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A Spanish view on the Dutch War of Independence

MENDOÇA (MENDOZA), Bernardino de. Comentarios de lo sucedido en las guerras de los Payses Baxos, desde el año de 1567 hasta el de 1577.
Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 5 half-page engraved plates in the text including a map of East Friesland with Emden, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary black-tooled mottled calf. [8], 336, [12] ll. Full description
€ 4,750
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Issued in 25 copies only

MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon Pierre. Fables et contes.
Parma, Bodoni, 1792. 2 volumes. 12mo. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf by Loutrel, with a pink morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, a blind-tooled single fillet border on both boards, fleurons on the spine, head edge gilt, marbled endpapers. 44, 25 (bis.) - 44 (bis.), 45-144; [8], 168 pp. Full description
€ 5,850
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The first edition of the spectacular Mercator-Hondius atlas, a milestone in cartographic history

MERCATOR, Gerardus and Jodocus HONDIUS (publisher). Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabrica figura. Iam tandem ad finem perductus, quamplurimis aeneis tabulis Hispaniae, Africae, Asiae & Americae auctus ac illustratus à Judoco Hondio. Quibus etiam additae (praeter Mercatoris) dilucidae & accuratae omnium tabularum descriptiones novae, studio et opera Pet. Montani.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1606. Folio. With an engraved title page and 144 mostly double-page maps, each with a signature (E-7T) and with explanatory texts on the recto of the first and on the verso of the second fol. (the text pages on the rectos and versos of the maps are paginated 33-354). Original gold- and blind-tooled calf, re-cased, the original leather pasted to the new boards. With a large blind-tooled centrepiece in a blind-tooled lozenge frame, within a blind-tooled rectangle frame, gold-tooled smaller and larger corner pieces and a gold-tooled floral frame along the edges of the boards, both boards show the same design. Further with the title lettered in gold on the spine, and red edges. [16], 354, [12] pp. [+ 8 + 4 + 4 + 8 = 24 pp. for the indexes]. Full description
€ 125,000
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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
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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
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Eyewitness account of Captain Bering's famous polar expedition, with the important map of Russia

MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich. Voyages et découvertes faites par les Russes le long de côtes de la Mer Glaciale et sur l'Océan Oriental, tant vers le Japon que vers l'Amérique. On y a joint l'histoire du fleuve Amur et des pays adjacens.
Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1766. 2 volumes. 12mo. With a large folding engraved map of the Russian Far East, from Novaya Zemlya to Kamchatka, with parts of Japan and North America. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. X, [2], 388; IV, 207, [25] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Greek patristic thought at the dawn of Humanism

NAZIANZENUS, Gregorius and Gregorius NYSSENUS. Orationes novem elegantissimae. Gregorii Nuysseni liber de homine, quae omnia nunc primum, emendatissima, in lucem prodeunt.
[Venice, heirs of Aldus Manuzius and heirs of Andrea Torresano], 1536. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the Aldine woodcut device on the title page and repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with the author, title, publisher, and year lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, gold-tooled tan morocco doublures, pink silk ribbon marker. Bound by François Bozerian (known as Bozerian le Jeune (the Younger), 1765-1826, fl. 1801-1818) and signed in gold lettering by the binder at the foot of the spine: "Rel. P. Bozerian Jeune". 148, "68" [= 76], [4] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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