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Helping the Venetians during the war of Candia against Turkey View picture(s) 1 JOURNAL de l' expedition de Monsieur de la Feuillade pour le secours de Candie. Par un volontaire. Lyon, Jean Thioly, 1669. 12mo. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title, some woodcut ititials and head-and tailpieces and one folding plate (200 x 285) of the fortress of Candia, Le bastion de S. André under siege, with the legend printed on the left. (8), 198, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia Minor  Europe  Greece  Italy  Militaria  Travel  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Franciscan discovering the Holy Land - from the library of king Louis-Philippe View picture(s) 2 (BEAUGRAND, Felix). Relation fidele du voyage de la Terre Sainte dans laquelle se voit tout ce qu' il y a de remarquable, tant par mer que par terre, depuis le départ de Marseille jusqu' au retour de ce saint voyage. Par un religieux de S. François Observantain, qui a fait le voyage trois fois. Paris, Gabriel Valleyre, 1760. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, yellow morocco title lable lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. Small woodcut vignette on title, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. (4), 248, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cyprus  Greece  Holy Land  Malta  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Holy land, Greek isles and Italy in the 16th century View picture(s) 3 (LE SAIGE, Jacques). Voyage de Jacques Le Saige, de Douai à Rome, Notre-Dame- De-Lorette, Venise, Jérusalem et autres saints lieux. Nouvelle edition. Douai, Adam d' Aubers, H.-R. Duthilloeul, 1851. 4to. Original blue wrappers. With two folding plates: one with a plan of 16th century Jersusalem after Georges Hoefnagel and one with a view on Jerusalem after Volney,  lithographed by Félix Roubaut at Douai. (4), V-XXV, (3), 219, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greece  Holy Land  Italy  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to cultivate silkworms View picture(s) 4 (STELLET, Jean Baptiste Constans de). L' art de faire éclorre et d'elever les vers a soie, tel quon le pratique dans le Levant. Avignon, Joseph Guichard, 1786. 8vo. Contemp. wrappers. Engraved folding plate with 9 illustrations. 95, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Economy  Greece  Syria  Textile  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Enlarged French edition of De Bruyn's travels to Asia Minor and the Far East View picture(s) 5 BRUYN, Cornelis de. Voyage au Levant, c'est-a-dire, dans les Principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, Chypre, &c. De même que dans les plus considérables villes d'Egypte, Syrie, & Terre Sainte. [vols. 3-5:] Voyages de Corneille le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Bauche & Rouen, Charles Ferrand & Robert Machuel, 1725. 5 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf, spines ribbed and gilt in compartments with red morocco title labels lettered in gold, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. Title pages printed in red & black, engraved portrait of De Bruyn, 5 folding engraved maps, 13 folding and 73 full-page engraved plates containing 131 (vols. 1-2), resp. 290 (vols. 3-5) numbered illustrations, engraved head piece by Baquoy in first vol. (18), 648, (12); (2), 564, (3 blank), (12); (6), 520, (12); (2), 522, (12); (2), 498, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Asia Minor  Cyprus  Egypt  Engravings  Greece  Holy Land  Mediterranean  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Geographical schoolbook on islands, mountains and volcanos View picture(s) 6 CAILLOT, A. Natuur- en geschiedkundige schoonheden der eilanden, bergen en vulkanen. Naar het Fransch. Rotterdam, Mensing, Van Westreenen, 1824. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With engraved illustration on title and fine engraved frontispiece by R. Vinkeles. X, 187 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Geography  Greece  Iceland  Mountaineering  Schoolbooks  Sicily  Volcanos  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of one of the earliest works on the Eastern churches View picture(s) 7 DE MONI, (SIMON, Richard). Histoire critique de la creance & des coûtumes des nations du Levant. Frankfurt, Frederic Arnaud, 1684. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red sprinkled edges. (8), 229, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Armenia  Cartography  Greece  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rise and fall of the Greeks as a mirror for the Dutch Republic View picture(s) 8 DEMETRIUS, A. Der Griecken Opganck ende Onderganck. Dordrecht, Isaac Janssz. Kaen, 1599. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, with gilt filet borders on sides, with gilt ornaments in the corners and large central gilt ornament. With fine engraved biblical device on title, and folding engraved map of Ancient Greece by Joan. Doetecum. (10), 288, (19) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Belgicana  Classical Antiquity  Greece  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The summit work of Italian neoclassicism View picture(s) 9 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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Prize book from Leiden - All about Sparta View picture(s) 10 KRAG, Niels (Nicolaus CRAGIUS or CRAIG). De republica Lacedæmoniorum libri IV. Leiden, Abraham Verhoef for Joannes à Gelder, 1670. 