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[Autograph letter to Le Chevalier de Rossel, director of the Dépôt des Cartes of the Paris Académie des Sciences]. [Paris, 1818?]. 4to (23 x 18.5 cm) Letter in black ink on laid paper, in Humboldt's somewhat cramped but still legible hand. Formerly folded for posting, with the address written on the otherwise blank final page and with traces of a paper seal.
[Autograph letter to Le Chevalier de Rossel, director of the Dépôt des Cartes of the Paris Académie des Sciences]. [Paris, 1818?]. 4to (23 x 18.5 cm) Letter in black ink on laid paper, in Humboldt's somewhat cramped but still legible hand. Formerly folded for posting, with the address written on the otherwise blank final page and with traces of a paper seal.
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. · 1769
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[1], [3 blank] pp.An autograph letter, signed, from the great German naturalist and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) to Vice Admiral Elisabeth Paul Edouard Chevalier de Rossel (1765-1829), director of the Paris Académie des Science's Dépôt des Cartes and himself a...
Cartas que los Padres y Hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los Reynos de Iapon ...Alcalá [der Henares], Spain, Juan Iniguez de Lequerica, 1575. 4to in 8s. With woodcut of the Crucifixion on verso of the colophon (2R4v), woodcut Japanese characters in the text (I8v), and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary limp vellum, with ties.
Cartas que los Padres y Hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los Reynos de Iapon ...Alcalá [der Henares], Spain, Juan Iniguez de Lequerica, 1575. 4to in 8s. With woodcut of the Crucifixion on verso of the colophon (2R4v), woodcut Japanese characters in the text (I8v), and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary limp vellum, with ties.
[JESUITS - JAPAN]. · 1570
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[6 (of 8)], 315, [5] ll.First Spanish edition of 87 Portuguese letters by Jesuit missionaries in Japan, very valuable for the history of the Jesuits in Japan, India, and other parts of (Southeast) Asia. The work was first published in Portuguese, in Coimbra in 1570 and contain...
Naaukeurige beschryving der uitwendige godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt; in een historisch verhaal, met eenige naaukeurige verhandelingen ontvouwen, door verscheiden aanmerkingen opgeheldert en in kunstige tafereelen afgemaalt.The Hague, Rutgert Christoffel Alberts (vols. 1-3) and Isaac van der Kloot (vols. 3-4); Amsterdam, Hermannus Uytwerf; Rotterdam, Jan Daniel Beman, 1727-1738. 6 volumes (vols. 3, 4 & 6 in 2 parts each) bound as 7. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece, 8 title-pages (6 in red and black, each with one of 3 different engraved vignettes) plus 3 part-titles (with a woodcut decoration), 224 full-page engraved plates, including 1 folding and 38 double-page plates, an engraving on the dedication leaf in vol. 1 and a few engravings in the text. Further with several engraved headpieces, woodcut tailpieces and a few woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold tooled mottled calf, with red and black morocco title and volume labels, lettered in gold, each volume with a central lozenge-shaped ornament on both boards, surrounded by two decorative borders, gold tooled board edges, marbled edges.
Naaukeurige beschryving der uitwendige godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt; in een historisch verhaal, met eenige naaukeurige verhandelingen ontvouwen, door verscheiden aanmerkingen opgeheldert en in kunstige tafereelen afgemaalt.The Hague, Rutgert Christoffel Alberts (vols. 1-3) and Isaac van der Kloot (vols. 3-4); Amsterdam, Hermannus Uytwerf; Rotterdam, Jan Daniel Beman, 1727-1738. 6 volumes (vols. 3, 4 & 6 in 2 parts each) bound as 7. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece, 8 title-pages (6 in red and black, each with one of 3 different engraved vignettes) plus 3 part-titles (with a woodcut decoration), 224 full-page engraved plates, including 1 folding and 38 double-page plates, an engraving on the dedication leaf in vol. 1 and a few engravings in the text. Further with several engraved headpieces, woodcut tailpieces and a few woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold tooled mottled calf, with red and black morocco title and volume labels, lettered in gold, each volume with a central lozenge-shaped ornament on both boards, surrounded by two decorative borders, gold tooled board edges, marbled edges.
