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12e Reeckeninge van Alexander van Kervel als penninckmr. vanden polder van Kieldreght: staten, bodem, wegens het geschot van dertien schell. vier grooten vlaems. per volpresen gemet: omgestelt den 30en April 1689. Over de Landen Bedijckt binnen de Breestraet ten Jare 1682. Geslooten den 18en April 1690.[Hulst], 1682-1690. Written in a neat and clear 17th-century Dutch hand in brown ink. Contemporary vellum.
12e Reeckeninge van Alexander van Kervel als penninckmr. vanden polder van Kieldreght: staten, bodem, wegens het geschot van dertien schell. vier grooten vlaems. per volpresen gemet: omgestelt den 30en April 1689. Over de Landen Bedijckt binnen de Breestraet ten Jare 1682. Geslooten den 18en April 1690.[Hulst], 1682-1690. Written in a neat and clear 17th-century Dutch hand in brown ink. Contemporary vellum.
KERVEL, Alexander van. · 1680
€3,500.00 ($3,930.51 | £2,922.18 | ¥621,019)
[2 blank], 98, [4 blank] ll.The financial administration of the tax revenues from the leased plots of land (‘gemets’), situated in the Kieldrecht polder, a polder complex on both sided of the Dutch-Belgian border in Zeeuws Vlaanderen (Zeeland Flanders, State Flanders in the 17...
[Drop title:] Verdadera relacion de la gran Vitoria que ha tenido la Armada de la Serenissima Republica de Venecia, contra la Armada del Turco en el Puerto de Foqui en doze de Mayo de mil y seiscientos y quarenta y nueue, embiada al Excelentissimo señor Embaxador de dicha Serenissima Republica. Traduzida de Italiano, en CastellanoMadrid, Domingo Garcia Morrás, 1649. Folio (20.8 x 29.2 cm). With the large woodcut Royal Spanish coat of arms on the first page and a woodcut decorated initial. Disbound.
[Drop title:] Verdadera relacion de la gran Vitoria que ha tenido la Armada de la Serenissima Republica de Venecia, contra la Armada del Turco en el Puerto de Foqui en doze de Mayo de mil y seiscientos y quarenta y nueue, embiada al Excelentissimo señor Embaxador de dicha Serenissima Republica. Traduzida de Italiano, en CastellanoMadrid, Domingo Garcia Morrás, 1649. Folio (20.8 x 29.2 cm). With the large woodcut Royal Spanish coat of arms on the first page and a woodcut decorated initial. Disbound.
[SPANISH - RELACIONES] · 1649
€1,500.00 ($1,684.51 | £1,252.36 | ¥266,151)
[4] pp.The title translates as "True account of the Great Victory that the Navy of the Most Serene Republic of Venice had against the Turkish Navy in the harbour of Foqui on the twelfth of May, one thousand six hundred and forty-nine. Translated from Italian, into Spanish".The...
Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter, Hertog, Ridder, &c. L. Admiraal Generaal van Hollandt en Westvriesland.Amsterdam, (printed by P. and J. Blaeu) for Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, van Someren and Goethals, 1687. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait, 7 double-page etched plates by Daniel Stoopendaal, and 1 full-page engraved plate by J. Mulder. 18th- or early 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter, Hertog, Ridder, &c. L. Admiraal Generaal van Hollandt en Westvriesland.Amsterdam, (printed by P. and J. Blaeu) for Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, van Someren and Goethals, 1687. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait, 7 double-page etched plates by Daniel Stoopendaal, and 1 full-page engraved plate by J. Mulder. 18th- or early 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine.
BRANDT, Geeraert. · 1844
€1,950.00 ($2,189.86 | £1,628.07 | ¥345,996)
[8], 1063, [23] pp.First edition of this renowned biography of the Dutch Admiral Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter, written by the historian Geeraert Brandt and edited by his sons Caspar and Johannes. The biography, esteemd for its literary qualities, drew on first-hand documents...
