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"The first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa"

BOSMAN, Willem. Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ...
Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo (17 x 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards. [16], 520 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa West Africa
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Important treatise on the legal and political status of the Dutch Republic

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius]. Commentariolus de statu confoederatarum provinciarum Belgii. Editio sexta auctior & emendatior. Accessit de eadem materia Pauli Merulae Diatriba. Nec non Decretum Ordd. Holl. & West-Frisiae, De antiquo iure Reip. Batavicae.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq for Johannes Vlacq, 1668. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, boards and board edges, gilt edges. [12], 202 pp. Full description
€ 850
Brazil Economic History & Trade History / 17th Century Latin America Law & Politics Netherlands Slavery South America
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A Dutch view on the military campaigns of Napoleon

BOYMANS, Johannes Andreas. Le garde d'honneur, ou episode du règne de Napoléon Buonaparte.
Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1822. 8vo. With 2 large folding maps after designs by G.F. Baron de Derfelden de Hinderstein, partly coloured by hand, a white on black phantasmagoric folding lithographed plate, and 4 folding lithographed views by Kierdorff after E. van Boeckhoven. Later gold-and blind tooled half green calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, green decorative paper sides, green decorative paper end papers. XXXIV, 69, XLI, XVIII, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,600
France Geography Law & Politics Military History (19th Century) Netherlands Travel & Voyages Europe
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Russian dress, customs and manners, with 111 plates

BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph. La Russie, ou moeurs, usages, et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire.
Paris, Nepveu, 1813. 6 volumes. 12mo or 18mo. With 111 mostly engraved plates (4 folding facing title-pages of volumes 1-4). Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, uniformly bound. Full description
€ 2,500
Costumes & Uniforms Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Standard work on Roman law by a famous French jurist and philologist

BRISSON, Barnabé. De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, Libri VIII...
Frankfurt, Joannes Wechel and Petrus Fischer and consorts, 1592. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- & tail pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [8], 750 [= 760], [84] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Literature
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An extensive information source for British colonialists in Madras (India)

[BRITISH-INDIA - MADRAS ALMANAC]. The Madras almanac for the year of our lord 1829, calculated for the meridian of Port St. George. To which are added: lists of the civil, judicial and medical establishments, and of the Europeans not in the King's or Company's service. With other matters of useful information.
Madras, Asylum Press, [1828?]. 8vo. With 1 engraved hand-coloured folding plate showing different kinds of ships flags. Lacking 2 leaves.Contemporary red sheepskin, sprinkled edges. Rebacked in calf, red sheepskin spine label, blue paper pasted over the sides. [1 blank], [2], [1 blank], VI, 1-146, [2], 147-361, [1] blank, XXX, VIII pp. (lacking pp. 19-22). Full description
€ 1,750
Almanacs India & Sri Lanka
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Beautiful early 19th-century announcement of a circus show with fireworks

[BROADSIDE - CIRCUS]. Mit hoher Bewilligung wird heute die hier angekommene Gymnastische- und Athleten-Gesellschaft unter der Direction des Hrn. Bartholomäus Ramini die Ehre haben sich zu produciren......
[Austria, ca. 1827]. Oblong folio (ca. 40 x 46 cm). With a large woodcut illustration (ca. 27 x 38 cm). The text is set in a Gothic type. [1] l. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Games & Sports Germany Music, Theatre & Dance
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Remarkable broadside offering insight into 18th-century water management in a Dutch peat cutting area

[BROADSIDE - WATER MANAGEMENT - SLUIPWIJK]. Waerschouwinge. Den schout ende heemraaden van 't waterschap van Sluypwijck, doen een ieder by dezen weeten dat zy op zullen schouwen alle de wegen, dijken en wateringen, daar zy schouwe op hebben.
[Gouda?, second half of the 18th century]. Ca. 46 x 35.5 cm. With a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description
€ 375
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Netherlands Water Management
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3 little-known works by Italian scientist on astronomy, hydrostatics and navigation

BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Trattenimenti scientifici su la sfera, geografia istorica, meteore, ed astronomia.
Rome, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1754. With several woodcut illustrations in the text (including an armillary sphere), and an extra added folding engraved frontispiece.
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(2) BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Trattenimenti scientifici su lindrografia, nautica, blasone, statica, meccanica, architectura, pirotecnia, e suono.
Roma, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1755. With several woodcut illustrations in the text, and an extra added frontispiece (facsimile of an engraving?).
(3) BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Macchina semplicissima per cui lacqua da se stessa salice ad una data altezza.
Rome, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1747. With folding engraved plate as frontispiece. 3 works (the first in 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [24], 180, 112; [8], 173, [3 blank]; 12 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Architecture Astronomy & Cosmography Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Navigation North Africa Science Technology Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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