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Famous work on Spain and Portugal

LABORDE, Alexandre de. Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne.
Paris, Pierre Didot l'aîné, 1806-1820. 2 volumes, each in 2 parts, bound as 4. 1mo (57 x 44 cm). With engraved illustrated title-page by Du Parc after Charles Percier, 4 letterpress title-pages, each with a different engraved illustration, 272 engraved plates and 2 large double-page engraved maps, of Spain and Portugal. Contemporary green half morocco. XLVI, 72, [2]; 73-132; XLV, [1 blank], 33, [1 blank] [2]; XCI [= LXXXI], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 17,500

City Plans, Topography & Views Portugal Prints & Print Series Spain

Richly illustrated pioneering work of modern Christian biblical scholarship

LABORDE, Léon de. Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres.
Paris and Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841. Folio With 13 plates (3 folding and 8 full-page) showing a total of 19 maps, 8 of which are lithographs. Including:
(2) Discours du Roi. Royal Séance du 9 janvier 1843.
Large 8vo. 4 pp.
(3) [A richly illustrated advert for two other works by Laborde (Voyage en Orient and Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée)].
Large 4to. 4 pp.
Contemporary half maroon leather, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers LXI, [1], 146; 48 (supplement) pp. Full description

€ 950

Geography Religion (19th Century) West Asia

Fine collection of 16th-century Italian cartography from the school of Antonio Lafreri

[LAFRERI - DUCHETTI - FLORINI - MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS - ITALY]. [Large album with 16th-century maps and engravings of Italy].
[Italy, late 16th and early 17th century]. Large oblong folio (ca. 59 x 42.3 cm). With 76 full-page engravings, and 12 full-page etchings. 17th-century gold-tooled brown calf, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine with the title "Novissim[a] urbis Romae descript[io]" lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges. Full description

€ 150,000

Architecture Art & Art History Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity Italy Prints & Print Series

The springs of Cleves as pictured by Jan de Beijer and sung by the Dutch poet Pieter Langendijk

LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidbron, en omleggende landsdouwen, in kunstprenten verbeeld.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. 4to. With a title-vignette with the Iron man and the amphitheatre in Cleve, and 10 engraved plates (5 folding, 5 double-page plates) by Hendrikus Spilman after Jan de Beijer. Contemporary half calf. [1], [1 blank], 63, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,000

City Plans, Topography & Views Germany

Wonderful account of the geography and development of Palestine and Syria during the Muslim rule

LE STRANGE, Guy. Palestine under the Moslems. A description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Translated from the work of the mediaeval Arab geographers.
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1975. Illustrations, maps, plans (some fold-out) throughout. Original cloth binding. XXII, [2], 604 pp. Full description

€ 650

Geography Iran / Persia

King William III of England's Dutch palace and gardens

LETH, Hendrik de. [Views of the Dutch royal estate Soestdijk].
[Amsterdam], Hendrik de Leth, [ca. 1731]. Royal folio (55 x 34 cm). With large double-page general bird's-eye view of the Dutch royal estate Soestdijk (image size 35 x 47 cm) by B. Stoopendaal after B. Stuyvenburgh, and 16 numbered engraved views of details of the palace, gardens and other buildings (image size 12 x 16 cm) printed on 8 leaves. Modern half parchment. Full description

€ 4,750

Architecture Castles, Gardens & Mansions Netherlands

Drawing of a scene on the Coromandel Coast for an engraving in a book by Johann Georg Jacobi

[COROMANDEL COAST]. LIPS, Johann Heinrich. Die Küste Coromandel.
[Zürich, 1803]. Pen drawing (10.3 x 6.3 cm) in grey ink with washes on paper (12.5 x 8.5 cm), signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the illustration and with the title in pencil in the lower margin. The whole mounted on a larger paper leaf (with notes: "dessin no 522" and "Lips f." in ink), with a passepartout and in a gilt wooden frame. Full description

€ 6,500

Book History, Printing & Typography India & Sri Lanka

Unique views of Cairo and Alexandria

LONGHI, Gioseffo. Gran Cairo.
With: (2) Alessandria.
Bologna, Longhi, 1670 [and 1670s]. 94.5 × 62 cm, 106.5 × 57.8 cm. Engraved views, each on 2 sheets joined; letterpress text pasted below with publisher's imprint. Both views matted, framed and glazed. Full description

€ 48,000

City Plans, Topography & Views North Africa

With beautiful hand coloured views

LOOSJES, Adriaan. Hollands arkadia of wandelingen in de omstreeken van Haarlem.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title with a hand coloured view by F.A. Milatz, an engraved silhouette portrait of Hermina Christina Bicker in the text, 4 engraved folding views of Haarlem, Beverwijk and surroundings, all beautifully hand coloured, and 9 full-page engraved plates with musical scores. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. VI, 532 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Holland

Charming aquatints of Dutch historical monuments and folklore

[MAASKAMP, Evert (editor)]. Merkwaardige gezigten, gebouwen, monumenten en standbeelden in de noordelijke provintien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. | Vues remarquables, edifices, monumens et statues dans les provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1816. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved illustration on the title page and 37 sepia aquatints by Ludwig Portman after Gerrit Jan Michaëlis, Franciscus Aandreas Milatz, and Cornelius Overman. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue boards. [40] ll. + 37 plates. Full description