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In hoc volumine haec continentu.r [!] Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii Veneti in Dioscoridem ab Hermolao Barbaro tralatum annotamenta. Quibus morborum et remediorum vocabula obscuriora in usum etiam mediocriter eruditorum explicantur ...Venice, Francesco Barbaro & Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano for Giovanni & Gregorio De Gregori, 1 February 1516. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (22.5 x 32 cm). Later vellum with old gold-tooled red spine label.

DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius. · 1902

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

[36], “CXXXIII” [= CXXXIV], 106 ll.The first authoritative work of antiquity on the “materia medica”, the branch of science treating remedial substances, based on the author’s first-hand research throughout the Middle East. This is the rare first edition to include the comment...

De re medica libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete. Cum annotationibus & scholiis eiusdem. Index locupletissimus cum capitum, tum omnium quae scitu digna sunt operi praefixus est.“Paris” [= Venice], [Girolamo Scotto], 1553. 8vo. With Scotto’s woodcut device on the title page (showing what are probably two of the wild mares of King Abderus being devoured by the mares of King Diomedes of Thrace devouring either Abderos or Diomedes himself) and about 22 woodcut decorated (nearly all pictorial) initials (7 series) plus a few repeats. Contemporary vellum, traces of ties.

MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger). · 1478

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

248, [4] ll.Rare Venetian edition with a false Paris imprint, of Mesue’s three seminal pharmacological works, including his great pharmacological handbook, the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvius (1478-1555),...

Geographisches memoir zur erklärung und erlaüterung der Karte von Syrien. (no. 5. von Berghaus' Atlas von Asia).Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1835. With an engraved map of Syria.With: (2) BERGHAUS, Heinrich. Geo-hydrographisches memoir zur erklärung und erlaüterung der General-Karte von Arabia und dem Nil-Lande. (no. 6. von Berghaus' Atlas von Asia).Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1835. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a supplement to another article by Berghaus bound at the end: Supplement zur historisch-geographischen Beschreibung von Assam etc., with an engraved map. Modern half cloth.

BERGHAUS, Heinrich. · 1797

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[4], 48; [4], 128; 179-182 pp.Two articles on the mapping of the Arabian peninsula by the German cartographer and geographer Heinrich Berghaus (1797-1884). They give detailed geographical information on the map of Syria and the general map of Arabia, both published in Berghaus...

Trattato razionale di frutticoltura. ... Nuova edizione.With: (2) GENESY, Amedeo. La vite piramidale. … Seconda edizione.Torino, Francesco Casanova (back of title-page: printed by Vincenzo Bona), 1891. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut frontispiece showing the Fresia Grossa variety of grape vine and a fruit tree, each volume with several woodcut illustrations in the text and with a publisher’s catalogue bound at the end the Trattato. Both in original publisher’s printed paper wrappers.

GENESY, Amedeo.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

[2], X, 200; 64 pp.Second edition of a treatise on fruit-bearing plants, with a chapter on diseases. With the second edition of a monograph on the attempts to grow vines upwards in a pyramidal shape. Both with woodcut illustrations by A. Monneret that depict examples of trees,...

A contribution to the geography and cartography of north-west Yemen (based on the results of the exploration by Eduard Glaser, undertaken in the years 1882-1884).Cairo, l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1939. 8vo. With a portrait of Eduard Glaser, 8 numbered plates and 2 large folding maps. Later half cloth, with the original front wrapper mounted on the front board.

WERDECKER, Josef.

€2,800.00 ($3,086.18 | £2,335.61 | ¥492,882)

[2], 160 pp.Re offprint of "an extremely important article" (Smith) on the geography of north-west Yemen, based on the results of the unpublished journals of Eduard Glaser, who explored a region that still had to be visited by any other European. It includes a history of explo...

Around the coasts of Arabia.London, Constable & Co., 1930. 8vo. With a pictorial map as frontispiece, 31 photographic half-tone plates and a full-page map on an integral leaf. Original publisher’s black cloth, with title in gold on spine.

RIHANI, Ameen. · 1876

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

X, [2], 364 pp.First edition, British issue, of a travelogue by the distinguished Lebanese Arab-American writer Ameen Rihani (1876-1940). This work is part of a trilogy: Around the Coasts of Arabia (1930), Arabian Peak and Desert: Travels in Al-Yaman (1930) and Ibn Sa'oud of A...

Arab states of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum.Washington D.C., The Middle East institute, 1975. 8vo. With two black and white maps on the endpapers. Brown cloth with publisher's illustrated dust jacket.

ANTHONY, John Duke. · 1971

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

X, 273, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a thorough description of the history of the nine Arab states of the Lower Gulf, that gained independence in 1971, just four years before the publication of this book. The author has managed to discuss the individual politics of e...

Twee-rampspoedige zee-reyzen, den enen ... met een Fransch Oost Indiesch Compagnie-schip, genaamt Le Prince, ... Den anderen, met het Hollandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie schip, genaamt Rustenwerk, ...Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1752 or soon after]. 4to. With 2 etched plates, the publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Boards covered with modern pink decorated paperl.

