A list of Atlases, Books & Prints on Exhibition at the 41st California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Feburary 15-17, 2008. BOOTH 130
OFFPRINTS ON AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, WITH 22 PLATES [BIRDS - AMERICA].[A Collection of 24 Offprints of Ornithological Articles covering Birds of North and South America].Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Ottawa, Ontario; Paris; etc., 1880-1924. 8vo. With 22 plates (including 2 hand-coloured lithographs, 2 colour half-tones, 1 map printed in colour and 16 black & white half-tones) and 26 illustrations in the text. From the collection of René Ronsil. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin, marbled sides. Full description »
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 | SORGVLIET & ANGUIEN IN 49 PLATES EXQUISITLY COLOURED & HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD AVEELE (AVELEN), Johannes vanden.['t Parck van Anguien (Enghien)].[Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, ca. 1695. WITH: AVEELE, Johannes van den. [Het Schoone Perk van Sorgvliet (Zorgvliet)]. [Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, ca. 1695. Small oblong folio (20 x 30.5 cm). 2 works in 1 volume. Two etched print series showing the buildings and gardens of two of the greatest estates of the Low Countries, Anguien with a plan and 16 views (11 x 15 cm), designated with the letters A-R; Sorgvliet with 32 unnumbered views (11 x 15.5 cm). The whole exquisitely and subtly coloured and highlighted in gold by a contemporary hand. Near contemporary sheepskin parchment. Full description »
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 | BLUE VELVET WITH DECORATED 20 KT. GOLD FASTENINGS [BIBLE - FASTENINGS].Biblia; dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture. Vervattende alle de Canonijken Boeken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.Het Nieuwe Testament, ... Het Boek der Psalmen, ... Evangelische Gezangen, om nevens het Boek der Psalmen bij den openbaren godsdienst in de Nederlandsche Hervormde Gemeenten gebruikt te worden. Amsterdam, N.T. Gravius, J. Brandt, etc., [1797] (Evang. Gezang.: Johannes Allart, 1808). 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and diamond-head music. On wove paper (except for the Evang. Gezang.). States translation. Blue velvet, gilt edges. With 2 Empire-style gold clasps in the form of pilasters, with their catch-plates, all fluted and decorated with rosettes and palmettes. Hallmarks: "J II B" (Jan Baptist Bertina, active in Amsterdam 1821-1867); 20 kt.; year letter script M (1821); lion's head A and rampant lion 2 (20 kt.). Full description »
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 | 52 OLD & NEW TESTEMENT ETCHINGS AFTER RAPHAELBORGIANNI, Orazio.[Bible Scenes after Raphael].[Rome], 1615. Oblong folio (22 x 30 cm). A complete series of 52 numbered etchings (about 13.5 x 17-22 cm) after Raphael's 52 frescos of Old and New Testament scenes in the Loggia of the Vatican. Eighteenth-century calf. Full description »
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 | HERBAL WITH AMERICAN PLANTS ACOSTA, Christoval.Aromatum & medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium ... Caroli Clusius Atrebatis opera ex Hispanico sermone Latinus factus, in Epitomen contractus, et quibusdam illustratus.Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1582. Plantin's vignette on title and 2 full-page botanical woodcut illustrations. Later sprinkled calf. Full description »
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 | PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN PERSPECTIVE INCL. IRREGULAR SURFACESBOSSE, Abraham.Moyen Universel de Pratiquer la Perspective sur les Tableaux, ou Surfaces Irregulieres.Paris, Abraham Bosse, 1653 (1669 issue). 8vo in 4s. With engraved frontispiece, plus engraved part-title and 32 numbered engraved plates printed on 18 leaves (15 printed on both sides), including 2 folding. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and board edges. Red sprinkled edges. Full description »
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 | ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE 3 YEARS BEFORE DARWIN PUBLISHED HIS JOURNAL [DARWINIANA] - BARROW, John.Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P.P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Communicated by Sir John Barrow, Bart. [From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. VI].London, John Murray, 1836. 8vo. With 3 pages of tables of position measurements, and notes on chronometers. Disbound. Full description »
