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[Views in the vicinity of Brussels].[Antwerp], Hans van Luyck, [ca. 1575/80]. Oblong folio album (24.5 x 35.5 cm). Series of 24 engravings (plate size ca. 20 x 14 cm) with views of landscapes around Brussels, by Hans I Collaert possibly after Hans Bol or Jacob Grimmer, each with a caption in the plate (plates 8 and 20 also with Van Luyck and Collaert's monograms "H.V.L.EX[cudit]" and "H.C.F[ecit]"). Trimmed down to the plate edge and mounted on album leaves, numbered in pencil on the album leaves, next to the engravings. Modern red half cloth, marbled sides.

COLLAERT, Hans I [after Hans BOL or Jacob GRIMMER?]. · 1525

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

[24] ll.Album with the complete series of Collaert's views around Brussels, here in its first unnumbered state, published by Hans van Luyck in Antwerp. Hans I Collaert (ca. 1525/30 - 1585) was a painter-draughtsman who founded the influential Collaert dynasty of engravers and ...

To Major General Sir Scudamore Winde Steel K. C. B. late commander of the forces in Pegue &c ....Madras, 10 April 1856. Manuscript in ink on a large single sheet of vellum (ca. 62 x 73 cm). With the hand drawn coat-of-arms of Scudamore Winde Steel in ink at the head of the text and with 106 signatures of British residents of Madras at the foot of the text. Folded.

STEEL, Scudamore Winde (subject). · 1789

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

[1] leaf.A letter of appreciation by 106 of the most prominent British inhabitants of Madras for Sir Scudamore Winde Steel (1789-1865), presented to him upon his departure from Madras, on 10 April 1856. Steel was seen by his fellows as “one of the most distinguished officers o...

[115 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates picturing 18th-century European military life].Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, ca. 1742. Folio. 115 engraved and magnificent hand-coloured plates, highlighted with gold and silver, drawn by C.P. Maj and executed and printed by the Augsburg engraver and art publisher Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756). With separately printed engraved captions consisting of a (sometimes 2-line) title and a poem of 4 or 5 lines in French below each plate (except plates 55-56 which have a German caption printed below and a French caption in the plate), pointing out the characteristics of the man depicted. Modern red morroco, marbled sides.

ENGELBRECHT, Martin & C.P. MAJ. · 1746

€38,000.00 ($41,882.92 | £31,702.11 | ¥6,688,160)

115 plates.Extremely rare suite with 115 hand-coloured plates of the protagonists of the Austrian Succession wars. This collection of costume plates is very rare: neither Lipperheide nor Colas records it and we find only a few separate plates on the market and in libraries. We...

Kern des Bybels.The Hague, Anthoni de Groot and sons, 1750. 128mo (or possibly 96mo) in 4s (4.5 x 3 x 1 cm). Title-page in red and black with a woodcut title-vignette (an open book on a shell, with decorations), 7 full-page (3.3 x 1.6 cm!) woodcuts depicting important scenes from the Bible (1 as frontispiece and 1 opening each of the 5 “books” and the appendix). Contemporary gold-tooled calf.

[MINIATURE BOOK - BIBLE]. · 1750

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

80 pp.First (and only Dutch) edition (deluxe issue with the title page and 12 other pages printed in red and black) of De Groot’s “thumb Bible”, one of the curious miniature books printed in the Netherlands in the mid-18th century, in a tiny roman type (37 mm/20 lines or 5.5 p...

Geschiedenis van America. Uit het Engelsch vertaald [by P. Loosjes].Amsterdam, Yntema & Tieboell, 1778. 4 volumes. 8vo. With woodcut title-vignettes; 4 folding maps by Thomas Kitchin (1718-1784), representing (1) the Gulf of Mexico with adjacent countries and islands; (2) Mexico or New Spain; (3) South America and (4) Central America and the South Sea; and a folding plate showing part of the 14th-century Mixtec Codex Vindobonensis. Uniform contemporary half calf.

ROBERTSON, William; [Petrus LOOSJES, transl.]. · 1777

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

XXXII, 378; 307; XIV, 15-439; IV, 7-322, [65] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation by P. Loosjes of William Robertson’s highly important history of the discovery of America, first published in 1777 as The history of America, an immensely popular anthropological account of...

Historie van Granada, van de Borgherlijcke Oorlogen, ende andere, die in het Granadijnsche coninckrijcke geschiet sijn, van de Mooren tegens de Christenen, tot dat de stadt ghewonnen wert van den koninck Don Fernando de vijfde. Met een discours van de incomste der Mooren in Spaengien (ende hare geschiedenissen) met haren uytgang. Getraduceert uyt de Spaensche in Nederduytsche tale, door Isaac Jansz. Bijl.Haarlem, Vincent Casteleyn, for Jan Evertsz.Cloppenburch, Amsterdam, 1615. 8vo. Woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

[PÉREZ DE HITA, Ginés (ABENHAMIN)]. · 1492

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

504 pp.First and only edition of a highly interesting “History of Granada” from the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula (ca. 725-770) to the Reconquista, and Granada’s capitulation in 1492 to the forces of Ferdinand V and Isabella, King and Queen of Aragón and Castile, si...

