Highlights

ALBERTI, Lodewyk and Ludwig Gottlieb PORTMAN. Zuid-Afrikaansche gezichten.
Amsterdam, Maaskamp, [1810]. 3 works in 2 volumes. Oblong 1mo (ca 47 x 62 cm). With a letterpress leaf, a watercolour (ca. 35 x 44 cm), and 4 large aquatint views of the same size, engraved by L. Portman with letterpress captions underneath, all coloured by a contemporary hand.
With: (2) [WATERCOLOUR]. Bijeenkomst van den Hoog. Ed. Gestr. Heer Generaal J. W. Janssens ... met het Opperste Hoofd der Kaffers.
(3) ALBERTI, Lodewyk. De Kaffers aan de zuidkust van Afrika, natuur en geschiedkundig beschreven ... Met platen en kaarten.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1810. 8vo. With engraved title-page, aquatint folding plan, with coastal view, of Algoa Bay, and 2 stipple-engraved plates, all but the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf; rebacked, with new endpapers.The plates are housed in a later box of brown quarter calf, grey cloth sides, and a brown calf title label on the front, lettered in gold. [1] l. text + 4 plates and 1 watercolour; [8], VIII, [4], 260, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[AMSTERDAM - WALLOON COMMUNITY]. Ordres et reglemens de la Maison des Orphelins, des vieillards, & des vielles femmes de l'église Walonne d'Amsterdam. Avec des prières à l'usage de cette maison. Nouvelle edition.
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772. Large 4to (21.5 x 27 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page and a divisional title page for the Prieres, a l'usage de la maison des orphelins walons (on leaf I3r). Further with 2 woodcut headpieces. Near contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. VIII, 91, [8], [1 blank], [6] pp. interleaved with blank pages. Full description

BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Nieuwe kerkelyke geografische zak- en reisatlas der vereenigde Nederlanden. Als mede van de landen der generaliteit, ingericht, naar de kerkelyke verdeeling dezer landen, in synoden, benevens derzelver onderhoorige klassen. Zeer dienstig en gemakkelyk, niet alleen voor de Eerw. heeren proponenten, om te zien onder welke classen de vakante plaatzen leggen, maar ook voor anderen, die de provintien willen doorreizen, om de reisroute te neemen.
Amsterdam, De erven Dirk onder de Linden en zoon, 1794. Large, narrow 8vo. With a folding typographical title page and 13 folding double-page engraved maps by J. van Jagen, all coloured by a contemporary hand. The maps are mounted on stubs for ease of use (the maps fold out/open flat). Contemporary half tan mottled calf, red and black decorated paper sides, with remnants of a white paper label at the foot of the spine, and with two 20th-century library labels (of the "Verzameling Oudheidkamer Twente") on the back board. [14] folded leaves. Full description

BEKE, Charles Tilstone. The sources of the Nile: being a general survey of the basin of that river, and of its head-streams; with the history of Nilotic discovery.
London, James Madden, 1860. 8vo. With 5 maps (1 folding, 4 full-page), a folding plate, and several illustrations and tables in the text. Original publisher's embossed purple pebbled cloth, with the publisher lettered in gold at the foot of the spine. XV, [4], 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BELLARMINO, Roberto. Dottrina Cristiana composta dall...
Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1786. Large 4to. With 4 woodcuts on 3 plates, 1 full-page woodcut on the back of the title-page, and a few woodcut initials, factotums and decorations, as well as frames, factotums and decorations built up from arabesque and rococo typographic ornaments. Set in three columns in Ethiopic, roman and Arabic type. Contemporary vellum, gold-tooled spine title, red sprinkled edges. 97, [1] pp. Full description

