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Thévenot M., Recueil des Voyages. Paris, 1682.
Extremely rare collection of travel accounts with the FIRST PRINTED MAP of the Mississippi.
Recueil de voyages de Mr Thevenot. Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1682. 16° (170 x 105mm). Contemp. calf, spine gilt, raised bands, joints restored. Second edition (first 1681). "Avis", 16pp + four sections (of five): [Marquette Jacques], Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l'Amérique septentrionale. 43pp. - Voyage d'un ambassadeur que le Tzaar de Moscovie envoya par terre à la Chine l'année 1653. 18pp. - Discours sur l'art de la navigation. 1p+32pp. - Les Histoires naturelles de l'éphémère et du cancellus ou bernard l'hermite décrites & representées par figures par Mr Swammerdam [...] 20+14+8pp, + 3 folding maps + 2 folding plates and 11 plates in the text.
Item number: 24532
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S. GRYNAEUS & J. HUTTICH. Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum, Basel, I. Hervagium, 1532.
One of the earliest compendiums of travel and exploration
GRYNAEUS S. & HUTTICH. J. Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum. Basel, I. Hervagium, 1532. Folio (32,5 x 21 cm), contemporary German blind-tooled panelled pigskin over bevelled boards, clasps missing. 22pp, 584pp + large unfolding woodcut worldmap.
Item number: 21418
Chappuzeau S. Lyon dans son lustre. Lyon, 1656
Chappuzeau S. Lyon dans son lustre. Discours divisé en deux parties: La première Embrasse les Eloges de la Ville & des Habitants. La deuxième Par une recherche curieuse met au jour l'état présent du Corps Ecclesiastique, du Politique, & du Militaire... Lyon, Scipion Jaserme, 1656. Contemporary vellum, in-4° (22,5 x 17 cm) Ill. par Claudine Brunand. 8p, 112pp. Engraved titlepage with a plan of the city of Lyon in the shape of a lion. RARE
Item number: 24278
Price: €1650 ($2112 / £1386)
Merula, Cosmographiae Generalis ...
Merula P. Cosmographiae Generalis Libri Tres: Item Geographiae Particularis Libri Quatuor: Quibus Europa In Genere Speciatim Hispania Gallia Italia Describunter. Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius 1621. Colophon: Leyden: Isaac Elzevir 1620. Folio (350 x 220 mm). 8p, 1074pp, 1p, Half title, engraved title page, 57 engraved maps & 1 woodcut view (Madrid) in text. 4 inserted maps engraved by Van Doetechum (Europe, Spain, France and Italy).
Item number: 04236
Aetius of Amida - Cornarius, Janus. Contractae ...
Aetii Medici Graeci Contractae ex veteribus medicinae tetrabiblos : hoc est quaternio, id est libri universales quatuor, singuli quatuor sermones complectentes, ut sint in summa quatuor sermonum quaterniones, id est sermones XVI. per Ianum Cornarium Medicum Physicum Latine conscripti.
Basel, H. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1542. Folio (320 x 210 mm). 6p, 932pp, 16p. With woodcut printer's mark and some woodcut initials after H. Holbein. Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards on 4 bands, handwritten title on spine, generously blind stamped (clasps missing, back board with some leather loss (7 x 4 cm)). Front free endpaper recto and verso with handwritten table of content for all 16 parts. Title with erased owner's stamp, few handwritten marginalia, index with tiny worming to white margin.
Item number: 13712
Price: €3800 ($4864 / £3192)
Aitzinger (Eytzinger), M., Novus de Leone Belgico ... Cologne, 1596.
Basic work on the religious wars in the Netherlands in a beautiful Antwerp binding and with the famous LEO BELGICUS map
Aitzinger (Eytzinger), M., , Novus de Leone Belgico eiusque topographica atque historica descriptione liber. Cologne: Gerhard Kempen for Franz Hogenberg, [1596]. Small folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm)
With engraved title, folding map in the shape of a lion (LEO BELGICUS), double-page engraved medallion portraits of Philip II, the Duke of Alba, John of Austria, Alessandro Farnese, Luis de Zuñiga y Requesens, Margaret of Parma and Archduke Ernest of Austria, and 237 double-page engraved views by Hogenberg, showing towns, battles, sea battles, sieges, executions, tournaments, assemblies, etc. (A few creases and stains.)
