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Cours de dessin géométrique. Projections et perspective.De Villeneuve, Les Béziers, 1878. Oblong large folio (31.4 x 48.7 cm). With manuscript title in black and grey ink and 39 full-page manuscript plates with beautifully drawn and professionally executed washed pendrawings and watercolours of the projections of solid bodies and of plans and designs on perspective for architects and stone cutters, all versos blank. Contemporary half red calf.
Cours de dessin géométrique. Projections et perspective.De Villeneuve, Les Béziers, 1878. Oblong large folio (31.4 x 48.7 cm). With manuscript title in black and grey ink and 39 full-page manuscript plates with beautifully drawn and professionally executed washed pendrawings and watercolours of the projections of solid bodies and of plans and designs on perspective for architects and stone cutters, all versos blank. Contemporary half red calf.
GUILLOT, P.
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[1 blank], [40], [2 blank] ll.Very beautiful manuscript course on projections and perspective, including perspective plans and designs for architectural "trompe-l'oeil". The course is divided as follows: - "Projections", plates 1-5, depicting perspective projections of solids,...
Traité de la coupe des pierres, ou methode facile & abregée, pour aisément se perfectionner en cette science.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, Pierre-Alexandre Martin, 1738. Large folio (43.5 x 29.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece by Thomassin after Bertin and numerous architectural plans and views (in orthographic projections and in perspective) and designs for stone cutters printed from 97 engraved copper plates (96 full-page and 1 larger than double-page on a folding sheet of larger format). A. Coquart signed or initialed most of the plates. Further with 3 engraved headpieces (plus 3 repeats) showing putti cutting and hauling stone at building sites and 2 engraved decorated initials. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down.
Traité de la coupe des pierres, ou methode facile & abregée, pour aisément se perfectionner en cette science.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, Pierre-Alexandre Martin, 1738. Large folio (43.5 x 29.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece by Thomassin after Bertin and numerous architectural plans and views (in orthographic projections and in perspective) and designs for stone cutters printed from 97 engraved copper plates (96 full-page and 1 larger than double-page on a folding sheet of larger format). A. Coquart signed or initialed most of the plates. Further with 3 engraved headpieces (plus 3 repeats) showing putti cutting and hauling stone at building sites and 2 engraved decorated initials. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down.
LA RUE, Jean Baptiste de. · 1728
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
[16], 185, [1 blank] pp. plus plates.Second issue of the first edition (1728) of "the most accurate and complete work on the subject of stone-cutting for building" (BAL). An abundantly and clearly illustrated manual on cutting stone for architectural construction, with meticul...
La vie du pere Francois de Borja ...Douai, Baltazar Bellère, 1603. 8vo. With a woodcut "IHS" vignette on the title-page, some woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head-pieces, and a large woodcut tail-piece on p. 480. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties.
La vie du pere Francois de Borja ...Douai, Baltazar Bellère, 1603. 8vo. With a woodcut "IHS" vignette on the title-page, some woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head-pieces, and a large woodcut tail-piece on p. 480. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties.
RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de [and Michel d'ESNE DE BETENCOURT (translator)]. · 1527
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
[1], [1 blank], [22], 480 pp.Second edition of the French translation of the biography of Saint Francis of Borgia, a Spanish Roman Catholic reformer and third general of the Jesuits. The original work was written by the famous Spanish jesuit Pedro Ribadeneyra (1527-1611), the ...
Chronicon Cameracense et Atrebatense, sive historia utrisque ecclesiae, III libris, ab hinc DC sere annis conscripta. Nunc primum in luce edita, & notis illustrata.Douai, Jean Bogard, 1615. 8vo. With Bogard's engraved device on the title-page, 1 large folding engraved game board, and 2 large folding letterpress rectangular game boards, each with 4 small engravings in the centre and explanatory text on the backs, the same 4 engravings of dice in the text along with 3 small engravings of seals (plus 4 repeats). 17th-century vellum.
