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First edition of a famous technical manual on ship-building illustrated by Jan and Caspar Luyken

YK, Cornelis van. De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel ... in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd.
Delft, Andries Voorstad, for Jan ten Hoorn, Amsterdam, 1697. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, with two views of ship-building yards, and numerous detailed illustrations of ship-building on 22 engraved plates by and after Jan and Caspar Luyken (including 13 double-page and once 2 plates on 1 page). 18th-century half calf. [16], "354"[= 364], [8] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Ypey on conic sections, with 50 mathematical figures

YPEY, Nicolaas. Grondbeginzelen der kegelsneeden, bevattende de eerste en voornaamste eigenschappen van de parabola, ellips en hyperbola. Ten dienste der leerlingen opgesteld.
Amsterdam, Yntema and Tieboel, 1769. 8vo. With 7 engraved folding plates, head- and tailpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled-paper sides. XXVIII, 68 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Expert work on the fossils of snails and slugs (gastropods) found
in the Gosau-area located within the northeastern Alps in Austria

ZEKELI, Lukas Friedrich Die Gastropoden der Gosaugebilde in den nordöstlichen Alpen. [...] Aus den Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. 1. Band. 2. Abtheilung, Nr. 2. Mit 24 lithographirten Tafeln.
Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei bei Wilhelm Braumüller, 1852. Folio. With engraved coat-of-arms of the Austrian Empire flanked by two eagles on the title-page and 24 numbered full-page plates of (snail-) shells with more than 400 figures, lithographed by J. Strohmaijer, Zehner, Heinrich Backer and A. Paschinger. Contemporary half calf. [4], 124 pp. Full description
€ 750
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