Item number: 21660
Apianus P. Cosmographie
One of the most popular books on cosmography ever published.
APIANUS, Petrus. Cosmographie, oft Beschrijuinghe der geheelder Werelt van Petrus Apianus. derdwerf nu ghecorrogeert van Gemma Frisio mathematicien ende doctoor in medicinen. Metten zeecompasse ende anderen boecxkens byden selue(n) Gemma daer toegedaen. Antwerp: Gregorius de Bonte, 1553. 4to (22 x 14 cm), modern blindstamped calf "à l'antique", bevelled edges, spine on 3 raised bands, lxxv-[1] pp., good complete copy (somewhat damstained and soiled).
Item number: 13703
Price: €11500 ($14720 / £9660)
Bertelli P. Theatrum Urbium Italicarum.
Bertelli P. Theatrum Urbium Italicarum. Venice, 1599. In-4° oblong. Original vellum binding. Engraved titlepage and 58 plans of towns in Italy with accompanying text. Very rare first edition (later editions dated 1616 and 1629) with 58 town plans, all shown as bird's-eye views.
Item number: 21611
Biblia Latina
Rare Antwerp bible, 1540
Biblia Latina. - Biblia breves in eadem annotiationes, ex doctiss. interpretationibus, | Hebraeorum commentaries. Antwerp, A. Goinus, 1540. [8p], 416p, [31p], 60p.
Item number: 21480
Price: €12500 ($16000 / £10500)
Biblia Sacrosancta ... Lyon, 1546
Rare Lyonese bible - No copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Biblia Sacrosancta Testamenti Veteris & Novi, iuxta vulgatam quam dicunt aeditionem. Lyon, T. Payen for J. Giunta, 1546. Folio (35,5 x 23,5 cm). Magnificent contemporary binding: Contemporary blindpressed pigskin with 8 brass corner fittings, 2 central panels and 2 clasps. With approximately 100 woodcuts and numerous woodcut initials.
Item number: 24279
Price: €12500 ($16000 / £10500)
Blaeu W. & J., Le Théâtre du Monde ...
First French text edition of the three volume Blaeu Atlas
BLAEU W. & J. Le theatre du monde ou Nouvel Atlas contenant les chartes et descriptions de tous les païs de la terre mis en lumiere par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Amsterdam, 1640-43, 3 vol. folio (500 x 320 mm) 6 engraved architectural titles (heigthened with gold), and 273 mostly double-page engraved maps, contemporary hand colour, contemporary gilt-panelled vellum. Occasional browning, some light marginal staining, binding soiled. (Van der Krogt 2, 211)
Item number: 04239
BOETHIUS, De consolatione philosophiae
Rare Louvain Incunable
BOETHIUS. De consolatione philosophiae, commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas. - Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1487. Chancery 2° (275 x 205mm). Engraving of a classical scene mounted on front flyleaf. Text with commentary surround, gothic type. Rubricated in blue and red. Two sets of pinholes visible. (Without first and final blank leaf, M7 lower margin replaced.) Modern three quarter burgundy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, red edges. Provenance: Sheen, Carthusian monastery (19th-century inscription).
Item number: 04231
Bosio G. Histoire des Chevaliers ...
Basic work on the history of the Knights of Malta
Bosio G. Histoire des Chevaliers de l'Ordre de S. Jean de Hierusalem, contenant leur admirable Institution & Police; la Suite des Guerres de la Terre Saincte, où ils se sont trouvez, & leurs continuels Voyages, Entreprises, Batailles, Assauts & Rencontres. ... Paris, J. D'Allin, 1643. Four parts in one volume, folio (35,5 x 23 cm), engraved additional title, 3 divisional titles, 6 folding or double-page maps including Malta and Cyprus and plans end 57 portraits in text. Contemporary calf (restored), some worming (reinforced), occasional spotting, some light browning.
