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Dutch edition of a very popular contemporary account of the French retreat from Russia in 1812.

[PFUEL, Ernst von]. Geschiedkundig tafereel van den aftogt der Franschen uit Rusland. Vertaald naar het origineel, te Petersburg uitgegeven in 1812.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1813. 8vo. Sewn. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 32 pp. Full description
€ 750
Central Europe Eastern Europe France Germany Military History (19th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia)
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First edition of the German translation of the important Pharmacopoeia Austriaco-Provincialis (1774)

[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Oesterreichische provinzial-Pharmakopee...
Vienna, Johan Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, 1776. 8vo. With a woodcut coat-of-arms on the title-page and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, light brown morocco spine label with title in gold, red sprinkled edges. [10], 384, [18] pp. Full description
€ 300
Austria Central Europe Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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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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A picturesque journey through Switzerland

[REICHARD, Heinrich August O.]. Malerische Reise durch einen großen Theil der Schweiz vor und nach der Revolution.
Jena, H.W.Ch. Seidler, 1805. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece with 4 medallion portraits, engraved title-page with the title on a rock in an alpine scene, 54 numbered engraved plates (1 folding) and 2 folding leaves with built-up letterpress music. With the 4 costume plates hand-coloured. Later 19th-century half cloth. XVI, 414, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Book History, Printing & Typography Costumes & Uniforms Switzerland
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Very interesting large folding map of Galicia (southeastern Poland) as part of the Habsburg Empire

REYMANN, Daniel Gottlob. Karte eines Theils von Neu oder West Gallicien welcher die Woywodschaften Sendomier und Krakau enthält nebst einem Theil von Alt Gallicien in XII Blatt, entworffen von Daniel Gottlob Reymann Königl: Preuss: Plan Kammer Inspector und Ingénieu Géographe.
[Berlin, S. Schropp & Comp.,] 1797. Engraved map in 12 sheets, cut into 49 (7 x 7) sections (each ca. 22 x 21 cm) with a total size of 154 x 154 cm. Scale ca. 1:180,000. Partly hand-coloured in outline. Mounted on linen. Full description
€ 2,500
Central Europe Charts & Maps Poland & Baltic
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Very rare publication of new Russian import regulations

[RUSSIA - CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION]. Tarif général ou table alphabétique des droits que payeront les marchandises dans tous les ports et aux douanes des frontières de l'Empire de Russie, excepté à celles d'Astracan, du gouvernement d'Oufa et de Sibérie. Composé dans la Comission de Commerce l'année 1782.
St. Petersburg, J.J. Weitbrecht, 1783. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,000
Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Russia (incl. Siberia)
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A beautiful and important botanical work on plants from Greece, Turkey and Armenia

SCHREBER, Johann Christian Daniël von. Icones et descriptiones plantarum minus cognitarum. Decas I.
Halle (Saale), Germany, J.J. Curt, 1766. Folio (37.5 x 24.5 cm). With 10 full-page numbered engravings of plants, an engraved image on the title-page, and a woodcut initial on the first page of the preface. Never bound, housed in a modern folder with a printed design of 19th-century marbled paper. [8], 20 pp. Full description
€ 2,750
Balkan & Greece Eastern Europe Floras & General Botany Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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