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Perspectiva communis. Ideo sic dicta, quod contineat elementa tès optigès, omnibus philosophiae studiosis necessaria.Nürnberg, Johan Petreius, 1542. Small 4to (18 x 15 cm). With 44 woodcut diagrams in text. Modern boards.
Perspectiva communis. Ideo sic dicta, quod contineat elementa tès optigès, omnibus philosophiae studiosis necessaria.Nürnberg, Johan Petreius, 1542. Small 4to (18 x 15 cm). With 44 woodcut diagrams in text. Modern boards.
PECKHAM, John and Georg HARTMANN. · 1482
€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)
[55] ll.An important edition in the original Latin, the first to be edited by Hartman, of the English Franciscan John Peckham's Perspectiva communis, one of the earliest works on perspective, written in the late 1200s and first printed ca. 1482/83. Divided into three parts, th...
Ueber die Natur der Kometen, mit Reflexionen auf ihre Bewohnbarkeit und Schicksale - Bey Gelegenheit des Kometen von 1811.Munich, Ignatz Joseph Lentner, 1811. 8vo. With an aquatint frontispiece showing 5 illustrations above a 2-line verse by Schiller, 3 folding engraved plates, and 2 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half sheepskin.
Ueber die Natur der Kometen, mit Reflexionen auf ihre Bewohnbarkeit und Schicksale - Bey Gelegenheit des Kometen von 1811.Munich, Ignatz Joseph Lentner, 1811. 8vo. With an aquatint frontispiece showing 5 illustrations above a 2-line verse by Schiller, 3 folding engraved plates, and 2 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half sheepskin.
GRUITHUISEN, Franz von Paula. · 1774
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
368 pp.First and only edition of a rare work on the nature of comets, by the physician and astronomer Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1774-1852). "Sein nicht geringes Verdienst besteht darin, im Kampf gegen die romantische Naturphilosophie der beobachtenden und experimentierenden...
Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives.Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1752.With: (2) AMY, Joseph. Suite du livre intitulé Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes ... avec trois dissertations ...Ibid., idem, 1754. Bound before ad 1 and 2: (3) AMY, Joseph and [François THIÉRY]. Nouvelles fontaines domestiques approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Première édition./ Question de medecine.Ibid., J.B. Coignard and A. Boudet, 1750. (4) [BROADSIDE]. Filtroirs militaires, marins et domestiques.[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside/ advertorial leaflet, ca. 240 x 140 mm.(5) [BROADSIDE]. Instruction générale et sommaire, pour la conduite des nouvelles fontaines.[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside, ca. 250 x 140 mm. Bound after ad 2: (6) BERTHIER, Joseph. Projet d'une pompe publique pour la ville de Paris.(Colophon:) Paris, Chardon, 1769. 6 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 6 folding woodcut plates, and 8 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; a series of 3 large folding engraved plates on the "Empire of Copper" (1x signed "Le Brun inv. et f."), 6 handcoloured woodcut plates of which 4 (large) folding in ad 2; a hand coloured woodcut dedication, and 2 folding woodcut plates in ad 3. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, red edges.
Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives.Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1752.With: (2) AMY, Joseph. Suite du livre intitulé Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes ... avec trois dissertations ...Ibid., idem, 1754. Bound before ad 1 and 2: (3) AMY, Joseph and [François THIÉRY]. Nouvelles fontaines domestiques approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Première édition./ Question de medecine.Ibid., J.B. Coignard and A. Boudet, 1750. (4) [BROADSIDE]. Filtroirs militaires, marins et domestiques.[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside/ advertorial leaflet, ca. 240 x 140 mm.(5) [BROADSIDE]. Instruction générale et sommaire, pour la conduite des nouvelles fontaines.[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside, ca. 250 x 140 mm. Bound after ad 2: (6) BERTHIER, Joseph. Projet d'une pompe publique pour la ville de Paris.(Colophon:) Paris, Chardon, 1769. 6 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 6 folding woodcut plates, and 8 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; a series of 3 large folding engraved plates on the "Empire of Copper" (1x signed "Le Brun inv. et f."), 6 handcoloured woodcut plates of which 4 (large) folding in ad 2; a hand coloured woodcut dedication, and 2 folding woodcut plates in ad 3. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, red edges.
