Asher Rare Books

The work that spread Ptolemy's ideas in Europe

AL-FARGHANI, Ahmad ibn Mohammad ibn Kathir and Jacob CHRISTMANN (translator). Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita.
Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel (heirs of), Claude de Marne, and Johann Aubry, 1590. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the final leaf, a woodcut decorated initial, and a woodcut head- and tailpiece. Near contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank], 565, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

€ 17,500

Very rare and exceptionally fine engraved print-series depicting the "Life of Jesus"

ALLARD, Abraham. De groote herschepper der waereld, ofte de monarch des levens, nederig gebooren, onschuldig gedood, en eeuwig verheerlykt. een werkje, waar in beknoptelyk verhandeld word het leeven, de dood, de opstanding en de hemelvaart van Jesus Christus. zyde hier by aangetekend de noodige schriftuur-plaatsen, zo van het oude als van het nieuwe testament. onpartydig voor alle Christenen beschreeven.
Amsterdam, Carel Allard, [1708]. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 14 full-page engraved plates illustrating the life of Jesus. Contemporary boards. [4], 32 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Contemporary account of William II's failed attack on Amsterdam

[AMSTERDAM - PAMPHLET]. Amsterdams journael. Vervatende kortelijk van dag tot dag, alles wat gepasseert is van den 30 Julij, tot den 4 Augusti des Jaers 1650. Met een korte beschrijvinge vande stigting, op-komst en heerlijkheyd der voorseyde stadt Amsterdam. Als oock de af-beeldinge der selve stadt, met zijn om-leggende dorpen, wegen en wateringen, heel curieus in cooper gesneden.
[Amsterdam?], 1650. 4to. With a folding plate containing a map of Amsterdam and surroundings and a waterfront view of the city. 18th-century half brown paper, marbled sides. 28, [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Natural history of Switzerland with ca. 90 extra illustrations and a manuscript letter

ANDREAE, Johann Gerhard R. Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschrieben, in dem Jare 1763.
Zurich and Winterthur, Johann Casper Fussli the younger, 1776. 4to. With engraved map of Switzerland on the title-page, 10 engravings in the text, and 18 engraved plates (including 3 folding), partly signed by Joh. Rod. Schellenberg, the first being a large folding plate by J. R. Holzhalb after J. C. Vogler of the wooden roofed bridge of Schaffhausen. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges. XXII, "245"[=345], [3] pp. Full description

€ 4,000

A manual for pharmacists and physicians by the author of ‘De brave Hendrik’ a proverbial best-seller

ANSLIJN, Nicolaas. Handleiding tot de kennis der artsenij-gewassen, welke in de Nederlandsche apotheek zijn opgenomen. Voornamelijk ingerigt ten behoeve van hen, die, zich der genees-, heel- of artsenij-mengkunde wijdende, het tot hun vak behorende gedeelte der kruidkunde moeten beoefenen. Met platen.
Leiden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1837. With 10 numbered folding lithographs after Anslijn's own designs showing 20 numbered medical plants, herbs and flowers. Half red cloth. [2], 24, 456, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Extensively illustrated classic of cosmography, geodesy, mensuration, perspective and optics

APIANUS (APIAN), Petrus and Gemma FRISIUS. Cosmographia.
Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen (colophon: printed by Verwithagen), 1574. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page (with a terrestrial globe and other instruments); 4 printed paper volvelles with moving parts and a woodcut sun dial with a string attached to its centre; a folding woodcut cordiform mappa mundi (block size 19×27.5 cm) with letterpress text in the margins; well over 100 further woodcut illustrations, diagrams, maps, etc., in the text. Recased in 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. [2], 64, [2] ll. plus folding woodcut. Full description

€ 12,500

Rare study describing a 622 AH (1225/26 CE) celestial globe with Cufic lettering, with 3 folding plates

ASSEMANI, Simone. Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni Musei Borgiani ... illustratus. Praemissa ejusdem De Arabum astronomia dissertatione et adjectis duabus epistolis Cl. Josephi Toaldi.
Padua, Seminary printing office, 1790. Small folio (21.5 x 29.5 cm). With 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides. [16], CCXIX, [9] pp. Full description

€ 28,000

A wonderfully illustrated rare Dutch compilation of Apian

[ASTRONOMY - APIAN and others]. S.D.V.B (compiler). Een nieu constich boeck inde geometrie en de astronomiae, voor desen noyt in druck gheweest, ende is in ses stucken afghedeylt ...
(Colophon:) Rees, Abraham Wijlicx, 1608. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With a half-page woodcut illustration and some decorations built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, 74 woodcuts of various sizes in text, many (near) full- and half-page, with some woodcut decorated initials (various series), a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on four supports laced through the joints. 111, [1] pp. Full description

€ 15,000

Three books on Brabantine Dukes and the Venetian Doges

BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Libri tres, de rebus gestis ducum Brabantiae. Eiusdem de ducibus venetis, liber unus.
(Colophon:) Louvain, Rutger Rescius for himself and for Bartholomaeus de Grave, 1 May 1532. 8vo. 18th-century vellum. [164] ll. Full description

€ 2,950

One of the first Dutch humanists on the history of his country, with beautiful woodcuts by Jost Amman

BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Hollandiae comitum historia et icones. Cum selectis scholiis ad lectoris lucem eiusdem Barlandi Caroli Burgundiae Ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & resgestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.
Frankfurt, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony on the title page (repeated on p. 25), a woodcut printer's device of Feyerabend on the divisional title page of part 2, a variant of his printer's device on the verso of the last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits by Jost Amman (all except the first three accompanied by their coats of arms), several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces.
With: (2) BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 17th-century vellum. [16], "393" [=391], [1 blank]; 109, [1] pp. Full description

€ 950

An important early account of the Bax brothers, and one of the first books printed in Breda

BASELIUS, Jacobus. Historisch verhael inhoudende sekere notable explooten van oorloge in de Nederlanden, sedert het oprechten van de companien der heeren gouverneurs ende ritmeesteren van Paulus ende Marcelis Bax.
Breda, Isaac Schilders, 1615. 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical title with portraits of Paulus and Marcelis Bax on horseback, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [8], 149, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,850

Popular Dutch book of secrets, with over 1500 secrets

BATTUS, Carolus. Secreet-boeck van veele diversche en heerlijcke konsten in veelderley materien, met veel remedien tegen de innerlijcke en uytterlijcke gebreken der menschen. ... Verrijckt met verscheyden secreten van wijnen, verwen ende schrijf-konsten.
Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. 573, [3] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Fine plate book with 62 steel-engraved plates after Robert Batty depecting the scenery
of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland

BATTY, Robert. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland, from drawings by Captn. Batty, of the Grenadier Guards F.R.S. Member of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne.
London, Robert Jennings, 1826. Large folio. With 62 steel-engraved plates, frontispiece and tail-piece included. Each plate is present two times, in different states. All plates are after drawings by the author engraved by among others W.R. Smith, E. Finden, R. Wallis, W. Woolnoth, and others. Contemporary half red morocco. [189] ll. Full description

€ 2,750

First edition of one of the most important natural history books of the Renaissance

BELON, Pierre. L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portaicts retirez du naturel: escrite en sept livres.
Paris, Guillaume Cavellat (colophon: printed by Benoit Prévost), 1555. 7 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut portrait on the back of the title page (apparently of the dedicatee King Henri II, though copied in other books as a portrait of the author), large woodcuts of the skeletons of a man and a bird on pp. 40-41, plus 158 woodcuts (157 birds, 1 bat) in the text. Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf (rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down). [28], 381, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 29,500

Rare 1610 Liège edition of one most successful phrasebooks of all time.

BERLAIMONT, Noël de. Colloquia et dictionariolum septem linguarum, Belgicae, Anglicae, Tevtonicae, Latinae, Italicae, Hispanicae, Gallicae. ... Colloques ou dialogues, avec un dictionaire en sept language, Flamen, Anglois, Allemat, Latin, Italien, Espaignol & Francois, ... Colloquien of t samensprekingen, met eenen vocabulaer in seven spraken, Neerduytsch, Engelsen, Hoochduytsch, Latijn, Italiens, Spaens, ende Fransois, van nieu verbetert ende vermeerdert van vier colloquien, seer nut ende profitelik tot der coopmanschap, reyse, ende anderen handelinghen.
Liège, Henricus Hovius, 1610. Oblong 16mo in 8s (9 x 12 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [400] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

"On pesche les perles ... dans le Golfe Persique, principalement ... aupres de Baroyn [= Bahrain]"

BERQUEN, Robert de. Les merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales ou Nouveau traitté des pierres precieuses & perles, ...
Paris, Christophe Lambin, 1669 (colophon 1668). 4to. With an engraved portrait of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans facing the dedication. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf. [8], 152 pp. Full description

€ 28,000

Jesuit letters from Hormuz Island and the East Indies

[BERSE, Gaspar, Francis XAVIER etc.]. Epistolae Indicae et Iapanicae de multarum gentium ad Christi fidem, per Societatem Iesu conversione.
Louvain, Rutger Velpius, 1570.
With: (2) GARETIUS, Johannes. De sanctorum invocatione liber...
Ghent, Gislenus Manilius, 1570.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with the title-page in a frame built up from fleurons, and a woodcut publisher's device on last blank, ad 2 with the title-page in a frame built up from fleurons, the woodcut coat-of-arms of Cunerus Petri (bishop of Leeuwarden) on the back of the title-page and on the last leaf a woodcut printer's device within a frame built up from fleurons.
Contemporary limp vellum sewn on 3 leather supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine, leather ties, red edges. [24], “361”[=316], [20] pp.; [16], 103, [9] ll. Full description

€ 19,500

The famous Elzevier Dutch States Bible in a magnificent contemporary binding, the elaborately decorated gilt edges showing the coat-of-arms of the De Bont family

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia, dat is de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Including: De boecken genaemt apocryphe ...
Leiden, widow and heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (44.5 x 28 cm). With 3 letterpress title-pages (the first in red and black, and each with the same Elzevier woodcut tree device with "non solus"), a complete series of 6 double-page engraved maps (the Nicolaes Visscher maps, 5 published ca. 1657 and including the world map added ca. 1663), without the engraved title-page (as usual). Further with numerous woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 8 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with grand silver fittings (with the hallmarks of an unknown silversmith) dated on the inside of one of the clasps "1665", gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins. Further with gilt, painted, and elaborately gauffered and decorated edges; the fore edge shows the coat-of-arms of Jeremias de Bont with some floral decorations, these floral decorations can also be found on the top and bottom edges. The boards show a very intricate gold-tooled symmetric design of ribbons with small geometric stamps and with ornamental curling stamps - better known as "petit fers" - within the different parts of the bigger pattern. The binding contains 4 ornamental corner pieces on each board and two catch plates (front board) and two hinge plates (back board) connected by two decorated massive silver clasps, engraved on the inside "Ieremias de Bont (top) and "1665" (bottom). [22], "368" [= 370]; [13], "167" [= 168]; [2], 77 ll. Full description

€ 45,000

Extremely rare work for pregnant women in a beautifully embroidered silk binding

[BINDING - EMBROIDERED]. Esercizio da premettersi dalle donne in stato di gravidanza per conseguire da dio per l'intercessione del glorioso San Torello protettore insigne l'essenzione da tutti i pericoli e felicità nel prossimo parto.
Florence, Stamperià Arcivescovile alla Croce Rossa, 1822. 8vo. Beautifully embroidered contemporary pink silk over paperboards, with flowers and a border along the edges of both sides, and the initials "CM" in centre of front cover, preserved in a modern marbled slipcase. 39 pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Printed memento of a noble wedding, bound in red velvet with emblematic gold and silver embroidery

[BINDING - GHELARDI SCOLOPI, Orazio Antonio]. La pace tra la virtu', la gloria, ed amore. Componimento drammatico da cantarsi in occasione delle faustissime nozze del nobil uomo signor Silvestro Michele Arnolfini con la nobil donzella signora Beatrice Luisa Bernardini dedicato alla medesima.
Lucca, Giuseppe Rocchi, 1767. Small 4to (17 x 14 cm). Contemporary red velvet, embroidered with silver and gold thread and white and yellow silk (each board with an emblematic image: a crowned mirror[?] showing a hand planting a flag, perhaps intended as the groom's hand on the front and the bride's hand on the back), sewn without supports through 3 holes, brocade paper endpapers (grape vines and large flowers, white on a copper background), green silk ribbon marker. 24 pp. Full description

€ 15,000

Late 18th-century manuscript copy of a French children’s catechism, in an Amsterdam VOC binding dated 1780

