New acquisitions 08-May-2008

	30 AMSTERDAM LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS [VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - AMSTERDAM]. VINKELES, Abraham, J.B. CLEREMANS and others. [Gezichten van Amsterdam]. Amsterdam, L. Desguerrois & Co, ca. 1830/1835. WITH: HOVE BARTHOLOMEUSZ, Hubertus van. [Gezichten van Amsterdam]. Rotterdam, A. Collings & Van der Hout, [1835?]. Large oblong 4to (25 x 31.5 cm). 30 lithographed views of sites in Amsterdam. Contemporary half black morocco, gold-tooled spine, patterned blue cloth sides, gold-tooled red morocco label with binder's title on front board. Full description » Orders and Information   € 2350
	FRENCH AND DUTCH MASONIC SONGBOOK VIGNOLES, Jean de and J.P. DU BOIS. La Lire Maçonne, ou Recueil de Chansons des Francs-Maçons. Revu, corrigé, mis dans un nouvel ordre, & augmenté de quantité de chansons qui n'avoient point encore paru; … Avec les airs notés, mis fur la bonne clef, tant pour le chant que pour le violon & la flute. The Hague, R. van Laak, 1775. 12mo. French and Dutch Masonic songbook with title-page in red and black with an engraved Masonic vignette, diamond-head notes, 2 woodcut tailpieces with music instruments, and numerous decorations built-up from cast fleurons. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, gilt and gauffered edges. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1350
	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   € 32500
	EXPANDED ED. OF VONDEL EMBLEM BOOK, WITH 73 ENGRAVINGS VONDEL, Joost van den. De Vernieuwde Gulden Winckel der Kunstlievende Nederlanders. ... Hier is by ghevoeght het tweede deel: waerin 't welvaren der vereenighde Nederlanden, en de droeve uutvaert van Henricus de Groote, … neffens andere stichtelijcke dinghen, ... worden ... ghestelt. Amsterdam, Dirck Pietersz. Pers (colophon: printed by Paulus van Ravesteyn), 1622. 4to. With 73 engraved half-page illustrations in text, a woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, a woodcut printer's device above the colophon, 7 decorated woodcut initial letters and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Set in roman types with passages in italic, textura and civilité. Contemporary vellum, new endpapers. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1500
	WITH ETCHED WAR ATROCITIES BY ROMEYN DE HOOGHE [WICQUEFORT, Abraham van]. Advis Fidelle aux Veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre. [The Hague], [Jan & Daniel Steucker], 1673. Large 4to (23 x 19 cm). With a woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 10 etched scenes by Romeyn DE HOOGHE on 8 double-page plates, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum. Full description » Orders and Information   € 3850
	KEY TEXTS OF DUTCH REVOLT & HOUSE OF ORANGE, WITH NEW APPENDIX WILLIAM THE SILENT (WILLEM DE ZWEIGER). Apologie, ofte Verantwoordinge des Doorluchtigen ende Hoogh-geboren Vorsts ende Heers, Wilhelm, van Gods genade Prince van Orangien, ... Leiden, Cornelis Banheyningh, 1652. 12mo. The first Prince of Orange's key 1581 defence against King Philip of Spain's 1580 ban against him (included as an appendix in Dutch translation, along with the States of Holland's order to grant William the title Count of Holland). With 6 decorated woodcut initials and decorations built-up from cast fleurons. Contemporary sheep-skin parchment. Full description » Orders and Information   € 1500
	THESIS ON VEGETATION IN SOUTHERN SIBERIA WIRZÉN, Johan Ernst Adhemar, and Pehr Eduard ÅBERG. Dissertatio Academica in Geographica Plantarum per partem provinciae Casanenis distributione illustranda periculum ... Helsinki, Frenckell, 1839. 8vo. With 1 folding letterpress table. Stab-stitched,with a wrap-around title (never bound). Full description » Orders and Information   € 200
	FOSSILS DEPOSITED IN STRATA BY BIBLICAL FLOOD WOODWARD, John. Geographie Physique ou Essay sur l'Histoire Naturelle de la Terre, traduit de l'Anglois... par M. Noguez, ... Avec la résponse aux observations de M. le Docteur Camerarius; plusieurs lettres écrites sur la même matiere; & la distribution méthodique des fossiles, traduit de l'Anglois, ... par le R.P. Niceron, Barnabite. Amsterdam, aux dépens de La Compagnie, 1735. 8vo. 3 works paginated as 1. Title-page in red and black with an engraved publisher's device, 2 divisional titles, 1 engraved folding plate showing a cross-section of the earth, woodcut tailpieces and decorative initials, and bands of arabesque fleurons. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, blue edges, green ribbon marker. Full description » Orders and Information   € 750

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