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Confessions of a libertine: an extremely rare Dutch eroticum View picture(s) 1 BELYDENIS van een lichtmis, De-. Bevattende een aantal voorvallen in de galante wereld zo in Nederland als elders; wonderlyke ontmoetingen met vrouwen van allerlei soort; veele potsen meest voorgevallen in de nacht, en achter de gordynen; zeldzaame karakters van beiderlei sexe, enz. enz. enz. Alles beschreeven ten vermaake van de kinderen dezer wereld door den belyder zelve. (No place nor publisher, ca. 1770). 8vo. Contemporary half red roan with decorated gilt spine, marbled paper pasted on boards. With 4 full-page erotical engraved plates outside text. (2), 184 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Erotica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rotterdam Binder equal to Magnus View picture(s) 2 BIBLIA, Dat is, de gantsche Heylige Schrifture,  vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en  des Nieuwen Testaments. Leyden Wed. ende Erffgen. van Johan. Elzevier, 1663.- FIGURES de la Bible. Amsterdam, B. Picart, 1720. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary black morocco over wooden boards, spines ribbed  and richly gilt, with broad gilt decorative borders on sides  and richly gilt borders around inner panel, with gilt ornaments at the four corners, the four inner corners filled with richly gilt ornamental design, and with large gilt ornament in centre, with in its blank inner square - gilt-divided in four - the fine gilt stamps of springing deer, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (HERTEN-BINDERIJ, Rotterdam). With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, one for the Elsevier Bible and one for Picart's Print-Bible, engraved half-title for Picart's Print-Bible, 6 double-page engraved maps and plan of Jerusalem by Nic. Visscher in the Elsevier Bible, and 209 full-page, incl. 29 double-page, fine engraved  plates by G. Hoet, B. Picart, etc. in the Print-Bible. (22), 468; (13, 1 blank), 167; (4), 77 (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Bindings  Dutch  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Religion  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare auction catalogue with a collection of prints View picture(s) 3 CATALOGUS VAN PRENTEN. Amsterdam, Jan Yver & J. Crajenschot, (ca. 1795). 8vo. Bound. 342 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Art  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Become an artist View picture(s) 4 DRAWING-BOOK, THE COMPLEAT-, Containing An extensive Collection of Examples in all Variety of Subjects, for the Improvement of Youth, in the pleasant and useful Art of Drawing. To which are annexed, Introductory Rules for the Use of Learners, with an Account of the Instruments and Materials used in Drawing. London, for Carrington Bowles, 1773. 4to. Contemp. half calf, red mottled edges. With 100 numbered engraved plates with drawing models of parts of the human body, heads and human figures, landscapes, animals, costumes, genre pieces, plants, butterflies, birds, etc., the first 50 plates after Sebastian Le Clerc, the other 50 after various artists. 4 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Drawing & Painting  Education  English  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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1747: After half a century a stadholder again View picture(s) 5 HAGA COMITIS ILLUSTRATA; of het verheelykt en verligt 's Gravenhage: bestaende in eene naeuwkeurige verzameling van honderd-en-zestien onderscheidene en in het koper  gebragte afbeeldingen, der aldaer te zien en geillumineerd geweest zynde decoratien en zinnebeelden, benevens de verdere vreugde-bedryven en illuminatien, ter geleegenheid der allerheughelykste verkiezinge, proclamatie en installatie van zyne doorlugtige hoogheit Willem Carel Hendrik Friso, Prince van Oranje en Nassau, enz.enz.enz. tot stadhouder, capitein en admirael-generael van Holland en West-Vriesland; voorgevallen den III. en XV. may 1747. 's Gravenhage, Anthoni de Groot & sons, 1751. Large folio. Contemporary half roan. With title and dedication printed in red and black, large woodcut armorial vignette on title, large engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 2 engravings on coins in text, 4 fine large woodcut head- and tailpieces in text, and 116 illustrations on 48 engraved plates on 16 lvs., verso blank, of the allegorical decorations and illuminations at the splendid installation of the Prince of Oranje as stadtholder, and general and adimiral of the Dutch Army and Navy, at the Hague. 