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 | CLASSIC OF SURVEYING & INSTRUMENT-MAKING RARE LAST (EXPANDED) ED. WITH 29 NEW ENGR. ILLUSTRATIONS FABRI, Ottavio.L'Uso della Squadra Mobile, con la quale per teorica, e pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità; ... accresciuta in questa terza edizione di parecchie istruzioni, ..., ec. da Giovanni Vettori.Trento, "Stamparia Vescovile Paroniana" (= Giambattista Parone, printer to the Diocese of Trent), 1753. 4to. With engraved architectural title-page and letterpress title-page (each with the arms of the diocese), 1 unnumbered folding and 3 numbered illustration plates, 25 engraved illustrations in the text (mostly 8.5 x 10.5 cm but 4 nearly full-page; irregularly numbered I-XXIV), engraved arms of the dedicatee, 1 engraved pictorial initial letter, 8 woodcut head and tail pieces (plus 3 repeats), 9 woodcut decorated initial letters (plus 16 repeats). Richly gold-tooled contemporary tanned sheepskin, silk ties, gilt edges. Full description »
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 | COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF GOETHE’S “CORNERSTONE TO MAN” FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, Gotthelf.Ueber die verschiedene Form des Intermaxillarknochens in verschiedenen Thieren.Leipzig, Schäfer, 1800. 8vo. With 20 engraved figures on 3 numbered plates (plates 1 & 2 printed together and in this copy undivided). Contemporary paste-paper over boards. Full description »
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 | THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC MONOGRAPH ON TURQUOISE PLATES PRINTED WITH COLOURED INKS FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, Gotthelf.Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite. ... Avec deux planches.Moscow, Zosima brothers (printed at the Imperial University Press), 1816. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved plates, printed in green, brown and black. The text printed on light green wove paper. Modern green leather, blind-stamped. Full description »
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 | AN EARLY MONOGRAPH ON PROTOZOA LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius.Versuch zu einer grundlichen Vertheidigung derer Saamenthiergen; nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung derer leeuwenhoeckischen Mikroskopien und einem Entwurf zu einer vollständigern Geschichte des Sonnenmikroskopes, als besten Rechtfertigung derer leeuwenhoeckischen Beobachtungen.Nuremberg, G.P. Monath, 1758. 4to. With 6 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary wrappers. Full description »
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 | VERY RARE WITH 1ST PART-TITLE & UNUSUAL GOLD-TOOLED BINDINGLIENDER, Paulus van, after Jan de BEIJER.Verzameling van Twaalf Kleefsche Outheeden en Gezichten.Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1758-1762. 4to. 8 parts in 1 volume. With 91 engraved views on 46 plates (4 double-page). Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco (hundreds of impressions of some two dozen tools forming an elaborate panel design), black morocco spine label, block-printed endpapers with flower motif in blue, green and red paste, gilt edges. Full description »
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 | MID-18TH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE [LIGNAC, Joseph Adrien Le Large de.]Lettres à un Américain sur l'histoire naturelle, générale et particulière de monsieur de Buffon ... sur les observations microscopiques de Mr. Needham ... Suite des lettres ... sur les IVe & Ve volume de l'histoire de M. de Buffon; et sur le traité des animaux de M. l'Abbé de Condillac."Hambourg" [Paris?], 1751-1756. 9 volumes. 12mo. With woodcut initials, ornaments and decorative lettering. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines with initials "PV." Full description »
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 | MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POCKET ATLAS LOBECK, Tobias and Tobias Conradus LOTTER.Atlas Geographicus Portatilis XXIX mappis ...Augsburg, Tobias Lobeck, [c. 1755]. Oblong mixed format (11 x 14.5 cm). With engraved title-page, frontispiece and list of the maps, and 41 engraved full-page maps (12 additional to those in the list). All maps coloured (some partly in outline) by a contemporary hand. WITH: LOBECK, Tobias. Kurzgefaste Geographie, ... Augsburg, Tobias Lobeck, [c. 1755]. Oblong large 18mo? With title-page in a frame of thick-thin rules, "Vorrede," tables of data in 2 columns, 1 tailpiece and cast fleurons. 2 works in 1 volume (11 x 14 cm). Contemporary tanned sheepskin, blind-tooled. Full description »
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 | MOST EXTENSIVE ED. OF LUYKEN'S TORTURE SCENES (115 PRINTS)LUYKEN, Jan.Theatre des Martyrs, depuis la mort de J. Christ jusqu' à present, représenté en tres belles tailles-douces, ... =Schau-Buhne der Martyrer, gezeichnet und in kuppfer gestochen ... Leiden, Pieter vander Aa, ca. 1706 (engraved 1685 and 1698). Small 4to (16.5 x 19.5 cm). Engraved and etched print series, with engraved title-page with a small illustration, in a frame with torture instruments, and 115 engraved and etched numbered illustration plates (11 x 13.5 cm) with captions in French and German. Later tanned and tree-marbled sheepskin in an eighteenth-century style, gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Full description »
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