Books and manuscripts

A CHINESE THREE COLOUR CINNABAR LACQUER 'PEACHES' BOX AND COVER 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY Carved in relief with blossoming and fruiting peach branches, the peaches finely incised with floral diaper, the large leaves picked…

Ceremoniale Episcoporum

Clementis Papae VIII and Innocentii X. Rome, 1713. With c. 66 text copperplate. (once in full) and eleven pages with typographic notes in red and black. Numbered woodcut initial. Goldcut. (Stockfl.). Gold embossed leathe…

Biblia Germanica

The whole H. Scripture Old and New Testaments Verteutschet By Doctor Martin Luther. Basel, Emanuel König und Söhne, 2nd ed., 1673. 27 sheets, 555 p., 216 p., 139 p., 260 p. (Four sheets are missing in whole or in part, a…

Biblia Germanica

2 parts in 1 vol. Schleusingen, Sebastian Göbel, 1696. 36 unpag. Pages (without title page), 1374 p., 384 (instead of 388) p. (trimmed). With many vignettes, ornamental borders and decorated initials as well as eight pla…

Franz Hein und der Karlsruher Künstlerbund

Volume of four works on this theme: Franz Hein: Lieder und Bilder. Karlsruhe, Braun'sche Hofdruckerei, 1903. With dedication of the 'poet painter' and 16 woodcuts. In well preserved, illustrated cloth binding. Little Els…

Heinrich Hansjakob

Volume of nine volumes: Memories of an old Black Forest woman. Illustration by W. Hasemann. Stgt., 7th edition, 1905. (Used) cloth binding. Summer trips. Diary sheets, illustrated by C. Liebich. 3rd ed. 1904 All Souls' D…

Collegium Universi Juris Canonici

By Ludwig Engel. 2 parts in 1 vol. Salzburg, J. B. Mayr, 1681. Two died. Plates, title page in red and black with title vign. 16 unpag. P., 1394 p., 44 unpag. P. With ornamental borders and some decorated initials. Newer…

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Tif and Tondu. Printing plate for plate 38 from volume 22 of Tif et Tondu: Un plan démoniaque. Texts in Dutch. Dimensions: 27,8x20,5cm.

Music Furtwängler, Wilhelm Furtwängler: Collection of 12 objects (signed). Original document. A collection of twelve objects about the important German symphony conductor: a large format photograph with handwritten…

Collection of 10 volumes on theology mainly from the 18th century in various formats (8° to folio). Leather and parchment bindings (rubbed or scuffed, partly fragile or detached from the book block with cover). Contai…

Forest science Wilhelmi, Herbert Forest monuments in Saxony. Typescripts and proofs with approx. 290 mont. Original colour, Polaroid and some b/w photos. Around 1997 2003, perforated loose sheets in 3 ring binders …

Facsimile Les Chroniques de Jherusalem abregies. (The Chronicle of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem). (Vienna, Austrian National Library, Cod. 2533). Facsimile and preliminary commentary. Facsimile with coloured …

Facsimile L'Ystoire du bon roi Alexandre. The Berlin Alexander novel. Manuscript 78 C 1 of the Kupferstichkabinett Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin. Facsimile and commentary volume in 2 volumes. With 100 miniatures…

Africa Fülleborn, Frederick The German Nyassa and Ruwuma area, country and people, together with remarks about the Schire countries. Written using results of the Nyassa and Kingagebirge expedition of the Hermann an…

Sissi Opulent honorary gift of the Private Civil Infantry Corps Prague to Empress Elisabeth. Prague, 1880. Folio. In magnificent binding by the art bookbindery K. Just, Prague. Inside 6 sheets with gilt edges. …

China Helman, Isidore Stanislas Henri I. Faits mémorables des empereurs de la Chine tirées des annales chinoises, dédiés á Madame. With engraved title, 25 engraved text pages and 24 engraved full page plates and 1 …

