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[Set of engravings designed by A. Tempesta and engraved by C.J. Visscher].[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1624]. Oblong (19.5 x 29.5 cm). 19th-century half light blue cloth and marbled paper sides.
[Set of engravings designed by A. Tempesta and engraved by C.J. Visscher].[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1624]. Oblong (19.5 x 29.5 cm). 19th-century half light blue cloth and marbled paper sides.
TEMPESTA, Antonio (designer) and Claes Jansz. VISSCHER (engraver). · 1555
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
[16] ll.Rare collection of 16 engraved hunting scenes after designs by the celebrated Italian painter and printmaker Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), published in Amsterdam by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652) in 1624. The engravings are numbered in the plate and comprise an impr...
Bibliographica. Papers on books, their history and art.London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1895-1897. 3 parts in 6 volumes. Small folio (ca. 30 x 21.5 cm). With 65 full-page plates, of which some coloured, and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Three quarter brown morocco.
Bibliographica. Papers on books, their history and art.London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1895-1897. 3 parts in 6 volumes. Small folio (ca. 30 x 21.5 cm). With 65 full-page plates, of which some coloured, and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Three quarter brown morocco.
[POLLARD, Alfred William (editor)]. · 1895
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
VIII, 511; VIII, 503; VIII, 511 pp.Rare complete set of a richly illustrated periodical on the history, design, and production of books. Published between 1895 and 1897, it was issued in 12 quarterly parts and subsequently collected into three volumes. It contains numerous lar...
Edelgestein-Büchlein, oder Beschreibung der Edelgesteine. Derer Gestalt, Kräffte und Tugenden, Eigenschafften, Preis und Werth. Samt bengefügten Warnungen für Betrug an alle diejenigen, so mit Edelsteinenen handeln und umbgehen ... Übersetzet und herausgegeben von Johann Langen.Hamburg, Johann Naumans and Georg Wolff, 1675. 8vo. Paper covered vellum, marbled endpapers.
Edelgestein-Büchlein, oder Beschreibung der Edelgesteine. Derer Gestalt, Kräffte und Tugenden, Eigenschafften, Preis und Werth. Samt bengefügten Warnungen für Betrug an alle diejenigen, so mit Edelsteinenen handeln und umbgehen ... Übersetzet und herausgegeben von Johann Langen.Hamburg, Johann Naumans and Georg Wolff, 1675. 8vo. Paper covered vellum, marbled endpapers.
NICOLS, Thomas. · 1652
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[16], 249, [7] pp.First edition of the German translation of A lapidary, first published in English in 1652 and compiled by Thomas Nicols: ''the first independent gemological book by a British author ... based firmly upon Boetius de Boodt'' (Sinkankas). Nicols lists all the tr...
Fransche merkurius, of bondige beschrijving van geheel Vrankrijk, en desselfs landtschappen, steden, kastelen, en gedenkwaardigstre plaatzen. Beneffens haare naukeurige af-teekeningen, in platte grondt en verschiedt.Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1666. 14 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a large folding map of France, a folding view on, and a folding plan of Paris, 13 double-page views and 335 full-page engraved illustrations, including 15 maps, 74 plans and 52 plates with two views. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf.
Fransche merkurius, of bondige beschrijving van geheel Vrankrijk, en desselfs landtschappen, steden, kastelen, en gedenkwaardigstre plaatzen. Beneffens haare naukeurige af-teekeningen, in platte grondt en verschiedt.Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1666. 14 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a large folding map of France, a folding view on, and a folding plan of Paris, 13 double-page views and 335 full-page engraved illustrations, including 15 maps, 74 plans and 52 plates with two views. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf.
[MERIAN, Matthaeus & Caspar]. · 1589
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
[4], 1-20, [20 blank], 24-323, 325-502 ll.First and only edition of this compact Dutch adaptation of Martin Zeiller and Matthäus Merian's monumental Topographia Galliae, illustrated with more than 350 engraved maps, plans, and views of the principal cities, towns, castles, and...
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806 ... accompagné d'une carte des pays compris entre Constantinople at Téhéran ... suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan ...Paris, Pélicier et Nepveu, 1821. 8vo. With 10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes, and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and lithographed by Aubry, 1 large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806 ... accompagné d'une carte des pays compris entre Constantinople at Téhéran ... suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan ...Paris, Pélicier et Nepveu, 1821. 8vo. With 10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes, and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and lithographed by Aubry, 1 large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
JAUBERT, Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe. · 1779
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[2], XII, 506, [2] pp.Interesting work relating a journey made into Persia and Armenia by the French interpreter and diplomat Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe Jaubert (1779-1847). He was one of the interpreters working for Napoleon and he played an important role in the negotiation...
