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Institution de la langue Florentine et Toscane. Pour apprendre promptement, & facilement, la langue Italienne. Tant pour la lecture, prononciation & escriture d'icelle: que pour l'intelligence, composition, & traduction des livres Italiens en François, & des François en Italien.Paris, Jean Gesselin, 1602. Small 8vo. Modern blind-tooled vellum, each board with a central ornament, gold fillets on spine, red morocco spine-label, red edges.
Institution de la langue Florentine et Toscane. Pour apprendre promptement, & facilement, la langue Italienne. Tant pour la lecture, prononciation & escriture d'icelle: que pour l'intelligence, composition, & traduction des livres Italiens en François, & des François en Italien.Paris, Jean Gesselin, 1602. Small 8vo. Modern blind-tooled vellum, each board with a central ornament, gold fillets on spine, red morocco spine-label, red edges.
GUEDAN, François.
€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)
189, [3] pp.First and only edition of an interesting Italian grammar, dedicated to the French Queen Maria de’ Medici. It is one of the earliest manuals specifically intended for book translators, who wished to translate philosophical, theological, legal, literary and scientifi...
Libri minores. et primum Catonis disticha moralia. cum … annotationibus.Granada, [Sancho & Sebastián de Nebrija (sons of Antonio de Nebrija)], April (Aesop colophon May) 1545. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With main title in an elaborate ornamental frame made from 4 woodblocks, with numerous figures, beasts, etc.; the Aesop part-title in an ornamental frame 4 different woodblock, with musicians, animals, etc.; 2 drop-titles; and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Set in roman type with authors' names in rotunda gothic type in the margins of the dedication. Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1652), stitched, with manuscript spine title: [Cato,] Disticha moralia cum an[n]otat[ione]b[us], and 2 leaves from a 1652 Leiden edition of Marcus Minucius Felix as endpapers.
Libri minores. et primum Catonis disticha moralia. cum … annotationibus.Granada, [Sancho & Sebastián de Nebrija (sons of Antonio de Nebrija)], April (Aesop colophon May) 1545. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With main title in an elaborate ornamental frame made from 4 woodblocks, with numerous figures, beasts, etc.; the Aesop part-title in an ornamental frame 4 different woodblock, with musicians, animals, etc.; 2 drop-titles; and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Set in roman type with authors' names in rotunda gothic type in the margins of the dedication. Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1652), stitched, with manuscript spine title: [Cato,] Disticha moralia cum an[n]otat[ione]b[us], and 2 leaves from a 1652 Leiden edition of Marcus Minucius Felix as endpapers.
[NEBRIJA, Antonio de] (editor). · 1400
€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)
[63 of 64] ll.Rare collection of devotional, educational and moralistic "minor texts", published in similar combinations since the 1400s, but here with additions written as late as 1513. Editions printed in Spain were edited by Antonio de Nebrija (1441-1522), the greatest Span...
Komste van Zyne Majesteit Willem III. Koning van Groot Britanje, enz. in Holland; ofte omstandelyke beschryving van alles, het welke op des zelfs komste en geduurende zyn verblyf, in 's Graavenhaage en elders, ten teeken van vreugde en eere, is opgerecht en voorgevallen.The Hague, Arnoud Leers, 1691. Folio. With an engraved title-page by Romeyn de Hooghe, a letterpress title-page with Leer's woodcut device, a portrait of King William III by Van Gunst and 14 engraved plates (11 double-page) by Romeyn de Hooghe, showing his triumphal entry into the Hague, the ceremonies, the triumphal arches, their paintings and sculptures, the nightly illumination of the town hall, the fireworks, etc. Further with an extra added engraved plate of King William's tomb by Daniel Marot. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges.
Komste van Zyne Majesteit Willem III. Koning van Groot Britanje, enz. in Holland; ofte omstandelyke beschryving van alles, het welke op des zelfs komste en geduurende zyn verblyf, in 's Graavenhaage en elders, ten teeken van vreugde en eere, is opgerecht en voorgevallen.The Hague, Arnoud Leers, 1691. Folio. With an engraved title-page by Romeyn de Hooghe, a letterpress title-page with Leer's woodcut device, a portrait of King William III by Van Gunst and 14 engraved plates (11 double-page) by Romeyn de Hooghe, showing his triumphal entry into the Hague, the ceremonies, the triumphal arches, their paintings and sculptures, the nightly illumination of the town hall, the fireworks, etc. Further with an extra added engraved plate of King William's tomb by Daniel Marot. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges.
