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Painters, sculptors and their patrons celebrating the feast of St. Luke View picture(s) 1 [ASSELYN, Thomas and Joost van den VONDEL]. Broederschap der schilderkunst, ingewydt door schilders, beeldthouwers en des zelfs begunstigers; den 21. van Wynmaent 1654, op St. Joris Doelen, in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel (colophon: printed by Cornelis de Bruyn), 8vo. Decorated paper wrappers (ca. 1800?, woodblock-printed in red, yellow and brown paste), side-stitched and oversewn through 3 holes, bookseller's ticket of R.W.P. de Vries (Amsterdam) on inside front cover. Untrimmed. With a woodcut vase of flowers on the title-page, woodcut initials, and a tailpiece built up from cast arabesque fleurons. 25, [5], [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art & Architecture  Dutch Literature  Literature & Linguistics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First geological textbook on the teachings of Werner View picture(s) 2 AUBUISSON DE VOISINS, Jean François d'. Traité de géognosie, ou exposé des connaissances actuelles sur la constitution physique et minérale du globe terrestre. Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1819. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With 2 folding engraved plates, of which 1 finely coloured by hand, and 1 folding table. LXI, [1], 496; [4], 665, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Earth Sciences  Geology  Mineralogy & Gems  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A milestone in the history of medicine, with a popular work on natural wonders View picture(s) 3 BONTIUS, Jacobus (Jacob de BONDT). De medicina Indoru[m]. Lib. IV. ... Leiden, Franciscus Hackius, 1642. With an engraved title-page (with the title in a cartouche carried by an indigenous Javan in a feathered headdress, facing a European doctor with a snake on a staff, a griffon and other animals) signed by the engraver by Cornelis van Dalen, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initial letters. Jonston's work with woodcut tailpieces, a woodcut decorated initial and cast fleurons. [6], "578" [= 576], [2]; 212, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Astronomy & Cosmography  Birds / Ornithology  Indonesia / Dutch East Indies  Medicine & Pharmacy  Natural History  Science  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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North-West Passage not through Hudson Bay View picture(s) 4 ELLIS, Henry. Reize naar de baai van Hudson, ter ontdekkinge van eenen Noord-wester doortogt, gedaan in de jaaren 1746. en 1747. Leiden, Elie Luzac, 1750. 8vo. Contemporary red half roan. With title printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title, large folding engraved map (18 x 44.5 cm), and 9 engraved plates, mostly folding by N. van Frankendaal, with captions in French and Dutch. XXXII, 440 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alaska  America  Anthropology & Ethnography  Arctic & Antactic  Canada  Exploration & Travel  North America  Voyages & Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Comparative anatomy of Goethe's "cornerstone to man" View picture(s) 5 FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, Gotthelf. Ueber die verschiedene Form des Intermaxillarknochens in verschiedenen Thieren. Leipzig, Schäfer, 1800. 8vo. Contemporary paste-paper over boards. With 20 engraved figures on 3 numbered plates (plates 1 & 2 printed together and in this copy undivided). XXII, 151, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Fishes / Ichthyology  Mammals  Medicine & Pharmacy  Natural History  Reptiles & Amphibians  Science  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare first edition of a manual on horse training View picture(s) 6 GALIBERTO, Giovanni Battista di. Il cavallo da maneggio. Libro dove si tratta della nobilissima virtu del cavalcare, come il cavagliere deve star' à cavallo ... Diviso in tre parti, nella prima si tratta del conoscer li cavalli;  nella seconda il modo di cavalcare; nella terza il modo di medicar' ogni sorte d'infirmità, con tre tavole. Vienna, Giovan Giacomo Kyrner, 1650. Small folio (300 x 197 mm). Contemporary vellum, each side with a central coat of arms (front and back different: probably both members of the family of the Habsburg Kings of Hungary & Bohemia, perhaps Ferdinand III or IV), gold-tooled ornamental triple borders and corner pieces, leather ties, gilt edges. Engraved frontispiece; engraved coat of arms on verso of title-page, apparently of the dedicatee King Ferdinand IV of Hungary and Bohemia, with the motto "Arte, Virtute et Marte"; 56 engravings (30 in the text and 26 printed on 14 leaves (1 double-page plate indicates the anatomical parts of the horse)), depicting horse training scenes, harnesses, bridles, spurs etc.; woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. [6], 107, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Cavalry  Horses & Horsemanship  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First English edition of a medical treatise on Spanish fly View picture(s) 7 GROENVELT, Joannes (John GREENFIELD or GROENVELD). A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in the practice of physick. … Now translated into English with his approbation, by John Marten, ... London, Jeffrey Wale, John Isted, 1706. 