Search Results: Titles starting with T from Antiquariat Banzhaf

Anonymous. Tabell som visar cubic-innehallet af alla sorter fyrhuggit virke, ester dimensionerne utraknat. Carlscrona, Amiralitets-Tryckeriet 1784. 181, (1), 2 blank pages, mostly tables. (bound with): Anonymous. Kongel. Svenska maetare och wraekare ordningen af ar 1776. Carlscrona, Amiralitets-Tryckeriet 1783. 43 (1) pages, 3 (1 folded) leaf, 4 tables, 3 folded engraved plates. Cont. calf, gilt label to spine. Label with minor loss. Covers browned. Spine rubbed. Front cover with manuscript inked signature by one Aug. d'Ailly. Both works first edition. Title with manuscript initials J. H. D'A, a working copy owned by the Swedish ship-building engineer Jakob Henrik d'Ailly (1789-1858), and a further manuscript inked ownership entry by his son Aug. D'Ailly (Johan Christian August d'Ailly, 1822-1877), who constructed steamships for the Swedish navy. In 1862 he was sent to North America to learn more about constructional features of ironclads with John Ericson. Back home he constructed monitors,… Read More

Lithogr. title within decorative Art noveau frame, 3 unnumb. ll. introduction and dedication, 66 collotype plates with horses mostly against a landscape or architectural backdrop, after paintings and photographs, each with printed captions in French, Russian, English and German, printed on thick glazed paper sheets, 30 unnumb. ll. with letterpress text on verso of thin tissue guard-like sheets in four languages. One errata leaf printed on red paper stock bound in. Cont. dark green morocco, gilt stamped Russian title to front cover, all edges gilt. Endpapers lined with white glazed paper with a moiree pattern. Oblong folio (495 x 400 mm). Extremeties worn and rubbed, front cover discoloured, spine evenly sunned and spine-ends bumped. Rare large-format work with magnificent depictions of horses with KVK and OCKC showing only four copies (ÖNB, Madrid, NYPL, and Chicago) with 31 plates only (?). A number of the thin letterpress leaves with short tears else fine. The author was a master of the guard.

Text written in brown ink with highlights in red and black ink in a neat calligraphic hand. 2 leaves (illustrated half-title and title), 21 numbered text leaves, 1 unnumb. index leaf, 1 multiple folded table "table pour servir à la graduation des fléches", 2 blank leaves. All text leaves ruled by black ink frames. Illustrations: Half-title on recto with large oval medaillon with interlaced strap-work in gold, and year 1745, on verso with a blue rectangle, title in multiple coloured calligraphic script and large rectangle vignette with ornate grey wash-colour ornamentation on a yellow background. 25 plates of which 23 folded, 1 double-page and one full-page with original drawings and diagrams. Four plates with brightly coloured water colour drawings over ink, one full-page plate with a pen and ink drawing of an observatory, twenty plates with ink and grey wash-colour diagrams and sketches. All plates ruled by black ink frames bordered by wide light pink or ocre wash-colour frames. Front wrapper… Read More