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How to keep your good name

[AERTS VAN BOCXTEL, Henrick]. Den spiegel der jonckheyt dienende voor alle jonckheyt, d'eerbaerheyt en deught beminnende tot eenen spiegel, daer sy in siende, moghen leeren hoe sy hun selven behooren te houden in hun inwendigh gemoet, in hun uytwendigh gaen, staen, kleedinge, spreken, eten, ende alle ander gelaet.
Antwerp, Johannes Petrus Willemsens, [ca. 1766]. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and final leaf, numerous decorated civilité initials, and a headpiece built up from typographical materials. Contemporary overlapping wrappers. 79, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Antwerp Children's Books Dutch Literature Education & Pedagogy School & Textbooks
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Rare Frisian almanac for 1779, in an armorial binding with the coat of arms of Friesland

[ALMANAC]. Friesch comptoir almanach, op het jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1779. Waar in de voornaamste jaar-, paarde, beeste en leermarkten te vinden zijn: als mede de maans op- en ondergang: mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Friesland, enz.
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1779.
With (bound before ad 1): [MEMO BOOK]. Practisijns dagwijser, begrijpende de XII. maanden des jaars 1779. Benevens de maanden January en February van Ao. 1780.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schouten and Reinier Ottens, [1779]. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page of ad 2, the first two quires of ad 1 are interleaved with blank leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the coat of arms of Friesland in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a double fillet frame with corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, red sprinkled end papers. [88]; [132] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Almanacs Armorial Bindings Friesland & Groningen
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Exceptionally rare almanac, bound in mother-of-pearl, and illustrated with anti-English plates

[ALMANAC]. Kooker en tas almanach voor het jaar 1782.
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1781]. Ca. 6.7 x 2.7 cm; type area: 5.8 x 2.2 cm. With 14 full-page numbered engraved plates, 13 showing various jobs, nationalities, and naval scenes, with an 8-line verse underneath, and 1 with a time-table of the tolling of the gate-bells in Amsterdam, the work has been printed in red and black. Contemporary quarter silver with mother-of-pearl boards, a clasp and catch plate in the middle of the fore edge, gilt brocade paper pastedowns. [32] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Almanacs Bindings Netherlands
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On the history of the coins of Zeeland

[ALMANAC]. Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor 't jaar 1782. Bevattende eene beschryving der provincie Zeeland ... ten dienste der jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden.
Middelburg, Jan Dane, 1782. 16mo. With an engraved title by R. Vinkeles, and 5 folding plates. Original publisher's printed boards, with the title and the arms of Zeeland in black on the front, and the arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back, both within an ornamental border, red sprinkled edges. [70], 475-568 [=22] pp. Full description
€ 250
Almanacs Education & Pedagogy Numismatics Zeeland
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Series of six French Almanacs, illustrated with famous paintings

[ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1807.
With:
(2) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1809.
(3) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1814.
(4) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1815.
(5) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1824.
(6) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1825.
Paris, imprimerie de J.M. Eberhart (volumes 3-6: imprimerie de Richomme) for Janet, [1806-1824]. 6 volumes. 12mo (ca. 11.5 x 6.5 cm). Each volume with an engraved title and 4 full-page steel-engraved plates protected by tissue paper guards, volume 4 with an extra portrait of Louis XVIII. Contemporary coloured boards (green, pink, blue or grey), gilt edges, volume 3 with lithographed boards and the title printed in black on the spine, volumes 5 and 6 in a matching slipcase, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [32], 190, [2], [12]; [32], 196, [4], [12]; [32], 240, [8]; [32], 228, [4]; [32], 254, [2]; [32], 254, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Almanacs France Miniature Books
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Women's almanac, with songs from the popular opéra comique "Joconde"

[ALMANAC]. Joconde ou les coureurs d'aventures.
Including: [IDEM]. Petit souvenir des dames.
Paris, chez Janet, [1815]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 16mo. With an engraved title for both parts, and 6 fine stipple-engraved plates by Massol after designs by Sébastian Le Roy, protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled dark red paper, imitating straight-grained morocco, with a vine on the spine and an ornamental border on both boards, gilt edges. Housed in a matching slipcase. 48, [36] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Almanacs Music, Theatre & Dance Women History
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Official almanac with the names of all Dutch government officials from 1819

[ALMANAC]. Calendrier royal de la cour, pour lannée 1819. Publié pour la première fois en 1756.
The Hague, Gosse et Comp., [1818]. 12mo. With the coat of arms of the Dutch Kingdom on the title page, and a folding engraved hand-coloured map of the Dutch Kingdom in a roundel by Basnel & son, with a list of all the provinces of the Kingdom with the numbers of their populations, and distances from Amsterdam, The Hague, and Brussels. Contemporary gold-tooled imitation long-grained red Morocco, with an ornamental border on both boards, gilt edges. The work is housed in the original matching slipcase. 84, 192, 55, [1] pp. Full description
€ 600
Almanacs Miniature Books Netherlands
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One of the most succesful Dutch literary almanacs

[ALMANAC]. Almanak, aan bevalligheid & deugd gewijd. 1819.
Amsterdam, Marten Westerman, [1818]. 16mo. With an engraved calligraphic title, a folding engraved leaf with musical scores, and 6 full-page engraved plates by P. Velyn. Contemporary vellum over thin boards, gilt edges, house in the original matching slipcase. [28], 15, [1], 99, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 350
Almanacs Dutch Literature
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Beautifully illustrated French miniature almanac with songs for children

[ALMANAC]. Calendrier pour l' année 1826.
Paris, chez Janet, [1825].
With: [SONGS]. La morale du cœur.
Paris, chez Janet, [1825]. 2 works in 1 volume. 32mo. With an engraved title page, and 6 full-page engraved plates. Original publisher's pink boards, gilt edges, housed in a matching pink slipcase. [2], 24, [2]; 24 pp. Full description
€ 750
Almanacs Children's Books France Miniature Books Music, Theatre & Dance Songbooks
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Exceptionally rare almanac for Friesland

[ALMANAC]. Zak-almanak voor de provincie Friesland. Voor het jaar 1843.
Leeuwarden L. Schierbeek [1842]. 32mo. With 4 full-page engraved plates, showing Pieter Derksz. Langebaard, a Turk, an Owl, and a view of the charitable colony Veenhuizen, the work is interleaved. Contemporary gold-tooled red imitation morocco, with an ornamental border on both sides. [24] ll. + interleaving Full description
€ 675
Almanacs Friesland & Groningen Miniature Books
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One of the most charming examples of the German pocket almanac

[ALMANAC - GERMAN]. Frankfurter Taschenkalender für freundschaftliche Cirkel auf das Jahr 1808, enthaltend: Sinn-Gedichte, auch in Stammbüch brauchbare, kurze Geschichten, Sentenzen, &c.
Frankfurt, In der Jägerschen Buch- Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, [1807]. 32mo. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved title with a view of Frankfurt, and 12 full-page numbered engraved plates in the calendar (1 for each month). Contemporary green boards tooled in black, with a central ornament on both boards, surrounded by an ornamental border, gilt edges. The work is housed in a decorative paper slipcase. [32], 31, [1] pp. Full description
€ 725
Alba Amicorum Almanacs German Literature
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The work that gave rise to the Batavian myth

