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L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portaicts retirez du naturel: escrite en sept livres.Paris, Guillaume Cavellat (colophon: printed by Benoit Prévost), 1555. 7 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut portrait on the back of the title page (apparently of the dedicatee King Henri II, though copied in other books as a portrait of the author), large woodcuts of the skeletons of a man and a bird on pp. 40-41, plus 158 woodcuts (157 birds, 1 bat) in the text. Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf (rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down).
L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portaicts retirez du naturel: escrite en sept livres.Paris, Guillaume Cavellat (colophon: printed by Benoit Prévost), 1555. 7 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut portrait on the back of the title page (apparently of the dedicatee King Henri II, though copied in other books as a portrait of the author), large woodcuts of the skeletons of a man and a bird on pp. 40-41, plus 158 woodcuts (157 birds, 1 bat) in the text. Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf (rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down).
BELON, Pierre. · 1803
€29,500.00 ($32,515.11 | £24,607.28 | ¥5,192,863)
[28], 381, [1], [2 blank] pp.First and only early edition of an extremely important ornithological work in which Belon attempted to match birds named by Aristotle and Pliny with those then current in France. It is one of the first ornithological compendiums to be based, at lea...
Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni Musei Borgiani ... illustratus. Praemissa ejusdem De Arabum astronomia dissertatione et adjectis duabus epistolis Cl. Josephi Toaldi.Padua, Seminary printing office, 1790. Small folio (21.5 x 29.5 cm). With 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.
Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni Musei Borgiani ... illustratus. Praemissa ejusdem De Arabum astronomia dissertatione et adjectis duabus epistolis Cl. Josephi Toaldi.Padua, Seminary printing office, 1790. Small folio (21.5 x 29.5 cm). With 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.
ASSEMANI, Simone. · 1684
€28,000.00 ($30,861.80 | £23,356.06 | ¥4,928,819)
[16], CCXIX, [9] pp.First and only edition of a rare study describing and illustrating (with all elements needed to construction a 3D facsimile) one of the most splendid Islamic globes ever made, a celestial globe with Cufic lettering in the Borgia Museum at Velletri (now at t...
Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschrieben, in dem Jare 1763.Zurich and Winterthur, Johann Casper Fussli the younger, 1776. 4to. With engraved map of Switzerland on the title-page, 10 engravings in the text, and 18 engraved plates (including 3 folding), partly signed by Joh. Rod. Schellenberg, the first being a large folding plate by J. R. Holzhalb after J. C. Vogler of the wooden roofed bridge of Schaffhausen. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges.
Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschrieben, in dem Jare 1763.Zurich and Winterthur, Johann Casper Fussli the younger, 1776. 4to. With engraved map of Switzerland on the title-page, 10 engravings in the text, and 18 engraved plates (including 3 folding), partly signed by Joh. Rod. Schellenberg, the first being a large folding plate by J. R. Holzhalb after J. C. Vogler of the wooden roofed bridge of Schaffhausen. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges.
ANDREAE, Johann Gerhard R. · 1724
€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)
XXII, "245"[=345], [3] pp.Richly illustrated work on the geology and natural history of Switzerland by Johann Gerhard Reinard Andreae (1724-1793), a German pharmacist and chemist, resulting from his scientific expedition to the Alps in 1763. The letters he sent to his friends ...
De groote herschepper der waereld, ofte de monarch des levens, nederig gebooren, onschuldig gedood, en eeuwig verheerlykt. een werkje, waar in beknoptelyk verhandeld word het leeven, de dood, de opstanding en de hemelvaart van Jesus Christus. zyde hier by aangetekend de noodige schriftuur-plaatsen, zo van het oude als van het nieuwe testament. onpartydig voor alle Christenen beschreeven.Amsterdam, Carel Allard, [1708]. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 14 full-page engraved plates illustrating the life of Jesus. Contemporary boards.
