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Beschreibung von Corsica nebst vielen wichtigen Nachrichten und Anecdoten vom Pascal Paoli dem General der Corsen.Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved folding map of Corsica (29 x 44 cm). Contemporary paper-covered boards, spine with red title label lettered in gold, red edges.
Beschreibung von Corsica nebst vielen wichtigen Nachrichten und Anecdoten vom Pascal Paoli dem General der Corsen.Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved folding map of Corsica (29 x 44 cm). Contemporary paper-covered boards, spine with red title label lettered in gold, red edges.
BOSWELL, James. · 1768
€1,875.00 ($2,066.59 | £1,564.25 | ¥330,008)
[14], 346 pp.The first German edition of Boswell's Account of Corsica (1768), translated by Anton Ernst Klausing. In the first part Boswell recounts historical and geographical information about Corsica, while the second part includes a lively and detailed narrative of his jou...
Cosmographia. In tres dialogos distincta: in quibus de forma, situ, numeroque tam coelorum quam elementorum, aliisque rebus ad astronomica rudimenta spectantibus satis disseritur.Paris, Gulielmus Cavellat, 1558. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration of a chicken on the title-page, and many woodcut cosmographic figures throughout the text. Contemporary vellum.
Cosmographia. In tres dialogos distincta: in quibus de forma, situ, numeroque tam coelorum quam elementorum, aliisque rebus ad astronomica rudimenta spectantibus satis disseritur.Paris, Gulielmus Cavellat, 1558. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration of a chicken on the title-page, and many woodcut cosmographic figures throughout the text. Contemporary vellum.
MAUROLICO, Francesco. · 1494
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
[8], 168 ll.Rare second edition of a rare work on cosmography by the outstanding scholar Francesco Maurolyco, or Maurolico from Messina (1494-1575). This work is one of the most important books by Maurolico. It was first published in Venice in 1543 and it is written in the for...
An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.London, for Edward & Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved coat of arms on the title page, and a large engraved folding map of Corsica. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf.
An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.London, for Edward & Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved coat of arms on the title page, and a large engraved folding map of Corsica. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf.
BOSWELL, James. · 1740
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
XII, [2], 384 pp.Second edition of a delightful and important travel book by James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. His first major publication, it includes a journal of his 1765 visit to the new Republic of Corsica, which had dec...
Onfeylbare regel van winste sonder verlies... Hier is noch achter gevoeght De wissel-banck, geopent door den selven autheur. De derde druck.Amsterdam, Christoffel Luycken, 1663. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With small woodcut vignette on 2 title-pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges.
Onfeylbare regel van winste sonder verlies... Hier is noch achter gevoeght De wissel-banck, geopent door den selven autheur. De derde druck.Amsterdam, Christoffel Luycken, 1663. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With small woodcut vignette on 2 title-pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges.
LUYKEN, Caspar. · 1607
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
212; 52 pp.The first edition including the second part ("The bank of exchange explained") of the "Unfailing rule of profit without loss" by Caspar Luyken the elder (ca. 1607- ca. 1667), school teacher and father of Jan Luyken, who would become famous for his beautiful emblem b...
Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amérique ...Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title-page, a woodcut printer's device on the typographical title-page, a full-page portrait of Amproux, 43 engraved plates in the text of all kinds of plants, trees, animals and costumes from the Antilles. Further with a divisional title-page for the second part, and woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, and a bright pink reading ribbon.
Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amérique ...Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title-page, a woodcut printer's device on the typographical title-page, a full-page portrait of Amproux, 43 engraved plates in the text of all kinds of plants, trees, animals and costumes from the Antilles. Further with a divisional title-page for the second part, and woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, and a bright pink reading ribbon.
[ROCHEFORT, Charles de]. · 1690
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
[1], [1 blank], [12], 527, [12], [1 blank] pp.First edition of an important work on the geology and natural history of the Antilles and on the culture and history of the inhabitants of the different islands, by Charles de Rochefort (died ca. 1690). Most of the bibliographies a...
Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.Lyons, Etienne Michel (colophon: printed by Guichard Julliéron), 1581 (colophon: August). 4to. With Michel's woodcut publisher’s device on the title-page (an Ottoman man and a fruit tree with motto “virtutes sibi invicem adhaerent”), a full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier, a small woodcut illustration and 89 beautiful large woodcuts (13 x 9.5 cm) of classical mythological gods and heroes in the text. Modern sheepskin parchmen.
Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.Lyons, Etienne Michel (colophon: printed by Guichard Julliéron), 1581 (colophon: August). 4to. With Michel's woodcut publisher’s device on the title-page (an Ottoman man and a fruit tree with motto “virtutes sibi invicem adhaerent”), a full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier, a small woodcut illustration and 89 beautiful large woodcuts (13 x 9.5 cm) of classical mythological gods and heroes in the text. Modern sheepskin parchmen.
CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. · 1556
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[8], 359, [57] pp.First edition of the Latin translation of a famous manual on the imagery of the classical gods and heroes, first published in Italian (without illustrations) at Venice in 1556, and intended as a source book for artists. The present Latin edition, translated a...
The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox. Newly corrected and purged...London, Thomas Ilive for Edward Brewster, 1701. With:(2) [REYNARD THE FOX]. The most pleasant and delightful history of Reynard the Fox. The second part. ...London, Anne Maxwell and Robert Roberts, for Edward Brewster, 1681.(3) [REYNARD THE FOX, ADDITIONS]. The shifts of Reynardine the son of Reynard the Fox, ...London, Thomas James for Edward Brewster and Thomas Passenger, 1684. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut of King Lion's court on the title page, 61 woodcuts in text of part 1 (including 23 repeats) and 15 woodcuts in part 2, all repeated from part 1. Further with a large woodcut decorated initial in part 3 and decorations built up from cast fleurons in parts 1 and 2. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late-18th-century sprinkled calf, gold double fillets, blind-tooled board edges, red morocco spine label in 2nd of 6 compartments, red sprinkled edges.
The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox. Newly corrected and purged...London, Thomas Ilive for Edward Brewster, 1701. With:(2) [REYNARD THE FOX]. The most pleasant and delightful history of Reynard the Fox. The second part. ...London, Anne Maxwell and Robert Roberts, for Edward Brewster, 1681.(3) [REYNARD THE FOX, ADDITIONS]. The shifts of Reynardine the son of Reynard the Fox, ...London, Thomas James for Edward Brewster and Thomas Passenger, 1684. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut of King Lion's court on the title page, 61 woodcuts in text of part 1 (including 23 repeats) and 15 woodcuts in part 2, all repeated from part 1. Further with a large woodcut decorated initial in part 3 and decorations built up from cast fleurons in parts 1 and 2. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late-18th-century sprinkled calf, gold double fillets, blind-tooled board edges, red morocco spine label in 2nd of 6 compartments, red sprinkled edges.
[REYNARD THE FOX]. · 1479
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[160]; [112]; [4], 160 pp.One of the rare sets of all 3 parts of the English Reynard the Fox, the third part here in its first edition. The Reynard stories were already established as a coherent collection in the 12th century and were first printed in 1479, in a Dutch prose ed...
Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat, van alle volkeren; behelzende de beschryving der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en wel in 't byzonder van Overyssel.Amsterdam, P. Schouten, J. de Groot, G. Warnars; Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans; Dordrecht, A. & P. Blussé; Harlingen, V. van der Plaats, 1781-1803. 4 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a folding engraved map, and 9 folding engraved views of Deventer, Zwolle, Kampen, Zwartsluis and Hasselt. Uniform white half parchment (ca. 1900/14?), sewn on 4 recessed cords, with hollow backs, nonpareil-marbled sides, title and volume numbers neatly lettered across the spines in black ink.
Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat, van alle volkeren; behelzende de beschryving der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en wel in 't byzonder van Overyssel.Amsterdam, P. Schouten, J. de Groot, G. Warnars; Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans; Dordrecht, A. & P. Blussé; Harlingen, V. van der Plaats, 1781-1803. 4 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a folding engraved map, and 9 folding engraved views of Deventer, Zwolle, Kampen, Zwartsluis and Hasselt. Uniform white half parchment (ca. 1900/14?), sewn on 4 recessed cords, with hollow backs, nonpareil-marbled sides, title and volume numbers neatly lettered across the spines in black ink.
DUMBAR Jr., Gerhard. · 1743
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
[4], 494; [4], 533; [2], 614; [2], 224 pp.The history of Overijssel, by Gerhard Dumbar Jr. (1743-1802), in the original Dutch. The third volume is divided into three parts, with separate title-pages, but a single sequence of page numbers. Dumbar left it unfinished at his death...
Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europae compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens ...Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1534. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, numerous decorated woodcut initials and a double page woodcut world map "Typus cosmographus universalis" after Sebastian Münster. Modern calf.
Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europae compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens ...Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1534. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, numerous decorated woodcut initials and a double page woodcut world map "Typus cosmographus universalis" after Sebastian Münster. Modern calf.
VADIANUS, Joachim (Joachim von WATT). · 1484
€38,500.00 ($42,434.01 | £32,119.24 | ¥6,776,162)
[44], 273, [1] pp.This significant geographical work is the first edition, and it contains extensive commentary on America and the Holy Land by Joachim Vadianus or von Watt (1484-1551). This copy is one of the few that includes the world map, which depicts America for one of t...
[Collection of 12 prints showing fountains and other water sources from "Le Fontane di Roma"].Rome, Gio Giacomo Rossi, [1691]. Oblong folio (ca. 33 x 23.5 cm.) Selection of 12 fine engraved views of the fountains of Rome by Gio Giacomo Venturini, including 9 in passepartout.
[Collection of 12 prints showing fountains and other water sources from "Le Fontane di Roma"].Rome, Gio Giacomo Rossi, [1691]. Oblong folio (ca. 33 x 23.5 cm.) Selection of 12 fine engraved views of the fountains of Rome by Gio Giacomo Venturini, including 9 in passepartout.
VENTURINI, Gio Francesco. · 1643
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[12] engraved plates, including 9 mounted in a passe-partout.Beautiful set of 12 engraved views of fountains and other water sources in and around 17th-century Rome, including 9 mounted in a large passepartout. These detailed engravings come from the four-part print series pub...
[Model book of Dutch tile designs].[Utrecht?, ca. 1810?]. Small square 4to (20 x 19 cm). With 111 pen and wash model drawings for Dutch tiles on the rectos of 105 leaves, most in greys but many in brown or a beautiful Delft blue. Several combine more than one colour, all in the actual size of tiles. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
[Model book of Dutch tile designs].[Utrecht?, ca. 1810?]. Small square 4to (20 x 19 cm). With 111 pen and wash model drawings for Dutch tiles on the rectos of 105 leaves, most in greys but many in brown or a beautiful Delft blue. Several combine more than one colour, all in the actual size of tiles. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
[TILES - MODEL BOOK]. · 1825
€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)
[2 blank], 105, [6 blank] ll.A manuscript model book of Dutch ceramic tile designs, a unique and important primary source for the early Utrecht tile art industry. No Utrecht modelbook is known before the printed ones at the end of the 19th century. Many designs in the book rem...
Cours de géométrie pratique professé par M. Prevost et suivi par C.F. Frenet. Comprenant 1o. La géométrie élémentaire avec ses applications au toisé, au cubage, géodésie, etc. 2o. La géométrie descriptive avec ses applications à la perspective, à la coupe des pierres etc.[Lyon?, ca. 1825?]. Oblong folio (35 x 45 cm). With a flourished calligraphic title page signed "[Charles] Esclozas scripsit", and 140 leaves with more than 350 figures in black ink and sometimes pencil, red ink or coloured washes (blue, yellow, red, green and grey), illustrating plain and solid geometry, projections, perspective, architecture, bridges, cartography, globes, sundials, etc., and with text and illustrations in black thick-thin borders. Contemporary green half morocco, spine richly gold-tooled.
