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Journey around the world with a long stay in India

CUBERO SEBASTIAN, Pedro. Breve relacion, de la peregrinacion que ha hecho de la mayor parte del mundo.
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon, 1680. Small 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). With the title-page in a border built up from cast fleurons, woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Charles II of Spain, and some woodcut initials and tailpieces.Gold-tooled morocco, by the leading Barcelona binder Emilio Brugalla (1901-1987), with the arms of the Spanish bibliophile Isidoro Fernandez (1878-1963) stamped in gold on front and back, gilt edges. [20], 360 pp. Full description
€ 18,000
Church History & Missions India & Sri Lanka Italy Latin America Mexico Middle America Southeast Asia Spain Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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Profusely illustrated description of the Peloponnese, the Adriatic Sea and Dalmatian coast, copy from the British Military depot

DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige beschryving van Morea, eertijts Peloponnesus ...
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, firm Janssonius van Waesbergen, Dirk and Hendrik Boom, Joannes van Someren and Rembertus Goethals, 1688. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title-page, 2 folding maps, 9 double-page plates and maps, 6 single-page plates and 29 half-page engravings in the text. Further with a woodcut ornament on the typographical title-page (printed in red and black) and 4 woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled speckled brown calf, a red morocco title lable lettered in gold and a black morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. Both boards show a gold-tooled ornamental frame, with gold-tooled royal coat-of-arms of the United Kingdom beneath a gold-tooled banner lettered in gold "military depot" as a centre piece on the front board. Further with gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers. [8], "168" [= 264]; [12], "164" [= 181], [6], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Balkan & Greece Battle Plans & Siegecraft Geography Italy Military History (17th Century) Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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First edition of a treatise on colour by a friend of Titian

DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo ..., nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, diversità, e proprietà de i colori.
Venice, Giovanni Battista & Melchiorre Sessa and brothers (colophon: 1565). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With woodcut scrollwork Pegasus device on title-page, the word "Dilogo" in a woodcut scrollwork frame, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 with a figure riding a griffon, 1 with a leopard(?)) and 3 fleurons. With the main text set in italic and preliminaries in roman. 18th-century half parchment (recased?). 87, [1] ll. Full description
€ 6,700
Art & Art History Early Printing - 16th century Italy School & Textbooks
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3 magnificent drawings of fireworks erected in Siena 1729-1734

[DRAWINGS - FIREWORKS]. [Fireworks erected in Siena on the occasion of festivities between the years 1729 and 1734, celebrating the creation of 3 cardinals, two of them born in Siena].
[Siena, 1729-1734]. Folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). 3 ink wash and aquatints drawings on paper, each drawn on one side, showing the designs of the fireworks. 3 ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Drawings & Watercolours Italy
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First Italian translation of "La Sepmaine" by the prince of French poets

[DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste]. La divina settimana: tradotta di rima Francese in verso sciolto Italiano.
Tours, Giametto Metaieri (Jamet Mettayer), 1592. 12mo. With the title with in a border, built up from cast fleurons, and some woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [6], 152 ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Early Printing - 16th century French Literature Italy
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The universal art of fortification

[DUBREUIL, Jean], Sieur de Bitainvieu. L'art universel des fortifications, Francoises, Holandoises, Espagnoles, Italiennes, et composées. Avec l'art d'attaquer les places fortifiées par les surprises & par la force, & aussi de défendre les places fortifiées contre les surprises & contre la force, par le Sieur de Bitainvieu.
Paris, Jacques Dubrueil, 1674 [=1667]. 6 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved general frontispiece by Jean Le Pautre (1618-1682), 6 engraved frontispieces for the 6 parts, the first 4 by Jean Le Paultre and the last 2 by Noel Cochin (1622-1695) after Ferrand, and many illustrations of military perspective, plans of fortifications, instruments of attack and defence of fortifications, etc. on 125 full-page engraved plates in the text, several plates in part V signed by R. Coquin. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, with title in gold in second compartment, marbled edges. [36], 2; 133 (with the text and the corresponding plate numbered the same); 117, [3] pp. Full description
€ 3,800
Fortification & Military Architecture France Italy Military History (17th Century) Prints & Print Series Spain
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