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Recueil de diverses pièces, servans à l’histoire de Henry III Roy de France wet de Pologne dont les tiltres se trouvent en la page suivante.Cologne [= Leiden?] Pierre du Marteau [= Jean Elzevier?], 1662. 12mo. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco in 17th-century style, each board with the coat-of-arms of Henri III in the centre (the azure represented by black), in a frame of double fillets with corner pieces, gold-tooled spine with the monogram of Henry III in the compartments, gilt edges.

[FRENCH COURT]. · 1660 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

468 pp.One of the earliest (fourth?) and rarest editions, with a false imprint (but probably the second edition by the original publisher), of an infamous collection of memoires or reputed memoires from the reign of King Henri III of France, and an uncommonly ferocious satire of…

Zinne-poppen; alle verciert met rijmen, en sommighe met proze: door zijn dochter Anne Roemers.Amsterdam, Sander Wybrantz. and Andries Vink, 1678. With engraved title-page, an engraved emblem on the back of A5, and 193 engraved emblems by Claes Jansz. Visscher.With: (2) VISSCHER, Roemer. Brabbelingh... By hem selven oversien, en meer als de helft vermeerdert.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1669. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum.

VISSCHER, Roemer. · 1547 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

[10], 196, [4] ll.; 212, [4 blank] pp.Ad 1: Fourth edition of a popular and witty Dutch emblem book written by Roemer Visscher (1547-1620). The work consists of 3 series of 60 emblems, each with a motto in Latin of Dutch, a two-line verse below, and a short explanation on the fa…

Verhandelinge van de opvoedinge en ziekten der kinderen. Vertoonende op wat wyse de kinderen gezond konnen blyven, en ziek zijnde, bequamelyk konnen herstelt werden. Zeer nodig voor alle huyshoudende lieden.Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1684. 8vo. With an engraved title page showing a hospital scene and 19 figures on 6 engraved plates. Near contemporary vellum.

BLANKAART, Steven. · 1650 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 332, [20] pp.Rare first and only early edition (here with the dedication in the rarer first of two settings) of one of the first medical books on raising and educating children and especially on paediatrics. Intended for parents, it offers advice and instructions for treati…

Histoire de la vie de Tiel Wlespiegle, contenant ses faits & finesses, ses aventures, & les grandes fortunes qu'il a euës, ne s'étant jamais laissé tromper par aucune personne. Nouvelle traduction de l'Alemand en François; où l'on a ajoûté à cette edition, plusieurs pieces qui n'ont point encore paru en François jusques à present.Amsterdam, Nicolas Chevalier, 1702. 12mo. With engraved title-page showing an owl looking at itself in a mirror with Ulenspiegel wearing a fool's cap watching. Black morocco by Hippolyte Duru, with his stamp ("DURU 1849") on flyleaf, blind-tooled fillets on spine and boards, richly gold-tooled turns ins, gilt edges.

[TILL EULENSPIEGEL]. · 1803 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 202, [6] pp.Rare French edition of the legendary farcical tales of the Dutch/German Eulenspiegel, elevated to folk hero in the well-known 19th-century retelling by Charles De Coster, who portrays Eulenspiegel as having major influence in the Dutch revolt against Spain, whil…

Emblemata amatoria. Afbeeldinghen van minne. Emblemes d'amour.Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1611. Oblong 4to (15 x 19 cm). With an engraved title-page, with the title in Latin, Dutch and French. With 30 engraved emblems (ca. 10.5 x 13.5 cm), each with tri-lingual mottos in the engraving and distichs in Dutch with Latin and French translations on the opposite page. The Dutch text is mainly set in gothic letters, while the Latin and French texts are set in roman and italic letters respectively. The Dutch songs and sonnets in the second half of the work are set in roman and gothic letters, sometimes in two columns. 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin, with two triple-fillet frames and 4 ornamental corner pieces between the two frames. With an elaborately gold-tooled spine, including the French title and the year of publication, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and a yellow, red and green reading ribbon.

