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Engelske capitainens Wilhelm Blighs resa, genom Södra Werlds-Hafvet, tolf hundrade sjömil i öpen bät, frän Tofoa till Timor. Including: Nyaste tidningar frän Otahiti.Uppsala, Joh. Edmans Enka, "1792" [= 1793]. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on title page, two woodcut headpieces and a woodcut tailpiece, and a divisional title for the appendix with the latest news from Tahiti. With “resa” set in rococo decorated roman capitals on the title page and Bligh’s name in script capitals. Contemporary blue stiff paper wrappers.

BLIGH, William. · 1789

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

119 [=117], [1], [2 blank] pp.Very rare second edition of the first Swedish translation (abridged) of William Bligh's account of his voyage to Tahiti as commander of the Bounty and the mutiny and subsequent open-boat voyage of part of the crew in 1789, "one of the most remarka...

Beschryvinge van Moscovien ofte Ruslant: gestelt in twee deelen.Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1615. Small 4to (17.5 x 13.5 cm). With the title in a border built up from 4 woodcuts, 2 woodcut initials and a wood-cut head- and tailpiece. 19th-century half sheepskin.

DANCKAERT, Jan.

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

75, [1 blank] pp.First edition of one of the best early Dutch books on Russia by Jan Danckaert. It is divided into two parts, the first part deals with the history of the country, while the second part discusses its religion, customs, laws, costumes, etc., including several ch...

Nachrichten von der Amerikanische Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebt hat.Mannheim, Churfürstliche Hof und Academie Buchdruckerey, 1772. 8vo. With an engraved folding map and two full-page plates engraved by E. Verelst, some woodcut pictorial frames for letters, and several nice woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf.

[BAEGERT, Jakob]. · 1717

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

[16], 358 pp.; [1] errata l.First edition of a rare Americanum. Jakob Baegert (1717-1772), a German Jesuit, wrote an interesting and by no means glowing account of the natives and the country "California" (the Baja Peninsula). Cowan comments in his note that, "according to his...

Verzeichniss der verschiedenen Arten und Abarten des Geschlechts Aloe, welche von den Herren von Willdenow, Haworth, de Candolle und Freiherrn von Jacquin beschrieben worden sind, oder noch unbeschrieben in den Gärten Deutschlands, Frankreichs und der Niederlanden sich befinden. [Schloss Dyck, near Dusseldorf, 1817]. 8vo. Original blue coated paper wrappers.

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. · 1773

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

8, 73, [1 blank] pp.German edition of a detailed catalogue of succulents, covering the family Alooideae. Also published in French, both editions with descriptions in Latin. Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (1773-1861) started collecting succulents at Schloss Dyck in 1800 after consort...

Nouvelle traduction de la fille de joye. Par Mr. Cleland, contenant les mémoires de mlle. Fanny, écrite par elle-même.London [= Bern?], 1776. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 4 engraved plates. Half sheepskin parchment (ca. 1810?), shell-marbled sides.

CLELAND, John. · 1751

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

101, [1 blank]; 116 pp.Extremely rare pirated edition of the Memoirs of a woman of pleasure, or Fanny Hill, probably printed in Switzerland. The first, "very much abridged" (Ashbee) French translation of the book was published anonymously in 1751 and is commonly attributed to ...

Afbeelding van de Oostzijde der Muijder Poort te Amsterdam, na dat dezelve tussen den 29 en 30 Januarij 1769 bij na 16 voeten diep in de grond gezakt was. [Netherlands], 1772. (23 x 29 cm). Original pen drawing. With:(2) KEUN, Hendrik. Afbeelding van de Muyderpoort te Amsterdam, zo als die zig vertoonde, na dat dezelve tussen den 29 en 30 Jannuary 1769 by de 16 voeten in de grond gezakt was.Amsterdam, F.W. Greebe, [1769]. (22 x 28.7 cm)(3) KEUN, Hendrik. Afbeelding van de Muyderpoort te Amsterdam, zoo als die ingezakt synde, van buiten af te zien zig vertoond.Amsterdam, F.W. Greebe, [1769]. (21.7 x 28.2 cm.Two engraved views with captions below the image, both signed "H. Keun Fecit" in the plate.

[AMSTERDAM]. PHILIPS, Caspar Jacobsz. · 1732

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

A very nice and historically interesting drawing by Caspar Jacobsz. Philips (1732-1789), the well known Amsterdam draughtsman, engraver and etcher, art historian, author and publisher, together with two engravings. Although the two prints do not mention the name of Caspar Phil...

Mémoire pour retraitte.[Valnheim], 26 November 1793. Signed manuscript letter, in French, written in brown ink in two columns on one side of a folio leaf (32 x 20.5 cm).

