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Reis naar de legerplaats van den grooten Emir, en beschrijving, van de zeeden en gewoonten, der woestyn-bewoonende Arabieren … Uit het Fransch vertaald en met aanteekeningen vermeerderd door G. Kuipers ...Utrecht, Henricus van Otterloo, 1780. 8vo. With engraved title-page with a vignette by De Vries (a female figure reading from “H[eilige] Schriftuur” (Holy Scripture) with 4 putti and in the background a desert scene with tents, camels and dozens of mostly dark-skinned people, apparently representing nomads), 3 full-page engraved plates by Izaak de Wit Jansz., an engraved half-page illustration (unsigned), headpieces built up from rococo typographic ornaments and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary half tree calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, shell-marbled sides.

ARVIEUX, Laurent d'; Gerard KUIPERS (transl.). · 1653

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

[6], XL, 384, [16] pp.First Dutch edition of D'Arvieux's Voyage ... vers le grand Emir, translated and annotated by Gerard Kuipers. Well-versed in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew and Syriac languages and dressed in local costume, D'Arvieux travelled widely in the Levant. He r...

Handleiding om op verschillende wijzen de breedte buiten den middag of meridiaan te vinden, door waarnemingen aan de zon of starren. Groningen, R.J. Schierbeek, 1827. 8vo. With a lithographed folding plate and numerous letterpress tables (numbered I-VI, but some spread over several pages). Contemporary boards, covered with red sprinkled paper, rebacked with brown paper tape.

HAZEWINKEL, Abraham Cornelis. · 1772

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

10, [2], [42], 66 pp., 3, [1] ll.Very rare first edition of a guide introducing Hazewinkel's method of calculating latitude, which was subsequently implemented as the standard method in the national Dutch marine and remained in use until the end of the 19th century. This metho...

Le pavé de la grand' sale des bourgeois. [Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, 1719]. Very large engraved folding plan comprising 1 1/2 sheets (measuring 46 x 83 cm as assembled), engraved by Danckert Danckertsz. and his father after drawings by Jacob Vennekool, including the two hemispheres of the world map and a celestial map of the constellations of the northern hemisphere (each 10 cm in diameter).

[PLAN - AMSTERDAM CITY HALL]. [CAMPEN, Jacob van]. · 1661

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

Very large engraved plan showing the extraordinary cartographic mosaic floor of the Burgerzaal of the Amsterdam City Hall, designed by Jacob van Campen, with a celestial map in the centre and the magnificent map of the world in 2 hemispheres on either side. The engraving was f...

Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges.Paris, Guillaume Cavellat (colophon: printed by Benoist Prévost for Gilles Corozet, Guillaume Cavellat), 1555. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With title in woodcut border with Cavellet's device and initials at the foot, each part-title with Cavellet's woodcut device, 1 folding woodcut map (31.5 x 35 cm) showing Mount Sinai, 44 woodcuts in the text (including a portrait of the author by Geoffroy Tory), and numerous fine decorated initials. Overlapping vellum (ca. 1600?).

BELON, Pierre. · 1546

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

[12], 212, [1] ll.Third edition of Belon's Observations, the fruit of his extensive travels in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria from 1546 to 1549. Piere Belon (ca. 1518-1564), famous for his works on ornithology, was attached as naturalist to the French emba...

Catalogo 1913 ... Placche ferro smaltato e lettere rame ... Milan, Ravasi brothers (colophon: Stabilimento Grafico Matarelli), 1913. Oblong 8vo (16.5 x 24 cm). With very large, loosely inserted, oblong folding tinted lithographed poster (61 x 90.5 cm), showing types and other decorations in full size in black and white on a green-grey background, and 100 numbered half-tone illustrations in text. Also with a tipped in circular letter on pink paper introducing the catalogue, by Luigi and Giovanni Ravasi. Stapled in publisher's gray paper wrappers, printed in blue.

RAVASI, Fratelli.

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

16 pp.Extremely rare illustrated catalogue of enameled metal signboards, plates and large copper letters intended for signs, name and number plates, a clock fave, etc. The catalogue was issued by the brothers Luigi and Giovanni Ravasi, described on the wrapper-title as the sup...

Desertum Pharan mystice explicatum, cum quadraginta duabus in eo mansionibus filiorum Isràél ad Palaestinam pergentium: . . . Kalisz, printed by the college of the Society of Jesus, 1685. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, showing a map of the Holy Land and the route of the Exodus with the 42 stations numbered. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

HERMANN, Amand. · 1700

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[32], 505, [1 blank], [16] pp.Very rare first edition, in Latin, of a work on the Desert of Paran and the 42 "stations" visited by the Israelites following their Exodus from Egypt. Each chapter gives a theological description of one of these stations of the Exodus. Paran is a ...

