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Seas of plunder: Dunkirk privateering in the Spanish Armada, 1638

[PAMPHLET- SPANISH - MARITIME]. Relacion de las presas, que los vageles, y fragatas de la real armada de Dunquerque, y navios de particulares hizieron en las costas de Francia, Inglaterra, y otras partes, desde primero de Mayo hasta ultimo de Diziembre del año de 1638.
Madrid, Diego Diaz, 1639. Folio (c. 29 x 20.1 cm). Unbound, housed in a plastic folder. [2] ll. Full description
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The fine art of woodcutting

PAPILLON, Jean Michel. Traité historique de la gravure en bois. Ouvrage enrichie des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure. Volume I. Contenant toute la partie Historique. Volume II. Contenant tous les principes de cet art. Volume III. Supplément. Contenant plusieurs faits historiques, de nouvelles manieres, servant à perfectionner cet art, les arrêts rendus en faveur de la gravure, & une table des matieres des trois volumes.
Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1766. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of the author, a large woodcut vignette on the title page of each part, a full-page armorial woodcut to the dedication to Marquis de Boyer de Bandol, a full-page woodcut portrait of Saint Andrew printed in chiaroscuro in the first part; 16 full-page woodcut plates illustrating the tools and technique of the art of woodcutting and 5 full-page plates illustrating the various stages of woodcut colour-printing in chiaroscuro in the second part; 2 full-page plates with 12 small woodcut illustrations each and 2 woodcut plates showing the tools and technique of erasing and of making shadows in woodcuts in the supplement; and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces, monograms, vignettes, and illustrations in the text (several full-page), throughout the whole work. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title and volume label on the spine, red edges, marbled endpapers. XXXII, 540; XV, [1], 388; [4], 124 pp. Full description
€ 14,500
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1899 French-Japanese dictionary, printed in Hongkong

PAPINOT, Edmond. Dictionnaire Japonais-Français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie du Japon. Suivi de 17 appendices sur les empereurs, shogun, nengo, sectes bouddhistes, provinces, départements, mesures, etc.
Hongkong, Imprimerie de Nazareth, 1899. 8vo. With an engraved printer's device on the title page, engraved tailpieces and Japanese characters. Contemporary blind-tooled glazed purple calico over boards, title in gold on spine. VII, 297 pp. Full description
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Mysterious biography of the mythical first king of Paraguay,
who had allegedly saved the locals from the oppression of the Jesuits

[PARAGUAY - KING NICOLAS I]. Histoire de Nicolas I. Roy du Paraguai, et Empereur des Mamelus.
Saint Paul [= São Paulo, but the work was likely printed somewhere in Western Europe], 1756. 8vo. With a typographical ornament on the title-page. Contemporary brown paste paper wrappers. 88 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Four interesting works by a famous scientist and clergyman

PARDIES, Ignace Gaston. Oeuvres de mathematiques. Contenant les elemens de geometrie, discours du mouvement local, la statique et deux machines propres à faire les cadrans.
The Hague, Adriaan Moetjens, 1691. 4 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 9 engraved plates (5 folding, 4 full-page), and numerous woodcut geometrical figures in the text. Comprising:
(1) Elemens de geometrie.
(2) Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le mouvement de la lumière.
(3) La statique ou la science des forces mouvantes.
(4) Deux machines propres à faire les quadrans avec très-grande facilité.
Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red mottled edges. [12], 163, [5]; 294, [2] pp. Full description
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A visit to the Holy City in 1861

PÂRIS, François-Edmond. Souvenirs de Jérusalem. Album dessiné par M. le contre-amiral Pâris ...
Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, [1862]. Large folio (ca. 64 x 49 cm). With an etched and coloured vignette plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre mounted on the title-page and 14 lithographs, including 12 printed in colour, by Albert Adam, Charles claude Bachelier, Hubert Clerget, Charles Fichot, and Jules Gaildrau after François-Edmond Pâris. Stored loosely, as issued, in the original paper wrapper showing the title and in a modern half brown cloth portfolio. [4] pp. and 14 lithographed plates. Full description
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Catalogue of a collection of antiquities bought for the Berlin Museum

PASSALACQUA, Giuseppe. Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Égypte ... contenant: 1. Le catalogue ... 2. Des notes et observations ... 3. Des notices et dissertationes scientifiques ...
Paris, Galerie dAntiquites Égyptiennes, 1826. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographic plates. Later paper-covered boards, rebacked in cloth. XV, [1], 303, [1] pp. Full description
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Religious manuscript in German in a fine binding

[PEIKHART, Franz (original compiler)]. Andachtsübungen eines Christen vor die Morgens- und Abendszeit, Heilige Mess, Beicht und Communion: mehrentheils aus denen Psalmen Davidis gezogen.
[Vienna?, ca. 1800]. 8vo. Manuscript in German on laid paper. 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled green morocco, spine with raised bands and red morocco label lettered "A.M.C.Z." in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins, paste-paper endleaves, gilt edges. [62] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
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Good copy of a rare entomological bibliography

PERCHERON, A. Bibliographie Entomologique, comprenant l'indication par ordre alphabétique 1. Des ouvrages entomologiques publiés en France et à l'étranger, depuis les temps les plus réculés jusques et y compris l'année 1834; 2. Des monographies et mémoires contenus dans les recueils, journaux et collections académiques françaises et étrangères.
Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1837. 2 volumes bound in 1.. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine with gilt lettering. XII, 326; [4], 376 pp. Full description
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Rare first and only edition of the biography of one of the most powerful viceroys Portuguese-India ever had

PEREIRA DE MACEDO, Francisco de Santo Agostinho. Vida del grande d. Lvis de Attayde, tercer Conde de Attogvia, y Virrey de la India dos vezes.
Madrid, Imprenta del Reino, 1633. 4to. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [11] ,[1 blank], 168 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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