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En busca del caballo Árabe. Comisión á Oriente. Turquía, Siria, Mesopotamia, Palestina. Memorias del viaje. Madrid, Tip. "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra" 1915. Large 8vo. With photographic illustrations printed from halftone relief blocks in the text throughout and a lithographed map showing the sailing route in blue. Original publisher's printed and illustrated paper wrappers.
AZPEITIA DE MOROS, Luis. · 1904
€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)
297, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [2], [2 blank] pp.Rare first edition, in the original Spanish, here in the original publisher's illustrated paper wrappers, of an important work on Arabian horses, describing a voyage made in 1904 of a Spanish commission to Turkey, Syria, Mesopo...
Récit du séjour de Fatalla Sayeghir chez les Arabes Errans du grand désert, manuscrit acquis et traduit en Français. Brussels, Sociétés de Paris, Londres et Bruxelles, 1835. 8vo. With a small vignette of a harp with a star in the background on the title page. Browned paper wrappers, with a white label on the spine with "68" in brown ink.
LAMARTINE, Alphonse de & Henri Bosch (editor). · 1798
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
[1], [1 blank], [2], VII, [1 blank], 109, [1 blank] pp.First edition of this travel account of Fatalla Sayeghir, who was a young Arab working as interpreter and assistant to a Napoleonic spy, M[onsieur?]. de Lascaris, who undertook an extended mission amongst the Arab peoples....
Evangelicae historiae imagines ex ordine evangeliorum, quae toto anno in missae sacrificio recitantur, in ordinem temporis vitae Christi digestae.Antwerp, [Martinus Nutius], 1593.With: (2) NATALIS, Hieronymus (Jerónimo NADAL). Adnotationes et meditationes in evangelia quae in sacrosancto missae sacrificio toto anno leguntur. Cum evangeliorum concordantial historiae integritati sufficienti. …Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1594 (colophon dated 1595). 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Each work with an engraved allegorical title page, extensively highlighted in gold, and woodcut initials and headpieces. Ad 1 contains a print series showing the life of Christ in 153 full-page engravings by the Wierix brothers, Jan II and Adriaen Collaert and Charles de Malery after Bernardo Passari and Maarten de Vos. It also has an engraved allegorical and ornamental headpiece on A2, reading “IHS In nomine Jesu”. Mid 19th-century light brown calf with a blind-tooled ornamental frame on both boards, a gold-tooled spine, a black morocco spine label with the title in gold, red edges and marbled endpapers.
NATALIS, Hieronymus (Jerónimo NADAL).
€9,750.00 ($10,746.27 | £8,134.09 | ¥1,716,041)
[5] ll. plus 153 engraved prints; [1], [3 blank], 595 [= 593], [5] pp.Natalis’s famous print series for the gospels, depicting the life of Christ in an extensive series of 153 numbered large and detailed gospel illustrations , here bound together with his additional commentary...
Thesaurus pauperum Petri hispani pontificis romani, philosophi ac medici doctissimi, de medendis morbis humani corporis liber: experimenta particularia per simplicia medicamenta ex probatissimis autoribus, & propriis observationibus collecta, continens.Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1576. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, Egenolff’s woodcut burning heart device below the colophon, 3 woodcut arabesque tailpieces, and 3 woodcut decorated initials (3 different series). With the main text in italic type but the preface in roman. Contemporary limp vellum, faded manuscript title on the spine and the front wrapper.
JOHN XXI, Pope. · 1485
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
112, [6] [1 blank (of 2)] ll.First Latin Egenolff edition of a Medieval collection of medicinal recipes intended, as the title “Treasury for the Poor” suggests, to provide readily available and inexpensive remedies to common ailments, probably for medical practitioners of mode...
A Collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries ... Vol. XII. Containing the treaties, &c., relating to Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Assam and Burma.Calcutta, Government of India, Central Publication Branch, 1931 Large 8vo. Contemporary half cloth over boards, buckram sides.
AITCHISON, Charles Umpherston (editor). · 1929
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[2], XII, 283, [3], XII, XXIII, [1] pp.Forming part of the fifth edition of an important government-issued series (incorporating revisions to 1929), this 12th volume records the treaties made with the countries on the fringes of the British Raj, most importantly those made wit...
Oud-Nederland in de uit vroegere dagen, overgeblevene burgen en kasteelen geschetst en afgebeeld.Nijmegen, C.A. Vieweg, 1841-1846. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 72 full-page lithographed views of the old Dutch castles and mansions, mostly after designs by J.F. Christ. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled purplish-blue half calf.
ROBIDÉ VAN DER AA, Christianus Petrus Eliza .
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
Each plate is accompanied by 8 to 20 pages of description and historical notes.First edition, originally published in 12 installments, of a beautiful series of lithographed views of all the famous old Dutch houses and gardens, newly designed and wel executed by the most famous...
