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Peace with the Ottoman Empire

MONTESINOS, Manuel. Relacion de la entrada del Exercito Imperial en Italia, I puestos que su Magestad Cesarea ha ocupado en la Valtelina, I la ratificacion de las paces con el Rei de Dinamarca, y el Gran Turco.
Madrid, Bernardino de Guzman, 1629. Folio (ca. 29 x 20.5 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial. Early 20th-century browned light purple paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [4], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,000
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Memoirs of a Minister of Finance of Louis XVI - his bitter and final apologia for his policy
during the last years of the Ancien Regime

NECKER, Jacques. Sur ladministration de M. Necker. Par lui-même.
Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Gabriel Dupour, 1791. 12mo. With a small tailpiece on the final page. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a large gold-tooled centerpiece on both boards (a crowned shield with a "W", flanked by a crowned lion and a wild man with a club), with red morocco author and title labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], "328" [= 340] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Unrecorded issue

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans almanach na de nieuwe en oude-stijl. Op 't schrickel-jaer onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1680. Met de jaer, paerde, beeste en leer-marckten, s maens op en ondergang door D.R. van Nierop.
Including:
(2) Zaagmans tijt-wijser.
(3) Korte chronyck van alle de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen t' sedert de geboorte onses Heeren Iesu Christi, tot desen tegenwoordigen jare.
(4) MAGINO, Antonio. De Italiaensche waer-segger op het jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi 1680.
[Amsterdam], Gillis Joosten Zaagman, 1680. 4 parts in 1 volume. 24mo. With the title page and calendar printed in red and black, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 13 woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each months and 1 for the eclipses), and 4 half-page woodcuts in the text. Contemporary dark brown shagreen with blind ruling along the edges, gilt edges. [80] pp + 12 interleaved blanks and 6 thick cardboard leaves Full description
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Extremely rare and early almanac in a remarkable binding

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans comptoir almanach op 't Jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi M.DC.LXXXI. na de Nieuwe en Oude-stijl. Versien met de jaer-marckten, paerde, beeste- en leer-marckten: daer neven een prognosticatie, op alle nieuwe, volle en quartier-maenden. De dagelijkse uuren van des maens op en onder-gangh door Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, mathematicus. Mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Hollant in 's Graven-Hage, Utrecht, Vrieslandt, Groeningen, en de Stadt Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Zaagman, [1680]. 4to. With the title and calendar printed in red and black, a large woodcut view of the Amsterdam stock-exchange on the title page, 12 large woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each month, depicting the main activities practised during this month), a small woodcut of an eclipse and a larger woodcut of a Zodiac man. Contemporary silver-tooled vellum, with on the front a central panel with a maid carrying a lance next to a book (the Bible?) on a column, and on the back a central panel with three drummers, both surrounded by an elaborate large frame block with the coat-of-arms of Holland in the "garden" of the Dutch Republic flanked by the other provincial arms at the top (the arms of the major Dutch cities at the left and right and a view of Amsterdam from the IJ at the bottom). [16] ll. Full description
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Strength may break walls, but wisdom wins wars - Ceuta governor Mendoça Passaña's remarkable victory

[PAMPHLET - MILITARY - CEUTA]. Relacion verdadera de la insigne, y milagrosa vitoria, que Don Jorge de Mendoça Passaña, Capitán General, y Governador de la ciudad de Ceuta, del Consejo de su Magestad, y come[n]dador de Villas Buenas, en el Orde[n] Militar de Christo, co[n] setecientos y cinque[n]ta Porugueses ... co[n]tra el Cacis Cid Mahamet Laex, el qual traia mil de acauallo, y seis mil de apie.
Madrid, Bernardo de Guzman, [1629]. Folio (ca. 20.3 x 29 cm). With an ornament of a Greek cross as a headpiece. Housed in a clear plastic file folder. [2] ll. Full description
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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
€ 3,500
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Extensive work on the statues in Rome, with a hundred large plates

PERRIER, François. Kunstkabinet, besluitende hondert der allerberoemste antique stantbeelden staende binnen Rome. Op eene uitvoerige wyze, naer de origineele afgeteekend, denende tot een vervolgh op de beschryving van het oude en nieuwe Rome van den heer François Desseine, en, om hunne uitmuntentheit, in het koper gebraght door de twee Cornelissen van Daelen. Een werk zeer nuttigh voor alle beeldhouwers, schilders, graveerders en teekenaers. Hier by komt eene uitvoerige beschryving van yder stantbeeld, aentoonende de plaetsen alwaer de zelve vertoond werden, de naemen der werkmeesters en de historie der zelve. Alles uit de oudheit der schryvers opgedolven.
The Hague, Bernardus van der Cloesen, 1737. Large folio. With a large engraved printer's device on the title page, the title printed in red and black, a richly engraved allegorical title page heading the print-series, and 100 full-page plates of Roman classical statues, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, both the Elder and the Younger, after designs by François Perrier. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 54, [2] pp. + 100 plates. Full description
€ 7,500
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Between surgery and the supernatural

PIGRAY, Pierre. Epitome praeceptorum medicinae chirurgiae cum ampla singulis morbis conuenientum remediorum expositione ...
Paris, by the widow of Marc Orry, 1612. 8to. With an engraved title, an engraved portrait of the author, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, 11, [1], 771, [33] pp. Full description
€ 950
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Exceptionally rare Dutch edition of a medical manual by a French royal surgeon

PIGRAY, Pierre and Pieter Rutgersz. VAN NIEUSTADT (translator). Kort begryp van de genees ende heel-konst.
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob Theunisz Lootsman, 1661. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [12], 450, [10] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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