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Warrs with forregin[!] princes dangerous to our Common-Wealth: or reasons for forreign wars answered. With a list of all the confederates from Henry the first reign to the end of Queen Elizabeth. Proving that the kings of England alwayes preferred unjust peace before the justest warre.London, William Shears, 1657.Including: [COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce]. The French charity; written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming to England; and translated into English by F.S.J.E.London, William Shears, 1655. Small 8vo. Woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. Contemporary calf.
Warrs with forregin[!] princes dangerous to our Common-Wealth: or reasons for forreign wars answered. With a list of all the confederates from Henry the first reign to the end of Queen Elizabeth. Proving that the kings of England alwayes preferred unjust peace before the justest warre.London, William Shears, 1657.Including: [COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce]. The French charity; written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming to England; and translated into English by F.S.J.E.London, William Shears, 1655. Small 8vo. Woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. Contemporary calf.
COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce. · 1657
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[2], 96; [2], 10 pp.Rare first edition (here in the 1657 issue, but first published in 1655) of a political history of England written in 1610 by the famous antiquary and politician Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631). Although the title-page names no author, he signs the text...
[Collection of 10 print series of 6 plates each with model designs for altars, church tabernacles, armorial trophies, chimney-pieces, monumental doorways, wainscoting, wall panels and ceilings].Paris, Jean I Le Blond, Pierre II Mariette, [ca. 1655-ca. 1670]. 10 print series in 1 volume. Oblong small folio & oblong 4to (20 x 26.5 cm). With 60 engraved plates (plate size ca. 15 x 22 cm). 17th-century sprinkled, gold-tooled calf, each board with the same unidentified coat-of-arms in the centre.
[Collection of 10 print series of 6 plates each with model designs for altars, church tabernacles, armorial trophies, chimney-pieces, monumental doorways, wainscoting, wall panels and ceilings].Paris, Jean I Le Blond, Pierre II Mariette, [ca. 1655-ca. 1670]. 10 print series in 1 volume. Oblong small folio & oblong 4to (20 x 26.5 cm). With 60 engraved plates (plate size ca. 15 x 22 cm). 17th-century sprinkled, gold-tooled calf, each board with the same unidentified coat-of-arms in the centre.
LE PAUTRE, Jean. · 1618
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
3, [3]; [6]; [6]; 6; [6]; 6; 6; 6; [6]; 6 ll. (numbered in pencil: 4-63).Ten complete and very rare etched and engraved architectural-ornamental print series (each with 6 prints), designed and executed by the leading Paris architect and engraver Jean Le Pautre (1618-1682). "On...
De radio reflexo variorum phaenomenorum & egregiorum effectuum opticorum causa, … Respondente Friderico Wilhelmo Madero, ...Jena, Samuel Krebs, 1674. 4to. 19th-century(?) glazed marbled wrappers.
De radio reflexo variorum phaenomenorum & egregiorum effectuum opticorum causa, … Respondente Friderico Wilhelmo Madero, ...Jena, Samuel Krebs, 1674. 4to. 19th-century(?) glazed marbled wrappers.
KREBS, Johann Friedrich. · 1651
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[32] pp.Rare doctoral thesis on optics by Johann Friedrich Krebs (1651-1721) at the University of Jena. In the present thesis he discusses the reflection of light at various angles and heights from all sorts of surfaces, from mirrors, in the human eye, etc. He based his observ...
Dansk Marine-Ordbog.Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1846-1852. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (30 x 23.5 cm). With 67 full-page engraved plates (7 folding), partly coloured by hand.
Dansk Marine-Ordbog.Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1846-1852. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (30 x 23.5 cm). With 67 full-page engraved plates (7 folding), partly coloured by hand.
FUNCH, Diderik Hansteen. · 1791
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[4], 169, [3]; 152 pp.First edition of a pictorial maritime encyclopaedia and dictionary, written by the famous Danish shipbuilder Diderik Hansteen Funch (1791-1856). The first part describes and illustrates numerous aspects of shipbuilding and rigging, including timber work a...
