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The date palm and its culture. ... (Reprint from Yearbook of Department of Agriculture 1900).[Washington, Government printing office, 1900]. With 9 plates with black and white photographic reproductions.With:(2) SWINGLE, Walter Tennyson. The date palm and its utilization in the southwestern states.Washington, Government printing office, 1904. With a wood engraved device of the United States department of agriculture on title-page, 21 (of 22) plates (including 2 chromolithographed maps) and 10 illustrations in text.(3) FAIRCHILD, David Grandison. Persian Gulf dates and their introduction into America.Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 4 plates with reproductions of photographs.(4) KEARNEY, Thomas Henry. Date varieties and date culture in Tunis.Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 10 plates with reproductions of photographs.4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern blue cloth, each work with its original printed paper wrappers bound in.
The date palm and its culture. ... (Reprint from Yearbook of Department of Agriculture 1900).[Washington, Government printing office, 1900]. With 9 plates with black and white photographic reproductions.With:(2) SWINGLE, Walter Tennyson. The date palm and its utilization in the southwestern states.Washington, Government printing office, 1904. With a wood engraved device of the United States department of agriculture on title-page, 21 (of 22) plates (including 2 chromolithographed maps) and 10 illustrations in text.(3) FAIRCHILD, David Grandison. Persian Gulf dates and their introduction into America.Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 4 plates with reproductions of photographs.(4) KEARNEY, Thomas Henry. Date varieties and date culture in Tunis.Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 10 plates with reproductions of photographs.4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern blue cloth, each work with its original printed paper wrappers bound in.
SWINGLE, Walter Tennyson. · 1871
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
I-V, [1 blank], 453-490; 155, [1 blank]; 32; 112 pp.Ad 1: Offprint of an article on the date palm in America by the American botanist Walter Tennyson Swingle (1871-1952). He describes the characteristics of the date palm, its history in America, its cultivation, commenting on ...
Numismatique des Arabes avant l'islamisme.Paris, C. Rollin and Druand; London, J. Curt (colophon and back of half-title: printed by Pommeret and Moreau, Paris), 1859. 4to. With 4 numbered engraved plates and 1 lithographed "bis" plate. Publisher's letterpress printed paper wrappers.
Numismatique des Arabes avant l'islamisme.Paris, C. Rollin and Druand; London, J. Curt (colophon and back of half-title: printed by Pommeret and Moreau, Paris), 1859. 4to. With 4 numbered engraved plates and 1 lithographed "bis" plate. Publisher's letterpress printed paper wrappers.
LANGLOIS, Victor. · 1829
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
XII, 158 pp.First edition of a monograph on the pre-Islamic coinage of the Arabs by the French historian, orientalist and numismatist Victor Langlois (1829-1869). The book is divided into five chapters, treating the coins of Nabataea, Characene, Palmyra, Edessa and Hatra, and ...
A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect. ... Second edition.Shanghai, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1864. 4to. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin).
A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect. ... Second edition.Shanghai, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1864. 4to. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin).
EDKINS, Joseph. · 1857
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[2 blank], [2], VIII, 297, [1] blank pp.Second edition of a handbook that was essential for English speaking persons who wished to obtain competence in Mandarin Chinese with the required knowledge of vocabulary and functional grammar and an awareness of the main types of verba...
Memorabilium, utiliu[m], ac jucundorum centuriae novem, in aphorismos arcanorum omnis generis locupletes, perpulchrè digestae. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1566. 8vo. With Morel's woodcut tree device on the title page, 2 woodcut headpieces and 7 woodcut decorated initials (plus 3 repeats), the headpieces and initials in an unusually delicate design, finely executed. Set in italic types with the preliminaries in roman, and incidental Greek. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment.
