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Zeeland - Johannes van Keulen, 1684-1709

Keulen-- Johannes van · 1684 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€975.00 ($1,074.64 | £813.42 | ¥171,552)

“Paskaart van de Kusten van Zeeland, Beginnende van de Maas, tot aan de Wielingen, alles op het Nieuws oversien, en merkelyk verbetert.” [Sea Chart of the Coasts of Zeeland, Beginning at the Maas and Extending to the Wielingen, Newly Reviewed and Considerably Improved.] Copper e…

Zeeland - Abraham Ortelius, 1592

Ortelius-- Abraham · 1592 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,350.00 ($1,487.97 | £1,126.27 | ¥237,534)

Zelandicarum Insularum exactissima et nova descriptio. (The Zeeland Islands, precisely and newly depicted.) Copper engraving based on the design by Jacob van Deventer, published in 1592 by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp. Verso: Latin text. With beautiful original hand-colouring. Si…

America - Frederick de Wit, ca. 1680

Wit-- Frederick de (1630-1706) · 1675 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,650.00 ($1,818.63 | £1,376.55 | ¥290,319)

Nova et Accuratissima Totius Americae, copper engraving first published c. 1675, here in a 4th state (out of 9), published by Frederick de Wit c. 1680. With original hand colouring. Size : 49 x 58 cm. De Wit’s Map of the Americas was the first Dutch map to include all five Great…

Macao - François Valentijn, 1724-1726

Valentyn-- François (1666-1727) · 1724 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.28 | ¥114,368)

VIEW OF 17TH CENTURY MACAO “De Stad Macao”. Copper engraving from François Valentijn’s “Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien”, engraved by Jan van Braam and published in Dordrecht by Gerard onder de Linden in 1724-1726. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 27,3 x 36 cm. A fine view of the city o…

Macao - François Valentijn, 1724-1726

Valentijn-- François · 1724 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.28 | ¥114,368)

VIEW OF 17TH CENTURY MACAO “Platte Grond vande Stadt Macao”. Copper engraving from François Valentyn’s “Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien”, engraved by Jan van Braam and published in Dordrecht by Gerard onder de Linden in 1724-1726. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 29 x 36 cm. A fine view…

A History of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Region. Vol. I-IX [with] Eggs of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Area. Vol. I-II

Dresser, H.E. · Pemberley Natural History Books

£17,500.00 (€20,976.30 | $23,120.05 | ¥3,690,801)

Published by the author London , 721 hand-col lithographic plates, 2 uncoloured plates; 106 colour-printed plates from photographs. . HB. 11 vols, large 4to (324x250mm): <i>Birds</i>, 9 vols, cont. red half morocco, raised bands to spines, gilt and black rules between compartmen…

Civil Society. Old Images, New Visions

John Keane · 1998 · Klondyke BV

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,111)

Paperback; 1e druk, 1998; Polity Press; 208pp.; Ongebroken, rechte rug, scherpe randen; fris,schoon en gaaf binnenwerk. Prijssticker boekhandel op achterplat. -- Conditie: Goed; aeo Important new book about civil society by one of the leading scholars in politics and political t…

Hyperspace. A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

Michio Kaku · 1995 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk, 1995; Oxford University Press; 384pp.; Paar fijne leeslijntjes in de rug; overigens gaaf -- Conditie: Redelijk; Already thoroughly familiar to the seasoned science fiction fan, Hyperspace is that realm which enables a spaceship captain to take his ship on a p…

Tomorrow People. Future Consumers and How to Read Them

Martin Raymond, Martin Raymond · 2003 · Klondyke BV

€11.00 ($12.12 | £9.18 | ¥1,935)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2003; Pearson Education Limited; 304pp.; Boek schoon, fris & gaaf. Losse stofomslag goed, met vederlichte gebruikssporen. -- Conditie: Goed; GET TO KNOW YOUR FUTURE CUSTOMERS The future is a profit stream waiting to happen, but it takes careful observation an…

World Without End. Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire

Hugh Thomas, Hugh Thomas · 2015 · Klondyke BV

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1e druk, 2015; Random House Inc; 496pp.; Onderstrepingen, markeringen in de marge en aantekeningen met potlood. -- Conditie: Redelijk; Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire and building on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epi…

