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Beautifully illustrated 1708 Amsterdam edition of Aesop’s Fables.

AESOP Les fables d'Esope phrigien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enriche de discours moraux & historiques, & de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours. On a joint à cette nouvelle traduction les Fables diverses de Gabrias, d'Avienus, & Les contes d'Esope.
A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1708. Two parts in one volume, 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece showing Aesop standing on a gallery holding an armillary sphere, hunting horn and spear, surrounded by a mixed crowd (including children), with a group of wild and domestic animals standing and lying below, 117 half-page engravings (6,5 x 8 cm) for the 117 numbered Aesop fables, initials, endpieces. Marbled half-morocco binding. [12], 297, [7], [4], 287, [5] pp. Full description
€ 395
Fable Books Greek & Roman Classics Literature
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Collection of Latin fables from classical and Renaissance authors

AESOP, Desiderius ERASMUS, and others. Fabularum quae hoc libro continentur interpretes atque authores Sunt hi: Gulielmus Goudanus, Hadrianus Barlandus, Erasmus Roterodamus, Aulus Gellius, Angelus Pollitianus [!], Petrus Crinitus, Ioannes Antonius Cambanus [!], Plinius Secundus Novocomensis. Aesopi vita ex Max. Planude excerpta.
Strasbourg, [Johann Prüss, ca. 1516]. 4to. With woodcut title border. Modern half vellum, sprinkled paper sides. [35], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
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Illustrated by Bernard Salomon, and bound by Marcelin Lortic for the library of the Prince d'Essling

ALCIATI, Andrea. Emblematum libri duo.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes et Guillaume Gazeau, 1547. 16mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a variant woodcut printer's device on the verso of the last leaf, and 113 half-page woodcut emblems by Bernard Salomon. 19th-century gold-tooled orange morocco by Marcellin II Lortic in Paris, with the author, title, and imprint lettered in gold on the spine, the gilt armorial supralibros of the Prince d'Essling in the centre on both sides, and his initials "VM" on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled end papers. 143, [1] pp. Full description
€ 11,500
Aldine Press Armorial Bindings Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Emblem & Songbooks Greek & Roman Classics
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First edition of an iconic description of one of the most important Dutch cities of the early 17th century,
together with the well-known defence of Laurens Jansz. Coster as the inventor of printing

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...
Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printers device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges. [88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Bibliography & Biography Book History, Printing & Typography City Plans, Topography & Views Netherlands
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Rare, contemporary defence of Santa Anna's plan to establish Mexico as a federal republic

[ARGUELLES, Diego and Antonio LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA]. Aprobacion del plan de Republica popular federativa, proclamado por el ciudadano General Santana en San Luis Potosi el cinco de Junio del año pasado.
Mexico [= Mexico City], imprenta de Tomas W. Lorrain, 1824. Small 4to (ca. 21.5 x 16 cm). Disbound, the leaves are held together with glue. 16 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America
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The first three part of the first ever series of children's books

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio decerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atq[ue] utilitatem.
Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and final page of the first 3 works, each work with a decorated woodcut initial. With: (2) IDEM. De vasculis libellus.
Idem.
(3) ESTIENNE, Charles. De re hortensi libellus.
Idem.
(4) SENALUS [= CENEAU], Robert. De vera mensurarum ponderumque ratione.
Paris, Ioannes Roigny, 1535.

Later vellum, with a brown morocco label on the spine with the author and title lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 65, [11], [3 blank], [1]; 54, [7], [2 blank], [1]; 97, [15] pp.; [18], 119, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Children's Books Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Floras & General Botany
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One of the most important works on electricity of the 18th century

BECCARIA, Giambatista. Dell' elettricismo artificiale, e naturale libri due.
Torino, Filippo Antonio Campana, 1753. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 6 decorated woodcut initials, 8 headpieces (3 woodcut, 5 made up of typographical ornaments), and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 245, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Italy Physics & Chemistry Science
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Spectacular collection of early 19th-century portrait studies executed in coloured chalk,
all signed by the artist "Bevier"

[BEVIER, B.]. [Portfolio with vivid portraits of famous painters and illustrations based on famous works of art].
[France or Belgium?], 1809-1811. Portfolio: ca. 75.5 x 60 cm. With 15 large format portraits (all 65.5 x 48 cm. except the last portrait: 49 x 38 cm), executed in chalk and colour, all signed by the artist "B. Bevier" and dated between 1809 and 1811. All manuscript captions are written by the same hand in brown ink. All portraits are mounted on otherwise blank leaves in a large portfolio. Later half calf. [1 blank], [15] ll. Full description
€ 18,000
Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours
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First edition of the history and description of Enkhuizen

