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Ordonnantie voor het Collegium Pharmaceuticum, ende het gehele gilde van de apothekarissen binnen de stadt Leyden.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1718. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Leiden on the title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.

[ORDINANCE - PHARMACY].

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

[1], [1 blank], 12 pp.Interleaved copy of the first edition of an ordinance for the Collegium Pharmaceuticum and the apothecary's guild of Leiden. It contains 32 articles with rules and regulations to which each apothecary should adhere. It often refers to the dispensatorium, ...

De in den handel voorkomende kina-basten, pharmacologisch behandeld en toegepast op de soorten welke in de Pharmacopoea Belgica vermeld zijn.Rotterdam, P.H. van den Heuvell (back of half-title: The Hague, A.D. Schinkel), 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half calf.

VRIJDAG ZIJNEN, Theodoor Daniel. · 1799

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

XII, 120 pp.Rare first and only edition of a work on the Cinchona plant by Theodoor Daniël Vrijdag Zijnen (1799-1863). The bark of some species of Cinchona contains quinine, which was used in several medicines, especially in those against malaria. The book opens with sections ...

The marsh Arabs.London, Longmans, Green and co., 1964. 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm). With a frontispiece, 3 maps in text (including 1 double-page) and 32 plates with reproductions of 109 photographs. Green cloth with illustrated dustjacket.

THESIGER, Wilfred. · 1910

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

[13], [1 blank], 242 pp.First edition, second impression, of an account of the Arabs living in the marshes of southern Iraq, written by Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), who stayed with them from 1951 to 1958. "From my recollections, helped by my diaries, I have tried to give a pi...

Geschriften.Noordwijk-Binnen, 1761. Oblong folio (21 x 33 cm). Manuscript calligraphic copybook in brown ink on paper, with a calligraphic title-page followed by sample texts (mostly from the Old and New Testament) in Dutch in a roundhand script with decorative flourishes, and verses by Jacob Cats on the outside of the first and last leaves, the last illustrated with a penwork father, son and a large fish eating a small fish. Side-stitched, with the first leaf and last leaf serving as wrappers.

JONG, Jacobus de. · 1747

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

[31] ll.A manuscript calligraphic copybook by a student learning penmanship, but with a calligraphic title-page giving his name, the title, place and year. Jacobus de Jong is a fairly common name, but Noordwijk-Binnen (now part of Noordwijk in South Holland, on the coast near ...

Les mémoires d'un ange, ou Les femmes vengées, roman historique, philosophique et moral, ... Tome I.er[-II.].[Bordeaux], Edmond Ramadié, [1839-1840, with the author’s 1843 printed dedication to the Dutch Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 copies of the 4-page 1843 dedication to Queen Anna Pavlovna printed on heavy wove paper, signed by the author in brown ink on the first and last page and tipped onto the title-page in each volume. Contemporary finely diced (in horizontal lozenges) and gold-tooled red morocco for presentation to the Queen, (each board with a crown above flowers as centrepiece, and a decorative frame built up from separate tools; the spine with the title and volume number in the middle with decorations above and below), gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges.With: (2) DUFFEYTE-DILHAN, Joseph. [Autograph, signed letter to Anna Pavlovna].[Bordeaux?, 1843?]. 4to. Letter in ink on two sides of one leaf of a folded bifolium, signed by the author.

DUFFEYTE-DILHAN, Joseph. · 1856

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

“408” [= 406]; 419, [1 blank] pp.Author's dedication copy for Queen Anna Pavlovna of the Netherlands (daughter of the late Tsar Pavel I and wife of King Willem II) of the extremely rare first edition of an "historique, philosophique et moral" novel written for women, including...

Instrucção summaria sobre o modo de cultivar as amoreiras, e de crear os bichos da seda, offerecida ao Illmo. e Excmo. Senhor Marquez de Pombal.Lisbon, Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1772. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled paper boards.

NIRSO, Tomas Sabattinno.

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

96 pp.First and only edition, in Portuguese, of a manual on the cultivation of mulberry trees for the purpose breeding silkworms, in order to encourage silk production in Portugal. It was published during a period of economic reforms instituted by the Marquês de Pombal, to who...

For official use only. Field notes. Mesopotamia. General staff, India. February 1917.Including: Index to field notes, Mesopotamia, 1917.Calcutta, Superintended government printing, 1917. Small 8vo. With 1 folding heliozincographed map of "Lower Mesopotamia", with some routes in red, and three folding letterpress tables. Original green cloth.

