New acquisitions 08-May-2008
 | DESCRIPTION OF TECHNIQUES FOR MINERALOGICAL STUDY OF ROCKSHUSSAK, Eugen.Anleitung zum Bestimmen der gesteinbildenden Mineralien.Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1885. 8vo. With 103 figures in the text and on 4 double-page plates. Contemporary half morocco, gold-tooled spine, cloth sides, marbled edges. Full description »
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 | GEORGE MACARTNEY'S MISSION TO CHINA WITH 2 ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES: MAP AND MUSIC HÜTTNER, Johann Christian.Voyage a la Chine.Paris, J.J. Fuchs, an 7 [= 1798/1799]. 18mo in 6s (12.5 x 8.5 cm). With an engraved folding map of China (18 x 19 cm) and an engraved folding plate of polyphonic music (24 x 30 cm). Map coloured in outline by a contemporary hand. Lacking the half-title. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, black morocco spine label, Stormont marbled endpapers, blue spinkled edges, green ribbon marker. Full description »
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 | CA. 130 FISH SPECIES IN 48 PLATESKIELSEN, Frederik Christian.Icones piscium. - Indicem systematicum.Copenhagen, Christiani Steen (printed by Bianco Luno & Schneider), 1835. 8vo? (24 x 15 cm). With 48 numbered engraved plates showing about 130 spieces of fish from 57 genera. Modern stiff wrappers. Full description »
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LAMY'S ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES ON SHELLSLAMY, Edouard, and Ph. DAUTZENBERG.Collection of 22 offprints, 21 from the Journal de Conchyliologie and 1 from the Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.Paris, 1902-1941. 8vo. With numerous lithographed and collotyped plates (3 lithographed plates hand-coloured; the collotyped plates made from photographs). 15 volumes in original printed paper wrappers; 7 in grey cloth with original front wrappers mounted on the front boards. Full description »
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DEFINITIVE 3RD EDITION, WITH 1288 SPECIESLUDWIG, Christian Gottlieb and Georg Rudolph BOEHMER.Definitiones Generum Plantarum.Leipzig, Joh. Friedrich Gleditsch, 1760. 8vo. With an engraved publisher's device and woodcut decorations. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, gold-tooled spine-title, block-printed decorative endpapers. Full description »
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DRAINING THE HAARLEMMERMEER: MAPS & EQUIPMENTLYNDEN VAN HEMMEN, Frans Godert van.Kaarten en Plaat behoorende bij de Verhandeling over het Droogmaken der Haarlemmermeer.[Den Haag etc.], [Gebroeders Van Cleef], [1821]. Colombier folio (52 x 41 cm). Atlas of 4 double-page map sheets containing 3 large (35.5 x 74 & 45 x 67 cm) and 6 small (23 x 22 cm) maps, and 1 full-page plate with 5 figures showing different kinds of pumps, all the maps drawn by J.J. Ligtenberg and engraved in the Amsterdam workshop of Cornelis van Baarsel and son; the plate engraved by Leonardus Schweickhart. Designed to accompany the 1821 proposal for draining the lake. With the title on a letterpress label. Original paper-covered boards, the spine blue and the sides brown, with the publisher's title-label on the front board. Full description »
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 | MAJORAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON CICEROMAJORAGIUS, Marcus Antonius.Commentarius in Dialogum, seu lib. primum de oratore ad Q. Fratrem M. Tullii Ciceronis.INCLUDING: CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Dialogi de Oratore. Venice, Franciscus Francisci, 1587. 4to. With two title-pages, each with the same woodcut publisher's devices, a woodcut portrait of the author, and several woodcut decorative initial letters. Nineteenth-century decorated boards, covered with manually decorated paper. Full description »
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 | PRIMARY SOURCE FOR WOLBINK FARM & HARDENBERG LOCAL HISTORY[MANUSCRIPT - AGRICULTURAL ACCOUNTS]. [TEUNIS (WOLBINK), Albert?].Annotisie Boekje van de Revunien [= Revenuen] van het Erve Wolbink te An, beginnende met den jaare 1795.[Ane], 1795-1808. WITH: [MANUSCRIPT - PROPERTY ACCOUNTS]. VOS, Jetso van, and his widow. [Revenues from the Rental and Sale of Properties in and around Hardenberg]. [Hattem], 1823-1829. 4to. Manuscript accounts in brown ink on paper, the earlier part for the crops of the Wolbink farm estate in Ane and the later part for the rent and sale of property in the same region, around Hardenberg on the Dutch-German border, east of Zwolle. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum with 3 (of 4) string ties. Full description »
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 | GRANT OF ARMS TO THE FATHER OF A FOUNDER OF THE VOC [MANUSCRIPT - GRANT OF ARMS].[Grant of nobility and arms to Justus de VOGELAER by the Holy Roman Emperor CHARLES V at Brussels on 12 February 1555.][Amsterdam or The Hague?, 17th century?]. Latin manuscript in brown ink on vellum (81.5 x 84.5 cm), in a humanistic hand, with 3 coats of arms (Vogelaer’s 13 x 10.5 cm) in gold and a variety of colours, the words CAROLVS QUINTVS in large decorated gold roman capitals (the initial 10 cm and the rest 4 cm) and some 15 words and hundreds of letters in gold roman capitals, framed by triple lines in gold at left and right. Mounted on a wooden frame. Full description »