8vo. 19th-century tanned half sheepskin, tree-marbled paper sides. [40], 363, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Insects / Entomology  Medicine & Pharmacy  Natural History  Science & Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a devotional emblem book with an engraved title-page drawn by Rubens, splendidly bound for the Abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey View picture(s) 8 HAEFTEN, Benedictus van. Regia via crucis. Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus (Officina Plantiniana), 1635. 8vo (18 x 11.5 x 4 cm). Richly gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), sewn on 3 cords, each board with the arms of (apparently) Abbot Placidus Buechauer (1611-1669) of Kremsmünster supported by a boar (dexter) and a rampant talbot (sinister), each on its own shield, with a long-horned bull in another shield below the main arms, flanked by the letters P.A and Z.K (Placidus Abt zu Kremsmünster); richly gold-tooled spine decorated as a single surface with 3 subursts (the divisions between them do not correspond to the sewing stations); gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins; in total hundreds of impressions of dozens of tools. Further with gilt and elaborately gauffered edges (grape vines with about 20 bunches of grapes), traces of leather ties. With integral engraved title-page showing Christ, Saint Teresa of Avila and 2 unidentified men, each of the four bearing a cross), the title above a cartouche with the chi-rho monogram and "In hoc signo vinces", 38 full-page emblematic engravings on integral leaves, the Plantin-Moretus woodcut compasses device (in a cartouche flanked by a male and a female figure), woodcut tailpieces, numerous woodcut initials (3 series, 2 with religious figures). XL, 404, [26], [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Book History  Central & Eastern Europe  Emblem & Fable Books  Europe  Literature & Linguistics  Religion & Devotion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With designs for dyke construction View picture(s) 9 LISTINGH, Nicolaas. Incitamentum & Adiumentum. Dat is Opweckinge ende Aanleydinge, Tot het uytvinden van Bequaame Middeln en Gronden Om de Zee-dycken, In Hollandt en West-Vrieslandt, tegens ... te beschermen en the bevreyden. Amsterdam, heirs Paulus Matthysz, 1702. 4to. Contemporary half calf, repairs to the spine. With 8 large folding engraved plates of dykes and construction designs, 1 view of Muiden by Stoopendael. [6], 86 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Cartography  City Plans & Views  Hydraulics, Mechanics & Technology  Low Countries  Maps & Views  Netherlands  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Educational dialogues on nature with 24 engravings after Jan or Casper Luyken View picture(s) 10 [LOOSJES, Petrus Adriaanszoon]. Leerzaame zamenspraaken, over eenige dieren, vogels, insecten, en visschen. Amsterdam, heirs of Frans Houttuyn, 1769. 8vo. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, red and green sprinkled edges. With engraved printer's device with portrait of Isaac Newton engraved by Jan Caspar Philips, and 25 engraved illustrations in text, whereof 24 after Jan or Casper Luyken. [2], VI, [4], 296, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Education & Learning  Natural History  Schoolbooks  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A rare account of Van Diemen's Land View picture(s) 11 [MELVILLE , Henry]. Van Diemen's Land; comprehending a variety of statistical and other information, likely to be interesting to the emigrant, as well as to the general reader. Hobert (Tasmania), Henry Melville; London, Smith, Elder & Co. (colophon printed by Henry Melville, Hobart Town), 1833. 12mo in 6s. Late 19th-century tanned half sheepskin, curl-marbled sides, title in gold on spine, new endpapers. The text itself followed by 17 pp. of advertisements. With several lines, on the title-page and in the advertisements, set in slab-serif types. XI, [1 blank], 7-216, 17, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Exploration & Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French manual for beginning and advanced gardeners View picture(s) 12 POINSOT, Pierre Georges. l'Ami des jardiniers, ou instruction methodique a la portée des amateurs et des jardiniers de profession, sur tout ce qui concerne les jardins fruitiers et potagers, parcs, jardins anglais, parterres, orangeries, et serres-chaudes. Paris, Levrault Schoell et Cie, 1804[-1805]. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, yellow paper sides, brown morocco spine labels, green edges. With engraved frontispiece, 6 full-page and 15 folding engraved plates, showing among other things, garden utensils, grafting, different shapes of trees, trelliswork, garden layouts and constructions for hothouses and orangeries. [10], 398, [2]; [6], 380 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Fruit Culture & Pomology  Horticulture & Agriculture  Natural History  Trees / Arboriculture & Forestry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare portrait of Maurits in a monumental cartouche with Latin poems by the younger brother of Hugo Grotius View picture(s) 13 [PORTRAIT]. [Engraved portrait of Prince Maurits of Nassau]. [The Netherlands, ca. 1602-1605]. (45 x 35.5 cm). Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Europe  History  Netherlands  Prints & Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A very rare Tahitian prayerbook, printed and published in Tahiti View picture(s) 14 [PRAYERBOOK - TAHITIAN]. [MONTITON, Albert]. Meditatione, oia hoi: Feruri raa, no te mau mahana'toa no te avae hoe. Papeete, 1873. 16mo in 8s (14.5 x 11 cm). Modern blue half cloth, blue pastepaper sides. With wood-engraved device on title-page. [4], 167, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks  Pacific  Polynesia  Religion & Devotion  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Four works on Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian plants published together View picture(s) 15 RÖMER, Johann Jakob. Scriptores de plantis Hispanicis, Lusitanicis, Brasiliensibus, adornavit et recudi curavit. Nuremberg, Raspe, 1796. 4 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half brown sheepskin, marbled-paper sides. With engraved title-page by G. Vogel and 8 engraved folding plates showing plants (numbered I-VII and IIb), including 3 engraved by G. Vogel, Nuremberg. 184 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America  Botany  Brazil  Floras  Linnaeus  Natural History  South America  Spain & Portugal  Trees / Arboriculture & Forestry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three fine, magnificently hand-coloured print series depicting the most beloved houses and palaces of Stadholder/King William III. Important for the history of the architecture of Dutch manor houses and gardens View picture(s) 16 SCHENK, Pieter (ed.) (1) Delineatio Domus recreatricis adjacentiumque prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem, auspiciis & iussu Illustriss. Dni. Arnoldi Justi Toparchae in Keppel, Comitis de Albemarle etc. etc. etc. structorum per cl. nostri temporis Magistrum, Jacobum Roman Sereniss. Britann. Regis architectum, accurate sculpta & Illustrisimo Nomini humillimé inscripta à Petro Schenkio sculptore Amstelod. cum Privil. (Amsterdam), Pieter Schenk, ca. 1700. 4to oblong (265 x 310 mm). Contemporary mottled calf with gilt border, corner- and centre pieces, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved title-page and 15 beautiful engraved plates by Jacob Roman (170 x 196 mm), each with  Dutch and Latin text at left and right underneath, followed by address at lower left. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Castles & Mansions  Netherlands  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An extensively illustrated introduction into sundials View picture(s) 17 STENGEL, Johann Peterson. Gnomonica universalis, sive praxis amplissima geometricè describendi horologia solaria, stabilia quidem juxta omnes species, in quâcunque superficie planâ intra sphaeram rectam & obliquam, tum reflexa, et portatilia, in figuris 233 [= 232]. Ulm, Matthäus Wagner, 1679. 4 parts in 3 volumes. Small 8vo (16 x 9.5 cm). 19th-century boards covered with marbled paper, in matching marbled box, pull-off top, lined with pink paper. With engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, 105 engraved plates, showing 232 sundials and related mathematical and astronomical figures (designated I-CCII & A-2G), 9 woodcut tailpieces and several decorations built up from cast fleurons. [2], 262, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Hydraulics, Mechanics & Technology  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded edition of Tahitian primer printed and published in Papeete View picture(s) 18 [TAHITI]. [Wrapper title (repeated as drop-title on p. 1):] Te parau matamua na te tamarii. Papeete, [printed at the École Françaises Indigènes?], 1891. 8vo (18 x 12 cm). Original publisher's printed pink paper wrappers, woodcut on front wrapper and a table of vowels on back wrapper. 40 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Literature & Linguistics  Religion & Devotion  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elaborate memoir on the aborigines of Australia View picture(s) 19 TOPINARD, Paul. Étude sur les races indigènes de l'Australie. Paris, A. Hennuyer, 1872. 8vo. Contemporary blue half cloth, chemical-marbled sides, sprinkled edges. 119, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anthropology & Ethnography  Australia & New Zealand  Exploration & Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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View of the royal palace Huis Ten Bosch View picture(s) 20 [VIEW - OPTICAL - THE HAUGE]. Vuë de la Maison dans Le Bois du coté du jardin de S.A.S. le Prince d'orange stadhouder, des Provinces Unies &c. &c. Paris, Basset, [ca. 1770]. Contemporary hand-coloured engraved optical view (26 x 40 cm). Full description >> Related Subjects: Prints - 18th Century  Prints - Castles  Prints - House of Orange  Prints - Optical views  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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