AURELIUS, Cornelius Gerardi. Batavia, sive de antiquo veroque eius insulae quam Rhenus in Hollandia facit situ, descriptione & laudibus; adversus Gerardum Noviomagum, libri duo ...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1586. 8vo (16.6 x 10.7 cm). With a woodcut device on the title page and woodcut initials throughout. Limp vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints (top one broken), with a green morocco label lettered "Batavia Ant. 1686" in gold on the spine. [16], 135, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 700
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Netherlands Philosophy & Humanism
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The Spanish conquest of Carte, Algeria

[ALGERIA - BAZÁN, Alvaro de]. Relacion de la interpressa, y saquea miento de la villa del carte en Africa, por el excelentissimo senor D. Aluaro Bacan Marqnes del Viso, general de la escuadra de las galeras de Sicilia, governador, y capitan general de Oran, y macalquibir, aveinte de febrero, deste ano de 1642.
Madrid, Juan Sanchez, 1642. Folio (28 x 20.6 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial. Unbound. [2] ll. Full description
€ 1,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) North Africa Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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First edition of a metrical translation of the Psalms in Latin

BÈZE, Théodore de. Psalmorum Davidis et aliorum prophetarum. Libri quinque. Argumentis et Latina paraphrasi illustrati, ac etiam vario carminum genere Latinè expressi.
Geneva, [Eustache Vignon or Henry II Estienne], 1579. 8vo. With a woodcut title border, numerous decorative woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Modern blind-tooled calf. [16], "715" [=709], [3] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Religion (16th Century)
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The "Schilder-Boeck" of the 17th century

BIE, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten vrede tusschen de twee magtighe croonen van Spaignien en Vrancryck, waer-inne begrepen is den onsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw, hier inne meest naer hrt leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke rijmen ende spreuken.
Antwerpen, Jan Meyssens, 1662 (colophon: Juliaen van Montfort, 1661). 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Cornelis Meyssens after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, a full-page portrait of the dedicatee Antoine van Leyen by Richard Collin (1661), a full-page portrait of the author by Jan Meyssens after Erasmus Quellinus, and 97 full-page engraved and etched portraits of painters, engravers, architects and sculptors, engraved by Jan Meyssens, Wenceslaus Hollar, and numerous others, after drawings by Anthony van Dyck, Paulus Pontanus, Jan Lievens, etc. 18th-century gold-tooled half sheep. [2], "584" [= 586], [3] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Art & Art History Bibliography & Biography
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The medicinal springs of Aken and Cleves, beautifully illustrated

[BLONDEL, François]. Beschryving van de beroemde, en van ouds vermaarde vrye keiserlyke ryks- en krooning- stad Aken, mitsgaders van alle desselfs fonteinen en minerale wateren en baden (...) tot herstelling van veele elendige en sieke menschen hunne gesontheid.
Leiden, Johannes du Vivier, 1727. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 18 engraved plates (15 folding, 3 full-page), several engraved illustrations in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved title vignette, and 10 engraved folding plates by H. Spilman after Jan de Beyer. With: LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidsbron, en omleggende landsdouwen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. Early 19th-century half brown calf. [22], 223, [1 blank]; 63, [11] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Earth Sciences Germany Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Mineralogy & Gems
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A foundational work of early modern anthropology

BOEMUS, Joannes. Omnium gentium mores, leges & ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum opus, Aphricam, Asiam, & Europam describentibus. Accessit libellus de regionibus septentrionalibus
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1538. 8vo (14.7 x 9.6). With a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and some woodcut initials. Later vellum. 149, [3] ll. Full description
€ 850
Anthropology & Ethnography Early Printing - 16th century
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Applying the philosophical ideas of Descartes to medicine

BONTEKOE, Cornelis. Korte verhandeling van 's menschen leven, gesondheid, siekte, en dood, begrepen in een drie ledige reden, I. Over 't lighaam en sijne werkingen in gesondheid; II. Over de siekte en desselfs oorsaken; III. Over de middelen, om het leven en de gesondheid te bewaren en te verlengen (...).
The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1685. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black. Including: [IDEM]. Drie verhandelingen, I. Over de natuur. II. Over de bevinding. III. Over de sekerheit in de genees- en heel-kunde.
Contemporary vellum. [124], 409, [14]; [4], 76 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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First edition of a great classic of the history and science of art and the evolution of taste

BORGHINI, Raffaello. Il riposo ... in cui della pittura, e della scultura si favella, de piu illustri pittori, e scultori, e delle piu famose opere loro si fa mentione; e le cose principali appartenenti à dette arti s'insegnano.
Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584. 8vo. With Marescottis woodcut "et vult et potest" device on the title page (ship in an oval cartouche with motto, and a monogram at the foot) and a full-page allegorical woodcut on art and on fame in an oval cartouche, a woodcut tailpiece, and 6 woodcut decorated initials (4 series). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment (ca. 1890?). [48], 648 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Art & Art History Early Printing - 16th century Italy
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France elaborately mapped: a famous and rare atlas including key maps for travellers

BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis & Louis Charles DESNOS. Coup d'oeil général sur la France, pour servir d'introduction au tableau analytique et géographique de ce Royaume. Dressé par différens géographes, dont les ouvrages sont aussi connus qu'estimés, faisant partie de l'atlas historique de la France ancienne & moderne ...
Paris, Grangé, Guillyn, Desnos, et al., 1765. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. With a double-page frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, 2 large folding engraved maps of France by Rizzi Zannoni, 40 double-page engraved maps and charts of France, 10 folding road maps, 2 "Cartes odographiques" with the distances between French cities, and 3 double-page engraved part-titles, all but the frontispiece and titles in a contemporary hand colouring.
Comprising: (2) DESNOS, Louis Charles. Tableau analytique de la France.
Paris, chez l'auteur, 1765.
(3) ZANNONINI, Rizzi. Le petite Neptune François ou carte des côtes maritimes du Royaume.
Paris, chez le Sr. Desnos, 1765.
(4) MICHEL. L'indicateur fidèle ou guide des voyageurs.
Paris, à l'enseigne du globe, 1765.
With: (5) [CATALOGUE]. Catalogue des Ouvrages, tant anciens que modernes, du Fonds du Sr. Desnos.
Paris, à l'enseigne du globe et de la sphere, 1765. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled marbled calf. 15, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank], 8, 10; 16 pp. + 56 plates Full description
€ 3,250
Atlases & Globes France
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Extremely rare and richly woodcut illustrated chapbook containing two popular knight's tales

[CHAPBOOK - FRENCH]. L'Histoire des nobles proüesses et vaillances de Gallien restauré, fils du noble Olivier le marquis, & de la belle Jacqueline, fille du roi Hugon, empereur de Constentinople. Avec les figures propres, mises de nouveau sous chacun chapitre.
Troyes, Jacques Oudot, 1709. 2 works in 1 volume, the 2nd in 2 parts. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work, 35 woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; 2 woodcut headpieces and a woodcut tailpiece in ads 2 and 3. With: (2) [CHAPBOOK]. Histoire de Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France, et Duc de Guienne.
Troyes, Jacques Oudot, [1705]
(3) [CHAPBOOK]. Livre second de Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France, et Duc de Guienne.
Idem. Later dark blue leather 138; 141, [1]; [136] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Education & Pedagogy French Literature
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The powers of the four elements

