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[Two landscape drawings with grey and sepia wash of Eext, Drenthe].[The Netherlands, after 1772]. 2 drawings. Ca. 29.7 x 45 cm, and ca. 29 x 45 cm. Pen and ink with grey and sepia washes on paper. Both mounted on card.

DRIELST, Egbert van. · 1745

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

A rare and highly evocative pair of late 18th-century Dutch landscape drawings by Egbert van Drielst (1745-1818), depicting views of the village of Eext in the province of Drenthe. These works belong to the artist’s most important group of drawings, made during his regular vis...

Un an a Rome et dans ses environs. recueil de dessins lithographés, représentant les costumes, les usages et les cérémonies civiles et religieuses des états romains, et généralement tout ce qu'on y volt de remarquable pendant le cours d'une année; dessiné et publié ...Paris, Firmin Didot, 1830. Folio. With a lithographed vignette on the title page and 72 hand-coloured tinted lithograph plates by Jean-François Villain. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper sides.

THOMAS, Antoine Jean Baptiste. · 1742

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

[4], 44 pp.Second edition of Un an à Rome et dans ses environs, a remarkable coloured plate book offering a vivid panorama of the Eternal City during the pontificate of Pius VII (1742-1823), a moment poised delicately between tradition and transformation.The work stands as the...

De cierlycke voorsnydinge aller tafel-gerechten; onderwijsende hoe allerhande spijzen, zo wel op de vork als zonder dezelve, aardiglik konnen voorgesneden, en in bequame ordre omgedient worden. Alles met zinlicke konst-platen afgebeelt. Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1664. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates (1 folding, 31 full-page). Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints.

[GASTRONOMY - CARVING]. · 1629

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

96 pp.Rare first edition of one the finest and most extensively illustrated early works on culinary carving, describing and illustrating refined techniques, the order of serving, and the handling of various foods, including poultry, hare, rabbit, pork, veal, lamb, mutton, veni...

Groot Hoorns; Enkhuyser en Alkmaarder liede-boeck, versiert met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.Purmerend, Adriaen Munnik, [early 18th century]. Small 8vo (7.5 x 5 cm) With a woodcut illustration of a banquet on the title page, a near-full page woodcut illustration of a domestic scene on the verso of the title page, and 1 woodcut decorated initial at the start of the text. Further with music notation in the text. Contemporary red velvet over boards, with two ornate silver clasps on the fore edge. The catch- and anchorplates are slightly heart-shaped and show a bird among some foliage. Further with gilt edges and marbled endpapers.

[SONGBOOK]. · 1703

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

310, [10] pp.A luxuriously bound, extremely rare edition of one of the most popular Dutch songbooks of the 18th century. Songbooks such as these are also known as mopsjes and contain songs for weddings, funerals, as well as other occassions where people traditionally sang toge...

Manuel des arts d'agréments. Ou traité des différentes peintures, applications et procédés emproyés sur bois, sur etoffes et sur papiers.[France, ca. 1830-1840]. 8vo (ca. 19 x 14 cm). With 30 illustrations, including 4 folding leaves with 3 illustrations each. Half beige sheepskin and red leather-patterened paper sides.

[MANUSCRIPT - ART - PAINTING]. · 1830

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

[1], 56, [10 blank], [2] pp.An early 19th-century French manuscript is an illustrated treatise detailing a wide range of painting techniques, particularly those inspired by Chinese and Japanese practices, applied to materials different materials, including wood, silk, paper, a...

[Collection of 19 engineering photographs in Iran].[Iran, 1307-1308 AH (= 1928-1930 CE)]. Oblong album (24.5 x 29.6 cm). With 19 black and white photographs (ca. 23.1 x 17.1 cm) on thick dark blue/black paper. Mid-19th-century bright blue faux-leather, the front board features a pictorial on-lay within a rectangular frame, the illustration depicts a young woman in traditional costume holding a large ceramic vessel. The joints are laced through onto 2 supports.

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ENGINEERING - IRAN]. · 1928

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

[9] ll.Collection of 19 engineering photographs taken in Iran, dating from ca. 1928 to 1930 CE. The majority of the images are annotated with the year 1308 (????) AH (1929-1930 CE), while only photograph 7 is dated 1307 (????) AH (1928-1929 CE).The album documents large-scale ...

De walvischvangst, met veele byzonderheden daartoe betrekkelyk.Including: Beschryving der haringvisschery.Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, and Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1784-1786. 4 parts bound as 1. 4to. With 6 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved plates by H. Kobell and M. Sallieth, 3 additional folding and 10 full-page engraved plates. Every title page features a small woodcut illustration, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half marbled calf and marbled paper sides.