[BINDING VOC - MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH - VERNET, Jacob]. [Instruction chrétienne, ou catechisme familier; avec quelques prières a l'usage des petits enfans].
[The Netherlands?, ca. 1780?]. 4to (ca. 19 x 15 cm). Manuscript in French, written in black ink on paper, in a neat cursive script by one hand. With chapter divisions (numbered 39-75) and headings. The text is written upside down in relation to the binding. Most leaves show an identical watermark, depicting a lion rampant on a pedestal with "Vryheyt" in a crowned ring with "Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate" and the letters "CR" below, which is very close to Heawood 3149 (date: 1753). Late 18th-century gold-tooled brown mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports, bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date "Anno 1780", all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners, spine gold-tooled in six compartments, red sprinkled edges. [28] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Handbook on keeping domesticated fowl

BLANCKE, Burchard. Das Grossgeflügel.
Berlin, Fritz Pfenningstorff. Verlag für Sport und Naturliebhaberei, [1908]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 36 coloured plates (including a movable model of a hatcher), 48 full-page and 2 double-page black and white plates, often in photomontage, and 384 illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, marbled endpapers. [8], 456; [8], 452 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Inspired by Janus Secundus: rare collection of erotic poetry by a talented Leiden student

BLEU, François le. Minnevlam, brandende in 't hert van Thyrsis, om de schoone Amaril.
Amsterdam, Baltes Boekholt, 1659. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title page, a woodcut vignette on the letterpress title page, a half-page engraved emblem in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 415 pp. Full description

€ 850

Against capitulation: a rare pamphlet from the Deventer crisis of 1672

BOECKHOLT, Arnold van. Missive van de heer Arnold van Boeckholt. burgermeester der stadt Deventer. vervattende de naeckte ronde waerheyt van 't overgeven der selver stadt aen die dwinghlandy harer vyanden ...
Amsterdam, Baltus Boeckholt, [1673]. 4to. With 2 woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title lettered in brown ink. [4], 36, [4 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

International scientific exchange of military "secrets" on the use of fuses
and the employment of explosive shrapnel projectiles

BORMANN, Charles Guillaume. [Drop-title:] To Captain J.A. Dahlgren ... Sur le mémoire: "Nouveau système de shrapnells ... Notes sur le mémoire "Nouveau Système de Shrapnells de l'artillerie Néerlandaise".
[Liège, 1854]. 4to (21.9 x ca. 17.5 cm). Written in a neat 19th-century cursive in brown ink. Previously folded, with the envelope still present. 24 pp. and an envelope. Full description

€ 1,400

Magnificent copy of the contemporary history of the origins of the Dutch Golden Age:
first complete edition with the extra plates and portraits illustrating the 1679-1684 edition

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Nederlandsche oorloghen, beroerten, ende borgerlijcke oneenicheyden ...
Leiden, Govert Basson, Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1621-1634. 5 parts in 6 volumes. Folio (33.5 x 22 cm). With 5 engraved allegorical title pages, 39 double-page engraved plates, 41 full-page engraved portraits, a full-page map of the Seventeen Province, 158 half-page illustrations, 13 half-page portraits, 10 smaller portraits, and a woodcut illustration. An additional 19th-century portrait of the author is mounted on the final flyleaf. Uniform 17th-century (ca. 1680) vellum, a blind tooled centre-piece on each side, gold-tooled spines with two black leather title labels lettered in gold, red edges, green closing ties. [6], 350, 193; 126, 230, 48, 48, 60; [12], 73, 91, 120, 102; [6], 103, 118, 63, 63, 1, 33, [59]; [11], 56, 48, [2], 78, 90, [4], 126; [12], 100, 83, 69, 66, 69, [18] ll. Full description

€ 4,750

One of the most important histories, certainly the most detailed, precise and reliable of the Dutch Revolt against Spain

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden ... in XXXVII boeken, en IV stukken verdeelt … voorts met een byvoeghsel van authentyke stukken en nieuwe registers vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangh, Hendrick and Dirck Boom, 1679-1684. 9 parts in 4 volumes (with the index "Algemeene blad-wyser" by Abraham van Poot published in 1684 in volume IV). Folio (ca. 39.5 x 23.5 cm). With 4 identical frontispieces, 5 identical woodcut publisher's marks, the title of volume I is printed in red and black, 4 identical portraits of the author, 36 full-page engraved portraits, and 40 double-page plates. Uniform contemporary blind-tooled vellum, both panelled boards with large blind-stamped ornament in the centre, ribbed spines with manuscript title in black ink, sprinkled edges, remnants of green ties. Volume I: [36], 1006, [2], [188]; volume II: [16], 1-232, 235-242, 241-672, 679-994, [128]; volume III: [16], 1-532, [6], 529-623, 626-627, 626-690, 693-[896], [28]; volume IV: [8], 1-419, 432-[512], 517-[692], [4], 14, 16, [184] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Eyewitness account of the Cape under Dutch rule, with the often missing map

BOUCHENROEDER, Baron Friedrich von. Reize in de binnenlanden van Zuid-Afrika. Gedaan in den jare 1803.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens en zoon; The Hague, B. Besanger, 1806. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, and two folding tables showing (1) the fertility of various regions and (2) the products that could be exported following improvements in the cultivation of various crops. Contemporary marbled boards. [4], 231, [13] pp. Full description

€ 1,650

The first complete collected edition

BREDERO, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Alle de wercken. So spelen, gedichten, brieven en kluchten van den gheest-rijcken poëet. Verbetert en daer by ghevoeght eenighe die noyt voor desen ghedruckt zijn gheweest.
Comprising:
(1) Treur-Spel van Roddrick ende Alphonsus.
(2) Griane. Op syn Spreuck het kan verkeeren.
(3) Lucelle.
(4) Moortje.
(5) Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo.
(6) Stommen ridder.
(7) Angeniet.
(8) Schyn-Heylich.
(9) Spel, op 't oud liedt Het daget uyt den Oosten, op de reghel, Die quaet doet, quaet ontmoet.
(10) Nederduytsche poëmata.
(11) Kluchten als Vande koe.
(12) Klucht, van Symen sonder soetigheydt.
(13) Klucht van den molenaer.
(14) Klucht vanden Hoogduytschen quacksalver.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Lodewijckz. van den Plasse, 1638. 14 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author on the general title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van de Velde, an almost full-page engraved portrait of the author by Hessel Gerrits, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title of each part. Further with decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum [ca. 800 pp.] Full description

€ 3,500

A year in bloom: Johanna Brehmer’s Calendrier des fleurs

BREHMER, Johanna. Calendrier des fleurs. Douze planches en couleurs representant les douze mois de l'année. Aquarelles par Johanna Brehmer. Edition diamant.
Paris, A. Levy, 1882. 8vo. With 12 chromolithographs in passe-partouts. Contemporary gold-tooled half blue morocco and marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [14] ll. Full description

€ 950

Charting the Northeast coasts of Asia

BROUGHTON, William Robert. Voyage de découvertes dans la partie septentrionale de l'Océan Pacifique, fait par le capitaine W.R. Broughton, commandant la corvette de S.M.B. la Providence et sa conserve, pendant les années 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798; dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d'Asie, depuis le 35° degré nord, jusqu'au 52°; l'île d'Insu, ordinairement appelée Jesso; les côtes Nord, Est et Sud du Japon; les îles de Likeujo et autres îles voisines, ainsi que la côte de Corée.
Paris, Dentu, 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map of the North-East coast of Asia and Japan, a folding engraved map of the islands Likeujo and Madjicosemah, 4 large folding engraved plates with plans and views of harbours and coastlines in Japan, Taiwan, and China, and a full-page engraved plate showing the costumes of Volcan's Bay. Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled calf. [6], XXXII, 243, [3]; [4], 341, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Twenty-one Dutch poems copied by Anthony Brummelkamp, a leader of the Afscheiding of 1834

BRUMMELKAMP, Anthony. Verzameling van gedichten van A. Brummelkamp.
[The Netherlands?], 1860. 4to. Manuscript in Dutch, written in black ink on paper, with the title page decorated in black and grey. Later boards covered with decorated paper with a fleur-de-lis pattern. [47] ll. Full description

€ 750

Buffon for children, illustration finely coloured by hand

[BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de]. De kleine Buffon, of natuurlijke historie der dieren, ten dienste der jeugd. Eerste [- vierde] deeltje.
Dordrecht, J. Zender, [ca. 1830]. 4 volumes. Oblong 16mo (9 x 11 cm). With engraved frontispiece in the first volume, and 32 illustrations of animals on 8 engraved plates, 2 in each volume, all coloured by hand. Original publisher's yellow printed paper wrappers. Each volume 64 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

At the origins of Cape botany: a pioneering illustrated flora

BURMAN, Johannes. Rariorum Africanarum plantarum, ad vivum delineatum, iconibus ac descriptionibus illustraturum, decas prima [-decima].
Amsterdam, Henricus Boussiere, 1738-1739. 10 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 100 finely engraved plates probably after Hendrik Claudius (1655-1697), depicting South African plants. With the same engraved vignette on each of the 10 divisional title pages, by Jan Caspar Philips (1700-1775), showing Cape Town and Table Mountain seen from the water. First title printed in red and black, and with some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half calf. VIII, "268" [= 280], [2] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

First Burton Club edition of Burton's Arabian Nights

[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. BURTON, Richard Francis. A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments, now entituled the book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
[Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1904]. 14 (instead of 17) volumes. Royal 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With frontispieces and numerous illustrations (vol. 8 lacking one image). With: Supplemental nights to the book of the thousand nights and a night with notes anthropological and explanatory.
[Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1940]. Contemporary richly gilt and sometimes also silver full cloth, some top edges gilt, some red. Full description

€ 2,500

A masterpiece of early Dutch lithography, with 17 leaves printed in gold

[CAAN, Hendrik Johan]. Vorsten uit het Huis van Oranje geboren op het Lustslot Soestdijk.
[The Hague, A.P. Van Langenhuijsen, 1842].
With: (2) CAAN, Hendrik Johan. Toast bij de aanbieding van het Gedenkschrift Diligentia den 13 September 1843.
[Den Haag, A.P. van Langenhuijsen, 1843]. 2 works. 8vo. Ad 1: with 4 full-page lithographed plates and 17 leaves of lithographed text, partly in calligraphic script and partly in typographic lettering, all printed in gold using bronze powder. Ad 2: fully lithographed. Unbound. [18]; [2] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

An insider’s account of the Italian Wars and the struggle for Milan

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo.
Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1532. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. 19th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. 75, [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 950

Rare encyclopaedic work by one of the most prolific polymaths of the 17th century

CARAMUEL Y LOBKOWITZ, Juan. Caramuelis apparatus philosophicus quatuor libris distinctus, in primo de omnium scientiarum quae schlastice tractari possunt quidditate, dignitate, ordine, utilitate, de artibus vanis, superstitiosis, viribus naturae & daemonis conjurationibus, hominum pactis, divinationibus per Deum, astra, ignem, aquam, manum, terram, aerem, sacra, sortes, literas &c. ...
Cologne, Johann Arnold Cholinus, 1665. Folio. With a small woodcut ornament on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Further with some tables in the text. Stiff paper wrappers with (remnants of) a manuscript title label at the head of the spine. [1], [1 blank], 144, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 18,000

Diplomacy, pamphlets, and public opinion: Casanova and the Venetian–Dutch conflict

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.
[Vienna or Venice?], 1785.
With:
(2) [CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Supplimento alla esposizione ragionata della controversia, che suffifte tra la repubblica di Venezia, e quella d'Olanda.
1785.
(3) [CASANOVA, Giacomo], Signed at end: L.A.S.D.V. Lettera ai signori Giovanni e Stefano Luzac contenente alcune offervazioni sopra la Narrazione dell'affare che ha prodotto la differenza vertente fra la repubblica di Venezia e quella di Olanda, pubblicata nei numeri xxi. C xxii. della loro gazetta.
1785. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Ads 1 and 2: with a woodcut decoration on the title page, rococo-decorated titling capitals used for one word in the title and one initial, thick-and-thin rules, ad 3: with the same decorated initials as ad 1 and 2, and with woodcut headpieces throughout. Contemporary half vellum with marbled boards, gold-tooled spine, and a black leather spine label lettered in gold: "Miscellanea". LXX, [4 blank]; LXIX, [5 blank]; 48 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Three illustrated first editions by one of the most popular Dutch poets of the Golden Age

[CATS, Jacob], Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus, Vitae humanae ideam, Emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius [= Hans van der Hellen], 1618.
With: (2) [CATS, Jacob]. Maechden-plicht ofte ampt der ionck-vrouwen, in eerbaer liefde, aenghewesen door Sinne-beelden.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius, 1618.
(3) [CATS, Jacob]. Selfstryt, dat is crachtighe beweginghe van vlees en gheest ... (&c.).
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius for Jan Pietersz van de Venne, 1620. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved frontispiece for each of the three parts; 51 numbered emblems in the first part, the well-known folding engraved plate of the "Kinderspelen" at the end of part 2, decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; Ad 2 with a full-page engraved plate, a half-page engraved plate, 44 emblems, and extra inserted is the famous full-page portrait of Galathee; Ad 3: with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 4 half-page engravings in the text, decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold. [40], 120; 111, [1 blank]; 107, [5]; [16], 92, [20]; [34], 119, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Very rare and beautiful, with wide margins, incunable copy of one of the earliest Dutch editions
of De ludo scachorum printed in 1479 by Geraert Leeu in Gouda