Item number: 13731
Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum
The most famous cities atlas: Braun and Hogenberg's magnificent collection of town map engravings
BRAUN & HOGENBERG, Civitates Orbis Terrarium. Part I, II and III in 1 vol. Cologne, Gottfried von Kempen (Part I & II), 1575 and Bertram Buchholtz (Part III), 1593. Latin text. With 3 engraved title-pages, 176 engraved plates, depicting 300 cities (one plate with coat of arms): detailed perspective town plans and views, all beautiful coloured by contemporary hands. Calf binding, restored, new spine (original spine preserved), covers gilt paneled with central arabesque motifs.
Item number: 24226
BREYDENBACH, Bernard von. Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. [Speier], Peter Drach, 29 July, 1490.
*** The first illustrated travel book ***
BREYDENBACH, Bernard von (1454 - 1497). Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. [Speier], Peter Drach, 29 July, 1490. 2d Ed in Latin. Folio.
Half pigskin over wooden boards with 2 brass clasps, 120 leaves including the 18 additional leaves needed to extent the folding views (Venice, Parenzo, Corfu, Modon, Candia, Rhodes and Jerusalem). Some small wormholes at the end with a slim worm trace (up to 3 cm) affecting the last 10 leaves, repair at the view of Jerusalem reinstating a small area (15x13mm). Complete, 2nd Latin edition with the original Mainz woodcuts in a fine condition.
Item number: 21443
Bünting H. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Magdeburg, 1597.
Bünting's celebrated biblical geography
BUNTING Heinrich (1545-1606). , Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist Ein Reisebuch, Uber die ganze heilige Schrifft, in zwei Bücher getheilet. Der Erste Theil gebreifft alle Reisen der lieben Patriarchen, Richter, Könige , Propheten, Fürsten / etc. . . . [- Ander Theil] Uber das newe Testament. Darinnen werden begriffen / die Reisen der heiligen Jungfrawen Mariae, Josephs, . . . - Uber das Buch Josua . . . - De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae . . . Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchners, 1597. Four parts in one volume.
[Bound with:] Rivander, Zacharias. Fest-Chronica. Darinnen viel außerlesene, denckwirdige Historien oder Geschicht, die sich auff die Feyer und Sontage zugetragen, in der Erklerung der darauff geordenten Evangelien nach gelegenheit nützlich einzuführen. Deßgleichen Mancherley schöne Exempel, wie Gott den rechten gebrauch solcher Heiligtage belohnet, und den Mißbrauch gestrafft. N.pl., 1591. Two parts.
Folio. (34 x 22,5 cm) Contemporary German blind-tooled panelled pigskin over bevelled boards, two brass clasps, one catch missing. Title-page to part one printed in red and black (upper part trimmed to title).
Item number: 24224
Châtelain, Atlas Historique.
Atlas historique ou Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire, à la chronologie & à la Geographie ancienne & moderne; Representée dans de nouvelles cartes, où l'on remarque l'établissement des Etats & Empires du monde, leur durée, leur chûte, & leurs differens gouvernements. Amsterdam, Les Frères Châtelain, puis l'Honoré & Châtelain, 1708-1720. 7 volumes folio (440x280mm), contemporary calf, spines gilt, red edges. Nice condition. Volume 1 second edition, volumes 2-7 first edition. Printed titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, and 283 plates (many large folding) including 100 maps, also views, natural history subjects, elaborate genealogical tables, 4 printed tables in volume 7.
Item number: 24533
Chr. Plantin Bible [in Latin], 1583.