Perspectiva. In qua, quae ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, nervose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant. Nunc primum in lucem edita. Opera & studio Joannis Combachii.Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter for Antonius Hummius, 1614. 4to. With 8 full-page woodcuts printed on both sides of four leaves inserted as plates, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations in text, several full-page. Modern plain paper boards.
Perspectiva. In qua, quae ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, nervose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant. Nunc primum in lucem edita. Opera & studio Joannis Combachii.Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter for Antonius Hummius, 1614. 4to. With 8 full-page woodcuts printed on both sides of four leaves inserted as plates, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations in text, several full-page. Modern plain paper boards.
BACON, Roger. · 1585
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[8], 189[=205], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a famous work on optics by the English natural philosopher and mathematician Roger Bacon (ca. 1220-ca. 1292). Bacon was well read in Arabic and ancient Greek sources on optics and perspective, a subject hardly studied in Europe dur...
I quattro primi libri di architettura. Nel primo de' quali si demostrano le buone qualita de' siti, per l'edificationi delle citta & castella, sotto diversi disegni: Nel secondo, quanto si aspetta alla materia per la fabrica: Nel terzo si veggono varie maniere di tempii, & di che forma si convenga fare il principale della citta: & dalle loro piante, come ancora dalle piante delle citta & castella, ne sono tirati gli alzati per ordine di prospettiva: Nel quarto si dimostrano per diverse piante l'ordine di piu palazzi & casamenti, venendo dal pallazo regale & signorile, come di honorato gentilhuomo, sino alle case di persone private.(Colophon:) Venice, in casa de' figlivoli di Aldo (= heirs of Aldo Manuzio), 1554. Folio. With the woodcut printer's device of Aldus on the title page and the verso of the last leaf, 43 woodcut illustrations with architectural and perspectival plans and views in the text, of which 8 full-page, and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript author and title on the spine.
I quattro primi libri di architettura. Nel primo de' quali si demostrano le buone qualita de' siti, per l'edificationi delle citta & castella, sotto diversi disegni: Nel secondo, quanto si aspetta alla materia per la fabrica: Nel terzo si veggono varie maniere di tempii, & di che forma si convenga fare il principale della citta: & dalle loro piante, come ancora dalle piante delle citta & castella, ne sono tirati gli alzati per ordine di prospettiva: Nel quarto si dimostrano per diverse piante l'ordine di piu palazzi & casamenti, venendo dal pallazo regale & signorile, come di honorato gentilhuomo, sino alle case di persone private.(Colophon:) Venice, in casa de' figlivoli di Aldo (= heirs of Aldo Manuzio), 1554. Folio. With the woodcut printer's device of Aldus on the title page and the verso of the last leaf, 43 woodcut illustrations with architectural and perspectival plans and views in the text, of which 8 full-page, and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript author and title on the spine.
CATANEO, Pietro. · 1569
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
[2], 54, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a beautifully produced treatise on architecture and perspectival design, published by the sons of Aldus Manutius at Venice, and beautifully illustrated with large woodcuts. The work is dedicated to Enea Piccolomini, and treats in four boo...
Vyfde stuck der aerdrycksbeschryving, welck vervat Schotlandt en Yrlandt.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. Atlas folio (57.5 x 39.5 cm). With an engraved architectural title page with the arms of Scotland filling the top half, elaborately crested, supported by unicorns with flags and still with the old Stuart royalist mottos, and 55 engraved maps (54 double-page and 1 of the Irish County Caterlogh, full-page), often richly adorned with additional cartouches with regional scenes, but most often with coats of arms from the region. Numerous woodcut tailpieces and decorated initial letters. The title page and all maps, including the cartouches, scenes and coats of arms, beautifully coloured by hand and highlighted with gold. All maps in their first states, without added ships or compass roses. 17th-century Dutch gold-tooled vellum.