[CESSOLIS, Jacobus de and FRANCO (translator)]. [Drop title a1v:] Boeck dat men hiet dat scaecspel. [Incipit on a2r:] Hier beghint eç suuerlijc boec vanden tijtverdrijf edelre heren ende vrouwen als vande scaecspul ...
(Colophon on i6v:) Gouda, Geraert Leeu, 2 October 1479. Small folio (ca. 26 x 20 cm). The text is set in Gothic type in double columns of 35 lines to a page, with large manuscript initials in red ink at the start of every chapter, rubricated throughout. Further with Geraert Leeu's printer's device and his initials below the colophon on i5v. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, gold-tooled spine with a burgundy morocco title label lettered in gold. [67], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 85,000

Political reflections on the Patriot crisis of 1787

[CHARRIÈRE, Isabelle de (Belle van ZUYLEN)]. Considération sur l'affaire des canoniers[!] français ...
[Switzerland?], 1787. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, and 4 woodcut tailpieces. Disbound. "35" [= 31] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Exploring the royal park at Het Loo

CORDES, Jan Willem Hugo. In Oranje's lusthof. Wandeligen in het Koninklijk park van het Loo.
Apeldoorn, T.D.H. Pull, [1895]. Small 4to. 19th-century gold-tooled black sheepskin. [8], 64 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

German translation of Croll’s standard work on iatrochemistry

CROLL, Oswald. Basilica chymica oder alchymistisch königlich Kleynod: ein philosophisch durch sein selbst eigne Erfahrung confirmirte und bestättigte Beschreibung und Gebrauch der aller fürtrefflichsten chimischen Artzneyen so auss dem Liecht der Gnaden und Natur genommen in sich begreiffent. Beneben angehengtem seinem newen Tractat von den innerlichen Signaturn oder Zeichen der Dinge.
Frankfurt am Main, printed by Caspar Rötel for Gottfried Tampach, [1629]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 21.5 x 16.5 cm). With a richly engraved title page designed by Aegidius Sadeler, with circular alchemical diagrams at the top and below (the one below surrounded by alchemical equipment) and portraits of 6 famous alchemists in oval scrollwork cartouches (3 on either side), further with 5 small woodcut illustrations in the text (depicting alchemical instruments). All text is set within a printed single or double fillet frame. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 248, [15], [1 blank]; 72, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Dalrymple's response to the Nootka Crisis

DALRYMPLE, Alexander. The Spanish pretensions fairly discussed.
London, printed by George Bigg, sold by P. Elmsly and J. Stockdale, [1790]. 8vo. Disbound, kept in a plastic folder. 19, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Beautifully coloured composite atlas

[DANCKERTS, ALLARD, VISSCHER, DE WIT, MORTIER and others]. Atlas.
[Amsterdam, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts?, ca. 1706 (dated maps 1694-1706)]. Imperial folio (53.5 x 33.5 cm). Composite atlas, with an engraved title-page, 43 double-page engraved maps and 4 double-page engraved tables, all beautifully coloured in a consistent and balanced manner by a contemporary hand, probably in the workshop of the publisher. With maps by Johannes, Justus, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts, Carel and Abraham Allard, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Frederik de Wit, Pieter Mortier, Caspar Specht and even Alexis-Hubert Jaillot in Paris. Modern maroon sheepskin. Full description

€ 48,500

How Louis-Philippe bled France dry

DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.
[Paris], Aubert, [1833]. Ca. 36 x 56.2 cm. Under a white and gold passe-partout, framed in a dark reddish brown wooden frame (ca. 54 x 66.5 cm). Full description

€ 450

One of the earliest accounts of the Dutch Revolt

DINOTH, Richard. De bello civili Belgico libri VI.
Basel, Conrad Waldkirch, 1586. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and at the end of the work, 7 decorated woodcut initials, 5 tailpieces and 1 headpiece made up of typographical ornaments. (Near-) contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [8], 456, [8] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

One of the earliest illustrated books printed in Amsterdam

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS (Denys van Rijkel). Tractat[us] de co[n]versione peccatoris.
(Colophon: Amsterdam, [Doen Pietersz or Pieter Jansz Tyebaut], for Johannes, priest at Leiderdorp), [ca. 1520]. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut of the resurrection of the dead and a half-page woodcut of the temptation of Christ by the devil in the desert. Modern blind-tooled vellum. [56] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Complete set of a pioneering agricultural work

DUHAMEL DE MONCEAU, Henri Louis. Traité de la culture des terres, suivant les principes de M. Tull, Anglois.
Paris, Hyppolite-Louis Guerin and Louis-François Delatour, 1753-1761. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 41 folding plates, and a table in the text. Uniformly bound in contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. Full description

€ 2,500

Splendidly bound dedication copy of a wholly engraved music guide

[DUMAS, Antoine-Joseph]. L'art de la musique enseigné et pratiqué par la nouvelle methode du bureau typographique.
Paris, Sr. Auguste [for the author], [1753]. Large oblong 4to (26 x 33.5 cm). Wholly engraved, including an engraved title-page, two-page engraved dedication, a double-page folding engraved musical table ("Elémens de la musique. Plan général du bureau typographique musical") and 427 engraved text pages by Mademoiselle Vandôme. Contemporary gold-tooled dark green (goatskin) morocco, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, gold-tooled boards with the coat of arms of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1725-1785) on both sides, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges (attributed to Jean-Charles-Henri Lemonnier). [4], 12-427, [1 blank]; 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 37,000

Land rights, provincial government and serfdom in the eastern Netherlands

[DUTCH LAW]. [Collection of four works on law and government in Overijssel, the Veluwe and Twente].
Comprising:
[1] [OVERIJSSEL]. Landtrechten van Over-Yssel.
Kampen, Pieter Hendericksz van Wieringen, 1634.
[2] [VELUWE]. Gereformiert lantrecht van Veluwen und Veluwen-zoom, met de veranderongh op 't capittel van appellatien ende clarongen aen Engellander-holdt ghevallen.
Arnhem, printed by Jan Janssen, 1621.
[3] [OVERIJSSEL]. Ordren ende reglementen omtrent de regeringe der provintie van Overyssel in het toe komende te onderhouden.
Deventer, Jan Colomp, 1658.
[4] [TWENTE]. Hof-hoorige rechten in Twente, mitsgaders de ampliatien ende elucidatien, daer op, by de Staten van Overyssel gemaeckt.
Zwolle, printed by Gerrit Tydeman, 1668. 4 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work. Contemporary vellum. [4], 79, [1 blank], 106, [2]; [78], [2]; 44; 42 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

A substantial collection of treaties drawn up between 1576 and 1701,
highlighting an important period in Dutch diplomatic history

[DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt en gesloten tusschen de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten Genereael der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen en Potentaten ter andere zyde.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [not before 1701]. 73 pamphlets in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page with the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General. 70 of the 73 treaties have a separate title page, the other 3 were published without thus the work is complete. 67 of these 70 treaties with a title page contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General, 2 of the earlier treaties bear Van Wouw's woodcut printer's device on their title pages, 1 title page shows a simple woodcut floral vignette, 1 title page does not contain any (woodcut) decoration, and 1 treaty without a title page does contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General at the start of the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout the treaties. The text is set in both roman and gothic type. Later vellum. Full description

€ 2,500

Portrait of the botanist Johannes Commelin by one of Rembrandt's best pupils

[PAINTING]. [EECKHOUDT, Gerbrand vanden, attributed to].

[Portrait of Johannes Commelin].
[Amsterdam], [ca. 1670]. 63 x 48.5 cm (frame 86 x 71 cm). Oil painting on linen. Contemporary richly ornamented gilt wooden frame.

Full description

€ 125,000

Rare collection of 17 popular farcical texts

[FACETIAE]. Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est, jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum scripta, non tàm lectu jucunda & jocosa, amoena & amanda, quàm lectu verè digna & utilia, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accomodata, illustrata & adornata.
[Rostock, Augustin Ferber], 1627. 17 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With general title-page and 17 part-titles, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations. Contemporary vellum. Full description

€ 4,500

The last progress of a regent: Maria Louisa of Hesse-Kassel

FERWERDA, Abraham and Rienk JELGERHUIS (engraver). Nauwkeurige afbeelding der lijk-statie van haare doorluchtige hoogheid Maria Louisa, geboren Princesse van Hessen-Kassel, douairière van Johan Willem Friso, Prins van Orange en Nassau ...
[Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, 1765]. Oblong folio. With an engraved coat-of-arms as a headpiece, and 22 full-page engraved plates by Rienk Jelgerhuis. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [10] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Notorious forged binding, gold-tooled with Ottoman imagery painted red, white and green on dark brown

FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus. [Epitome rerum Romanarum].
Leiden, Adriaen Wijngaerden (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy), 1648. 8vo (18 x 12 x 3 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Cornelius van Dalen. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf. The decoration on the binding is believed to have been executed in Bologna ca. 1880/1900 by a group of forgers: each board with the same scene, showing 2 women in Ottoman costume, one kneeling to play a qanun (Turkish zither) at left and the other perhaps dancing at right, framed by drapery as though on a stage, with a crescent moon and 5-pointed star in each corner and the name "IBRAHIM" at upper left, the whole in a frame of double fillets. The figures' skin is painted white and the clothes and drapery red and green. The crescent moon and star repeat in spine compartments 1 and 3-5. [32], “595” [= 535], [69], [4 blank] pp. including the integral engraved title page. Full description

€ 28,500

A short history of Utrecht written during the negotiations for the Treaty of Utrecht in 1712-13,
richly embellished with ca. 315 coloured coats of arms

[FRESCHOT, Casimir]. Histoire abregée de la ville, et province d'Utrecht. Avec une connoissance ébauchée de la noblesse de cette province, & une liste de touts les grands schouts, ou chefs de justice connus autrefois sous le nom de vicontes ou burgraves d'Utrecht.
Utrecht, Guillaume Meester, 1713. 8vo. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Schut. Added are two finely executed manuscript frontispieces, both with hand-coloured coats of arms: the first showing the arms of the Bishop of Utrecht together with those of the five collegiate churches of Utrecht; the second displaying the arms of the Province of Utrecht and its five principal cities. The first part, devoted to the history of the bishops of Utrecht, is illustrated with 41 hand-coloured manuscript coats of arms of the bishops of Utrecht, distributed over 35 leaves. The section on Utrecht castles, manor houses, and nobility contains 237 hand-coloured manuscript coats of arms on 37 leaves. The manuscript supplement includes a further four leaves with 33 coats of arms, of which six remain unfinished. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [16], 264, 64 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Often praised work on South America

FREZIER, [Amédée François]. Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili, du Perou, et du Bresil. Fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714.
Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1717. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, the title pages printed in red and black, 27 engraved plates showing maps, city plans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people. Contemporary calf. XX, 1-294; [2], 297-600 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

The fish of Scandinavia

FRIES, Bengt Fredrik, Carl Ulric EKSTRÖM & Carl Jakob SUNDEVALL. Skandinaviens Fiskar.
Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söners forlag, (1892-1895). 2 text volumes and one atlas volume. Large 4to. With many lithographed illustrations of fish and details of fish in the 2 text volumes and 55 chromolithographed plates in the atlas volumes, with beatifully depicted fish, mostly 3 to one page. Drawn and lithographed by W. von Wright assisted by Erdman, Thornam and others. Plates are intrerleaved with the original blue tissues. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt. [8], 566, [10]; [6], 671 (pp. 568-1279), [3] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Frisian flora and plants of northwestern Europe: a detailed description

GABBEMA, Simon Abbes. Friesche lust-gaarde ofte boom-heester-bloem- en kruyd-waarande, bestaande uyt der gewaszen beschrijvinge, die in d'Europesche en d'aangrenszende landschappen bekent zijn ...
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1687 (frontispiece: 1686). 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, 10 decorated woodcut initials, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled half calf. [1], [1 blank], [38], 660, [60] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Well-illustrated encyclopaedia of astronomical and surveying instruments from the time of Galileo,
with a world map in two hemispheres, and 3 volvelles

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti di astronomia, et cosmografia, ove si vede la somma della teorica, et pratica di queste due nobilissime scienze.
Venice, Roberto Meietti, 1598. 4to (22 x 16.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a folding woodcut plate, 3 woodcut volvelles with moving parts, and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Including a world map in two hemispheres (incl. America and a scattering of islands at the location of Australia) on two facing pages, they reappear with volvelle attachments on both sides of leaf 149 and leaf 153. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 228 ll. Full description

