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AMNH?TIA ofte Vergetelheyd. Vermanende inwoonders der Vereenighde Nederlanden tot eendracht ende vergetelheyd van al de bitterheden, die onder de naem van Remonstranten, Arminianen, &c. in hare gheherberght zijn geweest ende noch souden moghen wesen.[Utrecht, Jan Amelisz., 1623]. Oblong 1mo (full sheet) broadside. Etched print (plate size 19.5 x 26 cm) with letterpress text on paper. Mounted on a paper support.

[VELDE, Jan II van de, and Jan Jansz. STARTER]. · 1609

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

[1] leaf.Propaganda broadside with an allegorical print admonishing the inhabitants of the Dutch Republic to forgive and forget their religious quarrels and disputes, especially those that arose between the Arminians and the Gomarists during the Twelve-Years’ Truce (1609-1621)...

Proef, taxatie en prys lyst der theën, dewelke verkogt en opgehouden zyn by d'Oostyndi Compagnie kamer Hoorn op den 12. Octo. 1790, aangebragt van China per 't schip Blitterswyk.Amsterdam, 1790. Folio (37.5 x 24 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on paper. Single sheet.

[VOC - TEA]. Herman de HOOGH. · 1790

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

[2] pp.Manuscript inventory of and receipt for tea imported from China to The Netherlands by the VOC (Dutch East India Company) in 1790, written and signed by tea master Herman de Hoogh of Amsterdam. The tea was transported on the VOC ship Blitterswijk from China to the VOC-po...

Book I-[II] Egypt 1906-7. Book III Naples, Rome, Florence. Book IV Criccieth N. Wales, Zara, Khargeh Upper Egypt, Cairo, Freshwater Bay I.W.Egypt, Naples, Rome, Florence, Criccieth and the Isle of Wight, 1906-1908. Oblong (23 x 32 cm). An album in 4 volumes with 323 silver gelatin prints (8 x 5.5 cm to 14 x 8 cm, mostly ca. 10 x 7 cm). Side-stitched.With: (2) LEHNERT & LANDROCK. Souvenir of Cairo. 12 real artistic photos. Serie A.Egypt, [late 1920s]. Envelope containing 12 silver gelatin prints (12 x 9 cm).(3) [PHOTOGRAPHY - SINGAPORE?]. Photograph of a woman and a baby sitting in a rickshaw, with a child in front and the rickshaw puller.[Singapore?], [late 1920s]. Silver gelatin print (7.5 x 12.5 cm).

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT]. · 1906

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

9; 7; 12; 11 ll.A four-volume photo album, compiled by an unknown British woman who also seems to have taken most of the photographs, illustrating travels through Egypt, Italy, Wales and the Isle of Wight. Although the specific background to the album is unknown, a photograph ...

Geschiedkundig tafereel van den aftogt der Franschen na de bataille by Leipzig, van den 16. Tot den 19. October 1813. Een pendant tot den Aftogt der Franschen uit Rusland.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1814. 8vo.Original publisher's printed wrapper.

KOTZEBUE, August von (attributed). · 1813

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

39 pp.Dutch translation of an account of the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 and the subsequent French retreat, attributed to the German dramatist and diplomat August von Kotzebue (1761-1819). Originally published anonymously as Der Rückzug der Franzosen nach der Schlacht be...

De Tesseris Hospitalitatis. Liber singularis.Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1670. With a frontispiece by Abraham Bloteling depicting travellers, 2 folding engraved plates and engravings in text, some of which are full-page.[Including:]TOMASINI, Jacopo Filippo. Titus Livius Patavinus.Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1670. With a printer's device on title-page,engraving on title, 2 foldingengraved plates including a portrait, 1 engraving in text. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in ink on spine.

TOMASINI, Jacopo Filippo. · 1595

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

[12], 227, [25]; 125, [17] pp.Two works by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini (1595-1655). The first and main work deals with hospitality and gastronomy in Roman antiquity and the use of coins, "tesserae hospitales", entitling the bearer to hospitality on his travels. The plates show ex...

Geschiedkundig tafereel van den aftogt der Franschen uit Rusland. Vertaald naar het origineel, te Petersburg uitgegeven in 1812.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1813. 8vo. Sewn.

[PFUEL, Ernst von]. · 1812

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 32 pp.Dutch translation of a Russian account of the retreat of Napoleon’s Grande Armée from Russia in 1812. Probably originally written in German, this account was published in numerous versions in 1813 and 1814. Starting with the Moscow fire of...

