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17th-century atlas of the Greek archipelago View picture(s) 41 BOSCHINI, Marco. L'arcipelago contutte le isole, scogli secche, e bassi fondi, con i mari, golfi, seni, porti, citta e castelli... Venice, Francesco Nicolini, 1658. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards. With the title-page within border build up out of fleurons, etched plate with the coat of arms of the Farnese family and 49 etched maps (3 folding outside text, 46 full-page in text). [5], [1 blank], 101, [3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greece  Italy  Levant  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The three architectural treatises by Bosse in their 1688 issues, considered as a unit and often described as a single book View picture(s) 42 BOSSE, Abraham. Traité des manieres de dessiner les o'rdres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties. Paris, Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery & Charles Clousier, (ca. 1688). 3 works in one. Folio. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold on red morocco label, gilt and decorated binding edges, red speckled edges. Full-page engraved title-page in elongated octagonal tablet with olive wrath moulding, imprint in rectangular block below, full-page engraved frontispiece showing female statues of 'Le Solide' &  'La Agréable' in wall-niches, with free-standing statues of 'La Théorie' and 'La Pratique' flanking a flight of steps inscribed 'Le Commode' leading to a monumental figure representing 'La Raison sur tout' set under a projecting Ionic portico, the attic and frieze of which is inscribed 'Traité sur la pratique des ordres de colomnes de l architecture nommée antique (and in the soffit space) par A. Bosse, 44 full-page engraved plates (ca. 31 x 20 cm) numbered I-XLIV top right with demonstrations on how to draw, proportion, applying the orders and their members, plans and elevations of staircases and banisters and demonstrations of the shading of solid geometrical bodies, moulding etc., one unnumbered double-page engraved plate of the Corinthian order. Engraved throughout, including the texts. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Art  Engravings  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three ground-breaking scientific works on air by Robert Boyle, in the rare Latin translations published in the Netherlands View picture(s) 43 BOYLE, Robert. Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de VI aëris elastica & ejusdem effectibus, facta maximam partem in nova machina pneumatica. Editio postrema. Rotterdam, Arnold Leers Jr, 1669. Engraved frontispiece and 1 folding engraved plate. [24], 351, [9] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Chemistry  Great Britain  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first illustration of steam power View picture(s) 44 BRANCA, Giovanni. Le machine. Rome, Jacomo Mascardi, for Jacomo Manuci, 1629. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With architectural title-page within engraved allegorical borders and 77 numbered woodcut plates. [3], 40, 14, 23 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Earth Sciences [General]  Engineering  Mechanics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first enlarged edition of the first step towards the contemporary standard work on Dutch reformation until 1573 View picture(s) 45 BRANDT, Geeraert. Verhaal van de reformatie in en ontrent de Nederlanden. Met eenige aanteekeningen en aanmerkingen. Amsterdam, for J. Rieuwertsz., 1663. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title written in ink on spine. Engraved frontispiece by P. Philippe and 6 portraits engraved by H. Bary. (32), 722, (2), 98, (90) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erasmus  Reformation  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Canadian Indians as victims & perpetrators of violence View picture(s) 46 BRESSANI, Francesco Giuseppe. Breve Relatione d'Alcune Missioni de' PP. della Compagnia di Giesù nella Nuova Francia. Macerata (Umbria), heirs of Agostino Grisei, 1653. 4to. Seventeenth-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. With a large woodcut Jesuit device on the title-page, woodcut initial, and a factotum built up from fleurons. [4], 127 [= 129], [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Canada  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare print series engraved by Simon Frisius View picture(s) 47 BRIL, Matthaeus. Topographia variarum regionum. Inventa a Mathaeo Bril, aeri incisa à Simone Frisio. Ab C.J. Visscherio excusa. (Amsterdam), Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1651. Oblong 8vo. Later half cloth with green boards and white label with title in ink in ms. pasted on front cover. Engraved title, and 24 engraved full-page numbered plates, numbered 1-25 (ca. 110 x 158 mm. (borderlines: ca. 95 x 150-5 mm). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the 'true' religion in Holland View picture(s) 48 BRUN, Jean (Johannes BRAUN) La véritable religion des Hollandois. Avec une apologie pour la religion des Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies. Contre le libelle diffamatoire de Stoupe, qui à pour titre La religion des Hollandois, representée en plusieurs lettres ... Cy est joint Le conseil d'extorsion ou la volerie des francois. Exercée en la ville de Nimegue par le commissaire Methelet & ses supôts. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgank, 1675. 12mo. Contemporary calf with decorated border along the edges, gilt dentelles, black title label on spine, gilt edges, decorated paste-downs (re-backed). (40), 393, 139, 194-7, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Netherlands  Religion  Spinoza  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the Dutch translation of Bunyan's Holy War, illustrated by Jan Luyken View picture(s) 49 BUNYAN, John. Den Heyligen Oorlogh. Uyt 't Engels vertaalt. Amst., Joannes Boekholt, 1685. 12mo. Modern red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with  gilt double fillet borders on sides. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, and  6 full-page engraved plates by Jan Luyken. (24), 518 (=520) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  English  Literature  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most important original sources on the congregation of Windesheim, near Zwolle View picture(s) 50 BUSCHIUS, Joannes, THOMAS à KEMPIS and Heribert ROSWEYDE. Chronicon canonicorum regularium ordinis S. Augustini. capituli Windesemensis Auctore Ioanne Buschio can. reg. Accedit Chronicon montis S. Agnetis Auctore Thoma à Kempis Can. Reg. Nunc primùm in lucem edita unà cum vindiciis Kempensibus Heibert Ros-Weydi soc. Iesu pro libro de Imitatione Christi. Antwerp, Petrus and Johannes Bellerus (part 1 and 3) & H. Verdussen (part 2), 1621. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with manuscript titles on spine. With woodcut printer's device on general title-page, a different woodut title-vignette (with central "IHS") on the title-page of the second part. [24], 636; 183, [39]; 127 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Jesuits  Religion  Religious Orders  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First German translation of a lavishly illustrated armorial containing the arms of all the European emperors, kings and other rulers, together with an extended general introduction on heraldry View picture(s) 51 BUSSING, Caspar. Einleitung zu der Herolds-Kunst, auff eine bequeme und deutliche Art verfasset, in zwey Theilen. Die Wapen der vornehmsten Staaten und Republiques von gantz Europa gleichsam auff einen Anblick darstellend und in dieser teutschen Ubersetzung mit einem neuen Theil von der Wapen-Kunst insgemein, laut des nohtwendigen Berichtes in der Vorrede, vermehret. Hamburg, (Widow of) Gotfried Schultze, 1694. 3 parts in one vol. 8vo oblong (94 x 154 mm. Contemporary vellum, with title written in ink on spine. With 2 allegorical frontispieces, 5 full-page heraldic plates, 4 of which are glued to blank leaves so that they can be opened outside the text, and 77 half-page heraldic plates in the text, all beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand; woodcut head-pieces. (132) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Genealogy & Heraldry  Germany  Heraldry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Remarkable Spanish theoretical treatise on the liberal art of Spain View picture(s) 52 BUTRON, Juan Alonso de. Discursos apologeticos, en que se defiende la ingenvidad del arte de la pintura; Que es liberal, de todos derechos, no inferior a las sie te que comunmente te se reciben. De Don Ivan de Butron, professor de ambos derechos. A Don Fernando de la Hoz, gentilhombre de la casa de su Magestad. Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1626. 4to. 19th century marbled calf with 5 ornamental gilt flowers and red morocco title-label on spine, gilt fillets and border on both sides, blue marbled endpapers, marbled edges.  With richly illustrated engraved frontispiece in architectural setting with three coats of arms by J. Schorquens. (36), 122, (37) pp., last page blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art General  Drawing & Painting  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two great print series by Claes Jan Visscher depicting beggars and tramps View picture(s) 53 CALLOT, Jacques. Capitayn van de bende. Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1640-1650]. With 24 engraved plates by Claes Jansz. Visscher after Jacques Callot. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Costumes  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two beautiful suites of landscapes, fortifications, etc.: drawing lessons by Callot, Silvestre and others View picture(s) 54 CALLOT, Jacques. Livre des paysages de Callot. Propre à la noblesse et aux ingenieurs pour apprendre a dessiner à la plume avec liberté, et en peu de temps. Paris, Nicolas Langlois, (ca. 1660-1680). Oblong 8vo. 177 x 242 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments. Engraved title  in cartouche, engraved by J. Mariette (nr. 1), 2 engraved plates 'Advertissement' (nrs. 2-3), and 19 numbered engraved plates (nrs. 4-22; ca. 85 x 165 mm) of which one (rather clumsily) hand coloured, with landscapes and scenery, engraved by Israel Henriet after the designs by Jacques Callot. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Drawings  Engravings  Etchings  Fortification  French  Italy  Landscape  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch edition of accounts of two travels to 'Virginia' View picture(s) 55 CANNER, Thomas. Scheeps-togt van Martin Pringe, gedaan in 't jaar 1603. Van Bristol na 't noorder-gedeelte van Virginien. Including: Een tweede reys in 't selfde jaar 1603. Na Virginien, gedaan van Kap. Bartholomeus Gilbert. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. With engraved publisher's device and 2 folding engraved plates. [2], 16, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America, North  Americana  Colonial History  Discovery & Exploration  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Much ado about the façade of the Duomo in Milan View picture(s) 56 CASTELLI, Francesco. Per la facciata del duomo do Milano. [Milan, no printer, 1654]. Folio. Contemporary gilt (wall?) paper decorated with a pattern of red flowers stamped in, over boards. With 3 folding, 2 double-page and one full-page engraved plates and 5 smaller mathematical woodcuts in the text. 35 + 1 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Churches  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the freedom of conscience: against Calvin View picture(s) 57 CASTELLIO(N), Sebastianus. Corte ende duydelijcke Wederlegghinghe, van 'tghene door Mr. Johan Calvijn, tot beweringe van de macht der overheyt, int straffen der ketteren, by gebracht wert. [Haarlem, Pieter Arentsz], 1613. 4to. 19th-century calf. With woodcut vignette on title. 162 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Humanism  Reformation  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important editions of Cats's complete works: a monument of Dutch 17th century Dutch literature and book-illustration View picture(s) 58 CATS, Jacob. Alle wercken, soo oude als nieuwe,.. De laatste druk. Hier komen noch by des Dichters gedachten op slapeloose nachten, nevens zijn gantsche twee en tachtig jarige leven. Amsterdam & Utrecht, Daniel van den Dale, François Halma, Widow A. van Someren & Utrecht, J. and Willem van de Water, 1700. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary red morocco with richly gilt spine and green morocco volume and title label, sides with gilt ornament within two gilt inner and outer dentelles, all edges gilt. This edition contains the same plates as in the first edition of Cats's collected works (Amsterdam 1655): including the portrait of the author, 96 emblems by J. Swelinck after A. van de Venne to the Sinnebeelden and the Emblemata moralia et Oeconomica;  the plates to Selfstryt (4 plates); Toneel der mannelicke achtbaerheyt (5 plates), Houwelick (39 plates after A. van de Venne, including the famous plates with the children's plays on the quare in Middelburg); the two portraits of Galathea;  129 emblematical plates to the Spiegel van den ouden en nieuwen tijdt most by W.H. Hondius, C. van Queboren, A. Matham a.o. after A. van de Venne, the portrait of Anna Maria van Schuurman and the 59 plates to the Trou-ringh and Toetssteen by Van Queboren, A. Matham, D. van Bremden a.o. after A. van de Venne; 27 plates to Ouderdom, Buiten-leven en Hof=gedachten; 19 plates to the Invallende gedachten after A. van de Venne; double-page plate of the Huwelick's Fuyck after Van de Venne; Dood-kiste: 24 plates after Van de Venne and a double-page plate 'Sic transit gloria mundi'; double-page plate of Stadholder Frederick Henrick on his deathbed; and 16 plates to the later works. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Illustrated Books  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition View picture(s) 59 CATS, Jacob. Self-Stryt dat is Crachtighe beweginghe van Vlees en Gheest, poëtischer wijse verthoont in den persoon ende uytte gheleghentheyt van Joseph, ten tijde hy by Potiphars huys-vrouwe wiert versocht tot Overspel. Mitsgaders Schriftmatighe beschrijvinge van heymenisse ende eygenschap des Christelijcke Self-strijts, met corte verclaringe of de selve. Middelburg, Hans vander Hellen, for Jan Pietersz van de Venne, 1620. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Engraved frontispiece, and 4 engravings in text. (28), 119, (1 blank, 16, 4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Literature  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important mathematical treatise by a fencing master View picture(s) 60 CEULEN, Ludolf van. Fundamemta arithmetica et geometrica cum eorum usu. Leiden, Joost van Colster, 1615. 4to. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. With numerous woodcut arithmetical figures and diagrams in text. [4], 269 [=271] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arithmetics  Leyden  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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