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Famous catalogue of a famous library View picture(s) 81 MARTIN, Gabriele. Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym, olim regis Poliniae Augusti II. Apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii. Paris, Gabriel & Claude Martin, 1738. 8vo. Modern half marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label. With woodcut coat of arms on title and woodcut head- and tailpieces. (6), XX, 528, (58) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Law  Libraries & Collections  Literature  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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About Cuban customs - printed in Havana View picture(s) 82 MARTINEZ VILLERGAS, Juan. La vida en el Chaleco. Novela original de costumbres no menos originales, escrita y dedicada a los habitantes de la Isla de Cuba. Habana, Libreria é Imprenta El Iris, de Maijn Pujola y cp., 1859. 4to. Contemporary half hard-grained brown morocco, spine gilt in compartments, title lettered in gold. VII, 587, 42 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Cuba  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Six lively dialogues by a Spanish humanist from Sevilla View picture(s) 83 MEXIA, Pedro. Coloquios o dialogos compuestos por el magnifico cavallero Pero Mexia, vezino de Sevilla, en los quales se disputan y tratan varias y diversas cosas de mucha erudicion y doctrina. Al illustrissimo senor don Perasan de Ribera Marques de Tarisa &c. Antwerp, Widow of Martinus Nutius, 1561. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with gilt double line along the edges and gilt coat-of-arms in the centre and four corner pieces on both sides, spine with gilt stars in four compartments, g.e. With printer's device of Nutius (two storks) on the title. 165 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Literature  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Recipes and gastronomic verses by 19th-century French authors, collected by 'Le roi des gastronomes' View picture(s) 84 MONSELET, Charles. La cuisinière poétique. Avec le concours  de MM. Méry, A. Dumas, Th. de Banville, Th. Gautier, Ém. Deschamps, C. Carguel, A. Barthet, E. Solié, Xavier Aubryet, Aur. Scholl, Charles Bataille, etc. Leipzig, A. Durr (printed by J. van Buggenhoudt, Brussels), (1859). 16mo. Contemporary half brown morocco with marbled boards, spine ribbed with gilt title, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With the vignette of the 'Collection Hetzel' on title. 199, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Gastronomy  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An early Modernist View picture(s) 85 MORAND, Paul. U.S.A.- 1927. Album de photographies lyriques. Ornementation de Pierre Legrain. Paris, 1928. 12mo. Orig. wrappers. With numerous ornamental illustrations. 139, (5) pp.- Limited edition.- Good copy, uncut and partly unopened. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Drawings  France  French  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The account of a voyage of a Swedish privateer together with a vivid travelaccount on Germany View picture(s) 86 MORTIMER, George. Engelsmannen Joh. Hindric Cox Resa Genom Söderhafvet Till On Amsterdam, Marien-Oarna, O-Taheiti, Sandvichs-och Räf-Oarna, Tinian, Unalaska och Canton i China. Nyköping, Peter Winge, 1798. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. 77, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cook  Europe  German  Hawaii  Literature  Pacific  Piracy  Russia  Sweden  Trade  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The works of one of the most important French humanists of the 16th century View picture(s) 87 MURET, [Marc Antoine]. Orationes, epistolae, & poemata, cum praefatione & insignibus augmentis M. Jacobi Thomasi. Editio plane nova, caeteris correctior longè, ordinatio & locupletior. Sub calcem adjectae sunt Nupt Leipzig, Christian Scholvin,for the widow and heirs of Johann Gross, 1698. 4 parts in one vol. 8vo. 19th century dark green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, sides with double fillet borders gilt central coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina, gilt inner dentelles. Engraved portrait of the author, title printed in red and black.. 74, 786, (2), 228, 102, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of 60 copies on Japon Imperiale View picture(s) 88 NERVAL, Gérard de. La main enchantée. Histoire macaronique. Augmentée d'une préface de Henri Regnier. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1920. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt and ribbed, original wrappers preserved. With illlustrations by Daragnès. 89, (6) pp.- Fine copy.- One of 60 copies on Japon Imperiale. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  France  Illustrated Books  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Tragedy on Johan van Olbarnevelt in a fine contemporary binding View picture(s) 89 NOMSZ, Johannes. Oldenbarneveld, treurspel. Amsterdam, Willem Holtrop, 1787. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, sides with gilt-stamped ornamental borders and marbled inner panel, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Full-page frontispiece and title with vignette, both engraved and by R. Vinkeles after J. Buijs. [10], 46, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Literature  Netherlands  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best edition of the laudatory poems on the House and Gardens of Castle Roosendaal near Arnhem View picture(s) 90 OUTREIN, Johannes d'. Wegwyser door de heerlykheid Roosendaal ofte, de Roosendaalsche vermakelykheden met een geestelyk en zedelyk ooge beschouwt en in digtmaat gestelt. Amsterdam, Gerard van Keulen, 1718. 4to. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red morocco title label, red sprinkled edges. Engraved full-page portrait of Johan van Arnhem, lord of Roosendaal by J. Baptist, a plate with his engraved coat of arms, large folding engraved bird's-eye view of the House Roosendaal (515x585mm) and 19 folding engraved views )numbered I-XVIII and III B, of houses, gardens, fountains, bridges and other buildings in Roosendaal and its surroundings, all designed by B. Elshof and engraved by J. Smit. (40), 88 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  Gardens  Gelderland  Literature  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ovid in Swedish translation View picture(s) 91 OVID [REENSTIERNA, Jacob]. Nägre fabler af Ovidii Metamorphoses, förswanskade (af Jacob Reenstierna). Stockholm, Julius G. Matthiae, 1708. 8vo. (printed on half sheets) Contemporary half calf, giolt spine with title lettered in gold. With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (c. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials (8), (69) lvs.; collation: )(-2)(4, A-R4, (S)2-1. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Literary History, Classics  Literature  Philology  Sweden  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Six comedies important for the history of 18th century drama and stage-craft in Amsterdam View picture(s) 92 PALAPRAT, Jean. Het ontdekte geheim; Kluchtspel. Het Fransche van den heere Palaprat gevolgd. Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje, 1707. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, pine with titles lettered in ink, sprinkled edges. With large engraved allegorical vignette on title: a manor house in front of which is a bench with a plane, surrounded with the symbols of music and drama and the motto 'Labore et Constantia'. 52 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Amsterdam  Dutch  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare original edition of a seventeenth-century Italian poet View picture(s) 93 PARTICO, Essione (Pseudon. for Gioacomo NASI?). Endecasyllabi di Essione Partico callifilio archiludimagistro. Viterbo, no pr., 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with gilt title on spine, blue painted edges with title written on top edge. Woodcut vignette on title. 117, (1) pp. and last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Italy  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With medieval manuscript fragments of Schutken's bible translation in Dutch View picture(s) 94 PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius. Accius Plautus ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus: ab eodemque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuo plurimis, quae in praecedentibus editionibus irrepserant, mendis, repurgatus: multisque in locis in gratiam antiquariorum illustratus. Additit quoque sunt duo Indices copiosissimi: Prior, verborum, locutionum & sententiarum: Posterior, eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini continentur. [Geneva], heirs E. Vignon, 1595. 4to. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine reinforced with strips of manuscript leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces, embellished initials. (8), 920, (52) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  Classical Antiquity  Latin  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Roman comedies View picture(s) 95 PLAUTUS. Comediae viginti. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, Franciscus I Raphelengius. 1593. 16mo. Old calf, spine with 3 raised bands. (2), 719, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Antwerp edition of Pliny's letters in an interesting blind tooled pigskin binding View picture(s) 96 PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti. Panegyricus Traiano Caesari dictus. Et is ad vetustissimum exemplar emendatus. De viris illustribus rei militaris & administrandae reipub.Acesserunt argumento non admodum abhorrentia. Suetonii Tranquilli liber de claris grammaticis & rhetoribus. Item. Julii Obsequentis, Prodigiorum liber. Latina interpretatio dictionum ac sententiarum Graecarum, quibus Plinius utitur. Indices duo ... Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus, 1542. 8vo. Extraordinary well preserved contemporary blind tooled pigskin binding; rolls with square and oval portraits and panels with passion scenes and saints on both covers; floral motives are stamped in the central spaces of the covers and in the four compartments of the spine; in the middle of the front cover, between two paragraph signs, the initials 'E' and 'K' are stamped and decorated with black ink. Some woodcut initials. 3 fly-leaves, 494, (40) pp. and 3 fly-leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Literature  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most influential Dutch translation of the 'lives' of Plutarch View picture(s) 97 PLUTARCH. T'Leven der doorluchtige Griecken ende Romeynen, tegen elck anderen vergeleken door Plutarchus van Chaeronea. Wt de Griecsche sprake overgeset door M. Iaques Amyot. Mitsgaders het leven van Hannibal, Scipio den Africaen, uyt het Latyn verfranscht by Carolus Clusius. Voorder het leven van Epaminondas, Philippus van Macedonien, Dionysius den ouden, Augustus Caesar, Plutarchus ende Seneca: ende noch het leven vande negen treffelijcke krijgs-oversten, beschreven door Aemilius Probus. Met een cort begrijp op elcx leven: leeringen op de kant, chronijck ende leer-registers: alles versamelt ende uytgegeven by S.G.S. Tesamen van nieus tot gemeen nut verduyscht, door A.V.Z.V.N.. ende ten deele by eenen anderen beminder. Delft, Adriaen Gerritsen van Beyeren & Felix van Sambrix, 1644. Folio. Contemporary calf with large gilt centre-piece on both sides, spine in compartments, with gilt red morocco label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, dated 1644 with Romulus and Theseus - the subjects of the first two 'lives' presented as a pair - holding a cloth with the engraved title and an oval portrait of Plutarch at the top. Printer's device on the title with the motto 'Durate'. (6), 548, (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Classical Antiquity  History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Greeks and Romans compared View picture(s) 98 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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"L'une des plus belles éditions qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine" View picture(s) 99 POLIZIANO, Angelo. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. Early 18th-century (?) polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco title label, both sides with triple gilt fillets along the edges and large gilt oval coat-of-arms in the centre, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The coat of arms is of Henri-Louis Loménie, comte de Brienne (1658-1743), son of Louis Henry Loménie de Brienne. [452] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Italy  Literary History  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A world- famous Spanish satire translated into Dutch View picture(s) 100 QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, Francisco Gomez de. Groote Spaensche droomer, ofte de VII. wonderlijke gesichten, in welcke alle de gebreken deser eeuwe, onder alle staten van menschen, vermakelijck en oock stichtelijck werden bestraft, en als in een schilderye naecktelick verthoont. Utrecht, Juriaen van Poolsum, 1687. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum. With woodcut illustration on title, and 7 half-page woodcuts in text, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. 332, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Literature  Satire  Utrecht  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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