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Libri ... de fide et legibus.[Augsburg, Günther Zainer, ca. 1475/1476]. Small folio. Set in a hybrid roman type with gothic elements (a single column of 43 lines per page plus running heads), with the first 3 lines, including the title, in a slightly larger rotunda gothic. With all initials supplied in manuscript in red, rubricated throughout. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, two brass clasps, blue edges, "Nr. 56" in red ink written at the foot of the spine.
Libri ... de fide et legibus.[Augsburg, Günther Zainer, ca. 1475/1476]. Small folio. Set in a hybrid roman type with gothic elements (a single column of 43 lines per page plus running heads), with the first 3 lines, including the title, in a slightly larger rotunda gothic. With all initials supplied in manuscript in red, rubricated throughout. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, two brass clasps, blue edges, "Nr. 56" in red ink written at the foot of the spine.
ALVERNUS, Guillelmus (William of AUVERGNE). · 1496
€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)
[139] ll.Incunable first edition of De fide et legibus (On faith and laws), one of the most important works of William of Auvergne (post 1180 - 1249) and the first of his works to be printed. It forms one of seven parts of his principal monumental work Magisterium divinale (Th...
[Extensive overview of the architectural and ornamental work]. Paris, François Jollain, Pierre Mariette, Jean Le Blond, Nicolas Langlois, 1651-1670. 41 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 40 engraved print-series nearly all by Jean Le Pautre. Further with 1 duplicate series and 6 individual plates not in these series. With a total of 253 full-page engraved plates: 33 complete series of 6 plates, 1 complete series of 12 plates, and 6 incomplete series (lacking 10 of 42 plates) plus an incomplete duplicate of one of the complete series (5 of 6 plates), and the 6 individual plates. About half the series cut down and mounted on blank leaves or on the back of engraved leaves. 18th-century mottled calf.
[Extensive overview of the architectural and ornamental work]. Paris, François Jollain, Pierre Mariette, Jean Le Blond, Nicolas Langlois, 1651-1670. 41 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 40 engraved print-series nearly all by Jean Le Pautre. Further with 1 duplicate series and 6 individual plates not in these series. With a total of 253 full-page engraved plates: 33 complete series of 6 plates, 1 complete series of 12 plates, and 6 incomplete series (lacking 10 of 42 plates) plus an incomplete duplicate of one of the complete series (5 of 6 plates), and the 6 individual plates. About half the series cut down and mounted on blank leaves or on the back of engraved leaves. 18th-century mottled calf.
LE PAUTRE (POUTRE), Jean. · 1618
€22,500.00 ($24,799.10 | £18,770.98 | ¥3,960,095)
[248] engr. ll.Remarkable collection of 40 print series of ornamental architectural designs nearly all by the most important and imaginative ornament engraver of the 17th century, the famous French architectural designer Jean le Pautre (1618-1682). It includes designs for alta...
Ternarius Bezoarticorum ou trois souverains medicaments Bezoardiques, contre tous venins et empoisonnements tant externes que internes: corruption de sang, & autres humeurs.Leiden, Govert Basson, 1616. 4to. With engraved allegorical title-page in architectural setting with Andromachus and King Mithridates flanking the title. Modern vellum.
Ternarius Bezoarticorum ou trois souverains medicaments Bezoardiques, contre tous venins et empoisonnements tant externes que internes: corruption de sang, & autres humeurs.Leiden, Govert Basson, 1616. 4to. With engraved allegorical title-page in architectural setting with Andromachus and King Mithridates flanking the title. Modern vellum.
SALA, Angelo. · 1576
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[28], 91, [1] pp.Second(?) edition of a rare treatise on the use of bezoar stones (hardened accumulations of matter - often partly hair -¬ taken from the gut of a goat or other animal) as a universal antidote to poisons, by Angelo Sala (1576-1637), an Italian chemist and Parac...
