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Le jeu des eschets. Traduit de l'Italien.Paris, Denis Mouchet, 1714. 12mo. With a woodcut decoration on title-page and a woodcut headpiece in text. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
Le jeu des eschets. Traduit de l'Italien.Paris, Denis Mouchet, 1714. 12mo. With a woodcut decoration on title-page and a woodcut headpiece in text. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
GRECO, Giocchino. · 1600
€1,100.00 ($1,212.43 | £917.56 | ¥193,632)
[22], 343, [1 blank] pp.Late edition of the French translation of one of the most famous early chess books, originally written in Italian and first presented in manuscript by the author, the famous Calabrian chess player Giocchino Greco (ca. 1600-1635) to the King of Naples in...
Cloris en Roosje. Verkeerd apropos-spel. Met 42 gekleurde naïve vignetten voor vrienden van vrolijkheid en scherts.Amsterdam, Steendrukkerij van C. Goos, [ca. 1840]. Set of 42 lithographed miniature playing cards, 21 for Cloris, printed in grey, and 21 for Roosje, printed in blue. The cards are kept in the original publisher's marbled slipcase (ca. 4.8 x 7.2 cm) with 2 engraved labels, one with the title and imprint, and one with the rules of the game.
Cloris en Roosje. Verkeerd apropos-spel. Met 42 gekleurde naïve vignetten voor vrienden van vrolijkheid en scherts.Amsterdam, Steendrukkerij van C. Goos, [ca. 1840]. Set of 42 lithographed miniature playing cards, 21 for Cloris, printed in grey, and 21 for Roosje, printed in blue. The cards are kept in the original publisher's marbled slipcase (ca. 4.8 x 7.2 cm) with 2 engraved labels, one with the title and imprint, and one with the rules of the game.
[CARD GAME].
€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)
Most charming set of miniature playing cards for use of a somewhat daring party game between young people of both sexes. The 42 cards, each with an illustration of a couple and a four-line verse, are either titled "Cloris" or "Roosje". The Cloris cards were divided between the...
De L'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume.London [= France?], La Société Typographique, 1773. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
De L'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume.London [= France?], La Société Typographique, 1773. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
HELVETIUS, Claude Adrien. · 1758
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
XXXII, 326, [2 blank]; [2 blank], 412 pp.Third (or second?) edition of one of the key works of the Radical Enlightenment, published in the same year as the first edition. The author had evoked huge outcry with the publication of De L'esprit (1758), a carefully argued essay on ...
Les règles de la bien-seance et de la civilité Chretienne. Divisées en deux parties. Pour l'instruction de la jeunesse.Rouen, François Oursel, 1729. 8vo. With ornamental woodcut on title-page and some woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Main text in civilité type. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with red label, red sprinkled edges.
Les règles de la bien-seance et de la civilité Chretienne. Divisées en deux parties. Pour l'instruction de la jeunesse.Rouen, François Oursel, 1729. 8vo. With ornamental woodcut on title-page and some woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Main text in civilité type. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with red label, red sprinkled edges.
SALLE, Jean Baptiste de la. · 1651
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[16], 240 pp.Rare early Rouen edition, with the main text in civilité type, of a famous French courtesy book by the French priest Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719), who was beatified in 1888. It opens with a preface, a privilege, and a table of contents, set in roman type....
Aureus libellus, Peri paidoon a'googès, id est, de educatione liberorum, tum interpretatione Latinam, ad verbum ferè applicatam, & paraphrasi Gallico-Germanicam… Petit livret de Plutarche,… Das güldene Büchlein Plutarchi, von der Kinderzucht. Frankfurt, Erasmus Kempffer, 1612. 8vo. Set in 2 columns. Contemporary green vellum.
Aureus libellus, Peri paidoon a'googès, id est, de educatione liberorum, tum interpretatione Latinam, ad verbum ferè applicatam, & paraphrasi Gallico-Germanicam… Petit livret de Plutarche,… Das güldene Büchlein Plutarchi, von der Kinderzucht. Frankfurt, Erasmus Kempffer, 1612. 8vo. Set in 2 columns. Contemporary green vellum.
PLUTARCH. · 1519
€1,850.00 ($2,039.08 | £1,543.17 | ¥325,654)
175, [1] pp.Rare multi-lingual edition of a famous treatise on children's education by Plutarch, edited as a school book, printed in four different types, one for each of the parallel texts: Greek, Latin, French and German, in four columns on facing pages and with Latin notes ...
Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballets.Stuttgart (and sold in Lyon), Aimé Delaroche, 1760. Small 8vo. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, an engraved armorial headpiece at the start of the dedication, an decorated initial and a headpiece both built up from typographical ornaments, and some woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf.
Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballets.Stuttgart (and sold in Lyon), Aimé Delaroche, 1760. Small 8vo. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, an engraved armorial headpiece at the start of the dedication, an decorated initial and a headpiece both built up from typographical ornaments, and some woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf.
NOVERRE, Jean Georges. · 1727
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[1], [1 blank], [2], 484 pp.First edition of the letters on dancing and ballet by Jean Georges Noverre (1727-1810), a famous dancing master, called in praise "the Shakespeare of the Dance". On the title of the present work he introduced himself as: "Ballet master of the Duke ...
Poëme sur l'éducation, dédié à M. Le Comte Charles, fils de M. Le Duc de Luynes.Paris, Guillot, Librairie de Monsieur, 1788. Small 8vo. With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4 finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry. Contemporary gold-tooled green morocco.
Poëme sur l'éducation, dédié à M. Le Comte Charles, fils de M. Le Duc de Luynes.Paris, Guillot, Librairie de Monsieur, 1788. Small 8vo. With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4 finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry. Contemporary gold-tooled green morocco.
LAFARGUE, Étienne de. · 1728
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[4], XVIII, 135, [9] pp.First edition of a beautifully illustrated and well produced work on education, offered by Étienne de Lafargue (1728-1795), a famous French author and member of various Academies of Sciences, Literature and Arts, to the young son of a high aristocrat. I...
Ses boecken van de ledige uren, zijnde ghedichten van verscheyden talen, stijlen, ende stoffen. - Otiorum libri sex. Poëmata varij sermonis, styli, argumenti.Haarlem, Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch, 1641. Oblong 16mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
Ses boecken van de ledige uren, zijnde ghedichten van verscheyden talen, stijlen, ende stoffen. - Otiorum libri sex. Poëmata varij sermonis, styli, argumenti.Haarlem, Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch, 1641. Oblong 16mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
HUYGENS, Constantijn. · 1625
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[2], 543, [1] pp.The first collection of poems by of one of the most famous poets of the Dutch Golden Age. The collection contains many different types of poems, like sonnets and satires, in Latin, French and Dutch, and on a wide variety of different topics, showing off the au...
Cantus, songs and fancies, to severall musicall parts. Both apt for voices and viols. With a brief introduction to musick, ... The third edition, exactly corrected and enlarged. Together also, with several of the choisest Italian-songs, and New English-Ayres, all in three parts, (viz.) two treebles and a bass.Aberdeen, John Forbes, 1682. Small oblong 4to (12.5 x 16 cm). With a facsimile woodcut title page (with woodcut arms on the back), a general letterpress title page (with the woodcut arms of King Charles Stuart on the back), a full-page woodcut of a human hand, and musical scores throughout. 19th-century brown morocco.
Cantus, songs and fancies, to severall musicall parts. Both apt for voices and viols. With a brief introduction to musick, ... The third edition, exactly corrected and enlarged. Together also, with several of the choisest Italian-songs, and New English-Ayres, all in three parts, (viz.) two treebles and a bass.Aberdeen, John Forbes, 1682. Small oblong 4to (12.5 x 16 cm). With a facsimile woodcut title page (with woodcut arms on the back), a general letterpress title page (with the woodcut arms of King Charles Stuart on the back), a full-page woodcut of a human hand, and musical scores throughout. 19th-century brown morocco.
FORBES, John (publisher). · 1662
€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)
[57] ll.Enlarged and corrected third edition, one of two issues, of the earliest printed secular Scottish songbook, published by John Forbes, book and music printer at Aberdeen. "As the sole publication of secular music in Scotland during the entire sixteenth and seventeenth c...
