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De scriptoribus Frisiae, decades XVI. Et semis: in quibus non modo peculiares Frisiae, sed & totius Germaniae communes antiquitates plurimae indicantur, & veterum historicorum ac geographorum loci, hactenus non intellecti, explicantur.Franeker, Jacobus Horreus, 1699. 12mo. Contemporary vellum.

PETRI (PETRUS), Suffridus. · 1527

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

[88], 498 pp.Second edition of an important work on Frisian authors by Suffridus Petri (1527-1597), "one of the most famous scholars of his time" (NNBW). Petri’s extensive description of the lives and works of 165 Frisian authors, one of the most important bibliographical sour...

De locis s. scripturae Hebraicis Angeli Caninii commentarius et Antonii Nebrissensis quinquagena. Nunc primùm simul emendatiùs edita. Accessit Gasparis Varrerii lusitani De ophira regione in sacris litteris disputatio.Louvain, Gerardus Rivius, 1600. 8vo. With a woodcut "IHS" vignette on the title-page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties.

CANINI, Angelo; Antonio de NEBRIJA and Gaspar BARREIROS (or Caspar VARRERIUS). · 1574

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

[8], 197, [9], [3], [14], 299-250, [6] pp.Extremely rare edition containing several works, most notably an important account of the New World and its discovery by Christopher Columbus: De Ophira Regione written by the Portuguese geographer Gaspar Barreiros (= Caspar Varrerius,...

Fragment d'un voyage au centre de l'Amérique Méridionale; contenant des considérations sur la navigation de l'Amazone et de la Plata, et sur les anciennes missions des provinces de Chiquitos et de Moxos (Bolivia). Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, widow Levrault (printed by Berger-Levrault), 1845. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map (43 x 52 cm) of the centre of South America. Modern half red morocco.

ORBIGNY, Alcide d'. · 1802

€6,750.00 ($7,439.73 | £5,631.30 | ¥1,188,028)

[4], 584 pp.First edition in this form of a detailed account of an important series of scientific expeditions in central South America, mostly in the Bolivian provinces of Chiquitos and Moxos, by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857). He organized expeditions in South America carried o...

Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne ...Paris, Alexis-Eymery, 1824. 3 volumes. 8vo (text) and oblong 4to (atlas). The atlas contains 2 large folding maps (44.2 x 32 and 32 x 35.5 cm), and 19 lithographed plates by Marlet, including 6 nicely coloured by hand and one folding (14 x 36.5 cm), depicting views, costumes and sculpture of Mexico. Contemporary half green painted vellum, green paste paper sides, with brown title labels lettered in gold on the spines.

BULLOCK, William. · 1773

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

[4], III, LXXII, 364; [4], 370, [2]; 11 pp.Very rare first edition of the French translation of this important relation on Mexico by William Bullock (ca. 1773-1849), an English traveller, naturalist and antiquarian. He began as a jeweller and goldsmith in Sheffield, moved to L...

Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait par ordre du Roi dans la Grèce, L'Asie Mineure, La Macedoine et L'Afrique. Contenant la description de la Natolie, de la Caramanie, & de la Macedoine.Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and a title-page printed in red and black for each part, 9 folding engraved plates with pyramids, archeological findings, the Holy Grave, and inscriptions, 2 folding engraved maps of the Levant (engraved by B. Ruyter), and of Fioum, the Nile and surroundings in Egypt, and 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.

LUCAS, Paul. · 1664

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[1], [1 blank], [28], 323, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [8], 328 pp.Second edition of an interesting travel account through Greece, Asia Minor, The Holy Land, and Egypt by Paul Lucas (Rouen 1664-1737), merchant, naturalist, antiquary and physician during his second tour from 170...

Le Japon pittoresque.Paris, E. Plon & Co., 1879. 8vo. With 8 full-page engravings and several illustrations in text. Contemporary black half morocco.

DUBARD, Maurice. · 2011

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

[4], III, 388 pp.First edition of an account of a journey through Japan by Maurice Dubard, naval officer, with chapters on the Japanese (cultural) history, folklore and extensive descriptions of religious sites and applied arts. Good copy.l Cordier, Japonica, col. 654; Nippona...

Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium in qua omnes earum proprietates, praesertim quae ad generationem ipsarum pertinent, fusius enarrantur. | Die natürliche Historie der Frösche hiesigen Landes worinnen alle Eigenschaften derselben, sonderlich aber ihre Fortpflanzung, umständlich beschrieben werden.Nuremberg, Johann Joseph Fleischmann, [1753]-1758. 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (48 x 33 cm). With hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 2 sets of the 24 engraved plates. Each of the 24 plates is present twice: beautifully hand-coloured with the figures still unnumbered, and in black and white with the figures numbered (and key letters added) but with Rösel's name erased. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, August Johann. · 1705

€22,500.00 ($24,799.10 | £18,770.98 | ¥3,960,095)

[2], VIII, [6], 116 pp.First and only edition, in Latin and German, of a beautiful work on frogs and toads, important from both an artistic and scientific point of view. August Johann Rösel (1705-1759), the author and artist, was the only natural historian of his time who stud...