Adversus Mathematicos ... Opus eruditissimum, complectens universam Pyrrhoniorum acutissimorum Philosophorum disputandi de quibuslibet disciplinis & artibus rationem, Graecè nunquam, Latinè nunc primùm editum, Gentiano Herveto Aurelio interprete. Eiusdem Sexti Pyrrhoniarum Hypotypooseoon libri tres ... Graecè nunquam, Latinè nunc primùm editi, Interprete Henrico Stephano. Accessit & Pyrrhonis vita, ex Diogene Laërtio ... Item, Claudii Galeni Pergameni contra Academicos et Pyrrhonios, D[esiderio] Erasmo Roterodamo interprete.Paris, Martin Le Jeune, 27 May 1569. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer’s device on the title pages of both parts, at the end of the second part (p. 584) and at the end of the index, further with several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled quarter calf.
Adversus Mathematicos ... Opus eruditissimum, complectens universam Pyrrhoniorum acutissimorum Philosophorum disputandi de quibuslibet disciplinis & artibus rationem, Graecè nunquam, Latinè nunc primùm editum, Gentiano Herveto Aurelio interprete. Eiusdem Sexti Pyrrhoniarum Hypotypooseoon libri tres ... Graecè nunquam, Latinè nunc primùm editi, Interprete Henrico Stephano. Accessit & Pyrrhonis vita, ex Diogene Laërtio ... Item, Claudii Galeni Pergameni contra Academicos et Pyrrhonios, D[esiderio] Erasmo Roterodamo interprete.Paris, Martin Le Jeune, 27 May 1569. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer’s device on the title pages of both parts, at the end of the second part (p. 584) and at the end of the index, further with several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled quarter calf.
EMPIRICUS, Sextus. · 1499
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[8], 584, [32] pp.First collected edition of the works of Sextus Empiricus (fl. late second or early third century CE), the only Pyrrhonian philosopher of antiquity whose writings have survived. As the principal source for the ancient school of philosophical scepticism, his wo...
View of a church and a ruin on a hill.[Germany, early 19th century]. Pen and ink with a grey wash (ca. 15,1 x 21 cm). Kept in a white passe-partout.
View of a church and a ruin on a hill.[Germany, early 19th century]. Pen and ink with a grey wash (ca. 15,1 x 21 cm). Kept in a white passe-partout.
[DRAWING - GERMANY].
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)
Fine washed pen-and-ink drawing of a hilly landscape with a winding country road leading towards a village church, with the ruins of a castle on the hill behind. Framed by trees and executed in grey wash, the composition is characteristic of the Romantic landscape tradition th...
Reyse door Spaignien, neffens memorien van des selfs hof.Including: D'AULNOY, Madame. Memorien van het Spaenssche hof.Utrecht, Willem Broedelet, 1695. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken and 10 engraved plates by Caspar Luyken, the title page is printed in red and black, with a woodcut device on the title page, several woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.
Reyse door Spaignien, neffens memorien van des selfs hof.Including: D'AULNOY, Madame. Memorien van het Spaenssche hof.Utrecht, Willem Broedelet, 1695. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken and 10 engraved plates by Caspar Luyken, the title page is printed in red and black, with a woodcut device on the title page, several woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.
D'AULNOY, Madame. · 1650
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [12], 335; [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [6], 247, [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp.Rare first Dutch edition of Madame d’Aulnoy’s (ca. 1650-1705) celebrated travel account of Spain, a work that occupies an important place in the history of early moder...
Eerste deel, prima pars, erster teil, der school-geleertheid, scholasticae eruditionis, der schule-gehehrtheit, genoemt, dicta, genennt, het portael: vestibulum: die vorthure: inhoudende, continens, welche begriffet, de grondveste der dingen, en onser wijsheydt omtrent, fudamenta rerum, & nostra sapientiae circa, die grundlage der dinge, und unserer weisheit üm, de dingen.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved title and ca. 300 engraved illustrations on 38 full-page plates. Contemporary vellum sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author, title and imprint on the spine.
