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Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti Fablarum Aesopiarum Libri quinque. Notis doctorum selectioribs, novisque passim & conjecturis & explicationibus illstrati. Opera Tho. Johnson, A.M. In usum Scholae Etonensis. Ed. secunda.London and Eton, for B. Walford, M. Atkins, and J. Slater, 1708. 8vo. With a separately inserted leaf with the printed coat-of-arms of Eton College in between the title-page and the preface "To the reader", title printed in red and black. Mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold.
Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti Fablarum Aesopiarum Libri quinque. Notis doctorum selectioribs, novisque passim & conjecturis & explicationibus illstrati. Opera Tho. Johnson, A.M. In usum Scholae Etonensis. Ed. secunda.London and Eton, for B. Walford, M. Atkins, and J. Slater, 1708. 8vo. With a separately inserted leaf with the printed coat-of-arms of Eton College in between the title-page and the preface "To the reader", title printed in red and black. Mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold.
PHAEDRUS. · 1668
€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)
[4], XXXV, 88, [32] pp.Second edition of this English Schoolbook for use at Eton College in the Burman redaction with prefaces by the famous philologist from Utrecht Petrus Burman (1668-1741), Joannes Ludovicus Praschius (1637-1690), a magistrate from Regenburg, Joannes Scheff...
Aesopus des Phrygiers Leben und Fabeln, nebst den Fabeln des Philelphus. Mit des Herrn von Bellegarde moralischen und historischen Anmerkungen welchen die Fabeln des Gabrias und Avianus und die Mährchen des Aesopus beygefüget worden. Neue sehr verbesserte Uebersetzung aus dem Französischen.Copenhagen, [widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen] & Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Prost, 1781. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces and 117 etchings with captions "Fab. I-CXVII" illustrating the 117 Aesop fables, each pasted on separate leaves, except the last one (Fab. CXVII). Contemporary half calf, brown paper sides, brown morocco spine label with the title in (oxidized) gold.
Aesopus des Phrygiers Leben und Fabeln, nebst den Fabeln des Philelphus. Mit des Herrn von Bellegarde moralischen und historischen Anmerkungen welchen die Fabeln des Gabrias und Avianus und die Mährchen des Aesopus beygefüget worden. Neue sehr verbesserte Uebersetzung aus dem Französischen.Copenhagen, [widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen] & Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Prost, 1781. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces and 117 etchings with captions "Fab. I-CXVII" illustrating the 117 Aesop fables, each pasted on separate leaves, except the last one (Fab. CXVII). Contemporary half calf, brown paper sides, brown morocco spine label with the title in (oxidized) gold.
AESOP. · 1648
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
XXIV, 576 pp.The second edition of the German translation of the French edition of the Aesop fables by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde (1648-1734), with extensive dialogues on the moral of each fable together with the life of Aesop by Planudes, the 18 fables of the Italian ...
Ezopische Fabelen van Fedrus, gevryden slaef des Keizers Augustus. In Nederduitsch dicht vertaelt en met aenmerkingen verrykt door D. van Hoogstraten.Amsterdam, François Halma, 1704. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, 106 engraved illustrations in a roundel, a large armorial headpiece for the dedication and 5 large and 4 smaller head- and tailpieces, 9 engraved initials and many woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Ezopische Fabelen van Fedrus, gevryden slaef des Keizers Augustus. In Nederduitsch dicht vertaelt en met aenmerkingen verrykt door D. van Hoogstraten.Amsterdam, François Halma, 1704. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, 106 engraved illustrations in a roundel, a large armorial headpiece for the dedication and 5 large and 4 smaller head- and tailpieces, 9 engraved initials and many woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
PHAEDRUS; HOOGSTRATEN, David van (transl.). · 1701
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[36], 198, [12] pp.Beautiful first edition of the translation into Dutch by the editor David van Hoogstraten of the 94 Aesop fables with the 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius, together with his moral commentaries (instead...
