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The first Spanish textbook for the Chinese language

AGUILAR, José de. El intérprete chino. Colección de frases sencillas y analizadas para aprender el idioma oficial de China.
Madrid, Manuel Anoz, 1861. 8vo. The text is printed in two columns. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter purple sheepskin. [2], IV, 242, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description
€ 2,850
China Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Economic History & Trade Language & Linguistics Spain
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Only know copy of this miniature Almanac for 1763, in a fine gold-tooled red morocco binding

[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. Le joli Pont-Neuf, ou recueil de chansons; vaudevilles, &c. Almanach nouveau.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris?], sold in Paris, Duchesne, [1763]. 24mo (9.5 x 5.6 cm). Each page printed in simple woodcut border, with several small head and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled French red morocco, fine green, gold, and white brocade paper endpapers with a foral pattern. [40] ll. Full description
€ 1,700
Almanacs France French Literature Miniature Books
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Rules and regulations for life in an Amsterdam orphanage or elderly home in the 17th- and 18th centuries

[AMSTERDAM - WALLOON COMMUNITY]. Ordres et reglemens de la Maison des Orphelins, des vieillards, & des vielles femmes de l'église Walonne d'Amsterdam. Avec des prières à l'usage de cette maison. Nouvelle edition.
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772. Large 4to (21.5 x 27 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page and a divisional title page for the Prieres, a l'usage de la maison des orphelins walons (on leaf I3r). Further with 2 woodcut headpieces. Near contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. VIII, 91, [8], [1 blank], [6] pp. interleaved with blank pages. Full description
€ 3,500
Amsterdam Protestant Reformation Religion (18th Century)
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Capture of the Moorish Corsair Arraez de la Saetia, a pirate for over 30 years

[ARGOTE Y CORDOBA, Vicente]. Relacion extraordinaria, de el felize sucesso, que tuvieron las Galeras de España, mandadas por el muy Ilustríssimo señor D. Vicente Argote y Córdova, Quatralvo de ellas, el día 26 e Noviembre de el año passado de 1696 aviendo apresado dos embarcciones de Moros en el Golfo entre Cartagena, y Alicante.
Seville, Lucas Martinez de Hermosilla, 1697. 4to (19.5 x 14.5 cm). Disbound. [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,400
Broadsides & Pamphlets Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History North Africa Spain
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A worldy guide for Dutch ministers and other clergy men

BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Nieuwe kerkelyke geografische zak- en reisatlas der vereenigde Nederlanden. Als mede van de landen der generaliteit, ingericht, naar de kerkelyke verdeeling dezer landen, in synoden, benevens derzelver onderhoorige klassen. Zeer dienstig en gemakkelyk, niet alleen voor de Eerw. heeren proponenten, om te zien onder welke classen de vakante plaatzen leggen, maar ook voor anderen, die de provintien willen doorreizen, om de reisroute te neemen.
Amsterdam, De erven Dirk onder de Linden en zoon, 1794. Large, narrow 8vo. With a folding typographical title page and 13 folding double-page engraved maps by J. van Jagen, all coloured by a contemporary hand. The maps are mounted on stubs for ease of use (the maps fold out/open flat). Contemporary half tan mottled calf, red and black decorated paper sides, with remnants of a white paper label at the foot of the spine, and with two 20th-century library labels (of the "Verzameling Oudheidkamer Twente") on the back board. [14] folded leaves. Full description
€ 2,500
Atlases & Globes Netherlands Religion (18th Century)
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Foundational work for the study of Indian ferns

BEDDOME, Richard Henry The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency.
Madras (now Chennai), printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. Large 4to (31 x ca. 24.5 cm). With 272 lithographed line illustrations of Indian ferns, numbered I-CCLXXI plus XXVIIIA, all signed "Govindoo del. G. Winchester Lith. Madras". Contemporary half brown leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 88, VII, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Floras & General Botany India & Sri Lanka Lower Plants (incl. Mushrooms)
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The beautifully bound 17th-century States Bible of Catharina Maria Daey,
presumably presented to her upon her marriage to Captain Peter Ebels