LEFEBVRE, François-Joseph. · 1738

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

Manuscript application for a pension for Captain Jean Antoine Rostaing (b. 20 October 1738), who had served the army for more than 40 years. In the first column the military career of this captain is listed, from Lieutenant to Captain, serving at campaigns of 1759-1762. The le...

Voyage imaginaire. Poème. Chant 1-4.Adegeest (manor house at Voorschoten, between The Hague and Leiden), 1853. Large 4to (27 x 21.5 cm). Loose quires in cover: marbled boards joined together by a spine of red painted sheepskin, green ties.

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH - IMAGINARY VOYAGE]. · 1853

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

[2], V, 81, 120, VI, 132, 131 pp.Extensive autograph poetical work in four “Chants”, provided with elaborate notes, containing a romantic imaginary voyage in French verses. The anonymous author - indicating himself with his initials "J.F. v. H. (St.?)" - has composed the poem ...

La veille d'Austerlitz. With: (2) La Nuit de Lodi. (3) Clémence de l'empéreur.Paris, Ulysse, [1814 or 1815]. Three (from a set of four?) jigsaw puzzles (each 19.5 x 24.5 cm), each comprising an engraved print mounted on thin wood, coloured by a contemporary hand and cut to form a jigsaw puzzle, with an engraved caption and short description below the image. Kept in the original publisher’s paperboard box covered with green paper, with an etched and engraved sample print for a fourth puzzle (with a caption headed “Équité de l'empereur”) mounted on the top, coloured by a contemporary hand and framed with strips of gilt paper embossed with a decorative pattern. Each puzzle with the original pink paper wrap-around slip preserved.

[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - PUZZLES]. · 1769

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

A nice and colourful set of jigsaw puzzles depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), 2 of the puzzles and the sample plate with address «Ulysse Paris» engraved in the image. Each puzzle has 20 pieces. The first depicts Napoleon Bonaparte calmly sleeping...

[Naturhistorisches Original-Thierwerk].[Augsburg, Engelbrecht, 1825]. Oblong folio. With 127 numbered engraved plates including frontispiece incorporating a small portrait of Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) in profile on a base with his name and profession, surrounded by animals, and plates showing all kinds of animals classified in 9 (of 10) sections. Lacking the title-page and part of the text, but with all plates complete. Contemporary diced half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.

RIDINGER, Johann Elias. · 1730

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

28 pp. plus 127 plates.Rare edition of a very fine series of attractive animal prints, originally published in 7 instalments, here lacking the general title-page and section 1. The extremely rare first edition, with the title Das in seiner großen Mannigfaltigkeit und in seinen...

Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonycke boeken des Oude en des Nieuwen Testaments ...Amsterdam, Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1676.With: (2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament ... Amsterdam, for Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1677.(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. De CL Psalmen des propheten Davids ... Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15.3 x 9.3 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved general title page, the woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on the verso of the title page, a small woodcut decorated initial , and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, the woodcut coat of arms below the "acte van consent" on the verso of the title page, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, all psalms are accompanied by musical notation. Late 18th- or early 19th-century brown sheepskin with late 17th-century silver fittings, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges.

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. · 1645

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

338; [2], "109" [= 107], [1 blank]; [98] ll.Very scarce, early edition of the Dutch States Bible as published by the Amsterdam publisher's "company" of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, and Hendrik and Dirk Boom. The present copy presumably was a gift to...

Miroir Oost & West-Indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres navigations, faictes es années 1614. 1615. 1616. 1617. & 1618.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius [printed by Izaak Elzevier?], 1621. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 23 cm). With 24 (of 25) engraved plates, including 5 double-page and 10 larger folding. Modern vellum.

SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Jacob Le MAIRE. · 1568

€16,500.00 ($18,186.00 | £13,765.39 | ¥2,904,070)

[4], 172 pp.First and only edition of the French translation of one of the bestsellers of illustrated 17th-century travel literature, describing one of the most famous early voyages around the world by Joris van Spilbergen (1568-1620), a veteran Dutch East Indies naval officer...

Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of the printed books preserved at Haigh Hall, Wigan Co. Pal. Lancast.Abdereen, Aberdeen University Press, 1910. 4 volumes. Folio. Original publisher's cloth, tops gilt.

[LINDSAY, James].

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

First edition of the catalogue of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana, the family library of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, one of the most renonwed private collections of 19th-century Britain. Number 130 of 200 copies printed. Spines damaged at head and foot.

Manuel du Librairie et de l'amateur de livres.Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, Fild, et Cie, 1860-1880. 8 volumes (6 volumes + 2 supplement volumes). Large 8vo. Contemporary half morocoo.

BRUNET, Jacques-Charles.

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

Last and best edition of this legendary work. Although obsolete from a bibliographical point of view, and not always accurate, it is still useful for its collations, learned annotations and the many very rare items described. From a sentimental point of view, this is a desirab...

