Asher Rare Books

Photographs of Sheikh Zayed's state visits to Pakistan

[ABU DHABI – STATE VISITS TO PAKISTAN]. [Photograph archive and album. Album title]: Visit to Lahore of His Highness Skeikh Zayed bin Sultan Alnahayyani the ruler of Abudhabi (16th to 28th November, 1967).
[Pakistan, 1967-1971]. An archive of 183 photographs: 133 loose black and white photographic prints (ca. 30 x 25 cm), 30 smaller ones (ca. 5 x 6 cm) numbered and mounted together on a single sheet of paper, and 20 additional prints in the album. Further with numerous rolls of original medium format negatives.Original black half morocco album, green cloth sides with title and emblem of the United Bank Limited Pakistan on the front board. Full description

€ 75,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics Photography UAE - United Arab Emirates West Asia

History of the Islamic Almoravid and Almohad dynasties in Spain and north Africa

ABU-MOHAMMED ASSALEH el Abdel-Halim and José de SANTO ANTONIO MOURA (translator). Historia dos soberanos Mohametanos das primeiras quatro dynastias, e de parte da quinta, que reinarao na Mauritania,..
Lisbon, Academia real, 1828. 4to. Contemporary motted sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [4], 454, [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Mediterranean Regions North Africa & Egypt

Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India

[ACHILLINI, Alessandro]. Secreta secretorum Aristotelis.
Including:
ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophi ... de signis aquarum: & tempestatum.
ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophurum ... de mineralibus.
ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS. De intellectu.
AVERROES. De beatitudine anime.
ACHILLINI, Alexander. De universalibus.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT [pseudo]. De mirabilibus Indie.
(Colophon: Lyon, Antoine Blanchard, 1528. Small 8vo. With a title-page with a 4-piece decorated woodcut border with flowers, birds and snails, woodcut printer's device on last page, 6 woodcut initials and a leaf ornament. Set in 3 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with the title in roman capitals. Contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin(?) parchment over wooden boards, in a panel design with quadruple fillets and 2 decorative rolls, brass catch-plates and anchor-plates (straps and clasps lost). LXXXIII ll. Full description

€ 11,500

Early Printing - 16th century India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Mineralogy & Gems

An early account of Timbuktu by an American sailor

[ADAMS, Robert (= Benjamin ROSE)]. Jongste en echte berigten betrekkelijk Tombuctoo en eenige andere nog onbezochte deelen der binnenlanden van Afrika.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, 1818. 8vo. With a folding engraved map (30.5 x 37.5 cm) of North Africa with the routes of Mungo Park and Robert Adams highlighted in colour. Contemporary boards. VI, 353, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Central Africa Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Slavery Tobacco Travel & Voyages Africa West Africa

Venice school edition of Aesop with numerous fables by other authors, the 3rd edition of this collection

AESOP. Fabellae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum index proxima refertur pagella.
Venice, (colophon: Giovanni Farri and brothers), 1542. Small 8vo (16 x 11 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial but further with spaces left for manuscript Greek and Latin initials (with printed guide letters). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with fragments of a vellum manuscript used to reinforce the spine. 364, [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Early Printing - 16th century Fable Books Greek & Roman Classics

One of the earliest Antwerp records of Charles V’s Italian financier

[MANUSCRIPT - NOTARIAL DECLARATION]. AFFAITATI, Giovan Carlo (Johannes Carolus de AFFAYTADI). Ratificatio facta p[er] m[agnifi]cu[m] d[ominum] Jo[hannes] Carolu[s] de Affaytalis, in favorem m[agnifi]ci et r[everen]di d[omino]. Guidi d[e] Crema et Rafaelis Krumani p[e]r Castro S[anc]ti Laurentii et terris.
Antwerp, 20 January 1546. Manuscript notarial document in Latin, written in a Latin hand on one side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (31 x 54.5 cm), opening with a large capital and closing with the notary's decorative signature, with the title and "M. Johan Carlo" on the back. Folded and loosely inserted in a paper folder (ca. 1690s?). [1] leaf. Full description

€ 1,250

Belgium Economic History & Trade Italy Manuscripts & Documents

Annotated copy of a highly important work on Western occultism,
from the library of the infamous Haven O'More

AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, Henricus Cornelius. De occulta philosophia libri tres.
[Cologne, Johann Soter], (colophon:) 1533. Folio. With a woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the text, 28 letterpress tables, numerous symbols in the text, and numerous decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled brown calf. Kept in a custom-made clamshell box of burgundy cloth. [12], CCCLXII pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Alchemy Astrology & Occult Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Magic & Conjuring Philosophy & Esotericism

Foreign Office Copy

AITCHISON, Charles Umpherston (editor). A Collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries ... Vol. XII. Containing the treaties, &c., relating to Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Assam and Burma.
Calcutta, Government of India, Central Publication Branch, 1931 Large 8vo. Contemporary half cloth over boards, buckram sides. [2], XII, 283, [3], XII, XXIII, [1] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Southeast Asia

Diplomatic exchange between the Mughal Emperor and the King of England

ALAMGIR II, Muhammad 'Aziz al-Daulah (Emperor of Hindustan). Nova e curiosa relaçam da embaixada, que mandou o Graõ Mogor, ao Rey de Inglaterra. Tirada de varias cartas fidedignas, que fizeraõ varios aleado aos correspondentes, que tem nesta cidade.
Lisbon, 1757. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on title-page and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern morocco with gold-tooled title on front cover. 7, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

Extremely rare Antwerp edition (1502) of popular pseudo-Magnus treatises Liber aggregationis and De mirabilibus mundi

ALBERTUS MAGNUS (pseudo). De virtutibus herbarum. De virtutibus lapidum. De virutibus animalium et mirabilibus mundi. Item parvum regimen sanitatis valde utile. [Liber aggregationis and De mirabilibus mundi].
[colophon (f4r):] Antwerp, Govaert Bac, 1502. 4to. With a full-page woodcut on the title-page (a monk offering a book to a prince), repeated on the back of the title-page, and Govaert Bacs full-page woodcut printer's device of on the verso of the last leaf. With 3- and 4-line lombardic initials and smaller 2-line initials, supplied by hand in red. Rubricated throughout. 19th-century calf with double gold fillets along the edges of both boards. [36] ll. Full description

€ 35,000

Alchemy Astrology & Occult Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Mineralogy & Gems

Album amicorum with many illustrated contributions (some hand-coloured),
particularly by women reflecting the rage for alba amicorum among 19th-century noble women

[ALBUM AMICORUM & SCRAPBOOK - THE NETHERLANDS]. [Album amicorum of a Miss van Boetzelaer (?)].
Heerenveen, 1831-1849. Oblong 4to. Manuscript with many contributions in French and English, a single contribution in Dutch and a four-line verse in German, mainly written in the same hand, probably of the owner of this album. With 45 mounted or occasionally loosely inserted drawings, paintings and prints in various formats, some coloured by contemporary hands. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco, each board richly decorated with frames and an oblong lozenge-shaped centrepiece, gilt edges. [96] ll. Full description

€ 3,850

Alba Amicorum Literature Women History

Treaty between the States General and Algiers,
discussing the problems of Dutch merchants trading in the Mediterranean

[ALGIERS - TREATY - STATES GENERAL]. Tractaet tusschen Haer Hoogh Mog. De Heeren Staten Generael der vereenighde Nederlanden, ende de Regeeringe van Algiers.
The Hague, Paulus Scheltus, 1713. 4to. With Scheltus's woodcut printer's device on the title-page and with a woodcut initial. Modern brown wrappers with printed title-label pasted on the front side. 14, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt Slavery

Description of Den Briel

ALKEMADE, Cornelis van and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den lande van Voorn, ...
Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a double-page engraved plan of Den Briel and 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [28], 224, [8], 225-376; [8], 306, [20] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Charts & Maps Law & Politics Netherlands

First illustrated edition of this well-known work on medieval legal claiming and dueling

ALKEMADE, Kornelis van. Behandeling van 't kamp-regt; d'aaloude en opperste regts-vordering voor 't hof van Holland, onder de eerste graaven.
Delft, Andries Voorstad, 1702. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and 7 full-page engraved plates (frontispiece and first 3 plates (partly) colored by hand). Contemporary vellum. [22], 236 pp. Full description

€ 400

Law & Politics Military History (18th Century)

Attractively bound copy of this interesting French almanac published
in the first year of the rule of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. TESTU, Laurent Étienne (publisher). Almanach impérial pour lan XIII [= 1804-1805] présente a sa Majesté lEmpereur par Testu.
Paris, L.É. Testu, [1804]. Large 8vo (ca. 19.5 x 12 cm). With the engraved coat-of-arms of the First French Empire on the title-page and numerous letterpress tables. Contemporary gold-tooled tree marbled calf. [16], 832 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Almanacs France

A defence of Leachman's assassin

'ALWACHI ('Abd al-Hamid). Al-Shaykh Dari qatil al-Kulunl Lichman fi Khan al-Nuqtah. [English title:] Sheik Dhari, assassin of Lieut-Col. G.E. Leachman at Khan el-Nuqta.
Baghdad, Maktab al-Alwaji wa-alHajjiyah, 1968. 8vo. With the English title on the back wrapper and the recto of the final leaf, main text set in Arabic type throughout. With 16 black and white photographic illustrations (on 5 leaves). Original lime green printed wrappers. 158, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

Very rare first edition of one of the earliest printed books on Freemasonry
including an unpublished late 18th-century manuscript Masonic poem in English

[ANDERSON, James]. The constitutions of the Free-Masons. Containing the history, charges, regulations, &c. of that most ancient and right worshipful fraternity. For the use of the lodges.
London, Printed by William Hunter for John Senex and John Hooke, 1723 ["In the year of masonry 5723. Anno Domini 1723"]. Large 4to (ca. 23 x 18 cm). With the allegorical engraved frontispiece by John Pine, a woodcut vignette on the title-page, the engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicatee John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, 6 pages with printed musical scores, one woodcut tailpiece and 6 historiated woodcut initials. Contemporary dark brown calf, re-backed with a modern ribbed spine with black morocco title-label lettered Constitutions in gold. [8], [91], [1], [3 with manuscript text], [13 blank] pp. Full description

€ 28,000

Philosophy & Esotericism

Great history of the Portuguese colonial empire in South America, India, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa

ANDRADA, Francisco d'. Chronica do muyto alto e muyto poderoso Rey destes reynos de Portugal Dom João o III deste nome, ...
Coimbra, Real officina da universidade, 1796. 4 volumes. 4to. With a woodcut royal Portuguese coat of arms on title-page of each volume. Contemporary plain paper wrappers. VIII, I-XV, [1 blank], 385, [1 blank]; [4], XIX, [1 blank], 565 [=465], [1 blank]; [4], XX, 452; Full description

€ 2,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Ceylon Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Latin America Law & Politics Portugal South America

Fables for Christians, by one of the founders of Rosicrucianism

[ANDREAE, Johann Valentin]. Mythologiae Christianae sive virtutum & vitiorum vitae humanae imaginum. Libri tres.
Strasbourg, heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, [1619]. With an engraved title-page.
With: (2) [GESSEL, Timan van]. Synopsis locorum sacrae scripturae patrum, et recentiorum quorundam theologorum, quibus demonstratur, quaenam sint ad salutem creditu necessaria & sufficientia.
Amsterdam, [Joan Blaeu?], 1650. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [24], 352, [7], [1 blank]; [38], 197, [1] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Alchemy Church History & Missions Philosophy & Esotericism

The roads of the Roman Empire and a late antique “Michelin guide” for Rome

[ANTONINUS PIUS], Vibius SEQUESTER, Publius VICTOR & DIONYSIUS Periegetes. Itinerarium provinciarum Antonini Augusti. Vibius Sequester De fluminum, & aliarum rerum nominibus in ordinem elementorum digestis. P. Victor De regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer De situ orbis Prisciano interprete.
Lyon, heirs of Simon Vincent (colophon: printed by Nathias [recté Mathias] Bonhomme, [ca. 1540]. Small 8vo. With Vincents woodcut device on the title-page. Nineteenth-century vellum, gold-tooled spine with brown title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. 206, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Italy Travel & Voyages Europe

Rare edition of a popular classical rhetoric handbook

APHTHONIUS of Antioch; Rodolphus AGRICOLA and Giovanni Maria CATANEO (translators). Aphthonii sophistae progymnasmata. Partim à Rodolpho Agricola, partim à Ioanne Maria Catanaeo latinitate donata. Cum luculentis & vtilibus in eadem Scholiis Reinhardi Lorichii Hadamarii. Nunc verò omnia multò quàm antea & emendatiora & meliori artificio disposita.
Paris, Gilles Gourbin, 1580. 16mo in 8s. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 3 woodcut headpieces in the beginning of the work, and 9 decorated woodcut initials throughout. 17th-century limp vellum. [12], 259, [3 blank] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Language & Linguistics Literature

First printed world-corpus of classical inscriptions, with numerous woodcuts including one after Albrecht Dürer

APIANUS, Petrus and Bartholomeus AMANTIUS. Inscriptiones sacrosanctae vetustatis non illae quidem Romanae, sed totius fere orbis . . .
Ingolstadt, Petrus Apianus, 1534. Folio (31×22 cm). Title-page with a large woodcut (15×16 cm) by H. Brosamer after Albrecht Dürer, Apianus's woodcut device above the colophon, woodcut coat of arms of Raimund Fugger (who helped finance the publication), and numerous woodcut illustrations by Brosamer, M. Ostendorfer, G.A. Benewitz and others, most showing sculptural elements from tombs, most pages in woodcut borders, usually assembled from 4 blocks each. 19th-century red half calf, gold- and blind-tooled spine. [40], CCCCXII, [8] pp. Full description

€ 4,950

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

First printed world-corpus of classical inscriptions

APIANUS, Petrus. Inscriptiones sacrosanctae vetustatis non illae quidem Romanae, sed totius fere orbis summo studio ac maximis impensis Terra Marique conquistae feliciter incipiunt.
Ingolstadt, Petrus Apianus, 1534. Folio (21 x 29.5 cm). With title-page printed in red and black, large emblematic woodcut after Albrecht Dürer (hand-coloured and highlighted with gold ca. 1730), woodcut coat of arms of Raimund Fugger (hand-coloured and highlighted with gold), 184 woodcut illustrations and 7 large woodcut initials. Nearly every page framed by 4 woodcut decorative border strips (several varieties). Contemporary vellum. [40], CCCCCXII, [8] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

Ephemera, including Arab constitutional documents and an introduction to the history of Arab medicine

[ARABIA - EPHEMERA]. [A collection of ephemera regarding the Arab states].
New York & London, The Arab Information Center, 1951-1962 8vo. Comprising:
(1) EL-KHATIB, M. Fatallah (foreword). Basic Documents of the Arab Unifications. New York, Arab Information Center, June 1958.
(2) OMRAN, Abdel-Rahim. Public Health & Welfare in the Arab States: Past, Present and Future. New York, Arab Information Center, November 1959. The booklet opens with a history of the Arab contributions to medicine followed by modern statistics.
(3) WRIGHT, Esmond. The Arab World. Current Affairs no. 125. London, Bureau of Current Affairs, 3 February 1951.
(4) [MENU]. P&O menu. On board the S.S. Arcadia, Sunday 25 March 1962.
2 booklets, a magazine and a menu, all in original publishers wrappers. 43; 32; 19, [1]; [4?] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics

The life of Muhammad and a history of Arabia under the first four Caliphs

[ARABIAN HISTORY]. Hedendaagsche historie; of het vervolg van de algemeene historie; ... Behelzende het leeven van Mohammed; en het begin van de historie der Arabieren, onder de drie eerste Khalifs ...
Utrecht, Hermanus Besseling (vols. 1-2), Leiden, Amsterdam, P. van der Eyk, G. de Groot and son, K. van Tongerloo and P. Schouten (vol. 3), 1760-1764. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. With 3 engraved frontispieces, engraved coat of arms and 6 folding plates. Contemporary boards covered with sprinkled paper. Full description

€ 5,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Islam & Qurans Islamic Art, Culture & Science

Abu Dhabi's Oil industry: the Israeli perspective

[MAP - ARABIAN PENINSULA OIL RESOURCES]. Neft ba-mizrah ha-tikhon. Zikaynot, shadot, tzinorot, batei zikuk. [= Oil in the Middle East. Concessions, oilfields, pipelines, refineries].
Tel Aviv, Israel Defence Forces, General Staff, [1957]. 56 x 82.5 cm. Chromolithographic map of the Arabian Peninsula, from Turkey in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south, and covering Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, North and South Yemen. Scale 1:5,000,000. Scale and key in Hebrew inset to top-right, inset explanatory panels in Hebrew and English, compass rose in Saudi Arabia. Folded. Full description

€ 7,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade UAE - United Arab Emirates

Very early manuscript treatise about the fatwa

[ARABIC MANUSCRIPT]. Kitab Al-Waqi'at fi'l-Fatawi [Kitab Al-Waghi'at Fi Al-Fatwi].
[Levant, ca. 1290]. Small 4to in 6s (17 x 14) cm. Arabic manuscript, 15 to 17 lines to the page, written in clear cursive ta'liq script on brown Middle Eastern paper. With occasional red rubrication.
Contemporary (?) blind-tooled calf, mostly covered with later calf leaving only the contemporary back cover exposed. 19th century European paper endpapers. With a loose leaf of 18th century European paper with Arabic manuscript writing on one side. 374 ll. Full description

€ 35,000

Islam & Qurans Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents

Pamphlet on Saudi Arabia

[ARAB SUPPORT COMMITTEE]. Struggle, oppression and counter-revolution in Saudi Arabia.
Berkeley, CA, Arab Support Committee, [ca. 1973]. With a map of the Arabian peninsula. Original publisher's wrappers. [5], 25 pp. Full description

€ 375

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Saudi Arabia

The establishment of archaeology and philology as fields of study, bound for a Bourbon(?) count, including a work on the famous Rosetta Stone

[ARCHAEOLOGY - PHILOLOGY] BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques and others. [Collection of texts on early archaeology and philology].
[Various places], [various publishers], 1760-1827.
Containing:
(1) [CHRISTIE'S - LONDON]. A list of the very rare and valuable Aethiopic and other oriental manuscripts, collected by the celebrated traveller, James Bruce, esq. of Kinnaird, taken from the catalogue of them made by the late Alexander Murray, editor of the travels by Mr. Bruce in Abyssinia.
[London, 1827].
(2) WEBER, Georg Friedrich. Observationes sacrae circa funera populorum orientis. ...
Strasbourg, Johann Heinrich Heitz, [1767].
With a woodcut headpiece, tailpieces (2) and open-sided factotum.
(3) SEYFFARTH, Gustav [and Friedrich August Wilhelm SPOHN]. Brevis defensio hieroglyphices.
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1827.
(4) SCHLICHTEGROLL, Friedrich von. Ueber die bey Rosette in Aegypten gefundene dreyfache Inschrift...
München, printed by Ignaz Joseph Lentner, [1818?].
(5) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Explication de la mosaïque de Palestrine. Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1760.
With 1 large folding engraved plate of the mosaic, 1 plate showing the names of animals written in the mosaic. Bound with it is an unrelated engraved plate on a 4to leaf, showing Samaritan medals (drawn and engraved by Poisson in 1790) that accompanied another one of Barthélemys publications.
(6) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Lettre de m. l'abbé Barthelemy ...
[Paris, 1760].
With 2 plates of the Phoenician medals and Phoenician inscriptions found on Malta, with an elaborate woodcut headpiece and a woodcut tailpiece.
(7) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Seconde lettre de m. l'abbé Barthelemy, ... sur quelques médailles Phéniciennes. [Paris, 1763].
With one plate of the Phoenician medals and the same elaborate woodcut headpiece as ad 6.
(8) [PARQUOY (assistant to labbé François BEJOT at the Bibliothèque du Roi). Lettre à messieurs les auteurs du Journal des Savans, sur un projet d'edition du Syncelle.
[Paris, 1778].
(9) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Lettre a monsieur le Marquis Olivieri, au sujet de quelques monuments Phéniciens ... Paris, L.F. Delatour (printer), 1766.
With 4 plates (numbered I-IV, nos. I & III folding), the first 3 signed by P.L Charpentier, of Phoenician inscriptions, alphabet and medals. With a woodcut (oak branches with a ribbon) on the title-page and a woodcut headpiece.
(10) [D'ANSSE DE VILLOISON, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (draughtsman) and DROÜET (engraver)]. Alphabetum codicis bibliothecae coislininae, nunc sangermanensis, ineunte decimo saeculo manu exarati, ex quo Apollonii lexicon descriptum est. Paris, 1771.
10 works in 1 volume. 4to. A wholly engraved monograph, in Greek and Latin with a few words of Syriac.
Mid-19th-century half red goatskin morocco, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine (blind-tooled fillets) with the cypher monogram of a French count in compartments 1, 3 & 5 and "labbé|Barthelemy" and "Dissertations|1760-1792" in mid-19th-century roman capitals across compartments 2 & 4, "agathe" chemical-marbled sides, Spanish-marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges, green ribbon marker. 16; 43, [1 blank]; 24; 28, XIV; [2], 44; 12; 8; 12; [1], [1 blank], 45, [1 blank]; 9, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Archaeology East Africa Iran / Persia Language & Linguistics Literature Malta North Africa & Egypt West Asia

Biography of a famous abbess and reformer of Port-Royal. With notes on the history of Port-Royal,
Maubuisson and other monasteries

ARNAULD D'ANDILLY, Angélique de Saint Jean. Relations sur la vie de la Reverende mere Angelique de Sainte Magdelaine Arnauld, ou receüil de la mere Angelique de Saint Jean Arnauld d'Audilly, sur la vie de sa tante la mere Marie-Angelique de Sainte Magdelaine Arnauld, & sur la réforme des abbayes de Port-Royal, Maubuisson & autres, faite par cette Sainte Abbisse.
With: (2) ARNAULD, Angélique de Sainte Magdelaine. Mémoires pour servir à la vie de la R. Mëre Marie Angélique de Sainte Magdelaine Arnauld, reformatrice de Port Royal.
[France], 1737. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title-label, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. VII, 291; IV, 145 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Bibliography & Biography Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church France

In defence of the Chilean founding father Bernardo O'Higgins, printed in Lima

ASCENCIO, Juan [=José Joaquin de MORA]. Acusacion pronunciada ante el Tribunal de Jurados de Lima contra el "Alcance al Mercurio Peruano" publicado por D. Carlos Rodriguez, y denunciado por el Gran Maríscal del Peru D. Bernardo O'Higgins.
Lima, imprenta de Masias, 1833. 4to. 20th-century marbled boards. [2], VIII, 133, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 850

Latin America Law & Politics Peru South America

First Aldine edition of Pedanius's commentaries on Cicero's orations

ASCONIUS PEDANIUS, Quintus. Expositio in IIII orationes M.T. Cic. contra C. Verrem [&c.]
(colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1522. 8vo. With Aldos woodcut anchor and dolphin device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the last otherwise blank leaf (each with letterpress "AL ... DVS" flanking the device), with spaces (with guide letters) left for manuscript initials, not filled in. Set in Aldos famous italic (with upright capitals), the worlds first italic printing type, first used in 1501 (showing the alphabet a-z and A-N in the register of quires above the colophon). Dark purple sheepskin (ca. 1880?). [12], 283, [1] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Aldine Press Book History, Printing & Typography Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics

Graphically stunning 3-volume historical manuscript atlas

[ATLAS - HISTORICAL]. Atlas historique. - Souvenirs historiques. - Tableaux et cartes.
[Montpellier?], [date on spine of vol. 1:] 1851. 3 volumes. Folio (vol. 1) and large 4to (vols. 2-3). Neatly written manuscripts on paper with 23 graphically vibrant maps, coloured in outline with subtly shaded washes in grey (for the coasts) and numerous bright colours (for political boundaries), and with calligraphic headings. Contemporary bindings: vol. 1 red half goatskin; vol. 2 black half goatskin; vol. 3 black sheepskin. [1], [26 double]; [1], [22 double]; [1], 30 double, [1] ll. Full description

€ 1,750

Charts & Maps France Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Germany Manuscripts & Documents North Africa & Egypt Scandinavia Spain Switzerland Turkey & Ottoman Empire UK - United Kingdom

Auction poster announcing the sale of country estate Wulperhorst

[AUCTION POSTER - COUNTRY ESTATE]. Vrij willige verkoopinge van een capitaale buitenplaats genaamd Wulperhorst, met annexe hofsteden en landen, by Zeyst.
Utrecht, J. Vis, 1801. (Ca. 100 x 44 cm). With the text printed in red. Framed. Full description

€ 4,500

Castles, Gardens & Mansions Economic History & Trade Netherlands

Complete print series by Van Audenaerde of the triumphal military parade celebrating
Caesar's victory in the Gallic Wars, after Mantegna's famous paintings

AUDENAERDE, Robert van, after Andrea MANTEGNA. C. Julii Caesaris Dictatoris triumphi de Gallia, Aegypto, Ponto, Africa, Hispania, quinquies eodem mense triumphantis; omnium, qui unquam fuere, Ducum, Regum Bellica virtute praestantissimi.
Rome, Domenico de Rossi, 1692. With an engraved allegorical title-print showing Minerva on a throne pointing towards a medallion with Caesar's profile, and 9 engraved prints by Robert van Audenaerde after Andrea Mantegna's paintings, showing the triumphal military parade celebrating Caesar's victory in the Gallic Wars. Each is numbered at the lower right and captioned below with an engraved description. The 10 prints are preserved in a paperboard folder covered with half green cloth and green marbled sides (ca. 57 x 47 cm). [1], 9 engraved ll. Full description

€ 4,950

Classical Antiquity Prints & Print Series

First edition of the first Italian translation of Augustine's "De civitate Dei"

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). De la cita d'Dio.
[Venice?, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, ca. 1477? (not after 1483)]. Folio. Printed in two columns, each 47 lines, with spaces for 3-6 line initials left blank. Early 19th-century gold-tooled calf. [1 blank], [322], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 19,000

Church History & Missions Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 15th century

First edition of the "Divisiekroniek", with 239 woodcut illustrations, in an interesting binding

[AURELIUS, Cornelius]. Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij.
Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side. [2], 436 ll. Full description

€ 45,000

Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands

The most important expanded edition of the famous “Divisiekroniek”, the Dutch national chronicle, complete with the map of Holland in its first state

[AURELIUS, Cornelius and Ellert de VEER]. Die cronycke van Hollant, Zeelant ende Vrieslant. Dordrecht, Peeter Verhaghen, 1591, 1591, 1590. 3 volumes bound as 1. Small folio (30.5 x 20.5 cm). With 3 title-pages, each with a different woodcut full-length portrait (the first count of Holland Dirck I, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain), 1 double-page engraved map of Holland in part 2 (in its first state), and 36 woodcut portraits in text. Blind-tooled vellum (ca. 1740?). [6], 264; [6], 162; [1], 1-110, 110-130, [6] ll. plus the map. Full description

€ 6,500

Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands

How to restore French power in British India after the Seven Years' War: a diplomatic draft

[AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT - FRANCE, ENGLAND & INDIA]. [French manuscript on the negotiation strategy of the French with the British on India.]
ca. 1778. Folio. Sewn with two small chords in the left upper and bottom corner. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

France India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents UK - United Kingdom

Against Portugal's centralized power in Brazil

AZEREDO COUTINHO, José Joaquim da Cunha de. Alegasaõ juridica, na qual se mostra que saõ do padroado da coroa, e naõ da Ordem militar de Cristo, as igrejas, dignidades, e beneficios dos bispados do Cabo de Bojador para o sul, em que se compreendem os bispados de Cabo Verde, S. Thomé, Angola, Brazil, India até á China. Oferecida a Sua Alteza Principe do Brazil regente de Portugal.
Lisbon, Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1804. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms of Portugal on title-page. Contemporary, elaborately gold-tooled red morocco, with the coat of arms of Portugal on the front and back board, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 82, [2] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Brazil India & Sri Lanka Portugal

Second part of the first ever series of children's books

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Bayfio decerptus, addita vulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione.
Paris, Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], (colophon: 13 October) 1543. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Later blueish-grey paper over boards with the title printed in black on the spine. 52, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Children's Books Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy France French Literature

Two dissertations on the Venus of Eryx

BALBI, Ambrogio. Dissertazioni risguardanti il culto di Venere Ericina.
Comprising:
-Il culto di Venere Ericina rivendicato ad erice re di Sicilia suo vero institutore.
-Dissertazione sopra una lapide inscritta da silla a Venere Ericina.
Turin, widow Pomba and sons, 1824. 8vo. Green half morocco, gold-tooled spine, with the arms of Joaquín Gómez de la Cortina (1808-1868) in gold on each board. 90 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Classical Antiquity Italy

Including the first printing of game boards and rules for a 10th-century dice game

BALDERIC, Bishop of Noyon and Tournai (ed. George COLVENEER). Chronicon Cameracense et Atrebatense, sive historia utrisque ecclesiae, III libris, ab hinc DC sere annis conscripta. Nunc primum in luce edita, & notis illustrata.
Douai, Jean Bogard, 1615. 8vo. With Bogard's engraved device on the title-page, 1 large folding engraved game board, and 2 large folding letterpress rectangular game boards, each with 4 small engravings in the centre and explanatory text on the backs, the same 4 engravings of dice in the text along with 3 small engravings of seals (plus 4 repeats). 17th-century vellum. [40], “607” [= 623], [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description

€ 7,000

France Games & Sports

Extremely rare account of the Battle of the Sound

[BALTIC SEA]. Confrontation oder Gegenhaltung dess Schwedischen von Hölsingör vom 8 Nov. St. N. datirten, zu Elbing aber gedruckten Schreibens, und dann der gründlichen Relation Einiger Holländischen Schipper welche den 27 Novemb. allhier in Dantzig auffgekommen und an Eydes statt den ganzten Verlauff der neulichen See-Schlacht zwischen Holländischen und Schwedischen Schiffs-Flotten im Sunde, auszgesaget haben.
[Danzig], 1758. 4to. Early 20th-century cloth-backed boards. [8] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Broadsides & Pamphlets Naval History Netherlands Scandinavia

The ancient world in 345 plates

[BARDON, Michel Francois Dandré]. Gewoonten der aloude volken; behelzende de godsdienstige, burgelyke en krygsgebruiken der Grieken, Romeinen, Israëliten en Hebreeuwen, Egyptenaaren, Persiaanen, Scythiërs, Amazonen, Parthiërs, Daciërs, Sarmatiërs, en andere zo oostersche als westersche volken.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart and Willem Holtrop, 1786. 4 volumes bound as 2. Large 4to (31 x 25 cm). With 345 engraved plates by the famous engraver Charles Nicolas Cochin le Jeune after Bardon. Contemporary half calf. VIII, 32; [2], 40; IV, 41, [1 blank]; [2], 22 pp. Full description

€ 3,950

Classical Antiquity Costumes & Uniforms Iran / Persia

Important illustrated study of emblems, with a lengthy treatment of women's emblems

BARGAGLI, Scipione. Dell' imprese die Scipion Bargagli ... Alla prima parte, la seconda, e la terza nucoamente aggiunte.
Venice, Francesco de Franceschi, 1594. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With oval engraved device on title-page, full-page engraved portrait of Rudolf II, full-page engraved dedicatory emblem, and 138 engraved oval emblems in text. 19th-century half sheepskin parchment. [24], “573” [=604], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Art & Art History Early Printing - 16th century Emblems Italy Women History

Treatise on education and pedagogy based on the Christian religion

BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht der Jugend in der Religion und Sittenlehre der Vernunft nach dem in der Philalethie angegebenen Plane.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.With: (2) BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht in der überzeugenden Erkenntniss der biblischen Religion, zur vorgesetzten Ausführung des in der Philalethie angegebenen Plans.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved illustration on both title-pages (not identical) and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Slightly later brown pastepaper boards, with title-label on spine, red sprinkled edges. LXII, 272; XXXII, 224, 144 pp. Full description

€ 2,000

Education & Pedagogy Philosophy & Esotericism Protestant Reformation

The most complete Dutch edition of Basnages comprehensive synthesis of Jewish history,
beginning where Flavius Josephus ended

BASNAGE, Josephus. Vervolg op Flavius Josephus; of algemene historie der Joodsche naatsie, behelzende ene uitvoerige beschryving van derzelver regerings-vorm, godtsdienst, gezinten en plegtigheden, nevens de veranderingen, daar in voorgevallen: mitsgaders een verhaal van alle oorlogen, weergaloze rampen, wisselvalligheden, verstroojing door de gehele waerelt, ...
Amsterdam, Gerard onder de Linden; Delft, Reinier Boitet, 1726-1727. 2 volumes. Large folio. With 5 full-page engravings (including the dedication, often lacking), 90 engravings in text and 4 letterpress tables (1 folding). Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [44], 1-156, 185-368, 371-544, 543-554, 554*1-554*24, 555-658; [1], [1 blank], [4], 659-760, 1103-1288, 1288†-1288††††, 1289-1390, 1471-1584, 1591-1710, 1725-1844, 1879-1940 pp. Full description

€ 850

Church History & Missions

Eyewitness account of the Dutch massacre of thousands of Chinese in and around Batavia in October 1740

[PAMPHLET - BATAVIA]. Kort verhaal van doproer der Chineesen, op het eiland Java, dog voornamentlyk wegens de stad Batavia, voorgevallen in de maand October des jaers 1740.
[Amsterdam?, 1741]. 4to. 19th-century brown wrappers. 8 pp. Full description

€ 3,950

Broadsides & Pamphlets Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Law & Politics Southeast Asia VOC

The battle on VOC millions, retrieved by the Dutch sea admiral Michiel de Ruyter

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VÅGEN - VOC]. Zee-journael, ofte autentijcq verhael, uyt d'annotatien van de heeren haer hoogh-mogende volmachtighde inde vloot, der doorluchtighste geunieerde Republique, en andere schriften, aengaende al het ghepasseerde, 't zedert 't vertreck van de vloot uyt Spanjaerts-gat na de Noort, tot het wederkeeren voor Goeree, met alle voorvallen in zee, ontmoetingen, ghevecht in Noorwegen, tempeesten, en wat in 't generael en particulier voorgevallen en geschiedt is, van den 13 juny tot den 6 octob. 1665.
[Amsterdam?, Jacobus Venckel?], 1665. 4to. With an ornamental woodcut title-vignette. Contemporary half vellum, marbled sides. 35, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Naval History Scandinavia UK - United Kingdom VOC

Third Elzevier edition of an important work on the first years of the Twelve Year's Truce

BAUDIUS, Dominicus. Induciarum belli Belgici, libri tres. Editia tertia prioribus emendatior.
Leiden, Louis Elzevier, 1629. 12mo. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards. [28], 468, [8 blank] pp. Full description

€ 500

Law & Politics Military History (17th Century)

The pedagogical essentials of the Renaissance collected, together with Greek epistles

[BECH, Philipp, ed.]. De disciplina puerorum, recteque formandis eorum & studiis & moribus, ...
Basel, Joannes Oporinus (colophon: Bern, Samuel Apiarius, March 1556).
With: (2) [MOREL, Guillaume, ed.]. Graecorum veterum selectae brevesque epistolae.
Paris, Guillaume Morel, King's printer for Greek, 1562. With a remarkable woodcut device on the title-page. With the Greek text set in Claude Garamont's famous Grec du Roi and the Latin translation set in his Aldine-style italic. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15 x 10 x 4.5 cm). Richly gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700), gilt edges. 31, [21]; [16], "840" [= 804] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Aldine Press Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Greek & Roman Classics

The first history of Christianity in England,
in contemporary blind-tooled calf with a roll showing Reformation portraits

BEDA VENERABILIS (The Venerable BEDE). Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis Anglorum libri quinque diligenti studio à mendis, quibus hactenus scatebant, vindicati.
Including: BEDA VENERABILIS. Epitome sive breviarium totius praecedentis historiae Anglorum ...
Antwerp, Joannes de Grave (Gravius), 1550. Folio. With De Grave's woodcut armorial device on title-page (repeated on the otherwise blank final leaf) and 30 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, each board with a double border made from a roll with 4 heads in profile, not labelled but showing Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Desiderius Erasmus and apparently the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V rather than the more common Jan Hus, each in an oval wreath and separated by foliage (bilaterally symmetrical both vertically and horizontally). [6], 263, [1 blank], [12] pp. Full description

€ 4,000

Aldine Press Bindings Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century) UK - United Kingdom

Dutch translation of "Uncle Tom's cabin"

BEECHER STOWE, Harriet. De negerhut. (Uncle Tom's cabin.) Een verhaal uit het slavenleven in Noord-Amerika.
Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1853. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed title-page in each volume and a tinted lithographed author's portrait as frontispiece in the first volume. Contemporary half sheepskin. [1], [1 blank], IV, 368; [1], [1 blank], 403, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

English & American Literature North America Slavery

Oblong handbook of fortification design

BEHR, Johann Heinrich. Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne oder gründlich alt- und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst.
Frankfurt and Leipzig, widow of Reinhard Wächtler, printed by Christoph Balthasar Lampe, 1690. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates. Contemporary calf. [3], [1 blank], [20], 616 pp. Full description

€ 950

Fortification & Military Architecture Germany Military History (17th Century)

Dutch artists and art collectors united against the rebellious Belgians

[BELGIAN REVOLUTION; ART EXHIBITION]. Lyst van kunstwerken, door beoefenaars en verzamelaars bijeengebragt, om verloot te worden te behoeve van het Vaderland; tentoongesteld te Amsterdam, in het Nationale Geregtshof.
Amsterdam, Christiaan Andersen Spin, 1831. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece. Slightly later neoclassical gold- and richly blind-tooled long-grained red morocco, gilt edges. [2], 76, 8 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Art & Art History Belgium Law & Politics Netherlands

Four rare political tracts

BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY). Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs.
London [= Hanover?], Thomas Cooper [= Johann Wilhelm Schmidt?], 1743. Title in red & black with engraved vignette (a seascape with a sea creature in the foreground), headpieces and tailpieces. 144; [4], XXIV, 191, [1 blank], [2], 192-228; 108; 16 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Protestant Reformation UK - United Kingdom

Manuscript document dated 1763 concerning a vassalage granted by Berend Hendrik Bentinck, lord of Schoonheten

[BENTINCK, Berend Hendrik]. [18th-century manuscript document written in the name of Berend Hendrik Bentinck, lord of Schoonheten]. Incipit: Ik Berent Henrik Bentinck tot Schoonheten van wegens Ridderschap en steeden de staaten van de ...
Overijssel, 16 July 1763. Small folio. Manuscript document in Dutch, written in brown ink on vellum. [1] leaf. Full description

€ 650

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

Diplomatic and commercial relations between Venice and Persia

BERCHET, Guglielmo. La repubblica di Venezia e la Persia.
Torino, G.B. Paravia e comp., 1865. 8vo. With 5 photographic plates. Original publisher's printed brown paper wrappers. XVII, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 294, [2] pp. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade Iran / Persia Italy Law & Politics

Original documents of an 18th-century lawsuit against the murderer of a blacksmith in Zoeterwoude

[MANUSCRIPT]. BERGH, Johan van den. Eenige stukken concerneerende criminele procedures in cas d'appel voor het hof geventileerd tusschen den bailluw van Rhijnland contra Pieter Oostenryk in materie van manslag met de ms. schriftuuren.
[Leiden], 1726-1729. Folio. Manuscript, in Dutch, on laid paper, with 2 embossed seals. Later blue paper wrappers. 28 pp. (and 8 pp. blank). Full description

€ 1,750

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

"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, 1661. 4to. With an engraved portrait of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans facing the dedication. Contemporary gold-tooled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled sides. [12], 112 pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Economic History & Trade Fishery & Whaling Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Latin America Mineralogy & Gems South America Turkey & Ottoman Empire

An extremely negative and colourful description of New Orleans, just before the Louisiana Purchase

BERQUIN-DUVALLON, Pierre-Louis. Vue de la colonie Espagnole du Mississipi, ou des provinces de Louisiane et Floride Occidentale, en l'année 1802...
Paris, Imprimerie expéditive, 1803. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved maps of the Louisiana territory by Alexandre Blondeau after Berquin-Duvallon, both coloured by hand. Modern red half morocco, richly gold-tooled spine. XX, 318, 5, [5] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Charts & Maps North America Slavery Travel & Voyages North America

Letters from an Irish colonist in New South Wales, with 2 wood-engravings, 1 by Caroline Clayton

[BESNARD, Thomas Pope]. A voice from the bush in Australia: shewing its present state, advantages, and capabilities, in a series of letters from an Irish settler and others in New South Wales. With appendices ...
Dublin, William Curry junior & Co.; London, Smith, Elder & Co.; Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1839. 12mo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, nearly full-page wood-engraved illustration on page 25 and a letterpress folding table. Modern marbled wrappers. 108 pp. Full description

€ 4,000

Australia Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

The erotic nature of original sin

[BEVERLAND, Adrianus van]. Peccatum originale ... sic nuncupatum, philologice ... elucubratum à Themidis alumno. Vera redit facies, dissimulata perit.
"Eleutheropoli" [= Leiden?], "extra plateam obscuram, sine privilegio auctoris, absque ubi & quando." (colophon: "In horto Hesperidem, typis Adami et Evae terrae filii", 1678). 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, with a gold-tooled frame of double fillets on each board. [10], 146, [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Erotica Literature

'The most vivid, comprehensive, instructive, entertaining picture of Virginia',
written by a planter living there, here in a French translation

[BEVERLEY, Robert]. Histoire de la Virginie, contenant I. L'histoire du premier etablissement dans la Virginie, & de son gouvernement jusques à présent. II. Les productions naturelles & les commoditez du païs, avant que [l]es Anglois y negociassent, & l'améliorassent. III. La religion, les loix, & les coutumes des Indiens naturels, tant dans la guerre, que dans la paix. IV. L'etat présent du païs, tant à l'égard de la police, que de l'amelioration du païs. Par un auteur natif & habitant du païs. Traduite de l'Anglois.
Amsterdam, Thomas Lombrail, 1707. 12mo. Full-page engraved frontispiece with the coat of arms of Virginia, title in red & black with Lombrails woodcut cypher-monogram TLB, 14 full-page engraved plates, 1 folding printed table, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. Contemporary mottled calf, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers. [6], 432, [16] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Anthropology & Ethnography North America Slavery

Satire on the astronomical bills of barristers and solicitors by the famous anatomist Govert Bidloo

[BIDLOO, Govert]. Beurze-Stryd, of Saemen-Spraek tusschen Galenus, en Baldus.
[The Hague, Meyndert Uytwerf?], 1692. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Bound on two modern chords. [8], 9-24 pp. Full description

€ 450

Caricature & Satire Law & Politics

Complete works of Anna Bijns, criticizing Martin Luther and Protestantism

BIJNS, Anna. Konstighe refereynen vol schoone schrifture ende leeringen, begrepen in drye verscheyde boecken, waer van de twee eerste wederlegghen de dolinghen comende uyt de Lutersche secte, ende abuysen deser tijden: het derde toont d'oorsaecken der plaghen, met veel seer stichtighe vermaninghen tot de deught.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen the younger, 1646. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the same woodcut printer's device on 3 individual title-pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, traces of ties. [24], 76; 91; 226, [10] pp. Full description

€ 18,000

Antwerp Belgium Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Dutch Literature Literature Women History

Unrecorded 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

Bindings Italy Women History

Travelling to Madrid

BLANQUI, Jérôme- Adolphe. Reis naar Madrid, gedaan in de maanden augustus en september 1826; behelzende een staatkundig-wijsgeerig overzigt van de zeden en gebruiken der Spanjaarden.
Amsterdam, J.C. van Kesteren, 1827. 8vo. With title-page with engraved vignette. Contemporary boards, uncut. XVI, 184, [4] pp. Full description

€ 400

Anthropology & Ethnography Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Spain Travel & Voyages Europe

Important travelogue on Persia, with 15 plates and 2 maps

BODE, Clement Augustus de. Travels in Luristan and Arabistan.
Including: BODE, Clement Augustus de. Observations on the march of Timur ... and on the probable course pursued by Alexander the Great, on his expedition from Susa to Persepolis.
London, J. Madden and Co., 1845. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a wood-engraved illustration on the title-page to each volume, 15 plates, 2 folding engraved maps and 3 wood-engraved illustrations in text. The 15 plates (4 tinted lithographs and 11 wood engravings) consists of 2 frontispieces, a folding plate, a double-page plate and 11 single-page plates. Modern half calf, marbled (Period Binders, Bath, England). XX, 404; XII, 398, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Iran / Persia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East

Strikingly hand-coloured humoristic lithographs of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts, and vegetables

BODENHEIM, Nelly (illustrator) en Lizzy ANSINGH. Een vruchtenmandje. Teekeningen van Nelly Bodenheim bij versjes van Lizzy Ansingh.
Amsterdam, De Spiegel, 1927. Folio (ca. 30 x 21.5 cm). All illustrations, including the illustrated front board, are lithographs designed by the illustrator herself on stone and coloured by hand by her as well. The verses by Lizzy Ansingh are written, in colour, by hand in a decorative, ornamental script (varying in style). Contemporary half green cloth portfolio with the original lithographed illustration on the front board, the back board contains the following verse: "Let op de pitten, die binnen in zitten". [1 blank], [24] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Art & Art History Netherlands Women History

Strikingly hand-coloured lithographs illustrating the humoristic tale of Aunt Beetle's birthday together with 2 original drawings of scenes in the book by Bodenheim

BODENHEIM, Nelly (illustrator), Lizzy ANSINGH and Jean-Paul VROOM (lithographer). Tante Tor is jarig.
Utrecht, Stichting De Roos (printed in Amsterdam by Dieperink & Co.), 1950.
With: (2) [ORIGINAL DRAWINGS - BODENHEIM, Nelly]. [2 drawings: one featuring beetles, a maybeetle, and (Spanish) flies and another showing "Aunt Beetle" in bed being congratulated by her mosquito maid]. [ca. 1950].
4to (ca. 27 x 19.5 cm). All text and illustrations, including the illustrated front board, are lithographs by the famous Dutch artist Jean-Paul Vroom in facsimile after the text and illustrations by Lizzy Ansingh and Nelly Bodenheim. The lithographs are hand-coloured under supervision of Vroom. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper. Together with two original drawings by Bodenheim, hand-coloured and signed in her initials, mounted on a grey passepartout folder highlighting the scene with the beetles, maybeetle, and fly. The illustration of "Aunt Beetle" and her mosquito maid can be found on the back. Original hand-coloured lithographed paper over boards with the title stamped in decorative letters on the spine. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [25], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Art & Art History Education & Pedagogy Netherlands Women History

Former King of Naples and Spain in exile in America

[AUTOGRAPH]. BONAPARTE, Joseph. [Letter to Count Pierre François Réal].
Pointe Breeze, New Jersey, 27 September, 1830. 4to (25 x 20 cm). Manuscript letter in French, in brown ink on wove paper (3 sides of folded leaf), signed and dated. [3] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Autographs & Letters France North America

18th-century sales poster for the galleon "De Maria"

BONTEKONINGH, Joannes and Dirk (brokers). ... presenteeren (uyt der hand) te verkoopen, een extraordinary welbezeylt galjoot-schip, genaamt De Maria: is in 't jaar 1711 nieuw uytgehaalt,... en tegenwoordigh in de Nieuwe Zyds Waal, agter de Oude Stads Herbergh, is leggende.
Amsterdam, Karel van Rijschooten II, [ca. 1750]. Half-sheet (ca. 32.5 x 21 cm). Tipped onto a piece of paperboard. Full description

€ 1,500

Economic History & Trade Ships & Shipbuilding

Rouen Book of Hours: written for the use of a noble woman, with a portrait of the owner

[BOOK OF HOURS]. [Book of Hours - use of Rouen].
Rouen, Normandy, France, ca. 1480. Small 4to (14.3 x 19.3 cm). Latin and French illuminated manuscript on vellum. Ruled in red ink for 14 lines per page (16 in the calendar). Gothic textura, major feasts in calendar in burnished gold, others alternately red or blue. Text pages illuminated with panel borders of flowers and plants on gold, and blue and gold stylised acanthus on a plain ground. Calendar has 24 small square miniatures set into panel borders; major text divisions marked by 12 large miniatures; 2 historiated initials; hundreds of smaller initials and line-fillers throughout. 18th-century French gold-tooled red calf over pasteboards, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [160] ll. Full description

€ 165,000

Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Early Printing - 15th century France Manuscripts & Documents Medieval Manuscripts

Madagascar and its opportunities for trade and colonization, detailing the trade with India, Persia,
Hormuz and other countries and tribes along the Arabian Sea

BOOTHBY, Richard. A breife discovery or description of the most famous island of Madagascar or St. Laurence in Asia neare unto East-India.
London, Printed by E[dward]. G[riffin]. for John Hardesty, 1646. Small 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). Gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1850). Rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. [12], 72, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 35,000

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First and only edition of Bor's description of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch,
including a detailed account of its siege and capture in 1629

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Gelegentheyt van 's Hertogen-Bosch vierde hooft-stadt van Brabandt. Haer oorspronck, fundatie ende vergrootinge, verscheyden hare belegeringen. Ende eyntlijcke overwinninge verrassinghe ende inneminghe van Wesel ende meer andere geschiedenissen des iaers 1629.
The Hague, Aert Meuris, 1630. 4to. With an engraved title-page, which is part of the collation (page (a)2 recto) and a few decorated initials. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [27], [1 blank], 412, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 850

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Military History (17th Century) Netherlands

Important early work on statistics and social sciences

BOSE, Johann Andreas. Introductio generalis in notitiam rerumpublicarum orbis universi. ...
Jena, Johann Bielcke for Samuel Krebs, 1676. 4to. With an engraved full-page portrait of the author in the text, the title printed in red and black, and further with woodcut decorated initials and woodcut endpieces. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, manuscript title and shelf mark on spine. [16], 370, [22] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Germany Law & Politics Philosophy & Esotericism

"The first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa"

BOSMAN, Willem. Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ...
Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo (17 x 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards. [16], 520 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa West Africa

1602 edition of Botero's pioneering physical and political geography of the world,
with 4 maps of the continents by Girolamo Porro

BOTERO, Giovanni. Le relationi universali . . ., divise in quattro parti . . . Nuovamente ristampate, & corrette.
Venice, Nicolo Polo & Comp., 1602. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. General title-page and 3 part-titles, all 4 with the same woodcut device (sun in scrollwork cartouche), 4 folding engraved maps (ca. 25×18.5 cm) showing Europe, Asia (including Japan), Africa and the Americas, by Girolamo Porro. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [32], 240; [20], 152; 183, [9]; [16], 79 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

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Letter by the famous circumnavigator Bougainville

[AUTOGRAPH]. BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe Potentien, Baron de. [Autograph letter, signed, to Baroness Hyde de Neuville (Anne Marguerite Henriette de Marigny Hyde de Neuville)].
[Brest?, ca. 1820/22]. Folded leaf (20.6 x 16.5 cm). In French. 2 1/2 pp. text. 2 1/2 pp. text. Full description

€ 1,250

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Ledger recording involvement in numerous infrastructural projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East (1952-1955)

BOULTEN, F.A. [Manuscript ledger recording the time spent working on infrastructural projects].
[London?,] 1952-1955. Folio. Lined journal, each page ruled for monthly tallies, with some extra annotations. Contemporary cloth. [48] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Economic History & Trade Manuscripts & Documents Southeast Asia Technology West Africa West Asia

Important treatise on palaeontology with 441 illustrations of fossils and shells

[BOURGUET, Louis]. Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des pétrifications dans les quatre parties du monde.
The Hague, Jean Neaulme, 1742. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 60 folding engraved plates with 441 illustrations of fossils and shells. Modern half calf, gold-tooled spine. XVI, 163, [1 blank]; 91, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Fossils / Palaeontology Philosophy & Esotericism Shells & other Invertebrates

Well-illustrated study of the coins of ancient France, large paper copy

BOUTEROUE D'AUBIGNY, Claude. Recherches curieuses des monoyes de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie.
Paris, Edme Martin, 1666. Large folio (42 x 27.5 cm). With title-page with engraved allegorical illustration by N. Bonnart (including a minting press), and numerous engravings in text incl. 7 full-page (on pp. 336, 342, 349, 354, 359, 364 and 370). Contemporary mottled calf (ca. 1693), richly gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges; and each board with the (later) gold-tooled British Royal arms in the form used in Scotland 1801-1816, encircled by the inscription, "The Society of Writers to the Signet" (that is the Signet Library in Edinburgh; stamp 3, ca. 1815). [16], 398, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Classical Antiquity Economic History & Trade France Numismatics

Summary of the constitution of the Dutch Republic with the essential text in extenso

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius van]. Verbetert en vermeerdert politijck en militair hantboecxken vanden staet der Geunieerde Provintien, aenwysende des selfs maniere van regieringe, veelvoudige middelen &c.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve], 1674.Including: (2) MILITAIR repartitie-boeckjen, aenwijsende den staet des oorlogs der Geûnieerde Provincien. Als mede het getal der compagnyen, soo te paert als te voet, in des selfs dienst geweest zijnde, zedert den jare 1621. Den sesten druck.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?].
(3) ARTIKEL-BRIEF, ofte ordonnantie, op de discipline militaire. Met een bequaem register daer toe dienende.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?]. Woodcut ornament on title-page.3 texts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 title-pages (the 1st and 3rd each with a woodcut ornament), a divisional title-page for the text of the 1579 Union of Utrecht, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few headpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments Verhandelinge vande Unie, ofte eeuwigh verbont, ende eendracht, and drop-title for the transcriptions of other documents. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], “300” [= 400]; 112; 20, [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,650

Law & Politics Military History (17th Century)

Important treatise on the legal and political status of the Dutch Republic

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius]. Commentariolus de statu confoederatarum provinciarum Belgii. Editio sexta auctior & emendatior. Accessit de eadem materia Pauli Merulae Diatriba. Nec non Decretum Ordd. Holl. & West-Frisiae, De antiquo iure Reip. Batavicae.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq for Johannes Vlacq, 1668. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, boards and board edges, gilt edges. [12], 202 pp. Full description

€ 850

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Biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Large paper copy of the first edition

BRANDT, Geeraert. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter.
Amsterdam, for Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, van Someren and Goethals, 1687 (engraved title-page: printed by Pieter and Joan Blaeu, 1686). Folio (34.5 x 22.5 cm). With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of De Ruyter, 7 engraved double-page plates by Sebastiaen Stoopendaal and 1 engraved plate by Joseph Mulder. Late 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. [10], "1063" [=1065], [23] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Bibliography & Biography Naval History Netherlands

Extremely rare Brazilian royal pamphlet concerning the lack of justice in Pernambuco

[BRAZIL - MARIA I QUEEN OF PORTUGAL]. [Drop-title:] Eu o principe regente faço saber aos que este meu Alvará com força de lei virem: que sendo-Me presente a falta de Administração de justiça, que ha nas Villas, e Julgados do interior da Comarca de Pernambuco ...
Rio de Janeiro, Na impressão Regia, 15 January 1810. With a (woodcut?) decorated initial. Modern mottled (faux-) leather. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 850

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Portugal South America

A vehement response to the president of the Brazilian province of Paraíba's refutation
of the publication exposing his alleged misbehaviour

[BRAZIL - PAMPHLET]. A impostura desmascarada, ou resposta ao Tenente Coronel João de Araujo da Cruz, ex-presidente da junta do governo provisorio da provincia da Paraiba do Norte sobre huma intitulada refutação por elle, contra as accusações, que lhe tinhão sido feitas no semanario civico da Bahia no. 47, e outros impressos. Ordenada, para testemunho da verdade, por quarenta e tantos cidadãos constitucionaes e expatriados das duas provincias da Paraiba e Pernambuco ...
Lisbon, Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1823. 4to (19.5 x ca. 14 cm). Modern half burgundy leather, sewn on 2 supports with 4 false raised bands on the spine, gold-tooled spine with floral ornament and "1828" lettered in gold, marbled paper sides. 22, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics South America

Unrecorded issue of a decree by José I, King of Portugal, concerning the Romani people in Brazil at the end of the 18th century

[BRAZIL - ROMANI PEOPLE - JOSÉ I, King of Portugal]. [Drop title:] Eu Elrei. Faço saber aos que este alvará de lei virem, que sendo-me presente que os siganos, que deste reino tem ido degradados para o estado do Brazil, vivem tanto á disposição da sua vontade, que usando dos seus prejudiciaes costumes ...
[Lisbon], Na Officina de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, [after 26 January 1761]. Folio (ca. 28.5 x 18.5 cm). With a large decorated woodcut initial "E" incorporating the Portuguese royal coat-of-arms. Disbound. [4] pp. Full description

