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Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae.Including: PROBUS, Aemylius [recté NEPOS, Cornelius]. De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Caius. Historiae Romanae duo volumina, ...(Colophon: Florence, Philippo Giunta, 1525). 3 works published as 1. 8vo. With Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a nearly identical one on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in an Aldine-style italic, with numerous spaces with guide letters where manuscript initials could be filled in (left blank in the present copy). Dark green gold-tooled morocco (ca. 1833?), the with AAR-monogram of Antoine Augustin Renouard, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink watered-silk endleaves, matching ribbon marker, gilt edges. Attributed to the Bradel family in Paris, probably Antoine Louis François Bradel.
Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae.Including: PROBUS, Aemylius [recté NEPOS, Cornelius]. De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Caius. Historiae Romanae duo volumina, ...(Colophon: Florence, Philippo Giunta, 1525). 3 works published as 1. 8vo. With Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a nearly identical one on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in an Aldine-style italic, with numerous spaces with guide letters where manuscript initials could be filled in (left blank in the present copy). Dark green gold-tooled morocco (ca. 1833?), the with AAR-monogram of Antoine Augustin Renouard, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink watered-silk endleaves, matching ribbon marker, gilt edges. Attributed to the Bradel family in Paris, probably Antoine Louis François Bradel.
JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. · 1525
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
15, [1], “103” [= 203], [1 blank]; [8], “105” [= 205]-267, [1] ll.Collected edition containing three works by classical authors. The present edition is based on Aldus's, with corrections. Dibdin notes that the classical philologist Johann Georg Graevius singled out the 1525 Gi...
Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum alchymiae arcanorum, tomus primus. [vol. 2:] Syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum, …, tomus secundus. [vol. 3:] Appendix necessaria syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum. Frankfurt, printed by Nikolaus Hoffmann for Peter Kopf, 1613-1615. 3 volumes. Folio. With the letterpress titles of volume 1 and 2 within the same engraved border (signed "G.Keller / 1605"), 1 woodcut plate, 3 double-page letterpress tables and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines.
Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum alchymiae arcanorum, tomus primus. [vol. 2:] Syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum, …, tomus secundus. [vol. 3:] Appendix necessaria syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum. Frankfurt, printed by Nikolaus Hoffmann for Peter Kopf, 1613-1615. 3 volumes. Folio. With the letterpress titles of volume 1 and 2 within the same engraved border (signed "G.Keller / 1605"), 1 woodcut plate, 3 double-page letterpress tables and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines.
LIBAVIUS, Andreas. · 1597
€16,000.00 ($17,635.31 | £13,346.32 | ¥2,816,468)
[12], 480, [8]; [12], "453" [= 450], [15]; [12], 279, [13] pp.First edition of a, mostly polemical, follow-up to the "unusually clear and highly systematic" (DSB) standard work on alchemy and early chemistry, Alchymia (1597), by the well-known German chemist Andreas Libavius (...
De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarii duo.(Colophon): Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521.With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Parabolae sive similia.(Colophon:) Basel, Johannes Froben, July 1521. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in woodcut architectural border with 3 coats of arms, the Isenburg(?) bars and Mainz wagon wheel above left and right, and Schoeffer's device at the foot under his IS-monogram; 6 large, beautiful woodcut initials. Both works set throughout in italic types. With 1 initial coloured by hand. Ad 2: with the title in an elaborate woodcut border, dated "MDXX" at the head, first page of the dedicatory letter by Erasmus to Petrus Aegidius on back of the title page with a border made of woodcut strips, Froben's large woodcut device on the last page, and 2 decorative woodcut initials. German contemporary blind-tooled calf sewn on 3 double cords, in a panel design. Titles in ink written on the spine (partly upside down) and the fore-edge; later paper spine label; 2 holes near the fore-edge of each board from fastenings now lost.
De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarii duo.(Colophon): Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521.With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Parabolae sive similia.(Colophon:) Basel, Johannes Froben, July 1521. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in woodcut architectural border with 3 coats of arms, the Isenburg(?) bars and Mainz wagon wheel above left and right, and Schoeffer's device at the foot under his IS-monogram; 6 large, beautiful woodcut initials. Both works set throughout in italic types. With 1 initial coloured by hand. Ad 2: with the title in an elaborate woodcut border, dated "MDXX" at the head, first page of the dedicatory letter by Erasmus to Petrus Aegidius on back of the title page with a border made of woodcut strips, Froben's large woodcut device on the last page, and 2 decorative woodcut initials. German contemporary blind-tooled calf sewn on 3 double cords, in a panel design. Titles in ink written on the spine (partly upside down) and the fore-edge; later paper spine label; 2 holes near the fore-edge of each board from fastenings now lost.
ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1994
€12,000.00 ($13,226.48 | £10,009.74 | ¥2,112,351)
[16], 247, [1 blank]; 191, [1] pp.Ad 1: Good, scholarly edition of Erasmus's famous guide to writing and speaking style in Latin, designed to provide the student of Latin with a wide range of words and expressions. Ad 2: A collection of similes, or comparisons, composed along ...
Den wech des levens. Een gheestelijc boecxken leerende hoe dat ee[n] goet kerste[n] mensch moet beginne[n] en[de] voortgaen in duechden, met veel devote ghebede[n] en[de] gheestelike corte vermaninghe[n] om tot een warachtich gheestelijc leven te comen.[Antwerp, Heyndrick Peetersen van Middelburg, 1547?]. 8vo. With title printed in black and red, within woodcut borders. Contemporary slightly overlapping parchment, remnants of ties.
Den wech des levens. Een gheestelijc boecxken leerende hoe dat ee[n] goet kerste[n] mensch moet beginne[n] en[de] voortgaen in duechden, met veel devote ghebede[n] en[de] gheestelike corte vermaninghe[n] om tot een warachtich gheestelijc leven te comen.[Antwerp, Heyndrick Peetersen van Middelburg, 1547?]. 8vo. With title printed in black and red, within woodcut borders. Contemporary slightly overlapping parchment, remnants of ties.
[FLORIS VAN HAARLEM]. · 1542
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[200] ll.Third(?) edition of a rare 16th-century Dutch devotional work written by Floris van Haarlem, Carthusian prior at Louvain and edited by the Antwerp priest Simon van Planen. With a dedicatory letter to Gheraert Heerman, rector and confessor of the Roman Catholic monaste...
[Elegantes variorum Virgilio-Ovidio-centones de opificio mundi, Christo Deo, Deique Matre, SS. Francisco et Car. Borromaeo].[Munich, Anna Berg (widow of Adam Berg the elder) for Raphael Sadeler, 1617]. Small 8vo (15 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary French gold- and blind-tooled black morocco, each board with a frame of blind fillets and a gold centrepiece comprising an HD monogram surrounded by 4 gothic S's (Hobson's S fermé), and the 6 spine compartments with alternately a gothic s and a small fleur-de-lis, the 2nd compartment with "[PR]OB[A]" above the fleur-de-lis:, blind fillets on the board edges.
[Elegantes variorum Virgilio-Ovidio-centones de opificio mundi, Christo Deo, Deique Matre, SS. Francisco et Car. Borromaeo].[Munich, Anna Berg (widow of Adam Berg the elder) for Raphael Sadeler, 1617]. Small 8vo (15 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary French gold- and blind-tooled black morocco, each board with a frame of blind fillets and a gold centrepiece comprising an HD monogram surrounded by 4 gothic S's (Hobson's S fermé), and the 6 spine compartments with alternately a gothic s and a small fleur-de-lis, the 2nd compartment with "[PR]OB[A]" above the fleur-de-lis:, blind fillets on the board edges.
FALCONIA PROBA, Valeria, Francesco POLA, Bernardus BRUSCHUS (all after VIRGILIUS & OVIDIUS) and Carolus SCRIBANIUS. · 1602
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
82 of 98, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a collection of five works of verse (one not known before the present edition, and three more not long before) in a remarkable contemporary binding with a monogram HD surrounded by four gothic S's, the S's featuring a diagonal line from t...
Istoria di Florindo e Chiarastella. Naples, [ca. 1790]. 4to. With a woodcut on the title-page (8.5 x 11.5 cm), it and the title together in a frame of thick-thin rules. Set in two columns. Modern boards.
Istoria di Florindo e Chiarastella. Naples, [ca. 1790]. 4to. With a woodcut on the title-page (8.5 x 11.5 cm), it and the title together in a frame of thick-thin rules. Set in two columns. Modern boards.
