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Etude de diverses parties de l'art de la Guerre[France], January 1820. Small 4to (ca. 20.5 x 16 cm). With 6 hand-coloured folding illustrations, 3 full-page plates (on pp. 36, 57, and 83), 1 half-page plate (on p. 79), and numerous smaller mathematical figures, tables, and other illustrations in the text, most with grey washes and some in colour. The work is written in French in a very neat cursive hand. Contemporary half green painted sheepskin, red sprinkled paper sides.
Etude de diverses parties de l'art de la Guerre[France], January 1820. Small 4to (ca. 20.5 x 16 cm). With 6 hand-coloured folding illustrations, 3 full-page plates (on pp. 36, 57, and 83), 1 half-page plate (on p. 79), and numerous smaller mathematical figures, tables, and other illustrations in the text, most with grey washes and some in colour. The work is written in French in a very neat cursive hand. Contemporary half green painted sheepskin, red sprinkled paper sides.
[MANUSCRIPT - MORLOT DE WENGI, Alcibiade]. · 1755
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
151, [152-155 blank] pp.Striking early-19th-century manuscript study of a selection of important aspects of warfare, including fortifications, written by a French sub-lieutenant with the General Staff of the French army during the Second Bourbon Restauration under King Louis X...
Specimens of Arabian poetry, from the earliest time to the extinction of the khalifphat, with some account of the authors.Cambridge, Printed by John Burges printer to the university, 1796. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved sheet with musical notation. Contemporary brown calf with a later spine.
Specimens of Arabian poetry, from the earliest time to the extinction of the khalifphat, with some account of the authors.Cambridge, Printed by John Burges printer to the university, 1796. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved sheet with musical notation. Contemporary brown calf with a later spine.
CARLYLE, Joseph Dacre. · 1758
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[8], IX, [1 blank], 180; [2], 71, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of this beautiful example of Orientalist scholarship, presenting sixty early Arabic poems in their original language with English translations. This work by Orientalist Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1758-1804...
't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen [frontispiece: Gerard van Keulen], [not before 1742, ca. 1747?].With: (2) [VOOGHT, Claas Jansz.]. De taeffelen der sinuum, tangentium en secantium, ofte der hoekmaaten, raecklijnen en snijlijnen.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th, early 18th century].(3) [Drop-title:] De tafel des aardryks breeten en langten, der voornaamste zee-plaatsen des bekenden aardbols.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th or early 18th century]. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf.
't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen [frontispiece: Gerard van Keulen], [not before 1742, ca. 1747?].With: (2) [VOOGHT, Claas Jansz.]. De taeffelen der sinuum, tangentium en secantium, ofte der hoekmaaten, raecklijnen en snijlijnen.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th, early 18th century].(3) [Drop-title:] De tafel des aardryks breeten en langten, der voornaamste zee-plaatsen des bekenden aardbols.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th or early 18th century]. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf.
GIETERMAKER, Klaas Hendriksz. · 1621
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[12], 106, [2]; 152, 8; 120; [2], 70, [66]; 16, [2 blank] pp.Rare, improved edition of probably the most popular work on the art of navigation, complete with the volvelles. It was intended for young sailors and explains everything aspiring mates and helmsmen had to know in ord...
Zinnebeelden getrokken uit Horatius Flaccus, naer geestrijke vinding van den geleerden.Amsterdam, Justus Dankerts, 1683. 4to. With a copper-engraved vignette on the title page and 103 copper-engraved emblems. (Near-) contemporary gold-tooled red morocco.
Zinnebeelden getrokken uit Horatius Flaccus, naer geestrijke vinding van den geleerden.Amsterdam, Justus Dankerts, 1683. 4to. With a copper-engraved vignette on the title page and 103 copper-engraved emblems. (Near-) contemporary gold-tooled red morocco.
VEEN, Otto van and Antoni Jansen van ter GOES. · 1626
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[8], 205, [3] pp.First edition of Anthony Jansen’s adaptation (1626-1699) of Otto van Veen’s (1556-1629) emblemata based on the odes and moral verses of Horace, printed with parallel texts in Latin, Dutch, and French. A highly elaborate and intellectually ambitious emblem book...
