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[EBU'L-IZZI-CEZERÎ, (1136-1206)].
Ebu'l-Izzi-Cezerî Kongresi. 14 Mart, 1996, Kayseri.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Turkish. 32, [6] p., b/w ills. Ebu'l-Izz-Cezerî Kongresi. 14 Mart, 1996, Kayseri. A study on Abu al-'Iz Ibn Isma'il ibn al-Razaz al-Jazari, (1136-1206). It's considered that he was pioneer in the field of cybernetics. He was a polymath; a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, and mathematician from Jazirat ibn Umar (current Cizre, Ottoman Turkey), who lived during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). He is best known for writing the al-Jami? bain al-?ilm wa al-?amal al-nafi? fi ?ina?at al-?iyal (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described 100 mechanical devices, some 80 of which are trick vessels of various kinds, along with instructions on how to construct them. Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on that of a Pseudo-Archimedes. He also cites the influence of the Banu Musa brothers (and also Leonardo Da Vinci) for his fountains, al-Asturlabi for the design of a candle clock, and Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn (d. 1139) for musical automata. Al-Jazari goes on to describe the improvements he made to the work of his predecessors, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components that are original innovations which do not appear in the works by his precessors.
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[Ermitage]. Piccard, Rodolphe / Solntsev, Fedor Grigoryevich.
Antiquités du Bosphore Cimmérien conservées au Musée impérial de l'Ermitage. [Drevnosti Bosfora Kimmeriiskago khraniashchiiasia v Imperatorskom muzeie Ermitazha]. St Petersburg, Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1854.
Folio (ca. 380 x 547 mm). 3 vols., including atlas. (22), CLI, (3), 279, (1) pp. (8), 339, (1) pp. Atlas has chromolithographed pictorial title, 48 engraved and 41 chromolithographed plates (numbered I-LXXXVI), 5 engraved plans, and 2 folding engraved maps. Contemporary marbled boards; modern spines with giltstamped labels. The rare first edition of this monumental work on the antiquities housed at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, published at the personal expense of Emperor Nicolas I. The Tsar took a deep interest in Russian archaeological finds following the discovery of a Scythian burial mound near Kerch in 1830, and many of these discoveries are featured here. - A large number of the plates are magnificently lithographed in vivid colour after the drawings of Piccard and Solntzev. "Ouvrage imprimé avec une grande luxe. Le texte, en russe et en francais, est précédé d'une préface, signée du nom de M. Gilles, conservateur de l'Ermitage [...] Le nombre des exemplaires tirés n'est, dit-on, que de 200. Leur prix à Paris est de 400 fr." (Brunet). - The Swiss painter and engraver Piccard (1807-88) had studied in Paris and was active in Lausanne until the end of the 1830s. Long in Russia, he would return to Lausanne in 1869. Solntsev (1801-92) had already completed the massive six-volume album series "Antiquities of the Russian State" (1849-1853) and was one of the principal interior decorators of the Kremlin Palace. - Some foxing throughout, mainly concerning the margins and the first and last quires of the text volumes, but to some extent also the margins of the plates. Bindings professionally repaired. Removed from the Library of the Birmingham Assay Office, one of the four assay offices in the United Kingdom, with their inconspicuous library stamp to the flyleaves. Extremely rare: we can trace only one other copy at auction (2013, Sotheby's Paris, sale 1333, lot 532: EUR 59,100 - the duc de Luynes copy). Brunet I, 321. Graesse I, 149f. Thieme/Becker XXVI, 579. OCLC 82476426.
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[Ernest of Saxony].
Wolverdiente Ehren-Seule dem weyland durchläuchtigsten Fürsten und Herrn Herrn Ernst Hertzogen zu Sachsen, Jülich, Cleve und Bergk, Landgrafen zu Thüringen, Marckgrafen zu Meissen, Gefürsteten Grafen zu Henneberg, Grafen zu der Marck und Ravensberg, Herrn zu Ravenstein, ec. Aufgerichtet zum Friedenstein. Gotha, Christoph Reyher, [1678].
Folio. Engr., folding frontispiece, t. p., (2), 378 [but: 380], 108, (20) pp. With 10 folding plates, woodcut arms on title-page, and numerous ornamental woodcut initials ins vignettes. Contemporary calf, dated 1681, with giltstamped spine title. Only edition of this elaborate fête book, depicting the funeral festivities and sermon for the popular Duke Ernest I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1601, d. 26 March 1675). "One of the great memorial volumes of the Baroque" (Jantz). The frontispiece (dated 1678), showing the bust of Duke Ernest, is signed by Jacob von Sandrart (1630-1708, cf. Thieme/Becker XXIX, 397), as are the fine portrait of the Duke and a scene showing him lying in state among angels; the three views of the closed coffin, the funeral procession, the plate of memorial coins, and the three plates showing the order of the procession are very likely his work as well. The end is brought up by Kaspar von Stieler's "Hoch-Fürstlicher Ehren-Altar", "a giant-sized poem of 616 rhymed trochaic eight-beat lines, followed, with special title page, by 'Josias, Das ist: Der weyland Durchläuchtigste Fürst und Herr, Herr Ernst Herzog zu Sachsen [...] Mit dem Gottseligen Könige Josia verglichen von M. Heinrich Ernst Treibern [...]'; 208 alexandrine lines, with annotations" (Faber du F.). The poet, jurist, and lexicographer Stieler (1632-1707) is often cited as possible editor of the entire fêtebook. - No other copy with 10 plates is known: contains not only the frequently missing portrait (c. 60 x 44 cm), but also both views of the un-draped coffin. Occasional slight paper damage to multiple folds; slight edge tear to portrait. Calf binding shows signs of professional restoration. Giltstamped spine has initials "F.V.W. | S.N.C." and year of binding "1681" together with tetragrammaton stamps. A clean, well-preserved and unbrowned copy on good paper. VD 17, 23:249754Q (only 7 plates). Hollstein 39, 93, 391-400. Jantz 3357. STC W 1222. Vinet 734. Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 3111. Lipperheide Sbe 8. Bulling 70. Seebaß, N. F., 879 (last 10 ff. only). Dünnhaupt (Stieler) 28. Bircher, Kat. der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft, 749. Faber du Faur, 347a. Jantz 3357. Not in Ruggieri.
