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L'art de la musique enseigné et pratiqué par la nouvelle methode du bureau typographique.Paris, Sr. Auguste [for the author], [1753]. Large oblong 4to (26 x 33.5 cm). Wholly engraved, including an engraved title-page, two-page engraved dedication, a double-page folding engraved musical table ("Elémens de la musique. Plan général du bureau typographique musical") and 427 engraved text pages by Mademoiselle Vandôme. Contemporary gold-tooled dark green (goatskin) morocco, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, gold-tooled boards with the coat of arms of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1725-1785) on both sides, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges (attributed to Jean-Charles-Henri Lemonnier).
L'art de la musique enseigné et pratiqué par la nouvelle methode du bureau typographique.Paris, Sr. Auguste [for the author], [1753]. Large oblong 4to (26 x 33.5 cm). Wholly engraved, including an engraved title-page, two-page engraved dedication, a double-page folding engraved musical table ("Elémens de la musique. Plan général du bureau typographique musical") and 427 engraved text pages by Mademoiselle Vandôme. Contemporary gold-tooled dark green (goatskin) morocco, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, gold-tooled boards with the coat of arms of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1725-1785) on both sides, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges (attributed to Jean-Charles-Henri Lemonnier).
[DUMAS, Antoine-Joseph]. · 1705
€37,000.00 ($40,781.66 | £30,863.36 | ¥6,513,082)
[4], 12-427, [1 blank]; 11, [1 blank] pp.Dedication copy of the first and only edition of a beautiful, wholly engraved music guide by Antoine-Joseph Dumas (1705 - ca. 1785), the son of teacher and musician Louis Dumas (1676-1744). The present copy comes from the library of the...
[Drop title a1v:] Boeck dat men hiet dat scaecspel. [Incipit on a2r:] Hier beghint ee suuerlijc boec vanden tijtverdrijf edelre heren ende vrouwen als vande scaecspul ...(Colophon on i6v:) Gouda, Geraert Leeu, 2 October 1479. Small folio (ca. 26 x 20 cm). The text is set in Gothic type in double columns of 35 lines to a page, with large manuscript initials in red ink at the start of every chapter, rubricated throughout. Further with Geraert Leeu's printer's device and his initials below the colophon on i5v. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, gold-tooled spine with a burgundy morocco title label lettered in gold.
[Drop title a1v:] Boeck dat men hiet dat scaecspel. [Incipit on a2r:] Hier beghint ee suuerlijc boec vanden tijtverdrijf edelre heren ende vrouwen als vande scaecspul ...(Colophon on i6v:) Gouda, Geraert Leeu, 2 October 1479. Small folio (ca. 26 x 20 cm). The text is set in Gothic type in double columns of 35 lines to a page, with large manuscript initials in red ink at the start of every chapter, rubricated throughout. Further with Geraert Leeu's printer's device and his initials below the colophon on i5v. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, gold-tooled spine with a burgundy morocco title label lettered in gold.
[CESSOLIS, Jacobus de and FRANCO (translator)]. · 1479
€85,000.00 ($93,687.60 | £70,902.32 | ¥14,962,486)
[67], [1 blank] ll.Extremely rare early Dutch incunable edition of Dat scaecspel printed by Geraert Leeu in Gouda; one of the earliest editions of the Dutch translation of the celebrated classic work titled De ludo scachorum by the Italian Dominican friar Jacobus de Cessolis (...
Caramuelis apparatus philosophicus quatuor libris distinctus, in primo de omnium scientiarum quae schlastice tractari possunt quidditate, dignitate, ordine, utilitate, de artibus vanis, superstitiosis, viribus naturae & daemonis conjurationibus, hominum pactis, divinationibus per Deum, astra, ignem, aquam, manum, terram, aerem, sacra, sortes, literas &c. ...Cologne, Johann Arnold Cholinus, 1665. Folio. With a small woodcut ornament on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Further with some tables in the text. Stiff paper wrappers with (remnants of) a manuscript title label at the head of the spine.
