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In Amsterdam prize-binding View picture(s) 1 ALTING, Menso. Descriptio, secundum Antiquos, Agri Batavi & Frisii; Una cum conterminis. Sive Notitiae Germaniae Inferioris, Cis & ultra Rhenum; Qua hodie est in Dicione VII Foederatorum. Repraesentata Tabulis Geographicis V. & Commentario in loca omnia, hoc tractu, Romanis Scriptoribus & Monumentis, qua Latinis, qua Graecis, memorata; A C. Julio Caesare, ad Justinianum Aug. Cuncta, ad litterarum ordinem, sic digesta, ut ipse Commentarius sis Tabularum quasi Index, ex quo depromtu facillimum, quae Lector desiderare poterit.- Descriptio Frisiae Inter Scaldis portum veterum & Amisiam, seu inter Sine & Emese: secundum Medii Aevii Scriptores. Amsterdam, H. Wetstein, 1697-1701. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum, spine ribbed with gilt lozenge-shaped  coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam in each of the eight  compartments, sides with gilt flowered borders alternated with  small coats-of-arms of Amsterdam, similar flowered borders on inner panel. With richly engraved title by J. Goerée, 6 double-page engraved maps, 5 by J. and C. Luyken, 1 by J. Goerée, 3 full-page engraved plates and table, and numerous engravings in text in the first part, and 9 double-page engraved maps by Gerard de Broen and double-page table in the second part. (24), 132, (20), 18, (2); (32), 216, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Bindings  Cartography  History  Netherlands  Prize Binding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful Bodoni edition from the library of one of the most outstanding book collectors of 19th century Russia View picture(s) 2 ANACREON. Anakreontos Teiou mele praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lect. Parma, in aedibus Palatinis (Typis Bodonianis), 1791. Sm. 4to in quires of f leaves (151 x 110 mm). Contemporary full green morocco with gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, gilt inside dentelles, purple endpapers: the pastedowns with a frame of small silver leaves pasted on. Engraved vignette of Anacreon in a roundel on title, engraved vignette of the dedicatee Jos. Nic. de Azara in a roundel on dedication page. (4), CXVIII, (2), 111 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Poetry  Provenance  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author in fine binding View picture(s) 3 ANNUNZIO, Gabriele d'. Sogno d'un mattino di primavera. (I sogni delle stagioni, 1). Milan, Fratelli Treves, 1899. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, sides with gilt ruling and cornerpieces, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers; the original green wrappers are preserved. (4), 104, (+ 15 pp. with advertisements) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Italy  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 16th-century Lyon edition, from the library of Joachim Gomez de la Cortina View picture(s) 4 AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus. Opera, tertiae ferè partis complemento auctiora, & diligentiore quàm hactenus, censura recognita. Cum indice rerum memorabilium. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1558. 8vo. 19th-century purple morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, triple gilt fillet borders and central gilt oval coat-of-arms on sides with text 'J. Gomez De La Cortina et amicorum. Fallitur hora legendo', gilt inner sides, marbled endpapers, g.e. Woodcut portrait of author in medallion on title, woodcut round vignette on verso of last text leaf. (16), 290, 12, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Greek & Latin  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Copy of an important work on the history of astronomy from the library of the first biographer of Jean-Sylvain Bailly View picture(s) 5 BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain. Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, depuis son origine jusqu'à l'établissement de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie. 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  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Italian for beginners View picture(s) 6 BARNABÈ, Stephanus. Teutsche und Italianische Discurs, Sambt etlichen Proverbien, Historien und Fabeln. München, In Verlag Johan Herman von Gelder, Gedruckt bey Sebastian Rauch, 1673. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, sides richly blind stamped in panel design with the armorial supralibros of the "Conventus Lincensis Carmelitar Discalceator" on frontcover, with 2 small brass clasps. 229, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Children's Books  Education  Fable Books  Fairy Tales  German  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pictorial record of the Dutch War of Independence View picture(s) 7 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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The preliminaries of a thesis magnificently bound for the author View picture(s) 8 BERCKEL, Willem Wendilius van. Disputatio juridica inauguralis, de legibus. Quam annuente Deo ter opt. max. ex auctoritate magnifici rectoris, D. Alberti Schultens ... nec non amplissimi Senatus academici consensu & nobilissimae facultatis Juridicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus summisque in utroque jure honoribus & privilegiis ritè ac legitimè consequendis; eruditorum examini submittit Wilhelmus Wendilius van Berckel, Rotterodamo Batavus. Ad  diem 11. decembris 1739. hora logoque solitis. Leiden, Abraham Kallewier, 1739. 