Chronicon Cameracense et Atrebatense, sive historia utrisque ecclesiae, III libris, ab hinc DC sere annis conscripta. Nunc primum in luce edita, & notis illustrata.Douai, Jean Bogard, 1615. 8vo. With Bogard's engraved device on the title-page, 1 large folding engraved game board, and 2 large folding letterpress rectangular game boards, each with 4 small engravings in the centre and explanatory text on the backs, the same 4 engravings of dice in the text along with 3 small engravings of seals (plus 4 repeats). 17th-century vellum.
BALDERIC, Bishop of Noyon and Tournai (ed. George COLVENEER).
€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)
[40], “607” [= 623], [1 blank], [16] pp.Rare first edition, in the original Latin, of a mediaeval chronicle of Cambrai and Arras, written ca. 1100 and containing the earliest known description and representation of a "virtuous" dice and board game invented ca. 965 by Wibold, A...
Eerste [-Tweede] deel van 't nieu geusen liet boeck, waerinne begrepen is den gantschen handel der Nederlanden, beginnende anno 1564. uit alle oude geusen liet-boecken by een versamelt. Verciert met schoone oude refereynen en[de] liedekens, te voren noyt in eenige liet-boecken ghedruct. Met de figuren der gouverneurs.Amsterdam, Gerrit van Breugel, 1616. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black with borders built up from typographic ornaments, woodcut on title page, and 10 small woodcut portraits in text of the two parts together. Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties.
Eerste [-Tweede] deel van 't nieu geusen liet boeck, waerinne begrepen is den gantschen handel der Nederlanden, beginnende anno 1564. uit alle oude geusen liet-boecken by een versamelt. Verciert met schoone oude refereynen en[de] liedekens, te voren noyt in eenige liet-boecken ghedruct. Met de figuren der gouverneurs.Amsterdam, Gerrit van Breugel, 1616. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black with borders built up from typographic ornaments, woodcut on title page, and 10 small woodcut portraits in text of the two parts together. Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties.
[SONGBOOK - DUTCH]. · 1581
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
[1], 93, [1]; 86, [1] ll.First Breugel edition of the "nieu geusen liet boeck", the most popular songbook of the Dutch Republic with songs about the victories against Spain and satirical songs against the papists. The name "geuzen" (literally “beggars”) began as a derogatory t...
Nouvelle collection de costumes Suisses de XXII cantons. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen.Zürich, bey Orell, Füssli und Comp., [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, separated by tissue paper guards, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary gold-tooled red paper
Nouvelle collection de costumes Suisses de XXII cantons. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen.Zürich, bey Orell, Füssli und Comp., [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, separated by tissue paper guards, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary gold-tooled red paper
KÖNIG, Franz Niklaus & Gabriel LORY & OTHERS. · 1765
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
223, [4] pp.Beautiful costume book, depicting costumes from the 22 Swiss cantons in 60 hand coloured full-page plates. The plates are engraved by Franz Niklaus König (1765-1832), and Gabriel Lory (1763-1840). Especially König was a well-known and respected artist in his time, ...
De la cita d'Dio. [Venice?, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, ca. 1477? (not after 1483)]. Folio. Printed in two columns, each 47 lines, with spaces for 3-6 line initials left blank. Early 19th-century gold-tooled calf.
De la cita d'Dio. [Venice?, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, ca. 1477? (not after 1483)]. Folio. Printed in two columns, each 47 lines, with spaces for 3-6 line initials left blank. Early 19th-century gold-tooled calf.
AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). · 2071
€19,000.00 ($20,941.93 | £15,848.76 | ¥3,344,556)
[1 blank], [322], [1 blank] ll.Beautiful copy with wide margins of the first edition of the first Italian translation of the most famous work of St. Augustine (354-430), his Latin De civitate Dei, the City of God, also known as De civitate Dei contra paganos (The City of God a...
