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[Elegantes variorum Virgilio-Ovidio-centones de opificio mundi, Christo Deo, Deique Matre, SS. Francisco et Car. Borromaeo].[Munich, Anna Berg (widow of Adam Berg the elder) for Raphael Sadeler, 1617]. Small 8vo (15 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary French gold- and blind-tooled black morocco, each board with a frame of blind fillets and a gold centrepiece comprising an HD monogram surrounded by 4 gothic S's (Hobson's S fermé), and the 6 spine compartments with alternately a gothic s and a small fleur-de-lis, the 2nd compartment with "[PR]OB[A]" above the fleur-de-lis:, blind fillets on the board edges.

FALCONIA PROBA, Valeria, Francesco POLA, Bernardus BRUSCHUS (all after VIRGILIUS & OVIDIUS) and Carolus SCRIBANIUS. · 1602 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

82 of 98, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a collection of five works of verse (one not known before the present edition, and three more not long before) in a remarkable contemporary binding with a monogram HD surrounded by four gothic S's, the S's featuring a diagonal line from the…

Friesche lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den vierden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert, met verscheyden dichten ende liedekens, soo geestige als boertige. Mitsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende vercierd met schoone kopere figueren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.Amsterdam, for Hessel Gerritsz., 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, a full-page engraved plate, 10 almost full-page engravings in the text by Jan van de Velde, and musical scores in the text. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript author, title, and year of publication on the spine in a later hand, red sprinkled edges.

STARTER, Jan Jansz. · 1593 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€11,500.00 ($12,675.38 | £9,592.67 | ¥2,024,336)

[14], 207, [1 blank], 39, [1 blank] pp.Beautifully produced edition of one of the most important Dutch songbooks from the 17th century, printed in an elegant oblong size, and using various types, including a fine Civilité type. The present work contains wedding songs, love songs…

Devises & emblemes d'amour, ancienes & modernes moralisees en vers Francois, & expliquées, en sept langues.Including: PALLAVICINO, Ferrante. Devises & emblemes d'amour, anciens & modernes moralisez & expliquez en sept sortes de langues.Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, [1696]. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by G. van Gouwen after Frans de Kaarsgiter, 2 title pages in red and black, each with De la Feuille’s woodcut DLF cypher-monogram, and 24 full-page engravings on integral leaves, each containing six circular emblems by Jan van Vianen, with a woodcut tailpiece at the end. Half red goatskin morocco (ca. 1870?) by the Brussels bookbinder Émile Bosquet (signed “BOSQUET” in gold italic capitals with swash letters B and T on the front turn-in, at the foot, near the hinge).

PALLAVICINO, Ferrante. · 1618 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 24, [2] pp.First and only edition of a curious love emblem book by the notorious Ferrante Pallavicini (1618-1644), an Italian writer of lampoons and satires which were so popular that booksellers and printers bought them from him at a premium. Pallavicino's scandalous satir…

M.T. Ciceronis De officiis, ex recensione Heusingerorum. Cato major, Laelius, Paradoxa, Somnium Scipionis, ex recensione J.A. Ernesti.

CICERO. · 1794 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud B. Wild & J. Altheer, 1794. 12mo. (II),288 p. Vellum 13.5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,205; cf. Dibdin 1,415; cf. Moss 1,309) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Edges dyed red. Label with woodcut coat of arms of Rotterdam, measuring 3,5 x 4…

THE HOUSE SERVANT'S DIRECTORY, OR A MONITOR FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES: COMPRISING HINTS ON THE ARRANGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF SERVANTS' WORK, WITH GENERAL RULES FOR SETTING OUT TABLES AND SIDEBOARDS IN FIRST ORDER; THE ART OF WAITING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; AND LIKEWISE HOW TO CONDUCT LARGE AND SMALL PARTIES WITH ORDER; WITH GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING ON TABLE ALL KINDS OF JOINTS, FISH, FOWL, &C. WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLEANING PLATE, BRASS, STEEL, GLASS, MAHOGANY; AND LIKEWISE ALL KINDS OF PATENT AND COMMON LAMPS: OBSERVATIONS ON SERVANTS' BEHAVIOUR TO THEIR EMPLOYERS; AND UPWARDS OF 100 VARIOUS AND USEFUL RECEIPTS, CHIEFLY COMPILED FOR THE USE OF HOUSE SERVANTS; AND IDENTICALLY MADE TO SUIT THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH FRIENDLY ADVICE TO COOKS AND HEADS OF FAMILIES; AND COMPLETE DIRECTIONS HOW TO BURN LEHIGH COAL

ROBERTS, Robert · 1828 · Charles Agvent

$43,750.00 (€39,693.09 | £33,109.79 | ¥6,987,145)

Boston & New York. Munroe and Francis; Charles S. Francis. Second Edition. Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary calf, recently and neatly rebacked; 180 pages. A rare example of the FIRST COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED BOOK WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN IN THE UNITED STATES…

Dialogue with the ancients: 100 Bronzes of the Shang, Zhou, and Han Dynasties The Shen Zhai Collection

Kwok, Patrick K.M. (editor); With essays by: Jiao, Tianlong; Tao, Wang; Wang, Eugene Y.; Feng, Li; Miller, Alison R.; and Wong, Sarah · 2018 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€320.00 ($352.71 | £266.93 | ¥56,329)

Book Very Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Select Books, Singapore English text; Hard cover (with dust jacket in slipcase).; 24.5 X 33.5 cm; 3.8 Kg; 422 pages with color illustrations; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The slipcase has a bump at the top …