De groote herschepper der waereld, ofte de monarch des levens, nederig gebooren, onschuldig gedood, en eeuwig verheerlykt. een werkje, waar in beknoptelyk verhandeld word het leeven, de dood, de opstanding en de hemelvaart van Jesus Christus. zyde hier by aangetekend de noodige schriftuur-plaatsen, zo van het oude als van het nieuwe testament. onpartydig voor alle Christenen beschreeven.Amsterdam, Carel Allard, [1708]. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 14 full-page engraved plates illustrating the life of Jesus. Contemporary boards.
ALLARD, Abraham. · 1649
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[4], 32 pp.Very rare and exceptionally fine engraved series illustrating the Life of Christ, from one of the most popular Dutch religious educational works of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The narrative is presented in verse, with biblical references engraved directl...
Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita.Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel (heirs of), Claude de Marne, and Johann Aubry, 1590. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the final leaf, a woodcut decorated initial, and a woodcut head- and tailpiece. Near contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties, red edges.
Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita.Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel (heirs of), Claude de Marne, and Johann Aubry, 1590. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the final leaf, a woodcut decorated initial, and a woodcut head- and tailpiece. Near contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties, red edges.
AL-FARGHANI, Ahmad ibn Mohammad ibn Kathir and Jacob CHRISTMANN (translator). · 1496
€17,500.00 ($19,288.62 | £14,597.54 | ¥3,080,512)
[1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank], 565, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp.Rare first edition of the Latin translation of a very influential astronomical work, which was in large part responsible for spreading Ptolemaic astronomy in medieval and early modern Europe. Written in the 9th centu...
The Archbishop of Goa and the Congregation de Propaganda Fide.“New-Goa” [= Panaji, near Goa], “printed at the national press”, 1862 (wrapper 1863). 8vo in 4s with double-size sheets, giving 4to proportions (20.5 x 16 cm). With the original publisher’s front wrapper, printed letterpress on blue paper, repeating the title page but in a decorative frame built up from typographic ornaments, with a different decorated swelled rule and dated 1863 rather than 1862. The imprint is set in back-sloping roman capitals. Half navy blue, gold-tooled goatskin morocco (later 19th-century).
The Archbishop of Goa and the Congregation de Propaganda Fide.“New-Goa” [= Panaji, near Goa], “printed at the national press”, 1862 (wrapper 1863). 8vo in 4s with double-size sheets, giving 4to proportions (20.5 x 16 cm). With the original publisher’s front wrapper, printed letterpress on blue paper, repeating the title page but in a decorative frame built up from typographic ornaments, with a different decorated swelled rule and dated 1863 rather than 1862. The imprint is set in back-sloping roman capitals. Half navy blue, gold-tooled goatskin morocco (later 19th-century).
[CUNHA RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da]. · 1862
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
92 pp.Fourth copy located of the first and only English edition (translated from the first and only Portuguese edition by the same publisher, also in 1862) of a defence of Joao Chrysostomo de Amorim Pessoa (1810-1888), Archbishop of Goa, in response to a printed attack on him ...
De Geldersche trap der jeugd, in onderscheiding van die, door C. Gelliers te Leeuwarden eertyds opgesteld, of grondige en nauwkeurige fundament-legger der Nederduitsche spel- lees- schrijf- en taal-konst...Kort en klaar tot een algemeen huis- en school-gebruik opgesteld.Amsterdam, Adam Meijer, [late 18th or early 19th century]. Small 8vo. With musical scores. Contemporary colourful floral wrappers.
De Geldersche trap der jeugd, in onderscheiding van die, door C. Gelliers te Leeuwarden eertyds opgesteld, of grondige en nauwkeurige fundament-legger der Nederduitsche spel- lees- schrijf- en taal-konst...Kort en klaar tot een algemeen huis- en school-gebruik opgesteld.Amsterdam, Adam Meijer, [late 18th or early 19th century]. Small 8vo. With musical scores. Contemporary colourful floral wrappers.
