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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
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Timing the world, defining motion: Huygens’ great work on the pendulum

HUYGENS, Christiaan. Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae.
Paris, François Muguet, 1673. Folio. With a full-page woodcut of the pendulum on A2v, approximately 100 woodcut diagrams in the text, a woodcut coat of arms of Louis XIV on the title page, and several woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges. [14], 161, [1] pp. Full description
€ 68,000
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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
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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
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Whales, herring, and the Dutch Artic: illustrated maritime classic

[JONG, Dirk de]. De walvischvangst, met veele byzonderheden daartoe betrekkelyk.
Including: Beschryving der haringvisschery.
Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, and Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1784-1786. 4 parts bound as 1. 4to. With 6 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved plates by H. Kobell and M. Sallieth, 3 additional folding and 10 full-page engraved plates. Every title page features a small woodcut illustration, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half marbled calf and marbled paper sides. VII, [1], 96; [4], 116; [4], 116; [4], 116 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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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
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First edition in its very rare first state of a famous emblem book printed by Plantin, from the celebrated library of Robert Hoe III

JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Emblemata, ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium. Eiusdem aenigmatum libellus, ad D. Arnoldum Rosenbergum.
Including: IDEM. Aenigmatum libellus, ad vivum clarissimum, Arnoldum Rosenbergum jurisconsultum.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565 (colophon: 15 May 1565). 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (ca. 17 x 11 cm). With Plantin's woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, 57 woodcut emblems by Geeraard Jansen van Kampen and Arnout Nicolai after Geoffroy Ballin and Peeter Huys. The text of the entire first work and the title-page of the second work are set within a decorative frame built up from typographical ornaments. Further with two woodcut decorated initials. Splendid late 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled red morocco bound by a French book binder named Allô, possibly Paul Charles Allô (1824-1890) and signed "Allo" in the lower turn-in of the front board. With the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges. 149, [3]; [1], [1 blank], [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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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
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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
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