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The predecessor of 'Brunet' View picture(s) 21 OSMONT, Jean Baptiste Louis. Dictionnaire typographique, historique et critique des livres rares, singuliers, estimés et recherchés en tous genres; contenant, par ordre alphabétique, les noms & surnoms de leurs auteurs, le lieu de leur naissance, le temps où ils ont vécu, & celui de leur mort, avec des remarques nécessaires pour en distinguer les bonnes éditions, & quelques anecdotes historiques, critiques & intéressantes, tirées des meilleures sources. On y a joint le prix qu' ils se vendent la plupart dans les ventes publiques. Paris, Lacombe, 1768. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco title labels lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With woodcut head-and tailpieces. XII, 515; (4), 456, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  Book History  Dictionaries  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hebrew dictionary for Dutch ministers View picture(s) 22 PAGNINUS, Saint. Epitome thesauri linguae sanctae, auctore Sancte Pagnino Lucensi. Fr. Raphelengius compluribus locis auxit, emendavit, & Appendicum dictionum Chalddaicarum addidit, Acc. hae editione Index dictionum Latinarum, sive Lexico Latino-Hebraicum. Leyden, Ex Off. Plantiniana, Chr. Raphelengius, 1599. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. (80), 495, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Greek & Latin  Hebraica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hongkong imprint View picture(s) 23 PAPINOT, Edmond. Dictionnaire Japonais-Français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie du Japon. Suivi de 17 appendices sur les Empereurs, Shogun, Nengo, Sectes bouddhistes, provinces, départements, mesures, etc. Hongkong, Imprimerie de Nazareth, 1899. 8vo. Contemporary glazed green calico, title lettered in gold on spine, blind-tooled triple fillet on covers. With engraved printer's device on title, engraved tailpieces and Japanese characters. VII, 297 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dictionaries  Geography  History  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of an important work by one of the foremost metallurgists of the 17th century View picture(s) 24 PETTUS, John. Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature, in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Inlarging the Bodies of confin'd Metals. In Tw Parts. The First contains Assays of Lazarus Erckern. The Second contains Essays on Metallick Words, as a Dictionary. London, Printed, for the author, by Thomas Dawks, 1683. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf (rebacked). With 2 titles, engraved portrait of the author, and  43 large engravings in text on mining, distilling, and working metals. (44), 345, (1 blank); (8), 133, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dictionaries  Earth Sciences [General]  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a dictionary of Spanish painters View picture(s) 25 QUILLIET, Frédéric. Dictionnaire des peintres Espagnols. Paris, for the author, 1816. 8vo. XXXVII, (1), 407 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Dictionaries  Painting & Drawing  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Amsterdam-edition of a classic encyclopedia of commerce View picture(s) 26 SAVARY, Jacques & Philemon Louis SAVARY. Dictionnaire universel de commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du monde, par terr, par mer, de proche en proche, & par des voyages de long cours, tant en gros qu'en detail. L'explication de tous les termes qui ont report au negoce, les monnoyes de compte, qui servent a y tenir les livres, et ecritures des marchands: les monnoyes. ... les productions. ... les compagnies de commerce. ... les banques... les consuls... les chambres d'assurances. ... Le detail du commerce de la France en general... Le Conseil Royal de Commerce. ... Enfin, toutes les foires, tant français qu'autres.. Les Edits... Ouvrage posthume, continué sur les memoires de l'auteur par Ph.-L. Savary, son frère.- Supplément aux deux premiers volumes. Amsterdam, Janssonius van Waesbergen, 1726-1732. 3 vols. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-labels, gilt binding edges, marbled edges. With large folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Jan Six de Vromade, by J. Houbraken, 4 titles printed in red and black, the third volume being divided into 2 separate parts, and 3 large allegorical engraved headpieces, 1 at the beginning of text of each volume, engraved by M. Pool after A. Coypel. (8), XXXVIII, (2), 2032 col. (=1016); 2000 col. (=1000); (4), 1032 col. (= 516), 676 col. (=338) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Commerce  Dictionaries  Economy  Encyclopædic Works  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The essentials of growing fruit View picture(s) 27 SERRURIER, Jakob Frederik. Fruitkundig Woordenboek, behelzende al hetgeen betrekking heeft tot de kennis en het huishoudelijk gebruik der verschillende soorten van fruiten; tot het aankweeken, vereedelen, snoeijen en behandelen van vruchtboomen; tot het aanleggen van broeibakken, trekkassen en oranjehuizen enz. Gevolgd naar het hoogduitsch van J.C. Christ en verrijkt met het wetenwaardigste uit het op last van het Engelsch Gouvernement uitgegeven werk van W. Forsijth. Amst., J. Allart, 1805. 