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The work that spread Ptolemy's ideas in Europe

AL-FARGHANI, Ahmad ibn Mohammad ibn Kathir and Jacob CHRISTMANN (translator). Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita.
Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel (heirs of), Claude de Marne, and Johann Aubry, 1590. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the final leaf, a woodcut decorated initial, and a woodcut head- and tailpiece. Near contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank], 565, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 17,500
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Very rare and exceptionally fine engraved print-series depicting the "Life of Jesus"

ALLARD, Abraham. De groote herschepper der waereld, ofte de monarch des levens, nederig gebooren, onschuldig gedood, en eeuwig verheerlykt. een werkje, waar in beknoptelyk verhandeld word het leeven, de dood, de opstanding en de hemelvaart van Jesus Christus. zyde hier by aangetekend de noodige schriftuur-plaatsen, zo van het oude als van het nieuwe testament. onpartydig voor alle Christenen beschreeven.
Amsterdam, Carel Allard, [1708]. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 14 full-page engraved plates illustrating the life of Jesus. Contemporary boards. [4], 32 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Contemporary account of William II's failed attack on Amsterdam

[AMSTERDAM - PAMPHLET]. Amsterdams journael. Vervatende kortelijk van dag tot dag, alles wat gepasseert is van den 30 Julij, tot den 4 Augusti des Jaers 1650. Met een korte beschrijvinge vande stigting, op-komst en heerlijkheyd der voorseyde stadt Amsterdam. Als oock de af-beeldinge der selve stadt, met zijn om-leggende dorpen, wegen en wateringen, heel curieus in cooper gesneden.
[Amsterdam?], 1650. 4to. With a folding plate containing a map of Amsterdam and surroundings and a waterfront view of the city. 18th-century half brown paper, marbled sides. 28, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Natural history of Switzerland with ca. 90 extra illustrations and a manuscript letter

ANDREAE, Johann Gerhard R. Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschrieben, in dem Jare 1763.
Zurich and Winterthur, Johann Casper Fussli the younger, 1776. 4to. With engraved map of Switzerland on the title-page, 10 engravings in the text, and 18 engraved plates (including 3 folding), partly signed by Joh. Rod. Schellenberg, the first being a large folding plate by J. R. Holzhalb after J. C. Vogler of the wooden roofed bridge of Schaffhausen. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges. XXII, "245"[=345], [3] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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A manual for pharmacists and physicians by the author of ‘De brave Hendrik’ a proverbial best-seller

ANSLIJN, Nicolaas. Handleiding tot de kennis der artsenij-gewassen, welke in de Nederlandsche apotheek zijn opgenomen. Voornamelijk ingerigt ten behoeve van hen, die, zich der genees-, heel- of artsenij-mengkunde wijdende, het tot hun vak behorende gedeelte der kruidkunde moeten beoefenen. Met platen.
Leiden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1837. With 10 numbered folding lithographs after Anslijn's own designs showing 20 numbered medical plants, herbs and flowers. Half red cloth. [2], 24, 456, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Extensively illustrated classic of cosmography, geodesy, mensuration, perspective and optics

APIANUS (APIAN), Petrus and Gemma FRISIUS. Cosmographia.
Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen (colophon: printed by Verwithagen), 1574. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page (with a terrestrial globe and other instruments); 4 printed paper volvelles with moving parts and a woodcut sun dial with a string attached to its centre; a folding woodcut cordiform mappa mundi (block size 19×27.5 cm) with letterpress text in the margins; well over 100 further woodcut illustrations, diagrams, maps, etc., in the text. Recased in 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. [2], 64, [2] ll. plus folding woodcut. Full description
€ 12,500
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Rare study describing a 622 AH (1225/26 CE) celestial globe with Cufic lettering, with 3 folding plates

ASSEMANI, Simone. Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni Musei Borgiani ... illustratus. Praemissa ejusdem De Arabum astronomia dissertatione et adjectis duabus epistolis Cl. Josephi Toaldi.
Padua, Seminary printing office, 1790. Small folio (21.5 x 29.5 cm). With 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides. [16], CCXIX, [9] pp. Full description
€ 28,000
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A wonderfully illustrated rare Dutch compilation of Apian

[ASTRONOMY - APIAN and others]. S.D.V.B (compiler). Een nieu constich boeck inde geometrie en de astronomiae, voor desen noyt in druck gheweest, ende is in ses stucken afghedeylt ...
(Colophon:) Rees, Abraham Wijlicx, 1608. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With a half-page woodcut illustration and some decorations built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, 74 woodcuts of various sizes in text, many (near) full- and half-page, with some woodcut decorated initials (various series), a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on four supports laced through the joints. 111, [1] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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One of the first Dutch humanists on the history of his country, with beautiful woodcuts by Jost Amman

BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Hollandiae comitum historia et icones. Cum selectis scholiis ad lectoris lucem eiusdem Barlandi Caroli Burgundiae Ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & resgestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.
Frankfurt, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony on the title page (repeated on p. 25), a woodcut printer's device of Feyerabend on the divisional title page of part 2, a variant of his printer's device on the verso of the last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits by Jost Amman (all except the first three accompanied by their coats of arms), several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces.
With: (2) BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 17th-century vellum. [16], "393" [=391], [1 blank]; 109, [1] pp. Full description
€ 950
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