Costumen, usantien pollitien ende stijl van procederen der stadt jurisdictie, en[de] vrijheyt va[n] Utrecht gheapprobeert en[de] ghedecreteert, . . .[Colophon:] Amsterdam, printed by Willem Jacobsz. and sold at Utrecht by Jan van Gelre, 1550. 4to. With the title and the arms of the city of Utrecht in red and black in a 4-piece woodcut frame with figures and decoration, the arms repeated below the red and black colophon with the publisher's authenticating signature in dark brown ink; 3 different woodcut coats of arms for the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, each with a different bearing: 2 small in the text, with his motto "plus oultre", and a full-page one on the verso of the last leaf. Late 18th-century boards, marbled paper sides.
Costumen, usantien pollitien ende stijl van procederen der stadt jurisdictie, en[de] vrijheyt va[n] Utrecht gheapprobeert en[de] ghedecreteert, . . .[Colophon:] Amsterdam, printed by Willem Jacobsz. and sold at Utrecht by Jan van Gelre, 1550. 4to. With the title and the arms of the city of Utrecht in red and black in a 4-piece woodcut frame with figures and decoration, the arms repeated below the red and black colophon with the publisher's authenticating signature in dark brown ink; 3 different woodcut coats of arms for the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, each with a different bearing: 2 small in the text, with his motto "plus oultre", and a full-page one on the verso of the last leaf. Late 18th-century boards, marbled paper sides.
[UTRECHT - LAW]. · 1550
€2,500.00 ($2,807.51 | £2,087.27 | ¥443,585)
[16], LVIII, [2] ll.First edition of the laws of the city and province of Utrecht, promulgated in 1550. The text includes a description of the duties of the officials at court, the procedures, and the crimes and penalties. On 5 December 1550, Charles V granted Jan van Gelre, a...
Die Raubvogel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und dem angrenzenden Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Arten. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text.Kassel, Theodor Fischer, sold in C.B. Griesbach's Verlag in Gera, 1894. Folio (30.2 x 40.2 cm). With 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half green cloth with the title in black on the spine, printed paper sides.
Die Raubvogel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und dem angrenzenden Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Arten. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text.Kassel, Theodor Fischer, sold in C.B. Griesbach's Verlag in Gera, 1894. Folio (30.2 x 40.2 cm). With 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half green cloth with the title in black on the spine, printed paper sides.
RIESENTHAL, Oskar von. · 1876
€2,500.00 ($2,807.51 | £2,087.27 | ¥443,585)
[6], 56 pp.Second edition of this plate set first published in 1876-78, including several much-sought depictions of falcons. "As these birds of prey are rendered with the utmost attention to detail, the description of their exterior may be confined to that which is not evident...
De aanmerkenswaardigste en alomberoemde zee- en landreizen der Portugeezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen en allerhande natiën: zoo van Fransen, Italiaanen, Deenen, Hoogh- en Nederduitsen als van veele andere volkeren. Voornaamenlyk ondernomen tot ontdekking van de Oost- en Westindiën, midsgaders andere verafgelegene gewesten des aardryks.The Hague, widow of Engelbrecht Boucquet and sons; Leiden, Jan van der Deyster, and Boudewijn and Pieter van der Aa, 1727. 8 volumes. 1mo and folio. With 7 (of 8) engraved frontispieces (lacking that of volume 4), 4 engraved dedications, 117 engraved maps on 61 leaves, 7 engraved plates and 502 engravings in text. Further with 127 (of 128) title-pages (including a general title-page, a title-page to 7 (of 8) volumes, lacking that of volume 4, and 118 for the separate works). Volume 1-3 & 5-8: contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges; volume 4: modern calf.
