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Balthasar Bekker criticized View picture(s) 321 WAEYEN, Johannes van der. De betooverde weereld van D. Balthasar Bekker ondersogt en weederlegt. Franeker, for Leonardus Strik & Jakobus Horreus (Colophon: printed in Leeuwarden by Karst Tjallings), 1693. 4to. Contemporary blind tooled vellum, red sprinkled edges. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials. Printed in Gothic and Roman type. (2), VIII, 3-16, 1-389, 388-651, (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Demonology  Leeuwarden  Religion  Superstition  Theology  Witchcraft  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the best accounts of the Isthmus of Panama, including the earliest clear account and illustration on the use of a cigar View picture(s) 322 WAFER, Lionel. A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. London, printed for James Knapton, 1704. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. Kept in specially made cloth chemise and black half morocco slipcase (DESMONTS J. MAC DONALD CO, Norwalk, Conn). With folding engraved map of the Isthmus of Darien and Panama Bay and 3 folding engraved plates depicting Indians by I. Savage. [16], 283, [12] [1 bookseller's advert.] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  America [Central]  Ethnography  Exploration  Gold  Natural History  Piracy  Surgery  Tobacco  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Everything you need to know to become a notary View picture(s) 323 WASSENAER, Gerard van. Practyk notariael, ofte instructie, tot het maken ende instellen van de voornaemste instrumenten van alderley contracten, acten, handelingen en dispositien, die voor notaris ende getuygen ofte in 't particulier by partijen opgerecht ende gedaen worden..... Met verscheyde en veele bygevoeghde exempelen: tot dienst ende gerief van alle notarissen, ende andere schryvers. Utrecht, Dirck van Ackersdijck, 1661. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title, title printed in red and black. (8), 680, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Law  Netherlands  Notary  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest (and longest) Dutch poems on a country house View picture(s) 324 WESTERBAEN, Jacob. Arctoa Tempe. Ockenburgh. Woonstede van den Heere van Brandwyck. In de Clingen buyten Loosduinen. The Hague, Johannes Rammazeyn for Anthony Tongerloo, 1654. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Title printed in red & black, folding engraved view of Ockenburgh by Adriaen Matham after the drawing by Arent Ravesteyn (and printed ('exc.') by A. Tongerloo, woodcut intials. (48), 205, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated Dutch adaptation of Don Quichot View picture(s) 325 WEYERMAN, Jacob Campo. De voornaamste gevallen van den wonderlyken Don Quichot, door den beroemden Picart den Romein, en andere voornaame meesters, in XXXI kunstplaaten, na de uitmuntende schilderyen van Coypel in 't koper gebragt. Beschreeven op een'vryen en vrolyken trant. En ... met gedichten ter verklaaring van iedere kunstprint, en het Leeven van M. de Cervantes Saavedra verrykt. Alles volgens het oirspronklyk Spaans. The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1746. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red title label, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt board edges, marbled endpapers. Title in red & black with engraved vignette by J. van S(chley), and 31 full-page engraved plates by Bernard Picart ('den Romein') (12), J. van Schley (13), S. Fokke (1), and P. Tanjé (5) after Charles Coypel (25), N. Cochin (2), Tremolières (2), J.P. le Bas (1) and the famous French painter F. Boucher (1). XXVI, 420 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Literature  Popular Books  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First dictionary of sea terms and proverbs connected with maritime shipping View picture(s) 326 WINSCHOOTEN, Wygardus van. Seeman: behelsende een grondige uitlegging van de Nederlandse konst, en spreekwoorden, voor soo veel die uit de seevaart sijn ontleend, en bij de beste schrijvers deeser eeuw gevonden werden. Leyden, Johannes de Vivie, 1681. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece by Cornelis Decker. [16], 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  Linguistics  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare book on conjuring View picture(s) 327 WITGEEST, Simon (= Willem GOEREE?). Het natuurlyk tover-boek, of't nieuw speel-toneel der konsten: Verhandelende vijf hondert natuurlijke tover-konsten so uyt de gogel-tas, als kaart-spelen, mathematische konsten, en meer andre diergelijke aerdigheden, die tot vermaeck en tijtkortingh verstrekken: Mitsgaders een tractaat van het blanket-werck, om verscheyde wel-ruykende wateren, poederen en balsemen; als ook kostelijke bereydselen, om het aensicht, hals en handen, wit en sagt te maken. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1684. 5 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title partly written in ink on spine. Beautifully engraved frontispiece, depicting all different conjuring games, and over 50 woodcut illustrations in text. [8], 512, [21] pp. 2 blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most authoritative standard work on Dutch ship building View picture(s) 328 WITSEN, Nicolaas. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier: waer in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt, de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen: verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert: Indisch vaertuygh: galey-bouw: hedendaegsche scheeps-plichten: verrijckt  met een reex verklaerde zee-mans spreek-woorden en benamingen. Amsterdam, C. Commelijn, Broer & Jan Appelaer, 1671. Folio. Contemporary full red morocco, richly gilt and decorated spine, double and triple gilt fillets and gilt cornerpieces on sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With an engraved frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, title in red and black, 114 mostly full-page engraved plates by 'P.L.' after the drawings by Witsen: I-CIX, of which one double-page and A-E, two of which are smaller. [14], 516 [= 510], 40, [5, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engineering  Maritime History  Militaria  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most authoritative standard work on Dutch ship-building View picture(s) 329 WITSEN, Nicolaas. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier: waer  in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen. Amsterdam, Casparus Commelijn, Broer & Jan Appelaer, 1671. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With etched frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe and 114 mostly full-page engraved plates by 'P.L.' after the drawings by Witsen. [14], 516, 40, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engineering  Maritime History  Militaria  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare: on the bean that killed Pythagoras View picture(s) 330 WORM, Castanus. Dissertatio. De faba Pythagorica quam superiorum permissu publico examini subjicit Castanus Worm ... respondente ingeniosissimo juvene Johanne Begtrup, in auditorio Collegii Regii anno M.DC. XCVI. die 28. Martii horâ  post meridiem prima. Hafniae, (Copenhagen), Joh. Jac. Bornheinrich, 1696. Sm. 4to. Later half calf with sprinkled boards, red sprinkled edges. (2), 26 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Medicine  Philosophy  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Miracles from Brussels, illustrated by Adriaen Collaert View picture(s) 331 YDENS, Steven. Historie van het H. Sacrament der mirakelen. Berustende tot Bruessel inde collegiale kercke van S. Goedele. Beschreven door M. Steven Ydens Brusselaer, priester, licent. inde H. Godtheyt, ende canonick vande voorseyde kercke. Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1608. 8vo. Later 17th- or 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Engraved title vignette and 17 mostly full-page engraved plates (ca. 94 x 67 mm) by Adriaen Collaert, woodcut headpiece and initials. (46), 282, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Church History  Engravings  Judaica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eyewitness to the death of James Cook View picture(s) 332 ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Dernier voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du monde, ou  se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort, publié en  allemand par un témoin oculaire, & traduit  avec un abrégé de la vie de ce navigateur célebre, & des  notes. Bern, Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1782. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title-label. XVI, 200 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Finland  Natural History  Religion  Scandinavia  Superstition  Travel & Voyages  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Why women are not human, or how to use the bible to prove your argument View picture(s) 333 [ACIDALIUS, Valens]. Disputatio perjucunda, qua anonymous probare nititur mulieres homines non esse: Cui opposita est SIMONIS  GEDICCI Defensio Sexus Muliebris. Editio Secunda. 's-Gravenhage, I. Burchornius, 1641. 