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Opticorum libri sex. Philosophis iuxta ac mathematicis utiles.Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, widow & sons of Jan Moretus, 1613. Folio. With large woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank, engraved allegorical title-page by Pieter Paul Rubens, 6 allegorical half-titles engraved by Theodore Galle after designs by Rubens, and over 600 woodcut illustrations and figures in the text. Contemporary vellum.
Opticorum libri sex. Philosophis iuxta ac mathematicis utiles.Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, widow & sons of Jan Moretus, 1613. Folio. With large woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank, engraved allegorical title-page by Pieter Paul Rubens, 6 allegorical half-titles engraved by Theodore Galle after designs by Rubens, and over 600 woodcut illustrations and figures in the text. Contemporary vellum.
AGUILON, François de. · 1566
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
[48], 684, [44] pp.First edition of a classic on optics and perspective by the Jesuit François de Aguilon (1566-1617). The work, one of the few books illustrated by Pieter Paul Rubens, is a landmark in Baroque book illustration and presents a master work in optics. Aguilon was...
Automatum inaequale sive horologium antiquum automatis animatum. Opusculum sanè perutile, ac pro rei novitate jucundum, in quo multiplex datur. Hoc nondùm excogitatum automatum condendi methodus. ..Palermo, Francisco Valenze, 1747. 4to. With numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initials, some tables in the text and 15 numbered, folding engraved plates showing timepieces and clockwork mechanisms. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
Automatum inaequale sive horologium antiquum automatis animatum. Opusculum sanè perutile, ac pro rei novitate jucundum, in quo multiplex datur. Hoc nondùm excogitatum automatum condendi methodus. ..Palermo, Francisco Valenze, 1747. 4to. With numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initials, some tables in the text and 15 numbered, folding engraved plates showing timepieces and clockwork mechanisms. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
BONHOMO, Gabriele. · 1694
€1,850.00 ($2,039.08 | £1,543.17 | ¥325,654)
[8], 122 pp.Important treatise on timepieces, describing a clockwork mechanism that indicates the solar hours of variable length. Riccardi calls Gabriele Bonhomo (1694-1760) one of the best mathematicians of the 18th century. In the present publication he includes an appendix ...
Buenos Ayrès et le Paraguay; ou histoire, moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans de cette partie de l'Amérique.Paris, Nepveu, 1823. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 9 engraved plates, 2 double page in the first volume, and 9 engraved plates, 4 double-page in the second volume, all plates finely coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Buenos Ayrès et le Paraguay; ou histoire, moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans de cette partie de l'Amérique.Paris, Nepveu, 1823. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 9 engraved plates, 2 double page in the first volume, and 9 engraved plates, 4 double-page in the second volume, all plates finely coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
DENIS, Ferdinand. · 1798
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
199, [1]; 211, [1] pp.Rare first edition of this nicely illustrated work on the history, customs, traditions and costumes of Buenos Aires and Paraguay. Ferdinand Denis (1798-1890) was a French consul who decided to seek his fortune in South America. He left Le Havre in 1816, t...
Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei.Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1853. Small 4to (ca. 23 x 18.5 cm). With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum printed on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand. Contemporary quarter black cloth.
Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei.Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1853. Small 4to (ca. 23 x 18.5 cm). With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum printed on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand. Contemporary quarter black cloth.
PETZOLD, Eduard. · 1815
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
IX, [3], 68 pp.First edition of a thorough research into the science of colours and perspective, especially in relation to the designing and planning of gardens. Carl Eduard Adolph Petzold (1815-1891) worked as the park and garden inspector of Prince Pückler at Muskau, the Gre...
La vie du P. Gaspar Barzee Zelandois, de la Compagnie de Jesus. ... En la conqueste d'un Nouveau Monde à la foy Chrestienne, soubs les estandarts du bon Jesus, en l'Inde Orientale.Douai, Noel Wardavoir, 1615. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9 cm). Contemporary limp vellum.
La vie du P. Gaspar Barzee Zelandois, de la Compagnie de Jesus. ... En la conqueste d'un Nouveau Monde à la foy Chrestienne, soubs les estandarts du bon Jesus, en l'Inde Orientale.Douai, Noel Wardavoir, 1615. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9 cm). Contemporary limp vellum.
TRIGAULT, Nicolas. · 1515
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
[24], 444, [4] pp.First French edition of a biography of the Jesuit Gaspar Berse (1515-1553), who preached in Ormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and Goa in India. Berse was born in Goes on the island of Walcheren in Zeeland, the Netherlands. After his studies in Louvain he...