[Collection of emblematic and monogram plates from 4 series].Nürnberg, Johann Christoph Weigel, [ca. 1726 (engraved ca. 1700 - ca. 1726)]. 16 x 11 cm. With 14 engraved plates (plate size 13 x 19 cm) bound as double-page plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

[EMBLEMATA & MONOGRAMS]. · 1661

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

A collection of 14 engraved plates from 3 different emblematic works and a work on monograms, all published by Johann Christoph Weigel (1661-1726) in Nürnberg. Praz and others attribute items 2-4 to his father, the great Nürnberg engraver Christoph Weigel (1654-1725), who may ...

Zemire en Azor, zangspel. Met konstwerken en balletten. Gevolgd naar het Fransche.Amsterdam, Jan Helders, Abraham Mars, 1783. 8vo. With an engraved title page including a vignette by H.L. Meyling, a letterpress title page with an emblematic engraved vignette by Reinier Vinkeles. Extra added in this copy are an additional letterpress title page, also dated "1783", but with a portrait of Pieter Pijpers engraved by Theodorus Koning dated 1789, accompanied by the letterpress explanatory leaf with a poem "Op myne afbeelding door Theodorus Koning", dated 1789, signed by Pijpers in brown ink. Further with 3 extra added engraved plates (2 full-page and 1 half-page), plus 1 repeated in an earlier state with no lettering, depicting scenes from the play by various Dutch artists (A. Fokke, H.L. Myling, W. Immink, A. Hulk Jacobsz), 1 dated 1784. And finally with 6 engraved plates by various French artists, made for the original French edition. The engraved title is richly coloured and highlighted with gold (incl. the lettering) by a contemporary hand. The 6 French plates are splendidly coloured and highlighted with gold and gum arabic by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with one brown and a green morocco title label lettered in gold and fleurons in the remaining compartments, sprinkled paper sides.

MARMONTEL, Jean François and Pieter PIJPERS. · 1771

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

[16], 76, [2] pp.Splendid copy, luxuriously extra-illustrated 5 years after the original publication, of the first edition of Pijpers's Dutch adaptation of Marmontel's 1771 Zémire et Azor, a version of the fairytale Beauty and the beast. It is signed in brown ink by the author...

Falconry in the British isles.London, John van Voorst, 1855. 4to (29 x 19.5 cm). With 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates by William Brodrick. Original publisher’s blind- and gold-blocked cloth, front board with title and large illustration of a falcon.

SALVIN, Francis Henry and William BRODRICK. · 1817

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

VII [1 blank], 147 [1 blank] pp.First edition of a complete and important treatise on the art of falconry by Francis Henry Salvin (1817-1904), in which he describes the various species of birds used in England, both hawks and falcons. ''The best English book on falconry and a ...

Papers relating to Captain Manby's plan for affording relief in cases of shipwreck: viz. Copies of instructuions, given by His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the purpose of carrying into effect the plan of Captain Manby, for affording relief in cases of shipwreck.[London, House of Commons, 1816]. Folio. With several woodcuts and wood engravings of the inventions in text. Sewn.

MANBY, George William. · 1765

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

37, [1 blank] pp.Rare compilation of papers for the parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly found bound in series, related to a plan concerning the rescue of shipwrecked persons. The proposal included the placement throughout the country of so-called "Manby mortars" through...

Nouveau traité de la perspective des ombres, et de la théorie des reflets, a l'usage des artistes et des ecoles de dessin.Paris, M.A. Sautelet, [1826]. 4to. With 27 folding engraved perspectival plates. Contemporary quarter green buckram with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, brown sprinkled edges, marbled end papers.

CLINCHAMP, François Étienne Victor de. · 1787

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

[4], IV, 240 pp.Rare original edition of a treatise on the perspective of shadows and the theory of reflection, written for the benefit of artists and students at schools of design. François Étienne Victor de Clinchamp (1787-ca. 1850) was raised to join the navy, and for that ...

Sent-brief, in welcke hy antwoorde gheeft aen een seker groot Heer op de vraghe, welck van dryen den Coninck van Hispaengien best gheraden ware, oorloghe of pays oft liever bestant met den Fransman, Engelsche ende Hollander. Gheschreven den derden Januarij 1595. Ghetrouwelijck uyt den Latijn in Nederduytsche tale over-gheset, ende (soo veel alst moghelijcken is) den stijl ghevolcht.Dusseldorf, Werner van der Horst, 1608. 4to. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece. Disbound.

LIPSIUS, Justus. · 1595

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

[7], [1 blank] pp.One of at least five issues of this translation of a Latin letter by Justus Lipsius to Francisco de San Víctores de la Portilla dated Louvain January 3, 1595, in which the author makes clear his thoughts on the foreign politics Spain should aim for. According...