Souvenirs d'Orient. Anecdotes de voyage. - Légendes. - Moeurs, coutumes, etc. Détails nouveaux sur Malte, le Liban, la Syrie & l'Egypte, avec un grand nombre de dessins inédits, et les plans des principaux sanctuaires de Terre-Sainte.Paris, Lyon, Metz, Librairie Catholique de Pétisse frères, 1856. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 engravings and 4 engraved plans, one of which folding, and numerous illustrations in text by J. Verronnais after the original drawings by Emile Gentil. Original brown half morocco, gilt spine, title on spine lettered in gold.

GENTIL, Emile. · 1854

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

580 pp.Rare second issue of the first and only edition of a report of a journey from Lyon to Jerusalem and back by Emile Gentil, chevalier de Saint-Sépulcre. The report is devoted to Malta, Syria and Lebanon in the first part, and to Jerusalem and Egypt in the second part. The...

Historie ofte iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie, zedert haer begin tot het eynde van 't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-en-dertich. Begrepen in dertien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert.Including: LAET, Johannes de. Kort verhael uyt de voorgaende boecken ghetrocken vande diensten ende nuttigheden die desen staet heeft genooten by de West-Indische Compagnie; ende schaden die deselve den koningh van Spagnien heeft ghedaen sedert haer begin tot het eynde van den jaere 1636.Leiden, Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevier, 1644. Folio. With the title printed in red and black, with the Elzevier woodcut device, and 13 double-page engraved maps and views. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine with a black morocco title-label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges, gold-tooled board edges.

LAET, Johannes de. · 1623

€48,000.00 ($52,904.74 | £40,044.77 | ¥8,448,203)

[32], 544, 31, [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a very important and very rare account of the achievements and proceedings of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) from the year it was established (1623) until the year 1636. In thirteen books a detailed and truthful...

[Design for the frontispiece of Betje Wolff's Proeve over de opvoeding].[Amsterdam, 1779]. Drawing in black ink with grey watercolour washes (14 x 9 cm) on laid paper, tipped onto a larger leaf (30 x 21.5 cm).

WALDORP, Jan Gerard. · 1779

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

Attractive design in black ink with grey washes by Jan Gerard Waldorp, for the frontispiece of Betje Wolff's pedagogical essay Proeve over de opvoeding (1779). The drawing shows a lady entering a room where a mother is sitting with a baby, a cradle beside her, and several othe...

[The five senses:] Visus ... Gustus ... Tactus ... Olfactus ... Auditus. Antwerp, Jan Adriaensz. Collaert, [ca. 1618/28]. Large 24mo(?) album (14.5 x 10.5 cm). A complete series of 5 engraved prints on vellum (13 x 8.5 cm; oval image 10 x 7.5 cm) each illustrating one of the five senses with a female figure. Richly and very beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, in colour gouaches (red, blue, purple and green), extensively highlighted with gold. Each print mounted on a paper leaf in a small album. Green silk (ca. 1820?) over flexible boards.

[COLLAERT, Adriaen?]. · 1560

€32,500.00 ($35,820.92 | £27,113.64 | ¥5,720,137)

[5] engraved ll.A very rare complete set (only the second known to survive) of a print series of the five senses, attributed to the Antwerp artist-engraver Adriaen Collaert (ca. 1560-1618), printed on vellum, beautifully coloured with gouaches and extensively highlighted with ...

Le petit conteur d'anecdotes.Paris, chez Marcilly (printed by A. Firmin Didot), [ca. 1820]. Oblong 32mo (ca. 4.2 x 5.5 cm). With a finely engraved title showing a merry company in the woods, and 6 full-page engraved plates of costumes and professions. Original lithographed pink boards, with the title on the spine, gilt edges. The work is preserved in the original lithographed matching pink slipcase.

[CHILDREN'S BOOK].

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

95, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a charming miniature children's book with amusing stories and anecdotes, printed in small type by Didot. The work has been beautifully illustrated with elegant engraved plates on costumes and professions. The plates show a woman from ...