Vyfde stuck der aerdrycksbeschryving, welck vervat Schotlandt en Yrlandt.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. Atlas folio (57.5 x 39.5 cm). With an engraved architectural title page with the arms of Scotland filling the top half, elaborately crested, supported by unicorns with flags and still with the old Stuart royalist mottos, and 55 engraved maps (54 double-page and 1 of the Irish County Caterlogh, full-page), often richly adorned with additional cartouches with regional scenes, but most often with coats of arms from the region. Numerous woodcut tailpieces and decorated initial letters. The title page and all maps, including the cartouches, scenes and coats of arms, beautifully coloured by hand and highlighted with gold. All maps in their first states, without added ships or compass roses. 17th-century Dutch gold-tooled vellum.
BLAEU, Joan. · 1631
€24,000.00 ($26,452.37 | £20,022.38 | ¥4,224,101)
[8], 189, [1 blank], 70, [1, 1 blank] pp.First edition, in Dutch, of the first national atlas of Scotland, far more accurate than any previously published, complete with the atlas of Ireland, the whole beautifully executed by Blaeu's printing office and with the engraved title...
[Autograph letter in French, signed, to Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau.]Leiden, 10 December 1771. 25 x 20 cm (letter) & 23.5 x 18.5 cm (manuscript). Never bound.With: [MANUSCRIPT]. [FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Jean LE]. Memoires, pour servir a ce que l'illustre auteur de "L'histoire generale des poissons" Monsieur M. Du Hamel de Monceau, solicite a l'egard des morues.[Leiden, 1771].A letter and treatise in French, written in dark brown ink on paper in a neat and easily readable hand, the treatise with 9 tipped-in pen and ink illustrations drawn by the author (6.5 x 10.5 to 11.5 x 21.5 cm) and a few small illustrations in the text.
[Autograph letter in French, signed, to Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau.]Leiden, 10 December 1771. 25 x 20 cm (letter) & 23.5 x 18.5 cm (manuscript). Never bound.With: [MANUSCRIPT]. [FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Jean LE]. Memoires, pour servir a ce que l'illustre auteur de "L'histoire generale des poissons" Monsieur M. Du Hamel de Monceau, solicite a l'egard des morues.[Leiden, 1771].A letter and treatise in French, written in dark brown ink on paper in a neat and easily readable hand, the treatise with 9 tipped-in pen and ink illustrations drawn by the author (6.5 x 10.5 to 11.5 x 21.5 cm) and a few small illustrations in the text.
[MANUSCRIPT]. FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Jean le. · 1729
€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)
[4]; “29” [= 30], [1], [1 blank] pp. plus tipped in illustrations.An autograph letter, signed, written in French by the Dutch antiquarian, medical doctor, naturalist, poet and fiery Orangist pamphleteer Johan le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812) to the great French naturalist, ma...
Die Küste Coromandel.[Zürich, 1803]. Pen drawing (10.3 x 6.3 cm) in grey ink with washes on paper (12.5 x 8.5 cm), signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the illustration and with the title in pencil in the lower margin. The whole mounted on a larger paper leaf (with notes: "dessin no 522" and "Lips f." in ink), with a passepartout and in a gilt wooden frame.
Die Küste Coromandel.[Zürich, 1803]. Pen drawing (10.3 x 6.3 cm) in grey ink with washes on paper (12.5 x 8.5 cm), signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the illustration and with the title in pencil in the lower margin. The whole mounted on a larger paper leaf (with notes: "dessin no 522" and "Lips f." in ink), with a passepartout and in a gilt wooden frame.
[COROMANDEL COAST]. LIPS, Johann Heinrich. · 1758
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
Skilfully executed pen and ink drawing by the notable Swiss draughtsman Johann Heinrich Lips (1758-1817), showing a naval officer on a tropical beach on the Coromandel Coast, being welcomed by four half-naked local women with their five children. In the background are three na...
Maleische spraakkunst, uit de eigen schriften der Maleiers opgemaakt; met eene voorreden, behelzende eene inleiding tot dit werk, en een dubbeld aanhangsel van twee Boekzalen van boeken, in deze tale zo van Europeërs, als van Maleiers geschreven.Amsterdam, printed for the VOC (Dutch East Indian Company) by R. & G. Wetstein, 1736. 8vo. With the VOC's ship device on title page, several woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum.
