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Anleitung zum Betrieb und zur Instandhaltung des 2.0 Ltr. Opel - Ausgabe Februar 1935

Russelsheim, Adem Opel Aktiengesellschaft, 1935. Paperback. vi+83 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, With lots of illustrations including one fold-out plate.

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Book number: 7799

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l'Armee Francaise

Paris, Au Paradis des Enfants, n.d.. 39,5 cm, Hardcover (cloth). Color Illustrations. Conditie: Good, Publishers gilt binding. Book measures about 39,5 x 30 cm. With 32 plates in colour of French military from around 1880, both infantry and cavalry. Stain on spine, some wear to binding. One plate bled some colour to the opposing page. Illustrations stuck to paper, the paper (not the plates) with some small tears. Interesting and colourful collection of plates. Rare.

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Book number: 5710

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Beeches Press Prospectus Six

Bromley, Beeches Press, 1990. Different. 1. Black & White images. Conditie: Very good, Contains one large sheet of semi transparant paper folded up. Prospectus for future publication by the Beeches Press. To be published according to the prospectus: George Farquhar's Adventures of Covent Gard, Eric Gill's On the Flying Scotsman and Coryate's Venice. Also they mention considering publishing a book about the recently deceased Betty Swanwick. Two illustrations, only one side printed.

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Book number: 9750

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Colonial Annual Reports. Northern Nigeria 1900-1911

London, Colonial Office, 1913?. Hardcover. 877 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Small hole throughout the whole book (binding and contents). Folding map loose in a pocket in the rear with multiple small holes, with additional forlding maps..

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Book number: 6520

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Commandemens pour faire executer toutes les manoevres de l ordonnance d exercice des troupes a cheval, du premier Mai 1779. Dont on se servira dans le Regiment de Dragons D U R O I, pour faire executer les mouvemens de detail dans les Manoeuvres ou l Ordonnance ne donne que les Commandemens generaux, sans regler les Commandemens particuliers que doivent faire les Chefs d Escadron, Pelotons ou Sections, pour les Manoeuvres que l Ordonnance ne fait qu indiquer, sans en prescrire les Commandemens.

Auch, Duprat, 1782. 10,8 x 20 cm, Leather binding. 38 pp. No images. Conditie: Good, Oblong formaat. Leren band met versieringen in goudopdruk. Gemarmerde schutbladen. Met 19 bladen (dus 38 bladzijden), niet gepagineerd. Bladzijden allen in drieën gevouwen om zo in de band te passen, mogelijk om het makkelijker mee te nemen (tijdens manoeuvres?). Bladzijden uitgevouwen ongeveer 28 x 18 cm. Gedetailleerde tekstuele weergave van manoeuvres voor de cavalerie. Leer met slijtageplekjes zoals te verwachten voor een band uit die tijd. Gedrukt op dik papier, wat valse vouwen in het papier. Boekblok voor leeftijd nog in goede tot zeer goede staat. Zeldzaam. Frankrijk Militair Cavalerie Achttiende Eeuw. Referentienummer 11321.

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Book number: 11321

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Ecole du Soldat et de Peloton Destinée à lusage et à l'instruction des milices du Canton de Vaud, ensuite de l'Arrête du Petit Conseil du 17 Novembre 1803

Vevey, Lortscher et Fils, 1804, First edition. 150, 23 pp, Hardcover. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Binding with extensive wear. With 12 plates, some folding (missing plate V) plates depicting soldiers and plates showing movements of a platoon, contents still good. Rare first edition.. More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 6144

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Eerste

Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1734. Hardcover. 224 pp (four pages numbered *104, last page unnumbered). Engravings. Conditie: Good, Hardcover (maybe a later binding?) decorated with green speckling. Engraving (titleplate) after page 104, 220 pages (last page not numbered). Missing the titlepage and Voorreden (4 unnumbered pages) and fold-out plate. During the first part of the seventeenth century the price of tulip bulbs dramatically increased, but in 1637 the prices plummeted with devastating effect for a lot of people. More photo's available upon request. Recently a similar copy from 1734 sold for 2200 euro excluding auction fees.

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Book number: 5703

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Fourire. Nouvelle s?rie. Nummer 1 t/m 20

Paris, Marechal, 1950. 31 cm, Magazine. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Good, Uitgegeven tussen februari 1950 en september 1951. Formaat circa 31 cm. Opgeborgen in map. Kleurrijke covers, achterkant ook in kleur. Verder veel illustraties in zwart-wit of kleur. Vaak enigszins pikant. Onderschriften van de illustraties soms zowel in Frans als Engels, teksten in het Frans. Wat foxing, hier en daar een scheurtje in de marge maar voor leeftijd nog goed. Met illustraties van onder andere Brenot, Bernard, Pavil, Jean Bellus, René Caillé, Pichard, Bret Koch, Lucien Boucher, R. de Larivière, S. Ballivet, Dubout, Peynet, Maurice Van Moppès, Bernard Aldebert.. Tekst Frans (soms met Engelse onderschriften bij illustraties). French text (some illustrations with English captions). More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 11182

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't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyser en Alkmaerder Liede-Boeck, versiert met veel mooye Bruylofts-liedekens en Gesangen

Amsterdam, Pieter van Rijschooten, 1702. 7,5 cm, Different. 310+(10) pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Boek compleet. Achterin register. Met houtsnede op de titelpagina en paginagrote houtsnede op de verso van de titelpagina. Klein formaat, circa 7,5 x 4,5 cm. Leren band uit de tijd, slijtageplekjes band met iets verlies aan bovenzijde rug. Band met florale versieringen in goudopdruk. Met twee zilveren zilveren sluitingen. Bladzijden geheel goud op snede. Uit de verzameling van Thore Virgin (voorin op dekblad geschreven met datum 1944), verder nog naam Burenstam op blanco schutblad. Uitermate zeldzame vroege uitgave. .

