Auction 109: Details
Highlights of auction 109
Campi phlegraei’. Observations on the volcanos of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London [and:] Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei being an account of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the month of August 1779. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Naples, Pierre Fabris 1776-79. Gr.Fol. With 2 color. d. Tit., 59 colors. Kupfertaf. v. J. Guerra after Fabris and 1 color. dplblgr. copper engravings. 1 Bl. (tit.), 90 pp., 1 Bl., 1 Bl. intermediately bound (Taf. declarati...
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Bible. Eaux-fortes originales de Marc Chagall. 2 Paris, Tériade 1956. 45.5 x 34.5 cm. With 105 etchings. With the text double sheets loose in original envelopes and shovels. (This one damaged something).
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Atlas novus exhibens orbem terraqueum per naturae opera ... Hoc est: Geographia universa in septem partes contracta. 7 parts in 3 vol. Mchn., Rauch and Riedl for J. C. Bencard in Augsburg, Dillingen and Frankfurt 1702-10. 4°. With 7 st. front. and 177 (st. 189; 107 folded.) Copper taf. and copper engravings. Blind spot Schweinsldrbde. over wooden lids with gold gepr. Date "1710" as well as intact closing. (A lock is missing; sometimes individual worm traces, little sprinkled and best.).
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(1874 Liebau / Silesia - Wroclaw 1930). From a sewing school. 6 drawings, of which 5 in graphite and 1 in ink pen on velin. About 1917. Blgr. 22 x 15 cm and 19 x 13 cm. - The title illustration with pencil note 'This yellow is more powerful', the 5 illustrations for the 5 chapters each with the chapter number denoted. - All leaves verso with estate stamp and the signature of Erich Heckel.
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Los Caprichos. Madrid, Calcografia Nacional for the Real Academia around 1855. 4°. sequence of 80 sheets of etchings, aquatinta, cold needle and, inter alia, pale yellow opbd. with self-portrait, a. Vlid. (Renewed using the Orig. reference, best., tls. stronger.).
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Chapter 1: Old and rare books, manuscripts
Chapter 2: Genealogy, heraldry, politics, economics
Chapter 3: Varia (movie-theatre-dance, freemasonry, judaica, occultism, military,
Chapter 9: Literature and illustrated books 19th century
Chapter 10: Modern literature and illustrated books 20th century
Chapter 11: Natural sciences and technics
Chapter 12: Geography - travel - history