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Two autograph letters to Horace Gybland Oosterhoff.Brussels, 3 October and 7 October 1936. Folio. Folded.
Two autograph letters to Horace Gybland Oosterhoff.Brussels, 3 October and 7 October 1936. Folio. Folded.
SWART, Henri Nicolas Alfred. · 1836
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
[1] and [2] ll.Two original letters by the Dutch lieutenant-general Henri Nicolas Alfred Swart (1836-1946), formerly governor and “pacifier” of Aceh (North Sumatra) for ten years, where he managed to bring the conquered province to peace again, and vice president of the Counci...
Le sentiment analysé ou l'école de l'adolescence.Paris, Chez Janet, [1805]. 32mo. With 12 full-page engraved plates showing young people talking, playing, and courting. Contemporary gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco.
Le sentiment analysé ou l'école de l'adolescence.Paris, Chez Janet, [1805]. 32mo. With 12 full-page engraved plates showing young people talking, playing, and courting. Contemporary gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco.
[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. · 1805
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
16, 24, 17-31 [=15], [1] pp.Exceptionally rare edition of this charming almanac for 1805 and 1806, with a calendar for one and a half year, running from September 1805 to December 1806. This was done because the work followed after almanacs that used the French Republican Cale...
Les plaisirs de la campagne.Paris, Marcilly, imprimerie Maulde et Renou, [ca. 1825]. Oblong 32mo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 7 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary green boards, with the title printed in black on the front, surrounded by an ornamental embossed border. The work is housed in a contemporary green paper slipcase.
Les plaisirs de la campagne.Paris, Marcilly, imprimerie Maulde et Renou, [ca. 1825]. Oblong 32mo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 7 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary green boards, with the title printed in black on the front, surrounded by an ornamental embossed border. The work is housed in a contemporary green paper slipcase.
[CHILDREN'S BOOK - FRENCH].
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
96 pp.Charming miniature book for children, illustrated with several full-page engraved plates. The work narrates the story of two children who are bored after leaving Paris. However, their father teaches them the small pleasures that can be found in the countryside in each se...
Opera Omnia, recensuit Filon.Paris, A. Sautelet, 1828. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue morocco, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, a floral border in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a single fillet frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk end papers.
Opera Omnia, recensuit Filon.Paris, A. Sautelet, 1828. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue morocco, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, a floral border in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a single fillet frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk end papers.
HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus and Auguste FILON (editor) · 1765
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
VIII, 229, [1 blank] pp.Beautiful and finely bound miniature edition of the complete works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace, 65-8 BCE), and one of the real miracles of microscopic printing. The microscopic, 2.5 point type was created by Henri Didot the Elder (1765-1852) in ...
Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques, et modernes, tant dans la ville de Rome, ques autres villes et lieux d'Italie. Croissant, Adam Philippon, 1645. Wholly engraved print series consisting of a title-page, dedication, privilege, and 50 plates. The leaves are numbered 1-42, followed by 10 plates with their numbers changed by hand, and the privilege. With: (2) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Frizes feuillages ou Tritons marins antiques et modernes.Paris, P. Mariette, [ca. 1664]. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates, each with two friezes. 2 series in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 18.5 cm). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques, et modernes, tant dans la ville de Rome, ques autres villes et lieux d'Italie. Croissant, Adam Philippon, 1645. Wholly engraved print series consisting of a title-page, dedication, privilege, and 50 plates. The leaves are numbered 1-42, followed by 10 plates with their numbers changed by hand, and the privilege. With: (2) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Frizes feuillages ou Tritons marins antiques et modernes.Paris, P. Mariette, [ca. 1664]. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates, each with two friezes. 2 series in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 18.5 cm). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
PHILIPPON, Adam. · 1640
€7,000.00 ($7,715.27 | £5,839.86 | ¥1,232,030)
[59] ll.Ad 1: rare series of engravings of Roman art and architecture after drawings made by the French draughtsman Adam Philippon during his travels in Italy. "Adam Philippon was Jean Le Pautre's teacher, and the present suite was, in part, etched by Le Pautre after his maste...
