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Histoire de la decouverte et de la conquete du Perou.Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme, 1700. 2 volumes. 12vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a folding engraved map of Peru, 11 engraved plates, and 2 folding engraved plates. Further with two different woodcut vignettes on the red and black title-pages of both volumes, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut headpieces and headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a large ornamental woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco.

ZARATE, Augustin de. · 1504 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

[1], [1 blank], [36], 307, (1 blank); [1], [1 blank], [4], 408 pp.First translation into French of one of the most valuable works on the history of the discovery and conquest of Peru. Augustin de Zarate (1504-1560) was sent out to examine the finacial affairs of Peru. He remaine…

The Bard of the Dimbovitza: Roumanian Folk-Songs Collected from the Peasants

Helene Vacaresco [collected]; Carmen Sylva; Alma Strettell [trans.] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1892. Cloth. A very smart English edition of this anthology of Romanian folk-songs, collected by aristocrat writer Helene Vacaresco. The second English edition of this collection. First published in the original Romanian in 1889.In the or…

Bookbinding in France

W. Y. Fletcher · 1894 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, 1894. Cloth. A smartly bound copy of this illustrated study on French bookbinding from The Portfolio No. 10 October, 1894. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects No. 10, October 1894. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plat…

Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, April 1963, Vol XXXVIII, no 2

Miller, Charles R.D. (ed.), H.M. Smyser, Van Courtlandt Elliott, and Giles Constable (assist. eds.) · 1963 · Books on the Web

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Cambridge: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1963. Paper bound in gray wrappers, April 1963 issue only of this quarterly publication, Pp179-402. Contents include: Venetian Merchant Galleys, 1300-1334: Private and Communal Operation by Frederic Lane; The Fredegar Problem Reconsi…

Der Querschnitt. Ende Februar 1931. XI Jahrgang. Heft 2 ( Original issue, as published, 11th year, 1931, issue 2 February ).

Alfred FLECHTHEIM ( Begründer ) - H. Von WEDDERKOP ( Herausgeber ) - [ ] Der QUERSCHNITT : · 1931 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€43.00 ($47.39 | £35.87 | ¥7,569)

0. Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, 1931, small in-4°, 24,5 x 18 cm, pp 73-146 + black/white photo illustrations + publicity section, stapled, original printed wrapper. Complete issue , as published. Text in German, but also sometimes articles or literary contributions in English or F…

Slovenly Peter (Der Struwwelpter): Translated Into English Jingles from the Original German of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann by Mark Twain with Dr. Hoffmann's Illustrations Adapted from the Rare First Edition Fritz Kredel

Twain, Mark · 1935 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$290.00 (€263.11 | £219.47 | ¥46,315)

New York, Marchbanks Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1935. limited to 1500 copies. Hardbound. Patterned illustrated boards w/ red leather spine, gilt printed. 34 color illustrated, french-folded pgs. glassine jacket. blue velvet portfolio w/ gilt printed spine & patterned i…

The Spanish Armada : the great enterprise against England, 1588.

Konstam, Angus. · 2009 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Oxford & New York : Osprey Pub., 2009. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 224 pp. illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - With the launch of the Spanish Armada in 1588, England suffered its greatest threat since th…

A Form Of Prayer To Be Used In All Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed: On Wednesday the Twentieth Day of March... By her Majesties Special Command.

PRAYER - QUEEN ANNE'S WAR · 1706 · Chilton Books

£42.00 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd; Printers to the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1706 . 0. Later paper wraps. 4to. 20.2cm x 16.7cm. pp.43 . Printed title within double-ruled border. Decorated paper wraps. Pages lightly toned and page…

Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 36

Coll. · 1994 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, 1994 Publisher's paper-covered boards, 235 pages, 27.5 x 20 cm. In this volume, Donald Royce-Roll reports that before the 13th century, technology limited the colors available for stained glass. And Mateja Kos writes about the 16th-century glas…

Grand Conseil de Malines [Manuscript containing the biographies of the members of the Great Council of the Netherlands at Mechelen (Belgium), with handpainted coats of arms]

NN [MANUSCRIPT – BELGIUM – NOBILITY – JURIDICA – HERALDRY] · 19 · Antiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar)

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

s.l., [6bl] + [740] + [14bl] pp., containing 242 biographies of the Great Council’s members (each starting on top of the page with their coat of arms (pre-printed, 220 of them handcoloured), followed by 1 to 3 pages of text in French) and followed by a chronological and alphab…