Nagre widh sidste Kongl. ambassaden till Tzaren i Muskou giorde observationer öfwer Ryszland, dess wäger, pasz med fästningar och gräntzer - Sammandragne aff Erich Palmquist anno 1674.Stockholm, Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt, [1898]. Large oblong folio. With the 1674 title-page, the text, 14 maps and charts, 13 full-page illustrations and several figures on one page (1 page illustrating flags hand-coloured as published). All lithographed after the original manuscript. Paper imitating tree calf, with a gilt-stamped frame, gold-tooled spine.

PALMQUIST, Erich. · 1673

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

[72] pp, some leaves printed on one side only.Rare 19th-century album with lithographed plates after a 17th-century manuscript with a Swedish account of the Russian State by Erich Palmquist. Palmquist was captain of fortifications in Swedish service. In 1673-1674 he was part o...

Le flambeau de la guerre allumee au Rhin; representee en 36 nouvelles cartes geographiques, … = De fakkel des oorlogs ontstoken aan den Rhyn; verbeeld in 36 nieuwe geographische landkaarten, …Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk II, 1735. 8vo. With a double-page engraved title, two double-page engraved pages of text in Dutch and French, a folding engraved map and 36 double-page engraved maps; all coloured by hand. Original publisher's red sheepskin with a flap and wrapping band.

L'ISLE (DELISLE), Guillaume, and others. · 1675

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

Very rare pocket atlas of the Rhine-area between Cologne in the north and Basel, published for use by military officers and civilian travellers and based on maps prepared by Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1725) during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). A folding map sho...

Explication des vignettes de la seconde edition des oeuvres de Boileau ...Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1729. Oblong 4to. With 25 engraved vignettes and 2 engraved initials on 25 leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins.

PICART, Bernard. · 1673

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

8 pp., [25] ll.Very rare first and only edition of a collection of engraved vignettes by Bernard Picart (1673-1733) that were used as illustrations in the 1729 edition of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Oeuvres, The Hague, Pierre Gosse & Jean Neaulme (Lewine, p. 73). For the presen...

Frederik, Prins der Nederlanden, grootmeester nationaal der Orde van V.·.M.·. [= Vrijmetselarij] in het Koningkrijk der Nederlanden aan de S.·.P.·.R [maltese cross] [= Soeverein Prinsen van het Rozenkruis] behorende tot de kapittels, gevestigd in de noordelijke provintien van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. [dated at the head:] In het O.·. [= Oosten] van 's Gravenhage den [manuscript: “24”] Januarij 1820, P.S. [= profane stijl].The Hague, [24] January 1820. 8vo. Contemporary stiff marbled paper wrappers.

PRINCE FREDERIK. · 1820

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

97, [3 blank], 6, [1], [1 blank], 17, 23 pp.Printed open letter of 1820 from Frederik of the Netherlands (1797-1881), Prince of Orange-Nassau, addressed to the Sovereign Princes of the Rose Croix (one of the highest degrees of freemasons) inviting them to join his new order of...

Souvenirs d'un exilé en Sibérie.Leipzig, Franck'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1862. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.

OBOLENSKY, Prince Yevgeny Petrovich; Prince Augustin GALITZIN (transl). · 1796

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

[2], 88, [16].First edition of an autobiographical work by Prince Yevgeny Petrovich Obolensky (1796-1865) about his exile to the Siberian labour camps, published (only?) in French translation. The high born Obolensky (son of the Tula governor) was one of the 500 people involve...

Octroy bij haar Mogende verleend aan de Oostindische Compagnie dezer landen op ’t Regt van de Successien Ab intestato in Oost Indien, en op de reyse gints en herrewaarts in dato 10e Januarij 1661.[Amsterdam], [Johannes Allart], [1661?]. Folio. Disbound, folded.

[VOC - CHARTER]. · 1628

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

5, [3 blank] pp.Handwritten proclamation concerning the rights and commitments of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) with respect to the inheritances of employees of the Company who died in, on their way to, or returning from the East Indies without leaving a last will (“ab in...

[Three original manuscript documents (Attestaties de Vita)]Serambang & Soerabaya (Indonesia) , 1805, 1811 & 1814. Folio & 4to. Three manuscript certificates, written in ink on paper, folded.

VERMEULEN, Adriaan Theodoor. · 1805

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

1; 1; 1 pp.Three original certificates (attestaties de vita) drawn up on Vermeulen’s request by the “Raad van Justitie” (Council of Justice) at Semarang (1805), still under Dutch rule, and Soerabaya under French rule (1811 under Daendels) and under British rule (1814 under Raf...

[Letter to an unknown person].Paris, 18 August 1726. 4to.

CAVALLI.

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

[1] leaf.The writer of the letter, a certain Cavalli was apparently a kind of spy in the service of an unidentified ambassador, reporting on the activities of members of the French Royal court. He indicates he is writing at the request of the ambassador, but we have not identi...

