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Le Pays d'Israël. Collection de cent vues prises d'après nature dans la Syrie et la Palestine pendant son voyage d'exploration géographique en 1851 et 1852.Paris, Veuve Jules Renouard, 1857. Elephant folio (44 x 57 cm). With 99 lithographed plates and 1 engraved map. Contemporary half red morocco and brown marbled paper, with the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.
Le Pays d'Israël. Collection de cent vues prises d'après nature dans la Syrie et la Palestine pendant son voyage d'exploration géographique en 1851 et 1852.Paris, Veuve Jules Renouard, 1857. Elephant folio (44 x 57 cm). With 99 lithographed plates and 1 engraved map. Contemporary half red morocco and brown marbled paper, with the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.
VELDE, Charles William Meredith van de. · 1818
€28,000.00 ($30,861.10 | £23,359.45 | ¥4,928,118)
[1], 88 pp.First edition of this rare and splendid series of Palestinian views, uncommonly complete with all the plates. The ninety-nine beautiful lithographs, most subtly tinted in blues and warm tones, show magnificent views of Beirut, Sidon, Mount Hermon, the ruins of Hazou...
Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée.Paris, Giard, 1830. Imperial folio (42 x 59.6 cm). With a large lithographed title vignette and the coat of arms of Wilhelm II on the dedication leaf. 69 lithographed plates, maps, and plans after Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, mostly mounted on India paper (including 3 folding and 2 coloured). Simier binding in gold-tooled half green morocco and marbled paper over boards, elaborately gold-tooled spine (and stamped in gold: "Simier R. du Roi"), marbled endpapers.
Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée.Paris, Giard, 1830. Imperial folio (42 x 59.6 cm). With a large lithographed title vignette and the coat of arms of Wilhelm II on the dedication leaf. 69 lithographed plates, maps, and plans after Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds, mostly mounted on India paper (including 3 folding and 2 coloured). Simier binding in gold-tooled half green morocco and marbled paper over boards, elaborately gold-tooled spine (and stamped in gold: "Simier R. du Roi"), marbled endpapers.
LABORDE, Léon [Emmanuel Simon Joseph] de. · 1772
€40,000.00 ($44,087.28 | £33,370.64 | ¥7,040,169)
[8], 87, [1] pp.The first edition of this "important work" (Blackmer): a monumental folio, beautifully bound by René Simier (1772-1843) for King Louis-Philippe of France, from whose library it came into the hands of the great art collector and founder of the French branch of R...
A list of words and phrases in the Basrah dialect of Arabic.Simla, Government Central Branch Press, 1916. 8vo. Original beige waxed cloth wrappers, with the title printed on the front wrapper.
A list of words and phrases in the Basrah dialect of Arabic.Simla, Government Central Branch Press, 1916. 8vo. Original beige waxed cloth wrappers, with the title printed on the front wrapper.
THOMPSON, Captain R. Campbell, Elias GEORGES, and others (editors). · 1915
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
V, [1 blank], 21, [3 blank] pp.An introduction to Basra Arabic, a dialect spoken in southern Iraq, printed for British and British Indian soldiers serving in Basra during the Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War. Initially published in 1915, it was distributed to the o...
Tribes and personalities of Western Persia.Baghdad, printed at the Government Press, 1918. 8vo. With 2 folding genealogical charts, respectively showing the family trees of the royal Qajar house and the chiefs of the Qaraguzlu tribe, and a printed ornament on the front wrapper. Restored red printed paper wrappers, with a clear plastic protective wrapper.
Tribes and personalities of Western Persia.Baghdad, printed at the Government Press, 1918. 8vo. With 2 folding genealogical charts, respectively showing the family trees of the royal Qajar house and the chiefs of the Qaraguzlu tribe, and a printed ornament on the front wrapper. Restored red printed paper wrappers, with a clear plastic protective wrapper.
