A very important collection of original designs and photographs from the beginning of the French automotive industry

Carrosserie Mühlbacher Paris - 6 albums with 214 original model drawings and 203 photos of automobiles. (c.1890-1905). An exceptional, very important collection of unique designs, model drawings and photographs of automobiles by one of the most famous French coachbuilders of the late 19th – early 20th century.
EUR 35.000,-

A very important collection of original designs and photographs from the beginning of the French automotive industry

Original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha

MUCHA, Alphonse - "Documents decoratifs - Pl. 48". Paris, 1902. Size of sheet: c. 42,5 x 31 cm.
EUR 1.800,-

Original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha

Original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha

MUCHA, Alphonse - "Documents decoratifs - Pl. 13. Vient de Paraitre" Paris, 1902. Format: c. 36,5 x 13 cm.
EUR 2.500,-

Original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha

Original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha

MUCHA, Alphonse - "Documents decoratifs - Pl. 14. Nectar" Paris, 1902. Format: c. 37 x 14,5 cm.
EUR 2.500,-

Original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha

Important manuscript of Vauban’s last work

VAUBAN, Sebastien le Pretre deTraité de la Deffence des Places Par Feu le Marechal de Vauban. (France), 1706. 410 pages. With 8 folded manuscript plans.
Extremely rare contemporary manuscript of Vauban's last work. Our manuscript is believed to be an early text version of Vauban's last work, and enables further scholarly research into the history of the text.
EUR 4.500,-

Important manuscript of Vauban’s last work

HARINGER, Jakob (1898-1948) - Neue Verse. (ca. 1940). Kl-8° (14 x 11 cm). Von Haringer handgefertigter Umschlag. 5 lose, beidseitig beschriebene Bll. mit 10 Gedichten.
EUR 1.500,-

Very rare surgical manuscript lecture notes after doctor J. B. A. Andouille’s demonstrations.

ANDOUILLE, Jean Baptiste Antoine (1690-1744) - "Principe de Chirurgie qui se demontrent par dem-ande et par Reponce fais par monsieur Antoine Andoulle metre chirurgien juré et ancien prevot de sa Compaignie et demonstrateur Royal de St. Come". Paris, 1735. Leather binding [ca. 22 x 17 cm], inside covers with marble paper. French manuscript in red and brown ink. 3 blank leaves, half-title, 367 numbered pages, (2) pp.
EUR 1200,-
 

Very rare surgical manuscript lecture notes after doctor J. B. A. Andouille’s demonstrations.

Important manuscript notes of Giulio Pace’s lectures on Civil Law

PACE DE BERIGA, Giulio (1550-1635) - „Iulii Pacii a Beriga in institutiones iuris civilis erotemata. Monspelii, 1614 / Procemium“. Montpellier, 1614. Original handwritten lecture notes of a student of Giulio Pace's at the University in Montpellier. Contemporary velour leather binding [19,5 x 14,2cm], 297, (17) pp. Latin manuscript in brown ink.
EUR 4500,-

Important manuscript notes of Giulio Pace’s lectures on Civil Law

English Grand Tour manuscript diary from the 18th century

Grand Tour Diary. 2 volumes. Manuscript. 1785-1795. Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, [125] + [137] leaves with together 332 written pages, unfoliated, mainly 30 lines to the page, contemporary vellum, remains of ties, folio (33 x 20.2 cm).
EUR 4.500,-

English Grand Tour manuscript diary from the 18th century

Portraitgalerie aus der Zeit der Reformation

Portraitsammlung reformierter Theologen, Gelehrter und Wissenschaftler. Deutschland (?), um 1600-1640. Leder-Einband des 18. Jh.; 8vo [162 x 94 mm]. Mit 70 (47 farbigen) handgemalten Portraits in ornamentalem Schmuckrahmen (Gouache und Feder).
EUR 9500,-

Portraitgalerie aus der Zeit der Reformation

Astronomical and astrological manuscript

French manuscript - "Discrection (Description?) de la Sphere et des Globes" (France), 1721. 15 leaves [ca. 31 x 22 cm].
EUR 2.500,-

Astronomical and astrological manuscript

Important manuscripts on firearms

AUDOIN, E. - Mecanismes d'Armes. Pistolets automatiques. / Revolvers. France, 1936-1937. 2 volumes. Folio. With 327 drawings. Contemporary half leather bindings.

These exceptional manuscripts contain an important source of information on firearms from the second half of the 19th and early 20th-century. Both volumes include descriptions of 148 firearms of the most important contemporary manufacturers.

EUR 4.500,-

Important manuscripts on firearms

The anti-Islamic writings of Denis the Carthusian

Denis the Carthusian - Contra Alchoranum & sectam Machometicam libri quinque. Cologne, Peter Quentel, 1533. 8vo [153 x 99 mm] 18th century morocco with gilt floral ornaments on spine, gilt border on both covers, inside dentelles, all edges gilt. (16), 628, (i.e. 626), (2) pp.

EUR 2.500,-

The anti-Islamic writings of Denis the Carthusian

Only copy known

Hippopotamus. La Virtu dell'Hippopotamo, over Caval Marino. - Perugia, Jesi, Rimini, Milano & Mantova, (c.1610) 1 sheet.
Only known copy of this extremely rare broadside.

EUR 4.500,-

Only copy known

Testimony of the customs of early 15th century France

Boutillier, Jean - La grant somme rural. Paris, (Pierre Sergent) and Denis Janot, 1538. Very rare edition of Boutillier's important collection of legislative customs and customs in use in the north of the kingdom of France.

EUR 2900,-

Testimony of the customs of early 15th century France

First Latin edition of the Ship of Fools

Brant, Sebastian and Jacobus Locher - Stultifera Navis.Basel, Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1st March 1497. 18th century calf. With 117 large woodcut illustrations by Albrecht Dürer and others. -- FIRST LATIN EDITION.