[Fishermen bringing in their catch on a crowded beach, with the church of Scheveningen in the background].[Scheveningen, Hendrick de Meijer, ca. 1670]. 49.5 x 78 cm. Oil on oak panel. Mounted in a wooden frame with gilded stucco (70 x 98 cm).
[Fishermen bringing in their catch on a crowded beach, with the church of Scheveningen in the background].[Scheveningen, Hendrick de Meijer, ca. 1670]. 49.5 x 78 cm. Oil on oak panel. Mounted in a wooden frame with gilded stucco (70 x 98 cm).
MEIJER, Hendrick de. · 1620
€48,000.00 ($52,904.74 | £40,044.77 | ¥8,448,203)
Fine painting by Hendrick de Meijer showing Dutch fishermen offloading their daily catch on the beach near Scheveningen. One looks out on numerous fishing boats on the beach and a few still at sea, people (mostly fishermen) and animals, and an elaborate horse-drawn carriage ap...
[The riding school or exercise of cavalry].[Leiden, workshop of Jacob II de Gheyn, 1599]. Oblong folio (25 x 32 cm). With 22 numbered engraved plates (varying sizes, ca. 15.4-16 x 19.7 x 21.5 cm), including the engraved title page. The illustrations are designed by De Gheyn and possibly engraved by him or by Zacharias Dolendo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Stuart Princes of Wales (Stuart Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick (1594-1612)) within a gold- and blind-tooled double fillet frame on both boards, with small gold-tooled flowers on the spine, gold-tooled board edges.
[The riding school or exercise of cavalry].[Leiden, workshop of Jacob II de Gheyn, 1599]. Oblong folio (25 x 32 cm). With 22 numbered engraved plates (varying sizes, ca. 15.4-16 x 19.7 x 21.5 cm), including the engraved title page. The illustrations are designed by De Gheyn and possibly engraved by him or by Zacharias Dolendo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Stuart Princes of Wales (Stuart Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick (1594-1612)) within a gold- and blind-tooled double fillet frame on both boards, with small gold-tooled flowers on the spine, gold-tooled board edges.
GHEYN, Jacob II de. · 1598
€38,000.00 ($41,882.92 | £31,702.11 | ¥6,688,160)
[22 engraved plates].Very rare first edition of this magnificent series of cavalrymen and lansquentes in various positions, bound for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1598-1612) with his coat-of-arms on the boards. All plates are signed by Jacob II de Gheyn ("IDGheyn in. et e...
The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes, and pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange Count of Nassau etc.The Hague, [1607 (added in manuscript on the title page)]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 37 x 27 cm). With engraved title page with at the head of the page the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Prince Henry Frederick, eldest son of King James I of England within a wreath of lilies and roses, which - together with the title and the imprint were engraved on 3 separate slips of paper pasted over areas left blank for that purpose; and 117 (including one repeat) expertly engraved plates (ca. 26 x 19 cm): 42 numbered plates in part 1, 43 partly-numbered plates in part 2 and 32 numbered plates in part 3. All engravings including the engraved title-page are magnificently coloured and highlighted in gold and silver by a contemporary hand. The plates show exercises with the arquebus (part 1), musket (part 2), and pike (part 3). Mid-19th-century gold-tooled half (faded) red morocco and red cloth sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, bound in 1840-ca. 1860 by the celebrated British bookbinder Robert Riviere (1808-1882) with his stamp "Bound by Riviere" in the bottom outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf.
The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes, and pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange Count of Nassau etc.The Hague, [1607 (added in manuscript on the title page)]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 37 x 27 cm). With engraved title page with at the head of the page the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Prince Henry Frederick, eldest son of King James I of England within a wreath of lilies and roses, which - together with the title and the imprint were engraved on 3 separate slips of paper pasted over areas left blank for that purpose; and 117 (including one repeat) expertly engraved plates (ca. 26 x 19 cm): 42 numbered plates in part 1, 43 partly-numbered plates in part 2 and 32 numbered plates in part 3. All engravings including the engraved title-page are magnificently coloured and highlighted in gold and silver by a contemporary hand. The plates show exercises with the arquebus (part 1), musket (part 2), and pike (part 3). Mid-19th-century gold-tooled half (faded) red morocco and red cloth sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, bound in 1840-ca. 1860 by the celebrated British bookbinder Robert Riviere (1808-1882) with his stamp "Bound by Riviere" in the bottom outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf.