"One of the most impressive and beautiful editions of the Plantin Press" (Voet)
Biblia Sacra - Quid in hac Editione a Theologis Lovaniensibus Praestitum sit, Eorum Praefatio Indicat. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1582. Folio (425 x 280 mm). 94 copper engravings including engraved title, 3 double-page maps (1 world map), 2 doublle-page plates, 7 full-page, some with the monogram or the name of the designers Crispin van den Broeck (VCB) and Pieter van der Borcht (PB), the engravers Abraham de Bruyn (ADB), Jan de Sadeler (JS), Joannes Wiericx (HW). Contemporary calf, rebacked preserving contemporary gilt backstrip, gilt edges. 1 map trimmed to just within plate mark at fore-edges, light damp-stain affecting upper fore-corner of early ff.,
Item number: 13708
Cicero, Opera. Basel, Herwagen, 1534
Cicero Marcus Tullius., Opera quae aedita sunt hactenus omnia, in tomos distincta quatuor, ad diversorum & vetustissimorum codicum collationem ingeni cura recognita quorum Tomus Primus Rhetorica, Oratoria et Forensia (- Secundus Tomus Orationes - Tertius Tomus Opera Epistolica - Quartus Tomus Opera Philosophica) continet. Ad haec, Rerum & verborum Index omnium locuplentissimus & castigatissimus, cum Annotationibus variarum lectionum.
Basel, Herwagen, 1534. Folio (37 x 25 cm) Four parts in two volumes. 4p, 318pp, 1p; 4p, 595pp; 6p, 418pp, 1p; 10p, 402pp, 60p. With numerous woodcut initials and 8 printer's marks. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin , original clasps over wooden boards. A few wormholes in the first part of the first vol. and the last part of the second vol.
Item number: 21483
Price: €9500 ($12160 / £7980)
Cluver, Philipp. Italia antiqua. - Sicilia antiqua
Italia antiqua. Leiden: ex officina Elseviriana, 1624. 2 vol., [20 (incl. half-title and engraved title-page)], 786; [4], 787-1338, [22]pp., full-page engraved portrait, 14 double-page engraved maps, a few woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials.
Ibid. Sicilia antiqua... Item, Sardinia et Corsica. Leiden: ex officina Elseviriana, 1619, [16 (incl. half-title and engraved title-page)], 510, [12]pp., engraved title-page, 5 engraved maps (all but one double-page).
Ibid. Germaniæ antiquæ libri tres... Adjectæ sunt Vindelicia et Noricum. Leiden: Louis Elzevir, 1616, 4 parts in one volume, [44 (incl. half-title and engraved title-page)], 400; 203, [1]; 230, [2 (blank)]; 36, [18]pp., illustration: engraved title-page, 11 double-page engraved maps, one (of 26) engraved plates.
First editions, together 4 volumes, folio (336 x 219mm.), binding: uniform eighteenth-century calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments,
Item number: 21595
Price: €6900 ($8832 / £5796)
[Civil Law] - Damhouder J. - Praxis Rerum Civilium. 1567
Praxis Rerum Civilium, praetoribus, propraetoribus, consulibus, proconsulibus, magistratibus, reliqui's que id genus iustitiariis. Antverpiae, Apud Ioannem Bellerum, 1567. In-4° (215 x 165 mm), 32p, 575pp (corrected 557pp), 20p. Full-page woodcut arms of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Parma on verso of title, full-page woodcut portrait of the author, & 15 other full-page woodcuts, large woodcut on recto of last leaf. woodcut initials. text in double columns. New limp vellum binding and new flyleaves, titlepage and first 10p reinforced with restoration tape, stained throughout.
Item number: 22508
Price: €2600 ($3328 / £2184)
Dapper O. Africa
Dapper Olfert. Description de l'Afrique, contenant Les Noms, la Situation & les Confins de toutes ses Parties, leurs Rivières, leurs Villes & leurs Habitations, leurs Plantes & leurs Animaux ; les Moeurs, les Coûtumes, la Langue, les Richesses, la Religion & le Gouvernement de ses Peuples. Avec Des Cartes des Etats, des Provinces & des Villes, & des Figures en Taille-douce, qui représentent les habits & les principales Ceremonies des Habitans, les Plantes & les Animaux les moins connus. Traduite du Flamand [en français] D'O. Dapper, D. M. Amsterdam: Wolfgang, Waeesberge, Boom and van Someren, 1686.