4to. Contemporary green velvet binding with a 3-cm ornamental filigree border of golden thread along the edges of both covers, marbled endpapers, g.e.; kept in a contemporary slipcase covered with pink, brown, green and orange 'Buntpapier'. Engraved allegorical title-page with printed text by F. van Bleyswijck, with the author's coat-of-arms at the top. (5 blank lvs.), 2 lvs. (=A1-2 (title and dedication), (6 silk leaves), 7 lvs. (G4, H1-4, and I1-2: laudatory poems). Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Law  Leyden  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful large paper copy of the famous 4to edition, admired by Dibdin View picture(s) 9 BODONI.- ANACREON. Odaria praefixo commentario quo poetae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lectionibus. Additis var. lectionibus. Parma, Ex Regio Typographeio, (1784-5). Large 4to. Contemporary citron morocco with blind-tooled ornamental border on both covers, gilt spine, gilt inside dentelles, inside covers and endpapers lined with blue silk, g.e. (PADELOUP), preserved in cloth slipcase. Engraved vignette of Anacreon on title, engraved coat-of-arms on dedication page of D.D. Nicolaus De Azara. (4), XCIV, 100, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life of the Stadholder/King William III, partly illustrated by Jan & Caspar Luyken bound for the wealthy Amsterdam merchant Aaron de Joseph de Pinto (1710-1758) View picture(s) 10 BOSCH, Lambert van den. Het leven en bedryf van Willem de Darde. Koning van  Groot-Brittannie, Vrankryk en Yrlant &c. &c. Prince  van Orangie &c. &c. &c. Sijn geboorte, jongelingschap, erf-Stadthouderschap en Koninglyke waardigheyd. Onder wiens heerschappy en bestieringe werden verhandelt, saken van Staat en Oorlog van den jare 1650. tot het uytgaen van 1693. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694. 4 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt in compartments, with gilt fillets and gilt coat-of-arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in centre on sides. With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken. (8), 432; 442, (6); (2), 180; 528, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Biography  Dutch  History  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Christian missionaries in the diocese of Utrecht View picture(s) 11 BOSSCHAERTS, Willebrordus. Diatribai. De Primus Veteris Frisiae Apostolis, sive  Dissertationes, quibus eorum anni, actus, res, personae,  loca, tempora in eorundem actis occurrentia, discutiuntur,  illustrantur, erroresque ab aliena manu illapsi refelluntur.  Utiles quoque ad nostrates Historias intelligendas. Malines, Robert Jaye, 1650. Sm.4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt fillet borders on sides and large gilt coat-of-arms of Jean Baptiste Daneels, Baron of Attenrode and of Corbeeck-over-Loo on both sides, g.e. With woodcut printer's device on title, and with numerous woodcut initials, mostly containing ornamental pots of flowers, in text. (30), 604, 26, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Catholicism  Friesland  History  Mission  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) 12 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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Large paper copy of Burmann's collected poems in a fine red morocco binding by the Hoogeveen bindery at Leiden View picture(s) 13 BURMANNUS Secundus, or the Younger, Petrus. Poëmatum libri quatuor. Leiden, Cornelis van Hoogeveen Junior, 1774. 4to. Contemporary richly gilt red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt in compartments with floral decoration and with green title label lettered in gold, covers elaborately gilt tooled with floral borders and centre piece with pomegranates and flower bouquets, marbled endpapers, gilt gauffered edges (by the VAN HOOGEVEEN BINDERY at Leiden). Engraved vignette on title by N. v.d. Meer, full-page engraved portrait of Petrus Burmannus Secundus after a painting by J.M. Quinkhard, engraved by J. Houbraken, with a Latin poem by Janus Grotius underneath. (28), 502 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Literature  Philology  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bound by the Amsterdam 'Double Drawer Handle Bindery' View picture(s) 14 CALMET, (Antoine) Augustin. Het algemeen groot historisch, oordeelkundig, chronologisch, geografisch, en letterlyk naam- en woord-boek, van den gantschen H. Bijbel. Dienende tot de gedenk-stukken der Jooden en andere oudheden, ter opheldering der H. Schrift ... Nu in't Nederduitsch overgezet, merkelyk vermeerdert, en met aanmerkingen verrykt, door Mattheus Gargon. Complete with the: Byvogzel tot het algemeen groot ... Naam- en woord-boek ... En nu in zuiver Nederduitsch overgezet, merkelyk vermeerdert, en metv aanmerkingen verrykt, door Jakob van Ostade en Arn. Henr. Westerhovius. Leiden, Amsterdam, Samuel Luchtmans, R. & J. Wetstein en Smith 1725-1731. 