CRAMER, Bastiaan. · 1769
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[8], 136 pp.Rare edition of a popular elementary schoolbook for teaching children to spell, read, write and use the Dutch language. First published in 1769, it was Bastiaan Cramer's adaptation of the long-established Trap der Jeugd of Carel de Gelliers. Cramer retained the gen...
Geschied- en oudheidkundig mengelwerk. Bijeen verzameld door --.[Leeuwarden?], 1868. 8vo. With a calligraphed and illustrated title page, coloured by hand, a folding coloured drawing of the Wiarda state near Leeuwarden, and 5 smaller uncoloured drawings of other states. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.
Geschied- en oudheidkundig mengelwerk. Bijeen verzameld door --.[Leeuwarden?], 1868. 8vo. With a calligraphed and illustrated title page, coloured by hand, a folding coloured drawing of the Wiarda state near Leeuwarden, and 5 smaller uncoloured drawings of other states. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.
WENNING, Johannes Ype. · 1849
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[4], 60, [92 blank] pp.Finely executed and illustrated manuscript on Frisian history and antiquities, compiled by the Leeuwarden draughtsman and calligrapher Johannes Ype Wenning (1849-1919), father of the painter Ype Wenning (1879-1959). The work opens with a hand-coloured ar...
[View of the Meuse River with a floating bridge].[The Netherlands], 12 October 1794. Ca. 11.5 x 18 cm.
[View of the Meuse River with a floating bridge].[The Netherlands], 12 October 1794. Ca. 11.5 x 18 cm.
[WATERCOLOUR - MEUSE RIVER]. · 1794
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)
Original watercolour showing a pontoon bridge across the Meuse in the Netherlands, drawn on 12 October 1794 by an unidentified French officer. The extensive manuscript caption describes the bridge as having been constructed by the Dutch to facilitate the passage of troops into...
[View of the church of St. Dagobert and the parc at Brussels].[Brussels], 1794. Ca. 11.7 x 18.1 cm.
[View of the church of St. Dagobert and the parc at Brussels].[Brussels], 1794. Ca. 11.7 x 18.1 cm.
[WATERCOLOUR - BELGIUM]. · 1794
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)
Original watercolour showing the Parc de Bruxelles and the church identified by the artist as St Dagobert, drawn by an unidentified French officer. The view shows figures promenading in the park, a horse-drawn carriage and a dog cart. In his extensive manuscript caption, the a...
Comitatus Hollandiae et Dominii Ultraiectini tabula = Carte nouvelle de la Comté de Hollande et de la Seigneurie d'Utrecht.Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Ca. 160 x 289 cm. Mounted on linen, folded and kept together in a paper slipcase, the whole kept in a book-shaped box.
Comitatus Hollandiae et Dominii Ultraiectini tabula = Carte nouvelle de la Comté de Hollande et de la Seigneurie d'Utrecht.Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Ca. 160 x 289 cm. Mounted on linen, folded and kept together in a paper slipcase, the whole kept in a book-shaped box.
[WALL MAP - THE NETHERLANDS - COLOM, Jacob Aertsz.]. · 1600
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
Rare monumental wall map of the County of Holland and the Lordship of Utrecht, engraved on forty copper plates and ranking among the most ambitious Dutch wall maps of the 18th century.This edition was published by Covens & Mortier, the foremost Amsterdam map publishers of the ...
Geslacht Vorsterman. Hiertoe behooren Willem en Lucas Vorsterman.Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna and other places, 1880s and 1890s. With: (2) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 8 september 1778.[The Hague], 1778.(3) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 18 april 1780.[The Hague], 1780. With ca. 100 contemporary notes and letters, several with envelopes. Preserved in a contemporary portfolio with red sprinkled boards, held together by two olive green ribbons which also serve as closing ties, a paper title label on the front together with two other labels.
