First edition of 17 poems by Baudelaire. 8vo, One of 250 numbered copies on Holland, only edition except for 10 copies printed on China. Complete with the famous engraved frontispiece by...
4to. Geïllustreerd met talloze houtgravures in de tekst en twee lithografische platen. Tevens een pagina facsimile handschrift van David Teniers de Jonge, in diens levensschets (door...
4to. Met 14 etsen (waarvan 1 frontispice) door Willem Geets. Op het frontispice is een portretfoto (albumine) van de auteur gekleefd.
Anton J.G.F. Bergmann (1835-1874) was advocaat te Lier...
Folio. An atlas consisting of 66 maps engraved in steel of which 7 double-page, both of the regions of the French Empire, and some battle plans (partly naval). All of these maps are from the...
Rare original edition of this famous treatise on occult magic by Baron Du Potet De Sennevoy (1796-1881). Du Potet was a French esotericist, who became renowned as a practitioner of mesmerism...
Illustrated with wood engravings in text, 7 hand coloured full-page costume plates (including plates with children) and 13 folding plates (5 coloured), depicting dresses, hairstyles,...
4to. With an etched title and 32 etched plates. The plates are designed by a group of 20 artists, among whom Félicien Rops, Eugène Smits and Paul van der Vin. The plates were printed by J....
Huc (1813-1860) was a French Lazarist missionary who went out to China in 1839. He stayed in Macao 18 months, then made his way to Peking and eventually to He Shuy, just inside the Mogolian...
4to. Geïllustreerd met talloze houtgravures in de tekst en twee lithografische platen. Tevens een pagina facsimile handschrift van David Teniers de Jonge, in diens levensschets (door...
Collection of short stories by Charles Deulin, a French author, journalist and drama critic who is most known for his contemporary adaptations of European folk tales.
First edition. Armstrong was surgeon-naturalist of the H.M.S. Investigator on the 1850-54 expedition under command of Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, sent to continue the search for the...
Beautiful natural science book for the youth, illustrated with spectacular chromolithographic plates of natural phenomena. Among the graphic scenes depicted in this work are an earthquake;...
4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (engraved by Kellogg after Morse), and numerous wood engraved text illustrations on pages lxxxiii-clxiii.
Illustrated with 10 hand coloured costume plates, 11 b&w plates and 2 folding plates, depicting women and children in a landscape or interior setting. There are also 2 hand coloured...
Folio. The atlas volume only (of three volumes total), with 37 double-page monochrome lithographed plates and one folding plate. These plates mainly depict cross-sections and plans of...
2 vols. 8vo. With publisher?s catalogue dated June 1857.Bound in at the rear of vol. 2 a newspaper fragment from “The Standard”, Dec. 6, 1906, announcing the death of Charlotte?s husband the...
4to. The second edition, illustrated with 32 full-page etched plates by Flemish and Frech artists, such as Felicien Rops, Adolf Dillens, Paul Lauters, Alfred Hubert, Camille van Camp,...
Large 4to. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 mounted folding lithographed plates designed by Victor Vervloet. The text printed in a decorative border throughout.
First series: 14 (large) portraits – Gustave Aimard, Charles Monselet, Léon XIII, Le Verrier, Cochery, A. Beloy, Robin, Victor Schoelcher, Cuvillier-Fleury, Edouard Laboulaye, Hector Malot,...
Burton was a captain in the army of the East India Company, serving in India, and later briefly in the Crimean War. Following this, he was engaged by the Royal Geographical Society to...