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Gerhard Richter Portraits Painting Appearances

Paul Moorhouse (Autor) · 2009 · LLU Buchservice

Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems

Robert Pardo · 1992 · LLU Buchservice

Peristromata Turcica, sive dissertatio emblematica, praesentem Europae statum ingeniosis coloribus repraesentans.With: (2) [HARSDÖRFFER, Georg Philipp]. Germania deplorata, sive relatio, qua pragmatica momenta belli pacisque expenduntur.(3) [MILAG, Martin]. Aulaea Romana, contra Peristromata Turcica expansa: sive dissertatio emblematica, concordiae Christianae omen repraesentans.(4) [Anonymous French critic of Cardinal RICHELIEU]. Gallia deplorata, sive relatio, de luctuoso bello, quod rex Christianissimus contra vicinos populos molitur.[Nürnberg, Wolfgang Endter] (ad 1 with a false colophon: Paris, Toussaint du Bray), [each title-page with a chronogram:] 1641 (ads 1-2, 4) & 1642 (ad 3). 4 editions published together in 1 volume. 4to. With 4 letterpress title-pages in red and black, each with the date in a chronogram, 2 engraved title-plates plus 12 full-page engraved emblematic illustrations, all on integral leaves, each with a small plate nested in a larger plate (7 in the Peristromata with a varying rectangular central plate in dark blue or black and the same outer plate of a Persian carpet in orange; 7 in the Gallia with a varying oval central plate and the same outer plate representing peace with the palm tree in a landscape device of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and a border representing war with military attributes). Further with 5 woodcut head- and tailpieces (plus 8 repeats), 21 “woodcut” decorated initials (5 series, at least some actually metal castings made from woodcuts) plus 8 repeats, and cast vine-leaf ornaments, acorns and other fleurons. Set in roman and italic types with incidental Greek and Hebrew. Light brown calf (ca. 1820?) by Charles Murton (ca. 1795?-ca. 1860?) in London, with his stamp on the front paste-down, sewn on 5 cords, gold-tooled spine with black morocco label, gold thick-thin fillets on boards, gold-tooled board edges, blind-tooled turn-ins, curl-marbled endpapers (white, red, blue, yellow and blue-green in that order), and an orange silk ribbon marker.

[LA HAYE, Jean de]. · 1607 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

A library on Arabian horse breeding, including Stud Books and General Reference. From the Le Vivier and Marcia Parkinson Collections, with Additions from the Library of Duke Maximilian in Bavaria. The largest collection of its kind in private hands. 330 works in more than 1100 volumes. Mostly original or first editions. Published in Austin, Cairo, Chicago, Hildesheim, London, Marburg, Moscow, New York, Philadelphia, Riga, Tehran, Warsaw and other places in the years 1788 to 2011..

[HORSE BREEDING]. · 1808 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Codex antiquissimus a Rufio Turcio Aproniano V.C. distinctus et emendatus qui nunc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurentiana adservatur bono publico typis descriptus anno MDCCXLI.Florence, Typis Mannianis (the printer Joseph and his son Domenico Maria Manni), [1741]. 4to (25.5 x 18 cm). With an engraved dedication by the editor Pietro Francesco Fogginio to the members of the prestigious Académie Royale des inscriptions et beaux-arts as a frontispiece, an engraved vignette on the title page (a portrait of Virgil holding a mask) engraved by "Sarder ex Mus. Medic.". An engraved illustration of Virgil as a headpiece at the start of the text, engraved after the portrait in one of the two other late antique Virgil manuscripts: the Virgilius Romanus in the Vatican library (Cod. Vat. 3867). Further with a beautiful engraved historiated initial on the same page; engraved specimen of three lines of the manuscript (13 x 3 cm) on p. XV; and two tailpieces (on pp. XVI and 459). The text is printed in red and black (the title page, the first lines and corrections in the text). Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco.

VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius. · 1600 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean basin].[Iberian peninsula, second half of the 16th century, before 1574?]. 96 x 61 cm. Manuscript nautical chart on a single sheet of vellum, centred on the Mediterranean basin.

[PORTOLAN CHART - Luis TEXEIRA]. · 1574 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Les aventures de Télémaque.Paris, [Pierre François Didot le jeune], 1785. 2 volumes. Super royal 4to. With 98 hand-coloured plates, namely two engraved title pages in volume 1, 72 illustration plates engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard after drawings by Charles Monnet, and 24 engraved plates with summaries of the "books" in decorative frames. Further with an elaborate armorial device on the title page of each volume. Contemporary gold-tooled dark greenish-brown morocco, a red morocco title and volume label on the spine, lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

FÉNELON, François. · 1732 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Emblemata, ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium. Eiusdem aenigmatum libellus, ad D. Arnoldum Rosenbergum.Including: JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Aenigmatum libellus, ad vivum clarissimum, Arnoldum Rosenbergum jurisconsultum.Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565 (colophon: 15 May 1565). 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (ca. 17 x 11 cm). With Plantin's woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, 57 woodcut emblems by Geeraard Jansen van Kampen and Arnout Nicolai after Geoffroy Ballin and Peeter Huys. The text of the entire first work and the title-page of the second work are set within a decorative frame built up from typographical ornaments. Further with two woodcut decorated initials. Splendid late 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled red morocco bound by a French book binder named Allô, possibly Paul Charles Allô (1824-1890) and signed “Allo” in the lower turn-in of the front board. With the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges.

JUNIUS, Hadrianus. · 1511 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

[Writing master's copybook].[Arnhem?, The Netherlands, early 18th century?]. Oblong small folio (32 x 19 cm). With 18 leaves showing engraved writing examples in Dutch and French. The texts vary in subject, so they could also serve as guides for how to write a letter or an invoice, but of course also contains simple poems and proverbs. The script shows is a very neat and legible cursive with plenty of curling decorations to add onto letters or to frame the text. Leaves [4] and [11] are bigger and folded at all edges, measuring ca. 40 x 32.5 cm). (Early) 18th-century multi-coloured brocade paper over brown paper wrappers, side stitched through 4 holes, with marbled endpapers. The brocade paper shows in relief a floral pattern and has been decorated with a "colour spotting pattern" (see KB Sierpapier & marmering 9.2, 10.14 and illustration 73).

[PETIT, Mathieu]. · 1681 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Rationale divinorum officiorum.Strasbourg, [Johann Prüss], 1486. Chancery folio (32.5 x 22 cm). Printed in 2 columns, with 48 lines to the column. Set in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic types, Prüss types 2 (180G) and 3 (90G), with spaces left (some with and some without printed guide letters) for manuscript initials (1 8-line, 2 7-line, 4 6-line, 3 5-line and numerous 3- and 4-line). From the beginning to h3r these spaced have been filled in with manuscript lombardic initials in red and the text has been rubricated (the first fifth of the book). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden (beechwood?) boards by an Augsburg bindery (Eindbanddatenbank workshop w002998, active ca. 1488-1497).

DURAND, Guillaume (Guillelmus DURANDUS or DURANTI). · 1459 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Boec des gulden throe[n]s of der xxiiij. ouden en[de] hoemen elke[n] vinden mach en[de] va[n] hoerre leringhen die si leren om te comen totten ewighen leven.(colophon: Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert], 25 October 1484). Folio (29 x 21.5 cm). With large woodcut printer's device (142 x 82 mm) on verso of last leaf (with the arms of the city of Haarlem above an eagle holding a larger blank shield, here filled in by a contemporary owner); 4 woodcut illustrations and 20 repeats, representing the 24 elders, each showing one of the male elders, standing, teaching a female novice kneeling before him. Further with spaces left for initials, all filled in with uncials by hand, about 25 with penwork decoration in 1 or 2 additional colours: 1 blue 6-line initial with decorations in red and violate extending far into the margin, about 24 red 3 to 9-line (mostly 7-line) initials with lavendar penwork (1 with 2 green dots), some extending into the margin, and more than 70 2-line red initials without penwork decoration; a few spaces left for ¶-marks, also filled in in red; capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in Baellart's textura (99 or 100 mm/20 lines or about 14.5 point). Lacking leaf 137 (the second to last text leaf) and the final blank. Modern sheepskin.

