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The second ever work to be printed in Didot's microscopic Polyamatype

HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus and Auguste FILON (editor) Opera Omnia, recensuit Filon.
Paris, A. Sautelet, 1828. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue morocco, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, a floral border in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a single fillet frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk end papers. VIII, 229, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography Classical Antiquity Miniature Books
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Famous poem with moral lessons for unmarried women, married women and widows

HOUWAERT, Jean Baptista. Pegasides pleyn. Ofte den lust-hof der maechden.
Volume 1: Delft, Adriaen Gerritsen, 1615 (colophon: 1614); volume 2: Leiden, Jan Paets Jacobszoon, 1611. 8vo. Volume 1 with an engraved title-page by Jan Wiericx and 8 full-page engravings by Jan Wiericx; volume 2 with the main text set in civilité type. Uniform contemporary vellum. XLVI, [2], 867, [1]; 464, 1-471, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Dutch Literature Education & Pedagogy Women History
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Dutch translation of the first schoolbook for geography to be used in Europe

HUBNER, Johann. Kort begrijp der oude en nieuwe geographije; zijnde eene beknopte onderwijzinge der land en kaartkennis; verhandeld in een beschrijvinge der geheele vlakte des aardboodems ... Met een korte schets, tot kennisse der globe. Deze twede druk, merkelijk verholpen; met ... aanwijzing der beste landkaarten ...
Amsterdam, Nicolaas ten Hoorn, 1711. 8vo. With Ten Hoorns woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating a NTH cypher monogram, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [52], 766, [56] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Geography School & Textbooks
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Dutch edition of a popular German encyclopaedia

HÜBNER, Johann. De nieuwe, vermeerderde en verbeterde kouranten-tolk, of zakelyk, historisch- en staatkundig woordenboek.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans en Zoon, 1748. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black.
With: (2) HÜBNER, Johann and Arnold Heinrich WESTERHOFF. Algemeen kunstwoorden-boek der wetenschappen. .
Leiden, Dirk Haak en Samuel Luchtmans, 1734. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary blind tooled vellum, with title in ink on spine. [8], 1260; [16], 919 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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Beautiful 19th-century illustrations for all of Victor Hugo's plays, printed on silk

[HUGO, Victor]. [Théatre. Gravures sur soie].
[Paris, J. Lemmonyer, G. Richard and Cie, E. Testard, between 1885-1895]. 4to (ca. 27 x 24.5 cm). With 30 full-page engravings on silk. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, marbled end papers. Bound by the French bookbinder Louis Guétant (1848-1936), signed in the bottom turn in of the front board. [30] silk ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Art & Art History Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography France French Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Prints & Print Series
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Celebrating Gustav Adolf II, 'The Lion of the North' and champion of Protestantism,
magnificently illustrated by Crispijn vande Passe II

HULSIUS, Bartholomaeus. Den onderganck des Roomschen Arents, door den Noordschen Leeuw ...
Amsterdam, Crispijn vande Passe, 1642. 4to. Engraved allegorical title page with engraved title in a central panel below Fame sitting on a swan. Beautifully bound in 19th-century light brown gold-tooled calf (1850s or 1860s?), each board with triple along the edges, decorated spine with red and green labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, signed "PETIT SUCCr DE SIMIER": Charles Petit operated a Paris bindery from 1848 to 1873 as successor to René Simier (1772-1843), relieur du roi from 1815, and his son. [12], 91, [1 blank] pp. plus engraved title page. Full description
€ 15,000
Bindings Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Emblems Germany History / 17th Century Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Scandinavia
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Catalogue of van Hulthem’s enormous library

HULTHEM, Charles van (A. VOISIN, cataloguer). Bibliotheca Hulthemiana ou Catalogue méthodique de la riche et précieuse collection de livres et des manuscrits.
Ghent, J. Poelman, 1836-1837. 6 volumes. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of Charles van Hulthem as frontispiece. Contemporary half goatskin. Full description
€ 2,500
Auction Catalogues & Bookselling Bibliography & Biography Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Roman Classics Literature Plantin Press
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Pamphlet advertising the independence of Hedjaz

[HUSSEIN BIN ALI, Sharif of Mecca and Frederick Stanley MAUDE]. The king of Hedjaz and Arab independence ... together with the proclamation issued at Baghdad by Lieut.- General Sir Stanley Maude, after the occupation of that city by the British forces.
London, Hayman, Christy and Lilly Ltd., 1917. 8vo. With a photographic portrait of Hussein bin Ali for frontispiece and a folding facsimile proclamation (38 x 28 cm). Original stapled wrappers with red lettering on front wrapper. 14, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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A very rare critical edition of an almost unknown Samaritan Pentateuch manuscript

HWIID, Andreas Christian. Specimen ineditae versionis Arabico-Samaritanae Pentateuchi e codice manuscripto Bibliothecae Barberinae.
Rome, Praesidum Facultate, 1780. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, two decorated woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece. Latin, Samaritan and Arabic type throughout, and occasionally Coptic and Greek type. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, with a red morrocco title label lettered in gold on the spine. 63, [1], XXXVIII, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Greek & Non-Western Types Language & Linguistics Science
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Second edition of a celebrated work on religion in Persia

HYDE, Thomas. Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1760. 4to. With 21 engraved plates (including 5 folding) by Michael Burghers. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [40], 580 pp. Full description
€ 1,800
Archaeology Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Non-Western Types Iran / Persia Language & Linguistics Philosophy & Humanism
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