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Jornada de Africa por el Rey Don Sebastian y union del reyno de Portugal a la corona de Castilla. Barcelona, Pedro Lacavalleria, 1630. 4to. Each page framed with thin printed rules. Contemporary gold-tooled leather (blackened and flaking), each board with the helmed and mantled arms of the Mazarin family in the centre.
Jornada de Africa por el Rey Don Sebastian y union del reyno de Portugal a la corona de Castilla. Barcelona, Pedro Lacavalleria, 1630. 4to. Each page framed with thin printed rules. Contemporary gold-tooled leather (blackened and flaking), each board with the helmed and mantled arms of the Mazarin family in the centre.
MESA, Sebastian de. · 1554
€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)
[2], 169, [1] ll.First and only edition of an account of the life, death and succession of King Sebastião I of Portugal (1554-1578), written in Spanish by Sebastian de Mesa. Sebastião became king of Portugal at the age of three, after the death of his grandfather João III. He ...
Le theatre de l'art de c[h]arpentier enrichi de diverses figures avec linterpretation dicelles faict & dresse par Mathurin Jousse.Including: [JOUSSE, Mathurin]. Brief traicte des cinq ordres des colomnes.La Fleche, Georges Griveau, 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a richly engraved title page, 125 woodcut illustrations (7 double page, 118 full-page), and 5 large half-page woodcuts in the main work; 2 general perspectival model designs on 2 full-page plates, and 5 half-page woodcuts in the treatise. 19th-century gold-tooled green half morocco, with the author, title, year of publication, and bookbinder (Vogel) lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers.
Le theatre de l'art de c[h]arpentier enrichi de diverses figures avec linterpretation dicelles faict & dresse par Mathurin Jousse.Including: [JOUSSE, Mathurin]. Brief traicte des cinq ordres des colomnes.La Fleche, Georges Griveau, 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a richly engraved title page, 125 woodcut illustrations (7 double page, 118 full-page), and 5 large half-page woodcuts in the main work; 2 general perspectival model designs on 2 full-page plates, and 5 half-page woodcuts in the treatise. 19th-century gold-tooled green half morocco, with the author, title, year of publication, and bookbinder (Vogel) lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers.
JOUSSE, Mathurin. · 1814
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[4], "176" [= 172]; 14 pp.Rare original edition of a very important and most richly illustrated model book on timber frame construction for use of carpenters, beautifully bound by E. Vogel (fl. 1814-1849) from Paris, one of the best French bookbinders from the Romantic era, wh...
Newe Keijser Chronick: das ist, warhaffte und vollkommene Beschreibung aller Römischen Keyser, so wol deren gegen Nider- als gegen Auffgang, von C. Julio Caesare, dem ersten Römischen Monarchen, biss auff jetztregierende Keyserl. May. Ferdinandum II. und das Jahr 1628 ...Frankfurt am Main, Eberhard Kieser, 1629. With: (2) STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Continuation der Keyser Chronick, oder eigentliche, und wahrhaftige, historische Beschreibung der Leben unnd Thaten, beyder grossmächtigen Römischen Keyser, Matthiae I. und der jetznoch regierenden Keys. May. Ferdinandi II. Königen in Böhmen, &c. ... Frankfurt am Main, Caspar Röteln for Eberhardt Kieser, 1628. (3) STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Genealogia, das ist, Geschlecht Register, oder Stammbaum, und Verzeichnusz aller Potentaten, Keyser, Königen, Ertzhertzogen und Fürsten ... Frankfurt am Main, for Eberhard Kieser, 1629. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with the title set in a richly engraved border, a half page engraving of the coat of arms of the dedicatee Don Guillermo Verdugo on f. (2)r, and numerous engravings of coins with the portraits of the emperors in the text. Ad 2: with 10 engravings of both sides of coins in the text. Ad 3: with a large folding engraving (92 x 46.5 cm.) of the genealogical tree of the Dukes and Archidukes of Austria. With numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. (Near?) Contemporary mottled calf with a large gold-tooled armorial centre piece on both arms (of the Czernin family, a Czech noble family), a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, red and light blue sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
