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First steps toward peace between Spain & the Netherlands View picture(s) 1 ALBERT & ISABELLA, Archduke of Austria and Spanish Infanta, and the STATES GENERAL. Brief van hare Hoocheden aende E. Moghende Heeren Staten der Vrye Vereenichde Nederlantsche Provintien Ghesonden, gedateert binnen Brussel den 13. Martij, anno 1607. Mitsgaders seeckere antwoorde der E. Heeren Staten voorn. ende Syne Ex. aen hare Hoocheden. (Amsterdam?), 1607 (= 1608?). Small 4to. Modern plain paper wrappers. With a woodcut rampant lion holding a sword within a garden fence (symbolizing the Dutch Republic) surrounded by a wreath, and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Low Countries  Pamphlets  Politics  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On astronomical navigation View picture(s) 2 ALCALA-GALIANO, D. Dionisio. Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar, por d. Dionisio Alcala-Galiano, capitan de navio de la Real Armada. (Madrid), Imprenta de la Viudad de D. Joachin Ibarra, 1796. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco title-label, gilt outside dentelles, marbled endpapers, yellow edges. With 7 folding engraved plates with tables. (2), 87, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Astronomy  Navigation  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pictorial record of the Dutch War of Independence View picture(s) 3 BAUDARTIUS, Willem (Guilaume BAUDAERT). Les guerres de Nassau. [Engraved title:] Pourtraits en taille douce, et descriptions des sieges, batailles, rencontres & autres choses advenues durant les guerres des Pays Bas, sous le commandement des hauts & puissants Seigneurs les Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies, & la conduite des tresillustres Princes Guillaume Prince d'Orange & Maurice de Nassau son fils. Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1616. 2 parts in 1 volume Oblong 4to (19 x 23 cm). Contemporary gilt vellum, with gilt coat of arms of Baron de Konigsegg (?) in centre on front cover, and gilt medallion vignette with motto: "Quae infra nos nihil ad nos " in centre on back cover (see below). With engraved allegorical title with the title printed in cartouche, woodcut printer's device on second title, full-page engraved map of the 17 Provinces, 22 full-page engraved portraits, full-page engraved double-portrait, 257 full-page engraved plates, views and plans of battles and sieges, incl. one double-page bird's eye's view of the fighting region along the Meuse and the Rhine. [8], 466; [4], 493, [15] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  French  History  Militaria  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Travelling to Madrid View picture(s) 4 BLANQUI, Jérôme- Adolphe. Reis naar Madrid, gedaan in de maanden augustus en september 1826; behelzende een staatkundig-wijsgeerig overzigt van de zeden en gebruiken der Spanjaarden. Amsterdam, J.C. van Kesteren, 1827. 8vo. Contemporary boards, uncut. Title-page with engraved vignette. XVI, 184, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Spain  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With beautiful engraved illustrations and maps of Spanish cities and twelve figures illustrating the traditional bullfights View picture(s) 5 BOURGOING, Jean Francois. Atlas pour servir au tableau de l' Espagne moderne. Paris, Tourneisen fils, 1807. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments with ligt brown title label lettered in gold. With 15 full-page beautifully engraved illustrations of Spanish buildings, monuments and landscapes, one large folding map of the roads of Spain (395 x 490 mm), one of Madrid (225 x 345 mm) by P.F. Tardieu, 2 folding plates of bullfights (260 x 285 mm), full-page map of the bay of Cadiz, double-page view of Gibraltar by Tardieu 9200 x 310 mm), full-page map of the attack of the naval batteries before Gibraltar and one of the Alhambra, and 2 full-page plans of Spanish architecture. (2), (25) lvs. of which 6 folding. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Condemnation of the Spanish conquerors View picture(s) 6 CASAS, Bartholomeo DE LAS. Conquista dell' Indie Occidentali di monsignor Fra Bartolomeo dalle Case o Casaus, Sivigliano, Vescouo di Chiapa. Venice, Marco Ginammi, 1645. 4to. Later half red morocco, gilt & ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. 8, (4), XVII, (1), 31-184 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Discovery & Exploration  Spain  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to pronounce both Tuscan and Castilian words correctly View picture(s) 7 CASAS, Christoval DE LAS. Vocabulario de las dos lenguas Toscana y Castellana. Enque se tiene la declaration de Toscano en Castellano, y de Castellano en Toscano, en dos partes. Et accresciuto di nuovo da Camillo Camilli di molti vocaboli, che non erano nell'altre impressioni. Con una introducion para leer, y pronunciar bien entrambas lenguas. Nuovamente corretto, & ristampato. Venice, Giovanni Antonio Giuliani, 1618. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut vignette on title, title within ornamental woodcut borders, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. (48), 438 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dictionaries  Education  Italy  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Primary and contemporary source for the history of the turbulent year 1526 View picture(s) 8 CHARLES V. [Responsio Caroli V ad epistolam Franci regis, etc.] Pro invictiss. Caesare Carolo augusto, Hispaniarum rege Catholico &c. ad epistolam Franci regis ad principes Imperii transmissam, necnon ad Apologiam Madriciae conventionis dissuasoriam, responsio, ac erudita admodum refutatio. Cum aliis nonnullis lectu dignissimis, quorum omnium catalogum versa indicabit pagella. Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, August 1527. 8vo. Vellum wrappers consisting of a part of a vellum leaf from a 14th or early 15th century manuscript with small alternately red and blue painted initials with penwork. With some interesting woodcut initials. (76) lvs. (A-I 8, K 4) Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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English translation of a historical and geographical work on the Balearic Islands just after these Islands had been included in the British Empire View picture(s) 9 DAMETO, Juan Bautista & Vicente MUT The ancient and modern history of the Balearick islands; or of the Kingdom of Majorca: which comprehends the Islands of Majorca, Minorca, Yviça (= Ibiza), Formentera and others. With their natural and geographical description. Translated from the original Spanish. London, William Innys, 1716. 8vo. Contemporary full sprinkled calf with blind tooled ornamental border on a band of lighter calf around a centre panel of sprinkled calf, blind tooled corner pieces, spine in six compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. With one double-page engraved map of the Balearic islands and one folded map of the Island of Majorica by Lord Forbes, engraved by I. Senex and printed for William Innys. (16), 304, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By an eyewitness: San Sebastian (Mozambique) besieged by the Dutch View picture(s) 10 DURAN (DURAO), Antonio. Cercos de Mocambique, defendidos por Don Estevan de Atayde, capitan general, y governador de aquella plaça. Madrid, the widow of Alonso Martin (= Francisca de Medina), 1633. 8vo. Richly gilt and decorated 19th-century vellum with diapered floral rolls and knot work ornaments, with red morocco title label lettered in gold, red spinkled edges. Woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count de Olivares and Duke of San Lucar on title, woodcut head- and end-pieces and initials. (8), 82 ff. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Colonial History  Dutch  Militaria  Portugal  Spain  Travel & Voyages  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare Mallorca imprint View picture(s) 11 GARCIA, Diego S.J. Sermon funebre en las exequias de la serenissima Señora D. Mariana de Austria Reyna Madre del Rey N. Señor Carlos II. Rey de las Españas. Que celebrò la nobilissima, y fidelissima Ciudad de Mallorca en su Iglesia Catadral á 28. de Noviembre de 1696. Mallorca, Miguel Capo, 1697. 4to. Modern marbled boards. Woodcut border around the title, three woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece on the last page. (12), 26 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Austria  Jesuits  Mallorca  Sermons  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the history of the Jesuits on the Marianne Islands in the Pacific View picture(s) 12 GARCIA, Francisco. Istoria della conversione all nostra Santa fede dell' isole Mariane, dette prima de' Landroni, nella vita, predicatione, e morte gloriosa per Christo del venerabile P. Diego Luigi di Sanvitores, e d'altri suoi Compagnia di Giesù ... E tradotta nell'Italiano dal Padre Ambrosio Ortiz. Napels, Camillo Cavallo & Michele Luigi Mutii, 1686 (Colophon: 1687). 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Engraved portrait by F. Pesche of Diego Luigi di San Vitores being murdered by the 'barbari' on the 2nd of April 1672. (23), 663, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Jesuits  Mission  Pacific  Spain  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring Central Asia View picture(s) 13 GARNIER, Francis. Voyage dans la Chine centrale, Vallée du Yang-Tzu, fait de mai à aout 1873. Paris, E. Martinet for Ch. Delagrave, 1874. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers. With a large folding map and several full-page tables. 39 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Asia  Asia [Far East]  China  Exploration  Spain  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first Dutch edition of a very popular educational work by the Spanish author Fra Antonio Guevara. View picture(s) 14 GUEVARA, Anthonio de. Urundtlicke ghemeene sendtbrieven van Don Anthonio de Guevara, bisschop van Modonnedo,... Nu eerst uten Spaenschen tale in Nederlantschen sprake overgheset door Cornelis van Beresteyn. Delft, Aelbert Henricz, 1583. 