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Opera [and additional works].Comprising:(1) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De divinis institutionibus(2) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De ira Dei.(3) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De opificio Dei.(4) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De phoenice carmina.(5) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. [Epitome divinarum institutionem]. Nephytomon.Additional works:(6) RAUDENSIS, Antonius. [Lactantii Firmiani errata].(7) GENUENSIS, Adam. His carminibus frater Adam Genuensis increpat fratrem Antonium. [Incipit:] Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius aussis.(8) BUSSI, Giovanni Andrea. Ioannis Andreae episcopi Aleriensis ad Paulum secundum Venetum pontificem maximum epistola. (9) OVIDIUS, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses (extract).(10) ALIGHIERI, Dante. Comedia, inferno XXV (extract).(11) FORTUNATUS, Venantius. [De christi resurrectione]. [Incipit:] Lactantii fir. de resurrectio[n]is dominicae die/ [S]alve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.(Colophon:) Venice, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 1390 [=1490]. 5 works and 6 additional texts in 1 volume. Folio. The text is set in Roman type with some incidental Greek.20th-century goatskin parchment, with the author and title stamped on the spine with black foil, the name of the author added in manuscript on the bottom edge of the book block.
Opera [and additional works].Comprising:(1) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De divinis institutionibus(2) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De ira Dei.(3) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De opificio Dei.(4) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De phoenice carmina.(5) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. [Epitome divinarum institutionem]. Nephytomon.Additional works:(6) RAUDENSIS, Antonius. [Lactantii Firmiani errata].(7) GENUENSIS, Adam. His carminibus frater Adam Genuensis increpat fratrem Antonium. [Incipit:] Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius aussis.(8) BUSSI, Giovanni Andrea. Ioannis Andreae episcopi Aleriensis ad Paulum secundum Venetum pontificem maximum epistola. (9) OVIDIUS, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses (extract).(10) ALIGHIERI, Dante. Comedia, inferno XXV (extract).(11) FORTUNATUS, Venantius. [De christi resurrectione]. [Incipit:] Lactantii fir. de resurrectio[n]is dominicae die/ [S]alve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.(Colophon:) Venice, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 1390 [=1490]. 5 works and 6 additional texts in 1 volume. Folio. The text is set in Roman type with some incidental Greek.20th-century goatskin parchment, with the author and title stamped on the spine with black foil, the name of the author added in manuscript on the bottom edge of the book block.
LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus and Giovanni Andrea BUSSI) (editor) [and others]. · 1417 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)
[1 blank], [147] ll.First Venice edition of Lactantius' most important works, edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi (Joannis Andrea, bishop of Aleria, 1417-1475). Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (ca. 240-ca. 320) was a rhetoric of Berber origin, who converted to Christianity and…
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques &c.Including: SANSON, Guillaume.  Introduction à la Geographie où sont la geographie astronomique qui explique la correspondance du globe terrestre avec la sphere.Amsterdam, Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier, 1730. Folio. With a large allegorical frontispiece and 56 large copper-engraved maps (most 54 x 65 cm and a few larger, folding ones). Previous owners have added one large copper-engraved map of Normandie by Jean Baptiste Nolin from 1742, and 2 smaller etchings by Israel Silvestre with views of du Havre and Chateau Jametz. The original artwork of these views is from the 1670s, but these prints are from a later date. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, green closing ties.
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques &c.Including: SANSON, Guillaume. Introduction à la Geographie où sont la geographie astronomique qui explique la correspondance du globe terrestre avec la sphere.Amsterdam, Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier, 1730. Folio. With a large allegorical frontispiece and 56 large copper-engraved maps (most 54 x 65 cm and a few larger, folding ones). Previous owners have added one large copper-engraved map of Normandie by Jean Baptiste Nolin from 1742, and 2 smaller etchings by Israel Silvestre with views of du Havre and Chateau Jametz. The original artwork of these views is from the 1670s, but these prints are from a later date. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, green closing ties.