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonycke boeken des Oude en des Nieuwen Testaments ...
Amsterdam, Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1676.
With:
(2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Amsterdam, for Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1677.
(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. De CL Psalmen des propheten Davids ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15.3 x 9.3 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved general title page, the woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on the verso of the title page, a small woodcut decorated initial , and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, the woodcut coat of arms below the "acte van consent" on the verso of the title page, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, all psalms are accompanied by musical notation. Late 18th- or early 19th-century brown sheepskin with late 17th-century silver fittings, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. 338; [2], "109" [= 107], [1 blank]; [98] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Bindings Protestant Reformation
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Expertly engraved illustrations of (funeral) monuments of renowned men from Classical Antiquity until the 15th- and 16th centuries

BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius [and Tobias FENDT (engraver)]. Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis.
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll, 1671. Small folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved plates (including 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all showing grave-stones and tombs of famous men. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [2], 176 pp., [37] engraved ll., 8, [3], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Archaeology Classical Antiquity Italy Prints & Print Series
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A Dutch view on the military campaigns of Napoleon

BOYMANS, Johannes Andreas. Le garde d'honneur, ou episode du règne de Napoléon Buonaparte.
Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1822. 8vo. With 2 large folding maps after designs by G.F. Baron de Derfelden de Hinderstein, partly coloured by hand, a white on black phantasmagoric folding lithographed plate, and 4 folding lithographed views by Kierdorff after E. van Boeckhoven. Later gold-and blind tooled half green calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, green decorative paper sides, green decorative paper end papers. XXXIV, 69, XLI, XVIII, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,600
France Geography Law & Politics Military History (19th Century) Netherlands Travel & Voyages Europe
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Extremely rare copy of a 19th-century work on the cochineal

[CANARY ISLANDS - Santiago de la CRUZ Y GONZALEZ]. Cochenille-teelt op het eiland Groot Canarien, volgens een werkje, aldaar op den 1n. Januarij 1846, in het licht verschenen.
Paramaribo, J.C. Muller, 1846. 13.2 x 11.2 cm. Contemporary blue wrappers. 49 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Agriculture Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade Insects & Spiders North Africa South America Spain Surinam West Africa
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Rare and important speech given in Goa in October 1641 on the occasion of the restauration
of Portuguese independence and the end of the Iberian Union

CRUZ, Manuel da. Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus, Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India.
(Colophon:) Lisbon, Lourenço de Anveres for Andre Godinho, 1642. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut crowned Portuguese coat of arms on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], [20], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Portugal Religion (17th Century)
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First scientific study of the St. Pietersberg at Maastricht

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pieters Berg bij Maastricht. ... Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. 8vo. With an engraved title-page with a small illustration by D. Vrijdag, a folding engraved map and folding engraved plan of the St. Pietersberg, and numerous illustrations of minerals and fossils on 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, [4], 340, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,600
Earth Sciences Fossils / Palaeontology Mineralogy & Gems Netherlands
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Illustrated volume of an important work in Macaronic verse, bound by François Bozerian

[FOLENGO, Teofilo]. Opus Merlini Cocaii poetae mantuani macaronicorum.
Amsterdam [or possibly printed in Naples?], Abraham van Someren, 1692. 8vo. With a full-page engraved portrait of the author as a frontispiece, 26 engraved illustrations in the text (ca. 6 x 5 cm), a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut floral and ornamental tailpieces. Early 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with a floral frame on both boards, detailed floral designs in the compartments on the spine and the title, year of publication, and name of the binder lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [30], 419, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Bindings Italian Literature Italy
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The state of all missionary activity around the world ca. 1820

