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Rare description of Russia just after the Turkish war,
with a revised version of the first map of the entire Russian Empire

REITZ, Johann Frederik, and others. Oude en nieuwe staat van't Russische of Moskovische Keizerryk, behelzende eene uitvoerige historie van Rusland en deszelfs groot-vorsten; benevens de beschryvinge van dat uitgestrekte ryk, de zeden en godsdienst der inwoneren: zyne opkomst en voortgang in koophandel, kunsten, land- en zeemacht, oproeren, oorlogen en verdere wisselvalligheden, tot dezen tegenwoordigen tydt toe.
Utrecht, Johannes Broedelet, 1744. 4 volumes. 4to. With 4 folding maps, 3 folding plates and a folding letterpress table. Early 19th-century half red sheepskin. [2], 296; [2], 200, 200a-200d; [2], 501; [2], 830 pp. Full description
€ 4,250
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A monumental description of the archaeological expedition to Lebanon and Syria

RENAN, Joseph Ernest. Mission de Phénicie.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale/Nationale, 1864-1874. 14 volumes bound as 13 (7 of text and 7 of plates, the latter bound as 6). Folio (27,5 x 36,5 and 37 x 55,5 cm). With 70 engraved and lithographed numbered plates (including 1 folding), 1 folding map, and 8 plans(including 3 folding), a few in contemporary hand colouring, and several illustrations in the text.Contemporary wrappers. Plates stored in two half cloth portfolios. [4], 884, [4] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
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Second copy located of the 1550 Antwerp edition of the Dutch adaptation of the famous Sachsenspiegel

[REPGOW, Eike von]. Den spiegel van sassen van alle keyserlijcke rechten.
Antwerp, Marie Ancxt [= widow of Jacob van Liesveld, 31 October 1550. 4to (19 x 13.2 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut of the emperor (10.8 x 7.2 cm) holding a sword with coat of arms in the lower left hand corner, between two ornamental borders. 18th-century mottled calf. XLIIII ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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A detailed overview of inflation and purchasing power in Iraq in 1970

REPUBLIC OF IRAQ - Ministry of Planning. Prices statistics for second half of 1970. Retail and wholesale.
Iraq, Central Statistical Organization, [1970?]. Folio (28.5 x 21 cm). With multiple graphs on 8 leaves, most of them in the text. The main price-information is arranged in tables, all tables and other introductory information are printed on 1 side of the leaves (from right to left on the recto side of the leaves, excluding the information in English which has from that perspective been printed on the verso side of the leaves). Original printed publisher's wrappers. (The majority of the work reads from right to left, thus:) [5], 83, VI-I, [4] ll. Full description
€ 275
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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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A eulogy to Erasmus and his works, by Beatus Rhenanus and other contemporaries

RHENANUS, Beatus. Des. Eras Roterodami viri incomparabilis vita, & epitaphia quaedam.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1536. Small 8vo (9.8 x 15.6 cm). With woodcut medallion portrait of Erasmus on the verso of the title page, and 4 woodcut decorated initials. Modern vellum. [24] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
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Of the utmost importance for leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, by the first Deshima doctor
to describe the medicine and culture of Japan to the West

RHYNE, Willem ten. Verhandelinge van de Asiatise melaatsheid, na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen.
Amsterdam, Abraham van Someren, 1687. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an ornament on the title page.
With: (2) BEINTEMA VAN PEIMA, Joannes Ignatius Worp. Tabacologia, ofte korte verhandelenge over de tabak, desselvs deugd, gebruyk, ende kennisse: waar door aangeweesen wordt een wegh om lang, vroolijk, ende gesond te leeven.
The Hague, Levijn van Dijck, 1690. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, the manuscript author on the spine. [18], 181, [1 blank]; [12 (of 16)], 175, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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