Geslacht Vorsterman. Hiertoe behooren Willem en Lucas Vorsterman.Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna and other places, 1880s and 1890s. With: (2) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 8 september 1778.[The Hague], 1778.(3) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 18 april 1780.[The Hague], 1780. With ca. 100 contemporary notes and letters, several with envelopes. Preserved in a contemporary portfolio with red sprinkled boards, held together by two olive green ribbons which also serve as closing ties, a paper title label on the front together with two other labels.
VORSTERMAN VAN OYEN, Abraham Antonie. · 1845
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
Extensive archive of approximately one hundred letters and notes concerning the Vorsterman family, assembled by the genealogist and heraldist Anthonie Abraham Vorsterman van Oyen (1845-1912). The family included the Antwerp printer Willem Vorsterman (d. 1543) and the Dutch-Fle...
Bericht der vergadering van Zeventien, by de provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Zeeland, den 22 september gerequireerd op het decreet der provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Holland van den 15 derzelve maand, aangaande een verandering in de directie der Generale Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.Middelburg, Isaac de Winter, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled boards.
Bericht der vergadering van Zeventien, by de provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Zeeland, den 22 september gerequireerd op het decreet der provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Holland van den 15 derzelve maand, aangaande een verandering in de directie der Generale Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.Middelburg, Isaac de Winter, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled boards.
[VOC - WIC]. · 1795
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
[2], 72, [28] pp.Rare re-edition with the supplement, published in in the same year as the first edition (Amsterdam, 1795). The work was issued on 22 September 1795 by the provisional representatives of the people of Zeeland, in response to the decree of the provisional repres...
[Two ordinances of the States-General].1667-1669. Ca. 23.5 x 26.5 cm and ca. 20 x 24 cm. With a woodcut decorated initial on each ordinance.
[Two ordinances of the States-General].1667-1669. Ca. 23.5 x 26.5 cm and ca. 20 x 24 cm. With a woodcut decorated initial on each ordinance.
[VOC - SPICE TRADE]. · 1667
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
Two closely related Dutch Republic broadsides, both concerned with the suppression of fraud in the spice trade under the monopoly and protection of the Dutch East India Company. Together they form a vivid legal response to widespread commercial adulteration of imported spices,...
Catalogus der medicamenten voor het retour-schip.Batavia, in 's Compagnies medicinale winkel, [before 1738]. With: (2) [BAUD, J. C.]. Proeve van eene geschiedenis van den handel en het verbruik van opium in Nederlandsch Indië.1853. 1 broadside, and 1 booklet. Ca. 53 x 42 cm. The booklet with grey paper wrappers.
Catalogus der medicamenten voor het retour-schip.Batavia, in 's Compagnies medicinale winkel, [before 1738]. With: (2) [BAUD, J. C.]. Proeve van eene geschiedenis van den handel en het verbruik van opium in Nederlandsch Indië.1853. 1 broadside, and 1 booklet. Ca. 53 x 42 cm. The booklet with grey paper wrappers.
[VOC - MEDICINE - BROADSIDE]. · 1724
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
79-220 pp.A rare and highly evocative VOC medical inventory, printed at Batavia and completed in manuscript, detailing the medicinal supplies for the homeward-bound vessel ’s-Heerenarendskerke. The document is signed by the ship’s chief surgeon, Johannes Hansen, who certifies,...
De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos.Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Virgil on the title page, and 12 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos.Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Virgil on the title page, and 12 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
VIRGIL and Cornelis van GHISTELE (translator). · 1510
€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)
264, [3], [1 blank] ll.Rare edition of the first complete Dutch translation of Virgil's Aeneid, by the Antwerp rhetorician Cornelis van Ghistele (ca. 1510-ca. 1573). First published in Antwerp in 1556, the translation made Virgil's complete epic available to a Dutch-speaking a...
