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LING, (PEHR HENRIK).

Gymnastikens allmänna grunder, dels af författaren, dels, enligt dess yttersta vilja, efter dess död, redigerade och på trycket utgifna [The general foundations of gymnastics ...]. Uppsala, Palmblad & comp., 1834 and Leffler & Sebell, 1840. 12mo. 239 pp. Sewn as issued and mostly unopened in printed blue wrapper. Front cover with the upper outer corner torn, rear cover with some foxing. Tear at top of front hinge. First 84 pages printed on slightly blue-tinted paper. Some foxing on the first twelve and last six pages. Crease in pp. 129-30. Nice copy from Elghammar.

Sachgebiete: Sport

29.07.2026 - 12:31

1800,- EUR

Mats Rehnström

ENGELBRECHT, Martin & C.P. MAJ.

A magnificent and extremely rare contemporary hand-coloured suite of 115 numbered plates of the protagonists of the Austrian Succession wars [115 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates picturing 18th-century European military life]. Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, ca. 1742. Folio. 115 engraved and magnificent hand-coloured plates, highlighted with gold and silver, drawn by C.P. Maj and executed and printed by the Augsburg engraver and art publisher Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756). With separately printed engraved captions consisting of a (sometimes 2-line) title and a poem of 4 or 5 lines in French below each plate (except plates 55-56 which have a German caption printed below and a French caption in the plate), pointing out the characteristics of the man depicted. Modern red morroco, marbled sides. Extremely rare suite with 115 hand-coloured plates of the protagonists of the Austrian Succession wars. This collection of costume plates is very rare: neither Lipperheide nor Colas records it and we find only a few separate plates on the market and in libraries. We find only 7 sets recorded in the last 100 years with varing make-up and number of plates. The work was apparently also published and sold with the title Theatre de la milice etrangere: Schau-Bühne verschiedener bisher in Teutschland unbekant gewester Soldaten von ausländischer Nationen, also published by Engelbrecht (ca. 1746?), but with other, bilingual French and German captions printed below the plates. The plates show us lively pictures of the protagonists, especially of the foreign mercenaries, in action - often fiercely and ruthlessly - on the battlefields of 18th-century Europe during the War of the Austrian Succession and the first and second Selesian wars (ca. 1740-1748), the last Great Power conflict with the Bourbon-Habsburg dynastic conflict at its heart, and marked by the rise of Prussia as a major power. Thirty engravings are devoted to the Habsburg monarchy's military border, including a portrait of their famous commander Colonel Baron Francis von der Trenck (1711-1749), while fifteen more show Scottish Highlanders (“Montagnards d’Ecosse”), eleven Hungarian foot soldiers (“Tolpatches”), six Prussian Hussars from the regiment of Baron Johann Daniël von Menzel, including a portrait of him, six Fantasins (infantry from Carlstadt (Karlovac, Croatia), Uhlanen (light Polish-Lithuanian cavalry), Hajduk (irregular infantry), Dalmatians (Morlachs), Serbs and Croats (Varasdin). There are plates of officers and commanders as well as common soldiers, many fighting on horseback; some soldiers waving the flag of their unit, or playing the flute, trumpet, drums or bagpipes. Some are depicted with their wives (or mistresses) and children, including a plate of a sutler (someone who sold provisions); many apear against an interesting background picturing camps, cities, fortresses and soldiers cooking or being punished.

Sachgebiete: Österreich, Illustrierte Bücher, Militaria, Porträts, Preußen

29.07.2026 - 12:31

38000,- EUR

Antiquariaat Forum BV

[DRAWING - RIO DE JANEIRO]. [MARY, Benjamin (attributed)].

Original drawing relating to an important work on Brazilian plants [Ink drawing of Guanabara Bay]. [Rio de Janeiro?, 1837?]. With: (2) [LEBSCHÉE, Carl August (attributed)]. [Drawing of Guanabara Bay]. [Germany?, 1837?]. Ad 1: 19 x 32 cm. Passe-partout: 36,5 x 47 cm. Sepia ink on paper. Ad 2: 24,5 x 34 cm. Passe-partout: 37 x 44 cm. Sepia ink on paper, with blue and sepia ink washes. Two ink drawings on paper depicting the same view of Guanabara bay, with a banana plantation and the Pao de Açucar, near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. This scene has also been included in Flora Brasiliensis, as plate LV in volume 1.1. Plate LV is lithographed after a drawing by Belgian artist and botanist Benjamin Mary (1792-1846), made in 1837. The largest drawing of the two present here (ad 1) is believed to be this drawing by Mary. Flora Brasiliensis is a 15-volume work on Brazilian plants edited by botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and others. It was published between 1840 and 1906 and systematically categorised the known plants in the region. The numerous plates were designed by many different artists, including Benjamin Mary. He lived in Rio de Janeiro from 1832-1837, so his Brazilian drawings were based on his own observations. Although the present drawing is unsigned, it can be attributed to Mary due to stylistic similarities with his other works, its exact likeness to the litho in Flora Brasiliensis and its provenance (both drawings are from the collection of the Von Martius family). The second drawing depicts the same scene, but is clearly made by a different artist. It is signed "A. L." in the lower left corner. This work has been attributed to Carl August Lebschée (1800-1877), a German artist who also made drawings for the Flora Brasiliensis. However, this is uncertain, because he typically monogrammed his work with C. L.

