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17th-century experimental multi-colour printing: magnificent views of the greatest Dutch palaces

CALL, Jan van; Petrus SCHENCK. [A series of 15 magnificent color-printed plates of the most impressive Dutch palaces of the Stadtholders: Het Loo (Apeldoorn), Huis ten Bosch (The Hague), Honselaarsdijk (near Naaltwijk) and Sorgvliet (The Hague).]
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenck, ca. 1695. 4to (20 x 24.5 cm). 15 (from a series of 25) colour-printed plates (plate size ca. 13 x 17 cm). Loose leaves. Full description

€ 6,500

Art & Art History Colour Printing / Chromolithography Netherlands Prints & Print Series

The Schenckenschans fortress captured by Spanish mercenaries, illustrated, and described from the Spanish perspective

[SCHENCKENSCHANS FORTRESS]. Breve y verdadera, descripcion, del ynexpugnable fuerte Schencken como por yndustria de la gente de su magestad catolica se gano en 28 de julio anno 1635 annos ...
Madrid, printed for the widow of Juan Gonçalez, 1635. Broadsheet (ca. 40 x 26 cm). With a large engraving in the top half of the sheet (20 x 22.1 cm). Full description

€ 4,500

Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Charts & Maps History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Spain

Rare first systematic bibliography of European pharmacopoeiae issued to ca. 1820

SCHERER, Alexander Nicolaus. Codex medicamentarius Europaeus. Sectio septima. Literaturam pharmacopoearum exhibens.
Leipzig & Soravia, Friedrich Fleischer, 1822. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, green paper over boards, gold-tooled spine. XXXI, 232 pp. Full description

€ 450

Bibliography & Biography Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Pioneering work of Arabic bibliography

SCHNURRER, Christian Friedrich von. Bibliotheca Arabica.
Halle, I.C. Hendel, 1811. 8vo. Set in roman types, with occasional passages in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Greek. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. XXI, [3], 518, [515]-529, [1] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy

Schultens's grammar of biblical Hebrew, printed and published in Transylvania

SCHULTENS, Albert. Institutiones ad fundamenta linguæ Hebrææ.
Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg), Sándor (Alexander) Szathmári Pap, 1743. 4to. Set in roman and italic types with extensive Hebrew, incidental fraktur, Greek (2 sizes) and Arabic, and one 3-letter word in Samaritan. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled tanned sheepskin, each board with the Diesbach Belleroche coat of arms, probably a son of Nicolas de Diesbach Belleroche (1668-1735) in Switzerland. [30], 501, [84], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Greek & Non-Western Types Literature

The first comprehensive study of Persian-Islamic miniature painting

SCHULZ, Walter Philipp. Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans.
Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1914. 2 volumes. Folio. With 200 full-page table illustrations in volume 2, mostly black-white. Contemporary blind-tooled red cloth, with the title on the spine, and a decorated title and printers mark on the front board. [XVIII], 246, [2]; [XVI], [400], [2]. Full description

€ 2,950

Art & Art History Calligraphy Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science

The paternoster engraved in the size of a Dutch stuiver

SCHWEICKHARDT, Leonardus. [Business cards].
The Hague, Leonardus Schweickhardt, 1850. 2 cards. Both ca. 4.8 x 7.8 cm. The cards are housed in the original pink paper case. Full description

€ 175

Book History, Printing & Typography Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets

Illustrated account of Antwerp at the start of the 17th century

SCRIBANI, Charles. Antverpia.
Including: [SCHONDONCK, Gilles]. Hê prôtogeneia kai epistrephomonê tychê tês Anbersês.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank page following the main part.
With: (2) SCRIBANI, Charles. Origines Antverpiensium.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page, woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank last page, folding engraved map of Antwerp and 6 double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume; 1st work in 2 parts. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [8], 146, [1], [1 blank]; 1-24; 1-172, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,000

Antwerp Belgium Book History, Printing & Typography Church History & Missions History / 17th Century

First and only edition of an unrecorded 1683 grammar of and guide to the Tuscan Italian language

SEBASTIANI, Pietro de’. Nuovo metodo, che facilita la lingua Toscana disteso con regole grammaticali, ...
Rome, Paolo Moneta, 1683. Small 12mo (14 x 8 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers. [4], 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Italy Literature School & Textbooks

The battle on VOC millions, retrieved by the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VÅGEN - VOC]. Zee-Journael, ofte autentijcq verhael, uyt d'annotatien vande heeren haer hooghmogende volmachtighde inde vloot, der doorluchtighste Geunieerde Republijcque, en andere schriften, aengaende al het gepasseerde, 't zedert 't vertreck vande vloot uyt Spanjaerts-Gat naer de Noort, tot het weder-keeren voor Goeree, met alle voorvallen in zee, ontmoetingen, gevecht in Noorwegen, tempeesten, en wat in 't generael, ende wat in 't particulier voorgevallen, en geschiet is van den 13. Juni tot den 6. Octob. 1665.
Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1665. 4to. Modern marbled boards. [2], 69 pp. Full description