Caramuelis apparatus philosophicus quatuor libris distinctus, in primo de omnium scientiarum quae schlastice tractari possunt quidditate, dignitate, ordine, utilitate, de artibus vanis, superstitiosis, viribus naturae & daemonis conjurationibus, hominum pactis, divinationibus per Deum, astra, ignem, aquam, manum, terram, aerem, sacra, sortes, literas &c. ...Cologne, Johann Arnold Cholinus, 1665. Folio. With a small woodcut ornament on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Further with some tables in the text. Stiff paper wrappers with (remnants of) a manuscript title label at the head of the spine.
CARAMUEL Y LOBKOWITZ, Juan. · 1606
€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)
[1], [1 blank], 144, [1], [1 blank] pp.Rare philosophical and scientific work by one of the most prolific Spanish philosophers of the 17th century, with the very rare variant title page mentioning the name of the publisher. Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (1606-1682) was a Catholic ...
Les merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales ou Nouveau traitté des pierres precieuses & perles, ...Paris, Christophe Lambin, 1669 (colophon 1668). 4to. With an engraved portrait of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans facing the dedication. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf.
Les merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales ou Nouveau traitté des pierres precieuses & perles, ...Paris, Christophe Lambin, 1669 (colophon 1668). 4to. With an engraved portrait of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans facing the dedication. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf.
BERQUEN, Robert de. · 1661
€28,000.00 ($30,861.80 | £23,356.06 | ¥4,928,819)
[8], 152 pp.Second, enlarged edition of a rare work on precious stones and pearls found in what the title calls the East and West Indies (but including the Gulf region). It is most important for the author's new information on diamonds, pearls and pearl fishing, this last with...
Een nieu constich boeck inde geometrie en de astronomiae, voor desen noyt in druck gheweest, ende is in ses stucken afghedeylt ...(Colophon:) Rees, Abraham Wijlicx, 1608. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With a half-page woodcut illustration and some decorations built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, 74 woodcuts of various sizes in text, many (near) full- and half-page, with some woodcut decorated initials (various series), a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on four supports laced through the joints.
Een nieu constich boeck inde geometrie en de astronomiae, voor desen noyt in druck gheweest, ende is in ses stucken afghedeylt ...(Colophon:) Rees, Abraham Wijlicx, 1608. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With a half-page woodcut illustration and some decorations built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, 74 woodcuts of various sizes in text, many (near) full- and half-page, with some woodcut decorated initials (various series), a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on four supports laced through the joints.
[ASTRONOMY - APIAN and others]. S.D.V.B (compiler). · 1495
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
111, [1] pp.A very rare early seventeenth-century Dutch book on astronomy, compiling the knowledge of the German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer Peter Apian (1495-1552). A great work on cosmography, astronomy, perspective and many related subjects. The book is subdi...
Cosmographia. Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen (colophon: printed by Verwithagen), 1574. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page (with a terrestrial globe and other instruments); 4 printed paper volvelles with moving parts and a woodcut sun dial with a string attached to its centre; a folding woodcut cordiform mappa mundi (block size 19×27.5 cm) with letterpress text in the margins; well over 100 further woodcut illustrations, diagrams, maps, etc., in the text. Recased in 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment.
Cosmographia. Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen (colophon: printed by Verwithagen), 1574. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page (with a terrestrial globe and other instruments); 4 printed paper volvelles with moving parts and a woodcut sun dial with a string attached to its centre; a folding woodcut cordiform mappa mundi (block size 19×27.5 cm) with letterpress text in the margins; well over 100 further woodcut illustrations, diagrams, maps, etc., in the text. Recased in 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment.
APIANUS (APIAN), Petrus and Gemma FRISIUS. · 1738
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
[2], 64, [2] ll. plus folding woodcut.A great and influential work on cosmography, perspective and many related subjects, in the original Latin, being Gemma Frisius's extensively revised and expanded version of Petrus Apianus's account of cosmography, providing readable explan...
[Collection of printed VOC orders, resolutions, instructions and other documents, assembled and published with a printed contents list.]Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere, Nicolaas Byl, Adriaan Wor and others, 1747-1790. Folio. With 2 woodcut illustrations in item 20, 1 leaf inserted in item 23 printed in red, and several items with a woodcut ship on the title page and/or one or more woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary (ca. 1790) sheepskin parchment.
