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[Clocks, klokken 1849] Histoire de l'horlogerie depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours, recherches sur la mesure du temps ans l'antiquité et suivie de la biographie des horlogers les plus célèbres de l'europe, Paris Administration du Moyen Age et la Renaissance 1849, 408 pp.

Dubois, Pierre · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€272.50 ($300.35 | £227.34 | ¥47,947)

Half leather binding with beautiful decorated spine. Many beautiful lithographs in gold- and silverprint. Other black and white illustrations. Some pages with some foxing, but overall in good condition.Chromolithographs enhanced with metallic gold ink: Horloge a Poids dite de He…

Travel book 1883 | Albrecht Hallers Tagebücher seiner Reisen nach Deutschland, Holland und England 1723-1727, Leipzig: Hirzel, 1883, 146 pp.

Hirzel, Ludwig · 1708 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€136.25 ($150.17 | £113.67 | ¥23,973)

Half linen binding with smudges. Interior good, except for browning on the titlepage. Lit: Bientjes, p.265-266. Text in German.[NL] Von Haller (1708-1777) was een medisch student uit Zwitserland, die in Leiden zijn studie afrondde en daar in mei 1727 promoveerde. Zijn dagboek lo…

Antique print I Beggar with a bowl I Bedelaar met nap I published ca. 1634, 1 p.

Pieter Jansz. Quast (1605/6-1647) · 1634 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€157.30 ($173.38 | £131.23 | ¥27,677)

Full title: Beggar with a bowl [10] (Set title: Beggars and Peasants, 26 plates)/Bedelaar met nap.A beggar with a bowl in his hand walks to the right, leaning on a support stick. On the left, a man approaches the beggar waving his arms. Right in the background two other beggars.…

[Antique mezzotint print 1704-1721] Portrait of lawyer Christoph Sigismund Amman, published 1704-1721, 1 p.

Matthäus Sigmund Sallomusmüller (fl. 1719-1730), after Johann Conrad Schnell I or II (fl. 1690-1726)) · 1663 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€145.20 ($160.04 | £121.14 | ¥25,548)

Portrait of Christoph Sigismund Amman (1663-1719); half-length, directed to left, with head turned to look to right, pointing with his right hand at coat of arms on oval frame on pedestal, surmounted by curtain; wearing long curly wig, bands, dark lace-trimmed cloak, jacket, cha…

Antique title page | Allegorical composition, published 1722, 1 p.

Bernard Picart (1673-1733) · 1722 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€84.70 ($93.36 | £70.66 | ¥14,903)

Personification of Judea, seated on the body of a priest and on a pile of idols, looking at an angel offering her an olive branch, and at another symbolizing Vengence and threatening her with a burning sword; at top left sits Justice; in the distance, the Temple of Jerusalem, bu…

[Lithography, Lithografie, The Hague] La Haye, Het Stadhuis, L'Hôtel de Ville (Old City Hall Den Haag), 1 p, published 19th century.

1564 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€48.40 ($53.35 | £40.38 | ¥8,516)

Lithography The Hague with the text: La Haye, L'Hôtel de Ville. 285 x 200 mm. Some brown spots on the paper, one just underneath the left bottom corner of the image. Nice view of the old City Hall, Stadhuis of The Hague, also known as "oude Raadhuis".  With people in the front o…

French politics 1912-1913 | Gespra?che Napoleons des Ersten, Volume 2 and Volume 3, Lutz Stuttgart 1912 & 1913, 350+323 pp.

Kircheisen, Friedrich Max · 1911 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€76.30 ($84.10 | £63.66 | ¥13,425)

2 (of 3) volumes of the series Gespra?che Napoleons des Ersten, printed in Stuttgart. Text in German, interior with some foxing. Three-volume collection of statements, dialogues, and reflections of Napoleon Bonaparte, compiled by Friedrich Max Kircheisen and published between 19…

Poetry 1728 | Poetae minores Graeci, selecti & emendati: scilicet, Hesiodus, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Smyrn. Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagoras, T. Wood Londini 1728, [4]+453+[1] pp. Complete first edition.

Hediodus, Pythagoras (et al.) · 1728 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€239.80 ($264.31 | £200.06 | ¥42,193)

Greek poetry in paralel Greek (left page) and Latin (right page) language, published in 1728 in London. Full vellum binding with some wear (hinges weak) with moroccan shield on the top of the spine with the text "Poet. Min Graec".Bookblock almost loose from the binding. Interior…

Theatre plays 1744 | Complete set of 2 vellum volumes of Oeuvres de Racine, nouvelle edition, tome premier et second, Amsterdam aux dépens de la Compagnie 1744, duodecimo edition, in -12.

Racine, Jean · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€196.20 ($216.25 | £163.68 | ¥34,522)

Two volumes with the high quality theatre plays of the famous French theater writer Racine. Two alike vellum bindings with text on the spine "Racine Oeuvres I & II". spine with some light creases. With full page frontipice "Tragedies de Racine" and the greek text: fobos kai …

Geography 1825 | Dictionary Geographique ou description de toutes les parties du monde par Vosgien, nouvelle edition (...), Paris Menard et Desenne 1825, 672+6 pp coins (numismatique).

Vosgien, Goigoux, J.D. · 1825 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€185.30 ($204.24 | £154.59 | ¥32,604)

Influential French geographical reference work that originated in the eighteenth century, this is the expanded Paris edition published by Menard et Desenne in 1825. The book was important as a popular encyclopedic survey of countries, cities, peoples, trade, currencies, and poli…

Heraldry, 1977, Spain | El libro de la Cofradia de Santiago de Burgos, facsimile, Bilbao, La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, 1977, 243 pp.

