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India, Burma and Switzerland drawn and described by an English lieutenant in 67 sketches

BLACKWELL, Thomas Eden. [Sketchbook containing several sketches of India, Burma and Switzerland, with an emphasis on their cultures].
[Various places, ca. 1826-1830]. Oblong 4to. With 66 sketches in pen & ink and pencil, mostly signed by Blackwell, mounted and bound in, with manuscript captions. There is also 1 print (ca. 1795/1800?) drawn by Singey Bey and engraved by Thomas Medland. Half black morocco, black decorated paper sides, gold-tooled ornaments on spine. [70] gray, white and blue album ll., containing 67 sketches and their accompanying manuscript captions and descriptions. Full description
€ 18,000
Horses & Horsemanship India & Sri Lanka Southeast Asia Switzerland Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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Finely executed botanical and pomological drawings, coloured with gouache by a pioneering female Swiss alpinist

BRUNNER, Elise. [Botanical and pomological drawings].
[Bern?], 1847-1848. Oblong 4to. Album with 25 botanical and pomological pencil drawings in various sizes, all coloured with gouache, apparently by the artist, and mostly signed by Elise Brunner. All these drawings are mounted on the album leaves of various colours. Also inserted is a black and white sketch in pencil signed by an unknown female artist "Marie Blau fec.". 19th-century half dark red morocco with lighter red morocco sides, gold-tooled spine. [61] album ll., 18 of the first 21 containing 25 colour drawings and 1 pencil sketch. Full description
€ 2,950
Central Europe Drawings & Watercolours Floras & General Botany Fruit Culture Games & Sports Switzerland Women History
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Anatomy and behaviour of Swiss ants described: a milestone in myrmecology

FOREL, Auguste. Les fourmis de la Suisse, systématique, notices anatomiques et physiologiques, architecture, distribution géographique, nouvelles expériences et observations de moeurs.
Bale, Genève, Lyon, H. Georg, 1874. 4to. With 2 lithographed anatomical plates showing internal and external parts of several kinds of ants. Contemporary half morocco, marbled sides, title in gold on spine. [2], IV, 10, 452, [2], V, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 500
Central Europe Insects & Spiders Switzerland
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A famous topography of Switzerland enlarged with 68 extra engravings

MERIAN, Matthäus. Topographia Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätte und Plätz, in der hochlöblichen Eydgnoßschafft, Grawbündten, Walliß, und etlicher zugewanten Orten.
[Frankfurt am Main], Matthäus Merian, 1642. Folio. With richly engraved title-page, 74 (of 76) engraved maps, plans and views on 54 (of 56) plates normally included the 1642 first edition (nearly all double-page) plus 1 large folding plate from the 1653 Anhang, and 67 additional engravings from the 17th and 18th century, including at least 16 by or after Merian. Altogether there are 3 general maps (1 of Germany and surroundings and 2 of Switzerland), 4 detail maps, and numerous city plans and views. Lacking the bird's eye view of Herisau and the second of two views of Neuchâtel. Tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700?), gold-tooled spine. 72, [8] pp. plus engraved plates. Full description
€ 29,500
Castles, Gardens & Mansions Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Switzerland Wine / Viticulture
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Fossils from Switzerland, with 33 plates

OOSTER, William Alexandre and Carl von FISCHER-OOSTER. Protozoe Helvetica. Mittheilungen aus dem Berner Museum der Naturgeschichte über merkwürdige Thier- und Pflanzenreste der schweizerischen Vorwelt.
Basel and Geneva, H. Georg (colophon: printed in Bern, Haller'sche Buchdruckerei), 1869-1871. 2 volumes in 5 separate parts. 4to. With lithographed map and 32 lithographed plates (numbered 1-13 and 1-19), including 13 double-page. All parts in original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [6], 14; [4], 16-39, [5]; [4], II, 27, [1 blank]; [4], 29-88; [4], 89-159, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 350
Central Europe Fossils / Palaeontology Switzerland
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“German” Europe in the early 16th century, and Hispaniola in America

PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald. Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio.
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1530. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm). Title in a wide woodcut ornamented border, 2 woodcut historiated initials. Set in an Aldine-style italic with a word of Greek. Modern brown shell-marbled boards. [69], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Austria Central Europe Early Printing - 16th century Geography Germany Middle America Netherlands Switzerland
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Extremely rare complete series of maps, plans and illustrations
of the most extensive Dutch historical, geographical and anthropological description of the world

SALMON, Thomas, Matthias van GOGH, Jan WAGENAAR and others. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion and his widow, and other places and publishers, 1729-1803. 44 volumes. 8vo. With 35 (of 36) engraved allegorical title-pages as published in the 44 volumes and the complete set of 386 engraved maps, plans, views, portraits, tables and other illustrations. Vols. 1-33: contemporary sprinkled calf; vols. 34-37: half calf; vols. 38-41: half calf; vol. 42: contemporary half sprinkled calf; vol. 43: contemporary half calf; vol. 44: contemporary blind-tooled sprinkled calf. All volumes with a a black title label. Full description
€ 22,500
Amsterdam Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Belgium Brazil Canada & Greenland Caribbean Islands Central Africa Central Asia Central Europe Chile China City Plans, Topography & Views East Africa Eastern Europe Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus France Germany Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Italy Japan & Far East Latin America Mediterranean Regions Mexico Middle America Netherlands North Africa & Egypt North America Philippines Poland & Baltic Scandinavia South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Spain Surinam Switzerland Turkey & Ottoman Empire UK - United Kingdom West Indies
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