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Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et biblicarum historiarum cum tabulis geographicis aere expressis.[Cologne, Officina Birckmannica, for Hermann Mylius, 1628]. Folio. With engraved allegorical title-page, numerous decorated woodcut initial letters and tailpieces, 11 maps of Israel and 1 map of Jerusalem (8 folding and 4 double-page). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title-label, blind-tooled sides, gilt binding edges.

ADRICHEM, Christiaan van. · 1857

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

[12], 286, [30] pp.Van Adrichem's famous description of the Holy Land. This popular work was translated into many languages (as late as 1857 into French) and appeared in numerous editions. Christiaan van Adrichem (1533-1585) was interested in the topography of the Holy Land an...

Plusieurs descriptions des accoustremens, tant des magistrats et officiers de la Porte de l' Empereur des Turcs, que des peuples assujectis à son Empire. Avec les figurs des representant le tout au naturel, tirees des medailles antiques & descriptions de ceux qui ont frequenté parmy ces nations, ou des bons autheurs qui en ont escrit. Including: THOMAS, Artus. Tableaux prophetiques des empereur severe et leon, avec leurs epigrammes predisans la ruine de la monarchie des Turcs. [Paris, widow of Abel L'Angelier, 1620]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 79 engraved plates, including 62 costume plates (ca. 27.5 x 17.5 cm) after Nicolas Nicolay. With an additional loosely inserted engraving of a "Marchant Juif". All the plates have explanatory texts on the versos of the preceding plates. 19th-century green half morocco.

[NICOLAY, Nicolas]. · 1620

€13,500.00 ($14,879.46 | £11,262.59 | ¥2,376,057)

64 [=65] ll., 65-114, [3], [1 blank] pp.Nicolay's series of engravings of Turkish magistrates and officers (including descriptions) followed by Thomas' collection of emblems, prophesying the fall of the Ottoman empire, as published in the 1620 edition of Laonikos Chalcocondyle...

[Hilly and wooded landscape with a bridge over a stream in the foreground].[The Netherlands?, ca. 1620/40]. 43 x 56 cm. Landscape drawing in black chalk(?) and white chalk on paper. Under glass in a black and gold wooden frame.

[VLIEGER, Simon de].

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

Stunningly beautiful wooded landscape with a castle on top of a hill at the right. Although the drawing is unsigned, it has been authenticated by a leading expert on 17th-century Dutch art: Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, John Langeloth Loeb professor emeritus at New York Universit...

Malta. [View of the castle, fortifications and harbour of Valetta]. [Malta(?), ca. 1700?]. 14 x 44 cm. Ink and colour wash drawing, signed in the lower right corner: "Rademaker". Mounted in a rice-paper window kept under passe-partout.

[MALTA]. RADEMAKER, [Gerard?].

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

Beautiful and detailed watercolour drawing, drawn in brown ink with grey and brown washes. The fortifications are rendered in a very careful and detailed way. The view is probably drawn from the peninsula Floriana, part of the city of Valetta, with the fortification Manoel at ...

Calendrier pour l' année 1826.Paris, chez Janet, [1825]. With: [SONGS]. La morale du cœur.Paris, chez Janet, [1825]. 2 works in 1 volume. 32mo. With an engraved title page, and 6 full-page engraved plates. Original publisher's pink boards, gilt edges, housed in a matching pink slipcase.

[ALMANAC]. · 1826

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[2], 24, [2]; 24 pp.Very beautifully produced and illustrated miniature almanac, containing a calendar for 1826 and 12 short rhyming songs for children. They are set to the melodies of popular songs of the time, which are mentioned at the start. The section with songs, the Mor...

Le chasseur au chien d'arrêt. Contenant les habitudes, les ruses du gibier, l'art de le chercher et de le tirer, le choix des armes, l'éducation des chiens, leurs maladies, etc.Paris, chez l'un des éditeurs, au dépot de la collection culinaire de Carême, 1846. With an illustration of two dogs by A. Guyot on the title-page and a full-page plate "Contemplation" signed Pauquet.(2) BLAZE, Elzéar. Le chasseur au chien courant, contenant les habitudes, les ruses des bêtes; l'art de les quêter, de les juger et de les détourner; de les attaquer, de les tirer ou de les prendre a force; l'éducation du limier; des chiens courants, leurs maladies, etc. Paris, Bernard et Cie for the dépot de librarie, 1851. 8vo. 2 works in 3 volumes. Uniform contemporary green morocco, marbled sides, goold-tooles spine, blue sprinkled edges.

BLAZE, Elzéar. · 1786

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

XXVII, 420; [6], 440; [6], 448 pp.Ad. 1: Fourth edition of this elaborate treatise on hunting by Elzéar Jean Louis Joseph Blaze (1786-1848), forming together with his Le Chasseur au chien courant (ad. 2) a complete course on hunting "à tir et à cour". Ad 2. Re-issue of the fir...

Journal de l'expedition de Monsieur de la Feuillade, pour le secours de Candie. Par un volontaire.Lyon, Jean Thioly, 1669. 12mo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, some woodcut initials and head-and tailpieces and 1 engraved folding plan of the fortification of Candia (20 x 28.5 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and sprinkled edges.