Cours de géométrie pratique professé par M. Prevost et suivi par C.F. Frenet. Comprenant 1o. La géométrie élémentaire avec ses applications au toisé, au cubage, géodésie, etc. 2o. La géométrie descriptive avec ses applications à la perspective, à la coupe des pierres etc.[Lyon?, ca. 1825?]. Oblong folio (35 x 45 cm). With a flourished calligraphic title page signed "[Charles] Esclozas scripsit", and 140 leaves with more than 350 figures in black ink and sometimes pencil, red ink or coloured washes (blue, yellow, red, green and grey), illustrating plain and solid geometry, projections, perspective, architecture, bridges, cartography, globes, sundials, etc., and with text and illustrations in black thick-thin borders. Contemporary green half morocco, spine richly gold-tooled.
PRÉVOST, M. · 1796
€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)
[1], [1 blank], [97], [1 blank] pp. plus 140 illustration ll. partly numbered in 13 series.Complete and thoroughly illustrated course of practical plane and solid geometry (including conic and other sections), with applications to projections, perspective, surveying, bridges, ...
[Manuscript genealogies of the noble family Cuylenburgh ( vol. 1) and the noble family Beusichum & Cuylenburgh (vol. 2)]. [Utrecht, Culemborg or Beusichem?], ca. 1655-1675, after 1654]. 2 volumes. Large folio. Manuscript in Dutch, written in one hand in a neat, 17th-century hand cursive hand. With 65 coat of arms, almost all of them coloured by hand. Also with some spaces for coats of arms left blank. A loose leaf added to volume with 34 ink-drawn and contemporary hand-coloured small coats of arms with accompanying text written in a cursive 17th-century hand. 19th-century half brown cloth (volume 1) and red buckram (volume 2), brown decorated paper sides, titles in gold on the front boards.
[Manuscript genealogies of the noble family Cuylenburgh ( vol. 1) and the noble family Beusichum & Cuylenburgh (vol. 2)]. [Utrecht, Culemborg or Beusichem?], ca. 1655-1675, after 1654]. 2 volumes. Large folio. Manuscript in Dutch, written in one hand in a neat, 17th-century hand cursive hand. With 65 coat of arms, almost all of them coloured by hand. Also with some spaces for coats of arms left blank. A loose leaf added to volume with 34 ink-drawn and contemporary hand-coloured small coats of arms with accompanying text written in a cursive 17th-century hand. 19th-century half brown cloth (volume 1) and red buckram (volume 2), brown decorated paper sides, titles in gold on the front boards.
[MANUSCRIPT - GENEALOGY & HERALDRY - DUTCH]. · 1650
€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)
[4 (plus 1 loose leaf)]; [8] ll.Very interesting manuscript genealogies of two highly important Dutch noble families originating from the city of Culemborg and the village Beusichem, south-east of Utrecht, together with their allied Dutch, Flemish and Hainaut families, running...
Tableau du royaume de Caboul, et de ses dépendances, dans la Perse, la Tartarie et l'Inde, offrant les moeurs, usages et costumes de cet empire, … traduit et abrégé de l'anglais, par M. Breton.Paris, Nepveu, 1817. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 14 engraved plates depicting various costumes, lords on horseback, etc., all beautifully coloured by hand. Original publisher's printed wrappers, each volume with wood engraved illustrations on front, back and spine. Preserved in a modern gold-tooled green morocco box.
Tableau du royaume de Caboul, et de ses dépendances, dans la Perse, la Tartarie et l'Inde, offrant les moeurs, usages et costumes de cet empire, … traduit et abrégé de l'anglais, par M. Breton.Paris, Nepveu, 1817. 3 volumes. 18mo. With 14 engraved plates depicting various costumes, lords on horseback, etc., all beautifully coloured by hand. Original publisher's printed wrappers, each volume with wood engraved illustrations on front, back and spine. Preserved in a modern gold-tooled green morocco box.
ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. · 1815
€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)
XLIV, 189 [3]; [4], 222, [2]; [4], 223 [1] pp.First edition of the French translation of one of the first exhaustive works on the kingdom of Kabul, now known as Afghanistan, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India. First published in English in 1815, it was written b...
Nederlantsche historien ofte geschiedenissen inhoudende den gantzen staet, handel, soo va[n] oorlogen als vrede-handels in onsen tyden begin ende eynde ... Mede vervattende eenige haerder gebueren handelinge. ... oversien verbetert ende vermeerdert tot dese[n] tege[n]wordigen wtgank des jaers anno 1611.Including (vol. 2): Belgische ofte Nederlantsche oorlogen ende gheschiedenissen beginnende van t'jaer 1595 tot 1611, ... oversie[n] verbetert e[n]de vermeerdert ...[Copy imprint to vol. 2:] “Schotland buyten Danswyck” [= Amsterdam], “Hermes van Loven” [= Nicolaes III Biestkens?] for the author, 1611 [-1612]. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, both coloured and highlighted in gold by an early hand. Further with a full-page engraved portrait of Van Meteren, and 21 smaller woodcut portraits in the text attributed to Christoffel van Sichem. Mottled, gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), gold-tooled spines, 18th-century(?) gold-tooling on the boards.
Nederlantsche historien ofte geschiedenissen inhoudende den gantzen staet, handel, soo va[n] oorlogen als vrede-handels in onsen tyden begin ende eynde ... Mede vervattende eenige haerder gebueren handelinge. ... oversien verbetert ende vermeerdert tot dese[n] tege[n]wordigen wtgank des jaers anno 1611.Including (vol. 2): Belgische ofte Nederlantsche oorlogen ende gheschiedenissen beginnende van t'jaer 1595 tot 1611, ... oversie[n] verbetert e[n]de vermeerdert ...[Copy imprint to vol. 2:] “Schotland buyten Danswyck” [= Amsterdam], “Hermes van Loven” [= Nicolaes III Biestkens?] for the author, 1611 [-1612]. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, both coloured and highlighted in gold by an early hand. Further with a full-page engraved portrait of Van Meteren, and 21 smaller woodcut portraits in the text attributed to Christoffel van Sichem. Mottled, gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), gold-tooled spines, 18th-century(?) gold-tooling on the boards.
METEREN, Emanuel van. · 1611
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
[6], 568, [20]; [2], 118, [4], 413, [10] ll.Extremely rare last and most complete issue of the 1611 4to edition (incorporating the author's last additions to early 1612) of a cornerstone of Dutch historiography, covering the history of the Low Countries from 1369 to early 1612...
In sacro sancta Coenae mysteria, passionem, et resurrectionem domini nostri Jesu, homeliae, & tabulae, annexis quibusdam scholiis, ex primis ecclesiae patribus. Ad amplissimum, & illustrissimum principem carolum cardinalem Lotharingum.Mons (Belgium), Claude de Bronchin [printed in Paris by Guillaume Chaudière], 1570. 8vo. With Chaudière’s woodcut device on the title-page (Chronos, with the motto, “hancas iem sol retundit virtus”), a woodcut headpiece, 2 woodcut tailpieces and 2 woodcut initials (from 2 different series). Limp vellum (ca. 1700?).
In sacro sancta Coenae mysteria, passionem, et resurrectionem domini nostri Jesu, homeliae, & tabulae, annexis quibusdam scholiis, ex primis ecclesiae patribus. Ad amplissimum, & illustrissimum principem carolum cardinalem Lotharingum.Mons (Belgium), Claude de Bronchin [printed in Paris by Guillaume Chaudière], 1570. 8vo. With Chaudière’s woodcut device on the title-page (Chronos, with the motto, “hancas iem sol retundit virtus”), a woodcut headpiece, 2 woodcut tailpieces and 2 woodcut initials (from 2 different series). Limp vellum (ca. 1700?).
