Natural Science and Technology
„Hortus Sanitatis“ – Highly important Natural Science Incunable
Hortus Sanitatis. (Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, 1497). 360 unnumbered leaves with over 1050 woodcuts.
EUR 48.000,-
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,-
The birth of neurochemistry
BORRI, Francesco Giuseppe - Epistolae Duae I. De Cerebi ortu & Usu Medico. II. De Artificio oculorum humores restituendi. Ad Th. Bartholinum. Copenhagen, Daniel Paulli, 1669. (4), 68 pages, with engraved title vignette and 7 woodcuts in the text. 4to, Contemporary vellum.
EUR 1.400,-
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,-
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,-
18th century scientific watercolor drawings of butterflies and insects
Müller, Johann Jacob (1743 - nach 1802)) - 595 aquarellierte Federzeichnungen von Schmetterlingen, deren Raupen und anderen Insekten auf 92 Blatt. Hanau, c.1778-1780
Original Vorzeichnungen zu Bergsträßers Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg und J.L. Christ's Hymenoptera.
EUR 45.000,-
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,- .
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,-
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,-
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,-
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,-
Große Sammlung wunderschöner Architekturzeichnungen des Münchener Architekten Joseph Bühlmann
BÜHLMANN, JOSEF - Konvolut von 238 Zeichnungen und Skizze (1861-1878)
EUR 12.900,-
Highly important collection of fossil drawings from the specimens in Abdullah Bey’s collection of fossils
BERAL, Eloi; Abdullah Bey - Collection of 3 manuscripts with over 600 watercolor and ink drawings of Devonian fossils in the Bosporus Strait. Istanbul, 1869.
EUR 6.500,-
Highly important early manuscript with drawings of unidentified fossils from the Bosporus Strait
Abdullah Bey (Karl Eduard Hammerschmidt) (1800-1874) (attr.) Collection of over 100 watercolor drawings of fossils from the Bosporus Strait. Turkey, ca. 1870.
EUR 6.500,-
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,-
Correspondence between Claude-Henri Gorceix and Don Pedro II of Brazil
GORCEIX, Claude-Henri (1842-1919); Don Pedro II of Brazil (1825-1891) Twenty-one letters with a total of 125 pages. Ouro Preto; Paris: 1887-1890.
EUR 2.900,-
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,-
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,-