(gegraveerde titelpagina) z.p. Originele Schildpadband met 2 zilveren sloten, 4 zilveren schanierstukken, 7 zilveren hoekstukken, versierd met 120 ‘roosbriljanten’ en goud op snede, 8°. Nederlands Kerkboek, bestaande uit het Nieuwe Testament in de Statenvertaling, de Psalmen – met noten – van Petrus Dathenus en de Formulieren. Aantrekkelijke band, gebonden in zwart, met okerkleurig gevlamd schildpadschild. [...]

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 [...]

Model of a magnificent frigate, entirely made of ivory. Animated deck with several characters, tiny seamen, cannons, and a trolling boat, all made of ivory. The parchment-thin mainsails cut in ivory, apparently billowing in the wind. The frigate comes under a glass bell jar on a wooden stand, 19th century. Dimensions of the glass bell [...]

(engraved titlepage) n.p. Contemporary Leather, Folio H. 33 x W.. 22,5 x D. 9 cm. Dutch Bible containing the church approved translation by Nicolaes van Winghe, also called the Louvain Bible. Illustrated with several beautiful woodcuts within the text. (The spine is damaged. First free endpaper loosening, titlepage frayed, some staining throughout.)

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 [...]

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 [...]

(titelprent, 10) 358, 144, 84, (2) 170, z.p. Origineel Leer met ribben, stempels, 8 hoeken en 2 sloten, Folio. H. 41 x B. 27 x D. 12 cm. Lutherbijbel, bevat het Oude en Nieuwe Testament en de Apocriefen. Geïllustreerd met een titelprent en de 5 uitvouwbaare kaarten. Met vele tekstgravures, 15 x 20 cm. van [...]

Hippokomike. Künstlicher Bericht und allerzierlichste beschreybung des Edlen, Vhesten, und hochberühmten Ehrn Friderici Grisonis Neapolitanischen hochlöblichen Adels: Wie die Streitbarn Pferdt (durch welche ritterliche Tugendten mehrers thails geübet) zum Ernst und Ritterlicher Kurtzweil, geschickt und volkommen zumachen. Original richly blind-stamped vellum, spine renewed. (20), 235, (47) p. Folio. Title-page within a woodcut border, woodcut initials [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Historische Reizen door d’ oostersche Deelen van Asia; zynde een historische beschryving dier koninkryken en landschappen, door hem bezocht en doorwandelt, beneffens een nauwkeurig ontwerp van de zeden, drachten, wetten en godtsdienst der zelve inwoonders, en wat verder wegens de dieren, planten, vruchten, enz. in die gewesten aanmerkenswaardig is : mitsgaders een omstandig verhaal van [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Ē Kainē Diathēkē. Novum Testamentum, in quo tum selecti versiculi 1900, quibus omnes Novi Testamenti voces continentur, asteriscis notantur; tum omnes & singulæ voces, semel vel sæpius occurrentes, peculiari nota distinguuntur. Auctore Johanne Leusden, professore. (frontispiece, 4) 504 p. Contemporary Vellum, gilt-edged and gauffered text block, 12°. H. 11 x W. 6 x D. 3 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Almanach, op ‘t jaar ons Heeren Esus (sic) Christus, 1811. Voorzien met eene aanwijz. van de jaar-/paard-/beest- en leerm. in Holland, en de maans op- en onder-gang: berekend door Jacob de Gelder, mathematicus. Full shark leather binding with two silver clasps (with silver marks among one with three crosses for Amsterdam and the letter B), [...]

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 [...]