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Atlantic and Indian Oceans with the western portion of Pacific Ocean - UK Hydrographic Office, 1956 (1886)

1886 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

Admiralty Chart 2483 of the “Atlantic and Indian Oceans with the western portion of Pacific Ocean : compiled from the latest government surveys”. Copper engraving first published in 1886, here in a reissue with corrections until 1956. Size: 64,2 x 143 cm. Admiralty charts hav…

C.C. Plinius Secundus.

HALL,M.C. VAN. · 1809 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1809. (II),VIII,203,(3 errata) p. Half calf 22 cm 'Historical novel' (Details: Back ruled gilt, gilt letterpiece in the 'second compartment'. Boards marbled. Title page engraved by R. Vinkeles, on it we see a bearded Greek sitting on a kind of (anach…

Archaeologiae Atticae libri septem, dat is: Seve boeken van de oudheden van Attika, zijnde een beschrijving van des Stadts heerlijkheyt, stijl van regeering, verdeeling van volk, en van steden, vlekken, en plaatsen, die op den Atheenschen bodem lagen. Ook van hunnen godtsdienst, bygeloovigheyt, offerhanden, en jaar-rekeningen; mitsgaders een volstrekt verhaal hunner vierscharen, en een by-voegsel van de gewoontens, die in gebruyk waren by hun trouwen, begraven van dooden, gastmaalen, wichelaryen, en van diergelijke dingen meer. In 't Engels beschreven door Francis Rous, van Mortons (sic) Collegie tot Oxfort, en in 't Nederduyts gebragt door Henrikus van Rhenen, predik. tot Jutfaas.

ROUS,F. · 1688 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€525.00 ($578.66 | £437.93 | ¥92,415)

Amsterdam, By Hendrik en de weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1688. 8vo. (XII, including the frontispiece),759,(24),(1 blank) p. Vellum 16 cm (Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints. Frontispiece, it depicts four men with a turban on their head, discussing before a map of Attica. Woo…

De ses eerste boeken der beginselen van Euclides op een korte en klare manier gedemonstreert door Henrick Coets, lector in de Mathesis te Leyden. Met eene voorreden, en eenige aanmerkingen verrykt door Wilhelmus La Bordus. Den derden druck, veel verandert en verbeetert.

EUCLIDES. · 1740 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€475.00 ($523.55 | £396.22 | ¥83,614)

Leiden (Te Leyden), By Samuel Luchtmans, Ordinaris Stads Drukker, 1740. 8vo. (X),435,(1 blank) p. Half calf 17.5 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 36,9,b; OiN 174) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Title in red & black. Numerous woodcut geometr…

Dagverhaal eener reize naar Temboektoe, van de westkust af van Afrika, door de binnenlanden, over Jenné, Kabra, Arawan en vele andere opmerkelijke plaatsen, de groote woestijn door, op Tanger... Uit het Fransch overgebragt door Herman van Lil. Haarlem, widow A. Loosjes, 1831. 2 volumes. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and an engraved author's portrait by D. and A. Veelvaard, and a large folding map (41.5 x 28.5 cm) after E.F. Jomard. Contemporary half cloth.

CAILLIÉ, René-Auguste. · 1826 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

XVI, 496; [4], 622 [= 582] pp.First Dutch edition of Caillié's travels to Timbuktu. In 1826 the Société de Géographie had offered a reward of 10,000 francs to the first European to visit Timbuktu (and return alive). Caillié, by that time already travelling in Africa, was determi…

De Silesische Robinson, behelzende deszelfs geboorte, opvoeding ... minnenhandel, betoonde dapperheid in verscheide belegeringen, gevangenneming en elendige slaverny onder de Turken ... zyne reizen ... dienstneming by de Oostindische Compagnie ... dienstbaarheid onder de Boecaniers ... droevige schipbreuk en elendig eindeAmsterdam, S. van Esveldt 1755, 2 volumes. With a frontispiece by J. C. Philips and 7 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary gilt half-calf, dark brown moroccan letterpiece to spine.

STIEFF, Christian. · 1723 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[12], 267, [1]; [4], 308 pp.The Silesische Robinson is a very rare Dutch translation of Christian Stieff’s Schlesischer Robinson Oder Frantz Anton Wentzels v. C. eines schlesischen Edelmanns Denkwürdiges Leben, first published in Breslau and Leipzig in 1723/24, one of the first …

The Illustrated London News, 23 September 1944: The Invasion of Holland

VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS · 1944 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$395.00 (€358.37 | £298.93 | ¥63,084)

London, England: 30 January 1943, 1944. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Cover: Le Touquet, France Canadian Soldiers Walking Along Promenade. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Norfolk Portraits" by R.W. Ketton-Cremer; The Great World War: Is This the Final Round…

Ioannis Meursii Panathenaea, sive de Minervae illo gemino festo liber singularis.

MEURSIUS,J. · 1619 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€240.00 ($264.53 | £200.19 | ¥42,247)

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1619. 4to. (VIII),48 p. Calf 18 cm (Ref: Wiilems 161; Rahir 131; Berghman 1977) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting an eagle with spread wings on a pedestal; the bird holds in its beak a set of 7 arrows …

Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. With: TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume. Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine.

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. · 1813 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp.First edition of the finest Dutch colour plate work on military costumes, with 69 full-page plates. The work offers a systematic overview of all provisions regarding the uniforms and equipment of the different units of…

The Illustrated London News (Iln), Saturday, June 13, 1942 - Cologne Devastated by 1,000 British Bombers

BRYANT, ARTHUR; FALLS, CYRIL; SQUIRE, SIR JOHN; · 1942 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$299.95 (€272.14 | £227.00 | ¥47,904)

London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd, 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Bryan; Davis, G.H.; Turner, C.E.; De Grineau, Bryan. Pages 673-700. Features: Cover Photo-Portrait of General Neil Ritchie Holding Press Conference Near Tobruk; Soldiers of Free F…

Histoire des douze Césars de Suétone, traduite par Henri Ophellot de la Pause. Avec des Mêlanges philosophiques & des notes.

