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Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.The Hague, Gideon Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound.
Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.The Hague, Gideon Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound.
[ORANGISTS]. · 1685
€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)
28 pp.Orangist reaction and critical commentary on the satirical pamphlet Missive van Parnas, geschreven door Hugo de Groot (Dordrecht?), no printer, (1685); written in the same ‘antique’ tune, on the procedures for the nominations and appointments in the last part of 1684 in ...
Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.The Hague, Gidion Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound.
Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.The Hague, Gidion Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound.
[ORANGISTS]. · 1685
€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)
28 pp.Orangist reaction and critical commentary on the satirical pamphlet Missive van Parnas, geschreven door Hugo de Groot (Dordrecht?), no printer, (1685); see 262a), written in the same ‘antique’ tune, on the procedures for the nominations and appointments in the last part ...
Missive van Parnas, geschreven door Hugo de Groot, aen N.N. syn goede vriend in ’s Gravenhage, in dato den 22 January 1685.[Dordrecht?], [no publisher], [1685]. 4to. Modern brown wrappers.
Missive van Parnas, geschreven door Hugo de Groot, aen N.N. syn goede vriend in ’s Gravenhage, in dato den 22 January 1685.[Dordrecht?], [no publisher], [1685]. 4to. Modern brown wrappers.
[DORDRECHT]. · 1583
€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)
8 pp.Though signed as ‘Hugo de Groot’ (the famous scholar and jurisconsult Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), this satirical pamphlet from 1685 is by an anonymous writer using Grotius’ name as a pseudonym and using also many other classical names and places (the Parnas, etc.) to denoun...
Trouwhartige aanspraak, aan alle borgers en ingeseetenen der stadt Amsterdam.[No place, no publisher], 1684. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Modern brown wrappers.
Trouwhartige aanspraak, aan alle borgers en ingeseetenen der stadt Amsterdam.[No place, no publisher], 1684. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Modern brown wrappers.
[FAGEL, Caspar?]. · 1597
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
12 pp.Fiery defense of the burghers of Amsterdam and the policy of the Amsterdam burgomasters and City Council, and of the unity of the Dutch Union of 1597 against various pamphlets - a.o. a pamphlet by an anonymous "Philateles" (lover of the truth) - perhaps written by Caspar...
Advys van een goed Patriot des Vaderlants, over de tegenwoordige saecken van Staet.[No place, no publisher], [1680]. 4to. Later brown wrappers.
Advys van een goed Patriot des Vaderlants, over de tegenwoordige saecken van Staet.[No place, no publisher], [1680]. 4to. Later brown wrappers.
[H.N.v.G.?]. · 1680
€425.00 ($468.43 | £354.56 | ¥74,802)
16 pp.One of three issues of an interesting letter written by ‘H.N.v.G.’, dated Amsterdam, 27 January 1680 in answer to a letter by his friend dated 23 January. The writer gives his opinion on the state of affairs in The Netherlands in relation to its neighbors England and Fra...
Resolutien ende missiven van de Edele Moogende Heeren Staten van Frieslandt, ende d’Heeren der selver Gedeputeerden, ter occasie van seeckere Remonstrantie overgegeven aen Haer Ho: Mo: de Staten Generael der vereenighde Nederlanden.Leeuwarden, Rinnert Sydtses Arumsma, 1678. 4to. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of the States General on the title-page and woodcut initials. Later brown wrappers.
Resolutien ende missiven van de Edele Moogende Heeren Staten van Frieslandt, ende d’Heeren der selver Gedeputeerden, ter occasie van seeckere Remonstrantie overgegeven aen Haer Ho: Mo: de Staten Generael der vereenighde Nederlanden.Leeuwarden, Rinnert Sydtses Arumsma, 1678. 4to. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of the States General on the title-page and woodcut initials. Later brown wrappers.
[PAMPHLET - FRIESLAND]. · 1678
€550.00 ($606.20 | £458.85 | ¥96,802)
20 pp.First issue published in February 1678 on a petition presented to the States General by a number of Frisian noblemen and qualified citizens with complains and accusations regarding the appointment of magistrates and the judicature in Friesland; extract: letter and answer...
