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Illustrated account of Antwerp at the start of the 17th century

SCRIBANI, Charles. Antverpia.
Including: [SCHONDONCK, Gilles]. Hê prôtogeneia kai epistrephomonê tychê tês Anbersês.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank page following the main part.
With: (2) SCRIBANI, Charles. Origines Antverpiensium.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page, woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank last page, folding engraved map of Antwerp and 6 double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume; 1st work in 2 parts. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [8], 146, [1], [1 blank]; 1-24; 1-172, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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The battle on VOC millions, retrieved by the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VÅGEN - VOC]. Zee-Journael, ofte autentijcq verhael, uyt d'annotatien vande heeren haer hooghmogende volmachtighde inde vloot, der doorluchtighste Geunieerde Republijcque, en andere schriften, aengaende al het gepasseerde, 't zedert 't vertreck vande vloot uyt Spanjaerts-Gat naer de Noort, tot het weder-keeren voor Goeree, met alle voorvallen in zee, ontmoetingen, gevecht in Noorwegen, tempeesten, en wat in 't generael, ende wat in 't particulier voorgevallen, en geschiet is van den 13. Juni tot den 6. Octob. 1665.
Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1665. 4to. Modern marbled boards. [2], 69 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Prayer Book for the French Dauphin wholly engraved by the daughter of a well-known Paris writing master

SENAULT, Elisabeth (engraver). Heures nouvelles dédiées à Monseigneur Dauphin. Ecrites et gravées par Elisabeth Senault.
Paris, Chez Claude De Hansy, [before 1715 (ca. 1690?)]. 12mo. With the text fully engraved and set within a decorative border, several engraved floral initials, and head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by Charles Petit. [4], 212 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Spectacular devotional book dedicated to the Dauphine of France,
wholly calligraphed by a famous Paris writing master, with the five extra plates added

SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Ecrites et gravées par L. Senault.
Paris, for the author and Claude De Hansy, [after 1690]. 8vo. With the text fully engraved and set within a double fillet border, a richly engraved title, 5 full-page engraved plates including a frontispiece, numerous engraved historiated initials and decorative head- and tailpieces. Contemporary brown Morocco, with the text "Heure de cour" lettered in gold on the spine. [2], 1-46, 48-223, 223-260 pp. Full description
€ 6,000
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Stunning, wholly engraved book of hours, dedicated to the dauphine Marie Anne Christine Victoire de Bavière. A masterpiece of Baroque calligraphic showmanship

SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.
Paris, "l'autheur" and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker. [1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece. Full description
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How to enter the land of the fairies

[SENETERRE, Henri-Charles de]. Nouveaux contes de fées.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. XVI, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,650
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How to write a letter

SERRE, Jean Puget de la and Jan DULLAART (translator). Fatsoenlycke send-brief-schryver...
Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamijn, 1663. 12mo. With an engraved title-page (dated 1652), showing a writer at his desk, a small ornamental vignette on the title-page, an ornamental tail-piece, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 446 pp. Full description
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Dutch translation of a dictionary of fruit science

SERRURIER, J.F. Fruitkundig woordenboek, behelzende all hetgeen betrekking heeft tot de kennis en het huishoudelijk gebruik der verschillende soorten van fruiten; tot het aankweeken, veredelen, snoeijen en behandelen van vruchtboomen; tot het aanleggen van broeibakken, trekkassen en oranjehuizen enz. Gevolgd naar het hoogduitsch van J.C. Christ en verrijkt met het wetenwaardigste uit het op last van het Engelsch Gouvernement uitgegeven werk van W. Forsijth.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805-1806. 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. With 18 (17 folded) plates. Publisher's red speckled boards, spines with printed label (preserved in 2 recent boxes). pp. viii, 483, (1); pp. (6), 517. Full description
€ 650
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