Folio (360 x 220mm). Engraved frontispiece, folding general map, 12 double-page maps, 1 folding plate, 29 double-page plates. Bottom title page and p.23 trimmed (2 cm, without loss of text.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine in seven compartments with raised bands (repaired), tear in p.331 (reinforced)
Item number: 24276
Price: €6800 ($8704 / £5712)
de Bry J. Th. & Ferrari G.B. Florilegium renovatum
One of the most beautiful German florilegia.
de Bry J. Th. & Ferrari G.B. Florilegium renovatum et auctum: Das ist: Vernewertes und vermehrtes Blumenbuch: Von mancherley Gewächsen, Blumen und Pflantzen welche uns deren Schönheit lieblicher Geruch Gebrauch und manigfaltiger Unterschied angenehme machet die nicht allein auss der von uns bekandter sondern auch den alten unbekandter Welt Fruchtbarer Schoss uns herfür gegeben werden. ... Frankfurt am Main, M. Merian, 1641. Folio, contemporary vellum, some rubbing at lower spine. 14pp including engraved title and 174 plates (5 folding), a few leaves browned, two pages with repaired lower corner not affecting the image. Nice copy of this very rare botanical book.
Item number: 13720
Price: €18000 ($23040 / £15120)
de LAET, Jean (1593-1649). L'Histoire du Nouveau monde ou Description des Indes occidentales,
The most accurate description of the Americas at the time - 1640
de LAET, Jean (1593-1649). L'Histoire du Nouveau monde ou Description des Indes occidentales, contenant dix-huict livres... Enrichi de nouvelles Tables géographiques & Figures des Animaux, Plantes & Fruits. Leiden: Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1640.
Folio (345 x 220 mm) 14 double-page engraved maps, 64 woodcut illustrations in text; two maps age-toned, one sheet (O1) with a corner torn off, modern imitation binding, spine richly gilt with six raised bands, marbled sheepskin, marbled edge. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's vignette.
Item number: 04230
Bible of Cologne, 1548
Nice complete example of the rare Dutch Bible of Cologne, 1548.
De Bibel wederom met grooter nersticheit oversien ende gecorrigeert, meer dan in ses hodert plaetzen, ende collacioneert met de oude Latinsche, ongefalschte Biblie. Duer B. Alexander Blanckart, Carmelit. Cologne, J. van Gennep, 1548 (colophons dated 1547). 2 part in 1 vol. Folio (35 x 24 cm) Nice 17th cent. Dutch binding (spine restored), blindstamped Russia over wooden boards with brass corner pieces and clasps. Large woodcut borders around titles and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Marginal waterstained in some places, some thumbing.
Item number: 24281
Price: €6500 ($8320 / £5460)
Dürer A. - Valturius R.
First French edition of Dürer's great treatise on human proportions
Dürer A. Les quatre livres d'Albert Dürer, Peinctre & Geometrien Tres excellent, De la Proportion des parties & pourtraicts des corps humains. Traduicts par Loys Meigret Lionnois, de langue Latine en Françoise. Paris, Charles Périer, 1557. 2p, 124pp. 145 woodcuts after Dürer.
[Bound with:] Valturio Roberto, Les Douze livres de Robert Valturin touchant la discipline militaire, translatez de langue latine en francoys par Loys Meigret Lyonnois. Paris, Charles Périer, 1555. 6p, 234pp. Set of 96 woodcuts including 22 full page.
In-folio (340 x 206mm). Original white calf, gilt double fillets and gilt central medallion on sides, spine repaired.
Item number: 23189
F. De Wit - J. Covens & C. Mortier, Atlas Maior.
F. De Wit - Covens & Mortier. Atlas Maior. Amsterdam, J. Covens & C. Mortier, c.1730. Modern half-calf, folio (55 x 35 cm), new endpapers. Engraved title page + 73 contemporary coloured maps (2 folding) from De Wit, Ottens, Covens & Mortier, Schenck, Visscher, Valck, Jaillot, etc.. + 3 tables with two inset maps.
Item number: 24280
Fuchs L. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes. Basel, 1542.
A masterpiece of Renaissance botany and the most celebrated and beautiful herbal ever printed.
Fuchs L. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes. Basel, M. Isingrin, 1542. Folio, 464 leaves, pp. [xxviii], 896, [4]. (39 x 25 cm). First edition. Original calf over wooden boards, blind tooled, lacking clasps, rebacked, worm trace in the first pages, later endpapers. Full-length portrait of Fuchs and 512 full-page woodcuts of plants in text.
