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Theatrum machinarum universale; of keurige verzameling van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie waterwerken, schutsluizen, waterkeringen, ophaal- en draaibruggen. Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), 1757-1774. Imperial folio (50 x 34 cm). With a double-page engraved dedication plate and 41 double-page and 7 larger folding engraved illustration plates. Red half sheepskin (ca. 1800).
Theatrum machinarum universale; of keurige verzameling van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie waterwerken, schutsluizen, waterkeringen, ophaal- en draaibruggen. Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), 1757-1774. Imperial folio (50 x 34 cm). With a double-page engraved dedication plate and 41 double-page and 7 larger folding engraved illustration plates. Red half sheepskin (ca. 1800).
HORST, Tileman van der and Jacob POLLEY.
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
[3], [1 blank], 14; [1], [1 blank], 9 pp. + plates.Second edition of both volumes of a remarkably detailed set of scale construction drawings (plans, sections, elevations, perspective views, etc., including many detail drawings of individual parts) of 18th-century Dutch waterw...
Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika, Zynde eene Beschryving van de Ontdekking, Bevolking, Inwoonders, het Klimaat, den Koop-handel, en tegenwoordigen Staat van alle de Britannische Coloniën, In dat gedeelte der Wereldt... Uit het Engelsch, Als mede een omstandig Berecht aangaande Koffy en Koffy-plantery, Uit het Fransch vertaald. Amsterdam, Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein, 1721. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Part I: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720, title in red and black, 5 folding engraved maps, engraving in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. Part II: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720 (same as in part I), title in red and black, 3 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate, 2 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. The maps are by J. Keyser after H(erman) Moll. Contemporary full calf.
Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika, Zynde eene Beschryving van de Ontdekking, Bevolking, Inwoonders, het Klimaat, den Koop-handel, en tegenwoordigen Staat van alle de Britannische Coloniën, In dat gedeelte der Wereldt... Uit het Engelsch, Als mede een omstandig Berecht aangaande Koffy en Koffy-plantery, Uit het Fransch vertaald. Amsterdam, Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein, 1721. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Part I: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720, title in red and black, 5 folding engraved maps, engraving in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. Part II: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720 (same as in part I), title in red and black, 3 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate, 2 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. The maps are by J. Keyser after H(erman) Moll. Contemporary full calf.
[OLDMIXON, John]. · 1708
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
(26), 300 (i.e. 296); (2), 327 (14, 1 blank) pp.Dutch translation of The British Empire in America (London 1708) by John Oldmixon, containing an account on coffee and coffee plantations that is not present in the English edition. In the first part, the author describes North ...
Biblia. Dat is, de gantsche H. Schrift, grondelick ende trouwelick verduytschet.Delft, Bruyn Harmansz. Schinckel (colophon: printed by Aelbrecht Heyndricksz.), 1590. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to (23.5 x 17.5 cm). With a general title page and three part-titles, each with the same woodcut device in a separate elaborately decorated cartouche, 3 engraved folding maps drawn by Petrus Plancius and executed by Baptista van Doetecum and ca. 20 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold panel-stamped and gold-tooled calf over wooden boards, with spectacular finely engraved silver furnishings: 8 corner pieces, 2 clasps, 2 catch plates and 2 anchor plates, the catch and anchor plates with four female virtues; the corner pieces engraved with winged heads that appear to represent the four compass winds; and each clasp with an oval martyrdom scene flanked by birds, all 14 pieces of silverwork with floral and other decoration and with their edges cut to decorative shapes. Each board has the same central rectangular panel-stamp (98 x 61 mm), with an oval scene of Charity or Love/Caritas, with strapwork decoration around the oval (containing the maker's initials B and H) and inside the rectangle; gilt and elaborately gauffered edges. Rebacked in gold-tooled calf.