€ 750

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Portugal South America

Russian dress, customs and manners, with 111 plates

BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph. La Russie, ou moeurs, usages, et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire.
Paris, Nepveu, 1813. 6 volumes. 12mo or 18mo. With 111 mostly engraved plates (4 folding facing title-pages of volumes 1-4). Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, uniformly bound. Full description

€ 2,500

Costumes & Uniforms Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia)

Standard work on Roman law by a famous French jurist and philologist

BRISSON, Barnabé. De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, Libri VIII...
Frankfurt, Joannes Wechel and Petrus Fischer and consorts, 1592. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- & tail pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [8], 750 [= 760], [84] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Literature

Extremely rare Secunderabad-Hyderabad printing of British government papers regarding the forced cession of Berar Province to the British by the Nizam of Hyderabad

[HYDERABAD PRINTING - BRITISH GOVERNMENT PAPERS regarding Nizam's territory]. Nizam's territory. Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 6th April 1854; - for, copy "[!] of all papers relative to territory ceded by His Highness the Nizam, in liquidation of debts alleged to have been due by His Highness to the British Government.
Secunderabad (near Hyderabad), Robert Hudson, Columbian Press, [1854]. 33 x 22 cm. Contemporary half calf, orange and blue marbled sides over paper-boards, gold-tooled double fillets on the spine, red sprinkled edges. IV, 162 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics

First and only use of the Guillotine in Amsterdam, possibly the authors copy,
with a unique printed revision of one leaf loosely inserted

BROES, Willem. Berigt omtrent het leven, het karakter en de laatste godsdienst-aandoeningen der beruchte vergiftigster Hester Rebekka Nepping.
[Amsterdam], J. Ruys for Johannes Allart, The Hague, 1812. 8vo. Contemporary grey-blue wrappers. IV, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Amsterdam Law & Politics Netherlands

Two accounts of Dutch voyages to Chile and Japan

BROUWER, Hendrik. Journael ende historis verhael van de reyse gedaen by oosten de Straet Le Maire, naer de custen van Chili ... inden jare 1643 voor gevallen.
Including: [VRIES, Maerten Gerritsz.]. Als mede een beschryvinghe van het eylandt Eso, ghelegen ontrent dertigh mylen van het machtigh Rijcke van Japan ... soo als eerst in 't selvige jaer door het schip Castricum bezeylt is.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1646. 4to. With 2 folding engraved maps and a folding engraved plate. Modern wrappers, in cloth clamshell box. 104 pp. Full description

€ 28,000

Chile Japan & Far East Latin America South America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages South America VOC

3 little-known works by Italian scientist on astronomy, hydrostatics and navigation

BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Trattenimenti scientifici su la sfera, geografia istorica, meteore, ed astronomia.
Rome, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1754. With several woodcut illustrations in the text (including an armillary sphere), and an extra added folding engraved frontispiece.
With:
(2) BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Trattenimenti scientifici su lindrografia, nautica, blasone, statica, meccanica, architectura, pirotecnia, e suono.
Roma, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1755. With several woodcut illustrations in the text, and an extra added frontispiece (facsimile of an engraving?).
(3) BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Macchina semplicissima per cui lacqua da se stessa salice ad una data altezza.
Rome, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1747. With folding engraved plate as frontispiece. 3 works (the first in 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [24], 180, 112; [8], 173, [3 blank]; 12 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Architecture Astronomy & Cosmography Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Navigation North Africa & Egypt Science Technology Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Finely executed botanical and pomological drawings, coloured with gouache by a pioneering female Swiss alpinist

BRUNNER, Elise. [Botanical and pomological drawings].
[Bern?], 1847-1848. Oblong 4to. Album with 25 botanical and pomological pencil drawings in various sizes, all coloured with gouache, apparently by the artist, and mostly signed by Elise Brunner. All these drawings are mounted on the album leaves of various colours. Also inserted is a black and white sketch in pencil signed by an unknown female artist "Marie Blau fec.". 19th-century half dark red morocco with lighter red morocco sides, gold-tooled spine. [61] album ll., 18 of the first 21 containing 25 colour drawings and 1 pencil sketch. Full description

€ 2,950

Central Europe Drawings & Watercolours Floras & General Botany Fruit Culture Games & Sports Switzerland Women History

Sicily in history and myth: first edition with engraved author's portrait

BUONFIGLIO COSTANZO, Giuseppe. Prima[-seconda] parte dell'historia Siciliana, nellequale si contiene la descrittione antica, & moderna di Sicilia, le guerre, & altri fatti notabili dalla sua origine per sino alla morte del Catolico Rè Don Filippo II. Divisa in XX libri et due parti.
Venice, Bonifacio Ciera, 1604. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved device on the title-page, full-page engraved author's portrait, and numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum. [48], 692 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Classical Antiquity Italy Law & Politics

Collection of 8 orations by the famous professor Petrus Burmannus the Elder and others

BURMAN the Elder, Pieter. Oratio funebris in obitum viri clarissimi Joannis Georgii Graevii, Magnae Brittanniae Regis historici, politices, historiarum & eloquentiae professoris ordinarii. Dicta XI. Kal. Martias MDCCIII.
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1703. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title-page.
(2) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro pigritia, publice habita. Ad diem XX Febr. M.DCCII.
[No place], 1702. Woodcut title-vignette.
(3) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Somnium, sive iter in arcadiam novam, publice narratum in majori Academiae Ultrajectinae Acroaterio. Ad diem IX. Septembris MDCCX.
[No place], [1710].
(4) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro comoedia, publice in auspiciis Academicarum recitationum, quibus Terentii fabulae explicantur, habita, a.d. XIV Septembris MDCCXI.
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1711. Woodcut publisher's device.
(5) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio in humanitatis studia. Habita a.d. VIII. Februarii MDCCXX. Cum magistratu Academico abiret.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1720. Woodcut publisher's device.
(6) BURMAN the elder, Pieter.. Pro literatoribus et grammaticis oratio, habita a.d. VIII Februarii MDCXXXII. Cum magistratu academico abiret.
Leiden, Conrad Wishoff & Daniel Goedval, [1732]. Woodcut title-vignette, headpiece and tailpiece.
(7) RÜCKER, Joannes Conradus. Oratio de honoribus academicis, magno doctrinae praemio. Habita cum virum eruditissimum Danielem ... van Alphen, Lugduno Batavum, juris utriusque doctorem, more majorum renuntiaret. A.d. XIII. Dec. MDCCXXXV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1735. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.
(8) VITRIARIUS, Johannes Jacobus. Oratio funebris, in obitum eruditissimi ac celeberrimi viri, Antonii Schultingii, Joh. fil. ... Dicta Publice a.d. XII. April A. MDCCXXXIV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, [1734]. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.
8 works in 1 volume. 4to. Slightly later half calf (ca. 1765), gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, marbled sides with central gold vignette of the "Society of Writers to the Signet" on both boards. 57, [26]; 23; [39]; [4], 36; 61; [2], 75, [1]; 28, 37, [3] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Classical Antiquity

One of the first maps to clearly depict the Abadan Petroleum Refinery, the first oil refinery in the Middle East

[OIL-PETROLEUM HISTORY]. [ABADAN]. BURRARD, Sidney Gerald (ed.). [Map with the Abadan Petroleum Refinery, the first oil refinery in the Middle East]
Calcutta, Survey of India, 1912-1915. 59 x 46.5 cm. Heliozincograph in colour. Full description

€ 3,500

Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka West Asia

"First Australian treatise on bankruptcy" (Sweet & Maxwell): presentation copy by the author

BURTON, William Westbrooke. The insolvent law of New South Wales, with practical directions and forms.
Sydney, W.F. Moffitt, 1842. 8vo. Contemporary straight grained red sheepskin (W. MOFFITT, Sydney). VIII, 202 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Australia Economic History & Trade Law & Politics

Beautifully illustrated expeditions searching for ancient Egyptian antiquities

CAILLIAUD, Frédéric and Bernardino DROVETTI. Voyage a l'Oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés a l'orient et a l'occident de la Thébaïde, fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818.
Paris, Royal press, 1821. With 24 numbered engraved plates, including 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 1 plate coloured by hand and 1 double-page.
With: (2) CAILLIAUD, Frédéric and Bernardino DROVETTI. Voyage a l'Oasis de Syouah ... pendant leurs voyages dans cette oasis, en 1819 et en 1820.
Paris, Rignoux, 1823. With 20 numbered plates (1 engraved map and 19 lithographed plates). 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary green goatskin morocco, richly gold-tooled spine. [2 blank], XVII, [1], 120; [12], 28 pp. Full description

€ 19,500

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Rare Italian translation of an originally Spanish chivalric novel

[CAMILLI, Camillo (translator)]. Historia del nobile, et valoroso Cavalier. Felice Magno, figliuolo del Re Falangrè della Gran Brettagna, & della Reina Clarinta, nella quale si raccontano i suoi grandi, & maravigliosi fatti tradotta con somma diligenza di Spagnuolo in lingua Italiana.
Verona, Sebastiano dalle Donne for Francesco de Franceschi Senese, 1587. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [12], 298 ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Early Printing - 16th century Italy Literature

Manuscript warrant to guarantee the rental of a house to British forces
during the occupation of Mauritius and Bourbon

[MILITARIA - MAURITIUS]. CAMPBELL, Alexander. [Warrant to authorize the occupation of a house for His Majesty's forces in Mauritius and Bourbon].
Port-Louis, 24 June 1813. 4to. Manuscript warrant written in ink on paper, signed. Loosely inserted in a later orange paper folder. [1] leaf. Full description

€ 1,250

India & Sri Lanka Manuscripts & Documents

Rare Dutch translation of a work on Spanish America, with 4 maps

CAMPBELL, John. De tegenwoordige staat der volken van het Spaansche ryk in Amerika, met een byzonder verhaal, van den koophandel uit Oud-Spanje, met de galjoenen, flota, &c.; en van den verboden handel der Hollanders, Engelschen, Franschen, Deenen en Portugezen, in de West-Indiën.
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [ca. 1745 or ca. 1748]. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, showing the city and harbours of Veracruz, Havana, Portobelo and Cartagena. Contemporary red half sheepskin (roan). [8], 328 pp. Full description

€ 1,200

Argentina Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Chile City Plans, Topography & Views Economic History & Trade Latin America Mexico Middle America North America South America USA - United States of America

Well-illustrated and comprehensive study of the orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean,
one of the few copies with the second part of the atlas coloured

CAMUS, Edmond Gustave and Aimée Antoinette CAMUS. Iconographie des orchidées d'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen.
Paris, Paul Lechevalier (colophon: printed by Jouve et Cie (part 1), Winter, Heidelberg (part 2)), 1821-1929. 2 text parts (4to, bound in one volume) and an atlas (folio). With a photographical frontispiece portrait in the text volume and 133 lithographed plates, including 120 coloured by hand. Contemporary brown half morocco. 559, [1]; 72 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

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Misconduct at Basra by VOC resident

[CANTER, Frans (subject)]. Deductie gedaan ... uit den name ende van wegens bewindhebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie ter kamer Amsterdam, eerst requiranten van appoinctement van anticipatie, en nu gedaagdens by mandament van revisie, ter eenre, op ende jegens Aaltje Fransse, weduwe van Cornelis Canter, Jan Canter, en Hendrik van Greuningen, als in huwelyk hebbende Anna Canter, zeggende te zyn moeder, broeder, en zwager respective, van Frans Canter, alle wonende te Amsterdam, ...
[Amsterdam, 1752]. Folio (31.5 x 20.5 cm). Side-stitched.
With: (2) Missive van de bewindhebberen van de generale Neederlandsche geoctroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie ter vergadering van Seeventienen.
[Amsterdam, 1758]. Folio (33 x 21 cm). Side-stitched. 28, [1 blank], [1]; 13, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Kuwait Law & Politics VOC

Contemporary accounts of two power struggles, in Italy and in the Low Countries

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533.
With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves. 96; [44] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Early Printing - 16th century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Netherlands

Dissertation on the rights of women

CARBEN, Johannes Petrus von. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de beneficio cessionis vulgo vom weiblichen Recht.
Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1727. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, blind-tooled spine, gold-tooled sides, gilt edges; with a later crowned cypher ainted in silver on the front board and a coat of arms painted in silver on the back. [4], 62 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Law & Politics Women History

One of the most influential works of mythological commentary of the 16th and 17th centuries

CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.
Lyons, Etienne Michel (colophon: printed by Guichard Julliéron), 1581 (colophon: August). 4to. With Michel's woodcut publishers device on the title-page (an Ottoman man and a fruit tree with motto "virtutes sibi invicem adhaerent"), a full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier, a small woodcut illustration and 89 beautiful large woodcuts (13 x 9.5 cm) of classical mythological gods and heroes in the text. Modern sheepskin parchmen. [8], 359, [57] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

Commentary on a speech held by an ardent supporter of slavery, calling for keeping Portugal and Brazil united under one government in 1821

[CARVALHO, Bernardo Teixeira Coutinho Álvares de]. Observações sobre o voto, que Domingos Alves Branco Moniz Barreto, como eleitor da parochia do Sacramento da Corte do Rio de Janeiro apresentou no dia 25 de dezembro de 1821 na junta eleitoral para a installação do governo desta provincia. Nas quaes se mostra, que semelhante voto he contrario ao pacto social da nação portugueza, e aos direitos, e liberdade das provincias do Brasil, escriptas ror [!] hum amigo da união, e da justiça.
Lisbon, Na Typographia de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1822. 4to (ca. 20 x 14 cm). 20th-century gold-tooled brown morocco. 65, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,850

Brazil Law & Politics Portugal Slavery South America

Dutch corvette attacked by daimyo opposed to foreigners in Japan

CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
The Hague, brothers Van Cleef, 1865. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece and 2 lithographed folding maps. Original publisher's lithographed wrappers, with the Dutch flag in colour on the front and back. VIII, 136 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Japan & Far East Law & Politics Naval History

Dutch corvette attacked by daimyo opposed to foreigners in Japan. First edition with 5 tinted maps

CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
The Hague, Van Cleef brothers, 1865. 8vo. With wood-engraved device on title-page and 5 tinted lithographed folding maps. Modern half sheepskin, with the original publisher's wrappers (with Dutch flag on front and back, coloured by hand) bound in. XII, [2], 150 pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Japan & Far East Law & Politics Naval History

The life of Catharine the Great

[CASTÉRA, Jean Henri]. Het leven van Catharina II, keizerin van Rusland.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1798. 8vo. 3 volumes. With 6 engraved portraits by Reinier Vinkeles. Contemporary marbled boards. XVI, 373, [1 blank]; X, 344; VIII, 348, [1, 1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Bibliography & Biography Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia)

Treaty for friendship and commerce between Russia and Denmark

CATHERINE THE GREAT, Tsarina and CHRISTIAN VII. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Traité d'amitié et de commerce, entre l'Empire de Russie et la couronne de Dannemarc, conclu à St. Petersbourg le 8-19 Octobre 1782.
[St. Petersburg], Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1782. Small folio (29.5 x 19.5 cm). Treaty between Russia and Denmark in Russian and French in 2 parallel columns in cyrillic (left) and roman (right) types. Disbound. 22 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Russia (incl. Siberia) Scandinavia

Two treaties between the Russian Emipre and Sweden concluding the Russo-Swedish War of 1788-1790

CATHERINE THE GREAT & GUSTAV III of Sweden. Traité de paix, conclu entre ... l'Imperatrice ... de Russie ..., et ... le Roi de Suède ... 1790.
[St. Peterburg, Imperial Printing office, 1790] Folio. (30x20.2 cm). With the text in Russian and French in parallel columns, and with ornamental rules at the head of each page. Unsewn, marbled paper spine.
With: (2) Traité d'alliance défensif ... entre la Russie et la Suède ... 1791.
[St. Peterburg, Imperial Printing office, 1791] Folio. (29.5 x 20.6 cm). With the text in Russian and French in parallel columns, and with ornamental rules at the head of each page. Unsewn, side stitched, blue paper spine. 10, 20 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Military History (18th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia) Scandinavia

Classic erotic poems, with the first edition of the commentaries by a renowned homosexual scholar

CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius and Marc-Antoine MURET. [Carmina]. Catullus, et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti.
Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554. 8vo. With Aldus's woodcut device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf, and spaces with guide letters left for 2 5-line and about 60 3-line manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in an Aldine italic (with upright capitals) with occasional words (mostly names) in roman and frequent passages in Greek. Gold-tooled mottled calf (ca. 1700). [4], "134" [= 136], [2] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Erotica Greek & Roman Classics

First Aldine edition of a highly popular collection of elegiac poems
by three of the most important classical poets set in the first italic printing type, introduced in 1501

CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius; Albius TIBULLUS; Sextus PROPERTIUS (Hieronymus AVANTIUS, ed.). [Opera]. Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius.
[colophon:] Venice, Aldo I Manuzio, January 1502. 8vo. With more than 100 spaces (2 8-line, 6 6-line and the rest 2-line) with guide letters left for manuscript initials, none filled in. Set in Alduss italic type (with upright capitals) throughout, the first italic printing type, first used in 1501, with titles, headings, running heads, etc. set in the capitals of the same type, with an occasional word of Greek in the text. Gold-tooled, green long-grained sheepskin (vertical grain) (ca. 1800). [152] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Aldine Press Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics

Influential 2nd Aldine edition of a popular collection of elegiac poems
by 3 of the most important classical poets, finely bound in early 20th-century morocco by G. Vignal in Paris

CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius; Albius TIBULLUS; Sextus PROPERTIUS (Hieronymus AVANTIUS, ed.). [Opera]. Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius.
[colophon:] Venice, the heirs of Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, March 1515. 8vo. With Aldos woodcut anker and dolphin device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, each flanked by "AL ... DVS" in letterpress capitals. Set in Aldos italic type (with upright capitals), the first italic printing type. Blind-tooled brown goatskin morocco (early 20th-century) by the Paris bookbinder G. Vignal (active ca. 1890-ca. 1930), signed with a blind stamp in the foot of the front turn-in ("G. VIGNAL REL. DOR.". 148, [2] ll. Full description

€ 2,950

Aldine Press Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

From the library of Eugène Paillet, one of the great French bibliophiles of the 19th century

CATULLUS, TIBULLUS & PROPERTIUS. Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, pristino nitori restituti, & ad optima exemplaria emendati, cum fragmentis C. Gallo inscriptis.
Paris, J. Barbou, 1754. 3 parts. 12mo. Each part with its own title-page and engraved frontispiece. 19th-century brown morocco, double fillets in gold on the board edges, richly gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges. XVI, 96, [2], 97-168, [2], 169-344 pp. Full description

€ 500

Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics

The Ottoman Turkish calendar of histories: a rare, 18th-century manuscript of one of Katip Çelebi's most important works

ÇELEBI, Katip. Taqwim al-Tawarikh.
[Turkey, early 18th century]. 8vo. Ottoman Turkish manuscript written in red and black ink, in a small and neat nastaliq hand within a gilt frame (ca. 27 lines to the page). With a hand-drawn gilt floral headpiece at the start of the work. Contemporary(?) Ottoman gold-tooled brown goatskin, with an oval medallion (şemse) within a decorative frame (zencirek) on both boards, a gold-tooled front flap. [89], [2 blank] ll. Full description

€ 15,000

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Manuscripts & Documents Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Oval portrait painting of Voltaire

CERF, J. de. [Oval miniature portrait painting of Voltaire].
[France?], "1687" [= ca. 1735?]. Oval portrait painting (11 x 9 cm) in grisaille on copper, with a note on the back "J. de Cerf A[nn]o 1687". Mounted in a gilt rectangular wooden frame (34.5 x 28 cm). Full description

€ 9,500

France French Literature Philosophy & Esotericism

Provisional agreement between the Netherlands and Portugal over Ceylon

[CEYLON]. Provisioneel ende particulier tractaet, gemaeckt, gearresteert ende besloten in 's Graven-Hage, den 27. Martii, 1645. tusschen de heer Francisco de Zousa Continho, raedt ende ambassadeur van den doorluchtighsten grootmachtigen Koningh van Portugael, Algarves, &c. ...; ende de ... Staten Generael van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Provincien, &c. aengaende de controversie over de jurisdictie ende territorie van 't Fort Galle [in Ceylon], &c.
The Hague widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1645 [= The Hague, Paulus Scheltus, ca. 1697?]. 4to. Modern plain-paper wrapper. [8] pp. Full description

€ 300

Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Portugal

Death sentence against Petrus Vuyst, former Governor of Ceylon

[CEYLON]. Sententie, gewezen by den Wel Ed: Raade van India, tegens den Heere en Mr. Petrus Vuyst, gewezene gouveneur van Ceylon. Geëxecuteert tot Batavia, den 19. Mey, 1732.
[Batavia?, 1732]. 4to. Original blue wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Law & Politics VOC

Obligation contract for plantations in Essequebo and Demerary, signed during the zenith of the colonial plantation economy

CHANGUION, Daniel; Jan Wouter VALKENIER; Cornelis Jacob VAN DER LYN. [Signed negotiation contract dated 1769 for an obligation of 1000 gulden for plantations in Rio Essequebo and Rio Demerary].
Amsterdam, 1 November 1769. Folio (42 x 26.5 cm). Disbound. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 675

Economic History & Trade Manuscripts & Documents Slavery South America Surinam WIC West Indies

Obligation contract for plantations in Essequebo and Demerary, signed during the zenith of the colonial plantation economy

CHANGUION, Daniel; Jan Wouter VALKENIER; Cornelis Jacob VAN DER LYN. [Signed negotiation contract dated 1770 for an obligation of 1000 gulden for plantations in Rio Essequebo and Rio Demerary].
Amsterdam, 6 February 1770. Folio (ca. 26 x 41 cm). Disbound. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 650

Economic History & Trade Manuscripts & Documents Slavery South America Surinam WIC West Indies

Educating young American and Philippine noblemen
according the guidelines of the Spanish King Charles IV

[CHARLES IV, King of Spain]. Real cédula por la qual Su Magestad funda un colegio de nobles Americanos en la ciudad de Granada.
Madrid, printed by the widow of Joaquín Ibarra, 1792. 8vo. With a wood-engraved royal coat-of-arms on the title-page. Contemporary straight-grain red morocco. [2], 50 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Education & Pedagogy Latin America Law & Politics Middle America Philippines South America Spain

Justice done by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy to the Governor of Zeeland,
who had killed a man and raped his wife

[CHARLES THE BOLD]. Justitie van Carel den Stouten, Hert[og]: van Bourg[ondië]: etc. Grave van Holl[and]: Zel[and]: etc. over seker gouv[erneur]: in Zelant.
[Amsterdam?], Joachim Bormeester, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 1mo (full sheet) broadside (41 x 50.5 cm). An engraved print with extensive engraved texts in Dutch, the central scene (33.5 x 31 cm) flanked by 6 smaller scenes, with the title above the central scene (in roman capitals with I and V for UJ and U), 5 lines of verse (a couplet in 1 line followed by a 4-line verse) below each smaller scene and the story in prose in the foot of the engraving. Hand-coloured and highlighted in gold. Full description

€ 850

Art & Art History Law & Politics Netherlands Prints & Print Series

Best edition of a notable history of Japan, with 56 engraved plates

CHARLEVOIX, Pierre François Xavier de. Histoire du Japon; ... Nouvelle édition.
Paris, Rollin (colophon vol. 6: printed by dHours fils), 1754. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 56 engraved plates (including 28 folding maps, plans and other illustrations and 28 single-page botanical plates). Contemporary mottled calf, gold tooled spines. [4], XXIV, 417, [1], [2 blank]; [4], LXXXV, [3], 429, [1]; [4], “558” [=528], [1], [1 blank]; [4], 534, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 479, [1]; [4], 386, [6] pp. Full description

€ 4,950

Anthropology & Ethnography Japan & Far East

Conflicts based on differences in wealth and social status, by a famous Dutch female writer

[CHARRIERE, Isabelle de, Belle van ZUYLEN]. Lettres écrites de Lausanne.Including: Caliste ou suite des lettres écrites de Lausanne.
Genève and Paris, Prault, 1788. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [4], 118, [2]; [2], 148, [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

French Literature Women History

Account of a mid 19th-century diplomatic mission to Japan, China, and India,
with a manuscript dedication by the author

CHASSIRON, Charles de. Notes sur le Japon, la Chine et l'Inde. 1885-1859-1860.
Paris, E. Dentu & Ch. Reinwald, 1861. 8vo. With 2 full-page maps (of Japan and Korea and of Northern China), a large hand coloured folding view of "Yeddo" or Edo (now Tokyo), a hand coloured folding city plan, 8 hand coloured full page plates of flora and fauna, 2 hand coloured folding views of the Japanese country side, and 3 hand coloured plates (including 1 folding) showing caricatures. Half brown leather. XI, [1 blank], 356, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 4,950

Charts & Maps China France India & Sri Lanka Japan & Far East Law & Politics Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

Account of a mid 19th-century diplomatic mission to Japan, China, and India,
with a manuscript dedication by the author

CHASSIRON, Charles de. Notes sur le Japon, la Chine et l'Inde. 1885-1859-1860.
Paris, E. Dentu & Ch. Reinwald, 1861. 8vo. With 2 full-page maps (of Japan and Korea and of Northern China), a large hand coloured folding view of "Yeddo" or Edo (now Tokyo), a hand coloured folding city plan, 8 hand coloured full page plates of flora and fauna, 2 hand coloured folding views of the Japanese country side, and 3 hand coloured plates (including 1 folding) showing caricatures. Contemporary half purpleish-brown sheepskin, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge, blue reading ribbon. XI, [1 blank], 356, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 4,950

China India & Sri Lanka Japan & Far East Law & Politics Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

First Dutch edition of the most popular domestic encyclopedia of the 18th century

CHOMEL, Noël. Huishoudelyk woordboek, vervattende vele middelen om zyn goed te vermeerderen en zyne gezondheid te behouden, met verscheiden wisse en beproefde middelen voor een groot getal van ziekten, en schoone geheimen om tot een hoogen en gelukkigen ouderdom te geraken, een menigte van manieren om lammeren, schapen, koejen, paarden, muil-ezels, hoenderen, duiven, honigbyen, zywurmen te kweken, voeden, genezen, en winst te doen met die dieren;...
In't Nederduits vertaald, in orde geschikt, en vermeerderd met nuttige artikelen, door de heeren Jan Lodewuk Schuer, A.H. Westerhof, en zeker liefhebber.
Leyden, S. Luchtmans; Amsterdam, H. Uytwerf, 1743. 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan Punt (1711-1779) and 80 engraved folding plates by F. de Bakker. Half calf. [8], 616; [2], 617-1496, [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Agriculture Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Economic History & Trade

Chorier's famous erotic dialogues in a rare edition

[CHORIER, Nicolas] (presented as Aloisia SIGEA translated by Johannes MEURSIUS). Elegantiae Latini sermonis. [On the part-title for part 2, under "Aloisae Sigeae":] Satyrae sotadicae, de arcanis amoris et veneris, ...
[The Netherlands? ca. 1750?]. 12mo. With a title-page that looks more like a half-title and gives the impression that the book is a collection of sermons by Meursius, and a part-title for part 2 that gives the author's female pseudonym and the true title. Boards (ca. 1900), covered with paste-paper. Untrimmed. 396 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Erotica Literature Women History

Genealogy of the seven patrician families of Antwerp

CHRISTYN, Johannes-Baptista. Senatus populique Antverpiensis. Nobilitas sive septem tribus patriciae Antverpienses.
Leiden, Petrus Heghius [printed in Brussels by Philippe Vleugart], 1672. 8vo. With an allegorical frontispiece showing a personification of time accompanying the crests of the seven houses above personifications of the Scheldt and the city of Antwerp and 7 engraved coatsofarms in text. Modern half parchment, red paste paper sides. [10], 55 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Antwerp Belgium Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags

Very rare and little known collection of Italian Renaissance merchant voyages to India

CIGNANO, Ludovico. Quieta solitudine di varii ragionamenti, discorsi, et concetti, ove si narra quattro navigationi ...
Bologna, Alessandro Benacci, 1587. Small 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Giovanni Luigi Scappi, elaborately helmed, crested and mantled, on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece (plus 1 repeat), woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series), decorations built up from cast typographic ornaments.
Goatskin morocco (ca. 1870/80?), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, signed in foot of front turn-in by the Paris bookbinders "DARLAUD FRÈRES", gold fillets on sides and board edges, combed curl-marbled endpapers, edges gilt over marbling, headbands worked in white and beige, and a yellow, red and green ribbon marker. 166 pp. Full description

€ 45,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade North Africa & Egypt Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

Appealing heraldic manuscript on the English nobility
with more than 1050 beautifully executed coats of arms showing heraldic craftmanship

CLEMENTS, Joseph and J. GOLDING. (title-page:) Heraldry.
[England (Kent?), ca. 1775-1795]. Large 4to (ca. 27 x 21 cm). Manuscript in English on paper, mostly containing coats of arms with captions and a hand-written index. Completely written in brown ink in a neat 18th-century hand. With a hand-drawn and contemporary hand-coloured title-page, 108 contemporary hand-coloured smaller coats of arms showing motives on the crest and 1050 contemporary hand-coloured larger coats of arms of English noble families. Contemporary sheepskin, blind-tooled boards and spine, marbled endpapers. [2], 183 ll. Full description

€ 9,000

Drawings & Watercolours Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Manuscripts & Documents UK - United Kingdom

Illustrations, weights and values of gold, silver and copper coins

[COINS]. Beeldenaer, ofte figuer-boeck, dienende op de nieuwe ordonnantie vander munte, gearresteert ende uyt-ghegeven by de ... Staten Generael ... vanden een-en-twintichsten julij 1622, met de ampliatie van dien, door de ghemelte heeren vanden 12. augustus 1626. Inde welcke... gerepresenteert werden de figueren vande goude ende silvere munte, cours ende gangh hebbende in krachte der selver ordonnantie, ende boven welcken geene tot andere prijse ontfangen, ofte besteedt sullen werden.
The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1626. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and woodcut illustrations of the obverse and reverse of 127 gold, 244 silver and 7 copper coins. Early 19th-century gold-brocade paper covered boards. [98], pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Numismatics

An account of the former King of Portugal’s visit to Morocco, the first book printed in Tangiers

COLAÇO, José Daniel. Viagem de Sua Magestade El Rei o Senhor Dom Fernando a Marrocos, seguido da descripção da entrega da Grão Cruz da Torre e Espada ao Sultão Sid Mohammed.
Tangiers, Abrines, 1882. 8vo. Modern maroon half morocco, preserving the original publisher's printed wrappers. VI, 122, [1 blank], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,000

Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt Portugal

1668 Journal of the Dutch Ambassador in the Ottoman Empire, with a letter from the Sultan

COLLIER (COLJER), Justin and Jaques van DAM. Journal du voyage de Mr Collier resident à la Porte. Pour messieurs les Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies.
Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1672. 12mo. 19th-century(?) half calf, gold-tooled spine. [12], 103, [3] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Law & Politics Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Very rare handbook for merchants and traders in the Southern Netherlands

[COMMERCE]. Le négociant du Pays-Bas, ou le tarif général de tous les comptes du commerce; tant pour calculer les monnoyes, les intérêts, répartitions, &c. Que toutes sortes de marchandises, denrées & négoces tant en gros qu'en détail. Onzième édition. Augmenté avec la réduction de l'argent de change de Brabant, en celui courant en Brabant, & celui de l'argent courant de Brabant en celui de change de Brabant. Et un tarif pour connoitre le prix d'une livre de marchandise par le prix du cent.
Antwerp, Johannes Judocus Gerardus de Marcour, [ca. 1780?]. 12mo. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XXIII, [1], 543, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Belgium Economic History & Trade

The effects of the Panama canal on the Dutch trade

COMMISSIE VOOR DE HANDELSPOLITIEK. Rapport betreffende de gevolgen der opening van het Panama-kanaal voor Nederland en koloniën.
Amsterdam, 1912. Folio (33.5 x 21 cm). Original cloth backed portfolio with printed boards and with ties. 21, [3 blank]; [1], [3 blank]; 3, [1 blank]; 3, [1 blank], 88; 8; 23, [1 blank]; 18, [2 blank]; 5, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 250

Economic History & Trade Latin America South America

On the sales of arms and arms deals in the Middle East

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. New perspectives on the Persian Gulf. Hearings before the subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia of the committee on foreign affairs, house of representatives, ninety-third congress, first session. June 6, July 17, 23, 24, and November 28, 1973.
Washington, U.S. Government printing office, 1973. 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm). With a small map of the Persian Gulf. Original printed paper wrappers. VIII, [1], 227 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Armory, Military Science & Technology Economic History & Trade Iran / Persia Kuwait Military History (20th Century) North America Saudi Arabia

On "the escalating level of arms sales to Gulf states"

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Persian Gulf, 1975: the continuing debate on arms sales. Hearings before the special subcommittee on investigations of the committee on international relations, house of representatives, ninety-fourth congress, first Session. June 10, 18, 24 and July 29, 1975.
Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. 8vo. Original printed paper wrappers. VI, 261 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Armory, Military Science & Technology Economic History & Trade Iran / Persia Military History (20th Century) North America

Communism in the Middle East

[COMMUNIST ESSAYS]. [Collection of communist essays for the Arabic-speaking and Middle Eastern market].
China, Israel, Russia (USSR), United States, [various publishers], 1968-1984. 16 publications. Several fold-out maps and some works with photographic plates. Including (in chronological order):
(1) LANE-POOLE, Stanley. Coins of the Amawi Khalifehs. Catalogue of the collection of Oriental coins belonging to Col. C. Seton Guthrie.
Chicago, Argonaut Publishers, 1968.
(2) [SOVIET REVISIONISTS versus the CHINESE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY]. [Title in Arabic:] Down with the new tsars! Soviet revisionists' anti-China atrocities on the Heilung and Wusuli Rivers.
Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1969.
(3) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. [Title in Arabic:] Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.
Philadelphia, 1970.
(4) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. [Title in Hebrew:] Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.
Tel Aviv, 1970.
(5) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.
[New York], [Hill and Wang], 1970.
(6) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.
New York, Hill and Wang, 1971.
(7) MAO ZEDONG. [Title in Arabic:] On the correct handling of contradictions among the people.
Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1971.
(8) MAO ZEDONG. [Title in Persian:] People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!
Beijing, Foreign Language Press, 1971.
(9) MAO, ZEDONG. [Title in Persian:] Talks at the Yenan forum on literature and art.
Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1971.
(10) [1972 NEW YEAR'S DAY EDITORIAL?]. [Title in Arabic:] Unite to win still greater victories.
Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1972.
(11) [RENMIN RIBAO (editor)?]. [Title in Arabic:] A vicious motive, despicable tricks: a criticism of M. Antonioni's anti-China film "China".
Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1974.
(12) [NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS - CHINA]. [Title in Arabic:] Documents of the first session of the fourth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1975.
(13) LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich. [Title in Arabic:] A letter to American workers.
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1978.
(14) LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich. [Title in Arabic:] Two tactics of social-democracy in the Democratic Revolution.
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1978.
(15) ENGELS, Friedrich. [Title in Arabic:] Anti-Dühring.
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1984.
(16) [REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT]. [Title in Arabic:] Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.
[1984?].
Mainly works in their original publisher's printed paper wrappers, occasionally in a hardcover binding. Full description

€ 3,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Law & Politics

Isabel Godin des Odonais journey down the Amazon

[CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de la]. Lettre de M.D.L.C. à M*** sur le sort des astronomes qui ont eu part aux dernières mesures de la terre, depuis 1735.
Including: Isabelle GODIN DES ODONAIS. Lettre de M. Godin des Odonais, & l'aventure tragique de Madame Godin dans son voyage de la province de Quito, à Cayenne, pas le fleuve des Amazones.
[Maastricht, 1778?]. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. 30 pp. (= p. 329-359 of the original work). Full description

€ 2,500

Brazil France Latin America South America Travel & Voyages South America Women History

First edition of an important historical work on Macaronesia, especially the Azores

CORDEIRO, Antonio. Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no oceano occidental.
Lisboa occidental, Na officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1717. Small folio (ca. 28 x 21 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Gold-tooled brown calf from the first half of the 19th century. [1], [1 blank], [14], 528 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Geography North Africa & Egypt Portugal West Africa

Printed letter, signed in manuscript, by the president of the province of Espírito Santo, a prelude to the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1871

CORRÊA (CORREIA), Francisco Ferreira. [Drop title:] Gabinete do prssidente [!] da provincia do Espirito Santo, em 17 de outubro de 1871 ...
[Vitória, Espíritu Santo, Brazil], 17 October 1871. Folio (ca. 27.5 x 21 cm). Single sheet. [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Slavery

Detailed account of Goa, printed and published in Madras

COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN, Denis Louis. An historical sketch of Goa, the metropolis of the Portuguese settlements in India: with an account of the present state of that celebrated city, and of the surrounding territories under its immediate jurisdiction, collected from the most authentic sources...
Madras (now Chennai), India, "printed for the Proprietor, by William Twigg, at the Gazette Press", 1831. 4to (ca. 20 x 13 cm). With a detailed folding engraved map of the city of Goa. Modern reddish-brown leather. [6], 177, [1 blank], [10] pp. Full description

€ 4,000

City Plans, Topography & Views India & Sri Lanka Portugal

History of Goa, printed there

COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN, Denis Louis and Miguel Vicente d'ABREU (translator). Bosquejo historico de Goa escripto em inglez ... vertibo em Portuguez, e accrescentabo com algumas notas, e rectificações ...
Nova-Goa, Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 8vo. With a small illustration of one of the gates of Goa. Later half red morocco. VII, [1 blank] 5-"202" [=203], [1] pp. Full description

€ 950

Church History & Missions India & Sri Lanka Portugal

Rare work on the political history of England written for King James I's son
by a famous antiquary and politician

COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce. Warrs with forregin[!] princes dangerous to our Common-Wealth: or reasons for forreign wars answered. With a list of all the confederates from Henry the first reign to the end of Queen Elizabeth. Proving that the kings of England alwayes preferred unjust peace before the justest warre.
London, William Shears, 1657.
Including: [COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce]. The French charity; written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming to England; and translated into English by F.S.J.E.
London, William Shears, 1655. Small 8vo. Woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. Contemporary calf. [2], 96; [2], 10 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

France Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

Four popular works, erotic as well as occult, in one contemporary binding

[COURTIN, Antoine DE]. Traité de la jalousie, ou moyens d'entretenir la paix dans le marriage.
[The Netherlands?, copy imprint:] Paris, Helie Josset, 1682. 12mo. With a finely engraved integral frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe.
(2) ARETINO, Pietro. Dialogue de l'Aretin, ou Les vies, & faits de Lais, & Lamia courtisanes de Rome sont deduites. Traduict d'Italien en François.
[southwest Germany?, ca. 1681/84?]. With 1 woodcut decorated initial.
(3) DIGBY, Kenelm. Discours fait en une celebre assemblée touchant la guerison des playes & la composition de la poudre de sympathie. Enrichie avec beaucoup des remedes et rare secrets tirez de memoires du Chevalier Digby. Avec divers secrets pour la conservation de la beauté des dames.
Utrecht, Rudolph van Zijll, 1681.
(4) MAINVILLE, Jean(?) de. Du bonheur et du malheur du mariage, et des considerations qu'il faut faire avant que de s'y engager, ouvrage moral & curieux.
The Hague, Adriaen Moetjens, 1684. With a woodcut decoration on the title-page.Sprinkled calf (ca. 1700?). [12], 168, [9], [1 blank]; “102” [= 202], [2 blank]; 378, [2 blank]; [8], 274, [6] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Astrology & Occult Erotica Literature Women History

Portuguese proposal to return Brazil to the Dutch

COUTINHO, Francisco de Sousa. Propositie ghedaen ter vergaderinghe van hare hoogh-mog: d'heeren Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, in 's Gravenhage den XVIen. Augusti 1647.
[Netherlands], 1647. 4to. With a woodcut decoration built up from arabesque typographic ornaments on title-page and a woodcut decorated initial. Modern half calf, marbled sides. 16 pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Brazil Law & Politics Netherlands Portugal Slavery WIC

A great source for Russian history and foreign relations in the 17th century

[COYETT, Balthasar]. Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk, extraordinaris ambassadeur ... aan zijne zaarsche majesteyt van Moscovien.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With etched frontispiece and 6 etched folding plates by Romeyn de Hooghe. 19th-century boards. [8], 214 [= 220] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Eastern Europe Law & Politics Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Europe

Sentence of Isaac Coymans, who conspired against the WIC

COYMANS, Isaac. Sententie gepronuncieert den 25. januarij 1662, tot Amsterdam iegens Isaac Coeymans, koopman en burger der selver stadt.
Rotterdam, Floris Willemsen, 1662. 4to. Disbound. 4 ll. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics WIC

John Crawfurd's sequel to his History of the Indian Archipelago

CRAWFURD, John. A descriptive dictionary of the Indian Islands & adjacent countries.
London, Bradbury & Evans, 1856. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of parts of the East Indies and Southeast Asia, with title "Asiatic Archipelago". Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth, title in gold on spine. [4], 459, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Philippines Southeast Asia

Captivating essays on life in 18th-century North America

CREVECOEUR, Michel-Guillaume. Lettres d'un cultivateur Américain addressées à Wm. S...on Esq. depuis l'année 1770 jusqu'en 1786.
Paris, Cuchet Libraire, 1787. 4 volumes. 8vo. With 3 engraved title-pages, an engraved frontispiece, 5 folding engraved maps and 3 engraved plates (1 folding). 19th-century dark blue half morocco, top edges gilt. XXXII, 478, [2]; 438, [6]; 592, [2] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Charts & Maps New York North America Slavery USA - United States of America

Conchology for women, with 21 engraved plates

CUBIÈRES, Simon Louis Pierre. Histoire abrégée des coquillages de mer, de leurs moeurs, et de leurs amours.
Versailles, P.D. Pierres, An VIII (1799/1800). 4to. With an engraved headpiece and 21 engraved plates printed in brown. Contemporary blue boards. [3], [1 blank], VIII, 202. Full description

€ 700

Shells & other Invertebrates Women History

Memoirs of an important Portuguese diplomat at the court of Louis XIV

CUNHA BROCHADO, José da. Memorias particulares, ou anecdotes dal'orte de França apontadas por Joze da Cunha Brochádo, notempo em que foi Enviado quela mesma Córte.
[Madrid, ca. 1725]. Folio. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, red edges with brown speckles. [1], [1 blank], 396, [4 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

France Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Portugal

Privately distributed eye-witness account of the mutiny at the Nore

[CUNNINGHAM, Charles]. A narrative of occurrences that took place during the mutiny at the Nore, in the months of May and June, 1797.
Chatham, William Burrill, 1829. 8vo. With the errata slip inserted between the introduction and main text. Contemporary boards. [2], XII, 141, [3] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks UK - United Kingdom

First and only Aldine edition of the liveliest most extensive extant Roman history of Alexander the Great

CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus. Quintus Curtius. [De rebus Alexandri Regis Macedonum libri III-X.]
Venice, heirs of Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, July 1520. 8vo. With Aldos woodcut anchor and dolphin device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf (each with letterpress "AL ... DUS" flanking the device). Set in Aldos famous italic (with upright capitals), the worlds first italic printing type, first used in 1501. Richly blind-tooled brown goatskin morocco (early 20th-century with the older bookplate moved to the new paste-down?). [8], 170, [2] ll. Full description

€ 2,250

Aldine Press Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

By a female publisher: the first separate edition of Cyril's commentary on the Law of Moses

CYRIL of Alexandria. De adoratione in spiritu et veritate, & spiritali totius legis Mosaicae in religione Christiana observantia, ...
Lyon, Sybille de la Porte, 1588. 4to. With Porta's woodcut device on title-page, a woodcut headpiece, several woodcut tailpieces, numerous decorated woodcut initials (at least 3 series) and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary limp calf parchment. 24, 454, [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,950

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century) Women History

Governor-General Daendel's rule in the Dutch East Indies

DAENDELS, Herman Willem. Staat der Nederlandsche Oostindische bezittingen, onder het bestuur van der gouverneur-generaal Herman Willem Daendels, ridder, luitenant-generaal, &c. in de jaren 1808-1811.
The Hague, (colophon: Hendrik van Teeckelenburgh and the Van Cleef brothers), 1814. 4 volumes. Folio. With a small portrait of Daendels mounted on the half-title of the first volume. Contemporary boards. [6], 128, [1 blank]; [334]; [596]; [488] pp. Full description

€ 5,500

Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Law & Politics Military History (19th Century) Netherlands Southeast Asia

Unrecorded 1712 almanac in an elaborately gold-tooled binding with a silver pin fastening, by the Amsterdam Art Book Bindery

DAM, Jan Albertsz. van. Nieuw geinventeerde koopmans comptoir- en schrijf-almanach, op het schrikkel-jaar onzes heeren J. Christi M DCC XII. Na de nieuwe styl. Versien met de jaarmarkten, paarde- beeste- en leer-markte, en de dageliksche uure van de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of Albert Magnus, [1711 (for the year 1712)]. 12mo. Printed in red and black throught, the title-page with Magnus's woodcut device (Atlas with an armillary sphere on his shoulders), numerous typographical symbols in the text: for example a horse and a goat representing horse and other animal market days, moons in different phases, planetary signs and manicules (pointing hands). With a small etching of an angel (39 mm tall) holding a wreath, cut out of an unidentified source and loosely inserted between 2 blank pages at the end of the book. Contemporary, elaborately gold-tooled mottled calf over thin wooden boards by the so-called Art Book Bindery (1705-1741) in the style made famous by Albert Magnus himself, with more than 100 impressions of about a dozen stamps and one roll, gold-tooled board edges. Further with 4 silver anchor plates (2 on each board), each with the coat of arms of the States of Holland in a decorative cartouche, and each with a silver eye extending over the fore edge, with a silver combination stylus/lead pencil used to fasten the book through the eyes, gilt edges. [120] pp. bound with 46 blank free endleaves: [12] pp. at the front and [22 (coated paper)], [12] pp. at the back. Full description

€ 7,500

Almanacs Amsterdam Bindings Economic History & Trade Netherlands

Stichter’s comptoir almanac for 1788 in an Amsterdam VOC binding

DAM, Meyndert Dirksz. van. D'erven Stichters comptoir almanach, op t schrikkel-jaar onses heeren Jesu Christi, 1788 ...
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1788]. 4to. With the title-page and 23 calendar pages printed in red and black, a half-page woodcut vignette (depicting Father Time pointing at an armillary sphere) by Hendrik Numan on the title-page and 12 half-page woodcut illustrations for the 12 months (each ca. 7 x 11 cm) by Hendrik Numan, nearly all signed in the block (including two dated "1779"). Contemporary gold-tooled brown mottled calf, 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 1788", all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners. [16] ll. interleaved with 24 blank (except for manuscript annotations) ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Almanacs Bindings Netherlands VOC

Richly illustrated dance of death

[DANCE OF DEATH]. La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Avec: le débat du corps & de l'ame. La complainte de l'ame damnée. L'exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir. La vie du mauvais Antechrist. Les quinze signes du jugement.
Troyes, Jean-Antoine Garnier, [1728]. 4to. With 60 woodcuts in text, including 3 repeats, most of them half-page. 19th-century half cloth. 76 pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Caricature & Satire France French Literature

Major source of information on the Islamic world in the 17th century

DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige beschryving van Asie: behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gantsch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie ...
Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1680. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 16 engraved views and maps (2 folding, 14 double-page), and 22 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 357, [3], 324, [4] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Turkey & Ottoman Empire

First publication on the revolutionary discovery of a method of manufacturing soda ash using sea salt

DARCET, Jean, Bertrand PELLETIER & Claude-Hugues LELIEVRE. Extrait du rapport sur la fabrication de la soude.
[Paris, l'Imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, after 1794]. 8vo. Contemporary boards with gold on black spine label. 12 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Economic History & Trade Physics & Chemistry

Plants and dyes

DE BEUNIE, Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk zyn de profytelykste planten van dit land, ende welk is hun gebruyk zoo in de medicynen als in andere konsten.
With:
(2) DU RONDEAU, François. Mémoires sur la question: quelles sont les plantes les plus utiles des Pays-Bas, & que lest leur usage dans la medicine & dans les arts.
(3) DE BEUNIE, Joannes Baptista. Antwoord op de vraege welk is de beste ende onkostbaerste maniere van vlasse gaeren ende andere vegitabile stoffen swert te verwen, ...
Brussels, Antonius dOurs, 1772. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Modern blue paper wrappers. 70; 18; 30 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Art & Art History Herbals & Medical Botany

11 articles on the history of the Islamic world, including the autobiography of Ibn Khaldun

DEFRÉMERY, Charles and others. [Collection of 11 French offprints and extracts on the Islamic world].
[Paris (1 Leipzig), 1831-1859]. 11 items in 1 volume. 8vo. With many passages in Arabic. Contemporary half vellum. Full description

€ 6,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia

First French edition of a Dutch work on the rise and fall of the ancient Greeks

DEMETRIUS, Andreas and Johannes POLYANDER (translator). Les actes memorables des Grecs. Contenant leurs haults & vaillans exploits...
Dordrecht, [published by Isaac Jansz. Canin and printed by Guillaume Guillemot] for Andreas Demetrius, 1602. 8vo. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title-page and with folding engraved map of ancient Greece, signed Ioan: Doetechomius Jr, inserted before p. 1, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut manicules in the margins. Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine and the gold-tooled armorial supralibros of the Signet Library as a centre-piece on both boards. [1], [1 blank], [14], 749, [1 blank] [25], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,600

Balkan & Greece Classical Antiquity School & Textbooks

The principal works of René Descartes, published with corrections and revisions in the year of his death

DESCARTES, René. Principia philosopiae.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
With:
(2) IDEM. Specimina philosopiae: seu dissertatio de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: dioptrice, et meteora.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
(3) IDEM. Passiones animae.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With 3 title-pages, each with Elzeviers woodcut Athena and tree device (Rahir M19), ads 1 and 2 with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, ad 1 with a woodcut tailpiece (Rahir fleuron 102) and all three with a few woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Sprinkled calf (old boards rebound on 4 recessed cords with a blind-tooled spine, a spine label, and new endpapers ca. 1800?). [40], “302” [= 292]; [16], 316; [24], 98, [6] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Philosophy & Esotericism

The 7500-page works of one of the most creative and influential minds of the Enlightenment

DIDEROT, Denis. Oeuvres de Denis Diderot, publiées, sur les manuscrits de l'auteur, par Jacques-André Naigeon, de l'Institut National des Sciences, etc. Tome premier[-quinzième].
Paris, Desray, Deterville (back of half-title, vol. I: printed by [Charles] Crapelet), an VI [=] 1798. 15 volumes. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Charles Étienne Gaucher after a 1766 drawing by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 16 engraved plates and a folding letterpress table of all kinds of human knowledge for the Encyclopédie (52 x 37.5 cm). Contemporary, uniform half sprinkled calf, richly gold-tooled spines. [in total about 7500 pp.]. Full description

€ 6,500

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Philosophy & Esotericism Science

First edition of a history of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt with a collection of Turkish and Egyptian tales

DIGEON, J.M. Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Arabe & du Turc.
Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins. VIII, 347 [1 blank]; [2], 278, [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Emblem & Songbooks Literature North Africa & Egypt Turkey & Ottoman Empire

First edition of Ruel's translation of a foundational work on pharmacology

DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius. De medicinali materia libri quinque. De virulentis animalibus, et venenis canerabioso, et eorum noti, ac remedijs libri quattuor.
(Colophon: Paris, Henri Estienne, 1516). Folio. With the title within a decorative metalcut( ?) panel. Set in roman types. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment; rebacked in calf, with new endpapers, but preserving the original paste-downs. [12], 157, [2], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 18,000

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Eyewitness account of a 1570 diplomatic mission to the Ottoman court,
with 28 fine original colour drawings and samples of Turkish decorated paper

[DIPLOMATIC MISSION]. BRAECKLE, Jacques de. Memoires du voiage de Constantinople de Jacques de Bracle seigneur de Bassecourt.
[Various places, [1570 or very soon after]. 4to (main text & decorated paper) & 8vo (transcription & drawings) (21.5 x 14.5 cm). Manuscript in French, written in brown ink on paper in a Flemish bastarda gothic hand, with about 26 lines per page. With 8 contemporary half-sheet specimens of Turkish decorated "silhouette" paper (folded to make 16 leaves in 2 quires), a series of 28 drawings in brown ink and coloured gouaches, highlighted in gold (mostly costume figures, some showing the Sultan and other leading figures, others showing anonymous types from various ethnic and religious groups), plus a ca. 1800, transcript of the complete text and biography of the author (with his arms in colour). Modern sheepskin parchment. [2 blank], [34]; [5 blank], [62 incl. a few blank], [1 blank] pp. plus 8 double leaves of decorated paper and [36], [4 blank]; [2], [2 blank] pp. of 18th-century additions. Full description

€ 180,000

Book History, Printing & Typography Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire

12 albumen prints showing Paris after the Franco-Prussian War, including 9 by the French photographer Disdéri

DISDÉRI, André. [Collection of 12 photographs of Paris and surroundings just after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)].
[Paris], André Disdéri, 1871. Seven albumen prints by Disdéri (measuring 10/20 x 29 cm), mounted on blue stiff paper leaves, with a caption in pencil in the lower left corner; three albumen prints, each mounted on a white stiff paper leaf, including one by A. Serrault with printed text underneath; and two small portraits of carte de visite format (89 x 54 mm), probably by Disdéri, mounted together on one stiff paper leaf. Full description

€ 1,800

France Military History (19th Century) Photography

Archaeological sites in the Middle East, with 143 reproductions of photographs

DJEMAL PASCHA, Ahmed and Theodore WIEGAND. Alte Denkmaler aus Syrien, Palastina und Westarabien. 100 Tafeln mit beschreibendem Text.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1918. Folio (34.5 x 24 cm). WIth 100 plates with 143 reproductions of photographs. Original red publisher's cloth, with the title in Arabic and German on the front board. 10 pp., 100 ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Archaeology Photography

Life and customs in the Ottoman Empire, described by a Christian former slave

DJURDJEVIC, Bartol (Bartholomeus GEORGIEVITZ) Voiage de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. Jointe la description des citez, villes, ports, lieux, & autres passages. Ensemble les ceremonies des Turcs ...
Liège, printed by Leonard Streel for Lambert de la Coste, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. [32], [32] lvs. Full description

€ 17,500

Church History & Missions Slavery Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Italian translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in an interesting binding

OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (Lodovico DOLCE, translator). Le trasformationi, ... . In questa quarta impressione da lui in molti luoghi ricorrette.
Venice, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. 4to. With title in a richly designed architectural woodcut frame, a half-page woodcut hemispherical map of the Americas, Europe and Africa and 82 large woodcut illustrations (plus 2 repeats) with fine ornamental and grotesque borders at either side. Contemporary(?) Polish(?) blind-tooled calf. 17th- or 18th-century endpapers. [16], 309, [3] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Fable Books

Critical work on the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies

DOORNIK, Jacob Elisa. Vrijmoedige gedachten over Neêrlands Indië en over de regering van den gouverneur-generaal van der Capellen.
Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1826. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled paper wrappers [4], XVI, 314, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 350

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Law & Politics Southeast Asia

Orangist reacton to a satirical pamphlet Missive van Parnas, geschreven door Hugo de Groot (1685)

[DORDRECHT]. Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.
The Hague, Gideon Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound. 28 pp. Full description

€ 475

Broadsides & Pamphlets Caricature & Satire Law & Politics

Orangist reacton to a satirical pamphlet Missive van Parnas, written by Hugo Grotius (1685)

[DORDRECHT]. Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.
The Hague, Gidion Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound. 28 pp. Full description

€ 475

Caricature & Satire Law & Politics

40 years of correspondence between two leading orientalists in Russia, often concerning Georgian matters

DORN, Bernard. [21 autograph letters, signed, to Marie-Félicité Brosset].
Saint Petersburg, ca. 1840-1879.
With: (2) [Manuscript chronological numbered list of 34 publications by Dorn, 1843-1865].
[Saint Petersburg, ca. 1865].
8vo (letters, mostly 21 x 13.5 cm) and folio (list of publications). Letters in French with an occasional (Persian?) word in Arabic script, written in black ink on paper, some with the address on the outside and one with Dorn's (Persian?) red wax seal in Arabic script. 20 letters [4] pp. each (some including blanks); 1 letter [1, 1 blank] pp.; list of publications [4] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Autographs & Letters Literature Numismatics