Const-thoonende juweel by de loflijcke stadt Haerlem, ten versoecke van trou moet blijcken, in't licht gebracht. Waer inne duydelick verclaert ende verthoont wordt alles wat den mensche mach wecken om den armen te troosten, ende zijnen naesten by te staen. In twaelf spelen van sinne, so veel intreden, refreynen ende liedekens ghestelt in redenrijck naer de volgende voorgegevene caerte van 't speel-korenken.Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1607. With large emblematic device with the coat of arms of Haarlem on title-page, 2 full-page engravings of raised-platform stages, 13 full-page engraved emblematic devices of the chambers of rhetoric (most including 1 or 2 coats of arms), 13 pages of songs with letterpress music notes, and 13 large folding oblong plates on 2 or more sheets depicting the festive entree of each group of actors from the competing chambers of rhetoric.(2) [RHETORICIANS - REDERIJKERS - HAARLEM]. Haerlems juweel, tot nut vande oude arme uyt liefden ten thoon ghestelt nae de voorgegevene caerte vant speelcorenken.Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1608. With a large engraving on title-page, repeated from the first work, a full-page engraved emblematic device of the Flemish chamber of rhetoric, "Het Wit Angelierken" from Haarlem, and large folding oblong plate on 3 sheets depicting the festive entree of the actors of the Flemish chamber of rhetoric. 4to. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary vellum.
Const-thoonende juweel by de loflijcke stadt Haerlem, ten versoecke van trou moet blijcken, in't licht gebracht. Waer inne duydelick verclaert ende verthoont wordt alles wat den mensche mach wecken om den armen te troosten, ende zijnen naesten by te staen. In twaelf spelen van sinne, so veel intreden, refreynen ende liedekens ghestelt in redenrijck naer de volgende voorgegevene caerte van 't speel-korenken.Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1607. With large emblematic device with the coat of arms of Haarlem on title-page, 2 full-page engravings of raised-platform stages, 13 full-page engraved emblematic devices of the chambers of rhetoric (most including 1 or 2 coats of arms), 13 pages of songs with letterpress music notes, and 13 large folding oblong plates on 2 or more sheets depicting the festive entree of each group of actors from the competing chambers of rhetoric.(2) [RHETORICIANS - REDERIJKERS - HAARLEM]. Haerlems juweel, tot nut vande oude arme uyt liefden ten thoon ghestelt nae de voorgegevene caerte vant speelcorenken.Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1608. With a large engraving on title-page, repeated from the first work, a full-page engraved emblematic device of the Flemish chamber of rhetoric, "Het Wit Angelierken" from Haarlem, and large folding oblong plate on 3 sheets depicting the festive entree of the actors of the Flemish chamber of rhetoric. 4to. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary vellum.
HEYNS, Zacharias. · 1606
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
[266]; 12 ll.Very rare complete and beautifully illustrated account of the festive literary competition hosted by Haarlem’s chamber of rhetoric, which brought together participants from chambers of rhetoric throughout the Dutch Republic in October 1606. It gives an account of ...
De nieuwe muziekleermiddelen van het systeem-Sonnaville.[Leiden, Johannes Eggers, ca. 1895]. 25 items in 1 box. All items in a green half cloth box (37 x 29 x 4 cm) which opens at the front and can be closed with cloth strings, with a letterpress title-label mounted on top.
De nieuwe muziekleermiddelen van het systeem-Sonnaville.[Leiden, Johannes Eggers, ca. 1895]. 25 items in 1 box. All items in a green half cloth box (37 x 29 x 4 cm) which opens at the front and can be closed with cloth strings, with a letterpress title-label mounted on top.
SONNAVILLE, Louis de, S.J. · 1889
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
Very rare, more or less complete collection of all the materials regarding the method for learning music developed by Louis de Sonnaville, as sold by the Leiden music seller Johannes Eggers. Since the box contains all the items advertised by Eggers, thereby including booklets ...
La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Avec: le débat du corps & de l'ame. La complainte de l'ame damnée. L'exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir. La vie du mauvais Antechrist. Les quinze signes du jugement.Troyes, Jean-Antoine Garnier, [1728]. 4to. With 60 woodcuts in text, including 3 repeats, most of them half-page. 19th-century half cloth.
La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Avec: le débat du corps & de l'ame. La complainte de l'ame damnée. L'exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir. La vie du mauvais Antechrist. Les quinze signes du jugement.Troyes, Jean-Antoine Garnier, [1728]. 4to. With 60 woodcuts in text, including 3 repeats, most of them half-page. 19th-century half cloth.
[DANCE OF DEATH].
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
76 pp.18th-century French chapbook edition of one of the most popular picture books in Europe since the Middle Ages. It depicts two Dances of Death: first the Dance of Death of men of all ranks and professions, followed by the Dance of Death of women of various ranks and stati...
T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius. Franeker, Rombertus Doyema, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut imperial coat of arms on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius. Franeker, Rombertus Doyema, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut imperial coat of arms on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
GUEVARA, Antonio de.