[JONG, Dirk de]. · 1786

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

VII, [1], 96; [4], 116; [4], 116; [4], 116 pp.First edition of a comprehensive survey of Dutch whaling, with the 4th part concluding with an article on herring fishing (Waarby eene beschryving der haringvisschery, pp. 91-114), which was also published separately in 1786. The a...

[Fungi painted by Colonel Houstoun of Clerkington].[Inverness, 1862-1863]. 4to (25 x 18 cm). With 41 watercolours of fungi on paper or card, most approximately 20 x 12 cm (sheet size), and 1 watercolour of a butterfly. Contemporary brown morocco over boards, rebacked with "FUNGI" stamped in gold on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers.

HOUSTOUN (of Clerkington), Colonel Alexander. · 1806

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

[2], 41, [5 blank] ll.A striking and highly accomplished album of original watercolours depicting mushrooms, toadstools, and other fungi, executed by the professional soldier and amateur naturalist Colonel Alexander Houstoun of Clerkington (1806-1874), formerly of the 4th (Que...

Goddelycke wenschen verlicht met sinne-beelden, ghedichten en vierighe uyt spraecken der Oud-Vaders. Naer ghevoilght de Latynsche vanden Eerw. P. Hermannus Hugo … door Justus de Harduyn P.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hendrick Aertssens, 1629. 8vo. With an engraved title page, a full-page engraved coat of arms, a full-page ornamental woodcut, 45 full-page engraved emblematical plates by Boëtius à Bolswert, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

HARDUWIJN, Justus de, and Hermann HUGO. · 1624

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

[16], "604" [=602], [6] pp.First edition of the first translation and adaptation of the most popular religious emblem book of the 17th century, Hermann Hugo’s Pia desideria (1624). The Goddelycke wenschen was intended for a Dutch audience that did not know Latin. De Harduwijn ...

Commentariorum de bello Germanico, à Carolo V. … gesto, libri duo à Gulielmo Malinaeo Brugensi latinè redditi, & iconibus ad historiam accommodis illustrati.Antwerp, In aedibus Joannes Steelsius, 1550. 8vo. With the printer’s device of Joannes Steelsius on the title page, 4 woodcut illustrations (a folding view, a double-page map, a double-page view, and a full-page view), and a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Emperor Charles V on the final page. Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a paper shelfmark label ("P) in the top compartment and the manuscript number "4" in white ink in the compartment below, the coat of arms of Christopher Popel the elder of Lobcowicz (1513-1590) in the centre of the front board with the initials “C. B. A. L. Ae. A” and the motto "Insigniae" above, and the date "MDLIII" below, surrounded by an ornamental and triple fillet border, on the back a cross built up from four fleur-de-lis ornaments framed by the same border, 4 green closing ties.

AVILA Y ZUÑIGA, Luis de, and Willem van MALE (translator). · 1546

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

[8], 144 ll.First Latin edition of an eyewitness account of the Schmalkaldic war (1546-1547), complete with all of the woodcuts, and bound in a beautiful armorial binding. It provides detailed accounts of the battles fought by Emperor Charles V against the Lutheran Schmalkaldi...

[Methodus utriusque juris].[Cologne], (colophon:) Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 24 December 1481. Folio. With an anonymous engraved portrait in a sprinkled frame on the verso of the second flyleaf, the whole rubricated in red. 18th-century gold-tooled beige calf.

[CIVIL AND CANON LAW]. · 1471

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

34 ll.First incunable edition of the Methodus utriusque iuris emerged from one of the most enterprising presses of the late 15th century, that of Johann Koelhoff the Elder (active ca. 1471-1487, died 1493).Koelhoff was not originally a printer. Born in Lübeck, he began his car...

Perspectiva, das ist kunst des absehens und augenmases ...Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1628. Folio. With an engraved title page, 80 engraved plates consisting of 275 illustrations signed by Hondius in the first leaf, and woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, blue edges.

MAROLOIS, Samuel. · 1572

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

[1], [1 blank], 95, [1 blank] pp.Rare first German edition of the richly illustrated and intellectually ambitious work by Samuel Marolois (ca. 1572-1627), standing at the intersection of art, mathematics, and applied science in the early seventeenth century. Marolois was a mil...

Figuras i descripciones de los murídeos de Chile.Santiago, National museum, 1900. Large 4to (33 x 28.5 cm). With 25 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Publisher's grey wrappers, with the title page on the front board.