PICART, Bernard and Abraham MOUBACH (translator). · 1673
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
First Dutch edition of Picart's famous and richly illustrated work on religious customs, ceremonies and costumes from all over the world. With its six volumes, it is the most sumptuous publication ever on the religions of the world, richly and beautifully illustrated with larg...
Engelsmannen Joh. Hindric Cox Resa Genom Söderhafvet Till On Amsterdam, Marien-Oarna, O-Taheiti, Sandvichs-och Räf-Oarna, Tinian, Unalaska och Canton i China.Nyköping, Peter Winge, 1798. With: (2) RISBECK, Gaspard. Bref, Rörande Tyskland, Scrifne af en resande Fransos til sin broder i Paris. Ofwersättning. Andra Uplagan. Götheborg, Samuel Norberg, 1797-1798. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half calf.
Engelsmannen Joh. Hindric Cox Resa Genom Söderhafvet Till On Amsterdam, Marien-Oarna, O-Taheiti, Sandvichs-och Räf-Oarna, Tinian, Unalaska och Canton i China.Nyköping, Peter Winge, 1798. With: (2) RISBECK, Gaspard. Bref, Rörande Tyskland, Scrifne af en resande Fransos til sin broder i Paris. Ofwersättning. Andra Uplagan. Götheborg, Samuel Norberg, 1797-1798. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half calf.
MORTIMER, George. · 1779
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
77, [3 blank] pp.Rare first Swedish edition of George Mortimer's Observations and remarks. The present translation is slightly abridged and was probably made after Carl Fr. Landell's German version, which was augmented with a preface and some footnotes. Mortimer narrates the v...
Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808.London, for John Stockdale (back of title-page: Strahan and Preston), 1813. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 41 etched plates (12 sepia washed views, 1 uncoloured portrait, and 28 aquatint costume-plates) by J.C. Stadler after drawings by the author. Contemporary half cloth.
Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808.London, for John Stockdale (back of title-page: Strahan and Preston), 1813. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 41 etched plates (12 sepia washed views, 1 uncoloured portrait, and 28 aquatint costume-plates) by J.C. Stadler after drawings by the author. Contemporary half cloth.
PORTER, Robert Ker. · 1777
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
XII, 303, [1 blank]; VIII, 296 pp.Second edition of a richly illustrated account of Russia and Scandinavia at the beginning of the 19th century by Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842). Porter, a traveller, diplomat and painter, went to Russia in 1805, but had to leave in 1806 due...
Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. · 1752
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
XL, 294 pp.Original edition of an extensive manual on all aspects of ship building, with a focus on ships for the French navy. The section on masting begins with two chapters on different rigs, and includes a great deal of technical and practical information, including on sail...
Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch.Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. Contemporary half calf.
Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch.Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. Contemporary half calf.
STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. · 1750
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp.First Dutch edition of a literary, almost romantic travel book, for Italy much inspired by the classical authors. The author, Friedrich Leopold Graaf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750-1819), a German poet and diplomat, belonged to one of...
Den Danske Atlas, eller Konge-Riget Dannemark, med dets naturlige Egenskaber, Elementer, Indbyggere, Vaexter, Dyr og andre Affödninger, dets gamle Tildragelser og naervaerende Omstaendigheder i alle Provintzer, Staeder, Kirker, Slotte og Herre-Gaarde. Forestillet ved en udförlig Lands-Beskrivelse, ... Tomus I[-VII].Copenhagen, Andreas Hartvig Godiche, Royal University Printer (vols. I-V) and heirs (vols. VI-VII), 1763-1781. 7 volumes. 4to. With 296 mostly folding engraved maps, plans and views of Denmark and Danish cities, castles, houses and gardens, including engraved plates showing Danish antiquarian relics, plants, animals and costumes. Contemporary uniform calf, richly gold-tooled spines.
Den Danske Atlas, eller Konge-Riget Dannemark, med dets naturlige Egenskaber, Elementer, Indbyggere, Vaexter, Dyr og andre Affödninger, dets gamle Tildragelser og naervaerende Omstaendigheder i alle Provintzer, Staeder, Kirker, Slotte og Herre-Gaarde. Forestillet ved en udförlig Lands-Beskrivelse, ... Tomus I[-VII].Copenhagen, Andreas Hartvig Godiche, Royal University Printer (vols. I-V) and heirs (vols. VI-VII), 1763-1781. 7 volumes. 4to. With 296 mostly folding engraved maps, plans and views of Denmark and Danish cities, castles, houses and gardens, including engraved plates showing Danish antiquarian relics, plants, animals and costumes. Contemporary uniform calf, richly gold-tooled spines.
