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Fleurs fruits et feuillages choisis de l'ile de Java … Troisième édition.Brussels, Leipzig, Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt (printed by Weissenbruch, Brussels), [1880]. 1mo (56.5 x 42 cm). With 40 chromolithographed plates by P. Depannemaeker in Ghent after Hoola van Nooten's original paintings, each accompanied by a page of letterpress text (English and French), giving a description as well as information on the plant's culinary, medical, religious and other uses. Contemporary red half goatskin; rebacked with modern endpapers.

HOOLA VAN NOOTEN, Berthe. · 1840

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

[44] ll.Third edition of a magnificent display of Javanese fruits and flowers, their bright colours ideally suited to the new technique of chromolithography. Hoola van Nooten (1840-1885), a twenty-two-year-old widow in "exile" on the island of Java, "was clearly a more than co...

Peter de Groote, keizer van Rusland in Holland en Zaandam in 1697 en 1717.Amsterdam, Hendrik Gartman, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved title-pages showing a portrait of Peter the Great, 1 letterpress title-page and 2 half-titles, and 3 engraved plates. Mid-19th-century tree calf, each board with a gold-tooled fillets, gold-tooled spine and board edges, antique spot marbled endpapers, green ribbon markers.

SCHELTEMA, Jacobus. · 1697

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

XXVI, 339; [2], XXXI, [1 blank], 328 pp. plus engraved titles and plates.First edition of a detailed account of Tsar Peter the Great's visits to the Dutch Republic in 1697-1698 and 1717, dedicated to the Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen. The book opens with an 86-page introd...

Reizen naar vreemde landen, in het hoekje van den haard.Amsterdam, Diederichs brothers, [1829]. 16mo in 8s. With 12 double-page aquatint views by W.H. Hoogkamer, 6 in grey tint and 6 in sepia. Original publisher's printed yellow paper covered boards.

[WITSEN GEYSBEEK, Peter Gerardus]. · 1790

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

115, [1 blank] pp.First(?) edition of an illustrated story book telling about the wonders of the world, with its title refering to the very popular motto of "travelling while sitting by the fire". It is written in the form of a dialogue between a father, a mother, their childr...

Comentarios de lo sucedido en las guerras de los Payses Baxos, desde el año de 1567 hasta el de 1577.Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 5 half-page engraved plates in the text including a map of East Friesland with Emden, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary black-tooled mottled calf.

MENDOÇA, Bernardino de. · 1567

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

[8], 336, [12] ll.First Spanish edition of a contemporary account on the war between the Low Countries and Spain during the years 1567-1577. First published in French in 1591, it offers a detailed narrative of the events, accompanied by a geographical description of the theatr...

Treaty between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan. Concluded March 31, 1854; Ratified August 7, 1854; Proclaimed June 22, 1855.[Washington D.C., 1855]. Folio. Signed in type by Franklin Pierce as President and by W. L. Marcy as Secretary of State. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched.

[USA - JAPAN - TREATY]. · 1794

€20,000.00 ($22,043.64 | £16,685.32 | ¥3,520,084)

5, [1 blank] pp.Second recorded copy of the Kanagawa Treaty of Friendship, resulting in the opening of Japan to trade with the West. The American expection to open Japan was undertaken at the suggestion of its leader, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858). ''The key do...

Le cheval extérieur ...Paris, J-B. Baillière & Sons, 1886. 2 volumes. 4to. With 16 lithographed plates in the atlas volume showing the anatomy of horses, including 13 with movable parts, all in colour, the text volume contains 172 illustrations in the text by Édouard Cuyer. Contemporary half blue calf (or sheepskin?), marbled sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine.

ALIX, Eugène and Édouard CUYER. · 1852

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

XXIV, 703, [1 blank]; 44, [4] pp. and 16 lithographed plates.Elaborately illustrated and encyclopaedic work on horses by the veterinarian Eugène Alix (dates unknown). All aspects of the horse are described, for example their appearance, different races, their reproduction, the...

Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden, Åren 1851-1853, under befäl af C.A. Virgin.Stockholm, Adolf Bonnier, [1855]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 3 folding tinted lithographed maps, 26 plates (6 full-page wood-engravings, 20 full-page chromo-lithograps) 18 wood-engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary three quarter calf with gilt lettering on spine, marbled covers.

