Rare pocket globe with a diameter of  2.75 inches. / 7 cm. held in the publisher’s shagreen case. The globe consists of 12 hand-coloured engraved gores and 2 polar caps, the top and bottom of the case each lined with 12 hand-coloured engraved half gores and a polar cap depicting the celestial hemisphere. The design [...]

Celestial table globe. URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII / usque ad finem anni MDCC emendata est. / Nova praeterea methodo additus est / ex mente LOTHARII ZUMBACH M.D. et Mathem. Claris. / HORIZON ad MERIDIANUM [...]

Eucologe ou Livre d’ Église a l’ Usage de Paris, contenant l’ Office de Tous les Dimanches et Fêtes de l’ Année. Nouvelle Édition. (10) 818 p. H. 15 x W. 8,5 x D. 4 cm. Finely bound in highly elaborate paneled plum morocco gilt by Corfmat incorporating red, tan, and green morocco onlays and monogram [...]

Attractive photograph album containing 48 views of popular Scottish destinations and locations credited to the pioneering Scottish photographers James Valentine 1815-1879, and George Washington Wilson 1823-1893. The album contains views of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Balmoral Castle and other places. (Edges of the binding slightly grazed, the right side of the bottom spine-end is restored, some [...]

Fruentimmerits Contrafay udi det Gamle Testament beprydet med XXV Kaabber-stycker adskillige andæctige Bønner, gudelige Sucke-Rim oc hiertefrydende Lof-Sange paa voris danske Maal udsat oc fremstilled af Mourids Brun. (8) 384 (8), 300 (12) p. Bordeaux-red velvet binding with silver fittings, gilt-edged and gauffered text block, 8°. Danish church book with silver fittings, 8 openwork figural [...]

Het groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX. Zynde een verzameling van alle de conditien en projecten van de opgeregte compagnien van assurantie, navigatie, commercie, &c. in Nederland […] als meede konst-plaaten, comedien en gedigten, door [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Novus Globus / COELESTIS / Auct. Et Edit. / GERH. Et LEONH. VALK / Amstelodami. Diameter globe: 3 inches / 7.6 cm. – Total height: 5,91 inches / 15 cm. A scarce and beautiful miniature celestial globe produced in Amsterdam by Gerard and Leonard Valk during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. A celestial [...]

Globus terrestris novus Loca Terrae insigniora sec. praestant Astron. et Geogr. observationes sistens opera Ioh. Gabr. Doppelmaieri M.P.P. concinne traditus à Ioh. Georg Puschnero chalcographo Norib. A.C. 1730. Globus coelestis novus Loca stellarum fixarum sec. cel. Ioh. Hevelium ad annum 1730 exhibens opera I.G. DOPPELMAIERI M.P.P. exacte concinnatus a Ioh. Geor. Puschnero Chalcographo Norib. A.C. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]