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[Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu] America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq, nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo...[Bologna, Giuseppe Longhi?, 1673]. Ca. 86 x 110 cm. A hand-coloured engraved wall map, printed on 4 joined sheets.

[TODESCHI, Pietro]. · 1571

€65,000.00 ($71,641.83 | £54,227.29 | ¥11,440,274)

Large, very rare, hand-coloured copy of Willem Blaeu's famous wall map of the Americas, which is considered "one of the most influential maps of America ever made" (Burden). The map is based on the latest explorations and shows everything known at the time about the American c...

Rede betreffende de ramp, veroorzaakt door de werking van den vulkaan Rakata (Krakataoe) in 1883.[The Hague, the author], 1884. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). Original publisher's gold- and blind-stamped bright blue cloth.

[GROOT, Cornelis de]. · 1883

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

39, [1 blank] pp.Scarce lecture on the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa in Indonesia, which was the deadliest and most destructive volcanic event in recorded history. As it had taken place in a Dutch overseas territory, the event was primarily researched by Dutch scientists. The ...

Has ludentis otii Carolo Rubeo singularis amicitiae pignus D.D.D.[Rome, ca. 1725]. 4to. With an etched frontispiece and 59 full-page etchings (of which 1 duplicate), all signed in the plate. Mid- to late 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf.

ROSA, Salvator. · 1656

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

[60] ll.Exceptionally rare series of 60 etchings printed from the original copperplates, in beautiful dark impressions, and with wide margins. The etchings are part of Salvator Rosa's famous Figurine series, which "were so widely copied and forged that they can lay claim to be...

Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, haar eerste oorspronk uyt den Huyze der Heeren van Aemstel en Aemstellant … Uyt verscheyde oude en nieuwe Hollandsche Kronijcken, Beschrijvingen, Brieven, Willekeuren, &c. by een vergadert … Amsterdam, Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1665. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 8 engraved plates (1 folding, 7 double-page), and 111 engravings in the text. Slightly later gold-tooled mottled calf.

[DOMSELAER, Tobias van, Arnoldus MONTANUS, Isaak COMMELIN, Olfert DAPPER and others]. · 1663

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

[8], 284, [2], 312, 446, [114] pp.First and only edition of an extensive and important history and description of Amsterdam, richly illustrated with nearly 120 maps, plans, and views. It is a compilation of several of the most important works on Amsterdam, published separately...

Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printer’s device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges.

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. · 1590

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

[88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp.First edition of this famous description glorifying the city of Haarlem, and one of the main early sources for the legend that Laurens Jansz. Coster was the actual inventor of the art of printing. The description itself, which is largely i...

Sommige uytgelesene colloquia, ofte tsamen-spreeckinghen Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ende Luciani Samosatensis, niet min godsalich nut ende stichtelijck, dan tijdtcortich ende gheneuchelijck om lessen … Beyde in de Neder-Duytsche sprake overgeset, door Andream van Oosterbeeck.Utrecht, Jan Amelisz, 1613. 4to. With a woodcut printer’s device on the title page and the rare full-page engraved portrait of Erasmus (which is lacking in at least 2 of the 4 copies known) in an oval. On the verso of this portrait is a laudatory "Klanck-Ghedicht" (sonnet) for Erasmus, between typographical borders; the same borders on leaf. p2r: the privilege by the States General (verso blank). Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum.

ERASMUS, Desiderius, LUCIAN of SAMOSATA, and Andreas van OOSTERBEECK (translator). · 1584

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

[18], 141, [3] ll.Very rare first and only edition of a collection of 27 colloquia (dialogues) by Erasmus and 13 by Lucian (of Samosata, ca. 125-after 180 CE). The colloquia were translated into Dutch by Andreas van Oosterbeeck (fl. 1584-ca. 1620), a minister in Abcoude (1590)...

[Portfolio with vivid portraits of famous painters and illustrations based on famous works of art].[France or Belgium?], 1809-1811. Portfolio: ca. 75.5 x 60 cm. With 15 large format portraits (all 65.5 x 48 cm. except the last portrait: 49 x 38 cm), executed in chalk and colour, all signed by the artist "B. Bevier" and dated between 1809 and 1811. All manuscript captions are written by the same hand in brown ink. All portraits are mounted on otherwise blank leaves in a large portfolio. Later half calf.

