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Über die Springmäuse oder die sämtlichen bis jetzt bekannten Arten der Gattung Dipus.Berlin, Druckerei der Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1828. 4to. With 10 numbered hand-coloured lithographs on 6 folding plates by and after J.A. Schmidt. Contemporary marbled boards.

LICHTENSTEIN, Martin Hinrich Carl. · 1787

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

[2], 29, [1] pp.Second edition of a beautifully illustrated monograph on Dipodidae (jumping mice and jerboa) by the German zoologist, physician and explorer Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein (1787-1857), who named some of the described animals. The work comprises a thorough his...

Description des cataractes et du canal de Trollhätta en Suède; avec un précis historique.Stockholm, Charles Delén, 1804. 4to. With an aquatint title-page and 12 aquatint plates, including 1 map, all drawn and engraved by the author. Contemporary grey-blue wrappers.

SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik. · 1800

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

[1], [1 blank], 47, [2] pp.First and only edition in the original French, of a richly illustrated description of the waterfall, locks and canal near Trollhättan in Sweden. Although spectacular, the waterfalls were a great obstacle in the transport of wood from Lake Vänern in t...

[Collection of 18 photographs of New Zealand and Tasmania].[New Zealand, ca. 1890]. Including 13 Maori portraits, 4 albumen prints of Hobart and locality, a loose albumen print of the North Shore Native and Aquatic Regatta at Auckland in 1898.

[PHOTOGRAPHY - NEW ZEALAND - TASMANIA].

€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)

Collection of photographs, mainly albumen prints, showing 13 Maori portraits in full feather dress and 5 views of New Zealand and Tasmania. Included are i.a.:- Native girl. (Full-length portrait of a standing Maori girl).- (Photograph of a pinned down photo with a portrait of ...

The insolvent law of New South Wales, with practical directions and forms.Sydney, W.F. Moffitt, 1842. 8vo. Contemporary straight grained red sheepskin (W. MOFFITT, Sydney).

BURTON, William Westbrooke. · 1834

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

VIII, 202 pp.Rare first and only edition of the first Australian treatise on bankruptcy. While in Australia, Burton attempted to ameliorate the harsh treatment of convicts at Norfold Island, where he was sent in 1834 "to try some convicts who had mutinied". Many were sentenced...

Holland, oder Beschreibung der sieben vereinigten niederländischen Provintzen, nebenst denen darzu eroberten Oerten, darinnen alle Städte, Festungen, Flecken, Seen und Flüsse samt andern merckwürdigen Sachen, auch die vornehmsten Städte und Festungen darbey in Kupffer gestochen.Leipzig, Christian Kirchner, 1672. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 31 folding engraved plans of various cities in the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum.

KIRCHNER, Christian. · 1690

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

[14], 229, [3 blank], 32, [8] pp.Rare first and only edition of a description of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands by Christian Kirchner. The provinces of Holland, Guelders, Zeeland, Utrecht, Friesland, Overijssel and Groningen are each treated in separate chapters with e...

[Letter to Count Pierre François Réal].Pointe Breeze, New Jersey, 27 September, 1830. 4to (25 x 20 cm). Manuscript letter in French, in brown ink on wove paper (3 sides of folded leaf), signed and dated.

BONAPARTE, Joseph. · 1768

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

[3] pp.Autograph letter by Joseph Napoléon Bonaparte (1768-1844), the elder brother of Napoleon I of France, who made him King of Naples and Sicily (1806-1808), and later King of Spain and the Indies as Joseph I of Spain (1808-1813). After the fall of Napoleon I, Joseph styled...

[Letter acknowledging payment from the Paris bookseller Debure for Les Roses, part 30]. Paris, 18 February 1824. 4to (24.5 x 18.5 cm). Autograph letter, signed, written in brown ink on paper, with a note in a different hand recording a related payment.

REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph. · 1817

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

[1], [1 blank] pp.A signed autograph letter by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, acknowledging his reciept of 30 francs from "Monsieur Debure libraire" for the 30th and final part of Les Roses, Redouté's most famous work, which was published in installments between 1817 and 1824. This mu...

