New acquisitions 02-Sep-2010

	DOCTRINALE WITH AUTHORITATIVE COMMENTARY BY JOHANNES SYNTHEN 1 OF 2 KNOWN COPIES ALEXANDER DE VILLA DEI, and Johannes SYNTHEN. [Doctrinale part 1, with the commentary by Johannes Synthen]: Glosa super prima parte doctrinalis Alexandri. Per Joannem Synthen Daventriae extremo labore collecta. Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, [between 5 April and 21 May 1490]. 4to. Not rubricated; only 2 initials executed: first chapter: a red R with red pen work and a red V at the beginning of Chapter 5 (damaged). Binding lost except front cover: a vellum leaf from an early 15th-century rhetorical manuscript, rubricated in red. Lacking 4 leaves. Full description » Orders and Information   € 6500
	GREAT & INFLUENTIAL ATHIAS-LEUSDEN HEBREW BIBLE [BIBLE - HEBREW]. LEUSDEN, Johannes, ed. Biblia Hebraica. Accuratissima, notis Hebraïcis et lemmatibus Latinis illustrata. Amsterdam, Joseph Athias, 1667. 8vo. With richly engraved architectural title-page, with an open bible at the top, the Dutch lion below the title and the ark of the covenant below that and with three woodcut divisional-titles, for the "Prophetae Anteriores", the "Prophetae Posteriores" and the "Hagiographa" respectively. Nineteenth-century vellum, gold-tooled red morocco spine labels, double fillets on sides, gold-tooled turn-ins, red edges. Full description » Orders and Information   € 950
	1ST & ONLY ED.: RICHLY WOODCUT-ILLUSTRATED CHRONICLE OF FLANDERS [DOPPERE, Roelant de]. Dits die Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen, beghinnende van Liederick Buc den eersten forestier tot den laetsten, die door haer vrome feyten, namaels Graven van Vlaenderen ghemaect worden, achtervolghende die rechte afcomste der voorseyde graven, tot desen onsen doorluchtichsten hoochgheboren Keyzer Karolo. INCLUDING: Vanden Alder Victorieusten, ende Onverwinlijcsten Prinche Karolus, Keyser van Roomen, Coninck van Spaengien ... ende van sommeghe gesten by sijne tijden gheschiet, die seer wonderlijc sijn om hooren, ende oock ghenoechlijck om lesen. Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1531. Folio. 2 parts in 1 volume. First part with title-page in red and black, large woodcut of a splendid entry of Charles V, full-page variant woodcut of a splendid entry of Charles V on verso of title-page with a grotesque woodcut ornamental border below, full-page woodcut printer's device in elaborate ornamental woodcut borders at end, no less than 170 woodcuts showing full-length portraits, large views of fighting knights, citiy sieges, horseback riders, ships at sea, festive banquets, princely deathbeds, courtly scenes, etc., most in elaborate ornamental and grotesque woodcut borders, including 15 scenes composed of two woodcuts joined together and 6 text blocks set within rich ornamental borders (with several repeats). Second part with a large woodcut bust of Charles V on the half-title, double-page folding woodcut view of the siege of Vienna in elaborate woodcut borders and 28 woodcuts in the supplement, with portraits and large scenes of knights and courtly life set between ornamental and grotesque woodcut borders, 5 of them composed of two or three joined woodcuts, including some repeats. Seventeenth-century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges. Full description » Orders and Information   € 14500
	DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND BY THE FOUNDER OF ITS CAPITAL WITH 10 PLATES AND 1 MAP EGEDE, Hans Poulsen. Description et Histoire Naturelle du Groenland. Copenhagen and Geneva, Brothers C. and A. Philibert, 1763. 8vo. With loosely inserted  engraved folding map and 10 engraved folding plates. Modern wrappers. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1375
	SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON SUMATRA WITH LARGE ENGRAVED FOLDING MAP ESCHELS-KROON, Adolph. Beschreibung der Insel Sumatra, besonders in Ansehung des Handels, und der dahin gehörigen Merkwürdigketen. Nebst einer Original-Charte. Mit einer Vorrede von Gottlob Benedict von Schirach. [Hamburg, Bohn, 1782]. 8vo. With a large engraved folding map of Sumatra (580 x 500 mm). Modern wrappers. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1500
	TEACHING THE BLIND GUILLIÉ, Sébastian. Essai sur l'Instruction des Aveugles, ou exposé analytique des procédés employés pour les instruire. Paris, Imprimé par les Aveugles, et se vend a leur Bénéfice, a l'Institution, 1817. Small 8vo. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by Dubois, showing two blind young people studying at a table, surrounded by instruments of learning and the bust of Sanderson above their heads, and with 21 full-page engraved plates by Dubois and Azelie Hubert after Julie Ribault, 6 showing reading and writing tables and various devices for the instruction of blind children and 15 showing blind boys and girls working at various trades and professions, such as playing piano and harp, knitting, spinning, weaving, plaiting, making wicker baskets, mat-seated chairs, carpets, etc. Original printed wrappers. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1250
