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A French Robinsonade in German

[MALLÈS DE BEAULIEU, Jeanne-Sophie]. Begebenheiten eines französischen Schiffsjungen auf einer unbewohntern Insel, oder der zwölfjährige Robinson.
Zürich & Leipzig, Trachslerschen Buch- u. Kunsthandlung, [1824]. Small 8vo. With an illustrated engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, all aquatints which are richly and beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary green cloth, gold-tooled spine. 324 pp. Full description

€ 2,000

Children's Books Imaginary Voyages & Utopias

Early 18th-century Dutch student's manuscript on navigation and mathematics

[MANUSCRIPT - NAVIGATION - DUTCH]. De schat kamer ofte de konst der stuurlieden.
[The Netherlands], [ca. 1702/13?]. Folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm). With more than 300 mathematical figures and illustrations, mainly full-, half- and quarter-circle diagrams. The Dutch text is written in a clearly legible, 18th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary flexible paperboards. [213], [4 blank], [1] pp. Full description

€ 3,850

Manuscripts & Documents Mathematics Navigation

Original edition of the best Martialis text of the seventeenth century

MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). [Epigrammata]. Nova editio.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With the woodcut printer's device of Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii on the title pages of ad 1 and 2, and the woodcut device of Maire on the title page of ad 3. With: (2) Petrus SCRIVERIUS. Animadversiones in Martialem. Opus invenile, & nunc primum ex intervallo quindecim annorum repetitum.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1618.
(3) Justus LIPSIUS, Janus RUTGERSIUS, Johannes Isacus PONTANUS (Janus GRUTERUS, Josephus Justus SCALIGER, and others). Notae in Martialem. Ad Petrum Scriverium.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [8], 16, 312; 283, [1 blank]; 24, 280 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics School & Textbooks

Manuscript medical manual

[MEDICAL MANUAL AND RECIPE BOOK]. Examen: vor ein neuer angehender Chirurgus, der sich will examiniren lassen, daß er in seinem examen bestehet, und wohl erfunden wird, so muß er dieses alles auswendig lernen, daß er antworten kann, über dasjenige was ihm gefragt wird. Anno 1806.
Franconia and Alsace (Augsburg, Nuremberg, Strasbourg), 1800-1826. 4to (17 x 23 cm). German (and Latin) manuscript by various hands. Contemporary boards with vellum corners and modern cloth spine. [47], "286" [= 285], [47] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Manuscripts & Documents Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century)

Original preparatory drawings for one of the finest achievements in 18th-century Dutch book illustration

MEURS, Jacob van. [Set of 84 beautiful washed ink pen drawings, intended to serve as models for the engraved plates to illustrate Economische Liedjes by E. Wolff-Bekker and A. Deken].
(Amsterdam, 1792-1798). (Each drawing ca. 7.3 x 12.7cm). All drawings carefully tipped onto board leaves, several mounted within elegant grey ink-washed borders. Full description

€ 12,500

Art & Art History Children's Books Drawings & Watercolours Dutch Literature

First edition of an instructional miniature library on all school subjects

[MINIATURE BOOKS - DUTCH]. Bibliotheek in miniatuur.
Comprising:
(1) De aardrijkskunde.
(2) De gewijde geschiedenis.
(3) Vaderlandsche geschiedenis.
(4) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der viervoetige dieren.
(5) De natuurlijke geschiedenis der vogelen.
(6) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der insekten, kruipende dieren en visschen.
(7) De kruidkunde.
(8) Zedelijke verhalen.
(9) Arabische vertellingen.
(10) De mythologie.
Amsterdam, M. Westerman, 1823. 10 volumes. Ca 7.7 x 6.5 cm. With 31 engraved plates and 5 engraved maps, including a folding world map. In the original pink and green cardboard case with glass lid, green printed paper wrappers, with cream paper dust jackets with the titles in manuscript on the front. Full description

€ 3,750

Children's Books Education & Pedagogy Miniature Books Netherlands

A forgotten world of chivalry: rare Dutch Amadis de Gaule from the Golden Age

[MONTALVO, Garci Rodríguez de]. Het XIIII.de - XVIII.de, boeck van Amadis de Gaule. Uyt de Fransche in onse Nederduytsche Tale over gheset.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Barentsz., 1615-1623, 5 parts in 1 vol. 4to. With ornamental woodcut borders and woodcut illustrations on 5 titles. Contemporary vellum, with red painted edges. [8], 166; [2], 145, [2, 3 blank]; 94, [2]; 200, [8]; [8], 402 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Education & Pedagogy School & Textbooks

Arabic ABC primer

MUHAMMAD ALI UTAY. [Egyptian ABC book].
[Cairo, ca. 1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations in the text. The title-page with a frame of foliage (oval inside, rectangular outside) and part of its text printed from a woodblock. Further with a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt and illustrations of animals, etc. Original publishers printed-paper wrappers, matching the title-page but with the frame in green and the text in red. 46, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Book History, Printing & Typography Education & Pedagogy Egypt North Africa

The wonders of nature

MUNERELLE & LEMAITRE. Les phénomènes et les curiosités de la nature. Texte par Munerelle. Dessins par Lemaitre.
Strasbourg, Paris, Derivaux, Arthus-Bertrand, Martinon, 1856. Large 4to. With lithographed aquatint printed in sepia on title with a view of a burning vulcano, and 37 full-page colour-printed lithographed plates, beautifully finished by hand and glazed, all depicting natural phenomena, such as a sun-rise, a storm, a rainbow, the Niagara Falls, Geysers, The Andes, the Nile, the Vesuvius, a jungle, the steppe, cliffs, mines, the tide, the Poles, a cyclone, an undersea volcano, etc., also including natural disasters, like a flood, an earthquake, and an avalanche. Original gold-stamped half brown leather. [92] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

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1545 Granada edition of Latin school texts, including Cato and Aesop

[NEBRIJA, Antonio de] (editor). Libri minores. et primum Catonis disticha moralia. cum ... annotationibus.
Granada, [Sancho & Sebastián de Nebrija (sons of Antonio de Nebrija)], April (Aesop colophon May) 1545. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With main title in an elaborate ornamental frame made from 4 woodblocks, with numerous figures, beasts, etc.; the Aesop part-title in an ornamental frame 4 different woodblock, with musicians, animals, etc.; 2 drop-titles; and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Set in roman type with authors' names in rotunda gothic type in the margins of the dedication.
Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1652), stitched, with manuscript spine title: [Cato,] Disticha moralia cum an[n]otat[ione]b[us], and 2 leaves from a 1652 Leiden edition of Marcus Minucius Felix as endpapers. [63 of 64] ll. Full description

€ 18,000

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