Maleische spraakkunst, uit de eigen schriften der Maleiers opgemaakt; met eene voorreden, behelzende eene inleiding tot dit werk, en een dubbeld aanhangsel van twee Boekzalen van boeken, in deze tale zo van Europeërs, als van Maleiers geschreven.Amsterdam, printed for the VOC (Dutch East Indian Company) by R. & G. Wetstein, 1736. 8vo. With the VOC's ship device on title page, several woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum.
WERNDLY, George Henrik. · 1693
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[2], LXVIII, 357, [23] pp.First edition of a rare early European grammar of the Malay language, representing one of the first systematic attempts to codify Malay for Western readers. Written by the German missionary George Henrik Werndly (ca. 1693-1744), who worked extensively...
[Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus].Including:Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons. Paris, 1855.Tableaux synoptiques de l'ordre des hérons. Paris, 1855.Catalogue des genres et sous-genres d'oiseaux contenus dans le Muséum Brittanique. Paris, 1855. Note sur les oiseaux des Iles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius. Paris, 1855.Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des gallinacés. Paris, 1856. Excursions dans les divers musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers. Paris, 1856. Ornithologie fossile servant d'introduction au tableau comparatif des ineptes et des autruches. Paris, 1856.Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1855-1856. 4to. 7 parts in 1 volume. With a collective title-page for several of the offprints: Tableaux paralléliques des oiseaux praecoces ou autophages. Gallinacés, échassiers, palmipèdes et rudipennes (Paris, 1856) and all first leaves of the quires signed with a "B", indicating a revised offprint. Modern half morocco.
[Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus].Including:Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons. Paris, 1855.Tableaux synoptiques de l'ordre des hérons. Paris, 1855.Catalogue des genres et sous-genres d'oiseaux contenus dans le Muséum Brittanique. Paris, 1855. Note sur les oiseaux des Iles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius. Paris, 1855.Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des gallinacés. Paris, 1856. Excursions dans les divers musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers. Paris, 1856. Ornithologie fossile servant d'introduction au tableau comparatif des ineptes et des autruches. Paris, 1856.Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1855-1856. 4to. 7 parts in 1 volume. With a collective title-page for several of the offprints: Tableaux paralléliques des oiseaux praecoces ou autophages. Gallinacés, échassiers, palmipèdes et rudipennes (Paris, 1856) and all first leaves of the quires signed with a "B", indicating a revised offprint. Modern half morocco.
BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien. · 1666
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus (a French scientific journal published since 1666), by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a well-known ornithologist and nephew of Napoleon. Included are taxonomic classifications of various birds, including pigeons, he...
Journal, oder kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Aussgangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1668 und 1669 geführet worden.Hamburg, Gottfried Schulken, 1670. 4to. Disbound, preserving the original endpapers.
Journal, oder kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Aussgangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1668 und 1669 geführet worden.Hamburg, Gottfried Schulken, 1670. 4to. Disbound, preserving the original endpapers.
[SPEELMAN, Cornelis Janszoon]. · 1666
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
[18] ll.Rare first and only edition of the German translation of the account of the expedition against the Kingdom of Makassar in the years 1666 to 1669, under command of Cornelis Speelman (1628-1684) on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The work was translated fro...
Hollandiae comitum historia et icones: Cum selectis scholijs ad lectoris lucem. Eiusdem Barlandi Caroli Burgundiae ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & res gestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. With: (2) BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on p. 25) on the title page, a woodcut printer's device of Feyerabend ("Fama") on the divisional title page of part 2, a variant of his printer's device on the verso of the last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits (all except the first three with their coats of arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath), several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, the manuscript title and author at the head of the spine, and a manuscript shelf mark number at the foot of the spine.