[Collection of printed VOC orders, resolutions, instructions and other documents, assembled and published with a printed contents list.]Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere, Nicolaas Byl, Adriaan Wor and others, 1747-1790. Folio. With 2 woodcut illustrations in item 20, 1 leaf inserted in item 23 printed in red, and several items with a woodcut ship on the title page and/or one or more woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary (ca. 1790) sheepskin parchment.
[VOC]. · 1770
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
A collection of 23 rare printed works published by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), including orders, resolutions, instructions (including sailing instructions). lists of provisions and other official documents concerning the VOC's shipping and trade in the East Indies, Cey...
Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.Saint-Cloud & Paris, widow Belin for Roret, 1865 (changed with a printed slip to Eugène Belin/Belin frères, without date), [ca. 1865]. Large 8vo (28 x 18.5 cm). With 7 engraved plates of lemurs, spiders and butterflies by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. Original yellow printed wrappers.
Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.Saint-Cloud & Paris, widow Belin for Roret, 1865 (changed with a printed slip to Eugène Belin/Belin frères, without date), [ca. 1865]. Large 8vo (28 x 18.5 cm). With 7 engraved plates of lemurs, spiders and butterflies by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. Original yellow printed wrappers.
VINSON, Auguste. · 1820
€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)
[8], 575, 7, 4, 6, 48 pp.Second issue of the first edition of this very rare account of a journey to Madagascar by Auguste Vinson (1820-1903), physician and native of Réunion. Vinson was a member of the French delegation sent to Madagascar for the coronation of Radama II (1829...
A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowmed English nation. By the studie and travaile of Ri. V[erstegan].Antwerp, printed by Robert Bruney, sold at London by John Norton & John Bill, 1605. 4to. With the title printed in red and black, an engraved vignette of the Tower of Babel on the title page, 10 engraved illustrations in the text, and a full-page coat of arms of the author at the end. Contemporary or slightly later gold- and blind-tooled "Cambridge panel" binding in sprinkled brown calf.
A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowmed English nation. By the studie and travaile of Ri. V[erstegan].Antwerp, printed by Robert Bruney, sold at London by John Norton & John Bill, 1605. 4to. With the title printed in red and black, an engraved vignette of the Tower of Babel on the title page, 10 engraved illustrations in the text, and a full-page coat of arms of the author at the end. Contemporary or slightly later gold- and blind-tooled "Cambridge panel" binding in sprinkled brown calf.
[VERSTEGAN, Richard (pseudonym of Richard ROWLANDS)]. · 1589
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[24], 338, [13], [1 blank] pp.First edition of an erudite and engaging study of early English history, containing the first printed account in English of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", said to have been the source for Robert Browning's poem. The work was intended to correct the ...
Le pastissier[!] François. Où est enseigné la maniere de faire toute sorte de patisserie, tres-utile à toute sorte de personnes. Ensemble le moyen dáprester toutes sortes d'oeufs pour les jours maigres, & autres, en plus de soixante façons.Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier, 1655. 12mo. With an engraved title page, Elzevier’s woodcut device on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials and headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, bound by Georges Trautz (“Trautz-Bauzonnet”). The book is kept in a protective red paper slipcase, the whole kept in a custom-made beige cloth box, lined with red cloth.
Le pastissier[!] François. Où est enseigné la maniere de faire toute sorte de patisserie, tres-utile à toute sorte de personnes. Ensemble le moyen dáprester toutes sortes d'oeufs pour les jours maigres, & autres, en plus de soixante façons.Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier, 1655. 12mo. With an engraved title page, Elzevier’s woodcut device on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials and headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, bound by Georges Trautz (“Trautz-Bauzonnet”). The book is kept in a protective red paper slipcase, the whole kept in a custom-made beige cloth box, lined with red cloth.
[VARENNE, François-Pierre de la (attributed)]. · 1653
€38,500.00 ($42,434.97 | £32,114.58 | ¥6,777,126)
[12], 252 pp.Extremely rare Elzevier edition of this famous cookery book, generally recognised to be the first comprehensive French work on patisserie (pastry-making). De la Varenne’s cookery books would completely transform the French - and European - cuisine in the 17th-cent...