De aanmerkenswaardigste en alomberoemde zee- en landreizen der Portugeezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen en allerhande natiën: zoo van Fransen, Italiaanen, Deenen, Hoogh- en Nederduitsen als van veele andere volkeren. Voornaamenlyk ondernomen tot ontdekking van de Oost- en Westindiën, midsgaders andere verafgelegene gewesten des aardryks.The Hague, widow of Engelbrecht Boucquet and sons; Leiden, Jan van der Deyster, and Boudewijn and Pieter van der Aa, 1727. 8 volumes. 1mo and folio. With 7 (of 8) engraved frontispieces (lacking that of volume 4), 4 engraved dedications, 117 engraved maps on 61 leaves, 7 engraved plates and 502 engravings in text. Further with 127 (of 128) title-pages (including a general title-page, a title-page to 7 (of 8) volumes, lacking that of volume 4, and 118 for the separate works). Volume 1-3 & 5-8: contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges; volume 4: modern calf.
AA, Pieter van der (editor) and Johann Ludwig GOTTFRIED. · 1631
€65,000.00 ($72,995.26 | £54,269.02 | ¥11,533,208)
Folio-edition of Van der Aa's voluminous collection of important voyages to the East and West Indies and other countries, undertaken by all European countries, other than the Dutch. Including voyages by Acosta, Balby, Cabot, Cavendish, Chester, Columbus, Cortes, Coutinho, Da C...
Historische reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des konings van Spanje, door Don George Juan ... en door Don Antonio de Ulloa ...Goes, Jacobus Huysman (colophon: printed in The Hague by Jacobus van Karnebeek), 1771-1772 (colophon volume 2: 1773). 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 28.5 x 22 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by H. Vinkeles, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Vinkeles in volume 1, a head-piece above the dedication by J. Huysman after S. Fokke, 15 folding maps and plans (including a large map of the Pacific by J. van Jagen, dated 1771), 2 folding engraved plates, 8 full page engraved plates, and many head pieces built up from typographical ornaments and several woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half sprinkled calf.
Historische reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des konings van Spanje, door Don George Juan ... en door Don Antonio de Ulloa ...Goes, Jacobus Huysman (colophon: printed in The Hague by Jacobus van Karnebeek), 1771-1772 (colophon volume 2: 1773). 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 28.5 x 22 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by H. Vinkeles, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Vinkeles in volume 1, a head-piece above the dedication by J. Huysman after S. Fokke, 15 folding maps and plans (including a large map of the Pacific by J. van Jagen, dated 1771), 2 folding engraved plates, 8 full page engraved plates, and many head pieces built up from typographical ornaments and several woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half sprinkled calf.
ULLOA, Antonio de and Jorge JUAN SANTACILIA. · 1716
€2,500.00 ($2,807.51 | £2,087.27 | ¥443,585)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], XXIV, 428; [1], [1 blank], VIII, IV, 406, [1], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of the Dutch translation of this description of South America by the Spanish naval officer and mathematician Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795), dedicated to the G...
De bello Belgico decades duae ab excessu Caroli V. ... ad annum 1678 [recté 1578]. Continuatae [to 1590] ...Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Beyer, 1651. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page engraved “Leo Belgicus” map as integral frontispiece, Beyer’s woodcut printer's device on the title-page, a full-page engraved portrait of the author on an integral leaf, 45 engraved plates (25 portraits and 20 folding maps and views of battles), woodcut head- and tailpieces, decorated woodcut initials (6 series, including a 4.1 cm pictorial B and P), and decorations built up from cast arabesque fleurons. Slightly later (ca. 1700) richly gold-tooled armorial brown sheepskin for Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing (1649-1727), with the title lettered in gold on the spine, sewn on 4 cords, each board in an elaborate panel design with an oval with the arms of Freising (Moor’s head) and Eckher von Kapfing (sable 3 lozenges argent) in the centre (“Io: Francis: Episcopus: Frising: S: R: I: Princ Eps.) and hundreds of impressions of 2 rolls and a dozen stamps (including birds, flowers and angel heads) surrounding it, traces of 2 pairs of cloth ties, gilt edges, marbled paste-downs.
