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Two masterpieces of Dutch hydraulic engineering View picture(s) 1 BARNARD, John Gross. Report on the North Sea Canal of Holland; and on the improvement of navigation from Rotterdam to the sea; to the chief of engineers, United States army. (Professional papers of the corps of engineers, U.S. army. No. 22). Washington D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872. 4to. Contemporary brown half morocco, reddish-brown cloth sides gold-blocked with the title and the coat of arms of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. With 12 plates numbered as 11 (all but 1 folding and 1 printed in red and black) containing maps, plans, sections, construction drawings of equipment and locks, etc.. Further with a half title, title-page, preface, and list of plates. 77, [3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  Hydraulics  Maps - 19th Century  Rotterdam  Science  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the biography of Erasmus, including hitherto unplushing letters by Erasmus View picture(s) 2 ERASMUS, Desiderius & Petrus SCRIVERIUS (ed.). Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta; accedunt epistolæ illvstres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent. P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspicijs. Leyden, G. Basson, 1615. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut roundel with portrait of Erasmus on leaf 5, woodcut initials. (24), 286, (2 blank). Collation: *12, A-M12 (M12 blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Erasmus  History  Philosophy  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine Sammelband with four theological works printed by Joannes Maire View picture(s) 3 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Explicatio in Symbolum Apostolorum, & Decalogum.- (2) IDEM. Enchiridion militis Christiani.- (3) IDEM. Modus orandi Deum.- (4) IDEM. De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia, deque sedandis opinionum dissidis, cum aliis nonnullis lectu dignis, liber. Ex editione Frobrniana, anni MDXXXIII ... Leyden, Jean Maire, 1641, 1642. 4 works in one. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With woodcut printer's devices on all four title-pages. 264; 330; 144; (8), (4 blank pages), 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Erasmus  Humanism  Netherlands  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important work of the mysterious and controversial Anabaptist David Joris View picture(s) 4 JORIS, David. T'Wonder-boeck: waer in dat van der wereldt aen versloten gheopenbaert is. Wie een der ick (secht die Heere) senden sal, ontfangt in mynen naem, die ontfanght my: wie my ontfanght, ontfanght den die my ghesonden heeft. Hoochgelovet moet hy sijn, die als een ambassatoer ghesonden komt, inden name des Heeren. Opt nieuw ghecorrigeert unde vermeerdert by den autheur selve: int jaer 1551. No pl., no pr., 1551 (= Rotterdam, Dirck Mullem, ca. 1595?). 4 parts in one. Folio. Original full calf over wooden boards, ribbed spine, both sides richly blind tooled with three ornamental rolls, one of which with 4 portraits in roundels, leaving a central plain panel, two brass clasps. With a half-page woodcut of the Lamb of God in the first, and a full-page engraving of the bride of Christ in the third part signed by 'IRW' (=Hieronymus Wierix) (2 plates missing). Several woodcut illustrations in the text and interesting calligraphic woodcut initials. (9 (out of 10)), 125, (3); (5 (out of 6), 164, (2); (4), 50, (2); (2), 34, (2, including the last bl Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Reformation  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ancient Roman life and customs View picture(s) 5 ROSINUS, Johannes. Antiquitatum romanarum corpus absolutissimum, cum notis Thomae Dempsteri. Cui acc. P. Manutii Liber II. De Legibus, et De Senatu, Cum A. Schotti electis, I. De Priscis Rom. Gentib. ac Familiis, II. De Tribubus Rom. XXXV. Rusticis atque Urbanis, III. De Ludis Festisque Rom. ex Kalendario vetere. Editio Postrema, ab innumerablilibus erroribus repurgata. Utrecht, Guil. vande Water, 1701. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt-lined with small rosettes in the compartments, with gilt double fillet borders and inner panel on sides with gilt flowered ornaments at the four inner-corners and gilt coat-of-arms of Rotterdam in centre on both sides, g. With richly engraved frontispiece, folding engraved plan of ancient Rome, illustrations after ancient coins and medals on 5 engraved plates and 2 folding engraved plates showing Romans fighting, a funeral, and a banquet by P. Philippe. (16), 956, (30) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Prize Binding  Rome  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to find your way in Rotterdam! View picture(s) 6 SPAAN, Geraard (Gerrit) van. Beschrijvinge der stad Rotterdam en eenige omleggende dorpen. Verdeeld in III boeken. Verzien van authentijke stukken/ handvesten en privilegien.  De tweede druk. Rotterdam, Pieter de Vries, 1713. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed and gilt, red gilt title label. Engraved portrait of G. van Spaan by I. Wandelaar with 4-line verse. (2), 5-16, (8), 17-438, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Rotterdam  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rotterdam binder equal to Magnus View picture(s) 7 [BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia, dat is, de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Leyden, heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 2 volumes. Folio. Contemporary black morocco over wooden boards, spines ribbed  and richly gilt, with broad gilt decorative borders on sides  and richly gilt borders around inner panel, with gilt ornaments at the four corners, the four inner corners filled with richly gilt ornamental design, and with large gilt ornament in centre, with in its blank inner square - gilt-divided in four - the fine gilt stamps of springing deer, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (HERTEN-BINDERIJ, Rotterdam). With 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, one for the Elsevier Bible and one for Picart's Print-Bible, engraved half-title for Picart's Print-Bible, 6 double-page engraved maps and plan of Jerusalem by Nic. Visscher in the Elsevier Bible, and 209 full-page (incl. 29 double-page, fine engraved  plates by G. Hoet, B. Picart, etc. in the Print-Bible). [22], 468; [13, 1 blank], 167; [4], 77 [1 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Bindings  Dutch  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Religion  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First catalogue of the Museum Boymans- Van Beuningen View picture(s) 8 [BOYMANS, Frans Jacob Otto]. Catalogus van schilderijen enz. in het museum te Rotterdam, gesticht door F.J.O. Boymans. (Rotterdam), Widow P. van Waesberge & Son, 1849. 8vo. Marbled boards. 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Collections  Museums  Painting & Drawing  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare remonstrant pamphlet View picture(s) 9 [NAERANUS, Johannes]. Af-gedrongen verantwoordinge tegens eenige onbillijke en vreemde proceduuren, gehouden by de Kerken-Raad der Remonstranten tot Rotterdam. Rotterdam, Joannes Naeranus, 1656. 19th century blue boards with reference-label on frontcover. With letterpress ornament on title-page and 2 woodcut initials. (4), 28 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Church History  Pamphlets  Religion  Religious Orders  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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