[PERSIA - BRITISH AUTHORITIES - NOTABLE PERSIAN TRIBES & PEOPLE]. · 1917
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[1], [1 blank], 134, [2 blank] pp.First and likely only edition of an extremely rare publication from the British intelligence in Baghdad. It was published at a time when resitance in the region against the British authorities was high, after the February 1917 revolution, whic...
Brevis linguae Syriacae insitutio in usum tironum edita.Altona, Johann David Adam Eckhardt, 1784. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and typographical ornaments at the head of every page. The text is set in Roman and Syriac type. Early 19th-century blue marbled paper wrappers.
Brevis linguae Syriacae insitutio in usum tironum edita.Altona, Johann David Adam Eckhardt, 1784. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and typographical ornaments at the head of every page. The text is set in Roman and Syriac type. Early 19th-century blue marbled paper wrappers.
ADLER, Jacob Georg Christian. · 1756
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
64, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a Syriac grammar for beginners, written by Jakob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834). It starts with a short introduction to Syriac grammar and is followed by excerpts from works by two important Syrian Christian authors: Gregory Bar Hebrae...
Theatrum Europaeum. Beschreibung aller Geschichten so sich 1617[-1718] zugetragen haben.Frankfurt am Main, Daniel Fievet, Johann Görlin et al., ca. 1633-1738. 21 vols. Folio (ca. 22 × 33.5 cm). With 19 (of 20) engraved title-pages, 1 engraved title vignette, 1 armorial plate, 646 (of 686) engraved views, plans, and maps, many folding or double-page-sized, 690 (of 692) engravings in the text (mostly portraits on interleaves), and several folding tables. Early 18th century full leather bindings with gold-tooled spines (titles and crown crest) and blind-tooled frame on the boards; slightly differing from vol. 16 onwards with gilt supralibros “Academ. Marburg.”.
Theatrum Europaeum. Beschreibung aller Geschichten so sich 1617[-1718] zugetragen haben.Frankfurt am Main, Daniel Fievet, Johann Görlin et al., ca. 1633-1738. 21 vols. Folio (ca. 22 × 33.5 cm). With 19 (of 20) engraved title-pages, 1 engraved title vignette, 1 armorial plate, 646 (of 686) engraved views, plans, and maps, many folding or double-page-sized, 690 (of 692) engravings in the text (mostly portraits on interleaves), and several folding tables. Early 18th century full leather bindings with gold-tooled spines (titles and crown crest) and blind-tooled frame on the boards; slightly differing from vol. 16 onwards with gilt supralibros “Academ. Marburg.”.
MERIAN, Matthäus. · 2007
€75,000.00 ($82,663.65 | £62,569.95 | ¥13,200,316)
An excellent, complete set of the famous chronicle of the century, illustrated by Matthaeus Merian and his successors, hailed as the first and most comprehensive source for the age of Louis XIV and the Thirty Years’ War. Due to the long publication period of almost 100 years, ...
Specimen ineditae versionis Arabico-Samaritanae Pentateuchi e codice manuscripto Bibliothecae Barberinae.Rome, Praesidum Facultate, 1780. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, two decorated woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece. Latin, Samaritan and Arabic type throughout, and occasionally Coptic and Greek type. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, with a red morrocco title label lettered in gold on the spine.
Specimen ineditae versionis Arabico-Samaritanae Pentateuchi e codice manuscripto Bibliothecae Barberinae.Rome, Praesidum Facultate, 1780. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, two decorated woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece. Latin, Samaritan and Arabic type throughout, and occasionally Coptic and Greek type. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, with a red morrocco title label lettered in gold on the spine.
HWIID, Andreas Christian. · 1616
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
63, [1], XXXVIII, [1], [1 blank] pp.One of the earliest critical editions of the Samaritan Pentateuch, printed in Samaritan Arabic. European scholars first became interested in the Samaritan Pentateuch in 1616, when traveller Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) purchased a manuscri...
