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Fascicul[us] mirre. Hier beghint een seer sonderlinghe ende devote materie van die passie ons Heren Jesu Cristi gheheten (dat busselkijn of dat bondekijn van mirre) vergadert ende gecompileert van eenen gheestelijcken ende seer verlichten broeder vander minrebroeders oerden van die familie der observanten in die provincie van Colen ...(Colophon:) Antwerp, Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 18 January 1518. 4to. With the first word of the title printed in red, 35 woodcut illustrations in the text (of which 8 repeats), with Christ's wounds coloured in red, and 53 decorated woodcut initials. The work is rubricated throughout. 17th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf.

[WEYNSEN, Matthias (editor)]. · 1480

€14,500.00 ($15,981.64 | £12,096.86 | ¥2,552,061)

[196] ll.One of the earliest Dutch editions of a highly popular devotional work, with 35 splendid woodcut illustrations by the Master of the Delbecq-Schreiber Passion, which are not present in most other editions. The text contains meditations on the life of Christ, especially...

Le parfait oeconome, contenant ce qu'il est utile & necessaire de sçavoir à tous ceux qui ont des biens à la campagne. [And with separate pagination:]Paris, Claude Prudhomme, 1710. With an emblematic woodcut publisher’s device.(2) C., I. [= J?]. Idée ou description d'une maison de campagne. Maison, Basse-court & jardins.[Paris, Claude Prudhomme, 1710]. (3) [C., J.?]. Traité de la maniere de semer dans toutes les saisons de l'année toutes fortes de graines & plantes, tant potageres que fleurs & oignons de fleurs, graines d'arbres & autres.Paris, Claude Prudhomme, 1710. With the same woodcut device as ad 1.(4) [Jean MERLET, and/or Claude SAINT-ESTIENNE?]. [Drop-title:] Nouvelle instruction pour connoistre les bons fruits, selon les mois de l'année.[Paris, Claude Prudhomme, ca. 1710/15?]. With a woodcut headpiece, woodcut decorated initial and a decorative band of typographic ornaments. 12mo in 4s and 8s. 4 works in 1 volume. Contemporary sprinkled calf.

ROSNY, Monsieur de. · 1679

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

[8], 131, [1 blank]; 39, [1 blank]; 54; 48 pp.Rare collection of four works on the country life, the ideal estate or manor house and housekeeping of such an estate, on sowing seeds of plants, herbs, vegetables, grains, etc. in all seasons, and on all kinds of fruits. Each work...

Istruzione per il servizio de bastimenti della Real Marina di guerra.Naples, 1800. 8vo. With the engraved coat of arms of King Ferdinand IV of Naples on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled "marbled" calf with tan and blue spots on a chemically darkened background.

[ACTON, Sir John Francis Edward & Antonius Count of THURN and Valsassina]. · 1723

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

86 pp.Only known copy of a manual with rules and regulations for maintenance of the ships of the Royal Marine at Naples, the handling of the equipment, the composition, the punishments, how to salute with the canons, the division of booty, etc., published during an interesting...

A new mape of ye XVII provinces of Low Germanie.[London], George Humble, 1626. 41 x 53 cm. Engraved map with hand coloured borders, probably by Pieter van den Keere (1571-after 1646). Incorporating a fine compass-rose with 32 rhumb lines and names of the wind-directions, a coat of arms of France, a title-cartouche, a legend ("A catalogue of the cities et [!] villages in everie Province") and an indication of scale (ca. 1:1.120.000). The map is topped by 8 hand coloured miniature profiles of major cities and bordered by hand coloured figures in local costume at the left (5 male figures) and right (5 female figures). Framed.

SPEED, John [and Pieter van der KEERE?]. · 1627

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

Very fine and attractive map in its first edition, as published in John Speed's A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World (London, 1627). The very successful map was republished in 1654 (in two different states) and 1674. Its decorative border incorporates profiles of A...

De belydenis van een lichtmis ...[The Netherlands, ca. 1770]. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates. Contemporary red half roan, gold-tooled spine.

[EROTICA].

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

[2], 184 pp.Second copy located of the first and only edition of "Confessions of a libertine", an 18th-century Dutch picaresque, erotic novel in which the principal narrator Karel tells his fiancée Charlotte about his promiscuous past. The story starts with how his father met ...

Le château Roial de Ryswick appellée de Neubourg avec les differens apartemens ou se tiennent les conferences de la paix generale.- Het koninklyke kasteel tot Ryswyck. Genaamt Nieuwburg, met alles des selfs kamers en gezigten, in 't bysonder, daar de conferentien der algemeene vreede gehouden werden, &c.The Hague, Anna Beek, [1697]. Folio (33 x 20.5 cm). With a double-page title in red and black, 13 double-page engraved views (ca. 22 x 27 cm) on guards of Nieuwburg castle, 12 of which signed by Jan van Vianen. Contemporary quarter red sheepskin, marbled paper sides.

