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Dutch tourist journal of a bourgeois woman's visit to Paris

ALBERDINGK THIJM, Catharina & Josephus Albertus ALBERDINGK THIJM. Notice de mes souvenirs d'un voyage à Paris, écrite pour mes chers enfans.
Amsterdam, 1838. Small 8vo. Manuscript in French, written in ink in a regular and readable hand on 7 quires of writing-paper, some with a slight green cast.
With: ALBERDINGK THIJM, Josephus Albertus. Decemberliedtjen op tantes feest, in 1878. Manuscript poem, signed J.A.Th. 4to. Folded.
Loose quires in a contemporary red morocco portfolio with gold-tooled title and ornamental frames on covers, richly gold-tooled turn-ins and silk paste-downs. With 3 pairs of green silk ties. 135, [4 blank]; 4 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Important edition of classic treatise on painting & perspective, with a new biography

ALBERTI, Leon Battista. Della pittura e della statua.
Milan, Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani (monogram of Giusti, Feriario & Co), 1804. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author and 6 engraved plates (including 4 folding). Early 19th-century half sheepskin parchment, Stormont on shell marbled sides, title lettered in ink on the spine, yellow edges. XVII, 136 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Remarkable study of Rome's famous triumphal monument

[ALBUM - ITALY - TRAJAN'S COLUMN]. [Album with 72 illustrations of scenes depicted on Trajan's Column].
[Italy, late 16th- to 18th-century]. Oblong folio (ca. 54 x 39 cm). With 72 drawings on paper, in pen, ink, and ink wash. Probably early 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco with the elaborate coat of arms of King Philip V of Spain as a centre piece on both boards, within a double frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners of the inner frame; gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers. [74] ll. Full description
€ 45,000
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Charming album with accomplished pencil and watercolor sketches and views
from France, Algeria and Spain

[ALGIERS & SPAIN]. J. M. (artist?). [Views and people along the Mediterranean coasts of France, Spain and Algeria].
[London sketchbook used in the Mediterranean], 1881. Small oblong 8vo (8,5 x 13 cm). Album (sketchbook) containing 28 pencil drawings (1 double-page), 2 colored drawings and 4 watercolors (1 double-page ) with handwritten captions in English. Half checkered black morocco. With advertising label of "Lechertier, Barbe & Co. Artists' colourmen and Stationers, Regent Street, London" with prices of the various sketchbooks for sale; at the head the artist's(?) initials and date: "J.M. 1881". 70 pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Extremely rare satirical print series lampooning Louis XIV with the total eclipse of the Sun King,
showing 1 major and at least 3 minor variants not recorded in the literature

[ALLARD, Carel]. Koninglyke almanach: beginnende met den aanvang der oorlog, van anno 1701 .... Waer in duydelijk de loop der zon der ongeregtigheid, met zyn eclipsen, of de regtvaardige straf des heemels, door XVIII zinnbeelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word; ... | Almanach royal. Commencant[!] avec la guere de l'an 1701 jusques .... ou est exactement observé le cours du soleil d'injustice; avec ses eclips; ou la juste punition du ciel. Demonstré dans XVIII emblemes. ...
"Paris" [= Amsterdam], "imprimé â l'imprimerie royale du Petit Louis" [= Carel Allard, 1706?]. Small folio (32 x 21 cm). Engraved print series with an engraved title page and 24 engraved prints (9 single-page and 15 double-page; 18 bound in and 6 loosely inserted), the double-page prints with extensive letterpress text flanking and/or below the engraving. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Engraved title plus [25] engraved plates., some with letterpress text. Full description
€ 8,750
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Well-known German Almanac à la Française illustrated by Daniel Chodowiecki,
in a remarkable embroidered binding

[ALMANAC]. Almanac généalogique pour l'an 1787 avec l'approbation de l'Académie Royale des sciences et belles lettres à Berlin.
Berlin, George Jacques Decker, [1786]. 24mo (10.7 x 6.2 cm). With an engraved portrait of Princess Frederique of Prussia by C. Tounley after Cuningham, dated 1786 as a frontispiece. This is printed on one double-leaf with the engraved title page. Further with a folding engraved map (13 x 18.2 cm) by D.F. Soltzmann after C.L. Oesfeld (1785) showing the projected Kiel Canal, 12 numbered etchings illustrating the 12 months of the calendar by Daniel Chodowiecki. Text of all pages printed within a frame with small corner pieces. Contemporary German embroidered binding: ivory silk over boards, sides purled with (blackened) silver threat, a double row of silver sequins enclosing on the front cover the embroidered year "1787" within a wreath of silver thread hanging on an embroidered knot and on the back cover a basket with colored flowers also hanging on a knot, spine ornamented with silver thread, gilt edges. [240] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Series of six French Almanacs, illustrated with famous paintings

[ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l'année 1807.
With:
(2) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l'année 1809.
(3) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l'année 1814.
(4) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l'année 1815.
(5) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l'année 1824.
(6) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l'année 1825.
Paris, imprimerie de J.M. Eberhart (volumes 3-6: imprimerie de Richomme) for Janet, [1806-1824]. 6 volumes. 12mo (ca. 11.5 x 6.5 cm). Each volume with an engraved title and 4 full-page steel-engraved plates protected by tissue paper guards, volume 4 with an extra portrait of Louis XVIII. Contemporary coloured boards (green, pink, blue or grey), gilt edges, volume 3 with lithographed boards and the title printed in black on the spine, volumes 5 and 6 in a matching slipcase, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [32], 190, [2], [12]; [32], 196, [4], [12]; [32], 240, [8]; [32], 228, [4]; [32], 254, [2]; [32], 254, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Attractively bound copy of this interesting French almanac published
in the first year of the rule of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. TESTU, Laurent Étienne (publisher). Almanach impérial pour l'an XIII [= 1804-1805] présente a sa Majesté l'Empereur par Testu.
Paris, L.É. Testu, [1804]. Large 8vo (ca. 19.5 x 12 cm). With the engraved coat-of-arms of the First French Empire on the title page and numerous letterpress tables. Contemporary gold-tooled tree marbled calf. [16], 832 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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One of the first dictionaries of a vernacular language,
compiled from the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio

ALUNNO, Francesco. Della fabrica del mondo ... libri dieci. Ne'quali si contengono le voci di Dante, del Petrarca, del Boccaccio, & d'altri buoni auttori, mediante le quali si possono scrivendo esprimere tutti i concetti dell'huomo di qualunque cosa creata.
Venice, Paolo Ugolino, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each part, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces.
With: PORCACCHI, Tomasso. Vocabolario nuovo ... Sopra molte voci, che per avanti nella Fabrica erano grandemente desiderate. Contemporary Italian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [34], "263" [= 262], [1 blank]; 17 ll. Full description
€ 650
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