History, Law & Philosophy

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. De vervallen actionisten hersteld, door den triompheerden Arlequin. [The ruined share-holders restored by the triumphant Harlequin].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1720]. Bifolium (31.5 x 40 cm). Engraved print, with title on top and engraved verse in Dutch below, in 4 columns. The illustration coloured by hand. In passepartout (40 x 50 cm). Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid ...
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black and 79 engraved plates (including 1 repeat of plate 54, 3589 Muller), most double-page and several larger folding sheets, including several maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards (Pasquin variant). The copy contains the register listing 74 items and 4 plates not in Mullers principal list (Muller 3611-3613 and 3615), but unfortunately lacks plate 18 (3553 Muller). (Near-) Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title and year lettered in gold on the spine, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. Bound by the Bird's Head Bindery in Amsterdam (ca. 1728-1765?), see Storm van Leeuwen. [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, 31, [1 blank], 8, 10 pp. and 79 engraved plates (2 before the title page). Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID], LAW, John (subject). Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid ...
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black and 79 engraved plates, most double-page and several larger folding sheets, including several maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards. The copy contains the register listing 74 items and 4 plates not in Mullers principal list (Muller 3611(note), 3612, 3613, and 3615). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title and year lettered in gold on the spine, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, bound by the Double Drawer Handle Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, 31, [1 blank], 8, 9, [1 blank] pp. and 79 engraved plates (2 before the title page). Full description

TARENGHI, Enrico. [Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].
[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic. Full description

TEIXEIRA, Pedro, [Mir KHWAND and Turan SHAH]. Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y succession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un viage hecho por el mismo autor dende la India Oriental hasta Italia por tierra.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1610 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, both boards with the supralibros of D. Vasco Luís da Gama (1612-1676), 5th Count of Vidigueira. [1], [1 blank], [6], 384, [8], "115" [= 215], [17] pp Full description

TELLEZ (TELLES), Balthasar. The travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia: containing ... travels in Arabia Felix, wherein many things of that country ... are treated of, as a particular description of Aden, Moca, and several other places ...
London, J. Knapton [and 3 others, and sold by 5 more], 1710. 4to. With engraved map of Ethiopia, including part of the Red Sea and the source of the Blue Nile. Modern calf. [4], 264, [16] pp. Full description

[TEMMINCK, Coenraad Jacob]. Las posesiones holandesas en el archipiélago de la India.
Manila, Miguel Sanchez, 1855. 8vo. Modern red half calf, preserving the original pink lithographed wrappers. 243, [1] pp. Full description

TERENTIUS AFER, Publius, Aelius DONATUS, and Desiderius ERASMUS. Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati co[m]mentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exe[n]plarium collatione, diligentius quàm unquam antehac, emendatae...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 5 April 1536. Small folio (20.2 x 30.3 cm). With Estiennes small woodcut device ona small woodcut the title page. Late 17th-century(?) calf. 378, [18] pp. Full description

THEOCRITUS, HESIOD, and others. [Indication of contents in Greek followed by Latin:] Haec insunt in hoc libro. Theocriti Eclogae triginta. Genus Theocriti & De inventione bucolicorum. Catonis Romani sententiae paraeneticae Distichi. Sententiae septem sapientum. De invidia. Theognidis megarensis siculi sententiae Elegiacae. Sententiae monostichi per capita ex variis poetis. Aurea carmina Pythagorae. Phocylidae Poema admonitorium. Carmina Sibyllae erythraeae De Christo Jesu domino n[ost]ro. Differentia vocis. Hesiodi Theogonia. Eiusdem Scutum Herculis. Eiusdem Georgicon libri duo.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, February "1495" [=1496]. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces (2 by the famous Poliphilus master) plus 29 repeats, and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials (3 series: 3-line, 5-line and 7-line) plus 16 repeats. Modern red morocco, gold- and blind-blocked. [140] ll. Full description

THEODORET of CYRRHUS, and Zenobio ACCIAIUOLI (translator). De evangelicae veritatis ex Graecorum atque gentium philosophia cognitione, sive de Graecarum affectionum curatione, libri duodecim Zenobio Acciaolo interprete ...
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1540. 8vo. With some woodcut decorated initials throughout, and Steelsius's woodut device at the end. 18th-century red morocco. 8, 158, [6] ll. Full description