Gezichten langs den Gooischen stoomtram.[Amsterdam], E. van Elfrinkhoff, [ca. 1893]. (Ca. 22.5 x 17.5 cm). With the title-page and each of the 12 photographs (12 x 17 cm) pasted on paperboard (17 x 22 cm), the photographs with printed titles below. Contemporary paperboard box.

[GOOI - NETHERLANDS]. · 1893

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

Rare collection of charming views of Muiden and Laren, along the trail of a steam tram. The photographs of Laren include Laarderhoog and the Hamdorff hotel (nowadays a restaurant); those of Muiden depict the Elsnerus cafe, the bathhouse, Muiderberg and the castle (Muiderslot) ...

Catalogus & brevis historia pontificum Ultraiectensium. Item catalogus & brevis historia antistitum Egmondanorum.Leiden, Jan Jacobsz. Paets, 1586 (Colophon: 'Extant Goudae, apud Leonardum Theodori Librarium, ad pontem Hornensem'). Small 8vo.

BOCKENBERG, Pieter Cornelisz. · 1548

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

[16], 99, [12] [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of this historical work on the Utrecht Diocese and on the abbots and priests of the most important medieval monastery in Holland, the Monastery of Egmont in the northern part of Holland by the Dutch historiographer Pieter Corn...

Las posesiones holandesas en el archipiélago de la India.Manila, Miguel Sanchez, 1855. 8vo. Modern red half calf, preserving the original pink lithographed wrappers.

[TEMMINCK, Coenraad Jacob]. · 1778

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

243, [1] pp.Rare Spanish translation, printed in Manila, of an important work on the Dutch East Indies by the famous ornithologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Leiden). The present edition is a translation of a part...

Morgenländische Reyse-Beschreibung.Hamburg, Christian Guth, printed by Johan Holwein, Schleswig, 1658. Folio. With engraved frontispiece by Christian Rothgiesser, engraved author's portrait, double-page engraved map, and 21 large engravings in text, mostly signed by Rothgiesser. Contemporary pigskin, with boards blind-tooled in a panel design.

MANDELSLO, Johann Albrecht von. · 1639

€11,000.00 ($12,124.00 | £9,176.93 | ¥1,936,046)

[32], 248, [36] pp.First complete German edition of the engaging travel account of Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, edited by Adam Olearius. Mandelslo was attached to the diplomatic mission of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp to Moscow and Persia. The ambassadors remained in Persia,...

Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou Journal d'une expédition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, & 1780 ... Seconde edition.Paris, Belin, 1783. 8vo. With folding engraved plate, illustrating the death of Captain James Cook, and folding engraved chart, depicting the route of Cook's expedition. Modern half calf.

[RICKMAN, John]. · 1782

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

[4], "376" [= 378] pp.A rare edition of the French translation of Rickman's account detailing James Cook's third and final voyage of discovery. Notwithstanding the statement on the title-page ("seconde édition"), two earlier editions were published in 1782. The frontispiece is...

Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée[,] Aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c.Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.With:(2) ECKEBERG, Carl Gustaf. Précis historique de l'économie rurale des Chinois.Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.(3) BLACKFORD, Dominique de. Précis de l'état actuel des colonies Angloises dans l'Amérique Septentrionale. Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771. 3 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary French mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

TORÉN, Olof. · 1766

€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)

92; [4], 47, [1 blank]; 99, [1] pp.Ad 1-2: First French editions of two books about China, especially interesting for their botanical and agricultural information, bound with (ad 3): the first and only edition of their translator's book on the English colonies, including a 31-...

Zeitschrift für die Entomologie. Erster [-Fünfter] Band. Leipzig, Friedrick Fleischer, 1839-1844. 10 parts in 5 volumes, bound as 6. 8vo. With 15 numbered plates, including 5 hand-coloured engravings. Including 2 publisher's advertisements "Ankündigung die Forsetzung von Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturgeschichte betreffend" (2 pp.) and "Nachricht für Freunde der Enteimologie" (4 ll.). Modern green boards with original wrappers bound in.

GERMAR, Ernst Friedrich (editor). · 1786

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

VII, [1], 196; [4], 193-400, [3], [1 blank]; [4], 240; [6], 241-450; [8], 408; [6], 434, [6]; VI, 482 pp.All parts published of an entomological periodical edited by Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786-1853), a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle, with ...