[BRANDT, Gerard]. Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.
Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [12], 207, [1], 167, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
City Plans, Topography & Views Economic History & Trade Netherlands
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The five senses: rare print series on vellum, beautifully coloured and extensively highlighted with gold

[COLLAERT, Adriaen?]. [The five senses:] Visus ... Gustus ... Tactus ... Olfactus ... Auditus.
Antwerp, Jan Adriaensz. Collaert, [ca. 1618/28]. Large 24mo(?) album (14.5 x 10.5 cm). A complete series of 5 engraved prints on vellum (13 x 8.5 cm; oval image 10 x 7.5 cm) each illustrating one of the five senses with a female figure. Richly and very beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, in colour gouaches (red, blue, purple and green), extensively highlighted with gold. Each print mounted on a paper leaf in a small album. Green silk (ca. 1820?) over flexible boards. [5] engraved ll. Full description
€ 32,500
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First Erasmus edition of the works of Saint Cyprian,
an important work in the humanistic rediscovery of the early church fathers

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius and Desiderus ERASMUS. Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ab innumeris mendis repurgata, adiectis nonnullis libellis ex vetustissimis exemplaribus, quae hactenus non habebantur, ac semotis iis, quae falso videbantur inscripta, una ... cu[m] annotatiunculis. Atq[ue] haec omnia nobis praestitit ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus, vir juvandis optimis studiis natus...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1520. Folio. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page and on the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, numerous woodcut decorated initials by Ambrosius Holbein throughout, and some ornamental woodcut headpieces. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge and brass edge guards around the corners and on the bottom board edge near the spine, manuscript waste pastedowns, re-backed. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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Second Erasmus edition of Saint Cyprian’s works, with manuscript annotations

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius, and Desiderus ERASMUS Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ab innumeris mendis repurgata, adiectis nonnullis libellis ex vetustissimis exemplaribus, quae hactenus no[n] habebantur, ac semotis iis, quae falso videbantur inscripta, una ... cu[m] annotatiunculis. Atq[ue] haec omnia nobis praestitit ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus vir juvandis optimis studiis natus...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1521. Folio. With a detailed woodcut border on the title page and the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf and with woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with brass catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge of the boards, lacking the clasps. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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The complete works of Guillaume Du Bartas in the second and most important translation into Dutch by Zacharias Heyns

DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste. Wercken door Zacharias Heijns.
[Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns], [1621]-1628. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title pages, the engraved publisher's device on the title page of part 2, the engraved portrait of Zacharias Heyns in the text of part 1 and 34 full-page engravings (incl. 1 large folding plate and 1 plate outside the collation) illustrating the days of the two weeks and the other texts by Du Bartas. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Both volumes bound in almost matching 17th-century vellum, both spines with manuscript title in black ink. Volume 1: part 1: [12], 1-168, 168-183, [1], 184-313, [1] pp.; part 2: [8], 634, [6] pp. Volume 2: part 3: [8], 150, [2], 231, [1] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Dutch Literature French Literature Literature
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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
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The 1515 Leuven edition of Erasmus’s first Psalm commentary

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enarratio in primum psalmum davidicum potissimum iuxta tropologiam. Martini Dorpii ... ad eundem epistola, de moriae encomio, deque novi testamenti ad graecos codices emendatione. Erasmi ad Dorpium suos labores defendentis copiosa & plaenae eloquentiae apologia ...
Leuven, Thierry Martins, October 1515. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a full-page woodcut printers device at the end of the work. 19th-century gold-tooled half brown morocco. [44] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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First edition of Erasmus' call for reform of the Catholic Church

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Sileni Alcibiadis ... Cum Scholijs Ioannis Frobenij, pro graecarum uocum & quorundam locorum apertiori intelligentia ad calcem adiectis.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, April 1517. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 4 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of each part. Including: IDEM. Scarabeus. Cum shcoliis[!], in quibus Graeca potissimum, quae passim inserta sunt, exponuntur.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, May 1517. Late 19th-century or early 20th-century boards, red edges. 42 ll. Full description
€ 4,000
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A Renaissance Latin edition of Plutarchs Opuscula, moral and philosophical treatises
translated by Erasmus and others

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Plutarchi Chaerone[n]s opuscula quaeda[m] Des. Erasmo Roterodamo, Stephano Nigro, Angelo Barbato, Bilibaldo Pirckheymero, & Philippo Melanchthone Brettano, interpretibus.
(Colophon) Basel, Johann Froben, September 1518. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page, the first page of the dedication, the first page of the text (A3r), and the first page of the text by Stephanus Niger (H2r), 18 woodcut decorated initials, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device. 19th-century richly gold-tooled quarter red morocco. 194, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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A life in letters: Erasmus’ Vita of St Jerome

