Editio Princeps of Froissart’s chronicles

FROISSART, Jean - Chroniques. Volume 1 (of 4). Paris, Antoine Vérard, n.d. (c. 1495). Folio [307 x 233 mm]. 275 (of 280) ll. With printers mark. Modern leather binding.
FIRST EDITION of the first volume of the greatest and most famous chronicle of French and English medieval history.
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Editio Princeps of Froissart’s chronicles

Unrecorded fish book

JOLLAIN, Gerard - Piscium vivae icones. Livre de Poissons, dessignez et gravez d'apres Nature, avec leur vertus et proprietez. Paris, Gerard Jollain, 1680. Oblong folio (18.2 x 28.1 cm). Engraved title page and 19 finely engraved plates [numbered 1-20]
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Unrecorded fish book

A newly discovered binding by the atelier of Claude de Picques

[PICQUES, Claude de (atelier)] / Appianus, Alexandrinus - Appianou Alexandreos Romaikon (graece)... Romanarum historiarum. Edited by Robert and Charles Estienne. Paris, Charles Estienne, 1551. Folio [350 x 232 mm].
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED WITH ALL THREE FONTS OF GARAMOND'S GRECS DU ROI. The present binding was executed at the atelier of Claude de Picques, binder to the king and one of the principal figures of the Golden Age of French bookbinding.
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A newly discovered binding by the atelier of Claude de Picques

The official account of the Eulenburg Expedition to Asia

(BERG, Albert) editor. - Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien. Nach amtlichen Quellen. 4 vols. Berlin, R. v. Decker, 1864-1873. Original cloth. 4to. XXII, 352; X, 375; XI, 426; VIII, 448 pages, with 48 lith. plates and 4 fold. lith. maps.
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The official account of the Eulenburg Expedition to Asia

One of Becher’s main works

BECHER, Johann Joachim - Natur-Kündigung der Metallen. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon und Wilhelm Serlin, 1661. Vellum. With engraved title.
Rare first edition.
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One of Becher’s main works

Early 18th-century scrapbook

Scrapbook with about 84 cut-out images from engraved prints by Martin Engelbrecht. France, n.d. (c. 1740). Contemporary vellum.
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Early 18th-century scrapbook

19th-century illustrated manuscript lectures on physics

(SCHUBARTH, Ernst Ludwig) - Physik. (Berlin), 1839. Manuscript notes on the Schubarth lectures of physics written by the student W. Mück. 810 pages. With 178 smaller, 1 full-page and two folded pen drawings.
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19th-century illustrated manuscript lectures on physics

ORFELIN, Zakhariya - Istoriya o zhitii i slavnykh delakh Velikago Gosudarya Imperatora Petra Pervago Samoderzhtsa Vserossiiskago kot oruyu s predpolozheniem kratkoi geograficheskoi i politicheskoi istorii o rossiiskom tsarstve... Chast pervaya (-vtoraya). Venice: Demetrio Teodosio, 1772 [1774-1779]. 2 volumes. 4to (265 x 179mm.). With engraved title-page in each volume, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.
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Lyon Binding

CICERO, Marcus Tullius - De Philosophia tomus primus. Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1548. 621 pp. Contemporary Lyon strapwork and gilt calf, gauffered edges. 16mo [text block 125 x 72 mm; binding 128 x 78 mm] Text ruled in red.
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Lyon Binding

Binding by Niccolo Franzese

XENOPHON - Opera, quae quidem Graece extant, omnia... in latinam linguam co[n]versa. Basle, Michael Isingrin, 1545. 8vo [171 x 120mm]. (24), 820, (2) pp., 1 blank. Contemporary brown morocco binding gilt, entwined border decoration, central panel with floral tools on curving stems, gauffered edges gilt.
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Binding by Niccolo Franzese

