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Four rare political tracts View picture(s) 1 BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY). Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs. London (i.e. Amsterdam), Th. Cooper, 1743. 8vo. Contemporary full caf with pasted titles and former shelfmark on spine. Title in red & black with engraved vignette, head- and endpieces. 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Militaria  Nobility  Politics  Religion  Royalty  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Violence and murder illustrated by Crispyn de Passe View picture(s) 2 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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Very rare Album with music composed by Queen Hortense of Holland, together with six lithographs of her paintings View picture(s) 3 GARDE-CHAMBONAS, Le comte August Louis Charles de la --, & HORTENSE de Beauharnais, Reine de Hollande Livre d'art de la Reine Hortense. Une visite à Augsburg, esquisse biographique, lettres, dessins, et musique. (second decorated title: Album artistique de la Reine Hortense). Paris, Heugel & Cie. (Typographie Plon frères), ca. 1850-60. Folio oblong (lvs: 27 x 38 cm). Original fine publisher's binding: half green morocco, boards covered with dark green velvet with gilt coat-of arms of Queen Hortense (front cover) and her son Napoleon III (back cover) and gilt corner pieces: honeybees (a symbol for Napoleon), gilt edges, silk end-papers (Olivier, a.o., Manuel de l'amateur de rel. armorisées françaises, Pl. 2658, nr. 2 (reproduces after the present ed.!), and nr. 2659 (Napoleon III)). With a dedication leaf printed in gold, second coloured lithographed title hightened with gold, lithographed portrait of Queen Hortense (13 x 19 cm) by Léon Noel, 7 chromolith. decorated lvs. (with a bouquet of flowers in the centre with banderol containing 7 different texts; printed in two colours: green/gold, blue/gold, green/silver, rose/silver, and yellow/silver, the first with the bouquet coloured by hand), a facsimilé of the Queen's handwriting, 6 lithogr. plates (ca. 13 x 19 cm) by F. Sorrieu after paintings by the Queen, and 24 pp. with musical scores; all text lvs. within a decorated gold border, all printed by the Lithogr. firm Lemercier at Paris.  53 leaves, including (8), 24, (48) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Music  Napoleon  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of the highest artistic quality View picture(s) 4 MESSIA, Petrus (= Pedro MEXIA). Verscheyden lessen, waer inne beschreven worden de weerdichste geschiedenissen aller Keyseren, Coningen, ende loflycker mannen: Mitsgaders 't leven ende de treffelycste sententien der Philosophen, met verclaringe der twijfelachtiger ende wonderlycker dingen: Seer  geneuchelyc ende stichtelyc om lesen. Hier zijn noch by gevoecht seven verscheyden tsamensprekinghen: overgeset uyt den fransoysche, in onse Nederduytsche tale. Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravesteynfor Pieter Iacobsz. Paets, 1617. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut printer's device to the colophon, title within fine ornamental woodcut borders, beautiful calligraphed woodcut title to the added dialogues, both with the monogram of C. van  Sichem, large calligraphed woodcut head-pieces to each of the 5 books of the main work, several fine woodcut historiated initials and woodcut ornamental and flowered tail-pieces in text, and all pages within fine black double-lined borders with some legenda  in the wide outer margins. 674, (12, 2 blank); 168 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Dutch  Education  History  Nobility  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to become an enlightened ruler View picture(s) 5 MIRABEAU, [Honoré Gabriel Victor RIQUETI] Comte DE. Conseils a un jeune Prince, qui sent la nécessité de refaire son éducation, et lettre remise à Frédéric-Guillaume  II, Roi régnant de Prusse, le jour de son avénement au thrône. (No place), 1787-1788. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm.8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine gilt with red title-label, red painted edges. With woodcut vignette on title of the first work and some woodcut vignettes in text. (6), 88; 84 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Courtesy Books  French  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the history and significance of the crown View picture(s) 6 PASCHAL, Charles. Coronae. Opus quod nunc primùm in lucem editur distinctum X. libris; quibus res omnis coronaria è priscorum eruta & collecta monumentis continetur. Paris, Ex officina Plantiniana apud Hadrien Perier, 1610. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine decorated in gilt spine, large gilt coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in the centre, 4 smaller arms of Amsterdam as corner pieces, and gilt borders on both sides, sprinkled edges. Engraved vignette with the coats of arms of the French king Henry IV on title, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials. (16), 730 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Classical Antiquity  History  Nobility  Plantin  Provenance  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two French early 17th-century works on the sword and duelling View picture(s) 7 SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté de l'espee Francoise. Paris, Adrian Perier, 1610. 