Europe / Germany

PIRSCHER, Karl Dietrich. Abbildungen Herzoglich-Braunschweigischer Gestüt-Pferde ... 1tes Heft.
Braunschweig, 1827-1828. Oblong 1mo (47.5 x 63 cm). First instalment of 6 lithographed plates of horses, plus 1 additional lithographed view, all beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand with highlights in gum arabic, and including two with the captions and artists name in manuscript. All loosely preserved in a proof state of the original publisher's lithographed paper wrappers, including a list of plates. Preserved in a modern portfolio. Full description

QUENSTEDT, Friedrich August von. Das Flözgebirge Würtembergs. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den Jura.
Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1851. 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with paste-paper. VIII, 578, [2] pp. Full description

RABENHORST, Ludwig and Georg WINTER. Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz. Zweite Auglage ... Erster band: Pilze.
Leipzig, Eduard Kummer, 1884 (Weinheim, J. Cramer, 1963). 8vo. Modern black half calf. VIII, 924, 63, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[RHINE RIVER]. Beknopte beschrijving van den Rhijn-stroom. ...
Amsterdam, A.B. Saakes, 1796. 4to. With a double-page frontispiece and view of the source of the river Rhine and the pierced rock near Basel, large folding map of the river basin of the Rhine from its source in Switzerland to the Dutch coast, and coloured in outlines, 13 double-page and 20 half-page views on 10 leaves with views on the Rhine . Contemporary red half roan with marbled boards, gilt spine. 58 pp. Full description

ROEMER, Friedrich Adolph. Die Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Oolithen-Gebirges.
Hanover, Hahn, (colophon: printed by Jänecke brothers), 1836. Large 4to (32.5 x 26 cm). With 16 lithographed plates. Original publisher's printed boards. [3], [1 blank], [2], 218 pp. Full description

ROTH, Johann Michaël. 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. [20] engraved ll., some printed on both sides. Full description

SACHS, Hans. Wie syben Weyber uber ihre ungeratene Menner klagen.
(Colophon:) Nuremberg, Hermann Hamsing, [ca. 1553].
With:
(2) IDEM. Der Teuffel lest kein Landsknecht mer inn die Helle faren.
(Colophon:) Nuremberg, Georg Merkel, 1559.
(3) IDEM. Drey guter nützlicher lehr einer Nachtigal.
Nuremberg, Valentin Neuber, [ca. 1560]. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work. Modern marbled boards. [4]; [4]; [4] ll. Full description

SANCTA CLARA, Abraham à. Huy! und Pfuy! der Welt. Huy, oder Anfrischung zu allen schönen Tugenden. Pfuy oder Abschreckung von allen schändlichen Lastern. Durch unterschiedliche sittliche Concept, Historien, und Fabeln vorgestellt. Worinnen der Poet, Prediger, und waserley Standes-Personen für ihren Kram etwas finden können.
Nuremberg, Christoph Weigel; Würzburg, Martin Frantz Hertzen, 1707. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page printed in red and black, and 100 engraved emblems in the text (measuring 10.5 x 12 cm). Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine, and a paper shelfmark label at the foot. [10], 200, [4] pp. & 100 ll. Full description

[HERALDIC CHART - GERMANY]. SCHENK, Pieter. Germaniae compendium tria continens imperii collegia forumdemque insignia et sessiones ut et circulorum divisiones una cum suis annotationibus. | Kort begryp van Duytsland, desselfs ryx collegien hunne zittingen en wapens, kreitsverdelingen, en aantekeningen daar op.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1707]. Engraved chart (50 x 57) on a single sheet of paper (52.5 x 61 cm), coloured by a contemporary hand, depicting various coats of arms and including a small map (15.5 x 15.5 cm) of Germany. Full description

SOYTER, Magnus. [Collection of watercolour drawings with manuscript captions].
[Augsburg], 1849-1853. 13 loose wove paper folio leaves and 1 loose wove paper bifolium. Large folio (55 x 35 cm). With 64 watercolours and manuscript captions on 15 leaves (each leaf drawn on one side only). [15] ll. Full description