Valentini, Michael Bernhard Viridariumm reformatum, seu regnum vegetabile, Das ist: Neu-eingerichtetes und vollständiges Kräuter-buch, Worinnen...

Folio. Two volumes, original calf, spines in 6 compartments, richly gilt. Sole edition. I.) 3 leaves (dedication), 5 leaves (introduction), 2 schematic engravings, 584 pp., illustrated with 223 engraved botanical illustrations in text, 12 leaves (register in German, Latin, French & Italian). Bound with: Welling, Georg Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theologicum. Title, 3 leaves, 80 pp., illustrated with 10 engraved (of which 9 are hand colored) plates. II.) 1 leaf, 385 full page fine engraved plates depicting flowers and other plants. - The two volumes are complete with total 610 botanical illustrations by de Bry and Merian. Valentini shows in its herbal an attractive collection of botanical illustrations, combined with decorative baroque garden scenes, landscapes and views of villages. Each of these 223 hand colored engravings shows prominent in the foreground a plant combined with a decorative engraved background. The text contents a detailed description of the shown plant, as well similar species of it. Often also detailed described its medical value. Matthäus Merian published already in 1646 the work by Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen: Der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Nahmen... an emblematic book with very similar allegoric scenes. The second part consists of 385 full page hand colored engravings, of wich a part of the plates earlier were published in the book Florilegium renovatum et auctum by Johann Theodor de Bry at M. Merian 1641-47 in Frankfurt am Main. This book was illustrated with 176 plates. Johann Th. de Bry was the father in law of Matthäus Merian, who was married with Maria Magdalena de Bry. Matthäus Merian took over in 1623, after the death of de Bry, the business of the printing house of his father in law. Valentini enlarged this catalogue of plants to 383 numbered engravings with much more then 1000 images of flowers, herbs and various plants. There is existing the general opinion, that he took over the inheritance of the de Bry-Merian copper plates. Valentini was a Professor of medicine in Giessen in Germany and a collector of natural historic samples. Further he published in 1714 the Museum Museorum a descriptive book about cabinets of curiosities, which he knew and described also their contents. 2 volumes. A splendid example bound in original calf bindings of the period. The spines in six compartments, richly gilt. One of the most extensive illustrated botanical books in the early 18th century. Complete, printed on excellent paper in even imprints, further the excellent quality of the paper is remarkable in this copy. Throughout in excellent condition.

Sachgebiete: Handzeichnungen, Heiligenbildchen, Illustrierte Bücher, Handschriften, Religion

27500,- EUR
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Krefft, G. The Mammals of Australia, Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott and Mrs. Helena Forde. For the Council of Education

Large Folio. 473 mm x 400 mm. 3 unnum. pp., 7 pp. Illustrated with 16 fine hand colored lithographs and descriptive text. A beautiful hand colored example of this rare illustrated monograph about the mammals of Australia. Drawn by A.W. Scott, the lithographs were done by his daughters Harriett and Helena. The text was compiled by Gerard Krefft. Krefft (1830-1881) was curator of the Australian Museum and built up the museum's collections and won international repute as a scientist. He corresponded with Charles Darwin, Richard Owen and many others and was one of the few Australian scientists to accept Darwin's theory on evolution. 'Some of his observations on animals have not been surpassed and can no longer be equalled because of the spread of settlement'.

Sachgebiete: Australien/Südsee , Lithographie, Zoologie

8800,- EUR
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Sachgebiete: Botanik, Kupferstich

Verkauft!
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Thibault, Girard Academie de l`Espée.

Engraved title and portrait, nine full page engraved plates with coats of arms and 46 (45 of them are double page) fine engraved plates. All these engravings are exceptional finely hand colored throughout by a later hand. 2 unnumbered pages, 276 separate paginated pages; the decorative and beautiful binding in brown modern marbled calf; the covers with their inner and outer edges richly stamped and gilt, spine also gilt and bound in 6 compartments. Imperial folio. The 'Academie de l'Espée' is overall the most famous fencing book with highly decorative fine engraved plates ever published. It was printed and published by the brothers B. & A. Elzevir in Leiden 1628. This enormous book is illustrated with an engraved title, one portrait, 9 plates of coats of arms and 46 (of which 45 are double page) fine engraved plates of fencing scenes by the famous Dutch engravers Crispin de Pass, J. Gilli, Wilhelm J. Delff, Crispian Quebon and others. All plates in this book (including the title, portrait and coat of arms) are finely hand colored by a later hand. The hand coloring is executed in absolute accuracy and delicate throughout. The fine engraved details of the various fencing scenes are hand colored with much care and stand out one of a kind in their beauty. 'This splendid equipped masterwork of typography is a curiosity as a manual of the art of fencing, which tries to overcall the meshed rules of the Spanish fencing school. Its worth for the history of the art of fencing is based on that, that it shows hundreds scenes of fencing pairs, which are missing illustrations in the Spanish fencing books of that period' (translated from the German reference Lipperheide 2960).

Sachgebiete: Kupferstich, Sport

45000,- EUR
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Jollain Tresor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats De L Univers.

Rare atlas by Jollain with engraved title and 38 engraved maps. This small atlas of 38 maps is known by several publisher names. The first edition that is recorded, is that of Jean Boisseau in 1643. The maps of this atlas are faithful copies of the "Atlas Minor" of Mercator-Hondius of 1628, this atlas was copied by N. Picart (1657-59). The same edition exists with Jollain's address. Jollain finally reissued the atlas in 1667 with some modifications. The scales are most often removed (because too inaccurate) and replaced by the mention of "excudit" by Jollain and sometimes the date of 1667. The titles of Russia and Muscovy were interchanged.

Sachgebiete: Kartographie, Kupferstich

7500,- EUR
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