Highlights 02-Feb-2012
 | RUSSIA IN 1835 THROUGH THE EYES OF A UTRECHT PROFESSORACKERSDIJCK, Jan.Verhaal eener reize in Rusland, gedaan in het jaar 1835.Groningen, W. van Boekeren, 1840. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece of the 'Alexander column' in S. Petersburg in volume 1. Contemporary marbled boards. Full description »
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 | ILLUSTRATED AUCTION CATALOGUE OF THE FAMOUS SAN DONATO COLLECTION FORMED BY PRINCE ANATOLE DEMIDOFF (1812-1870) [AUCTION CATALOGUE].Collections de San Donato. Ordre des ventes. Boulevard des Italiens, No. 26. Exposition générale. Particulière: les Mardi 15 et Mercredi 16 Mars 1870; Publique: le Jeudi 17 Mars 1870 de une heure à cinq heures.Paris, A. Pillet fils, 1870. 6 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 16 mounted photographs (of which 15 full-page and 1 double-page). Contemporary three quarter grained light brown roan. Full description »
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 | LE GRAND CONDÉ AND HIS ROYAL ASPIRATIONS TO THE THRONE OF POLAND[AUTOGRAPH]. DUC DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉ, Louis II.[Letter to Mr de Cabiniets].Paris, 9 February 1679. Autograph letter in French (22.7 x 16.8 cm), signed. In pen and ink. Full description »
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 | IMPORTANT NOTES ON RUSSIA, CHINA, POLAND ETC.AVRIL, Philippe.Travels into divers parts of Europe and Asia, undertaken by the French king's order to discover a new way by land into China.London, Tim Goodwin, 1693. 12mo. With title in red and black. Modern half calf. Full description »
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 | RARE BIOGRAPHY OF THE PATRON SAINT OF BOHEMIABALBÍN, Bohuslav.Vita S. Joannis Nepomuceni sigilli sacramentalis protomartyris conscripta primum a P. Bohuslao Balbino S.J. nunc aucta ex eactis processuum,…Augsburg, Johann Andrea Pfeffel, 1730. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 full-page engraved plates by Johann Andreas Pfeffel. Contemporary full marbled calf. Full description »
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 | EXTREMELY RARE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOUND[BALTIC SEA].Confrontation oder Gegenhaltung dess Schwedischen von Hölsingör vom 8 Nov. St. N. datirten, zu Elbing aber gedruckten Schreibens, und dann der gründlichen Relation Einiger holländischen Schipper welche den 27 Novemb. allhier in Dantzig auffgekommen und an Eydes statt den ganzten Verlauff der neulichen See-Schlacht zwischen holländischen und schwedischen Schiffs-Flotten im Sunde, auszgesaget haben.[Danzig], 1758. 4to. Early 20th-century cloth-backed boards. Full description »
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 | DUTCH TRANSLATION OF "THE BEST MODEL FOR TRAVEL WRITING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"BELL, John.Reizen van Petersburg, door verscheidene en wel de voornaamster gewesten van Asia. II. druk.The Hague, H.H. van Drecht, 1786. 8vo. 2 volumes. With an engraved view on two title-pages, 12 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. Full description »
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 | EXCITING ADVENTURES AND EXPEDITIONS COLLECTED[BERNARD, Jean Frédéric].Recueil de voiages au Nord, Contenant divers Memoires tres utiles au Commerce & à la Navigation.Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1715-1738. 10 parts in 11 volumes. 12mo. With 2 engraved frontispieces, engraving to the dedication, 3 engravings on title-pages, 14 folding engraved maps and 22 engraved plates. One map in vol. 9 lacking. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. Full description »
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 | CATHERINE THE GREAT'S ENLIGHTENED IDEAS ON EDUCATIONBETZKY (BETSKOI), Ivan Ivanovitch.Les plans et les statuts des différents etablissements ordonnés par sa Majesté Impériale Catherine II.,Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 allegorical frontispieces, vignettes on 2 titles, allegorical plate, 3 large folding plans, 4 folding tables, and 64 head-pieces, tail-pieces and allegorical engravings in text, including the coat of arms, medal and seal of Catherine the Great of Russia, all engraved. Contemporary marbled calf. Full description »
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 | ON THE WAR OF THE SECOND COALITIONBIORCI, Guido.Applausi poetici alla vera rigenerazione del Piemonte operata nel 1799. Dalla divina provvidenza col celebre valore delle armi Austro-Russe.Acqui Terme, Giovanni Francesco Arcasio, [ca. 1800]. 4to. With woodcut arms on first leaf. Printed in gold throughout. Splendid brocade wrappers, showing floral designs and hunting scenes in gold and colours. In custom-made cardboard cassette. Full description »
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 | VERY RARE SERMONS BY A POLISH DOMINICANBIRKOWSKI, Fabian (BIRKOWSKIEGO, Fabiana).O exorbitancyach, kazania dwoie-przeciwko niewiernym, heretykom, odszczepiencom, y nowym politykom, wierze s. Katholickiey Rzymskiey, y duchowienstwu nieprzyiaciolom.Krakow, Andrzeia Piotrkowszyka, 1632. 4to. 19th-century half vellum. Full description »
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 | AN ACCOUNT OF LIVONIA[BLOMBERG, Karl Johann Freiherr von].Description de la Livonie, avec une relation de l'origine, du progrès, & de la décadence de l'ordre Teutonique...Utrecht, Willem van Poolsum, 1705. 12mo. With title-page printed in red and black, a full-page engraved portrait of Duke Frederic William (son of Frederic Cazimir) at the age of ca. 8 years, and a folding engraved map of Livonia. Contemporary calf. Full description »
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 | RARE DESCRIPTION OF BALTIC SEA AND ITS COASTS WITH 17 TINTED LITHOGRAPHS [BOSCHETTI, Ambrogio].Il Mar Baltico e le sue coste descritti e illustrati con alcune carte geografiche topografiche ed orografiche per la guerra d'Oriente.Trieste, Colombo Coen (printed by: Lloyd Austriaco), 1854. Folio. With a tinted lithographed folding map of the Baltic Sea and its coasts, tinted lithographed folding plan of Kronstadt, and 15 tinted lithographed views by V. Stranski. Contemporary half roan. Full description »
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 | RUSSIAN DRESS AND MANNERSBRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph.La Russie, ou moeurs, usages, et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire.Paris, Nepveu, 1813. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 111 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. Full description »
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 | DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MOUNT SLEZA (ZOBTENBERG)BURGHART, Gottfried Heinrich.Iter Sabothicum, das ist: ausführliche Beschreibung einigen An. 1733 und die folgenden Jahre auf den Zothen-Berg gethanen Reisen.Breslau and Leipzig, Michael Hubert, 1736. 8vo. With title printed in red and black, and 13 engraved plates (6 folding, 7 full-page). Contemporary boards. Full description »
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