Hearth. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1843-1846.First continental edition published almost simultaneously with the London edition of Charles Dickens' famous...

etrusques, grecques et romaines. Paris: presso l'autore (David), 1785.Two volumes of this elegant edition in a contemporary morocco binding, compl...

1772-1774.First edition, a handsomely bound copy of this work following the vogue for encyclopaedic publications in the second half of the 18th ce...

cabinet secret du Mus?? Royal de Naples. Paris: Ledoux, 1832.First complete edition of these 41 erotic plates illustrating objects and sculptures ...

Exemplar with 4 extra plates (following OPAC collation), of this collection of biographies written by Félibien Des Avaux, historiographer to the k...

Martin, 1650.First edition of this important comparative study of classical architectural orders elegantly illustrated and in a contemporary bindi...

Ex dono auctoris copy to Arnold Mortier of this album consisting of 28 full-page coloured vignettes of a humorous nature offering an interesting i...

(1741-1824). Histoire de France, repr?sentàe par figures accompagn'es de discours. Paris: David, 1787-1796.Rare, fine work covering French history...

14 volumes, 8vo and 16mo. These include: GELLI, Jacopo (1858-1935). Manuale del Biliardo. Milan: Hoepli, 1895. First edition with 79 engravings [W...

5 works: ROBIDA, Albert. La Grande Mascarade parisienne. Paris, Librairie illustr. (1881-84) [WITH:] UZANNE, Octave. La femme a Paris. Paris: Anci...

Chauffort and Le Prince.Fine lot of works illustrated by the best French arists of the period.DORAT Claude Joseph (1734-1781). Fables nouvelles. T...

ed il Trattato della statua di Leon Battista Alberti. Bologna: Instituto delle scienze, 1786.An important text containing three works fundamental ...

First complete edition of the works of the playwright Pier Jacopo Martello in an unrecorded variant, with the 15 plates by Francesco Aquila engrav...

Third edition of this interesting work on carpentry with numerous illustrations and finely engraved plates in copper. Of these, 9 are architectura...

An important work on the iconography of the Serenissima praising the Doges of Venice, featuring the engraved portraits of 104 doges from Paoluccio...

sonnenklare Vorstellung menschlicher Nichtigkeit durch alle Stànd und Geschlechter. Zurich: Bodmer, 1650.Fine copy with the plates in fine impress...

Heracleenses. Naples: Gessari, 1754-1755.Scarce original edition, often incomplete, of this treatise on epigraphy regarding the bronze plates of H...

Large lot containing first editions of archaeological and numismatic interest, with interesting provenances.Folio, (312 x 215mm). 2 plates folded ...

[TOGETHER WITH:] Superstitions anciennes et modernes: prejugés vulgaires qui ont induit les peuples é des usages & é des pratiques contraires à la...

Giovanni Giacomo Hertz, 1690.First and only edition of this iconographically curious work with illustrations engraved by Sister Isabella Piccini, ...

Incomplete copy of this scarce first edition of this collection of symbolic figures for the use of painters and sculptors, by Filippo Pistrucci, R...

Florence: Viviani, 1754-1762.Scarce first edition. Complete work in ten volumes, adorned with 47 engraved plates depicting views of the city, chur...

dall'abate Cesare Orlandi. Perugia: Costantini, 1764-67.18th-century edition of Cesare Ripa's celebrated iconography expanded by Abbot Orlandi and...

Endter, 1768-1775.Second, expanded edition, after the first of 1675-79, of the most important work of Baroque art history. The monumental nature o...

architettura, e di alcune pitture della città di Vicenza. Vicenza: Vendramini Mosca, 1761.A good copy of the first edition of Bertotti Scamozzi's ...

Antwerp: Gaspar Gevaerts, 1635-1641.Collection of the principal plates reproducing the architecture and ephemeral paintings designed by Rubens for...

Scarce second edition, enlarged with 87 plates compared to the first of 1590, of this iconic treatise on ancient and modern costumes, in which the...

continens quinque ornamenta Architecturae [BOUND WITH:] MAROLOIS, Samuel (1572-1627). Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis. Amsterdam: Janssonius,...

eseguito nell'Anfiteatro di Milano il giorno 18 ottobre 1807. Milan: Sonzogno, 1807.Lot consisting of two scarce pamphlets and newspapers of the t...

intorno ai globi volanti ove principalmente si parla della direzione assegnabile nella maniera più facile, più semplice, e naturale. Alexandria: V...