L'ISLE, Guillaume de. · 1675 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€45,000.00 ($49,599.31 | £37,536.52 | ¥7,921,316)
[1 blank], [6], 32 pp.A rare, beautiful and accurate world atlas with 56 large maps, all but one coloured in outline by a contemporary hand. This work was published many times, but this is a very early edition. Many of the maps include fine pictorial decorations, coats of arms o…
Las operaciones de catarata de 'Ammâr ibn 'Alî al-Mausilî. [= The cataract operations of ... = Les opérations de cataracte de ... = Die Staroperationen des ...]El Masnou (Barcelona province), Laboratorios del Norte de España, 1937. Large 8vo. With the text printed in Spanish, English, French and German, each with its own title-page and each with some passages in Arabic (set in Arabic type). With 6 photographs of the original Arabic manuscript bound at the end of the book. The main text for each language opens with a coloured decorated initial, mounted on the first page. With the device of the Laboratorios del Norte de España at the end. Original publisher's printed wrappers.
Las operaciones de catarata de 'Ammâr ibn 'Alî al-Mausilî. [= The cataract operations of ... = Les opérations de cataracte de ... = Die Staroperationen des ...]El Masnou (Barcelona province), Laboratorios del Norte de España, 1937. Large 8vo. With the text printed in Spanish, English, French and German, each with its own title-page and each with some passages in Arabic (set in Arabic type). With 6 photographs of the original Arabic manuscript bound at the end of the book. The main text for each language opens with a coloured decorated initial, mounted on the first page. With the device of the Laboratorios del Norte de España at the end. Original publisher's printed wrappers.
'AMMAR IBN 'ALI AL-MAWSILI (Max MEYERHOF, translator). · 1500 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[2 blank], 110, [2 blank], [16], [2 blank] pp.First multilingual edition of a landmark in ophthalmology, written in Arabic by the important and well-known 11th-century Arabic oculist and ophthalmologist ?Ammar ibn ?Ali al-Maw?ili (d. ca. 1010 CE?) and here published in Spanish, …
Beschryving van de beroemde, en van ouds vermaarde vrye keiserlyke ryks- en krooning- stad Aken, mitsgaders van alle desselfs fonteinen en minerale wateren en baden (...) tot herstelling van veele elendige en sieke menschen hunne gesontheid.  Leiden, Johannes du Vivier, 1727. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 18 engraved plates (15 folding, 3 full-page), several engraved illustrations in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved title vignette, and 10 engraved folding plates by H. Spilman after Jan de Beyer.  With: LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidsbron, en omleggende landsdouwen. Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. Early 19th-century half brown calf.
Beschryving van de beroemde, en van ouds vermaarde vrye keiserlyke ryks- en krooning- stad Aken, mitsgaders van alle desselfs fonteinen en minerale wateren en baden (...) tot herstelling van veele elendige en sieke menschen hunne gesontheid. Leiden, Johannes du Vivier, 1727. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 18 engraved plates (15 folding, 3 full-page), several engraved illustrations in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved title vignette, and 10 engraved folding plates by H. Spilman after Jan de Beyer. With: LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidsbron, en omleggende landsdouwen. Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. Early 19th-century half brown calf.
[BLONDEL, François]. · 1613 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[22], 223, [1 blank]; 63, [11] pp.First Dutch edition of a famous work on the composition and medicinal values of the sulphur springs in Aachen and Burtscheid. The Flemish doctor François Blondel (1613-1703), devoted his life to the promotion of the medicinal qualities of these …
't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden. Zynde een volkomen en klare onderwyzinge der navigatie, bestaande in 't geen een stuurman hoognodig behoorde te weten.Amsterdam, Joannes van Keulen & sons, [not before 1774]. With an engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved circle figures with moving volvelles, 1 engraved mathematical and geometrical folding plate, many tables (some folding) and many mathematical and geometrical woodcut illustrations and figures in the text.With: (2) DOUWES, Bernardus Joannes. Tafelen, bevattende 1°. De sinussen, tangenten en secanten, van minuut tot minuut voor ieder boog van het quadrant, in hunne natuurlyke getallen, op een radius van 10.000.000. 2°. Derzelver logarithmen. 3°. De logarithmen der gewoone getallen, in hunne natuurlyke orde van opvolging, van 1 tot 10.000. 4°. De vergrootende breedten, in tiende-deelen van minuuten. 5°. De streektafelen, naar het plat en het rond, voor ieder geheele compasstreek van een vierde-rond. Nieuwe, naauwkeurige en veel verbeterde uitgaave.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1779. Completely filled with mathematical tables.(3) [drop title:] Tafel van de lengte en breedte der meest bekende zee-plaatzen.[Amsterdam?, Gerard Hulst van Keulen?, ca. 1779?].3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.