[BIDLOO, Govert and Romeyn de HOOGHE]. · 1649
€5,850.00 ($6,447.91 | £4,879.75 | ¥1,029,771)
[12, incl. frontispiece], 127, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a beautifully illustrated commemoration of the triumphal entry of William III into the Hague, it was "the costliest and most elaborate public display ever held on Dutch soil" (Nierop) and the first time of a triumpha...
Desseins d'architecture, représentans des sièges de jardins, des portes de maisons de campagne, des entrées de parcs, des volières, des temples, . . . London, printed by A. Dulau & Co. and Leonardo Nardini, and sold by Rudolph Ackermann there and J.G. Beygang in Leipzig, 1800. Oblong Imperial 4to (28×38 cm). With 24 numbered aquatint plates, subtly coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Desseins d'architecture, représentans des sièges de jardins, des portes de maisons de campagne, des entrées de parcs, des volières, des temples, . . . London, printed by A. Dulau & Co. and Leonardo Nardini, and sold by Rudolph Ackermann there and J.G. Beygang in Leipzig, 1800. Oblong Imperial 4to (28×38 cm). With 24 numbered aquatint plates, subtly coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
ROBERTSON, William. · 1816
€7,950.00 ($8,762.55 | £6,631.45 | ¥1,399,433)
[4 incl. 2 blank], 24 pp. plus plates.First edition of a beautiful series of aquatints with plans, elevations and cross-sections of garden architecture, published simultaneously in both an English and the present French edition. Most copies of the English edition are later rei...
Eerste deel der bouw-kunst, ofte Grondige bewijs-redenen, over den sin ende practijck van den autheur Vincent Scamozzi, waer in grondigh wert bewesen, dat men door den middel van den autheur Scamozzi, Palladio en Vinjola hare vijf colommen kan uytwercken; als oock van alle de voornaemste meesters der bouw-kunst, ende dat alleen met het verdeelen van een duym-stock, of voet-maet.Amsterdam, Hendrick Doncker, 1678. 4to. With an engraved architectural frontispiece by G. Wingendorp, engraved vignette with carpenters' and masons' tools on title-page, and hundreds of diagrams, measured drawings of columns, architectural ornament and other architectural elements, orthographic projections, etc., on 46 engraved plates (including 5 folding). 19th-century half cloth, paste-paper sides.
Eerste deel der bouw-kunst, ofte Grondige bewijs-redenen, over den sin ende practijck van den autheur Vincent Scamozzi, waer in grondigh wert bewesen, dat men door den middel van den autheur Scamozzi, Palladio en Vinjola hare vijf colommen kan uytwercken; als oock van alle de voornaemste meesters der bouw-kunst, ende dat alleen met het verdeelen van een duym-stock, of voet-maet.Amsterdam, Hendrick Doncker, 1678. 4to. With an engraved architectural frontispiece by G. Wingendorp, engraved vignette with carpenters' and masons' tools on title-page, and hundreds of diagrams, measured drawings of columns, architectural ornament and other architectural elements, orthographic projections, etc., on 46 engraved plates (including 5 folding). 19th-century half cloth, paste-paper sides.
VERMAARSCH, Joost. · 1664
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[16], 40, 16, 34, [2 blank] pp.Richly illustrated second edition of an architectural manual compiled by a master mason, first published in 1664 (the first edition was also reissued in 1667). Although the title-page calls it the first volume, Vermaarsch never published a second...
Oppiani poetae Cilicis de venatione libri IV. De piscatu libri V.Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1597. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Raphelengius' (Plantin's) printer's device on the title-page, decorated woodcut initials, and the text is partially set in Greek script. Late 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco.
Oppiani poetae Cilicis de venatione libri IV. De piscatu libri V.Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1597. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Raphelengius' (Plantin's) printer's device on the title-page, decorated woodcut initials, and the text is partially set in Greek script. Late 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco.
OPPIAN of Anazarbus and OPPIAN of Syria (C. RITTERSHUSIUS, translator). · 1566
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[1], [1 blank], [86], 376, [32]; [8], 344, 164, [3], [1 blank] pp.A beautiful edition printed in Leiden, nominally published by Franciscus Raphelengius the elder, but in fact printed by his son Franciscus the younger and published by Christophe Raphelengius (1566-1600), grands...
