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Account of a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Ireland and Norway

JONG, Cornelius de, and J. OLIVIER Jz. Reizen naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop, enz. ... Voor jonge lieden bearbeid.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, [1833]. 8vo. With an engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary half vellum. XII, 208 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Whales, herring, and the Dutch Artic: illustrated maritime classic

[JONG, Dirk de]. De walvischvangst, met veele byzonderheden daartoe betrekkelyk.
Including: Beschryving der haringvisschery.
Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, and Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1784-1786. 4 parts bound as 1. 4to. With 6 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved plates by H. Kobell and M. Sallieth, 3 additional folding and 10 full-page engraved plates. Every title page features a small woodcut illustration, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half marbled calf and marbled paper sides. VII, [1], 96; [4], 116; [4], 116; [4], 116 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Royal instructions, drafted for the Archbishop of Goa, with anti-Jesuit themes

JOSÉ I, King of Portugal. Instrucçõens com que el Rey meu senhor manda passar ao Estado da India o reverendo Arcebispo de Goa primaz do Oriente.
[Lisbon?, dated 10 February 1774 at the foot of the of each of the six Instrucçõens]. Folio. Manuscript on paper, written in a neat secretarial hand. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. [2 blank], [4], [68], [2], [4 blank] ll. Full description
€ 16,500
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Early Antwerp edition of Roman poetry

JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.
Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges. 64 ll. Full description
€ 4,750
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Madame de Pompadour’s “histoire scandaleuse”. One of the few copies surviving the protective efforts of the French ambassador

[KERSTEMAN, Franciscus Lievens]. Historie van mevrouwe de hartoginne van Pompadour. [Wrapper-title: Levensbeschryving van de hartoginne van Pompadour].
Zaltbommel, Johannes Willem Kanneman, 1761. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. Recased in 18th-century vellum, later endpapers, preserving the original publisher's printed wrappers. [8], 207, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Collection of tracts concerning the monopoly and the subsequent advantages of the Dutch herring fishery, published to establish a stronger British herring fishery

KEYMER, John; WITT, Johan de; L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger. A small collection of valuable tracts, relating to the herring fishery; comprehending John Keymer's celebrated observations on the Dutch fisheries, in 1601. The grand pensionary John De Witt's sentiments on the same subject, and a discourse shewing the necessity, and proving the practicability, of establishing a British herring fishery, by Sir Roger L'Estrange. To which an introduction is prefixed.
London, printed for Ralph Griffiths, 1751. 4 parts in 1 volume: an introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery. Small 8vo. An introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery, published together as a single edition. 20th-century half calf. [4], xxiv; 24, “33”-“37” [=25-29], [1 blank]; [3], 34-37 pp. Full description
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A valuable account of the Greek islands, with a large folding chart

[KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Beschryvinge van den archipel, tot nut van den krygsman, zeevaarenden en handeldryvenden.
Amsterdam, 1792. 8vo. With a large folding engraved sea chart (57.5 x 68.5 cm). Publisher's original flexible boards covered with blue paper, with the title and decoration printed letterpress on the spine. [8], 190, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Funeral rites and ceremonies in ancient Rome, with 5 engraved plates by Romeyn de Hooghe

KIRCHMANN, Johann. De funeribus Romanorum libri quatuor.Including: RIGAULT, Nicolas. Funus parasiticum sive L. Biberii curculionis parasiti, mortualia. Ad ritum prisci funeris.
Leiden, Hackius, 1672. With an engraved frontispiece and 4 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) KIRCHMANN, Johann. In funere V. Cl. Pauli G.F.P.N. Merulae. Historiarum Professoris in academia Batavorum, & foederatarum provinciarum historiographi, oratio, in qua de vita scriptisque ejus disseritur.Leiden, Hackius, 1672. 2 works in 1 volume (the first in two parts). 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [48], 649, [45], [2 blank], 24; [8], 64 pp. Full description
€ 950
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Mollusks of the Oligocene in northern Germany

KOENEN, Adolf von. Das Norddeutsche Unter-Oligocän und seine Mollusken-Fauna.
Berlin, Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstat, Im Vertrieb der Simon Schropp, 1889-1894. 7 parts (bound in 7). Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.5 cm). With 101 folding plates. Original printed brown paper wrappers, with the title on the spine (printed for volumes 1-6, manuscript for volume 7). 1458 pp. Full description
€ 950
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Swiss fashion in the early nineteenth century

KÖNIG, Franz Niklaus & Gabriel LORY & OTHERS. Nouvelle collection de costumes Suisses de XXII cantons. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen.
Zürich, bey Orell, Füssli und Comp., [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, separated by tissue paper guards, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary gold-tooled red paper 223, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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