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| H. C. Andersen's Fairy Tales |
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| Rare Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript Book of Hours |
BOOK OF HOURS Illuminated manuscript on vellum
Northern France (perhaps Rheims) 1480 Rare Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript Book of Hoursfor the Use of Rheims[BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rheims, Latin and French. Northern France (perhaps Rheims): ca. 1480].Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small quarto (7 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 200 x 135 mm.). 157 leaves, including an inserted preliminary leaf and two leaves which are ruled, but otherwise blank. (More info...)
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| First edition of the finest work on German fishes ever published |
BLOCH, M.E. Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands
Berlin 1782-85. 3 text-volumes. 4to (250 x 220 mm) & 1 atlas-volume. Folio (430 x 270 mm). With 108fine handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half mottled calf, marbled boards, gilt title lables (More info...)
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| CHRISTMAS CAROL. WITH SIGNED NOTE BY DICKENS |
DICKENS, CHARLES CHRISTMAS CAROL
1843 1ST, 1ST LEECH, JOHN With 4 hand-colored steel engravings and 4 in-text woodcuts by John Leech (More info...)
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| A Monument in the History of European Thought |
Diderot, Denis & Jean le Rond d' Alembert (editors) ENCYCLOPÉDIE, OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES MÉTIERS, PAR UNE SOCIETÉ DE GEN
35 volumes: [Vols. 1-7] Paris, Briasson, David l'aîné, Le Breton, Durand, 1751-1757; [vols. 8-17] "Neuchâtel" (Paris), "Samuel Faulche" (Le Breton), 1765; [Recueil de planches 1-11] Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1762-1772; [Supplement 1-[5]] Amsterdam, M.M. Rey [Paris, Stoupe], 1776-1777; [Table analytique 1-2] Paris & Amsterdam 1780.
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| First Micky Mouse in German Language |
Disney, Walt Micky Maus. - Die Waldmännlein und König Neptung
Colored hardcover Micky-Mouse with 4 pop-up (colored)images. Edited in Zuerich (Switzerland) 1936. - First Publication of Disney in german langugage. (More info...)
Offered by: EOS Buchantiquariat Benz |
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| Exceptionally clean and fine copy of the first great German colour-plate bird book |
FRISCH, J.L. Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes und beyläufig auch einiger Fremden...
Berlin, Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel, [1733-] 1763. 2 volumes. Folio (371 x 237 mm). ff. (102, without one divisional title), with engraved portrait-frontispiece and 255 hand-coloured engraved plates; traces of old library stamp on some plate margins and a few text leaves, a fine, fresh copy in contemporary German speckled calf, gilt panels on sides incorporating a central lozenge, spines gilt. (More info...)
Offered by: Antiquariaat Junk B.V. (Natural History Booksellers since 1899) |
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| The most beautiful work on the animal-world of India. |
GRAY, J.E. Illustrations of Indian Zoology.
London, Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, jun. and Richter, 1830-1834 (-1835). 2 volumes. Folio (480 x 335mm). With 1 lithographed frontispiece portrait of Hardwicke and 202 beautifully handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary green morocco, covers with elaborately tooled borders incorporating shells and thistles, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in the 2nd and 3rd on brown morocco lettering pieces, the rest densely tooled, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. (More info...)
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| Thomas Hardy THE MELLSTOCK EDITION |
Hardy, Thomas The Works of Thomas Hardy in Thirty-Seven Volumes
one of 500 sets of The Mellstock Edition, signed by Hardy -- in dust jackets Hardy, Thomas. THE MELLSTOCK EDITION. The Works of Thomas Hardy in Thirty-Seven Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1919-1920. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jackets. 37 vols. (More info...)
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| The world's most popular Japanese woodblock print |
Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849) The Great Wave - Die grosse Woge
In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa - (Kanagawa oki nami ura). From the series: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji - "Fugaku sanjûrokkei". (More info...)
Offered by: Gerhard Zähringer, Antiquariat und Galerie |
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REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840) & Claude-Antoine THORY (1759-1827) Les Roses, peintes par... Redouté...décrites et classes selon leur ordre naturel, par...Thory.
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| THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS AND CAFFRES,FROM THE YEAR 1772 TO 1776 |
Sparrman, Andrew A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, TOWARDS THE ANTARCTIC POLAR CIRCLE, ANDROUND THE WORLD BUT CHIEFL
lt decoration. Marbled endpapers. A touch of wear to corners; overall quite lovely. London: Printedfor G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row. 1785, First Edition in English, http://www.stairway.org/parmer/images/s091428w.jpg Two volumes. Vol. I: xxviii, 368 pp. Frontis, folding map, two plates of native artefacts at end. Vol. II: viii, 354 pp. (353/354 numbered 349/350); seven natural history plates. (More info...)
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| A Fine First Edition Hobbit in the Original First Issue Dust Jacket |
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Hobbit
or There and Back Again. London George Allen and Unwin 1937 A Fine First Edition Hobbit in the Original First Issue Dust JacketTOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1937]. First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo. 310, [2, ads] pp. One plate and nine text illustrations (including frontispiece).Original light green cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in dark blue on covers and spine. (More info...)
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