Japan Akisato Rito Shoyu & Takeahara Shunchosai (english pictures of important places in Settsu province). 12 volumes. With 380 woodblock prints by Takehara Shunchòsai. Osaka, Morimoto Tasuke, Kansei 8 (1796). 4°.…

Japan Montanus, Arnoldus (i.E. A. Van den Berg) The memorable legates of the East Indian Society in the United Netherlands, sent to different keyser of Japan: Inside you will find not only the strange funerals on t…

Atlases miller, Johann Ulrich Its newly issued small Atlanti second part or complicated description of the remaining three parts of the earth Asiae, Africae, and Americae. Engraved with 62. Maps. 2 Bll., 373 p., (1…

Bougainville, Louis Antoine, Comte de Voyage autour du monde par la fregate du roi La Boudeuse et la flute L'Etoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. With 3 folded copper plates and 20 folded copper engraved maps. Paris, S…

France Paris Chamouin, Jean Baptiste Marie Collection de vues de Paris prises au Daguerréotype. Gravures en taille douce sur acier. With engraved title and 25 steel engraving plates after daguerreotypes. Paris, Cha…

Levant Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Greece Forbin, Louis Nicolas Phillipe Auguste de Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818. In 2 Bdn. (Text and plate volume.) Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1819. The text volume with the ofte…

Orient Oppenheim, Max Frhr. Von The Bedouins. With the collaboration of Erich Bräunlich and Werner Caskel. 4 in 5 volumes. With 3 frontisp., 32 plates, 8 folded. Maps and 4 folded. Genealogical tables. Leipzig, Har…

Saxony, Brandenburg, Pomerania Merian, Matthäus and Martin Zeiller Topographia superioris Saxoniae, Thüringiae, Misniae, Lusatiae etc: This is a description of the most noble and famous places in the Electorate of …

Scotland Pernot, François Alexandre, A. Pichot Vues pittoresques de l'Écosse. With one lithographic title vignette, 12 lithographs in text and 59 lithographic plates by F. A. Pernot (drawings transferred to stone b…

Tahiti I. Te Evanelia a Mareko, iritihia ei parau Tahiti. In 12 de 52 p. And II. Te Ohipa a te mau aposetolo, i papai hia e luka, iritihia ei parau Tahiti. Tahiti, Mission Press, 1827. 88 pp. Brown modern goatskin…

Turkey Rycaut, Paul The newly opened Ottoman Gates Continuation or: Continuirter historical report, concerning the Turkish monarchy state maxims, power, wealth, wars ... From 1664 to the end of the 1700th year... A…

The First World War Collection of ca. 480 OPhotographein (vintages, silver gelatine prints) and (photo ) postcards of a Saxon hussar officer in France and others, ca. 1914 1916. Formats from ca. 4 x 6 to 16 x 22 c…

Israel Palestine Collection of 172 OPhotographs and 57 (photo ) postcards (17 coloured) with photographs of a journey to Jerusalem, Bethlehem etc. Around 1920 1930, photo format approx. 6 7 x 9 cm each. Mont. In a…

Tunisia Boukay, Maurice (i.E. Charles Maurice Couyba) Dix jours en Tunisie. (Paris, Impr. P. Jouet 1896). 6 sheets (of which 1 printed title page, 1 sheet with handwritten title "La divine Tunisie. Poème héroique e…

Alchemy Johann de Monte Snyder (attr., published anonymously) Reconditorum ac reclusiorum opulentiae sapientiaeque numidis mundi magni, cui deditur in titulum Chymica Vannus. Obtenta quidem & erecta auspice mortale…

Astronomy Doppler, Christian Contributions to fixed star science. Especially reprinted from the treatises of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences (V. Episode, volume 4). With 4 figures on one litograph. Plate. Pr…

Astronomy Manenti, Francesco Deliberationi astronomiche perpetue nel trovar con vero modo li giorni critici nell'infirmitadi humane, mediante l'uso di due ruote, connessioni de'giudicii in quelle... With 1 woodcut …

