43 - [Europe].

[Europe]. [Lot of books and maps] Lot consisting of an atlas of Central Europe, two books, and two maps: - OROGRAPHIC and Hydrographic Sketches of Central Europe Toulouse, 1904. Folio, [1] leaf, 38 maps. Beige half-cloth binding by the publisher (stains on the covers, loose sections, missing the frontispiece). An atlas for candidates to the military academies of Central Europe containing 38 lithographed maps, some in color, including 26 maps of Central Europe. This copy includes 12 maps not listed in the table of contents, including: Russia, the Scandinavian countries, the British Isles, Barbary, Sudan, and French Congo; Asia; Tonkin; French Indochina; Oceania; and North and South America. Unidentified signature on the title page. - SCHEZ, Pierre. *Historia ducum Styriæ*. *In tres Partes divisa*, dedicated to the Most August Roman Emperor Charles VI the Greek, in the letters of the heirs of Widmanstadius, 1728. Three parts in one folio volume, (4) ff., 185 pp., 123 pp., (1) f., 84 pp., 22 plates. Contemporary havana calfskin, spine with 6 raised bands, title label in light calfskin (replaced), ornate panels, speckled edges (endpapers replaced; caps trimmed, split joints at the top, slight worm damage on the spine, rounded corners, some sections browned; frontispiece missing). A beautiful illustrated volume recounting the history of the Dukes of Styria in Austria from 926 to 1711, dedicated to Charles VI of the Holy Roman Empire on his birthday. The illustrations include 22 separate copperplate engravings, portraits of the Dukes of Styria from Otto I the Great to Joseph I, as well as woodcut headpieces, initials, and tailpieces. Provenance: Jesuits of Poitiers (label on the inside front cover). -RADER, Matthäus. QUINTE-CURCE or Quintus Curtius Rufus. Matthaei Raderi e Societate Iesu ad Q Curtii Rufi de Alexandro Magno historiam... Coloniae Agrippinae, published by Ioannes Kinckius, 1628. Folio. (86)-683-(13) pp., title in red and black, 3 plates. Contemporary ivory-colored vellum with a cover (soiling on the vellum, browning and foxing, sometimes very severe; significant water stains at the end of the volume). First edition of Rader’s famous translation. The illustrations consist of three black etchings, two of which are fold-outs, and a map depicting the Macedonian Empire as it was ruled by Alexander the Great. The volume is illustrated with woodcut figures in the text and decorative initials. Includes a description of the Tower of Babylon (pp. 268). Large black-engraved woodcut printer’s mark on the title page, depicting a unicorn with a monogrammed shield. Stamps from the Cambrai Library on the title page and the last page, struck through with the notation “Double.” And two black-engraved copperplate maps: - HOMANN, Johann Baptist. *Scandinavia complentus Sueciae, Daniae & Norvegiae regna ex tabulis*, Nuremberg, (ca. 1710), enhanced with colored borders, 48 x 57 cm in the frame (lower and side margins reinforced with laid paper; small marginal tears). - DAUPHINE. General Government of Daufiné (sic) and the surrounding regions, including Savoy, La Bresse, &c. A black copperplate engraving measuring 27 x 32.5 cm at the edge.