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De nieuwe, vermeerderde en verbeterde kouranten-tolk, of zakelyk, historisch- en staatkundig woordenboek.Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans en Zoon, 1748. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black.With: (2) HÜBNER, Johann and Arnold Heinrich WESTERHOFF. Algemeen kunstwoorden-boek der wetenschappen. . Leiden, Dirk Haak en Samuel Luchtmans, 1734. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary blind tooled vellum, with title in ink on spine.

HÜBNER, Johann. · 1668

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[8], 1260; [16], 919 pp.Dutch edition of the popular German encyclopaedia Reales Staats-, Zaitungs- und Conversations-Lexikon by the German geographer and scholar Johann Hübner (1668-1731) followed by the translation of his Curieuses und Natur-, Kunst-, Berg-, Gewerk- und Hand...

Memorie van den Graave de Grasse, betreffende de actien in de West-Indiën voorgevallen. [Amsterdam?, 1782]. With 8 large folding engraved nautical nautical charts. With:(2) [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte schets over de noodzaaklykheid van de kennisse van het menschlyk hart voor een chef.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791.(3) [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte verklaringe van verscheidene actiën tusschen de Engelsche en Fransche vlooten, geduurende den laatsten oorlog. In de West-Indiën voorgevallen.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791. With 21 folding engraved plates including nautical charts showing the French and English fleets near Grenada, Basseterre, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts and Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. 3 works in 1 volume. Royal 4to (29 x 23.5 cm). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.

GRASSE-TILLY, Francois Joseph Paul de. · 1735

€5,950.00 ($6,557.98 | £4,963.88 | ¥1,047,225)

55, [1 blank]; 27; [8], 25, [1], 5 pp.Three first editions of works on naval tactics and accounts of battles between the English and French fleets in the West Indies, written (2 & 3) or translated (1) by Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819), the famous Dutch admiral. Ad 1: A...

Deliciae Batavicae[.]...Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618. Oblong 8vo (text) & small oblong 4to (plates) (14.5 x 19 cm). With 8 engraved armorial plates. These are followed by 30 engraved views or scenes most with a Latin distich at the foot. Interleaved. Sprinkled calf (ca. 1700), gold-tooled spine.

MARCUS, Jacobus. · 1618

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank] pp. plus plates.The most complete copy we have seen of the 1618 edition of a rare work of noteworthy sights, views, and scenes from daily life and from trade and industry in the Netherlands (primarily Holland). It was intended in part for student...

Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon, es annees 1625. 1626. & 1627.Paris, Sebastian Cramoisy, 1633. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device of Cramoisy on the title, several woodcut headpieces. Beautiful 19th-century green morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, with title lettered in gold, triple gilt lines along the edges of both covers, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

BONELLI, Jean-Baptist & Jean VIREAU (ed. & translator). · 1558

€17,500.00 ($19,288.18 | £14,599.65 | ¥3,080,074)

[7] 1 blank, 465 (=485) pp.First and only edition of the enlarged French translation, by Jean Vireau (1558-1638), procureur in Paris, of the highly interesting letters on the situation in Japan, written by the Jesuit missionaries in Japan to the General of the Jesuit Order in ...

Gezigt op de Leidschevaart & Catrijnepoort te Utrecht.[Utrecht, ca. 1730]. 23 x 29 cm. Washed pen and ink drawing on paper.

[UTRECHT]. PRONK, Cornelis. · 1691

€13,500.00 ($14,879.46 | £11,262.59 | ¥2,376,057)

Original washed pen and ink drawing showing a view across the Leidschevaart waterway toward the western city gate of Utrecht, the Catharijnepoort, by Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759). This gate was designed by Paulus Moreelse in 1621, and was the most important western city gate, wh...

't Huis Kostverlooren.[Netherlands, ca. 1700]. A view in brown ink with light and dark grey watercolour washes on laid paper (16.5 x 21.5 cm), with a manuscript caption at the head. Mounted in passepartout.

[AMSTERDAM]. [RADEMAKER, Abraham?]. · 1650

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

Attractive view in brown ink with grey washes of the picturesque Kostverloren manor on the Amstel River, just outside Amsterdam. The manor was originally built at the end of the 15th century. In 1650 it was severely damaged by fire, but it was soon restored. In 1822 Kostverlor...

