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Nieuwe kerkelyke geografische zak- en reisatlas der vereenigde Nederlanden. Als mede van de landen der generaliteit, ingericht, naar de kerkelyke verdeeling dezer landen, in synoden, benevens derzelver onderhoorige klassen. Zeer dienstig en gemakkelyk, niet alleen voor de Eerw. heeren proponenten, om te zien onder welke classen de vakante plaatzen leggen, maar ook voor anderen, die de provintien willen doorreizen, om de reisroute te neemen.Amsterdam, De erven Dirk onder de Linden en zoon, 1794. Large, narrow 8vo. With a folding typographical title page and 13 folding double-page engraved maps by J. van Jagen, all coloured by a contemporary hand. The maps are mounted on stubs for ease of use (the maps fold out/open flat). Contemporary half tan mottled calf, red and black decorated paper sides, with remnants of a white paper label at the foot of the spine, and with two 20th-century library labels (of the "Verzameling Oudheidkamer Twente") on the back board.
Nieuwe kerkelyke geografische zak- en reisatlas der vereenigde Nederlanden. Als mede van de landen der generaliteit, ingericht, naar de kerkelyke verdeeling dezer landen, in synoden, benevens derzelver onderhoorige klassen. Zeer dienstig en gemakkelyk, niet alleen voor de Eerw. heeren proponenten, om te zien onder welke classen de vakante plaatzen leggen, maar ook voor anderen, die de provintien willen doorreizen, om de reisroute te neemen.Amsterdam, De erven Dirk onder de Linden en zoon, 1794. Large, narrow 8vo. With a folding typographical title page and 13 folding double-page engraved maps by J. van Jagen, all coloured by a contemporary hand. The maps are mounted on stubs for ease of use (the maps fold out/open flat). Contemporary half tan mottled calf, red and black decorated paper sides, with remnants of a white paper label at the foot of the spine, and with two 20th-century library labels (of the "Verzameling Oudheidkamer Twente") on the back board.
BACHIENE, Willem Albert. · 1709
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[14] folded leaves.Very rare second edition of a detailed travel and/or pocket atlas, with a clear religious theme. The maps show the Dutch Republic of the mid-18th-century, engraved by Jan van Jagen (1709-1800) between 1765 and 1771, according to religious (or certain church)...
Histoire de la vie de Tiel Wlespiegle, contenant ses faits et finesses, ses aventures, et les grandes fortunes qu'il a euës, ne s'étant jamais laissé tromper par aucune personne. Nouvelle traduction de l'Alemand en François; où l'on a ajoûté à cette edition, plusieurs pieces qui n'ont point encore paru en François jusques à present.Amsterdam, Pierre Marteau, 1703. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, and several head- and tailpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. 19th-century light brown morocco by Hardy.
Histoire de la vie de Tiel Wlespiegle, contenant ses faits et finesses, ses aventures, et les grandes fortunes qu'il a euës, ne s'étant jamais laissé tromper par aucune personne. Nouvelle traduction de l'Alemand en François; où l'on a ajoûté à cette edition, plusieurs pieces qui n'ont point encore paru en François jusques à present.Amsterdam, Pierre Marteau, 1703. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, and several head- and tailpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. 19th-century light brown morocco by Hardy.
[TILL EULENSPIEGEL]. · 1702
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
[8], 247, [7] pp.Enlarged French edition of the popular story of Till Eulenspiegel, beautifully bound. The present edition contains a preface to the new edition, followed by 54 stories of Eulenspiegel's adventures. It further contains, at the conclusion, an epitaph and his fin...
