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Wijtloopig breede en waerachtige beschrijvinge van de ongeluckige voyage van ’t schip Aernhem; van Batavia vertrocken den 23 December 1661 in compagnie van noch ses andere schepen, onder ’t commando van de heer Aernout de Vlamingh van Outshoorn ...Amsterdam, Jacobus van der Fuyck, 1664. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Disbound, loosely inserted in 20th-century plain brown paper wrappers.

KERCKHOVEN, Johannes van [= Simon van den KERKHOVEN]. · 1654

Scheeps-bedenckingen, gevallen over verscheyde saken die den zee-varenden plachten te ontmoeten ...Haarlem, Adriaen Roman, 1649. 4to. With a large woodcut printer’s device on the title page, a large woodcut portrait of Laurens Janszoon Coster (printer's device of A. Roman, dated 1630 in the block) on the final page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Later black and orange painted paper wrappers showing a floral design.

ROMAN, Johannes. · 1689

[A hawk perched on a branch].[United Kingdom], 1980. Gouache on paper (ca. 64.5 x 48 cm). Signed “Alan M. Hunt” and dated “1980” in brown ink in the bottom left corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 80.5 x 60.5 cm).

HUNT, Alan M. (artist). · 1947

[A hawk perched on a birch branch].[The Netherlands], 1973. Gouache and watercolour drawing on greyish paper (ca. 74.5 x 57.5 cm). With a manuscript dedication by the artist “Voor Joosje & Thomas Rap”, signed “H.J. Slijper” and dated “1973” in black ink in the lower right-hand corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 100 x 80.5 cm).

SLIJPER, Hendrik Johannes (artist). · 1922

[A peregrine falcon flying in the sky with a captured pigeon in its talons].[The Netherlands], November 1983. Mixed media drawing with coloured crayon, gouache and watercolour on paper (ca. 74.5 x 60.5 cm). Signed “Hans Michielsen” and dated “11/‘83” in gouache in the bottom left corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 100 x 80 cm).

MICHIELSEN, Hans (artist). · 1771

[A Eurasian hobby perched on a tree stump].[The Netherlands], 1986. Oil painting on board (ca. 29.5 x 19.5 cm). Signed “H.J. Slijper” and dated “1986” in white paint in the bottom right corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 47.5 x 37 cm).

SLIJPER, Hendrik Johannes (artist). · 1922

[An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XXVIII].[Qing China, perhaps Yunnan or Gansu, ca. 18th century]. 4to (212 x 285 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper, written in a black Sini script in 5 lines, with some diacritics picked out in red, and the leaves outlined in red. The Arabic text on the opening page is calligraphed within a golden circle, surrounded by a gold border, the opening and closing bifolia have wide gold borders with multicoloured designs, and Chinese knots in the margins, the verse markers and Surah titles are calligraphed on fields of gold, with the Surah titles calligraphed with jade green ink. 19th-century gold tooled leather, blue cloth end papers.

[QUR'AN JUZ'].

[Collection of 37 devotional prints and drawings].[Flanders and Paris, various publishers, ca. 1630-1850]. 2 volumes. Oblong folio (ca. 29 x 42.5 cm); sheet size ca. 12 x 9 to 35 x 23 cm. With 24 contemporary hand-coloured engravings, of which some heightened with gold, 1 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration, 1 chromolithographed print, 7 watercolour drawings (including 2 on vellum), 3 silk embroidered prints in various sizes, and 1 image made of paper ornaments glued onto black netting. Further with a folded alphabetical list of the Antwerp printers and engravers of devotional prints in a 19th-century hand tipped onto the first leaf of the album. Several prints are tipped into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco album, a blind-tooled ornament in the centre of both boards with the crowned initials “J.B.” on the front, surrounded by a double fillet frame with elaborate corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. The work is housed in a 19th-century marbled slipcase, with a paper label with the name of Countess Julie Visart de Bocarmé mounted on the front. The remaining prints have been tipped onto a sheet of sturdy paper, inserted into a clear plastic file folder, which are loosely inserted into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled purple morocco album, with the word "album" lettered in gold on the front, surrounded by a blind-tooled Gothic style border and an elaborate gold-tooled border, gilt edges, black watered silk end papers.

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. · 1823

[Portfolio of sketches of Chinese life and character].[Shanghai, China, 1871]. Oblong album (ca. 41 x 56 cm). With 51 hand-coloured photographs mounted on the recto of 50 leaves. Contemporary gold- and black-tooled red sheepskin, with a hand-carved wooden panel mounted into the front board, showing a Asian house with 4 people around a round table, a cat or similar pet in the foreground next to a person smoking a pipe (an opium pipe?) being approached by a servant with two plates food, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers.

SAUNDERS, William Thomas (photographer). · 1832

[Declaration signed by five Dutch captains in Sydney Harbour].(Signed:) Sydney, 24 December 1853. Ca. 32.5 x 20 cm. Housed in a white paper folder.

[MANUSCRIPT - DECLARATION]. · 1851

Novum testamentum Graecum.[Geneva], Petrus de la Rouière, 1619. With: (2) PAGNINI, Sante (translator) and Benito ARIAS MONTANUS (editor). Biblia Hebraica eorundem Latina interpretatio ...[Geneva], Petrus de la Rouière, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume, both in 4 parts. Folio. With numerous decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces, the work is printed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew type. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with remnants of closing ties, red gauffered edges.

