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For "Lovely Elsje van Son" View picture(s) 1 BOSWEL, George Henri James Elliot. Aan Mejufvrouw E.S.L.A. van Son. Mooi Elsje. Een vertelling. Manuscript on paper. In Dutch. The Hague, 1863. 4to. Contemporary purple velvet, with broad blind-stamped decorated borders, and title stamped in gold in centre of front cover, white silk endpapers, g.e. With finely drawn flowered headpiece in colour for the dedication to "Mejufvrouw E.S.L.A. van Son", finely calligraphed title within richly designed ivy-grown borders, drawn in brown and green ink, and 3 drawings in text, one seemingly unfinished view of a fishing-boat in brown ink, the others a fine washed pen drawing in brown and grey ink of a woman sitting weeping at a table in a fisherman's cottage, and a fine washed pen drawing in colour of people at the shore waving at a fishing boat setting sail. (11, 2 blank) lvs. written in a clear regular hand. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Manuscripts  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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9 catalogues in one binding View picture(s) 2 BRISART, R. Catalogue de la magnifique et précieuse collection de livres, manuscrits, dessins et estampes, formant le cabinet de Mr. R. Brisart, Rentier, a Gand. Gand, Ad. van der Meersch, 1849. 9 catalogues in 1 vol. 8vo. Half calf. With ms. annotations of the prices in margins. X, 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Belgicana  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Libraries & Collections  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Auctioning a large collection of etchings View picture(s) 3 GÉRARD; F. DEBOIS; DELBECQ, DE GAND. Catalogue d'une collection d'estampes anciennes, d'après les peintres célèbres et par les plus habiles graveurs d'Italie, tels que Marc-Antoine et son école; des compositions de N. Poussin, par Pesne, Audran et autres graveurs Français; et d'estampes de diverses écoles; de quelques tableaux, marbres, terres cuites, dessins anciens, et d'un grand nombre de livres sur les antiquités, les sciences et les arts, composant le cabinet de feu M. Gérard, sculpteur, ancien pensionnaire de l'école de Rome. Paris, Douchet, Defer, 1843. 5 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Half morocco. 35; 38; VII, 124; VII, 110 (pp. 109-10 misbound); VI, (2), 84 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Americana  Bibliography  Book History  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of 4 catalogues View picture(s) 4 LE VER, Le Marquis. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Marquis le Ver membre de la Société des Antiquaires de la Normandie, de l'Académie de Rouen, de l'Académie Ebroïcienne, de l'Académie des Antiquaires de la Morinie, de la Société d'émulation d'Abbeville, Inspecteur divisionnaire des monuments historiques des départements de la Somme, du Pas-de-Calais et de l'Oise, etc., etc. Paris, Bacheline-Deflorenne, 1866. 4 catalogues in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Half calf, spine ribbed with gilt title; marbled end papers and marbled edges. XV, 354 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Libraries & Collections  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Persian-Turkish manuscript with astronomical paintings View picture(s) 5 MAHMUD ibn-ADHAM. Mifah al-Lugha (An Ottoman guide for Persian language with an alphabetic Persian dictionary). (Ca. 1628-29). 8vo. (22 x 14 cm.). Contemporary calf, sides covered with old paper. Manuscript on burnished paper in Persian and Ottoman Turkish written in black and red ink, with 10 magnificent pasted handcoloured plates, of which one double-page. (1-3 blank, 4-114, 115 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arabia  Astronomy  Manuscripts  Ottoman Empire  Persia  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A victorian adventure depicted in a series of fine watercolours, recording a trip to a manor house View picture(s) 6 MONOGRAMMIST "F.W." or "E.W." (Adventures by coach, on horseback and on foot of two Englishmen). Album containing 12 mounted watercolours and 1 drawing in pen and ink. (No place), 1869. Oblong folio. Contemporary dark brown morocco, marbled endpapers. The 12 mounted watercolours all measuring ca. 10 x 16 cm., all with caption in pen on verso and below the image, the final drawing in pen and ink directly on the album leaf measuring 7 x 8,5 cm. and titled "Back home" below the image. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Drawing & Painting  Drawings  Great Britain  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A large collecton of books and manuscripts on heraldry and genealogy View picture(s) 7 ROZIÈRE, Ernest de. Catalogue de livres et manuscrits composant la bibliothèque héraldique et généalogique de M. Ernest de Rozière. Paris, Honoré Champion, (1879). 8vo. Half red morocco, spine ribbed with title in gilt on spine. V, 321 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Genealogy & Heraldry  Libraries & Collections  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Finely illustrated manuscript architectural manual View picture(s) 8 SIMMONDS, J. "Hints, tables &c." Manuscript architect's manual in English. N.pl., 1840. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with small ornaments in compartments, both covers with single lozenge border, gilt binding edges and double fillet border on the inside, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. With numerous architectural illustrations in pen and ink with grey and coloured wash on 30 pages, numerous manuscript tables. 61 stiff paper lvs., partly with text or illustrations on recto only, partly recto and verso. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  Drawings  Manuals  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The library of a member of the French Academy View picture(s) 9 SUARD, [Jean Baptiste Antoine]. Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M.J.B.A. Suard, secrétaires perpétuel de l'Académie Française. Paris, Tilliard Frères, 1817. 8vo. Orig. wrappers. XII, 179 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Americana  Bibliography  Book History  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a classic hunting manual View picture(s) 10 TÄNTZER, Johann. Der Dianen Hohe und Niedere Jagd-Geheimnisse. Darinnen die gantze Jagd-Wissenschaft ausführlich zu befinden: Mit grosser Arbeit inventiert und beschrieben. Hiernächst ist, Als ein neuer und besonderer Theil mit beygefüget Der Edle Hirsch-gerechte Jäger, kurtz, doch gründlich verfertiget von Johan Wilhelm von Pärson. Leipzig, Im Weidmannischen Buch-Laden, 1734. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary half vellum. With title printed in red and black, separate title to Von Pärson, fine engraved frontispiece showing Diane and her female companions hunting in the woods, engraved headpiece with portrait for the dedication, engraved armorial headpiece at the beginning of text, and numerous hunting plans, views of landscapes and mountains, animals to hunt, hunting dogs, and all sorts of hunting traps and devices on 59 double-page engraved plates, incl. 20 full double-page illustrations, 5 double-page plates with 2 or 3 illustrations each, 2 double-page plates with 4 to 5  illustrations each, and 32 double-page plates with 6 illustrations each. (20), 198, (2); 122, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Hunting  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting collection of autograph letters from the Maritime Prefect at Toulon, one of the leading French naval figures of the 19th century View picture(s) 11 [AUTOGRAPH]. BAUDIN, Charles. [Collection of 14 original letters]. Toulon, 1843-47. 8vo and 4to. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Manuscripts  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Letter by the famous musician and music historian Julius Röntgen elaborating on Telemann View picture(s) 12 [AUTOGRAPH]. RÖNTGEN, Julius. [Signed autograph letter to Max Seiffert(?)]. Bilthoven (the house 'Gaudeamus'), 19 November 1926, Doubleleaf (21.5 x 13.5 cm). 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Manuscripts  Music  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Album with drawings of European landscapes View picture(s) 13 [DRAWING - LANDSCAPE]. P.J.G.L. [Album with 29 pencil drawings of European landscapes]. [Europe, second half 19th century]. Oblong 8vo (11.5 x 17.5 cm). Contemporary dark blue half morocco with gilt decorated spine, sides covered with black paper with morocco print, gilt title 'Album' on front cover, gilt edges. With 29 pencil drawings, all signed 'P.J.G.L.'. 29 ll. and 10 alternating blue and light brown flyleaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Drawing & Painting  Europe  Manuscripts  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Cantonese for beginners View picture(s) 14 [MANUSCRIPT - CHINA]. Cantonese-English mercantile vocabulary. Manuscript. (South-China or Singapore, ca. 1860). 