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Prices statistics for second half of 1970. Retail and wholesale.Iraq, Central Statistical Organization, [1970?]. Folio (28.5 x 21 cm). With multiple graphs on 8 leaves, most of them in the text. The main price-information is arranged in tables, all tables and other introductory information are printed on 1 side of the leaves (from right to left on the recto side of the leaves, excluding the information in English which has from that perspective been printed on the verso side of the leaves). Original printed publisher's wrappers.
Prices statistics for second half of 1970. Retail and wholesale.Iraq, Central Statistical Organization, [1970?]. Folio (28.5 x 21 cm). With multiple graphs on 8 leaves, most of them in the text. The main price-information is arranged in tables, all tables and other introductory information are printed on 1 side of the leaves (from right to left on the recto side of the leaves, excluding the information in English which has from that perspective been printed on the verso side of the leaves). Original printed publisher's wrappers.
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ - Ministry of Planning. · 1970
€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)
(The majority of the work reads from right to left, thus:) [5], 83, VI-I, [4] ll.A statistical overview of the changes in wholesale and retail prices of (among other things) agricultural, animal, electronic, and textile products in Iraq during the second half of 1970. The elab...
Onpartydich discours opte handelinghe vande Indien.[ca. 1608]. 4to. Modern blue paper wrappers, blank label on the front wrapper.
Onpartydich discours opte handelinghe vande Indien.[ca. 1608]. 4to. Modern blue paper wrappers, blank label on the front wrapper.
[USSELINCX, Willem]. · 1606
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[8] pp.The first of two editions (Landwehr) of Usselincx’s treatise on the importance of Dutch trade and commerce in the East and West Indies. This short book was part of the pamphlet war that accompanied the negotiations for an armistice between the Dutch States General and S...
Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung deß Königreichs Franckreich. Welcher Gestalt nemlich selbiges in 12. Haupt-Theile, oder Provintzien und Gouvernementen eingetheilet wird ... was vor Städte, Schlösser und Vestungen darinnen befindlich ... Alles durch Beyhülffe bewährter Scribenten vorgestellet.Frankfurt and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1689. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, and 116 (4 folding, 112 full-page) engraved bird's eye views of French cities. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a manuscript shelf mark on the spine, a central ornament on both boards surrounded by a floral border, the initials "M Z" and year "1690" lettered in gold on the front board, remnants of clasps, dark blue edges.
Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung deß Königreichs Franckreich. Welcher Gestalt nemlich selbiges in 12. Haupt-Theile, oder Provintzien und Gouvernementen eingetheilet wird ... was vor Städte, Schlösser und Vestungen darinnen befindlich ... Alles durch Beyhülffe bewährter Scribenten vorgestellet.Frankfurt and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1689. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, and 116 (4 folding, 112 full-page) engraved bird's eye views of French cities. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a manuscript shelf mark on the spine, a central ornament on both boards surrounded by a floral border, the initials "M Z" and year "1690" lettered in gold on the front board, remnants of clasps, dark blue edges.
[BEER, Johann Christoph]. · 1638
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
[6], 1095, [17] pp.Rare first edition of a historical-geographical travel handbook through France, richly illustrated with more than a hundred engraved plates. The work is divided in 12 chapters, with the first few offering a general overview of various aspects of France, such...
Documentos Arabicos para a historia Portugueza...Lisbon, Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790. 4to. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athena’s owl and Hermes’s staff). Set in roman, Arabic and italic types. Modern brown paper wrappers. Wholly untrimmed and with most of the bolts unopened, preserving all deckles and point holes.
Documentos Arabicos para a historia Portugueza...Lisbon, Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790. 4to. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athena’s owl and Hermes’s staff). Set in roman, Arabic and italic types. Modern brown paper wrappers. Wholly untrimmed and with most of the bolts unopened, preserving all deckles and point holes.
SOUSA, João de. · 1503
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[8], 190, [2] pp.First and only edition of a collection of letters written in Arabic during the reigns of Kings Manuel I and João III of Portugal (numbered 1-58 in chronological order, the dated letters from 1503 to 1528), from the official Portuguese state correspondence, wit...