Early 19th-century ideal kitchen inventory

[DOUARIAIRE VAN ATHLONE, née VAN TUYL VAN SEROOSKERKEN]. Voor de huishouding, ten nutte van alle standen, en van al de geenen, die voor de orde zyn, om eene gemaklyke en naauwkeurige rekening van de kosten hunner huidhouding te houden, door berekenings-tafelen te zamen gesteld; en op de ondervinding gestaafd.
The Hague, G. Bakhuysen, 1815. Small folio. With a woodcut title-vignette and elaborate woodcut head- and tailpieces. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers. [52] pp. Full description

€ 850

Wine / Viticulture

Introduction to Islam by an important Dutch orientalist

DOZY, Reinhart. Het Islamisme. Tweede, herziene druk.
Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1880. With 13 lithographed plates. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. viii, 357, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 250

Islam & Qurans

Francis Drake’s failed attempt to depose the King of Spain and Portugal

DRAKE, Francis (subject). Brevis & fida narratio, et continuatio rerum omnium a Drako et Norreysio (post ex Occidentalibus Insulis, reditum) in sua expeditione Portugallensi singulis diebus gestarum.
Frankfurt am Main, Paul Brachfeldt, 1590. 4to. With the woodcut arms on the title-page, the upper related to that of Queen Elizabeth of England and the lower that of King Philip I of Portugal (Philip II of Spain), each supported by putti, a full-page woodcut standing soldier with sword and spear, perhaps intended as Francis Drake. Gold-tooled green morocco (2nd half of 19th century). [2], 29, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 15,000

Military History (16th Century) Portugal UK - United Kingdom

Unique 1724 auction catalogue of Dutch fabrics

[DREESING, Harmanus]. [Drop-title:] Notitie van een groote party curieuse kanten, stokgronden en spiegeltralies...
Amsterdam, Marten Smets, [1724]. 4to (16.5 x 21 cm). Formerly sewn through 3 holes but never bound. [8] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Amsterdam Art & Art History Auction Catalogues & Bookselling Economic History & Trade

Letter on the Mamluk-Ottoman power struggle in Egypt that would bring Muhammad Ali to power in 1805

DRUMMOND, William. [Letter on the fighting between the Ottomans and Mamluks in Egypt].
Bucharest, 13 December 1803. 4to (23.5 x 18.5 cm). Autograph letter in English, signed, written in brown ink on laid paper. [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Autographs & Letters Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt Turkey & Ottoman Empire

The classic history of the Dutch East Indies

DU BOIS, Johann Peter Isaak. Vies des gouverneurs généraux, avec l'abrégé de l'histoire des etablissements hollandois aux Indes Orientales; ...
Including: IMHOFF, G.W. van. Considerations sur l'etat present de la compagnie hollandoise des Indes Orientales.
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1763. Royal 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm). With 34 engraved plates, 1 engraved allegorical headpiece and 28 numbered headpieces with portraits of the Gouvernors-General of the Dutch East Indies. All plates were drawn and presumably engraved by the artist and engraver Jacob van Schley (1715-1729). 19th-century half cloth. VI, 351, [1], 48 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Ceylon Economic History & Trade Formosa / Taiwan India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southern Africa VOC

Naval convoys for merchant ships; import and export taxes on 430 goods, under the short-lived British governorship of the Netherlands

DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Placcaet op tstuck vande convoyen (mitsgaders licenten, ...) ghedaen ... by zyne Excellentie, tot Utrecht den laetsten Aprilis, anno. M. D. LXXXVI.
Utrecht, widow of Coenraet Henricksz, 1586.
With: (2) DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. [Incipit:] ¶ Robert, Grave van Leycester ..., allen ... die deze ... sullen sien oft hooren lesen saluyt. Alsoo ...: so ist dat wy ... goet ... geacht hebben, alle de ... lysten vanden goedere[n] gaende naer ... vreemde lande[n], ..., te redigeren en[de] dresseren in ee[n] sijste[! = lijste], ....
(Colophon: Utrecht, printed by Hendrick van Borculo, [1586]). 2 works sewn together. 4to. Disbound. [8]; [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands

Portugal's political and economic decline, with extensive chapters on France and the Umayyad Caliphate

DULAC, Antonio Maximino. Genuina exposição do tremendo marasmo politico em que cahio Portugal, com desenganada indicação dos unicos remedios apropriados a' sua cura radical... Tomo I [-II].
Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1834. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With lithographed frontispiece, and a small woodcut Portuguese royal coat of arms on title-page of each part. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. VIII, 219, [1 blank], [4]; 206, [6] pp. Full description

€ 2,800

Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Mediterranean Regions Portugal

Detailed description of the history and the 18th-century "present state" of Overijssel

DUMBAR Jr., Gerhard. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat, van alle volkeren; behelzende de beschryving der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en wel in 't byzonder van Overyssel.
Amsterdam, P. Schouten, J. de Groot, G. Warnars; Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans; Dordrecht, A. & P. Blussé; Harlingen, V. van der Plaats, 1781-1803. 4 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a folding engraved map, and 9 folding engraved views of Deventer, Zwolle, Kampen, Zwartsluis and Hasselt. Uniform white half parchment (ca. 1900/14?), sewn on 4 recessed cords, with hollow backs, nonpareil-marbled sides, title and volume numbers neatly lettered across the spines in black ink. [4], 494; [4], 533; [2], 614; [2], 224 pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Netherlands

Call for a National Convention from Overijssel, signed by the Deventer patriot Gerhard Dumbar
as representative of the people

DUMBAR jr., Gerhard. Proclamatie aan het volk van Overyssel, over het stuk van de Nationale Conventie. Gearresteerd den 21 September 1795.
Deventer, Jan Hendrik de Lange, [1795]. 4to. With a woodcut coat-of-arms of the Province of Overijssel on the title-page. Contemporary marbled wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

€ 475

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics

Wonderful edition of a monumental collection of tracts and treatises in four languages

DU MONT, Jean and Jean Rousset de MISSY. Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens ...
Amsterdam and The Hague, P. Brunel, R. & G. Wetstein, Firm of Janssonius van Waesberghe, L'Honoré & Chatelain, P. Husson, and C. Levier, 1726-1731.
With:
(2) BARBEYRAC, Jean (compiler). Histoire des anciens traitez ...
Amsterdam and The Hague, the firm of Janssonius van Waesberghe, Wetstein & Smith & Chatelain, P. de Hondt, Veuve C. Levier & J. Neaulme, 1739.
(3) DU MONT, Jean and Jean ROUSSET DE MISSY. Supplement au corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens ...
Amsterdam and The Hague, the firm of Janssonius van Waesberghe, Wetstein & Smith & Chatelain, P. de Hondt, Veuve C. Levier & J. Neaulme, 1739.
(4) DU MONT, Jean and Jean ROUSSET DE MISSY. Le ceremonial diplomatique des cours de l'Europe.
Amsterdam and The Hague, the firm of Janssonius van Waesberghe, Wetstein & Smith & Chatelain, P. de Hondt, Veuve C. Levier & J. Neaulme, 1739.
16 volumes: (ad 1: 17 parts in 10 volumes, ad 2: 2 parts in 1 volume, ad 3: 4 parts in 3 volumes, ad 4: 2 parts in 2 volumes). Large folio. With an engraved title-page in the first volumes of ads 1-3, an engraved full-page plate in volume 1 of ad 1 and some (folding) tables in the volumes of ad 4. All vollumes contian woodcut or engraved vignettes on the title-pages, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. The main title-pages for the different parts are printed in red and black, with occasionally some small woodcut illustrations in the text of most volumes. Contemporary uniform blind-tooled vellum, sewn on 9 supports with 9 corresponding raised bands on the spine, with the manuscript title and volume number in the second and third compartment, red and blue sprinkled edges. A detailed list of contents is available upon request. Full description

€ 18,000

France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century)

Enslaved in northern Africa for 34 years

DUMONT, Pierre Joseph and Jacques Salbigoton QUESNÉ. Narrative of thirty-four years slavery and travels in Africa.
London, printed for Richard Philips and co. (back of title-page: printed by G. Sidney), 1819. 8vo. With a engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Dumont. Later green paper wrappers. IV, [5]-46 pp. Full description

€ 600

Economic History & Trade Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa & Egypt Slavery

9 letters from one of the leading naval figures of the 19th century

DUPERRÉ, Admiral Guy-Victor. [9 autograph letters, signed, mostly from the writer's time as Préfet maritime in Brest].
Brest, 22 February 1819 - 18 June 1829. Folio and 4to. Autograph letters in French, written in brown ink on single and double leaves of several laid and wove paper stocks.
With: (2) GHÉMAR, Louis-Joseph. Duperré [lithographic portrait].
Brussels, Charles Hen (printed by P. Degobert), dated 1842 by the artist. [4]; [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [2]; [2] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Autographs & Letters France Law & Politics Naval History

Radical enlightenment theory on the common origin of all religions

DUPUIS, Charles-François. Mémoire sur l'origine des constellations, et sur l'explication de la fable, par le moyen de l'astronomie.
Paris, widow Desaint, 1781. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary cat's paw calf, gold-tooled spine. 228 pp. Full description

€ 4,000

Astronomy & Cosmography Church History & Missions Philosophy & Esotericism

New regulations for the Dutch colony of Curaçao after British occupation

[DUTCH ANTILLES]. Reglement op het beleid van de de[sic!] regering, het justitie-wezen, den handel en scheepvaart, mitsgaders de instructien voor den Gouverneur Generaal, en den Raad Contrarolleur Generaal op het eiland Curaçao. Gearresteerd bij besluit van Zijne Majesteit den Koning, in data 14 September 1815, no. 58.
The Hague & Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1815. 3 parts in 1 volume. Tall 8vo (22 x 13 cm). Later marbled wrappers. [4], 38, 20, 13, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Netherlands

Annual report of the Batavia Chamber of Commerce, luxuriously bound for presentation

[DUTCH EAST INDIES]. Verslag over het jaar 1867, zamengesteld door de kamer van koophandel en nijverheid te Batavia.
Batavia, Bruining & Wijt, 1868. 8vo. With 3 folding tables. Contemporary richly gold-blocked red sheepskin, front board with the dedication: "Aan Zijne Excellentie den Gouverneur Generaal van Nederlandsch Indië", gilt edges; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down; new endpapers. XVIII, 604 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Bindings Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Tobacco

Extremely rare pamphlet on 1634 preparations for the 1637 siege of Breda

[DUTCH HISTORY - SIEGE OF BREDA]. l'Ordre du siege de la ville de Breda, contre les forces Espagnolles: par monsieur le Prince d'Orange General de l'armee Hollandoise. Suivant l'arrest qui en a esté faict au camp de Son Altesse, le dixiesme de Septembre 1634.
Lyon, Claude de Villiers, [1634?]. Small 8vo. Woodcut ornament on title-page, woodcut headpiece and initial. Disbound. 14 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Spain

Rare pamphlet from the entourage of William the Silent, Prince of Orange

[DUTCH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE]. Abschrifft und gruendlicher Bericht eines schreibens der Ritterschafft, Edlen, und Stett, in Holland, in namen und von wegen der Stende derselben Landtschafft, an die Herren, welche das ampt aller Stend der Niderland tragen: Sie darinnen vermanet, dass sie einhelliglich (der Koeniglichen Man von Spannien zu gutem) dieselbige Land, auss des Hertzogen von Alba, und seiner Spanniart gewalt und Tiranney, widerumb zu ihrer alten Welfart und Freiheit helffen bringen.
[Germany?], 1574. 4to. With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page. Modern boards. [37], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,250

Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Spain

Unpublished calendar of historical events, especially the birth and death dates of Dutch artists,
in richly gold-tooled morocco by the so-called Rocaille-and-flower bindery

[MANUSCRIPT]. DYLIUS, Joannes, compiler. Dagwyzer der geschiedenissen, kortelyk behelzende, een' aanteekening van verscheidene gedenkwaardige zaaken, op elken dag van 't jaar, door de geheele waereld; bijzonder in de Nederlanden voorgevallen. Benevens de geboorte, en sterfdagen, van hooge, en laage stands persoonen, zo geestelijke als waereldlijke: beroemde helden, geleerde mannen, en kunstenaaren.
[Amsterdam], [frontispiece: 1778]. Narrow 8vo (16.5 x 9.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, written in Dutch in a neat and clear but minute Latin hand, forming a calendar of historical events from 17 CE to 28 November 1777, with a grey ink and ink-wash allegorical frontispiece title, dated 1778 but signed by the artist "A:C. 1777.", and a title-page in 8 styles of plain and decorated Latin and gothic lettering (signed "Dr. Waller.|scripsit."). Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, each board with a centrepiece and frame, both built up from separate (mostly floral) stamps, the whole surrounded by a sawtooth roll, the spine with a green morocco label in the 2nd of 6 compartments and each of the others with a central floral stamp and 4 cornerpieces (further with some fillets and rolls), gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges (with a floral roll), altogether 83 or 87 impressions of 7 or 8 stamps, plus 3 rolls and the fillets. It appears to come from what Storm van Leeuwen calls the "Rocaille-and-flower bindery", active ca. 1775-ca. 1812. [8 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [187], [9 blank] pp. including frontispiece. Full description

€ 4,950

Art & Art History Bindings Manuscripts & Documents Tobacco

Secret correspondence between Tipu Sultan and the French, published by the British

[EAST INDIA COMPANY]. [TIPU SULTAN, Zaman Shah DURRANI, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE and others]. Official documents, relative to the negotiations carried on by Tippoo Sultaun, with the French Nation, and other foreign states, for purposes hostile to the British nation; to which is added, proceedings of a Jacobin club, formed at Seringapatam, by the French soldiers in the corps commanded by M. Dompart, with a translation ... Printed by order of the ... Governor General ...
Calcutta, Honorable Companys Press, 1799. Super Royal 4to (33.5 x 25 cm). Never bound, but side stitched through 3 holes. XX, [2], 195, [1] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents

Encyclopaedic description of Jakarta and Java with folding plates

EBERT, Johann Jakob (transl.). Beschreibung und Geschichte der Hauptstadt in dem Holländischen Ostindien Batavia nebst geographische, politische und physikalische Nachrichten von der Insel Java.
Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1785-1786. 4 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With 6 folding engraved plates: a map of Java, 3 plans of Batavia (Jakarta) and surroundings, and 2 depicting reptiles and birds. Contemporary half calf with raised bands , gold-tooled spine, title-labels and unidentified coat of arms. Marbled sides. [16], 296; [4], 252; [4], 336; [4], 352 pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Southeast Asia VOC

Reconstructing a pre-Islamic calendar

EFFENDI, Mahmoud. Mémoire sur le calendrier arabe avant l'Islamisme, et sur naissance et l'age du prophète Mohammad.
[Brussels, 1861?]. 4to. Modern paper wrappers. 45, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Astronomy & Cosmography Islamic Art, Culture & Science

Unique snapshots of Egypt in 1906-1908: excavations in progress, the Mahmal procession,
the Tanta fair and daily life, probably taken by a female photographer

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT]. Book I-[II] Egypt 1906-7. Book III Naples, Rome, Florence. Book IV Criccieth N. Wales, Zara, Khargeh Upper Egypt, Cairo, Freshwater Bay I.W.Egypt, Naples, Rome, Florence, Criccieth and the Isle of Wight, 1906-1908. Oblong (23 x 32 cm). An album in 4 volumes with 323 silver gelatin prints (8 x 5.5 cm to 14 x 8 cm, mostly ca. 10 x 7 cm). Side-stitched.
With:
(2) LEHNERT & LANDROCK. Souvenir of Cairo. 12 real artistic photos. Serie A.
Egypt, [late 1920s]. Envelope containing 12 silver gelatin prints (12 x 9 cm).
(3) [PHOTOGRAPHY - SINGAPORE?]. Photograph of a woman and a baby sitting in a rickshaw, with a child in front and the rickshaw puller.
[Singapore?], [late 1920s]. Silver gelatin print (7.5 x 12.5 cm). 9; 7; 12; 11 ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Archaeology Italy North Africa & Egypt Photography UK - United Kingdom Women History

Early Montevideo imprint, published by the viceroy of Rio de la Plata

ELÍO, Francisco Javier de. El Virrey de las provincias del Rio de la Plata a los habitantes de este ciudad.
Montevideo (Uruguay), 31 August 1811. Oblong 1mo (whole sheet) broadside (31 x 43 cm). Preserved in a half morocco clamshell box. [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,350

Latin America Law & Politics South America

History of seafaring

ELWES, Alfred and A.A. DEENIK (translator). De zee en hare beheerschers, of beknopte geschiedenis der voornaamste zeemogendheden uit vroegeren en lateren tijd.
Sneek, Van Druten and Bleeker, 1861. 8vo. Contemporary red half sheepskin. XXV, 368 pp. Full description

€ 500

Classical Antiquity Naval History

Original edition of the first general survey and description of Greece
by the first rector magnificus of Groningen University

EMMIUS, Ubbo. Vetus Graecia, illustrata studio & operâ Ubbonis Ebbii. Opus distinctum in tomos tres: quorum I. Descriptionum habet regionum à Graecis habitatum ... II. Complectitur Res gestas Graecorum. III. Representat Statum ...praecipuarum ejus gentis rerumpublicarum ...
Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1626. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With the printer's device of the Elzeviers on all three title-pages, woodcut initials. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum. [24] 194, [22]; [4], 536, [32]; [4], 519, 25 pp. Full description

€ 475

Balkan & Greece Classical Antiquity

Rare text of the defensive alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, just before the official Peace of Nijmegen in August 1678

[ENGLAND & DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Traitté dalliance defensive, entre lAngleterre et les Estats Generaux, conclu le 3. Mars 1678.
Cologne [recté: Amsterdam?], "Pierre Marteau", 1680. 4to. With the woodcut English royal arms on the title-page. 19th-century brown paper wrappers. [8] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) UK - United Kingdom

Politics of the Arab World as seen by the Labour Party in 1959

ENNALS, David & Ian CAMPBELL. Middle East Issues.
London, Fabian International Bureau, February 1961. 8vo. Original printed paper covers. 29 pp. Full description

€ 200

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics

Interesting financial history by an even more interesting, extravagant and intriguing author

ÉON DE BEAUMONT, Charles G.L.A.A.T. d'. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire generale des finances.
Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1760. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. Two title-pages printed in red & black. Contemporary calf. [4], LXVIII, 108; [4], 216 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Economic History & Trade France Women History

Eyewitness account of the bombing of Algiers in 1688

ESPINOSA, Antonio de. Copia de una carta que ha escrito desde la ciudad de Argel el padre procurador Fray Antonio de Espinosa, religioso calzado del Orden de la Santissima Trinidad, redencion de cautivos, y administrador de los cinco reales hospitales, que su sagrada religion tiene en aquella ciudad.
(Colophon: Madrid, Sebastian de Armendariz), 12 October [1688]. Small 4to (19 x 14 cm). With a large woodcut initial with a parrot. Disbound. 6 ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Military History (17th Century) Naval History North Africa & Egypt

Jewish prayer book in German, especially for Jewish women and gentiles

EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.
Vienna, J.B. Zweck, 1813. 8vo. With a woodcut head-piece. The book is printed in Gothic type, with the original titles also in Hebrew type. Contemporary blind-tooled half calf. [4], 394, [2] pp. Full description

€ 750

Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Judaica Literature Women History

Important for the history of the German Jews in the age of Emancipation

EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.
Vienna, Anton Schmid, 1815. 8vo. The book is mainly printed in Gothic type with some Hebrew types to the titles and in the notes. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, with a brown label on the spine. 458 pp. Full description

€ 750

Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Judaica Literature Women History

German translation of Euclid's "Elements"

EUCLID and Lucas BRUNN (translator). Elementa practica. Oder Ausszug aller Problematum und Handarbeiten auss den 15. Büchern Euclidis. Allen und jeden, des uhralten geometrischen nutzlichen Gebrauch, dess Cirkels Liebhabern ...
Nürnberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1625]. 4to. With the title set in an engraved border, and numerous woodcut mathematical figures in text. Contemporary limp vellum. [8], 92 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Classical Antiquity Mathematics

First edition of nearly all Euripides plays, in Aldus's best and last Greek, type:
Thomas More's fictional hero gave a copy to the Utopians in 1516!

EURIPIDES. [Title in Greek then Latin:] Tragoediae septendecim [recté octodecim], ex quib[us]. quaedam habent commentaria. & sunt hae. Hecuba[,] Orestes[,] Phoenissae[,] Medea[,] Hippolytus[,] Alcestis[,] Andromache[,] Supplices[,] Iphigenia in Aulide[,] Iphigenia in Tauris[,] Rhesus[,] Troades[,] Bacchae[,] Cyclops[,] Heraclide[,] Helena[,] Ion[, Hercules furens].
(Colophon to each volume: Venice, Aldus Manutius, February 1503). 2 volumes. 8vo. With Aldus's anchor device on the last page of each volume, printed in Aldus's beautiful Greek type.Matching limp vellum (made from 2 leaves from a ca. 1560/70? Spanish legal manuscript), constructed or reconstructed ca. 1900. [268]; [190] ll. Full description

€ 40,000

Aldine Press Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Roman Classics Literature

Rare document of National Socialist industrial imperialism in Eastern Europe

[FABRICS - NATIONAL SOCIALISM - KRONE]. Anilinovi boi za vulna, poluvulna, pamuku i izk[ustvena] koprina. [Aniline dyes for wool, blended wool fabric and cotton].
Sofia & Cherven Bryag, Alexander & Stoyan P. Darakchiev, [1938?]. With 256 well-preserved wool yarn and fabric samples showing a wide range of colours of aniline dyes, solidly mounted on thick cardboard. Original publishers gold-stamped black cloth with the "Krone" logo on the front board and title and publisher on the front board and spine. 26 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Art & Art History Balkan & Greece Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Law & Politics

Defense of the burghers and city of Amsterdam against supposed treason

[FAGEL, Caspar?]. Trouwhartige aanspraak, aan alle borgers en ingeseetenen der stadt Amsterdam.
[No place, no publisher], 1684. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Modern brown wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

€ 350

Amsterdam Law & Politics

The maintenance of the royal falcons

[FALCONRY - JAUME III OF MALLORCA]. [Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses].
[1337?]. Small folio (21.8 x 30.2 cm). The leaf is folded lenghtwise into two columns. Stored in a custom-made half purple morocco case. [1] ll. Full description

€ 12,500

Economic History & Trade Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Manuscripts & Documents Spain

Erotic artefacts from the secret cabinet of the King of Naples, with 60 coloured plates

[FAMIN, Cesar]. Musée Royal de Naples, peintures, bronzes et statues érotiques du Cabinet Secret.
Paris, Abel Ledoux (back of half-title: printed by Everat), 1836. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 60 numbered engraved plates by A. Delvaux, all coloured by a contemporary hand and some printed in colour a la poupée. Contemporary green half sheepskin. [4], XXX, [2], 159, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Archaeology Classical Antiquity Erotica Museums & Wunderkammer

The division of Oregon Country between Britain and the United States of America

FÉDIX, P.A. L'Orégon et les côtes de l'Océan Pacifique du Nord, aperçu géographique, statistique et politique, avec une carte du pays d'après les documens les plus récens.
Paris, Librairie de Amyot (printed by Éd. Proux et Cie), 1846. 8vo. With a large folding map (40 x 52.5 cm) depicting what the United States called Oregon Country, dated 1846 and partly coloured in outline. Modern maroon half morocco. 258 pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Geography Law & Politics North America UK - United Kingdom

The unrecorded first edition of a milestone in Brazil's journey towards complete independence

[CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE - BRAZILIAN EMPIRE - FEIJÓ, Diogo and others]. Codigo do processo criminal de primeira instancia do Imperio do Brasil, com a disposição provisoria a cerca da administração da justiça civil; organisado pela Assembléa Geral Legislativa, na sessão de 1832, e sanccionado pela negencia.
Rio de Janeiro, Typ. Imp. e const. de Seignot-Plancher e Co., 1832. 8vo in 4s. With a woodcut vignette (Brazil's imperial coat-of-arms) on the title page. Later marbled brown calf, gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], 68 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Brazil Law & Politics South America

Improved English translation of 17th-Century Dutch court manuscripts in New Amsterdam

FERNOW, Berthold (ed.). The records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 anno domini.
New York, The Knickerbocker Press, 1897. 7 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin. VII, 421, [1 blank]; [2], 429, [1 blank]; [2], 431, [1 blank]; [2], 346; [2], 355, [1 blank]; [2], 409, [1 blank]; [4], 352 pp. Full description

€ 750

Law & Politics Netherlands New York North America

Collected literary works of the most famous professor of the 17th-century University of Padua

FERRARI, Ottavio. Prolusiones vigintisex. Epistolae. Et formulae ad capienda doctoris insignia. Item variae inscriptiones. Editio altera auctior & emendatior.
Padua, heirs of Paolo Frambotti, 1668. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With a general title-page and a volume 2 title-page, the former printed in red and black, each with the woodcut device of the printer-publisher Frambotti (Pallas Athena standing next to a tree with a scroll reading "Pacis opus"); some interesting woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled green morocco, each board with the coat of arms of Gomez de la Cortina in a frame of double fillets. [12], 579; [8], 144 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Bindings Italy Literature

Three editions of humanist works, two from Antwerp known only from 1 other copy each, in contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf with 6 animals in foliage plus an unusually detailed peacock

[FIOCCO, Andrea Domenico] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Rom[anorum]. Item Valerii Probi grammatici de literis antiquis opusculum.
Including: POMPONIO LETO, Giulio. De Ro[manorum]. magistratibus, ...
Basel, (colophon: Valentino Curio, May 1523). With the general title in a woodcut border, Curio's large architectural woodcut device on the otherwise blank final page.
With:
(2) LUCIANUS OF SAMOSATA. Complures ... dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo ... in Latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524).
(3) MOSELLANUS, Petrus (Peter SCHADE). Paedologia ..., in puerorum usum conscripta & aucta. Dialogi XXXVII. Dialogi pueriles Christophori Hegendorphini. XII. ...
Including: HEGENDORF, Christoph. Dialogi pueriles ... XII. ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523).
3 editions in 1 volume. 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary panel-stamped calf, each board with the same 3 panel stamps: 2 virtually identical panels with 6 animals in 2 grape vines (the animals from head to foot in the left vine: a monkey, dog and wyvern; and in the right vine: a squirrel, hare and lion) in a border of a diaper of quatrefoils in lozenges, the two separated by a small panel stamp sith a peacock, paste-downs made from a leaf from an Aristotle manuscript on vellum. 91, [1]; 26, [2]; [40] ll. Full description

€ 12,000

Bindings Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Greek & Roman Classics Religion (16th Century)

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

€ 39,500

Bindings Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics

Very rare Dutch Hermetic work teaching alchemical and occult knowledge to a medical audience

FOLLIN, Herman (Hermanus FOLLINUS). Den Nederlandtsche sleutel van t'secreet der philosophie, in welck grondelijc bewesen wert, d'aert, so in 't generael, als in 't bysonder aller metallen, als goudt, silver, coper, etc. En die gheheele alchijmie, met haer verborghentheden. Midsgaders d'eerste materie der Philosophen, dat is: Quinta essentia des wijns, met haren volcomen ghebruyck, en verclaringhe aller duystere woorden des voorsz. constes, op dat Paracelsus claerlijck in alles mach werden verstaen.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman for Daniel de Keyser, 1613. Small 8vo. With 3 half-page woodcuts in the text, one repeated on the title-page, all showing distilling equipment. Modern vellum. 76 ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Alchemy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Philosophy & Esotericism Wine / Viticulture

Response to French lawsuits against the Jesuits in the late 16th century

FON, René de la (pseudonym of Louis RICHEOME). Response de Rene de la Fon pour les religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus. Au playdoyé de Simon Marion en l'arrest donné contre iceux le 16. Octobre 1597.
Villefranche, Guillaume Grenier, 1599. 8vo. With a small vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments and 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Later vellum with leather ties. "238" [= 239], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Early Printing - 16th century Jesuits Law & Politics Religion (16th Century)

First Dutch edition of an eyewitness account of the 1573 siege of Alkmaar

[FOREEST, Nanning van]. Een cort verhael van de strenghe belegheringhe ende aftreck der Spangiaerden van de Stadt Alcmaer gheleghen in Hollandt. Die welcke de Spaengiaerts nae dat syse int Jaer MDCLXXIII seven weecken beleghert hadden niet sonder haer groote schade ende schande hebben moeten nalaten, uyt het Latyn int Duytsch overgeset.
Delft, Aelbert Hendrickz., "1573" [1580 or soon after?]. Small 4to. With a woodcut illustration of a king on the title page, with his shield bearing an (Irish!?) harp, and 1 woodcut decorated initial (roman capital). Set in textura types except for the italic running heads. 19th-century block-printed decorated wrappers (in blue). 29, [3] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Early Printing - 16th century Military History (16th Century) Netherlands

Manuscript letter to the Emperor of Brazil, celebrating the abolition of slavery in Brazil on 13 May 1888

FRANCA AMARAL, Constancio da. [Manuscript letter by Constancio da Franca Amaral addressed to "Serenissimo Senhor" Emperor Pedro II of Brazil].
Rio [de Janeiro], 13 May 1888. Single sheet, ca. 22.5 x 18.5 cm. Manuscript letter in Portuguese, in black ink on laid paper with the watermark "Original Turkey Mill Kent", addressed to "Serenissimo Senhor", signed and dated on verso. [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,600

Autographs & Letters Brazil Law & Politics Slavery South America

Italian manuscript criticizing contemporary France in a dialogue between Muhammad and Colbert

[MANUSCRIPT - FRANCE]. Colloquio su'gli affari presenti del 1683 fatto nell'Inferno, tra Maometto, e monsieur Colbert, già ministro di Francia.
[Italy, ca. 1684?]. Small folio (29 x 20.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand. Sewn. [54], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

France Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents

Tolerant comparison of world religions

FRANCK, Sebastian. Werelt-boeck, spieghel ende beeltenisse des gheheelen aerdtbodems, ...
The Hague, Albrecht Heyndricxz., 1595. Folio. 17th-century parchment, new endpapers. CXXXIIII, [4] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Islam & Qurans Protestant Reformation Religion (16th Century)

Chronique scandaleuse of Henry III and the French court in the 16th century with a fake imprint,
published by Jean Elzevier in Leiden

[FRENCH COURT]. Recueil de diverses pièces, servans à lhistoire de Henry III Roy de France wet de Pologne dont les tiltres se trouvent en la page suivante.
Cologne [= Leiden?] Pierre du Marteau [= Jean Elzevier?], 1662. 12mo. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco in 17th-century style, each board with the coat-of-arms of Henri III in the centre (the azure represented by black), in a frame of double fillets with corner pieces, gold-tooled spine with the monogram of Henry III in the compartments, gilt edges. 468 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Caricature & Satire France

French-Dutch terms for the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war in 1673

[FRENCH-DUTCH WAR - FRANÇOIS OF MONTMORENCY & WILLIAM ADRIAAN II OF HORNE]. Conditien ende articulen, van het Quartier Generael, aengaende het wisselen ende rantçoeneren der gevangens, over een gekomen ende gheslooten tusschen den Heere Hertogh van Luxemburgh ... ende den Heere Grave van Hornes ...
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1673. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Modern wrappers. 8 pp. Full description

€ 275

France Law & Politics Military History (17th Century)

Confirming the death of a former employee of the Compagnie des Indes

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY]. Death certificate of a former employee of the French East India Company.
Puducherry (Pondichéry), 2 November 1786. Folio. [2] pp. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade France India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents

Highly detailed and very rare issues of annual periodicals on French Polynesia,
mainly concerning Tahiti and Moorea

[FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'année commune 1863.
Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, August 1863. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. With two original photographs in the 1863 edition, both reproducing maps, one showing the islands Tahiti and Moorea and the other showing archipels which were then under French protectorate. With: Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'an 1864 (title on the front wrapper: Annuaire de Taïti pour 1864).Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, October 1864.
Original publisher's printed wrappers. VIII, 372; [4], LX, 126, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Almanacs France Pacific Islands

A pamphlet on a critical petition to the States General on appointments and the judicature
by a number of Frisian noblemen and qualified citizens

[FRIESLAND]. Resolutien ende missiven van de Edele Moogende Heeren Staten van Frieslandt, ende dHeeren der selver Gedeputeerden, ter occasie van seeckere Remonstrantie overgegeven aen Haer Ho: Mo: de Staten Generael der vereenighde Nederlanden.
Leeuwarden, Rinnert Sydtses Arumsma, 1678. 4to. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of the States General on the title-page and woodcut initials. Later brown wrappers. 20 pp. Full description

€ 550

Law & Politics

2 offprints discussing De Frobervilles researches on languages and races in sub-equatorial East Africa,with an autograph letter from De Froberville

FROBERVILLE, Eugène de, and [Louis BOUTON]. Analyse d'un mémoire de M. Eugène de Froberville sur les langues et les races de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'equateur.
[Port Louis, Mauritius], [Société dHistoire Naturelle de Maurice], [1846]. Offprint, with its own pagination, from Procès-verbaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice, du 6 octobre 1842 au 28 août 1845, [1846].
With: (2) FLOURENS, Pierre, [Louis-Isidore?] DUPERREY and Etienne SERRES. Rapport sur les races nègres de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'équateur, observées par M. de Froberville.
(Colophon: Paris, printed by Bachelier, [1850]). Offprint, with its own pagination, from Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, XXX (1850).
2 works in 1 volume. Small folio & large 8vo. 19th-century black half morocco, with the blue paper back wrapper of the second offprint bound in. Full description

€ 1,950

Anthropology & Ethnography Autographs & Letters Language & Linguistics Literature Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa

French commerce via Egypt and the Red Sea before the opening of the Suez Canal

FROMENT, Dominique. Du commerce des Europeens avec les Indes, par la Mer Rouge et par l'Egypte.
Paris, Dugour et Durant, an VII [= 1799]. 8vo. With a very large, folding map showing the fastest route from France to India (via the Mediterranean, Egypt, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean), 7 folding tables, and a woodcut illustration at the head of the first chapter. Contemporary dark blue paper wrappers, protected by a semi-opaque coated paper dust jacket. [2], XIV, 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

East Africa Economic History & Trade France India & Sri Lanka North Africa & Egypt

The natural history, politics and medicine of India and Persia, with a section on Muscat

FRYER (FREYER), John. Negenjaarige reyse door Oostindien en Persien, ... Begonnen met den jaare 1672 en geeyndigt met den jaare 1681.
The Hague, Abraham de Hondt, Jacobus van Ellinkhuysen and Meyndert Uytwerf, 1700. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding engraved maps, 7 folding engraved views and other plates, and several woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. [8], 566, [26] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Geology India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Law & Politics Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southern Asia West Asia

The famous illustrated chronicle of Paderborn

[FÜRSTENBERG, Ferdinand von]. Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta et novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis & notis illustrata. ... Editio tertia ...
Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel (printed by Johann Ernest Adelbulner [in Nürnberg]), 1713. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with an engraved device, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding engraved views, 26 further engraved plates and some small woodcut illustrations in text.
Including (with a drop-title): [HORION, J. de]. Paneygyricus, die natali Academiae Theodorianae Paderbornensis.
[Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1713]. With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved title-page and one engraved plate. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. [48], 309, [19]; [14], 134, [34] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Architecture Germany

Rare second Latin edition of Galen's De sanitate tuenda, his first work translated directly from the original Greek

GALENUS (GALEN), Claudius (Thomas LINACRE, translator). Libri sex prefulge[n]tissimi ac medicine principis Galeni de sanitate tue[n]da: Thoma Linacro medico Anglico interprete: summa cum diligentia impressi omnibusq[ue] erroribus purgati.
[colophon:] Venice, heirs of Alessandro Bindoni for Giovanni Battista Pederzano, 6 July 1523. 4to. Title-page with a nearly full-page woodcut, woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary vellum over flexible boards, a manuscript title and a later paper label with "1522" on the spine and a manuscript title at the foot edge. [4], XCIX, [1] ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)

Very rare educational work in a fine armorial dedication binding from the Bourbon restoration,
for Marie Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, the only heir of Louis XVI to survive the Revolution

GALLAND, P.J. Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.
Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, and the author (on back of title-page: printed by J.-B. Imbert), 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817 (vols. 1-2). 3 volumes. Large 12mo (17.5 x 10.5 cm). With a large folding engraved map of France, 3 astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 engraved plates, a large folding hierarchical "tableau synoptique" of French grammar, and numerous numerical tables and mathematical equations in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled, grained green morocco, each board with the large arms of the dedicatee, Marie Thérèse de France, Duchesse d'Angoulême, daughter of King Louis XVI: a crowned double coat- of-arms (each in an oval) in a wide border of fleurs-de-lis and tulip-like flowers, the dexter arms (of her husband) that normally used by the Duc de Berry, but also by the seconde maison Capétienne d'Artois and the sinister arms (of her father Louis XVI) matching that of the Kings of France, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges. [4], 515, [1]; 552, [2]; 492, [2] pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Armorial Bindings Bindings Education & Pedagogy France Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags

The ancient habits of Mexico

GARCIA CUBAS, Antonio. The Rèpublic of Mexico in 1876. A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants.
Mexico City, La Enseñanza, 1876. 8vo. With 8 chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, double-page map, and 4 leaves with printed music on both sides. 19th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards, gold-tooled turin-ins, gilt edges. 130, [12] pp. Full description

€ 950

Anthropology & Ethnography Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America

Very rare edition of an influential Portuguese trading manual

GARRIDO, João Antonio. Taboada curiosa, novamente reformada, e augmentada ...
Lisbon, Domingos Rodrigues, 1747. 4to. With the engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Alexandre Metello de Sousa Menezes at the start of the dedicationon, 4 woodcut decorated initials, a woodcut headpiece at the start of each chapter, a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments at the start of the prologue, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, red spotted edges. [18], 182 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Economic History & Trade Portugal

The Emperor Charles V rights to Gelderland and Zutphen

[GELDERLAND - CHARLES V]. Assertio juris Imperatoris Caroli huis nominis quinti, in Geldriae Ducatu, & Zutphaniae Comitatu, aedita in Comitijs Ratisbonensibus, anno M.D.XLI. & confutatio oppugnationum Guilielmi Cliviae Ducis, Franckfordiae exhibitarum, anno M.D.XXXIX.
Nuremberg, Johann Petri, [1541]. Large 8vo. With a large ornamental woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V, 11 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, richly decorated spine. [45], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 3,900

Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics

Affirming the rights of Emperor Charles V to the Duchy of Gelre and the County of Zutphen

[GELDERLAND]. Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.
Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides. [64] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Early Printing - 16th century Germany Law & Politics Spain

Rare follow-up to a curious account of the daily life of a French salesman in South America

GENDRIN, Victor-Athanase. Récits historiques, exacts et sincères, des sept voyages par mer & par terre. Faits au Brésil, au Cap-Horn, au Chili, aux Cordillères des Andes, à Mendoza, dans le Désert et à Buénos-Ayres ... Extrait de la publication de 1856.
Versailles, Gendrin (colophon: imprimerie Cerf), 1860. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of the author as frontispiece, 36 (32 numbered followed by 4 unnumbered) pages with lithographed reproductions of letters, and 9 lithographed plates. Contemporary cloth. 24, [4], 32, [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,450

Brazil Economic History & Trade Latin America South America Travel & Voyages South America

Richly illustrated manuscript genealogy of the important Dutch families of Cuylenburgh & Beusichum
and their Dutch, Flemish and Hainaut allied families
with an added manuscript leaf from Arnoldus Buchelius

[MANUSCRIPT - GENEALOGY & HERALDRY - DUTCH]. [Manuscript genealogies of the noble family Cuylenburgh ( vol. 1) and the noble family Beusichum & Cuylenburgh (vol. 2)].
[Utrecht, Culemborg or Beusichem?], ca. 1655-1675, after 1654]. 2 volumes. Large folio. Manuscript in Dutch, written in one hand in a neat, 17th-century hand cursive hand. With 65 coat of arms, almost all of them coloured by hand. Also with some spaces for coats of arms left blank. A loose leaf added to volume with 34 ink-drawn and contemporary hand-coloured small coats of arms with accompanying text written in a cursive 17th-century hand. 19th-century half brown cloth (vol. 1) and red buckram (vol. 2), brown decorated paper sides, titles in gold on the front boards. [4 (plus 1 loose leaf)]; [8] ll. Full description

€ 6,000

Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

Herring fishery and foreign relations

GEVERS DEYNOOT, Willem Theodorus. Specimen oeconomico-politico-juridicum inaugurale, de magno sive halecum piscatu Belgico, (Haringvisscherij).
Leiden, J.W. van Leeuwen, 1829. 8vo. 19th-century blue half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [6], 116 pp. Full description

€ 600

Fishery & Whaling Law & Politics

"Most realistic, least moralizing and most informative" account of the Ottoman Empire

GIOVIO, Paolo. Commentario de le cose de' Turchi, ...
(Colophon: Rome, printed by Antonio Blado "in le case de" Gioanbatista di Massimi, 1535). 4to (20 x 14 cm). With Blado's woodcut device on title-page (repeated below the colophon). Modern blue-grey paper wrappers made with ca. 1750 materials. [84] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Aldine Press Early Printing - 16th century Turkey & Ottoman Empire

A general in the Spanish army on the battles and sieges in Flanders 1601-1609,
during the Dutch war for independence, with 29 folding maps and plans

GIUSTINIANO, Pompeo. Delle guerre di Flandra libri VI. ... Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini ...
Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. With engraved architectural title-page and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. White sheepskin (ca. 1700 or possibly later). [4], 329, [1 blank], [15], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Fortification & Military Architecture Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Spain

Standard work on Dutch maritime law

GLINS, Taco van. Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de zee-rechten, uyt het placcaet van koninck Philips uytgegeven den lesten octobris 1563.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Harmensz, 1695. 4to. 18th-century sprinkled half sheepskin. [8], 1-138, [4], "139", [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Law & Politics Naval History

Seven pamphlets on the Glorious Revolution and the Nine Years' War

[GLORIOUS REVOLUTION]. De Engelsche marsch; versien met allerlei soorten van nieuwe onvergelijkelijke verrekykers, en brillen. Vertonende den tegenwoordigen staat van alle Koninkrijken en landen van Europa. Met een korte verbeeldinge van de afkomste, het leven en de daden van Pater Peters; en een dispuit tusschen hem en een Engelsch Protestant.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Maertense, 1689.
With:
(2) Twede deel van de Engelsche marsch, version met allerlei soorten van nieuwe onvergelijkelijke verrekykers en brillen... en een cathalogus van eenige koddige boekken die hy voor den Prins van Wallis heeft gekogt.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Maertense, 1689.
(3) Nieuwe geinventeerde brillen, voor alderhande gesichten, op de mode geslepen, op verscheyde slypsteenen.
[Amsterdam?], 1688.
(4) Nieuwe geinventeerde brillen, voor alderhande gesigten. Op de mode gesleepen, op verscheyde slypsteenen. Twede deel.
[Amsterdam?], 1688.
(5) De wonderlycke verrekyker siende in alle hoecken van de Europise werelt.
[Amsterdam?], 1688.
(6) De geest van Carel de V. verschenen aen Volkert, t'samenspraak houdende over de affaire van den tijd.
[Amsterdam?], 1688.
(7) De Franse quacksalver, of de boere klap beurs. Versien met veelderley koopluyden, of liefhebbers van alle nieuwe tydingen.
Groningen, Tjerk Velsen, 1689. 7 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin). 39, [1 blank]; 32; 24; 24; 24; 40; 38, [2 blank] p. Full description

€ 2,250

Caricature & Satire France Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

Confidential letters on the Baltic Sea trade,
written by the Dutch Republic's resident in Copenhagen to the States General

[BALTIC SEA TRADE]. GOES, Robert. [4 confidential letters by Robert Goes to the registrars of the Dutch States General on the Baltic Sea trade].
[The Netherlands, written 1689-1690 and copied then or soon after]. 4 manuscript letters. Folio. Written in one column in three different 17th-century hands (each letter written, signed and dated in a single hand) on 5 bifolia (2 bifolia for the letter dated 5 December 1689). Folded. [3], [1 blank]; [2]; [2]; [2] ll. Full description

€ 3,250

Autographs & Letters Economic History & Trade Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History Scandinavia

Classical agricultural law, well illustrated

GOES, Willem and Nicolas RIGAULT Rei agrariae auctores legesque variae. Quaedam nunc primum, caetera emendatiora prodeunt curâ.
Including: Antiquitatum agrariarum liber singularis.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1674. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an integral engraved allegorical frontispiece, a general title-page with a woodcut decoration, 6 integral divisional titles including one for the Antiquitatum agrariarum, 3 folding engraved plates, 55 further engravings on integral leaves (15 full page), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly geometric diagrams) and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges. [20], 360, [60]; 328 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Agriculture Castles, Gardens & Mansions Law & Politics

Criticizing Tsarist Russia

GOLOVINE, Ivan (Ivan Gavrilovic GOLOVIN). Types et caractères Russes.
Paris, Capelle (back of half-title: Corbeil), 1847. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin. XVI, 391, [1]; [4], 387, [1] pp. Full description

€ 450

Eastern Europe Law & Politics Russia (incl. Siberia)

The deterioration and restoration of Russo-Japanese relations 1811-1813

GOLOVNIN, Vasilii Mikhailovich. Memoirs of a captivity in Japan, during the years 1811, 1812, and 1813; with observations on the country and the people ... second edition.
Including:
-RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich. Account of voyages to the coasts of Japan; and of negotiations with the Japanese, for the release of Captain Golownin and his companions.
-Account of the voyages of Messrs. Chwostoff & Dawidoff.
London, Henry Colburn & Co., 1824. 3 volumes. 8vo. With an additional facsimile map, copied from the French edition of 1818, inserted in volume 2. Modern red cloth. IV, 315, [1 blank]; [2], 356, [2]; VIII, LXXXIX, [1 blank], 302 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Alaska Circumnavigation Eastern Europe Japan & Far East Law & Politics Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific

200 Etruscan antiquities collected in Gori's conceptual museum

GORI, Antonio Francesco. Museum Etruscum exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis CC. nunc privum edita et illustratum.
Florence, Gaetano Albizzini, 1737. Volume 1 and 2. Folio (27.5 x 37.5 cm). With engraved plates (12 folding), and 1 folding plate with Etruscan script. Contemporary vellum. LXVIII; [2], XLII, 471, [1] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Archaeology Art & Art History Classical Antiquity Italy Peru

Second, much enlarged edition of the first extensive repertory
of Greco-Roman rings with carved intaglio gems

GORLAEUS, Abraham. Dactyliotheca, seu annulorum sigillarium quorum apud Priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus, ex ferro, aere, argento & auro promptuarii ... collectis aliunde & ineditis & editis annulorum figuris auctior; cum explicationibus Jacobi Gronovii.
Leiden, Petrus van de Aa, 1695. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 different engraved allegorical title-pages (reflecting the themes of rings and intaglio-carved gems), 2 letterpress title-pages in red and black with one of Van der Aas engraved allegorical devices (Minerva/Athena, books, a cock and Hercules/Heracles, with motto "studio et vigilantia"), a portrait of the author by Jacques de Gheyn with a calligraphic verse by Hugo de Groot below, 138 engraved plates: 196 numbered illustrations of ancient rings with carved gems shown at actual size on 101 engraved plates, and 148 numbered illustrations of carved gems alone on 37 engraved plates). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine. [22], 28, [16], 16 pp. plus 109 plates; 64, 32 pp. plus 173 plates. Full description

€ 2,950

Classical Antiquity Earth Sciences Mineralogy & Gems Museums & Wunderkammer Numismatics

Rare first edition of official French Revolutionary decree for Voltaire’s reïnterment

GOSSIN, Pierre-François. Décret sur la translation des cendres de Voltaire à Sainte-Geneviève, précédé du Rapport fait par M. Gossin, au nom du Comité de Constitution, le 30 Mars 1791.
[Paris], by order of the Assemblée Nationale, [1791]. 8vo. Modern red half morocco. 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

France Law & Politics Philosophy & Esotericism

On the expediency of British rule in the East Indies

GRANT, Robert. The expediency maintained of continuing the system by which the trade and government of India are now regulated.
London, printed for Black, Parry and J. Hatchard (back of title-page: printed by Cox and Baylis), 1813. 8vo. With 2 letterpress folding tables (1 printed in red and black). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled. [1], [1 blank], XIX, [1 blank], 404 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka UK - United Kingdom

The lost Dauphin, an Iroquois chief?

GRASSE STEVENS, Augusta de. The lost Dauphin; Louis XVII. or Onwarenhiiaki, the Indian Iroquois Chief.
Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, George Allen, 1887. 8vo. With 3 collotype portraits, 1 of Louis XVII, and 2 of Eleazar Williams (1 tinted). Publisher's green textured cloth, front cover with gold-stamped portrait of a young Louis XVII. [3] - 120 pp. Lacking pp. [1-2] = half-title. Full description

€ 750

Anthropology & Ethnography Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church New York North America

Two works with hand-coloured lithographs of Dutch folk costume, one possibly in the only complete version known.