€ 35,000

Laws for mining in Peru and Mexico

[GALVEZ, Josef de, edited by Manuel CARVALLO]. Reales ordenanzas para la direccion, rejimen y gobierno del importante cuerpo de la mineria de Nueva-España, y de su Real Tribunal Jeneral. De orden de su Majestad. Impresa en Madrid año de 1783.
Santiago (Chile), Imprenta de la Opinion, R. Rengifo, 1833. Folio. Contemporary blue wrappers. [4], IV, 108, 36, XXXIII pp. Full description

€ 950

Mocking Napoleon's failed campaigns

[GILLRAY, James]. French generals retiring, on account of their health: with Lepaux presiding in the Directorial Dispensary.
[London], Hannah Humphrey, 20 June 1799. With a hand-coloured engraving (ca. 28 x 39 cm). Kept in a white passe-partout. Full description

€ 750

A "lost" first Dutch edition of Giraffi's account of the Neapolitan revolt

GIRAFFI, Alessandro and Lambert van den BOS (translator). Historisch verhael van de schrickelijcke beroerte van Napels; met de wonderlijcke opkomst en ongheluckige ondergangh van Mas' Aniello.
Amsterdam, Nicolaes Ravesteyn, 1650. 12mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [8], 275, [5 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Presentation copy to minister Baroche, bound by Capé

GRANDIDIER, Ernest. Voyage dans l'Amerique du Sud. Pérou et Bolivie.
Paris, J. Claye for Michel Lévy Frères, 1861. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title. Contemporary blue morocco by Capé, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled end papers. [4], 310, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

The Dutch Revolt and the atrocities of Spanish rule, extensively illustrated

[GYSIUS, Johannes]. Oorsprong en voortgang der Neder-landtscher beroerten ende ellendicheden. Waerin vertoont worden de voornaemste tyrannijen, moorderijen, ende andere onmenschelijcke wreetheden, die onder het ghebiedt van Philips de II coninck van Spaengien, door zijne stad-houders in 'twerck ghestelt zijn, gheduyrende dese Nederlantsche troublen ende oorlogen...
[Leiden, Hendrik Lodewijksz. van Haestens], 1616. 4to. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 16 engraved oval portraits (15 full-page, 1 half-page), a full-page engraved plate in the text, and 2 double-page engraved plates. The title page has been printed in red and black. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 411, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

16th-century highlighted in gold manuscript of Hafez's collected works: a pinnacle of Persian literature

HAFEZ (HAFIZ) [Khwaaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi]. [The Divân of Hafez].
[Persia], 983 AH [= 1575-76 CE]. 21.3 x 16 cm. Illuminated manuscript on paper, written in a fine nasta'liq script in black ink in 2 columns of 15 lines per page. The two columns of text are written in a panel measuring 14 x ca. 7.4 cm, most of the text is written in a simple frame built up from lines in black, turquoise, gold, and blue. The text begins with a beautiful blue and gold headpiece with small white, red, gold, and light blue flowers. Leaves 1v and 2r are beautifully highlighted in gold and decorated with intricate flower designs, vertically in between the text columns one finds small flowers in gold, white, red, brown, and light blue on a background of gold, horizontally between the text one finds gold highlights and banners of samll white, red, brown, and light blue flowers on a kobalt blue (and 1 one instance black) background, the two columns together are surrounded by frame with incredibly intricate gold and blue flowers and blue dots on a clear background, the larger margins on these leaves are beautifully decorated with an intricate flower-and-vine design in gold, outlined in black and the centers of the flowers are either red or blue. The text on leaves 2v and 3r is surrounded by the same frame of incredibly intricate gold and blue flowers and blue dots, with some additional colourful lines surrounding this frame. Leaf 8 is sprinkled with gold paint, the margins of leaf 18 are decorated with gold dots. All text (and decorations) is surrounded by a thin black double-line frame spanning 2 facing pages (ca. 21.8 x 30 cm). Later half black leather and multicolour painted and lacquered paper over paper boards. The painted sides show (from the outside in) a 0.4 cm blue frame around a 1.2 cm border of orange and green flowers with red details on a yellow background, this is followed by another 0.4 blue frame which surrounds the main decoration: large flowers in red, yellow, green, and blue on a vibrant orange background. [92] ll. Full description

€ 25,000

Veterinarian compendium for most diseases of horses and other animals

HERTWIG, H. C. Praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie für Thierärzte.
Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1850. Large 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, red morocco spine label, red edges. XII, 811, [5] pp. Full description

€ 150

Eyewitness account of the siege of Breda (1637), with the rare folding plan

HEXHAM, Henry. Journael ofte een ware ende kort verhael van 't veermaerde belegh van de Stadt Breda, door het kloeck-moedich, ende victorieus beleydt van Syne Hoogheydt de Prins van Orangien &c.
Delft, printed for and sold by Henricus Hondius, The Hague, 1638. 4to. With a large folding map of the city of Breda and surroundings during the siege in 1637, with an explanatory text pasted to the bottom margin. Interleaved copy. Early 19th-century gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco. [8], 55, [1 blank], "14" [= 20] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

One of the most celebrated whaling prints

HIGGINS, William John. South Sea whale fishery. A representation of the ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Island of Bouro - with their boats & crew in the various process of fishing, shewing the manner the spermacetti whales are caught, also the method of cutting them into the ship, & boiling the oil upon deck.
London, W.J. Huggins, January 1, 1825. Aquatint (plate size: 44 x 56.5 cm), printed on unwatermarked wove paper (50.5 x 61.5 cm). Full description

€ 5,000

The siege and relief of Leiden, with maps, plans and the original prospectus

HOFDIJK, Willem Jacobsz. Leydens wee en zegepraal (1573-1574).
Leiden, P. van Santen (printed by P. W. M. Trap), 1874. Large 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece, three folding lithographed maps and views, and a full-page lithographed plate. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, brown buckram sides, red sprinkled edges, decorative paper endpapers. [6], 248 pp. Full description

€ 450

On the flower that holds the first rank among all the flowers in the garden

HOGG, Thomas. A concise and practical treatise on the growth and culture of the carnation, pink, auricula, polyanthus, ranunculus, tulip, and other flowers. Including a dissertation on soils and manures, and containing also a catalogue of the finest and most-esteemed carnations, &c. that are cultivated by the amateur florist, and exhibited at the different prize-shows round London, and other parts of England. To which are added rules and regulations of the Islington & Chelsea florists' societies.
London, [1820]. 8vo. With a full page coloured lithographed plate of "a bizarre Carnation". Contemporary grey paper boards. XII, 172 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Tulips, poetry, and the pleasures of country life at the Moffenschans

HONDIUS, Petrus. Dapes inemptae, of de moufe-schans, dat is, de soeticheydt des buyten-levens, vergheselschapt met de boucken.
Leiden, for Daniel Roels (colophon: J.A. vander Marsce), 1621. 8vo. With the woodcut printer's device on the title page, the title is set within an ornamental typographical border. Contemporary vellum. 31, [1 blank], 543, [2 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Dutch regional costumes in twelve hand-coloured plates

HOVE, W. van. [Album of Dutch costumes].
The Hague and Leiden, van Gogh & Co. and August Arnz & Co., [1840-1853]. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates showing Dutch costumes, lithographed by August Arnz after W. van Hove, captioned in French. Contemporary beige gilt decorated boards. Full description

€ 1,250

Beautiful photogravure of Jendrassik's well-known painting, issued for the Stedelijk Museum in 1912

JENDRASSIK, Jenö. Ellende/ Misère.
Amsterdam, Felix Pinchas Abrahamson, 1912. Ca. 42 x 32 cm. Full description

€ 250

Spectacular 17th-century jewelled binding with a noble provenance

[JEWELLED BINDING - FRENCH PRAYER BOOK]. L'abbé de la HOGUE. La journée du chrétien, sanctifiée par la prière et la méditation.
Lyon and Paris, Librairie Catolique de Perisse frères, 1844. 16mo. Binding: ca. 11 x 7 x 2.5 cm. With a small printer's device on the title page. 17th-century elaborately jewelled and decorated gilt silver binding with a gilt silver imperial double-headed eagle and two hands holding a heart centre piece, below Jesus on the cross (with an added skull and bones at the foot of the cross) and ornamental gilt silver corner pieces connected to the gilt silver board edge fittings on both boards. The whole is set with numerous jewels (amethysts, garnets, turquoise, and (simulated) sapphires). With two jewelled clasps closing on pegs in the fore edge of the front board, gilt edges, red velvet paste-downs and blue silk flyleaves backed with paper. VIII, 524, [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 65,000

First edition in its very rare first state of a famous emblem book printed by Plantin,
from the celebrated library of Robert Hoe III

JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Emblemata, ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium. Eiusdem aenigmatum libellus, ad D. Arnoldum Rosenbergum.
Including: JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Aenigmatum libellus, ad vivum clarissimum, Arnoldum Rosenbergum jurisconsultum.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565 (colophon: 15 May 1565). 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (ca. 17 x 11 cm). With Plantin's woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, 57 woodcut emblems by Geeraard Jansen van Kampen and Arnout Nicolai after Geoffroy Ballin and Peeter Huys. The text of the entire first work and the title-page of the second work are set within a decorative frame built up from typographical ornaments. Further with two woodcut decorated initials. Splendid late 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled red morocco bound by a French book binder named Allô, possibly Paul Charles Allô (1824-1890) and signed "Allo" in the lower turn-in of the front board. With the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges. 149, [3]; [1], [1 blank], [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Annuities: statistics and insurance in the eighteenth century

KERSSEBOOM, Willem. Proeven van politique rekenkunde, vervat in drie verhandelingen ...
The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1748.
Comprising:
- Eerste verhandeling tot een proeve om te weeten de probable menigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt; ... Derde druk.
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1748.
- Tweede verhandeling, bevestigende de proeve om te weeten de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.
- Derde verhandeling over de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.
- Eenige aanmerkingen op de gissingen over den staat van het menschelyk geslagt, uitreekening van de lyfrenten en 't aanhangsel op beide, begreepen in het boek, genaamt inleiding tot de algemeene geographie, door Nicolaas Struyck ...
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1740.
With:
(2) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Kort bewys, dat op de afstervinge, voorgevallen in een klein getal persoonen van zeekeren ouderdom, geensins een generale reegel van leevenskracht voor andere te fundeeren is. Hier is bygevoegd een tafel of richtsnoer, naar welke, in proportie van den ordinaris intrest der obligatien, in gereed geld te vinden is de juste koopprys, dewelke moet betaald werden eens, om den kooper geduurende zyn leeven, in proeveniershuizen of diergelyke, zonder schaade of voordeel de kost te konnen geeven.
[The Hague?], 1738.
(3) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Observatien, waar in voornamentlyk getoont word wat is gelyktydigheid, dewelke vereischt word in alle calculatien, die tot voorwerp hebben de probable leevenskracht van persoonen van eenigen voorgestelden ouderdom. Hier is bygevoegt een proeve van de constante ondervinding, dat die van de vrouwelyke sexe doorgaans maar eenige weinige jaaren doormalkander langer leven, dan die van de mannelyke ...
The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1740. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. With general title page printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical vignette by A. Bloteling on the 4 divisional title pages of ad 1, respectively dated 1748, 1742, 1742 and 1740. With a woodcut vignette on the general title page and the title pages of ads 2 and 3. Several woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpieces, and tables in the text throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with a (damaged) title-label on the spine lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], 44; [2], 65, [1 blank]; [4], 71, [1 blank]; 18; 30; [2], 52 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Sumptuously bound for the author for presentation to G.P. Oliva,
Superior General of the Jesuit Society, on Royal paper

KIRCHER, Athanasius. Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo ... [vol. 2 half-title:] Artis magnae seu combinatoriae sciendi, ... [titles on the frontispieces:] Ars magna sciendi sive combinatoria [vol. 1] Artis magnae combinatoriae [vol. 2].
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669. 2 volumes bound as 1. Royal folio (46 x 30 x 5.5 cm). With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, an engraved plate with a full-page portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, an engraved plate showing all knowledge of the universe organised as a tree, 2 engraved volvelles (with 4 rotating dials), 20 further engravings on integral leaves and a couple dozen woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco decorated a petit fers, gold-tooled turn-ins, board edges and raised bands, giving a total of more than 1500 impressions of about 14 stamps and 3 rolls, edges gilt over red and blue squiggles. Janssonius van Waesberge, who published Kircher's books in Amsterdam from 1664/65 to 1682, arranged to have copies of several luxuriously bound for Kircher to present to leading figures and this is almost certainly one of them, presented to Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Superior General of the Jesuit Society. [18], 482, [10] pp. (including 2 integral frontispieces), plus 4 inserted tables & 2 plates. Full description