AMY, Joseph. · 1697
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
VIII, 72, 46; LXXXII, 332, [4]; 48, 61, [9], 72, 24; 2; [1], [1 blank]; 3-15, [1 blank] pp.Remarkable collection of four very rare works and two broadsides on sanitation of water fountains for domestic and military use, all in first edition. Joseph Amy (1697-1760) was, accordi...
Boeck des gulden throene of der xxiiij ouden. Utrecht, [printer with monogram "tC"], [30 March] 1480. Folio. With 24 illustrations in text (ca. 9 x 6.2 cm), printed from 1 complete woodcut (plus 4 repeats) and 15 components assembled in different combinations, all rubricated and with architectural frames. The book has no printed initials, but spaces for manuscript initials, which have been filled with letters in the uncial style. Each of the 24 chapters begins with a large manuscript initial (the first 5-line with a penwork face in profile and further 4-line), 11 with two or more colours (mostly with penwork decoration extending into the margin), and others with interior white decoration. A smaller (2-line) initial with penwork extending into the margin opens the book's first page and there are numerous further 1-line and 2-line initials. Set in a textura type with capitals rubricated throughout. Woodcut printer's device at the end: a date palm tree with monogram "tC" (6.5 x 5.5 cm), the "t" perhaps also (or instead) representing a cross. Contemporary (Utrecht?) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, each board in a panel design with the central part ruled in a lozenge pattern with about 200 impressions of 4 small separate stamps; re-backed, with modern morocco title label.
Boeck des gulden throene of der xxiiij ouden. Utrecht, [printer with monogram "tC"], [30 March] 1480. Folio. With 24 illustrations in text (ca. 9 x 6.2 cm), printed from 1 complete woodcut (plus 4 repeats) and 15 components assembled in different combinations, all rubricated and with architectural frames. The book has no printed initials, but spaces for manuscript initials, which have been filled with letters in the uncial style. Each of the 24 chapters begins with a large manuscript initial (the first 5-line with a penwork face in profile and further 4-line), 11 with two or more colours (mostly with penwork decoration extending into the margin), and others with interior white decoration. A smaller (2-line) initial with penwork extending into the margin opens the book's first page and there are numerous further 1-line and 2-line initials. Set in a textura type with capitals rubricated throughout. Woodcut printer's device at the end: a date palm tree with monogram "tC" (6.5 x 5.5 cm), the "t" perhaps also (or instead) representing a cross. Contemporary (Utrecht?) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, each board in a panel design with the central part ruled in a lozenge pattern with about 200 impressions of 4 small separate stamps; re-backed, with modern morocco title label.
OTTO VAN PASSAU. · 1480
€185,000.00 ($203,903.67 | £154,339.21 | ¥32,560,781)
[4], 197 ll.First Dutch edition of Otto van Passau's devotional work (dated 20 days after the original German edition), the first Dutch book extensively illustrated with woodcuts. The Gouda Dialogus Creaturarum was published a month or two later, in June 1480. Each of the 24 c...
[Huis te Nigtevecht, incipit:] Aan den edelen agtbaren heer Pieter Reael, heere tot Nigtevegt, oud-schepen en raad der stad Amsterdam. ende aan syn eds. waarde gemalinne mevrou Maria Eleonora Huidecoper van Maarseveen, vrouwe tot Nigtevegt. werden dese gronden en gezigten van haar edd. huys, met schuldige eerbiedigheyt opgedragen. Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckerts the younger, [ca. 1696]. Royal folio (44.5 x 29.5). With 8 double-page engraved plates (plate size mostly ca. 29.5 x 35.5 cm) by Bastiaan Stopendaal after the designs of Herbert Kramer; and a half-page engraved coats-of-arms of Reael and his wife on the back of the dedication page. Modern half maroon goatskin morocco.
[Huis te Nigtevecht, incipit:] Aan den edelen agtbaren heer Pieter Reael, heere tot Nigtevegt, oud-schepen en raad der stad Amsterdam. ende aan syn eds. waarde gemalinne mevrou Maria Eleonora Huidecoper van Maarseveen, vrouwe tot Nigtevegt. werden dese gronden en gezigten van haar edd. huys, met schuldige eerbiedigheyt opgedragen. Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckerts the younger, [ca. 1696]. Royal folio (44.5 x 29.5). With 8 double-page engraved plates (plate size mostly ca. 29.5 x 35.5 cm) by Bastiaan Stopendaal after the designs of Herbert Kramer; and a half-page engraved coats-of-arms of Reael and his wife on the back of the dedication page. Modern half maroon goatskin morocco.
