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Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1932 ... Colonial no. 82, 58-82.London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1933. 4to in 16s. With two folding maps showing parts of the Palestine territory that had been surveyed in detail.Original publisher's printed wrappers.

[PALESTINE]. UNITED KINGDOM COLONIAL OFFICE. · 1924

€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)

XII, 267 pp.Detailed report to the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations regarding the British controlled Mandate of Palestine. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the Empire’s territories in the Middle East were divided between Great-Britain and...

Pharmacopoeia manualis, a concilio medico praefecturae Utriusque Nethae edita.Antwerpen, Antonius Grangé, 1812. 8vo. 19th-century green half sheepskin, marbled sides.

[DEUX NÈTHES - PHARMACOPOEIA]. VAN DEN ZANDE, J.B.J., et al (ed.). · 1660

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)

VIII, 208 pp.First and only edition of the pharmacopoeia for the department of Deux-Nèthes in the First French Republic, which contained the present-day Belgian province of Antwerp and parts of the Dutch province of North Brabant. Intended to be a revision of the Antwerp pharm...

No dia dos felices anos dos ilustrissimos. e excellentimos. senhores a senhora D. Mariana Victoria de Menezes e o Senhor Ascenso de Siqueira Freire.[Lisbon?, ca. 1790?]. 4to. Manuscript. Sewing removed.

ALMEDO [= Fr. José de CORAÇÃO DE JESUS]. · 1815

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

[6], [2 blank] pp.An ode (11 stanzas of 4-lines in verse, first line: "Nunca taõ festejadas entre as ondas") celebrating the birthday of a pair of twins, a man and a woman, the ode signed "Almedo", the pen-name of Fr. José de Coração de Jesus. Although the present document doe...

Drie jaren in Noord Amerika.Gorinchem, Jacobus Noorduyn, 1835-1836. 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved title-page in each volume, showing indigenous Americans stopping of an execution of two Europeans with a raiding convoy in the background, lithographed by Hilmar Johannes Backer (1804-1845) after a design by Haatje Peters Oosterhuis (1799-1854). Also with a frontispiece showing the Niagara Falls, a lithograph by Hilmar Johannes Backer. Contemporary half calf, brown marbled-paper sides.

STUART, James. (J.M. VERSTEEGH, transl.). · 1828

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[2], XVI, 404, [1], [1 blank]; VII, [1 blank], 382; VII, [1 blank], 386, [1], [1 blank] pp.Dutch translation of an extensive description by the Scottish James Stuart of his three year-travel to North-America from August 1828 to April 1831. In three volumes, translated from the...

Noodighe op-rechtinghe van 't collegie de medecyne, opentlyck bewesen aen d'inwoonders der stadt van Brussel, met 't verhael van alle swarigheden daer-overgeresen, ende weder legginge van d'op-sprake, daer-tegen onglanghs voor ghewendt.Brussels, Guilliam Scheybels, 1660. 4to. With an emblematic woodcut on the last page.

[SOPHIE, Jacques]. · 1641

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

[6], 101, [1] pp.Very rare first and only edition of a large collection of stories that exemplify the sometimes fierce rivalries between doctors and apothecaries. It here forms part of an ongoing quarrel between the magistrates of the city of Brussels, represented by the new C...

Heelkundige artzeny-winkel of chirurgyns-apotheek. Vervattende alle beproefde en hedendaagsch gebruikelyke bereide en samengestelde heelmiddelen, ter geneezing van uitwendige ziekten.Antwerp, C.H. de Vos, 1798. 8vo. Contemporary calf, heavily restored.

PLENCK, Joseph Jakob and A. SCHRAGE (transl.) · 1775

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

[1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank], 212 pp.Interesting pharmacopoea for the use of surgeons, the second edition of the first Dutch translation (by A. Schráge) of Pharmacia chirurgica seu doctrina de medicamentis praeparatis ac compositis (Vienna 1775). In the same year Paddenburg ...

Paradoxorum medicinae libri tres...Paris, Charlotta Guillard, widow of Claude Chevallon, 1555. 8vo. With some woodcut initials. The main text (and shoulder notes) set in italic type, the preface and long chapter headings in roman and long passages in Greek. Contemporary vellum over thin boards with title in ink on spine and on lower edge, modern endpapers.

FUCHS, Leonart. · 1535

€1,000.00 ($1,102.21 | £834.14 | ¥176,029)

[20], 239 ll.Fourth (second Paris) edition of Fuchs’s Latin Paradoxorum medicinae (first published at Basel, Johann Bebel, 1535), which in turn was an emended and greatly expanded version of his Errata recentiorum medicorum (Hagenau, Johann Setzer, 1530). Like all the best Ren...

