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,-
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,-
First edition of Corneille’s „Pulcherie“
CORNEILLE, Pierre (1606-1684) - "Pulchérie. Comedie heroique".Paris, Guillaume de Luyne, 1673. FIRST EDITION.
EUR 1.200,-
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,-
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,- .
Extensive collection of drawings of the architectural elements of the Chartres Cathedral
„Cathedrale de Chartres“. 2 volumes with a total of 61 drawings. France, 1840s.
EUR 2.850,-
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,- .
„Hortus Sanitatis“ – Highly important Natural Science Incunable
Hortus Sanitatis. (Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, 1497). 360 unnumbered leaves with over 1050 woodcuts.
EUR 48.000,-
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,-
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,-
First Edition of Jacques Delille’s „Les Jardins“
DELILLE, Jacques - Les Jardins, ou l'Art d'embellir les Paysages: Poeme. Paris, Francois Ambroise Didot, 1782. Large 4to, 144 pages.
EUR 2500,-
Important genealogical collection of the Dutch family De la Court
Very rare collection of hand drawn coat of arms and portraits pertaining to the de la Court family. 18th century. Leiden, Netherlands.
EUR 9.500,-
Manuscript collection of drawings of various mosses and lichens.
26 anonymous watercolor drawings from c. 1830, probably made for a manuscript herbarium.
EUR 1250,-
James Lloyd – Algues de l’Ouest de la France
James Lloyd (1810-1896) - Algues de l'Ouest de la France. 1847-1894.
EUR 15.000,-
Manuscript collection of botanical drawings on the mushrooms in France
159 anonymous watercolor drawings from c. 1830, mostly after works by Jean Baptiste Francois Bulliard - "Herbier de la France" (1780-1793) and "Histoire des champignons de la France" (1791).
EUR 4.500,-
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,-
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,-