[LA FEUILLADE, François Aubusson de]. · 1625

€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)

[8], 198, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a journal of an expedition to Candia (Heraklion), Greece, commanded by François d'Aubusson, duc de la Feuillade (1625-1691), to help the Venetians during the Siege of Candia (1645-1669) against the Ottoman Empire. De la Feuillade had alre...

Extrait du journal d'un officier de la marine de l'escadre de M. le comte d'Estaing.[Paris?], 1782. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles Henry Comte d'Estaing, a woodcut device on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary grey wrappers.

[ESTAING, Charles Hector count d' (subject)]. · 1782

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

126 pp.One of the four editions from 1782 of an extract from the diary of an anonymous officer serving in the squadron of Charles Hector count d'Estaing (1729-1794), whose aim was to give assistance to the American uprising against the British. In 1778 he distained the Command...

Voyage dans la Chine centrale, Vallée du Yang-Tzu, fait de mai à aout 1873.Paris, E. Martinet for Ch. Delagrave, 1874. 8vo. With a large lithographed folding map (26 x 58 cm), with highlights in red, and several letterpress tables. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers.

GARNIER, Francis. · 1839

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[3], [1 blank], 39, [1 blank] pp.Offprint of an article on central China by the French explorer and diplomat Francis Garnier (1839-1873). In 1872 he decided to travel to the high plateaus of central Asia by way of the valley of the Yangtze river. After a short stay at Beijing ...

Le Mexique[.] Limites géographiques. Orographie. Hydrographie. L' agriculture, la flore, la faune et les mines. L' industrie et le commerce. Paris, H. Le Soudier, 1891. 8vo. With a lithographed folding map of Mexico (34.5 x 46 cm). Contemporary half red morocco, gold-tooled spine.

ROUTIER, Gaston. · 1868

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

XVII, 110 pp.First and only edition of a topographic work important for the industrial and commercial relationship between France and Mexico, by the journalist Gaston Routier (1868), based on official documents and the best Mexican statistics and geographical data. It contains...

Cuadro geográfico, estadístico, descriptivo é histórico de los estados unidos Mexicanos. Obra que sirve de texto al Atlas pintoresco.Including: Atlas Pintoresco e Historico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.México, Fomento & Debray, 1885. 2 volumes. 8vo and oblong large folio (64.5 x 82 cm). With 2 folding tables and 2 full-page plates in the text volume and in the atlas 13 chromolithographed maps (52 x 69 cm), and a full-page chromolithographed map of Mexico at the end. Contemporary black cloth with gold lettering on front board (text); contemporary red half morocco, title and ornaments in gold on spine (atlas).

GARCIA CUBAS, Antonio. · 1832

€11,000.00 ($12,124.00 | £9,176.93 | ¥1,936,046)

IV, 474, [3] pp. text.Both the text and the atlas volume of an important work on 19th-century Mexico by Antonio Garcia Cubas (1832-1912), not often found together. The text contains full accounts on the politics, ethnography, religion, education, mining, agriculture, history, ...

Viaggio di Spizberga o' Gronlanda fatto da Federico Martens Amburghese l' anno 1671... Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1680. 12mo. With 2 folding engraved plates and 3 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp parchment.

MARTENS, Friedrich. · 1635

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

264 pp.Rare Italian edition of Martens's account of a whaling voyage to Spitsbergen and Greenland which "furnishes the first exact description of arctic zoology" (Wood). In relation to cetology this work is "one of great interest and importance, not only from its early date, b...

Florula Caprariae sive enumeratio plantarum in insula Capraria vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum.Torino, Ex Regio Typographeo, 1839. Large 4to (31 x 23 cm). With 6 numbered engraved botanical plates. Publisher's original printed blue paper wrappers.

MORIS, Giuseppe Giacinto and Giuseppe de NOTARIS. · 1837

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

244, [6] pp.First issue of a detailed flora of the isle of Capraia, one of the seven islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, belonging to the Province of Livorno. Moris's six-page Stirpes Sardoae novae aut minus notae, a supplement to the first volume of his Flora Sardoa (1837), is...

La Hollande en 12 feuilles dont les six premieres contiennent la Hollande ...Paris, Jean A. Dezauche, successor of Delisle & Buache, 1790. Together ca. 230 x 155 cm. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline. Printed on 12 sheets, each divided into 4 segments, numbered 1-48. The 12 sheets are mounted on contemporary linen and folded, the edges reinforced with blue ribbon.With: (2) LE ROUGE, George Louis. Topographie de la Zelande en 9 feuilles traduitte de l'Hollandois. [Second title:] Partie orientale de la Flandre Hollandoise, ...Paris, Jean A. Dezauche, 1790. Large engraved wall map, hand-coloured in outline, printed on 9 numbered sheets, each divided into 4 segments, numbered 1-36 (each sheet 48 x 56.5 cm); the 36 segments are mounted on contemporary linen, the edges reinforced with blue ribbon. Each map in contemporary box.