8vo. Prize book from Leiden (second quater of the 18th century): Vellum with a gild stamp of Minerva with the coat-of-arms of the city of Leiden on her shield in the centre and gilt corner pieces of a standing lion on both sides (Spoelder, Leiden, Type 5), title written in ink on spine, sprinkled edges. Printer's device of a turtle with the motto "Qui va piano vasano Paulatim" on the titles of all three works, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (16), 573 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Greece  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The second voyage of Paul Lucas through the Levant View picture(s) 11 LUCAS, P. Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait par ordre du Roi dans la Grèce, L'Asie Mineure, La Macedoine et L'Afrique. Contenant la description de la Natolie, de la Caramanie, & de la Macedoine. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary half calf with richly gilt spine and white gilt title label, red edges. Two titles printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces, 9 folding engraved plates with a.o. pyramids, archeological findings and the Holy Grave and inscriptions, 2 folding engraved maps a.o.  of the Levant (engraved by B. Ruyter), and of Fioum, the Nile and surroundings in Egypt, 8 full-page engraved plates. (30), 323; (10), 328 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Asia Minor  Egypt  Greece  Holy Land  Romania  Travel  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two scholarly works on Ancient Greece from the Elsevier press View picture(s) 12 MEURSIUS, Johannes. De populis Atticae liber singularis. In quo antiquitates Atticae plurimae. Leyden, Ex officina Ludovicus Elzeviri, Typis Godefridi Basson, 1616. Sm. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt title on spine, gilt ruled covers, red sprinkled edges. Title with woodcut printer's device. (12), 149, (25) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Elzevier  Greece  Greek & Latin  History  Humanism  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plutarch in the unsurpassed 1478 Jenson edition. Illuminated copy of Petrus De Ginori in a fine contemporary Italian binding View picture(s) 13 PLUTARCHUS. Vitae parallelae. Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1478, 2 January. 2 vols. in one. Folio. Beautiful contemporary blind tooled brown calf over wooden boards; fillets, rolls and loose stamps; an octangular space in the center with two ornaments composed of four demi-circles of six lines, surrounded by a pattern of very tiny stamps; spine in six compartments tooled in a lozenge-shaped pattern; brass corner- and centerpieces; four clasps and catches: two at the fore edge and one at the top and lower edge. First text-page lavishly illuminated: the 12-lines initial (Q) in gold decorated with a exquisite freely painted spray of coloured flowers in blue, red, pink and yellow, green leaves and tiny gold rayed discs in a North Italian (Florentine?) style, extending in the left and top margins; a similar spray in the right margin surrounds a monogram 'PB' and a coat of arms: a blue field with a gold bar with three gold stars, in a green wreath in the lower margin.Very wide margins (405 x 20mm.); printed in the famous Jenson roman (Type 115 (111)R); capital spaces with guide letters. Collation: Vol. 1 : a(10), b(12), c-m(10), n(8), o-x(10), y-z(8), &(8) (= 234 leaves, including the first blank and the often lacking blank f. b7); one extra blank leaf; vol. 2: A-E(10), F-N(alt. 8/10), oo-pp(8), Q-Y(10), Z(8), &&(10) (= 226 leaves). Parchment double-leaves are bound in at the beginning and the end of the book-bloc, one of the leaves pasted to the boards. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Greece  Incunabula  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Egypt and the Near East in the first Dutch translation View picture(s) 14 POCOCKE, Richard. Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door Ernst Willem Cramer. Utrecht, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, G.T. en A. van Paddenburg; J. Bosch & R. Arrenberg; and M. de Bruyn, 1776 - 1786. 3 parts in 6 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines with 5 raised bands gilt ruled with green morocco title labels lettered in gold. Lavishly illustrated with 205 folding maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc. XXXVI, 219 (I,1); VIII, 221-491 (I,2); X, 262 (II,1); VIII, 265-519 (II,2); XII, 262; VIII, 262 (III,1); VIII, 265-403, (4), 115, 124 (III,2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Egypt  Greece  Middle East  Ottoman Empire  Syria  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Work on the constitution of Athens by the famous Humanist Guillaume Postel View picture(s) 15 POSTEL, Guillaume. De magistratibus Atheniensium liber, Gulielmo Poyeto totius Galliae Cancellario dicatus, ad intelligendam non solum Graecorum, sed & Romanorum politiam, ac omnem veterum historiam, lectu utilissimus. Basel, Joannes Oporinus, 1543. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink. Some nice woodcut initials. 151, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greece  History  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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