[BEVIER, B.]. · 1809

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

[1 blank], [15] ll.Impressive portfolio with detailed and striking portraits of famous painters and other portraits based on famous works of art of the Old Masters. The present set of portraits is especially remarkable, since all illustrations are executed and signed by the sa...

Journal du voyage fait a la Mer du Sud, avec les filibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684 & années suivantes.Paris, Jean Baptise Coignard, 1689. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 headpieces built up from typographical materials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf.

LUSSAN, Raveneau de. · 1684

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

[16], 448, [3], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a highly entertaining work on buccaneers. This account of the author's two years of buccaneering (1684-86) in the West Indies and the Pacific coast between Guatemala and Chile, presents both the romantic and bleak sides of pirate l...

Epanaphora Indica na qual se dà noticia da viagem, que o illustrissimo, et excellentissimo senhor Marquez de Castelo Novo fez com o cargo de Vice-Rey ao Estado da India, e dos primeiros progressos do seu governo; e se referem tambem os successos da viagem do excellentissimo, e rev.mo senhor D. Fr. Lourenco de Santa Maria, Arcebispo Metropolitano de Goa, Primaz da Azia Oriental …Lisbon, Parts 1-5: unknown; part 6: Francisco da Silva, 1746-1753. 6 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With a large, folding, engraved map of Goa, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Later quarter vellum.

MASCARENHAS, José Freire de Monterroyo. · 1688

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

59, [1 blank]; 70; [20], 67, [1 blank]; [2], 109, [1 blank]; [2], 86; [12], 72 pp.Rare complete set of the six parts of the first and only edition of a very detailed Portuguese account of Goa during the reign of the Viceroy Pedro Migues de Almeida (1688-1756), who governed the...

Prodigioso milagre de S. Francisco Xavier. Saude restituida a Alexandre Philipuccio da Companhia de Jesu: em doze de Março de 1658.Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1659. Small 4to. With a decorated woodcut initial and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary limp vellum, with a later shelfmark label mounted on the front.

SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER (subject). · 1506

€6,850.00 ($7,549.95 | £5,714.72 | ¥1,205,629)

20 pp.Exceptionally rare pamphlet in honour of one of the miracles performed by Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1522), the founder of the Jesuits, and the leader of the first Christian mission to Japan. In 1659, the Portuguese Jesuit congregation organised a novena devoted to him, ...

Birds’ nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds.Illustrated. Calcutta, Calcutta Central Press Co., 1877. 8vo. With 13 full-page lithographed plates by Marshall. Original publisher's blind stamped brown buckram, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, a double border on both boards.

MARSHALL, Captain George Frederick Leycester. · 1843

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

[6], ii, 184 pp.First edition of a guide to the nesting habits and breeding seasons of birds in India. It includes detailed information on various bird species, their habitats, and behaviours, organised by breeding month. The work also features illustrations and maps to aid bi...

The Book of Proverbs, in Sanskrit verse. Translated from the Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries.Calcutta, Printed for the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1862. 8vo (ca. 21 x 14 cm). The work is printed in Sanskrit, using Bengali characters. Original pale green wrappers.

[YATES, William and John WENGER (translators)]. · 1790

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

[1], [1 blank], 76 pp.Very scarce Baptist Mission Press imprint, with a Sanskrit translation of the Book of Proverbs. The Baptist Missionaries first arrived in Calcutta (present day Kolkata) in the 1790s. They quickly learned the language, and proceeded to translate the Bible ...

Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 1. Memoria descriptiva.Holguín, 1 September 1898. With: (2) NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 2. Planos.Holguín, 1 September 1898. 2 documents. Folio. With a double-page manuscript map, 2 full-page manuscript maps, and 4 manuscript plans on tissue paper. Ad 1: Original wrappers, side stiched through 3 holes, with the manuscript title on the front. Ad 2: unbound.

NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. · 1895

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

[16] pp.Historically significant set of two original documents on the military defenses of Holguín, written by Captain Henriques Nava y Ortega (dates unknown), a Spanish military engineer, during the final months of Spanish rule in Cuba. The work includes a description of the ...