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Eximii doctoris Hieronymi Stridonensis vita, ex ipsius potissimum literis contexta.
Basel, (Colophon) Johann Froben, May 1519. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page and on page 3, a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern beige paper boards. 70, [2] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Uniting four Pauline Epistles: the first edition of Erasmus’ collected paraphrases

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli apostoli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas, quae co[m]mentarii vice esse possunt.
Basel, Hieronymus Froben, January 1520. Small 8vo (10.1 x 15.3 cm). With 5 woodcut frames (on the title page, and at the start of each text (Corinthians in two parts)), 10 woodcut decorated initials, 3 woodcut ornaments, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device above the colophon on the last page. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on three supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, author and title lettered on a separated paper label at the head of the spine, and with remnants of four pairs of red closing ties. "465" [= 495], [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Early defence of Luther

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Ad Reuerendissimu[m] Moguntinen[sium] praesulem: at[que] illustrissimu[m] principem, epistola, nonnihil D. Martini Lutheri negocium attingens.
[Augsburg, Sigmund Grimm and Marcus Wirsung], 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Hans Weiditz. 19th-century gold-tooled vellum. [4] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
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Rare, lifetime editions of Erasmus' paraphrases of the Pauline epistles and his manual on prayer

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli, ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, et ad Philemonem unam ... recens ab illo conscriptae, et nunc primum typis excusae...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title-page of each work, a woodcut printer's device at the end of the first 2 works, 9 decorative woodcut borders in the text, 16 decorative woodcut initials, and 4 woodcut headpieces. With: (2) IDEM. Paraphrases in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios, Philippenses, et Colossenses, et in duas ad Thessalonicenses, cum epistola nuncupatoria ad ...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.
(3) IDEM. Modus orandi deum.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Johann Knobloch, March 1525.
(4) IDEM. Consilium in caussa evangelica.
[Leipzig, Michael Blum], 1526. Later blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with a lozenge-shaped ornament and cornerpieces in the central panel, surrounded by a decorative border, 2 metal clasps and catches, the manuscript title at the head edge, a blank paper label on the spine, and 4 pigskin tabs. 141, [3]; 167, [1]; [91], [1 blank]; [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 14,000
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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One of the earliest German translations of Erasmus' exhortation to study the Bible in the vernacular

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraclesis Teütscht wie ein teürberlich unaussprechlich schatz und klainet sey das Ewangelium und haylig wort gottes.
[Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger the Younger, 1520]. 4to. With a large woodcut bust of Christ on title page. Modern gold-tooled half calf. [14] ll. Full description
€ 1,950
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First German edition of Erasmus influential guide to Christian piety,
promoting inner devotion over ritual at the dawn of the Reformation

ERASMUS, Desiderius Enchiridion oder handbüchlin eins Christenliche[n] und ritterlichen lebens, in latin beschriben durch doctor Erasmu[s] von Roterda[m]. und ... newlich durch Joannem Adelphu[m] doctor und statartzet zu Schaffhusen ... vertütschet.
(Colophon) Basel, Adam Petri, 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut border by Hans Franck on the title page, 5 half-page woodcut illustrations (including 1 repeat) in the text, Petris device by Urs Graf below the colophon, and several large decorated woodcut initials. The text is rubricated throughout. Modern overlapping vellum, grey endpapers. [10], CXIII ll. Full description
€ 16,000
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First complete edition of Erasmus' correspondence, beautifully illustrated by Urs Graf and Ambrosius Holbein

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epistolae ad diversos, & aliquot aliorum ad illum, per amicos eruditos, Ex ingentibus fasciculis schedarum collectae.
Basel, Johann Froben, 31 Aug. 1521. Folio. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page by Urs Graf, 2 decorative woodcut borders in the text by Ambrosius Holbein, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled red morocco. 12, "668" [=618], [6] pp Full description
€ 8,500
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Very rare edition of a forgotten bestseller of its time: Erasmus’ handbook of the Christian soldier

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum ...
Including: IDEM. Paraclesis, id est, adhortatio ad sanctissimum, ac saluberrimum Christianae philosophiae studium ...
[Paris], Gilles de Gourmont, [after 1518 (and before 1522?)]. 8vo (10.3x16.2). With both titles set within an identical woodcut architectural frame and several woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum. [106], [10] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
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Rewriting Luke: Erasmus’ 1523 paraphrase dedicated to Henry VIII

ERASMUS, Desiderius In evangelium Lucae paraphrasis Erasmi Roterodami nunc primum & nata & aedita.
Basel, Johann Froben, September 1523. Small 8vo (10.7 x 15.2 cm). With 2 small woodcut illustrations incorporating Frobens device on the title page and the verso of the final leaf, a woodcut headpiece above the dedication, and two woodcut decorated initials. Modern blind-tooled marbled calf. [275] ll. Full description
€ 2,250
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A rare sammelband containing four significant early 16th-century theological texts,
reflecting the intellectual and doctrinal turbulence of the Reformation