€ 50,000

Thesis on the differences between plants and animals

LAGERLÖF, Wermelandus Magnus and Ulrik Johan ÅBERG. Dissertatio de analogia et differentia inter animalia et plantas.
Lund, Litteris Berlingianis, 1798. 4to. Disbound. 24 pp. Full description

€ 325

An Italian voice on the Dutch Revolt against Spain

LANARIO, Francesco and Michel BAUDIER (translator). Histoire des guerres de Flandre depuis le commencement jusques a la fin … Traduicte d'Italien en Francois et augmentee … Avec une brieve narration de l'ancienne Histoire de Flandre ...
Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1618. 4to. With an engraved allegorical title page by Jaspar Isaac and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [64], 202, [21], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Convolute with the first plans to drain the Haarlemmermeer, the largest lake of Holland

LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriaensz. Haarlemmermeer-boek. Of beschryving, hoe men de Haarlemmer en Leytse-Meer bedyken en droog maken zal … Mitsgaders: van meest alle de meeren die in Noort-Holant tegen den Huigen-dyk en Saardam bedykt, en tot land gemaakt zyn, zedert het jaar 1608 tot het jaar 1641.Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved map of the Haarlemmermeer on the title page of ad 1, and a woodcut vignette on the title pages of the other works, a full-page portrait of the author engraved by Jan Lamsvelt after J. de Keyser, 3 folding engraved maps, 3 half-page engraved plates, 2 half-page woodcut diagrams, several decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. With: (2) LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriansz., Een kleyn chronykje ende voorbereidinge van de afkomste ende 't vergoten van de dorpen van Graft en de Ryp … Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724.(3) COLEVELDT, Claes Arentsen. Bedenckingen over het droogh maken van de Haerlemmer ende Leydse Meer … tegen t'Haarlemmer Meer-boek van Jan Adriaansen Leeghwater.Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1727.(4) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer.Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727.(5) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat, van de Haerlemmer Meer. Waar in wert aangetoont hoe noodszaakelyk die moet werden droog-gemaakt, en op wat wyze dit kan geschieden … Tweeden druk, … verbetert en verrykt. Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727. Original quarter red roan, marbled paper sides. 48, 47, [1], [4], 27, [1 blank], 40, 40 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

In an embossed binding designed by the author, turning the boards into sundials

LE ROYER, Jacques. Oeuvres ... [with a note above the title: "Dico opera mea Regi."].
Including: Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere ... Des influences des cieux, & des astres ... Deuxie'me ... Des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres.
Paris, R.J.B. de la Caille (printed [by Nicolas Motays] in Avranches), 1678. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved device on the title page, a full-page engraved astrological sundial, 14 woodcuts in the text, depicting apparatus set up for laboratory experiments, astrological diagrams, etc., woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary tanned sheepskin over boards, designed by the author, the front board of double thickness with a hole bored in its fore-edge to hold a metal rod or gnomon (lacking) that could be inserted in any of several holes on the front and back boards to make the book into a sundial (one hole in the back board also allowed it to be inserted for use with the sundial pasted over the back paste-down when the book is open), gilt edges. The front board, back board and spine have been embossed with three different engraved plates sundials, emblems and extensive lettering. In a modern red morocco box. 14, 111, [1 blank]; [6], 109-364 pp. Full description

€ 20,000

The famous Houttuyn edition of a great encyclopaedic work on natural history, based on Linnaeus' Systema Naturae

LINNAEUS, Carl and Martinus HOUTTUYN. Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschrijving der dieren, planten en mineraalen; volgens het samenstel van den heer Linnaeus.
Amsterdam, Frans Houttuyn (volumes 1-8); heirs of Frans Houttuyn (volumes 9-35); Jacobus van der Burgh and son (volumes 36-37), 1761-1785. 37 volumes. 8vo. With 296 hand-coloured engraved plates (all folding, except 5 full-page plates in the first volume). Further with a woodcut vignette on each title page, woodcut decorated initials, and head- and tailpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary uniform gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with 2 red morocco labels lettered in gold on the spines. Full description

€ 12,500

The medicine cabinet of a VOC ship in the late 18th century

[LIST of MEDICAL SUPPLIES - VOC - BROADSIDE]. Lijst van de medicamenten.
Middelburg, Pieter Gillissen, [in or after 1771]. Ca. 57.5 x 46 cm. The work is housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] l. Full description

€ 4,500

Catholic doctrine in 920 mnemonic poems, printed in Mexico

LOZANO, Francisco Xavier. Verdades eternas, confirmadas con la Sagrada Escritura, y expuestas en decimas castellanas para conservarlas facilmente en la memoria.
Mexico, Heirs of Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page engraving of San Ignacio de Loyola by Aguera and several woodcut borders and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XIV, 168; 172, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

On the road around 1800: a German woman's travels through Germany and the Netherlands

[LUYKEN, Christina Margaretha]. Meinen Reise-Buch, von 1790 bis 1809.
[The Netherlands and Germany, ca. 1790-1809 (-1821)]. Ca. 15.4 x 9.5 cm. Written in a small German hand.
Original floral wrappers with the manuscript title on the front, blue sprinkled edges. [39] ll. Full description

€ 1,500

Witty and outspoken sermons by one of France’s most celebrated medieval preachers

MAILLARD, Olivier. Opus quadragesimale ... in civitate Nan[n]eten[si] fuit per eu[m]dem publice declamatum ac nuper Parisius impressum.
Paris, [André Bocard for Jean Petit], (colophon: 1 february 1506; note to the reader: 1507). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Petit's printer's device on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text, the work is printed in two columns.18th-century gold-tooled marbled calf. 102, [22] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Frederik Hendrik asks the States General to come to the aid of the government
of the Dutch colony in Brazil

[MANUSCRIPT - BRAZIL - FREDERIK HENDRIK, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau]. [18th-century copy of a letter to the States General originally written on 20 September 1645].
Oosteeklo, originally written on 20 September 1645, this transcription: 18th century. Ca. 23 x 14.5 cm. Kept in a plastic folder between tissue paper. [1] l. Full description

€ 1,250

Very interesting hand-written travel journals with descriptions of unexpected details
regarding the Rhine, Belgium, Paris and the baths and waters of Aachen and Spa

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. [Journals of four summer trips (1) along the Rhine, (2) to Brabant and Flandres, (3) to Paris and (4) to the waters at Aachen and Spa, written in Dutch by an anonymous traveller from Amsterdam during the consecutive years 1804-1807].
[Amsterdam, 1804-1807]. Folio. With 40 circular aquatints, executed in wash manner, most printed in colour. 14 of the roundels retain their printed captions, while 12 are without captions, all have been cut from the original sheets and trimmed to their circular outlines. The manuscript contains 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, 10 depict the interiors of Parisian theatres, and 2 show their foyers. Contemporary red morocco. 159 ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Moving house in the 17th-century Dutch Republic - exchanging the loan of one mill yard and mill for another

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT - STAATS BRABANT]. [Drop title:] D'Eerste presiderende ende andere ...
The Hague, 18 November 1697. ca. 35.5 x 20.5 cm. Manuscript in Dutch on vellum, with the blind-stamped "clein segel" of Holland in the upper left corner of the leaf. Folded, kept in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] l. Full description

€ 600

Map of North Holland printed on cloth

[MAP - NORTH HOLLAND]. Hollande septentrionale divisée en arrondisemens et cantons de justice de paix.
The Hague, F. J. Weygand, 1836. Ca. 89 x 61.5 cm. An engraved map with hand coloured outlines, printed on coated linen. The map is folded and housed in the original brown cloth slipcase with a paper title label mounted on the front. Full description

€ 1,250

A magnificent calligraphic presentation to Prince Frederick

[MARIA-MUNSTER-VEREENIGING]. [Diploma of honorary membership for Prince Frederick of Orange].
Roermond, 19 February 1869. Ca. 44.5 x 30 cm. With 4 calligraphed leaves in black, blue, green, red and gold, and 1 chromolithographed leaf with a wax seal. Further with an illustration and description of the Munsterkerk in Roermond and a manuscript description of the certificates. The leaves are loosely inserted in the original gold- and blind-tooled red morocco portfolio with the title "Maria Munster vereeniging te Roermond" on the front in a decorative frame, surrounded by several gold- and blind-tooled frames, 6 red closing ties, gold-tooled turn-ins, white silk pastedowns. Full description

€ 5,000

Manual of horse riding and breeding Arabian horses

MARKHAM, Gervase. Cavalarice, or the English horseman: ... Newly imprinted, corrected & augmented, with many worthy secrects not before knowne.
(Title page second part: London, Edward Allde for Adward White, 1616-)1617. 8 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title of each part printed within the same decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine label. [16], 88; [4], 264 (=244); [4], 84; [4], 57, [1 blank]; [4], 58; [4], 67, [1 blank]; [4], 86; [4], 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 35,000

Research voyage into inner Surinam, encountering native tribes

MARTIN, Johann Karl Ludwig. Westindische Skizzen. Reise-erinnerungen.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1887. 4to. 22 plates, of which 14 chromolithographs and 8 collotypes, and 1 folding lithographed map of the Surinam River by W.L. Loth. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. VII, [1], 186 pp. Full description

€ 375

Mesue in Italian - the third known (second complete) copy

MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger). Opus quibuslibet aromatariis: necessariu[m]. Mesue in vulgare rescripto. Primo che se rechercha allarte della aromataria como se conosseno le medicine simplice & composte li quattro canone p[er] arte in vulgare declarate alla antidotario: li dubie al configere qlle resolute.
[Napels or Venice, ca. 1500?]. 4to (14.5 x 19.8 cm). Half calf over marbled boards [ca. 1900], gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled red spine label, red sprinkled edges. [34] ll. Full description

€ 45,000

Prescriptions of the past: Antwerp’s official medicine list

[MEDICINE LIST - ANTWERP - BROADSIDE]. Lijste der medicijnen. relatief tot het placcaet in dato 10 april, als hier onder.
[Antwerp, in or after 1684]. Ca. 51 x 37 cm. Full description

€ 3,500

An eyewitness account of the "Disaster of Woerden" (1813), with eight illustrations after J.W. Pieneman

MEULMAN, Jan. Woerden, in slagtmaand MDCCCXIII. Met afbeeldingen.
The Hague, Johannes Allart, 1814. 8vo. With an engraved title page with vignette by R. Vinkeles and 8 full-page engraved plates by Willem van Senus after Jan Willem Pieneman. Contemporary gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco. VIII, 491, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 600

Original preparatory drawings for one of the finest achievements in 18th-century Dutch book illustration

MEURS, Jacob van. [Collection of 84 original drawings for Economische Liedjes].
[Amsterdam, 1792-1798]. With 84 drawings, each ca. 7.3 x 12.7 cm. All drawings carefully tipped onto board leaves, several mounted within elegant grey ink-washed borders. Full description

€ 12,500

Children's writing and family traditions in eighteenth-century Amsterdam

MIDDELBURG, Isaak van; Catrina van MIDDELBURG, and others. [Collection of 22 manuscript occasional poems written by members of the Amsterdam family Van Middelburg(h)].
[The Netherlands, ca. 1717-1749]. 22 broadsheets (one: 32.5 x 20 cm; the other 21: ca. 41.5 x 32.5 cm), containing occasional poems written in a sometimes childish hand, all within a calligraphic frame, five of which printed: full of angels, horses, lions, skaters, a tour by sledge, city view with the daily activities, and religious scenes (Resurrection, Ascension, etc., see no. 21) in the margins. One of the printed broadsheets coloured by a contemporary hand (no. 16). Never bound, kept together in a clear plastic folder. [22] ll. Full description

€ 1,800

Watercolour tour of Europe: charming manuscript album of picturesque views and everyday life

MILLE, Louis. Recueil de vues pittoresques.
[France?], 1824. 4to. With an illustrated title-page heightened in gold, two smaller titles also heightened in gold, and 52 original watercolours. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, "M.B." in gold on the front board, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [112] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Propaganda and revolt in Brazil: the crown's battle for obedience

[MONTEIRO, José Maria]. [A royal Portuguese proclamation during the Pernambuco Revolution 1817]. [Drop title:] Propclamação. Habitantes de Pernambuco!
Rio De Janeiro, Impressão Régia, 1817. Folio. Disbound, kept in a clear plastic folder. [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

First edition of an acclaimed work on Muscat and Oman by the renowned Welsh author Jan Morris

MORRIS, James [later known as (Catherine) Jan MORRIS]. Sultan in Oman.
London, Faber and Faber, 1957. 8vo. With a photo in colour of the fort of Nizwa in Oman as a frontispiece, 2 half-page maps of the Middle East and Muscat and Oman, and 16 pages (outside of collation) with 23 photos of the Sultan's journey through his Sultanate, showing desert scenes, Sheikhs, forts, and other views of Nizwa, Ibri, and Muscat. Bright orange-red cloth. 165, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 250