GREEVEN, Hendrik (artist) and Justin Vallou VALLON DE VILLENEUVE (lithographer). Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas | Verzameling der kleederdragten in de nordelijke provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.
Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons; Paris, Engelmann et cie. (printed by Thierry brothers). 1828[-1829]. With lithographed title-page, lithographed index and 20 numbered lithographed plates, all captioned in French and Dutch below and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand.
With: (2) [GREEVEN, Hendrik, Luigi CALAMATTA and others]. Souvenirs de la Hollande.
Amsterdam, Buffa brothers and co., 1838. With a hand-coloured engraving mounted on the title-page and 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates (7 of Dutch views and 7 of women's folk costumes). 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (32 x 24 cm). Contemporary boards with marbled sides. [24] ll. text in French and English. Full description

€ 5,500

Costumes & Uniforms Netherlands Prints & Print Series

Tables for calculating the value of gold and silver

GRILL, Jan. Essai-boek of uitgereekende tafelen van alle gehaltens in 't goudt en zilver gereduceert uit marken bruto, in marken fyn. Beneffens de uitreekening van de waardy van 't zelve, in guldens, stuivers en myten, volgens de koers en order in de respective munten van Nederland gebruikelyk: zeer dienstig allen kooplieden, munt meesters en anderen in 't goudt en zilver handelende. Alles naaukeurig gereekent, ... als nooit in eenig boek van diergelyke stoffe.
Amsterdam, printed for the author and sold by Hendrik van Eyl, [ca. 1716]. 4to. With 447 pages of tables. With 4 manuscript leaves of tables added by a contemporary owner. Contemporary vellum. [8], 447, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Numismatics

Signed letter of Hugo de Groot starting proceedings for impoldering of Wijckermeer

[AUTOGRAPH]. GROOT (GROTIUS), Hugo de. [Autograph letter, signed, to the President and councillors of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands].
[Netherlands], 1609. Letter on 2 half-sheets (31 x 20.5 cm). In Dutch. Full description

€ 7,500

Autographs & Letters Law & Politics Netherlands Water Management

Biography and (fake) letters of Marcus Aurelius

GUEVARA, Antonio de. T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius.
Franeker, Rombertus Doyema, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut imperial coat of arms on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 223, [2] ll. Full description

€ 1,250

Bibliography & Biography Classical Antiquity Law & Politics

Album amicorum of a young Dutch lady

GYSELAAR (GIJSELAAR), Johanna Maria Nicoletta de. Album amicorum.
Gorkum, Leiden, Warmond, Delft, Amsterdam, The Hague, Laarwoude, Zuidlaren and Assen, 1800-1805. 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). Manuscript album amicorum on paper, with entries in Dutch, French and German. With 3 watercolours of flowers, a small watercolour of roses, and a fine washed pen drawing of a view on a lake with fishermen at work by the owner's niece, J.M. de Gyselaar. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, yellow silk endpapers. 192 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Alba Amicorum Netherlands Women History

Autograph letter, signed, by a member of the Raad van Nederlandsch Indië

[AUTOGRAPH]. HARLOFF, Anton Johan Wouter. [Autograph letter, signed ("A. Harloff"), to Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff].
The Hague, 6 May, 1933. Folded double leaf (21.6 x 14). In Dutch. 3 pp text. Full description

€ 350

Autographs & Letters Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Netherlands

An impassioned defense of Jay's Treaty translated into Portuguese

HARPER, Robert Goodloe. Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França.
Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 322 pp. Full description

€ 5,000

France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Naval History North America UK - United Kingdom USA - United States of America

Exceptionally rare first edition of an unrivalled plate collection containing plans of antique cities

[HASE, Johann Matthias]. Plans des villes que passent pour les plus grandes de l'antiquité, et de nos jours ...
Nuremberg, Homann heirs, 1745. Folio. With 15 hand coloured, numbered, engraved plates. Modern folder, marbled paper over boards. Each leaf (ca. 56 x 66 cm) is separately mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 60 x 78 cm). [8] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity

Hawaii’s last constitution as a sovereign country

[HAWAII]. Constitution of the Republic of Hawaii. Promulgated July 4th, A.D. 1894.
[Honolulu, 1894]. 22 x 14.5 cm. Stapled leaves in publisher's original blue/green wrappers, with letterpress title on front. Kept in modern half morocco clamshell box. VI, [2 blank], 56 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Hawaii Law & Politics North America Pacific Islands

A set of four lovely watercolours, each showing a young German lady in a fancy gown

[COSTUMES]. HECKEL, Catharina SPERLING. [Four young ladies in fancy gowns].
[Augsburg, ca. 1725?]. Four drawings in brown ink, watercolour and coloured gouaches on vellum, highlighted with gold (each 5.9 x 9.0 cm). Each mounted in a later passe-partout with a gold border, in an ebonized wooden frame (23.5 x 20.5 cm). Full description

€ 6,500

Costumes & Uniforms Germany Women History

Latin dialogues by the rector of the Deventer Illustre School, leading humanist
and teacher of Erasmus and Pope Adrian VI

HEGIUS (VAN DEN HECK), Alexander. Dialogi. De scientia et eo q[uo]d co[n]tra Academicos. De tribus anim[a]e generibus. De incarnationis misterio dialogi duo quib[us] ... Dialogus physicus. De sensu et sensili. De arte et inertia. De rhetorica. De moralibus. Eiusde[m] Farrago cui addita invectiva eius in modos significandi ... Epistola una et altera eius ceteris apud suos latentibus.
(Colophon: Deventer, Richard Pafraet, 1503). Small 4to (21 x 14.5 cm). With spaces left for 3- to 5-line manuscript initials (most with printed guide letters). Set in a rotunda gothic type with the title, colophon, running heads, etc. in a larger textura gothic and the author's name in a still larger rotunda, with occasional words in Greek. With one blue "Lombardic" initial filled in in manuscript, capitals and paragraph marks rubricated throughout. Half tan sheepskin (ca. 1860?). [170] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Philosophy & Esotericism Religion (16th Century) School & Textbooks

The history of North Friesland, with a folding map and 5 town plans

HEIMREICH, Anton. Ernewerte Nordfresische Chronick, darin die Beschreibung derer dem Schleßwigischen Hertzogthum incorporirten Freschen Landschafften, ...
Schleswig, Johann Holwein for the author, 1668. 4to. Engraved frontispiece (incorporating 5 town plans and a portrait of the author), engraved folding map of North Friesland (at a scale of about 1: 450,000) dated 1668, and a folding letterpress genealogical table. 18th-century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. Rebacked, preserving the original backstrip. [32], 410, [18] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Germany Netherlands Scandinavia

In defence of purely utilitarian ethics: a key work of the Radical Enlightenment

HELVETIUS, Claude Adrien. De L'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume.
London [= France?], La Société Typographique, 1773. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. XXXII, 326, [2 blank]; [2 blank], 412 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Education & Pedagogy Philosophy & Esotericism WIC

Philosophical dialogues that influenced Kant and romanticism

[HEMSTERHUIS, Frans]. Aristée, ou de la divinité.
Paris [= The Hague or Haarlem], 1779. 12mo. With engraved vignette on the title-page and 3 engraved head- and tailpieces, all printed in brown. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gold-tooled spine, board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. [2 blank], X, 208 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Philosophy & Esotericism

Recipes and suppers following the seasons, pickling vegetables and brewing your own beer:
an all-round cookery book

HENDERSON, William Augustus. The housekeepers instructor; or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches ... Likewise the making and keeping to perfection British wines, and proper rules for brewing malt liquor. ... To which is added the complete art of carving.
London, W. & J. Stratford, [ca 1790?]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates (2 folding), mostly showing carving techniques or how to arrange the dishes on the table during suppers. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, red morocco spine label. 456, [24] pp. Full description

€ 600

Wine / Viticulture

From the Bohemian mountains to the Arabic Gulf

HENRY, René. Des monts de Bohême au Golfe Persique ... Deuxième édition.
Paris, Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1908. 8vo. With 5 folding maps. Publisher's original printed paper wrappers. [2 blank], [4], XIV, 566, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Central Europe Eastern Europe Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

Large chart of European countries and their royal or noble families

[HERALDIC CHART - EUROPE]. SPECHT, Caspar. Historische en geographische tafel om te leren een kort begrip vande landen en staaten in Europa haar grootheyd, besitting en alles dat tot onderricht der liefhebbers van de landbeschryvinge dienen kan.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Joshua Ottens, [before 1750]. Engraved chart (47.5 x 57 cm) printed on a single sheet of paper (51.5 x 64 cm), coloured by hand, including several coats of arms. Full description

€ 250

Charts & Maps Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags

Luxurious collection of 390 coats-of-arms of important Flemish, Dutch and French noble families,
mostly hand-drawn and hand-coloured and some painted with gold and executed on vellum

[HERALDRY - FLANDERS - NETHERLANDS - FRANCE]. [Album containing coats-of-arms of Flemish, Dutch and French noble families].
[France, Flanders and the Netherlands, 17th and 18th century]. Folio. With 390 coats-of-arms (plus another 49 blank shields) of which 13 on vellum, all but 25 contemporary hand-coloured of which 17 painted with gold and 1 with silver and all but 3 drawn by hand. Mostly all coat of arms are captioned in brown ink in contemporary 17th- or 18th-century cursive hands, in which also the sometimes added manuscript text (on the same or another leaf) is written. Coats of arms on paper and vellum in various sizes, mounted on later folio-sized paper leaves. 18th-century half red roan (sheepskin), brown sprinkled paper sides over boards, manuscript title label on the front board. All loose leaves and quires mounted/stored on [29] ll, the quires loosely stored in a paper slip mounted on a leaf. Full description

€ 13,500

Belgium France Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

Description of Curaçao with a folding map and a folding plate

HERING, Johannes Hermanus. Beschryving van het eiland Curaçao, en de daar onder hoorende eilanden, . . .
Amsterdam, Johannes van Selm, 1779. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved plates, one providing a map of Curaçao and plan of Fort Amsterdam and its surroundings, and the other showing the spectacular explosion of the warship Alphen on 15 September 1778. Green cloth (ca. 1930?) by George Fredrik Lodewijk Ophof in Rotterdam. [6], 89, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Middle America

Collection of four works on Roman history

HERODIAN. Historiae libri VIII.
With:
(2) AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus. A D. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta.
(3) EUTROPIUS. Historiae libri X.
(4) PAUL THE DEACON (PAULUS DIACONUS). Libri VIII. ad Eutropii historiam additi.
Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1517. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With Giuntas woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. Later half calf. [4], 90; 127, [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 4,000

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

"Father of History" in elegant & famous first Greek edition by Aldus Manutius, from the Arenberg library

HERODOTUS. [Historiarum] libri novem. Quibus musarum indita sunt nomina.
(Colophon: Venice), Aldus Manutius, (colophon: September 1502). Folio (29.5 x 20 cm). With Aldus's anchor and dolphin device on title-page and the verso of the last leaf. Late 19th-century blind-tooled, polished tan calf, the central panel with the arms of the Dukes of Arenberg. [140] ll. Full description

€ 69,500

Aldine Press Balkan & Greece Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Iran / Persia North Africa & Egypt West Asia

Flower watercolour with insects, by the daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian

HEROLT, Johanna Helena. [Watercolour of a branch of a French roses, with several flowers and insects].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1700]. Watercolour drawing (38.5 x 29 cm) on extremely fine white parchment, said to be uterine lamb, showing a branch of French roses with three fully opened flowers, five buds or partly opened flowers, four ants (with and without wings) and probably a hover fly. Framed. Full description

€ 79,500

Drawings & Watercolours Fishes Flowering Plants Insects & Spiders Women History

Flower watercolour with moths, larvae and pupae, by the daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian

HEROLT, Johanna Helena. [Watercolour of a wallflower and a double hyacinth, with inchworm moths, larvae and pupae].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1700]. Watercolour drawing (38 x 29 cm) on extremely fine white parchment, said to be uterine lamb, showing a wallflower and a double hyacinth with two inchworm moths in the air (2 different species) and two inchworms and two pupae on the leaves and flowers. Framed. Full description

€ 79,500

Fishes Women History

Rare Latin treatise on the Greek Bacchanals

HERRENSCHMID, Jacob. Peripatheticus orgiorum ethnico-pontificius. Justè castigatus, justius profligatus, justissimè condemnatus. Hoc est, brevis dissertatiuncula De Bachanaliorum nomine, origine, progressu, placentis, larvis, excusationibus, exemplis, poenis, ludis, choreis, symposiis, ludibriis, &c.
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1626]. 12mo.19th-century red half morocco, marbled paper sides. 132 pp. Full description

€ 550

Classical Antiquity School & Textbooks

The first British trade agreement with Mocha

[HEYNES, Edward]. Scheeps-togt van Mr. Edward Heynes, van Suratte na Mocha, gedaan in het jaar 1618. Verhalende, op wat wijse de Engelsse de koopmanschap, met de inwoonders, aldaar hebben opgerigt, en door schriftelijk verseekeringen (van den Bassa gegeeven) vast-gestelt. Als mede een beschrijving van de stad Mocha, des selfs huysingen, bolwerken en haven-plaats.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, [ca. 1707?]. Folio (25.5 × 40 cm). Modern blue-grey paper covers. [5] ll. (text in 2 columns per page, 4 per leaf, 14 cols. in total). Full description

€ 850

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Economic History & Trade

Interesting letter on the state of affairs in the Dutch Republic in relation to its neighbors in 1680

[H.N.v.G.?]. Advys van een goed Patriot des Vaderlants, over de tegenwoordige saecken van Staet.
[No place, no publisher], [1680]. 4to. Later brown wrappers. 16 pp. Full description

€ 425

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics

A key for the Western knowledge of Arabia at the beginning of the 20th century,
by the man who inspired Lawrence of Arabia

HOGARTH, David George. The penetration of Arabia.
London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1904. Large 8vo. With 50 photographs of Medina, Mecca (incl. the Kabah, pilgrims camping outside the city praying in the Great Mosque-Precinct and at the Tomb, mostly after the photographs of Snouck Hurgronje), Maskat, Sana, Jidda; portraits of explorers such as Carsten Niebuhr, J.L. Burckhardt, G.A. Wallin, Richard Burton, J. Snouck Hurgronje, Jos. Halévy, W.G. Palgrave, W.S. and Lady Anne Blunt and others, maps of their routes through Arabia and several maps and plans of Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Mecca, Medina, Sana, Riad, etc.; the Teima stone, the first published Himyaritic inscriptions, etc. At the end are bound two folding coloured maps on one large leaf (345 x 675 mm) containing (1) the orthographical, and (2) the land surface features of Arabia. Original green publisher's cloth, title in gold on the front board with a gold-tooled section of a compass with the signs of the zodiac, title in gold on the spine. XV, 359 pp. Full description

€ 450

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Travel & Voyages Middle East

A letter by Dirk van Hogendorp petitioning for postponement of a prison sentence on behalf
of the mother of the convicted poor servant boy to an Amsterdam solicitor

HOGENDORP, Dirk van. [Autograph letter by Dirk van Hogendorp to the Amsterdam solicitor J. de Vries jr.].
[Amsterdam], 12 July 1833. 8vo (ca. 19,5 x 22,7 cm). Text within a black border, which does not continue along the lower edge of the sheet. [4] pp. Full description

€ 750

Autographs & Letters Law & Politics

The Ridderschap in the States of Holland and West-Friesland asks Amsterdam
to spent more money on the defense of the country - an old plea

[PAMPHLET - HOLLAND & WESTFRIESLAND]. Circulaire brief, van de Heeren Ridderschap en Edelen, van Hollandt en West-Vrieslant; nevens t antwoort van de Ed. Groot Achtb. Heeren Burgermeesteren en Regeerders der stadt Amsterdam, op de voorsz. Brief.
[Amsterdam,] Jan Cyprianus van der Graft [= Jacobus Hackius?], 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Blue modern wrappers, new endpapers. 24 pp. Full description

€ 275

Amsterdam Law & Politics Military History (17th Century)

On the importance of natural history

HOLM, Jonas and Olof Adamsson HERWECH. Dissertatio philosophica, de praestantia studii historici naturae.
Stockholm, Laurentius Salvius, 1752. 4to. Disbound. 48, [4] pp. Full description

€ 200

Philosophy & Esotericism

Law in Arabic sources

HOMMEL, Karl Ferdinand. Bibliotheca juris rabbinica et Saracenorum Arabica instructa.
Bayreuth, Joh. Andr. Lubekus, 1762. 8vo. Later sprinkled paper boards. 63, [17] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics

Scene showing the execution of conspirators in the attempted assassination of Prince Maurits

HONDIUS, Hendrick (I). [Tweede basuyne. en t boosdoens heylige wraeck-spiegel ...].
[Netherlands, Hendrick Hondius (I), 1623]. Broadside (51 x 26.5 cm). Two separate leaves, one with the engraving (plate size 14 x 17.5 cm) and the other with letterpress verses (37 x 26.5 cm), originally assembled to form a single broadside. The leaf with the engraving lacking the letterpress heading with the title and the letterpress psalm in 2 columns that flanked the engraving. Mounted on a paper support. With a second copy of the text leaf loosely inserted. Full description

€ 650

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Netherlands Prints & Print Series

Sham and swindle: a popular 18th-century satirical work on the tricks, frauds and deceits
performed by several people and professions

HÖNN, Georg Paul. Betrugslexicon, worinnen die meisten Betrügereyen in allen Ständen, nebst denen darwider guten Theils dienenden Mitteln, ...
Coburg, Johann Carl Findeisen, 1761. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper over boards, red edges. [16], 524, [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Caricature & Satire Games & Sports German Literature Law & Politics Magic & Conjuring

1472 incunable encyclopaedia of the world,
containing references to Arabia, Syria, Palestine and the Saracens

HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS (HONORIUS OF AUTUN). [Incipit:] ... de ymagine mundi.
[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1472(?)]. Folio (31 x 22 cm).Rubricated throughout and about half of the spaces left for initials filled in by hand in red ink. 19th-century red sheepskin. [46], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 45,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Early Printing - 15th century Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus North Africa & Egypt

Magnificent engraving of Speelman’s victory over the Kingdom of Makassar

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Victorien der Nederl. Geoct. O. Compagnie op het Koninkryck van Macasser door den Ed. heer C. Speelman.
[Amsterdam?, 1669]. Engraved view (40 x 54.5 cm), with two battle scenes on top, flanked by portraits of Speelman and Radjah Palacca, with in the centre a laurel wreath with the monogram of the VOC, surrounded by Mars and Mercury, and a banderole with the title; and with letterpress text below the view (11 x 54.5 cm), including two poems by the famous Dutch poet Joost van den Vondel and numbered keys referring to the plate. Framed (75 x 81 cm). Full description

€ 2,950

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Military History (17th Century) Prints & Print Series Southeast Asia VOC

The Franco-Dutch War, strikingly illustrated

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Schouburgh der Nederlandse veranderingen, geopent in ses tooneelen, waer op de wisselbeurten des Vereenigde Staets door den Fransen oorlog gebrouwen, in historieele sinnebeelden, vertoont en beschreven zijn.
Amsterdam, the author, 1674. Small folio (28.5x19 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 6 large engraved folding plates by Romeyn de Hooghe (plate size ca. 23x35 cm). Contemporary vellum. 36 pp. Full description

€ 2,250

France Military History (17th Century) Netherlands

Javanese fruits & flowers, with 40 large chromolithographs

HOOLA VAN NOOTEN, Berthe. Fleurs fruits et feuillages choisis de l'ile de Java ... Troisième édition.
Brussels, Leipzig, Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt (printed by Weissenbruch, Brussels), [1880]. 1mo (56.5 x 42 cm). With 40 chromolithographed plates by P. Depannemaeker in Ghent after Hoola van Nooten's original paintings, each accompanied by a page of letterpress text (English and French), giving a description as well as information on the plant's culinary, medical, religious and other uses. Contemporary red half goatskin; rebacked with modern endpapers. [44] ll. Full description

€ 12,500

Fruit Culture Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia Women History

A 16th-century introduction to legislation and jurisprudence

HOPPERS, Joachim. De juris arte libri tres. Eiusdem, juris civilis, sive ad pandectas libri sex priores.
Louvain, Petrus Colinaeus, 1555. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on title-page (repeated on the last page), and many woodcut initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [12], 505, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics

Superb Humanist "Sammelband"

HORACE. [Opera] cum quattor commentarijs.
Venice, printed by Philippus Pincius for Benedictus Fontana, 1495-1496. With large woodcut printer's device on last leaf, and numerous woodcut initials.
With:
(2) PERSIUS. [Opera] cum tribus commentariis.
Venice, Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino, 4 November 1499. With woodcut printer's device on verso of penultimate leaf, and fine woodcut on title-page.
(3) JUVENALIS. [Opera] cum commento Ioannus Britannici.
Reggio Emilia, Francesco de Mazalibus, 1503. With fine woodcut at the head of text, and some woodcut initials. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards with 2 brass clasps. [264] ll. Full description

€ 25,000

Bindings Early Printing - 15th century Greek & Roman Classics

The origins of the American Indians, proposing a migration via a land bridge across the Bering Strait

HORNIUS (HORN), Georgius. De originibus Americanis libri quatuor.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy, Leiden), 1652. 8vo. With title-page in red and black with De Croy's(?) woodcut tree device. Late 19th-century binding made from an early music manuscript on sheepskin parchment. [20], 282 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Latin America North America Peru South America USA - United States of America

Scientific history of the world

HORNIUS, Georgius (Georg HORN). Arca mosis sive historia mundi.
Leiden & Rotterdam, ex officina Hackiana, 1668. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece (dated 1669), a woodcut printer's device and some initials. Contemporary sheepskin. [36], 220, [2] pp. Full description

€ 650

Iran / Persia Philosophy & Esotericism Science

1612 introduction to Kabbala, in Hebrew

HOROWITZ, Shabbethai Sheftel. Sefer Shefa' tal.
Hanau, Hans Jakob Henne (Henah), [5]372 [= 1611/12]. Folio (31 x 20 cm). With about 15 woodcut illustrations in the text. Set in meruba Hebrew types with extensive passages in semi-cursive rabbinical. Later 17th-century blind-tooled vellum, modern endpapers. [10], 94 ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Astrology & Occult Judaica Philosophy & Esotericism

The sensational life and death of one of the most notorious 17th-century German criminals

[HOSMANN, Sigismund, Magister] "M.S.H.". Omstandig en waaragtig verhaal van veele gepleegde en nooit gehoorde diefstallen: als vooornamentlyk [sic] aan de zeer beruchte goude tafel, nevens veele hoog-gewaardeerde oudheden en dierbaare sieraaden, van aloude tyden af in 't hooge autaar van St. Michiels Kerke te Lunenburg geplaatst en bewaart..., allerwegen in Duitsland gepleegd.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Schelte, 1710. 4to. With Schelte's woodcut device on the title-page, 18 engraved plates, including 1 frontispiece and 3 large folding plates. Contemporary vellum. [1 blank], [2], [1 blank], [4], 377, [17], [2 blank] pp., including the integral frontispiece. Full description

€ 1,750

Germany

Rare Dutch translation of a work on the origin of temples and churches

HOSPINIANUS, Rodolphus. Van de tempelen: dat is vijf boecken van den oorspronck, voortganck, ghebruyck en de misbruyck der tempelen ende gheheelijck aller dinghen, die tot de tempelen behooren.
Amsterdam, Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, 1606. 4to. With Cloppenburch's printer's device on title-page and one page (O1) rubricated in red. Contemporary vellum. [12], 400, 99, [6] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Architecture Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church

Ancient Hebrew & other Middle Eastern, Greek, Roman and Arabic numbers, coins, weights and measures

HOST, Matthäus (Matthaeus HOSTUS). Historiae rei nummariae veteris scriptores aliquot insigniores ...
Including:
HOST, Matthäus. Tres libros de veteribus mensuris ...
HOST, Matthäus. Quaedam opuscula variae ...
[SARDI, Alessandro] (misattributed to John SELDEN). Liber de nummis ...
LABBE, Philippe. Bibliotheca nummaria ...
BUDÉ, Guillaume. De asse et partibus ejus libri quinque.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1695 (colophon at the end of Hosts works: Jena, Johann Zacharias Nisius, 1692). 15 works in 5 volumes, paginated as 3 and bound as 2. 4to. With 2 engraved portraits (vol. I) and 3 folding tables. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum. [36], 372, [8]; [26], “637” [= 535], [7], [2 blank], [lacking 1-2], 3-716, [86] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Classical Antiquity Numismatics

The financial management of Dutch prizes and naval prize money captured
by the English during the French blockade (Continental system)

[HOUSE OF COMMONS]. Fourth report from the Committee on the Public Expenditure, &c. of the United Kingdom. Commissioners for Dutch prizes; &c.
[London], for the House of Commons, 24 March 1809. Folio. Original blue printed publisher's wrappers. pp. 313-386. Full description

€ 650

Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands UK - United Kingdom

On Assab, Eritrea, and the first years of the Italian government

[HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT - ASSAB - ERITREA]. Egypt. No. 15 (1882). Correspondence respecting Assab Bay.
London, Harrison and sons, 1882. Folio. Modern blue paper wrappers. X, 195, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt

Trade within Ethiopia

[HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT - ETHIOPIA]. No. 2531 annual series. Diplomatic and consular reports. Abyssinia. Reports for the year 1899-1900 on the trade of Adis Abbaba and Harrar.
London, Harrison and sons, 1900. Folio. With a folding lithographed map with some coloured details. Bound as sewn. 25, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics

Famous poem with moral lessons for unmarried women, married women and widows

HOUWAERT, Jean Baptista. Pegasides pleyn. Ofte den lust-hof der maechden.
Volume 1: Delft, Adriaen Gerritsen, 1615 (colophon: 1614); volume 2: Leiden, Jan Paets Jacobszoon, 1611. 8vo. Volume 1 with an engraved title-page by Jan Wiericx and 8 full-page engravings by Jan Wiericx; volume 2 with the main text set in civilité type. Uniform contemporary vellum. XLVI, [2], 867, [1]; 464, 1-471, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,950

Dutch Literature Education & Pedagogy Women History

On the prosperity of Cuba

HUBER, Bertrand. Aperçu statistique de l'île de Cuba, précédé de quelques lettres sur la Havane, et suivi de tableaux synoptiques, d'une carte de l'île, et du tracé des côtes depuis la Havane jusqu'a Matanzas.
Paris, P. Dufart, 1826. 8vo. With 6 folding letterpress tables and 2 engraved maps (1 folding), depicting Cuba and surrounding islands. Contemporary half calf, black- and gold-tooled spine. 331, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade Geology Slavery

333 very interesting genealogical tables of all reigning houses and noble families of Europe

HÜBNER, Johann. Drey hundert und drey und dreyßig Genealogische Tabellen, nebst denen darzu gehörigen Genealogischen Fragen, zur Erläuterung der Politischen Historie...
Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch & Sohn, 1712. Oblong folio. With the title-page printed in red and black, 1 large woodcut gothic decorated initial. Set primarily in fraktur type. Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled sides. [8] pp., [333] ll. with tables, [7] pp. Full description

€ 750

Church History & Missions Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Peru

Celebrating Gustav Adolf II, 'The Lion of the North' and champion of Protestantism,
magnificently illustrated by Crispijn vande Passe II

HULSIUS, Bartholomaeus. Den onderganck des Roomschen Arents, door den Noordschen Leeuw. Af-ghebeeldt in verscheyden konstige figuren, met sin-rijcke verklaringhen der selver, beydes in en buyten rijm, vertoonende, in 't kort, de gedenckwaerdighste saken, die van den beginne, tot noch toe, in dese oorlogen zyn omgegaen. Met een verhael van den doodt des Koninghs. Hier zyn noch by ghevoeght de victorien der Croon Sweden, sedert de doodt des auteurs vercreghen.
Amsterdam, Crispijn vande Passe, 1642. 4to. Engraved allegorical title-page with engraved title in a central panel below Fame sitting on a swan. Beautifully bound in 19thcentury light brown gold-tooled calf (1850s or 1860s?), each board with triple along the edges, decorated spine with red and green labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, signed "PETIT SUCCr DE SIMIER": Charles Petit operated a Paris bindery from 1848 to 1873 as successor to René Simier (1772-1843), relieur du roi from 1815, and his son. [12], 91, [1 blank] pp. plus engraved title-page. Full description

€ 15,000

Bindings Broadsides & Pamphlets Emblems Germany Protestant Reformation Scandinavia

Second enlarged edition of a numismatic-biographical work

HULSIUS, Levinus. Romanorum numismatum series. à C. Iulio Caesaro ad Rudolphum II. Add. est breviter ipsorum vita, aversa pars numismorum & eorundem explicatio.
Frankfurt, for the author, 1603. 8vo. With large allegorical engraving with portrait of Romulus on title-page, full-page allegorical armorial engraved plate on verso of title-page and 150 engravings of both sides of ancient coins in text. Contemporary red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine. [16], 305, [6], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Classical Antiquity Numismatics School & Textbooks

Pamphlet advertising the independence of Hedjaz

[HUSSEIN BIN ALI, Sharif of Mecca and Frederick Stanley MAUDE]. The king of Hedjaz and Arab independence ... together with the proclamation issued at Baghdad by Lieut.- General Sir Stanley Maude, after the occupation of that city by the British forces.
London, Hayman, Christy and Lilly Ltd., 1917. 8vo. With a photographic portrait of Hussein bin Ali for frontispiece and a folding facsimile proclamation (38 x 28 cm). Original stapled wrappers with red lettering on front wrapper. 14, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,000

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Protest against tax increase

HUYDECOPER, A. Propositie ende protest door de Heeren van Amsterdam ter vergaderingh van haer Ed: Groot Mog: de Heeren Staten van Holland ende West-Vriesland den 9 Juny 1685 gedaen, tegens het heffen van het last en veyl-geldt.
[No place, no publisher], 1685. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. 8 pp. Full description

€ 195

Amsterdam Economic History & Trade

Revised and enlarged edition of a 1933 master's thesis on Arabian-Far Eastern relations to ca. 1500

HUZAYYIN, S.A. Arabia and the Far East. Their commercial and cultural relations in Graeco-Roman and Irano-Arabian times.
Cairo, printed by l'institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1942. 27.5 x 18 cm. With 12 relief-printed folding maps with trade routes, some regions, etc. printed in several colours and with the coat of arms of King Fouad I of Egypt on the title page. Original brown publisher's printed paper wrappers with the title of the work and the coat of arms of King Fouad I of Egypt on the front wrapper and the logo of "la Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte" on the back wrapper. [2 blank], XXIX, [1 blank], 319, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Central Asia China Economic History & Trade

Plantin edition of an early Christian classic

IGNATIUS of ANTIOCH. [In Greek:] Toi en agiois ieromartiros ignatioi archiepiskopioi antiocheias, epistolai. (In Greek).- Antiochiae, & martyris epistolae, prosus apostolicae. (In Latin).
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin (ad 1 colophon: 8 August), 1566. Small 8vo. With Plantins woodcut compasses device on each title-page and a couple decorated woodcut initials. Set in italic and Greek type.
With: IDEM. Antiochiae, & martyris epistolae, prorsus apostolicae.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1566. Contemporary calf. 69, [1 blank]; 78 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Plantin Press Religion (16th Century)

First and only edition of a radical political pamphlet built around an imaginary voyage.
A spin-off from Neville's 1668 "Isle of Pines"

[IMAGINARY VOYAGE]. Verhael van den wonderlijken oproer, voorgevallen in de provincie van Mallanbruino, gelegen een graed bezuiden het eyland Pines: ende hoe de zelve is gestilt. t'Samenspraek tusschen drie persoonen te wacht zijnde, Arent, Gijsbert, Dirck.
[Holland?], 1672. 4to. Later blue/grey paper wrappers. 8 pp. Full description

€ 6,850

Imaginary Voyages & Utopias Law & Politics Netherlands Pacific Islands

The official narrative of proceedings in the Home Department of the Viceroy of India,
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 1894-1898

[INDIA]. Summary of the principal measures of the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Elgin in the Home Department, January 1894 to December 1898.
Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government printing, India, 1898. Folio. With armorial vignette on title-page. Blind-stamped blue cloth, title in gold on spine, blue decorated endpapers. [2], IV, [2], 84 pp. Full description

€ 650

India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

"Confidential"

[INDIA – ARMY, GENERAL STAFF BRANCH]. Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. Confidential. Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, 1921.
Calcutta, Superintendent of Government Printing, 1921. 8vo. With frontispiece, 31 plates, 7 maps (3 in pocket on inside of back board), and 8 panoramas, mostly folding.Contemporary half calf, green cloth sides, gold-stamped red spine labels. X, 187, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,800

India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom

Critical survey of Dutch mercantile activities in Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka

[INDONESIA - INDIA - SRI LANKA]. Nederlandsch India, in haaren tegenwoordigen toestand beschouwd; of waar en gronding berigt van haare regeering, derzelver bestier en handelingen; haare bezittingen; haare militie; haar kwijnenden handel, zeevaart, enz.
Batavia [= Amsterdam?], [1780?]. 8vo. With a decoration on the title-page, headpiece and factotum all built up from rococo typographic ornaments. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 80 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia VOC

A rare pamphlet incriminating the Shah of Iran

[IRANIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION NEW YORK]. WANTED. SHAH of IRAN by the Iranian people for the murders committed below (only after 1953).
New York, Iranian Student Association, [ca. 1974]. Folio. With 4 illustrations of the Shah.Pamphlet. Full description

€ 1,250

Law & Politics

Well-illustrated report of an archaeological expedition
to the 7th & 8th-century "desert castles" of the Umayyad Caliphate

JAUSSEN, Antonin & Raphael SVAIGNAC Mission archeologique en Arabie III. Les chateaux arabes Qeseir 'Amra, Harâneh et Tûba.
Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1922. 2 volumes (text and atlas). Small folio (21 x 29.5 cm). Text volume with 21 illustrations in the text (mostly photographs). Atlas volume with 58 loose plates (mostly plans and photographic views) as issued. Text volume in modern half cloth, kept with the plates in a modern half cloth portfolio. [6], 134, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Archaeology West Asia

The origins of the new Russian state flag

JAZYKOV, Aleksandr Petrovich. Î Ðóññêîìú ãîñóäàπñòâåííîìú öâѣòѣ [O russkom gosudarstvennom tsvietie].
Saint Petersburg, Publishing house of H.I.M. Own Chancery, 1858. 8vo. With a chromolithographed frontispiece showing the old and new Russian flag plus ten flags of German states, with highlights in gold. Contemporary green paper wrappers. 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Eastern Europe Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Russia (incl. Siberia)

91 portraits of Popes, Emperors, Kings, noblemen, military officers, in rare early edition

JODE, Pieter de. Theatrum principum.
[Antwerp, ca. 1644/1650]. Small folio (28 x 18.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title-page by Pieter de Jode after Erasmus Quellinus; 91 portraits (plus 1 repeat) of popes, emperors, kings, noblemen and their spouses, 89 signed by Pieter de Jode and 2 unsigned. They were engraved after Aegidius Rucholle, Titiaan, Anthony van Dyck, Pieter van Mol, Otto Vaenius, Rubens, Cornelis Galle, Cornelis de Vos, Gaspar de Crayer, Coenraerd Waumans, Charles Woutier, Franciscus Nys and T. Willebroorts Bossaerts. Contemporary vellum. [93] engraved ll. Full description

€ 15,000

Law & Politics Prints & Print Series

Journal of accounts of a Flemish cloth-dyeing factory 1734-1759

[MANUSCRIPT]. JOFFROY, Joannes Baptista (Jean-Baptiste). Daegelyksche aenteekening van alle de goederen te verwen komende bij Joannes Baptista Joffroy begonst 1734.
[Mechelen (Malines, Belgium), 1 April 1734-31 August 1759]. Folio (32.5 x 21 cm). Manuscript journal of accounts in dark brown ink on paper, written in Dutch in an upright gothic hand, with each page ruled in double and single lines to make 4 or 5 columns and up to 22 rows, decorated with hundreds of pen flourishes, three forming pictures of birds as tailpieces and with a decorative cross to begin 1750 (some other years with a simpler cross), a couple headings with additions in red. Contemporary vellum. [268] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Art & Art History Belgium Economic History & Trade Manuscripts & Documents

Setting diamonds, gems and other precious stones: an important royal privilege
granted by King Joseph I of Portugal to August Ludwig Thimne

JOSEPH I, King of Portugal Eu Elrey. Faço saber aos que este alvará virem, que por parte de Augusto Ludevico Thimne, de naçaõ alemãa, assistente na cidade do Porto, me foi representado, que havia descuberto o segredo de fabricar as folhetas para a cravaçaõ dos diamantes.
Ajuda (district of Lisbon), Palacio de Nossa Senhora ("reprinted by Miguel Rodrigues"), 22 August 1766. Folio. Disbound, folded. pp. 199-201, [blank 202]. Full description

€ 600

Broadsides & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Mineralogy & Gems Portugal

First Dutch edition of Flavius Joseph's works and of Basnage's continuation, with 300 illustrations, some by Jan Luyken

JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Alle de werken.
Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1704.
With: (2) BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL, Jacques. Vervolg op Flavius Josephus.
Amsterdam, Gerard Onder de Linden; Delft, Reinier Boitet, 1726-1727.
2 works in 3 volumes, bound as 2. Folio. Ad 1 with a richly engraved frontispiece, a title-page in red and black with engraved oval portrait of Flavius Josephus, divisional title, 2 folding maps, 12 double-page plates, 3 plans, and 209 illustrations in text, all engraved. Ad 2 with a richly engraved frontispiece, 2 title-pages, the first in red and black with Onder de Linden's device, the second with Boitet's device, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, dedication plate and portrait of Basnage; 4 folding letterpress genealogical and other tables, 1 engraved illustration plate, and 90 engraved illustrations in text. Uniform contemporary blind-tooled vellum, each board with a large scrollwork centrepiece and 4 cornerpieces in a double frame of fillets, hand-lettered spine titles. [40], 782, [30], 113, [11]; [44], 658, [14], 659-1940 pp. Full description

€ 3,900

Classical Antiquity Judaica

One of the foundational texts of the Western legal tradition, printed by a woman for the first time

JUSTINIANUS I, Emperor and Jean CHAPPUIS (editor). Codex. Codicis d[omi]ni Justiani sacratissimi principis libri novem...
Paris, Yolande Bonhomme for Jean Petit, 1538. 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Thielman Kerver on the title-page, one full-page woodcut illustration, a near full-page woodcut illustration of emperor Justinian I, and numerous woodcut initials throughout. The title-page and text are printed in red and black. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, with the manuscript title on the spine and the front board. [40], CCCCCCCIIII, ll. Full description

€ 6,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century France Greek & Roman Classics Law & Politics Women History

First collected edition of three classical writers, set in an Aldine-style italic

JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae.
Including:
PROBUS, Aemylius [recté NEPOS, Cornelius]. De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.
VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Caius. Historiae Romanae duo volumina, ...
(Colophon: Florence, Philippo Giunta, 1525). 3 works published as 1. 8vo. With Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a nearly identical one on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in an Aldine-style italic, with numerous spaces with guide letters where manuscript initials could be filled in (left blank in the present copy). Dark green gold-tooled morocco (ca. 1833?), the with AAR-monogram of Antoine Augustin Renouard, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink watered-silk endleaves, matching ribbon marker, gilt edges. Attributed to the Bradel family in Paris, probably Antoine Louis François Bradel. 15, [1], “103” [= 203], [1 blank]; [8], “105” [= 205]-267, [1] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

Japanese plants depicted for the first time in the West

KAEMPFER, Engelbert (Sir Joseph BANKS, ed.). Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit.
London, [Library of the British Museum], 1791. Folio (42 x 26.5 cm.). With 59 etched plates, (8 are double-page), by Daniel Mackenzie. Slightly later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled monogram AL on spine. [4], 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 38,000

Japan & Far East VOC

Madame de Pompadour’s “histoire scandaleuse”. One of the few copies surviving the protective efforts of the French ambassador

[KERSTEMAN, Franciscus Lievens]. Historie van mevrouwe de hartoginne van Pompadour. [Wrapper-title: Levensbeschryving van de hartoginne van Pompadour].
Zaltbommel, Johannes Willem Kanneman, 1761. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. Recased in 18th-century vellum, later endpapers, preserving the original publisher's printed wrappers. [8], 207, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Dutch Literature France French Literature Women History

Very rare Dutch picaresque novel, with the female protagonist getting caught by pirates
and ending up in the household of an Arabic slave trader

[KERSTEMAN, Petrus Lievens]. De vermakelyke avanturesse, of de dienstmaagd van fortuin. Vervattende hare zonderlinge levensgevallen, ontelbare wederwaardigheden en rampen; zeltzame ontmoetingen, en koddige vryagien; deszelfs driejarige dienst als lakye, gevangenneming op de Moorsche kusten, en hare slavernye in Asia by de Arabieren.
Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt, 1754. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece. Contemporary mottled half calf, gold-tooled spine, later endpapers. [4], 360 pp Full description

€ 3,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Dutch Literature Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa & Egypt Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East Women History

Collection of tracts concerning the monopoly and the subsequent advantages of the Dutch herring fishery, published to establish a stronger British herring fishery

KEYMER, John; WITT, Johan de; L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger. A small collection of valuable tracts, relating to the herring fishery; comprehending John Keymer's celebrated observations on the Dutch fisheries, in 1601. The grand pensionary John De Witt's sentiments on the same subject, and a discourse shewing the necessity, and proving the practicability, of establishing a British herring fishery, by Sir Roger L'Estrange. To which an introduction is prefixed.
London, printed for Ralph Griffiths, 1751. 4 parts in 1 volume: an introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery. Small 8vo. An introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery, published together as a single edition. 20th-century half calf. [4], xxiv; 24, “33”-“37” [=25-29], [1 blank]; [3], 34-37 pp. Full description

€ 1,650

Economic History & Trade Fishery & Whaling UK - United Kingdom

The history, economy and politics of Oudewater

[KINSCHOT, Gaspar Rudolph van]. Beschryving der stad Oudewater; waarin aangetoont word der zelver herkomst uit het Uitrechtsche Bisdom, overgang tot de Graaflykheid van Holland en haare gemaakte onafscheidbaarheid van de zelve, ...
Including:
-Handvesten, privilegien, octroyen, placaaten en ordonnantien; mitsgaders keuren, giften, resolutien, en andere voorname stukken, de stad Oudewater betreffende.
-Oude en nieuwe keuren der stad Oudewater.
-Ordonnantie en instructie, voor schepenen commissarissen der stede Oudewater, ...
Delft, Reinier Boitet, 1747. 4to. With title in red and black with engraved vignette with the arms of Oudewater supported by lions, in a decorative cartouche with vines, full-page engraved dedication to the 4 burgomasters and governors of Delft, including the author's father (with their arms and the crowned arms of Oudewater, Delft and Alkmaar), 2 engraved maps and 5 views of Oudewater (all folding), 2 engraved numismatic illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. XVI, "600" [= 604], 14, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Law & Politics Netherlands

Funeral rites and ceremonies in ancient Rome, with 5 engraved plates by Romeyn de Hooghe

KIRCHMANN, Johann. De funeribus Romanorum libri quatuor.Including: RIGAULT, Nicolas. Funus parasiticum sive L. Biberii curculionis parasiti, mortualia. Ad ritum prisci funeris.
Leiden, Hackius, 1672. With an engraved frontispiece and 4 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) KIRCHMANN, Johann. In funere V. Cl. Pauli G.F.P.N. Merulae. Historiarum Professoris in academia Batavorum, & foederatarum provinciarum historiographi, oratio, in qua de vita scriptisque ejus disseritur.Leiden, Hackius, 1672. 2 works in 1 volume (the first in two parts). 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [48], 649, [45], [2 blank], 24; [8], 64 pp. Full description

€ 950

Archaeology Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Classical Antiquity Italy

Complete first edition of Kluit's history of the government of the Dutch Republic to 1795

KLUIT, Adriaan. Historie der Hollandsche staatsregering, tot aan het jaar 1795. Of geschied- en staatkundig onderzoek, in welken zin de staten van Holland, gedurende de republikeinsche regering, zijn geweest de wettige souvereine vertegenwoordigers van 't gansche volk van Holland, of der geheele natie.
Amsterdam, Wouter Brave 1802-1805. 5 volumes. 8vo. With one folding plate, in vol. 1 between pp. 462 and 463. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, red spine labels lettered in gold, green ribbon markers. 12, 520; [1], [1 blank], 547; [1], [1 blank], 556; IV, 630; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 652 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Law & Politics Netherlands

Rare heraldic game for young noblemen, improving and displaying their knowledge
of the genealogy, heraldry, geography and history of the main regions of Europe

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Vermakelyk wapen-kundig, geographisch, en historisch spel, betreffende de voornaamste heerschende staten in Europa. En dienende om de jonge lieden, inzonderheid die van een meer als gemeene geboorte of educatie zyn, de wapen-kunde, geographie en historie gelyk als speelender wyze te leeren.
Amsterdam, David Klippink, 1768. 8vo. With a full-page engraved armorial plate with the coat-of-arms of the British chivalric Order of the Garter with their motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" and small woodcut hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds in a card game in the text. 19th-century brown cloth, yellow endpapers. [24], 203, [5] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Games & Sports Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Geography

The most richly illustrated edition of a famous description of South Africa

KOLB (KOLBE), Peter. Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop.
Amsterdam, Balthazar Lakeman, 1727. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 6 engraved maps (including one large folding map, 42.5 x 54.5 cm), 1 engraved plan and 45 engraved plates. 18th-century tanned sheepskin with a tree pattern, gold-tooled spine. [20], 529; [6], 449, [87] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Herbals & Medical Botany Mammals Travel & Voyages Africa VOC

The rights and duties of women in sex, love and marriage

KORNMANN, Heinrich. Sibylla trig-Andriana, seu virginitate, virginum statu et jure tractatus novus et jucundus ...
Including:
De annulo triplici: usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio: ...
Linea amoris sive commentarius in versiculum glossae, ...
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1654. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [24], 214; 69, [3]; 117, [3] pp. Full description

€ 950

Education & Pedagogy Philosophy & Esotericism Women History

The rights and duties of women in sex, love and marriage

KORNMANN, Heinrich. Sibylla trig-Andriana, seu virginitate, virginum statu et jure tractatus novus et jucundus ...
Including:
-De Annulo triplici: usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio: ...
-Linea amoris sive commentarius in versiculum glossae, ...
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1654.
With: (2) BOETHIUS. De consolatione philosophiae, libri v. ex vetustissimis libris a Th. Pulmannus.
Leiden, Officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1590. With Plantin's woodcut compasses device on title-page. 2 editions in 1 volume (the first in 3 parts). 12mo. 17th-century overlapping sheepskin parchment. [24], 214; 69, [3]; 117, [3]; 144 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Erotica Law & Politics Mineralogy & Gems Philosophy & Esotericism Plantin Press Women History

Large map depicting the world's oil industry, including the Middle East and Egypt

KORYTKO, Stefan. General orientative map of the world's oil industry | Übersichtskarte der Welt- Naphtha-Industrie | Carte d'orientation de l'industrie de pétrole du monde | Mapa pogladowa swiatowego przemyslu naftowego.
Lviv, Stefan Korytko, 1925. Large folding chromolithographed map (map size 65.5 x 88 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Full description

€ 6,500

Charts & Maps Earth Sciences

On Ibn Khaldun's cultural history

KREMER, Alfred von. Ibn Chaldun und seine Culturgeschichte der Islamischen Reiche.
Vienna, Karl Gerold's son (back of title-page: Adolf Holzhausen), 1879. 8vo. With 4 leaves with Arabic text. Contemporary paper wrappers. 62, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Greek & Non-Western Types Islamic Art, Culture & Science

Guide for new employees of the Kuwait Oil Company arriving in Al Ahmadi

KUWAIT OIL COMPANY. Information for new engagements on joining the Kuwait Oil Company, Limited, Kuwait.
Al Ahmadi, Kuwait Oil Company, 18 June 1952. Small folio (33 x 20.5 cm). Duplicated typescript, printed on the rectos only in purple ink, probably with a spirit duplicator. Loose sheets, stapled together at the left top corner with holes punched in the left margin. [2], 22 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Economic History & Trade Iran / Persia Kuwait Law & Politics

Detailed and lavishly illustrated memoirs of travels in the Caribbean

LABAT, Jean-Baptiste. Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse eilanden van America.
Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. 4 volumes bound as 2. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces, 11 folding engraved maps and plans, and 83 full-page plates. Contemporary polished half calf. [2], 18, 350; [1 blank], [1], 404; [2], 235, 254; [1 blank], [4], 200, 167, [32] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Faunas & General Zoology Latin America Middle America Slavery South America Technology Travel & Voyages South America West Indies

Account of Napoleon's Russian campaign in a scarce Portuguese edition

LABAUME, Eugene. Relação completa da campanha da Russia em 1812.
Lisbon, widow of Neves and sons, 1818. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 2 folding engraved plates (ca. 26 x 41 and 24 x 33.5 cm). Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine. [10], IV, 237, [1]; 234 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Eastern Europe France Military History (19th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia)

How to become a Don Juan

[LACLOS, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de]. Les liaisons dangereuses, ou lettres recueilles dans une société, & publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Par M. C..... De L.
Amsterdam; Paris, Durand Neveu, 1782. 4 volumes bound as 2. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, blind-tooled double fillet frame on boards, sewn on 5 supports, gold-tooled spine with gold-tooled brown leather labels and red sprinkled edges. 248; 240; 230; 256 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

French Literature Women History

Early humanist edition of Lactantius' most important works, printed in Venice

LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus and Giovanni Andrea BUSSI) (editor) [and others]. Opera [and additional works].
Comprising:
(1) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De divinis institutionibus
(2) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De ira Dei.
(3) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De opificio Dei.
(4) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De phoenice carmina.
(5) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. [Epitome divinarum institutionem]. Nephytomon.
Additional works:
(6) RAUDENSIS, Antonius. [Lactantii Firmiani errata].
(7) GENUENSIS, Adam. His carminibus frater Adam Genuensis increpat fratrem Antonium. [Incipit:] Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius aussis.
(8) BUSSI, Giovanni Andrea. Ioannis Andreae episcopi Aleriensis ad Paulum secundum Venetum pontificem maximum epistola.
(9) OVIDIUS, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses (extract).
(10) ALIGHIERI, Dante. Comedia, inferno XXV (extract).
(11) FORTUNATUS, Venantius. [De christi resurrectione]. [Incipit:] Lactantii fir. de resurrectio[n]is dominicae die/ [S]alve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.
(Colophon:) Venice, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 1390 [=1490]. 5 works and 6 additional texts in 1 volume. Folio. The text is set in Roman type with some incidental Greek.20th-century goatskin parchment, with the author and title stamped on the spine with black foil, the name of the author added in manuscript on the bottom edge of the book block. [1 blank], [147] ll. Full description

€ 6,000

Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 15th century Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics Italy Philosophy & Esotericism

The Dutch West India Company (WIC) in the Americas,
a contemporary description by one of the company's directors

LAET, Johannes de. Historie ofte iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie, zedert haer begin tot het eynde van 't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-en-dertich. Begrepen in dertien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert.
Including:
IDEM. Kort verhael uyt de voorgaende boecken ghetrocken vande diensten ende nuttigheden die desen staet heeft genooten by de West-Indische Compagnie; ende schaden die deselve den koningh van Spagnien heeft ghedaen sedert haer begin tot het eynde van den jaere 1636.
Leiden, Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevier, 1644. Folio. With the title printed in red and black, with the Elzevier woodcut device, and 13 double-page engraved maps and views. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine with a black morocco title-label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges, gold-tooled board edges. [32], 544, 31, [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 48,000

Brazil Caribbean Islands South America WIC

Freeing Christian slaves in Algiers and Tunis in 1720

[LA FAYE, Jean Baptiste de]. Voyage pour la redemption des captifs, aux royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis. Fait en 1720. Par les PP. François Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, & Joseph Bernard de l'Ordre de la sainte Trinité, dits Mathurins.Including: La tradition de l'eglise.
Paris, Louis-Anne Sevestre and Pierre-François Giffart, 1721. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Louis XV, engraved by P.F. Giffart, folding engraved plate of the court of the Dey (Regent) of Algiers, and a regular engraved plate in the second part. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [8], 169, [1 blank]; [10], LX, 306, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,000

Church History & Missions North Africa & Egypt Slavery

Colour-printed emblematic polemics for and against war with the Ottoman Empire

[LA HAYE, Jean de]. Peristromata Turcica, sive dissertatio emblematica, praesentem Europae statum ingeniosis coloribus repraesentans.
With:
(2) [HARSDÖRFFER, Georg Philipp]. Germania deplorata, sive relatio, qua pragmatica momenta belli pacisque expenduntur.
(3) [MILAG, Martin]. Aulaea Romana, contra Peristromata Turcica expansa: sive dissertatio emblematica, concordiae Christianae omen repraesentans.
(4) [Anonymous French critic of Cardinal RICHELIEU]. Gallia deplorata, sive relatio, de luctuoso bello, quod rex Christianissimus contra vicinos populos molitur.
[Nürnberg, Wolfgang Endter] (ad 1 with a false colophon: Paris, Toussaint du Bray), [each title-page with a chronogram:] 1641 (ads 1-2, 4) & 1642 (ad 3). 4 editions published together in 1 volume. 4to. With 4 letterpress title-pages in red and black, each with the date in a chronogram, 2 engraved title-plates plus 12 full-page engraved emblematic illustrations, all on integral leaves, each with a small plate nested in a larger plate (7 in the Peristromata with a varying rectangular central plate in dark blue or black and the same outer plate of a Persian carpet in orange; 7 in the Gallia with a varying oval central plate and the same outer plate representing peace with the palm tree in a landscape device of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and a border representing war with military attributes). Further with 5 woodcut head- and tailpieces (plus 8 repeats), 21 "woodcut" decorated initials (5 series, at least some actually metal castings made from woodcuts) plus 8 repeats, and cast vine-leaf ornaments, acorns and other fleurons. Set in roman and italic types with incidental Greek and Hebrew. Light brown calf (ca. 1820?) by Charles Murton (ca. 1795?-ca. 1860?) in London, with his stamp on the front paste-down, sewn on 5 cords, gold-tooled spine with black morocco label, gold thick-thin fillets on boards, gold-tooled board edges, blind-tooled turn-ins, curl-marbled endpapers (white, red, blue, yellow and blue-green in that order), and an orange silk ribbon marker. 46, [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 34; 64; 51, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Colour Printing / Chromolithography Emblems France Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

History of Dutch America

LAMBRECHTSEN, Nicolaas Cornelis. Korte beschrijving van de ontdekking en der verdere lotgevallen van Nieuw-Nederland, weleer eene volkplanting van het gemeenebest der Vereenigde Nederlanden in America.
Middelburg, S. van Benthem, 1818. 8vo. With a large folding map (plate size 54.5 x 42 cm). Contemporary paper wrappers, with parts of the publisher's original printed-paper spine. [6], 102, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade North America VOC

The pre-Islamic coinage of the Arabs

LANGLOIS, Victor. Numismatique des Arabes avant l'islamisme.
Paris, C. Rollin and Druand; London, J. Curt (colophon and back of half-title: printed by Pommeret and Moreau, Paris), 1859. 4to. With 4 numbered engraved plates and 1 lithographed "bis" plate. Publisher's letterpress printed paper wrappers. XII, 158 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Economic History & Trade Numismatics

Around the world in 1180 days, with 2 folding maps and 31 steel-engraved views

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. Campagne de circumnavigation de la frégate l'Artémise, pendant les annéees 1837, 1838, 1839 et 1840, ... Tome premier[-sixième].
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1841-1854. 6 volumes. 8vo. With 2 large folding engraved maps and 31 steel-engraved views. With the maps coloured in outline or partly coloured, and with the routes indicated and coloured. Contemporary boards, covered with the publisher's original green printed paper. XXXIX, [1 blank], 343, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 467, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 548, [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 464, [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], III, [1 blank], 542, [2]; [3], [1 blank], 400 pp. Full description

€ 22,500

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Algeria and its notorious pirates

LAUGIER DE TASSY, Jacques Philippe. Beschryving van het koningryk en de stadt Algiers, met den tegenwoordigen staat dier regeeringe, landt- en zeemagt, inkomsten, staatswetten, werreltlyk recht en koophandel.
Including: Lyst der schepen, welke sedert den 24 december 1715, tot het einde des jaars 1724 door de Algiersche roovers van den staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden genomen zyn.
Amsterdam, Marten Schagen, 1725. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved title-page, folding engraved map of Algeria, folding engraved view and a folding engraved bird's eye view of Algiers. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards, gold-tooled board edges. [16], “300” [=298], [16] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Economic History & Trade Mediterranean Regions Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa & Egypt

First and only edition of a description of Bali

LAUTS, Ulrich Gerard. Het eiland Balie en de Balienezen.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1848. 8vo. With lithographed title-page and a folding lithographed map of the island Bali. Contemporary dark green half cloth. [2], VIII, 285, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Slavery Southeast Asia Women History

Very rare early edition of France’s first legal code initiated by Napoleon Bonaparte

[LAW - FRENCH]. Code civil des français, imprimé sur lédition originale de limprimerie de la République et des lois. Premiere[-seconde] partie.
Paris, Louis Courcier; Angoulême, Adrien Marrot; Bordeaux, Thiron and Sigal, 1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo.
Contemporary gold-tooled calf, with a black morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. [2], 329, [1 blank]; [4], 268 pp. Full description

€ 5,000

France Law & Politics

Very rare and important account of Punjab before the Anglo-Sikh War, printed in Delhi

LAWRENCE, Henry Montgomery. Some passages in the life of an adventurer in the Punjab. Originally published in the Delhi Gazette.
Delhi, Gazette Press, by Kunniah Lall, 1842. 8vo. With a loosely inserted letterpress printed "Note by the publishers" declaring that in hindsight the publisher would have preferred this edition in larger dimensions and in 2 volumes, but the printer lacked understanding of "the art of book printing". Also included is a manuscript note with bibliographical information relating to Indian printing. Contemporary half red roan with gold-tooled title on spine, marbled sides. [IV], [III], 275 pp. Full description

€ 5,250

India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics

Archaeological account and artefacts from the Turfan area, China, with numerous plates

LE COQ, Albert von. Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien. Ergebnisse der Kgl. Preussischen Turfan-Expeditionen.
Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1922-1933 [facsimile: Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1973-1975]. 6 text volumes and 1 atlas. 35,5 x 26 cm; atlas 54 x 36,5 cm. With a total of 185 plates in the text volumes, 22 plates in the atlas volume, mostly in black and white, some in colour, and numerous illustrations in text. Uniform decorated brown cloth. 29; 62; 53; 29; 32; 89; 80 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Archaeology Art & Art History China Iran / Persia

Rare revised and enlarged edition of an important practical handbook for notaries

LEEUWEN, Simon van. Notarius publicus, dat is: de practycke ende oeffeninge der notarissen.
Including: Woorden-boeck, waer inne allerhande konst- ende bastaert-woorden, tot de pracktijcque des notarischaps en andere rechts-oeffeninge behoorende, uyt Hugo de Groot, Hooft, Huygens, Vondel, ende andere, soo oude als nieuwe tael-schriften, op 't nauwkeurighste werden vertaelt, ...
Dordrecht, Abraham Andriesz (colophon: Dordrecht, printed by Nicolaes de Vries, 1658). Small 8vo (14.5 x 9.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece showing two gentlemen visiting a notary's office. Contemporary vellum. [10], 108, [2]; [1], [1 blank], 154 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Law & Politics School & Textbooks

Journal of a 1674/75 overland voyage through India, Iran, Iraq and Syria to Amsterdam

LEEUWENSON, Joannes (Pieter Arend LEUPE, ed. & intro.). Eene overlandreis uit Indië naar Nederland, in 1674-1675.
[Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1863]. 8vo. Offprint, retaining the original pagination and collation, of an article in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6 (1863). 20th-century stiff paper wrappers, with a printed label on the front. pp. [89], 90-142. Full description

€ 1,250

Germany India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Italy Netherlands Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Turkey & Ottoman Empire VOC

Energy-saving in the 18th century

LEHMANN, Johann Christian. Allgemeine oeconomische Holzspahrkunst ... darinnen bey 70 Arten verbesserter Oefen beschrieben .... mehr als die Hälfte Holz erspahret werden könne ... Neue Auflage.
Leipzig, Grotzische Handlung, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 10 folding engraved plates with stoves, ovens and chimneys. Contemporary half, tanned sheepskin, with gold-tooled red morocco title-label on spine. [4], 162; 128, [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,000

Economic History & Trade Technology

A plea for the Dutch textile industry

[LEIDEN - INDUSTRY]. Hollands algemeene bloey of ruine, door het al, of niet gebruiken van eige manufactuuren; aangetoont in een vertoog van der zelver eertyds gewenschte staat, tegenwoordig deerlyk verval, en uiterste noodzakelykheid van - en middelen tot herstel ... Gevolgt van een' opwekking aan alle regtgeaarde vaderlanders, om edelmoedig alles toe te brengen, datv tot bevordering van die voorname tak van koophandel dienen kan; en een dieper verval ... voortekomen, met het voorstaan en in gebruik brengen van onze eige fabrieken, boven die der vreemden.
Leiden, Abraham Honkoop, 1754. 4to. Disbound, loose in modern blank wrappers. 76 pp. Full description

€ 600

Economic History & Trade

Amsterdam as the commercial capital of the world, including the first edition of the "Traité des arbitrages"

LE MOINE DE L'ESPINE, Jacques. Le negoce d'Amsterdam, ou traité de sa banque, de ses changes, des Compagnies Orientales & Occidentales, des marchandises qu'on tire de cette ville, & qu'on y porte de toutes les parties de monde, des poids, des mesures, des aunages, & du tarif. ...
Including: MONDOTEGUY, Jacques. Traité des arbitrages qui se sont par change sur les principales villes de l'Europe, ou la ville d'Amsterdam à change ouvert.
Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1710. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century half vellum. [4], 388, [2] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Amsterdam Economic History & Trade Netherlands VOC WIC

96 letters from Dutch diplomats throughout Europe, 1715-1729

[LETTERS - DIPLOMATIC]. [Official contemporary copies of incoming diplomatic correspondence to the Dutch government in The Hague from Dutch ambassadors, envoys, diplomatic residents and others in Vienna, Graz, Schaffhausen, Turin, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Moscow, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dresden, Regensburg, Warsaw, Grodno, Maastricht, The Hague, Brussels and Ostend].
[The Hague], letters dated 26 January-17 December 1715 and 7 November 1725-22 November 1729. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm). 96 letters clearly written in dark brown ink on paper, 84 in Dutch and 12 in French, mostly in a Latin hand (the Dutch ones from 1715 in a semi-gothic hand). Loose leaves in a modern portfolio. [96] letters ([138] written pp. on [97] ll.). Full description

€ 8,500

Autographs & Letters Law & Politics Malta

A rare Czech translation of a Turkish chronicle

LEUNCLAVIUS, Joannes. Kronyka Nowa O Narodu Tureckem, na dwa Djili rozdelena.
Prague, Daniel Adam, 1594. 2 volumes bound as 1. Small 4to (19.5 x 15.5 cm). With the title-page of volume 1 printed in red and black, and the colophon with large woodcut printer's device; the 2nd volume with woodcut ornament on the title-page, and the colophon with a woodcut vignette. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with 2 leather straps with brass clasps (later). [12], 28, [1], [3 blank]; [16], 385, [18], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Early Printing - 16th century Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Only Dutch translation of the 1824-1825 farewell tour of general Lafayette, the hero of the American Revolution