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Les quatre elemens.
Comprising:
(1) La terre.
(2) L'air.
(3) L'eau.
(4) Le feu.
[Paris], Imprimerie de Maulde et Renou, [ca. 1840]. 4 volumes. 32mo. With 8 full-page steel-engraved plates (2 in each volume). Original publisher's glazed pastel boards (light blue, yellow, pink, or light green), with the title and a steel-engraved illustration of one of the four elements in the centre of the front board, within an embossed ornamental border. Each 24 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Children's Books Education & Pedagogy Miniature Books
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'Very charming harlequinade'

[CHILDREN'S BOOK - FRENCH]. Petite histoire grotesque de Pierrot Goulu.
Paris, Marcilly, typographie de Firmin Didot frères et compagnie, [ca. 1835]. Oblong 32mo (ca. 5.6 x 7.3 cm). With a hand coloured engraved title, and 7 hand coloured full-page engraved plates. Contemporary publisher's pink boards, with the title on the front board, an illustration of Pierrot printed in the centre of the front board, surrounded by an ornamental embossed border, marbled edges. [4], 122, [2] pp. Full description
€ 950
Children's Books Miniature Books
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Rare early edition of a classic and profusely illustrated work on Roman military practice
and establishment of encampments, and Roman baths

CHOUL, Guillaume du. Discorso ... Sopra la castrametatione & bagni antiche i Greci & Romani. Nivamente revisto & ricorretto dallistesso Auttore. Con laggiunta della figura del campo Romano.
[Padua], Marc Antonio Olmo, 1558. 8vo. The word "Discorso" printed in woodcut border at the top of the title-page, with woodcut printers device: an elm with the words: "Ulmus amica viti" (the elm is friendly for vines). With 43 full-page woodcuts (ca. 11 x 7.5 cm), a large folding woodcut plate in two leaves (as issued, in total ca. 40.5 x 36 cm) of a plan of a Roman camp: "Figura del Campo de Romani", and 2 large historiated woodcut initials of 10 lines and 3 capital spaces with guide letters for initials of 5 lines. Modern vellum. 80, [4] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Fortification & Military Architecture History / 16th Century
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One of the most popular Hebrew grammars of the 16th century

CLENARDUS, Nicolaus. Tabula in grammaticen Hebraeam.
Paris, Christian Wechel, 1534. 8vo (15 x 9 cm). With a woodcut printers device on the title page and the verso of the final leaf, a decorated metalcut initial. 20th-century blind-tooled half light brown calf. 155, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Greek & Non-Western Types Language & Linguistics
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Important source on the Reformation, in a contemporary signed binding

CRESPIN, Jean. Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.
Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.
With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.
[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.
(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.
1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e). [18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Armorial Bindings Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)
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A personal address to the imperial government

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.
Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers. [4] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)
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Interesting account of an exploration journey to India and Southeast Asia

DELESSERT, Adolphe. Souvenirs dun voyage dans lInde execute de 1834 a 1839. Ouvrage enrichi de trente-cinq planches.
Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclercq (facing title-page: printed by Béthune et Plon), 1843. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. With engraved title-vignette signed by A. Vien, 8 lithographed plates in the first part by V. Dolet showing Ile Bourbon, Pondichéry, Malacca, Chase au tigre, Madras, a bivouac and Chûte de la Rivière de Gutpurba; 27 numbered full-page engraved plates in the natural history part by Forget, Annedouche, Sebin, Mme. Douliot, Bourgeois, Giraud, Davesne and Dumesnil after Jean Gabriel Prêtre, Delahaye, Mme Bury and Vaillant of mammals, birds, insects and butterflies, 24 of which are exquisitely coloured by hand by "Gérard". Also with one folded map (43 x 44 cm) of the world (except for the Americas) with Delessets journey marked, coloured in outline and printed by Kaeppelin, Paris. Half calf, decorated paper sides. [6], III, 134; [4], 107 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
India & Sri Lanka Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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Exquisitely embroidered devotional prints

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. [Collection of two devotional prints and a drawing].
[Antwerp, mid 17th century].
With: [DRAWING]. De liefde alleen maeckt twee maer een.
[18th century?]. 2 prints and 1 drawing. Prints: ca. 9 x 7 cm; drawing: ca. 12.5 x 9.5 cm. With 2 full-page engravings on vellum, silk embroidered, hand coloured, and heightened with gold, and 1 ink drawing on vellum, partly made with golden ink. The three works are housed in a clear plastic folder. Full description
€ 1,250
Antwerp Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Prints & Print Series Religion (17th Century) Women History
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The only known copies of three anti-Jansenist broadsides

[DU BOIS, Nicolas (attributed)]. Jansenismus omnem destruens religionem.
Cologne, Johann Wilhelm Friessem junior, 1693. 3 broadsides. Ad 1: ca. 96.5 x 76 cm; ad 2 and 3: ca. 138 x 77 cm. Each broadside is printed on 2 sheets, divided in 8 (ad 1) or 12 (ads 2 and 3) columns, and includes 2 decorated woodcut initials, and an ornamental border between the columns. With: (2) IDEM. Jansenismus plurimas haereses et errores damnatos pertinaciter defendens.
Idem.
(3) IDEM. Jansenismus in multis exotice rigidus.
Idem. Framed in a modern wooden frame. Full description
€ 5,850
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions History / 17th Century Religion (17th Century)
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A substantial collection of treaties drawn up between 1576 and 1701,
highlighting an important period in Dutch diplomatic history

[DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt en gesloten tusschen de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten Genereael der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen en Potentaten ter andere zyde.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [not before 1701]. 73 pamphlets in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page with the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General. 70 of the 73 treaties have a separate title page, the other 3 were published without thus the work is complete. 67 of these 70 treaties with a title page contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General, 2 of the earlier treaties bear Van Wouw's woodcut printer's device on their title pages, 1 title page shows a simple woodcut floral vignette, 1 title page does not contain any (woodcut) decoration, and 1 treaty without a title page does contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General at the start of the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout the treaties. The text is set in both roman and gothic type. Later vellum. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Netherlands
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First and only edition of a detailed and accurate atlas of Friesland

EEKHOFF, Wopke. Nieuwe atlas van de provincie Friesland, bevattende kaarten van de dertig grietenijen of gemeenten, met de daarin gelegene elf steden en haar grondgebied, alsmede van de eilanden Ameland en Schiermonnikoog.
Leeuwarden, W. Eekhoff, 1849-1859. Large folio (68 x 41 cm). With 32 large double-page maps, of which 2 folding, engraved by D. & H. Veelwaard after J.W. Witteveen. Further with the engraved coat of arms of the Province of Friesland on the title page. Contemporary half brown morocco and pebble-grained brown cloth sides. [4] pp. + 32 maps. Full description
€ 2,500
Atlases & Globes Friesland & Groningen
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One of the most influential works ever written, with commentary by the "Euclid of the 16th century"

EUCLID and Christopher CLAVIUS (editor). Elementorum Libri XV.
"Cologne" [= Venice], Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1591. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. The title page of each part is set within an elaborate woodcut border, with woodcut decorated initials (at least 3 series), headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, numerous woodcut mathematical figures in the text, large woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank verso of the last leaf of both parts. Including: Posteriores libri IX.
Later blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [15], [1 blank], 359, [1 blank]; 355, [1 blank], [40] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Mathematics School & Textbooks
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Causes and cures for flatulence

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)
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Ship building for the French navy on the eve of the Revolution

FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.
Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description
€ 950
Education & Pedagogy School & Textbooks Ships & Shipbuilding Technology
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Frisian flora and plants of northwestern Europe: a detailed description