La perspective curieuse, divisée en quatre livres. Avec l'optique et la catoptrique du R.P. Mersenne, mise in lumiere après la mort de l'autheur. Oeuvre tres-utile aux peintres, architectes, sculpteurs, graveurs, & à tous autres qui se meslent du dessein.Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651-1652. With engraved allegorical title-page by Daret, full-page engraved portrait of Niceron by Michel Lasne, several woodcut diagrams in text and, bound at the end of the book, 49 full-page plates and 1 double-page engraved plate with numerous illustrations of drawing in perspective, in optical illusions and in trompe l'oeil.With: (2) MERSENNE, Marin. L' optique et la catoptrique.Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651. With numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in the text. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, gilt double fillet borders on both sides and on the spine.
La perspective curieuse, divisée en quatre livres. Avec l'optique et la catoptrique du R.P. Mersenne, mise in lumiere après la mort de l'autheur. Oeuvre tres-utile aux peintres, architectes, sculpteurs, graveurs, & à tous autres qui se meslent du dessein.Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651-1652. With engraved allegorical title-page by Daret, full-page engraved portrait of Niceron by Michel Lasne, several woodcut diagrams in text and, bound at the end of the book, 49 full-page plates and 1 double-page engraved plate with numerous illustrations of drawing in perspective, in optical illusions and in trompe l'oeil.With: (2) MERSENNE, Marin. L' optique et la catoptrique.Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651. With numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in the text. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, gilt double fillet borders on both sides and on the spine.
NICERON, Jean François. · 1613
€11,500.00 ($12,675.09 | £9,594.06 | ¥2,024,049)
[16], 191, [1]; [12], 134 pp.Richly illustrated manual on perspective in which for the first time the secrets of anamorphosis and trompe l'oeil are fully revealed by Jean François Niceron (1613-1646), Minim friar, professor in mathematics, and specialist in geometrical optics....
Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis & de terroribus mortis cum eterne beatitudis gloria.Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, 1502. 4to. With a woodcut illustration (9.5 x 8.5 cm) on title-page with the symbols of the four Evangelists.19th-century blind-tooled calf, title in gold on spine, preserving some contemporary endpapers but also with later ones.
Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis & de terroribus mortis cum eterne beatitudis gloria.Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, 1502. 4to. With a woodcut illustration (9.5 x 8.5 cm) on title-page with the symbols of the four Evangelists.19th-century blind-tooled calf, title in gold on spine, preserving some contemporary endpapers but also with later ones.
[MODERN DEVOTION]. [VLIEDERHOVEN, Gerardus de]. · 1598
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[47], [1 blank] ll.Rare Deventer post-incunable of a devotional book on the four extremes (“quattor novissima”): death, the last judgement, hell and heaven. This work is ascribed to Gerardus de Vliederhoven , who wrote the Latin work De Vier Utersten (‘The four extremes’) at t...
Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583.Arnhem, Ian Iansz., 1626. 4to. With engraved title-page and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and K. van Sichem. Contempory vellum.
Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583.Arnhem, Ian Iansz., 1626. 4to. With engraved title-page and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and K. van Sichem. Contempory vellum.
REYD, Everhard van. · 1611
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[16], 734, [14] pp.Extensive historical treatise on the first years of the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Low Countries by Everhart van Reyd, with beautifully engraved portraits of important historical figures like Philip II, king of Spain, Ferdinand Alvarez, duke of ...
Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards.
Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards.
ARATOR. · 1502
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
(48) ll.Antwerp edition of Arator's Acts of the Apostles in Latin verses. The Italian poet Arator (490-c. 560), subdeacon in Rome, composed these verses in 544 and presented them to Pope Vigile. They were published by Aldus at Venice in 1502, and later in the Bibliothèque des ...
Plans et journaux des sieges de la derniere guerre de Flandres.Strasbourg and the Hague, Pierre Gosse junior, 1750. 4to. With 25 folding engraved maps with some hand-coloured details, and several, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum.
Plans et journaux des sieges de la derniere guerre de Flandres.Strasbourg and the Hague, Pierre Gosse junior, 1750. 4to. With 25 folding engraved maps with some hand-coloured details, and several, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum.