Frescoes by Raphael and the Caracci

MITELLI, Giuseppe Maria - L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Carracci. Rome, Gian Giacomo de Rossi, 1663. Oblong-Folio [365 x 485 mm] 17 leaves. With engraved title and twenty etchings. Contemporary gold-tooled calf binding. Bound with: AQUILA, Pietro - Imagines farnesiani cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis. and FANTETTI, Cesar and Pietro Aquila - Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, a Raphaele Sanctio Urbinato in Vaticani palatii xystis expressae.
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Frescoes by Raphael and the Caracci

Trenck’s Pandurs

ENGELBRECHT, Martin - Collection of 21 engraved plates of Slavonian Pandurs. Augsburg, n.d. [c. 1742]. Folio (348 x 220 mm).
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Trenck’s Pandurs

17th century landscape art

PERELLE, Gabriel - Collection of 69 engraved plates with landscapes, including several complete series. Paris, Pierre Mariette, Francois and Nicolas de Poilly and Martinet, c.1665. Oblong-folio [310 x 460 mm] Later quarter leather binding with gilt spine.
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17th century landscape art

Heracles Revived

BEGER, Lorenz - Hercules Ethnicorum Ex Variis Antiquitatum Reliquiis Delineatus Additis in fine Modernis Qibusdam Eiusdem argumenti Picturis. [Berlin], 1705. Folio [402 x 260 mm]. 38 numbered, engraved plates (including title). Contemporary calf.
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Heracles Revived

Great Siege of Malta

CIRNI, Anton Francesco - Comentarii d'Antonfrancesco Cirni Corso, ne quali si descrive la guerra ultima di Francia, la celebratione del Concilio Tridentino, il soccorso d'Orano, l'impresa del Pignone, e l'historia dell'assedio di Malta. Rome, Giulio Accolto, 1567. 4to, (4), 132 (i.e. 136) leaves. With woodcut device on title and folding woodcut-block map of Malta at end. Contemporary vellum.
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Great Siege of Malta

Woodrow Wilson Political Cartoon

BAUMGARTEN, Eugen von - Wilson, der Demokrat. Partly hand-colored drawing. Folio [372 x 280 mm] Munich, September 4, 1918.
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Woodrow Wilson Political Cartoon

World War I political cartoon

BAUMGARTEN, Eugen von - Lasst den Frieden nicht herein! Er bringt die Wahrheit mit. (Do not let the peace in! He brings the truth.) Munich, 1917. Folio [337 x 262 mm] Wash-drawing. Mounted.
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World War I political cartoon

National Debt of the United States

BAUMGARTEN, Eugen von - Oh say, does the starspangled banner jet wave, o'er the land of the free, o'er the land of the braves? Hand-colored drawing. [57 x 46 cm] Munich, February 5, 1917.
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National Debt of the United States

Original illustrations

HAYWOOD, Helen - 146 original pencil drawings for the children's book Brer Rabbit stories. March-August 1958. Various sizes. Various signed.
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Original illustrations

Eines der seltensten Zeppelin-Bücher

LZ 129 Hindenburg. Zeppelin Weltfahrten III. Buch. Dresden, Zigarettenfabrik Greiling AG, 1937. oblong-folio [24 x 34 cm] [8] pp., 28 ll. With two plates, one folded construction plan and 155 mounted photos. Original pictorial wrappers.
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Eines der seltensten Zeppelin-Bücher

Unpublished Children’s Book Manuscript

HINDERKS-KUTSCHER, Rotraut - Malbuch. Ravensburg, Verlag Otto Maier. (c. 1930) Manuscript title page and 6 pp. with 8 colored drawings. Signed. oblong-8vo [210 x 265mm].
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Unpublished Children’s Book Manuscript

French Colonialism in South Vietnam

Compagnie Agricole Sud-Indochinoise (Province de Biên Hòa) - Conseil d'Administration. Registre de Délibérations. Paris, 1926-1932. Folio [360 x 235 mm], 200 pp. of manuscript minutes. Contemporary cloth binding with handwritten title label on front cover.
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French Colonialism in South Vietnam

