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Thu 09 May

Floriano Bozzi - Thriller, 1960s tempera on thin cardboard 26 x 37.5 cm Original cover created by Bozzi during the 1960s for a detective novel. Tear at the bottom margin and folds at the corners.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Kurt Caesar - The Victorious - Milan: Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 1955 tempera on thin cardboard 25.5 x 34 cm Original cover created by Caesar for Il Vittorioso n. 23 published by AVE editions in 1955. Small tear on the right margin. Signed.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Alfredo Edel - Tristan and Isolde, late 19th century pencil and watercolor on paper applied to cardboard 19 x 39 cm each Lot consisting of 19 theatrical sketches (and 2 for costume accessories) created by Edel for the representation of the musical drama in three acts "Tristan and Isolde" by Richard Wagner. On the back, handwritten notes for tailoring, knitwear, shoemaking, hairdressing and jewellers. Edel had a brilliant artistic career full of recognition both as a painter and illustrator and above all as a theater costume designer at La Scala in Milan from 1880 to 1890, he collaborated with the major theaters in Europe, considered among the innovators of Italian theater at the end of the century. Slight creases and small tears at the edges.

Estim. 5 000 - 7 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

Fabio Fabbi - Spring, 1920s tempera on thin cardboard 24.5 x 33.5 cm Original cover created by Fabbi for the magazine Fiammetta, published by Nerbini during the 1920s. Slight crease at the top left corner. Signed.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Fabio Fabbi - Goodbye to the countryside, 1920s tempera on thin cardboard 23 x 29 cm Original cover created by Fabbi for the magazine Fiammetta, published by Nerbini during the 1920s. Signed.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Fabio Fabbi - Malice, 1920s tempera on thin cardboard 21.5 x 29.5 cm Original cover created by Fabbi for the magazine La Sigaretta, published by Nerbini during the 1920s. Signed.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Vittorio Pisani - MAS: The anti-submarine motorboat companies, 1954 tempera on cardboard 36 x 44 cm Original cover created by Pisani for "MAS: Anti-submarine motorboat companies" issue no. 13 of the Testimonianze series published in Rome in 1954. Work used as cover in 2012 for the book "Ero con Mimbelli sui MAS e le MS" by Menconi Riccardo. Missing on the upper margin and hole on the lower one.

Estim. 400 - 700 EUR

Thu 09 May

Alvaro Mairani - Intrepid - Whangarei, 1958 tempera and watercolor on cardboard 30 x 43 cm Original cover created by Mairani for "Whangarei," published in Gli albi dell'Intrepido no. 645 by Universo publishing house in 1958. Small defects in the margins. Signed.

Estim. 200 - 400 EUR

Thu 09 May

Primo Marcarini - Intrepid - Satellite, 1962 tempera on cardboard 25.5 x 37.5 cm Original cover created by Marcarini for l'Intrepido No. 6, published by Universo publishing house in 1962. Slight creases on the upper margin.

Estim. 150 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Antiphonary - Double leaf from an antiphonary. Latin manuscript on vellum, 4 written pages. With 2 large penwork initials in red and blue-violet and 1 scrollwork initial in brown and green. 16th century. Brown and red rotunda with red connecting bars, square notes on 4 red lines. Single sheet size: 54 x 40 cm. Script mirror: 40 x 26 cm. The two outer leaves of a quire comprising a total of 4 leaves (Roman numerals 171 and 174). - Inside pages with initials browned and dusty, outside pages fresh, apparently stored in reverse fold for a long time.

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Antiphonary - Single leaf from an antiphonary. Latin manuscript on vellum, written on both sides. With 4 multiline initials in red and blue with fine penwork. 15th/16th century. Decorative textualis, square notes on 4 red lines. Sheet size: 31.5 x 23.5 cm. Text area: 27.5 x 18.5 cm. Somewhat stained and worn with loss of individual letters and notes, 2 creases with tiny chips, nevertheless a charming sheet.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Antiphonary - Single leaf from an antiphonary. Latin manuscript on vellum, written on both sides. With 2 large rectangular initials (11 x 11-14 cm), richly filled with foliage and tracery. 16th/17th century. Wide rotunda and square notes on 5 red lines. Sheet size: 63 x 45 cm. Type area: approx. 56 x 38 cm. Somewhat creased, small triangular defect at the head. - In addition: Another single leaf from a Latin antiphonary on parchment from around the same time. With 1 large, richly decorated, but faded rectangular initial. Leaf size: 62 x 50 cm. Type area: approx. 56 x 40 cm. - Lower margin trimmed down to the staff, one side browned and stained.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Che Guevara, Ernesto. Handwritten letter with return address "Comandante Ernesto che Guevara" and signature "che". Havana, 3.XI.1961 ("Ano de la educacion"). 1 p. Black ballpoint pen on stiff paper, varnished on the reverse. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Hastily written message on occasional paper to Luis de la Fé Miguez at the Ministry of Industry. - "Como jefe de Personal de este ministerio, usted vea obligado a cumplir la legislacion vigente. Hasta este presente usted no ha cumplido, por lo que le comunico ... para esta, me lo haga llegar de immediamente, para lo cual tiene el dia para esto, o tomare medidas serias con usted y comunicare al consejo de direccion. Revolucionamente ...". - Enclosed: Original photograph of the reception parade for Che Guevara in Uruguay in 1961. Vintage. Silver gelatine, handwritten inscription and archive stamp of the Revista Tricontinental on the reverse. - The letter with a faint trace of moisture in the left margin, some foxing on the reverse, photo somewhat creased. VAT: #

Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Thu 09 May

Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Collection of 3 typewritten letters with signature and handwritten additions, 12 letters from his wife Valérie, further correspondence and enclosures. Ca. 1924-93. various formats. In private linen box. Well-kept small archive, compiled by the Fribourg Eliot researcher and librarian Gerd Schmidt. - Contains: T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature, short handwritten postscript and inserted accents. London, 31.III.1924. 1 p. 26 x 18.5 cm. - In French to Jacques Rivière, director of the "Nouvelle Revue Francaise". Thanks for "l'envoi du précieux inédit de Proust" and, also on behalf of the Vicomtesse Rotheremere, "pour tous les soins que vous avec pris pour nous". With letterhead from "The Criterion. A Quarterly Review". - T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature and short handwritten addition. London, 1.III.1956. 1 p. (greeting and signature on the reverse). 20 x 17.5 cm. - English on Faber & Faber stationery to Ronald Gregor Smith, The Athenaeum, London. Hopes to be able to arrange "a date in two or three weeks (not Holy Week, however)" for a dinner (in his own hand). Dictates the reason for the delay into the machine: "I have been for over a month in a nursing home and am now convalescing at home, but am not yet allowed out of doors ...". - T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature and handwritten postscript. London, 22.XI.1957. 1 p. 20 x 17.5 cm. - On Faber & Faber stationery to a German autograph collector. "I almost never write with a pen since for many years I have suffered from a writer's cramp ...". In his own hand: "I hope this brief specimen of my handwriting will suffice." - Valérie Eliot, his secretary, second wife since 1957 and executor of his estate (1926-2012). 12 typewritten letters with signature, 1 handwritten postscript and all envelopes. London, 1970-88. Together approx. 12 pp. 20 x 15 cm to DIN A4. - With one exception in English to Gerd Schmidt, on sheets with private head (mostly Kensington Court Gardens) or from Faber & Faber. Responds to requests for the publication of poems and letters from the estate. In April 1984, thanks "excitedly" for a copy of Eliot's above letter to Rivière, "because I have been pursuing my husband's letters to Rivière for many years without success and had begun to fear that he would not appear in the Correspondence". May 1984 then thanks for notification of Eliot's letter to Gregor Smith, July 1985 inquiry about Eliot's correspondence with E. R. Curtius, December 1987 the corrective notification "that 'Casey Jones' was not written by my husband. It is a popular American folk ballad that TSE used to enjoy singing!". - Also mentions the following letter: Laurence Binyon, poet and art historian, close friend of Ezra Pound. Handwritten letter with signature. Streatley, Berks., 18.VII.1941. 2 pp. 19.5 x 14 cm. - To the writer Robert Nichols about reactions to his most recent publication of poetry ("The North Star"): "T. S. Eliot, by the way, admires Angkor ... and in Hospital most. He wanted to have the book published by his firm, but Macmillan wouldn't allow it. In writing to me he was very modest about his own work - wondering if his 'experiments' are really any good, etc.". - Also: Typewritten letter from Erhart Kästner, handwritten letter from Eva Hesse and handwritten card from Hugo Friedrich to Schmidt, 1967-75 - 3 offprints dedicated to Schmidt by Alfred Weber (1) and Donald Gallup (2) on Eliot and Pound, 1968-92 - Further enclosures, including some large-format prints of photo portraits of Eliot (including National Portrait Gallery). - In very good condition. VAT: #

Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Thu 09 May

Fröbel, Wilhelm - Middendorff, Wilhelm. Preliminary exercises for finding figures. Course for drawing on the net. Handwritten manuscript, enclosed in a brochure with Middendorff's ownership note on the cover. With several example sketches in pen and pencil. Acceptance note next to the signature: Keilhau 1847. 8 pages closely written in brown pen. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. 2 loose sheets. Middendorff (1793-1853) worked closely with Fröbel in Keilhau for many years, and manuscripts in his hand are rare. - The present manuscript reflects the drawing course developed by Fröbel on a slate with a grid. Middendorff begins with sections A and B for vertical and horizontal lines, followed under C by extensive combinations such as angles, angular surfaces, extension to oblique lines and circles, right up to a crystal-like structure (these in pencil). At the end, a summary of the "Course and law of finding figures" in 27 sub-items. In 1826, Fröbel himself had only presented elementary initial exercises in his "Menschenerziehung" (Human Education); the actual "inventing" was reserved for the unpublished second part. Middendorff's manuscript summarizes the entire course in a condensed form and illustrated with figures. - Somewhat browned, well preserved. - Inserted in: Franz Keller. Spinoza and Leibnitz on the freedom of the human will. Erlangen 1847. 78 pp., 1 leaf. Printed original wrappers (spine with small losses, somewhat stained). - Corners creased throughout. VAT: #

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

Prayer books - Collection of 14 handwritten prayer books in German, Latin (1) and various Slavic (6) languages. With 2 engraved and colored Stations of the Cross cycles as well as numerous painted initials, headings, borders, head and tailpieces. Germany and Eastern Europe, 1691-1874. 9.5 x 6 cm to 22.5 x 18 cm. Mostly leather bindings of the period (4 in leather slipcases), some with some gilding or blind embossing (signs of wear). The earliest collection "Schöne Gebett" dated 1691, later continued and bound in 1806 in green leather with rich gilding, red heart appliqués and punched gilt edges, plus slipcase with red overlays and woven drawstring. - A prayer book "Poboznost" dated 1819 in black leather with German Stations of the Cross engravings and fine figurative book decoration in brown pen. - Another from 1844 "gewidmet für ein Frauenzimmer" illustrated in colorful rustic watercolor painting, as well as the "Blumen-Gärthlein" written in 1808 in velvet binding, the latter glued and without the original metal overlay. - Partly browned and fingerstained, one volume with ink damage, otherwise internally in good condition. VAT: #

