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Den blom-hof, inhoudende de rare oft ongemeene blommen die op den tegenwoordighen tijdt by de lief-hebbers in estimatie ghehouden werden. Ghedeelt naer de vier deelen des jaers ... Noch hier by ghevoecht de manier soomen dese bloemen naer haer eyghen coleuren ofte verven sal illumineren ofte afsetten ...Utrecht, for Crispijn van de Passe, 1614. 2 parts in 1 volume, the first in 4 sections. Oblong folio (ca. 18.5 x 26.5 cm). With a full-page plate of Flora embracing the cornucopia in a landscape with an epigram by Arnoldus Buchelius in a cartouche in the left hand corner, engraved by Simon van de Passe after Crispijn van de Passe, 2 different frontispieces (both appearing twice) of ideal gardens full of flowers, and 174 full-page engraved plates of flowers, fruits, fruit trees, and medicinal plants, mainly by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger, 3 by his brother Willem van de Passe. Later half calf, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, and red sprinkled edges.
Den blom-hof, inhoudende de rare oft ongemeene blommen die op den tegenwoordighen tijdt by de lief-hebbers in estimatie ghehouden werden. Ghedeelt naer de vier deelen des jaers ... Noch hier by ghevoecht de manier soomen dese bloemen naer haer eyghen coleuren ofte verven sal illumineren ofte afsetten ...Utrecht, for Crispijn van de Passe, 1614. 2 parts in 1 volume, the first in 4 sections. Oblong folio (ca. 18.5 x 26.5 cm). With a full-page plate of Flora embracing the cornucopia in a landscape with an epigram by Arnoldus Buchelius in a cartouche in the left hand corner, engraved by Simon van de Passe after Crispijn van de Passe, 2 different frontispieces (both appearing twice) of ideal gardens full of flowers, and 174 full-page engraved plates of flowers, fruits, fruit trees, and medicinal plants, mainly by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger, 3 by his brother Willem van de Passe. Later half calf, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, and red sprinkled edges.
PASSE the Younger, Crispijn van de. · 1614
€48,500.00 ($53,455.83 | £40,461.90 | ¥8,536,205)
[26] pp., [118] engraved ll.; [1], [1 blank] pp., [61] engraved ll.Very rare first Dutch edition of this famous book on horticulture, including beautifully engraved plates of flowers organised according to the season in which they bloom and frontispieces showing the ideal gard...
Costumes Belgiques anciens et modernes, militaires, civils et réligieux.Brussels, Lithographie Royale de J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1830. Folio. With a hand-coloured lithographed title, and 124 hand-coloured full-page numbered lithographed plates, of which some heightened with gold, all protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter polished calf.
Costumes Belgiques anciens et modernes, militaires, civils et réligieux.Brussels, Lithographie Royale de J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1830. Folio. With a hand-coloured lithographed title, and 124 hand-coloured full-page numbered lithographed plates, of which some heightened with gold, all protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter polished calf.
[MADOU, Jean Baptiste and Jean Louis van HEMELRYCK]. · 1815
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
II, 26, [27-198], IV pp.First complete edition of a fine collection of Belgian and Dutch costumes, depicted on 124 hand-coloured plates, with descriptions in French on a separate leaf. The work presents a remarkably broad overview of dress in the territories of present-day Bel...
Missale Romanum, ex decreto Sacrosancti Consilii Tridentini restitutum Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex praecepto S.D.N. Sixti Papae Quinti.Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1587. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette with Peter and Paul by Peeter van der Borcht on the title page, 6 full-page woodcuts (ca. 112 x 75 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, 6 half-page square woodcuts (55 x 55 mm) in border, one signed by Antoon van Leest, one woodcut (90 x 76 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, and 2 smaller oval woodcuts. The work is printed in red and black. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 4 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the manuscript title in the first compartment and the original manuscript shelf mark label ("H.36") of the Monastery of Buxheim in the fifth compartment, both boards with an ornamental roll and a roll with the portraits of Salvater (sic!), Maria, S. Bruno, and S. Johannes in a panel design, two original brass clasps and catches, ornamented with a small star, leather tabs, and six original bookmarkers plaited into a big knot.