2 vols. Orig. boards. With 18 folding engraved plates. VIII, 483; 517 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Dictionaries  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important early Latin - Dutch dictionary View picture(s) 28 SERVILIUS, Joannes (or KNAEP(IUS), Jan). Dictionarium triglotton, hoc est tribus linguis, Latina, Graeca, et ea qua tota haec inferior Germania utitur, constans: non tantum eas voces omnes quas Latina agnoscit Resp. sed & praecipuas quasque ab autoribus usurpatas phrases, vernaculo sermone expressas, continens. Adpositae suo loco sunt, voces eae omnes quae in priore editione desiderabantur. Antwerp, Joannes Graphaeus for Joannes Steelsius, 1560. 8vo. Very interesting strictly contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) full calf  binding, blind tooled with a roll with the four portraits of Venus, Juno, Pallas and Paris (the protagonists of the Judgment of Paris; roll: ca. 20 x 127 mm.) along the edges of both sides enclosing a rectangular centre area with floral roll and small floral stamps. With printer's device of Steelsius on the title and small woodcut initials. (451) lvs. (A-Z, 2A-2Z, 3A-3K8, L4-1 (last blank lacking). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most important 'classical dictionary' of its time View picture(s) 29 TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der Beke). Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, montesque insigniores, atque huiusmodi alia, omnibus adolescentibus in poesi versantibus oppidoquam necessarius. Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus for Godefridus Hittorpius, 1529, mense Julio. Small 8vo. 18th century parchment, spine lettered in ink. Title in elaborate woodcut border. (86) leaves, including the last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  History  Medicine  Mythology  Quack Doctors  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By a brother of the Common Life View picture(s) 30 TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der Beke). Elucidarius vel Vocabularius poeticus ab Hermanno Torrentino compositus: continens fabulas, historias, provincias, urbes, insulas, fluvios, et montes illustres. Item Vocabula et interpretationes Grecorum et Hebraicorum: una cum vocabulis communibus Saracenorum in latinum translatis: et alijs in fine adiunctis. Hagenau, Henricus Gran for Joannis Rynman, 1514. 4to. With woodcut borders including the printer's device on title, and woodcut initial in text. (60) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First dictionary of sea terms and proverbs connected with maritime shipping View picture(s) 31 WINSCHOOTEN, Wygardus van. Seeman: behelsende een grondige uitlegging van de Nederlandse konst, en spreekwoorden, voor soo veel die uit de seevaart sijn ontleend, en bij de beste schrijvers deeser eeuw gevonden werden. Leyden, Johannes de Vivie, 1681. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece by Cornelis Decker. [16], 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  Linguistics  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the history of shipwrecks View picture(s) 32 WOODARD, David & William VAUGHAN (editor). The narrative of Captain David Woodard and four seamen who lost their ship while in a boat at sea, and surrendered themselves up to the Malays in the island of Celebes;..... and their escape from the Malays.... after a captivity of two years and a half: also an account of the manners and customs of the country, and a description of the harbours and coasts. Together with an introduction and an appendix, containing narratives of various escapes from shipwrecks... seaman's guide. Second edition. London, J. Johnson, 1805. 8vo. Modern half calf, black title label on spine lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece 2 folding engraved maps, double-page engraved plate. [2], III-XXXII, 236 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dictionaries  East Indies  Indonesia  Malaysia  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learn to talk like a sailor View picture(s) 33 [AUBIN, Nicolas]. Dictionaire de marine. Contenant les termes de la navigation et de l'architecture navale. Avec les règles & proportions qui doivent y etre observées. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1702. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece showing several workingmen with navigation instruments and 2 "nautical" figures viewing a scene of a harbour in which several ships are being built and repared, title in red & black, 30 engraved plates depicting different kinds of ships and navigation instruments. The text is illustrated with numerous woodcut figures. (12), 776 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dictionaries  Engravings  Maritime History  Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Your dreams explained View picture(s) 34 [CHAPBOOK - PROGNOSTICATIONS]. Droomboek, met deszelfs uytlegging, waer in, uyt  natuerlyke oorzaeken der oude philosoophen en waerzeggers, verklaert en uyt geleyd worden alle droomen oft nagt-gezigten, die den mensch (als hy slaept) voor-komen mogen. Waer uyt dat men zyn geluk of ongeluk vernemen kan, zonder eenige vermindering der kragt Gods. Amst., Wed. Gysbert de Groot, is te koop tot Brussel, P.J. De Haes, (ca. 1695). Sm. 8vo. Preserved in modern wrappers. With popular woodcut of a sleeping man on title. 36 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Chapbooks  Children's Books  Dictionaries  Occult  Psychology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the first Dutch dictionary View picture(s) 35 [DICTIONARY - DUTCH - LATIN - FRENCH]. Thesaurus Theutonicae Linguae. Schat der  Neder-duytscher Spraken. Inhoudende niet alleen de Nederduytsche woorden, maer oock verscheyden redenen ende manieren van spreken, vertaelt ende overgeset int Fransois ende Latijn. Thresor du langage Bas-alman, dict vulgairement Flameng, traduict en François & en Latin. Antwerp, Ex off. Christ. Plantini, 1573. 