[Album containing coats of arms of Flemish, Dutch and French noble families].[France, Flanders and the Netherlands, 17th and 18th century]. Folio. With 390 coats of arms (plus another 49 blank shields) of which 13 on vellum, all but 25 contemporary hand-coloured of which 17 painted with gold and 1 with silver and all but 3 drawn by hand. Mostly all coat of arms are captioned in brown ink in contemporary 17th- or 18th-century cursive hands, in which also the sometimes added manuscript text (on the same or another leaf) is written. Coats of arms on paper and vellum in various sizes, mounted on later folio-sized paper leaves. 18th-century half red roan (sheepskin), brown sprinkled paper sides over boards, manuscript title label on the front board.
[Album containing coats of arms of Flemish, Dutch and French noble families].[France, Flanders and the Netherlands, 17th and 18th century]. Folio. With 390 coats of arms (plus another 49 blank shields) of which 13 on vellum, all but 25 contemporary hand-coloured of which 17 painted with gold and 1 with silver and all but 3 drawn by hand. Mostly all coat of arms are captioned in brown ink in contemporary 17th- or 18th-century cursive hands, in which also the sometimes added manuscript text (on the same or another leaf) is written. Coats of arms on paper and vellum in various sizes, mounted on later folio-sized paper leaves. 18th-century half red roan (sheepskin), brown sprinkled paper sides over boards, manuscript title label on the front board.
[HERALDRY - FLANDERS - NETHERLANDS - FRANCE]. · 1452
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
All loose leaves and quires mounted/stored on [29] ll, the quires loosely stored in a paper slip mounted on a leaf.Album containing a collection of 390 coats of arms, almost all executed by hand and mostly contemporary hand-coloured, of many important West-European noble famil...
Annual report for the year 1932.Cairo, Government Press, 1933. Imperial 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm). With 14 rotogravure(?) plates, printed in sepia, 1 folding facsimile letter, 2 folding graphs, a plate with 6 pie charts and 1 illustration (also in red) showing schematically a smuggling box. Original publisher's pink paper wrappers, printed letterpress.
Annual report for the year 1932.Cairo, Government Press, 1933. Imperial 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm). With 14 rotogravure(?) plates, printed in sepia, 1 folding facsimile letter, 2 folding graphs, a plate with 6 pie charts and 1 illustration (also in red) showing schematically a smuggling box. Original publisher's pink paper wrappers, printed letterpress.
CENTRAL NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE BUREAU - RUSSELL, Thomas Wentworth (or RUSSELL PASHA). · 1930
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
XVII, [1 blank], 170 pp. (pp. VI and XVIII blank)Rare work on drug trafficking in Egypt in the 1930s and an important example of the author’s "war on drugs": he was director of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau. Thomas Wentworth Russell (1879-1954), sometimes better kn...
Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten vrede tusschen de twee magtighe croonen van Spaignien en Vrancryck, waer-inne begrepen is den onsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw, hier inne meest naer hrt leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke rijmen ende spreuken. Antwerpen, Jan Meyssens, 1662 (colophon: Juliaen van Montfort, 1661). 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Cornelis Meyssens after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, a full-page portrait of the dedicatee Antoine van Leyen by Richard Collin (1661), a full-page portrait of the author by Jan Meyssens after Erasmus Quellinus, and 97 full-page engraved and etched portraits of painters, engravers, architects and sculptors, engraved by Jan Meyssens, Wenceslaus Hollar, and numerous others, after drawings by Anthony van Dyck, Paulus Pontanus, Jan Lievens, etc. 18th-century gold-tooled half sheep.
Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten vrede tusschen de twee magtighe croonen van Spaignien en Vrancryck, waer-inne begrepen is den onsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw, hier inne meest naer hrt leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke rijmen ende spreuken. Antwerpen, Jan Meyssens, 1662 (colophon: Juliaen van Montfort, 1661). 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Cornelis Meyssens after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, a full-page portrait of the dedicatee Antoine van Leyen by Richard Collin (1661), a full-page portrait of the author by Jan Meyssens after Erasmus Quellinus, and 97 full-page engraved and etched portraits of painters, engravers, architects and sculptors, engraved by Jan Meyssens, Wenceslaus Hollar, and numerous others, after drawings by Anthony van Dyck, Paulus Pontanus, Jan Lievens, etc. 18th-century gold-tooled half sheep.
