Rare books 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.

Brown and black pen- and ink-drawings with brown wash each (255 x 180 mm) with black frames surrounded by green wash borders. Each mounted on thin cardboard with manuscript captions andd numbering in lower margins. Rom around 1800. Contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides. Oblong- 4to (318 x 245 mm). Covers rubbed, extremeties worn. Thieme-B. XXXIII, 540. A highly picturesque suite of interesting views of Roman antiquities and architectural structures with following manuscript titles: 1. Forum Romanum. 2. Interieur du Pantheon das le debordement du Tibre. 3. Le Colisée. 4. Le Colisée du côté des Maronites. 5. Arène du Colisée. 6. Restes du Temple de Mars le vengeur. 7. La roche Tarpeienne. 8. Cloaque Maxime. 9. Pont Senatorius-Rotto. 10. Tombeau des afrancis d'Auguste connue sous le nome de Columbarium. 11. Catabombes. Cimetiére de Calyste à St. Sébastian. 12. Pont Nomentano. 13. Roma vecchia. Frascati. A few brown spots, slightly soiled in margins. Front fly-leaf with contemporary… Read More

40 original drawings by Marie Baudet, ink brush with various washes and water colour heightening, all of them signed by the artist, some dated and with manuscript title, mostly ca 380 x 530 mm a few ca 220 x 290 mm pasted onto white paper mounts (565 x 515 mm). Each original drawing bound in facing the collotype plate of the published suite with 5 unnumbered leaves letterpress text, 40 collotype plates with a tinted background (315 x 225 mm or smaller – reduced in size compared to the original drawings), title and numbering printed on narrow paper labels pasted onto lower margin of plates. Cont. brown half calf on six raised bands with gilt title in second compartment. Fancy endpapers. Folio (575 x 430 mm). Extremeties worn, covers rubbed and slightly spotted. Bénézit (1976), I, p. 515. The book was published in 250 copies and "les planches de cet album ont été tirées par les procédés spéciaux de Fortier & Marotte" according to the imprint. Marie Ludivine Antoinette Dupuit known as Marie… Read More

5 illustrated text-volumes and 3 volumes with original pen- and ink drawings by the traveller (= complete). Text-volumes illustrated with 281 original photographs (each ca 75 x 74 mm to 125 x 82 mm) of places and people and 276 photographs with reproductions of pen- and ink sketches (each ca 126 x 72 mm) pasted onto to 183 plates. 443 unnumb. leaves, including a photo portrait of the author, and 3 maps. Atlas-volumes illustrated with 287 original pen- and ink sketches by the author (each ca 135 x 80 mm), mounted to 36 cardboard leaves with views of towns, landscapes and local residents. Compehensive and detailed description of a world tour by Friedrich Zahn-Geigy (1848-1929), a 23-year-old descendant of a Swiss banker's family from Basle. The journey, not only undertaken for educational purposes solely, but as is related in the text also for business reasons, visiting long-standing business partners and looking out for new fields of business especially in the US and South East Asia, first led them to… Read More

Title with engraved portrait-vignette by H. Lips, 1 leaf dedication by Gessner's widow to the empress of Russia, 25 etchings by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe after Gessner. Cont. half calf over marbled sides. Green leather label mounted on front cover. Imperial-folio (574 x 522 mm). Extremeties slightly worn. Foot-cap damaged. Thieme-B. XXI, 225. Le Blanc 63-87. Martens, Kolbe 282-306. Leemann v. E. p. 84/85. First and only edition. "Nach Gessners Tod wurden von dem wesensverwandten Kupferstecher Kolbe 25 Gouachebilder und getuschte Zeichnungen radiert und gelangten in Lieferungen von 1805-1811 ... in den Handel." (Thieme-B. XXI, p. 225). In 1805 Carl Wilhelm Kolbe was invited to Zurich by the descendants of Salomon Gessner, especially his son Heinrich, to reproduce a series of gouaches by the deceased artist in etchings. The ambitious project featured a total of 25 etchings with an additional title and dedication sheets. In order to comply with the request of the Gessner family, Kolbe sent an application to… Read More

