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HERBST, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm; JABLONSKY, Carl Gustav.

Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten. Zweite Abteilung: Schmetterlinge. Nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet. 10 vols.- Berlin: bey Joachim Pauli, 1783 - 1806. 8vo and oblong 4to. (22), CXXVI, (2), 216 pp.; XXXII, 295 pp.; XII, 232 pp., (4), VIII, 208 pp.; VIII, 231 pp., (2) 162 pp.; (6), 178 pp., (8), 304 pp.; (6), 205 pp., (2), 334 pp., VIII; XIV, 392 pp., one hand colored frontispiece and 11 hand colored title-vignettes. 11 vols. text uniformly bound in seven contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Extremities with wear and spines with water stains. Front hinge of vol. 3-4 split. Water stain to first leaves of 1 and 3-4, otherwise internally fine and three atlas vol. in different but contemporary paper card boards with 328 brilliantly hand colored engraved plates, with occasional brown spotting. 

Sachgebiete: Entomologie , Naturwissenschaften, Zoologie

9800,- EUR
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Humboldt Alexander von; Aimé Bonpland.

Voyage aux régions éqionoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799-1804. 30 vols. (20 atlas volumes and 10 text volumes). Facsimile of the Paris edition, 1805–1830. With numerous plates and maps, most of which are in color and some of which are folded. Amsterdam and New York, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1971–1973. 51.5 x 36 cm and 35.5 x 26 cm, respectively. Marbled green half-leather bindings with gold-stamped spine labels and gold-stamped cover fillets, spines partly slightly faded, slightly rubbed and showing scratch marks; corners and headbands occasionally slightly bumped; 2 headbands with small tears; edges occasionally slightly soiled).

Sachgebiete: Botanik, Geologie, Reisen/Reiseliteratur, Südamerika, Zoologie

2800,- EUR
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ALBERS, Josef.

Interaction of Color (Die Wechselbeziehung der Farbe). Text- and Commentary Vol. Starnberg, Keller /Albers, 1973. Folio (370 x 275 mm) Cloth slipcase containing text volume (cloth, 80pp.) and cloth chemise - style box with concordance to plates (wraps, 48pp) and eighty folders (13 x 10 inches, opening to 13 x 20 inches) containing the plates. Plates are printed in as many as twenty colors, with a combination of silk-screen (serigraph), four color separation and photo - offset processes. The box and spines in mauve, the internals are fine and very fresh. The Box is rubbed and one hinge little damaged, else a very fine set of the German edition.

Sachgebiete: Bauhaus, Kunst nach 1945 , Moderne Kunst

4800,- EUR
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JIRASEK, Johann; Tadeas Haenke; Fratisek J. Gerstner; George Konrad Walther.

Beobachtungen auf Reisen nach dem Riesengebirge, von J. Jirasek, T. Haenke, Abbé Grube und F. Gerstner, &c.- Dresden, in der Waltherischen Hofbuchhandlung, 1791. 4to (192 x 160 mm) xviii, 3 - 309 pp., (7) with engraved title-vign., three engraved text-vign., one fold. table, one engraved plate, one engraved hand-colored map (254 x 282 mm). Contemporary half calf, gilt spine in compartments, red morocco title label on spine, red edges, partly spotted, evenly browned, one pin hole in upper blank part, overall nice copy.

Sachgebiete: Geologie, Meteorologie , Polen , Reisen/Reiseliteratur, Schlesien

2800,- EUR
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(wunderkammer) KUNDMANN, Johann Christian.