Handt boecxken: inholdende vele godlijcke trouhertighe vaderlijcke vermaninghen unde leeringen: ...[Rotterdam, Dirck de Raeff van Mullem, ca. 1595?]. Small 12mo in 8s (14 x 8 cm). With a woodcut spiral printed in the fore-edge margin to illustrate the spiritual workings of God, 11 interlaced gothic initials (cast in matrices) plus 22 repeats, and 3 vine-leaf ornaments (Vervliet 7, 127 and 184). Set in textura gothic types with an occasional word in roman. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (with tapered edges), sewn on 3 double cords, each board with a frame made with a 12 mm roll (reticulated diagonals making diamonds and half diamonds, each diamond containing a quatrafoil and each half-diamond a trefoil, in the general style of Einbanddatenbank roll r000355, workshop w007716 (Wittenberg, late 16th-century) and others in the motief group m000956, edged inside and out with multiple fillets, two brass fastenings with engraved decoration (each with a clasp on a calf strap, and a catchplate).
Handt boecxken: inholdende vele godlijcke trouhertighe vaderlijcke vermaninghen unde leeringen: ...[Rotterdam, Dirck de Raeff van Mullem, ca. 1595?]. Small 12mo in 8s (14 x 8 cm). With a woodcut spiral printed in the fore-edge margin to illustrate the spiritual workings of God, 11 interlaced gothic initials (cast in matrices) plus 22 repeats, and 3 vine-leaf ornaments (Vervliet 7, 127 and 184). Set in textura gothic types with an occasional word in roman. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (with tapered edges), sewn on 3 double cords, each board with a frame made with a 12 mm roll (reticulated diagonals making diamonds and half diamonds, each diamond containing a quatrafoil and each half-diamond a trefoil, in the general style of Einbanddatenbank roll r000355, workshop w007716 (Wittenberg, late 16th-century) and others in the motief group m000956, edged inside and out with multiple fillets, two brass fastenings with engraved decoration (each with a clasp on a calf strap, and a catchplate).
JORIS, David. · 1501
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
[1], 142, [1] ll.Second recorded copy of the second edition of the extremely rare first spiritual "handbook", a posthumous collection of 35 short lessons and advisory texts plus an appendix, all written by the leading Dutch Anabaptist and "arch-heretic" David Joris (ca. 1501/0...
Medecijn-boeck. Daer inne, wt bevel des doorluchtighen hooch-gheborenen vorsten, ende heeren, heeren Lodewijck, hertoghe tot Wirtenberghe ... Meest voor alle lijfgebreken, ende cranckheyden wt gelesene en[de] beproefde medicijnen, die wt vele hooge ende nederstandes persoonen gheschrevene medicijnboecken, te samen, ende by een gebracht zijn. … Wt Hoogduytsche sprake getrouwelick overgeset.Dordrecht, Abraham Canin, 1598. 4 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With Canin’s woodcut device on the title page. Contemporary vellum.
Medecijn-boeck. Daer inne, wt bevel des doorluchtighen hooch-gheborenen vorsten, ende heeren, heeren Lodewijck, hertoghe tot Wirtenberghe ... Meest voor alle lijfgebreken, ende cranckheyden wt gelesene en[de] beproefde medicijnen, die wt vele hooge ende nederstandes persoonen gheschrevene medicijnboecken, te samen, ende by een gebracht zijn. … Wt Hoogduytsche sprake getrouwelick overgeset.Dordrecht, Abraham Canin, 1598. 4 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With Canin’s woodcut device on the title page. Contemporary vellum.
GAEBELKOVER, Oswald. · 1538
€5,950.00 ($6,558.13 | £4,963.16 | ¥1,047,374)
[8], 199, 100-456 [= 556], [4] pp. (pp. 113-116 and 201-204 misbound).Rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of the Artzneybuch of Oswald Gäbelkover (1538-1616), who was the personal physician to the dukes of Württemberg. It was originally printed in 1589 under t...
Principes de cosmographie, tirez d'un manuscrit de Viette, & traduits en François. Corrigées et augmentées.Paris, Jean Behourt, 1647. 12mo. With 2 woodcut illustrations in the text (a geocentric universe and a simple geometric figure). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
Principes de cosmographie, tirez d'un manuscrit de Viette, & traduits en François. Corrigées et augmentées.Paris, Jean Behourt, 1647. 12mo. With 2 woodcut illustrations in the text (a geocentric universe and a simple geometric figure). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
VIÈTE, François. · 1540
€11,500.00 ($12,675.38 | £9,592.67 | ¥2,024,336)
[8], "72" [=172] pp.Third edition of one of the first scientific works of the greatest French mathematician of the 16th century, François Viète (1540-1603). Viète graduated in 1560 from the University of Poitiers with a law degree. "In 1564, Viète accepted a position in the ho...