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum... cui accessit noua, mireque utilis Praefatio.
Strassburg, (Colophon:) Johann Knobloch, April 1523. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a woodcut frame on the title page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, and Knoblochs large woodcut device on the verso of the last blank leaf. Ads 2 and 3 with 1 woodcut decorated initial each. Ad 4 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 1 large woodcut decorated initial. With:
(2) IDEM. De immensa Dei misericordia ... Virginis et martyris comparatio per eundem. Nunc primum et condita et edita.
Including: IDEM. Virginis et martyris comparatio.
[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].
(3) IDEM. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive Collatio.
[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].
(4) HENRY VIII, King of England. Assertio septem sacramentoru[m] aduersus Martin. Lutherum, aedita ab invictissimo Angliae & Franciae rege, & do. Hyberniae Henrico eius nominis octavo..
[Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1522?]. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, remnants of brass anchor plates. 106; [57], [1 blank]; [49], [1 blank] ll.;158 pp. Full description
€ 18,000
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First edition of Erasmus' pivotal response to Luther

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive collatio.
Basel, Johann Froben, September 1524. Small 8vo (ca. 10 x 16 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial, and Frobens woodcut printers device on the title page and final page. Modern vellum. [48] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
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Important work on confession, from the library of one of Thomas More's students

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Exomologesis sive modus confitendi ... opus nunc primum et natum et excusum, cum aliis lectu dignis ...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1524. 5 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Froben's woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page, and 10 decorated woodcut initials. Including: (2) IDEM. Paraphrasis in tertium psalmum: Domine quid multiplicati.
(3) IDEM. Duo diplomata Papae Adriani sexti cum responsionibus.
(4) IDEM. Epistola de morte.
(5) IDEM. Apologia ad stunicae conclusiones.
Modern greyish brown boards, with the manuscript author and title on the spine. [72] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
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Important work on the classical pronunciation of Latin and Greek,
in order to establish an international scholarly dialect

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronu[n]tiatione ... Dialogus. Eiusdem dialogus cui titulus, Ciceronianus, siue, de optimo genere dicendi. Cum alijs nonnullis, quorum nihil non est novum.
(Colophon:) Basel, Froben office, March 1528. 8vo. With 7 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a central panel on both boards with a repeating vegetal stamp, surrounded by a blank border and a vegetal border, the manuscript initials IWE on the front. 462, [2] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Language & Linguistics Philosophy & Humanism
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Why the Roman Holy Emperor should not respond to the rise of Protestantism with violence

[ERASMUS, Desiderius]. Ursach, warumb Erasmus vo[n] Roterodam, in einer schrifft an den Bepstlichen Legaten und Cardinal Compeium, bedenckt, das es nicht gut sein sol das Rö. Key. Maiestat, die Lutherische, und andere lere mit dem schwerdt dempffe &c. In Sibenzehen Artickel gestellet.
[Strasbourg or Nuremberg, Georg Ulricher or Wolfgang Heußler, 1531 or 1546]. 4to. Modern blind-tooled, mottled calf, with a double fillet border on both boards. [3], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
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Erasmus’ early translation of Basil, a theological recovery of the Greek Fathers

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Opus argutum ac pium, de spiritu sancto ad amphilochium.
Paris, Chréstien Wechel and Jean Roigny, 1532. Small 8vo (9.5 x 14.9 cm). With Wechels woodcut printers device on the title page and the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern limp overlapping vellum. 124, [3 blank],[1] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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The first complete edition of The praise of folly, revised and expanded by Erasmus himself

ERASMUS, Desiderius Apophthegmatum opus cum primis frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso recognitum autore ... locupletatum insuper quum varijs per totum accessionibus, tum duobus libris in fine adiectis.
Basel, Froben Office (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius), 1532, Small fol (20 x 30.9 cm). With 9 decorated metalcut initials, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printers device on the title page and final page. 19th-century blind-tooled brown half morocco. [8], 401, [1], [14] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Lives of the Roman emperors, an 1533 edition of the Scriptores historia Augusta

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Omnia quam antehac emendatiora. Annotationes Des. Erasmi & Egnatij cognitu dignae: C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lam-pridus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flauius Vopiscus, Herodianus Politiano interprete, sex Aurelius Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Io. Baptista Egnatius Ammianus Marcellinus quatuor libris auctus. cum indicibus copiosis...
Basel, (colophon) Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, July 1533. 2 parts in 1 volume, Small folio (21.5 x 31.8cm). With Frobens large woodcut device on the title page, repeated on the final page and several large woodcut initials after Holbein. 17th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Both boards show two triple fillet frames, the smaller frame with four fleurs-de-lis cornerpieces on each outer corner, and within the smaller frame a centrepiece containing the monogram of the Collège (Royal) de Navarre in Paris. [44], 786, [2 blank], [84] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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First edition of the Dutch translation of Erasmus' famous treatise against war