KRAMER, Herbert. · 1705
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[2] pp. plus 8 double-page engraved plates.Rare first and only edition of an architectural print series of 3 elevations and 5 plans of the stately manor house "Huis te Nigtevecht" also known as "De Nes", designed by the Amsterdam architect Herbert Kramer (d. 1705). The house n...
Diverses modes dessinées d'après nature.Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1728. Oblong 4to (21 x 27.5 cm). Series of 12 engraved prints: 11 costume prints plus a title-page (title in a stunning and delicate cartouche, plate size: 12.5 x 7 cm) on 6 oblong 4to leaves (which could make 12 8vo leaves). 6 of the plates are signed by the engraver Gaspard Duchange, all after the designs of Bernard Picart. Unbound.
Diverses modes dessinées d'après nature.Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1728. Oblong 4to (21 x 27.5 cm). Series of 12 engraved prints: 11 costume prints plus a title-page (title in a stunning and delicate cartouche, plate size: 12.5 x 7 cm) on 6 oblong 4to leaves (which could make 12 8vo leaves). 6 of the plates are signed by the engraver Gaspard Duchange, all after the designs of Bernard Picart. Unbound.
PICART, Bernard. · 1673
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
Series of 12 costume prints (including the title-page) of Dutch and Frisian farmers and fishermen, printed on 6 leaves, as originally published and wholly untrimmed. The title was probably deliberately vague, so that it could be used for various combinations of costume prints....
Formula vivendi canonico[rum] sive vicario[rum] seculariu[m] aut etiam alio[rum] devoto[rum] presbiterorum. (Colophon: Delft, [Christiaen Snellaert], April 1496). 4to (19.5×13.5). With the main text in a rotunda type (64G), quire signatures in a slightly larger rotunda (82G), title and text opening in a larger textura (145G) and a few small printed "Lombardic" uncial initials. Rubricated throughout, with 1 4-line and a few smaller red "lombardic" uncial initials written or drawn in the blank spaces provided, red paragraph marks; type area 14.5×9 cm. Half vellum (ca. 1900?).
Formula vivendi canonico[rum] sive vicario[rum] seculariu[m] aut etiam alio[rum] devoto[rum] presbiterorum. (Colophon: Delft, [Christiaen Snellaert], April 1496). 4to (19.5×13.5). With the main text in a rotunda type (64G), quire signatures in a slightly larger rotunda (82G), title and text opening in a larger textura (145G) and a few small printed "Lombardic" uncial initials. Rubricated throughout, with 1 4-line and a few smaller red "lombardic" uncial initials written or drawn in the blank spaces provided, red paragraph marks; type area 14.5×9 cm. Half vellum (ca. 1900?).
ROLEWINCK, Werner. · 1486
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[11] ll.Rare first and only edition published in the Northern Netherlands of a theological treatise presenting regimens for the best way of life for canons and priests. Especially the many dangers threatening monastic and cloistered life are dealt with at length. The first edi...
Traicté familier de l'exacte preparation spagyrique des medicaments, pris d'entre les mineraux, animaux & vegetaux. Avec une breve response au livret de Jacques Aubert, touchant la generation & les causes des metaux.Paris, Charles Morel, 1630 (with an "L" added in manuscript, making it 1680). 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, some woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces, and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary mottled calf.
Traicté familier de l'exacte preparation spagyrique des medicaments, pris d'entre les mineraux, animaux & vegetaux. Avec une breve response au livret de Jacques Aubert, touchant la generation & les causes des metaux.Paris, Charles Morel, 1630 (with an "L" added in manuscript, making it 1680). 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, some woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces, and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary mottled calf.
DU CHESNE, Joseph. · 1544
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
152, [14], [2 blank] pp.Rare French translation of one of the main works by Joseph Du Chesne (ca. 1544-1609), which originally appeared in Lyon with Joannes Lertotius in 1575 under the title: De exquisita mineralium, animalium et vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica praeparat...
Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon:) printed by Christophe Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards.
Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon:) printed by Christophe Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards.
LEMNIUS, Levinus. · 1850
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
[16], 473, [22], [1 blank] pp.Enlarged, first Plantin edition of a very popular work of the secrets of nature, considering physiological, physical, medical, religious and moral topics. Guided by the Hippocratic Corpus, Aristotle, natural philosophy, Christianity, and the four ...
De sectionibus conicis. Tractatus geometricus. In quo, ex natura ipsius coni, sectionum affectioens [!] facillime deducuntur. Methodo nova. London, William Johnston, 1758. 4to. With numerous illustrations on 17 folding engraved plates. Contemporary French gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, with the arms of the French King Louis XV in the centre of each board and his crowned monogram in each compartment (except that with the title) of the spine.
De sectionibus conicis. Tractatus geometricus. In quo, ex natura ipsius coni, sectionum affectioens [!] facillime deducuntur. Methodo nova. London, William Johnston, 1758. 4to. With numerous illustrations on 17 folding engraved plates. Contemporary French gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, with the arms of the French King Louis XV in the centre of each board and his crowned monogram in each compartment (except that with the title) of the spine.
HAMILTON, Hugh. · 1729
€13,000.00 ($14,328.37 | £10,845.46 | ¥2,288,055)
[4], VIII, 211, [1] pp.Splendid copy in contemporary red morocco, bound for the French King Louis XV, containing the first edition of a geometrical treatise on a new method of drawing and projecting conic sections (circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas). Hugh Hamilton (1729...
Grossherzoglich Hessisches Militair. Nach der Natur aufgenommen von . . . der Grossherzoglichen Gemaelde Gallerie in Darmstadt und auf Stein gezeichnet von J. Völlinger.Karlsruhe, Johann Velten, [ca. 1830]. Royal folio (45×32 cm.) With a lithographic title page and dedication to the Archduke Ludwig von Hessen (both by Johann Evangel. Mettenleiter), contents list and 30 numbered lithographs of army officers and enlisted men, many on horseback, all beautifully coloured by hand with watercolour, gouache and glazed highlights. Modern red half morocco.
Grossherzoglich Hessisches Militair. Nach der Natur aufgenommen von . . . der Grossherzoglichen Gemaelde Gallerie in Darmstadt und auf Stein gezeichnet von J. Völlinger.Karlsruhe, Johann Velten, [ca. 1830]. Royal folio (45×32 cm.) With a lithographic title page and dedication to the Archduke Ludwig von Hessen (both by Johann Evangel. Mettenleiter), contents list and 30 numbered lithographs of army officers and enlisted men, many on horseback, all beautifully coloured by hand with watercolour, gouache and glazed highlights. Modern red half morocco.
MÜLLER, Franz Hubert and Joseph VÖLLINGER. · 1784
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
[2], 30, [1] ll.Fine and rare work on military costumes by Franz Hubert Müller (1784-1835) depicting the uniforms of military of all ranks in the Hessian army. The large costume plates are finely coloured by a contemporary hand, with rich, brilliant colours for the uniforms an...
