unpublished, 1734-1761. Folio (36.0 x 23.2 cm). Half-title, contents leaf, title page, 31 pp. [numbered 1-31], 20 blank leaves. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with six raised bands; compartments rich gilt with lion vignettes and floral corner pieces, and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Boards with double gilt-lined borders. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreMilne-Edwards, H. and [P.] H. Lucas [A. C. V. M. D. d'Orbigny (ed.)]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 1.re Partie: Crustacés.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1843-[1844]. Text and plates. Large 4to/folio mix (33.7 x 25.8 cm). Half-title (to the Voyage), title and half-title (to the Crustacés); 39 pp.; 18 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-12, 14-17, 7bis, 8bis]. Later marbled wrappers.
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Autore Is. Newton Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali. 4to. Londini Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas.
London, The Royal Society, 1687. Small 4to (21.2 x 16.1 cm). 7 pp. [numbered 291-297]. Spine with marbled paper cover.
Read moreNikolski, A. M. [Nikolsky, Nikolskii]
Presmykaiushchisi i zemnovodnyia Kavkaza (Herpetologia caucasica).
Tiflis [Tbilisi], Tipografiia kantseliarii Namiestrika E.I.V. na Kavkazie, 1913. 8vo (23.1 x 16.0 cm). 272 pp.; four (groups of) text figures, three lithographed plates of which one in chromolithography. Near contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards.
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Galerie ornithologique ou collection d'oiseaux d'Europe. Décrits par Alcide d'Orbigny, dessinés d'après nature par Thiolat & Delarue. [et E. Traviès].
Paris, Lamy, [1836-1839]. Oblong folio (22.4 x 31.4 cm). 92 [of 124] finely lithographed and hand-coloured plates. Contemporary full diced russia. Spine with gilt ornamental cartouche and title; boards with gilt borders and gilt floral cornerpieces. Patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreRicketts, E. F. and J. Calvin
Between Pacific Tides. An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico.
Stanford University Press, 1939. Large 8vo (22.8 x 15.6 cm). xxii, 320 pp.; 46 numbered plates, 112 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Green endpapers.
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A selection of bird paintings and sketches.
[London], Curpotten for Fine Sporting Interests, 1979. Folio (40.6 x 30.5 cm). Original watercolour by Rickman, mounted in passepartout, acting as frontispiece. Title in black and red, [vi] pp.; Portrait of Rickman; 31 full-colour plates, tipped in and each tissue-guarded and with an explanatory text leaf, two black-and-white plates (in the rear), and 34 black-and-white pencil sketches on titles and text leaves, one tailpiece. Original burgundy full morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt borders, bird vignettes, and title; boards with gilt-rolled borders consisting of bird figures and floral elements and larger gilt bird vignettes. Iridescent red silk endpapers; pastedowns with gilt-rolled floral borders. All edges gilt. In original burgundy half linen clamshell box with burgundy morocco spine matching the book's spine, gilt ornithological vignette and inside covered with protective dark red felt panels.
Read moreRousseau, J. J. [A. Deville (ed.)]
Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a Lady by J. J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus by Thomas Martyn, B.D.F.R. & L.SS, Regius professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. The eighth edition, corrected. [AND] Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the letters on the Elements of Botany.
London, White, Cochrane, and Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; B. Crosby and Co.; and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1815. Two works in one. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). Half title, title, xx, 434 pp., folding table. [AND] London, J. White, 1799. vi, 72 pp.; 38 hand-coloured, tissue-guarded engraved plates by F. Nodder. Full contemporay polished calf, spine with four raised, flat-topped bands with gilt ornaments; compartments with rich gilt vignettes and title; boards with elaborate double gilt borders, blind-tooled, gilt, and black ornamental lines; gilt inner and outer dentelles; marbled edges.
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Les plantes dans leurs applications a l'art et a l'industrie. Monographie des plantes les plus belles et les plus riches de formes qui se rencontrent dans les divers styles et dans la nature, pour servir à leur application pratique aux beaux-arts en général et aux arts industriels. Ouvrage richement illustré en couleurs, or et argent. Series I-II. [Complete].
Vienne [Vienna], Gerlach & Schenk, 1886. Folio (53.8 x 38.2 cm). 196 plates (numbered 1-189, 1A, 13A, 20A, 34A, 72A, 167A, and 185A), mostly in chromolithography, several heightened with gold. In three uniform portfolios, red half cloth over pictural boards.
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