Obras de Luis de Camoès principe des poetas Portugueses. Com os argumentos do Lecenceado João Franco Barreto & por elle emédadas em esta nova impressaõ, que comprehende todas as obras, que deste insigne autor se achàraõ impressas, & manuscritas, com o index dos nomes proprios. Offerecidas a D. Francisco de Sovsa capitão da guarda do Principe N.S.Lisbon, Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1666-1669. 8vo. With 8 woodcut tailpieces. Later mottled calf, red spine labels, red edges.

CAMÕES (CAMOENS), Luis de & João Franco BARRETO. · 1572

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

376, 368, 208, 108, [22], [ 2 blank]. Lacks the individual title-pages.Rare edition of the collected works of Luis de Camões, including Os Lusiadas and three Rimas. In the same year, Antonio Craesbeeck published another edition with the same title but with less content and wit...

Reis door Opper-Pensilvaniën, en den staat van Nieuw-York; door Michaud. Uit het Fransch. In drie deelen ... Eerste deel [all published].Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map (ca. 50x35 cm.) by Amsterdam cartographer Cornelis van Baarsel (1761-1826), after the map in the French edition, of the north eastern United States. And with 2 engraved portraits of Native Americans. Modern brown half calf with marbled sides, with title-label on spine.

[MICHAUD = CREVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume Jean de (John Hector ST. JOHN)] · 1801

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

IV, 502 pp.Only copy located of the first and only edition of the Dutch translation of Voyage dans la haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New York, par un membre adoptif de la nation Onéida (Paris 1801). The voyage, or rather history and description of North America by Crèvec...

Berigt omtrent het leven, het karakter en de laatste godsdienst-aandoeningen der beruchte vergiftigster Hester Rebekka Nepping.[Amsterdam], J. Ruys for Johannes Allart, The Hague, 1812. 8vo. Contemporary grey-blue wrappers.

BROES, Willem. · 1766

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

IV, 79, [1 blank] pp.Willem Broes (1766-1853), a minister of the church who had been appointed by the court to give spiritual counsel to the condemned woman, visited her in prison multiple times. In his book, he describes the crime, but gives even more attention to the Hester'...

Gemmarum et lapidum historia, qua non solum ortus, natura, vis & precium, sed etiam modus quo ex iis, olea, salia tincturae, essentiae, arcana & magisteria arte chymica confici possint, ostenditur.Hanau, Claude de Marne and heirs of Johann Aubry (printed by the heirs of Andreas Wechel), 1609. 4to. With Wechel's elaborate woodcut device on the title-page and the otherwise blank final page, 34 woodcut illustrations in the text (some with multiple figures), and 2 folding letterpress hierarchical tables. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

BOODT, Anselm Boetius de.

€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)

8, [8], “288” [= 284], [16] pp. plus 2 folding ll.Rare first edition, in the original Latin, complete with the folding hierarchical tables (often lacking), of a comprehensive account of precious stones and their origin, cutting and tooling, use and properties, along with other...

Oude en nieuwe staat van't Russische of Moskovische Keizerryk, behelzende eene uitvoerige historie van Rusland en deszelfs groot-vorsten; benevens de beschryvinge van dat uitgestrekte ryk, de zeden en godsdienst der inwoneren: zyne opkomst en voortgang in koophandel, kunsten, land- en zeemacht, oproeren, oorlogen en verdere wisselvalligheden, tot dezen tegenwoordigen tydt toe.Utrecht, Johannes Broedelet, 1744. 4 volumes. 4to. With 4 folding maps, 3 folding plates and a folding letterpress table. Early 19th-century half red sheepskin.

REITZ, Johann Frederik, and others. · 1738

€4,250.00 ($4,684.38 | £3,545.12 | ¥748,124)

[2], 296; [2], 200, 200a-200d; [2], 501; [2], 830 pp.The old and new state of Russia, as the title suggests, points to the modernisation of the Russian Empire under Tsar Peter the Great The map of Russia and Tartary by the German cartographer and astronomer Johann Matthias Has...

Curiosidades médicas precedidas de un discurso sobre el florecimiento de la medicina Española en el siglo XVI y su posterior decadencia.Madrid, Manuel Ginés Hernández, 1886. 8vo. With 3 lithographed plates (2 folding), reproducing manuscript letters. Modern dark purple half sheepskin, with the original printed front wrapper bound in.

COMENGE Y FERRER, Luís. · 1854

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

285, [2], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a collection of articles on Spanish medical history by the physician and historian of medicine Luís Comenge y Ferrer (1854-1916). The work opens with an article on the flowering of Spanish medicine in the 16th century and its su...

