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Scylla en Charybdis; behelzende een project, ter verbetering der zeegaten en het vaarwater van Texel, en aanwinning van eenige duizend morgen land.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, Laurens Brandligt, 1780. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, and 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold.

BRANDLIGT, Laurens. · 1730

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

XIII, [1], 194 pp.First and only edition of a work on navigation around the Dutch island Texel, and improving the harbour of Den Helder, written by the sea merchant Laurens Brandligt (ca. 1730-ca.1800). Due to alluviation the stream velocity in the waters around Texel had decr...

Dissertatio de plantis, in Svecorum memoriam, nominatis.Lund, Berling, 1792. 4to. Disbound.

LIDBECK, Anders and Eric Gustav WALDENSTRÖM.

€385.00 ($424.34 | £321.19 | ¥67,762)

15, [1] pp.Rare dissertation on the Swedish origins of the names of various plants. With Lidbeck as praeses. Very good copy.l Krok, Lidbeck 2; Pritzel 5292; WorldCat (4 copies); not in Cat. Linnean Soc.

Dissertatio botanica, sistens caricographiam scanensem.Lund, Berling, 1806 [handwritten correction: 1807]. 4to. Bound as sewn.

RABBÉN, Johan and Carl Adolph AGARDH.

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

22 pp.Botanical dissertation on plants from the genus Carex, commonly known as sedges. By Johan Rabbén and with Agardh as praeses. In good condition.l Krok, Agardh, 1; Pritzel 34; Stafleu & Cowan 35.

Specimen academicum genera araneidum Sveciæ exhibens.Lund, Berling, 1823. 4to. Disbound.

SUNDEVALL, Carl Jacob and Carl Fredric FALLÉN. · 2048

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

22 pp.Well known classification of Swedish spiders. Dissertation of Sundevall, with Fallén as praeses.In good condition.l BMC NH, p. 2048.

Novitiarum florae Sueciae mantissa altera.Uppsala, 1839. 4 parts. 8vo. Unbound.

FRIES, Elias Magnus. · 1832

€380.00 ($418.83 | £317.02 | ¥66,882)

[2], 64 pp.Rare reissue of the four dissertations, of Otto Pontén, Carolus Fred. Wall, Johannes Fredr. Widgren and Gustavus Wilh. Sjöberg, that make up the "Mantissa Altera", but with four new separate title-pages. Originally part of the 13 parts of "Novitiarum Florae Sueciae ...

Alessandria.Bologna, Longhi, [1670s]. 106.5 x 58 cm. Cloth-backed engraved view on 2 sheets joined, letterpress text pasted below (4 columns in Italian: "Descrizione della Città di Alessandria d'Egitto") with publisher's imprint. Matted.

LONGHI, Gioseffo. · 1517

€20,000.00 ($22,043.64 | £16,685.32 | ¥3,520,084)

Unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and without counterpart in western libraries: a unique, large-scale view of Alexandria as seen from the north. Formerly the most powerful city of the ancient world after Rome, Alexandria came under Ottoman rule in 1517 and subsequently...

Conquista de las islas Malucas.[Madrid, Alonso Martin, 1609]. Small folio (22 x 30 cm). With an engraved architectural title-page showing an allegorical scene (the Moluccas represented by a native woman with feather headdress, cornucopia and sword, riding a crocodile, with the Spanish royal coat of arms in the sky) and a sleeping lion (representing the author?) in a separate cartouche below. Early 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, each board with a large centrepiece a petit fers made partly with pointillé stamps.

ARGENSOLA, Bartolome Leonardo de. · 1580

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

(Integral?) engraved title-page + [10], “407” [= 411], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the author's principal work, in the original Spanish, dedicated to King Philip III of Spain, whose father had untied the Portuguese and Spanish crowns in 1580. It centres on the Philippines an...

Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and described.London, James S. Virtue, [1858-1859]. 2 volumes. Folio (44.5 x 32.5 cm). With 76 photographs on plates by Francis Frith (ca. 14.5-16.5 x 21.5-23 cm), each with a separate leaf of text. Contemporary red morocco, gold-tooled spines and boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

FRITH, Francis. · 1856

€40,000.00 ($44,087.28 | £33,370.64 | ¥7,040,169)

First edition of an important early photobook on the Near East by one of the greatest pioneers of early photography. From 1856 to 1859, Frith (1822-1898) made three visits to Egypt and the Holy Land. He published this selection of his photographs, from wet-collodion 9 x 7 inch...

