Raden, Woldermar

SWITZERLAND, its Mountains and Valleys .. with four hundred and eighteen illustrations.

London, Bickers & Son 1st edition 1878 Plates (90) + hundreds of text illustrations by Alex. & Arthur Calame, F. & P. Meyerheim, Foux, Specht, Grob et al. engraved by A. Closs. . Folio original brown gilt and black pictorial covers & spine, cloth on bevelled boards (tips worn/spine chipped at head & foot/hinges repaired) Top Edge Gilt xiv +487pp. Gift inscription to top corner of free endpaper dated Jan. 1879 Title in red & black with tissue guard for frontis. A bright unfoxed copy of this heavily illustrated work on Switzerland.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Switzerland Suisse scenery topography history

Raguenet,François (1660?-1722)] (but no author given)

HISTOIRE D'OLIVIER CROMWEL [Oliver Cromwell]

Paris, Claude Barbin 1691 Frontis portrait of a fairly young Cromwell by A. Gunst + 6 further plates each 2 illustrations of sea battles, one emblem, one pastoral scene & several portraits in medallion form. . Duodecimo near contemporary calf on 4 raised bands compartments gilt (upper cover nearly detached/tips worn with some leather loss to covers & spine) all edges sprinkled red. Frontis. +titlepage with small printer's mark of globe +[4]pp dedication +[16]pp intro & other books on Cromwellian era +395pp +[13]pp index. Bookplate of the Writer's Library London. *An excellent and acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell by this French writer. very neat tight tidy copy.

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Ralph, Benjamin

THE SCHOOL OF RAPHAEL or the Student's Guide to expression in Historical Painting.

London, John Boydell N.D. drawings [102pp] . 275 x 209mm newer cloth spined boards. 40pp [includes titlepagge +introduction + observations on the art of designing or drawing + Study of geometrical figures + descriptions of the cartoons of Raphael Urbin +index] + 102pp Quite some foxing mostly to the edges, three leaves with simple crease and final page with tears but no loss. Some dustiness and small corner with tide mark nowhere near the drawings. The titlepage has a 35mm square torn out of the upper inner corner but nowhere near the printed area, the next two leaves with a much smaller area affected, all repaired not touching printed area. Drawings for students to copy, mainly of heads but also a few skeletons, some Greek Roman statues, and hands, feet, limbs and eyes, noses lips etc.

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Ralph, Benjamin

THE SCHOOL Of RAPHAEL OR THE STUDENT'S GUIDE TO EXPRESSION IN HISTORICAL PAINTING. Illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings after the most celebrated heads in the cartons at the KING'S PALACE. To which are now added, the outlineS of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues,skeletons,and anatomical figures, engraved by an eminent artist. With instructions for young students in the art of designing, and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons.

London, John Boydell No date Plates 1-12 include statues, skeletons, and details of arms. Legs etc + 45 plates with pairs of expressive heads +45 pairs of outlines . 4to [27.5 x 21.5cm or 11x8.5 inches] newer cloth spined boards. 40pp [=Titlepage + Introduction +art of designs & explanation & description of Cartoons of Raphael Ubin + index] + [102 leaves printed one side only of 12 plates & 90 plates of pairs of heads] There is some foxing and staining mostly to first and last plates with the majority of plates only foxed to the margins. There is also some offsetting to the blank page before each illustration. The titlepage and the last page at the end of the book hae been repaired and re-hinged and have a few small chips to the lower edge. The following two leaves after the title also have paper repair to the upper corner but nowhere near any text. There are some finger marks and a very few marginal tears without loss to the pages. The final leaves have a small tide mark encroaching on the top outer corner of approximately 3cm and nowhere near the illustrations.

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Ralston,W. & C.W.Cole

MESSRS. KAMDENE, BARNESBURIE & D'ALTON'S TOUR IN THE NORTH

London, Simpkin,Marshall 1890 approx) Color printed or sepia illustrations to each page . Oblong 198x235mm pictorial card covers (sl.crease to cover/tips rubbed/fine advert. to rear cover which is aposite for the story) 25pp+ (4p)pict.adverts + rear cover advert.) First few and last page sl.foxed but an unusually nice copy for a fragile item. *Humor about kilts (which is the front and which the back etc.) and hunting, shooting & fishing.

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Ravaton,M.

