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BAEDEKER, Karl. Autograph Letter Signed to a Mr. Tuckett.

4pp. manuscript letter in German dated Leipzig 3rd September 1877.

Sachgebiete: Reiseführer

1450,- EUR
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MARQUARD, Johann. Tractatus politico-juridicus... Tractatus politico-juridicus de jure mercatorum et commerciorum singulari.

Frankfurt, Thomas Matthias Gotzius, 1662. First Edition; 2 volumes in one, folio (33 x 20 cm); engraved allegorical frontispiece by Daniel Theobald, some engraved initials and in-text illustrations throughout; some errors in pagination, occasional browning to later leaves; contemporary vellum with red morocco label to spine, a fine copy of this very scarce work.

Sachgebiete: Geisteswissenschaften, Jura

6900,- EUR
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ERASMUS, Desiderius. Moriae Encomium. Erasmi Roterodami declamatio [In Praise of Folly].

Moriae Encomium. Erasmi Roterodami declamatio [In Praise of Folly]. Argentorati (Strassburg), in aeidibus Matthiae Schurerii, August 1511. Second, first dated edition; small 4to (leaves measuring 19.4 x 13.8 cm); occasional minor coeval underlining and marginalia to earlier part of text, very light stain to lower margin at gutter throughout (not affecting text), bibliographical clippings tipped onto front endpapers; bound in antique style calf; [96]pp; A8, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G-H6, with the final blank leaf (H6) present ff. First dated & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly.

Sachgebiete: Philosophie, Soziologie

60000,- EUR
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LIEDER, Friedrich; JÜGEL, Johann Friedrich. Darstellung der Konigl. Preussischen Infanterie in 36 Figuren.

Darstellung der Konigl. Preussischen Infanterie in 36 Figuren. Berlin, L.W. Wittich, 1820. Folio (540 x 390mm); title, contents leaf, and 14 colour aquatints, mounted on tabs, richly and extensively hand-coloured, foxing to title and contents leaf but not affecting plates, which are very fine; mid 19th-century half morocco, over cloth (replaced), replaced endpapers (toned) bearing binder’s label for Happel, Rotterdam, rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good.

Sachgebiete: Geschichte, Militaria

9000,- EUR
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MALTHUS, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions

London, T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1803. Second edition, substantially revised; 4to (27.5 x 22 cm); a few pencil annotations, C4 cancelled and signed C3, title neatly tipped on to following leaf, small chip lower edge b2, occasional spotting; modern half brown morocco, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, very good; viii, [4], 610pp.

Sachgebiete: Wirtschaft, Politik

6000,- EUR
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RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert. Eisen und Stahl. 97 Fotos von Albert Renger-Patzsch. Geleitwort von Dr. Albert Vögler Generaldirektor der Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. Werkbund-Buch.

Berlin, Verlag Hermann Reckendorf GMBH, 1931. First edition, presentation copy inscribed in black ink on front free endpaper; plain endpapers, silver paper-covered boards, blue cloth spine with titles stamped in white, upper side stamped in black, publisher’s photo-illustrated dust-jacket, black, text in white, tears and light creasing to edges, head and foot of spine chipped, a fine copy in a very good example of the exceptionally scarce dust-jacket; [96]pp. A presentation copy with the rare dust jacket.

Sachgebiete: Photographie

9000,- EUR
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GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons.

London, Richard and John E. Taylor, [1836-] 1838. First edition; folio (55 x 39 cm); 36 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates by John and Elizabeth Gould, heightened with gum arabic, 1 of which folding, dedication leaf, list of subscribers, list of plates, armorial bookplate to pastedown, a couple of small tears to folding plate along fold and hinge, ; contemporary half calf, cloth boards, spine in six compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, minor wear professionally restored, internally a fine copy folding plate not withstanding.

Sachgebiete: Naturwissenschaften, Ornithologie

33000,- EUR
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KLIMT, Gustav. Lucian of Samosata. De Hetaerensgespraeche des Lukian.

Leipzig, Julius Zeitler, 1907. Limited edition, number 40 of 50 copies on Japon, from a total edition of 450, large 4to; text printed in black and gold, translated into German by Franz Blei, illustrated with 15 photogravures after Klimt, plates protected by tissue guards, very minor staining to a couple of leaves; text printed in black and gold, 15 full-page collotype plates after drawings by Klimt, marbled endpapers, minor wear to margin of one plate; original grey marbled cloth, embossed gilt label to upper cover, gilt stamp to lower cover, covers and spine slightly faded, corners bumped, a very good copy. Provenance: Barry Humphries (bookplate to upper pastedown).

