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Tuda i Obratno: vmesto predislovija. I. Ot Peterburga do Berezzova. Sovet raboc?ich deputatov po etapam. II. Moj pobeg. - 800 verst na olenjach. [There and back again] [text in Russian in Cyrillic type].St. Petersburg, Shipovnik, 1907. With a lithographed device on the front cover. Original publisher's printed wrappers.

TROTSKY, Leon. · 1906

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

123, [1 blank], IV pp.Rare first edition of Leon Trotsky's seventh publication, in the original Russian, set in Cyrillic type. In this pre-revolutionary work he describes his second exile to Siberia in 1906 and his return in 1907.Owner's inscription in ink on front cover and t...

Tell-Halâf-Stadt 1913.[Tell Halaf], 1913. 92 x 126 cm. Whiteprint (diazotype) on thick paper. Title, scale and compass executed in manuscript in blue pen.

[OPPENHEIM, Max von]. · 1899

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

Impressive plan of the excavation site of Tell Halaf (now on the Syrian-Turkish border), the location of the great ancient Aramaean town of Guzana, and one of the most important archaeological revelations of the modern era. Then in the Ottoman Empire, it was discovered in 1899...

[Map with the Abadan Petroleum Refinery, the first oil refinery in the Middle East]Calcutta, Survey of India, 1912-1915. 59 x 46.5 cm. Heliozincograph in colour.

[OIL-PETROLEUM HISTORY]. [ABADAN]. BURRARD, Sidney Gerald (ed.).

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

Extremely rare and classified at the time of release: one of the first maps to depict clearly the Abadan Petroleum Refinery, the first oil refinery in the Middle East. The map of the Khorramshahr-Abadan area of Iran and the lower Shatt al-Arab waterway at the head of the Arabi...

[Album von Wiesbaden].Wiesbaden, C.W. Kreidel, [1852]. Small oblong folio (30 x 23 cm). Suite of 10 steel-engraved views, all finely hand-coloured and highlighted with gum arabic, tipped onto thick brown leaves with printed decorative borders and captions. Contemporary decorated red cloth, gold-tooled spine, new endpapers.

[VODDIGEL, Jan Simon & Ferdinand Karl KLIMSCH]. · 1820

€4,800.00 ($5,290.47 | £4,004.48 | ¥844,820)

[10] engraved views.Beautifully produced suite of views engraved after the Dutch artist Jan Simon Voddiggel (1820-1862) showing Wiesbaden in Hesse, one of the oldest spa towns in Europe, celebrated as the "Nice of the North". It includes several views of the old Kurhaus ("spa ...

[Wrapper-title:] Journael zedert 1771.[Maastricht, Bois-le-Duc, Bergen op Zoom, Namur, etc., 7 July - 3 September 1771 & The Mediterranean and Portugal, 23 May - 18 August 1774]. 2 matching journals. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm). Two manuscript journals in French, written in brown ink on laid paper. Contemporary coarse brown paper wrappers, with the 1771 journal in loose bifolia (never sewn) inserted.

[BENTINCK, Volkier Rudolph]. · 1738

€5,950.00 ($6,557.98 | £4,963.88 | ¥1,047,225)

[2], [2 blank], [11], [1 blank]; 18, [6 blank] pp.Two journals kept by the Dutch Lieutenant Colonel Volkier Rudolph Bentinck (1738-1820), usually called Rudolph or sometimes Rudolphus, in the Dutch and British army, who had earlier fought alongside George Washington in the Bri...

Voyages de M. P.S. Pallas en differentes provinces de l'Empire de Russie, et dans l'Asie septentrionale.Paris, Lagrange (vol. 1), Maradan (vol. 2-5; colophon of vol. 5: printed by Demonville), 1788-1793. 5 text volumes (4to) and 1 atlas volume (Imperial 4to: 33.5 x 25 cm). With 123 engraved plates and maps (27 folding), including a large folding map of the Russian Empire. Uniform gold-tooled tree calf, gilt edges.

