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Vaticinium Severi, et Leonis Imperatorum, in quo videtur finis Turcarum in praesenti eorum imperatore, una cum aliis nonnullis in hac re Vaticiniis ...Brescia, Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1596. Small 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). With 16 numbered engraved emblematic illustrations. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

LEO VI (the Wise) of Byzantium and Antonius SEVERUS of Rome (attributed). · 1622

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

106, [6 blank] pp.First edition of the so-called Oracles of Leo the Wise, with a bilingual (Latin an Italian) text and 16 lovely and rather surreal engravings: an emblematic book of prophecies traditionally attributed to Leo VI (866-911/12), Emperor of Byzantium from 866 to hi...

Jornada, que Antonio de Albuquerque Coelho, governador, e capitaõ[!] general da cidade do Nome de Deos de Macao na China, fez de Goa atè chegar á dita cidade no anno de 1718.Lisbon, Officina da Musica (Jaime or Jayme de la Te y Sagau), 1732. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, rebacked.

GUERREIRO, João Tavares de Velez. · 1682

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[16], 427, [1 blank] pp.Second edition of a journal of the voyage of António de Albuquerque Coelho (Brazil ca. 1682-Goa ca. 1745) from Goa in India to Macao on the coast of southern China. The journal was written by João Tavares de Velez Guerreiro, a captain in the Portuguese ...

Memorias historicas de los Monarcas Othomanos, que escriuio en lengua Toscana … Traduzidas en Castellano por Don Francisco de Olivares Murillo, ...Madrid, Juan Garcia Infanzón, 1684. Folio. 18th-century tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

SAGREDO, Giovanni. · 1616

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

[12], 552, [8] pp.First Spanish edition of a detailed history of the Ottoman Emperors, by the Venetian historian and diplomat Giovanni Sagredo (1616-1696), first published in Italian in 1673. It is arranged chronologically, covering the Emperors from 1300 to 1644 and is especi...

Zee-rechten, …Including: -Zee-rechten, dat is dat hoogste ende oudste Gotlandtsche water-recht, dat de ghemeene koopliedende en schippers geordineert ende gemaeckt hebben tot Wisbuy.-WEYTSEN, Quintyn. Tractaet van avaryen,…-Ordonnantie der kamer van assuerantie en avarye, der steden Amsteldam, Rotterdam, Middelburgh, &c.-[Drop-title:] Copye. Tol-rollen in den orizond, …-[Drop-title:] Nieuwe ordonnantie ende instructie, … beroerende het stuck van de pilotage, … Amsterdam, Pieter and Karel van Rijschooten, 1710. With a woodcut vignette on the general title-page, and a woodcut illustration of a ship on the 3 part-titles. With: (2) GLINS, Taco. Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de zee-rechten, …Amsterdam, Cornelis van der Stolk, 1727. With the same woodcut illustration of a ship on the title-page. 2 works in 1 volume (the first work in 5 parts). 4to. Contemporary vellum.

[MARITIME LAW]. · 1707

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

[8], 160, [16], 40, 8, [40]; [12], 139, [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: reissue of the enlarged and corrected 1707 edition of a collection of texts regarding maritime law. It contains the Medieval laws of Wisby, the laws of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of 1551, the laws of Philip II of...

Turkey and its resources: its municipal organization and free trade; the state and prospects of English commerce in the East, the new administration of Greece, its revenue and national possessions.London, Saunders and Otley (back of title-page: printed by Botson and Palmer), 1833. 8vo. With lithographed map as frontispiece. Contemporary boards.

[URQUHART, David]. · 1805

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

XV, [1], 328 pp.First edition; flyleaf with presentation inscription from the author to "Mr ... Regnaudiu". Important overview of Turkish trade, resources, infrastructure and municipal organisation by the diplomat David Urquhart (1805-1877). After two and a half years fighting...

[Les anciens costumes de l'empire Ottoman, depuis l'origine de la monarchie jusqu'a la reforme du Sultan Mahmoud. Volume I = all published]. [Paris, Lemercier, 1863]. 1mo (54.5 x 40 cm). With lithographic portrait of Arif Pacha, drawn on stone by M. Julien, printed on India paper, cut in an oval and mounted on a leaf of stiff paper, with caption and imprint lithographed directly on the leaf, 16 tinted lithographic plates after Arif Pacha (image size 24.5 x 34 cm). Lacking lithographed title-page. Contemporary black half morocco.

[ARIF PACHA, Muchir]. · 1826

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

24 ll. printed both sides, plus platesA valuable and beautifully-illustrated survey of the costumes worn at the court of the Ottoman Empire. It portrays 80 forms of costume worn by Ottoman functionaries and was published in two issues, the present with the text in French and a...

Six sketches in lithography representing the common actions of the horse.London, C. Turner, June 1842. Folio (54.5 x 38 cm). With 6 tinted plates signed R.F.R. and lithographed by Day & Haghe. Original brown paper wrappers.