EUR 35.000,-

First Latin edition of the Ship of Fools

First German book on snuff tobacco

PRADE, Jean le Royer de - Tabacks-Historie, in welcher insonderheit vom Schnup-Taback eine außführliche Beschreibung/ als von desselben Zielung/ Zubereitung/ auch Würckungen ; und welcher Gestalt/ absonderlich der Schnup-Taback auß demselbigen möge bereitet werden ... / In französischer Sprache beschrieben durch Mons. de Prade. Ins Teutsche übersezzet von G. K. M. D. Frankfurt am Main, Daniel Paulli / Johann Georg Drullmann, 1684. Halbleinen um 1900; Schmal-8vo, 120 Seiten, 10 Bll
EUR 950,-

First German book on snuff tobacco

Art Nouveau children’s book manuscript

BRUCH, Hans und Margarete - Märchenritt! Wer kommt mit? (Germany, 1912). Large-Folio [440 x 364 mm] 16 pages. With numerous watercolor drawings.
EUR 1500,- .

Art Nouveau children’s book manuscript

Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations corresponding to each letter in the alphabet

Max Freiherr von Berchem "Initialen-Bilder". (1852-1863). Twenty-seven richly decorated drawings illustrating animals, plants and concepts related to the natural world, whose initials correspond to the respective letters in the alphabet.
EUR 2.200,-

Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations corresponding to each letter in the alphabet

Important architectural drawing album

MOOSBRUGGER, August Leopold (1802-1858) - Skizzenbuch mit über 200 Architektur-Zeichnungen von Häusern und Villen in Italien. Italien, 1816-21. Italien, 1816-1821. Gr.-8to.
EUR 7.500,- .

Important architectural drawing album

Constantine Photo Album

LEROUX, Alexandre - Constantine. Algeria, c.1880. Oblong-folio [355 x 470 mm] 18 pages. With 25 large photographs. Original blindstamped cloth with leather spine.
EUR 900,-

Constantine Photo Album

Early drawing album of Algeria

Deitte, Alphonse (1806-1856) - Album with 18 original drawings of views in Algeria. Made during the French colonisation in the 1840's. Algeria, 1840's.
Very rare and important drawing album from the early colonisation years of Algeria.
EUR 2.700,-

Early drawing album of Algeria

Baroque Bible illustrations by a woman artist

Catharina Sperling-Heckel
(Augsburg 1699 - 1741 Augsburg)

315 wash ink drawings for the Old Testament.
Highly important collection of Baroque biblical illustrations by a woman artist.

EUR 95.000,-

Baroque Bible illustrations by a woman artist

Rare Atlas of the Old World by Georgius Hornius

HORN, Georg - Description exacte de l'Univers: ou l'ancienne Geographie sacrée et profane. Haag, Pierre de Hondt, 1741. Zeitgenössischer Leder-Einband mit Rückenvergoldung. Folio [53,5 x 33 cm]. Mit 61 Karten.
EUR 9.500,-

Rare Atlas of the Old World by Georgius Hornius

Rare 17th century Atlas of the Netherlands

Peers, Richard (1645-1690); Pitt, Moses (fl. 1654-1696) - The English atlas volume IV. Containing the description of the Seventeen Provinces of the Low-Countries, or Netherlands. Oxford, 1682.
EUR 7.500,-

Rare 17th century Atlas of the Netherlands

Very rare 1st edition of Golovnin’s second circumnavigation

GOLOVNIN, Vasily Mikhailovich (1776-1831) - Puteshestvie vokrug svieta po povelieniiu Gosudaria imperatora sovershennoe, na voennom shliupie Kamchatkie, v 1817, 1818 i 1819 godakh, flota kapitanom Golovninym [Voyage around the world by order of His Majesty, the Emperor, on naval sloop Kamchatka in 1817, 1818, and 1819, by Fleet Captain Golovnin] Two volumes. First Edition. Sankt Petersburg, 1822.
EUR 85.000,-

Very rare 1st edition of Golovnin’s second circumnavigation

Rare Atlas of the Baudin expedition to Australia

PERON, Francois Auguste, Charles Lesueur and Nicolas Petit - Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes executé par ordre de S.M. l'Empereur et Roi. Partie historique rédigée par M.F. Péron. Atlas par MM. Lesueur et Petit. Paris, (1824). Extremely scarce second edition of this important atlas of the official account of the Baudin voyage to the Pacific. With 25 more plates than the first edition.
EUR 8.500,-

Rare Atlas of the Baudin expedition to Australia

d’Entrecasteaux’s important expedition to Australasia

LA BILLARDIÉRE, Jacques Julien Houtou de - Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse... Paris, (1799). 2 Text vols. and 1 Atlas; Modern Quarter-linen bindings [295 x 228 mm] and contemporary Quarter-leather large-folio [565 x 420 mm]. XVI, 442 pp. / 332, 113 (1). Atlas with 43 engraved plates and 1 double-paged copper engraved map of Australia, southeastern Africa and southern Asia.
EUR 3.500,-

d’Entrecasteaux’s important expedition to Australasia

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 45.000,-

First book edition of George Washington’s last speech in Congress and the first American binding bearing the Great Seal of the United States

Seltene Handschrift zum Forstwesen

COTTA, Johann Heinrich (1763-1844) "Forstschutz vorgetragen im Winter 1827-1828 von Herrn Oberforstrath Cotta". Tharandt, 1828. Sehr seltene Mitschrift einer Vorlesung von Johann Heinrich Cotta aus dem Jahre 1827-28.
sold/verkauft

Seltene Handschrift zum Forstwesen
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