Memorabilium, utiliu[m], ac jucundorum centuriae novem, in aphorismos arcanorum omnis generis locupletes, perpulchrè digestae. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1566. 8vo. With Morel's woodcut tree device on the title page, 2 woodcut headpieces and 7 woodcut decorated initials (plus 3 repeats), the headpieces and initials in an unusually delicate design, finely executed. Set in italic types with the preliminaries in roman, and incidental Greek. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment.
MIZAULD, Antoine. · 1510
€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)
[16], 136 pp.First edition, in the original Latin, of what proved an extremely popular work: 900 medical and other "secrets", including information on astrology, gardening, cosmetics and other subjects, arranged in nine numbered chapters, each containing 100 numbered prose "ap...
Handleiding voor jonge kunstenaars, in het teekenen van landschappen naar de natuur; de behandeling van papier, waterverwen, oostindische inkt, biestre- en neutrale kleur; benevens onderigting in het aanleggen der luchten, verschieten en voorgronden; het kleuren en opwerken; mitsgaders het kleuren van gravures. Naar de beroemdste Zwitzersche en Engelsche kunstenaars, en uit eigene ondervinding.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1827. 8vo. With folding engraved frontispiece and 6 plates (2 engraved plates and 4 aquatints, incl. 1 coloured by hand). Contemporary boards.
Handleiding voor jonge kunstenaars, in het teekenen van landschappen naar de natuur; de behandeling van papier, waterverwen, oostindische inkt, biestre- en neutrale kleur; benevens onderigting in het aanleggen der luchten, verschieten en voorgronden; het kleuren en opwerken; mitsgaders het kleuren van gravures. Naar de beroemdste Zwitzersche en Engelsche kunstenaars, en uit eigene ondervinding.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1827. 8vo. With folding engraved frontispiece and 6 plates (2 engraved plates and 4 aquatints, incl. 1 coloured by hand). Contemporary boards.
MAASKAMP, Evert. · 1769
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
VIII, 71, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a guide for young artists detailing the craft of drawing landscapes, including the rendition of shadows, use of water colour and hand-colouring of engraved prints. The author Evert Maaskamp (1769-1834), at the time a well-known Dutch eng...
Leerstelsel der algemeene en artsenijmengkundige proefondervindelijke scheikunde.Including: [GRAHAM, Thomas?]. De bewerktuigde lighamen: scheikundige beschouwing aangaande de voornaamste bestaandeelen der planten benevens de meest belangrijkste[!] producten welke men door derzelver ontleding bekoomt.[Amsterdam?], 19 October 1830. 4to. Manuscript in Dutch, written in black ink in a Latin hand on laid paper. Near contemporary half tanned sheepskin.
Leerstelsel der algemeene en artsenijmengkundige proefondervindelijke scheikunde.Including: [GRAHAM, Thomas?]. De bewerktuigde lighamen: scheikundige beschouwing aangaande de voornaamste bestaandeelen der planten benevens de meest belangrijkste[!] producten welke men door derzelver ontleding bekoomt.[Amsterdam?], 19 October 1830. 4to. Manuscript in Dutch, written in black ink in a Latin hand on laid paper. Near contemporary half tanned sheepskin.
[TROMMSDORFF, Johann Bartholomäus?]. · 1827
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[1], [1 blank], 111, [112-329], [1 blank]; [2 blank], [68]; [2 blank], [41], [5 blank] pp.A complete manuscript course in "general and pharmacological experimental chemistry", probably intended for pharmacologists, the main text comprising 329 pages with a 68-page additional w...
Pharmacia Antverpiensis galeno-chymica.Antwerp, Joris Willemsens I, 1660. 4to. With an integral engraved architectural title-page by Petrus van Caukercken after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, letterpress title-page with a woodcut decoration, a divisional title for part 2, woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic, with incidental Greek, textura and pharmacological signs. 18th-century vellum, faded manuscript title on spine.
