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30 hand-coloured lithographed views of the zinc industry

MAUGENDRE, Adolphe. Société anonyme des mines et fonderies de zinc de la Vieille Montagne[.] Album de 30 vues.
Paris, (printed by Auguste Bry), 1850-1851. Oblong 1mo (55.5 x 38.5 cm). Tinted lithographed title page and 30 tinted lithographed plates (55.5 x 38.5 cm, one slightly smaller: 35 x 50.5 cm), all in fine contemporary hand-colouring. Loose in modern clamshell box. Full description
€ 22,500
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Extremely rare engraved illustrated report of a 1.5 kilo hail stone

[METEOROLOGY - HAIL STONE]. Abbildung der Größe, u. ganz besondern Farbe der 6 Zoll langen, u. 3 Zoll diken Schlossen, von 2. bis 3. ll. schwer welche d. 13. August. 1802. . ..
Nuremberg, Fr[au] Kraerin, Fr[au]. Daucherin, [1802]. 4to (20.5×17.5 cm). Engraved print on laid paper, coloured by a contemporary hand as published. Mounted on a piece of paper (ca. 1926?). [1] leaf. Full description
€ 1,950
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A scholarly portrait of Leiden and its university, with a provenance of Willem Goes

MEURSIUS, Joannes. Athenae Batavae. Sive, de urbe Leidensi, & academiâ, virisque claris; qui utramque ingenio suo,atque scriptis, illustrarunt: libri duo.
Leiden, Andries Clouck, and Abraham and Bonaventura Elsevier, 1625. 4to. With a total of 52 full-page portraits, of which 2 appear in the text and 50 in the appendix, eight half-page views of Leiden, six double-page plates, two folding maps, and one double-page map, as well as two half-page plates of nobles. On page 53, there is a woodcut illustration of the siege coins of Leiden (1574), an engraved title page, an engraved frame on page 170, and several woodcut initials throughout. Vellum, brown sprinkled edges. [44], 351, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Impressive drawing of a peregrine falcon in action, produced by a 20th-century Dutch illustrator

MICHIELSEN, Hans (artist). [A peregrine falcon flying in the sky with a captured pigeon in its talons].
[The Netherlands], November 1983. Mixed media drawing with coloured crayon, gouache and watercolour on paper (ca. 74.5 x 60.5 cm). Signed "Hans Michielsen" and dated "11/'83" in gouache in the bottom left corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 100 x 80 cm). Full description
€ 7,500
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Enormous panoramic Middle Eastern view with ruins, nearly 6 metres long

[VIEW - MIDDLE EAST]. [Mountainous landscape with Middle Eastern and classical Roman ruins, 6 shepherds with their flocks, several figures riding dromedaries and one riding a donkey, (date?) palms, lakes, etc.].
[Palestine?, ca. 1910?]. An enormous panoramic view drawn in coloured gouaches on a single, continuous roll of paper (70 x 583 cm), the drawing running to the edges of the paper. Full description
€ 35,000
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Original watercolours of military men and related people 1757-1852 in the realms
of what was to become the Austro-Hungarian Empire

[MILITARY UNIFORMS]. [Military and quasi-military uniforms, portraits and scenes of battles, uprisings etc.].
[Austria or Saxony?, ca. 1870?]. Large folio album (39 x 30.5 cm). With 84 large watercolour drawings (28 x 16 cm to 25.5 x 36 cm) on wove paper, with captions in German and/or French, mounted on the (ca. 1962) album leaves, and with the coat of arms of Von Lindeman(n) of Sachsen-Anhalt (in coloured gouaches plus gold) mounted on the first page. Early 20th-century(?) half tanned sheepskin. [44] album ll. Full description
€ 35,000
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Watercolour tour of Europe: charming manuscript album of picturesque views and everyday life

MILLE, Louis. Recueil de vues pittoresques.
[France?], 1824. 4to. With an illustrated title-page heightened in gold, two smaller titles also heightened in gold, and 52 original watercolours. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, "M.B." in gold on the front board, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [112] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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