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[Devotionarium].[Incipit leaf 2r:] Or[ati]o deuota q[ue] debet dici[t] i[n] ficem diei ante dormitione[m].[Northern Germany(?), 15th century]. 8vo. Written in Latin on relatively thin parchment (leaf 11.5 x 8.5 cm, text block 7.8 x 5.2 cm), in a gothic hand in one column of 17 lines per page using black/dark brown ink. The manuscript is rubricated throughout, with a 3-line red and blue initial at the start of each part, and 2- or 1-line lombards, alternating in red and blue, at the start of each smaller section, ruled in pencil. Early 19th-century(?) gold-tooled vellum showing a gold-tooled floral frame on both boards, with a leather closing tie on the front, gold-tooled board eges, gilt edges.
[Devotionarium].[Incipit leaf 2r:] Or[ati]o deuota q[ue] debet dici[t] i[n] ficem diei ante dormitione[m].[Northern Germany(?), 15th century]. 8vo. Written in Latin on relatively thin parchment (leaf 11.5 x 8.5 cm, text block 7.8 x 5.2 cm), in a gothic hand in one column of 17 lines per page using black/dark brown ink. The manuscript is rubricated throughout, with a 3-line red and blue initial at the start of each part, and 2- or 1-line lombards, alternating in red and blue, at the start of each smaller section, ruled in pencil. Early 19th-century(?) gold-tooled vellum showing a gold-tooled floral frame on both boards, with a leather closing tie on the front, gold-tooled board eges, gilt edges.
[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER AND HYMN BOOK - LATIN]. · 1429
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
[131] ll.This small prayer and hymn book, which was likely made in Northern Germany, can be related to the veneration of Saint Joseph, which was popular in the 15th century. The manuscript was meant for personal use by a layperson, either during mass or at home. It includes th...
Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, regionum description: … recens ex idiomate Italico, ad exemplar tertium ac postremum ab ipso authore recognitum ...Arnhem, Johannes Janssonius, 1616. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a full-page armorial plate, 7 full-page maps and 100 city views, one of which double-page. Further with several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary limp vellum.
Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, regionum description: … recens ex idiomate Italico, ad exemplar tertium ac postremum ab ipso authore recognitum ...Arnhem, Johannes Janssonius, 1616. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a full-page armorial plate, 7 full-page maps and 100 city views, one of which double-page. Further with several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary limp vellum.
GUICCIARDINI, Ludovico and Reinier TELLE (translator). · 1521
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[8], 517, [11] pp.Enlarged Latin edition of the first illustrated description of the Low Countries. This popular guide to the Netherlands was written by the nobleman Ludovico Guicciardini (1521-1589), an Antwerp-based merchant from Florence, Italy. Most of the cities shown in ...
Friesche Lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den derden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert … Midtsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende verçierd met schoone kopere figuren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.Amsterdam, Widow of Dirck Pietersz. Voscuyl, [1624]. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, 10 engraved plates in the text, musical annotation, and decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled brown calf.
Friesche Lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den derden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert … Midtsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende verçierd met schoone kopere figuren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.Amsterdam, Widow of Dirck Pietersz. Voscuyl, [1624]. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, 10 engraved plates in the text, musical annotation, and decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled brown calf.
STARTER, Jan Jansz. · 1593
€14,500.00 ($15,981.64 | £12,096.86 | ¥2,552,061)
[14], 206, [40] pp.Enlarged and best edition of one of the most important Dutch songbooks from the 17th century.Beautifully produced in an elegant oblong size, and printed in various types, including a fine Civilité type. The present work contains wedding songs, love songs, pa...