Nieuwe kaart van de Vyf Heeren landen gelegen tusschen den Dief en Zouwen dyk.Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1741. Engraved map on 4 sheets (85 x 98 cm as assembled), coloured by a contemporary hand. With the title and publisher at the foot left, together with a scale (ca. 1:19,000) and the name of the engraver at the right (Jan van Jagen). Framed.

OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. · 1981

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

First state of a topographical wall map of the Vijfheerenlanden, a Dutch (polder) district south of Utrecht and the river Lek, coloured by a contemporary hand. The area is bordered by the Lek at the right (the north), the river Linge at the left, the Diefdijk at the foot and t...

Hemisphaerium coeli boreale in quo fixarum loca secundum eclipticae ductum ad an[n]um 1730 completum exhibentur.[Nürnberg, Heirs of Homann, 1742]. Engraved celestial chart (50 x 59 cm), wholly coloured by a contemporary hand. With title at the head, circular chart in the centre flanked by positional tables and views of the astronomical observatories of Tycho Brahe at Hven, at Paris, of Hevelius at Danzig and of Eimmart at Nürnberg. Framed (69 x 77 cm).

DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel. · 1677

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

Beautifully engraved and hand-coloured celestial chart by the Nuremberg astronomer and professor of mathematics Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677-1750). In the beginning of the 18th-century Doppelmayr worked closely with the cartographer Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724). Togeth...

Gesigt van de stadt Leyden beroemt door syn hooge schoole geleege in Holland op den verstopten Ryn. | Vue de la ville de Leide fameuse par son academie située en Hollande sur le Rhin bouché.[Amsterdam], Leonardus Schenk, [ca. 1728/36]. Large engraved wall print on 2 sheets (together 57.5 x 97 cm) showing the Leiden city wall between the Koepoort and Zijlpoort, with various windmills and prominent buildings in the background identified by name. The title appears in a banderole at the head, with putti on either side holding the arms of Leiden and Holland. Leonardus Schenk's name appears as engraver and publisher at the right end of the banderole. Framed (82.5 x 121 cm).

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - LEIDEN]. SCHENK, Leonardus [and Abraham RADEMAKER]. · 1906

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

Large view of the city of Leiden by the Amsterdam engraver and publisher Leonardus Schenk. The viewer observes the city from the south, from between the city's Koe and Zijl gates. In the background several windmills and a few characteristic buildings are identified by name in ...

Verscheide soorten van Hollandse vaartuigen geteekent en gesneeden door G. Groenewegen 1786 … | Plusieurs sortes de batiments hollandoise dessiné et gravé par G. Groenewegen ...Rotterdam, 1801. Oblong 4to (19.5 x 24.5 cm). 84 etched plates in 7 parts of 12 plates each, numbered A-F/1-12 and 1-12, each with a Dutch caption below. With:(2) GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit. [Seascapes with ships]. [Rotterdam, J. van den Brink?], “1795” [= 1829?]. Set of 6 numbered etchings, signed and dated “G. Groenewegen 1795”. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 7 parts. Late 19th-century cloth, gold-tooled title on front board.

GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit. · 1754

€17,500.00 ($19,288.18 | £14,599.65 | ¥3,080,074)

Rare and very attractive series of etchings, illustrating the ships and boats in use in Holland. Groenewegen (1754-1826) was trained as a ship’s carpenter, but lost a leg in an accident as a young man. He then took drawing lessons and made a career as an artist. Unlike most ar...

Tractatus de siglis veterum omnibus elegantioris literaturae amatoribus utilissimus, in quo continentur, quae ad interpretationem numismatum, inscriptionum, juris et fere omnium artium requiruntur, cujus subsidio facile literae explicari possunt.Leiden, Abraham de Swart, 1703. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 8 engravings in text (1 full-page). Contemporary vellum.

NICOLAI, Johannes. · 1703

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

[22], 314 pp.First edition of an informative work on old Latin abbreviations. The dedication is dated Tübingen, 4 March 1703. Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek and Hebrew.As the author writes in his preface, the work is necessary to be able to read and explai...