The scientific horned doctor, Father Peters, a great labourer; in works of darckness. Het stookhuys van Pater Peeters en de Jesuiten in Engeland, ontdekt door Eusebius en Simplicimus.[London, Paul van Somer II, ca. 1689]. Ca. 56.5 x 41.8 cm. With an engraving and a decorated woodcut initial. The work has been tipped into a green pase-partout.
The scientific horned doctor, Father Peters, a great labourer; in works of darckness. Het stookhuys van Pater Peeters en de Jesuiten in Engeland, ontdekt door Eusebius en Simplicimus.[London, Paul van Somer II, ca. 1689]. Ca. 56.5 x 41.8 cm. With an engraving and a decorated woodcut initial. The work has been tipped into a green pase-partout.
[SOMER, Paul (II) van (attributed)]. · 1631
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[1] ll.A large and highly elaborate satirical broadside directed against Edward Petre (1631-1699), the Jesuit confessor to Queen Mary of Modena (1658-1718) and close adviser to James II of England (1633-1701). Published at the height of the political and religious crisis surro...
Le parfait mareschal, qui enseigne à connoitre la beauté, la bonté, & les défauts des cheveaux. le signes & les causes des maladies: les moyens de les prévenir, leur guerison, & le bon ou mauvais usage de la purgation & de la saignée.The Hague, Henry van Bulderen, 1691. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author, an engraved frontispiece, the title page printed in red and black, one folding engraved plate in the first part, one engraved plate, and 29 woodcut illustrations in text in the second part. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt.
Le parfait mareschal, qui enseigne à connoitre la beauté, la bonté, & les défauts des cheveaux. le signes & les causes des maladies: les moyens de les prévenir, leur guerison, & le bon ou mauvais usage de la purgation & de la saignée.The Hague, Henry van Bulderen, 1691. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author, an engraved frontispiece, the title page printed in red and black, one folding engraved plate in the first part, one engraved plate, and 29 woodcut illustrations in text in the second part. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt.
SOLLEYSEL, Jacques de. · 1617
€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)
[8], 359, [7]; 250, [8] pp.Early edition of Jacques de Solleysel's (1617-1680) celebrated Le parfait mareschal, one of the most influential works on horsemanship and veterinary medicine published in 17th-century Europe. First published in 1664, it remained the standard authori...
Reisen oder Anmerkungen verschiedene Theile der Barbarey und der Levante betreffend. Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1765. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 17 folding and 15 full-page engraved plates, one signed by J.D. Philippius, geb. Sysangin, several woodcut illustrations in the text, engraved head pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf.
Reisen oder Anmerkungen verschiedene Theile der Barbarey und der Levante betreffend. Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1765. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 17 folding and 15 full-page engraved plates, one signed by J.D. Philippius, geb. Sysangin, several woodcut illustrations in the text, engraved head pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf.
SHAW, Thomas. · 1757
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[20], 424, [22] pp.First edition of the German translation of the considerably expanded second and best English edition of 1757 of a standard work on North Africa, first published by the Oxford University Press in 1738 as Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of B...
Verscheide stucken en cieraden van roermakers gereedschap nieuwelijks uitgevonden en uit de voornaamste meesters van Europa getrocken. - Plusieurs pieces et ornements d'arquebuzerie, le plus nouvellement inventées et tirees des premiers maistres d l'Europe.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1692. Oblong folio. With an engraved allegorical title page and 7 expertly engraved plates of ornamental designs on arquebuses. Modern half calf and green decorated paper sides.
Verscheide stucken en cieraden van roermakers gereedschap nieuwelijks uitgevonden en uit de voornaamste meesters van Europa getrocken. - Plusieurs pieces et ornements d'arquebuzerie, le plus nouvellement inventées et tirees des premiers maistres d l'Europe.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1692. Oblong folio. With an engraved allegorical title page and 7 expertly engraved plates of ornamental designs on arquebuses. Modern half calf and green decorated paper sides.