12mo. 19th century calf. 191, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Education  Erotica  Popular Books  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Italian translation of series of seven letters regarding Confucian rites controversy View picture(s) 334 [ALEXANDRE, Noel]. Lettera di un dottore dell'ordine di S. Domenico, sopra le cerimonie della China. Cologne [=Amsterdam?], heirs of Cornelis van Egmond, 1700. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, red sprinkled edges. 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  China  Italy  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully bound by J. Clarke for the English collector Thomas Williams View picture(s) 335 [ALSOP, Anthony]. Fabularum Aesopicarum delectus. Oxoniae (Oxford), E Theatro Sheldoniano Johan Croke, 1698. Early 19th century green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt monogram of Thomas Williams in centre on front cover and his coat of arms in centre on back cover, richly gilt inside doublure, g.e. With fine engraved frontispiece by M. Burg, engraved view of the Sheldonian Theatre on title, and large engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication. (16), 128, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'In usum Delphini': from the celebrated series printed for the benefit of the son of Louis XIV, bound for a member of the noble Backer (van Leuven) family View picture(s) 336 [AMORIAL BINDINGS]. Collection of 8 works from the 'in usum Delphini' series of classical authors. Paris, F. Leonard a.o., 1675-1685. 8 parts in 5 vols. 4to. Contemporary uniform vellum, ribbed spines with black letterpress titles, all covers with large central gilt coat-of-arms of the noble family Backer van Leuven, panelled and with fleurons on all corners. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Genealogy & Heraldry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare theological work by 'the Luther from Württemberg', and founder of modern Rosicrucianism' View picture(s) 337 [ANDREAE, Johann Valentin]. Mythologiae Christianae sive virtutum & vitiorum vitae humanae imaginum. Libri tres. Argentorati [=Strassburg], Heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, (1619). 3 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Engraved allegorical title for book 1, woodcut vignette on titles of book 2 & 3, woodcut initials. (24), 352, (7, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Religion  Rosicrucians  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important Catalogue of 1674 of the Officina Elzeviriana View picture(s) 338 [AUCTION CATALOGUE]. Catalogus librorum qui in bibliopolio Danielis Elsevirii venales extant. Amsterdam, Ex officina Elzevirana 1674. 12mo. Early twentieth-century richly gilt and decorated orange morocco, gilt and decorated spine in 6 compartments with gilt title, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e., signed by the famous Belgian book binder CHARLES DE SAMBLANX (1855-1943) and dated '1922'. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut endpiece, woodcut initials. 176; 86 (2 blank); 60; 200 (4 blank); 120; 24; 103 (5 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Catalogues  Elzevier  Libraries & Collections  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important auction catalogue of the library of the son of Johann de Witt, with prices added in manuscript View picture(s) 339 [AUCTION CATALOGUE]. WITT, Johan de. Catalogus Bibliothecae Luculentissimae, & Exquisitissimis ac rarissimis in omni disciplinarum & linguarum genere libris ... quaesitis ... a Joanne de Witt ... Illius auctio habebitur Dordraci, ... 20 Octobris 1701. Dordrecht, Theodorus Goris & Joannes van Braam, 1701. With a total of 7878 lots. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Catalogues  Dürer  Dutch  Libraries & Collections  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Leyden pamphlet on the behaviour of medical doctors, barbers, etc., printed at the municipal press and signed by the author View picture(s) 340 [BAERSDORP, S. VAN]. Gildebrief, by die vande gerechte der stadt Leyden gemaect, verbetert ende vermeerdert, dienende tot onderhout van de conste, handelinghe, ende ouffeninghe van de Chirurgie, mitsgaders vande barbiers ende andere, die gewoon zijn, in, ofte aen smenschen lichaem te practizeren. (Leyden, weduwe en erfgenamen van wijlen Jan Claesz. van Dorp, 1637. 4to. With woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Leyden on title with ornamental border, woodcut initial. Printed in  civilité and roman. 19, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Leyden  Low Countries  Medicine  Pamphlets  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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