CHIRURGIE D'ARMEE ou Traité des Plaies d'Armes a Feu, et d'Armes Blanches, avec des Observations sure ces Maladies

Paris, P.Fr.Didot le Jeune 1768 plates [7 numbered 1-7] includes various prosthetic limbs, surgical implements, setting for fractures etc. . Octavo newer cloth spined boards [corners worn but no impact on text] viii + 681pp [recte 685] +[1p=aprobation. Title & dedication leaf with repaired tear + one further tear to margin which has been repaired. Cover loose, book split in three. Earlier ed. published in 1750 under title: Traité des plaies d'armes à feu. Garrison-Morton 2154. *An important work covering the treatment of gunshot wounds, this edition is greatly different to the 1750 edition and some describe it therefore as a 1st editon. Ravaton was a notable military surgeon and wrote alongside this work "Ravaton wrote the longest volume ever published on the treatment of blade wounds in wartime". He was considered a pioneer of safe amputations, developing the "double flap method".

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Reach,Angus B[ethune] (1821-1856) illustrated by Geroge Cruikshank

CLEMENT LORIMER; or the book with the Iron Clasps. A Romance.

London, David Bogue 1849 Etched plates [12 as listed] by George Cruikshank. . Small octavo [173x122mm] half red calf marbled boards four raised bands (spine partly split/gilt rubbed/tips worn & scuffed) vi +280pp. Coat of arm bookplate of J.Butler Bowdon of Pleasington Hall. The frontis and a few other plates slightly cropped at the lower edge, titlepage with light brown stain and adhesion marks in gutter. Some foxing/fingering, one text leaf loose and chipped to edge (no loss). Plates are unusual some being ovals in shaded surrounds but some of these have offset to the opposite text page although this does not affect readability. *This Scottish author was one of the first to make use of sensationalism in a crime novel, the book includes criminal conspiracies, mind bending drugs, victimization, and secrets from the past. This is also one of the first crime novels about race horse nobbling so that the criminal gambler may win. This is quite a scare first edition by a short lived author and journalist.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Victorian sensational crime novel

Reineck, Reiner and [2nd work] Melchior Goldast (1578-1635)

CHRONICON HIEROSOLYMITANUM, Id est, de Bello Sacro Historia, exposita libris XII & nunc primum in lucem edita, Opera & studio Reineri Reineccii ... Quae operis subiecti est PARS PRIMA. [Bound with] Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld SUEVICARUM RERUM SCRIPTORES aliquot Veteres

Helmstadt, Frankfurt, Jacobus Lucius, Wolfgang Richter 1584, 1605 Printer's device of goddess carrying torch and book. . Two Works in One Volume quarto vellum yapp edges (some old ink writing to cover and spine title faded) [20] leaves +268 leaves +[32] leaves of Appendix. The Second work lacks titlepage and first 3 prelim leaves (supplied in facsimile), original text here begins on p9 with the Preface thus 9-317pp +[26 of 31]pp of Index ending with letter T, lacking final 3 leaves. *History of the Crusades in Latin, followed by Melchior Goldast's collection of writers in Latin on the History of Suevia.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Crusades Saracens Arabs history Jerusalem Suevia

Reinesius,Thomas (1587-1667)

SYNTAGMA INSCRIPTIONUM ANTIQUARUM cumprimis Romae Veteris, quarum omissa est recensio in vasto Jani Gruteri Opere cujus isthoc dici possit Supplementum; Opus Posthumum ..

Leipzig, Printed Johann Eric Hahn for Jo. Fritsch & Jo. Fr. Gleditsch 1682 Engraved frontispiece includs the portrait of author in allegorical frontispiece by Johann Jacob de Sandrart + figures in the text + many foliated initial capitals & head- & tailpi. Folio vellum with black leather gilt spine label (tips rubbed) fine armorial bookplate with motto Tuum Est. Engraved f rontis + printed title +28pp prelims +1032pp + doublepage genealogical table. The titlepage in black only and title without the additional "cum commentariis absolutissimis et instructissimis indicibus nunc primu`m editum" on the titlepage. This edition thus without the index which seems to go with the red & black titlepage. Precedence unknown but usually the index is the last item typeset as the book has to be printed to allow page numbering so probably the those without index are the earlier state. Some inscriptions in Greek, most in Latin many now lost or indecipherable. A very clean, crisp copy of this indispensable and monumental work.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Roman antiquities inscriptions Latin Greek

Riecke, C[arl] F[riedrich]

DER KRIEGS- UND FRIEDENS-TYPHUS IN DEN ARMEEN .. Mit besonderer Ru¨cksicht auf die Ko¨niglich Preuss. Arme´e.

Potsdam, Stuhr/Gottschick 1st edition 1848 Multifolding table at the end. . Octavo marbled boards red gilt leather spine label (edges worn to paper) xvi +378pp two names on titlepage. Small corner of front endpaper cut away and front inner hinge split. Very slight pale foxing but very clean and crisp. *Riecke was a regimental doctor to the Prussian Royal Cadet Corps and this study of Typhus was made with regard to the incidence in both war and peacetime. The importance of clean water but also the changes in living conditions, uniforms, food hygiene, personal cleanliness are also considered and some suggestions for prevention given. The table at the end gives the statistics for deaths from various diseases, suicide, drunkeness, etc.

