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Famous Dutch School Aesop View picture(s) 1 AESOP. Fabulae Graecae & Latinae, nunc denuo selectae: Eae item, quas Avienus Carmine expressit. Acc. Ranarum & Murium Pugna, Homero olim asscripta: Cum elegantissimis in utroque libello Figuris, & utriusque Interpretatione, plurimis in locis emendata. Ex decreto DD. Hollandiae Ordinum, in usum Scholarum. utrecht, Ex off. Georgius à Poolsum, 1685. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the "Battke between the Mice and the Frogs", all by Christoph van Sichem. 134, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Book with fixed price View picture(s) 2 ANDRIES, Jodocus. Necessaria as salutem scientia partim necessitate medii, partim necessitate praecepti, per iconas quinquaginta duas repraesentata. Quarum ligneae laminae gratis dantur. Pretium libelli vide pagina 15. Antwerp, Cornelis Woons, 1654. 12mo. 19th-century blue wrappers with pasted title-label on spine. With 52 full-page woodcuts in text (ca. 88 x 63 mm), woodcut initials. 119 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Antwerp  Art  Theology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a detailed description of the city of Schoonhoven View picture(s) 3 BERKUM, Hendrik van. Beschryving der stadt Schoonhoven (...). Nader overzien en merkelyk vermeerdert door J.A.B(lock). Gouda, Gysbert en Willem de Vry, 1762. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With large woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Schoonhoven in title, folding genealogical table, large folding general view by Jan Punt after W. Fortuijn, large folding plan by Isaac Tirion, and 2 folding engraved views, one of the city-hall and the other of the Barthlemy Church, by Jan Punt after W. Fortuijn. (28), 616, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Netherlands  Topography  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First combined edition of the beautiful woodcut print-bible by Christoffel van Sichem and the biblical verses by Blens View picture(s) 4 BLENS, B. & SICHEM, CHR. VAN. Bybels Lusthof, ofte Twee Hondert en Veertig, zoo Historien als Leeringen, der Bybels; uyt het Oude- en Nieuwe Testament, met de Schriftuurplaatsen daar toe dienende. Zeer nuttig voor de Jeugd, om zig aan des Heeren Woord te gewennen, en in de Bybelsche Geschiedenissen ervaren te werden. Amst., Jan Klooster, 1743. 4to. Contemp. full calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with black title-label, with gilt fillet border on sides. With 240 woodcut plates, 120 for the Old and 120 for the New Testament, by Christoph van Sichem. (8), 240 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Illustrated Books  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sixteenth century illustrated French edition of Boccaccio's first work View picture(s) 5 BOCCACCIO. Le Philocope, Contenant l'histoire de Fleury & Blanchefleur, divise en sept livres traduictz d'Italien en Francoys par Adrian Sevin. Paris, Denys Ianot for Iehan André, 24 February 1542. Folio. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with black title-label, with blindstamped fillet borders on sides, g.e. With woodcut device of Iehan André on title and 36 woodcuts in text within four-part borders of various design, several with a coat-of-arms in the lower border. 6, 174 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  French  Illustrated Books  Italy  Literature  Woodcuts  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) 6 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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Extremely rare and important devotional post-incunable: the first French edition of the lavishly illustrated 'Life of Christ' by a Carthusian monk from Antwerp View picture(s) 7 BRANTEGHEM, Guilielmus de. La vie de nostre Seigneur Jesu Christ par figures, selon le texte des quattre evangelistes, avec toutes les evangiles epistres & propheties de toute lannee, chantee en loffice de la Messe, avec aucunes oraisons. Antwerp, Adriaan Kempe de Bouchot & Matthieu Crom, 1539. 