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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 History / 17th Century Law & Politics Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Correspondence of Emperor Charles V with King Francis I and Pope Clement VII
during the Italian Wars, from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

[CHARLES V]. Pro invictiss[imo] Caesare Carolo ... ad epistolam Franci Regis ad Principes Imperii transmissam, necnon ad apologiam Madriciae conventionis dissuasoriam, responsio, ac erudita admodum refutatio. Cum aliis nonnullis ... (&c.).
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 19 August 1527. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the final page of ad 1, and 2 decorated woodcut initials in ad 2. With (bound before ad 1): [CLEMENT VII, Pope]. Epistolae duae, Altera Clementis VII Papae ad Karolum V Imperatorem Aug. etc. Altera Karoli V, Imp. Aug. etc. Clementi respondentis.
Cologne, [Petrus Quentell?], March 1527.17th-century vellum. [88]; [48] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century France History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Religion (16th Century) Spain
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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
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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
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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
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Rare early edition of a classic and profusely illustrated work on Roman military practice
and establishment of encampments, and Roman baths

CHOUL, Guillaume du. Discorso ... Sopra la castrametatione & bagni antiche i Greci & Romani. Nivamente revisto & ricorretto dallistesso Auttore. Con laggiunta della figura del campo Romano.
[Padua], Marc Antonio Olmo, 1558. 8vo. The word "Discorso" printed in woodcut border at the top of the title-page, with woodcut printers device: an elm with the words: "Ulmus amica viti" (the elm is friendly for vines). With 43 full-page woodcuts (ca. 11 x 7.5 cm), a large folding woodcut plate in two leaves (as issued, in total ca. 40.5 x 36 cm) of a plan of a Roman camp: "Figura del Campo de Romani", and 2 large historiated woodcut initials of 10 lines and 3 capital spaces with guide letters for initials of 5 lines. Modern vellum. 80, [4] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Fortification & Military Architecture History / 16th Century
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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 History / 17th Century
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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 Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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A finely produced Aldine classic - Claudians works,
crisply edited and beautifully printed in the iconic Aldine italic

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius and Francisco TORRESANO (editor). Opera quam diligentissime castigata, quorum indicem in sequenti pagina reperies.
Venice, heirs of Aldus I Manutius, and Andrea I Torresano, 1523. 8vo. With the Aldus anchor woodcut vignette on the title page and the verso of the last leaf, both hand-coloured and highlighted in gold. 17th-century gold-tooled quarter calf, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, 18th-century gold-tooled polished and sprinkled calf sides, red sprinkled edges. 176 ll. Full description
€ 5,500
Aldine Press Book History, Printing & Typography Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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