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South Indian Ocean pilot. Madagascar, Îles Comores, Île de la Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles Group, Chagos Archipelago, and other islands lying westward of Longitude 80° East. Eighth edition.Taunton, published by the hydrographer of the navy, 1971. With supplement no. 5 (1977). 8vo. With 2 small maps, 8 coastal profiles, 9 diagrams and 11 climatic tables in the book and also 1 view of the coast of Marie Louise Islet (1975) in the supplement.Contemporary blue cloth with printed title in yellow.

[GREAT BRITAIN, HYDROGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT]. · 1971

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

XI, [1 blank], 333, [1]; 40 pp.Eighth edition (1971) with supplement no. 5 (1977) of the standard pilot guide for the South Indian Ocean published by the British admiralty. It provides the latest admiralty sailing directions and information for sailing in the ocean and along a...

Short notes on the winds, weather, & currents, together with general sailing directions and remarks on making passages; to accompany a chart of the Indian Ocean.London, James Imray & son, 1878. 8vo. With 2 folding maps. Original publisher’s blue wrappers.

ROSSER, William Henry. · 1867

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

[4], 71 pp.Extremely rare edition, probably the fourth, of a handbook for sailing in the Indian Ocean. As the title indicates, it not only contains sailing directions and descriptions of different routes to Singapore and the Arabian Sea, but also gives important notes for sail...

Kinship and marriage in early Arabia.Cambridge, C.J. Clay and son, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1885. 8vo. Contemporary brown cloth, lettering in gold on the spine.

SMITH, William Robertson.

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

xiv, 322, [2], 16 pp.Presentation copy of the rare first edition of William Robertson Smith’s influential work of on kinship and marriage in early Arabia. It examines the evidence for a pre-Islamic matriarchal kinship and corresponding laws of marriage and tribal organization ...

Correspondence respecting the punitive expedition against Witu of November 1890. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. December 1890.London, printed for Her Majesty's stationery office by Harrison and sons, St. Martin's lane, n.d. [presented 1890]. Large 4to. Side stiched through three holes.

[WITU PROTECTORATE]. · 1890

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

[28] pp.Part of a series of Official British Government reports and memoranda relating to East, West, South and Central Africa. This is no. 3 (1890-1891). The report was carried out by command of the Queen and presented to both Houses of Parliament. The report counts 29 telegr...

Treaty of friendship and mutual co-operation between His Majesty in respect of the United Kingdom and of India and the king of the Yemen (with exchange of notes). London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. With a woodcut British Royal arms on the title-page.In a blue paper wrapper.

RAGHEB-BIN-RAFIQ, Muhammed & Bernard Rawdon REILLY. · 1919

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

5, [1] pp.A very important treaty in the history of British imperialism, which show the pragmatic approach of the British in Arabia by signing this treaty, and also in the history of Arabia and Yemen. This treaty probably may have helped perticipate the war between Ibn Saud an...

A familiar history of birds.London, Longmans, Green and Co. (at the end: printed by Spottiswoode and Co.), 1865. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, 2 engraved plates and 102 illustrations in the text.Contemporary gold-tooled calf, probably a school prize binding, with “King Edward's School Bruton” and its "Sealle of the Skolle of Brew" in a frame, the seal showing a Brewer’s tonne (Brew-ton), richly gold-tooled spine with a red morocco label, edges gilt over a fore-edge painting showing a falconry hunting scene.

STANLEY, Edward. · 1865

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

xiii, [1 blank], 446 pp.Fifth edition (1865) of a general account of bird life in its various aspects written by Edward Stanley (1779-1849), Bishop of Norwich, first published in 1835. The present copy, probably in a school prize binding, has a charming fore-edge painting of a...

Middle East Issues.London, Fabian International Bureau, February 1961. 8vo. Original printed paper covers.

ENNALS, David & Ian CAMPBELL. · 1959

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

29 pp.Published by the The Fabian International Bureau, which is part of the The Fabian Society, this is no. 220 of the Fabian Research Series. The Fabian Society is a forum for reaearch and discussion within the British Labour Movement. In the present pamphlet letters from th...