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Hemingway, Ernest. Handwritten letter with signature "Papa" and self-addressed envelope. With 3 small circle drawings (kisses) under the greeting. Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba (letterhead printed in red), 25.IX.1958. 2 pp. on 2 sheets of thin airmail paper written on one side in blue fountain pen. 28 x 21.5 cm, the envelope: 10.6 x 24 cm. Very nice retirement letter, addressed to his first son John H(adley) Hemingway (1923-2000) in San Francisco. - Ernest Hemingway had lived in Cuba since 1939, from 1945 with his fourth wife Mary Welsh. In 1960, he had to leave the Finca Vigia estate for health reasons and shot himself in Ketchum (Idaho) in 1961. He addressed his son, commonly called "Jack", by the African name "Bem" (peace): "Dear Bem. Thanks for the letter with gen or gig. Sorry trip was such a bitch and delighted you are going good in S.F. Sorry Mary wrote. She was upset at me sweating out cables to you and to Gregory (Hemingway's youngest son "Gig") with no answers. Gregory left no change of address ... so checks sent him registered had been returned after you left. Then I got a bill forwarded from K.W. for new psycho treatments. He cabled 2 weeks ago acknowledging checks and saying letter wrote. No letter of course ..." - Hemingway reports on his plans for the fall: "Very happy things are shaping so well out there. We hope to get away from here the first of next week. Weather been as hot many days as when you left. Mary been laid up five weeks with bad virus flu getting OK now. Too late now for Spain or Africa so will get out west for a while ... It's too late now to fish but will try to get some shooting. I'm stale as a goat ..." - Literary: "Signed the books for Frank Aldrich and paid one cab driver, old man, whose story seemed plausible. Hope it was." - Postscript under the drawn kisses: "Dog is fine. He will be OK. with René while we are gone ... He's very well and cheerful and did a wonderful thing: He bit Sinsby really well in the hand under perfect circumstances." - The envelope addressed to the business address of John H. Hemingway with the note "Personal", postmark Habana, 26.IX.1958. - Envelope with minor traces of postage, the letter in perfect condition. VAT: #

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

Hermsdorf/Spree - Handwritten "Erb Kauf Contract" for the Hermsdorf manor on the Spree (Lohsa). There, 19.VIII.1818. 16 sheets, with the exception of the last one written on both sides. Chancellery cursive in brown pen. 34 x 21.5 cm. Cord stitching. The seller was Gotthelf Heinrich Christian von Minckwitz, the buyer Johann Gotthelf von Standtfest, landowner of Kaup(p)la, Commerau and Jetscheba. A total of 36,000 thalers were to be paid as the purchase price to various, precisely itemized recipients. - One of two copies, the original signatures on p. 14v cut out recto with loss of text. The last two leaves with summary, two signatures probably of the notary and the recorder as well as paper-covered seal. - Some browning and foxing.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Jena - Letter from the Council of the City of Jena to Duke Johann Friedrich II of Saxe-Weimar. German manuscript on paper. Jena, Wednesday after Egidij, 1562. 2 pp. and address on double leaf, paper-covered seal loosely enclosed. 32.5 x 21.5 cm. Request for the granting of citizenship to the first wife of the ducal personal physician Johannes von Schröter, Ursula Capito (widow of the Viennese chancellor Petri). - For Schröter, first rector of the Salana and founder of the botanical garden, see ADB XXXII, 568 - Address leaf dusty and with small holes in the folds, small seal cut-out, paper cover of the seal somewhat damaged. VAT: #

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Thu 09 May

Jünger, Ernst. Handwritten letter with signature accompanying 4 pages of handwritten diary entries. With 5 plant specimens mounted under adhesive tape in the text. Wilflingen, 16, 22 and 24.VII.1969 (diary) and 12.VIII.1969 (letter). Together 5 A4 sheets written on one side in fountain pen or ink pen. - Including the handwritten address page of the original envelope of the consignment. In padded leather folder (somewhat rubbed). To Jürgen Bergeder in Hamburg, 45 letters from him to Jünger preserved in the DLA Marbach. - "Dear Mr. Bergeder, Enclosed is what I promised: a few pages from my current notes. I hear that there are fewer and fewer compatriots who can read German script - tant pis. Mostly it's herbaria that I write around." - The diary pages numbered in red pencil. Leaves 1 to 2 above contain the published entries from July 16 ("nutmegs") and July 22 ("riverbed", including a plant sample, last line corrected in red pencil). Sheets 2-4 comprise a long entry from July 24, 1969, not printed in the diaries, beginning "While the trees grow busily inside the forest, they lower their branches to the ground at the edge." With four pressed plants, including a gingko leaf; a half-page typescript transcription of the beginning of the text mounted on the reverse of sheet 2. The style partly very cursory, several corrections, changing ink colors, sheet 3 with a three-line insertion on the verso. - The cover letter on yellowish stationery with printed header, the notes on thin "Reflex Special" concept paper. - The tesa strips browned and showing through, otherwise in perfect condition. VAT: #

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Marie Therese of Braganza, Archduchess of Austria. Fragment of 33 letters addressed to her, mostly in her own hand, with signatures of noblemen, diplomats, officials etc. in German, French and English. Vienna, Innsbruck, Brunswick, Moscow, London, etc., 1883-1904. Together over 100 pp., 2 sealed envelopes preserved. Formats from octavo to folio, often large 4to. Loosely bound in leather-lined linen folder of the period. Marie Therese von Braganza (1855-1944) was the third child of Michael I King of Portugal and Princess Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. By marrying Carl Ludwig Archduke of Austria, she became Archduchess in 1873 and first lady of the realm from 1889. One of the surviving envelopes gives her Viennese address as Favoritensstraße 7, the location of the Palais Erzherzog Carl Ludwig. - The letters addressed to her are partly personal, partly of an official nature, partly New Year's greetings, partly mourning messages, in any case often detailed, in very careful handwriting and on expensive paper. Among the authors are F. M. L. Duke of Braganza, Albrecht (Prince of Prussia, Regent of Brunswick?), the church historian Heinrich Denifle (3, 2 from Bohemia), Alexander von Mérez (2, one over 13 quarto pages), William and Marion Des Voeux (London, Cadogan Square), Heinrich Liechtenstein, Cousin Mary, Ferdinand Héraudeau of the Bureau de la Mission de Maduré in Kalosca (2), the nun and mystic Marie de la Croix, Baron von Braun at Schwanegg Castle, Comte Anatole Orloff Davidoff from Moscow 1883, Alain Prince Rohan at Sichrow. - Very well preserved. VAT: #

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Missal - Double leaf from a late Gothic missal. Latin manuscript on vellum, written on both sides in textura. With a 5-line floral initial in gold and colors as well as headings, staves, smaller initials and word separators in red and blue. Germany, 2nd half of the 15th century. Sheet size: approx. 29.5 x 20 cm (width when opened 40 cm), text area: 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Mounted on passepartout card with lateral fold. From the Easter Vigil, under unusually blank staves the text for the consecration of water on the eve of the Epiphany: "(Sit haec sancta, et innocens) creatura, libera ab omnia impugnatoris incursu et totius nequitie purgata discessu ...". The large initial introduces the introit "In die paschale". - Formerly used as a book jacket, stitching holes in the centerfold, two small triangular cut-outs at the head, dusty and with traces of glue, the outer side decorated with the initial rubbed and browned (stave lines almost erased), with inserted cover title "Holtzungs Protocol" and several ink splashes.

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Missal - Single leaf from a particularly large-format missal. Latin manuscript on parchment. With 5 gouached rectangular initials (approx. 7 x 8 cm) in blue, red and pink as well as double side framing and line separators in red. 18th century. Sheet size: 92 x 63.5 cm. Writing mirror: 76 x 47.5 cm. Some creasing, one horizontal crease, letters partly worn, browned on one side, one line with some ink erosion. - In addition: Another Latin missal leaf on parchment, roughly contemporary. With a large initial (17 x 16.5 cm) and a border on one side, both made of rustic foliage in red, green and silver-grey. Sheet size: 71 x 50 cm. Writing area: 62 x 40 cm. - Heavily worn and creased, especially in the foot area, wormhole in the left margin.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Prosper de Rodés, Père. Histoire généalogique de quelques c.l. maisons de France avec le blason de leurs armoiries. Le tout mis par ordre alphabetique. French manuscript on paper. Volumes 3 and 5 (of 5). With about 230 full-page coats of arms. Probably Capuchin monastery of Rodes, 1704. 396 (instead of 409) pp., 1 leaf; 532 (instead of 540) pp., 1 leaf. 35 x 22 cm. Contemporary leather bindings (non-uniform rembo�tages, restored, rubbed). Extensive, richly illustrated fragment. Contains almost 280 French noble families, each volume with its own alphabet and table of contents. The title of volume 5 with the note "Avec des Additions aux 4 tomes precedents". - Father Prosper of Rodes (Pyrenees) is known from at least two other genealogical manuscripts (Lelong 40578/9). - Volume 3 lacks the title and pp. 2/3, 6/7, 62/63, 146-149, 386/87, volume 5 lacks pp. 105-108, 159/60 and 249/50 - Volume 3 partly heavily stained, image losses on pp. 4/5, 380/81 and pp. 400/401, some further tears and losses, partly repaired. Volume 5 in good condition. - Should be inspected, without right of return.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Thu 09 May

Ricoeur, Paul. 51 letters and letter cards in French to the Danish philosopher Peter Kemp, 30 handwritten, 21 typewritten with signature and handwritten additions. Together ca. 50 pp., plus carbon copies and copies of some counter-letters and other correspondence by Kemp, typescripts by Ricoeur, lecture programs, etc. Paris, Châtenay, Chicago and others, 1969-2002. 8 x 12.5 cm to 29.5 x 21 cm. Many with the original envelopes. Archive collection by Peter Kemp (1937-2018), who made the thought of the great French philosopher known in the Northern European world from 1970 onwards through Danish and English translations. Ricoeur (1913-2005) is famous for his phenomenological-hermeneutic description of human will as well as his philosophical analysis of language and history. His work was the result of discussions with Husserl, Heidegger, Jaspers and Freud. - These letters - in Ricoeur's later years often short messages - document the rapid development of a lifelong friendship, Kemp's commitment through translations, articles, the organization of a lecture series in Denmark and Sweden in 1987, Ricoeur's life and travels from 1970 (including his time in Chicago), and not least the discussion of individual philosophical and linguistic issues. These include, for example, a three-page typescript commentary by Ricoeur on Kemp's essay "Langages de l'engagement" from 1975, corrected and signed in his own hand (also with a signed carbon copy and a copy of the reprint in the "Bulletin de philosophie"). A handwritten speech manuscript by Kemp for Ricoeur's presentation at the Institut Francais Danemark is dated 29.V.1979 (6 pp.). - Among Ricoeur's speech and essay drafts preserved in Kemp's archive: 1. "Soutenance" (defense) for Kemp's doctorate in 1973. Typescript. 6 p., corrected and signed in his own hand. - 2. parole et écriture. 1984. typescript copy. 14 p., corrected with opaque white and typewriter. - 3 Grandeur et Misère du Langage Politique. No year. Copy of the corrected and signed typescript, with pencil underlining. 1 leaf, 44 pp. - Further manuscript copies. - Well preserved. VAT: #

Estim. 2 400 - 3 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Book of hours - 3 vellum leaves from a book of hours manuscript. Inscribed on both sides in Gothic minuscule, single-column. With several 1-2-line initials in blue, red and gold, some with foliate borders. France or Flanders, c. 1450. ca. 12 x 8.5 cm. Mounted on paper at the upper corners. Fine vellum, wide margins, somewhat stained and slightly browned, lettering and decorations beautifully preserved.