8vo. Later half vellum with title in ink on spine and stamp on label with on front cover. Title page with woodcut ornamental borders, woodcut front and endpieces, woodcut initials. 204 ff. (A-2B8 2 C10, -2C8-10 (blanks)). Full description >> Related Subjects: Courtesy Books  Dutch  Education  Law  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the best descriptions of South America View picture(s) 15 JUAN, Jorge. & Antonio ULLOA. Historische Reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des Konings van Spanje. Goes, J. Huysman, 1771. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary wrappers. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, large engraved vignette on 2 titles, large engraved allegorical head-piece to the dedication, and 25 engraved maps and plates, several folding, by H. Vinkeles, J. van Schley, etc. XXIV, 428; IV, 406, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [South]  Cartography  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on leather gilding, from the library of the celebrated Parisian bookbinder Léon Gruel to whom the binding can be attributed View picture(s) 16 LA QUÉRIÈRE, Eustache de. Recherches sur le cuir doré, anciennement appelé or basané, et le description de plusieurs peintures appropriées a ce gendre de décor. Rouen, F. Baudry, 1830. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards and endpapers. With folding engraved frontispiece designed and engraved by E.-H. Langlois. 23 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Bindings  Sculpture  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous work on Spain and Portugal View picture(s) 17 LABORDE, Alexandre de. Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne. Paris, l'imprimerie de Pierre Didot l'aine, avec les caractères de Bodoni, 1806-1820. 2 parts in 4 vols. Elephant folio. Contemporary half green morocco. Engraved frontispiece by Du Parc, after Charles Percier, 2 engraved medals on title-page of first volume, memorial stone on the title of the second volume, coat of arms of Granada on the third volume's title-page, and engraved medals again on the title of the fourth volume. Ca. 350 engraved views, plans, architectural plates, etc. of towns, villages and buildings in Spain and Portugal, on 272 plates, and 2 large double-page engraved maps of Spain and Portugal. xlvi, 72, (2); 73-132; xlv, (1 blank), 33, (1 blank, 2); xci (=lxxxi), (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Portugal  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The foreign politics of Spain View picture(s) 18 LIPSIUS, Justus. Sent-brief, in welcke hy antwoorde gheeft aen een seker groot Heer op de vraghe, welck van dryen den Coninck van Hispaengien best gheraden ware, oorloghe of pays oft liever bestant met den Fransman, Engelsche ende Hollander. Gheschreven den derden Januarij 1595. Ghetrouwelijck uyt den Latijn in Nederduytsche tale over-gheset, ende (soo veel alst moghelijcken is) den stijl ghevolcht. Dusseldorf, Werner vander Horst, 1608. 4to. Wodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece. (7, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  History  Pamphlets  Politics  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ciphers and theology View picture(s) 19 LORTE ET ESCARTIN, Jéronymo de. Arithmetica seraphica, omnibus ferme suis numeris à primo, usque ad milliones, accuratè digesta, sub qua elogia singularia, trophea Catholica, magnalia, & mirabilia, quae quasi cardines sunt, ac bases omnium aliarum excellentiarum, quae de Sancto Patre nostro Francisco, eius vita, moribus, miraculis, stigmmatibus (sic!), regula, & religione,  diversis doctoribus Catholicis dicta extant, breviter supputantur. Caesar-Augustae (= Zaragossa), Heirs of Didacus Dormer, 1695. Small 4to. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink; rests of ties. Leaves from a 15th or 16th century printed book used as fly-leaves. Title in border of typographical flowers; printer's device on p.122; printed tables. (24), 156, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Religion  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On King Sebastiao of Portugal (1554-1578) View picture(s) 20 MESA, Sebastian de. Iornada de Africa por el rey Don Sebastian y union del reyno de Portugal a la corona de castilla. Barcelona, por Pedro Lacavalleria, 1630. 4to. Contemporary gilt calf, gilt spine in six compartments, double gilt fillet border and small gilt coat of arms of the Mazarin family in centre of both sides, red mottled edges. (2), 169, 1 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Cartography  History  Portugal  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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