Ordre du jour, du 29 nivôse an 9 [19 janvier 1801].Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 29 nivôse an IX [= 19 January 1801 CE]. Small folio (21.5 x 31 cm). Printed in French and Arabic in two columns.
Ordre du jour, du 29 nivôse an 9 [19 janvier 1801].Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 29 nivôse an IX [= 19 January 1801 CE]. Small folio (21.5 x 31 cm). Printed in French and Arabic in two columns.
MENOU, Jacques-François de Boussay de. · 1798
€5,800.00 ($6,392.66 | £4,838.74 | ¥1,020,824)
2 pp.A rare broadsheet from the first printing press in the Arab world, announcing the peace concluded between Napoleon and the rulers of Algiers and Tunis: "Je vous annonce qu’il nous est parvenu récemment des lettres de la part du Gouvernement de la République Française, et ...
Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright.Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, [1910]. 1 text volume and 2 portfolios with lithographed plates. 1mo (plates, ca. 64 x 40 cm) and folio (text volume, 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-LXIV, printed 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. Both portfolios and text leaves are kept in a larger, later beige half cloth portfolio (ca. 65 x 43 cm) with brown paper sides, three protective flaps and white ties.
Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright.Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, [1910]. 1 text volume and 2 portfolios with lithographed plates. 1mo (plates, ca. 64 x 40 cm) and folio (text volume, 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-LXIV, printed 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. Both portfolios and text leaves are kept in a larger, later beige half cloth portfolio (ca. 65 x 43 cm) with brown paper sides, three protective flaps and white ties.
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. · 1867
€65,000.00 ($71,641.83 | £54,227.29 | ¥11,440,274)
30, [1], [1 blank] pp.; plus 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 ...
Tragedie Cristiane.Naples, Felice Mosca, 1729. 2 volumes in 1. Large 8vo. With two title-pages in red and black, an engraved frontispiece by Jeremias Jakob Sedelmayr after Francesco Solimena, an engraved author's portrait by Antonio Baldi and 11 engraved plates by Sedelmayr and Baldi after Solimena, accompanying the 10 tragedies and the dedication. Also with some engraved initials, woodcut tailpieces and 40 pages of engraved polyphonic music for the choruses. Contemporary gold-tooled brown goatskin morocco, gilt and gauffered edges with an intricate fore-edge painting, incorporating both a closed and fanned design for the fore-edge. The head and foot edges are painted with floral and botanical designs.
Tragedie Cristiane.Naples, Felice Mosca, 1729. 2 volumes in 1. Large 8vo. With two title-pages in red and black, an engraved frontispiece by Jeremias Jakob Sedelmayr after Francesco Solimena, an engraved author's portrait by Antonio Baldi and 11 engraved plates by Sedelmayr and Baldi after Solimena, accompanying the 10 tragedies and the dedication. Also with some engraved initials, woodcut tailpieces and 40 pages of engraved polyphonic music for the choruses. Contemporary gold-tooled brown goatskin morocco, gilt and gauffered edges with an intricate fore-edge painting, incorporating both a closed and fanned design for the fore-edge. The head and foot edges are painted with floral and botanical designs.
MARCHESE, Duca Annibale. · 1687
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[4], [16], 502; [4], 504, [2]; pp. plus 40 pp. of engraved music.First and only edition of a collection of 10 Italian Christian tragedies, written by the Naples poet Duca Annibale Marchese (1687-1753). It is illustrated with beautiful engravings after the important Italian bar...
Catalogue raisonné de la collection de livres de M. Pierre Antoine Crevenna, négociant à Amsterdam.[Amsterdam], [Crevenna], 1776. 6 volumes. Large 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm). With an engraved title vignette in each volume. Uniform contemporary calf.
