BESTELMEIER, Georg Hieronimus (distrib.)

(NAPIER’s rods) Neperische Rechnungstäfelein No. 951 a (manuscript title on lid). No place, publisher and date (maybe Nuremberg, G. H. Bestelmeier ca 1800). A complete set containing 33 engraved and hand-coloured narrow lengthy cardboard strips (94 x 27 mm) and a four-page folded manual with printed text. Loosely contained in original wooden box covered with stone marbled paper on sides and lid, bottom with a block printed paper with a blue veined ground and a repetitive pattern made of black triangles, the movable lid with a mounted, cut-out and hand-colored engraved label with manuscript title and numbering. Size: 110 x 120 x 25 mm. Slightly rubbed. Very fine complete set.

5400,- EUR
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DELACROIX, Michel.

Les Scarabées. Lucanidae. Trogidae. Scarabaeidae. Manuscript, 1960. 4to (325 x 255 mm) Manuscript on strong paper, in a titled folder and cloth case. The manuscript is composed of a calligraphic title in black and ochre, five calligraphic part - titles in ochre, 20 pp. of typescript text illustrated with 2 plates in brown ink, all followed by 29 original drawings of beetles in Indian ink or gouache mounted under matting.

3000,- EUR
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