Magnificent 18th-century mosaic binding showing a beautiful floral motif

[MOSAIC BINDING - BIBLE]. LEEMPUTTE, Henricus van den (editor). Het nieuwe testament ons salighmaeckers Jesu Christi, mitsgaders: d'epistelen uit het oude testament, soo die door 't jaer in den dienst der H. Kercke gelesen worden.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen (for Niclaes Braau in Haarlem), 1696. 8vo. With 39 detailed woodcut illustrations in the text, and woodcut decorated initials and small printed manicules. The text is set in a Gothic letter, with incidental use of Roman type. Exquisite 18th-century gold-tooled multi-colour morocco mosaic binding. Gilt edges and green silk covered end papers. [1], [1 blank], [14], 837, [27] pp. Full description

€ 12,000

News from Portobello of the death of a Peruvian Viceroy, printed in Lima

[NAVARRA Y ROCAFULL, Melchor, Duque de la Palata]. Copia de carta escrita a un cavallero de la ciudad de los Reyes, dandole cuenta de la muerte del Excelentisimo Señor Duque de la Palata, en la ciudad de Portovelo, Viernes Santo 13 de Abril de 1691.
[Lima, 1691]. Folio (29 x 19 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial on the first page. Kept together by a marbled paper strip around the spine. [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Rare imprint from Chili

NOÉ, Juan Nicolas. Epitome de gramatica Castellana. ... Para escuelas primarias.
Valparaiso, Imprenta de la Bandera, 1837. 12mo. With the title in woodcut borders, a woodcut printer's vignette and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blue paper wrappers, with protective paper cover. [2], 155 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Extremely rare 1780s nursery catalogue from the centre of the Dutch flower bulb trade

[NURSERY CATALOGUE - FLOWER BULBS - HAARLEM]. Catalogue des tres belle[!] oignons des fleurs, comme jacinthes, tulipes, ranuncules, anemones, bouquet-narcissen, etc. Qu'on trouve à vendre chez Isaak Moerbeek, fleurist à Harlem en Hollande.
[Haarlem?], 178[4]. 12mo. Contemporary half brocade paper wrappers with floral paper sides. 40 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Manuscript log of a voyage from Suez through the Red and Arabian Seas to Bombay, Karachi and Colombo,
with 8 excellent nautical charts and 5 beautiful sketches, including one of the city of Muscat

[OMAN NAVIGATION LOGBOOK]. MCKINNELL, Thomas, assistant master. Log of the proceedings. HMS "Cyclops". W. J. S. Pullen Esq. Captain. Commencing Monday 7th February 1859, ending Wednesday 22nd of May, 1861. Kept by Thos. McKinnell, Mast. Asst.
HMS Cyclops: Oman, Khuriya Muriya Islands, Yemen, Egypt, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other places, 1857-1861. Folio (20 x 31.5 cm). Over 360 pp. of manuscript entries, written with brown ink in a legible hand on watermarked laid paper with a blue cast. With 8 pen and ink nautical charts and 5 sketches of coastal sites, including the city of Muscat (8 on the logbook pages and 5 on separate thick album leaves). Contemporary brown cloth over boards, rebacked in period-style black calf with the spine lettered in gold: "Log H.M.S. Cyclops". [ca. 360], [32 blank] pp. Full description

€ 45,000

The beginning and end of the VOC opium monopoly in the Dutch East Indies

[OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. [Collection of contemporary manuscripts and documents regarding the Amfioensociëteit].
Comprising:
(1) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. Octroy door de edele hoge Indiase regering, verleend aan de societeyt van den Amphioen handel, tot Batavia.
(2) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. Prolongatie van het octroy van D'Amphioen Sociteit.
(3) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. Memorie voor mijne gemagtigden heeres(?) Themans en Bovie.
[In or after 1762]. 3 parts in 1 volume.
With: (4) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. [Collection of 12 Dutch documents].
1793-1807. Various sizes. With 12 manuscript documents, and a manuscript on paper in 2 different hands. Ad 1-3: Contemporary sturdy paper wrappers, sewn on 3 vellum supports; ad 4: the 12 documents are held together by a narrow paper wrapper with the text: "Onafgedaane Indiësche zaaken, concentreerende de Amphioen Societeyt", and a string. [15], [1 blank]; [3] ll. Full description

€ 12,500

4 editions (1528-1531) containing 6 works on pharmacology, herbal medicine, and magical gems,
in blind-tooled pigskin (near Freiburg ca. 1570?)

PAULUS OF AEGINA (edited by Otto BRUNFELS and Wilhelm KOPP). Pharmaca simplicia, Orthone Brunfelsio interprete.
Including: De ratione victus Gukielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher, September 1531.
With:
(2) VALLA, Giorgio. De simplicium natura liber unus.
Strasbourg, Heinrich Sybold, (colophon:) August 1528.
(3) ODO OF MEUNG (misattributed to Aemilius MACER). De herbarum virtutibus, cum Joannis Atrociani co[m]mentariis, ...
Including: STRABO, Walafrid. Ad haec. Strabi Galli Poetae et theologi clarissimi, hortulus vernantissimus.
Freiburg im Breisgau, (colophon:) Johann Faber, 1530.
(4) MARBOD OF ANJOU (with notes and additions by Georg PICTORIUS). De lapidibus pretiosis encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eiusdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen.
[Freiburg im Breisgau, Johan Faber], 1531. 4 editions containing 6 works, in 1 volume. 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm). Ad 1: with a finely executed woodcut on the title page repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, about 20 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration plus about 20 repeats and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in an Aldine-style italic with preliminaries in Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 2: with the title in a woodcut architectural frame, and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in a Venetian-style roman type with frequent Greek printed in the fore edge margins. Ad 3: with a space left for a manuscript initial at the opening of the main text, with a printed guide letter (not filled in). Set in an Aldine-style italic type with incidental Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 4: with a woodcut initial with pictorial decoration. Set in an Aldine-style italic. Blind-tooled pigskin (Freiburg or vicinity? ca. 1570?) over tapered wooden boards. With 2 engraved brass fastenings and a 19th-century paper spine label. [12], 86, [1 blank], [1]; [104]; [4], 108; 55, [1] ll. Full description

€ 45,000

Detailed coastal descriptions of Maranhão: an early bilingual sailing pilot for sailors

PEREIRA DO LAGO, Antonio Bernardino. Roteiro da costa da provincia do Maranhão, desde Jericoacoara ate a Ilha de Sto. João, e da entrada, e sahida pela bahia de Sto. Marcos, qu edeve acomanhar a carta redudiza da costa da sobredita provincia ... Survey of the coast of the province of Maranham, from Jericoacoara to the Island of St. John, and of the entrance of the bay of St. Marcos; intended as an accompaniment to the reduced chart of the coast of the aforesaid province.
(Colophon: Liverpool, F.B. Wright, printer), 1821. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled calf. 21, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

The prices of international goods at the Amsterdam market in February 1741

[PERIODICAL - TRADE - AMSTERDAM]. Cours van coopmanschappen tot Amsterdam den 13 February. Anno 1741.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Boussière, [1741]. A long sheet (ca. 40.5 x 14.5 cm), printed on two sides, with the woodcut coat of arms of Amsterdam at the head. Tipped into a passe-partout. [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Luxurious school-book for the young prince, Johan Willem Friso of Nassau

PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum, libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi Principis Nassauii, David Hoogstratanus. Accedunt ejusdem opera duo indices, quorum prior est omnium verborum, multo quam antehac locupletior, posterior eorum, quae observatu digna in notis occurrunt.
Amsterdam, Fr. Halma, 1701. 4to. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with medallion portrait of the Prince of Nassau at the top, by P. Bouttats after J. Goeree, engraved allegorical vignette on title, title printed in red and black, large folding double-page engraved portrait of the young Prince Jan Willem Friso of Nassau by P. Gunst after B. Vaillant, 5 engraved head-pieces, 8 large engraved initials, 30 richly engraved tail-pieces, and 108 medallion illustrations to the fables on 18 full-page engraved plates by J. van Vianen. Contemporary full-grained red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, and gilt edges. [32], 160, [84] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Lavishly illustrated edition of the story of the Queen of Sheba

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The Queen of Sheba.
London, Melbourne and New York, Quartet Books, 1981. 4to. With 8 coloured plates and numerous photographs (some in colour) in the text. Contemporary black cloth with title in gold on the spine and a colourful dust jacket. 141, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 85

Rare French satirical print from the height of the hot air balloon craze

[PRINT - BALLOONOMANIA]. L'innocence reconnue, ou mon oncle retrouvé.
[France, after 1783]. A hand coloured engraving (ca. 32 x 20.8 cm). Loosely inserted in a white passe-partout. Full description

€ 1,500

Satirising Emperor Paul I of Russia and the League of the North during the Napoleonic wars

[PRINTS - POLITICS - SATIRE]. Pills for Paul: or, English prescriptions for Northern complaits[!]!!
London, William Holland, 1801. Ca. 27.4 x 40 cm. Tipped into a passe-partout (ca. 32.5 x 50 cm). Full description

€ 2,000

Four collections of statutes from Jan van Hout's Raadhuispers at Leiden, printed in civilité

[RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. Nieuwe keuren tot vordernisse van de getimmerten ende tbouwen van huyzen binnen dezer stadt Leyden. Ten bevele van die vande Gerechte der voorschreven stede.
Leiden, gedruct opt raedhuys aldaer [= Jan van Hout], 1586.
With: (2) [RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. Keuren opt ampt vande craemverzorchsters, inne-nemen vande craemvrouwen, tampt vande aelmoeseniers, generale verdeelinge, ende misbruyc der aelmissen.
Leiden, Raadhuispers [Jan van Hout], 1586.
(3) [RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. Provisionele ordonnantie gemaect by Schout ende schepenen dezer stade, op tbrouwen vande zware bieren (including the Aenhang vande burgelicke keuren).
Leiden, Raadhuispers [Jan van Hout], 1587.
(4) [RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. Ordonnantie gemaect by die van de Gerechte deze stadt Leyden ten dagen hier naer genomt, opt wijden vande wateren ende grachten, daer naer hem elc eenen van nu voorts-aen zal hebben te gedragen int maken, versteken, ende vernieuwen van haer platingen.
Leiden, Raadhuispers [Jan van Hout], 1588. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. The title of ad 1 is set within an ornamental border built up from typographical ornaments, with a woodcut printer's device, a large woodcut with the coat of arms of Leiden on the final leaf of ad 1, and 24 decorative woodcut initials. 18th-century vellum over boards, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [1], [1 blank], [9], [1 blank]; [7], [1 blank]; [8]; [24] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Pair of maps of The Hague in the original case

REDING, H. Plan de la ville et carte des environs de La Haye.
Comprising:
(1) REDING, H. Nieuwe platte grond der stad s' Gravenhage/ Nouveau plan de La Haye.
(2) REDING, H. Carte des environs de La Haye.
The Hague, chez F. J. Weygand, 1838. Each ca. 32 x 39.5 cm. With 2 hand coloured lithographed maps printed on coated linen. Both maps are folded and housed in the original publisher's reddish brown buckram case, with an engraved blue title label mounted on the front. Full description

€ 1,250

Well-illustrated work on the Dutch whale- and herring-fishery in the Northern Seas and Greenland,
with a Napoleonic provenance

RESTE, Bernard de. Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord: ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par les soins du Gouvernement, enrichi de notes & orné de cartes & de figures.
Paris, Nyon the Elder & Sons, Widow of Nyon, 1791-1800. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 28 engraved plates and maps (21 folding and 7 full-page). 19th-century green half shagreen, gold-tooled spine, sides with crowned gilt initials 'C.L.' XXXVI, 432; 464; [4], 378 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Early true crime in Dutch

REYNOLDS, John and Johannes GRINDAL (translator). Tonneel der wereldtse rampsaligheden, vertoonende Godts wraake, over de roepende en verfoeyelijke zonde der moedtwillige en voor-bedachte moordery. Welkers wonderlijke ontdekkingen en gestrenge straffe beschreven worden in XXX. bezondere jammerlijke historien: vervattende veel droevige en gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen: historische, zedelijke en goddelijke lessen.
Amsterdam, (colophon: widow of Tymon Houthaak) for Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1667. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved printer's device on the title page, and 30 full-page engravings, each with 8 separate illustrations, depicting 240 scenes from the many stories. Contemporary vellum. [8], 888 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Birds of prey of German and surrounding countries, with 60 chromolithographed plates

RIESENTHAL, Oskar von. Die Raubvogel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und dem angrenzenden Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Arten. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text.
Kassel, Theodor Fischer, sold in C.B. Griesbach's Verlag in Gera, 1894. Folio (30.2 x 40.2 cm). With 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half green cloth with the title in black on the spine, printed paper sides. [6], 56 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Beautifully produced missal, printed and bound for the Iberian market

