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Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaei, ... | An illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus, ...London, published and sold by the author at his house ..., [1770-]1777. 3 volumes. Imperial folio (54 x 38 cm). Richly engraved frontispiece with medallion portraits of Miller and Linnaeus at the head, 3 identical engraved title-pages, 2 series of engraved botanical plates, each series printed from the same 104 plates, but that in volume 1 in proof-states and beautifully hand-coloured, that in volumes 2 & 3 in black and white with titles and imprints, and 4 further plates, numbered I-IV, showing 178 varieties of leaves, finely hand-coloured. With a full-page allegorical dedicatory pen and watercolour drawing for Queen Charlotte of England on the end-leaf before the frontispiece of the first volume, and a professionally lettered index covering all 3 volumes, specially made for this dedication copy, at the end of volume 3. Contemporary uniform gold-tooled mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
MILLER, John. · 1775
€60,000.00 ($66,130.92 | £50,055.96 | ¥10,560,253)
Dedication copy, with a stunning original pen and watercolour drawing in honour of Queen Charlotte of England, of the first edition of a highly esteemed illustrated book on the sexual system of Linnaeus, published in 20 parts from 1775 to 1777, with some plates issued as compl...
La fortificatione guardia difesa et espugnatione delle fortezzi esperimentata in diverse guerre.Venetia, Antonio Bariletti, 1630. Large folio (38 x 27.5 cm). With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, and 48 fine engraved fortification plates (11 double-page), by Fillippo Sadeler. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled fillets on boards, richly gold-tooled spine, Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, later endpapers.
TENSINI, Francesco. · 1624
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[16], 83, [1 blank]; 83, [1 blank]; 128 pp. plus plates.Beautifully and extensively illustrated early work on the art and science of fortification, first published in 1624 and here in the 1630 issue of the 1624 edition. As the title indicates, it discusses the fortification, d...
Natuurkundige beschryving der zeën.The Hague, De Compagnie, 1786. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece by Matthijs Pool, 12 mostly folding maps, profiles of coast-lines and tables, and 40 full-page engraved plates with numerous illustrations of sea plants and corals, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
MARSIGLI, Luigi Ferdinando. · 1658
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
XXVI, 216 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation, beautifully illustrated and hand-coloured, of a popular description of plants and corals of the sea by Luigi Ferdinando Conte de Marsigli (1658-1730), a celebrated Italian geographer and natural scientist. First published at...
Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature ... of confin'd metals.London, printed, for the author, by Thomas Dawks, 1683. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved portrait of the author as a frontispiece, a separate title page for part 2, and 43 large engravings in the text on mining, distilling, and working metals (41 in part 1 and 2 in part 2). Further with elaborately decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with lighter brown calf, spine elaborately gold-tooled and with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges.
ECKER, Lazarus and John PETTUS (translator). · 1530
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[44], 345, [1 blank]; [8], 133, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the English translation and adaptation of an important work by one of the foremost metallurgists of the 17th century. The first part is the first English adaption of the celebrated practical manual on mining and met...
The actions of the Lowe Countries.London, Humphrey Lownes, for Mathew Lownes, 1618. Small 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 27 decorated woodcut initials, 3 woodcut headpieces, and a woodcut tailpiece. Late-19th-century red morocco, the title, author, and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, gold tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.
WILLIAMS, Roger. · 1539
€2,600.00 ($2,865.67 | £2,169.09 | ¥457,611)
[12], 133, [1 blank] pp.First edition of an eye-witness account of the beginning of the Eighty Year's War in the Low Countries. The author, Sir Roger Williams (ca. 1539-1595) fought under Prince William of Orange, from whom he claims to have received much information. The pres...
Plan de la ville de l'Ecluse et de l'attaque de cette place par les Français. [Netherlands, ca. 1800]. Manuscript fortification plan (54 x 49.5 cm) in ink on paper, with watercolour in green and red. With large panel at lower right with keys to important locations and the locations of the troops during the attack and title in large panel at the head. Scale ca. 1:9500. Signed "Vu Dejean".
DEJEAN, Jean-François-Aimé. · 1794
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
Interesting plan of the fortification of Sluis and the attack by the French Revolutionary Army between 3 and 25 August 1794. Signed for approval by Jean-François-Aimé Dejean (1794-1824), a French engineer and commander in the Army of the North, who in 1800 became Inspector-Gen...
Gezicht van de stad Paramaribo en het Fort Zelandia in Suriname.[Amsterdam, 1770]. Engraved view (21.5 x 36 cm), with caption below the image.
[VIEW - SURINAM]. SCHLEY, Jacob van der. · 1770
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
Nice bird's-eye view of Paramaribo and Fort Zelandia (Surinam), with several ships in the harbour. The view was published in Hartsinck's important Beschryving van Guiana of the Wilde Kust van Zuid-America (Amsterdam, 1770). With a manuscript note on Paramaribo on the back, cop...
Dissertatio de humoribus, in qua veterum ac recentiorum medicorum ac philosophorum opiniones & sententiae examinantur.Amst., (heirs of Johannes II) Janssonius van Waesberge, 1711. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum.
