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Saint Petersburg fortification manual with 20 plates, dedicated to Czar Alexander I
one year before Napoleon's invasion of Russia

SÉA. Mémoire sur la fortification permanente, pour servir a la construction d'un front de fortification sur le terrain, ... Nouvelle édition.
Saint Petersburg, Pluchart et comp., 1818. 2 volumes. Large 4to (26 x 21.5 cm & 27.5 x 22 cm). With 20 (of 21?) engraved plates (13 double-page and 7 large folding), and 3 full-page tables. Contemporary half-calf, gold-tooled spines. [12], XIX, [1 blank], 284, [3], [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description
€ 1,500
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Important contemporary account of the Second Anglo-Dutch War,
with additional plates and an early mention of New York

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR]. Kort en bondigh verhael, van 't geene in den oorlogh, tusschen den Koningh van Engelant &c. de h: m: heeren staten der vrye Vereenigde Nederlanden, en den Bisschop van Munster is voorgevallen. Beginnende in den jare 1664 en eyndigende met het sluyten van de Vrede tot Breda, in 't jaer 1667 …
Amsterdam, printed for Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1667.
With: [DUTCH REPUBLIC - STATES GENERAL]. Articulen van vrede ende verbondt, tusschen den … heere Karel, de tweede … Koningh van Groot Britannien ... ende de hoogh mogende heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Nederlantsche Provintien …
The Hague, Hillebrant van Wouw, 1667. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a half-page engraving on the title page, a folding engraved map, a folding engraved plate, 9 half-page engravings in the text, and 2 additional large folding engraved plates in ad 1; ad 2 with a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. 255, [1]; [24] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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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
€ 2,950
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Prayer Book for the French Dauphin wholly engraved by the daughter of a well-known Paris writing master

SENAULT, Elisabeth (engraver). Heures nouvelles dédiées à Monseigneur Dauphin. Ecrites et gravées par Elisabeth Senault.
Paris, Chez Claude De Hansy, [before 1715 (ca. 1690?)]. 12mo. With the text fully engraved and set within a decorative border, several engraved floral initials, and head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by Charles Petit. [4], 212 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Stunning, wholly engraved book of hours, dedicated to the dauphine Marie Anne Christine Victoire de Bavière.
A masterpiece of Baroque calligraphic showmanship

SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.
Paris, "l'autheur" and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker. [1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece. Full description
€ 6,000
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