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Dat vyants net, der booser wercken raet, visioenen, ende met alder sijnder verholender stricken, leerende hoe wi de werelt, den vyant, ende ons selven sullen sterven, kennen, ende leerende hoe wi die werelt, den vyant, ende ons selven sullen sterven, kennen, ende overwinnen.Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen, (colophon: 1561). 8vo. With the title in a four-piece woodcut border by Pieter van den Borcht (with his initials at the foot), Jan van Ghelen's woodcut device on verso of last leaf, a full-page armorial view (dated 1552) on the last leaf, and 20 mostly full-page woodcut illustrations by Pieter van der Borcht in text. Modern half vellum.
Dat vyants net, der booser wercken raet, visioenen, ende met alder sijnder verholender stricken, leerende hoe wi de werelt, den vyant, ende ons selven sullen sterven, kennen, ende leerende hoe wi die werelt, den vyant, ende ons selven sullen sterven, kennen, ende overwinnen.Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen, (colophon: 1561). 8vo. With the title in a four-piece woodcut border by Pieter van den Borcht (with his initials at the foot), Jan van Ghelen's woodcut device on verso of last leaf, a full-page armorial view (dated 1552) on the last leaf, and 20 mostly full-page woodcut illustrations by Pieter van der Borcht in text. Modern half vellum.
[VERVOORT, Frans]. · 1490
€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)
[88] ll.Rare enlarged third edition of a well-illustrated work by the often overlooked Franciscan mystic author Frans Vervoort (ca. 1490-1555), "one of the greatest religious lyrists" (Schmitz) and generally said to be "the greatest follower of Ruysbroeck in the 16th century"....
Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides.
Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides.
[GELDERLAND]. · 1539
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[64] ll.First Dutch edition of the decision taken by the Reichstag, the meeting of the Counts of the Holy Roman Empire at Regensburg, to the effect that the rights of the Emperor Charles V to the Duchy of Gelre and the County of Zutphen were legitimate, together with the rejec...
Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers.
Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers.
HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. · 1764
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
35, [13], [2 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition, perhaps the only copy printed on silk, of the dissertation of a Dutch law student, Nicolaas Johannes van Hanswyk, for his doctorate, dated 22 June 1764. It was customary for students from rich families to have their dissertat...
Assertio juris Imperatoris Caroli huis nominis quinti, in Geldriae Ducatu, & Zutphaniae Comitatu, aedita in Comitijs Ratisbonensibus, anno M.D.XLI. & confutatio oppugnationum Guilielmi Cliviae Ducis, Franckfordiae exhibitarum, anno M.D.XXXIX.Nuremberg, Johann Petri, [1541]. Large 8vo. With a large ornamental woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V, 11 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, richly decorated spine.
Assertio juris Imperatoris Caroli huis nominis quinti, in Geldriae Ducatu, & Zutphaniae Comitatu, aedita in Comitijs Ratisbonensibus, anno M.D.XLI. & confutatio oppugnationum Guilielmi Cliviae Ducis, Franckfordiae exhibitarum, anno M.D.XXXIX.Nuremberg, Johann Petri, [1541]. Large 8vo. With a large ornamental woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V, 11 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, richly decorated spine.
[GELDERLAND - CHARLES V]. · 1538
€3,900.00 ($4,298.51 | £3,253.64 | ¥686,416)
[45], [1 blank] ll.One of the first two editions (order uncertain), in the original Latin, this one published at Nuremberg, of the assertion by the “Reichstag”, the meeting of the Imperial Counts of the Holy Roman Empire in Regensburg, of the Emperor Charles V’s rights to the ...
La cabale des Reformez, tiree nouvellement du puits de Democrite.Montpellier [= Lyon?], “chez Le Libertin, imprimeur juré de la saincte Reformation” [= Jacques Roussin?], 1597. With: (2) REBOUL, Guillaume. Apologie ... sur La cabale des Reformez.[Lyon?, Jacques Roussin?], 1598. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 17th-century gold-tooled calf; rebacked, preserving most of the backstrip.