24 pp. explanatory text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Engravings  House of Orange  Ornaments  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated descriptions of the old and new Amsterdam theatre View picture(s) 6 HISTORIE van den Amsterdamschen schouwburg.- HISTORIE van den nieuwen Amsterdamschen schouwburg. Amsterdam, G. Warnars, P. den Hengst, 1772-1775. 2 works in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, red mottled edges. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by G. Warnars and P. den Hengst to the first work, engraved emblematic vignette on 2 titles by N. van der Meer, 4 folding engraved views of the old theatre in the first work, and 5 folding engraved views of the new theatre in the second work, engraved  by Warnars and Van den Hengst after designs by N. van der Meer, including one by S. Fokke. (10), 80, (12); (6), 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Architecture  Engravings  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare drawing models View picture(s) 7 L'ART DE BIEN DESSINER À LA PLUME. Nouvellement mis au jour pour lutilité de la jeunesse.- Diverses figures Turcs propre à dessiner à la plume.- Second livre de figures Turcs propre à dessiner à la plume.- Diverses figures de caprice propre à dessigner à la plume. N. pl., n. pr., (early 18th century). 4 parts in one vol. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red morocco title label, blind-tooled fillets on sides, gilt binding edges, red sprinkled edges. With engraved title and 11 engraved plates (62 x 89 mm) in part 1, engraved title and 11 engraved plates (89 x 106 mm) in part 2, engraved title and 11 engraved plates (89 x 106 mm) in part 3 and engraved title and 11 engraved plates (66 x 89 mm) in part 4), depicting different costumes, professions, and scenes from daily life. Together 4 engraved titles and 44 plates on 48 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Costumes  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The glorious Dutch fleet View picture(s) 8 LEVANTSCHE VAARTUIGEN. (Amsterdam, ca. 1700). 3 print-series in 1 vol. Oblong large 8vo. Contemporary boards. With 22 fine engraved full-page plates, versos blank, divided into 3 print-series, resp. of 8, 6, and 8 views of sailing-ships, resp. by Pieter de Gunst, Johannes de Ram, and an anonymus artist. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Romeyn de Hooghe  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Around the world in 425 costumes View picture(s) 9 MUSÉE COSMOPOLITE. (Series of engraved plates depicting the costumes of the world). Paris, Ancienne maison Aubert, 1850-1863. 3 vols. Large 4to. Contemporary half red morocco, spines richly gilt, top edges gilt, uncut (DEWATINES). With 425 beautifully watercoloured steel-engraved plates, depicting costumes from, France, Algiers, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, America, Germany, Switzerland, Tirol, Italy, Spain and Portugal. 144; 148; 133 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Costumes  Engravings  French  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded very nice Book of Hours 'Ex Officina Plantiniana' View picture(s) 10 OFFICIUM Beatae Mariae Virginis, Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Cum Kalendario Grogeriano, à Sixto PP. V. Clemente VIII. & S.D.N. Paulo V. P.M. aliquot Sanctorum festis aucto. Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus I & the widow of Johannes Moretus, & Johannes Meursius, 1622 (Colophon: Antwerp, Baltasar Moretus I, 1622) 16mo. (paper: 15 x 8 cm; seize of printing on page: 125 x 66 mm). Beautiful later seventeenth-century brown morocco with two chisiled clasps, two borders of four gilt fillets (one dotted) and gilt corner pieces on both sides, spine gilt in compartments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e.; preserved in an old leather blind tooled slip-case. With title vignette (40 53 mm) with Mary with child, and 17 engraved plates (ca. 79 x 58 mm) , 8 of which are later copies of the series engraved by Jan Wierix after Peeter van der Borcht in the '70s of the sixteenth century. Printed in red and black, text within double lines. 545, (7, including the last blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Book of Hours  Engravings  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming little Dutch psalmbook which belonged to Vincent van Tuyll van Serooskerken View picture(s) 11 PSALMEN, HET BOEK DER,- nevens de gezangen bij de Hervormde kerk van Nederland in gebruik: door last van de hoog mog: heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, uit drie berijmingen, in den jaare 1773 gekooren, met de noodige daarin gemaakte veranderingen. Amsterdam, Erven de wed. J. Ratelband en J. Bouwer, 1781. 