Third edition of the plates of the primum mobile, or outer celestial sphere in the Ptolemaic model, for the determination of astrological directio...

Lot comprising the first edition of Mapertius's scientific dissertation on the phenomenon of the earth's crushing at the poles, Burnet's cosmogony...

18th century.Collection of 99 plates from Buffon's Collection des animaux quadrupèdes, published at the Hotel de Thou at the end of the 18th centu...

Scarce first edition collecting the observations of Cesalpino, the first to have used the term 'circulatio sanguinis' on blood circulation and sou...

coltiuar la terra...la proprietà de tutti i frutti et herbe, la natura de tutti gli animali et uccelli. Venice: Viani, 1538.Famous and scarce trea...

Original edition of one of the most important treatises on optics that not only synthesises all knowledge on the subject, from Euclid to Kepler, b...

Revised second edition, published two years after the first, also printed in Leiden. Descartes started the work in 1630, but decided not to publis...

Troiséme edition. Livorno: De l'Imprimerie des editeurs, 1770-1779.Partial collection of the second Italian edition (third overall), in an armoria...

A skilfully restored copy, complete with over 900 woodcuts of medicinal plants from Europe and the East and West Indies. Each species includes, in...

le crédit, pour servir de Recherches & Considérations nouvelles sur les Finances. Paris: Moutard, Desenne, 1789 [BOUND WITH:]. Recherches et consi...

Trade catalogue never sold at auction (RBH) of the famous firm of greenhouse and garden seeds and trees founded by Martin Burdin (1740-1820), a pu...

Curious description of an insect probably belonging to the Hemerobiidae family with numerous detailed illustrations of its composition. An interes...

Scarce second complete edition, printed directly from the original 1552 plates made by Giulio de Musi (1520-1574) from drawings by the Author and ...

The first copy of this edition of Fioravanti's work on medical practice to appear at auction (RBH), having belonged to a woman, Margherita Grilla ...

Scarce late 16th-century edition of this collection of pharmaceutical and alchemical remedies and secrets written by one of the most peculiar figu...

8vo, (140 x 90 mm). Woodcut initials and decorations (tear to lower right corner touching text, browning, light wear). Contemporary vellum bindi...

Scarce second edition, after the first of 1521, of this important work on mathematics, here revised and considerably enlarged. It is a well-explai...

colophon), 1607.Original edition of this treatise in which the author applies astrology to medicine, supporting its legitimate use but condemning ...

Valgrisi, 1597.Scarce late 16th-century edition of one of the best-known herbaria, illustrated with over 1000 woodcuts depicting the medicinal pla...

indigenarum descriptiones et icones. St. Petersburg: Typographia imperiali J.J. Weitbrecht, 1784-1788.Copy with the extremely scarce plates publis...

First edition of one of the most artistically accurate anatomical atlases ever produced. The drawings were made around 1618 by the great Baroque p...

Copy of this scarce edition of the corpus of works by Paul of Aegina. It is a compendium in seven books, held in high esteem by Arabic physicians ...

1704.'Saturn in the house of Mars rules this leap year of 1704. This planet is cold and damp, sometimes giving good fortune, and sometimes taking ...

Nuremberg: Fleischmann, 1749-1764.4 volumes, of 9 in total, of the first German edition published between 1749 and 1776. The text combines Georg L...

premier-troiseme de Hollande. Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, [1729].A very rare collection on Holland from the monumental collection 'Galerie Agr?able...

premier-troiseme de Hollande. Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, [1729].Complete collection devoted to Zeeland, complete with all the plates and in good c...

Savoie. Paris: Renouard andGuers, 1812.Fine copy of this scarce first edition of Leschevin's account of his voyage, in the introduction to which t...

Copy of the first and only Italian translation of this encyclopaedic work dedicated to the American continent. The English original, published in ...

Montreal: Dawson Brother, 1872.First edition of this important history of Canada designed to familiarize English-speaking citizens with the histor...

Complete album of 52 plates printed on strong paper, probably accompanying a Neapolitan edition of Cook's Journey. The large map of the southern h...