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Very rare and beautiful, with wide margins, incunable copy of one of the earliest Dutch editions
of De ludo scachorum printed in 1479 by Geraert Leeu in Gouda

[CESSOLIS, Jacobus de and FRANCO (translator)]. [Drop title a1v:] Boeck dat men hiet dat scaecspel. [Incipit on a2r:] Hier beghint eç suuerlijc boec vanden tijtverdrijf edelre heren ende vrouwen als vande scaecspul ...
(Colophon on i6v:) Gouda, Geraert Leeu, 2 October 1479. Small folio (ca. 26 x 20 cm). The text is set in Gothic type in double columns of 35 lines to a page, with large manuscript initials in red ink at the start of every chapter, rubricated throughout. Further with Geraert Leeu's printer's device and his initials below the colophon on i5v. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, gold-tooled spine with a burgundy morocco title label lettered in gold. [67], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 85,000
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German translation of Croll’s standard work on iatrochemistry

CROLL, Oswald. Basilica chymica oder alchymistisch königlich Kleynod: ein philosophisch durch sein selbst eigne Erfahrung confirmirte und bestättigte Beschreibung und Gebrauch der aller fürtrefflichsten chimischen Artzneyen so auss dem Liecht der Gnaden und Natur genommen in sich begreiffent. Beneben angehengtem seinem newen Tractat von den innerlichen Signaturn oder Zeichen der Dinge.
Frankfurt am Main, printed by Caspar Rötel for Gottfried Tampach, [1629]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 21.5 x 16.5 cm). With a richly engraved title page designed by Aegidius Sadeler, with circular alchemical diagrams at the top and below (the one below surrounded by alchemical equipment) and portraits of 6 famous alchemists in oval scrollwork cartouches (3 on either side), further with 5 small woodcut illustrations in the text (depicting alchemical instruments). All text is set within a printed single or double fillet frame. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 248, [15], [1 blank]; 72, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Beautifully coloured composite atlas

[DANCKERTS, ALLARD, VISSCHER, DE WIT, MORTIER and others]. Atlas.
[Amsterdam, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts?, ca. 1706 (dated maps 1694-1706)]. Imperial folio (53.5 x 33.5 cm). Composite atlas, with an engraved title-page, 43 double-page engraved maps and 4 double-page engraved tables, all beautifully coloured in a consistent and balanced manner by a contemporary hand, probably in the workshop of the publisher. With maps by Johannes, Justus, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts, Carel and Abraham Allard, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Frederik de Wit, Pieter Mortier, Caspar Specht and even Alexis-Hubert Jaillot in Paris. Modern maroon sheepskin. Full description
€ 48,500
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One of the earliest accounts of the Dutch Revolt

DINOTH, Richard. De bello civili Belgico libri VI.
Basel, Conrad Waldkirch, 1586. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and at the end of the work, 7 decorated woodcut initials, 5 tailpieces and 1 headpiece made up of typographical ornaments. (Near-) contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [8], 456, [8] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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One of the earliest illustrated books printed in Amsterdam

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS (Denys van Rijkel). Tractat[us] de co[n]versione peccatoris.
(Colophon: Amsterdam, [Doen Pietersz or Pieter Jansz Tyebaut], for Johannes, priest at Leiderdorp), [ca. 1520]. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut of the resurrection of the dead and a half-page woodcut of the temptation of Christ by the devil in the desert. Modern blind-tooled vellum. [56] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
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