Search Results: Titles starting with N from Antiquariat Banzhaf

Engraved front. by I. G. Beck, (18), 524 pages (pages 361-368 numbered twice ; jump in pagination from 480 to 489) ; 256, (32) pages. Cont. vellum, yapp edges, gilt stamped title to spine. Red sprinkled edges. 4to (215 x 162 mm). Front fly-leaf with manuscript ownership entry Joh. Conradi Gosweileri. Lipsiae 1712. Economisch-Historische Bibl. Amst. 743 and 350 ; Humpert 5758 ; Kress p. 2447; VD18 11244275 ; not in Masui and Stammhammer ; not in Catalog of Historical Accounting Literature. First edition. "Eines der Hauptwerke zur Entstehung der deutschen Betriebswirtschaft sowie zur Geschichte des deutschen Handelsrechts überhaupt. Ohne Zweifel mit das seltenste Werk der sogenannten deutschen Handelswissenschaft im 17. und 18. Jhdt." (Sauer. Cat. V, 1385). A fine and broadmargined copy.

Etched playing board with rules of the game in lower margin of the sheet and publisher's number 221. Sheet-size 407 x 335 mm. Very rare and beautifully illustrated etched sheet for dice game; the centre field of the playing board depicts an outdoor scene with a dressage show of monkeys in various costumes with spectators behind wooden bars, in the corners more or less anthropomorphic images of four species of monkeys. 14 of the 30 fields showing monkeys in various costumes doing acrobatic stunts, and if you enter one of these fields you have to according to the rules restart from the beginning or pay a penalty. - Georg Nikolaus Renner (1803-1854) was an art dealer and publisher in Nuremberg since 1826. From 1837 Friedrich Schuster became his partner, from then on the company was called "Renner & Co" – therefore the present game must have been published before. An almost perfect copy of a finely illustrated example of a monkey theatre dice game, a subject which became very popular in the 19th century.

Extracted from Nouvelles Archives de Musée d'Histoire Naturelle. 1895, 3. série, tome. VII. pp. (83)-114 with four text woodcuts and two chromolithographed plates by A. Millot (Lit. Lemercier) showing Max and Maurice.Contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. An extra-illustrated volume with 22 engravings, lithographs, half-tones and especially important 9 mounted original photographs by an unknown photographer showing the two orangoutans (living and as stuffed animals) with their zookeeper, their taxidermist (?) and with an exotic looking young male. It must have been a fascinating entertainment for the Parisian public and it is said that they attracted more than 100.000 visitors in 1893. They were imported from Borneo and travelled throughout Europe, public viewing was possible in Antwerp, Bruxelles and Paris. Within a year they died from stress and pneumonia. Ernst Pinkert from the Leipzig Zoological Gardens eventually bought them to nurse them back to health… Read More

Large engraved and folded broadsheet (585 x 468 mm) with a beautifull interior view of a billiard hall with a lavishly decorated billiard table with 6 male billiard players, ca 224 x 470 mm, in the upper half of the sheet, designed and engraved by Daniel, graveur du roi. Lower part of the sheet with text in 6 columns, centre fold marked by a billiard cue, adorned with four richly decorated medals in the corners of the text. - Bound with: Chéreau, Charles. Nouvelles règles du jeu de billard, ... Paris, chez l'auteur ca 1844. Large engraved and folded broadsheet ((585 x 468 mm) with an ornate calligraphic drop-title framed by emblematic vignettes, with rules of variant billiard games in six columns, centre fold marked by a billiard cue, and with two oval ornate medals in lower corners of the text. - Bound with: Chéreau, Charles. Nouvelles règles du jeu de billard, ... A Paris, chez l'auteur ca 1844. Large engraved and folded broadsheet ((585 x 468 mm) with an ornate calligraphic drop-title framed by… Read More

Nuclei and nerve tracts in the human brain – Noyaux et faisceaux du cerveau humain – Kerne und Faserbahnen des menschlichen Gehirns – Nuclei e vie nervose dell'encefalo umano. 50 photographs of macroscopic preparations from the Anatomical Institute, Basle. Nancy, Georges Thomas, imprimeur-éditeur (1938). (4) leaves letterpress introductory matter, 50 photogravure prints (each measuring 235 x 152 mm) mounted within folded double sheets, each photogravure accompanied by a printed transparent overlay, and one leaf letterpress explanation in French, English, German and Italian. Loosely contained in publisher's half cloth portfolio with six ties, printed paper label to front cover. Front paste-down with mounted sheet of white paper with manuscript dedication by the two authors to Gerhard Wolf-Heidegger, dated "Basel, den 5. April 1939". Illustrated medical bookplate of Gerhard Wolf-Heidegger mounted below. Folio (320 x 238 mm). Spine-ends slightly rubbed.
Not in Heidtmann. Bibliographie der… Read More