Biblia. Dat is, de gantsche H. Schrift, grondelick ende trouwelick verduytschet.Delft, Bruyn Harmansz. Schinckel (colophon: printed by Aelbrecht Heyndricksz.), 1590. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to (23.5 x 17.5 cm). With a general title page and three part-titles, each with the same woodcut device in a separate elaborately decorated cartouche, 3 engraved folding maps drawn by Petrus Plancius and executed by Baptista van Doetecum and ca. 20 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold panel-stamped and gold-tooled calf over wooden boards, with spectacular finely engraved silver furnishings: 8 corner pieces, 2 clasps, 2 catch plates and 2 anchor plates, the catch and anchor plates with four female virtues; the corner pieces engraved with winged heads that appear to represent the four compass winds; and each clasp with an oval martyrdom scene flanked by birds, all 14 pieces of silverwork with floral and other decoration and with their edges cut to decorative shapes. Each board has the same central rectangular panel-stamp (98 x 61 mm), with an oval scene of Charity or Love/Caritas, with strapwork decoration around the oval (containing the maker's initials B and H) and inside the rectangle; gilt and elaborately gauffered edges. Rebacked in gold-tooled calf.
[BIBLE - DUTCH]. · 1590
€48,500.00 ($53,455.83 | £40,461.90 | ¥8,536,205)
[20], 236; 92; 84; 108, [54] ll.An unrecorded issue (1 of at least 7) of a rare and important 1590 Bible edition, the corrected "deux aes" Bible, based on the first edition of 1562 (New Testament 1559), which remained the standard Dutch Reformed Bible until the official Dutch ...
Beschreibung einer Reise nach Surinam und des Aufenthaltes daselbst in den Jahren 1805, 1806, 1807, so wie von des Verfassers Rückkehr nach Europa über Nord-Amerika. (Vol. 2:) Beschreibung einer Reise nach Surinam und des Aufenthaltes daselbst in den Jahren 1810, 1811, 1812, so wie von des Verfassers Rückkehr nach Europa über Nord-Amerika.Berlin, in der Haude und Spenerschen Buchhandlung, 1821. 2 volumes. Large 4to (23.5 x 28.7 cm). Volume 1: an engraved title page with a large illustration by S. Middiman after W.M. Craig, an engraved frontispiece, a map of Surinam "nach M.A. de Laveaux entworfen" (here bound in volume 2), and 4 full-page engraved plates (numbered I-IV); plates II and IV by J. Pye after W.M. Craig, from the first English translation which had been published in 1810 in London by Nicol. Volume 2: an engraved title page with a large illustration, an engraved frontispiece, a full-page engraved map of the interior of Surinam by F. Guimpel, and 4 full-page engraved plates, two of which by L. Meyer after W.M. Craig (numbered V-XI); some tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco and red leather-grained cloth, with the author, title, and volume number lettered in gold on the spines, and with the gold-tooled crowned monogram of Marie Louise as a centrepiece on both boards of both volumes.
Beschreibung einer Reise nach Surinam und des Aufenthaltes daselbst in den Jahren 1805, 1806, 1807, so wie von des Verfassers Rückkehr nach Europa über Nord-Amerika. (Vol. 2:) Beschreibung einer Reise nach Surinam und des Aufenthaltes daselbst in den Jahren 1810, 1811, 1812, so wie von des Verfassers Rückkehr nach Europa über Nord-Amerika.Berlin, in der Haude und Spenerschen Buchhandlung, 1821. 2 volumes. Large 4to (23.5 x 28.7 cm). Volume 1: an engraved title page with a large illustration by S. Middiman after W.M. Craig, an engraved frontispiece, a map of Surinam "nach M.A. de Laveaux entworfen" (here bound in volume 2), and 4 full-page engraved plates (numbered I-IV); plates II and IV by J. Pye after W.M. Craig, from the first English translation which had been published in 1810 in London by Nicol. Volume 2: an engraved title page with a large illustration, an engraved frontispiece, a full-page engraved map of the interior of Surinam by F. Guimpel, and 4 full-page engraved plates, two of which by L. Meyer after W.M. Craig (numbered V-XI); some tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco and red leather-grained cloth, with the author, title, and volume number lettered in gold on the spines, and with the gold-tooled crowned monogram of Marie Louise as a centrepiece on both boards of both volumes.
