New acquisitions 08-May-2008
 | 2ND AMSTERDAM ALMANAC (16MO WITH GREGORIAN & JULIAN CALENDAR)[ALMANAC - DUTCH REFORMED]. GERMANICUS, Ambrosius.Den Nieuwen Ghereformeerden Almanach: opt jaer ons heeren M.D.LXXXVII. ...Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz, [1586]. 16mo (10 x 7 cm). A small almanac for the Dutch Reformed market, with a woodcut portrait of the compiler on the title-page (with his age and coat of arms); a woodcut zodiac man; 4 woodcut signs for the phases of the moon; cast planet, aspect, (pictorial) zodiac and other almanac signs; and decorations built-up from cast arabesque fleurons. Printed in red and black throughout and set in textura types, sometimes using uncials as capitals. Late nineteenth or early twentieth-century half brown cloth, pseudo-marbled sides. Full description »
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 | RARE MINIATURE ALMANAC IN GOLD & SILVER-EMBROIDERED BINDING INCORPORATING ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS [ALMANAC - FRENCH].Étrennes Mignones, Curieuses et Utiles, avec plusieurs augmentatons & corrections, pour l'année mil sept cent soixante-dix.Paris, Pierre-François Durand (printed by Chardon), 1770 [= 1769?]. 32mo (9 x 5.5 cm; binding 9.4 x 6.0 cm). With 2 folding engraved maps (each 8 x 9 cm) of France and of the area around Paris, and a decoration built-up from fleurons on the title-page. With historical texts about the countries of Europe and a wide variety of other information. With the twentieth-century morocco bookplate of Dominique Goytino. Contemporary binding richly embroidered in silver and gold thread, incorporating 2 original watercolour paintings, each in a painted gold frame in the centre of the front and back boards, gilt edges, pink silk paste-downs. Preserved in a modern black half-morocco box with marbled sides and lining. Full description »
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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF AMSTERDAM & OTHER NORTH HOLLAND CITIES[AMSTERDAM & NORTH HOLLAND CITIES - OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS].Hand-vesten, Privilegien, Handelingen, Costuymen, ende Willekeuren der Stadt Aemstelredam. Mitsagders: Hoorn, Enchuysen, Edam, Monickedam, Water-landt, Wesop, Muyden ende Naerden, metten aencleven van dien: als mede zee ende scheeps-rechten van Wisbuy, ende de oude Hanse-steden, etc. Hier achter is by-gevought een repertorium van alle placcaten, octroyen, ordonantien, &c. geregistreert inde memoriael-boecken 's Hofs van Hollandt.[Amsterdam], [the city of Amsterdam, possibly printed by Willem Jansz. Blaeu], 1624. Folio. 4 parts in 1 volume. With a letterpress general title-page, a full-page armorial engraving serving as a part-title to the main part covering Amsterdam, 4 letterpress part-titles (1 with a woodcut ship and each of the others with the same large woodcut tailpiece), several decorated woodcut initials (5 series) and cast interlaced initials, 2 woodcut headpieces (plus 1 repeat) and decorative bands built-up from arabesque fleurons. Set in textura types in 2 columns, with extensive roman and italic. Contemporary vellum, with a blind panel-stamped allegorical figure (the same on each board), probably Hope, with an anchor and staring into the distance. Full description »
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 | INSTRUCTION BOOK ON WRITING, FOR SCHOOLSBEIJER, Johannes Coenraad.Beknopte Handleiding tot den Nederlandschen Stijl, of aanwijzing ter vervaardiging van allerlei soort van schriftelijke opstellen, ten dienste van Nederlanders.Rotterdam, Mensing & Van Westreenen, 1823. 8vo. Dutch instruction book on writing. Contemporary stiff blue-gray paper wrappers, printed-paper spine label. Full description »