12mo. (5,5 x 11,5 cm). Bound in Chinese manner in leporello with original blue boards, preserved in original Chinese blue cloth slipcase with remnants of paper label on frontcover. (88) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  Dictionaries  England  Manuscripts  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Splendid manuscript on the state, condition and organization of the French Royal navy in 1732; from the library of Henri Beraldi View picture(s) 15 [MANUSCRIPT - MILITARY - FRENCH ROYAL]. État de la marine du Roy pour l'année 1732. Manuscript on vellum. [France, 1732]. 8vo. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt fillet along edges of both sides, decorated gilt spine with five raised bands with abbreviated title in two compartments and 5 small gilt fleur-de-lis stamps in four compartments, gilt fillet on binding edges, blue morocco pastedowns with large richly decorated gilt dentelles, g.e. With a contemporary and beautifully executed colourful gouache (11.4 x 9.5 cm) pasted on the verso of the second vellum (fly-)leaf, functioning as a frontispiece, and showing a warship on a shipyard in a small harbour being repaired by some workers; on the left shore a small hut with someone cooking on an open fire; some ruins at the left side, and in the middle below an escutcheon with the text 'Marine du Roy. 1732'. [2 blank paper fly-leaves], [4], 26 [i.e. 29: 22 and 23 are double-leaves; 25 is a folding double-leaf], [1 blank], [2 blank paper flyleaves] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Calligraphy  France  Manuscripts  Provenance  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully executed 18th-century manuscript music album with 24 songs to guitar accompaniment by Laborde View picture(s) 16 [MANUSCRIPT - MUSIC - GUITAR]. LABORDE, Jean Benjamin de. Recueil d'airs avec accompagnement & guittare par Mr. de Laborde. [France, 2nd half of the 18th century]. Oblong 4to (20.5 x 26.5). Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco, with gilt edges and silk endleaves. With decorated title-page and half-title, pages with hand-coloured wood-engraved floral border, songs, music notation (including both regular notes and tablature) in neat manuscript with gilt decorations and initials and title calligraphed in gold. [1, 2 blank], 152, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Calligraphy  France  Manuscripts  Music  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A richly illuminated manuscript of a Moroccan prayerbook View picture(s) 17 [MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - ARABIC]. Dala'il Al-Hairat Wa-Sawariq Al-Anwar / Burda / Al-Husn Al-Hasin / etc. (Morocco, early 18th century). Small 8vo (96 x 96 mm). Square calf binding over wooden boards with fore-edge flap; covers decorated with interlacing star design in gold and colours. All edges gilt and gauffered. Manuscript in Arabic script (Maghribi, with rubrications and embellishments in Thuluth) on paper. With six richly illuminated pages decorated in gold and colours. 214 ff. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Islamitica  Manuscripts  Morocco  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A splendid illuminated Qur'an manuscript from a famous private collection View picture(s) 18 [MANUSCRIPT - QURAN]. Quran. Iran, AH 1204 [1783 AD]. 8vo. (148 x 90 mm). Brown morocco with flap and gilt-stamped borders and central ornaments. 243 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Manuscripts  Persia  Quran  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Log book of naval voyage to Japan View picture(s) 19 [MANUSCRIPT - SHIP'S LOG]. OGLE, Robert Bertram E. Log of H.M.S. Victory from July 26th to September 20th 1865 kept by R.B.E. Ogle and of H.M.S. Orontes from September 20th to January 31st 1866 and of H.M.S. Princess. Royal. Folio. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Manuscript, ink on paper in a ruled logbook, with 11 pencil sketches and 8 hand-drawn charts (3 folding). (Ca. 330 pp). Full description >> Related Subjects: China  Japan  Korea  Manuscripts  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th-century English travel journal visiting Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and North America View picture(s) 20 [MANUSCRIPT - TRAVEL JOURNAL]. LINGARD-MONK, James Boughey. The world 1894-5. Journal, 8 November 1894 - 11 May 1895. 4to (ca. 24 x 18 cm). Contemporary calf, with two clasps. With illustrated title-page and 2 certified copies (1982) of the registration of the author's marriages, with Diana Caroline Walpole (1876) and Ellen Heburn (1894). [2], 277, [4 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [North]  Australia & New Zealand  Hawaii  Manuscripts  New Zealand  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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