Sachgebiete: Botanik, Brasilien , Handzeichnungen, Naturwissenschaften

29.07.2026 - 12:26

6500,- EUR

Antiquariaat Forum BV

[Tobacco]

Engraved copper plate for a Danish tobacco label from the beginning of the 19th century. Ca 16 x 14 cm. + 2 later impressions from the plate, printed on high quality paper. A few minor scratches to the plate. Two holes drilled in upper corners outside the engraved area. In very good condition.

Sachgebiete: Kupferstich, Tabak, Werbung

29.07.2026 - 12:24

1600,- EUR

Mats Rehnström

[COOK, James (subject)].

Very rare first account of the death of Captain Cook Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Seereisen des berühmten Capitain Cook. Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780. With: (2) Briefe aus England historisch-statistisch und artistischen Inhalts. 1s Heft. Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut ship on the title-page of ad 2 and woodcut headpieces in both works. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown morocco spine label with title in gold. Extremely rare German account of Captain Cook’s death, published in Tallinn in Estonia, "undoubtedly the first account of Cook's death to be published in book form" (Beddie), together with a letter concerning the 1775 Spanish voyage to the west coast of North America by Bodega y Quadra (1744-1794), also in German, with many references to Cook. The first work opens with a short poem on the death of the English navigator and hydrographer James Cook (1728-1779), who died during a scuffle with the Hawaiian natives on 14 February 1779, after his relations with them had deteriorated. It is followed by a foreword and "a short account of Cook's life, his voyages and his death, with many inaccuracies on his early career" (Beddie), also in German. Much of the information in this small booklet comes from a letter, Auszug des Briefes von Kensington den 4ten Febr. 1780 die Nachrichten von Kapitain Cook betressend. This letter "includes paraphrases of passages in Captain Charles Clerke's letter to the Admirality, written at Kamchatka on June 8, 1779, announcing the death of Cook at Hawaii" (Forbes). Beyond the book’s importance as the first published account of Cook's death, it also includes many passing references to the Hawaiian Islands. It ends with a laudatory poem on Cook's death, "An elegy on the death of the late Captain Cook", followed by a German translation. In addition to the present edition in the original German, Albrecht published a French translation more or less simultaneously: Précis de la vie & des voyages du Capitaine Cook. Écrit de Kensington ce 4 février 1780. The author of this account of Cook's death is uncertain, though it has been attributed to Georg Forster (1754-1794) or Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798), German natural scientists who accompanied Cook on his second voyage. The second work in this volume, by the same publisher in matching format in the same year, is a letter concerning the 1775 voyage to the west coast of North America by the Spanish voyager Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. It contains many references to the voyages of Cook and is even rarer than the Nachrichten.

Sachgebiete: Deutschland, Geschichte, Großbritannien

29.07.2026 - 12:20

148500,- EUR

Antiquariaat Forum BV

LE GRAND, Jean.

Instruction des finances, et chambre des comptes, divisée en trois parties. Corrigé & augenté en cest derniere Edition. Paris, Jamet Mettayer 1597. 12°. Titel mit Holzschnittvignette, 28 Bll., 273 fol. pag. Bl. HLdr.-Bd. d. 19. Jhdts. mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, Deckel mit Rieselpapierbezug. Rücken berieben, Ecken bestoßen, flieg. Bl. mit Kaufvermerk und Vermerk zur Auflösung der Bibliothek, w. Bl. mit altem Bibliothekstempel (letztes Bl. mit wiederholtem Stempel), gebräunt, am oberen Rand teils etwas knapp beschnitten (selten geringer Buchstabenverlust).

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert , Finanzwesen, Frankreich, Geschichte, Jura

29.07.2026 - 12:20

900,- EUR

Antiquariat Burgverlag

[CALLOT, Jacques, Carel ALLARD & others].

