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Traité du charbon ou anthrax dans les animaux. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1782. 8vo. With woodcut crowned French royal coat of arms on title-page and a woodcut headpiece (signed "B."). 19th-century(?) half tanned, mottled sheepskin.
Traité du charbon ou anthrax dans les animaux. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1782. 8vo. With woodcut crowned French royal coat of arms on title-page and a woodcut headpiece (signed "B."). 19th-century(?) half tanned, mottled sheepskin.
CHABERT, Philibert. · 1737
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
109, [1 blank] pp.Second, considerably enlarged edition of a work on veterinary medicine dealing with the livestock disease anthrax or splenic fever, by the French veterinarian Philibert Chabert (1737-1814), director and general inspector of the school of veterinary medicine. ...
Het koningrijk der Nederlanden, voorgesteld in eene reeks van naar de natuur geteekende schilderachtige gezigten.Gouda, G.B. van Goor, 1858-1862. 3 volumes. Folio. With 3 steel-engraved frontispieces (one for every volume) and 136 steel-engraved plates with view on the described cities and towns. Every text page is printed within a blue engraved ornamental frame. Uniformly bound in the original publisher's purple cloth.
Het koningrijk der Nederlanden, voorgesteld in eene reeks van naar de natuur geteekende schilderachtige gezigten.Gouda, G.B. van Goor, 1858-1862. 3 volumes. Folio. With 3 steel-engraved frontispieces (one for every volume) and 136 steel-engraved plates with view on the described cities and towns. Every text page is printed within a blue engraved ornamental frame. Uniformly bound in the original publisher's purple cloth.
TERWEN, Johannes Leonardus. · 1816
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
1-240; 241-488; 489-820 pp.Rare folio edition of the complete first edition of this exuberantly illustrated highlight of 19th century Dutch topography by Johannes Leonardus Terwen (1816-1873). In 1840, he was a teacher at an elementary school in Gouda, later he became a teache...
De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine.
De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine.
FIENUS, Joannes. · 1585
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
215, [5], [4 blank] pp.First edition of a treatise on flatulent gas and its discomforts in the human body, written by the Antwerp physician Joannes Fienus (or Feyens, d. 1585). Fienus was born in Turnhout, Belgium, and probably studied medicine at the University at Leuven. He ...
Tractatus primus instrumentorum mechanicorum ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.With:(2) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus secundus. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo dilucide exponitur usus baculi...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.(3) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus tertius. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo traditur descriptio atque usus circine proportionalis Iusti Burgi ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605. 3 works in 1 volume. Small 4to. Ad 1: with a large engraving on the title page, 14 engraved plates (including 2 folding), 40 numbered illustrations in the text (35 woodcuts and 5 engravings). Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 1 large woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2: with a large engraving on the title page, 8 illustrations in text (7 woodcuts and 1 engraving). Further with 1 woodcut decorated initial and 1 woodcut headpiece. Ad 3: with a large engraving on the title page. Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary limp vellum with 2 sets of leather closing ties.
Tractatus primus instrumentorum mechanicorum ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.With:(2) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus secundus. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo dilucide exponitur usus baculi...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.(3) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus tertius. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo traditur descriptio atque usus circine proportionalis Iusti Burgi ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605. 3 works in 1 volume. Small 4to. Ad 1: with a large engraving on the title page, 14 engraved plates (including 2 folding), 40 numbered illustrations in the text (35 woodcuts and 5 engravings). Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 1 large woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2: with a large engraving on the title page, 8 illustrations in text (7 woodcuts and 1 engraving). Further with 1 woodcut decorated initial and 1 woodcut headpiece. Ad 3: with a large engraving on the title page. Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary limp vellum with 2 sets of leather closing ties.
HULSIUS, Levinus. · 1550
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[1], [1 blank], [6], 121, [1], [2 blank]; "16" [= 17], [3 blank]; 29, [1 blank] pp.Extremely rare collection of three treatises in Latin by Levinus Hulsius (1550-1606) dealing with instruments for surveying (ad 1), canons (ad 2) and Jost Bürgi's compass of proportion (ad 3). S...
De bello Persico. Liber primus-secundus.Including: De bello Vandilico. Liber tertius-quartus.Rome, Eugarius Silber alias Franck, 1509. Folio. With numerous decorative woodcut initials of 4 to 8 lines. 18th-century paper boards.
De bello Persico. Liber primus-secundus.Including: De bello Vandilico. Liber tertius-quartus.Rome, Eugarius Silber alias Franck, 1509. Folio. With numerous decorative woodcut initials of 4 to 8 lines. 18th-century paper boards.
PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA. · 1451
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
[90] ll.First and only edition of the Latin translation from the Greek by Raffaele Maffei Bishop of Volaterra (1451-1522), a noted humanist and encyclopaedist, of the story of the Persian wars and the wars against the Vandals in North Africa, under the reign of the Roman Emper...
Grondige ende waerachtige beschryvinge van het groot end gout-rijck koninckrijck van Guiana, geleghen in America, by- noorden de groote rivier Orelliana, vanden vyfden graet by Zuyden totten vyfden graet by- noorden de middel-linie; in welcke beschrijvinge de rechte gelegentheyt vande groote ende rijcke hooft-stadt Manca, Macureguarai ende andere steden derselvigen koninckrijcks ende van het groot Souten Meyr Parime (zynde omtrent 200 Spaensche mijlen lang) verclaert wort: insgelijcks wat voor rijcke waaren daer te lande ende daer omtrent vallen. Mitsgaders vande omlegghende rijcke landschappen Emeria, Arromaja ende Topago: in welck laetste krijgs-vrouwen (Amzones genoemt) hare wooninge hebben: as oock van 53 groote rivieren onder welcken Oronoque de voornaemste is, welcke spruyt omtrent 500 Duystche mijlen landwaerts in, niet verre van Quitio een vermaerde hooft-stadt in Peru. Alles ontdeckt beschreven in de jaren 1595-1596.[Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius], 1644. Oblong 4to. With a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, and a decorated woodcut initial. Later half mottled calf.
Grondige ende waerachtige beschryvinge van het groot end gout-rijck koninckrijck van Guiana, geleghen in America, by- noorden de groote rivier Orelliana, vanden vyfden graet by Zuyden totten vyfden graet by- noorden de middel-linie; in welcke beschrijvinge de rechte gelegentheyt vande groote ende rijcke hooft-stadt Manca, Macureguarai ende andere steden derselvigen koninckrijcks ende van het groot Souten Meyr Parime (zynde omtrent 200 Spaensche mijlen lang) verclaert wort: insgelijcks wat voor rijcke waaren daer te lande ende daer omtrent vallen. Mitsgaders vande omlegghende rijcke landschappen Emeria, Arromaja ende Topago: in welck laetste krijgs-vrouwen (Amzones genoemt) hare wooninge hebben: as oock van 53 groote rivieren onder welcken Oronoque de voornaemste is, welcke spruyt omtrent 500 Duystche mijlen landwaerts in, niet verre van Quitio een vermaerde hooft-stadt in Peru. Alles ontdeckt beschreven in de jaren 1595-1596.[Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius], 1644. Oblong 4to. With a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, and a decorated woodcut initial. Later half mottled calf.
RALEIGH, Walter and Lawrence KEYMIS. · 1552
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[49] ll.Extremely rare Dutch edition of Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) and Lawrence Keymis' (?-1618) account of their expedition to Guiana in 1595 in search of El Dorado. Raleigh and Keymis mention its local name, Manõa, and compare their experiences with earlier (Spanish) account...
The Hudson's Bay territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of the Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation.London, T. Brettell for T. and W. Boone, 1849. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map by James Wild, hand-coloured in outline, and a woodengraving of an "Indian village at the Red River settlement". Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth.
The Hudson's Bay territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of the Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation.London, T. Brettell for T. and W. Boone, 1849. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map by James Wild, hand-coloured in outline, and a woodengraving of an "Indian village at the Red River settlement". Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth.
MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. · 1803
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
VII, 175 pp. [added: [26] pp.].Second edition of an interesting investigation of the policy, conduct and operations of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Pacific coast and in the Canadian north-west, by the historian and statistician Robert Montgomery Martin (1803(?)-1868). The C...
De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of verhandeling om de facen, door middel van het metzelwerk, en derzelver zamenstel, tegen de vyandlyke artillery en mines bestendiger en geduurzaamer te doen zyn dan de tegenwoordige.Amsterdam, printed for the author [by Izaak and Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem?], sold by Jan Punt junior, [1759]. Large 4to (26.5 x 20 cm). With 3 numbered folding engraved plates with 14 numbered figures drawn by the author and executed by Jan Punt and 2 engravings in text, all made for the present edition. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards and board edges.