Newe Keijser Chronick: das ist, warhaffte und vollkommene Beschreibung aller Römischen Keyser, so wol deren gegen Nider- als gegen Auffgang, von C. Julio Caesare, dem ersten Römischen Monarchen, biss auff jetztregierende Keyserl. May. Ferdinandum II. und das Jahr 1628 ...Frankfurt am Main, Eberhard Kieser, 1629. With: (2) STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Continuation der Keyser Chronick, oder eigentliche, und wahrhaftige, historische Beschreibung der Leben unnd Thaten, beyder grossmächtigen Römischen Keyser, Matthiae I. und der jetznoch regierenden Keys. May. Ferdinandi II. Königen in Böhmen, &c. ... Frankfurt am Main, Caspar Röteln for Eberhardt Kieser, 1628. (3) STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Genealogia, das ist, Geschlecht Register, oder Stammbaum, und Verzeichnusz aller Potentaten, Keyser, Königen, Ertzhertzogen und Fürsten ... Frankfurt am Main, for Eberhard Kieser, 1629. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with the title set in a richly engraved border, a half page engraving of the coat of arms of the dedicatee Don Guillermo Verdugo on f. (2)r, and numerous engravings of coins with the portraits of the emperors in the text. Ad 2: with 10 engravings of both sides of coins in the text. Ad 3: with a large folding engraving (92 x 46.5 cm.) of the genealogical tree of the Dukes and Archidukes of Austria. With numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. (Near?) Contemporary mottled calf with a large gold-tooled armorial centre piece on both arms (of the Czernin family, a Czech noble family), a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, red and light blue sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. · 1618
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[4], 596, [10], [2 blank]; 87, [1 blank]; 37, [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: Second German edition of this extremely rare history on the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire from Julius Caesar to Rudolph II and Matthias, originally written in Latin by Octavius de Strada à Rosberg and transla...
Bijzonderheden over Japan, behelzende een verslag van de huwelijkse plegtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen. De Gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat Rijk.The Hague, the widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 4 hand-coloured folding aquatint plates, and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page of each volume. Contemporary marbled boards.
Bijzonderheden over Japan, behelzende een verslag van de huwelijkse plegtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen. De Gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat Rijk.The Hague, the widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 4 hand-coloured folding aquatint plates, and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page of each volume. Contemporary marbled boards.
TITSINGH, Isaac. · 1745
€6,900.00 ($7,605.06 | £5,756.44 | ¥1,214,429)
XVI, 250; [1], [1 blank], 264 pp.First Dutch edition of a beautifully illustrated work on the Japanese festive ceremonies and customs. The work was written by Isaac Titsingh (1745-1812), then Head of the Dutch Factory at Decima, the only place in Japan from where connections w...
Le vray pietisme ou traité, dans lequel on explique la nature & les éffets de la piété; la juste étendue du renoncement au monde; où l'on remonte à la source générale du peu de vertu qu'il y a entre les Chrétiens, où l'on indique les moyens d'acquérir une piété solide; & où l'on fait connoître comment la piété nous dispose à l'égard de ceux qui ne pensent pas comme nous en matière de religion.Basel, Jean Brandmuller, 1731. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by F.A. Störcklein. Contemporary vellum, with large embroidered coat of arms on front board (17.5 x 15.5 x 1 cm), with silver and gold thread.
Le vray pietisme ou traité, dans lequel on explique la nature & les éffets de la piété; la juste étendue du renoncement au monde; où l'on remonte à la source générale du peu de vertu qu'il y a entre les Chrétiens, où l'on indique les moyens d'acquérir une piété solide; & où l'on fait connoître comment la piété nous dispose à l'égard de ceux qui ne pensent pas comme nous en matière de religion.Basel, Jean Brandmuller, 1731. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by F.A. Störcklein. Contemporary vellum, with large embroidered coat of arms on front board (17.5 x 15.5 x 1 cm), with silver and gold thread.
ROQUES, Pierre. · 1685
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
7, [1 blank], [12], 596, 70, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the main work of Pierre Roques (1685-1748), French Protestant minister in Basel. It is a defence of a "true pietism", i.e. a rational and tolerant form of piety, against liberalism on the one hand and “enthusiasm”...