Paris, Societé des Amis des Livres 1912. (and) Maquette of the book with the original drawings by Henri Paillard. Two volumes. 144, (6) pages with 35 etched vignettes with views of Venice in the text, richly adorned with woodcut initials and borders by and after Henri Paillard and an extra-suite of the etchings on 35 plates.; (2), pages (7)-142 with the full complement of the original pen sketches of the views and designs for borders and initials by Henri Paillard, 35 etched proof plates, heavily reworked with pen heightening, of which 4 pasted onto mounts, and 5 plates with the original pen- and ink and watercolour designs for borders and initials. Uniformly bound set in somewhat later French brown morocco bindings signed Canape et Corriez, on five raised bands, second compartments with gilt stamped title, foot of spine of the published volume with gilt stamped date, maquette volume with gilt stamp "Maquette d'Artist", covers framed by triple blind rules. Red morocco doublures, with a geometrical… Read More

Shells from nature. And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life . Genesis 1.20. In the great and wide sea are breeding things innumerable. Psalm 104, Verse 25. English manuscript on paper. No place 1828. Illustrated watercolour title with manuscript text, 90 watercolour plates with hundreds of images of shells, plates and including title numbered in a cont. hand 1 through 91 in upper right corner. Cont. English dark purple half morocco, flat spine richly gilt. Endpapers lined with yellow Spanish marbled paper based on polychrome stone marbled decoration. All edges gilt. 4to (285 x 224 mm). Extremeties slightly worn.
A finely executed pictorial survey on shells by a talented English female watercolourist. Hephzibah Need (1758-1841) was born into a wealthy family. Her father Samuel Need (1718-1781), was a successful hosiery industrialist in Fountain Dale, Nottingham and a key figure in the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. In 1747 he acquired a row of… Read More

Chinese Export Painting – 8 natural history paintings on paper, watercolour and grey wash showing birds and blooming plants. China, c. 1840s. Size: c. 340 x 262 mm. Very fine examples in brilliant colours on greyish Chinese paper, a few unobtrusive marks of surface dust-soiling, else excellently preserved.

Album militaire. Illustrated French manuscript on paper. No place (Evreux ?, 1860). 432 original watercolour plates with uniforms of French miltary, heigthened with gum Arabic (recte 429, lacking plates 10, 11 and 38) and including a richly illustrated main title and 4 unillustrated half-titles. 1. Armée Fancaise 1806 à 1814 (plates 122-181) - 2. Garde Impériale de Napoléon III 1858 à 1859 (plates 182-330) - 3. Armèe Francaise (plates 331-392) - 4. Armèe d'Afrique (plates 393-432). Each plate with manuscript caption in brown ink, and framed by double rules in brown ink. Cont. half calf, flat spine richly gilt with gilt stamped title "Album Militaire" and the name "Picro". 4to (311 x 230 mm). Spine damaged, hinges split but still holding, boards heavily rubbed, edges worn.
A magnificent collection of watercolours of French military in chronological order, starting with plate 2 with a warrior of the 5. century through plate 32 with an infanteryman of 1680. Plates 33 through 43 covers the period… Read More

Aquarelle. (Reise um die Erde nach der Natur aufgenommen in Egypten, Indien, China, Japan, Manilla, Amerika etc. (and) Neue Folge (and) Aus Europa). 3 series in two portfolios (= all published). Berlin, Raimund Mitscher (c. 1880). 68 chromolithographed views, each c. 360 x 270 mm by R. Steinbock and W. Loeillot after watercolours by Eduard Hildebrandt, printed on textured paper and mounted on card, printed title labels on verso. Loosely contained in two brown and red publisher's richly gilt stamped cloth portfolios, both front covers with blind embossed colour illustrations. Folio (575 x 470 mm). Edges worn and rubbed, corners mildly bumped.
Thieme-Becker XVII, 74f. First extremely uncommon complete edition, of this superb visual record of the Prussian court painter's travels, consisting of images of the Far East, including views in Bangkok, Rangoon, Hong Kong, Macao, Peking, and Singapore, views in North and South America, Near East and Europe. Our copy is divided into three sequences with separate… Read More

198 numb. leaves (recte 200 ; leaf 137 numbered twice and one unnumb. leaf) with hundreds of original designs in pen, pen-and-ink and wash colours of a wide range of jewellery on rectos, but including a certain number of designs on versos also. Each leaf with manuscript date on verso with indication of day, month and year. 6 leaves lacking (nos. 78 ; 114 ; 128 ; 155 ; 156 ; 174), 1 leaf torn in half. Cont. black half calf over cloth boards, manuscript paper label to front cover titled " Wilhelm Jung – angefangen 2. August 1905 – 28. Januar 1907). Endpapers lined with fancy paper. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). Label chipped, spine rubbed.
A fascinating manuscript catalogue by a German jewellery designer with an almost unbelievable variety of pieces of jewellery of all sorts including rings and earrings, pins and brooches, necklaces with pearls and with pendants, bracelets, cuff links, seals, ribbons, tiaras and barrettes. The majority of designs handcoloured with added wash colours, quite a number… Read More