SACK, Baron Albert von. · 1818
€13,500.00 ($14,879.46 | £11,262.59 | ¥2,376,057)
XVIII, 240; XXX, 186 pp.Second German edition, uncut and with wide margins, of this illustrative account of two journeys to Surinam and, on his way back to Europe, the east coast of America. The first German edition was published in Berlin in 1818. The first part, although ori...
Het gulden zeeghel des grooten zeevaerts, daerinne beschreven wordt de waerachtige grondt vande zeylstreken en platte pas-caerten ... Leeuwarden, Abraham vanden Rade, 1615. Oblong 4to (16.5 x 22 cm). With an emblematic engraved device/navigational diagram on the title page and 27 (of 28) woodcut figures: 18 printed on integral leaves and the others on 3 folding plates. 18th-century(?) half vellum, blue-green paper sides, with manuscript author and title on spine.
Het gulden zeeghel des grooten zeevaerts, daerinne beschreven wordt de waerachtige grondt vande zeylstreken en platte pas-caerten ... Leeuwarden, Abraham vanden Rade, 1615. Oblong 4to (16.5 x 22 cm). With an emblematic engraved device/navigational diagram on the title page and 27 (of 28) woodcut figures: 18 printed on integral leaves and the others on 3 folding plates. 18th-century(?) half vellum, blue-green paper sides, with manuscript author and title on spine.
LEY, Jan Hendrick Jarichs van der. · 1565
€55,000.00 ($60,620.01 | £45,884.63 | ¥9,680,232)
114, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a seminal work on practical navigation, describing for the first time the method developed by Jan Hendrick Jarichs van der Ley (1565-1639) to estimate longitude at sea.In 1612 the Dutch States General had offered a large reward to anyone who c...
Elegantiae Latini sermonis. [On the part-title for part 2, under "Aloisae Sigeae":] Satyrae sotadicae, de arcanis amoris et veneris, ...[The Netherlands? ca. 1750?]. 12mo. With a title-page that looks more like a half-title and gives the impression that the book is a collection of sermons by Meursius, and a part-title for part 2 that gives the author's female pseudonym and the true title. Boards (ca. 1900), covered with paste-paper. Untrimmed.
Elegantiae Latini sermonis. [On the part-title for part 2, under "Aloisae Sigeae":] Satyrae sotadicae, de arcanis amoris et veneris, ...[The Netherlands? ca. 1750?]. 12mo. With a title-page that looks more like a half-title and gives the impression that the book is a collection of sermons by Meursius, and a part-title for part 2 that gives the author's female pseudonym and the true title. Boards (ca. 1900), covered with paste-paper. Untrimmed.
[CHORIER, Nicolas] (presented as Aloisia SIGEA translated by Johannes MEURSIUS). · 1612
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
396 pp.Very rare edition, in the original Latin, of a famous erotic prose dialogue by Nicolas Chorier (1612-1692), recounting the sexual initiation of Ottavia, an innocent but intensely motivated young girl. Chorier first published it in Latin in the 1660s under the pseudonym ...
Versterckte vesting, uytgevonden in velerley voorvallen, en geobserveert in dese laetste oorloogen, soo in de Vereenigde Nederlanden, als in Vranckryck, Duyts-lant, Italien, Dalmatien, Albanien, en die daer aengelegen landen.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page and 8 double-page engraved plates in ad 1; ad 2 with Blaeu’s large woodcut device (armillary sphere with Chronos and Heracles) on the title page and a folding engraved plate. With: (2) RUSE, Henrick. Aenwysinge der misverstanden van G. Medler, begaen in sijne 'Instructie van de fortificatien', in welck hy de sustenuen van H. Ruse in 't verstercken der hedendaeghse fortificatien, pooght te wederleggen.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1658.Contemporary vellum.
