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Highly detailed and very rare issues of annual periodicals on French Polynesia,
mainly concerning Tahiti and Moorea

[FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'année commune 1863.
Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, August 1863.
With: (2) [IDEM]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'an 1864 (title on the front wrapper: Annuaire de Taïti pour 1864).Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, October 1864. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. With two original photographs in the 1863 edition, both reproducing maps, one showing the islands Tahiti and Moorea and the other showing archipels which were then under French protectorate. Original publisher's printed wrappers. VIII, 372; [4], LX, 126, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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The well-known "Enkhuizer Almanac" for the year 1819, with an article on vaccination

GELDER, Jacob van. De van ouds vermaarde Erve Stichters Enkhuiser (...), voor den jare 1819. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkt., kermiss[en], paard[en], beest[en] en leermarkt[en]. in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende; het op en ondergaan de maan, benevens de watergetijden, enz. Berekend op den middag-cirkel van Amsterdam door Jacob de Gelder.
Amsterdam, H. van Leeuwen, [1818]. 16mo (ca. 9 x 7 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, the title and calendar printed in red and black, 12 half-page woodcut illustrations (1 for each month), and 11 full-page woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's printed wrappers, with the title on the front and back. [252] pp. Full description
€ 500
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With fine etchings from Adriaen van Ostade

[GIJSEN, Jan van or Aaron van HULKENROY]. Het vermaaklyk buitenleven, of de zingende en speelende boerenvreugd. Met zangkunst verrykt, en tot gemak der speelers op de G sleutel gesteld.
Haarlem, Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, 1716. 4to. With an etched frontispiece, an etching of a mermaid on the title, 2 folding etchings, 2 full-page etchings, and 21 etchings in the text, all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. Early 19th-century marbled boards. [8], 63, [1] pp. Full description
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Very rare Dutch songbook

GODDAEUS, Conrad. Nieuwe gedichten. Sonder rym, naa de Griexe en Latynse dicht-maten, op allerhande soorten van verssen, ingestelt. Noit voor desen in Neder-duits gesien, noch gebruiklik.
Harderwijk, Joannes Toll, 1656. Oblong 4to. With woodcut of King David playing his harp on the title page, a fine engraved frontispiece with an open music book below the title in centre, which is flanked by King David playing his harp and Horace playing his lyre, each on a pedestal, with a white swan above and publisher's address below. Contemporary mottled calf. [4], 184, [2] pp. Full description
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Very rare French songbook

[GOETTHEM, Pieter van (attributed)]. La lyre d'Apollon en poësies meslées, et les mieux choisies de ce temps. Composées par un Zelandois, & amateur dicelles. En cançons, Aïrs, rondeaux, estrenes, & epitaphes, &c.
Middelburg, Pieter van Goetthem, 1657. Oblong 16mo. With the title page, and page 5 and 7 printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints. 432 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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One of the earliest recorded copies of the Deventer almanac

GRAPHEUS, Rodolphus. Schrijf almanack, offte calender na[er] de[n] olden stijl, op dat nije schalt iaer [...] MDXCVI.
(Colophon:) Deventer, Simon Steenbergen, [1595]. 16mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month), and 2 woodcut illustrations in the text, the work is printed in red and black. Later vellum wrappers, with the manuscript year of publication on the back. [32] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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How to teach young children to pronounce the various sounds of the Dutch language

HEIJNINGEN BOSCH, Mattheus van. Figuurlijk onderwijs. Abe-prentjes voor moeder en kind.
Groningen, Mattheus van Heijningen Bosch, 1820. Oblong 32mo (ca. 7.8 x 9.5 cm). With 31 small woodcuts on 16 pages, illustrating the pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet which are printed in red, all pages are framed in a typographical border. Original blue wrappers with title printed on the front and an advertisement for educational booklets by the same publisher on the back, both in a lithographed floral border. 18, [4] pp. Full description
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Collected poems by the owner of one of the most famous Dutch Alba amicorum

HEYBLOCQ, Jacobus. Farrago Latino-Belgica, of mengelmoes van Latijnsche en Duitsche gedichten, gepast op allerhande gelegentheden en voorvallen.
Amsterdam, Pieter van den Berge, 1662 (engraved title: 1663). 8vo. With the title printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, an engraved title, a full-page engraved view of 't Huys Mannepat, an engraved illustration in the text, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [24], 267, [1] pp. Full description
€ 950
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The collected poems, plays, and songs, bound with the biography of king Henry IV

HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon and Jacob vander BURGH (ed.). Gedichten.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1636.
With: (2) HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon. Henrik de Gróte. Zijn leven en bedrijf. Naerder overzien, ende vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1638. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work, an engraved portrait of Pieter Dirkszoon Hasselaer in the text, and 30 engraved emblems by Christoffel le Blon in ad 1, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik de Grote in ad 2, and several decorated woodcut initials, head-, and tailpieces in both works. Contemporary vellum. [2 blank], [6], "464" [= 460]; [8], 203, [5] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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