Catalogue raisonné de la collection de livres de M. Pierre Antoine Crevenna, négociant à Amsterdam.[Amsterdam], [Crevenna], 1776. 6 volumes. Large 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm). With an engraved title vignette in each volume. Uniform contemporary calf.
[CREVENNA, Pierre Antoine Bolongaro, and Carl’ Andrea OLTOLINA]. · 1736
€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)
[2], VIII, 149, [1]; [2], 244, [1], [1 blank]; 322, [1], [1 blank]; 327, [1]; 346, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 336, [3], [1 blank] pp.Rare and famous catalogue of the private library of one of the most important 18th-century book collectors, the Amsterdam tobacco merchant Pietro Anto...
Publicatie. Wy Mr. Jan Gerhard Wichers. Generaal Majoor, in dienst van den Staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Gouverneur Generaal over de colonie Surinaame, rivieren en districten van dien mitsgaaders Collonel en Cheff der gezaamentlijke militie deezer landen, &c. &c. &c, en de raaden van politie en criminele justitie der voorz. colonie &c. &c.[Paramaribo, W. H. Poppelmann, 1786]. Broadsheet (50.5 x 36 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of the Society of Suriname at the head.
Publicatie. Wy Mr. Jan Gerhard Wichers. Generaal Majoor, in dienst van den Staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Gouverneur Generaal over de colonie Surinaame, rivieren en districten van dien mitsgaaders Collonel en Cheff der gezaamentlijke militie deezer landen, &c. &c. &c, en de raaden van politie en criminele justitie der voorz. colonie &c. &c.[Paramaribo, W. H. Poppelmann, 1786]. Broadsheet (50.5 x 36 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of the Society of Suriname at the head.
WICHERS, Jan Gerhard. · 1713
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
[1] leaf.In this broadsheet, the governor general of Suriname, Jan Gerhard Wichers, and the councils of the local police and justice department announce an obligatory day of prayer and contemplation for all inhabitants of the colony, including enslaved people. Not only is it f...
Il Mar Baltico e le sue coste descritti e illustrati con alcune carte geografiche topografiche ed orografiche per la guerre d'Oriente.Triest, Colombo Coen, 1854. Large 4to (32.5 x 23.5 cm). With 1 folding map of the Baltic Sea as the frontispiece, 1 military plan of Kronstadt, 15 plates of Finnish, Swedish, Baltic and Russian cities, and 1 small illustration in the text on p. 58. Contemporary half brown cloth, grey paper sides, with the publisher’s front wrapper (for the “seconda edizione”) printed letterpress on pink paper.
Il Mar Baltico e le sue coste descritti e illustrati con alcune carte geografiche topografiche ed orografiche per la guerre d'Oriente.Triest, Colombo Coen, 1854. Large 4to (32.5 x 23.5 cm). With 1 folding map of the Baltic Sea as the frontispiece, 1 military plan of Kronstadt, 15 plates of Finnish, Swedish, Baltic and Russian cities, and 1 small illustration in the text on p. 58. Contemporary half brown cloth, grey paper sides, with the publisher’s front wrapper (for the “seconda edizione”) printed letterpress on pink paper.
[BOSCHETTI, Ambrogio]. · 1854
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
131, [1] pp.Italian description of cities along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, mainly in Finland, Sweden, the Baltic states and Russia, published in 1854 in the context of the Crimean War (October 1853 to February 1856). The main reason for this conflict between Russia and an a...
Surface sediments of the Persian Gulf near the Qatar Peninsula.The Hague, Mouton & co., 1957. Large 8vo. With 8 leaves with reproductions of (microscopic) photographs, 8 loosely inserted folding tables and maps, , a loose leaf with theses in Dutch and Houbolt's business card. Original publisher's black cloth.
Surface sediments of the Persian Gulf near the Qatar Peninsula.The Hague, Mouton & co., 1957. Large 8vo. With 8 leaves with reproductions of (microscopic) photographs, 8 loosely inserted folding tables and maps, , a loose leaf with theses in Dutch and Houbolt's business card. Original publisher's black cloth.
