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Primary and contemporary source for the history of the turbulent year 1526 View picture(s) 41 CHARLES V. [Responsio Caroli V ad epistolam Franci regis, etc.] Pro invictiss. Caesare Carolo augusto, Hispaniarum rege Catholico &c. ad epistolam Franci regis ad principes Imperii transmissam, necnon ad Apologiam Madriciae conventionis dissuasoriam, responsio, ac erudita admodum refutatio. Cum aliis nonnullis lectu dignissimis, quorum omnium catalogum versa indicabit pagella. Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, August 1527. 8vo. Vellum wrappers consisting of a part of a vellum leaf from a 14th or early 15th century manuscript with small alternately red and blue painted initials with penwork. With some interesting woodcut initials. (76) lvs. (A-I 8, K 4) Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bostonian sermon View picture(s) 42 CHAUNCY, Charles. Prayer for help, a seasonable duty upon the ceasing of godly and faithful men. A sermon occasion'd by the death of several worthy members of the first church in Boston: preach'd the Lord's-day following the Anniversary fast, being the sabbath after the funeral of Mr. Jonathan Williams, one of the Deacons of said Church; who departed this life, March 27th. 1737. Boston, T. Fleet, 1737. 8vo. 19th-century marbled boards. (4), 25, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Cultural History  Funerals  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare genealogical book on the nobility of Antwerp View picture(s) 43 CHRISTYN, Johannes Baptismo. Senatus populique Antverpiensis. Nobilitas sive septem tribus patriciae Antverpienses. Leiden, Petrus Heghius, 1672. 8vo. Parchment boards, red painted paper leaves pasted on both covers, spine lettered in ink. Engraved frontispiece of a river-god and the virgin of the city of Antwerp with a view of Antwerp in the background, father time flying in the air with four angels and the coat of arms of the seven Antwerp families in his wake, seven engraved half-page coat of arms of the same families, some woodcut tail-pieces and a printer's device on the title. (10), 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Genealogy & Heraldry  Heraldry  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of a pamphlet by Lord Clifford of Chudleigh View picture(s) 44 CLIFFORD, Thomas. Engelse en Schotse gravamina, rakende den oorlog met Hollandt; beneffens des parlaments procedueren tegen de Lords Arlington, Buckingam en Lauderdale, &c. Soo die tegenwoordig  aen sijn majesteyt van Groot Brittanje zijn voorgestelt. Daar op des konings antwoord en versoeninge met de leden des parlaments, vergadert in beyde uytstekende huysen tegen de cabale, om die uyt te roeyen, en vrede te bekomen. 1674. 4to. Wrappers. (8), 56 (=54) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  England  History  Netherlands  Pamphlets  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the main earlier works on the ancient history and geography of the Low Countries - the copy of Heribert Rosweyde View picture(s) 45 CLUVERIUS, Philippus. Commentarius de tribus Rheni alveis, et ostiis; item. De Quinque populis quondam accolis; scilicet de Toxandris, Batavis, Caninefatibus, Frisiis, ac Marsacis. Opus novum, ex veteri historia ac geographiâ contra aliorum errores, quibus antiquitas dictorum populorum perindignè hactenus obscurata fuit, summo studio atque diligentiâ collectum. Leiden, Johannes Balduinus for Ludovicus Elzevier, 1611. 4to. Contemporary plain vellum, title later stamped on spine. With one double-page and 2 full-page maps, the double-page map coloured in outlines. Printer's device on the verso of the last lv ('Concordia res parvae crescunt Ao. 1595'). (16), 232, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Geography  History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Traveling through America in the 19th century View picture(s) 46 COHEN STUART, Martinus. Zes maanden in Amerika. Haarlem, Kruseman & Tjeenk Willink, 1875. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With 10 tinted lithograph plates, lithographed by Emrik & Binger, and 27 steelengraved  illustrations in text. 8, 366; (8), 332 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Americana  History  New York  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the major works on Amsterdam, richly illustrated View picture(s) 47 COMMELIN, Casparus. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, zynde een naukeurige verhandelinge van desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt de huyse der heeren van Amstel, en Amstellant, haar vergrootingen, rykdom, en wyze van regeeringe, tot den jare 1691. Voor dezen uit verscheide oude historie-schryvers by gesteld, en uitgegeven; en nu uit een meenigte van oude schriften, authentyke stukken, en met kopere afbeeldingen verciert, nooit voor desen gedrukt geweest. Amsterdam, wed. Aart Dirksz. Oossaan, 1726. 