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102 splendid views of Prince Eugene of Savoy's Belvedere palace, including baroque interiors and the animals in his menagerie

KLEINER, Salomon. Residences memorables de l'incomparable heros de nôtre siecle ou Representation exacte de edifices et jardins de ... le Prince Eugene Francois Duc de Savoye et de Piemont, ... | Wunder würdiges Kriegs- und Siegs-lager ... oder Eigentliche vor und abbildungen der Hoff- Lust- und Garten-gebäude ...
Augsburg, heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1731-1740.
With: (2) KLEINER, Salomon. Representation des animaux de la menagerie de ... la Prince Eugene François de Savoye et de Piemont ..., avec plusieurs plantes etrangeres du dit jardin ...
Vorbildung aller ausländischen Thiere, so in dem Thier-garten Sr. Hochfürst. Durchl. Eugenii Francisci ...
Augsburg, heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1734. With 11 engraved title-pages, 2 engraved dedication leaves and 102 engraved illustration plates (11 folding). 2 works (the first in 10 parts) in 1 volume. Oblong Royal folio (32 x 46 cm). 19th-century calf. [3], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9; [1], 9, 3 engraved ll. Full description
€ 29,500
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Rare complete set of first editions of four major Dutch works on the planting and cultivation of (fruit-) trees

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Pomologia ...
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, 1758.
With:
(2) [IDEM]. Fructologia ...
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1763.
(3) [IDEM]. Dendrologia ...
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1763.
(4) [IDEM]. Beschryving van de moes- en keuken-tuin ...
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1769.
4 works in 2 volumes. (1-3 together, 4 separate). Folio. With all 4 title-pages with an ornamental woodcut frame printed in red. Ad 1 with an engraved coat-of-arms at the start of the dedication and 20 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates depicting apples (numbered 1-12) and pears (numbered 1-8), woodcut decorated initials and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Ad 2 with 19 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates with illustrations of peaches, plums, cherries, berries, etc., 1 woodcut decorated initial, and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Ads 3 and 4 with woodcut decorated initials and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with (remnants) of title labels lettered in gold, brown sprinkled paper sides. [1], [1 blank], [2], 86, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 132; [1], [1 blank], [2], 168, [4]; [1], [1 blank], 235, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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90 apples & pears and 24 fruit & nut trees in 39 handcoloured plates

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving en afbeelding van de beste soorten van appelen en peeren, ...
Amsterdam and Dordrecht, Allart, Holtrop, De Leeuw, and Krap, 1790. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 39 folding engraved plates (12 of apples & 8 of pears in the first work, showing 90 sorts; 19 of fruit and nut trees in the second work, showing 24 sorts), 4 woodcut tailpieces (plus 1 repeat) and 4 decorated woodcut initials (from 2 series). All coloured by a contemporary hand. With:
(2) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van vruchtboomen en vruchten, ...
(3) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van plantagie-gewassen, ...
Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, 36; [4], 70, [2 blank]; [4], 87, [1 blank], [4], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Second improved and enlarged edition of an encyclopedic manual on horticulture

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beknopte huishoudelyke hovenier. Inhoudende eene verhandeling en meernamige lijsten van alle soorten van ooft-vrugten. Insgelyks van alle boom- en heesteragtige plantagie-gewassen. Gelyk ook van alle keuken-gewassen, veld-vrugten, verfstof-gewassen en anderen.
Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, [1760-1762]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a small woodcut vignette on the title-pages, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpieces. Modern quarter paper. X, 294; [8], 415, [1 blank]; [8], 362, [42] pp. Full description
€ 6,950
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Mollusks of the Oligocene in northern Germany

KOENEN, Adolf von. Das Norddeutsche Unter-Oligocän und seine Mollusken-Fauna.
Berlin, Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstat, Im Vertrieb der Simon Schropp, 1889-1894. 7 parts (bound in 7). Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.5 cm). With 101 folding plates. Original printed brown paper wrappers, with the title on the spine (printed for volumes 1-6, manuscript for volume 7). 1458 pp. Full description
€ 950
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The most beautiful edition of a definitive work on the Cape of Good Hope

