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Marine militaire ou recueil des differens vaisseaux qui servent a la guerre suivis des manoeuvres qui ont le plus de raport au combat ainsi qua l'ataque et la deffense des ports.Paris, Chereau, [ca. 1775]. Large 8vo (25 x 17 cm). A wholly engraved book, with 50 engraved plates (1 folding), including a title-page in an architectural frame and 44 leaves with illustrations of ships. 18th-century brown half morocco, with owner's (?) initials at the foot of the spine "I.G.".

OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie. · 1728

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

50 engraved ll.Second edition of a wholly engraved and well-illustrated account of battleships, other naval vessels, and naval manoeuvres. The title-page is followed by two leaves containing the "Avertissement" and a table of contents, leaves 4 to 50 illustrate and describe ba...

Ka Palapala Hemolele a Iehova ko kakou Akua. O Ke Kauoha Kahiko A Me Ke Kauoha Hou i unuhiia mailoko mai o na olelo kahiko …Including: Ke kauoha hou a ko kakou haku e ola'i a Iesu Kristo oia ka olelo hemolele no ke ola, a na lunaolelo i kakau ai.Oahu and Honolulu, American Bible Society, 1843. Large 8vo (24 x 14 cm). Later half calf.

[BIBLE - HAWAIIAN]. · 1451

€6,950.00 ($7,660.34 | £5,797.31 | ¥1,223,403)

1451, [1 blank] pp.Second edition of the entire Bible in the Hawaiian language, but the first edition (in octavo) to be published in a single volume. The translation, a joint effort of American missionaries and Hawaiian advisers, was a monumental work of language and scholarsh...

[Incipit :] … de situ orbis habitabilis …[Colophon:] Venice, Franz Renner, 1478. Small 4to (19 x 14 cm). With the first four lines printed in red and 9 white on black decorated woodcut initials (1 series), plus 1 repeat. Set in roman type, 26 lines to a page, with two words in Greek. Modern blind-tooled calf.

DIONYSIUS Periegetes. · 1470

€35,000.00 ($38,577.24 | £29,195.08 | ¥6,161,024)

[36] ll.A famous description of the antique world, originally written in Greek verse around the beginning of the second century CE by Dionysios Periegetes, also known as Dionysius of Alexandria, including early mentions of China and Arabia. The poem exerted a great influence d...

Histoire des naturels des Iles Tonga ou des Amis, situées dans l'Océan Pacifique depuis leur découverte par le Capitaine Cook; rédigée par John Martin, sur les détails fournis par William Mariner, qui y a passé plusieurs années; ...Paris, Gide and Nicolle (back of half-title: Imprimerie de J. Smith), 1817. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, paper sides with the crowned monogram of Empress Marie-Louise in gold on both sides of each volume.

MARINER, William and John MARTIN (editor). · 1791

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

XXII, [23]-398, [2]; 398 pp.First edition of the French translation of an important account of the Tonga islands by the English William Charles Mariner (1791-1853), who lived in Tonga for four years. When he was young, Mariner sailed in the privateer Porte au Prince to the New...

Essai de cristallographie, ou description des figures géométriques, propres à differens corps du regne minéral, connus vulgairement sous le nom de cristaux.Paris, Didot, Knapen & Delaguette, 1772. 8vo. With 2 folding letterpress tables and 10 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

ROMÉ DE L'ISLE (DELISLE), Jean-Baptiste Louis. · 1736

€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)

XXXII, 427, 2, [1 blank] pp.First edition of an influential work on geometrical crystallography by the French mineralogist Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de l'Isle (1736-1790), one of the founders of modern crystallography. "In 1772 he published his first important technical work, a...

Middle East with boundaries, roads and railways.Edinburgh, John Bartholomew & Son, 1962. 8vo. Large folding map (77 x 101 cm) on a scale of 1:4,000,000, linen backed. With relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints and depths shown by soundings. Folded, with title-wrapper.

BARTHOLOMEW, John. · 2017

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

Large map of the Middle East by Bartholomew, a Scottish firm known for their maps of the area. It shows physical and topographic features, political boundaries, main motor roads, secondary roads, caravan routes and tracks, oil pipe lines. A tiny tear at the head of one fold, b...

