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Illustrated with lively scenes of farmers celebrating Pentecost festivities View picture(s) 21 GREENWOOD, Frans. Boere-pinxtervreugt. Rotterdam, Arnold Willis, 1733. Small 4to. Contemporary vellum. With 4 full-page etched plates by the author. 39 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Games & Pastimes  Popular Books  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Planet earth in full colour View picture(s) 22 GRESSLER, Friedrich Gustav Ludwig. Die Erde, ihr Kleid, ihre Rinde und ihr Inneres, durch Karten und Zeichnungen zur Anschauung gebracht. Dritte Auflage. Langensalza, Schulbuchhandlung des Thür. L.W., 1854. Oblong large 8vo. Orig. half cloth. With 24 full-page lithographed plates, showing geographical  maps and plans, geological formations, climatological maps, glacial zones, animals, the heads of 5 different races, etc., all nicely coloured by hand. 69, (1) pp. text in 2 columns. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Earth Sciences [Geology]  Geography  German  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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For the little children of France, by their Uncle Hansi View picture(s) 23 HANSI, l'Oncle. Mon village ceux qui n'oublient pas. Paris, H. Floury, (ca. 1913). Oblong 8vo. Original decorated cloth. Richly illustrated with 15 full colour plates and numerous colour illustrations in text. 33 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Children's Books  Colour Platebooks  French  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the origins of kissing View picture(s) 24 HULS(T), Hendrik VAN. De Gedichten. Bestaande in geestelyke en vleeschelyke verklaaringen, vermaakelyke oratien, snaaksche brieven, geestige gezangen, en eenige mengeldichten. Leiden, Abr. Ambrullaart, 1734. Contemp. full calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 6 engraved almost half-page charming plates in text, by M. van der Eyk. (16), 223, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Poetry  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare and charming oblong 16mo edition of the first collection of poems by one of the greatest poets of the Dutch Golden Age View picture(s) 25 HUYGENS, Constantijn. Ses boecken van de ledige uren, zijnde ghedichten van verscheyden talen, stijlen, ende stoffen.- Otiorum libri  sex. Poëmata varij sermonis, styli, argumenti. Haarlem, Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch, 1641. Oblong 16mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title written on spine. (2), 543, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Dutch  Literary History  Music  Popular Books  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A proto-Robinsonade in a Dutch edition View picture(s) 26 IBN TUFAIL & Adriaan RELAND. Het wonderlyk en zeldzaam levensgeval van Hai Ebn Jokdan, waar in getoont wort, hoe imant buiten eenig ommegang met menschen, ofte onderwysinge kan komen tot de kennisse van zich zelven en van God. Zynde desen druk met de Arabische grondtext vergeleken door den heer Adriaan Reland. Utrecht, Hendrik Schouten, 1721. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. With engraved title, 5 engraved plates. (26), 254 (=256) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Literature  Netherlands  Popular Books  Robinson Crusoe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of a classic work by America's First Man of Letters View picture(s) 27 IRVING, Washington. Ontdekkingsreizen van eenige der vroegere togtgenooten van Columbus. Naar het Engelsch. Haarlem, Wed. A Loosjes, Pz. 1834. Original boards. With large folding engraved map by D. Veelwaard. VIII, 390, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Maps  Popular Books  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare second issue of the original edition View picture(s) 28 LA FONTAINE, [Jean] de. Nouveaux contes (quatrième partie). Contenant, Comment l'esprit vient aux filles. L'abbesse & les nonnains. Les troqueurs de femmes. Le cas de conscience. Le diable de Papefiguiere. Feronde, ou Le purgatoire. Le pesautier. Le roy Candaule, & le maître en droict. Le diable en enfer. Le jugement du compere Pierre. Pâté d'anguille, Les lunettes. Jeannot & Catin. Le cuvier. La chose impossible. Le magnifique. Le tableau. Les fous. Amsterdam, Corneille Jans Zwol, 1676. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, gilt binding edges, red mottled edges. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, with blank pedestal underneath, woodcut title vignette, head pieces and initials. 168 pp. Collation: A-K8, L4. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fable Books  Fairy Tales  French  La Fontaine  Literature  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fifteen delights of marriage by the tutor of le roi René View picture(s) 29 LA SALE, Antoine De. Les quinze ioyes de mariage, extraicts d'un vieil exemplaire escrit à la main, passez sont quatre cens ans. Rouen, Raphaël du petit Val, 1596. 12mo. (143x80mm). Dark brown chagrin with gilt border and centrepiece, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in gold, g.e. (FRANCIS BEDFORD). With woodcut printer's device on the title ('Deo duce') and a half-page woodcut (75x60mm) of a fyke in which men are caught, relating to the first chapter, on p. 19. Several interesting woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 186, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Erotica  French  Literature  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Religious suffering vs. worldly pleasures View picture(s) 30 LA SERRE, [Jean-Puget] de. Le breviere des courtisans. Paris, Ieremie Boüillerot, 1642. Small 8vo. Fullgrained red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with small gilt bouquets of flowers at the four corners on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (H. GAILLARD). With woodcut vignette on title and 7 full-page emblematic engraved plates depicting contrasting double-scenes, the one below on the life of a courtesan and the other above on Christ's Passion, after designs by Nicolaas van der Horst. (6), 304 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Courtesy Books  Dutch  Flemish  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Greeks and Romans compared View picture(s) 31 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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Influential and popular work on natural history and magic View picture(s) 32 PORTA, Johannes Baptista (Giambattista). Magiae naturalis, sive de miraculis rerum naturalium libri IIII. Cum indice. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1585. 16mo. Sl. later vellum. 296, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Occult  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second French edtion of one of the most famous fictitious travel books ever published View picture(s) 33 PSALMANAAZAR, George. Description de l'isle Formosa en Asie. Du Gouvernement, des loix, des  moeurs & de la religion des habitans: dresseé sur les mémoires du sieur George Psalmanaazaar, natif de cette isle. Avec une ample & exacte relation de ses voiages dans plusieurs endroits de l'Europe, de la persécution qu'il y a soufferte de la part des Jesuites d'Avignon, & des raisons qui l'ont porté à abjurer le paganisme, & à embrasser la religion Chrétienne reformée. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1708. Contemporary vellum. With large folding engraved map of Japan, and illustrations of Formosan altars, costumes, architecture, ships, a palanquin carried by two elephants, a funeral procession also including elephants, and the Formosan alphabet etc. on 17 engraved plates, 2 folding. XLIV, 406, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Essential knowledge for midwives View picture(s) 34 RÜFF (or RUEFF, RUOFF), Jacob. 't Boeck van de vroet-wyfs. In 't welcke men mach leeren alle heymelijckheden van de vrouwen, en in wat ghestalte de mensche in sijn moeders lichaem ontfanghen, groeyet, en geboren wort. Voorts hoe alderleye sieckten, die de kraem-vrouwen lichtelijck over komen, met kostelijcke medecijnen mogen voor-komen en genesen worden. Daer by gevoeght is een profijtelijcke leeringe, van het voesteren en handelen van de nieuw-geborene kinderen.  Overgeset uyt den Hoogduytsche in onse Nederlandtsche spraecke, door Martyn Everaert. Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz Bouman, 1668. 4to. Modern vellum. With large woodcut on title, showing the activities around a new born child and a woman in bed, and 33 woodcut illustrations in text, several full-page. (68) lvs. (=A-R4). Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Medicine & Anatomy & Physiology  Obstetrics  Popular Books  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A very realistic and lively picture of 17th and 18th century daily life in the country in Holland and on the way to the East Indies. Southland and the Isle of Pines View picture(s) 35 SPAAN, Gerrit van. Het koddige en vermakelyk leven van Louwtje van Zevenhuizen, of het schermschool der huislieden, vervat in twee deelen. Waar agter gevoegt is de Afrikaansche en Aziaansche Weg-wijzer, beschryvende verscheide gewesten en landstreken. Ingezonderheid het eiland Pines, op het welke eenen Joris Pines 1789 kinderen en kindskinderen heeft voortgeteeld. Rotterdam, Pier de Vries, 1752. 4 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. With engraved scabrous frontispiece. (20), 483 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Africa  Dutch  East Indies  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Popular Books  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to behave in public View picture(s) 36 STEELE, Richard. De Boekzaal der Heeren, dienende tot een vervolg op de Boekzaal der Juffers. Inhoudende Regelen voor het gedrag in all gedeeltens van het Leven. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. Tweede druk. Amst., Steven Esveldt, 1764. Sm.8vo. Modern half cloth. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by F. van Bleyswyk and title printed in red and black. (40), 411, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Education  English  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Onde hundred riddles by Jacobus de Passius View picture(s) 37 SUISSAP, Jacobus de. (= Jacobus de PASSIUS). Een hondertal, nieuwe, geestryke raadsels. Utrecht, Samuel de Waal, G. van den Brink, Jansz., 1779. 8vo. Contempary half calf, spine rribbed. Each page with decorative woodcut border. (8), 102 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An enquiry into the nature and place of Hell View picture(s) 38 SWINDEN, [TOBIAS]. Recherches sur la Nature du Feu de l'Enfer, Et du Lieu  où il est situé. Traduit de l'Anglois par (J.) Bion. Amsterdam, 1757. 19th century vellum, gilt-lined, with red title-label on spine. With 2 folding engraved plates, one of the solar and one of the stellar composition. XVI, 271, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Occult  Popular Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of Jacob Westerbaen's Dutch adaptation of one of Terentius' comedies View picture(s) 39 TERENTIUS Afer, Publius. Adelphi, dat is De Gebroeders, in Nederduytsche rymen gebraght door Jacob Westerbaen, Heer van Brandwijck, &c. The Hague, Joannes Tongerloo, 1662. 4to. 19th century blue wrappers. Woodcut ornament on title, large woodcut initial. 58, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Popular Books  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amusing eclectic poem, playing with all possible literary genres by a French chansonnier and composer View picture(s) 40 VADÉ, Jean Joseph. La pipe cassée, poëme epitragipoissardiheroicomique. A la Liberté, Chez Pierre Bonne-Humeur, (ca. 1750). 8vo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, richly gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. (REYMANN; T. LECLERE Dor.). With large ornamental woodcut vignette on title, charming woodcut tailpieces, and 4 fine engraved headpieces by F. Aveline and D. Sornique after beautiful and lively designs by Charles Eisen. 45 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chapbooks  Gastronomy  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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