[ROMAN MISSAL]. Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum ...
Antwerp, ex architypographia Plantiniana [= Joannes Jacobus Moretus], 1737.
With: (2) [SPANISH MISSAL]. Missae propriae sanctorum Hispanorum, qui generaliter in Hispania celebrantur. ex apostolica concessione, & auctoritate S. Pii V. Gregorii XIII. Sixti. V. Clementis VIII. & Urbani. VIII. aliorumque summorum pontificum.
Antwerp, ex architypographia Plantiniana [= Joannes Jacobus Moretus], 1737. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 20 full-page engraved plates by Cornelius Galle, 10 engraved frames surrounding the text, and vocal music printed on pp. 153-155, 196-197, 199-207, 220-233, 235-237, 240-272, 286-288, 290-292, and xvii. The text is printed in red and black, with historiated initials hand-coloured in red, an engraved vignette on the title page of each work, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout, of which 3 printed in red. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco with (remnants of) brass catch and anchorplates along the fore edge, gilt and gauffered edges with intricately made tabs along the fore edge, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers. [64], 628, cxxviij, [4], [2], 30, [4], 24; 28, [12] pp. Full description

€ 4,000

French edition, with additions, of a seminal work on paediatrics

ROSEN DE ROSENSTEIN, Nils. Traité des maladies des enfans. Ouvrage qui est le fruit d'une longue observation, et appuyé sur les faits les plus authentiques. Traduit du Suédois, par M. Le Febvre de Villebrune. Nouvelle édition.
Montpellier, Joseph François Tournel, 1792. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. XV, [1 blank], 544, XI, [1] pp. Full description

€ 675

Presentation copy by the author: the highest representative of the Roman Catholic Church
in the protestant Dutch Republic

ROVENIUS, Philippus. Reipublicae Christianae libri duo, tractantes de variis hominum statibus, gradibus, officiis, & functionibus in ecclesia Christi, & quae in singuils (sic) amplectenda, quae fugienda sint. ... accessit ejusdem auctoris tractatus de missionibus instituendis.
Antwerp, Arnold à Brakel, 1668 (=1648). 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black. With:
(2) ROVENIUS, Philippus. Tractatus de missionibus ad propagandam fidem et conversionem infidelium & haereticorum instituendis, in partes quinque distributus, omnibus qui animarum curam gerunt perutilis.
Louvain, Henrick van Haestens, 1626. Contemporary full parchment. [48], 587, 62 (=52) pp. Full description

€ 1,500

First edition in book form of the classic caricatures

[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1812. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 78 full-page hand-coloured aquatint plates and 2 hand-coloured aquatint vignettes. With: [ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The second tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of consolation; a poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1820.
[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The third tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of a wife, a poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1821.
Late 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by the Rivière Bindery. III, [3], 276; [6], 277, [1 blank]; [4], 279, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Holding the harbour: A Coruña and the Franco-Dutch fleet

SANTANS Y TAPIA, Juan. Relacion verdadera de la entrada que hizo la armada del Frances en compania de la del Olandes, en la embocadura del puerto del real presidio y ciudad de la Coruña ...
1639. Folio (19.3 x 29 cm). Two unbound sheets, housed in a plastic folder. [2] ll. Full description

€ 1,500

Laughing at the throne: political satire under Louis-Philippe

[SATIRE - FRENCH]. [Eight lithographs from La caricature journal].
[Paris], Aubert, [1831-1833]. Various sizes. With 8 lithographs. Including:
(1) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère.
Paris, [1831].
(2) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère.
Paris, [1831].
(3) PHILIPON, Charles. La Carcicature (journal) no. 59.
[Paris], on s'abonne chez Aubert, [1831].
(4) BOUQUET, Auguste. Père-scie.
[Paris], Aubert, [1832].
(5) DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.
[Paris], Aubert, [1833].
(6) DAUMIER, Honoré. La Cour du Roi Pétaud.
[Paris], Aubert, [1832]
(7) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.
[Paris], Aubert, [1831].
(8) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.
[Paris], Aubert, [1831].

Ads 3-4 are tipped in a white and gold passe-partout, ads 5-6 tipped in a white passe-partout. Full description

€ 1,250

A vanished Maastricht: the city preserved in stone and etching

SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Monuments de Maestricht, aquarelles lithochromes.
[Brussels, Simoneau & Toovey, 1857].
With: (2) SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Ancienne enceinte militaire de Maestricht démolie en 1867-1869.
[Maastricht? 1872].
(3) SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Oud Maestricht en buurt. 1ste serie. 2de serie.
[Brussels, 1887]. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong folio. Ad 1 with 30 coloured lithographed plates; ad 2 with 12 coloured lithographed plates; ad 3 with 52 etched plates, all mounted to the leaves of the album. Contemporary half beige cloth, marbled paper sides. Full description

€ 6,500

Incredibly rare complete copy of Schenk's expertly engraved plates
showing decorated 17th-century luxury firearms

SCHENK, Pieter. Verscheide stucken en cieraden van roermakers gereedschap nieuwelijks uitgevonden en uit de voornaamste meesters van Europa getrocken. - Plusieurs pieces et ornements d'arquebuzerie, le plus nouvellement inventées et tirees des premiers maistres d l'Europe.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1692. Oblong folio. With an engraved allegorical title page and 7 expertly engraved plates of ornamental designs on arquebuses. Modern half calf and green decorated paper sides. [8] ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Hand-coloured map of the Seventeen Provinces

SEUTTER, Matthäus. XVII provinciae Belgii sive Germaniae inferioris.
Augsburg, Tobias Conrad Lotter, [1762-1777]. Ca. 20.5 x 26.3 cm. With a hand coloured engraved map. The map is folded and housed in a contemporary sprinkled paper case, with an engraved title label mounted on the front. Full description

€ 350

German translation of an important work on North Africa and the Middle East

SHAW, Thomas. Reisen oder Anmerkungen verschiedene Theile der Barbarey und der Levante betreffend.
Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1765. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 17 folding and 15 full-page engraved plates, one signed by J.D. Philippius, geb. Sysangin, several woodcut illustrations in the text, engraved head pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [20], 424, [22] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Manuscript plan of camp Austerlitz near Zeist

SNOECK, Adriaan. Kaart van het kamp bij Zeist aanduidende de daar op bestaan hebbende kampementen.
[Netherlands, ca. 1828]. Manuscript plan in ink (56.5 x 67.5 cm) on paper. With the title in the upper left corner and the scale in ells, ca. 1:6000. Full description

€ 2,000

Works of darkness revealed: a satire on Father Peters and the Jesuit plot

[SOMER, Paul (II) van (attributed)]. The scientific horned doctor, Father Peters, a great labourer; in works of darckness. Het stookhuys van Pater Peeters en de Jesuiten in Engeland, ontdekt door Eusebius en Simplicimus.
[London, Paul van Somer II, ca. 1689]. Ca. 56.5 x 41.8 cm. With an engraving and a decorated woodcut initial. The work has been tipped into a green pase-partout. [1] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

The "Smith" issue of the first French edition of Spinoza’s famous Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de]. Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes.
Amsterdam, Jacob Smith [= (Israel de Paull for) Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr.], 1678. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page (ornament E in the description of Van de Ven). Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [1], [1 blank], [28], 531, [30], [1 blank], 30 pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Stadtholder William V and his family, depicted in three portrait series

[STADTHOLDER WILLIAM V]. [Collection of three series of portraits of the Dutch Stadtholder, his spouse and their three children].
[Mid- to late 18th century]. Ca. 26.5 x 24.5 cm. With 5 full-page mezzotint portraits, 5 full-page hand-coloured engraved portraits, and 7 smaller stipple-engraved portraits, all mounted onto the leaves of the album, separated by tissue paper guards. 20th-century three-quarter gold-tooled red morocco with the title ("Prins Willem V en zijn gezin") lettered in gold on the spine. [12] ll. Full description

€ 3,950

From Aceh to the Eifel: drawings by a Dutch officer and artist

STEENKAMP, Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo. [Album with drawings by Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo Steenkamp].
[Aceh, Sumatra; the Netherlands; Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), ca. 1895-1930]. Ca. 35.5 x 32 cm. With 4 calligraphed title pages and 64 original drawings and coloured aquatints mounted onto the leaves of the album, all views of encampments, villages and landscapes in Atjeh (Aceh, Sumatra), the Netherlands, and Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), most signed and captioned in Dutch. Further with 5 drawings by Steenkamp and other artists loosely inserted. Twentieth-century silver-tooled green imitation leather with Steenkamp's monogram on the spine and the front board, further with "Tekeningen J.C.P.W.A. Steenkamp" lettered in white on the front board. [47] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

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 ...
Including:
(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

Remarkable reference work on gooseberries and currants with coloured lithographs
and recipes for wine, syrups, confiture and conserves

THORY, Claude Antoine. Monographie ou histoire naturelle du genre groseillier contenant la description, l' histoire, la culture et les usages de toutes les groseilles connues.
Paris, P. Dufart, 1829. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece showing the portrait of the author and 24 lithographed full-page plates by A.M. Canneva, L.A. Canneva and A. Pascal, printed by Langlumé, including 23 contemporary handcoloured. Original printed paper wrappers. [4], XVI, 152 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Rare complete set of one of the finest series of views of the Netherlands of the 18th century.

[TIRION - VIEWS - NETHERLAND]. Het verheerlykt Nederland of kabinet van hedendaagsche gezigten van steden, dorpen, sloten, adelyke huizen, kerken, torens, poorten; en andere voornaame stad- en land- gebouwen, in en omtrent alle de byzondere Vereenigde Nederlandsche provinciën.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion and widow of Isaak Tirion, 1745-1774.
With: (2) [TIRION - VIEWS - NETHERLAND]. Het verheerlykt Kleefschland of kabinet van Kleefsche oudheden en gezichten van steden, dorpen, sloten, adelyke huizen, kerken, torens, poorten; en andere stad- en land-gebouwen in Kleefschland ... dienende tot een aanhangzel van het verheerlykt Nederland, by I. Tirion uitgegeeven.
Amsterdam, Leiden, Harlingen, Dordrecht, P. Schouten, J. de Groot, G. Warnars, S. and J. Luchtmans, A. and P. Blussé, Volkert van der Plaats, [ca. 1775]. 10 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 845 engraved views, mostly 2 views per plate, some double page, the title page of the first part is printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf [4]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2] ll. + 845 views Full description

€ 5,000

The market on paper: a Pressburg price current of materials and spices

[TRADE - SLOVAKIA - HUNGARY - BROADSIDE]. Preis-courant. Von den nothwendigsten material- und specerey-waaren.
[Pressburg (= Bratislava)], 2 April 1781. Ca. 46 x 32 cm. With an engraving of Pressburg (Bratislava), and an engraved title. Full description

€ 950

Travelling through the Kingdom of Holland during the reign of Louis Napoleon

[TRAVEL GUIDE]. Le voyageur en Hollande. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ce pays.
Including: [TRAVEL GUIDE]. Atlas faisant partie du Voyageur en Hollande.
Amsterdam, The Hague, Middelburg, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, L.A.C. Hesse, Brothers Van Cleef, S. van Benthem, etc., 1807. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a folding letterpress title page to the atlas and 19 folding engraved maps and plans. Contemporary gold-tooled half sprinkled calf. [2], 8, 16, 120,129-218 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

The earliest topographic print series in the Northern Netherlands

[TYSENS, Gysbert] & Claes Jansz. VISSCHER. Haarlemmer duinzang, tereere van des zelfs vermakelyke land-en watergezigten, van Sandtvoordt af tot Haarlem. Versierd met twaalf naauwkeurige afbeeldingen.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1728. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 12 numbered full-page engraved plates by Claes I. Visscher, including an allegorical frontispiece. Contemporary half red roan. [4], 12 pp. Full description

€ 2,000

One of the major 18th-century works on South America

ULLOA, Antonio de and Jorge JUAN SANTACILIA. Historische reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des konings van Spanje, door Don George Juan ... en door Don Antonio de Ulloa ...
Goes, Jacobus Huysman (colophon: printed in The Hague by Jacobus van Karnebeek), 1771-1772 (colophon volume 2: 1773). 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 28.5 x 22 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by H. Vinkeles, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Vinkeles in volume 1, a head-piece above the dedication by J. Huysman after S. Fokke, 15 folding maps and plans (including a large map of the Pacific by J. van Jagen, dated 1771), 2 folding engraved plates, 8 full page engraved plates, and many head pieces built up from typographical ornaments and several woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half sprinkled calf. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], XXIV, 428; [1], [1 blank], VIII, IV, 406, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

First edition of the laws of the city and province of Utrecht, promulgated in 1550

