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Antique print, engraving | Dancing couple, ca. 1550, 1 p.

Virgil Solis (1514-1562), after Jörg Breu II (1510 after-1547) · 1539 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€181.50 ($200.05 | £151.42 | ¥31,935)

A dancing couple; the male figure at left in frontal view, the head in profile to right, his arms akimbo; the female figure at right in three-quarter profile to left, stepping to left.Fifth plate from a series of ten of dancing couples, musicians and drinkers. Loose copies in re…

[Antique title page, 1640] Allegory of Italy / Allegorie op Italië [Itinerarium Italiae], published 1640, 1 p.

Anonymous, after Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688) · 1640 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€157.30 ($173.38 | £131.23 | ¥27,677)

Allegorical frontispiece to the edition of Martin Zeiller's 'Itinerarium Italiae', published by Matthäeus Merian in Frankfurt in 1640.Joachim von Sandrart designed the allegorical frontispiece, as on the bottom left is reported: "Ioach. Sandrart inuentor".Italy's personification…

Linguistics humor 1722 | Polissonniana ou recueil de turlupinades quolibets, Rebus, jeux de mots, allusions allegories, Pointes, expressions extraordinaires (...) et autres plaisanteries, avec les equivoques de l'homme inconnu. Amsterdam [= Rouen], Desbordes, 1722, 140 pp. Rare first edition.

[Cherrier, Claude Joseph de] · 1722 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€299.75 ($330.38 | £250.07 | ¥52,741)

Early French humor and linguistic curiosity. Polissonniana (1722), attributed to Claude Joseph de Cherrier, is an early-18th-century French humor collection filled with wordplay, riddles, double entendres, witty remarks, and playful — sometimes slightly risqué — jokes. Although …

[Bookshaped objects] Bookshaped calf box, 18th century, Examen General de tous les états et conditions (...) tome second, A paris Deprez et Desessartz 1711, 21 pp and thereafter the box.

[Verborgen doos in boek] · 1737 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€163.50 ($180.21 | £136.40 | ¥28,768)

Nice bookshaped object, hidden box for jewellery or smaller books. In this case the small miniature book (8,5 x 5,5 cm) Aucassin and Nicolette , Siegle Hill & Co London is inserted and comes with the box. 107 pages with a love story, without title page. Printed by Siegle, Hill &…

Nieuwjaarswens, New Year Wishes 1821 | Vrouwtje Dissel. Hand coloured wish card with decorations in Asian, eastern style. Dedicated to Grootvader en Grootmoeder, calligraphy, 1 p.

Schweickhardt, L. Sculpt. · 1821 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€181.50 ($200.05 | £151.42 | ¥31,935)

New year’s wish card, hand coloured etching with calligraphy text in the middle. Total 405 x 330 mm. WIth some creases and folds on the edges but further in good condition. Formerly folded in four, with tiny hole at intersection of folds and tear at left end of horizontal fold; …

Literature science fiction first edition 1912 | Professor Challenger stories part 1: The lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author of "the white company", "the adventures of Sherlock Holmes", etc. Hodder & Stoughton New York, George H. Doran Company 1912, 309 pp. Complete copy with 15 (of 15) illustrations.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan · 1912 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€272.50 ($300.35 | £227.34 | ¥47,947)

Attractive copy with illustrations by Joseph Clement Coll and five by Maple White. Science Fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published in 1912. Concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive…

Catchpenny print 1894 | Print depicting book printing at the office of L.J. Koster (= Laurens Janszoon Coster), coloured, 1 p.

[Boekdrukkunst centsprent] · 1827 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€242.00 ($266.73 | £201.89 | ¥42,580)

Original woodcut illustration of the printing office of the Dutch printer in Haarlem: Laurens Janszoon Coster. 320 x 375 mm. Numbered with 118 in the right top corner. Some creases on the middle top and bottom and a visible vertical fold in the middle. Hans coloured with blue, r…

History science 1670 | Aur. Theodosii Macrobii ... opera accedunt notae integrae Isacii Pontani, Joh. Meursii, Jacobi Gronovii, ex officina Arnoldi Doude, Cornelii Driehuysen, Lugduni Batavorum 1670, [32]+704+[68] pp. Full vellum with blindstamped coat of arms Noviomagum (Nijmegen).

Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius. · 1670 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€572.25 ($630.73 | £477.41 | ¥100,688)

Latin text by scientist Macrobius about Greek and Latin language, astronomy, math etc. Full contemporary vellum binding with blindstamped coat of arms of the city of Nijmegen (Noviomagum) on the front and back. Drawstrings missing. Beautiful engraved frontispice with a small tea…

Rare English translation of a Dutch judgment published in London 1693 | The sentence of the court of Holland, Zealand and Friesland, against mr. Simon van Halewyn, burgher master of Dort and Robert de Pille du Plessis, emissary of the French king, pronounced July the 31st 1693. Containing a full account of the whole intriegue for the carrying on a peace with France, and the project of it made by the said Halewyn, "done out of the Dutch", Londen, Richard Baldwin 1693, (2)+25+(1) pp.

Sentence with secret Franco-Dutch peace negotiations · 1693 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€381.50 ($420.49 | £318.28 | ¥67,125)

Rare English translation of a Dutch judgment published in London 1693. Subtitle: Containing a full account of the whole intriegue for the carrying on a Peace with France, and the project of it made by the said Halewyn. This pamphlet was according to the titlepage "printed at the…

WO II 1940-1943 | Verordnungsblatt für die besetzten Niederländischen Gebiete / Verordeningsblad voor het bezette Nederlandsche gebied, Four volumes 1940-1943, complete set. Text in German and Dutch.