[12 drawings of Old Testament scenes].Amsterdam, 1783. Twelve pen and ink wash drawings (each ca. 8 x 6.5 cm) in subtle shades of grey and sepia. All 12 drawings mounted on a single contemporary stiff paper support (44 x 61 cm), neatly arranged in three rows of four, each with a border of lines drawn around it in ink. A contemporary pencil inscription below the lower right drawing reads "S. Fokke Amsterdam 1712-1784". Another in a later hand in the lower right corner of the support reads "S. Fokke".

FOKKE, Simon. · 1712

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

A set of drawings by Simon Fokke (1712-1784) made as models for the illustrations in J.F. Martinet's Alle de werken van Flavius Josephus (Amsterdam 1783-1787). The 12 pen and ink wash drawings vividly depict Old Testament scenes, very beautifully drawn and so subtly washed in ...

Lettres instructives et curieuses sur l'éducation de la jeunesse. ...[Grenoble, for the author], 1760. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco richly gold-tooled spine, ornamental borders on sides, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges.

MARTIN, Grégoire. · 1712

€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)

XXIII, [1 blank], 253, [5] pp.Rare essay on education, written in the form of letters and intended for fathers and private tutors of bourgeois families. In twenty-four letters, the book offers advice to pedagogues, as well as the lessons to give and the books to use with their...

Ueber Oeffentliche Schulen und Erziehungsanstalten. Nebst einigen Zusätzen zu den Grundsätzen der Erziehung und des Unterrichts für die Besitzer der ersten und zweyten Ausgabe. Halle, the author, Waisenhaus-Buchhandlung, 1799. 8vo. With engraved vignette on title-page. Contemporary boards.

NIEMEYER, August Hermann. · 1863

€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)

XVI, 328, [4] pp.First edition of a German plan of education, with the additions for the second and third editions of Grundsätzen der Erziehung und des Unterrichts bound in at the end and the extra title-page for these additions facing the main title-page. The book proposes an...

[18th-century manuscript document written in the name of Berend Hendrik Bentinck, lord of Schoonheten]. Incipit: Ik Berent Henrik Bentinck tot Schoonheten van wegens Ridderschap en steeden de staaten van de ...Overijssel, 16 July 1763. Small folio. Manuscript document in Dutch, written in brown ink on vellum.

[BENTINCK, Berend Hendrik]. · 1702

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

[1] leaf.Manuscript document by the hereditary and lieutenant stadtholder of the feudal tenure of Overijssel, written by their registrar J. Jordens, in the name of Berend Hendrik Bentinck (1702-1773), lord of Schoonheten, a homestead in the Salland IJssel Valley. He was marrie...

Meine Lebensschicksale als Vorsteher meiner Erziehungsinstitute in Burgdorf und Iferten. Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, 1826. 8vo. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers.

PESTALOZZI, Johann Heinrich. · 1746

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

[4], 251, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the public account, rendered by the famous Swiss educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), of what happened during his presidency of the pedagogical institutions in Burgdorf and Yverdun. He had hoped that with time the...

Traité de l'education des enfans.The Hague, Isaac & Paul Vaillant, Nicolas Prevost, 1722. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 2 title-pages in red and black, each with the same engraved vignette by Bernard Picart (ship in pictorial border with mermaid and merman), woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary polished tan calf, gold-tooled spine with, blind-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges.

CROUSAZ, Jean-Pierre de. · 1663

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[20], 471, [1 blank]; [4], 564 pp.First edition of an influential, but now nearly forgotten, scientifically grounded monograph on the education of children by the Swiss philosopher and mathematician Jean-Pierre de Crousaz (1663-1750). This systematic work forms an important li...

Les plans et les statuts, des différents établissements ordonnés par sa Majésté Impériale Catherine II. pour l'education de la jeunesse, et l'utilité générale de son Empire.Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, engraved allegorical plate, 3 large folding engraved plans, 4 folding tables, and 64 large engraved head-pieces, tail-pieces and allegorical engravings in text, including the coat of arms, medal and seal of Catherine the Great of Russia. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked with gold-tooled spine.

BETZKY (BETSKOI), Ivan Ivanovitch. · 1704

€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)

VI, [2], 160, 42, [2]; 160 pp.First edition in French of a collection of texts concerning education by the Russian school reformer Ivan Ivanovitch Betzky (1704-1795), several commissioned by Catherine the Great, who was rumoured to be his biological daughter. The publication w...

Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras bote-medel: tilförene styckewis utgifne uti de små allmanachorna, nu samlade, tilökte och förbättrade.Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1764. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut gothic initials and cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Contemporary half calf.

ROSEN VON ROSENSTEIN, Nils. · 1706

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

[2], 363, [11] pp.Rare first separately published edition, in the original Swedish, thoroughly corrected and enlarged by the author, of the classic on paediatrics by Rosen von Rosenstein (1706-1773), originally published in parts in the Calendars of the Swedish Royal Academy o...