Discurso que, en el segundo dia del Octavario de Cincepcion, y anniversario de la batalla de Ayacucho, con motivo de la constitucion y presidencia Vitalicia del libertador en el Peru, pronunció el ilustrisimo señor Arzobispo electo de Lima, doctor Don Carlos Pedemonte.Lima, Imprenta de la Libertad, por José Maria Masias, 1826. Small 8vo. Disbound.
Discurso que, en el segundo dia del Octavario de Cincepcion, y anniversario de la batalla de Ayacucho, con motivo de la constitucion y presidencia Vitalicia del libertador en el Peru, pronunció el ilustrisimo señor Arzobispo electo de Lima, doctor Don Carlos Pedemonte.Lima, Imprenta de la Libertad, por José Maria Masias, 1826. Small 8vo. Disbound.
PEDEMONTE, Don Carlos. · 1824
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
36 pp.Original edition of a speech by the archbishop of Lima on the occasion of the second anniversary of the battle of Ayacucho (1824). This decisive victory by general Sucre was the one that assured Peru and the whole of South America of its independance. This speech was iss...
[Collection of four pen drawings of (ruinous) castles].[The Netherlands, second half of the 18th century]. Ca. 9.7 x 15.3 cm. Black crayon and pen, black and brown wash.
[Collection of four pen drawings of (ruinous) castles].[The Netherlands, second half of the 18th century]. Ca. 9.7 x 15.3 cm. Black crayon and pen, black and brown wash.
LIENDER, Paulus van. · 1731
€4,600.00 ($5,070.15 | £3,837.07 | ¥809,735)
Collection of four loosely drawn pen and ink drawings of (ruinous) castles, attributed to the Haarlem draughtsman Paulus van Liender. Three of the drawings show travellers near a ruinous gate, an inn and a moated castle. The fourth drawing is also of a moated castle, but with ...
Traité de la géométrie descriptive. Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819. 2 volumes (a text and an atlas volume). Large 4to. With a lithographed portrait of Gaspard Monge in the text volume, an engraved title to the atlas volume, and 60 engraved plates (3 double-page, 57 full-page) with illustrations of perspectival projections by Ambroise Tardieu after designs by the author. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter green morocco.
Traité de la géométrie descriptive. Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819. 2 volumes (a text and an atlas volume). Large 4to. With a lithographed portrait of Gaspard Monge in the text volume, an engraved title to the atlas volume, and 60 engraved plates (3 double-page, 57 full-page) with illustrations of perspectival projections by Ambroise Tardieu after designs by the author. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter green morocco.
VALLÉE, Louis Léger. · 1746
€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)
XX, 355, [1 blank]; 8 pp. + 60 engraved plates.Rare first edition of a treatise on descriptive geometry, perspective, and the mechanism of vision, complete with the atlas volume. The work is dedictated to Gaspar Monge (1746-1818), the inventor of descriptive geometry, and is t...
[Greek] Thaumantiados thaumasia. Sive iridis admiranda. Sub rationis accuratius examen revocata, eruditorumque ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita, Sub Praesisio Joh. Chr. Strumii. Nuremberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1699. Small 4to (ca. 21 x 16.5 cm). With 4 folding engraved plates by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz after designs by the author. Modern limp sheepskin parchment.
[Greek] Thaumantiados thaumasia. Sive iridis admiranda. Sub rationis accuratius examen revocata, eruditorumque ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita, Sub Praesisio Joh. Chr. Strumii. Nuremberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1699. Small 4to (ca. 21 x 16.5 cm). With 4 folding engraved plates by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz after designs by the author. Modern limp sheepskin parchment.
VOLCKAMER VON KIRCHENSITTENBACH, Christoph Gottlieb and Johann Christoph STURM (praeses). · 1635
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
[2], 185, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a doctoral thesis on the perspective and colours of the rainbow, read at the University of Altdorff in Germany, and written under the supervision of mathematician and astronomer Johann Christoph Sturm (1635-1703). The work starts with a ...
Voyage a la partie orientale de la Terre-Ferme, dans l'Amérique méridionale, fait pendant les années 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804: contenant la description de la Capitainerie générale de Caracas, composée des Provinces de Venezuela, Maracaïbo, Varinas, la Guiane Espagnole, Cumana et de l'Ile de la Marguerite; ...Paris, F. Buisson (back of half-title: Imprimerie de Fain et compagnie), 1806. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, including a large map of Caracas and surroundings and 3 smaller showing groundplans of Caracas, Puerto Cabello and La Guaira. All engraved by J.B. Tardieu. Contemporary half calf.
