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 [...]

without numbering, 12° H. 12 x W. 6,5 x D. 2,5 cm. Contemporary red Leather, richly decorated with gilt on spine and covers, gilt-edged. (Last page of the Confession du Foi with loss of text, clasps are missing.) Fine binding, lavishly gilt overall pattern on both covers, mainly consisting of pointillé-stamps and drawer-handle tools, richly [...]

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 [...]

Rebound half vellum, Folio. Engraved serie, consisting of a title-page, dedication and 24 illustrations with 24 text pages, all printed on one side of a leaf. A handsome work by the French engraver and printseller Isodore-Stanislas Helman (1743 1806/9). with scenes from Chinese history. “The emperor’s mirror” was a very popular Chinese work with stories [...]

Tῆò Káéíῆò ÄéáèÞêçò ἅπáíôá [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] = Novum Jesu Christi D.N. Testamentum Ex Bibliotheca Regia. With a Greek and Latin title-page including Estiennes woodcut basilisk device as Kings printer (and 1 repeat), his woodcut olive tree device on the otherwise blank last page (N6v), 3 single-piece decorated architectural frames with putti, etc. (plus [...]

Vielvermehrte geistliche Wasserquelle […] mit schönen neuen Liedern […] Vermehrt mit schönen neuen Liedern. 724 (44) p. Contemporary Silver filigrain binding, 12°. 8 engravings, 1 folding plate. Clasps missing

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 [...]

De Doorlughtige Weereld, Voorstellende een zeer nette Genealogische, Historische en Politische Beschrijvingh aller tegenwoordig levende Keyseren, Koningen, Vorsten, en Graven, nevens de Staten en Republiquen des geheelen Aerdbodems. Derselver Naemen, Afkoomst, Geboorte-tijd, Gemaelinnen, Kinderen, Landen, Heerlijckheden, Verwagtingen, Praetensien, Geslaghts-oorsprongh, Verdeeling in Stam-huysen en Linien, Titels, Religie van elck in ‘t bysonder. Wapenschilden, en de Verklaring [...]

Opera Theologica Quibus orthodoxae Religionis capita perspicuè & breviter explicantur, haeres horum temporum solidè confutantur, ac aliae plurimae utilissimae materiae, eruditissimè pertractantur: Partim antehac non edita, partin ex Germanicâ in Latinam linguam modò conversa, partim emendatiùs recusa, & illustrata: Tribvta In Tomos Tres, Quorum Indicem à Praefatione pagina proxima exhibet: Edita stvdio et opera Quirini [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]