[FLORIS & BLANCHEFLOUR]. · 1790
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[8] pp.Only copy located of a ca. 1790 Naples chapbook edition in Italian verse of the popular story of Floris and Blancheflour, here Florindo and Chiarastella (in some editions Chiara Stella). The story is first known from a 12th-century French version, but appeared in many l...
Het stichtigh ende vermakelijck proces van drie ghebroeders, edel-lieden. Den eenen zijnde een dronkaert. [Den] tweden een hoer-eerder. [Den] derden een speelder. Dat wie bevonden sal worden vande drie ghebreken het kleenste begaen te hebben, het meeste erven sal van zijn vaders nae ghelatene goederen, volghens het testament daer af sijnde ghevonden, wesende onder sekere oude papieren, van M. P. v. O. Is mede hier by gevoegt, 't lof van droncken drincken.Including: RULANT, H. Satyra ofte lofsang van droncken drincken.[Amsterdam?, Jacob Aertsz. Colom?], 1635. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9 cm). With 2 decorative initial letters (castings made from woodcuts) and a decoration made from cast fleurons on the title page. The main text is set in roman type with long passages in italic and textura. Half calf (ca. 1830s), with the binder's stamp on an endleaf (F. DUQUESNE À GAND), chemical marbled sides, 2 black spine labels, marbled endpapers.
Het stichtigh ende vermakelijck proces van drie ghebroeders, edel-lieden. Den eenen zijnde een dronkaert. [Den] tweden een hoer-eerder. [Den] derden een speelder. Dat wie bevonden sal worden vande drie ghebreken het kleenste begaen te hebben, het meeste erven sal van zijn vaders nae ghelatene goederen, volghens het testament daer af sijnde ghevonden, wesende onder sekere oude papieren, van M. P. v. O. Is mede hier by gevoegt, 't lof van droncken drincken.Including: RULANT, H. Satyra ofte lofsang van droncken drincken.[Amsterdam?, Jacob Aertsz. Colom?], 1635. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9 cm). With 2 decorative initial letters (castings made from woodcuts) and a decoration made from cast fleurons on the title page. The main text is set in roman type with long passages in italic and textura. Half calf (ca. 1830s), with the binder's stamp on an endleaf (F. DUQUESNE À GAND), chemical marbled sides, 2 black spine labels, marbled endpapers.
[BEROALDO, Filippo, and anonymous adaptor]. · 1635
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
136, [1], [1 blank]; [30] pp.Second known copy of the third edition (1635) of a rare satirical Dutch adaptation (first and second editions 1634) of a moralistic story in Latin by Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505), possibly intended in this adaptation to satirize the Princes of Oran...
L'art d'ecrire. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1680. Folio. With large woodcut vignette on letterpress title-page, a woodcut headpiece, 2 woodcut decorative initials, decorations built up from cast arabesque fleurons, an engraved calligraphic title-page and 22 (of 23) engraved leaves with calligraphic writing samples and illustrations, all engraved by Louis Senault. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, and unusual marbled paste-downs.
L'art d'ecrire. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1680. Folio. With large woodcut vignette on letterpress title-page, a woodcut headpiece, 2 woodcut decorative initials, decorations built up from cast arabesque fleurons, an engraved calligraphic title-page and 22 (of 23) engraved leaves with calligraphic writing samples and illustrations, all engraved by Louis Senault. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, and unusual marbled paste-downs.
ALLAIS, Jean Baptiste.
€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)
[4], 12 pp. plus 23 (of 24) engr. ll.First edition of a very elaborate basic writing course and copy book, minutely explaining the composition of the various calligraphic hands (françoises, bâtardes, financieres), as well as pen decorations and drawings. The engraved title-pag...
Kamilaroi, Dippel, and Turrubul: languages spoken by Australian Aborigines.Sydney, Thomas Richards (New South Wales government printer), 1866. 4to. With an armorial vignette printed in several colours and gold (the unofficial “Advance Australia” Australian coat of arms), 4 fine full-page wood engravings of plants and flowers. Original publisher's maroon textured cloth.
Kamilaroi, Dippel, and Turrubul: languages spoken by Australian Aborigines.Sydney, Thomas Richards (New South Wales government printer), 1866. 4to. With an armorial vignette printed in several colours and gold (the unofficial “Advance Australia” Australian coat of arms), 4 fine full-page wood engravings of plants and flowers. Original publisher's maroon textured cloth.