A milestone of Modern Typography

LISSITZKY, El and Hans Arp - Die Kunstismen - Les ismes de l'art - The isms of art. Erlenbach-Zürich, Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1925. 4to [26,3 x 20,7 cm]. XI, 48 pp. With 76 illustrations. Original pictorial boards.
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A milestone of Modern Typography

Bedeutender Inkunabel-Sammelband mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Annotationen eines Erfurter Magisters aus dem Jahre 1491

ARISTOTELES, Johannes Versoris und ANDREAE, Antonius - - 1) Johannes Versoris – Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (1491) // 2) Aristoteles – Oeconomica (um 1491) // 3) Aristoteles – Politica (1492) // 4) Antonius Andreae – Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis (um 1491). -- 4 Inkunabeln in 1 Band.
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Bedeutender Inkunabel-Sammelband mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Annotationen eines Erfurter Magisters aus dem Jahre 1491

Commedia dell’Arte

XAVERY, Gerard Joseph - Het Italjaansch Tooneel Voortreffelijk in 16 verbeeldingen uytgevoert, Verrijkt met Nederduytsche en Fransche vaarzen. - Bound with: Het nieuw geopend Italiaans Toneel, vertonende de wonderlijke ziekte bezwangerheid en baring van Arlequin: benevens de opvoeding van des zelfs Jongen Zoon. Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk II, c. 1740. Folio [360 x 255 mm]. Contemporary vellum binding. Engraved titles, 16 engraved plates (each).
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Commedia dell’Arte

A newly discovered important album with drawings by the Marquise d’Argens, depicting the collection of classical antiquities at the Sanssouci Palace

MARQUISE D'ARGENS, Barbe Cochois (1723/1725-1780) - Desseins originaux d'apres l'antique. Folio [37.2 x 24.3 cm]. 119 leaves, including printed title and two blanks. With 122 drawings in red chalk. Contemporary half leather binding.
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A newly discovered important album with drawings by the Marquise d’Argens, depicting the collection of classical antiquities at the Sanssouci Palace

Richly decorated Alphabet Book by Lukas Kilian

KILIAN, Lukas - (Newes ABC Buechlein inventirt und in Kupffer gestochen von Luca Kilian Burger zu Augsburg) Augsburg, (1627). Vellum binding [185 x 160 mm]. 24/24 engravings (lacks the title page).
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Richly decorated Alphabet Book by Lukas Kilian

Germaine Krull’s first book publication

KRULL, Germaine; DEBSCHITZ-KUNOWSKI, Wanda von; PESCI, Jozsef - Der Akt - Zwanzig photographische Aufnahmen weiblicher Körper nach der Natur. 1st edition. Dachau, Einhorn-Verlag, 1918. Folio [40,7 x 30,5 cm] 23 pages. With 20 mounted photogravures. Original paper-covered boards with photogravure mounted on the upper board within a printed frame.
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Germaine Krull’s first book publication

First German edition of a work on formal gardens by Baroque French architect Alexander le Blond

LE BLOND, Alexander and DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine-Joseph - Neueröfnete Gärtner-Akademie oder: Die Kunst Pracht-und Lust-Gärten samt dererselben Auszierungen und Wasserwerken wohl anzulegen Mit drey-und dreyssig kupfer-Taffeln versehen und aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche übersesset von Franz Anton Danreitter. 4to [183 x 118mm]. Augsburg, 1753. Original half leather with spine label and gold ornaments on spine. (13) 368 (2) pages. 1st German edition. With engraved frontispiece and 36 other copper engravings.
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First German edition of a work on formal gardens by Baroque French architect Alexander le Blond

1st French Edition of Virgil’s Bucolica, Georgica & Aeneis

VERGIULIUS Maro, Publius - Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis. 1st Edition. Paris, P. Didot, 1791. Folio [393 x 272 mm]. Half red morocco with gilt spine. IV, 513 pp. With 23 engravings.
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1st French Edition of Virgil’s Bucolica, Georgica & Aeneis

