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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Sacra Polyglotta, Complectentia Textus Originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Graecum. Versionumque antiquarum, Samaritanae, Graecae LXXII Interp. Chaldaicae, Syriacae, Arabicae, Aethiopicae, Persicae, Vulg. Lat. Quicquid comparari poterat. Cum Textuum, & Versionum Orientalium Translationibus Latinis. Ex Vetustissimis Mss. Undique Conquisitis, optimiisque Exemplaribus impressis, summâ fide collatis. Quae in prioribus Editionubus deerant suppleta. Multa antehac inedita, [...]

Frommer Christen Betendes Herz und singender Mund und Gesang-Büchlein darinnen Herrn Martin Luthers und anderer gottseeliger Lehrer Andächtige Gebet und Lieder zu finden […]. (double-page frontispiece) 305 (6) p. 8°. Contemporary calf on wooden boards covered by contemporary embossed and engraved silver plaques and two engraved silver clasps, decorated with a basket of flowers, 12 [...]

Fraaie zeventiende-eeuwse filigrain band, Nederlands zilver. Bestaande uit een zilveren voor- en achterplat, rug, en sloten. H. 10,5 x B. 6 x D. 2,5 cm. De band is rijkelijk versierd: de voorplat met een spiegelmonogram “AX”, de achterplat met een afbeelding van het “Anker”, het symbool voor geloof, hoop en liefde. Met een boekblok als [...]

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 [...]

Wall map of the world in two hemispheres printed on two sheets, depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres supported by two male figures, decorated at the bottom right and left with two celestial hemispheres (boreal and southern) and at the bottom in the middle with an armillary sphere, in addition. Size 115 x 145 cm. [...]

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 [...]

Biblia Dat is de Gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de Canonyke Boeken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments, uyt de Oorspronkelyke Talen in onze Nederlandsche Tale getrouwelyk overgezet door Last van de Hoog Moog. Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenigde Nederl. en volgens het besluyt van de Sinode Nationael gehouden tot Dordrecht in de Jaaren 1618 [...]

Atlas compendiarius quinquaginta tabularum […]. Kleiner Atlas von Fünffzig Auserlesenen Homanns’ LandKarten, Nach Anleitung der neuesten Erd Beschreibere, verbessert und eingerichtet. In 2° (545 x 320 mm). Frontispiece, title-page, index table, and 50 double-page engraved maps, all in contemporary colouring. Original, limp full calf. Beautiful atlas, complete with the world map in two hemispheres, continental [...]

A 3-inch (7.6cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, cartouche in north Pacific NEWTON’S New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane & 3. Fleet St, Temple Bar. The equatorial graduated in degrees, the Meridian of London ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Diameter globe: 3 inch / 7.6 cm. – Total height: 5,12 inches / 13,5 cm. Comprising twelve hand-coloured gores, annotated with equinoctial graduated in degrees and hours and ecliptic graduated in days, prime meridian labelled Meridian of Greenwich and the principal land masses outlined in colour and annotated with major rivers and mountain ranges, the [...]

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 [...]

Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn, waer door men kan wee hoe laet dat het is over de gehele aertkloot, op alle meridiane en polus hoogte en, opwat lengte en brete de voorsz sterre staen, bezuyde de liniae aequinoctiael. 63,5 x 53 cm. /  25 x 20,87 inches A most attractive Mercator style projection of the [...]

Tributo di varj ossequii in onore di S. Giuseppe Proposte a’ suoi Divoti […] 247 p. 8°. Fine red morocco binding, hand-coloured, gilt-edged, and gauffered text block. Rare binding with colorful, painted, and punched gilt edges on all sides from the collection of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg, 1890-1982. He was a Franco-German banker and book collector.

Frommer Christen Betendes Herz und singender Mund und Gesang-Büchlein darinnen Herrn Martin Luthers und anderer gottseeliger Lehrer Andächtige Gebet und Lieder zu finden […]. (double-page frontispiece) 305 (6) p. 8°. Contemporary calf on wooden boards covered by contemporary embossed and engraved silver plaques and two engraved silver clasps, decorated with a basket of flowers, 12 [...]