De nieuwe versterkte facen en flancquen, of verhandeling om de facen, door middel van het metzelwerk, en derzelver zamenstel, tegen de vyandlyke artillery en mines bestendiger en geduurzaamer te doen zyn dan de tegenwoordige.Amsterdam, printed for the author [by Izaak and Johannes Enschedé in Haarlem?], sold by Jan Punt junior, [1759]. Large 4to (26.5 x 20 cm). With 3 numbered folding engraved plates with 14 numbered figures drawn by the author and executed by Jan Punt and 2 engravings in text, all made for the present edition. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards and board edges.
REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. · 1728
€5,950.00 ($6,557.98 | £4,963.88 | ¥1,047,225)
XVI, 122 pp.Rare first and only edition, luxuriously executed and printed for the author, of a treatise on fortification by the Dutch engineer Cornelis Redelykheid (1728-1787). It centres on methods to improve the masonry and composition of strongholds against hostile artiller...
Japan. Voorgesteld in schetsen over de zeden en gebruiken van dat ryk, byzonder over de ingezetenen der stad Nagasaky.Amsterdam, M. Westerman & son, 1830. 8vo. With an engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette heightened with gold, and 2 folding aquatint plates. Near-contemporary half green cloth.
Japan. Voorgesteld in schetsen over de zeden en gebruiken van dat ryk, byzonder over de ingezetenen der stad Nagasaky.Amsterdam, M. Westerman & son, 1830. 8vo. With an engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette heightened with gold, and 2 folding aquatint plates. Near-contemporary half green cloth.
MEIJLAN, Germain Felix. · 1785
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[1], [1 blank], [engraved title page], [10], 190, [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of an account on various aspects of Japan and Japanese life. "Germain Felix Meijlan (1785-1831) entered the Dutch East India Company in 1806. From 1827 to 1830 he was opperhoofd of the compan...
Anabaptisticae haereseos confutatio, et vere Christiani baptismi, ac potissimum paedobaptismatis assertio in duos libros divisa, quorum prior veram Christiani baptismi energiam declarat, posterior paedobaptismatis Christianam institutionem ex sacris literis demonstrat, contra Mennonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.[part 2 title:] Liber posterior de paedobaptismate seu parvulorum baptismo, contra Menonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.Antwerp, Johannes Gravius, 1549. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With printer's device on the title of the second part, many interesting woodcut initials. 17th-century boards covered with marbled paper.
Anabaptisticae haereseos confutatio, et vere Christiani baptismi, ac potissimum paedobaptismatis assertio in duos libros divisa, quorum prior veram Christiani baptismi energiam declarat, posterior paedobaptismatis Christianam institutionem ex sacris literis demonstrat, contra Mennonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.[part 2 title:] Liber posterior de paedobaptismate seu parvulorum baptismo, contra Menonis Simonis Frisii Anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias.Antwerp, Johannes Gravius, 1549. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With printer's device on the title of the second part, many interesting woodcut initials. 17th-century boards covered with marbled paper.
DUNCAN, Martin. · 1505
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[15], [1 blank], 227 ll.First and only edition of this important apologetical work by the Catholic priest Martinus Duncanus or Maarten Donk or Verdonck (Kempen ca. 1505-Amersfoort 1593) presenting his arguements against the Anabaptists. He lived in the heart of the Anabaptist ...
Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821. Paris, Dondey-Dupré père et Fils, 1827. 2 text volumes (8vo) and one atlas volume (folio). With lithographed title-page, 3 lithographed maps and plans, 8 lithographed plates with copies after Chinese and other drawings. Text volumes in contemporary half calf and atlas in original brown wrappers.
Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821. Paris, Dondey-Dupré père et Fils, 1827. 2 text volumes (8vo) and one atlas volume (folio). With lithographed title-page, 3 lithographed maps and plans, 8 lithographed plates with copies after Chinese and other drawings. Text volumes in contemporary half calf and atlas in original brown wrappers.
TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch. · 1820
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[8], XII, 480; [4], 459; 32 pp.First French edition of Timkowski's account of his mission to Beijing via Mongolia (1820-1821), revised by J.B. Eyriès and corrected and annotated by the distinguished sinologist Heinrich Julius Klaproth. The narrative elaborates on the country o...
Les macrolépidoptères du globe. Révision systématique des macrolépidoptères connus jusqu'à ce jour publiée avec le concours des spécialistes les plus renommés.Stuttgart, A. Kernen; Paris E. Le Moult, 1908-1945 (with the impressum "Paris, Cabinet Entomologique, E. Le Moult" pasted on most title-pages). 16 parts and 4 supplements. Folio (32 x 26 cm). With 1266 beautiful chromolithographed plates depicting numerous butterflies. Parts I-V, IX & XIII (7 parts in 9 volumes) are bound in contemporary marbled light brown calf. The other parts are unbound.