La cabale des Reformez, tiree nouvellement du puits de Democrite.Montpellier [= Lyon?], “chez Le Libertin, imprimeur juré de la saincte Reformation” [= Jacques Roussin?], 1597. With: (2) REBOUL, Guillaume. Apologie ... sur La cabale des Reformez.[Lyon?, Jacques Roussin?], 1598. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 17th-century gold-tooled calf; rebacked, preserving most of the backstrip.
[REBOUL, Guillaume]. · 1564
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
224; 141, [1 blank] pp.First edition of an incendiary satirical pamphlet ("farce Rabelaisienne" - Pioffet) and one of the earliest editions of the author's defence of it, both attacking the Huguenot ministers of the Languedoc, three years after the revocation of the Edict of N...
De' veri precetti della pittura ... Libi tre. Ne'quali con bell'ordine d'utili, & buoni avertimenti, per chi desidera in essa farsi con prestezza eccellente; si dimostrano i modi principiali del disegnare, & del dipignere, & di fare le pitture, che si conuengono alle conditioni de' luoghi, & delle persone.Ravenna, printed by Francesco Tebaldini, for Tomaso Pasini in Bologna, 1587. 4to. With Tebaldini's woodcut scrollwork device (with motto "in deo") on the title page, numerous woodcut decorated initials (3 series), woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. With the main text set in an italic type by Robert Granjon. Later vellum.
De' veri precetti della pittura ... Libi tre. Ne'quali con bell'ordine d'utili, & buoni avertimenti, per chi desidera in essa farsi con prestezza eccellente; si dimostrano i modi principiali del disegnare, & del dipignere, & di fare le pitture, che si conuengono alle conditioni de' luoghi, & delle persone.Ravenna, printed by Francesco Tebaldini, for Tomaso Pasini in Bologna, 1587. 4to. With Tebaldini's woodcut scrollwork device (with motto "in deo") on the title page, numerous woodcut decorated initials (3 series), woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. With the main text set in an italic type by Robert Granjon. Later vellum.
ARMENINI, Giovanni Battista. · 1530
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[20], 229, [3] pp.First edition of a very important work on the techniques and traditions of painting. It is recognised as a classic in its field and is an important main source on painting techniques and traditions of sixteenth century Italy, especially of the Mannerist perio...
Vie politique et militaire du général A.M.G. Poissonnier-Desperrières …, écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant.Paris, C.J. Trouvé, 1824. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Dapuhin by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. Contemporary richly gold-tooled straight grained orange/brown morocco, gold- and blind-tooled boards with the arms of William I on each side, gold-tooled spine with plumed helmets, a dark-brown title-label and the name of the binder ("SIMIER.R.DU.ROI"), gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.
Vie politique et militaire du général A.M.G. Poissonnier-Desperrières …, écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant.Paris, C.J. Trouvé, 1824. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Dapuhin by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. Contemporary richly gold-tooled straight grained orange/brown morocco, gold- and blind-tooled boards with the arms of William I on each side, gold-tooled spine with plumed helmets, a dark-brown title-label and the name of the binder ("SIMIER.R.DU.ROI"), gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.
POISSONNIER-DESPERRIERES, Gabriel Adrien Marie. · 1763
€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)
XII, 512 pp.First and only edition of the autobiography of Gabriel Adrien Marie Poissonnier-Desperrières (1763-1852), splendidly bound for William I (1772-1843), Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands, by René Simier (1772-1843), one of the best French binders ...