SCHENK, Pieter. · 1660
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[8] ll.Very rare complete and uncut copy of an expertly engraved pattern book for decorated firearms by the German engraver Petrus Schenk I (1660-1711), after the French designer of gun fittings and ornamental engraver Claude Simonin (ca. 1635-1721).During the seventeenth cent...
[Eight lithographs from La caricature journal].[Paris], Aubert, [1831-1833]. Various sizes. With 8 lithographs. Including:(1) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère. Paris, [1831].(2) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère. Paris, [1831].(3) PHILIPON, Charles. La Carcicature (journal) no. 59.[Paris], on s'abonne chez Aubert, [1831].(4) BOUQUET, Auguste. Père-scie. [Paris], Aubert, [1832]. (5) DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare. [Paris], Aubert, [1833].(6) DAUMIER, Honoré. La Cour du Roi Pétaud.[Paris], Aubert, [1832](7) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.[Paris], Aubert, [1831].(8) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.[Paris], Aubert, [1831].Ads 3-4 are tipped in a white and gold passe-partout, ads 5-6 tipped in a white passe-partout.
[Eight lithographs from La caricature journal].[Paris], Aubert, [1831-1833]. Various sizes. With 8 lithographs. Including:(1) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère. Paris, [1831].(2) PHILIPON, Charles. Misère toujours misère. Paris, [1831].(3) PHILIPON, Charles. La Carcicature (journal) no. 59.[Paris], on s'abonne chez Aubert, [1831].(4) BOUQUET, Auguste. Père-scie. [Paris], Aubert, [1832]. (5) DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare. [Paris], Aubert, [1833].(6) DAUMIER, Honoré. La Cour du Roi Pétaud.[Paris], Aubert, [1832](7) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.[Paris], Aubert, [1831].(8) WILLIAMS, B. Laboratore infernal.[Paris], Aubert, [1831].Ads 3-4 are tipped in a white and gold passe-partout, ads 5-6 tipped in a white passe-partout.
[SATIRE - FRENCH]. · 1831
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
Collection of eight early 19th-century French satirical lithographs, including two duplicates, published between 1831 and 1833 in the orbit of the influential Parisian journal La Caricature. The group brings together key figures of the French caricature tradition under the Jul...
Mission historial de Marruecos, en que se trata de los martirios, persecuciones, y trabajos, que han padecido los missionarios, y frutos que han cogido las missiones, que han cogido las missiones, que desde sus principios tuvo la Orden Seraphica en el Imperio de Marruecos, y continùa La Provincia de San Diego de Franciscos descalços de Andalucia en el mismo Imperio.Sevilla, Francisco Garay, 1708. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Joannes Carolus Allet in Rome after Pietro de Pietri (with an allegorical martyrdom scene flanked by portraits of 12 martyrs and with 2 emblems), title printed in red and black in a border built up from cast fleurons, woodcut tailpieces and initials, further decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
Mission historial de Marruecos, en que se trata de los martirios, persecuciones, y trabajos, que han padecido los missionarios, y frutos que han cogido las missiones, que han cogido las missiones, que desde sus principios tuvo la Orden Seraphica en el Imperio de Marruecos, y continùa La Provincia de San Diego de Franciscos descalços de Andalucia en el mismo Imperio.Sevilla, Francisco Garay, 1708. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Joannes Carolus Allet in Rome after Pietro de Pietri (with an allegorical martyrdom scene flanked by portraits of 12 martyrs and with 2 emblems), title printed in red and black in a border built up from cast fleurons, woodcut tailpieces and initials, further decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, Francisco de Jesús María de. · 1700
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[44], 829, [19] pp.First and only edition of a very detailed history of the Franciscan mission in Morocco, by Francisco de Jesus Maria de San Juan del Puerto (active ca. 1700-1725). It is dedicated to Luis Manuel, bishop of Palestrina, archbishop of Toledo, "Primado" of Spain,...