Wertvolles Prachtwerk über die Residenz der Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens in Marienburg

FRICK, Johann Friedrich - Schloß Marienburg in Preußen nach seinen vorzüglichsten äußern und inneren Ansichten dargestellt. Berlin (Hayn), 1799. Leder-Einband der Zeit [72 x 54 cm]. Mit gestochenem Titel und 18 Aquatinta-Radierungen in verschiedenen Sepia- und Röteltönen. Komplett.
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Wertvolles Prachtwerk über die Residenz der Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens in Marienburg

Rare Incunable work on the nature of emotions

GERSON, Jean Charlier de (Johannes Gerson) - De passionibus animae. (Paris, Philippe Pigouchet, ca. 1493). 24mo vellum binding [137x100x11mm]. 20 leaves.
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Rare Incunable work on the nature of emotions

Souvenirs du Mont-Blanc

CHARLET, A. - Souvenirs du Mont-Blanc. Paris, 1855-1857. Original Leinen-Einband [14,6 x 19 cm]. 23 Farblithographien (14,5 x 18,5 cm), 1 davon doppelseitig (14,5 x 35 cm).
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Souvenirs du Mont-Blanc

An Important Grand Tour Album

DESPLAN, Antoine Jean Baptiste - Mon Voyage de Rome à Naples fait en pied en 1821 en compagnie de Léopold Robert Peintre, Barbot, Benois, Thierry, Architectes, Ancharsvard Officier Suédois, Porchet toursite-amateur et César Chien Caniche. Italy, 1821. Large folio [69 x 51cm] 112 Sheets. With manuscript title and 368 mounted wash and watercolor drawings. Unbound.
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An Important Grand Tour Album

Handschrift von J. H. Rötsch

RÖTSCH, Johann Heinrich Die Räuber in der roemischen Campagne. Pantomimisches Ballet mit Tableaux in zwei Acten. Erstes Tableaux: Die Heimkehr der Schnitter nach Robert. - Zweites Tableausx: Die Gefangennahme der Räuber nach Vernet ... Musik von Heinrich Roetsch Handschrift. Pappband der Zeit mit handschriftlichem Rückenschild ("Die Räuber"), Folio, 65, 92 Bl. (Weimar), 1844.
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Handschrift von J. H. Rötsch

Splendid Empire Binding

Recueil de Toutes Sortes de prieres qui renferment Les prieres du Soir et du matin, le moyen d'assiter devotement a la sainte messe, et quelque petite pratique pr la Confession et Comunion. France, c. 1800. 8vo [158 x 95mm]. (2), 433, (2) pp. Manuscript on paper. Red morocco with gilt ornaments on covers and spine, gilt fore edges, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. With two large, elaborate floral silver clasps and eight silver-corners.
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Splendid Empire Binding

The first book printed in Frankfurt am Main

MURNER, Thomas - Ludus studentum Friburgensium. Frankfurt am Main, Beatus Murner. 1511. 4to [binding 196 x 143 mm; textblock: 194 x 131 mm]. Vellum binding mit golden ornament on the front cover. With 10 woodcuts, out of which one is a rotating Volvelle and 2 are expandable.
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The first book printed in Frankfurt am Main

A German emigrant in America

BARDENWERPER, Johann Theodor Friedrich Hermann (1820-1887) - Manuscript diary and travel memories from 1839-1842. Philadelphia, 1842.
Important eyewitness account from a German emigrant about his emigration and his stay in America in the years 1839 and 1842.
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A German emigrant in America

Early watercolor drawings by a British colonist in Pakistan

Album with 17 watercolours and 4 pencil drawings of the Sindh province in Pakistan. Pakistan, 1844.
A very rare and interesting manuscript album from the very beginning of the British colonization of Pakistan.
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Early watercolor drawings by a British colonist in Pakistan

Important Spanish manuscript signal book

ANONYMOUS - "Plano de las Senales practicas del Commercio que se Executan en la Torre de Tavira de Esta Ciudad de Cadiz Ano de 1793." Cadiz, 1793.
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Important Spanish manuscript signal book

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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Rare composite atlas with panoramical town views

Very rare Souvenir booklet by the „father of modern magic“

HOUDIN, Robert - Album des Soirées Fantastiques de Robert Houdin au Palais-Royal. Tome Second. (c.1849). Oblong-8vo. With full page lithographed Portrait of Houdin and 8 full page wood engravings.