GHEYN, Jacob II de. · 1561
€165,000.00 ($181,860.03 | £137,653.89 | ¥29,040,696)
[4]; [2]; [3] ll.Splendid copy of this very rare English edition of De Gheyn's illustrated major military manual, with the plates in their first state, before they were numbered and with some details added during the colouring stage instead of being engraved (several puffs of ...
Grammatica Arabica; cum varia praxios materia, cujus elenchum versa dabit pagella.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1656. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. The title-page is printed in red and black, lacking the printer's device, with a few woodcut decorated initials and some head- and tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. The text is set in both roman and Arabic type. Quarter vellum and blue decorated paper sides, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.
Grammatica Arabica; cum varia praxios materia, cujus elenchum versa dabit pagella.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1656. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. The title-page is printed in red and black, lacking the printer's device, with a few woodcut decorated initials and some head- and tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. The text is set in both roman and Arabic type. Quarter vellum and blue decorated paper sides, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.
ERPENIUS, Thomas. · 1613
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[1], [1 blank], [4], [1 blank], [5], 172, "282" [= 284] pp.Third edition, expanded and edited by Jacobus Golius, of Erpenius’ classic Arabic grammar, first published in 1613. Maire had published the second edition, edited by Golius’ student Antonius Deusing, in 1636. That edit...
[Writing master's copybook].[Arnhem?, The Netherlands, early 18th century?]. Oblong small folio (32 x 19 cm). With 18 leaves showing engraved writing examples in Dutch and French. The texts vary in subject, so they could also serve as guides for how to write a letter or an invoice, but of course also contains simple poems and proverbs. The script shows is a very neat and legible cursive with plenty of curling decorations to add onto letters or to frame the text. Leaves [4] and [11] are bigger and folded at all edges, measuring ca. 40 x 32.5 cm). (Early) 18th-century multi-coloured brocade paper over brown paper wrappers, side stitched through 4 holes, with marbled endpapers. The brocade paper shows in relief a floral pattern and has been decorated with a "colour spotting pattern" (see KB Sierpapier & marmering 9.2, 10.14 and illustration 73).
[Writing master's copybook].[Arnhem?, The Netherlands, early 18th century?]. Oblong small folio (32 x 19 cm). With 18 leaves showing engraved writing examples in Dutch and French. The texts vary in subject, so they could also serve as guides for how to write a letter or an invoice, but of course also contains simple poems and proverbs. The script shows is a very neat and legible cursive with plenty of curling decorations to add onto letters or to frame the text. Leaves [4] and [11] are bigger and folded at all edges, measuring ca. 40 x 32.5 cm). (Early) 18th-century multi-coloured brocade paper over brown paper wrappers, side stitched through 4 holes, with marbled endpapers. The brocade paper shows in relief a floral pattern and has been decorated with a "colour spotting pattern" (see KB Sierpapier & marmering 9.2, 10.14 and illustration 73).
[PETIT, Mathieu]. · 1681
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[1 blank], [18], [1 blank] ll.Very rare, beautiful 17th-century writing master's copybook in a contemporary brocade paper binding. The 18 writing examples can be ascribed to Dutch writing master, calligrapher, and glass engraver Mathieu Petit (1681-1721). Petit and others like...
[Tavern scene with five farmers singing and making music].[Ca. 1635-1640]. Painting: 25.2 x 20.7 cm.; grame 39.5 x 34.5 x 5 cm. Painting, oil on oak panel with bevelled edges. In a richly modelled gilt frame.