[MESOPOTAMIA]. [Indian Army General Staff]. · 1915

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

[3], [1], 326(=325), [1]; [1], [1 blank], XX pp.Second edition, considerably expanded, of a field guide to Mesopotamia (Iraq), published on behalf of the General Staff in India for the use of officers serving in the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War, stating on ...

Reize naar Oost-Indië en Persië, en de daar omliggende landen. Ondernomen langs een' ongewoonen weg.Amsterdam, De Compagnie, 1779. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, one of India, the other tracking Ives's journey from Basra to Latakia, and 9 engraved plates (including 1 large folding). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.

IVES, Edward. · 1773

€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)

[16], 324; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 379, [1] pp.First Dutch edition (second issue) of Ives's account of his voyage from England to India and his journey from Persia to England, first published in English in 1773. From 1753 to 1757 Edward Ives (1719-1786) was surgeon of ...

Reseminnen från Orienten.Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1839. Folio. With 6 lithographed plates by Schützercrantz. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers mounted on a larger sheet serving as a folder.

SCHÜTZERCRANTZ, Adolf Ulrik. · 1802

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

4 pp.Very rare first edition of a series of 6 lithographed plates, illustrating a journey to the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Greece, drawn and lithographed by the Swedish artist Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz (1802-1854). In 1838 he visited Greece, Istanbul and Cairo. The lithograph...

Indiae Orientalis pars septima [...].Including: Icones, hoc est verae variorum populorum et regum, ceremoniarum item, superstitiosorum rituum et rerum aliarum, ...Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, 1606. Folio (32.5 x 20 cm). With the letterpress title in an engraved architectural border, a separate letterpress title-page for the Icones, an engraved coat of arms on the dedication leaf, 20 engravings in text and 2 double-page engraved plates. 20th-century green half morocco.

DE BRY, Theodor; Johann Israel DE BRY and Joris VAN SPILBERGEN. · 1590

€28,000.00 ($30,861.80 | £23,356.06 | ¥4,928,819)

[4], 126, [2 blank] pp.; 26 ll.First edition of the Latin translation of book seven of Théodore de Bry's Petits voyages, the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, which is considered unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and...

Recepten boek.[The Netherlands], album [ca. 1700], written [ca. 1720] to 1758 or possibly later. Large agenda 8vo (20.5 x 12 cm). Manuscript in dark brown ink on laid paper, with 1 printed and 10 manuscript slips with recipes loosely inserted (late 18th & early 19th centuries). Recased ca. 1720 in its own original ca. 1700 blind-tooled parchment, with a large centrepiece on each board.

[MEDICINE - RECIPES]. · 1720

€2,650.00 ($2,920.85 | £2,210.48 | ¥466,478)

pp. [15], 16, 23-188, 197-386, [387]-[412] (minus 16 scattered pp.), including integral paste-downs, and about 160 pp. blank except for the page number.A recipe book in Dutch probably written beginning around 1720 but with additions to at least 1758. Most of the recipes are me...

An abridged collection of photographs, taken in various departments of some of the hospitals which I have attended whilst a student 1940-43.[England], 1940-1943. With 137 gelatin silver prints (including many repeats) and 161 celluloid negatives, most of them measuring ca. 5.5 x 8 cm, but some larger formats. Five albums of varying sizes with photographs, one box with some loosely inserted photographs and 2 albums with negatives.

QUILLIAM, Andrew. · 2008

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

Large collection of photographs and negatives of surgeries at several hospitals during the Second World War, taken by the medical student Andrew Quilliam (d. 2008), who would become lecturer in anatomy and embryology at University College London. Among the photographs are seve...

Oeuvres de Denis Diderot, publiées, sur les manuscrits de l'auteur, par Jacques-André Naigeon, de l'Institut National des Sciences, etc. Tome premier[-quinzième].Paris, Desray, Deterville (back of half-title, vol. I: printed by [Charles] Crapelet), an VI [=] 1798. 15 volumes. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Charles Étienne Gaucher after a 1766 drawing by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 16 engraved plates and a folding letterpress table of all kinds of human knowledge for the Encyclopédie (52 x 37.5 cm). Contemporary, uniform half sprinkled calf, richly gold-tooled spines.