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
223, [2] ll.Very rare edition of Guevara's extremely popular and partly fictional biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), which made the emperor a paragon of virtue and a popular subject in art and literature. Guevara claimed to have discovered an ancient ...
Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les etangs. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Ouvrage très curieux, utile & recreatif pour toetes personnes qui font leur selour à la campagne. Par F.F.F.R.D.G., dit le Solitaire inventif.Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, 1695. 5 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page and 66 numbered engraved plates (9 folding). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and binding edges.
Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les etangs. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Ouvrage très curieux, utile & recreatif pour toetes personnes qui font leur selour à la campagne. Par F.F.F.R.D.G., dit le Solitaire inventif.Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, 1695. 5 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page and 66 numbered engraved plates (9 folding). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and binding edges.
[FORTIN, François].
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[10], 58, [4]; [4], 59-122, [3], [1 blank]; [6], 123-186, [3], [1 blank]; [4], 187-232, [2]; [6], 238-292, [3], [1 blank] pp.Third edition, the first printed in Amsterdam, of a popular hunting and fishing manual. It teaches everything about the "true gentleman's sports and rec...
Den spiegel der jonckheyt dienende voor alle jonckheyt, d'eerbaerheyt en deught beminnende tot eenen spiegel, daer sy in siende, moghen leeren hoe sy hun selven behooren te houden in hun inwendigh gemoet, in hun uytwendigh gaen, staen, kleedinge, spreken, eten, ende alle ander gelaet. Antwerp, Johannes Petrus Willemsens, [ca. 1766]. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and final leaf, numerous decorated civilité initials, and a headpiece built up from typographical materials. Contemporary overlapping wrappers.
Den spiegel der jonckheyt dienende voor alle jonckheyt, d'eerbaerheyt en deught beminnende tot eenen spiegel, daer sy in siende, moghen leeren hoe sy hun selven behooren te houden in hun inwendigh gemoet, in hun uytwendigh gaen, staen, kleedinge, spreken, eten, ende alle ander gelaet. Antwerp, Johannes Petrus Willemsens, [ca. 1766]. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and final leaf, numerous decorated civilité initials, and a headpiece built up from typographical materials. Contemporary overlapping wrappers.
[AERTS VAN BOCXTEL, Henrick]. · 1576
€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)
79, [1] pp.Popular children's courtesy book, put entirely in rhetorician verse by Henrick Aerts van Bocxstel (16th century). The work teaches children how to behave in a wide variety of different situations. It starts with a preface to all children and one to "Prince", followe...
Analyse du jeu des échecs. Avec une nouvelle notation abrégée et des planches ou se trouve figurée la situation de jeu pour les renvois et les fins de parties. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Chez Causette (colophon: Strasbourg, printed by Amand Koenig), 1820. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 42 full-page colour-printed plates and numerous chess-notations in text. Contemporary half morocco.
Analyse du jeu des échecs. Avec une nouvelle notation abrégée et des planches ou se trouve figurée la situation de jeu pour les renvois et les fins de parties. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Chez Causette (colophon: Strasbourg, printed by Amand Koenig), 1820. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 42 full-page colour-printed plates and numerous chess-notations in text. Contemporary half morocco.
PHILIDOR, André Danican. · 1727
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
XX, 148 pp.New edition of the analysis of the game of chess by the famous French composer and chess player François André Danican, called Philidor (1727-1795), first published at London in 1749. In 1803 Philidor's book was renewed by Montigny, who introduced a more concise che...
Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les estangs. Et un traité tres-utile pour la chasse. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & les filets qu'on peut s'imaginer.Paris, Ch. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved armorial headpiece and large engraved initial for the dedication, and 66 full-page woodcut plates, several folding or double-page, including 50 illustrating hunting and bird-catching and 16 fishing. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les estangs. Et un traité tres-utile pour la chasse. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & les filets qu'on peut s'imaginer.Paris, Ch. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved armorial headpiece and large engraved initial for the dedication, and 66 full-page woodcut plates, several folding or double-page, including 50 illustrating hunting and bird-catching and 16 fishing. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
[FORTIN, François]. · 1660
€3,000.00 ($3,306.62 | £2,502.44 | ¥528,088)
[16], 445, [1 blank], 12 pp.Famous work on a gentleman's recreation, bird catching, hunting and fishing, published under the initials F.F.F.R.D.G., meaning Frère François Fortin, Religieux de Gramont. First published in 1660, the book proved very popular and the prototype of t...
