(1, engraving) 186 (2) p. Contemporary Leather with gold, 8°. Fine presentation copy to the Queen of Spain. Second Spanish edition by Mariano Cabrerizo, of Goëthe’s Hermann and Dorothea. Provenance: María Cristina de Borbon, Queen of Spain. Engraved ex libris on front endpaper and gilt supralibris on both covers.

Dimensions: 105 x 84,5 cm Medium & Support: Oil on canvas Description: The composition of the painting offered here is derived from five almost identical portraits of De Ruyter that were painted by Ferdinand Bol and his workshop in 1667. De Ruyter is depicted in an admiral’s uniform, holding a baton in his right hand [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Terrestrial Pocket Globe. A New Terrestrial Globe: from the best Authorities, by J. Addison & Co   A superb small miniature terrestrial globe produced by John Addison & Co. at their premises in Regent Street in 1816. The globe is beautifully housed and enclosed within its original black fish skin case, complete with original hook, [...]

2 werken in 1 band, (titelprent, 34) 104 (2), (30) 208 (2) p. Origineel half Leer, groot 4° Het werk bevat een handgekleurde, en goudgehoogde, titel pagina, twee handgekleurde, en goudgehoogde, drukstukken op de titelpagina’s, en 20 handgekleurde vignetten, alles origineel en fraai gekleurd. 2 works in 1 binding, (frontispiece, 34) 104 (2), (30) 208 [...]

(portretten, 32) 489 (17) p. Origineel Leer met ribben goudbestempeld en goud-op-snee, 8° Fraai exemplaar en zeer fraaie band.

Het Nieuwe Testament, of alle Boeken des Nieuwen Verbonds onzes Heeren Jezus Christus, uit de Grieksche Taal in onze Nederlandsche Taal getrouwelijk overgezet […]. 4 works in one binding, 542, 508, 364, 94 (1) p. Contemporary Tortoiseshell binding with two 18-carat gold clasps, 24 18-carat golden nails, and gilt-edged text block, 8°. H. 6 x [...]

Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Door Last der Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staaten Generael vande Vereenighde Nederlanden, en volgens het Besluyt vande Synode Nationael, gehouden tot Dordrecht inde Jaren 1618 ende 1619. Uyt de Oorspronckelicke talen in onse Nederlandtsche tale getrouwelick overgeset. Met [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Historische, geographische, konst en reis almanach, voor den jaare 1748 bevattende het voornaamste dat onder het opzigt van het Koninglyk genootschap der geleerden te Berlyn is uitgegeven. Zeldzame almanak met gebreken aan de band, maar van binnen erg mooi. Twee gekleurde kaarten (wereldkaart en kaart van Nederland). In de kalender, die in rood en zwart [...]

t Groot waerelds tafereel, waar in de heilige en waereldsche geschiedenissen en veranderingen zedert de schepping des waerelds tot het uiteinde van de openbaring van Joannes. worden afgemaalt, en ider konst-prent opgeheldert, door godsgeleerde, wysgeerige en waereldlyke uitleggingen, benevens de tydrekeningen of jaarboeken der gevallen des waerelds, naaukeurig in ’t Frans beschreven. 3 parts in [...]

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 [...]

Diameter globe: 20 inches / 50,8 cm. Overall height: 42,52 inches / 108 cm. Full title: ” NEWTON’S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS to the Present Time Manufactured by NEWTON & SON 66 Chancery Lane & 3 Fleet St. Temple Bar Published 1st [...]

Icones plantarum rariorum. Delineavit et in aes incidit Henricus Schwegman. Afbeeldingen van zeldzaame en fraaje Bloem- en Plant-Gewassen. Folio (475 x 295 mm.), half-title, text in Dutch, French and German, 48 engraved plates, all but one coloured by hand, edges uncut, 19th century boards with a later leather spine. First edition. One of the most [...]

Het Nieuwe Testament, of alle Boeken des Nieuwen Verbonds onzes Heeren Jezus Christus, uit de Grieksche Taal in onze Nederlandsche Taal getrouwelijk overgezet […]. 4 works in one binding, 542, 508, 364, 94 (1) p. Contemporary Tortoiseshell binding with two 18-carat gold clasps, 24 18-carat golden nails, and gilt-edged text block, 8°. H. 6 x [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]