De liberorum educatione aurei libri sex noviter recogniti Francisci Philelphi. poete. Oratoris. philosophique prestantissimi. Succincto cum iudice [recté indice]: et brevibus marginariis annotationibus obscurarum sensa dictionum aperientibus. Nicolai Bonespei trecensis campani cura superadditis.(Colophon: Paris, “apud Gourmontios” [= the brothers Robert, Gilles and Jean de Gourmont], 1508). Small 4to (19 x 13 cm). With numerous printed so-called Lombardic initials, but also with 2 spaces (with guide letters) left for manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in a roman type with the beginning of the title and one heading in a large rotunda gothic type with decorated capitals. Blind-tooled calf (19th century? in a "Medieval" style).
De liberorum educatione aurei libri sex noviter recogniti Francisci Philelphi. poete. Oratoris. philosophique prestantissimi. Succincto cum iudice [recté indice]: et brevibus marginariis annotationibus obscurarum sensa dictionum aperientibus. Nicolai Bonespei trecensis campani cura superadditis.(Colophon: Paris, “apud Gourmontios” [= the brothers Robert, Gilles and Jean de Gourmont], 1508). Small 4to (19 x 13 cm). With numerous printed so-called Lombardic initials, but also with 2 spaces (with guide letters) left for manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in a roman type with the beginning of the title and one heading in a large rotunda gothic type with decorated capitals. Blind-tooled calf (19th century? in a "Medieval" style).
VEGIO, Maffeo. · 1406
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
CXXVIII, [6] ll.Rare fourth edition, in the original Latin (the first dated edition published in France), of an important and influential pedagogical work by Maffeo Vegio (1406/07-1458), who is regarded by many as the finest Latin poet of the fifteenth-century, here edited by ...
Piae precationes ad missas devote celebrandas, et sacrosanctam eucharistiam sumendam. Cum variis orationibus ex bonis & probatis authoribus collectis. Rome, Aloysius Zannettus, 1604. 8vo. With a woodcut title page and some ornamented woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled brown morocco, with gauffered edges.
Piae precationes ad missas devote celebrandas, et sacrosanctam eucharistiam sumendam. Cum variis orationibus ex bonis & probatis authoribus collectis. Rome, Aloysius Zannettus, 1604. 8vo. With a woodcut title page and some ornamented woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled brown morocco, with gauffered edges.
[PRAYER BOOK]. · 1609
€27,500.00 ($30,310.00 | £22,942.32 | ¥4,840,116)
272 pp.Very rare copy of probably the first edition of this collection of prayers to be said before and after Mass. Later editions were published in 1609 and 1621.The magnificent baroque binding is of Roman design and can be attributed to the Soresini atelier. It is executed i...
Algerie historique, pittoresque et monumentale, ou Recueil de vues, costumes et portraits faits d'après nature dans les provinces d'Alger, Bone, Constantine et Oran.Paris, Delahaye (part-titles: printed by Dondey-Dupré), 1843. 5 parts in 3 volumes. Royal 1mo (57 x 42.5 cm). With chromo-lithographed general title-page, tinted lithographed frontispiece, 2 lithographed maps hand-coloured in outline, and 133 lithographed plates (image size up to 44.5 x 30.5 cm, nearly all non-botanical ones tinted and one with 2 chromolithographed and hand-coloured costume prints) by and after artists including Charles Bour, Eugène Flandin, Félix Emmanuel Henri Philippoteaux and Denis Auguste Marie Raffet. Also with lithographed views (and a few lithographed maps) printed in the tail margins at the ends of many chapters, and 45 white-on-black wood-engravings of coins (each with obverse and reverse) in the text. The 72 botanical illustrations on the last 10 lithographed plates are coloured by hand and highlighted with gum arabic. The non-botanical plates have the publisher's embossed stamp in the foot margin. Contemporary, uniform dark green half goatskin morocco with a gold-tooled spine.