Item number: 21439
Hermann P. Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus ...
List of the plants in the botanical garden of the Leyden University.
Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus exhibens plantarum omnium nomina, quibus ab anno MDCLXXXI ad annum MDCLXXXVI hortus fuit instructus ut & plurimarum in eodem cultarum & à nemine hucusque editarum descriptiones & icones.
Leiden, C. Boutesteyn, 1687. 8vo (190 x110 mm), contemporary vellum. Engraved frontispice and 106 engraved illustrations, one pasted-in plate on page 698. 10p, 700pp. Some annotations in ink. Nice copy of the first edition.
Item number: 13702
Price: €2600 ($3328 / £2184)
Homer - Homerus. Les dix premiers livres de l'Illiade d'Homere ... Paris, 1545.
*** One of the most beautiful books of the French Renaissance ***
HOMER - HOMERUS. Les dix premiers livres de l'Illiade d'Homere, prince des poètes : traduit en vers françois par M. Hugues Salel. Paris: J. Loys for V. Sertenas, 1545. Folio (280 x 180 mm). Eighteenth century calf binding, gilt three-line borders, spine richly gilt with seven raised bands.
Title page restored: upper part (3 cm) with first line of title reinstated.
Item number: 21626
Hulsius, Vierdte Schiffart. Wahrhafftige Historien ...
Hulsius L. Vierdte Schiffart. Wahrhafftige Historien einer wunderbaren Schiffart welche Ulrich Schmidel von Straubing von Anno 1534 biss Anno 1554 in Americam oder Neuewelt bey Brasilia und Rio della Plata gethan. Editio tertia. Franfurt, Veuve Levinius Hulsius, 1612.
4to (191 x 153 mm). Engraved vignette on the title page, portrait, folding map of southern South America and 15 engraved plates. Vellum binding, handwritten title on the back.
Item number: 21588
Price: €6500 ($8320 / £5460)
Rare Antwerp post-incunable
JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. Passionael twinter stuc. Datmen hiet die gulden legende. - Hier beghit tsomer stuc vande passiole. Antwerp, H. Eckert von Homberg, 1505.
Item number: 24598
Lafitau J.F., De zeden der wilden van Amerika ... 1731.
Lafitau J.F., De zeden der wilden van Amerika zynde een nieuwe uitvoerige en zeer kurieuse beschrijving van derzelver oorsprong, godsdienst, manier van oorlogen, huwelyken, opvoeding, oeffeningen, feesten, danzeryen, begravenissen, en andere zeldzame gewoonten; tegen de zeden der outste volkeren vergeleken, en met getuigenissen uit de oudste griekse en andere schreyveren getoetst en bevestigt. 's Gravenhage, Gerard vander Poel, 1731. Folio, half calf. 2 vol. in 1, map + 41 engraved plates. Nice copy.
Item number: 21501
Price: €1950 ($2496 / £1638)
Le Petit J.F. La Grande Chronique . . .
Beautifully contemporary hand-coloured in full colour and liquid gold.
La Grande Chronique Ancienne et Moderne, de Hollande, Selande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'An 1600. Dordrecht: Jacob Canin (Second vol.: G. Guillemot), 1601. 2 vol, folio (305 x 190 mm), 2 engraved title-pages, engraved portrait of the author, 57 engraved text illustrations consisting of three-quarter page full-length portraits all engraved by Christoffel van Sichem, all illustrations beautifully contemporary hand-coloured in full colour and liquid gold. Eighteenth-century mottled calf, spines richly gilt.
Item number: 13717
Linschoten J.H. van. Histoire de la Navigation.
*** One of the most important travel books ever written ***
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van (c. 1563 - 1611). Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois: Aux Indes Orientales. [With:] Le Grand Routier de Mer, Continant une instruction des routes & cours qu'il convient tenir en la Navigation des Indes Orientales, & au voyage de la coste du Bresil, des Antilles, & du Cap de Lopo Gonsalves. .... [With:] Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, des Antilles, Iucaya, Cuba, Iamaica, &c. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburch, 1638.