Voyage a la partie orientale de la Terre-Ferme, dans l'Amérique méridionale, fait pendant les années 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804: contenant la description de la Capitainerie générale de Caracas, composée des Provinces de Venezuela, Maracaïbo, Varinas, la Guiane Espagnole, Cumana et de l'Ile de la Marguerite; ...Paris, F. Buisson (back of half-title: Imprimerie de Fain et compagnie), 1806. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, including a large map of Caracas and surroundings and 3 smaller showing groundplans of Caracas, Puerto Cabello and La Guaira. All engraved by J.B. Tardieu. Contemporary half calf.
PONS, François Raymond Joseph de. · 1751
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[4], 358; [4], 469; [4], 362 pp.First edition of an extensive description of a voyage to "terra firma", referring to Spain's possessions surrounding the Caribbean Sea (here Venezuela in particular), written by François Raymond Joseph de Pons (1751-1812), archivist of the Frenc...
Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût.Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. With an engraved title-page and 37 numbered engraved plates showing numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs, and tables. 19th-century gold-stamped artificial green leather, marbled paper over boards, blue sprinkled edges.
Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût.Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. With an engraved title-page and 37 numbered engraved plates showing numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs, and tables. 19th-century gold-stamped artificial green leather, marbled paper over boards, blue sprinkled edges.
GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. · 1763
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[38] leaves.First Italian editon of a beautiful and interesting work containing engraved designs for all sorts of ornaments used in garden decoration. Johann Gottfried Grohmann (1763-1805) was a German engraver and artexpert. He also published several theoretical works on arch...
Manual del librero Hispano-Americano. Bibliografía Española e Hispano-Americana desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros tiempos con el valor comercial de los ompresos descritos, ... Segunda edición, corregida y aumentada por el autor.Barcelona and Oxford, Librería anticuaria de A. Palau and Dolphin Book Company, 1948-1977. With: (2) PALAU CLAVERAS, Augustin. Indice alfabetico de titulos-materias, correcciones, conexiones y adiciones del Manual del librero Hispano Americano.Empúries, Palacete Palau Dulcet; Oxford, Dolphin Book Company, 1981-1987. Ad 1: 28 volumes; ad 2: 7 volumes. 4to (27.5 x 19 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
Manual del librero Hispano-Americano. Bibliografía Española e Hispano-Americana desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros tiempos con el valor comercial de los ompresos descritos, ... Segunda edición, corregida y aumentada por el autor.Barcelona and Oxford, Librería anticuaria de A. Palau and Dolphin Book Company, 1948-1977. With: (2) PALAU CLAVERAS, Augustin. Indice alfabetico de titulos-materias, correcciones, conexiones y adiciones del Manual del librero Hispano Americano.Empúries, Palacete Palau Dulcet; Oxford, Dolphin Book Company, 1981-1987. Ad 1: 28 volumes; ad 2: 7 volumes. 4to (27.5 x 19 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.
PALAU Y DULCET, Antonio. · 1923
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
Complete set of the second edition of a monumental bibliography concerning Spanish America, together with the first edition of the alphabetical index, making a total of 35 volumes. The main bibliography (excluding the index) was originally published in 7 volumes from 1923 to 1...
Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ...Brussels, Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4to. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum.
Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ...Brussels, Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4to. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum.
BORCHT, Willem van der (Guilielmus a CASTRO). · 1621
€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)
[16], 271, [1] pp.First edition, in Flemish Dutch, of a didactic satire, mostly in verse, by the Flemish poet and lawyer Willem van der Borcht or Guilelmus a Castro (1621/22-1668) in Brussels, with elegies and epigrams alternating with prose passages. It allegorically presents...
De disciplina puerorum, recteque formandis eorum & studiis & moribus ...Basel, Joannes Oporinus (colophon:) Bern, Samuel Apiarius, March 1556. With: (2) [MOREL, Guillaume (editor)]. Graecorum veterum selectae brevesque epistolae.Paris, Guillaume Morel, King's printer for Greek, 1562. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut device on the title page. The Greek text set in Claude Garamont's famous Grec du Roi and the Latin translation set in his Aldine-style italic. Richly gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700), each board with a border made from double fillets and a floral roll, diapered with fleurs-de-lis, the spine with a double-fillet border in each of the 6 compartments, the title in the 2nd and the others diapered with smaller fleurs-de-lis, gilt edges.
De disciplina puerorum, recteque formandis eorum & studiis & moribus ...Basel, Joannes Oporinus (colophon:) Bern, Samuel Apiarius, March 1556. With: (2) [MOREL, Guillaume (editor)]. Graecorum veterum selectae brevesque epistolae.Paris, Guillaume Morel, King's printer for Greek, 1562. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut device on the title page. The Greek text set in Claude Garamont's famous Grec du Roi and the Latin translation set in his Aldine-style italic. Richly gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700), each board with a border made from double fillets and a floral roll, diapered with fleurs-de-lis, the spine with a double-fillet border in each of the 6 compartments, the title in the 2nd and the others diapered with smaller fleurs-de-lis, gilt edges.
