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Rotterdam - Leonardus Temminck, 1839

Temminck-- L.F. · 1839 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€4,950.00 ($5,455.92 | £4,129.02 | ¥871,345)

ROTTERDAM IN 1839 – LARGE-SCALE CADASTRAL CITY PLAN “Platte grond der stad Rotterdam, vervaardigd volgens de kadastrale plans, opgedragen aan Edel Achtbare Heeren Burgemeester en Wethouders dezer stad” [Plan of the City of Rotterdam, based on cadastral surveys, dedicated to t…

Indonesia, Strait of Bali, East Java and Madura - Laurie and Whittle, 1794

Laurie and Whittle · 1794 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€495.00 ($545.59 | £412.90 | ¥87,134)

DETAILED BRITISH SEA CHART OF THE STRAIT OF BALI, EAST JAVA AND MADURA, 1794 “A New Plan of the Straits Situated to the East of Java & Madura commonly called The Straits of Bali and of Pondi and Respondi”, copper engraving published in London by Robert Laurie and James Whittl…

Atlas des sauterelles, grillons et criquets de Franche-Comté: Illustrations commentées du peuple chantant de l'herbe

Dehondt, F.; Mora, F. · 2013 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

Naturalia Publications 192, 188 col photos, 71 maps. 240x165mm. PB. NEW. . Text French. When the idea for this book was born in 2005, our motivation was to find the answers to the questions we were asking ourselves about the status of the species of our orthopterfauna, which we …

Historiae sive Synopsis Methodicae Conchyliorum et Tabularum Anatomicarum. Editio Altera

Lister, Martin · 1770 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£7,950.00 (€9,530.72 | $10,504.82 | ¥1,677,685)

E Typographeo Clarendoniano Oxonii iv, 7, [1], [4], 6, 12, 77, [1], 1084 engravings on 439 plates (9 folding). . HB. 2 parts in one, folio (376x240mm), sympathetically rebound in 20th century brown half morocco, raised bands to spine, gt title. Some offsetting, occasional spotti…

La Mémoire de Montcalm Vengée ou Le Massacre au Fort George; Documents Historiques ; [The Memory of Montcalm Vindicated, or the Massacre at Fort George; Historical Documents]

LeMoine, J.M. [James Macpherson] (1825-1912); Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm (1712-1759); Pierre-Joseph-Antoine Roubaud (1724-1789) · 1864 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Québec J. N. Duquet & Cie, Éditeurs Bibliothèque du Canadien pp. 91. 12mo (10.5 x 15 cm). Publisher's original pebbled, stamped, cloth over boards with title in gilt to the centre; marbled endpapers (new ffep). An uncommonly well-preserved copy showing trifle wear to the cloth e…

The Inlet: Memoir of a Modern Pioneer

Piddington, Helen · 2001 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Madeira Park, B.C., Canada Harbour Publishing First Edition, First Printing pp. 200. 8vo. Publisher's ivory boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Rich with many colour maps, plates, illustrations, et al. No detectable flaws, extremities and contents without blemish with bright, c…

Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 ; By J. Carver, Esq., Captain of a Company of Provincial Troops During the Late War in France; Illustrated with Copper Plates

Carver, Johnathan, Esq. (1710-1780) · 1779 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$1,295.00 (€1,174.92 | £980.05 | ¥206,819)

Dublin Printed for S. Price, R. Cross, W. Watson, W. and H. Whitestone, J. Potts, J. Williams, W. Colles, W. Wilson, R. Moncrieffe, C. Jenkin, G. Burnet, T. Walker, W. Gilbert, L.L. Flin, J. Exshaw, L. White, J. Beatty, and B. Watson First Irish Edition pp. [10], xiii, 508. 8vo.…

Children of Fire

Drew Karpyshyn · 2013 · Klondyke BV

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1e druk, 2013; Del Rey Books; 512pp.; Gebonden boek met losse stofomslag, 2013/1st. Schoon en fris binnenwerk. Gave boekband, met onder-en bovenkant rug wat naar binnen gedrukt. Mooi omslag, slechts iets gedonkerd. -- Conditie: Goed; Drew Karpyshyn has made…

Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work. Essays on His Life and Work

Alan Trachtenberg, Basil Davidson, Maren Stange · 1991 · Klondyke BV

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Paperback; 1e druk, 1991; Aperture; 320pp.; hoekje kaft achterzijde onder gevouwen, verder netjes -- Conditie: Redelijk; Paul Strand is a universally acclaimed photography master. His pictures rank high among the most reproduced masterworks and have an honoured place within the …

Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

George Eliot, Megan Mcdaniel · 2003 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2003; Fine Communications,US; 848pp.; Redelijk / goed. Paperback, vuistdik, 2003, met fris en schoon binnenwerk. Recht boekblok. Omslag: geen (!) leeslijntjes in de rug, rug wat verschoten. Randen en hoeken omslag ietsje wollig hier en daar; vouw over achterp…

Esprit de Francklin ... Le B[on].homme Richard.Chalonnes sur Loire, Fremy frères, Bottrel et Cie., [ca. 1830]. Blown glass bottle made in the form of a book (15 x 10 x 3 cm plus 1.5 cm neck and lip). The "spine" is covered with gold-tooled red morocco, with 7 horizontal rolls dividing it into 5 fields plus a smaller 6th at the foot, the title and the French form of Franklin's pen-name in fields 3 and 4 and a decoration in fields 1, 3 and 5, the "boards" covered with paper, each with an lithographed rectangular decorative border enclosing an oval laurel wreath around an oval paper overlay with a lithographed view, that on the front board showing Benjamin Franklin and that on the back board showing a man in the distillery, each with accompanying texts above and below the wreath. The paper sides (but not their overlays) have a slight reddish cast.

[BOTTLE IN BOOK FORM]. · 1828 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

A lovely early example of a "blook" (an non-book object made to look like a book) or faux book, in this case a bottle for spirits that could be kept on a bookshelf where it would appear to be a book. The spine title, Esprit de Francklin was used (with k rather than ck) for an 18…

Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus ... Basel, Johann Froben, 1520. Folio. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page and on the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Froben’s device on the verso of the last leaf, numerous woodcut decorated initials by Ambrosius Holbein throughout, and some ornamental woodcut headpieces. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge and brass edge guards around the corners and on the bottom board edge near the spine, manuscript waste pastedowns, re-backed.

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius and Desiderus ERASMUS. · 1520 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)

[24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp.First edition of the works of Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus (Saint Cyprian, ca. 210-258 CE), edited by Erasmus. The present work is a landmark in the history of humanist scholarship and a cornerstone of Erasmus’s lifelong effort to restore the authen…

Batavia, sive de antiquo veroque eius insulae quam Rhenus in Hollandia facit situ, descriptione & laudibus; adversus Gerardum Noviomagum, libri duo ... Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1586. 8vo (16.6 x 10.7 cm). With a woodcut device on the title page and woodcut initials throughout. Limp vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints (top one broken), with a green morocco label lettered "Batavia Ant. 1686" in gold on the spine.

AURELIUS, Cornelius Gerardi. · 1460 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)

[16], 135, [1 blank] pp.The Antwerp issue of the first edition of this work on the origin of the Netherlands by the early Humanist and historian Cornelius Gerardi Aurelius (ca. 1460-1531), teacher and friend of Erasmus in Gouda and best known for his Divisiekroniek (1517). The o…

[Large album with 16th-century maps and engravings of Italy].[Italy, late 16th and early 17th century]. Large oblong folio (ca. 59 x 42.3 cm). With 76 full-page engravings, and 12 full-page etchings. 17th-century gold-tooled brown calf, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine with the title "Novissim[a] urbis Romae descript[io]" lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges.

[LAFRERI - DUCHETTI - FLORINI - MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS - ITALY]. · 1512 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€150,000.00 ($165,331.05 | £125,121.75 | ¥26,404,388)

Remarkable album with 77 beautiful examples of 16th-century Italian cartography, all in very fine dark impressions. The collection includes plans of important Italian towns, such as Rome, Venice, Genoa, Naples, Milan, Florence, Palermo, Siena, Bologna, and Pisa, as well as detai…

Wederlegginge van de argumenten ...Including: (2) [PESTERS, Ernst]. Copie van de memorie door den Heere Pesters ...(3) [VOC, Directors of the]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de bewindthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenighde Nederlanden.(4) [BASSECOUR, Johan de la; Directors of the WIC]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de Bewindthebberen van de West-Indische Compagnie. The Hague, Paulus & Isaac Scheltus, 1723. 4to (21 x ca. 16.5). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, the text is primarily set in gothic type, and a large woodcut tailpiece on p. 75. 20th-century dark green morocco, signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London at the bottom turn-in at the front of the work. With the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.