Hollandiae comitum historia et icones: Cum selectis scholijs ad lectoris lucem. Eiusdem Barlandi Caroli Burgundiae ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & res gestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. With: (2) BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on p. 25) on the title page, a woodcut printer's device of Feyerabend ("Fama") on the divisional title page of part 2, a variant of his printer's device on the verso of the last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits (all except the first three with their coats of arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath), several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, the manuscript title and author at the head of the spine, and a manuscript shelf mark number at the foot of the spine.
BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. · 1539
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[16], "393" [=391], [1 blank]; 109, [1], [2 blank] pp.Beautiful work on the history of the counts of Holland and Zeeland, the first edition with fine woodcut portraits by the famous Swiss-German artist and book illustrator Jost Amman (1539-1591). The work contains biographies ...
Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura duobus libris explicata, quae studioso avidoque lectori non tam usui sunt futura, quam oblectamento.Antwerp, Willem Simon (colophon: Gillis Coppens van Diest), 1559. 8vo. With Simon’s woodcut device on the title-page and a woodcut coat of arms on title-page of the second part. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf.
Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura duobus libris explicata, quae studioso avidoque lectori non tam usui sunt futura, quam oblectamento.Antwerp, Willem Simon (colophon: Gillis Coppens van Diest), 1559. 8vo. With Simon’s woodcut device on the title-page and a woodcut coat of arms on title-page of the second part. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf.
LEMNIUS, Levinus. · 1505
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[16], 192 ll.First edition of a very popular Latin presentation of the secrets of nature, considering physiological, physical, medical, religious and moral topics, by Levinus Lemnius (1505-1568), attempting to explain extraordinary natural phenomena. “Bits of medical and natur...
Boec des gulden throe[n]s of der xxiiij. ouden en[de] hoemen elke[n] vinden mach en[de] va[n] hoerre leringhen die si leren om te comen totten ewighen leven.(colophon: Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert], 25 October 1484). Folio (29 x 21.5 cm). With large woodcut printer's device (142 x 82 mm) on verso of last leaf (with the arms of the city of Haarlem above an eagle holding a larger blank shield, here filled in by a contemporary owner); 4 woodcut illustrations and 20 repeats, representing the 24 elders, each showing one of the male elders, standing, teaching a female novice kneeling before him. Further with spaces left for initials, all filled in with uncials by hand, about 25 with penwork decoration in 1 or 2 additional colours: 1 blue 6-line initial with decorations in red and violate extending far into the margin, about 24 red 3 to 9-line (mostly 7-line) initials with lavendar penwork (1 with 2 green dots), some extending into the margin, and more than 70 2-line red initials without penwork decoration; a few spaces left for ¶-marks, also filled in in red; capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in Baellart's textura (99 or 100 mm/20 lines or about 14.5 point). Lacking leaf 137 (the second to last text leaf) and the final blank. Modern sheepskin.
Boec des gulden throe[n]s of der xxiiij. ouden en[de] hoemen elke[n] vinden mach en[de] va[n] hoerre leringhen die si leren om te comen totten ewighen leven.(colophon: Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert], 25 October 1484). Folio (29 x 21.5 cm). With large woodcut printer's device (142 x 82 mm) on verso of last leaf (with the arms of the city of Haarlem above an eagle holding a larger blank shield, here filled in by a contemporary owner); 4 woodcut illustrations and 20 repeats, representing the 24 elders, each showing one of the male elders, standing, teaching a female novice kneeling before him. Further with spaces left for initials, all filled in with uncials by hand, about 25 with penwork decoration in 1 or 2 additional colours: 1 blue 6-line initial with decorations in red and violate extending far into the margin, about 24 red 3 to 9-line (mostly 7-line) initials with lavendar penwork (1 with 2 green dots), some extending into the margin, and more than 70 2-line red initials without penwork decoration; a few spaces left for ¶-marks, also filled in in red; capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in Baellart's textura (99 or 100 mm/20 lines or about 14.5 point). Lacking leaf 137 (the second to last text leaf) and the final blank. Modern sheepskin.