[GAUSSEN, Francois Samuel Robert Louis?]. Exposé de l'état actuel des missions évangéliques chez les peuples infidèles, cel qu'on le connoissoit au commencement de l'année 1820.
Genève, [back of the title page: printing office of Guillaume Fick], 1821. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a folding leaf (54 x 34.5 cm) containing a small coloured map of the world, engraved by Bovet, surrounded by letterpress tables of the principle mission stations around the world. Contemporary half brown sheepskin, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled edges. XII, LXXXII, IV, 408, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Australia Canada & Greenland Central Africa Ceylon China Church History & Missions East Africa India & Sri Lanka Japan & Far East Latin America Middle America New Zealand North America Pacific Islands South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Africa West Indies
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One of the final laws of the French administration on Haïti before the island's independence

[HAITI]. Taxe d'absence. Extrait des registres du conseil des notables de la Ville du Cap. Séance du 27 Vendémiaire, an douze (20 Octobre 1803) neuf heures du matin.
Au Cap, chez Pierre Roux, imprimeur du Gouvernement, [1803]. Folio (ca. 31 x 43 cm). The text is printed in 2 columns, which are separated by 9 woodcut ornaments. [1] l. Full description
€ 2,750
Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Middle America
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From the library of the Dutch explorer and diplomat Pieter Nuyts, discoverer of the southern coast of Australia in 1627

HOMERUS [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)]. Opera omnia, cum interpretat[ione]. lat[ina]. ad. verbum ... et breves notae marginales. Editio novissima.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1650. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title (within collation) and a few woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, red painted edges. [16], 895, [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Australia Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics
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A Dutch commander's description of Japan, with a large lithographed map

HUYSSEN VAN KATTENDYKE, Willem Johan Cornelis. Uittreksel uit het dagboek van W.J.C. Ridder Huyssen van Kattendyke, Kapitein-Luit. ter zee, gedurende zijn verblijf in Japan in 1857, 1858 en 1859.
The Hague, W.P. van Stockum (printed by Giunta d'Albani), 1860. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map (67 x 54.5 cm) depicting the west coast of Japan and Kiusiu. Original printed publisher's boards. [2 blank], [10], 236 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Japan & Far East Naval History Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia
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Rare work of the Basel Missionary Press in Mangalore

KITTEL, Ferdinand. Ueber den Ursprung des Lingakultus in Indien.
Mangalore, [printed by Stolz & Hirner, Basel Mission Press, Mangalore, for:] Basel mission book & tract depository, 1876. 8vo. With the title on the front wrapper in a printed decorative frame. Orange printed paper wrappers. [2], 48 pp. Full description
€ 650
Anthropology & Ethnography Church History & Missions India & Sri Lanka
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Mollusks of the Oligocene in northern Germany

KOENEN, Adolf von. Das Norddeutsche Unter-Oligocän und seine Mollusken-Fauna.
Berlin, Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstat, Im Vertrieb der Simon Schropp, 1889-1894. 7 parts (bound in 7). Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.5 cm). With 101 folding plates. Original printed brown paper wrappers, with the title on the spine (printed for volumes 1-6, manuscript for volume 7). 1458 pp. Full description
€ 950
Earth Sciences Fossils / Palaeontology Germany Shells & other Invertebrates
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Richly illustrated pioneering work of modern Christian biblical scholarship

LABORDE, Léon de. Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres.
Paris and Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841. Folio With 13 plates (3 folding and 8 full-page) showing a total of 19 maps, 8 of which are lithographs. Including:
(2) Discours du Roi. Royal Séance du 9 janvier 1843.
Large 8vo. 4 pp.
(3) [A richly illustrated advert for two other works by Laborde (Voyage en Orient and Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée)].
Large 4to. 4 pp.
Contemporary half maroon leather, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers LXI, [1], 146; 48 (supplement) pp. Full description
€ 950
Geography Religion (19th Century) West Asia
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De L'Isle's renowned maps of the Northern and Southern hemispheres,
contemporary hand-coloured in outline