Elettricismo artificiale … (Colophon: Turin, royal printing office [of the King of Sardinia], 1 June 1772). With 11 engraved folding plates. With: (2) [BECCARIA, Giambatista]. Experimenta, atque observations, quibus electricitas vindex late constituitur, atque explicatur.(Colophon: Turin, royal printing office [of the King of Sardinia]), [1769]. With letterpress folding table and 1 engraved folding plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary mottled half calf, gold-tooled spine.

BECCARIA, Giambatista. · 1716

€3,850.00 ($4,243.40 | £3,211.92 | ¥677,616)

VIII, 439, [1]; [4], 66 pp.First editions of two works on electricity by the Italian physicist Giambatista Beccaria (1716-1781), who was appointed to the chair of physics at the university of Turin in 1748 and was one of the scholars who helped transform electrology into a sci...

De volkome beschryving der voortreffelijke reizen van de deurluchtige reisiger Pietro della Valle, edelman van Romen, in veel voorname gewesten des werrelts, sedert het jaer 1615, tot in 't jaar 1626 gedaan … Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1666 (each volume title: Abraham Wolfgang, widow of Jan Hendriks Boom, Jan Rieuwertsz., 1664-1665). 6 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 25 engraved plates. 19th-century vellum.

VALLE, Pietro della. · 1614

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

First Dutch edition, the first one to be illustrated, of Pietro della Valle's account of his travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Iraq, Persia (Iran) and India. Della Valle, an Italian nobleman, sailed from Venice in 1614 to Istanbul, where he arrived in August 1614...

De tegenwoordige staat der volken van het Spaansche ryk in Amerika, met een byzonder verhaal, van den koophandel uit Oud-Spanje, met de galjoenen, flota, &c.; en van den verboden handel der Hollanders, Engelschen, Franschen, Deenen en Portugezen, in de West-Indiën.Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [ca. 1745 or ca. 1748]. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, showing the city and harbours of Veracruz, Havana, Portobelo and Cartagena. Contemporary red half sheepskin (roan).

CAMPBELL, John. · 1741

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

[8], 328 pp.Rare second issue of the first and only edition of a Dutch translation of A concise history of the Spanish America (1741), by the prolific Scottish author John Campbell (1708-1775). The work is divided into 4 parts, the first on the discovery of America, the second...

De zending van graaf van Elgin naar China en Japan in 1857, 1858, 1859.Utrecht, Nolet and son, [1860]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 5 full-page chromolithographed plates, 3 lithographed maps (2 folding), some letterpress tables in text. Contemporary blue calf, purple textured cloth sides.

OLIPHANT, Laurence. · 1857

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

XII, 382, [6]; [4], 361, [1] pp.Very rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of an account of Lord Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857 to 1859, written by the diplomat, traveller and secretary to Lord Elgin during the Washington negotiations of th...

Reizen rondom de weereld, ondernomen . . . tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het zuider halfrond . . .Including: BYRON, John. [Drop title:] Verkort verhaal der reizen . . . Tocht van den Kommandeur Byron.WALLIS, Samuel. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1766, 1767 en 1768. . . . voerende des Konings schip Den Dolphyn.CARTERET, Philip. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1766, 1767, 1768 en 1769. . . . voerende des Konings sloep De Swaluw.COOK, James. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1769, 1770 en 1771. . . ., voerende 's Konings schip, Den Onderneemer.Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, 1774. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece. With an extra folding engraved world map in 2 hemispheres incorporating Cook's recent discoveries: Rigobert Bonne, De oude en nieuwe waereld . . . verrykt met de ondekkingen der laatste reizigers, Amsterdam, 1792 (23×41.5 cm). Modern cloth.

HAWKESWORTH, John (editor). · 1769

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[4], 351, [1] pp.First Dutch edition of an important collection of accounts of recent English maritime expeditions, including Cook's first expedition, edited by John Hawkesworth. "John Byron, in the Dolphin, visited the Tuamoto Islands and Nikunau in what would later be called...

Reizen in de binnenlanden van Australie, in de jaren 1817 en 1818, . . . Uit het Engelsch, met platen en kaarten.Dordrecht, Blussé, Van Braam, 1821. 8vo. With 2 engraved views (1 folding) by J.C. Bendorp and 2 engraved folding maps by C. van Baarsel & son (30.5×62 and 21.5×63 cm). Contemporary sprinkled half sheepskin.

OXLEY, John. · 1784

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

XVI, 420 pp.First Dutch edition of "the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales" (Wantrup). It details Oxley's two important expeditions into the inlands of New South Wales, then as lit...