't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden. Zynde een volkomen en klare onderwyzinge der navigatie, bestaande in 't geen een stuurman hoognodig behoorde te weten.Amsterdam, Joannes van Keulen & sons, [not before 1774]. With an engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved circle figures with moving volvelles, 1 engraved mathematical and geometrical folding plate, many tables (some folding) and many mathematical and geometrical woodcut illustrations and figures in the text.With: (2) DOUWES, Bernardus Joannes. Tafelen, bevattende 1°. De sinussen, tangenten en secanten, van minuut tot minuut voor ieder boog van het quadrant, in hunne natuurlyke getallen, op een radius van 10.000.000. 2°. Derzelver logarithmen. 3°. De logarithmen der gewoone getallen, in hunne natuurlyke orde van opvolging, van 1 tot 10.000. 4°. De vergrootende breedten, in tiende-deelen van minuuten. 5°. De streektafelen, naar het plat en het rond, voor ieder geheele compasstreek van een vierde-rond. Nieuwe, naauwkeurige en veel verbeterde uitgaave.Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1779. Completely filled with mathematical tables.(3) [drop title:] Tafel van de lengte en breedte der meest bekende zee-plaatzen.[Amsterdam?, Gerard Hulst van Keulen?, ca. 1779?].3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.
GIETERMAKER, Klaas Hendriksz. · 1621 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
Ad 1: [8], 106; 152, 8; 97; 98-120 pp. Ad 2: [233], [1 blank] pp. Ad 3: 39, [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: Highly popular work on the art of navigation by the Dutch mathematician Klaas Hendriksz. Gietermaker (1621-1699), first published in 1660. In 1661 Gietermaker was employed as examiner …
Opera nuova ... tradotta di Latino in volgare, laqual dichiara l’uso del maraviglio so istrumento astronomico da lui intitulato horoscopio. ...Verona, Paolo Ravagnano, 1560. 4to. With Ravagnano’s woodcut emblematic device on the title-page (a hand emerging from a cloud and holding a stalk with three lilies, the whole in an oval in a rectangular scrollwork cartouche, with the motto, “candidio animus”), a folding plate (oblong long folio: 15.5 x 41.5 cm) containing 2 woodcuts (12.5 x 22 cm & 12 cm diameter with the 4.5 cm gnomen making it 14 x 13 cm) designed to be cut up to make the author’s “horoscopio” in the form of a volvelle and the sundial-lunar dial, 3 decorated woodcut initials (pictorial), planetary and zodiac signs, and numerous tables of numerical data. 19th-century(?) boards, covered with block-printed decorated paper (black on white).
Opera nuova ... tradotta di Latino in volgare, laqual dichiara l’uso del maraviglio so istrumento astronomico da lui intitulato horoscopio. ...Verona, Paolo Ravagnano, 1560. 4to. With Ravagnano’s woodcut emblematic device on the title-page (a hand emerging from a cloud and holding a stalk with three lilies, the whole in an oval in a rectangular scrollwork cartouche, with the motto, “candidio animus”), a folding plate (oblong long folio: 15.5 x 41.5 cm) containing 2 woodcuts (12.5 x 22 cm & 12 cm diameter with the 4.5 cm gnomen making it 14 x 13 cm) designed to be cut up to make the author’s “horoscopio” in the form of a volvelle and the sundial-lunar dial, 3 decorated woodcut initials (pictorial), planetary and zodiac signs, and numerous tables of numerical data. 19th-century(?) boards, covered with block-printed decorated paper (black on white).