HOUBOLT, Jacob Jozef Herman Christiaan.
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
113, [1 blank], [8] pp.First edition of a thesis on sediment samples of the Arabian Gulf, by the Dutch Jacob Jozef Herman Christiaan Houbolt. He mentions in his preface that the samples were "collected as a sideline of operational activities in the marine concession of Shell C...
West-Indische Paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over wederzijden van de middellijn wassende so vergrooten dat die geproportioneert sijn tegen hunne nevenstaende graden de lengde. Vertonende behalve[n] Europaes zuydelijcste alle de zeekusten van Africa en America begrepen in 't Octroy bij de H.M.H. Staten Generael der vereenichde Nederl. verleent aende Generale West Indische Compagnie. Mitsgaders die van Peru en Chili inde groote Zuyd-Zee.Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, [ca. 1660]. Printed on vellum (ca. 80 x 98 cm) from one large copperplate engraving, partly coloured by a contemporary hand.
West-Indische Paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over wederzijden van de middellijn wassende so vergrooten dat die geproportioneert sijn tegen hunne nevenstaende graden de lengde. Vertonende behalve[n] Europaes zuydelijcste alle de zeekusten van Africa en America begrepen in 't Octroy bij de H.M.H. Staten Generael der vereenichde Nederl. verleent aende Generale West Indische Compagnie. Mitsgaders die van Peru en Chili inde groote Zuyd-Zee.Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, [ca. 1660]. Printed on vellum (ca. 80 x 98 cm) from one large copperplate engraving, partly coloured by a contemporary hand.
GOOS, Pieter. · 1571
€185,000.00 ($203,903.67 | £154,339.21 | ¥32,560,781)
The West-Indische Paskaert engraved by Pieter Goos, in its rare first state, a nautical chart prepared for the Dutch West India Company (WIC) as an aid to crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the trading regions of the Americas and visiting trading posts in Africa. It shows parts of...
't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden. Zynde een volkomen en klare onderwyzinge der navigatie, bestaande in 't geen een stuurman hoognodig behoorde te weten.Amsterdam, Joannes van Keulen & sons, [not before 1774]. With an engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved circle figures with moving volvelles, 1 engraved mathematical and geometrical folding plate, many tables (some folding) and many mathematical and geometrical woodcut illustrations and figures in the text.With: (2) DOUWES, Bernardus Joannes. Tafelen, bevattende 1°. De sinussen, tangenten en secanten, van minuut tot minuut voor ieder boog van het quadrant, in hunne natuurlyke getallen, op een radius van 10.000.000. 2°. Derzelver logarithmen. 3°. De logarithmen der gewoone getallen, in hunne natuurlyke orde van opvolging, van 1 tot 10.000. 4°. De vergrootende breedten, in tiende-deelen van minuuten. 5°. De streektafelen, naar het plat en het rond, voor ieder geheele compasstreek van een vierde-rond. Nieuwe, naauwkeurige en veel verbeterde uitgaave.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1779. Completely filled with mathematical tables.(3) [drop title:] Tafel van de lengte en breedte der meest bekende zee-plaatzen.[Amsterdam?, Gerard Hulst van Keulen?, ca. 1779?].3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.
't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden. Zynde een volkomen en klare onderwyzinge der navigatie, bestaande in 't geen een stuurman hoognodig behoorde te weten.Amsterdam, Joannes van Keulen & sons, [not before 1774]. With an engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved circle figures with moving volvelles, 1 engraved mathematical and geometrical folding plate, many tables (some folding) and many mathematical and geometrical woodcut illustrations and figures in the text.With: (2) DOUWES, Bernardus Joannes. Tafelen, bevattende 1°. De sinussen, tangenten en secanten, van minuut tot minuut voor ieder boog van het quadrant, in hunne natuurlyke getallen, op een radius van 10.000.000. 2°. Derzelver logarithmen. 3°. De logarithmen der gewoone getallen, in hunne natuurlyke orde van opvolging, van 1 tot 10.000. 4°. De vergrootende breedten, in tiende-deelen van minuuten. 5°. De streektafelen, naar het plat en het rond, voor ieder geheele compasstreek van een vierde-rond. Nieuwe, naauwkeurige en veel verbeterde uitgaave.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1779. Completely filled with mathematical tables.(3) [drop title:] Tafel van de lengte en breedte der meest bekende zee-plaatzen.[Amsterdam?, Gerard Hulst van Keulen?, ca. 1779?].3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.