Hanc circuli quadraturam invenit.Antwerp, Petrus Bellerus (Peter Belaert), 1591. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut of Euclid (or possibly Archimedes) with an enormous pair of dividers in his right hand and a book in his left, and between the two legs of the dividers a sceptre passing through a crown, and 29 woodcut diagrams. 20th-century half calf.

FALCO, Jacobus (Jaime Juan FALCÓ y SEGURA). · 1882

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

29, [1] pp.Second edition of an early treatise claiming to have squared the circle (geometrically constructed a square matching the surface area of a given circle, shown to be impossible in 1882). Falco (Valencia 1522-Madrid 1594), a humanistic poet and mathematician, and a Kn...

Bibliotheca Arabica.Halle, I.C. Hendel, 1811. 8vo. Set in roman types, with occasional passages in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Greek. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

SCHNURRER, Christian Friedrich von. · 1799

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

XXI, [3], 518, [515]-529, [1] pp.First combined edition of a pioneering Latin bibliography of Western Arabic scholarship, describing about 500 editions of Arabic works and books about Arabic language and literature, first published in 7 parts from 1799 to 1806. "The first and ...

Traité des tulipes, qui non-seulement réunit tout ce qu'on avoit précédemment écrit de raisonnable, mais est augmenté de quantité de remarques nouvelles sur l'éducation de cette belle fleur.With: (2) ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'. Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes, ... Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1765. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Each work with 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, sewn on 5 supports, richly gold-tooled spine with title, red edges.

ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'. · 1689

€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)

252, [4]; 156 pp.Convolute containing the rare second editions of two botanical books, one on tulips and the other on hyacinths, written by the French priest and botanist Jean Paul Rome d’Ardène (1689-1769), famous for his studies of flowers, which demonstrate his “vast erudit...

De origine animalium, et migratione populorum, ... Ubi inquiritur, quomodo quaque via homines cateraque animalia terrestria provenerint; & post deluvium in omnes orbis terrarum partes & regiones: Asiam, Europam, Africam, utramque Americam, & terram Australem, sive Magellanicam, pervenerint.Geneva, Petrus Columesius, 1667. 12mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page. 19th-century gold-tooled half calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, decorated ("pseudo-marbled") paper sides, marbled end papers.

MYL (MILIUS), Abraham van der. · 1563

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

68, [4 blank] pp.First edition of treatise on the origin and migration of man and animals, a posthumously published work by the Dutch linguist and minister Abraham van der Myl (1563-1637). "It was only after the discovery of America that the attention of naturalists was powerf...

Trattato del taglio de gl'alberi fruttiferi del fù monsu' della Quintinye'.Bassano, Giovanni Antonio Remondini, 1697. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut mongram on title-page and 11 folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.

QUINTINIE, Jean-Baptiste de la. · 1626

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

[16], 228, [3], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the Italian translation of a work on the cultivation of fruit trees by the French gardener and agronomist Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688), known for creating the Potager du roi, a fruit and vegetable garden for King Louis...

Materia medica e regno vegetabili, sistens simplicia officinalia, pariter atque culinaria.Stockholm, Peter Hesselberg, 1778. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf.

BERGIUS, Peter Jonas. · 1730

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

[16], 448; [2], 449-908, [17], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a materia medica of the vegetable kingdom by the Swedish physician and botanist Peter Jonas Bergius (1730-1790). It opens with an introduction, followed by the description of 571 herbs and other plants, arranged acco...

[Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic.

TARENGHI, Enrico. · 1848

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

Attractive watercolour painting by the Italian orientalist painter Enrico Tarenghi (1848-1938), it shows three bearded men with carpets and two poufs. One of them is clearly the seller, another is inspecting the wares and the third is sitting on the ground rolling up one of th...

Colloquio su'gli affari presenti del 1683 fatto nell'Inferno, tra Maometto, e monsieur Colbert, già ministro di Francia.[Italy, ca. 1684?]. Small folio (29 x 20.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand. Sewn.