Versterckte vesting, uytgevonden in velerley voorvallen, en geobserveert in dese laetste oorloogen, soo in de Vereenigde Nederlanden, als in Vranckryck, Duyts-lant, Italien, Dalmatien, Albanien, en die daer aengelegen landen.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page and 8 double-page engraved plates in ad 1; ad 2 with Blaeu’s large woodcut device (armillary sphere with Chronos and Heracles) on the title page and a folding engraved plate. With: (2) RUSE, Henrick. Aenwysinge der misverstanden van G. Medler, begaen in sijne 'Instructie van de fortificatien', in welck hy de sustenuen van H. Ruse in 't verstercken der hedendaeghse fortificatien, pooght te wederleggen.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1658.Contemporary vellum.
RUSE, Henrick. · 1624
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
[8], 53, [1], [2 blank]; 32 pp.First edition of a basic manual on fortification by the Dutch officer Henrick Ruse, or Baron von Rusenstein (1624-1679). He was the first to break with the Dutch tradition in fortification and to introduce new elements based on his personal exper...
Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis.Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll, 1671. Small folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved plates (including 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all showing grave-stones and tombs of famous men. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum.
Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis.Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll, 1671. Small folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved plates (including 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all showing grave-stones and tombs of famous men. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum.
BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius [and Tobias FENDT (engraver)]. · 1602
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[1], [1 blank], [2], 176 pp., [37] engraved ll., 8, [3], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4] pp.Enlarged second edition of Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn's work on the monuments and tombstones of renowned men, mainly Italians, from Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages until the 15th- an...
Nebulo nebulonum, hoc est iocoseria modernae nequitiae censura; qua homine sceleratorum fraudes, doli ac versutiae aeri aëriqu exponuntur publice: carmine iambico dimetro adornata à Ioanne Flitnero, franco poëta laureato.Frankfurt am Main, Jacobus de Zetter, 1620. 8vo. With an engraved title page, 33 engravings in the text (9.1 x 7.2 cm), several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Late 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
Nebulo nebulonum, hoc est iocoseria modernae nequitiae censura; qua homine sceleratorum fraudes, doli ac versutiae aeri aëriqu exponuntur publice: carmine iambico dimetro adornata à Ioanne Flitnero, franco poëta laureato.Frankfurt am Main, Jacobus de Zetter, 1620. 8vo. With an engraved title page, 33 engravings in the text (9.1 x 7.2 cm), several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Late 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
FLITNER, Johann [and Thomas MURNER]. · 1475
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[8], 164, [2] pp.First edition of a satirical work by Johann Flitner, an adaptation in Latin of Thomas Murner's (1475-1537) great early 16th-century German satire Schelmen Zunft (1512). At the same time it is a curious emblem book, focusing on those who use words to deceive an...
Unterricht über die Pferde-hufbeschlag-kunst und die Behandlung der kranken und fehlerhafften Hüfe, nebst einere Abhandlung über die Castration der Pferde.Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1829. 8vo. With 25 crayon manner lithographed plates, numbered 1-22 and I-III, including 5 folding. Contemporary green boards.
Unterricht über die Pferde-hufbeschlag-kunst und die Behandlung der kranken und fehlerhafften Hüfe, nebst einere Abhandlung über die Castration der Pferde.Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1829. 8vo. With 25 crayon manner lithographed plates, numbered 1-22 and I-III, including 5 folding. Contemporary green boards.
HOERDT, Siegmund von. · 1827
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XVII, [1], 270 pp.Second, enlarged and corrected edition of a specialist treatise on horse's hoofs & horseshoes and at the end on the castration of the horse, by Siegmund von Hoerdt, veterinarian and professor at the school of veterinary medicine. The first edition was publish...
Geheime Kunstkammer: darin[n]en hundert allerhand Kriegs Stratagemata, auch andere unerhörte Secreta, und Machinae mirabiles zusehen, dergleichen in Europa (respectivè) wening zu finden. Ulm, Jonam Saur, 1628. 4to. Half vellum (ca. 1900).