RIDLEY, William. · 1819
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
VI, 88, [2] pp.First edition of grammars and vocabularies for three languages spoken by Australian Aborigines, compiled by William Ridley, professor at Sydney University and Minister of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. Ridley (1819-1878), an English missionary, came...
Der Dianen Hohe und Niedere Jagd-Geheimnisse. Darinnen die gantze Jagd-Wissenschaft ausführlich zu befinden: Mit grosser Arbeit inventiert und beschrieben. Hiernächst ist, Als ein neuer und besonderer Theil mit beygefüget Der Edle Hirsch-gerechte Jäger, kurtz, doch gründlich verfertiget von Johan Wilhelm von Pärson.Leipzig, Moritz Georg Weidmann, 1734. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title printed in red and black, divisional title-page for Von Pärson, finely engraved frontispiece showing Diane and her female companions hunting in the woods, engraved headpiece with portrait for the dedication, numerous hunting plans, views of landscapes and mountains, animals to hunt, hunting dogs, and all sorts of hunting traps and devices on 59 double-page engraved plates, incl. 20 full double-page illustrations, 5 double-page plates with 2 or 3 illustrations each, 2 double-page plates with 4 to 5 illustrations each, and 32 double-page plates with 6 illustrations each. Contemporary half vellum.
Der Dianen Hohe und Niedere Jagd-Geheimnisse. Darinnen die gantze Jagd-Wissenschaft ausführlich zu befinden: Mit grosser Arbeit inventiert und beschrieben. Hiernächst ist, Als ein neuer und besonderer Theil mit beygefüget Der Edle Hirsch-gerechte Jäger, kurtz, doch gründlich verfertiget von Johan Wilhelm von Pärson.Leipzig, Moritz Georg Weidmann, 1734. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title printed in red and black, divisional title-page for Von Pärson, finely engraved frontispiece showing Diane and her female companions hunting in the woods, engraved headpiece with portrait for the dedication, numerous hunting plans, views of landscapes and mountains, animals to hunt, hunting dogs, and all sorts of hunting traps and devices on 59 double-page engraved plates, incl. 20 full double-page illustrations, 5 double-page plates with 2 or 3 illustrations each, 2 double-page plates with 4 to 5 illustrations each, and 32 double-page plates with 6 illustrations each. Contemporary half vellum.
TÄNTZER, Johann. · 1633
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[20], 198, [2]; 122, [2] pp.The first edition, richly illustrated with engraved plates, of the classic manual on hunting by Johan Täntzer (ca. 1633-1690), published together with the treatise on deer hunting by Von Pärson, which Lindner calls one of the best hunting books of t...
Nägre fabler af Ovidii Metamorphoses, förswanskade (af Jacob Reenstierna).Stockholm, Julius G. Matthiae, 1708. 8vo in 4s. With woodcut device on the title-page, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 small engraved illustrations in the text by N. Guerard (ca. 5 x 6 cm), and woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold.
Nägre fabler af Ovidii Metamorphoses, förswanskade (af Jacob Reenstierna).Stockholm, Julius G. Matthiae, 1708. 8vo in 4s. With woodcut device on the title-page, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 small engraved illustrations in the text by N. Guerard (ca. 5 x 6 cm), and woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold.
OVID and Jacob REENSTIERNA (translator). · 1708
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[xvi], [138] pp.Nicely produced and finely illustrated first and only edition of a choice selection of fables from Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated into Swedish by Jacob Reenstierna, the first published Swedish translation of any of Ovid’s writings. Reenstierna, the translator...
Commentarioli olynthiacas; philippicaque; Demostenis orationes. Ennarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis.Including: HARPOCRATION, Valerius. Dictionarium decem Rhetorum.Venice, (heirs of) Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, June 1527. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With Aldus' woodcut printer's device on the title page and an older but very similar version on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in Greek type (the Upianus in 1 column; the Harpokation in 2 columns) with incidental roman. Early 18th-century gold-tooled diced brown calf.
Commentarioli olynthiacas; philippicaque; Demostenis orationes. Ennarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis.Including: HARPOCRATION, Valerius. Dictionarium decem Rhetorum.Venice, (heirs of) Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, June 1527. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With Aldus' woodcut printer's device on the title page and an older but very similar version on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in Greek type (the Upianus in 1 column; the Harpokation in 2 columns) with incidental roman. Early 18th-century gold-tooled diced brown calf.