L'ISLE, Guillaume de. L'Hemisphere Septentrional pour voir plus distinctement les Terres Arctiques.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, [ca. 1740 (after 1739)].
Together with: [IDEM]. L'Hemisphere Meridional pour voir plus distinctement les Terres Australes.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, [after 1739]. 49.5 x 122 cm. Two large hemispherical maps (45 cm in diameter) on two sheets, joined together to make one large oblong world map, with the Dutch and French text of a letter written by a Mr. Swart in St. Petersburg on a separate (partial) sheet joined to the (left) outer edge of the map of the Northern Hemisphere. The map of the Southern Hemisphere includes the short description in Dutch and French of the journey undertaken by the ships Adelaar and Maria to the "Southland" or "Terres Australes" in 1738 and 1739. This description includes the discovery of the Cape Circoncision and a small map of that Cape is included in the bottom right corner of the map of the Southern Hemisphere. The maps are contemporary hand-coloured in outline. Full description
€ 6,500
Arctic & Antarctic Australia Charts & Maps World Atlases & Maps
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Rare work on the activities of the missionaries in Tahiti

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Narrative of the mission at Otaheite, and other islands in the South Seas; commenced by the London Missionary Society in the year 1797; with a map, and a geographical description of the islands.
London, printed for the society, 1818. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of the islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, dated June 26, 1818. Modern half red morocco, blue paper sides, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered and decorated in gold. [3], [1 blank], 8, 86 pp. Full description
€ 2,650
Church History & Missions Pacific Islands Religion (19th Century) Travel & Voyages Pacific
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A 1723 defence of the Ostend Company against the Dutch trade monopolies of the VOC and WIC,
advocating free commerce under the Treaty of Münster (1648)

[MACNENY, Patrick]. Wederlegginge van de argumenten ...
Including:
(2) [PESTERS, Ernst]. Copie van de memorie door den Heere Pesters ...
(3) [VOC, Directors of the]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de bewindthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenighde Nederlanden.
(4) [BASSECOUR, Johan de la; Directors of the WIC]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de Bewindthebberen van de West-Indische Compagnie.
The Hague, Paulus & Isaac Scheltus, 1723. 4to (21 x ca. 16.5). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, the text is primarily set in gothic type, and a large woodcut tailpiece on p. 75. 20th-century dark green morocco, signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London at the bottom turn-in at the front of the work. With the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Belgium Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Southeast Asia VOC WIC
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First edition of Pieter Mortier's renowned picture bible, uniformly bound in three volumes

[MARTIN, David and Willem SEWEL (translator)]. Historie des ouden en nieuwen testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in kooper gesneeden.
Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for both parts (vols. 1 and 3), a large engraved vignette on each of the 3 typographical title pages, 3 engraved headpieces (1 in vol. 1 and 2 in vol. 3), 28 engraved tailpieces is vol. 3, 2 identical engraved initials (one in vol. 1, the other in vol. 3), a total of 210 full-page engraved plates containing 2 illustrations each (64 in vol. 1; 72 in vol. 2; 74 in vol. 3), and 5 double-page engraved maps in volume 3. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf,with a green and a blue label lettered in gold on each spine, sprinkled paper sides. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [14], 128; [1], [1 blank], 129-282 [= 154 pp.], [8]; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [22], 154, [1 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [1 blank], 155-163 [= 9 pp.], [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Religion (18th Century)
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One of the foundational texts for the 1824 Mexican Constitution

[MEXICO - José María BOCANEGRA]. Discurso del diputado Bocanegra. Pronunciado el 10 de enero de 1823, y reproducido por escrito el 6 de febrero del mismo año en sesiones publicas, sobre el proyecto de reglamento politico de gobierno para el imperio Mexicano, presentado a la junta nacional instituyente por su comision especial.
Mexico City, Imprenta del Suprema Gobierno, 1823. 4to. Stitched through 3 holes. 10, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America
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The defeat of the Ottoman corsair fleet, one of two known copies