Inleydingh tot de practijck der al-gemeene schilder-konst, waer in, neffens de heerlijckheyt en nuttigheydt der selve, kortelijck wert aengewesen: wat dingen tot grondige verstaeningh der schilder-konst behoorde geweten te zijn ... Dienende tot een voorlooper van een ander werck, daer in de practijck-regelen der schilder-konst, bestaende in teycken-kunde, bouw-kunde, doorsicht-kunde, mensch-kunde, ordineringh en coloreeringh volkomen sal geleert werden.Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1670. With: (2) GOEREE, Willem. Inleydinge tot de al-gemeene teycken-konst.Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1670. (3) GOEREE, Willem and Geerard ter BRUGGE. Verlichterie-kunde, of recht gebruyck der water-verwen.Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1670. 3 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a hand coloured engraved frontispiece in ad 1; ad 2 with 2 engraved plates (1 full-page, 1 half-page), and 2 woodcut figures in the text; ad 3 with a hand coloured engraved frontispiece and a full-page engraved plate. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
Inleydingh tot de practijck der al-gemeene schilder-konst, waer in, neffens de heerlijckheyt en nuttigheydt der selve, kortelijck wert aengewesen: wat dingen tot grondige verstaeningh der schilder-konst behoorde geweten te zijn ... Dienende tot een voorlooper van een ander werck, daer in de practijck-regelen der schilder-konst, bestaende in teycken-kunde, bouw-kunde, doorsicht-kunde, mensch-kunde, ordineringh en coloreeringh volkomen sal geleert werden.Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1670. With: (2) GOEREE, Willem. Inleydinge tot de al-gemeene teycken-konst.Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1670. (3) GOEREE, Willem and Geerard ter BRUGGE. Verlichterie-kunde, of recht gebruyck der water-verwen.Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1670. 3 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a hand coloured engraved frontispiece in ad 1; ad 2 with 2 engraved plates (1 full-page, 1 half-page), and 2 woodcut figures in the text; ad 3 with a hand coloured engraved frontispiece and a full-page engraved plate. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
GOEREE, Willem. · 1635
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[14], 133, [3 blank]; [4], 126, [2 blank]; [14], 42, 58 pp.Rare first edition of the primary course on painting by Willem Goeree (1635-1711), bound with the enlarged second editions of his two schoolbooks on drawing and colouring. They were the most popular Dutch manuals on ar...
Instrument zur Architectur damit die fünff Seülen auch aller sorten Stück und Morsser, sowol allerley Bilder und dergleichen Sachen, leicht und recht proportionirt zuu ergrössern oder zuu erkleinern seindt, erfunden.Nürnberg, (colophon:) printed by Ludwig Lochner, 1622. 4to. With an engraved title page, showing all components of the newly invented instrument designed to help draftsmen enlarge or reduce drawings, and 9 numbered figures on 5 plates: 4 plates showing the instrument and its use and 1 large folding plate (32.5 x 30.5 cm) with model drawings of the five orders of architectural columns. Further with a woodcut headpiece, 3 woodcut decorated gothic initials (3 series), a woodcut headpiece and a headpiece built up of cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Modern nonpareil marbled boards, red morrocco spine-label, by Ateliers Laurenchet (stamp on paste-down) in Paris, established by Henri Laurenchet in 1947.
Instrument zur Architectur damit die fünff Seülen auch aller sorten Stück und Morsser, sowol allerley Bilder und dergleichen Sachen, leicht und recht proportionirt zuu ergrössern oder zuu erkleinern seindt, erfunden.Nürnberg, (colophon:) printed by Ludwig Lochner, 1622. 4to. With an engraved title page, showing all components of the newly invented instrument designed to help draftsmen enlarge or reduce drawings, and 9 numbered figures on 5 plates: 4 plates showing the instrument and its use and 1 large folding plate (32.5 x 30.5 cm) with model drawings of the five orders of architectural columns. Further with a woodcut headpiece, 3 woodcut decorated gothic initials (3 series), a woodcut headpiece and a headpiece built up of cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Modern nonpareil marbled boards, red morrocco spine-label, by Ateliers Laurenchet (stamp on paste-down) in Paris, established by Henri Laurenchet in 1947.
ALBRECHT, Andreas. · 1620
€14,500.00 ($15,981.64 | £12,096.86 | ¥2,552,061)
[16] pp.Rare first edition of a description, illustration, and full explanation of the use of a newly invented instrument for artists and draftsmen, invented by Andreas Albrecht. He was a German military engineer, inventor, and author on technical drawing, active in Nürnberg c...
Antignome fisico-matematiche con il nuovo orbe, e sistema terrestre.Livorno, Giovanni Vincenzo Bonfigli, 1667. 4to. With 66 woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with 2 fastenings made from loops of braided cord on the front cover but only traces of thongs on the back.
Antignome fisico-matematiche con il nuovo orbe, e sistema terrestre.Livorno, Giovanni Vincenzo Bonfigli, 1667. 4to. With 66 woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with 2 fastenings made from loops of braided cord on the front cover but only traces of thongs on the back.
ROSSETTI, Donato. · 1633
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
XII, 179, [1] pp.Rare first edition of a handbook of physics, including optics, mechanics, fluid dynamics and cosmography, illustrated with numerous woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in the text. It was written by Donato Rossetti, professor of natural philosophy at Pisa...