SKOGMAN, Carl Johan Alfred. · 1797

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

VI, 250, [2]; V, [3], 224, [2] pp.First edition of a very interesting account of the first Swedish circumnavigation, richly illustrated with fine colour plates showing views and costume-plates.The author, Baron Skogman, was the astronomer on the voyage, undertaken under the co...

Der heyliger Hispanischer inquisitie, etlicke listighe secrete consten ende practijcken, ontdect ende int licht ghebracht ...[Emden, Willem Gailliart], 1569. 8vo. With woodcut decorated initials. (Near-) contemporary vellum wrappers, sewn on 3 supports (previously laced through the joints).

GONSALVIUS MONTANUS, Reginaldus [= CORRO, Antonio del?]. · 1568

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

[4], "143" [= 132], [1] ll.Rare first edition of the first translation in Dutch of this propagandistic, highly critical, and very influential book on the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition. It is one of the issues in the so-called "Black Legend" (the other issue being the expl...

Neu-Südwales. Seine Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, oder Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen während eines zwölfjährigen Aufenthaltes in Australien.Leipzig, Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1850. 8vo. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin.

[PATTISON, John]. · 1849

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

[4], 190, [2] pp.First edition of the German translation of an emigrant's guide to New South-Wales, Australia. The work was written by John Pattison and published anonymously, based on his own experiences during his twelve year stay in Australia. It was first published in 1849...

De Parijsche winkelhuizen, of keur der voornaamste bestaande winkelpuijen te Parijs ten dienste van archietecten, timmerlieden, metselaars en verdere bouwkundigen.Amsterdam, D. Tormijn, 1850. Folio. With 36 lithographed plates showing designs of storefronts in Paris, by P.W.M. Trap in Leiden. Original blue printed paper over boards, with the title printed in a decorative border on the front board.

VEREENIGING VAN ARCHITECTEN.

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

7, [1 blank] pp. and XXXVI plates.Modelbook in Dutch depicting and describing storefronts in Paris, meant for architects, carpenters, and other craftsmen, issued by the "Vereeniging van Architecten" (Association of Architects). The plates show the elaborately decorated mid-19t...

Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop, behelzende een zeer omstandig verhaal van den tegenwoordigen toestant van dat vermaarde gewest, deszelfs gelegenheit, haven, sterkte, regerings-vorm, uitgestrektheid, en onlangs ontdekte aanleggende landen; nevens een geleerde beschryving van het klimaat en aart van dat landschap; van deszelfs dieren, visschen, vogelen, planten, kruiden, mitsgaders verscheide wonderen der natuur, daar te lande ontdekt; waar by nog komt, een zeer nette en uit eige ondervinding opgemaakte beschryving van den oorsprong der Hottentotten.Amsterdam, Balthazar Lakeman, 1727. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 2 titles printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page portrait of the author, 6 maps (1 folding, 5 double-page), and 46 plates (1 double-page, 45 full-page). Contemporary marbled calf.

KOLBE, Peter. · 1675

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

[16], 529, [3]; [4], 449, [87] pp.Rare large-paper copy of the first Dutch edition of the most important and most extensive early account of South Africa, richly illustrated. The work formed the basis of nearly everything that was published concerning South Africa for the next...

De liberis recte instituendis, liber.(Colophon:) Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio & fratres for Melchiorre Sessa, July 1533. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With Sessa's woodcut device of a cat with a mouse on the title-page. Modern overlapping vellum.

SADOLETO, Jacopo. · 1477

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

52, [1 blank] ll.Early Venice edition of one of the great pedagogical works of the Renaissance, ranking with Vives' De Disciplinis and Wimpfeling's Adolescentia. The book is dedicated to Guillaume du Bellay, the celebrated humanist and diplomat in the service of the French kin...

Pancharis.Lyon, Thomas Soubron, 1593. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title page of the first part, and a smaller variant device on the title page of the second part, further with 5 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut tailpieces, 6 woodcut decorated initials, and a border made up of typographical materials around the colophon. With: DURAND, Gillis. Imitations du Latin de Iean Bonnefons: avec autres gayetez amoureuses, de l'invention de l'autheur.Lyon, pour Thomas Soubron (colophon: Etienne Servain), 1593. 17th-century gold tooled brown calf.

BONNEFONS, Jean. · 1554

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

68; 153, [1] pp.First Lyon edition of a collection of amorous and lightly erotic poems in Latin by the French poet Jean Bonnefons (1554-1614). The poems are love songs to an imaginary mistress, or pancharis (Greek for "all gracious"), in the tradition of the Book of kisses by ...

Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.[Vienna or Venice?], 1785. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary blue-grey marbled wrappers.

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. · 1725

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

LXX, [2 blank] pp.One of the rare first two Italian editions (possibly by the same printer, priority uncertain) of a diplomatic pamphlet by Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), famous for his romantic adventures. The work first appeared in French in 1785, with both Italian editions f...

Tratado completo do jogo de florete, em o qual se estabelecem os principios certos dos exercicios offensivos, e defensivos desta arte; obra necessaria a's pessoas, que se destinão a's armas, e util a'quellas, que se querem aperfeiçoar.Lisbon, Na impressão Regia, 1804. 4to. 8 folding engraved plates with 17 numbered figures. Later (ca. 1875/95?) gold-tooled green morocco,.

RODRIGUES DE CARVALHO, Theotonio.

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

105, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a complete course in Portuguese on the use of the foil, by Theotonio Rodrigues de Carvalho, including the principles of both offence and defence. With 8 plates containing 17 figures, each showing a pair of fencers dem...

Récits historiques, exacts et sincères, des sept voyages par mer & par terre. Faits au Brésil, au Cap-Horn, au Chili, aux Cordillères des Andes, à Mendoza, dans le Désert et à Buénos-Ayres … Extrait de la publication de 1856.Versailles, Gendrin (colophon: imprimerie Cerf), 1860. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of the author as frontispiece, 36 (32 numbered followed by 4 unnumbered) pages with lithographed reproductions of letters, and 9 lithographed plates. Contemporary cloth.

GENDRIN, Victor-Athanase. · 1856

€2,450.00 ($2,700.35 | £2,043.95 | ¥431,210)

24, [4], 32, [4] pp.Presentation copy of a rare publication, presented as an extract from Gendrin's Récit historique, exact et sincère, par mer et par terre, de quatre voyages … published in Versailles 1856. About half of the material is taken from the 1856 edition (the introd...

Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar. [Madrid], widow of Joaquin Ibarra, 1796. Narrow 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut crowned cypher monogram (of a Spanish Duke?) on the title page and 7 folding leaves containing 13 numbered letterpress tables. Early 19th-century gold-tooled tree calf.

GALIANO, Dionisio Alcalá. · 1760

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

[2], 87, [1] pp.Greatly expanded second edition of a treatise on the determination of latitude and longitude at sea, by Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (1760-1805), Spanish explorer, cartographer and captain in the Royal Spanish armada. His much shorter account (26 leaves instead of 4...

De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533. With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves.

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. · 1521

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

96; [44] ll.Contemporary accounts of two political and military power struggles, written in Latin and bound together at an early date. Ad 1: First edition of an important contemporary account of what the running heads and the titles of some later editions call the Milanese War...

L'India Orientale. Descrittione geografica, & historica. (vol. 1:) Dove si tratta della parte intra Gangem contenente li regni soggetti all' Impero del Gran Mogol ... Con la confutatione dell'idolatie, superstitioni, & altri loro errori. (vol.2:) Dove si tratta della parte extra Gangem ...Rome, Felice Cesaretti, 1676. 2 volumes. 4to. With the full-page portrait of the author by A. Clouet, many woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary vellum, with a manuscript title on the spines, sprinkled edges.

TOSI, Clemente (TONSUS, Clemens). · 1669

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

[8], 896, 58; [8], 927, [1] pp.Re-issue under a new title of the first edition of this extensive work on India, Southeast Asia and China, which was a originally printed in Rome, by Michele Hercole in 1669. The printer Felice Cesaretti only replaced the title and preliminaries....

Specchio della perfettione humana. Opera devotissima e necessaria ad ogni fidel Christiano historiata.Venice, Batholomeo detto l'Imperadore & Francesco Venetiano, 1546. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page of a Roman emperor, 3 full-page woodcut illustrations depicting the life of Christ, and some woodcut decorated initials. 17th-century(?) vellum, sewn on 5 supports, with the manuscript title on the spine.

HERP, Hendrik. · 1400

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

122, [2] ll.Fourth edition of the Italian translation of the original Dutch mystical treatise by Hendriik Herp, the Spieghel der Volcomenheyt. Hendrik Herp (ca. 1400-1478) was a Franciscan of the Strict Observance and a distinguished writer on mysticism. Only the last thirty y...