Newton’s new & improved terrestrial and celestial globes The diameter of the globes is 2.75 inches (7 cm). The total height, including the stands, is 6.75 inches (15 cm). A beautiful pair of miniature desk globes, with 12 hand-colored engraved gores on plaster spheres, mounted to nineteenth-century calibrated brass meridian rings and carved wooden stands. [...]

Atlas compendiarius quinquaginta tabularum […]. Kleiner Atlas von Fünffzig Auserlesenen Homanns’ LandKarten, Nach Anleitung der neuesten Erd Beschreibere, verbessert und eingerichtet. In 2° (545 x 320 mm). Frontispiece, title-page, index table, and 50 double-page engraved maps, all in contemporary colouring. Original, limp full calf. Beautiful atlas, complete with the world map in two hemispheres, continental [...]

4 delen, 156, 122, 125, 386 p. Opnieuw gebonden half Leer, groot Folio 56 x 37,5 cm. Een gelimiteerde herdruk van 510 exemplaren, met 169, fraaie, gekleurde platen, dit exemplaar is genummerd 106. Een volledige facsimile herdruk van de drie foliobanden van de oorspronkelijke uitgave 1817-1824, waaraan de uitgevers een vierde deel toevoegden in het [...]

A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains. Contemporary half leather binding with nine raised bands, Folio. H. 56 x W. 37 cm. / H. 22 x W. 14.57 inch. 80 fine hand-colored lithographic plates, by and after Elizabeth Gould, after sketches by John Gould (1804-1881). In 1827, shortly after the foundation of the Zoological [...]

63 (1) p. Format: H. 2.8 x W. 2 x D. 0,3 cm ent. engraved with 8 full-page engravings. With calendar for 1827. Contemporary gold-stamped red morocco decorated with gold and gilt-edged text block (corners very lightly rubbed). Very rare. Ref. Welsh 220; Spielmann 8; Gumuchian 4056; Cp. Grand-Carteret 2060 with imprint “E. Jourdan”. – Pas [...]

Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Door Last der Hoogh- Mog: Heeren Staten Generae; vande Vereenighde Nederlanden, en volgens het Besluyt vande Synode Nationael, gehouden tot Dordrecht onde Jaren 1618 ende 1619. Uyt de Oorspronckelicke talen in onse Nederlandsche tale getrouwelick over geset. [...]

(titelprent, 10) z.p. Origineel Leer met ribben, stempels, hoeken en sloten, Folio. H. 37,5 x L. 26 x B. 13 cm. De ‘Moerentorfbijbel’ is tot het begin van de twintigste eeuw gebruikt als standaardvertaling voor rooms-katholieke bijbellezers. Bijzonder is dat door dit werk heengebonden is, naast de serie van 6 uitvouwbare kaarten, uitgegeven door Jacob [...]

Parergon sive veteris geographiae aliquot Tabulae […]. Engraved title, 33 maps of the Ancient World, 2 plates with costumes and 3 views (“Tempe”, “Daphne” and “Escorial”). H. 43 x W. 30 cm. / H. 16.90 x W. 11.8 inch. A fine and complete copy of the Parergon by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), published in Antwerp in [...]

(XVI) 600, 14 p. Origineel Leer met ribben, goudbestempeld, groot 4°. Zeer fraaie en enige uitgave van de gedetailleerde beschrijving van de stad Oudewater, met twee uitvouwbare kaarten en vijf uitvouwbare prenten. Gezichten o.a. op de “Nieuwe Poort”, het kasteel, het stadhuis en de kerk. Alle kaarten en prenten zijn handgekleurd. Fine large-paper copy of [...]

L’ École des meurs, ou les soirées de Célie […] (8) 112 pp. In-32, H. 10 x W. 5,5 x D. 2 cm. Fine embroidered binding. With 12 engravings, ivory silk, boards, and spine decorated with embroidery of gold thread, rhinestones, and sequins, miniature under mica on each cover, mirror on the first flyleaf, pink [...]

Newton’s new & improved terrestrial and celestial globes The diameter of the globes is 2.75 inches (7 cm). The total height, including the stands, is 6.75 inches (15 cm). A beautiful pair of miniature desk globes, with 12 hand-colored engraved gores on plaster spheres, mounted to nineteenth-century calibrated brass meridian rings and carved wooden stands. [...]

The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternehold, Iohn Hopkins, and others. 171 (34) p. Embroidered red velvet binding covered with silver wire, 24°. Rare and early miniature binding, H. 8 x W. 5.5 x D. 2.5 cm. / 3.15 x 2 x 1 inch. Bound with silver fine wire and [...]

2 werken in 1 band, 164, 165-306 p. Origineel verguld leer, 8°. Een dos-à-dos binding (rug-aan-rug) van Den forordnede nye Kirke-Psalme-Bog is een zeldzame 18e-eeuwse Deense devotieband. Hierbij zijn twee boeken rug-aan-rug gebonden met een gedeelde achterplat, vaak rijk verguld in leer. Deze unieke structuur stelt gebruikers in staat om psalmen en geschriften apart te [...]

Swenska Psalm-Boten […]. WITH: De arlige Evangelier och Epistlar […]. 352, 384 p. 8°. Swedish Lutheran hymnal, multipainted and gold-embossed vellum binding. The central field, “With God and with You I will be married,” is set within a heart.

Speculum Poenitentiae, in quo, ad peccatores convertendos, praecipui tam veteris quam novi Testamenti poenitentes per tabulas exhibentur […]. Very finely worked, French binding in the style of the Régence. The scene on the front cover with master’s mark “T.G. under lily” and (probably) hallmarks. According to the assessment of a silver expert, they point to [...]

46,5 x 35,5 cm. Not dated, not signed, early XVII century. Painted on a thin wooden panel, consisting of two parts, with a small indentation at the top. The original engraving was made in 1526 in Rotterdam by the Germain painter Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528, and is now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A [...]

536 (10), 209 (5) p. 8°. In rood fluwelen binding over houten platten, met 17e-eeuws zilverwerk (1686). H. 10,5 x B. 5,5 x D. 4 cm. Dubbel pagina frontispice. Acht zilveren hoekstukken met gezichten, twee ornamenten op de covers waarop het jaartal ‘1686’ en de initialen ‘IMMTM’ te lezen zijn. Muiters aanwezig, klampen ontbreken. Zijden [...]

Fine and small nineteenth-century silver binding, embossed with classical acanthus, 12° H. 8,5 x L. 6,8 x W. 1 cm. Contents a blank booklet.

The Mariners Mirrour Wherein may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebbs, risings of lands, rocks, sands and shoulds, with the marks for th’entrings of the harboroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe: their several traficks and commodities: Together with the Rules and instruments of Navigation […] [...]

(VIII) 190 p. Contemporary gold-stamped Leather, large 8°. With 7 folding plates, complete. Made for Thomas Wright, mathematical instrument-maker and E. Cushee, globe-maker at the Globe and Sun, between St. Dunstan’s Church and Chancery-Lane, both in Fleet-Street. Joseph Harris (1703-1764), was a blacksmith, astronomer, navigator, economist, natural philosopher and government adviser and King’s assay Master [...]