1751. Denmark – De l’Isle, Guillaume. (1675 – 1726).

Carte du Royaume de Danemarc.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Paris, De l’Isle et Buache, 1780. Plate Size: 64.4 cm x 48.7 cm. Sheet Size: 66.6 cm x 52.7 cm. Original map. In very good condition with the slightest traces of browning only.

1752. Denmark – De Wit, Frederick. (1629/1630 – 1706).

Insularum Danicarum ut Zee-Landiae, Fioniae, Langelandiae, Lalandiae, Falstriae, Fembriae, Monae, aliquarumque in Mari Balthico Sitarum descriptio

Original hand-coloured engraving. Amsterdam, F. de Wit, [c.1680]. Plate Size: 58.1 cm x 48.8 cm. Sheet Size: 63.8 cm x 53 cm. Original map. In very good condition with only the slightest hints of browning to outer margns only.

1753. Denmark / Jylland – Blaeu, Willem Janszoon. (1571 – 1631).

“Pars australior iutiae septentrionalis in qua Dioceses Ripenses et Arhusiensis” [Jylland] [In the North Jutland and part of the Dioceses Ripensis and Arhusiensis farther south] / [Der Norden von Jütland und ein Teil der Diözesen Ripensis und Arhus weiter südlich]. / [I det nordlige Jylland og en del af stifter Ripensis og Arhusiensis længere mod syd].

Beautifully handcoloured Original Engraving (copper engraving) with the decorative and pictoresque Cartouches. [Amsterdam], [Blaeu], c.1660. Beautifully framed. Size of Frame with map: 66.5 cm x 80 cm. Map itself measures: 44 cm x 58 cm. Excellent condition of this beautiful original 18th century map of this area in Denmark. Framed, Handcoloured ! Professionally cleaned, historical map, beautifully and professionally mounted/restored on see-through, acid-free paper.

1754. Dennehy, The Late Venerable Arch Deacon [Henry Edward].

History of the Great Island, Ancient Cove and Modern Queenstown [Cobh]. Being the Substance of a Lecture by The Late Venerable Arch Deacon Dennehy.

Revised, annotated and supplemented by James Coleman. (Published for subscribers only). Cork, Guy & Co. Ltd., 1923. 12.5 x 18.5 cm. IX, 110 pages. With illustrations throughout. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good and firm condition with some minor signs of external wear. Interior in good condition. Only few signs of foxing. An extremely rare publication with the original subribers list bound in.

1755. Dennett, R.E.

Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo). Illustrated. With an Introduction by Mary H.Kingsley.

London, David Nutt, 1898. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXII, 169 pages. 5 full-page-photographic illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt stamp on front board and decorative tooling to boards. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Deckled edges. Interior bright and clean. [Publications of the Folk-Lore Society – Volume XLI – 1897]

1756. Dennett, R.E.[Richard Edward].

Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo). With an Introduction by Mary H. Kingsley.

London, The Folk-Lore Society [David Nutt], 1898. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXII, 169 pages. 5 illustrations, including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Emblem of Folk-Lore Society embossed on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tissue guard in excellent condition. Scarce. Inscribed by the author R.E. Dennett on half-title. Very important early account on the Congo. Dennett later would meet Roger Casement. This inscribded book by him is of extreme value. [Publications of the Folk-Lore Society – Volume XLI – (1897)].

1757. Dent, C.T.

Mountaineering. Illustrations by H.G Willink and others.

Second Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XX, 439 pages. 13 illustrations on 13 plates and an additional 93 illustrations within text. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with lettering on spine. Pictorial and series title on front board. Deckled top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes].

1758. [Dentistry] – Hunter, John.

Historia naturalis dentium humanorum – Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch [First Bilingual, Latin-Dutch Edition of John Hunter’s “A natural History of the Human Teeth”].

Dordrecht, Blussé, 1773. Quarto (19 cm x 26.5 cm). XXII, 213, (1) pages with 16 fantastic, full-page engravings on the human teeth, jaw and even depicting Tooth-Anatomy, showing details of the interior nerves of teeth, tooth sockets etc. Original 18th-century edition bound in a beautiful, early 20th – century, private binding with new endpapers and decorative spine-label. In collector’s Mylar. The text and plates throughout with faded dampstain ! Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. This very rare volume on the History of Dentistry is very rare and still very much in collectable condition. This used to be the copy of the Association of German Dentist “Reichsverband Deutscher Dentisten” and the book has one large stamp to the pastedown and a small stamp to the lower margin of the dutch titlepage. One more decent stamp to outer margin of page 31.

1759. Denton, Sally/ Morris, Roger.

The Money and the Power – The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 16,3 x 23,8 cm. 479 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear on the dustjacket.

1760. Department of the Environment Building Research Establishment.

Principles of Modern Building: Volume I (Fifth Impression) & Volume II (Sixth Impression). Volume I: Part I. The Building as a Whole, Part II. The Wall and its Functions. / Volume II: Floors and Roofs.

London, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1973 – 1975. 16 cm x 25 cm. Volume I: X, 288 pages / Volume II: VI, 189 pages. Several black and white illustrations and diagrams throughout both publications. Original Hardcovers with illustrated dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Both books are in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor crease to free endpaper and some annotations in pencil on initial pages of Volume I.