Search Results: Authors starting with A from Antiquariat Banzhaf

(7) leaves letterpress text, 1 leaf half-title (première section) 111 numbered leaves (recte 109) ; plates numbered 10 through 111 are printed on recto only, with plate numbers 40, 63 and 92 omitted according to a printed note at the end of the index, but including an extra plate 35bis) ; 1 leaf half-title (cinquième section annexe), (8) leaves numbered I-XVII (omitting numbers XV/XVI) with text and illustrations on both sides. The plates with numerous printed black and white labels, mounted chromolithographed labels and colourful chromolithographed labels on white glazed paper. Publisher's red cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Oblong folio (456 x 320 mm). Extremeties worn, front cover spotted. A fine example showing the wealth of French industrial and agricultural products displayed in black and white facsimiles and color mounted product labels and renderings of trademarks of producers and manufacturers. The most important part is the third section of this catalog showing agricultural… Read More

12 pages in brown ink adorned with calligraphic ornaments in upper and lower margins of a few pages. Cont. German calico wrappers with flowers in various green and red hues. Folio (344 x 208 mm). Interesting manuscript by a professional calligrapher and practical mathematician dedicated to the Prussian senator and senator of the town of Saltzwedel Wilhelm Erdmann gewidmet. The principle idea enclosed in this small treatise could well be used to encode text. A fine copy.

Engraved portrait front. of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel signed R Winkeles sculp. 1799 - J. Buys pinx. 1766. XXIV, (2), 319 pages; 227 (1), 82 pages. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand, including two manuscript total values at the end of each volume. Cont. Dutch red half vellum bindings, with gilt black morocco labels. First volume with printed original front wrapper with title mounted onto front cover. Lower spine end of volume I minimally frayed. (222 x 138 mm). Covers rubbed. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, XIII, p. 28 and Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, II, p. 333. Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek VI, pp. 1139-1140. First and only edition of this sale catalogue of a remarkable collection of prints, drawings and paintings, illustrated books, Kunstkammer pieces, and optical and mathematical instruments and including a major collection of Rembrandt prints brought together by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726 - 1798), a painter, engraver, printer and publisher… Read More

The deliverance of the whole house of Israel, from all their captivities. Foreshewed in the II. chapter of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans. Or a briefe search , and inquirie into the mystery declared by Saint Paul in the same. Written for the establishing of the faithful in the truth, and for the information or reproofe of those, that misunderstanding the Apostle, teach and conceive things from his words, contrary to the scriptures, and to his meaning. Jeremiah 16. chap. V. 14, 15. Therefore behold the dayes come saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said the Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. But the Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North, and from all land wither I had driven them, and I will bring them againe into their land, that I gave to their fathers. Printed at London by R. Oulton, for John Wright the younger, and are to be sold at his shop in the Old-Baily 1641. Title within a border of two black… Read More

Anonymous. Tabell som visar cubic-innehallet af alla sorter fyrhuggit virke, ester dimensionerne utraknat. Carlscrona, Amiralitets-Tryckeriet 1784. 181, (1), 2 blank pages, mostly tables. (bound with): Anonymous. Kongel. Svenska maetare och wraekare ordningen af ar 1776. Carlscrona, Amiralitets-Tryckeriet 1783. 43 (1) pages, 3 (1 folded) leaf, 4 tables, 3 folded engraved plates. Cont. calf, gilt label to spine. Label with minor loss. Covers browned. Spine rubbed. Front cover with manuscript inked signature by one Aug. d'Ailly. Both works first edition. Title with manuscript initials J. H. D'A, a working copy owned by the Swedish ship-building engineer Jakob Henrik d'Ailly (1789-1858), and a further manuscript inked ownership entry by his son Aug. D'Ailly (Johan Christian August d'Ailly, 1822-1877), who constructed steamships for the Swedish navy. In 1862 he was sent to North America to learn more about constructional features of ironclads with John Ericson. Back home he constructed monitors,… Read More

Text written in brown ink with highlights in red and black ink in a neat calligraphic hand. 2 leaves (illustrated half-title and title), 21 numbered text leaves, 1 unnumb. index leaf, 1 multiple folded table "table pour servir à la graduation des fléches", 2 blank leaves. All text leaves ruled by black ink frames. Illustrations: Half-title on recto with large oval medaillon with interlaced strap-work in gold, and year 1745, on verso with a blue rectangle, title in multiple coloured calligraphic script and large rectangle vignette with ornate grey wash-colour ornamentation on a yellow background. 25 plates of which 23 folded, 1 double-page and one full-page with original drawings and diagrams. Four plates with brightly coloured water colour drawings over ink, one full-page plate with a pen and ink drawing of an observatory, twenty plates with ink and grey wash-colour diagrams and sketches. All plates ruled by black ink frames bordered by wide light pink or ocre wash-colour frames. Front wrapper… Read More

Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de M. François Arago, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Academie des Sciences. Dont la vente se fera le lundi 19juin et jours suivants à 7 heures précises de relevée, rue Serpente 37, par le ministère de M. Boulouze, commissaire-priseur, rue Richelieu, 67. Paris, Dusacq 1854. (4), 188 pages. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Uncut and unopened. Spine evenly browned. Covers mildly dust-soiled. Blogie vol. I, col. 78, VI,19-VII 10. A nice copy of the auction catalog of the library of Dominique François Jean Arago (1786-1853), French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and promoter of scientific progress. The catalog contains 2225 lots, with a focus on science and natural history.