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Husum, Matthias et Nicolaus Petersen, 1652. Folio. (8) + 301 + (3) pp. Engraved title. 40 engraved double-paged maps, of which 2 partly hand-coloured. The maps were drawn by Johannes Mejer and engraved by Matthias and Nicolaus Petersen. Text by Caspar Danckwerth. Original decorated vellum. One corner skilfully restored. Three maps with marginal repairs. Some foxing as usual, but overall a clean and well preserved copy of the earliest printed Danish atlas. Provenence: Bertel Bartholin (1614-1690). Danish professor and son of Caspar Bartholin, inscription dated Haffniæ 1666, and later Traugott Møller’s collection.. .

London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside; Late Boydell and Co, 1820 (but more exactly 1830). Folio. 418 x 263 mm. Complete with title-page, Index to the plates, Introduction, half-title, text to all plates, 80 coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary red morocco. Spine with gilt lettering and gilt in compartments. Covers gilt. Rebacked, preserving the original spine. All edges gilt. A little rubbed. Title-page with some foxing, and text with minor occasional foxing and some offsetting. Clean plates. A second issue in one volume, a reprint of the plates watermarked 1824, 1827 or 1828. The plates are trimmed to remove the old publisher’s name, address and printing date.. . Schiøtz 295b**

Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs. 1671. Folio. (6) + 585 + (27) pp. Engraved allegorical title. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Folding engraved map of America. 47 double-page engraved plates (2 folding, including 15 maps and 32 mostly comprising town views). 7 engraved portraits and 69 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary Dutch vellum. Splitting to joints and foot of spine. Some occasional minor marginal staining. Allegorical title with short repaired tear. Map with short tears along fold, otherwise a fine copy. In modern quarter morocco slipcase. First edition. A classic book on America. With one of the first views of New York, Novum Amsterodamum, Borba de Moraes. “An English version, by John Ogilby, appeared the same year, but without Montanus`name on the title-page”, Church 613, “Sought for chiefly for its plates, especially for the engraved view of New Amsterdam. .. The plates in the text are the same as those inthe following translations but are earlier and therefore better impressions” ,Sabin 50086.. .

Halle & Leipzig 1769. Folio. 200 nature-printed plates in colour. Modern calf with six raised bands. Gilt spine. Plates only, lacking title and text. A rare nature-printed book. The plant itself was used, instead of woodblock or engraved copperplate. After the specimens were arranged, they were covered with dark dust, and the outlines thus formed on the paper were coloured by hand. . . Nissen 1252

København, Trykt hos M. Hallager, 1784-85. 1900-talls skinnbind med gulldekor på ryggen. Stempel på forsats og forsatsblad (Grevskabet Christiansholm). Med samtlige 54 nummer i 1. opplag! Svært sjeldent at de første fem nummerene foreligger i 1. opplag.. . 1784 bestemte Wessel seg for å utgi sitt eget ukeblad, Votre Serviteur Otiosis (Eders tjener, I som har tid til overs), med bare versfortellinger. Takket være dette ukebladet kom en rekke av Wessels fortellinger på trykk som f.eks Smeden og Bageren.

Copenhagen, Nicolaus Møller, 1761 (1766) - 1782. Folio. 900 engraved and handcoloured plates. Contents: Volume I. Part I-III. 1761-1766. Tab. I-CLXXX. Volume II. Part IV-VI. 1766-1767. Tab. CLXXXI-CCCLX. Volume III. Part VII-IX. 1768-1770. Tab. CCCLXI-DXL. Volume IV. Part X-XII. 1771-1777. Tab. DXLI-DCCXX. Volume V. Part XIII-XV.1778-1782. Tab. DCCXXI-DCCCC. Contemporary full calf. Red labels. Gilt spines. Rebacked. Danish text.. .

Skandinavias største og fornemste kobberstikkverk i et av de ettertraktede eksemplarer i stående folio, som Erik Dahlberg selv hadde planlagt det med Merians topografier som forbilde. Han var en fremragende general, ingeniør og tegner, og leverte selv de fleste av forleggene til kobberstikkene. Det ambisiøse verket er et produkt av Sveriges storhetstid og det tok mer enn 50 år å fullføre.. . Near contemporary full calf. Spine gilt in compartments. Lettering-pieces. 3 engraved title-pages, 351 engraved plates (117 + 108 + 126), some folding. A very fine copy. Dahlberg (1625-1703) enjoyed a distinguished military career and oversaw Charles X `s extensive fortification programme. Suecia antiqua et hodierna is in the same vein as Merian`s Topographia Gallia, and Dahlberg travelled throughout Sweden to capture the principal towns, buildings, and monuments.

København 1761. Kobberstukket frontispiece (Frederik V). Kobberstukket tittelbl. (6) s. 76 illuminerte uniformsplansjer. Fint samt. helskinnbd. med 5 opphøyde bind. Ryggdekor og permbordyre i gull. Helt gullsnitt. Marmorert forsatspapir. Hver plansje med blankt beskyttelses blad.. . Et prakteksemplar! Kun kjent i få eksemplarer. En tidlig oversikt over danske og norske uniformer.

