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The stars of high velocity. Proefschrift ter verkrijging van den graad van doctor in de wis- en natuurkunde aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Groningen...Groningen, Gebroeders Hoitsema, 1926. Folio. With 12 figures, illustrating star velocity, and 30 tables (only 27 are numbered). Original grey paper wrappers, with the title and name of the author printed on the front wrapper and the spine, in a protective semi-opaque coated paper dust jacket.

OORT, Jan Hendrik. · 1900

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

[8], 75, [1], [1 slip-in leaf with theses] pp.Rare doctoral thesis by one of the greatest astronomers of the 20th century. The work discusses high velocity stars in the Milky Way. It shows that asymmetry in stellar motions is restricted to high velocity stars and that the high...

Artikel-brief van de Geoctroyeerde Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, by de hoog mogende heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, den vierden september, 1742, gearresteert. Met de veranderingen daar in gemaakt by resolutie 11 october 1747.Amsterdam, Wed. J. van Egmont en Zoon, [1747]. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and 2 decorated woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary half vellum.

[VOC - ARTICLES - TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT]. · 1747

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[2], [2 blank], 53, [3 blank] pp.Very rare work with the terms of employment of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC). It contains 121 clauses with rules of conduct and an extra chapter with formularies of oaths. This second, revised edition was published after some cha...

Des aertryks beweging en de zonne stilstant, bewijsende dat dit geensins met de Christelijke religie is strijdende.Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesbergh [colophon: printed by Tymon Houthaak], 1661. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, showing how the earth revolves around the sun, 29 mathematical and astronomical woodcut illustrations in the text, 3 decorated woodcut initials, 2 woodcut tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device of a turtle on the title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrapppers, stitched on 3 vellum tapes.

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantz. van. · 1610

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[8], 151, [5 blank] pp.First edition of a rare work about heliocentrism and solar eclipses, written during the time when heliocentrism was forbidden by the Catholic Church. The present work is an almost unknown work by the Mennonite mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer ...

Beschrijving van de paarden wapenzaal in de Tower te London.[The Netherlands, second quarter of the 19th century]. Ca. 21.5 x 17 cm. With 12 large, colourful ink drawings of knights on horseback, depicting various British kings and nobles, and a smaller ink drawing of knights in battle on the title-page. Contemporary green paper, over brown cloth, with a calligraphed title on the front in a baroque style floral frame, and a drawing of a knight on horseback on the back board within the same floral frame, blue speckled edges.

[BRITISH ARMOUR - TOWER OF LONDON - DUTCH MANUSCRIPT]. · 1841

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[1], [1 blank], 105 pp.Remarkable manuscript with beautiful illustrations and descriptions of the displays in the Royal Armouries in the Tower of London. As the armoury was engulfed by a large fire in 1841, the largest in the history of the Tower of London, some of the depicte...

Il carnevale di Roma.Rome, F. Bourlié, 1820. Oblong folio (ca. 42 x 57 cm). With 20 numbered copper-engravings. Grey paper wrappers.

[MÖRNER, Carl Gustaf Hjalmar]. · 1794

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

[1 blank], [2], [20] ll.Remarkable work with 20 beautiful engravings of the Roman carnival, made by Carl Gustaf Hjalmar Mörner (1794-1837). The illustrations show the atmosphere during the carnival and depict more than 250 costumed figures, including soldiers, doctors, stilt w...

Bilder ur svenska folklifvet.Gothenburg, D. F. Bonniers Förlag, 1855. Oblong folio (ca. 39.5 x 50 cm). With 12 full-page chromolithographed plates, separated by tissue paper guards. Contemporary quarter gold-tooled brown leather,

BERG, Johan August. · 1822

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [24] pp.First and only edition of a beautiful work on Swedish traditional dress. The work contains 12 large chromolithographed plates depicting different scenes from Swedish life, including a wedding, herring fishing, a baptism, a horse market, ...

[Three calligraphic prize books by Willem and Frans Walbeek].Warmond (near Leiden), the Netherlands, 1752-1756.Comprising:(1) WALBEEK, Willem. Prijs boek. Inhoudende verscheyde geschriften.Warmond, 1752.(2) WALBEEK, Willem. Prijs-boek. Inhoudende eenige schriften.Warmond, 1753.(3) WALBEEK, Frans. Prijs boek.Warmond, 1756.Three oblong albums (ca. 35 x 44 cm). With the same hand drawn illustration of 2 putti holding a laurel wreath on the title-pages of ads 2 and 3, and an ink drawing of a compass as part of a calligraphic exercise also in ads 2 and 3. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.

WALBEEK, Willem and Frans WALBEEK. · 1753

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[12]; [1 blank], [13]; [10] ll.Fine examples of 18th-century calligraphy in a collection of 3 prize books written between 1753 and 1756. The albums contain a total of 35 examples written in Dutch and French by two Dutch students. The works each contain many different texts, al...

