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Description of Den Briel in an attractive armorial binding View picture(s) 1 ALKEMADE, Cornelis van, and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Beschryving van de Stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn, behelzende, I. De Beschryving zelf... II. De Historie, Genealogie, en Successie van de Heeren, en Vrouwen van Voorn ... III. De Politike Regering, nevens de Regten, ... mitsgaders de Regtspleging ... omtrent het Jaar MCCCC in de Stad Briel, en 't Land van Voorn in gebruik geweest zynde. IV. De Privilegien, Octroyen ... betreffende de Stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn... Te samen gesteld, en beschreven door Kornelis van Alkemade, en met eenige hoofddelen, byvoegselen, en aanteekeningen vermeerderd door Mr. P. van der Schelling. Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in one vol. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt-stamped coat of arms of Den Briel on both covers, inner and outer turn-ins gilt, spine with raised bands, compartments richly gilt, black morocco author and title-label. Title-page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, three half titles, one double-page plan of Den Briel, three folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne, each c. 50 x 70,5 cm, one additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland. (28), 1-224, (8), 225-376; (8), 1-306, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Dutch  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two dissertations on an important cult of Venus View picture(s) 2 BALBI, Ambrogio. Dissertazioni risguardanti il culto di Venere Ericina. Turin, Widow Pomba and sons, 1824. 8vo. Half green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with the gilt coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina, better known as the marquis de Morante, a well-known Spanish bibliophile, on both covers, sprinkled edges. 90 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  History  Italy  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pictorial record of the Dutch War of Independence View picture(s) 3 BAUDARTIUS, Willem (Guilaume BAUDAERT). Les guerres de Nassau. [Engraved title:] Pourtraits en taille douce, et descriptions des sieges, batailles, rencontres & autres choses advenues durant les guerres des Pays Bas, sous le commandement des hauts & puissants Seigneurs les Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies, & la conduite des tresillustres Princes Guillaume Prince d'Orange & Maurice de Nassau son fils. Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1616. 2 parts in 1 volume Oblong 4to (19 x 23 cm). Contemporary gilt vellum, with gilt coat of arms of Baron de Konigsegg (?) in centre on front cover, and gilt medallion vignette with motto: "Quae infra nos nihil ad nos " in centre on back cover (see below). With engraved allegorical title with the title printed in cartouche, woodcut printer's device on second title, full-page engraved map of the 17 Provinces, 22 full-page engraved portraits, full-page engraved double-portrait, 257 full-page engraved plates, views and plans of battles and sieges, incl. one double-page bird's eye's view of the fighting region along the Meuse and the Rhine. [8], 466; [4], 493, [15] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  French  History  Militaria  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important Dutch illustrated military book with unrecorded frontispiece View picture(s) 4 BOXEL, Johan. Exercitie memorie vande compagnie guardes van de Ed. Groot Mog. Heeren Staten van Holland en West-Vrieslandt. Bestaende in 't exerceren van 't musquet, spies, ende de generale exercitie. The Hague, Nicolaas van Coevenhoven, (1669). 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title label lettered in gold, gilt oval coat of arms of the Van Ilten family stamped in centre front cover. Title printed in red and black, with 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces and 82 full-page engraved plates of exercising soldiers and companies. (8), (4), (4), (4), (6) lvs., 11 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Engravings  Militaria  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful suite of lithographed plates. With King Louis-Philippe's monogram View picture(s) 5 BRETON, Louis Le. Marines de tous les pays. Paris; London, E. Savary, Me Ve Turgis; Gambart, [1853]. Oblong folio (32 x 60 cm). Contemporary half purple roan, gilt crowned monogram L.P. on spine, with purple marbled board covers, title and crowned monogram L.P. in gilt on front cover, marbled endpapers. 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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Dutch (Amsterdam) Almanac for 1771 in interesting vellum binding tooled in silver and signed by 'Duisburg'. View picture(s) 6 DAM, Dirk Jansz. van. Almanach, d'Erven Stichters Comptoir --, op 't jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1771. Voorzien met alle de jaar-, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten, alsmede de vacantien, het varen der trekschuyten en beurtschepen, het ryden der posten, &c. Nevens de maans op en ondergang, door Dirk Jansz. van Dam. Amsterdam, Heirs of the widow Cornelis Stichter, (1770). 