[Manuscript title on the front paste-down:] Views of Calcutta.Calcutta, [ca. 1874/79]. Oblong 8vo. With 33 mounted sepia albumen prints (ca. 15/15.5 x 10.5/11 cm), all captioned. Manuscript title and captions of the pictures in English, written in brown ink in a neat 19th-century cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco, brown cloth sides.
[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA]. · 1870
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[2 blank], [25], [1 blank], [8], [2 blank] pp.Photograph album containing 33 albumen prints of buildings, important places, views and people in Calcutta in the 1870s. The album opens with some architectural photographs, including the governor's house, the new market, the post ...
Lijst der planten voor de jaarlijksche waarnemingen.Including: Lijst der planten voor de dagelijksche waarnemingen der bloemen.Utrecht, W.F. Schultze, 19th century [after 1841]. Large 4to (28.5 x 23.5 cm). Contemporary blue paper wrappers, stitched through 3 holes.
GENOOTSCHAP VOOR LANDBOUW EN KRUIDKUNDE TE UTRECHT. · 1841
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[12] pp.Second copy located of a remarkable example of 19th-century botanical research methods, issued by the Genootschap voor Landbouw en Kruidkunde (Society for Agriculture and Herbology) in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This society was founded in 1841 with the goal of represen...
Waerachtige beschryvinghe. Inhoudende wie de eerste autheuren ende vinders aller verscheyden consten, inventien, ende hantwercken zijn gheweest … uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederlantsche tale … overgeset, door E.M.G.Amsterdam, Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, 1612. 8vo. With a printer’s device on the title page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled half mottled calf.
VIRGILIUS, Polydorus. · 1470
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[14], 327, [9] pp.Rare first edition of the translation of the famous work by Italian humanist Polydore Virgil (ca.1470-1555, commonly Latinized as Polydorus Vergilius). He was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, De inventor...
Alle de geestige werken … vervattende in ses boeken de dappere daaden en deftige reedenen van d’overgroote reusen Grandgousier, Gargantua, en Pantagruel … uyt het Fransch vertaelt door Claudio Gallitalo.Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1682. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title page and a letterpress title page to each volume, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.
RABELAIS, François. · 1490
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[40], 717, [3 blank], [8]; [32], 456, [30], [2 blank], 136, [8] pp.First and only edition of the translation into Dutch of Gargantua and Pantagruel, one of the most comical and at the same time philosophical works ever written. As an admirer of Erasmus, and undoubtedly also in...
Fauna Brasliensis [sic].Uppsala, Palmblad et C. 1823. Small 4to. With a thin marbled paper strip to reinforce the spine.
THUNBERG, Carl Peter and Carolus Henricus EKSTRAND. · 1743
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[4], 9, [1] pp.Very rare first edition of an overview of some species of the Brazilian fauna. The work is the dissertation of Carolus Henricus Ekstrand, who had to defend it, although Thunberg, presiding the work, is considered to be the actual author, as was common these days...
I. [= Eerste] conferentie van eenige Nederlandtsche heeren. Op den tegenwoordigen staet deser landen.Middelburg, Jan de Laet, 1650. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). 20th-century half vellum.
[WIC - BRAZIL - WILLIAM II PRINCE OF ORANGE - POLITICS]. · 1647
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[34] pp.An anonymous political tract in the form of a conversation between four fictional gentlemen (Van Blyenberg, Van Sorgdal, Van Vraegwel, Van Weetburgh), whose names suggest happiness, concern, questioning and knowing respectively. It begins with a reference to the “onver...
Q. D. B. V. dissertation inauguralis medica De cardamomis, quam rectore magnificentissimo, serenissimo principe ac domino, domino Gvilielmo Henrico, dvce saxoniae, ivliaci, cliviae ac montivm, angariae et westphaliae &c. Ex decreto illustres & gratiotissima facvltatis medicae in florentissima academia jenensi, Praeside Rvdolfo Gvilielmo Cravsio.Jena, Christoph Krebs, [dissertation defended 7 August 1704]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece illustrating the cardamon plant, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece. Recent decorated paper wrapper.
RHEIN, Johannes Kaspar, and Rudolf Wilhelm KRAUSE.
€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)
[8], 44 pp. including the frontispiece.Rare first and only edition of a Latin doctoral dissertation for the University of Jena on the medical use of cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum). The author (Rhein working under his professor Krause) describes the countries of origin, hortic...
Memoranda of my official life.Little Stanmore, Middlesex, 1859. Small octavo. No binding.
ERSKINE, W.C. · 1810
€425.00 ($468.43 | £354.56 | ¥74,802)
[1], 21, [1] pp.The Memoranda of my official life by Walter Coningsby Erskine, 12th Earl of Kellie (1810-1872) is a unique insight into the life of a British officer and administrator in India in the middle of the nineteenth century. Erskine wrote this account of his life in 1...