BEAUXAMIS, Thomas. · 1524
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[6], 321, [1] ll.Second known copy of the Mons issue of the first edition of a collection of Latin sermons on the Last Supper, the Passion and the resurrection of Christ, by the famous French theologian and polemicist Thomas Beauxamis (1524-1589). The dedication to Cardinal Lo...
Album hipponae sive hippodromi leges. Ad Christianissimum et invictissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIV deo-datum.Caen, Claudius Le Blanc, 1662. 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century marbled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges.
Album hipponae sive hippodromi leges. Ad Christianissimum et invictissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIV deo-datum.Caen, Claudius Le Blanc, 1662. 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century marbled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges.
SAVARY, Jacques. (= Jacques TIMENT). · 1607
€4,250.00 ($4,684.27 | £3,545.63 | ¥748,018)
[6], 2, 72 pp.First edition of a very rare Latin poem presenting the rules of tournaments and carrousels. The technical terms of hunting and riding are explained in the margins. Jacques Savary (Caen 1607-1670), actually called Jacques Timent, published several Latin poems on d...
Dissertazioni risguardanti il culto di Venere Ericina. Comprising: -Il culto di Venere Ericina rivendicato ad erice re di Sicilia suo vero institutore.-Dissertazione sopra una lapide inscritta da silla a Venere Ericina.Turin, widow Pomba and sons, 1824. 8vo. Green half morocco, gold-tooled spine, with the arms of Joaquín Gómez de la Cortina (1808-1868) in gold on each board.
Dissertazioni risguardanti il culto di Venere Ericina. Comprising: -Il culto di Venere Ericina rivendicato ad erice re di Sicilia suo vero institutore.-Dissertazione sopra una lapide inscritta da silla a Venere Ericina.Turin, widow Pomba and sons, 1824. 8vo. Green half morocco, gold-tooled spine, with the arms of Joaquín Gómez de la Cortina (1808-1868) in gold on each board.
BALBI, Ambrogio. · 1807
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
90 pp.Two interesting dissertations by Ambrogio Balbi on the Venere Ericina (Venus of Eryx), a cult of Venus originating on Sicily. The second was published before in 1807, but the first appears here for the first time. The opening dissertation describes the Sicilian origins o...
Nieuwe atlas van de voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten der stad Amsterdam, met derzelver beknopte beschryvingen.Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Petrus van Hengst, 1783. 2 volumes. Folio. With a double-page engraved plan of Amsterdam, and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first volume and 57 in the second), the title-page of each volume printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled half calf.
Nieuwe atlas van de voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten der stad Amsterdam, met derzelver beknopte beschryvingen.Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Petrus van Hengst, 1783. 2 volumes. Folio. With a double-page engraved plan of Amsterdam, and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first volume and 57 in the second), the title-page of each volume printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled half calf.
[FOUQUET Jr., Pierre]. · 1729
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
[2], 27; [1], 36 ll.Rare complete first edition with 102 beautiful engraved views of Amsterdam by the artist and art dealer Pierre Fouquet Jr. (1729-1800). The work has been bound in two volumes, as usual, with two newly added unnumbered plates and the descriptions on 27 respe...
Voiage de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. Jointe la description des citez, villes, ports, lieux, & autres passages. Ensemble les ceremonies des Turcs ...Liège, printed by Leonard Streel for Lambert de la Coste, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine.
Voiage de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. Jointe la description des citez, villes, ports, lieux, & autres passages. Ensemble les ceremonies des Turcs ...Liège, printed by Leonard Streel for Lambert de la Coste, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine.
DJURDJEVIC, Bartol (Bartholomeus GEORGIEVITZ) · 1506
€17,500.00 ($19,288.18 | £14,599.65 | ¥3,080,074)
[32], [32] lvs.Rare edition, in French, of "one of the most frequently reprinted accounts of all Turkish life and customs" (Atabey). The first part details a pilgrimage from Paris to Jerusalem, the second is devoted to the Ottoman Empire. Bartolomej Djurdjevic (or Georgievitz,...