[MAPS - NETHERLANDS]. [LE ROUGE, George-Louis]. · 1748

€8,950.00 ($9,864.53 | £7,466.68 | ¥1,575,238)

Two large complementary wall maps of the seven Dutch provinces, covering (1) the provinces Holland, Utrecht, Friesland, Groningen, Overijssel and Gelderland and a part of Brabant, bound to the line Steenbergen - Roermond, and (2) Zeeland. Both are rare, especially the map of Z...

Bref om de Förenta Staterna, författade under en resa till Amerika, ären 1818, 1819, 1820. ... Förra[-Senare] delen.Stockholm, Ecksteinska Tryckeriet, 1824. 3 volumes, the 2 text volumes bound as 1. 8vo (text) & 1mo (atlas, 42 x 56 cm). Each text volume with the same engraved title-page, and in volume 1 a folding letterpress table. The atlas volume has a lithographed title-page with a view of the White House, 2 large engraved maps of the northern part and the southern part of the United States by John Melish, dated 1816, and 14 maps, plans and views of New York, Philadelphia and Washington, including 8 fine engraved aquatints by Akrell. Bound in the atlas volume are 2 letterpress 4to leaves, one with the numbered list of 19 plates: the 2 engraved title-pages for the text volumes (1-2), lithographed title-page for the atlas (3) and 16 plates for the atlas (4-19: seven are 1mo - full or nearly full sheets - and nine smaller). With: (2) [KLINKOWSTRÖM, Axel]. Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne. [Stockholm, Ecksteinska Tryckeriet, 1824]. Contemporary half sprinkled calf with the volume numbers 1 & 2 in half tanned sheepskin.

KLINKOWSTRÖM, Axel. · 1812

€7,000.00 ($7,715.27 | £5,839.86 | ¥1,232,030)

IX, 242, [2]; VIII, [2], 243-496 pp.First edition of an interesting and stunningly illustrated travel book in the form of letters written during a journey through the United States by a Swedish nobleman and lieutenant-colonel of the Swedish Royal Navy. It provides an interesti...

Compleete zak-atlas, van de zeventien Nederlandsche Provinciën.Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe & D.M. Langeveld, 1786. 8vo. With a double-page engraved title, 29 numbered folding engraved maps (the first 5 signed by A. van Krevelt) and 2 folding engraved tables, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

ELWE, Jan Barend. · 1785

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

239, [1] pp.Second enlarged edition of this pocket atlas of the Low Countries with attractively coloured maps. The first edition appeared in 1785. The introduction deals with geography in general, and also gives a description of the different parts of the Low Countries. It has...

Iliade di Omero. Traduzione del Cav. Vincenzo Monti. Milano, Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1812. 2 vols. Large 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled green calf (or sheepskin), with a light brown title-label on the spine lettered in gold. All boards show the large gold-tooled crowned coat of arms (of the French Barons Pavée de Vendeuvre - see to Rietstap 5, Pl. XXIII) within a gold-tooled frame, brown marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

HOMER. · 1754

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 366; 386 pp.Large paper copy of the second edition of this translation of Homer's Iliad by Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828). An "Esperimento di traduzione della Iliade de Omero" appeared in 1807 - translated by Monti, Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), and...

Voyage de sa Majesté Britannique en Hollande.The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1692. Large folio (49.5 x 36 cm.). With an engraved portrait of King William III by Pieter van Gunst after J. Brandon, 11 full-page engraved plates (32.5 x 44 cm) and 4 half-page engraved plates (32.5 x 21.5 cm., including the engraved title-page) all finely engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe. Later half vellum and yellow paper side, with a brown leather title-label lettered in gold on the spine.

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. · 1691

€3,975.00 ($4,381.17 | £3,316.21 | ¥699,617)

[14] ll.A complete set of the magnificent plates from the first French edition of one of the finest Dutch festival books, produced to commemorate the 1691 visit of the Dutch Stadtholder and English King William III of Orange to The Hague. The work was first published in Dutch ...

Della pittura e della statua.Milan, Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani (monogram of Giusti, Feriario & Co), 1804. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author and 6 engraved plates (including 4 folding). Early 19th-century half sheepskin parchment, Stormont on shell marbled sides, title lettered in ink on the spine, yellow edges.

ALBERTI, Leon Battista. · 1404

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

XVII, 136 pp.A classic scholarly edition of two important treatises, on painting and sculpture, by the great Florentine architect, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), this edition adding a 20-page biography. The text of the treatises was translated from the Latin by Cosimo Bart...

Het nieuw vermeerdert natuurlyck tover-boeck of speel-toneel der konsten.Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn (title-page: sold in Brussels by Emanuel de Grieck), 1715. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by the artist-engraver [Jacob] Harrewijn, title-page in red and black, many full-page woodcut plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf with ornamental flowers on spine.

WITGEEST, Simon. · 2000

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[50], 518 pp.Easily the most popular Dutch conjuring and recreation book of the 18th century. On long winter evenings families and parties amused themselves with the help of the book, trying the various tricks and games. It contains about 2000 conjuring tricks, card games, exc...