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Manuscript 1957 | Letter of chessclub "schaakclub Dordrecht" to Cees Buddingh' with the request to translate a letter in English with carbon paper of translation, 5 pp.

Buddingh', Kees · 1957 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€54.45 ($60.01 | £45.43 | ¥9,581)

5 pages regarding a translation by writer and poet Kees Buddingh' for the chessclub Dordrecht.[NL] Brief van W. Klootwijk, secretaris Schaakclub "Dordrecht" dd 3 december 1957 aan Kees Buddingh'met het verzoek om een brief in het Engels te vertalen. De brief is getypt en beslaat…

Travels Moluccas and New-Guinea 1780 | Voyage aux Moluques et à la Nouvelle Guinée, fait sur la galère la Tartare en 1774, 1775 & 1776, par ordre de la Compagnie Angloise, Hotel du Thou Paris, 1780, 470+(1)+27 (+3) plates. With the folding map Carte de la route du Vaisseau.

Forrest, Thomas. · 1729 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€1,199.00 ($1,321.54 | £1,000.30 | ¥210,965)

First French edition of the celebrated travel account by the British navigator Thomas Forrest (c. 1729–1802), based on his expedition to the Moluccas and New Guinea undertaken in the service of the British East India Company.Blue paper cardboard binding with some wear, spine dam…

French literature, special binding 1928 | Sur un air de Scarlatti. Maastricht, Stols, 1928, 127 pp. Illustrated with 22 engravings, number 203. Ex Libris of Nelly Duys made by Anton Pieck.

Jaloux, Edmond · 1874 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€152.60 ($168.20 | £127.31 | ¥26,850)

Half leather binding, in good condition. Number 203 of 400 copies on Pannekoek paper (400 exemplaires sur papier vergé blanc de hollande des Manufactures Pannekoek). Illustrated by J. Franken Pz. With pasted in ex libris of exlibris Nelly Duys by Anton Pieck. Good copy. Biblioph…

Agriculture 1850 | Bibliotheque rurale instituee par le Gouvernement, manuel de culture, Bruxelles, Stapleaux, 1850, 259 pp. TOGETHER WITH Lettres sur l'Agriculture Moderne par Justus de Liebig Bruxelles Tarlier [s.d.], 244 pp.

[Landbouw] · 1850 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€76.30 ($84.10 | £63.66 | ¥13,425)

Half leather binding in good condition, bookblock in the back broken, 18 x 11,5 cm. Decorative spine with guilt text and decorations. Text in French.[NL] Dit werk, uitgegeven in 1850 in Brussel door de uitgever Stapleaux, maakt deel uit van de reeks "Bibliothèque rurale institué…

[Modern portrait print, mixed media] Portrait of historian Arnold Toynbee, published 1908, 1 p.

Dirk Harting (1884-1970) · 1852 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€108.90 ($120.03 | £90.85 | ¥19,161)

Portrait of Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883) at the age of 26. After a photograph. Headshot portrait, facing left, with a shirt, tie and jacket.Arnold Toynbee was an English economic historian at Balliol College, Oxford. Toynbee was famously among the first to identify and describe th…

[Antique title page, 1695 or 1751] MENSCHELYKE BEEZIGHEEDEN, published 1695 or 1751, 1 p.

Jan Luyken (1649-1712), Caspar Luyken (1672-1708) · 1694 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€60.50 ($66.68 | £50.47 | ¥10,645)

In 1694 the Amsterdam artists Jan and Casper Luyken published their celebrated 'Het menselyk bedryf' (Amsterdam, Jan and Casper Luyken, 1694), a collection of one hundred fine engravings depicting the arts and crafts. Jan Luyken (1649-1712) belonged to the best engravers of the …

[Antique print, game, etching] De Speelkaartemaker / The Playing Cards Maker, published ca. 1700.

Jan Luyken (1649-1712) and Caspar Luyken (1672-1708) · 1694 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€72.60 ($80.02 | £60.57 | ¥12,774)

The workshop of makers of playing cards.In 1694 the Amsterdam artists Jan and Casper Luyken published their celebrated 'Het menselyk bedryf' (Amsterdam, Jan and Casper Luyken, 1694), a collection of one hundred fine engravings depicting the arts and crafts. Jan Luyken (1649-1712…

[Antique print, engraving] HET ADMIRALITEITS- OF PRINSEN- HOF (Prinsenhof Amsterdam, Hotel The Grand), published 1765.

1576 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€145.20 ($160.04 | £121.14 | ¥25,548)

View on the Prinsenhof in Amsterdam, now hotel The Grand.The building was found in the 14th-century. At that time, it served as one of the city's most important women's monasteries, the Saint Cecilia. However, the Reformation and the proclamation of Protestantism as an official …

Incunabula page | Decorated page from: Incipit rationale, published in 1479, 2 pp.

1479 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€484.00 ($533.46 | £403.79 | ¥85,160)

Page from an early edition of the: "Incipit rationale diuinorum officiorum guilhelmi minatensis ecclesie episcopi" by Guilelmus Durantis (1230-1296), a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende, published by Georg Husner in Strasbourg in 1479.The invention of th…

Antique drawing | A cupid within a decorative frame / Allegory of marriage, ca. 1710, 1 p.