GIETERMAKER, Klaas Hendriksz. · 1621
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
Ad 1: [8], 106; 152, 8; 97; 98-120 pp. Ad 2: [233], [1 blank] pp. Ad 3: 39, [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: Highly popular work on the art of navigation by the Dutch mathematician Klaas Hendriksz. Gietermaker (1621-1699), first published in 1660. In 1661 Gietermaker was employed as examine...
Beredeneerde catalogus van een zeer fraaie, capitaale en pragtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den Heere G. R. Zullende ... by exëcutie verkogt worden binnen London, ... in ... May of Juny deezes jaars. Door de makelaers Thomas Brandi, William Roastbeuf en James Punch, ... Derde druk.Amsterdam, Johannes Geyger, [1781].With: (2) Commissie brief van den heere Wilhelmus Batavus, een aanzienlyke Nederlandsche patriot, aan den heere Lambertus Koopmans, commissionair te Londen. Benevens een notitie der commissien, door gemelden heer Batavus gegeeven, op de fraaye capitaale en prachtige inbedoel des heeren G.R.[The Hague?, 1781].(3) Catalogus van eene zo ongemeene zeldzaame, als uitmuntende verzameling van manuschripten[!]. ... byeen vergadert door den Lord W. Gordon ...London [= Amsterdam or The Hague?], sold by Thomas Henly, [1781].(4) Beredeneerde notitie van 't vorstlyke poppe- en speel-goed, der kinderen van den heere G.R. ... [Amsterdam?, 1781].(5) Sleutel of noodige ophelderingen der onlangs uitgekomene catalogus, van een fraaije capitaale en prachtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den heere G.R. ...Dordrecht, Abraham and Pieter Blussé; Rotterdam, Cornelis van den Dries; etc., [1781]. (6) Beredeneerde catalogus eener verzameling van schilderyen, der eerste meesters van Nederland.The Hague, Thomas Pietersz. van Os, [1783/1789?].(7) Beredeneerde catalogus, van eene uitmuntende verzameling schilderyen, door de vermaardste Nederlandsche meesters, uit het Fransch vertaald.Holland, 1783.7 fictitious auction catalogues in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 2: the introductory letter, from “Wilhelmus Batavus” to “Lambertus Koopmans” is dated from The Hague, 15 February 1781. Ad 3: the introductory letter, from Thomas Henly, is dated 2 February 1781. Ad 4: this catalogue presents itself as a second appendix to ad 1. Both the original catalogue and the first appendix describing themselves as catalogues for the sale in May or June 1781. Ad 6: with the supposedly authenticating woodcut on the title-page, showing the coat of arms of William the Silent hanging from a memorial cross. Contemporary half mottled calf, brown spine label with blind-tooled text and with some gold-tooled floral decorations, 20th-century marbled sides and endpapers.