[Tavern scene with five farmers singing and making music].[Ca. 1635-1640]. Painting: 25.2 x 20.7 cm.; grame 39.5 x 34.5 x 5 cm. Painting, oil on oak panel with bevelled edges. In a richly modelled gilt frame.
[MOLENAAR, Jan Miense (attributed), after Adriaen BROUWER]. · 1605
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
One of the pastiches of a well-known painting by the Flemish artist Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638). Between 1626 and 1629, he was a pupil of the famous Dutch painter Frans Hals (1580-1666) in Amsterdam and Haarlem, before returning to Antwerp in 1631. Together with his friend Dav...
[Pair of peafowls].[20th century?]. Ca. 107 x 74 cm. Painting on silk. The silk canvas is mounted on a fibreboard panel of the same size.
[Pair of peafowls].[20th century?]. Ca. 107 x 74 cm. Painting on silk. The silk canvas is mounted on a fibreboard panel of the same size.
[INDO-PERSIAN SILK PAINTING - after Ustad MANSUR]. · 1590
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
Beautiful, large, and vibrantly coloured silk painting of a pair of peafowls, painted after a watercolour attributed to the Mughal court painter Ustad Mansur (master Mansur, ca. 1590-1624). The intriguing work depicts a pair of peafowls in a rocky landscape. The peacock is cap...
Medicina Aegyptiorum. Accessit huic editione ejusdem auctoris liber de balsamo ut et Jacobi Bontii medicina Indorum. Editio nova.Including: (2) ALPINUS, Prosper. De balsamo dialogus.(3) BONTIUS, Jacobus. De medicina Indorum.(4) ALPINUS, Prosper. De rhapontico.Leiden, ex officina Boutesteiniana, 1718-1719. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page printed in red and black, 7 engravings (1 folding, 5 full-page, 1 in the text), divisional titles for each part with an engraved vignette, 18 decorated woodcut initials, 13 woodcut headpieces, and 12 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.
Medicina Aegyptiorum. Accessit huic editione ejusdem auctoris liber de balsamo ut et Jacobi Bontii medicina Indorum. Editio nova.Including: (2) ALPINUS, Prosper. De balsamo dialogus.(3) BONTIUS, Jacobus. De medicina Indorum.(4) ALPINUS, Prosper. De rhapontico.Leiden, ex officina Boutesteiniana, 1718-1719. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page printed in red and black, 7 engravings (1 folding, 5 full-page, 1 in the text), divisional titles for each part with an engraved vignette, 18 decorated woodcut initials, 13 woodcut headpieces, and 12 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.
ALPINUS, Prosper and Jacob de BONDT. · 1553
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[24], 325, [47]; [4], 3-44, [4]; 109, [2], [1 blank]; 25, [1], [2 blank] pp.Early Leiden edition of an important work on Egyptian medicine, written by the Venetian physician and botanist Prosper Alpinus (1553-1617). The present work includes a work on tropical medicine by Dutc...
Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten für Forstmänner und Liebhaber der Botanik, herausgegeben von Friedrich Guimpel ...Berlin, in der Schüppelschen Buchhandlung, 1815-1820. 2 volumes, the first in 2 parts. 4to. With 216 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled brown half calf.
Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten für Forstmänner und Liebhaber der Botanik, herausgegeben von Friedrich Guimpel ...Berlin, in der Schüppelschen Buchhandlung, 1815-1820. 2 volumes, the first in 2 parts. 4to. With 216 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled brown half calf.
WILLDENOW, Carl Ludwig and Friedrich Gottlob HAYNE. · 1774
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[4],147; [2],149-302 [=154] pp. + 216 plates in volume 2.First edition of a standard work about German woody plants, richly illustrated with over 200 handcoloured plates of trees and shrubs. The beautiful plates are all signed by Friedrich Guimpel (1774-1839), a German engrave...