GABBEMA, Simon Abbes. Friesche lust-gaarde ofte Boom-heester-bloem- en kruyd-waarande, bestaande uyt der gewassen beschrijvinge, die in Hoog- en Neder-duyds-land en de aangrenzende land-schappen bekent zijn.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1687. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, ascribed to Jan Luyken, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and some woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 40, 660, [60] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Floras & General Botany Friesland & Groningen
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All the world is a chessboard: the first mention of chess in a printed work

GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf. [79] ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Early Printing - 15th century Education & Pedagogy Games & Sports Religion (15th Century)
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The well-known "Enkhuizer Almanac" for the year 1819, with an article on vaccination

GELDER, Jacob van. De van ouds vermaarde Erve Stichters Enkhuiser (...), voor den jare 1819. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkt., kermiss[en], paard[en], beest[en] en leermarkt[en]. in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende; het op en ondergaan de maan, benevens de watergetijden, enz. Berekend op den middag-cirkel van Amsterdam door Jacob de Gelder.
Amsterdam, H. van Leeuwen, [1818]. 16mo (ca. 9 x 7 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, the title and calendar printed in red and black, 12 half-page woodcut illustrations (1 for each month), and 11 full-page woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's printed wrappers, with the title on the front and back. [252] pp. Full description
€ 500
Almanacs Holland
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The only atlas published by Abraham Goos: the 17 provinces of the Habsburg Low Countries

GOOS, Abraham. Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden, soo in t geheel, als elck besonder met grote neersticheyt ende kosten gesneden ende in t licht gebracht. Mitsgaders een nieuwe beschryvinge uijt verscheyden autheuren ordentlyck tsamen gestelt door Reinier Telle ... .
Amsterdam, Abraham Goos in de Kalverstraet, [1616]. Oblong 4to (ca. 16 x 21 cm). With an engraved title page (signed by P.S[erwouter] scul. (bottom right) after D.V[inck] B[oons] (bottom left)), 23 full page maps, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century quarter calf. [7], "305" [=294], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Belgium Charts & Maps History / 17th Century Netherlands
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One of the earliest recorded copies of the Deventer almanac

GRAPHEUS, Rodolphus. Schrijf almanack, offte calender na[er] de[n] olden stijl, op dat nije schalt iaer [...] MDXCVI.
(Colophon:) Deventer, Simon Steenbergen, [1595]. 16mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month), and 2 woodcut illustrations in the text, the work is printed in red and black. Later vellum wrappers, with the manuscript year of publication on the back. [32] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Almanacs Early Printing - 16th century Gelderland & Overijssel
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Rare work on the University of Groningen, printed on the occasion of its 40th birthday

[GRONINGEN]. Effigies & vitae professorum academiae Groningae & Omlandiae; cum historiolâ fundationis ejusdem acad.
Groningen, Johannes Nicolai (colophon: Hindrick Lussinck), 1654. Small folio (ca. 29 x 19 cm). With an engraved title page, and 31 full-page engraved portraits. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 225, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Bibliography & Biography Friesland & Groningen Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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First edition of Guicciardini's celebrated description of the Low Countries

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, and 17 double-page plates, maps and views (15 woodcuts, 2 engravings).Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later vellum. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,000
Atlases & Globes Belgium Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands
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One of the most important works on the Low Countries in the 16th century

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of the Low Countries (Belgia), an engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, an engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with the coat of arms of Philip II in the centre pasted in, an engraved plate with an allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and an architectural border with the portrait of Philip II in the centre, a large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with an oval centrepiece on both boards within a decorative frame, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [24], 432, [18] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Belgium Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Netherlands Plantin Press
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French translation of a famous account of the siege of Ostend (1601-1604)

HAESTENS, Henrick Lodewijksz van. La nouvelle Troye ou memorable histoire du siege d'Ostende le plus signalé qu'on ait veu en L'Europe. En laquelle sont descripts & naïfvement representés en diverses figures, les assauts, deffenses, inventions de guerre, mines, contremines, retranchemens, combats par terre & par mer & autres choses remarcables, advenues de part & d'autre, avec ce qui s'est passé par chascun jour durant le-dit siege depuis le 5 Juing 1601 jusqu'au 20 Septemb. 1604 qu'elle fut renduë. Recoeuillie des plus asseurés memoires.
Leiden, Louis Elzevier, 1615. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Maurits van Nassau, an engraved vignette on title-page, engraved coat of arms of Maurits van Nassau on the back of title-page and 12 (of 14) folding engraved plates. Gold-tooled red morocco (ca. 1885), richly gold-tooled spine, gilt edges (Riviere & son). [10], 293[= 295], [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Battle Plans & Siegecraft Belgium History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) Naval History Spain
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An Antwerp union of the Iliad and Odyssey

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528.
With:
(2) IDEM. Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked. 183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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The collected poems, plays, and songs, bound with the biography of king Henry IV

HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon and Jacob vander BURGH (ed.). Gedichten.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1636.
With: (2) HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon. Henrik de Gróte. Zijn leven en bedrijf. Naerder overzien, ende vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1638. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work, an engraved portrait of Pieter Dirkszoon Hasselaer in the text, and 30 engraved emblems by Christoffel le Blon in ad 1, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik de Grote in ad 2, and several decorated woodcut initials, head-, and tailpieces in both works. Contemporary vellum. [2 blank], [6], "464" [= 460]; [8], 203, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
Bibliography & Biography Dutch Literature Emblems France Music, Theatre & Dance Songbooks
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"The first scientific study of the teeth and basic to all modern dentistry"

HUNTER, John. Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur ... Anglice consscripta; a Johanne Huntero ... In linguam Latinam et Batavam versa a Petro Boddaert / Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd worden. Uit het Engelsch in het Latyn en Nederduitsch vertaald; door Pieter Boddaert.
Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1773. 4to. With 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption ("Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson"). Contemporary tree-marbled boards. XXII, 213, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Dentistry Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century)
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First edition of an important collection of documents and letters
paving the way to the "Twelve Year's Truce"

JEANNIN, Pierre. Les negotiations de monsieur le President Jeannin.
Paris, Pierre Petit, 1656. Folio. With an engraved vignette on the title page, a full-page portrait of Jeannin R. Nanteuil, several decorated woodcut initials, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [12], 757, [11] pp. Full description
€ 750
France History / 17th Century Law & Politics Netherlands Spain
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Jesuit emblems from the Southern Netherlands

[JESUITS - EMBLEMS]. Imago primi saeculi Societas Iesu a provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraesentata.
Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1640. Folio. With an engraved title page and 126 engraved emblems, including the Leo Belgicus map. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, remnants of clasps, 4 small brass corner pieces. (8), 952, (22) pp. Full description
€ 3,000
Belgium Emblems Jesuits Religion (17th Century)
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The first book entirely devoted to carpentry, in a signed binding by E. Vogel

JOUSSE, Mathurin. Le theatre de l'art de c[h]arpentier enrichi de diverses figures avec linterpretation dicelles faict & dresse par Mathurin Jousse.
La Fleche, Georges Griveau, 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a richly engraved title page, 125 woodcut illustrations (7 double page, 118 full-page), and 5 large half-page woodcuts in the main work; 2 general perspectival model designs on 2 full-page plates, and 5 half-page woodcuts in the treatise.
Including: [IDEM]. Brief traicte des cinq ordres des colomnes. 19th-century gold-tooled green half morocco, with the author, title, year of publication, and bookbinder (Vogel) lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers. [4], "176" [= 172]; 14 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Architecture Bindings
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Early Antwerp edition of Roman poetry

JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.
Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges. 64 ll. Full description
€ 4,750
Caricature & Satire Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Literature
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Swiss fashion in the early nineteenth century

KÖNIG, Franz Niklaus & Gabriel LORY & OTHERS. Nouvelle collection de costumes Suisses de XXII cantons. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen.
Zürich, bey Orell, Füssli und Comp., [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, separated by tissue paper guards, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary gold-tooled red paper 223, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Costumes & Uniforms Switzerland
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French edition of "The modern cook" - one of the great culinary classics of the 18th century -
by the chief cook of the Dutch Stadtholder William IV

LA CHAPELLE, Vincent. Le cuisinier moderne, qui apprend à donner toutes sortes de repas, en gras & en maigre, dune manière plus délicate que ce qui en a été écrit jusquà present; divisé en cinq volumes (...)
The Hague, for the author ["Aux dépens de lauteur"], 1742. 5 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With the title page of each part printed in red and black, 13 large folding engraved plates, of which 1 has been printed on 4 attached leaves and is exceptionally large (ca. 28 x 150 cm), 5 folding printed text-leaves, and a woodcut armorial headpiece.
Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 (vols. 1 and 2) or 4 (vol. 3) supports laced through the joints, red edges. [12], 261, [1 blank], [15]; [4], 258, [14]; [4], 288, [16]; [4], 313, [1 blank], [20]; [10], 346, [13] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Gastronomy
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The springs of Cleves as pictured by Jan de Beijer and sung by the Dutch poet Pieter Langendijk

LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidbron, en omleggende landsdouwen, in kunstprenten verbeeld.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. 4to. With a title-vignette with the Iron man and the amphitheatre in Cleve, and 10 engraved plates (5 folding, 5 double-page plates) by Hendrikus Spilman after Jan de Beijer. Contemporary half calf. [1], [1 blank], 63, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
City Plans, Topography & Views Germany
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Very rare issue with the 7 corrected leaves of Lavoisier's first major separately published work

LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Opuscules physiques et chymiques.
Paris, Laurent François Prault for Durand neveu (Pierre Etienne Germain), François Ambroise Didot le jeune, & Jacques Esprit, 1774. 2 parts in 1 volume [= all published]. 8vo. With several fine woodcut borders, head- and tailpieces, some tables in the text, and 23 figures on three folding plates by and after Pierre-Claude de la Gardette (1745-1792). Contemporary marbled calf. [1], [1 blank], II, XXX, [1], [1 blank], "436" [= 448] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
France Physics & Chemistry
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Convolute with the first plans to drain the Haarlemmermeer, the largest lake of Holland

LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriaensz. Haarlemmermeer-boek. Of beschryving, hoe men de Haarlemmer en Leytse-Meer bedyken en droog maken zal ... Mitsgaders: van meest alle de meeren die in Noort-Holant tegen den Huigen-dyk en Saardam bedykt, en tot land gemaakt zyn, zedert het jaar 1608 tot het jaar 1641.
Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved map of the Haarlemmermeer on the title page of ad 1, and a woodcut vignette on the title pages of the other works, a full-page portrait of the author engraved by Jan Lamsvelt after J. de Keyser, 3 folding engraved maps, 3 half-page engraved plates, 2 half-page woodcut diagrams, several decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. With: (2) LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriansz., Een kleyn chronykje ende voorbereidinge van de afkomste ende t vergoten van de dorpen van Graft en de Ryp ...
Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724.
(3) COLEVELDT, Claes Arentsen. Bedenckingen over het droogh maken van de Haerlemmer ende Leydse Meer ... tegen tHaarlemmer Meer-boek van Jan Adriaansen Leeghwater.
Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1727.
(4) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer.
Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727.
(5) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat, van de Haerlemmer Meer. Waar in wert aangetoont hoe noodszaakelyk die moet werden droog-gemaakt, en op wat wyze dit kan geschieden ... Tweeden druk, ... verbetert en verrykt.
Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727. Original quarter red roan, marbled paper sides. 48, 47, [1], [4], 27, [1 blank], 40, 40 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Holland Technology Water Management
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Essential for the history of the Dutch War of Independence

LE PETIT, Jean François. La grande chronique ancienne et moderne, de Hollande, Zelande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'An 1600. Receüillee tant des histoires desdites provinces, que de divers autres auteurs.
Dordrecht, Jacob Canin for the author (colophon volume 2:) printed in Dordrecht by Guillaume Guillemot, 1601. 2 volumes, Folio. With the title set within a richly engraved allegorical border, repeated for the title in volume 2, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and 57 mostly full-page engraved portraits in the text, including one portrait in woodcut, and allegorical engraved plate of the States General of the Dutch United Provinces, by Christoph van Sichem. Further with several large woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the small gold-tooled crest of Thomas Hutton and the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges. [1], [1 blank], [38], "650" [= 656], [2], 240; [1], [1 blank], [14], "779" [= 788], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Armorial Bindings Bindings Friesland & Groningen Gelderland & Overijssel History / 17th Century Holland Netherlands Utrecht Zeeland
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Attractively bound copy of a rare Avignon imprint comprising the collected letters of a famous Humanist

LIPSIUS, Justus. Epistolarum selectarum centuriae VIII. E quibus tres pridem ad Belgas, Germanos, Gallos, Italos, Hispanos, Quarta, singularis ad Germanos & Gallos. Quinta, miscellanea. Tres posteriores ad Belgas. Eiusdem Lipsii epistolica institutio. Acc. in gratiam studiosae inventutis, Rerum aliquot insignium, & elegantissimarum Similtitudinum, quae in nonnullis Epistolis explicantur, Index locupletissimus.
Avignon, 1603. 8 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, of which the first is hand coloured, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces, also with the first hand coloured. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum in a panel design, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, both boards with a central ornament surrounded by three double fillet borders, and floral corner pieces in the central panel, the initials "FPNS" (for Franciscus Pförtner) and the year 1608 on the front board, traces of closing ties, gilt on blue gauffered edges in a rich design of lozenge panels with ornaments and flowers. [12], 446, [2 blank], 534, [13], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Bindings Classical Antiquity Philosophy & Humanism School & Textbooks
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Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610

LITHGOW, William. Nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world.
London, for John Wright & Thomas Passinger, 1682. 8vo. With a folding woodcut frontispiece and 6 folding woodcut plates and 1 woodcut in the text. 19th-century dark brown sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, brown spine label, Stormont on shell marbled endpapers. [8], 481, [7] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt Italy Malta North Africa Portugal Scotland Spain Tobacco Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire UK - United Kingdom
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First Dutch edition of one of the greatest herbals, with approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts

LOBEL [also L'OBEL or LOBELIUS], Matthias de. Kruydtboeck oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1581. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. Large folio. With an engraved title-page, the author's large "candore et spe" woodcut device on leaf *6r, approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts in the text, 8 woodcut decorated (sometimes interlaced) initials plus repeats (6 series) and 1 typographic interlaced initial. Set in fraktur types with extensive roman and textura and incidental italic and civilité. Later (17th-century?) blind tooled vellum. [10], 994, [2 blank], "312"[= 312, 294 + 2 blank], [2 blank], 15, [1 blank], [67], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Plantin Press
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The first comprehensive treatise on the Northern Lights

MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Including: [IDEM]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.
Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco. [1], [1 blank], [10], 570, XXII pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Astronomy & Cosmography Science
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A contemporary, official copy of the Minutes and Resolutions of the Dutch States General
of the second half of 1586, a pivotal time for the young Dutch Republic

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - STATES GENERAL]. Acten ende Resolutien van der Heeren Generale Staten der Vereenigde Nederlanden (11 July - 31 December 1586).
[The Hague, 1587]. Folio. Manuscript in Dutch, written in a neat cursive by several slightly different contemporary cleck hands, in black ink. (Slightly) later parchment, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine and remnants of green ties. [3 blank], 201, [2 blank] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands
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Unpublished manuscript on the history of 17th-century Sweden,
including the embassy leading to the treaty with the Russian Tsar of 22 May 1684

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN - SWEDISH POLICIES]. Relation. Von dem gegenwartigen Zustande des Konigreichs Schweden.
With: [MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. Journal de LAmbassade envoyée de la part de S. M.té le Roy de Suède vers le Grand Duc de Moscovie lan 1684, dressé par un des Gentils-hommes de la Suite.
1684-1688. Folio (ca. 30 x 20 cm). The German part is neatly written in a Kurrent script, and the French part in a cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the initials "M.F.K" in the centre of the front board, red and black sprinkled edges, green closing ties. 167 ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Russia (incl. Siberia) Scandinavia
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A notable narrative with detailed information on Northwest America, in splendid bindings

MARCHAND, Étienne and Charles Pierre Claret de FLEURIEU. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, [1798-1800]. 6 volumes: 5 text volumes and 1 atlas. Large 8vo (23 x 15 cm) and 4to atlas. With 3 folding tables with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. Contemporary light brown calf, spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco title labels, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt board edges, gilt inner dentelles with meander pattern, g.e. (COURTEVAL). [4], VIII, CCI, [3], 294, [2]; VII, [1], 529, [1]; [2], VIII, 474, [2]; VIII, 494, [2]; XII, 559, [5]; [2], VIII, 158, [2] pp. Full description
€ 27,500
Alaska Anthropology & Ethnography Bindings Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Hawaii Navigation North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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Early atlas of the Dutch East Indies, with 60 large and detailed maps

MELVILL VAN CARNBEE, Pieter and Willem Frederik VERSTEEG. Algemeene atlas van Nederlandsch Indië. Uit officieele bronnen en met goedkeuring van het gouvernement zamengesteld.
Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia), Van Haren Noman & Kolff, 1853-1862. Oblong folio (39.3 x 50.5 cm). With 60 lithographed maps, coloured in outline, and 3 lithographed index maps. Contemporary blind-tooled half black morocco. [68] ll. Full description
€ 1,850
Atlases & Globes Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia
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The birth of modern Flemish historiography

MEYERE, Jacobus de. Flandricarum rerum tomi X ... Cum Hymno de sanctissimo nomine Iesu. Chronica Flandriae.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1531. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Vorsterman's device at the end. 17th-century mottled calf, with a gold-tooled spine, and the title lettered in gold, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. 67, [5] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Belgium Early Printing - 16th century
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Peace with the Ottoman Empire

MONTESINOS, Manuel. Relacion de la entrada del Exercito Imperial en Italia, I puestos que su Magestad Cesarea ha ocupado en la Valtelina, I la ratificacion de las paces con el Rei de Dinamarca, y el Gran Turco.
Madrid, Bernardino de Guzman, 1629. Folio (ca. 29 x 20.5 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial. Early 20th-century browned light purple paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [4], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,000
Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Memoirs of a Minister of Finance of Louis XVI - his bitter and final apologia for his policy
during the last years of the Ancien Regime

NECKER, Jacques. Sur ladministration de M. Necker. Par lui-même.
Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Gabriel Dupour, 1791. 12mo. With a small tailpiece on the final page. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a large gold-tooled centerpiece on both boards (a crowned shield with a "W", flanked by a crowned lion and a wild man with a club), with red morocco author and title labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], "328" [= 340] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics
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Unrecorded issue

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans almanach na de nieuwe en oude-stijl. Op 't schrickel-jaer onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1680. Met de jaer, paerde, beeste en leer-marckten, s maens op en ondergang door D.R. van Nierop.
Including:
(2) Zaagmans tijt-wijser.
(3) Korte chronyck van alle de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen t' sedert de geboorte onses Heeren Iesu Christi, tot desen tegenwoordigen jare.
(4) MAGINO, Antonio. De Italiaensche waer-segger op het jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi 1680.
[Amsterdam], Gillis Joosten Zaagman, 1680. 4 parts in 1 volume. 24mo. With the title page and calendar printed in red and black, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 13 woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each months and 1 for the eclipses), and 4 half-page woodcuts in the text. Contemporary dark brown shagreen with blind ruling along the edges, gilt edges. [80] pp + 12 interleaved blanks and 6 thick cardboard leaves Full description
€ 3,250
Almanacs Amsterdam History / 17th Century Miniature Books
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Extremely rare and early almanac in a remarkable binding

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans comptoir almanach op 't Jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi M.DC.LXXXI. na de Nieuwe en Oude-stijl. Versien met de jaer-marckten, paerde, beeste- en leer-marckten: daer neven een prognosticatie, op alle nieuwe, volle en quartier-maenden. De dagelijkse uuren van des maens op en onder-gangh door Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, mathematicus. Mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Hollant in 's Graven-Hage, Utrecht, Vrieslandt, Groeningen, en de Stadt Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Zaagman, [1680]. 4to. With the title and calendar printed in red and black, a large woodcut view of the Amsterdam stock-exchange on the title page, 12 large woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each month, depicting the main activities practised during this month), a small woodcut of an eclipse and a larger woodcut of a Zodiac man. Contemporary silver-tooled vellum, with on the front a central panel with a maid carrying a lance next to a book (the Bible?) on a column, and on the back a central panel with three drummers, both surrounded by an elaborate large frame block with the coat-of-arms of Holland in the "garden" of the Dutch Republic flanked by the other provincial arms at the top (the arms of the major Dutch cities at the left and right and a view of Amsterdam from the IJ at the bottom). [16] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Almanacs Amsterdam Armorial Bindings Bindings Holland
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A travel guide to Ancient Greece

PAUSANIAS. Pausaniou tes hellados periegesis [= in Greek]. Hoc est, pausaniae accurata Graeciae descriptio, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur ...
Frankfurt am Main, Heirs of Andreas Wechel [Claude de Marne, Johann Aubry], 1583. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the divisional title page of each part and the final leaf, 30 decorated woodcut initials, 7 woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. With: PAUSANIAS and Romolo AMASEO (translator). Pausaniae de veteris graeciae regionibus commentarii luculentissimi.
Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Andreas Wechel [Claude de Marne, Johann Aubry], 1583.
17th-century overlapping vellum over recycled blind tooled calf panels (from an older binding, unclear if original binding of present work or just general recycling), sewn on 5 vellum tapes previously laced through the joints, the manuscript author on the spine, remnants of closing ties. [12], 357, [1 blank] pp., 359-374 cols., 375-377 pp., 378-507 cols., [1 (=p. 508)], [1 blank], [76]; [12], 302, pp., 303-352 cols., [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Archaeology Balkan & Greece Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Geography Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics Travel & Voyages Europe
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Extensive work on the statues in Rome, with a hundred large plates