Reipublicae Christianae libri duo, tractantes de variis hominum statibus, gradibus, officiis, & functionibus in ecclesia Christi, & quae in singuils (sic) amplectenda, quae fugienda sint. ... accessit ejusdem auctoris tractatus de missionibus instituendis.Antwerp, Arnold à Brakel, 1668 (=1648). 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black. With:(2) ROVENIUS, Philippus. Tractatus de missionibus ad propagandam fidem et conversionem infidelium & haereticorum instituendis, in partes quinque distributus, omnibus qui animarum curam gerunt perutilis. Louvain, Henrick van Haestens, 1626. Contemporary full parchment.
Reipublicae Christianae libri duo, tractantes de variis hominum statibus, gradibus, officiis, & functionibus in ecclesia Christi, & quae in singuils (sic) amplectenda, quae fugienda sint. ... accessit ejusdem auctoris tractatus de missionibus instituendis.Antwerp, Arnold à Brakel, 1668 (=1648). 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black. With:(2) ROVENIUS, Philippus. Tractatus de missionibus ad propagandam fidem et conversionem infidelium & haereticorum instituendis, in partes quinque distributus, omnibus qui animarum curam gerunt perutilis. Louvain, Henrick van Haestens, 1626. Contemporary full parchment.
ROVENIUS, Philippus. · 1574
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
[48], 587, 62 (=52) pp.The original and apparently only edition of Philippus Rovenius' (1574-1651) principal work, preserved here as the author's presentation copy to Volkert Herkinge (1586-1662), parish priest of Zwolle and Vicar of Overijssel, Groningen, and Friesland. The p...
Symbolic Dutch paper-cutting with scenes from Genesis and 1 Kings.(Netherlands?), 1800. (18.1 x 33.4 cm).
Symbolic Dutch paper-cutting with scenes from Genesis and 1 Kings.(Netherlands?), 1800. (18.1 x 33.4 cm).
[RELIGIOUS - PAPERCUTTING]
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
Rare Dutch paper-cutting conceived as a striking vertical composition, its overall silhouette recalling the form of a pendulum or longcase clock. Executed with remarkable precision, it combines intricate ornamental cutting with carefully chosen biblical scenes, all mounted aga...
Antiquitates biblicae et ecclesiasticae, accedit ejusdem autoris tractatus de antiquis ritibus sepulchralibus Graecorum, Romanorum, Judaeorum & Christianorum ...Wittenberg, Christian Schrödter, 1688.With: (2) PFEIFFER, Johann Philipp. Libri IV, antiquitatum Graecarum gentilium sacrarum, politicarum, militarium & oeconomicarum.Königsberg; Leipzig, Heinrich Boye, 1689. With an engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait as frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum.
Antiquitates biblicae et ecclesiasticae, accedit ejusdem autoris tractatus de antiquis ritibus sepulchralibus Graecorum, Romanorum, Judaeorum & Christianorum ...Wittenberg, Christian Schrödter, 1688.With: (2) PFEIFFER, Johann Philipp. Libri IV, antiquitatum Graecarum gentilium sacrarum, politicarum, militarium & oeconomicarum.Königsberg; Leipzig, Heinrich Boye, 1689. With an engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait as frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum.
QUENSTEDT, Johann Andreas. · 1617
€875.00 ($964.43 | £729.88 | ¥154,026)
[16], “971” [=980], 183, [1], 48; [16], “773” [=771], [88], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: First edition of an extensive work on ancient Biblical and ecclesiastical rituals by the German Lutheran theologian Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (1617-1688). The work is divided into 14 chapters cover...
Pills for Paul: or, English prescriptions for Northern complaits[!]!!London, William Holland, 1801. Ca. 27.4 x 40 cm. Tipped into a passe-partout (ca. 32.5 x 50 cm).
Pills for Paul: or, English prescriptions for Northern complaits[!]!!London, William Holland, 1801. Ca. 27.4 x 40 cm. Tipped into a passe-partout (ca. 32.5 x 50 cm).
[PRINTS - POLITICS - SATIRE]. · 1758
€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)
Rare handcoloured satirical etching relating to the Napoleonic wars, celebrating the success of Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) against the Second League of Armed Neutrality, or League of the North. This alliance of several Northern European countries was founded by Emperor Paul I ...