[Twelve views of the Netherlands, printed on silk].Comprising:The views relating to the Flood of 1775:(1) Gezicht van het Bergsche veld, in het land van Heusden ... den 15den November 1775(2) Gezicht uit Oosthuizen, op de dijkbreuk by Warder ... den 15den November 1775. (3) Gezicht van den hogen vloed, in den N.N.W. storm, voor Scheveningen, den 15den November 1775. (4) Gezicht van de dijkbreuk, aan den douk, op Texel ... den 15den November 1775.(5) Gezicht van de overstrooming der sluis te Delfshaven, 's avonds den 14den November 1775. (6) Gezicht van het Kattenburger plen te Amsterdam ... 's morgens den 15den November 1775. (7) Gezicht in de Koekkoek, bij Kampen ... den 15den November 1775.The views relating to the Flood of 1776:(8) Gezicht van de overstrooming en doorbraak, van den IJsseldijk, buiten Gouda ... den 21sten en 22sten November 1776. (9) Gezicht der overstroominge, op de Hooge Swaluwe, den 22sten November 1776.(10) Gezicht van den storm en hogen vloed, voor Elburg, den 21sten November 1776. (11) Gezicht der overstroominge en dijkbreuk, tusschen Vollenhoven en Kampen, den 22sten November 1776. (12) IJgezicht, naar 't Blaauw Hoofd, voor Amsteldam ... den 21sten November 1776.[Amsterdam], widow of Jacobus Loveringh and Johannes Allart, [1775-1776]. Folio. With 12 full-page engravings printed on silk, with the selvedge on the bottom, captioned in Dutch with the word "proefdruk" (proof) printed in the lower right. Kept in a pebble-grained dark brown buckram folder lined with blue patterned paper.
[Twelve views of the Netherlands, printed on silk].Comprising:The views relating to the Flood of 1775:(1) Gezicht van het Bergsche veld, in het land van Heusden ... den 15den November 1775(2) Gezicht uit Oosthuizen, op de dijkbreuk by Warder ... den 15den November 1775. (3) Gezicht van den hogen vloed, in den N.N.W. storm, voor Scheveningen, den 15den November 1775. (4) Gezicht van de dijkbreuk, aan den douk, op Texel ... den 15den November 1775.(5) Gezicht van de overstrooming der sluis te Delfshaven, 's avonds den 14den November 1775. (6) Gezicht van het Kattenburger plen te Amsterdam ... 's morgens den 15den November 1775. (7) Gezicht in de Koekkoek, bij Kampen ... den 15den November 1775.The views relating to the Flood of 1776:(8) Gezicht van de overstrooming en doorbraak, van den IJsseldijk, buiten Gouda ... den 21sten en 22sten November 1776. (9) Gezicht der overstroominge, op de Hooge Swaluwe, den 22sten November 1776.(10) Gezicht van den storm en hogen vloed, voor Elburg, den 21sten November 1776. (11) Gezicht der overstroominge en dijkbreuk, tusschen Vollenhoven en Kampen, den 22sten November 1776. (12) IJgezicht, naar 't Blaauw Hoofd, voor Amsteldam ... den 21sten November 1776.[Amsterdam], widow of Jacobus Loveringh and Johannes Allart, [1775-1776]. Folio. With 12 full-page engravings printed on silk, with the selvedge on the bottom, captioned in Dutch with the word "proefdruk" (proof) printed in the lower right. Kept in a pebble-grained dark brown buckram folder lined with blue patterned paper.
[VIEWS - THE NETHERLANDS - SILK]. · 1775
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
Rare suite of twelve engraved views printed on silk as proof impressions, depicting the catastrophic Dutch flood disasters of 1775 and 1776. Engraved chiefly by Noach van der Meer II (active 1740-1794) after drawings by Hendrik Kobell (1751-1779), with one plate (ad 4) by Simo...