Missale Romanum, ex decreto Sacrosancti Consilii Tridentini restitutum Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex praecepto S.D.N. Sixti Papae Quinti.Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1587. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette with Peter and Paul by Peeter van der Borcht on the title page, 6 full-page woodcuts (ca. 112 x 75 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, 6 half-page square woodcuts (55 x 55 mm) in border, one signed by Antoon van Leest, one woodcut (90 x 76 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, and 2 smaller oval woodcuts. The work is printed in red and black. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 4 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the manuscript title in the first compartment and the original manuscript shelf mark label ("H.36") of the Monastery of Buxheim in the fifth compartment, both boards with an ornamental roll and a roll with the portraits of Salvater (sic!), Maria, S. Bruno, and S. Johannes in a panel design, two original brass clasps and catches, ornamented with a small star, leather tabs, and six original bookmarkers plaited into a big knot.
[MISSAL - LATIN]. · 1570
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
XLV, [19], 528, CX, [2] pp.Plantin edition of the revised Roman Missal following the directives of the Council of Trent, first published in Rome in 1570 by order of pope Pius V (1504-1572) and later approved by Clemens VIII (1536-1605) and Urbanus VIII (1568-1644). The work wa...
The complete work of Rembrandt. History, description and heliographic reproduction of all the master's pictures with a study of his life and his art.Paris, Charles Sedelmeyer, 1897-1906. 8 volumes. Folio. With 622 full-page photogravure plates. Later brown mottled calf, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, the original cloth front wrappers used as title-pages.
The complete work of Rembrandt. History, description and heliographic reproduction of all the master's pictures with a study of his life and his art.Paris, Charles Sedelmeyer, 1897-1906. 8 volumes. Folio. With 622 full-page photogravure plates. Later brown mottled calf, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, the original cloth front wrappers used as title-pages.
BODE, Wilhelm and Cornelis HOFSTEDE DE GROOT. · 1836
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[2 blank], [8], 178, [2]; [2 blank], [6], 178, [2]; [2 blank], [6], 202, [2]; [2 blank], [6], 223, [1]; [2 blank], [6], 213, [3]; [2 blank], [6], 206, [3]; [2 blank], [6], 254, [2]; [2 blank], VI, [2], 381, [1], [6 blank] pp.The complete catalogue of Rembrandt's paintings, com...
Niewe[!] Hollandse scheeps-bouw, vertoonende een volmaakt schip ... noch een doorgesnede schip ... voorts allerhande scheeps vlaggen.Amsterdam, Carel Allard, 1705. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 208 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding, 23 double-page, 184 single page), the title pages of volume 1 and 2 are printed in red and black. Modern gold- and blind-tooled vellum (mimicking contemporary style), a black paper label on the spine with the title and author lettered in gold, green closing ties, dark blue edges. The work is kept in a marbled paper and brown book cloth clamshell box, with a brown paper label on the spine.
Niewe[!] Hollandse scheeps-bouw, vertoonende een volmaakt schip ... noch een doorgesnede schip ... voorts allerhande scheeps vlaggen.Amsterdam, Carel Allard, 1705. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 208 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding, 23 double-page, 184 single page), the title pages of volume 1 and 2 are printed in red and black. Modern gold- and blind-tooled vellum (mimicking contemporary style), a black paper label on the spine with the title and author lettered in gold, green closing ties, dark blue edges. The work is kept in a marbled paper and brown book cloth clamshell box, with a brown paper label on the spine.
ALLARD, Carel. · 1648
€28,000.00 ($30,861.10 | £23,359.45 | ¥4,928,118)
56; 72; [8] pp.Highly important work on shipbuilding showing all facets of this trade, with 208 beautifully contemporary hand-coloured plates. It is also one of the first extensive flag books. The treatise was one of the most used sea manuals at the time, but today is very rar...
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.
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.
[MANUSCRIPT - SIGNATURES - THE NETHERLANDS]. · 1625
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[1], 40 ll.Remarkable collection of 162 signatures of mainly 17th-century (16th- to early 19th century) Dutch and international prominent people - from statesmen like Stadtholder Maurice of Orange, Count of Nassau etc. and Grand Pensionary of Holland Johan de Witt (1625-1672),...
