Heures a lusaige de Paris tout a long sans requerir.

Printed on vellum in red and black. 135 (of 136) sheets. Printed in Latin and French. Single-column text mostly 24 or 25 lines. Gothic type. Illustrated with a finely illuminated title page, 13 (of 14) full-page finely colored metalcuts illuminated in gold. The full-page description of the ministry of souls is missing. All initials and line fillers are finely painted in gold on a red or blue background. The book of hours contains: title page, verso an almanac for 13 years (1518-1530), a calendar on six pages, seven prayers of Saint Gregory, sections on the Gospel of John, the Gospel of Luke and the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, the Passion of Christ according to John, the prayers to the Virgin Mary, prayers to the Hours of the Cross and the Holy Spirit, other prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany. The ministry of souls follows, as well as other short prayers involving commemorations of the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In the last part there follow various prayers to the Blessed Virgin, including the 'O intermerata' and various petitions to other saints, such as St. Sebastian, St. Anthony, St. Anne, St. Catherine, St. Mary Magdalene, St Stefan and various others. French leather strap with rich gilt spine and gilt edges. The edges of the lid decorated with 3 gold embossed fillet lines all around on four sides. As well as surrounding inner and outer edge gilding in a diamond pattern. The inner covers and backs of the endpapers are equipped with floral patterned gold colored paper. Decorative leather binding, slightly rubbed, a few smaller older worm holes visible in the upper and lower part of the spine (without any damage to the parchment leaves).

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

21500,- 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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Volkamer, Johann Christoph I. Nürnbergische Hesperides, Oder Gründliche Beschreibung Der Edlen Citronat, Citronen, und Pomerantzen-Früchte, Wie...

Folio. Contemporary pigskin bindings of the period. 2 volumes: I.) 4, 255 pp., 4 (register), 17 pp. (Obeliskcus Constantinopolitanus) II.) 5, 10 (introduction), 6, 239 pp., 2; The two volumes illustrated with 2 fine engraved frontispieces, 26 engraved vignettes and 245 (of 250) (including 24 folded) engraved plates. The following five plates are missing: Plate 172 b-d in volume I, and plate 185 & 232(b) in volume II. It seems, that these five plates were not bound in from the beginning on. All engravings are in fine strong impressions present. Most of these beautiful plates are showing fine engravings of citrus and pomeranze fruits in combination with baroque gardens. The focus of the illustrations is in the depictions of the incredibly many varieties of lemons and pomeranzes (bitter oranges), further also various exotic plants and fruits like the pineapple, a blooming cactus or even coconut fruits are depicted. Between the four various chapters of these two books allegoric garden scenes with engraved gods were bound in, too. Most of these fullpage and folded plates, are depicting these fruits and plants in combination with beautiful engraved scenes of royal and private gardens, castles, small villages, yards and houses of merchants or smaller royal houses in and around in Southern Germany (many around Nürnberg) and in Northern Italy. The second volume describes very extensive these gardens and locations in Northern Italy around lake Garda, Lago di Nervi, Verona, Padua, Bergamo, Genua, etc. Many of these decorative fruits were combined on the engraving, mostly at the bottom, with a view of the place where this particulary fruit or plant was grown or cultivated, naming very often also the owner of this place. Further all plates are accomponied by a text page with a intensive description on this particulary plant. All these beautiful, extremely carefully engraved plates take the reader through a remarkable collection of places with gardens and greenhouses in northern Italy and to places north of the Alps in southern Bavaria around Nuremberg, Bayreuth and Passau as a kind of perfect book describing the gardening and the cultivation of lemons and pomeranzes, unusual flowers and also of some other rare tropical plants to be found in Central Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. The illustations of these two volumes consist further a map of the,Lake of Garda', further a folded view of the Genuese village,S. Pietro d'Arena' and the,Palazzo Doria' in Genua. A great example of this rare botanical series in an pig-skin binding of the period. The spines in 5 compartments. The covers of both volumes richly decorative blindpressed. It consists the 1708 published masterpiece,Nürnbergische Hesperides, oder gründliche Beschreibung der edlen Citronat / Citronen und Pomeranzen-Früchte...' and the very rare 1714 published second volume, titled:,Continuation der Nürnbergischen Hesperidum, oder fernere gründliche Beschreibungn der edlen Citronat / Citronen / und Pomeranzen-Früchte...'. Further it should be noted, that at the end of volume I the rare appendix,Obeliscus Constantinopolitanus...' is also present. It is one of the most beautiful illustrated works of a baroque masterpiece. First and only edition. Volckamer was a wealthy Nurnberg merchant and one of the first to cultivate citrus north of the Alps.

Sachgebiete: Botanik, Kupferstich

60000,- EUR
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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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