[VOC - SHIPWRECK & PIRACY]. · 1752

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[2], 37, [1] pp.Second and rare edition of an account of two fatal voyages with two ships. The first voyage was made with the French East Indiaman Le Prince and was commanded by Captain Morin. On 19 February 1752 this ship left the port of Lorient, sailing for Pondicherry. How...

The new sailing directory for the Caribbee or West-India Islands, from Porto-Rico to Trinidad, inclusive: with the coasts of Guyana, from the Maranon to the Orinoco, the Colombian or Leeward Isles, from Margarita to Curazao, and the coast of Venezuela, from the Gulf of Paria to La Guayra. Including descriptions of the navigation described in the work, and equally adapted to the particular plans of all the principal harbours, by which the general chart is accompanied.London, printed [by J. Rider] for R.H. Laurie, chart-seller of the Admiralty, 1839. 8vo. With 12 steel-engraved coastal profiles. Contemporary half black cloth, marbled sides.

PURDY, John. · 1773

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

[6], 184 pp.Extremely rare work on the sailing routes in the Caribbean, including the coasts of the Guyanas and Venezuela by the expert English hydrographer John Purdy (1773-1843). Purdy’s work and influence extended beyond hydrography: he coined the term “pharology”, the stud...

Algemeen huishoudelijk-, natuur-, zedekundig- en konst- woordenboek, vervattende veele middelen om zijn goed te vermeerderen en zijne gezondheid te behouden...Leiden, Johannes Le Mair; Leeuwarden, Jacques Alexandre de Chalmot, 1778 (colophon: 1768-1777). 16 volumes. 4to. With an allegorical frontispiece in volume 1, and a total of 153 folding copper engravings in the 16 volumes, and a woodcut vignette at the end of volumes 1, 8-11, 13 and 15. With: CHALMOT, Jacques Alexandre de. Vervolg op M. Noël Chomel. Algemeen huishoudelyk-, natuur-, zedenkundig - en konst- woordenboek.Kampen, J. A. de Chalmot; Amsterdam, J. Yntema, 1786-1793.Contemporary uniform half calf and sprinkled paper sides.

CHOMEL, Noël and Jacques Alexandre de CHALMOT. · 1902

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

XXXVII, [1 blank], 565, [1 blank]; 566-1194; [2], 1195-1902; [2], 1903-2502; [2], 2503-3170; [2], 3173-3761, [3]; [2], 3763-4370; VIII, 1-749; [3], 750-1495, [1]; [3], 1498-2284, [4]; [3], 2290-3031, [1]; [3], 3034-3823, [1]; [3], 3826-4540; [3], 4542-528A rare untrimmed and c...

Le pilote du Brésil, ou description des côtes de l'Amérique Méridionale comprises entre l'ile Santa-Catharina et celle de Maranaõ, avec les instructions nécessaires pour atterrir et naviguer sur ces côtes; ...Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1827. 8vo. Modern half calf, marbled sides.

ROUSSIN, Albin-Reine. · 1845

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

[3], [1 blank], 241, [1 blank] pp.First octavo edition (a second appeared at Paris in 1845). Shortly before the present first octavo edition a folio edition appeared with a second volume with plates, which is extremely rare. An edition in Portuguese was published in Rio de Jan...

Égypte et Palestine observations médicales et scientifiques.Paris, Victor Masson et fils (back of half-title: printed by Simon Raçon et Comp.), 1867. 2 volumes: 8vo (text) and 4to (plates). With an engraved author's portrait by Jean Charles Le Vasseur and 27 numbered lithographed plates, each preceded by a leaf with a short letterpress caption. Later black half goatskin, with the original boards (text) and the plates loosely inserted in original publisher's portfolio, printed boards, rebacked with black cloth.

GODARD, Ernest. · 1826

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

[6 incl. portrait], XXXI, [1 blank], 438 pp.First and only edition of a curious collection of medical and anthropological observations, posthumously published from the notes of the French physician and anthropologist Ernest Godard (1826-1862), made during his (fatal) journey t...

Vervolg op Flavius Josephus; of algemene historie der Joodsche naatsie, behelzende ene uitvoerige beschryving van derzelver regerings-vorm, godtsdienst, gezinten en plegtigheden, nevens de veranderingen, daar in voorgevallen: mitsgaders een verhaal van alle oorlogen, weergaloze rampen, wisselvalligheden, verstroojing door de gehele waerelt, ...Amsterdam, Gerard onder de Linden; Delft, Reinier Boitet, 1726-1727. 2 volumes. Large folio. With 5 full-page engravings (including the dedication, often lacking), 90 engravings in text and 4 letterpress tables (1 folding). Contemporary vellum.

BASNAGE, Josephus. · 1471

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

[1], [1 blank], [44], 1-156, 185-368, 371-544, 543-554, 554*1-554*24, 555-658; [1], [1 blank], [4], 659-760, 1103-1288, 1288†-1288††††, 1289-1390, 1471-1584, 1591-1710, 1725-1844, 1879-1940 pp.The most complete edition of Basnage’s unprecedented, comprehensive synthesis of Jew...