[Cover title:] Egypte.[Egypt, ca. 1870-1913]. Oblong folio (ca. 33 x 41 cm). With 83 albumen prints, of which 2 folding panorama photographs, 17 signed and numbered in the negative by the Zangaki brothers, and 66 larger prints of the oil industry. Contemporary embossed brown cloth (made to imitate reptile skin), with the title blind-tooled on the front board, decorative paper endpapers.
[Cover title:] Egypte.[Egypt, ca. 1870-1913]. Oblong folio (ca. 33 x 41 cm). With 83 albumen prints, of which 2 folding panorama photographs, 17 signed and numbered in the negative by the Zangaki brothers, and 66 larger prints of the oil industry. Contemporary embossed brown cloth (made to imitate reptile skin), with the title blind-tooled on the front board, decorative paper endpapers.
ZANGAKI BROTHERS and others (photographers). · 1870
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[42], [8 blank] ll.Remarkable collecton of photographs about Egypt, and in particular about the Egyptian oil industry. The first 17 photographs in the album date from the 1870s and 1880s, and were made by the famous Zangaki brothers, who were among the first commercial photogr...
'n Vruchtenmandje. Versjes Lizzy Ansingh. Illustraties Nelly Bodenheim. Sierschrift Tine Baanders.Amsterdam, De Spiegel (printed by Dieperink & Co.), 1927. Folio (29.5 x 23 cm). With the classic illustrated front board, a small illustration of a tea set on the title-page, 21 full-page illustrations of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts, and vegetables. 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 by Tine Baanders by hand in a decorative script. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper of the Dutch "Van Gelder" paper factory. Original half parchment and (hand-coloured lithographed) paper over boards, bound in the Japanese style with green ribbon through 5 holes.
'n Vruchtenmandje. Versjes Lizzy Ansingh. Illustraties Nelly Bodenheim. Sierschrift Tine Baanders.Amsterdam, De Spiegel (printed by Dieperink & Co.), 1927. Folio (29.5 x 23 cm). With the classic illustrated front board, a small illustration of a tea set on the title-page, 21 full-page illustrations of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts, and vegetables. 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 by Tine Baanders by hand in a decorative script. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper of the Dutch "Van Gelder" paper factory. Original half parchment and (hand-coloured lithographed) paper over boards, bound in the Japanese style with green ribbon through 5 holes.
ANSINGH, Lizzy; Nelly BODENHEIM (illustrator); Tine BAANDERS (decorated script). · 1874
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[1], [1 blank], [41], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.Limited edition - no. 84 of 100 - of a remarkable early 20th-century illustrative work by the renowned Dutch artist and illustrator of children's books Nelly Bodenheim. The present work contains the short rhyme...
De godvreezende zeeman, ofte de nieuwe Christelyke zeevaart, bestuurd door een schriftmatige verhandeling, van zes-en-twintig uytgelezene schriftuurplaatsen ... Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Gijsbert de Groot, 1725. 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title-page by Jan Luyken (within collation) and a woodcut vignette on the typographical title-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf.
De godvreezende zeeman, ofte de nieuwe Christelyke zeevaart, bestuurd door een schriftmatige verhandeling, van zes-en-twintig uytgelezene schriftuurplaatsen ... Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Gijsbert de Groot, 1725. 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title-page by Jan Luyken (within collation) and a woodcut vignette on the typographical title-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf.
N. S. V. L. [= LEEUWAARDEN, Nicolaas Simon van] and Hieronymus Simons van ALPHEN. · 1648
€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)
[1], [1 blank], [52], 754 pp.Rare fifth edition of a very popular Dutch work for seafarers written by Nicolaas Simon van Leeuwaarden (1648-1730), a prolific Dutch author of mainly Christian works. He was the grandfather of the Dutch playwright and poet Nicolaas Simon van Winte...
Grondbeginselen van den scheepsbouw, of werkdadige verhandeling der scheepstimmerkunst.The Hague and Amsterdam, Ottho van Thol and Gerrit de Groot, 1759. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, the title-page is printed in red and black with a woodcut vignette, 24 folding plates on 23 leaves, 7 folding letterpress tables, 9 engraved headpieces (1 at the start of each chapter), a woodcut illustration as a vignette on the title-page, and numerous woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown calf.