American Porcelain: 1770-1920

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney · 1989 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Book Very Good No Jacket 1st Edition The Museum of Modern Art, New York English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24 x 29 cm.; 1.8 kg.; 320 pages with 221 illustrations, including 169 in colour, bibliography and index.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. T…

The seasons. By Mr. Thomson [Subscribers Edition]

THOMSON, James (1700-1748) · 1730 · Fine Editions Ltd

$701.00 (€636.00 | £530.51 | ¥111,954)

London [none given] First Edition thus Subscribers Edition of Thomson's masterpiece, and perhaps the most popular English-language poem in blank verse (running to some 5500 lines in its final form) from Milton to the Romantics, as well as "one of the earliest, longest, and fin…

[American Revolution] Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with the Details of Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite Stone; [offered with:] A Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument

WILLARD, S. (Solomon, 1783-1861); SMILLIE, James (1807-1885) · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,399.00 (€1,269.27 | £1,058.76 | ¥223,429)

Boston [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First (and only) Edition of the Willard, quite scarce. R…

Orley Farm . . . With illustrations by J. E. Millais

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882) · 1862 · Fine Editions Ltd

$289.00 (€262.20 | £218.71 | ¥46,155)

London Chapman & Hall First Edition Complete in two octavo volume: viii,320; viii,320pp, with 40 full-page wood-engraved plates that Trollope considered the "best he had seen 'in any novel in any language.'" (Ray) Contemporary green polished half-calf spines in six compartments …

Ironic Life.

BERNSTEIN, R.J., · 2016 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

Polity, Cambridge / Malden, 2016. VI,167p. Paperback. Nice copy. Like new. ‘The purposes of Richard J Bernstein's 'Ironic Life' are several. (…) Bernstein wants to recapture the importance of irony for philosophy. Second, Bernstein also wants to revitalize what has become a neg…

The Roman Self in Late Antiquity. Prudentius and the Poetcs of the Soul.

MASTRANGELO, M., · 2008 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008. VIII,259p. Pencil markings, underlinings and a few annotations. Original gilt titled burgundy cloth with dust wrps. ‘Over the past fifty years, several studies have stressed Prudential’ Christian remodelling of traditional Roman …

L'Ercole Trionfante: I Tre Carracci a Casa Sampieri

Riccòmini, Eugenio · 2006 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Bologna, Minerva, 2006. Softcover. A dark red matte softcover with French folds and a color illustration across the front cover. The title is typed in yellow and white on the front cover and along the spine. Pages: (8), 9-63, (1). There are a total of 31 figures, with 28 color i…

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Abteilung I. Die Groß-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Band I-IV. [AND] Supplement I-IV [Complete palaearctic part].

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1906 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€2,400.00 ($2,645.30 | £2,001.95 | ¥422,470)

Stuttgart, A. Kernen, 1906-1913, 1929-1954. Four volumes and four supplements in 13 (text and atlases). Large 4to (31.4 x 24.0 cm). Text volumes with title pages to the volumes and to the parts; 3699 pp. (I: 379, [vi]; II: vii, 479; III: iii, 511; IV: v, 479. Supplements: I: vii…

Typescripts, correspondence and papers.

Box, H. E. · 1923 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Various places and publishers, 1923-1953. 4to and 8vo. Over 60 items of various size and shape. Many thousands of pages, numerous illustrations including some original photos. Preserved in two similar cardboard folders with punch holes. = The unique, personal files of the Britis…

Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale. Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune d'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Poissons.

Vaillant, L. [L.] and M. [F.] Bocourt · 1874 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

Paris, Mission du Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, 1874-[1915]. Large 4to (35.5 x 27.5 cm). Title to the Zoology section, title to part IV, half title to the ichthyology, [i ("avis"), 265 pp.; 31 plates, numbered 1-16, 1bis, 1ter, 5bis, 5ter, 5quat, 8bis, 9bis, 10bis, 10ter,…

Considérations sur quelques faits applicables à la théorie du globe, observés par M. Péron dans son voyage aux Terres Australes, et sur quelques questions géologiques qui naissent de la connoissance de ces faits.

Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de Monet de · 1805 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

Paris, Levrault Schoell, et Cie., An XIII - 1805. 4to (27.5 x 21.3 cm). 27 pp. [numbered 26-52]. Original printed wrappers. = This work by the eminent French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) is very important for two reasons. First, it is the first work to contain…

[Small Archive] Three Certificates Pertaining to Dr. Thompson Burton, Physician of Upstate New York, Signed by Prominent Members of the Medical Community

[Medical. New York] [Burton, Thompson] · 1838 · Kaaterskill Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Vermont; New York, 1838. 3 pieces. Three pieces of Dr. Thompson Burton, an Upstate New York physician, certified and signed by prominent members of the Vermont and New York medical communities. 1. [Manuscript] Diploma Signed June 17th, 1835. 8 x 12 1/2 inches. [2 pp]. From the P…

The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia; Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manners and Customes of the People. Gathered and Observed As Well by Those Who Went First Thither As Collected by William Strachey, Gent. , the First Secretary of the Colony

Strachey, William. Major, R. H., ed · 1849 · Kaaterskill Books

$360.00 (€326.62 | £272.45 | ¥57,494)

London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1849. First edition. Cloth. viii, xxxvi, 203 pp. Illus. with 5 plates,1 facsimile, and 1 folding map. 8vo. Hakluyt Society, First series: No. 6. From British Library, Sloane MS 1622. "The author, of whom almost nothing is certainly known,…

Breuer

McCarter, Robert; Breuer, Marcel · 2016 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London, Phaidon Press Limited, 2016. Quarto. Hardcover. Geometric grey paper boards with white titles. 447 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 32 cm. The most comprehensive book on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in detail at all the houses, fur…