Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria, worinnen sehr curios und begnügt unter die Augen kommen allerley Aufzüge und Kleidungen unterschiedlicher Stände und Nationen. 3 pp., 100, 54, 17 Engravings. H. 36 x W. 25 cm. / H. 14.17 x W. 9.84 inch. Published after 1703 but before 1708, according to Bauer. Together in 1 volume with a set of [...]

2 werken in 1 band, 164, 165-306 p. Origineel verguld leer, 8°. Een dos-à-dos binding (rug-aan-rug) van Den forordnede nye Kirke-Psalme-Bog is een zeldzame 18e-eeuwse Deense devotieband. Hierbij zijn twee boeken rug-aan-rug gebonden met een gedeelde achterplat, vaak rijk verguld in leer. Deze unieke structuur stelt gebruikers in staat om psalmen en geschriften apart te [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

L’ École des meurs, ou les soirées de Célie […] (8) 112 pp. In-32, H. 10 x W. 5,5 x D. 2 cm. Fine embroidered binding. With 12 engravings, ivory silk, boards, and spine decorated with embroidery of gold thread, rhinestones, and sequins, miniature under mica on each cover, mirror on the first flyleaf, pink [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Liedekens ghemaect ter eeren Gods, op alle die Psalmen van David, tot stichtinge, ende een gheestelijcke vermakinghe van alle Christen Menschen. (368) p. Opnieuw gebonden in 17e eeuws Perkamenten band, 8° De laatst verschenen uitgave van dit psalterium, in de volksmond ‘Souter Liedekens’ genoemd. Deze Souter Liedekens zijn verzameld en samengesteld door Jonkheer Willem van [...]

Terrestrial globe: Cosmotheore, Caelesti nostro Globo, Par, et plane Novus, Hic Terrestris ut existeret, Certo scias, Errore Veterum Sublato, Non tantum Utriusque Orbis, Longitudines ac Latitudines, Par reiterates Neotericorum Observationes, Hicce esse restitutas, Sed et nullum typis Emendatiorem prodiisse, Hoc igitur Novissimô tam diu fruere, Donec sub Majori forma, Meô aere Alios excudam Gerardus Valk [...]

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 [...]

Historische, geographische, konst en reis almanach, voor den jaare 1748 bevattende het voornaamste dat onder het opzigt van het Koninglyk genootschap der geleerden te Berlyn is uitgegeven. Zeldzame almanak met gebreken aan de band, maar van binnen erg mooi. Twee gekleurde kaarten (wereldkaart en kaart van Nederland). In de kalender, die in rood en zwart [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]