Rariora Naturae & Artis item in Re Medica, oder Seltenheiten der Natur und Kunst des Kundmannischen Naturalien= Cabinets, wie auch in der Artzeney= Wissenschafft., Darinnen abgehandelt werden I. Examen, Fossilum & Lapidum quorundam rariorum, oder Untersuchung verschiedener unterirdischer Seltenheiten und sonderbar figuriten Steine. II. Memorabilia Naturæ & Artis, oder Merckwürdigkeiten der Natur und Kunst. III. Observationes in Re Medica singulares, oder Sonderbare Anmerkckungen zur Artzeney= Kunst und Wissenschafft gehörig. Denen beygesezt I. Ungewöhnliche Delicatessen und abgeschmackte Speisen in allen Theilen der Welt, wie auch einzelner Personen; 2. Historie von der erschrecklichen Menschen= Pestilentz, wie sie vom Anfang dieses Seculi, bis auf das Jahr 1715. von Orlent aus, durch die Polnische, Ungarische, Teutsche, Schwedische und Dänische Reiche von Jahren zu Jahren, von Ort zu Ort, aufs besstigste gewütet, aus gedruckten, wie auch schrifftlichen Nachrichten gesammlet, und was wegen der Præservation und Cur sonderbares angemercket worden; 3. Reflexiones über die Kranckheits= und Todten= Listen, mit Medicinischen Anmerkungen begleitet, und dem Druck, Nebst vielen Kupffern und eingedruckten Figuren, überlassen … Breßlau und Leipzig, (Wroclaw & Leipzig) Bey Michael Hubert. 1737. Folio (340 x 210 mm). 12 Bll., column 9 - 728, 2 Bll., column 745 - 1084, 1 Bl., pp. 1093 - 1096, 1097 - 1312 columns, 17 Bll. with front-title, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, 19 engraved plates (two fold.), 7 Bll. tables (two on two sheets), and numerous text woodcuts. Contemporary half vellum over Kleisterpapier boards, red sprinkled edges, evenly browned, partly spotted, some old ownership entries darkened (19. cent ?); repair to foot of spine.

Sachgebiete: Geologie, Mineralogie, Naturwissenschaften, Schlesien

4000,- EUR
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BÜTTNER, David Sigmund.

Rudera Diluvii Testes, i.e. Zeichen und Zeugen der Sündfluth In Ansehung des itzigen Zustandes unserer Erd- und Wasser- Kugel, Insonderheit der darinnen vielfältig auch zeither in Querfurtischen Revier Unterschiedlich angetroffenen, ehemals verschwemten Thiere und Gewächse, Bey dem Lichte natürlicher Weissheit betrachtet, Und nebst vielen Abbildungen zum Druck gegeben.- Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Braunen, 1710. 4to (195 x 160 mm). (8), 314 pp., (2) with engraved allegorical frontispiece, 30 plates (numbered I-XXX, many folding, some double-page, Plate XXIV split into parts A and B), head- and tail-pieces, initials. Gothic type, title page printed in black and red. Without folding view of Querfurt, typically seen after the preface, and errata leaf (Tt3). (bound with:) HERMANN, Leonhard David. Maslographia oder Beschreibung des schlesischen Massel im Oelß - Bernstädtischen Fürstenthum mit seinen Schauwürdigkeiten theils unterschiedlicher so wohl heydnischer, als christlicher Antiquitaeten, Monumenten und Epitaphien, theils auf dem so genannten Töppelberge gefundener sonderbahren Reliquien. von Urnis oder Todten-Gefässen/ Fibulis ... theils / in als auch umb Massel ... befindlicher Naturalien/ versteinter Muscheln/ auch anderer figurirten ... Steinen ... Brieg: Gründer for Brachvogel in Wroclaw, 1711. 4to. (8), (2), (7), (9), pp. 19, 21-76, 78-172 (pp. 109 double), 1 Bl., pp. 173-329, (7) with engraved frontispiece (plate one) and 18 engraved plates (plate 6 with continum. plate 8 on one sheet, and plate 11, 12 on two sheets)

