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18th-century Amsterdam depicted - The famous atlas of Fouquet in its rare first edition with the text

[FOUQUET Jr., Pierre]. Nieuwe atlas van de voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten der stad Amsterdam, met derzelver beknopte beschryvingen.
Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Petrus van Hengst, 1783. 2 volumes. Folio. With a double-page engraved plan of Amsterdam, and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first volume and 57 in the second), the title-page of each volume printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled half calf. [2], 27; [1], 36 ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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The famous illustrated chronicle of Paderborn

[FÜRSTENBERG, Ferdinand von]. Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta et novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis & notis illustrata. ... Editio tertia ...
Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel (printed by Johann Ernest Adelbulner [in Nürnberg]), 1713. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with an engraved device, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding engraved views, 26 further engraved plates and some small woodcut illustrations in text.
Including (with a drop-title): [HORION, J. de]. Paneygyricus, die natali Academiae Theodorianae Paderbornensis.
[Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1713]. With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved title-page and one engraved plate. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. [48], 309, [19]; [14], 134, [34] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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By the founder of the famous dynasty of scenographic designers

GALLI BIBIENA, Ferdinando. Direzioni a' giovani studenti nel disegno dell' architettura civile, nell' academia clementina dell' instituto delle scienze ...
Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 volumes. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). With 75 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, including 18 folding. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, and some tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, red spotted edges. [1], [1 blank], [10], 143, [1]; 159, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Extraordinary manuscript in French containing a manual on gardening and landscape architecture, ready to print

[MANUSCRIPT - GARDENING]. Introduction à la théorie de l'art des jardins.
Ca. 1775-1800. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in several, slightly different neat 18th-century hands. Later red decorated paper over stiff paperboards, spines covered with brown paper, black morocco spine labels with titles and volume numbers in gold. [2], 2, 46 pp., 47-76 ll., 60 pp.; 129, [3], 83, 96, 20 pp. plus 2 ll.with the table of contents. Full description
€ 18,500
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Wonderful album of 89 early photographs of the most important cultural monuments from the El-Andalus period

GARZÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Rafael. [Photography - Spain]. Toledo, Córdoba, Granada.
1890. Large oblong album (32 x 40 cm). 89 original photographs, mostly 20 x 26 cm. Half blind-tooled greenish brown calf and grey/green net grained cloth over boards, with the title in gold on the front board, red edges and decorated endpapers. [52] ll. interleaved with tissue paper. Full description
€ 28,000
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Classical agricultural law, well illustrated

GOES, Willem and Nicolas RIGAULT Rei agrariae auctores legesque variae. Quaedam nunc primum, caetera emendatiora prodeunt curâ.
Including: Antiquitatum agrariarum liber singularis.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1674. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an integral engraved allegorical frontispiece, a general title-page with a woodcut decoration, 6 integral divisional titles including one for the Antiquitatum agrariarum, 3 folding engraved plates, 55 further engravings on integral leaves (15 full page), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly geometric diagrams) and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges. [20], 360, [60]; 328 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Charming lithographed topographic and architectural views of northern France

HÉDOUIN, Pierre. Souvenirs historiques et pittoresques du nord de la France, ou Collection des plus belles vues et des plus beaux monumens, de cette partie de la France.
Paris, Dondey-Dupré, père et fils, 1830. Super Royal 4to (34.5 x 27 cm). With a letterpress half-title, title-page, 4-page letterpress introductory letter from Hédouin (dated 14 August) and 25 somewhat irregularly numbered, finely lithographed plates (mostly in landscape orientation with image size ca. 14.5 x 20 cm but the largest in portrait orientation 23.5 x 18 cm), printed on thin so-called "China" paper and mounted on blank leaves, each with a view of a site in northern France, by Pierre Langlumé after various artists, each followed by a letterpress account of the site. Modern half calf over contemporary boards with shell on shell marbled sides. [56] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Construction drawings for staircases, skylights and their decoration, with the rare text-volume

HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouwkunde, waar in ... werd voorgestelt en geleerdt het maaken van veelerley soorten van trappen.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With engraved half-title, engraved title-page (with engraved device), engraved dedication and 30 double-page engraved plates by Jan Schenk.
With: (2) HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouw-kunde; ...
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With woodcut vignette on title-page. 2 volumes: Folio (plates) and 4to (text). Contemporary red half roan. [3], [60] ll.; [8], 72 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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