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Death sentences - Spanish court records with 6 pen and ink drawings of hanged men. Manuscript on paper. Catalonia, 1594-98. 10 leaves, written on both sides. Loose single and double sheets. Contains several signed death sentences with small, partly named depictions of the execution on the gallows, including a group of chopped off and hanged legs and arms as well as a double hanging. - Somewhat frayed, brown margins in the text, several execution crosses, 2 drawings damaged by ink erosion, 1 of them severely. VAT: #

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Hiking books - Collection of 7 hiking books, 1 servants' service book, 1 passport and 1 "Christian hiking book". With 1 lithographed view of Weimar. Issued in Braunschweig, Eldagsen, Greiz, Landsberg, Pinneberg, Prague, Weimar, etc., 1836-72. Each with pre-printed text with numerous handwritten endorsements and stamps. Approx. 16 x 10 cm. Mostly half leather bindings of the time (clear signs of wear). Including: Particularly richly filled travel book of the merchant Carl Robert Engel from Magdeburg 1836-57 in red leather, folded Prussian passport for the same (Magdeburg 1857). - Folded Austrian passport (37 x 26 cm) for Prince Karl Löwenstein-Wertheim together with Princess Adelheid and Countess Nathalie Kielmannsegg and servants for the journey from Prague to Prussia and Würzburg, 1838 - Christian travel book for traveling journeymen. Halle, Waisenhaus, 1827. Rare guidebook with stamp "Schumacher-Gesellen-Auflage 1838" and ownership note from 1849. - Traces of use, some heavy.

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Weaving mill - pattern book of Johann Michael Hammerbacher "zu Boschbach bey Anspach". German manuscript on paper. With 90 (7 double-page or folded) pattern plates printed in brown pen on black (occasionally red) grid paper. Middle Franconia, 1763. 18 pp. Text, the plate part (bound upside down and counted from the back) interleaved with blank leaves, these partly described with diagrams of "Zug und Tritt" and short explanations. Some leaves missing at the beginning and end. 20.5 x 17 cm. Stapled, without binding. The text with the head title "Löblicher Handwercks-Gebrauch und Gewohnheit für die Jung Weber-Gesellen, Samt beygegefügten Regeln, wie man einen zum Gesellen thut machen". This journeyman's code concludes with Hammerbacher's name, the location, which we have not identified, and the year. Sample plates are already bound in here and diagrams are entered on blank pages; the rules were evidently added later to the end of the older collection of samples. Counted in 2 series (blank pages included) and of great richness, the use of specially printed grid paper is also interesting. Explanations to the diagrams read something like "20 Schäfftig und dass ist der Zug zu dem gebült". - Fingerstaining, first text leaf with corner tear with loss of some words, the plates with some heavy ink erosion, some only fragmentarily preserved. VAT: #

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

General - Non-profit nature and art magazine or treatises for the promotion of natural history, the arts, manufactures and factories. 3 volumes (all published). With 3 copper titles and 7 engraved folding plates. Berlin, A. Wever, 1763-67. 7 pp. 726 p. (without sheet R = pp. 256-272), 1 leaf; 7 leaves, 829 pp.; LXIV, 648 pp., 3 leaves 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with gilt-stamped spine labels over wooden boards (spine rubbed and faded, small worm marks). Complete set, rare. - Kirchner 3220 (inaccurate, without volume 3). - Volume 1 title or new edition of the first printing Jena 1755, volumes 2/3 in first edition. - The first volume contains translations from the "Journal oeconomique", Savary's "Dictionnaire de commerce" and other sources on dyeing, transportation of exotic plants and natural products by ship, Brazilian topazes, mirror glass manufacture in France, iron and blast furnaces, etc. - Volumes 2/3 consist of a translation of William Lewis' "Commercium Philosophico-Technicum, or the philosophical Commerce of Arts" (London 1763), the first part originally translated by Krünitz, the second after the translation by Ziegler published in Zurich in 1764. The main topics are the history of gold, platina and colors. In addition, magnificent laboratory illustrations and 5 plates of experimental furnaces and a water blower. The second volume also includes Wallerius' "Chymische Grundsätze des Ackerbaues" in the translation by Krünitz. - Volume 1 lacks the first sheet of Duhamel's essay "Besondere Art, ein stählernes Stäbgen magnetisch zu machen", 2 leaves of the preliminaries with old reinforced margins, 1 title page with ink stain, altogether in fine condition. VAT: *

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Thu 09 May

General - Guyot, E. G. Neue physikalische und mathematische Belustigungen, oder Sammlung von neuen Kunststücken zum Vergnügen, mit dem Magnete, mit den Zahlen, aus der Optik sowohl, als aus der Chymie, nebst den Ursachen derselben, deren Wirkungen und den dazu erforderlichen Instrumenten. 7 parts in 6 volumes. With 3 engraved title vignettes, 132 (2 colored) folded copper engravings and 4 (3 engraved) folded tables. Augsburg, Klett Wittwe und Franck, 1772-77. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. Contemporary two-color paper boards with gilt-stamped spine labels (somewhat rubbed and bumped). Complete first German edition of the "Nouvelles récréations". - Van der Linde II, 104f. (only volume 2) - cf. Caillet 4900 and Wheeler 426 (original editions). - A popular collection of mathematical and physical tricks at the time, including optical illusions, electricity, magnetic squares, magic lanterns, chess games, secret writing, "eye music", etc., with corresponding plates. - Some browning and foxing. VAT: *

Estim. 700 - 1 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

General - Jacobsson, Johann Karl Gottfried. Technologisches Wörterbuch oder alphabetische Erklärung aller nützlichen mechanischen Künste, Manufacturen, Fabriken und Handwerker, wie auch aller dabei dabei vorkommenden Arbeiten, Instrumente, Werkzeuge und Kunstwörter, nach ihrer Beschaffenheit und wahren Gebrauche, ed. by Otto Ludwig Hartwig. With a preface by Johann Beckmann. (From volume 6: continued by Gottfried Erich Rosenthal). 8 volumes. Berlin and Stettin, Friedrich Nicolai, 1781-1795. 25 x 21 cm. Contemporary half leather bindings with 2 colored spine labels and gilt spine. First and only edition. - Poggendorff I, 1182 - Engelmann, Bibl. mech. 165f. - Extensive technological dictionary, rarely complete as here. An inexhaustible source on all arts and crafts, including mining, of the pre-industrial age. The last volume with a bibliography for each entry. - A very good copy in decorative bindings. VAT: *

Estim. 1 600 - 2 400 EUR

Thu 09 May

General - Pluche, Noel Antoine. Show-place of nature, or: Discourses on the constitution and purposes of natural things, whereby youth is encouraged to further inquiry, and led to correct notions of the omnipotence and wisdom of God. Translated from the French. 8 volumes. With 9 title engravings and 203 (164 folded) copper plates. Vienna and Nuremberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1746-1753. 17 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with red spine label and very rich spine gilt (corners bumped, covers with scuffing in places). Rare first German edition. - Nissen, ZBI 3195 - Occasionally slightly browned or stained. - A very fine copy. VAT: *

Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Thu 09 May

General - Rumford, Benjamin Thompson. Small writings on political, economic and philosophical matters. Translated from the English after the second enlarged edition, and enriched with new additions (by C. S. Kramer; ed. by F. J. Bertuch). 4 in 5 volumes (volumes 2 and 4 in 2 sections each). With 1 engraved title and 2 text vignettes, 37 partly folded copper plates, numerous woodcut figures and partly paginated tables. Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, 1797-1805. 20 x 12 cm. Contemporary half-leather bindings with gilt-stamped title and volume labels and gilt spine (somewhat rubbed and bumped, 2 title labels and 1 volume label have fallen off). All volumes in first German edition. - Humpert 13112 - The American physicist (1753-1814) spent half of his life in the Bavarian civil service, introduced the potato, reorganized the army and laid out the English Garden. Contains extensive and richly illustrated treatises on poorhouses and hearths (vol. 1), fire heat and saving wood (2/1), propagation of heat in liquids and various substances (2/2), kitchen hearths (3, with 95 woodcuts), experiments on heat and its nature (4/1), experiments on gunpowder and its force, on the production of air, intensities and properties of light, harmony of colors (4/2). - Evenly somewhat browned, occasional foxing, volume 3 with waterstain at foot towards end, otherwise fine series. VAT: *

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

Astronomy - Berlin Moon Atlas. 3rd revised and expanded edition. With 1 folded overview map and 108 photographic sheets. Berlin, Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte, 1989. 16 pp. (text booklet). 23 x 27 cm. Original cardboard folder with cover title. The 100 photographic illustrations (A. Voigt and H. Giebler at the 12° refractor of the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory in Berlin) show an entire moon phase in 31 sections, each with the corresponding printed explanations on the reverse. - In very good condition. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Astronomy - Fixlmillner, Placido. Decennium astronomicum continens observationes praecipuas ab anno 1765 ad 1775 in specula Cremifanensis factas. With engraved title vignette (observatory of Kremsmünster) and 4 folded copper plates. Steyr, A. Wimmer, 1776. 11 pp., 280 p. 24 x 17.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with red spine label and gilt spine (somewhat rubbed). Rare first edition. - Poggendorff I, 756 - Zinner, Instrumente 314f. - Houzeau-Lancaster 3385 - Lalande 550 - Kenney 56 - Wurzbach IV, 261 - Durstmüller I, 314 - Work report by Fixlmillner, who was in charge of the observatory of the Benedictine monastery of Kremsmünster from 1762 and produced extremely accurate work on the orbits of Mercury, uranium and solar parallax - A fine, hardly stained copy.

Estim. 700 - 1 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

Astronomy - Fixlmillner, Placido. Meridianus speculae astronomicae Cremifanensis seu longitudo eius geographica per magnum illus solis deliquium, ipsis calendis Aprillis anni 1764 spectatum ... et adiectis pluribus aliis spectaculis caelestibus. With engraved title vignette and 3 folded copper plates. Steyr, G. Menhardt, 1765. 8 pp., 133 p. 24 x 18.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with spine label and rich spine gilt (somewhat rubbed). Rare first edition. - Poggendorff I, 756 - Kenney 57 (title illustrated) - Wurzbach IV, 261 - not in Houzeau-Lancaster. - Fixlmillner (1721-1791) studied theology and mathematics in Salzburg. After graduating, he became a priest and dean in Kremsmünster, where he became director of the observatory in 1762. - "Fixlmillner made significant contributions to astronomy; his precise observations of Mercury, which he carefully recorded, enabled Lalande to produce his Mercury tables." (Wurzbach). (Wurzbach) - Hardly stained, fine copy.