[VIANEN, Jan van (illustrator)]. · 1650

€5,950.00 ($6,557.98 | £4,963.88 | ¥1,047,225)

[14] double-page ll.Extremely rare series of views of the castle of Nieuwburg at Rijswijk, with an extra plate. The castle, which was owned by the Dutch king William III (1650-1703), was the location where the Peace of Ryswick was signed, the treaty that ended the Nine Years' ...

De Roomsche historie oft gesten, door den alder welsprekensten ende vernaemsten histori-schrijver Titum Livium beschreven. Waer uut niet alleen alle wereltlijcke staten tot vromicheyt ende ridderlijcke manlijcke feyten beweecht ende ghedronghen, maer oock alle ander staten tot grooter recreatien ende gheneuchten des herten ghetrocken sullen worden.Leiden, Jan Paedts Jacobszoon & Jan Bouwensz., 1585. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a general title-page and three divisional titles. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over thick bevelled wooden boards with modern leather ties and straps.

LIVIUS, Titus. · 1579

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

[12], 301 ll.Rare second edition (the first in the northern Low Countries) of the first Dutch translation of Livius’s monumental and well-known history of Rome: Historiarum ad urbe condita, in four parts, from Rome’s founding, traditionally dated to 753 BCE, through the reign ...

[Collection of medical and satirical drawings, prints and broadsides].Western Europe, ca. 1550-1970.

[VAN GELDER COLLECTION]. · 1937

€97,500.00 ($107,462.74 | £81,340.94 | ¥17,160,411)

Remarkable collection of pharmaceutical prints, drawings, and broadsides from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, illustrating four centuries of the history of pharmacy. The collection was assembled by J.B. van Gelder (1937-2004), a pharmacist in Gorinchem and an avid coll...

Opera. De medicamentorum purgantium delectu, castigatione, & usu, libri duo ...Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 1581. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (23 x 34 cm). With 39 woodcut illustrations in the text. Near-contemporary vellum.

MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger). · 1478

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

[8], 272; [6], 277, [1 blank], [12] ll.Second illustrated edition, the first with the commentary of Costaeus, of the collected works of the Arabic physician Masawaih al-Mardini (also known as Mesue the younger, d. 1015), in Latin, with commentaries by Mondino de Liuzzi (ca. 12...

Examen omnium catapotiorum, vel pilularum, quarum apud pharmacopolas usus est.Lyon, Jean Pullon, 1545. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum.

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. · 1500

€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)

188, [4] pp.Rare second edition of an examination of all the pills that were commonly used in apothecaries, dedicated to Alphonso d'Este, then the son of the duke of Ferrara, Italy. The work was written by Antonio Musa Brassavola (or Brasavola, 1500-1555), he was one of the mo...

De gekroonde penne konst.[The Netherlands, 1807]. ca. 38.5 x 28 cm. Under a white and gold passe-partout, framed in a gold frame with a black fillet (ca. 57 x 46 cm).

ZUTPHEN, Hendrik van (junior). · 1806

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

Hand-coloured and heightened with gold Dutch calligraphic composition celebrating the art of penmanship. The upper section is ornamented with two crossed quill pens surmounted by a royal crown, symbolising the dignity and mastery of the writing art. Below is a meticulously dra...

Leerschool der apothekers, of, beknopte tafelen der artsenijmengkunde, ten gebruike der leerlingen, en der zoodanigen welke zich voorbereiden tot het doen van hun examen.Rotterdam, P. and J. Holsteyn, 1809. Folio (ca. 44.5 x 26 cm). With 10 double-page tables, and a half-page engraving of pharmaceutical tools and equipment by Hendrik Roosing (1763-1826). Original publisher's blue printed wrappers.

TROMMSDORFF, Johann Bartholomäus and C. G. REYNHOUT (translator). · 1770

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

VIII, 14 pp.Extremely scarce first Dutch edition of an educational work for pharmacy students in the early nineteenth century, intended to help them prepare for their examinations. The work was originally published by Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff (1770-1837) as Die Apotheke...

Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis veterum. Specimen exhibens novae versionis ex Arabico, cum commentario uberiori. Cui accedit altera, de vermiculis capillaribus infantium.Augsburg, Theophil Goebel, 1674. 4to (15.5 x 20.8 cm). With the title page printed in red and black, an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait, and 13 engraved plates. 18th-century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with the author and title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges.

WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus. · 1642

€28,000.00 ($30,861.10 | £23,359.45 | ¥4,928,118)

[54], 456, [120] pp.Only edition of this rare monograph, an "exhaustive survey of dracontiasis" (Garrison/M.). The text describes the infection with the tropical disease dracunculiasis (or dracontiasis, Guinea worm disease). A person becomes infected by drinking water that is ...

Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.Kehl, Société Littéraire Typographique, 1785-1789. 92 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and a portrait of the author in volume 1. Further with 18 portraits (including 4 repeats on different paper), 106 plates (including 17 repeats on different paper), 14 folding mathematical plates in volume 31 (on Newton’s physics), 1 engraved map, and 10 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary uniform marbled calf.

VOLTAIRE. · 1694

€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)

All volumes vary between approximately 350 and 600 pages. The majority have ca. 450-500 pp.Attractive set of the first issue of the famous Kehl edition of the complete works by Voltaire (pseudonym of François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) and with introductions and notes by Nicolas...

