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History of the Indian navy (1613-1863).London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1877. 2 volumes. 8vo. Modern half calf over marbled boards, giltstamped labels to spine.
History of the Indian navy (1613-1863).London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1877. 2 volumes. 8vo. Modern half calf over marbled boards, giltstamped labels to spine.
LOW, Charles Rathbone. · 1863
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
The only published detailed history of the British Navy and its engagement with the Arabs of the Gulf. Covers specifically the British naval power in the Near and Middle East from the earliest days of the East India Company until its abolition in 1863. Forms the basis for stud...
Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734. Dessiné et gravé, sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot, Marquis de Sousmons ... Achevé de graver en 1739.[Paris, 1739]. Grand-Aigle folio (56 x 45.5 cm). An enormous engraved map of Paris in 20 numbered sheets plus a key map, at a scale of about 1:2000, each segment measuring 55 x 84 cm (plate size 51.5 x 80.5 cm; image 48 x 79 cm) which would give an assembled map with image size about 240 x 316 cm! The key map is slightly larger than the segments and folds out at the head. Bound as an atlas (but with segments 18 and 19, containing the cartouche, assembled to make a long fold-out) in contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, each board with as centrepiece the Paris coat of arms (a ship with chief a field of fleurs-de-lis).
Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734. Dessiné et gravé, sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot, Marquis de Sousmons ... Achevé de graver en 1739.[Paris, 1739]. Grand-Aigle folio (56 x 45.5 cm). An enormous engraved map of Paris in 20 numbered sheets plus a key map, at a scale of about 1:2000, each segment measuring 55 x 84 cm (plate size 51.5 x 80.5 cm; image 48 x 79 cm) which would give an assembled map with image size about 240 x 316 cm! The key map is slightly larger than the segments and folds out at the head. Bound as an atlas (but with segments 18 and 19, containing the cartouche, assembled to make a long fold-out) in contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, each board with as centrepiece the Paris coat of arms (a ship with chief a field of fleurs-de-lis).
BRETEZ, Louis. · 2000
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
An extraordinary engraved map of Paris and surroundings in 20 enormous sheets, showing the city and its buildings in a bird's-eye view (the buildings in an orthographic projection, nearly isometric, but mostly from a slightly higher angle, around 45°). It covers the area withi...
Himbenost pritankogh Veleznanstva Nasradinova.Ancona, Pietro Paolo Ferri, 1771. 12mo. With a woodcut of the main character on the title page. Contemporary plain wrappers.
Himbenost pritankogh Veleznanstva Nasradinova.Ancona, Pietro Paolo Ferri, 1771. 12mo. With a woodcut of the main character on the title page. Contemporary plain wrappers.
CROCE, Giulio Cesare and Nikola PALIKUCA (translator). · 1606
€5,800.00 ($6,392.80 | £4,838.04 | ¥1,020,970)
71 pp.Very rare first edition of a Croatian translation of the popular comic novel Le sottilissime astuzie di Bertoldo by Giulio Cesare Croce, first published in 1606. Based on oral traditions, this highly popular novel told the story of the farmer Bertoldo, who is sometimes c...
Opere toscane. Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta (colophons: printed by Peter Schoeffer the younger), 1542. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, each with the same woodcut Giunta device, and a full-page woodcut showing a larger version of the same device on the last printed page of vol. 2. Set in an Aldine-style italic. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf.
Opere toscane. Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta (colophons: printed by Peter Schoeffer the younger), 1542. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, each with the same woodcut Giunta device, and a full-page woodcut showing a larger version of the same device on the last printed page of vol. 2. Set in an Aldine-style italic. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf.
ALAMANNI, Luigi. · 1495
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[16], 431, [1 blank]; 295, [7] pp.Third edition of frequently satirical poetry and plays written in (mostly blank) Italian verse by the Florentine statesman, poet and playwright Luigi Alamanni (1495-1556). He and his contemporary Giangiorgio Trissino pioneered the use of blank...