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 | TREASURE TROVE OF INFORMATION FROM DUTCH ARCHIVES[MANUSCRIPT - HOLLAND].[Notes from Municipal Documents, 1544 to 1726].[Egmond?], ca. 1726. Folio (32 x 20.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on paper with brief notes on thousands of documents from Dutch towns and villages. Contemporary half red roan, marbled sides. Full description »
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 | DOCTOR'S PRACTICAL MANUSCRIPT HANDBOOK[MANUSCRIPT - MEDICAL].Chirurgische Remedien.WITH: Prijsen der Waeren. WITH: [Notes and extracts from 5 published medical works]. [Amsterdam?], ca. 1682/85. 4to (20 x 15 cm). Manuscript in red and brown ink on paper, with lists of surgical instruments, recipes for medicines, suggested treatments for numerous illnesses, injuries and psychological problems, prices of ingredients, etc. Neatly laid out and written in a clear Dutch gothic hand. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. Full description »
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 | SPANISH PRIMARY DOCUMENTS ON REVOLT IN FLANDERS[MANUSCRIPT]. PHILIP II, King of Spain, Don JUAN de Austria and Alessandro FARNESE.[Instructions and letters, mostly to Alonso de Sotomayor, Captain of Phillip II's light cavalry in Flanders].Madrid, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Luxembourg, "Uniz"(?), Beaumont, Namur, Turnhout, Maastricht, 17 December 1577-18 August 1579. Folio (31 x 22 cm). Manuscript in Spanish concerning the anti-Spanish revolt in Flanders, comprising 13 closely related documents in brown ink on paper, 6 signed by Don Juan de Austria (5 also with either his large or his small seal) and 4 prepared for King Phillip (2 with his annotations). Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1680?). Full description »
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 | LOW GERMAN PRAYERBOOK WITH 21 MULTI-COLOUR DECORATED INITIALS [MANUSCRIPT - PRAYERBOOK - LOW GERMAN].[rubric of preliminaries:] Eyn manier wie man syne(n) afflays hollen sal sprech eyrst desse p(ate)r n(oste)r Oracie.[incipit of preliminaries:] O lieve here Jh(es)u ÷ń(ist)e ich bydden dych durch alle de voistrappen de du up ertrich ee geyncks ... [rubric of main text:] Dyt gebett sal men sprechen op den Avent des Erwerdigen loevelichen högetz(eit) der Entfenckenissen der der werdiger Jonffrauwen und moder Gotz marien. [incipit of main text:] Gegroit systu O alre reynste suuerlichste jonffrauwe maria eyn dochter des hemelschen vaders eyn moder syns eyngeborenen sons ... [Lower Rhine?], 1620. 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm, text block ca. 12.5 x 7 cm). Manuscript prayerbook in black and red ink on paper, with 21 decorated 2 to 6-line uncial initials in red, black, green and yellow; hundreds of 1 and 2-line uncial initials in red (and 3 in black), some with interior decoration left white; rubrics to prayers written in red; and hundreds of words underlined in red or with their first letter rubricated. Written without ruling but with 15 to 17 lines per page. With 17 pages of prayers added by a user in a German or eastern Netherlands gothic hand. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with 2 brass catchplates (clasps gone). Full description »
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 | SOURCE MATERIAL FOR UTRECHT POWER BROKER[MANUSCRIPT - UTRECHT & OUDMUNSTER CHURCH]. STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN, Johan.[Fair Copies of and Extracts from Official Documents, from 1605 to 1635, concerning Johan Strick van Linschoten (1583-1648), initially Canon and finally Secretary of the Oudmunster chapter church in Utrecht, and influential member of the States Assembly of the province of Utrecht].[Utrecht], ca. 1621-ca. 1635. Folio (31 x 20 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on paper containing fair copies of and extracts from about 200 official documents from the Oudminster chapter church, the Utrecht provincial assembly, Prince Maurits of Orange and Nassau, notarial documents, etc. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. Full description »
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 | RARE MAP OF DUTCH COLONIES ESSEQUIBO, BERBICE & DEMERARA[MAP - AMERICA - SOUTH - GUYANA]. BOUCHENROEDER, Friedrich von.A Map of Part of Dutch Guyana; containing the Colonies of Essequebo, Demerary & Berbice, in which are described all the lands granted under the Batavian Government. Surveyed in 1798, and 1802, by Major van Bouchenroeder, with additions.London, William Faden, 20 November 1804. Large engraved map "designed and engraved by John Roper" on a scale of ca. 1:235,000, comprising 2 1/2 very large sheets (together 74 x 143 cm), with the title below left above two scales and a key to the various plantation crops, untilled land, forest and Indian cabins and villages, and below right a key to the approximately 135 numbered plantations, giving their names and proprietors. Further with a note on the topography of the rivers and their banks. In the present copy, the middle sheet and right-hand half-sheet have been assembled, but the left-hand sheet remains separate, the two resulting parts being stamped "36" and "37" on their backs. Full description »
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