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Le Brésil.Paris, Guillaumin et Cie (back of half-title: Henri Plon), 1856. 8vo. Original publisher's light blue printed paper wrappers.

REYBAUD, Charles. · 1801

€375.00 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)

[4], 244, 4 pp.“There is only one thing that does not change in Brazil, it is the ardor of the imperial government to create and to improve”. The first edition (1801-1864) of Charles Reynaud’s political and social overview of Brazil during the first thirty years since its decl...

Batavia in 1858. Of schetsen en beelden uit de hoofdstad van Neêrlandsch Indië.Gorinchem, J. Noorduijn & son, 1860. 8vo. With a lithographed map as frontispiece and a lithographed title-page with a small harbour view. Contemporary half sheepskin.

WEITZEL, August Wilhelm Philip. · 1816

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

[10], 208 pp.First and only edition of a contemporary description of Batavia (Jakarta), then the capital of the Dutch East Indies, by the Dutch general and minister of war August Wilhelm Philip Weitzel (1816-1896), who visited the city in 1858. It opens with a ground plan of t...

In primam totam fen primi libri canonis Avicenn[a]e dilucidissima & expectatissima expositio. Nunc primum in lucem edita, illustrata, & completa assiduo labore, & longo studio Marci Oddi medici eiusdem filii.Venice, Paolo and Antonio Meietti, 1575. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, 3 large and 17 smaller woodcut decorated initials, and a small woodcut decoration (plus 1 repeat). Contemporary limp vellum, with manuscript title on spine.

ODDI, Oddo degli. · 1478

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

[8], 499, [33] pp.Rare first and only edition of a commentary on book I, fen (section) I of Avicenna's Canon by Oddo degli Oddi, including the Latin version of the text by Andrea Alpago and Jacob Mantino. Like most of Oddi's work it was published posthumously by his son Marco ...

Utopiaansch weekblad nos. 3-9 & 11-13.Amsterdam, A. Vink, [1820-1821]. 10 (of 14) parts, lacking parts 1, 2, 10 & 14, supplied in photocopy. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration as headpiece on the opening page of 9 of the 10 parts. Later green cloth.With: (2) [WIBMER, Jean-Baptiste Didier]. Utopiaansche courant no. 6Amsterdam, H. Moolenijzer, "Dageraad, den 44 Stoeborn A[nn]o. 5569" [= 1819]. Folio broadsheet (44 x 26.5 cm). With a woodcut illustration as headpiece. Folded and unbound.

[WIBMER, Jean Baptiste Didier]. · 1815

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

112 pp. (incl. photocopies)10 instalments of the very rare Dutch satirical periodical Utopiaansch weekblad, written anonymously by Wibmer in the form of dialogues between the author and the Utopia-born servant Hans, who informs him of the latest gossip. Added is instalment 6 o...

Ad Julium. II. Po[n]tifice[m] Max[imum]. Querulosa excusatio Jacobi Wimphelingii ad instantiam fratru[m] Augustine[n]sium ad curiam romana[m] citati: ut propria in persona ibide[m] compareat: proptereaq[ue] scripsit divum Augustinum non fuisse monachum vel fratrem mendicante[m].[Strasbourg, Jean Prüss the elder, ca. 1507]. 4to (21 x 15 cm). With a large woodcut decorated initial. Set in 2 sizes of roman type with a few words in a large textura gothic type. With the initial coloured brown by an early hand. Boards covered with grey laid paper (1940s?).

WIMPFELING, Jakob (Jacobus WIMPHELINGIUS). · 1450

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[7], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a poem in Latin verse by the Alsatian humanist theologian Jacob Wimpfeling (1450-1528), addressed to Pope Julius II, defending himself against accusations made by the Augustines. He had claimed (in 1504?) that Saint Augustine was not...

Freiheit und Bulla des allerheiligsten in Gott vatters und Herren, Herren Pii, des namens fünfften Bapsts, uber die Erhoehung und Schoepffung des durchleüchtigsten Fürsten und Herren, Herren Cosmi Medices, Hertzogen zu Florentz, &c. Zu einem Groszhertzoge und koenigmässigem, der provintz Ethrurien, ime underworffen. Geschehen zu Rom, den 27. Augusti. Anno M.D. LXIX.[Germany], 1570. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With a woodcut figure of the Pope on the title-page. Set in Schwabacher gothic type with fraktur headings and incidental roman. Half maroon goatskin morocco (1930s?), gold-tooled spine.