A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in the practice of physick.London, Jeffrey Wale, John Isted, 1706. 8vo. 19th-century tanned half sheepskin, tree-marbled paper sides.

GROENVELT, Joannes (John GREENFIELD or GROENVELD). · 1648

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

[40], 363, [3] pp.First English edition of a treatise on the medicinal use of Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria, traditionally classified in the family Canthardiae). Joannes Groenevelt (1648-1715/16)) was a Dutch-born physician, practising in London from 1675 on. Spanish fly was ...

Étude sur les races indigènes de l'Australie.Paris, A. Hennuyer, 1872. 8vo. Contemporary blue half cloth.

TOPINARD, Paul. · 1830

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

119, [1] pp.Interesting study on the indigenous races of Australia, written by the physician and anthropologist Paul Topinard (1830-1911). It was presented on 15 February 1872 to the Société d'anthropologie, in the name of the Commission permanente pour l'Océanie. ''This elabo...

A narrative of occurrences that took place during the mutiny at the Nore, in the months of May and June, 1797.Chatham, William Burrill, 1829. 8vo. With the errata slip inserted between the introduction and main text. Contemporary boards.

[CUNNINGHAM, Charles]. · 1797

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

[2], XII, 141, [3] pp.First edition of a rare and detailed account of the historic mutiny at the Nore (in the Thames Estuary) in 1797, involving several ships of the Royal Navy. The errata slip notes, "A few copies only of this narrative are printed for the particular friends ...

Zehn tafeln zur anatomie des Pferdes . . .Vienna, the author "in Commission bei F. Paternos Nachfolger" (printed by Adolf Holzhausen), [1879]. Oblong 1mo (35×49 cm). With 10 numbered chromo-lithographed and double-tinted lithographed plates (35×49 cm), loose as issued. Original publisher's printed front wrapper preserved, back wrapper lacking. In a modern clamshell box.

MACHOLD, Joseph (Josef). · 1824

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

15, [1 blank] pp. plus plates.Very rare publication with 10 very detailed plates depicting the anatomy of the horse. In his preface the author-artist Joseph Machold (1824-1889), painter, illustrator and a former officer in the Austrian army, explains that this publication was ...

Mittheilungen aus dem Umfange der Pferdezucht, Pferdekenntnis, Reitkunst und denen dahin einschlagenden Wissenschaften, …Bamberg, for the author by Johann Friedrich Schmidt, 1820. 8vo. With 3 lithographed folding plates, the first two depicting a horse led by a man on foot, and the third a lithographed folding table. Contemporary blue boards, gold-tooled spine, gilt edges.

KEGEL, Karl and Seufert von TENECKER. · 1817

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[14], 311, [1] pp.Second edition of a work on all aspects of horses, horsemanship, the horse trade, horse carriages etc.. The work contains 6 chapters by Karl Kegel and 12 by Seufert von Tenecker, and 3 early lithographed plates. It was first published in 1817 and was apparent...

Regia via crucis. Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus (Officina Plantiniana), 1635. 8vo. With an engraved title page and 38 full-page emblematic engravings. Richly gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), each board with the arms of (apparently) Abbot Placidus Buechauer (1611-1669) of Kremsmünster, gilt and elaborately gauffered edges.

HAEFTEN, Benedictus van. · 1576

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

XL, 404, [26], [2 blank] pp.First edition (first issue), the only edition in the original Latin, of a lovely devotional emblem book with an engraved title page and 38 engraved emblems, all on the theme of the holy cross, all engraved by Cornelis Galle the elder (1576-1650), at...

A voice from the bush in Australia: shewing its present state, advantages, and capabilities, in a series of letters from an Irish settler and others in New South Wales. With appendices ...Dublin, William Curry junior & Co.; London, Smith, Elder & Co.; Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1839. 12mo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, nearly full-page wood-engraved illustration on page 25 and a letterpress folding table. Modern marbled wrappers.

[BESNARD, Thomas Pope]. · 1913

€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)

108 pp.A collection of letters from New South Wales by Thomas Pope Besnard, an Irish colonist of Cork, with 4 extensive appendices containing valuable information on the early colony. Besnard became an overseer on a chain gang and writes enthusiastically about the great possib...

Catechismus der zeevaartkunde, of vragen en oefeningen over het beschouwende en werkdadige der stuurmanskunst; ...Groningen, J. Oomkens, 1840. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, with at the back an advertisement for 6 other works by Van Cleeff.

CLEEFF, Jacob van. · 1788

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

115, [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a schoolbook on navigation in the form of questions and exercises, by Jacob van Cleeff (1788-1862), lecturer in mathematics, engineering and navigation at the maritime academy at Groningen known as the Academie Minerva. The work was mean...