Beredeneerde catalogus van een zeer fraaie, capitaale en pragtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den Heere G. R. Zullende ... by exëcutie verkogt worden binnen London, ... in ... May of Juny deezes jaars. Door de makelaers Thomas Brandi, William Roastbeuf en James Punch, ... Derde druk.Amsterdam, Johannes Geyger, [1781].With: (2) Commissie brief van den heere Wilhelmus Batavus, een aanzienlyke Nederlandsche patriot, aan den heere Lambertus Koopmans, commissionair te Londen. Benevens een notitie der commissien, door gemelden heer Batavus gegeeven, op de fraaye capitaale en prachtige inbedoel des heeren G.R.[The Hague?, 1781].(3) Catalogus van eene zo ongemeene zeldzaame, als uitmuntende verzameling van manuschripten[!]. ... byeen vergadert door den Lord W. Gordon ...London [= Amsterdam or The Hague?], sold by Thomas Henly, [1781].(4) Beredeneerde notitie van 't vorstlyke poppe- en speel-goed, der kinderen van den heere G.R. ... [Amsterdam?, 1781].(5) Sleutel of noodige ophelderingen der onlangs uitgekomene catalogus, van een fraaije capitaale en prachtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den heere G.R. ...Dordrecht, Abraham and Pieter Blussé; Rotterdam, Cornelis van den Dries; etc., [1781]. (6) Beredeneerde catalogus eener verzameling van schilderyen, der eerste meesters van Nederland.The Hague, Thomas Pietersz. van Os, [1783/1789?].(7) Beredeneerde catalogus, van eene uitmuntende verzameling schilderyen, door de vermaardste Nederlandsche meesters, uit het Fransch vertaald.Holland, 1783.7 fictitious auction catalogues in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 2: the introductory letter, from “Wilhelmus Batavus” to “Lambertus Koopmans” is dated from The Hague, 15 February 1781. Ad 3: the introductory letter, from Thomas Henly, is dated 2 February 1781. Ad 4: this catalogue presents itself as a second appendix to ad 1. Both the original catalogue and the first appendix describing themselves as catalogues for the sale in May or June 1781. Ad 6: with the supposedly authenticating woodcut on the title-page, showing the coat of arms of William the Silent hanging from a memorial cross. Contemporary half mottled calf, brown spine label with blind-tooled text and with some gold-tooled floral decorations, 20th-century marbled sides and endpapers.
[AUCTION CATALOGUES - FICTITIOUS]. · 1780
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
[4], 27, [1]; 16; 16; 16; 15, [1]; 32; 37, [2 blank] pp.Collection of 7 fictitious auction catalogues, satirically describing the lots supposedly offered for sale. These catalogues, all in Dutch, were published mostly during the Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784), which threatened th...
Atlas portatilis coelestis. Oder Compendiöse Vorstellung des gantzen Welt-Gebäudes in den Anfangs-Gründen des wahren Astronomie...; sondern auch zugleich daraus, sich einen bessern Begriff von dem wahren Fundament sowol der Geographie als Schiffahrt zueignen kan.Nürnberg, Johann Christoph Weigel, printed by Johann Ernst Adelbulner, 1723. Large 8vo. With a double-page title page printed in red and black and XXVIII (38) engraved plates (1 double-page) with celestial maps, globes, armillary spheres and astronomical diagrams and constellations, coloured by a contemporary hand and tipped onto the fore-edge, folding out so that they can be viewed while reading the book. Contemporary calf.
Atlas portatilis coelestis. Oder Compendiöse Vorstellung des gantzen Welt-Gebäudes in den Anfangs-Gründen des wahren Astronomie...; sondern auch zugleich daraus, sich einen bessern Begriff von dem wahren Fundament sowol der Geographie als Schiffahrt zueignen kan.Nürnberg, Johann Christoph Weigel, printed by Johann Ernst Adelbulner, 1723. Large 8vo. With a double-page title page printed in red and black and XXVIII (38) engraved plates (1 double-page) with celestial maps, globes, armillary spheres and astronomical diagrams and constellations, coloured by a contemporary hand and tipped onto the fore-edge, folding out so that they can be viewed while reading the book. Contemporary calf.
ROST, Johann Leonard. · 1688
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[16], 362, [22] pp.First edition of Rost's "Taschenatlas", a portable celestial atlas published as an astronomical handbook and lavishly illustrated with celestial maps, globes, spheres, constellations and diagrams. Johann Leonard Rost (1688-1727), a German astronomer, was str...
Verhael van het gepasseerde over het geluckigh arrivement van Sijn Hoogheydt den Heere Prince van Orange, alhier in Den Hage op den achtsten December 1673. des avondts ende den volgenden dagh voor-gevallen. Midtsgaders overdenckinge van de voorledene en jegenwoordige tijdt.[The Hague], [Crispyn Hoeckwater?], [1673]. 4to. Disbound.