BELLARMINO, Roberto. Dichiarazione piú copiosa della dottrina Cristiana ...
Rome, [Propaganda Fide], 1770.
With: (2) BORGIA, Stefano. Irsad li-ajl al-i'tiraf wa-tanawul al-qurban, ... [= Instructions for confession and communion]
[Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1770?]. Both works are set entirely in Arabic type. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (18 x 12 cm). Grey laid paper wrappers (ca. 1823). 411, [1 blank]; 109, [1 blank], [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonycke boeken des Oude en des Nieuwen Testaments ...
Amsterdam, Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1676.
With:
(2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Amsterdam, for Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1677.
(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. De CL Psalmen des propheten Davids ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15.3 x 9.3 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved general title page, the woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on the verso of the title page, a small woodcut decorated initial , and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, the woodcut coat of arms below the "acte van consent" on the verso of the title page, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, all psalms are accompanied by musical notation. Late 18th- or early 19th-century brown sheepskin with late 17th-century silver fittings, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. 338; [2], "109" [= 107], [1 blank]; [98] ll. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture ...
Dordrecht, Jacob & Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam jr., 1714. Including:
- Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Dordrecht, Hendrik, Jacob, & Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick and Pieter Rotterdam, 1702.
- Apocryphe ...
Dordrecht, Hendrik, Jacob, & Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick and Pieter Rotterdam, 1702.
With: (2) BASNAGE, Jacob and A. 't Groot waerelds tafereel, waar in alle heilige en waereldsche geschiedenissen en veranderingen zedert de schepping des waerelds, tot het uiteinde van de openbaring van Johannes, door konst tafereelen historieel en sinbeeldig worden afgemaalt ...
Amsterdam, Jacob Lindenberg, 1715.2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. Large folio (46.5 x ca. 28 cm). With 3 hand-coloured engraved titles, including 1 heightened with gold, 6 hand-coloured and heightened with gold double-page maps by Daniel Stoopendaal, a full-page hand-coloured engraved portrait at the start of the work, 4 hand-coloured headpieces (3 engraved, 1 woodcut), and 3 hand-coloured engraved tailpieces. Ad 2 with 84 full-page engraved plates (55 plates with 2 illustrations each and 29 plates with one illustration and a detailed engraved vignette), a hand-coloured engraved portrait of Basnage, a double-page view of the temple in Jerusalem by Romeyn de Hooghe, and a large hand-coloured engraved vignette on the typographical title page. Further with letterpress title pages for the New Testament and Apocrypha (both dated 1702), and a half-title page for the Prophets, woodcut head- and tailpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled brown leather with brass cornerpieces and clasps, and with the title lettered in gold on the spine, bound by the most important 18th-century Amsterdam binderies: the Double Drawer Handle Bindery (see Storm van Leeuwen I, pp. 228-284). [20], 302, [2], 134, [12], 164, [2], 66; 168, 19, 21-92, 66 pp. Full description

[BINDING - SILVER]. [Pair of embossed silver book covers, with two engraved silver clasps].
[Netherlands?, ca. 1725?]. Pair of embossed silver book covers (34 x 25 x 3 cm); each cover with a large scrollwork cartouche surrounded by extensive vine and flower decorations and with medallion portraits in each of the four corners, the front showing the crucifixion flanked by Mary and St. John (with an "INRI" scroll above, flanked by a crescent moon and a sun, and a skull and crossbones below), with portraits of four saints, each with a blank scroll (above left bearded with a regal crown; above right clean-shaven with a round-topped mitre; below left and right bare-headed and bearded), the back showing the resurrection with an angel and two astonished guards, with portraits of the four Evangelists. Full description

CARTER, George. De belangryke geschiedenis van het verongelukken op de Kaffers kust, van het Engelsch Oost-Indisch schip De Grosvenor, bevattende een beschryving van de verbazende rampen en wederwaardigheden, die de geredde schepelingen, in het doortrekken van woestynen en onbewoonde landstreken, hebben ondergaan, samengesteld uit het verslag van John Hynes, een der behouden gebleeven schipbreukelingen. Uit het Engelsch.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allard, 1801. 8vo. With 1 folding lithographed plate (16.5 x 18.5 cm) of the rescue of the passengers.Half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spine with black label. VIII, 158 pp. Full description