4to. Contemporary vellum, elaborately tooled in silver: a wide border with baroque ornaments (or frame block) with the coat-of arms of the Seven United Provinces of the Dutch Republic at the top with that of Holland in a courtyard in the middle, 20 coat-of-arms of the Dutch cities at either side (left: Dordrecht, Delft, Amsterdam, Haarlem; Rotterdam, Leiden, Gouda; Hoorn, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen; right: Middelburg, Vlissingen, Amersfoort; Arnhem, Nijmegen; Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Zwolle and Deventer), and at the bottom an image that seems to depict the transfer of goods near a city on the see with at the right several music instruments. In the centre of the front cover there is the crowned coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in a baroque design, supported by two lions, and in the centre of the back cover is an impression of three drummers in a baroque frame. The frame block is signed  "Duisburg F(ecit)" by the cutter. With woodcut printer's device with motto 'Indefessus agendo' on the title and 12 half-page woodcuts for the 12 months; printed in red and black. (16) lvs Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Almanacs & Calendars  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Dutch  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of the great book collector Gomez de la Cortina View picture(s) 7 DAMIRON, Jean Philibert. Mémoire sur Naigeon et accessoirement sur Sylvain Maréchal et Delalande par M. Damiron. Lu à l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Paris, A. Durand, 1857 (printed in Orléans by Colas Gardin) Large 8vo. Contemporary buckram, spine gilt, gilt coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina on sides. 126, (1, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By Jean Jacques Rousseau's doctor View picture(s) 8 DARAN, Jacques. Observations Chirurgicales, sur les Maladies de l'Urethre, traitées suivant une nouvelle methode. Nouvelle edition. Paris, Debure l'Aîné, 1748. Sm.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with red title-label, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides with gilt flowered ornaments at the four corners and large gilt coat of arms in centre on both sides, g.e. With large folding colour-printed plate by J. Gautier d'Agoty. (4), CCXX, 429, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Colour Platebooks  Medicine  Printing Techniques  Urology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Imperator Alexander I View picture(s) 9 ESMENARD, Joseph-Alphonse. La navigation, Poème. Paris, Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806. 8vo. Red straight-grain morocco, gilt coat of arms of Tsar Alexander in gilt on both covers. Frontispiece and a full page plate illustration of the wreck of La Perouse. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Poetry  Provenance  Russia  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collected litterary works of the most famous professor of the Paduan university in the 17th century View picture(s) 10 FERRARI, Ottavio. Prolusiones vigintisex. Epistolae. Et formulae ad capienda doctoris insignia. Item variae inscriptiones. Editio altera auctior & emandatior. Padua, Heirs of Paolo Frambotti, 1668. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Nineteenth century green morocco, two gilt lines along the edges of both sides, with gilt coat of arms of Gomez de la Cortina in the centre, spine rulked in gilt and title lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Title printed in red and black with printer's device of Pallas Athena standing next to a tree with a scroll reading 'Pacis opus'; some interesting wootcut head- and tailpieces Vol. 1: (12), 579 pp.; vol. 2: (8), 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Italy  Literature  Poetry  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) 11 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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The dedication copy to the Duchesse d'Angoulême of a very rare educational work View picture(s) 12 GALLAND, P.J. Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.  Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, chez l'Auteur, 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemp. full-grained green morocco, spines gilt, with richly gilt borders on sides and the large gilt crowned coat- of-arms of the Duchesse d'Angoulême (double French Royal arms, each with three fleur-de-lis) in centre, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., pink silk endpapers. With 3 titles set within typographical borders, large folding engraved map of France in 1816 by Hérisson, large folding synoptical table of French grammar, numerous arithmetical sums and figures in text, and astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 full-page engraved plates. (4), 515, (1); 552, (2); 492, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Education  France  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The key work to an understanding of Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century View picture(s) 13 GILLIS, Pierre. De topographia Constantinopoleos, et de illius antiquitatibus libri quatuor. Ad reverendiss. & illustriss. D. Georgium Cardinalem Armaignacum. Lyon, Gulielmus Rovillius, 1562. 4to. Seventeenth-century limp vellum with gilt coat of arms of 'D. Jacobus Conrad Praetorius' in the centre of the front cover; rests of ties; blue painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on title and many decorated woodcut initials and headpieces; an engraving of Gillis's coffin at the end of his epitaph on p. (8). (8), 245, (3) pp. including the often lacking last blank leaf. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Topography  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Karl Kaspar IV, Count of Leyen View picture(s) 14 GOULON, [Charles]. Memoires pour l'Attaque et pour la Défense d'une Place. The Hague, Henry van Bulderen, 1706. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum, with ms. title-label on spine, and gilt coat-of-arms of Karl Kaspar IV, Count of Leyen on front cover, blue mottled edges. With woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations of fortifications on 4 double-page folding engraved plates. 194, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Armorial Bindings  Dutch  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The elegant and famous editio princeps by Aldus Manutius of 'the Father of History', from the Arenberg library! View picture(s) 15 HERODOTUS. (Historiarum) Libri novem. Quibus musarum indita sunt nomina. (and title in Greek: Herodotu Logoi ennea, hoi per epika luntai musai). Venice, Aldus Manutius, September 1502. Folio. Late 19th-century full polished calf, sides blind-tooled: a floral border around a central panel with checked ruling with stamps of a fleur-de-lys and the coat of arms of the Dukes of Arenberg in the centre. With Aldus's printer's device on the title and on the verso of the last leaf. [140] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Armorial Bindings  Greek & Latin  History  Libraries & Collections  Printing [Greek]  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Indian fables: original Dutch edition, from the library of the Duke of Arenberg View picture(s) 16 HEYNS, Zacharias. Voorbeelsels der oude wyse, handelende van trouw, ontrouw, list, haet, gheswindicheyt, ende alle andere menschelijcke gheneghentheden. Wit d'Indische sprake, in d'Arabische, Hebreische ende Latijnsche overgheset, ende nu in de Duytsche vertaelt, verçiert met vele rijm-spreucken, ende figueren. Amsterdam & Zwolle, Broer Jansz. for Zacharias Heyns (in Zwolle), 1623. Sm. 8vo. 19th-century calf, spine ribbed with brown morocco title label, sides blind-stamped with triple fillets in a geometrical pattern decorated with small stamps of animal emblems and with the coat of arms of Arenberg in centre on both sides, green painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 101 woodcuts in text, many composed from blocks cut in small parts and joined together in order to get the correct illustration for the fable text, including 9 woodcuts decorated by ornamental borders at either side. 8, 125, (3) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Dutch  Fable Books  India  Provenance  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The summit work of Italian neoclassicism View picture(s) 17 HOMER. Iliade di Omero. Traduzione del Cav. Vincenzo Monti. Milano, Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1812. 2 vols. 8vo. Green calf, gilt spine with light brown morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt triple fillet and a large gilt crowned coat of arms with a peacock (of the family Paule, Provence? cf. Rietstap 5, Pl. XXI) on both covers, gilt binding edges. (8), 366; 386 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Greece  Italy  Literature  Mythology  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Religious print-series designed by Romeyn de Hooghe View picture(s) 18 LA VIGNE, David de & Mr. De CHERTABLON. La maniere de se bien preparer a la mort, par des considerations sur la cene, la passion & la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de très-belles estampes emblematiques, expliquées par Mr. De Chertablon. Antwerp (Amsterdam?), George Gallet, 1700. 4to. Contemporary light brown calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, gilt borders along the edges of both sides with large gilt coat-of-arms of the Duke De Richelieu in centre, gilt binding-edges, gilt dentelles, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. Title printed in red and black, engraved emblematic frontispiece with Death knocking on the door (A), 39 beautifully designed and engraved full-page plates showing people on their deathbed being shown the Crucifix and scenes of Christ's Passion on paintings held up high by little cherubs (numbered 1-39) and 2 full-page emblematic plates, numbered B-C, with death symbols, all copies (the most in reverse) of the etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe. 63, (1) pp. (Collation: A-H4). Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Dutch  Engravings  Print Series  Religion  Romeyn de Hooghe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French notables satiricaly disguised as Arabs View picture(s) 19 MELON, [Jean-François]. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire Orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes. Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, triple fillet borders and gilt coat of arms on both covers, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With several woodcut head- and tailpieces. (2), VI, 162, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  France  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On King Sebastiao of Portugal (1554-1578) View picture(s) 20 MESA, Sebastian de. Iornada de Africa por el rey Don Sebastian y union del reyno de Portugal a la corona de castilla. Barcelona, por Pedro Lacavalleria, 1630. 4to. Contemporary gilt calf, gilt spine in six compartments, double gilt fillet border and small gilt coat of arms of the Mazarin family in centre of both sides, red mottled edges. (2), 169, 1 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Cartography  History  Portugal  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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