Cylindrical black lacquered wooden box.Diameter 90 mm; height 21 mm. With a lacquered engraved portrait of Louis Napoleon mounted on the centre of the lid, below his coat-of-arms (an eagle facing to the viewer’s right with the motto “Vox populi vox Dei” and the caption “L’élu du peuple”) and above the total number of votes (7,481,231) cast for him on 21 December 1851; the portrait is surrounded by the names of all the French Departments (Ain, Aisne … Yonne), the colonies and the army, each with the exact number of votes for and against him. With a red ribbon to open the box.

[LOUIS NAPOLEON]. · 1789

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

A lacquered wooden box probably designed to contain a commemorative medal: most likely the one made by Jean Pierre Montagny (1789-1862), “Réélection de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, 21 Décembre 1851”, mentioning the same number of votes and the motto “La voix du peuple est la voix...

De levens-beschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen, met een uytbreyding over de schilder-konst der ouden.The Hague, widow of E. Boucquet, H. Scheurleer, F. Boucquet, J. de Jongh, 1729 (vols. 1-3); Dordrecht, Ab Blussé & son, 1769 (vol. 4). 4 volumes. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, title-pages in red and black and with engraved vignettes, a folding portrait of Willem Karel Hendrik Friso (1711-1751), Prince of Orange and from 1747 hereditary Stadtholder Willem IV, a portrait of the author, 40 engraved plates by Houbraken with multiple portraits of artists on each plate, 1 plate with a night scene, 1 mezzotint and 118 engraved vignettes. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with manuscript titles on spines. Sprinkled edges.

WEYERMAN, Jacob Campo. · 1677

€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)

[16], 412, [6]; [4], 412, [6], [4], 446, [4].First edition of richly illustrated biographies of more than 100 Dutch painters, male and female, still of interest for the history of Dutch art. The author, Jacob Campo Weyerman (1677-1747), was one of the foremost Dutch authors of...

Apologia oder Verthaidigung, gegen Christoff Farners Lügen und Ehrabschneidung.Frankfurt am Main, Thomas Matthias Götzen, 1655.With: [GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph]. Zweyte Apologia, oder Ehren-Rettung gegen Christoff Farnern, Speijerischen Thom-Stiffts Schaffnern zu Lochgaw, unmenschliche Lügen und Ehrabschneidung. Frankfurt am Main, Thomas Matthias Götzen, 1656. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo.Modern marbled paper over boards.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. · 1604

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

80; [40] pp.First editions of the first two pamphlets written by the German-Dutch alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670) attacking his former pupil, who became his bitter enemy, Christoph Fa(h)rner (1616-1686), schoolmaster and church custodian in Löchgau, Wü...

De secretis libri sex mira quadam rerum varietatereferti, ex Italico in Latinum sermonem nunc primum translate per Joannem Jacobum Weckerum.Lyon, Guilelmus Rovellius, 1561. 8vo. Later vellum.

PEDEMONTANUS, Alexius and Johann Jakob WECKER (translator). · 1500

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

344 [= 342], [25], [1 blank] pp.Fourth edition of the translation into Latin of the famous "Secreti" of Alexius Pedemontanus (or Piemontese, ps., Girolamo Ruscelli (1500-1565), as is generally assumed), by Johann Jakob Wecker. The first edition of this translation had appeared...

[Title on front cover:] Photographische gezichten in s’ Rijks Akademietuin te Leiden. 1866.Leiden, 1866. Oblong folio. 12 original photographic albumen prints (ca. 19.5 x 25 cm) with rounded corners, mounted on paperboard leaves (30.5 x 37 cm), with tissue guard leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled green cloth with title in gold on the front board, silk endpapers.

GOEDELJEE, Jan. · 1590

€4,250.00 ($4,684.27 | £3,545.63 | ¥748,018)

[12] ll.Twelve beautiful original photographic albumen prints taken in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University, the first botanical garden in the Northern Netherlands, founded in 1590. The locations of many of the photographs are still recognizable, including most of the bui...

Al-Shaykh Dari qatil al-Kulunl Lichman fi Khan al-Nuqtah. [English title:] Sheik Dhari, assassin of Lieut-Col. G.E. Leachman at Khan el-Nuqta.Baghdad, Maktab al-’Alwaji wa-alHajjiyah, 1968. 8vo. With the English title on the back wrapper and the recto of the final leaf, main text set in Arabic type throughout. With 16 black and white photographic illustrations (on 5 leaves). Original lime green printed wrappers.

'ALWACHI ('Abd al-Hamid). · 1920

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

158, [2] pp.First edition. A fascinating defence of Sheikh Dari, who killed the British intelligence officer Gerard Leachman on 12 August 1920. It includes brief but detailed biographies of both men (that of Leachman includes his travels to Arabia and Iraq), an exposition of t...