Prophetien, of voorseggingen der beyde Keyseren Severi en Leonis, die beyde in Orienten gheregeert hebben. In de welcke het hem laet aensien als of het Turcksche Rijck onder desen teghenwoordigen Sultan wel een eynde mocht nemen. Hier sijn byghevoeght eenighe andere Vooorseggingen … ende met veele copere figuyren verciert.Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627. 4to. With large woodcut on the title page showing the Ottomans reaching Constantinople, and 16 engravings in the text with emblematic scenes featuring sultans, including Mehmet II and Sulaiman I, animals such as unicorns, nursing bears, eagles, ravens, wolves, snakes, mythological figures, rulers, etc. Each plate is followed by an epigram and explanation. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Victor Masséna, 5th Prince d’Essling and 3rd Duke of Rivoli (1836-1910) on both boards, the title, impressum and (repeatedly) the monogram "VM" lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by the 19th-century French bookbinders Allô-Wampflug (signed in the lower turn-ins at the front and back).
Prophetien, of voorseggingen der beyde Keyseren Severi en Leonis, die beyde in Orienten gheregeert hebben. In de welcke het hem laet aensien als of het Turcksche Rijck onder desen teghenwoordigen Sultan wel een eynde mocht nemen. Hier sijn byghevoeght eenighe andere Vooorseggingen … ende met veele copere figuyren verciert.Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627. 4to. With large woodcut on the title page showing the Ottomans reaching Constantinople, and 16 engravings in the text with emblematic scenes featuring sultans, including Mehmet II and Sulaiman I, animals such as unicorns, nursing bears, eagles, ravens, wolves, snakes, mythological figures, rulers, etc. Each plate is followed by an epigram and explanation. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Victor Masséna, 5th Prince d’Essling and 3rd Duke of Rivoli (1836-1910) on both boards, the title, impressum and (repeatedly) the monogram "VM" lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by the 19th-century French bookbinders Allô-Wampflug (signed in the lower turn-ins at the front and back).
[PROPHECIES - OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. · 1640
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
[1], [1 blank], [2], 41, [2], [1 blank] pp.First Dutch edition of the divinations of the Byzantine Emperors Severus (probably Lucius Septimius Severus, 145-211 CE) and Leo VI the Wise (866-912 CE) on the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. A second edition with the...
Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Eerste jaargang 1819.Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1819. With: [ALMANAC]. Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Tweede jaargang 1820.Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1820. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 5 full-page engravings with views of Boskoop, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Texel, and Medemblik by D. Veelwaard, protected by tissue paper guards, 2 full-page maps of the routes in South-Holland (ad 1) and North Holland (ad 2), and 14 city plans of Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Gouda (ad 1), Haarlem, Enkuizen, Medemblik, Alkmaar, Purmerend, Monnickendam, Edam, and Hoorn (ad 2), each with an accompanying leaf with explanations. Contemporary gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco, with the rod of Asclepius, a ship, and an anchor on the spine, a floral border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco pencil holder on the fore edge of the back board, a folding pocket in the back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Eerste jaargang 1819.Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1819. With: [ALMANAC]. Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Tweede jaargang 1820.Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1820. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 5 full-page engravings with views of Boskoop, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Texel, and Medemblik by D. Veelwaard, protected by tissue paper guards, 2 full-page maps of the routes in South-Holland (ad 1) and North Holland (ad 2), and 14 city plans of Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Gouda (ad 1), Haarlem, Enkuizen, Medemblik, Alkmaar, Purmerend, Monnickendam, Edam, and Hoorn (ad 2), each with an accompanying leaf with explanations. Contemporary gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco, with the rod of Asclepius, a ship, and an anchor on the spine, a floral border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco pencil holder on the fore edge of the back board, a folding pocket in the back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
[ALMANAC].
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
[24], iv, 52, [2], 20; [26], "53-84" [=31], [2], "21-48" [=27], [2] pp. + 43 blank leaves.The first two of the in total three published years of a traveller's almanac, each focussing on a different province in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Present here are North- and South-H...
Tooneel des oorlogs, opgerecht in de Vereenigde Nederlanden; door de wapenen van de Koningen van Vrankryk en Engeland, Keulsche en Munstersche Bisschoppen. Tegen de Staten der Vereenigde Nederlanden en hare geallieerden. Nevens de aanmerkwaardigste saken, door de geheele werelt … voorgevallen, zedert her jaar 1669, alwaar de Historie van L. van Atzema eyndigt … .Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs & Johannes van Someren, 1675. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, 37 double-page engraved plates, views and plans, several decorated woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints.