[FUNCK, Jakob and Marc Guérard D'ILLENS]. · 1740
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[8], 113, [1 blank] pp.First edition, Gosse issue (one of two simultaneously published issues), of a richly illustrated account of sieges of Flemish towns during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). The two authors, Jakob Funck and Marc Guérard D'Illens, both captai...
Ihan Teiko.Edo (Tokyo), 1805. 2 volumes: 3 parts in 1 text volume and 1 atlas volume. Text volume (8vo), atlas volume (large 8vo, 30 x 21 cm). With numerous anatomical illustrations on 16 engraved plates, mounted on thick paper, by the Japanese artist Aodo Denzen. Both volumes in contemporary Japanese book-bindings; rice-paper (text) and boards (atlas).
Ihan Teiko.Edo (Tokyo), 1805. 2 volumes: 3 parts in 1 text volume and 1 atlas volume. Text volume (8vo), atlas volume (large 8vo, 30 x 21 cm). With numerous anatomical illustrations on 16 engraved plates, mounted on thick paper, by the Japanese artist Aodo Denzen. Both volumes in contemporary Japanese book-bindings; rice-paper (text) and boards (atlas).
UDAGAWA, Genshin. · 1769
€11,500.00 ($12,675.09 | £9,594.06 | ¥2,024,049)
[90]; [16] ll.Extremely rare original edition of a highly influential Japanese medical text book, the Ihan Teiko (General outline of medical precepts). The work contains the 3 parts summary of the Ensei Ihan (Medical precepts of the West), compiled by the celebrated Japanese p...
Nouveaux contes de fées."Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf.
Nouveaux contes de fées."Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf.
[SENETERRE, Henri-Charles de]. · 1744
€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)
XVI, 79, [1 blank] pp.Charming collection of six fairy tales, each one illustrated by an elegant engraving in the style of Cochin. The little book is dedicated to Madame la Marquise de L***, and in the dedication the anonymous author prepares his reader for the happy and dream...
Tafereel, of beschryving van den prachtigen tempel der zang-godinnen, vertoond in LX. heerlyke kunststukken. Behelzende alle de voornaemste geschiedenissen van de fabel-oudheid. Waerby gevoegd zyn de volkoome verklaeringen der fabelen, en de grondslagen, die ze in de historien hebben.Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, 1733. Large folio. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette on the title page, the title printed in red and black, a large armorial head-piece for the dedication, and 60 full-page engraved plates by Bernard Picart. Contemporary gold-tooled calf by the Three Acorn Bindery, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, both boards are richly gold-tooled in a panel design with a central ornament, mottled and sprinkled panels of varying density, separated by vegetal borders. Further with gold-tooled board edges and blue mottled page edges.
Tafereel, of beschryving van den prachtigen tempel der zang-godinnen, vertoond in LX. heerlyke kunststukken. Behelzende alle de voornaemste geschiedenissen van de fabel-oudheid. Waerby gevoegd zyn de volkoome verklaeringen der fabelen, en de grondslagen, die ze in de historien hebben.Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, 1733. Large folio. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette on the title page, the title printed in red and black, a large armorial head-piece for the dedication, and 60 full-page engraved plates by Bernard Picart. Contemporary gold-tooled calf by the Three Acorn Bindery, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, both boards are richly gold-tooled in a panel design with a central ornament, mottled and sprinkled panels of varying density, separated by vegetal borders. Further with gold-tooled board edges and blue mottled page edges.
[LA BARRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS, Antoine de]. · 1756
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[6], XXVIII, 158, [4] pp.Large-paper copy of the first Dutch edition of a beautifully illustrated explanation of the classical fables, sumptuously bound by the Three Acorn Bindery in Amsterdam (fl. ca. 1756-1780/1806). Each chapter is dedicated to a single fable. It contains a...