2 vols. Folio (31 x 20cm). Contemporary blind stamped vellum with title, part and author's name written in ink on spine. Engraved title, woodcut title vignet with the coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam, 46 folding and double-page engravings, 11 full-page engraved plates and 77 engravings in the text and some woodcut illustrations of coat of arms and seals. (20), 600; 601-1223, (1 blank), (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Dutch  Engravings  History  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First translation of Confucius, with appendix on I-ching View picture(s) 48 CONFUCIUS. Le Chou-King, un des livres sacrés des Chinois, ... traduit & enrichi de notes, par feu le P. Gaubil, ... Revu & corrigé ..., accompagné de nouvelles notes, de planches gravées en taille-douce & d'additions ... par M. de Guignes, ... On y joint un discours ... & une notice de l'Y-King, ... Paris, N.M. Tillard, 1770. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled edges and endpapers, green ribbon marker. With 4 engraved plates, a part-title to the appendix on the I-Ching, about 20 woodcut head- and tailpieces (plus repeats) and headpieces built up from cast fleurons. [3], [1 blank], CXLIV, 474, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  History  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Chronology at the end of the sixteenth century - the history in time-tables from the creation till 1600 View picture(s) 49 CONIN[C]XBERGEN, Zeger (Seger KONINGSBERGEN). De Duytsche chronologie, innehoudende de voornaemste ende ghedenckweerdichste gheschiedenissen des gheheelen  werelts, sulcx die van jaer tot jaer, zedert den beginne tot op desen jegenwoordighen tijt toe voorghevallen zijn: al tsamen wt den lofweerdichsten historien-schrijvers vergadert ende by een gebracht. Leiden, Jan Paeddts Jacobsz., 1598. 4to Half eighteenth-century red grained sheep, gilt title on spine, marbled boards. Woodcut printer's device, head- and tail-piece and initials. (8), 360 fols. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Printed in Goa View picture(s) 50 COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN, Denis Louis. Bosquejo historico de Goa escripto em inglez vertibo em Portuguez, e accrescentabo com algumas notas, e rectificações por Miguel Vicente d'Abreu. Nova-Goa, Impresa Nacional, 1858. 8vo. Half red morocco, spine with raised bands, title and imprint lettered in gold. With some tailpieces and a small illustration of one of the gates of Goa. VII, 5- 202, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Catholicism  History  India  Portugal  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life of Alexander the Great translated by Glazemaker View picture(s) 51 CURTIUS. Historie van Alexander den Grooten, Met de Vervullingen van J. Freinshemius; Uit het Latijn vertaald door J.H.  Glazemaker; Op nieuws overzien, en merkelyk in Styl en Taal verbetert, door een Liefhebber der Historien. Verrykt, met een goed getal Printverbeeldingen, benevens een Geslagt-register en Tyd-rekening. Door M. Le Tellier. Amsterdam, Andries van Damme, 1719. Contemp. vellum. With richly engraved allegorical frontipiece by P. Goeree, folding engraved map, and 14 engraved plates, of which 7 folding, after Le Brun, Poussin a.o. (40), 670, (34) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Dutch  History  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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English translation of a historical and geographical work on the Balearic Islands just after these Islands had been included in the British Empire View picture(s) 52 DAMETO, Juan Bautista & Vicente MUT The ancient and modern history of the Balearick islands; or of the Kingdom of Majorca: which comprehends the Islands of Majorca, Minorca, Yviça (= Ibiza), Formentera and others. With their natural and geographical description. Translated from the original Spanish. London, William Innys, 1716. 8vo. Contemporary full sprinkled calf with blind tooled ornamental border on a band of lighter calf around a centre panel of sprinkled calf, blind tooled corner pieces, spine in six compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. With one double-page engraved map of the Balearic islands and one folded map of the Island of Majorica by Lord Forbes, engraved by I. Senex and printed for William Innys. (16), 304, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Spain  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) 53 DEMETRIUS, Andreas. 