The 4.25 inch. (10 cm.) spheres applied with twelve printed gores and polar calottes pivoted via the poles within brass half-meridian rings, each mounted on top of alabaster columns with molded capitals, notable entasis to the shafts and Tuscan-style bases, the plinths with gilt fluted black marble cavetto top moldings and roundel-centered skirts incorporating shaped [...]

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Complete copy, bound in a contemporary vellum binding, (8) 53 maps (29) Folio. Engraved architectural title with the figure of Europe at the top. With 53 contemporary handcoloured double-page engraved maps. H. 43 x W. 30 cm. / H. 16.90 x W. 11.8 inch. Rare early edition of Ortelius’ revolutionary atlas, first [...]

(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 [...]

De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel … in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, with two views of ship-building yards, and numerous detailed illustrations of ship-building on 22 engraved plates by and after Jan and Caspar Luyken, including 13 double-page and once 2 plates on 1 page. 18th-century [...]

Exceptional fine binding, 12° H. 15 x W. 8,5 x D. 3,5 cm. without pagination. (Clasps are missing, corners trifle worn.) The lavishly gilt overall pattern on both covers, mainly consisting of pointillé-stamps and drawer-handle tools, richly gilt spine with 6 compartments with floral motif and raised bands. This kind of binding is often attributed [...]

Cruchley’s new terrestrial globe from the most recent and best authorities, exhibiting the discoveries in equatorial Africa, the North Pole, and the new settlements and divisions in Australia, New Zealand, California, Texas &, etc.WITH: Cruchley’s new celestial globe on which is accurately laid down the whole of the stars and nebulae contained in the astronomical [...]

Eerste en enige uitgave van de Nederlandse vertaling van het tweede deel van het “Theatrum Europaeum” van de Duitse historicus Abelin (1633). Deze Europese militaire geschiedenis van 1629 tot 1632 tijdens het bewind van Gustav II van Zweden (1594-1633) is zeer rijk geïllustreerd met 7 uitvouwbare kaarten, 51 uitvouwbare prenten met belegeringen, stadsgezichten, militaire of [...]

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.

Het Boek der Psalmen, nevens de Gezangen bij de Hervormde Kerk van Nederland in gebruik. Door last van de Hoog Mogende Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Uit drie Berijmingen, In den jaare 1773, gekooren. Met de noodige daar in gemaakte veranderingen. With: Catechismus, Gebeden en Formulieren. 2 werken in 1 band, n.p., 68 p. [...]

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 [...]

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Complete copy, bound in a contemporary vellum binding, (8) 53 maps (29) Folio. Engraved architectural title with the figure of Europe at the top. With 53 contemporary handcoloured double-page engraved maps. H. 43 x W. 30 cm. / H. 16.90 x W. 11.8 inch. Rare early edition of Ortelius’ revolutionary atlas, first [...]

Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments […] WAARBIJ: Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, bestaande in Twee Honderd Twee en Vyftig Printverbeeldingen. Op nieuw geteekend, en door de voornaamste Meesters in ‘t Koper gesneden. / Histoire de la Bible, en CCLII Figures du [...]

Abbildung und Beschreibung derer sämtlichen Berg-Werks-Beamten und Bedienten nach ihrem gewöhnlichen Rang und Ordnung im behörigen Berg-Habit. – Abbildung und Beschreibung derer sämtlichen Schmeltz-Hütten-Beamten und Bedienten nach ihrem gewöhnlichen Rang und Ordnung im behörigen Hutten-Habit. 2 works in one volume, quarto (197 x 150mm). Titles printed in red and black, additional engraved titles, and 48 [...]

Histoire naturelle de Buffon, classée par ordres, genres et espèces, d’après le systeme de Linné; avec les caractères génériques et la nomenclature Linnéenne. In 12°, 135 x 83 mm. / 5.12 x 3.15 inch. Complete set of Buffon’s celebrated natural history in a finely preserved contemporary edition. 80 volumes, Paris, Crapelet and Deterville, 1802–1803, small [...]

Histoire de la navigation … aux Indes Orientales … Avec annotations de B. Paludanus, … Troixiesme edition augmentee. Including: LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, …[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de l’Amerique & des parties d’icelle […] Folio (32.5 x 21 cm). With 3 title-pages (2 from the same full-page engraving and [...]

68 cm. / 26,77 inch. Both cannons have tapered barrels and cast decorations of leaves and flowers, and a pair of handles with a leaf motif; the carriages are fitted with iron fittings. Provenance: Private trust founded in aid of Private trust founded in aid of Wyenburg Castle, Echteld. Wyenburg Castle was built in 1178 [...]

Diameter globes: 12 inches / 30,5 cm. Total height: 27,5 inches / 70 cm. Full titles: Newton’s New and Improved Terrestrial Globe Embracing every recent Discovery to the Present Time. Manufactured by Newton & Son, 66 Chancery Lane. London, Published Jan: 1st, 1841. Newton’s New and Improved Celestial Globe On which all the Stars Nebulae [...]

De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel … in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, with two views of ship-building yards, and numerous detailed illustrations of ship-building on 22 engraved plates by and after Jan and Caspar Luyken, including 13 double-page and once 2 plates on 1 page. 18th-century [...]

Kerkboek met gouden boekslot vervaardigd door Hendrik Walter van Haasel, Amsterdam, ca. 1800. Het Nieuwe Testament, of alle Boeken des Nieuwen Verbonds onzes Heeren Jezus Christus, uit de Grieksche Taal in onze Nederlandsche Taal getrouwelijk overgezet. Op last van de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten-Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en volgens het besluit van de Synode Nationaal, [...]

Cosmographie in Four Books Contayning the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World and all Provinces Seas and Isles Thereof. With an accurate and approved index of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, people, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bays, capes, forests,&c. of any remarque in the whole world: much wanted and desired in [...]