Holmiae (Stockholm), Joh. Georg Lang, 1768. Large folio. Double-paged engraved title-page with view of Stockholm. Double-paged engraved dedication leaf. 62 double-paged engraved plates. Index 6 leaves. Finely bound in modern half calf with six raised bands. Red morocco label. Gilt spine. (by Håkan Wahlström, Stockholm 1952). Index bound separately in uniform binding. Preserved in a carton box with morocco label. Title, dedication leaf and plate No 1, with minor marginal tears, otherwise in fine condition.Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (9 September 1721 in Gothenburg – 19 August 1808) was a Swedish shipbuilder, scientist and officer in the Swedish navy. He was also manager of the Karlskrona shipyard 1782–1793. In 1765 Chapman applied for permission from his work as a chief naval builder for the Archipelago Fleet at the naval base at Sveaborg to work on Architectura Navalis Mercatoria, a collection of contemporary ship types that he considered to be the best and most interesting. The work had been commissioned by Duke Charles, the brother of king Gustav and was published in 1768. The book contained 62 illustrations of ships and smaller vessels, both Swedish and foreign designs. Some of these were Chapman's own designs, but many were also types that he had seen during visits to foreign countries. Everything from large warships to small fishing vessels were represented.. . .

Copenhagen, Nicolaus Møller, 1761-1877. Folio. With 3120 engraved plates. Plate 2941-3060 in part 50 & 51 and nomenclator not present. Finely bound in contemporary half calf. Occasional foxing. Four plates in supplement volume damaged with loss.. . Near complete copy of the greatest work of Scandinavian flora. Published over a period of 122 years and covers plants of Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Northern Germany and some Swedish flora.

St. Petersburg, J. J. Weitbrecht, 1774-88. Folio (498 x 305 mm). Additional hand-coloured lithographed title-page with dedication to Catherine II. 101 beutifully hand-coloured engraved plates by Karl Friedrich Knappe, numbered I-C with additional plate VIII B. The nomenclature of the plants in Latin and Russian. Original blue patterned paper boards. Red morocco lettering-pieces. Uncut. Joints and spines somewhat worn. First edition of the first great illustrated Russian flora. Complete with 101 engraved hand-coloured plates. Provenance: From the library of the Jussieu family and the library of Henry Rogers Broughton 2nd Baron Fairhaven.. .

Copenhagen, E. C. Löser, 1835-47. Folio. 98 pp. 306 hand-coloured engraved plates (plate 290 and 292 in watercolur copy). Lacking the leaf of text to plates 289-294. Minor spotting on a few plates. Late 19th-century half calf, gilt spine. One original front wrapper bound in.. . Parallell Danish and German text. Complete with 306 hand-coloured plates. Extremely rare! Published in 51 parts. Nissen 2101.

London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and co. Cheapside; Late Boydell and Co, 1820. Large Folio, 473 x 312 mm. Two parts with two title-pages in one volume. Complete with preliminary text, text to plates and 80 finely aquatint plates, coloured in contemporary hand. Plates with English and Norwegian text, numbered; except plate 1-10, dated 1811-1817. Text with a few minor spots, otherwise a very clean and well preserved copy. With all tissue guards.Contemporary sprinkled full calf. Spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt lettering and red morocco labels. Preserved in a morocco box. Schiötz 295a**. . A fine copy of the first edition of "the most important English colour plate book on Norway".

Kiøbenhavn, Nicolaus Møller, 1761 (1766) - 1810. Folio. Tittelbl. trykket i rødt og sort. 1440 håndkolorerte kobberstikk. Dansk tekst. Bundet i 8 samt. marmorerte kalveskinnbd. med 6 oppøyde bind. Skinn tittelfelter i rødt og grønt. Rik ryggdekor i gull. Noen få plansjer feilbundet. Blåstempel på tittelbl. (Glorup Godsbibliotek).. .

Stockholm, C. von Schéele, 1828-38. Tverr-folio. Et orig. hefteomsl. bundet i front istedenfor tittelbl. 178 håndkolorerte litograferte plansjer. I tillegg 2 plansjer i nytrykk. Bundet i et elegant håndbundet grønt skinnbd. med rik ryggdekor på ryggen. (Sign. Håkan Wahlström, Stkh. 1928). Et par plansjer svakt plettet, ellers et usedvanlig rent og vakkert eksemplar.. . Originalutgaven av brødrene Wrights meget sjeldent forekomne fugleverk. Kollasjonert etter Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens eksemplar. Verket regnes som komplett med 178 originalplansjer, men yttligere 6 plansjer ble trykket i mindre antall og ble aldri publisert. Dette eksemplaret har tilhørt Professor Einar Lönneberg, og ble solgt av Björck & Börjesson i 1944. Katalog 369.

First edition. Berlin, auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1782-1795. 12 parts in 8 volumes. Comprising 4 text volumes in 4to (265 x 220 mm) with 11 (of) 12 title-pages with engraved title vignette + 4 plate volumes in oblong folio (260 x 420 mm) with one title-page. 432 beutifully hand-coloured engraved plates, many heightened with silver and gum arabic by F. G. Berger, G. Bodenehr, C. Darchow, C. F. Gürsch, L. Schmidt, J.G. Schmidt and others after Krüger jun. and others. Uniformily bound in contemporary full calf. Spines richly gilt. First title-page in all text volumes and first sheet in all plate volumes with old library stamp. Rare.. . An exceptionally fine copy of the large paper issue of the finest and most complete work on fishes ever published. Complete with 432 hand-coloured plates.