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Relacion verdadera de las Gloriosas proezas, y Vitorias, que han hecho las invencibles Galeras de Malta en los mares de Levante, en este ano de mil y seiscientos y cincuenta y dos.Madrid, Gregorio Rodriguez, [1652]. Folio (29 x 20.8 cm). With the Spanish Royal coat of arms on the recto of the first leaf

[MURILLAS Y FEXADA, Juan Lopez de].

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

[4] pp.First edition of an imprint that narrates the sea engagement between six Ottoman corsairs under the command of Carapatachi “bravo cofario de Calamacia” [brave corsair from Calamacia], and General Baylio. The battle ended with the defeat of the Ottoman fleet, and the cap...

Relacion de la entrada del Exercito Imperial en Italia, I puestos que su Magestad Cesarea ha ocupado en la Valtelina, I la ratificacion de las paces con el Rei de Dinamarca, y el Gran Turco.Madrid, Bernardino de Guzman, 1629. Folio (ca. 29 x 20.5 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial. Early 20th-century browned light purple paper wrappers.

MONTESINOS, Manuel. · 1629

€1,000.00 ($1,102.18 | £834.27 | ¥176,004)

[1], [1 blank], [4], [1], [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a relation of the Spanish army entry to Italy, and the peace consolidated with the great Turk (referring to the leader of the Ottoman Empire); it contains a detailed update on the events and progress of the armies, a...

Copia de carta escrita a un cavallero de la ciudad de los Reyes, dandole cuenta de la muerte del Excelentisimo Señor Duque de la Palata, en la ciudad de Portovelo, Viernes Santo 13 de Abril de 1691.[Lima, 1691]. Folio (29 x 19 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial on the first page. Kept together by a marbled paper strip around the spine.

[NAVARRA Y ROCAFULL, Melchor, Duque de la Palata]. · 1626

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

[4] pp.First edition of a rare document printed in Lima with news of the death of Melchor Navarra y Rocafull, more widely known as the jure uxoris Duque de la Palata (1626-1691); the letter is written in the form of praise, by an anonymous party and addressed to a gentleman fr...

Relacion de los terremotos que han sucedido en la ciudad de Traina este año de 1643, y los efectos que han causado en las circunvezinas.Madrid, Diego Diaz (de la Carrera), 1643. Folio (29 x 21 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial.

RANDOLE, Sylvestre. · 1643

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

[3], [1 blank] pp.First edition of this rare relation of the earthquake that shook the city of Traina (Sicily), in July 1643; the author narrates with careful attention to detail the events leading and following the disaster -mentioning the natural phenomena prior to actual ea...

Relacion del viage de la Señora Reina de Ungria y alegrissimo recebimiento que la cesare magestad del Señor Emperador de Alemania, y Rey de Ungria su esposo le hizieron en primero de março de 1631.Seville, Simon Faxardo, 1631. Folio. With the engraved Spanish royal coat of arms and a woodcut decorated initial, both on the first leaf.

[TRAVEL - INFANTA MARIA ANNA]. · 1606

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

[4] pp.An account of the Spanish Infanta Maria Anna’s (1606-46) journey to Vienna to marry Prince Ferdinand, King of Hungary and Bohemia and future Holy Roman Emperor. This tract describes the final leg of the journey (Maria Anna having originally set out from Madrid in 1629) ...

Relacion de la refriega que tuvo con catorce navios de Turcos a la vista de Tarifa, y Tanger el Capitan Don Luis del Campo ... qui yba a Levante, a cargo del General Roque Centeno, con su navio solo llamado Sanson.Madrid, Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1638. Folio (28 x 20 cm). With a small woodcut decorated initial on the first page.

CAMPO, Luis del. · 1568

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

[4] pp.Rare imprint, giving news of the sea engagement between a Spanish vessel and fourteen Ottoman ships; the careful detail in which the author narrates the events - number of pieces of artillery shot, damages suffered in the ship, flags displayed, the difficulty of navigat...

Relacion extraordinaria, de el felize sucesso, que tuvieron las Galeras de España, mandadas por el muy Ilustríssimo señor D. Vicente Argote y Córdova, Quatralvo de ellas, el día 26 e Noviembre de el año passado de 1696 aviendo apresado dos embarcciones de Moros en el Golfo entre Cartagena, y Alicante.Seville, Lucas Martinez de Hermosilla, 1697. 4to (19.5 x 14.5 cm). Disbound.

[ARGOTE Y CORDOBA, Vicente]. · 1660

€1,400.00 ($1,543.05 | £1,167.97 | ¥246,406)

[4] pp.A very rare imprint narrating the triumph of the Spanish vessels, lead by Vicente de Argote y Cordoba (ca. 1660-1726), over the Moors at the Golf of Cartagena and Alicante. Exceedingly rare, we have been unable to trace any copy at Spanish institutions, or in WorldCat.T...