BIE, Cornelis de. · 1662
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[2], "584" [= 586], [3] pp.First and only edition of this extensive biographical work of late sixteenth and seventeenth-century painters, engravers, sculptors and architects living and working in the Southern and Northern Netherlands. The text contains biographical notes as we...
Het kasteel van Aigermont, en d'omleggende landtstreeken in de heerlykheit van Nederkan, nevens de stadt Maastricht.Leeuwarden, François Halma, 1715. 4to. With the title page and dedication printed in red and black, an engraved printer's device on the title page, 3 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double page), 4 decorated woodcut initials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf.
Het kasteel van Aigermont, en d'omleggende landtstreeken in de heerlykheit van Nederkan, nevens de stadt Maastricht.Leeuwarden, François Halma, 1715. 4to. With the title page and dedication printed in red and black, an engraved printer's device on the title page, 3 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double page), 4 decorated woodcut initials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf.
HALMA, François. · 1698
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[20], 60 pp.First and only edition of a Dutch poem in praise of Château Agimont, now known as Château Neercanne, and the nearby city of Maastricht. It starts with a six-page verse dedication to Daniel Wolf, Baron van Dopff, who had the chateau rebuilt in Dutch Baroque architec...
Zeeusche nachtegael, ende de selfs dryderly gesang: geheel anders inder waerheyt verthoont, als de selve voor desen by sommighe uyt enckel mis-verstant verkeerdelijck is gheoordeelt. Door verscheyden treffelijcke Zeeusche poëten by een ghebracht; ende verciert met koopere plaeten. Middelburg, Jan Pietersz. van de Venne, 1623. With: (2) VENNE, Adriaen van de. Tafereel van sinne-mal.Middelburg, Jan Pietersz vande Venne, 1623. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title page of each part, a woodcut headpiece with a view of Middelburg at the start of each part, a full-page engraved emblematic coat of arms and 7 large emblems by D. van Bremden, W. de Passe, P. de Jode, C. van Queboren and P. Serwouter after designs by Adriaen van de Venne in the first part; 8 large engravings in the text showing witty scenes, designed and engraved by Adriaen van de Venne in the second part. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum.
Zeeusche nachtegael, ende de selfs dryderly gesang: geheel anders inder waerheyt verthoont, als de selve voor desen by sommighe uyt enckel mis-verstant verkeerdelijck is gheoordeelt. Door verscheyden treffelijcke Zeeusche poëten by een ghebracht; ende verciert met koopere plaeten. Middelburg, Jan Pietersz. van de Venne, 1623. With: (2) VENNE, Adriaen van de. Tafereel van sinne-mal.Middelburg, Jan Pietersz vande Venne, 1623. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title page of each part, a woodcut headpiece with a view of Middelburg at the start of each part, a full-page engraved emblematic coat of arms and 7 large emblems by D. van Bremden, W. de Passe, P. de Jode, C. van Queboren and P. Serwouter after designs by Adriaen van de Venne in the first part; 8 large engravings in the text showing witty scenes, designed and engraved by Adriaen van de Venne in the second part. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum.
[ZEELAND - POETRY]. · 1851
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[10], 86, [4], 60, [4], 63, [1 blank]; [8], 114 pp.Rare first edition of the "Zeeland Nightingale", perhaps the most intriguing Dutch songbook of the early 17th century, both from the literary point of view, as from the point of view of book illustration and printing. The work...
Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.[The Hague, Jan and Daniel Steucker], 1673. 4to. With 10 finely engraved scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding/double-page plates. Further with a woodcut device on the title page and a woodcut tailpiece on the final page. 17th- or 18th-century calf.
Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.[The Hague, Jan and Daniel Steucker], 1673. 4to. With 10 finely engraved scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding/double-page plates. Further with a woodcut device on the title page and a woodcut tailpiece on the final page. 17th- or 18th-century calf.
[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. · 1672
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[1, 1 blank], 202 pp.First edition of a famous Dutch history book vividly describing and depicting the cruelties of war committed by the French army of Louis XIV in The Netherlands in the years 1672 and 1673. The illustrations also rank among the best masterpieces of Baroque b...