Pharmacia Antverpiensis galeno-chymica.Antwerp, Joris Willemsens I, 1660. 4to. With an integral engraved architectural title-page by Petrus van Caukercken after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, letterpress title-page with a woodcut decoration, a divisional title for part 2, woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic, with incidental Greek, textura and pharmacological signs. 18th-century vellum, faded manuscript title on spine.
[ANTWERP - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [BOUDEWIJNS, Michiel, and others]. · 1568
€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)
[1], [1 blank], [46], “285” [= 281], [32], [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition, in Latin, of the first and only official pharmacopoeia for Antwerp, containing hundreds of medicinal recipes and throwing a great deal of light on 17th-century medical practice in the Low Coun...
Codex medicamentarius amplissimi senatus Montensis auctoritate munitus.Mons, Henri Bottin, 1755. 4to. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
Codex medicamentarius amplissimi senatus Montensis auctoritate munitus.Mons, Henri Bottin, 1755. 4to. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
[MONS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. · 1755
€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)
[1], [1 blank], [10], 215, [44], [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of the Mons pharmacopoeia. Although the Vienna pharmacopoeia had been officially designated as the standard for the Austrian Netherlands, the city of Mons published its own pharmacopoeia in 1755, making ...
Brusselsche apotheek, door het gezag van de magistraat bevestigd, en naar de tweede Latynsche druk in het Nederduitsch vertaalt.Amsterdam, Johannes van Seggeren, 1775. 8vo. With an engraved title page showing an apothecary shop, the preparation of medicines and a botanical garden, and 2 folding engravings identifying alchemical symbols and measurements. Contemporary wrappers, rebacked.
Brusselsche apotheek, door het gezag van de magistraat bevestigd, en naar de tweede Latynsche druk in het Nederduitsch vertaalt.Amsterdam, Johannes van Seggeren, 1775. 8vo. With an engraved title page showing an apothecary shop, the preparation of medicines and a botanical garden, and 2 folding engravings identifying alchemical symbols and measurements. Contemporary wrappers, rebacked.
[BRUSSELS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. · 1742
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [16], 277, [15] pp.Rare second edition of the Dutch translation of the Brussels pharmacopoeia. Like the first Dutch edition of 1742, the translation was based on the second Latin edition originally published in 1671. Interestingly, when this edi...
[Medicinal recipes for sexual ailments].[Germany?, ca. 1857]. Small 8vo (17 x 11 cm). Manuscript in Latin and German. Contemporary half tan cloth.
[Medicinal recipes for sexual ailments].[Germany?, ca. 1857]. Small 8vo (17 x 11 cm). Manuscript in Latin and German. Contemporary half tan cloth.
[MANUSCRIPT - PHARMACOLOGY]. · 1857
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
33, [35], [32 blank] pp.A mid-19th-century pharmacological manuscript, with recipes to treat many sexual ailments, with what appears to be a presentation inscription between the two parts to "Mademoiselle Josephine Castella sorti de l'asil le 16 Septembre 1857", so she appears...
Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt BrusselBrussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721. With:(2) [BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. [Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel].Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.(3) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried. Programma quo Christ. Ehrenfr. Weigel... fratris dilectissimi Caroli Henrici Bernhardi Weigel... dissertationem inauguralem... publice defendam indicit praemittens historiae baryllorium rudimenta.Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785.(4) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried and Karl Heinrich Bernhard WEIGEL. Dissertatio inauguralis sistens experimenta chemica et instrumenta chirurgica emendata.Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Ad 3 with a folding letterpress dedication page and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. Ad 4 with a folding engraved plate showing surgical instruments and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. 19th-century boards, red title label on spine.
Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt BrusselBrussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721. With:(2) [BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. [Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel].Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.(3) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried. Programma quo Christ. Ehrenfr. Weigel... fratris dilectissimi Caroli Henrici Bernhardi Weigel... dissertationem inauguralem... publice defendam indicit praemittens historiae baryllorium rudimenta.Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785.(4) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried and Karl Heinrich Bernhard WEIGEL. Dissertatio inauguralis sistens experimenta chemica et instrumenta chirurgica emendata.Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Ad 3 with a folding letterpress dedication page and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. Ad 4 with a folding engraved plate showing surgical instruments and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. 19th-century boards, red title label on spine.
[BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. · 1650
€1,850.00 ($2,039.08 | £1,543.17 | ¥325,654)
[1], [1 blank], [6], 76, [4]; 76, [4]; 28; [1], [1 blank], [4], 50 pp.Ad 1-2: Third edition, in Dutch, of the statutes of the Medical College of the city of Brussels, first published in 1650, bound with a second copy lacking the preliminaries.Ad 3: Short lecture on beryllium b...
'T hooghe heymraedtschap vanden lande van Woerden.[Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth], 1740. Wall map of the water district Woerden (South Holland) in 9 large loose untrimmed sheets (each 48 x 67 cm), with the title in a banderole across the head of three sheets, information about the 14th-century charters in a cartouche, a list of city and town officials in 1739 on a plinth, a compass rose, and a scale of Rijnland rods.
'T hooghe heymraedtschap vanden lande van Woerden.[Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth], 1740. Wall map of the water district Woerden (South Holland) in 9 large loose untrimmed sheets (each 48 x 67 cm), with the title in a banderole across the head of three sheets, information about the 14th-century charters in a cartouche, a list of city and town officials in 1739 on a plinth, a compass rose, and a scale of Rijnland rods.
[MAP]. [VINGBOONS, Johannes, Justus and David]. · 1670
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
A large wall map of the water district Woerden in the province of South Holland (on the border of the province of Utrecht), including the cities of Woerden, Oudewater and Montfoort, as well as many smaller towns (including Bodegraven) and the surrounding polders. Altogether it...
Examen du livre des recreations mathematiques et de ses problemes en geometrie, mechanique, optique, & catoptrique. Où sont aussi discutées, & restablies plusieurs experiences physique y proposées.Including:- La seconde partie des recreations mathematiques. Composee de plusieurs problèmes plaisans & facetieux en faict d'arithmetique, géometrie, astrologie, optique, perspective, mechanique, & chymie, & autres rares secrets non encre veus, ny mis en lumiere.- La troisieme partie des recreations mathematiques. Composée de faire toutes sortes de fuzées, tant simples que doubles, avec leur composition, le tout representé par figures.Rouen, Charles Osmont, 1643. 8vo. With numerous woodcut illustrations illustrating the problems. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine.
Examen du livre des recreations mathematiques et de ses problemes en geometrie, mechanique, optique, & catoptrique. Où sont aussi discutées, & restablies plusieurs experiences physique y proposées.Including:- La seconde partie des recreations mathematiques. Composee de plusieurs problèmes plaisans & facetieux en faict d'arithmetique, géometrie, astrologie, optique, perspective, mechanique, & chymie, & autres rares secrets non encre veus, ny mis en lumiere.- La troisieme partie des recreations mathematiques. Composée de faire toutes sortes de fuzées, tant simples que doubles, avec leur composition, le tout representé par figures.Rouen, Charles Osmont, 1643. 8vo. With numerous woodcut illustrations illustrating the problems. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine.
MYDORGE, Claude. · 1585
€1,400.00 ($1,543.09 | £1,167.80 | ¥246,441)
[1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank], [7], [1 blank], 280, 63, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [2], 67-106, [43], [1 blank] pp.Very rare fourth edition of the commentary of Claude Mydorge (1585-1647) on the Récreations mathématiques by "H. van Etten" (Jean Leurechon). Mydorge corrected t...
Life in England and Military Snap Shots in Iraq and Turkey, 1912-1920.4to. Approximately 120 mounted (usually 2-4 to a page) snap shots ranging in size from 60 x 40 mm to 120 x 100 mm. Brief captions in black ink under almost all the photos. 1/4 leather album.