Phaedri Aug. liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Cum notis perpetuis Jo. Fred. Gronovii, P. & emendationibus Jacobi Gronovii, F. Accedunt Nicolai Dispontini in Phaedrum collectaneea.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1703. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece showing Phaedrus and Aesop on the stage of a theatre filled with men with animal-heads, title in red and black, some woodcut tailpieces and initials. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Phaedri Aug. liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Cum notis perpetuis Jo. Fred. Gronovii, P. & emendationibus Jacobi Gronovii, F. Accedunt Nicolai Dispontini in Phaedrum collectaneea.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1703. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece showing Phaedrus and Aesop on the stage of a theatre filled with men with animal-heads, title in red and black, some woodcut tailpieces and initials. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
PHAEDRUS. · 1645
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[24], 156, [2], 157-218, 157-298, [2] pp.Edition by the apparently unknown Dutch scholar Nicolaus Dispontinus (Nicolaas Verbruggen?) of the Latin Phaedrus fables, who also added his Collectanea to the text (pp. 157-218) and some emendations by the Dutch classical scholar Jacob...
Phaedri, aug[usti]. liberti fabulorum Aesopiarum libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi principis Nassauii David Hoogstratanus, accedunt ejusdem opera duo indices …Amsterdam, François Halma, 1701. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved printer's device on the title-page, a folding portrait of the dedicatee and 18 engraved plates with 6 roundels on each plate illustrating the 99 fables and 5 prologues, 3 portraits of Aesop and tailpieces and historiated initials. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown spine label with title in gold, red sprinkled edges.
Phaedri, aug[usti]. liberti fabulorum Aesopiarum libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi principis Nassauii David Hoogstratanus, accedunt ejusdem opera duo indices …Amsterdam, François Halma, 1701. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved printer's device on the title-page, a folding portrait of the dedicatee and 18 engraved plates with 6 roundels on each plate illustrating the 99 fables and 5 prologues, 3 portraits of Aesop and tailpieces and historiated initials. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown spine label with title in gold, red sprinkled edges.
AESOP (PHAEDRUS, trans.). · 1658
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[32], 160, [84] pp.Gorgeous edition of the 94 Aesop fables with 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius, together with his extensive and scholarly notes, printed in two columns below each fable, the whole prepared by David van ...
Fabulae Aesopi Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: ea item, quas Avienus carmine expressit.Utrecht, widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, 1699. Small 8vo. With a woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree on the title page and 47 woodcuts in the text (ca. 5 x 6 cm). Marbled wrappers.
Fabulae Aesopi Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: ea item, quas Avienus carmine expressit.Utrecht, widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, 1699. Small 8vo. With a woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree on the title page and 47 woodcuts in the text (ca. 5 x 6 cm). Marbled wrappers.
AESOP. · 1685
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
136 pp.Rare Greek and Latin school edition of Aesop, with the same contents and 47 woodcuts as the 1685 edition published by Jurriaen Poolsum in Utrecht (Bodemann 65.4), one of the many editions based on the original Heinsius school edition of 1626, published by Johannes Maire...
Phaedri, Aug[usti]. Liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri V...Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1698. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, woodcut title vignette and woodcut decorated initials. Mottled calf, gold double fillets on sides, gold-tooled spine with title in gold, gold-tooled board edges.
Phaedri, Aug[usti]. Liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri V...Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1698. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, woodcut title vignette and woodcut decorated initials. Mottled calf, gold double fillets on sides, gold-tooled spine with title in gold, gold-tooled board edges.
PHAEDRUS. · 1635
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[56], 312, [56], 201-462, [58] pp.First edition of the important Burman redaction of Phaedrus’s Latin verse translation of Aesop, together with the important commentaries and notes by (1) Marquatus Gudius (1635-1686), with four new fables discovered by him, published here for ...
Liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libi quinque. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Petrus Danet … In usum serenissimi Delphini.Paris, Fredericus Leonard, 1675. 4to. With a beautiful frontispiece, a woodcut printer’s device on the title-page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
Liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libi quinque. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Petrus Danet … In usum serenissimi Delphini.Paris, Fredericus Leonard, 1675. 4to. With a beautiful frontispiece, a woodcut printer’s device on the title-page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
PHAEDRUS. · 1670
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[32], 100, [64] pp.Nice copy of the rare first edition of one of the most successful books in the Delphin Classics, a series of annotated editions of the Latin classics, intended to be comprehensive. The first volumes were produced in the 1670s for Louis, Le Grand Dauphin, hei...
Phaedri Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque cum annotationibus Joannis Schefferi … et Francisci Guyeti notis. Editio tertia … In qua jungitur, interpretatio Gallica cum notis, & index Latinus uberrimus.Hamburg, Gottfried Schultze; Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1673. 8vo. With woodcut title vignette. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, each board with the coat-of-arms of Gouda (prize binding made for the city of Gouda) and double fillets, gold-tooled spine with red label lettered in gold.
Phaedri Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque cum annotationibus Joannis Schefferi … et Francisci Guyeti notis. Editio tertia … In qua jungitur, interpretatio Gallica cum notis, & index Latinus uberrimus.Hamburg, Gottfried Schultze; Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1673. 8vo. With woodcut title vignette. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, each board with the coat-of-arms of Gouda (prize binding made for the city of Gouda) and double fillets, gold-tooled spine with red label lettered in gold.
PHAEDRUS. · 1613
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[36], 272, [57], [1 blank] pp.Third edition of Johannes Scheffer’s extensively annotated text of Phaedrus’s Latin verse adaptation of Aesop’s fables, the first to include a French translation (in prose) probably by Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (1613-1684), first added in the ...
Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque; notis perpetuis illustrati, & cum integris aliorum observationibus. In lucem editi à Johanne Laurentio JCto.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, & the widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1667. 8vo. With a frontispiece and 103 half-page engravings (ca. 7 x 9 cm), illustrating the prologues and the 92 fables. Full calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red painted edges.
Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque; notis perpetuis illustrati, & cum integris aliorum observationibus. In lucem editi à Johanne Laurentio JCto.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, & the widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1667. 8vo. With a frontispiece and 103 half-page engravings (ca. 7 x 9 cm), illustrating the prologues and the 92 fables. Full calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red painted edges.
PHAEDRUS.
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[64], 462, [206] pp. (last two blanks missing).Johannes Laurentius’s first edition of Phaedrus’s fables in Latin verse, loosely based on the Greek prose fables attributed to Aesop, with Laurentius’s extensive commentary and notes, prologues, biographies, etc., printed in two c...
Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad ivum adumbrantibus. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XLIII. [Greek: Batrachomyomachia] Homeri, hoc est, ranarum & murium pugna. [Greek: Galeomyomachia], hoc est, felium & murium pugna, fabla Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretation. Accesserunt Avieni antique auctoris fabulae. Editio postrema, ceteris castigatior.[Genève or Lyon], Jean de Tournes, 1619. With: (2) THEOGNIS and others. [Greek text] Theognidis, Phocylidis, Pythagorae, Solonis & aliorum Poemata gnomica … Opera Friderici Sylbrgii. Utrecht, Johannes I Janssonius van Waesberge, 1651. 2 volumes bound as 1. Ad 1: 16mo and ad 2: 12mo. Ad 1 with the woodcut portrait of Aesop in a roundel on the title page and 61 woodcuts (ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm) in the text, illustrating the fables of Aesop, most after Bernard Salomon, but 22 from another series. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Text in two columns: Greek (left) and Latin (right). Ad 2 with printer’s device on title page and some woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad ivum adumbrantibus. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XLIII. [Greek: Batrachomyomachia] Homeri, hoc est, ranarum & murium pugna. [Greek: Galeomyomachia], hoc est, felium & murium pugna, fabla Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretation. Accesserunt Avieni antique auctoris fabulae. Editio postrema, ceteris castigatior.[Genève or Lyon], Jean de Tournes, 1619. With: (2) THEOGNIS and others. [Greek text] Theognidis, Phocylidis, Pythagorae, Solonis & aliorum Poemata gnomica … Opera Friderici Sylbrgii. Utrecht, Johannes I Janssonius van Waesberge, 1651. 2 volumes bound as 1. Ad 1: 16mo and ad 2: 12mo. Ad 1 with the woodcut portrait of Aesop in a roundel on the title page and 61 woodcuts (ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm) in the text, illustrating the fables of Aesop, most after Bernard Salomon, but 22 from another series. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Text in two columns: Greek (left) and Latin (right). Ad 2 with printer’s device on title page and some woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
AESOP. · 1571
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
410, [6]; [8], 168 pp.Ad 1: One of the many Aesop editions based on the famous first illustrated edition by Jean de Tournes, Lyon 1571, which was a landmark in humanistic scholarship and printing with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon (Bodemann 29.1). The De Tournes family moved to ...
Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Graee & Latine, Cum aliis opusculis, quorum Index proxima refertur pagella. Denuo, & quam correctissime in lucem editae.Venice, Jo. Baptistam Combus, 1619. 12mo. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and 92 woodcuts in text. Contemporary vellum.
Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Graee & Latine, Cum aliis opusculis, quorum Index proxima refertur pagella. Denuo, & quam correctissime in lucem editae.Venice, Jo. Baptistam Combus, 1619. 12mo. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and 92 woodcuts in text. Contemporary vellum.
AESOP. · 1524
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
450, [4] pp., lacking the last blank.One of the many school editions of the fables of Aesop with the same title (at least 8 between 1524 and 1589, some printed in Basel by Froben, others in Venice), with parallel Greek and Latin text printed on facing pages.A few leaves cut sh...
Educationis puerilis linguae Graecae.Including: AESOP. Fabellae quaedam Aesopi Graecae, ad puerilem educationem selectae.Frankfurt, [printed by Erasmus Kempfer?] for Nikolaus Stein, 1618-1619. With: (2) [GOLIUS, Theophilus]. [Grammaticae, sive educationis puerilis linguae Graecae. ... Pars altera].3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, the first with woodcut printer’s device. Contemporary vellum (made from one leaf from a 14th or 15th century moral manuscript, rubricated in red and blue), red edges.
Educationis puerilis linguae Graecae.Including: AESOP. Fabellae quaedam Aesopi Graecae, ad puerilem educationem selectae.Frankfurt, [printed by Erasmus Kempfer?] for Nikolaus Stein, 1618-1619. With: (2) [GOLIUS, Theophilus]. [Grammaticae, sive educationis puerilis linguae Graecae. ... Pars altera].3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, the first with woodcut printer’s device. Contemporary vellum (made from one leaf from a 14th or 15th century moral manuscript, rubricated in red and blue), red edges.
GOLIUS, Theophilus. · 1618
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[50], [38]; 512, [32] pp.Second copy located of the 1618 edition of a selection of 36 fables by Aesop, printed in two columns: left Greek and Latin right, included as integral part of a well-known and very influential Greek grammar by the Strasbourg professor Theophilus (Gotlo...
De belangryke geschiedenis van het verongelukken op de Kaffers kust, van het Engelsch Oost-Indisch schip De Grosvenor ...Amsterdam, Johannes Allard, 1801. 8vo. With 1 folding lithographed plate (16.5 x 18.5 cm) of the rescue of the passengers.Half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spine with black label.