[BECH, Philipp (editor)]. · 1700
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
31, [21]; [16], "840" [= 804] pp.Two rare works, both the first editions of these collections, in an elegant French binding from ca. 1700.Ad 1: Rare first and only collective edition of 27 Latin pedagogical works originally published separately in the first half of the 16th ce...
Historie des ouden en nieuwen testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in kooper gesneeden.Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for both parts (vols. 1 and 3), a large engraved vignette on each of the 3 typographical title pages, 3 engraved headpieces (1 in vol. 1 and 2 in vol. 3), 28 engraved tailpieces is vol. 3, 2 identical engraved initials (one in vol. 1, the other in vol. 3), a total of 210 full-page engraved plates containing 2 illustrations each (64 in vol. 1; 72 in vol. 2; 74 in vol. 3), and 5 double-page engraved maps in volume 3. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf,with a green and a blue label lettered in gold on each spine, sprinkled paper sides.
Historie des ouden en nieuwen testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in kooper gesneeden.Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for both parts (vols. 1 and 3), a large engraved vignette on each of the 3 typographical title pages, 3 engraved headpieces (1 in vol. 1 and 2 in vol. 3), 28 engraved tailpieces is vol. 3, 2 identical engraved initials (one in vol. 1, the other in vol. 3), a total of 210 full-page engraved plates containing 2 illustrations each (64 in vol. 1; 72 in vol. 2; 74 in vol. 3), and 5 double-page engraved maps in volume 3. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf,with a green and a blue label lettered in gold on each spine, sprinkled paper sides.
[MARTIN, David and Willem SEWEL (translator)]. · 1700
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [14], 128; [1], [1 blank], 129-282 [= 154 pp.], [8]; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [22], 154, [1 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [1 blank], 155-163 [= 9 pp.], [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the beautiful "large bib...
Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupedes de la province du Paraguay.Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801. 2 volumes. 8vo. Mid- to late 19th-century gold-tooled half brown morocco.
Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupedes de la province du Paraguay.Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801. 2 volumes. 8vo. Mid- to late 19th-century gold-tooled half brown morocco.
AZARA, Félix de and Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de SAINT-MÉRY (translator).
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
LXXX, 364, [2]; 499 pp.First edition of one of the most significant early treatises on South American zoology, which was highly regarded by Charles Darwin. The text is organised into chapters, each devoted to a different species, including tapirs, jaguars, ocelots, and chamele...
Recueil de jardinage. [Ier]- IVme volume. [vols. 2-4 with title: Recueil de jardins Anglois et Chinois]. Paris, the author, Denos, Mondare, Basan (vols. 3-4: the author only), 1783-1788. With 4 engraved title-pages, 2 engraved ll. with explanatory text, and 110 engraved illustrations on 109 plates. At least the present copy also includes a 3-page engraved price list for both the Recueil de jardins and the Recueil des décorations. With:(2) PANSERON, Pierre. Recueil des décorations propre a embellir les jardins Anglois et Chinois.Paris, the author, 1785. With engraved title-page and 56 engraved plates in ten series.(3) PANSERON, Pierre. Catalogue des ouvrages d'architecture du Sieur Panseron.Paris, the author, [ca. 1783]. 2 works plus publisher's catalogue in 5 volumes. 4to. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled spines. Panseron's price list offered copies bound in "bazanne", so the present copy may be in the publisher's own binding.
Recueil de jardinage. [Ier]- IVme volume. [vols. 2-4 with title: Recueil de jardins Anglois et Chinois]. Paris, the author, Denos, Mondare, Basan (vols. 3-4: the author only), 1783-1788. With 4 engraved title-pages, 2 engraved ll. with explanatory text, and 110 engraved illustrations on 109 plates. At least the present copy also includes a 3-page engraved price list for both the Recueil de jardins and the Recueil des décorations. With:(2) PANSERON, Pierre. Recueil des décorations propre a embellir les jardins Anglois et Chinois.Paris, the author, 1785. With engraved title-page and 56 engraved plates in ten series.(3) PANSERON, Pierre. Catalogue des ouvrages d'architecture du Sieur Panseron.Paris, the author, [ca. 1783]. 2 works plus publisher's catalogue in 5 volumes. 4to. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled spines. Panseron's price list offered copies bound in "bazanne", so the present copy may be in the publisher's own binding.