Kitab Al-Muqaddas al-Mushtamil 'ala Kutub al-'Ahd al-'Atiq wal 'Ahd al-Jadid [The Holy Book, included the books of the Old Testament found in the original Hebrew of our Lord Jesus Christ and also the Book of the New Testament].London, William Watts, 1855. 8vo (22 x 14 cm). Original elaborately embossed brown calf with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red edges.

[BIBLE - ARABIC - OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT]. · 1671

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[1], [1 blank], [2], 645; 407; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 352 pp.Rare edition of one of the best Arabic translations of the Bible. This work is based on the 1671 version from Rome, which was the first printed edition of the complete Bible in Arabic. However, the version f...

Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen, in alle vier waerelds deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America huishoudende.Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, [1780-]1788. Comprising:(1) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden.Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788.(2) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der wantzen.Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 28.5 x 23 cm). With 70 hand-coloured plates of insects, and a hand-coloured floral frontispiece at the start of each part. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf.

STOLL, Caspar. · 1725

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

124; 172 pp.First edition of a beautiful, complete set of an important scientific work on insects, with 70 contemporary hand-coloured plates. It describes the Cicadidea and Heteroptera found in all parts of the world, especially in Suriname, Indonesia, South Africa and the Cor...

Geistlicher Seelen-Wecker. Allen in Gott Christlich glaubenden Seelen zu Nurz[!] und grösserem Eyfer zusam[m]en getragen. Darin[n]en Schöne auserlösene Morgen- Abend- Mess- Beicht und Communion Gebetter.[Germany, Franconia, diocese Würzburg?, ca. 1780]. 8vo (17.5 x 11.3 cm). Written in a clear German cursive in brown ink with chapter titles and captions in Fraktur script in gold, blue, black, and red with red pen flourishes; the text is written within a manuscript double-lined frame in brown ink. With two mezzotint engravings of Christ carrying the cross and Christ's Vera effigies with a crown of thorns, mounted on p. [6] and p. 7; both engravings show Christ's wounds and blood painted red. The engravings are by Johann Martin Will (1727-1806), engraver and art dealer in Augsburg. Contemporary gold-tooled dark brown leather.

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - GERMAN]. · 1600

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[1], [3], 307, [9], [4 blank except for the text frames] pp.Beautifully written compilation of prayers, based on the popular "Andachts- and Gebetbuchen" published - often by the Jesuits - in Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries. Examples of these printed prayer books are: Pe...

Andachts Eyfer Worinnen enthalten Fruh- Abend- Meess Beicht und Kommunion dann andere heilige Gebether. Geschrieben in Jaht Christi 1791 von Johann Karl Erbes.[Germany], 1791. 8vo (18.5 x 11 cm). Written in a clear Roman script by Johann Karl Erbes, title in a structured floral frame, all text is written in 15 to 18 lines per page, all within a manuscript floral frame. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco. The work is kept in a mottled leather and floral paste paper slipcase.

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - GERMAN]. · 1821

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

[1 blank], [2], [1 blank], 206, [2], [6] pp.Beautifully calligraphed late-18th-century compilation of prayers based on the popular "Andachts- and Gebetbuchen" published in Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries. The present manuscript was written by Johann Karl Erbes, who clea...

Möchte meiner Seuftzer schallen, möchte das Vergnügte wallen...[Germany], 1746. 8vo (ca. 16.7 x 9.4 cm). With a colourful hand-drawn title page. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf.

[MANUSCRIPT - PRIVATE DEVOTION - MÖHLMAN, Geertruy]. · 1607

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[33] ll.Eighteenth-century work of private devotion, written by a woman in a very clear and legible hand, containing more than 30 German songs and prayers. The manuscript opens with a beautifully drawn title page with the Geertruy Möhlman (dates unknown), who was likely the au...

Compendio de la exemplar vida, y santa muerte, [d]el p[adre] Juan de S[an]tiago...[Córdoba?], ca. 1770. 8vo. With a large engraving of Juan de Santiago on the second leaf and a pen drawing on page 102. Contemporary limp parchment.

[MANUSCRIPT - SPANISH - Vincent MORALES]. · 1689

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[4], "159" [= 162] pp.Manuscript version of the only contemporary source on the life and death of the Córdoban Jesuit Juan de Santiago (1689-1762). It follows a work by the same name by Vincent Morales (1708-1765), which was probably published for the first time in 1763 in Cór...

Elucidarius carminu[m] et historiaru[m] vel vocabularius poeticus co[n]tine[n]s fabulas: historias: provincias: urbes: insulas: fluvios: et montes illustres.(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann, 1510. 4to. 19th-century blind-tooled red morocco, with a gold-tooled centre-piece on both sides, title, date and location of printing lettered in gold on the spine, gold- and blind-tooled broad turn-ins, gilt edges, blue endpapers.

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus. · 1450

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

[1 blank], [60], [1 blank] ll.The first dictionary of ancient mythology, history and geography. Written by one of the foremost Latin grammatists of the 15th century, it became a very successful reference work and was in print until the 19th century. This is the first and only ...