Geheime Kunstkammer: darin[n]en hundert allerhand Kriegs Stratagemata, auch andere unerhörte Secreta, und Machinae mirabiles zusehen, dergleichen in Europa (respectivè) wening zu finden. Ulm, Jonam Saur, 1628. 4to. Half vellum (ca. 1900).
FAULHABER, Johann. · 1580
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
28 pp.Very rare first and only edition of a catalogue of military and other instruments, models of machines, plans, etc., that Faulhaber displayed in the "Kunstkammer" in his house in Ulm. Johann Faulhaber (1580-1635), taught mathematics at Ulm, where his family moved around 1...
Schat-kamer ofte konst der stier-lieden, zynde een klaar onderwysing der navigatie van al het geen een stierman, aangaande de konst, behoorde te weeten. Hier by gevoegt de tafelen van sinus, tangens, en secans, en de logarithmus, sinus, &c. en de nommer logarithmus, mitsgaders de streek-tafel.Including: (2) VLACQ, Adriaen. De Tafelen der sinuum, tangentium en secantium ...Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, 1702. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, 4 engraved plates. Further with many woodcut illustrations, and letterpress tables, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Ad 2 primarily with letterpress tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions, the present copy lacking those for logarithms. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in English on spine.
Schat-kamer ofte konst der stier-lieden, zynde een klaar onderwysing der navigatie van al het geen een stierman, aangaande de konst, behoorde te weeten. Hier by gevoegt de tafelen van sinus, tangens, en secans, en de logarithmus, sinus, &c. en de nommer logarithmus, mitsgaders de streek-tafel.Including: (2) VLACQ, Adriaen. De Tafelen der sinuum, tangentium en secantium ...Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, 1702. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, 4 engraved plates. Further with many woodcut illustrations, and letterpress tables, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Ad 2 primarily with letterpress tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions, the present copy lacking those for logarithms. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in English on spine.
VRIES, Klaas de. · 1701
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[12], 30, [12], [1], 32-272, 271-334, [1], [1 blank]; [3], 44, [1], [12], [90 lacking], [2], [101], [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of a standard practical manual on the art of navigation, by the virtually unknown Klaas de Vries, teacher of mathematics in Amsterdam. In th...
De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel ... in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd. Delft, Andries Voorstad, for Jan ten Hoorn, Amsterdam, 1697. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, with two views of ship-building yards, and numerous detailed illustrations of ship-building on 22 engraved plates by and after Jan and Caspar Luyken (including 13 double-page and once 2 plates on 1 page). 18th-century half calf.
De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel ... in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd. Delft, Andries Voorstad, for Jan ten Hoorn, Amsterdam, 1697. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, with two views of ship-building yards, and numerous detailed illustrations of ship-building on 22 engraved plates by and after Jan and Caspar Luyken (including 13 double-page and once 2 plates on 1 page). 18th-century half calf.
YK, Cornelis van. · 1653
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
[16], "354"[= 364], [8] pp.First edition, second issue, of a richly illustrated book on practical shipbuilding by Cornelis van Yk, a very important source for the history of the construction and equipment of Dutch ships in the 17th century.The first four chapters discuss and i...
Historie van het H. Sacrament der mirakelen. Berustende tot Bruessel inde collegiale kercke van S. Goedele. Beschreven door M. Steven Ydens Brusselaer, priester, licent. inde H. Godtheyt, ende canonick vande voorseyde kercke.Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1608. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page and 17 engravings on the integral leaves, woodcut pictorial initials, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Later calf (ca. 1700?).
Historie van het H. Sacrament der mirakelen. Berustende tot Bruessel inde collegiale kercke van S. Goedele. Beschreven door M. Steven Ydens Brusselaer, priester, licent. inde H. Godtheyt, ende canonick vande voorseyde kercke.Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1608. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page and 17 engravings on the integral leaves, woodcut pictorial initials, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Later calf (ca. 1700?).