[Collection of 120 engravings by French, Dutch, Italian and German artists].Venice, Paris, [Amsterdam], etc., 1601-1725 (album ca. 1745?), with additions [1788] & [ca. 1790]. 8vo, 4to, etc. (19 x 13 cm). 120 engraved prints, namely 44 from 4 complete print series (1 with a title-print), 57 (including 3 title-prints) from 10 or 11 other series and 19 prints apparently not from any series, by Jacques Callot (1 complete series), Odoardo Fialetti, Herman Weyen, Balthasar Moncornet, Henri Bonnart, Carel Allard (3 complete series), P. Landry and others (see contents, below). Mottled sheepskin (ca. 1745?).
[Collection of 120 engravings by French, Dutch, Italian and German artists].Venice, Paris, [Amsterdam], etc., 1601-1725 (album ca. 1745?), with additions [1788] & [ca. 1790]. 8vo, 4to, etc. (19 x 13 cm). 120 engraved prints, namely 44 from 4 complete print series (1 with a title-print), 57 (including 3 title-prints) from 10 or 11 other series and 19 prints apparently not from any series, by Jacques Callot (1 complete series), Odoardo Fialetti, Herman Weyen, Balthasar Moncornet, Henri Bonnart, Carel Allard (3 complete series), P. Landry and others (see contents, below). Mottled sheepskin (ca. 1745?).
[CALLOT, Jacques, Carel ALLARD & others]. · 1745
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
95 ll.A remarkable collection of prints, many very rare, assembled by an unidentified collector ca. 1745 (with about 5 prints added later), with 120 prints by French, Italian, Dutch and German artists such as Odoardo Fialetti, Herman Weyen, Balthasar Moncornet, including 1 com...
[Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati].[Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649]. Folio. With 76 full-page engraved portraits mounted onto the leaves of an album, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2), and 2 unsigned, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
[Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati].[Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649]. Folio. With 76 full-page engraved portraits mounted onto the leaves of an album, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2), and 2 unsigned, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
[HULLE, Anselmus]. · 1648
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[76] ll.Second edition of a famous, albeit very rare suite of portraits in an early state, containing 76 beautifully engraved portraits of the ambassadors, legates and negotiators present at Münster to sign the famous Westphalian Peace Treaty in 1648.The commission to portray ...
[Alphabets of non-Latin scripts, including Hebrew, Samaritan and Syriac].Rome, Propaganda Fide, [ca. 1700/60?]. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). A complete set of 12 leaves published without a title page, printed on rectos only, each page with a frame of double rules and an additional single rule (built up from short rules) delineating a panel at the head that contains the title of the leaf, 10 of the 12 beginning “Alfabeto ...” and showing woodcut (3) or typographic (7) alphabets, the latter showing Hebrew (meruba & rabbinical), Samaritan (majuscule) and Syriac (estrangela & serto) types. The other 2 leaves show a woodcut illustration of an inscription in stone and an interpretation of it (including a smaller woodcut). Contemporary vellum, with the spine at the head of the leaves.
[Alphabets of non-Latin scripts, including Hebrew, Samaritan and Syriac].Rome, Propaganda Fide, [ca. 1700/60?]. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). A complete set of 12 leaves published without a title page, printed on rectos only, each page with a frame of double rules and an additional single rule (built up from short rules) delineating a panel at the head that contains the title of the leaf, 10 of the 12 beginning “Alfabeto ...” and showing woodcut (3) or typographic (7) alphabets, the latter showing Hebrew (meruba & rabbinical), Samaritan (majuscule) and Syriac (estrangela & serto) types. The other 2 leaves show a woodcut illustration of an inscription in stone and an interpretation of it (including a smaller woodcut). Contemporary vellum, with the spine at the head of the leaves.
[PROPAGANDA FIDE - ALPHABETA]. · 1592
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[12] ll.Rare publication of the Propaganda Fide in Rome, showing alphabets of non-Latin scripts, published without a title-page and printed on the rectos only, with 7 of the 12 leaves showing alphabets of the Propaganda Fide’s printing types for Hebrew (3 sizes of meruba (squa...
