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First edition of De Arte Cabalistica: A humanist defence of Jewish wisdom

REUCHLIN, Johann. De arte cabalistica libri tres Leoni X. dicati.
(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm, March 1517. Small folio (20.5 x 29.8 cm). With Reuchlin's woodcut decorated coat-of-arms on the title page. 19th-century blind-stamped half calf. [4], LXXIX, [1] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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The Low Countries: a geographical and historical description in German,
fitting in the publishing programme of the firm of Christoph Riegel in Frankfurt am Main

[RIEGEL, Christoph]. Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung der freyvereinigten Staaten und Spannischen Niederlanden, in gewisse und sonderbare XVII. Länder abgetheilet ...
Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1691. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, 61 full-page engraved plans, and 59 full-page engraved views of the cities and fortifications of the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum with an oval supralibros mounted in the centre of both boards, red edges, leather closing ties. [8], 1078, [8] pp. + 120 engravings. Full description
€ 2,500
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Collection of three rare farces

SACHS, Hans. Wie syben Weyber uber ihre ungeratene Menner klagen.
(Colophon:) Nuremberg, Hermann Hamsing, [ca. 1553].
With:
(2) IDEM. Der Teuffel lest kein Landsknecht mer inn die Helle faren.
(Colophon:) Nuremberg, Georg Merkel, 1559.
(3) IDEM. Drey guter nützlicher lehr einer Nachtigal.
Nuremberg, Valentin Neuber, [ca. 1560]. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work. Modern marbled boards. [4]; [4]; [4] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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Fully engraved and hand-coloured book of hours dedicated to the Grand Dauphin

SENAULT, Elisabeth. Heures nouvelles dédiées a Monseigneur Dauphin.
Paris, Claude de Hansy, [before 1715 (ca. 1690?)]. 12mo. With engraved frames, initials, and other decoration throughout the work. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, sewn on six supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a version of the title ("Heure de Cour") is lettered in gold in the second compartment, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, star-patterend brocade endpapers. The whole kept in a blind-tooled marbled brown morocco case, the interior is lined with floral decorated paper. [4], 212 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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A Dutch Humanist’s vision of the Psalms

SNOY, Reinier. Psalterium Davidicum paraphrasibus brevibus illustratum ...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1535. 8vo. With woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut decorated initials and Hillenius' woodcut device on the final page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf in a panel design, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a central panel on both boards surrounded by a decorative frame with portraits in medaillions, with remnants of 2 pairs of green closing ties. [16], 233, [2] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
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First edition of Spinoza's most important works

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de].

Opera posthuma.
[Amsterdam, Israël de Paull], 1677.
Comprising:
(1) Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata.
(2) Tractatus politicus.
(3) Tractatus de intellectus emendatione.
(4) Epistolae doctorum quorundam virorum.
(5) Compendium grammatices linguae Hebraeae. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several woodcut figures in the text, 9 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern gold-tooled brown calf, with a dark red morocco title and author label on the spine, lettered in gold, the year of publication lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, red edges. [40], 614, [32]; [2], 112, [8] pp.

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€ 11,500
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3 very rare pint series on garden ornament, architecture and architectural ornament

STEINGRUBER, Johann David. Architecture civile erster Theil ... | Architecture civile premiere partie ... [all published].
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48].
With:
(2) DANREITER, Franz Anton. Lust-Stück der Gärten ... | Parterres ou broderies des jardins ... [Erster-]Anderer Theil.
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1730/1735].
(3) CHARMETON, Georges. Plans de divers edifices et corniches choisies ... | Abrisse unterschiedener Gebälcke und Kronwercke ...
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48]. 3 works, ad 2 in 2 parts, in 1 volume. Oblong folio (25 x 38.5 cm). Ad 1: with an engraved plate with a German note to the reader, and 25 numbered plates of architectural plans, elevations and sections engraved by J.D. Ringlin after Steingruber, plate 1 with the German title in and French title flanking a decorative cartouche, each further plate with a heading in German and French. Ad 2: with 2 engraved illustrated title pages from the same plate (ruins in a landscape, with 2 putti holding a drape with the title, the second title page with "Anderer Theil" in the foot margin) plus 22 and 20 numbered illustration plates showing garden plans, decorations, fountains, etc. Ad 3: with 12 engraved plates, including the title page, the illustrations showing the entablatures of various classical Roman buildings. Near contemporary half white vellum and beige paper sides, sewn on 4 vellum tapes, laced through the joints, with a hollow back, gold-tooled author and title for the Steingruber (with ornaments) near the head of the spine, with that part of the vellum coloured red, red sprinkled edges, headbands in yellow and blue. [1], 25; [1], 20, [1], 22; 12 engraved ll. Full description
€ 18,000
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Europe described, the future foretold, and Ethiopia revealed; the rare first edition

ZELL, Anselm and Christoph ZELL. Europae descriptio lucidissima D. Caroli V Romanorum Imperatori dedicata. Prognosticon Antonii Torquati ... ab anno M.CCCC.LXXX usque ad annum M.D. XXXVIII Matthiae Ungariae regi dicatum. De fide et moribus Aethiopum, libellus Christianis lectu planè dignus.
Antwerp, (Colophon: Joannes Grapheus) for Joannes Steelsius, Aug. 1535. Small 8vo (ca. 9.1 x 14.1 cm). With 3 woodcut decorated initials, and Steelsius printer's device on the verso of the last flyleaf. Modern gold-tooled vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with a single fillet border on both boards. [24] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
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