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Abda' ma-kan fi suwar Salatin Al 'Uthman. Album des souverains Ottomans édité par Selim Faris Effendy.Istanbul and Leipzig, Matba'at al-Jawaib and Carl Garte, [1885]. Ca. 22 x 16 cm. With 34 lithographed portraits, a lithographed title and an index. Contemporary grey decorated boards, with the title lettered in gold on both boards, gold edges, decorated endpapers.

AL-SHIDYAQ, Selim Faris Effendy (editor). · 1876

Verzameling van vier en tachtig stuks Hollandsche schepen, geteekend en in koper gebragt door G. Groenewegen.Rotterdam, J. van den Brink, [1829]. Oblong 4to (ca. 17.5 x 22.5 cm). With a letterpress title page and 84 finely designed and engraved views of Dutch sailing vessels (image size ca. 13.5 x 15.5 cm), divided into 7 series of 12 etchings each, lettered A-F (the 7th and last series without a letter) and numbered 1-12 in the plates, all with a Dutch title below. The first plates of the first and second series show the author's name and the original title in Dutch and French in the main sail, the first plates of the other series are signed by Groenewegen in the upper blank part of the plate. Modern vellum with the name of G. Groenewegen written in black ink on the spine.

GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit (engraver). · 1754

Zur Erinnerung an die Hochzeits-feierlichkeiten von Ella de Ridder und August Janssen in Frankfurt a/M im August 1896.(Colophon:) Amsterdam, Calligrafie und Druck von Johan. K. Koning, [1896]. Large folio (ca. 51 x 33 cm). Wedding album comprising five manuscript texts of occasional plays (4 in German, 1 in Dutch), written in a neat cursive in blank ink on thick laid paper, each illuminated with a 4-line decorated initial in red, blue and white on a gold/bronze field, richly decorated with penwork in black ink (extending down into the inner margin). Each text is preceded by a letterpress title leaf set in neo-Gothic type, also used for the general title, several text leaves, and the colophon. Further with 1 gouache illustration on grey paper (sheet size ca. 32 x 24.5 cm, mounted on the first leaf) showing a bouquet of flowers, 14 printed ephemera relating to the "Polterabend" (wedding-eve party) and the wedding on single or double leaves in various sizes (the wedding announcement/introduction to the wedding-eve party and attached is a photo of the couple in a circular frame of red wax, 5 menu cards, the lyrics to 6 German songs, a musical score by the German composer Wilhelm Aletter (1867-1934), and an announcement of the comic opera Des Teufels Antheil by the French composer Daniel Auber (1782-1871), performed by the Frankfurter Opernhaus on 25 August 1896 in Frankfurt am Main. Also with two manuscript wedding speeches in German, written in black ink on paper, two mounted albumen prints, the first showing two actors dressed as a Frisian farmer and his wife and the other showing a man in Chinese dress, 56 large ornamental vignettes printed in red or blue throughout, 17 ornamental tailpieces printed in black, blue, and red, and some dried flowers mounted on several leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled burgundy leather, the front board with a large gold-stamped monogram as a centrepiece (the intertwined initials of the couple: AJ and EdR) with the date ("24-26 August") above and the year ("1896") below lettered in gold, both boards show a single fillet frame along the outer edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, beige watered silk endleaves.

[WEDDING ALBUM - THE NETHERLANDS - GERMANY]. · 1865

Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique.Including: (2) TRITHEMIUS, Johannes and Gabriel de COLLANGE (translator). Clavicule, et interpretation sur le contenués cinq livres de Polygraphie, & universelle escriture Cabalistique.(3) COLLANGE, Gabriel de. Tables et figures planispheriques, extensives & dilatatives des recte & averse, servants à l'universelle intelligence de toutes escritures tant methathesiques, transpositives, mythologiques, numerales, anomales, que orchemales.Paris, Benoît Prévost for Jacques Kerver, 1561. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Printed in red and black, the main title and the titles of parts 2 and 3 set within a woodcut decorated border, 3 woodcut portraits of the translator, 13 large volvelles in part 3, numerous woodcut headpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, gold-tooled board edges, red edges.