Eerste deel, prima pars, erster teil, der school-geleertheid, scholasticae eruditionis, der schule-gehehrtheit, genoemt, dicta, genennt, het portael: vestibulum: die vorthure: inhoudende, continens, welche begriffet, de grondveste der dingen, en onser wijsheydt omtrent, fudamenta rerum, & nostra sapientiae circa, die grundlage der dinge, und unserer weisheit üm, de dingen.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved title and ca. 300 engraved illustrations on 38 full-page plates. Contemporary vellum sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author, title and imprint on the spine.
COMENIUS, Johannes Amos. · 1619
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[16], 166, [90] pp.Beautifully illustrated trilingual edition of Johann Amos Comenius' celebrated Vestibulum rerum et linguarum ("The gate of things and language"), designed to teach Latin through the vernacular while introducing German alongside Dutch. One of the most influen...
Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, nouveau Roi de Perse, ou histoire de la dernière révolution de Perse, arrivée en 1732. Paris, Briasson, 1742. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Thamas Kouli-Kan, an engraved folding map (26.4 x 22.5 cm), several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled polished calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, the gilt coat of arms of Louis-Hilaire du Bouchet, comte de Sourches, in the centre of both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled endpapers.
Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, nouveau Roi de Perse, ou histoire de la dernière révolution de Perse, arrivée en 1732. Paris, Briasson, 1742. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Thamas Kouli-Kan, an engraved folding map (26.4 x 22.5 cm), several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled polished calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, the gilt coat of arms of Louis-Hilaire du Bouchet, comte de Sourches, in the centre of both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled endpapers.
[CLAUSTRE, André de or CERCEAU, Jean Antoine du]. · 1688
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
[4], 455, [6] pp.First edition of this life of the Persian ruler Nader Shah (1688-1747), founder of the Afsharid dynasty. Published anonymously, the work has been attributed to Jean-Antoine Du Cerceau (1670-1730) and Abbé André de Claustre (dates unknown). The biography is arr...
Anthologie Arabe élémentaire, choix de maximes et de textes variés, la plupart inédits; accompagné d'un vocabulaire Arabe-Français.Algiers and Paris, Bastide, Challamel, and L. Hachette et Cie., 1852. 12mo. Printed in French and Arabic, with the Arabic title printed in gold on the Arabic title page, a chromolithographed headpiece, and several printed Arabic calligraphy examples. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
Anthologie Arabe élémentaire, choix de maximes et de textes variés, la plupart inédits; accompagné d'un vocabulaire Arabe-Français.Algiers and Paris, Bastide, Challamel, and L. Hachette et Cie., 1852. 12mo. Printed in French and Arabic, with the Arabic title printed in gold on the Arabic title page, a chromolithographed headpiece, and several printed Arabic calligraphy examples. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
BRESNIER, Louis-Jacques. · 1814
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[4], 387, [5], 138 pp.First and only edition of a rare Arabic-French language guide by the first professor of Arabic in Algiers. The work contains 25 short Arabic texts, most of them previously unpublished, accompanied by an extensive Arabic-French vocabulary. Intended for stu...
Map of the Middle East: Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Arabia. In contour colouring with roads and aerodromes.Edinburgh & London, John Bartholomew & son, [ca. 1940]. 8vo. Large folding map (measuring 77 x 99 cm. in total) on a scale of 1:4,000,000, backed by linen. With relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints and depths shown by soundings. Folded, with title-wrapper.
Map of the Middle East: Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Arabia. In contour colouring with roads and aerodromes.Edinburgh & London, John Bartholomew & son, [ca. 1940]. 8vo. Large folding map (measuring 77 x 99 cm. in total) on a scale of 1:4,000,000, backed by linen. With relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints and depths shown by soundings. Folded, with title-wrapper.
BARTHOLOMEW, John. · 2017
€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)
Large map of the Middle East by Bartholomew, a Scottish firm known for their maps of the area. It shows physical and topographic features, political boundaries, main motor roads, secondary roads, caravan routes and tracks, oil pipe lines.Some tears along the folds, otherwise g...
Rechen-Büch. So zusammen geschriben, im Monnath März Anno 1730 ... Dass Ainmahlains.[Germany], March 1730. 4to. Written in a neat and regular German hand in brown ink, the title page with a drawing of a number-triangle decorated with penwork, the initials on the title and in the text with elegant penwork, often with traces of heightening with gold, numerous arithmetical exercises in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with two clasps, J. A. Dortmund's paper shelf mark label on the spine (451), red and blue sprinkled edges.