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Astronomy - Heinsius, Gottfried. Description of the comet that appeared at the beginning of 1744. With 1 mezzotint plate and 3 copper plates as well as 1 hand drawing in pen and lead, all folded. St. Petersburg, Academy of Sciences, 1744. 1 leaf, 105 p. - Prebound: Leonhard Euler. Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum ... Una cum calculo, quo cometae, qui annis 1680. et 1681. itemque ejus, qui nuper est visus, motus verus investigatur. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette and 4 folded copper plates. Berlin, Haude, 1744. 187 (recte 186) pp. 23 x 19 cm. Contemporary vellum binding (dusty and bent, endpapers replaced or pasted over and heavily browned). I. First German edition, also published in Russian. - Brüning 1682 (only 1 plate). - Description of the comet Klinkenberg or de Chéseaux (C/1743 X1), with magnificent mezzotint plate of its changing appearance. Additionally bound with a detailed drawing of the comet's path through the constellations, positions in gold, dates in red. - II First edition. - Houzeau-Lancaster 11948 - DSB IV, 471 - Eneström 66 - Euler's main astronomical work on the theory of orbits, simultaneously to the comet also observed by Heinsius. - Pages 7/8 skipped in the numbering as usual, final page 188 incorrectly paginated "187". - Russian armorial bookplate of the cartographer and astronomer Friedrich von Schubert (1789-1865). Some longer marginalia and corrections in pen in Euler's work, possibly in Schubert's hand; the folded-in orbital drawing in Heinsius' work could also be by him. - Euler somewhat browned, Heinsius clean and with wide margins. VAT: *

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

Astronomy - Sacrobosco, Johannes de. Sphera mundi noviter recognita cum commentariis & authoribus in hoc volumine contentis. With printer's mark and numerous woodcuts (some colored). Florence, Giunta, 1518. 1 nn., 253 (recte 235) num. Flexible parchment binding of the period (wavy and stained, back hinge replaced, upper corner of the front cover pasted over, endpapers renewed, clasp missing). Early collected edition of astronomical texts. - Houzeau-Lancaster I, 1642 - EDIT 16 CNCE 29259 - Essling 1975 - Contains Sacrobosco's "Sphaera mundi" and commentaries by Capuanus, Faber Stapulensis, Regiomontanus, Aliacus, Michael Scotus, Gerardus Cremonensis and others, partly based on Arabic sources. Also included is the first Latin printing of Theodosius' "De Sphaericis" after an Arabic version; the Greek Editio princeps did not appear until 1558. The collection is an excellent reflection of astronomical studies around 1500, including texts used by Copernicus. - Title fingerstained and with pale stamp, first leaves with tidemark in the binding, individual wormholes in the text, extended to a small passage in places, some old marginalia, generally clean. VAT: *

Estim. 1 800 - 2 700 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Perrault, Claude; Charras, Moyse; Dodart, Denis. Messrs. Perrault, Charras and Dodart's treatises on the natural history of animals and plants; which were formerly presented to the Royal French Acad. Acad. of Sciences. With accompanying engravings drawn from life. Translated from the French (by Johann Joachim Schwabe). 3 volumes. With engraved frontispiece and 137 mostly folded copper plates by Claude Duflos. Leipzig, Arkstee and Merkus, 1757-58. 24.5 x 20 cm. Marbled paper boards of the period with handwritten label on spine (somewhat rubbed, spine and joints partly with cover defects). First and only German edition. - Nissen, BBI 552 and ZBI 3128 - Plates 44 and 45 loose. - 99 of the finely engraved plates show mostly exotic animals, 38 plates with depictions of rare plants. - Old name entry on inside cover. Slightly stained. Quite fresh inside, the plates clean and in strong impressions. VAT: *

Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Botany - Carrichter, Bartholomäus. Horn deß Heyls menschlicher Blödigkeit Oder Groß Kräuter Buch. Darinn die Kräuter deß Teutschlands auß dem Liecht der Natur ... described. With 58 larger woodcuts (after Fuchs). Frankfurt, Götze Erben, 1673. 18 pp., 374 (recte 376) pp., 8 pp. 21.5 x 16 cm. Contemporary vellum binding (stained, cover wavy, joints cracked). Last edition of the herbal of the personal physician Ferdinand I and Maximilian II Bartholomäus Carrichter, first published in 1576. - Krivatsy 2183 (without the folding table) - Nissen, BBI 332 (addendum p. 25) - Pritzel 1542 - The herb book arranges the medicinal plants according to the signs of the zodiac and attaches importance to the planetary positions for the collection and use of herbs. - Without the mostly missing folding table "Homo herbaceus". - Front endpaper with ex-libris Kenneth K. Mackenzie. - Browned. VAT: *

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Botany - Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis. Natural History of Trees, in which is treated of the dissection of plants and the arrangement of their growth; as an introduction to the complete treatise on forests and woods. Together with a treatise on the usefulness of botanical teaching species; and an explanation of the technical terms commonly used in this science and in forestry. Translated from the French by Carl Christoph Oelhafen von Schöllenbach. 2 volumes. With engraved head vignette and 50 folded copper plates. Nuremberg, de Launoy for Winterschmidt, 1764-1765. 14 pp., 276 pp., 2 pp.; title, 291 (recte 293) pp., 1 pp. 24.5 x 19.5 cm. Contemporary leather bindings, each with 2 spine labels and gilt spine. First German edition. - Nissen BBI 543 - Fromm 7660 and 7659 - DSB IV, 224 - Cobres 516, 52: "An excellent work." - Wöllner 455: "This translation can be given all praise, as it is faithful and written in a flowing style." - A fine copy with wide margins. VAT: *

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Botany - Gunnerus, Niels Dorph. Tentamen oeconomico-botanicum de usu plantarum indigenarum in arte tinctoria methodo Linnaeana conscriptum, una cum discursu praeliminari de utilitate botanices. Copenhagen, M. Hallager, 1773. XXVIII, 47 p., 6 pp. 20 x 12.5 cm. Mottled leather binding of the period with floral gilt spine, gilt-stamped cover borders, calico paper endpapers and gilt edges (spine somewhat rubbed). Only edition, very rare. - Not in Stafleu-Cowan, Soulsby, Pritzel, Cobres etc. - List of 93 Scandinavian dye plants according to the Linnaean system, with trivial names, locations and usable pigments. Gunner (1751-89) is best known as the posthumous editor of the 2nd part of his uncle Johann Ernst's "Flora Norvegica". - Fine impression on strong paper, fresh. VAT: *

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Botany - Ryff, Walther Hermann (pseudonym: Q. Apollinaris). A short handbook and experiment, of many species, through the whole body of man, from the head to the feet. Including a lively description of several ... Herbs, and water distilled and distilled from them ... Including the little book of experiments of twenty pestilent roots by the learned Tarquinii Ocyori (that is: T. Schnellenberg). With 185 botanical woodcuts. Strasbourg, Josias Städel, 1659. 2 nn., CCXII num. 18 (the last white) nn. Pl. 16 x 9.5 cm. Contemporary vellum binding (more heavily browned, small tears to capital, lower front hinge somewhat cracked). Benzing, Ryff 70 - cf. Nissen, BBI 1708 and Kräuterbücher 62 - A small book of herbs and medical remedies, often published until the beginning of the 18th century, first published in 1549 and the appendix in Schellenberg's "Experimentierbüchlein" 1588 - Endpapers with old inscriptions, title with old ownership inscriptions, small loss at bottom (no loss of text) and somewhat closely trimmed in right margin, quires somewhat loosened in places, somewhat browned and fingerstained, a few small marginal tears.

Estim. 340 - 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Bonnet, Charles. Treatises on Insectology. Translated from the French and edited with some additions by Johann August Ephraim Goeze. With 7 (1 folded) copper plates. Halle, Gebauer, 1774. 32 p., 2 pp., 596 p. 21.5 x 13 cm. Interim paperback of the period with old handwritten spine title (edges slightly rubbed). Second German edition, first published in 1773. - Cf. Hagen I, 71, 2 - Fromm 3612 - Horn/Sch. 8027 - Nissen, ZBI 462 - Early work by the Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet (1720-1793), published in 1745 under the title "Traité d'insectologie", in which he describes in detail, among other things, the unisexual reproduction of the aphid he discovered, "his first and greatest discovery, the parthenogenesis of the aphid" (DSB II, 286). - Untrimmed. - Partly slightly foxed. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Brehm, Christian Ludwig. Textbook of the natural history of all European birds. 2 volumes. With 1 old colored folded copper plate by C. Susemihl. Jena, A. Schmid, 1823-24. XII p., 1 leaf, 416 p.; VIII p., pp. 417-1047. 18.5 x 11 cm. Contemporary half leather binding with green spine label and gilt spine (rubbed). First edition. - Early (second) publication of the "old Brehm". - The plate in the binding with 2 waterstains, otherwise a clean copy. VAT: *

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques. Ornithologia sive Synopsis methodica sistens Avium Divisione in Ordines, Genera, Species, ipsarumque Varietates. - Ornithologie ou Méthode contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, genres, Especes & leurs Variétés. 6 volumes and supplement in 6 volumes. With 6 identical, partly colored engraved titles, 1 engraved and colored armorial vignette, 261 (212 colored) folding engravings and 1 folding table. Paris, Bauche, 1760. 25.5 x 20 cm. Marbled leather bindings of the period, each with 2 gilt-stamped spine labels, floral gilt spine and marbled endpapers (rubbed and bumped, corners and capitals restored). First edition. - Nissen, IVB 145 - Anker 69 - Splendid bird book, the plates by F. N. Martinet mostly uncolored. The present copy, according to the doublet stamps on the titles from the library of Emperor Franz I, is colored throughout except for 7 systematic plates in volume 1 and the 42 plates of volume 5. - "Written by one of the greatest connaisseurs of birds of the time, the work deals with 1336 species in addition to 150 'varieties' distrubted over 115 genera." - Some browning and foxing, the uncolored volume 5 waterstained and somewhat spotty throughout, volume 6 with increasing waterstaining at the head from about halfway through. VAT: *

Estim. 1 800 - 2 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc de. General history of nature in all its particular parts, together with a description of the natural history collection ... of the King of France. (Translated by Zink and Kästner). Parts 1-8 (2 volumes each) in 8 volumes. With 16 (partly repeated) engraved title vignettes, several text vignettes, 577 partly folded copper plates, 2 folding tables and 2 engraved folding maps. Hamburg and Leipzig, Grund and Holle, 1750-74. 25.5 x 20 cm. Mottled leather bindings of the period with gilt-stamped spine titles on black ground and spine fillets (spine lightened, a few scuff and worm marks as well as water stains). First German edition. - Nissen, ZBI 709 - Anker 79 - Fromm 4272 - This "large" edition of Buffon contains the natural history of man and the "four-footed" animals (mammals) in addition to the description of the King of France's natural history chamber. - Volumes 9 to 11 on birds with 146 copper plates were also published. - Volumes 1 and 2 with a preface by Alfred von Haller (spine title "von Haller" throughout). The last volume with a main index of the first eight parts and an index of the copper plates. - Evenly faintly browned, fine set. VAT: *

Estim. 1 600 - 2 400 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Cory, Charles Barney. The birds of Haiti and San Domingo. 4 deliveries (all published) in 1 volume. With 22 colored lithographs and 1 lithographed map. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1884-85. 198 pp. 30 x 23 cm. Contemporary half leather binding with gilt-stamped spine title and 4 original illustrated wrappers bound in at the back (spine lightened, edges and joints rubbed and slightly bumped). First edition. - Zimmer I, 138 - Sitwell 87 - Wood 1885: "A monograph of the birds of the islands of Haiti and San Domingo, with synonymy, description, plumages, and notes on each of the species." - In addition to a precise description of the birds, the American ornithologist Charles Barney Cory (1857-1921) also provides information on their distribution. - Minimally foxed and slightly browned in places, a fine copy overall. VAT: *

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Denton, Sherman Foote. As Nature Shows them: Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. 2 volumes. With 56 nature self-prints of butterflies on paper backing, mounted individually or in pairs on plates with silk shirts, and over 400 photographs in the text. Boston, Widden & Millet, 1900. X pp. 3, 161 pp.; XI, 2 pp. 162-361. 26 x 18 cm. Early 20th century blue-green marocco binding with gilt-stamped spine titles, broad gilt inner edges, hand-marbled endpapers and gilt head edges, signed MacLehose, Glasgow (spine slightly faded). Only edition, one of 500 numbered copies. - Nissen, ZBI 1079. - "The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in this work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterwards colored by hand." (Preface). - Preparations partly with minor traces of glue in the margins of the backing sheets, otherwise fresh. VAT: *