[Tweede wereldoorlog] · 1940 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€272.50 ($300.35 | £227.34 | ¥47,947)

An extensive bilingual collection of the official German decrees and regulations imposed in the occupied Netherlands between 1940 and 1943. The Verordnungsblatt is interesting for the study of Nazi occupation policy, wartime administration, forced labour, economic control and th…

Rare literature 1688 | G. Brandts Poezy, 't Amsterdam by Aart Dirksz. Ooszaan, 1688, (10)+614 (14) pp. Quarto (4º). First Edition. Complete copy.

Brandt, Geeraardt · 1626 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€872.00 ($961.12 | £727.49 | ¥153,429)

Half leather binding with some damages on the corners, severe damaged on the spine (leather partly disappeared at the part of the text G. Brandts Poezy). Titlepage with vignet. Interior in good condition, some very light browing on the edges of some pages but overall in good con…

Antique print, etching 1889 | Beggar in Leiden, man in long coat, etching by Pieter Kikkert, 1 p.

Kikkert, Pieter (1775-1855) · 1798 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€121.00 ($133.37 | £100.95 | ¥21,290)

Antique etching, later printed than the original of 1798. From "Proeve van etskundige uitspanningen....", printed in 1889 by Eberhard Cornelis (Evert) Rahms (as mentioned in pencil underneath the plate). Etching in good condition, bigger paper with foxing and some smudges.[NL] E…

[Antique print, etching, Piranesi] Iscrizioni, e Frammenti della Stãza sepolcrale vicina a quella di L. Arrunzio. (Inscriptions and fragments from the tomb chamber near L. Arruntius), published 1756-1784, 1 p.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) · 1756 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€193.60 ($213.39 | £161.52 | ¥34,064)

Plate XVIII from the II out of four volumes collection <em>Le Antichità Romane </em>collecting plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, firstly published by Angelo Rotili in Rome between 1756 and 1757. The second edition appeared in 1784. Original wide margins, no traces of binding…

[Antique print, etching, Piranesi] Iscrizioni e Frammenti della Stanza sepolcrale vicina a quella di L. Arrunzio., published 1756-1784 (Inscriptions and fragments of tomb chambers), 1 p.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) · 1756 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€193.60 ($213.39 | £161.52 | ¥34,064)

Plate XVII from the II out of four volumes collection <em>Le Antichità Romane </em>collecting plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, firstly published by Angelo Rotili in Rome between 1756 and 1757. The second edition appeared in 1784. Original wide margins, no traces of binding …

Rare inventory American residence 1927 | Original typed inventory for the insurance of the residence of William Braat, 3 Howard Place, Englewood, New York made by Continental Appraisal Company 1927, 38 pp.

[Continental Appraisal Company] · 1927 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€218.00 ($240.28 | £181.87 | ¥38,357)

Leather cover with in goldprint on the front: "Appraised Valuation of the Furnishings of the residence of William Braat 3 Howard Place, Englewood, N.J.". Severe wear on the spine. 39 typed sheets on paper with (oval) watermark "Continental Appraisal Company" in an oval. Inventor…

Antique print, etching and engraving | Frontispiece Hunting Scenes, published 1612, 1 p.

Pieter Serwouters (1586-1657), after David Vinckboons (1576-1632), published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (II) (1587-1652) · 1612 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€363.00 ($400.10 | £302.84 | ¥63,870)

Frontispiece with title written on a stag's hide at centre, held up by two dogs on a large pedestal, a fisherman at left with his nets hanging over an oar, dead fish and fish-traps hanging from the pedestal behind him, a huntsman standing on a dead wild boar at right, dead birds…

Roman History, 1736, Latin | Lucii Annaei Flori Rerum Romanorum Libri iv, Amsterdam, Waesberge, Wetstein &amp; Smith, 1736, [4], 224, [108] pp.

Florus, L. A., Pontanus, J. I., Freinsheim, J. · 1736 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€272.50 ($300.35 | £227.34 | ¥47,947)

A 1736 copy of Florus' Roman History, with added notes and observations by <span class="mw-page-title-main">Johannes Isacius Pontanus and Johann Freinsheim.</span>Florus is known under several names: his first name is rendered as Publius and Lucius; his family name as Annius and…

Grant of arms, donated by Alfred Scott Scott-Galty, Garter, Principal King-of Arms and William Henry Weldon Esq. Norroy to George Buckworth-Herne-Soame, formerly Harrison (1872-1912).

HARRISON, BUCKWORTH-HERNE-SOAME, RADFORD HOUSE, EDWARD VII · 1907 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€1,362.50 ($1,501.75 | £1,136.70 | ¥239,733)

British Empire, London, d.d. 18 November 1907. Vellum charter, good condition. 60x52 cm. Manuscript text and calligraphy, with 4 hand coloured coats-of-arms amongst which that of Harrison. With the orginal signatures of the mentioned officials and their wax seals in two disc sha…

The accedens of Armory.

Legh, Gerard · 1562 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€3,488.00 ($3,844.47 | £2,909.95 | ¥613,717)

London, R. Totell, 1562. 12o, 19th century full leather. Some writing in ink on the title page, a few annotations in the margins. Cut short, with some loss. Exlibris of Daniel de Bruin. (18) 464 (numbered 1-232) (6) pag. Illustrated with a woodcut title (coat-of-arms partly ha…

Woodcut/Houtsnede: Fra Diavolo, oder die grossen rauber in den Abruzzen.

Unknown printmaker (XIX century) · 2007 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€332.75 ($366.76 | £277.61 | ¥58,548)

Representation of one of the battles conduced by Michele Arcangelo Pezza, also known as Fra Diavolo, at the end of the eighteenth century. He was a famous Neapolitan guerrilla leader who resisted the French occupation of Naples, proving an inspirational practitioner of popular i…