[Autograph letter, signed ("A. Harloff"), to Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff].The Hague, 6 May, 1933. Folded double leaf (21.6 x 14). In Dutch.
[Autograph letter, signed ("A. Harloff"), to Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff].The Hague, 6 May, 1933. Folded double leaf (21.6 x 14). In Dutch.
[AUTOGRAPH]. HARLOFF, Anton Johan Wouter. · 1887
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
3 pp text.A letter by Anton Harloff, a conservative politician and member of the Raad van Nederlandsch Indië, on a discharged soldier named "Holland", who had apparently written the Verbond van Nationaal Herstel to help him find his son a job in state's service. The soldier, l...
Wiskonstige beschryving der reguliere lichamen, aantoonende hoe men die uit massieve stoffe kan maaken, hun inhoud berekenen, en op dezelven zonnewyzers beschryven.Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates showing mathematical figures by F. de Bakker, and several woodcut tailpieces. Modern half green buckram.
Wiskonstige beschryving der reguliere lichamen, aantoonende hoe men die uit massieve stoffe kan maaken, hun inhoud berekenen, en op dezelven zonnewyzers beschryven.Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates showing mathematical figures by F. de Bakker, and several woodcut tailpieces. Modern half green buckram.
ERZEY, Adrianus. · 1719
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[10], 164, [2] pp.First and only edition of this Dutch mathematical manual devoted to the construction and calculation of the 5 Platonic solids, while at the same time serving as a practical handbook for the design and inscription of sundials upon their faces. The work was wri...
Horologiographia plana: in qua omne genus sciotericorum horologiorum, quae plano cuilibet inscribi possunt, certis evidentibusq[ue]; . . . Middelburg, Zacharias Roman, 1663. Small folio (28.5×17.5 cm). With 61 woodcuts in the text (1 repeated on the title page, illustrating a sundial), many more than half-page, including both sundials and diagrams illustrating how they work. With extensive 19th-century manuscript notes on the back of the title page. Lacking 2 leaves containing Roman's dedication. Modern paper-covered boards.
Horologiographia plana: in qua omne genus sciotericorum horologiorum, quae plano cuilibet inscribi possunt, certis evidentibusq[ue]; . . . Middelburg, Zacharias Roman, 1663. Small folio (28.5×17.5 cm). With 61 woodcuts in the text (1 repeated on the title page, illustrating a sundial), many more than half-page, including both sundials and diagrams illustrating how they work. With extensive 19th-century manuscript notes on the back of the title page. Lacking 2 leaves containing Roman's dedication. Modern paper-covered boards.
LANSBERGE, Philip van.
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[2], 53 pp.Rare first (and only Latin) edition of Van Lansberge's detailed and well-illustrated treatise on sundials, posthumously published by Zacharias Roman in Middelburg, who had published most of his works. Roman says he found this text in manuscript among the papers of V...
L'architecture à la mode ou sont les nouveaux dessins pour la décoration des bâtimens et jardins. Par les plus habils architectes sculpteurs peintres menuisiers jardiniers serruriers &c.Paris, Nicolas Langlois, [ca. 1675-ca. 1728? (engraved ca. 1655-ca. 1728)]. 2 volumes. Folio (31.5 x 22 cm). With 2 (identical) engraved title-pages and 497 engravings on 496 plates, including 52 double-page. Contemporary uniform brown calf, gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled board edges. Rebacked.
L'architecture à la mode ou sont les nouveaux dessins pour la décoration des bâtimens et jardins. Par les plus habils architectes sculpteurs peintres menuisiers jardiniers serruriers &c.Paris, Nicolas Langlois, [ca. 1675-ca. 1728? (engraved ca. 1655-ca. 1728)]. 2 volumes. Folio (31.5 x 22 cm). With 2 (identical) engraved title-pages and 497 engravings on 496 plates, including 52 double-page. Contemporary uniform brown calf, gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled board edges. Rebacked.