Traicté mathematique contenant les principales definitions, problemes et theoremes d'Euclide. l'Arithmetique decimale. . . . La fortification Hollandoise. Francoise. Italienne. Et Espagnolle.Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. With engraved title-page, engraved table, and 34 numbered engraved plates (11 double-page).With: (2) LUDERS, Theodoric. Traité d'arithmetique contenant les reigles necessaires aux marchands, banquiers, changeurs, &. financiers: . . . Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (50×34.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine (rebacked with original backstrip laid down).
Traicté mathematique contenant les principales definitions, problemes et theoremes d'Euclide. l'Arithmetique decimale. . . . La fortification Hollandoise. Francoise. Italienne. Et Espagnolle.Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. With engraved title-page, engraved table, and 34 numbered engraved plates (11 double-page).With: (2) LUDERS, Theodoric. Traité d'arithmetique contenant les reigles necessaires aux marchands, banquiers, changeurs, &. financiers: . . . Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (50×34.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine (rebacked with original backstrip laid down).
LUDERS, Theodoric. · 1664
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
Second edition of a beautiful wholly engraved book on practical mathematics, fortification, mensuration, weights and monetary values of the Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain. The first work, with hundreds of engraved geometric figures and diagrams; fortification plans, elev...
Livre d'architecture d'autels, et de cheminees. "Paris", sold by Cornelis Danckerts in Amsterdam, 1641. Series of 20 numbered engravings, including the title-print, Barbet's dedication to Cardinal Richelieu, a note to the reader and 17 finely designed and engraved altars and chimney pieces. With:(2) MITELLI, Agostino. [Model cartouches.] All[e]r[!] Ill[ustrissi]mo. Sig[no]r: Fran[ces]co: Maria Zambeccari.[Paris?], Rousel, "1636" [ca. 1641/42?]. Series of 16 numbered engravings, including the title-print (with no title) and 15 large ornamental, cartouches, many with grotesque masks.(3) RABEL, Daniel. Cartouches de diferentes inventions, tres utilles a plussieurs sortes de personnes.Paris, Francois l'Anglois dit Ch(i)artres, [ca. 1645?]. 2 series of engravings, each with an engraved title-print with an elaborately decorated cartouche plus 12 numbered cartouches with scenes. Plate 1 in each series is signed by [Daniel] Rabel (ca. 1578-1637) in Paris as artist and engraver. The title-prints name the publisher Ch(i)artres. 4 works in volume. Folio (32 x 20 cm). Contemporary vellum.
Livre d'architecture d'autels, et de cheminees. "Paris", sold by Cornelis Danckerts in Amsterdam, 1641. Series of 20 numbered engravings, including the title-print, Barbet's dedication to Cardinal Richelieu, a note to the reader and 17 finely designed and engraved altars and chimney pieces. With:(2) MITELLI, Agostino. [Model cartouches.] All[e]r[!] Ill[ustrissi]mo. Sig[no]r: Fran[ces]co: Maria Zambeccari.[Paris?], Rousel, "1636" [ca. 1641/42?]. Series of 16 numbered engravings, including the title-print (with no title) and 15 large ornamental, cartouches, many with grotesque masks.(3) RABEL, Daniel. Cartouches de diferentes inventions, tres utilles a plussieurs sortes de personnes.Paris, Francois l'Anglois dit Ch(i)artres, [ca. 1645?]. 2 series of engravings, each with an engraved title-print with an elaborately decorated cartouche plus 12 numbered cartouches with scenes. Plate 1 in each series is signed by [Daniel] Rabel (ca. 1578-1637) in Paris as artist and engraver. The title-prints name the publisher Ch(i)artres. 4 works in volume. Folio (32 x 20 cm). Contemporary vellum.
BARBET, Jean. · 1630
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
20; 16; [1], 12; [1], 12 engr. ll.Four series of models for architectural ornament, bound together in contemporary vellum. Ad 1: First printing from the Danckerts plates of a series of ornamental designs for altars and chimney-pieces, richly and beautifully executed with decor...
Traité d'optique mechanique, dans lequel on donne les règles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes sortes de lunettes d'approche, microscopes simples & composés, & autres ouvrages qui dépendent de l'art. Avec une instruction sur l'usage des lunettes ou conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes.Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1749. 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 4 folding engraved plates showing perspectival and optical diagrams and illustrations of perspectival and optical instruments, incl. a camera obscura. Further with woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Modern half marbled calf.