Nagasaki miyage [= Souvenir of Nagasaki].Nagasaki, Yamato-ya Yoshihei juo, Koka 4 [= 1847]. 23 x 15.5 cm. Text and illustrations printed from 42 woodblocks, probably on kozo (mulberry bark) paper (vertical chainlines about 34 mm apart), with an astrological figure and constellation on the title-page (the Mao Xiu lunar mansion?), 12 double-page and 6 full-page illustrations (a few with Dutch titles as well as Japanese) including a map of Nagasaki harbour (showing the Dutch and Chinese trading factories and three ships), two Chinese merchants at a table in the factory library while their servant unpacks a chest of books, a bedroom with a VOC captain(?) and merchant(?), the latter with his pocket watch and Indonesian servant, a cluster of Japanese ships making a dense forest of masts, a landscape with dozens of kites, another with many people on a bridge over a river, a Dutch VOC ship in great detail, a VOC merchant at dinner with an Indonesian servant and two Japanese geishas, a Dutch woman, an elephant, festivals (one with a dragon and drums), and other landscapes, city views, etc. The texts show a wide variety of writing styles (kaisho, gysho and sosho) with the blocks for many texts (and one illustration) including seals of authors or artists, mostly in tensho (seal characters). Original publisher’s blue paper wrappers in the traditional Japanese fukurotoji manner, publisher’s manuscript title-label on front wrapper.
Nagasaki miyage [= Souvenir of Nagasaki].Nagasaki, Yamato-ya Yoshihei juo, Koka 4 [= 1847]. 23 x 15.5 cm. Text and illustrations printed from 42 woodblocks, probably on kozo (mulberry bark) paper (vertical chainlines about 34 mm apart), with an astrological figure and constellation on the title-page (the Mao Xiu lunar mansion?), 12 double-page and 6 full-page illustrations (a few with Dutch titles as well as Japanese) including a map of Nagasaki harbour (showing the Dutch and Chinese trading factories and three ships), two Chinese merchants at a table in the factory library while their servant unpacks a chest of books, a bedroom with a VOC captain(?) and merchant(?), the latter with his pocket watch and Indonesian servant, a cluster of Japanese ships making a dense forest of masts, a landscape with dozens of kites, another with many people on a bridge over a river, a Dutch VOC ship in great detail, a VOC merchant at dinner with an Indonesian servant and two Japanese geishas, a Dutch woman, an elephant, festivals (one with a dragon and drums), and other landscapes, city views, etc. The texts show a wide variety of writing styles (kaisho, gysho and sosho) with the blocks for many texts (and one illustration) including seals of authors or artists, mostly in tensho (seal characters). Original publisher’s blue paper wrappers in the traditional Japanese fukurotoji manner, publisher’s manuscript title-label on front wrapper.
ISONO BUNSAI (BUNSAI MADAKI). · 1998
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
[1], 40, [1] double ll.Beautiful copy of a rare and gorgeously illustrated woodblock tour of sights in Nagasaki and surroundings, giving special attention to the Dutch (and Chinese) traders, with text mostly in Japanese characters and woodcuts with landscapes, interiors, festi...
Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
[BRANDT, Gerard]. · 1608
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[12], 207, [1], 167, [1 blank], [16] pp.Rare first edition of an extensive description of one of the oldest trade-cities in the Northern Netherlands, and the centre of trade and navigation in the Dutch Golden Age. One of the Chambers of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was s...
Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maaken zijn. Getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gronden deezer Republiek gewijzigd, en met veele nieuwe platte gronden en sieraaden vermeerderd.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. Large 4to (ca. 29 x 23.5 cm). With an engraved title-page and 96 engraved plates, including 56 finely coloured. Contemporary half red buckram.
Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maaken zijn. Getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gronden deezer Republiek gewijzigd, en met veele nieuwe platte gronden en sieraaden vermeerderd.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. Large 4to (ca. 29 x 23.5 cm). With an engraved title-page and 96 engraved plates, including 56 finely coloured. Contemporary half red buckram.