Crisis opinionum Renati De Cartes.Benevento, Typographia Archiepiscopali, 1712. 4to. With the title in a double-line frame built up from short rules, a woodcut tailpiece, a factotum (plus one repeat with a different letter), and a factotum and other decorations built up of typographical ornaments. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue marbled edges.
Crisis opinionum Renati De Cartes.Benevento, Typographia Archiepiscopali, 1712. 4to. With the title in a double-line frame built up from short rules, a woodcut tailpiece, a factotum (plus one repeat with a different letter), and a factotum and other decorations built up of typographical ornaments. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue marbled edges.
SANCTI, Marco Antonio. · 1596
€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)
[12], 63, [5] pp.First and only edition of a very rare essay on the philosophical and scientific theses of René Descartes (1596-1650) by Marco Antonio Sancti (dates unknown) from Siena, who lived in Benevento at the time. After the half-title and title-page follow the author’s...
Versi.Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1802. 8vo. Mid-19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, both sides with a gilt border consisting of double fillets, circles and asterisks and a dotted line, and the cypher monogram of Alexine Boucaumont de Montfaud (AM under a laurel wreath with 10 stars in centre), gilt edges.
Versi.Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1802. 8vo. Mid-19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, both sides with a gilt border consisting of double fillets, circles and asterisks and a dotted line, and the cypher monogram of Alexine Boucaumont de Montfaud (AM under a laurel wreath with 10 stars in centre), gilt edges.
CASSOLI, Francesco. · 1749
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[6], 54, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a collection of poems by the Italian poet Francesco Cassoli (1749-1812). The volume of "sincera e meditativa poesia" (Treccani), consists of 16 sonnets and poems, and is printed by the famous Giambattista Bodoni. Cassoli is best know...
Horologe magnetique elliptique ou ovale nouveau, de facile usage, et tres-commode, pour trouver les heures du jour & de la nuict, . . . Toul (Lorraine), Simon Belgrand, G. Perin and I. Laurent, 1660. 8vo. With 8 engraved plates (1-7 numbered) with 46 numbered figures, and a letterpress folding table after page 196. Contemporary parchment made from the lower part of a leaf from a Jesuit manuscript (Acta sanctorum, for 25 July, this part not published until 1729).
Horologe magnetique elliptique ou ovale nouveau, de facile usage, et tres-commode, pour trouver les heures du jour & de la nuict, . . . Toul (Lorraine), Simon Belgrand, G. Perin and I. Laurent, 1660. 8vo. With 8 engraved plates (1-7 numbered) with 46 numbered figures, and a letterpress folding table after page 196. Contemporary parchment made from the lower part of a leaf from a Jesuit manuscript (Acta sanctorum, for 25 July, this part not published until 1729).
GEORGES, Pierre. · 1623
€11,500.00 ($12,675.38 | £9,592.67 | ¥2,024,336)
[12], ''296'' [= 298], [2 blank] pp.First edition of a curious and extensively illustrated work on what the author calls a "horloge magnetique", a horizontal sundial with a rotating magnetic needle. He makes great (and dubious) claims for his invention: it can be used day or n...
Histoire de la bataille navalle faite par les Dieppois & Flamans: qui est l'une des plus furieuses & soudaines expeditions de mer, qui ayt esté entreprise de nostre temps sur les ennemis du Roy.Paris, Estienne Denise, [1557?]. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials and one cast fleuron (Vervliet, Vine leaf ornaments 173). Set in roman type with incidental italic. Finely executed late 19th-century(?) French red morocco by René Aussour, gold-tooled turn-ins, title, place of publication and date 1555 in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments, gilt edges.