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[Faksimile - Coron-Verlag].
Schätze der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Stuttgart, Coron / Müller und Schindler, [1994].
Folio (330 x 450 mm). 24 SS. Mit 7 farb. Faksimileseiten unter Passepartout in Samtkassette mit mont. Wappen. Gutes Exemplar. - Nr. 100 (HC) von 1995 numerierten Exemplaren.
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[Gastronomie].
Ledereinband des 18. Jahrhunderts. Wien, um 1767.
Lederband der Zeit mit reicher Deckelvergoldung. Folio. Aufwendig gestaltete Mappe für die Buchhaltungsunterlagen des Gastgewerbe-Vorstehers J. W. Griener: "Die von mir Johann Wolfgang Griener | Vorsteher | deren bürgerlichen Herren | Wirthen und Gastgeben | in Wienn | zwey jaehrig adjustierte | Rechnung | über | Empfang und Ausgaben | vom 1. Jenner 1765 bis ersten Jenner | 1767". - Etwas beschabt und bestoßen, im ganzen jedoch von ordentlicher Erhaltung.
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[General Electric Company]
Lighting of Factories and Offices. National Lamp Works of General Electric Company, 1919
Octavo in green boards; 3 parts. in 1 volume (approx 150p total -- in three separate numerations) b/w llus., diagrs.
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[GÖDEL, Kurtt, 1906-1978].
O Teorema de Gödel e a Hipótese do Contínuo. Antologia organizada, prefaciada e traduzida de varios originais ingleses, por Manuel Lourenço. [Textos de Kurt Gödel, Paul Cohen, J.B. Rosser, Alan M. Turing, Solomon Feferman e Michael Dummett].
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Tipografia Matemática, 1979. 4to. mayor; XCIV pp., 1 h., 900 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.
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[Interior decoration].
[Recueil de draperies d'Hallavant, à l'usage des marchands de meubles, tapissiers, décorateurs, mis au jour et augmanté par Osmont et Dezon. 2de (or 3ème?) cahier]. [Paris, Osmont, ca. 1815].
4to oblong (204 × 260 mm). 50 numbered engraved plates in original hand colour. Contemporary half calf over red paper boards. Rare collection of designs for splendid interior decorations. The set depicts oppulent beds, curtains and entire rooms in the Empire style with French captions and scales. Not seen at auction for more than a century. - The series "Recueil de draperies d'Hallavant" appeared from ca. 1810 to 1839 in 7 "cahiers", each containing between 44 and 50 plates. They were published by Osmont in Paris, and later by Pinsonnière. Copies were sold coloured and uncoloured, with and without a title-page. The series was issued without any dates except for the 7th cahier, which appeared in 1839. The earlier volumes can be dated only based on internal evidence of drapery styles. Judging from the number of plates and the style, the present volume presumably is either cahier 2 or 3. - Extremities rubbed; corners bumped. Occasional light spotting near margins; some plate numbers and captions partly cut; the plates in very good condition. A fine copy of this artistic work essential for the spreading of the Empire style across Europe. Canepa, "French Empire influences on Curtain design in Ackermann's Repository of Arts" in: Furniture History XXXVIII (2002), pp. 123-127 and passim. Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin no. 1278 (incomplete set). Cf. OCLC 81288729.
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[Jain cosmogram].
Polychrome pigments on cotton. Northern India, early 20th century.
183 x 33 cm. Large Jain cosmogram alternating text and geometric figures, representing the Universe. Jain cosmology considers the world as an uncreated entity that has existed since infinity with neither beginning nor end. - Provenance: French art trade; bought by Pierre Bergé (1930-2017) in Paris in 2010 and acquired from the sale of his estate.
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[Japanese Art].
Bijutsu sekai. Tokyo, Shun'yodo, 1891.
8vo. 18 woodblock prints (10 double-page); ink and color on mica-coated paper. Volume 10 of "Bijutsu sekai" ("The World of Art"), the famous journal of woodblock prints edited by Watanabe Seitei (Shotei). The illustrations are derived from old and new paintings. Similar copies are held by the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum. - Slight edge defects to wrappers, otherwise fine. OCLC 37898366. Meiji shinbun zasshi bunko shozo zasshi mokuji soran 65.
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[JENNER (Thomas)]
Albert Durer Revived: Or, a Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing, or Colouring of Maps and Prints: and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers. With directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass. Or, The young-man's time well spent. In which he hath the ground-work to make him fit for doing any thing by hand, when he is able to draw well. By the use of this work, you may draw all parts of a man,... And directions for birds, beasts, landskps, ships, and the like. Moreover, grounds to lay silver or gold upon,... and how to varnish it when you have done. How also to diaper and shadow things, and to heighten them to stand off; to deepen them, and make them glister. In this book you have the necessary instruments for drawing, and the use of them, and how to make artificial pastiles to draw withal. and also directions how to draw with Indian-ink: wherein you have also Mr. Hollar's receipt for etching, with instructions how to use it. Very useful for all handicrafts, and ingenious gentlemen and youths. By Hammer and hand all arts do stand.