De bello Belgico decades duae ab excessu Caroli V. ... ad annum 1678 [recté 1578]. Continuatae [to 1590] ...Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Beyer, 1651. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page engraved “Leo Belgicus” map as integral frontispiece, Beyer’s woodcut printer's device on the title-page, a full-page engraved portrait of the author on an integral leaf, 45 engraved plates (25 portraits and 20 folding maps and views of battles), woodcut head- and tailpieces, decorated woodcut initials (6 series, including a 4.1 cm pictorial B and P), and decorations built up from cast arabesque fleurons. Slightly later (ca. 1700) richly gold-tooled armorial brown sheepskin for Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing (1649-1727), with the title lettered in gold on the spine, sewn on 4 cords, each board in an elaborate panel design with an oval with the arms of Freising (Moor’s head) and Eckher von Kapfing (sable 3 lozenges argent) in the centre (“Io: Francis: Episcopus: Frising: S: R: I: Princ Eps.) and hundreds of impressions of 2 rolls and a dozen stamps (including birds, flowers and angel heads) surrounding it, traces of 2 pairs of cloth ties, gilt edges, marbled paste-downs.
STRADA, Faminianus. · 1555
€5,000.00 ($5,615.02 | £4,174.54 | ¥887,170)
[8], 778, [104] pp.First Frankfurt edition of a history of the Dutch War of Independence from 1555 to 1590, the first edition to combine two earlier volumes into one. It was one of the most popular histories of the Dutch war of independence against Spain and is still a rich an...
The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.London, R. Ackermann, 1812. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 78 full-page hand-coloured aquatint plates and 2 hand-coloured aquatint vignettes. With: [ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The second tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of consolation; a poem.London, R. Ackermann, 1820.[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The third tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of a wife, a poem.London, R. Ackermann, 1821.Late 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by the Rivière Bindery.
The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.London, R. Ackermann, 1812. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 78 full-page hand-coloured aquatint plates and 2 hand-coloured aquatint vignettes. With: [ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The second tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of consolation; a poem.London, R. Ackermann, 1820.[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The third tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of a wife, a poem.London, R. Ackermann, 1821.Late 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by the Rivière Bindery.
[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. · 1880
€3,500.00 ($3,930.51 | £2,922.18 | ¥621,019)
III, [3], 276; [6], 277, [1 blank]; [4], 279, [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of all three volumes of the caricatures of Doctor Syntax, beautifully bound by Rivière and Son after 1880. Although various sets of the three volumes are known, they usually combine different editio...
Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord: ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par les soins du Gouvernement, enrichi de notes & orné de cartes & de figures.Paris, Nyon the Elder & Sons, Widow of Nyon, 1791-1800. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 28 engraved plates and maps (21 folding and 7 full-page). 19th-century green half shagreen, gold-tooled spine, sides with crowned gilt initials 'C.L.'
Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord: ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par les soins du Gouvernement, enrichi de notes & orné de cartes & de figures.Paris, Nyon the Elder & Sons, Widow of Nyon, 1791-1800. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 28 engraved plates and maps (21 folding and 7 full-page). 19th-century green half shagreen, gold-tooled spine, sides with crowned gilt initials 'C.L.'
RESTE, Bernard de. · 1791
€2,500.00 ($2,807.51 | £2,087.27 | ¥443,585)
XXXVI, 432; 464; [4], 378 pp.Very rare French translation of the important Dutch work Nieuwe beschryving der walvisvangst (1791), considerably enlarged with additional notes and illustrations. This is one of the most comprehensive works on the history and contemporary practice...
Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschrijving der dieren, planten en mineraalen; volgens het samenstel van den heer Linnaeus.Amsterdam, Frans Houttuyn (volumes 1-8); heirs of Frans Houttuyn (volumes 9-35); Jacobus van der Burgh and son (volumes 36-37), 1761-1785. 37 volumes. 8vo. With 296 hand-coloured engraved plates (all folding, except 5 full-page plates in the first volume). Further with a woodcut vignette on each title page, woodcut decorated initials, and head- and tailpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary uniform gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with 2 red morocco labels lettered in gold on the spines.
Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschrijving der dieren, planten en mineraalen; volgens het samenstel van den heer Linnaeus.Amsterdam, Frans Houttuyn (volumes 1-8); heirs of Frans Houttuyn (volumes 9-35); Jacobus van der Burgh and son (volumes 36-37), 1761-1785. 37 volumes. 8vo. With 296 hand-coloured engraved plates (all folding, except 5 full-page plates in the first volume). Further with a woodcut vignette on each title page, woodcut decorated initials, and head- and tailpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary uniform gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with 2 red morocco labels lettered in gold on the spines.
LINNAEUS, Carl and Martinus HOUTTUYN. · 1720
€12,500.00 ($14,037.55 | £10,436.35 | ¥2,217,925)
A monumental Dutch natural history, compiled by the physician and naturalist Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798). Houttuyn based this encyclopaedic work mainly on Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae. The work comprises three extensive sections, devoted respectively to zoology (18 volumes...
Praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie für Thierärzte.Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1850. Large 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, red morocco spine label, red edges.
Praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie für Thierärzte.Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1850. Large 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, red morocco spine label, red edges.
HERTWIG, H. C.
€150.00 ($168.45 | £125.24 | ¥26,615)
XII, 811, [5] pp.First edition of this compendium by the Berlin Royal veterinarian Hertwig, divided into 15 "classes", describing among others inflammations, swelling and bruises, fractures, sprains, ulcers, tumors, cancer et cetera. Altogether an useful and informative compen...
Skandinaviens Fiskar.Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söners forlag, (1892-1895). 2 text volumes and one atlas volume. Large 4to. With many lithographed illustrations of fish and details of fish in the 2 text volumes and 55 chromolithographed plates in the atlas volumes, with beatifully depicted fish, mostly 3 to one page. Drawn and lithographed by W. von Wright assisted by Erdman, Thornam and others. Plates are intrerleaved with the original blue tissues. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt.
Skandinaviens Fiskar.Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söners forlag, (1892-1895). 2 text volumes and one atlas volume. Large 4to. With many lithographed illustrations of fish and details of fish in the 2 text volumes and 55 chromolithographed plates in the atlas volumes, with beatifully depicted fish, mostly 3 to one page. Drawn and lithographed by W. von Wright assisted by Erdman, Thornam and others. Plates are intrerleaved with the original blue tissues. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt.
FRIES, Bengt Fredrik, Carl Ulric EKSTRÖM & Carl Jakob SUNDEVALL. · 1839
€2,500.00 ($2,807.51 | £2,087.27 | ¥443,585)
[8], 566, [10]; [6], 671 (pp. 568-1279), [3] pp.Beautiful and exceptionally attractive copy of the rare revised Swedish edition of one of the finest and most important illustrated works on the fishes of Scandinavia. Although the title bears the name of Fredrik Adam Smitt (1839...
Rariorum Africanarum plantarum, ad vivum delineatum, iconibus ac descriptionibus illustraturum, decas prima [-decima].Amsterdam, Henricus Boussiere, 1738-1739. 10 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 100 finely engraved plates probably after Hendrik Claudius (1655-1697), depicting South African plants. With the same engraved vignette on each of the 10 divisional title pages, by Jan Caspar Philips (1700-1775), showing Cape Town and Table Mountain seen from the water. First title printed in red and black, and with some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half calf.
Rariorum Africanarum plantarum, ad vivum delineatum, iconibus ac descriptionibus illustraturum, decas prima [-decima].Amsterdam, Henricus Boussiere, 1738-1739. 10 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 100 finely engraved plates probably after Hendrik Claudius (1655-1697), depicting South African plants. With the same engraved vignette on each of the 10 divisional title pages, by Jan Caspar Philips (1700-1775), showing Cape Town and Table Mountain seen from the water. First title printed in red and black, and with some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half calf.