LISTER, Martin. · 1709
€1,000.00 ($1,102.18 | £834.27 | ¥176,004)
[18], 486, [24] pp.Amsterdam edition of a medical textbook on classical and modern opinions on human fluids, including women's menstrual fluids. First published at London in 1709 it nevertheless expounded theories of famous Dutch scientists, like Van Leeuwenhoek, Delft pioneer...
Thermarum Aquisgranensium, et Porcetanarum elucidatio, & thaumaturgia. Sive admirabilis earumdem natura, & admirabiliores sanationes; qua producunt in usibus balneationis, potationis.Aachen, Johann Heinrich Clemens, 1688. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece with letterpress imprint and built-up border, Aachen coat of arms pasted on back of frontispiece, engraved coats of arms of 4 dedicatees on back of title-page, full-page engraved portrait of the author, folding engraved plan of Aachen (22.5 x 27 cm), folding engraved view of Burtscheid (11.5 x 24 cm) and 16 smaller engravings in text, depicting scenes and buildings relating to the springs. Contemporary flower-decorated paper over boards, red sprinkled edges.
BLONDEL, François. · 1613
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[32], 160, [1], [1 blank] pp.Third revised edition of Blondel's famous work on the composition and medicinal values of the sulphur springs in Aachen and Burtscheid. The Flemish doctor François Blondel (1613-1703), whose full-page engraved portrait is inserted after the table o...
[5 etched print series:]1) Divers combats.Series of 6 unnumbered prints including title-print.2) Diverses especes d[']animaus faits apres nature.Series of 7 unnumbered prints including title-print.3) Veuës et païsages du Chasteau de Longuetoise et des environs.6 unnumbered prints, including title-print, from a series of 12.4) [Views near Paris].Series of 4 numbered prints, published without title.5) [Pastoral views].Series(?) of 2 unnumbered prints without title. Paris, [Jacques Lagniet (ads 1, 3), Jacques van Merlen (ad 4), unknown publisher (ads 2, 5)], [ca. 1660]. Small 4to (16.5 x 13 cm). Five series of small oblong folio etched views (16 x 21.5-23 cm; plate size: 10 x 17 to 12.5 x 21.5 cm), 3 complete, 1 incomplete and 1 documented only as separate prints. Each print folded to form a double leaf and mounted on a stub so that it can open flat. Gold-tooled, dark green goatskin morocco (ca. 1890).
FLAMEN, Albert. · 1620
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[6]; [7]; [6 of 12]; 4; [2] etched ll.Five series of finely executed and well-printed etchings by Albert Flamen, mostly in their first states and all in early states, the five series showing: 1) cavalry fighting viewed from the thick of the battle; 2) wild and domestic animals...
De morbis artificum diatriba. Modena, Antonius Capponus, 1700. 8vo. Modern calf, gold-tooled spine.
RAMAZZINI, Bernardo. · 1633
€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)
VIII, 360 pp.First edition of the first systematic treatise on occupational diseases by Bernardo Ramazzini (1633-1714), practicing physician at Modena in Italy and professor of medicine at Modema and Padua. It is the first work adequately dealing with diseases connected with s...
Aristée, ou de la divinité.Paris [= The Hague or Haarlem], 1779. 12mo. With engraved vignette on the title-page and 3 engraved head- and tailpieces, all printed in brown. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gold-tooled spine, board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.
[HEMSTERHUIS, Frans]. · 1721
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[2 blank], X, 208 pp.First edition of the famous philosophical dialogues by Frans Hemsterhuis (1721-1790), probably the most original Dutch philosopher of the 18th century, who influenced Immanuel Kant and romanticism. In the dialogues between Aristée and Dioclès, Hemsterhuis ...
Elogio del cavaliere Isacco Newton.[Milan, Guiseppe Galeazzi, 1778].With:(2) FRISI, Paolo. Elogio del signor D'Alembert.Milan, Guiseppe Galeazzi, 1786.(3) FRISI, Paolo. Elogi di Galileo Galilei e di Bonaventura Cavalieri.Milan, Guiseppe Galeazzi, 1778. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment.
FRISI, Paolo. · 1728
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
132; 81, [1 blank]; 107, [5], 53, [1] pp.Four eulogies, written in Italian by the astronomer and mathematician Paolo Frisi (1728-1784), paying respects to Isaac Newton (1643-1727), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598...
Ephemeri vita, of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, vertoont in de wonderbaarelijcke en nooyt gehoorde historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent haft of oever-aas. ...Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675. 8vo (15.6 x 9.5 cm). With detailed illustration of the mayfly or ephemeron on 8 engraved plates (including 2 folding). Further with woodcut decorated initials and a woodcut ornamental tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with title in ink on the spine.
SWAMMERDAM, Jan. · 1637
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
[32], 422, [8] pp.First edition of a detailed and interesting study on the day-fly by the famous Dutch physician and naturalist Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), based on careful dissection and minute microscopic observation, but at the same time also meant to serve as a instructive...