PADOVANI, Giovanni. · 1512 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
[46], [2 blank] pp.The rare first significant publication (extremely rare with the folding woodcut plate) by the Veronese astronomer Giovanni Padovani (ca. 1512-ca. 1590), explaining the use of his “horoscopio”, also known as a nocturnal or a horologium nocturnum, which he prese…
Grouwelijke medicijnse moortmiddelen van aderlaten, koppen, purgeren, clisteren, juleppen, en verswakkende hertsterckingen, waer door d’onbedachtsame genees- en heelmeesters (geen rechtschapene practisijns synde) soo veele duysent onschudige menschen jammerlijck van’t leven ter dood helpen. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaeld.Including: - Den hervormden apotheker, voorstellende een bequaem project, hoe en in wat voor gestalte de hedendaeghsche apotheecken billyk te reformeren en naer een rationali medendi methodo, die thans by alle verstandige en conscientieuse medicijns aengenomen is, te formeren waren. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.- Diaetetica rationalis; dat is, op onloochenbare vaste principien, gesonder verstandts, en waerer experientie welgegronde levens-ordre, waer door een ieder mensche in sijnen standt, sijn gesondtheyt bewaeren, en een leven, vry van veelerley swaericheden, hier op aerden leyden kan. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1690. With: (2) HUBER, Ulrik (editor). Specimen philosophiae civilis et studendi bonis libris. Continet excerpta Aristotelica e Libris ad Nicomachum, Cartesii de Affectibus librum, Institutionem reipublicae, cum excerptis Ovidianis. Ulricus Huber rationem instituti in praefatione reddit.Franeker, J. Gyselaer, 1686. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 8vo. Ad 1: with 3 title pages, each with one of 2 woodcut decorations, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine.
Grouwelijke medicijnse moortmiddelen van aderlaten, koppen, purgeren, clisteren, juleppen, en verswakkende hertsterckingen, waer door d’onbedachtsame genees- en heelmeesters (geen rechtschapene practisijns synde) soo veele duysent onschudige menschen jammerlijck van’t leven ter dood helpen. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaeld.Including: - Den hervormden apotheker, voorstellende een bequaem project, hoe en in wat voor gestalte de hedendaeghsche apotheecken billyk te reformeren en naer een rationali medendi methodo, die thans by alle verstandige en conscientieuse medicijns aengenomen is, te formeren waren. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.- Diaetetica rationalis; dat is, op onloochenbare vaste principien, gesonder verstandts, en waerer experientie welgegronde levens-ordre, waer door een ieder mensche in sijnen standt, sijn gesondtheyt bewaeren, en een leven, vry van veelerley swaericheden, hier op aerden leyden kan. … Uyt het Hoogduyts vertaelt.The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1690. With: (2) HUBER, Ulrik (editor). Specimen philosophiae civilis et studendi bonis libris. Continet excerpta Aristotelica e Libris ad Nicomachum, Cartesii de Affectibus librum, Institutionem reipublicae, cum excerptis Ovidianis. Ulricus Huber rationem instituti in praefatione reddit.Franeker, J. Gyselaer, 1686. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 8vo. Ad 1: with 3 title pages, each with one of 2 woodcut decorations, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine.
GEHEMA, Jan Abraham von. · 1647 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[20], 140; 169-538, [14] pp.Ad 1: First and only edition of three very rare medical and pharmacological treatises published together, by the German physician Jan(sz) Abraham Gehema (1647-1715). Gehema studied in Leiden where he settled as a physician before returning to Berlin i…
Tractatus primus instrumentorum mechanicorum ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.With:(2) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus secundus. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo dilucide exponitur usus baculi...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.(3) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus tertius. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo traditur descriptio atque usus circine proportionalis Iusti Burgi ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605. 3 works in 1 volume. Small 4to. Ad 1: with a large engraving on the title page, 14 engraved plates (including 2 folding), 40 numbered  illustrations in the text (35 woodcuts and 5 engravings). Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 1 large woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2: with a large engraving on the title page, 8 illustrations in text (7 woodcuts and 1 engraving). Further with 1 woodcut decorated initial and 1 woodcut headpiece. Ad 3: with a large engraving on the title page. Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary limp vellum with 2 sets of leather closing ties.