LEVASSEUR, Auguste. Reis door de Vereenigde Staten van Noord-Amerika in de jaren 1824 en 1825 door den generaal Lafayette.
Zutphen, W.J. Thieme, 1831. 2 volumes. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of Lafayette for frontispiece to volume 1. Contemporary boards with pasted title-label on spine, uncut. 8, 254, [1, 1 blank]; [1, 1 blank], 223, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

North America Travel & Voyages North America

Comprehensive scientific periodical, with articles on James Cook and Hawaii

LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph and Georg FORSTER. Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur.
Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1780. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of James Cook as frontispiece of part 2, 5 engraved plates (including one coloured by hand), 4 folding engraved plates (including one printed on blue paper and with highlights in silver) and one folding plate with letterpress music. Modern paste-paper boards. [8], 168; [1], [1 blank], 169-334; Full description

€ 4,750

Birds - Ornithology Hawaii Herbals & Medical Botany Pacific Islands Science Travel & Voyages Pacific

An interactive moral instructor for young women, by the pioneers of 19th-century "lift-the-flap books"

[LIFT-THE-FLAP BOOK - MORAL INSTRUCTION FOR YOUNG WOMEN]. [GRIMALDI, Stacey and William GRIMALDI (illustrator)]. The toilet. Third edition.
London, by the author, 1823. With an engraved title-page and 9 hand-coloured engraved illustrations with movable pieces, all text is set within an ornamental frame. Contemporary gold-tooled greenish black morocco, gilt edges. [17] ll. and 10 plates. Full description

€ 875

Art & Art History Children's Books Education & Pedagogy Women History

The unfortunate expulsion of the Moriscos in Spain in 1609 as ordered by King Philip III of Spain
during the Twelve Years' Truce

PHILIP III, King of Spain (Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTEN, translator). Missive ofte placcaet van den coninck van Spangien ghesonden aenden hartoch van Lerma, aengaende het bannen ende verjaghen van de Moriscos, dat zijn de oude landtsaten vant coninckrijck van Valencien in Spangien.
Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1609. 4to. With an ornamental woodcut title vignette and a woodcut initial. Modern marbled paper over boards, new endpapers. [3] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

The foreign politics of Spain

LIPSIUS, Justus. Sent-brief, in welcke hy antwoorde gheeft aen een seker groot Heer op de vraghe, welck van dryen den Coninck van Hispaengien best gheraden ware, oorloghe of pays oft liever bestant met den Fransman, Engelsche ende Hollander. Gheschreven den derden Januarij 1595. Ghetrouwelijck uyt den Latijn in Nederduytsche tale over-gheset, ende (soo veel alst moghelijcken is) den stijl ghevolcht.
Dusseldorf, Werner van der Horst, 1608. 4to. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece. Disbound. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 250

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

Highly interesting collection of letters by top German diplomats on the events
leading to the Dutch Republics "rampjaar" (disastrous year) 1672

[LISOLA, François Paul de; Daniel Johannes CAMPRICHT]. Le denovement des intrigues du temps par la response au livret intitué, Lettres et autres pieces curieuses sur les affaires du temps. Fait par le S.I.P.P.B.
Brussels, 1673.
With:
(2) [WICQUREFORT, Abraham de (attributed to)]. Remarques sur le discours du commandeur de Gremonville, fait au Conseil dEstat de sa Maiesté Imperiale.
The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1673.
(3) [AUBUSSON de la FEUILLADE, Georges]. Harrange en forme de panegyrique presentée au Roy par Mr. lArchevesque dAmbrun Evesque de Metz, en son passage à Metz, le 30, Juillet 1673.
Metz, Jean Antoine, 1673.
(4) [CHARLES II, King of England]. Declaration du Roy dAngleterre sur la mediation offerte par Mr. LElecteur de Mayencé, faite à Whitehal. Le 15. Feuvrier. Anno 1673.
4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [1], 1-15, 17-222, [2]; 47, [1 blank]; [8]; [4] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

France Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Scandinavia WIC

Classical and modern opinions on human fluids

LISTER, Martin. Dissertatio de humoribus, in qua veterum ac recentiorum medicorum ac philosophorum opiniones & sententiae examinantur.
Amst., (heirs of Johannes II) Janssonius van Waesberge, 1711. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [18], 486, [24] pp. Full description

€ 1,000

Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Women History

The rare first Livius translation into Dutch printed in the Northern Netherlands

LIVIUS, Titus. De Roomsche historie oft gesten, door den alder welsprekensten ende vernaemsten histori-schrijver Titum Livium beschreven. Waer uut niet alleen alle wereltlijcke staten tot vromicheyt ende ridderlijcke manlijcke feyten beweecht ende ghedronghen, maer oock alle ander staten tot grooter recreatien ende gheneuchten des herten ghetrocken sullen worden.
Leiden, Jan Paedts Jacobszoon & Jan Bouwensz., 1585. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a general title-page and three divisional titles. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over thick bevelled wooden boards with modern leather ties and straps. [12], 301 ll. Full description

€ 3,750

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

British admiral's eye witness report of Arab slavers activity in Zanzibar

LLOYD, Rodney Maclaine. Reporting proceedings on detached boat service.
Zanzibar, 9 July 1886. Folio (ca. 20 x 32 cm), with the Britannia watermark. Signed manuscript letter. Loose single sheet. [1] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Autographs & Letters Manuscripts & Documents Naval History Slavery UK - United Kingdom

Second edition, the first to be publicly distributed, of a political pamphlet,
criticising the Brazilian Emperor and arguing for a more democratic form of governance

L. M. [= MEDRADO, José Joaquim Landulfo da Rocha]. Os cortezãos e a viagem do Imperador. Ensaio politico sobre a situação por L. M.
Bahia, Typographia de Camillo de Lellis Masson & C., 1860. 8vo in 4s (ca. 21.5 x 14 cm). Later half brown sheepskin. VIII, 53, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics South America

A Swiss jurist’s account of Algeria

LOCHER, Friedrich. Nach den Oasen von Laghuat.
Bern, Haller, 1864. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece showing the palace of the khalif in Laghouat and a folding lithographed map of the northern part of Algeria. Contemporary red half cloth. VIII, 208 pp. Full description

€ 800

Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East

One of the first French accounts of the American Revolutionary War for independence

[LONGCHAMPS, Pierre Charpentier de]. Histoire imperiale des événemens militaires et politiques de la derniere guerre, dans les quatre parties du monde.
Paris, the widow of Duchesne, 1785. 3 volumes. 12mo. With Duchesnes woodcut publishers device (DC monogram in a wreath and accompanied by oak branches) and a different headpiece in each volume. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf. 558, [2]; 523; [2], 620 pp. Full description

€ 2,000

Law & Politics North America USA - United States of America

"the finest work on seventeenth-century Thailand"

LOUBÈRE, Simon de la. Du Royaume de Siam.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1691. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. With the same woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, 17 double-page engraved plates with printed music, Siamese alphabets, inhabitants etc., 21 full-page engraved plates, engraved headpiece and several woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. [8], 436, [2]; [4], 324, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,950

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Unique circular box to contain a commemorative medal on the occasion of the first plebiscite
on the re-election of Louis Napoleon as Prince-President, on 21 December 1851

[LOUIS NAPOLEON]. Cylindrical black lacquered wooden box.
Diameter 90 mm; height 21 mm. With a lacquered engraved portrait of Louis Napoleon mounted on the centre of the lid, below his coat-of-arms (an eagle facing to the viewers right with the motto "Vox populi vox Dei" and the caption "Lélu du peuple") and above the total number of votes (7,481,231) cast for him on 21 December 1851; the portrait is surrounded by the names of all the French Departments (Ain, Aisne ... Yonne), the colonies and the army, each with the exact number of votes for and against him. With a red ribbon to open the box. Full description

€ 2,500

France Law & Politics Numismatics

The second voyage of Paul Lucas through the Levant

LUCAS, Paul. Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait par ordre du Roi dans la Grèce, L'Asie Mineure, La Macedoine et L'Afrique. Contenant la description de la Natolie, de la Caramanie, & de la Macedoine.
Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and a title-page printed in red and black for each part, 9 folding engraved plates with pyramids, archeological findings, the Holy Grave, and inscriptions, 2 folding engraved maps of the Levant (engraved by B. Ruyter), and of Fioum, the Nile and surroundings in Egypt, and 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. [1], [1 blank], [28], 323, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [8], 328 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Archaeology Balkan & Greece Eastern Europe Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Iran / Persia North Africa & Egypt Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

17th-century engraved book on mathematics & fortification

LUDERS, Theodoric. Traicté mathematique contenant les principales definitions, problemes et theoremes d'Euclide. l'Arithmetique decimale. . . . La fortification Hollandoise. Francoise. Italienne. Et Espagnolle.
Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. With engraved title-page, engraved table, and 34 numbered engraved plates (11 double-page).
With: (2) LUDERS, Theodoric. Traité d'arithmetique contenant les reigles necessaires aux marchands, banquiers, changeurs, &. financiers: . . .
Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (50×34.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine (rebacked with original backstrip laid down). Full description

€ 9,500

Astronomy & Cosmography Economic History & Trade Fortification & Military Architecture Mathematics Military History (17th Century) Optics & Perspective

Encyclopedia of world history in Dutch

LUISCIUS, A.G. Het algemeen historisch, geographisch en genealogisch woordenboek, vervattende de gehele wereldlyke geschiedenis...
The Hague, Pieter Husson, Thomas Johnson, Johannes van Duren, Charles le Vier; Delft, Reinier Boitett, 1724-1737. 8 volumes. Large folio (41.5 x 27.5 cm). Vol. 1 with an impressive engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart and an engraved armorial dedication to Isack van Hoornbeek. Each volume except the first has an engraving at the head of the first page depicting a library with visitors in it. Contemporary and uniform mottled half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spine with red label. [14], 574; 440, 192; 428, 146; 234, 190; 600; 578; 556; 572 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Law & Politics VOC WIC

An influential compilation of the works of Ramon Lull

LULL, Ramon. Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso artem universalem, scientiarum artium que omnium brevi compendio, firmaq[ue] menmoria apprehendendarum, locupletissimaq[ue] vel oratione ex tempore pertractandarum, pertinent.
Strasbourg, sold by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1617.
With:
(2) ALSTED, Johann Heinrich. Clavis artis Lullianae, et verae logices ...
Strasbourg, sold by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1633.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 3 folding letterpress tables, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, a decorated woodcut initial at the start of each chapter, and a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. [16], 1109, [39], [2 blank]; [8], 182; [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Philosophy & Esotericism Religion (17th Century)

A defence of Arab culture in Spain

LUNA, Miguel de. Histoire des deux conquestes d'Espagne par les Mores, la premiere faite par Tarif & Mussa, sur les Crestiens; la seconde, par Abdalasis, sur les Mores revoltez, et des revolutions arrivées dans l'empire des califes pendant prés de cinquante ans. ...
Paris, widow of François Muguet, 1708. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, red edges. [24], 485, [4], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Bibliography & Biography Mediterranean Regions Military History (18th Century) Spain

Extremely rare work by Jan Luykens father on profit without loss, here for the first time including the second part

LUYKEN, Caspar. Onfeylbare regel van winste sonder verlies... Hier is noch achter gevoeght De wissel-banck, geopent door den selven autheur. De derde druck.
Amsterdam, Christoffel Luycken, 1663. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With small woodcut vignette on 2 title-pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges. 212; 52 pp. Full description

€ 5,000

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Famous work on the Middle East, illustrated with very early photogravures of the Holy Land

LUYNES, Honoré d'Albert de. Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain. ... Oeuvre posthume publiée par ses petit-fils sous la direction de M. le Comte de Vogüé.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand (on back of half-title: printed by E. Martinet (vols. 1-2) and Arnous de Rivière (vol. 3)), [1874]. 3 volumes of text and 1 atlas of plates. Imperial 4to (35.2 x 26.5 cm). With 14 numbered lithographed plates in volume 3 (4 double-page chromolithographed maps, views and geological sections; 2 further geological plates and 8 plates showing archaeological specimens), 85 plates in the atlas volume (including 65 photogravures and double-page chromolithographed maps) and numerous wood-engravings in the text. Set in roman and italic types with occasional passages in Greek and especially Arabic. Text volumes in original publisher's letterpress-printed light blue wrappers, atlas in half cloth portfolio with the original publisher's letterpress-printed paper sides, matching the text volumes; the 4 volumes preserved in 2 modern black half calf clamshell boxes. [8], 388; [6], 226; [4], VI, 326; [4] pp. Full description

€ 35,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Archaeology Colour Printing / Chromolithography Photography Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East

A great compendium of canon law, finely printed in Antwerp for the English market

LYNDWOOD, William. Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie: cum summarijs, atque justis annotationibus, politissimis caracteribus, summaque accuratione rursum reuise, atque impresse.
Including: BADIUS, Jodocus (Josse BADE). Tabula indices.
London, Franciscus Bryckman (colophon: Antwerp, printed by Christoffel van Ruremund, 20 December 1525). 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With two title-pages, each in a woodcut border. The first shows above heaven with the holy trinity surrounded by the heavenly population, and below the world with the pope and the king kneeling before the church, surrounded by the clergy; on the second title-page the coat of arms of England, a Tudor rose with the "IHS" and Saint George and the dragon. Printed in black and red throughout. Contemporary calf in modern slipcase. CCLV [= CCLVJ], [28] ll. Full description

€ 7,000

Book History, Printing & Typography Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)

Historical map of the Netherlands, printed on silk, together with the separately published manual, with a hand-coloured world map

MAASKAMP, Evert. Geschiedkundige kaart der Nederlanden. | Carte historique des Pays-Bas.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1830. Map (plate size 48 x 38 cm) engraved by "Giersbergen et fils", printed on silk and hand-coloured in outline, with the title at upper left, a dedication at lower left, and a key and scale (ca. 1:1,000,000) at lower right.
With: (2) MAASKAMP, Evert. Handboek, ter verklaring der geschiedkundige kaart van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden, en der wereldkaart; behelzende eene opgave van de roemrijkste en lofwaardste daden der Nederlanders, derzelver krijgsbedrijven te land en ter zee, scheepstochten, ontdekkingen, uitvindingen enz.; als mede van zoodanige voorname personen, die in wetenschap, kunst of heldenmoed, hebben uitgeblonken.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1830. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of the world, with the continents hand-coloured. Contemporary red boards, boards gold-tooled along the extremities. VIII, 8, 1-38, 37-77, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank]. Full description

€ 1,500

Belgium Charts & Maps Netherlands

Discovery of the Canary Islands in classical Greek and Roman, Arabic and Portuguese sources

MACEDO, Joaquim José da Costa de. Memoria em que se pertende provar que os Arabes não conhecerão as Canarias antes dos Portuguezes.
Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, 1844. Folio. With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms on the title-page. Modern brown paper wrapper. [4], 232 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

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Collected works of Macrobius in contemporary richly gold-tooled morocco

MACROBIUS, Theodosius Ambrosius. Quae exstant omnia, diligentissime emendata, et cum optimis editionibus collata, ut ex praefatione manifestum.
Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1736. 8vo. With engraved device on title-page, 5 woodcuts in text and woodcut arms above the colophon. Contemporary richly gold-tooled morocco (goatskin), each board with a large centre-piece in a panel design, gilt and gauffered edges, traces of clasps. XXXIX, [1], 640, 85, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Classical Antiquity

An extensive information source for British colonialists in Madras (India)

[BRITISH-INDIA]. The Madras almanac for the year of our lord 1829, calculated for the meridian of Port St. George. To which are added: lists of the civil, judicial and medical establishments, and of the Europeans not in the King's or Company's service. With other matters of useful information.
Madras, Asylum Press, [1828?]. 8vo. With 1 engraved hand-coloured folding plate showing different kinds of ships flags. Lacking 2 leaves.Contemporary red sheepskin, sprinkled edges. Rebacked in calf, red sheepskin spine label, blue paper pasted over the sides. [1 blank], [2], [1 blank], VI, 1-146, [2], 147-361, [1] blank, XXX, VIII pp. (lacking pp. 19-22). Full description

€ 1,750

Almanacs India & Sri Lanka

Maffei's account of the East and West Indies

MAFFEI, Joan Petro. Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri IV...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with faint manuscript title on spine and a small gilt-stamped rooster in the centre of the boards, remains of ties. [72], 478, [2 blank]; 401, [7] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Brazil Japan & Far East Jesuits Latin America Peru South America West Indies

The wisdom of Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, and Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, received in an early incunable

MAGNI, Jacobus [Jacques Legrand]. Sophologium.
[Strasbourg, R-printer (Adolf Rusch), ca. 1468]. Folio (21 × 28.2 cm). With the text set in 35 lines, spaces for initials show tiny guide letters, rubricated throughout, with 3- and 5-line blue or red Lombardic initials. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 217 (of 218) ff. (lacking the final blank).Roman type, Full description

€ 75,000

Early Printing - 15th century Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Philosophy & Esotericism

Letter by Pierre-Victor Malouet on the profit of colonialism in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) for Europe

MALOUET, Pierre-Victor. Lettre à M.S.D., membre du parlement, sur l'intérêt de l'Europe, au salut des colonies de l'Amérique.
London, Thomas Baylis, Joseph de Boffe, A. Dulau & co., 1797. 8vo. Marbled paper wrappers. [4], 36 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Caribbean Islands Economic History & Trade

A proposal for stationing mortars along the coast, to save shipwrecked persons

MANBY, George William. Papers relating to Captain Manby's plan for affording relief in cases of shipwreck: viz. Copies of instructuions, given by His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the purpose of carrying into effect the plan of Captain Manby, for affording relief in cases of shipwreck.
[London, House of Commons, 1816]. Folio. With several woodcuts and wood engravings of the inventions in text. Sewn. 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 850

Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Technology

An Arabist advocating archaeological research of the Near East

MANGER, Samuel Hendrik. Oratio inauguralis, de incremento philologiae sacrae ab idonea Arabiae atque Palaestinae exploratione sperando.
Franeker, Willem Coulon, 1762. Folio. With the woodcut coat of arms of Friesland on the title-page. Mid-19th-century marbled wrappers. [4], 67, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Archaeology Islamic Art, Culture & Science

Rare account of the campaigns of the Portuguese in North Africa in the 15th century

MANUEL Y VASCONCELOS, Augustin. Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana. Y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo.
Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627. 4to. With 3 woodcut tailpieces and 11 woodcut initials (at least 6 series). Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [5], 167, [3] ll. Full description

€ 1,650

Bibliography & Biography Military History (17th Century) North Africa & Egypt Portugal

Nice collection of 131 flags, banners, standards, and crests, made in Japan

[MANUSCRIPT - FLAGS - JAPAN]. "All the flags from 1893".
Japan, 1893. Collection of drawings of 131 flags, banners etc. on separate leaves of varying sizes, most of them coloured.
With: (2) [MANUSCRIPT]. [Decorated Japanese rice-paper].
Japan, [1893?]. Ten sample leaves 928 x 38 cm) of so-called rice paper (actually cut in small sheets from the pith of the rice-paper plant, Tetrapanax papyrifer), decorated with varying designs, like flowers, fans and traditional Japanese dolls.
19th-century wrappers of thick handmade Japanese paper, reinforced with straps of paper containing Japanese characters and blue and red stamps; with the title of ad 1 in Japanese characters on the front wrapper. [131]; [10] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Japan & Far East Manuscripts & Documents

Manuscript letter by the director of the VOC fort at Jaffanapatnam (Ceylon, now Jaffna, Sri Lanka) to his uncle, a VOC and city official in Rotterdam, asking for support

[MANUSCRIPT LETTER - VOC - CEYLON]. [Mattheus SCHENKENBERG]. [Contemporary copy of a letter dated 3 January 1699 from Mattheus Schenkenberg to his uncle Harmen van Soelen].
[Jaffanapatnam, Ceylon, 3 January 1699]. Folio (33 x 21 cm). The Dutch letter is written in a neat late 17th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Folded and kept together by an orange, white and blue piece of string in the left margin (1.5 cm from the edge of the leaves, in the middle). [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Autographs & Letters Ceylon India & Sri Lanka VOC

17th-century illustrated German manuscript containing the statutes
of the German Teutonic Order as approved by the Grand Master

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN & LATIN - HERALDRY - LITURGY]. MAYER, Lieven. (Drop-title on f. 5r:) Der hochen Deutschen Ritterordens Buech ...
[Germany], [after 1606, perhaps before 1618]. 4to. Manuscript in German and Latin on paper, written in a 17th-century hand. With 3 heraldic crosses showing the coats of arms of the Teutonic Order (a black Maltese cross) and 4 drawings showing costumes of several members of the order, all executed in watercolour highlighted with eggwhite. 20th-century mottled sheepskin, sewn on 5 supports, each board with a frame of blind double fillets crossing at the corners, with blind double fillets across the spine, title stamped in green roman capitals in the 3rd of 6 compartments. [5], 129 ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Church History & Missions Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Germany Manuscripts & Documents Military History (17th Century)

The famous case of the baker of Madrigal who pretended to be King of Portugal

[MANUSCRIPT - PORTUGAL]. MARTÍNEZ DE HERRERA. Relacion del sucesso, prissiones, y castigos de Gabriele Espinosa, que se fingiò Rey D. Sebastian de Portugal, y de Fray Miguel de los Santos, religiosso agustino portugues, vicario del convento de mo[n]jas augustinas de Nra. Sra. de Gracia de la villa de Madrigal... confessor del dicho Rey d. Sebastian y de ... Ana de Austria (hija del Sr. D. Juan de Austria).
(In the text:) Seville, 1684. 4to. With the title written in brown and red ink within a hand-drawn frame and some bird-figures below the last line on the title-page (in red ink). The text is written in a fine 17th-century hand, in brown ink. Contemporary limp vellum, with a manuscript title on the spine and remnants of ties. [1], [1 blank], [124], [6 blank] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Portugal

Collecting the signatures of early modern Dutch "celebrities",
in a beautifully decorated late 18th-century Dutch binding

[MANUSCRIPT - SIGNATURES - THE NETHERLANDS]. Handteekeningen van I. Gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland... II. Vorsten, staatsmannen, krijgsbevelhebbers, geleerden enz. ...
[The Netherlands, early 19th century]. Large 4to. With 162 signatures on 160 vellum or paper cuttings (mostly vellum, including 2 cuttings with 2 signatures each), mostly from the 17th century, some from the 18th century and a few from the early 19th century. Further with one large printed coat-of-arms (of the Wassenaer family) on the verso of the title-page, an engraving (ca. 9.5 x 7 cm) showing the house of Jacob Cats on the verso of leaf 34, and with 19 printed coats-of-arms on the versos of several leaves (16 depicting a coat-of-arms with the name of the family below and 3 blank shields). The title-page, headings, and captions all in a very neat late-18th-century or early 19th-century cursive script, written in Dutch using brown ink. Splendid late 18th-century (ca. 1790) gold-tooled red morocco, sewn on 4 supports with a smooth spine, bound by the so-called Second Dissertation Bindery (Leiden ca. 1780-ca. 1794; Storm van Leeuwen IIA, pp. 350-358), with 4 closing loops on the front board (1 top edge, 2 fore-edge, 1 bottom edge) connecting to 4 closing knotted buttons on the back board. Both boards show 3 gold-tooled floral frames built up from 2 different rolls with small corner pieces in between, the inner frame with 4 larger floral corner pieces and a large lozenge shaped centrepiece built up from multiple impressions of 5 different floral and animal stamps. Further with a gold-tooled spine and board edges, gilt edges, and marbled endpapers. [1], 40 ll. Full description

€ 18,000

Autographs & Letters Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

A treasure trove of documents about one of the most influential figures in 17th-century Utrecht, and the many people in his circle.

[MANUSCRIPT - UTRECHT - STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN, Johan]. [Fair copies of and extracts from official documents, from 1605 to 1635, concerning Johan Strick van Linschoten (1583-1648), initially Canon and finally Secretary of the Oudmunster chapter church in Utrecht, and influential member of the States Assembly of the province of Utrecht; Prince Maurits and others].
[Utrecht], ca. 1621-ca. 1635. Folio (31 x 20 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment, with remnants of leather ties. Manuscript title on the spine and writing on the front board. [5 blank], "260" [= 263], [1] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

Unpublished French study of Islamic coins and medals,
with about 157 drawings and engravings, many in colour

[MARCEL, Jean-Joseph?]. [Islamic coins and medals].
[Paris?], [ca. 1791-ca. 1817?]. Mostly folio (31.5 x 21 cm). A manuscript compilation of loose leaves and bifolia, with about 104 drawings (some in ink; some in coloured gouaches, many including gold, silver and other metallic colours) and about 53 engravings (some black on white; some white on black) each drawing and engraving showing the obverse and reverse of an Islamic coin or medal (except for about 3 that show only one side). Most of the drawings and engravings are on slips attached to leaves with notes in Arabic and French.Loose leaves and bifolia. [ca. 150] ll. Full description

€ 28,000

Economic History & Trade Islamic Art, Culture & Science Manuscripts & Documents Numismatics

Five ancient pharmacological, medical and botanical texts, well produced

MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS. De medicamentis Empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.
Basel, Froben, 1536. With a woodcut caduceus device on title-page and several woodcut initials. Set in roman types.
With: (2) [THORER, Alban]. [De re medica].
(Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528). With the first leaf of the main text in a 4-piece woodcut border (3 initalled I.F.), Cratander's woodcut device on the last otherwise blank leaf, showing Occasio, the goddess of chance, and dozens of charming woodcut initials. Set in roman types. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (30 x 22 cm). 20th-century half parchment. 252, [12]; 125, [1] ll. Full description

€ 25,000

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

The authoritative guide to Islamic jurisprudence: first English edition

[MARGHINANI, `Ali ibn Abi Bakr] (Charles HAMILTON, transl.). The Hedàya, or Guide; a commentary on the Mussulman laws: translated by the order of the Governor-General and Council of Bengal.
London, Thomas Bensley, 1791. 4 volumes. Small folio (22 x 27.5 cm). Modern half calf in period style, marbled sides, gold-tooled smooth spine divided into six fields by rolls, black morocco spine label in the second field, the others with an arabesque ornament. [2], LXXXIX, [1], XII, 561, [3]; VIII, 727, [3]; VIII, 609, [3]; VIII, 574, [54] pp. Errata leaf at end of each volume. Full description

€ 25,000

India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Law & Politics

Antwerp celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, commemorating the Battle of Lepanto (1571)

[MARITIME HISTORY]. Beschryving van de konstryke verciering en voortreffelyken toestel, ... ter gelegentheyd van het twee honderd-jaerig jubilé van de ... victorie, ... over een veel talryker Turksche vloot by Lepanten in 't jaer 1571. den 7. October, gemeenelijk genaemd, den zeeslag van Don Jean, van Oostenrijk, ... van den 6. tot den 13. October, van dit ... jubeljaer [chronogram 1771].
Antwerp, Pieter Johannes Parys, (approbation: 1771). 4to. With 3 engraved illustrations in the text. Lacking the integral frontispiece. 19th-century chemical-marbled glazed paper wrappers. 79, [1] pp., lacking frontispiece (pp. 1-2). Full description

€ 1,750

Antwerp Balkan & Greece Belgium Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Naval History Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Collection of texts concerning maritime law and the insurance of ships

[MARITIME LAW]. Zee-rechten, ...
Including:
-Zee-rechten, dat is dat hoogste ende oudste Gotlandtsche water-recht, dat de ghemeene koopliedende en schippers geordineert ende gemaeckt hebben tot Wisbuy.
-WEYTSEN, Quintyn. Tractaet van avaryen,...
-Ordonnantie der kamer van assuerantie en avarye, der steden Amsteldam, Rotterdam, Middelburgh, &c.
-[Drop-title:] Copye. Tol-rollen in den orizond, ...
-[Drop-title:] Nieuwe ordonnantie ende instructie, ... beroerende het stuck van de pilotage, ...
Amsterdam, Pieter and Karel van Rijschooten, 1710. With a woodcut vignette on the general title-page, and a woodcut illustration of a ship on the 3 part-titles.
With: (2) GLINS, Taco. Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de zee-rechten, ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis van der Stolk, 1727. With the same woodcut illustration of a ship on the title-page. 2 works in 1 volume (the first work in 5 parts). 4to. Contemporary vellum. [8], 160, [16], 40, 8, [40]; [12], 139, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Naval History

History of Reims, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI

MARLOT, Guillaume (& FLODOARDUS REMENSIS). Metropolis Remensis historia, a Frodoardo primum arctius digesta, nunc demum aliunde accersitis plurimum aucta, et illustrata, et ad nostrum hoc saeculum fideliter deducta. Tomus I; [Title of vol. 2:] Metropolis Remensis historia. Sive supplementum Frodoardi, ab anno CMLXX. Ad nostram aetatem fideliter et accurate productum.
Lille, Nicolas de Rache, 1666 (vol. 1) & Reims, Protasius Lelorain, 1679 (vol. 2). 2 volumes. Folio. With woodcut vignettes on the title-pages, vol. 1 with one full-page engraving of the facade of the Cathedral of Rheims and 6 half-page engravings by J. Dassonneville, and with woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Vol. 1: gold-tooled calf (dated "1740"), each board with the coat-of-arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740), in the centre, and the front board dated "1740", gold-tooled spine, gilt edges; vol. 2: contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with two red morocco labels lettered in gold. [14], 668, [16]; [8], 1-754, [2], 755-858, [2], 867-886, [28] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Armorial Bindings Bindings Church History & Missions

The Hague illustrated edition of the ‘ad usum Delphini edition’ of Virgil by Charles de la Rue

MARO, Publius Virgilius. Opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruaeus, Soc. Jesu, ad usum Serenissimi Delphini. Editio nova, auctior et emendatior ... Iuxta editionem noovissimam Parisiensem A. 1722.
The Hague, brothers Vaillant & N. Prevost, 1723. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title, woodcut initials, an engraved folding map of the eastern part of the Mediterranean showing the route of Aeneas on his way home and 8 full-page engravings. XXIV, 637, 223 pp. Full description

€ 375

Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics

Articles of association of the Dutch Whaling Company

[MARSELIS, J. & Th. van, and Coenraad BRANDLIGT]. Statuten der Nederlandsche Walvischvisscherij-Maatschappij, te Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, C.A. Spin, 1843. 8vo. With wood-engraved whale-hunting scene on title-page. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, kept in a modern half-morocco chemise and slipcase. 23, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade Fishery & Whaling Netherlands USA - United States of America

A popular collection of fictional lawsuits concerning love

[MARTIAL d'Auvergne]. LIII. arrests d'amours. Arresta amorum. Accuratissimis Benedicti Curtii Symphoriani commentariis ad utrusque iuris rationem, forensiumque actionum usum quàm acutissimè accommodata. Le tout diligemment reveu & corrigé en une infinité d'endroits outre les precedentes impressions.
Rouen, Thomas Mallard, 1587. 16mo. With title within an ornamental woodcut border. 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin. 899 [=897], [58], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Early Printing - 16th century French Literature Law & Politics

Important compilation of works on Dutch maritime law, the Laws of Wisbuy, and average, including collections of ordonnances. proclamations, decrees etc.

[MARTIME LAW]. Boek der zee-rechten.
Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1665 [with the index of the 1663 edition].
With:
(2) Extract uyt het register van de willekeuren der stadt Amsterdamme ....Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesberg, 1662.(3) Quintyn WEYTSEN. Een tractaet van Avarien ... The Hague, Jasper Doll, 1651 (colophon: Leyden, Philips de Croy, 1651).(4) Taco van GLINS. Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de Zee-rechten, uyt het Placcaet van Koninck Philips uytgegeven den letsten Octobris 1563 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Pluymer, 1665.
4to. All titles with woodcut title-vignettes and some with woodcut head- and tailpieces or woodcut initials. All titles are interleaved. Contemporary vellum over boards. [8]; 144; [8]; 23; [12], 139 pp. with some blank leaves between the different ordinances. Full description

€ 1,250

Law & Politics Naval History Netherlands

Beautifully hand coloured copy of an abundantly illustrated work
detailing the genealogy of the Counts of Flanders

MARTIN, Cornelis and Pieter BALTEN (illustrator and publisher). Les genealogies et anciennes descentes des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes le tout recueilly des plus veritables, approvees et anciennes croniques et annales qui se trouvent...
Antwerp, (colophon: Andre Bax for) Pierre Balthasar (also known as Pieter Balten), [1580]. Folio. With an engraved title-page, a full-page engraved plate with the dedication, a full-page engraved plate showing the coats-of-arms of the Foresters of Flanders and the counts of Flanders and a map of Flanders, a full-page engraving showing verse below an allegorical scene of death, 40 full-page engraved portraits of the Foresters and Counts of Flanders, 30 small coats-of-arms in the text, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. All illustrations (except for the initials) are expertly coloured by hand. Contemporary parchment, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with remnants of green closing ties. [6], 119, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags

Important work on China, witnessing the violent overthrow of the ancient Ming dynasty

MARTINI, Martino. Tartaros en China, historia.
Madrid, Joseph Fernadez de Buendia for Lorenço de Ibarra, 1665. Small 8vo (14.5×10 cm). Late 18th-century gold-tooled mottled goatskin. [40], 188 pp. Full description

€ 9,500

China Jesuits Law & Politics Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

On the conduct of the Hudson's Bay Company, inscribed by the author

MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. The Hudson's Bay territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of the Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation.
London, T. Brettell for T. and W. Boone, 1849. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map by James Wild, hand-coloured in outline, and a woodengraving of an "Indian village at the Red River settlement". Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth. VII, 175 pp. [added: [26] pp.]. Full description

€ 950

Canada & Greenland Economic History & Trade USA - United States of America

The highlights of the siege of Oran by the Spanish in 1732,
compiled into two pamphlets for the general public

MASCARENHAS, Jose Freire Monterroio. Oran conquistado ou relacam histórica, em que se dà noticia desta Praça, da sua conquista, e da sua perda, e restauraçaõ, colhida de varios avizos, e dedicada ao excellentissimo senhor D. Domingos Capecelatro, Marquez de Capecelatro, filho dos excellentissimos Duques de Siano, do Conselho de Sua Magestade Catholica na sua Camara de Indias, e seu Embayxador na Corte de Portugal.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1732.
With: (2) MASCARENHAS, Jose Freire Monterroio. Oran conquistado, e defendido, relaçam historica em que se referem diariamente os successos militares, que tem havido depois da conquista desta Praça, no seu territorio, ate a Armada Real del Rey Catholico se recolher aos portos de Hespanha. Parte II.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1733.
2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page woodcut map of Oran and surrounding forts, a letterpress siege plan representing troops with typographic ornaments. Half mottled calf (ca. 1785?), gold-tooled red morocco spine label. 20, [3], [1 blank]; 16 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Mediterranean Regions Military History (18th Century) North Africa & Egypt Portugal

Peace in Goa between the Portuguese and Sawantwadi, with transcriptions of treaties

MASCARENHAS, José Freire de Monterroio. Noticia da viagem, que fez segunda vez ao estado da India o ... senhor Marquez do Louriçal, e primeiros progressos do seu governo.
Lisbon, Luiz Jozé Correa Lemos, 1742. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With a Maltese cross on the title-page, a woodcut headpiece and a woodcut decorated initial. Later marbled stiff paper wrappers, new endpapers. 24 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Portugal Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

Guidelines for the perfect dinner

MASON, Charlotte. The ladys assistant for regulating and supplying the table; being a complete system of cookery. Containing the most select bills of fare, properly disposed, for family dinners of five dishes to two courses of eleven and fifteen ... likewise directions for brewing, making English wines ... the ninth edition, enlarged, corrected, and improved to the present time.
London, printed by T. Gillet for Vernor and Hood [and many others], 1805. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked. IV, [16], 422, 26, [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Wine / Viticulture Women History

Annotated copy of an essential work for the history of the Zeeland Chamber of the VOC

MATTHAEUS, Christiaan Sigismund. Kort gevat jaar-boek van de edele geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenigde Nederlanden, ter Kamer van Zeeland. Beginnende met de erectie derzelver Compagnie.
Middelburg, Jan Dane, 1759. 8vo. Contemporary half brown calf, sprinkled paper sides, red sprinkled edges. [7], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank], 151, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Economic History & Trade Netherlands VOC

The most eminent bishop of Sweden admonishing the Swedish King Charles X to promote religious unity

MATTHIAS, Johannes (Johannes Matthiae Gothus). Copie van een brief van Joh. Matthias Luthers bisschop in Sweden aen de koningh van Sweden inde welcke hy Sijn Majesteyt versoeckt, de Kerckelijcke eendracht onder de evangelische, te willen promoveren. Uyt het Latijn over gheset.
1656. 4to. Modern boards. 8 pp. Full description

€ 650

Protestant Reformation Scandinavia

Stunning collotypes and chromolithographs of Pompeii wall paintings in situ soon after their excavation

MAU, August. Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji ... Mit 20 Tafeln in einer Mappe.
Berlin, G. Reimer, 1882. 1 text volume & 1 portfolio with plates. 8vo (text volume) and 1mo (plates portfolio 53 x 43 cm). With 20 large numbered plates showing Pompeii wall paintings in situ, mounted on card stock, loose in a separate portfolio with letterpress title-leaf and contents leaf: 9 sepia collotypes (21 x 16 to 26.5 x 24.5 cm) and 11 chromolithographs (21.5 x 19 to 37 x 36 cm), no. 18 actually comprising 7 small chromolithographs on 1 card, each plate with a letterpress label on the back; and 7 black and white floor plans in the text. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment (text); contemporary blue half cloth portfolio (plates). XII, 462 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Architecture Art & Art History Classical Antiquity Italy

Prince Maurits gives Oldenbarnevelt temporary oversight of Den Tempel,
which later gave him his title, signed by Prince Maurits and bearing his armorial seal

MAURITS, Prince of Orange. [Declaration for Jan de Roo].
[The Hague], 4 December 1589. 1mo (41 x 31.5). Document written in brown ink on one side of a whole sheet of paper in an upright gothic cursive hand, with the autograph signature "Maurice de Nassau" and with his armorial seal (3 x 2.5 cm) stamped on a slip of paper over red sealing wax. With (separately added) Maurits's signature clipped out of another document and mounted on a paper slip. [1] leaf, written on one side. Full description

€ 5,000

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

Spectacular engraving on the failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder

[MAURITS, Prince of Orange]. Clare verthooninghe, ofte af-beeldinghe des gantschen handels deser schrickelijcke ende moordadighe conspirateurs, (jeghens den heere Prince van Orangien, mitsgaders den staet ende wel-varen van 't land) vervaetende het begin , totten eynde haerder justitien toe.
Utrecht, Jan Amelissz., 1623. 1mo. Broadsheet (40 x 31.5 cm), with engraved illustration (15 x 25.5 cm) below the title, and a letterpress dialogue in verse in three columns plus and explanation of the plate, below. Full description

€ 1,250

Law & Politics Netherlands Protestant Reformation

Prince Maurits forbids trade with Spain after the fall of Antwerp: 2nd known copy

[MAURITS VAN NASSAU]. Placcaet by den hoochgheboren Grave Maurits van Nassau, ende ... mijnen heeren vanden Rade van State: waer-mede verboden wordt de navigatie ende coophandel op Spangnien, Portugael ende alle andere eylanden ende plaetsen onder de ghehoorsaemheyt des Conincks van Spangnien wesende.
Delft, Aelbrecht Hendricksz., 1585. 4to. Disbound. [6], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade Military History (16th Century) Netherlands Portugal

Detailed illustrated account of archaeological discoveries in and around Pozzuolo,
including the rare folding map

MAZZELLA, Scipione. Sito, et antichita della citta di Pozzuolo, e del suo amenissimo distretto ...
Naples, Tarquinio Longo for Giorgio Varisco (part 1) and Bartholomeo Carampello (part 2), 1606. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 3 title-pages, a large folding woodcut map with letterpress title and text (the woodcut itself 17 x 24.5 cm) showing Pozzolo and the surrounding area (omitted in some copies), 15 woodcut illustrations (plus 4 repeats) in text. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 284, [4], 103, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Archaeology Architecture Charts & Maps Classical Antiquity Italy

Catherine de' Medici and the Ottoman Sultan Murad III

[LETTER - SIGNED]. MEDICI, Catherine de'. [Letter to Jacques de Germigny in Constantinople (Istanbul)].
Chenonceaux, 2 September 1584. Folio (34 x 24 cm). Signed letter in French, in brown ink on paper, written in a clear gothic hand. Folded for sending and addressed on the outside, with a slot for a ribbon and traces of a red wax seal. [1], [3 blank (except for address)] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Autographs & Letters France Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Splendid funeral ceremonies in Brussels 1515-1622

MEERBEECK, Adriaan de. Theatre funebre ou sont representéez les funerailles de plusieurs princes et la vie, trespas, & magnifiques obseques de Albert Le Pie de tres haulte memoire Archiduc d'Autrice, Duc de Bourgoigne, Brabant, &c. faicts a Bruxelles le 12. de Mars, 1622.
Brussels, Ferdinand de Hoeymaker [printed by Henrick van Hastens in Louvain], 1622. 8vo. With a small woodcut decoration on the title-page and a full-page woodcut representing a "chapelle ardente" on the verso; a large folding woodcut plate with two horses, one dressed as a "cheval de bataille" and the other as used "à la pompe funebre du ... Archiduc". Further with 3 woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and 2 woodcut factotums. Contemporary vellum, remnants of ties. [8], 278, [2] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Belgium Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks France Music, Theatre & Dance Spain

The rise and fall of the Greeks as a mirror for the Dutch Republic

MEESTER, Andries de (Andreas DEMETRIUS). Der Griecken opganck ende onderganck.
Dordrecht, Isaac Jansz. Canin, 1599. 4to. With the opening words of the title printed from a woodblock, a fine engraved biblical scene with a Latin motto apparently intended as Ecclesiastes 10:8 (a warning of the consequences of injustice) on title-page, and a folding engraved map of Ancient Greece by Joannes van Doetecum (not included in all copies). Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [10], 288, [19] ll. Full description

€ 2,750

Balkan & Greece Belgium Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Iran / Persia

First and only edition of the horrible story of the murder of the Polish Kings representative in Copenhagen,
told by the representatives sister-in-law

[MEIBOM, Anna]. Relation veritable de l'horrible et detestable assassinat commis en la personne de Mr. De Schade, conseiller et resident du Roi de Pologne a la cour de Dannemarc; avec les cruelles persecutions & les injustices criantes, qui lui ont été faites pendant son sejour a Copenhague, & qu'on a continué d'exerces après sa mort contre sa veuve.
Utrecht, widow of Ernestus Voskuyl, 1713. 8vo. With a woodcut vase of leafy flowers on the title-page, a woodcut decorated initial, Contemporary tanned half sheepskin. [2], 212 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Poland & Baltic Scandinavia

Japan through the eyes of the last Dutch governor of Deshima (Nagasaki)

MEIJLAN, Germain Felix. Japan. Voorgesteld in schetsen over de zeden en gebruiken van dat ryk, byzonder over de ingezetenen der stad Nagasaky.
Amsterdam, M. Westerman & son, 1830. 8vo. With engraved title-page with hand-coloured vignette lightened with gold and 2 folding aquatint plates. Modern green half cloth, with the front of the original letterpress-printed wrappers mounted on front board and the back wrapper loosely inserted. [12], 190, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Japan & Far East

The first Roman geography of the world, including the Arabian peninsula and the Gulf,
in the rare 1502 edition of its first accurate printed text

MELA, Pomponius. De situ orbis Hermolai Barbari fideliter emendatus.
[Venice], (colophon: printed by Albertino da Vercelli, 14 May 1502). Small 4to (20.5 x 15.5 cm). With printed guide letters left for manuscript initials (not filled in). Gold-tooled red half sheepskin (ca. 1820?). XXIIII ll. Full description

€ 6,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Geography

Satire disguising the French elite as Arabs

MELON, Jean-François. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes.
Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and turn-ins, both boards with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Louis Marie Alexandre, Duc d'Aumont, gilt edges. [2], VI, 162, [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Bindings Caricature & Satire French Literature Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics Literature

Official report of the actions of Isaac Sweers during the second Battle of Schooneveld

[MELON, Steven]. Attestatie, hoe sich den vice-admirael Isaac Sweers gequeten heeft in de Zee-slag op den 14. Juny, 1673.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1673. 4to. 19th-century wrappers. [8] pp. Full description

€ 400

Navigation Netherlands

A conversation in an Amsterdam tavern about the Dutch West India Company in Brazil

[MELYN VAN DOORNINCK, Cornelis?]. Amsterdams tafel-praetje, van wat goets en wat quaets en wat noodighs.
Gouda, Jasper Cornelisz, 1649. Small 4to (20 x 14 cm). Modern half vellum. [31], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Brazil Economic History & Trade Latin America Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks South America WIC

Conversation between five men concerning the WIC's conduct in Brazil

[MELYN VAN DOORNINCK, Cornelis?]. Amsterdams Dam-praetje, van wat outs en wat nieuws en wat vreemts.
Amsterdam, Jan van Soest, 1649. 4to. With woodcut illustration on title-page, repeated as tailpiece. Modern half sheepskin parchment. 20 ll. Full description

€ 1,750

Brazil Economic History & Trade Latin America Law & Politics South America WIC

Two first editions of theological works by the Portuguese rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel,
important for the history of Jewish-Christian relations in tolerant 17th-century Amsterdam

MENASSEH Ben Israel. De creatione problemata XXX: cum summariis singulorum problematum, & indice locorum Scripturae, quae hoc opere explicantur.
Amsterdam, the author, 1635.
With: (2) MENASSEH Ben Israel. De resurrectione mortuorum libri III. Quibus animae immortalitas & corporis resurrectio contra Zaducaeos comprobatur: caussae item miraculosae resurrectionis exponuntur: deque judicio extremo, & mundi instauratione agitur...Amsterdam, the author, 1636. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. [16], 156, [2], [2 blank]; [40], 346, [6] pp. Full description

€ 6,000

Amsterdam Judaica Netherlands WIC

Richly illustrated authorative guide on the art of heraldry and coats of arms
by one of the most important 17th-century heralds

MÉNESTRIER, Claude-François. Abbregé methodique des principes heraldiques ou du veritable art du blason.
Lyon, Benoist Coral, 1665. 12mo. With an engraved title-page (still dated 1661, as in the first edition), a double-page engraving of the coronation of Charles I, King of Naples and Sicily, and 8 (of 10) engraved plates with a total of 209 (of 293) figures, nearly all coats of arms, with all plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Also with small woodcut coats of arms in the text. Polished gold-tooled tan calf (ca. 1840/49) by F. Koehler. [24], 111, [9] pp. plus frontispiece and plates. Full description

€ 2,750

France Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags

8 extremely rare sets of French Republican regulations for Egypt, promulgated by General "Abdallah" Menou, printed on the first printing press of the Arabic-speaking world

MENOU, Jacques-François ("Abdallah") de Boussay de. Copie de lordre du général en chef ... 5 Fructidor an 8 [= 23 August 1800] [and six more to] 16 Brumaire an 9 [= 7 November 1800].
Cairo, Imprimerie Nationale, [23 August - 7 November 1800]. Folio (22 x 31.5 cm). 8 sets of regulations issued in 10 weeks, printed in French and Arabic in two parallel columns, each set with 2 to 24 pages. Each with a drop title with a woodcut vignette (either of 2 different blocks) representing the French Republic personified as Marianne with the motto "Liberté Egalité". [24]; [16]; [2]; [3], [1 blank]; [4]; [10]; [6]; [2] pp. Full description

€ 28,000

Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt

Peace announcement between Napoleon and Algiers and Tunis from the first printing press in the Arab world

MENOU, Jacques-François de Boussay de. Ordre du jour, du 29 nivôse an 9 [19 janvier 1801].
Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 29 nivôse an IX [= 19 January 1801 CE]. Small folio (21.5 x 31 cm). Printed in French and Arabic in two columns. 2 pp. Full description

€ 5,800

France Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt

The most important early Dutch book on hunting

MERULA, Paulus. Placaten ende ordonnancien op 't stuck vande wildernissen.
The Hague, Beuckel Cornelisz. Nieulandt, 1605. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31 x 20 cm). With attractive engraved title-page (showing Diana, goddess of the hunt, a hunter and a falconer surrounding an elaborate cartouche together with hounds, birds of prey, and prey) and 2 double-page woodcut plates showing the castles of Teylingen and Warmond. Contemporary vellum. [24], 264; 124; 59, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Arboriculture & Dendrology Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Law & Politics

Extremely rare engraved illustrated report of a 1.5 kilo hail stone

[METEOROLOGY - HAIL STONE]. Abbildung der Größe, u. ganz besondern Farbe der 6 Zoll langen, u. 3 Zoll diken Schlossen, von 2. bis 3. ll. schwer welche d. 13. August. 1802. . ..
Nuremberg, Fr[au] Kraerin, Fr[au]. Daucherin, [1802]. 4to (20.5×17.5 cm). Engraved print on laid paper, coloured by a contemporary hand as published. Mounted on a piece of paper (ca. 1926?). [1] leaf. Full description

€ 1,950

Art & Art History Germany Prints & Print Series Science

The first contemporary history of the Netherlands. In the first Latin edition, with a rare portrait of the author

METEREN, Emanuel van. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta.
[Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598]. Folio. With letterpress title-page in engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), additional engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank back of title-page, by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, by Frans Hogenberg and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. Contemporary vellum. [8], "623" [= 643], [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,000

Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century Military History (16th Century) Netherlands

Very rare issue including book 32, earlier incomplete and later censored,
of the earliest great work on the Dutch war of independence from Habsburg Spain,
introducing the first textura gothic type in the new Dutch style

METEREN, Emanuel van. Nederlantsche historien ofte geschiedenissen inhoudende den gantzen staet, handel, soo va[n] oorlogen als vrede-handels in onsen tyden begin ende eynde ... Mede vervattende eenige haerder gebueren handelinge. ... oversien verbetert ende vermeerdert tot dese[n] tege[n]wordigen wtgank des jaers anno 1611.
Including (vol. 2): Belgische ofte Nederlantsche oorlogen ende gheschiedenissen beginnende van t'jaer 1595 tot 1611, ... oversie[n] verbetert e[n]de vermeerdert ...
[Copy imprint to vol. 2:] "Schotland buyten Danswyck" [= Amsterdam], "Hermes van Loven" [= Nicolaes III Biestkens?] for the author, 1611 [-1612]. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, both coloured and highlighted in gold by an early hand. Further with a full-page engraved portrait of Van Meteren, and 21 smaller woodcut portraits in the text attributed to Christoffel van Sichem. Mottled, gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), gold-tooled spines, 18th-century(?) gold-tooling on the boards. [6], 568, [20]; [2], 118, [4], 413, [10] ll. Full description

€ 12,500

Belgium Book History, Printing & Typography Military History (17th Century) Netherlands

Treaty between The Netherlands and the United States of Mexico

[MEXICO]. Traktaat van vriendschap, scheepvaart en handel, tusschen de Nederlanden, en de Vereenigde Staten van Mexico. | Traité d'amitié, de navigation et de commerce, conclu entre le Roi des Pays-Bas, et les États-Unis du Mexique.
[Brussels], November 1828. 8vo. Sewn. 27, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 500

Economic History & Trade Latin America Law & Politics Mexico

Splendidly bound history of France written by the king's historiographer

MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de France. ... Divisé en six tomes.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1673-1674.
With: (2) MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Histoire de France avant Clovis.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1688.
2 works in 7 volumes. 12mo. Ad 1 with woodcut publisher's device on each of the 6 title-pages, engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe and full-page engraved portrait of Louis XIV by A. Zylevelt in volume 1, 61 engraved portraits of French rulers in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials. Ad 2: with engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe, title-page with woodcut publisher's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials. Uniform polished, crushed red morocco, gold-tooled boards, spines and wide turn-ins, fillets on board edges, edges gilt over marbling, marbled endpapers. Each volume signed and dated 1913 on the turn-in by the leading Brussels bookbinder Charles DE SAMBLANX (1855-1943). Full description

€ 2,750

Bindings France

Extensive work on Mosaic law, with a section on Arabian horses

MICHAELIS, Johann David. Mosaïsch recht, of de ziel der wetten van Moses; ...
Including: Byvoegsels en verbeteringen op het Mosaïsch recht, ... achter aan eenige byzonderheden over de oudste geschiedenisse der paarden en stoeteryen in Palaestine en de nabuurige landen, in zonderheid Aegypten en Arabien.
Haarlem, Jan van Walré, 1781-1782 (parts 1-2); Jan Bosch, 1774-1776 (parts 3-6), 1778 (part 7). 7 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary, uniform half calf, gold-tooled spines. [12] 346; [14], 464; [10], 259, [1 blank]; [8], 414, [2 blank]; [8], 342; [2], CXXXII, 322, [4]; [6], 210, [2] pp. Full description

€ 750

Horses & Horsemanship Judaica Law & Politics

Abbreviated rare edition of one of the most important pamphlets concerning the dispute
between the shareholders and the management of the Dutch VOC

[VOC - MIDDELGEEST, Simon van]. Den vervaerlijcken Oost-Indischen eclipsis vertoont aende Vereenichde Provincien door de participanten van d' Oost-Indische Compagnie. Met een oodtmoedich beklach aen de hoogh moghende heeren Staten: over de groote abuysen ende disordren deser Compagnie, mits de groote swaricheden die uyt dese te verwachten staen.
[1625]. Small 4to. With a small woodcut on the title-page. Modern half red faux snake-skin, new endpapers and paste-downs. 19, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade VOC WIC

Enormous panoramic Middle Eastern view with ruins, nearly 6 metres long

[VIEW - MIDDLE EAST]. [Mountainous landscape with Middle Eastern and classical Roman ruins, 6 shepherds with their flocks, several figures riding dromedaries and one riding a donkey, (date?) palms, lakes, etc.].
[Palestine?, ca. 1910?]. An enormous panoramic view drawn in coloured gouaches on a single, continuous roll of paper (70 x 583 cm), the drawing running to the edges of the paper. Full description

€ 35,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus UAE - United Arab Emirates

Dutch rulers from the 15th and 16th centuries, with ca. 1000 engravings of coins and medals

MIERIS, Frans van. Histori der Nederlandsche vorsten, uit de huizen van Beijere, Borgonje, en Oostenryk; welken, sedert de regeering van Albert, Graaf van Holland, tot den dood van Keizer Karel den Vyfden, het hooggezag aldaar gevoerd hebben.
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1732-1735. 3 volumes. Large folio (41 x 26.5 cm). With an engraved dedication page by Jan Wandelaar, a number of engraved vignettes and ca. 1000 engraved reproductions of both sides of coins and medals. Volume 1 with 2 letterpress folding genealogical tables. Lacking the frontispiece by Bernard Picart. Modern red half morocco. [32], 466, [107]; [8], 484, 56; [4], 446, [58] pp. Full description

€ 1,000

Economic History & Trade Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Law & Politics Museums & Wunderkammer Numismatics

A complicated disguise: an author calling himself "NISEMVOLBG472HC58A22W".