De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, eiusdemque efficacia contra stomacaccen, seu scelotyrben, Frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica.Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1681. With: (2) MUNTING, Abraham. Aloidarium, sive Aloës Mucronato Folio Americanae Majoris, Aliarumque ejusdem specie historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur.[Amsterdam], [Hieronymous Sweerts], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a finely engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik Casimier of Nassau, and 24 finely engraved plates with flowering plants in the Herba, and 8 finely engraved plates with various aloës in the Aloidarium. Further with several woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Modern half green morocco, marbled paper sides, red morocco spine label lettered in gold, with gold decorations in 5 compartments.
MUNTING, Abraham. · 1680
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[28], 231, [1 blank]; 33, [19] pp.Rare first edition of a scholarly work on British herbs, including those used to prevent or treat scurvy, along with a treatise on various species of the American aloë. Although the Aloidarium title-page is dated 1680, Sweerts must have planne...
Les actes memorables des Grecs. Contenant leurs haults & vaillans exploits...Dordrecht, [published by Isaac Jansz. Canin and printed by Guillaume Guillemot] for Andreas Demetrius, 1602. 8vo. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title-page and with folding engraved map of ancient Greece, signed Ioan: Doetechomius Jr, inserted before p. 1, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut manicules in the margins. Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine and the gold-tooled armorial supralibros of the Signet Library as a centre-piece on both boards.
DEMETRIUS, Andreas and Johannes POLYANDER (translator). · 1599
€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)
[1], [1 blank], [14], 749, [1 blank] [25], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.First French edition, translated by J. Polyander à Kerckhove of Der Griecken opganck ende onderganck, by Andreas Demetrius, first published at Dordrecht in 1599. The author, Andreas Demetrius, was a Protes...
Belli detestatio. Ofte oorlogs vervloeckinge.Zwolle, for Zacharias Heyns (colophon: printed by Frans Jorrijaensz), 1629. 4to. With a large engraved emblem on the title page, 5 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and a tailpiece built up from typographical ornaments. 19th century half brown morocco.
ERASMUS, Desiderius and Zacharias HEYNS (translator). · 1515
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[28] ll.First edition of Zacharias Heyns' new Dutch translation of Erasmus' famous anti-war essay Dulce bellum inexpertis. This essay was originally part of the 1515 edition of the Adagia, but was first published as an independent work by Johann Froben in 1517 with the title B...
Vrij en ridder hofsteden.[Utrecht? ca. 1650]. Folio. Manuscript on paper, written in brown ink in a legible hand. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints.
[MANUSCRIPT - UTRECHT]. · 1642
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
72 ll.Seventeenth century manuscript in Dutch about 135 castles in the province of Utrecht, with descriptions of castles such as Nijenrode, Drakenburg, and Amerongen. The descriptions are numbered, and usually mention where the castle is located and when it was first mentioned...
Rapport wegens het onderzoek omtrent eene uitwatering te Catwyk aan Zee, gedaan in 1802. Op last van dykrichter en hoogheemraaden van Rhynland.Haarlem, François Bohn, 1803[-1804]. Folio. With 2 folding engraved maps, 15 folding engraved plates, and 1 engraved plate, all except one signed by Daniel Veelwaard. Later green half cloth, marbled paper sides.
CONRAD, Frederik Willem, Arie Jansz. BLANKEN and Simon KROS. · 1769
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[1], [1 blank], 49, [1 blank], 27, [1] pp.First edition of an illustrated report on water management, published by three leading technical officers on behalf of the water board of Rijnland, here complete with all four appendices, sometimes lacking. In their report, Frederik Wi...
Nieuwe ordonnantie doen maaken, en emaneren by burgemeesters en regeerders der stadt Vere. Op den visch-tol, afslag der visch, en wat verder daar toe zyn relatie is hebbende. [Middelburg], Suenonius Mandelgreen, [24 December 1746]. With:(2) Ordonnantie op den afslag der Verschen visch, binnen de stadt Vere, gelyk mede op den pligt van den keurmeester en den afslager.Middelburg, widow of Jakobus Pauwelsen, [6 July 1754, published 25 July]. (3) Ordonnantie op den afslag der Verschen visch, binnen de stad Vere.Vere, Chrristiaan Hendrik Held, [18 May 1771]. (4) [MANUSCRIPT]. Extract uit de notulen van weth[ouders] en raad der stad Vere.[Veere?], [18 July 1772-19 June 1773, 7 April 1787]. (5) Reglement voor die van de haven der stad Vere ter vis-vangst vaaren.Middelburg, Adriaan de Vin, [1 June 1774].With a woodcut Veere coat of arms on the title-page of each of the 4 printed ordinances (3 different blocks). 5 items in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary marbled wrapper backed with plain paper.
[VEERE - FISHERY]. · 1771
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
12; [1, 1 blank], 21, [1 blank]; 22; [8, 4 blank]; 9, [1 blank] pp.Contemporary collection of 4 extremely rare printed ordinances and regulations concerning fishery and the fish trade at Veere, near Middelburg in Zeeland, none recorded in NCC or STCN, plus 7 manuscript extract...