Letters from Mauritius in the eighteenth century by Grant, Baron de Vaux including an account of Labourdonnais' capture of Madras.Mauritius, printed for private circulation, 1886. 8vo. With a large, folding engraved map (43x59 cm). Contemporary half gold- and blind-tooled red calf, decorated (pseudo-marbled) paper sides. With the author and title lettered in gold on the spine.
Letters from Mauritius in the eighteenth century by Grant, Baron de Vaux including an account of Labourdonnais' capture of Madras.Mauritius, printed for private circulation, 1886. 8vo. With a large, folding engraved map (43x59 cm). Contemporary half gold- and blind-tooled red calf, decorated (pseudo-marbled) paper sides. With the author and title lettered in gold on the spine.
GRANT, Charles, vicomte de VAUX and John Pope HENNESSY. · 1740
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
[2], X, 192, VI pp.First edition of a very rare work with letters concerning Mauritius. The letters, which date from 1740-1758, were written by Louis Charles Grant, baron de Vaux (dates of birth and death unknown) and Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de la Bourdannais (1699-1753)...
Memoria estatistica sobre os dominios Portuguezes na Africa oriental.Lisbon, José Baptista Morando, 1835. 8vo. With six folding lithographic plates in the back, including maps of the Maputo, Inhambane, Quelimane and Mocambo bays, as well as a plan of its capital Maputo and a view of the residence of the Portuguese "capitão generales" (Captain-General) of Mozambique, a position which Botelho himself had held. Contemporary calf.
Memoria estatistica sobre os dominios Portuguezes na Africa oriental.Lisbon, José Baptista Morando, 1835. 8vo. With six folding lithographic plates in the back, including maps of the Maputo, Inhambane, Quelimane and Mocambo bays, as well as a plan of its capital Maputo and a view of the residence of the Portuguese "capitão generales" (Captain-General) of Mozambique, a position which Botelho himself had held. Contemporary calf.
BOTELHO, Sebastião Xavier. · 1768
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[1], [1 blank], 400, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.A rare 19th century work on Mozambique, which was a colony of the Portuguese empire at the time. Sebastião Xavier Botelho (1768-1840) was the "capitão general" of this colony from 1825-1829, or the commander-in-chief of th...
Tante Tor is jarig.Utrecht, Stichting De Roos (printed in Amsterdam by Dieperink & Co.), 1950.With: (2) [ORIGINAL DRAWINGS - BODENHEIM, Nelly]. [2 drawings: one featuring beetles, a maybeetle, and (Spanish) flies and another showing "Aunt Beetle" in bed being congratulated by her mosquito maid]. [ca. 1950]. 4to (ca. 27 x 19.5 cm). All text and illustrations, including the illustrated front board, are lithographs by the famous Dutch artist Jean-Paul Vroom in facsimile after the text and illustrations by Lizzy Ansingh and Nelly Bodenheim. The lithographs are hand-coloured under supervision of Vroom. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper. Together with two original drawings by Bodenheim, hand-coloured and signed in her initials, mounted on a grey passepartout folder highlighting the scene with the beetles, maybeetle, and fly. The illustration of "Aunt Beetle" and her mosquito maid can be found on the back. Original hand-coloured lithographed paper over boards with the title stamped in decorative letters on the spine.
Tante Tor is jarig.Utrecht, Stichting De Roos (printed in Amsterdam by Dieperink & Co.), 1950.With: (2) [ORIGINAL DRAWINGS - BODENHEIM, Nelly]. [2 drawings: one featuring beetles, a maybeetle, and (Spanish) flies and another showing "Aunt Beetle" in bed being congratulated by her mosquito maid]. [ca. 1950]. 4to (ca. 27 x 19.5 cm). All text and illustrations, including the illustrated front board, are lithographs by the famous Dutch artist Jean-Paul Vroom in facsimile after the text and illustrations by Lizzy Ansingh and Nelly Bodenheim. The lithographs are hand-coloured under supervision of Vroom. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper. Together with two original drawings by Bodenheim, hand-coloured and signed in her initials, mounted on a grey passepartout folder highlighting the scene with the beetles, maybeetle, and fly. The illustration of "Aunt Beetle" and her mosquito maid can be found on the back. Original hand-coloured lithographed paper over boards with the title stamped in decorative letters on the spine.