Histoire de la bataille navalle faite par les Dieppois & Flamans: qui est l'une des plus furieuses & soudaines expeditions de mer, qui ayt esté entreprise de nostre temps sur les ennemis du Roy.Paris, Estienne Denise, [1557?]. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials and one cast fleuron (Vervliet, Vine leaf ornaments 173). Set in roman type with incidental italic. Finely executed late 19th-century(?) French red morocco by René Aussour, gold-tooled turn-ins, title, place of publication and date 1555 in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments, gilt edges.
[GUILLAS, Denis]. · 1555
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[51], [1 blank] pp.Rare issue of one of the first editions (priority uncertain) of an account of a ferocious sea battle in the Habsburg-Valois Wars (also known as the Italian Wars): 18 small French ships from Dieppe, mostly only 15-60 tonne though some are nevertheless describ...
Senatus populique Antverpiensis. Nobilitas sive septem tribus patriciae Antverpienses.Leiden, Petrus Heghius [printed in Brussels by Philippe Vleugart], 1672. 8vo. With an allegorical frontispiece showing a personification of time accompanying the crests of the seven houses above personifications of the Scheldt and the city of Antwerp and 7 engraved coatsofarms in text. Modern half parchment, red paste paper sides.
Senatus populique Antverpiensis. Nobilitas sive septem tribus patriciae Antverpienses.Leiden, Petrus Heghius [printed in Brussels by Philippe Vleugart], 1672. 8vo. With an allegorical frontispiece showing a personification of time accompanying the crests of the seven houses above personifications of the Scheldt and the city of Antwerp and 7 engraved coatsofarms in text. Modern half parchment, red paste paper sides.
CHRISTYN, Johannes-Baptista. · 1630
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[10], 55 pp.Genealogy of the seven noble houses of Antwerp and chronology of the magistrates of the city. Magistrate offices in Antwerp were traditionally divided between members of the seven patrician families, whose members were supposedly descendants of the companions of th...
De vocis auditusq[ue] organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatibus duobus explicata ...(Colophons: Ferrara, Victorius Baldinus, 1601 & "1600" [= 1601]). 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (40.5 x 27.5 cm). With an engraved title page with the title in a large oval scrollwork cartouche surrounded by and incorporating dozens of skeletons and skulls of people and animals, 2 full-page engraved portraits (of the dedicatee Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, and the author) and 34 full-page anatomical engravings on integral leaves. 17th-century sheepskin parchment.
De vocis auditusq[ue] organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatibus duobus explicata ...(Colophons: Ferrara, Victorius Baldinus, 1601 & "1600" [= 1601]). 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (40.5 x 27.5 cm). With an engraved title page with the title in a large oval scrollwork cartouche surrounded by and incorporating dozens of skeletons and skulls of people and animals, 2 full-page engraved portraits (of the dedicatee Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, and the author) and 34 full-page anatomical engravings on integral leaves. 17th-century sheepskin parchment.
CASSERIO, Giulio (Julius CASSERIUS). · 1561
€27,500.00 ($30,310.69 | £22,938.99 | ¥4,840,804)
[60], 191, [1 blank]; 126, [1], [1 blank] pp. including engraved title-page, 2 portraits, and illustrations.Beautiful first edition of a ground-breaking work on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs, written by the well-known anatomist and surgeon Giulio Casserio (1561?...
Practical hints on decorative printing, with illustrations engraved on wood, and printed in colours ...London, printed by the Type Press [and by John Johnson] and published for the proprietor by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; Robert Triphook and 4 others, “1822” [= 1818-1823]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (28 x 23 cm). With 2 colour-printed letterpress title-pages (one printed in gold), a colour-printed frontispiece and 34 other wood-engraved illustration plates, mostly printed in colour; 2 leaves of type specimens, 6 leaves showing 18 colour ink swatches, and 9 pages showing 9 of the woodblocks after they were defaced to make a reprint impossible. Dark blue half goatskin morocco (ca. 1950) by Banyan-Rivière in Bath, gold-tooled spine. Copy no. 58, signed by the author.
