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Four articles on the date palm in the Middle East, northern Africa and America

SWINGLE, Walter Tennyson. The date palm and its culture. ... (Reprint from Yearbook of Department of Agriculture 1900).
[Washington, Government printing office, 1900]. With 9 plates with black and white photographic reproductions.
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(2) SWINGLE, Walter Tennyson. The date palm and its utilization in the southwestern states.
Washington, Government printing office, 1904. With a wood engraved device of the United States department of agriculture on title-page, 21 (of 22) plates (including 2 chromolithographed maps) and 10 illustrations in text.
(3) FAIRCHILD, David Grandison. Persian Gulf dates and their introduction into America.
Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 4 plates with reproductions of photographs.
(4) KEARNEY, Thomas Henry. Date varieties and date culture in Tunis.
Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 10 plates with reproductions of photographs.
4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern blue cloth, each work with its original printed paper wrappers bound in. I-V, [1 blank], 453-490; 155, [1 blank]; 32; 112 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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The first great international investment fraud & scandal,
including 10 very rare broadsheets with woodcut illustrations

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. [Collection of satirical plates and illustrated poems related to Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid].
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-11 very rare broadsheets, each of the first 10 with a satirical poem and 1 or more woodcut illustrations, the last with a verse by Joost van den Vondel and an engraved illustration.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720] (items 1-10); Rotterdam, Pieter vander Veer, 1721 (item 11). 1mo. Modern green half cloth.
-8 engraved prints with letterpress text by Jan de Ridder.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720]. Folio. Modern green half cloth.
-45 engraved satirical plates (including 2 made up of 4 separate prints each, and with a duplicate plate).
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats. Each in passepartout.
-12 separate prints (a few with letterpress text) and 2 copies of an engraved map in 2 parts, showing the coast of South America and the South Sea.
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats.
The whole kept together in a large 20th-century green half cloth portfolio (50×70 cm). Full description
€ 17,500
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The retaking of Bahia from the Dutch by the Spanish and Portuguese fleet,
the official and comprehensive account

TAMAYO DE VARGAS, Tomas. Restauracion de la ciudad del Salvador i Baía de Todos-Sanctos, en la provincia del Brasil.
Madrid, widow of Alonso Martin, 1628. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of King Philip IV of Spain, crowned and with the Order of the Golden Fleece, on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, a mark ("Co D Sa") branded into the top edge, and (remnants of) white leather ties. [7], [1 blank], 178, [4] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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The most beautiful work on Dutch military uniforms

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826.
With: TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.
The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume.
Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. [1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Unrecorded publication by the Governor General of Surinam,
concerning taxes on slaves and goods from plantations

TEXIER, Bernard. Publicatie. Wy Bernard Texier, Gouverneur Generaal der colonie Suriname, rivieren en disticten van dien, mitsgaaders Collonel over de gezamentlyke militie dezer landen &c. &c. &c. en de raaden van politie en crimineele justitie der voorsz. Colonie &c. &c. ... doen te weeten ... den landbouw ... te foulageeren en ontheffen ...
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(2) TEXIER, Bernard. Publicatie. Wy Bernard Texier ... en de raaden van politie en crimineele justitie ... doen te weeten ... dat wy ... gedelibereert bebbende[!], over het redres der finantien ...
(3) TEXIER, Bernard. Notificatie. Den hove van politie en crimineele justitie, doet by deezen notificeeren ende bekent maken. Dat involge het vierde articul van het placaat noopens de quotisatie off heffinge ten behoeve van de cassa teegens de wegloopers in dato 20 december 1781 ...
Paramaribo, widow of Nicolaas Vlier, [after 21 December 1782]. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to in 2s. Modern gold-tooled half sprinkled calf and marbled paper sides. [8]; [7]; [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,950
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