YDENS, Steven. · 1962
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[46], 282, [20] pp.First Dutch edition of a very interesting history of the Holy Sacrament of Miracles in the Saint Gudele or Gudula Church (from 1962 on the Saint Michiels or Michael’s Cathedral) in Brussels. It was written by Steven (Etienne) Ydens, a canon of this church, a...
Proeven van politique rekenkunde, vervat in drie verhandelingen ...The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1748. Comprising:- Eerste verhandeling tot een proeve om te weeten de probable menigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt; ... Derde druk.The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1748.- Tweede verhandeling, bevestigende de proeve om te weeten de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.- Derde verhandeling over de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.- Eenige aanmerkingen op de gissingen over den staat van het menschelyk geslagt, uitreekening van de lyfrenten en 't aanhangsel op beide, begreepen in het boek, genaamt inleiding tot de algemeene geographie, door Nicolaas Struyck ...The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1740.With:(2) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Kort bewys, dat op de afstervinge, voorgevallen in een klein getal persoonen van zeekeren ouderdom, geensins een generale reegel van leevenskracht voor andere te fundeeren is. Hier is bygevoegd een tafel of richtsnoer, naar welke, in proportie van den ordinaris intrest der obligatien, in gereed geld te vinden is de juste koopprys, dewelke moet betaald werden eens, om den kooper geduurende zyn leeven, in proeveniershuizen of diergelyke, zonder schaade of voordeel de kost te konnen geeven. [The Hague?], 1738.(3) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Observatien, waar in voornamentlyk getoont word wat is gelyktydigheid, dewelke vereischt word in alle calculatien, die tot voorwerp hebben de probable leevenskracht van persoonen van eenigen voorgestelden ouderdom. Hier is bygevoegt een proeve van de constante ondervinding, dat die van de vrouwelyke sexe doorgaans maar eenige weinige jaaren doormalkander langer leven, dan die van de mannelyke ... The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1740. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. With general title page printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical vignette by A. Bloteling on the 4 divisional title pages of ad 1, respectively dated 1748, 1742, 1742 and 1740. With a woodcut vignette on the general title page and the title pages of ads 2 and 3. Several woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpieces, and tables in the text throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with a (damaged) title-label on the spine lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges.
Proeven van politique rekenkunde, vervat in drie verhandelingen ...The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1748. Comprising:- Eerste verhandeling tot een proeve om te weeten de probable menigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt; ... Derde druk.The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1748.- Tweede verhandeling, bevestigende de proeve om te weeten de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.- Derde verhandeling over de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.- Eenige aanmerkingen op de gissingen over den staat van het menschelyk geslagt, uitreekening van de lyfrenten en 't aanhangsel op beide, begreepen in het boek, genaamt inleiding tot de algemeene geographie, door Nicolaas Struyck ...The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1740.With:(2) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Kort bewys, dat op de afstervinge, voorgevallen in een klein getal persoonen van zeekeren ouderdom, geensins een generale reegel van leevenskracht voor andere te fundeeren is. Hier is bygevoegd een tafel of richtsnoer, naar welke, in proportie van den ordinaris intrest der obligatien, in gereed geld te vinden is de juste koopprys, dewelke moet betaald werden eens, om den kooper geduurende zyn leeven, in proeveniershuizen of diergelyke, zonder schaade of voordeel de kost te konnen geeven. [The Hague?], 1738.(3) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Observatien, waar in voornamentlyk getoont word wat is gelyktydigheid, dewelke vereischt word in alle calculatien, die tot voorwerp hebben de probable leevenskracht van persoonen van eenigen voorgestelden ouderdom. Hier is bygevoegt een proeve van de constante ondervinding, dat die van de vrouwelyke sexe doorgaans maar eenige weinige jaaren doormalkander langer leven, dan die van de mannelyke ... The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1740. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. With general title page printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical vignette by A. Bloteling on the 4 divisional title pages of ad 1, respectively dated 1748, 1742, 1742 and 1740. With a woodcut vignette on the general title page and the title pages of ads 2 and 3. Several woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpieces, and tables in the text throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with a (damaged) title-label on the spine lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges.
