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Extremely rare atlas with 76 very large hand-coloured maps

WIT, Frederick de. Atlas maior.
Amsterdam, Johannes Covens & Cornelis Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Imperial folio (53 x 35.5 cm). With engraved title-page and 76 double page (or in 8 cases larger folding) engraved maps, the title-page and all maps and their decorations coloured by a contemporary hand. Half tanned sheepskin (ca. 1900), gold-tooled spine. Full description
€ 85,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps Latin America Malta Netherlands North America South America
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Extremely rare military publication teaching members of the PAI force about Iraq during World War II

[WWII - IRAQ - BRITISH MILITARY GUIDE]. Services guide to Iraq.
[Baghdad?, PAI force G. H. Q. Welfare Committee, ca. 1942]. 14.5 x 11 cm. With two full-page maps of Iraq and Baghdad on page 24 and 25, and a full-page map of the "Baghdad Amenities area" on the back wrapper. Further with 6 pages of advertisements, serving as endleaves. Original publisher's beige printed paper wrappers. 46, [2] pp. Full description
€ 750
Iran / Persia Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom
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First French translation of a classic work on the discovery and conquest of Peru

ZARATE, Augustin de. Histoire de la decouverte et de la conquete du Perou.
Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme, 1700. 2 volumes. 12vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a folding engraved map of Peru, 11 engraved plates, and 2 folding engraved plates. Further with two different woodcut vignettes on the red and black title-pages of both volumes, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut headpieces and headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a large ornamental woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [1], [1 blank], [36], 307, (1 blank); [1], [1 blank], [4], 408 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Latin America Peru South America Spain
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Splendid ceremonies for the presentation of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Prague 1585, with 20 plates

ZEHENDTNER VOM ZEHENDTGRÜB, Paul. Ordenliche Beschreibung mit was stattlichen Ceremonien und Zierlichheiten, die Röm. Kay. May. unser aller gnedigster Herr, samt etlich andern Ertzhertzogen, Fürsten und Herrn, den Orden dess Guldin Flüss, in disem [15]85. Jahr zu Prag und Landshüt, empfangen und angenommen.
Dillingen, Johann Mayer, 1587. 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). With title printed in red and black, 7 full-page engraved illustrations (showing the collar (chain) of the Order, the Emperor Rudolf II in his robes and 5 coat-of-arms), and 13 large folding engraved plates showing the splendid ceremonies held at Prague and Landshut, probably all drawn by Anthony Boys. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin; rebacked with most of the original backstrip laid down. [1], [1 blank], 155, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 28,000
Central Europe Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Costumes & Uniforms Czech Republic & Slovakia Early Printing - 16th century Music, Theatre & Dance Prints & Print Series
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Scathing critique of the standard German pharmacopoeia that was finally to lead to its reformation. 1672 Dordrecht edition of two works published in Vienna in 1652

ZWELFER, Joannes. Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata. ...
Including: ZWELFER, Joannes. Pharmacopoeia regia, seu dispensaterium ...
Dordrecht, Vincent Caimax, 1672. 2 volumes. 4to. With a general title-page and 2 divisional titles, 5 half-page engravings in vol. 2. Mottled calf over boards, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges. [6], 472; [473]-876, [36], [8], 66, [2], [8], 239 pp. Full description
€ 950
Germany Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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