Practical hints on decorative printing, with illustrations engraved on wood, and printed in colours ...London, printed by the Type Press [and by John Johnson] and published for the proprietor by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; Robert Triphook and 4 others, “1822” [= 1818-1823]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (28 x 23 cm). With 2 colour-printed letterpress title-pages (one printed in gold), a colour-printed frontispiece and 34 other wood-engraved illustration plates, mostly printed in colour; 2 leaves of type specimens, 6 leaves showing 18 colour ink swatches, and 9 pages showing 9 of the woodblocks after they were defaced to make a reprint impossible. Dark blue half goatskin morocco (ca. 1950) by Banyan-Rivière in Bath, gold-tooled spine. Copy no. 58, signed by the author.
SAVAGE, William. · 1818
€10,000.00 ($11,022.07 | £8,341.45 | ¥1,760,292)
[1], [1 blank], "vi" [= viii], 118 (lacking 101-102), [10] pp. plus the plates and the 1818 notice.First and only edition of a beautiful, important and much sought practical manual of "decorative" printing (fine printing, colour printing, decorative ornament and illustration) ...
Historea da vida e martyrio do glorioso Sancto Thomas Arcebispo, Senhor de Cantuaria, Primas de Inglaterra, legado perpetuo da sancta see apostolica, trelada da novamente de Latim em lingoagé Portugues.(Colophon: Coimbra, João Alvarez, printer to the University, 12 November) 1554. 4to. With several woodcut decorated initials. With the 4 preliminary leaves in facsimile. 20th-century Portuguese tree calf, gold-tooled spine, red spine label, brown sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
Historea da vida e martyrio do glorioso Sancto Thomas Arcebispo, Senhor de Cantuaria, Primas de Inglaterra, legado perpetuo da sancta see apostolica, trelada da novamente de Latim em lingoagé Portugues.(Colophon: Coimbra, João Alvarez, printer to the University, 12 November) 1554. 4to. With several woodcut decorated initials. With the 4 preliminary leaves in facsimile. 20th-century Portuguese tree calf, gold-tooled spine, red spine label, brown sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
[BECKET, Thomas à (subject)]. [Diego Afonso de MIRANDA, translator]. · 1495
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[8], “CCCI” [= 303], [1 blank], [20] pp.Rare first and only Portuguese edition of a classic biography of Thomas à Becket (ca. 1118-1170), Archbishop of Canterbury. It is a free translation into Portuguese, probably by Diego Afonso de Miranda, of the Latin “quadrilogus”, a conf...
Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, consisting of twenty-four views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c. of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs.London, R. Ackermann (printed by L. Harrison), 1820. Elephant 4to (36.5 x 30 cm). With 24 unnumbered hand-coloured aquatint plates, including 4 folding, all drawn by Vidal and executed by G. Maile, T. Sutherland, G. Bluck and D. Havell. 20th-century gold-tooled, black morocco.
Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, consisting of twenty-four views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c. of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs.London, R. Ackermann (printed by L. Harrison), 1820. Elephant 4to (36.5 x 30 cm). With 24 unnumbered hand-coloured aquatint plates, including 4 folding, all drawn by Vidal and executed by G. Maile, T. Sutherland, G. Bluck and D. Havell. 20th-century gold-tooled, black morocco.
VIDAL, Emeric Essex. · 1816
€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)
XXVIII, 115 pp.First printing of beautiful hand-coloured aquatint views of Argentina, all conceived and drawn from life by Emeric Essex Vidal in the years 1816 to 1818, accompanied by descriptions of the scenery, costumes and habits of the peoples and regions depicted. The pla...
Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti ...Including: (2) SUETONIUS TRANQUILLIUS. De viris illustribus liber. (3) OBSEQUENS, Julius. Ab anno urbis conditae quingentesimoquinto, prodigiorum liber imperfectus.(4) CATANAEUS, Johannes Maria. C. Plinii Caecilii secundi Vita.Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1542. 8vo. With several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, both boards tooled in a panel design with floral motives in the 2 central panels, surrounded by a border with portraits on the front, and passion scenes and saints on the back, the manuscript initials "E.K" on the front, remnants of white leather closing ties.
Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti ...Including: (2) SUETONIUS TRANQUILLIUS. De viris illustribus liber. (3) OBSEQUENS, Julius. Ab anno urbis conditae quingentesimoquinto, prodigiorum liber imperfectus.(4) CATANAEUS, Johannes Maria. C. Plinii Caecilii secundi Vita.Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1542. 8vo. With several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, both boards tooled in a panel design with floral motives in the 2 central panels, surrounded by a border with portraits on the front, and passion scenes and saints on the back, the manuscript initials "E.K" on the front, remnants of white leather closing ties.
PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. · 1530
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
494 [=496], [39], [1 blank] pp.Rare early Antwerp edition of the Letters by Plinius Secundus, in a beautiful contemporary pigskin binding. This edition is virtually a reprint of the edition by Johannes Sichardt published in 1530 by Andreas Cratander at Basel. Sichardt (ca. 149...
Harmoniae Evangelicae libri quatuor, in quibus Evangelica historia ex quatuor Evangelistis ita in unu[m] est contexta, ut nullius verbum ullum omissum, nihil alienum immixtum, nullius ordo turbatus, nihil non suo loco positum. ... Elenchus harmoniae, ... (Colophon: Antwerp, Matthias Crom, 1540). 8vo. With a woodcut vignette at the foot of the title-page and the head of the first page of the main text (illustrating Luke 11), 1 full-page and 97 half-page woodcut illustrations by Levinus de Witte (including a few repeats). 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment.
Harmoniae Evangelicae libri quatuor, in quibus Evangelica historia ex quatuor Evangelistis ita in unu[m] est contexta, ut nullius verbum ullum omissum, nihil alienum immixtum, nullius ordo turbatus, nihil non suo loco positum. ... Elenchus harmoniae, ... (Colophon: Antwerp, Matthias Crom, 1540). 8vo. With a woodcut vignette at the foot of the title-page and the head of the first page of the main text (illustrating Luke 11), 1 full-page and 97 half-page woodcut illustrations by Levinus de Witte (including a few repeats). 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment.
OSIANDER, Andreas. · 1496
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
[164] ll.Third (first illustrated) edition of Osiander's Harmony of the Gospels. It brings the four Gospels together to make a single narrative, prefaced by a comparative synopsis of the content of the four Gospels. Having studied Hebrew and Greek in Ingolstadt, Andreas Osiand...
L[']histoire ecclesiastique ..., translatee de Latin en Fra[n]coys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, Evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Thurin.Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser, 1533 (colophon: 17 April). 8vo. With a woodcut border on the title-page, assembled from 4 blocks (that at the foot with De Keyser's printer's device), about 10 woodcut decorated initials plus about 10 repeats (2 gothic series and 2 roman series). Set in three sizes of bastarda type with textura initials. Contemporary Flemish blind panel-stamped calf, each board with the same panel and double and single fillets, a triple fillet in the panel stamp separating the inner and outer panel. The inner is an acorn cresting panel with 4 1/2 acorns on each side and the flowers not attached to the acorns, remnants of leather ties.
L[']histoire ecclesiastique ..., translatee de Latin en Fra[n]coys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, Evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Thurin.Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser, 1533 (colophon: 17 April). 8vo. With a woodcut border on the title-page, assembled from 4 blocks (that at the foot with De Keyser's printer's device), about 10 woodcut decorated initials plus about 10 repeats (2 gothic series and 2 roman series). Set in three sizes of bastarda type with textura initials. Contemporary Flemish blind panel-stamped calf, each board with the same panel and double and single fillets, a triple fillet in the panel stamp separating the inner and outer panel. The inner is an acorn cresting panel with 4 1/2 acorns on each side and the flowers not attached to the acorns, remnants of leather ties.
EUSEBIUS. · 1532
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[12], "297" [= 299], [1] ll.Rare second (first Antwerp) edition of Claude de Seyssel's French translation of Eusebius's chronological church history, first published by Geofroy Tory in Paris in 1532. Written in Greek in the 4th century, Eusebius drew on a wide variety of sourc...