Huy! und Pfuy! der Welt. Huy, oder Anfrischung zu allen schönen Tugenden. Pfuy oder Abschreckung von allen schändlichen Lastern. Durch unterschiedliche sittliche Concept, Historien, und Fabeln vorgestellt. Worinnen der Poet, Prediger, und waserley Standes-Personen für ihren Kram etwas finden können.Nuremberg, Christoph Weigel; Würzburg, Martin Frantz Hertzen, 1707. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page printed in red and black, and 100 engraved emblems in the text (measuring 10.5 x 12 cm). Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine, and a paper shelfmark label at the foot.
Huy! und Pfuy! der Welt. Huy, oder Anfrischung zu allen schönen Tugenden. Pfuy oder Abschreckung von allen schändlichen Lastern. Durch unterschiedliche sittliche Concept, Historien, und Fabeln vorgestellt. Worinnen der Poet, Prediger, und waserley Standes-Personen für ihren Kram etwas finden können.Nuremberg, Christoph Weigel; Würzburg, Martin Frantz Hertzen, 1707. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page printed in red and black, and 100 engraved emblems in the text (measuring 10.5 x 12 cm). Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine, and a paper shelfmark label at the foot.
SANCTA CLARA, Abraham à. · 1644
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[10], 200, [4] pp. & 100 ll.First edition of a German emblem book addressing virtues and vices in 100 emblems, compiled by the German preacher Abraham à Sancta Clara (born Johan Ulrich Mergerle; 1644 - 1709). As the title states, the book's purpose is to refresh the reader’s v...
Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf.
Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf.
CROCUS, Cornelius. · 1530
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[40] ll.Second Strasburg edition of a popular "sacred comedy", or school play, written by one of the first and most important Neo-Latin poets and humanists of the Northern Netherlands. The work tells the story of Joseph in Egypt, and focuses in particular on Joseph's resistanc...
Capitayn van de bende.[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1645].With: (2) QUAST, Pieter Jansz. T is al verwart-gaeren.[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1652. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 19.5 cm). Ad 1 with a series of 24 numbered engraved plates by Claes Jansz. Visscher after Jacques Callot (some copied in mirror image), the first with the title on a banner carried by the beggar in plate 1. Ad 2 with 24 (of 26) numbered engraved plates, the first with the title at the foot. 18th-century paste paper (in red, yellow, green and violet) over boards, a manuscript title-label on the front, red sprinkled edges.
Capitayn van de bende.[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1645].With: (2) QUAST, Pieter Jansz. T is al verwart-gaeren.[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1652. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 19.5 cm). Ad 1 with a series of 24 numbered engraved plates by Claes Jansz. Visscher after Jacques Callot (some copied in mirror image), the first with the title on a banner carried by the beggar in plate 1. Ad 2 with 24 (of 26) numbered engraved plates, the first with the title at the foot. 18th-century paste paper (in red, yellow, green and violet) over boards, a manuscript title-label on the front, red sprinkled edges.
CALLOT, Jacques. · 1625
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
24; 1-2, 5-26 (of 26) engr. ll.Ad 1: Only copy located, with the plates in their first state, of a print series depicting beggars and tramps published by Claes Jansz. Visscher after the original ca. 1625 print series by Jacques Callot, Capitano de Baroni. Hollstein notes that ...
[Composite sea atlas containing 56 detailed charts including 3 manuscript charts].Amsterdam, [Johannes van Keulen and others, 1700-1753, engraved title page dated 1734]. Large folio (61.5 x40.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Aernout Nagtegael after Jan Luyken, and 56 detailed sea charts, the whole expertly coloured by a contemporary hand. The atlas includes 22 large folding charts, including 3 highly interesting manuscript charts, 27 double-page charts, 1 full-page chart, and 6 half-page charts, most of them with beautiful cartouches, depicting views, local people, and merchandise. The maps are engraved and originally edited by the most famous Dutch cartographers and map-publishers of the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with green cloth closing ties.