Cent fables en Latin et en François, choisies des anciens auteurs, mises en vers Latins ..., et traduites par Mr. Perrault, ... London, C. Marsh & T. Payne, H. Slater, S. Baker, F. Noble, W. Bathoe, J. Palairet, 1744. 4to. With richly designed, engraved frontispiece, and 99 (of 100) fine engraved illustrations to the fables on integral leaves. Early 19th-century half calf, for the Signet Library in Edinburgh, each board with the gold-tooled British Royal arms.
Cent fables en Latin et en François, choisies des anciens auteurs, mises en vers Latins ..., et traduites par Mr. Perrault, ... London, C. Marsh & T. Payne, H. Slater, S. Baker, F. Noble, W. Bathoe, J. Palairet, 1744. 4to. With richly designed, engraved frontispiece, and 99 (of 100) fine engraved illustrations to the fables on integral leaves. Early 19th-century half calf, for the Signet Library in Edinburgh, each board with the gold-tooled British Royal arms.
FAERNO, Gabriello. · 1744
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[1], [1 blank], II, [1], [1 blank], [18], 238, [2], 45, [1 blank] pp.The 1744 issue of Du Bosc's important and luxurious 1743 edition of one hundred fables by Gabriello Faerno (1511-1561) in the original Latin verse (based mostly on Aesop, in part via Phaedrus) with parallel v...
Fables. Esope - La Fontaine.Lyon, Impr. Fonville-Brunet et Bonnaviat, (1848-1855). 4 vols. Large 8vo. With 4 nicely illustrated lithographed titles by Genod, 20 wood-engraved half-titles, lithographed portrait of the author, numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text, and 152 full-page lithographed, wood-engraved and etched plates, illustrating the fables, by A. Chaine, Fonville, Bonirote, C. Farine, Louis Guy, Regnier, R. Laurasse, M. d'Auvigny, A. Thieriat, Pinet, etc. Contemporary half brown morocco, spines ribbed and gilt, red mottled edges.
Fables. Esope - La Fontaine.Lyon, Impr. Fonville-Brunet et Bonnaviat, (1848-1855). 4 vols. Large 8vo. With 4 nicely illustrated lithographed titles by Genod, 20 wood-engraved half-titles, lithographed portrait of the author, numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text, and 152 full-page lithographed, wood-engraved and etched plates, illustrating the fables, by A. Chaine, Fonville, Bonirote, C. Farine, Louis Guy, Regnier, R. Laurasse, M. d'Auvigny, A. Thieriat, Pinet, etc. Contemporary half brown morocco, spines ribbed and gilt, red mottled edges.
ROUSSET, A. · 1798
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
288; 288; 288; 288, XXI, (3 blank) pp.First and only edition of an extremely rare collection of fables, published at Lyon and beautifully illustrated by contemporary Lyon artists. Alexis Rousset, born in 1798 at Oulins, Rhône, had settled at Lyon where he worked as a secretary...
Vita di Esopo Frigio ... Alquale di nuovo sono aggiunti le favole del medesimo Esopo, con molte altre d'alcuni elevati ingegni, ascendentia all somma di 400.Trevigi, Girolamo Righettini, 1643. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 137 small woodcuts in text illustrating the fables, including some repeats. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
Vita di Esopo Frigio ... Alquale di nuovo sono aggiunti le favole del medesimo Esopo, con molte altre d'alcuni elevati ingegni, ascendentia all somma di 400.Trevigi, Girolamo Righettini, 1643. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 137 small woodcuts in text illustrating the fables, including some repeats. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
AESOP. (Giulio LANDI, translator). · 1498
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
413, [19], [5 blank] pp.Rare edition of the Italian translation by the philosopher Giulio Landi (1498-1579) of Aesop's fables and the Life of Aesop, including no less than 400 animal fables, some collected from other sources. The fables are illustrated with numerous small anon...