PIUS V, Pope. · 1570

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

[12] pp.Rare German translation (one of two editions, both dated 1570) of Pope Pius V's Latin papal bull elevating Cosimo I de' Medici, already Duke of Florence, to become the first Grand Duke of Tuscany on 27 August 1569. A descendent of the founder of the great Medici bankin...

Angra Pequena. Correspondence respecting the settlement at Angra Pequena, on the S.W. coast of Africa. ... [C.-4190].With:(2) Copy of a despatch from the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, K.G., Her Majesty's high commissioner in South Africa, relative to the establishment of a German protectorate at Angra Pequena and along the neighbouring coast. ... [C.-4265].(3) Further correspondence respecting the settlement at Angra Pequena on the south-west coast of Africa (in continuation of [C.-4190] ...) ... [C.-4262].London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1884. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. With a folding map in ad 1 and a full-page map in ad 3. Modern blue paper wrappers.

[NAMIBIA - AFRICA]. · 1880

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

X, 60; 13, [1]; X, 75, [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: Official publication, presented to the British Houses of Parliament, containing correspondence concerning the German settlement at Angra Pequena or Lüderitz, Namibia. The correspondence starts with four letters written in 1880, the fir...

De negerhut. (Uncle Tom's cabin.) Een verhaal uit het slavenleven in Noord-Amerika.Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1853. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed title-page in each volume and a tinted lithographed author's portrait as frontispiece in the first volume. Contemporary half sheepskin.

BEECHER STOWE, Harriet. · 1811

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[1], [1 blank], IV, 368; [1], [1 blank], 403, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of the second(?) Dutch translation of the famous anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's cabin by the abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), translated by C.M. Mensing. Another equally ra...

De vyerighe colom klaer vertoonende in vyftich onderscheydene curieuse caarten de XVII Nederlantsche provincien, alsmede de hartogen, houtvesters en graven van Vlaenderen, Hollandt ende Zelandt. Met desselfs beschryving.Amsterdam, Jacob Aertsz. Colom, [ca. 1660]. Oblong 4to (ca. 23 x 28 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Experiens Sillemans, and 50 full-page numbered engraved plates (47 maps, and 3 plates containing 117 portraits of the Counts of Brabant, Flanders, and Holland). Contemporary vellum.

COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. · 1600

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

[2], 4, [14], 223, [2], [1 blank] pp.Enlarged Dutch edition of an attractive atlas of the Seventeen Provinces (roughly corresponding to present-day the Netherlands and Belgium), containing all 50 maps and plates. The work was compiled and published by the ambitious Amsterdam m...

Reis door België in het jaar 1814.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp; Brussels, P.J. de Mat, 1815. 8vo. With a lithographed title-page, 3 folding engraved plates (1 hand coloured in outline), 3 aquatint plates printed in sepia, 2 engraved plates printed in sepia (1 double-page) and 2 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin.

[MAASKAMP, Evert]. · 2089

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

XX, 200, [2 blank], [10] pp.Rare first edition of an illustrated travel guide to Belgium, written in the form of ten letters. It contains descriptions of the provinces and its main cities, customs, climate, industry, agriculture, etc. Included are a map of Belgium, a city map ...

Notatki mysliwskie Z Afryki: Somali.Warsaw, Gebethner & Wolff, 1897. Large 4to (40 x 31 cm). With a colour-printed frontispiece, 18 photogravure plates (5 double-page), 5 numbered full-page tinted plates, and ca. 60 illustrations in text (mostly tinted). Publisher's original pictorial beige cloth, with a lion's head on the front board and zebra-patterned endpapers.

POTOCKI, Józef and Piotr STACHIEWICZ. · 1862

€3,250.00 ($3,582.17 | £2,710.97 | ¥572,095)

133, [1] pp.Well-illustrated first edition, in the original Polish, of “one of the rarest of all African big game hunting books” (Czech) by the Polish count Józef Potocki (1862-1922), a renowned big game hunter and breeder of Arabian horses. In 1895 he went on safari to Somali...