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Very rare Souvenir booklet by the „father of modern magic“

Die zehn kleinen Negerlein

HUSSMANN, Heinrich - Die zehn kleinen Negerlein. (Leipzig, Walter Cyliax), 1923. Original Kleisterpapier-Pappeinband mit Titelschild. Gr.-8°. (14) Seiten, mit 10 Original-Holzschnitten. - Als Blockbuch gebunden. - Nr. 10 von 70 nummerierten Exemplaren. Im Impressum von Heinrich Hussmann signiert.
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Die zehn kleinen Negerlein

St. Paul was on the Croatian island Mljet

DURDEVIC, Ignjat (Ignazio Giorgio) - D. Paulus Apostolus in mari, quod nunc venetus sinus dicitur naufragus, et Melitae Dalmatensis insulae post naufragium hospes. Venice, Christopher Zane, 1730. Large 8vo [232 x 170 mm] (52), CCCXII pp. With engraved frontispiz, 1 text engraving, 5 folded engraved maps and 1 folded engraved plate. Contemporary vellum.
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St. Paul was on the Croatian island Mljet

Eines der schönsten Bücher über Deutsch-Südwestafrika

FRANCOIS, Hugo von - Nama und Damara. Deutsch-Süd-West-Afrika. Magdeburg, E. Baensch Jun., 1896. Ill. Original Leinwand; Gr-8°; 334 S., XXVIII S. mit zahlreichen Tafeln und Abbildungen und 2 gefalt. Karten. Erste Ausgabe.
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Eines der schönsten Bücher über Deutsch-Südwestafrika

Most important educational text of Luther

LUTHER, Martin - An die Radherrn aller stedte deutsch-es lands: das sie Christliche schulen auffrichten und hallten sollen. Wittenberg, (Lucas Cranach und Christian Döring), 1524. Mit Titelholzschnitt von Lucas Cranach.
1st edition.
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Most important educational text of Luther

Die wichtigste pädagogische Schrift Martin Luthers

LUTHER, Martin - An die Radherrn aller stedte deutsch-es lands: das sie Christliche schulen auffrichten und hallten sollen. Wittenberg, (Lucas Cranach und Christian Döring), 1524. Halbleinwand-Einband des 19. Jh. Kl.-4°. 20 nn. Bl. (letztes weiss), mit Titelholzschnitt von Lucas Cranach.
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Die wichtigste pädagogische Schrift Martin Luthers

Very rare 14th century Cartulary Manuscript

Kopialbuch mit notariell beglaubigten Lehnsreversen von Moissac-Vallee-Francaise unter Jean de Murols (Murol) (1386-1444), Seigneur de Murol du Chambon & de Moissac; Capitaine de Sommieres (Gard) pour le Duc de Berry / Cartulary of Moissac-Vallee-Francaise (Loreze) under Jean de Murols (Murol) (1386-1444). From 1399-1407. Original Pergament-Handschrift aus den Jahren 1399-1407.
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Very rare 14th century Cartulary Manuscript

Höchst bedeutsames Dokument zur Napoleons Fremdherrschaft in Erfurt

DEVISMES, Pierre Alphonse - Statistique de la Province d'Erfurth. Année 1810. Erfurt, 1810. Gr.-Fol. [46,5 x 35 cm], 2 Bl., 25 doppelblattgroße Tafeln (Tabellen) und 12 doppelblattgroße (1 mehrfach gefalt.) kolorierte Manuskript-Karten von Johann Georg Wendel. Roter original Leder-Einband mit Deckelschild sowie Deckel- und Rückenvergoldung.
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Höchst bedeutsames Dokument zur Napoleons Fremdherrschaft in Erfurt