Fables nouvelles, dédiées au Roy. Avec un discours sur la fable. Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719. 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by N. Tardieu after Charles Coypel, engraved vignette on title-page by C. Simeneau after N. Vleughels and 100 engraved illustrations to the fables by and after Claude Gillot, Charles Antoine Coypel, Jean Ranc, Bernard Picart, Jean Baptiste Massé, etc. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
Fables nouvelles, dédiées au Roy. Avec un discours sur la fable. Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719. 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by N. Tardieu after Charles Coypel, engraved vignette on title-page by C. Simeneau after N. Vleughels and 100 engraved illustrations to the fables by and after Claude Gillot, Charles Antoine Coypel, Jean Ranc, Bernard Picart, Jean Baptiste Massé, etc. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
LA MOTTE, Antoine Houdar de. · 1672
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XLII, [4], 358, [2] pp.First edition of a famous French fable book, beautifully illustrated by the most famous artists of the day. The book contains 100 fables by Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672-1731), modelled after the fables by Jean de La Fontaine, the most important Frenc...
Fables heroïques, renfermant les plus saines maximes de la politique et de la morale. Avec des discours historiques. ... A l'usage du Prince des Asturies.Amsterdam & Berlin, Jean Neaulme, 1754. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 2 engraved frontispieces, an engraved 1720 portrait of the Prince of Asturias by Bernard Picart after a painting by (Louis) René Vialy, and 60 finely engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
Fables heroïques, renfermant les plus saines maximes de la politique et de la morale. Avec des discours historiques. ... A l'usage du Prince des Asturies.Amsterdam & Berlin, Jean Neaulme, 1754. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 2 engraved frontispieces, an engraved 1720 portrait of the Prince of Asturias by Bernard Picart after a painting by (Louis) René Vialy, and 60 finely engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
AUDIN, Gabriel. (Antoine Augustin BRUZEN de LA MARTINIERE, ed. · 1648
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[18], 232; [12], 228 pp.Rare (first and only?) Amsterdam edition in the original French, of 60 moral and political fables, intended for the education of young princes. They were written by Gabriel Audin, Prior of Termes or Thermes (in the French Basque, near Andorra) and publi...
Fables.London, printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727 (volume 1); printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738 (volume 2). 2 volumes. 4to. Volume 1 with an engraved illustration on the title page, and 51 engraved illustrations (1 for each fable) engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, Paul Fourdrinier, Bernard Baron and Andrew Motte. Volume 2 with an engraved frontispiece, showing Gay's memorial monument, a small engraved author's portrait on title page, and 16 engraved plates (one for each fable), engraved by Gérard Scotin after drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot. Green morocco (ca. 1900), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gold fillets on boards and board-edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Riviere & son).
Fables.London, printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727 (volume 1); printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738 (volume 2). 2 volumes. 4to. Volume 1 with an engraved illustration on the title page, and 51 engraved illustrations (1 for each fable) engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, Paul Fourdrinier, Bernard Baron and Andrew Motte. Volume 2 with an engraved frontispiece, showing Gay's memorial monument, a small engraved author's portrait on title page, and 16 engraved plates (one for each fable), engraved by Gérard Scotin after drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot. Green morocco (ca. 1900), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gold fillets on boards and board-edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Riviere & son).
GAY, John. · 1685
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[14], 173, [1 blank]; [12], 155, [1 blank] pp.Attractively bound first editions of the two series of fables written by the celebrated English poet and dramatist John Gay (1685-1732). Gay became famous with the present publication of Fables and the opera The beggar's opera, fir...
Fabularum Aesopiarum, libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi Principis Nassauii, David Hoogstratanus. Accedunt ejusdem opera duo indices, quorum prior est omnium verborum, multo quam antehac locupletior, posterior eorum, quae observatu digna in notis occurrunt.Amsterdam, Fr. Halma, 1701. 4to. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with medallion portrait of the Prince of Nassau at the top, by P. Bouttats after J. Goeree, engraved allegorical vignette on title, title printed in red and black, large folding double-page engraved portrait of the young Prince Jan Willem Friso of Nassau by P. Gunst after B. Vaillant, 5 engraved head-pieces, 8 large engraved initials, 30 richly engraved tail-pieces, and 108 medallion illustrations to the fables on 18 full-page engraved plates by J. van Vianen. Contemporary full-grained red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, and gilt edges.