32mo. (50x85 mm). Contemporary full leather, spine ribbed, gilt compartments, gilt lace-like tooling and floral ornaments on both covers, g.e. Full-page frontispiece engraving depicting David playing his harp, small woodcut coat of arms of Amsterdam. (364), 68 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Songbook, Religious  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bar hopping in the 17th century View picture(s) 12 REIS-BOEK DOOR DE VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE PROVINCIEN EN DER ZELVER AANGRENZENDE LANDSCHAPPEN EN KONINGRIJKEN: behelzende benevens een naauwkeurige beschryving der steden, een aanwyzing van de schuit- en wagen- vaarten. Mitsgaders de bekwaame herbergen daar de reizigers in ieder stad konnen logeeren: gelijk ook meer andere dingen welke in het reizen zo dienstig als waar te neemen zijn. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1689. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Engraved title-page by Jan Luyken, woodcut printer's device, engraved folding plate 'Eeuwigh-durende almanack', woodcut of a sundial ('Sonne-wyser') on p. 444, woodcut endpieces. (16), 552 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Dutch Golden Age  Engravings  Sundials  Topography  Travel  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare and lavishly illustrated description of the river Rhine View picture(s) 13 RHIJN-STROOM, Beknopte beschrijving van den. Benevens de steden, dorpen en plaatsen, aan deszelfs oevers gelegen. Verijkt met eene nieuwe kaart van den loop des Rhijns, van deszelfs oirsprong in Zwitserland, tot aan deszelfs einde, in de duinen bij Katwijk; met alle de omliggende landen, enz. en vier-en-dertig gezichten van de voornaamste steden, plaatsen, gebergten, enz. Tweede, verbeterde en vermeerderde, druk. Amsterdam, A. B. Saakes, 1746. 4to. Contemporary half red roan with marbled boards, gilt spine (rebacked). Double page frontispiece with title ('De Rhijn-stroom') and view of the source of the river Rhine and the pierced rock near Basel, engraved  by A.B. Saakes, large folding map of the river basin of the Rhine from its source in Switserland to the Dutch coast (645x395mm): 'Nieuwe kaart van de rivier de Ryn ... Amsterdam, A.B. Saakes 1797' engraved by C. van Baarsel, and coloured in outlines, 13 double page and 20 half-page views on 10 leaves with views on the Rhine. 58 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Germany  Print Series  Switzerland  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to carve your meat and fish View picture(s) 14 VOORSNYDINGE, DE CIERLYCKE-, Aller tafel gerechten; onderwijsende hoe allerhande spijzen, zo wel op de vork als zonder dezelve, aardiglik konnen voorgesneden, en in bequame ordre omgedient worden. Amsterdam, Hier. Sweerts, 1664. Oblong small 8vo. Modern green morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, uncut, in matching half green morocco slipcase. With engraved frontispiece showing a man being served at the dinner table, and 32 engraved plates showing how to carve and serve all sorts of meat and game, fish, pastries, etc., including lobster and an artichoke, and including one large folding plate with all sorts of carving knifes and forks. 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Gastronomy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare accounts of travels to the arctic regions and an important source on whaling, with a frontispiece by Jan Luyken View picture(s) 15 WEERELD, DE NOORDSCHE-. Vertoond in twee nieuwe, aenmercklijcke, derwaerts gedaene reysen. D'eene, van de heer Martiniere, door Noorweegen, Lapland, Boranday, Siberien, Samojessie, Ysland, Groenland en Nova-Zembla. Met beschryvingh van der inwoonderen seeden, gewoonten, overgeloven, gestalte, dragten, en huysen. De koophandel, met haer gedreven. En dwalingh der weereld-beschrijvers, soo in de plaetsingh als uytstreckingh van Groenland en Zembla. D'andere, van de Hamburger Frederick Martens, verright nae Spitsbergen, of Groenland, in 't jaer 1671. Met nauwkeurige aenteeckeningh van de gelegenheyd dese lands, en desselven uyterste deelen. Van de zee, 't ys, de lught, de daer wassende verscheydene kruyden, de sigh daer onthoudende vogelen, dieren, visschen, walvisschen en zee-qualmen. Vertaeld en doorgaens met toedoeningen verrijckt door S. De Vries. Amsterdam, Aert Dircksz. Ooszaen, 1685. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ms. title in ink on spine. Engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken, 14 engraved full-page plates (numbered I-IV, each with 4 illustrations; E-O), 1 engraved folding world map, 6 engraved double-page or folding plates (A-D, P-Q), and 1 woodcut illustration in text. 4 plates are signed by C. Decker (A-D) and 3 plates signed by J. Harrewijn, dated 1685 ((N-P). The plates depict scenes of the lives of the described inhabitants, animals and plants, whales and whaling scenes. (10), 334, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Botany  Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Engravings  Exploration  Fishing  Iceland  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare collected edition of Van Alphen's famous children's poems View picture(s) 16 (ALPHEN, Hieronymus van). Proeve van kleine gedigten voor kinderen. Vierde druk. Utrecht, widow of Jan van Terveen & Son, 1778-82. 3 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt and decorated spine in compartments with title lettered in gold on red morocco label. Each part with separate title-page, 66 full-page engraved plates by J. Punt and N. van der Meer for the first two parts (24 & 22 plates) and by M. Sallieth and J. Buys for the third part (20 plates), all after designs by J. Buys. 1-32, (4), 33-64, (2), 65-104 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Engravings  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learn to talk like a sailor View picture(s) 17 (AUBIN). 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  Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elementary knowledge View picture(s) 18 (BASEDOW, J.B.). Des Elementarwerks Erster - Vierter Band. Ein geordneter Vorrath aller nöthigen Erkenntniss. Zum Unterrichte der Jugend, von Anfang, bis ins academische Alter, Zur Belehrung der Eltern, Schullehrer und Hofmeister, zum Nutzen eines jeden Lesers, die Erkenntniss zu vervollkommen.- Kupfersammlung Elementarwerke für die Jugend und ihre Freunde. Erste - Zweyte Lieferung. Dessau, the author, C.L. Crusius in Leipzig 1774. 4 parts in 3 vols., and atlas-vol. Large 8vo (text), and oblong 4to (atlas). Contemp. boards, with red title-labels on spines, red painted edges (text), and contemp. half calf (atlas). With numerous illustrations on 100 full-page engraved plates in atlas-volume, mainly designed by D. Chodowiecki. (18), XVIII, (10), 48, 432, (2); 509, (1); 416, (2), 256 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Encyclopædic Works  Engravings  Maps  Natural History  Pedagogy & Didactics  Schoolbooks  Views  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In praise of hell View picture(s) 19 (BERNARD, Jean Frédéric). Eloge de l'enfer. Ouvrage critique, historique, et moral. Seconde edition, soigneusement revue & corrigée. London, Societé Typographique (= Amsterdam?), 1777. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with black morocco title label lettered in gold. Engraved vignette on title, 15 full-page engraved plates, two engraved headpieces and three engraved end pieces, all by G. Sibelius, woodcut headpieces and initials. XIV [i.e. XII], VIII, 387 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Fictitious Imprints  French  Satire  Witchcraft  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French translation of 'the most vivid, comprehensive, instructive, entertaining picture of Virginia' written by a planter living there View picture(s) 20 (BEVERLEY, Robert). Histoire de la Virginie, contenant I. L'histoire du premier etablissement dans la Virginie, & de son gouvernement jusques à present. II. Les productions naturelles & les commoditez du Païs, avant que (l)es Anglois y negociassent, & l'améliorassent. III. La religion, les loix, & les coutumes des Indiens naturels, tant dans la guerre, que dans la paix. IV. L'etat présent du Païs, tant à l'égard de la police, que de l'amelioration du Païs. Par un auteur natif & habitant du Païs. Traduite de l'Anglois. Amsterdam, Thomas Lombrail, 1707. 12mo. Contemporary full mottled calf, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Full-page engraved frontispiece with the coat of arms of Virginia, title in red & black with woodcut vignette, 14 full-page engraved plates, 1 folding printed table, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (6), 432, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Colonial History  Engravings  History  Native Americans  USA  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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