Log of H.M.S. Cumberland [commanded by] Captain J.B. Dickson bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Provo W.P. Wallis, … commencing 5th April 1857, ending 30th April 1858.With:(2) SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY, Thomas Alfred. Log of H.M.S. Siren . 16 guns, commanded from May 1st to May 8th 1858 by Captain J.H. Selwyn, from May 9th 1858 to [27th July 1858] by Com[ande]r G.M. Balfour.(3) SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY, Thomas Alfred. Journal of T.A. Sneyd Kynnersley acting mate H.M.S. Siren, 16 [guns], commencing July 28 1858, ending [11 April 1860].[In the Atlantic, along the European, African and especially the South American coasts, 1857-1860]. Small folio (32 x 20.5 cm). Three English manuscript ships' logs written in a single album in black ink on laid paper with a blue cast, with 3 hand-lettered title-pages, 2 sea charts showing the routes and 8 colour views (in watercolour, coloured pencil and sepia and black ink, mostly ships on the South American coast, but also camps) are drawn on 9 separate leaves, and 6 sea charts showing the routes and about 15 views drawn directly on the album leaves, mostly in black ink, but including a colour plan of one of the ships. Contemporary black half sheepskin.

SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY, Thomas Alfred. · 1839 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€22,000.00 ($24,248.38 | £18,354.05 | ¥3,870,923)

[215 (including 5 blank)], [117 blank] pp.A manuscript log book and journal of voyages to, from and along the coast of South America in the British navy ships Cumberland and Siren, all kept in a single album by the midshipman Thomas Alfred Sneyd-Kynnersley (1839-1874) in the yea…

Het nieuw geopend Italiaans tóneel, vertonende de wonderlijke ziekte bezwangerheid en baring van Arlequin: benevens de opvoeding van des zelfs jongen zoon.With: (2) XAVERY, Gerard Joseph. Het Italjaansch tooneel voortreffelijk in 16 verbeeldingen uytgevoert ..., verrijkt met Nederduytsche en Fransche vaarzen door Florentius H. J. van Halen.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk II, [1728?] & [1735?]. Royal 4to (30.5 x 26 cm). With 2 engraved title prints, each followed by 16 numbered prints (pictorial images ca. 15 x 19 cm; plate size ca. 23.5 x 21 cm), with verses engraved in the feet of the plates. With all 34 engravings coloured by a contemporary hand and varnished, probably for the publisher. Contemporary vellum.

XAVERY, Gerard Joseph. · 1760 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,554.98 | £20,856.88 | ¥4,398,776)

[1], 16; [1], 16 engraved ll.Rare complete set of the first and only editions (excepting an abridged English edition of part 1, ca. 1760) of the only two Arelquin (Harlequin) print series by the Antwerp painter in The Hague, Gerard Joseph Xavery (1700-1747), one of the earliest …

Les mémoires d'un ange, ou Les femmes vengées, roman historique, philosophique et moral, ... Tome I.er[-II.].[Bordeaux], Edmond Ramadié, [1839-1840, with the author’s 1843 printed dedication to the Dutch Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 copies of the 4-page 1843 dedication to Queen Anna Pavlovna printed on heavy wove paper, signed by the author in brown ink on the first and last page and tipped onto the title-page in each volume. Contemporary finely diced (in horizontal lozenges) and gold-tooled red morocco for presentation to the Queen, (each board with a crown above flowers as centrepiece, and a decorative frame built up from separate tools; the spine with the title and volume number in the middle with decorations above and below), gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges.With: (2) DUFFEYTE-DILHAN, Joseph. [Autograph, signed letter to Anna Pavlovna].[Bordeaux?, 1843?]. 4to. Letter in ink on two sides of one leaf of a folded bifolium, signed by the author.

DUFFEYTE-DILHAN, Joseph. · 1856 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.49 | £6,257.06 | ¥1,319,633)

“408” [= 406]; 419, [1 blank] pp.Author's dedication copy for Queen Anna Pavlovna of the Netherlands (daughter of the late Tsar Pavel I and wife of King Willem II) of the extremely rare first edition of an "historique, philosophique et moral" novel written for women, including c…

Bibelsche figueren, ofte afbeeldingen van al de gedenckweerdige historien, ende andere geschiedenissen des Ouden ende Nieuwen Testaments.Amsterdam, Gerrit Jansz., 1662. Oblong 4to (19 x 6 cm). With a general title-page plus a separate title-page for the New Testament, each with the same new woodcut rendition of the device Michiel Colijn used in his 1613 editions, 97 (of 119) engraved and etched Bible scenes, 1 large woodcut headpiece and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Early 19th-century half vellum, sewn on 2 tapes, marbled sides, with the remains of a gold-tooled spine-label that originally read “BIBELSCHE|FIGUEREN|1662”.