4 vols. Large folio. Magnificently and uniformly bound in contemporary richly gilt decorated marbled calf with gilt borders, centre pieces and binding edges, spines ribbed and gilt in compartments with titles lettered in gold by 'the Double Drawer Handle Bindery' at Amsterdam. With engraved frontispiece by Ph. de Gunst, engraved vignettes on 2 titles, 2 engraved dedications, 5 engraved headpieces by P. Tanjee, and 160 mainly double-page engraved maps, plans, views  and plates of biblical scenes, religious costumes, religious objects and implements, coins, medals, etc. by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, M. Pool, Ph. de Gunst, etc., titles printed in red and black. Tog. ca. 3800 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Bindings  Judaica  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Navigation and astronomical research in present-day Canada View picture(s) 15 CHABERT, Joseph Bernard. Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les cartes des côtes de l'Acadie, de l'Isle Royale & de l'Isle de Terre-Neuve; et pour en fixer les principaux points par des observations astronomiques. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1753. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, gilt title and date on richly gilt spine, triple gilt fillets on sides, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Engraved printer's vignette on title, engraved headpiece at the beginning of the first chapter, 6 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate depicting geometrical figures, and large folding table with calculations for the position of the sun and the moon. (2), VIII, 288, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Astronomy & Cosmography  Bindings  Cartography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In an interesting original Antwerp panel binding View picture(s) 16 CHRYSOSTOMUS, Johannes. Van die beweechnisse des herten, tot berouwe der sonden. Met meer ander gulden tractaetkens des alder heylichsten joannis Chrysostomi: overgheset wt den Latine in duytsche, doer eenen religiosen der Regulier orden sancti Augustini. Antwerp, Symon Cock, 1546. 8vo. Very interesting contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) binding: full calf, panel with two portraits in roundels on both sides, interesting fastening of two bone buttons on small leather bands to be fastened on two loops. With title printed in red and black, some woodcut initials (8 lines). Collation: A-Q8, R4-1. (131) lvs. (including the mostly lacking quire (R) with the privilege, without last blank) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Devotion  Dutch  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare works on priesthood and education of priests in an interesting 16th century binding with the name of the first owner View picture(s) 17 CLICHTHOVE, Josse. De vita et moribus sacerdotum, opusculum: singularem eorum dignitatem ostendens, & quibus ornati esse debeant virtutibus: explanans. Paris, Ex officina Henrici Stephanus (Henri Estienne), 4 August 1519. 4to. Contemporary early 16th-century calf, ribbed spine, front cover blind tooled with triple rules, central panel with the name of the original owner: "D. Ioa(n)mes Lassere'', blind stamped in capitals, fleur-de-lys cornerpieces; back cover ruled in gilt with the motto ''Memento Mortis'' in gilt capitals. Printed title within elegant woodcut border with wreath, two scholars in upper corners on both sides of a coat-of-arms with three French lilies and a hand holding a book coming from heaven, and lace-strapwork in the lower corners; nice large and smal woodcut initials. 75, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Church History  Paris  Religion  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Start your own Couperus collection View picture(s) 18 COUPERUS, Louis. Collection of 32 works by Louis Couperus. 1900-1967. 36 vols. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  20th Century  Art Nouveau  Bindings  Dutch  Literature  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Churchfather, edited by Erasmus in a magnificent contemporary blind stamped binding and with a very interesting Frisian provenance View picture(s) 19 CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius. D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis et Martyris opera. Lyon, Sebastien Gryphium, 1544. 2 parts in one. 8vo. Contemporary blind tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards, spine ribbed in 5 compartments with title written in second compartment, sides stamped with two different rolls: the first along the edges (width 23 mm), with personifications of the planets: Sol, Luna (signed with the monogram 'NP'), Saturnus, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercurius; en d the second as central panel (width 27 mm) with personifications of Charitas, Justitia, and Fortitudo; between the outer roll and 'central panel' stamps of a flower and fleur-de-lys; two pairs of contemporary copper clasps and catches, title in ink on front edge (carefully re-backed). Woodcut printer's device on both titles, woodcut vignette on the verso of the last leaf, woodcut initials. (32), 395, (12), (1 blank); 422, (10) pp. (Collation: 2a-2b8, a-z8, A-B8, C4; Aa-Zz8, 2A-2D8 (including the fols. 2D7 (blank) and 2D8 with the vignette on its verso). Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Church History  Erasmus  Religion  Theology  Theology & Church History, Roman Catholicism  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) 20 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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