Manuscripts
17th-century manuscript lectures from the Old University of Leuven
CHARNEUX, Henricus de / MELIS, Petrus - Physica et Metaphysica Data in Porco sub Eruditissimo Domino... scripta ab Edmundo Goossens Thenensi Anno 1679. Old University of Leuven, 1679. [212 x 164 mm] Engraved title page with manuscript title, 484 ll. With 19 text drawings, 15 whole-page drawings and 10 (2 fold. and 1 with folding part) engraved plates.
EUR 4500,-
Extensive armorial manuscript from the 17th century
Armorial manuscript. France or Belgium, n.d. (17th century) folio. 214 numbered pages with 4180 drawings of coat of arms, most of them hand-coloured. Blind tooled leather with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine.
EUR 5500,-
18th-century manuscript lectures on physics
LACOUR, (?). - Cours abrégé de Phisique générale, particuliere et experimentale a l'usage de M. Guillaume Henri Godart, phisicien et pensionnaire du College royal de St. Louis. Metz, 1775. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to Title, 219, 391 (i.e. 381) pp. With 44 text drawings.
EUR 1500,-
The newly discovered, unpublished watercolor drawings for Jean Baptiste de Lamarck’s first book Flore Francaise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.
EUR 550.000,-
Highly important unpublished eyewitness diary of the famous tour of France by emperor Joseph II in 1777, revealing, among other things, the true circumstances of the meetings with Benjamin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.
EUR 85000,-
Visiting cards from the 18th century
Album with visiting-cards from the 1780's -- Contemporary Boards. Gr-8°. With 202 mounted visiting cards.
EUR 9500,-
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.
EUR 7500,-
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 1500,-
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.
EUR 2900,-
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.
EUR 950,-
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.
EUR 3500,-
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 14.500,-
Newly discovered unpublished ornithological drawings for Albert Marchand’s Les poussins des oiseaux d’Europe
MARCHAND, Albert - 26 original watercolor drawings. France, n.d. (c.1878-1880) 26 loose sheets. (sheets: 280 x 192 mm) (images: c. 110 x 80 mm)
EUR 4500,-
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 38000,-
Children’s book manuscript by Lawson Wood
WOOD, Lawson - Complete set of 15 watercolor and ink drawings for 'The Woolly-Cuddle helps the lost little girl.' London, Frederick Warne, (1922). Various sizes; most approx. 155 x 195 mm.
EUR 2500,-
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 12.500,-
Manuscript of J. N. Vallot’s Natural Science lecture and a catalogue of drawings of the molluscs in the department of Cote d’Or
VALLOT, Jean-Nicolas - Exercise sur l'histoire naturelle. (Catalogue des Testaces de la Cote d'Or). Manuscript. Dijon, 1877. 8to [240 x 175 mm]. Half-vellum with gilt decorations on spine. 16 unnumbered pages and 12 plates with watercolor drawings.
EUR 2500,-
The newly discovered Silesian armorial manuscript by Johann Siebmacher
SIEBMACHER, Johann - Silesian Manuscript Armorial. Manuscript. Wroclaw, c.1578-1581. Oblong-8vo [170 x 220 mm] 152 leaves with 2280 painted coat of arms over pre-printed stencils. Bound together with a handwritten register on 41 leaves. 18th century quarter vellum binding.
EUR 145.000