Official documents, relative to the negotiations carried on by Tippoo Sultaun, with the French Nation, and other foreign states, for purposes hostile to the British nation; to which is added, proceedings of a Jacobin club, formed at Seringapatam, by the French soldiers in the corps commanded by M. Dompart, with a translation ... Printed by order of the ... Governor General ...Calcutta, Honorable Company’s Press, 1799. Super Royal 4to (33.5 x 25 cm). Never bound, but side stitched through 3 holes.

[EAST INDIA COMPANY]. [TIPU SULTAN, Zaman Shah DURRANI, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE and others]. · 1750

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

XX, [2], 195, [1] pp.A British propaganda publication, printed in Calcutta, transcribing “secret” documents that the British supposedly found in the palace of Seringapatam: primarily Tipu Sultan’s correspondence with the French, considered a betrayal of the British. Tipu Sulta...

Exchange of notes regarding relations between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the government of the Yemen.London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. With a woodcut British Royal arms on the title-page. In a blue paper wrapper with a clear plastic front.

FURLONGE, Sir Geoffrey Warren, and Qadi al-AMRI. · 1950

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

8 pp.Bilateral treaty between the United Kingdom and the government of His Majesty the King of Yemen, presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The negotiations between the governments commenced on 29 August 1950 and ended on 12 October 1950. Some ...

Oratio funebris in obitum viri clarissimi Joannis Georgii Graevii, Magnae Brittanniae Regis historici, politices, historiarum & eloquentiae professoris ordinarii. Dicta XI. Kal. Martias MDCCIII.Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1703. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title-page. (2) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro pigritia, publice habita. Ad diem XX Febr. M.DCCII.[No place], 1702. Woodcut title-vignette. (3) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Somnium, sive iter in arcadiam novam, publice narratum in majori Academiae Ultrajectinae Acroaterio. Ad diem IX. Septembris MDCCX.[No place], [1710]. (4) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro comoedia, publice in auspiciis Academicarum recitationum, quibus Terentii fabulae explicantur, habita, a.d. XIV Septembris MDCCXI.Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1711. Woodcut publisher's device.(5) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio in humanitatis studia. Habita a.d. VIII. Februarii MDCCXX. Cum magistratu Academico abiret.Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1720. Woodcut publisher's device.(6) BURMAN the elder, Pieter.. Pro literatoribus et grammaticis oratio, habita a.d. VIII Februarii MDCXXXII. Cum magistratu academico abiret.Leiden, Conrad Wishoff & Daniel Goedval, [1732]. Woodcut title-vignette, headpiece and tailpiece.(7) RÜCKER, Joannes Conradus. Oratio de honoribus academicis, magno doctrinae praemio. Habita cum virum eruditissimum Danielem ... van Alphen, Lugduno Batavum, juris utriusque doctorem, more majorum renuntiaret. A.d. XIII. Dec. MDCCXXXV.Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1735. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.(8) VITRIARIUS, Johannes Jacobus. Oratio funebris, in obitum eruditissimi ac celeberrimi viri, Antonii Schultingii, Joh. fil. ... Dicta Publice a.d. XII. April A. MDCCXXXIV.Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, [1734]. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece. 8 works in 1 volume. 4to. Slightly later half calf (ca. 1765), gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, marbled sides with central gold vignette of the “Society of Writers to the Signet” on both boards.

BURMAN the Elder, Pieter. · 1668

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

57, [26]; 23; [39]; [4], 36; 61; [2], 75, [1]; 28, 37, [3] pp.Six academic orations in Latin, all in their first (and at least mostly only) editions, delivered by Pieter Burman, or Petrus Burmannus (1668-1741), a Dutch classical scholar and one of the best classical philologis...

Vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis aequalibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt epistolae illustres ...Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1642. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Lingua, sive, de linguae usu atque abusu liber utilissimus.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1649.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Moriae encomium, cum Gerradi Listriis commentariis. Epistolae aliqut in fine additae. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1648.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Dialogus Ciceronianus: sive de optimo genere dicendi. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1643.(5) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Dialogus de recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1643.(6) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De contemptu mundi liber. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.(7) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Querela pacis, undique gentium ejectae, profligataeque. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.(8) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De immensa Dei misericordia. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.(9) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Modus orandi Deum. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.(10) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Precationes quibus homines assuescant cum Deo loqui.Leiden, Joannes. Maire, 1641.(11) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enarratio in Psalmum I.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1644.(12) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enarratio triplex in Psalmum XXII. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1645.(13) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enarratio pia juxta ac docta in Psalmum XXXIV.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1652.(14) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Concionalis interpretatio, plena pietatis, in Psalmum LXXXVI.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1652. 14 works in 2 volumes. 12mo. Ad 1 with an engraved title page by C. van Dalen showing Erasmus standing in a church with a book in his left hand pointing to three other men. All title pages contain Maire's woodcut device (see Breugelmans, nr. 13), and a woodcut portrait of Erasmus in a roundel on leaf *8r in ad 1 and his device in a roundel in the text on leaf 2*5v in ad 1. Further with several woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary half vellum, paper sides, with "Erasmiana tom. I [or II]" in manuscript on the spine, blue edges.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1576

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

These 14 important works by Erasmus - the edition of his most important letters after the Vita, edited by Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660), his famous Laus stultitiae, and 3 of his linguistic works in the first volume, and 9 theological works in volume 2 - belong to a project of ...

[Epigrammata]. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius, December 1501). 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With 15 (mostly 6-line) spaces with printed guide letters left for manuscript initials. Except for an occasional word in Greek, the book is set entirely in the world's first italic printing type (with small upright capitals, which are also used, usually letterspaced, for running heads, headings, the opening line of each liber, etc.). Francesco Griffo cut it for Aldus, who uses it here 8 months after he introduced it in his Virgil. Tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700?), gold-tooled spine and board edges.

MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius. · 1501

€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)

[381], [3 blank] pp.First Aldine edition of Martial's epigrams, the fifth book in Aldus's series of octavo classics set in the world's first italic type, introduced with his octavo edition of Virgil in April 1501. While the octavo format was not new, it had been most common in...

Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta; accedunt epistolæ illvstres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent. P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspicijs.Leiden, Govert Basson, 1615. 12mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a woodcut roundel with portrait of Erasmus on leaf 5, a divisional title page for Erasmus' letters, and a few woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum.

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). · 1469

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

[24], 286, [2 blank].Important collection of sources for the biography of Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536), put together and edited by Petrus Scriverius on the basis of the 1607 edition by Merula of the Compendium vitae, including a number of new sources and four hitherto unpubl...

[Binding title:] Abregé de la marine du Roy 1732.[Paris?, 1732]. 13.5 x 19 cm. Manuscript in brown-black, red and blue ink on vellum, some of the lettering and borders gilt. With a beautiful frontispiece painting in coloured gouaches (14 x 9.5 cm) pasted on the page facing the opening of the text Contemporary gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, gold-tooled blue-black goatskin morocco pastedowns, gilt edges.

[FRENCH ROYAL NAVY]. · 1732

€95,000.00 ($104,707.29 | £79,255.27 | ¥16,720,401)

Frontispiece plus [2], 26 ll., including 2 double and 1 larger folding.Splendid vellum manuscript on the condition and organisation of the French Royal Navy of King Louis XV in the year 1732, including maritime data on the French colonies in Canada, Louisiana and the West Indi...

Fables nouvelles.The Hague & Paris, Delalain, 1773-75. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. With a fine engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette on first title page dated 1772, a full-page engraved allegorical plate (repeated in second part), engraved title to part 2, 99 engraved headpieces and 99 beautifully engraved tailpieces illustrating the fables, all after designs C.P. Marillier by Delaunay, Duflos, de Ghendt, Le Gouaz, Lignée, de Longueil, Née, Ponce, Simonet, etc. Contemporary gold-tooled full grained red morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, blue watered silk endpapers.

DORAT, Claude Joseph. · 1740

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

XII [= XXII], [1], [1 blank], 309, [3] pp.Splendid large paper copy in red morocco of the "chef-d'oeuvre" of the French artist Clément Pierre Marillier (1740-1808), the outstanding French artist, who invented the illustration by vignettes at the head and at the end of short pi...

Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicius de respiratione usuque pulmonum. In quo, praeter primam respirationis in foetu inchoationem... Editio altera. Cui subjuncta est D. Alberti Haller....... De Diaphragmatis musculis dissertatio anatomica. Editio tertia.Leiden, Conrad Wishoff, 1738. With:(2) VALSALVA, Antonio Maria. De aure humana tractatus, in quo integra auris fabrica multis novis & iconismis illustrata, describitur: omniumque ejus partium usus indagantur.Quibus interposita esty musculuram ovulae, atque pharyngis nova descriptio, et delinatio. Leiden, Gijsbert Langerak & Joh. Hasebroek, 1735.(3) IDEMA, P (or Bernardus). Een ontleed en natuurkundige verhandeling van 't oog. Leeuwarden, Tobias van Dessel, 1741. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with engraved title by G.W. with device for the study of respiration, 7 woodcuts in text, folding engraved plate by J. Lochmann. Ad 2: Title in red and black, 10 folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum with titles in ink on spine.

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. · 1637

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

[14], 95, [1]; [14], 143, [13]; [28], 96 pp.Three standard works on medicine and human anatomy.Ad 1: Classic on respiration and the earliest published medical work by Jan Swammerdam (Amsterdam 1637-1680), the most outstanding comparative anatomist of the 17th century. He was ...

In hoc volumine habentur haec. # Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti: atque ex archetypo emendati. # Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium ... # Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynij epistola ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. # Cornelij Vitellij in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. # M. Terentij Varronis de lingua Latina libri tres: Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. # Eiusdem de analogia libri tres. # Sexti Pompeij Festi undeviginti librorum fragmenta. # Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est: non ante impressa ...(Colophon on K8r:) Venice, in aedibus Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, May 1517; (colophon on Y7v:) November 1513. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, repeated on the verso of the last leaf. Including:(2) VARRO, Marcellus Terentius. De lingua Latina.(3) FESTUS, Sextus Pompeius. De verborum significatione.(4) MARCELLUS, Nonius. De compendiosa doctrina. Modern brown morocco.

PEROTTI, Niccolò. · 1436

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

79, [1 blank] ll., "1436" [= 1426] cols.Third Aldine edition of this collection of the main texts on the Latin language available to the early humanists: the most important Renaissance dictionary/encyclopaedia, written by Niccolo Perroti, together with the three most important...

Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri qui exstant XXXV cum universae historiae epitomis Caroli Sigonij scholia, quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam explanantur, ab auctore multis in partibus aucta.Venice, in aedibus Manutianis (= Paulus Manutius & Aldus Manutius the younger), 1572. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title to each part with a large woodcut printer's device surrounded by an allegorical border.Modern vellum with title in ink on spine, new endpapers.

LIVIUS, Titus. · 1524

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

590, [54], 399, [1 blank]; 109, [1 blank]; 52 pp.Third edition of the important complete text of Livy, edited by Carolus Sigonius (Carlo Sigone; ca. 1524-1584), together with his Scholia and interesting additions on the Roman chronology. The first edition has been issued from ...

Groot schilderboek ...Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, both title pages with a woodcut vignette, title to part 1 printed in red and black, an engraved portrait of De Laraisse, and 64 engraved plates. 19th-century richly gold-tooled mottled calf (dated 1841). The work has been re-backed with the original spine laid down.

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. · 1707

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

[3], [1 blank], [52], 434, [33], [1 blank]; 400, [28] pp.Celebrated and very influential theoretical manual on the art of painting by Gerard de Lairesse, in the second enlarged, and third overall, edition; now including a biography of the author by the painter Arnold Houbraken...

Gronden van zekerheid of de regte betoogwyse der wiskundige so in het denkbeeldige, als in het zakelyke: ter wederlegging van Spinosaas denkbeeldig samenstel; en ter aanleiding van eene sekere sakelyke wysbegeerte.Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1720. 4to. With the title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by J. Mulder, woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum.

NIEUWENTIJT, Bernard. · 1720

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

[1], [1 blank], [54], 458 pp.First Dutch edition of Nieuwentijt's work against Spinoza's ideas, posthumously published in 1720 by Joannes Pauli. The preliminary pages consist of a lengthy preface of 46 pages, a three-page long biography mentioning that the author died of encep...