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Chinese archaeology in the early 20th century, with 144 collotype plates

SEGALEN, Victor, Gilbert de VOISINS and Jean LARTIGUE. Mission archéologique en Chine (1914). L'art funéraire a l'époque des Han.
Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1923-1935. 3 volumes (1 text and 2 atlases). 4to (text) and 38.5 x 28 cm (atlases). With 121 illustrations in text and 144 collotype plates in the atlas. Text volume in original printed paper wrappers. Atlas in original half cloth, printed paper sides. [3] ll., 304 pp.; XI, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp.; 4 ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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Seneca's complete works, edited by Erasmus

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderus ERASMUS (editor). Lucubrationes omnes, additis etiam nonnullis, Erasmi Roterodami cura ... repurgatae
Basel, Johann Froben, July-August 1515. Folio. With the title set in a splendid woodcut frame by Urs Graf, including Froben's small woodcut device, woodcut decorations in the fore-edge and gutter margins of the table of contents (verso of the title page), and another elaborate woodcut frame on the first page of the dedication. Further with some woodcut initials, and Froben's large woodcut device below the colophon on the last page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass and leather clasps along the fore edge, professionally re-backed, with later blank pastedowns. [1 blank], 643, [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Humanist edition of Seneca’s tragedies

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderius ERASMUS and others (editors). Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae... explanatae diligentissime tribus Commentariis...
Paris, Jodocus Badius, 5 December 1514. Folio. With a woodcut border and printer's device on the title page, printed in red and black, along with numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, both boards show a gold-tooled armorial centre piece (incorporating the arms of the city of Nevers or the arms of the Conflans family from the Champagne region, Rietstap I, plate CXVIII) within a gold-tooled floral frame, blind-tooled board edges, marbled edges. [6], CCLXVII, [1] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
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Popular work on sorcery and witchcraft

SENNERTUS, Daniel and Daniël JONCTYS (translator). Verhandelingh der toover-sieckten. Geschil van de schôot- en steeck-vrije. Geschil van de wapen-salve. Paracelsi vrye-konst. Uyt verscheyde Latijnsche boecken vertaelt, en by een geschikt door D. Jonctys.
Amsterdam, Jan van Hilten (colophon: printed by Pieter Dircksz. Boeteman), 1646. 4 parts in 1 work. 8vo. With an engraved title-page showing a magician laying magic bones at a person's sickbed, a small vignette on the title-page, 3 typographical divisional title-pages, 1 small woodcut illustration in the text (p. 200), 3 decorated initials (3 different series) and 3 ornamental tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [24], 331, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
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Early Egyptian astronomy in a deluxe binding

SEYFFARTH, Gustav. Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Literatur, Kunst, Mythologie und Geschichte des alten Aegypten. Erstes Heft: Bemerkungen ueber die Aegyptischen Papyrus auf der Koeniglichen Bibliothek zu Berlin.
Leipzig, Joh. Ambros. Barth (colophon: printed by W. Haack), 1826. With 4 lithographed folding plates.
With: (2) Beitraege ... zweites, drittes, viertes, fünftes Heft. = Systema astronomiae Aegyptiacae quadripartitum ...
Leipzig, Joh. Ambros. Barth, 1833. With a general title-page, a Latin title-page and 4 part-titles, a hand-coloured frontispiece and 10 large folding plates, lithographed throughout.
5 parts in 2 volumes. 4to (22.5 x 26.5 cm). Contemporary richly gold- and blind-tooled polished red morocco in the Romantic style (by the Leipzig master Anton Stumme with his ticket on the first free endleaf). X, 42; XXX, 445, [10] pp. Full description
€ 18,000
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Correspondence of the "lord of the naval and commercial conquest of Arabia, Persia and India"

SILVA, Luiz Augusto Rebello da (et al.). Corpo diplomatico Portuguez contendo os actos e relações politicas e diplomaticas de Portugal.
Lisbon, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias / Imprensa Nacional, 1862-1959. 15 volumes (final volume in 2 parts). Small folio (22.5 x 28.5 cm). Uniformly bound in half tan sheepskin, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spines, decorated endpapers, sprinkled edges. Some original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Full description
€ 18,500
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