PALLAS, Peter Simon (M. GAUTHIER DE LA PEYRONIE, transl.). · 1741

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[3], [1 blank], XXXII, 773, [5]; [4], 550, [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 492; [3], [1 blank], 722, [2]; [3], [1 blank], 559, [1] pp; atlas volume with 123 plates on 108 leaves.First edition of the French translation of Peter Simon Pallas's (1741-1811) famous account of his f...

[4 confidential letters by Robert Goes to the registrars of the Dutch States General on the Baltic Sea trade].[The Netherlands, written 1689-1690 and copied then or soon after]. 4 manuscript letters. Folio. Written in one column in three different 17th-century hands (each letter written, signed and dated in a single hand) on 5 bifolia (2 bifolia for the letter dated 5 December 1689). Folded.

GOES, Robert. · 1660

€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)

[3], [1 blank]; [2]; [2]; [2] ll.Contemporary copies of four "secret" letters written by Robert Goes, the Dutch Republic's resident in Copenhagen, presumably addressed to the registrars (griffiers) of the States General. As resident, Robert Goes (ca. 1660-1723), Lord of Broekh...

Boek der zee-rechten.Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1665 [with the index of the 1663 edition]. With:(2) Extract uyt het register van de willekeuren der stadt Amsterdamme ....Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesberg, 1662.(3) Quintyn WEYTSEN. Een tractaet van Avarien ... The Hague, Jasper Doll, 1651 (colophon: Leyden, Philips de Croy, 1651).(4) Taco van GLINS. Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de Zee-rechten, uyt het Placcaet van Koninck Philips uytgegeven den letsten Octobris 1563 …Amsterdam, Joost Pluymer, 1665.4to. All titles with woodcut title-vignettes and some with woodcut head- and tailpieces or woodcut initials. All titles are interleaved. Contemporary vellum over boards.

[MARTIME LAW]. · 1518

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

[8]; 144; [8]; 23; [12], 139 pp. with some blank leaves between the different ordinances.Ads 1-3: Rare interesting collection of laws, ordinances, instructions, decrees, etc., regarding Dutch navigation and shipping in Holland and in Europe during the Dutch golden age; contain...

Recueil van verscheyde placaten, ordonantien, resolutien, instructien, ordres en lysten, etc. betreffende de saacken van den oorlogh, te water en te lande.The Hague, Jacob Scheltus, Aelbrecht Hendriksz, the heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, Paulus Scheltus, 1591-1716. 4to. With woodcut publishers' devices, title vignettes and decorated initials. Vellum over boards, manuscript title on spine, remains of green ties.

[ORDINANCES - DUTCH REPUBLIC]. · 1591

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

[8], [ca. 780] pp. containing 92 numbered items (2 folding).Very interesting collection of 92 numbered ordinances, resolutions, instructions, orders, and lists concerning the army and naval forces of the Dutch Republic during its Golden Age, dating from 1591 to 1716. At least...

[Flowers and fruits on a marble plinth].[Paris or Holland], [ca. 1815-1825]. Four watercolour drawings on paper, three signed “G.J.J Van Os”, edged with a thin black border.

OS, Georgius Jacobus Johannes. · 1782

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[4] ll.Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (1782-1861), not to be confused with his nephew George Jac. Joh. Van Os (1805-1841), also a painter, was as a member of a Dutch family of artists. He studied with his father, Jan van Os, a painter of flowers and maritime views. In 1812 G...

Dissertationes medicae. I. De motu, quo renituntur canals, in fluida corporis animalis. II. De aquarum mineralium examine, & origine. III. De martis, & aquarum mineralium. IV. De mercurii. V. De opii. VI. De morbis animi. Introductio exhibet ideam progressus medicinae, hodiernum ejus statum, & quemobrem, à detecto sanguinis circuitu, ars hactenus fere inexculta subsistat.Leiden, Frederik Haring, 1705. 8vo. With a woodcut title vignette and woodcut initials. Contemporary calf, title in gold on spine.

