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Playing cards for Aesop’s fables
Jeu des Fables d'Esope. France, n.d. (c. 1775) Orig. slipcase.
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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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Nürnberger Bergordnung des 18. Jh.
OERTEL, Johann Jacob - Des Kornberger Steinbruchs bey Wendelstein erneuert- und verbesserte Berg-Gerichts Gesetze und Ordnung. Anno 1775. Handschrift. Folio.
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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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The newly discovered, unpublished watercolor drawings for Jean Baptiste de Lamarck’s Flore Francaise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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Highly important unpublished eyewitness diary of the famous tour of France by emperor Joseph II in 1777, revealing, among other things, the true circumstances of the meetings with Benjamin Franklin and Jean Jacques Rousseau
COBENZL, Philipp von - Journal de mon voyage en France avec l'Empereur Joseph en 1777. Manuscript on paper. 92 pp. folio.
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Rare original etching by Francisco de Goya
DE GOYA, Francisco - Margarita de Austria Reyna de Espana, Muger de Phelipe III. Madrid, 1778. Platten-Masse ca. 37 x 31 cm. Blatt ca. 48 x 38,5 cm.
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Rare original etching by Francisco de Goya
DE GOYA, Francisco - Felipe III. Rey de Espana. Madrid, 1778. Platte ca. 38,5 x 31 cm. Blatt ca. 60,5 x 42,5 cm.
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Manuscript Biribi Game from the 18th century
Giuoco Reale denari in tavola oro coperto non si paga. Genova(?), 18th century
Size: 65,5 x 116 cm.
Rare manuscript Biribissi game from the second half of the 18th century.
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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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18th century gaming counters
Six leather covered gilt boxes with gaming counters. Europe and China, 18th century. Size of boxes: each 55 x 84 mm; Preserved in a suitable, contemporary cardboard box.
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Älteste bekannte Mitschrift einer Vorlesung von Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich - Blumenbachs öffentliche Vorlesungen über die Natur Geschichte des Menschen im Sommerhalbenjahr 1780. Göttingen, 1780.
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Bronze statue of a faun and a nymph
CLODION, Claude Michel (1738-1814) - Faun or satyr and a nymph. Bronze sculpture with marble pedestal. 18th century.
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Jeu du Renard
Le plaisant et récréatif Jeu du Renard. France, n.d. (c. 1780).
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Manuscript peepshows from the 18th century
9 manuscript peepshows with 4-5 images each, made from playing cards. Switzerland (?), n.d. (c. 1780)
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Game for converted catholics
L'ecole de l verité pour les nouveaux convertis. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Crepy, n.d. (c.1780)
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Bedeutendes Tübinger Stammbuch aus dem Umkreis von Hölderlin und Schiller
Evangelisches Stift Tübingen. - Stammbuch von J.Ja. Jusserand. Tübingen, Birstein, Offenbach, Stuttgart und Strassburg, 1784-1788. Qu-8vo. Goldgeprägter Leder-Einband der Zeit mit Rückenschild. 366 num. Seiten. Mit 87 Einträgen von Studienkollegen und Lehrern sowie 18 handgemalten Silhouetten.
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Zweite Luftreise, oder Versuch der Herren Charles und Robert angestellt zu Paris in dem königlichen Garten der Thullerien den 1. December 1783 - Seconds Voyageurs Aeriens, ou Experience de MM Charles et Robert Faite a Paris dans le Parterre du Jardin Royal des Thuilleries le 1. Decembre 1783 Augsburg, Academie Imperiale d'Empire, ca. 1785. Altkolorierter Guckkastenblatt-Kupferstich von ca. 1785.
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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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Armorial manuscript from the late 18th century
Des heil. R. Reichs Adelstandserhöhungen unter ... Joseph des Zweiten ... Leopold des Zweiten ... Franz des Zweiten (1792-1796). 2 volumes. (Vienna), 1786-1795. Contemporary half calf bindings [24 x 19 x 4 cm], gilted and labelled on the spine. With 432 coats of arms.
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Dutch History game
BENDORP, Johannes Chritsian - Vaderlandsch Historiespel. Amsterdam, Keyzer and Vermandel, n.d. (1787).
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