Small folio (312 x 198 mm), [1], 21, [1] leaves, half-title with engraved portrait of D?rer on verso, 19 full-page engravings on rectos (6 partly coloured in amateur pink pencil) with text on numbered versos, publisher's advertisement on the verso of final leaf, text browned and lightly soiled, stitched as issued with half-title and publisher's advertisement as upper and lower covers, corners a little dog-eared, covers with light chipping to margins and just touching the border of the frontispiece. A rare early edition of a drawing manual which was first published by Thomas Jenner (1621-1672) in 1652 under the title 'A Book of Drawing', with a further edition appearing in 1666. On his death he was succeeded by the printseller John Garrett (1669-1718), who publisher further editions from whose shop "you may have choice of all sorts of large or small maps; coloured, or uncoloured, variety of Dutch and French prints, and prints done in Metzo-Tincto, very good Indian-ink to draw withal, and all sorts of the best copy-books, and Cocker's tutor to writing and arithmetick... and several sorts of coloured sashes to set before windows." All editions are rare and seldom appear in commerece, ESTC locating just a single complete copy of this edition at Harvard.
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[Jewelry models].
Album with hand-drawn jewelry designs. Probably Paris, after 1872.
Oblong 4to (280 x 175 mm). 52 ff. With 101 very neat drawings in ink, some hand-coloured (blue and yellow). Half morocco, gold-tooled word "album" on front cover. Model album for jewelry, probably from a Parisian luxury jeweler, with 101 ink drawings of jewelry models and designs, showing earrings, brooches, medallions, crucifixes, bracelets, hairpins, badges, clasps, and a diadem, made of silver, gold and platinum, using pearls and precious stones such as rubies and onyx. All drawings are evidently by the same artist. The first 59 drawings are numbered (1-59) and have French annotations in a neat handwriting, providing the name of the jeweler that produces the pictured models, the place where the jeweler is active, and the date when the model first appeared on the market. All jewelers mentioned are from Paris, except for Besson (from Lyon): Grand, Martincourt, Ballanche & Bourdier, Loussel et Vacherot, Galerie Vivienne, Goliat, Magasins du Boulevard des Italiens, and Magasins du Palais Royale. The dates range from 1868 to 1872. The numbered designs are accompanied by a short descriptive text with details about the material and sometimes the popularity of the respective model. The remaining designs without a number and text might be the jeweler's own designs. - In very good condition.
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[Kurzgefaßte Technologie, oder Darstellung der Gewerbe und Künste]
Kurzgefaßte Technologie, oder Darstellung der Gewerbe und Künste. Ein Leitfaden für Lehrer und Schüler beim öffentlichen und Privatunterricht, als auch zum Gebrauche für Erwachsene. (= Schule gemeinnütziger Kenntnisse und Wissenschaften, Bd. 3).
Leipzig-Kaschau, Georg Wigand, 1831. 8°. 100 S., Bedruckte OBrosch.
Bookseller reference : 36026
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[Lennox Airship].
Das erste Luft-Post-Schiff genant der Adler nach der Natur getreu abgebildet. No place, ca. 1835.
Engraving, 395 x 261 mm. Interesting German engraving, describing the airship built by Count Lennox in London in 1834/35. "In 1835, the comte de Lennox built the 'Eagle', a cigar-shaped airship that he displayed in London. This craft had four large paddles on either side that 'experimental sailors' were to turn back and forth like the oars of ancient ships. No evidence exists that Lennox tried to fly his invention, nor is there any reason to think it would have worked if he had tried" (Don Berliner, Aviation: Reaching for the Sky [1997], p. 33). "[The airship of 98,700 cubic feet capacity] is of interest because a small balloon or ballonet, 7,050 cubic feet contents, was placed inside the larger one for an air filling. A car 66 feet in length was rigged beneath the envelope by means of ropes eighteen inces long. Above the car the envelope was provided with a long air cushion in connection with a valve. The intention was by compression of the air in the cushion and the inner balloon, to alter the height of the airship, in order to travel with the most favourable air currents. The motive power was 20 oar propellers worked by men. The airship proved to be too heavy on completion to lift its own weight, and was destroyed by the onlookers" (George Whale, British Airships: Past, Present and Future [1919], p. 16). - Occasional insignificant browning; slightly wrinkled. Traces of folding. Cf. the like-sized drawing, dated 1838, in the ILA catalogue: Liebmann/Wahl (1912), no. 136 (probably based on this engraving, or vice-versa).
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[Liber depictus].
Krumauer Bildercodex. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Codex 370. Facsimile Band. Codices selecti phototypice impressi. Moderantibus Francisco Sauer [...] et Josepho Stummvoll [...] Vol. XIII. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1967.
Folio (ca. 280 x 377 mm). (8) pp. 171 ff. of reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings. Half calf over printed boards with stamped spine title. In cardboard slipcase. A complete facsimile edition of a 14th century "liber depictus", a "painted book", originating from the monastery of the Friars Minor at Ceský Krumlov, representing one of the most valuable manuscripts of the Austrian National Library. It includes a paupers' Bible, numerous legends of the saints and some educational narratives, all in the form of splendid pen-and-ink drawings. They are arranged in two or three rows accompanied only by a few lines of text, and were carried out by three different hands. There are two full-page illustrations showing the Virgin with the child on f. 1r, partly covered by a medallion of Christ with the marks of crucifixion but without the Crown of Thorns, as well as the incarnation of Christ on f. 155v. - Without the commentary volume. The slipcase a little worn. The date "1350" added to the title-page by hand, the rest of the volume in mint condition. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel.
