Search Results: Titles starting with C from Antiquariat Banzhaf

C. Billard's Krankheiten der Neugebornen und Säuglinge, nach den neuesten klinischen und pathologisch-anatomischen im Hospital der Findelkinder zu Paris gemachten Beobachtungen. Aus dem französischen frei bearbeitet von Fr. Ludw. Meißner. Leipzig bei C. H. F. Hartmann 1829. X, 384, (2) pages, 2 large folded engraved and color printed plates on a black background (330 x 195 mm). Cont. black boards, red morocco label. (210 x 123 mm). Boards rubbed and soiled, title with privat owner stamp (Joseph Meyer), browned due to paper quality. (Together with:) Pathologisch-anatomischer Atlas. Zur Erläuterung der Geschichte der Kinderkrankheiten von C. Billard. Weimar, im Verlag des Grossherzogl. Sächs. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs 1829. 4 pages text, 7 engraved plates printed in colours with added hand-colouring of which two with an black background). Publisher's ocre printed wrappers. 4to (300 x 240 mm). Spine with tear, covers lightly spotted. Very rare, complete work on neonatal medicine with color… Read More

X, 384, (2) pages, 2 large folded engraved and color printed plates on a black background (330 x 195 mm). Cont. black boards, red morocco label. (210 x 123 mm). Boards rubbed and soiled, title with privat owner stamp (Joseph Meyer), browned due to paper quality. (Together with:) Pathologisch-anatomischer Atlas. Zur Erläuterung der Geschichte der Kinderkrankheiten von C. Billard. Weimar, im Verlag des Grossherzogl. Sächs. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs 1829. 4 pages text, 7 engraved plates printed in colours with added hand-colouring of which two with an black background). Publisher's ocre printed wrappers. 4to (300 x 240 mm). Spine with tear, covers lightly spotted. Very rare, complete work on neonatal medicine with color printed plates and with the often lacking atlas which was delivered later and printed by another publisher; as the title-page of the text-volume states "Die Kupfertafeln werden in einigen Wochen nachgeliefert". Billard's book was the first systematic clinical - pathological text on the… Read More

198 numb. leaves (recte 200 ; leaf 137 numbered twice and one unnumb. leaf) with hundreds of original designs in pen, pen-and-ink and wash colours of a wide range of jewellery on rectos, but including a certain number of designs on versos also. Each leaf with manuscript date on verso with indication of day, month and year. 6 leaves lacking (nos. 78 ; 114 ; 128 ; 155 ; 156 ; 174), 1 leaf torn in half. Cont. black half calf over cloth boards, manuscript paper label to front cover titled " Wilhelm Jung – angefangen 2. August 1905 – 28. Januar 1907). Endpapers lined with fancy paper. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). Label chipped, spine rubbed.
A fascinating manuscript catalogue by a German jewellery designer with an almost unbelievable variety of pieces of jewellery of all sorts including rings and earrings, pins and brooches, necklaces with pearls and with pendants, bracelets, cuff links, seals, ribbons, tiaras and barrettes. The majority of designs handcoloured with added wash colours, quite a number… Read More

Richly illustrated wood engraved title, (8), 276 pages with hundreds of illustations in the text. Cont. half morocco, richly gilt spine. Marbled edges. Second edition. An early and scarce trade catalogue. Divided into five sections: I. Chemical and pharmaceutical instruments, devices and apparatus. II. Chemical substances. III. Physical and mathematical devices and instruments. IV. Meteorological instruments. V. Terrestrial and celestial globes. KVK with only one copy in the National Library of Israel. A fine copy.

Catalogus van een groote verzameling … prent-kunst, door voornaame Italiansche, Fransche, Engelsche, Nederlandsche en andere Meesiers, waar by veele proefdrukken. Mitsgaders losse en gebonden prent-werken. Keurlyke optische Instrumenten, als telescopen, door J. van der Bilt, Nachtkyker, door Dollond, Brand-Spiegel en Illuminatie-kasten, kunstige geschilderde Stellen Glaasen, Toverlantaarn, met beweegende en andere Voorwerpen, Chamber-Obscura, Kunst-Stukken, door Kampman en andere magnetische Rariteiten. Laastelyk eenige fraaye Kunst-Kasten. Al het welke ... nagelaaten door wyllen den Kunst-Minaar den Heer Jan de Groot, op Maandag den 10 December 1804, en volgende dagen, zal verkocht worden, te Amsterdam, ... door de makelaars: Philipppus van der Schley, Jan de Bosch Jeronimusz, Jan Yver, Cornelis Sebille Roos, Roelof Meurs Pruyssenaar en Jacobus Vinkeles. ... Te Amsterdam, by de Wed. H. W. en C. Dronsberg, P. den Hengst en Zoon, en Jan Yver, Boekverkoopers (1804). (2), 128, (2) pages. Cont. Dutch… Read More

Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de M. François Arago, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Academie des Sciences. Dont la vente se fera le lundi 19juin et jours suivants à 7 heures précises de relevée, rue Serpente 37, par le ministère de M. Boulouze, commissaire-priseur, rue Richelieu, 67. Paris, Dusacq 1854. (4), 188 pages. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Uncut and unopened. Spine evenly browned. Covers mildly dust-soiled. Blogie vol. I, col. 78, VI,19-VII 10. A nice copy of the auction catalog of the library of Dominique François Jean Arago (1786-1853), French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and promoter of scientific progress. The catalog contains 2225 lots, with a focus on science and natural history.