Traité d'optique mechanique, dans lequel on donne les règles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes sortes de lunettes d'approche, microscopes simples & composés, & autres ouvrages qui dépendent de l'art. Avec une instruction sur l'usage des lunettes ou conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes.Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1749. 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 4 folding engraved plates showing perspectival and optical diagrams and illustrations of perspectival and optical instruments, incl. a camera obscura. Further with woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Modern half marbled calf.
THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. · 1707
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
XII, 372, [3], [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of a theoretical and practical treatise on optical and perspectival instruments and one of the earliest instructions on the use of glasses for all sorts of viewing at all distances. Marc Mitouflet Thomin (ca. 1707-1752), ...
Allgemeine Historie der Natur nach allen ihren besondern Theilen abgehandelt; nebst einer Beschreibung der Naturalienkammer Sr. Majestät des Königes von Frankreich. Mit einer Vorrede Herrn Doctor Albrecht von Haller. Hamburg and Leipzig, Georg Christian Grund and Adam Heinrich Holle, 1750-1772. 8 (of 11) volumes (divided into two parts each). 4to. With engraved vignette on 16 title-pages, engraved headpiece to the dedication, engraved headpieces to each part, 2 engraved maps, folding engraved genealogical table, 1 folding letterpress table and 575 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum (not strictly matching).
Allgemeine Historie der Natur nach allen ihren besondern Theilen abgehandelt; nebst einer Beschreibung der Naturalienkammer Sr. Majestät des Königes von Frankreich. Mit einer Vorrede Herrn Doctor Albrecht von Haller. Hamburg and Leipzig, Georg Christian Grund and Adam Heinrich Holle, 1750-1772. 8 (of 11) volumes (divided into two parts each). 4to. With engraved vignette on 16 title-pages, engraved headpiece to the dedication, engraved headpieces to each part, 2 engraved maps, folding engraved genealogical table, 1 folding letterpress table and 575 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum (not strictly matching).
[BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, and Louis J.M. DAUBENTON]. · 1750
€6,950.00 ($7,660.16 | £5,798.15 | ¥1,223,229)
Each vol. ca. 650 pp.Very rare first edition of the German translation of Buffon's famous Histoire naturelle. Buffon's work presents ''for the first time a complete survey of natural history in popular form'' (PMM). The first volume contains Buffon's theoretical essays, includ...
David Georgen ausz Holand deß Ertzkätzers warhafftige Histori, seines Lebens, unnd verfürischen Leer, . . . Basel, (colophon: printed by Hieronymus Curio, September 1559), 1559. Small 4to. With 2 large woodcut gothic decorated initials (56 mm). Set in schwabacher types with incidental fraktur and the year of publication in Roman numerals. Disbound.
David Georgen ausz Holand deß Ertzkätzers warhafftige Histori, seines Lebens, unnd verfürischen Leer, . . . Basel, (colophon: printed by Hieronymus Curio, September 1559), 1559. Small 4to. With 2 large woodcut gothic decorated initials (56 mm). Set in schwabacher types with incidental fraktur and the year of publication in Roman numerals. Disbound.
JORIS, David (subject). · 1533
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[63], [1 blank] pp.First German edition, of a rare and important early biography of the famous Dutch heretic and Anabaptist David Joris. Banished from Holland for his overt rejection of the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, Joris fled to Friesland, where he met the Anabapti...
La perspective pratique de l'architecture. Contenant par leçons une manière nouvelle, courte et aisée pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiées.Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1751. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece, and 59 full page engraved plates (52 numbered, 5 unnumbered, 2 with text). Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf, red edges, marbled end papers.
La perspective pratique de l'architecture. Contenant par leçons une manière nouvelle, courte et aisée pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiées.Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1751. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece, and 59 full page engraved plates (52 numbered, 5 unnumbered, 2 with text). Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf, red edges, marbled end papers.
BRETEZ, Louis. · 1737
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[2] ll. + 60 plates.Enlarged edition of an extensive pictorial course in practical perspective for use of artists, architects and professional draughtsmen, with 60 large and beautifully engraved plates. The course starts with the principles of geometry, and then delves into co...