Rare composite atlas with panoramical town views
WERNER, Friedrich Bernhard - Rare Sammelband with 59 engraved, panoramic town views. Folio. Augsburg, Leopold, circa 1730. Contemporary half vellum.
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„The central work of the entire history of music“ (Leonard Bernstein)
WAGNER, Richard - Tristan und Isolde. Vollständiger Klavierauszug von Hans von Bülow. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, (1860). Contemporary cloth with blind embossed ornaments on both covers and gilt title on front cover and spine. folio (330 x 275 mm). Title, 250 pages. Engraved throughout. Plate number 9942, priced "10. Thlr." on title.
First edition of the piano vocal score.
EUR 2500,-
Very rare illustrated history of Poland
SANDRART, Jacob - Des Koenigsreichs Pohlen Grundrichtige Land- Staats- und Zeit Beschreibung... zum andern mal continuirt heraus gegeben. Nuremberg, 1711. Folded title, and 11 folded maps and 12 partly folded plates including plans and views. 12mo. Contemp. vellum with clasps.
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Rare Dutch World Atlas with many maps referring to America
BACHIENE, Willem Albert - Atlas tot opheldering der hedendaagsche historie beschreeven door een gezelschap van geleerde mannen in Engeland overgezien en verbeterd Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1785. In-folio (46 x 29 cm). With 60 maps engraved by J. van Jagen, all contemporary hand coloured and with beautiful cartouches.
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Rare celestial atlas with white-on-black star maps
GOLDBACH, C.F. - Neuester Himmels-Atlas zum Gebrauche fur Schul- und Akademischen Unterricht ... Revidirt auf der Sternwarte Seeberg bey Gotha und mit einer Einleitung begleitet vom Freyherren von Zach. Zweyte unveränderte Auflage. Weimar, 1803. With 58 (54 white-on-black) engraved star maps.
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A German mathematical professor defends alchemy
(CREILING, Johann Conrad) - Die edelgeborne Jungfer Alchymia. Tübingen, Cotta, 1730. Contemporary vellum binding.
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Exceptional album with spectacular boxing and wrestling caricatures from the 1930s with original autographs
SIRO (Pierre Rollot) - Manuscript album with 59 watercolour caricatures of famous international boxers and wrestlers from the 1930s as well as a few referees, promoters and managers, of which 27 have signed dedications. (Paris), 1935. Contemporary half leather binding.
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The birth of neurochemistry
BORRI, Francesco Giuseppe - Epistolae Duae I. De Cerebi ortu & Usu Medico. II. De Artificio oculorum humores restituendi. Ad Th. Bartholinum. Copenhagen, Daniel Paulli, 1669. (4), 68 pages, with engraved title vignette and 7 woodcuts in the text. 4to, Contemporary vellum.
EUR 1.400,-
The newly discovered, unpublished watercolor drawings for Jean Baptiste de Lamarck’s Flore Francaise
BULLIARD, Jean Baptiste Francois (* 1752 Aubepierre-sur-Aube; † 1793 Paris) and LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de (* 1744 Bazentin-le-Petit; † 1829 Paris) - 467 original watercolour drawings on 239 leaves, with handwritten descriptions and notes. n.d. (c. 1776-1778). Contemporary leather with blank spine label. 230x297 mm.
This very important manuscript represents the previously unknown botanical drawings for Lamarck's Flore Francaise and demonstrates the hitherto fameless cooperation between two of the foremost French botanists from the 18th century.
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Grotesque caricatures of dwarfs inspired by Jacques Callot
Il Callotto Resuscitato, oder, Neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet [...]. Amsterdam, Wilhelm Engelbert Koning, 1716. Three parts. With Engraved title, two page engraved list of plates and 69 engraved plates. Contemporary full vellum.
EUR 4.500,-
Alchemical Catechism
(JUGEL, Johann Gottfried) - Goldmacher-Catechismus in Frag und Antwort. Berlin und Leipzig, Christian Ulrich Ringmacher, 1776. Cont. half-leather binding with printed back label. VIII, 80 pages.
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A French scientific expedition to Lapland
OUTHIER, Reginaud - Journal d'un voyage au Nord, en 1736. & 1737. Paris, Piget & Durand, 1744. In-4. With 16 engraved plates and maps and some woodcut vignettes. Contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt and with title label.
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Important manuscript of a safari in British Somaliland in 1896
LEATHAM, Albert Edward - Somaliland. 1896. Large 8to (23 x 21 cm). Full blue Morocco gilt and gilt lettering to spine. 165 handwritten pages, 27 plates with 108 mounted original photographs.
