New acquisitions 22-Aug-2008

	SCARCE POSTHUMOUS WORK BY LEADING MENNONITE TWISCK, Pieter Jansz. Verscheyde Artikulen des Geloofs, Spreuken en Sententien. Hoorn, Elbert Beukelman, Feyken Rijp, 1694. 4to. With a woodcut illustration on the title-page (with motto "Vive ut Vivas"), 2 woodcut headpieces, 7 woodcut tailpieces, and 30 decorative woodcut initials from 2 series. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. Lacking 1 quire of 4 leaves (3T), replaced in manuscript in 1839. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1200
	SUPPLEMENT TO THE CHRONICLE OF HOLLAND [VEER, Ellert de]. Appendix, andersins genoemt een byvoechsel, waer in verhaelt worden vande Ghedencweerdichste Gheschiedenissen, de Oorloge belangende, als ooc van sekere verscheyden dingen, welcke inde gravel ckheyt van Hollant, Zeelandt en Vrieslant ... ghebeurt zijn. Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz [printed by Peeter Verhagen in Dordrecht], 1597. 8vo with woodcut publisher's device on the title-page and 2 decorative woodcut initials. Set in textura types with incidental roman. Eighteenth-century vellum. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1250
	FINE COPY OF BIBLIOPHILE EDITION IN 6 LANGUAGES VIRGILIUS (VERGILIUS) MARO, Publius. Georgica ... Hexaglotta. London, William Nicol, 1827. Small double folio (1mo)? (43 x 32 cm). A finely printed polyglot edition in a neo-classical style on large-margined wove paper, with the Latin, Spanish and German on the versos and the English, Italian and French on the facing rectos, with the general title-page and four part-titles for the four libri. Later nineteenth-century green goatskin morocco, gold-tooled boards, spine, board edges and turn-ins, double combed and waved marbled endpapers, headbands in green and white, gilt edges. With the engraved armorial bookplate of the dedicatee, William Howley (1766-1848), Archbishop of Canterbury. Full description » Orders and Information   € 2500
	COMPOSITE ATLAS PUBLISHED BY VISSCHER WITH SEVERAL RARE MAPS [VISSCHER, DE WIT, BLAEU, JANSSONIUS, SPECHT, VALCK, ALLARD, MORTIER and SCHENK]. Atlas Minor sive Geographia Compendiosa, qua Orbis Terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur. Amsterdam, [Widow of] Nicolaas Visscher II, ca. 1706 (maps engraved ca. 1634-1705). Imperial folio (50.5 x 30 cm). Composite atlas, with a letterpress title-page and 74 (of 78) engraved maps (71 double-page and 3 larger folding) all delightfully coloured by a contemporary hand. With maps by Claes Jansz. Visscher, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Johannes Janssonius, Frederick de Wit, Carel Allard, Gerard Valck, Leonard Valck, Petrus Schenk I, Pieter Mortier and Caspar Specht, all specified in a content list written in two hands. Eighteenth-century half calf, sprinkled-paper sides. Full description » Orders and Information   € 39500
	WEST INDIA COMPANY CHARTER, WITH LARGE ENGR. DE JONGE ARMS [WIC]. Octroy, by de Ho. Mo. Heeren Staten Generael, verleent aen de West-Indische Compagnie, in date den 3 Junii 1621. [Amsterdam?], [Jan Jansz.?], [1651?]. Folio. A 10-page extract from a book (probably Isaac Commelin's Wilhelm en Maurits van Nassau) giving the text of the charter of the Dutch West India Company, with the large engraved coat of arms of the De Jong(h)e family (17 x 14.5 cm) pasted at the foot of the last page, and an engraved classical figure with military attributes pasted at the head of the first page. Further with 2 large (32 mm) woodcut decorated initial letters. Paste-paper wrappers in pink, purple, green and yellow (ca. 1800?). Full description » Orders and Information   € 495
	HIGHLY ESTEEMED WHALING BOOK WITH 5 ENGRAVED MAPS & 13 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertsz., and Abraham MOUBACH. Bloeijende Opkomst der Aloude en Hedendaagsche Groenlandsche Visschery. ... Uitgebreid met eene korte historische beschryving der noordere gewesten, ... Met byvoeging van de Walvischvangst, ... Nevens een korte beshryving van de Terreneufsche Bakkeljaau-Visschery. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728. 4to. Title-page in black and red, with 5 (of 6) engraved folding maps, 11 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 woodcut illustrations in text, 7 decorated woodcut initials and 6 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, red and blue sprinkled edges. Lacking the engraved frontispiece and the map of Nova Zembla. Full description » Orders and Information   € 2500

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