Grondbeginselen van den scheepsbouw, of werkdadige verhandeling der scheepstimmerkunst.The Hague and Amsterdam, Ottho van Thol and Gerrit de Groot, 1759. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, the title-page is printed in red and black with a woodcut vignette, 24 folding plates on 23 leaves, 7 folding letterpress tables, 9 engraved headpieces (1 at the start of each chapter), a woodcut illustration as a vignette on the title-page, and numerous woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown calf.
DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. · 1752
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
[2], X, 11-38, [2], 359, [1], XX pp.First Dutch translation of an important work on shipbuilding with large plates depicting the construction of ships. It was the first manual for students of naval engineering, written by the founder of the school for naval engineering and arc...
Animadversiones sive commentarius in quatuor evangelia, in quo collatis, Syri imprimis, Arabis, evangelii Hebræi, Vulgati, Erasmi & Bezæ versionibus ...Leiden, Ex officina Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, 1631. With: (bound before ad 1): (2) CHRISTEN, Johannes. Speculum harmonicum ... Bern, Georgius Sonnleitnerus, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 3 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut headpieces and a woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2 with a frame built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, 3 woodcut decorated initials, a woodcut headpiece, plus 8 headpieces and 2 tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum, with the manuscript title on the head of the spine, blue edges.
Animadversiones sive commentarius in quatuor evangelia, in quo collatis, Syri imprimis, Arabis, evangelii Hebræi, Vulgati, Erasmi & Bezæ versionibus ...Leiden, Ex officina Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, 1631. With: (bound before ad 1): (2) CHRISTEN, Johannes. Speculum harmonicum ... Bern, Georgius Sonnleitnerus, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 3 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut headpieces and a woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2 with a frame built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, 3 woodcut decorated initials, a woodcut headpiece, plus 8 headpieces and 2 tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum, with the manuscript title on the head of the spine, blue edges.
DIEU, Louis de. · 1590
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[16], 87, [1 blank]; [16], 548, [19], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: First edition of a rare work with commentary on the four Gospels by an important Orientalist. The work is partly printed in Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. Louis de Dieu (1590-1642), who was well-versed in all these la...
Neu-vermehrte Ost-Indianische Reise-Beschreibung, darinnen I. Seine durch Deutsch- und Holland nach Indien gethane Reise; II. Sein elfjähriger Aufenthalt auf Java ...; III. Seine Rückreise ...Erfurt, Johann Friedrich Hartung, 1762. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page map, and 6 engraved plates (5 folding, 1 full-page). Later gold-tooled brown half calf.
Neu-vermehrte Ost-Indianische Reise-Beschreibung, darinnen I. Seine durch Deutsch- und Holland nach Indien gethane Reise; II. Sein elfjähriger Aufenthalt auf Java ...; III. Seine Rückreise ...Erfurt, Johann Friedrich Hartung, 1762. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page map, and 6 engraved plates (5 folding, 1 full-page). Later gold-tooled brown half calf.
BARCHEWITZ, Ernst Christoph. · 1687
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[20], 687, [16] pp.Rare work on the journey of a German officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the East Indies, with a map of the hitherto undescribed Barat Daya Islands (the "South West" Islands) and the Banda Islands, showing New Guinea and "Nova Hollandia" or Aust...
Short handbook of Palestine.[London?], printed by the Printing and Stationery Services, M. E. F., 1947. 8vo. With one folding map and four folding tables. Original printed orange/brown paper wrappers.
Short handbook of Palestine.[London?], printed by the Printing and Stationery Services, M. E. F., 1947. 8vo. With one folding map and four folding tables. Original printed orange/brown paper wrappers.
GENERAL STAFF INTELLIGENCE HEADQUARTERS PALESTINE. · 1944
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
[1], [1 blank], 78 pp.Rare military guide to Palestine, issued by the British military intelligence for use during the British Mandate. The present copy was stamped by the 1st Batallion Irish guards, which was stationed in Palestine after the Second World War to perform intern...
[Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Col. S. M. Thomas. Iran.[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 76 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, the name of the owner painted in silver, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board.
[Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Col. S. M. Thomas. Iran.[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 76 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, the name of the owner painted in silver, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board.
[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. THOMAS, Colonel S. Morgan (compiler). · 1941
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[23], [4 blank] ll.Remarkable military photo album with 76 photographs of the activities of the Persian Gulf Command (PGC) at various locations in Iran. The PGC was a branch of the United States Army established in 1941 to assure the supply of U.S. Lend-Lease war material to t...
[Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Iran.[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board
[Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Iran.[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board
[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. STEFANO, John (compiler/ photographer). · 1943
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[16], [11 blank] ll.Unusual military photo album with 150 photographs of the activities of the Persian Gulf Command (PGC) at the base in Andimeshk, Iran. The PGC was a branch of the United States Army established to facilitate the supply of material from the U.S. Lend-Lease p...
[Album of 250 photographs of the Middle East].[Habbinya?, ca. 1944]. Ca. 20 x 16 cm. With 250 gelatin silver prints (various sizes), mounted on the leaves of a ruled notebook. Contemporary quarter black cloth, blue waterered paper sides, blue sprinkled edges.
[Album of 250 photographs of the Middle East].[Habbinya?, ca. 1944]. Ca. 20 x 16 cm. With 250 gelatin silver prints (various sizes), mounted on the leaves of a ruled notebook. Contemporary quarter black cloth, blue waterered paper sides, blue sprinkled edges.
MEKELBURG, Corporal George (compiler). · 1940
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
[85] ll.Remarkable album with 250 photographs of cities and people in the Middle East in the 1940s, by a British soldier. The work contains a short letter written by the compiler of the album, Corporal George Mekelburg (dates unknown). He was a member of the Persia and Iraq Fo...
[Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon.
[Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon.
[PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAQ AND PERSIA].
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[12]; [12] ll.Remarkable set of Kodak photo albums, with nearly 200 photographs of military life and the oil industry in Iran and Iraq in the early 20th century. The photographs were most likely taken by the compiler of the albums, and show scenes from his daily life. Most of ...
[Album with 128 photographs of Palestine and Lebanon].[1940s]. Oblong album (30 x 20 cm). With 128 gelatin silver prints (most ca. 6.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary embossed brown calf, with flowers on the front and back board, and an aluminium view of David's Tower and Jerusalem's old city wall embedded in the front board.
[Album with 128 photographs of Palestine and Lebanon].[1940s]. Oblong album (30 x 20 cm). With 128 gelatin silver prints (most ca. 6.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary embossed brown calf, with flowers on the front and back board, and an aluminium view of David's Tower and Jerusalem's old city wall embedded in the front board.
[PHOTOGRAPHY - PALESTINE - LEBANON - EGYPT]. · 1940
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[17] ll.Beautiful album with 128 photographs of Egypt and Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) during the British Mandate. It was likely compiled by a British soldier who was stationed in the Middle East during the 1940s. Some of the photographs are numbered in the...
The Bengal directory. And annual register for the year 1836.Calcutta, Samuel Smith and Co. at the Bengal Hurkaru Press, 1836. 8vo. With a folding table. Contemporary gold-tooled crimson goatskin.
The Bengal directory. And annual register for the year 1836.Calcutta, Samuel Smith and Co. at the Bengal Hurkaru Press, 1836. 8vo. With a folding table. Contemporary gold-tooled crimson goatskin.
[ALMANAC - BENGAL]. · 1773
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
XI, [3], "548" [=440], XXXVI, [2], X, [2 blank] pp.Rare directory describing Calcutta's inhabitants during the Company rule in India (1773-1858). It lists the members of the government, civil servants, and the members of the king's troops, as well as schools, events, religious...
[Ship's log of the "Archimède"].At sea between Macao and Calcutta, 1846. 2 volumes. Folio (ca. 32 x 22 cm). With two pencil sketches on pp. 58 and 59. Contemporary blue cloth, blue sprinkled edges, pink paste paper endpapers.
[Ship's log of the "Archimède"].At sea between Macao and Calcutta, 1846. 2 volumes. Folio (ca. 32 x 22 cm). With two pencil sketches on pp. 58 and 59. Contemporary blue cloth, blue sprinkled edges, pink paste paper endpapers.
[MANUSCRIPT - EAST ASIA - LAGRENÉ MISSION]. · 1844
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65, [40 blank]; 76-106 [=30], [100 blank], [1], [2 blank], [2], [10 blank] pp.Remarkable journal of the voyage of the Archimède steamer, written during a diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of France to Qing-China (1844-1846) led by diplomat Théodose de Lagrené (1800-1862). It w...