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First edition of the classic history of Friesland

EMMIUS, Ubbo. Rerum Frisicarum historiae. Libri X.
Franeker, Aegidius Radeus, 1596. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on both titles, 25 pages with genealogical tables in volume 2, several decorated woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces. With: IDEM. Rerum Frisicarum historiae. Decas altera. Franeker, Aegidius Radeus, 1598. 19th-century gold-tooled mottled half calf. [16], 416; [47], [1 blank], 400, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
Early Printing - 16th century Friesland & Groningen
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From the library of Napoleon and his wife Joséphine at Malmaison

ESPAGNAC, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Sahuguet d'Amarzit d'. Relation de la campagne en Brabant et en Flandres, de l'an M.DCC.XLVI.
The Hague, sold by Pieter van Os, 1761. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 4 large folding leaves with the dispositions of the French troops, and 2 folding maps of battle fields, engraved by Kryt. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. 161, [1] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
Belgium Bindings Brabant & Limburg France Military History (18th Century)
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The famous first edition of Robert Estienne’s "O mirificam" Greek New Testament

ESTIENNE, Robert (editor). Tῆò Káéíῆò ÄéáèÞêçò ἅπáíôá [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] | Novum Testamentum.
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546. 2 volumes. 16mo (12 x ca. 7.5 cm). With Estienne's woodcut devices: the basilisk on both title pages and the olive tree on the otherwise blank last page of volume 2. Further with several woodcut decorated headpieces and initials. 18th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spines with the French (part) title lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, green and gold decorated endpapers. 528; 361, [3] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Religion (16th Century)
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One of the most influential works ever written, with commentary by the "Euclid of the 16th century"

EUCLID and Christopher CLAVIUS (editor). Elementorum Libri XV.
Including: Posteriores libri IX.
"Cologne" [= Venice], Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1591. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. The title page of each part is set within an elaborate woodcut border, with woodcut decorated initials (at least 3 series), headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, numerous woodcut mathematical figures in the text, large woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank verso of the last leaf of both parts. Later blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [15], [1 blank], 359, [1 blank]; 355, [1 blank], [40] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Mathematics School & Textbooks
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One of the most important works in the history of dentistry

FAUCHARD, Pierre. Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remédier à leur maladies, à celles des gencives, & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers.
Paris, chez Servieres, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by J.B. Scotin after a painting by J. le Bel, and 42 full-page engraved plates with illustrations of teeth, dentures, artificial teeth, protheses, and a large variety of dental instruments. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled tree-marbled calf. XXIV, 494, [8], [2 blank]; [20], 424 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Dentistry Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century)
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Causes and cures for flatulence

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)
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Ship building for the French navy on the eve of the Revolution

FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.
Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description
€ 950
Education & Pedagogy School & Textbooks Ships & Shipbuilding Technology
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