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Ellis, John. Essai sur l`histoire naturelle des corallines, et d`autres productions marines du même genre ... traduit de l`anglois. With engraved frontispiece and 39 (5 folded) copper plates. The Hague, P. de Hondt 1756. XVI, 125 p., 1 leaf. 26.5 x 21 cm. - Bound: Donati, Vitaliano. Essai sur l`histoire naturelle de la Mer Adriatique, avec une lettre du Leonard Sesler, sur une nouvelle espece de plante terrestre. Traduit de l`Italy. With 11 partly folded copper plates. The Hague, P. de Hondt, 1758. VI, 73 p., 2 pp. Bibliophilic new vellum volume (signed: "Andreas Raub") with 2 spine labels, some gilt to spine and plant drawing on front cover in cloth slipcase. I.: First French edition. - Nissen BBI 590 and ZBI 1281 - Based on Ellis' writings, Linné decided to include corals in the systematics of the animal kingdom. - With precise observations on the many different corallines and sponges, the description of a large marine polyp recovered by whalers in the Arctic Ocean and an illustration of Mr. Cuff's microscope. - II: First French edition (Italian EA 1750). - Nissen ZBI 1137 - Pritzel 2370;- Stafleu/Cowan 1500 - Cobres I, 427: "Estimated and classic". - Main work on marine biology by the Padua-born naturalist and physician Donati (1717-1762) on the study of the Adriatic seabed, classification of marine animals and plants as well as fishing gear and methods for catching corals, sponges and small animals. Leonhard Sesler's letter in the appendix contains an examination of the mountain plant "Vitaliana". - Two standard works on corals in good condition. VAT: *

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Japanese manuscript with handwritten title and 63 watercolor drawings on 19 sheets, including 58 birds and 5 flowers. Japan, probably 19th century. 25 x 34 cm. New block binding. With illustrations of sparrows, buzzard, hawk, kingfisher, etc. The individual birds or groups of birds inscribed in the manuscript. - Some fingerstaining, a few sheets more heavily stained, marginal tears in places. VAT: *

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Jardine, William. Illustrations of the British Salmonidae with Descriptions. With 12 old colored copper plates by W. H. Lizars after drawings by Jardine and 4 (1 colored) text vignettes (3 engraved, 1 in woodcut). Edinburgh, self-published, 1839-41. 12 pp. Text (without the mostly missing title), silk shirts for the plates preserved. 64 x 50 cm. Unbound in 2 original half-leather folders with gilt-stamped cover titles (somewhat rubbed, bumped and with light-staining, the capitals scuffed, 1 joint somewhat torn, closing straps missing). Only edition, one of about 70 completed copies. - Nissen, ZBI 2092 - Jackson & Davis, Sir William Jardine. A Life in Natural History, pp. 60-62 - One of the most profound studies on English and Irish salmon, trout and related species, at the same time one of the most beautiful fish books ever. Jardine made the drawings immediately after catching the fish at the water's edge; for the quickly fading coloration of the fish he enlisted the services of John Gould's colorist, Gabriel Bayfield. The depictions are life-size and finely executed in every detail. - "Jardine was the foremost ichthyologist in Scotland, perhaps even in the United Kingdom, in the nineteenth century. He was a fine fisherman and fished the Annan, which flowed through his rock in Dumfriesshire, and the best stretches of the Tweed when he lived for three years at St Boswells, Roxburghshire. One of his aims was to establish the life cycles of the salmon and the sea trout ... His interest in fishing and fisheries led to his appointment as one of the royal commissioners to the Salmon Fisheries Survey of England and Wales in 1860." (Jackson & Davis, p. X). - Text sheets and plates in excellent condition. VAT: *

Estim. 16 000 - 24 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Moore, Frederic. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. 3 volumes. With 215 colored lithographed plates. London, Reeve & Co, 1880-87. 30 x 22.5 cm. Original red cloth bindings with gilt-stamped spine titles and publisher's signatures on the front covers (somewhat rubbed and bumped). Only edition, rare. - Nissen, ZBI 2877 - Detailed illustrated catalog of all 350 butterfly species known to date in Sri Lanka, often with their preforms. Moore (1830-1907) was a scientific draughtsman at the East India Museum and is best known for his multi-volume monograph "Lepidoptera Indica". The plates in the present work are based on studies by the local artists G. and W. de Alwis, but were revised by the author from original specimens, redrawn and transferred to the stone himself. - Endpapers, cut and some text pages somewhat foxed, a few leaves of volume 3 with a small compression mark in the outer margin, otherwise a very well-preserved copy. VAT: *

Estim. 3 000 - 4 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Collection of various foreign and rare birds. 9 parts in 3 volumes. With 3 (of 4) engraved frontispieces, 9 identical title vignettes, 1 old colored and folded copper map, 445 (of 473) old colored copper plates and 1 uncolored additional plate. Nuremberg, Fleischmann, 1749-76. 39 x 24 cm. Contemporary leather bindings, each with 2 gilt-stamped spine labels, floral gilt spine, gilt-stamped cover borders, marbled endpapers and gilt edges (somewhat rubbed and bumped, joints, capitals and corners restored). First edition. - Nissen, IVB 857 - Anker 462 - Zimmer 200 - One of the most beautiful German bird works of the 18th century. Essentially a translation of Edward's "Natural History of Uncommon Birds" and "Gleanings of Natural History" as well as Catesby's "Natural History of Carolina" by L. G. Huth. - The plates are re-engravings by Seligmann and Leitner, with additional plant and flower staffage. About nine tenths show birds, the rest other animal species. - The complete volumes 1-8 are present, the first 24 (of 52) plates of the final volume 9 are available with text. Each of the 3 volumes with a frontispiece; the map shows the Caribbean with the southeast of North America, the additional plate "CXV" occasionally bound in delivery 4 shows a "Samoyed". - Part 3/plate 31 creased, 7/10 color blurring with offsetting to the text, 9/3 paper break in the platemark, map with tear in the fold and in a crease; slightly browned in places, especially the last volume, altogether a fresh copy. VAT: *

Estim. 16 000 - 24 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

Biology - Zoology - Umlauff, Theodor. Large illustrated catalog of shells, corals, gorgonians and sea animals. Published by Theodor Umlauff Muschel- Import - Export. With numerous lithographic illustrations on 18 pages, including 2 in color. Hamburg, Umlauff, 1896/1912. 5 pp. (Engros price list 201). Title (1912). Pp. 3-19. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Color lithographic original paper boards with cover title (spine partly torn). Rare, only one proof via KVK (Stabi Berlin, dated 1896). - Remains of the catalog published in 1896, probably taken over by the new owner Theodor Umlauff, the title page pasted over with a statement that the son took over the company founded by his father in 1868 in 1912. The accompanying (probably current) price list loosely enclosed. - Enclosed: Engros price list No. 201. Cleaned and polished shells as well as corals, gorgonians and sea animals. Hamburg, J.F.G. Umlauff, (before 1912). Title, 46 pp. 23 x 15.5 cm. Printed original paper boards (first name and address on cover handwritten).

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Chemistry - Glauber, Johann Rudolph. Libellus ignium: Oder Feur Büchlein, Darinnen von unterschiedlichen Frembden und biß Dato noch gantz unbekandten Feuren gehandelt. Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1663. 61 pp. New paperback with old covers. First edition. - Dünnhaupt 1645, 20.1 - Duveen Suppl. 153 - Krivatsy 4794 - Wellcome III, 124 - Ferchl 188 - Poggendorff I, 910 - cf. Ferguson I, 324 (1703). - On chemical processes in the dissolution of metals in acids by the most important representative of applied and technical chemistry in the 17th century. Glauber was influenced by the Paracelsian tradition - not free of alchemical and iatrochemical approaches in his search for a prima materia. But like Boyle, Glauber (1604-1670) was also on the way to a clear "insight into the interplay of chemical substances. In sensibly thought-out, purposefully conducted experiments, he was a pioneer and far ahead of his time." (NDB). - Somewhat browned, without the last white leaf. VAT: *

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Agassiz, Louis. Studies on the glaciers. At the expense of the author. Text and plates in 2 volumes. With 18 tinted lithographic plates by J. Bettannier, 14 of which with transparent lithographic cover sheet with legend, together 32 plates. Text volume: Solothurn, Jent & Gaßmann, 1841. XII, 326 p., 1 leaf. 24 x 15 cm. Half leather binding (around 1900) with 2 colored spine labels and gilt spine/ Plates: Neuchâtel, Nicolet, 1840. 46 x 32 cm. Half leather binding of the time with gilt-stamped spine title. First German edition, conceived at the same time as the French edition and published a few months after it. - PMM 309 (to the French edition) - Dibner 98 - Horblit 1 - Sparrow, Milestones of Science 2 - The German text was edited by C. Vogt under Agassiz's auspices. - Fundamental work of glacial geology and ice age theory, thus, despite Agassiz's later opposition, also paving the way for Darwin's theories. - Good copy, with the very rare plate volume.

Estim. 3 600 - 5 400 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Bach, Heinrich. Geognostic overview map of Germany, Switzerland and the neighboring countries. After the larger works of E. de Billy, L. v. Buch, E. de Beaumont ... and own observations. With 9 color lithographed maps (each 38 x 29 cm). Gotha, Perthes, 1855. 15 pp. Text. 19 x 14 cm. Original dust jacket (text), the maps folded and mounted on linen with lithographed color scales. In cardboard cover and half-cloth slipcase of the period with gilt spine (this rubbed and bumped). First edition of the first geological map of Germany with layered coloring, scale 1:1 million. The map immediately followed his "Theorie der Bergzeichnung" on the relationship between the earth's surface and geological formations (1853). - In very fine condition. VAT: *

Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Bach, Heinrich. The theory of mountain drawing in connection with geognosy ... based on the correspondence of the internal stratigraphy of the various types of rock with their surface. With special consideration and indication. 2 parts (text and plates) in 1 volume. With lithographed title and 23 (8 colored) lithographed maps. Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1853. 72 pp. 23 x 27.5 cm. Contemporary half cloth binding with handwritten title on spine (edges rubbed). First edition. - Poggendorff II, 56. - "In this treatise Bach succeeded in making the dependence of the earth's surface form on geognostic conditions so convincingly clear that Alexander von Humboldt himself commemorated this work with great appreciation." (ADB I, 762). The eight colored maps with detailed geognostic images of the areas around Tuttlingen, Schramberg, Wildberg, Besigheim, Bönigheim, Balingen, Lautlingen and Oberndorf. - Modern printed bookplate on inside cover, endpapers and title, some foxing. VAT: *

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Engelhardt, Moritz von. On geognosy. Representations from the rock structure of Russia. First delivery (all published): Geognostic outline of Finland. With aquatint title vignette, 1 engraved folded map and 3 (2 double-page, 1 colored) aquatint plates in separate cover pocket. Berlin, Reimer, 1820. 1 leaf, 44 pp. 46.5 x 28 cm. Later half leather binding with embossed spine title. First edition. - Title vignette with view of the archipelago near Helsinki, with relief map of Finland, a petrographic map of Finland (more heavily browned), side view of Finland: cross-section of its rock building (colored) and plate with 3 rock views. - Untrimmed. - Text partly browned and stained. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Hamilton, William. Recent observations on the volcanoes of Italy and the Rhine in letters together with curious remarks by Abbot Giraud Soulavie. Translated from the French for the first time by G. A. R. With 1 folded copper map. Frankfurt and Leipzig, Weigel and Schneider, 1784. XVI, 214 p., 4 pp. 20 x 11.5 cm. Spotted leather binding of the period with gilt-stamped spine label and floral gilt to spine (spine and edges rubbed). First German edition. - Schuh, Bio-Bibliography, Hamilton 9 - Contains three extensive letters from the author of "Campi Phlegraei" to John Pringle (2) and Joseph Banks ("Description of the Vesuvian Fire of August 1779"). The majority of the volume consists of additions by the geologist and historian Jean-Louis Giraud-Soulavie. - Modern bookplate, fresh copy. VAT: *