[MANUSCRIPT - FRANCE]. · 1683

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

[54], [2 blank] pp.Italian manuscript translation of a French pamphlet criticizing contemporary France in the form of a dialogue between Muhammad and the recently deceased French Minister of Finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The pamphlet refers to the aftermath of the Battle of V...

Nach den Oasen von Laghuat.Bern, Haller, 1864. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece showing the palace of the khalif in Laghouat and a folding lithographed map of the northern part of Algeria. Contemporary red half cloth.

LOCHER, Friedrich. · 1820

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

VIII, 208 pp.Rare first and only edition of an account of a journey to Laghouat in the North of Algeria by the Swiss jurist Friedrich Locher (1820-1911). He was send to Algeria in 1862 to liquidate an inheritance in the country and stayed in the area for three months. As expec...

Californie en de goudkoorts. Togten in het westen van Noord-Amerika. Het leven en de zeden der goudgravers, Mormonen en Indianen.Amsterdam, P.M. van der Made, 1864. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's original printed stiff paper wrappers.

ZIMMERMAN, W.F.A. (pseudonym of Carl Gottfried Wilhelm VOLLMER). · 1862

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

[8], 380; [4], 403, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of the Dutch translation of a novel about the California Gold Rush, originally published in Swedish in 1862 as Kalifornien och guldfebern. Including content on the Mormons and Indians in the area. An equally rare second ...

Struggle, oppression and counter-revolution in Saudi Arabia.Berkeley, CA, Arab Support Committee, [ca. 1973]. With a map of the Arabian peninsula. Original publisher's wrappers.

[ARAB SUPPORT COMMITTEE]. · 1972

€375.00 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)

[5], 25 pp.Revolutionary pamphlet published by the Arab Support Committee in Berkeley, containing translations of three articles originally published in 1972 in the journal of the People's Democratic Party of Saudi Arabia. The three articles concern statements regarding the ec...

The mineral industry of the British Empire and foreign countries. War period. Gypsum (1913-1919).With:(2) Strontium minerals (1913-1919).(3) Molybdenum (1913-1919).(4) Silver (1913-1919).(5) Graphite (1913-1919).(6) Petroleum and allied products. (1913-1919).London, His Majesty's stationery office, 1923. 6 works in 1 volume. Contemporary red cloth, paper title-label on spine.

[OIL]. IMPERIAL MINERAL RESOURCES BUREAU. · 1913

€375.00 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)

IV, 31, [1 blank]; 12; 87, [1 blank]; 218; 57, [1 blank]; 296 pp.Compilation of publications on the worldwide resources of gypsum, strontium, molybdenum, silver and "petroleum and allied products" and its mining industry in the period 1913-1919. Written two decades before the ...

[Abraham's sacrifice].[Amsterdam], Rembrandt, 1655. 4to leaf (16.5 x 14 cm). Etching and drypoint on European laid paper (plate size 15.7 x 13.2 cm). Mounted with two hinges in a passepartout, which is kept in sturdy cardboard folder, covered on the outside with beige suede.

REMBRANDT van Rijn. · 1637

€75,000.00 ($82,665.52 | £62,560.88 | ¥13,202,194)

A fine impression of one of Rembrandt's most famous prints, "Abraham's sacrifice", illustrating Genesis 22: 10-12, where Abraham, after god ordered him to sacrifice his only son Isaac, raises his knife to do so but is stayed by an angel who reveals that it was only a test of h...

The Petroleum Times. [drop-title]: Review of Middle East oil. A comprehensive illustrated review of all aspects of current developments based on a recent extended tour by Dr. C.T. Barber, ...London, Brettenhem house, June 1948. 30 x 23.5 cm. With many reproductions of photographs, ground plans, maps, and cross-sections. Later cardboard binder.

[OIL - MIDDLE EAST].

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

V-XXX, 115, XXXA-XLVI pp.Extract from the periodical The Petroleum Times, containing an extensive article on oil in the Middle East. It opens with a list of Middle East oil companies and their concessions, accompanied by a map showing their oil fields, followed by a section on...