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Greeks and Romans compared View picture(s) 181 PLUTARCH. Tleven ende vrome daden vande doorluchtige Grieksche ende Romeynsche mannen, met haar figuren. Ende nu int corte begrepen, ende in Latijn gestelt, door Darius Tibertus. Hier by is gevoecht tleven vande excellente Veltheeren, door Aemilius Probus beschreven, ende van andere mannen, die in de naestvolgende sijde gestelt  zijn: met sommige nieuwe vergelijkingen, die nu eerst in tlicht zijn wtgecomen. In onse Neerduytsche sprake overgeset, door M. Everart. Hier is bygevoecht de tafel van de treffelickste ende voornaemste saken, in dit boeck begrepen. Leyden, Jan Claesz. van Dorp, 1601. Sm. 8vo. 19th century boards, with orange title-label on spine. With medaillon portrait of Plutarchus on title, and  56 woodcut medaillon portraits in text. (16), 834, (13, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  History  Literature  Numismatics  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Willem I, King of the Netherlands View picture(s) 182 POISSONNIER-DESPERRIERES, Gabriel Adrien Marie. Vie politique et militaire, écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant. Paris, C.J. Trouvé for the author, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary full-grained orange morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt with gilt plumed helmets in the compartments and dark-brown title-label, with richly gilt and blind-stamped borders on sides and large richly gilt armorial supralibris of the Dutch King Willem I on both covers. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Louis Charles, the French Crownprince, by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. XII, 512 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bindings  France  History  House of Orange  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the first extensive history of Gelre View picture(s) 183 PONTANUS, Johannes Isacius. Historiae Gelricae, Libri XIV. Deducta omnia ad ea usque tempora nostra, quibus firmata sub Ordinibus respublica. Praecedit, Qui est liber primus, Ducatus Gelriae et Comitatus Zutphaniae chorographica Descriptio. Harderwijk, Amsterdam, Nicol. à Wieringen Iohannes Iansonius, 1639. Folio. Contemp. vellum, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in panel design. With richly engraved title, full-page engraved portrait of the author by J. van Velde, 5 double-page engraved maps of Gelderland, 4 double-page engraved plans of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Zutphen and Harderwijk, all with a view in profile at the top, and 3 full-page engraved portraits, of Arnold van Egmond, Karel van Egmond and Maarten van Rossem by H.L. Roghman and Retter. (26), 72, 956, (72) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dutch  Engravings  Gelderland  History  Topography  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) 184 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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The siege of 's Hertogenbosch View picture(s) 185 PREMPART, Jacques. Récit, ou brève description de ce qui s' est passé durant le très-fameux Siège de Bois-le-Duc. Auec une carte generale du camp entier, & plusieurs particulieres des approches de chasque quartier à part. Leeuwarden, Claude Fontaine, 1630. Folio. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, 2 large folding engraved maps, showing the city of s'Hertogenbosch, its fortifications, and the besieging army under Prince Hendrik of Orange, and 7 double-page engraved plans of the "approches" of the besieging army at various quarters, all versos blank. (2), 26, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Den Bosch  History  Militaria  Netherlands  Noord-Brabant  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eighteenth-century biography of a famous seventeenth-century commander View picture(s) 186 RAMSAY, Andrew Michael de Histoire du Vicomte de Turenne, maréchal général des armées du Roy. Paris, The widow Mazieres & J.B. Garnier, 1735. 5 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green title labels, lettered in gold, marbled edges. Titles and half-titles printed in red and black, full-page portrait of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, by N. de Larmessin after Meissonier, 13 folding engraved plans (ca. 26 x 39 cm) of battles sieges and camps by Coquart, 8 large beautiful head- and end-pieces by J.B. Scotin, 2 engraved initials. Vol. 1: (12), 494 pp.; vol. 2: (4), 495-597, (1), 596-600, (601), (2), CL, LXXXVIII, CCIX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Biography  France  History  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of the office of stadtholder View picture(s) 187 RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas François. Histoire du stadhouderat depuis son origine jusqu'a present. Cinquième édition. N.pl., n.publ., 1750. Two parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf with ribbed, gilt spine with morocco letterpice, gilt doule fillet border around both sides, edges of bookblock marbled. Identical engraved vignette on both titles, identical engraved headpiece in both parts. (8), 325, (1 blank); (2), 4, 255 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous biography of an even more famous general and president View picture(s) 188 REID, John & John Henri EATON. The life of Andrew Jackson, major general in the service of the Untied States: comprising a history of the war in the south, from the commencement of the Creek Campaign, to the termination of hostilities before New Orleans. Philadelphia, M. Carey and Son, 1817. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, red title label on spine, lettered in gold. Portrait frontispiece of general Jackson by Edwin after Whaeler, 4 large folding maps of the battle of Talledega, the battle of Horseshoe Bend, an attack made by general Jackson on a division of the British army (1814), and of an attack made by the Britsh forces on the American lines in advance of Orleans (1815). (4), (III) - VIII, (9), 425 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Biography  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A history of Deventer by one of the most important early Calvinist poets View picture(s) 189 REVIUS, Jacobus. Daventriae illustratae, sive Historiae urbis Daventriensis, libri sex. Perducti usque ad annum à nato Christo MDCXLI. Leiden, Wilhelmus Christianus Boxius for Petrus Leffen, 1651. 4to. Half calf. Title printed in red and black; with woodcut title vignette of a phoenix with the motto 'Ex morte immortalitas' and six woodcuts and engravings in the text. [20], 788 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The main characters in the Dutch War of Independence portrayed View picture(s) 190 REYD, Everhard van. Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583. Arnhem, Ian Iansz, 1626. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem. (16), 734, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Dutch  History  House of Orange  Low Countries  Portraits  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch castles View picture(s) 191 ROBIDÉ VAN DER AA, Christianus Petrus Eliza. Oud-Nederland in de uit vroegere dagen, overgeblevene  burgen en kasteelen geschetst en afgebeeld. Nijmegen, C.A. Vieweg, 1846. 8vo. Contemporary half dark green leather, gilt spine, marbled endpapers. With 72 full-page lithographed views of the old Dutch  castles and mansions, mostly after designs by J.F. Christ. With 4 to 10 pp. description and 4 to 10 pp. historical  notes to each plate, and 8 pp. introduction. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Castles  History  Lithographs  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ancient Roman life and customs View picture(s) 192 ROSINUS, Johannes. Antiquitatum romanarum corpus absolutissimum, cum notis Thomae Dempsteri. Cui acc. P. Manutii Liber II. De Legibus, et De Senatu, Cum A. Schotti electis, I. De Priscis Rom. Gentib. ac Familiis, II. De Tribubus Rom. XXXV. Rusticis atque Urbanis, III. De Ludis Festisque Rom. ex Kalendario vetere. Editio Postrema, ab innumerablilibus erroribus repurgata. Utrecht, Guil. vande Water, 1701. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt-lined with small rosettes in the compartments, with gilt double fillet borders and inner panel on sides with gilt flowered ornaments at the four inner-corners and gilt coat-of-arms of Rotterdam in centre on both sides, g. With richly engraved frontispiece, folding engraved plan of ancient Rome, illustrations after ancient coins and medals on 5 engraved plates and 2 folding engraved plates showing Romans fighting, a funeral, and a banquet by P. Philippe. (16), 956, (30) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Prize Binding  Rome  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best edition of this famous work with plates of the castles, houses and monasteries of Brabant View picture(s) 193 ROY, Jacob le. Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ, coenobiaque celebriora ad vivum delineata, ærique incisa, in quatuor partes divisa, complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antwerpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem. Cum brevi eorundem descriptione. Antwerp, for the author, 1697. 4 parts in one. Large folio (400 x 270 mm). 19th-century mottled calf with richly gilt decorated spine and gilt inner and outer fillets on boards. Engraved allegorical title with the coat of arms of Brabant after Abr. à Diepenbeke, engraved title vignet with the coat of arms of Spain, engraved allegorical head-piece with the coat of arms of Spain by Franciscus Erfinger, 2 folding double-page views, 24 double-page maps, plans & views, 5 full-page engraved plates (two with 2 views on one plate), and 181 half-page views of ca. 115 x 210 mm. One engraving in text ('Schema metallorum at colorum ...'). (2), 8, 4, 4, 4, pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Brabant  Castles  Geography  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Agaist Geraerdt Brandt's famous 'Arminiaanse' History of the Dutch Reformation View picture(s) 194 RULAEUS (RUYL), Henricus. G. Brandts stoute geveynstheyt en liefdeloose geest vertoont in sijn boeck genaemt de Historie der Reformatie. Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, 1676. 4to. Unbound. Oval woodcut printer's device on title. (10), 127, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  History  Netherlands  Pamphlets  Reformation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bodel Nijenhuis copy of this very rare work View picture(s) 195 SAILLY, Thomas. Den nieuwen morghen-wecker, wijsende de natuere, voort-ganck, vruchten, remedien, der ketterije; te voor-schyne ghebrocht, tot het welvaert der gheunieerde, ende andere Nederlandtsche Provincien. Louvain, Jo. Christoph. Flavius, 1612. 4to. Modern boards, old fly leaf bound in. With an engraved illustration on the title showing an alarm clock, and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (20), 328 (=329), (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On agriculture in Brazil View picture(s) 196 SAINT-HILAIRE, Auguste de. Memoire sur le systeme d'agriculture adopté par les Bresiliens, et les résultats qu'il a eus dans la province de Minas Geraes. (Paris), A. Pihan de La Rorest, (1827). 8vo. Contemporary blue wrappers, ink handwritten title on upper cover. 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Brazil  History  Topography  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Plantin pocket edition of the works of Sallust with a Leiden imprint View picture(s) 197 SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius. Opera, quae extant, una cum fragmentis. Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius I, 1591. 32mo. Contemporary green morocco with two gilt decorative borders along the edges of both sides, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, gilt edges. Woodcut printer's device on title. 302 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  History  Plantin  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eighteenth-century description of East Asia View picture(s) 198 SALMON, Thomas (& Matthias van GOCH). Hedendaegsche historie, of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren; in opzigte hunner landsgelegenheit, personen, klederen, gebouwen, zeden, wetten, gewoontens, godsdienst, regering, konsten en wetenschappen, koophandel, handwerken, landbouw, landziektens, planten, dieren, mineralen en andere zaken tot de natuurlyke historie dienende. I. deel. Behelzende de tegenwoordige staet der keizerryken China en Japan, als mede  van de Ladrones, Filippynsche en Molukkische eilanden, en van Makassar. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1729. 6 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary blind tooled vellum, title in ink on spine. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by J.C. Philips (1729), 3 engraved folding maps of (1) China, including Japan and Kamchatka, (2) Japan, and (3) the Philippines, including the greater part of the Dutch East Indies; 2 full-page and 5 folding engraved plates, 4 of which signed by J.C. Philips, and dated 1728-29. (20), 200, (4), 203-318, (2), 319-442, (4), 443-554, (8), 555-645, (19) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  History  Indonesia  Japan  Philippines  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A source of fundamental importance for the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor View picture(s) 199 SANDOVAL, Prudencio. Historia de la vida y hechos del emperador Carlos V. Max. fortissimo. Rey Catholico de España y de las Indias, Islas, y toierra firme del Mar Oceano. Al Catholico Rey Don Felipe III. Pamplona, Bartholome Paris, 1614. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary sprinkled calf, ribbed spine with red title-label, lettered in gold (missing from vol. 2). Printed in red and black, vignette with the Spanish Royal coat-of-arms on both titles, full-page engraved portrait of Charles V in vol 1, and full-page allegorical portrait of Charles V in vol. 2, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (28), 895, (30); (4), 898, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most important of Italian late 16th century text books on military science View picture(s) 200 SAVORGNANO, Mario. Arte Militare Terrestre, e Maritima; Secondo la Ragione, et uso de piu valorosi capitani antichi, e moderni. Gia descritta, e divisa in quattro Libri. Venice, Seb. Combi, 1614. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 double-page tables, and 23 double-page woodcut plates. (20), 266 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Militaria  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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