OTTO VON PASSAU. · 1480
€75,000.00 ($82,663.65 | £62,569.95 | ¥13,200,316)
[1 blank, 3], "136" [= 135 (of 136)], [1] ll.The second Dutch edition of Otto von Passau's religious instructive work, first published at Utrecht in 1480. The golden throne of the 24 elders is the only work known to survive by Otto von Passau, a Franciscan preacher who lived i...
In hoc volumine haec continentur. Herodiani Historiae. Libri VIII. Sexti Aurelii Victoris a d. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropii Historiae. Libri X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII. Ad Eutropii historiam additi.(Colophon:) Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1517. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With Giunta’s woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. Including:(2) AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus. A D. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta.(3) EUTROPIUS. Historiae libri X.(4) PAUL THE DEACON (PAULUS DIACONUS). Libri VIII. ad Eutropii historiam additi.Later gold tooled quarter calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, brown decorative paper sides, marbled edges.
In hoc volumine haec continentur. Herodiani Historiae. Libri VIII. Sexti Aurelii Victoris a d. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropii Historiae. Libri X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII. Ad Eutropii historiam additi.(Colophon:) Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1517. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With Giunta’s woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. Including:(2) AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus. A D. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta.(3) EUTROPIUS. Historiae libri X.(4) PAUL THE DEACON (PAULUS DIACONUS). Libri VIII. ad Eutropii historiam additi.Later gold tooled quarter calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, brown decorative paper sides, marbled edges.
HERODIAN. · 1493
€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)
[4], 90; 127, [1 blank] ll.Collection of four works on Roman history, published at Florence by Filippo Giunta in his last year: Herodian's Historiae, in eight books, from Marcus Aurelius to Gordian III (180-238 CE). This edition is dedicated to Pope Innocentius VIII and gives ...
Novus atlas Daniae eller Prospecter af alle hoved-og kiöbstaederne, af alle kongelige slotte, samt andre kongelige lyst-slotte og staeder udi begge konge-rigerne Dannemark og Norge og underliggende fyrstendömme. Iste tome af Siaelland. Copenhagen, Johan Jacob Bruun, 1761[-ca. 1789?]. Oblong folio (26.5 x 40 cm), preliminaries upright folio, bound with foot folded in. With 60 engraved views, including one folding plate with a view of the Royal Castle near Copenhagen, engraved by Jonas Haas and Hans Quist after designs by Johan Jacob Bruun. Contemporary Danish mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.
Novus atlas Daniae eller Prospecter af alle hoved-og kiöbstaederne, af alle kongelige slotte, samt andre kongelige lyst-slotte og staeder udi begge konge-rigerne Dannemark og Norge og underliggende fyrstendömme. Iste tome af Siaelland. Copenhagen, Johan Jacob Bruun, 1761[-ca. 1789?]. Oblong folio (26.5 x 40 cm), preliminaries upright folio, bound with foot folded in. With 60 engraved views, including one folding plate with a view of the Royal Castle near Copenhagen, engraved by Jonas Haas and Hans Quist after designs by Johan Jacob Bruun. Contemporary Danish mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.
BRUUN, Johan Jacob. · 1715
€16,000.00 ($17,634.91 | £13,348.26 | ¥2,816,068)
[8] pp. text.Enlarged issue of a very rare series of engraved views of Danish castles, mansions, houses, gardens and city views, by the Danish landscape painter Johan Jacob Bruun (1715-1789). It was first published in 1761, containing 50 views of buildings on the Danish island...
De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Rom[anorum]. Item Valerii Probi grammatici de literis antiquis opusculum.Including: POMPONIO LETO, Giulio. De Ro[manorum]. magistratibus, ...Basel, (colophon: Valentino Curio, May 1523). With the general title in a woodcut border, Curio's large architectural woodcut device on the otherwise blank final page.With:(2) LUCIANUS OF SAMOSATA. Complures ... dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo ... in Latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus.(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524).(3) MOSELLANUS, Petrus (Peter SCHADE). Paedologia ..., in puerorum usum conscripta & aucta. Dialogi XXXVII. Dialogi pueriles Christophori Hegendorphini. XII. ...Including: HEGENDORF, Christoph. Dialogi pueriles ... XII. ...(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523). 3 editions in 1 volume. 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary panel-stamped calf, each board with the same 3 panel stamps: 2 virtually identical panels with 6 animals in 2 grape vines (the animals from head to foot in the left vine: a monkey, dog and wyvern; and in the right vine: a squirrel, hare and lion) in a border of a diaper of quatrefoils in lozenges, the two separated by a small panel stamp sith a peacock, paste-downs made from a leaf from an Aristotle manuscript on vellum.
