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Some of the founding documents of the Dutch Republic and memorabilia of the Eighty Years' War

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaaten, gemaackt en geslooten tusschen de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre ende verscheyde koningen, princen en potentaaten ter andere zyde. Eerste deel.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [between 1742 and 1759]. 4to. With a general title page, followed by an index and 73 treaties, nearly all with their own title page containing the original imprint and a woodcut of the Dutch lion (the arms of the States General) and a few with Van Wouw's printer's device of a snail with the motto "Avec le temps paulatim". Contemporary vellum, straight-sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, with manuscript title on spine. Full description
€ 2,950
Belgium France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Netherlands Portugal Scandinavia & Arctic UK - United Kingdom VOC WIC
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Travel by carriage and its mishaps in the early Victorian English countryside

NEWHOUSE, Charles B. The roadsters album.
London, George Thomas Fores & Arthur Blücher Fores, 1845. Large folio (38 x 28.5 cm). With an extensively illustrated aquatint title-page, unsigned, but drawn by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), and 16 aquatint plates drawn by Newhouse. Title-page and plates coloured in great detail by a contemporary hand in opaque gouaches and watercolours, and highlighted with shellac. Gold-tooled, red morocco for Henry Arthur Johnstone (ca. 1900), leather endleaves with Johnstone's 1899 blind-stamped ex-libris, top edge gilt. Full description
€ 18,000
Horses & Horsemanship Prints & Print Series UK - United Kingdom
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Informative work on the history and discovery of America and British-American relations

[OLDMIXON, John]. Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika, Zynde eene Beschryving van de Ontdekking, Bevolking, Inwoonders, het Klimaat, den Koop-handel, en tegenwoordigen Staat van alle de Britannische Coloniën, In dat gedeelte der Wereldt... Uit het Engelsch, Als mede een omstandig Berecht aangaande Koffy en Koffy-plantery, Uit het Fransch vertaald.
Amsterdam, Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein, 1721. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Part I: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720, title in red and black, 5 folding engraved maps, engraving in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. Part II: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720 (same as in part I), title in red and black, 3 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate, 2 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. The maps are by J. Keyser after H(erman) Moll. Contemporary full calf. (26), 300 (i.e. 296); (2), 327 (14, 1 blank) pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Charts & Maps Geography Latin America Middle America North America South America UK - United Kingdom USA - United States of America
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From Rio de Janeiro to Batavia: a gripping account of the fastest circumnavigation of the globe of the time

ORTEGA, Casimiro de (translator), [Charles CLERKE (attributed)]. Viage del comandante Byron al rededor del mundo, hecho ultimamente de orden del almirantazgo de Inglaterra.
Madrid, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho, 1769. 4to. With a full-page, copper-engraved frontispiece, a large, folding, copper-engraved map of the Strait of Magellan in the back with the coasts highlighted in blue, and ornamental head-pieces throughout. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title and a (later) shelf mark ("143") on the spine. [18], 245, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Circumnavigation Latin America Pacific Islands South America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia UK - United Kingdom
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Mysterious speech concerning British-Portuguese relations and the founding of the Brazilian Empire

[PITT, William (attributed)]. Plano sabio, profferido no parlemento de Inglaterra pelo ministro de estado Mr. Pitt, sobre a continuaçaõ da guerra com a França, e trasladaçaõ do throno de Portugal para o novo imperio do Brasil.
Lisbon, Na typografia Lacerdina, 1808. 4to. 20th-century gold-tooled black sheepskin, loss of leather around the spine, green decorated end papers, bound by Frederico d'Almeida in Lisbon. 14 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Brazil Law & Politics Military History (19th Century) Portugal UK - United Kingdom
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The First Anglo-Afghan War: an extraordinary snapshot of the North-West Frontier of British India
between 1840 en 1845.

[PUNJAB-BRITISH SECRETARIAT]. Press lists of old records in the Punjab Secretariat - Volume VII. - North-West Frontier Agency. Correspondence with Government, 1840-1845.
Lahore, printed by the superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1915. 1 volume bound as 2. Folio. With an addendum slip facing p. 197. Brown calf, with "Book 1" and "Book 2" in gold on the spines. [2?], 993 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom
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Diplomatic treaty to calm down a dormant conflict between Yemen, Britain and Saudi Arabia

RAGHEB-BIN-RAFIQ, Muhammed & Bernard Rawdon REILLY. Treaty of friendship and mutual co-operation between His Majesty in respect of the United Kingdom and of India and the king of the Yemen (with exchange of notes).
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. With a woodcut British Royal arms on the title-page.In a blue paper wrapper. 5, [1] pp. Full description
€ 950
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics Saudi Arabia UK - United Kingdom
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Rare Portuguese edition of the romanticized life of a 17th-century Scottish Capucin friarin a finely executed Portuguese binding, richly gold-tooled

RINUCCINI, Giovanni Battista. Historia do Capuchinho Escoces.
Lisboa, Bernardo da Costa Carvalmo for Joseph da Cruz Cardozo, 1708. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a general title-page with a woodcut portrait of a monk (in the centre of a large rosette) and a divisional title-page for the second part of the tex. Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf, gold-tooled board edges, gilt and gauffered edges. [14], 54, [1], [1 blank], 55-237, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Bindings Church History & Missions Peru Portugal Scotland UK - United Kingdom
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Very rare set of hand-coloured engraved plates depicting Scottish clans

RITCHIE, Alexander (engraver). Clans of the Highlands of Scotland.
Edinburgh, C. Sinclair, [between 1850 and 1873]. 15.5 x 12 cm. With 12 very detailed, hand-coloured engravings of Scottish men representing 12 clans in their traditional tartans. All engravings are mounted on dark green moiré-grained cloth in 2 sets of 6, respectively folding out from the front and back pastedowns. All engravings are captioned in the plate, giving the name of the clan depicted and a short description of the scene, and signed by the engraver, Alexander Ritchie. Original publisher's gold- and blind-stamped green wave-grained cloth, with the title in gold within an elaborate gold-stamped frame on the front board and a blind-stamped ornamental oval centrepiece (a personification of Scotland?) within an elaborate blind-stamped frame on the back board, remnants of red cloth ties. [2 sets of 6 engravings folding out]. Full description
€ 3,500
Art & Art History Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Prints & Print Series Scotland
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Only copy located of the 1850 Saint Helena almanac, portraying the island at the height of its importance
in transatlantic shipping and the suppression of the slave trade

[SAINT HELENA - ALMANAC]. The Saint Helena almanac and annual register for the year of our lord 1850, ... Containing a detailed account of the public departments and local institutions.
Saint Helena, George Gibb, Government office, [1849]. 8vo. With title-page printed in orange, with the woodcut royal arms of the United Kingdom. Later black half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [126], 37, [3] pp.; plus [3], [1 blank] pp. advertisements Full description
€ 3,500
Almanacs Geology Greek & Non-Western Types UK - United Kingdom
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