Differentes manieres de dessiner et peindre.[Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1667?]. 8vo (17.5 x 12 cm). With engraved allegorical title-print and 45 full-page and 1 double-page (ca. 16.5 x 15 cm) engraved plates. With:(2) FARINATI, Paulo. Diverses figures a l'eau forte de petits amours, anges vollants, et enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons portes et autres lieux ensemble plusieurs sortes de masques.Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1644. Suite of 30 numbered double-page engraved prints, including the engraved title-print signed by Abraham Bosse.(3) [BOSSE Abraham]. [Illustrations of drawing and painting].[Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1667?]. Suite of 4 full-page engravings of a draftsman (2) and a painter (2) at work, sometimes regarded as part of the Differentes manieres de dessiner et peindre.(4) BOSSE, Abraham. Le feu ... La terre ... L[']eau ... L[']air.[Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1630?]. Suite of 4 double-page engravings of the four elements.(5) [BULLET, Pierre]. [Plates from Traité du nivellement].[Paris, N. Langlois, engraved 1688]. Complete suite of 11 double-page engraved plates, numbered [1a], [1b], 2-4, 6-11. Sprinkled calf (ca. 1700), richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges.

BOSSE, Abraham. · 1688

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

[47]; 30; [4]; [4]; 11 [+ 2 added] engraved prints.Highly interesting collection of five 17th-century print series (one a set of plates for an illustrated book) all in the field of art, drawing and ornamentation. They seem likely to have been printed together sometime around o...

De waarde der teeken- en schilderkunst, voorgedragen in eene redevoering; ter gelegenheid van de uitdeeling der eereprijzen, in het Teekengenootschap, onder de zinspreuk: Hier door tot hooger te Rotterdam, den 5 april 1800.(Colophon:) Rotterdam, Thomas Kaas, 1800. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by the author, depicting the logo of the art society. Contemporary marbled wrappers.

NIJMEGEN, Gerard van. · 1735

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

60 pp.First and only edition of a lecture on the value of the art of drawing and painting, given by Gerard van Nijmegen (1735-1808) at the Rotterdam art Society "Hier door tot hooger" on April 5th 1800. The lecture was held at the start of the annual award ceremony of the soci...

De soldaten-school voor de Koninklijke Nederlandsche infanterie.[copy imprint:] The Hague & Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1833 (last leaf: Tokyo, Juij Masuda, 1856). 8vo. Printed from woodblocks on Japanese paper in the traditional Japanese manner on the outside of double leaves with the fold at the fore-edge. With woodcut Japanese text on the half title and last leaf. With an illustrated title page printed on paper which has been dyed red, facing the half-title, showing three soldiers. Contemporary Japanese brown paper covers, side stitched and oversewn through 4 holes (near the head and near the foot and 2 holes between them). In a modern Japanese gold brocade cloth chitsu (folding case) with 2 bone fastenings and a brown paper label.

[MILITARIA - JAPAN]. · 1853

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[15], 179, [6] pp.Very rare first and only Japanese edition of a Dutch military manual, being a concise guidebook for the military school, originally intended for the Royal Dutch Infantry. It discusses various topics for the beginning foot soldier, for example the order of ran...

L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes fortes de sujets et batimens, meubles, bijoux, equipages, &c. in-8o de plus de 400 pages en trois parties. Quatrieme édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée.Paris, [printed by l'imprimerie de la Veuve Herissant] for the author, 1785. 8vo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf.

WATIN, Jean Felix. · 1728

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

XXXII, 380, [3], [1 blank] pp.Fourth enlarged and revised edition of a popular practical treatise on painting, varnishing and gilding of furniture, and much more by the French painter and craftsman Jean Felix Watin (1728-?). He was also a merchant trading in all kinds of mater...

Nouvelles observations physiques et pratiques sur le jardinage et l'art de planter, avec le calendrier des jardiniers. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de Bradley, enrichi de figures en taille-douce.Paris, Pierre-Aug. Paulus du Mesnil, Jean-Luc Nyon, & Siméon-Prosper Hardy (colophons: printing offices of Moreau (vol. II) and Aug. Mart. Lottin (vol. III)), 1756. 3 volumes. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, interior and exterior views) in vol. 3 Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin.