Les macrolépidoptères du globe. Révision systématique des macrolépidoptères connus jusqu'à ce jour publiée avec le concours des spécialistes les plus renommés.Stuttgart, A. Kernen; Paris E. Le Moult, 1908-1945 (with the impressum "Paris, Cabinet Entomologique, E. Le Moult" pasted on most title-pages). 16 parts and 4 supplements. Folio (32 x 26 cm). With 1266 beautiful chromolithographed plates depicting numerous butterflies. Parts I-V, IX & XIII (7 parts in 9 volumes) are bound in contemporary marbled light brown calf. The other parts are unbound.
SEITZ, Adalbert. · 1860
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
First edition of the French translation of an extensive and beautifully illustrated butterfly encyclopeadia, edited by the German entomologist Adalbert Seitz (1860-1938) who specialised in Lepidoptera. The encyclopeadia can be divided into 4 parts: butterflies of the Arctic, A...
Delineatio domus recreatricis adjacentiumque prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem ...[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1702]. With: (2) SCHENK, Pieter. Praetorium dieranum quod a se per omnes partes descriptum ac delineatum Serenissimo Britanniarum Regi Gulielmo III humillime offert Petrus Schenk. [Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, ca. 1700]. (3) CALL, Johannes van. Loani, ut et villarum Regis Gulielmi reliquarum, conspectus selectiores. [Amsterdam, Pieter Schenck, ca. 1700]. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong 4to (26.5 x 31 cm). With an engraved title page for each work, and 50 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a black morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
Delineatio domus recreatricis adjacentiumque prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem ...[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1702]. With: (2) SCHENK, Pieter. Praetorium dieranum quod a se per omnes partes descriptum ac delineatum Serenissimo Britanniarum Regi Gulielmo III humillime offert Petrus Schenk. [Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, ca. 1700]. (3) CALL, Johannes van. Loani, ut et villarum Regis Gulielmi reliquarum, conspectus selectiores. [Amsterdam, Pieter Schenck, ca. 1700]. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong 4to (26.5 x 31 cm). With an engraved title page for each work, and 50 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a black morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
SCHENK, Pieter. · 1650
€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)
[16]; [14]; [23] ll.Magnificent large paper copy of series of views of some of the most sumptuous palaces and gardens of the 17th century. All the plates have been beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. The work contains three different print series, depicting the most b...
Memoires pour servir a l'histoire generale des finances.Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1760. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. Two title-pages printed in red & black. Contemporary calf.
Memoires pour servir a l'histoire generale des finances.Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1760. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. Two title-pages printed in red & black. Contemporary calf.
ÉON DE BEAUMONT, Charles G.L.A.A.T. d'. · 1758
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[4], LXVIII, 108; [4], 216 pp.Second edition of an interesting financial history by an even more interesting, extravagant and intriguing author. Louis Pierre Mortier published the first edition in 1758 at “London” (= Paris). The full name of the author - referred to on the tit...
De betoverde weereld, zynde een grondig ondersoek van 't gemeen gevoelen aangaande de geesten, derselver aart en vermogen, bewind en bedryf: als ook 't gene de menschen door derselver kraght en gemeenschap doen. In vier boeken ondernomen.Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. With the woodcut printer's device of Daniel van den Dalen on the title-page of each book (part) and a full-page woodcut of the Oldenburg Horn.With: (2) BEKKER, Balthasar. Ondersoek van de betekeninge der kometen, by gelegenheid van de gene die in de jaren 1680. 1681. en 1682. geschenen hebben.Including: Berigt aangaande 't uitvinden der lengte van Oost en West, voorgegeven van Liewe Willems Graaf.Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1692. 4to. 2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 4 parts. With a woodcut on the title-page, depicting a group of people doing astronomical research.2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary calf, blind-ruled frames on the boards.
De betoverde weereld, zynde een grondig ondersoek van 't gemeen gevoelen aangaande de geesten, derselver aart en vermogen, bewind en bedryf: als ook 't gene de menschen door derselver kraght en gemeenschap doen. In vier boeken ondernomen.Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. With the woodcut printer's device of Daniel van den Dalen on the title-page of each book (part) and a full-page woodcut of the Oldenburg Horn.With: (2) BEKKER, Balthasar. Ondersoek van de betekeninge der kometen, by gelegenheid van de gene die in de jaren 1680. 1681. en 1682. geschenen hebben.Including: Berigt aangaande 't uitvinden der lengte van Oost en West, voorgegeven van Liewe Willems Graaf.Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1692. 4to. 2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 4 parts. With a woodcut on the title-page, depicting a group of people doing astronomical research.2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary calf, blind-ruled frames on the boards.
