New acquisitions 18-Jul-2008
 | RARE MINIATURE ALMANAC IN GOLD & SILVER-EMBROIDERED BINDING INCORPORATING ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS [ALMANAC - FRENCH].Étrennes Mignones, Curieuses et Utiles, avec plusieurs augmentatons & corrections, pour l'année mil sept cent soixante-dix.Paris, Pierre-François Durand (printed by Chardon), 1770 [= 1769?]. 32mo (9 x 5.5 cm; binding 9.4 x 6.0 cm). With 2 folding engraved maps (each 8 x 9 cm) of France and of the area around Paris, and a decoration built-up from fleurons on the title-page. With historical texts about the countries of Europe and a wide variety of other information. With the twentieth-century morocco bookplate of Dominique Goytino. Contemporary binding richly embroidered in silver and gold thread, incorporating 2 original watercolour paintings, each in a painted gold frame in the centre of the front and back boards, gilt edges, pink silk paste-downs. Preserved in a modern black half-morocco box with marbled sides and lining. Full description »
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 | UNIQUE ALMANAC WITH 2 WOODCUTS SLOVENIAN(?) GOLD PANEL-STAMPED PAPER ARMORIAL BINDING FOR PRESENTATION TO A LINZ(?) DIGNITARY [ALMANAC]. HAN (HAAN, HAHN), Paul Conrad Balthasar.Europäischer Currier oder Geschichts-Calender auf das Jahr ... M. DCC. XXXXI. ...Augsburg, "Vrechenmacherischen [sic] Erben" (= heirs of Caspar Brechenmacher), [1740]. 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). Almanac for the year 1741, with the title-page and calendar pages in red and black; a full-page woodcut scene of men on horseback arriving at an inn, with a battle scene in the background (the 1686 conquest of Buda?), a variant title on a panel below left and a cockerel as inn sign, alluding to the author's name; and a woodcut zodiac-man (for bloodletting). Further with zodiac, planet and other almanac signs, and decorations built up from fleurons. Contemporary boards, covered with red paper, panel-stamped in gold with the title; 2 biblical scenes and 4 other figures; and 27 coat-of-arms, namely 12 of the Holy Roman Empire and its dominions, 7 of cities in Upper Austria, and 4 (each repeated) mostly of provinces in western Slovenia. Full description »
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1ST EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED ED. OF ST. BERNARD'S SERMONSBERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Saint (BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS).Sermones [de Tempore et de Sanctis] Bernardi in Duytssche.[Colophon:] Zwolle, Peter van Os, 27 May 1495. Folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). Sermons, translated from the Latin into Dutch, with a full-page woodcut on the title-page (with the letterpress title above it) showing Mary and Jesus appearing before the author, a full-page woodcut of the Annunciation, a full-page woodcut of Jesus at the end ("speciosus forma pre filys homi[num]" Psalm 45:3), 17 smaller woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat (mostly 10.5 x 8 & 7.5 x 6 cm) in the text (6 flanked by any 2 of 6 woodcut decorative strips), and the woodcut armorial device of the printer-publisher (plus 1 repeat). Set in textura types. With 2 large blue manuscript uncial initials with interior decoration left white and red penwork decoration, numerous uncial initials in red or blue (a few with interior decoration left white), rubricated throughout. Contemporary black calf, blind-tooled in a panel design, over (modern) wooden boards, 2 brass catchplates (clasps lacking). Full description »
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 | BÈZE'S GREEK & LATIN NEW TESTAMENT CONTEMP. BLIND-TOOLED & PANEL-STAMPED PIGSKIN [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - GREEK & LATIN]. BÈZE (BEZA), Théodore de.Jesu Christi D.N. Novum Testamentum, sive Novum Foedus.(Geneva), (Henri Estienne), 1582. Folio (34.5 x 22 cm). Text in 3 parallel columns giving De Bèze's Greek text, his Latin translation from the Greek, and the Latin Vulgate, with extensive commentary at the head and foot. With the large Estienne woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 8 woodcut head- and tailpieces plus numerous repeats, and about 20 decorative woodcut initials (4 series, 1 including Greek) plus numerous repeats. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, in a panel design (front and back board the same) with a panel-stamp portrait of Johann Freidrich II (1529-1595), Duke of Saxony (with monogram MB), and three rolls (1 with initials CS). With a 1780 owner's inscription of Johan Heinrich Wepler and earlier and later indications of provenance. Full description »
