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The most popular Dutch manuals on painting, drawing, and colouring of the 17th century

GOEREE, Willem. Inleydingh tot de practijck der al-gemeene schilder-konst, waer in, neffens de heerlijckheyt en nuttigheydt der selve, kortelijck wert aengewesen: wat dingen tot grondige verstaeningh der schilder-konst behoorde geweten te zijn ... Dienende tot een voorlooper van een ander werck, daer in de practijck-regelen der schilder-konst, bestaende in teycken-kunde, bouw-kunde, doorsicht-kunde, mensch-kunde, ordineringh en coloreeringh volkomen sal geleert werden.
Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1670. 3 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a hand coloured engraved frontispiece in ad 1; ad 2 with 2 engraved plates (1 full-page, 1 half-page), and 2 woodcut figures in the text; ad 3 with a hand coloured engraved frontispiece and a full-page engraved plate. With: (2) IDEM. Inleydinge tot de al-gemeene teycken-konst.
I(3) IDEM and Geerard ter BRUGGE. Verlichterie-kunde, of recht gebruyck der water-verwen.
Contemporary overlapping vellum. [14], 133, [3 blank]; [4], 126, [2 blank]; [14], 42, 58 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Golius' epoch-making Arabic dictionary, with contemporary annotations in Arabic, Greek, and Latin

GOLIUS, Jacobus. Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, contextum ex probatioribus orientis lexicographis. Accedit index Latinus copiosissimus, qui lexici Latino-Arabici vicem explere possit.
Leiden and Amsterdam, Bonaventura & Abraham Elsevier [= Johannes & Daniël Elsevier] and Johannes Janssonius, 1653. Folio (36 x 23.5 cm). With a large publisher's device on the title-page, the title-page is printed in red and black. The text is set in roman and Arabic type in two columns per page. Further with woodcut decorated initials and woodcut decorated head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf with the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [10], 16 pp.; 17-"2922" cols. [= 17-2920 cols. = 1452 pp.]; 40 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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One of the first European books printed with Chinese type

GONZALES DE MENDOÇA, Juan. Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del Gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de religiosos y otras personas que an estado en eldicho reyno.
Antwerp, Pierre Bellère I, 1596. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device and some woodcut initials. With a few (woodcut?) Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary mottled calf. [24], 380, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,000
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One of the earliest recorded copies of the Deventer almanac

GRAPHEUS, Rodolphus. Schrijf almanack, offte calender na[er] de[n] olden stijl, op dat nije schalt iaer [...] MDXCVI.
(Colophon:) Deventer, Simon Steenbergen, [1595]. 16mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month), and 2 woodcut illustrations in the text, the work is printed in red and black. Later vellum wrappers, with the manuscript year of publication on the back. [32] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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British interpretership examination for Arabic

[GREAT BRITAIN - ARABIC]. Civil service commission pamphlet containing the question papers of the preliminary and interpretership tests in Arabic used at an examination held in June 1938 of officers of the Army and Air Force. Crown copyright reserved.
London, printed and published at Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1938. Folio. Printed in English and Arabic. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, in later blue paper wrappers. 10 pp. Full description
€ 475
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Rare work on the University of Groningen, printed on the occasion of its 40th birthday

[GRONINGEN]. Effigies & vitae professorum academiae Groningae & Omlandiae; cum historiolâ fundationis ejusdem acad.
Groningen, Johannes Nicolai (colophon: Hindrick Lussinck), 1654. Small folio (ca. 29 x 19 cm). With an engraved title page, and 31 full-page engraved portraits. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 225, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Bound by Marcellin II Lortic with the arms of José Pinto Leite, Count of Penha Longa

GUALDO PRIORATO, Galeazzo. Manejo, e Governo da Cavallaria.
Lisbon, Miguel Manescal, 1707. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9 x 1.5 cm). With a richly engraved frontispiece showing a cavalry battle before a castle, with one cavalryman on his rearing horse in the foreground, and the title in an elaborate cartouche incorporating military attributes. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1892/99) by Marcellin II Lortic in Paris (signed "M LORTIC" in the tooled foot of the front turn-in), each board with the crowned arms of José Pinto Leite in a double oval and a triple-filet rectangular frame, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, headbands, silk ribbon marker. [12], 198 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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