Sachgebiete: Archäologie, Geologie, Geschichte, Schlesien

3600,- EUR
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KRATZENSTEIN, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Architectonische Beyträge, welche folgende Stücke enthalten und wie sie anzulegen sind. I. Von Anlegung der Kunst und Lust Gärten von Espaliers, Berceaux, Fontainen, Lust= Orangerie und Treib= Häusern, II. Von Oeconomischen Gebäuden, mit Scheune, Ställen &cc. von Landhäusern, nebst Garnison Kirche, ingleichen Brauhäusern, … IV. Von den Wasser-Bau mit Senck= Schlachten, V. Von Mühlen-Bau, in Ansehung der Räder, VI. Von Haupt-Jagden.… von F.W. Kratzenstein, Ing.-Lieutd. u. Lehrer der Mathe. bey den Königl. Preuss. Herzog v. Braunschweig Reg. (German manuscript in ink and water color on paper).- (Germany, maybe Braunschweig, 1755 - 1775) 4to (240 x 195 mm) Title and 100 hand drawings in ink and/or ink and wash color on plates. Contemporary half calf with Kleister-papier on boards, strongly rubbed and soiled, spine partly defective, used copy. A childish hand has scribbled in pencil mostly on the blank back of some sheets.

Sachgebiete: Architektur, Design, Gartenbau, Handschriften, Wasserbau

5000,- EUR
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(Cornerstone of Modern Strategic Theory) CLAUSEWITZ, Carl von (1780-1831).

Vom Kriege. 3 volumes. Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1832 – 1834. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). [iv], 612 pp.; [iv], 638 pp.; [iv], 547 pp. Contemporary half morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments with ornamental tooling between raised bands, morocco lettering - pieces gilt. A clean and bright copy, lightly foxed at the beginning and end only; the bindings well preserved, with fresh gilt and unfaded spine labels, discolored spine ends due to removed label, but a fine, decorative example of the rare first edition.

Sachgebiete: Militaria, Napoleon, Philosophie, Politik, Preußen

10000,- EUR
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(Paper Instrument; Astronomy) GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo (1538 - 1621).

Speculum Uranicum: In quo vera loca tum octauæ Sphaerae, tum septem Planetarum mira facilitate ad quodlibet datum tempus ex prutenicarum ratione colliguntur, Vnà cum regulis fabricandi duodecim coeli domicilia ex Regiomontano, & Alcabitio, & dirigendi significatores ad promissores sequentes.- Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1593. Folio (420 x 280 mm). [4] nn. Bll., 43 num. Bll., 4 nn Bll., one blank leaf. Title with engraved border by Giacomo Franco incorporating Zenarus’s dragon device, 17 large circular woodcut diagrams, 16 with attached large volvelles with a total of 39 moving parts, pasted correction slip on A4v, „De Harum Paginarum“ (8 pp.) as well as ‚Canon sexagenarius…‘ bound at rear, margin of title extended at gutter, the moving parts of the woodcuts partly renewed in expert facsimile, light stain to upper corner through second half of volume, repaired wormholes at gutter of last few gatherings. Early vellum, re-backed with portions of original spine laid down, endpapers preserved.

Sachgebiete: Astrologie, Astronomie, Instrumente (Technik), Naturwissenschaften, Wissenschaftsgeschichte

9800,- EUR
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(Mathematik) EUCLID

[Opera] Euclidis quae supersunt omnia ex recensione Davidis Gregorii. (The Greek text edited by John Hudson).- Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano (Clarendon Press), 1703. Folio (405 x 238 cm) xvi, 686 pp., [2] pp., engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette by Burghers, errata leaf to rear, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns, woodblock diagrams throughout. Contemporary panelled calf, chip to head of spine and to corner of label.

Sachgebiete: Altphilologie, Antike, Griechenland, Mathematik

6900,- EUR
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(Botanik, Kräuterbuch) BRUNFELS, Otto.

Contrafayt Kreüterbuch. Nach rechter vollkommener art vnvd (! vnnd) Beschreibungen der Alten, besstberümpten ärzt, vormals in Teutscher sprach, der masszen nye gesehen, noch in Truck auszgangen… Newlich beschriben.- Strassburg, Hans Schotten [Johann Schott] 1532. Folio (330 x 210 mm). [32], I - CCCXXII, [2], [14] pp. with 176, mostly, full-page woodcuts, initials, and one coat-of-arms of Strasbourg, all in contemporary hand-coloring. Contemporary calf binding over wooden boards with plate and roller stamps, corner fittings, and two clasps. The binding features numerous portraits of rulers as well as allegorical depictions, extensively monogrammed „HB.”, dated 1534. Spine repaired, partially slightly stained, a few pages with old repairs, otherwise a nice copy.