PERRIER, François. Kunstkabinet, besluitende hondert der allerberoemste antique stantbeelden staende binnen Rome. Op eene uitvoerige wyze, naer de origineele afgeteekend, denende tot een vervolgh op de beschryving van het oude en nieuwe Rome van den heer François Desseine, en, om hunne uitmuntentheit, in het koper gebraght door de twee Cornelissen van Daelen. Een werk zeer nuttigh voor alle beeldhouwers, schilders, graveerders en teekenaers. Hier by komt eene uitvoerige beschryving van yder stantbeeld, aentoonende de plaetsen alwaer de zelve vertoond werden, de naemen der werkmeesters en de historie der zelve. Alles uit de oudheit der schryvers opgedolven.
The Hague, Bernardus van der Cloesen, 1737. Large folio. With a large engraved printer's device on the title page, the title printed in red and black, a richly engraved allegorical title page heading the print-series, and 100 full-page plates of Roman classical statues, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, both the Elder and the Younger, after designs by François Perrier. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 54, [2] pp. + 100 plates. Full description
€ 7,500
Art & Art History Classical Antiquity Drawings & Watercolours Italy Prints & Print Series
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Between surgery and the supernatural

PIGRAY, Pierre. Epitome praeceptorum medicinae chirurgiae cum ampla singulis morbis conuenientum remediorum expositione ...
Paris, by the widow of Marc Orry, 1612. 8to. With an engraved title, an engraved portrait of the author, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, 11, [1], 771, [33] pp. Full description
€ 950
Astrology & Occult Education & Pedagogy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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Exceptionally rare Dutch edition of a medical manual by a French royal surgeon

PIGRAY, Pierre and Pieter Rutgersz. VAN NIEUSTADT (translator). Kort begryp van de genees ende heel-konst.
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob Theunisz Lootsman, 1661. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [12], 450, [10] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Education & Pedagogy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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A cornerstone of Low Countries ecclesiastical history

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. 8vo (14.4 x 6.6 cm). With a woodcut coat of arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck within a 4-piece woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut illustrations, each enclosed in the same four-piece woodcut border (distinct from that on the title page), a large woodcut incorporating Vorstermans printers device on the last page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century half calf. [116] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
Belgium Bibliography & Biography Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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Famous and controversial work on the Council of Trent,
in an armorial binding with the arms of king Charles I of England

POLANO, Pietro Soave (pseud. of Paolo SARPI) and Nathaniel BRENT (translator). The historie of the Councel of Trent. Containing eight Bookes. In which (besides the ordinarie Actes of the Councell) are declared many notable Occurrences, which happened in Christendomme, during the space of fourtie yeeres and more. And, particularly, the practises of the Court of Rome, to hinder the reformation of their errors, and to maintaine their greatnesse ...
London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1629. Folio. With the woodcut arms of king Charles I of England on the title page, 117 decorated woodcut initials, 17 woodcut headpieces, and 6 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the crowned arms of King Charles I of England in the centre of both boards with the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" and the monogram "A W", surrounded by two single fillet borders with cornerpieces, gold-tooled board edges, remnants of closing ties. [2 blank], [10], "881" [= 879], [16], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Armorial Bindings Bindings Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Religion (16th Century) UK - United Kingdom
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Sacred verse and Humanist minds: Prudentius’ collected works

PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, Aurelius; Johannes SICHARD and Elio Antonio de NEBRIJA (editors). Opera multo quam antea castigatiora, praeterea et Aelij Antonij Nebrissensis commentarijs haud poenitendis illustrata, quibus insuper adglutinata sunt scholia Joannis Sichardi, quae omnia nunc primum in philomusorum gratiam excusa sunt ...
Antwerp, Merten de Keyser, 1536 (preface dated march 1537). 8vo (14.9 x 9.5 cm). With some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Later overlapping vellum. [16], 563 [=576] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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Second copy located of the 1550 Antwerp edition of the Dutch adaptation of the famous Sachsenspiegel

[REPGOW, Eike von]. Den spiegel van sassen van alle keyserlijcke rechten.
Antwerp, Marie Ancxt [= widow of Jacob van Liesveld, 31 October 1550. 4to (19 x 13.2 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut of the emperor (10.8 x 7.2 cm) holding a sword with coat of arms in the lower left hand corner, between two ornamental borders. 18th-century mottled calf. XLIIII ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Early Printing - 16th century Germany History / 16th Century Law & Politics
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A very important source for the early history of Zeeland

[REYGERSBERCH, Jan Janse]. Dye cronijcke van Zeelandt.
Antwerp, Widow of Heyndrick Peetersen, 1551. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut title with the coat of arms of the province of Zeeland, Charles V and Maximilian, a folding woodcut map of Zeeland, a small woodcut portrait of Charles V, a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the verso of the last leaf, and 6 mostly full-page woodcut coats of arms of Maximilian, the province of Zeeland, and of the cities Middelburg, Veere, Zierikzee and Cortgene in the text, further with numerous decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [194] ll. Full description
€ 4,000
Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands Zeeland
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Dutch country houses and castles in the 19th century, illustrated by more than 70 lithographs

ROBIDÉ VAN DER AA, Christianus Petrus Eliza . Oud-Nederland in de uit vroegere dagen, overgeblevene burgen en kasteelen geschetst en afgebeeld.
Nijmegen, C.A. Vieweg, 1841-1846. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 72 full-page lithographed views of the old Dutch castles and mansions, mostly after designs by J.F. Christ. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled purplish-blue half calf. Each plate is accompanied by 8 to 20 pages of description and historical notes. Full description
€ 1,250
Castles, Gardens & Mansions Horticulture Netherlands
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A landmark in the development of child care

ROSEN VON ROSENSTEIN, Nils. Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras bote-medel: tilförene styckewis utgifne uti de små allmanachorna, nu samlade, tilökte och förbättrade.
Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1764. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut gothic initials and cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Contemporary half calf. [2], 363, [11] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century)
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Rare biographical work on noteworthy mathematicians and other scientists from the Piceno region in Italy

SANTINI, Giuseppe. Picenorum mathematicorum elogia.
Macerata, Bartolomeo Capitani, 1779. 4to. With a woodcut ornament on the title page, 1 illustration in the text, 23 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red mottled edges. XVI, 112 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Bibliography & Biography Italy Mathematics
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How to enter the land of the fairies

[SENETERRE, Henri-Charles de]. Nouveaux contes de fées.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. XVI, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,650
Children's Books
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One of the earliest editions of a famous songbook

[SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyser en Alkmaerder liede-boeck, versiert met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.
Amsterdam, Pieter van Ryschooten, 1702. 32mo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, a full-page woodcut illustration on the verso of the title page, and musical annotation. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a clasp. 310, [10] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Holland Miniature Books Songbooks
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Unrecorded issue of the famous Dutch songbook

[SONGBOOK]. 't Nieuw groot Hoorns lied-boekje, bestaande in veel stigtige en vermakelyke bruylofts liedekens.
Hoorn, Reinier Beukelman, [between 1713 and 1735]. 24mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, and several leaves with musical annotation. Later marbled paper pasted over brown cloth. "210" [= 310], [10] pp. Full description
€ 750
Holland Miniature Books Songbooks
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Beautifully bound copy of the largest edition of a famous Dutch songbook

[SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyzer, Alkmaarder en Purmerender liede-boek. Vercierd met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.
Amsterdam, Joannes Kannewet, [3rd quarter of the 18th century].
With: [SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyzer, Alkmaarder, Edammer en Purmerender liede-boek, zijnde een vervolg op 't voorgaande, verciert met verscheyde nieuwe en aangenaame bruylofts-liedekens en snaakze gezangen.
Amsterdam, Joannes Kannewet, [3rd quarter of the 18th century]. 2 works in 1 volume. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of both parts, a full-page woodcut illustration in ad 1, and a decorated woodcut initial in each part. Slightly later gold-tooled red morocco. 312, [8]; 312, [8] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Music, Theatre & Dance Songbooks
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Famous Italian verse translation of the Oedipus, set to music by Rossini

[BODONI]. SOPHOCLES and Giambatista GIUSTI (editor). Edipo Coloneo ... recata in versi Italiani dal Cavaliere Giambatista Giusti.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With: GIUSTI, Giambatista. All'Amica. Odi ... Terza edizione riveduta e corretta dall'autore.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. Contemporary orange boards. [4], LI, [1 blank], 170, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 87, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
Greek & Roman Classics Italian Literature Music, Theatre & Dance
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One of the most important Dutch songbooks of the 17th century

STARTER, Jan Jansz. Friesche lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den vierden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert, met verscheyden dichten ende liedekens, soo geestige als boertige. Mitsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende vercierd met schoone kopere figueren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.
Amsterdam, for Hessel Gerritsz., 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, a full-page engraved plate, 10 almost full-page engravings in the text by Jan van de Velde, and musical scores in the text. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine in a later hand, red sprinkled edges. [14], 207, [1 blank], 39, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 11,500
Dutch Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Songbooks
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Richly illustrated account of the Dutch War of Independence

STRADA, Famiano. De bello Belgico decades duae ab excessu Caroli V. Imp. usque ad initium praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae placentiaeque Ducis III. Ad annum 1678 [recté 1578]. continuatae ....
Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Beyer, 1651. 4to. With an engraved Leo Belgicus map as a frontispiece, 26 engraved portraits (one of the author), and 30 folding engraved battle scenes. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 778, [104] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Military History (17th Century) Netherlands
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The most complete and corrected edition of the work of a popular and celebrated Italian Renaissance poet

TEBALDEO, Antonio. L'opere d'amore, con le sue stanze nuovamente aggiunte, reviste, e con ogni diligenz a corette & ristampate.
Venice, Nicolo dAristotile di Ferrara detto Zoppino (& per Marco Guazzo ... corretto), 1533/1534. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, set within an allegorical woodcut border and publishers device (50 x 47 mm) showing a mitred St. Nicholas sitting on a episcopal chair; at the left a kneeling young woman receiving a book with three golden balls on top. Printed in neat italic. 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [136] ll. Full description
€ 750
Early Printing - 16th century Italian Literature
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Reintroducing Roman law to the Renaissance

THEOPHILUS ANTECESSOR and Jacobus CURTIUS (translator). Institutionum juris civilis libri quatuor ... è Graeco in Latinum per D. Iac. Curtium Brugensem Iurisconsultum conversi, ac iterum excusi.
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1539. 8vo (15.4 x 10.4 cm). With a large woodcut folding table at the end, a woodcut device of Steelsius on the recto of the otherwise blank last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 221, [3] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics
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Miniature edition of an important classical work on human behaviour

THEOPHRASTUS. Characteres ethici, sive Morum descriptiones. Graecè et Latinè. Cum notis & monitis Ioannis à Werdenhagen.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1653. 24mo. With a vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments, the work is partly printed in Greek type. Contemporary vellum. 359, [1] pp. Full description
€ 450
Classical Antiquity Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics Miniature Books Philosophy & Humanism
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A popular 16th-century compendium of natural philosophy

VALERIUS, Cornelius Physicae, seu de naturae philosophia institutio.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. 8vo (16.1 x 10 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title, and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 103, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Philosophy & Humanism School & Textbooks
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Memorable deeds and sayings of Imperial Rome

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium exempla. adjecto indice propriorum nominum rerumq[ue] memoria dignarum locupletissimo
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535. 8vo (14.6 x 9.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end. Old half vellum. 237, [11] ll. Full description
€ 950
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Philosophy & Humanism
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Beautifully illustrated travel account, including a full history of the recent war
between the Dutch East India Company and Makassar

VERMEULEN, Gerrit Gedenkwaardige voyagie van Gerret Vermeulen naar Oost-Indien, in't jaar 1668, aangevangen, en in't jaar 1674. voltrokken...
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1676. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 6 almost half-page engravings in the text, and a decorated woodcut initial. Modern blind-tooled sprinkled half calf. [4], 91, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia VOC
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Perspective of the rainbow

VOLCKAMER VON KIRCHENSITTENBACH, Christoph Gottlieb and Johann Christoph STURM (praeses). [Greek] Thaumantiados thaumasia. Sive iridis admiranda. Sub rationis accuratius examen revocata, eruditorumque ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita, Sub Praesisio Joh. Chr. Strumii.
Nuremberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1699. Small 4to (ca. 21 x 16.5 cm). With 4 folding engraved plates by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz after designs by the author. Modern limp sheepskin parchment. [2], 185, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Optics & Perspective
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An English perspective on the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland

WALSH, Edward. A narrative of the expedition to Holland in the autumn of the year 1799.
London, for G.G. and J. Robinson (colophon: printed by S. Hamilton, Fleet Street), 1800. Large 4to. With a double-page engraved map of North Holland and 7 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [2], ii, 164 pp. Full description
€ 2,750
Holland Military History (18th Century) Netherlands
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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
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Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets France History / 17th Century History / 18th Century Military History (17th Century) Military History (18th Century) Spain
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Rare first edition of a philological aid to the Bible

WESTHEIMER, Bartholomaeus. Phrases seu modi loquendi Divini Scripturae, ex sanctis & orthodoxis scriptoribus ... (&c.).
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. Small 8vo. With 15 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf. 340, [8] ll. Full description
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Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Language & Linguistics Religion (16th Century)
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Giustiniana Wynne and the open house of Enlightenment

WYNNE, Giustiniana. Alticchiero.
Padua, 1787. 4to. With a folding engraved plan of the Alticchiero grounds, 29 numbered engraved plates (2 folding, 27 full-page), and an engraved title with vignette by Giovanni de Pian. Contemporary red paste paper boards. [8], 80 pp. + 29 plates. Full description
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Architecture Art & Art History Castles, Gardens & Mansions History / 18th Century Italy
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Europe described, the future foretold, and Ethiopia revealed; the rare first edition

ZELL, Anselm and Christoph ZELL. Europae descriptio lucidissima D. Caroli V Romanorum Imperatori dedicata. Prognosticon Antonii Torquati ... ab anno M.CCCC.LXXX usque ad annum M.D. XXXVIII Matthiae Ungariae regi dicatum. De fide et moribus Aethiopum, libellus Christianis lectu planè dignus.
Antwerp, (Colophon: Joannes Grapheus) for Joannes Steelsius, Aug. 1535. Small 8vo (ca. 9.1 x 14.1 cm). With 3 woodcut decorated initials, and Steelsius printer's device on the verso of the last flyleaf. Modern gold-tooled vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with a single fillet border on both boards. [24] ll. Full description
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