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Variarum lectionum selecta, figuris æneis applicata.Groningen, Jacobus Sipkes, 1660. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette showing Europa on a bull, and 21 full- or half-page engravings in the text from various series or suites: one by Cornelis Kittensteyn (1598-1652) after A. van de Venne (p. 17) and 8 by Cornelis Visscher after a series with Roman Heros by Hendrick Goltzius. Further with one decorated woodcut initial and a small woodcut tailpiece on the last page of a castle and three roses. Contemporary vellum.
Variarum lectionum selecta, figuris æneis applicata.Groningen, Jacobus Sipkes, 1660. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette showing Europa on a bull, and 21 full- or half-page engravings in the text from various series or suites: one by Cornelis Kittensteyn (1598-1652) after A. van de Venne (p. 17) and 8 by Cornelis Visscher after a series with Roman Heros by Hendrick Goltzius. Further with one decorated woodcut initial and a small woodcut tailpiece on the last page of a castle and three roses. Contemporary vellum.
NYENBORGH, Johan van. · 1612
€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)
189, [3] pp.Rare original edition of a literary miscellaneous work by Johannes van Nyenborgh (or Nijenborg, 1612-after1662), merchant and poet born in Groningen and living in a country house near Groningen where he functioned as the centre of a literary circle with contacts al...
Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. ... Uitgebreid met eene korte historische beschryving der noordere gewesten, ... Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst, ... Nevens een korte beshryving van de Terreneufsche Bakkeljaau-Visschery.Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728. 4to. With 5 (of 6) folding engraved maps, 11 engraved plates (1 folding), and 2 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges.
Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. ... Uitgebreid met eene korte historische beschryving der noordere gewesten, ... Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst, ... Nevens een korte beshryving van de Terreneufsche Bakkeljaau-Visschery.Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728. 4to. With 5 (of 6) folding engraved maps, 11 engraved plates (1 folding), and 2 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges.
ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertz. and Abraham MOUBACH. · 1727
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[40], 392, [13] pp.Scarce reissue of the 1727 second and final edition (greatly expanded and revised from the first edition of 1720, and with additional plates) of a highly esteemed work on whaling. "It is by far the most important of the early authorities on the northern whal...
De ses eerste boecken Euclidis. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1626. 8vo. With numerous woodcut geometrical figures in the text. Contemporary vellum.
De ses eerste boecken Euclidis. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1626. 8vo. With numerous woodcut geometrical figures in the text. Contemporary vellum.
EUCLID and Jan Pieterszoon DOU.
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[14], 224 [2 blank] pp.Fourth, corrected Dutch edition of the first six books of Euclids Elements, translated and edited by the surveyor Jan Pieterszoon Dou. The Elements is a mathematical and geometrical treatise consisting of in total 13 books written by the Greek Euclid in ...
Album amicorum of Cornelis van Rossem (1815-1891).[Leiden, Amsterdam, ca. 1834-1917]. Oblong 8vo (ca. 9.3 x 15 cm). With a calligraphed title page and a collection of 38 loose leaves (last blank) with contributions for this Album Amicorum, including 7 full-page washed pen and ink drawings, 4 watercolours, 1 embroidered flower, 1 portrait in relief (created by poking holes in the paper), 2 full-page drawings by the owner, and 7 full-page pen drawings by the owner's son Petrus Cornelius van Rossem. The edges of the leaves perfectly fitting the box are gilt. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco book-shaped box with spine with green title label lettered in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled front pastedown, gilt edges, kept in a marbled paper slipcase.
Album amicorum of Cornelis van Rossem (1815-1891).[Leiden, Amsterdam, ca. 1834-1917]. Oblong 8vo (ca. 9.3 x 15 cm). With a calligraphed title page and a collection of 38 loose leaves (last blank) with contributions for this Album Amicorum, including 7 full-page washed pen and ink drawings, 4 watercolours, 1 embroidered flower, 1 portrait in relief (created by poking holes in the paper), 2 full-page drawings by the owner, and 7 full-page pen drawings by the owner's son Petrus Cornelius van Rossem. The edges of the leaves perfectly fitting the box are gilt. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco book-shaped box with spine with green title label lettered in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled front pastedown, gilt edges, kept in a marbled paper slipcase.