BRADLEY, Richard. · 1688

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

frontispiece plus XXXVI, 358, [2]: [4 blank?], [5], X-XVI, 510, [2 blank]; [2], 12, "442"[=440] pp.First and only edition of the French translation of two horticultural and botanical works by the English botanist Richard Bradley (1688-1732), the first professor of botany at Ca...

Redevoering, over de voortreffelykheid der schilderkunst, in derzelver voorwerp beschouwd. ...1794.[The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior], 1794. (2). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering tot lof der vaderlandsche schilders en aanspraak.... 1809.The Hague, P.F. Gosse, [1809]. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter. (3). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering over het aangename en nuttige van de beoefening der teekenkunde. Uitgesproken in de akademiezaal van Pictura. Op den 3 van Bloeimaand 1810.The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1810. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter. (4). LIMBURG, T. van. Redevoering over het vermogen der schilderkunst ter gelegenheid van het uitdeelen der prijzen... 1811. The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1811. 8vo. 4 works in 4 volumes. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers.

BILDERDIJK, Willem. · 1404

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

[24], 22, [2]; [16], 43, [3]; [20], 46; [20], 30 pp.Set of 4 published lectures held on the occasion of the annual award ceremonies at the Vrije Haagsche Teeken-Akademie (the Academy of Art in The Hague). The theme of each lecture is the importance and use of the art of drawin...

Hedendaegsche historie, of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren; … I. deel. Behelzende de tegenwoordige staet der keizerryken China en Japan, als mede van de Ladrones, Filippynsche en Molukkische eilanden, en van Makassar. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1729. 6 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece by Jan Caspar Philips, 3 engraved folding maps and 7 engraved plates (2 full-page and 5 folding, including 4 signed by Philips and dated 1728-1729). The maps show: (1) China, (2) Japan and (3) the Philippines, including the greater part of Indonesia. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.

SALMON, Thomas and Matthias van GOCH.

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

[20], 88, [2], 91-200, [4], 203-318, [2], 319-442, [4], 443-554, [8], 555-645, [19], [2 blank] pp.First edition of parts 5-6, with parts 1-4 in the second printing, of the Dutch translation of the first volume of Thomas Salmon's Modern history, or The present state of all nati...

Bericht von einer Reise nach Neu-Süd-Wallis um zu Port-Philipp in der Bass's Strasse eine Kolonie anzulegen. Gethan in dem Schiffe Kalkutta in den Jahren 1802, 1803 und 1804.Weimar, Im Verlage des F.G. priv. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs 1805. 8vo. Contemporary blue paper over boards.

TUCKEY, James Hingston. · 1776

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

VI, 136 pp.First and only edition of the German translation of an account of a voyage to Australia undertaken by the Irish/British explorer James Hingston Tuckey (1776-1816), sometimes erroneously called James Kingston Tuckey. As first-lieutenant of the Calcutta he sailed to A...

Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipué Germaniae Inferioris, effigies. Pars I.The Hague, Henricus Hondius, [ca. 1610]. Folio. An engraved print series with an architectural title-page with allegorical figures, 41 engraved portraits (20 x 12 cm) by Hendrik Hondius (9), Robert de Baudous (4), Simon Frisius (23) and Andries Stock (5); and an allegorical closing print (a skeleton holding an hour glass and an arrow, not in the copy on Google Books). The three plates outside the portraits are all by Hendrick Hondius. With an extra added portrait of Hendrick Hondius, engraved by Fredericus Boultats after a drawing by Hondius himself (16.5 x 11 cm; mounted on a blank leaf). Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides.

HONDIUS, Hendrik (& Simon FRISIUS, Andries STOCK and Robert de BAUDOUS). · 1610

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[44] engraved ll. plus [1] letterpress leaf.A selection of 41 portraits (plus the engraved allegorical title-page, and the two other prints) from the first edition of Hendrick Hondius's series of portraits of artists from the Low Countries. The complete set, which contained 70...