Geographisches Kleinod, aus zweyen sehr ungemeinen Edelgesteinen bestehend; darunter der Erster eine Historie der New-gefundenen Völcker Sevarambes genannt, ... Der Ander aber vorstellet die seltzamen begebenheiten herren T.S. eines englischen Kauff-Herrens...[Sultzbach], printed by Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1689. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, 16 engraved plates and some woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.

[VAIRASSE D'ALLAIS, Denis and Thomas SMITH]. · 1635

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

[2], 362 [=360]; 100 pp.First edition of the German translation of the utopian novel Histoire des Sevarambes (History of the Sevarambians) by the French writer Denis Vairasse (ca. 1635-1700). It describes an imaginary journey to Australia and gives the history of the people li...

Echte berichten van den akkerbouw der oostersche volkeren, ter opheldering van veele schriftuurplaatsen, ... uit de oostersche reisbeschryvingen vezamelt.Leiden, Johannes le Mair, 1762. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.

PAULSEN, Hermann Christian. · 1718

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[66], 287, [15], [2 blank] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a work on agriculture in the Middle East, written by the German preacher Hermann Christian Paulsen (1718-1780). It covers the fertility of the soil, harvest season, plowing, sowing, etc. The plates show a ...

Gezigten in de omstreken van Utrecht, opgedragen aan H.M. de Koningin der Nederlanden. Naar de natuur geteekend en op steen gebragt door P.J. Lutgers met geschiedkundige aanteekeningen van W.J. Hofdijk.[The Hague, J.D. Steuerwald], 1869. Folio. With a lithographed title-page (with a separately tinted lithographed view) and 87 tinted lithographed plates (ca. 16.5 x 22.5 cm), designed and lithographed by P.J. Lutgers. Near contemporary half sheepskin by J.A. Loebèr, Leiden

LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus. · 1808

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[8], XVIII pp. + 87 plates.Enlarged second edition of the most detailed and extensive set of views of stately houses and their gardens, other buildings and landscapes, all in the vicinity of Utrecht, with 88 tinted lithographs (including the title-page). Most of the views show...

L'oraison dominicale d'un habitant d'Unterwalde; suite de sept scènes de la Révolution helvétique.Basel, the author and Schoell et Cie, 1803. 4to (29.5 x 22 cm). With 8 brush etchings or aquatints, including the title page, mounted on green paper with letterpress captions, interleaved with tissue guards. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, black sheepskin spine-label, gilt edges.

USTERI, Martin (artist) and Marquard WOCHER (engraver). · 1798

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

Rare edition with the French captions, of a print series "plunged in noble bile" (Füssli) on the misery of a peasant in the Helvetic Republic (1798-1803). This so-called Bauernvaterunser, a type of parody in which the miseries of peasants during war are placed opposite the Lor...

Verhael van den wonderlijken oproer, voorgevallen in de provincie van Mallanbruino, gelegen een graed bezuiden het eyland Pines: ende hoe de zelve is gestilt. t'Samenspraek tusschen drie persoonen te wacht zijnde, Arent, Gijsbert, Dirck.[Holland?], 1672. 4to. Later blue/grey paper wrappers.

[IMAGINARY VOYAGE]. · 1672

€6,850.00 ($7,549.95 | £5,714.72 | ¥1,205,629)

8 pp.First and only edition of a 1672 political pamphlet in the form of a spin-off from Henry Neville's very popular 1668 story of a voyage to the imaginary utopian/dystopian Isle of Pines. The present story is written as a conversation between three militia men on watch discu...

Theatrum sympateticum, ofte wonder toneel der natuurs verborgentheden. ... Benevens twee waardige vervolgen, van veele zeldsame antipathien en sympathien. Als mede, hoe dat de dieren, planten, metalen, &c. zonder zaad of voortteelinge konnen voort komen, ... Vierde druk.Amsterdam, Nicolaas ten Hoorn, 1727. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken. Contemporary vellum.