Botany Storm, Jacob Germany's flora in illustrations after nature with descriptions. Dept. I (Phanerogamous plants). 96 booklets in 17 volumes. A collection of over 1500 coloured copper plates with accompanying tex…

Descartes, René Le Grand, Antoine Institutio Philosophiae Secundum Principia D. Renati Descartes: Nova Methodo Adornata & Explicata. In Usum Juventutis Academicae. With more. Text woodcuts and 4 folded. Copper plat…

Household and agriculture Glorez, Andreas Complete Hauß and Land Bibliothec, where the basis of unadulterated knowledge is to be found, which can be used by a court, merchant, Hauß Burgers and land man for his own …

Mathematics Euclidis Elementorum Libri XIII Succinctis & perspicuis demonstrationibus comprehensi. Editio postu ma, priore correctior & emendator. With numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. (Wittenberg), Paul Hel…

Mathematics Scheubel (Sceybl), Johann Comependium arithmeticae artis. Basel, J. Kuendig (Parcus) for J. Oporinus, 1560. 196 p., 6 sheets 8°. Pgt. Using a manuscript sheet from the 14th century. (wavy, altered, with…

Medicine Physiognomy Collection of 3 rare titles on physiognomy and chiromancy. 1615 1792. Contains: I. Fox, Samuel. Metoposcopia & ophthalmoscopia. With 24 copper and 2 woodcut portraits. Strasbourg, Theodosiu…

Medicine Psychology Groddeck, Carl Theodor De morbo democratico nova insaniae forma: dissertatio inauguralis medico psychologica ... Adversarius: H. Reimer, Th. Migeod, H. Ruhdel. Berlin, Schlesinger, (1849). 32 S.…

Medicine Psychology Freud, Sigmund On the aetiology of hysteria. Performed after a lecture at the Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in Vienna on 2 May 1896. 5 issues: Wiener klinische Rundschau. Vol. 10, Nos. 22…

Physics Cabeo, Niccolò Philosophia magnetica, in qva magnetis natvra penitvs explicatvr, et omnivm qvae hoc lapide cernuntur, causae propri ae asseruntur: nova etiam praxis constrvitvr, quae propriam poli eleuation…

Zoology Butterflies China Export album with Chinese drawings on mark paper, possibly from the studio of Sunqua, about 1850. 12 sheets of mark paper with fine watercolours or gouaches of butterflies and other insec…

Gruner, Ludwig Specimens of Ornamental Art selected from the best models of the classical epochs. Atlas volume. With 80 lithographed plates, 49 of them in chromolithography and 7 in sepia. London, Thomas M'Lean, 1850.…

Betuleio, Xysto (d.I. Birck, Sixtus) Iudith Drama Comicotragicum. Exemplum Reipublicae recte institutae. Unde discitur, quomodo arma co(n)tra Turcam sint capienda. With figural woodcut title border, large woodcut prin…

Denis Diderot, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet Laumont et al. Opuscules philosophiques et litteraires, la plupart posthumes ou inedites. Paris, Chevet, 1796. 7 sheets, 270 pages, 1 sheet 8…

(Fassman, David) Conversations in the realm of the dead. Ninth (to) six toed (and) eighth and thirtieth (to) eight and fortieth entrevue. 19 parts in 2 volumes. Engraved at 19. Frontispizes and some woodcut book decor…

Restif de la Bretonne, (Nicolas Edme) La paysane pervertie, ou les dangers de la ville. 8 parts in 4 volumes. With 38 copper plates by Louis Binet. Den Haag, Duchesne, 1784. Half leather binding in the style of the ti…

Zincgref, Julius Wilhelm The German snappy sayings. German nation wise spoken wisdom, that is, whose out of German lands the Popes, Bischoff, Keyer, King, Chur and Princes ... Informative sayings... Samples an appendi…

Art deco Craddock, Harry The Savoy Cocktail Book. With color illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold. New York, Smith, 1930. 286 pages, 1 sheet Color illustrated original half canvas (somewhat rubbed and bumped). First…