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Die Krystallisation in geometrischer und physikalicher Hinsicht.Heidelberg, Mohr and Winter, 1820. 8vo. With 16 lithographed plates. Contemporary paste-paper boards.

BROCHANT DE VILLIERS, André-Jean-François-Marie. · 1772

€395.00 ($435.37 | £329.49 | ¥69,532)

XX, 200, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the German translation of a work on crystalization by the French mineralogist and geologist André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers (1772-1840). It deals with the geometry of crystals, as well as their formation, different typ...

Consideratien ende redenen der e. heeren bewind-hebberen vande geoctrojeerde West-Indische Compagnie ... nopende de teghenwoordighe deliberatie over den treves met den koning van Hispanjen. Mitsgaders conscientieuse bedenckinghen op dese vraghe, of men in goeder consientie magh treves maecken met den coningh van Spangjen. ... Noch de remonstrantie van zijne koninglijke majest. van Bohemen, ...Haarlem, Adriaen Roman, 1629. 4to. Modern red half leather.

[WIC - CONSIDERATIEN - SPAIN]. · 1629

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

32 pp.One of four issues published in the same year, of a pamphlet concerning the possibility of a truce with Spain, containing the "considerations and reasons" proposed by the Dutch West-India Company (WIC) to the Dutch States General. After the loss of 's Hertogenbosch in 16...

Die eerste sullen die laetste, die laetste die eerste sijn.With: (2) [JORIS, David]. Een twesprake tusschen man unde wijff, namelick Christus un[de] de gemeente oder verlorene mensch.[Rostock, Ludwig Dietz, ca. 1550/52]. 8vo (15.5 x 11 cm). With gothic initials and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in schwabacher types with incidental and fraktur. Vellum (ca. 1680?).

[JORIS, David]. · 1860

€17,500.00 ($19,288.62 | £14,597.54 | ¥3,080,512)

[211], [1 blank]; [71], [1 blank] pp.Rare first editions of two important works by David Joris, in the original Dutch, his Die eerste sullen die laetste ... sijn being his most extensive work except for his famous tWonder boeck. The title alludes to Matthew 19:30: "many that a...

Opus de emendatione temporum: hac postrema ed., ex auctoris ipsius ms., emend., magnáque acces. auctius. Add. veterum Graecorum fragmenta selecta.Including: Computus Arabicus ecclesiae Antiochenae.Geneva, Pierre de la Rovière, 1629. Folio. With title-page printed in red and black and with woodcut printer's device and several woodcut initials. Set in roman and italic types with long passages set in Greek, Arabic and Hebrew and shorter passages in Syriac. The long passages in Samaritan and Ethiopic, printed from meticulous woodblocks. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.

SCALIGER, Joseph Justus. · 1540

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

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [9], [1 blank], LII, [4], 784, [46], [2 blank], 59, [1 blank] pp.Fourth edition, one of two simultaneous issues, of a thorough scholarly study of classical, biblical and "oriental" chronology, by the leading linguist and linguistic scholar of hi...

Tractaat tusschen haar hoog mogende de heeren Staaten Generaal ... en de regeeringe van Algiers. Geslooten in het jaar 1757.With: (2) Ampliatie tot het tractaat van vrede tusschen ... de Staaten Generaal ... en den Dey en regeering van Algiers. Exhibitum den 10 October 1760.Middelburg, Johan Bakker, [1758]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the Dutch admiralty on the title page. Contemporary marbled wrappers.

[STATES GENERAL - ALGIERS - TREATY]. · 1757

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

18; 3, [1 blank] pp.Rare second(?) edition of a peace treaty between the Dutch Republic and the Regency of Algiers, signed in 1757, ending the war that had started in 1755. It lists the agreements made between the two parties, especially concerning Algiers's attitude towards s...

Tractaat van vreede en commercie, geslooten tusschen sijne Majesteit den Keiser van Marocco en de … Staaten Generaal der Vereen. Nederlanden.Including:[drop-title:] Formulier van het pasport …[drop-title:] Translaat van de brief van Muley Abdala, Keiser van Marocco, …The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1777. Small 4to. With the woodcut arms of the States General on the title-page. Disbound.

[STATES GENERAL - TREATY - MOROCCO]. · 1694

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

26, [2 blank] pp.Second edition, published in several issues, of a treaty concluded between the Dutch States General and Abdullah bin Ismail (1694-1757), Sultan of Morocco on and off from 1734 to his death in 1757. The 23 articles of the treaty are followed by a form for the p...

Mineralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral. ... Avec un dictionnaire nomenclateur et des tables synoptiques.Paris, Vincent, 1762. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 11 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spines.

VALMONT DE BOMARE, Jacques-Christophe. · 1731

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

[2], XIV, [2], 365, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank]; [2, 374, [2], 6 pp.First edition of a work on mineralogy by the French botanist and naturalist Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (1731-1807). It opens with a preface, a table, and an introduction to mineralogy. The main text tr...

Nouveau système de minéralogie.Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1819. 8vo. Modern marbled boards.

BERZELIUS, Jöhns Jacob. · 1779

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

[4], VI, 314, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the French translation of a classic mineralogical work by the Swedish chemist Jöhns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848). "The methods of mineral classification existing at the time were based on appearance and physical properties. These...

Manuel du minéralogiste; ou sciagraphie du règne minéral, distribuée d'après l'analyse chimique; ... Mise aujour par M. Ferber ... et traduite et augmentée de notes par M. Mongez le Jeune. Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, par J.C. Delamétherie.Paris, Cuchet, 1792. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved plates (1 folding). Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

BERGMAN, Torbern Olof. · 1735

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

CXX, 359, [1 blank]; [4], 443, [1 blank] pp.Enlarged second edition of an important mineralogical work by the Swedish scholar Torbern Olaf Bergman (1735-1784). "From 1775 he began to coin names related to chemical composition, and he attempted a general reform in Sciagraphia r...

Zeichnungen. Adam Johann Ingruber der Heilkunde Doctor und praktischen Arzte zu Ofen.Ofen (Buda), 1804. Small folio (31.5 x 20 cm). With manuscript title-page followed by 18 leaves of coloured drawings of plants and trees. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.

INGRUBER, Adam Johann. · 1803

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[19] ll.Collection of high quality drawings of plants and trees by the physician Adam Johann Ingruber, who graduated from the faculty of Medicine of the University of Pest in 1803. The 18 leaves of drawings mostly show two species of plants or trees (each with captions in Fren...

Trees.(colophon: Poestenkill, New York, Kaldewey Press), 1988. Very large oblong folio (48 x 61 cm). With 17 artist’s prints (the artist calls them "linecut-monoprint illustrations") on hand-coloured backgrounds. Spine of Brazilian rosewood. Kept in a wooden box as published with two ties, and an illustrated printed paper label on the front. One of an edition of 51 copies, signed by the author-artist-printer.

KALDEWEY, Gunnar A. · 1946

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

7 ll.First and only edition of an artist's book on trees, combining text with illustrations that resemble nature printing, the sixth publication of publisher and book artist Gunnar A. Kaldewey (1946). With the prints and letterpress text (set in 30 point Futura) on hand-made J...

General orientative map of the world's oil industry | Übersichtskarte der Welt- Naphtha-Industrie | Carte d'orientation de l'industrie de pétrole du monde | Mapa pogladowa swiatowego przemyslu naftowego.Lviv, Stefan Korytko, 1925. Large folding chromolithographed map (map size 65.5 x 88 cm). Original publisher's printed paper wrappers.

KORYTKO, Stefan. · 1860

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

Large folding map of the world, completely in colour, showing the areas containing oil and where oil/gas wells are located. Inserted around the margins of the map are several more detailed inset maps of Europe, Poland, California, Kansas/Oklahoma/Texas, Mexico, Venezuela, Trin...

[Herbier de champignons].[Paris and Maison-Laffitte], 1862-1912. 4to & folded folio leaves in a 4to portfolio (23 x 18 cm). A mushroom herbarium comprising samples of 23 varieties of mushroom, each mounted on paper, with manuscript notes and an occasional pencil drawing, the two earliest mounted and written on a pre-printed form. Loosely inserted in a contemporary half green cloth portfolio.

[HERBARIUM - MUSHROOMS]. BERTILLON, [Louis-Adolphe] & F[rançois]. · 1862

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

[26] ll., the 2 folio ll. folded in half.A collection of original samples of 23 varieties of mushroom, mounted on paper leaves or bifolia and dried, with manuscript notes providing information about the samples and with an occasional pencil drawing. Most give the name of the m...

Recueil de lions, dessinez d'après nature par divers maitres & gravez, ... Divisé en six livres chacun de six feuilles.Amsterdam, Bernard Picart [title-print also: Paris, François Chereau], 1729 (engraved 1728-1729). Oblong 4to (18.5 x 24 cm). With a letterpress title-page in red and black with Picart's engraved "device, 1 title-print and 42 lion prints in 6 series, on 37 leaves, all engraved by Bernard Picart after drawings made by himself (8, all from life), Rembrandt (18), Charles le Brun (6), Albrecht Dürer (1), Paulus Potter (1) and unattributed (8). Late 19th-century pimpled red cloth with the spine at the head of the pages. Rebacked in red cloth.