Sibylla trig-Andriana, seu virginitate, virginum statu et jure tractatus novus et jucundus ...Including:De annulo triplici: usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio: ...Linea amoris sive commentarius in versiculum glossae, ...The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1654. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

KORNMANN, Heinrich. · 1610

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

[24], 214; 69, [3]; 117, [3] pp.Rare first complete Netherlands edition of three curious Latin works on women, love and marriage, by Heinrich Kornmann: Sibylla trig-Andriana, De annulo usitato and De linea amoris, published together, at least the first two first published at F...

Handboek voor liefhebbers van vreemde plantzoenen en tuiniers, of aanleiding tot de kennisse van alle in- en uitlandsche boomen en heesters, welke bij ons in de opene lucht kunnen gekweekt worden.Utrecht, Gijsbert Tieme van Paddenburg and son, 1795. 8vo. Small woodcut device on title-page and a small woodcut tailpiece.Contemporary, stiff, sprinkled paper wrappers, letterpress spine label.

[RÖSSIG, Carl Gottlieb] and Jan Baptist van WINTERSHOVEN. · 1752

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

VIII, 580 pp.Rare first edition in Dutch (a revised and expanded translation of a German gardener’s handbook) by the Utrecht tree nurseryman J.B. van Wintershoven. Although he never names the German book or its author, his book, including the author’s preface, are clearly base...

Reize naar de bronnen van den Missouri, en door het vaste land van America naar de Zuidzee. Gedaan op last van de regering der Vereenigde Staten van America, in de jaren 1804, 1805 en 1806.Dordrecht, A. Blussé and son, 1816-1818. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map of the Missouri River (34.5 x 71 cm) by Cornelis van Baarsel and son, after the map in the first British edition. Modern half calf.

LEWIS, Meriwether, William CLARKE and Nicolaas Godfried van KAMPEN (translator). · 1804

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

XXXII, 398; VIII, 390; "XII" (lacking I-II), 335, [1 blank] pp.Rare first Dutch edition of Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean by Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke, translated by the prolific Amsterdam based writ...

Reis naar de eilanden der Zuidzee, gedurende de jaren 1827 en 1828, behelzende het verslag der ontdekking van het lot van De la Pe´rouse.Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1830. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographed frontispieces and a folding engraved map of Vanikoro. The plates are new for this edition, lithographed by Jean Augustin Daiwaille after designs by (Pieter van der?) Meulen and based on the plates in the English edition. Contemporary stiff sprinkled paper wrappers.

DILLON, Peter. · 1829

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

X, 336; VI, 350 pp.First and only edition of the Dutch translation. Translated from French but first published in English as Narrative and succesfull result of a voyage in the South Seas (London, 1829).Explorer Peter Dillon (1788-1847) took it upon himself in 1828 to solve the...

South Indian Ocean pilot. Comprising Madagascar, Iles Comores, Ile de la Réunion, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Chagos Archipelago, and other islands lying westward of longitude 80° East. Sixth edition.London, hydrographic department, admiralty (colophon: printed by Butler & Tanner), 1946. 8vo. With two maps, to be used as an index, 10 plates and a few illustrations in text. Publisher's beige cloth.With: Supplement no. 5-1956 relating to the South Indian Ocean pilot sixth edition, 1946 corrected to 23 April, 1956. London, hydrographic department, admiralty (colophon: printed by Tinlling & Co., Liverpool), 1946. 8vo. With a loosely inserted folding plate illustrating the system of buoyage. Publisher's wrappers.

[PILOT GUIDE].

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

XXX, 403, [1]; 46 pp.The standard pilot guide for the South Indian Ocean published by the British admiralty, with a foreword by A.G.N. Wyatt, rear-admiral and hydrographer of the navy. The first chapter includes general information such as details on the islands' government, d...

Las coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón viaje á la Meca en el siglo XVI.Zaragoza, Comas Hermanos, 1897. 8vo. With a facsimile of one page of the Arabic manuscript, a photographic view of the Kaaba, a double-page map and at the end a list of the books available in the Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana. Contemporary black half sheepskin, letterpress title-label on spine.

PAÑO Y RUATA, Mariano de. · 1847

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

XLVI, [2], 303, [1 blank]; [8] pp.First edition of a transcript of one of the first accounts of a Spanish Muslim's journey to Mecca and Medina in the 16t hcentury, edited by the prolific and widely-interested scholar Mariano de Paño y Ruata (1847-1948) and with an introduction...

Short notes on the winds, weather, & currents, together with general sailing directions and remarks on making passages; to accompany a chart of the Indian Ocean. With two[=three] illustrations.London, James Imray and son, 1866. 8vo. With 3 folding lithographed charts (the first as frontispiece and the third possibly extra added). Modern brown cloth, spine with a long vertical leather title-label.

ROSSER, William Henry.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[4], 64 pp.Second copy located of a compendium for sailing the Indian Ocean. As the title indicates it gives short notes on the wind weather and currents and general sailing directions. Including directions to Singapore and the Arabian Sea. For more extended details the author...