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Elzevier’s enlarged edition of Spiegel’s treatise on botany and herbarium practice

SPIEGEL, Adriaen van de. Isagoges in rem herbariam libri duo.
Leiden, [Abraham and Bonaventura] Elzevier, 1633. 24mo. With an engraved title page, and several woodcut decorated initials, and head- and tailpieces. Including: (2) VORSTIUS, Adolphus. Catalogus plantarum horti academici Lugduno Batavi. Early 19th-century gold-tooled tree-marbled calf by Henderson & Bisset. 272, [16] pp. Full description
€ 850
Bindings Brazil Canada & Greenland Floras & General Botany Herbals & Medical Botany Horticulture Miniature Books North America South America
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Very rare Elzevier imprint: the reception of William III as First Nobleman in the province of Zeeland

[SPLENDID CEREMONIES - HOUSE OF ORANGE - ZEELAND]. La chasse du prince ou relation de la reception faite à S. A. Monsieur le Prince d'Orange Guillaume III. en la Zelande. Et de son installation là mé en la dignité de premier noble. Arrivèes les 18. & 19. septembre 1668.
[Amsterdam, Abraham Wolgang for Daniël Elzevier], 1668. Small 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown calf by Thouvenin. Bound with the original vellum wrappers. [2], 46 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Bindings Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks History / 17th Century
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One of the most important Dutch songbooks of the 17th century

STARTER, Jan Jansz. Friesche lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den vierden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert, met verscheyden dichten ende liedekens, soo geestige als boertige. Mitsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende vercierd met schoone kopere figueren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.
Amsterdam, for Hessel Gerritsz., 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, a full-page engraved plate, 10 almost full-page engravings in the text by Jan van de Velde, and musical scores in the text. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine in a later hand, red sprinkled edges. [14], 207, [1 blank], 39, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 11,500
Dutch Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Songbooks
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Richly illustrated account of the Dutch War of Independence

STRADA, Famiano. De bello Belgico decades duae ab excessu Caroli V. Imp. usque ad initium praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae placentiaeque Ducis III. Ad annum 1678 [recté 1578]. continuatae ....
Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Beyer, 1651. 4to. With an engraved Leo Belgicus map as a frontispiece, 26 engraved portraits (one of the author), and 30 folding engraved battle scenes. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 778, [104] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Military History (17th Century) Netherlands
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The first French translation of Suetonius' main work, bound by Chambolle-Duru

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius [and Guillaume Michel de TOURS (translator)]. Des faictz et gestes des douze Caesars, nouvellement imprime.
Paris, Arnoul l'Angelier, 1540. 8vo. With a half-page woodcut illustration on the title page, and 11 half-page woodcuts in the text (repeats with different names in the cartouche), a smaller woodcut illustration at the start of the work by Denis Janot, numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout, and l'Angelier's woodcut device on the final page. Mid- to late-19th-century red morocco (not before 1861), signed by Chambolle-Duru. [8], 276 ll. Full description
€ 4,000
Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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Reintroducing Roman law to the Renaissance

THEOPHILUS ANTECESSOR and Jacobus CURTIUS (translator). Institutionum juris civilis libri quatuor ... è Graeco in Latinum per D. Iac. Curtium Brugensem Iurisconsultum conversi, ac iterum excusi.
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1539. 8vo (15.4 x 10.4 cm). With a large woodcut folding table at the end, a woodcut device of Steelsius on the recto of the otherwise blank last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 221, [3] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics
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Miniature edition of an important classical work on human behaviour

THEOPHRASTUS. Characteres ethici, sive Morum descriptiones. Graecè et Latinè. Cum notis & monitis Ioannis à Werdenhagen.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1653. 24mo. With a vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments, the work is partly printed in Greek type. Contemporary vellum. 359, [1] pp. Full description
€ 450
Classical Antiquity Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics Miniature Books Philosophy & Humanism
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One of the earliest instructions on the use of glasses for all sorts of viewing at all distances

THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. Traité d'optique mechanique, dans lequel on donne les règles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes sortes de lunettes d'approche, microscopes simples & composés, & autres ouvrages qui dépendent de l'art. Avec une instruction sur l'usage des lunettes ou conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes.
Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1749. 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 4 folding engraved plates showing perspectival and optical diagrams and illustrations of perspectival and optical instruments, incl. a camera obscura. Further with woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Modern half marbled calf. XII, 372, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Optics & Perspective
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Rare French edition of the adventures of Ulenspiegel,
in black morocco (1849) signed by the great Paris binder Hippolyte Duru

[TILL EULENSPIEGEL]. Histoire de la vie de Tiel Wlespiegle, contenant ses faits & finesses, ses aventures, & les grandes fortunes qu'il a euës, ne s'étant jamais laissé tromper par aucune personne. Nouvelle traduction de l'Alemand en François; où l'on a ajoûté à cette edition, plusieurs pieces qui n'ont point encore paru en François jusques à present.
Amsterdam, Nicolas Chevalier, 1702. 12mo. With engraved title-page showing an owl looking at itself in a mirror with Ulenspiegel wearing a fool's cap watching. Black morocco by Hippolyte Duru, with his stamp ("DURU 1849") on flyleaf, blind-tooled fillets on spine and boards, richly gold-tooled turns ins, gilt edges. [8], 202, [6] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Bindings French Literature
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