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[Large collection of more than 400 glass positive magic lantern slides].[Kopenhagen?], [early 20th century]. More than 400 glass slides depicting various motifs related to coal mining, chemical processes and astronomy, as well as topographical motifs from Asia, Africa, China, Europe and America. Housed in the original publisher's wooden boxes. Includes 2 original projectors and 1 camera.
[Large collection of more than 400 glass positive magic lantern slides].[Kopenhagen?], [early 20th century]. More than 400 glass slides depicting various motifs related to coal mining, chemical processes and astronomy, as well as topographical motifs from Asia, Africa, China, Europe and America. Housed in the original publisher's wooden boxes. Includes 2 original projectors and 1 camera.
[MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES]. · 1848
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
Remarkable, all-encompassing collection of turn-of-the-century magic lantern slides. Several of the slides show cavalry horses: the "Krigen, 1848-1864" set includes (no. 45) an equestrian portrait of General Bülow, victor of the 1849 Battle of Fredericia, painted by Aug. Jernd...
Nova totius Arabiae Foelicis, Petraeae, et Desertae.[Amsterdam, ca. 1680]. Engraved map (30 x 35 cm), contemporarily hand-coloured. Matted.
Nova totius Arabiae Foelicis, Petraeae, et Desertae.[Amsterdam, ca. 1680]. Engraved map (30 x 35 cm), contemporarily hand-coloured. Matted.
MEURS, Jacob van.
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
A copy of the De Witt map of Arabia, with fine cartouches.l Al Ankary 79; Tibbetts 137.
Southern Arabia a journey through southern Rub el Khali October 1945 to February 1946. London, 1946. Colour-printed map (66 x 46 cm).
Southern Arabia a journey through southern Rub el Khali October 1945 to February 1946. London, 1946. Colour-printed map (66 x 46 cm).
THESIGER, W.
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
l Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
Arabia Felice nuova tavola. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, [ca. 1561]. Engraved map. 190 x 260 mm.
Arabia Felice nuova tavola. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, [ca. 1561]. Engraved map. 190 x 260 mm.
RUSCELLI, Girolamo.
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
Ruscelli's modern map of Arabia from his La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo. A feature of this first state is that no map has a platemark at top: two maps were engraved on the same plate and the resulting sheet halved.l Tibbetts 27.
Routes in South West Arabia. From surveys made by J. B. Philby.London, 1938. Colour-printed map (56 x 36 cm)
Routes in South West Arabia. From surveys made by J. B. Philby.London, 1938. Colour-printed map (56 x 36 cm)
PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger.
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
l Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
Persia and Arabia.London, 1847. Engraved map (41 x 33 cm), hand-coloured in outline.
Persia and Arabia.London, 1847. Engraved map (41 x 33 cm), hand-coloured in outline.
TEESDALE, Henry.
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
l Al-Qasimi 243.
Survey of part of the south east coast of Arabia.London, The Royal Geographical Society, 1845. Engraved map (36 x 30 cm), hand-coloured in outline.
Survey of part of the south east coast of Arabia.London, The Royal Geographical Society, 1845. Engraved map (36 x 30 cm), hand-coloured in outline.
HAINES, Stafford Bettesworth.
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
Southern coast of Arabia from Ras Fartak to Ras el Hadd.
A new map of Arabia, divided into its several regions and districts.London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Hand-coloured engraved map (61 x 46 cm).
A new map of Arabia, divided into its several regions and districts.London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Hand-coloured engraved map (61 x 46 cm).
ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourgignon d'.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
Detailed map of the Middle East, published by Laurie & Whittle in London. Includes interesting annotations, including a note about the Barren Desert in the interior of the peninsula.l Al-Qasimi 211; cf. Al Ankary 382; not in Tibbetts.
Carte de la Perse de L'Armenie de la Natolie & de L'Arabia.Amsterdam, Jan Elwe, 1792 Hand-coloured engraved map (56 x 49 cm). Matted.
Carte de la Perse de L'Armenie de la Natolie & de L'Arabia.Amsterdam, Jan Elwe, 1792 Hand-coloured engraved map (56 x 49 cm). Matted.
ELWE, Jan
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
Large detailed map with elaborate figurative cartouche.l Al-Qasimi 207.
[John Sturges in Turkish costume with turban and gold-trimmed coat].Peterborough, 1739. Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas (41 x 30.5 cm), stretched over (original?) wooden board.
[John Sturges in Turkish costume with turban and gold-trimmed coat].Peterborough, 1739. Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas (41 x 30.5 cm), stretched over (original?) wooden board.