Rechen-Büch. So zusammen geschriben, im Monnath März Anno 1730 ... Dass Ainmahlains.[Germany], March 1730. 4to. Written in a neat and regular German hand in brown ink, the title page with a drawing of a number-triangle decorated with penwork, the initials on the title and in the text with elegant penwork, often with traces of heightening with gold, numerous arithmetical exercises in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with two clasps, J. A. Dortmund's paper shelf mark label on the spine (451), red and blue sprinkled edges.
[ARITHMETIC - MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN]. · 1912
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
175 ll.Attractively produced German manuscript on arithmetic, written in a clear and highly legible hand. The text is divided into numerous short chapters, each introduced by an elegant calligraphic heading and often accompanied by explanatory notes in a smaller but equally ne...
Spiegel der offenbaren unverschämbten Calvinischen lügen wider reine lehrer der Augspurgischen Confession unnd grewlichen erschroeckenlichen loesterungen wider die Goettliche Majestat der menschhelt Jesu Christi.Tübingen, Georg Gruppenbach, 1588. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and 2 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half pigskin, printer's waste sides.
Spiegel der offenbaren unverschämbten Calvinischen lügen wider reine lehrer der Augspurgischen Confession unnd grewlichen erschroeckenlichen loesterungen wider die Goettliche Majestat der menschhelt Jesu Christi.Tübingen, Georg Gruppenbach, 1588. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and 2 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half pigskin, printer's waste sides.
ANDREAE, Jakob. · 1528
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
[20],130, [2 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a fiercely polemical Lutheran tract by the influential theologian and Reformer Jakob Andreae (1528-1590), professor and later chancellor of the University of Tübingen. The work forms part of the intense confessional controversies of...
Super apostolica sede, an videlicet divino sit iure, nec ne, anque pontifex qui papa dici caeptus est, iure divino in ea ipsa praesideat, non parum laudanda, ex sacro bibliorum canone declaratio. (Colophon: Leipzig, Melchior Lotter, 1520). 4to. Modern light brown quarter morocco.
Super apostolica sede, an videlicet divino sit iure, nec ne, anque pontifex qui papa dici caeptus est, iure divino in ea ipsa praesideat, non parum laudanda, ex sacro bibliorum canone declaratio. (Colophon: Leipzig, Melchior Lotter, 1520). 4to. Modern light brown quarter morocco.
ALVELDT, Augustin von. · 1520
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
[2 blank], [39], [2 blank] ll.First edition printed in Leipzig in the turbulent year 1520, this tract stands at the very threshold of the Reformation controversies. Written by the Franciscan theologian Augustin von Alveldt (1480-1535) in Leipzig, one of the earliest and most v...
Theologia Germanica in qua continentur articuli de fide, evangelio, virtutibus et sacramentis: quorum materia iam nostra tempestate controversi solet.(Colophon:) Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn for Martin Silbereysen, 1531. Folio (30.4 x 19.6 cm). With a woodcut title frame by Jörg Breu the Elder, the title is printed in red and black, and with small woodcut initials throughout. Modern white half calf.
Theologia Germanica in qua continentur articuli de fide, evangelio, virtutibus et sacramentis: quorum materia iam nostra tempestate controversi solet.(Colophon:) Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn for Martin Silbereysen, 1531. Folio (30.4 x 19.6 cm). With a woodcut title frame by Jörg Breu the Elder, the title is printed in red and black, and with small woodcut initials throughout. Modern white half calf.
PÜRSTINGER, Berthold. · 1528
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[222] ll.First Latin edition of Berthold Pürstinger’s Tewtsche Theologey, translated by the author himself from the original German edition of 1528. The work occupies a position of exceptional importance in the history of early 16th-century theology, standing at the very thres...
De origine, situ, qualitate et quantitate Frisiae, et rebus a Frisiis olim praeclarè gestis, libri tres: in quibus multa scitu digna, & hactenus incognita, tum ex patriae annalibus, partim excusis, partim manudescriptis, tum etiam ex probatis exterarum gentium historiis vigilanti cura, diligentique studio eruta, proponuntur.Cologne, Goswin Cholinus, 1588. 8vo. With a woodut printer's device on the title page, 10 half-page woodcuts in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum.