BODENHEIM, Nelly (illustrator), Lizzy ANSINGH and Jean-Paul VROOM (lithographer). · 1950
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [25], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.Limited edition - no. 136 of 200 - of a remarkable mid-20th-century illustrative work by the renowned Dutch artist and illustrator of children's books Nelly Bodenheim. It was published as publication number 16 ...
Een vruchtenmandje. Teekeningen van Nelly Bodenheim bij versjes van Lizzy Ansingh.Amsterdam, De Spiegel, 1927. Folio (ca. 30 x 21.5 cm). 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, in colour, by hand in a decorative, ornamental script (varying in style). Contemporary half green cloth portfolio with the original lithographed illustration on the front board, the back board contains the following verse: "Let op de pitten, die binnen in zitten".
Een vruchtenmandje. Teekeningen van Nelly Bodenheim bij versjes van Lizzy Ansingh.Amsterdam, De Spiegel, 1927. Folio (ca. 30 x 21.5 cm). 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, in colour, by hand in a decorative, ornamental script (varying in style). Contemporary half green cloth portfolio with the original lithographed illustration on the front board, the back board contains the following verse: "Let op de pitten, die binnen in zitten".
BODENHEIM, Nelly (illustrator) en Lizzy ANSINGH. · 1874
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[1 blank], [24] ll.Limited edition - no. 1 of 7 - of the rarer portfolio edition 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 rhymes (verses) by Lizzy ...
Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana. Y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo.Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627. 4to. With 3 woodcut tailpieces and 11 woodcut initials (at least 6 series). Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties.
Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana. Y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo.Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627. 4to. With 3 woodcut tailpieces and 11 woodcut initials (at least 6 series). Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties.
MANUEL Y VASCONCELOS, Augustin. · 1414
€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)
[5], 167, [3] ll.First edition of the first biography of Don Duarte de Meneses (1414-1464), a Portuguese nobleman, who fought extensively in Morocco. According to Martins Costa, he was one of the most notable warriors of the late Middle Ages and managed to climb the social lad...
Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, 5 double-page woodcut maps (including 1 folding), 4 double-page woodcut views of cities, 6 double-page woodcut plans of cities, and 2 double-page illustrations of buildings (1 woodcut, 1 engraved). Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 parchment tapes laced through the joints.
Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, 5 double-page woodcut maps (including 1 folding), 4 double-page woodcut views of cities, 6 double-page woodcut plans of cities, and 2 double-page illustrations of buildings (1 woodcut, 1 engraved). Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 parchment tapes laced through the joints.
GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. · 1521
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp.First 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 Floren...
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques &c.Including: SANSON, Guillaume. Introduction à la Geographie où sont la geographie astronomique qui explique la correspondance du globe terrestre avec la sphere.Amsterdam, Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier, 1730. Folio. With a large allegorical frontispiece and 56 large copper-engraved maps (most 54 x 65 cm and a few larger, folding ones). Previous owners have added one large copper-engraved map of Normandie by Jean Baptiste Nolin from 1742, and 2 smaller etchings by Israel Silvestre with views of du Havre and Chateau Jametz. The original artwork of these views is from the 1670s, but these prints are from a later date. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, green closing ties.