[HOOFT, Pieter Cornelisz.]. · 1581 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

144 pp.First edition of a landmark in the history of Dutch literature and the apogee of Dutch emblem books, written by one of the most important authors of the Dutch Golden Age, Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft (1581-1648). This edition was the first publication in an impressive series o…

7 Recueilles de dissertations.

GIBERT (Joseph Balthazar 1711 - 1771). - MATHON DE LA COUR le Fils. - LE ROY. · Bouquinerie du Varis

CHF 399.00 (€431.59 | $475.69 | £360.06 | ¥75,962)

GIBERT (Joseph Balthazar, 1711 - 1771). - MATHON DE LA COUR le Fils. - LE ROY. 7 Recueilles de dissertations. Amsterdam - Paris - Lyon - Nancy, Maison Alfred Mame et Fils,1743 - 1739 - 1767 - 1768 - 1764 - 1767 - 1767, 195x125mm, 14 + 29 + 1 ff. - 100 - 1 ff. + 2 ff. - 208 + …

Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Liber utilissimus de conscribendis epistolis, continens artificium & praecepta in earum compositione observanda. Editio nova, diligenter ab erratis expurgata.

ERASMUS. · 1670 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)

Amsterdam, Apud Henricum & Theodorum Boom, 1670. 12mo. 470,(33),(1 blank) p., frontispiece. Calf 13 cm The definitive work on the subject (Ref: Spoelder p. 644: Middelburg 5;) (Details: Prize copy, but without the prize. Back ruled gilt, with a red morocco letterpiece. The boa…

M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, aliosque; ad optimas editiones collatae.

CICERO. · 1657 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€240.00 ($264.52 | £200.22 | ¥42,241)

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Joannem Blaeu, 1657. 12mo. (XII),740 p. Calf 14 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 093089015; not in Brunet, Graesse, Moss, Ebert or Schweiger, but cf. Schweiger 2,106) (Details: Back gilt, and with 5 raised bands. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a s…

Aurelii Prudentii Clementis V.C. Opera. Ex postrema doct. virorum recensione.

PRUDENTIUS. · 1625 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)

Amsterdam (Amsterodami), Apud Guiljel. Janss. Caesium (Blaeu), 1625. 12mo. 261,(1 blank) p. Vellum. 11.1 cm Horatius Christianus (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title, it depicts a huge Christian warrior who makes mincemeat of heathens and heretics. There…

Babadipoen pandawa. Kaanggit dening J. Kats lan Tjakradibrata. Rinengga ing gambar ringgit Purwa, damelanipun Raden Bagus Sulardi. [2nd edition. Copy from the collection of Guillaume Frédéric Pijper].

Kats,Jacob. · 1919 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

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

[Batavia, Commissie voor de Volkslectuur], 1919. 214,[3] pp. 1 full page col. map, 37 chromolithogr. plts & 2 large fold. tables. Orig. publishers' hardcover binding (brown h.cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dec,. light brown paper-covered boards with dec. in dark brown & bla…

Fructologie, ou Description des arbres fruitiers ainsi que des fruits que l'on plante et qu'on cultive ordinairement dans les jardins . . . [bound with] Pomologie, ou description des meilleures sortes de pommes et de poires, Que l'on estime & cultive le plus, soit aux Pais-Bas, soit en Allemagne, en France, en Angleterre, &c.

KNOOP, Johann Hermann (c.1706-1769) · 1771 · Fine Editions Ltd

$3,649.00 (€3,310.71 | £2,762.01 | ¥582,698)

Amsterdam Chez M. Magérus, Libraire First Edition thus Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plates…

[Council of Pisa] [Religion] [Catholic Church] Histoire du Concile de Pise: et de ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable depuis ce Concile jusqu'au Concile de Constance. Enrichie de portraits

LENFANT, Jacques (1661-1728) · 1724 · Fine Editions Ltd

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Amsterdam chez Pierre Humbert First Edition First Illustrated Edition, complete in two volumes bound in one, of this history of the Council of Pisa. 4to: liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one of…

Het feest van Saturnus. De literatuur van het oude Rome.