ULPIANUS of Emesa. · 1503
€12,000.00 ($13,226.48 | £10,009.74 | ¥2,112,351)
119, [1] ll.Second edition of the Greek commentaries and scholia on Demosthenes written by Ulpian of Emesa who taught rhetoric at Antioch in the reign of Constantine (324-337 CE) and wrote a number of declamations and rhetorical works. He is best known as the reputed author of...
Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eiusdem classis facile distinguitur.[Oxford], Sheldonian Theatre, 1674. 4to. With an engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title page, and 52 engraved illustrations of plants in the text. Early 19th-century gold-tooled tree-marbled calf.
Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eiusdem classis facile distinguitur.[Oxford], Sheldonian Theatre, 1674. 4to. With an engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title page, and 52 engraved illustrations of plants in the text. Early 19th-century gold-tooled tree-marbled calf.
BOCCONE, Paulo. · 1633
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[8], 96, [7], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a description of rare plants in Italy and France by Paolo Boccone, beautifully illustrated with 52 engravings in the text, which show very fine and detailed views of plants, flowers, and herbs. The present work was printed at the She...
Emblemata amatoria. Afbeeldinghen van minne. Emblemes d'amour.Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1611. Oblong 4to (15 x 19 cm). With an engraved title-page, with the title in Latin, Dutch and French. With 30 engraved emblems (ca. 10.5 x 13.5 cm), each with tri-lingual mottos in the engraving and distichs in Dutch with Latin and French translations on the opposite page. The Dutch text is mainly set in gothic letters, while the Latin and French texts are set in roman and italic letters respectively. The Dutch songs and sonnets in the second half of the work are set in roman and gothic letters, sometimes in two columns. 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin, with two triple-fillet frames and 4 ornamental corner pieces between the two frames. With an elaborately gold-tooled spine, including the French title and the year of publication, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and a yellow, red and green reading ribbon.
Emblemata amatoria. Afbeeldinghen van minne. Emblemes d'amour.Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1611. Oblong 4to (15 x 19 cm). With an engraved title-page, with the title in Latin, Dutch and French. With 30 engraved emblems (ca. 10.5 x 13.5 cm), each with tri-lingual mottos in the engraving and distichs in Dutch with Latin and French translations on the opposite page. The Dutch text is mainly set in gothic letters, while the Latin and French texts are set in roman and italic letters respectively. The Dutch songs and sonnets in the second half of the work are set in roman and gothic letters, sometimes in two columns. 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin, with two triple-fillet frames and 4 ornamental corner pieces between the two frames. With an elaborately gold-tooled spine, including the French title and the year of publication, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and a yellow, red and green reading ribbon.
[HOOFT, Pieter Cornelisz.]. · 1581
€45,000.00 ($49,599.31 | £37,536.52 | ¥7,921,316)
144 pp.First edition of a landmark in the history of Dutch literature and the apogee of Dutch emblem books, written by one of the most important authors of the Dutch Golden Age, Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft (1581-1648). This edition was the first publication in an impressive series...
Contes et nouvelles en vers.Amsterdam [= Paris], [Joseph-Gérard Barbou], 1762. 2 volumes. 8vo. With engraved portraits of La Fontaine and Eisen and 80 engraved plates after drawings by Eisen and engraved by Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse, Flipart, Lemire, Leveau, De Longueil and Ouvrier, and 4 vignettes and 53 head- and tailpieces by Pierre-Philip Choffard. An engraving of Le calendrier des vieillards in its découvert state is loosely inserted in volume 1. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges.
Contes et nouvelles en vers.Amsterdam [= Paris], [Joseph-Gérard Barbou], 1762. 2 volumes. 8vo. With engraved portraits of La Fontaine and Eisen and 80 engraved plates after drawings by Eisen and engraved by Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse, Flipart, Lemire, Leveau, De Longueil and Ouvrier, and 4 vignettes and 53 head- and tailpieces by Pierre-Philip Choffard. An engraving of Le calendrier des vieillards in its découvert state is loosely inserted in volume 1. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges.
LA FONTAINE, Jean de. · 1665
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
XIV, [2], 268, [2], 16; VIII, [2], 306, [8], [2 blank] pp.Beautiful, splendidly illustrated copy of the tales of La Fontaine in the so-called fermiers généraux edition. Originally published in 1665, La Fontaine's "lighthearted and bawdy yet literary and poetic" (Adams) short s...