LAAR, Gijsbert van. · 1767
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[2], IV, 72 pp.First edition of the first 12 instalments of this famous Dutch classic work on garden architecture. The author and artist of the work was Gijsbert van Laar (1767-1820), a Dutch garden architect and nurseryman. The work essentially presents an encyclopaedic picto...
Ordonnancie va[n] die Keyserlijcke Mayesteyt roerende die dootslaghers cessionanten ende banckeroeten. Ghepubliceert inden jare duysent vijfhondert vier ende veertich.The Hague, sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. (colophon: Delft, printed by Symon Jansz.), May 1544. 4to. With the woodcut crowned coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (with the order of the Golden Fleece, a column on either side and the motto “plus oultre”) on the title-page. Set in 2 sizes of textura gothic type, with 2 lombardic initials (cast type). Modern half brown buckram, marbled paper sides, blue endpapers, with an older (ca. 1840?) front wrapper bound in.
Ordonnancie va[n] die Keyserlijcke Mayesteyt roerende die dootslaghers cessionanten ende banckeroeten. Ghepubliceert inden jare duysent vijfhondert vier ende veertich.The Hague, sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. (colophon: Delft, printed by Symon Jansz.), May 1544. 4to. With the woodcut crowned coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (with the order of the Golden Fleece, a column on either side and the motto “plus oultre”) on the title-page. Set in 2 sizes of textura gothic type, with 2 lombardic initials (cast type). Modern half brown buckram, marbled paper sides, blue endpapers, with an older (ca. 1840?) front wrapper bound in.
[ORDINANCE - CRIME - HOLLAND]. [CHARLES V]. · 1544
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of a rare ordinance, printed in Delft. The ordinance, promulgated 19 May 1544, tried to reduce or at least prevent a further rise in crime in Holland and even in other parts of the Holy Roman Empire, by addressing the n...
Carte de la mer Rouge, relevée sur celle de James Bruce.[Egypt, probably Cairo], 1827. Folio leaf (46 x 31.5 cm). Manuscript map in pen and ink with watercolour, with a French text on Middle Eastern hand-made paper.
Carte de la mer Rouge, relevée sur celle de James Bruce.[Egypt, probably Cairo], 1827. Folio leaf (46 x 31.5 cm). Manuscript map in pen and ink with watercolour, with a French text on Middle Eastern hand-made paper.
[MAP - ARABIAN PENINSULA]. BRUCE, James. · 1790
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
A hand-drawn map of the Red Sea region of Arabia, based on a Western printed map but with compelling evidence that it originated in early 19th-century Egypt, where it was apparently prepared, and with contemporary Arabic notes on the back. While based primarily on the excellen...
Amstellandsche arkadia, of beschryving van de gelegenheit, toestand en gebeurtenissen van Amstellandt, met deszelfs onderhoorige dorpen, heerlykheden, ambachten, lusthoven, wateren, enz. Amsterdam, Arent van Huyssteen, 1737. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and an engraved title vignette in each volume, the first volume with 37 double-page engraved plates, a folding portrait of the author, and a double-page map, the second volume with 32 double-page engraved plates, and a double-page letterpress family tree. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled vellum.
Amstellandsche arkadia, of beschryving van de gelegenheit, toestand en gebeurtenissen van Amstellandt, met deszelfs onderhoorige dorpen, heerlykheden, ambachten, lusthoven, wateren, enz. Amsterdam, Arent van Huyssteen, 1737. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and an engraved title vignette in each volume, the first volume with 37 double-page engraved plates, a folding portrait of the author, and a double-page map, the second volume with 32 double-page engraved plates, and a double-page letterpress family tree. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled vellum.
WILLINK, Daniel. · 1730
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[16], 400; [2], 327, [9]First edition of a descriptive travel account through Amsterdam and its surroundings, with wide margins, and 57 extra double-page plates. The work originally contained only 12 plates, but the present work includes 69. Most of the extra plates in the fir...
Oorspronck ende voortganck vande Nederlantsche oorloghen ofte waerachtighe historie vande voornaemste geschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders voorgevallen zedert den jare 1566, tot het jaer 1601, verdeylt in achthien boecken. [engraved title-page:] Historie der Nederlantscher Oorlogen ... tot ... 1601.Arnhem, Jacob van Biesen, 1633. Folio. With an engraved title-page by Crispijn van de Passe, 25 engraved portraits in the text (including one of the author) and with a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary richly gold-tooled vellum.