TRITHEMIUS, Johannes and Gabriel de COLLANGE (translator). · 1546

Lettres sur l'India.[Ca. 1892]. 4to. Contemporary half green buckram, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, red edges, housed in a slipcase.

PONCINS, Edmond de. · 1891

Os cortezãos e a viagem do Imperador. Ensaio politico sobre a situação por L. M.Bahia, Typographia de Camillo de Lellis Masson & C., 1860. 8vo in 4s (ca. 21.5 x 14 cm). Later half brown sheepskin.

L. M. [= MEDRADO, José Joaquim Landulfo da Rocha]. · 1831

Carta de um portuguez emigrado á cerca do ex-Imperador do Brazil, e do seu chamado manifesto.Lisbon, Na Typographia de José Baptista Morando, 1832. 4to (ca. 21 x 14.5 cm). With the woodcut printer’s device on the title-page. Modern half burgundy artificial leather.

[PIZARRO PIMENTEL DE ALMEIDA CARVALHAIS, Rodrigo Pinto (attributed)]. · 1788

Observações sobre o voto, que Domingos Alves Branco Moniz Barreto, como eleitor da parochia do Sacramento da Corte do Rio de Janeiro apresentou no dia 25 de dezembro de 1821 na junta eleitoral para a installação do governo desta provincia. Nas quaes se mostra, que semelhante voto he contrario ao pacto social da nação portugueza, e aos direitos, e liberdade das provincias do Brasil, escriptas ror [!] hum amigo da união, e da justiça.Lisbon, Na Typographia de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1822. 4to (ca. 20 x 14 cm). 20th-century gold-tooled brown morocco.

[CARVALHO, Bernardo Teixeira Coutinho Álvares de]. · 1753

Waerschouwinge. Den schout ende heemraaden van 't waterschap van Sluypwijck, doen een ieder by dezen weeten dat zy op zullen schouwen alle de wegen, dijken en wateringen, daar zy schouwe op hebben.[Gouda?, second half of the 18th century]. Ca. 46 x 35.5 cm. With a decorated woodcut initial.

[WATER MANAGEMENT - SLUIPWIJK - BROADSIDE].

Publicatie tot redding van drenckelingen.Delft, Adrianus Sterck, 2 February 1769. Ca. 54 x 43.5 cm. With the woodcut coat of arms of Delft, and a decorated woodcut initial.

[BROADSIDE - DELFT]. · 1767

[Collection of 6 watercolours of birds].[France, 1780-1800]. All ca. 42 x 34 cm. Six watercolours, finished with an egg wash. The drawings are housed in a clear plastic sleeve.

[SOUDRY, Antoine]. · 1750

[Collection of 17 sets of manuscript documents and 1 printed memorandum on various subjects relating to the VOC].Ca. 1653-1833. Mostly in folio (ca. 33 x 21 cm). Kept in a modern red portfolio with black cloth ties.

[DUTCH EAST INDIES - VOC]. · 1786

[Sydney Harbour and Circular Quay].[Sydney, ca. 1875]. Ca. 8 x 46.5 cm. Panorama photograph, consisting of three albumen prints joined together with white bookcloth.

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA]. · 1883

[Album with photographs, engravings, and drawings relating to Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile].[ca. 1885]. Oblong (ca. 38 x 27.5 cm). With 20 albumen prints, 43 plates (engraved and lithographed), and 3 drawings. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco, brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides, with a paper label ("3") mounted on the front.

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LATIN AMERICA]. · 1837

[Drop title:] Eu Elrey. Faço saber aos que este alvará de declaração virem: que tendo informação, de que do meu alvará de dez de setembro de mil setecentos sessenta e sinco, que, abollindo as frótas, permittio aos meus vassallos a liberdade de navegarem para os portos não vedados dos meus dominios ultramarinos; e de transportarem delles, e para elles quaesquer mercadorias permittidas ...[Lisbon], Na Regia Officina Typografica, [1772]. Folio (ca. 29 x 20 cm). With a large decorated woodcut initial “E” incorporating the Portuguese royal coat of arms. Disbound and subsequently mounted in a modern black stiff paper folder with a printed label mounted on the front wrapper.

