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 […] [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

An exceptional fine Celestial 21″ (53 cm.) Library Globe. Presented atop a walnut tripod stand with brass casters, with a glass-topped compass, mounted between three cross stretchers. Measuring 52″ x 28″ (132 x 71 cm.) in total. By John and William Cary (1754-1835 and 1759-1825) of London. Engraved and hand-colored. The papier-mache copperplate gores have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Embossed gilt leather, Jacob & Abraham ‘De Gecroonde Son’ Hamer.- 1660 Or ‘De Vergulde Roemer’ Pieter van Dam, Jacob van Ipen, Pieter Potter. Mythological hunting scene. Atalanta & Meleager.- Amsterdam-based firms.- Two original 17th c. pendant panels of ‘verheven leer’ or gilt embossed leather [the embossing executed with the help of metal plates carrying the [...]

3 works in one binding, (frontispiece, 14) 944, 284 (4),(12) 660 (18), 141 (3) p. Contemporary blind-stamped, gauffered Leather, 8°. A fine copy, containing the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha and a song and prayer book. Contemporary red full leather with rich gilding on both covers and the spine, three-sided gauffered gilt edges [...]

2 works in 1 binding, (engraved titlepage, 11) 186 (6), (engraved titlepage, 3), (4) 96, 142 (2) folia. Contemporary folding Vellum, 8° (Occasionally some browning. The titlepage and prelims of the second work are erroneously bound in front of the second part of the first work. Rare volume with two works containing outlines for sermons [...]

Het Bloedig Tooneel, of Martelaers Spiegel der Doops-Gesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die, om ‘t getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker, geleden hebben, ende gedood zijn, van Christi tijd af, tot desen tijd toe. Versamelt uyt verscheyde geloofweerdige Chronijken, Memorien, en Getuygenissen. Den Tweeden Druk. Bysonder vermeerdert met veele Autentijke Stucken, en over de hondert curieuse Konstplaten. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]

Opera: ex postrema, doct: virorum, recensione. (Symmachi … Relation ad Valentinianum, Theodosium et Arcadium Auggg. pro veteri deorum cultu, adversus Christianos.). 261 p. 16° H. 11 x W. 6 x D. 1,5 cm. Contemporary brown Leather, richly decorated with gilt on spine and covers. Fine binding, lavishly gilt overall pattern on both covers, mainly consisting [...]

Goed en fris exemplaar. Afmetingen: H. 30 x B. 40 cm. In de Bijbels die vanaf 1528 gedrukt zijn komt meestal een houtsnedekaart voor. Deze is gebaseerd op een grote zesdelige wandkaart, die Lucas Cranach omstreeks 1510 maakte ter herinnering aan de pelgrimstocht naar het Heilige Land in 1493, gemaakt door Frederik de Wijze, de [...]

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, [...]

Neu vermehrt und vollständiges Gesang-Buch worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids und D. Ambrosii Lobwassers Ubersetzung hin und wieder verbessert, als auch 700 auserlesener alter und neuer Geistreichen Liedern begriffen sind […] 2 works in 1 binding, (titleplate, 214 (2), 424 (8), 96 p. 8°. Multipainted and gold-embossed vellum binding. The central field with a large [...]

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. [...]

Liebreich Buss, oder richtige Lehr-Art zu Beichten und zu Communicieren für die Ihres Heyls achtsame Seelen. (2) 368 (4) p. Contemporary Enamel binding. German Church book with 26 silver mountings with rich polychrome enamel pit relief and body enamel work, and 10 bordered oval enamel miniature paintings of the 19th century. Three-sided gilt edges. With [...]

Mondialisme investiturae, professionis, ac iubilae, nec non abatissarum electionis ordo ex industria visitatoris Antonii Antoni decore candet. Conscripsit P. Ruthardus Schleicher. Latin-German manuscript on paper by several hands in black and red ink. 2 nn. fol., 158 paginated pages, 14-25 lines. Type area: ca. 17 x 13,5 cm. Format: 21,5 x 17,5 cm. With a [...]