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Zacharias HEYNS (translator). Belli detestatio. Ofte oorlogs vervloeckinge.
Zwolle, for Zacharias Heyns (colophon: printed by Frans Jorrijaensz), 1629. 4to. With a large engraved emblem on the title page, 5 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and a tailpiece built up from typographical ornaments. 19th century half brown morocco. [28] ll. Full description
€ 1,750
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Fine Sammelband with four theological works printed by Joannes Maire

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Explicatio in symbolum apostolorum, & decalogum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire 1641. 4 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With Maire's woodcut devices on all four title pages, several woodcut decorated initials throughout. With:
(2) IDEM. Enchiridion militis Christiani.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(3) IDEM. Modus orandi Deum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(4) IDEM. De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia, deque sedandis opinionum dissidiis, cum aliis nonnullis lectu dignis, liber. Ex editione Frobenianâ, anni MDXXXIII, cum gratiâ & privilegio Caesareo.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1642.
Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, blue edges. 264; 330 [2 blank]; 144; [1], [1 blank], [6], [4 blank], 176, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Very rare edition of the translation of two collections of dialogues by Erasmus and Lucian

ERASMUS, Desiderius, LUCIAN of SAMOSATA, and Andreas van OOSTERBEECK (translator). Sommige uytgelesene colloquia, ofte tsamen-spreeckinghen Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ende Luciani Samosatensis, niet min godsalich nut ende stichtelijck, dan tijdtcortich ende gheneuchelijck om lessen ... Beyde in de Neder-Duytsche sprake overgeset, door Andream van Oosterbeeck.
Utrecht, Jan Amelisz, 1613. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page and the rare full-page engraved portrait of Erasmus (which is lacking in at least 2 of the 4 copies known) in an oval, lettered: "Magnus ille Erasmus Roterodamus natus Roterdami Octobr. Ao 1467", with emblems in the corners (ink pot, trumpets, hourglass and Bible) and a Latin poem of 4 lines underneath ("Post cineres vivo doctis ... tuta manet"). This portrait of Erasmus (on leaf π1r), half to the left and seated, his hands resting on an open book, is apparently engraved after the portrait by Frans Huys of 1555 which he engraved after the painted portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger (Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish engr. and etches, 132). On the verso of this portrait is a laudatory "Klanck-Ghedicht" (sonnet) for Erasmus, between typographical borders; the same borders on leaf. π2r: the privilege by the States General (verso blank). Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum. [18], 141, [3] ll. Full description
€ 4,950
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The first bilingual edition of Erasmus' Euripides translation

EURIPIDES and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor and translator). Euripidis tragoediae duae hecuba & iphigenia in aulide, Latinae factae...
Basel, Froben Office [heirs of Johann Froben], April 1530. 8vo (10.4 x 15.4 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half brown calf and grey paper sides. 293, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Rare document asking the citizens of Mexico City for financial aid
in order to legitimise Emperor Agustín's rule

[FIRST EMPEROR of MEXICO - INSTATING AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE]. [Drop title:] El honor de la Capital del Imperio está comprometido en el decoro y magnificencia con que debe celebrar la Jura solemne ....
Sala Capitular del Ayuntamiento Constitucional de México [= City hall, Mexico City], 3 December 1822. Ca 20 x 15.5 cm. [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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The official printed record of the most important 19th-century exploratory expedition into Indochina

GARNIER, Francis. Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission Française présidiée par M. le capitaine de frégate Doudart de Lagrée et publié dans les ordres du ministre de la marine sous la direction de M. le lieutenant de vaisseau Francis Garnier avec le concours de M. Delaporte, lieutenant de vaisseau et de MM. Joubert et Thorel, médécins de la marine, membres de la commission.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1873. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume in 2 parts. Large 4to text volumes, and folio atlas. With a lithographed portrait of Doudart de Lagrée, 53 full-page maps and views, and 157 illustrations in the text. The atlas with 69 lithographed maps, plans and views. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled quarter red morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red cloth sides with blind tooled borders on the front and back, gilt edges, watered silk end papers. V, [3], 580, [4]; [6], 523, [5]; [6], XII pp. Full description
€ 50,000
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First edition of a collection of patristic writings, including Eucherius, Basil, and Jerome, with annotations by Erasmus