[DRAWING]. SAUNDERS, John. · 1682
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
A pastel portrait drawn by the prolific itinerant portraitist John Saunders (1682-ca.1758) at Peterborough in September 1739. Saunders is recorded as active in East Anglia, the Midlands and elsewhere in the mid-18th century. The sitter John Sturges appears in Turkish costume, ...
Tyrol und seine nächsten Umgebungen. Nach der Natur gemalt.Karlsruhe, Frommel in Kommission im Kunst-Verlag, 1842. Royal folio (43.5 x 57 cm). With an engraved title-page and 12 steel-engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf with gold rules.
Tyrol und seine nächsten Umgebungen. Nach der Natur gemalt.Karlsruhe, Frommel in Kommission im Kunst-Verlag, 1842. Royal folio (43.5 x 57 cm). With an engraved title-page and 12 steel-engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf with gold rules.
FROMMEL, Carl Ludwig. · 1841
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
12 ll.Annual gift (for the past year 1841) for the members of the Kunstverein für das Großherzogtum Baden: a large paper copy of a series of steel-engraved views of Tyrol and vicinity. It includes views of Ambras castle, Berchtesgaden, Bozen, Finstermünz, Hohenschwangau, Inns...
Museum Etruscum exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis CC. nunc privum edita et illustratum.Florence, Gaetano Albizzini, 1737. 2 volumes. Folio (27.5 x 37.5 cm). With 200 engraved plates (12 folding), and 1 folding plate with Etruscan script. Contemporary vellum.
Museum Etruscum exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis CC. nunc privum edita et illustratum.Florence, Gaetano Albizzini, 1737. 2 volumes. Folio (27.5 x 37.5 cm). With 200 engraved plates (12 folding), and 1 folding plate with Etruscan script. Contemporary vellum.
GORI, Antonio Francesco. · 1697
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
LXVIII; [2], XLII, 471, [1] pp.First two volumes of a rare monograph on Etruscan antiquities, written by the Florentine antiquarian Antonio Francesco Gori (1697-1757). In the 1730s, there was an enormous archaeological activity around Tuscany, accompanied by an equally intensi...
Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793.London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1797 4to. With a folding hand-coloured engraved map, 16 engraved plates (some folding), and a folding engraved table. Modern half calf with gold on red spine label, marbled sides.
Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793.London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1797 4to. With a folding hand-coloured engraved map, 16 engraved plates (some folding), and a folding engraved table. Modern half calf with gold on red spine label, marbled sides.
TOWNSON, Robert.
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
xviii, [1], 506 pp.First edition of "the best English work respecting Hungary" (Cox), soon translated into Dutch and French. Includes a chapter entitled "Alpine excursions", describing the author's plant hunting activities. The chapter on Vienna, an account that historiography...
Allgemeine Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Tiere, hauptsächlich über ihre Kunsttriebe. Zum Erkenntniß des Zusammenhanges der Welt, des Schöpfers und unser selbst vorgestellet. Hamburg, Johann Carl Bohn, printed by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1762. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut vignette on the last page. Contemporary calf.
Allgemeine Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Tiere, hauptsächlich über ihre Kunsttriebe. Zum Erkenntniß des Zusammenhanges der Welt, des Schöpfers und unser selbst vorgestellet. Hamburg, Johann Carl Bohn, printed by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1762. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut vignette on the last page. Contemporary calf.
REIMARUS, Hermann Samuel. · 1762
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[16], 400, 104, [24] pp.A landmark treatise by Hermann Samuel Reimarus, examining both innate and acquired animal behaviours, with observations that include American species, and situating these insights within the wider context of the natural order, the creator, and human und...
Historia da Igreja do Japaõ, . . .Lisbon, Manoel da Sylva (vols. 1-2), Manoel Soares (vol. 3), 1749-1751. 3 volumes. 4to. With 5 folding engraved plates, 1 folding engraved map of Japan (28×42 cm) and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary tanned sheepkin, gold-tooled spines.
Historia da Igreja do Japaõ, . . .Lisbon, Manoel da Sylva (vols. 1-2), Manoel Soares (vol. 3), 1749-1751. 3 volumes. 4to. With 5 folding engraved plates, 1 folding engraved map of Japan (28×42 cm) and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary tanned sheepkin, gold-tooled spines.