8vo. Modern violet morocco, spine ribbed and lettered in gold, gilt lines on binding edges and inside covers, marbled endpapers, g.e. Full-page woodcut title: Moses with the Tables of the Law and the Descent of the Holy Ghost (115x78mm) with title and mention of the privilege in letterpress and a woodcut tail piece underneath; full-page  woodcut border with the instruments of the passion and the flagellation for the beginning of "La Passion" on p. 255; 2 full-page woodcuts: (1) the Lineage of Christ, according to Matt. 1:1-16 (111x76mm.) and (2) the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2:1-13 (113x75mm); 185 half-page woodcuts (ca. 50x70mm.): 153 in the Life of Christ, 30 in the Passion and 2 in the Table; a few blocks used twice). The woodcuts are designed, and perhaps also cut (?), by Lieven de Witte; numerous tail-pieces and 28 small vignettes representing the tetragramme and biblical quotations (Veldman & Van Schaik (1989), figs. v and 187-208), used repeatedly for filing the blank spaces (sometimes more than one tail-piece - on p. (16) even 7 - on top of each other), and many charming woodcut initials. (16), 1-128, 119-294, (176) pp.- Collation: +8, A-Z8, a-g8 (248 lvs.). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Illustrated Books  Low Countries  Post Incunabula  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most influential works of mythological commentary of the 16th and 17th centuries View picture(s) 8 CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. Imagines deorum, qui ab dntiquis colebantur: In quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: Olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio  domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo Indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur. Lyons, Guichardus Iullieron for Stephanus Michaelis (Etienne Michel), 1581. 4to. Modern vellum, ribbed spine with title in ink. With woodcut publisher's device on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier within richly ornamented architectural Renaissance border, small woodcut illustration and 89 large beautiful woodcuts (130 x 95 mm) of mythological classical Gods and Heroes in text. (8), 359, (57) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Mythology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most complete treatise on carving of the Renaissance View picture(s) 9 CERVIO, Vincenzo. Il trinciante. Venice, Heirs of Francesco Tramezini, 1581. 4to. Modern calf. Woodcut printer's device on title and 3 large woodcut plates (1 folding). [4], 44 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Gastronomy  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attractive woodcuts depicting wolf hunting View picture(s) 10 CLAMORGAN, Jean. La chasse du loup, necessaire à la maison rustique. Lyon, for Jaques du Puis, 1578. 4to. Modern green morocco, blind-stamped gilt border in slipcase.  Title-page within woodcut border and 14 large woodcuts. (1)-19 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hunting  Natural History  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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New principles for book decoration View picture(s) 11 CRANE, Walter. Kunst en samenleving naar Walter Crane's Claims of decorative art, in het Nederlandsch bewerkt door Jan Veth en vercierd met talrijke vignetten in hout gesneden door G.W. Dijsselhof. 2e herz. dr. Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, 1903. Contemp. half calf, elaborately gilt & decorated in Art Nouveau style. Woodcuts by G.W. Dijsselhof. XIV, 171 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Art Nouveau  Book History  Netherlands  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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16th-century woodcuts on food & drink View picture(s) 12 CURIO, Joannes (ed.). Conservandae Bonae Valetudinis Praecepta Longe Saluberrima, Regi Angliæ quondam à Doctoribus Scholæ Salernitanæ versibus conscripta. Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Christian Egenolph, 1582. With title-page in red and black, 65 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a couple repeats), 1 woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a woodcut tailpiece. [8], 280, [4] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anatomy  Gastronomy  Medicine  Oenology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important collection of case records by the 'Father of German surgery' View picture(s) 13 FABRY, Wilhelm. Aanmerkingen ... rakende de genees ende heelkonst. Bestaande in zes deelen, yder deel in hondert geschiedenissen. Nevens een brief van een wonderlijk Lijf-moeders-scheurzel, daar de vrucht levendig uitgesneden is: beschreven door Michael Doringius: en beantwoort door Fabricius Hildanus. Uit de Latijnsche inde Nederduitsche taal overgezet, door Nicolaes van Assendelft, chirurgijn binnen Delft. Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1656. 