18th Century
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Citrus and Apricots
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /attractive plate, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Johann Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary who organized the ...
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A Rational of the Ritual of the Hebrew Worship;
LOWMAN, Moses.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £675.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /Moses Lowman (1680–1752) was an English nonconformist minister in a Presbyterian congregation at Clapham, Surrey. He was known as a Biblical comme...
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Jüdisches Ceremoniel, oder Beschreibung derjenigen Gebräuche,
KIRCHNER, Paul Christian.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £1,650.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /Fundamental and richly illustrated work describing Jewish customs, rituals and costumes.This detailed description of Jewish ceremonial customs by ...
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The book of religion, ceremonies, and prayers of the Jews,
MEARS, Abraham.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /First English translation of any part of the Siddur. The earliest translation to English of the Jewish Prayer-book.This comprehensive, and occasion...
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Histoire les plus Remarquables de L'ancien et du Nouveau Testament,
LUYKEN, Jean.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /First French edition (originally published in Dutch in 1729), illustrated throughout with engraved plates, maps, and illustrations by Jan Luyken (...
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A Description and Draught of a New-Invented Machine
HULLS, Jonathan.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /The first steamboat patentee. The first edition of Jonathan Hulls' (d.1758) pamphlet advertising his pioneering work on steamboats. An unsophistica...
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Der Blutige Schau-Platz oder Martyrn Spiegel der Tauffsgesinten oder Wehrlosen-Christen,
BRAGHT, T.J.V.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Originally published in Dordrecht in 1660 in Dutch, this is the first edition printed in German. The work was compiled by Thieleman Braght from ch...
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,
[CHAUCER, Geoffrey]; URRY, John (editor).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /The first complete edition of Chaucer printed in roman letter, also the first to provide descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works and th...
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Description de L'Arabie [WITH] Voyage en Arabie & en d'autres pays circonvoisins.
NIEBUHR, Carsten.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /The famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-1767) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, and the return journey. the first scien...
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L'art de monter a cheval,
EISENBERG, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron d'.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /The art of horsemanship. The rare Zürich edition of this lavishly illustrated work, first published in 1727. The work opens with a series of 7 attr...
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[A Group of Three Watercolours of Hyacinths].
LOO, Pieter van.Original price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00| /Pieter Van Loo (or Loon), Haarlem 1731-1784, was a noted flower painter who spent the whole of his life in Haarlem. His paintings are sought after...
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D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer
RUMPHIUS, Georgius Everhardus.Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £0.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00| /First edition. This is one of the most famous books on shells, by one of the most important naturalists of the pre-Linnaean period. Rumphius (1627-...
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Zoologia Britannica
PENNANT, Thomas.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...
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Pineapple with foliage.
[MERIAN, Maria Sibylla].Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...
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[A Group of four engravings of Flowers, Insects and Fruits].
[MERIAN, Maria Sibylla].Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...
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Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.
BORLASE, William.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /An attractive copy of the standard county history of Cornwall, by the rector of Ludvagan, a man from an old Cornish family. Includes The Scilly Is...
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De la Imitacion de Christo,
KEMPIS, Thomas à.Original price £180.00 - Original price £180.00Original price £0.00£180.00£180.00 - £180.00Current price £180.00| /A neat Spanish-language pocket edition of Thomas à Kempis' famous devotional work, embellished with four fine copper engravings.Small 12mo (137 x ...
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Colloqui...Latini, e Italiani
VIVES, Juan Luis.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /An attractive edition of the Valencian renaissance humanist Juan Luis Vives' linguistic work for students of Latin. 12mo (152 x 80 mm.); half-titl...
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[A Group of Four Birds Nests]:
NOZEMAN, Cornelius & SEPP, Jan Christian.Original price £6,250.00 - Original price £6,250.00Original price £0.00£6,250.00£6,250.00 - £6,250.00Current price £6,250.00| /Dutch birds. Nozeman's work, Nederlandsche Vogelen, which he couldn't finish, became the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland and...
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Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.
ROUY, Charles.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /With royal provenance . an interesting and rare work on astronomy - dedicated to Louis XVIII. Charles Rouy's 'mechanism of uranography' presents a ...
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