[Carmina]. Catullus, et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti.Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554. 8vo. With Aldus's woodcut device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf, and spaces with guide letters left for 2 5-line and about 60 3-line manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in an Aldine italic (with upright capitals) with occasional words (mostly names) in roman and frequent passages in Greek. Gold-tooled mottled calf (ca. 1700).
[Carmina]. Catullus, et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti.Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554. 8vo. With Aldus's woodcut device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf, and spaces with guide letters left for 2 5-line and about 60 3-line manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in an Aldine italic (with upright capitals) with occasional words (mostly names) in roman and frequent passages in Greek. Gold-tooled mottled calf (ca. 1700).
CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius and Marc-Antoine MURET. · 1526
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[4], "134" [= 136], [2] ll.First edition to include Muret's important and influential commentaries, of the poems of the passionate (if self-centred) Roman poet Catullus (84-ca. 54 BCE), often given the collective title Carmina. Both the poems and the commentaries appear here i...
Vite di cinque huomini illustri, M. Farinata degl'Uberti, Duca d'Athene, M. Salvestro Medici, Cosimo Med. il piu vecchio, e Francesco Valori.Florence, Bernardo Giunta the younger and heirs of his brothers, 1602. 4to. With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) sheepskin parchment, later endpapers.
Vite di cinque huomini illustri, M. Farinata degl'Uberti, Duca d'Athene, M. Salvestro Medici, Cosimo Med. il piu vecchio, e Francesco Valori.Florence, Bernardo Giunta the younger and heirs of his brothers, 1602. 4to. With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) sheepskin parchment, later endpapers.
RAZZI, Silvano. · 1527
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[12], 198, [6] pp.Biographies of five "illustrious men", all known primarily for their positions of power in Florentine politics, in the original Italian, by Silvano Razzi (1527-1611). Valori was added for the first time in the present second edition. Razzi's selection is inte...
Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. ... Cento novelle ... Di nuovo ricorrette.Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1572. 4to (21.5 x 16 cm). With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a different one on the last page and about 120 woodcut decorated initials (about 7 series) including some repeats. With the main text set in roman type but the extensive preliminaries in italic. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. ... Cento novelle ... Di nuovo ricorrette.Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1572. 4to (21.5 x 16 cm). With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a different one on the last page and about 120 woodcut decorated initials (about 7 series) including some repeats. With the main text set in roman type but the extensive preliminaries in italic. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
GUALTERUZZI, Carlo (compiler) and [Vincenzo BORGHINI (“corrector”)]. · 1470
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[26], [2 blank], "153" [= 165], [3] pp.Third edition (usually called the second), in the original Italian, of the first collection of native Italian stories, best known under the titles Il novellino and Le cento novelle antiche, written up as a collection between 1281 and 1300...
De originibus Americanis libri quatuor.The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy, Leiden), 1652. 8vo. With title page in red and black with De Croy's(?) woodcut tree device. Late 19th-century binding made from an early music manuscript on sheepskin parchment.
De originibus Americanis libri quatuor.The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy, Leiden), 1652. 8vo. With title page in red and black with De Croy's(?) woodcut tree device. Late 19th-century binding made from an early music manuscript on sheepskin parchment.
HORNIUS (HORN), Georgius. · 1642
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[20], 282 pp.The first edition of a learned essay in Latin on the origins of the American Indians. It culminated a fierce debate that began with Grotius in his 1642 Dissertatio de origine gentium Americanarum, which argued that the American Indians of North America descended f...
[De institutione oratoria]. (Colophon: Florence, Filippo I Giunta, October 1515). Small 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). With a title-page containing only the author's name, but with the title in the heading to liber I, and Giunti's woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. Set entirely in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals). Vellum (ca. 1850?).
[De institutione oratoria]. (Colophon: Florence, Filippo I Giunta, October 1515). Small 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). With a title-page containing only the author's name, but with the title in the heading to liber I, and Giunti's woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. Set entirely in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals). Vellum (ca. 1850?).
QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. · 1416
€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)
[4], "269" [= 367], [1] ll.The first and only Giunta edition (one of the first in small format), in the original Latin, of the standard classical textbook on oratory and rhetoric by Quintilian (ca. 35-ca. 95/100 AD), in many respects the greatest orator between Cicero and Quin...