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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First edition of a history of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt with a collection of Turkish and Egyptian tales View picture(s) 54 DIGEON, [J.M.]. Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Arabe & du Turc. Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco title labels, gilt inner dentelles, red painted edges. VIII, 347 [1 blank]; [2], 278, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Egypt  History  Literature  Ottoman Empire  Poetry  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Dutch Japanese relations View picture(s) 55 DIJK, Ludovicus Carolus Desiderius van. Zes jaren uit het leven van Wemmer van Berchem, gevolgd door iets over onze vroegste betrekkingen met Japan, twee geschiedkundige bijdragen. Amsterdam, J.H. Scheltema, 1858. 8vo. Original wrappers. Illustrated with 2 facsimiles of letters of Van Berchem. XII, 78, 42 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Japan  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare schoolbook for studying Virgil View picture(s) 56 DONATUS, Aelius Tiberius [=Tiberius CLAUDIUS]. P. Virgiliu Maronis vita scripta ab Aelio Tiberio Donate ut Hermolaus Barbarus: et Janus Parrhasius: antiquis exemplaris titulus comprobant. Ad studiosos Virgilii latineque lingue Joannis Murmelij Ruremundensis distichon. Munster, Lorenz Borneman, [ca. 1510]. 4to. Disbound. With woodcut of the Deposition on the title-page. [6] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Still important for the early history of Friesland View picture(s) 57 DOORNINCK, Jan van. Commentatio qua respondetur ad quaestionem a nobilissimo philosophiae theoreticae et literarum humaniorum ordine in Academia Groningana anno MDCCCXXXIII propositam: ''Quinam fuerunt Frisiae termini pro diversis aetatibus diversi; in quas partes fuit divisa? et quae regiones illis fuerunt comprehensae?" "Huius argumenti expositio ab antiquissimis inde temporibus, quibus Frisii in histoira innotuerunt, repetenda, ad nostra usque tempora deducatur." Groningen, I. Oomkens, 1835. 4to. Original marbled wrappers. (2), 263, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Friesland  Groningen  History  Netherlands  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch 'Iliad' View picture(s) 58 DOUSA, Janus. Annales rerum a priscis Hollandiae Comitibus per CCC. XLVI. annos gestarum continuatâ serie memoriam complectentes. Nunc primitus in unum metricae historiae corpus redacti, atque in X. libros tributi ac dispartiti. Ad illustres, nobiles, praepotentes, ac vere magnificos Hollandiae Westfrisiaeque ordines. The Hague, Aelbrecht Hendricksz., 1599. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials. (35, 1 blank), 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Netherlands  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Still important for the history of the Normans and their conquests; many first editions of relevant medieval texts View picture(s) 59 DU CHESNE, Andreas. Historiae Normannorum scriptore antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae principatum, Siciliam, & orientem gestas explicantes, ab anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII, ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt monasteriorum fundationes variae, series episcoporum ac abbatum: genealogiae regum, ducum, comitum, & nobilium ... Paris, for Robert Foüet, Nicolaus Buon & Sebastien Cramoisy, 1619. Large folio. 19th century red morocco, richly gilt in the style of the 17th century, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders on both sides with gilt crowned monogram (a 'V' between 'E' and 'B' ?) in centre, marbled endpapers, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, g.e. With engraved printer's device on title: a beehive surrounded by four emblematic medallions and the marks of the three publishers; many woodcut head- and tail pieces. (12), 1104, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  History  Italy  Middle Ages  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Shining examples for children View picture(s) 60 DUISDEIKER, Josua Hendrik. Levensschetsen van vermaarde mannen uit verschillende tijdvakken. Op rijm gebragt voor de jeugd. Amst., H.H. Huisman, (ca. 1840). Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With 12 lithographed portraits, all coloured by hand. 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Children's Books  History  Low Countries  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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