Ordenliche Beschreibung mit was stattlichen Ceremonien und Zierlichheiten, die Röm. Kay. May. unser aller gnedigster Herr, samt etlich andern Ertzhertzogen, Fürsten und Herrn, den Orden dess Guldin Flüss, in disem [15]85. Jahr zu Prag und Landshüt, empfangen und angenommen. Dillingen, Johann Mayer, 1587. 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). With the title printed in red and black, 7 full-page engraved illustrations (showing the collar (chain) of the Order, the Emperor Rudolf II in his robes and 5 coats of arms), and 13 large folding engraved plates showing the splendid ceremonies held at Prague and Landshut, probably all drawn by Anthony Boys. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin; rebacked with most of the original backstrip laid down.
Ordenliche Beschreibung mit was stattlichen Ceremonien und Zierlichheiten, die Röm. Kay. May. unser aller gnedigster Herr, samt etlich andern Ertzhertzogen, Fürsten und Herrn, den Orden dess Guldin Flüss, in disem [15]85. Jahr zu Prag und Landshüt, empfangen und angenommen. Dillingen, Johann Mayer, 1587. 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). With the title printed in red and black, 7 full-page engraved illustrations (showing the collar (chain) of the Order, the Emperor Rudolf II in his robes and 5 coats of arms), and 13 large folding engraved plates showing the splendid ceremonies held at Prague and Landshut, probably all drawn by Anthony Boys. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin; rebacked with most of the original backstrip laid down.
ZEHENDTNER VOM ZEHENDTGRÜB, Paul. · 1545
€28,000.00 ($30,861.80 | £23,356.06 | ¥4,928,819)
[1], [1 blank], 155, [1], [2 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition (especially rare with all 20 plates) of a richly illustrated account on the receipt of the Order of the Golden Fleece by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and several members of his family and his entourage, mo...
Relation de la Riviere des Amazones traduite par feu Mr de Gomberville de l'Académie Françoise. Avec un dissertation sur la riviere des Amazones pour servir de Preface.Paris, Claude Barbin, 1682. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 12mo. With a folding engraved map of the Amazon River. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, red edges.
Relation de la Riviere des Amazones traduite par feu Mr de Gomberville de l'Académie Françoise. Avec un dissertation sur la riviere des Amazones pour servir de Preface.Paris, Claude Barbin, 1682. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 12mo. With a folding engraved map of the Amazon River. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, red edges.
ACUÑA, Cristóbal Diatristán de. · 1641
€14,500.00 ($15,982.00 | £12,095.10 | ¥2,552,424)
199, [1; 4], 218; 238, [2 blank]; 206 pp.First edition in French of a travel account of the expedition by Pedro Texeira (d. 1641) and Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña (1597 - ca. 1676), exploring the Amazon River from Quito to the east. They were the first Europeans to penetrate ...
De wonderbare en heilsame geboorte; benevens de voornaamste wonderdaden, van onsen eenigen middelaar Jesus Christus.Amsterdam, Andries van Damme; Leiden, Hendrik van Damme, 1700. Oblong folio (24.5 x 36.5). With a letterpress title-page and a series of 12 numbered engraved plates, incl. the title-plate, all showing scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, finely etched by Hendrik Elandt after designs by Jan van Orley II. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.
De wonderbare en heilsame geboorte; benevens de voornaamste wonderdaden, van onsen eenigen middelaar Jesus Christus.Amsterdam, Andries van Damme; Leiden, Hendrik van Damme, 1700. Oblong folio (24.5 x 36.5). With a letterpress title-page and a series of 12 numbered engraved plates, incl. the title-plate, all showing scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, finely etched by Hendrik Elandt after designs by Jan van Orley II. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.
ELANDT, Hendrik and Jan van ORLEY. · 1696
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[4], 12 pp. plus 12 engr. plates.Rare first and only edition of a print series on the life of Jesus. Elandt began work on the project ca. 1696 and engraved the plates after paintings by Jan van Orley (1665-1735), a well-known Brussels painter who specialized in religious scene...