Fabularum Aesopiarum, libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi Principis Nassauii, David Hoogstratanus. Accedunt ejusdem opera duo indices, quorum prior est omnium verborum, multo quam antehac locupletior, posterior eorum, quae observatu digna in notis occurrunt.Amsterdam, Fr. Halma, 1701. 4to. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with medallion portrait of the Prince of Nassau at the top, by P. Bouttats after J. Goeree, engraved allegorical vignette on title, title printed in red and black, large folding double-page engraved portrait of the young Prince Jan Willem Friso of Nassau by P. Gunst after B. Vaillant, 5 engraved head-pieces, 8 large engraved initials, 30 richly engraved tail-pieces, and 108 medallion illustrations to the fables on 18 full-page engraved plates by J. van Vianen. Contemporary full-grained red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, and gilt edges.
PHAEDRUS. · 1658
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[32], 160, [84] pp.Splendid edition of Phaedrus's fables, prepared by David van Hoogstraten (1658-1724) especially for the education of the young Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Nassau (1687-1711). Van Hoogstraten had first published his edition in 1699 as a small octavo school ...
Le garde d'honneur, ou episode du règne de Napoléon Buonaparte.Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1822. 8vo. With 2 large folding maps after designs by G.F. Baron de Derfelden de Hinderstein, partly coloured by hand, a white on black phantasmagoric folding lithographed plate, and 4 folding lithographed views by Kierdorff after E. van Boeckhoven. Later gold-and blind tooled half green calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, green decorative paper sides, green decorative paper end papers.
Le garde d'honneur, ou episode du règne de Napoléon Buonaparte.Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1822. 8vo. With 2 large folding maps after designs by G.F. Baron de Derfelden de Hinderstein, partly coloured by hand, a white on black phantasmagoric folding lithographed plate, and 4 folding lithographed views by Kierdorff after E. van Boeckhoven. Later gold-and blind tooled half green calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, green decorative paper sides, green decorative paper end papers.
BOYMANS, Johannes Andreas. · 1813
€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)
XXXIV, 69, XLI, XVIII, [2], [1 blank] pp.Dedication copy of the first edition of an account of Napoleon's "Garde d'honneur", partly based on the Dutch author's personal experience, as he was one of the young noblemen who were enlisted in 1813 to join Napoleon's Russian army. T...
Notice de mes souvenirs d'un voyage à Paris, écrite pour mes chers enfans.Amsterdam, 1838. Small 8vo. Manuscript in French, written in ink in a regular and readable hand on 7 quires of writing-paper, some with a slight green cast.With: ALBERDINGK THIJM, Josephus Albertus. Decemberliedtjen op tantes feest, in 1878. Manuscript poem, signed J.A.Th. 4to. Folded.Loose quires in a contemporary red morocco portfolio with gold-tooled title and ornamental frames on covers, richly gold-tooled turn-ins and silk paste-downs. With 3 pairs of green silk ties.
Notice de mes souvenirs d'un voyage à Paris, écrite pour mes chers enfans.Amsterdam, 1838. Small 8vo. Manuscript in French, written in ink in a regular and readable hand on 7 quires of writing-paper, some with a slight green cast.With: ALBERDINGK THIJM, Josephus Albertus. Decemberliedtjen op tantes feest, in 1878. Manuscript poem, signed J.A.Th. 4to. Folded.Loose quires in a contemporary red morocco portfolio with gold-tooled title and ornamental frames on covers, richly gold-tooled turn-ins and silk paste-downs. With 3 pairs of green silk ties.
ALBERDINGK THIJM, Catharina & Josephus Albertus ALBERDINGK THIJM. · 1838
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
135, [4 blank]; 4 pp.Album with manuscripts in French and Dutch from the notable Amsterdam literary family Alberdingk Thijm. More than half gives a full account, in French, of a tourist trip to Paris in 1838 by Mrs. Catharina Alberdingk Thijm (1793-1864) and her friends. Witho...