SUETONIUS. · 1771 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€260.00 ($286.57 | £216.88 | ¥45,768)

Paris, Chez Saillant & Nyon, Libraires, 1771. 8vo. 4 volumes: CXXI,(1 blank),390,(4); (VIII),522; (IV),528; (VIII),383,(1 blank), 86,(2 blank) p. Half calf. 22 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,984/85; Moss 2,638; Brunet 5,584; Graesse 6/1,525; Ebert 21957; Cioranescu 22813) (Details: Back …

Tooneel van China. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1668. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 24 engraved plates (including 2 double-page maps and 1 folding plate) and 60 engraved illustrations in text (plus another copy on a separate leaf, without letterpress text, of the engraving on 2F3v). Including maps of China and Asia, traditional Chinese costumes, illustrations of the Chinese and the Mughal rulers in abundantly decorated rooms, linguistic illustrations, zoological illustrations, etc. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, later endpapers (re-cased).

KIRCHER, Athanasius. · 1601 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,000.00 ($8,817.66 | £6,673.16 | ¥1,408,234)

[12], 286, [10] pp.First and only edition of Glazemaker's Dutch translation of China illustrata, "one of the most influential books in shaping the European conception of China in its Day" (Löwendahl), by the great Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher (1601/02-1680). The work is d…

Laus asini. Tertia parte auctior, cum aliis festivis opusculis, quorum seriem pagella sequens indicat.

HEINSIUS,D. · 1629 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€280.00 ($308.62 | £233.56 | ¥49,288)

Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 24mo. (XX),438,(2 blank) p. Contemporary calf 10.5 cm (Ref: Willems 315; Berghman 1247; Rahir 286; Brunet 3,84; Graesse 3,233) (Details: Binding ruled blind. Engraved title, depicting 2 learned gentlemen, perhaps Ewaldus…

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 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)

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…

Pensées de Cicéron, traduites pour servir à l'éducation de la Jeunesse; par M. l'Abbé d'Olivet. Nouvelle édition, revue et corrigée avec soin.

CICERO. · 1804 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Lyon, Chez Tournachon-Molin, 1804. 12mo. 317,(1) p. Calf 17.5 cm (Details: Back ruled gilt, boards with gilt borders. Marbled endpapers) (Condition: Binding scuffed, back rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Stamp on the verso of the front flyleaf. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: …

Marlborough's Other Army: The British Army and the Campaigns of the First Peninsular War 1702-1712

Nicholas Dorrell · 2015 · Winkles Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Book Very Good Very Good 1st Edition Helion & Company Solihull 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The dust jacket has a touch of edge wear. An often neglected aspect of Marlborough's war is its crucial campaign in Spain and Portugal also known as the First Peninsula War of 1702-1712. Wh…

Important autograph letter signed and dated 'Cape Observatory....1896 to [Johan August Hugo] Gylden, ...., in which David Gill asks for literature on Edvard Jâderin's base line measuring apparatus and asks Gyldén to put him into contact with him '.....' Letter written by the then Director [or Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape] David Gill. Autograph.

GILL, David.- to J.A.H GYLDEN [Recipient] ALS.- Cape Observatory.- 1896 · 1896 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)

Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope, autograph, 1896. Dated: '1st January 1896'. 4to. [Meas. appr. 18.5 x 23 cm.]. On lightcol. letterhead Observatory paper, w. blind embossed stamp top center, single smaller sized sheet, 31 lines in autograph by David Gill, with his signature. …

ARISTOPHANOUS KÔMÔiDIAI iá. Aristophanis comoediae undecim, graece & latine, cum indice paroemiarum selectiorum, et emendationibus virorum doctorum praecipue Josephi Scaligeri. Accesserunt praetera Fragmenta ejusdem ineditarum comoediarum Aristophanis.

ARISTOPHANES. · 1624 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€430.00 ($473.95 | £358.68 | ¥75,693)

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Joannis Maire, 1624. 12mo. (XXIV),935,(1),56 (recte 60) p. Contemporary boards 14 cm (Ref: Breugelmans 1624,2, with a note on the date, he suggests a date after 1626; Hoffmann 1,254, a very elaborate description; Dibdin 1,299; Smitskamp,…

Publii Terentii Comoediae sex, ad optimas editiones nunc demum emendatae. Accedunt notae Joh. Min-Ellii, et index absolutissimus.

TERENTIUS. · 1721 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud R. & G. Wetstenios, 1721. 12mo. (XVI, including frontispiece),540,(42 index),(2 blank) p. Vellum. 14.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 30413497X; Schweiger 2,1067; Graesse 6/2,59) (Details: Five thongs laced through both joints. The frontispiece, depicts a sce…

Ioannis Wouweri Dies aestiva, sive De umbra paegnion. Una cum Iani Dousae F. in eandem declamatione. Editio postrema castigatior, & adjectionibus in fine locupletior.

WOUWER,J. · 1636 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€425.00 ($468.44 | £354.51 | ¥74,812)

Oxford (Oxonii), Excudebat G. Turner Impensis Guilielmi Webb, 1636. 12mo. (XXVIII),156,(22 index),(2 blank) p. Later calf. 15 cm (Ref: ESTC S120326) (Details: Back with five raised bands, and elaborately gilt. Boards with blind double fillet borders) (Condition: Small pencil no…