GERBRANDY, P., · 2009 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Atheneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2009. 2nd ed. 533p. Paperback. Spine with light reading traces. Name and date on half title. 'Dichter en filoloog Piet Gerbrandy schreef een geschiedenis van de Latijnse literatuur uit de Klassieke Oudheid, Het feest van Saturnus. Dat is …

MŽmoires de M. le comte de St. Germain. Ecrits par lui-mme. (RŽdigŽs par l'abbŽ de La Montagne, publiŽs par l'abbŽ Dubois).

ST. GERMAIN, (Claude-Louis) (1707-1778): · 1779 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 150.00 (€162.25 | $178.83 | £135.36 | ¥28,557)

En Suisse (Yverdon ou Berne), Libraires AssociŽs (ou SociŽtŽ typograhique), 1779, in-8¡, 2 ff. n.n. + 291 p., non rognŽ, minimes traces de vers dans qqs feuilles, exlibris ms. Ôde ReynoldÕ, cartonnage muet original, poussiŽreux. Claude-Louis de Saint-Germain (1707-1778), trs c…

Hieroglyphica, oder Denkbilder der alten Všlker, namentlich der Aegyptier, ChaldŠer, Phšnizier, Juden, Griechen, Ršmer, u.s.w. †bersehen und besorgt von Arnold Heinrich Westerhovius, ... Ÿbersetzt und mit einer Vorrede des Herrn D. Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten.

HOOGHE, Romeyn de: · 1744 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 3,500.00 (€3,785.88 | $4,172.73 | £3,158.43 | ¥666,331)

Amsterdam, bey Arkstee und Merkus, 1744, in-4¡, 1 Frontispiz-Portrait (Romeyn de Hooghe) + gestochener Titel + 16 Blatt (= XXXII S. einschlie§lich Schmutztitel - Drucktitel mit Titelvignette und 1 Wappenkupfer) + 396 S. mit 1 Textkupfer + 13 Bl. (von 14, ohne das oft fehlende …

Stad in marmer. Gids voor het antieke Rome aand de hand van tijdgenoten.

LENDERING, J., · 2003 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Atheneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2003. 2nd ed 349p. ills. Paperback with flaps. Spine with slight reading traces. (Rare). 'City in Marble is not the only travel guide on Rome, but it is indispensable for those planning to visit the city. Those structures that, in a commo…

De Satiren. Vertaald door M. d'Hane-Scheltema.

JUVENALIS, · 1984 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Ambo / Atheneum Polak & Van Gennep, Baarn / Amsterdam, 1984. 244p. Original black cloth with dust wrappers. Dust wrappers to upper part a bit edge worn. Half title a bit discoloured. Signature on title page. Series: Baskerville. 'In Dantes 'Divina Commedia' bevindt de Latijnse s…

Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura'.

SNYDER, J. McINTOSH, · 1980 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Grüner, Amsterdam, 1980. 151p. Paperback. Cover pinched (probably already when published). Still a nice copy. ‘After Paul Friedländer’s brilliant discovery of the ‘atomologies’ governing the pattern of sound in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (…) a study such as this was inevitable.…

Het feest van Saturnus. De literatuur van het oude Rome.

GERBRANDY, P., · 2007 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Atheneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2007. 533p. Original green cloth with dust wrappers. Reading ribbon. Dust wrappers bit wrinkled and bit worn to edges. Gift intention and small stamp on free endpaper. 'Dichter en filoloog Piet Gerbrandy schreef een geschiedenis van de La…

Orationis Ratio. The stylistic Theories and Practice of the Roman Orators Historians and Philosophers. Vol. I. Vol. II (Notes, bibliography, indexes).

LEEMAN, A.D., · 1963 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1963. 2 vols. 383,385-558p. Original blue gilt stamped cloth. Lower corner cover slightly bumped. Signature and date on free endpaper. ‘Mit gutem Grund geht der Verf. von Nordens Antiker Kunstprosa aus, um sich über Inhalt und Zweck seines Werkes mitzuteilen…