OTTO VON PASSAU. · 1480 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Medicea hospes, sive descriptio publicae gratulationis, qua serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit senatus populusque Amstelodamensis.Amsterdam, Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1638. Folio (ca. 39.5 x 25 cm). With 17 engraved plates (1 frontispiece, 14 double page, and 2 folding), a woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam on the title-page, two decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary gold-tooled brown morocco, with a laurel wreath in the centre of both boards, set in a double fillet frame.

BARLAEUS, Caspar (BAERLE, Kasper van). · 1575 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive Itinera Alpina tria, in quibus incolae, animalia, plantae, montium altitudines barometricae, coeli & soli temperies, aquae medicatae, mineralia, metalla, lapides figurati, aliaque fossilia; & quicquid insuper in natura, artibus, & antiquitate, per Alpes Helveticas & Rhaeticas, rarum sit, & notatu dignum exponitur, & iconibus illustratur. Imprimatur, Is. Newton, P.R.S. 3 Teile in 1 Band: ...Descriptio Prima (1702), Secunda (1703), Tertia (1704).

SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jacob (1684-1738): · 1708 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

[Nine Pre-CIVIL War Documents by Jefferson Davis: Six from Committee on Military Affairs, Three As Secretary of War]

Davis, Jefferson · 1857 · Kaaterskill Books

The Vineyard; Being a Treatise shewing I. The Nature and Method of Planting, Manuring, Cultivating, and Dressing of Vines in Foreign-Parts. II. Proper Directions for Drawing, Press, Making, Keeping, Fining, and Curing all Defects in the Wine. III. An Easy and Familiar Method, of Planting and Raising Vines in England, to the greatest Perfection; illustrated with several useful Examples. IV. New Experiments in Grafting, Budding, or Inoculating; whereby all Sorts of Fruit may be much more improv

VINEYARD. J. (S.): · 1727 · John Price Antiquarian Books

1940 Remarkable Scrapbook Diary of British Woman Observing the Early Days of World War 2 (Wwii) and Recounting the Blitz Bombing

MARJORIE MAUD LUSH · 1940 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

1906 Original Manuscript Diary Handwritten by a Young San Francisco Boy Who Chronicles His Living Through the Earthquake of 1906 Including the Destruction of His Home

JASPER W. O'FARRELL · 1906 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

1878 Handwritten Manuscript Diary of Hard Work and the Rural Pioneer Life

JOSEPH MAREAN · 1878 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

1833 Basil Hall Manuscript Letter to His Wife's Mother, Lady Hunter with Addition by Margaret Hall

CAPTAIN BASIL HALL AND MARGARET HALL · 1833 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

D.D. Specimen Academicum, sistens Miracula Insectorum ...sub Praesidio ... Caroli Linnaei, ... Publico Examini Submittit Gabriel Emanuel Avelin, Dalekarlus... B.u.w. 2) D.D. Noxa Insectorum Dissertatione Academica .... sub Praesidio... Caroli Linnaei ... publico bonorum examini subjecta Miachaël A. Baeckner, Helsingo... B.u.w.. 3) Q.F.F.S. Pandora Insectorum, ... Sub Praesidio ... Caroli LLinnaei, ... publico erudit. exam. subjicit Ericus Ol. Rydbeck, Ostro-Gothus. [Without the plate!].

LINNAEUS, C. [AVELIN Def.].- BAECKNER [Def.].- RYDBECK [Def.].- · 1752 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.