Les differens batimens de la mer oceanne, …With:(2) GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. Les differens batimens de la Mer Mediterranée, …(3) GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. Petits batimens de l'ocean. Paris, Pierre Giffart, [titles of parts 2 & 3 dated 1709]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Oblong Imperial 16mo (12.5 x 16.5 cm). Part 1 with 30 engraved leaves including the title-page, part 2 with 30 engraved leaves including the title-page, and part 3 with 16 engraved leaves. All together 76 plates (plate size mostly ca. 7 x 11 cm, the title plates to parts 1 & 2 ca. 10 x 12 cm) depicting a wide variety of boats and ships, each with a caption identifying the type of ship. Contemporary French gold-tooled calf. Subtly rebacked with the original back-strip laid down.
Les differens batimens de la mer oceanne, …With:(2) GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. Les differens batimens de la Mer Mediterranée, …(3) GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. Petits batimens de l'ocean. Paris, Pierre Giffart, [titles of parts 2 & 3 dated 1709]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Oblong Imperial 16mo (12.5 x 16.5 cm). Part 1 with 30 engraved leaves including the title-page, part 2 with 30 engraved leaves including the title-page, and part 3 with 16 engraved leaves. All together 76 plates (plate size mostly ca. 7 x 11 cm, the title plates to parts 1 & 2 ca. 10 x 12 cm) depicting a wide variety of boats and ships, each with a caption identifying the type of ship. Contemporary French gold-tooled calf. Subtly rebacked with the original back-strip laid down.
GUEROULT DU PAS, Pierre Jacques. · 1709
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
30; 30; 16 engr. ll.Rare first edition of three charming series of prints depicting boats and ships sailing on the Mediterranean, oceans around the world and canals in Venice for purposes of trade, fishing, transport, war, etc., engraved by Gueroult du Pas, who was active at T...
Promontorium malae spei: impiis periculose navigantibus propositium. Sive, signum & nota reprobationis: procrastinatio poenitentiae, scripta cautelae hominum, emendatione[m] vita[e] cunctantium, spe aliquando resipiscendi.Graz, [heirs of Georg] Widmanstetter for Sebastian Haupt, 1643. Large 4to (25.5 x 19 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece and a richly designed armorial and emblematic dedication plate, both by David Tscherning. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled black morocco, each board in a panel design of rolls and stamps with a large built-up centrepiece in a double frame of multiple decorative rolls (the diagonals connecting the inner and outer frames possibly intended to give the effect of a three-dimensional niche), and the spine treated as a single field with built-up decorations in a frame of multiple rolls, gold fillets on turn-ins, the whole with hundreds of impressions of dozens of stamps and rolls, gilt edges, traces of 2 pair of ties.
Promontorium malae spei: impiis periculose navigantibus propositium. Sive, signum & nota reprobationis: procrastinatio poenitentiae, scripta cautelae hominum, emendatione[m] vita[e] cunctantium, spe aliquando resipiscendi.Graz, [heirs of Georg] Widmanstetter for Sebastian Haupt, 1643. Large 4to (25.5 x 19 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece and a richly designed armorial and emblematic dedication plate, both by David Tscherning. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled black morocco, each board in a panel design of rolls and stamps with a large built-up centrepiece in a double frame of multiple decorative rolls (the diagonals connecting the inner and outer frames possibly intended to give the effect of a three-dimensional niche), and the spine treated as a single field with built-up decorations in a frame of multiple rolls, gold fillets on turn-ins, the whole with hundreds of impressions of dozens of stamps and rolls, gilt edges, traces of 2 pair of ties.
ZEHENTNER, Paul. · 1589
€7,950.00 ($8,762.55 | £6,631.45 | ¥1,399,433)
[36], 752, [10] pp. including engraved frontispiece but not dedication plate.First and only edition of a Latin edifying text on moral and religious issues by the Jesuit Paul Zehentner (1589-1648), preacher at the Graz court of the widow of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II a...
Traité de perspective a l'usage des artistes. Ou l'on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & ou l'on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspective, leur reverbérations dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau.Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 engraved headpieces by P. Soubeyran, 72 large tailpieces by P. E. Babel (including 1 full-page), and 129 engraved plates (including 19 repeats, as usual). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf.
Traité de perspective a l'usage des artistes. Ou l'on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & ou l'on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspective, leur reverbérations dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau.Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 engraved headpieces by P. Soubeyran, 72 large tailpieces by P. E. Babel (including 1 full-page), and 129 engraved plates (including 19 repeats, as usual). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf.