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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Very rare illustrated history of Poland

Important Italian atlas from the 18th century

Zatta, Antonio - Atlante Novissimo. Venezia, 1775-1785. 4 volumes. With double-page engraved title, 4 engraved title-pages, 215 double-page engraved maps handcolored in outline. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards.
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Important Italian atlas from the 18th century

Sehr interessante Zeichnungen von Arbeitern in einer Stuhlfabrik

Karl Ludwig Nagel (1898-1959) - Sammlung von 10 Bleistift-Zeichnungen. Zehn großen Bleistiftzeichnungen aus dem Jahre 1930 von der Werkstätten der Stuhl-Fabrik Leinenkugel in Weinheim an der Bergstraße.
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Sehr interessante Zeichnungen von Arbeitern in einer Stuhlfabrik

Schiestl, MATTHÄUS (1869-1939) - (Geburt Christi), ca. 1915. Original Gemälde auf Holz. Signiert. Maße: ca. 82 x 57 cm; Bild-Maße: ca. 63 x 40,5 cm.
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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 Dutch World Atlas with many maps referring to America

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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Rare celestial atlas with white-on-black star maps

Melchior Steidl (1657 - 1727) - Large design for a ceiling decoration. Pen, black and brown ink, grey, yellow and blue wash and watercolor on paper; mounted; 283 x 438 mm.
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Melchior Steidl (1657 - 1727) - Design for a quadratura ceiling. Pen, black ink, grey wash and watercolor on paper; mounted; 396 x 201 mm.
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Newly discovered design for the Kaisersaal in Bamberg

Melchior Steidl (1657 - 1727) - Design for the ceiling decoration of the Kaisersaal at the Neue Residenz in Bamberg. Pencil, pen, brown ink and watercolor on paper; 297 x 187 mm.
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Newly discovered design for the Kaisersaal in Bamberg

Newly discovered design for the Kaisersaal in Bamberg

Melchior Steidl (1657 - 1727) - Large design for the illusionistic ceiling painting of the Kaisersaal of the Neue Residenz in Bamberg. Pen, brown ink and watercolor on paper; 430 x 620 mm.
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Newly discovered design for the Kaisersaal in Bamberg

Bedeutende Sammlung von Scherenschnitten von Luise Duttenhofer

Duttenhofer, Luise (1776-1829) - 2 Alben mit insgesamt 74 Scherenschnitten sowie 1 sign. Scherenschnitt von Adele Schopenhauer. (c.1823). c. 1800-1825. Seideneinbände. Folio (37,5 x 23 cm).
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Bedeutende Sammlung von Scherenschnitten von Luise Duttenhofer

(Schlossplatz Zweibrücken) Original Gouache um 1800. Mit Original Biedermeier-Rahmen. Bild-Maße: ca. 27 x 40,5 cm. Rahmen: ca. 42 x 55 cm.
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Zwei original Entwürfe für das Schloss Hohenzollern

Friedrich August Stüler (1800-1865) - Two designs for the Hohenzollern Castle. West elevation and North elevation. Pen and watercolor on paper; West elevation: 437 x 576mm; North elevation: 438 x 558mm.
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Zwei original Entwürfe für das Schloss Hohenzollern

Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena (1656 - 1743) - Two designs for ornamental decorations. Pen, brown ink and brown wash; mounted; 78 x 123mm and 111 x 84mm.
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Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena (1656 - 1743) - Design for a ceiling painting. Pen, brown ink and brown wash; mounted; 160 x 164mm.
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Early design for the Galleria Colonna

Egid Schor (1627-1701) - Design of a corner decoration for the ceiling painting at the Galleria Colonna. Pen, brown ink and watercolor on paper; Image: 261 x 343 mm; Sheet: 270 x 355 mm.
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Early design for the Galleria Colonna