Il Filocopo … Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione ridotto da M. Francesco Sansovino. ...Venice, [device of Domenico Giglio] (colophon: Francesco Rampazetto, 1554). Small 8vo (15 x 11 cm). With Giglio's woodcut device on the title-page, 6 woodcut decorated initials (3 series) plus 2 repeats. Set in Aldine-style italic types (with upright capitals) with incidental roman. Contemporary limp vellum.
Il Filocopo … Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione ridotto da M. Francesco Sansovino. ...Venice, [device of Domenico Giglio] (colophon: Francesco Rampazetto, 1554). Small 8vo (15 x 11 cm). With Giglio's woodcut device on the title-page, 6 woodcut decorated initials (3 series) plus 2 repeats. Set in Aldine-style italic types (with upright capitals) with incidental roman. Contemporary limp vellum.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. · 1521
€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)
“390” [= 380] ll.Second Sansovino edition of Boccaccio's first important work, Il Filocolo (here Filocopo), a prose romance written ca. 1334-1336, about twenty years before the Decameron. Boccaccio reworked the 12th-century French love story of Floire (Florio), muslim Prince o...
[Watercolour of Russian and British prisoners-of-war in the Batavian Republic].[North Holland?, 1799-1800]. Pencil, ink and watercolour drawing on wove paper (22 x 42.5 cm) mounted on a larger sheet.
[Watercolour of Russian and British prisoners-of-war in the Batavian Republic].[North Holland?, 1799-1800]. Pencil, ink and watercolour drawing on wove paper (22 x 42.5 cm) mounted on a larger sheet.
[LANGENDIJK, Jan Anthonie]. · 1799
€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)
colour drawing of the transport of Russian and British prisoners-of-war in the aftermath of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. As part of the War of the Second Coalition, an expeditionary force of British and Russian troops invaded North Holland in the Batavian Rep...
[Watercolour of a train of the Batavian Republic’s horse artillery].[North Holland?, 1799-1800]. Pencil, ink and watercolour drawing on wove paper (22 x 42.5 cm) mounted on a larger sheet.
[Watercolour of a train of the Batavian Republic’s horse artillery].[North Holland?, 1799-1800]. Pencil, ink and watercolour drawing on wove paper (22 x 42.5 cm) mounted on a larger sheet.
[LANGENDIJK, Jan Anthonie]. · 1799
€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)
Watercolour drawing of a column of horse artillery of the Batavian Republic during the aftermath of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. As part of the War of the Second Coalition, an expeditionary force of British and Russian troops invaded North Holland in the Bata...
Four miniatures of people wearing pearl earrings.[Denmark?, first half 18th century?]. Collection of four paintings, oil on paper or paperboard, two measuring 8 x 5.5 cm (frame 10.5 x 7.5 cm) and two measuring 8.5 x 5.5 cm (frame 10 x 7 cm), all with a gilt wooden frame.
Four miniatures of people wearing pearl earrings.[Denmark?, first half 18th century?]. Collection of four paintings, oil on paper or paperboard, two measuring 8 x 5.5 cm (frame 10.5 x 7.5 cm) and two measuring 8.5 x 5.5 cm (frame 10 x 7 cm), all with a gilt wooden frame.
[PAINTINGS - DENMARK]. · 1532
€6,850.00 ($7,550.12 | £5,713.89 | ¥1,205,800)
Two sets of two miniature paintings, the individual sets painted in matching style and set in matching frames, with the two slightly larger frames painted to match the two smaller ones.Ad 1: Portrait of a 16th-century woman, possibly Anne of Denmark (1532-1585), wearing a red ...
Catalogus plantarum in horto botanico Bogoriensi cultarum alter. | Tweede catalogus der in 's lands plantentuin te Buitenzorg gekweekte gewassen.Batavia, Lands-drukkerij, 1844. 8vo. Contemporary half sheepskin, modern endpapers.
Catalogus plantarum in horto botanico Bogoriensi cultarum alter. | Tweede catalogus der in 's lands plantentuin te Buitenzorg gekweekte gewassen.Batavia, Lands-drukkerij, 1844. 8vo. Contemporary half sheepskin, modern endpapers.