De statu et ruina monastici ordinis.[Mainz, Peter von Friedberg, after April 1493]. 4to. 20th-century quarter vellum, decorated paper sides. With the author, title, and place and date of publication in manuscript on the spine.

TRITHEMIUS, Johannes. · 1493

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

[29], [1 blank] ll.First edition of a relatively scarce work, written by an infamous Benedictine abbot who combined theology with the occult. It was read before a meeting of all Benedictine abbots and scholars from Tübingen University on April 21, 1493, and was considered to b...

Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright.Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, [1910]. 1 text part and 2 portfolios with lithographed plates. 1mo (plates, ca. 64 x 40 cm) and folio (text, ca. 41 x 32 cm). Text volume with the title printed in gold. With a total of 100 lithographed plates in 2 portfolios: 72 plates numbered I-LXVI, prnited on grey or white paper and mostly printed in brown, some in grey, grey & white or brown & white, one in gold (plate I), one in colour (plate LXIV) and one plate folding (plate LX), and 28 overlays, printed in brown on tissue paper. Each plate embossed with Wright's blind stamp. Kept loose, as issued, in the original two portfolios (64 x 41.5 cm), both dark blue half cloth with the original publisher's printed grey wrappers over boards with all white ties present. The text leaves are kept in the first portfolio.

WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. · 1867

€49,500.00 ($54,558.01 | £41,296.17 | ¥8,712,209)

30, [1], [1 blank] pp.; pllus 100 lithographed plates.Extremely rare first edition, of the complete collection of plates prepared from drawings made by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) at his Oak Park Studio, illustrating seventy buildings and projects completed...

Articella nuperrime impressa cu[m] q[uam] plurimis tractatib[us] pristine impressio[n]i sup[er]additis, ut p[atet] i[n] pagina seque[n]ti. Petri Pomarii Valentini Hispani ad lectore[m] Hexastycho[n] ...[(Colophon:) Lyon, Antoine du Ry impensis Jacques Giunta, 1525]. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration, the title-page printed in red and black with a decorated woodcut border, and numerous woodcut initials in the text. Later parchment with the manuscript title on the spine.

VALENTINUS, Petrus Pomarius (editor). · 1530

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

369 [= 367] ll.Early collection of important ancient and contemporary medicinal works, with a full-page woodcut illustrating bloodletting. This work was meant as a textbook for students of medicine. The texts included in the present work were not only selected because they for...

Opera [and additional works].Comprising:(1) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De divinis institutionibus(2) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De ira Dei.(3) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De opificio Dei.(4) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De phoenice carmina.(5) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. [Epitome divinarum institutionem]. Nephytomon.Additional works:(6) RAUDENSIS, Antonius. [Lactantii Firmiani errata].(7) GENUENSIS, Adam. His carminibus frater Adam Genuensis increpat fratrem Antonium. [Incipit:] Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius aussis.(8) BUSSI, Giovanni Andrea. Ioannis Andreae episcopi Aleriensis ad Paulum secundum Venetum pontificem maximum epistola. (9) OVIDIUS, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses (extract).(10) ALIGHIERI, Dante. Comedia, inferno XXV (extract).(11) FORTUNATUS, Venantius. [De christi resurrectione]. [Incipit:] Lactantii fir. de resurrectio[n]is dominicae die/ [S]alve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.(Colophon:) Venice, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 1390 [=1490]. 5 works and 6 additional texts in 1 volume. Folio. The text is set in Roman type with some incidental Greek.20th-century goatskin parchment, with the author and title stamped on the spine with black foil, the name of the author added in manuscript on the bottom edge of the book block.

LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus and Giovanni Andrea BUSSI) (editor) [and others]. · 1417

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

[1 blank], [147] ll.First Venice edition of Lactantius' most important works, edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi (Joannis Andrea, bishop of Aleria, 1417-1475). Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (ca. 240-ca. 320) was a rhetoric of Berber origin, who converted to Christianity a...

De essentia divinatis.Including: AQUINAS, Thomas. De articulis fidei et ecclesiae sacramentis.[Augsburg, Günther Zainer, before 1473]. Folio. With manuscript initials in red throughout. 20th-century quarter vellum.

JEROME (HIERONYMUS), Saint (pseudo), Eucherius of LYON (attributed). · 1478

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[11]; [21] [2 blank] pp.The first and only incunable edition of this theological work, printed by the first printer of Augsburg, Günther Zainer (?-1478). He started his printing career in Augsburg in 1468 and is known to have been one of the printers at the new printing shop i...

Explanatio Psalmorum. [Incipit:] Annotatio principaliu[m] sententiariu[m]/ principaliu[m] sente[n]tiariu[m] in expla-natione psamo[rum]...(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1489. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 31 x 21.5 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with 1 brass clasp and remnants of a 2nd.

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). · 1485

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

[1 blank], [14], [1 blank]; [146]; [192]; [192], [5 blank] ll.A complete copy of one of Saint Augustine's chief exegetical works. The present Amerbach edition is only the second time Augustine's explanation of and commentary on the Psalms was ever printed. The first time was i...