De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Rom[anorum]. Item Valerii Probi grammatici de literis antiquis opusculum.Including: POMPONIO LETO, Giulio. De Ro[manorum]. magistratibus, ...Basel, (colophon: Valentino Curio, May 1523). With the general title in a woodcut border, Curio's large architectural woodcut device on the otherwise blank final page.With:(2) LUCIANUS OF SAMOSATA. Complures ... dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo ... in Latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus.(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524).(3) MOSELLANUS, Petrus (Peter SCHADE). Paedologia ..., in puerorum usum conscripta & aucta. Dialogi XXXVII. Dialogi pueriles Christophori Hegendorphini. XII. ...Including: HEGENDORF, Christoph. Dialogi pueriles ... XII. ...(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523). 3 editions in 1 volume. 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary panel-stamped calf, each board with the same 3 panel stamps: 2 virtually identical panels with 6 animals in 2 grape vines (the animals from head to foot in the left vine: a monkey, dog and wyvern; and in the right vine: a squirrel, hare and lion) in a border of a diaper of quatrefoils in lozenges, the two separated by a small panel stamp sith a peacock, paste-downs made from a leaf from an Aristotle manuscript on vellum.
[FIOCCO, Andrea Domenico] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. · 1452
€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)
91, [1]; 26, [2]; [40] ll.Three rare editions of humanist works in a contemporary panel-stamped binding, all well produced and the panel stamps finely rendered. Fogelmark (p. 33) calls panel-stamps with gothic animals in foliage "the Flemish panel stamp par préférence". We hav...
Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective, made easy ...Ipswich, W. Craighton for the author, 1755. Including: [KIRBY, Joshua]. The practice of perspective: being the second book of Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, &c.Ipswich, W. Craighton, 1755.2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With hundreds of perspectival figures, plans, and designs on 52 full-page engraved plates, including 2 intricate perspectival designs with movable parts, and several beautiful wholly finished perspectival designs. Further with the hilarious frontispiece by William Hogarth showing a lively river landscape with fishermen, boats, a cart riding over a bridge, a far away village church etc., drawn without any accurate use of perspective, which led to absurdities such as a woman leaning out of the upper window of a house in the foreground and offering a light to a man with a pipe on top of a hill in the background. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt.
Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective, made easy ...Ipswich, W. Craighton for the author, 1755. Including: [KIRBY, Joshua]. The practice of perspective: being the second book of Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, &c.Ipswich, W. Craighton, 1755.2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With hundreds of perspectival figures, plans, and designs on 52 full-page engraved plates, including 2 intricate perspectival designs with movable parts, and several beautiful wholly finished perspectival designs. Further with the hilarious frontispiece by William Hogarth showing a lively river landscape with fishermen, boats, a cart riding over a bridge, a far away village church etc., drawn without any accurate use of perspective, which led to absurdities such as a woman leaning out of the upper window of a house in the foreground and offering a light to a man with a pipe on top of a hill in the background. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt.
KIRBY, Joshua. · 1716
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[1], [1 blank], [2], IV, XVI, 78; [1], [1 blank], 84, [15], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.Second enlarged edition of a famous work on perspective by Joshua Kirby (1716-1774), dedicated to William Hogarth, the author's close friend. Hogarth designed the delightful frontispiece, ...