Caesarum XII libri, iam denuo bonorum exemplarium & commentariorum ope emendati, cum M. Antonii Coccii Sabellici commentariis, nihil annotatu dignum dissimulantibus. Jo. Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, annot. in Suetonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restitutae per D. Erasmum Roterodamum.Antwerp, Jan van der Loe, 1548. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and numerous woodcut initials in text. Later marbled boards.
Caesarum XII libri, iam denuo bonorum exemplarium & commentariorum ope emendati, cum M. Antonii Coccii Sabellici commentariis, nihil annotatu dignum dissimulantibus. Jo. Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, annot. in Suetonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restitutae per D. Erasmum Roterodamum.Antwerp, Jan van der Loe, 1548. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and numerous woodcut initials in text. Later marbled boards.
SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius. · 1454
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[24], 661, [1 blank] pp.Jan van der Loe edition of Suetonius's biographies of the first twelve Roman emperors (including Julius Caesar). The book opens with a dedication by Hieronymus Gemusaeus to Gulielmus Yzernaeus, councillor to King François I of France, followed by a pref...
Coup d'oeil sur l'ile de Java et les autres possessions Néerlandaises dans l'archipel des Indes.Brussels, C.J. de Mat, 1830. 4to. With a steel engraved view of Chateau de Buitenzorg, by Lauters after the engraving by Titsingh and 1 folding map, coloured in outlines, of Java and the other Dutch posessions in the Far East, engraved by F. Callens. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-stamped dark blue morocco.
Coup d'oeil sur l'ile de Java et les autres possessions Néerlandaises dans l'archipel des Indes.Brussels, C.J. de Mat, 1830. 4to. With a steel engraved view of Chateau de Buitenzorg, by Lauters after the engraving by Titsingh and 1 folding map, coloured in outlines, of Java and the other Dutch posessions in the Far East, engraved by F. Callens. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-stamped dark blue morocco.
HOGENDORP, Carel Sirardus Willem van. · 1788
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
XII, 422, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.Beautiful original edition in French by the Dutch Count Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp (1788-1856), Resident of Batavia, Buitenzorg, and Crawang from 1818 to 1827. In this book, he gives an account of varying aspects of the isla...
Leerzaame zinnebeelden, ... Tweede druk.Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1757.With: (2) SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der Leerzaame zinnenbeelden, Spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Ad 1 with engraved frontispiece and 50 beautifully engraved emblems in text. Ad 2 with same engraved frontispiece (with revisions), 30 engraved emblems in text and 4 engraved emblems on plates with letterpress text. Contemporary gold-tooled, tanned sheepskin.
Leerzaame zinnebeelden, ... Tweede druk.Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1757.With: (2) SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der Leerzaame zinnenbeelden, Spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Ad 1 with engraved frontispiece and 50 beautifully engraved emblems in text. Ad 2 with same engraved frontispiece (with revisions), 30 engraved emblems in text and 4 engraved emblems on plates with letterpress text. Contemporary gold-tooled, tanned sheepskin.
SPINNIKER, Adriaan. · 1678
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[16], 220, [3, 1 blank]; [8], XII, 144, 90, [2] pp.Second edition of volume 1 and first edition of volume 2 of a very attractive emblem book by Adriaan Spinniker (1678-1745). Together they contain 84 beautifully engraved emblems: 80 by Vincent van der Vinne (who also drew and ...
Speculum vit[a]e human[a]e. Rome, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 31 July 1473. Small folio (26.5 x 20 cm). With spaces left for 2 large (6-line) and about 80 small (3-line) initials. Text block 19.5 x 11.5 mm with 31 lines per page. Set in a single roman type throughout (Lignamine 125R). Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1740/50).
Speculum vit[a]e human[a]e. Rome, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 31 July 1473. Small folio (26.5 x 20 cm). With spaces left for 2 large (6-line) and about 80 small (3-line) initials. Text block 19.5 x 11.5 mm with 31 lines per page. Set in a single roman type throughout (Lignamine 125R). Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1740/50).
SÁNCHEZ DE ARÉVALO, Rodrigo (Rodericus SANCIUS or ZAMORENSIS). · 1473
€22,500.00 ($24,799.66 | £18,768.26 | ¥3,960,658)
[163] ll.Second Rome edition, published in 1473, of a popular philosophical, moral and practical work by Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, bishop of Zamora (1404-1470). Known in English as the Mirror of human life, it is divided into two "books", the first (30 numbered chapters) dev...