4to. 19th century half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, marbled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title and large woodcut variant device on last blank. (568) pp., including last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  Education  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic dictionary View picture(s) 36 [DICTIONARY]. Le granddictionaire François Flamen: Augmentée en ceste derniere edition d'une infinité de Vocables, Dictions & Sentences. DEN SCHAT der Duytscher Tale van nieus vermeerdert, verciert ende verrijckt. Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1624. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With richly engraved bilingual title, with an allegorical view of reading at the top, a view into a classroom below and three medaillon-portraits of famous editors of dictionaries at either side of the title, the Dutch part of which is finely calligraphed, and a second woodcut title in French, with an allegory on music and the fine arts at the top, a variant view into a classroom below and full-lenghth allegorical figures of learning at either side of the title. (6, 244) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  French  Linguistics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to cultivate and multiply trees and plants View picture(s) 37 [HORTICULTURE]. Bloemkundig woordenboek, bevattende: eene beschrijving van meer dan 2200 gewassen, (waaronder 170 van de mooiste heiden) zoo boomen, heesters als planten, benevens meer dan 1300 van derzelver verscheidenheden (zonder die der tulpen, hiacinten, anemonen, irissen enz., te rekenen) benevens de wijze van aankweken en vermeerderen; de grond voor ieder hunner geschikt en de middelen om dezelve des winters te bewaren, als mede de kenmerken van iedere klasse en van elk soort volgens het stelsel van Linnaeus, benevens een alphabetische lijst der Hollandsche namen, enz. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, (1821?; impressum mentions 1819 written in ink). Half calf, spine gilt, with red title-label. L, 521, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Botany  Botany [Herbals]  Dictionaries  Dutch  Horticulture  Trees  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1825, from the library of Prince Frederik View picture(s) 38 [IMBYZE VAN BATENBURG, Jan Willem van]. Nieuwe alphabetische naamlijst van al de steden, dorpen en der meeste gehuchten of buurtschappen, met het Groot-Hertogdom Luxemburg, uitmakende het koningrijk der Nederlanden; met aanwijzing der provincien, waarin dezelve gelegen zijn, en met bijvoeging der bevolking  van ieder stad, dorp, enz. Alles opgemaakt en zamengesteld uit echte opgaven, volgens de jongste plaats gehad hebbende veranderingen, zoo ten opzigte der provincien, als in die der bevolking, door J.W. v(an) I(mbyze) v(an) B(atenburg). Maastricht, J. Straatmans, 1825. Sm.8vo. Contemp. full green morocco, spine richly gilt, with gilt borders on sides, g.e. VIII, 202 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bindings  Dictionaries  Dutch  Geography  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Flushing imprint View picture(s) 39 [LINGUISTICS]. Colloquia et Dictionariolum Octo Linguarum, Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae et Portugallicae. Liber omnibus linguarum studiosis domi ac foris apprime necessarius. Collogues ou Dialogues, avec un Dictionaire en huit languages, Latin, Flamen, Francois, Alleman, Espagnol, Italien, Anglois & Portuguez: nouvellement reveus, corrigez, & augmentez de quatre dialogues, tres profitables & utils, tant au fait de marchandise, qu'aux voyages & autres traffiques. Colloquien oft tsamensprekinghen, met een Vocabulaer in acht spraken, Latijn, Francois, Neerduytsch, Hoochduytsch, Spaens, Italiaens, Engelsch ende Portugijsch: van nieuws verbetert ende vermeerdert van vier Colloquien, seer nut ende profitelijck tot der Coopmanschap, reyse ende andere handelinghen. Flushing, Martinum Abrahami, F. vander Nolck, 1613. Oblong small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. (208) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  English  French  German  Greek & Latin  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to learn 8 languages simultaneously View picture(s) 40 [LINGUISTICS]. Dictionariolum et colloquia octo languarum, Latine, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae, & Portugallicae. Liber Linguarum, emendatior stylo novissimé dertersarum, studiosis omnibus domi ac foris apprime necessarius. Dictionaire et Colloques en Huit Langues, Latin, Flamen, Francois, Alleman, Espagnol, Italien, Anglois, & Portugues: Nouvellement reveüs coorigez, & augmentez de quatre Dialogues, tres-profitable & util,  tant au faict de marchandise, qu'aux voyages & aultres traffiques. Antwerp, Henr. Aertsens, 1662. Oblong sm.8vo. 19th-century half morocco. With fine engraved frontispiece by Lommelin, with the title in Dutch in center with the "Janus-Head" above, and a group of four men talking under a tree at either side. 358, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  English  French  German  Greek & Latin  Italy  Linguistics  Portugal  Schoolbooks  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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