EUCHERIUS; Desiderius ERASMUS; Basil of CAESAREA; Petrus GERARDUS (editor). In hoc libello haec in sunt ... Intelligentiae spiritalis formulae: Instructionum libri duo ... epistola paraenetica, ad Valerianum suum ...
(Colophon:) Paris, Claude Chevallon, [ca. 1523], 8vo. With Cevallons woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, the title is printed in red and black, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum and beige paper sides, blue sprinkled head- and fore-edge, manuscript author and title on the spine in brown ink. [6], CVII, [1] ll. Full description
€ 2,950
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Very rare French songbook

[GOETTHEM, Pieter van (attributed)]. La lyre d'Apollon en poësies meslées, et les mieux choisies de ce temps. Composées par un Zelandois, & amateur dicelles. En cançons, Aïrs, rondeaux, estrenes, & epitaphes, &c.
Middelburg, Pieter van Goetthem, 1657. Oblong 16mo. With the title-page, and page 5 and 7 printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints. 432 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Rare dissertation printed on silk, in a red velvet binding

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Navigating the coast of West Africa

KERHALLET, Charles-Marie Philippe de. Description nautique de la côte occidentale dAfrique depuis le Cap Roxo jusquaux Îles de Los, comprenant larchipel des Bissagos.
Paris, Paul Dupont, 1849. 8vo. Later half black cloth, with the title and year of publication lettered in gold on the front, the logo of the Royal Danish Navy library gold-tooled on the front, black and pink marbled paper sides. 102 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Dated prize binding made for the Middelburg Drawing Academy of a renowned work on the art of painting

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Groot schilderboek ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, both title pages with a woodcut vignette, title to part 1 printed in red and black, an engraved portrait of De Laraisse, and 64 engraved plates. 19th-century richly gold-tooled mottled calf (dated 1841). The work has been re-backed with the original spine laid down. [3], [1 blank], [52], 434, [33], [1 blank]; 400, [28] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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The lawsuit against Jacob Coren van der Mieden (1698-1751)

[LAW - COURT OF HOLLAND] Alle de proceduren in der zake van Jacob Coren vander Mieden, heere van Calantsoogh, en den heere advocaat fiscael en procureur generael Anthony van Weesele, alsmede de proceduren daer uit geresulteert.
[The Netherlands, 1743-1747]. 24 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 32 x 21.5 cm). With some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 15, [1], 31, [1], 30, [2], 7, [1], 9, [2 blank], [1], 4, 10, [2], 2, [2], 21-27, 3, [1], 6, 20, 67, [1], 9, [2 blank], [1], 48, 8, [1], [2 blank], [1], 8, 4, 10, [1], [1], 2, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Law & Politics Netherlands
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Influential guide to the East and West Indies, featuring 42 double-page and folding plates,
including 6 detailed maps.

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Histoire de la navigation... aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à present descouverts par les Portugais: observations de coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations. Deuxiesme edition augmentee.
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1619. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. Folio (31 x 21 cm) With an engraved title page for each work, 42 engraved plates (31 double-page and 11 folding), including 6 maps, and a full-page portrait of the author within collation. Including: LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de lAmerique & des parties dicelle ...
Near-contemporary gold-tooled calf. [1], [1 blank], [6], "205" [= 206]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], "86" [= 80]. Full description
€ 65,000
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One of the best and most entertaining buccaneer travel accounts

LUSSAN, Raveneau de. Journal du voyage fait a la Mer du Sud, avec les filibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684 & années suivantes.
Paris, Jean Baptise Coignard, 1689. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 headpieces built up from typographical materials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf. [16], 448, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Invoice for work performed by Willem Does and Willem Maertens for the goverment of the Dutch Republic,
authorised by M. Huygens to be paid on/after 13 February 1637

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT - Willem DOES]. [Drop title:] H. ende Ed. Mo. Heeren de Raden van State der Vereenighde Nederlanden ...
The Hague, [1637]. Folio (31.6 x 20.2 cm). Manuscript in Dutch on paper, with the "clein segel" (seal) of the Dutch Republic in the upper left corner of the first leaf. Kept in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] ll. Full description
€ 750
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Rare 19th-century pomological work

MAS, Alphonse. Le verger ou histoire, culture et description avec planches coloriées des variétés de fruits le plus généralement connues.
Paris, G. Masson, [1873]. 8 parts in 8 volumes. Large 8vo (28 x 18.7 cm). With 384 chromo-lithographed plates with 792 figures depicting pears, apples, plums, peaches, cherries and apricots. Contemporary blind-stamped green buckram. Each plate with 4 pages text. Full description
€ 5,000
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Printing techniques and examples of early bank notes

[NUMISMATICS - BANK NOTES]. Report of the committee of the Society of Arts, &c. together with the approved communications and evidence upon the same relative to the mode of preventing the forgery of bank notes.
London, Printed by order of the Society (colophon: printed by T.C. Hansard), 1819. 8vo. With 6 engraved plates (5 full-page, 1 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [IV], 59, [1 blank], 57-72 [= 76] pp. Full description
€ 1,000
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In honour of the victories of Prince Maurice - from the library of Paulus van Uchelen, bound by Magnus