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert , Botanik, Kräuterbücher, Naturwissenschaften, Renaissance

12000,- EUR
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(PINTHER, Friedrich Gottlieb; ed.)

Flora Universalis oder naturgetreue Abbildungen aller bekannten, auch der seltensten Gewächse. (6 installments).- Dresden, Friedrich Gottlieb Pinther, later Johann Christoph Arnold, 1805. Folio (430 x 265 mm) One advertisement text leaf (Ankündigungsblatt) and 71 (of 72) watercolors on outline drawings on paper in sheet - size: 415 x 265 mm and one original water-color on paper with gilt edges. In a modern folder with mounted text leaf of one printed wrapper.

Sachgebiete: Botanik, Gartenbau

16000,- EUR
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(Kräuter, Tiere, Mineralien) HORTUS SANITATUS.

Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511. Chancery folio (286 x 198 mm). 367 leaves, without the final blank. Double column, 53 lines plus headline, initial spaces with guides. Title within a decorative woodcut border, 3 full-page woodcuts and more than 1,000 column-width cuts of plants, animals and genre images, one page of 18th-century manuscript notes in Italian bound in after the ‘Tractatus de lapidibus’, some leaves lightly browned, occasional wormholes, title supplied from a slightly shorter copy with marginal repairs and worming, aa1 and aa6 with marginal repairs and restoration [not affecting text] and slightly shorter [probably supplied], repaired tears to U8 and cc6, a few small wormholes to final 3 text leaves, final leaf with repairs to upper corner and fore-edge. Crushed brown morocco by Douglas Cockerell, stamped with his monogram and dated 1903 on lower turn-in (binding rubbed and bumped with slight wear to heads of joints)

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert , Bergbau, Kräuterbücher, Mineralogie, Zoologie

18000,- EUR
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KLODT, Michail Petrowitsch.

Полевые цветы : руководство для живописи акварелью и металлическими красками по фарфору и фаянсу составлены бароном М. П. Клодтом (= Field flowers: a guide for painting with watercolours and metallic paints on porcelain and faience by Baron M. P. Klodt).- St. Petersburg, cartogra-phic establishment of A. Ilyin, (1882). (400 x 385 mm) 8 leaves with mounted circular chromolithographed plates. Signed in print (and dated 1881). Loosely inserted in half cloth portfolio with printed title on cover. Inner hinges reinforced, a contemporary german translation in ink under the printed title.

Sachgebiete: Botanik, Ornamentik, Porzellan/Keramik, Russland

2400,- EUR
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(Anthropocene) BUFFON, Georges Louis M. Le Clerc, Comte de.

Epochen der Natur übersetzt aus dem Französischen des Herrn Grafen von Buffon, Aufseher der Garten und das Cabinet des Königes von Frankreich … übersetzt aus dem Französischen (von Johann Friedrich Hackmann). 2 Vols.- St. Petersburg: verlegts Johann Zacharias Logan, 1781. 8vo. (190 x 130 mm) 204 pp.; 190 pp. with engraved titelvign., 2 fold. engraved maps, and 3 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine in compart-ments, spine slightly defective through worming, slightly tanned, with a few stains; the title page and first few pages have some glue stains, else a nice copy.

Sachgebiete: Geologie, Mineralogie, Naturwissenschaften, Zoologie

3200,- EUR
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MACQUART, Louis Charles Henri.

Beschreibung einer auf Befehl der Regierung nach den Norden gemachten Reise enthaltend Abhandlungen über mehrere Gegenstände der Mineralogie, Beschreibung der in der königl. Sammlung abgegebenen merkwürdigsten Stücke, eine Ortsbeschreibung von Moskau … Aus dem Französischen übersetzt. Mit Anmerkungen von Fibig und (B. S. v.) Nau.- Frankfurt, in der Hermannischen Bhdl., 1790. 8vo. (200 x 125 mm). 2 Bll., 628 pp., 4 Bll. with 7 engraved plates showing minerals. pp. 91/92 with old paper repair. Contemporary calf, red edges, morocco lettering piece on spine, clean and fresh copy on better paper.