Louis-Théodore Liman (1788 - 1820) - Design for a secular basilica building. c. 1812-14. Lead pencil and watercolor on paper; watermark: D.&.C.Blau IV; sheet: 431 x 237mm; image: 382 x 190mm.
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Italian, Bolognese School, 18th century - Design for a corner of a ceiling painting. Stencil, pen, brown ink and watercolor on paper; 209 x 212mm.
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Hofmann, G. W. (nach) - „Friedrich des Zweiten Ankunft im Elysium“. Wasserfarbe und Tusche. Größe: ca. 56 x 42cm. (Deutschland), ca. 1800.
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Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena (1696-1757) - Stage design with stairs and colonnades. Pen, brown ink, grey and yellow wash; 304 x 435mm.
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A design by Cortona for the Galleria Pamphilj

Egid Schor (attr.) (1627-1701) or Philipp Schor (attr.) (1646 - 1701) after Pietro da Cortona (1596 - 1669) Design for a corner decoration of the ceiling painting at the Galleria Pamphilj. Pen, brown ink and watercolor on paper; 201 x 275mm.
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A design by Cortona for the Galleria Pamphilj

A newly discovered design for the the Villa Benedetti in Rome reflecting the coaction of the first professional woman architect and one of the leading architects of its time

Plautilla Bricci (Roma 1616 - Roma 1705) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Napoli 1598 - Roma 1680) (workshop) - La Pianta della Villa Benedetti a Roma. (c.1664).
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A newly discovered design for the the Villa Benedetti in Rome reflecting the coaction of the first professional woman architect and one of the leading architects of its time

A carriage design

Daniel Marot[workshop] - Design for a carriage coupé, shown from the side.
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A carriage design

Railroad Game

"Eisenbahn-Spiel / Jeu de Chemin der Fer" Railroad Game. c. 1890.
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Railroad Game

Art Deco Erotic Cover Drawing

VINCENT, Rene (Rageot) - "Une Histoire de Revenant". Magazine cover for "La Vie Parisienne". 1918.
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Art Deco Erotic Cover Drawing

HENDRIKS, Wybrand - Portrait of a man sitting at a table. Sanguine drawing. c. 1780.
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Reference book of an 18th century heraldist

Wappen Buch 1706. Germany, 1706-1782. Folio [32,7 x 20,6 cm]. 64 (of 74) leaves. With 645 mounted coat of arms (including 112 drawings) and 94 seals. Various sizes: from 25 x 20mm to 380 x 580mm. Contemporary vellum.
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Reference book of an 18th century heraldist

18th century design of a columned church facade by Filippo Vasconi

VASCONI, Filippo (1688 - 1730) - Design of a columned church facade with a large window. 18th century.Sheet: 345 x 200 mm; the sheet consists of three joined seperate sheets; prepatory stencil, pen, brown ink and grey wash.
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18th century design of a columned church facade by Filippo Vasconi

17th century Italian School drawing

(after) DOLCI, Carlo - Head Study. Drawing. Format: 340 x 224 mm; red chalk; old mounted, rebacked marginal tears, minor surface damage
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17th century Italian School drawing

Faust – Vorzugsausgabe mit Original Vorzeichnungen

Sepp Frank; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust. Erster Teil. München, Schröder, 1921. Sehr schöne illustrierte Ausgabe von Goethes Faust mit insgesamt 75 Radierungen und 57 Originalzeichnungen und Skizzen.

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Faust – Vorzugsausgabe mit Original Vorzeichnungen

18th century botanical manuscript

CROIX, Louis-Joseph de (1725-1816) and Pierre de Savary - Recueil des plantes les plus usuelles peintes d'apres nature. Tome second. Lille, 1763. 4to. With 226 full page botanical watercolor and gouache drawings

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18th century botanical manuscript

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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The newly discovered, unpublished watercolor drawings for Jean Baptiste de Lamarck’s Flore Francaise
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