Tooneel des oorlogs, opgerecht in de Vereenigde Nederlanden; door de wapenen van de Koningen van Vrankryk en Engeland, Keulsche en Munstersche Bisschoppen. Tegen de Staten der Vereenigde Nederlanden en hare geallieerden. Nevens de aanmerkwaardigste saken, door de geheele werelt … voorgevallen, zedert her jaar 1669, alwaar de Historie van L. van Atzema eyndigt … .Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs & Johannes van Someren, 1675. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, 37 double-page engraved plates, views and plans, several decorated woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints.
BOSCH, Lambert van den. · 1672
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[8], 298; 162 pp., 161-164 ll., 165-338; [2], 168 pp., 169-176, cols., 177-296; 350, [15], [1 blank] pp.First and only Dutch edition of this important illustrated history of the so-called "Rampjaar", when the Dutch Republic was attacked by France, England, and the bishops of C...
D’Astrea … daer in, door historien en onder herders en andere personen, veel erelijke leringe, schoone spreuken, en werkinge der liefde vertoont worden. Door D.V.R. vertaelt. Het eerste deel.Amsterdam, for Johannes Troost, 1644. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 11 full-page engravings by A. Santfoort, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
D’Astrea … daer in, door historien en onder herders en andere personen, veel erelijke leringe, schoone spreuken, en werkinge der liefde vertoont worden. Door D.V.R. vertaelt. Het eerste deel.Amsterdam, for Johannes Troost, 1644. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 11 full-page engravings by A. Santfoort, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
URFÉ, Honoré d’. · 1644
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[4], 664 pp.Unrecorded issue of the rare first edition of the Dutch translation of part 1 of Honoré d’Urfé’s famous pastoral romance L’Astrée, possibly the single most influential work of 17th-century French literature. The present issue has not been recorded in the STCN, whic...
Breve y verdadera, descripcion, del ynexpugnable fuerte Schencken como por yndustria de la gente de su magestad catolica se gano en 28 de julio anno 1635 annos ...Madrid, printed for the widow of Juan Gonçalez, 1635. Broadsheet (ca. 40 x 26 cm). With a large engraving in the top half of the sheet (20 x 22.1 cm).
Breve y verdadera, descripcion, del ynexpugnable fuerte Schencken como por yndustria de la gente de su magestad catolica se gano en 28 de julio anno 1635 annos ...Madrid, printed for the widow of Juan Gonçalez, 1635. Broadsheet (ca. 40 x 26 cm). With a large engraving in the top half of the sheet (20 x 22.1 cm).
[SCHENCKENSCHANS FORTRESS]. · 1568
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
Extremely rare broadsheet with at top a two-part engraving comprising a profile view (ca. 5 x 22 cm) and a bird's-eye plan (ca. 10.5 x 22 cm) of the Dutch fortress Schenckenschans together with a caption in Spanish (mentioning the place where the broadsheet is for sale, the ar...
Nederduytsche Poëmata ...Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1635. 4to. With an allegorical title page engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Younger and 22 half-page engraved emblematical plates in a roundel (with a diameter of ca. 12 cm) bordered in squares (of ca. 12 x 12 cm) of which five probably by Crispijn de Passe the Younger (on pp. 17, 19, 116, 283 and 337). Contemporary overlapping vellum.
Nederduytsche Poëmata ...Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1635. 4to. With an allegorical title page engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Younger and 22 half-page engraved emblematical plates in a roundel (with a diameter of ca. 12 cm) bordered in squares (of ca. 12 x 12 cm) of which five probably by Crispijn de Passe the Younger (on pp. 17, 19, 116, 283 and 337). Contemporary overlapping vellum.