PONTOPPIDAN, Erik and Hand de HOFMAN. · 1698
€13,500.00 ($14,879.46 | £11,262.59 | ¥2,376,057)
723 to 1104 pp. per volume, giving more than 6000 pp. in total.Rare complete set of the first and only early edition of the monumental atlas of Denmark by Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan (1698-1764), continued after his death by Hans de Hofman, and richly illustrated with the lates...
Delle guerre di Flandra libri VI. ... Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini ...Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. With engraved architectural title-page and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. White sheepskin (ca. 1700 or possibly later).
Delle guerre di Flandra libri VI. ... Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini ...Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. With engraved architectural title-page and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. White sheepskin (ca. 1700 or possibly later).
GIUSTINIANO, Pompeo. · 1569
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[4], 329, [1 blank], [15], [3 blank] pp.First edition, in the original Italian, of the only historical work by the army general Pompeo Giustiniano (1569-1616). Giustiniano learned the art of warfare in the Netherlands under Farnese and Spinola. His work on the war in Flanders ...
La Hollande à vol d'oiseau.Paris, G. Decaux, A. Quantin, 1881. 4to. With a full-page lithographed map of the Netherlands, printed in black and blue, a double suite of 24 full-page heliogravures (one suite in proof-state, the other with the printed text), showing views of the main Dutch cities, and numerous wood-engraved views and illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco.
La Hollande à vol d'oiseau.Paris, G. Decaux, A. Quantin, 1881. 4to. With a full-page lithographed map of the Netherlands, printed in black and blue, a double suite of 24 full-page heliogravures (one suite in proof-state, the other with the printed text), showing views of the main Dutch cities, and numerous wood-engraved views and illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco.
HAVARD, Henry. · 1838
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[6], II, "400" [= 398] pp.First edition of a beautiful work on the Netherlands, showing cities such as Amsterdam, Delft, Rotterdam, Groningen, Kampen and others in bird's-eye view. After his successful series La Hollande pittoresque, Henry Havard (1838-1921) wanted to produce ...
Der Griecken opganck ende onderganck.Dordrecht, Isaac Jansz. Canin, 1599. 4to. With the opening words of the title printed from a woodblock, a fine engraved biblical scene with a Latin motto apparently intended as Ecclesiastes 10:8 (a warning of the consequences of injustice) on title-page, and a folding engraved map of Ancient Greece by Joannes van Doetecum (not included in all copies). Contemporary gold-tooled calf.
Der Griecken opganck ende onderganck.Dordrecht, Isaac Jansz. Canin, 1599. 4to. With the opening words of the title printed from a woodblock, a fine engraved biblical scene with a Latin motto apparently intended as Ecclesiastes 10:8 (a warning of the consequences of injustice) on title-page, and a folding engraved map of Ancient Greece by Joannes van Doetecum (not included in all copies). Contemporary gold-tooled calf.
MEESTER, Andries de (Andreas DEMETRIUS). · 1611
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[10], 288, [19] ll.First edition of the history of Ancient Greece by Andries de Meester (d. 1611). An Antwerp minister of the Protestant church from about 1568, who fled to Frankfurt, Germany when Antwerp fell to Spain in 1585, and remained there until he was called as ministe...
[18th-century extract from the register of baptisms of the Dutch Reformed Church at Batavia].Batavia, 18 October 1746. 1 leaf (32.5 x 20.5 cm). In Dutch.
[18th-century extract from the register of baptisms of the Dutch Reformed Church at Batavia].Batavia, 18 October 1746. 1 leaf (32.5 x 20.5 cm). In Dutch.
[MANUSCRIPT - DOCUMENT - BATAVIA]. MAUREGNAULT, Bernard Jacob. · 1734
€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)
Extract from the register of baptisms of the Dutch Reformed Church at Batavia, recording the baptism of Bernard Jacob de Mauregnault, son of Joan de Mauregnault and Maria Agatha De Leeuw, on 28 December 1734. Witnesses were Mr Bernard Jacob De la Faille and Miss Catharina Cast...
