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The discovery of America View picture(s) 1 ABBOTT, John Stevens Cabot. Columbus, de ontdekker van Amerika. Naar het Engelsch, vertaald door J.H. Geraets Jr. Amst., W. Versluys, 1887. Orig. richly decorated red cloth. With 11 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Children's Books  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Popular Books  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A German city punished by the hand of God View picture(s) 2 ACHILLES, Augustus Andreas. Eine durch ein unerhörtes Zornfeuer Gottes ganz und gar verstöhrte Stadt stellete am 6. April 1766. als Dominica Quasimodogeniti bey Gelegenheit der am 2ten eiusdem erfolgten erschrecklichen Feuerbrunst wodurch die Stadt Muszkau in der Oberlausitz in einen Aschenhaufen verwandelt, und gänzlich zerstöhret worden, Seiner mit diesem Zornfeuer heimgesuchten, und in das höchste Elend versetzten Gemeinde. Dreszden, gedruckt mit Krausischen Schriften, (1766). 4to. Contemp. boards. (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chapbooks  Fire Fighting  German  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of Atjeh on Sumatra View picture(s) 3 BEAULIEU, August. De rampspoedige scheepvaart der Franschen naar Oostindien, met drie schepen, uit Normandyen. Daar in  hy vertoont, niet alleenlijk de rampen en tegenspoeden, die hem in deze reis overgekomen zijn, en 't verlies van twee zijner schepen, in deze tocht verloren: maar ook veel aanmerkelijke beschrijvingen der plaatsen, daar hy geweest heeft, zijn handelingen met d'inwoonders, hun wetten, zeden en gewoonten. Beneffens verscheide  naaukeurige historien van die gewesten; daar in de geveinstheit, list, bedroch, wreetheit, en in 't kort de gruwelen der groten van die landen, en inzonderheid der Vorsten van Achem, vertoont worden. Door J.H. Glazemaker uit de Fransche taal getrokken en vertaalt. Amsterdam, Jan Tieuwertsz, Pieter Arentsz, 1669. 4to. Modern half vellum. With 7 (of 8) full-page engraved plates by Savery. (4), 170, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  East Indies  Indonesia  Popular Books  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most popular 17th century authors on health and sickness View picture(s) 4 BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Alle de wercken. Zo in de medicyne als chirurgie. Amsterdam, Ian Iacobsz Schipper, 1656. 5 works in one vol. Large 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine divided in six compartments, with black morocco title label. With richly engraved frontispiece, 11 seperate engraved title-pages with woodcut vignettes, 1 title-page with an engraved figure depicting human anatomy, 55 engravings in text, and 3 full-page engraved plates depicting human anatomy. (8), 200; (8), 207, (1 blank); (4), 124; (2), 46; (6), 154, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Immensely popular and famous medicine chest for Dutch physicians and laymen View picture(s) 5 BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Schat der gesontheyt. Tweede druck; Met veersen verçiert door Iacob Cats. Merckelick vermeerdert soo in de stoffe selfs, gedichten, als kopere platen. Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Matthias Havius, 1638 (Part 2 is dated 1637). 2 parts in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 2 full-page engraved frontispieces for books 1 and 2 of the first part, and 25 engraved illustrations in text by C. van Queboren after J. Hessels. (16), 778, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Medicine  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The complete works of a famous Rederijker View picture(s) 6 BIJNS, Anna. Konstige Refereynen vol schoone Schrifture ende Leeringen, Begrepen in drye verscheyde Boecken, Waer van de twee eerste wederlegghen de dolinghen comende uyt de Lutersche secte, ende abuysen deser tijden: het derde toont d'oorsaecken der plaghen, met veel seer stichtighe vermaninghen tot de deught. Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen den Jonghere, 1646. 3 parts in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut printer's device on 3 titles. (24), 76; 91; 226, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Poetry  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous work by Paul-Jérémie Bitaubé View picture(s) 7 BITAUBÉ, [Paul-Jérémie]. Joseph. Quatrième Édition. Paris, Didot l'Aîné, 1786. Contemp. red morocco, spine gilt, with gilt borders on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (DEROME LE JEUNE) With stipple-engraved portrait of the author by C. Cochin, engraved by A. de St. Aubin, and 9 full-page engraved plates by C.P. Marillier, engraved by D. Née. 382, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  French  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of an entertaining travel book on Africa View picture(s) 8 BLANCHARD, Pierre. Lotgevallen van eenen reiziger in Afrika. Naar het Fransch. Deventer, A.J. van den Sigtenhorst, (1828). Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm.). Original boards. With engraved title, 3 full-page engraved plates. IV, 263 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Children's Books  Geography  Popular Books  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All main information about all countries and continents of the world View picture(s) 9 BOHN, Henry George. A Pictorial hand-Book of modern geography, on a popular plan, compiled from the best authorities, English and foreign, and completed to the present state; with numerous tables and a general index London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Sm.8vo. Orig. green cloth, richly blind-stamped, with gilt title and publisher's address on spine. With 51 steel-engraved maps, one folding, and 150 wood-engraved views and illustrations in text. X, (2), 529, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Encyclopædic Works  English  Geography  Manuals  Popular Books  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The imaginary adventures of two sisters on their way Jerusalem View picture(s) 10 BOLSWERT, Boetius A. Voyage de deux soeurs Colombelle et Volontairette vers  leur bien aimé en la cité de Jerusalem: Contenant plusieurs  incidens arrivez pendant leur voyage. Nouvelle Edition, corrigée & chatiée selon le stile  du tems & enrichie de figures en taille douce. Liège, J.F. Broncart, 1734. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with gilt red title label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates.  (6), 262, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Holy Land  Popular Books  Religion  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch verses to a famous Biblical woodcut series by Bernard Salomon View picture(s) 11 BORLUYT, Guillaume. Ghesneden figueren uuyten ouden testamente naer tlevene met huerlier bedietsele. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1557. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt dentelles around double inside fillet borders with ornamental fleurons at the corners on covers, gilt binding edges, blue marbled edges. Title within ornamental woodcut borders, woodcut initials and head-and tailpieces, woodcut printer's device with banderolle "Son Art en Dieu" at end of the first part and 231 fine woodcuts by Bernard Salomon with title above and 4-line verse underneath. 119 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  Illustrated Books  Popular Books  Print Series  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Modernized version of a popular children's theater-play View picture(s) 12 BOSCH, Matheus van HEYNINGEN. De gestolen kersen. Een tooneelspel voor jonge lieden. Op nieuw uitgegeven en vermeerderd met eenige verhalen  en rijmen, door J.J.A. Goeverneur. Groningen, R.J. Schierbeek, (1853). Sm.8vo. Orig. cloth. With 4 lithographed plates by P.W.M. Trap, all finely coloured by hand. (6), 120 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Popular Books  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Containing exquisite plates with views on the moon and stellar constellations adorned with the zodiacal symbols View picture(s) 13 BRADFORD, Duncan. The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, stars, with descriptions of plantes, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c. Boston, American Stationers Co., 1837. Large 4to. Contemp. half green moroco. Engraved frontispiece with Herschel's telescope, engr. title with zodiac, 6 full-page engr. with telescopic views of the moon in different phases and planets, 6 handcoloured folding engr. plates with celestial charts, numerous woodcuts in text of which five full-page. 371 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Mechanics  Meteorology  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important second edition of the best English translation - together with the Latin translation - of the 'Ship Of Fooles' View picture(s) 14 BRANT, Sebastian. Stultifera navis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum utilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. / The ship of fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay priest. London, John Cawood, 1570. Folio (25,8 x17,6 cm.). Brown 19th-century gilt tooled morocco, gilt fillets, floral borders and centre-piece on covers; spine gilt in compartments, one lettered in gold ('Barclay's Ship of Fooles'), dated ('1570') at foot, floral gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Kept in modern green cloth drop back box with morocco letter-piece on spine. Large woodcut with four ships filled with fools (15,6 x 10 cm) on title, 116 woodcuts (ca. 11  x 8 cm) in text, 8 of which are repeated twice and one woodcut once. The woodcuts are placed between a floral woodcut border to the left and to the right. Interesting woodcut initials, typographical ornaments in the margins and tail-pieces. Printed in Roman and Gothic. Collation: ¶ - ¶¶6, A-Z, Aa-Vv6, Xx4 ([12], 259, [3] ll.); A-G 6 ([42] ll.); A-D6 ([24] ll.). Full description >> Related Subjects: German  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Literature  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the most important work by 'Father Cats' View picture(s) 15 CATS, Jacob. 