3 parts in one volume, folio (31 x 20,5 cm). Three engraved titles, portrait, 6 folding engraved maps including the 1594 double-hemisphere world map by Petrus Plancius (Shirley (World), 187), 36 plates and bird's-eye views double-page and larger, by or after P. Plancius, A.F. van Langren, H.F. van Langren or the brothers van Deutecom. Contemporary vellum.
Item number: 23190
Magini G.A. Italia, 1620
First edition of the first printed atlas of Italy.
MAGINI G.A. Italia. Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi, 1620.
Folio, engraved allegorical title by Olivero Gatto printed within typographical border, 61 engraved maps as called for in index (all but 3 double-page), in fine dark impression, engraved portrait of Magini, text on 15 leaves. Seventeenth-century red morocco, gilt, sides panelled in gilt and blind, gilt edges. A few marginal repairs, some occasional marginal soiling.
Item number: 04238
Magnus O., Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus
MAGNUS O. Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus, earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus, ritibus, superstitionibus, disciplinis, exercitiis, regimene, victu, bellis, structuris, instrumentis, ac mineris metallicis, & rebus mirabilibus, necnon universis pené animalibus in septentrione degentibus, eorumqve natura. Romae: Apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis, 1555. Folio (275 x 190mm). First and best edition (Sabin). Full page woodcut map, 470 woodcuts illustrations (10 full page); 84p, 815pp. Early 17th-century calf with richly decorated spine in gilt, ornament (probably a coat of arms) cut out on first cover, else good copy.
Item number: 22596
Price: €7500 ($9600 / £6300)
Mela Pomponius, De Orbis Situs libri tres, ... Paris, 1540. [Bound with:] Cicecro, M. T. Tuscularum quaestiones libri quique. Paris, 1533
With the double cordiform woodcut world map by Oronce Finé
MELA POMPONIUS (1st cent. A.D.) , De Orbis Situs libri tres, accuratissime emendati, una cum commentariis Joachimi Vadiani Helvetii Castigatioribus . . . Edited by Joachim von Watt, woodcut device on title, with the woodcut world map by Oronce Finé dated 1540 (Shirley 66, state 4) in a fine impression. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1540.
Bound with: CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Tuscularum quaestiones libri quique. With commentaries by P. Beroaldus and G. Vala, woodcut initials. Paris, apud Michaelem Vascosanum, 1533.
Item number: 21423
Merian M.S.
"One of the finest of all flower books" (Handasyde Buchanan)
Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium. ... - Dissertation sur la Generation et les Transformations des Insectes de Surinam: Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des Plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnees, & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin. On y a joint Un Traité des changemens des Poissons en Grenouilles & des Grenouilles en poissons. Par Marie Sibille Merian. Den Haag, Pierre Gosse, 1726. Latin and French in double columns. 72 plates, engraved by Mulder and Sluyter. A few small wormholes at the end affecting 8 pages.
Together with:
Histoire des insectes de l'Europe, Dessinée d'après nature & expliquée par Marie Sibille Merian: Où l'on traite de la Generation & des différentes Metamorphoses des Chenilles, Vers, Papillons, Mouches & autres Insectes; & des Plantes, des Fleurs & des Fruits dont ils se nourrissent, Traduite du Hollandois en François Par Jean Marret, Docteur en Medecine. Augmentée par le même d'une Description exacte des Plantes, dont il est parlé dans cette histoire; & des Explications de dix-huit nouvelles Planches, dessinées par la même Dame, & qui n'ont point encore paru. Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1730. 184 plates on 47 sheets + 2 engraved vignettes. Four plates with some brown offsetting, wide margins.
Folio, (52 x 36 cm) Two works in 2 volumes in contemporary uniform calf bindings, gilt three-line borders, spine richly gilt with seven raised bands.
Item number: 01375
Montaigne, Essais, London, 1754.
Montaigne M. de. Essais, avec les notes de M. Coste. London: Nourse and Vaillant, 1754.
Item number: 21625