EUR 5.500,-
Konstruktionszeichnungen des Neuen Lusthauses in Stuttgart
Einzigartiges Konvolut von fünf Architekturzeichnungen - enthaltend drei zeitgenössische Konstruktionszeichnungen des Neuen Lusthauses in Stuttgart, sowie die beiden einzigen bislang bekannten, zeitgenössischen Zeichnungen des Collegium Illustre in Tübingen und des Neuen Marstalls zu Stuttgart. Zwischen 1608-1628 und um 1585-1590.
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Folio manuscript world atlas by a young lady
CROUZET, Hortense - Atlas Géographique composé de 11 Cartes. Dessiné par Mlle. Hortense Crouzet eleve de l'Institution de Mlle Roullet pour le concours des prix de l'année 1824. France, 1824. Manuscript Title, 11 folded manuscript maps with outline color. 365 x 245 mm.
EUR 1200,-
Portraits of ancient gods and hermetic writers
Mussard, Pierre - Historia deorum fatidicorum, vatum, sibyllarum, phoebadum, apud priscos illustrium; cum corum iconibus. Praeposita est dissertatio de divinatione et oraculis. Cologny near Geneva, Pierre Chouet, 1675. Contemporary half-leather. 4to. With 50 full-page engravings.
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Signed drawing by one of the most employed baroque architects in Austria
MARTINELLI, Anton Erhard (Vienna 1684 - 1747 Vienna). Signed Architectural drawing of a castle or palais. Brown ink and grey wash. 445 x285 mm
EUR 3.500,-
First book edition of George Washington’s last speech in Congress and the first American binding bearing the Great Seal of the United States
WASHINGTON, George. Columbia's Legacy... To which is added, his speech to the congress, at their present session, which terminates his political career. Philadelphia, Sweitzer & Ormrod, December 10th, 1796.
EUR 35.000,-
Ein seltener Baedeker
Baedeker, Karl - Berlin, Potsdam und Umgebungen. Seperat-Abdruck aus Baedekers Nord-Deutschland. Mit 1 Karte, 4 Plänen und mehreren Grundrissen. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1878. Olwd.
Erste Auflage. - Eine der großen Raritäten unter den Baedeker-Reiseführern.
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Rare monograph on the flora of the Cape of Good Hope
JACQUIN, Nicolas Joseph von – Oxalis. Monographia iconibus illustrata. Vienna, Wappler, 1794. 4to. With 81 engraved plates, 75 being handcolored (as is correct).
FIRST EDITION of the first monograph on the genus oxalis.
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A monster in Chile
Relacao de hum Monstruo prodigioso, que appareceo no Reyno de Chile entre os montes, que dividem este Reino das dilatadas Provoncias de Tucman, e Paraguai, ou do Rio da Prata, que sao confinantes com o Brazil. Lisbon, Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1751. unbound. 4to, 16 pp., with a title-woodcut depicting the monster.
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Entwurfszeichnung für das Liechtenstein-Schloß Wilfersdorf
Anton Johann Ospel (Klösterle am Arlberg 1677-1756 Wien) - Entwurfszeichnung einer Innenfassade mit zwei Türen, einem Wandbrunnen und verschiedenen Figuren. (vermutlich für das Liechtenstein-Schloss Wilfersdorf). Lavierte Federzeichnung, teilweise mit Bleistift überzeichnet. Links unter der Darstellung signiert. Um 1713.
Sehr seltene handsignierte Zeichnung von Anton Johann Ospel.
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A rare 18th-century witch game
Hexenspiel. (The Witch game). (Munich)?, circa 1750/1760. (probably Franz Xaver or Franz Joseph Fetscher). 32/32 playing cards. 90 x 60mm; Hand-coloured woodcuts.
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Exceptional collection of 48 colourful designs for French theater costumes by Alfred Grévin
GREVIN Alfred - 5 inscribed envelopes with together 48 fullpage watercolour designs for 5 operettas. Paris, 1875-1880. Small folio
EUR 5.500,-
A rare Wunderkammer book
Kurtze und Mechanische Beschreibung Dieses Kunst-Auges: Von Stephan Zicken/ Kunst-Drechßlern in Nürnberg. Nürnberg, Christian Sigmund Froberg, (circa 1700). 4to. 20 pages, 1 folded copperplate. Contemporary boards covered with brocade paper.
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Visiting cards from the 18th century
Album with visiting-cards from the 1780's -- Contemporary Boards. Gr-8°. With 202 mounted visiting cards.
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