Epistolae Indicae, de stupendis et praeclaris rebus, quas divina bonitas in India & variis insulis, per societatem nominis Jesu, operari dignata est, in tam copiosa gentium ad fidem conversione.Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1566. With:(2) PAYVA de ANDRADE, Diogo de. De societatis Jesu orgine libellus. ... contra Kemnicii cuiusdam petulante[m] audacia[m].Including: Societatis Jesu defensio adversus obtrectatores, ex testimonio, & literis Pii Quarti Pontificis Maximi.Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1566.2 works in 1 volume, the second in 2 parts. Small 8vo (ca. 15 x 9.5 cm). Ad 1: with a woodcut headpiece with the title set in its banner and Velpius' woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials throughout, and some woodcut tailpieces. Ad 2: With Velpius' woodcut device on the title page, the last page of part 1, and the last page of part 2. The divisional title page for part 2 contains the woodcut coat of arms of Pope Pius IV, with several woodcut decorated initials in both parts. Late-19th-century half brown cloth and marbled paper over boards, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, boards covered with marbled paper.
Epistolae Indicae, de stupendis et praeclaris rebus, quas divina bonitas in India & variis insulis, per societatem nominis Jesu, operari dignata est, in tam copiosa gentium ad fidem conversione.Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1566. With:(2) PAYVA de ANDRADE, Diogo de. De societatis Jesu orgine libellus. ... contra Kemnicii cuiusdam petulante[m] audacia[m].Including: Societatis Jesu defensio adversus obtrectatores, ex testimonio, & literis Pii Quarti Pontificis Maximi.Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1566.2 works in 1 volume, the second in 2 parts. Small 8vo (ca. 15 x 9.5 cm). Ad 1: with a woodcut headpiece with the title set in its banner and Velpius' woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials throughout, and some woodcut tailpieces. Ad 2: With Velpius' woodcut device on the title page, the last page of part 1, and the last page of part 2. The divisional title page for part 2 contains the woodcut coat of arms of Pope Pius IV, with several woodcut decorated initials in both parts. Late-19th-century half brown cloth and marbled paper over boards, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, boards covered with marbled paper.
[RUTILIUS SOMBERGIUS, Joannes (editor and translator)]. · 1544
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[24], 496; [80]; [32] pp.Very rare first issue of the first edition of this important collection of letters by Jesuit missionaries in the Far East, who were mainly located in Goa, India. These letters are dated from 1544 to 1560 and written by Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Gaspa...
Vruchtmandje voor de jeugd.Amsterdam, J. Kaal, [1811]. 8vo. With a hand-coloured vignette (a fruit basket) on the title-page and 18 hand-coloured full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff brown printed paper boards.
Vruchtmandje voor de jeugd.Amsterdam, J. Kaal, [1811]. 8vo. With a hand-coloured vignette (a fruit basket) on the title-page and 18 hand-coloured full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff brown printed paper boards.
ROEMER, Jan. · 1769
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XXXII [= XXX], 111, [1 blank] pp.The very rare second edition of a rare Dutch children's book about botany by Jan Roemer (1769-1838), with 18 beautiful hand-coloured plates. Vruchtmandje ("Fruit Basket") contains illustrations and descriptions of almonds, apples, strawberries,...
De roemryke overwinning, der Palembangsche expeditie op de rivier de Sounsang in de Oost-Indien, door de Nederlandsche land en zeemagt op den 24 Juny 1821.[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].With: (2) IDEM. Het naar boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin naar Z: M: Schooner de Johanna op de rivier de Sousang in de Oost-Indien op den 27 Junij 1821, na de roemrijke overwinning der Palembangsche expeditie.[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822]. Plate size ca. 32.5 x 43.5 cm. Two hand-coloured aquatint plates with engraved Dutch title and "Proefdruk" below the image. In passepartouts and uniformly framed behind glass (ca. 53.5 x 63.5 cm).
De roemryke overwinning, der Palembangsche expeditie op de rivier de Sounsang in de Oost-Indien, door de Nederlandsche land en zeemagt op den 24 Juny 1821.[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].With: (2) IDEM. Het naar boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin naar Z: M: Schooner de Johanna op de rivier de Sousang in de Oost-Indien op den 27 Junij 1821, na de roemrijke overwinning der Palembangsche expeditie.[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822]. Plate size ca. 32.5 x 43.5 cm. Two hand-coloured aquatint plates with engraved Dutch title and "Proefdruk" below the image. In passepartouts and uniformly framed behind glass (ca. 53.5 x 63.5 cm).