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[Louvre.] Croze-Magnan, S. C.
Le Musée Français. Paris, Herhan, 1803-1809.
Large folio (570 x 320 mm). 4 vols. With 4 engr. title vignettes, 8 engravings in the text, and 344 engr. plates. (And:) Laurent, H., Musée Royal. Paris, Didot, 1816-1818. 2 vols. With engr. title vignette, 4 engravings in the text, and 161 engr. plates. (4), 28 pp. 113; 85 ff. A total of 6 vols. in contemp. dark-green morocco, sumptuously gilt, with giltstamped coat of arms on covers. First edition; the best documentation of the famous Louvre's holdings and collections, here complete with all illustrations. A splendid copy including all the supplements, uniformly bound in gilt green period morocco for Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, duc de Berry (1778-1820) and his wife Marie-Caroline of Naples and Sicily (1798-1870), with their marriage arms (1816); their "Bibliothèque de Rosny" bookplate is on the pastedown. - A few plates misbound; occasional staining. Published in only 600 copies, "Musée Français" was dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte. The supplement, published after the Emperor's abdication, was dedicated to the King. - A magnificent set of this great work in perfect state of preservation and from a noble library. Cohen/R. 743. Vicaire V, 1229.
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[Mailand - Hofbauinspektorat].
Istruzioni provvisorie per l'architetto ispettore degl' II. RR. fabbricati di corte in Milano e nella real villa presso Monza. [Milano, I. R. Stamperia, um 1820?].
7 SS auf Büttenpapier mit Wasserzeichen (Medaille mit einem Portrait Franz I. von Österreich sowie sein persönliches Wappen und ein gekröntes Wappen mit Jagdhorn). Meisterhaft gearbeiteter dunkelgrüner Ledereinband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Titel und floraler Bordüre am Deckel. Goldgepr. Rückendekor. Dreiseitiger Goldschnitt. Folio (235 x 350 mm). Prächtig gebundenes persönliches Exemplar des "Architetto Ispettore", d. i. des k. k. Hofbauinspektors und Oberarchitekten der habsburgischen Paläste in Mailand und Monza. Die Instruktion betrifft die Instandhaltung und Verbesserung der kaiserlichen Gebäude. Neben dem herausragend gearbeiteten Einband gibt das Werk auch Zeugnis vom architektonischen Wirken der Habsburger in Norditalien: Vor allem das Stadtbild Mailands wurde durch den Ausbau des königlichen Palastes unter Maria Theresia wesentlich geprägt und hat in dieser Form noch heute Bestand. Der Architekt Giuseppe Piermarini (1734-1808) war auch verantwortlich für die Errichtung der Villa Reale in Monza. - Ecken unbedeutend bestoßen; ansonsten in sehr gutem Zustand. - Nicht im Bibliothekskatalogen nachgewiesen; jedoch hält die Biblioteca provinciale Scipione e Giulio Capone in Avellino ein Exemplar der "Istruzioni provvisorie per l'Ispettore delle mobilie degl'II. RR. Fabbricati di Corte in Milano e nell'I. R. Villa presso Monza" im selben Format, welche ungefähr gleichzeitig entstanden sein dürften.
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[MARCHAL, Chales-Jacob, 1815-1873].
Mystéres et Friponneries du Commerce, ou Les marchands voleurs démasqués. [Les fraudes alimentaires]. Ouvrage indispensable aux Ménages.
Paris, Lucien Marpon, Libraire-Éditeur, 1861. 12vo.; VII-192 pp. Cubiertas originales. Organizada en forma de diccionario, la obra repasa los alimentos y bebidas susceptibles de ser adulterados. Contiene un capítulo final sobre sustancias colorantes, recipientes, envoltorios y aditivos químicos.
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[MAXWELL (John)]
An Essay upon Tune. Being an attempt to free the Scale of Music, and the Tune of Instruments, from Imperfection.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 122 mm), iv, 290, [2]pp., with final errata leaf, 19 folding engraved plates, some light offsetting, minor browning from turn-ins, contemporary tree calf, smooth spine ruled in gilt, black leather lettering piece, joints slightly cracked otherwise a fine copy. The work was published anonymously and was long attributed to the English clergyman, the Rev. Francis Kelly Maxwell (1729-1782). However, it has recently been attributed to John Maxwell who was a property manager in Scotland for Sir William Pulteney and an amateur violinist. "In the 'Essay upon Tune' Maxwell presented his discovery to the public, namely, a division of the octave into forty-four distant pitches with the mechanism to enable an organ to produce these pitches."?Kassler. Provenance: Ownership inscription and bookplate of Sir Michael R. Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (1826-1903). Kassler, The Science of Music, pp.760-1.
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[Moser, Koloman].
Lesebuch für österreichische allgemeine Volksschulen. Erster Teil. Schrägschrift-Fibel (C). Wien, K. K. Schulbücher-Verlag, 1909.
