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Eight magnificent and very rare suites of eighteenth-century, uniformly coloured costumes plates: the Ottoman Empire - Germany (Nürnberg, Strassbourg) - Switserland (Zürich) - World (incl. American Indians) - French army View picture(s) 1 (COSTUMES). Eight suites with 180 engraved coloured costume plates. Augsburg, Jean André Pfeffel (1), Jeremias Wolff (2-6) & Paris, F. Chereau (7) and Le Rouge (8), ca. 1720-1750. 8 suites. Folio. Contemporary half calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold: "Costumes en Couleurs", red painted edges. Two engraved titles, one engraved dedication leaf, and 180 costume plates, all uniformly coloured by hand and most of them heightened with gold (ca. 1750), many within yellow painted frame. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, Middle  America, South  Costumes  France  Germany  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Print Series  Switzerland  Turkey  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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With woodcut illustrations by a Holbein associate View picture(s) 2 (EVANGELIENBUCH (GOSPELS & EPISTLES)). Das Plenarium oder Ewangely Buoch: Summer un(d) Winter Teyl, durch das gantz jar ... menschen welche in disem ... mögen überlesen. (Colophon: Basel, printed by Adam Petri von Langendorff, 13 August), 1516. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). Slightly later (ca. 1565) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, in a panel design with 3 rolls (1 with Reformation portraits and 1 with biblical figures), a rosette and a leaf, brass fastenings with engraved decoration. Title-page in red and black with a woodcut pictorial frame, about 125 woodcut illustrations plus about 15 repeats by Hans Lützenburger after Hans Schäufelein and Urs Graf (5 nearly full-page, plus 2 repeats), 2 woodcut decorative strips, numerous decorated uncial initial letters (3 series, 17-34 mm, with more than 1 block for some letters), and 2 series of plain uncial initials. With the main text in a bastarda (97 mm/20 lines) with opening words and running heads in a large textura. All woodcuts and a few initials coloured by an early hand. With a remarkable half-sheet letterpress bookplate of Johann Hartmann of Forccheim (Bavaria), dated 1581 and with an elaborate border built from Robert Granjon's arabesque fleurons (182 x 100 mm), giving a warning curse to ensure the book's return. (8), 278 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Devotion  Post Incunabula  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th century Hebrew Pentateuch manuscript in interesting binding View picture(s) 3 (PENTATEUCH - MANUSCRIPT). SA'ANA, copied by the scribe Judah B. Joseph Gazfan. Keter Torah (Crown of the Torah). Yemen, 1825-1827. Folio (32,5 x 23 cm). In a blind-tooled leather covered wooden box-binding, with silver catches, bosses, studs, clasps and edge-pieces. Verged paper. With the title-page in green, black and red and the greatest part of the manuscript in black with red. Sumptuous illustrations. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hebraica  Hebraica & Judaica  Manuscripts  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the noble family Van Wassenaer of Noordwijkerhout View picture(s) 4 BIBLIA, Dat is: De Gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende  alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen  Testaments. Amsterdam, heirs Paulus Aertsz. van Ravesteyn, 1664. 3 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemp. fulgrained red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, sides richly gilt with ornamental design working from the corners to the center within richly gilt rolled ornamental borders, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e., and with 8 silver corner-pieces. With richly engraved general title, and 6 double-page engraved maps, including a worldmap by Nic. Visscher and a plan of Jerusalem. (20), 302, (2), 134; (2), 164, (10); (2), 66 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Bindings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare Print-Bible of the "Second House of Love": the Print-Bible of Peeter van der Borcht View picture(s) 5 EMBLEMATA SACRA, è praecipuis utriusque Testamenti historiis concinnatta, a Bernardo Sellio Noviomago. & a Petro vander Burgio figures aeneis elegantissimis illustrata. Amsterdam, Michael Colyn, 1613. Oblong large folio. Contemporary richly gilt vellum, title in ink on spine, g.e. With engraved publishers device on title, showing the Archangel Michael fighting a dragon, richly coloured by hand, and 99 full-page engraved plates, showing very imaginative scenes from the Old and New Testament, mostly with several scenes of action on one plate, all set within ornamental frames and with two 2-line verses printed in two columns underneath, and all most richly and beautifully coloured by hand. (100) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Engravings  House of Love  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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Flipping through the world of magic View picture(s) 6 FLIPBOOK. (AMBIGU MAGIQUE). Six series of 28 engraved figures. (No place, no publ., ca. 1776). 