80 p. Origineel Leer, goud-op-snede, 64° 4,7 x 3,1 x 0,9 cm. Zeldzaam Bijbels miniatuurboekje. De tekst is geïllustreerd met 7 houtgravures. Het bestaat uit vijf hoofdstukken en een aanhangsel waarin een zeer beknopte weergave van hoofdzaken uit zowel het Oude als het Nieuwe Testament wordt gegeven. De fraaie band is gemaakt door de “Eerste [...]

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 [...]

Theatre Des Martyrs, Depuis la mort de J. Christ Jusqu’á present, représenté en tres belles tailles-douces. / Schau-Buhne der Martyr gezeichet und in Kupfer gestochen von Iohann Luyken. Titelpagina en 115 genummerde prenten, Origineel Perkament met ribben, 4° Oblong. Zeldzaam werk met een reeks prenten die de verschillende martelingen van de christenen sinds de dood [...]

Opervm Theologicorum quae Latinè edidit, Tomvs Primvs Exegeticus: Continens, Exercitationes in Genesin CXCI. & Commentaria in Exodum, quibus seorsim subjunctae sunt pleniores in Decalogum Praelectiones, ab Authore recensitae & auctae. Cum Indicibus, Quaestionum variarum, SS. Scripturae locorum explicatorum, rerum & materiarum necessariis. WITH: Tomus Alter. Partim Exegeticorum, partim Didacticorum, Quorum seriem sequens pagina indicabit. Ab [...]

Eerste en enige uitgave van de Nederlandse vertaling van het tweede deel van het “Theatrum Europaeum” van de Duitse historicus Abelin (1633). Deze Europese militaire geschiedenis van 1629 tot 1632 tijdens het bewind van Gustav II van Zweden (1594-1633) is zeer rijk geïllustreerd met 7 uitvouwbare kaarten, 51 uitvouwbare prenten met belegeringen, stadsgezichten, militaire of [...]

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 [...]

Newton’s new & improved terrestrial and celestial globes The diameter of the globes is 2.75 inches (7 cm). The total height, including the stands, is 6.75 inches (15 cm). A beautiful pair of miniature desk globes, with 12 hand-colored engraved gores on plaster spheres, mounted to nineteenth-century calibrated brass meridian rings and carved wooden stands. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cruchley’s new terrestrial globe from the most recent and best authorities, exhibiting the discoveries in equatorial Africa, the North Pole, and the new settlements and divisions in Australia, New Zealand, California, Texas &, etc.WITH: Cruchley’s new celestial globe on which is accurately laid down the whole of the stars and nebulae contained in the astronomical [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Abbildung und Beschreibung derer sämtlichen Berg-Werks-Beamten und Bedienten nach ihrem gewöhnlichen Rang und Ordnung im behörigen Berg-Habit. – Abbildung und Beschreibung derer sämtlichen Schmeltz-Hütten-Beamten und Bedienten nach ihrem gewöhnlichen Rang und Ordnung im behörigen Hutten-Habit. 2 works in one volume, quarto (197 x 150mm). Titles printed in red and black, additional engraved titles, and 48 [...]

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 [...]

Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments […] WAARBIJ: Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, bestaande in Twee Honderd Twee en Vyftig Printverbeeldingen. Op nieuw geteekend, en door de voornaamste Meesters in ‘t Koper gesneden. / Histoire de la Bible, en CCLII Figures du [...]