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Verne, Jules; Carzou, JeanDe la terre à la lune.Pierre de Tartas, Paris, [1969]
![Verne, Jules; Carzou, JeanDe la terre à la lune.Pierre de Tartas, Paris, [1969]](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/verne_carzou_terre-2.jpg)
Rare pre-publication copy of the elaborately produced edition of “De la terre à la lune”, published by de Tartas in 1970. These “handmade” editions were given in a few copies to selected collectors and dealers to promote the printed edition. Description: Cardboard folder, wrapped in an original colour lithograph. Folio: 38 × 28 cm; 8…
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Shaw, ThomasTravels or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant.At the Theatre, Oxford, 1738
During the period of his chaplaincy at Algiers from 1720 to 1733, Shaw travelled in Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus and through much of North Africa. His work is valuable for its accurate descriptions of antiquities, geography and the natural history specimens he observed. First Edition. Description: Bound in contemporary calf, spine with 6 raised bands ruled…
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G.E. Ruffles[Victorian Travel Book]Felixstowe, 1898
![G.E. Ruffles[Victorian Travel Book]Felixstowe, 1898](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ruffles_sketchbook-6.jpg)
A nice Victorian travel book of twenty-four original watercolour drawings dated 1898–1902. Description: Original beige cloth binding, titled on front cover Ilfracombe 1898, Scotland 1901 and Wales 1902. Bookbinder’s label on the front paste-down. Obl. octavo: 14 × 24 cm; pp. 24ll., [1 loosely inserted]. 24 watercolour drawings on Whatman’s handmade drawing paper. ¶ Provenance:…
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Reneaulme, PaulSpecimen historiae plantarum.Hadrianus Beys, Paris, 1611
Sole edition of this first French botanical-scientific publication. Description: 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscripts. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; [4]ll. (the 4th blank), 152pp., [2]pp., 47pp. With 25 full-page engravings. Text in Latin and Greek. ¶ Bound with: Th.[ou], J.[acques] A.[uguste] [de]: Crambe. Viola. Lilium. Phlogis. Terpsinoe. Parisiis. [Robert…
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Poe, Edgar Allan; Baudelaire, Charles (transl.); Prussen, Eduard (ill.)The Raven. Le Corbeau.Donkey Press, Cologne, 2000
A beautiful edition of Poe’s ‘The Raven’ printed in a small limited edition of only 55 copies, of which this is no. 4. With 19 original linocuts, each signed by the artist. The text set by hand, in English and French. The English text correspondends to the first edition. The french version follows the original…
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Poe, Edgar [Allen]; Maret, J.acques: Le diable dans le beffroi.J. et J. Vaucher, Paris, 1927
![Poe, Edgar [Allen]; Maret, J.acques: Le diable dans le beffroi.J. et J. Vaucher, Paris, 1927](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/poe_maret_diable_beffroi-1.jpg)
Rare edition of Poe’s ‘The Devil in the Belfry’ illustrated with 25 polychrome woodcuts by Jacques Maret. Hand-numbered copy no. 18 from a limited edition of 160 copies. Description: Plain wrappers with illustrated jacket, housed in brown cardboard folder with paper label to front. Octavo: 24 × 20 cm; pp. 49, [1] (unbound and uncut…
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La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup, Comte deCharts and plates to La Pérouse’s voyage.G. G. & J. Robinson, London, 1798 [1799]
![La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup, Comte deCharts and plates to La Pérouse’s voyage.G. G. & J. Robinson, London, 1798 [1799]](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/perouse_voyage_autour_monde-2.jpg)
Atlas to the English edition of the report of the famous voyage around the world by La Pérouse, who – in addition to Bougainville and Cook – contributed decisively to the exploration of the Pacific region. Without the two text volumes. Description: Contemporary quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Flat spine lettered and decorated in…
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[Neumark, Georg]Der Neu-Sprossende Teutsche Palmbaum. Oder Ausführlicher Bericht/ von der Hochlöblichen Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Anfang/ Absehn/ Satzungen/ Eigenschaft, und deroselben Fortpflantzung (…) samt einem vollkommenen Verzeichnüss/ aller dieses Palmen-Ordens Mitglieder (…).Joachim Heinrich Schmid, Weimar für Johann Hoffmann, Nuremberg, [1669]
![[Neumark, Georg]Der Neu-Sprossende Teutsche Palmbaum. Oder Ausführlicher Bericht/ von der Hochlöblichen Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Anfang/ Absehn/ Satzungen/ Eigenschaft, und deroselben Fortpflantzung (…) samt einem vollkommenen Verzeichnüss/ aller dieses Palmen-Ordens Mitglieder (…).Joachim Heinrich Schmid, Weimar für Johann Hoffmann, Nuremberg, [1669]](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/neumark_neu_sprossende_teutsche_palmbaum_5.jpg)
First edition of this comprehensive history and description of the ‘Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft’, the first and largest German language academy. Description: Contemporary limp vellum with yapped edges. Spine lettered in ink on paper label. Duodecimo: 17 × 10 cm; pp. [24] ll., 480 [i.e. 476] pp., [39] ll. With 33 copper engraved plates (frontispiece portrait plate,…
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Milton, JohnParadise Lost, a Poem in XII Books. [AND] Paradise Regain’d, a Poem in IV Books (…) Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1902 & 1905
![Milton, JohnParadise Lost, a Poem in XII Books. [AND] Paradise Regain’d, a Poem in IV Books (…) Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1902 & 1905](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/milton_paradise_lost_regained_doves-press-3.jpg)
A masterpiece by The Doves Press and a great example of contemporary typography and book design. Very attractive copies of 300 each printed on paper from a total edition of 322 copies (22 on vellum each). Description: Two volumes. Original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; pp.…
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Meyer, R.[udolf?]; Högger, C.[arl]Flugzeugkunde [and] Motorenkunde.Schweizerischen Fliegertruppe, [Dubendorf], n.d. [1920s]
![Meyer, R.[udolf?]; Högger, C.[arl]Flugzeugkunde [and] Motorenkunde.Schweizerischen Fliegertruppe, [Dubendorf], n.d. [1920s]](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/meyer_flugzeugkunde-motorenkunde-8.jpg)
Two rare works of aviation history: Regulations on the dismantling, loading and recovery of aircraft which have crashed or landed in an emergency, and on the maintenance of aircraft engines. Typescript with original photographs. Description: 2 vols., black cloth-backed over marbled paper boards (blue and red), upper board with paper lettering label printed in black.…