120 prints, nearly all 1601-1725, including at least 4 complete series, most brought together ca. 1745 [Collection of 120 engravings by French, Dutch, Italian and German artists]. Venice, Paris, [Amsterdam], etc., 1601-1725 (album ca. 1745?), with additions [1788] & [ca. 1790]. 8vo, 4to, etc. (19 x 13 cm). 120 engraved prints, namely 44 from 4 complete print series (1 with a title-print), 57 (including 3 title-prints) from 10 or 11 other series and 19 prints apparently not from any series, by Jacques Callot (1 complete series), Odoardo Fialetti, Herman Weyen, Balthasar Moncornet, Henri Bonnart, Carel Allard (3 complete series), P. Landry and others (see contents, below). Mottled sheepskin (ca. 1745?). A remarkable collection of prints, many very rare, assembled by an unidentified collector ca. 1745 (with about 5 prints added later), with 120 prints by French, Italian, Dutch and German artists such as Odoardo Fialetti, Herman Weyen, Balthasar Moncornet, including 1 complete series by Jacques Callot and 3 by Carel Allard. Items 5, 15, 18 and 22 are complete series. With many contemporary manuscript annotations in French, written in pencil and brown ink. About 25 leaves have been removed from the book, probably including additional prints. The head of a few prints in the Landry landscapes and Allard military scenes (ads 17 & 18) very slightly shaved at the head, with only about 1 mm of the sky or tree tops lost, a small scuff on one scene and some small stains in some prints of the Bonnet circus series, affecting only the border of one print, but most prints remain in good condition. With chips and cracks at the head of the spine and a few other superficial cracks, hinges worn, and board slightly scuffed, but nearly all of the tooling remains clear. A ca. 1745 collection of 120 prints, many very rare. Contents: (1) (on front paste-down): LE CLERE. Ascension. Paris, Jean-Baptist Derbois, [ca. 1745?]. (2) (on first free endleaf): [ANONYMOUS]. Sternwarte zu Paris|l'Observatoire à Paris.[Paris, before 1667?]. (3) (1v): ERTINGER, Franz. [Last Judgement]. [Paris?, ca. 1690?]. (4) (2-11): FIALETTI, Odoardo. Scherzi d'amore. Al magnanimo ... Baron Roos. Venice, 1618. (5) (12-36): CALLOT, Jacques. Capitano de Baroni. [Paris]. (6) (37-41): CALLOT, Jacques. Balli di Sfessania. [Paris?, ca. 1660?]. (7) (42r): [ANONYMOUS]. [Tomb of a soldier].Paris, Jacques Chéreau, [ca. 1720?]. (8) (43r): [ANONYMOUS]. Portrait de Madame Quilira. Ha voila mon portrait. [Paris, ca. 1720?]. (9) (44r, 46r, 47r, 48r, 49r, 50r, 51r, 52r): MONCORNET, Balthasar, [and Herman WEYEN?]. [Passion and martyrdom scenes]. [Paris, ca. 1640/60?]. (10) (45r): CALLOT Jacques. [Road to Calvary with Veronica kneeling]. [Paris, ca. 1640/60?]. (11) (46v, 47v, 48v): WEYEN, Herman. [3 landscapes with scenes from the New Testament]. [Paris,[ca. 1660?]. (12) (53r-64r): BONNART, Henri. [12 views of Dutch and English circus acrobats jumping, vaulting and walking a tightrope]. (13) (54v): [ANONYMOUS]. [Dramatic scene in a church with an apparent victim of a sword fight]. (14) (62v): BERCHEM, Nicolas. Animalia ad vivum delineata at aqua forti aeri impressa studio et arte Nicolai Berchemii. [Amsterdam?, ca. 1660?]. (15). (65r-71r): ALLARD, Carel. [The seven vices]. [Amsterdam], Carl Allard, [ca. 1690?]. (16) (71v-75v): [ANONYMOUS]. [Scenes in which several European kings and emperors play a role]. [France?, ca. 1725?]. (17) (72r-75r): LANDRY, Pierre, after "E.B.". [French (or Italian) landscapes].[Paris]. (18) (76-78 and 88v): ALLARD, Carel. [4 Military scenes: army marching, in battle and in encampment]. [Amsterdam], Carl Allard, [ca. 1690?]. (19) (79-83, 85): WEIJER, D.G. [Landscapes with a theme of love]. Nürnberg, Heinrich Ulrich, 1601. (20) (84r): [ANONYMOUS]. [Landscape with the ruins of a castle]. (21) (81v-83v): [ANONYMOUS]. [Scenes from a chivalrous story]. [Amsterdam & Paris, Nyon aîné & fils, 1788]. (22) (86-93): ALLARD, Carel. Venationes piscationis et aucupii typi. [Amsterdam], Carl Allard, [ca. 1690?]. (23) (86v): [ANONYMOUS]. [Military messenger with horse, bringing a message to an officer]. [France?, ca. 1790?]. (24) (89v): CLERC, S. le. [Landscape]. (25) (90v): [ANONYMOUS]. Les songes du sage tradruit[!]. [Paris, 1664]. (26) (94r-95r): [ANONYMOUS]. [Miscellaneous engravings]. 1725.

Sachgebiete: Illustrierte Bücher, Militaria, Theater, Zirkus

29.07.2026 - 12:16

9500,- EUR

Antiquariaat Forum BV

Die Insul Charlottenburg

Die Insul Charlottenburg und der darauf befindliche Herculsberg, oder Liebes-Geschichte der geliebten Charlotte verlobte Hercules. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1753. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece,(8),9-215 pp. Title printed in red and black. Attractive but worn contemporary black wrappers with handwritten spine title. Uncut. A few small damp stains, for example in the lower margin of p. 53 and a faint damp mark on the last leaf. With C. F. von Völschow’s signature on the title page.

Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900

29.07.2026 - 12:14

6800,- EUR

Mats Rehnström