Les ouvrages d'architecture.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1715. 8 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (46 x 29.5 cm). With an engraved general title-page with a rectangular frame and a cartouche with Athena, architecture books and buildings, letterpress general title-page in red and black with engraved vignette (Athena with a view of Leiden, drawn by J. Goeree), 8 letterpress part-titles, 3 engraved part-titles, engraved dedication, a folding engraved portrait of Prince Johan Maurits after Govert Flinck by C. van Dalen (filling a whole Imperial sheet: plate size 60.5 x 46 cm!), and 8 series of 6, 12, 8, 5, 11, 7, 4 and 23 mostly double-page and some larger folding etched and engraved numbered plates after designs by Pieter Post, showing architectural plans, elevations, sections, etc. In total about 80 copperplates. Mottled calf (ca. 1750).
Les ouvrages d'architecture.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1715. 8 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (46 x 29.5 cm). With an engraved general title-page with a rectangular frame and a cartouche with Athena, architecture books and buildings, letterpress general title-page in red and black with engraved vignette (Athena with a view of Leiden, drawn by J. Goeree), 8 letterpress part-titles, 3 engraved part-titles, engraved dedication, a folding engraved portrait of Prince Johan Maurits after Govert Flinck by C. van Dalen (filling a whole Imperial sheet: plate size 60.5 x 46 cm!), and 8 series of 6, 12, 8, 5, 11, 7, 4 and 23 mostly double-page and some larger folding etched and engraved numbered plates after designs by Pieter Post, showing architectural plans, elevations, sections, etc. In total about 80 copperplates. Mottled calf (ca. 1750).
POST, Pieter. · 1608
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
[8], 6; 8; 10; 8; 12; 5, [1 blank]; 6; [2], 8 pp. plus plates.Splendid collected works of the most famous Dutch architect and master builder of the 17th century, Pieter Post (1608-1669), including the enormous folding portrait of his patron Johan Maurits, governor of Brazil, n...
Advis charitables sur les diverses oeuvres, et feuilles volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois. Publiees sous les titres.I. De Brouïllon Projet d'une atteinte aux evenements des rencontres du cone avec un plan: ...II. De Brouïllon Projet d'exemple d'une maniere universelle, touchant la pratique du traict a preuves, pour la couppe des pierres en l'architecture.III. D'une maniere de tracer tous quadrans d'heures égales au soleil, au moyen du style posé: ...Mis au jour. ...With: [DUBREUIL, Jean]. Diverses methodes universelles, et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie pour faire des perspectives. ... Tirees pour la plus-part du contenu du livre de La perspective pratique. Ce qui servira de plus de response aux deux affiches du Sieur Desargues, contre ladite Perspective pratique.Paris, Melchior Tavernier, François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1642. 2 works (4 & 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4to (25.5 x 18 cm). The first work in 4 parts. It lacks two small engraved plates. The second work with 10 full-page engravings on integral leaves. Half white sheepskin parchment (ca. 1900?).
Advis charitables sur les diverses oeuvres, et feuilles volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois. Publiees sous les titres.I. De Brouïllon Projet d'une atteinte aux evenements des rencontres du cone avec un plan: ...II. De Brouïllon Projet d'exemple d'une maniere universelle, touchant la pratique du traict a preuves, pour la couppe des pierres en l'architecture.III. D'une maniere de tracer tous quadrans d'heures égales au soleil, au moyen du style posé: ...Mis au jour. ...With: [DUBREUIL, Jean]. Diverses methodes universelles, et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie pour faire des perspectives. ... Tirees pour la plus-part du contenu du livre de La perspective pratique. Ce qui servira de plus de response aux deux affiches du Sieur Desargues, contre ladite Perspective pratique.Paris, Melchior Tavernier, François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1642. 2 works (4 & 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4to (25.5 x 18 cm). The first work in 4 parts. It lacks two small engraved plates. The second work with 10 full-page engravings on integral leaves. Half white sheepskin parchment (ca. 1900?).
[DUBREUIL, Jean] and others. · 1602
€22,500.00 ($24,799.66 | £18,768.26 | ¥3,960,658)
Ad 1: [4], [4]; 10; 14, [2 blank]; 17, [3 blank] pp.; Ad 2: [15] pp., 10 double-page spreads, [1 blank] p.Very rare and important first editions forming the culmination of an on-going war of words on perspective, conic sections, cutting stones for architectural use and making ...