[UTRECHT - LAW]. Costumen, usantien pollitien ende stijl van procederen der stadt jurisdictie, en[de] vrijheyt va[n] Utrecht gheapprobeert en[de] ghedecreteert, . . .
[Colophon:] Amsterdam, printed by Willem Jacobsz. and sold at Utrecht by Jan van Gelre, 1550. 4to. With the title and the arms of the city of Utrecht in red and black in a 4-piece woodcut frame with figures and decoration, the arms repeated below the red and black colophon with the publisher's authenticating signature in dark brown ink; 3 different woodcut coats of arms for the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, each with a different bearing: 2 small in the text, with his motto "plus oultre", and a full-page one on the verso of the last leaf. Late 18th-century boards, marbled paper sides. [16], LVIII, [2] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Rare and early teacher's manual, the main source for our knowledge of primary education in the Netherlands at the time

VALCOOGH, Dirck Adriaensz. Een nut ende profijtelijck boecxken, ghenaemt den regel der Duytsche schoolmeesters, die parochie-kercken bedienen.
Alkmaar, Jacob de Meester, for Cornelis Claesz, 1607. 12mo. With musical annotation and 3 pages printed in civilité. Later half red roan, red sprinkled paper sides, red edges. 179, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Nine books of memorable deeds: the first Dutch Valerius Maximus

VALERIUS MAXIMUS and Conradus MIRKINIUS (translator). Negen boecken, van ghedenck-weerdighe, loflicke woorden, daden ende gheschiedenissen der Romeynen en de uytlandsche volcken. Overgheset uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederduytsche tale, door Conradus Mirkinius.
Rotterdam, Jan Leendertsz. Berewout, 1614. 8vo. With woodcut publisher's device on title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript author on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [8], 610, [26] pp. Full description

€ 1,150

A gastronomic treasure: rare Elzevier edition of De la Varenne's revolutionary work
on French cuisine, and French patisserie in particular

[VARENNE, François-Pierre de la (attributed)]. Le pastissier[!] François. Où est enseigné la maniere de faire toute sorte de patisserie, tres-utile à toute sorte de personnes. Ensemble le moyen dáprester toutes sortes d'oeufs pour les jours maigres, & autres, en plus de soixante façons.
Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier, 1655. 12mo. With an engraved title page, Elzevier's woodcut device on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials and headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, bound by Georges Trautz ("Trautz-Bauzonnet"). The book is kept in a protective red paper slipcase, the whole kept in a custom-made beige cloth box, lined with red cloth. [12], 252 pp. Full description

€ 38,500

4 rare Dutch travel works concerning the Middle East, Arabia, the East Indies and other exotic lands,
including the first recorded non-Islamic visitor to Mecca (350 years before Sir Richard Burton)

VARTHEMA, Ludivico di and Felix van SAMBIX DE JONGE (translator). De uytnemende en seer wonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reyse van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, ... gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vruchtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien, en andere.
Utrecht, Gerald Nieuwenhuysen and Willem Snellaart, 1654.
With:
(2) ROE, Thomas. Journael, van de reysen ...
Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin, 1656.
(3) MOCQUET, Jean. Reysen in Afrique, Asien, Oost- en West Indien, ...
Dordrecht, for Abraham Andriesz. (colophon: printed by Nicolaes de Vries), 1656.
(4) BLANC, Vincent le and Jan Hendrik GLAZEMAKER (translator). De vermaarde reizen van de heer Vincent le Blanc van Marsilien die hy sedert d' ouderdom van veertien jaren tot aan die van zestig in de vier delen des werrelts, Europa, Asia, Afrika en Amerika, gedaan heeft. Te weten in Oost- en Westindien, in Persien, Arabien, Pegu, en in meest alle de landen van Oostindien, in de koninkrijken van Fez en Marokko, in Guinea, en in 't geheel innerlijk deel van Afrika, van de Kaap de Bone Esperance af, tot in Alexandria, deur de landen van Monomotapa, Abissyna, en Egypien, in Spanjen, Frankrijk, Italiën en Nederlant, en in veel vermaarde eilanden van de werelt.
Amsterdam, for Jan Hendriksz. Boom & Jan Rieuwertsz., 1654. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved title page, 4 engraved plates and woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Ad 2: with an engraved title page, 4 large engravings in the text, 3 with scenes of the Mughal court life and the other depicting a sea battle, and woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3: with an engraving on the title page showing a shipwreck, repeated in the text on p. 87, and 9 other large engravings in the text. Ad 4: with an engraved title page, 7 engraved plates, 2 extremely finely engraved initials with pictorial decoration on p. 1 and p. 3 of the first part (the V with an allegorical female figure giving a plate of fruit to the author(?) with his books and an armillary sphere, and a T with a group of turbaned figures) and 1 larger decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, new endpapers. 126; [8], 56, 56, 24, [2]; [14], 153, [1 blank]; [4], 152, 116 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Unique collection of 100 plates engraved ca. 1735-1750, most from well-known print series
containing mainly views of Alkmaar, Delft, Dordrecht, Oudewater, Rotterdam
and 10 great Manor houses in Kennemerland

[VIEWS - DUTCH]. Verzameling van honderd afbeeldingen, bestaande in: land- en watergezigten, oudheden, landhuizen, hofsteden, tuinen, lusthoven, enz. allen naar het leven geteekend en in koper gebragt door de Hollandsche meesters A. Rademaker, J.C. Philipo, J. Punt en anderen; tot nut van teeken-, schilder- en bouwkundigen.
Amsterdam, D. da Cunha & J.D. Gertner, [ca. 1835-1850]. Oblong 4to. With a title page and 100 views (one double) and plans (ca. 16.5 x 20 cm), partly numbered. The numbered ones are views of manor houses and have a more elaborate frame (except for 57, 59 and 71 which have the number of their original series): they come from the Zegepralend Kennemerland and Het Verheerlykt Watergraafs- of Diemer-Meer. Later (ca. 1900) three-quarter vellum, spine with old red Morocco label lettered in gold, and marbled sides. Full description

€ 3,950

Against the rising tide: rare Dutch flood engravings on silk

[VIEWS - THE NETHERLANDS - SILK]. [Twelve views of the Netherlands, printed on silk].
Comprising:
The views relating to the Flood of 1775:
(1) Gezicht van het Bergsche veld, in het land van Heusden ... den 15den November 1775
(2) Gezicht uit Oosthuizen, op de dijkbreuk by Warder ... den 15den November 1775.
(3) Gezicht van den hogen vloed, in den N.N.W. storm, voor Scheveningen, den 15den November 1775.
(4) Gezicht van de dijkbreuk, aan den douk, op Texel ... den 15den November 1775.
(5) Gezicht van de overstrooming der sluis te Delfshaven, 's avonds den 14den November 1775.
(6) Gezicht van het Kattenburger plen te Amsterdam ... 's morgens den 15den November 1775.
(7) Gezicht in de Koekkoek, bij Kampen ... den 15den November 1775.
The views relating to the Flood of 1776:
(8) Gezicht van de overstrooming en doorbraak, van den IJsseldijk, buiten Gouda ... den 21sten en 22sten November 1776.
(9) Gezicht der overstroominge, op de Hooge Swaluwe, den 22sten November 1776.
(10) Gezicht van den storm en hogen vloed, voor Elburg, den 21sten November 1776.
(11) Gezicht der overstroominge en dijkbreuk, tusschen Vollenhoven en Kampen, den 22sten November 1776.
(12) IJgezicht, naar 't Blaauw Hoofd, voor Amsteldam ... den 21sten November 1776.
[Amsterdam], widow of Jacobus Loveringh and Johannes Allart, [1775-1776]. Folio. With 12 full-page engravings printed on silk, with the selvedge on the bottom, captioned in Dutch with the word "proefdruk" (proof) printed in the lower right. Kept in a pebble-grained dark brown buckram folder lined with blue patterned paper. Full description

€ 9,500

Very rare travel account of a voyage to Madagascar

VINSON, Auguste. Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.
Saint-Cloud & Paris, widow Belin for Roret, 1865 (changed with a printed slip to Eugène Belin/Belin frères, without date), [ca. 1865]. Large 8vo (28 x 18.5 cm). With 7 engraved plates of lemurs, spiders and butterflies by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. Original yellow printed wrappers. [8], 575, 7, 4, 6, 48 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Virgil translated by the Antwerp rhetorician Cornelis van Ghistele

VIRGIL and Cornelis van GHISTELE (translator). De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos.
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Virgil on the title page, and 12 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 264, [3], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 2,950

23 rare official VOC publications, giving insights into daily life on and around the ships

[VOC]. [Collection of printed VOC orders, resolutions, instructions and other documents, assembled and published with a printed contents list.]
Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere, Nicolaas Byl, Adriaan Wor and others, 1747-1790. Folio. With 2 woodcut illustrations in item 20, 1 leaf inserted in item 23 printed in red, and several items with a woodcut ship on the title page and/or one or more woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary (ca. 1790) sheepskin parchment. Full description

€ 9,500

A ship’s pharmacy for the homeward passage to the Republic

[VOC - MEDICINE - BROADSIDE]. Catalogus der medicamenten voor het retour-schip.
Batavia, in 's Compagnies medicinale winkel, [before 1738].
With: (2) [BAUD, J. C.]. Proeve van eene geschiedenis van den handel en het verbruik van opium in Nederlandsch Indië.
1853. 1 broadside, and 1 booklet. Ca. 53 x 42 cm. The booklet with grey paper wrappers. 79-220 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Burnt pepper and powdered fraud: the regulation of spice fraud in the Dutch Golden Age

[VOC - SPICE TRADE]. [Two ordinances of the States-General].
1667-1669. Ca. 23.5 x 26.5 cm and ca. 20 x 24 cm. With a woodcut decorated initial on each ordinance. Full description

€ 3,500

At the end of the Company: Zeeland and the reorganisation of the VOC

[VOC - WIC]. Bericht der vergadering van Zeventien, by de provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Zeeland, den 22 september gerequireerd op het decreet der provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Holland van den 15 derzelve maand, aangaande een verandering in de directie der Generale Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Middelburg, Isaac de Winter, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled boards. [2], 72, [28] pp. Full description

€ 750

Notes by and letters to a pioneering Dutch genealogist concerning his own ancestry

VORSTERMAN VAN OYEN, Abraham Antonie. Geslacht Vorsterman. Hiertoe behooren Willem en Lucas Vorsterman.
Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna and other places, 1880s and 1890s.
With: (2) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 8 september 1778.
[The Hague], 1778.
(3) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 18 april 1780.
[The Hague], 1780. With ca. 100 contemporary notes and letters, several with envelopes. Preserved in a contemporary portfolio with red sprinkled boards, held together by two olive green ribbons which also serve as closing ties, a paper title label on the front together with two other labels. Full description

€ 1,500

A monument to Dutch cartography: Colom’s 40 sheet wall map of Holland and Utrecht

[WALL MAP - THE NETHERLANDS - COLOM, Jacob Aertsz.]. Comitatus Hollandiae et Dominii Ultraiectini tabula = Carte nouvelle de la Comté de Hollande et de la Seigneurie d'Utrecht.
Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Ca. 160 x 289 cm. Mounted on linen, folded and kept together in a paper slipcase, the whole kept in a book-shaped box. Full description

€ 15,000

View of the Parc de Bruxelles, recording the arrival of Emperor Francis II, 1794

[WATERCOLOUR - BELGIUM]. [View of the church of St. Dagobert and the parc at Brussels].
[Brussels], 1794. Ca. 11.7 x 18.1 cm. Full description

€ 250

A Dutch pontoon bridge across the Meuse, 1794

[WATERCOLOUR - MEUSE RIVER]. [View of the Meuse River with a floating bridge].
[The Netherlands], 12 October 1794. Ca. 11.5 x 18 cm. Full description

€ 250

A finely illustrated manuscript of Frisian history and antiquities

WENNING, Johannes Ype. Geschied- en oudheidkundig mengelwerk. Bijeen verzameld door --.
[Leeuwarden?], 1868. 8vo. With a calligraphed and illustrated title page, coloured by hand, a folding coloured drawing of the Wiarda state near Leeuwarden, and 5 smaller uncoloured drawings of other states. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [4], 60, [92 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Against the Socinians and the Racovian Catechism

WREN, Matthew. Increpatio Bar Jesu: sive Polemicae adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturae, ab imposturis perversionum in Catechesi Racoviana; collectae hinc indè, per Matthaeum Wren F. Ex opere praegrandi Meditationum croticarum in S. Paginam, conscriptarum à patre suo R.D.M. Episcopo Eliensi in Solitudino suâ carceriâ, de genuino sensu, atque exactâ nostrâ versione Divinorum textuum.
London, Jacobus Flesher for Cornelius Bee, 1660. 4to. With a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary calf, blind ruled along the edges, with a gold-tooled oval centerpiece: the stamp of "The society of writers to the signet" lettered around its coat of arms (this society is also known as the "WS Society", a prestigious, private association of Scottish solicitors dating back to 1594, and based in Edinburgh. The society maintains the Signet Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh); red painted edges. Re-backed: 20th-century gold-tooled spine with a (the original?) red morocco title-label lettered in gold. [24], 762, [2] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

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