Historia insectorum generalis, in qua verissimae mutationum, seu lentae in membra epigeneseos rationes, duce Experientia, redduntur, recepta vulgo Insectorum Metamorphosis solide refutatur... Adjicitur dilucidatio ... Editio Nova. Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1733. 4to. With 13 engraved plates, including 8 folding, and 1 folding table. Further with a small woodcut ornamental vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and several head- and tailpieces. Early 19th-century half blind-tooled brown sheepskin and marbled paper sides.

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. · 1684

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

[20], "212" [= 210], [17], [1 blank] pp.Re-issue of the rare Latin translation first published in Utrecht, by Meinardus van Dreunen in 1684, of Swammerdam's famous work on the metamorphosis of insects. The original Dutch edition was published in 1669 also by Van Dreunen.Jan Sw...

Batailles de Charles X Gustave Roi de Suède... Stockholm, A.F. Skjöldebrand, 1806. Large oblong folio (52 x 68 cm). With an engraved title with aquatint vignette, engraved portrait by Sandrart after a painting by Ehrenstrahl, and 11 aquatint plates after drawings by Count Dahlberg and paintings by Lembke, engraved by Skjöldebrand, numbered I-XII, all in sepia. Contemporary half calf with marbled brown boards, gold-tooled spine.

SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik, Comte Erik Johansen DAHLBERG and Johann Philip LEMBKE. · 1757

€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)

[13] ll.First edition of a splendid series of sepia aquatints with battle scenes, engraved by Skjöldebrand (1757-1834) after drawings by Count Erik Johansen Dahlberg (1625-1703), as painted by Johann Philip Lembke (1631-1711). They glorify the military victories of Charles X G...

Merkwaardige schipbreuken en andere lotgevallen ter zee. Uit het Hoogduitsch.Amsterdam, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1822. 8vo. With engraved title page with aquatint vignette by W.H Hoogkamp after J. van Meurs. Contemporary wrappers.

[SHIPWRECKS]. · 1823

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

VI, 312 pp.Rare Dutch translation of a German compilation containing 16 narratives of various disasters at sea. Among the catastrophes described are the shipwreck of the Bengalore, the mutiny on the Bounty, the starvation on the Peggy (leading to cannibalism), and the adventur...

Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers, beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English Ramusio, Alamandini, Carreri, &c. in Italian ... Together with such other histories, voyages, travels, of discoveries, as are in general esteem; ... containing whatever has been observed worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ...London, Printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Bird (and 12 others), 1744-48. 2 volumes. Large folio (41 x 25 cm). With the title-pages printed in red and black, 22 maps (16 folding, 6 full-page), 2 full-page plans, 37 full-page plates, and numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf, richly gold-tooled spines with red morocco title labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, red edges.

HARRIS, John. · 1741

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

[12], XVI, [4], 984; [10], 1056, [10] pp.Second, enlarged and best edition of this famous collection of travels, journeys, and extensive descriptions of various countries all over the world. This edition "especially prized for its maps has been called the most complete by seve...

Vrij willige verkoopinge van een capitaale buitenplaats genaamd Wulperhorst, met annexe hofsteden en landen, by Zeyst.Utrecht, J. Vis, 1801. (Ca. 100 x 44 cm). With the text printed in red. Framed.

[AUCTION POSTER - COUNTRY ESTATE]. · 1717

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

Only survived (?) copy of an auction poster announcing the sale of the country estate Wulperhorst, originally dating from the 17th century. In the last half of the 18th century the estate came into the possession of lieutenant-stadtholder Willem Nicolaas Pesters (1717-1794) an...

[9 autograph letters, signed, mostly from the writer's time as Préfet maritime in Brest]. Brest, 22 February 1819 - 18 June 1829. Folio and 4to. Autograph letters in French, written in brown ink on single and double leaves of several laid and wove paper stocks. With: (2) GHÉMAR, Louis-Joseph. Duperré [lithographic portrait].Brussels, Charles Hen (printed by P. Degobert), dated 1842 by the artist.

DUPERRÉ, Admiral Guy-Victor. · 1775

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

[4]; [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank]; [2]; [2] pp.Significant collection of 9 autograph letters by Guy-Victor Duperré (1775-1846), a French admiral, Pair de France and three times Naval Minister. The letters, all s...