's Werelts begin, midden, eynde besloten in den trou-ringh, met den proef-steen van den selven. Dordrecht, Mathias Havius, 1637. 4to. 18th century half calf with red morocco title-label on spine. Tiltle in red & black 3 engraved frontispieces of which one a double-page. 2 engraved portraits, one of Anna Maria Schurmans and one of Jacob Cats. 51 engravings in text. Some woodcut initials and end pieces. (31), 772; (10), 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Engravings  Literature  Poetry  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Violence and murder illustrated by Crispyn de Passe View picture(s) 16 CIEGLERUS, Georgius. Konst-Spigel der weereldlikke vermaken. Vertoonende het wonderlik gewoel der kaizeren, koningen, vorsten en geleerde lieden, om te koomen tot de bezittinge van het hoogste goed. Zeer geleerdelik door-wrocht met de hoedanigheden der opperste heerschappyen, op-bouwingen en verwoestinge der voornaamste steden, hooven en slooten: uit-voeringen van manlikke daaden, listige vonden, liefde en gramschap. Altzaamen door-wrocht met aartige staat- plicht- en zeede-rijmen, op de verhandelde stoffe gevoegt. Nu in 't Nederduitsch overgeset. Amst., Niclaes Franzen, 1652. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 17 full-page engraved plates by Crispyn de Passe. (12), 621, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Dutch  Engravings  Nobility  Politics  Popular Books  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Christianised Buddha Legend, illustrated by Romeyn de Hooghe View picture(s) 17 DAMASCENUS, Ioannes (SAINT JOHN OF DAMASCUS). Het Leven en bedrijf van Barlaäm den Heremijt, en Josaphat Koning van Indien, beschreven door den H. Oudvader, en nu in Nederduits vertaelt door F.v.H. Rotterdam, François van Hoogstraten, 1672. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With etched frontispiece and 8 full-page etched plates by Romeyn de Hooghe. [16], 431, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: India  Popular Books  Religion  Romeyn de Hooghe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The lifes and adventures of the pirates of the Caribbean View picture(s) 18 EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier (or: OEXMELIN). Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes, contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de plus remarquable depuis vingt années. Avec la vie, les moeurs, les coûtumes des habitans de Saint Domingue & de la Tortuë, & une description exacte de ces lieux. Où l'on voit l'établissement d'une chambre des comptes dans les Indes, & un etat, tiré de cette chambre, des offices tant ecclesiastiques que seculiers, où le roy d'Espagne pourvoit, les revenus qu'il tire de l'Amerique, & ce que les plus grands princes de l'Europe y possedent. Paris, Jacques Le Febvre, 1688. 2 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt with red title-labels, red mottled edges. With richly designed and engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps, 1 engraving in the text, and 3 full-page engraved plates, 1 showing a buccaneer smoking a pipe and standing with a rifle under a large palm tree with some dogs at his feet, and with 3 small scenes of pirate life depicted underneath, is signed by Gaspard Bouttats. (24), 448 (=248), (16); (6), 285, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Caribbean Islands]  America, North  Cartography  Piracy  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ian Fleming's sexually most explicit novel View picture(s) 19 FLEMING, Ian. The spy who loved me. London, Jonathan Cape, (1962). 8vo. Original cloth with silver blade dagger on front cover and silver printed title on spine and original dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Double page plate of Dreamy Pines motor court. 221 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Bibliophily  English  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Set of the most important works by the first Dutch burlesque poet View picture(s) 20 FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Eerste - Tweede deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.- Afrikaense Thalia, of derde deel, van de geurige zang-godin.- De verwarde jalousy, bly-spel. Amsterdam, David Lindenius & Andries Vinck, 1679. 3 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a different one to each part, and woodcut vignette on separate title to the added comedy. (16), 447, (1 blank); (16), 223, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Literature  Popular Books  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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