8vo. Eighteenth-century full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, red painted edges. Engraved vignette with hand appearing from a cloud holding a sword with the motto 'Pro religione et regno' on title, woodcut headpiece and initial. 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Duelling  Fencing  French  Militaria  Nobility  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classical chronicle of the counts of Holland View picture(s) 8 SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Het oude Goutsche chronyxken van Hollandt, Zeelandt, Vrieslandt en Utrecht. Op nieus oversien en verbetert. Als mede met een byvoeghsel en toet-steen vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Jan Hendricksz Boom, Joost Pluymer & Caspar Commelijn, 1663. 4to. Contemporary full calf, gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece with the allegorical figure and coat of arms of the Dutch States of Holland, Zeeland, Friesland and Utrecht, and with 36 large full-length engraved portraits of the Counts of Holland in text by Adriaan Matham of which the first and last are dated 1620. (8), 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Engravings  History  Nobility  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only Latin edition of Selden's 'Titles of honor' on nobility; from the library of J.W. Six View picture(s) 9 SELDEN, John & Simon John ARNOLD. Tituli honorum. Juxta editionem tertiam Londinensem anni 1672. cui accessisse dicuntur Seldeni emendationes & additamenta Latine vertit notasque addidit Simon Johannes Arnold. Frankfurt, 'Literis Goderitschianis' for Jerem. Schrey, & heirs of Henricus Joh. Meyer, 1696. 4to. Contemporary blindstamped vellum over boards. Full-page engraved author's portrait by J.C. Böcklin, title printed in red & black, 6 full-page engravings depicting the state and appearance of (1) the Princeps Walliae', (2) a Comes (Count), (3) Baro (Baron), (4) Dux (Duke), (5) Marchio (Marquis), and (6) Vice-Comes; numerous woodcut illustrations in text such as portraits, coins and crowns (of which 3 large ones), woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. (30), 288, 690 (i.e. pp. 1-192, ff. 193-200, pp. 201-304, pp. 307-690), (76) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Nobility  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the execution of Marie Antoinette View picture(s) 10 STAËL-HOLSTEIN, La Baronne. Réflexions sur le suicide, suivies de la défense de la Reine, publiée en août 1793 ; et de lettres sur les écrits et le caractère de J.J. Rousseau. Paris, H. Nicolle & Mame Frères, 1814. 8vo. Contemporary full marbled calf, spine ribbed with re-brown title label, frontcover with gilt armorial centre piece of the Signet library, sprinkled edges. (6), VII-XII, 270 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Literary History  Medicine  Politics  Psychology  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting collection of promotional material designed by Dutch Contructionists View picture(s) 11 ZWART, Piet. Het boek van PTT. Leiden, Nederlandsche Rotogravure Mij., 1938. 8vo. Original colour printed wrappers. With colour illustrations a.o. photo-montages, throughout, all designed by Piet Zwart. (2), 49, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Applied Arts  Graphic  Netherlands  Royalty  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare edition of the Tridentine Missal in an attractive binding View picture(s) 12 [MISSAL - TRENTE]. Missale romanum ex decr. sacr. concilii Tridentini restitutum. Madrid, Typis Societatis, 1796. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary richly gilt full red morocco, smooth gilt spine divided in 4 compartments of which one with black morocco letterpiece ('Missale Romanum'), the others with fish scale decoration, both covers with rolled floral border surrounding crowned monogram 'Y' on frontcover and crowned monogram 'F' on backcover, g.e., gold thread headband with 18 attached variously coloured silk reading-ribbons. The binding is kept in the original gilt full brown morocco pull-off case, smooth spine divided in 6 compartments decorated with lozenges, small circles and giltlettered 'Missale Romanum', both covers with rolled border around crowned monogram 'L' on one side and crowned monogram 'C' on the other side. 10 full-page engraved illustrations and 2 title-vignettes by Manuel Salvador Carmona after Mariano Salvador de Maella. (120),576,CXVI,(2),68,(2),36,4,(12),(2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Royalty  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In very intriguing binding with the monogram 'HD' surrounded with four 'Closed S's on both sides View picture(s) 13 [VIRGIL & OVID]. [Elegantes Variorum Virgilio-Ovidio-centones de opificio mundi, Christo Deo, Deique Matre, SS Francisco et Car. Borromaeo ...]. Munich, A. Bergia for Raphael Sadeler, 1617). Sm. 8vo. Contemporary black morocco, spine ribbed, with alternately a small gilt fleur-de-lis ornament and a gilt 'closed S' in the 6 compartments, and the gilt monogram 'HD' surrounded by four 'closed S'-s (possibly of Henri IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées?) in centre on both sides, marbled endpapers. 98 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  French  Neo-Latin  Philosophy  Provenance  Royalty  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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