4to. 19th-century half calf. With full-page engraved portrait of the author and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. [10], 358, [2 blank], 542 [= 540], [32] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Manuals  Medicine  Surgery  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two treatises on the origin of book printing by the famous French 18th century typographer Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune View picture(s) 14 FOURNIER, Pierre Simon le Jeune. Dissertation sur l'origine et les progrès de l'art de graver en bois, pour éclaircir quelques traits de l'histoire de l'imprimerie, & prouver que Guttemberg n'en est pas l'inventeur.- IDEM. De l'origine des productions de l'Imprimerie primitive en taille de bois ; avec une réfutation des préjugés plus ou moins accrédités sur cet art; pour servir de suite à la dissertation sur l'origine. Paris, J. Barbou, 1758-59. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with orange title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. 92, (3); 263 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Book History  Bookhistory, Printing & Publishing  History of Printing  History of Publishing  Typography  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of the greatest rarity View picture(s) 15 GHEYN, Jacob II de. Waffenhandlung von den Röhren, Mussqueten und Spiessen.  Gestalt nach der Ordnung dess hochgebornen Fürsten und Herrn Moritzen, Printzen zu Oranien. Mit beygefügter schriftlicher Unterrichtung, wie alle Hauptleute und Befehlichshaber ihre junge und unerfahrne Soldaten zur vollkommenen Handlungen derselben Waffen desto besser abrichten köndten.- Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquetz, & piques. En conformite de Lordre de Maurice, Prince d'Orange. Ensemble les enseignemens par escrit, à l'utilite de tous capitaines & commandeurs, pour par cecy, pouvoir plus facilement enseigner à leurs soldatz inexperimentez, l'entier & parfait maniement dicettes armes. Frankfurt, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1609. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemp. vellum. Title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 3 series of 42, 43, and 32 full-page woodcut plates, resp. showing exercises with the musket, the firelock, and the pike. (48; 44; 36) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  German  Militaria  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All you need to know about life in the country View picture(s) 16 GROEN, Jan van der & Pieter NIJLANDT. Den Nederlantschen Hovenier, zijnde het 1. deel van  het vermakelijk land-leven. beschrijvende alderhande  prinçelijke en heerlijke lust-hoven en hof-steden,  en hoe men deselve, met veelderley uytnemenede boomen,  bloemen en kruyden, kan beplanten, bezaeijen, en verçieren.  Met noch omtrent 200. modellen van bloem-perken, parterres,  dool-hoven, priëlen, lat-werken, en zonne-wysers.-  Den Verstandigen Hovenier, over de twaelf maenden van  't jaer. zijnde het ii. deel van het vermakelyk lant-leven.  Beschrijvende , hoe men op de beste en bequaemste maniere  sal hoven, thuynen, lust-hoven en boomgaerden verordineren,  bereyden, beplanten, en bezaeijen. Als mede, Hoe men  alderhande ooft en fruyt, kruyden en bloemen, wortelen  en zaden, op sijn behoorlijke tijt zal vergaderen.-  De Medicyn-winkel, of ervaren huys-houder: zijnde het  iii. deel van het vermakelyk land-leven. Onderwijsende,  hoe men binnen en buyten de steden heylsame medicijnen  voor de gebreken van menschen en beesten, sal toemaken  en bereyden. Als mede Den naerstigen byen-Houder. Noch is hier achter bygevoeght Den Verstandigen Kok. Amsterdam, Wed. van Gijsbert de Groot, 1711-1721. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Later half marbled calf, with paper title-label mounted on spine. With engraved frontispiece, 2 titles, 71 full-page plates, mostly engraved, partly in woodcut, showing views of famous houses and gardens, illustrations of garden-work, garden architecture, numerous plans of gardens, and 7 woodcuts in text in the 1st part; engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations of garden-work on full-page engraved plate, and 2 woodcuts in text, one showing a view in a vineyard, in the 2nd part; and large engraved illustration on 3 titles, respectively showing a pharmacy for men and beasts, a bee-hive-yard, and cooks in their kitchen, full-page woodcut plate of a horse and a cow, and 2 woodcuts in text on distilling in the 3rd