Nieuwe manier van vestingbou, hoe men alle regulare en irregulare vestingen met hare buytenwerken na haer behoorlijke proportie, sonder eenige rekeninge, door den gemeenen cirkel op een nieuwe en gansch lichte manier tekenen, afsteken en opbouwen sal. Van nieuws van den autheur selve, met het offensive en defensive vermeerdert, en door de tabulae sinuum uytgerekent, en met nodige demonstratien en figuren allen liefhebbers deser kunst verrijkt.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge I, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page, 7 engraved plates (5 folding), 3 engraved illustrations in the text and 3 folding tables. Contemporary vellum.
Nieuwe manier van vestingbou, hoe men alle regulare en irregulare vestingen met hare buytenwerken na haer behoorlijke proportie, sonder eenige rekeninge, door den gemeenen cirkel op een nieuwe en gansch lichte manier tekenen, afsteken en opbouwen sal. Van nieuws van den autheur selve, met het offensive en defensive vermeerdert, en door de tabulae sinuum uytgerekent, en met nodige demonstratien en figuren allen liefhebbers deser kunst verrijkt.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge I, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page, 7 engraved plates (5 folding), 3 engraved illustrations in the text and 3 folding tables. Contemporary vellum.
BECKER (VON HERVORD), Peter. · 1664
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[16], 146 pp.Rare Dutch translation of a work on fortification giving a very detailed description of the mathematical problems encountered in designing and building fortifications. It was originally published in German in 1664 by the German military engineer Peter Becker. The ...
Pomologia ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, 1758.With:(2) [KNOOP, Johann Hermann]. Fructologia ... Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1763.(3) [KNOOP, Johann Hermann]. Dendrologia ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1763.(4) [KNOOP, Johann Hermann]. Beschryving van de moes- en keuken-tuin ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1769.4 works in 2 volumes. (1-3 together, 4 separate). Folio. With all 4 title-pages with an ornamental woodcut frame printed in red. Ad 1 with an engraved coat-of-arms at the start of the dedication and 20 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates depicting apples (numbered 1-12) and pears (numbered 1-8), woodcut decorated initials and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Ad 2 with 19 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates with illustrations of peaches, plums, cherries, berries, etc., 1 woodcut decorated initial, and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Ads 3 and 4 with woodcut decorated initials and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with (remnants) of title labels lettered in gold, brown sprinkled paper sides.
Pomologia ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, 1758.With:(2) [KNOOP, Johann Hermann]. Fructologia ... Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1763.(3) [KNOOP, Johann Hermann]. Dendrologia ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1763.(4) [KNOOP, Johann Hermann]. Beschryving van de moes- en keuken-tuin ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1769.4 works in 2 volumes. (1-3 together, 4 separate). Folio. With all 4 title-pages with an ornamental woodcut frame printed in red. Ad 1 with an engraved coat-of-arms at the start of the dedication and 20 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates depicting apples (numbered 1-12) and pears (numbered 1-8), woodcut decorated initials and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Ad 2 with 19 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates with illustrations of peaches, plums, cherries, berries, etc., 1 woodcut decorated initial, and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Ads 3 and 4 with woodcut decorated initials and ornamental woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with (remnants) of title labels lettered in gold, brown sprinkled paper sides.
KNOOP, Johann Hermann. · 1700
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
[1], [1 blank], [2], 86, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 132; [1], [1 blank], [2], 168, [4]; [1], [1 blank], 235, [1 blank] pp.First editions of four major Dutch works on the planting and cultivating of trees, the first two works on fruit trees for the kitchen garden, the...
Histoire de Kamtschatka, des Isles Kurilski, et des contrées voisines.Lyon, Benoit Duplain, 1767. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 2 large folding engraved maps, of Kurilski Isles and Kamtschatka respectively. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.
Histoire de Kamtschatka, des Isles Kurilski, et des contrées voisines.Lyon, Benoit Duplain, 1767. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 2 large folding engraved maps, of Kurilski Isles and Kamtschatka respectively. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.
[KRASHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich and Marc Antoine EIDOUS (translator)]. · 1731
€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)
[8], XVI, 327 [1 blank]; [8], 359, [1 blank] pp.First French translation of an excellent account of the second Russian scientific expedition to East Siberia and surroundings (1731-1742), led by Gmelin, including the first scientific account of Kamchatka. Krasheninnikov had joi...