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 | 30 LADIES OF THE VALOIS & BOURBON COURTS, BEAUTIFULLY COLOUREDBELLIARD, Zéphirin, Jean Pierre SUDRÉ, Charles BAZIN, and Julien VALLON DE VILLENEUVE.Dames de la Cour des XIIe. XIIIe. XIVe. XVe. et XVIe. siècles lithographiées ... m. cccc. xcv. [!].Paris, Delpech, ca. 1835/40. Folio (40 x 28.5 cm). Lithographed title-page with a gothic architectural frame and 30 (of 31?) lithographed portraits of ladies of the French court from the houses of Valois and Bourbon (in spite of the title, it includes court ladies to the end of the Ancien Régime) mounted on leaves of contemporary wove paper. Beautifully hand coloured, painted and highlighted with gum arabic, turning the prints almost into paintings. Half red calf, richly gold-tooled spine, marbled sides and endpapers (ca. 1900) with the binder's ticket of Gustaf Hedberg (1859-1912), royal bookbinder in Stockholm. With the ca. 1900 bookplate of Gösta Lindberg. Full description »
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 | BÈZE'S GREEK & LATIN NEW TESTAMENT CONTEMP. BLIND-TOOLED & PANEL-STAMPED PIGSKIN [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - GREEK & LATIN]. BÈZE (BEZA), Théodore de.Jesu Christi D.N. Novum Testamentum, sive Novum Foedus.(Geneva), (Henri Estienne), 1582. Folio (34.5 x 22 cm). Text in 3 parallel columns giving De Bèze's Greek text, his Latin translation from the Greek, and the Latin Vulgate, with extensive commentary at the head and foot. With the large Estienne woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 8 woodcut head- and tailpieces plus numerous repeats, and about 20 decorative woodcut initials (4 series, 1 including Greek) plus numerous repeats. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, in a panel design (front and back board the same) with a panel-stamp portrait of Johann Freidrich II (1529-1595), Duke of Saxony (with monogram MB), and three rolls (1 with initials CS). With a 1780 owner's inscription of Johan Heinrich Wepler and earlier and later indications of provenance. Full description »
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 | RARE RUSSIAN BIRD BOOK, WITH 4 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF SHRIKESBOGHDANOV, Modest Nikolayevich.[The Shrikes (Laniidae) of the Russian fauna and their allies]. [In Russian].St Petersburg, Printing Office of the Imperial Academy, 1881. 2 volumes. 8vo (text) & small folio (atlas). With 4 numbered chromo-lithographic plates (image area 25 x 17.5 cm) drawn from nature by A. Sevastianoff and lithographed by Ivanson in St Petersburg, each with 2 or 3 birds and 1 also with an egg. Modern black cloth, decorated paper sides (text); near contemporary blocked beige cloth with the original printed front wrapper mounted on an endleaf (atlas). Full description »
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 | WORLD'S WORST POET CELEBRATES LIBERATION OF LEIDEN BOOREN, Elias van.Het Tweehondertste Jubels Vreugt Verhaal meede ter gedagtenis beschreve en op reym gemaakt van my ... inhoudende het geen op den derden en vierden van October 1774 is geschiet ontrent het feest houden van het tweehondertste jubel van Leydens ontzet.[Leiden?], [Jacob Meerburg?], ca. 1775. 8vo. Dutch poetry celebrating the liberation of Leiden, with 2 poems set to psalm melodies (using diamond-head music type). Contemporary marbled wrappers. Full description »
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 | GRAFTING FRUIT TREES IN 17TH CENTURYDAHURON, René.Tratttato[!] del Tagliar gl'Alberi da Frutto con la Maniera di ben Allevarli, tradotto dal Francese, ...[Venice?], [Girolamo Albrizzi?], [1698?]. Folio. Italian translation of a 1696 French treatise on pruning and grafting the limbs of fruit trees, with a drop-title on the first page, 12 numbered illustrations printed from 3 full-page copperplates, and a notice of another book on the last page. With 1 woodcut decorative initial in the treatise and another in the notice. The whole is extracted from an unidentified edition, perhaps the proceedings of an Italian scholarly society. Modern pink paper wrappers. Full description »
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 | BRAZIL, COLUMBIA & GUYANA, WITH 102 STEEL-ENGRAVED PLATESDENIS, Ferdinand and César FAMIN.L'Univers. Histoire et Description de Tous les Peuples. Bresil, ... Colombie et Guyanes.Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1837. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. "Bresil" with 92 steel-engraved views and 1 folding map, and "Colombie et Guyanes" with 8 plates and 1 folding map. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides and endpapers. Full description »