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques &c.Including: SANSON, Guillaume. Introduction à la Geographie où sont la geographie astronomique qui explique la correspondance du globe terrestre avec la sphere.Amsterdam, Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier, 1730. Folio. With a large allegorical frontispiece and 56 large copper-engraved maps (most 54 x 65 cm and a few larger, folding ones). Previous owners have added one large copper-engraved map of Normandie by Jean Baptiste Nolin from 1742, and 2 smaller etchings by Israel Silvestre with views of du Havre and Chateau Jametz. The original artwork of these views is from the 1670s, but these prints are from a later date. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, green closing ties.
L'ISLE, Guillaume de. · 1675
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
[1 blank], [6], 32 pp.A rare, beautiful and accurate world atlas with 56 large maps, all but one coloured in outline by a contemporary hand. This work was published many times, but this is a very early edition. Many of the maps include fine pictorial decorations, coats of arms...
De nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of beschryving van America en ’t Zuid-Land, vervaetende d’oorsprong der Americaenen en Zuidlanders, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds,...Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671. Folio. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, 16 double-page engraved maps, including a large folding general map, 6 full-page engraved portraits, 32 double-page engraved views, including 2 large folding views of New Mexico and Mauritius, and 70 almost half-page engraved maps, views, and illustrations in the text. The title page is printed in red and black and contains Meurs' large engraved device. Additionally, with a large, engraved headpiece showing Joann Maurits van Nassau's coat of arms on the first dedication leaf and with numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 2 series). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum binding.
De nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of beschryving van America en ’t Zuid-Land, vervaetende d’oorsprong der Americaenen en Zuidlanders, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds,...Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671. Folio. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, 16 double-page engraved maps, including a large folding general map, 6 full-page engraved portraits, 32 double-page engraved views, including 2 large folding views of New Mexico and Mauritius, and 70 almost half-page engraved maps, views, and illustrations in the text. The title page is printed in red and black and contains Meurs' large engraved device. Additionally, with a large, engraved headpiece showing Joann Maurits van Nassau's coat of arms on the first dedication leaf and with numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 2 series). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum binding.
MONTANUS, Arnoldus. · 1642
€28,000.00 ($30,861.10 | £23,359.45 | ¥4,928,118)
[12], 585, [29] pp.First edition of an essential and richly illustrated classic work on America and especially Brazil. It presents a general survey of everything known about the new continent and is one of the few works that describes Brazil during the short period it was in D...
Aperçu de la langue des iles Marquises et de la langue Taïtienne, précedé d'une introduction sur l'histoire et la géographie de l'archipel des Marquises.Berlin, C. G. Luderitz, 1843. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
Aperçu de la langue des iles Marquises et de la langue Taïtienne, précedé d'une introduction sur l'histoire et la géographie de l'archipel des Marquises.Berlin, C. G. Luderitz, 1843. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
BUSCHMANN, Johann Carl Eduard and Guillaume de HUMBOLDT. · 1805
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
197, [2] pp.A rare first edition of a work about the history, geography and language of the Marquesas islands.Johann Carl Eduard Buschmann (1805-1880) was a German philologist, who resided in Mexico for a few years to study the indigenous languages of Middle America and was la...
Dagbok öfwer en Ostindisk resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags sprak, seder, hushållning m.m. jåmte 12 tabeller och afledne skepps-predikanten Torens bref.Stockholm, Lorentz Ludwig Grefing (printed by N. von Oelreich), 1757. 8vo. With 12 folding engraved plates (numbered 1-12), a small woodcut ornament at the start of the dedication and a decorated initials and an elaborate head-pieces, both built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary(?) gold-tooled half sprinkled calf, with a beige title-label lettered in gold on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, red edges.
Dagbok öfwer en Ostindisk resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags sprak, seder, hushållning m.m. jåmte 12 tabeller och afledne skepps-predikanten Torens bref.Stockholm, Lorentz Ludwig Grefing (printed by N. von Oelreich), 1757. 8vo. With 12 folding engraved plates (numbered 1-12), a small woodcut ornament at the start of the dedication and a decorated initials and an elaborate head-pieces, both built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary(?) gold-tooled half sprinkled calf, with a beige title-label lettered in gold on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, red edges.