[MACNENY, Patrick]. · 1648 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

75, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of the Dutch translation of a polemic in defence of the Ostend Company, a short-lived but politically significant rival to the Dutch East and West India Companies. Written by the Irish jurist Patrick MacNeny and translated from his origina…

't Werkstellige der sterre-konst ...Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, [late 17th or early 18th century (ca. 1701?)]. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, and 4 folding engraved plates. Further with a few tables in the text, some woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Contemporary stiff orange-brown sprinkled paper boards.

[ZUMBACH VON KOESFELD, Lothar] and Gerard VALK (engraver and publisher). · 1634 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [2], 140 pp.Late 17th- or early 18th-century astronomical work by the famous globemakers and publishers Gerard and Leonard Valk. The present work is based on Willem Blaeu's standard work on globes, Tweevoudigh onderwijs van de hemelsche en aerdsche globen (first …

De heeren stadhouderen van Vriesland ...Leeuwarden, printed by Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1770. Small folio (ca. 31 x 20 cm). With the title page set within a red decorative border, 21 full-page mezzotint portraits with 3- or 4-line captions in Dutch, and 10 woodcut tailpieces. Later half vellum, boards covered with paper, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.

BOSCH, Johannes van den. · 1713 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)

[19], [1 blank], 87, [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of a concise history of the Stadtholders of the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe, written by Johannes van den Bosch (1713-1784). It contains short biographies and genealogies of various members of …

De re metallica libri XII. Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur ... Quibus accesserunt hâc ultimâ editione, tractatus ejusdem argumenti, ab eodem conscripti, sequentes. De animantibus subterraneis ... De ortu & causis subterraneorum ... De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra ... De natura fossilium ... De veteribus & novis metallis ... Bermannus sive de re metallica, dialogus ...Basel, Emanuel König, 1657. Folio (ca. 34.5 x 20.5 cm). With a woodcut illustration on the title page (identical to the one printed on p. 176), 2 folding woodcut plates (one depicting a sundial) and 289 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, including 68 almost full-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf.

AGRICOLA, Georgius. · 1494 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,850.00 ($7,550.12 | £5,713.89 | ¥1,205,800)

[1], [1 blank], [3], [3 blank], [8], 708, [58], [2 blank], [32] pp.Scarce fourth and final Latin edition of a fundamental work on mining and metallurgy by the German scholar Georgius Agricola (or Georg Bauer, 1494-1555), who is generally considered to be the founder of geology a…

Dreyfaches Hermetisches Kleeblat.Including:(1) NUISEMENT, Clovis Hesteau de. Tractat von dem waaren geheimen Saltz der Philosophorum, und von dem allgemeinem Geist der Welt.(2) NORTON, Samuel. Mercurius redivivus ...; Catholicon physicorum ...; Venus vitriolata, in elixir conversa ...; Elixir seu medicina vitae ...; Saturnus saturatus dissolutus & coelo restitutus ...; Metamorphosis lapidum ignobilium in gemmas quasdam pretiosas ...; Alchymiae complementum, et perfectio ...; Ein Tractätlein welches von den Philosophischen Schrifften handlet ...(3) FICINO, Marsilio. Büchlein vom Stein der Weisen ...Nürnberg, Michael and Johann Friderich Endter, 1667. 8vo. With an engraved title page and 16 full-page engravings. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, a (faded) manuscript shelf mark ("313") at the foot of the spine.

MONTE CUBITI, Vigilantus de (pseudonym of translator). · 1433 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [15], [1 blank], [4], 448, [32] pp.First edition of a scarce compilation of important alchemical tracts, containing the first known edition of a work attributed to Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) about the philosopher's stone. The other tracts were wr…

't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen [frontispiece: Gerard van Keulen], [not before 1742, ca. 1747?].With: (2) [VOOGHT, Claas Jansz.]. De taeffelen der sinuum, tangentium en secantium, ofte der hoekmaaten, raecklijnen en snijlijnen.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th, early 18th century].(3) [Drop-title:] De tafel des aardryks breeten en langten, der voornaamste zee-plaatsen des bekenden aardbols.Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th or early 18th century]. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf.

GIETERMAKER, Klaas Hendriksz. · 1621 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[12], 106, [2]; 152, 8; 120; [2], 70, [66]; 16, [2 blank] pp.Rare, improved edition of probably the most popular work on the art of navigation, complete with the volvelles. It was intended for young sailors and explains everything aspiring mates and helmsmen had to know in order…