Tractatus primus instrumentorum mechanicorum ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.With:(2) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus secundus. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo dilucide exponitur usus baculi...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.(3) HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus tertius. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo traditur descriptio atque usus circine proportionalis Iusti Burgi ...Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605. 3 works in 1 volume. Small 4to. Ad 1: with a large engraving on the title page, 14 engraved plates (including 2 folding), 40 numbered illustrations in the text (35 woodcuts and 5 engravings). Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 1 large woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2: with a large engraving on the title page, 8 illustrations in text (7 woodcuts and 1 engraving). Further with 1 woodcut decorated initial and 1 woodcut headpiece. Ad 3: with a large engraving on the title page. Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary limp vellum with 2 sets of leather closing ties.
HULSIUS, Levinus. · 1550 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
[1], [1 blank], [6], 121, [1], [2 blank]; "16" [= 17], [3 blank]; 29, [1 blank] pp.Extremely rare collection of three treatises in Latin by Levinus Hulsius (1550-1606) dealing with instruments for surveying (ad 1), canons (ad 2) and Jost Bürgi's compass of proportion (ad 3). Som…
Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij.Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side.
Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij.Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side.
[AURELIUS, Cornelius]. · 1637 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€45,000.00 ($49,599.31 | £37,536.52 | ¥7,921,316)
[2], 436 ll.First edition of the famous and beautifully illustrated Dutch national chronicle, known as the "Divisiekroniek", because of its publication in 32 devisions. The chronicle contains various narratives of historical, ecclesiastical and hagiographical nature, “cobbled to…
Het gelukkig ongeval. Bly-eindend treurspel.Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje en Dirk Rank, 1721. With:(2) [WETSTEIN, George]. Erik, Prins van Zweden. Treurspel. Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1722.(3) [WETSTEIN, George]. Gustavus Adolphus. Koning van Zweden, beschermer der Duitsche vryheit. Oorlogspel.Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1723. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Each work with an engraved frontispiece, the original preliminary ink drawing for the frontispiece, protected by tissue paper guards, and an engraved device on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled olive morocco, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine lettered, bound by the so-called Fleur-de-Lis Bindery (The Hague 1729-ca. 1756; Storm van Leeuwen, IIA, pp. 110-117). With the coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards, tooled onto a red morocco inlay of the same shape, surrounded by richly ornamental borders with the crowned monogram of De Pinto (ADJP) in the corners, the same monogram repeated in 5 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
Het gelukkig ongeval. Bly-eindend treurspel.Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje en Dirk Rank, 1721. With:(2) [WETSTEIN, George]. Erik, Prins van Zweden. Treurspel. Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1722.(3) [WETSTEIN, George]. Gustavus Adolphus. Koning van Zweden, beschermer der Duitsche vryheit. Oorlogspel.Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1723. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Each work with an engraved frontispiece, the original preliminary ink drawing for the frontispiece, protected by tissue paper guards, and an engraved device on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled olive morocco, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine lettered, bound by the so-called Fleur-de-Lis Bindery (The Hague 1729-ca. 1756; Storm van Leeuwen, IIA, pp. 110-117). With the coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards, tooled onto a red morocco inlay of the same shape, surrounded by richly ornamental borders with the crowned monogram of De Pinto (ADJP) in the corners, the same monogram repeated in 5 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
[WETSTEIN, George]. · 1695 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€16,500.00 ($18,186.42 | £13,763.39 | ¥2,904,483)
88; 83; 87 pp.Beautiful copy of the first and only editions of three plays written for the Amsterdam Theatre, bound with the original preliminary drawings for the frontispieces. The first is by Abraham Zeeman (1695-1754), the second by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759), and the third is…
Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf.
Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf.
CROCUS, Cornelius. · 1530 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[40] ll.Second Strasburg edition of a popular "sacred comedy", or school play, written by one of the first and most important Neo-Latin poets and humanists of the Northern Netherlands. The work tells the story of Joseph in Egypt, and focuses in particular on Joseph's resistance …
Principi di architettura civile. Finale, Jacopo de' Rossi, 1781. 3 volumes. 4to. With tables of proportion in text and on a large folding leaf, and 18 architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of domes, pinnacles, arches, curves and spires on 8 full-page engraved plates, all bound in the third volume.Contemporary half sprinkled calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spines with black morroco spine labels, red sprinkled edges.With:(2) CIPRIANI, Giovanni Battista. Indice delle figure relative al Principi di architettura civile di Francesco Milizia. Rome, Nella stamperia Salomoni, si vende da Giov. Pietro, 1800. 8vo. With numerous illustrations on 27 double-page plates, illustrating Milizia's work, showing architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of buildings and details of buildings, theatres, bridges, gardens, etc., models of ornament and decoration, technical building instruments, building materials, etc. (10 plates for vol. 1, 12 plates for vol. 2, 5 plates for vol. 3). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with red label, red edges.
Principi di architettura civile. Finale, Jacopo de' Rossi, 1781. 3 volumes. 4to. With tables of proportion in text and on a large folding leaf, and 18 architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of domes, pinnacles, arches, curves and spires on 8 full-page engraved plates, all bound in the third volume.Contemporary half sprinkled calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spines with black morroco spine labels, red sprinkled edges.With:(2) CIPRIANI, Giovanni Battista. Indice delle figure relative al Principi di architettura civile di Francesco Milizia. Rome, Nella stamperia Salomoni, si vende da Giov. Pietro, 1800. 8vo. With numerous illustrations on 27 double-page plates, illustrating Milizia's work, showing architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of buildings and details of buildings, theatres, bridges, gardens, etc., models of ornament and decoration, technical building instruments, building materials, etc. (10 plates for vol. 1, 12 plates for vol. 2, 5 plates for vol. 3). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with red label, red edges.
MILIZIA, Francesco. · 1725 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
480; 515, [1 blank]; 442; 76 pp.First edition of a complete course on civil architecture, the best of the many works on art and architecture written by Francesco Milizia (1725-1798), born in Oria as a member of the best-established and richest family of the city. The impressive …
Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, montesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, omnib[us] adolescentibus in poesi versantibus oppidoquam necessarius, ...Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus (colophon: Godefried Hittorp), July 1529. With: (2) FREUDENBERG, Aethon Johann von. De abusu & impostura medicantiu[m] libellus perquam utilis jucundusq[ue] omnibus, quibus cum medicis erit negocium.Marburg, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1538. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in an elaborate woodcut architectural border with the Cologne coat of arms in the head, the death of Cleopatra in the foot (flanked by roundel profile heads of a king and queen), further figures in the right and left sides (one labelled “Dionisius”) and 3 putti, one holding a shield with a monogram or mark, perhaps of the artist or woodblock cutter. Set in roman types with 8 and 14 mm roman capitals used as initials. Ad 2: with 1 woodcut decorated initial (white on black with floral decoration) and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 7). Set in roman type with the dedication in an Aldine-style italic and with occasional words in Greek. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?), sewn on 4 supports, red edges, first title lettered in ink in the second spine compartment.
Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, montesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, omnib[us] adolescentibus in poesi versantibus oppidoquam necessarius, ...Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus (colophon: Godefried Hittorp), July 1529. With: (2) FREUDENBERG, Aethon Johann von. De abusu & impostura medicantiu[m] libellus perquam utilis jucundusq[ue] omnibus, quibus cum medicis erit negocium.Marburg, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1538. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in an elaborate woodcut architectural border with the Cologne coat of arms in the head, the death of Cleopatra in the foot (flanked by roundel profile heads of a king and queen), further figures in the right and left sides (one labelled “Dionisius”) and 3 putti, one holding a shield with a monogram or mark, perhaps of the artist or woodblock cutter. Set in roman types with 8 and 14 mm roman capitals used as initials. Ad 2: with 1 woodcut decorated initial (white on black with floral decoration) and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 7). Set in roman type with the dedication in an Aldine-style italic and with occasional words in Greek. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?), sewn on 4 supports, red edges, first title lettered in ink in the second spine compartment.