PICART, Bernard, partly after REMBRANDT and others. · 1673

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

[1], [1 blank], 6 pp. plus 37 engraved plates with title-print & 42 lion prints.First edition of a complete set of six series of lion prints (30 full-page, 12 half-page, on 36 inserted leaves) engraved by Bernard Picart (1673-1733), including at least 8 from his own drawings f...

[Incipit:] Kr[es]tou tvoemou pokli[!]naemsya vl[adi]koi s[vya]toe voskresenie tvoe slavim [= We bow before your cross, master, and praise your holy resurrection].[Moscow or vicinity?, ca. 1810?]. A Russian Orthodox brass icon comprising 4 panels hinged to each other (15 x 9.5 x 1.5 cm closed; 15 x 35.5 x 0.5 cm open), each of the 4 interior sides with 5 relief scenes with a blue enamel background (1 scene in the onion-dome top and 1 in each of the 4 quarters of the square body), each scene with an inscription above it. Further with a brass relief veneration of the cross on the front of the exterior in a decorated architectural frame, with an oval at the head bearing the text transcribed above.

[TETRAPTYCH ICON].

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

An early 19th-century Russian Orthodox travelling icon in the form of a brass relief tetraptych (folding quadruple panel), the interior with a blue enamel background. The upper part of each panel has the traditional Russian Orthodox form of the onion dome, while the main body ...

Entdeckungs-Reise der französischen Corvette Astrolabe unternommen auf Befehl König Karls X. in den Jahren 1826-1827-1828-1829.Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, [ca. 1840]. 2 parts in 1 volume (text and plates). Folio. With a lithographed title-page and 60 lithographed plates. Modern green half morocco, original boards.

DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César. · 1826

€4,950.00 ($5,455.92 | £4,129.02 | ¥871,345)

118, [1], [1 blank]First and only edition of the German translation of a richly illustrated account of the first voyage of the French corvette Astrolabe to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific from 1826 to 1829. The expedition was led by the French naval officer Jules ...

Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est, Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et aliarum gentium monarchae potentissimi, cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum rege florentissimo comparatio: utriusq[ue] regis historiam breviter complectens, quam regum & principum speculum possis appellare.(Colophon: Zürich, Johann Wolf), 1592. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a woodcut portrait of Charlemagne and Henry IV on title-page, two woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device on the last leaf. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine.

STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm. · 1553

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

79, [1] ll.First and only edition of a comparison of the Frankish King Charlemagne (742-814) and the French King Henri IV (1553-1610), written by the Swiss theologian Johann Wilhelm Stucki (1542-1607). The work resembles Plutarch's Parallel lives, comparing the two kings on di...

[Album of watercolours drawn aboard HMS Myrmidon].On board HMS Myrmidon, [1884-]1886[-1887]. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 25 cm). With 25 watercolours (including 1 double-page) and 13 pencil drawings, most of them captioned in pencil. Contemporary half-sheepskin album.

SPINKS, Walter. · 1887

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

[32] ll.Album of watercolours drawn by a crewmember of the survey ship HMS Myrmidon and showing actions during the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Mahdist War and a surveying journey around the Dutch East Indies and Australia. Most of the watercolours are waterside views of the var...

[Album with natural history drawings].[Netherlands?, ca. 1700?]. Small 4to (18 x 13 cm). Album with 22 drawings on 21 leaves, mostly in watercolour and pencil. Contemporary marbled boards.

[NATURAL HISTORY - DRAWING].

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

21 ll. of drawings + 17 blanksAlbum with 22 charming natural history drawings on 21 leaves, including an opening drawing of a putto in front of a column, apparently intended as a sort of title-page, followed by drawings of birds (5), flowering plants (14) and fruits or fruit-b...

Recht-banck, tegen de luye, korzelighe, en wispeltuyrighe vrouwen.Leiden, Willem Christiaens van der Boxe, 1641. Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut on the title-page showing several women assaulting and name-calling a writer. Decorated paper over boards (ca. 1900).

[SWETNAM, Joseph] and Willem CHRISTIAENS (translator). · 1615

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

[3], [1 blank], [14], 53, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition in Dutch of The araignment of lewde, idle, forward, and unconstant women, a popular misogynistic pamphlet originally published in English in 1615. "Attacks on women (and defences of them) had been an established pa...