Icon hepatis feutus octimestris, quam, impletis ...Utrecht, Bartholomeus Wild & Johannes Altheer, 1789. Large 4to. With an engraved plate, containing two illustrations printed in colour, depicting two sides of the liver of an eight-month-old foetus (showing filled arterial vessels, expressed in their natural colour). Further with a woodcut vignette on the title page and a large woodcut tailpiece on p. 8. Unbound, kept together by a thin strip of paper glued along the spine.

BLEULAND, Jan. · 1756

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

8, [1], [1 blank] pp.Original and only edition of this celebrated anatomical treatise written by Jan Bleuland (1756-1838), a highly distinguished Dutch physician at Gouda and later - in part thanks to this publication - professor of medicine and anatomy at Utrecht University. ...

Breeder verhael ende klare beschrijvinge van tghene den admirael Cornelis Matelief de Jonge inde Oost-Indien voor de stadt Malacca, ende int belegh der zelver wederbaren is: als ooc den vreesselijcken strijdt ter zee / tusschen den admirael voorschreven ende de portugijsen ende andere geschiedenissen meer. overgeschreven by eenen der commisen inde vlote.Rotterdam, Jan Janssz., 1608. 4to. With a woodcut illustration on the title page representing a fleet arriving at the port of Malacca, one woodcut initial and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco.

[L'HERMITE, Jacques]. · 1605

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

[9] ll.Rare first edition of an important early account of the Dutch East India Company’s second major expedition to Southeast Asia (1605-1606), commanded by Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (1569-1632). The present work is generally attributed to Jacques L’Hermite (1582-1624), who...

Histoire des ordres religieux et militaires, ainsi que des congrégations séculières de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont été établies jusqu'à présent ...Paris, Louis, 1792. 8 volumes. 4to. With 812 full-page hand-coloured engravings, along with woodcut devices on the title pages and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, volume number set within black circular label, the initials “P.W.S.” lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers.

HELYOT, Pierre. · 1660

€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)

Each volume around 400-500 pp.Third edition of one of the most ambitious and comprehensive early modern surveys of religious life in Europe. Conceived and largely written by Pierre Hélyot (1660-1716), and completed after his death by Maximilien Bullot (d. 1748), the work repre...

Malay peninsula (straits settlements & federated Malay states).Medan, 1907. Oblong folio (36.3 x 45.5 cm) With 172 photogravures, 1 illustrated map of the Malay Peninsula in colour, and 1 illustrated diagram of the fruit of the rubber tree on 72 leaves, together with a title leaf. 73 loose leaves kept in a decorated black cloth portfolio, with "Malay Peninsula" stamped in white and gold along with some gold-stamped decorations and a ca. 27 x 11 cm. photogravure of a trapped tiger on the front board. The pastedowns and tabs are covered with gold floral paper.

KLEINGROTHE, Charles J. · 1864

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

[73] ll.Rare and luxurious portfolio of photogravures depicting the Malay Peninsula just after the turn of the century, comprising of a title leaf, a map of the Malay Peninsula in colour, and 173 finely executed photogravures on 71 leaves. The plates show views of Penang (16 l...

Mensa Isiaca, qua sacrorum apud Aegyptios ratio & simulacra subjectis aeneis simul exhibentur & explicantur.Including: PIGNORIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo PIGNORIO). Magnae deum matris idaeae & attidis initia.And: TOMASINUS, Jacobus Philippus. Manus aeneae, cecropii votum referentis, dilucidatio.Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1669. 2 works published and bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece (with Egyptian and other antiquities), a general title page with a small engraved scene, 3 divisional title pages, the first two with the same larger engraving (a small scene similar to that on the general title page, but flanked by figures of Minerva/Athena and Mercury/Hermes), the frontispiece, large engraving and probably the unsigned small engraving by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 1 full-page engraved plate outside of collation, 5 full-page engraved plates in the text, and 16 smaller engravings in the text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with the gold-stamped coat of arms of Arnhem on both boards, (faded) manuscript title on the spine, remnants of green ties.

PIGNORIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo PIGNORIO). · 1605

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

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [6], 96, [12]; [1], [1 blank], [6], 96 pp.First issue of the third and best edition of two important works on Egyptian archaeology, the first edition with this title and form, originally published together, written by Lorenzo Pignorius. The firs...

[Two albums with medical photos from the early 20th century].[The Netherlands, first half of the 20th century]. 2 volumes. Ca. 22.2 x 32 cm. With 88 photographs mounted onto the leaves (mostly gelatin silver prints), 7 photographs loosely inserted, and 3 loosely inserted folded documents. 19th-century faux reptile leather, side sewn through 3 holes with thick cord.

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MEDICINE - X-RAY]. · 1920

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

[10]; [13] ll.Remarkable collection of 95 medical photographs from the early 20th century. The collection includes X-rays of various parts of the human body, together with photographs documenting a wide range of medical conditions, including oedema, leprosy, and facial paralys...