Conquista de Africa donde se hallaran agora nuevamente recopiladas muchas y muy notables hazanas de particulares cavalleros.Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570.With (bound before ad 1): (2) VALLES, Pedro. Historia del fortissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de Avalos Marques de Pescara con los hechos memorables de otros siete ... Capitanes del Emperador Don Carlos V.Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Late-19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco

FUENTES, Diego de. · 1485

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

71 [= 72]; [8], "255" [=354], [1 blank] ll.Early Spanish work on piracy and the contemporary history of the Spanish presence in Africa by Diego de Fuentes (dates unknown). It starts with a chapter on the famous Ottoman corsair Dragut (1485-1565), who is considered the greatest...

Narrative of a voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831.New York, J. & J. Harper, 1833. Large 8vo (ca. 19.5 x 11 cm). With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary (browned) pink cloth with a printed title label mounted on the spine, in a later clamshell box.

MORRELL, Abby Jane. · 1809

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

230, 9, [1], pp.First edition of one of the first accounts of a circumnavigation undertaken by a woman. Abby Jane Morrell (1809-after 1850?), who is also the author of the present work, accompanied her husband, Captain Benjamin Morrell (1795-ca. 1839), on his travels. She not ...

Camera Studies in Iraq.Baghdad, A. Kerim & Hasso Bros., [ca. 1925]. Oblong album (ca. 24.5 x 31 cm). With 73 photogravures. Original black imitation crocodile leather, stitched through 2 holes with brown cord, with the title and publishing (copyright) information in gold on the front board, dark brown endpapers.

KERIM, Abdul (photographer). · 1920

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

[50] ll.First edition of a remarkable series of photographs taken in Iraq in the 1920s, showcasing local people and architecture. The photographs were taken by Abdul Kerim (dates unknown) in Baghdad, Basra, Babylon, Nineveh, and Mosul. They have been printed by Rotophot AG of ...

Clans of the Highlands of Scotland.Edinburgh, C. Sinclair, [between 1850 and 1873]. 15.5 x 12 cm. With 12 very detailed, hand-coloured engravings of Scottish men representing 12 clans in their traditional tartans. All engravings are mounted on dark green moiré-grained cloth in 2 sets of 6, respectively folding out from the front and back pastedowns. All engravings are captioned in the plate, giving the name of the clan depicted and a short description of the scene, and signed by the engraver, Alexander Ritchie. Original publisher's gold- and blind-stamped green wave-grained cloth, with the title in gold within an elaborate gold-stamped frame on the front board and a blind-stamped ornamental oval centrepiece (a personification of Scotland?) within an elaborate blind-stamped frame on the back board, remnants of red cloth ties.

RITCHIE, Alexander (engraver). · 1846

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

[2 sets of 6 engravings folding out].Very rare, first and only edition of this set of 12 hand-coloured engravings showing Highland clans of Scotland, engraved by Alexander Ritchie (active ca. 1846-ca. 1900?). Ritchie is a relatively unknown but otherwise quite successful 19th-...

In praecepta decalogi secundae tabulae dicta tractatus.Including: [ARANEA, Vincenzo]. Disputationes de sacramentis novae legis.[L'Aquila, ca. 1640]. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in a neat Italian cursive hand, some parts in other hands. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum.

ARANEA, Vincenzo. · 1588

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

[8], 270, [4] ll.; [4], 655, [10] pp.Two commentaries (disputations) on two essential doctrinal points of the Christian faith by the Jesuit Vincenzo Aranea (1588-1652) from L'Aquila. According to the title page of volume 1, the work was held in the Jesuit College of the city o...

Levenschetsen van de twaalf apostelen.[Antwerp, ca. 1640-1650]. Ca. 12.5 x 9.5 cm. With 14 engravings (ca. 9 x 6.5 cm) printed on fine vellum, in an oval with ornamented corners with subscriptions and number underneath, with protective tissue paper, bound with 17 paper leaves (ca. 11.5 x 8.5 cm) containing short and concise biographies of the apostles written in a neat 19th-century hand. 19th-century vellum over boards with the manuscript title on the spine ("Levens van de XII Apost. MS").

GALLE, [Theodoor and] Johannes. · 1636

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

[17] ll. and 14 engravings on vellum.Very rare suite of 14 beautiful engravings originally made by Theodoor Galle (Antwerp, n.d.) and mentioned in the inventory of his widow, Catherina Moerentorff, 20 May 1636: “Cleyn Apostellen in ovael, veerthien platen” (Denucé (1927), p. 1...