DIDEROT, Denis. · 1713

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

[in total about 7500 pp.].First edition of the works of Denis Diderot (1713-1784), published fourteen years after his death. Diderot, one of the widest ranging and most creative minds of the Enlightenment, is best known as the motive force behind and author of many articles in...

Het Islamisme. Tweede, herziene druk.Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1880. With 13 lithographed plates. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth.

DOZY, Reinhart. · 1820

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

viii, 357, [3 blank] pp.Second edition of a survey of Islam for a general public, mostly from a historical point of view. In 24 chapters, the book describes the life of Muhammad, the Qur'an, the fundaments of Islam, Islam after the death of Muhammad, the spread of Islam outsid...

Livre d'ecrire ... a l'ecole de Monsieur Hermanus vander Laan ...Haarlem, 30 October 1749-13 January 1750. Folio (31 x 20 cm). Manuscript calligraphic copy-book with Dutch texts (except for the French title-page and colophon), written in black ink on laid paper, with a calligraphic title-page followed by 43 pages of calligraphic examples on 23 leaves. An additional loosely inserted leaf has one additional full-page example, also by Walbeek. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers (block-printed flower pattern with a dotted background).

WALBEEK, Willem.

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

[1], [1 blank], [45], [1 blank] pp. plus 1 loosely inserted leaf.A carefully planned and skilfully executed calligraphic copy-book, including a calligraphic title-page and colophon. Although it was made by a student, Willem Walbeek, over a period of 2½ months in one academic y...

Amoenitates Italicae sistentes opuscula ad rem herbariam et zoologiam Italiae spectantia.Bologna, Annesio Nobili, 1819. 4to. With 6 engraved plates. Contemporary blue paper wrappers.

BERTOLONI, Antonio. · 1775

€1,000.00 ($1,102.21 | £834.14 | ¥176,029)

[6], 472 pp.First edition of an extensive work on Italian plants by the Italian botanist and physician Antonio Bertoloni (1775-1869), professor of botany at Bologna. It included nine essays, some not previously published, each dealing mostly with a specific type of plant, or p...

Bibliographie Entomologique, comprenant l'indication par ordre alphabétique 1. Des ouvrages entomologiques publiés en France et à l'étranger, depuis les temps les plus réculés jusques et y compris l'année 1834; 2. Des monographies et mémoires contenus dans les recueils, journaux et collections académiques françaises et étrangères.Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1837. 2 volumes bound in 1.. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine with gilt lettering.

PERCHERON, A. · 1797

€325.00 ($358.22 | £271.10 | ¥57,210)

XII, 326; [4], 376 pp.Early entomological bibliography which was followed 25 years later by Hagen's more detailed bibliography. Achille Rémy Percheron (1797-1869) was a French entomologist. "Les Français se sont peu interessé à la bibliographie. On peut seulement citer la 'Bib...

Iconographie des orchidées d'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen.Paris, Paul Lechevalier (colophon: printed by Jouve et Cie (part 1), Winter, Heidelberg (part 2)), 1821-1929. 2 text parts (4to, bound in one volume) and an atlas (folio). With a photographical frontispiece portrait in the text volume and 133 lithographed plates, including 120 coloured by hand. Contemporary brown half morocco.

CAMUS, Edmond Gustave and Aimée Antoinette CAMUS. · 1852

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

559, [1]; 72 pp.First and only edition of a well-illustrated and comprehensive study of the orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean, published posthumously by the daughter of Edmond Gustave Camus (1852-1915), a pharmacist and botanist fascinated by the intricate taxonomy of th...

Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de Syrie.Paris, Baillière and son (colophon: Rouen, Lecerf), 1921-1922. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 118 figures on 23 plates and some smaller illustrations in text. Later blue cloth.

GERMAIN, Louis. · 1878

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

523, [1]; 242, [2] pp.First edition of an extensive work on both land- and water molluscs that can be found in Syria, by the French malacologist Louis Germain (1878-1942). It describes numerous families and species of molluscs, the first volume containing an introduction and t...

Catalogue des bibliographies géologiques. Rédigé, avec le concours des membres de la commission bibliographique du congrès.Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. 4to. Later cloth over wooden boards, gilt-lettered title on spine, with the original grey publisher's wrappers bound at the end of the book.

MARGERIE, Emmanuel de. · 1910

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

XX, 733, [1 blank] pp.Reference work by Emmanuel de Margerie, author of many geological and geomorphological studies, that lists bibliographies that are published on geology, mineralogy and natural history in general. He divides them into two main sections, namely more general...