Getrouw verhaal van den waren toestant der meest herderloze gemeentens in Pensylvanien en aangrensende provintien. Amsterdam, Jacobus Loveringh, 1751. 4to. Finely bound in early 20th-century(?) gold-tooled, tan goatskin morocco, green morocco label covering the entire spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on board edges, with the original Dutch-marbled wrappers bound in.

SCHLATTER, Michael. · 1681

€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)

XXII, 56 pp.Very rare first edition of the report of a mission to aid and bring order to the German Reformed congregations in Pennsylvania and neighbouring areas, prepared by Michael Schlatter at the request of the Holland Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church. King Charles II gr...

Essai sur la guerre dans le Soudan.Lyon, Imprimerie Mougin-Rusand, 1888. Large 8vo (24.5 x 16 cm). With 2 large folding chromolithographed maps (50 x 60 cm; map images 44 x 58 cm; scale 1: 1,000,000), 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text and 3 original photographic albumen prints (10.5 x 13 cm) mounted on paperboard plates. Contemporary gold-tooled, black goatskin morocco (signed at the foot of the front turn-in by Lucien Magnin in Lyon), richly gold-tooled spine, richly gold-tooled turn-ins, double fillets on board edges, gilt edges.

SZYMANSKI, Félix. · 1879

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

[4], 184 pp.A detailed eye-witness account of Senegal in the years 1879 to 1883, by Félix Szymanski (1853-1923), an artillery captain of the French marine in the Senegal campaigns of 1879 to 1883. The first half of the book provides a general description of Senegal and its peo...

Grondbeginselen van den scheepsbouw, of werkdadige verhandeling der scheepstimmerkunst; int Fransch beschreven … The Hague, Ottho van Thol; Amsterdam, Gerrit de Groot, 1759. Large 4to. With an engraved view of a shipyard, 9 charming engravings showing various scenes of shipbuilding and 24 large plates on 23 folding sheets, and 7 folding leaves with letterpress tables. Contemporary half red roan, marbled sides.

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. · 1752

€3,750.00 ($4,133.28 | £3,128.04 | ¥660,110)

[2], X, 11-38, [2], 350, XX pp.Rare first edition of the Dutch translation of the Éléments de l’architecture navale; ou traité practique de la construction des vaisseaux (Paris, 1752) by H.L. Duhamel du Monceau, the first manual for students of naval engineering, written by th...

Reisen van George Forster in den jaare MDCCXC. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.Haarlem, Christiaan Plaat, 1792-1793. 8vo. 4 volumes. Original publisher's letterpress printed stiff wrappers.

FORSTER, Georg. · 1791

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

8 [incl. first 2 blank], 190, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 174, [2]; 4, 3-182; [4], 196 pp.Very rare Dutch translation of the greater part of Forster's Ansichten vom Niederrhein, von Brabant, Flandern, Holland, England und Frankreich (1791-1794), an account of his travels through Germ...

South Indian Ocean Pilot. Madagascar, Îles Comores, Île de la Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles Group, Chagos Archipelago, and other islands lying westward of Longitude 80° East. Eight edition.Taunton, published by the hydrographer of the navy, 1971. With supplement no. 6 (1979). 8vo. With 2 small maps, 8 coastal profiles, 9 diagrams and 11 climatic tables in the book and also 1 view of the coast of Marie Louise Islet (1975) in the supplement. Contemporary blue cloth with printed title in yellow.

[GREAT BRITAIN - HYDROGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT]. · 1971

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.49 | ¥105,618)

XI, [1 blank], 333, [1]; 47 pp.Eight edition of 1971 with supplement no. 6 (1979) of the standard pilot guide for the South Indian Ocean published by the British admiralty. It provides the latest admiralty sailing directions and information for sailing the ocean and coastlines...

[Views of Singapore and surroundings].[Singapore, ca. 1870]. 20 large uniform albumen prints (21 x 27 cm), all but 1 in landscape format. Each print mounted on paperboard (24.5 x 32.5 cm) with a manuscript series number and a German caption. Kept in a modern black cloth clamshell box.

[SINGAPORE - PHOTOGRAPHS]. [SACHTLER, August, and others]. · 1839

€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)

A uniform set of large photographic albumen prints of Singapore, including exterior views of traditional, European and mixed-style buildings, landscapes, the botanical gardens, etc., many with European and/or Malay people in the scene and some with horse-drawn carriages, or bo...

Asia.London, Aaron Arrowsmith, 1 January 1801. Engraved wall map, hand coloured in outline, on 4 sheets joined as 2 (measuring 124 x 147 cm in total) on a scale of ca. 1:6,490,880, with an elaborately decorated cartouche at the head left, a dedication below ("To major James Rennell, Esqr. F.R.S. &c. &c.") and the name of the engraver at the foot right (George Allen). Mounted on cloth and divided into 32 sections. Contemporary slipcase, covered with marbled paper and a manuscript title-label on front.

ARROWSMITH, Aaron. · 1759

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

Large, highly detailed wall map of Asia and the Arabian peninsula, giving a view from the Ural Mountains and Black Sea, across to China, Japan and the Philippines, including India and Ceylon, but stopping just above Singapore and Indonesia. Arrowsmith was "easily the foremost ...