[Composite sea atlas containing 56 detailed charts including 3 manuscript charts].Amsterdam, [Johannes van Keulen and others, 1700-1753, engraved title page dated 1734]. Large folio (61.5 x40.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Aernout Nagtegael after Jan Luyken, and 56 detailed sea charts, the whole expertly coloured by a contemporary hand. The atlas includes 22 large folding charts, including 3 highly interesting manuscript charts, 27 double-page charts, 1 full-page chart, and 6 half-page charts, most of them with beautiful cartouches, depicting views, local people, and merchandise. The maps are engraved and originally edited by the most famous Dutch cartographers and map-publishers of the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with green cloth closing ties.
[KEULEN, Gerard and Johannes van, and others]. · 1734
€495,000.00 ($545,580.09 | £412,961.67 | ¥87,122,089)
Title page and 56 charts.Magnificent contemporary hand-coloured composite sea atlas containing 53 detailed printed charts and 3 remarkable, excellently produced manuscript charts. The printed charts were designed by the best chart-makers and originally published by the best Du...
Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. Large 4to (27 x 21.5 cm). With 6 engraved maps and charts (4 folding), and 14 plates (9 lithographed and 5 engraved); many figures and tables in the text (1 folding). Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf.With: (2) SABINE, Edward. The North georgia gazette and winter chronicle.London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. 4to. Later half calf. Untrimmed, leaving deckles intact.
Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. Large 4to (27 x 21.5 cm). With 6 engraved maps and charts (4 folding), and 14 plates (9 lithographed and 5 engraved); many figures and tables in the text (1 folding). Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf.With: (2) SABINE, Edward. The North georgia gazette and winter chronicle.London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. 4to. Later half calf. Untrimmed, leaving deckles intact.
PARRY, William Edward. · 1819
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[8], XXIX, 310, [2], CLXXIX pp.Second, corrected edition of Parry's account of his voyage in search of the Northwest Passage. Having sailed to the Arctic under John Ross, Parry believed that Lancaster Sound could provide the opening to the western sea. Equipped with two ships,...
Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea and the great Loo-Choo Island. With an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. And a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language.London, John Murray, 1818. Large 4to. Coloured plates of Sulpher Island, Korean Chief and his secretary, Napakiang, Loo Choo Chief and his two sons, Priest and Gentlemen of Loo Choo, the Prince of Loo Choo, scene after the Prince of Loo Choo's feast, Gentlemen of Loo Choo in his Cloak, some items of daily use for the inhabitants and the bridge at Napakiang. Later three quarter leather with spine raised in six compartents with gilt ornaments and two green leather title labels.
Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea and the great Loo-Choo Island. With an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. And a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language.London, John Murray, 1818. Large 4to. Coloured plates of Sulpher Island, Korean Chief and his secretary, Napakiang, Loo Choo Chief and his two sons, Priest and Gentlemen of Loo Choo, the Prince of Loo Choo, scene after the Prince of Loo Choo's feast, Gentlemen of Loo Choo in his Cloak, some items of daily use for the inhabitants and the bridge at Napakiang. Later three quarter leather with spine raised in six compartents with gilt ornaments and two green leather title labels.
HALL, Basil. · 1788
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
XV, 222; CXXX, 64 pp.Rare narrative of the voyage to the west coast of Korea made by Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844). This expedition took Lord Amherst's Embassy to China and explorled the barely known East China Sea and Yellow Sea. Not only Korea was visited but also the Ryuky...
[Fireworks erected in Siena on the occasion of festivities between the years 1729 and 1734, celebrating the creation of 3 cardinals, two of them born in Siena].[Siena, 1729-1734]. Folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). 3 ink wash and aquatints drawings on paper, each drawn on one side, showing the designs of the fireworks.
[Fireworks erected in Siena on the occasion of festivities between the years 1729 and 1734, celebrating the creation of 3 cardinals, two of them born in Siena].[Siena, 1729-1734]. Folio (ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm). 3 ink wash and aquatints drawings on paper, each drawn on one side, showing the designs of the fireworks.