PANSERON, Pierre. · 1736
€60,000.00 ($66,132.42 | £50,048.70 | ¥10,561,755)
5 engraved titles, 2 engraved ll. with explanatory text, and 4 engraved and 4 letterpres pp.Fine set of the rarest of great French gardening books by Pierre Panseron (ca. 1736-1787), a well-known Paris architect and Royal engraver. The Recueil de jardinage is divided into many...
Nieuwe gedichten. Sonder rym, naa de Griexe en Latynse dicht-maten, op allerhande soorten van verssen, ingestelt. Noit voor desen in Neder-duits gesien, noch gebruiklik.Harderwijk, Joannes Toll, 1656. Oblong 4to. With woodcut of King David playing his harp on the title page, a fine engraved frontispiece with an open music book below the title in centre, which is flanked by King David playing his harp and Horace playing his lyre, each on a pedestal, with a white swan above and publisher's address below. Contemporary mottled calf.
Nieuwe gedichten. Sonder rym, naa de Griexe en Latynse dicht-maten, op allerhande soorten van verssen, ingestelt. Noit voor desen in Neder-duits gesien, noch gebruiklik.Harderwijk, Joannes Toll, 1656. Oblong 4to. With woodcut of King David playing his harp on the title page, a fine engraved frontispiece with an open music book below the title in centre, which is flanked by King David playing his harp and Horace playing his lyre, each on a pedestal, with a white swan above and publisher's address below. Contemporary mottled calf.
GODDAEUS, Conrad. · 1634
€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)
[4], 184, [2] pp.Very rare Dutch songbook and an important contribution to Dutch poetic art, with all songs strictly based on classical metrics, and without rhyme. In his dedication to the States of Gelre and Zutphen the author presents his work as the new and perfect form fo...
Raccolta di disegni alla Sacra Real Maestà D.A M.ria Cristina Borbone Regina di Spagna ed delle Indie.[Naples, 1828-1831?]. Oblong 1mo (39×50 cm). One letterpress leaf dated 22 August 1830, mounted on flyleaf, and 18 hand-coloured lithographs, dated from 1828 to 1831, drawn on stone by Angelo Belloni, Federico Gatt, Gaetano Dura and Settimio Severo Lopresti, and printed by the "Reale Litografia Militare". Contemporary half green sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, front board with letterpress title label.
Raccolta di disegni alla Sacra Real Maestà D.A M.ria Cristina Borbone Regina di Spagna ed delle Indie.[Naples, 1828-1831?]. Oblong 1mo (39×50 cm). One letterpress leaf dated 22 August 1830, mounted on flyleaf, and 18 hand-coloured lithographs, dated from 1828 to 1831, drawn on stone by Angelo Belloni, Federico Gatt, Gaetano Dura and Settimio Severo Lopresti, and printed by the "Reale Litografia Militare". Contemporary half green sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, front board with letterpress title label.
CANNA, Pasquale. · 1822
€68,500.00 ($75,501.18 | £57,138.93 | ¥12,058,004)
Extremely rare series of 18 beautiful hand-coloured lithographs showing stage designs for the Real Teatro San Carlo, one of Italy's most famous opera houses. The striking plates include scenery for Zelmira (1822), the acclaimed opera by Rossini, who was the artistic director o...
La perspective avec la raison, des ombres et miroirs. London, John Norton [printed partly by Jan Mommaert the elder in Brussels and partly by Richard Field in London], 1612. Royal folio (52 x 28.5 cm). With an engraved title page and 80 etched and engraved illustrations: 64 on otherwise blank pages, mostly on integral leaves (2 across double-pages, further mostly full-page), and 16 on the text pages (from small to half-page). Contemporary dark brown calf. Rebacked, restored and with new endpapers.
La perspective avec la raison, des ombres et miroirs. London, John Norton [printed partly by Jan Mommaert the elder in Brussels and partly by Richard Field in London], 1612. Royal folio (52 x 28.5 cm). With an engraved title page and 80 etched and engraved illustrations: 64 on otherwise blank pages, mostly on integral leaves (2 across double-pages, further mostly full-page), and 16 on the text pages (from small to half-page). Contemporary dark brown calf. Rebacked, restored and with new endpapers.
CAUS (CAULS), Salomon de. · 1576
€22,500.00 ($24,799.66 | £18,768.26 | ¥3,960,658)
engraved title + [5], 49, [16] ll. including engravings.First edition of a famous and original treatise on perspective by the prominent mathematician Salomon de Caus (1576?-1626), here in the very rare issue with the imprint of John Norton in London (alone) in 1612, with the n...