[MURILLAS Y FEXADA, Juan Lopez de]. Relacion verdadera de las Gloriosas proezas, y Vitorias, que han hecho las invencibles Galeras de Malta en los mares de Levante, en este ano de mil y seiscientos y cincuenta y dos.
Madrid, Gregorio Rodriguez, [1652]. Folio (29 x 20.8 cm). With the Spanish Royal coat of arms on the recto of the first leaf [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Military History (17th Century) Naval History Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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From the Rothschild library: 102 extraordinary plates of the Mosque at Córdoba and the Alhambra complex

MURPHY, James Cavanah. The Arabian antiquities of Spain.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1815. Double elephant folio (500 x 675 mm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved part title and 103 plates (numbered 1 to 97, plates 8, 79 and 80 in 2 parts, plate 86 in 3 parts) including a folding plate (pl. 12), engraved by Porter, Turel, Roffe, Keux and others after Murphy. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. [4], 21, [1] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
Architecture Islamic Art, Culture & Science Spain
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Important Orangist pamphlet of the "Doelenlopersbeweging" against the Amsterdam Patriciate
and nepotism in September 1672

[ORANGIST MOVEMENT]. Dam-praetje tusschen vier Amsterdamsche Burgers: Waermondt, Geerlof, Stouthart en Heb-recht. Handelende van de oude privilegien, vryheden, en gerechtigheden van de burgery en schuttery.
[Amsterdam], voor de Doele-schutters, 1672. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, and a woodcut initial. Modern light yellow marbled wrappers, with a printed label on the front. 16 pp. Full description
€ 425
Amsterdam Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics
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The history of Christian missions in China before and during the Chinese Rites controversy

ORAZI, Carlo. Brevissima notizia, o relazione di varj viaggi, fatiche, patimenti, opere ec. nellImperio della Cina, ec.
Livorno [= Lugano], Eredi Santini [= Agnelli], 1759. Small 8vo (ca. 17 x 11 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial. Later grey wrappers. 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
China Church History & Missions Religion (18th Century)
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Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Jenolan Caves and Launceston in the late 19th century

PAINE, John & Steven SPURLING II. [Photograph album containing pictures of New South Wales and Tasmania].
[Australia, 1870s-1880s]. 16.5 x 37 cm. With 34 mounted albumen prints, mostly between 10 x 15 cm and 18 x 23.5 cm, with the smallest ca. 7 x 10 cm, most of them captioned underneath in ink. Oblong half morocco photo album, titled "Queensland" on the front. 18 ll. Full description
€ 1,850
Australia Photography
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Bergen op Zoom under attack in 1605

[PAMPHLET - DUTCH - BERGEN OP ZOOM]. Cort verhael ende rechte verclaringe vande entreprinse, die des Eertz hertogen Albertus volck ghedaen heeft op de stadt Bergen op den Zoom ende de wercken daer voren gelegen, op den XXIen Augusti 1605 onder t' beleyt ende conduitte van Mons d'Hericourt...
Bergen op Zoom, Jacob Canin, 1605. 4to. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initial and small endpiece. Modern blue half morocco with gilt title on spine. [8] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Battle Plans & Siegecraft Broadsides & Pamphlets Military History (17th Century) Netherlands
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Rare subscription contract for one of the most important Western works on Egypt

[PROSPECTUS - CONTRACT of SUBSCRIPTION]. Description de l'Egypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Seconde édition, dédié au Roi.
[Paris, Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke, 1820]. Ca. 26 x 19 cm. The work is housed in a punched pocket. [1] l. Full description
€ 4,500
Book History, Printing & Typography Broadsides & Pamphlets Egypt France
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Revolution in Cataluña

SALA, Padre Caspar M.F. Epitome de los principios, y progressos de las guerras de Cataluña en los años 1640 y 1641 y señalada victoria de Monjuyque.
Barcelona, Pedro Lacavalleria; Lisbon, Antonio Alvarez, 1641. 4to (19 x 14 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials, and a large woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 2. Further with one headpiece. With: (2) Principios, y progressos de las guerras de Principado de Cataluña, y señalada vitoria en Monjuyque.
Lisbon, Antonio Alvarez, [1]641. Blueish-green paper wrappers. [4]; [76] pp. Full description
€ 850
Military History (17th Century) Spain
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How to navigate in the air: first edition of a rare early brochure on a dirigible (manoeuvrable balloon)