ARIAS MONTANUS, Benito (editor). · 1527

Biblia breves in eadem annotationes, ex doctis ...Including: - Hebraica, Chaldaea, Graecáque & Latina nomina virorum ...- Index rerum et sentiarum quae in Veteris & novi testamenti libris continentur.Paris, Roberti Stephani [= Robert Estienne], 1532. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With Estienne's large olive-tree device on the general title page and the divisional titles of parts 3 (interpretatio) and 4 (index), a woodcut decorative border around the word "Biblia" on the general title page, and 79 decorated metalcut (criblé) initials. Modern gold-tooled brown calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges.

[BIBLE]. ESTIENNE, Robert (editor). · 1480

Le floriste François. Traittant de l’origine des tulipes. ...Caen, Eleazar Mangeant, 1654. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and numerous head- and tailpieces, both woodcut and made up of typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the title printed in red on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.

CHESNÉE MONSTEREUL, Charles de la. · 1637

T?? Ka???? ??a????? ?pa?ta [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] | Novum Testamentum.Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546. 2 volumes. 16mo (12 x ca. 7.5 cm). With Estienne's woodcut devices: the basilisk on both title pages and the olive tree on the otherwise blank last page of volume 2. Further with several woodcut decorated headpieces and initials. 18th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spines with the French (part) title lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, green and gold decorated endpapers.

ESTIENNE, Robert (editor). · 1546

Amores, edente Petro Scriverio, inscripti Th. Graswinckelio, equity.Leiden, Joris Abrahamsz vander Marse for Franciscus Hegerus & Hackius, 1638. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces, each page has been ruled by hand in reddish brown ink. 19th-century gold-tooled dark blue-green morocco.

BAUDIUS, Dominicus and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). · 1576

[Description de la mer méditerranée].[Amsterdam, ca. 1670]. Folio (29 x 45 cm). With 9 double-page engraved charts only, each sheet ca. 44 × 55 cm, each mounted on stiff paper with maps back-to-back, with thick red and black ink borderlines. 8 of 9 maps are by Colom, numbered 2-9 in the plates from; plate 1 has been replaced with Johannes de Ram’s map of the Mediterranean: "Paskaart vande Middelandsche Zee In twee deelen vertoont". Contemporary stiff paper wrappers, with a manuscript label pasted upside down on the back wrapper, reading: “Carta Marinaresca del Mar Mediterraneo”.

COLOM, Jacob Aertsz.

[Manuscript portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean, including Western Europe, South America, and West Africa].Porto, 1786. Chart ca. 86 x 68 cm; frame ca. 101 x 83.5 cm. Detailed manuscript portolan chart in ink and paint and/or ink wash in green, yellow, red, and brown on vellum. The chart is drawn within a red washed border and shows the detailed coastlines of the east coast of South America, the west coast of Africa, and the west coast of northwest Europe up to the Netherlands and including Great Britain and Ireland. The coasts are drawn in sections alternatingly in yellow, green, and red ink. Principal regions are added in large decorative script, coastal towns, cities, and capes are added in a small cursive hand. Also depicted are a detailed split graticule indicating longitude and latitude, intricate rhumb lines, islands, dangerous rocky outcrops (marked vegia (= vigia, meaning lookouts)), and inshore shoals. Further decorative elements in the chart are the flags in Brazil (Portuguese coat-of-arms), Algeria (Ottoman Empire?), and West Africa (Dutch flag, upside down); the side view of Elmina Castle in west Africa, two half wind roses, elaborate rococo floral (fleur-de-lis) ornaments at the head of the chart and in South America. The banderole at the bottom of the chart contains the following text: "Manoel Joze Vianna a Fes no Porto" and below the year of production "1786". Framed in a gold-coloured frame and mounted on a cream cloth covered backboard.

VIANNA, Manoel José. · 1482

De heeren stadhouderen van Vriesland ...Leeuwarden, printed by Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1770. Small folio (ca. 31 x 20 cm). With the title page set within a red decorative border, 21 full-page mezzotint portraits with 3- or 4-line captions in Dutch, and 10 woodcut tailpieces. Later half vellum, boards covered with paper, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.

BOSCH, Johannes van den. · 1713

Opera omnia, cum interpretat[ione]. lat[ina]. ad. verbum ... et breves notae marginales. Editio novissima.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1650. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title (within collation) and a few woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, red painted edges.

HOMER [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)]. · 1618

Convenção entre os muito altos, e muito poderosos senhores o Principe Regente de Portugal, e El Rei do Reino Unido da Grande Bretanha e Irlanda, para terminar as questões, e indemnizar as perdas dos vassallos portuguezes no trafico de escravos de Africa: feita em Vienna pelos plenipotenciarios de huma e outra Corte, em 21 de Janeiro de 1815, e ratificada por ambas.[Lisbon], Na Impressão Regia, [1815]. Small folio (ca. 28.5 x 18 cm). With the text printed in two columns, in Portuguese on the left and in English on the right. Modern half calf.

[SLAVE TRADE - TREATY - PORTUGAL]. · 1814