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Vignola's classic account of the five orders of architecture with "La ii parte"
and Crispijn de Passe's "Oficina arcularia", with a total of 131 plates

VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da. Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura ... | Regel vande vijf ordens der architecture ... | Reigle des cinq ordres d'architecture ... | The rule of the V. orders of architecture ...
Utrecht, Crispijn van de Passe, 1629.
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(2) VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da. La ii parte dell architetura dell Vignola e'altri famossi architetti | Het tweede deel van de architectura ...
[Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonius and Jan van Hilten?, ca. 1642].
(3) PASSE, Crispijn van de. Oficina arcularia in qua sunt ad spectantia diversa eximia exempla... | Bouticque menuserie ... | Schriner Laden ... | Schrinwerckers winckel.
Amsterdam, Crispijn van de Passe, 1642. 3 complementary works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with a full-page engraved author's portrait and 42 numbered engraved plates, versos with letterpress text in Italian, Dutch, French, and German and/or English. Plates III and XXXIIII are cancels. Ad 2: with an engraved title page and 42 numbered engraved plates. Plates 1-13 with letterpress text printed on the verso describing the facing page. Ad 3: with an engraved title-page and 46 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Full description
€ 12,500
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First edition of the Dutch translation one of the best known works of 'the Italian Erasmus'

VIRGILIUS, Polydorus. Waerachtige beschryvinghe. Inhoudende wie de eerste autheuren ende vinders aller verscheyden consten, inventien, ende hantwercken zijn gheweest ... uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederlantsche tale ... overgeset, door E.M.G.
Amsterdam, Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, 1612. 8vo. With a printers device on the title page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled half mottled calf. [14], 327, [9] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Attacking and defending fortifications, including fortresses in Sweden

VIRGIN, Johan Bernhard and Joseph von XYLANDER (translator). Vertheidigung der Festungen im Gleichgewichte mit dem Angriffe derselben. ... Mit 14 Planen.
München, Joseph Lindauer, 1820. 8vo. With 14 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned half sheepskin. XXIV, 416 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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A plea for merging the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (WIC)

[VOC & WIC]. Ooghen-salve tot verlichtinghe, van alle participanten, so vande Oost, ende West-Indische Compaignien, mitsgaders verscheyden notabele consideratien, aengaande de Vereeninghe van de Oost- ende-[!] West-Indische Compaignien, met malkanderen.
The Hague, "Lieven de Lange" [Ludolph Breeckevelt?], April 1644. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum opening the text and a square decoration built up from typographic acorns and ornaments on the title-page. Modern half red faux snakeskin. 35, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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One of the oldest spa towns of Europe: Wiesbaden in Hesse depicted in a suite of views

[VODDIGEL, Jan Simon & Ferdinand Karl KLIMSCH]. [Album von Wiesbaden].
Wiesbaden, C.W. Kreidel, [1852]. Small oblong folio (30 x 23 cm). Suite of 10 steel-engraved views, all finely hand-coloured and highlighted with gum arabic, tipped onto thick brown leaves with printed decorative borders and captions. Contemporary decorated red cloth, gold-tooled spine, new endpapers. [10] engraved views. Full description
€ 4,800
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Letter by the French minister of War to the favourite son of Louis XIV

[LETTER]. VOYSIN, Daniel. [Signed letter to Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine].
Versailles, 27 April 1710. Half sheet (32 x 21 cm). French letter in dark brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand, written on both sides, with a small part of the letter ending on the back, followed by the address and the Voysin's signature; the latter in black ink. [2] pp. Full description
€ 500
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The Siberian prison camps in the 18th century and the rights of a people living under occupation

WAGNER, Johann Ludwig. Mémoires de M. Wagner, sur la Russie, la Sibérie et le royaume de Cassan.
Bern, Emanuel Haller, 1790. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author and 2 engraved plates. Contemporary boards covered with sprinkled paper, paper title label on spine. [4], 254, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Collection of printed pamphlets and letters concerning the years 1699-1701 around the death
of King Charles II of Spain: the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

[WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION]. Receuil [!] de pieces authentiques pour la parfaite connoissance des dernieres revolutions dEspagne et autres pieces concernant les affaires du Nord ...
Amsterdam, Nicolas Chevalier, 1701. 12 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (ca. 20 x 15 cm). With a general title and 2 divisional titles (for ad 6 and ad 11), all with a woodcut vignette, further with 2 hand-coloured engraved maps, 1 folding engraved plate, and several woodcut initials. Comprising:
[1]. Lettre ecrite dAnvers le 29. Decembre 1700. Par Monsieur N** à Monsieur P** en Hollande. Sur le testament de Charles II. Roy dEspagne.
[2]. Seconde (- sixieme) lettre sur le matière du temps contenant les nouvelles de lAssemblée du Parlement.
[3]. X. Remarques sur les affaires des tems [!] present. Traduites de lAnglois. Depuis [26 February - 15 March] 1701.
[4]. XII. Remarques sur les affaires des tems [!] present. Traduites de lAnglois. Depuis [12-29 March] 1701.
[5]. Harangue de sa Majesté Britannique au Parlement dAngleterre. Prononcée le 21. de Fevrier 1701.
[6]. Lettre dun gentilhomme, de la province de Kent en Angleterre ecrite à un Ministre dEtat, pour luy representer le danger éminent, où le Royaume se trouve destre envahi par la France. Traduit de l'anglois. Suivant la coppie [!] de Londres.
[7]. [QUIRÓS, Francisco Bernardo de]. Memoire de Mr. de Quiros, ambassadeur extraordinaire de sa Majesté catholique, presenté à Messieurs les Etats Généraux des Provinces Unies.
[8]. [MESMES, Jean Antoine de]. Memoire de Mr. le Comte dAvaux ambassadeur extraordinaire de sa Majesté très-chrêtienne, presenté à Messieurs les Etats Généraux des Provinces-Unies.
[9]. Response des hauts & puissants Seigneurs les Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies au memoire ... par ... le Comte dAvaux ... le 26. Juillet 1701. Extrait du registre des resolutions ... le premier d' Aoust 1701.
[10]. Soixante-huitieme (- soixante-douzieme) lettre. Traité entre le Roy tres-chretien, le Roy de la Grand' Bretagne, & les Seigneurs Etats Generaux des Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas.
[11]. Lettre d'un noble Venitien, a un magistrat hollandois, sur les affaires dEspagne. Traduitte sur l'original Italien. Suivant la copie de Venise.
[12]. Traduction de la réponse dun gentilhomme Italien à une lettre dun de ses amis sur la prétenduë proscription du Duc de Mantoüe.
Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, and a paper shelf mark label at the foot. [134] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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