Engraved portrait front. of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel signed R Winkeles sculp. 1799 - J. Buys pinx. 1766. XXIV, (2), 319 pages; 227 (1), 82 pages. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand, including two manuscript total values at the end of each volume. Cont. Dutch red half vellum bindings, with gilt black morocco labels. First volume with printed original front wrapper with title mounted onto front cover. Lower spine end of volume I minimally frayed. (222 x 138 mm). Covers rubbed. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, XIII, p. 28 and Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, II, p. 333. Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek VI, pp. 1139-1140. First and only edition of this sale catalogue of a remarkable collection of prints, drawings and paintings, illustrated books, Kunstkammer pieces, and optical and mathematical instruments and including a major collection of Rembrandt prints brought together by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726 - 1798), a painter, engraver, printer and publisher… Read More

German calligraphic manuscript on vellum, richly decorated with colourful ornaments in upper, right and left margins. Berlin 1761. German manuscript on vellum, dated Berlin, 29 November 1761. With beautifully coloured ornamental decorations in right and left margins; with a crown above "FR" (for Fridericus Rex) at the centre of top margin framed by further hand coloured ornamental decorations. Signed by the master Christian Friederich Herr as well as by the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet. Oblong folio (353 x 610 mm). Traces of folds. An incision at the lower margin indicates that a seal was once present. The document was issued for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg, who had been apprenticed to Christian Friederich Herr for six years since Christmas 1755 and now becoming a member of the Berlin guild of merchants for exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs. From the early days of delicatessen shops in Berlin!

Chinese Export Painting – 8 natural history paintings on paper, watercolour and grey wash showing birds and blooming plants. China, c. 1840s. Size: c. 340 x 262 mm. Very fine examples in brilliant colours on greyish Chinese paper, a few unobtrusive marks of surface dust-soiling, else excellently preserved.

Title with engraved portrait-vignette by H. Lips, 1 leaf dedication by Gessner's widow to the empress of Russia, 25 etchings by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe after Gessner. Cont. half calf over marbled sides. Green leather label mounted on front cover. Imperial-folio (574 x 522 mm). Extremeties slightly worn. Foot-cap damaged. Thieme-B. XXI, 225. Le Blanc 63-87. Martens, Kolbe 282-306. Leemann v. E. p. 84/85. First and only edition. "Nach Gessners Tod wurden von dem wesensverwandten Kupferstecher Kolbe 25 Gouachebilder und getuschte Zeichnungen radiert und gelangten in Lieferungen von 1805-1811 ... in den Handel." (Thieme-B. XXI, p. 225). In 1805 Carl Wilhelm Kolbe was invited to Zurich by the descendants of Salomon Gessner, especially his son Heinrich, to reproduce a series of gouaches by the deceased artist in etchings. The ambitious project featured a total of 25 etchings with an additional title and dedication sheets. In order to comply with the request of the Gessner family, Kolbe sent an application to… Read More

24 etched plates by Antoine Cardon after various artists, (16) pp. text within typographical borders. Cont. brocade wrappers, lightly rubbed, spine-ends bumped. First and only edition. A remarkable work which describes and illustrates 24 ice sculptures which had been erected in the streets and squares of Antwerp in January 1772. The text gives full details of the sculptures, the location, dimensions, subject and the name of the sculptor. The plates are all printed on thick paper and the subjects are mostly drawn from classical mythology. The artists are all members of the Antwerp academy, and the work is dedicated to Charles Alexandre, Duc de Lorraine de Bar, who was also patron of the academy. An uncut copy.

103 original photographs (silver prints, various sizes, the majority c. 110 x 155 mm and slightly smaller, 2 large group photographs 195 x 273 mm), pasted variously recto and verso onto 24 black cardboard mounts, 1 leaf with manuscript Japanese text. Cont. velvet binding, with gilt stamped title and red onlays representing the unit sign. Oblong folio (265 x 360 mm). Slightly dust-soiled.
A photoalbum dedicated to a member of the unit, with his gilt stamped name on front cover "Nakanishi Hiroshi". The unit was part of the Japanese occupational forces in Corea, the photos with portraits of its members, armament, landscape and city views, and of Corean people in their daily activities. Each photograph with Japanese manuscript captions. Two photographs with insect damage to lower edges not affecting image. The page with handwritten text lays emphasize on the imperial maxims of troop morale. "Imperial instruction: Soldiers are to take loyalty seriously; soldiers are to behave well ; soldiers are to be… Read More

Title-leaf with English and Japanese text, 2 leaves Japanese index, 110 collotype plates after photographs and 110 text-leaves printed on recto only, with lengthy Japanese text and short either German, French or English explanations, 1 leaf with imprint. Publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamped English title and blue stamped Japanese title to front cover, illustrated endpapers and gilt edges. Oblong folio (360 x 270 mm). Boards rubbed, English title rather paled, edges worn. Both fly-leaves creased.
Not in Manfred Heiting and Kaneko Ryuichi. The Japanese Photobook, 1912-1980. A remarkable and very rare photographic publication by a Japanese traveller to Europe, with street photography of cities and towns in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France and England with remarkable and highly unusual photographs shot by him in all these places, far from being a collection of the usual tourist highlights, some of which are of course included, but even they represent a particular look and unusual… Read More

IV, 152 pages, woodcut text-illustrations, one table, 16 plates with 50 numbered illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt stamped title to spine and front cover with gilt stamped hexagonal turning pattern. 4to (260 x 200 mm). Covers lightly soiled. First edition. "The whole of the patterns illustrating this work, were turned by the author, some on box-wood, and others on metal; and every pattern bound up with this copy, has been printed with his own hands, by means of one of Mr. Cowper's parlour printing presses" (foreword page 2). Some leaves with small waterstain in upper blank margin. Four leaves heavily browned.