KOLBE, Peter. Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop, behelzende een zeer omstandig verhaal van den tegenwoordigen toestant van dat vermaarde gewest, deszelfs gelegenheit, haven, sterkte, regerings-vorm, uitgestrektheid, en onlangs ontdekte aanleggende landen; nevens een geleerde beschryving van het klimaat en aart van dat landschap; van deszelfs dieren, visschen, vogelen, planten, kruiden, mitsgaders verscheide wonderen der natuur, daar te lande ontdekt; waar by nog komt, een zeer nette en uit eige ondervinding opgemaakte beschryving van den oorsprong der Hottentotten.
Amsterdam, Balthazar Lakeman, 1727. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 2 titles printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page portrait of the author, 6 maps (1 folding, 5 double-page), and 46 plates (1 double-page, 45 full-page). Contemporary marbled calf. [16], 529, [3]; [4], 449, [87] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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The most richly illustrated edition of a famous description of South Africa

KOLB (KOLBE), Peter. Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop.
Amsterdam, Balthazar Lakeman, 1727. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 6 engraved maps (including one large folding map, 42.5 x 54.5 cm), 1 engraved plan and 45 engraved plates. 18th-century tanned sheepskin with a tree pattern, gold-tooled spine. [20], 529; [6], 449, [87] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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The first Dutch flora: a botanical work of epic proportions

KOPS, Jan. (With: P.M.E. GEVERS DEYNOOT; Jhr. F.A. HARTSEN; F.W. van EEDEN; L. VUYCK; and others). [Title volumes I-VI:] Flora Batava, afgebeeld door en van wegens J.C. Sepp en Zoon; beschreven door Jan Kops. [Title volumes V-XXIV:] Flora Batava of afbeelding en beschrijving van Nederlandsche gewassen.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp en Zoon; Leiden, De Breuk & Smits; Haarlem, De Erven & Vincent Loosjes; Den Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, [1800], 1807-1915. 24 volumes and 2 index volumes. Large 4to (30 x 24 cm). With 11 engraved title-pages for volumes 1-11 (the first with a hand-coloured vignette and with letterpress title pages for volumes 12-24) and with 1920 full page (and some double-page) engraved and lithographed botanical plates, all beautifully coloured by hand. With:
(2) TRAPPEN, J.E. van der. Algemeen register op de thans uitgegeven acht deelen van de Flora Batava met eenige aanmerkingen.
(Preface:) Utrecht, 1844. [Probably published in Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp & Zoon, 1844].
(3) [KOPS, J., F.W. van EEDEN and others (eds.)]. Flora Batava. Afbeelding en beschrijving der Nederlandsche gewassen. ... Alphabetisch register, deel I-XIV.
Leiden, De Breuk & Smits, 1874.
Contemporary(?) uniform half gold-tooled tree marbled calf portfolios, marbled paper sides, with gold-tooled red morocco spine labels bearing the general title and the volume number, all with (remnants of) green ties at all edges. Loose as issued in the portfolios. Full description
€ 17,500
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Detailed and fascinating practical manual on animals harmful to people and their livestock and crops,
with 3 engravings showing more than 100 animals, especially insects

[KRAFFT, Abraham Friedrich]. Der sowohl Menschen und Viehe grausamen Thiere, schädlichen Ungeziefers und verderblichen Gewürmer gäntzliche Ausrottung.
Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Buggel, 1709-1712. 2 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with a folding illustrated engraved title-page and a folding letterpress title-page, and a larger folding engraved plate in volume II. Contemporary but not uniform vellum. [22], “699” [= 697], [23]; [38], 944, [48] pp. plus 2 folding letterpress title-pages and the 3 engravings. Full description
€ 4,500
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