Life in England and Military Snap Shots in Iraq and Turkey, 1912-1920.4to. Approximately 120 mounted (usually 2-4 to a page) snap shots ranging in size from 60 x 40 mm to 120 x 100 mm. Brief captions in black ink under almost all the photos. 1/4 leather album.
[IRAQ -ENGLAND - PHOTOGRAPHY].
€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)
The first half of the photos show middle class life in Edwardian England. The second, and more interesting half of the photos are snap shots that appear to have been taken by a British officer and include military subjects, scenes of Baghdad and the Euphrates, and views of the...
[Collection of treaty articles relating to commercial transactions of subjects of the Austrian state in the Ottoman Empire]. Avusturya devleti tebaasinin Memalik-i Osmaniyede ticaretlerine ait mevadd-i ahdiyye mecmuasidir.Vienna, Dar tiba’ al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1846. With: Raccolta dei trattati e delle principali convenzioni concernanti il commercio e la navigazione dei sudditi Austriaci negli Stati della Porta Ottomana. Vienna, Dar tiba’ al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1844. Large 8vo. Printed in black with red headings, within printed gilt rules. Illuminated head-piece and ‘unwan printed in three colours and gilt, in imitation of manuscript illumination. Gilt tail-piece. Contemporary green morocco binding with fore-edge flap, covers giltstamped with an oriental design. All edges gilt.
[Collection of treaty articles relating to commercial transactions of subjects of the Austrian state in the Ottoman Empire]. Avusturya devleti tebaasinin Memalik-i Osmaniyede ticaretlerine ait mevadd-i ahdiyye mecmuasidir.Vienna, Dar tiba’ al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1846. With: Raccolta dei trattati e delle principali convenzioni concernanti il commercio e la navigazione dei sudditi Austriaci negli Stati della Porta Ottomana. Vienna, Dar tiba’ al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1844. Large 8vo. Printed in black with red headings, within printed gilt rules. Illuminated head-piece and ‘unwan printed in three colours and gilt, in imitation of manuscript illumination. Gilt tail-piece. Contemporary green morocco binding with fore-edge flap, covers giltstamped with an oriental design. All edges gilt.
[OTTOMAN EMPIRE - TREATY ARTICLES]. · 1699
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
88; [4], VIII, 224 pp.The full text of 19 trade treaties, in Ottoman Turkish throughout, closed between the Austrian and the Ottoman Empire between 1110/1699 (Peace of Karlovac) and 1259/1844. Bound in the same volume is the 1844 Italianlanguage edition, containing the texts o...
Deliniantur in hac tabula, orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani: al Maris Rubri-Arabiae ...38.5 x 53.5 cm as assembled. Engraved map of Arabia, India and surroundings in 2 sheets, engraved for J. Huygen van Linschoten, Itinerario, 1596. Matted.
Deliniantur in hac tabula, orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani: al Maris Rubri-Arabiae ...38.5 x 53.5 cm as assembled. Engraved map of Arabia, India and surroundings in 2 sheets, engraved for J. Huygen van Linschoten, Itinerario, 1596. Matted.
LANGREN, H. F. van. · 1596
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
Famous map and nautical chart of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, covering the regions from Cyprus and the Nile valley in the west to northern Sumatra and the Ganges valley in the east, including the entire Red Sea, the Gulf and part of the Caspian Sea, as well as the ho...
[Collection of treaty articles relating to commercial transactions of subjects of the Austrian state in the Ottoman Empire]. Avusturya devleti tebaasinin Memalik-i Osmaniyede ticaretlerine ait mevadd-i ahdiyye mecmuasidir.Vienna, Dar tiba’ al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1846. Large 8vo. Printed in black with red headings, within printed gilt rules. Illuminated head-piece and ‘unwan printed in three colours and gilt, in imitation of manuscript illumination. Gilt tail-piece. Contemporary green morocco with a fore-edge flap, gold-stamped boards with an oriental design, gilt edges.