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 | 19TH-CEN. TORTOISE-SHELL WITH RELIEF PANEL & GOLD-FILIGREE FASTENINGS 1930/31 PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM QUEEN MARY OF ENGLAND [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT & PSALMBOOK - TORTOISE-SHELL BINDING].Het Nieuwe Testament, ... volgens het besluit ... 1618 en 1619 ...Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son, the hiers of the widow of F.G. Onder de Linden, N. de Gijselaar Pz., P. Proost; Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé & sons (Nederlandsche Bijbel-Companie), 1836. WITH: Het Boek der Psalmen, nevens de Gezangen, ... uit drie berijmingen, in het jaar 1773, gekozen, ... Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son, the hiers of the widow of F.G. Onder de Linden, N. de Gijselaar Pz., P. Proost; Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé & sons (Nederlandsche Bijbel-Companie), 1836. WITH: Evangelische Gezangen, om nevens het Boek der Psalmen bij den openbaren godsdienst in de Nederlandsche Hervormde Gemeenten gebruikt te worden; ... bijeen verzameld ... 1803, 1804 en 1805. Amsterdam, J. Brandt & son, J. Schutte Hoyman; Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé & sons; Groningen, R.J. Schierbeek & the widow of M. van Heyningen Bosch (colophon: printed by Enschedé), 1840 WITH: [drop-title:] Catechismus, ... [Amsterdam], [J. Brandt & son, etc.]; [Haarlem], [Johannes Enschedé & sons], [1836?]. 12mo. 4 parts in 1 volume (binding 14 x 10 x 4.5 cm). With diamond-head music notes. Nineteenth-century tortoise-shell, each board with a relief architectural panel in a neo-gothic style, spine with decorations engraved in the tortoise-shell, gilt silver and gold-filigree fittings (2 clasps with catchplates and 4 corner-pieces), silver hinges, gilt edges (with a gauffered decoration near the blue and white headbands), green coated and textured endpapers, 2 brown silk ribbon markers. With a presentation inscription from Queen Mary of England (1867-1953), wife of King George V (1865-1936), dated 1930, written on a Buckingham Palace letterhead and pasted to the endpapers. Full description »
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 | ATLAS OF CONSTELLATIONS WITH STARS PERFORATED & COLOURED FOR BACKLIGHTINGBRAUN, Friedrich.Himmels-Atlas in transparenten Karten.Stuttgart, Wilhelm Nitzschke (on the charts also Brussels, Auguste Schnée), [1860]. INCLUDING: BRAUN, Friedrich. Gemeinfassliche Himmelskunde, zugleich ein Führer bei dem Gebrauch des Himmels-Atlas in transparenten Karten. Stuttgart, Wilhelm Nitzschke, [1860]. 2 volumes. 4to (portfolio with charts) and 8vo (handbook). Celestial Atlas with a large folding perforated star chart (62 x 51.5 cm) printed in black and blue on heavy white paper (with back-lit stars in 6 colours) and 30 numbered perforated charts of 41 constellations (each 22.5 x 28.5 cm), printed in black on heavy blue paper (with back-lit stars in yellow) with French, English and German titles. Publisher's gold and blind-blocked black cloth portfolio (atlas) and publisher's yellow printed wrappers (handbook). Full description »
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 | SERIES OF 16 SHEEP PRINTS AFTER PAULUS POTTERBYE, Marcus de, after Paulus POTTER.[Sheep in Landscapes].[Amsterdam?], [Petrus Schenk, jr.?], ca. 1745 (etched 1664). A complete series of 16 numbered etchings (each 11 x 13.5 cm) showing sheep in landscapes, the first also showing a water trough with a sphinx and the last showing a shed. Mounted in 4 modern passe-partouts. Full description »
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EXTREMELY RARE SATIRICAL DWARVES, WITH ALL 78 PLATES[CARICATURES - DWARVES].De Waereld vol Gekken Nesten anders genaamd Het Dwergen Tooneel of geschakelde samenspraak van des zelfs personagien. = Le Monde Plein de Fols, ou Le Theatre des Nains enrichi, d'un discours chêné de leurs personages.Amsterdam, Wilhelm Engelbert Koning, "1720" [ca. 1720/30]. 4to (23.5 x 18 cm). 4 parts in 1 volume. With 76 engraved caricature plates (16 x 10.5 cm, 58 with 1 figure and 18 with 2 figures), and 2 engraved contents leaves (for parts 1 and 2), with the contents described in verse (2 lines for each plate). The title appears at the head of the contents for part 1. French red goatskin morocco (ca. 1860) by C. HARDY, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled end-papers, headbands in green, white and brown, green ribbon marker, marbled and gilt edges. Full description »
