Rarissima carta geografica raffigurante i percorsi postali nel territorio lombardo-veneto fra il confine piemontese e Vicenza, comprendente val d'Ossola, laghi lombardi, Veronese, Trentino fino a Bolzano e Mantovano. Non sono raffigurati il Bresciano e la Bergamasca.
Libreria Antiquaria Perini s. Rara carta geografica del nord Italia, comprendente anche lo Stato della Chiesa. Databile alla fine del ', la carta raffigura le recenti modifiche nella penisola del primo periodo Napoleonico, successive al trattato di Campoformio Stampata tra Lispia, Dreda e Zittau.
Incisione in rame, coloritura coeva, in perfette condizioni. Sconosciuta alla bibliogrfaia Terre di Langobardia. Engelmann, Bibliotheca mechanico-technologica S. Wien, Josef Hratschanzky, Burney full vellum over stiff boards, decorated with gilt rule, spine with gilt and green gilt lettered morocco label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers Originally Paradise Lost was published in ten Books, Milton re-divided them into twelve in the second edition, and added a few "bridging" verses. Antiquarian open bookshop Randall House ].
A la fois journal officiel de la France et journal classique, nouvelles et articles sur de nombreux sujets. L'illustration de cette notice est un scanner et ne reproduit qu'une partie de l'ouvrage vu ses grandes dimensions. Presentation in an early hand on the title page: The last 7 pages consist of ads and publisher's announcements. Contemporary French brown quarter calf, twin dark brown morocco labels, raised bands, central tools to compartments in gilt and black, marbled boards, edges and endpapers.
Three folding maps, showing the Northern and Southern parts and the United States as a whole, 9 folding tables. Uneven discolouration to spines, short split to head of front joint of Volume 8, heads of spines of Volumes 1,2, 5 and 7 lightly chipped, mild rubbing to boards, short closed tear to last leaf of Volume 8, tiny hole to fore margin of pp. A very good set. A social reformer and a democrat, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt ? His travel journals, published upon his return to France, are an incredibly detailed account of the emerging United States and precede Tocqueville's better-known account by thirty years.
As he travelled with five companions, covering most of the United States and Upper Canada, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt jotted down his impressions spanning social conditions, industry, geology, flora, fauna, climate etc. He observed the relations between the white and Indian populations and remarked on the detrimental effects of alcohol.
He abruptly returned to France when he learnt that he would not be allowed to visit Lower Canada. A four-volume edition and the first English and German translations were also published in Perrette, American collector of travel and exploration books bookplate to front pastedowns. An interesting early Franco-American association. Foxing, soprattutto sul naturalista title. Rousseurs, en particulier sur la page de titre. Librairie Le Feu Follet ]. Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Erste Ausgabe der Tasso zugeschriebenen "Veglie", herausgegeben von Giuseppe Compagnoni , der von Melzi als eigentlicher Verfasser bezeichnet wird.
Selten; seit kein Exemplar im Handel nachgewiesen. Walker, 44 Pater-Noster-Row, []Title pages are engraved. Imprints lack dates; years of publication conjectured from frontis. Frontispiece to collected volume dated: Issues include games, mathematical puzzles, articles on geography with maps, natural history with drawings of plants, birds and animals, fables, stories, poems, moral advice, and essays on health. Also includes essays titled "Governess". Only on-line original set existing for sale. Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu ]. First edition, conceived as a continuation of Bergk's volume on Egypt.
The map shows Syria; the plates depict Arabic costumes, household tools, and views of Haleb, Mecca, and Medina. The title vignette shows Mt. Also discusses the history , topography, climate, illnesses etc. From the library of the Kalksburg Jesuit college with their shelfmark label on pastedown. Not in Macro, Atabey or Blackmer. Wien, gedruckt mit J. Schuender'schen Schriften im k.
Antiquariat Wolfgang Friebes ]. Petite fissure de cuir au mors droit haut. Suivi d'un tableau et d'un texte sur 1 page.
Librairie Le Bail ]. The Author, - William Fowler - was a Lincolnshire builder whose records of Roman tessellated pavements won him many admirers. He visited the sites, took meticulous measurements and strove to reproduce the designs and colours as accurately as possible. Following on from his early successes in Lincolnshire he travelled widely throughout England recording not only pavements but also stained glass windows, fonts and architectural views.