Histoire de la belle Heleine de Constantinople, mère de St. Martin de Tours en Touraine, & de St. Brice, son frère.Troyes, Pierre Garnier, [ca. 1738].With:(2) [FORTUNATUS]. Histoire des avantures heureuses et malheureuses de Fortunatus, avec sa bourse et son chapeau. Enseignant comme un jeune homme se doit gouverner. Troyes, chez Jean Garnier, [ca. 1760]. (3) [JEAN DE PARIS]. Histoire de Jean de Paris, Roi de France. Troyes, la veuve Garnier & Fils, [ca. 1740].(4) [JEAN DE CALAIS]. Histoire de Jean de Calais.Troyes, la veuve Garnier & Fils, [ca. 1760].(5) [ROBERT LE DIABLE]. La terrible et merveilleuse vie de Robert le Diable, lequel après fut homme de bien.Troyes, la veuve Garnier, [ca. 1740].(6) [RICHARD SANS PEUR]. Histoire de Richard sans Peur, Duc de Normandie, fils de Robert Le Diable, Qui par sa prudence fut Roi d'Angleterre, & fit de grandes conquêtes & vaillances. Troyes, la veuve Garnier, [ca. 1740].(7) GARGANTUAS, La vie du fameux Gargantuas, le plus terrible geant qui ait jamais paru sur la terre. Traduction nouvelle dressée sur un ancien manuscrit qui s'est trouvé dans la Bibliothèque du Grand Mogol.Troyes, la veuve Jacques Oudot, 1715.(8) [TIJL UILENSPIEGEL]. La vie joyeuse et recreative de Tiel Ulespiegle, de ses faits merveilleux & fortunes qu'il a eues lequel par aucune ruse ne se laissa pas tromper. Troyes, la veuve Garnier, [ca. 1765].8 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 19th-century half dark blue morocco, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine with "Bibliothèque bleu" lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, bound by Vanette in Paris.
Histoire de la belle Heleine de Constantinople, mère de St. Martin de Tours en Touraine, & de St. Brice, son frère.Troyes, Pierre Garnier, [ca. 1738].With:(2) [FORTUNATUS]. Histoire des avantures heureuses et malheureuses de Fortunatus, avec sa bourse et son chapeau. Enseignant comme un jeune homme se doit gouverner. Troyes, chez Jean Garnier, [ca. 1760]. (3) [JEAN DE PARIS]. Histoire de Jean de Paris, Roi de France. Troyes, la veuve Garnier & Fils, [ca. 1740].(4) [JEAN DE CALAIS]. Histoire de Jean de Calais.Troyes, la veuve Garnier & Fils, [ca. 1760].(5) [ROBERT LE DIABLE]. La terrible et merveilleuse vie de Robert le Diable, lequel après fut homme de bien.Troyes, la veuve Garnier, [ca. 1740].(6) [RICHARD SANS PEUR]. Histoire de Richard sans Peur, Duc de Normandie, fils de Robert Le Diable, Qui par sa prudence fut Roi d'Angleterre, & fit de grandes conquêtes & vaillances. Troyes, la veuve Garnier, [ca. 1740].(7) GARGANTUAS, La vie du fameux Gargantuas, le plus terrible geant qui ait jamais paru sur la terre. Traduction nouvelle dressée sur un ancien manuscrit qui s'est trouvé dans la Bibliothèque du Grand Mogol.Troyes, la veuve Jacques Oudot, 1715.(8) [TIJL UILENSPIEGEL]. La vie joyeuse et recreative de Tiel Ulespiegle, de ses faits merveilleux & fortunes qu'il a eues lequel par aucune ruse ne se laissa pas tromper. Troyes, la veuve Garnier, [ca. 1765].8 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 19th-century half dark blue morocco, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine with "Bibliothèque bleu" lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, bound by Vanette in Paris.
[CHAPBOOKS - FRENCH]. · 1530
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
95, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [6], 154, [5], [1 blank]; 47, [1]; 46, [1], [1 blank]; 46, [1], [1 blank]; 46, [1], [1 blank]; 48; 46, [2 blank] pp.Fine collection of 8 French chapbook editions, all "Bibliothèque bleue" printed in Troyes, and all but one (ad 7) published by members o...