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Naumann, Carl Friedrich. Textbook of geognosy. 2 text volumes and atlas in 4 volumes. With 346 wood engravings and 70 lithographed plates on rolled China. Leipzig, Engelmann, 1850-1854. XI, 1000 pp.; XIV, 1222 pp. 23 x 15 cm (text)/ 26.5 x 20 cm (atlas). Contemporary half-leather bindings with gilt spines and 2 original half-linen folders with mounted title label (rubbed, corners bumped, joints partly restored; folder cover somewhat torn inside, 1 clasp loose). First edition. - Poggendorff II, 257 - NDB XVIII, 765 - Katalog Bergakademie Freiberg 478 - "Recognized as the most complete and thorough compendium of this science, which has served as a guide for all students of geology for decades." (Zittel 219). At the same time, it was the first textbook to devote significant space to questions of geotectonics, with Naumann partly going beyond Alexander von Humboldt. "His 'Lehrbuch' contained all of the scientific information known about earthquakes at that time. Naumann held that certain earthquakes occurred independently of any volcanic activity and might therefore be termed 'plutonic'. This view was in opposition to that of Humboldt, who believed earthquakes and volcanoes to be merely different manifestations of the same causes ... Naumann's most important work." (DSB IX, 620). - The plates with illustrations of the most important key fossils from the animal kingdom for the individual geological formations. - Text browned and foxed, plates browned in margins, title and cover labels with old stamp. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Oppel, Albert. The Jurassic formation of England, France and southwestern Germany. Classified and compared according to their individual members. With 1 lithographed folding map with blue coloring and 1 folded table of strata. Stuttgart, Ebner & Seufert, 1856-58. IV, 857 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Contemporary half leather binding with faded gilt spine (rubbed and bumped). First separate edition, previously published in the Württembergische naturwissenschaftliche Jahreshefte. - Poggendorff III, 987 - Authoritative fine division of the Jurassic formation into 36 biostratigraphic zones (biozones), compiled on the table with their leading fossils. - Endpapers with ownership note of the Tübingen paleontologist Friedrich von Hüne (1875-1969) and antiquarian stamp. - Foxing, map with fold tear. VAT: *

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Geology - Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio. Introduction to the knowledge and use of fossils. For students. Riga and Mitau, Hartknoch, 1769. 10 p., 195 p. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with gilt-stamped spine label (somewhat rubbed and bumped). First edition. - Schuh, Bio-Bibliography, Scopoli 4 - "Scopoli's first text book on mineralogy. It is an introductory work in mineralogical science, written for the student, and based upon the author's own experience in studying and arranging his mineral collection ... arranged according to his own classification system containing two classes: (1) earths and (2) mined substances." (shoe). - Inside cover with crossed-out bookplate and ownership note of the Swiss naturalist and alpinist Samuel Wyttenbach (1748-1830). - Title with later but old name stamp, backing on verso, somewhat browned and foxed. VAT: *

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Agriculture - Horticulture - Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias. Ornamental plants and their treatment. An exact description and illustration of those plants which are planted for ornament and pleasure both in the garden, outdoors and in heated and covered rooms, with much art, experience and expense. An instructive manual for flower gardening. With 66 colored copper plates. Augsburg, Schlosser, 1828. 3 pp., 748 (recte 754) pp., 16 pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. Half leather binding of the time (rubbed, spine somewhat cracked). Unterhaltungen aus dem Pflanzenreiche, vol. 10 - Published anonymously. - Dochnahl 173 (edition of 1822) and 178 (this edition, without author's name and with only 6 engravings). - The present edition not in the KVK; probably a reprint of the edition Vienna, Pichler 1821; an earlier edition with the same number of plates, but considerably fewer pages of text. - Stamp on endpapers, plates partly with handwritten text in pencil, partly slightly browned or somewhat stained. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Agriculture - Poultry farming - Reaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de. Instructions on how to hatch and rear all kinds of tame poultry at any time of the year, either by means of the warmth of manure or the common fire. Translated from the French by J. C. Thenn. 2 parts in 1 volume. With 16 folded copper plates and 10 engraved figurative vignettes. Augsburg, Klett Witwe, 1767/68. 6 pp., 272 p.; 1 pp., 350 p. 18.5 x 10.5 cm. Plain half-leather binding of the period with calico paper cover, cut speckled in pen (signature remnant on spine). First complete German edition, a short excerpt had already been published in 1750. - Cf. Nissen, ZBI 3314 (original edition 1749-51). - Little-known work on poultry breeding, artificial hatching, preservation of eggs, etc. The plates with illustrations of hatcheries, chicken coops and enclosures. - Mottling somewhat drawn into the cut, a good and clean copy. VAT: *

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Mathematics - Euler, Leonhard. Institutionum calculi integralis. Editio tertia. 4 volumes. With 4 plates. St. Petersburg, Academia Imperialis Scientiarum, 1824-45 (-91). 25 x 20 cm. Late 19th century half leather volumes with gilt-stamped spine labels and gilt spines (spines rubbed, capitals bumped, joints partially chipped, 2 title labels fragmentary). Third edition. - Eneström 342.3, 366.3, 385.3 and 660.2. - "The 'Institutiones calculi integralis' exhibits Euler's numerous discoveries in the theory of both ordinary and partial differential equations, which were especially useful in mechanics." (DSB IV, 478). - Volume 4, pp. 1-160 and 481-620 in the 1891 reprint as described by Eneström. - Modern bookplate, somewhat browned and foxed, the reprint more heavily browned. VAT: *

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Mathematics - Haas (Haase), Salomon. Self-teaching art of arithmetic, in which all types of arithmetic which have an impact on both action and housekeeping, as well as on legal scholarship, are presented in a very clear and concise manner, some of which have never been shown before; together with a thorough guide to the relationship and comparison of the rates in the rule DE TRI against each other. Second revised edition. Frankfurt and Leipzig, Brönner, 1766. 16, 430 p., 1 leaf. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary half vellum binding (covers stained and rubbed). Second edition, first published in 1757 - The author was a mathematics teacher in Darmstadt. - Old inscription on front inside cover. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Mathematics - Rost, Johann Leonhardt. Mathematical pleasure and utility garden. Containing the most necessary of the Arithmetica Vulgari, Decimali and Sexagesimali; likewise of Geometry, Trigonometry, Longimetry and Planimetry; or of Field Measurement; together with an Instruction in Perspectivity, as contained in Mr. Desargue's Beginnings, in an easy manner with the perspective measuring stick; also an addition of horizontal and spherical plane drawings, with a notice of anamorphic figures. For the benefit of the beginner, explained in a compendium and illustrated with many copper plates. With 23 folded copper plates. Nuremberg, Johann Christoph Weigel, 1724. double-page title, 2 pp., 262 pp., 9 pp. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with spine label and rich gilt spine (somewhat rubbed, cover slightly curved). First edition of this interesting handbook, written by the baroque novelist and astronomer Johann Leonhardt Rost, published anonymously. - Dünnhaupt V, 27, 1 - Only partially slightly browned. A good and complete copy. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Bellini, Lorenzo. De Urinis Et Pulsibus, De Missione Sanguinis, De Febribus, De Morbis Capitis, Et Pectoris. Opus Laurentii Bellini, Dicatum Francisco Redi. Cum Praefatione Johannis Bohnii ... Ac Indice Locupletissimo. Editio Secunda Priori Correctior. Frankfurt and Leipzig, Grosius and Cizae, Charactere Huchonis, 1698. 16 p., 699 p., 16 p. - Prebound: The same. Opuscula aliquot, ad Archibaldum Pitcarnium, Professorem Lugd. Batavum, in quibus praecipue agitur De motu cordis in & extra uterum, ovo, ovi, aere & respiratione. De motu bilis & liquidorum omnium per corpora animalium. De fermentis & glandulis, &c. With 3 folded copper plates. Leiden, Boutesteyn, 1696. 10 p., 261 p., 1 p. 20.8 x 16 cm. Contemporary vellum binding with old handwritten spine title. I. Wellcome II, 140 - VD17 3:005439P. - "Recognizing the value of urine as a diagnostic aid, Bellini insisted on its chemical analysis in pathological conditions ... Bellini began to develop his hydraulic iatromechanics in this work, in which he considered the blood as a physical fluid with simple mechanical and quantifiable properties." (Cf. Norman I, 63). - II. Second edition, dedicated to Pitcairne. - Hirsch-H. I, 447 - Wellcome II, 140 - DSB I, 593 - Bellini was one of the most important representatives of the iatromechanical school. - "The `Opuscula` developed Bellini`s earlier iatromechanical themes most fully. Organized into postulates, theorems, and corollaries, it treats problems ranging from the hydraulics of intrauterine and extrauterine circulation." (DSB). - "De urinis" browned, the last few quires with small marginal tears. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Falconer, William (William). Observations on the Influence of the Celestial Circuit, the Situation, Natural Constitution, and Population of a Country, of its Food and Manner of Life, on the Temper, Manners, Minds, Laws, Manner of Government, and Religion of the People. From the English, with notes and additions (by E. B. Hebenstreit). With engraved title vignette. Leipzig, Weygand, 1782. 23 pp., 698 p. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label and gilt spine. First German edition. - Hirsch-H. II, 472 - Wellcome II, 7 - William Falconer (1744-1824) was one of the first to establish a connection between climate and health. - A little browned. VAT: *

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Geoffroy, Etienne Francois. Tractatus de Materia Medica, sive de medicamentorum simplicium historia, virtute, delectu, & usu. With engraved folding table. 3 volumes. Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1741. 20 x 12 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with spine label and gilt spine (spine rubbed). First edition. - I. De Fossilibus. II. De Vegetabilibus Exoticis. III De Vegetabilibus Indigenis. - Main work by the Parisian physician Etienne François Geoffroy (1672-1731), "the first scientific pharmacology in the modern sense." (Ferchl 178f.). - Endpapers somewhat stained, slightly browned. VAT: *