Istoria della Sultana di Persia. Novelle turche. Composte in lingua turca da Chéc Zadé e tradotto dal francese nell’idioma italiano.Venice, Andrea Mercurio, 1752. 12mo. Marbled paper with a manuscript label on the spine.

SHAIKHZADE, Ahmed Misri. · 1728

€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)

236, [4] pp.Second Italian edition of this important collection of oriental tales now known as the "Forty Viziers", first published in Italy in 1728. The first western edition, in French, appeared three years after Galland’s first edition of the Arabian Nights, following its c...

Novelle egiziane ed africane. Tradotte dal francese nell’idioma italiano.Venice, Giovanni Francesco Garbo, 1795. 12mo. With a small woodcut vignette on the general title page and on the extra/divisional title page for part 1, a woodcut headpiece, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary blueish-grey paper wrappers.

[VILLEDIEU, Marie-Catherine]. · 1673

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

143, [1] pp.Very rare Italian edition of Marie-Catherine de Villedieu’s Nouvelles africaines, first published in 1673. The first Italian translation dates back to 1730, prepared in Venice by Domenico Occhi; this was followed by the present edition by Francesco Garbo, who decid...

Novelle persiane divise in mille, ed una giornata, tradotte in francese e dal francese nel volgare italiano. Tomo primo [-quinto]. Milan, Pietro Agnelli, 1815. 5 volumes bound as 2. 12mo. With a small woodcut vignette on each title page. Contemporary half beige cloth, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine.

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. · 1675

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

160; 156; 168; 168; 186, [2] pp.First and only Milan edition of the Heyaryek-Rouz or Thousand and one days, so called to “give the work an air of originality” (Chauvin IV, 124). A Persian manuscript of this work was given to Francois Petit de la Croix in Isfahan in 1675, but e...

Novelle persiane divise in mille ed una giornata, tradotte dal francese e dal francese in volgare italiano. Vol. primo [-quinto]. Venice, Santini, 1810. 5 volumes bound as 2. 12mo. Contemporary gold-stamped half brown cloth, marbled paper sides, with the title and volume number stamped in black on the spine.

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. · 1675

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

172, 168, 176; 179, [1], 200 pp.Charming Italian edition of the Heyaryek-Rouz or Thousand and One Days, so called to “give the work an air of originality” (Chauvin IV, 124). A Persian manuscript of this work was given to Francois Petit de la Croix in Isfahan in 1675, but enjoy...

Novelle persiane divise in mille ed una giornata, e in cinque libri distribuite. Tradotte in francese e dal francese nel volgare Italiano. Vol. primo [-quinto]. Venice [= Naples?], Giacomo Antonio Vinaccia, 1783. 5 volumes. 12mo. With vignettes built up from typographical ornaments on each title page and some ornamental headpieces. Contemporary grey paper wrappers with manuscript volume numbers on the spines. Stored in a brown decorated paper slipcase.

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. · 1675

€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)

203; 202; 216; 216; 239, [1] ppVery rare, highly remarklable pirated edition in five volumes of the Heyaryek-Rouz or Thousand and One Days, so called to “give the work an air of originality” (Chauvin IV, 124). A Persian manuscript of this work was given to Francois Petit de la...

Novelle persiane divise in mille, ed una giornata. Tradotte dal francese e dal francese nel volgare italiano. Tomo primo [-quinto].Venice, Niccolò Pezzana, 1783. 5 volumes. 12mo. With small vignettes built up from typographical ornaments on the title pages and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Later vellum with the manuscript titles and volume numbers in red on the spines.

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. · 1675

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

179, [1]; 178; 190; 190; 213 pp.Extremely rare, charming five-volume Italian edition of the Heyaryek-Rouz or Thousand and One Days, so called to “give the work an air of originality” (Chauvin IV, 124). A Persian manuscript of this work was given to Francois Petit de la Croix i...

I mille e un giorni. Novelle orientali già tratte dal turco, dal persiano e dall’arabo e pubblicate da Petis-de-la-Croix, Galland, Cardonne, Chawis e Cazotte etc. Nuova traduzione eseguita sull’ultima edizione di Parigi da A. F. Falconetti. Vol. I [-XV]. Venice, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1833-1834. 15 volumes bound as 5. 16mo. With an engraved frontispiece in each of the 15 volumes. Contemporary boards with a red title label and a black volume number label, both lettered in gold, on each spine.

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. · 1675

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

First illustrated Italian edition: a charming edition of the Heyaryek-Rouz or Thousand and One Days, so-called to “give the work an air of originality” (Chauvin IV, 124). A Persian manuscript of this work was given to Francois Petit de la Croix in Isfahan in 1675, but enjoyed ...