Oorspronck ende voortganck vande Nederlantsche oorloghen ofte waerachtighe historie vande voornaemste geschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders voorgevallen zedert den jare 1566, tot het jaer 1601, verdeylt in achthien boecken. [engraved title-page:] Historie der Nederlantscher Oorlogen ... tot ... 1601.Arnhem, Jacob van Biesen, 1633. Folio. With an engraved title-page by Crispijn van de Passe, 25 engraved portraits in the text (including one of the author) and with a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary richly gold-tooled vellum.
REYD, Everhard van. · 1601
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[22], 791, [8] pp.The extensive and authoritative work by Everhard van Reyd containing a comprehensive and detailed history of the first half (to 1601) of the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) between the Netherlands and Spain. Jan Jansz at Arnhem first printed and published Van R...
Inventaris.Amsterdam, Jan van der Linde, [1747]. Folio. Folded.
Inventaris.Amsterdam, Jan van der Linde, [1747]. Folio. Folded.
FLINES, Jacob de, and Jacob de FLINES the younger. · 1729
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
[1 blank], [2], [1 blank] pp.Unrecorded printed auction announcement and inventory of the frigate Prins van Oranje, which was launched in 1729, commanded by Teunis Kragt and put up for auction in 1747 by the brokers Jacob de Flines and his son in Amsterdam. Its great detail ma...
Genees- en heelkundig onderwys voor land- en zee-chirurgyns, vervattende een kort begrip der ontleed-, gezondheid-, ziekte-, genees- en heelkunde, nevens de nieuwste en zekerste genees- en heelmiddelen.Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1782. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title page. Contemporary gold- and blindtooled sheepskin, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges.
Genees- en heelkundig onderwys voor land- en zee-chirurgyns, vervattende een kort begrip der ontleed-, gezondheid-, ziekte-, genees- en heelkunde, nevens de nieuwste en zekerste genees- en heelmiddelen.Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1782. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title page. Contemporary gold- and blindtooled sheepskin, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges.
THEDEN, Johann Christian Anton and A. SCHRAGE (translator). · 1714
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[4], 439, [5] pp.Interesting pharmacopoeia intended for the use of surgeons by Anton Theden (1714-1797), the Surgeon-General of the Prussian Army and personal physician to Frederick the Great. The present work is a rare copy of the first and only Dutch translation of his work....
Omstandig en waaragtig verhaal van veele gepleegde en nooit gehoorde diefstallen: als vooornamentlyk [sic] aan de zeer beruchte goude tafel, nevens veele hoog-gewaardeerde oudheden en dierbaare sieraaden, van aloude tyden af in 't hooge autaar van St. Michiels Kerke te Lunenburg geplaatst en bewaart..., allerwegen in Duitsland gepleegd.Amsterdam, Hendrik Schelte, 1710. 4to. With Schelte's woodcut device on the title-page, 18 engraved plates, including 1 frontispiece and 3 large folding plates. Contemporary vellum.
Omstandig en waaragtig verhaal van veele gepleegde en nooit gehoorde diefstallen: als vooornamentlyk [sic] aan de zeer beruchte goude tafel, nevens veele hoog-gewaardeerde oudheden en dierbaare sieraaden, van aloude tyden af in 't hooge autaar van St. Michiels Kerke te Lunenburg geplaatst en bewaart..., allerwegen in Duitsland gepleegd.Amsterdam, Hendrik Schelte, 1710. 4to. With Schelte's woodcut device on the title-page, 18 engraved plates, including 1 frontispiece and 3 large folding plates. Contemporary vellum.
[HOSMANN, Sigismund, Magister] "M.S.H.". · 1660
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[1 blank], [2], [1 blank], [4], 377, [17], [2 blank] pp., including the integral frontispiece.First Dutch edition of a criminal biography of Nickel List and his gang by Magister Sigismund Hosmann (1660-1701). The title-page gives only the author’s initials, but his identity wa...