Verhael van het gepasseerde over het geluckigh arrivement van Sijn Hoogheydt den Heere Prince van Orange, alhier in Den Hage op den achtsten December 1673. des avondts ende den volgenden dagh voor-gevallen. Midtsgaders overdenckinge van de voorledene en jegenwoordige tijdt.[The Hague], [Crispyn Hoeckwater?], [1673]. 4to. Disbound.
[HOECKWATER, Crispyn]. [WILLIAM III OF ORANGE (subject)]. · 1672
€225.00 ($247.99 | £187.71 | ¥39,601)
7, [1 blank] pp.An enthusiastic Orangist’s eye-witness account of the Stadtholder Willem III’s triumphal entry into The Hague, returning from his army’s successful campaigns against France, which had invaded the Dutch Republic in the “rampjaar” (year of disaster) 1672. He entr...
Conditien ende articulen, van het Quartier Generael, aengaende het wisselen ende rantçoeneren der gevangens, over een gekomen ende gheslooten tusschen den Heere Hertogh van Luxemburgh … ende den Heere Grave van Hornes …The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1673. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Modern wrappers.
Conditien ende articulen, van het Quartier Generael, aengaende het wisselen ende rantçoeneren der gevangens, over een gekomen ende gheslooten tusschen den Heere Hertogh van Luxemburgh … ende den Heere Grave van Hornes …The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1673. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Modern wrappers.
[FRENCH-DUTCH WAR - FRANÇOIS OF MONTMORENCY & WILLIAM ADRIAAN II OF HORNE]. · 1672
€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)
8 pp.First edition of a highly interesting agreement regarding the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war taken captive, whether by the French or by the Dutch army during the French-Dutch war of 1672-1673 (the “rampjaar” or year of disaster). The agreement was concluded on...
Australian orchids.Sydney, Thomas Richards (vol. 1, part 1-2, 4-7; vol. 2, part 1-2), Charles Potter (vol. 1, part 3; vol. 2, part 4 & 5) & George Stephan Chapman (vol. 2, part 4), [1875--1894]. 12 parts in 2 volumes (vol. 1: part 1-7; vol. 2: part 1-5). Large folio (ca. 50 x 34 cm). With 118 lithographed plates (10 double-page) all but 1 coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour. The plates were all drawn by Fitzgerald and lithographed by himself and Arthur J. Stopps. All plates are interleaved with accompanying letterpress descriptions. Contemporary half cloth in a uniform style (various colours) with the original publisher's wrappers (also in various colours: yellow, green, blue, turquoise) mounted on the cloth. The 12 volumes are preserved in 20th-century green cloth boxes with a uniform black morocco spine label.
Australian orchids.Sydney, Thomas Richards (vol. 1, part 1-2, 4-7; vol. 2, part 1-2), Charles Potter (vol. 1, part 3; vol. 2, part 4 & 5) & George Stephan Chapman (vol. 2, part 4), [1875--1894]. 12 parts in 2 volumes (vol. 1: part 1-7; vol. 2: part 1-5). Large folio (ca. 50 x 34 cm). With 118 lithographed plates (10 double-page) all but 1 coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour. The plates were all drawn by Fitzgerald and lithographed by himself and Arthur J. Stopps. All plates are interleaved with accompanying letterpress descriptions. Contemporary half cloth in a uniform style (various colours) with the original publisher's wrappers (also in various colours: yellow, green, blue, turquoise) mounted on the cloth. The 12 volumes are preserved in 20th-century green cloth boxes with a uniform black morocco spine label.
FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond. · 1830
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
118 plates plus letterpress descriptions.First edition of one of the earliest studies on Australian orchids, by Robert Desmond Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald (1830-1892) was an Australian deputy surveyor-general and botanical artist of Irish birth, who lived in Sydney from 1856. He is...