Les // Metamorphoses // D'Ovide, // En Latin, // Traduites En François, // Avec Des Remarques, // Et Des // Explications Historiques. // Par Mr. L'Abbe Banier,// de L'Academie Royale Des Inscriptions // Et Belles Lettres. // Ouvrage Enrichi de Figures En Taille Douce, // Gravées Par B. Picart, & Autres Habiles Maitres. // Tome Premier [and ] [Second] // [Vignette] // a Amsterdam. 2 Volumes in One. First Edition

Ovid; Ovide; M. l'abbé Banier, authors; Jacob Folkema (1692-1767); Balthasar Bernaerts (c.1711-1737);Wouter Jongman (engraving c.1712-1744), Joseph Mulder (c.1659/60?); Jan Schenk (engraving c.1731-1746); Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759), Philip Van Gunst (1685- · 1732 · Wittenborn Art Books

$5,000.00 (€4,536.35 | £3,783.98 | ¥798,531)

Amsterdam : Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, MDCCXXXII. [1732]. Folio. Contemporary roan with gilt spine, worn along edges of spine, but tight Pages fresh and crisp. Very good. Bookplates and old ink inscription of previous private owners on inside front cover. 30 x 48.5 cm.…

Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnae Bestiarorum: & mutuae Bestiarum, Depictae a Ioanne Stradano. Iachten van wilde beesten, vogelen en visschen... [BOUND WITH] Vermis Sericus.

STRADANUS - ( Jan van der Straet ) - Giovanni STRADANO - Ioannes GALLE ( engraver ) : · 1650 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€24,000.00 ($26,452.97 | £20,019.48 | ¥4,224,702)

" S.l. ( Amsterdam ), s.d. ( ca. 1650 - 1660 ), suite of 102 engravings + title page, landscape format : 217 x 300 mm; leaf size :261 x 371 mm. (wide margins !). Bound in (probably) 18th c. full calf, both covers with blindtooled decoration, raised spine with leather title labe…

The struggle for the South Atlantic. The Armada of the Strait, 1581-1584.

Phillips,Carla Rahn. · 2016 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,841)

[Abingdon], Routledge, 2016. XIV,203 pp. 7 b./w. maps. Orig. publisher's blue cloth over boards, lettered gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board. 8vo. (Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Third series, no. 31).Commissioned by The Hakluyt Society, London. - - The Armada of…

Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes: Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript

Buettner, Brigitte · 1996 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Seattle, College Art Association in Association with University of Washington Press, 1996. Hardcover. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering on the spine; blue DJ with color illustration and white and black lettering; x, 139 pp.; 57 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. "…

Artibus Et Historiae: An Art Anthology -- No. 58 (XXIX)

Grabski, Jozef (editor-in-chief) · 2008 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Vienna, Austria, IRSA, 2008. Hardcover. Black & illus. glossy boards, 268 pp. plus ads, BW and color illus. Many essays in English; two in German, one in Italian, one in French. A 2008 collection of 11 art essays: Pulling out all the Stoups: A Newly-Discovered Acquasantiera by A…

The Illustrated London News, Saturday March 30, 1918 - the Capture of Jericho

CHESTERTON, G.K.; ET AL · 1918 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd, 1918. First Edition. Stapled. Illustrated by George Philip & Son; Williams, C. Fleming; Price Julius M.. Features: Title page illustration of British craft 'unsuccessfully attacked' by German submarine; One-page map entitled "…

Library of the Dukes of Burgundy.

B. Bousmanne, E. Savini (eds.) · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€79.00 ($87.07 | £65.90 | ¥13,906)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller 2020, 2020 Hardcover, 205 pages., 134 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm , English, .fine!! ISBN 9781912554249. Very richly illustrated, this volume re-frames this exceptional library within its political, economic, historical and artistic context, examining cl…

A Collection of Books on Family, Food, and Wine

Various · 1936 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, Chatto & Windus; Faber and Faber; Seeley Service; Duell, Sloan and Pearce; Methuen; Peter Nevill; Foulsham; Oddhams; Michael Jos, 1936-1965. First edition. Cloth. London: Chatto & Windus; Faber and Faber; Seeley Service; Duell, Sloan and Pearce; Methuen; Peter Nevill; Fo…

Lettres Sur L&Apos;Egypte

[Claude-Etienne Savary] · 1786 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

Paris , Chez Onfroi, 1786. Leather. The complete second edition of Claude-Etienne Savary's compelling letters on Egypt, complete with four folding maps. Second edition. Complete in three volumes.Bound in contemporary mottled calf, with gilt to the spines. Marbled endpapers.…

Les Provinciales Ou Lettres Ecrites

Louis de Montalte · 1712 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Not Stated, Not stated, 1712. Leather. An eighteenth century copy of Blaise Pascal's series of philosophical essays. With engraved frontispieces to each volumes. This work is presented as a collection of eighteen letters. They were extremely popular for the use of humour, m…