[LE PAUTRE, Jean and Pierre, and others]. · 1640
€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)
[498] engr. ll., numbered in about 50 series.Magnificent collection of about 50 complete series of engravings of all kinds of ornaments and architectural details, mostly by Jean and Pierre Le Pautre. In the late seventeenth century, the enterprising Parisian print publisher Ni...
La geometria prattica. Cavata da gl'elementi d'Euclide e d'altri famosi autori, con l'esposizione di Giovanni Scala famoso matematico ridotta in cinquanta tavole scolpite in rame dalle quali con facilita si possono apprendere tutte le cose, che al buon geometra appartengono.Rome, (colophon: printed by Andrea Fei, 1623, for) Gio. Angelo Ruffinelli, 1624. Folio. With title within engraved architectural border and 51 full-page engraved illustrations, the first 44 (number 1-44) after designs by Pomodoro and the last 7 plates (numbered 1-7) by Scala, colophon with large woodcut printer's device of Andrea Fei. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
La geometria prattica. Cavata da gl'elementi d'Euclide e d'altri famosi autori, con l'esposizione di Giovanni Scala famoso matematico ridotta in cinquanta tavole scolpite in rame dalle quali con facilita si possono apprendere tutte le cose, che al buon geometra appartengono.Rome, (colophon: printed by Andrea Fei, 1623, for) Gio. Angelo Ruffinelli, 1624. Folio. With title within engraved architectural border and 51 full-page engraved illustrations, the first 44 (number 1-44) after designs by Pomodoro and the last 7 plates (numbered 1-7) by Scala, colophon with large woodcut printer's device of Andrea Fei. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
POMODORO, Giovanni & Giovanni SCALA. · 1599
€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)
[57], [1 blank] ll.First 17th-century edition of this important and finely illustrated manual of Euclidean geometry (the geometrical system attributed to Alexandrian Greek mathematician Euclid) and its practical applications for surveyors, architects and others by the military...
Emblemata physico-ethica, hoc est naturae morum moderatricis picta pracepta.Nürnberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1617. With: (2) TAURELLUS, Nicolaeus. Carmina funebria, quae magnorum aliquot, clarorum que virorum felici memoriae dicavit. Nürnberg, Christophor Lochner the elder, 1602. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with Halbmayer’s woodcut globe, bird and book device on the title page, 116 emblematic woodcuts, in most cases incorporating a coat of arms, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut decorations and decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Set mostly in italic type with most of the preliminaries in roman. Ad 2: with the title in a frame built up from arabesque typographic ornaments, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut and built-up decorative bands. Set in italic types with extensive passages in roman. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, traces of ties.
Emblemata physico-ethica, hoc est naturae morum moderatricis picta pracepta.Nürnberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1617. With: (2) TAURELLUS, Nicolaeus. Carmina funebria, quae magnorum aliquot, clarorum que virorum felici memoriae dicavit. Nürnberg, Christophor Lochner the elder, 1602. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with Halbmayer’s woodcut globe, bird and book device on the title page, 116 emblematic woodcuts, in most cases incorporating a coat of arms, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut decorations and decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Set mostly in italic type with most of the preliminaries in roman. Ad 2: with the title in a frame built up from arabesque typographic ornaments, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut and built-up decorative bands. Set in italic types with extensive passages in roman. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, traces of ties.
TAURELLUS, Nicolaeus. · 1547
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[23], [120] ll; 38, [2 blank] pp.Ad 1: Second edition, in the rare second issue, of an emblem book by Nicolaeus Taurellus (1547-1606), German philosopher and professor of medicine and physics who studied at Tübingen and Basel and taught at Basel and Altdorf (near Nürnberg), fi...