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Sonstige Stichworte: military medicine typhus army health medical Prussia

Riolan, Jean, the younger (1577-1657]

ENCHEIRIDIUM ANATOMICUM ET PATHOLOGICUM In quo ex naturali constitutione partium, recessus à naturali statu demonstratur, ad usum Theatri Anatomici adornatum / a Joanne Riolano filio, origine & ordine Parisiensi, doctore medicinae in Academia Parisiensi, anatomes & herbariae professore regio, atque decano, Reginae Matris Regis Ludovici XII primario medico per decennium & postremo. Figuris elegantissimis, indiceque accuratissimo exornatum.

Lugduni Batavorium [Leiden]., Adrian Wyngaerden 1649 Fine frontispiece of dissection deomonstration with named doctors present + implements etc + folding engraved plates (24 as called for) by R.A. Persyn. . Octavo later half calf and marbled sides (1" split to head&foot of hinge/tips worn) [20]+471+[48]pp (Signatures: *8 2*² A-Z AaBb8 Cc6 (Cc6 blank) Dd-Hh8 (and 24 unsigned leaves of letterpress accompanying plates). Pages 411-416 omitted in numbering FEP with comments on Riolan by a previous owner. The folding plates and their facing textural explanations are printed on one side of the leaves only, the first plate has a small repaired tear without loss, last few blank versos of the pages are dusty in margins. Small loss to blank area of lower margin of frontis. Some stainging and minor tanning throughout to the pages but never intrusive and not affecting the crispness of the paper. *Riolano was physician to Mary de Medici mother of Louis XIII and influenced the king to establish Paris' botanical gardens. This, is one of his principal works but he also wrote against Harvey's blood circulation, tried to disprove existance of Giants &c but according to the commentator on the front endpaper he was finally convinced of the circulatory vascular system towards the end of his life (referenced by Waller 7998).

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Robertson,Archibald

TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it; illustrated by perspective views of the most select and picturesque scenery. To which is added a correct map of the country three miles on each side of the road, planned from a scale of one inch to a mile.

London, For the author & William Faden (replaced by R.Faulder in vol.2) 1792 Aquatint plates (65 as listed) + 11 folding Maps. . 2 VOLUMES IN ONE 223x141mm green calf gilt key pattern border & spine gilt, gilt dent. & rev. (tips & hinges rubbed/spine darkened) All Edges Gilt Dedication to Prince of Wales the future George IV. TP + xvi =Dedic.+Introduction + contents & plate list +154pp Titlepage to Part II +viii=Contents & Plate list + 190pp+errata + 11 folding Maps. Coat of Arms bookplate James Forbes esq. & F.Fisher written in. Short tears to gutter edge - no loss - to first 3 leaves else a clean copy. Slight offset from plates to facing text but no foxing and great views with horses, coaches, people, boats etc. The maps without and misfold or tears -they look unused. A clean copy of a lovely aquatint book.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Topography England aquatints Maps

Rohan, Duc de

VOYAGE DU DUC DE ROHAN Facit en l'an 1600 en Italie,Allemaigne, Pays-bas Uni Angleterre & Escosse.

Amsterdam, Louys Elzevier 1646 titlepage with printer's device . 12mo newer brown leather with light tan gilt spine label. Titlepage +256pp Early pages with very tiny worm holes in the margin only. The printed side notes name the towns & cities through which the Duke travelled. A very neat copy.

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Sonstige Stichworte: travel europe

Romaine,W.

TREATISE UPON THE LIFE OF FAITH

London, Trapp 4th edition revised/corrected by author 1793 . Duodecimo calf (lacking a greater part of the spine leather & some to cover but covers secure/tips worn) 287pp text within ruled borders lacks FEP, REP with inscription & some scribbling else text neat. May lack a frontis. Slight faint ink spot on TP else rest of text clean about 4 leaves with closed marginal tear not touching print, no foxing, neat and tight.

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Ronalds, Alfred

THE FLY-FISHER'S ENTOMOLOGY with coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect, and a few observations and instructions on TROUT- AND GRAYLING-FISHING .. With Twenty Coloured Plates. Seventh Edition.

London, Longmans,Green & co. 7th edition 1868 Hand coloured plates (20 including frontispiece of Trout & other fish) most other plates are finely coloured flies. . Octavo newer blue half morocco with blue cloth sides and gilt title to cover. Frontispiece +xvi (includes half title & title, preface & plate list) +132pp. Pencil note of fishing on Severn in 1888 tipped in at end. Names F.H. Joynson & R.Slad on endpapers, short article from the Field May 1872 tipped in.

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Sonstige Stichworte: fly fishing angling sport