[ALBUM AMICORUM - NETHERLANDS - Cornelis van ROSSEM]. · 1815
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[38], [1 blank] leaves.Album amicorum in the form of a book-shaped box with 39 loose leaves (last blank) with washed pencil drawings, pen & ink drawings, watercolours, and curious portraits (21), and an embroidered flower incorporating small beads, owned by Cornelis van Rossem...
Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen...Mechelen, J.F. vander Elst, [1775?].With:(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade..Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius... Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen...Mechelen, J.F. vander Elst, [1775?].With:(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade..Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius... Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
[SPLENDID CEREMONY - MECHELEN].
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[12], 34 [= 38]; 36; [8], XII, 84 pp.Illustrated accounts of three grand public religious festivals in the Southern Netherlands. Ad 1 is a beautiful series of engravings celebrating the 1000-year jubilee of Saint Rumoldus. Ad 2 records a festival on the occasion of the 400th a...
De nieuw uitgevonden sluis met in- en uitschuivende deuren. With: (2) REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuw uitgevonden diep-machine. The Hague, Hendrik Christoffel Gutteling; Amsterdam, Jacob Yntema & Jacob Tieboel; for the author, 1774. 2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (49.5 x 31 cm). Ad 1 with 6 large folding engraved plates and ad 2 with 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
De nieuw uitgevonden sluis met in- en uitschuivende deuren. With: (2) REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De nieuw uitgevonden diep-machine. The Hague, Hendrik Christoffel Gutteling; Amsterdam, Jacob Yntema & Jacob Tieboel; for the author, 1774. 2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (49.5 x 31 cm). Ad 1 with 6 large folding engraved plates and ad 2 with 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. · 1728
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
XII, 26; XI, [1], 18 pp.Two rare first editions, in the original Dutch, containing detailed descriptions and illustrations of two new inventions in hydraulic engineering: a sluice with sliding gates and a dredging machine. They were designed by the accomplished engineer Cornel...
Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas | Verzameling der kleederdragten in de nordelijke provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons; Paris, Engelmann et cie. (printed by Thierry brothers). 1828[-1829]. With lithographed title-page, lithographed index and 20 numbered lithographed plates, all captioned in French and Dutch below and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand.With: (2) [GREEVEN, Hendrik, Luigi CALAMATTA and others]. Souvenirs de la Hollande.Amsterdam, Buffa brothers and co., 1838. With a hand-coloured engraving mounted on the title-page and 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates (7 of Dutch views and 7 of women's folk costumes). 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (32 x 24 cm). Contemporary boards with marbled sides.
Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas | Verzameling der kleederdragten in de nordelijke provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons; Paris, Engelmann et cie. (printed by Thierry brothers). 1828[-1829]. With lithographed title-page, lithographed index and 20 numbered lithographed plates, all captioned in French and Dutch below and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand.With: (2) [GREEVEN, Hendrik, Luigi CALAMATTA and others]. Souvenirs de la Hollande.Amsterdam, Buffa brothers and co., 1838. With a hand-coloured engraving mounted on the title-page and 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates (7 of Dutch views and 7 of women's folk costumes). 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (32 x 24 cm). Contemporary boards with marbled sides.
GREEVEN, Hendrik (artist) and Justin Vallou VALLON DE VILLENEUVE (lithographer). · 1838
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
[24] ll. text in French and English.Ad 1: Finely coloured series of folk costumes from the Netherlands (then forming the northern part of a united kingdom with what is now Belgium and Luxemburg), with a preface and explanatory text in French and English. It shows mostly women ...
Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.Including: [MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco, with the title, author, and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, contemporary marbled end papers.
Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.Including: [MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco, with the title, author, and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, contemporary marbled end papers.
MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de. · 1678
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
[1], [1 blank], [10], 570, XXII pp.Revised and enlarged edition of a classic work on the atmospherical phenomena Aurora Borealis, the first comprehensive treatise devoted entirely to the subject. The work is divided into five sections which discuss the solar atmosphere, the te...
Chronique ofte historische geschiedenisse van Vrieslant. Beginnende vanden jaere nae des Werelts scheppinghe 3635. ende loopende tot den jaere nae de gheboorte Christi.Franeker, Jan Lamrinck, 1622. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, a large engraved coat of arms of the province of Friesland, a large folding engraved map of Friesland, 3 folding engraved plans. Further with (in the text) 49 half-page, full-length engraved portraits, 2 engraved costume plates, 2 plans of sieges, 1 view 6 seals and coats of arms of Friesland at the end. Also with many woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. All engraved and woodcut illustrations are beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf.