BURMAN, Johannes. · 1706
€3,500.00 ($3,930.51 | £2,922.18 | ¥621,019)
VIII, "268" [= 280], [2] pp.Rare first and only edition of a foundational work on the flora of South Africa, particularly the Cape of Good Hope, by the Dutch physician and botanist Johannes Burman (1706-1779). This present work is notable for being among the earliest to illust...
Das Grossgeflügel.Berlin, Fritz Pfenningstorff. Verlag für Sport und Naturliebhaberei, [1908]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 36 coloured plates (including a movable model of a hatcher), 48 full-page and 2 double-page black and white plates, often in photomontage, and 384 illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, marbled endpapers.
Das Grossgeflügel.Berlin, Fritz Pfenningstorff. Verlag für Sport und Naturliebhaberei, [1908]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 36 coloured plates (including a movable model of a hatcher), 48 full-page and 2 double-page black and white plates, often in photomontage, and 384 illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, marbled endpapers.
BLANCKE, Burchard.
€1,250.00 ($1,403.75 | £1,043.64 | ¥221,792)
[8], 456; [8], 452 pp.Enlarged second edition of Burchard Blancke’s Das Großgeflügel, a richly illustrated manual on domestic fowl, covering chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants, peacocks, and other large poultry. The first volume focuses on the various species, many depicted on ...
Secreet-boeck van veele diversche en heerlijcke konsten in veelderley materien, met veel remedien tegen de innerlijcke en uytterlijcke gebreken der menschen. ... Verrijckt met verscheyden secreten van wijnen, verwen ende schrijf-konsten.Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum.
Secreet-boeck van veele diversche en heerlijcke konsten in veelderley materien, met veel remedien tegen de innerlijcke en uytterlijcke gebreken der menschen. ... Verrijckt met verscheyden secreten van wijnen, verwen ende schrijf-konsten.Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum.
BATTUS, Carolus. · 1540
€1,250.00 ($1,403.75 | £1,043.64 | ¥221,792)
573, [3] pp.Rare edition of a popular Dutch book of secrets, compiled by the physician Carolus Battus (1540-1617) a Flemish refugee who from 1588 to 1601 was city physician in Dordrecht. As mentioned on the title-page, Battus compiled his work from various Latin, French, Germa...
Handleiding tot de kennis der artsenij-gewassen, welke in de Nederlandsche apotheek zijn opgenomen. Voornamelijk ingerigt ten behoeve van hen, die, zich der genees-, heel- of artsenij-mengkunde wijdende, het tot hun vak behorende gedeelte der kruidkunde moeten beoefenen. Met platen. Leiden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1837. With 10 numbered folding lithographs after Anslijn's own designs showing 20 numbered medical plants, herbs and flowers. Half red cloth.
Handleiding tot de kennis der artsenij-gewassen, welke in de Nederlandsche apotheek zijn opgenomen. Voornamelijk ingerigt ten behoeve van hen, die, zich der genees-, heel- of artsenij-mengkunde wijdende, het tot hun vak behorende gedeelte der kruidkunde moeten beoefenen. Met platen. Leiden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1837. With 10 numbered folding lithographs after Anslijn's own designs showing 20 numbered medical plants, herbs and flowers. Half red cloth.
ANSLIJN, Nicolaas. · 1832
€1,250.00 ($1,403.75 | £1,043.64 | ¥221,792)
[2], 24, 456, [2] pp.Original edition of this description of the plants and herbs used in the Dutch pharmacy for physicians, pharmacists and herbalists. At the same time the book is written - as Anslijn explains in his introduction - for the benefit of the owners of his beauti...
Speculum zelandiae[,] dat is een beschryvinge ofte afbeelding der steden, ambachts-heerlijckheden, dorpen[,] castelen, ridderlijcke hofsteden, huysen en gebouwen gelegen inde eylanden en de graeflijckheyt van Zeelandt.Amsterdam, the widow Joachim Ottens and sons, [1719/25]. Oblong 1mo (34 x 39.5 cm). With engraved allegorical title-page (with the coats of arms of the province of Zeeland and 8 Zeeland cities) and 37 engraved plates (plate size 21 x 28 cm), including 2 different views of Middleburg from the harbour side (the earlier publications included one or the other). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment. With the bookplate of Vincent van Gogh.