[MIGOEN, Jacobus Wilhelmi]. Proeve des nu onlangs uyt-ghegheven drooms, oft t'samenspraack tusschen den coningh van Hispanien ende den Paus van Roomen. Met noch eenen anderen droom, contrarie den voorschreven. Mits gaders eene vermaninghe, aan alle vroome ende ghetrouwe vader-landers, hoe zij haar in dezer tijdt te draghen hebben (...). Beschreven door een lief-hebber aller menschen, maar in sonderheydt den Godt-zoeckeñ ende trou-hertighen in gheboorne dezer vrijer provincien. Door NISEMVOLBG472HC58A22W.
[Gouda, J.W. Migoen, 1607]. 4to. Modern wrappers. Full description

€ 375

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

A history of the British, Dutch and Portuguese colonial activities in the East Indies

MÖKERN, Philipp van. Ostindien, seine Geschichte, Cultur und seine Bewohner. Resultate eigener Forschungen und Beobachtungen an Ort und Stelle. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe.
Leipzig, Hermann Costenoble, 1857. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XII, 395; [6], 327 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia VOC

First English edition of a classic on the 16th-century French military

MONLUC, Blaise, Seigneur de. The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, Mareschal of France.
London, Andrew Clark for Henry Brome, 1674. Folio. With engraved frontispiece full-length portrait of the author. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf. Expertly rebacked in similar blind-tooled calf. [18], "404" [= 400], [12] pp. plus engr. frontispiece. Full description

€ 1,500

Armory, Military Science & Technology France Law & Politics Military History (17th Century)

Extremely rare publication concerning the agricultural colonies Nova Louzã and Nova Colombia in Brazil, including a call for the abolition of slavery

MONTENEGRO, João Elisário de Carvalho. Colonias Nova Louzã e Nova Colombia, relatorio apresentado ao exm. sr. presidente da Provincia de São Paulo em 6 de fevereiro de 1875 ...
São Paulo, Typographia da Provincia de São Paulo, 1875. 8vo in 4s (ca. 22 x 14.5 cm). With 13 numbered letterpress tables (including 5 folding) regarding Nova Louzã and another numbered folding letterpress table regarding Nova Colombia (titled "Recapitulação do mappa no. 1"). 1930's half dark blue sheepskin, with the original publishers printed front wrapper bound in. [1], [1 blank], 81, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Agriculture Brazil Law & Politics Slavery South America

On French-English relations and hostilities early in the French and Indian War:
rare 4to edition with a false Paris imprint

[MOREAU, Jacob-Nicolas]. Lettres d'un François a un Hollandois au sujet des differends survenus entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, touchant leurs possessions respectives dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.
"Paris" [The Netherlands?], "P. La Rive", 1755. 4to. Early 20th-century half cloth, with the original marbled wrappers bound in. 90 pp. Full description

€ 4,000

Canada & Greenland France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) North America UK - United Kingdom

Account of a scientific expedition through Central America

MORELET, Arthur. Voyage dans l'Amérique centrale, l'île de Cuba et le Yucatan.
Paris, Gide & J. Baudry, 1857. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 pages of letterpress music, a folding lithographed map of Yucatan, Guatemala and Cuba, and 22 wood-engraved illustrations, after drawings by the author, heading each chapter. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, preserved in modern chemises and slipcase. [4], 337, [3]; [4], 323, [3] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Archaeology Caribbean Islands Geography Middle America Shells & other Invertebrates

381-page prospectus for a "world-class" commercial dictionary in 5 folio volumes, never published

MORELLET, André. Prospectus d'un nouveau dictionnaire de commerce.
Including: Catalogue d'une bibliotheque d'économie politique.
Paris, Les freres Estienne, 1769. 8vo. Contemporary tan calf, gold-tooled spine, gold triple fillet border on both sides, gold fillet on board edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, decorative endpapers (block-printed in gold), edges gilt over marbling. VIII, 381, [3], 34, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Book History, Printing & Typography Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Economic History & Trade

Uphill! A collection of folders, brochures and books on mountaineering

[MOUNTAINEERING]. [A collection of brochures and folders on mountaineering].
[Austria and Switzerland, ca. 1920- ca. 1980]. Ca. 653 brochures (including a few duplicates and variant issues).
With: [A collection of books relating to mountaineering].
[Globally, ca. 1830- ca. 2000]. Ca. 875 books (including a few duplicates and variant issues, and several multiple-volume titles). Full description

€ 45,000

Art & Art History Austria Central Europe Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade Games & Sports Photography Switzerland

Loans by the UK for major infrastructure development in Jordan

MU'AMMAR, Sayid Ya'coub; B.L. STRACHAN. Exchange of notes concerning an interest-free development loan by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
London, Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1970. 4to. With the UK coat-of-arms on title-page. Text in English and Arabic in naskh type. Stapled. 8 pp. Full description

€ 450

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom West Asia

Two pamphlets on the unity of the reformed church and against the Labadists

MULLENS, Gelasius [= Guilielmus SALDENUS]. Neerlands interest, tot vrede der kercke, en wegh-neminge van alle opkomende misverstanden in de selve.
Middelburg, Yemant Hendrickss., 1664.
With:
(2) [SALDENUS, Guilielmus]. Den God-vrughtigen boer ... tot verdedigingh van Jan Bakhuys den ghenaamden Boer van Ebbink-hoven, en Desiderius Pacius over sijn zedigh versoek aan Juffrouw Schurman.
Utrecht, Jacob van Doeyenborgh, 1670. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. 100 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Netherlands Protestant Reformation

A rare guide to administering and collecting taxes as a nineteenth-century government official
in the presidency of Bombay

NAIRNE, Alexander Kyd. A handbook for revenue officers in the presidency of Bombay.
Bombay (Byculla district), Education Society's Press, 1872. Large 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth, title in gold on spine. XVI, 569, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics

Official publications concerning the British and German claim on Angra Pequena (Lüderitz), Namibia

[NAMIBIA - AFRICA]. Angra Pequena. Correspondence respecting the settlement at Angra Pequena, on the S.W. coast of Africa. ... [C.-4190].
With:(2) Copy of a despatch from the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, K.G., Her Majesty's high commissioner in South Africa, relative to the establishment of a German protectorate at Angra Pequena and along the neighbouring coast. ... [C.-4265].(3) Further correspondence respecting the settlement at Angra Pequena on the south-west coast of Africa (in continuation of [C.-4190] ...) ... [C.-4262].
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1884. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. With a folding map in ad 1 and a full-page map in ad 3. Modern blue paper wrappers. X, 60; 13, [1]; X, 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade Germany Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

Colourful set of 3 jigsaw puzzles depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon

[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - PUZZLES]. La veille d'Austerlitz.
With:
(2) La Nuit de Lodi.
(3) Clémence de l'empéreur.
Paris, Ulysse, [1814 or 1815]. Three (from a set of four?) jigsaw puzzles (each 19.5 x 24.5 cm), each comprising an engraved print mounted on thin wood, coloured by a contemporary hand and cut to form a jigsaw puzzle, with an engraved caption and short description below the image. Kept in the original publishers paperboard box covered with green paper, with an etched and engraved sample print for a fourth puzzle (with a caption headed "Équité de l'empereur") mounted on the top, coloured by a contemporary hand and framed with strips of gilt paper embossed with a decorative pattern. Each puzzle with the original pink paper wrap-around slip preserved. Full description

€ 3,000

France Games & Sports

For official use only: Royal Navy wartime handbook on Iraq and the Persian Gulf

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. [MASON, Kenneth, a.o.]. Iraq and the Persian Gulf. September 1944. B.R. 524 (restricted) geographical handbook series for official use only.
[Oxford,] Naval Intelligence division, 1944. 8vo. With numerous diagrams, reproductions of photographs and (folding) maps, including a loose map in the pocket at the back. Publisher's green cloth. 682 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Geography Geology Iran / Persia Law & Politics

Close reprint of the work of Cornelius Nepos by Pieter and Joan Blaeu after the 1675 Keuchelius edition,
published by the Officina Hackiana at Leiden

NEPOS, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum, observationibus ac notis commentatorum ... illustratae. Accesserunt huic edition praecipuorumn Graeci Imperatorum icons ... ut & Index rerum & verborum praecidenti multo auctior & emendatior.
Amsterdam, Pieter and Joan Blaeu, prostant apud Abr. Wolfgang, Gillis & Joh. II Janssonio-Waesbergios, Widow Dirk & Henrik Boom, Widow Joh. à Someren, & Rembertus Goethals, 1687. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Visscher (Hollstein Dutch, 175-1(4)), 14 small engravings (mainly used as tailpieces), 11 depicting Greek and Carthaginian commanders in a medallion. Contemporary vellum, author's name written on the spine. [32], 439, [40] pp. Full description

€ 750

Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics

1728 treaty between the Dutch Republic and the semi-autonomous state of Tripoli

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - TREATY]. Tractaat tusschen haar hoog mog. de Heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en de regeeringe van Tripoli. Geslooten in het jaar 1728.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus II, 1729. 4to. Modern paper-covered boards. 8 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Netherlands North Africa & Egypt Slavery Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Tea and its cultivation in Asam and Ceylon investigated: presentation copy, with 22 original albumen prints

[CEYLON - TEA]. NETSCHER, H.J.Th., and Alexander Albert HOLLE. Verslag eener reis naar de thee-districten van Britsch-Indie en Ceylon ondernomen door de heeren H.J.Th. Netscher en A.A. Holle in opdracht van de Cultuur Maatschappij Parakan-Salak.
Including: Harold Hart MANN. Het ferment in het theeblad en zijne verhouding tot de hoedanigheid der thee.
Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., 1903. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 1 engraved double-page plate, 4 lithographed colour-plates and 22 albumen photographs with guard leaves containing text. Contemporary brown cloth, title in gold, decorated endpapers. [2], 93, [1] pp. Full description

€ 4,850

Agriculture Ceylon Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Photography Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

Polish history, Frisian law and Balkan pirates, 3 works from the early 17th century

NEUGEBAUER, Salomon. Icones & vitae principum ac regum Poloniae omnium.
Frankfurt am Main, Jacob de Zetter, Hartman Palthenius, 1620.
With:
(2) SICCAMA, Sybrand (editor). Lex Frisionum, sive antiquae Frisiorum leges, a reliquis veterum Germanorum legibus separatim aeditiae & notis illustratae.
Franeker, Johannes Lamrinck, 1617.
(3) [VENICE]. Risposta in difesa delle ragioni del. ser.mo Arciduca Ferdinando contra il manifesto publicato per la Republica di Venetia, per occasione della presente guerra. Con l'oratione di Lodovico Eliano oratore di Lodovico XII. re di Francia, havvta da lui contro la medesima Republica, in augusta, nel convento de' Prencipi di Germania, alla presenza dell' imperatore Massimiliano I, l'anno 1510.
[Italy?], Con Licenza de' superiori, 1617.
3 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). With engraved title-page and engraved portraits in text. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, red sprinkled edges. [8], 144, [12]; [16], 151 [=152], [8]; [2], 34 pp. Full description

€ 5,500

Austria Balkan & Greece Central Europe Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Netherlands Poland & Baltic

Two Hellenistic hexametric poems on antidotes to poisons

NICANDER of Colophon. Theriaca.
Including:
NICANDER of Colophon. Alexipharmaca.
-In Nicander Theriaca scholia auctoris incerti, et vetusta et utilia. In eiusdem Alexipharmaca diversorum auctorum scholia.
Paris, Morelius, 1557. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Each part with its own title-page, with a woodcut caduceus device on all three. Set in roman and Greek types. 17th-century(?) richly gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges; subtly rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. [8], “225”[=215], [1 blank]; “80”[=72] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)

Interesting early work on Latin abbreviations: an early 'Capelli'

NICOLAI, Johannes. Tractatus de siglis veterum omnibus elegantioris literaturae amatoribus utilissimus, in quo continentur, quae ad interpretationem numismatum, inscriptionum, juris et fere omnium artium requiruntur, cujus subsidio facile literae explicari possunt.
Leiden, Abraham de Swart, 1703. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 8 engravings in text (1 full-page). Contemporary vellum. [22], 314 pp. Full description

€ 400

Classical Antiquity Literature

Extremely rare military-judicial work concerning the revolt in Rio de Janeiro in April 1832, an essential source for understanding the political and military conflicts of the early 19th century in Brazil

[NIEMEYER, Conrado Jacob de; Marcos Antonio BRICIO; Joaquim Leão da SILVA MACHADO; Luiz Henriques TOTA (the accused)]. Expozição ao publico accompanhada com a defeza, e sentenças do concelho de guerra a que responderão, os Tenentes Coroneis Conrado Jacob de Niemeyer, Marcos Antonio Bricio. Cappitão Tenente Joaquim Leão da Silva Machado. Cappitão Luiz Henriques Tota. Pelos accontecimentos, que tiverão lugar nesta capital a dezassete de abil findo, augmentada com as defezas, e sentenças do primeiro sobre as arguições de ter elevado, em 1825, sem ordem Joaquim Pinto Madeira ao posto de Tenente Coronel, e de ter dezobedecido pertinazmente ás ordens do governo; contendo igualmente os documentos authenticos ...
Rio de Janeiro, Na typographia do Diario, 1832. 4to (ca. 20 x 14.5 cm). Modern half dark blue morocco. 56 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Brazil Law & Politics Military History (19th Century) South America

"Codicil" to the Dying wars "Testament"

[NIEROP, Adriaen van or Simon van MIDDELGEEST?]. WAER-MOND, Yemand van (pseudonym). Codicille van de Nederlandsche Oorloghe, waer in sy eenighe Vrienden, Wel-Doenders ende Dienaren, in haer principael Testament van date den tweeden Februarij 1609. vergheten zynde, ... den 12. Martij des selven jaers. Noch een Wellecom-Dicht van het Bestandt. Noch andere ghedichten van bestandighe vrede.
"Franc end al" [= Amsterdam?], "Frederijck de Vrije", [1609]. Small 4to. Poems celebrating the truce with Spain (though attributed to a former opponent of the truce), with the Dutch poems in textura types and Latin marginal notes in roman. Disbound. [12] pp. Full description

€ 350

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

Philosophy of science, a refutation of Spinoza

NIEUWENTYT, Bernard. Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen aangetoont.
Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1740. Large 4to. With title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, and 28 engraved folding plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 916, [18] pp. Full description

€ 750

Philosophy & Esotericism Science

One of the earliest works on hunting and hawking written in Spanish

NUÑEZ DE AVENDAÑO, Pedro. Aviso de Cazadores y Caça.
Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1593.
With: (2) [bound before ad 1] NUÑEZ DE AVENDAÑO, Pedro. De exequendis mandatis regnum Hispaniae, quae rectoribus civitatum dantur, & hodie continentur in titulo.
Madris, Pedro Madrigal, 1593.
2 works in 1 volume. Folio (27 x 18.5 cm). With the woodcut printer's device on the title-page of ad 1, and two decorated woodcut initials. Further with the woodcut coat-of-arms of Habsburg Spain on the title-page of ad 2, numerous decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece at the start of the work, and headpieces made up of typographical ornaments in the first few chapters. Later limp vellum, sewn on 2 vellum tapes laces through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. [8], "555" [= 553], [1], [2 blank], [40]; 34 pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Early Printing - 16th century Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Law & Politics Spain

Highly important work on Portuguese law, written by order of the king

NUNEZ DO LEÃO, Duarte. Leis extravagantes collegidas e relatadas pelo licenciado Duarte Nunez do liam per mandado do muito alto & muito poderoso Rei Dom Sebastiam nosso Senhor.
Including: NUNEZ DO LEÃO, Duarte. Annotacões sobre as ordenacões dos cinquo livros.
Lisbon, Antonio Gonçalvez, 1569.
Folio. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of King Sebastião on the title-page and the divisional title-page of the second work, 6 large historiated woodcut initials, and numerous small decorated woodcut initials.
Later vellum, with the manuscript title in Gothic script on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [4], 218, [16]; 8 ll. Full description

€ 6,500

Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Portugal

Autobiography of the exiled Decembrist leader

OBOLENSKY, Prince Yevgeny Petrovich; Prince Augustin GALITZIN (transl). Souvenirs d'un exilé en Sibérie.
Leipzig, Franck'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1862. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [2], 88, [16]. Full description

€ 650

Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia)

Historical work on the Saracens

OCKLEY, Simon. The conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt, by the Saracens: containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, and Othman, the immediate successors of Mahomet, giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, &c. ...
London, for R. Knaplock, J. Sprint, R. Smith and J. Round, 1708. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf with gold-stamped red label to gilt spine, leading edges gilt, red sprinkled edges. XXIV, [4], 391, [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Military History (18th Century) North Africa & Egypt West Asia

British India's foreign trade during the years 1874-1884

O'CONOR, James Edward. Review of the accounts of the trade and navigation of India for 1874-75, as compared with previous years.
Calcutta, Office of the superintendent of government printing, 1876.
With:
(2) Memorandum reviewing the accounts of the trade and navigation of British India for 1875-76. Dated the 24th February 1877.
[Calcutta?], Government central press, 1877.
(3) Review of the trade of British India for the official year 1876-77.Calcutta, 25 October1877.
(4) Review of the trade of British India with other countries, for the official year 1878-1879.
[Calcutta?], Government central press, 1879.
(5) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1879-80.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1880.
(6) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1880-81.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1881.
(7) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1881-82.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1882.
(8) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1883.Simla, Government central branch press, 1883.
(9) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1884.Simla, Government central branch press, 1884.
9 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Near contemporary red cloth. Full description

€ 6,500

Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Turkey & Ottoman Empire UAE - United Arab Emirates

1598 ordinance for clearing trees around windmills, signed by Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

[MANUSCRIPT - ORDINANCE]. OLDENBARNEVELT, Johan van. [Ordinance forbidding the planting of trees around windmills in the Land van Arkel (in the southwestern corner of the province of Holland) and requiring the removal of existing trees].
The Hague, 14 December 1598. Manuscript document in Dutch in brown ink on the skin side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (36 x 48 cm, folded to 14 x 19 cm). Full description

€ 2,950

Arboriculture & Dendrology Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands Technology

Gunboat diplomacy in China and Japan

OLIPHANT, Laurence. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59.
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 20 chromolithographed plates, 50 wood-engravings in text and 5 engraved folding maps. Contemporary gold-tooled green morocco, richly gold-tooled spine. XIV, 492; XI, [1 blank], 496 pp. Full description

€ 1,200

China Economic History & Trade Japan & Far East Law & Politics Naval History

Dutch translation of Elgin's mission to China and Japan

OLIPHANT, Laurence. De zending van graaf van Elgin naar China en Japan in 1857, 1858, 1859.
Utrecht, Nolet and son, [1860]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 5 full-page chromolithographed plates, 3 lithographed maps (2 folding), some letterpress tables in text. Contemporary blue calf, purple textured cloth sides. XII, 382, [6]; [4], 361, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Charts & Maps China City Plans, Topography & Views Japan & Far East Law & Politics Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

Illustrated collection of Dutch sea voyages for children

OOSTKAMP, Jan Antonie. De merkwaardigste Nederlandsche zeereizen, sedert den jare 1594. Voor de vaderlandsche jeugd, ... Met platen.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck; Leeuwarden, Gerard Tjaard Nicolaas Suringar, 1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with a letterpress half-title and engraved title-page with a vignette showing a Dutch sailing ship, and 7 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary half cloth, spines with letterpress title labels. VI, [2], 224; [6], 200 pp. Full description

€ 750

Australia Children's Books Circumnavigation Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia

Impressive plan of the important archaeological excavation site of Tell Halaf, probably unique

[OPPENHEIM, Max von]. Tell-Halâf-Stadt 1913.
[Tell Halaf], 1913. 92 x 126 cm. Whiteprint (diazotype) on thick paper. Title, scale and compass executed in manuscript in blue pen. Full description

€ 4,500

Archaeology

Two Greek classics on hunting and fishing printed by Raphelengius in Leiden

OPPIAN of Anazarbus and OPPIAN of Syria (C. RITTERSHUSIUS, translator). Oppiani poetae Cilicis de venatione libri IV. De piscatu libri V.
Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1597. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Raphelengius' (Plantin's) printer's device on the title-page, decorated woodcut initials, and the text is partially set in Greek script. Late 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [1], [1 blank], [86], 376, [32]; [8], 344, 164, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics

Zeeland Orangist suggests Johan and Cornelis de Witt, murdered by a mob incited by the Dutch head of state (stadtholder Willem III, the future King William III of England), brought it on themselves

[ORANGISTS]. Kort verhael van den oorspronck en onderganck der Loevesteynsche factie. Mitsgaders een vertoogh van t recht dat de gemeente in Zeelandt gehad heeft, om in den jare 1672. Sijn Hoogheyt Prins Willem Hendrik, ... te herstellen ... ende hoe de bedienaers des goddelijcken woorts in Zeelandt haer daar omtrent gedragen hebben ...
[The Hague or Amsterdam?], voor de liefhebbers van Sijn Hoogheyd, 1673. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. [6] ll. Full description

€ 250

Law & Politics

Rare ordinance addressing the negligence of officers of the law, in order to prevent a further rise in crime in Holland

[ORDINANCE - CRIME - HOLLAND]. [CHARLES V]. Ordonnancie va[n] die Keyserlijcke Mayesteyt roerende die dootslaghers cessionanten ende banckeroeten. Ghepubliceert inden jare duysent vijfhondert vier ende veertich.
The Hague, sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. (colophon: Delft, printed by Symon Jansz.), May 1544. 4to. With the woodcut crowned coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (with the order of the Golden Fleece, a column on either side and the motto "plus oultre") on the title-page. Set in 2 sizes of textura gothic type, with 2 lombardic initials (cast type). Modern half brown buckram, marbled paper sides, blue endpapers, with an older (ca. 1840?) front wrapper bound in. [1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Broadsides & Pamphlets Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Netherlands

Issuing merchants to sell provisions at fixed prices to military troops

[ORDINANCE - MAASTRICHT]. Memorie der levens-middelen en der selver prysen, soo als die ten dienste der Armée door den edelen achtbaaren raad der stad Maastricht getaxeert zyn, voor den tyd van drie weeken te beginnen met dato den 25. july 1746.
[Maastricht, 23 July 1746]. Folded half-sheet (36 x 44 cm). Full description

€ 450

Economic History & Trade Military History (18th Century) Netherlands

Regulations concerning the sale of arsenicum

[ORDINANCE - PHARMACY]. Reglement vervattende een ordre, waar na een ieder zig in het verkoopen van rottekruit ten platten lande in deesen geheelen furstendom en graafschap zal moeten gedraagen.
Arnhem, widow of Hendrik van Goor, 1772. 4to. With a woodcut coat-of-arms on title-page. Bound as sewn. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 250

Economic History & Trade Physics & Chemistry

92 documents concerning the army and navy of the Dutch Republic during its Golden Age

[ORDINANCES - DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Recueil van verscheyde placaten, ordonantien, resolutien, instructien, ordres en lysten, etc. betreffende de saacken van den oorlogh, te water en te lande.
The Hague, Jacob Scheltus, Aelbrecht Hendriksz, the heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, Paulus Scheltus, 1591-1716. 4to. With woodcut publishers' devices, title vignettes and decorated initials. Vellum over boards, manuscript title on spine, remains of green ties. [8], [ca. 780] pp. containing 92 numbered items (2 folding). Full description

€ 2,250

Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Naval History Netherlands

Topographical wall map of the Dutch (polder) district Vijfheerenlanden,
including the very rare engraved borders with coats of arms

OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. Nieuwe kaart van de Vyf Heeren landen gelegen tusschen den Dief en Zouwen dyk.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1741. Engraved map on 4 sheets (85 x 98 cm as assembled), with an engraved title ("Kaart van de Vyf Heerenlanden") with the coat of arms of the water district at the head, and surrounded by 14 engraved coats of arms at the left, right and foot (measuring 122 x 134 cm in total). The map with the title and publisher at the foot left, together with a scale (ca. 1:19,000) and the name of the engraver at the right (Jan van Jagen). Framed. Full description

€ 6,500

Charts & Maps Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Netherlands Water Management

Very rare (first?) edition of an Ottoman-French treaty that solidified French influence in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th century

[OTTOMAN CAPITULATIONS OF 1740]. [Kitabi-i ahdname-i hümayun-u saadet-makrun].
[Paris or Istanbul?], [1816 or 1835?]. Large 4to (31.5 x 24 cm). The text of an Ottoman-French treaty, set in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, a version of the Arabic script. Half calf, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine. 45, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 15,000

France Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Ottoman ambassador's audiences before the Emperor Charles VI and Prince Eugene of Savoy

[OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. [Drop-title:] Distinto ragguaglio della solenne udienza che alli 4. Settembre ebbe dall' Augustissimo Imperatore Carlo VI. re della Spagne, d'Ungheria &c. a Vienna nel Palazzo Cesareo della Favorita l'ecc[ellentissi]mo sig[nor]. grande ambasciatore Ottomano visire Mückerem Ibrahim Pascia, ...
Including:
Racconto della solenne visita, che alli 7. Di Settembre 1719. Il Sig[nor]. Grande Ambasciatore Ottomano Ibrahim Pascià diede al Seren[issimo]. Prencipe Eugenio di Savoja, ...
(Colophon: Rome, Giovanni Francesco Chracas, 1719). 4to. With a hatched roman capital used as an initial. Set in roman types with extensive italic. Modern boards covered with chemical-marbled paper, black morocco spine label. 8 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Austria Central Europe Church History & Missions Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Austrian commerce under Ottoman law

[OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. [Collection of treaty articles relating to commercial transactions of subjects of the Austrian state in the Ottoman Empire]. Avusturya devleti tebaasinin Memalik-i Osmaniyede ticaretlerine ait mevadd-i ahdiyye mecmuasidir.
Vienna, Dar tiba al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1846. Large 8vo. Printed in black with red headings, within printed gilt rules. Illuminated head-piece and unwan printed in three colours and gilt, in imitation of manuscript illumination. Gilt tail-piece. Contemporary green morocco with a fore-edge flap, gold-stamped boards with an oriental design, gilt edges. 88 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Austria Central Europe Economic History & Trade Greek & Non-Western Types Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman-Mamluk war and the conquest of Mecca and Medina

[OTTOMAN-MAMLUK WAR]. Omnia que gesta sunt in Orie[n]te inter Sophi & Maximum Turcarum & Suldanum, & que[m]admodum dux Turcaru[m] caepit Alepum & Damascum & Hierusalem cum om[n]ibus circumiace[n]tibus oppidis, & quo[rum] maximus Turcaru[m] voluit audire una[m] missam apud sanctu[m] sepulchru[m] Iesu Christi.
[Basel, Pamphilus Gengenbach, 1518]. 4to. With woodcut illustration on title-page. 19th-century pink wrappers. [6], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 35,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Early Printing - 16th century Military History (16th Century) Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Extensive description of the Dutch colony of Curacao, by the first writer to permanently settle on the island

[PADDENBURGH, Gerrit Gijsbert]. Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçao en onderhoorige eilanden. Uit onderscheidene stukken, bijdragen en opmerkingen opgemaakt, door een bewoner van dat eiland.
Haarlem, heirs François Bohn, 1819. 8vo. With folding letterpress table. Contemporary half calf. [4], 90, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

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Shipwrecked Americans as slaves of Islamic hunters and nomads in the western Sahara in 1800

PADDOCK, Judah. A narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, ...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (printed by Andrew Strahan), 1818. 4to. 20th-century tan goatskin morocco. XVI, 372 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

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Detailed report on British-controlled Palestine and Transjordan

[PALESTINE]. UNITED KINGDOM COLONIAL OFFICE. Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1932 ... Colonial no. 82, 58-82.
London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1933. 4to in 16s. With two folding maps showing parts of the Palestine territory that had been surveyed in detail.Original publisher's printed wrappers. XII, 267 pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Law & Politics Saudi Arabia UK - United Kingdom

The VOC, fearing competition in Southeast Asia, protests against the building
of a large frigate - the St. Louis - in Amsterdam for a French trading company
(rare first and only known edition)

[VOC]. THOU, Jacques Auguste du. Continuatie van klaghte van den ambassadeur van Vranckryck, ende hoe het daer mede gelegen is, volgens de respectieve advijsen van de admiraliteyt, ende van de bewinthebbers van de Oost-Indische Compagnie.
[Copy imprint:] "Naer de Copye, 1660." [1660 or shortly after]. 4to. With Du Thous complaint/request in the original French, a Dutch reaction from the admiralty and the VOCs request to the States General to reject Du Thous request. Set in roman and textura types. Modern brown wrappers with a printed label on the front wrapper. [8] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

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A pamphlet attacking Nicolaes Muys van Holys attempt to tax and contain gambling
with the stocks of the East and West India Companies

[VOC & WIC - TAXATION]. Consideratien tot wederlegginge van de voorstellingen door de Heer Mr. Nicolaes Muys van Holy, opgestelt in zyne Memorie. Om de Negotie van Oost en West Indische actien te beswaren met een impost, ende in zyn nader geschrift van oplossinge van de difficulteiten, die hy segt bye enige gemaakt te zyn, tegens de selve memorie.
[1687]. 4to. With a woodcut initial. 19th-century brown paper wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Economic History & Trade VOC WIC

Practical handbook for Venetian merchants

PASI, Bartolomeo. Tariffa de i pesi, e misure corrispondenti dal Levante al Ponente: e da una terra, e luogo allaltro, quasi p[er] tutte le parti dil mondo: con la dichiaratione, e notificatione di tutte le robbe: che si tragono di uno paese per laltro ... Con la sua tavola copiosissima, e facilissima a trovare ogni cosa per ordine.
Venice, (colophon: Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio), 1540. 8vo. With the title in an architectural woodcut border. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [11], [1 blank] 200 ll. Full description

€ 12,000

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International weights, measures and monetary units in the 16th century

PASI, Bartolomeo. Tariffa de i pesi, e misure corrispondenti dal Levante al Ponente.
Venice, per Paolo Gherardo (colophon: per Comin da Trino), 1557. 8vo (15.5 x 11 cm). With the title in a woodcut border of 4 matching parts, and with a crowned eagle device. 18th-century half green morocco, gold-tooled spine. [12], 200 ll. Full description

€ 4,750

Aldine Press Early Printing - 16th century Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Italy Numismatics

Catalogue of a collection of antiquities bought for the Berlin Museum

PASSALACQUA, Giuseppe. Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Égypte ... contenant: 1. Le catalogue ... 2. Des notes et observations ... 3. Des notices et dissertationes scientifiques ...
Paris, Galerie dAntiquites Égyptiennes, 1826. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographic plates. Later paper-covered boards, rebacked in cloth. XV, [1], 303, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

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Passport for an Amsterdam skipper

[PASSPORT]. Alder-doorluchtichste, ... heeren ... die dese opene letteren sullen sien ... doen wy burgermeesteren .. der stadt Amsterdam te weten, dat schipper Jurriaen Gerritsz. van Amsterdam ... dat het schip genaemt de Helena ...
Amsterdam, 7 November 1710. Small 1mo (41 x 30.5 cm). Letterpress passport, with a large woodcut initial and spaces where the city, skipper, ship and size are filled in, with two seals, signed in the left margin by François Fagel (1659-1746) and at the foot by J. Aley(?). Full description

€ 675

Law & Politics Netherlands

Rare first and only edition of an 1800 revision of a 1792 treaty between Russia and Prussia

PAVEL (PAUL) I, Tsar. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Traité d'alliance défensive conclu entre leurs majestés, Empereur de toutes les Russies et le Roi de Prusse le 16/28 Juillet 1800.
St Petersburg, Imperial Printing Office, 1801. Folio (29.5 x 21.5 cm). Treaty between Russia and Prussia in Russian and French in 2 parallel columns in cyrillic (left) and roman (right) types. Loose bifolia (and 1 singleton leaf). [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

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The birth of Bolivia

PEDEMONTE, Don Carlos. Discurso que, en el segundo dia del Octavario de Cincepcion, y anniversario de la batalla de Ayacucho, con motivo de la constitucion y presidencia Vitalicia del libertador en el Peru, pronunció el ilustrisimo señor Arzobispo electo de Lima, doctor Don Carlos Pedemonte.
Lima, Imprenta de la Libertad, por José Maria Masias, 1826. Small 8vo. Disbound. 36 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Latin America Law & Politics Peru South America

Classic work on freemasonry

[PERAU, Gabriel-Louis Calabre]. L'Ordre des Francs-Maçons trahi, et le secret des mopses revelé.
Amsterdam, 1745. 8vo. With vignette on the title-page and 14 engraved plates (4 folding). 19th-century half calf. [16], 174, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Music, Theatre & Dance Philosophy & Esotericism

Rare first and only edition of the biography of one of the most powerful viceroys Portuguese-India ever had

PEREIRA DE MACEDO, Francisco de Santo Agostinho. Vida del grande d. Lvis de Attayde, tercer Conde de Attogvia, y Virrey de la India dos vezes.
Madrid, Imprenta del Reino, 1633. 4to. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [11] ,[1 blank], 168 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

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A major historical novel set in medieval Granada, capturing its multiculturalism

[PÉREZ DE HITA, Ginés (ABENHAMIN)]. Historie van Granada, van de Borgherlijcke Oorlogen, ende andere, die in het Granadijnsche coninckrijcke geschiet sijn, van de Mooren tegens de Christenen, tot dat de stadt ghewonnen wert van den koninck Don Fernando de vijfde. Met een discours van de incomste der Mooren in Spaengien (ende hare geschiedenissen) met haren uytgang. Getraduceert uyt de Spaensche in Nederduytsche tale, door Isaac Jansz. Bijl.
Haarlem, Vincent Casteleyn, for Jan Evertsz.Cloppenburch, Amsterdam, 1615. 8vo. Woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 504 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Islamic Art, Culture & Science Literature Spain

Napoleon's imperial credentials

PÉRIN, René. Beautés historiques de la maison d'Autriche.
Paris, Delaunay, 1811. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 16 illustrations on 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary light brown mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. XX, 360; [4], 388 pp. Full description

€ 850

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A crucial moment in the history of the Russian expansion in Central Asia

[PEROVSKY, Vasily Aleksyeevic]. A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under General Perofski in 1839.
Calcutta, Office of superintendent government printing, 1867. 8°. With 1 folding plate (plan of the camp, with the positions of the troops) and 1 folding map of the region Orenburg, Kazachstan. Original publishers green cloth; re-backed with original backstrip laid down. [2], ii, 182 pp. Full description

€ 4,750

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Well-bound treatises on natural law

PERRENOT, Abraham. Bedenkingen over de beoeffening der rechtsgeleerdheid, benevens vier verhandelingen over wysgeerige stoffen.
Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé and son (colophon: printed by Johan Joseph Besseling, [Utrecht]), 1781.
With: (2) PERRENOT, Abraham. Considérations sur l'étude de la jurisprudence, ... Nouvelle edition. Berlin, G.J. Decker; Utrecht, Henrikus Spruit, 1776. 8vo. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards (triple fillets, with floral ornaments in each corner), board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Bound by the Dutch court bookbinder Abraham van Rossum (active in Amsterdam 1812-1854), one of the "major binders" (Storm van Leeuwen) of that period. 5, [1], 339, 5; 68 pp. Full description

€ 1,650

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Programme printed on Commodore Perry's ship in Japan for its black-face minstrel show

[PERRY, Matthew Calbraith]. Ethiopian concert. United States steam frigate Powhatan, Hakodadi, Island of Yesso, Empire of Japan, May 29th [1854]. An Ethiopian entertainment will be given by the Japanese Olio Minstrels, on board this ship, this evening, weather favorable, to which the Officers invite your attendance.
[On board the Powhatan], Japan Expedition Press, [1854]. 19 x 26 cm as opened flat. A programme and invitation, printed letterpress on washi mulberry tissue paper with a lace-like decorative flower pattern in white. Full description

€ 27,500

Japan & Far East Music, Theatre & Dance

Negotiating an alliance between the Prince of the Bezancudos tribe and the Emperor of Persia

[PERSIA - ANONYMOUS]. Relacam da celebre embaixada, que o Principe dos Bezancudos mandou ao Schach da Persia, Tha'mas Kouli-khan, para o conciliar seu Aliado temendo o seu poder; e se fez esta funçao em 8 de Junho deste presente anno de 1744. com huma breve noticia dos Bezancudos, e seu Paiz.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1744. 4to (19.5 x 13.5 cm). With a printer's device on the title-page. Modern half red morocco. 8 pp., with 28 additional blank, modern leaves. Full description

€ 2,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Iran / Persia Law & Politics

Moravia ruined by war, a monumental historical work printed in Prague

PEŠINA Z CECHORODU, Tomáš Jan. Mars Moravicus. Sive bella horrida et cruenta, seditiones, tumultus, praelia, turbae: & ex ijs enatae crebrae et funestae rerum mutationes, dirae calamitates, incendia, clades, agrorum depopulationes, urbium vastitates, aedium sacrarum et prophanarum ruinae, arcium et oppidorum eversiones, pagorum cineres, populorum excidia, & alia id genus mala, quae Moravia hactenus passa fuit.
Prague, Joannis Arnolti de Dobroslawina, 1677. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Wenceslaus Wagner after A. Lublinsky, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and large folding engraved map of Moravia (50 x 38 cm) by Samuel Dworzak, dated Prague 1677. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut ornamental head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red edges, remnants of green closing ties. [24], "958" [= 956], [16] pp. Full description

€ 6,600

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Trade in Venetian cloth in early 18th-century Cairo

[AUTOGRAPH]. [PETEA(?)], Michiel. [Letter, signed, to Nicolò Caragiani in Venice concerning the trading conditions in Cairo for different woolen and silk fabrics].
Cairo, 22 October 1732. Manuscript letter in Italian, opening with a duplicate of an earlier letter, in a different hand, dated 26 September 1732, written in ink on one page of a bifolium originally folded 4 more times for sending (to 8.5 x 14 cm) with the address on one side and traces of a red wax on the other. Full description

€ 3,500

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Two very rare peace treaties between Russia and the Safavid Empire

PETER II, Tsar and Shah ASHRAF. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Tractat, zwischen dem russischen Reich und dem Sultan Eschref, jetzigem Besitzer des persischen Thrones zu Ispahan. Von russischer Seite ertheilet.
St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1729.
With: (2) ANNA, Tsarina and Shah TAHMASP II. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Tractat, so zwischen Ihro Kayserl. Majest. von allen Reussen und des persischen Schachs Majest. in der Provintz Gilan zu Rätsche durch die von beyden Seiten bevollmächtigte Ministros am 21. Jan. 1732 geschlossen worden.St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1732. Two treaties between Russia and the Safavid Empire in Russian and German in 2 parallel columns. Small folio (27.5 x 19.5 cm). Disbound. 10; 12 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

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Important bibliographical source for the history of Friesland and the first bibliography
exclusively devoted to Dutch authors

PETRI (PETRUS), Suffridus. De scriptoribus Frisiae, decades XVI. Et semis: in quibus non modo peculiares Frisiae, sed & totius Germaniae communes antiquitates plurimae indicantur, & veterum historicorum ac geographorum loci, hactenus non intellecti, explicantur.
Franeker, Jacobus Horreus, 1699. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [88], 498 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Bibliography & Biography Dutch Literature Netherlands

“the historic cornerstone of the study [of mummification] in English”

PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph. A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman (back of title-page and colophon: printed by P.P. Thoms), 1834. 4to. With 13 numbered lithographed plates (the first used as frontispiece), including 3 fully and 1 partly coloured by a contemporary hand, of which 2 highlighted in gold. Contemporary half calf, restored and rebacked with parts of the original backstrip laid down, with new tooling and title-label on spine, cloth sides, later endpapers. XXI, [1 blank], 264, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,000

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King Philip II mortgages then sells his lands of Voorburg and Voorschoten
near The Hague to help fund his wars

[MANUSCRIPT]. PHILIP (FELIPE) II, King of Spain. [Mortgage agreement, granting Jan Hanneman, Steward General of North Holland, the rights to the tithes of the King's lands of Voorburg and Voorschoten].
The Hague and Brussels, 1557 (with additions to 1565). Folio (36 x 25.5 cm). Manuscript mortgage agreement, signed by King Philip's representatives, written in brown ink on parchment in a nearly upright cursive gothic hand. With a typescript transcription of the main text and an interlinear translation in Spanish. [2 blank], 9, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

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16th-century royal decree on marine insurance, printed by Plantin

[PHILIP II, King of Spain]. Ordinancie, statuyt ende policie gemaect byden coninck onsen aldernadichsten Heere, op tfeyt vande contracten vande asseurancien ende versekeringen in dese Nederlanden.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1571. 4to. With armorial woodcut on title-page. Modern vellum. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Belgium Broadsides & Pamphlets Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Naval History Plantin Press

Among Le Pautre’s earliest work

PHILIPPON, Adam. Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques, et modernes, tant dans la ville de Rome, ques autres villes et lieux d'Italie.
Croissant, Adam Philippon, 1645. Wholly engraved print series consisting of a title-page, dedication, privilege, and 50 plates. The leaves are numbered 1-42, followed by 10 plates with their numbers changed by hand, and the privilege.
With: (2) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Frizes feuillages ou Tritons marins antiques et modernes.Paris, P. Mariette, [ca. 1664]. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates, each with two friezes . 2 series in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 18.5 cm). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [59] ll. Full description

€ 7,000

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Rare decree signed by the Spanish King Philip V, abolishing the Encomienda system
in Spains American colonies, in particular Chili and Peru

[PHILIP V, King of Spain]. [Drop title:] El Rey. Por quanto aviendose experimentado, que de muchos años à esta parte, ha sido poco, ò ninguno el fruto, que ha producido el premio, que por Reales ordenes està señalado, à los conquistadores de indios gentiles de la America, y pobladores de aquellas provincias, en las encomiendas introducidas en ellas, para remunerar los meritos de los que se dedicassen à las reduciones ...
[Madrid, 1720]. Folio (ca. 30 x 21 cm). Disbound. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

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Important Spanish account of missionary activities in Japan in excellent, contemporary parchment binding

PIÑEYRO, Luys. Relacion del sucesso que tuuo nuestra santa fe en los reynos del Iapon, desde el año de seyscientos y doze hasta el de seyscientos u quinze, Imperando Cubosama.
Madrid, widow of Alonso M. de Balboa, 1617. Folio. With woodcut coat of arms on title-page, repeated at the end of books 1, 2 and 3. Contemporary parchment. [16], 516, [8] pp. Full description

€ 31,500

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“German” Europe in the early 16th century, and Hispaniola in America

PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald. Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio.
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1530. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm). Title in a wide woodcut ornamented border, 2 woodcut historiated initials. Set in an Aldine-style italic with a word of Greek. Modern brown shell-marbled boards. [69], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

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Mysterious speech concerning British-Portuguese relations and the founding of the Brazilian Empire

[PITT, William (attributed)]. Plano sabio, profferido no parlemento de Inglaterra pelo ministro de estado Mr. Pitt, sobre a continuaçaõ da guerra com a França, e trasladaçaõ do throno de Portugal para o novo imperio do Brasil.
Lisbon, Na typografia Lacerdina, 1808. 4to. 20th-century gold-tooled black sheepskin, loss of leather around the spine, green decorated end papers, bound by Frederico d'Almeida in Lisbon. 14 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

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Papal bull elevating Cosimo I de’ Medici to become first Grand Duke of Tuscany

PIUS V, Pope. Freiheit und Bulla des allerheiligsten in Gott vatters und Herren, Herren Pii, des namens fünfften Bapsts, uber die Erhoehung und Schoepffung des durchleüchtigsten Fürsten und Herren, Herren Cosmi Medices, Hertzogen zu Florentz, &c. Zu einem Groszhertzoge und koenigmässigem, der provintz Ethrurien, ime underworffen. Geschehen zu Rom, den 27. Augusti. Anno M.D. LXIX.
[Germany], 1570. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With a woodcut figure of the Pope on the title-page. Set in Schwabacher gothic type with fraktur headings and incidental roman. Half maroon goatskin morocco (1930s?), gold-tooled spine. [12] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

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A fierce attack on the recently resigned Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro I

[PIZARRO PIMENTEL DE ALMEIDA CARVALHAIS, Rodrigo Pinto (attributed)]. Carta de um portuguez emigrado á cerca do ex-Imperador do Brazil, e do seu chamado manifesto.
Lisbon, Na Typographia de José Baptista Morando, 1832. 4to (ca. 21 x 14.5 cm). With the woodcut printers device on the title-page. Modern half burgundy artificial leather. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics South America

First edition of the history of the dioceses Tongres, Maastricht and Liège

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). Title with woodcut coat-of-arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck in a 4-piece woodcut border, a large woodcut coat of arms on the last page, 2 woodcut illustrations, one showing Mary and Jesus with Saint Anne (63 x 42 mm), and the other a bishop in his study (45 x 43 mm), each in the same 4-piece woodcut border (different from that on the title-page). Capitals rubricated throughout, some woodcuts also rubricated and some headings and other words underlined in red. Vellum (ca. 1700?). [16], [216] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Netherlands Religion (16th Century)

Magnificent engraving of the 1661 mosaic floor map of the world in 2 hemispheres,
incorporating Tasman's discoveries not otherwise published for decades

[PLAN - AMSTERDAM CITY HALL]. [CAMPEN, Jacob van]. Le pavé de la grand' sale des bourgeois.
[Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, 1719]. Very large engraved folding plan comprising 1 1/2 sheets (measuring 46 x 83 cm as assembled), engraved by Danckert Danckertsz. and his father after drawings by Jacob Vennekool, including the two hemispheres of the world map and a celestial map of the constellations of the northern hemisphere (each 10 cm in diameter). Full description

€ 2,500

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The second edition in English, by the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age

PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder) The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie.
London, Adam Islip, 1634. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (23.5 x 32 cm). Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt. (58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp. Full description

€ 15,000

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In a 17th-century richly gold-tooled Jesuit prize-binding

PLUTARCHUS. Moralia, quae usurpantur. sunt autem omnis elegantis doctrinae penus: id est, varij libri: morales, historici, physici, mathematici, deniq; ad politiorem litteraturam pertinentes & humanitatem: omnes de Graeca in Latinam linguam transscripti.
Basel, Thomas Guarini, 1570. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and repeated on last page, some mathematical woodcuts in text and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Early 17th-century Jesuit prize binding in richly gold-tooled light brown calf, sides with arabesques in the style of Gascon, richly gold-tooled double borders and inner panel with small bands in a geometrical pattern. [12], 857, [91] pp. Full description

€ 4,250

Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Jesuits Philosophy & Esotericism Religion (16th Century)

Plutarch's famous schoolbook in four languages

PLUTARCHUS. Aureus libellus, Peri paidoon a'googès, id est, de educatione liberorum, tum interpretatione Latinam, ad verbum ferè applicatam, & paraphrasi Gallico-Germanicam... Petit livret de Plutarche,... Das güldene Büchlein Plutarchi, von der Kinderzucht.
Frankfurt, Erasmus Kempffer, 1612. 8vo. Set in 2 columns. Contemporary green vellum. 175, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,850

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Bound by one of the best French binders of the 19th-century, for William I, the first King of the Netherlands

POISSONNIER-DESPERRIERES, Gabriel Adrien Marie. Vie politique et militaire du général A.M.G. Poissonnier-Desperrières ..., écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant.
Paris, C.J. Trouvé, 1824. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Dapuhin by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. Contemporary richly gold-tooled straight grained orange/brown morocco, gold- and blind-tooled boards with the arms of William I on each side, gold-tooled spine with plumed helmets, a dark-brown title-label and the name of the binder ("SIMIER.R.DU.ROI"), gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. XII, 512 pp. Full description

€ 3,000

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Practical and theoretical manual of Euclidean geometry with visual instructions in 51 plates

POMODORO, Giovanni & Giovanni SCALA. La geometria prattica. Cavata da gl'elementi d'Euclide e d'altri famosi autori, con l'esposizione di Giovanni Scala famoso matematico ridotta in cinquanta tavole scolpite in rame dalle quali con facilita si possono apprendere tutte le cose, che al buon geometra appartengono.
Rome, (colophon: printed by Andrea Fei, 1623, for) Gio. Angelo Ruffinelli, 1624. Folio. With title within engraved architectural border and 51 full-page engraved illustrations, the first 44 (number 1-44) after designs by Pomodoro and the last 7 plates (numbered 1-7) by Scala, colophon with large woodcut printer's device of Andrea Fei. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [57], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 4,000

Classical Antiquity Mathematics

Horseback riding for ladies

PONS D'HOSTUN, L.H. de. L'écuyer des dames, ou lettres sur l'équitation, contenant des principes et des exemples sur l'art de monter à cheval; ouvrage utile à l'un et à l'autre sexe, et orné de figures gravées d'après les dessins d'H. Vernet.
Paris, de l'imprimerie et dans la librairie de Madam Huzard (née Vallat la Chapelle), 1817. 8vo. With 3 full-page engraved plates by H. Vernet. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, spine with gold-tooled horses, brown title-label lettered in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. (5), 6-162 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

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Extensive travel account of Middle and South America

PONS, François Raymond Joseph de. Voyage a la partie orientale de la Terre-Ferme, dans l'Amérique méridionale, fait pendant les années 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804: contenant la description de la Capitainerie générale de Caracas, composée des Provinces de Venezuela, Maracaïbo, Varinas, la Guiane Espagnole, Cumana et de l'Ile de la Marguerite; ...
Paris, F. Buisson (back of half-title: Imprimerie de Fain et compagnie), 1806. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, including a large map of Caracas and surroundings and 3 smaller showing groundplans of Caracas, Puerto Cabello and La Guaira. All engraved by J.B. Tardieu. Contemporary half calf. [4], 358; [4], 469; [4], 362 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Geology Latin America Middle America Slavery South America Travel & Voyages South America

Illustrated Spanish book on the Sybils, prophesying the coming of Christ

PORRENO, Balthasar. Oraculos de las doce Sibilas. profetisas. de Christo nostro Señor entre los gentiles...
Cuenca, Domingo de la Iglesia, 1621. 4to. With an engraved title-page, 12 full-page woodcuts (on integral leaves), each text page in a frame of thin rules, the text opens with a woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties. Engraved title-page plus [6], 72 ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Astrology & Occult Church History & Missions Classical Antiquity

First Dutch edition of an obstetrical guide how to help women with problems during childbirth

PORTAL, Paulus. De practyk der vroed'meesters, en vroed'vrouwen, of de wyse van een vrouw' te helpen in haar kinderbaren. Uyt de Franse in de Nederduytse tale overgeset.
Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn. 1690. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author facing the title page and 8 full-page engraved plates of embryos and a placenta. Contemporary vellum, purple library stamp on the front board. [1 blank], [23], 342, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Women History

Second located copy of prayerbook in magnificent roman baroque fanfare binding
attributed to the Soresini family

[PRAYER BOOK]. Piae precationes ad missas devote celebrandas, et sacrosanctam eucharistiam sumendam. Cum variis orationibus ex bonis & probatis authoribus collectis.
Rome, Aloysius Zannettus, 1604. 8vo. With woodcut title-page and some ornamented woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled brown morocco, with gauffered edges; both sided with 2 pairs of fillets along the edges with little flowers at the corners and a floral border in between; a pattern of loose gilt stamps of flowers in a spiral line, vases with flowers, lions, stars and so-called "foglia accartocciata" ("feuilles mortes") and a crucifixion in an oval border in the centre of the front cover and the Virgin with child in an oval border in the centre of the back board. 272 pp. Full description

€ 27,500

Bindings Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Italy

Rare pamphlet concerning Dunkirk privateers

[MARITIME HISTORY - PRIVATEERING]. Discours over de ghelegentheyt vande nieuwe cruyssers, daer het wel-varen, vande zee-vaert, ende alle inghesetenen van het lant, op't hooghste aen gelegen is.
[Middelburg?], 1645. 4to. 19th-century wrappers. [36] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Economic History & Trade Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks

Proclamation forbidding trade and shipping in enemy territories,
with a recital of Spanish crimes against the Dutch

[PROCLAMATION]. Placcaet van ... den Staten Generael ... daer by de Spaigniaerts ende alle heure goederen, voor goede prinse verclaert worden.
The Hague, Aelbrecht Hendricksz, 1599. 4to. With the woodcut arms of the States General on the title-page. 19th-century blue paper wrappers. [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 395

Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Naval History Netherlands Spain

A Zeeland proclamation against grain monopolies, printed by Richard Schilders

[PROCLAMATION - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. Placcaet ende ordonnantie vanden Staten van Zeelandt, teghens den opcoop ende uuytvoer vande inlandtsche granen.
Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1595. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on title-page. Disbound. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Netherlands

The De bello Persico for the first time in print

PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA. De bello Persico. Liber primus-secundus.
Including: De bello Vandilico. Liber tertius-quartus.
Rome, Eugarius Silber alias Franck, 1509. Folio. With numerous decorative woodcut initials of 4 to 8 lines. 18th-century paper boards. [90] ll. Full description

€ 15,000

Classical Antiquity Iran / Persia Military History (16th Century) North Africa & Egypt West Asia

Important survey of ancient Egyptian and Nubian sites now submerged, with a very large and detailed map: a fine copy, partly unopened

PROKESCH, Anton, Ritter von Osten. Das Land zwischen den Katarakten des Nil. Mit einer Karte, ...
Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1831. 12mo (the book) and 17.5 x 25 cm (the folder with the folded map). With a separate large folding lithographed map (98 x 69 cm; image area 93 x 64 cm) assembled from 2 sheets, with the cultivated areas along the river hand-coloured in green as published, also showing 17 floor plans of temples and a plan of a Roman wall. The book in the publishers original light green paper wrappers and the map in a matching green paper folder. [8], 181, [3 blank] pp. plus folding table and separate map. Full description

€ 3,750

Archaeology Charts & Maps North Africa & Egypt

On Muhammad Ali, Pasha of Egypt, from the memoirs of an Austrian diplomat

PROKESCH, Anton, Ritter von Osten. Mehmed-Ali Vize-König von Aegypten. Aus meinem Tagebuche 1826-1841.
Vienna, Wilhelm Braummüller (colophon: Adolf Holzhausen), 1877. 8vo. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth. [4], 173, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt

Short play against stricter prostitution regulations in Paris

[PROSTITUTION]. Les filles en cage, ou Déguerpissons! Par un abonné au cachet des maisons de plaisir de la capitale.
Paris, Peytieux (colophon: Sétier), 1830. 8vo. With a lithographed title-page with an illustration and a small woodcut decoration on the letterpress title-page. Later black half morocco. 14, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

France Music, Theatre & Dance Women History

The statutes of Forcalquier and the Counts of Provence

[PROVENCE - FORCALQUIER]. MASSÉ, Louis and others. Statuta provinciae Forcalqueriique comitatum. Cum commentariis L. Massae I.C.... Accesserunt F. Fortii, I.C. Andini, in illa curia advocati, notae ad marginem. Cum indice. On à ajousté un livret, de la genealogie des Comtes de Provence, tiré du livre en Latin de feu Maitre F. de Clappiers, sieur de Vauvenargues, conseiller du Roy, en la Cour des Aydes, & Chambre des Comptes en Provence.
Aix-en-Provence, Nicolas Pillehotte & Jean Tholosan, 1598. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. Title printed in red & black with woodcut fleur de lis (coat-of-arms of the Départ. Alpes-de Haute-Provence), woodcut coat of arms of Forcalquier and initials in text; the second part with woodcut coat-of-arms of Henri IV on its part-title and woodcut initials. Later vellum with printed title on spine. [15], [1 blank], 216; [24] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade France Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Law & Politics

The First Anglo-Afghan War: an extraordinary snapshot of the North-West Frontier of British India
between 1840 en 1845.

