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A passionate plea for the merger of the Dutch East and West India Companies

[VOC - WIC - MERGER]. Schaede die den staet der Vereenichde Nederlanden, en dinghesetenen van dien, is aenstaende, by de versuymenisse van d'Oost en West-Indische negotie onder een octroy en societeyt te begrijpen.
The Hague, Jan Vreely, 1644. Small 4to. Flexible boards. 51, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade Latin America Netherlands South America VOC WIC
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An overview and translation of Aramaic inscriptions found in Syria,
with commentary: from Palmyra and the Hauran region

VOGÜÉ, Melchior de. Syrie centrale. Inscriptions sémitiques publiées avec traduction et commentaire.
Paris, J. Baudry, 1868. Folio With 16 plates reproducing inscriptions, plates 1-4, 6, 7, 12, 14 and 15 are engravings and plates 5, 8-11, 13 and 16 are lithographs. All are after drawings by Melchior de Vogüé and all except no. 12 were engraved or lithographed by E. Roussaux and printed by J. Grandjean in Paris. Plate no. 12 was engraved by L. Dardel and printed by Lamoureux in Paris. With additional illustrations in the text and parts of the text in Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek type. Modern half calf, marbled boards, silver lettering on spine. [4], II, [2], 132 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Archaeology Greek & Non-Western Types Literature
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Exotic animals from the menagerie of William V

VOSMAER, Arnout. [Natuurkundige beschryving eener uitmuntende verzameling van zeldsaame gedierten, bestaande in Oost- en Westindische viervoetige dieren, vogelen en slangen, weleer leevend voorhanden geweest zynde, buiten Den Haag, op het Kleine Loo van Z.D.H. den prins van Oranje-Nassau].
Amsterdam, P. Meijer (parts 1- 14 and 29-31) and heirs of P. Meijer and G. Warnars (parts 15-20), 1766-1787. 31 parts in 1 volume. 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 33 hand-coloured engraved plates and 1 uncoloured folding engraved plate. 19th-century black half morocco, gold-tooled spine. 15; 8; 8; 12; 22; 8; 9; 6; 7; 7; 7; 10; 8; 20; 12; 6; 6; 6; 10; 10; 6; 6; 8; 8; 23; 15; 12; 14; 14; 44; 12 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Amphibians & Reptiles Birds - Ornithology Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Mammals Southern Africa West Africa West Indies
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A captivating account of Nader Shah's greatest campaign against the Mughal Empire

[VOULTON, Monsieur de?]. Verdadeira, e exacta noticia dos progressos de Thamas Kouli Khan Schach da Persia no imperio do Gram Mogôr, escrita na lingua Persiana em Delhy em 21. de Abril de 1739. e mandada a Roma por Mons. Voulton. Acrecentada com outras chegadas por varias partes, com hum mapa do thesouro do Gram Mogôr levado a Hispahan pelo mesmo Schach. Dadas á luz na lingua Portugueza.
Lisbon, Antonio Correa Lemos, 1740. 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With woodcut decorations. Modern half red goatskin morocco. 19, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Iran / Persia Military History (18th Century) Southeast Asia
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Attractive early 19th-century watercolour illustration of the highest Dutch official on Deshima, Japan, together with his wife Titia, one of the first western women in Japan

[WATERCOLOUR - JAPANESE - DESHIMA]. [Portrait of Jan Cocq Blomhoff and his wife Titia Bergsma on Deshima, Japan].
[Japan, ca. 1817 or later]. Drawing size ca. 56.5 x 25.5 cm; frame size ca. 74.5 x 40.5 cm. Watercolour and ink drawing, partly highlighted with white water paint and gouache, on paper. In a passepartout and framed. Full description
€ 7,500
Drawings & Watercolours Japan & Far East
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Beautifully illustrated description of Palestine, Sinai and Egypt

WILSON, Charles. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. Edited by Colonel Wilson, R.E, C.B., F.R.S. formerly engineer to the Palestine Exploration Society. Assisted by the most eminent Palestine explorers etc. With numerous engravings on steel and wood.
London, Virtue and Co., [ca. 1870]. 4 volumes. Large 4to (33 x 25 cm). With 4 title-pages in red and black, each with a different large steel-engraved vignette, 38 steel-engraved plates (including 4 different frontispieces), 2 double-page engraved maps of Egypt and Sinai, printed in brown, and 576 wood-engravings on integral leaves, many full-page. Contemporary half sheepskin. [2], X, 240; [2], VI, 240; [2], IV, 240; [2], IV, 236 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus North Africa & Egypt
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Second edition of the first etymological Sanskrit-English dictionary

WILSON, Horace Hayman. A dictionary in Sanscrit and English; translated, amended, and enlarged, from an original compilation, prepared by learned natives for the college of Fort William.
Calcutta, printed at the Education Press, 1832. Large 4to. Contemporary half green morocco with marbled sides, gilt edges. X, 982 pp. Full description
€ 2,750
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias India & Sri Lanka Language & Linguistics Literature
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