Copy of an important work on the history of astronomy from the library of the first biographer of Jean-Sylvain Bailly

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1 BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain.
Paris, the Brothers Debure, 1775. 4to. Beautifully bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt fillets along the edges, 4 floral corner-pieces and a gilt coat-of-arms of Simon-Pierre Merard de Saint-Just with the motto 'L'honneur et l'amour', on both sides, spine richly gilt in compartments with green title-label lettered in gold, inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers, in modern slip-case covered with marbled paper. With 3 folding engraved plates and many interesting head- and tail-pieces. (2), XXII, 526 pp. Full description >>

Related Subjects: Antiques  Astronomy & Cosmography  Bindings 

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A very nice set of 12 of Lipsius's most important works on Ancient Roman history, together with his 'Mirror of Princes' and his letters, all published during his lifetime by Joan. Moretus

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2 LIPSIUS, Justus.
Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Joannes Moretus, 1596-1605. 3 vols. Large 4to. Original blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (bound shortly after 1605), with three different rolls around a central panel with decorative roll, divided by triple lines: (1) roll with 4 scenes from the life of Christ with the captions 'Satisfa', 'Hic est', 'Ecce ag(nus Dei)', and 'Iustifi'; (2): roll with 4 portraits of Paul, David, and Christ with 4 captions: 'Apparuit benignit(as)', 'Ecce agnu(s) Dei qui to(llit)' (=Gospel acc. to John, I:29); 'Data est mihi omn(is)' (=Gospel acc. to Matth. I:18, and 'De fructu ventrist(uo)' (=Psalm 131:11); (3) roll with 4 different small portraits in roundels with coats-of-arms; the original brass clasps on leather thongs and catches, ribbed spines, two of them with two slips of yellow paper with the titles of Lipsius's works written in a neat Humanistic hand. Full description >>

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antiques  Classical Antiquity  History  Philosophy  Plantin  Rome 

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Fine watercolours of interior decoration

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3 [MANUSCRIPT - INTERIOR DECORATION]. [LAUREYS, H. and E. HERSSENS].
[Belgium(?), ca. 1890]. Oblong large folio (66 x 49.5 cm). Contemporary green cloth with gilt lines on covers, endpapers with green floral pattern. With title-page in watercolour, leaf with watercoloured coat of arms, 8 watercolours showing interior views (most of which heightened with silver and gold, one signed 'Herssens'), last leaf with manuscript inscription reading 'Les Ateliers H. Laureys étudié par E. Herssens', all interleaved with tissue-guards. Full description >>

Related Subjects: Antiques  Applied Arts  Architecture  Decorative  Drawing & Painting  Watercolours 

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