De belangryke geschiedenis van het verongelukken op de Kaffers kust, van het Engelsch Oost-Indisch schip De Grosvenor ...Amsterdam, Johannes Allard, 1801. 8vo. With 1 folding lithographed plate (16.5 x 18.5 cm) of the rescue of the passengers.Half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spine with black label.
CARTER, George. · 1791
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
VIII, 158 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of A narrative of the loss of the Grosvenor, East Indiaman, wrecked upon the coast of Caffraria … (London, J. Murray & W. Lane, 1791). The Grosvenor, a three-masted East Indiaman, carrying a crew of 132 plus 18 passengers (12...
Quieta solitudine di varii ragionamenti, discorsi, et concetti, ove si narra quattro navigationi ... Bologna, Alessandro Benacci, 1587. Small 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Giovanni Luigi Scappi, elaborately helmed, crested and mantled, on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece (plus 1 repeat), woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series), decorations built up from cast typographic ornaments. Goatskin morocco (ca. 1870/80?), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, signed in foot of front turn-in by the Paris bookbinders "DARLAUD FRÈRES", gold fillets on sides and board edges, combed curl-marbled endpapers, edges gilt over marbling, headbands worked in white and beige, and a yellow, red and green ribbon marker.
Quieta solitudine di varii ragionamenti, discorsi, et concetti, ove si narra quattro navigationi ... Bologna, Alessandro Benacci, 1587. Small 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Giovanni Luigi Scappi, elaborately helmed, crested and mantled, on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece (plus 1 repeat), woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series), decorations built up from cast typographic ornaments. Goatskin morocco (ca. 1870/80?), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, signed in foot of front turn-in by the Paris bookbinders "DARLAUD FRÈRES", gold fillets on sides and board edges, combed curl-marbled endpapers, edges gilt over marbling, headbands worked in white and beige, and a yellow, red and green ribbon marker.
CIGNANO, Ludovico.
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
166 pp.First and only edition of a fascinating combination of Italian Renaissance travel account, literature and philosophy. The publication is rare and hardly appears in the literature, so it is little known and provides a wealth of curious information. Real and imaginary sto...
Breve relacion, de la peregrinacion que ha hecho de la mayor parte del mundo.Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon, 1680. Small 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). With the title-page in a border built up from cast fleurons, woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Charles II of Spain, and some woodcut initials and tailpieces.Gold-tooled morocco, by the leading Barcelona binder Emilio Brugalla (1901-1987), with the arms of the Spanish bibliophile Isidoro Fernandez (1878-1963) stamped in gold on front and back, gilt edges.
Breve relacion, de la peregrinacion que ha hecho de la mayor parte del mundo.Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon, 1680. Small 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). With the title-page in a border built up from cast fleurons, woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Charles II of Spain, and some woodcut initials and tailpieces.Gold-tooled morocco, by the leading Barcelona binder Emilio Brugalla (1901-1987), with the arms of the Spanish bibliophile Isidoro Fernandez (1878-1963) stamped in gold on front and back, gilt edges.
CUBERO SEBASTIAN, Pedro. · 1671
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[20], 360 pp.First edition of an interesting and detailed account of the first overland journey from Spain to the East Indies (1671-1680) by the Spanish missionary Pedro Cubero Sebastian. After spending time in Italy where he was appointed as a missionary to Asia and the East ...
Relaes en contradictie op de motiven, om het koopen en verkoopen van Oost- en West-Indische actien, die niet getransporteert werden, ende optie partyen te beswaeren met eeen impost by de Heer Nicolaes Muys van Holy, advocaet tot Amsterdam, onwetende voorgestelt, en daer en boven getoont waer in waerlyyk Hollants intrest en welvaren bestaende is.[Amsterdam or Rotterdam?, 1687]. 4to. Later decorated paper wrappers.