1845 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€163.50 ($180.21 | £136.40 | ¥28,768)

A facsimile edition of the Confraternity Book of Burgos. The book contains the order's statures and member lists, but is most valued for its painted equestrian heraldic figures. These figures (of its actual members) were painted into the book over the period of almost three cent…

[Antique print, engraving, ca. 1600] St Fiacrius harvesting (18) [set: Oraculum Anachoreticum]/Heilige Fiacrius, published ca. 1600, 1 p.

Raphael Sadeler I (1560-1632) after Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€217.80 ($240.06 | £181.71 | ¥38,322)

St Fiacrius, seen from behind, with a basket of vegetables in a well tended allotment; plate 18.Lettered below centre with a privilege and at right "Raph. Sad. fe Vos fig". and further: 'Clarus Hybernorum regione FIACRIVS horti / Exigui cultor, prodigiosa facit. Dum signat fossa…

Mythology special binding | Appendix de diis et heroibus poeticis, ou Abrégé de l'histoire poétique. Paris, 1804. 12mo, 168 pp. Bound in an early manuscript vellum fragment.

Jouvency, Joseph de · 1643 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€272.50 ($300.35 | £227.34 | ¥47,947)

An early 19th-century schoolbook of classical mythology by the influential Jesuit educator Joseph de Jouvency, particularly attractive for its binding made from a recycled earlier manuscript leaf—combining the history of classical education with the early-modern practice of manu…

Ornithology Birds 1794 | Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, with their Descriptions from the Menagery of Osterly Park, London W. Bulmer & Co & R. Faulder London 1794 (-99), Quarto edition, in -4. Two parts in one volume.

Hayes, William (and Mathilda Hayes). · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€4,905.00 ($5,406.29 | £4,092.12 | ¥863,040)

First edition of this beautiful book of the Rare and Curious birds in Great Brittain, in the menagery (zoo) of Osterly Park London, the estate of the famous family Robert & Sarah Child. Osterley Park is a Georgian country estate in west London, which straddles the London bor…

Printed newspaper 1833 | Utrechtsche Courant vrijdag 30 augustus 1833, no 104, 4 pp.

[Newspaper 1833] · 1833 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€32.70 ($36.04 | £27.28 | ¥5,754)

Publication on laid paper, in good condition 45 x 25 cm.[NL] Met officiële stempels van “Buitengewoonen Postdienst” en “Directie van 's Rijks Couranten”. Aankondiging van de benoeming van stemopnemers (kiezer) voor een verkiezing in Utrecht. Ondertekend door: H.M.A.J. van Asch v…

Antique print, engraving I Portrait of Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft, published 1760, 1 p.

Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after Hendrik Pothoven (1725-1807) · 1761 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€48.40 ($53.35 | £40.38 | ¥8,516)

Bust portrait of Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft at age 79 in an oval, turned to the left. The portrait rests on a plinth bearing his name and details in three lines in Dutch. Plate also used in: Portraiten van vermaarde persoonadien, dienende tot een aanhangsel op de Vaderlandsche his…

Legal 1655 | Tractaet verklarende hoe dat de Hollantsche leenen bij uytterste-wille ende versterf erven, 2e- vermeerderde druk, 's-Gravenhage, Joh. Verhoeve, 1655 [colophon: Joh. Rammazeyn, 1655], (12)+266+(10) pp.

Bort, Pieter · 1615 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€272.50 ($300.35 | £227.34 | ¥47,947)

About the famous 17th century lawyer in The Hague Pieter Bort. On inheritance law and patent law (octroy, octrooi recht). A treatise on hereditary law of fiefs (in case of testament or death) by The Hague lawyer Pieter Bort.Full vellum binding in good condition. Quarto edition, …

Latin poetry Frysia Friesland 1631 | Pierius Winsemius: Amores, Franekarae ex officina Uldrici Balck typ 1631, (22)+216+(2 blank) pp. Early Frisian Neolatin book.

Winsemius, Pierius (1585-1645) · 1631 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€708.50 ($780.91 | £591.08 | ¥124,661)

<strong>Pierius Winsemius’s “Amores” (Franekera, 1631) is a collection of elegant Latin love poems written in the humanist–Ovidian tradition, reflecting the refined academic culture of the Franeker University in early 17th-century Friesland. Text in Latin. </strong>Full leather …

Rare Dutch literature 1760 | Tael- en Dicht-kundige bydragen, eerste deel 1759-1760, Leyden Johannes le Mair 1760, 534 pp.

[Dutch magazine] · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€163.50 ($180.21 | £136.40 | ¥28,768)

<p data-start="2305" data-end="2595"><strong>Rare literature. First volume in a series of 8, eerste en tweede deel. Title of series: <span class="ample-display-content d-inline d-sm-inline-block">Maendelyksche by-dragen ter opbouw van Neerlands tael-en dicht-kunde. </span><span …

Antique print, etching | La galerie de l'Hostel royal des Goblins, published ca. 1696, 1 p.

Sébastien Leclerc I (1637-1714), Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) · 1629 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€181.50 ($200.05 | £151.42 | ¥31,935)

Monseigneur Colbert, marquis de Villacerf (1629-1699), viewing the tapestries depicting the life of Alexander the Great based on the designs of Charles le Brun.The scene depicted on the tapestry being lifted against the wall shows the scene of Alexander and Hephaestion visiting …