La frégate de Roi L'Amphitrite. États des consommations faites pendant le mois de Décembre 1824 et que restent abord le 1e Janvier 1825.[On board, December 1824-1 January 1825]. Manuscript table in brown ink on a whole sheet of laid paper (40 x 52 cm), with the title at the head and signed at the foot right by Laplace. Folded twice.

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pière Théodore. · 1824

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

Manuscript table recording and tallying the supplies and consumptions on board of the French frigate L'Amphitrite during December 1824, signed by its lieutenant C. Laplace, that is the French navigator Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793-1832), famous for two of the most imp...

Wercken der genees-konste.Amsterdam, (widow of) Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1672. 3 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, 28 engravings in volume one, 29 engravings in volume two (including one on the title-page) and 20 engravings (including one on the title-page) plus 1 woodcut in volume three. Contemporary vellum.

BEVERWIJCK, Johan van and Jacob CATS. · 1594

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[18], 252; [8], 127, [1], 328, 48; [8], “278”[=276], [12] pp.Penultimate edition of the most influential medical work in the Low Countries during the 17th-century, the collected works of Johannes Van Beverwijck (1594-1647). It was very popular, partly through the inserted poem...

Grooten atlas, oft werelt-beschryving, in welcke ’t aerdryck, de zee, en hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1664-1665. 9 volumes. Imperial folio (55.5 × 36.5 cm). With 9 engraved title pages, an engraved frontispiece and 610 engraved maps, views, plans, etc., mostly double-page (53.5 × 64 cm, plate size ca. 42 × 53 cm), 7 larger folding, a few single-page and a few smaller, many including additional inset maps, plans and views, and decorated with coats of arms, human & mythological figures, animals, produce, etc. With the engraved title-pages, frontispiece, other engravings (except for the compass rose and 2 inscriptions), woodcut devices on 4 title-pages and 1 woodcut initial coloured by a contemporary hand (the maps mostly in outline but with their decorations fully coloured) and some (mostly the engraved title-pages) with extensive use of gold. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum.

BLAEU, Joan. · 1662

€675,000.00 ($743,989.72 | £563,047.88 | ¥118,819,744)

First and only Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu’s great terrestrial atlas, often considered the greatest atlas of all time, with 610 engraved maps, views, etc., mostly double-page and all coloured by a contemporary hand. Many maps include inset plans and views and coats of arms. Bl...

Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de beneficio cessionis vulgo vom weiblichen Recht.Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1727. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, blind-tooled spine, gold-tooled sides, gilt edges; with a later crowned cypher ainted in silver on the front board and a coat of arms painted in silver on the back.

CARBEN, Johannes Petrus von.

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

[4], 62 pp.Very rare first and only edition of a dissertation on the rights of women by Johannes Petrus von Carben. It deals with laws concerning women in cases of death (of the husband or the woman herself), divorce and adultery and women's rights concerning legacies, propert...

Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en landreysen, na Oost en West-Indiën, mitsgaders andere gewesten, ter eerster ontdekking en soo vervolgens van verscheyde volkeren, meerendeels door vorsten, of maatschappyen, derwaarts gesonden, gedaan; zedert het jaar 1611 tot 1616.Comprising:(1) Vier bysondere reysen na Oost-Indien, ... de negende van de Engelse Oost-Indise maatschappy, met het schip de Jacobus, door Kapiteyn Edmund Marlow, ... de tiende van de Engelse maatschappy, met de scheepen, de Draak en Hosiander, door Mr. Thomas Besr ... elfde reys van de Engelse maatschappy, met het schip, de Salomon, beschreeven door Ralph Wilson ... de vierde is die met het schip de Paarl, daar Samuel Castelton kapiteyn op was ...(2) Twaalfde reys na Oost-Indien, op kosten van de Engelse maatschappy; door Kapiteyn Christoffel Nieuwpoort ... gedaan in het jaar 1613 ...(3) Voyagie van den eerwaarden vader Antonio Fernandez na Gingiro, gedaan in gesandschap met Tecur Egzy, door den Keyser van Ethiopiën afgevaardigt. In het jaar 1613.(4) Reys na Oost-Indien van Kapiteyn Nicolaas Dounton; door ordre van de Engelse maatschappy met 4 scheepen: gedaan in het jaar 1614.(5) Beknopte aantekeningen van een Oost-Indische reys, gedaan uyt Engeland, met 3 scheepen de Samaritaan, de Thomas en Thomasine, in het jaar 1614. en beschreeven door Johan Milward, ...(6) Twee scheeps-togten van Kapiteyn Johan Smith, beyde gedaan na Nieuw-Engeland. De eerste in het jaar 1614. ... De tweede gedaan in het jaar 1615.(7) Tweede reys van Kapiteyn Walter Peyton, na Oost-Indien, met het schip de Expeditie, ... neffens de Draak, de Leeuw en de Peper-corn. In het jaar 1615. en vervolgens. Als mede de reys van Thomas Coryat na Asmere, zijnde de hof-stad van den grooten Mogol.(8) Scheeps-togt van Edward Terry, capellaan van den ambassadeur Thomas Roe, na Oost-Indien; ...(9) Twee bysondere scheeps-togten, de eerste van Roger Hawes; ... De tweede van Alexander Childe, na Suratte en Jasques: ...Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1707. 9 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 11 folding engraved plates and 4 folding engraved maps. Contemporary vellum, with manuscript short-title on spine, a silver fastening at the fore-edge (Germany, 18th century, marked "GED 12" and initials(?) "A E") and red-and-blue sprinkled edges.