[LUTZ, J.A. (engraver) and Haatje Pieters OOSTERHUIS (draughtsman)]. · 1821
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
Complete set of two very rare early 19th-century historical prints depicting naval scenes at the Soengsang river (now Musi River) in the former Dutch East Indies at the time of the second Dutch expedition to Palembang in June 1821. This second expedition was a punitive expedit...
[A bird’s-eye view of the Dutch trading post on Deshima, Japan with in the background a Dutch three-master anchored in Nagasaki Bay].[Japan, before 1800]. Drawing size ca. 34 x 39.5 cm; frame size ca. 46 x 51 cm. (Oil?) painting on leather. In a passepartout and framed.
[A bird’s-eye view of the Dutch trading post on Deshima, Japan with in the background a Dutch three-master anchored in Nagasaki Bay].[Japan, before 1800]. Drawing size ca. 34 x 39.5 cm; frame size ca. 46 x 51 cm. (Oil?) painting on leather. In a passepartout and framed.
[PAINTING ON LEATHER - JAPANESE - DESHIMA]. · 1780
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
Late 18th-century(?) painting on leather depicting everyday life on the island of Deshima in Japan, created by an anonymous artist who seems to be of Japanese origin, possibly originating from the Nagasaki school of painting: the faces of most human figures show remarkable Jap...
Vues et paysages des régions équinoxiales, recueillis dans un voyage autour du monde.Paris, Paul Renouard, 1826. Folio (ca. 45 x 30 cm). With 24 hand-coloured, full-page, numbered lithographic plates. Contemporary blind-tooled quarter brown goat leather, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, brown marbled paper sides, marbled end papers.
Vues et paysages des régions équinoxiales, recueillis dans un voyage autour du monde.Paris, Paul Renouard, 1826. Folio (ca. 45 x 30 cm). With 24 hand-coloured, full-page, numbered lithographic plates. Contemporary blind-tooled quarter brown goat leather, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, brown marbled paper sides, marbled end papers.
CHORIS, Louis. · 1795
€28,000.00 ($30,861.10 | £23,359.45 | ¥4,928,118)
[6], 32 pp.First edition, and one of only 50 large paper copies, of a remarkable collection with 24 beautifully hand-coloured views of locations and people in South America and the Pacific islands, made by Louis Choris (1795-1828) during his voyage round the world. Choris publ...
[Théatre. Gravures sur soie].[Paris, J. Lemmonyer, G. Richard and Cie, E. Testard, between 1885-1895]. 4to (ca. 27 x 24.5 cm). With 30 full-page engravings on silk. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, marbled end papers. Bound by the French bookbinder Louis Guétant (1848-1936), signed in the bottom turn in of the front board.
[Théatre. Gravures sur soie].[Paris, J. Lemmonyer, G. Richard and Cie, E. Testard, between 1885-1895]. 4to (ca. 27 x 24.5 cm). With 30 full-page engravings on silk. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, marbled end papers. Bound by the French bookbinder Louis Guétant (1848-1936), signed in the bottom turn in of the front board.
[HUGO, Victor]. · 1802
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[30] silk ll.Remarkable suite of plates for the plays of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), printed on silk and luxuriously bound. The engravings are beautifully drawn and capture the light in an entrancing way because of the sheen of the silk. The work starts with a portrait of Hugo by...
Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk ... en sijn hoogheyt den heere Prince van OranjeAmsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With an etched frontispiece and 6 double-page etched plates. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine.
Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk ... en sijn hoogheyt den heere Prince van OranjeAmsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With an etched frontispiece and 6 double-page etched plates. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine.
[COYETT, Balthasar and Coenraad van KLENCK]. · 1675
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[8], "214" [= 220], [2] pp.Rare large paper copy of the first edition of an important account detailing a Dutch embassy to Russia (1675-1676), with a frontispiece and six beautiful evocative etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708). Written by a member of the party, the work i...