THOMSON, Alexander. · 1735

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

155 pp.First and only edition, in the original Latin, of six medical treatises by Alexander Thomson, a physician at Montrose, near Aberdeen, Scotland. Thomson was interested in the natural spring of Montrose and wrote treatises II and III on the subject. Two other treatises on...

Van de byen, haer wonderlijke oorspronk, natuur, eygenschap … Item hoe men de byen profijtelijck opvoeden en regeeren sal. Noch: Wat nuttigheyt dat men van honnich en was kan krijgen …Including: (2) Meesterye voor de paarden, om te weten alle de secreten, alsoo men die gebruyckt by den maerschalk des keysers ende eertz-hertogen keyser Carolus de vijfde. ...Amsterdam, widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1705. 2 works in 1. 8vo. Modern vellum over boards.

CLUTIUS, Theodorus (Dirk Outgaertsz CLUYT). · 1597

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

[12], 218, [22]; [42] pp.Sixth edition of a treatise, in form of a dialogue between Carolus Clusius and Theodorus Clutius, (based on their correspondence) on bees, beeswax and apiculture, edited by Clutius for the first time in 1597, followed by editions in 1619, 1627, 1648, 1...

Proeven met de Papiniaansche pot. Waardoor aangetoond wordt dat, door dezelve, de plantgewassen, dieren en mineralen niet alleen, binnen weinig uuren , door een eenvoudig scheivogt ontbonden, maar ook de zuiverste extracten en wezenlyke zoutten bereidt konnen worden. Uit het Latyn vertaald door een liefhebber der scheikunde. En met een aanpryzend bericht voorzien door Boudewyn Tieboel.Amsterdam, M. Schalekamp, 1775. 8vo. With a full-page engraving of the “papiaanse pot”. Original grey wrappers.

HAAN, Andreas Leopold. · 1647

€700.00 ($771.53 | £583.99 | ¥123,203)

XVIII, 60 pp.Rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of a treatise on the so-called Papinian pot (Papinscher Topf), a device for extracting the essential material from all kinds of pharmacological simples from the three domains of nature: animals, plants and metal...

Materia medica contracta: synonyma, natalia, pharmaceutica, qualitates, principia, praeparata, vires, usus communes, usus praecipuos, composita, doses, judicium complectens.Venice, Nicolaus Pezzana, 1762. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an allegorical title-vignette ("Nimis augusta foramina cribri"), headpieces built up from typographic ornaments, woodcut tailpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary sprinkled calf over boards, light brown spine label with title in gold, blue sprinkled edges.

[TESSARI, Ludovico and Carolus LINNAEUS]. · 1749

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

XVI, 472 pp.An account of pharmacological ingredients in three parts, the second on botanical sources by the great Swedish botanist Linnaeus, and those on mineral and animal sources, here in their first editions, by Ludivico Tessari, a famous physician and pharmaceutical chemi...

Liber responsorum et consultationum medicinalium. Nunc primùm á Michaele Columbo collectus & in lucem editus.Basel, Conrad Valdkirch, 1588. With: (2) VALLERIOLE, François. Observationum medicinalium lib. VI. Denuo editi, & emendatiores quàm antea in lucem emissi: in quibus multorum gravissimorum morborum historiae, eorundem causae, syntomata atque eventus, tum etiam curationes miro, utili & compendioso ordine describuntur.Lyon, Antoine Blanc [printed in Geneva?], 1588. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with a woodcut arabesque tailpiece and decorated initials, a headpiece and other decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Ad 2: with Blanc’s woodcut device on the title page, woodcut decorated initials and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. 17th-century overlapping vellum over boards, manuscript title on spine.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo. · 1587

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

[24], 502, [16]; [24], 524, [32] pp.Ad 1: Second edition of an extensive collection of Mercurialis’s Consultationes or Consilia: records of advice given to individual patients, including a number of cases relating to mental conditions, especially melancholy, first published in...