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Millot, Jacques André. The art of determining the sex of the child to be conceived at the time of conception, together with a critical examination of all theories of conception and a complete system of this important natural process. From the French with annotations and additions, with engraved frontispiece and 8 illustrations on 4 copper plates. Leipzig, Reinicke, 1802. XXX, 338 pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label (rubbed). First German edition. - Hirsch/H. IV, 212 - A little stained in places. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Acupuncture - Churchill, J. M. Treatise on Acupuncture. Translated from the English by J. Wagner. Edited with preface and additions by J. B. Friedreich. With engraved frontispiece. Bamberg, Wesché, 1824. XVI, 44 pp. 19.5 x 11 cm. Printed original wrappers (somewhat rubbed and stained, spine with losses). First German edition. - Zachert/Zeidler I, 343 - Hirsch/H. II, 29 - cf. Waller 1982 and Wellcome II, 347 (EA London 1821). - "The first English monograph on acupuncture" (Garrison/M. 6374.14). - The frontispiece shows two acupuncture needles. - Untrimmed. - Browned. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Anatomy - Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas. Illustrations of the human organs of smell. With 9 copper plates by C. Schleich and P. J. Laminit after C. Koeck, 4 of which are outline drawings and fully executed. Frankfurt, Varrentrapp and Wenner, 1809. IX, 24 pp. 41 x 28 cm. Interim paperback of the period (stained and bumped, spine missing). First edition. - Untrimmed. - Ex-libris Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bibliothek Posen with imprint "Geschenk der Kgl. Paulinischen Bibliothek, Münster i. W. 1900". - Foxing, binding partly loose, title on both sides, 1 plate with old library stamp on verso. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Anatomy - Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas. Illustrations of the human auditory organ. With 9 copper plates by G. Rücker and J. C. Eckardt after C. Koeck, 4 of which are outline drawings and fully executed. Frankfurt, Varrentrapp and Wenner, 1806. X, 36 pp. 41 x 29 cm. Interim paperback of the period (stained and heavily bumped, joint cover torn). First edition. - Garrison-Morton 1554 - One of "his masterpieces on the senses" (Hirsch-H. V, 330). - Untrimmed. - Title verso and page 2 with old library stamps. Ex-libris Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bibliothek Posen with imprint "Geschenk der Kgl. Paulinischen Bibliothek, Münster i. W. 1900". - Foxing. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Bacteriology - Struve, Christian August. Studies and experiences on scarlet fever. Hanover, Hahn, 1803. XII, 331 pp. 18.5 x 11 cm. Marbled half leather binding of the period with gilt-stamped spine label and spine fillets. First edition, rare. - Hirsch-Hübotter V, 570 - The physician from Görlitz wrote numerous works of "popular-med. Content, but belonging to the most dignified of their kind." (Hirsch). - Clean copy, nicely bound. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Surgery - Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus. Opera chirurgica in duas Partes divisa. Quarum prior operationes chirurgicas ... comprehendit. ... Altera pars libros quinque chirurgiae, ... sub nomine Pentateuchi chirurgici divulgatos; ... 2 parts and appendix in 1 volume. With 2 woodcut printer's marks and numerous woodcut initials. Venice, R. Megliett, 1619. 10 pp. 187, 10 pp. 178, 26 pp. 31 x 21 cm. Leather binding (18th century) with spine label (rubbed, front cover with pressure marks). First edition. - Krivatsy 3805 - not in Wellcome, Osler, Waller-Hirsch and Garrison-M. - Important collection of surgical treatises by Fabricius, Harvey's teacher. He was the most famous Italian surgeon of the Renaissance. His fame as a teacher attracted many students to his place of work in Padua. - The work is particularly important for the history of orthopaedics (for details see Valentin, Geschichte der Orthopädie 68ff.). - Slight waterstaining and some browning throughout, last leaf partly reinforced with Japan and with restored losses (little loss of text).

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Obstetrics - Mauriceau, Francois. The best help for pregnant women and women in labor. That is: A true and thorough report on how to assist them happily, with good and useful advantage, in their childbearing, both natural and sometimes against nature ... A very useful work for wound doctors, as well as highly necessary for all midwives to understand the art of childbirth ... translated into German. With engraved title, 23 (11 folded) copper plates and 3 woodcuts. Nuremberg, Knorzen für Hofmann, 1681. 7 p., 607 p. 17 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary vellum binding (somewhat stained and browned). Second German edition. - Hirsch-Hübotter IV, 124 - Waller 6359 - First published in Paris in 1668 under the title "Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchees", a standard work on obstetrics by the French obstetrician Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709). - Collector's stamp on endpapers, first few quires loose, 1 folding plate with tear. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Obstetrics - Mohrenheim, Joseph Jacob von. Treatise on the art of childbirth. Written at the highest command of Her Majesty the Empress of all Russia. 2 parts in 1 volume. With engraved title vignette, 24 engraved text vignettes and 46 (6 folded) copper plates. Leipzig, Gräff, 1803. 7 pp., 216 pp., 24 pp. 52 x 38 cm. Contemporary half leather binding (spine restored, corners bumped, covers scuffed). Title edition of the first edition of 1791, in which only the title page with publisher and year of publication has been changed, otherwise identical to the first edition. - Waller 6594 - Hirsch-H. IV, 229 - Blake 307 - Garrison-M. 6161 (for edition St. Petersburg 1791): "The importance of this work lies mainly in its splendid life-size engravings". - The splendid plates of high quality, compiled from Smellie, Roederer, Aitken and others and mostly engraved in life-size, make the book one of the most famous works of obstetrics of the 18th century. The work was commissioned by Catherine the Great. - Endpapers and title a little dusty, old name on title, partly browned and stained, some outer text leaves with narrow waterstain. VAT: *

Estim. 2 400 - 3 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Pharmacy - Pharmacopoea Helvetica, in duas partes divisa ... praefatus est Albertus de Haller. Accedunt syllabus medicamentorum, in classes divisus, et duo indices. 3 parts in 1 volume. With engraved frontispiece by J. G. Sturm. Basel, Im-Hof, 1771. 13, 28 pp., 1 leaf, 212, 384, 54 pp. 33 x 21 cm. Contemporary half vellum binding with spine label (dusty, rubbed, small tear to spine). First edition of the first official pharmacopoeia of Switzerland. - Blake 350 - Modeled on the Wittenberg pharmacopoeia first printed in 1741, the fifth edition of which was published in Stuttgart in 1771 (cf. Schelenz 567). - Front inner hinge loosened, bookplate, evenly somewhat browned. VAT: *

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Pharmacy - Woyt, Johann Jacob. Gazophylacium Medico-Physicum, oder Schatz-Kammer Medicinisch und Natürlicher Dinge, in welcher alle Medicinische Kunst-Wörter, inn- und äusserliche Krankheiten, neben dererselben Genes-Mitteln, alle Mineralien, Metalle, Ertzte, Erden, zur Medicin gehörige fremde und einheimische Thiere, Kräuter, Blumen, Saamen, Säfte, Oele, Hartze, alle rare Specereyen und Materialien ... and provided with a necessary index. 10th edition. With engraved frontispiece and engraved title vignette. Leipzig, Lanckisch Erben, 1740. 3 p., 1035 p., 34 p. index. 21.5 x 17 cm. Contemporary leather binding with spine label, rich gilt spine, inlaid covers with ornamental blind embossing, simple gilt fillets and small gilt-stamped crowned coat of arms supralibros on front cover. Main work of the Königsberg physician Johann Jacob Woyt (1671-1709). Comprehensive compendium of recipes, remedies and medicinal herbs, minerals and metals. - Very good copy in splendid binding. From a Danish castle library. VAT: *

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Apparent death - Wagener, Samuel Christoph. The lifesaver. Or how many sham-dead children, crushed infants, severely prostrate mothers, hysterical women, men lying in a strangulation ramp, and especially many a sham-dead man fainting from bleeding on the battlefield could be kept alive. Altenburg, Pierer, 1835. XII, 118 p. 20 x 12.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label and gilt (edges slightly rubbed). First edition. - Slightly stained.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Medicine - Sexual research - Love and life. Journal for birth control and sexual reform. Edited by Josef Mauschewsky. 5th year: issues 2-4, 8-12 - 6th year: issues 1-3, 5-12 - 7th year: issues 1-3 - 22 issues in total. With numerous illustrations. Berlin, 1931-1933. 29.5 x 21 cm. Stapled (perforated, 3 covers with heavy wear). Central organ of the League for Maternity Protection and Social Family Hygiene (Bund für bewußte Geburtenregelung). VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Mineralogy - Henckel, Johann Friedrich. Flora Saturnizans, Die Verwandschafft des Pflanzen mit dem Mineral-Reich, nach der Natural-Historie und Chymie ..., Nebst einem Anhang vom Kali Geniculato Germanorum oder Gegliederten Saltz-Kraut, insonderheit von einer hieraus neu-erfundenen dem allererschönsten Ultramarin gleichenden Blauen Farbe. With engraved frontispiece by J. B. Brühl and 9 copper plates. Leipzig, J. Chr. Martini, 1722. 5 pp., 671 p., 8 pp. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary parchment binding, covered with contemporary marbled paper, with spine label (rubbed, paper with cover defects). First edition. - Ferchl 225 - Gmelin II 590 i - Poggendorff I 1065 - Pritzel 3955 - Hoover 399 - not in Duveen, Ferguson and Nissen. - Johann Friedrich Henckel (1679-1744) was a Saxon mining councillor in Freiberg, "also worked on the alkali content of plants, believed that the alkalis in the plants were not only formed during cremation, already knew the soda-ultramarine at that time, considered it to be Berlin blue." (Ferchl). - The beautiful frontispiece with allegorical depiction of a garden and a tunnel with miners, the plates show fossils and plants. - Endpapers and frontispiece with small hole, title with backing at lower corner. Frontispiece and title loosened, the following dedication leaf somewhat protruding and edged, browned. VAT: *

Estim. 350 - 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Physics - Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich. Experiments on the law of gravity, on the resistance of air and on the rotation of the earth, together with the history of all earlier experiments from Galileo to Guglielmini. With engraved title with vignette and 8 (2 folded) copper plates. Dortmund, Gebr. Mallinckrodt, 1804. XII, 542 p., 1 leaf. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with old handwritten label on spine (rubbed and bumped). First edition of one of the major works of the versatile Rhenish physicist. Poggendorff I, 145 - NDB II, 60 - Benzenberg (1777-1846) conducted his experiments in the tower of St. Michael's Church in Hamburg and in the shaft of the coal mine in Schlebusch. In doing so, he provided proof that the earth rotates, as the physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton had already pointed out in 1679. But he wanted to be on the safe side and sent his results to the astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. He in turn called in the famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The latter developed a theory about the movement of heavy bodies on the rotating earth. His calculations resulted in an easterly deviation of 8.7 millimetres: confirmation of the experiments in the Michel. - One of the copper plates shows an exterior view of St. Michael's Church in Hamburg, the others mainly show instruments. - Plates 2 to 8 are printed on bluish paper. - Some spotting, the frontispiece with a tear in the margin, the first few quires with a vertical crease. VAT: *

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

Physics - Musschenbroek, Pieter van. Basic Doctrines of Natural Science, after the second Latin edition, together with some new additions by the author, translated into German ... by Johann Christoph Gottscheden. With 26 folded copper plates. Leipzig, Kiesewetter, 1747. 18 pp., 802 pp., 14 pp. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Leather binding of the period with spine label, gilt spine, marbled spines and pastedowns (spine somewhat rubbed, front cover with superficial wormhole). First German edition of his "Elementa physicae". - Bierens de Haan 3488 - Poggendorff II, 247 - Textbook of the entire theoretical and experimental physics, with numerous classical experiments. Among the instructive engravings also Halley's famous magnetic map of the world, "the first accurate Magnetic Chart" (Mottelay 137). - Clean copy. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Physics - Wolff, Christian. Extract from the experiments ... which Michael Friedrich Leistikow has prepared for the use of schools and provided with brief notes. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 49 fold-out copper plates. Halle, Renger, 1738. 8 pp., 183, 159, 143 pp., 12 pp. 17.5 x 10 cm. Contemporary half leather binding over wooden boards with gilt-stamped spine title and some gilt to spine and marbled cover (rubbed). First edition of the systematic summary of Wolff's physical experiments and findings. - Slightly browned, clean copy. VAT: *

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Thu 09 May

Physics - Electricity - Hellwag, Christoph Friedrich. Experiences on the healing powers of galvanism ... und Beobachtungen bey der medicinischen Anwendung der Voltaischen Säule von Maximilian Jacobi. With 1 folded copper plate. Hamburg, Perthes, 1802. VIII, 182 p. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. Marbled half leather binding of the period with gilt-stamped spine label and some gilt to spine. Only edition, rare. - Hirsch-Hübotter III, 139 - The authors practiced together in Eutin in 1801/02, Jacobi (son of the philosopher) became one of the fathers of German psychiatry as director of the Siegburg mental hospital from 1820. His contribution here from p. 125 - Fresh copy on fine writing paper, handsomely bound. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Physics - Electricity - Sue, Pierre. History of galvanism. Freely edited after Sue the elder, together with additions and a treatise on the application of galvanism in practical medicine by Joh. Christ. Leop. Reinhold. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 2 fold-out copper plates. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1803. XII, 228 pp., 1 leaf, pp. 229-328, 176 pp., 1 leaf. 20.5 x 12 cm. Contemporary half leather binding with gilt-stamped spine label and marbled boards (spine rubbed and lightened). First complete German edition, greatly expanded from original sources and systematically reorganized. - Poggendorff II, 598 - cf. Hirsch-Hübotter V, 578 - Reinhold (1769-1809) had already completed his doctorate on galvanism and published further works in this field, this being his main work. The third part on the medical application of electricity, written by him alone. - A clean copy. VAT: *

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technology - GutsMuths, Johann Christoph Friedrich. Mechanische Nebenbeschäftigungen oder praktische Anweisungen zur Kunst des Drehens, Metallarbeitens und Schleifens optischer Gläser zur Selbstbelehrung. As an appendix to his Gymnastics. Second improved and enlarged edition. With engraved frontispiece and 8 folding engravings. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1817. X, 3 pp. 400 p. 17 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label (edges rubbed). Engelmann 132 - Gutsmuths is known as a "pioneer of physical exercises in the history of education" and in this work he treats the technical aspects of metalworking as an elementary component of his pedagogical teaching to educate and promote "body, senses and understanding". - Some browning and spotting in places.