Vies des plus célebres marins. Paris, Berlin, 1789. 13 parts in 11 volumes. 18mo in 6's. With 10 engraved frontispiece portraits. Original blue boards.
Vies des plus célebres marins. Paris, Berlin, 1789. 13 parts in 11 volumes. 18mo in 6's. With 10 engraved frontispiece portraits. Original blue boards.
[RICHER, Adrien]. · 1720
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
Ca. 250 pp. each vol.First edition of the complete series of the still valuable biographies of the most famous sea-captains in history, by Adrien Richer (1720-1798). It was originally published in parts from 1780 to 1786, and is here for the first time published together as a ...
Voyage autour du monde, sur le vaisseau de sa majesté Britannique l'Endeavour, … précédé d'un discours en forme d'introduction sur les principaux navigateurs anglais et français qui ont précédé l'Endeavour: suivi d'un abrégé des deux derniers voyages du capitaine Cook, … Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais. Par le C. Henri.Paris, Guillaume, 1797. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
Voyage autour du monde, sur le vaisseau de sa majesté Britannique l'Endeavour, … précédé d'un discours en forme d'introduction sur les principaux navigateurs anglais et français qui ont précédé l'Endeavour: suivi d'un abrégé des deux derniers voyages du capitaine Cook, … Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais. Par le C. Henri.Paris, Guillaume, 1797. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
PARKINSON, Sydney. · 1745
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
12, LVI, 344; [4], 309, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the French translation of the best of the unofficial accounts of Cook's first voyage, followed by an extensive summary of Cook's second and third voyages which takes up most of the second volume. Sydney Parkinson (1745?-177...
Voyage a Surinam. Description des possessions néerlandaises dans la Guyane.Brussels, De Wasme & Laurent (back of half-title: Imprimerie de Societé des Beaux-Arts), 1839. Folio (47.5 x 31 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece, a small wood-engraved illustration on the title-page, and 99 tinted lithographed illustrations on 49 plates. Contemporary half black morocco, black cloth sides, gold-tooled spine.
Voyage a Surinam. Description des possessions néerlandaises dans la Guyane.Brussels, De Wasme & Laurent (back of half-title: Imprimerie de Societé des Beaux-Arts), 1839. Folio (47.5 x 31 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece, a small wood-engraved illustration on the title-page, and 99 tinted lithographed illustrations on 49 plates. Contemporary half black morocco, black cloth sides, gold-tooled spine.
BENOIT, Pierre Jacques. · 1782
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[4], 1-69, [3], 75-76, [2] pp.First edition of a richly illustrated work on Surinam by the Belgian artist Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782-1854), who travelled to Surinam in 1830. The lively plates include topographic views, botanical, ethnographic and zoological subjects, and scen...
La description de XVII. Provinces, avec les Terres Circonvoicins, a Scavoir Champagnie, Picardie, Liege, Retelle, &c.Antwerp, Jan Huyssens, 1652. 4to (18 x 14.5 cm). With a double-page letterpress title-page, with a frame built up from typographic ornaments, and 39 unnumbered double-page engraved maps of the northern and southern Low Countries by Jacob Aertsz. Colom, each map coloured in outline. Interleaved with 38 blank leaves and with a manuscript table of contents ([3], [3 blank] pp.) at the end. Later 17th-century mottled calf.
La description de XVII. Provinces, avec les Terres Circonvoicins, a Scavoir Champagnie, Picardie, Liege, Retelle, &c.Antwerp, Jan Huyssens, 1652. 4to (18 x 14.5 cm). With a double-page letterpress title-page, with a frame built up from typographic ornaments, and 39 unnumbered double-page engraved maps of the northern and southern Low Countries by Jacob Aertsz. Colom, each map coloured in outline. Interleaved with 38 blank leaves and with a manuscript table of contents ([3], [3 blank] pp.) at the end. Later 17th-century mottled calf.
[ATLAS - LOW COUNTRIES]. [COLOM, Jacob Aertsz.]. · 1635
€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)
Double-page title-page and 39 double-page maps.Second known copy of a pocket-atlas, published at Antwerp but containing a selection of the maps of the Low Countries originally published by Jacob Aertsz. Colom at Amsterdam in 1635 with the title De Vyerighe Colom, the title Col...
Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta. [Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598]. Folio. With letterpress title-page in engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), additional engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank back of title-page, by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, by Frans Hogenberg and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. Contemporary vellum.
Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta. [Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598]. Folio. With letterpress title-page in engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), additional engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank back of title-page, by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, by Frans Hogenberg and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. Contemporary vellum.
METEREN, Emanuel van. · 1599
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
[8], "623" [= 643], [1] pp.First Latin edition, with Frans Hogenberg's original early map of the Low Countries and a very rare additional portrait of Van Meteren by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, dated 1599. Van Meteren's History first appeared in a 1593 German translation by the ...
Institutiones astronomicae ternis libris contentae. Quorum primus sphaerae ac mundi naturam declarat: secundus orbium: tertius circulorum.Cologne, Petrus Quentell, 1528. Small 8vo. With a richly decorated architectural woodcut border on the title page, a large woodcut printer's device on the final leaf, four decorated woodcut initials, and four woodcut headpieces. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards.
Institutiones astronomicae ternis libris contentae. Quorum primus sphaerae ac mundi naturam declarat: secundus orbium: tertius circulorum.Cologne, Petrus Quentell, 1528. Small 8vo. With a richly decorated architectural woodcut border on the title page, a large woodcut printer's device on the final leaf, four decorated woodcut initials, and four woodcut headpieces. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards.
RINGELBERG, Joachim Sterck van. · 1499
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
[7], "92" [=94], [3] pp.Rarest edition of an extremely rare treatise on astronomy by the Flemish humanist Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg (ca. 1499-1536), to whom the first use of the term Cyclopeadia (for encyclopeadia) is attributed. He studied at Louvain, followed by a studen...
L'art universel des fortifications, Francoises, Holandoises, Espagnoles, Italiennes, et composées. Avec l'art d'attaquer les places fortifiées par les surprises & par la force, & aussi de défendre les places fortifiées contre les surprises & contre la force, par le Sieur de Bitainvieu.Paris, Jacques Dubrueil, 1674 [=1667]. 6 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved general frontispiece by Jean Le Pautre (1618-1682), 6 engraved frontispieces for the 6 parts, the first 4 by Jean Le Paultre and the last 2 by Noel Cochin (1622-1695) after Ferrand, and many illustrations of military perspective, plans of fortifications, instruments of attack and defence of fortifications, etc. on 125 full-page engraved plates in the text, several plates in part V signed by R. Coquin. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, with title in gold in second compartment, marbled edges.
L'art universel des fortifications, Francoises, Holandoises, Espagnoles, Italiennes, et composées. Avec l'art d'attaquer les places fortifiées par les surprises & par la force, & aussi de défendre les places fortifiées contre les surprises & contre la force, par le Sieur de Bitainvieu.Paris, Jacques Dubrueil, 1674 [=1667]. 6 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved general frontispiece by Jean Le Pautre (1618-1682), 6 engraved frontispieces for the 6 parts, the first 4 by Jean Le Paultre and the last 2 by Noel Cochin (1622-1695) after Ferrand, and many illustrations of military perspective, plans of fortifications, instruments of attack and defence of fortifications, etc. on 125 full-page engraved plates in the text, several plates in part V signed by R. Coquin. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, with title in gold in second compartment, marbled edges.
[DUBREUIL, Jean], Sieur de Bitainvieu. · 1674
€3,800.00 ($4,188.29 | £3,170.21 | ¥668,816)
[36], 2; 133 (with the text and the corresponding plate numbered the same); 117, [3] pp.Rare complete pictorial course on military architecture, perspective drawing, fortifications and siege warfare in two main parts, the first with four and the second with two separate “treat...
In Hippocratis librum de veteri medicina.Rome, Angelo Bernabò, 1681. 12mo. With 4 illustrations on an engraved folding plate. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
In Hippocratis librum de veteri medicina.Rome, Angelo Bernabò, 1681. 12mo. With 4 illustrations on an engraved folding plate. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
PORZIO, Luca Antonio.
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[1], [1 blank], [4], 205, [1 blank], [16] pp.First edition of Porzio’s paraphrases of De veteri medicina of Hippocrates, including some commentary and occasionally also referring to Galen. Hippocrates in the Islamic tradition known as Boqrat, where he is often referred to as “...