Verzameling van honderd afbeeldingen, bestaande in: land- en watergezigten, oudheden, landhuizen, hofsteden, tuinen, lusthoven, enz. allen naar het leven geteekend en in koper gebragt door de Hollandsche meesters A. Rademaker, J.C. Philipo, J. Punt en anderen; tot nut van teeken-, schilder- en bouwkundigen.Amsterdam, D. da Cunha & J.D. Gertner, [ca. 1835-1850]. Oblong 4to. With a title page and 100 views (one double) and plans (ca. 16.5 x 20 cm), partly numbered. The numbered ones are views of manor houses and have a more elaborate frame (except for 57, 59 and 71 which have the number of their original series): they come from the Zegepralend Kennemerland and Het Verheerlykt Watergraafs- of Diemer-Meer. Later (ca. 1900) three-quarter vellum, spine with old red Morocco label lettered in gold, and marbled sides.
Verzameling van honderd afbeeldingen, bestaande in: land- en watergezigten, oudheden, landhuizen, hofsteden, tuinen, lusthoven, enz. allen naar het leven geteekend en in koper gebragt door de Hollandsche meesters A. Rademaker, J.C. Philipo, J. Punt en anderen; tot nut van teeken-, schilder- en bouwkundigen.Amsterdam, D. da Cunha & J.D. Gertner, [ca. 1835-1850]. Oblong 4to. With a title page and 100 views (one double) and plans (ca. 16.5 x 20 cm), partly numbered. The numbered ones are views of manor houses and have a more elaborate frame (except for 57, 59 and 71 which have the number of their original series): they come from the Zegepralend Kennemerland and Het Verheerlykt Watergraafs- of Diemer-Meer. Later (ca. 1900) three-quarter vellum, spine with old red Morocco label lettered in gold, and marbled sides.
[VIEWS - DUTCH]. · 1736
€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)
A rare composite collection of 100 Dutch topographical engravings, assembled and published by the Amsterdam print publishers D. da Cunha and J.D. Gerstner, active during the second quarter of the 19th century.The publishers appear to have offered a number of such collections, ...
Negen boecken, van ghedenck-weerdighe, loflicke woorden, daden ende gheschiedenissen der Romeynen en de uytlandsche volcken. Overgheset uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederduytsche tale, door Conradus Mirkinius.Rotterdam, Jan Leendertsz. Berewout, 1614. 8vo. With woodcut publisher's device on title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript author on the spine, red sprinkled edges.
Negen boecken, van ghedenck-weerdighe, loflicke woorden, daden ende gheschiedenissen der Romeynen en de uytlandsche volcken. Overgheset uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederduytsche tale, door Conradus Mirkinius.Rotterdam, Jan Leendertsz. Berewout, 1614. 8vo. With woodcut publisher's device on title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript author on the spine, red sprinkled edges.
VALERIUS MAXIMUS and Conradus MIRKINIUS (translator).
€1,150.00 ($1,267.54 | £959.27 | ¥202,434)
[8], 610, [26] pp.Rare first Dutch edition of one of the most influential moral and historical compilations of classical antiquity. Originally composed in 30-31 CE and dedicated to the Emperor Tiberius (42 BCE -37 CE), the work brings together approximately 1.000 exemplary ane...
Een nut ende profijtelijck boecxken, ghenaemt den regel der Duytsche schoolmeesters, die parochie-kercken bedienen.Alkmaar, Jacob de Meester, for Cornelis Claesz, 1607. 12mo. With musical annotation and 3 pages printed in civilité. Later half red roan, red sprinkled paper sides, red edges.
Een nut ende profijtelijck boecxken, ghenaemt den regel der Duytsche schoolmeesters, die parochie-kercken bedienen.Alkmaar, Jacob de Meester, for Cornelis Claesz, 1607. 12mo. With musical annotation and 3 pages printed in civilité. Later half red roan, red sprinkled paper sides, red edges.
VALCOOGH, Dirck Adriaensz. · 1591
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
179, [1 blank] pp.Rare early edition of one of the most important works on the history of Dutch education and a principal source for our knowledge of primary schooling in the Netherlands in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Written by Dirck Adriaansz Valcoogh...