De origine, situ, qualitate et quantitate Frisiae, et rebus a Frisiis olim praeclarè gestis, libri tres: in quibus multa scitu digna, & hactenus incognita, tum ex patriae annalibus, partim excusis, partim manudescriptis, tum etiam ex probatis exterarum gentium historiis vigilanti cura, diligentique studio eruta, proponuntur.Cologne, Goswin Cholinus, 1588. 8vo. With a woodut printer's device on the title page, 10 half-page woodcuts in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum.
KEMP, Cornelis. · 1516
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
[24], 342, [6], [2 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of the earliest printed history of Friesland, composed by the Frisian historian Cornelis Kemp (ca. 1516-1587). Covering the province's geography, government, and early history, the work became the foundation of later his...
Historia Batavica, cum appendice de vetustissima nobilitate, regibus, ac gestis Germanorum. Strasbourg, Christian Egenolph, January 1530. 4to. With an interesting woodcut by Hans Weiditz (or the Petrarch Master, 1495-1536) on the title page, not showing a Batavian Family scene as Kampinga interpreted, but being the printer’s device of Christian Egenolph, depicting Adam and Eve after the Fall expelled from Paradise (see the extensive description and discussion, including illustr., by H. van de Waal, Drie eeuwen Vaderl. Geschieduitbeelding (1952), I, pp. 157-159), some decorated woodcut initials. Modern half calf.
Historia Batavica, cum appendice de vetustissima nobilitate, regibus, ac gestis Germanorum. Strasbourg, Christian Egenolph, January 1530. 4to. With an interesting woodcut by Hans Weiditz (or the Petrarch Master, 1495-1536) on the title page, not showing a Batavian Family scene as Kampinga interpreted, but being the printer’s device of Christian Egenolph, depicting Adam and Eve after the Fall expelled from Paradise (see the extensive description and discussion, including illustr., by H. van de Waal, Drie eeuwen Vaderl. Geschieduitbeelding (1952), I, pp. 157-159), some decorated woodcut initials. Modern half calf.
[GELDENHAUER, Gerardus]. · 1482
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
26, [1] ll.The first edition in its original form with the words “in calce” added in the title (meaning the first issue), of an early humanist history of the Netherland and its original inhabitants, the Batavians, from pre-Roman and medieval times till the beginning of the 16t...
Pitture. Nelle quali si mostra di nuova inventione: amore, fortuna, tempo, castità, religione, sdegno, riforma, morte, sonno & sogno, huomo, republica, & magnanimità; divise in due trattati.Padua, Perchacino, 1564. 4to. With a printer's device on the title page, and 26 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary Italian or Iberian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine.
Pitture. Nelle quali si mostra di nuova inventione: amore, fortuna, tempo, castità, religione, sdegno, riforma, morte, sonno & sogno, huomo, republica, & magnanimità; divise in due trattati.Padua, Perchacino, 1564. 4to. With a printer's device on the title page, and 26 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary Italian or Iberian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine.
DONI, Anton Francesco. · 1513
€3,000.00 ($3,306.62 | £2,502.44 | ¥528,088)
64 ll.First and only edition of this rare work by the celebrated Italian man of letters Francesco Doni (ca.1513-1574), devoted to the interpretation of a wide range of allegorical personifications and moral concepts.Following the dedication and a list of authors cited througho...
The collection and research library of Jean-Jacques-Pierre Desmaisons (1807-1873), oriental scholar, diplomat, secret agent, and writer.Various places, late 15th century to 1873/74. 193 catalogued iems, comprising printed books and manuscripts in 237 volumes. In Arabic, French, Greek, Latin, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Russian, Syriac, and Sanskrit.
The collection and research library of Jean-Jacques-Pierre Desmaisons (1807-1873), oriental scholar, diplomat, secret agent, and writer.Various places, late 15th century to 1873/74. 193 catalogued iems, comprising printed books and manuscripts in 237 volumes. In Arabic, French, Greek, Latin, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Russian, Syriac, and Sanskrit.
[DESMAISONS, Jean-Jacques-Pierre]. · 1807
€950,000.00 ($1,047,096.65 | £792,437.75 | ¥167,227,788)
Jean-Jacques-Pierre Desmaisons (1807-73), known in Russia as Petr Ivanovich Demezon, was a wide-ranging oriental scholar as well as a diplomat in Russian services. Born in the Savoyard city of Chambéry, the son of the French physician Pierre-Jacques Desmaisons and his wife Suz...