FRANKLAND-RUSSELL, Robert.

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

First edition of a series of lithographic sketches on the motions of horses, in original wrappers. The large tinted lithographs show a horse "walking", "ambling", "trotting", "cantering", "galloping" and "leaping", always accompanied by a horseman.Light spotting in the margins...

Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or the reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments.London, S. & J. Fuller, 1815 [-1819]. Oblong folio (25 x 34.4 cm). With engraved title-page, 7 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alken, including plate 5 with a J. Whatman 1819 watermark. Later red hard-grained half morocco, spine and front board lettered in gold. Re-backed preserving the original spine.

ALKEN, Henry. · 1811

€8,000.00 ($8,817.46 | £6,674.13 | ¥1,408,034)

First edition, early issue. The first of Alken's works to have a title-page, "lacking from a great many copies" (Dixon). Signed Ben Tally Ho, the title explains with good humour that the plates are a reply to Robert Frankland's Indispensable accomplishments, a set of 6 Leicest...

Histoire pittoresque de l'equitation ancienne et moderne.Paris, Motte, 1833-1834. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (55 x 40 cm). With engraved title-page printed in red and black, list of plates, 24 hand-coloured lithographs. Contemporary French red half roan with his stamp at the spine foot, flat spine lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers (MESLANT).

AUBRY, Charles. · 1769

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

[2], A-Z, [2] ll. including title-page and 24 plates.First and only edition of a finely executed pictorial history of horsemanship from classical Greece and Rome to the date of publication, including the Islamic world: the hand-coloured copy of the Duke of Orleans, in a signed...

[The seven ages of the horse].London, S. & J. Fuller, 1825. Oblong 4to (28.4 x 38.2 cm). With 7 hand-coloured etched plates. Red half morocco, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

ALKEN, Henry. · 1785

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

[7] ll.A rare and important work by Henry Alken (1785-1851) showing the progression of a race horse through successive stages of life, at one point pampered and adored, at another rejected and scorned by man. In this re-working of The High Mettled Racer, Alken extends the stag...

The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse.London, S. & J. Fuller, [1816]. 4to. With an engraved title-page with a circular vignette and 18 hand-coloured etched plates. Original boards. Untrimmed.

ALKEN, Henry.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

Engraved title-page plus 2, [18] pp. plus 18 plates.First edition. An uncut copy, in its original pictorial boards, of the first book published under Alken's name. He mentions his "habit of riding young and violent horses with fox-hounds", and of having a mare that caused him ...

Hippodrome de Carrieres-sous-Poissy, Seine et Oise, appartenant a Mr. Vanderbilt W. K. Poissy, Ch[arles] Robin, 1903-1904-1911. Large hand-coloured four-sheet plan (90 x 170 cm as assembled). Drawn in pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper mounted on canvas. Framed (105 x 205 cm).

[HORSE RACING TRACK]. [VANDERBILT, William Kissam]. · 1849

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

Large manuscript plan beautifully drawn in ink and watercolour: a unique witness to Vanderbilt's passion and ambitions. A member of one of America's wealthiest and most prominent families, William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849-1920) managed railroads and bred horses. He was one of t...

[L'hippodrome au coin du feu].Paris, A. de Vresse, [ca. 1845?]. Oblong 1mo (full-sheet leaves) or oblong Royal folio (30 x 42 cm). With 16 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each with a caption and decorative border. Lacking the title-page.Original publisher’s gold-blocked blue cloth. With a bookseller's ticket.

ADAM, Victor. · 1801

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

[16] ll.A fine example of Adam's expertise in lithography. The plates depict a variety of unusual equestrian racing scenes including chariot racing with women driving, and monkeys riding horseback.Victor Adam (1801-67) was originally employed as painter for the Museum at Versa...

De vermaarde reizen van de heer Vincent Le Blanc van Marsilien, die hy sedert d'ouderdom van veertien jaren, tot aan die van zestig, in de vier delen des werrelts gedaan heeft ...Amsterdam, Jan Hendricksz. Boom, Jan Rieuwertsz., 1654. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved title-page and 7 engraved plates. 19th-century boards.

LE BLANC, Vincent. · 1648

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

[1], [1 blank], 152, 116 pp.First Dutch edition and first illustrated edition in any language of a colourful account of the author's travels through Persia (Iran), Arabia, Burma (Myanmar), the East Indies, and in the second part Morocco, Guinea, the African interior, the Cape,...

Fabulae ... Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: eae item quas Avienus carmine expressit. Accedit Ranarum & murium pugna, Homero olim asscripta. Cum elegantissimis in utroque libello figuris, & utriusque interpretatione plurimis in locis emendata.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1632. 8vo. With 47 woodcut illustrations (5 x 6.5 cm) by Christoffel van Sichem II in the text. Contemporary vellum, each board with a panel stamp (59 x 50 mm) of the Amersfoort coat of arms. Most endpapers later.

