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Biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Large paper copy of the first edition

BRANDT, Geeraert. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter.
Amsterdam, for Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, van Someren and Goethals, 1687 (engraved title-page: printed by Pieter and Joan Blaeu, 1686). Folio (34.5 x 22.5 cm). With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of De Ruyter, 7 engraved double-page plates by Sebastiaen Stoopendaal and 1 engraved plate by Joseph Mulder. Late 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. [10], "1063" [=1065], [23] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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Extremely rare Secunderabad-Hyderabad printing of British government papers
regarding the forced cession of Berar Province to the British by the Nizam of Hyderabad

[HYDERABAD PRINTING - BRITISH GOVERNMENT PAPERS regarding Nizam's territory]. Nizam's territory. Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 6th April 1854; - for, copy "[!] of all papers relative to territory ceded by His Highness the Nizam, in liquidation of debts alleged to have been due by His Highness to the British Government.
Secunderabad (near Hyderabad), Robert Hudson, Columbian Press, [1854]. 33 x 22 cm. Contemporary half calf, orange and blue marbled sides over paper-boards, gold-tooled double fillets on the spine, red sprinkled edges. IV, 162 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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One of the first dental works to focus on prevention

BUNON, Robert. Essay sur les maladies des dents, ou l'on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne confirmation dès la plus tendre enfance, & d'en assurer la conservation tout le cours de la vie. Avec une lettre où l'on discute quelques opinions particulieres de l'auteur de l'orthopedie.
Paris, Briasson, Chaubert, et De Hansy, 1743.
With: (2) BUNON, Robert. Dissertation sur un prejugé très-pernicieux, concernant les maux de dents qui surviennent aux femmes grosses.
Paris, Chaubert, Briasson, Nully, Prault, 1741. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 ornamental woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind tooled mottled brown calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment on the spine, fleurons in the other compartments, a blind tooled border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers. XII, 237, [3]; 20 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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