Relaes en contradictie op de motiven, om het koopen en verkoopen van Oost- en West-Indische actien, die niet getransporteert werden, ende optie partyen te beswaeren met eeen impost by de Heer Nicolaes Muys van Holy, advocaet tot Amsterdam, onwetende voorgestelt, en daer en boven getoont waer in waerlyyk Hollants intrest en welvaren bestaende is.[Amsterdam or Rotterdam?, 1687]. 4to. Later decorated paper wrappers.
[VOC - WIC - SHARES FRAUD]. · 1687
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
16 pp.An anonymous and undated pamphlet rebutting one published at Amsterdam in 1687 by the Amsterdam solicitor (“advocaat”) Mr. Nicolaas Muys van Holy (1644-ca.1710), a descendant of a well-known family of Regents from Dordrecht. Muys van Holy’s pamphlet, Middelen en motiven ...
[Views and people along the Mediterranean coasts of France, Spain and Algeria].[London sketchbook used in the Mediterranean], 1881. Small oblong 8vo (8,5 x 13 cm). Album (sketchbook) containing 28 pencil drawings (1 double-page), 2 colored drawings and 4 watercolors (1 double-page ) with handwritten captions in English. Half checkered black morocco. With advertising label of “Lechertier, Barbe & Co. Artists’ colourmen and Stationers, Regent Street, London” with prices of the various sketchbooks for sale; at the head the artist’s(?) initials and date: “J.M. 1881”.
[Views and people along the Mediterranean coasts of France, Spain and Algeria].[London sketchbook used in the Mediterranean], 1881. Small oblong 8vo (8,5 x 13 cm). Album (sketchbook) containing 28 pencil drawings (1 double-page), 2 colored drawings and 4 watercolors (1 double-page ) with handwritten captions in English. Half checkered black morocco. With advertising label of “Lechertier, Barbe & Co. Artists’ colourmen and Stationers, Regent Street, London” with prices of the various sketchbooks for sale; at the head the artist’s(?) initials and date: “J.M. 1881”.
[SKETCHBOOK - ALGIERS & SPAIN]. J. M. (artist?). · 1881
€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)
70 pp.Very charming album, apparently made during a Mediterranean cruise ca. 1881. The cruise began in Marseille and ended in Biarritz:The Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseille (drawing); View of Palma de (Mallorca: deleted) Minorca (Menorca; or: Ibiza?; drawing); Two women in A...
Summary of the principal measures of the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Elgin in the Home Department, January 1894 to December 1898.Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government printing, India, 1898. Folio. With armorial vignette on the title page. Blind-stamped blue cloth, title in gold on spine, blue decorated endpapers.
Summary of the principal measures of the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Elgin in the Home Department, January 1894 to December 1898.Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government printing, India, 1898. Folio. With armorial vignette on the title page. Blind-stamped blue cloth, title in gold on spine, blue decorated endpapers.
[INDIA]. · 1894
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[2], IV, [2], 84 pp.The official Summary, always published at the end of a Viceroy-ship, by the Office of the Superintendent of Government printing in Calcutta, containing the narrative of proceedings of the Home Department, in this case from January 1894 to December 1898, the...
A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under General Perofski in 1839.Calcutta, Office of superintendent government printing, 1867. 8°. With 1 folding plate (plan of the camp, with the positions of the troops) and 1 folding map of the region Orenburg, Kazachstan. Original publisher’s green cloth; re-backed with original backstrip laid down.
A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under General Perofski in 1839.Calcutta, Office of superintendent government printing, 1867. 8°. With 1 folding plate (plan of the camp, with the positions of the troops) and 1 folding map of the region Orenburg, Kazachstan. Original publisher’s green cloth; re-backed with original backstrip laid down.
[PEROVSKY, Vasily Aleksyeevic]. · 1839
€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)
[2], ii, 182 pp.Rare first (and only early) edition of the English translation, probably made by J. Michell, of a Russian account of the 1839 Khivan campaign in Uzbekistan under the command of the military governor of Orenburg, Vasily Aleksyeevich Perovsky (1794-1857).The Russ...