CRASSET, Jean and Maria Antonia de Saõ Boaventura MENEZES (translator). · 1679
€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)
First and only Portuguese edition of Jean Crasset's Histoire de l'eglise du Japon (1679), the only edition in any language to include a map of Japan. Jean Crasset, a French Jesuit, based his work on François Solier's Histoire ecclesiastique des isles et royaumes du Japon (1627...
Vocabulario della lingua native dell'Australia Occidentale.Rome, Sacra Congregazione de Propaganda Fide, 1845. Small 12mo? (14 x 9 cm). Contemporary blue paper wrappers.
Vocabulario della lingua native dell'Australia Occidentale.Rome, Sacra Congregazione de Propaganda Fide, 1845. Small 12mo? (14 x 9 cm). Contemporary blue paper wrappers.
BRADY, John. · 1836
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
49, [1], [2 blank] pp.Rare first Italian translation of John Brady's Descriptive vocabulary of the native language of West Australia. After the title-page follow Brady's preliminary observations (pp. 3-9), the vocabulary of the southwest Australian (Nyungar?) aboriginal langua...
Do diagnostico das diversas formas clinicas do mal de Bright - These de concurso ...Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Academica, 1879. 8vo. With 2 woodcut illustrations and a full-page letterpress table of medical data. 20th-century marbled boards.
Do diagnostico das diversas formas clinicas do mal de Bright - These de concurso ...Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Academica, 1879. 8vo. With 2 woodcut illustrations and a full-page letterpress table of medical data. 20th-century marbled boards.
ALMEIDA MARTINS COSTA, Domingos de. · 1851
€875.00 ($964.41 | £729.98 | ¥154,004)
[4], 94 pp.An extremely rare thesis on nephritis (Bright's disease), an inflamation of the kidneys, from the Imperial Academy of Medicine in Rio de Janeiro, printed and published by the Academy's press. It opens with a 20-page introduction, followed by case reports of several ...
Dictionnaire Français-Arabe.Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828-1829. 2 volumes. Large 4to. Near-contemporary sprinkled gold-tooled tanned sheepskin.
Dictionnaire Français-Arabe.Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828-1829. 2 volumes. Large 4to. Near-contemporary sprinkled gold-tooled tanned sheepskin.
BOCTHOR, Ellious and A. Caussin de PERCEVAL. · 1784
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
VII, [1], 461, [1]; [4], 435, [1] pp.First edition, edited by Caussin de Percival, of one of the first complete French-Arabic dictionaries. This dictionary of Egyptian Arabic was compiled by the Coptic Egyptian Ellious Bocthor, a native speaker, and extended with material coll...
Augsburgische Sammlung derer wegen des höchstbetrübten Untergangs der Stadt Lissabon, … anbey hat man die Stadt Augsburg in Grundriß mit 48. Prospecten der schönsten Gebäude denselben mit beygefüget …Augsburg, Johann Michael Roth, [ca. 1756]. Including:(2) [MAP - GERMANY - AUGSBURG]. KRAUS, Johann Thomas. Accurata recens delineate ichnographia … metropolis Augustae Vindelicorum … = Neu verfertigt accurater Grund Riß der … Statt Augspurg, …Augsburg, Matthäus Seutter, [ca. 1750]. Large engraved map on a folding sheet (50 x 61 cm) at a scale of about 1:4000.(3) WEYERMANN, Jakob Christoph. Prospectus praecipuorum aedificorum et locorum intra et extra urbem Augustam Vindelicorum …Augsburg, Matthäus Seutter, 1742. 4 large uncut folding sheets (each 40 x 70 cm) containing the engraved title page in an elaborately decorated cartouche and 47 engraved views of buildings in and around Augsburg (each 16 x 13.5 cm), numbered [I], II-XLIII.1mo (50 x 38.5 cm). With an engraved title page, the title in the arched doorway of an architectural ruin with a female figure with the Portuguese coat of arms in mourning on the steps, flanked by 2 putti; an engraved report on the earthquake and resulting tsunami on 1 November 1755; and in the first part 60 engraved views, maps and plans printed from 25 copperplates on 13 leaves (4 large folding, including 1 constructed from 2 sheets, the rest on both sides of 9 leaves, except the last, which is blank on the reverse). Gold on black gold brocade paper wrapper, probably from the publisher, sewn without supports at 3 stations, each wrapper made from a whole sheet of the decorated paper, with as centrepiece a statue in a domed gazebo, the dome carried by 4 visible (probably of 6) caryatids. The sheet is further filled with scrollwork decoration with oval portraits in the upper corners, winged angels in the lower corners, 4 more angels plus 2 faces in the scrollwork. Pasted in the centre of the front wrapper is an engraving of the Augsburg pine cone flanked by Neptune with his trident and a river God with an oar, above a city view with cornucopias (10 x 6.5 cm), with a manuscript label below it, "1755 et 1756." The whole is kept is a finely produced modern tanned sheepskin box with the form of a book, the spine with 7 raised bands and a red morocco label, a single brass fastening, and the interior and what would be the edges of the paper lined with marbled paper combining Stormont, zebra and Spanish patterns.