Te mau Episetole a te Aposetolo ra a Paulo. I to Galatia, Ephesia, Philipi, Colosa, Tesalonia, ia Timoteo hoi, Tito, e Philemona. Te taio ra, e haapao oia iaite. Iesu Christi. Tahiti, i neia i te nenei raa a te mau misionari ra [colophon: printed at the Windward Mission Press], 1824. 12mo (17.5 x 11 cm). The text is printed in Tahitian, in two columns. Contemporary diced brown Russia, kept in a green slipcase.

DAVIES, John (translator). · 1772

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

71, [1 blank] pp.First edition of an early work from the cradle of printing in the Pacific Islands, comprising a selection of the Pauline epistles translated into the Tahitian language for the very first time. The work includes Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Th...

[In upper left corner:] 1a. Secretaria de estado. Seccion de Gobierno.Mexico, 21 December 1822. Ca. 31.5 x 21.5 cm.

[DECREE - MEXICO]. · 1783

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

[2] ll.Rare imperial decree issued during the final months of the First Mexican Empire as an attempt to deter political unrest. It was printed in response to a major rebellion which had taken place 19 days earlier in Veracruz to call for the end of Emperor Agustín's reign. The...

[Drop title:] Don Juan Maria de Azcarate, Sargento mayor del Batallon ...Mexico, 26 February 1822. Ca. 31.5 x 22 cm.

[BROADSIDE - MEXICO].

€2,850.00 ($3,141.22 | £2,377.66 | ¥501,612)

[1] l.This rare and important broadside is the first printed ceremonial protocol of independent Mexico for receiving a new government. Issued just months after the country’s independence from Spain, it outlines in detail how the newly formed Regency was to be formally received...

[Drop title:] El honor de la Capital del Imperio está comprometido en el decoro y magnificencia con que debe celebrar la Jura solemne ....Sala Capitular del Ayuntamiento Constitucional de México [= City hall, Mexico City], 3 December 1822. Ca 20 x 15.5 cm.

[FIRST EMPEROR of MEXICO - INSTATING AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE]. · 1783

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

[4] pp.A formal appeal to the citizens of Mexico City for financial support in organizing the solemn oath of allegiance to Agustín de Iturbide (1783-1824), the first emperor of independent Mexico. The document is issued by the Constitutional city council of Mexico, which wante...

[Drop title:] Con fecha 19 del actual me dice el Escmo Sr. ministro de Estado y de relaciones interiores y esteriores lo que sigue.Mexico, 26 October 1822. Ca. 22 x 16 cm.

[CIRCULAR - FIRST MEXICAN EMPIRE - José Antonio de ECHÁVARRI]. · 1783

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

[3], [1 blank] pp.Rare printed circular documenting the first significant armed resistance to Emperor Agustín de Iturbide (1783-1824), the inaugural ruler of independent Mexico. The uprising occurred on September 26, 1822, in Nuevo Santander (present-day Tamaulipas), led by Co...

Aprobacion del plan de Republica popular federativa, proclamado por el ciudadano General Santana en San Luis Potosi el cinco de Junio del año pasado.Mexico [= Mexico City], imprenta de Tomas W. Lorrain, 1824. Small 4to (ca. 21.5 x 16 cm). Disbound, the leaves are held together with glue.

[ARGUELLES, Diego and Antonio LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA]. · 1794

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

16 pp.Rare pamphlet in support of Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876) after he had proclaimed his plan for a federal republic in San Luis Potosí on 5 June 1823, shortly after the emperor's abdication. The work is a legal and political defence of his actions, and is compose...

De vogels van Nederland beschreven en afgebeeld.Leiden, D. Noothoven van Goor, [1859]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 362 hand-coloured lithographed plates of Dutch birds, highlighted with an (egg) wash; plates 1-178 in plates volume 1 and plates 179-362 in plates volume 2. All illustrations are captioned in the plate. Contemporary half gold- and blind-stamped tan sheepskin, decorated paper sides, blue floral endpapers.

SCHLEGEL, Hermann. · 1804

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

VIII, 699, [1] pp. and 362 plates in the two other volumes.One of the most charming, profusely illustrated bird books of the 19th century; an important work on the avifauna of the Netherlands. The work was written and illustrated by Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884), an important G...