AA, Pieter van der. · 1659

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

[2], 97, [13]; [2], 39, [6], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 22 [3], [3 blank]; [1], [2 blank], [1], 86, [10]; [1], [1 blank], 12, [2]; [1], [1 blank], 34, [4]; [2], 47[=49], [5]; [2], 63, [7]; [1], [1 blank], 16, [2] pp.First edition of the 25th volume of the 8vo edition of a coll...

Versuch zu einer grundlichen Vertheidigung derer Saamenthiergen; nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung derer Leeuwenhoeckischen Mikroskopien und einem Entwurf zu einer vollständigern Geschichte des Sonnenmikroskops, als der besten Rechtfertigung derer Leeuwenhoeckischen Beobachtungen.Nürnberg, George Peter Monath, 1758. 4to. With 6 engraved plates. Modern boards.

LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius. · 1719

€1,650.00 ($1,818.64 | £1,376.34 | ¥290,448)

[12], 52 pp.First and only edition of a "short but weighty treatise" (Meyer) on protozoa and spermatozoa by the German natural historian Martinus Frobenius Ledermüller (1719-1769). He wrote the essay as a defence of his earlier publication Physicalische Beobachten derer Saamen...

Les races bovines. Études zootechniques.Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, [1864]. 2 volumes (text & plates). Oblong folio (36 x 49.5 cm). With 5 hand-coloured maps and 87 numbered plates. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, gold-blocked boards with the note "offert par le Minstre de l'Agriculture", gilt edges.

BAUDEMENT, Émile. · 1810

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

[6], LXXIV, [2]; [4], [10] pp.Presentation copy of one of the most beautifully produced works on cattle, by the "zootechnician", Émile Baudement (1810-1864). The 87 plates of bovine animals are arranged by origin, each region with its own part-title: England, Holland and Denma...

Histoire des Sevarambes, peuples qui habitent une partie du troisiéme continent, communément appellé la Terre Australe.Amsterdam, Etienne Roger, 1702. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece (repeated in volume 2) and 2 title pages printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, with a new red title-label.

[VAIRASSE D'ALLAIS, Denis]. · 1656

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

333, [1 blank]; 303, [25] pp."Best" (Howgego) edition of an account of an imaginary voyage based on the story of the VOC ship Vergulde Draeck that wrecked on the coast of western Australia on 28 April 1656, first published, simultaneously in French and English, in five parts o...

Der sowohl Menschen und Viehe grausamen Thiere, schädlichen Ungeziefers und verderblichen Gewürmer gäntzliche Ausrottung.Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Buggel, 1709-1712. 2 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with a folding illustrated engraved title-page and a folding letterpress title-page, and a larger folding engraved plate in volume II. Contemporary but not uniform vellum.

[KRAFFT, Abraham Friedrich]. · 1674

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[22], “699” [= 697], [23]; [38], 944, [48] pp. plus 2 folding letterpress title-pages and the 3 engravings.First edition, rarely found complete, of a detailed account of animals that are harmful to people and to their livestock, the treatment of bites, illnesses and poisonings...