SANSON, Alexandre-Jacques and Jean-François DUPUIS-DELCOURT. Navigation dans l'air. Le point d'appui aérien applicable a l'aérostation, précédé d'un projet de société aéronautique ... suivi d'une lettre sur l'aérostation et de la liste des principeaux aéronautes, de M. Dupuis-Delcourt.
Paris, De Boulé et Comp., for Ledoyen March 1841. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed plate (40 x 23,5 cm) of the dirigible, and a smaller woodcut of the same dirigible on p. 5. Original green wrappers in a protective plastic wrapper, with a large lithographed plate on the front, showing a dirigible flying over the globe underneath a floating angel, who is blowing a trumpet with the motto "Conquête de l'aire". 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
France Games & Sports Technology
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The battle on VOC millions, retrieved by the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VÅGEN - VOC]. Zee-Journael, ofte autentijcq verhael, uyt d'annotatien vande heeren haer hooghmogende volmachtighde inde vloot, der doorluchtighste Geunieerde Republijcque, en andere schriften, aengaende al het gepasseerde, 't zedert 't vertreck vande vloot uyt Spanjaerts-Gat naer de Noort, tot het weder-keeren voor Goeree, met alle voorvallen in zee, ontmoetingen, gevecht in Noorwegen, tempeesten, en wat in 't generael, ende wat in 't particulier voorgevallen, en geschiet is van den 13. Juni tot den 6. Octob. 1665.
Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1665. 4to. Modern marbled boards. [2], 69 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Broadsides & Pamphlets Military History (17th Century) Naval History Scandinavia UK - United Kingdom VOC
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Batavia through the eyes of one of the most important Dutch cityscape painters of the Romantic period

SPRINGER, Cornelis. [Tijgersgracht, Batavia].
[Amsterdam?, after 1850]. Frame ca. 19.2 x 27 cm. Watercolour on paper (ca. 14.8 x 22.4 cm), signed "C Springer" in the lower right. In a (near) contemporary gold-coloured wooden frame. Full description
€ 6,850
Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia
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First great international investment fraud and scandal

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid ...
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black, 78 mostly double-page or folding engraved plates with caricatures on the 1720 Bubble, and a double-page hand-coloured plate of the foundations of a house near Leiden loosely inserted in the back. Contemporary gold-tooled half blueish green roan, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, blue paste paper sides. [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, "31" [= 29], [1 blank], 8, 9, [1 blank] pp. and engraved ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Caricature & Satire Economic History & Trade Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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The oldest book of prophecies in French, finely bound ca. 1745,
from the collections of William Beckford, Hyppolyte Destailleur and Stanislas de Guaita

[TELESFORO DA COSENZA]. Livre merveilleux, contenant en bref la fleur et substance de plusieurs traittez, tant des propheties & revelations, qu'anciennes croniques, faisant mention de tous les faictz de l'Eglise Universelle, co[m]me des scismes, discords & tribulations advenir en l'Eglise de Rome, & d'un temps auquel on ostera & tollira aux ge[n]s d'eglise & clergé, ...
Paris, Thibault Bessault, 1565. 8vo. With Bessault's woodcut device on the title-page. 18th-century French grained red morocco (ca. 1745?), gold-tooled spine with pointillé ornaments, each board framed with thin-thick-thin fillets with a rosette(?) stamped over their intersections at the corners, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges, gilt edges. [54] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Astrology & Occult Bindings Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century
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Travel album with 19th-century East and Southeast Asian drawings, paintings, and prints