[PUNJAB-BRITISH SECRETARIAT]. Press lists of old records in the Punjab Secretariat - Volume VII. - North-West Frontier Agency. Correspondence with Government, 1840-1845.
Lahore, printed by the superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1915. 1 volume bound as 2. Folio. With an addendum slip facing p. 197. Brown calf, with "Book 1" and "Book 2" in gold on the spines. [2?], 993 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom

The official establishment of Galen at the University of Paris

[PARIS UNIVERSITY - FACULTY OF MEDICINE]. PUYLON, Denis. Statuts de la Faculté de medecine en luniversité de Paris, avec les pieces justisicatives de ses privileges & les droits & soûmissions à elle deubs par les apothicaires & chirurgiens.
Including:
- Pieces justificatives des priviliges de luniversité de Paris appartenans à la Faculté de medecine.
- Arrests et sentences contre les empiriques & les medecins non approuvez par la Faculté de Medecine de Paris.
- Reglemens en faveur de la Faculté de medecine de Paris, ontre le premier medecin du roy, pour la reception des apoticaires & des chirurgiens és villes, bourgs & lieux où il ny a point de jurez en la prevoste & vicomte de Paris.
- Pieces concernans les apoticaires, et la visite des drogues.
- Reglemens pour la visites des boutiques& pour les examens & receptions des apoticaires-epiciers du roy, privilegiez suivans la cour, sous la charge de monsieur le Grand Prevost de lHôtel.
- Arrestes, sentences et contracts dentre la Faculté de medecine de Paris, & le premier barbier du roy, & la communauté des maistres chirurgiens - barbiers & jurez de Paris...
- Arrests portans defenses denlever les cadavres sans permission du doyen de la faculté de medecine de Paris, de faire anatomie quen la presence dun docteur de ladite faculté, aux officiers de justice de prendre aucuns droits pour lenlevement desdits cadavres, & à lexecuteur de la haute justice dexiger plus grande somme que de trois livres.
- Arrests pour la renvoy au parlement de Paris des instances dentre la Faculté de medecine en luniversité de Paris & le premier barbier du roy.
- Arrests faisans defenses dimprimer aucuns livres de medecine, de chirurgie ou autres sans lapprobation de la Faculté de medecine de Paris.
Paris, François Muguet, 1672. 4to. With a few woodcut headpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. 56, 26, 111, [1 blank], 4, 20, 56, 22, [2 blank], 115, [1 blank], 43, [1 blank], 10, [2 blank], 16, [4], 16 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)

Photographs and negatives of surgical procedures,
including images of three prominent female gynaecologists

QUILLIAM, Andrew. An abridged collection of photographs, taken in various departments of some of the hospitals which I have attended whilst a student 1940-43.
[England], 1940-1943. With 137 gelatin silver prints (including many repeats) and 161 celluloid negatives, most of them measuring ca. 5.5 x 8 cm, but some larger formats. Five albums of varying sizes with photographs, one box with some loosely inserted photographs and 2 albums with negatives. Full description

€ 5,000

Medicine & Pharmacy (20th Century) Photography Women History

One of the first small-format editions of a classic textbook on rhetoric, with a message for today

QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. [De institutione oratoria].
(Colophon: Florence, Filippo I Giunta, October 1515). Small 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). With a title-page containing only the author's name, but with the title in the heading to liber I, and Giunti's woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. Set entirely in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals). Vellum (ca. 1850?). [4], "269" [= 367], [1] ll. Full description

€ 3,950

Aldine Press Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics

Second Aldine edition of the most important Roman work on rhetoric, from the library of Joseph Romilly

QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. Institutionum oratorium libri XII diligentius recogniti M D XXII. Index capitum totius operis. Conversio dictionum Graecarum, quas ipse author in latinum non transtulit.
(Colophon: Venice "In Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri" [= André d'Asola & sons], January 1521 [= 1522]). Narrow 4to in 8s (21 x 13 cm). With Aldus's anchor and dolphin publisher's device on the first and last pages. Set entirely in a single size of Aldine italic, with some headings, running heads, etc., set in its (upright) capitals. Gold-tooled red morocco (ca. 1700), each board with delicate centre-piece a petit fers, rebacked in gold-tooled red morocco. [4], 230 ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Aldine Press Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Literature

Rare catalogue of the plants of Java and printed there

RADERMACHER, Jacobus Cornelis Matthieu de. Naamlyst der planten, die gevonden worden op het eiland Java. Met de beschryving van eenige nieuwe geslagten en soorten, ...
Batavia, Egbert Heemen (vols. 1-2) and Pieter van Geemen (vol. 3), 1780-1782. 7 parts in 3 volumes, bound as 1. 4to. Lacking pp. 85-102 in vol. 3. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. 60; 67, [1 blank], 88, 40; [4], 84 (lacking pp. 85-102), 42, [2], 70 pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia VOC

Revised Dutch translation of a classic history of Java

RAFFLES, Sir Thomas Stamford and Jacques Eduard de STURLER. Geschiedenis van Java ... vertaald, wat betreft de onderwerpen, welke voor Nederland en Indië wetenswaardig zijn, en voorzien van aanteekeningen, tot verbetering, beoordeeling en vervolg van het oorspronkelijke werk, door J.E. de Sturler.
The Hague and Amsterdam, Van Cleef, 1836. 8vo. With folding letterpress table. Modern half parchment, gold-tooled spine, gilt upper edge. LIV, 244, [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia

Diplomatic treaty to calm down a dormant conflict between Yemen, Britain and Saudi Arabia

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

€ 950

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics Saudi Arabia UK - United Kingdom

Portoviejo joins Bolivár’s Gran Colombia

[RAMÍREZ Y FITA, Cayetano?]. Exposicion que hase [sic] el Canton provincia de Porto-viejo, de los motivos legales y políticos que há tenido para declararse unanimente incorporada a la Republica de Colombia segun la ley fundamental del estado dictada por el Congreso general, y sancionada por el voto de los pueblos.
Lima, San Jacinto, [1822]. 4to. Side stitched. 22, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Latin America Law & Politics South America

Manuscript chronicle of the Islamic World 635-1453

[RAMPOLDI, Giovanni Battista]. [Annali Musulmani].
[Tuscany?, ca. 1825]. 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). Manuscript in Italian, written in dark brown ink on (mostly) laid paper. Contemporary or near contemporary half maroon cloth. [531], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Manuscripts & Documents Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Radical critique of European overseas expansion in 10 volumes. Extremely rare second Dutch edition

RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas François. Wysgeerige en staatkundige geschiedenis van de bezittingen en den koophandel der Europeaanen, in de beide Indiën.
Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1792-1803. 10 volumes bound as 9. 8vo. With 2 different engraved author's portraits, 8 engraved plates (5 as frontispieces), 12 engraved folding maps and 23 letterpress folding tables. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VI, [4], 469, [19]; [8], 533, [1 blank], 11, [1 blank]; [8], 508, [11], [1 blank]; [8], 427, [9], [2 blank]; [8], 365, [9]; [8], 426, [10]; [10], 501, [7]; [8], 458, [11], [1 blank]; [8], 339, [10], [1 blank]; [4], 432, [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Brazil Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Latin America Law & Politics Middle America North America South America Southeast Asia USA - United States of America

Illustrious and powerful Florentine men: first edition to include all five biographies

RAZZI, Silvano. Vite di cinque huomini illustri, M. Farinata degl'Uberti, Duca d'Athene, M. Salvestro Medici, Cosimo Med. il piu vecchio, e Francesco Valori.
Florence, Bernardo Giunta the younger and heirs of his brothers, 1602. 4to. With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) sheepskin parchment, later endpapers. [12], 198, [6] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Italy Law & Politics

To regulate salutations at sea by means of firing shots

[REGELEMT - FIRING SALUTES]. Reglement, ten opzigte van het saluut, waar naar alle zoo vlag-officieren als capiteinen en anderen commandeerende eenige schepen, fregatten, of mindere vaartuigen van oorlog, van den staat, zig zullen hebben te reguleeren. Gearresteert by haar Hoog Mogende resolutie van 6 July 1795. Het eerste jaar der Bataafsche vryheid.
[1795]. 4to. Sewn upon two supports. 4, 8, [4] pp. Full description

€ 650

Law & Politics Naval History

Brief and complete history of Japan

REIN, Johannes Justus. Japan: travels and researches. Undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government. ... Translated from the German. With twenty illustrations and two maps.
London, Hodder and Stoughton (back of title-page: Butler & Tanner, The Selwood printing Works, Frome, and London.), 1888. 8vo. With 8 wood engraved plates, 3 lithographed maps, 4 small engravings in text and 5 black and white phototypes and 2 tinted, lithographed folding maps. Modern half morocco. X, [2], 543, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

€ 650

Japan & Far East Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

Rare description of Russia just after the Turkish war,
with a revised version of the first map of the entire Russian Empire

REITZ, Johann Frederik, and others. Oude en nieuwe staat van't Russische of Moskovische Keizerryk, behelzende eene uitvoerige historie van Rusland en deszelfs groot-vorsten; benevens de beschryvinge van dat uitgestrekte ryk, de zeden en godsdienst der inwoneren: zyne opkomst en voortgang in koophandel, kunsten, land- en zeemacht, oproeren, oorlogen en verdere wisselvalligheden, tot dezen tegenwoordigen tydt toe.
Utrecht, Johannes Broedelet, 1744. 4 volumes. 4to. With 4 folding maps, 3 folding plates and a folding letterpress table. Early 19th-century half red sheepskin. [2], 296; [2], 200, 200a-200d; [2], 501; [2], 830 pp. Full description

€ 4,250

Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Military History (18th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia)

A monumental description of the archaeological expedition to Lebanon and Syria

RENAN, Joseph Ernest. Mission de Phénicie.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale/Nationale, 1864-1874. 14 volumes bound as 13 (7 of text and 7 of plates, the latter bound as 6). Folio (27,5 x 36,5 and 37 x 55,5 cm). With 70 engraved and lithographed numbered plates (including 1 folding), 1 folding map, and 8 plans(including 3 folding), a few in contemporary hand colouring, and several illustrations in the text.Contemporary wrappers. Plates stored in two half cloth portfolios. [4], 884, [4] pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Art & Art History Classical Antiquity Mediterranean Regions

The main characters in the Dutch War of Independence portrayed

REYD, Everhard van. Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583.
Arnhem, Ian Iansz., 1626. 4to. With engraved title-page and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and K. van Sichem. Contempory vellum. [16], 734, [14] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Spain

Amusing view on the Russian society in the 1770's

RICHARDSON, William. Anecdoten wegens Rusland. In gemeenzaamen brieven geschreven uit Petersburg.
Amsterdam, J. Yntema, 1784-1785. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. [6], 172; [4], 201, [7] pp. Full description

€ 950

Eastern Europe Russia (incl. Siberia)

The comet of 1664

RICHTERN, Christophorus. Berichtendes Send-Schreiben vom Cometen, so in Christmonat des 1664. Christen-Jahres ist erschienen: darinnen derselbige Astronomicè, Physicè, Astrologicè, Theologicè, betrachtet und erkläret wirt.
Leipzig, Ritzsch, 1665. 4to. With a woodcut of a comet on the title-page. Modern boards. (12) ll. Full description

€ 1,500

Astrology & Occult Astronomy & Cosmography Broadsides & Pamphlets

The Ridderschap in the States of Holland and West-Friesland asks Amsterdam
to spent more money on the defense of the country - an old plea

[STATES OF HOLLAND AND WEST-FRIESLAND]. Circulaire brief, van de Heeren Ridderschap en Edelen, van Hollandt en West-Vrieslant; nevens t antwoort van de Ed. Groot Achtb. Heeren Burgermeesteren en Regeerders der stadt Amsterdam, op de voorsz. Brief.
[Amsterdam,] Jan Cyprianus van der Graft [= Jacobus Hackius?], 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Disbound. 24 pp. Full description

€ 250

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics

The best description and history of The Hague

RIEMER, Jacob de. Beschryving van 'sGraven-hage, behelzende deszelfs oorsprong, benaming, gelegentheid, uitbreidingen, onheilen en luister, mitsgaders stigtinge van het hof, der kerken, kloosters, kapellen, godshuizen, en andere voornaame gebouwen...
Delft, Reinier Boitet (part 1); The Hague, Johannes de Cros (part 2), 1730-1739. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication in volume 1 and 3, and a total of 57 engraved plates, mostly folding. Contemporary red half sheepskin. [38], 509, [3]; [2], 511-756, [2], 759-946, [54]; [12], 289, [3], 293-495, [1], 497-520, [2], 3-78, [20] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Architecture Netherlands

The British Consul of Zanzibar and his strenuous attempts to put a stop
to the business of slavery in the Sultanate

RIGBY, Colonel Christopher Palmer; Lilian M. RUSSELL-RIGBY (ed.). General Rigby, Zanzibar and the slave trade with journals, dispatches, etc.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935. 8vo. With a folding "Rough sketch-map to illustrate General Rigbys career in H.M. Service" (ca. 25 x 29 cm) and the half-page coat-of-arms of Rigby on p. [5]. Original publisher's blue cloth with a blind-stamped centrepiece on the front board and the title in gold on the spine, covered with the original blue publisher's paper wrappers, protected by a plastic wrapper. [10], 15-404, [4] pp. Full description

€ 475

Law & Politics Slavery

Lecture on the ancient history of Arabia Petrea (now in Jordan and vicinity) during the Roman conquest by one of the founders of modern geography

RITTER, Carl. Zur Geschichte des Petraïschen Arabiens und seiner Bewohner.
[Berlin, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences], 8 July 1824. 4to. Never bound. 189-223, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Classical Antiquity West Asia

Mexico, Peru and indigenous American culture

ROBERTSON, William. L'histoire de l'Amérique ... Traduite de l'anglais.
Paris, Panckoucke, 1778. 4 volumes. 12mo. With 4 title-pages, each with a different woodcut vignette, 4 folding engraved maps depicting the Gulf of Mexico (33 x 49 cm), South America (46 x 33 cm), Mexico (30 x 39 cm), and the northwestern part of South America (39 x 25 cm) and 1 folding engraved plate illustrating the chronology of Mexicans (27 x 24.5 cm). Contemporary French calf, gold-tooled spines with red morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Full description

€ 975

Anthropology & Ethnography Caribbean Islands Charts & Maps Latin America Mexico Middle America North America Peru South America Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages South America

The persecution of Christians in Japan

[RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João and Jean VIREAU? (translator)]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon l'annee 1624.
Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1628. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit seal on the title page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, blind-stamped with a fleur-de-lys. [16], 390 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Church History & Missions Japan & Far East Jesuits Law & Politics

Lovely set of a tremendously popular history of ancient Greece

ROLLIN, Charles. Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes et des Perses, de Macedoniens, des Grecs. ... Nouvelle edition.
Paris, printed for the widow of Estienne & her children and the Estienne brothers; by (the widow of) F.A. Quillau and the widow of Simon, 1748-1769. 13 volumes bound as 14. 12mo. With 3 engraved maps, 2 engraved folding plates and 1 engraved folding plan. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines and binding edges; only volume 11 (bound as 2 volumes) in a different but closely matching binding. ca. 600 pp. per volume Full description

€ 1,500

Balkan & Greece Classical Antiquity

Competing proposals to gain renevue from opium farming in the Dutch East Indies

ROO, L.W.G. de. De verkoop van opium op Java. Open brief aan Dr. H.J.A.M. Schaepman lid van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal.
Including: Verklaringen van opiumschuivers uit verschillende streken der residentiën Pasoeroean, Besoeki en Rembang.Nijmegen, H.C.A. Thieme, 1892. 4to. Half green cloth, marbled paper sides, title in gold on spine. 56, 71 pp. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Manuscript family chronicle of a branch of the Roorda family

[GENEALOGY & HERALDRY - ROORDA FAMILY]. RODA, Dirk Daniels, and others. [Manuscript family chronicle of members of the Roda, Werdolen and Bos families].
[The Netherlands, mostly written between ca. 1747 and 1798 but incorporating several pages written in the second half of the 17th century and some writing from 1829]. Oblong 8vo (ca. 10.5 x 16 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in brown and black ink in several -, 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century hands. With a full-page unidentified coat-of-arms in brown ink and a page containing 6 smaller crests of branches of the Roorda family in black ink. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, green cloth ties. [1 blank], [5], [3 blank], [20], [1 blank], [1], [78 blank] ll. Full description

€ 3,750

Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Manuscripts & Documents

Mexico's industry and commerce, dedication copy by the author

ROUTIER, Gaston. Le Mexique[.] Limites géographiques. Orographie. Hydrographie. L' agriculture, la flore, la faune et les mines. L' industrie et le commerce.
Paris, H. Le Soudier, 1891. 8vo. With a lithographed folding map of Mexico (34.5 x 46 cm). Contemporary half red morocco, gold-tooled spine. XVII, 110 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Agriculture Earth Sciences Economic History & Trade Faunas & General Zoology Floras & General Botany Horticulture Latin America Mexico Middle America Technology Tobacco

The States General accuses Spain of breaking agreements

RUDOLF II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the STATES GENERAL. Brief des Keyserlijcke Majest. van Duytslandt, aende E. Mogende Heeren Staten vande Gheunieerde Provintien gheschreven. Op 't stuck vande Nederlantsche Vredehandeling Midtsgaders d'Antwoort vande voornoemde Heeren Staten ...
[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. With a woodcut device on the title-page. Disbound. [8] pp. Full description

€ 300

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Netherlands Spain

"Of the utmost importance for the study of Brazilian life" (Borba de Moraes)

RUGENDAS, Johann Moritz. Voyage pittoresque dans le Bresil ... Traduit de l'Allemand par Mr. de Golbery.
Paris, Engelmann & Cie., 1835. 4 parts in 1 volume. Imperial folio (54 x 36 cm). With lithographed half-title and title-page showing a wide variety of decorative lettering, 100 full-page lithographed plates by V. Adam, Villeneuve, Bonnington, A. Joly and others after Rugendas, numbered in 4 parts (30, 20, 30, 20). Contemporary half red sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [2], 48; 34; 51; 32 pp. Full description

€ 45,000

Anthropology & Ethnography Brazil Latin America Slavery South America Travel & Voyages South America

The war on drugs in Egypt: rare illustrated and highly detailed work on drug trafficking in Egypt in the 1930s

CENTRAL NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE BUREAU - RUSSELL, Thomas Wentworth (or RUSSELL PASHA). Annual report for the year 1932.
Cairo, Government Press, 1933. Imperial 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm). With 14 rotogravure(?) plates, printed in sepia, 1 folding facsimile letter, 2 folding graphs, a plate with 6 pie charts and 1 illustration (also in red) showing schematically a smuggling box. Original publisher's pink paper wrappers, printed letterpress. XVII, [1 blank], 170 pp. (pp. VI and XVIII blank) Full description

€ 8,500

Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt

Very rare publication of new Russian import regulations

[RUSSIA - CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION]. Tarif général ou table alphabétique des droits que payeront les marchandises dans tous les ports et aux douanes des frontières de l'Empire de Russie, excepté à celles d'Astracan, du gouvernement d'Oufa et de Sibérie. Composé dans la Comission de Commerce l'année 1782.
St. Petersburg, J.J. Weitbrecht, 1783. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,000

Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Russia (incl. Siberia)

Newly edited works on rhetoric, in Aire-sur-la-Lys prize binding

RUTILIUS LUPUS, Publius and 15 others (François PITHOU, ed.). [Antiqui rhetores Latini.] ... Omnia ex codd. manusc. emendatiora vel auctiora.
Paris, Adrien Périer (ex officina Plantiniana), 1599. Large 4to. Set in roman types with incidental italic, Greek and Hebrew. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with 18th-century restorations, with the arms of Aire-sur-la-Lys (an eagle) flanked by "S.P.Q. ... Arien[sis]". Rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. [4], 382, [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics School & Textbooks

First-hand account of the California Gold Rush, with plates "superior to those in the English edition" (Kurutz)

RYAN, William Redmond. Avonturen gedurende een tweejarig verblijf in Californië en zijne mijnen.
Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1850. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With two lithographed title pages and 20 lithographed illustrations on 10 plates, all drawn by Carel Christiaan Anthony Last after the author. Modern half cloth. [2], 308; VIII, 325 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Mineralogy & Gems North America

Reaching Christian truth by studying nature; the final edition of Montaigne's translation

SABUNDE (SEBONDE), Raymond of and Michel de MONTAIGNE (translator). La theologie naturelle ... traduite en François ...
Rouen, Jean de la Mare, 1641. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [1], [1 blank], [13], [1 blank], 891, [49] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Philosophy & Esotericism

Erotic photo album from the Belle Époque, mostly on the theme of flagellation

[PHOTOGRAPHY – EROTICA – SADOMASOCHISM]. RABIER, Hector (compiler). [Binding title:] Peines [et] supplices.
[France/Belgium, early 20th century]. 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). Album containing 24 small contact prints and 153 albumen or gelatin silver prints, 16 photographic reproductions of paintings or drawings, 2 albumen prints of nudes and 17 silver gelatin prints of sadomasochistic scenes. Contemporary black cloth, with the title ("H. Rabier - peines - supplices") on the spine. [52 pp.] Full description

€ 15,000

Erotica France Photography Women History

Description of Cuba's population, agriculture and commerce around 1860

SAGRA, Ramón de la. Cuba en 1860 o sea cuadro de sus adelantos en la poblacion, la agricultura, el comercio y las rentas publicas. Supplemento a la primera parte de la Historia politica y natural de la Isla de Cuba.
Paris, Simon Raçon and co. for L. Hachette and co., 1862. Folio. With some letterpress tables in text. Contemporary red cloth. [4], 282 pp. Full description

€ 1,850

Agriculture Anthropology & Ethnography Caribbean Islands Middle America Tobacco

First Spanish edition of a detailed history of the Ottoman Emperors to 1644

SAGREDO, Giovanni. Memorias historicas de los Monarcas Othomanos, que escriuio en lengua Toscana ... Traduzidas en Castellano por Don Francisco de Olivares Murillo, ...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infanzón, 1684. Folio. 18th-century tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [12], 552, [8] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Contemporary manuscript describing official diplomatic meetings at the court of King Louis XIV,
in a royal binding

[SAINCTOT, Nicolas II de]. [Memoires de Mr. de Sainctot].
[Paris?, ca. 1710]. 2 works, with the first in 2 parts, in 2 volumes. Folio (44 x 30 cm). With 3 drawings of layouts and seating plans of the king's audience room, and 24 copper-engravings of ambassadors and court scenes. With: (2) [AVICE, Henry]. La pompeuse et magnifique ceremonie du sacre du roy Louis XIV.
Paris, Imprimerie d'Edme Martin, 1655.
Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the French royal coat-of-arms on the front and back, fleurs-de-lis in the corners and on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt and marbled edges, marbled endpapers. 450, [1 blank]; [6], "344" [= 407], [5 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [8], [7], [5 blank] pp. Full description

€ 29,500

Bindings France Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents WIC

Only copy located of the 1850 Saint Helena almanac, portraying the island at the height of its importance
in transatlantic shipping and the suppression of the slave trade

[SAINT HELENA - ALMANAC]. The Saint Helena almanac and annual register for the year of our lord 1850, ... Containing a detailed account of the public departments and local institutions.
Saint Helena, George Gibb, Government office, [1849]. 8vo. With title-page printed in orange, with the woodcut royal arms of the United Kingdom. Later black half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [126], 37, [3] pp.; plus [3], [1 blank] pp. advertisements Full description

€ 3,500

Almanacs Geology Greek & Non-Western Types UK - United Kingdom

On the origin and medical properties of tobacco, with recommendations for smoking without offending women

[SAINT-HILAIRE, Émile-Marco de]. L'arte di fumare e prender tabacco senza racar dispiacere alle belle ...
Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1828. Small 8vo. Contemporary paper wrappers, pasted on top of the original lithographed wrappers. 96 pp. Full description

€ 350

Tobacco Women History

Pioneering photographs of Jerusalem made in 1854, with 40 original salt prints

SALZMANN, Auguste. Jérusalem. Étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'époque Judaïque jusqu'à nos jours.
Paris, Gide & J. Baudry (on the back of both half-titles and the back wrapper of the text volume: printed by Jules Claye in Paris; on each photographic plate: printed by Louis Blanquart-Evrard in Lille), 1856. 2 volumes. Folio. With 40 mounted salt print photographs, 3 full-page plates (2 lithographs, 1 chromolithograph), and numerous illustrations in the text.
Volume 1 in contemporary gold-tooled half black goatskin. Volume 2 in contemporary gold-tooled quarter red goatskin. [4], 90, [2]; [4], [2] pp. + 40 leaves with mounted salt prints. Full description

€ 45,000

Archaeology Architecture Classical Antiquity Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Photography West Asia

The "Mirror of human life", printed at Rome in 1473, with contemporary marginal manuscript notes:
set in one of the first roman printing types ever produced

SÁNCHEZ DE ARÉVALO, Rodrigo (Rodericus SANCIUS or ZAMORENSIS). Speculum vit[a]e human[a]e.
Rome, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 31 July 1473. Small folio (26.5 x 20 cm). With spaces left for 2 large (6-line) and about 80 small (3-line) initials. Text block 19.5 x 11.5 mm with 31 lines per page. Set in a single roman type throughout (Lignamine 125R). Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1740/50). [163] ll. Full description

€ 22,500

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 15th century Philosophy & Esotericism

Early work on money lending

SAUMAISE, Claude de. De modo usurarum liber.
Leiden, Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevier, 1639. 8vo. With title-page in red and black with woodcut publisher's device. Contemporary vellum. [56], 891, [93] pp. Full description

€ 875

Book History, Printing & Typography Economic History & Trade Numismatics

Much enlarged edition of the first encyclopaedia of commerce

SAVARY, Jacques and Philemon Louis SAVARY. Dictionnaire universel de commerce.
Amsterdam, Janssonius van Waesbergen, 1726-1732. 4 volumes bound as 3. 4to. With a folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Jan Six de Vromade, by Houbraken, and 3 large allegorical engraved headpieces. Main text printed in two columns. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines and board edges. [8], XXXVIII, [2] pp. 2032; 2000; 1032; 676 cols [=1016, 1000, 516, 338 pp.]. Full description

€ 7,500

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Economic History & Trade

265 portraits of celebrities in 10 different editions, from the library of Jean de Boulonois

[SAXONY]. Saxoniae ducum caesarib. creand. viivirum; et caeserorum a Friderico I. ad Christianum II. fratres et agnatos. Genuinae effig: Cum collect. et epigramm. Marci Henningi. A.
Augsburg, Ex caelatura et officina. Dominicus Custos eiconoge, 1601. Folio. 34 ll. With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II.
With:
(2) GENEALOGIA serenissimor. Boiariae ducum et quorundam genuinae effigies. A Wolffg. Kiliano Aug. aeri incisae.
Augsburg, Johann Praetorius for Dominicus Custos, 1605. Folio. 16 ll.
Engraved title-page, 9 engraved half-page portraits (176x122mm.) by Wolfgang Kilian (1581- Augsburg -1662).Original edition of these beautiful portraits.
(3) HENNINGUS, Marcus. Tirolensium principum comitum ab an. Virg. partus M.CC.XXIX usque ad ann. MDC. genuinae eicones. Singulorum insignia: quorundam emblemata.
Augsburg, Johannes Praetorius for Dominicus Custos, 1599. Folio. 38 leaves with the last blank.
Engraved title-page, engraved dedication and full-page engraved coat of arms, engaved map of Tirol in cartouche and 28 full-page portraits (ca. 220x140mm.).
(4) BARLANDUS, Adrianus. Chroniques des ducs de Brabant, composees par adrian Barlande, rhetoricien de Louvain, et nouvellement enriches de leurs figures & pourtraits. Par la despense & vigilance de Jean Bapt. Vrient.
Antwerp, Jean Baptist Vrints, 1603. Folio. (18), 192, (6) pp. With engraved coat of arms on the title, engraved dedicatioon, double-page map of Brabant, dated 1599 and 36 full-page portraits (ca. 208x136mm.).
(4) BARLANDUS, Adrianus. Chroniques des ducs de Brabant, composees par adrian Barlande, rhetoricien de Louvain, et nouvellement enriches de leurs figures & pourtraits. Par la despense & vigilance de Jean Bapt. Vrient.
Antwerp, Jean Baptist Vrints, 1603. Folio. (18), 192, (6) pp. With engraved coat of arms on the title, engraved dedicatioon, double-page map of Brabant, dated 1599 and 36 full-page portraits (ca. 208x136mm.).
(5) MARTIN, Cornelius. Les genealogies, et anciennes descentes des forestiers et comtes de Flandre, ... par Corneille Marti Zelandoys, ...
Antwerp, Jacques Mesens for Jean Baptist Vrints, 1598. Folio. (6), 120 pp.
With engraved title-page, engraved dedication and map of Flandres, 40 full-page portraits (ca. 205x142mm.) and an engraved allegorical plate with an engraved poem by Ch. de Navieres underneath on the last leaf.
(6) GALLE, Philippus. Les vies et alliances des comtes de Hollande et Zelande, seigneurs de Frise.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin for Philippus Galle, 1586. Folio. 75, (3) pp.
With title vignette of the Dutch Virgin in an enclosure, engraved by Philippus Galle in 1578 and 36 full-page portraits (ca. 208x122mm) of the counts of Holland and Zealand, engraved, also in 1578, by Philippus Galle after the drawings by Michael Thibaut.
(7) PASSE the elder, Crispijn de. Effigies regum ac principum, eorum scilicet, quorum vis ac potentia in re nautica seu marina prae caeteris spectabilis est ... Summa diligentia et artificio depictae, et tabellis aeneis incisae à Crispiano Passaeo Zelando. Adiectis in singulas hexastichis Matthaeiae Quadi chalcographi.
[Cologne, 1598]. (1 quire: 6 leaves with the text in letterpress: 'Initium artis navigandi, eiusque praecipui autores et acto', dated: Coloniae, 1598, ipso die Theophoriae.)
With engraved title-page, 4 added engravings of ships and 2 engraved celestial maps (Imagines coeli septentrionales and Meridionales) and the 18 portraits (ca. 138x100mm.)belonging to this edition. Added are the beautiful portrait of Fredrik Henry (Hollstein 728) and a second portrait of Maurits (Hollstein 789, dated 1600) and 2 other portraits, pasted on the versos of two portraits: the portraits of Christian IIII of Denmark and Francis Drake, opposite the portraits of the same men by Van de Passe), most of them signed by Crispijn van de Passe and dated 1595-1598.
Added are 27 (out of 51) portaits of political figures and authors from the Low Countries from:
(8) GALLE, Philippus. Illustrium Galliae Belgicae scriptorum icones et elogi.
Antwerpen, Philippus Galle, 1604.
Without a title-page. The portraits (ca. 172x118mm.) are: Viglius Zuichemus (19), Gabriel Mudaeus (20), Franciscus Balduinus (21), Jodocus Damhouder (22), , Jacobus Raevardus (23), Petrus Peckius (24), Joannes Wamesius (25), Joh. Goropius Becanus (31), Joannes Beverus Hanno (34), Erasmus (35b), Augustinus Hunnaeus (35), Patrus Nannius (36), Cornelius Valerius (37), and 38-51 (a.o. Willem Canter (40), Jan Lievens (41), Ogier Ghislain de Busbeck (44), Abraham Ortelius (45), Janus Secundus (46), Nicolaus Grudius (47)), Macopedius (48)). all with engraved poem by Franciscus Raphelengius or A. Miraeus, Jac. Rol, Janus Lernutius and others underneath.
(9) GALLE, Philippus. Virorum doctorum de disciplinis benemerentium effigies XLIIII a Philippo Galleo.
Antwerp, Philippus Galle, 1572.
Engraved title-page, 26 (out of 44) engraved portraits (ca. 175x 123mm.) on large paper.
The preface by Galle (2 pp.) is lacking. Then follow 26 (out of 44) portraits with the inscriptions underneath engraved in the copperplates: being the second issue (1572b edition). This 1572 edition aims at providing the contemporary reader with a selection of the foremost humanits and scholars of the time.
(10) Added are 40 (out of 50) portraits (ca. 17 x 12.5 cm.) from the 1587 edition, the promised supplement to the 1572 edition.
10 portrait series in 1 volume. Contemporary full brown calf, both sides magnificently tooled in gold with a floral roll along the edges and four cornerpieces, an oval gilt coat of arms in a wreath with the motto 'Ad Aethera virtus' in the centre, spine profusely gilt in compartments and lettered in gold.The coat of arms is of Jean de Boulonois a clergyman from the Collège at Abbeville and so the book was in his possession ('un chevron chargé de trois besants (boules=Boulonnois) acc. de trois étoiles'). 34 ll. Full description

€ 29,500

Germany Netherlands

Two important 18th-century dissertations on hunting from the University of Tübingen

SAYLER, Johann Wilhelm von (Gottfried Daniel HOFFMANN, praeses). De libera venatione speciatim Suevo-Memmingensi. Auctioritate illustris iureconsultorum ordinis praeside Godofredo Daniele Hoffmanno philosophiae magistro iuris utriusque doctore sacri caesarei palatii comie serenissimi Wurtembergiae ducis consiliario iuris publici et feudalis professore publico ordinario pro licentia summos in utroque iure honores rite capessendi ad diem V. Maii MDCCLIII.
Including: Appendix sive adiuncta dissertationis: Recensio adiunctorum.
Tübingen, Johann Philipp Erhardt, 1753. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (18.5 x 15.5 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved folding map (18.5 x 27 cm) of Memmingen and the Bosserhard by J.F. Rupf, and with an elaborate woodcut headpiece (with a rising phoenix) and a factotum in the form of a person with shield and spear.
With: KESSEL, Johann Erhard (Stephan Christoph HARPPRECHT VON HARPPRECHTSTEIN, praeses). Sciagraphiam liberae venationis Germanicae imprimis vero Svevicae, vulgo Die freye Purts-Gerechtigkeit favente supremo numine annuente amplissimo Ictorum ordine publicae ventilationi sistit praeses Stephanus Christophorus Harpprecht, U. J.D. Prof. Jur. Extra-ordin. & serenissimi principis Hohen-Zollerensis Consiliarius.
Tübingen, literis Eitelianis [= Johann Konrad Eitel], 1702.
Ad 2 with a woodcut decorated initial and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments.
Modern brown decorated paper over boards. [2], 70, 20; 24 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Germany Law & Politics

Dutch translation of an important work on Lapland, with 17 engraved plates by Jan Luyken

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ... Met noch een kort bericht van den toestand der Finnen.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1682. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 16 engraved plates by Jan Luyken, and 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary vellum. [6], 99; 146; 73, [7] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Scandinavia Travel & Voyages Europe

The only Dutch work on the history of the notarial profession,
including the rare plate depicting notarial seals

SCHELLING, Pieter van der. Histori van het notarisschap, behelzende den oorsprong, 't begin, en den voortgang van het notarisschap, kancellierschap, sekretarisschap, griffierschap, klerkschap, enz. byzonder in de Nederlanden, enz. mitsgaders de Engelsche praktyk, ... Als ook ontrent het koopen, aanneemen, en administreeren; en het verkoopen, en transporteeren van Engelsche effecten; onder andere gevolgd in de Nederlanden...
Rotterdam, Philippus en Jakobus Losel, 1745. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, a folding engraving of notarial seals, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary parchmen. [74], 746, [75], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Law & Politics Netherlands

First edition of an account of Tsar Peter's visits to the Dutch Republic, with 3 plates

SCHELTEMA, Jacobus. Peter de Groote, keizer van Rusland in Holland en Zaandam in 1697 en 1717.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Gartman, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved title-pages showing a portrait of Peter the Great, 1 letterpress title-page and 2 half-titles, and 3 engraved plates. Mid-19th-century tree calf, each board with a gold-tooled fillets, gold-tooled spine and board edges, antique spot marbled endpapers, green ribbon markers. XXVI, 339; [2], XXXI, [1 blank], 328 pp. plus engraved titles and plates. Full description

€ 1,500

Eastern Europe Netherlands Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Europe VOC

Hand-coloured heraldic chart of German nobility and clergy

[HERALDIC CHART - GERMANY]. SCHENK, Pieter. Germaniae compendium tria continens imperii collegia forumdemque insignia et sessiones ut et circulorum divisiones una cum suis annotationibus. | Kort begryp van Duytsland, desselfs ryx collegien hunne zittingen en wapens, kreitsverdelingen, en aantekeningen daar op.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1707]. Engraved chart (50 x 57) on a single sheet of paper (52.5 x 61 cm), coloured by a contemporary hand, depicting various coats of arms and including a small map (15.5 x 15.5 cm) of Germany. Full description

€ 350

Charts & Maps Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Germany

German Reformed congregations in America, with the baptism of a freed slave and report on the Iroquois

SCHLATTER, Michael. Getrouw verhaal van den waren toestant der meest herderloze gemeentens in Pensylvanien en aangrensende provintien.
Amsterdam, Jacobus Loveringh, 1751. 4to. Finely bound in early 20th-century(?) gold-tooled, tan goatskin morocco, green morocco label covering the entire spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on board edges, with the original Dutch-marbled wrappers bound in. XXII, 56 pp. Full description

€ 18,000

North America Protestant Reformation Slavery

Erudite overview of maritime history

SCHOOCK, Martinus. Imperium maritimum.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1654. 12mo. With woodcut vignette on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [4], 180, [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Anthropology & Ethnography Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Naval History VOC WIC

Expanded and illustrated second edition of a classic description of Friesland

[SCHOTANUS, Christiaan]. Beschryvinge van de heerlyckheydt van Frieslandt tusschen 't Flie end de Lauwers.
[Franeker], Johannes Wellens, [1664]. Folio. With engraved title-page, full-page engraved coat of arms of the province of Friesland, and 46 engraved maps and plans (4 large folding maps, 31 double-page maps and 11 double-page city plans) by Jacob van Meurs after Bernardus Schotanus à Sterringa. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 280, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Charts & Maps Church History & Missions City Plans, Topography & Views Netherlands

Spectacular atlas of Friesland, beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand

SCHOTANUS VAN STERRINGA, Bernhard. Uitbeelding der heerlijkheit Friesland; zoo in 't algemeen, als in haare XXX bijzondere grietenijen; ... Nu nieuwelijks met bijgevoegde aangrenzingen, en veel vermeerderingen: nevens d'afteekening van Oud Friesland,...
[Leeuwarden], François Halma, 1718. Imperial folio (54.5 x 33 cm). With an engraved allegorical title-page; 3 full-page engraved heraldic plates; and 37 double-page and 2 larger folding engraved maps. Beautiful cartouches and landscapes on all maps, mostly by Jan and Caspar Luyken, all beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary red half roan, later cloth corners and reinforcing. [4] pp. plus plates. Full description

€ 12,500

Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps Netherlands

Unique first edition (1823) of a technical handbook for gold- and silversmiths and jewellers

SCHUL[T]ZE, Heinrich. Der Gold- & Silberarbeiter und Juwelier nach allen seinen praktischen Verrichtungen. Ein vollständiges Handbuch dieses Gewerbes...
Ilmenau, B.F Voigt, 1823. 8vo. With 8 tables on separate leaves (6 on 3 folding plates bound at the end of the book), 109 tables in the text and 4 lithographed folding illustration plates signed by Uckermann. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, gold-tooled spine with light brown label. XII, 340, [4] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Earth Sciences Economic History & Trade Mineralogy & Gems

Illustrated account of Antwerp at the start of the 17th century

SCRIBANI, Charles. Antverpia.
Including: [SCHONDONCK, Gilles]. Hê prôtogeneia kai epistrephomonê tychê tês Anbersês.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank page following the main part.
With: (2) SCRIBANI, Charles. Origines Antverpiensium.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page, woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank last page, folding engraved map of Antwerp and 6 double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume; 1st work in 2 parts. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [8], 146, [1], [1 blank]; 1-24; 1-172, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,000

Antwerp Belgium Book History, Printing & Typography Church History & Missions

First edition of “the first actual dispensatory”, with 271 numbered medicines

SCRIBONIUS LARGUS ( Jean RUEL ed.). De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus, ...
(Colophon: Paris, Simon Du Bois, October 1528). Folio (29 x 20 cm). With Du Bois's woodcut tree and 2 birds device at the end with motto, about 40 woodcut decorated initials (7 series?) plus about 100 repeats. Set in roman types with some preliminaries in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals) and occasional words in Greek. Recent parchment. [9], [1 blank], 31, [5] ll. Full description

€ 12,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Compilation of 15th- and 16th-century historical texts on the Netherlands

SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Batavia illustrata, seu de Batavorum insula, Hollandia, Zelandia, Frisia, territorio Traiectensi et Gelria, scriptores varii notae melioris, nunc primùm collecti, simulqùe editi.
Leiden, Lodewijk Elzevier [printed by Jan Paets Jacobszoon], 1609. 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With many woodcut illustrations in text. Early 18th-century calf, richly gold-tooled spine with a red title-label and the crowned monogram of the Duke de La Force and the Dukes coat of arms in gold on the sides (probably of a later date). [8], 232, 56 184, 40 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Netherlands

One of the most famous works on cryptography
by the founder of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany

SELENUS, Gustavus (pseudonym of Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg). Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX. In quibus & planissima Steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio ...
(Colophon:) Lüneburg, printed for the author by Johann and Heinrich Stern, 1624. Small folio (ca. 29 x 18.5 cm). With the title set within an elaborately engraved pictorial border, a full-page engraving, a half-page engraving, an engraved illustration in the text, and a folding letterpress table. Further with numerous woodcut or letterpress diagrams, tables, and musical scores in the text, a woodcut printers device on verso of the final leaf, woodcut and typographical head- and tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials. Modern overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title in black ink on the spine. [36], 493, [1] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Magic & Conjuring Philosophy & Esotericism Science

Popular work on sorcery and witchcraft

SENNERTUS, Daniel and Daniël JONCTYS (translator). Verhandelingh der toover-sieckten. Geschil van de schôot- en steeck-vrije. Geschil van de wapen-salve. Paracelsi vrye-konst. Uyt verscheyde Latijnsche boecken vertaelt, en by een geschikt door D. Jonctys.
Amsterdam, Jan van Hilten (colophon: printed by Pieter Dircksz. Boeteman), 1646. 4 parts in 1 work. 8vo. With an engraved title-page showing a magician laying magic bones at a person's sickbed, a small vignette on the title-page, 3 typographical divisional title-pages, 1 small woodcut illustration in the text (p. 200), 3 decorated initials (3 different series) and 3 ornamental tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [24], 331, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,250

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A sermon on the dangers of whores and a thinly veiled critique of King George II

[SERMON ON KINGS AND WHORES]. Koninglyke dwaesheid, of het gevaer van de verleidingh der hoeren. Vertoont in een predikaetie uitgesprooken te Oxfordt, ... Uit het Engelsch vertaalt.
Haarlem, Jan van Lee, 1743. 4to. With a woodcut emblematic device on title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 21, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Erotica Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom Women History

Correspondence of the "lord of the naval and commercial conquest of Arabia, Persia and India"

SILVA, Luiz Augusto Rebello da (et al.). Corpo diplomatico Portuguez contendo os actos e relações politicas e diplomaticas de Portugal.
Lisbon, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias / Imprensa Nacional, 1862-1959. 15 volumes (final volume in 2 parts). Small folio (22.5 x 28.5 cm). Uniformly bound in half tan sheepskin, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spines, decorated endpapers, sprinkled edges. Some original publishers printed wrappers bound in. Full description

€ 18,500

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Early history of the Arab people and the birth of Islam

SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine-Isaac, and others. Mémoires de littérature, tirés des registres de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.... tome quarante-huitième.
Including: SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine Isaac. Mémoire sur divers événemens de l'histoire des Arabes avant Mahomet.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. 4to. Set in roman, italic, Greek and Arabic type. With a folding engraved plate of a Greek inscription and 5 letterpress tables. Contemporary half calf. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], IV, 775 784 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States

Richly gold-tooled French morocco in the style of "Le Gascon": includes Elichman's Greek, Latin and Arabic Tabula Cebetis and Aurea carmina Pythagoræ

SIMPLICIUS of Cilicia. Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti, ex libris veteribus emendatus. Cum versione Hieronymi Wolfii, et Cl. Salmasii animadversionibus, et notis quibus Philosophia Stoica passim explicatur & illustratur.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1640. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With three title-pages. Set in roman, Greek and Arabic types. Contemporary French pointillé binding in the style of "Le Gascon", richly gold-tooled in concentric panels on both covers, and in the six compartments of the spine, the second with the title. [20], 332, [12]; [1], [1 blank], 329, [23]; [34], 88, 15 pp. Full description

€ 9,750

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Incunabular Arabian Nights: The Book of Sindbad in Western European disguise

[SINDBAD – SEVEN SAGES]. Historia septem sapientum Rome.
Cologne, Johann Koelhoff the Elder, of Lübeck, (before 6 November) 1490. 4to (200 x 128 mm), 34-37 lines, gothic type, rubricated in red. Illustrated with a large armorial woodcut printers device at the end and 23 full-page woodcuts, with two of the woodcuts repeated several times. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled full calf over wooden boards. Remains of clasps. Endpapers from a rubricated incunabular edition of the Biblia cum glossa ordinaria. [50] ff. [a–g6, H8]. Full description

€ 125,000

Early Printing - 15th century Islamic Art, Culture & Science Literature

Contemporary illustrations of the Trollhätte Canal

SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik. Description des cataractes et du canal de Trollhätta en Suède; avec un précis historique.
Stockholm, Charles Delén, 1804. 4to. With an aquatint title-page and 12 aquatint plates, including 1 map, all drawn and engraved by the author. Contemporary grey-blue wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 47, [2] pp. Full description

€ 850

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Historically important corrrespondence, documenting the actions of the British government
to stop the illegal slave trade in the middle of the 19th century

[CORRESPONDENCE - SLAVERY AND SLAVE TRADE]. Correspondence ... relating to the slave trade. [In some volumes: "relative to the slave trade", "on the slave trade" or "respecting the slave trade"].
London, William Clowes (1837-1845); T. R. Harrison (1848-1872); 1837-1872.
With:
(1) Class B (further series). Correspondence with foreign powers regarding the slave trade. 1837.
(2) Class C. Correspondence with foreign powers, parties to the conventions between Great Britain and France upon de slave trade. May 1838 - February 1839.
(3) Idem. June - December 1839.
(4) Idem. May - December 1840.
(5) Class D. Correspondence with foreign powers, not parties to conventions, giving right of search of vessels suspected of the slave trade. May 1838 - February 1839.
(6) Idem. February - May 1839.
(7) Idem. January - May 1840.
(8) Idem. May - December 1840.
(9) Class C. Correspondence on the slave trade, with foreign powers parties to conventions under which vessels are to be tried by the tribunals of the nation to which they belong. January - December 1941.
(10) Idem. January - December 1942.
(11) Idem. 1844.
(12) Idem. January - December 1846.
(13) Class A. Correspondence respecting slavery and the slave trade in foreign countries and other matters. January - December 1871.
(14) Idem. January - December 1872.
14 volumes. Folio (32 x 20.5 cm). With several tables of data.
Later stiff blue paper wrappers with white title-label on the front cover, blue sprinkled edges. Ad. 11 in beige paper wrappers. Full description

€ 8,500

Latin America Law & Politics North Africa & Egypt North America Slavery South America UK - United Kingdom

Only known copy of a work concerning the abolition of slavery in Brazil: presentation copy to Emperor Pedro II of Brazil

[SLAVERY - BRAZIL]. ROMANUS (pseudonym). A lavoura e o trabalho. Da emancipação ao abolicionismo, 1881 a 1884. Analyse e descripção enriquecida com os documentos concernentes á formação dos clubs dá lavoura, suas representações ao parlamento, e attitude official.
Rio de Janeiro, Typographia e lithographia Moreira, Maximino & Co., 1884. Large 8vo in 4s (ca. 22 x 14.5 cm). Modern half red leather, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, red and white decorated endpapers, with the original publishers printed front wrapper lettered in gold bound in. 158, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Brazil Law & Politics Slavery South America

A detailed scene in colour, showing women being traded as slaves

[SLAVE TRADE]. Der Sclavenhandel [!]. La vente d'Esclaves.
[No place, ca. 1800]. 27 x 40 cm. Aquatint in contemporary hand colour, engraved by "J. L. T." after "J. R. P." Full description

€ 2,500

Prints & Print Series Slavery Women History

Very rare first issue of a decree by José I, King of Portugal,
concerning difficulties in the transportation of enslaved people from Mozambique to Brazil in 1772

[SLAVE TRADE - BRAZIL - JOSÉ I, King of Portugal]. [Drop title:] Eu Elrey. Faço saber aos que este alvará de declaração virem: que tendo informação, de que do meu alvará de dez de setembro de mil setecentos sessenta e sinco, que, abollindo as frótas, permittio aos meus vassallos a liberdade de navegarem para os portos não vedados dos meus dominios ultramarinos; e de transportarem delles, e para elles quaesquer mercadorias permittidas ...
[Lisbon], Na Regia Officina Typografica, [1772]. Folio (ca. 29 x 20 cm). With a large decorated woodcut initial "E" incorporating the Portuguese royal coat-of-arms. Disbound and subsequently mounted in a modern black stiff paper folder with a printed label mounted on the front wrapper. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

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Henry Ecroyd Smith's journal of a trip to see Mediaeval architecture in North Yorkshire and Durham

[SMITH, Henry Ecroyd]. Notes of a three weeks ramble in North Yorkshire and South Durham.
[England], [18]61. Folio (28.5 x 23 cm). With numerous lithographs, copper- and steel-engravings, and newspaper clippings mounted on the leaves, a folding map of Russia added between pages 63 and 64, and a blank leaf from the guest book of the Hotel des Boulangers in Bern added between pages 75 and 76. All leaves are blind-ruled. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled blue sheepskin. [1], "118" [= 116, final 61 pages blank], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 4,000

Architecture Manuscripts & Documents Travel & Voyages Europe UK - United Kingdom

A famous history of the conquest of Mexico

SOLÍS Y RIBADENEYRA, Antonio de. Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne par Fernand Cortez.
Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1730. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 14 engraved maps, views and plates (12 folding). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [32], 606, [26]; [12], 560, [22] pp. Full description

€ 950

Latin America Mexico Military History (18th Century) North America

Extract of influential work on Spanish colonies

SOLORZANO PEREIRA, Juan de. Traduccion de la dedicatoria real i epistolas proemiales del segundo tomo del Derecho, i gobernierno de las Indias Occidentals.
[Madrid], Francisco Martinez, 1639. Folio. With an elaborate engraved architectural title-page by Roberto Codier. Spanish sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?). Title, [4], 62 ll. Full description

€ 3,000

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Songs on the Dutch victories over the Spanish conquerors

[SONGBOOK - DUTCH]. Eerste [-Tweede] deel van 't nieu geusen liet boeck, waerinne begrepen is den gantschen handel der Nederlanden, beginnende anno 1564. uit alle oude geusen liet-boecken by een versamelt. Verciert met schoone oude refereynen en[de] liedekens, te voren noyt in eenige liet-boecken ghedruct. Met de figuren der gouverneurs.
Amsterdam, Gerrit van Breugel, 1616. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Title-page printed in red and black with borders built up from typographic ornaments, woodcut on title-page, and 10 small woodcut portraits in text of the two parts together. Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [1], 93, [1]; 86, [1] ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Dutch Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Netherlands

Well-informed account of the Ottoman government

SORANZO, Lazzaro. L'Ottomanno ...
Naples, Costantino Vitale, 1600. 4to. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [20], 202, [18] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Texts of 58 letters to the Portuguese court,
written in Arabic by kings, diplomats and noblemen, 1503 to 1528

SOUSA, João de. Documentos Arabicos para a historia Portugueza...
Lisbon, Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790. 4to. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athenas owl and Hermess staff). Set in roman, Arabic and italic types. Modern brown paper wrappers. Wholly untrimmed and with most of the bolts unopened, preserving all deckles and point holes. [8], 190, [2] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics Portugal

Summary of disasters and curiosities from the creation of the world to 1700

SPAAN, Gerrit van. Gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen, volgens den rang der jaren, van het begin des werelds, tot het einde van 't jaar zeventien-honderd: behelzende, duure tyden, hongersnooden ... gevolgd van aarbevingen, donder blixem ... nevens goê-koop koorn en wyn.
Rotterdam, Pieter van Veen, 1701. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. [16], 382, [1, 1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Economic History & Trade Wine / Viticulture

Large chart of European countries and their royal or noble families

[HERALDIC CHART - EUROPE]. [SPECHT, Caspar]. Historische en geographische tafel om te leren een kort begrip vande landen en staaten in Europa haar grootheyt, besitting en alles dat tot onderricht der liefhebbers van de landbeschryvinge dienen kan.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckerts II, [ca. 1703-1705]. Engraved chart (47.5 x 57 cm) printed on a single sheet of paper (51.5 x 61 cm), partly hand-coloured, including several coats of arms, with an added title in German engraved just above the image. Full description

€ 250

Charts & Maps Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags

Extremely rare printed copy of Dom Pedro I's speech
opening the first legislature of Brazil as an independent nation

[SPEECH - DOM PEDRO I of BRAZIL]. Noticias. No. 2. Porto 7 de Julho. 1826.
(Colophon:) Porto, Imprensa do Gandra, 1826. Folio (ca. 30.5 x 21 cm). With the text set in two columns in 4 different types (large capitals for the "title", roman, italic, and a decorative gothic-like type. Further with some small typographical ornaments and details. Disbound with two small sewing holes in the gutter. [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics South America

Rare German translation of Speelman's expedition against the Kingdom of Makassar

[SPEELMAN, Cornelis Janszoon]. Journal, oder kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Aussgangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1668 und 1669 geführet worden.
Hamburg, Gottfried Schulken, 1670. 4to. Disbound, preserving the original endpapers. [18] ll. Full description

€ 3,250

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Southeast Asia VOC

A bestseller of illustrated 17th-century travel literature, probably printed by Izaak Elzevier

SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Jacob Le MAIRE. Miroir Oost & West-Indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres navigations, faictes es années 1614. 1615. 1616. 1617. & 1618.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius [printed by Izaak Elzevier?], 1621. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 23 cm). With 24 (of 25) engraved plates, including 5 double-page and 10 larger folding. Modern vellum. [4], 172 pp. Full description

€ 16,500

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Book History, Printing & Typography Brazil Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Navigation Peru South America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

Important early voyages to the East Indies and the impetus for the discovery of Australia

SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Steven van der HAGEN. Historis journael van de voyages gedaen met 3 schepen uyt Zeelant naer d'Oost-Indien onder het beleyt van den Commandeur Joris van Spilbergen, sijn eerste reyse. Inden jare 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604, als meede beschryvinge vande tweede voyage ghedaen met 12 schepen na d'oost-Indien onder den Admirael Steven vander Hagen.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 4to. With a relatively large woodcut illustration of two ships on the title-page, a folding engraved plate showing six scenes of Spilbergen's journey and experiences in the East, a woodcut tail-piece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Modern brown calf. 96 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Ceylon Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

9 drawings of magnificent triumphal arches and funeral biers erected in Siena for its leading family
and for the Grand Duke of Toscany Cosimo III de Medici and his wife and son

[SPLENDID CEREMONIES]. [Triumphal arches and catafalques (elaborate funeral biers) erected in the years 1715, 1721-1723 and 1737].
[Sienna, ca. 1728, with 1 addition ca. 1737]. Folio (ca. 29 x 21 cm). 8 original drawings in black ink with ink washes plus 1 additional line drawing of a catafalque added about a decade later. Never bound, but formerly sewn. ll. 28-31, 34-37. Full description

€ 9,500

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Religious festivities in the Southern Netherlands

[SPLENDID CEREMONY - MECHELEN]. Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen...
Mechelen, J.F. vander Elst, [1775?].
With:
(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade..
Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].
(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius...
Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].
3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [12], 34 [= 38]; 36; [8], XII, 84 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Art & Art History Belgium Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks

A prosecutors enquiry into the traumatic 1796 Dutch capitulation
at Saldanha Bay near the Cape of Good Hope

SPOORS, Jakob. Rapport van Jakob Spoors, als fiscaal van den Hoogen Zee-krygsraad, omtrend het gedrag van den capitein Engelbertus Lucas en verdere commandanten der schepen behoord hebbende tot het esquader in den jaare 1796. Naar de Oost-Indien gedestineerd; benevens de resolutie en sententie ten deze door den Hoogen Zee Krygsraad genomen en geslagen.
The Hague, 's Lands-Drukkery, 1798. 8vo. With the woodcut great seal of the Batavian Republic - the French-dominated republican government of the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 - on the title-page (an allegorical female figure representing Freedom, with spear and freedom hat and with her hand on a book on a stand, next to the Dutch lion holding a Dutch flag). Modern blue cloth, title in gold on spine, new endpapers. [2], 151, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Naval History Southern Africa

The great pragmatic history of medicine in the final edition overseen by its author

SPRENGEL, Kurt. Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneykunde.
Halle, Gebauerschen Buchhandlung, 1821-1828. 5 volumes bound as 6. 8vo. With 4 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary dark gray paste-paper boards, with letterpress title-labels on spine. [10], 638, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], IV, 762, [2]; X, 613, [3]; IV, 635, [1]; [2], XVI, 481, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [483]-969, [1] pp. Full description

€ 450

The Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia through the eyes and camera lens of Freya Stark

STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut.
London, John Murray, 1938. 4to. With the title-page in red and black, 1 map of the Hadhramaut titled: "Seen in the Hadhramaut", and 50 double sided plates. The plates are included in the pagination. Blue cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. With dust jacket. XXIII, [1 blank], 199, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 650

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Photography Women History

Specification of the cease-fire with Spain

[STATES GENERAL - COPYE]. Copye vande Brieven der Heeren Generale Staten vande Gheunieerde Provintien. Gheschreven aen den Heeren Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt, ofte haere E. Ghecommitteerde Raden. Inhoudende de Limiten hoe verre den Stilstandt van Wapenen te Water ende te Lande is streckende.
Delft, Jan Andriesz., [1607/08]. Small 4to. With a woodcut rampant lion holding a sword within a garden fence (symbolizing the Dutch Republic) surrounded by a wreath, and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. Modern plain paper wrappers. [4] pp. Full description

€ 400

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

Unconventional travel account giving a fresh look at the declining Dutch overseas empire

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. Voyages par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance dans l'archipel des Molucques, de 1768 a 1771 et de 1774 a 1778 ...
Paris, Maradan, 1805. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates (3 folding) and 5 folding engraved maps. 19th-century gold-tooled half sheepskin. VII, [1 blank], 5-386; 361, [7]; VIII, “434” [= 430], [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,450

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First edition of a local example of sericulture in Prussia under Frederick the Great