PHILIPPI, Rudolph Amandus. · 1808

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

70 pp.Rare first and only edition of Figuras i descripciones de los murídeos de Chile by Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808-1904). It was published in 1900 in Santiago de Chile as issue 14a of the Anales del museo nacional de Chile, Zoología, under the authority of the Chilean gove...

The natural history of the Tineina.London, John van Voorst, 1855-1873. 13 volumes. 8vo. With 104 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth.

STAINTON, Henry Tibbats. · 1822

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

Each volume around 250-380 pp.A complete set of this monumental 19th-century entomological work, first and only edition, comprising 13 volumes published over nearly two decades and illustrated with 104 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. With the text arranged in paralle...

Oeuvres complètes, suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffroy St. Hilaire.Brussels, Th. Lejeune, 1828-1833. 20 volumes (14 text and 6 atlas). 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, a lithographed portrait of Daubenton, 2 lithographed emblematic frontispieces, 2 lithographed double-page maps of the Old and the New World, 6 numbered lithographed plates of teeth, 16 numbered lithographed plates of scientific instruments etc., and 6 numbered lithographed plates of seeds in the first 4 introductory volumes, lithographed frontispieces of a naked man, woman and child, and 26 lithographed plates of human heads and species, including 10 are nicely coloured by hand in volume 5 on the natural history of man, illustrations of mammals and mammalian anatomy on 469 lithographed plates, including 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10, and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates, all beautifully coloured by hand, and including 8 heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14. Contemporary half calf.

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. · 1707

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

Each volume ca. 500 pp.Fine complete set of a special edition of the works of George-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), the most important natural historian of his day, whose ground-breaking observations and classifications profoundly influenced biology, geology, and t...

Lepidoptera.Vienna, K-K hof & Staatsdruckerei, 1864-1875. 3 volumes. 4to (29 x 24 cm). With 139 (of 140) full-page lithographic plates showing 2487 butterflies and moths. Contemporary half dark blue cloth, marbled paper sides.

FELDER, Cajetan; Rudolf and Alois Friedrich ROGENHOFER. · 1857

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

[2], 20 pp. + 139 full-page platesFirst edition of a remarkable atlas, published as part of the zoological reports of the Austrian Novara expedition (1857-1859), the first official scientific circumnavigation of the globe undertaken by the Austrian Empire. The expedition, cond...

Pterophoridae of California and Oregon.London, John van Voorst, 1880. 8vo (24.9 x 15.7 cm). With 3 hand-coloured plates depicting 46 specimens, drawn by E.W. Robinson and printed from steel engravings. Later half light blue cloth.

WALSINGHAM, Thomas de Grey, Baron. · 1843

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

XVI, 66, [12] pp.First edition of a remarkable contribution to the study of North American microlepidoptera by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham (1843-1919), the esteemed English politician and amateur entomologist of Merton Hall, Norfolk. From an early age, Walsingham disp...

Oeuvres complètes d'Antoine-Raphaël Mengs ...Paris, à l'hôtel de Thou, 1786. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to (27.7 x 20.7 cm). With a small woodcut device on both title pages, and woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half beige calf.

MENGS, Anton Raphael, and José Nicolás de AZARA (editor). · 1741

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

[2], viij, [2], 354 (= 350), [4], 392, [2], [2 blank] pp.First French edition, translated from the Italian by Hendrik Jansen (1741-1812), of the collected theoretical writings of Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), one of the foremost painters and art theorists of the 18th centur...

Relation de la campagne en Brabant et en Flandres, de l'an M.DCC.XLVI.The Hague, sold by Pieter van Os, 1761. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 4 large folding leaves with the dispositions of the French troops, and 2 folding maps of battle fields, engraved by Kryt. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf.

ESPAGNAC, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Sahuguet d'Amarzit d'. · 1745

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

161, [1] pp.Rare account of the second year of the successful French campaign in Brabant and Flanders (1745-1747), from the library of Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Joséphine. The work focusses on the victories of Maurice of Saxony (1696-1750), Maréchal de France, a general ...

Scrutinio del libro eloges de M. de Voltaire par differens auteurs.Venice, Presso Modesto Fenzo, 1779. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, and 1 woodcut initial. Later gold-tooled brown morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. · 1725

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

96 pp.Rare first edition of Giacomo Casanova’s (1725-1798) sharply polemical booklet, dedicated to Doge Paolo Renier (1710-1789) and written in the summer of 1779 while he was convalescing in Abano. Published the year after Voltaire’s (1694-1778) death, the work critiques the ...