BARREFELT, Hendrik Jansen, known as “HIËL” (illustrations by Pieter van der BORCHT). · 1662 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,511.00 | £4,171.38 | ¥879,755)

44 [lacking 15-16, 41-44]; 52 [lacking 41-48] pp.Very rare 1662 edition (first issue), in the original Dutch, of an important and influential interpretation of the stories of the Old and New Testament, in the popular form of (originally) 119 engraved illustrations by Pieter van …

Malay peninsula (straits settlements & federated Malay states).Medan, 1907. Oblong folio (36.3 x 45.5 cm) With 172 photogravures, 1 illustrated map of the Malay Peninsula in colour, and 1 illustrated diagram of the fruit of the rubber tree on 72 leaves, together with a title leaf. 73 loose leaves kept in a decorated black cloth portfolio, with "Malay Peninsula" stamped in white and gold along with some gold-stamped decorations and a ca. 27 x 11 cm. photogravure of a trapped tiger on the front board. The pastedowns and tabs are covered with gold floral paper.

KLEINGROTHE, Charles J. · 1864 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€15,000.00 ($16,532.98 | £12,514.12 | ¥2,639,265)

[73] ll.Rare and luxurious portfolio of photogravures depicting the Malay Peninsula just after the turn of the century, comprising of a title leaf, a map of the Malay Peninsula in colour, and 173 finely executed photogravures on 71 leaves. The plates show views of Penang (16 lea…

Relation de la campagne en Brabant et en Flandres, de l'an M.DCC.XLVI.The Hague, sold by Pieter van Os, 1761. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 4 large folding leaves with the dispositions of the French troops, and 2 folding maps of battle fields, engraved by Kryt. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf.

ESPAGNAC, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Sahuguet d'Amarzit d'. · 1745 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€15,000.00 ($16,532.98 | £12,514.12 | ¥2,639,265)

161, [1] pp.Rare account of the second year of the successful French campaign in Brabant and Flanders (1745-1747), from the library of Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Joséphine. The work focusses on the victories of Maurice of Saxony (1696-1750), Maréchal de France, a general in…

Flandricarum rerum tomi X ... Cum Hymno de sanctissimo nomine Iesu. Chronica Flandriae.Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1531. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Vorsterman's device at the end. 17th-century mottled calf, with a gold-tooled spine, and the title lettered in gold, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine.

MEYERE, Jacobus de. · 1491 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.75 | £1,042.84 | ¥219,939)

67, [5] ll.Second edition of the Flandricarum rerum tomi X, first printed the same year by the Bruges printer Hubert de Croock. It is the first original work of the historian, poet, and humanist Jacob de Meyere (Vleteren 1491/92-1552). Within months, the Antwerp printer Willem V…

Tewtsche Theologey.(Colophon:) München, Hans Schobser, 31 August 1528. Small folio (19.6 x 28.5 cm). With the title printed in red and set inside a woodcut frame, depicting God the Father, the Virgin and Child, SS. Peter and Paul, and the four evangelists. Near-contemporary (ca. 1586?) panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and with remnants of 2 pairs of closing ties.

PIRSTINGER, Berthold. · 1528 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.49 | £6,257.06 | ¥1,319,633)

[251], [1 blank] ll.First edition of Tewtsche Theologey, printed in Munich in 1528, represents Berthold Pürstinger’s (1465-1543) chief work and the first extended Roman Catholic treatise on dogmatics in the German language. Written during his retirement in the Cistercian monaste…

Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf.

GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). · 1472 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,554.98 | £20,856.88 | ¥4,398,776)

[79] ll.First Strasbourg edition of the earliest printed work to mention chess, published several years before William Caxton's famous work. Primarily intended as a manual for priests, it is a collection of extracts intended to provide moral lessons and examples for the edificat…

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 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.69 | £7,091.34 | ¥1,495,584)

[8], 271, [1 blank], [50], [2 blank], [4], 70, [2 blank], 167, [1 blank]; 183, [1], 283, [1 blank], 84, 203, [1 blank] pp.Scarce later edition of the famous Antwerp Polyglot, in a beautiful contemporary binding. The present work contains the New Testament with the Apocrypha in G…