130 numbered engraved or lithographed plates of which 122 in fine contemporary handcolouring (= complete). 56 of the plates with altogether 97 movable parts, mostly one or two to a plate but a few with up to 6 movable parts. All plates pasted onto thick paper mounts in various colours. With two supplementary plates: An original handcoloured drawing of a carriage with seven movable parts pasted onto recto of last leaf with manuscript signature by a German saddler 'Peter Karasch bürgl. Sattlermeister'. Another large engraved and handcoloured plate by A. Geiger after Heinrich Koller shows the Esterhazyi brougham a horse drawn carriage in lateral and rear view, with an engraved caption: Beilage zur Theaterzeitung. Neueste Wagen-Facon. Esterhazyi Brougham, (original), der Erste construirt und beendet am 30. Decemb. 1847 in dem Atelier des kais. königl. Hof-Sattlers Ph. Nic. Koller in Wien. This large engraving (364 x 252 mm) had been published as a supplement to the Theaterzeitung in Vienna in 1847. 52… Read More

185 original microphotographs, silver prints by Ludwig Leitz pasted recto and verso onto 20 grey cardboard leaves, various sizes, c. 100 x 80 mm (90 photographs) ; c. 150 x 110 mm (70 photographs) ; c. 128 x 225 mm (4 photographs) ; and 210 x 208 mm (11 photographs). All prints are numbered in pencil on the image and most are captioned in white ink with indication of magnification ratio. Cont. red half calf over pebbled red paper covers. Folio (410 x 345 mm). Extremeties slightly worn, spine and covers rubbed.
Gerlach. Geschichte der Mikroskopie pp. 790/791. Exceptional and superbly preserved large album containing 185 silver prints by Ludwig Leitz (1867-1898). The Leitz company from Wetzlar was already one of the leading manufacturers of microphotographic apparatus in Germany in the 1870s. However, a real upswing in scientific microphotography only began with the work of Robert Koch, which is why Leitz produced a newly developed microphotographic apparatus with the number 50 in 1880. The designer was… Read More

3 volumes (2 text-volumes and atlas). London, Day & Son 1862-1863. XXVI, 342 pages, II pages colophon ; XIV, pages 345-836 ; half-titles, engraved map, 13 lithographed plates, and text illustrations. Text-volumes uniformly bound in cont. dark brown half calf, spine gilt. 8vo. (240 x 150 mm) ; IV pages printed title and dedication, IV pages list of plates, tinted lithographed additional pictorial title and 97 plates and plans, many after R. P. Pullan or after photographs by B. Spackman, 3 double-page, 34 tinted, one with partial hand-colouring, many plates with more than one image. Atlas bound in matching cont. dark brown half calf on raised bands, gilt stamped title to spine. Folio (555 x 365 mm.). Upper spine-ends of both text-volumes damaged, atlas-volume covers rubbed and extremeties worn.
Atabey 868 ; Blackmer 1192 (both without the rare text volumes) ; Chahine 3424 ; Navari 1192 "Newton was vice-consul at Mitylene and resided in the Levante from 1852 to 1859. The expeditions to Asia Minor took… Read More

60 original photographs, albumen, each c. 100 x 147 mm, pasted recto and verso onto 30 white cardboard mounts within black rules and lithogr. captions. Each photograph in our copy with manuscript annotation on the location shown. Publisher's half cloth with identical illustrated lithogr. title on both covers signed "Hong Kong, Victoria Litho". Oblong 4to (165 x 240 mm). Back cover rubbed, extremeties worn.
The majority of photographs in good tonal range. Rear paste-down with manuscript ownership inscription dated 26/8/(19)00. A rare published album with excellent original photographs especially made for the prospering tourist market. Each city is shown on 12 photographs. Rear paste-down with printed short notes on the five cities presumably by Robert Crisp Hurley himself, photographer/editor and publisher, who lived in Hong Kong from 1879 to 1927. His most successful publishing projects had been two guide books on Hong Kong which went through many editions.