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Paris, around 1880-1885.4to oblong album [268 x 195 mm] composed of 1 title page and 30 plates. Preserved in its contemporary decorated green cloth, blind-stamped information on the upper cover: MAISON BINDER (founded in 1804) Binder Frères BINDER 170 Boulevart Haussmann Paris, large decorative blind-stamped border around the covers. Contemporary binding.Superb catalog executed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, presenting the brand new collection of horse-drawn carriages offered for sale by the most famous Parisian house.Very rare witness of the crews that were to be found in Europe on the eve of the passage from the era of the carriage to that of the automobile. This precious album presents 30 models of carriages drawn and engraved with a great quality of execution, in superb colors. All the plates have been embellished with gold highlights to show off some elements of the carriages (door handles, axles, lanterns, fittings, decorations of the bodies, ...).The models of cars proposed are… Read More

Venetia, Per Scipion Banca, 1667.
16mo [133 x 93 mm] of (4) ll., 232 pp., (8) ll. 108 full-page engraved maps.
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum. Handwritten exlibris on the half-title: " Bibliotheca Neorelli ".
Italian pocket-edition of Ortelius' atlas, illustrated with 108 full-page engraved maps.
Philips 478 ; Tooley 31.
" The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin (now in prose) and was reprinted several times, long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death (1598), his son, Zacharias, then living in Amsterdam, repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde, using woodcut". Koeman.
The illustration contains a world map and the continents' maps: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The 103 other maps represent each country for which a note has been written on the opposite page.
The first edition in Italian was printed in… Read More