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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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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von; Aimé BONPLAND.

Voyage aux régions éqionoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799-1804. 30 Bände (20 Atlasbände und 10 Textbände). Faksimile der Ausgabe Paris 1805-1830. Mit sehr zahlreichen, meist farbigen und teils gefalteten Tafeln und Karten. Amsterdam und New York, Theatrum Orbis Terarrum und Da Capo Press, 1971-73. 51,5 x 36 cm bzw. 35,5 x 26 cm. Marmorierte grüne Halblederbände mit goldgeprägten Rückenschildern und goldgeprägten Deckelfileten (Rücken teils leicht geblichen, leicht berieben und kratzspurig, Ecken und Kapitale vereinzelt leicht bestoßen, 2 Kapitale mit kleiner Läsur, Schnitt vereinzelt etwas angeschmutzt).

Sachgebiete: Amerika, Naturwissenschaften, Reisen/Reiseliteratur, Völkerkunde/Ethnographie, Zoologie

2400,- 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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(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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(Terra sigillata Silesiaca; Sammelband) SCULTETUS Trimontanus (SCHULZ; MONTANUS), Johannes (Johann).

Breve, sed exquisitum, vereque philosophicum iudicium Doctrinis Mysterijsque varijs refertum… Johannis Montani Strigoniensis … Wratislaviae (Wroclaw): in officina typographica Georgij Baumani (Georg Baumann), 1597. 4to (195 x 140 mm) 10 Bll./ leaves. (Sign.: A4, B4, C2) Modern boards. VD16 ZV 25900 (only Leipzig) SCULTETUS Trimontanus (SCHULZ; MONTANUS), Johannes (Johann). Terra Sigillata. Das ist, Kurtzer bericht von Krafft, Tugend und wirckung der Weissen, Roten und Grauen gesiegelten Erden, welche zur Liegnitz in Schlesien gefunden, worzu sie fürnehmlich in und ausserhalb des Leibes für mancherley Kranckheiten zugebrauchen. - Gedruckt zur Liegnitz (Legnica): Nicolas Schneider, (no date; before 1600 ?) (195 x 140 mm) 4 Bll. / leaves. Wrappers. (not yet VD16 or VD17) SCULTETUS Trimontanus (SCHULZ; MONTANUS), Johannes (Johann). Ein kurtzer Bericht, wie Terra Sigillata nützlich kan gebrauchet werden. (no place, no printer) 1594. 4to (195 x 140 mm) 4 Bll./leaves. Wrappers. VD16 ZV 25894 (only Zittau)

Sachgebiete: Geologie, Medizin, Pharmazie, Schlesien

4500,- EUR
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(Muscheln) BORN, Baron Ignaz Edler von.

Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, quae jussu Mariae Theresiae Augustae disposuit et descripsit Ignatius a Born.- Vienna: Sumptibus Joannis Pauli Kraus, 1780. Large Folio (485 x 295 mm) xxxvi, 442 pp., 9 Bll. incl. half - title, dedication to the Empress Marie - Therese, title-page with engraved vignette by C(arl). Schütz. Illustrated 18 fine hand-colored engraved plates of shells by the engraver Schütz (1745 - 1800) or J. Adam after the artist Franz Fuxeder (1725-1797), four head- and eight tail-pieces, 36 illustra-tions of shells in the text, all engraved by Schütz, C. Conti and others. A few text leaves yellowed. Original Kleisterpapier boards, boards and extremities scuffed, head and foot of spine rubbed and upper spine slightly defective, corners frayed.

Sachgebiete: Ozeanologie, Rokoko, Zoologie

10000,- EUR
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WOODWARD, John.

Physicalische Erd - Beschreibung oder Versuch einer natürlichen Historie des Erdbodens, welchem zugleich die von dem berühmten E(lias). Camerario dagegen gemachten Einwürffe; wie auch des B. Halloway Einleitung zu des Auctoris Beantwortung dieser Einwürffe, und des Auctoris Beantwortung selbst ... ingleichen verschiedene über diese Materie gewechselte Briefe, nebst Dessen richtiger und ordentlicher Eintheilung der Fossilien, beygefügt sind. Aus der Englischen in das Frantzösische, und nunmehro in die Teutsche Sprache übersetzt. 8 parts in 1 Vol.- Erfurt: Johann Friedrich Weber, 1744 - 1746. 8vo. (175 x 115 mm). 18 Bll., 120 pp., 1 Bl., pp. 121 - 806, 47 Bll. With a folded frontispiece. Contemporary leather binding over thin wooden boards with gilt edges and raised bands; rubbed, with worming on boards, joints, and lower spine. Evenly slightly browned, occasional underlining and notes in pencil, with small moisture stains in places on the upper outer corner. Parts 1–2 and 3–8 each have their own title pages, most of which are paginated. The Letters (pp. 719 – 806) include, among other things, Woodward’s letters to Newton.