OSBECK, Peter and Olof TORÉN. · 1723
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[8], 376, [16] pp.First edition of an account of two Swedish voyages to China and the East Indies, the first by the Swedish minister, botanist and explorer Peter (Pehr) Osbeck (1723-1805) and the second by the Swedish naturalist Olof Torén (1718-1753). Osbeck's journal contain...
[Historische Bilder, darinnen Idea Historia Universalis, eine kurtze summarisch Abbildungen der fürnehmsten Geist- und Weltlichen Geschichte durch die vier Monarchien...][Lüneburg, printed by B. Elers for the author, 1672]. 4to. With 21 copper-engraved plates of multiple different sizes. Each plate depicts the history of a century or millenium. Contemporary half vellum, with marbled paper sides.
[Historische Bilder, darinnen Idea Historia Universalis, eine kurtze summarisch Abbildungen der fürnehmsten Geist- und Weltlichen Geschichte durch die vier Monarchien...][Lüneburg, printed by B. Elers for the author, 1672]. 4to. With 21 copper-engraved plates of multiple different sizes. Each plate depicts the history of a century or millenium. Contemporary half vellum, with marbled paper sides.
[BUNO, Johannes]. · 1617
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[21] plates.The 21 striking plates of the first edition of a remarkable mnemonic work by Johann Buno (1617-1697), which rarely appears on the market. The present work shows the history of the world in 21 plates, from 4000 BCE until roughly 1670.Buno was a German philologist an...
In sanctum Jesu Christi evangelium secundum Matthaeum commentarii, diligenter ab Arrianorum faecibus purgati, & in lucem in sacrae paginae tyronum gratiam modo recens sub minoriforma aediti.Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542. With: CHRYSOSTOM, John. Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum in decem Homilias divisa. Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with two woodcut initials at the beginning of the introduction and the prologue, of 2 different series, and a large woodcut printer's device on the last page, showing a staff, surrounded by doves and the text 'steelsius', stuck in a plaquette that says 'concordia, res parue crescunt'. Ad 2: with a woodcut initial on the first leaf. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled, panel-stamped calf, with a tripartite panel on both sides and remnants of ties.
In sanctum Jesu Christi evangelium secundum Matthaeum commentarii, diligenter ab Arrianorum faecibus purgati, & in lucem in sacrae paginae tyronum gratiam modo recens sub minoriforma aediti.Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542. With: CHRYSOSTOM, John. Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum in decem Homilias divisa. Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with two woodcut initials at the beginning of the introduction and the prologue, of 2 different series, and a large woodcut printer's device on the last page, showing a staff, surrounded by doves and the text 'steelsius', stuck in a plaquette that says 'concordia, res parue crescunt'. Ad 2: with a woodcut initial on the first leaf. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled, panel-stamped calf, with a tripartite panel on both sides and remnants of ties.
CHRYSOSTOM, John. · 1542
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[8],"313" [=314], [1]; 47, [1] ll.Rare second edition of a devotional work by Saint John Chrysostom (347-407 CE). The contents of this second edition are more extensive than those of the first edition, published 5 years earlier, which only contains the first two-thirds of the ...
S. Antonius cortinet si quaeris.[Italy, 17th century]. 11.3 x 7.7 cm. Brown ink, charcoal, and watercolour on vellum.
S. Antonius cortinet si quaeris.[Italy, 17th century]. 11.3 x 7.7 cm. Brown ink, charcoal, and watercolour on vellum.
[MICROGRAPHY].
€4,800.00 ($5,290.47 | £4,004.48 | ¥844,820)
What at first glance appears to be a conventional devotional image of Saint Anthony of Padua is actually composed of hundreds of microscopic words, forming both the image of the saint and martyr and the prayer "Si quæris miracula" ("If, then thou seekest miracles") from the "O...