Augsburgische Sammlung derer wegen des höchstbetrübten Untergangs der Stadt Lissabon, … anbey hat man die Stadt Augsburg in Grundriß mit 48. Prospecten der schönsten Gebäude denselben mit beygefüget …Augsburg, Johann Michael Roth, [ca. 1756]. Including:(2) [MAP - GERMANY - AUGSBURG]. KRAUS, Johann Thomas. Accurata recens delineate ichnographia … metropolis Augustae Vindelicorum … = Neu verfertigt accurater Grund Riß der … Statt Augspurg, …Augsburg, Matthäus Seutter, [ca. 1750]. Large engraved map on a folding sheet (50 x 61 cm) at a scale of about 1:4000.(3) WEYERMANN, Jakob Christoph. Prospectus praecipuorum aedificorum et locorum intra et extra urbem Augustam Vindelicorum …Augsburg, Matthäus Seutter, 1742. 4 large uncut folding sheets (each 40 x 70 cm) containing the engraved title page in an elaborately decorated cartouche and 47 engraved views of buildings in and around Augsburg (each 16 x 13.5 cm), numbered [I], II-XLIII.1mo (50 x 38.5 cm). With an engraved title page, the title in the arched doorway of an architectural ruin with a female figure with the Portuguese coat of arms in mourning on the steps, flanked by 2 putti; an engraved report on the earthquake and resulting tsunami on 1 November 1755; and in the first part 60 engraved views, maps and plans printed from 25 copperplates on 13 leaves (4 large folding, including 1 constructed from 2 sheets, the rest on both sides of 9 leaves, except the last, which is blank on the reverse). Gold on black gold brocade paper wrapper, probably from the publisher, sewn without supports at 3 stations, each wrapper made from a whole sheet of the decorated paper, with as centrepiece a statue in a domed gazebo, the dome carried by 4 visible (probably of 6) caryatids. The sheet is further filled with scrollwork decoration with oval portraits in the upper corners, winged angels in the lower corners, 4 more angels plus 2 faces in the scrollwork. Pasted in the centre of the front wrapper is an engraving of the Augsburg pine cone flanked by Neptune with his trident and a river God with an oar, above a city view with cornucopias (10 x 6.5 cm), with a manuscript label below it, "1755 et 1756." The whole is kept is a finely produced modern tanned sheepskin box with the form of a book, the spine with 7 raised bands and a red morocco label, a single brass fastening, and the interior and what would be the edges of the paper lined with marbled paper combining Stormont, zebra and Spanish patterns.
ROTH, Johann Michaël. · 1755
€47,000.00 ($51,802.55 | £39,210.50 | ¥8,272,198)
[20] engraved ll., some printed on both sides.An extremely rare and stunning display of the vibrant trade in mid-18th-century Augsburg, the main part devoted primarily to the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed Lisbon and many other cities in Portugual, southwest Spain and n...
Naukeurige beschryving van Asie: behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gantsch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie. Vertoont in een bondigh ontwerp van 's lands benamingen, bepalingen, . . . inzonderheit die van d'oude Arabieren, Mahomet en Mahometanen.Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 3 double-page maps (of Basra and surroundings, Anatolia and the Arabian Peninsula), 12 double-page or folding views (partly drawn by Charles Vasteau). Near contemporary blind-stamped vellum.
Naukeurige beschryving van Asie: behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gantsch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie. Vertoont in een bondigh ontwerp van 's lands benamingen, bepalingen, . . . inzonderheit die van d'oude Arabieren, Mahomet en Mahometanen.Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 3 double-page maps (of Basra and surroundings, Anatolia and the Arabian Peninsula), 12 double-page or folding views (partly drawn by Charles Vasteau). Near contemporary blind-stamped vellum.
DAPPER, Olfert.
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[8], 357, [3], 324, [4] pp.First edition of Olfert Dapper's important description of the Middle East. The first part is devoted to Mesopotamia or Algizira, Babylonia, Assyria and Anatolia, while the second is entirely devoted to Arabia. The work is especially important for the...