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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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Ship building for the French navy on the eve of the French 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 mottled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
France Ships & Shipbuilding
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Famous natural history of the Netherlands; with extensive studies on horses and cattle

FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Johannes le. Natuurlyke historie van Holland.
Amsterdam and Leiden, Yntema & Tieboel, 1769-1811. 9 parts in 16 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait, a hand-coloured engraved map, 78 engraved plates, mostly folding, including one beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, and 12 folding tables. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper sides. [4], 513, [1]; [8], 342; [4], 343-962, [2]; [2], 963-1257, [43]; [8], 333; [4], 335-1094; [4], 1095-1330; [4], 1331-1782; [2], 1783-2078, [1]; [4], 314;[10], VIII, 320; [8], 470; [7], 375;[8], 425; [8], 526; [8], 470 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Netherlands
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All the world is a chessboard: the first mention of chess in a printed work

GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf. [79] ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Early Printing - 15th century Education & Pedagogy Games & Sports Religion (15th Century)
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First and only edition of the collected works of "The reformer before the Reformation"

GANSFORT, Wessel [and Petrus PAPPUS (editor)]. Opera, quae inveniri potuerunt omnia: partim ex antiquis editionibus, partim ex manuscriptis eruta.
Groningen, Joannes Sassius, 1614. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [38], 921, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Bibliography & Biography Humanism & Reformation Religion (17th Century)
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First edition of a rare manual on culinary carving, with 33 plates

[GASTRONOMY - CARVING]. De cierlycke voorsnydinge aller tafel-gerechten; onderwijsende hoe allerhande spijzen, zo wel op de vork als zonder dezelve, aardiglik konnen voorgesneden, en in bequame ordre omgedient worden. Alles met zinlicke konst-platen afgebeelt.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1664. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates (1 folding, 31 full-page). Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints. 96 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Education & Pedagogy Gastronomy
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The well-known "Enkhuizer Almanac" for the year 1819, with an article on vaccination

GELDER, Jacob van. De van ouds vermaarde Erve Stichters Enkhuiser (...), voor den jare 1819. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkt., kermiss[en], paard[en], beest[en] en leermarkt[en]. in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende; het op en ondergaan de maan, benevens de watergetijden, enz. Berekend op den middag-cirkel van Amsterdam door Jacob de Gelder.
Amsterdam, H. van Leeuwen, [1818]. 16mo (ca. 9 x 7 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, the title and calendar printed in red and black, 12 half-page woodcut illustrations (1 for each month), and 11 full-page woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's printed wrappers, with the title on the front and back. [252] pp. Full description
€ 500
Almanacs Holland
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The only atlas published by Abraham Goos: the 17 provinces of the Habsburg Low Countries

GOOS, Abraham. Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden, soo in t geheel, als elck besonder met grote neersticheyt ende kosten gesneden ende in t licht gebracht. Mitsgaders een nieuwe beschryvinge uijt verscheyden autheuren ordentlyck tsamen gestelt door Reinier Telle ... .
Amsterdam, Abraham Goos in de Kalverstraet, [1616]. Oblong 4to (ca. 16 x 21 cm). With an engraved title page (signed by P.S[erwouter] scul. (bottom right) after D.V[inck] B[oons] (bottom left)), 23 full page maps, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century quarter calf. [7], "305" [=294], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Belgium Charts & Maps History / 17th Century Netherlands
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One of the earliest recorded copies of the Deventer almanac

GRAPHEUS, Rodolphus. Schrijf almanack, offte calender na[er] de[n] olden stijl, op dat nije schalt iaer [...] MDXCVI.
(Colophon:) Deventer, Simon Steenbergen, [1595]. 16mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month), and 2 woodcut illustrations in the text, the work is printed in red and black. Later vellum wrappers, with the manuscript year of publication on the back. [32] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Almanacs Early Printing - 16th century Gelderland & Overijssel
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