[ORLERS, Jan Jansz. & Hendrik Lodewijksz. HAESTENS]. La genealogie des illustres comtes de Nassau nouvellement imprimée ...
Leiden, Jan Orlers, 1620 (colophon: Amsterdam, Jan Jansz. [= Johannes Janssonius I], 1624). Folio. With an engraved title by Jacques de Gheyn II, a full-page coat of arms of Prince Maurice, a full-page engraved portrait of Maurice, 13 half-page engraved portraits of counts and princes of the Nassau family, 2 double-page engraved maps of the Netherlands and Brabant, and 41 engraved plans and bird's-eye views of cities and battles (39 double-page, 2 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [78], 305, [2] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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The siege of 's Hertogenbosch with engravings by Henricus Hondius II,
from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

PREMPART, Jacques. Récit, ou brefve description de ce qui s' est passé durant le très-fameux Siège de Bois-le-Duc. ...
Leeuwarden, Claude Fontaine, 1630. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 2 large folding engraved maps, showing the city of 's Hertogenbosch, its fortifications, and the besieging army under Prince Hendrik of Orange, and 7 folding engraved plans of the "approches" of the besieging army at various quarters. Contemporary vellum. [2], 26, [4] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Beautiful Jesuit emblems mixing science instruction and philosophical politics

REINZER, Franz. Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, das ist: Philosophische und Politische Beschreib- und Erklärung der Meteorischen, oder in der obern Lufft erzeugten Dinge ...
Augsburg, Peter Detleffsen for Jeremiae Wolffen, 1712. Folio. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A.M. Wolffgang after Wolfgang Josephus Kadoriza and 83 large engraved circular emblems in text with motto above and various verses in text, all after designs by Kadoriza. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with orange label, red sprinkled edges. [4], 424, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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The Low Countries: a geographical and historical description in German,
fitting in the publishing programme of the firm of Christoph Riegel in Frankfurt am Main

[RIEGEL, Christoph]. Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung der freyvereinigten Staaten und Spannischen Niederlanden, in gewisse und sonderbare XVII. Länder abgetheilet ...
Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1691. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, 61 full-page engraved plans, and 59 full-page engraved views of the cities and fortifications of the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum with an oval supralibros mounted in the centre of both boards, red edges, leather closing ties. [8], 1078, [8] pp. + 120 engravings. Full description
€ 4,750
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Eyewitness account of the second siege of Bergen op Zoom (1622)

[RIJCKE, Lambertus de, Nathane (de) VAY & Job de RIEU]. Bergues sur le Soom assiegée le 18 de Jullet 1622, et des-assiegée le 3 d'Octobre ensuivant. Selon la description faite par les trois pasteurs de l'église d'icelle.
Middelburg, Jean vander Hellen for Rombout van Hamerste, 1623. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and several headpieces made up of typographical ornaments.19th-century gold-tooled red morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [16], 281, [11] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Exceedingly rare 16th-century rhetorical treatise by Antwerp humanist Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg

STERCK VAN RINGELBERGH, Joachim. Liber de figuris, & vitiis orationis. His alia quaedam adijiu[n]tur. Vaeneun t apud eundem.
[Paris?, Pierre Gromors?, 1529]. 8vo. With a woodcut title frame, the upper block is an illustration of the Last Supper. Modern vellum. [8] ll. Full description
€ 5,750
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The Schenckenschans fortress captured by Spanish mercenaries, illustrated, and described from the Spanish perspective

[SCHENCKENSCHANS FORTRESS]. Breve y verdadera, descripcion, del ynexpugnable fuerte Schencken como por yndustria de la gente de su magestad catolica se gano en 28 de julio anno 1635 annos ...
Madrid, printed for the widow of Juan Gonçalez, 1635. Broadsheet (ca. 40 x 26 cm). With a large engraving in the top half of the sheet (20 x 22.1 cm). Full description
€ 4,500
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Humanist edition of Seneca’s tragedies

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderius ERASMUS and others (editors). Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae... explanatae diligentissime tribus Commentariis...
Paris, Jodocus Badius, 5 December 1514. Folio. With a woodcut border and printers device on the title page, printed in red and black, along with numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, both boards show a gold-tooled armorial centre piece (incorporating the arms of the city of Nevers or the arms of the Conflans family from the Champagne region, Rietstap I, plate CXVIII) within a gold-tooled floral frame, blind-tooled board edges, marbled edges. [6], CCLXVII, [1] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
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Classic history and description of Gelderland with maps in a contemporary hand-colouring,
bound by the Utrecht "Vase Block Bindery"