	ONLY BANNED BOOKS REVEAL TRUTH, ALL OTHERS LIE HELVETIUS, Claude Adrien. De l'Homme, de ses Facultés Intellectuelles et de son Éducation. Ouvrage posthume. London, La Société Typographique, 1773. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine, red spine-label, blue marbled edges. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1500
	MEDICINAL USES OF VALERIAN HILL, John. Valeriana oder von denen Tugenden der Baldrian-Wurzel ... ins Teutsche übersetzt und mit illum. Figuren erläutert. Nürnberg, Adam Ludwig Wirsing, 1765. 8vo. With 2 folding botanical plates engraved by the publisher, woodcut decorations and decorations built up from cast fleurons. The plates hand coloured as published. Modern wrappers. Full description » Orders and Information   € 550
	3RD EDITION OF THE FIRST COLLECTION OF POEMS OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS POETS OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE HUYGENS, Constantijn. Ses Boecken van de Ledige Uren, zijnde ghedichten van verscheyden talen, stijlen, ende stoffen. [2nd title-page:] Otiorum libri sex. Poëmata varij sermonis, styli, argumenti. Haarlem, Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch, 1641. Oblong 16mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title written on spine. Full description » Orders and Information   € 4500
	EMBLEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF HORACE JANSEN, Anthony. Zinnebeelden, getrokken uit Horatius Flaccus, naer de geestrijke vinding van den geleerden Otto van Veen, op de zeden toegepast; en met bygedichten, op nieuws gerijmt. Amsterdam, Justus Dankerts, 1683. 4to. With engraved portrait of Horace on title-page and 103 finely engraved emblems by A. Loeimans and A. Seil after Otto Vaenius. Contemporary vellum. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1250
	MOST FAMOUS DUTCH-LATIN DICTIONARY KILIAAN, Cornelis. Etymologicum Teutonicae Linguae: Sive Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum, Praecipuas Teutonicae Linguae Dictiones et Phrases Latine interpretatas, & cum aliis nonnullis linguis obiter collatas complectens: Studio & Opera. Editio Tertia, prioribus auctior & correctior. Antwerp, officina Plantiniana, by Jan Moretus, 1599. 8vo. With Plantin's woodcut device on title-page and larger variant woodcut device on last blank. Contemporary vellum, with title on spine. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1250
	DELICIOUS MANUSCRIPT [MANUSCRIPT - CULINARY]. KEMPE, A.V. Haagsche Keuke Meyt. Onderrigtende het bereyden en gereetmaken en bakken van alderley taarten, gebak en boter banket, vladens compotten gebyen passer, naukeurige verhandelingen over het beslag en het bewerken van 't zelven wiskonstige proeve en onderrigting wegens de hetten van het vuur benevens het confijten van veel vrugten en hoe die te bewaren het kooken en klaaren van de suijker benevens het gereetmaken van alwat tot tafels dessert gebruijk word alles door een gedurige oeffening en ondervinding op vergeefse kosten ten diensten der mevrouwe en desselvs keuken meyden. Dordrecht, 1794. Small 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. Full description » Orders and Information   € 800
	PRACTICAL NOTARY'S HANDBOOK MAST, Dirck Heymansz vander. Practique des Notarischaps, Seer nut, profijtelijck ende noodigh alle Jonckheyt die haer willen offenen in dese Konst. Midtsgaders voor alle andere Persoonen. Den vierden Druck van nieuws oversien, gecorrogeert en veel vermeerdert, by den Autheur selfs. Delft, Jan Pietersz Waelpot, 1656. Small 8vo. With engraved frontispiece, including a view into a notary's office at the top, a clerk at work and the allegorical figure of law at either side of the title-page, and with the woodcut coat-of-arms of Delft on the letterpress title-page. Contemporary vellum. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1250
	BRAZILIAN FERNS WITH 97 LITHOGRAPHED PLATES RADDI, Giuseppe. Plantarum Brasiliensium Nova Genera et species novae, vel minus cognitae. Florence, Aloisii Pezzati, 1825. Folio. Part 1 (only part published). With 97 full-page numbered lithographed plates showing numerous species of Brazilian ferns. Some plates are signed by Luisa Ridolfi, Santinaand Carolina Guerrazzi, Piero, Guilia, Luigi and Anna Guiccardini, Domecico Vantini, Orazio Ambra and Anna Bojti. Twentieth-century red cloth, uncut, with pasted title-label on spine. Full description » Orders and Information   € 7500
	COLLECTION OF RARE SUCCULENT CATALOGUES FROM THE SCHLOSS DYCK LIBRARY SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. [Collection of 10 printed succulent catalogues]. WITH: Denkschrift über die Verhältnisse und Ansprüche des Altgrafen zu Salm-Reifferscheid-Dijck. [Schloss Dyck], [1809-1850]. 11 works, mostly 8vo. Full description » Orders and Information   € 2250

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