HASSKARL, Justus Karl. · 1835
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
[4], 391, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a catalogue of the plants in the Kebun Raya Bogor, the large botanical garden near Jakarta (Batavia), Indonesia, formerly known as 's Lands Plantentuin te Bogor. It contains 1298 entries, including many east- and south-east Asian species...
Außerlesene Kern-Sprüche Heiliger Schrifft, durch kurtze Fragen deutlich erkläret und nützlich angewendet, nebst einer ausführlichen Einleitung zum Bibel-Lesen ...Leipzig, Friedrich Lankisch, 1705. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, a folding letterpress table and occasional lines in Greek and Hebrew type. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Außerlesene Kern-Sprüche Heiliger Schrifft, durch kurtze Fragen deutlich erkläret und nützlich angewendet, nebst einer ausführlichen Einleitung zum Bibel-Lesen ...Leipzig, Friedrich Lankisch, 1705. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, a folding letterpress table and occasional lines in Greek and Hebrew type. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
HOFFMANN, Gottfried. · 1658
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
[34], 704 pp.Rare first and only edition of a theological work by the German Protestant pedagogue and composer Gottfried Hoffmann (1658-1712). The work was intended for young people, teaching them how to read and understand the Bible. It opens with a dedication to Lady Cathari...
Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneykunde.Halle, Gebauerschen Buchhandlung, 1821-1828. 5 volumes bound as 6. 8vo. With 4 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary dark gray paste-paper boards, with letterpress title-labels on spine.
Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneykunde.Halle, Gebauerschen Buchhandlung, 1821-1828. 5 volumes bound as 6. 8vo. With 4 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary dark gray paste-paper boards, with letterpress title-labels on spine.
SPRENGEL, Kurt. · 1766
€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)
[10], 638, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], IV, 762, [2]; X, 613, [3]; IV, 635, [1]; [2], XVI, 481, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [483]-969, [1] pp.Third, revised and enlarged edition of Sprengel's pragmatic history of medicine - "the standard work on the subject for nearly a century" (...
Dispensatorium universale seu Lexicon Chemico-Pharmaceuticum ad tempora nostra accomodatum. Editio secunda aucta et emendate.Strasbourg, for Armand Koenig (printed in Tübingen, Joannes Frid. Balz), 1791. 2 volumes. 8vo. Half beige paper with printed title on spine.
Dispensatorium universale seu Lexicon Chemico-Pharmaceuticum ad tempora nostra accomodatum. Editio secunda aucta et emendate.Strasbourg, for Armand Koenig (printed in Tübingen, Joannes Frid. Balz), 1791. 2 volumes. 8vo. Half beige paper with printed title on spine.
REUSS, Christian Friedrich. · 1504
€395.00 ($435.37 | £329.49 | ¥69,532)
XXXII, 640; 641-1504 pp.Second and best edition of the Dispensarorium or pharmacopoea by the professor of Medicine at the Alma Eberhardino-Carolina, at the university of Tübingen, Chrstian Friedrig (von) Reuss (1745-1813). The first edition had been published in 1787.With the ...
Reizen naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop, enz. ... Voor jonge lieden bearbeid.Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, [1833]. 8vo. With an engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary half vellum.
Reizen naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop, enz. ... Voor jonge lieden bearbeid.Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, [1833]. 8vo. With an engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary half vellum.
JONG, Cornelius de, and J. OLIVIER Jz. · 1762
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
XII, 208 pp.First edition of a work on the voyages of Cornelius de Jong to the Cape of Good Hope, Ireland and Norway, here edited for the youth by J. Olivier. Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh (1762-1838) was Captain of the Dutch war frigate Scipio, and sailed to the Cape of Go...
