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Important edition of classic treatise on painting & perspective, with a new biography

ALBERTI, Leon Battista. Della pittura e della statua.
Milan, Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani (monogram of Giusti, Feriario & Co), 1804. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author and 6 engraved plates (including 4 folding). Early 19th-century half sheepskin parchment, Stormont on shell marbled sides, title lettered in ink on the spine, yellow edges. XVII, 136 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Two 17th-century commentaries on the Ten Commandments and the Seven Sacraments by an Italian Jesuit

ARANEA, Vincenzo. In praecepta decalogi secundae tabulae dicta tractatus.
Including: [IDEM]. Disputationes de sacramentis novae legis.
[L'Aquila, ca. 1640]. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in a neat Italian cursive hand, some parts in other hands. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum. [8], 270, [4] ll.; [4], 655, [10] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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Large paper copy with the extremely rare plate of the four burgomasters

BARLAEUS, Caspar (BAERLE, Kasper van). Marie de Medicis, entrant dans Amsterdam: ou histoire de la reception faicte à la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien, par les bourgmaistres & bourgeoisie de la ville d'Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1638. Folio (ca. 41 x 28 cm). With 18 engraved plates (1 frontispiece, 14 double page, and 3 folding), a woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam on the title-page, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in the centre of both boards, set in a double fillet frame with flowers in the corners, the manuscript title on the spine, green closing ties. 97, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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Beautiful work on the plants and animals living in the Dutch North Sea

BASTER, Job. Natuurkundige uitspanningen behelzende eene beschrijving, van meer dan vier hondert planten en insekten.
Utrecht, O.J. van Paddenburg and O.J. van Dijk, [1817]. 2 parts in 1 volume, each part divided in 3 sections. 4to. With 29 contemporary hand-coloured, folding, engraved plates. Early 20th-century quarter white cloth. "169" [= 159], [4], [1 blank]; "167" [= 159], [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Beautifully illustrated account of Albert of Austria and Isabella of Spain's
highly politically charged series of Joyous Entries

BOGHE, Jan (Joannes BOCHIUS), Maximus Aemilius de VRIENDT & Henri d'OUTREMONT. Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae archiducum.
Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, apud J. Moretum, 1602. 5 parts in 1 volume. Large folio. With 28 engraved plates (15 double-page, 13 full-page), two pages of musical score, an engraved divisional title page for each of the first four parts, the large woodcut printer's device of the Plantin Press at the end of the work, and numerous woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary blind tooled vellum with overlapping fore edge, the manuscript title and author on the spine, a triple fillet line on both boards, the year of publication upside down in ink on the front board, remnants of closing ties. 500, [12] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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On the geology and plants of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht

BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin and Léon DUFOUR. Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour.
Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. With a folding lithographed map of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after drawings by the author, and 3 full-page lithographed views. Contemporary gold tooled quarter brown calf. [4], 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Impressive 18th-century French botanical manuscript, illustrated with 423 botanical drawings

[BOTANICAL MANUSCRIPT - FRIAR LUC DAVID]. [Drop title:] Traite des plantes universelles par figures au naturel par le frere Luc david Recollet, chirrugien oculiste ...
[France], 1742. Large folio (ca. 45 x 28 cm). With 423 botanical drawings in bright watercolour. Manuscript with French text (including Latin names of the depicted plants), written in an 18th-century cursive hand. Most leaves contain a "Strasbourg bend" watermark: a fleur-de-lis above a shield with a diagonal band and the countermark "L Laroche" (identical to Heawood 65, but erroneously listed by him as "I Laroche", date: 1718-1721). The French papermaker Léonard Laroche (1646-1721) was active in the French province of Angoumois (now Charente) in the period 1673-1721.
Contemporary vellum, later endpapers. [2], 423, [1 blank], [19] ll. Full description
€ 58,000
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Beautiful early 19th-century announcement of a circus show with fireworks

[BROADSIDE - CIRCUS]. Mit hoher Bewilligung wird heute die hier angekommene Gymnastische- und Athleten-Gesellschaft unter der Direction des Hrn. Bartholomäus Ramini die Ehre haben sich zu produciren......
[Austria, ca. 1827]. Oblong folio (ca. 40 x 46 cm). With a large woodcut illustration (ca. 27 x 38 cm). The text is set in a Gothic type. [1] l. Full description
€ 2,500
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Very rare broadside prohibiting the use of fireworks and firearms in Delft

[BROADSIDE - FIREWORKS - DELFT]. Keure teegens het schieten ende opsteeken van vuurpylen, klackebossen en andere vuurwerken binnen de stad Delft.
Delft, Adrianus Sterck, 31 March 1763. Ca. 52 x 42 cm. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of Delft, and a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description
€ 475
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Very rare edition of one of the most important 18th-century works on Asian lacquers

[BUONANNI, Filippo]. Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chineesch vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc. ...
Leiden, Jacobus Willeke, 1742. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, 4 full-page engraved plates illustrating the necessities for varnishing and lacquering. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers. 16, 218, [24] pp. Full description
€ 2,850
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