Observations faites dans un voyage entrepris dans les gouvernements méridionaux de l'Empire de Russie dans les années 1793 et 1794.Paris, Strasbourg, Amand Koening; Leipzig, Godefroi Martini, 1799-1802. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 4to (text) and oblong folio (atlas: 24 x 40 cm). With 28 engravings in the text and 1 woodcut in each text volumes (23 hand-coloured), and 55 engraved plates and maps (43 hand-coloured) in the atlas volume. Text volumes in contemporary and uniform gold-tooled mottled calf. Atlas in matching contemporary mottled half calf.

PALLAS, Peter Simon. · 1741

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

XXXII, 438; XVI, 452 pp. ; 55 ll.Very rare account by Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) of his second expedition to Russia in 1793-1794. This time he studied the southern provinces of Russia, especially the steppes near the Caspian Sea, the northern Caucasus, the Crimea and the B...

Praecepta medicinae practicae in usum academicum digesta.Leiden, Abraham & Jan Honkoop, 1783. 8vo. With a decoration built up from rococo typographic ornaments on the title page, woodcut headpieces. Contemporary marbled paper over thin boards.

OOSTERDIJK, Nicolaas George. · 1740

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

[8], 294 pp.First edition of a work on clinical medicine and various diseases, including women’s and children’s diseases, by the professor of medicine at Leiden University, Nicolaas George Oosterdijk (1740-1817), the son of the Utrecht prof. of medicine Johan Oosterdijk Schach...

Pharmacopoea Galeno- chemico- medica probatissimis auctoribus, ratione & experiential fundata. Meng- schei- en geneeskonstige artseny-winkel; op de beste schryvers, de rede en ondervinding gebouwt; … benevens een korte verhandeling, hoe met weinig genees-middelen de grootste ziekten worden genezen; als mede … een verklaring van de voornaamste konstwoorden en characters.Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by V.D. after A. Hordyk, title-page in red and black, with vignette in a roundel: the sun surrounded by the motto “Herbarum subiecta potential nobis”, one full-page plate with the chemical symbols, printed in two columns. Half calf , gold-tooled spine, spine label lettered in gold.

LIS, Wouter van. · 1747

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

[34)], 436, [60] pp.Second edition of an interesting pharmacological guide and recipe book in Dutch and Latin, the two languages printed in two columns facing each other. The first edition had been published in Rotterdam by Philip & Jakobus Losel in 1747. Though never formally...

De verkoop van opium op Java. Open brief aan Dr. H.J.A.M. Schaepman lid van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal.Including: Verklaringen van opiumschuivers uit verschillende streken der residentiën Pasoeroean, Besoeki en Rembang.Nijmegen, H.C.A. Thieme, 1892. 4to. Half green cloth, marbled paper sides, title in gold on spine.

ROO, L.W.G. de. · 1844

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

56, 71 pp.Address to H.J.A.M. Schaepman (1844-1903), the leader of the Dutch Catholics and first priest to become a member of the Dutch parliament in 1880 (Tweede Kamer). The author of the address, De Roo, a director of finance in Batavia, opposes Schaepman’s new proposals to ...

Zeemans-gids, naar, in en uit Oost-Indiën, China, Japan, Australiën, de Kaap de Goede Hoop, Braziliën en tusschenliggende havens, volgens de vierde Engelsche uitgave van James Horsburgh, ...Amsterdam, C.F. Stemler, (back of half-title: printed in Haarlem by H. Bakels), 1841. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gold, marbled sides.

HORSBURGH, James, Gerrit KUIJPER and D. BOES LUTJENS. · 1762

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

I-XII, [2], XIII-XXIV, XXVIII, 1376 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation, based on the fourth English edition, of a massive navigational directory, with exhaustive information on the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Arabian (Persian) Gulf, including detailed entries on S...