KERSSEBOOM, Willem. · 1691
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[1], [1 blank], 44; [2], 65, [1 blank]; [4], 71, [1 blank]; 18; 30; [2], 52 pp.Collected works on demography, annuities and insurance by Willem Kersseboom (1691-1771), a celebrated Dutch mathematician, statistician and banker living in The Hague. The treatises were meant to te...
Verbetert en vermeerdert politijck en militair hantboecxken vanden staet der Geunieerde Provintien, aenwysende des selfs maniere van regieringe, veelvoudige middelen &c. [Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve], 1674.Including: (2) MILITAIR repartitie-boeckjen, aenwijsende den staet des oorlogs der Geûnieerde Provincien. Als mede het getal der compagnyen, soo te paert als te voet, in des selfs dienst geweest zijnde, zedert den jare 1621. Den sesten druck.[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?].(3) ARTIKEL-BRIEF, ofte ordonnantie, op de discipline militaire. Met een bequaem register daer toe dienende.[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?]. Woodcut ornament on title-page.3 texts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 title-pages (the 1st and 3rd each with a woodcut ornament), a divisional title-page for the text of the 1579 Union of Utrecht, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few headpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments Verhandelinge vande Unie, ofte eeuwigh verbont, ende eendracht, and drop-title for the transcriptions of other documents. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
Verbetert en vermeerdert politijck en militair hantboecxken vanden staet der Geunieerde Provintien, aenwysende des selfs maniere van regieringe, veelvoudige middelen &c. [Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve], 1674.Including: (2) MILITAIR repartitie-boeckjen, aenwijsende den staet des oorlogs der Geûnieerde Provincien. Als mede het getal der compagnyen, soo te paert als te voet, in des selfs dienst geweest zijnde, zedert den jare 1621. Den sesten druck.[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?].(3) ARTIKEL-BRIEF, ofte ordonnantie, op de discipline militaire. Met een bequaem register daer toe dienende.[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?]. Woodcut ornament on title-page.3 texts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 title-pages (the 1st and 3rd each with a woodcut ornament), a divisional title-page for the text of the 1579 Union of Utrecht, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few headpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments Verhandelinge vande Unie, ofte eeuwigh verbont, ende eendracht, and drop-title for the transcriptions of other documents. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius van]. · 1649
€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)
[8], “300” [= 400]; 112; 20, [4] pp.Ad 1: The rarest of three known (probably simultaneous) issues of the sixth and last edition of an anonymous translation of Boxhorn’s Commentariolus de statu Confœderatarum Provinciarum Belgii. This important and very informative political m...
[12 leaves from: Statuta synodalia herbipolensia].[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, ca. 1486]. Folio. Printed in red and black in rotunda type (32 lines; printed area: 18 x 12 cm; type: 112a). With illustrations cut from 19th- or 20th-century reproductions of early woodcuts (ca. 21 x 14 cm) pasted on the front (Annunciation) and back pastedown (Christophorus, with the year "cccc xx tercio").. Later bound in two leaves from a 13th-century vellum theological manuscript, rubricated and decorated with alternating red and blue initials with penwork.
[12 leaves from: Statuta synodalia herbipolensia].[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, ca. 1486]. Folio. Printed in red and black in rotunda type (32 lines; printed area: 18 x 12 cm; type: 112a). With illustrations cut from 19th- or 20th-century reproductions of early woodcuts (ca. 21 x 14 cm) pasted on the front (Annunciation) and back pastedown (Christophorus, with the year "cccc xx tercio").. Later bound in two leaves from a 13th-century vellum theological manuscript, rubricated and decorated with alternating red and blue initials with penwork.
[INCUNABLE - GERMANY]. · 1453
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[12] ll.Interesting example of the study of early printing in 19th-century England. The 12 leaves come from the library of the 19th-century collector Dr C. Inglis, whose father boasted an impressive collection of early printed books. Inglis believed that the leaves came from a...