8vo. 102 SS. Illustrierter Halbleinenband. Neben der Einbandgestaltung zeichnet Moser für die Vignetten und Textillustrationen im Teil "Lesestücke" (ab S. 61) verantwortlich. Die so bezeichnete "Fibel" ist der einzige Teil des Lesebuchs, an dessen Enstehen Kolo Moser mitwirkte. Der Einband etwas fleckig, innen papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. WVZ Kolo Moser DG 116.1. Fanelli, Wiener Jugendstil, 1992, S. 109, Abb. 244. Heller, Welt, 2008, S. 214, Kat. Nr. 264.
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[MULHOUSE] - COLLECTIF, 3E TECHNOLOGIE DU COLLÈRE KENNEDY -
Mulhouse peint ses murs.
Mulhouse, Editions du Rhin, 1997; in-8 carré, 96 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Très bon étatUne soixantaine de fresques et trompe-l"oeil signés par des artistes aux styles très divers, égaient des façades de bâtiments mulhousiens. Une classe de technologie du Collège Kennedy s"est intéressée à cet art de la rue. Chasseurs d"images passionnés, les élèves ont réalisé le livre et, à travers 130 photos commentées en couleurs, vous font découvrir un Mulhouse souvent ignoré, toujours insolite". (Postface).
Bookseller reference : 201400190
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[Penther, Johann Friedrich.
Vierter Teil der Ausführlichen Anleitung zur bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst (...). Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, 1748].
Folio. (6 [instead of 8]), 102, (10) pp. With 78 (instead of 86) numbered engraved plates, one engraved portrait in profile, two woodcut headpieces and two tailpieces. 20th century half calf. The final volume only of the extensive four-volume work by the German mathematician and architectural theorist Penther (1693-1749), considered "the most substantial treatise of civil architecture by a German writer" (British Arch. Libr.). It covers, inter alia, "residential houses, orders of columns, palaces, triumphal arches, military barracks, prisons [and] theatres" (cf. Ornamentstichslg. Berlin). The plates by the engraver and publisher Pfeffel (1674-1748) show floor and elevation plans as well as details. Volume IV includes the palaces of Versailles, Weissenstein and Ludwigsburg, as well as the city palace in Hannover, the Celle gaol and the opera houses of Berlin and Hannover. Dedicated to Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Wales, with his engraved portrait shown in profile by Georg Daniel Heumann (1691-1759). A 1862 ownership by Anton Kiemeney [?] to the verso of the blank leaf following plate LXIX. Wants the engraved title and the letterpress title-page, as well as 8 plates, namely IX, XXI, XXVI, LVI, LXI, LXXIX, LXXXV and LXXXVI. Plates LXXVI f. are bound between LXXXI f., while plate LXXVIII comes after LXXXIV. - Lower cover slightly waterstained. A hole in the duststained dedication page, rebacked with paper (no loss of text). A tear in the lower third of pp. 47f. The top right-hand corner of plate LI torn off, some loss of image. Plates XLVI and LIV narrowly trimmed, slight loss of text and image. Folds of several plates reinforced with strips of paper. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1982, to the flyleaf. Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 2012. British Arch. Libr. 2482. Poggendorff II, 400 (slightly differing title). VD 18, 90687035. Cf. Avery 766 (volume III only). Cf. Engelmann, Bibl. mech.-tech. 279 (Lotter ed.). Not in Fowler.
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[Photographie - Joseph Beuys, Keith Haring, Gerhard Richter, Günther Uecker]. Mebusch, Heinz Günter, deutscher Photograph und experimenteller Künstler (1952-2001).
"Reise zum Planeten Ars". 199 Portraitphotographien, davon 185 eigenh. von den portraitierten Künstlern signiert. Verschiedene Orte, 1979-1992.
199 Gelatinesilberabzüge auf Barytpapier, auf leichten Karton aufgezogen. Je ca. 265:179 mm, Papier ca. 293:208 mm. Lose in Original-Holzkassette. 1 von 25 numerierten Exemplaren, durchgehend von den Portraitierten signiert und vom Photographen bezeichnet. Bedeutende Sammlung von annähernd 200 Künstlerportraits von u. a. Joseph Beuys, Fernando Botero, Arno Breker (2 x), Paul Flora, Ernst Fuchs, Karl Otto Götz, Keith Haring, Jörg Immendorff, Loriot, Heinz Mack, Georg Muche, Meret Oppenheim, Gerhard Richter (2 x), HA Schult, Roland Topor, Günther Uecker, Tomi Ungerer, Wolf Vostell, Dondi White, Shizuko Yoshikawa u. v. m. - Heinz-Günter Mebusch, ein Schüler von Otto Steinert, einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Photographen der Nachkriegszeit, war in mehr als 40 Ländern Europas, Afrikas und Amerikas tätig. Sein zeitlich längstes Projekt und zugleich die umfangreichste Werkreihe sind die zwischen 1978 und 2000 entstandenen Portraits von über 200 Künstlern, die in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Portraitierten entstanden sind. Eine etwas geringere Zahl von Arbeitsabzügen, meist mit zusätzlichen Signaturen (und einmal auch mit einer Übermalung des portraitierten Künstlers Ford Beckman) versehen, entstand in den Jahren von 1979 bis 1992 unter dem Arbeitstitel "Reise zum Planeten ARS" in einer Auflage von 25 Stück. Die hier vorliegenden Abzüge sind größtenteils (185 von 199) eh. von den Portraitierten signiert, tragen die Nummer 22 (von insgesamt 25) und werden in einer aufwendig gestalteten Holzkassette präsentiert; weiters sind alle Abzüge verso handschriftlich bezeichnet und mit dem Fingerabdruck des Photographen versehen; einige wenige sind irrtümlich mit 22/24 oder 22/23 numeriert. - Heute weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten, war Mebusch mit allen bedeutenden Künstlern seiner Zeit bekannt, bespielte zahlreiche Ausstellungen (u. a. Costa Rica, Luxemburg, "Was ist Kunst" in der Fotogalerie Wien, "Polytoxicomania" in Hollywood, "Schatzsuche" im Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Goetheinstitute San Francisco 1998, Biennale di Venezia 1999), war Lehrbeauftragter an der Folkwangschule in Essen und organisierte und kuratierte Kunst- und Foto-Projekte (darunter das Beuys-Festival 1991 in Düsseldorf). Im documenta Archiv - das, wie auf dessen Homepage zu lesen ist, "seit den 1990er Jahren ein bedeutendes Konvolut von über 200 hochqualitativen fotografischen Künstlerportraits" von Mebusch besitzt - war zuletzt im Sommer 2018 eine kleine Auswahl davon zu sehen: "In starker Nahsicht bestechen die Kopf- bzw. Brustportraits durch den intensiven, direkten Blick der Künstlerinnen und Künstler". Vollständig in der Originalkassette wie vorliegend selten, das einzige im Auktionshandel der letzten Jahrzehnte nachgewiesene Vergleichsexemplar umfasste um 20 Portraits weniger. - Detaillierte Verlistung auf Anfrage.