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technology - Mining - Macrinus, Heinrich Samuel. The origin, goods and righteousnesses of the Noble Sources of Lüneburg, especially this uncommon excellence: that the cream is not, as in other places, mixed with blood, but boiled without all blood ... will be presented in detail. With a thorough outline of the customs. With engraved frontispiece and folding copperplate. Lüneburg, Lipper, 1710. 50 pp. 19.5 x 16.5 cm. Softcover in later half cloth binding. First edition. - Humpert 4894 - One of the earliest chronicles of the Lüneburg salt works, with a description of the 54 boiling huts, list of the Sültzenvorsteher since 1370 and the Sülfmeister since 1449, analysis of the salt quality, etc. - The large copper plate (38 x 41 cm) shows the Lüneburg salt works area. - With a table of contents written in an old hand on the 1st flyleaf. - Somewhat browned. VAT: *

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technique - Fireworks - Blümel, Johann Daniel. Clear and thorough instructions on the art of fireworks, especially in those pieces that most delight and amaze the spectators. With 9 folding engravings. Strasbourg, A. König, 1765. 2 pp. 140, 2 pp. 21 x 17.5 cm. Marbled paperback of the period (faded, rubbed, spine with cover defects). First edition. - Ornamentstichkatalog Berlin 3306 - Philip B 130.1 - On the production of powder, various rockets, pleasure balls, water rockets and swarmers, burning wheels, etc. With detailed illustrations and exact weights for the fillings. - Owner's stamp on title, inner hinge chipped, continuous water stain in lower margin, stained in places, small wormholes on rear inner cover and endpapers. VAT: *

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technique - Fireworks - Frezier, Amédée François. Traité des feux d`artifice pour le spectacle. Nouvelle édition, toute changée, & considérablement augmentée. With engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved head vignettes after Cochin and 13 folded copper plates. Paris, Jombert, 1747. LIV p., 1 leaf, 496 p. 20 x 12.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with spine label and gilt spine (somewhat bumped, capitals with small defects). Third, authoritative edition of the work on fireworks, first published in 1707. - Philip F 110.5 - Lotz p. 76f - Cohen/Ricci sp. 412 - Brunet VI, 10223 - Ornamental Engraving Collection 3301 - "For the knowledge of the art of fireworks in the 18th century the book ... is the most informative publication, indeed the most detailed work considering theory, practice, and history, which had been written until then and which has remained unparalleled up to the latest time ... Frézier ... confines himself ... in his work, which deals only with the fireworks of pleasure, does not limit himself to the purely technical side ... In the 1747 edition of his book he says that for a bonfire an accumulation of several pieces of fireworks is not sufficient if one does not understand how to emphasize their fire effects by means of a comprehensible composition." (Lotz). - Three chapters on the necessary materials, on the different types and effects, fire in the air or on or in water, on the structure and sequence of a firework display, each beginning with a pretty vignette of Cochin. The coppers with individual fireworks, some with large decorative structures. - Frontispiece with small tear at bottom, partly slightly browned. VAT: *

Estim. 350 - 500 EUR

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Technology - Fireworks - Websky, Martin. Fireworks for amateurs. With 10 copper plates. Wroclaw, Hirt, 1839. VII, 132 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Marbled paperback of the period (rubbed and bumped). First edition. - Owner's stamp on title. Some spotting throughout, plates browned. - Includes: Scharfenberg, A. Die Feuerwerkkunst in ihrem ganzen Umfang. Textbook of fireworks for professional artists and amateurs. 1st volume (of 2). With text illustrations. Ulm, Ebner, 1848. VII, 447 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label (rubbed). - First edition. - Owner's stamp on dedication leaf. Last 4 leaves loose. - As well as 1 further, unidentifiable title: Der Feuerwerker. Circa 1800. with 2 copper plates ("Der Feuerwerker" and "Werkzeuge des Feuerwerkers" by Carl Frosch). Half cloth of the time. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technology - Crafts - Kunckel von Löwenstern, Johann. Again Newly Erected and Enlarged in Two Parts curieuse Kunst- und Werck-Schul ... First (&) Other Part. 2 volumes. With engraved frontispiece and numerous woodcuts. Nuremberg, Zieger, 1705/07. 3 p., 1357 p., 28 p.; 6 p., 1463 p., 28 p. (last white). 21.5 x 16 cm. Contemporary leather bindings over wooden boards (spine rubbed and lightened, covers somewhat bent open, small wormholes). Second edition, still by Kunckel himself, first published in 1696. - Dünnhaupt 2476, 9.2 - Brüning 3186 - Encyclopedic summary of baroque enameling techniques and craftsmanship. - Volume 1 describes, among other things, the production and processing of gemstones and pearls, glass, mirrors and metals, the art of gold and silver cutting, the preparation of natural objects, embalming, etc.; volume 2 describes inks, paints, varnishes and lacquers, colored paper and perfume, art chamber pieces as well as optical and acoustic illusions. - Provenance: Engraved bookplate of the Juel family library on Valdemars Slot in both volumes, in the second ownership note "Juell" on the flyleaf. - Volume 1 waterstained at the beginning and end (endpapers partly glued to the spines) and slightly worm-eaten, otherwise a clean copy with the second volume mostly missing. VAT: *

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technik - Luftfahrt - Preliminary Results of scientific researches on the first soviet artificial earth satellites and rockets. Predvaritel'nye itogi nauchnyh issledovanij s pomoshch'yu pervyh sovetskih iskusstvennyh sputnikov zemli i raket. Sbornik statej. (Preliminary results of scientific research with the help of the first Soviet earth satellites and rockets. Collected contributions). With numerous tables and diagrams as well as photographic illustrations. Moscow, Akademiya nauk SSSR, 1958. 148 p., 2 pp. 26.5 cm x 17.5 cm. Gilt and blind-stamped original cloth binding (somewhat rubbed). Mezhdunarodnyj geofizicheskij god. XI razdel programmy MGG: Rakety i sputniki. (The international geophysical year. Section XI of the IGY program: Rockets and sputniks). - Enclosed: Kuznecov, A. G. Yavleniya kipeniya i paroobrazovaniya v organizme na bol'shih vysotah. (Symptoms of boiling and vapor formation in the organism at high altitudes). With a total of 10 photographs on 2 sheets of photographic plates (1 printed on both sides). Moscow, Akademiya nauk SSSR, 1957. pp. 293-304. 26 x 16.5 cm. Original paperback (somewhat browned, slightly creased). - Izvestiya Akademii nauk SSSR. Seriya biologicheskaya. (News of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Biological series). No. 3 - First edition. - Rare offprint of the regular periodical. - The author is probably identical with the owner of several aeronautical patents A. G. Kuznecov and in this case was a non-public person. Gestures of scientific exchange with Western colleagues are noteworthy in this context. - Both publications with dedications by the author to the Swedish aviation physicist Professor Nils Sundgren dated May 30, 1959 - On the cover of the brochure: "in memory of the pleasant meetings in Moscow". - In good overall condition.

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technology - Mechanics - Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert. Theoretical, practical and descriptive exposition of the mechanical sciences. Translated from the English after the third improved edition, and with notes and additions by J. F. W. Dietlein. 2 volumes of text and plates in 3 volumes. With 59 engraved plates by J. G. Sturm. Halle, Hemmerde and Schwetschke, 1828. IV, 669 pp.; XX pp., 1 leaf, 642 pp. 20.5 x 12.5 cm (text) and 22 x 26.5 cm (plate volume). Contemporary half leather bindings, each with 2 colored spine labels and gilt to spine (text) and matching contemporary half leather binding with some gilt to spine and gilt-stamped red cover label (plates) (slightly rubbed, spine with library labels). The only German edition of Gregory's main work "A treatise on mechanics", an expanded translation after the third English edition of 1815 by the German engineer Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Dietlein (1782-1837), who was professor at the Berlin Bauakademie from 1826. - Roberts/Trent 147/148 - DSB V, 530 - Poggendorff I, 571 (Dietlein) and I, 949 (Gregory). - "Gregory was in the midst of early efforts to popularize and disseminate scientific knowledge throughout the United Kingdom and the United States ... Gregory's mathematical, scientific and engineering texts helped to foster academic methods of engineering education while giving a generation of artisan-trained engineers a firm theoretical basis." (Dict. of 19th cent. British Scientists II, 842). - Endpapers and title with canceled stamps of a Danish military library, text somewhat browned and foxed, plates scarce. Good copy, uniformly and decoratively bound. VAT: *

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Thu 09 May

Technology - Paper manufacturing - Weichelt, August. Colored paper manufacture. With 178 illustrations and 209 pasted-in samples. Berlin, Hofmann, 1910. XII, 329 p., 9 pp. 23.5 x 16 cm. Original cloth. 2nd, expanded edition of the standard work on colored paper production. - Slightly browned. VAT: *

Estim. 240 - 360 EUR

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Thu 09 May

Floriano Bozzi - Thriller, 1960s tempera on thin cardboard 26 x 37.5 cm Original cover created by Bozzi during the 1960s for a detective novel. Tear at the bottom margin and folds at the corners.

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Kurt Caesar - The Victorious - Milan: Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 1955 tempera on thin cardboard 25.5 x 34 cm Original cover created by Caesar for Il Vittorioso n. 23 published by AVE editions in 1955. Small tear on the right margin. Signed.

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Fabio Fabbi - Spring, 1920s tempera on thin cardboard 24.5 x 33.5 cm Original cover created by Fabbi for the magazine Fiammetta, published by Nerbini during the 1920s. Slight crease at the top left corner. Signed.

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Fabio Fabbi - Goodbye to the countryside, 1920s tempera on thin cardboard 23 x 29 cm Original cover created by Fabbi for the magazine Fiammetta, published by Nerbini during the 1920s. Signed.

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Fabio Fabbi - Malice, 1920s tempera on thin cardboard 21.5 x 29.5 cm Original cover created by Fabbi for the magazine La Sigaretta, published by Nerbini during the 1920s. Signed.

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Alvaro Mairani - Intrepid - Whangarei, 1958 tempera and watercolor on cardboard 30 x 43 cm Original cover created by Mairani for "Whangarei," published in Gli albi dell'Intrepido no. 645 by Universo publishing house in 1958. Small defects in the margins. Signed.

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Primo Marcarini - Intrepid - Satellite, 1962 tempera on cardboard 25.5 x 37.5 cm Original cover created by Marcarini for l'Intrepido No. 6, published by Universo publishing house in 1962. Slight creases on the upper margin.

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