Home
Shopping cart (0 items € 0)
Advanced search

30 hand-coloured lithographed views of the zinc industry

MAUGENDRE, Adolphe. Société anonyme des mines et fonderies de zinc de la Vieille Montagne[.] Album de 30 vues.
Paris, (printed by Auguste Bry), 1850-1851. Oblong 1mo (55.5 x 38.5 cm). Tinted lithographed title page and 30 tinted lithographed plates (55.5 x 38.5 cm, one slightly smaller: 35 x 50.5 cm), all in fine contemporary hand-colouring. Loose in modern clamshell box. Full description
€ 22,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

European history of the years 1620-1625, including the founding of the Dutch West India Company

MEERBEECK, Adriaen van. Neder-landtschen Mercurius oft waerachtich verhael vande geschiedenissen van Nederlandt, ende oock van Duytschlandt, Spaengien, Italien, Vrankrijck ende Turckijen. Sedert den iare 1620. tot 1625.
Brussel, Ian van Meerbeeck, 1625. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved vignette on the title page. 19th-century quarter brown calf, with a brown paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold, marbled paper sides. [8], 156; [4], 192; [4], 40, 18, 73, [1 blank], 8, [16] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Splendid funeral ceremonies in Brussels 1515-1622

MEERBEECK, Adriaan de. Theatre funebre ou sont representéez les funerailles de plusieurs princes et la vie, trespas, & magnifiques obseques de Albert Le Pie de tres haulte memoire Archiduc d'Autrice, Duc de Bourgoigne, Brabant, &c. faicts a Bruxelles le 12. de Mars, 1622.
Brussels, Ferdinand de Hoeymaker [printed by Henrick van Hastens in Louvain], 1622. 8vo. With a small woodcut decoration on the title-page and a full-page woodcut representing a "chapelle ardente" on the verso; a large folding woodcut plate with two horses, one dressed as a "cheval de bataille" and the other as used "à la pompe funebre du ... Archiduc". Further with 3 woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and 2 woodcut factotums. Contemporary vellum, remnants of ties. [8], 278, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

The birth of modern Flemish historiography

MEYERE, Jacobus de. Flandricarum rerum tomi X ... Cum Hymno de sanctissimo nomine Iesu. Chronica Flandriae.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1531. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Vorsterman's device at the end. 17th-century mottled calf, with a gold-tooled spine, and the title lettered in gold, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. 67, [5] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Rare account of the famous battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600

NEOMAGUS, Arnoldus Gerardi. Expeditio Mauritiana Flandrica, cum exercitu potentissimorum D.D. Ordinum unitarum Nederlandiae provinciarum. Anno 1600. 2. julii.
Gouda, Jasper Tournay, 1615. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints. [8], 60 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Extremely rare works describing miracles performed in the early 17th century

NUMAN, Philip. Historie vande mirakelen die onlancx in grooten ghetale ghebeurt zyn, door die interesse ende voor-bidden van die H. Maget Maria. Op een plaetse genoemt Scherpen-heuvel by die stadt van Sichen in Brabant.
Brussels, Rutgeert Velpius, 1606.
With: (2) IDEM. Toe-voechsele van den mirakelen gheschiedt op Scherpen-heuvel, door het aenroepen van onse Lieve Vrouwe ...
Brussels, Rutgeert Velpius, 1606.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved vignette of the Holy Virgin on the title-pages of ad 1 and ad 2, woodcut decorated initials (at least 2 series) and head-pieces. 19th-century gold-tooled half red leather and marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [1], [1 blank] [12], 257 [1]; [1], [1 blank], [14], 88, [37], 48, [1] pp. Full description
€ 700
Order Inquire Terms of sale

First edition of the history of the dioceses Tongres, Maastricht and Liège

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). Title with woodcut coat-of-arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck in a 4-piece woodcut border, a large woodcut coat of arms on the last page, 2 woodcut illustrations, one showing Mary and Jesus with Saint Anne (63 x 42 mm), and the other a bishop in his study (45 x 43 mm), each in the same 4-piece woodcut border (different from that on the title-page). Capitals rubricated throughout, some woodcuts also rubricated and some headings and other words underlined in red. Vellum (ca. 1700?). [16], [216] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Six rare annotated auction catalogues of art from Belgian collectors

ROTTIER, Jacques. Catalogue d'une très-belle collection de tableaux, dessins encadrés, médailles, bronzes, ivoires, marbres et objets d'art, délaissés par M. Jacques Rottier, avocat et amateur distingué a Gand.
Ghent, D.J. Vanderhaeghen, 1834. With folding engraved plate as frontispiece.
With:
(2) VAN ROTTERDAM. Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de tableaux des écoles Flamande, Hollandaise et Italienne délaissés par Mr. Van Rotterdam.
Ghent, widow of L. De Busscher-Braeckman, 1835.
(3) BALLIN, H. Catalogue d'une belle collection de tableaux des écoles Flamande et Hollandaise délaissés par feu le notaire H. Ballin à Gand.
Antwerp, H.P. Vanderhey, 1838. With an engraved plate loosely inserted.
(4) MAES, Marie. Catalogue d'une belle collection de tableaux des écoles Flamande et Hollandaise délaissés par feu Marie Maes.
Ghent, F.E. Gyselynck, 1837.
(5) VRANCKEN, Petrus Jacobus Franciscus. Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de tableaux des écoles Flamande, Hollandaise et Française délaissés par Mr. P.J.F. Vrancken à Lokeren.
Antwerp, H.P. Vander Hey, 1838. With 3 illustrations on 2 engraved plates.
(6) SCHAMP D'AVESCHOOT, Jean. Catalogue des tableaux des écoles Flamande, Hollandaise, Italienne, Française et Espagnole, qui composent la magnifique galerie délaissée par M. Schamp d'Aveschoot.
Ghent, Librairie Générale de H. Hoste, 1840. 6 catalogues in 1 volume. 8vo. Interleaved. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin. [2], 30; [2], III, 68; 32; 36; VI, [2], 48; XX, 109 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Famous work on the Duchy of Brabant in Latin, French and Dutch, with over 200 maps and views

ROY, Jacob le. Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ, coenobiaque celebriora, ad vivum delineata, in quatuor partes divisa: complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antverpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem. Cum brevi eorundem descriptione, & gentilitiis toparcharum insignibus/ Chateaux et maisons de campagne des gentilhommes du Brabant (...)/ Kasteelen en heeren huysen der edelen van Brabant (...).
Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1699. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece to part 1, 2 engraved title vignettes, 2 full-page engraved dedicatory plates, 1 engraved headpiece, vol. 1 with 211 engravings (4 folding maps, 1 folding plan, 14 folding plates, and 192 views in the text); vol. 2 with 1 folding map and 7 engraved illustrations in the text. With: [IDEM]. L'erection de toutes les terres, seigneuries, & familles titrees du Brabant.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1699. Contemporary sprinkled quarter calf. [6], 143, [4], 108 ll. Full description
€ 6,000
Order Inquire Terms of sale
55 books found / Show all
Recently viewed