Devises & emblemes d'amour, ancienes & modernes moralisees en vers Francois, & expliquées, en sept langues.Including: PALLAVICINO, Ferrante. Devises & emblemes d'amour, anciens & modernes moralisez & expliquez en sept sortes de langues.Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, [1696]. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by G. van Gouwen after Frans de Kaarsgiter, 2 title pages in red and black, each with De la Feuille’s woodcut DLF cypher-monogram, and 24 full-page engravings on integral leaves, each containing six circular emblems by Jan van Vianen, with a woodcut tailpiece at the end. Half red goatskin morocco (ca. 1870?) by the Brussels bookbinder Émile Bosquet (signed “BOSQUET” in gold italic capitals with swash letters B and T on the front turn-in, at the foot, near the hinge).
Devises & emblemes d'amour, ancienes & modernes moralisees en vers Francois, & expliquées, en sept langues.Including: PALLAVICINO, Ferrante. Devises & emblemes d'amour, anciens & modernes moralisez & expliquez en sept sortes de langues.Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, [1696]. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by G. van Gouwen after Frans de Kaarsgiter, 2 title pages in red and black, each with De la Feuille’s woodcut DLF cypher-monogram, and 24 full-page engravings on integral leaves, each containing six circular emblems by Jan van Vianen, with a woodcut tailpiece at the end. Half red goatskin morocco (ca. 1870?) by the Brussels bookbinder Émile Bosquet (signed “BOSQUET” in gold italic capitals with swash letters B and T on the front turn-in, at the foot, near the hinge).
PALLAVICINO, Ferrante. · 1618
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[8], 24, [2] pp.First and only edition of a curious love emblem book by the notorious Ferrante Pallavicini (1618-1644), an Italian writer of lampoons and satires which were so popular that booksellers and printers bought them from him at a premium. Pallavicino's scandalous sat...
Manuel de perspective, du dessinateur et du peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage.Paris, Roret (colophon: imprimerie de Crapelet), 1826. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half calf.
Manuel de perspective, du dessinateur et du peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage.Paris, Roret (colophon: imprimerie de Crapelet), 1826. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half calf.
VERGNAUD, Armand Denis.
€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)
[1], [1 blank], 11, [1 blank], 260, 12 pp.Revised and enlarged edition of a practical manual on perspective, one of the popular encyclopaedic manuals of Roret. The work discusses both linear and aerial perspective, as well as the study of design and painting specifically appli...
Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita: in qua totius mundi fabrica, una cum novis, Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumq[ue] astronomorum adinventis continetur. Accessere I. Brevis introductio ad geographiam. II. Apparatus ad mathematicarum studium. III. Echometria, idest geometrica tractatio de echo. IV. Novum instrumentum ad horologia describenda. opus posthumum.Modena, Andrea & Girolamo Cassiani, 1653. With: (2) BIANCANI, Giuseppe. Constructio instrumenti ad horologia solaria describenda peropportuni. ... Opus posthumum. Modena, Andrea Cassiani, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with publisher's woodcut device, 1 large folding diagram, 1 woodcut diagram, numerous woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initials, letterpress tables. Ad 2: with a woodcut astronomical dial on the title page, 18 numbered engraved figures on both sides of 3 leaves, decorated woodcut initials and a large folding letterpress table. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 5 cords, manuscript spine title. Rebacked.
Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita: in qua totius mundi fabrica, una cum novis, Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumq[ue] astronomorum adinventis continetur. Accessere I. Brevis introductio ad geographiam. II. Apparatus ad mathematicarum studium. III. Echometria, idest geometrica tractatio de echo. IV. Novum instrumentum ad horologia describenda. opus posthumum.Modena, Andrea & Girolamo Cassiani, 1653. With: (2) BIANCANI, Giuseppe. Constructio instrumenti ad horologia solaria describenda peropportuni. ... Opus posthumum. Modena, Andrea Cassiani, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with publisher's woodcut device, 1 large folding diagram, 1 woodcut diagram, numerous woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initials, letterpress tables. Ad 2: with a woodcut astronomical dial on the title page, 18 numbered engraved figures on both sides of 3 leaves, decorated woodcut initials and a large folding letterpress table. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 5 cords, manuscript spine title. Rebacked.
BIANCANI, Giuseppe. · 1566
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
[6], 232; 24, [5] pp.The two most important works of the famous Jesuit mathematician Giuseppe Biancani (1566-1624). Here the third edition of his Sphaera mundi, with the second edition of his Constructio instrumenti. The former presents a summary of the recent progress in astr...
Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un Journal historique d'un voyage de terre, . . . , dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. . . . Sous le commandement du Capitain Mr. Henri Hop, . . . Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Title-page with an engraved vignette by Christian Friedrich Fritzsch and 16 folding engraved plates. Olive half calf (ca. 1840), gold-tooled spine.
Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un Journal historique d'un voyage de terre, . . . , dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. . . . Sous le commandement du Capitain Mr. Henri Hop, . . . Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Title-page with an engraved vignette by Christian Friedrich Fritzsch and 16 folding engraved plates. Olive half calf (ca. 1840), gold-tooled spine.
[BRINK, Carel Frederik]. · 1761
€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)
[6], 130, [2], 100 pp.First and only edition of the French translation of a very interesting account of the Cape of Good Hope, together with an historical journal of an expedition into the interior of Africa, made by order of the late Governor Ryk Tulbach, with a force of 85 m...
Het vermaaklyk buitenleven, of de zingende en speelende boerenvreugd. Met zangkunst verrykt, en tot gemak der speelers op de G sleutel gesteld.Haarlem, Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, 1716. 4to. With an etched frontispiece, an etching of a mermaid on the title, 2 folding etchings, 2 full-page etchings, and 21 etchings in the text, all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. Early 19th-century marbled boards.
Het vermaaklyk buitenleven, of de zingende en speelende boerenvreugd. Met zangkunst verrykt, en tot gemak der speelers op de G sleutel gesteld.Haarlem, Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, 1716. 4to. With an etched frontispiece, an etching of a mermaid on the title, 2 folding etchings, 2 full-page etchings, and 21 etchings in the text, all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. Early 19th-century marbled boards.
[GIJSEN, Jan van or Aaron van HULKENROY]. · 1610
€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)
[8], 63, [1] pp.First edition of a rare Dutch songbook with songs for farmer's festivals, all with musical annotation. The work has been beautifully illustrated with etchings after the famous Dutch painter of country life, Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The fine etchings, new...
Peripatheticus orgiorum ethnico-pontificius. Justè castigatus, justius profligatus, justissimè condemnatus. Hoc est, brevis dissertatiuncula De Bachanaliorum nomine, origine, progressu, placentis, larvis, excusationibus, exemplis, poenis, ludis, choreis, symposiis, ludibriis, &c.Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1626]. 12mo.19th-century red half morocco, marbled paper sides.
Peripatheticus orgiorum ethnico-pontificius. Justè castigatus, justius profligatus, justissimè condemnatus. Hoc est, brevis dissertatiuncula De Bachanaliorum nomine, origine, progressu, placentis, larvis, excusationibus, exemplis, poenis, ludis, choreis, symposiis, ludibriis, &c.Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1626]. 12mo.19th-century red half morocco, marbled paper sides.
HERRENSCHMID, Jacob.
€550.00 ($606.21 | £458.78 | ¥96,816)
132 pp.Rare Latin treatise on the Greek Bacchanals with extensive source references. At some points a German translation of a word or sentence is included. At the end is added: "Dissertatiunculae Mantissa. Tentamen-juvenile este quod Autor In Principali-Salana A.D. M.D.C.I. Su...
Nouvelle iconologie historique, ou Attributs hieroglyphiques, compées & arrangées de maniere qu' ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes de décoration, ...puisqu'on est le maitre de les appliquer egalement à des fontaines, pyramides, cheminées, dessus de portes, bordures, medaillons, trophées, vases, frises, tombeaux, pendules, etc. = Nieuwe historische beeldspraak, of hieroglyphische merkbeelden, betreklyk op verscheide natien, hunne geschiedenissen en godsdiensten, gelyk ook op verschillende zaaken, tot de wysbegeerte, fabel- en dichtkunde behoorende: alles in die orde geschikt, dat men dezelve kan gebruiken tot bouwkunstige vercierzelen, fontynen, pronknaalden en schoorsteenen, ornamenten, medaillons, tropheën, vazen, tombes, pendules, enz.Amsterdam, C.S. Roos; A. Fokke, [ca. 1780]. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With 2 finely engraved allegorical part-titles and 103 engraved plates with allegorical ornaments, devices and attributes by J. de Witt Jansz.. 20th-century half parchment, marbled sides (Turkish spot pattern).