BEKKER, Balthasar. · 1634
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[18], 138, [2]; [8], 262, [2]; [8], 188, [4]; [6], 277, [3]; [8], 102, [18] pp.The second editions of two works written by the famous Balthasar Bekker (1634-1698), best known for his “indecent” work De betoverde weereld. Bekker was a Dutch reformed pastor and theologian, born ...
Conquista dell' Indie Occidentali di monsignor Fra Bartolomeo dalle Case o Casaus, Sivigliano, Vescouo di Chiapa.Venice, Marco Ginammi, 1645. 4to. Woodcut printer's device (Hope, with anchor) on title-page, woodcut initials. Later half red morocco, marbled sides gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.
Conquista dell' Indie Occidentali di monsignor Fra Bartolomeo dalle Case o Casaus, Sivigliano, Vescouo di Chiapa.Venice, Marco Ginammi, 1645. 4to. Woodcut printer's device (Hope, with anchor) on title-page, woodcut initials. Later half red morocco, marbled sides gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.
CASAS, Bartholomeo DE LAS. · 1644
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
8, [4], XVII, [1], 31-184 pp.Re-issue of the first edition (1644) of the Italian translation by Marco Ginammi of two tracts giving an account of the Spanish conquest of the West Indies and South America, written by Bartolomé De Las Casas (1474-1566), a warm defender of the rig...
[Atlas Général].[Paris, "chez l'auteur aux Galleries du Louvre", 1743-1771]. Large folio (54.5 x 40.5 cm). Atlas comprising 30 maps of the world, most of them engraved by Guillaume de la Haye, (in 2 full-page, 23 double-page, and 21 folding; about 10 maps measuring ca. 100 x 100 cm when put together). Numbers 1-8 and 9-33 have a coloured in outline. Contemporary three-quarter calf, boards covered with marbled paper.
[Atlas Général].[Paris, "chez l'auteur aux Galleries du Louvre", 1743-1771]. Large folio (54.5 x 40.5 cm). Atlas comprising 30 maps of the world, most of them engraved by Guillaume de la Haye, (in 2 full-page, 23 double-page, and 21 folding; about 10 maps measuring ca. 100 x 100 cm when put together). Numbers 1-8 and 9-33 have a coloured in outline. Contemporary three-quarter calf, boards covered with marbled paper.
ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'. · 1743
€27,500.00 ($30,310.00 | £22,942.32 | ¥4,840,116)
Without printed title (not always present), but with manuscript index on the recto of the first flyleaf.Magnificent 18th-century atlas of the world consisting of 30 maps, from antiquity until the third quarter of the 18th century. It was published in Paris, between 1743 and 17...
Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour.Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. With a folding lithographed map of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after drawings by the author, and 3 full-page lithographed views. Contemporary gold tooled quarter brown calf.
Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour.Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. With a folding lithographed map of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after drawings by the author, and 3 full-page lithographed views. Contemporary gold tooled quarter brown calf.
BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin and Léon DUFOUR. · 1780
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[4], 381, [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of a geological and botanical work describing the caves, quarries, and plants of Mount Saint Peter (St. Pietersberg) at Maastricht, the Netherlands. The work discusses the history of the region when it was still under water, t...
Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij.Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side.
Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij.Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side.
[AURELIUS, Cornelius]. · 1637
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
[2], 436 ll.First edition of the famous and beautifully illustrated Dutch national chronicle, known as the "Divisiekroniek", because of its publication in 32 devisions. The chronicle contains various narratives of historical, ecclesiastical and hagiographical nature, “cobbled ...
Zes maanden in Amerika.Haarlem, Kruseman and Tjeenk Willink, 1875. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (25 x 16.5 cm). With 10 tinted lithograph plates by "Emrik & Binger", and 27 wood-engraved illustrations by Édouard Vermorcken in text. Contemporary half brown roan (sheepskin).
Zes maanden in Amerika.Haarlem, Kruseman and Tjeenk Willink, 1875. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (25 x 16.5 cm). With 10 tinted lithograph plates by "Emrik & Binger", and 27 wood-engraved illustrations by Édouard Vermorcken in text. Contemporary half brown roan (sheepskin).
COHEN STUART, Martinus. · 1824
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
8, 366; [8], 332 pp.First edition of a travel book on North America by Martinus Cohen Stuart (1824-1878). Cohen Stuart, a prominent minister of the Remonstrant Church, visited the United States in 1875 at the invitation of the Evangelical Alliance, an international Protestant ...