HOFFERUS, Adrianus. · 1589
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[40], 400 pp.Rare first and only edition of the collected poetical works of Adriaen Hoffer (Latinized: Adrianus Hofferus, 1589-1644), Lord of Bommenede, a well-known Dutch magistrate from Zierikzee and Steward-General of Zeeland, who was the centre of a circle of learned and i...
Egypt & Nubia.Cairo [and elsewhere in Egypt and Nubia], 1838-1839. Folio (48 x 36.5 cm). Album containing 42 pencil and other drawings (a few partly coloured) and 3 squeezes, some on the album leaves and some loosely inserted, mostly of ancient Egyptian and Nubian architecture, sculpture, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, but also with a few botanical drawings and landscapes with buildings. Most have English-language captions in brown ink and are signed and dated 1838 to 1839. New black half morocco, using mid-19th-century marbled paper for the sides.
Egypt & Nubia.Cairo [and elsewhere in Egypt and Nubia], 1838-1839. Folio (48 x 36.5 cm). Album containing 42 pencil and other drawings (a few partly coloured) and 3 squeezes, some on the album leaves and some loosely inserted, mostly of ancient Egyptian and Nubian architecture, sculpture, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, but also with a few botanical drawings and landscapes with buildings. Most have English-language captions in brown ink and are signed and dated 1838 to 1839. New black half morocco, using mid-19th-century marbled paper for the sides.
ROBERTSON, William (draughtsman). · 1838
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
[37] ll. including title leaf and 7 blanks, plus 16 loosely inserted ll.An album of drawings (and squeezes of bas reliefs) made by William Robertson on a journey from Cairo in December 1838 down the Nile into Nubia, reaching as far south as the present-day Egyptian-Sudanese bo...
Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, sedert het jaer 1555 tot het jaer 1609; ...Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk and Hendrik & Dirk Boom, 1681. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved portraits, and 27 double-page plates, views, and plans, a title page printed in red and black, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine.
Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, sedert het jaer 1555 tot het jaer 1609; ...Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk and Hendrik & Dirk Boom, 1681. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved portraits, and 27 double-page plates, views, and plans, a title page printed in red and black, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine.
GROOT, Hugo de. · 1583
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[44], 591, [1 blank], [76]; 19, [1 blank]; [6], 74 pp.First and only Dutch edition, as well as the only illustrated edition, of the main historical works by the famous Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, and diplomat Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645), also known as th...
Bibliotheek in miniatuur.Comprising:(1) De aardrijkskunde.(2) De gewijde geschiedenis.(3) Vaderlandsche geschiedenis.(4) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der viervoetige dieren.(5) De natuurlijke geschiedenis der vogelen.(6) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der insekten, kruipende dieren en visschen.(7) De kruidkunde.(8) Zedelijke verhalen.(9) Arabische vertellingen.(10) De mythologie.Amsterdam, M. Westerman, 1823. 10 volumes. Ca 7.7 x 6.5 cm. With 31 engraved plates and 5 engraved maps, including a folding world map. In the original pink and green cardboard case with glass lid, green printed paper wrappers, with cream paper dust jackets with the titles in manuscript on the front.
Bibliotheek in miniatuur.Comprising:(1) De aardrijkskunde.(2) De gewijde geschiedenis.(3) Vaderlandsche geschiedenis.(4) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der viervoetige dieren.(5) De natuurlijke geschiedenis der vogelen.(6) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der insekten, kruipende dieren en visschen.(7) De kruidkunde.(8) Zedelijke verhalen.(9) Arabische vertellingen.(10) De mythologie.Amsterdam, M. Westerman, 1823. 10 volumes. Ca 7.7 x 6.5 cm. With 31 engraved plates and 5 engraved maps, including a folding world map. In the original pink and green cardboard case with glass lid, green printed paper wrappers, with cream paper dust jackets with the titles in manuscript on the front.
[MINIATURE BOOKS - DUTCH]. · 1984
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
Complete set of the first edition of a charming miniature library, preserved in the original box. This educational set for children contains works on geography, Dutch history, classical mythology, natural history and the Bible, with all the plates and maps included. A French e...