Nouvelle iconologie historique, ou Attributs hieroglyphiques, compées & arrangées de maniere qu' ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes de décoration, ...puisqu'on est le maitre de les appliquer egalement à des fontaines, pyramides, cheminées, dessus de portes, bordures, medaillons, trophées, vases, frises, tombeaux, pendules, etc. = Nieuwe historische beeldspraak, of hieroglyphische merkbeelden, betreklyk op verscheide natien, hunne geschiedenissen en godsdiensten, gelyk ook op verschillende zaaken, tot de wysbegeerte, fabel- en dichtkunde behoorende: alles in die orde geschikt, dat men dezelve kan gebruiken tot bouwkunstige vercierzelen, fontynen, pronknaalden en schoorsteenen, ornamenten, medaillons, tropheën, vazen, tombes, pendules, enz.Amsterdam, C.S. Roos; A. Fokke, [ca. 1780]. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With 2 finely engraved allegorical part-titles and 103 engraved plates with allegorical ornaments, devices and attributes by J. de Witt Jansz.. 20th-century half parchment, marbled sides (Turkish spot pattern).
FOSSE, Jean Charles de la (DELAFOSSE). · 1734
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[4], 39, [1] pp. plus plates.First Netherlands edition (in the original French with a parallel Dutch translation, in 2 columns) of a richly engraved artists' model book offering a fine collection of architectural ornaments and devices by the Paris architect Jean Charles de la ...
Gründliche Anleitung, welcher man sich im Nachzeichnen schöner Landschafften oder Prospecten bedienen kan, den Liebhabern der Zeichen-Kunst mitgetheilet und eigenhändig in Kupffer gebracht, … Sechste Auflage.Nürnberg, [for the author], 1766. Folio. With numerous models of landscapes and views, including introductory studies of single leaves and trees, on 16 numbered engraved plates. Modern blue boards.
Gründliche Anleitung, welcher man sich im Nachzeichnen schöner Landschafften oder Prospecten bedienen kan, den Liebhabern der Zeichen-Kunst mitgetheilet und eigenhändig in Kupffer gebracht, … Sechste Auflage.Nürnberg, [for the author], 1766. Folio. With numerous models of landscapes and views, including introductory studies of single leaves and trees, on 16 numbered engraved plates. Modern blue boards.
PREISSLER, Johann Daniel. · 1666
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
[4] pp. text.Popular model book with a collection of drawing models for landscapes, especially focussing on trees, by the notable German artist and director of the Nuremberg Art Academy, Johann Daniel Preissler (1666-1737). By the time of his death in 1737, Johann Caspar Füssl...
La vie de Michel de Ruiter duc, chevalier, lieutenant amiral général de Hollande & de Oüest-Frise. Où est comprise l'histoire maritime des Provinces Unies, depuis l'an 1652. jusques à 1676. Traduite du hollandois ...Amsterdam, Pieter and Joan Blaeu for Waesberge, Boom, Van Someren and Goethals, 1698. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait, 7 double-page engraved plates by Bastiaen Stoopendaal, and 1 full-page engraved plate by J. Mulder. Early 18th-century calf, gold-tooled board edges.
La vie de Michel de Ruiter duc, chevalier, lieutenant amiral général de Hollande & de Oüest-Frise. Où est comprise l'histoire maritime des Provinces Unies, depuis l'an 1652. jusques à 1676. Traduite du hollandois ...Amsterdam, Pieter and Joan Blaeu for Waesberge, Boom, Van Someren and Goethals, 1698. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait, 7 double-page engraved plates by Bastiaen Stoopendaal, and 1 full-page engraved plate by J. Mulder. Early 18th-century calf, gold-tooled board edges.
BRANDT, Geeraert. · 1607
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[VI], 717, [17], [ 2 blank] pp.First edition in French of the standard biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel Adriaansz. de Ruyter (1607-1676), who scored several major victories against the French and English, the best known abroad being the Raid on Chatham, ...
Vie de S. François Xavier, Apotre des Indes et du Japon. Edition de la Société Catholique de la Belgique.Leuven, Vanlinthout and Vandenzande, 1822. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.
Vie de S. François Xavier, Apotre des Indes et du Japon. Edition de la Société Catholique de la Belgique.Leuven, Vanlinthout and Vandenzande, 1822. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.
BOUHOURS, Dominique. · 1628
€475.00 ($523.55 | £396.22 | ¥83,614)
559, [1 blank] pp.Belgian edition of the very popular "Life of François Xavier" by Dominique Bouhours, (1628-1702), a French Jesuit and a famous literary author at the time of Louis XIV. Xavier's life is especially interesting for his travels and work as a missionary in Japan ...