part. (30), 103, (3); (8), 84, (4); 88 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Dutch  Engravings  Gardens  Gastronomy  Medicine  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Indian fables: original Dutch edition, from the library of the Duke of Arenberg View picture(s) 17 HEYNS, Zacharias. Voorbeelsels der oude wyse, handelende van trouw, ontrouw, list, haet, gheswindicheyt, ende alle andere menschelijcke gheneghentheden. Wit d'Indische sprake, in d'Arabische, Hebreische ende Latijnsche overgheset, ende nu in de Duytsche vertaelt, verçiert met vele rijm-spreucken, ende figueren. Amsterdam & Zwolle, Broer Jansz. for Zacharias Heyns (in Zwolle), 1623. Sm. 8vo. 19th-century calf, spine ribbed with brown morocco title label, sides blind-stamped with triple fillets in a geometrical pattern decorated with small stamps of animal emblems and with the coat of arms of Arenberg in centre on both sides, green painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 101 woodcuts in text, many composed from blocks cut in small parts and joined together in order to get the correct illustration for the fable text, including 9 woodcuts decorated by ornamental borders at either side. 8, 125, (3) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Dutch  Fable Books  India  Provenance  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The influential first German encyclopaedia translated into Dutch View picture(s) 18 HÜBNER, Johann. De nieuwe, vermeerderde en verbeterde kouranten-tolk, of zakelyk, historisch- en staatkundig woordenboek, waar in zo wel van den lateren als tot den tegenwoordigen tyd de verscheide godsdiensten en geestelyke ordens; de landen, koningryken, republyken, staaten, steden, vestingen, kastelen, en passen; de zeën, meiren, eylanden, rivieren, havens, bergen, voorgebergtens, en bosschen; de namen der gekroonde hoofden, de geslachtliniën der vorstelyke en grafelyke huizen; de gezamentlyke ridder-ordens; societeiten, wapens; ryks-en-land-dagen; gerichtshoven; civile en militaire bedieningen te water en te land; benevens het onderscheid der mylen, der munten; maten en gewichten; de benamingen der zaken, die in de bouw- en krygskunde, artillery, campementen, slagordens, belegeringen, scheepvaarten, zee costuimen enz. in gebruik zyn ... Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans en Zoon, 1748. 4to. Contemporary blind tooled vellum, title in ink on ribbed spine. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black, woodcut head-pieces and initials. (8), 1260 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Art  Dictionaries  Dutch  Engravings  Netherlands  Science  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very early and rare catalogue of incunables View picture(s) 19 HUPFAUER, Paul. Druckstücke aus dem XV. Jahrhunderte, welche sich in der Bibliothek des regulirten Chorstiftes Beuerberg befinden. Augsburg, Conrad Heinrich Stage, 1794. 8vo. 19th-century half dark blue morocco, spine ribbed and gilt. With 23 woodcut plates, one of which is folding, and several facsimiles in the text. (22), 384 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Incunabula  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the first astronomical book published in Japan. Printed from 218 woodblocks with 66 illustrations View picture(s) 20 IGUCHI Tsunemori. Tenmon Zukai. Osaka, Ikeuchi Hachibee, Kawachiya Kihei, 1689. 5 volumes. (22.5 x 16 cm). In the original Japanese stab-sewn stiff paper wrappers with woodblock-printed labels giving the title and volume numbers. In a modern folding case. An illustrated Japanese treatise on astronomy, printed entirely from woodblocks on the outer pages of folded double-leaves, with 4 double-page illustrations, 62 further illustrations (many full-page) on 46 pages, 4 woodcut seals (2 black on white and 2 white on black) on 2 pages, and tables of numerical data. With the text in Japanese. The illustrations include 2 celestial charts, an armillary sphere (with legs in the form of dragons), a terrestrial hemisphere (showing East Asia, the East Indies, New Guinea and Alaska), numerous geocentric diagrams of the earth, sun, moon, planets and stars, diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses and of the phases of the moon, and a representation of the traditional Buddhist cosmology. 3, 2, 6, 21; 31; 37; 64; 47, 7 double leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Japan  Science  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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