Sachgebiete: Geologie, Mineralogie, Naturwissenschaften, Russland, Wissenschaftsgeschichte

2600,- EUR
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HÜBNER, Jacob.

Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge, errichtet von Jacob Hübner in Augsburg. 7 Vols. and one folder.- Augsburg (by the author, 1796 - 1841), 1805. 4to (Text 270 x 215 mm; plates: 255 x 200; loose plates: 300 x 230 mm). With engraved title page, 789 engraved plates and additionally 56 proof plates, as well as introduction and text pages 1-194, concerning Papiliones, Sphinges, Bombyces and Noctuae, complete for the second printing of 1805, but without the text to Geometrae, Pyralidae, Tortrices and Tineae which was only published in the 1796 text vol. Text for the last part Alucites was never published. Contemporary blueish plain wrappers. Fine and clean.

Sachgebiete: Entomologie , Naturwissenschaften, Wissenschaftsgeschichte

16000,- EUR
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(Ornithologie) SCLATER, Philip Lutley.

On the Curassows now or lately living in the Society’s Gardens. (From the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. IX, Part 4).- (London: printed for the Society, 1875). 273 - 288 pp. with 14 fine hand-finished chromo-lithographic plates by J. Smit. (bound with:) Supplementary Notes on the Curassows now or lately living in the Society’s Gardens. From the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. X, (London, 1879) iv, pp. 543-563 with 7 fine hand-finished chromo-lithographic plates by J. Smit. 2 parts in one. 4to (316 x 250 mm) Contemporary red buckram, gilt title to spine. Foxing to a few of the plates, overall, a very good copy with vivid plates.

Sachgebiete: Asien, Ornithologie, Südamerika, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Zoologie

1200,- EUR
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(Europa/Japan) (Workshop of) Kawahara Keiga (1786 – c.1860), attrib.

Flora et Fauna du Japon (gilt printed title on spine). Late Edo period album of natural history drawings in a mid 19th cent. European half calf binding incl. first 101 drawings of flowers, and than 101 drawings of cats & bats, amphibians, fish, shells, and insects.- Japan (Nagasaki ?), 1833 - not later then 1850. small 4to. (195 x 155 mm). Album containing 202 watercolor drawings (mostly one on each page) with Japanese manuscript captions, on thin laid (japanese ?) paper without watermark. The sheets are mostly unsigned, yet can be attributed to the Kawahara Keiga workshop. European red half calf binding (ca. 1850 - 1865) with gilt title on spine, rubbed and soiled. The binding is slightly later then the Ex Libris by Baumann (before 1850). The binder has bound the flower part in European style (each drawing facing a blank), while the animal part was bound like the original Japanese binding (two drawing facing each other). The last plate (Pfingstrose; Botan) is bound out of order and should be at the front. The drawings generally very well preserved, with occasional light spotting and minor toning, colors fresh.

Sachgebiete: Botanik, Handschriften, Handzeichnungen, Japan, Naturwissenschaften

18000,- EUR
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CURSCHMANN, Heinrich.

Klinische Abbildungen. Sammlung von Darstellugen der Veränderung der äusseren Körperform bei inneren Krankheiten. In Verbindung mit Dr. W(ilhelm). Schüffner, Assistenzarzt an d. Medicin. Klinik in Leipzig herausgegeben v. Dr. H(einrich) Curschmann, ... o. ö. Prof. ... in Leipzig. 57 Tafeln in Heliogravüre mit erläutertem Text.- Berlin: Julius Springer, 1894. Folio (328 x 233 mm) 4 Bll., 57 photograph. plates by Meissenbach, Riffarth & Co. and 39 explanatory text pages. Original half calf, gilt lettering on boards, spine repaired, rubbed and soiled, inside fresh.

Sachgebiete: Medizin, Photographie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte

2900,- EUR
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