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Book number: 9154

[NODIER, CHARLES]

Histoire des societes secretes de l

Londres, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme et Brown, 1815. 23 cm, Hardcover. vii+240 pp. No images. Conditie: Good, Remnants of a paper title shield to spine. Spine with a stain, some wear to binding, contents with a little foxing and some pencil marks. . Rare edition. French text. I could not find another copy from this publisher. Date is written with arabic numerals (1815) instead of the Roman numerals (MDCCCXV) used in the other copies published in Paris. Although there is a difference in the number of pages between the different editions the text seems to be identical. Rare edition.

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Book number: 5100

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Japanese Ehon about the Chinese-Japanese war of 1894-5

n.d., n.p., n.y.. 16, Paperback. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Good, With six woodblockillustrations on two pages, the first in colour (by hand?). The pages are printed on one side and folded over (Japanese style), one is opened. Rope binding. With illustrations of milatary around a table (Japanese officers?), others are about battles on land, along the coast and on the sea.

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Book number: 7441

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Le Livre des mille nuits et une nuit - 8 parts in 4 volumes

Paris, Fasquelle, n.d.. 33 cm, Three quarter leather binding. 395, 347, 339, 315, 355, 371, 371, 347 + (16) pp. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Good, Leather on spine and corners, marbled boards. Five raised bands. gilt letters on spines. Top edge of pages gilt. Marbled end papers. Binding with some wear. Volume 2 with parts three and four has a lager spot of chafing to leather on one of the corners. First plate of part one lacks a small part of one corner, not affecting the printed area. One other plate in the third volume with a small tear in the margin. Book illustrated with 156 beautiful colour plates with illustrations after miniatures. Verso not printed. Text with beautifully illustrated borders based on Persian and Hindu art. Chromotypes by G. de Malherbe. Heavy set weighing about 18.6 kg. Shipping abroad possible but shipping could be expensive, especially overseas.. More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 7653

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A New and General Biographical Dictionary; Containing an historical and critical account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the present Period. Wherin Their remarkable Actions and Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts and Learning, are accurately displayed. With a Catalogue of their Literary Productions. A New Edition, in Fifteen Volumes, Greatly Enlarged and Improved

London, G.G. and J. Robinson, etc., 1798. Leather binding. No images. Conditie: Fair, Fifteen volumes. Speckled leather bindings. Wear to bindings with some title shields (partly) perished. Gilt decorations on spines.

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Book number: 5596

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Nieuw vermeerdert kort en grondig onderwys, van het Al-om-Vermaard en zeer Vermakelyk Volte-spel. Als mede van het a l hombre en piketten (&) Espadille force (&) Piket spel

's Gravenhage, Pieter vander Burg, 1721. 14,2 cm, Paperback. (8), 9-38, (6), 45-108, (4), 113-141 pp. Engravings. Conditie: Fair, Original wrappers with loss to spine and back, hole in front wrapper and devided in two (with some overlap). Wear to wrappers. Loss to corner first blank page and less so to frontispiece (no loss to image) and titlepage (no loss to text). Some foxing and a bit thumbed (mainly the first few pages). Some old notes in ink to the final (blank) page including maybe a date (1793). Three works with three seperate title pages but continuously numbered. Nice title plate showing two man and two women playing a game of cards while a third man is standing and watching the game (title in plate 'onderwys van ?t Volte-spel?. Title page with a small illustration depicting a scoring board. Elsewhere some schematic depictions of various combinations of cards. Rare and hard to find little work about different games of cards.

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Book number: 9967

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Office de la Semaine Sainte Latin-Francois, a l usage de Rome et de Paris

Paris, Claude Jean-Baptiste Herissant, 1726. 20,2 cm, Leather binding. (10), 769, (3) pp. Engravings. Conditie: Fair, raaie leren band rijk versierd in goudopdruk met in hoeken drie kleine fleur-de-lis. 5 ribben op rug. Bladzijden goud op snede. Gemarmerde schutbladen. Met gegraveerde titelplaat (daar gespeld als L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, en Latin et en Français dedié A la Reine) en gravures buiten de tekst welke niet meegenomen zijn in de paginering ingebonden na bladzijde 42, 358, 394, 632. Tekst compleet. Voorin op blanco bladzijden enkele oude inscripties in inkt (1 gedateerd 1764). Band met slijtageplekjes. Langs rand achterplat leer deels los. Boekblok met wat watervlekjes en foxing maar nog in goede staat voor leeftijd. Zeldzame uitgave. Referentienummer 11509.

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Book number: 11509