Peter i the great (7 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. From a print by J Smith after a picture by Kneller. Engraved By Holl (illustrator).

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. ca 1850. An excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait of this famous personage. Published "under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge". From a print by J. Smith after a picture by Kneller. Engraved By Holl (illustrator). …

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine stipple engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, mount size approx, 13 x 11 ins, 33 x 28 cms. An excellent opportunity to purchase this delicate stipple portrait. ca 1840. From a print by j. smith after a picture by kneller. Engraved By H. B. Hall (illustrator).

Zustand: Fine. Second Folio edition hard back binding in publisher's original full venetian red Jacquard silk cloth woven by Van Heek-Scholco, with gilt lettering over black morocco label to the spine. Quarto 10'' x 6½''. Contains [xxiv] 532 pages, colour frontispiece and 29 colour and monochrome plates, 4 maps, genealogical table. Fine condition book in Fine pictorial slipcase showing Catherine the Great astride her horse, 29th June 1762, from an oil painting by Vigilius Erichsen, 1765. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOLIO SOCIETY.…

Zustand: Fine. First Folio edition hard back binding in publisher's original full scarlet Jacquard silk cloth woven by Van Heek-Scholco, with contrasting black morocco label. Quarto 10'' x 6½''. Contains [xxiv] 532 pages, colour frontispiece & 29 colour and monochrome plates, 4 maps, genealogical table, printed on Balmoral Laid paper. Fine condition book in Fine pictorial slipcase showing Catherine the Great astride her horse, 29th June 1762, from an oil painting by Vigilius Erichsen, 1765. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Attractive and decorative.

4to. 1 page (18 lines). List of alchemical symbols including the planetary metals (gold, silver, and mercury, among others) and alchemical processes (including distillation, dissolution, fixation and separation), all annotated with their meanings in Russian in the Czar's own hand and signed by Peter the Great, who had been introduced to alchemy by his head physician, the state councillor Robert Erskine (1677-1718). - "The extent of Erskine's absorption in alchemical questions is demonstrated in a flurry of letters he received in August and September 1717 from Johannes de Wilde, a self-styled 'Philochimicus' in Amsterdam. De Wilde provides plentiful evidence of Erskine's embrace of iatrochemistry. On 10 August 1717, for example, de Wilde wrote that 'I have received by report that Your Excellency regards Arcana Medico-Chimica as of great value.' The 'philochimicus' then seeks to promote his alchemical adeptness by providing Erskine with a recipe for potable gold ('aurum potabile'). Rather than dismiss de Wilde as a charlatan, Erskine actually proposed to take him into service in St. Petersburg. According to de Wilde, the only reason he did not accept the offer was due to his suffering from 'fluxum haemorrhoidum'. Interestingly, de Wilde promoted his alchemical services in a variety of ways, ranging from offering to produce Johannes Baptista van Helmont's 'aurum horizontale', to bolstering the Tsar's treasury with gold and silver and to providing a 'delightful scent' of an 'aqua rosa' for Catherine, Peter's wife" (R. Collis, Introduction to: A Curious Tsar. Peter the Great and Discovering Nature's Secrets in Amsterdam. Exhibition catalogue, 2013). - A few paper flaws in the folds, but altogether well-preserved.…