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Rare Dutch Ovid, with 179 charming woodcuts

OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (OVID). Den metamorphosis ofte herscheppinghe ... In onse Nederduytsche tale overgeset ende met figuren verciert elck tot sijnder historien dienende. Seer nut voor alle schilders, beeltsnijders, goutsmeden, ende liefhebbers der historien.
Rotterdam, Pieter van Waesberge, [1635]. 8vo. With engraved title-page, a full-page woodcut depicting the Creation in 6 small scenes, and 178 nearly half-page woodcuts in text after Virgil Solis. Contemporary vellum. Engr. t.-p. plus 425, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Fable Books Greek & Roman Classics
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Best edition of a copiously illustrated work on mathematical recreations

OZANAM, Jacques. Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges élémentaires.
Paris, Jacques Rollin, 1750 (vol. 2: 1749). 4 volumes. 8vo. With 136 engraved plates (9 folding, 127 full-page), numerous woodcut diagrams and printed tables in the text. Contemporary mottled calf. [16], 460, [20]; [4], 462, [14]; [2], 482, [12]; [8], 446, [5] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Mathematics Music, Theatre & Dance Optics & Perspective Physics & Chemistry
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Wholly engraved illustrated book on naval strategy

OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie. Marine militaire ou recueil des differens vaisseaux qui servent a la guerre suivis des manoeuvres qui ont le plus de raport au combat ainsi qua l'ataque et la deffense des ports.
Paris, Chereau, [ca. 1775]. Large 8vo (25 x 17 cm). A wholly engraved book, with 50 engraved plates (1 folding), including a title-page in an architectural frame and 44 leaves with illustrations of ships. 18th-century brown half morocco, with owner's (?) initials at the foot of the spine "I.G.". 50 engraved ll. Full description
€ 1,750
Naval History Ships & Shipbuilding Wine / Viticulture
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Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Jenolan Caves and Launceston in the late 19th century

PAINE, John & Steven SPURLING II. [Photograph album containing pictures of New South Wales and Tasmania].
[Australia, 1870s-1880s]. 16.5 x 37 cm. With 34 mounted albumen prints, mostly between 10 x 15 cm and 18 x 23.5 cm, with the smallest ca. 7 x 10 cm, most of them captioned underneath in ink. Oblong half morocco photo album, titled "Queensland" on the front. 18 ll. Full description
€ 1,850
Australia Photography
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Late-18th-century view of the Dutch in Japan, painted on leather

[PAINTING ON LEATHER - JAPANESE - DESHIMA]. [A birds-eye view of the Dutch trading post on Deshima, Japan with in the background a Dutch three-master anchored in Nagasaki Bay].
[Japan, before 1800]. Drawing size ca. 34 x 39.5 cm; frame size ca. 46 x 51 cm. (Oil?) painting on leather. In a passepartout and framed. Full description
€ 8,500
Drawings & Watercolours Japan & Far East Ships & Shipbuilding
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Collection of four 18th-century (?) miniatures of people wearing pearl earrings

[PAINTINGS - DENMARK]. Four miniatures of people wearing pearl earrings.
[Denmark?, first half 18th century?]. Collection of four paintings, oil on paper or paperboard, two measuring 8 x 5.5 cm (frame 10.5 x 7.5 cm) and two measuring 8.5 x 5.5 cm (frame 10 x 7 cm), all with a gilt wooden frame. Full description
€ 6,850
Costumes & Uniforms Drawings & Watercolours Scandinavia
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Military expedition in the Nortwest Frontier of British India

[PHOTO ALBUM - PAKISTAN]. G.W. CURTIS (compiler). [Album of photographs documenting a British military tour on the Northwest Frontier].
Waziristan/Pakistan, 1923-1925. 4to album (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With 97 black & white photographs (each ca. 11 x 6.5 cm) inserted in "frames" on 24 paperboard leaves, with 2 "frames" on each page (1 frame has 2 photos in it). Contemporary cloth. [48] pp. with 97 photographs. Full description
€ 3,750
India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) Photography
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Fine album of the first series of Palhares' costumes of Portugal,
the largest copy known and with a fine Portuguese provenance

[PALHARES, João]. [Costumes Portugueses].
[Lisbon, ca. 1850]. Folio. With 46 contemporary hand coloured numbered lithographs showing Portuguese dress. Contemporary gold-tooled, quarter green buckram, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, green (pseudo-) marbled paper sides. 46 ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Costumes & Uniforms Portugal Prints & Print Series
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Spectacular views of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay

PALLIERE, Jean Léon. Album Palliere. Escenas Americanas. Reduccion de cuadros, aquarelles y bosquejos.
Buenos Aires, Fusoni brothers, [1864?]. Oblong Royal folio (32.5 x 52 cm). With lithographed title-page and 52 tinted lithographed plates (image size mostly about 19 x 32 cm), lithographed by J. Pelvilain after designs by Juan Léon Palliere. Contemporary, gold-tooled green morocco. Lithographic title-page plus 52 plates. Full description
€ 39,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Argentina Brazil Chile City Plans, Topography & Views Latin America South America
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