Verhaal eener reize in Rusland, gedaan in het jaar 1835.Groningen, W. van Boekeren, 1840. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece of the "Alexander column" in Saint Petersburg in volume 1. Contemporary marbled boards.
Verhaal eener reize in Rusland, gedaan in het jaar 1835.Groningen, W. van Boekeren, 1840. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece of the "Alexander column" in Saint Petersburg in volume 1. Contemporary marbled boards.
ACKERSDIJCK, Jan. · 1790
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[6], XIV, 302; [4], VI, [2], 363 pp.Rare travel account of a voyage to Russia by Jan Ackersdijck (1790-1861), a famous professor at the University of Utrecht who travelled all over Europe to collect data on the geography, population, society, trade, etc., paving the way and la...
Nunmehro zum neundten mahl herausgegebenes Probier-Büchlein. ...Leipzig, Johann Grosse, 1689. With an engraved folding plate with the cross-section of an oven.With:(2) HORN, Johann Bernhard & David KELLNER. Synopsis metallurgica oder kurze jedoch deutliche Anleitung zu der höchts nütz und ergätzlichen edlen Probier-Kunst verfasset in XV. Tabellen ... [Schneeberg], Johann Christoph Weidner, 1690. With 15 tables (1 folding).(3) KELLNER, David. Wohlangerichtetes aerarium chymicum antiquo-novum, oder alter neue und reichlichst vermehrte oder chymische Schatzkammer ...Leipzig, printed by Koberstein for Joh. Herbord Kloss, 1702. With woodcut illustrations in text.3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Nunmehro zum neundten mahl herausgegebenes Probier-Büchlein. ...Leipzig, Johann Grosse, 1689. With an engraved folding plate with the cross-section of an oven.With:(2) HORN, Johann Bernhard & David KELLNER. Synopsis metallurgica oder kurze jedoch deutliche Anleitung zu der höchts nütz und ergätzlichen edlen Probier-Kunst verfasset in XV. Tabellen ... [Schneeberg], Johann Christoph Weidner, 1690. With 15 tables (1 folding).(3) KELLNER, David. Wohlangerichtetes aerarium chymicum antiquo-novum, oder alter neue und reichlichst vermehrte oder chymische Schatzkammer ...Leipzig, printed by Koberstein for Joh. Herbord Kloss, 1702. With woodcut illustrations in text.3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine.
FACHS, Modestin. · 1595
€5,950.00 ($6,557.98 | £4,963.88 | ¥1,047,225)
[20], 185, [9]; 51, [1]; 173, [1 blank]; 69, [7], [3 blank]; 22, 104, [2]; [22], “389” [= 386]; [30] pp.Ad 1: Enlarged edition of a treatise on metallurgy, especially meant for gold- and silversmiths, written by the master of the Leipzig mint of Modestin Fachs, Prince of Anhal...
[Oranda-jin. Dutchmen. Japanese colour woodcut].Yokohoma, Yamashiroya Jimbei, 1863. 36,6 x 24,5 cm. Japanese colour woodcut in red, black, blue, and yellow with a Dutch couple and a banderol with Japanese text of phonetic Dutch words. Mounded on decorated paper, framed.
[Oranda-jin. Dutchmen. Japanese colour woodcut].Yokohoma, Yamashiroya Jimbei, 1863. 36,6 x 24,5 cm. Japanese colour woodcut in red, black, blue, and yellow with a Dutch couple and a banderol with Japanese text of phonetic Dutch words. Mounded on decorated paper, framed.
YOSHITORA UTAGAWA. · 1840
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
Charming 19th-century Japanese so-called Yokohama woodcut by the artist Yoshitora Utagawa (active ca. 1840-1880) with a Dutch couple of which the woman caries a parasol. At the top a banderol with a Japanese text with a phonetic list of Dutch words reading from right to left:...