[Collection of treaty articles relating to commercial transactions of subjects of the Austrian state in the Ottoman Empire]. Avusturya devleti tebaasinin Memalik-i Osmaniyede ticaretlerine ait mevadd-i ahdiyye mecmuasidir.Vienna, Dar tiba’ al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1846. Large 8vo. Printed in black with red headings, within printed gilt rules. Illuminated head-piece and ‘unwan printed in three colours and gilt, in imitation of manuscript illumination. Gilt tail-piece. Contemporary green morocco with a fore-edge flap, gold-stamped boards with an oriental design, gilt edges.
[OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. · 1699
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
88 pp.The full text of 19 trade treaties, in Ottoman Turkish throughout, closed between the Roman/Austrian and the Ottoman Empire between 1110/1699 (Peace of Karlovac) and 1259/1844. An Italian-language edition had appeared in 1844 ("Raccolta dei Trattati e delle principali co...
[Annali Musulmani].[Tuscany?, ca. 1825]. 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). Manuscript in Italian, written in dark brown ink on (mostly) laid paper. Contemporary or near contemporary half maroon cloth.
[Annali Musulmani].[Tuscany?, ca. 1825]. 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). Manuscript in Italian, written in dark brown ink on (mostly) laid paper. Contemporary or near contemporary half maroon cloth.
[RAMPOLDI, Giovanni Battista]. · 1453
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
[531], [1 blank] pp.An Italian manuscript chronicle of the Islamic states from 635 to 1453 (from soon after the death of Mohammed to the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire), largely excerpted from Rampoldi's twelve-volume Annali Musulmani. After a brief introduct...
Reis naar den Stillen Oceaan, ... tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het noorder halfrond, ter uitvoering gebragt onder 't bestuur van de bevelhebbers Cook, Clerke en Gore in de jaaren 1776, 1777, 1779 en 1780. Met de schepen de Resolution en Discovery, ...Rotterdam, Abraham Bothall and Dirk Vis II, 1788. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Reis naar den Stillen Oceaan, ... tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het noorder halfrond, ter uitvoering gebragt onder 't bestuur van de bevelhebbers Cook, Clerke en Gore in de jaaren 1776, 1777, 1779 en 1780. Met de schepen de Resolution en Discovery, ...Rotterdam, Abraham Bothall and Dirk Vis II, 1788. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
COOK, James and James KING. · 1788
€1,650.00 ($1,818.64 | £1,376.34 | ¥290,448)
XVI, 611, [1 blank]First edition, with the imprint changed to 1788 by pen, of the Dutch translation of Cook's account of his third and last voyage, with an engraved frontispiece depicting Cook's death by the native inhabitants of "Owyhee" (Hawaii). Cook (1728-1779) volunteered...
Octroy, by de hoog mog. heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden verleend aan de Oostindische Compagnie. In dato den 20 maart 1602. mitsgaders reglement, limitatie, ampliatie en continuatien van het voorschreeve octroy, tot den jaare 1700 incluys. … En nog prolongatie en publicatie voor den tyd van twintig jaaren, en sulks tot den jaare 1774 incluys.The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1748[-1755?]. 4to. Later half vellum.
Octroy, by de hoog mog. heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden verleend aan de Oostindische Compagnie. In dato den 20 maart 1602. mitsgaders reglement, limitatie, ampliatie en continuatien van het voorschreeve octroy, tot den jaare 1700 incluys. … En nog prolongatie en publicatie voor den tyd van twintig jaaren, en sulks tot den jaare 1774 incluys.The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1748[-1755?]. 4to. Later half vellum.
[VOC - CHARTER]. · 1602
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
51, [1 blank] pp.Rare eighth extension of the charter (octroy) granting the VOC (Dutch East India Company) a monopoly on trade, warfare, government etc., in the East Indies. It includes the first charter, granted in 1602, and the several extensions of the charter up to 1774. T...