Chronique ofte historische geschiedenisse van Vrieslant. Beginnende vanden jaere nae des Werelts scheppinghe 3635. ende loopende tot den jaere nae de gheboorte Christi.Franeker, Jan Lamrinck, 1622. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, a large engraved coat of arms of the province of Friesland, a large folding engraved map of Friesland, 3 folding engraved plans. Further with (in the text) 49 half-page, full-length engraved portraits, 2 engraved costume plates, 2 plans of sieges, 1 view 6 seals and coats of arms of Friesland at the end. Also with many woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. All engraved and woodcut illustrations are beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf.
WINSEMIUS, Pierius. · 1586
€32,500.00 ($35,820.92 | £27,113.64 | ¥5,720,137)
[10], 913, [61] pp.First and only edition of this most important and reliable history and description of the province Friesland by Pierius Winsemius (1586-1644), a Frisian lawyer and historian who was appointed the official historian of Friesland by the States of Friesland in ...
Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est, jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum scripta, non tàm lectu jucunda & jocosa, amoena & amanda, quàm lectu verè digna & utilia, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accomodata, illustrata & adornata.[Rostock, Augustin Ferber], 1627. 17 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With general title-page and 17 part-titles, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations. Contemporary vellum.
Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est, jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum scripta, non tàm lectu jucunda & jocosa, amoena & amanda, quàm lectu verè digna & utilia, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accomodata, illustrata & adornata.[Rostock, Augustin Ferber], 1627. 17 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With general title-page and 17 part-titles, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations. Contemporary vellum.
[FACETIAE]. · 1474
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
Rare collection of popular farcical texts, inspired by the Facetiae (1474) of the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Poggio wrote anti-clerical, bawdy and obscene stories, that enjoyed great popularity in the 16th century. He thereby showed that Latin was flexible enough to ...
Recherches curieuses des monoyes de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie.Paris, Edme Martin, 1666. Large folio (42 x 27.5 cm). With title-page with engraved allegorical illustration by N. Bonnart (including a minting press), and numerous engravings in text incl. 7 full-page (on pp. 336, 342, 349, 354, 359, 364 and 370). Contemporary mottled calf (ca. 1693), richly gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges; and each board with the (later) gold-tooled British Royal arms in the form used in Scotland 1801-1816, encircled by the inscription, "The Society of Writers to the Signet" (that is the Signet Library in Edinburgh; stamp 3, ca. 1815).
Recherches curieuses des monoyes de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie.Paris, Edme Martin, 1666. Large folio (42 x 27.5 cm). With title-page with engraved allegorical illustration by N. Bonnart (including a minting press), and numerous engravings in text incl. 7 full-page (on pp. 336, 342, 349, 354, 359, 364 and 370). Contemporary mottled calf (ca. 1693), richly gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges; and each board with the (later) gold-tooled British Royal arms in the form used in Scotland 1801-1816, encircled by the inscription, "The Society of Writers to the Signet" (that is the Signet Library in Edinburgh; stamp 3, ca. 1815).
BOUTEROUE D'AUBIGNY, Claude. · 1620
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[16], 398, [1], [1 blank] pp.Large paper copy of the first and only edition of a study of the coins circulating in France since antiquity, describing the coins of the Jews, ancient Gauls, and Romans, covering the period from the Gauls to the end of Merovingians, written by Cla...
Neu ausgefertigtes historisch-medicinisches Thier-Buch in vier besonderen Theilen verabfasset; ... Wobei verschiedene, wieder allerhand Kranckheiten bewehrte Geness-Mittel: angezeiget.Nuremberg, Johan Friedrich Rüdiger, 1714. 8vo. With a double-page engraved frontispiece, engraved by Johan Lorentz Hönnig, a double-page letterpress title-page printed in red and black, and 95 engraved plates, each depicting several animals. Contemporary vellum.
Neu ausgefertigtes historisch-medicinisches Thier-Buch in vier besonderen Theilen verabfasset; ... Wobei verschiedene, wieder allerhand Kranckheiten bewehrte Geness-Mittel: angezeiget.Nuremberg, Johan Friedrich Rüdiger, 1714. 8vo. With a double-page engraved frontispiece, engraved by Johan Lorentz Hönnig, a double-page letterpress title-page printed in red and black, and 95 engraved plates, each depicting several animals. Contemporary vellum.