SLICHTENHORST, Arend van. XIV. Boeken van de Geldersse Geschiedenissen, van 't begin af vervolghd tot aen de afzweeringh des Konincx van Spanien; ...
Arnhem, Jacob van Biesen, 1654. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page, a letterpress half-title, a large folding engraved map, 20 double-page plans and maps, 28 woodcut coats of arms in the text, as well as woodcut medals, and letterpress genealogical tables. With exception of some medals all plates and illustrations are coloured by a contemporary hand and partly highlighted with gold. Early 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called "Vase Block Bindery". [16], 116, [4]; 596, [24] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
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A key moment in an early 16th-century religious debate

STUNICA, Jacobus Lopis. Jacobi Lopidis Stunicae libellus trium illorum voluminum praecursor quibus Erasmicas impietates ac blasphemias redar guit.
(Colophon:) Rome, Antonium Bladum de Asula, 1522. 4to. With Stunicas (House of Zúñiga) large woodcut coat of arms on the title page, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern gold-tooled half calf. [29], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
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The mayfly as a metaphor for human life

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Ephemeri vita, of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, vertoont in de wonderbaarelijcke en nooyt gehoorde historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent haft of oever-aas. ...
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675. 8vo (15.6 x 9.5 cm). With detailed illustration of the mayfly or ephemeron on 8 engraved plates (including 2 folding). Further with woodcut decorated initials and a woodcut ornamental tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with title in ink on the spine. [32], 422, [8] pp. Full description
€ 5,500
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Only known copy with a rare additional plate of the blooming American Aloe
from the Köpenick Palace gardens

TREW, Cristoph Jacob. D. Christophori Jacobi Trew, ... Beschreibung der Grossen Americanischen Aloe: Theils aus bewährten autoribus, theils aus eigener Erfahrung zusammen getragen ...
Nuremberg, Bey Wolfg. Moritz Endters seel. Erben, und Jul. Arn. Engelbrecht. Gedruckt bey Joh. Ernst Adelbulner, 1727. Oblong 4to (ca. 16.7 x 21.2 cm). With a full-page engraved plate with 6 figures, an additional engraved folding plate by Busch, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers. 36, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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Beautifully calligraphed algebra textbook

[VENEMA, Pieter] and M. JANSEN. Beginselen van de algebra, uytgewerkt door M. Jansen.
[The Netherlands?], 1765 (29 November 1763-5 July 1765). Folio (ca. 32 x 21 cm). With a calligraphed title page, the text in the rest of the manuscript is neatly written within a reddish brown ruled border, with calligraphed headings. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 311, [50 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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Rare issue with an extra view of Middelburg

[VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. Speculum Zelandiae dat is: een beschryvinge ofte afbeelding der steden, ambachts-heerlijckheden, dorpen, castelen, ridderlijcke hofsteden, huysen en gebouwen gelegen inde eylanden en de graeflijckheyt van Zeelandt.
Amsterdam, Widow of [Joachim] Ottens and sons, [ca. 1720]. 1mo (32 x 32.5 cm). With an engraved armorial title page and 36 full-page engraved views. Contemporary gold-tooled brown half calf. [37] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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A nicely coloured history and description of Friesland: presentation copy by the author

WINSEMIUS, Pierius. Chronique ofte historische geschiedenisse van Vrieslant. Beginnende vanden jaere nae des Werelts scheppinghe 3635. ende loopende tot den jaere nae de gheboorte Christi.
Franeker, Jan Lamrinck, 1622. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, a large engraved coat of arms of the province of Friesland, a large folding engraved map of Friesland, 3 folding engraved plans. Further with (in the text) 49 half-page, full-length engraved portraits, 2 engraved costume plates, 2 plans of sieges, 1 view 6 seals and coats of arms of Friesland at the end. Also with many woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. All engraved and woodcut illustrations are beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [10], 913, [61] pp. Full description
€ 32,500
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A medical Dissertation on the Method of Examining Herbs

WOLLEBIUS, Lucas (Lucas WOLLEB) and Johann Gerhard HOSE. Dissertatio Medica De Methodo Herbas Lustrandi : Cui annexa sunt Corollaria Quaedam Anatomica, Quam Divina Favente Gratia, In Antiquissima Rauracorum Academia, Vacante Sede Botanico-Anatomica, Publico Eruditorum scrutinio subjicit Lucas Wollebius, Phil. & Med. Doctor, Ad Diem 7. Augusti An. M DCC XI. Horis Locoque consuetis, Respondente Joh. Gerhardo Hose, Heidelbergensi, Med. Cult.
Basel, Jakob Bertsche, 1711. 4to Contemporary marbled wrappers. [24] pp. Full description
€ 650
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