[Drop-title:] Notitie van een groote party curieuse kanten, stokgronden en spiegeltralies, als mede Haarlemmer kant, mionetten, pieten, genayde kant, tippen en bandonnen, voor-en achter- werken, langetten, geborduurde schorteldoeken, neusdoeken en dassen, gestikte mans en vrouwe mussen, &c. ... nagelaten by Adriana Smits, wed. van Jan Calenberg. Welke goederen verkogt zullen werden op vrydag, den 15. December 1724. Ten huyze van Harmanus Dreesing in de Keyzers Kroon, in de Kalverstraat ...Amsterdam, Marten Smets, [1724]. 4to (16.5 x 21 cm). Formerly sewn through 3 holes but never bound.

[DREESING, Harmanus]. · 1724

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

[8] pp.Only copy located of the first and only edition of an auction catalogue that lists a variety of valuable textiles offered for sale on 15 December 1724 at the premises of Harmanus Dreesing in Amsterdam’s Kalverstraat. The kinds of textiles offered at the sale include lac...

Description des cotes meridionales d'Arabie, depuis l'entre de la Mer Rouge jusqu'a celle du Golfe Persique.Paris, Paul Dupont, 1849. 8vo. Later library cloth with original publisher's printed paper front wrapper bound in.

HAINES, Stafford-Bettesworth.

€3,850.00 ($4,243.40 | £3,211.92 | ¥677,616)

92 pp.Offprint from an article in the French Annales hydrographiques, describing the coasts of Yemen and Oman from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf. The work first appeared in English in the London geographical journal .... The present French translation was done by J. Passama ...

[Photograph album containing pictures of New South Wales and Tasmania].[Australia, 1870s-1880s]. 16.5 x 37 cm. With 34 mounted albumen prints, mostly between 10 x 15 cm and 18 x 23.5 cm, with the smallest ca. 7 x 10 cm, most of them captioned underneath in ink. Oblong half morocco photo album, titled "Queensland" on the front.

PAINE, John & Steven SPURLING II. · 1833

€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)

18 ll.Large album containing photographs of Australia in the late 19th century. Although titled "Queensland" on the front cover, the album does not actually contain a single picture showing the territory of Queensland. The first 17 portray several official buildings in Sydney ...

Civil service commission pamphlet containing the question papers of the preliminary and interpretership tests in Arabic used at an examination held in June 1938 of officers of the Army and Air Force. Crown copyright reserved.London, printed and published at Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1938. Folio. Printed in English and Arabic. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, in later blue paper wrappers.

[GREAT BRITAIN - ARABIC]. · 1936

€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)

10 pp.British government publication of an interpretership examination for Arabic translation. It provides the examination questions that officers in the Army and Air Force had to answer correctly to pass as an interpreter of Arabic. The work contains several questions that in...

Civil service commission pamphlet containing the question papers of the preliminary and interpretership tests in Arabic used at an examination held in June 1936 of the officers of the Royal Air Force. Crown copyright reserved.London, printed and published at Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1936. Folio. Printed in English and Arabic. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, in later blue paper wrappers.

[GREAT BRITAIN - ARABIC]. · 1936

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

10 pp.British government publication of an interpretership examination for Arabic translation. It provides the examination questions that officers in the Royal Air Force had to answer correctly to pass as an interpreter of Arabic. The work contains several questions that inclu...

An abridged Arabic grammar with one hundred and fifty simple conversational scentences and a vocabulary of two thousand five hundred words.Aden, printed at the Aden Special Prison Press, [1917]. Square 8vo. Printed in English and Arabic type. With a tipped-in paper slip on the title-page: "Since the issue of the first edition it has been possible to test this grammar in regard to its utility in Mesopotamia. The result has been to confirm the correctness of the claim made in para four of the preface". Original publisher's printed hard board covers with red cloth spine.

NORBURY, Paul Fitzgerald. · 1879

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

IV, 68 pp.Second edition of an extremely rare war time English-Arabic dictionary, only the British Library owns a copy. The present second edition was published in the same year as the first and was enlarged with a vocabulary, while the first edition had the grammar only. The ...

Reporting proceedings on detached boat service.Zanzibar, 9 July 1886. Folio (ca. 20 x 32 cm), with the Britannia watermark. Signed manuscript letter. Loose single sheet.

LLOYD, Rodney Maclaine. · 1841

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

[1] pp.Handwritten eye witness account of British chasing Arab slavers at sea near Kwale and Pungume Islands at Zanzibar (Tanzania), for the purpose of suppressing the African slave trade. Written onboard the HMS Briton by Royal Navy Admiral Rodney Maclaine Lloyd (1841-1911) o...

[Large collection of journal articles about the scientific exploration of Western and Central Asia and India].Including:- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. - Geographical Journal.- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.- Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society.- Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.- Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society.- National Geographic.Various places, a.o. London and Calcutta, various publishers, 1837-1981. 107 volumes, many containing multiple articles. 8vo. Some illustrated with plates and maps. Half calf with marbled sides and gilt lettering on spine or cloth with marbled sides and label on spine.