Perpetua crux, sive passio Iesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitae; iconibus quadragenis explicata; quarum ligneae laminae in bonum publicum gratis datae. Pretium libelli, vide pag. 15.Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. With: (2) [ANDRIES, Josse]. Altera perpetua crux Iesu Christi a fine vitae usque ad finem mundi, in perpetuo altaris sacrificio ...Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and 80 full-page woodcut illustrations (40 in ad 1, which are repeated in ad 2). Contemporary parchment over boards, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
Perpetua crux, sive passio Iesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitae; iconibus quadragenis explicata; quarum ligneae laminae in bonum publicum gratis datae. Pretium libelli, vide pag. 15.Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. With: (2) [ANDRIES, Josse]. Altera perpetua crux Iesu Christi a fine vitae usque ad finem mundi, in perpetuo altaris sacrificio ...Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and 80 full-page woodcut illustrations (40 in ad 1, which are repeated in ad 2). Contemporary parchment over boards, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
[ANDRIES, Josse]. · 1648
€3,750.00 ($4,133.28 | £3,128.04 | ¥660,110)
96; 95, [1] pp.Original and only edition of the second part, and second edition of the first part of a rare devotional work. The first part was originally published only one year earlier by Willem Scheybels in 1648, in Brussels. A French translation was first published also in...
Abschrifft und gruendlicher Bericht eines schreibens der Ritterschafft, Edlen, und Stett, in Holland, in namen und von wegen der Stende derselben Landtschafft, an die Herren, welche das ampt aller Stend der Niderland tragen: Sie darinnen vermanet, dass sie einhelliglich (der Koeniglichen Man von Spannien zu gutem) dieselbige Land, auss des Hertzogen von Alba, und seiner Spanniart gewalt und Tiranney, widerumb zu ihrer alten Welfart und Freiheit helffen bringen.[Germany?], 1574. 4to. With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page. Modern boards.
Abschrifft und gruendlicher Bericht eines schreibens der Ritterschafft, Edlen, und Stett, in Holland, in namen und von wegen der Stende derselben Landtschafft, an die Herren, welche das ampt aller Stend der Niderland tragen: Sie darinnen vermanet, dass sie einhelliglich (der Koeniglichen Man von Spannien zu gutem) dieselbige Land, auss des Hertzogen von Alba, und seiner Spanniart gewalt und Tiranney, widerumb zu ihrer alten Welfart und Freiheit helffen bringen.[Germany?], 1574. 4to. With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page. Modern boards.
[DUTCH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE]. · 1573
€3,250.00 ($3,582.17 | £2,710.97 | ¥572,095)
[37], [3 blank] pp.Rare second or third edition of the German translation of an anti-Alva, anti-Spain pamphlet written by the nobility of Holland and representatives of its cities, addressed to the States (in Dutch “Staten”, the provincial governments) of and all magistrates i...
Album de la plata. Paris, Gihau(l)t frères (printed by Auguste Bry, Lemercier and Thierry), [1846]. 1mo (55 x 38 cm). 12 tinted lithographs (22 x 35 cm), depicting views in and around Montevideo, Buenos Aires, etc. Mid-19th-century binding, rebacked in green morocco.
Album de la plata. Paris, Gihau(l)t frères (printed by Auguste Bry, Lemercier and Thierry), [1846]. 1mo (55 x 38 cm). 12 tinted lithographs (22 x 35 cm), depicting views in and around Montevideo, Buenos Aires, etc. Mid-19th-century binding, rebacked in green morocco.
HASTREL, Adolphe d'. · 1805
€30,000.00 ($33,066.21 | £25,024.35 | ¥5,280,878)
12 lithographed plates.Beautiful album, containing a series of 12 numbered tinted lithographs of sights in Argentina and Uruguay, including many ships and harbours, drawn by Adolphe d'Hastrel and lithographed by D'Hastrel himself, Cicéri, Muller, Bayot, Sabatier and Clerget. E...