Sachgebiete: Geologie, Mineralogie, Naturwissenschaften, Paläontologie , Wissenschaftsgeschichte

2900,- EUR
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(SALE Catalog incl. the ‚unicorn horn‘) WEICKMANN, Christoph.

Exoticophylacium Weickmannianum Oder Verzeichnus Unterschiedlicher Thier, Vögel, Fisch, Meergewächs, Ertz- und Bergarten, Edlen und anderen Stain, ausländischem Holtz und Früchten ... Müntzen [et]c. So in der Kunst- und Natural-Kammer Deß ... Christoph Weickmann[n]s Seel. in Ulm, Sämbtlichen Herren Erben Zum verkauffen zu finden.(with-out place or printer), 1716. 8vo (160 x 95 mm) 75 (recte 77) pp., (1) with two engraved fold. plates. Contemporary Kleisterpapier boards with handwritten title label on spine, rubbed and soiled, spotted, Exlibris (Duke Brunswick - Lüneburg; stamp HAB Wolfenbüttel, deceased stamp).

Sachgebiete: Naturwissenschaften, Ornithologie, Zoologie

2800,- EUR
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(Schlesien, Naturgeschichte) SCHWENCKFELD, Caspar.

Theriotropheum Silesiae, in quo animalium, hoc est, quadrupedum, reptilium, avium, piscium, insectorum natura, vis & usus sex libris perstringuntur: concinnatum & elabo-ratum ….- Lignicii, (Legnica), impensis Davidi Alberti (Nicolaus Sartorius for David Albert), 1603 - 1604. 4to (204 x 152 mm) (24), 563 pp., (1), (4) printed in two columns. Contemporary vellum with overlapping edges, ties missing, handwritten title on spine, title stamped recto, spotted and evenly browned. Fine.

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert , Botanik, Naturwissenschaften, Ornithologie, Zoologie

4500,- 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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(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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(Mineralien; Naturgeschichte) SCHWENCKFELD, Caspar.

Stirpium & Fossilium Silesiae Catalogus. In quo praeter etymon, natales, tempus; Natura & vires cum varijs experimentis affignantur: Concinnatus per Casparv Schvvenckfelt, … Cvm Indice Remediorvm. Dominvs ditat Terram onmis generis Frugum ac Terrae nascentium varietate… Lipsiae, Impensis Davidis Alberti, Bibl. Vratislauiensis, (Michael Lantzenberger for David Albert), 1600. 4to. (195 x 144 mm) (40), 407, (1, blank), (15), [1] blank (Sign.: a-e4 A-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3G4; 232 leaves) Pigskin binding with handwritten title on spine, octavo. Signs of age, some staining, endpapers with handwritten entries. Gilt printed monogram „C. V. D. A. I. G. G.“ on cook cover.

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert , Geologie, Paläontologie , Schlesien

4600,- EUR
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(Farbe; Geologie) SYME, Patrick.

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences, particularly zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and morbid anatomy. Annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. Second edition. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood, 1821. 8vo. (198 x 123 mm), [4], 5-47 pp., [1, blank] with half-title, 13 plates containing a total of 110 mounted colour samples, scattered toning and spotting, japan paper repair to right top corner of title page, William Whyte & Co. Edinburgh bookseller label to front pastedown, untrimmed, original brown boards with printed title label to upper cover, rebacked, lightly soiled, outer corners bumped and worn.

Sachgebiete: Geologie, Mineralogie, Naturwissenschaften, Zoologie

4800,- 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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LILIENTHAL, Otto; NEUHAUSS, Dr. Richard Gustav (photogr.)

„Stöllen, 1895.“ Otto Lilienthal flying his gliding plane “Großer Doppeldecker”, Fliegeberg, Berlin-Lichterfelde, or Rhinow (Gollenberg), Oct. 19, 1895. Vintage gelatin silver print, mounted to board in size: 164 x 206 mm. Captioned “Stöllen 1895” in white ink below the image on the mount. Slight signs of wear to the boards; some spots and specks, otherwise in good condition. Framed.

Sachgebiete: Luftfahrt, Photographie, Technik, Technikgeschichte

9500,- 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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(Handzeichnung) JÄGER, Gustav; nach Lucas Cranach d. Ä.

Madonna with infant Jesus and grapes (1854). Graphite drawing after a painting by Lucas Cranach the elder, now in unknown possession. Signed and dated, on toned or prepared solid white paper and finely enchased in white. Mounted on old brown cardboard paper, titled in ink. Image size: 250 x 170 mm; sheet size: 380 x 290 mm. Within modern passe-partout, framed.

Sachgebiete: Handzeichnungen, Kunstgeschichte, Reformation, Religionsgeschichte, Renaissance

3600,- EUR
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