Bloeyende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. Waar in met eene geoeffende ervaarenheit de geheele omslag deezer visscherye beschreeven, en wat daar in dient waargenomen, naaukeurig verhandelt wordt. Uitgebreid met eene korte historische beschryving der noordere gewesten, voornamentlyk Groenlandt, Yslandt, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen Eilandt, de Straat Davis, en al 't aanmerklykste in d'ontdekking deezer landen, en in de visschery voorgevallen. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst, in haare hoedanigheden, behandelingen, 't scheepsleeven en gedrag beschouwt, door Abraham Moubach.Amsterdam, Joannes Oosterwyk, 1720. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Folkema after F. Ottens, 6 folding engraved maps, and 7 engraved plates (including 1 folding showing ships at sea by A. Salm after Van der Hem). Further with the title page printed in red and black, a small woodcut vignette on the title page, some woodcut decorated initials, and some large woodcut floral tailpieces. Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled paper sides.
Bloeyende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. Waar in met eene geoeffende ervaarenheit de geheele omslag deezer visscherye beschreeven, en wat daar in dient waargenomen, naaukeurig verhandelt wordt. Uitgebreid met eene korte historische beschryving der noordere gewesten, voornamentlyk Groenlandt, Yslandt, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen Eilandt, de Straat Davis, en al 't aanmerklykste in d'ontdekking deezer landen, en in de visschery voorgevallen. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst, in haare hoedanigheden, behandelingen, 't scheepsleeven en gedrag beschouwt, door Abraham Moubach.Amsterdam, Joannes Oosterwyk, 1720. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Folkema after F. Ottens, 6 folding engraved maps, and 7 engraved plates (including 1 folding showing ships at sea by A. Salm after Van der Hem). Further with the title page printed in red and black, a small woodcut vignette on the title page, some woodcut decorated initials, and some large woodcut floral tailpieces. Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled paper sides.
ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertz. and Abraham MOUBACH.
€6,950.00 ($7,660.16 | £5,798.15 | ¥1,223,229)
[38], 330, [14] pp.First edition of the most important early account of whaling in the northern seas. The author, a ship's commander in the Dutch Greenland fleet, describes the history of the Dutch whaling in the northern seas. Dutch whaling, dominating in Europe for most of t...
Flora, seu de florum cultura lib. IV.Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1646. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece with an engraved portrait of the author on its verso and 45 full-page engraved plates, including 31 botanical illustrations, 8 plans for gardens, and 6 allegorical illustrations. Further with an ornamental woodcut vignette on the title-page and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties
Flora, seu de florum cultura lib. IV.Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1646. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece with an engraved portrait of the author on its verso and 45 full-page engraved plates, including 31 botanical illustrations, 8 plans for gardens, and 6 allegorical illustrations. Further with an ornamental woodcut vignette on the title-page and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties
FERRARI, Giovanni Battista and Bernhard ROTTENDORFF (editor). · 1633
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[48], 522, [12] pp.First Amsterdam edition of an "invaluable" (Masson) work on seventeenth-century Italian gardens. The first edition, written in Latin appeared in Rome in 1633 and an Italian translation appeared in 1638. The present work contains a newly edited version of the...
[Autograph letter by Dirk van Hogendorp to the Amsterdam solicitor J. de Vries jr.].[Amsterdam], 12 July 1833. 8vo (ca. 19,5 x 22,7 cm). Text within a black border, which does not continue along the lower edge of the sheet.
[Autograph letter by Dirk van Hogendorp to the Amsterdam solicitor J. de Vries jr.].[Amsterdam], 12 July 1833. 8vo (ca. 19,5 x 22,7 cm). Text within a black border, which does not continue along the lower edge of the sheet.
HOGENDORP, Dirk van. · 1797
€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)
[4] pp.Letter by a member of one of the most respectable families of the Netherlands, Dirk van Hogendorp (1797-1845), the son of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1762-1834), one of the famous “Driemanschap” (Triumvirate) that invited Willem Frederick, the eldest son of Stadtholde...
