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Printing techniques and examples of early bank notes

[NUMISMATICS - BANK NOTES]. Report of the committee of the Society of Arts, &c. together with the approved communications and evidence upon the same relative to the mode of preventing the forgery of bank notes.
London, Printed by order of the Society (colophon: printed by T.C. Hansard), 1819. 8vo. With 6 engraved plates (5 full-page, 1 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [IV], 59, [1 blank], 57-72 [= 76] pp. Full description
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Rare Dutch edition of a popular anti-Jesuit satire

[OLIVIER, Abbé Jean]. D'ongelukkige Napolitaan, of zeldzaam levensbedrijf van Rozelli. Behelzende een historisch verhaal van zijne geboorte, Turkze slaverny, klooster leven, zitten in de inquisitie, en wat figuren hy verder in Italien, Vrankrijk, en Holland gemaakt heeft. Uit het Frans vertaald.
Utrecht, Jakob van Poolsum, 1716. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a full-page engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 16 full-page engraved plates, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine with the text "Leven van Rozelli" lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. VI, 484, 36 pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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In honour of the victories of Prince Maurice - from the library of Paulus van Uchelen, bound by Magnus

[ORLERS, Jan Jansz. & Hendrik Lodewijksz. HAESTENS]. La genealogie des illustres comtes de Nassau nouvellement imprimée ...
Leiden, Jan Orlers, 1620 (colophon: Amsterdam, Jan Jansz. [= Johannes Janssonius I], 1624). Folio. With an engraved title by Jacques de Gheyn II, a full-page coat of arms of Prince Maurice, a full-page engraved portrait of Maurice, 13 half-page engraved portraits of counts and princes of the Nassau family, 2 double-page engraved maps of the Netherlands and Brabant, and 41 engraved plans and bird's-eye views of cities and battles (39 double-page, 2 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [78], 305, [2] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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A travel guide to Ancient Greece

PAUSANIAS. Pausaniou tes hellados periegesis [= in Greek]. Hoc est, pausaniae accurata Graeciae descriptio, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur ...
Frankfurt am Main, Heirs of Andreas Wechel [Claude de Marne, Johann Aubry], 1583. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the divisional title page of each part and the final leaf, 30 decorated woodcut initials, 7 woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. With: PAUSANIAS and Romolo AMASEO (translator). Pausaniae de veteris graeciae regionibus commentarii luculentissimi.
Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Andreas Wechel [Claude de Marne, Johann Aubry], 1583.
17th-century overlapping vellum over recycled blind tooled calf panels (from an older binding, unclear if original binding of present work or just general recycling), sewn on 5 vellum tapes previously laced through the joints, the manuscript author on the spine, remnants of closing ties. [12], 357, [1 blank] pp., 359-374 cols., 375-377 pp., 378-507 cols., [1 (=p. 508)], [1 blank], [76]; [12], 302, pp., 303-352 cols., [1] pp. Full description
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On the Latin language: the most important Renaissance dictionary/encyclopaedia,
together with the three main classical texts on the subject

PEROTTI, Niccolò. In hoc volumine habentur haec. # Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti: atque ex archetypo emendati. # Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium ... # Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynij epistola ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. # Cornelij Vitellij in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. # M. Terentij Varronis de lingua Latina libri tres: Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. # Eiusdem de analogia libri tres. # Sexti Pompeij Festi undeviginti librorum fragmenta. # Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est: non ante impressa ...
(Colophon on K8r:) Venice, in aedibus Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, May 1517; (colophon on Y7v:) November 1513. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, repeated on the verso of the last leaf. Including:
(2) VARRO, Marcellus Terentius. De lingua Latina.
(3) FESTUS, Sextus Pompeius. De verborum significatione.
(4) MARCELLUS, Nonius. De compendiosa doctrina. Modern brown morocco. 79, [1 blank] ll., "1436" [= 1426] cols. Full description
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The siege of 's Hertogenbosch with engravings by Henricus Hondius II,
from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

PREMPART, Jacques. Récit, ou brefve description de ce qui s' est passé durant le très-fameux Siège de Bois-le-Duc. ...
Leeuwarden, Claude Fontaine, 1630. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 2 large folding engraved maps, showing the city of 's Hertogenbosch, its fortifications, and the besieging army under Prince Hendrik of Orange, and 7 folding engraved plans of the "approches" of the besieging army at various quarters. Contemporary vellum. [2], 26, [4] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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The first and only Dutch translation of the works of Rabelais before 1931,
very important for the history and development of the Dutch language

RABELAIS, François. Alle de geestige werken ... vervattende in ses boeken de dappere daaden en deftige reedenen van dovergroote reusen Grandgousier, Gargantua, en Pantagruel ... uyt het Fransch vertaelt door Claudio Gallitalo.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1682. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title page and a letterpress title page to each volume, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [40], 717, [3 blank], [8]; [32], 456, [30], [2 blank], 136, [8] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Splendid ink and colour wash view of Valetta in Malta

[MALTA]. RADEMAKER, [Gerard?]. Malta. [View of the castle, fortifications and harbour of Valetta].
[Malta(?), ca. 1700?]. 14 x 44 cm. Ink and colour wash drawing, signed in the lower right corner: "Rademaker". Mounted in a rice-paper window kept under passe-partout. Full description
€ 12,500
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