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Dated prize binding made for the Middelburg Drawing Academy of a renowned work on the art of painting

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Groot schilderboek ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, both title pages with a woodcut vignette, title to part 1 printed in red and black, an engraved portrait of De Laraisse, and 64 engraved plates. 19th-century richly gold-tooled mottled calf (dated 1841). The work has been re-backed with the original spine laid down. [3], [1 blank], [52], 434, [33], [1 blank]; 400, [28] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Art & Art History Bindings School & Textbooks
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The lawsuit against Jacob Coren van der Mieden (1698-1751)

[LAW - COURT OF HOLLAND] Alle de proceduren in der zake van Jacob Coren vander Mieden, heere van Calantsoogh, en den heere advocaat fiscael en procureur generael Anthony van Weesele, alsmede de proceduren daer uit geresulteert.
[The Netherlands, 1743-1747]. 24 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 32 x 21.5 cm). With some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 15, [1], 31, [1], 30, [2], 7, [1], 9, [2 blank], [1], 4, 10, [2], 2, [2], 21-27, 3, [1], 6, 20, 67, [1], 9, [2 blank], [1], 48, 8, [1], [2 blank], [1], 8, 4, 10, [1], [1], 2, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Law & Politics Netherlands
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Influential guide to the East and West Indies, featuring 42 double-page and folding plates,
including 6 detailed maps.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Histoire de la navigation... aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à present descouverts par les Portugais: observations de coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations. Deuxiesme edition augmentee.
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1619. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. Folio (31 x 21 cm) With an engraved title page for each work, 42 engraved plates (31 double-page and 11 folding), including 6 maps, and a full-page portrait of the author within collation. Including: LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de lAmerique & des parties dicelle ...
Near-contemporary gold-tooled calf. [1], [1 blank], [6], "205" [= 206]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], "86" [= 80]. Full description
€ 65,000
Brazil China Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Japan & Far East Navigation North America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America
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One of the best and most entertaining buccaneer travel accounts

LUSSAN, Raveneau de. Journal du voyage fait a la Mer du Sud, avec les filibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684 & années suivantes.
Paris, Jean Baptise Coignard, 1689. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 headpieces built up from typographical materials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf. [16], 448, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Middle America Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks South America Travel & Voyages South America
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Invoice for work performed by Willem Does and Willem Maertens for the goverment of the Dutch Republic,
authorised by M. Huygens to be paid on/after 13 February 1637

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT - Willem DOES]. [Drop title:] H. ende Ed. Mo. Heeren de Raden van State der Vereenighde Nederlanden ...
The Hague, [1637]. Folio (31.6 x 20.2 cm). Manuscript in Dutch on paper, with the "clein segel" (seal) of the Dutch Republic in the upper left corner of the first leaf. Kept in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] ll. Full description
€ 750
Economic History & Trade Fortification & Military Architecture Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands
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A notable narrative with detailed information on Northwest America, in splendid bindings

MARCHAND, Étienne and Charles Pierre Claret de FLEURIEU. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, [1798-1800]. 6 volumes: 5 text volumes and 1 atlas. Large 8vo (23 x 15 cm) and 4to atlas. With 3 folding tables with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. Contemporary light brown calf, spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco title labels, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt board edges, gilt inner dentelles with meander pattern, g.e. (COURTEVAL). [4], VIII, CCI, [3], 294, [2]; VII, [1], 529, [1]; [2], VIII, 474, [2]; VIII, 494, [2]; XII, 559, [5]; [2], VIII, 158, [2] pp. Full description
€ 27,500
Alaska Anthropology & Ethnography Bindings Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Hawaii Navigation North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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Bridging worlds: a landmark Dutch-Malay and French-Malay dictionary

MARSDEN, William and Cornelis Pieter Jacob ELOUT. Nederduitsch en Maleisch woordenboek, gevolgd van een Fransch en Maleisch woordenboek ... naar het Engelsch en Maleisch woordenboek van den Hr. W. Marsden. | Dictionnaire Hollandais et Malai, suivi dun dictionnaire Français et Malai ... daprès le dictionnaire Anglais et Malai de Mr. W. Marsden.
Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé and sons, 1826. 4to. With several wood engraving ornaments throughout. Later half black sheepskin. [8], 432 pp. Full description
€ 500
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias France Language & Linguistics Southeast Asia
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Rare 19th-century pomological work

MAS, Alphonse. Le verger ou histoire, culture et description avec planches coloriées des variétés de fruits le plus généralement connues.
Paris, G. Masson, [1873]. 8 parts in 8 volumes. Large 8vo (28 x 18.7 cm). With 384 chromo-lithographed plates with 792 figures depicting pears, apples, plums, peaches, cherries and apricots. Contemporary blind-stamped green buckram. Each plate with 4 pages text. Full description
€ 5,000
Fruit Culture Gastronomy Horticulture
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Beautifully illustrated, unpublished manuscript on the history of warfare

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. MUELEN, L. van der. Belegering en verdediging der vestingen bij de ouden en in den tegenwoordigen tijd.
[The Netherlands?, ca. 1805]. 4to (ca. 20 x 16 cm). With 8 full-page ink drawings with grey washes, showing defence and siege engines. Contemporary gold-tooled half goat skin with an orange title label on the spine lettered in gold, brown sprinkled paper sides. [2], 134, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Armory, Military Science & Technology Fortification & Military Architecture Manuscripts & Documents Military History (19th Century)
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On the origin and migration of man and animals

MYL (MILIUS), Abraham van der. De origine animalium, et migratione populorum, ... Ubi inquiritur, quomodo quaque via homines cateraque animalia terrestria provenerint; & post deluvium in omnes orbis terrarum partes & regiones: Asiam, Europam, Africam, utramque Americam, & terram Australem, sive Magellanicam, pervenerint.
Geneva, Petrus Columesius, 1667. 12mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page. 19th-century gold-tooled half calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, decorated ("pseudo-marbled") paper sides, marbled end papers. 68, [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
Faunas & General Zoology Mammals Philosophy & Humanism
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