STEINBART, Johann Christian Anweisung zum Seidenbau, wie solcher auf das leichteste und vortheilhafteste zu treiben sey. Aus den richtigsten und zuverlässigsten, theils fremden, theils eigenen vieljährigen Erfahrungen des Züllichauischen Waysenhauses mitgetheilet.
Züllichau, R.S. Frommann, 1761. 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). Contemporary wrappers, stapled. [12], 212 pp. Full description

€ 750

Agriculture Economic History & Trade Germany

Explorations in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia

STEIN, Marc Aurel. On ancient Central-Asian tracks. Brief narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and north-western China.
London, MacMillan and Co., 1933. With frontispiece, map and 147 illustrations (some folding). Original publisher's brown/red cloth. xxiv, 342, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Archaeology Art & Art History China Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

Early treatise on female equitation, written by a woman

STIRLING-CLARKE, J. Le cheval et l'amazone. Traité complet de l'équitation des dames.
Bruxelles, Widow Parent & sons; Paris, Auguste Goin; Leipzig, Ch. Muquardt, 1861. 8vo. With a chromo-lithographed frontispiece, 3 chromo-lithographed plates and several woodcut illustrations in text. Original publisher's light green printed paper wrappers. 234, II pp. Full description

€ 950

Colour Printing / Chromolithography Horses & Horsemanship Women History

On the rights of married and divorced women

STIRNN, Johannes. Tractatio juridica de eo quod justum est circa nuptas, vom Recht der Ehe-Weiber; in celeberrima Marburgensium universitate anno 1693. edita.
Halle, Hendel, 1734. 4to. Strip of marbled paper on spine. 56 pp. Full description

€ 500

Law & Politics Women History

17th-century positive reward philosophy of human resource management

ST. LO, George. England's safety: or, a bridle to the French King. Proposing a sure method for encouraging navigation, and raising qualified seamen ...
London, William Miller, 1693. 4to. With a pseudo-heraldic woodcut frontispiece (17 x 12 cm) with letterpress title and motto ("This encouraged, England must flourish."), with as bearing an anchor topped by the royal crown, and other nautical attributes, supported by 2 men, one with a globe and the other with a quadrant, each with a compass at his feet. The British flag flies above it with ships in the background. Set in roman and italic types. 18th-century blue paper wrappers, side stitched through 4 holes, with manuscript title-label on front. 54, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Navigation Philosophy & Esotericism

A laudatory poem for the stadholder Willem IV, celebrating the re-establishment of a stadholder for the Dutch Republic

STRAAT, Pieter. D'Oranjeboom verheerlykt [above:] Geslachtboom van de huizen van Oranje en van Nassau, ...
(Colophon: Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth), [1747]. 4to. With an engraved armorial title-page by Hendrik de Leth, with the subtitle in a banderol at the head, a crowned tree representing the family tree of the houses of Orange and Nassau (with 27 family coats of arms), a wreath with an orange tree, the 7 arms of the Dutch provinces and military attributes, the whole beautifully hand-coloured as published. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, by the Van Damme bindery in Amsterdam, a rosette and fillets in each of the spine compartments, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Engraved title-page plus [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Bindings Dutch Literature Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Netherlands

Rare history of the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire

STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Newe Keijser Chronick: das ist, warhaffte und vollkommene Beschreibung aller Römischen Keyser, so wol deren gegen Nider- als gegen Auffgang, von C. Julio Caesare, dem ersten Römischen Monarchen, biss auff jetztregierende Keyserl. May. Ferdinandum II. und das Jahr 1628 ...
Frankfurt am Main, Eberhard Kieser, 1629.
With:
(2) IDEM. Continuation der Keyser Chronick, oder eigentliche, und wahrhaftige, historische Beschreibung der Leben unnd Thaten, beyder grossmächtigen Römischen Keyser, Matthiae I. und der jetznoch regierenden Keys. May. Ferdinandi II. Königen in Böhmen, &c. ...
Frankfurt am Main, Caspar Röteln for Eberhardt Kieser, 1628.
(3) IDEM. Genealogia, das ist, Geschlecht Register, oder Stammbaum, und Verzeichnusz aller Potentaten, Keyser, Königen, Ertzhertzogen und Fürsten ...
Frankfurt am Main, for Eberhard Kieser, 1629.
3 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with the title set in a richly engraved border, a half page engraving of the coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Don Guillermo Verdugo on f. (2)r, and numerous engravings of coins with the portraits of the emperors in the text. Ad 2: with 10 engravings of both sides of coins in the text. Ad 3: with a large folding engraving (92 x 46.5 cm.) of the genealogical tree of the Dukes and Archidukes of Austria. With numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout.
(Near?) Contemporary mottled calf with a large gold-tooled armorial centre piece on both arms (with the letters "R. M. F." inside the coat-of-arms), a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, red and light blue sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [4], 596, [10], [2 blank]; 87, [1 blank]; 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Bindings Classical Antiquity Germany Numismatics

Comparing Charlemagne and the French King Henri IV

STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm. Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est, Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et aliarum gentium monarchae potentissimi, cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum rege florentissimo comparatio: utriusq[ue] regis historiam breviter complectens, quam regum & principum speculum possis appellare.
(Colophon: Zürich, Johann Wolf), 1592. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a woodcut portrait of Charlemagne and Henry IV on title-page, two woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device on the last leaf. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 79, [1] ll. Full description

€ 1,750

Early Printing - 16th century France Law & Politics

16th-century Antwerp edition of "The Twelve Caesars"

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius. Caesarum XII libri, iam denuo bonorum exemplarium & commentariorum ope emendati, cum M. Antonii Coccii Sabellici commentariis, nihil annotatu dignum dissimulantibus. Jo. Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, annot. in Suetonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restitutae per D. Erasmum Roterodamum.
Antwerp, Jan van der Loe, 1548. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and numerous woodcut initials in text. Later marbled boards. [24], 661, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Antwerp Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

Allegorical print satirizing the Remonstrants in the Netherlands in 1618

[SWANENBURG, Isaac Claesz. van (after); DOLENDO, Zacharias?]. Vertoninghe der tegenwoordighe stant int vrye-Nederlandt.
[The Netherlands], 1618. (ca. 22 x 29,5 cm). Engraved print on paper. In passe-partout. Full description

€ 1,750

Law & Politics Netherlands Protestant Reformation

Coloured print satirizing the South Sea Bubble, ca. 1720

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. De vervallen actionisten hersteld, door den triompheerden Arlequin. [The ruined share-holders restored by the triumphant Harlequin].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1720]. Bifolium (31.5 x 40 cm). Engraved print, with title on top and engraved verse in Dutch below, in 4 columns. The illustration coloured by hand. In passepartout (40 x 50 cm). Full description

€ 250

Caricature & Satire Economic History & Trade

First great international investment fraud and scandal

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankrijk, Engeland en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX.
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio (ca. 39 x 25.5 cm). With the title-page printed in red and black and 76 engraved plates, mostly double-page and several are larger folding sheets, including several maps, the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards, and an extra copy of plate 18 (Muller) loosely inserted at the front of the work. Contemporary elaboratly gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine and with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, bound by the so-called Double Drawer Handle Bindery in Amsterdam (between 1720 and 1742? - Storm van Leeuwen) [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, "31" [= 29), [1 blank], 8, 10 pp. and engraved ll. Full description

€ 9,500

Caricature & Satire Dutch Literature Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Prints & Print Series

The first great international investment fraud & scandal,
including 10 very rare broadsheets with woodcut illustrations

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

€ 17,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Caricature & Satire Dutch Literature Economic History & Trade Latin America Prints & Print Series South America

Attractive view of the carpet trade

TARENGHI, Enrico. [Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].
[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic. Full description

€ 18,000

North Africa & Egypt

Authoritative history of the Portuguese missions in Ethiopia and Arabia, with a folding map

TELLEZ (TELLES), Balthasar. The travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia: containing ... travels in Arabia Felix, wherein many things of that country ... are treated of, as a particular description of Aden, Moca, and several other places ...
London, J. Knapton [and 3 others, and sold by 5 more], 1710. 4to. With engraved map of Ethiopia, including part of the Red Sea and the source of the Blue Nile. Modern calf. [4], 264, [16] pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Church History & Missions Jesuits Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East

Work on Dutch East Indies printed in Manila

[TEMMINCK, Coenraad Jacob]. Las posesiones holandesas en el archipiélago de la India.
Manila, Miguel Sanchez, 1855. 8vo. Modern red half calf, preserving the original pink lithographed wrappers. 243, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Philippines

First issue of one of the first and most important books printed by Aldus Manutius,
with first editions of Greek texts by Theocritus, Hesiod and others

THEOCRITUS, HESIOD, and others. [Indication of contents in Greek followed by Latin:] Haec insunt in hoc libro. Theocriti Eclogae triginta. Genus Theocriti & De inventione bucolicorum. Catonis Romani sententiae paraeneticae Distichi. Sententiae septem sapientum. De invidia. Theognidis megarensis siculi sententiae Elegiacae. Sententiae monostichi per capita ex variis poetis. Aurea carmina Pythagorae. Phocylidae Poema admonitorium. Carmina Sibyllae erythraeae De Christo Jesu domino n[ost]ro. Differentia vocis. Hesiodi Theogonia. Eiusdem Scutum Herculis. Eiusdem Georgicon libri duo.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, February "1495" [=1496]. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces (2 by the famous Poliphilus master) plus 29 repeats, and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials (3 series: 3-line, 5-line and 7-line) plus 16 repeats. Modern red morocco, gold- and blind-blocked. [140] ll. Full description

€ 39,500

Aldine Press Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Early Printing - 15th century Greek & Roman Classics

First edition in the original Greek of the oldest treatise on spherical geometry

THEODOSIUS. Sphaericorum libri tres, nunquam antehac graece excusi.
Paris, André Wechel, 1558. Small 4to (21 x 14 cm). With woodcut publisher's Pegasus device on title-page (repeated on last page), numerous woodcut mathematical diagrams in text, woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. 18th-century tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [8], 54, [2], 70, [2] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Astronomy & Cosmography Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Mathematics Science

First edition of an important and one of the earliest works on colour, formerly attributed to Aristotle

[THEOPHRASTUS? (pseudo ARISTOTLE)] and Simone PORZIO. De coloribus libellus, à Simone Portio Neapolitano latinate donatus, & cometariis illustratus: una cum euisdem praefatione, qua coloris naturam declarat.
Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1548. 4to. With 2 large woodcut historiated initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, manuscript spine-title, with 4 fragments of a Latin manuscript in an upright humanistic hand on vellum used as spine lining. 197, [3] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Physics & Chemistry Science

Important anthropological study on the original inhabitants of the southern Arabic Peninsula

THOMAS, Bertram. Anthropological observations in South Arabia.
[offprint from:] Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 42 (1932). Large 8vo. With 2 plates (XI-XII) from photographs: (1) two views on the landscapes of the Sands of Dakara and the Qara Mountains, Arabia; (2) 12 portraits of members of the various tribes of Southern Arabia/Jemen. Blue wrappers with printed title label on the front cover. 83-108 pp. Full description

€ 750

Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States

A description of Sachsen-Altenburg, with 38 brightly coloured engraved portraits

THÜMMEL, Hans Wilhelm von. Historische, statistische, geographische und topographische Beiträge zur kenntniss des herzogthums Altenburg.
Altenburg, 1818. Folio. With 38 hand-coloured engraved portraits (a few with signatures of the subjects), 1 uncoloured engraved portrait, engraved map of the area by L. Michaelis after A. Krehan, small engraved map in text showing the districts Paditz and Kotteritz, and 1 engraved text. Contemporary boards. 3-112, 8, [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

City Plans, Topography & Views Costumes & Uniforms Germany Law & Politics

Definitive edition of the first substantial Dutch manual on the notary's practice

THUYS, Jacques. Ars notariatus. Dat is: Conste en[de] stijl van notarischap: begrepen in Theorijcke ende Practijcke... Desen derden druck, grootelijcken vermeerdert ende verbetert ...
Antwerp, Arnout s'Conincx, 1590. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm). With woodcut publisher's device (with letterpress motto "Virtute et constantia") on title-page, a woodcut tail-piece and woodcut decorated initials (3 series). Set in textura types with incidental roman, with sample documents set in civilité with incidental italic. 17th-century parchment. [16], 231, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade Law & Politics School & Textbooks

Second editions of Titsingh's "Cérémonies" and "Mémoires et anecdotes"

TITSINGH, Isaac. Cérémonies usitées au Japon, pour les mariages, les funérailles, et les principals fêtes del'année; ... Orné de 24 gravures, faites d'après des peintures japonaises.
Paris, Nepveu (back of half-title: printed by dHautel), 1822. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 23 (of 24?) etched plates (including 3 as frontispiece, and 17 folding), all but one in contemporary hand-colouring. Late 19th-century, gold-tooled brown half morocco, gilt edges. XXX, IV, 127, [1 blank]; [4], 139, [1 blank]; [4], 206 pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Japan & Far East Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia VOC

Regulations for maritime trade

TJASSENS, Johan. Zee-politie der Vereenichde Nederlanden verthoont in een tafel, ende twee kleyne boecken ... Waer achter ghevoecht zijn eenighe saecken tot onderrechtinge en kennisse tot de politie dienende.
The Hague, Johan Veely, 1652. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [36], 276 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Fishery & Whaling Law & Politics VOC WIC

Unrecorded 17th-century auction poster

TOLL, Wynand and Jan Leendertsz. TIMMERMAN (brokers). Executie van een Sneker vaertuyg, genaemt een kof, gevoert by Pieter Martensz. Hollander, op den 28 november, 1698.
[Amsterdam, 1698]. Half-sheet (ca. 33 x 21 cm). Full description

€ 700

Economic History & Trade Ships & Shipbuilding

Hospitality in Roman antiquity

TOMASINI, Jacopo Filippo. De Tesseris Hospitalitatis. Liber singularis.
Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1670. With a frontispiece by Abraham Bloteling depicting travellers, 2 folding engraved plates and engravings in text, some of which are full-page.
[Including:]
TOMASINI, Jacopo Filippo. Titus Livius Patavinus.
Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1670. With a printer's device on title-page,engraving on title, 2 folding
engraved plates including a portrait, 1 engraving in text. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in ink on spine. [12], 227, [25]; 125, [17] pp. Full description

€ 400

Classical Antiquity Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Numismatics

Medical work based on Pliny the Elder, Galen and Dioscorides, together with three other texts, from the library of the Russian tsars

[TORINUS (THORER), Albanus (ed).]. De re medica huic volumini insunt...
[Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528]. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on final page, 2 pages with 4-piece decorative woodcut borders and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century half calf, with marbled paper in a tree pattern on sides, gold-tooled spine with the coat of arms of the Russian Tsars. [12], 125, [1] ll. Full description

€ 25,000

Bindings Classical Antiquity Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)

Catalogue of Kufic coins from the Umayyad Caliphate up to the Marwanids

TORNBERG, Carl Johan. Numi Cufici regii numophylacii Holmiensis, quos omnes in terra Sueciae repertos.
Uppsala, Leffler and Sebell, 1848. 4to. With 14 lithographed plates. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth. [6], LXXXVIII, 315, [1] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Archaeology Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Numismatics

The first dictionary of classical mythology

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus. Elucidarius carminu[m] et historiaru[m] vel vocabularius poeticus co[n]tine[n]s fabulas: historias: provincias: urbes: insulas: fluvios: et montes illustres.
(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann, 1510. 4to. 19th-century blind-tooled red morocco, with a gold-tooled centre-piece on both sides, title, date and location of printing lettered in gold on the spine, gold- and blind-tooled broad turn-ins, gilt edges, blue endpapers. [1 blank], [60], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 2,250

Bindings Classical Antiquity Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy

Rare 1527 edition of classical dictionary, owned by the neo-Latin poet Renier Tengnagel (d. 1565)

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der BEKE). Elucidarius poeticus co[n]tinens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas regiones, urbes, fluvios, mo[n]tesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, ...
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1527. With the title in an elaborate woodcut border.
With: (2) [FIOCCHI, Andrea Dominico (Andras Dominicus FLOCCUS)] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus.
[Cologne, Hero Fuchs, 1527]. With the title in a finely cut 4-piece woodcut border. 2 editions in 1 volume. 8vo. 16th-century(?) limp vellum (formerly used for a slightly thinner book). The binding is an interesting example of a spine reinforced with a horizontal metal rod at the central sewing support to give more support and prevent the bookblock from becoming concaved or developing sharp kinks; probably bound in Flanders. [88]; [88] ll. Full description

€ 9,500

Aldine Press Bindings Church History & Missions Classical Antiquity Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Religion (16th Century)

The most important classical dictionary of its time, bound with the rare first and only edition
of a polemic against medical malpractice

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der BEKE). Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, montesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, omnib[us] adolescentibus in poesi versantibus oppidoquam necessarius, ...
Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus (colophon: Godefried Hittorp), July 1529. With the title in an elaborate woodcut architectural border with the Cologne coat of arms in the head, the death of Cleopatra in the foot, further figures in the right and left sides and 3 putti, one holding a shield with a monogram or mark, perhaps of the artist or woodblock cutter. Set in roman types with 8 and 14 mm roman capitals used as initials.
With: (2) FREUDENBERG, Aethon Johann von. De abusu & impostura medicantiu[m] libellus perquam utilis jucundusq[ue] omnibus, quibus cum medicis erit negocium.
Marburg, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1538. With 1 woodcut decorated initial (white on black with floral decoration) and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 7). Set in roman type with the dedication in an Aldine-style italic and with occasional words in Greek.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?), sewn on 4 supports, red edges, first title lettered in ink in the second spine compartment. [85], [1 blank]; [23] ll. Full description

€ 10,000

Aldine Press Classical Antiquity Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)

Parliamentary papers on settling land disputes in Transvaal, Bechuanaland and Pondoland

[TRANSVAAL ROYAL COMMISSION]. Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into and report upon all matters relating to the settlement of the Transvaal territory. Part 1[-2].With:- Further correspondence respecting the affairs of the Transvaal and adjacent territories.- Further correspondence respecting the affairs of the Bechuanaland and adjacent territories.- Report of the commissioners appointed to determine land claims and to effect a land settlement in British Bechuanaland.- Correspondence respecting the affairs of Pondoland [3 parts].
London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1882-1888. 2 volumes. Folio. With a total of 21 folding lithographed maps, many coloured in outline. Contemporary brown cloth. 249, [1]; 121, [1]; VI, 58; VI, 129, [1]; [2], 97, [1]; IV, 25, [1]; XI, [1 blank], 187, [1]; IV, 19, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Law & Politics Southern Africa

Important treaty between France and the Dutch Republic on free trade and tariffs

[FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Tractaat van commercie, navigatie en marine gemaakt, geslooten en vastgestelt to Versailles den 21 December 1739. Tusschen Syne Majesteit van Vrankryk, en de Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740. 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial.19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description

€ 225

Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands

Important treaty between France and the Dutch Republic on free trade and tariffs

[TREATY - FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Traité de commerce, navigation & marine, fait, conclu & arrêté a Versailles le 21 Decembre de lan 1739, entre sa Majesté Tres-Chretienne, & les Seigneurs Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies du Pais-Bas.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial. 19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands

Commercial treaty between Portugal and Russia

[TREATY]. Tratado de amizade, navegação, e commercio entre as muito altas, e muito poderosas senhoras Dona Maria I, Rainha de Portugal, e Catharina II. imperatriz de todas as Russias, assinado em Petersburgo pelos plenipotenciarios de huma, e outra corte em 9/20 de Dezembro de M.DCC.LXXXVII. e ratificado por ambas as magestades.
Lisbon, Regia Officina Typografica, 1789. 4to. With woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title-page. Contemporary gold brocade paper wrappers. 69, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 400

Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Portugal Russia (incl. Siberia)

Conflict in the Caribbean: the Anglo-Spanish War resolved by the second Treaty of Madrid (1670)

[ENGLAND & SPAIN - TREATY OF MADRID]. [Gaspar de BRACAMONTE] and William GODOLPHIN. A treaty for the composing of differences, restraining of depredations, and establishing of peace in America, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain. - Concluded at Madrid the 8/18th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1670. Translated out of Latin.
[London], in the Savoy, printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker [= Thomas Newcombe], printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1670. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum and decorative bands built up from typographic ornaments (the crowned rose, harp, leak - depicted by a fleur-de-lis - and thistle representing England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland). Sewn. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Caribbean Islands Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom

Exceptionally rare treaty between the British Empire and the Island of Anjouan to suppress the slave trade

[TREATY - SLAVE TRADE]. Treaty between Her Majesty the Queen of England and the Sultan of Johanna for the suppression of the slave trade.
Johanna (Anjouan), 1845. Ca. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Original paper wrappers. 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Slavery Southern Africa UK - United Kingdom

Rare first edition of an early work by Trotsky

TROTSKY, Leon. Tuda i Obratno: vmesto predislovija. I. Ot Peterburga do Berezzova. Sovet rabočich deputatov po etapam. II. Moj pobeg. - 800 verst na olenjach. [There and back again] [text in Russian in Cyrillic type].
St. Petersburg, Shipovnik, 1907. With a lithographed device on the front cover. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 123, [1 blank], IV pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Eastern Europe Law & Politics Literature Russia (incl. Siberia)

Illustrated description of the Yoruba people, among the most heavily targeted by the Atlantic slave trade

[TUCKER, Charlotte Maria] and Theodorus Matthijs LOOMAN. Abbeokoeta; of de dageraad tusschen de keerkringen: eene schets van het ontstaan en den vooruitgang der zending in Yorriba. Uit het Engelsch naar den vijfden druk vertaald, en tot op den jongsten tijd bijgewerkt.
Amsterdam, H. Höveker (back of half-title: for the "Vereeniging ter bevordering van Christelijke lectuur"), 1860. 12mo. With chromolithographed frontispiece, 3 lithographed maps (2 double-page and 1 folding), 1 chromolithographed plate and 8 wood-engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth. [2], VIII, [2], 330, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 800

Anthropology & Ethnography Slavery West Africa Women History

Treatise on the decolonization of America

TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. Mémoire sur les colonies Américaines, sur leurs relations politques avec leurs métropoles, et sur la manière dont la France et L'Espagne ont dû envisager les suites de l'indépendance des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique.
Paris, Pierre-Samuel Dupont, 1791. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 75 [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,000

Law & Politics North America

A hard line on peace negotiations, in a popular dialogue

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. Copye van een discours tusschen een Hollander ende een Zeeuw.
[Middelburg?, 1607/08]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a drop title. Disbound. [8] pp. Full description

€ 350

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

A Swiss warning against Spain on the threshold of the Twelve Years' Truce

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. Generale vermaninghe aenden Switseren. Streckende tot harer behoudenisse ende besten, tegen de beroerten ende peryckelen deses jeghenwoordighen tijts.
Middelburg, for Adriaen vanden Vivre, 1608. 4to. Woodcut illustration on title: a head of a cow with a banderolle withy the coat-of-arms of the Swiss cantons braided in its horns. Disbound. [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 300

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain Switzerland

Description of Gujarat (Northwest India) by the director of the VOC

TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinghe van Indien. Ende in 't besonder kort verhaal van de regering, ceremonien, handel, vruchten en geleghentheydt van 't Koninckrijck van Gusuratten, staende onder de beheerschinghe van den Groot-Machtighen Koninck Cajahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor ... Hier achter is by-gevoeght de aenwijsinge van meest alle kusten, drooghten ende reeden, om door gantsch Indien te zeylen.
Amsterdam, for Joost Hartgers, 1648. 4to. With woodcut printer's device on the title-page. 19th-century marbled wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 94 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

India & Sri Lanka Navigation VOC

First biography of Charles V, with descriptions of the Spanish in Mexico and Peru

ULLOA, Alfonso de. Historie, ende het leven van den aldermachtichsten ende victorieusten keyser Caerle de Vijfde van dien name. Inden welcken niet alleen beschreven en zijn de hooge ende seer vrome daden vanden selven Prince, maer oock de merckelijckste saken die over alle de werelt/ insonderheyt inde Oost ende West-Indyen geschiet zijn. Eerstmael in Italiaensche tale beschreven.
Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Paets [printed by Isaac Jansz. Canin in Dordrecht?], 1610. Folio. With the engraved architectural frame on the title-page signed with a BD monogram (Baptista van Doetecum?) and 16 full-page and 2 smaller engraved portraits of contemporary lords and rulers by Nicolaes de Clerck (1569/70-1623). Contemporary vellum. [2], 221, [9] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Bibliography & Biography Latin America Mexico Peru South America

Commentaries and scholia on Demostheness orations, & Harpocrations dictionary:
second edition, in the original Greek, by Aldus's successors, based on his own first edition

ULPIANUS of Emesa and Valerius HARPOCRATION. Commentarioli in olynthiacas, philippicasque Demosthenis orationes. Enarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis. ...Dictionarium decem Rhetorum. [preceded by the titles in Greek].
(Colophon: Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius, and his father-in-law Andrea Torresano dAsola [& sons], June) 1527. Folio (31 x 21 cm). With Aldus's famous woodcut dolphin device on the title-page and an older but very similar version on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in Greek type (the Upianus in 1 column; the Harpokation in 2 columns) with incidental roman. Recased in 18th-century vellum over flexible boards. 119, [1] ll. Full description

€ 12,000

Aldine Press Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics

Anglo-Turkish trade promoted

[URQUHART, David]. Turkey and its resources: its municipal organization and free trade; the state and prospects of English commerce in the East, the new administration of Greece, its revenue and national possessions.
London, Saunders and Otley (back of title-page: printed by Botson and Palmer), 1833. 8vo. With lithographed map as frontispiece. Contemporary boards. XV, [1], 328 pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Economic History & Trade Turkey & Ottoman Empire

A banned pamphlet on Dutch colonization and trade in America

[USSELINCX, Willem]. Naerder bedenckingen, over de zee-vaerdt, coophandel ende neeringhe, als mede de versekeringhe vanden staet deser vereenichde landen, inde teghenwoordighe vrede-handelinghe met den Coninck van Spangnien ende de aerts-hertoghen.
[Amsterdam], 1608 Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. Modern pink paper wrappers. [36] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Economic History & Trade Latin America Law & Politics Netherlands Slavery South America Spain WIC

Anti-Spanish pamphlet on the VOC that threatened to undermine peace negotiations,
banned by the Dutch in the year of publication

[USSELINCX, Willem?]. Discours by forme van remonstrantie: vervatende de noodsaeckelickheyd vande Oos-Indische[!] navigatie.
[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. 20th-century half brown sheepskin, marbled sides. [14] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Southeast Asia Spain VOC WIC

Interesting insights into the financial position of many eminent and noble Utrecht families

[UTRECHT - BANKING]. [Account book of the banking house and stockbrokers firm Vlaer & Kol at Utrecht, for the years 1818-1821].
[Utrecht, 1818-1821]. Folio. Contemporary parchment over boards, sewn on 4 vellum tapes, formerly laced through the joints, spine lettered in ink: "FU" and later in pencil: "1819". [24], 185 ll. Full description

€ 4,000

Economic History & Trade Manuscripts & Documents

Egypt in 309 beautiful illustrations, many in colour

VALERIANI, Domenico and Girolamo SEGATO. Nuova illustrazione istorico-monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.
Including: Atlante monumentale del basso e dell'alto Egitto.
Florence, Paolo Fumagalli, 1836-1837 (text) & 1837-1841 (plates). 2 text volumes (8vo) and 2 plates volumes (large folio). With engraved portrait of Segato as frontispiece in the first text volume and the plate volumes with 160 engraved and aquatint plates (7 double-page), including 51 tinted and/or coloured by a contemporary hand; many plates contain multiple illustrations, making 309 illustrations in total. Contemporary green (text vols.) and brown (plates vols.) half morocco. [2], 491, [1 blank], [4]; 788, [6] pp. text Full description

€ 18,000

Archaeology Architecture Classical Antiquity North Africa & Egypt

Collected works of an indicted Belgian canonist

VAN ESPEN, Zeger Bernard. Opera, quaecunque hactenus in lucem prodeunt, omnia. Tomus primus [-secundus] . Continens ... juris ecclesiastici universi.
Louvain, 1721. 2 volumes. Folio. With the title-pages printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines. [30], 924, [39], [1 blank]; [4], 230, [14], [4], 400, [16], [8], 208, [22], [8], 90, [6], 28, [4], 57, [2], [1 blank], 18, [4], 30, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Law & Politics Protestant Reformation

Imaginary voyage criticizing imposed religion, together with an eye-witness account of slavery in Africa

[VAIRASSE D'ALLAIS, Denis and Thomas SMITH]. Geographisches Kleinod, aus zweyen sehr ungemeinen Edelgesteinen bestehend; darunter der Erster eine Historie der New-gefundenen Völcker Sevarambes genannt, ... Der Ander aber vorstellet die seltzamen begebenheiten herren T.S. eines englischen Kauff-Herrens...
[Sultzbach], printed by Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1689. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, 16 engraved plates and some woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [2], 362 [=360]; 100 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Australia Central Africa Imaginary Voyages & Utopias Slavery

History of Ottoman diplomacy in the 18th century, printed at Bulaq

VASIF EFENDI, Ahmed. Mahasin ül-âsâr ve hakayik ül-ahbar.
Bulaq, Bulak matbaasi, 1246 AH [= 1830 CE]. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary calf with later paper label; later marbled paper on the spine. In Turkish, with the main text set in a naskh Arabic type, with a woodcut decoration and decorations built up from typographic ornaments at the opening of the main text (incorporating a woodcut heading in Arabic script). 14, 210, [1 blank], 7, 190 pp. Full description

€ 5,800

Balkan & Greece Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Unique printed and manuscript documents of fishery and the fish trade in Veere,
together in contemporary wrappers

[VEERE - FISHERY]. Nieuwe ordonnantie doen maaken, en emaneren by burgemeesters en regeerders der stadt Vere. Op den visch-tol, afslag der visch, en wat verder daar toe zyn relatie is hebbende.
[Middelburg], Suenonius Mandelgreen, [24 December 1746].
With:
(2) Ordonnantie op den afslag der Verschen visch, binnen de stadt Vere, gelyk mede op den pligt van den keurmeester en den afslager.
Middelburg, widow of Jakobus Pauwelsen, [6 July 1754, published 25 July].
(3) Ordonnantie op den afslag der Verschen visch, binnen de stad Vere.
Vere, Chrristiaan Hendrik Held, [18 May 1771].
(4) [MANUSCRIPT]. Extract uit de notulen van weth[ouders] en raad der stad Vere.
[Veere?], [18 July 1772-19 June 1773, 7 April 1787].
(5) Reglement voor die van de haven der stad Vere ter vis-vangst vaaren.
Middelburg, Adriaan de Vin, [1 June 1774].
With a woodcut Veere coat of arms on the title-page of each of the 4 printed ordinances (3 different blocks). 5 items in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary marbled wrapper backed with plain paper. 12; [1, 1 blank], 21, [1 blank]; 22; [8, 4 blank]; 9, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Economic History & Trade Fishery & Whaling Law & Politics Netherlands

Plea for concord after years of religious quarrels and disputes (with book burning symbolizing tolerance!)

[VELDE, Jan II van de, and Jan Jansz. STARTER]. AMNH∑TIA ofte Vergetelheyd. Vermanende inwoonders der Vereenighde Nederlanden tot eendracht ende vergetelheyd van al de bitterheden, die onder de naem van Remonstranten, Arminianen, &c. in hare gheherberght zijn geweest ende noch souden moghen wesen.
[Utrecht, Jan Amelisz., 1623]. Oblong 1mo (full sheet) broadside. Etched print (plate size 19.5 x 26 cm) with letterpress text on paper. Mounted on a paper support. [1] leaf. Full description

€ 950

Law & Politics Protestant Reformation

Death sentence for noble Venetian traitor who evaded assassins for 18 years

[VENICE - COUNCIL OF TEN]. Sententia dell' Eccelso Conseglio di Diece. Contra Anzolo Badoer cavalier. | Sententie vanden Hoogen Raedt van de Thiene. Teghens Anzolo Badoer ridder.
The Hague, Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1612. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on title-page, 2 woodcut decorated initials (2 series, both arabesque). With the Italian text in italic, the Dutch text in textura and with incidental roman. Sewn in later plain paper wrapper. [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 500

Italy Law & Politics

Anti-Spanish tract from the Eighty-Years' War

[VERHEYDEN, Willem]. Nootelijcke Consideratien die alle goede Liefhebbers des Vaderlandts behooren rijpelijc te overweghen, opten voorgheslaghen Tractate van Peys met den Spagniaerden.
[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. With a large oval woodcut decoration (white-line arabesque) on the title-page and one woodcut tailpiece. Disbound. [16] pp. Full description

€ 400

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

Important early work on the history of Siam, with one of the first Western descriptions of Ayutthaya

VLIET, Jeremias van. Beschrijving van het koningrijk Siam. Mitsgaders het verhaal van den oorsprong, onderscheyd, politijke regering, d'ecclesiastique, en costuymelijke huyshoudinge van d'edelen en borgerlijke lieden: als mede den loop der negotie, en andere remarquable saaken des Koninkrijks Siam ...
Including:
(2) [DESFARGES, Marshal]. Aanmerklijk en naaukeurig verhaal der staats-omkeringen, nu laatst in 't jaar 1688 in Siam voorgevallen.
(3) [ORLEANS, Pierre Joseph d']. Het leven en daden van d'heer Constantyn Phaulcon, eerste geheyme raad van het koningrijk Siam.
Leiden, Frederik Haaring, 1692. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title-page, 6 decorated woodcut initials, 6 woodcut headpieces, and a woodcut vignette on the typographical title-pages of all parts. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 34, [2 blank]; 12, 103, [1] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Southeast Asia VOC

Manuscript inventory of a huge VOC tea shipment

[VOC - TEA]. Herman de HOOGH. Proef, taxatie en prys lyst der theën, dewelke verkogt en opgehouden zyn by d'Oostyndi Compagnie kamer Hoorn op den 12. Octo. 1790, aangebragt van China per 't schip Blitterswyk.
Amsterdam, 1790. Folio (37.5 x 24 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on paper. Single sheet. [2] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

China Economic History & Trade Manuscripts & Documents VOC

The popular uproar against mismanagement in the VOC

[VOC]. Klaer vertooch van de schadelijcke directie der bewinthebberen der Vereenichde Oost-Indische Compaignie in vier jaren, nae dat het accoort met d'Engelsche Compaignie gemaeckt is gheweest.
Rees (?), Pieter Gerritsz., 1624. 4to. Wrappers. [16] pp. Full description

€ 750

Broadsides & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade VOC

The VOC terms of employment, published in response to staff shortages in the 18th century

[VOC - ARTICLES - TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT]. Artikel-brief van de Geoctroyeerde Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, by de hoog mogende heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, den vierden september, 1742, gearresteert. Met de veranderingen daar in gemaakt by resolutie 11 october 1747.
Amsterdam, Wed. J. van Egmont en Zoon, [1747]. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and 2 decorated woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary half vellum. [2], [2 blank], 53, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Economic History & Trade Netherlands VOC

On the rights to and commitments of inheritances of deceased employees of the Dutch East India Company

[VOC - CHARTER]. Octroy bij haar Mogende verleend aan de Oostindische Compagnie dezer landen op t Regt van de Successien Ab intestato in Oost Indien, en op de reyse gints en herrewaarts in dato 10e Januarij 1661.
[Amsterdam], [Johannes Allart], [1661?]. Folio. Disbound, folded. 5, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents VOC

Charter of the Dutch East India Company

[VOC - CHARTER]. Octroy, by de hoog mog. heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden verleend aan de Oostindische Compagnie. In dato den 20 maart 1602. mitsgaders reglement, limitatie, ampliatie en continuatien van het voorschreeve octroy, tot den jaare 1700 incluys. ... En nog prolongatie en publicatie voor den tyd van twintig jaaren, en sulks tot den jaare 1774 incluys.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1748[-1755?]. 4to. Later half vellum. 51, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Economic History & Trade VOC

Unique manifest and price lists of colonial wares sold and brought in by the VOC in 1721, 1788 and 1853

[VOC - COLONIAL TRADE]. [Drop-title:] Generale carga, ofte lading van twee- en-twintig Oost-Indische retour scheepen; te weeten, Valkenisse, Steenhoven; ... van Batavia; ... van Ceylon, voor de Kamer Amsterdam, ... Delft; ... Rotterdam; ... Hoorn en Enkhuyzen, ... zynde de Bataviase schepen, op den eersten December 1720 vertrokken, en die van Ceylon op den 15 November 1720, en alle behouden in de havenen dezer landen gearriveert.
Amsterdam, Jacobus van Egmond, [1721.]. 1 leaf (21 x 8 cm). Text printed on both sides, each in a border built up from typographic ornaments.
With:
(2) Prys-courant. Van de koopmanschappen, verkogt door de bewindhebberen van de generale Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, in de respectieve kameren, en ten dage als volgt: ...
Amsterdam, Nicolaas Byl, 25 May 1781. 1 leaf (20.5 x 8 cm). Text printed on one side.
(3) Prys-courant der ruwe suikers.
Amsterdam, printed for A.E. de Wit & sons, 1853. 1 leaf (17.5 x 8 cm). Text printed on one side. Full description

€ 3,850

Broadsides & Pamphlets Ceylon Economic History & Trade Indonesia / Dutch East Indies VOC

Reinvigorating the corrupt Dutch East India Company

[VOC - MISSIVE]. Missive van bewinthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie, in dato den 21. april 1742., vervattende de poincten die zullen konnen dienen tot redres in de administratie en beheeringe van de zaecken van de Oost-Indische Compagnie, &c; relatyf tot de Staeten Notulen van den 2. Augustus 1742.
[The Hague, 1742]. Folio (30.5 x 19.5 cm). Disbound. 128; 10, [2 blank], 2, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics VOC

The ill-fated voyages of two East Indiamen

[VOC - SHIPWRECK & PIRACY]. Twee-rampspoedige zee-reyzen, den enen ... met een Fransch Oost Indiesch Compagnie-schip, genaamt Le Prince, ... Den anderen, met het Hollandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie schip, genaamt Rustenwerk, ...
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1752 or soon after]. 4to. With 2 etched plates. Disbound. [2], 37, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

A plea for merging the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (WIC)

[VOC & WIC]. Ooghen-salve tot verlichtinghe, van alle participanten, so vande Oost, ende West-Indische Compaignien, mitsgaders verscheyden notabele consideratien, aengaande de Vereeninghe van de Oost- ende-[!] West-Indische Compaignien, met malkanderen.
The Hague, "Lieven de Lange" [Ludolph Breeckevelt?], April 1644. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum opening the text and a square decoration built up from typographic acorns and ornaments on the title-page. Modern half red faux snakeskin. 35, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Broadsides & Pamphlets Ceylon Economic History & Trade Iran / Persia Portugal VOC WIC

Famous Dutch voyages of discovery, with 2 maps, 1 plan and 61 plates

[VOC - WIC]. Nederlandsche reizen, tot bevordering van den koophandel, na de meest afgelegene gewesten des aardkloots. ... Met plaaten. Eerste[-veertiende of laatste] deel.
Amsterdam, Peterus Conradi; Harlingen, W. van der Plaats, 1784-1787. 14 volumes bound as 6. 8vo. With 2 engraved folding maps, 1 engraved folding city plan and 61 engraved plates (56 folding) including many topographic views. Uniform half tree calf (ca. 1820?), gold-tooled spines. Full description

€ 9,500

Australia China Eastern Europe Japan & Far East Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Pacific Islands Russia (incl. Siberia) Scandinavia South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Surinam Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages South America VOC WIC

An urgent call for the merger of the Dutch East and West India Companies

[VOC - WIC - MERGER]. Twee deductien, aen-gaende de vereeninge van d'Oost ende West-Indische Compagnien, aen de ... Heeren Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt, vande West-Indische Compagnie, over-gelevert.
The Hague, Jan Veely, 1644 Small 4to. With a woodcut on the title-page showing a Dutch ship in full sail. Reddish-brown wove paper back wrapper (ca. 1900?). 21, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Netherlands VOC WIC

A passionate plea for the merger of the Dutch East and West India Companies

[VOC - WIC - MERGER]. Schaede die den staet der Vereenichde Nederlanden, en dinghesetenen van dien, is aenstaende, by de versuymenisse van d'Oost en West-Indische negotie onder een octroy en societeyt te begrijpen.
The Hague, Jan Vreely, 1644. Small 4to. Flexible boards. 51, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade Latin America Netherlands South America VOC WIC

Against stock jobbing, stock manipulating and other abuses
relating to the trade in shares (actiën) of the Dutch West and East India Companies

[VOC - WIC - SHARES FRAUD]. Relaes en contradictie op de motiven, om het koopen en verkoopen van Oost- en West-Indische actien, die niet getransporteert werden, ende optie partyen te beswaeren met eeen impost by de Heer Nicolaes Muys van Holy, advocaet tot Amsterdam, onwetende voorgestelt, en daer en boven getoont waer in waerlyyk Hollants intrest en welvaren bestaende is.
[Amsterdam or Rotterdam?, 1687]. 4to. Later decorated paper wrappers. 16 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Amsterdam Economic History & Trade Law & Politics VOC WIC

First edition of one of Joost van de Vondel’s famous “hekeldichten” (satires)

[VONDEL, Joost van den]. Medaellie voor de Gommariste kettermeester en inquisiteur te Dordrecht.
[1630]. Broadside (33 x 20.5 cm). Mounted on paperboard support. [1] l. Full description

€ 1,250

Broadsides & Pamphlets Dutch Literature Law & Politics Protestant Reformation

On the characteristics of and trade in Cinchona bark

VRIJDAG ZIJNEN, Theodoor Daniel. De in den handel voorkomende kina-basten, pharmacologisch behandeld en toegepast op de soorten welke in de Pharmacopoea Belgica vermeld zijn.
Rotterdam, P.H. van den Heuvell (back of half-title: The Hague, A.D. Schinkel), 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XII, 120 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Arboriculture & Dendrology Economic History & Trade Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Complete set of Wagenaar's highly influential 21-volume history of the Low Countries bound in Utrecht in contemporary vellum with the arms of the city of Amersfoort

WAGENAAR, Jan. Vaderlandsche historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen der nu Vereenigde Nederlanden, inzonderheid die van Holland, van de vroegste tyden af. Uit de geloofwaardigste schryvers en egte gedenkstukken samengesteld. Met konstplaaten en kaarten opgehelderd.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1752-1759. 21 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, 6 large folding maps, 41 folding engraved plates, mainly designed and engraved by S. Fokke and 82 engraved portraits, mainly drawn by A. Schouman after original paintings by other artists and engraved by J. Houbraken. Contemporary, uniform gold-tooled vellum by the so-called Parrot Bindery in Utrecht (except that vols. 19-21 differ slightly). Possibly a prize binding for the Latin school in Amersfoort. A complete list of contents is available upon request. Full description

€ 4,000

Bindings Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Netherlands

The Siberian prison camps in the 18th century and the rights of a people living under occupation

WAGNER, Johann Ludwig. Mémoires de M. Wagner, sur la Russie, la Sibérie et le royaume de Cassan.
Bern, Emanuel Haller, 1790. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author and 2 engraved plates. Contemporary boards covered with sprinkled paper, paper title label on spine. [4], 254, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Central Asia Eastern Europe Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe

Original design for the frontispiece of a pedagogical essay by Betje Wolff

WALDORP, Jan Gerard. [Design for the frontispiece of Betje Wolff's Proeve over de opvoeding].
[Amsterdam, 1779]. Drawing in black ink with grey watercolour washes (14 x 9 cm) on laid paper, tipped onto a larger leaf (30 x 21.5 cm). Full description

€ 1,500

Dutch Literature Education & Pedagogy Women History

Important history of the Umayyad Caliphate, printed in Calcutta

WELLHAUSEN, Julius (Margaret Graham WEIR, translator). The Arab kingdom and its fall.
Calcutta, University of Calcutta (printed by Bhupendra Lal Banerji), 1927. 8vo. Modern cloth. XV, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 592, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Islamic Art, Culture & Science

Regarding the death of the Dutch stadtholder as fortunate and suggesting the former governor of Dutch Brazil as his successor

[WIC - BRAZIL - WILLIAM II PRINCE OF ORANGE - POLITICS]. I. [= Eerste] conferentie van eenige Nederlandtsche heeren. Op den tegenwoordigen staet deser landen.
Middelburg, Jan de Laet, 1650. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). 20th-century half vellum. [34] pp. Full description

€ 950

Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Netherlands WIC

The Dutch West India Company’s thoughts on a truce with Spain

[WIC - CONSIDERATIEN - SPAIN]. Consideratien ende redenen der e. heeren bewind-hebberen vande geoctrojeerde West-Indische Compagnie ... nopende de teghenwoordighe deliberatie over den treves met den koning van Hispanjen. Mitsgaders conscientieuse bedenckinghen op dese vraghe, of men in goeder consientie magh treves maecken met den coningh van Spangjen. ... Noch de remonstrantie van zijne koninglijke majest. van Bohemen, ...
Haarlem, Adriaen Roman, 1629. 4to. Modern red half leather. 32 pp. Full description

€ 950

Law & Politics WIC

Extremely rare pamphlet designed to reassure potential investors in the Dutch West India Company

[WIC - COPYE]. Copye. van seker articulen beraemt inde vergaderinghe vande bewindthebberen, ende gecommitteerde der hooft-participanten vande West-Indische Compagnie, binnen Amsterdam.
[Amsterdam?], 1623. Small 4to. Sewn through 2 holes in a modern (ca. 1900?) reddish-brown paper wrapper. [8] pp. Full description

€ 750

Amsterdam Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets VOC WIC West Indies

The financial profits of the West India Company

[WIC - DISCOURS]. Kort discours, ofte naardere verklaringe van de onderstaende V. poincten, 1 aengaende de verlichtinghe die desen staat heeft ghenooten door de oprechtinghe en oorloghen van de West-Indische Compagnie. ...
[The Netherlands], 1644. Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). Modern wrappers. [18] ll. Full description

€ 1,250

Economic History & Trade Latin America North America South America VOC WIC

Political pamphlet with remarks on the Dutch colonies in Brazil

[WIC - EXTRACT]. Extract eens briefs uyt Vlissingen, inhoudende een roef-praatje, t'scheep voor-gevallen tusschen Dort en Ter Vere.
The Hague, D.H. van Waalsdorp (= Antwerpen, H. Verdussen), 1650. 4to. Woodcut of printers device on title page
Contemporary brown paper wrappers. [2], 3-24 pp. Full description

€ 450

Brazil WIC

Announcement of the annual 'day of prayer': all inhabitants of Suriname, including all enslaved people,
are forbidden to work and called to pray for the prosperity of the Dutch Republic

WICHERS, Jan Gerhard. Publicatie. Wy Mr. Jan Gerhard Wichers. Generaal Majoor, in dienst van den Staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Gouverneur Generaal over de colonie Surinaame, rivieren en districten van dien mitsgaaders Collonel en Cheff der gezaamentlijke militie deezer landen, &c. &c. &c, en de raaden van politie en criminele justitie der voorz. colonie &c. &c.
[Paramaribo, W. H. Poppelmann, 1786]. Broadsheet (50.5 x 36 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of the Society of Suriname at the head. [1] leaf. Full description

€ 2,250

Church History & Missions Law & Politics South America Surinam WIC

Industrial Japan on the brink of imperialism

WICKEVOORT CROMMELIN, H.S.M. van. Een herlevend volk: schets van de Japanners en hun land.
Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1895. 8vo. Original publisher's decorated green cloth. VIII, 206 pp. Full description

€ 70

Japan & Far East WIC

Anonymous Dutch defence of Portugal in its dispute with the Dutch in Brazil

[WIC - PORTUGAL]. Consideratien op de cautie van Portugael.
[Amsterdam?], [Johannes van Marel (pseudonym)?], 1647. Small 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). Later blue paper wrappers. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Brazil Latin America Military History (17th Century) Portugal South America WIC

False Zwolle imprint presenting factional disputes in Deventer

[WIJLICK, Joan van?]. Den oprechten onvervalsten Deventersen waersegger. Vertoont in een t samen-spraek tusschen twee burgeren der stadt Deventer, namentlick: Jan Capelle, en Pont-Keersen Arent.
Zwolle [or Amsterdam?], printed by "Anthony Korf-Uyle in de Rouserijck, naest 't Over-ysselsche Uylen-Nest" [Israël de Paull?], 1673. 4to. With a woodcut decoration on the title-page (triangular, with fruits and flowers). 19th-century decorated wrappers. 24 pp. Full description

€ 275

Law & Politics

Persuading France to abolish the slave trade, by a British abolitionist

WILBERFORCE, William. Lettre a son excellence monseigneur le Prince de Talleyrand Périgord,... au sujet de la traite des negres.
London, Schulze & Dean, 1814. Large 8vo. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 98 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Slavery

The sculptures of the "Museum Wildianum" in 60 engraved plates, with an attractive double-page view of the library during a visit of Peter the Great - with notable provenance

WILDE, Jacob and Maria de. Signa antiqua e museo Jacobi De Wilde veterum poetarum carminibus illustrata et per Marian filiam aeri inscripta.
Amsterdam, Maria de Wilde, 1700. 4to. With an engraved title-page, an engraved vignette depicting "virtute", 1 large folding plate showing the interior of "Museum Wildianum", a full-page engraved portrait of Maria de Wilde, decorated initials in the text and 60 numbered engraved plates by Maria de Wilde. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, sewn on 4 supports and laced through the joints, with the manuscript title and author at the head of the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp. and 60 numbered engraved plates. Full description

€ 17,500

Art & Art History Classical Antiquity Language & Linguistics Museums & Wunderkammer North Africa & Egypt

Decree signed by Dutch Stadholder and future English King William III

[MANUSCRIPT]. WILLIAM III, Prince of Orange. [Decree granting a salary to Johan Theodor, Baron of Friesheim, as chief bailiff and state prosecutor in 's-Hertogenbosch].
The Hague, 2 April 1681. Folio (31.5 x 20.5 cm). Written in brown ink on paper, with the armorial seal of William of Orange stamped on a decorative paper cut-out over red wax. [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands

William the Good, Count of Holland sentences the rich bailiff of South-Holland to death
for taking a poor farmers excellent cow

[WILLIAM III, Count of Holland]. [SILLEMANS, Experiens?]. Justitie van Willem de Goede Grave van Holl[and]. etc. over de[n] Bailju van Zuyt-Hollant.
Amsterdam, Hugo Allard the elder, [ca. 1660/80?]. Broadside (40 x 50.5 cm). An engraved print with extensive engraved texts in Dutch, the central scene (33.5 x 30.5 cm) flanked by 6 smaller scenes, with the title above the central scene, 2 verse couplets below each smaller scene and the story in prose in the foot of the engraving. Full description

€ 495

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Prints & Print Series

Four extremely rare broadsides with elegies on the death of Willem IV, Prince of Orange

[WILLIAM IV of Orange]. MEIJER, Jan. Billyke traanen, uitgestort op het overlyden van zyne doorluchtigste hoogheid Wilhem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Amsterdam, Theodorus Crajenschot, 1751. 1mo broadside (53 x 39 cm). With an engraved mortuary vignette.
With:
(2) OMMERING, Adriaan van. Op het schielyk afsterven van zyne doorluchtige hoogheid Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Amsterdam, Andries & Jacobus Stanhoffius, 1751. 1mo broadside (49 x 33 cm).
(3) KLOEKHOF, Cornelis Albertus. Treurzang op het afsterven van syne doorlugtigste hoogheyd Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Utrecht, Nicolaas van Vucht, 1751. 1mo broadside (52.5 x 39 cm).
(4) Op het allersmartelykste en voor den lande allerdroevigst afsterven van zyne doorluchtige hoogheid Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Amsterdam, Antoni Waldorp, [1751]. 1mo broadside (52 x 38 cm). Full description

€ 1,850

Broadsides & Pamphlets Dutch Literature Netherlands

Triumphal entry of Stadtholder Willem III (the future King William III of England)
into The Hague on 8 December 1673

[HOECKWATER, Crispyn]. [WILLIAM III OF ORANGE (subject)]. Verhael van het gepasseerde over het geluckigh arrivement van Sijn Hoogheydt den Heere Prince van Orange, alhier in Den Hage op den achtsten December 1673. des avondts ende den volgenden dagh voor-gevallen. Midtsgaders overdenckinge van de voorledene en jegenwoordige tijdt.
[The Hague], [Crispyn Hoeckwater?], [1673]. 4to. Disbound. 7, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 225

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics

Rare publications on the dire state of Dutch fortifications in 1784 and the revelation of the Act of Advisership, 3 not in the STCN and 3 only 1 copy in the STCN

WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyn hoogheid [aan de heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. 24 mey 1784].
[The Hague?,] 1784.
With:
(2) WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyne hoogheid met een detail van de reedenen en motiven waarom niet voor de resolutie van den 7 deezer een groot aantal troupes naar de frontieren had gezonden. Commiss. 25 mey 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(3) [FORTIFICATION]. Rapport van gecommiteerdens nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(4) [FORTIFICATION]. Resolutie op het rapport nopens den staat van 'slands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. 26 november 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(5) [FORTIFICATION]. Bylaagen gehorende tot het rapport van gecommiteerden nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenaalen, ter vergadering van hun edele groot mog. Overgenoomen den 23 july 1784. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784. With 7 folding tables.
(6) [FORTIFICATION]. Extract uit het register der resolutien van de hoog mogende heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Jovis den 25 november 1784
Including: Memorie van consideratien en elucidatien van den Raade van Staate ..., op het rapport ..., nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenalen ...
[The Hague?,] 1784.
6 publications in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 10, [2 blank]; 5, [3 blank]; 63, [1]; 6, [1 blank], [1]; 288; 55, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Fortification & Military Architecture Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Netherlands

History of India, Ceylon and Southeast Asia in the years 1805-1835

WILSON, Horace Hayman. The history of British India. From 1805 to 1835.
London, James Madden and co. (back of title-page: printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson and Fley), 1845-1848. 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth. XV, [1 blank], 608; XVI, 611, [1 blank]; XVI, 592, 70, [2], 24 pp. Full description

€ 750

Ceylon Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Law & Politics Southeast Asia

French translation of government regulations for the Dutch East Indies, published in Semarang, Indonesia

WINCKEL, Christiaan Philip Karel. Essai sur les principes régissant l'administration de la justice aux Indes Orientales Hollandaises surtout dans les îles de Java et Madoura et leur application.
Semarang, G.C.T van Dorp; Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, 1880. 8vo. With an original sepia-toned photographic print of a session of the local (indigenous) court on Java and a lithographed folding map of the Dutch East Indies by the widow and sons of E. Spanier in The Hague. Half red sheepskin with blue decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges. XII, 315, [1] pp. Full description

€ 3,250

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Law & Politics Southeast Asia

Key official document for the history of the Muslim Witu Protectorate

[WITU PROTECTORATE]. Correspondence respecting the punitive expedition against Witu of November 1890. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. December 1890.
London, printed for Her Majesty's stationery office by Harrison and sons, St. Martin's lane, n.d. [presented 1890]. Large 4to. Sewn. [28] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Law & Politics

The secrets and rituals of the freemasonry revealed

WOLSON (WILSON), Thomas. De metselaar ontmomd, of het rechte geheim der vrye metselaren ontdekt, in allen deele oprechtelyk en zonder achterhouding, door een gewezen vryen metselaar. ... Derde druk.
Arnhem, Jacob Nijhoff, 1753. 8vo (16.5 x 10 cm). With a woodcut freemasonry device on title-page and 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. [8], 106 pp. Full description

€ 950

Philosophy & Esotericism

First French translation of a classic work on the discovery and conquest of Peru

ZARATE, Augustin de. Histoire de la decouverte et de la conquete du Perou.
Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme, 1700. 2 volumes. 12vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a folding engraved map of Peru, 11 engraved plates, and 2 folding engraved plates. Further with two different woodcut vignettes on the red and black title-pages of both volumes, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut headpieces and headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a large ornamental woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [1], [1 blank], [36], 307, (1 blank); [1], [1 blank], [4], 408 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Latin America Peru South America Spain

Highly esteemed whaling book with 5 engraved maps & 13 other illustrations

ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertz. and Abraham MOUBACH. Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. ... Uitgebreid met eene korte historische beschryving der noordere gewesten, ... Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst, ... Nevens een korte beshryving van de Terreneufsche Bakkeljaau-Visschery.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728. 4to. With 5 (of 6) folding engraved maps, 11 engraved plates (1 folding), and 2 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [40], 392, [13] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Economic History & Trade Fishery & Whaling North America


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