This large collection comprises the major proportion of his published work including the whole of the first work [27 engravings], the first appendix in its entirety [26 engravings] and 15 out of 28 plates from the second appendix, described in Henry Ball's monograph of as "quite unknown". In addition there are 34 or 35 additional 'unpublished' pieces plus 2 or three duplicates and the portrait of Henry Fowler as painted by Joseph and engraved by Bond. Individual plates are occasionally seen but large collections are uncommon, this being one of the largest collections to appear on the market in recent times.
Michael S Kemp Bookseller ]. Rivington and Co, A fair copy of Edward Donovan's work on British Shells, in contemporary half morocco bindings with hand coloured plates.
E C Books ]. Salieri, Antonio, composer and conductor Voice and three bars of accompaniment with bare sketches of orchestra instrumentation on the reverse for an aria from Giambattista Casti's "Orlando Furioso", Orlando's words at the beginning of Scene 16 Act II: From the collection of the singer and muscial scholar Aloys Fuchs , who bound the ms. Large 4to x mm. With 72 very interesting pen-and-ink drawings, partly coloured in brown, yellow and reddish washes.
In custom-made cloth portfolio. Spectacularly illustrated manuscript describing and illustrating many moveable and rotating pyrotechnical units and machines, including rockets.
The title-page, bearing the name of a former owner Valentino Vieri, who probably also added some probationes pennae , is followed by a description of the first 62 coloured drawings, beginning with the "Giuoco della Luna e Sole" games of moon and sun , including all sorts of revolving, spouting, exploding and firing units, rockets, and other gadgets: Mark, the symbol of the free Republic of Venice, holding an open book with his right paw displaying the text "Pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus" , an oval on top of a balustrade, bearing the text "W.
Gesu Giuseppe e Maria", a "Piramicia Egiziana", and a cupola with lanterns and fire pots. The Library of the Getty Research Centre possesses a ms. At the back of that manuscript are printed announcements of the firework display and official appearances by Pope Pius VI. Another possibility is a connection with the election of the new Pope Pius VII in March in Venice, after a very difficult conclave in Venice that began in December , soon after the death of Pius VI and just before the death of Dini on 2 November Graham York Rare Books ]. Glendenning, Printer, [] Broadside printed with schematic diagram, oblong folio x mm.
The panorama was exhibited at the Lyceum, London, "Admittance one shilling". His body was discovered in a tunnel like passage near the Water Gate and described as "rather corpulent, with a short neck and high shoulders, but his wrists and ankles were small and delicate. Heinsius in Gera, This copy includes the frequently lacking half-title "Aegypten.
Erste Fortsezzung, enthaltend Arabien und Syrien [ Interior somewhat browned as usual. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece. The author, Jean-Baptiste Chemin-Dupontes, is the founder of "theophilanthropie", which is a "philosophical doctrine appeared during french revolution, based on belief in a powerful and good god, without worship" Larousse. An handwritten leaf is added before title, with the name of a former owner, and date Henri Picard et Fils ]. The Works of Sir William Jones. Folio x mm. A total of 9 vols. Splendidly bound in contemporary, uniform gilt tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with black spine labels.
He is best known for his famous proposition that the Indo-European languages sprang from a common source and were genetically related - a suggestion soon to be proved by the linguist Franz Bopp.
If you want a firm booking or extend the duration please contact us. E dition- O riginale. Sale conditions Payment methods: Add to my virtual collection. The first three volumes contain all letters of Greece, the last contains other pamphlets author: Essays on the Elegies of Tibullus followed by the translation of the latter , The Seasons Poems and light. Many floral headbands and cul-de-lamp baskets of flowers, carnations Plein blond marbled calf at the time.
Back smooth decorated with parts of title and volume number of green morocco, small floral golden jewels and a golden tail lace. Triple gold frames on the flat. Head cover of the first volume leveled.
Some wormholes on the back of the second and third volumes. Slit tail jaws on the first volume. Some pale foxing angular. Work to the detriment of the entire right bottom corner of the third volume.