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WITH 97 ILLUSTRATION PLATES OF CAST IRON GOODS[CATALOGUE - CAST IRON GOODS]. BUDERUS'SCHE EISENWERKE.Musterbuch Buderus'sche Eisenwerke[.] Eisengiesserei zu Main-Weser-Hütte Station Lollar Main-Weser-Bahn (Oberhessen).[Lollar, near Giessen], (printed by Curt von Münchow, Grossh. Hof- u. Universitäts-Druckerei, Giessen), ca. 1885-ca. 1895. Oblong 4to (22 x 28 cm). With a letterpress title-page, 2-page alphabetical index and 1-page table, plus 63 tinted and 32 untinted lithographed plates and 2 photographic collotype plates, all together containing hundreds of illustrations of a very wide range of cast iron goods offered by Buderus and by Hirzenhain & Lollar (a related firm established by the Buderus family). Contemporary half black cloth, black textured-paper sides. Full description »
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 | 140 EXQUISITELY COLOURED PLATES OF 2500 BUTTERFLIES & MOTHSFELDER, Cajetan and Rudolf.Lepidoptera (= Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zeiter Band. Zweite Abtheilung).Vienna, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1865-1875. Large 4to. 5 parts (plus a duplicate set of the plates for parts 1-3) in 2 volumes. With 140 lithographic plates showing 2500 butterflies and moths in the atlas volume, exquisitely hand-coloured and highlighted with gum arabic as published, and the first 74 plates (the butterflies) also uncoloured in the text volume. With the original printed front wrappers for the three text parts bound at the end of the text volume. Contemporary half morocco. Full description »
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| HELIOGRAPHED MANUSCRIPT COMPARING EUROPEAN SEAPORTS WITH 13 PLANS ON 8 FOLDING PLATES FLÖCKHER, Adolf Wilhelm Georg Gottfried von.Bericht über einen im Juli 1898 erfolgten Besuch der Seehäfen Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerpen, London und Liverpool.[Hamburg?], [1898?]. Folio (34.5 x 23.5 cm). Heliographed (photo-etched) manuscript, with 13 seaport plans on 8 folding plates (2 tinted lithographs and 6 black and white), the largest 65.5 x 106.5 cm. Original publisher's red cloth, gold-blocked, with printed decorative endpapers. Full description »
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HERETICAL CHRONICLE & TOLERANT COMPARISON OF WORLD RELIGIONSFRANCK, Sebastien.Chronica, Tytboeck en Gheschiet Bibel, van aen begin der werelt, tot den jare M. D. XXXVI. verlengt. ...1595 (colophon: The Hague, Albrecht Heyndricxz.). INCLUDING: FRANCK, Sebastiaen. Werelt-boeck, Spieghel ende Beeltenisse des Gheheelen Aerdtbodems, ... The Hague, Albrecht Heyndricxz., 1595. Folio. 4 parts in 2 volumes, bound as 1. Title-page in red and black with the first 3 lines printed from a woodcut with a large decorative initial, a separate title-page for the Werelt-boeck and 2 part-titles in the Chronica, 18 woodcut decorative initials (plus numerous repeats) from 3 series, and decorations built up from arabesque fleurons. Set in textura types. Slightly later vellum, 10 decorated brass corner and centrepieces with bosses, 2 brass catchplates (straps and clasps lacking), red-sprinkled edges. Full description »
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 | COLOURED MANUSCRIPT ATLAS BY 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL EARLY & SKILFUL STUDENT GEOGRAPHICAL EXERCISE GILLETT, Sophia.[Manuscript School Atlas].(Nuneaton), Hartshill School, March 1818. 4to (23 x 19 cm). Manuscript School Atlas, drawn in ink and watercolour on 12 leaves. With a calligraphic "title-page" without title, reading "Sophia Gillett, 3rd mo: 1818 Hartshill School." Contemporary brown paper wrappers. Full description »
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 | LUTHERAN CONVERT FROM CALVINISM ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEIR TEACHINGSHUBER, Samuel.Gegensatz der Lutherischen, und Calvinsischen oder Zwinglischen Lehr, in etlichen fürnemen streitigen Artickeln, gestellet, ...Wittenberg, Christoph Axin for Paul Helwigs, 1593. 4to. Title-page in red and black with woodcut scrollwork device, numerous woodcut decorative initials and decorations built up from arabesque fleurons. Disbound. Full description »
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 | 90 APPLES & PEARS AND 24 FRUIT & NUT TREES IN 39 COLOURED PLATESKNOOP, Johann Hermann.Beschrijving en Afbeeldingen van de beste soorten van Appelen en Peeren, ...WITH: KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van Vruchtboomen en Vruchten, ... WITH: KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van Plantagie-Gewassen, ... Amsterdam, Allart, Holtrop; Dordrecht, De Leeuw, Krap, 1790. Folio. 3 works in 1 volume. With 39 folding engraved plates (12 of apples & 8 of pears in the first work, showing 90 sorts; 19 of fruit and nut trees in the second work, showing 24 sorts), 4 woodcut tailpieces (plus 1 repeat) and 4 decorated woodcut initials (from 2 series). Coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf with spine label, sprinkled-paper sides. Full description »
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