Speculum zelandiae[,] dat is een beschryvinge ofte afbeelding der steden, ambachts-heerlijckheden, dorpen[,] castelen, ridderlijcke hofsteden, huysen en gebouwen gelegen inde eylanden en de graeflijckheyt van Zeelandt.Amsterdam, the widow Joachim Ottens and sons, [1719/25]. Oblong 1mo (34 x 39.5 cm). With engraved allegorical title-page (with the coats of arms of the province of Zeeland and 8 Zeeland cities) and 37 engraved plates (plate size 21 x 28 cm), including 2 different views of Middleburg from the harbour side (the earlier publications included one or the other). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment. With the bookplate of Vincent van Gogh.
[VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. · 1866
€9,500.00 ($10,668.54 | £7,931.63 | ¥1,685,623)
[36] engr. ll.The bibliophile Vincent van Gogh's (1866-1911) copy (with his fine etched bookplate) of a beautiful book of 36 splendid large views of cities, towns, noblemen's estates, and castles in the Dutch province of Zeeland, with an elaborately decorated armorial title-pa...
Increpatio Bar Jesu: sive Polemicae adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturae, ab imposturis perversionum in Catechesi Racoviana; collectae hinc indè, per Matthaeum Wren F. Ex opere praegrandi Meditationum croticarum in S. Paginam, conscriptarum à patre suo R.D.M. Episcopo Eliensi in Solitudino suâ carceriâ, de genuino sensu, atque exactâ nostrâ versione Divinorum textuum.London, Jacobus Flesher for Cornelius Bee, 1660. 4to. With a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary calf, blind ruled along the edges, with a gold-tooled oval centerpiece: the stamp of "The society of writers to the signet" lettered around its coat of arms (this society is also known as the "WS Society", a prestigious, private association of Scottish solicitors dating back to 1594, and based in Edinburgh. The society maintains the Signet Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh); red painted edges. Re-backed: 20th-century gold-tooled spine with a (the original?) red morocco title-label lettered in gold.
Increpatio Bar Jesu: sive Polemicae adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturae, ab imposturis perversionum in Catechesi Racoviana; collectae hinc indè, per Matthaeum Wren F. Ex opere praegrandi Meditationum croticarum in S. Paginam, conscriptarum à patre suo R.D.M. Episcopo Eliensi in Solitudino suâ carceriâ, de genuino sensu, atque exactâ nostrâ versione Divinorum textuum.London, Jacobus Flesher for Cornelius Bee, 1660. 4to. With a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary calf, blind ruled along the edges, with a gold-tooled oval centerpiece: the stamp of "The society of writers to the signet" lettered around its coat of arms (this society is also known as the "WS Society", a prestigious, private association of Scottish solicitors dating back to 1594, and based in Edinburgh. The society maintains the Signet Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh); red painted edges. Re-backed: 20th-century gold-tooled spine with a (the original?) red morocco title-label lettered in gold.
WREN, Matthew. · 1629
€3,500.00 ($3,930.51 | £2,922.18 | ¥621,019)
[24], 762, [2] pp.First edition of this important theological extensive treatise (title in English: "The rebuking of Bar-Jesus"), which was compiled and published by the English politician and writer Matthew Wren Junior (1629-1672), who based himself on the extensive writings ...