French school, early eighteenth century [?] · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€242.00 ($266.73 | £201.89 | ¥42,580)

A putto or Cupid holding an arrow in his right hand and holding the left index to his lips. Within a highly decorative frame, surmounted by a flame. At the bottom are Hymen and Cupid attributes, the lit torch and the quiver.As the design is punched throughout it is likely it was…

Rare literature Theatre France 1694 | Theatre de Mr Boursault, Paris Jean Guignard 1694, 428 pp TOGETHER WITH Les Oeuvres de Mr Le Baron, Paris Thomas Guillain 1694, 362 pp.

Mr. Boursault en Mr. Le Baron · 1638 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€381.50 ($420.49 | £318.28 | ¥67,125)

Contemporary parchment binding, good copy, only some minor stains on the parchment. With ex libris of Nordkirchen and the coat of arms. On the spine the text: Theatre de Mr Boursault. Each play with separate titlepage in red and black ink and two frontispieces, pages are numbere…

Theatre Peepshow, ca 1730-1756 | Paper Theater or Diorama, made up of several sheets representing different scenes. This scene is a military scene with soldiers ona battlefield, soldaten op een slagveld.

[Paper theatre] · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€599.50 ($660.77 | £500.15 | ¥105,483)

Paper theater or diorama, made up out of several sheets representing different scenes. Together they form a three-dimensional view. Windows have been cut into the individual sheets to reveal details of the scene. The prints have been hand colored. Etchings and watercolor. Size o…

Opera, 1792, French | Pierre le Grand. Comédie. En trois actes, et en prose, mêlée de chants [...] Par M. Bouilly. Musique de M Grétry. Amsterdam, Chez Gabriel Dufour, 1792, 79 pp.

Bouilly, M. · 1789 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€54.50 ($60.07 | £45.47 | ¥9,589)

Bouilly was working on his "Pierre le Grand" just as the French Revolution was breaking out in 1789. The work reflects the political events of the day and expresses mild sentiments of criticism towards the monarchy. The story was inspired by a passage about Tsar Peter in Voltair…

[Satirical book] Modelmenschen, geschetst door een Modelmensch, Amsterdam, gebroeders Binger with colored lithographies by Emrik & Binger Haarlem, [ca 1850], 93 pp.

[Geschetst door een ModelMensch] · 1978 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€190.75 ($210.24 | £159.14 | ¥33,563)

Paper binding with colored lithography on the front. Binding damaged at the edges. 27 descriptions of Model-people: 1). De model-echtgenoot. 2). De model-vrouw. 3). De model-oude vrijer. 4). De model-schoonmoeder. 5). De model-kwajongen. 6). De model-zuigeling. 7). De model-zuig…

[Antique title page, 1575] Rhea, Religie, Bestuur en huisgoden [Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus], published 1575, 1 p.

Frans Hogenberg (ca. 1540-ca. 1590) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€157.30 ($173.38 | £131.23 | ¥27,677)

Allegorical title-page of the second volume of Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitatus Orbis Terrarum'.At the top are figures representing Religion [RELIGIO] and Politics [POLITIA], placed on either side of Cybele [CYBELE, SIVE VESTA], who is seated on a chariot drawn by two lions. I…

[Antique print, etching] The woman on the hinny (Upright Italian Landscapes) De vrouw op de muilezel, published ca. 1644-1652.

Jan Both (1618/22-1652) · 1828 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€363.00 ($400.10 | £302.84 | ¥63,870)

"In the middle of a hilly landscape, clothed with trees, a female is seen sitting sideways on a mule, preceded by another mule, and followed by a man with his dog: near them to the left, are several high trees. The ground towards the front forms the bank of a brook, which appear…

Satirical print/Spotprent "Bold Jack! Pray, what's the business to-day?", etching with printed text.

1780 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€151.25 ($166.71 | £126.18 | ¥26,613)

Satirical print Europe in her present disordered state/Het tegenwooridg verward EUropa. Published in Holland, about 1780. Dominating the cener of the print is a large chest suspended on a chain from the horn of a unicorn, whose head and torso emerge from a cloud formation. The c…

Antique print/originele prent: De Pakker/The Packer.

Luyken, Jan (1649-1712) and Luyken, Caspar (1672-1708) · 1694 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€24.20 ($26.67 | £20.19 | ¥4,258)

In 1694 the Amsterdam artists Jan and Casper Luyken published their celebrated 'Het menselyk bedryf' (Amsterdam, Jan and Casper Luyken, 1694), a collection of one hundred fine engravings depicting the arts and crafts. Jan Luyken (1649-1712) belonged to the best engravers of the …

Antique print/originele prent: De Garentwynder/The Wire Drawer.

Luyken, Jan (1649-1712) and Luyken, Caspar (1672-1708) · 1694 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€36.30 ($40.01 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

In 1694 the Amsterdam artists Jan and Casper Luyken published their celebrated 'Het menselyk bedryf' (Amsterdam, Jan and Casper Luyken, 1694), a collection of one hundred fine engravings depicting the arts and crafts. Jan Luyken (1649-1712) belonged to the best engravers of the …

[Antique print, etching] De Beeldhouwer/The Sculptor, published 1718.

Jan Luyken (1649-1712) and Caspar Luyken (1672-1708) · 1694 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€24.20 ($26.67 | £20.19 | ¥4,258)

In 1694 the Amsterdam artists Jan and Casper Luyken published their celebrated 'Het menselyk bedryf' (Amsterdam, Jan and Casper Luyken, 1694), a collection of one hundred fine engravings depicting the arts and crafts. Jan Luyken (1649-1712) belonged to the best engravers of the …