DIGBY, Kenelm, Nicolaus PAPINIUS and Athanasius KIRCHER. · 1603

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

[12], 528, [24] pp.Rare fourth edition of the Dutch translation of a popular work on medicinal herbs, plants, minerals etc. with recipes. It starts with the Theatrum sympateticum, divided into two parts, by the English diplomat and philosopher Kenelm Digby (1603-1665). The fir...

Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory: compiled … for the use of the military hospital abroad... The sixth edition.London, J. Whiston, B. White and R. Baldwin, 1761. 12mo (16.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary calf, with gold fillets.

THEOBALD, John (editor) [and John PRINGLE (compiler)]. · 1740

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

[4], VII, [1 blank], 215, [1 blank] pp.Sixth edition of a dispensatory originally written for use at the British military hospital in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). It was compiled by John Pringle (1707-1782), physician-general of the military ...

[Autograph letter concerning the guard of his woods].Riom, 9 July 1803. 4to (21 x 33.5 cm). 2 pp. text, 1 blank and the final page with the recipient's address. Formerly folded three times for posting and with traces of a seal.

CHAPSAL, Jean-Antoine. · 1753

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Autograph letter by the French lieutenant Jean-Antoine Chapsal (1753-1834), addressed to Urion Laguesse, "sous-inspecteur des forets nationales", concerning the appointment of a forester to oversee his woods. He tells Laguesse that, since a forest ranger is required by law, he...

Bibliotheca Belgica, bibliographie générale des Pays-Bas.Bruxelles, 1964-1975. 7 volumes (including index vol.). Large 4to (28 x 21 cm). With numerous black and white illustrations. Uniform red cloth.

HAEGHEN, Ferdinand van der and Marie-Thérèse LENGER (editor). · 1600

€875.00 ($964.41 | £729.98 | ¥154,004)

Complete set of the revised edition of the Bibliotheca Belgica: a comprehensive bibliography of books printed in, or relating to, Belgium. It includes all books printed in Belgium up to 1600, and major publications up to 1800, classified in alphabetical order. The Belgian libr...

Jerusalem.[Palestine, 1880s]. Oblong album (44.5 x 31.5 cm) With 71 large photographic albumen prints, mostly ca. 22 x 28 cm, signed and captioned in the negative (in French and English), mounted on both sides of the album's leaves. Includes a three-part folding panorama of Jerusalem from Mount Olivet, measuring 82 x 21 cm. Original auburn morocco with gold-stamped front board, gilt edges.

[BONFILS, Félix]. · 1831

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

A rare and unusually massive Palestine souvenir album containing 71 photographs by the renowned studio of Félix Bonfils (1831-85), the French-born photographer who had come to the Levant with General d'Hautpoul in 1860 and remained active in the East. Based in Beirut, Bonfils ...

Histoire des Wahabis, depuis leur origine jusqu'a la fin de 1809.Paris, Crapelet, 1810. 8vo. Remains of original grey temporary wrappers. Stored in gilt modern quarter morocco box.

[CORANCEZ, Louis Alexandre Olivier de]. · 2005

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[4], VIII, 222, [2] pp.First edition of this fundamental study of Wahhabism, not translated into Arabic until 2005 ("Tarih al-wahhabiyin mundu naš'atihim hatta 'am 1809 m.", published in Riyadh by Darat al-Malik 'Abd-al-'Aziz). Corancez had lived in Aleppo for eight years as F...

Afbeeldingen van de kleedingen, zeden en gewoonten in Holland, met den aanvang der negentiende eeuw. ... Tableaux des habillements, des moeurs et des coutumes en Hollande, au commencement du dix-neuvième siècle. ...Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [1811?]. Imperial 4to (30 x 25.5 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece dated 1805, and 20 numbered engraved plates of Dutch costumes, all dated 1811, frontispiece and plates coloured for the publisher by the painter Jan Willem Pieneman. Contemporary boards, orange paper sides edged with a gold-tooled roll. Rebacked in red morocco (ca. 1900?).

MAASKAMP, Evert. · 1769

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[28] ll. (15 printed on both sides) plus 21 plates.Second edition in the original Dutch and French, printed from the plates of the first edition, of the famous first Dutch costume book to cover the different costumes of the various provinces, edited by the well-known publisher...