[JOURNALS – WESTERN AND CENTRAL ASIA; INDIA], Olaf CAROE, Aurel STEIN, Richard TEMPLE, Francis YOUNGHUSBAND et al.

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

Handsomely bound, extraordinary collection of important scientific journal articles by 19th and 20th century Western explorers of Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, the Himalayas, India (including Assam, Bengal, Kashmir, and Punjab), Karakoram, Pakistan (including Sindh), and T...

A.M.D.G. Grammatica Latino-Tamulica, in qua de vulgari Tamulicae linguae idiomate [in Tamil type: kotun tamil] dicto, fusius tractatur … Novo edition cum notis, et compendio grammaticae de elegatiori dialecto [1 word in Tamil type] dicta, ab uno missionario apostolico congregationis missionum ad externos.Puducherry, Apostolic Missionary Printing Office, 1843. 4to. Text set partly in 2 sizes of Tamil type. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine.

BESCHI, Constanzo Guiseppe. · 1680

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[4], VIII, 215, [1 blank], 28, [2] pp.Rare fourth (first Puducherry) edition of the first Tamil dictionary, a ground-breaking linguistic work by the missionary Constanzo Beschi (1680-1747), first published at Tranquebar in 1738 and 1742 and at Madras in 1813. References to an ...

Nederlandsche oudheden, bestaande in zestig vebeeldingen, zo van geheele als vervallene heeren huizen, sloten, burgten en kasteelen, gelegen in Holland, 't Sticht van Utrecht en Gelderland enz. Meerendeels na 't leeven getekent door ...Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1721. Oblong folio (21 x 29 cm). With 60 etched and engraved plates and a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary vellum.

ROGHMAN, Roeland; Jacobus SCHYNVOET. · 1711

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

[2] pp., [60] engraved ll.Very rare second separate edition of a series of sixty views of ruins, castles and noble residences, drawn mostly by Roeland Roghman (Rochman), engraved by Jacob Schynvoet and first published in 1711. Most are in the province of Holland, but some come...

Anilinovi boi za vulna, poluvulna, pamuku i izk[ustvena] koprina. [Aniline dyes for wool, blended wool fabric and cotton].Sofia & Cherven Bryag, Alexander & Stoyan P. Darakchiev, [1938?]. With 256 well-preserved wool yarn and fabric samples showing a wide range of colours of aniline dyes, solidly mounted on thick cardboard. Original publisher’s gold-stamped black cloth with the “Krone” logo on the front board and title and publisher on the front board and spine.

[FABRICS - NATIONAL SOCIALISM - KRONE]. · 1938

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

26 pp.A well-preserved [1938?] collection of fabric swatches and yarn samples dyed in various colours and several varieties: wool, shajak (a fine Bulgarian wool fabric), blended wool, sulan (a heavier Bulgarian fabric) and ”kunstseide” (probably rayon), published by the Bulgar...

A Christmas pilgrimage to the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. in Persia made by P.B.C.. S.C.. H.P.C.[Greece, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, 1931-1932]. Oblong photograph album (20.5 x 32 cm). With 72 sepia photographs (ca. 6 x 8.5 cm).

[ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY - PHOTOGRAPHS]. [CHAPPELL, Henry Pegg (photographer)]. · 1931

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

[19], [5 blank] ll.Album of personal photographs, commemorating a journey in 1931-1932 to the oilfields in modern Iran and Iraq, by a trio of travellers which included the Reverend Philip "Tubby" Clayton (1885-1972), the founder of the Toc H movement. Several photographs show ...

Hand-cut woodblock bearing the text "Safr Nishd al-nishad li-Süleyman ..." (Book of the Song of songs of Solomon) in naskh Arabic script.[Probably Ottoman provinces, mid-18th century (ca. 1750)]. A single hand-cut woodblock (17 x 9 x 2.2 cm, with protrusions to the left and right making it wider - 11 cm - near the head to accommodate the wider 2nd line) intended for use as printing block, with 6 lines of text, together with an inked impression on 18th century paper (16.5 x 10.5 cm).

[ARABIC-SCRIPT PRINTER’S WOODBLOCK]. · 1842

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

Woodblock with the Arabic title “Book of the Song of songs of Solomon” followed by a reference to the Hebrew title “Shir hashirim” (Song of songs) transcribed in Arabic, probably produced in the Ottoman regions of the Levant for a rural printing office. A rare survival of an ...

Mahasin ül-âsâr ve hakayik ül-ahbar.Bulaq, Bulak matbaasi, 1246 AH [= 1830 CE]. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary calf with later paper label; later marbled paper on the spine. In Turkish, with the main text set in a naskh Arabic type, with a woodcut decoration and decorations built up from typographic ornaments at the opening of the main text (incorporating a woodcut heading in Arabic script).

VASIF EFENDI, Ahmed. · 1754

€5,800.00 ($6,392.66 | £4,838.74 | ¥1,020,824)

14, 210, [1 blank], 7, 190 pp.An important first-hand account of relations between the Porte and central Europe as well as the wider political events during the second half of the 18th century. Written in Turkish (set in a Naskh Arabic type) by the Baghdad-born diplomat Ahmed ...