Beschrijving en afbeelding van de beste soorten van appelen en peeren, ...Amsterdam and Dordrecht, Allart, Holtrop, De Leeuw, and Krap, 1790. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 39 folding engraved plates (12 of apples & 8 of pears in the first work, showing 90 sorts; 19 of fruit and nut trees in the second work, showing 24 sorts), 4 woodcut tailpieces (plus 1 repeat) and 4 decorated woodcut initials (from 2 series). All coloured by a contemporary hand. With:(2) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van vruchtboomen en vruchten, ...(3) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van plantagie-gewassen, ...Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Beschrijving en afbeelding van de beste soorten van appelen en peeren, ...Amsterdam and Dordrecht, Allart, Holtrop, De Leeuw, and Krap, 1790. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 39 folding engraved plates (12 of apples & 8 of pears in the first work, showing 90 sorts; 19 of fruit and nut trees in the second work, showing 24 sorts), 4 woodcut tailpieces (plus 1 repeat) and 4 decorated woodcut initials (from 2 series). All coloured by a contemporary hand. With:(2) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van vruchtboomen en vruchten, ...(3) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van plantagie-gewassen, ...Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
KNOOP, Johann Hermann. · 1758
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
VIII, 36; [4], 70, [2 blank]; [4], 87, [1 blank], [4], [2 blank] pp.Complete third Dutch edition, with the illustrations printed from the original plates, of three classic works of pomology (two illustrated), originally published in 1758 and 1763 as Pomologia, Fructologia and ...
[Drawings of US Navy ships and other vessels].[United States of America, between 1810-1832 (or after 1832?)]. Oblong (17.5 x 22 cm). With 26 coloured pencil and ink drawings of ships. Stitched through three holes.
[Drawings of US Navy ships and other vessels].[United States of America, between 1810-1832 (or after 1832?)]. Oblong (17.5 x 22 cm). With 26 coloured pencil and ink drawings of ships. Stitched through three holes.
[SKETCH BOOK - AMERICAN SHIPS]. · 1801
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[12] ll. and 9 multicolour tissue paper guards (some with illustrations).Remarkable 19th-century sketchbook with coloured drawings of early 19th-century American ships, with the names, home ports, and destinations listed. They are all sailing ships, depicted in full sail. Most...
[Festivities and costumes at a southern Italian festival].[Southern Italy], "1817" [=1816]. Watercolour on paper (ca 51 x 71 cm), dated in the lower left corner. Gilded frame (ca. 56 x 76 cm).
[Festivities and costumes at a southern Italian festival].[Southern Italy], "1817" [=1816]. Watercolour on paper (ca 51 x 71 cm), dated in the lower left corner. Gilded frame (ca. 56 x 76 cm).
[WATERCOLOUR PAINTING]. [GIUDICE, Luigi del (attributed)]. · 1777
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
Beautiful, vibrant watercolour painting of Southern Italian costumes. The work has been attributed to Luigi del Giudice (active 1777-1816), as the style and subject matter are identical to his other work. The painting depicts the colourful traditional Italian dress worn at a l...
Documents sur l'histoire, la geographie et le commerce de l'Afrique orientale.Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1856-1857]. 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Text volumes: 8vo; atlas volume: folio. With 55 tinted plates. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards.
Documents sur l'histoire, la geographie et le commerce de l'Afrique orientale.Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1856-1857]. 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Text volumes: 8vo; atlas volume: folio. With 55 tinted plates. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards.
GULLAIN, Charles. · 1808
€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)
XXXI, [1], 628; XXIII, [1], 556; [4], 527, [1 blank] pp. Atlas volume: [4] pp. and 55 plates.Complete in three volumes and a folio atlas, this work traces the expedition of Charles Gullain (1808-75) along the eastern coast of Arabia and Africa, from Oman to Madagascar, and fea...
Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée.Paris, Brequet et Pétion, 1842. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 31 lithographed plates, including engraved frontispieces for both volumes and a reproduction of a letter. Contemporary gold-tooled deep purple morocco with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Emperor of Brazil, with the title etc. lettered in gold on the spine ("J. Arago - Voyage du Monde"), gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers.
Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée.Paris, Brequet et Pétion, 1842. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 31 lithographed plates, including engraved frontispieces for both volumes and a reproduction of a letter. Contemporary gold-tooled deep purple morocco with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Emperor of Brazil, with the title etc. lettered in gold on the spine ("J. Arago - Voyage du Monde"), gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers.
GUILLOU, Élie le [and Jules DUMONT D'URVILLE]. · 1790
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[4], IV, 381, [1]; [4], 382, [2] pp.First edition of this rare work on the last French expedition in the Age of Discovery, written as a challenge to the official narrative of the voyage by a ship’s surgeon and illustrated with thirty lithograph plates. Interestingly, the two v...
[Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses].[1337?]. Small folio (21.8 x 30.2 cm). The leaf is folded lenghtwise into two columns. Stored in a custom-made half purple morocco case.
[Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses].[1337?]. Small folio (21.8 x 30.2 cm). The leaf is folded lenghtwise into two columns. Stored in a custom-made half purple morocco case.
[FALCONRY - JAUME III OF MALLORCA].
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[1] ll.An account of expenses incurred for the maintenance of the royal falcons of King Jaime III of Mallorca: "Aquastas són les masions fetas per los falcons del senyor rey. Primerament, donam a 1 hom quils anà aspiar, 3 s. 6. Ítem, per altra dia quils anà traura, 20 s. Ítem,...
A cruise in the "Gorgon"; or, eighteen months on H.M.S. "Gorgon", engaged in the suppression of the slave trade on the east coast of Africa.London, Bell and Daldy, 1869. 8vo. With a hand-coloured folding map as a frontispiece. Original publisher's blue cloth.
A cruise in the "Gorgon"; or, eighteen months on H.M.S. "Gorgon", engaged in the suppression of the slave trade on the east coast of Africa.London, Bell and Daldy, 1869. 8vo. With a hand-coloured folding map as a frontispiece. Original publisher's blue cloth.
DEVEREUX, William Cope. · 1813
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
XV, [1], 421, [3] pp. including 2 pp. of adverts.First edition in its original binding; a scarce and desirable work. "The Gorgon was a paddle-wheel sloop dispatched to the east coast of Africa to stop the illegal slave trade in the region. The vessel made its way up the Zambes...
Views of Jerusalem and Environs.Jerusalem, [late 1860s]. Box: 43.8 x 34.5 x 7.3 cm. A suite of 48 albumen photographs (ca. 22 x 29 cm) mounted on modern cardstock (40.5 x 31.3 cm), mostly with original printed captions pasted beneath the image, with tissue guards. Stored in an archivel chemise in a modern gold-tooled red cloth box, incorporating the original gold-lettered red cloth album cover (original back cover gold-tooled vignette showing the Dome of the Rock recessed on the inside of the lid of the box).
Views of Jerusalem and Environs.Jerusalem, [late 1860s]. Box: 43.8 x 34.5 x 7.3 cm. A suite of 48 albumen photographs (ca. 22 x 29 cm) mounted on modern cardstock (40.5 x 31.3 cm), mostly with original printed captions pasted beneath the image, with tissue guards. Stored in an archivel chemise in a modern gold-tooled red cloth box, incorporating the original gold-lettered red cloth album cover (original back cover gold-tooled vignette showing the Dome of the Rock recessed on the inside of the lid of the box).
BERGHEIM, Peter. · 1813
€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)
[48] ll.A fine boxed album of large photographs mainly showing Jerusalem, all by the famous German-born Jewish photographer Peter Bergheim (1813-95). Included are the city gates, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the "Mosque of Omar" (Dome of the Rock, Qubbat as-Sakhra) and th...