Väterliche Instruction an seine Kinder, nummehr zum dritten mahl auffgeleget,...Berlin, Johann Michael Rüdiger, 1704. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by I.W. Heckemaur, title-page printed in red and black, full-page engraved portrait of the author, and woodcut vignette on separate title for the genealogy of the House of Kolbe von Wartenberg.With: (2) WAGENSEIL, Johann Christoph. Erziehung eines jungen Prinzen, der vor allen studieren einen Abscheu hat, dass er dennoch gelehrt und geschickt werde. Leipzig, Johann Heinichens Wittwe, 1705. With title-page printed in red and black and fine engraved headpiece to the text. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum.
Väterliche Instruction an seine Kinder, nummehr zum dritten mahl auffgeleget,...Berlin, Johann Michael Rüdiger, 1704. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by I.W. Heckemaur, title-page printed in red and black, full-page engraved portrait of the author, and woodcut vignette on separate title for the genealogy of the House of Kolbe von Wartenberg.With: (2) WAGENSEIL, Johann Christoph. Erziehung eines jungen Prinzen, der vor allen studieren einen Abscheu hat, dass er dennoch gelehrt und geschickt werde. Leipzig, Johann Heinichens Wittwe, 1705. With title-page printed in red and black and fine engraved headpiece to the text. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum.
KOLBE VON WARTENBERG, Johann Casimir. · 1584
€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)
[88], 296, [24] pp.Two interesting German educational works, together in a contemporary binding.The first is the third edition of fatherly instructions to his children by the German nobleman Johann Casimir Kolbe von Wartenberg (1584-1661), originally written in 1650 and first ...
Accuraat geografisch kaart-boekje of zak-atlas van het keyzerryk en geheel Duytsland, de Oostenrykse Nederlanden, …Haarlem, Bernardus Cleynhens, [ca. 1747?]. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With 25 double-page engraved maps (2 overview maps), and an engraved plate with 8 scales, all hand-coloured, partly in outline. Half textured red cloth (ca. 1860?).
Accuraat geografisch kaart-boekje of zak-atlas van het keyzerryk en geheel Duytsland, de Oostenrykse Nederlanden, …Haarlem, Bernardus Cleynhens, [ca. 1747?]. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With 25 double-page engraved maps (2 overview maps), and an engraved plate with 8 scales, all hand-coloured, partly in outline. Half textured red cloth (ca. 1860?).
[ATLAS - EUROPE]. CLEYNHENS, Bernardus. · 1740
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
40, 23, [1 blank] pp. plus maps and plate of scales.A surprisingly rare pocket atlas illustrating the theatre of the "tegenwoordigen" (present) war, probably meaning the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) but possibly the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The title-page no...
Chronographia o reportorio de tiempos, el mas copioso y precisso, que hasta ahora ha salido a luz.Sevilla, Fernando Diaz, Faustino de Magarino (colophon: printed by Fernando Diaz), 1584. 4to. With title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of the author, Diaz's woodcut printer's device below the colophon on the last page, 2 full- or nearly full-page woodcuts, 19 half-page woodcuts, 7 half-page round woodcuts, and 43 small round woodcuts of phases of the moon. Many letterpress tables of the positions of the sun and moon, calendars, movable feasts, etc. Sheepskin parchment by Domingo V. Folch of the national bindery in Valencia (2nd half of 19th century), gold-tooled spine.
Chronographia o reportorio de tiempos, el mas copioso y precisso, que hasta ahora ha salido a luz.Sevilla, Fernando Diaz, Faustino de Magarino (colophon: printed by Fernando Diaz), 1584. 4to. With title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of the author, Diaz's woodcut printer's device below the colophon on the last page, 2 full- or nearly full-page woodcuts, 19 half-page woodcuts, 7 half-page round woodcuts, and 43 small round woodcuts of phases of the moon. Many letterpress tables of the positions of the sun and moon, calendars, movable feasts, etc. Sheepskin parchment by Domingo V. Folch of the national bindery in Valencia (2nd half of 19th century), gold-tooled spine.
CHAVES, Jérôme de. · 1648
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
192, 201-"163" [= 263] ll.Seventh edition of an important, lavishly illustrated and very popular work on the calendar, the movements of the sun, the planets and the moon, the holidays, the constellations and the signs of the zodiac, by the Spanish chronographer Jérôme de Chave...