Sachgebiete: Jugendstil

30000,- EUR
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DALI, Salvador. La Femme Visible [The Visible Woman].

Paris, Editions Surréalistes, 1930. Limited edition, numbered 2/9 ‘auteur’ on the justification, seemingly out of series, inscribed by Dali on the half-title in ink ‘hommage de l’auteur Salvador Dali’; 4to (19 x 22 cm); 8 illustrations hors-texte, of which one is a photolithographed portrait of Gala, one an original etching, three reproductions of Dali’s drawings and three photographic prints; loose as issued in the original aluminium foil paper wrappers covered in red printed glassine, very minor loss of wrappers to spine, a very good copy.

Sachgebiete: Surrealismus

7800,- EUR
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McCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West.

New York, Random House, 1985. First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher’s quarter red cloth, red boards, titles to spine gilt, with the unclipped dust-jacket, housed in custom quarter morocco drop-back box; a fine copy.

Sachgebiete: Erstausgaben, Literatur ab ca. 1900

6900,- EUR
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[QUR'AN]. A Fine Illuminated Qur'an,

Qajar Persia, circa 1830. Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, complete, 218 leaves, 143 x 90 mm; single volume, 17 lines delicate black naskh, surahs in red thuluth, verses marked with gilt dots, catch-words, opening and closing double-page openings with gilt polychrome head-pieces and borders, double-page of gilt and white checkered patterned table and additional double-page opening of gilt medallion carpet-pages preceeding the first text-page (possibly to include a fihrist and dedication to the manuscript that were never completed), text-leaves ruled in gilt and blue, important divisions of the noted in the margins in red and sometimes black, a few small closed nicks and tears to margins, some light finger-soiling and rubbing in places; housed in contemporary lacquered boards, covers with decorative floral displayed framed within gilt decorated borders, corners rubbed and worn, spine skillfully repaired. 142 by 90mm (5½ by 3½ inches).

Sachgebiete: Koran, Handschriften, Religion

12000,- EUR
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KINNEIR, John MacDonald. A Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire, accompanied by a map. [Map title]: Map of the countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West, and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South.

London, Arrowsmith, 1813. First edition; 2 vols, 4to (31 x 25 cm); contemporary diced calf, rebacked to style with gilt spine in six compartments, gilt arms to boards, and small shelf mark and inscription to front endpaper, a little toning, engraved folding map opening to 96 x 128 cm with some expert restoration, in separate cloth slipcase with leather mouth and gilt lettering piece, a very good copy; viii, 486, [2] (errata and ads) pp. ’Provenance: The Signet Library copy (arms, inscriptions)

Sachgebiete: Reisen/Reiseliteratur

10200,- EUR
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FRANK, Robert. The Americans. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.

New York, An Aperture Book, Grossman Publishers, 1969. Robert Frank / Nov. 1970 / New York.’Motomura Kazuhiko (presentation inscription). Second edition, revised and enlarged, inscribed in black ink; oblong 8vo (183 x 208 mm, 7¼ x 8¼ in); black & white photographs printed in ‘stonetone’ offset by Rapoport Printing Corp., New York, introduction by Jack Kerouac, afterword by Robert Frank with details of the four films he made 1959-68, occasional light spotting, light marking to edges, printer’s ink mark to one page; plain endpapers, light spotting, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, minor toning, lightly marked, a very good copy in Motomura Kazuhiko’s card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side; [iv], vi, [182]pp. A presentation copy inscribed to Frank’s friend and publisher Motomura Kazuhiko

Sachgebiete: Architektur, Photographie

10500,- EUR
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Law, Legislation and Liberty.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973; 1976; 1979. First editions, first impressions; 3 vols, 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto of each vol., underlining and annotations in pencil throughout; publisher’s black cloth, spines lettered in gilt on blue ground, typographic dust-jackets, spines faded, particularly affective vol. II, vol. I price-clipped, slight spotting to top-edges and inner-flaps, a little frayed with minor wear, very good; xi, [1], 184; xiv, 195, [1]; xv, [1], 244pp. Provenance: G.W. Clerk, Hollins House (ownership inscriptions dated February 1977 to vols II & II; December 1979 to vol. III).