[TRAVEL ALBUM - CHINA - INDIA - JAPAN]. [Travel album containing Chinese, Japanese, and Indian artworks].
[Asia, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (ca. 20.5 x 26 cm). With 16 gouache paintings on pith paper framed by silk ribbons, 4 partly coloured woodcut illustrations, and 11 prints and drawings of India. Early or mid-19th-century gold- and blind-stamped beige calf, with a gold-stamped single fillet frame on the diamond-patterned boards, floral blind-stamping and the words "scrap book" lettered in gold on the spine. [1 blank], [31], [38 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
China Drawings & Watercolours India & Sri Lanka Japan & Far East
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Spanish Infanta Maria Anna's journey to Vienna to marry the King of Hungary and Bohemia,
and future Holy Roman Emperor

[TRAVEL - INFANTA MARIA ANNA]. Relacion del viage de la Señora Reina de Ungria y alegrissimo recebimiento que la cesare magestad del Señor Emperador de Alemania, y Rey de Ungria su esposo le hizieron en primero de março de 1631.
Seville, Simon Faxardo, 1631. Folio. With the engraved Spanish royal coat of arms and a woodcut decorated initial, both on the first leaf. [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Broadsides & Pamphlets Central Europe Spain Travel & Voyages Europe
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A major diplomatic victory of the Dutch over King Philips III of Spain during the Eighty-year's war

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. Copie vande aggreatie des grootmachtichsten konincx van Spangien Philippus III, ghezonden aende groot-moghende heeren der Staten generael der vereenichde Nederlanden. Mistgaders de antwoorde vande zelve Groot-moghende heeren Staten Generael op de voorsz aggreatie ghedaen.
[Amsterdam, Barent Adriaensz.?], 1608 (colophon: 4 November 1607). Small 4to. With an ornamental printer's device on the title-page, and 2 decorated woodcut decorated initials. Modern paper wrappers with a manuscript title-label on the front. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Spain
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Exceptionally rare devotional work, in a lavishly gold-tooled fanfare binding by the workshop of Pierre Rocolet

V.C.P. Exercice spirituel, ou est enseigné au Chrestien la maniere d'employer le jour au service de dieu.
Paris, Pierre Rocolet, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With an engraved title, 9 full-page engraved plates, all hand-coloured and heightened with gold, 5 woodcut headpieces, and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Every page has been outlined in red, and some of the chapter headings have been traced with gold. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco fanfare binding, with a central quatrefoil inlay of brown morocco on both boards, surrounded by geometric and pointillé designs, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt pointillé edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [42], 172; 288 pp. Full description
€ 8,000
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Bindings France Religion (17th Century)
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The storefronts of Paris

VEREENIGING VAN ARCHITECTEN. De Parijsche winkelhuizen, of keur der voornaamste bestaande winkelpuijen te Parijs ten dienste van archietecten, timmerlieden, metselaars en verdere bouwkundigen.
Amsterdam, D. Tormijn, 1850. Folio. With 36 lithographed plates showing designs of storefronts in Paris, by P.W.M. Trap in Leiden. Original blue printed paper over boards, with the title printed in a decorative border on the front board. 7, [1 blank] pp. and XXXVI plates. Full description
€ 950
Architecture Art & Art History France
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Religious print-series designed by Romeyn de Hooghe

[VIGNE, David de la] and Mr. De CHERTABLON. La maniere de se bien preparer a la mort, par des considerations sur la cene, la passion & la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de très-belles estampes emblematiques, expliquées par Mr. De Chertablon.
Antwerp [= Amsterdam?], George Gallet, 1700. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece ("numbered" A), mainly showing Death knocking on a door, the title page is printed in red and black, 39 numbered full-page engraved plates, and two additional full-page engraved plates ("numbered" B-C). All plates are copies (the majority in reverse) of etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary gold-tooled tan calf, with the coat of arms of the Vignerot du Plessis family, dukes of Richelieu, as a centrepiece on both boards, a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, red edges. 63, [1] pp. (Collation: A-H4). Full description
€ 2,500
Bindings Prints & Print Series Religion (18th Century)
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