De uytnemende en seer wonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reyse van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, ... gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vruchtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien, en andere.Utrecht, Gerald Nieuwenhuysen and Willem Snellaart, 1654. With:(2) ROE, Thomas. Journael, van de reysen ...Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin, 1656.(3) MOCQUET, Jean. Reysen in Afrique, Asien, Oost- en West Indien, ...Dordrecht, for Abraham Andriesz. (colophon: printed by Nicolaes de Vries), 1656.(4) BLANC, Vincent le and Jan Hendrik GLAZEMAKER (translator). De vermaarde reizen van de heer Vincent le Blanc van Marsilien die hy sedert d' ouderdom van veertien jaren tot aan die van zestig in de vier delen des werrelts, Europa, Asia, Afrika en Amerika, gedaan heeft. Te weten in Oost- en Westindien, in Persien, Arabien, Pegu, en in meest alle de landen van Oostindien, in de koninkrijken van Fez en Marokko, in Guinea, en in 't geheel innerlijk deel van Afrika, van de Kaap de Bone Esperance af, tot in Alexandria, deur de landen van Monomotapa, Abissyna, en Egypien, in Spanjen, Frankrijk, Italiën en Nederlant, en in veel vermaarde eilanden van de werelt.Amsterdam, for Jan Hendriksz. Boom & Jan Rieuwertsz., 1654. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved title page, 4 engraved plates and woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Ad 2: with an engraved title page, 4 large engravings in the text, 3 with scenes of the Mughal court life and the other depicting a sea battle, and woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3: with an engraving on the title page showing a shipwreck, repeated in the text on p. 87, and 9 other large engravings in the text. Ad 4: with an engraved title page, 7 engraved plates, 2 extremely finely engraved initials with pictorial decoration on p. 1 and p. 3 of the first part (the V with an allegorical female figure giving a plate of fruit to the author(?) with his books and an armillary sphere, and a T with a group of turbaned figures) and 1 larger decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, new endpapers.
De uytnemende en seer wonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reyse van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, ... gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vruchtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien, en andere.Utrecht, Gerald Nieuwenhuysen and Willem Snellaart, 1654. With:(2) ROE, Thomas. Journael, van de reysen ...Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin, 1656.(3) MOCQUET, Jean. Reysen in Afrique, Asien, Oost- en West Indien, ...Dordrecht, for Abraham Andriesz. (colophon: printed by Nicolaes de Vries), 1656.(4) BLANC, Vincent le and Jan Hendrik GLAZEMAKER (translator). De vermaarde reizen van de heer Vincent le Blanc van Marsilien die hy sedert d' ouderdom van veertien jaren tot aan die van zestig in de vier delen des werrelts, Europa, Asia, Afrika en Amerika, gedaan heeft. Te weten in Oost- en Westindien, in Persien, Arabien, Pegu, en in meest alle de landen van Oostindien, in de koninkrijken van Fez en Marokko, in Guinea, en in 't geheel innerlijk deel van Afrika, van de Kaap de Bone Esperance af, tot in Alexandria, deur de landen van Monomotapa, Abissyna, en Egypien, in Spanjen, Frankrijk, Italiën en Nederlant, en in veel vermaarde eilanden van de werelt.Amsterdam, for Jan Hendriksz. Boom & Jan Rieuwertsz., 1654. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved title page, 4 engraved plates and woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Ad 2: with an engraved title page, 4 large engravings in the text, 3 with scenes of the Mughal court life and the other depicting a sea battle, and woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3: with an engraving on the title page showing a shipwreck, repeated in the text on p. 87, and 9 other large engravings in the text. Ad 4: with an engraved title page, 7 engraved plates, 2 extremely finely engraved initials with pictorial decoration on p. 1 and p. 3 of the first part (the V with an allegorical female figure giving a plate of fruit to the author(?) with his books and an armillary sphere, and a T with a group of turbaned figures) and 1 larger decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, new endpapers.
VARTHEMA, Ludivico di and Felix van SAMBIX DE JONGE (translator). · 1468
€8,500.00 ($9,545.53 | £7,096.72 | ¥1,508,189)
126; [8], 56, 56, 24, [2]; [14], 153, [1 blank]; [4], 152, 116 pp.Ad 1: Rare second Dutch translation of a highly important and adventurous narrative, including an account of the first recorded non-Islamic visitor to Mecca. This translation was made by Felix van Sambix the you...