Sachgebiete: Jura, Politik

2700,- EUR
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JUNKER, Dr Wilhelm. Travels in Africa during the years 1875-1878 [and] 1879-1883 [and] 1882-1886.

First English edition; 3 vols, 8vo (23 x 16 cm); 128 full page engraved illustrations including 3 frontispieces, title-page vignettes, many further illustrations in text, 3 folding colour maps, a touch of spotting; publisher’s original pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering to spines, a near-fine set; viii, 582; viii, 477; vii, 586 pp.

Sachgebiete: Reisen/Reiseliteratur

2400,- EUR
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FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die.

First edition, first impression, first state; 8vo; publisher’s black cloth with gilt titles and vignette, in the original unclipped printed first state dustjacket (without two line credit on front flap); a fine copy in a fine dustjacket, exceptionally crisp and bright.

Sachgebiete: Erstausgaben, Literatur ab ca. 1900

36000,- EUR
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RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford. The History of Java. [and] Antiquarian, Architectural, and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java.

London, John Murray; Henry G. Bohn, 1830; 1844. Second edition of text volumes, 2 vols 8vo (23 x 15 cm), third edition of atlas, 4to (33 x 26 cm); large folding map, 92 engraved plates including 10 hand-coloured, these and many of the other plates after William Daniell, exceptionally clean and fresh; uniformly bound in later half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in six compartments with gilt black morocco lettering pieces, a fine set.

Sachgebiete: Asien

6000,- EUR
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI. in quibus, iuxta certorius fiedei scriptorum traditionem des cribuntur...

Basel, Henrichum Petri, 1550. First Latin edition; folio in 8s (33 x 22.5 cm); illustrated woodcut title H. R. Manuel, woodcut portrait to verso of title, 14 double-page woodcut maps, 39 woodcut double-page town views, one double-page woodcut of ‘sea and land monsters’, 75 maps and views in text as well as over 900 (partly repeated) in-text woodcut illustrations, two library stamps to verso of title, contemporary manuscript annotations to title and margins, occasional marginal staining; later marbled calf heavily restored, with most of the gilt spine laid down, all edges red, a little worn, still a very good healthily margined copy; [24], 472, [2], 475-480, [2], 481-1162, [2] pp.

Sachgebiete: Vermessungswesen , Landkarten

36000,- EUR
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BRANCA, Giovanni. Le Machine. Volume nuovo et di molto artificio de fare effetti marauigliosi tanto Spiritali quanto di Animale Operatione arichito di bellissime figure conle dichiarationi a ciascuna di esse in lingua vulgare et latina.

Rome, Iacomo Mascardi, 1629. First edition; 4to (22 x 16.5 cm); engraved title within architectural border with figures of Archimedes and Vitruvius, 77 full-page woodcuts within the text, decorative initials, 19th-century bookplates of W.C. Mylne, near-contemporary ownership signatures and ink spots to the title, small paper repairs to title, a few short splits to the fore-edge of the title and following leaf, uneven tanning and spotting to contents; contemporary vellum, double blind fillets, remnants of old ink shelf number to spine, boards bowed, dampstain to the lower boards, short split at the head of the spine. Provenance: W.C. Mylne (bookplates).

Sachgebiete: Technik

7200,- EUR
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VOLTAIRE]. TABRIZI, Mirza Reza (translator). Tarikh’i Pitr’i Kabir [and] Tarikh’i Sharl’i Davazdahhum, Histories of Charles XII and Peter the Great, translated from Voltaire's ‘Histoire de l'empire de Russie sous Pierre-le-Grand’.

Qajar Persia, dated 10 Dhu'l Qa'da 1290 AH (30 December 1873). Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper with fine marbled paper borders, in Farsi, 141 leaves, complete, 323 x 215 mm; single column, 11 lines to the page written in neat nasta'liq script in black ink, occasional headings and significant words in blue, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, outer borders throughout decorated with fine marbling, one fine illuminated opening headpiece, later ink inscription to recto of first leaf, else very clean and bright condition; contemporary leather over pasteboards, covers and extremities a little scuffed and rubbed. 232 by 215mm (9¼ by 8½ inches).

45000,- EUR
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