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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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