TORRENTINUS, Hermannus. · 1529 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€10,000.00 ($11,022.07 | £8,341.45 | ¥1,760,292)
[85], [1 blank]; [23] ll.Ad 1: A rare 1529 Cologne edition, in the original Latin, of the most important and influential early encyclopaedia or dictionary of classical history, geography and mythology, including the author’s preface to the first edition of 1498. It gives concise…
Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae.Including: PROBUS, Aemylius [recté NEPOS, Cornelius]. De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Caius. Historiae Romanae duo volumina, ...(Colophon: Florence, Philippo Giunta, 1525). 3 works published as 1. 8vo. With Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a nearly identical one on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in an Aldine-style italic, with numerous spaces with guide letters where manuscript initials could be filled in (left blank in the present copy). Dark green gold-tooled morocco (ca. 1833?), the with AAR-monogram of Antoine Augustin Renouard, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink watered-silk endleaves, matching ribbon marker, gilt edges. Attributed to the Bradel family in Paris, probably Antoine Louis François Bradel.
Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae.Including: PROBUS, Aemylius [recté NEPOS, Cornelius]. De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Caius. Historiae Romanae duo volumina, ...(Colophon: Florence, Philippo Giunta, 1525). 3 works published as 1. 8vo. With Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a nearly identical one on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in an Aldine-style italic, with numerous spaces with guide letters where manuscript initials could be filled in (left blank in the present copy). Dark green gold-tooled morocco (ca. 1833?), the with AAR-monogram of Antoine Augustin Renouard, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink watered-silk endleaves, matching ribbon marker, gilt edges. Attributed to the Bradel family in Paris, probably Antoine Louis François Bradel.
JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. · 1525 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
15, [1], “103” [= 203], [1 blank]; [8], “105” [= 205]-267, [1] ll.Collected edition containing three works by classical authors. The present edition is based on Aldus's, with corrections. Dibdin notes that the classical philologist Johann Georg Graevius singled out the 1525 Giun…
Nieuw woordboek der Nederlantsche en Latynsche tale. Waar in de woorden en spreekwyzen der eerste tale, naar hunne verscheide beteekenissen en kracht, door de laatste naeukeurig verklaart en opgeheldert worden. Alles getrokken uit het gebruik, en de beste schryveren door S. Hannot. Vervolgens overzien, van veele misstellingen en andere vlekken gezuivert, ook met veele woorden en spreekwyzen merkelyk vermeerdert en verrykt door D. van Hoogstraten. De derde druk.
HANNOT,S. & D. VAN HOOGSTRAATEN. · 1736 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta
€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)
Dordrecht, Joannes van Braam, Utrecht, Jakob van Poolsum, Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor en d'erve G. onder de Linden, 1736. 4to. (XVI),1016 p. Half vellum. 27 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 186876386) (Details: Margins uncut. Title page in red and black. Engraved printer's mark on the title, depic…
AMMÔNIOU peri Homoiôn kai Diaphorôn lekseôn. De adfinium vocabulorum differentia. Accedunt opuscula nondum edita, Eranius Philo 'de Differentia Significationis'. Lesbonax 'de figuris grammaticis'. Incerti scriptores 'de soloecismo & barbarismo'. Lexicon 'de spiritibus dictionum, ex operibus' Tryphonis, Choerobosci, Theodoriti, etc. selectum. Ammonium, ope MS. primae editionis Aldinae, & aliunde, emaculavit & notis illustravit, reliqua ex codd. MSS. Bibliothecae Lugduno-Batavae nunc primum vulgavit Ludovicus Casparus Valckenaer. (Bound with:) Ludov. Casp. Valckenaer. Animadversionum ad Ammonium grammaticum libri tres. In quibus veterum scriptorum loca tentantur & emendantur. Accedit specimen scholiorum ad Homerum ineditorum, ex codice Vossiano Bibliothecae Lugduno-Batavae.