Algerie historique, pittoresque et monumentale, ou Recueil de vues, costumes et portraits faits d'après nature dans les provinces d'Alger, Bone, Constantine et Oran.Paris, Delahaye (part-titles: printed by Dondey-Dupré), 1843. 5 parts in 3 volumes. Royal 1mo (57 x 42.5 cm). With chromo-lithographed general title-page, tinted lithographed frontispiece, 2 lithographed maps hand-coloured in outline, and 133 lithographed plates (image size up to 44.5 x 30.5 cm, nearly all non-botanical ones tinted and one with 2 chromolithographed and hand-coloured costume prints) by and after artists including Charles Bour, Eugène Flandin, Félix Emmanuel Henri Philippoteaux and Denis Auguste Marie Raffet. Also with lithographed views (and a few lithographed maps) printed in the tail margins at the ends of many chapters, and 45 white-on-black wood-engravings of coins (each with obverse and reverse) in the text. The 72 botanical illustrations on the last 10 lithographed plates are coloured by hand and highlighted with gum arabic. The non-botanical plates have the publisher's embossed stamp in the foot margin. Contemporary, uniform dark green half goatskin morocco with a gold-tooled spine.
BERBRUGGER, Louis Adrien. · 1801
€28,500.00 ($31,412.19 | £23,776.58 | ¥5,016,120)
XIV, [3], [1 blank], 80; [3], [1 blank], 68; [3], [1 blank], 42; [3], [1 blank], 21, [1 blank], 18, 16, [1], [1 blank] pp. including the chromolithographed title-page.First and only edition of a rare and extensive work on Algeria, with hundreds of stunning and very skilfully e...
Histoire de la decouverte et de la conquete du Perou.Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme, 1700. 2 volumes. 12vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a folding engraved map of Peru, 11 engraved plates, and 2 folding engraved plates. Further with two different woodcut vignettes on the red and black title-pages of both volumes, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut headpieces and headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a large ornamental woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco.
Histoire de la decouverte et de la conquete du Perou.Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme, 1700. 2 volumes. 12vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a folding engraved map of Peru, 11 engraved plates, and 2 folding engraved plates. Further with two different woodcut vignettes on the red and black title-pages of both volumes, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut headpieces and headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a large ornamental woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco.
ZARATE, Augustin de. · 1504
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[1], [1 blank], [36], 307, (1 blank); [1], [1 blank], [4], 408 pp.First translation into French of one of the most valuable works on the history of the discovery and conquest of Peru. Augustin de Zarate (1504-1560) was sent out to examine the finacial affairs of Peru. He remai...
Anatomie des plantes qui contient une description exacte de leurs parties & de leurs usages, & qui fait voir comment elles se forment, & comment elles croissent. Traduite de l'anglois.Paris, Lambert Roulland, 1675. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece by François Chauveau, 12 half-page and 2 full-page engraved illustrations of parts of plants printed on 14 leaves outside collation, and several head- and tailpieces, both woodcut and engraved. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.
Anatomie des plantes qui contient une description exacte de leurs parties & de leurs usages, & qui fait voir comment elles se forment, & comment elles croissent. Traduite de l'anglois.Paris, Lambert Roulland, 1675. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece by François Chauveau, 12 half-page and 2 full-page engraved illustrations of parts of plants printed on 14 leaves outside collation, and several head- and tailpieces, both woodcut and engraved. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.
GREW, Nehemiah. · 1672
€800.00 ($881.75 | £667.41 | ¥140,803)
[24], 215, [1], [12] pp.First edition of the first French translation of the Anatomy of vegetables begun, which had first been published in London in 1672. In six chapters, the work discussed seeds, roots, stems, vessels, buds, branches, leaves, stings, flowers, and fruits. Ea...
Goddelycke aandachten ofte vlammende begeerten eens boetvaerdige geheijligd en lief-rijcke ziele.Amsterdam, Salomon Savrij, [1653]. 16mo. With an engraved title page, 46 engraved emblems and a full-page woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum.
Goddelycke aandachten ofte vlammende begeerten eens boetvaerdige geheijligd en lief-rijcke ziele.Amsterdam, Salomon Savrij, [1653]. 16mo. With an engraved title page, 46 engraved emblems and a full-page woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum.
[SERRARIUS, Petrus]. · 1600
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
[16], 96 pp.Very rare first edition of a religious emblem book by the eccentric millenarian theologian Petrus Serrarius (1600-1669). It contains 45 emblems (measuring ca. 75 x 48 mm) with engraved texts underneath and an explanatory letterpress poem on the facing pages. The wo...
Pratica di fabricar scene, e machine ne'teatri.Pesaro, Flaminio Concordia, 1637. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Grimaldi on the title page and 49 woodcut diagrams and illustrations of decors and stage settings in the text, many illustrating the use of perspective to give an illusion of three dimensions and some showing mechanical systems, such as screens raised and lowered with pulleys. Decorated paper wrappers (ca. 1700?).
Pratica di fabricar scene, e machine ne'teatri.Pesaro, Flaminio Concordia, 1637. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Grimaldi on the title page and 49 woodcut diagrams and illustrations of decors and stage settings in the text, many illustrating the use of perspective to give an illusion of three dimensions and some showing mechanical systems, such as screens raised and lowered with pulleys. Decorated paper wrappers (ca. 1700?).
SABBATTINI, Nicola. · 1610
€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)
[4], 89, [2] pp.Rare first edition, in the original Italian, of the first book devoted exclusively to stage design, stage architecture, machinery and special effects on stage. It is written in the form of directions to the architect who must transform a hall of state into a th...
Dell'arte pittorica libri VIII. Coll'aggiunta di componimenti diversi. Venice, Caroboli & Pompeati Comp., 1768. 8vo (20 x 14 cm). With engraved portait of Cicero on the title-page and several interesting engraved head- and tailpieces (some signed "AF"), including scenes related to the subject of painting. In its first binding, though possibly a few decades after publication: stiff paper wrappers.
Dell'arte pittorica libri VIII. Coll'aggiunta di componimenti diversi. Venice, Caroboli & Pompeati Comp., 1768. 8vo (20 x 14 cm). With engraved portait of Cicero on the title-page and several interesting engraved head- and tailpieces (some signed "AF"), including scenes related to the subject of painting. In its first binding, though possibly a few decades after publication: stiff paper wrappers.
CHIUSOLE di Roveredo, Adamo. · 1728
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
296 pp.First and only edition of an extensive Italian poem on the history and techniques of painting, by Count Adamo Chiusole (1728-1787). A second issue with the date 1769 is mentioned by Morazzoni. Count Ciusole was a rather well-known painter himself and wrote several works...
La vraye science de la pourtraicture descrite et demontrée ... Representant par une facile instruction plusieurs plans & figures de toutes les parties separées du corps humain: ensemble les figures entieres, tant d'hommes que femmes & de petits enfans, veuës de front, de fil, & de dos, avec les proportions, mesures & dimensions dícelles: et certaines regles pour racourcir par art toutes lesdites figures.Paris, Guillaume Le Bé III, 1676. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut border on half-title and 36 full-page woodcut illustrations. Later limp vellum.
La vraye science de la pourtraicture descrite et demontrée ... Representant par une facile instruction plusieurs plans & figures de toutes les parties separées du corps humain: ensemble les figures entieres, tant d'hommes que femmes & de petits enfans, veuës de front, de fil, & de dos, avec les proportions, mesures & dimensions dícelles: et certaines regles pour racourcir par art toutes lesdites figures.Paris, Guillaume Le Bé III, 1676. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut border on half-title and 36 full-page woodcut illustrations. Later limp vellum.
COUSIN, Jean. · 1676
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
40 ll.1676 edition of a celebrated drawing book, written by Jean Cousin the younger (ca. 1522-1595), intended for the use of all kinds of draughtsmen and artists, including painters, sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, embroiderers and cabinetmakers. The woodcuts show anatomica...
Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chineesch vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc. ...Leiden, Jacobus Willeke, 1742. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, 4 full-page engraved plates illustrating the necessities for varnishing and lacquering. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers.
Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chineesch vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc. ...Leiden, Jacobus Willeke, 1742. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, 4 full-page engraved plates illustrating the necessities for varnishing and lacquering. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers.
[BUONANNI, Filippo]. · 1720
€2,850.00 ($3,141.22 | £2,377.66 | ¥501,612)
16, 218, [24] pp.Very rare first Dutch edition of the most influential manual on Chinese lacquer and the adaptation of lacquer techniques in Europe (Bomford). This treatise includes many different recipes for lacquers and other varnishes, for use on either wood or metal, with ...
Colloquia. Nunc emendatiora. Cum annotationubus Arnoldi Montani. Including: Coronis apologetica pro colloquiis Erasmi, ex ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fideliter collecta à P.S. accedit ejusdem De Collequiorum utilitate dissertatio.Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1658. 12mo. With an engraved title page, a full-page engraving showing Erasmus, woodcut decorated initials, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, both boards show a triple fillet frame with small cornerpieces in the inside corners and an oval armorial centrepiece (crowned fleur-de-lis flanked by two knights), gold-tooled spine with "Erasmus" lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
Colloquia. Nunc emendatiora. Cum annotationubus Arnoldi Montani. Including: Coronis apologetica pro colloquiis Erasmi, ex ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fideliter collecta à P.S. accedit ejusdem De Collequiorum utilitate dissertatio.Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1658. 12mo. With an engraved title page, a full-page engraving showing Erasmus, woodcut decorated initials, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, both boards show a triple fillet frame with small cornerpieces in the inside corners and an oval armorial centrepiece (crowned fleur-de-lis flanked by two knights), gold-tooled spine with "Erasmus" lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
ERASMUS, Desiderius and Arnold MONTANUS (editor). · 1524
€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [20], 820, 44 pp.Montanus' edition of a renowned famous Latin schoolbook written by Erasmus, one of the most used Latin schoolbooks for centuries, as it discusses all basic scholarly and moral issues. With Erasmus' preface-letter to Froben at Ba...
Prolusiones vigintisex. Epistolae. Et formulae ad capienda doctoris insignia. Item variae inscriptiones. Editio altera auctior & emendatior.Padua, heirs of Paolo Frambotti, 1668. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With a general title-page and a volume 2 title-page, the former printed in red and black, each with the woodcut device of the printer-publisher Frambotti (Pallas Athena standing next to a tree with a scroll reading “Pacis opus”); some interesting woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled green morocco, each board with the coat of arms of Gomez de la Cortina in a frame of double fillets.
Prolusiones vigintisex. Epistolae. Et formulae ad capienda doctoris insignia. Item variae inscriptiones. Editio altera auctior & emendatior.Padua, heirs of Paolo Frambotti, 1668. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With a general title-page and a volume 2 title-page, the former printed in red and black, each with the woodcut device of the printer-publisher Frambotti (Pallas Athena standing next to a tree with a scroll reading “Pacis opus”); some interesting woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled green morocco, each board with the coat of arms of Gomez de la Cortina in a frame of double fillets.
FERRARI, Ottavio. · 1607
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[12], 579; [8], 144 pp.Second, enlarged edition of a collection of the most important works of the well-known Italian humanist and philologist Ottavio Ferrari (Milan 1607 - Padua 1682), containing his eulogies, letters, poetry, inscriptions, funeral poems and epitaphs. In 1634...
Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffroy-St-Hilaire.Brussels, Th. Lejeune, 1828-1830. 14 volumes. Large 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, lithographed portrait of Daubenton, 2 lithographed emblematic frontispieces, 2 lithographed double-page maps, 6 numbered lithographed plates of teeth, 16 numbered lithographed plates of scientific instruments and apparatus, and 6 numbered lithographed plates of seeds in the first 4 introductory volumes, lithographed frontispieces of a naked man, woman and child, and 26 lithographed plates of human heads and species, of which 10 are nicely coloured by hand in volume 5 on the natural history of man, illustrations of mammals and mammalian anatomy on 469 lithographed plates, of which 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10, and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates, all beautifully coloured by hand and several heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14. Contemporary gold-tooled half red half morocco, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffroy-St-Hilaire.Brussels, Th. Lejeune, 1828-1830. 14 volumes. Large 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, lithographed portrait of Daubenton, 2 lithographed emblematic frontispieces, 2 lithographed double-page maps, 6 numbered lithographed plates of teeth, 16 numbered lithographed plates of scientific instruments and apparatus, and 6 numbered lithographed plates of seeds in the first 4 introductory volumes, lithographed frontispieces of a naked man, woman and child, and 26 lithographed plates of human heads and species, of which 10 are nicely coloured by hand in volume 5 on the natural history of man, illustrations of mammals and mammalian anatomy on 469 lithographed plates, of which 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10, and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates, all beautifully coloured by hand and several heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14. Contemporary gold-tooled half red half morocco, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. · 1707
€5,550.00 ($6,117.11 | £4,630.18 | ¥976,823)
Each volume ca. 500 pp.Fine complete set of a special edition of the works of George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), the most important natural historian of his day with great influence on various scientific fields. The present work was edited by professor Lamourou...
Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar: provechoso divertimiento de los que gustan tocar instrumentos. Y politicas advertencias a todo genero de personas. Adornado con varias laminas.Capoa, Joseph Testore, 1745. Small 8vo (14×10 cm). With 35 woodcuts in text (including many full-page), 7 folding leaves with woodcut music notation and letterpress text, and some letterpress text set along curves. Many of the full-page woodcuts and some on the folding leaves also include dance notation. Mid 19th-century gold-tooled green calf, with the emblematic device of the "Bibliotheca de Salvá" and initials VSP (=Vicente Salvá y Pérez) on each board.
Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar: provechoso divertimiento de los que gustan tocar instrumentos. Y politicas advertencias a todo genero de personas. Adornado con varias laminas.Capoa, Joseph Testore, 1745. Small 8vo (14×10 cm). With 35 woodcuts in text (including many full-page), 7 folding leaves with woodcut music notation and letterpress text, and some letterpress text set along curves. Many of the full-page woodcuts and some on the folding leaves also include dance notation. Mid 19th-century gold-tooled green calf, with the emblematic device of the "Bibliotheca de Salvá" and initials VSP (=Vicente Salvá y Pérez) on each board.
FERRIOL Y BOXEREAUX, D. Bartolome. · 1745
€16,500.00 ($18,186.00 | £13,765.39 | ¥2,904,070)
[20], 302 pp.One of the three editions, all dated 1745, of a richly illustrated work on dancing by the Catalan dance instructor D. Bartolome Ferriol y Boxereaux. Derra de Moroda considers it one of the two principal works of 18th-century dance in Spain ("a very rare book"), al...
Kleine Völker-Gallerie für Kinder in unterhaltenden Erzählungen von den Sitten, Meinungen, Gebräuchen und Kleidungen fremder Nationen, mit vier und zwanzig kolorirten Kupfern.Köln, 1811. 12mo. With 24 numbered engravings (7 x 3 cm) showing the peoples discussed in their traditional costumes, each mounted on a blank leaf. With the engravings coloured as published, as indicated on the title page. Later gold-tooled half red morocco, red paper over boards, with the title in gold on the spine.
Kleine Völker-Gallerie für Kinder in unterhaltenden Erzählungen von den Sitten, Meinungen, Gebräuchen und Kleidungen fremder Nationen, mit vier und zwanzig kolorirten Kupfern.Köln, 1811. 12mo. With 24 numbered engravings (7 x 3 cm) showing the peoples discussed in their traditional costumes, each mounted on a blank leaf. With the engravings coloured as published, as indicated on the title page. Later gold-tooled half red morocco, red paper over boards, with the title in gold on the spine.
[CHILDREN'S BOOK - GEOGRAPHY - ANTHROPOLOGY]. · 1810
€8,000.00 ($8,817.46 | £6,674.13 | ¥1,408,034)
170, [4] pp.Extremely rare copy of the second edition of an already very rare work presenting the geography and anthropology of the foreign world in the form of a story told in 24 winter evenings by a father to his children. It is divided into 24 chapters, each describing the ...