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[Poenitz, Carl Eduard]
Die Eisenbahnen und ihre Benutzung als militärische Operazionslinien von Pz
Zweite (umgeänderte) Ausgabe. Mit 1 gefalt. lithogr. Karte. Adorf, Verlags-Bureau, 1853. 8vo. (21,2 x 13,0 cm). XII, 287 S. Marmorierter Halblederband d. Zt. mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.
Bookseller reference : 1996
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[Prater].
Plan du Pavillon et du Jardin de l'Ambassadeur de Russie Prince de Galitzin au Prater. Wien, um 1775.
Kupferstich von G. Nicolai. 63 x 57 cm. Beiliegend zwei Stiche mit Aufrissdarstellungen des Pavillons (je ca. 50 x 37 cm, gering stockfleckig). Seltener Plan des frühen Landschaftsgartens im Wiener Prater, mit separaten Fassadendarstellungen des Lusthauses (Vorder- und Rückfront). - Demetrius Michailowitsch Gallitzin (Golizyn, 1721-93) war 1760/61 russischer Gesandter in Paris, wo er seinen Privatsekretär Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay kennenlernte. Ab Mai 1762 Gesandter in Wien, spielte er eine große Rolle bei der Verbesserung der Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Habsburgerreich. Er verhandelte erfolgreich mit Österreich die Erste Teilung Polens, die seinem Land den meisten Landgewinn brachte. 1784 wurde er zum Botschafter des russischen Hofes bei Kaiser Joseph II. ernannt. Golizyn war bekannt als ein großzügiger Förderer der Künste: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart besuchte häufig sein Stadtpalais und spielte dort Konzerte. 1775 errichtete er im Wiener Prater zwischen Hauptallee und heutiger Ausstellungsstraße ein Lusthaus mit Park. 1780 erwarb der Fürst weite Besitzungen von der Gemeinde Ottakring im Westen Wiens am Predigtstuhl, der bald nach ihm, später auch offiziell Gallitzinberg genannt wurde. 1785 ließ er sich dort ein Sommerschlösschen erbauen, an der Stelle, wo heute das Schloß Wilhelminenberg steht. Das Schloß beherbergte seine umfangreiche Kunstsammlung (vgl. Czeike II, 454). Nicht bei Nebehay/Wagner.
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[Rainer Ferdinand, Erzherzog].
Erzherzog Rainers Reisen durch Südtirol. Eine Sammlung von 52 Originalaquarellen aus den Jahren 1848 bis 1851. Wien, Inlibris, 2003.
60 SS. Mit 57 durchgehend farbigen Abbildungen. Qu.-8vo. Katalog 12. - Erzherzog Rainer war nicht bloß "Landschaftsmaler und Lithograph" (Fuchs II, 37), sondern gilt als eine "der hervorragendsten Gestalten der Regierungszeit Kaiser Franz Josefs" (O. Redlich in: Biogr. Jahrb. und dt. Nekrolog XVIII, zit. n. DBA II 1040, 150f.). Ehrenmitglied der k. k. Akademie der Wissenschaften sowie vielseitig begabt und interessiert, war er eine der profiliertesten Sammlerpersönlichkeiten des Hauses Habsburg. - Schon sein Vater Erzherzog Rainer Joseph (1783-1852), Bruder des Kaisers Franz, hatte Österreich im Jahr 1848 verlassen, um sich in Oberitalien niederzulassen. So verlebte also auch Rainer d. J. "die Jugend [...] in dem altösterreichischen Italien [...] geleitet und angeregt von den für alles Schöne empfänglichen Eltern u. von vortrefflichen Lehrern" (Redlich). - Ob sich unter den "vortrefflichen Lehrern", den bildnerischen Erziehern Erzherzog Rainers, einer der großen Kammermaler seiner Zeit befand, die ja gerade in der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte nachweislich zur Zeichenausbildung der jungen Erzherzöge herangezogen wurden, muß vorläufig offen bleiben. Auffallend ist jedenfalls die doch häufige Übereinstimmung in der Wahl der Reisewege und Motive mit den dokumentierten Exkursionen Thomas Enders ins Ötztal sowie nach Südtirol und Oberitalien in den Jahren 1843 bis 1847. Zur Entstehungszeit der vorliegenden Blätter reiste Rainer jedoch mit Sicherheit schon auf eigene Faust und ohne seine Lehrer (sich selbst beim Zeichnen und seine Begleiter hat er übrigens mehrfach in den Landschaftsbildern festgehalten), auch die Qualität der Aquarelle ist mit jener seiner überlieferten Schülerzeichnungen nicht mehr vergleichbar. Die gereifte Begabung des 1851 bereits 24jährigen Erzherzogs und die außergewöhnliche Qualität seiner Arbeiten wird vor allem im direkten Vergleich mit Werken von anderen - teils ebenfalls in der Landschaftsmalerei - dilettierenden Mitgliedern des Kaiserhauses (vgl. die sogenannten Dilettantenkassetten der Albertina) deutlich. - ISBN: 3-9500813-8-0.