AMMÔNIOU peri Homoiôn kai Diaphorôn lekseôn. De adfinium vocabulorum differentia. Accedunt opuscula nondum edita, Eranius Philo 'de Differentia Significationis'. Lesbonax 'de figuris grammaticis'. Incerti scriptores 'de soloecismo & barbarismo'. Lexicon 'de spiritibus dictionum, ex operibus' Tryphonis, Choerobosci, Theodoriti, etc. selectum. Ammonium, ope MS. primae editionis Aldinae, & aliunde, emaculavit & notis illustravit, reliqua ex codd. MSS. Bibliothecae Lugduno-Batavae nunc primum vulgavit Ludovicus Casparus Valckenaer. (Bound with:) Ludov. Casp. Valckenaer. Animadversionum ad Ammonium grammaticum libri tres. In quibus veterum scriptorum loca tentantur & emendantur. Accedit specimen scholiorum ad Homerum ineditorum, ex codice Vossiano Bibliothecae Lugduno-Batavae.
AMMONIUS. · 1739 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta
€490.00 ($540.08 | £408.73 | ¥86,254)
Leiden (Lugduno Batavorum), Apud Johannem Luzac, 1739. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: (VIII),XXXI,(3),264; (VIII),249,(15 index),(2 blank) p. Vellum 20.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,125; Brunet 1,239; Ebert 536; Graesse 1,105) (Details: Six thongs laced through the joints. Both titles printed in…
Horatii Tursellini Romani, Historiarum, ab origine mundi, usque ad annum, a Christo nato, 1598. Epitomae, libri decem. Cum brevibus notis, duplici item accessione, usque ad annum 1642, ac duplici indice. Editio ultima a quamplurimis mendis, nunc demum purgata.
Horatii Tursellini Romani, Historiarum, ab origine mundi, usque ad annum, a Christo nato, 1598. Epitomae, libri decem. Cum brevibus notis, duplici item accessione, usque ad annum 1642, ac duplici indice. Editio ultima a quamplurimis mendis, nunc demum purgata.
TURSELLINUS,H. · 1718 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta
€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.15 | ¥31,685)
Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Apud Gulielmum vande Water, 1718. 8vo. (XVI),566,(74 index) p., frontispiece. Vellum 16.5 cm (Ref: cf. Graesse 6/2,216) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Boards blind tooled. Frontispiece engraved by P. Sluyter, probably depicting the Muse Clio…
ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS Relating to Cable's book KINCAID'S BATTERY
ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS Relating to Cable's book KINCAID'S BATTERY
CABLE, George Washington · 19021903 · Charles Agvent
$6,250.00 (€5,670.44 | £4,729.97 | ¥998,164)
Northampton, MA. Superb collection of material by this former Confederate soldier and important, neglected writer who paved the way for modern Southern writers such as Faulkner and Welty in dealing with the pervasive issue of race. Includes 9 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) to C…
PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume I, Nos. 1 - 26
PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume I, Nos. 1 - 26
[BASEBALL] PORTER, William T · 1856 · Charles Agvent
$5,000.00 (€4,536.35 | £3,783.98 | ¥798,531)
New York. [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes]. First Edition. Folio (10-3/4" x 16") in the original cloth rebacked with a recent brown morocco leather spine, lettered in gilt, and corners; original morocco label with the name "James Burnside" in gilt on the front cover; 416 (of 424) pa…
South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, Catalogue of an Exhibition - The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1979
Addis, John (introduction); McElney, Brian S.; Yee, Ip; Mao, Philip Wen-chee; Joseph, Adrian; Brown, Roxanna M. · 1979 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda
€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)
Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong English and Chinese text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 19 x 27 cm.; 1 kg.; 264 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket…