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Classic book of the day: 1st edition (1857) of David Livingstone's account of his first mission to southern Africa, including the first published view of Victoria Falls.
More information and illustrations on our website:
https://t.co/gWt4s6mtoY
#Africa #VictoriaFalls #rarebooks
Here's a random #rarebook from our stock. The #binding depicted here has the coat of arms of the Dutch city #Zwolle. It holds all six #comedies written by the #Roman #playwright Publius Terentius (#Terence):
https://t.co/VXcdstLzyM
#AncientRome #ClassicalAntiquity #history
Random #highlight from #stock: only copy located of memento #book for #marriage of Silvestro Michele Arnolfini and Beatrice Luisa Bernardini (#Lucca, 1767). Bound in red velvet with gold & silver #embroidery and #brocade paper #endpapers
Find out more:
https://t.co/SOdZttWVwY
We'll bring some pretty flowers to Stand 25 @Antiquarenbeurs Mechelen (December 6-8). 772 chromolithographed plates in total. Find out more on our website:
https://t.co/hEyg84CysK
#botany #flowers #flowerpower #rarebooks #bookfair #Mechelen #antiquarianbookfair #Belgium
From December 6 to 8 you'll find us @Antiquarenbeurs #Mechelen. 1 of the items in our stand will be a #rarebook depicting #anatomy of the #horse (#Vienna, 1879) by Austrian #painter and former #army officer Joseph Machold
https://t.co/ZYGQgZb7xC
#Bookfair #horses #veterinarian
New on website: beautiful set of coloured #aquatints, depicting #landscapes & people encountered during #voyage from #Gravesend, to #China and #India by #English #landscape #painter Thomas Daniell and his nephew William Daniell:
https://t.co/fC8FMtvGyp
#art #Guangzhou #Kolkata
New on our website: a lovely early example (ca. 1830) of a "#blook" (a non-book object made to look like a #book) or faux book, in this case a #bottle for spirits.
It is supposed to hold a French collection of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard writings.
https://t.co/caO7a87rDd
Busy preparing new #catalogue on #botany. One of the items we plan to include is beautiful #Japanese #manuscript #trade catalogue of #lily #flower #bulbs (ca. 1875).
Want to prevent its inclusion in the catalogue? Order it before tomorrow:
https://t.co/9AkLdySkwp
#Japan
One of 150 extraordinary coloured plates of #American #animals from #Audubon's 3-volume "The viviparous #quadrupeds of North America" (New York, 1845-1848). Likely the biggest #highlight currently available on our #website:
https://t.co/HuZA37fv3A
#zoology #americana #rarebooks
French #explorer Auguste René #Caillié died #otd, 1838. Ten years earlier he had become famous as the first #European to reach #Timbuktu and return alive.
Check our online inventory for a first Dutch edition of his important travel account:
https://t.co/SPUq5EUJdy
#rarebooks