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Weddell's second voyage to South America

WEDDELL, Hugues Algernon. Voyage dans le nord de la Bolivie et dans les parties voisines du Pérou ou visite au district aurifère de Tipuani.
Paris, P. Bertrand & London, H. Baillière, 1853. 8vo. With two lithographed plates, three woodcut illustrations in text (one music) and a folding engraved map. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [4], XII, 571, [1] pp. Full description
€ 650
Earth Sciences South America Travel & Voyages South America
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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
€ 3,500
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Language & Linguistics Religion (16th Century)
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A highlight of Socinian literature: Wolzogen’s exegetical and polemical legacy

WOLZOGEN, Johann Ludwig von. Opera omnia, exegetica, didactica & polemica. Quorum seriem versa pagina exhibet. Cum indicibus necessariis.
Irenopoli [=Amsterdam], [Daniel Bakkamude for Frans Kuyper], 1656 [=1668]. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 2 parts. Folio. With a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each tract, woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. With: [IDEM]. [Operum tomus alter]. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [3], [1 blank], 1038; [1], [1 blank], 356; [2], 132, [8] pp. Full description
€ 950
Humanism & Reformation Religion (17th 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
€ 2,500
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
€ 3,500
Astrology & Occult Central Europe East Africa Eastern Europe Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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