8vo. Contemporary green wrappers, with title label on spine with the text: 'Ambigu Magique'; preserved in slipcase. Six series of 28 different engraved figures, all coloured by hand: 168 plates in total. 2 lvs. with calendar mounted on the back of the front, resp. back cover, 1 somewhat smaller leaf (preface) and 96 unnumbered lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Costumes  Magic & Conjuring  Militaria  Playing Cards  Professions  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare late 17th century Dutch miniature prayer book View picture(s) 7 GEBEDE BOECK. Amsterdam, 1683. 64mo., bookblock measuring 35 x 25 mm. Contemporary dark brown calf. With letterpress title headpiece in the shape of 5 acorns and letterpress title-vignette, repeated at the end of the first and second prayer. (32) lvs. (collation: (A)-D8). Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Games & Pastimes  Miniature Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Manuscript from the Seebach abbey with the coat of arms of the Van Zuylen van Nyevelt family View picture(s) 8 OFFICE OF THE DEAD. Use of Seebach Abbey (near Durkheim). Manuscript in Latin on vellum. (Southern Netherlands, ca. 1572). 182 x 130 mm. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, spine ribbed and gilt, sides blind-stamped with rolled borders representing the figures "Fides", "Justicia", "Fortitudo", and "Iudit", rectangular fillet borders inside, with four gilt acorns at the corners, and a small gilt lion in centre, brass clasps. With large, 7-line illuminated initial on a rose background with the coat of arms of the family Van Zuylen van Nyevelt inside, and their name in a banderole above, with illuminated borders showing brightly coloured flowers and a peacock on a yellow  background, coloured and decorated 5-line initial, many initials in blue and red, or black decorated with red, musical scores. (87) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Manuscripts  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First great international investment fraud & scandal View picture(s) 9 TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID, Het groote-, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX. (Amsterdam, '1720' (= ca. 1740?)). Large folio. Contemporary calf gold-tooled in a panel design with a large centrepiece. Letterpress title-page in red and black, 74 engraved plates (including 2 made up of 4 separate prints each, mounted to form 2 leaves together). Most are double-page and several are larger folding sheets, and they include 4 maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards plus title and imprint. (1), (1 blank), 25, (1), "22" [= 52], "31" [= 29], (1 blank), 8, 10 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  Politics  Satire  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Deck of heraldic playing cards in original engraved wrappers, all in contemporary colouring & heightened with gold, with accompanying book View picture(s) 10 (FINÉ DE BRIANVILLE, Claude Oronce). (Engraved wrapper-title:) Jeu d'Armoiries. Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, (1693-95, engraved ca. 1668). 52 engraved heraldic playing cards (87 x 55 mm) in publisher's original engraved wrapper, all contemporary handcoloured and highlighted in gold  (probably as published). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Genealogy & Heraldry  Playing Cards  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine magnificently handcoloured copy of a famous series of Dutch cityviews and costumes View picture(s) 11 (MAASKAMP, Evert). Tableau des principales vues des palais et edifices; representations et des coutumes et usages, dans les Provinces Septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas. Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, (1825). Oblong folio. Contemporary boards covered with dark-brownish paper with gilt border along the edges and gilt title on frontcover. Preserved in modern brown cloth fitted box. With 68 fine engraved and/or aquatint plates, all handcoloured, most of them  in proof-state with captions in ink in ms., with views of Dutch cities and costumes, and index-leaf. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  Coloured Plate Books  Netherlands  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous and influential print-series of costumes of the Ottoman Empire, together with a series of emblems prophesying the fall of that Empire View picture(s) 12 (NICOLAY, Nicolas de, Laonikos CHALKOKONDYLE, & Artus THOMAS). Plusieurs descriptions des accoustremens, tant des magistrats et officiers de la Porte de l' Empereur des Turcs, que des peuples assujectis à son Empire. Avec les figurs des representant le tout au naturel, tirees des medailles antiques & descriptions de ceux qui ont frequenté parmy ces nations, ou des bons autheurs qui en ont escrit. (Paris, Widow of Abel L'Angelier, 1620). 2 parts in one vol. Folio. 19th century three-quarter green morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, boards covered with marbled paper, gilt edges. With 62 large full-page engraved costume plates (ca. 275 x 175 mm.) after the famous engraver Nicolas Nicolay in the first, and 17 emblematical and allegorical plates in the second part. Added to the first part is a loosely inserted engraving of a 'Marchant Juif'.All the plates have explanatory texts on the versos of the preceding plates. Woodcut initials and head-pieces. Part 1: fols. 1-64; part 2: fol. 64, pp. 65-114, (3). Collation (both parts together): A-X4, Y6, Z2. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Print Series  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plates printed in colour View picture(s) 13 (RUBENS, Petrus Paulus). Galerie de Rubens, dite du Luxembourg; ouvrage composé de vingt-cincq estampes, soit en couleur, soit en noir, avec l'explication historique et allégorique de chaque sujet. Paris, Impr. de Crapelet for Deterville and Roret, (1809). Large folio (520 x 355 mm). Contemporary black painted half calf, boards covered wth black buckram, gilt spine lettered in gold, front cover with gilt border along the edges and gilt title 'Galerie de Rubens' in the center, ornamented gold brocat endpapers With 25 partly coloured stipple engravings by J. Duthé a.o., partly coloured by hand; the plates vary in size from 220 x 110 to 210 x 368 mm. (6), 8 pp; 25 lvs with explicatory text to the 24 plates, numebered 1-2 or 1-4;, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Coloured Plate Books  Drawing & Painting  Printing Techniques  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spain in contemporary colour View picture(s) 14 BERGE, Pieter vanden. Theatrum Hispaniae, exhibens regni urbes, villas ac viridaria magis illustria. Het aanmerkelykste en voortreffelykste in Spanjen, vertoond in haar voornaamste steden en koninglyke paleizen, als Madrid en haare uytmuntende gebouwen en gezichten, benevens Granada, Toledo, Sivilien, Cadix, Lissebon, Burgos, Segovia, Barcelone, enz: wyders een curieuse afbeelding van het Escurial, Aranjues, Prado, Buen Retiro, Casa del Campo, enz.- El mas nombrado de todos en Espagna, mostrado en el principal vistas de las cidades, palacios, castillos, jardines, casas de plazer y fuentes.- Theatre de l'Espagne ou la représentation exacte des principales villes d'Espagne, avec leurs embellissements anciens & modernes; comme aussi des agreables vuës, de l'Escurial, Aranjuez, el Prado, Buen Retiro, Casa del Campo, & autres superbes chateaux, maisons royales &c. Amsterdam, Pieter vanden Berge, (ca. 1700). Oblong folio. Red morocco, gilt spine, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Engraved vignette on title, and another vignette on verso title-page, 60 beautiful full-page engraved plates, depicting several views of Spanish cities like Madrid, Granada, Sevilla, Toledo and Barcelona, including a large folding plan of Madrid. All vignettes and plates beautifully contemporary coloured by hand and heightened with gold. (61) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Coloured Plate Books  Portugal  Print Series  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extra illustrated town-atlas of the Low Countries by Blaeu View picture(s) 15 BLAEU, J. (1) Toonneel der steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen. (2) Toonneel der steden van 's Konings Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, (1649-1700). 3 vols. Large folio. Contemporary vellum. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Atlases  Atlases, Low Countries  Atlases, Town  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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First issue of Blaeu's atlas of cities of The Netherlands View picture(s) 16 BLAEU, Johannes. Toonneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen. (Amsterdam), Johannes Blaeu, (ca. 1652). Imperial folio (52 x 34.5 cm). Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, red-sprinkled edges. Engraved armorial title-page with the title on a letterpress slip, 8 part-titles, 128 engraved city plans, city views and architectural views, mostly double-page, and a few small engravings and woodcuts in the text. (vii), (36), (84), (24), (9), (19), (22), (16), (39), (14), (67) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Atlases  Atlases, Low Countries  Atlases, Town  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unique and beautifully hand-coloured copy of Boxhorn's description of the cities of Holland View picture(s) 17 BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius. Toneel ofte beschryvinge der steden van Hollandt. Waer in haer beginselen, voortganck, privilegien, historie ande gelegentheyt vervat worden. Int Nederlandts overgeset uyt de copye, by den autheur verbetert, ende merckelyck en vermeerdert, door Geeraerdt Baerdeloos. Leiden & Amsterdam, Willem Christiaens (Leiden) for Jacob Keyns in Amsterdam, 1634. Oblong 4to. Contemporary black morocco, ribbed spine, blind ruling along the edges on both sides. Engraved allegorical title-page with Neptune and Mercury on both sides of a cartouche with the Dutch lion underneath, lying in the Garden of Holland holding a pole with the hat of freedom on top. Printed title on the cartouche is pasted in. 5 full-page maps of (1) Holland and West-Friesland, (2) Delf- and Schieland, (3) Island of Dordrecht, (4) Rijn- and Amstelland, and (5) North Holland or West-Friesland, by the famous cartographer Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, published in 1632 by Henricus Hondius in Amsterdam. 38 full-page plans of the cities of Holland and West-Friesland in the text, with an extra drawing in contemp. colouring of a plan of Willemstad and its description in handwriting added. (12), 374, (10) pp. with 2 extra lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Atlases  Geography  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An extensive collection of archives of a Zeeland family with ties to the VOC, WIC and Brazil, no doubt containing a great deal of information that has not survived in any other form View picture(s) 18 BRANDE, Cornelis van den & family. Geslaght Register van de Familie van Van den Brande sedert die in Zeeland sijn gekomen 1572. Including: (2) De Familie van de Heeren Van der Graaff. (with 19 fragments of a ca. 1651 parchment family tree with coloured coats-of-arms, and 1 fragment from another, pasted in or loosely inserted at the relevant places. (3) Copia Litterarum Patentium ... Johannes Petrus van den Brande a Rege Guillielmo III Magna Brittanniæ ... Eques Baronettus Creatur 9 Junii 1699. (near Middelburg (Kleverskerke?) in Zeeland), written ca. 1690? (with additions to 1721) & ca. 1735 (with additions to 1754). One volume. Folio. Contemporary sheepskin parchment with leather ties. (2 blank), (7), (2 blank), (6), (1 blank), 9, (12), (37 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Genealogy & Heraldry  Manuscripts  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With King Louis-Philippe's monogram View picture(s) 19 BRETON, Louis Le. Marines de tous les pays. (Collection of lithographs on ships and fishing). Paris; London, E. Savary, Me Ve Turgis; Gambart, (1853). Oblong folio. Contemporary half roan, gilt crowned monogram L.P. on spine, title in gilt on front cover. The monogram was used by king Louis Philippe, and became part of his son's coat of arms. With 34 lithographed coloured plates, depicting different ships from all over the world. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Art General  Bindings  Lithographs  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mohammed & Ottoman empire, with stunning engravings View picture(s) 20 BRY, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel de. I. Acta Mechmeti i Saracenorum Principis Natales, Vitam, Victorias, Imperium et Mortem eius ominosam complectentia. Genealogia Successorum ... usq(ue) Mechmetem III. ...II. Vaticinia. Severi et Leonis in Oriente Impp. ... (Frankfurt am Main), 1597. 2 works in 1 vol. 4to. 19th-century green half vellum, marbled sides. Title in an engraved illustrated frame, 10 nearly full-page engravings illustrating Mohammed's life and 16 emblematic engravings prophesizing the downfall of the Ottoman empire. (10), '356' [= 353] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Ottoman Empire  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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