Le vrai patineur, ou principes sur l'art de patiner avec grace, précédé de réflexions et de remarques critiques sur la manière de quelques patineurs inélégans, ainsi que sur les différens formes de patins, le choix quel'on doit en faire, et les variations dont cette chaussure est susceptible. Paris, Delespinasse, Delaunaux, Nepveu, the author (printed by Joseph-Gaspard Gillé fils), 1813. 12mo (18 x 10.5 cm). With 8 numbered engraved plates, namely a frontispiece view of a skating rink with many skaters, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 images of individual skaters, each in a different pose. Later blue paper wrappers. Preserved in modern half morocco slipcase.
Le vrai patineur, ou principes sur l'art de patiner avec grace, précédé de réflexions et de remarques critiques sur la manière de quelques patineurs inélégans, ainsi que sur les différens formes de patins, le choix quel'on doit en faire, et les variations dont cette chaussure est susceptible. Paris, Delespinasse, Delaunaux, Nepveu, the author (printed by Joseph-Gaspard Gillé fils), 1813. 12mo (18 x 10.5 cm). With 8 numbered engraved plates, namely a frontispiece view of a skating rink with many skaters, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 images of individual skaters, each in a different pose. Later blue paper wrappers. Preserved in modern half morocco slipcase.
GARCIN, Jean. · 1793
€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)
XXIV, 93, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the first French ice-skating manual, describing many movements and poses with an emphasis on grace and form, illustrated with 8 engraved plates. Unlike English skaters, who advocated a more straightforward approach, Garcin compared skati...
Gezigten uit Neêrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven.Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en Zonen (printed by C.A. Spin), [1844-45]. Large folio (52 x 35 cm). With a wood-engraved view of the Palace at Buitenzorg on title, signed by P. Lauters and W. Brown, and 50 full-page lithographed views and plates (ca. 22 x 31 cm) by P. Lauters after the designs by the author. Contemporary green half morocco.
Gezigten uit Neêrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven.Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en Zonen (printed by C.A. Spin), [1844-45]. Large folio (52 x 35 cm). With a wood-engraved view of the Palace at Buitenzorg on title, signed by P. Lauters and W. Brown, and 50 full-page lithographed views and plates (ca. 22 x 31 cm) by P. Lauters after the designs by the author. Contemporary green half morocco.
VELDE, Charles William Meredith van de. · 1806
€14,000.00 ($15,430.55 | £11,679.72 | ¥2,464,059)
[8], 87, [1 blank] pp.Very beautiful and luxuriously illustrated work on Indonesia, published by Frans Buffa en Zonen, at that time the most famous lithographic workshop in Amsterdam. All 50 plates were carefully lithographed by Paulus Lauters (1806-1876), who also had worked ...
Voyage au Sénégal, ou mémoires historiques, philosophiques et politiques sur les découvertes, les établissemens et le commerce des Européens dans les mers de l'Océan Atlantique, depuis le Cap-Blanc jusqu'à la rivière de Serre-Lionne inclusivement; suivis de la relation d'un voyage par terre de l'île Saint-Louis à Galam, et du texte arabe de trois traités de commerce faits par l'auteur avec les princes de pays.Paris, Henri Agasse, 1802. 2 volumes (1 text and 1 atlas). 4to. Atlas with an engraved portrait of Léonard Durand, 16 double-page engraved maps (mostly folding) and 27 engraved plates. Modern dark green half morocco, gold-tooled spine, upper edges gilt.
Voyage au Sénégal, ou mémoires historiques, philosophiques et politiques sur les découvertes, les établissemens et le commerce des Européens dans les mers de l'Océan Atlantique, depuis le Cap-Blanc jusqu'à la rivière de Serre-Lionne inclusivement; suivis de la relation d'un voyage par terre de l'île Saint-Louis à Galam, et du texte arabe de trois traités de commerce faits par l'auteur avec les princes de pays.Paris, Henri Agasse, 1802. 2 volumes (1 text and 1 atlas). 4to. Atlas with an engraved portrait of Léonard Durand, 16 double-page engraved maps (mostly folding) and 27 engraved plates. Modern dark green half morocco, gold-tooled spine, upper edges gilt.
DURAND, Jean-Baptiste-Léonard. · 1742
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[4], XXXII, 420; VIII, [4], 68 [1 blank] pp.Attractive copy of the first edition, in the original French, of an account of the 15-month commercial expedition to Senegal and Sierra-Leone, initiated by the French African Company and led by Jean-Baptiste-Léonard Durand (1742-1812...
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis.Including:- ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophi ... de signis aquarum: & tempestatum.- ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophurum ... de mineralibus.- ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS. De intellectu.- AVERROES. De beatitudine anime.- ACHILLINI, Alexander. De universalibus.- ALEXANDER THE GREAT [pseudo]. De mirabilibus Indie.(Colophon:) Lyon, Antoine Blanchard [printer's device of Louis Martin on last page, with initials L.M.], 23 March 1528. Small 8vo. With a title page with a 4-piece decorated woodcut border with flowers, birds and snails (with initials EB?), woodcut printer's device on last page, 6 woodcut initials (3 series) and a leaf ornament. Set in 3 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with the title in roman capitals. Contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin(?) parchment over wooden boards, sewn on 2 double cords, in a panel design with quadruple fillets and 2 decorative rolls (one with winged heads and tassles, the other with quatrefoils in lozenges), brass catch-plates and anchor-plates (straps and clasps lost).
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis.Including:- ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophi ... de signis aquarum: & tempestatum.- ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophurum ... de mineralibus.- ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS. De intellectu.- AVERROES. De beatitudine anime.- ACHILLINI, Alexander. De universalibus.- ALEXANDER THE GREAT [pseudo]. De mirabilibus Indie.(Colophon:) Lyon, Antoine Blanchard [printer's device of Louis Martin on last page, with initials L.M.], 23 March 1528. Small 8vo. With a title page with a 4-piece decorated woodcut border with flowers, birds and snails (with initials EB?), woodcut printer's device on last page, 6 woodcut initials (3 series) and a leaf ornament. Set in 3 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with the title in roman capitals. Contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin(?) parchment over wooden boards, sewn on 2 double cords, in a panel design with quadruple fillets and 2 decorative rolls (one with winged heads and tassles, the other with quatrefoils in lozenges), brass catch-plates and anchor-plates (straps and clasps lost).
[ACHILLINI, Alessandro]. · 1463
€11,500.00 ($12,675.09 | £9,594.06 | ¥2,024,049)
LXXXIII ll.Fourth edition of a collection of seven treatises on medicine and philosophy, edited by Alessandro Achillini (1463-1512), originally published as Secretum secretorum at Bologna in 1501 (perhaps without the second and third works). It first appeared under the present...
Histoire et voyage de la Terre-Sainte, où tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable dans les saints lieux, est tres exactement descrit. Lyon, Pierre Compagnon & Robert Taillandier, 1671. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and 17 folding engraved plates showing maps, views, and plans of regions, mountains and buildings in the Holy Land, further with woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf.
Histoire et voyage de la Terre-Sainte, où tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable dans les saints lieux, est tres exactement descrit. Lyon, Pierre Compagnon & Robert Taillandier, 1671. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and 17 folding engraved plates showing maps, views, and plans of regions, mountains and buildings in the Holy Land, further with woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf.
GOUJON, Jacques. · 1621
€11,500.00 ($12,675.09 | £9,594.06 | ¥2,024,049)
[1], [1 blank], [10], 358, [9], [1 blank] pp.Rare, nicely illustrated second edition of a work containing extensive information about and documentation on sacred places in the Holy Land, by Jacques Goujon. Goujon (1621-1693), a Franciscan born in Dijon, was initially a fur tra...
Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ...Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo (17 x 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards.
Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ...Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo (17 x 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards.
BOSMAN, Willem. · 1672
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[16], 520 pp.First edition of the French translation of a work on the trade-settlements on the West Coast of Africa. The author, Willem Bosman (b. 1672), was Chief Factor at Fort Elmina for the Dutch West Indian Company. "He stayed on the coast for fourteen years, his Voyage d...