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[RODRÍGUEZ DE CAMPOMANES, Pedro, 1723-1802].
Discurso sobre la educación popular de los Artesanos y su fomento.
Madrid, en la Imprenta de Don Antonio de Sancha, 1775. 8vo.; 12 hojas, 475 pp. Encuadernación de la época en pergamino.
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[RODRÍGUEZ DE CAMPOMANES, Pedro].
Apéndice a la educación popular. Parte Quarta, que contiene los ocho discursos de Francisco Martinez de Mata, con uno de nuevo sobre el comercio nacional, en que se presentan las observaciones que parecen adaptables al estado presente.
Madrid, en la Imprenta de Don Antonio de Sancha, 1777. 8vo.; XCII pp., 2 hs., 431 pp. Pequeño punto de polilla que afecta letras en las noventa y dos páginas iniciales y en las diez primeras del texto de Martínez de la Mata. Encuadernación de época en piel, con lomera profusamente ornada. Cortes pintados. El plano superior presenta una roedura en el margen exterior.
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[RODRÍGUEZ DE CAMPOMANES, Pedro].
Apéndice a la educación popular. Parte Segunda, que contiene un discurso sobre mejorar las fábricas antiguas ó establecerlas de nuevo, y además van colocadas por serie las Reales Cédulas, Decretos y Órdenes tocantes a las franquicias y gracias concedidas á las fabricas y á las primeras materias, que vinieren de fuera.
Madrid, en la Imprenta de Don Antonio de Sancha, 1775. 8vo.; CCLXVI pp., 3 hs., 271 pp. Encuadernación de época en piel, con lomera profusamente ornada. Cortes pintados.
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[RODRÍGUEZ DE CAMPOMANES, Pedro].
Apéndice a la educación popular. Parte Tercera, que contiene un discurso sobre la legislación gremial de los artesanos, contrahido a lo que resulta de nuestras leyes, y ordenanzas municipales de los pueblos.
Madrid, en la Imprenta de Don Antonio de Sancha, 1776. 8vo.; CCLXX pp., 2 hs., 306 pp., 1 h. Encuadernación de época en piel, con lomera profusamente ornada. Cortes pintados.
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[Schubart, Martin].
Gemälde-Sammlung des verewigten Herrn Dr. Martin Schubart. Mit dem Bilde und dem Vorwort des Verstorbenen sowie einer Einführung von H. Pallmann. Auktion am 23. Oktober 1899 zu München, unter Leitung des Kunsthändlers Hugo Helbling in München. München, Hugo Helbling, 1899.
10 Bll., 51 Tafeln (Heliogravüren und Lichtdrucke), je 1-2 Blatt zwischen den Tafeln. Originaler Leineneinband. Vergoldete Kopfschnittverzierung. Folio (42,5 x 34 cm). Prachtausgabe in 500 Exemplaren. Der Katalog verzeichnet 102 Gemälde, meist holländische Schule des 17. Jahrhunderts, von denen die Hälfte abgebildet ist. - Der Buchrücken mit Wurmspuren. Bindung anfangs gelockert, sonst tadelloses Exemplar.
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[Story, George H.].
Illustrated catalogue. Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. [New York, Metropolitan Museum, 1907].
Large 8vo. XL, 248 pp. With numerous plates in black and white. Illustrated green original cloth with giltstamped title to spine and upper cover. An excellent copy of this still-useful collection catalogues, removed from the library of the Austrian numismatist and art collector Leon Ruzicka with his printed bookplate.
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[Sturm, Leonhard Christoph].
Der geöffnete Ritter-Platz. Die geöffnete Festung [...], Die [...] geöffnete Baumeister-Academie [...], Der geöffnete See-Hafen [...], Fortsetzung des geöffneten See-Hafens [...]. Hamburg, Benjamin Schillers Witwe im Thum, 1715.
12mo. 4 parts in one volume. 141, (3); 232, (6); 173, (3); (2) 116, (2) pp. Wants half-title and frontispiece. With 37 (instead of 44) engraved plates, 4 of which folded. 5 engraved illustrations within the text. All edges sprinkled red. Contemporary half vellum over boards. Volume 1 of a practical three-volume manual composed for young aristocrats, introducing them to science and the applied arts. The present edition consists of four parts which were also published separately and have separate title-pages. Apart from the description of an army and its organization, featured topics include the building of fortresses, bridges and ships, as well as issues of architecture more generally, garden architecture, sculpture, art, cartography and ships' flags. The plates illustrate these themes, in particular visualizing the chapters on construction and the ensigns presented. The illustrations within the text relate to navigation and exhibit, among other things, constellations and a compass. - Frontispiece, half-title and seven additional plates are supplied in photocopy. Paper somewhat browned. All title-pages show slight edge defects from missing page markers; three modern markers have been added. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his stamped and signed ownership, dated 1979, to front pastedown. Graesse VI, 132.