AESOP. · 1632

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

158, [2] pp.Rare second(?) edition (one of three dated "1632") of a popular Greek and Latin school book, edited by the famous Dutch neo-Latin poet, humanist and Leiden Professor of Greek, Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), with 47 beautiful woodcut illustrations by Christoffel van S...

La venerie ... de nouveau reveue, et augmentée, outre les precedentes impressions.Paris, Clause Cramoisy, 1624. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. (22.6 x 16.4 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 57 woodcut illustrations, of which 3 full-page, woodcut musical scores, head- and tailpieces, and initials. 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled black morocco, boards and spine showing an intricate motif of lions rampant within lozenges, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gold-tooled red morocco pastedowns, red edges, red silk on the first and last flyleaves. Bound by Cuyls (with CUYLS stamped in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf).

FOUILLOUX, Jacques du. · 1561

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[4], 124, [8] pp.A sumptuously bound copy of this important illustrated classic on falconry, with the intricate monogram of Amédée Rigaud as a centre piece on the elaborately gold-tooled red morocco front pastedown. From the collection of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, ...

The sportsman's companion: or portraitures, pedigrees and performances, of the most eminent race horses & stallions, represented in variety of attitudes. London, J. Barker, [1798?]. 8vo (22.5×15 cm). With a letterpress title-page, 40 numbered plates of famous race horses drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts, each with a portrait of the horse and rider (ca. 8.5×12 cm), detailed information about the horse and owner and most with an engraved vignette at the foot, engraved index leaf, and publisher's 4-page letterpress catalogue (with woodcut of 2 cocks fighting). Contemporary tan laid paper wrappers.

ROBERTS, James. · 1708

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

[6] pp. plus 40 plates and index plate.Extremely rare second edition of a book of plates depicting famous race horses active in England in the period 1708 to 1755, each shown with its rider and/or stable-hand, and recording its owner, pedigree (one traced back to a horse impor...

[Sample book of harness designs and other elaborate and decorative carriage horse tack].[Vienna, ca. 1790?]. 2 volumes. Oblong small folio (23.5 x 37 cm and 25.5 x 39.5 cm). With 67 pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache drawings of horses, most highlighted with silver and gold , all signed, most trimmed and mounted on blank leaves ca. 1805. With 2 etchings added at the end of volume 1, executed by Friedrich Leopold Bürde and dated 1812. Volume 1 stab-sewn, volume 2 with the leaves mounted on stubs and sewn through the folds, each with marbled paper wrapped around the spine. In an early 19th-century half tanned sheepskin box in the form of a book, metal hook-clasps.

[CARRIAGE HORSE TACK]. FÖLSCH, Michael. · 1730

€85,000.00 ($93,685.47 | £70,912.61 | ¥14,960,359)

Unique harness maker's colour-drawn sample book, with each drawing depicting a horse in elaborate carriage horse tack. The drawings were executed by Michael Fölsch himself, one of the foremost Viennese makers and sellers of luxury tack in the early 19th century, to show prospe...

Alle de gedenkwaardige en zeer naauwkeurige reizen …; mitsgaders de voornaamster byzonderheden van d'Archipel, Konstantinopolen, 't Heilige Land, Egypten, de woestynen van Arabie, Mekka … Amsterdam, Gerrit Bos, 1731. 4to. With engraved title-page, standing portrait of the author in Eastern garb, 19 engraved plates (including 2 folding) drawn, etched and engraved by Jan Luyken. 18th-century half calf, sprinkled-paper sides, refurbished in the 19th century and with a 20th-century spine label.

THÉVENOT, Melchisedec Jean-Baptiste. · 1655

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

[4], 484, [4] pp.First volume (of three as numbered, but intended for binding as two) of Thévenot's travels in the Levant in the years 1655 to 1659, including Constantinople, the Holy Land and Egypt, and his further travels to Arabia, Mecca and elsewhere. In the Dutch editions...

Hedendaagsche historie; of het vervolg van de algemeene historie; … Behelzende het leeven van Mohammed; en het begin van de historie der Arabieren, onder de drie eerste Khalifs …Utrecht, Hermanus Besseling (vols. 1-2), Leiden, Amsterdam, P. van der Eyk, G. de Groot and son, K. van Tongerloo and P. Schouten (vol. 3), 1760-1764. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. With 3 engraved frontispieces, engraved coat of arms and 6 folding plates. Contemporary boards covered with sprinkled paper.

[ARABIAN HISTORY].

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

First Dutch edition of the first 3 volumes of The modern part of an universal history, devoted to the life of Muhammad and the history of Arabia under the first four Caliphs to the taking of Baghdad by the Mongols (1258), which put an end to the Abbasid Caliphate. The work, ba...