Reisen, en beschryving der Oostersche lantschappen; ...Including:-HETOUM of Corycus. Historie der Oostersche lantschappen; ...-[BRACCIOLINI, Poggio, and Girolamo di SANTO STEFANO]. Reysen naar Indien, en d'oostersche landen; gedaan by Nicolaus Venetus, en Jeronymus van St. Steven.-[Anonymous VOC officer in Formosa]. Verhaal van de verövering van 't eylant Formosa door de Sinesen.Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1664. With 4 engraved plates. With:(2) BOURGES, Jacques de. Naaukeurig verhaal van de reis des Bisschops van Beryte uit Frankryk te lant en ter zee naar China.Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1669. With 8 half-page engraved illustrations in text.(3) Verhaal van drie voorname reizen naar Oostindien, te weten van Johan Jacobsz Saar, Volkert Evertsz, en Albrecht Herport.Comprising:-SAAR, Johann Jacob. De reisbeschryving ... naar Oostindien, sedert ... 1644. tot ... 1659. ...-OLEARIUS, Adam. De beschryving der reizen van Volkert Evertsz. [= Volquard Iversen] naar Oostindien. ... uitgevaren in ... 1655. en in ... 1668 ... gekeert.-HERPORT, Albrecht. De beschryving der Oostindische reizen ... sedert ... 1659. tot ... 1668. ...Amsterdam, Jan Rieuwertsz & Pieter Arentsz, 1671 (works 2 and 3 dated 1670 on their title-pages). With 8 engraved plates, the last 4 sometimes attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe or his school.3 editions (the 1st containing 4 works and the 3rd containing 3 works) in 1 volume. 4to.Contemporary vellum.
Reisen, en beschryving der Oostersche lantschappen; ...Including:-HETOUM of Corycus. Historie der Oostersche lantschappen; ...-[BRACCIOLINI, Poggio, and Girolamo di SANTO STEFANO]. Reysen naar Indien, en d'oostersche landen; gedaan by Nicolaus Venetus, en Jeronymus van St. Steven.-[Anonymous VOC officer in Formosa]. Verhaal van de verövering van 't eylant Formosa door de Sinesen.Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1664. With 4 engraved plates. With:(2) BOURGES, Jacques de. Naaukeurig verhaal van de reis des Bisschops van Beryte uit Frankryk te lant en ter zee naar China.Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1669. With 8 half-page engraved illustrations in text.(3) Verhaal van drie voorname reizen naar Oostindien, te weten van Johan Jacobsz Saar, Volkert Evertsz, en Albrecht Herport.Comprising:-SAAR, Johann Jacob. De reisbeschryving ... naar Oostindien, sedert ... 1644. tot ... 1659. ...-OLEARIUS, Adam. De beschryving der reizen van Volkert Evertsz. [= Volquard Iversen] naar Oostindien. ... uitgevaren in ... 1655. en in ... 1668 ... gekeert.-HERPORT, Albrecht. De beschryving der Oostindische reizen ... sedert ... 1659. tot ... 1668. ...Amsterdam, Jan Rieuwertsz & Pieter Arentsz, 1671 (works 2 and 3 dated 1670 on their title-pages). With 8 engraved plates, the last 4 sometimes attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe or his school.3 editions (the 1st containing 4 works and the 3rd containing 3 works) in 1 volume. 4to.Contemporary vellum.
POLO, Marco. · 1469
€28,000.00 ($30,861.80 | £23,356.06 | ¥4,928,819)
[12], 99, [8], [1 blank], 70, [2], 25, [1 blank], 12; [2], 126; [6], 198 pp.Ad 1: First Dutch edition, translated apparently from a French edition, but supplemented with additional text and notes from other sources, of Marco Polo's account of his voyages from Venice to China a...
Ueber die Polypen im Allgemeinen und die Actinien insbesondere. Weimar, Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1829. 4to. With 3 engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand, by Charles Node, dated 1826. Contemporary purple/brown boards.
Ueber die Polypen im Allgemeinen und die Actinien insbesondere. Weimar, Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1829. 4to. With 3 engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand, by Charles Node, dated 1826. Contemporary purple/brown boards.
RAPP, Wilhelm. · 1794
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
IV, 62 pp.First edition of a work on polyps (coral and sea anemones), and in particular on the genus Actinia (sea anemones), by the German doctor and zoologist Wilhelm Rapp (1794-1868). It opens with a brief preface and an introduction to coral and its classification. The firs...