JEAURAT, Edme-Sebastien. · 1770
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
VI, [2], 240, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a beautifully produced and richly illustrated work on perspective, complete with all the plates. The work is meant for students of art and architecture who wished to master the technicalities of perspectival representation. It t...
Friesche lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den vierden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert, met verscheyden dichten ende liedekens, soo geestige als boertige. Mitsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende vercierd met schoone kopere figueren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.Amsterdam, for Hessel Gerritsz., 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, a full-page engraved plate, 10 almost full-page engravings in the text by Jan van de Velde, and musical scores in the text. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine in a later hand, red sprinkled edges.
Friesche lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den vierden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert, met verscheyden dichten ende liedekens, soo geestige als boertige. Mitsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende vercierd met schoone kopere figueren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.Amsterdam, for Hessel Gerritsz., 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, a full-page engraved plate, 10 almost full-page engravings in the text by Jan van de Velde, and musical scores in the text. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine in a later hand, red sprinkled edges.
STARTER, Jan Jansz. · 1593
€11,500.00 ($12,675.38 | £9,592.67 | ¥2,024,336)
[14], 207, [1 blank], 39, [1 blank] pp.Beautifully produced edition of one of the most important Dutch songbooks from the 17th century, printed in an elegant oblong size, and using various types, including a fine Civilité type. The present work contains wedding songs, love son...
De originibus Americanis. Libri quatuor.The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Phillipe de Croy, Leiden), 1652.With: (2) BLESDIJK, Nicolaas van. Historia, vitae, doctrinae, ac rerum gestarum Davidis Georgii haeresiarchae. Conscripta ab ipsius genero Nicolao Blesdikio. Nunc primum prodit in lucem ex musaeo Iacobi Revii. Deventer, Nathanael Cost, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.
De originibus Americanis. Libri quatuor.The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Phillipe de Croy, Leiden), 1652.With: (2) BLESDIJK, Nicolaas van. Historia, vitae, doctrinae, ac rerum gestarum Davidis Georgii haeresiarchae. Conscripta ab ipsius genero Nicolao Blesdikio. Nunc primum prodit in lucem ex musaeo Iacobi Revii. Deventer, Nathanael Cost, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.
HORNIUS (HORN), Georgius. · 1642
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
[9], [11], 282; [8], 189 pp.The first edition of a learned essay on the origins of the American Indians. It was a reply to Grotius who had argued in 1642 that the American Indians were descendants of Norsemen, Ethiopians and Chinese, basing his theory mainly on linguistic arg...
Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; historique.Paris, (printed by Lebel for) Arthus Bertrand, 1824. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume (folio). With lithographed portrait of François Péron; the atlas with engraved title-page and 68 (27 hand-coloured) lithographed plates, maps and charts, including a double-page map of Australia. Contemporary gold-tooled red half sheepskin.
Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; historique.Paris, (printed by Lebel for) Arthus Bertrand, 1824. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume (folio). With lithographed portrait of François Péron; the atlas with engraved title-page and 68 (27 hand-coloured) lithographed plates, maps and charts, including a double-page map of Australia. Contemporary gold-tooled red half sheepskin.
PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. · 1800
€35,000.00 ($38,577.24 | £29,195.08 | ¥6,161,024)
XXIV, 400; 532; 432; 353, [4] pp.; Atlas vol. [10] pp. text (Index of plates).Second and improved edition of the famous account of the French Baudin expedition to Australia in the years 1800-1804. The objective of the expedition, commanded by Captain Baudin, was to thoroughly ...
Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus scientiis & artibus usus, nova methodo explicatur: …Rome, Biagio Diversin and Zanobio Masotti (printed by Vitale Mascardi), 1654. Folio. With engraved frontispiece by F. Valentius, letterpress title page printed in red and black with engraved double publisher's device, full-page engraved plate with the portrait of Emperor Ferdinand IV, 34 mostly full-page engraved illustrations, 215 woodcut illustrations and about 50 letterpress tables. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus scientiis & artibus usus, nova methodo explicatur: …Rome, Biagio Diversin and Zanobio Masotti (printed by Vitale Mascardi), 1654. Folio. With engraved frontispiece by F. Valentius, letterpress title page printed in red and black with engraved double publisher's device, full-page engraved plate with the portrait of Emperor Ferdinand IV, 34 mostly full-page engraved illustrations, 215 woodcut illustrations and about 50 letterpress tables. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
KIRCHER, Athanasius. · 1602
€17,500.00 ($19,288.62 | £14,597.54 | ¥3,080,512)
[32], 618, [28] pp.The third, last, best and only folio edition, much enlarged, thoroughly revised and with the engraved and many other illustrations newly made for it, of one of the major scientific works of the famous German Jesuit scholar, Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a ...
Direzioni a' giovani studenti nel disegno dell' architettura civile, nell' academia clementina dell' instituto delle scienze ...Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 volumes. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). With 75 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, including 18 folding. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, and some tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, red spotted edges.
Direzioni a' giovani studenti nel disegno dell' architettura civile, nell' academia clementina dell' instituto delle scienze ...Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 volumes. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). With 75 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, including 18 folding. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, and some tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, red spotted edges.
GALLI BIBIENA, Ferdinando. · 1657
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[1], [1 blank], [10], 143, [1]; 159, [1] pp.Rare early edition of the first volume and first edition of the second volume of 18th-century text books for art students, compiled by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743). He was a teacher at the Academia Clementina, and the founder...
Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de La Plata; ...Paris, Dentu, 1809. 8vo (4 text volumes) and folio (1 atlas volume). With 3 folding tables and 25 engraved maps, plans, views and plates of animals and birds. Modern black half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de La Plata; ...Paris, Dentu, 1809. 8vo (4 text volumes) and folio (1 atlas volume). With 3 folding tables and 25 engraved maps, plans, views and plates of animals and birds. Modern black half calf, gold-tooled spine.
AZARA, Félix Manuel de. · 1746
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
LX, 389; [4], 388-562; [4], II, 479; [4], 380 pp.First French edition of a description of the South American territories visited by the Spanish military engineer and naturalist Félix de Azara, "to this day a major source of information about the land and peoples of Paraguay an...
Den nieuwen verbeterden lust-hof, gheplant vol uytgelesene, eerlijcke, amoreuse ende vrolijcke ghesanghen, als mey, bruylofts, tafel, ende nieu jaers liedekens, met noch verscheyden tsamen-spreeckinghen tusschen vryer en vryster...Including: [VLACQ, Michiel]. Bruylofts bancket. Verciert met veerthien liedekens, dienende tot vermakelijckheyt ende stichtinghe, so wel in bruyloften als in andere eerlijcke vergaderinghen van oude ofte jonghe lieden...Amsterdam, Dirck Pietersz Pers, [ca. 1610]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 8vo. Each title page with the same large engraving of a company making music after David Vinckboons. Later vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Den nieuwen verbeterden lust-hof, gheplant vol uytgelesene, eerlijcke, amoreuse ende vrolijcke ghesanghen, als mey, bruylofts, tafel, ende nieu jaers liedekens, met noch verscheyden tsamen-spreeckinghen tusschen vryer en vryster...Including: [VLACQ, Michiel]. Bruylofts bancket. Verciert met veerthien liedekens, dienende tot vermakelijckheyt ende stichtinghe, so wel in bruyloften als in andere eerlijcke vergaderinghen van oude ofte jonghe lieden...Amsterdam, Dirck Pietersz Pers, [ca. 1610]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 8vo. Each title page with the same large engraving of a company making music after David Vinckboons. Later vellum, manuscript title on spine.
[SONGBOOK - DUTCH]. · 1581
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
[8], 96; 24 pp.Rare fourth edition (the second to include the new early work of Hoofd and Vondel) of one of the most important and rarest Dutch songbooks, published for the “jeunesse dorée”. Songbooks were a very popular genre in the Netherlands during the last quarter of the ...