Westindische Skizzen. Reise-erinnerungen.Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1887. 4to. 22 plates, of which 14 chromolithographs and 8 collotypes, and 1 folding lithographed map of the Surinam River by W.L. Loth. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
MARTIN, Johann Karl Ludwig. · 1855
€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)
VII, [1], 186 pp.First and only separate edition of the first part of Karl Martin's research voyage to the Dutch West Indies. Johann Karl Ludwig Martin (1855-1942) was a leading German-Dutch geologist and professor of geology at Leiden. He is known for his geological research ...
Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum centuria una.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661. With:(2) CAMERARIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum & emblematum et animalibus quadrupedibus desumtorum centuria altera.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.(3) CAMERARIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volatilibus et insectis desumtorum centuria tertia.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1654.(4) CAMERARIUS, Joachim and Ludwig CAMERARIUS. Symbolorum et emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus desumtorum centuria quarta.Heidelberg, Ludwig Bourgeat, 1664. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Each work with an engraved title page, 100 round engraved emblems (a total of 400), and numerous woodcut initials. (Near) contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with a beige leather title label lettered in gold on the spine.
CAMERARIUS, Joachim. · 1654
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
102 (the first ll. after the title page paginated 1-6); 103, [1 blank]; 104, [1 blank]; 100, [1], [1 blank] ll.Complete collection of Camerarius' beautiful emblem book, containing 400 emblems. The present copy appears to contain a re-issue of the second complete edition (publi...
Croniicke, ende warachtige beschryvinghe van Vrieslant. Beginnende nae des werelts scheppinghe drie duysent ende tseventich jaer: ende deurende voorts tot na de gheboorte Christi, duysent, vijf-hondert, vijf en tsestich ...Leeuwarden, Jacob Jansen, sold by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam, 1597. (colophon: printed in Amsterdam, Nicolaes Biestkens, 1596). Folio. With a half-page engraved map of old-Friesland, "Veterum Frisiorum Habitus" with the coat of arms of Friesland at the top, the map is flanked by 8 full-length portraits of inhabitants of old-Friesland; a double-page engraved map of Friesland and Groningen, "Frisiae Occidentalis Typus" by Cornelis Claesz (= first state, first appearance); a double-page plan of Leeuwarden, "Lewardum Occidentalis Frisiae Opp.", and full page plan of Franeker, "Franicher" with text on its verso. Further with woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. With nine extra drawings (made after 1622) after the well-known series of etched illustrations of Frisian rulers by Simon Frisius in the first edition of Pierius Winsemius, Chronique ofte Historische Geschiedenisse van Vrieslant … Original dark brown polished calf over beveled wooden boards.
[CORNELIUS, Andreas]. · 1565
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[2 with drawings], [8], "124" [= 122], [2] ll.Rare first edition of this curious and fascinating early and more or less "popular" history of Frisia, the area between Stavoren and the Dollard in the Eems estuary (now roughly the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen). It c...
Affectum in libris et praxi rarissimum ab Hermanno Boerhaave in nosocomio Lugduno-Batavo.Leiden, Philippus Bonk, 1738. 4to. With a full-page plate of a human body part in formaldehyde and an engraved printer's device on the title-page. Also with some woodcut initials and headpieces. Modern half calf.
KOCH, Christian Andreas. · 1668
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[6], 22, [1 blank], [2], [1 blank] pp.Dissertation by Christian Andreas Koch, who must have been a pupil of the famous Leiden professor of medicine Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), discussing a rare case of a woman named Geertruda van der Horst in the Leiden hospital with an uter...
Westindische Skizzen. Reise-erinnerungen.Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1887. 4to. 22 plates, of which 14 chromolithographs and 8 collotypes, and 1 folding lithographed map of the Surinam River by W.L. Loth. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
MARTIN, Johann Karl Ludwig. · 1855
€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)
VII, [1], 186 pp.First and only separate edition of the first part of Karl Martin's research voyage to the Dutch West Indies. Johann Karl Ludwig Martin (1855-1942) was a leading German-Dutch geologist and professor of geology at Leiden. He is known for his geological research ...
Extract eens briefs uyt Vlissingen, inhoudende een roef-praatje, t'scheep voor-gevallen tusschen Dort en Ter Vere.The Hague, D.H. van Waalsdorp (= Antwerpen, H. Verdussen), 1650. 4to. Woodcut of printer’s device on title page Contemporary brown paper wrappers.
[WIC - EXTRACT]. · 1650
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
[2], 3-24 pp.First and only edition of a pamphlet responding to the pamphlet entitled Oogen salve, printed at Rotterdam in 1650, probably by the same author as the Hollandsche praatjes. The Oogen salve argued, among other things, that consolidation of the Protestant faith was ...