MERCKLEIN, Georg Abraham. · 1644
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[26], 732, [72] pp.Second edition of a pre-Linnean zoological work, describing in 4 parts the names, appearance, characteristics, qualities and habitats of quadrupeds, birds, fishes and invertebrates, together with their medicinal qualities and uses, by the German physician Ge...
Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta et novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis & notis illustrata. ... Editio tertia ...Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel (printed by Johann Ernest Adelbulner [in Nürnberg]), 1713. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with an engraved device, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding engraved views, 26 further engraved plates and some small woodcut illustrations in text.Including (with a drop-title): [HORION, J. de]. Paneygyricus, die natali Academiae Theodorianae Paderbornensis.[Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1713]. With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved title-page and one engraved plate. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges.
Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta et novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis & notis illustrata. ... Editio tertia ...Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel (printed by Johann Ernest Adelbulner [in Nürnberg]), 1713. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with an engraved device, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding engraved views, 26 further engraved plates and some small woodcut illustrations in text.Including (with a drop-title): [HORION, J. de]. Paneygyricus, die natali Academiae Theodorianae Paderbornensis.[Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1713]. With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved title-page and one engraved plate. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges.
[FÜRSTENBERG, Ferdinand von]. · 1626
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[48], 309, [19]; [14], 134, [34] pp.Third edition of a famous, beautifully illustrated chronicle of the city and Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn in the northwest German Duchy of Westphalia, written by the Prince Bishop, Ferdinand of Fürstenberg (1626-1683) and first published in...
l'Ordre du siege de la ville de Breda, contre les forces Espagnolles: par monsieur le Prince d'Orange General de l'armee Hollandoise. Suivant l'arrest qui en a esté faict au camp de Son Altesse, le dixiesme de Septembre 1634.Lyon, Claude de Villiers, [1634?]. Small 8vo. Woodcut ornament on title-page, woodcut headpiece and initial. Disbound.
l'Ordre du siege de la ville de Breda, contre les forces Espagnolles: par monsieur le Prince d'Orange General de l'armee Hollandoise. Suivant l'arrest qui en a esté faict au camp de Son Altesse, le dixiesme de Septembre 1634.Lyon, Claude de Villiers, [1634?]. Small 8vo. Woodcut ornament on title-page, woodcut headpiece and initial. Disbound.
[DUTCH HISTORY - SIEGE OF BREDA]. · 1625
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
14 pp.Extremely rare (second?) edition of a pamphlet containing an army report on the preparations for a siege of Breda by the army of the Dutch Republic under the Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik. The army had left Nijmegen to march on Breda, which was in the hands of the Spaniar...
Dissertationum ecclesiasticarum libri duo, in quibus de episcoporum dignitate, ac potestate; deque aliis ecclesiasticis dogmatibus disputatur.Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1641. 8vo. With Cramoisy's engraved coupling storks device on the title page. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1700?), gilt edges.
Dissertationum ecclesiasticarum libri duo, in quibus de episcoporum dignitate, ac potestate; deque aliis ecclesiasticis dogmatibus disputatur.Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1641. 8vo. With Cramoisy's engraved coupling storks device on the title page. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1700?), gilt edges.
PÉTAU, Denis (Dionysius PETAVIUS).
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[24], 354, [8] pp.First edition of a controversial work by Denis Pétau containing the results of his historical research on the functioning of Christian clerical authorities (primarily bishops) from the time of the Church Fathers to his own time, followed by a discussion of va...
Traicté de l'espee Francoise.Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With engraved emblematic heraldic device on title-page (right hand holding a sword, emerging from a cloud, with crosses and fleurs-de-lis on the sword's blade and in the background, the whole representing King Louis XIII protecting France and the Church) with the motto "Pro religione et regno".With: (2) SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté contre les duels. Avec l'edict de Philippes le Bel, de l'an M.CCC.VI. non encores imprimé.Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With Périer's woodcut compasses device on title-page with motto "labore et constantia", borrowed from Christoffel Plantin. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century sprinkled calf.
Traicté de l'espee Francoise.Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With engraved emblematic heraldic device on title-page (right hand holding a sword, emerging from a cloud, with crosses and fleurs-de-lis on the sword's blade and in the background, the whole representing King Louis XIII protecting France and the Church) with the motto "Pro religione et regno".With: (2) SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté contre les duels. Avec l'edict de Philippes le Bel, de l'an M.CCC.VI. non encores imprimé.Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With Périer's woodcut compasses device on title-page with motto "labore et constantia", borrowed from Christoffel Plantin. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century sprinkled calf.
SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). · 1566
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
56; [16], 125, [3 blank] pp.Ad 1: Rare first and only edition of Savaron's treatise on the history of the sword in France, its use and the right to bear a sword as arms. Savaron dedicated the book to King Louis XIII, "the sword of the world".Ad 2: Rare first edition of a curio...
Historia del nobile, et valoroso Cavalier. Felice Magno, figliuolo del Re Falangrè della Gran Brettagna, & della Reina Clarinta, nella quale si raccontano i suoi grandi, & maravigliosi fatti tradotta con somma diligenza di Spagnuolo in lingua Italiana.Verona, Sebastiano dalle Donne for Francesco de Franceschi Senese, 1587. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
Historia del nobile, et valoroso Cavalier. Felice Magno, figliuolo del Re Falangrè della Gran Brettagna, & della Reina Clarinta, nella quale si raccontano i suoi grandi, & maravigliosi fatti tradotta con somma diligenza di Spagnuolo in lingua Italiana.Verona, Sebastiano dalle Donne for Francesco de Franceschi Senese, 1587. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
[CAMILLI, Camillo (translator)]. · 1615
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[12], 298 ll.Rare first and only(?) edition of the Italian translation of the first (and only published?) part of a chivalric romance, generally known as the Félix Magno, translated by Camillo Camilli (d. 1615). The original Spanish was first published in four parts at Barcelo...
Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs.London [= Hanover?], Thomas Cooper [= Johann Wilhelm Schmidt?], 1743. Title in red & black with engraved vignette (a seascape with a sea creature in the foreground), headpieces and tailpieces.
Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs.London [= Hanover?], Thomas Cooper [= Johann Wilhelm Schmidt?], 1743. Title in red & black with engraved vignette (a seascape with a sea creature in the foreground), headpieces and tailpieces.
BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY). · 1743
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
144; [4], XXIV, 191, [1 blank], [2], 192-228; 108; 16 pp.Ad 1: One of two probably simultaneous issues of the rarer of the first two French editions, all dated 1743, of a chronicle of the kings of England that covers the period 1066-1603, first published in English in 1740. Ro...
Picenorum mathematicorum elogia.Macerata, Bartolomeo Capitani, 1779. 4to. With a woodcut ornament on the title page, 1 illustration in the text, 23 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red mottled edges.
Picenorum mathematicorum elogia.Macerata, Bartolomeo Capitani, 1779. 4to. With a woodcut ornament on the title page, 1 illustration in the text, 23 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red mottled edges.
SANTINI, Giuseppe. · 1779
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XVI, 112 pp.Rare first and only edition of this bio-bibliographical work discussing important mathematicians and other scientists from the province Piceno, Italy, rom the 16th to the 18th century. Included are, among others, Antonius Accursi, Gregorius Ammiani, Romulus Brogli,...
Les emblèmes d'amour divin et humain ensemble. Expliquez par des vers François. Par un pere Capucin.[Paris, ca. 1745]. 8vo. With an engraved title-page and 118 numbered full-page engraved emblems. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 recessed cords, the spine divided into 6 fields by fillets, the 2nd with a red morocco label and each of the others with a flower (closed thistle?) and several small stamps, each board with a frame of triple fillets with a second flower inside each corner and a star at each corner intersection, gold fillets on board edges, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (red, yellow, green, blue and white, curled).
Les emblèmes d'amour divin et humain ensemble. Expliquez par des vers François. Par un pere Capucin.[Paris, ca. 1745]. 8vo. With an engraved title-page and 118 numbered full-page engraved emblems. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 recessed cords, the spine divided into 6 fields by fillets, the 2nd with a red morocco label and each of the others with a flower (closed thistle?) and several small stamps, each board with a frame of triple fillets with a second flower inside each corner and a star at each corner intersection, gold fillets on board edges, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (red, yellow, green, blue and white, curled).
CAPUCIN, Père. · 1631
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
119 ll.Charming religious and profane love emblem book with 118 plates, with the text engraved in the plates and without any letterpress text. The emblems depict figures, some with angelic wings or aureoles, each accompanied by a Biblical verse in Latin or a motto in Latin and...