[SLAVE TRADE - BRAZIL - JOSÉ I, King of Portugal]. · 1714

L'Hemisphere Septentrional pour voir plus distinctement les Terres Arctiques. Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, [ca. 1740 (after 1739)].Together with: [L'ISLE, Guillaume de]. L'Hemisphere Meridional pour voir plus distinctement les Terres Australes.Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, [after 1739]. 49.5 x 122 cm. Two large hemispherical maps (45 cm in diameter) on two sheets, joined together to make one large oblong world map, with the Dutch and French text of a letter written by a Mr. Swart in St. Petersburg on a separate (partial) sheet joined to the (left) outer edge of the map of the Northern Hemisphere. The map of the Southern Hemisphere includes the short description in Dutch and French of the journey undertaken by the ships Adelaar and Maria to the "Southland" or "Terres Australes" in 1738 and 1739. This description includes the discovery of the Cape Circoncision and a small map of that Cape is included in the bottom right corner of the map of the Southern Hemisphere. The maps are contemporary hand-coloured in outline.

L'ISLE, Guillaume de. · 1714

Kort gevat jaar-boek van de edele geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenigde Nederlanden, ter Kamer van Zeeland. Beginnende met de erectie derzelver Compagnie.Middelburg, Jan Dane, 1759. 8vo. Contemporary half brown calf, sprinkled paper sides, red sprinkled edges.

MATTHAEUS, Christiaan Sigismund. · 1793

De volmaakte bootsman, vervattende hoe men uit een gegeven scheeps lengte de voornaamste scheepsdelen zal vinden, de bemasting, het kerven van ’t staande en lopende touwerk, en verder het geene in ’t toetakelen der scheepen van nooden is. Mitdsgaders de takelagie voor verscheide charters van scheepen, welke by de ’s lands oorlogscheepen in gebruik zyn … Zeer dienstig voor alle zeevarende lieden.Amsterdam, Widow of [Gerard] Hulst van Keulen, [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With a large folding plate (42.5 x 52 cm) depicting and noting in numbers all the parts of a 17th-century three-master and two smaller Dutch ships at sea engraved by Anthonie de Winter (1652-1707) after Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715). 20th-century green faux snakeskin, sewn on 4 leather tapes laced through the joints, the extended back wrapper closing on the front side as an envelope, marbled endpapers, red edges.

[MOOLEN, Symon van de]. · 1658

An authentic account of an embassy from the king of Great Britain to the emperor of China.London, W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1798. 2 text volumes and 1 plate volume. 4to and folio plate volume. With 44 engraved plates in the atlas (1 folding map, 6 double-page plates and 37 full-page), 2 frontispieces in the text volumes (1 each), 1 full-page plate, and 25 vignettes in the text. Early 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label and green morocco author and volume label on the spine, gold-tooled edges and turn-ins, marbled end papers. The atlas in gold-tooled half brown calf, with the same spine as the text volumes, marbled paper sides.

STAUNTON, George Leonard. · 1767

Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806, par les ordres de Sa Majesté Impériale Alexandre Ier, empereur de Russie, sur les vaisseaux la Nadiejeda et la Neva, commandés par M. de Krusenstern, capitaine de vaisseau de la marine impériale.Paris, Librairie de Gide et Fils, 1821. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas. 8vo and folio atlas. With 30 engraved plates (21 views and portraits, 9 maps and charts, of which 3 folding). Contemporary blind-tooled dark green goatskin, with a dark green morocco title label and a dark green morocco volume label on the spine, dark green buckram sides, marbled end papers. The atlas in contemporary gold- and blind-tooled dark green quarter goatskin, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, blue green cloth sides, marbled end papers.

KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann Crusius von.