Europe

[PUZZLE POSTCARDS - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE]. [Collection of puzzle postcards relating to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte].
[Ca. 1910]. All postcards ca. 9 x 14 cm. With 81 (hand-)coloured or black-and-white (photographic) picture postcards, including 9 duplicates. In a 20th-century ring binder with the title ("Postzegelmapje van Nederland") lettered in gold on the spine and the front, underneath a gold embossed coat-of-arms of the Netherlands. The postcards are loosely inserted in 21 translucent plastic covers. Full description

QUENSTEDT, Friedrich August von. Das Flözgebirge Würtembergs. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den Jura.
Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1851. 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with paste-paper. VIII, 578, [2] pp. Full description

RABELAIS, François. Alle de geestige werken … vervattende in ses boeken de dappere daaden en deftige reedenen van d'overgroote reusen Grandgousier, Gargantua, en Pantagruel … uyt het Fransch vertaelt door Claudio Gallitalo.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1682. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title page and a letterpress title page to each volume, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [40], 717, [3 blank], [8]; [32], 456, [30], [2 blank], 136, [8] pp. Full description

RABENHORST, Ludwig and Georg WINTER. Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz. Zweite Auglage ... Erster band: Pilze.
Leipzig, Eduard Kummer, 1884 (Weinheim, J. Cramer, 1963). 8vo. Modern black half calf. VIII, 924, 63, [1 blank] pp. Full description

RACINE, Jean and Antonio José de Lima LEITÃO (translator). Iphigénia tragédia de João Racine. Traduzida em verso portuguez, e offerecida como uma prova da mais sincera gratidão.
Rio de Janeiro, Impressão règia, 1816. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary blue-grey wrappers. [8], 53, [3 blank] pp. Full description

[MALTA]. RADEMAKER, [Gerard?]. Malta. [View of the castle, fortifications and harbour of Valetta].
[Malta(?), ca. 1700?]. 14 x 44 cm. Ink and colour wash drawing, signed in the lower right corner: "Rademaker". Mounted in a rice-paper window kept under passe-partout. Full description

RAGHEB-BIN-RAFIQ, Muhammed & Bernard Rawdon REILLY. Treaty of friendship and mutual co-operation between His Majesty in respect of the United Kingdom and of India and the king of the Yemen (with exchange of notes).
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. With a woodcut British Royal arms on the title-page.In a blue paper wrapper. 5, [1] pp. Full description

RAMBERTI, Benedetto. Delle cose de Turchi. Libri tre. ...
(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Bindoni, 1541. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title-page. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 tapes, laced through the joints. 37, [1], [2 blank] ll. Full description

RANDOLE, Sylvestre. Relacion de los terremotos que han sucedido en la ciudad de Traina este año de 1643, y los efectos que han causado en las circunvezinas.
Madrid, Diego Diaz (de la Carrera), 1643. Folio (29 x 21 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Gennem Wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg. Beretning om den af det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab planlagte og bekosterde forskningsrejse i Ost- og Centralarabien 1912.
Copenhagen, Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1913. 8vo. With a frontispiece showing the author in Arab garb, 88 illustrations in text, most of them reproductions of drawings and photographs by the author, and a folding map loosely inserted in a pocket at the end. Publisher's green cloth. [1], [1 blank], [2], 304 pp. Full description