[DRAWINGS - FIREWORKS]. · 1697
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
3 ll.Original designs for 3 sets fireworks, all erected on the world famous shell-shaped piazza in Siena. They were designed, erected and set off to celebrate the creation of the following cardinals: Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese (1697-1759), titular archbishop of Traianop...
De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidbron, en omleggende landsdouwen, in kunstprenten verbeeld.Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. 4to. With a title-vignette with the Iron man and the amphitheatre in Cleve, and 10 engraved plates (5 folding, 5 double-page plates) by Hendrikus Spilman after Jan de Beijer. Contemporary half calf.
De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidbron, en omleggende landsdouwen, in kunstprenten verbeeld.Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. 4to. With a title-vignette with the Iron man and the amphitheatre in Cleve, and 10 engraved plates (5 folding, 5 double-page plates) by Hendrikus Spilman after Jan de Beijer. Contemporary half calf.
LANGENDIJK, Pieter. · 1683
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
[1], [1 blank], 63, [2], [1 blank] pp.Fine edition of this extensive and lavishly illustrated description of the city of Cleves and its medicinal springs, with ten beautifully engraved plates. The text, which consists of a large poem, is written by Pieter Langendijk (1683-1756...
[Triumphal arches and catafalques (elaborate funeral biers) erected in the years 1715, 1721-1723 and 1737]. [Sienna, ca. 1728, with 1 addition ca. 1737]. Folio (ca. 29 x 21 cm). 8 original drawings in black ink with ink washes plus 1 additional line drawing of a catafalque added about a decade later. Never bound, but formerly sewn.
[Triumphal arches and catafalques (elaborate funeral biers) erected in the years 1715, 1721-1723 and 1737]. [Sienna, ca. 1728, with 1 addition ca. 1737]. Folio (ca. 29 x 21 cm). 8 original drawings in black ink with ink washes plus 1 additional line drawing of a catafalque added about a decade later. Never bound, but formerly sewn.
[SPLENDID CEREMONIES]. · 1670
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
ll. 28-31, 34-37.Original ink and ink-wash drawings of 5 triumphal arches and 3 catafalques (elaborate funeral biers), plus an additional line drawing of a 4th catafalque on the back of one leaf, all erected at various locations in the city of Siena in Tuscany: in the cathedra...
Decachordum Christianum Julio II. Pont. Max. dicatum. Controversia de excellentia instrumentorum Dominicae passionis, per eundem Dn. Marcum Vigerium discussa.[Hagenau, printed by Th. Anselm & Joh. Albertus for Joh. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1517]. Folio. With title in woodcut border by Urs Graf and 10 beautiful full-page woodcuts (ca. 13.9-14.4 x 9.7-10.2 cm) by the "Master I S with the shovel", a pupil of Hans Schäufelein. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled side, two brass clasps. Leaves from a 14th-century liturgical manuscript pasted on the inner sides of the boards. From the "Koberger Werkstatt".
Decachordum Christianum Julio II. Pont. Max. dicatum. Controversia de excellentia instrumentorum Dominicae passionis, per eundem Dn. Marcum Vigerium discussa.[Hagenau, printed by Th. Anselm & Joh. Albertus for Joh. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1517]. Folio. With title in woodcut border by Urs Graf and 10 beautiful full-page woodcuts (ca. 13.9-14.4 x 9.7-10.2 cm) by the "Master I S with the shovel", a pupil of Hans Schäufelein. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled side, two brass clasps. Leaves from a 14th-century liturgical manuscript pasted on the inner sides of the boards. From the "Koberger Werkstatt".
VIGERIUS, Marcus. · 1446
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[6], 204, [14] pp.The two major texts by Marcus Vigerius de Savona (or Emmanuele Vigerio; 1446-1516) in their second editions. The Decachordum Christianum was first published by Girolamo Soncino in Fano in 1507. It is a devotional work, dealing with the Holy Family and Christ'...