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 | COMPREHENSIVE REBUTTAL OF VAN ERKEL'S ANTI-JESUIT RUYME ZEDEN-LEERDRYFLAND, Barent van [= Herman VIS].Zifting van zeker Boek genaemt Ruyme Zedenleer van verscheyde aenzienelyke Paters Jesuyten enz. ... Eerste [-Tweede] deel."Keulen," "Balthazar van Egmond" [printed in the Netherlands], 1689. 8vo. 2 volumes bound as 1. With 2 title-pages, each with the same woodcut device, 1 woodcut tailpiece and 1 decorated woodcut initial letter. Late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century mottled tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, edges sprinkled red. Full description »
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 | 1ST FRENCH ED., WITH ALL 127 ETOMOLOGICAL PLATESGOEDAERT, Johannes.Metamorphoses Naturelles ou Histoire des Insectes observée tres-exactement suivant leur nature & leurs proprietez. Avec les figures en taille-douce gravées d'aprés nature.The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1700. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 3 letterpress title-pages, each with the same woodcut basket of flowers, 3 different engraved title-pages with scrollwork, foliage and (together) 17 insects (adult and larva), an engraved portrait of the author with foliage and numerous insects, and 127 engraved illustration plates with hundreds of figures, numbered in groups I-LXXIX, [LXXX]; 1-51; and A-Z (24 plates include 2 or 3 numbers each, while number XI is spread over 2 plates). Further with 4 woodcut initial letters (plus repeats) and a band of fleurons. Contemporary French calf, gold-tooled spines, marbled endpapers, red edges. Each volume with the eighteenth-century bookplate of "EF" (engraved by J. P. Dupré), with a sea monster. Full description »
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 | DETAILED MANUAL OF PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL MATHEMATICSGRAAF, Abraham de.De geheele Mathesis of Wiskonst, herstelt in zyn natuurlyke gedaante: ... Derde druk.Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, Andries van Damme, 1717. 4to. Book on mathematics with 96 plates, a woodcut surveying illustration on the title page, and tables, formulas and geometrical illustrations in the text. Contemporary vellum. Full description »
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 | ANNOTATED COPY, WITH AUTHOR'S PORTRAITHERMANN, Johann.Observationes Zoologicae quibus novae complures, aliaeque animaliumspecies describuntur et illustrantur. Opus posthumum edidit Fridericus Ludovicus Hammer ... pars prior [all published]. Strasbourg, Paris, Armand Koenig (printed by Fischer), 1804. 4to. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Christophe GUÉRIN. With extensive annotations. Mid-nineteenth-century red half cloth, "papier tourniquet" sides, spanish-marbled endpapers. Full description »
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 | FINE COPY OF SPLENDID HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING DRAWINGSHORST, Tileman van der and Jacob POLLEY.Theatrum Machinarum Universale; of keurige verzameling van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie Waterwerken, Schutsluizen, Waterkeringen, Ophaal- en Draaibruggen. Met hare gronden, opstallen en doorgesnedens; ... I. [-II.] deel.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), 1757-1774. Imperial folio (50 x 34 cm). With 2 title-pages in red and black, each with the same engraved allegorical device, a double-page engraved dedication plate (with 2 large cartouches showing the arms of the Beemster polder and of the 9 members of its water authority) and 41 double-page and 7 larger folding engraved illustration plates, the folding plates numbered as 2 to give plates I-XXV (vol. I), I-XXIV and I-VI (vol. II). Further with 1 woodcut tail-piece and bands of cast fleurons. Half red roan, blue-grey paper sides (ca. 1800). Full description »
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