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[Teppich von Bayeux].
Notice historique sur la tapisserie brodée de la Reine Mathilde, epouse de Guillaume le Conquérant. Saint-Lo, J. Elie, 1827.
46 SS., l. w. Bl. Blaue Interimsbroschur der Zeit. 8vo. Ungefähr vierte Ausgabe (EA 1802) dieser Schrift über den "Teppich von Bayeux", einen fast 70 Meter langen und 50 Zentimeter hohen Tuchstreifen, der in bunten, gestickten Bildern die Geschichte der Eroberung Englands im Jahre 1066 erzählt. Nach französischer Tradition wurde er von Königin Mathilde, der Gattin Wilhelms des Eroberers, gestickt. - Ohne die 6 Tafeln.
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[THOMAS (Joseph)]
Railroad Guide, from London to Birmingham. Containing Picturesque, Historical, Legendary, and Statistical Sketches of its Vicinity.
Third edition, 8vo (195 x 120 mm), 236pp., frontispiece double-page strip map, 8 plates (some coloured), orig. publishers cloth, title and illustration of a locomotive stamped in gilt on upper cover, inner hinges worn, tears to joints but holding firm, corners rubbed. Ottley, 6940.
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[TRACTOR-TRACTEUR]
Know Your Tractor : A Shell Guide.
Hardcover petit in-4°, un volume de 362 pages, illustrations en noir et en couleurs, cartonnage vert de l'éditeur, dos toile bleue. Traces d'humidité aux dernières pages, coiffes et coins us. sinon bon état. [CA27/5]
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[TRACTOR-TRACTEUR]
Know Your Tractor : A Shell Guide.
Shell Petroleum Company Limited, London, 1955. Hardcover petit in-4°, un volume de 362 pages, illustrations en noir et en couleurs, cartonnage vert de l'éditeur, dos toile bleue.
Bookseller reference : 41889
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[Typography]. D. Stempel AG.
Arabisch, Türkisch und andere islamitische Sprachen. Frankfurt a. M. and other places, [1922].
Oblong 4to (290 x 224 mm). 38 pp. Original green card wrapper with pasted title lables in Arabic and German and printed ornamental borders to the covers. Stapled. Rare art nouveau specimen book of Arabic typefaces for Arabic, Turkish, Hausa, and other oriental languages produced by the famous German typographic foundry D. Stempel AG. Apart from the typefaces, the catalogue includes initials, geometrical and floral borders, vignettes and other ornaments, religious calligraphy, and coats of arms. The bilingual introduction advertises the typefaces both to German scholars as well as to clients in the Near to the Middle East. Among the editors of the sample texts were academics from Syria, Egypt, and Turkey, as well as the German linguist and polyglot scholar Ludwig Harald Schütz (1873-1941). - After World War I, David Stempel's D. Stempel AG had bought the famous type foundry of the printer Drugulin in Leipzig. This purchase enabled Stempel to offer types for most written languages of the world, including the Arabic typefaces for the various languages advertised in the book. - Minimal browning. Cover slightly worn and yellowed. A single copy in libraries internationally (German National Library Leipzig). OCLC 724066809.
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften II. [2] Band. Der Brückenbau. 10 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-1917. Royal8vo. Bound in 10 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities.
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften II. [2] Band. Der Brückenbau. 10 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-1917. Royal8vo. Bound in 10 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities.
Bookseller reference : 52664
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften in fünf Bänden. Der Wasserbau. Die Baumaschinen. 20 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-1924. Royal8vo. Bound in 20 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean.
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften in fünf Bänden. Der Wasserbau. Die Baumaschinen. 20 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-1924. Royal8vo. Bound in 20 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean.
Bookseller reference : 52404
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften IV [4] band. Die Baumaschinen. 5 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1883 - 1911. Royal8vo. Bound in 5 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities.
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften IV [4] band. Die Baumaschinen. 5 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1883 - 1911. Royal8vo. Bound in 5 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities.
Bookseller reference : 52663
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften. Vorarbeiten und Bauausführung, Erd-, Grund-, Strassen- und Tunnelbau. 5 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-1924. Royal8vo. Bound in 5 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities.
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[VARIOUS AUTHORS].
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften. Vorarbeiten und Bauausführung, Erd-, Grund-, Strassen- und Tunnelbau. 5 vols.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-1924. Royal8vo. Bound in 5 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities.
Bookseller reference : 52665
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[Wiedemann, Julius]
Illustration now! : 96 illustrators from 13 countries
Octavo in multicolored DJ (pink spine); 352 p, color illus ; 23 cm. Technology; Art. || In English, French, & German.
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`Green J
Concrete Liquid Retaining Structures
Elsevier Science & Technology 1979. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings In good all round condition. 750grams ISBN:0853348561 Elsevier Science & Technology hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5946252 ISBN : 0853348561 9780853348566
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A A Richards
Modern Mushroom Cultivation
W H & L Collingridge 1960. "Deals with every aspect of mushroom cultivation including picking grading and packing for market." Very tidy unmarked copy in a complete jacket with a small repaired tear at the top of the spine. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. W H & L Collingridge Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 054797
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A ARRIBAS P GRANADOS
PRUEBAS DE SELECTIVIDAD MATEMATICAS II
Distrito Universitario de Madrid (1989-1992)
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