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The origins of the new Russian state flag

JAZYKOV, Aleksandr Petrovich. ? ???????? ???????????????? ????? [O russkom gosudarstvennom tsvietie].
Saint Petersburg, Publishing house of H.I.M. Own Chancery, 1858. 8vo. With a chromolithographed frontispiece showing the old and new Russian flag plus ten flags of German states, with highlights in gold. Contemporary green paper wrappers. 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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First edition of an important collection of documents and letters
paving the way to the "Twelve Year's Truce"

JEANNIN, Pierre. Les negotiations de monsieur le President Jeannin.
Paris, Pierre Petit, 1656. Folio. With an engraved vignette on the title page, a full-page portrait of Jeannin R. Nanteuil, several decorated woodcut initials, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [12], 757, [11] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Letters about Saint Jerome, by the first printer in Blaubeuren (near Ulm) ca. 1475/77

JEROME (HIERONYMUS), Saint (subject). Epistola Beati Euseby ad Damasium Portunensem Episcopum & ad Theodomum senatorem Romanum de morte gloriosi Hieronimi doctoris eximy.
[d7:] Epistola Beati Augustini Episcopi ad Cirillum venerabilem Archiepiscopium Hierosolimitanum de vita obitu & miraculis Beatissimi Hieronimi prespiteri & doctoris eximy.
[e5:] Epistola Cirilli Archiepiscopi ad Beatimi Augustinum Episcopium de miraculis gloriosi Hieronimi necnon & de morte Beati Euseby discipuli Sancti Hieronimi.
[Blaubeuren, Conrad Mancz, ca. 1475/77]. Small folio (27.5 x 20 cm). Set in what is sometimes called a gotico-antiqua type (119 mm/20 lines, with 31 lines per page), in this case mixing some roman influences into what is largely a rotunda gothic type. With about 150 "Lombardic" initials in red ink: 2 4-line, 4 3-line, about 140 2-line (1 with pen-work decorations in brown ink) and 4 1-line, in spaces left for that purpose and capitals rubricated throughout. Modern parchment. [130] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
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50 (mostly military) costumes in colour

[JESSEN, Heinrich]. [Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg].
[Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others], [ca. 1850]. 8vo. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) highlighted with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), including 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front board with title lettered in gold. [50] plates. Full description
€ 1,250
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16th-century Jesuit letters from Japan

[JESUITS - JAPAN]. Cartas que los Padres y Hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los Reynos de Iapon ...
Alcalá [der Henares], Spain, Juan Iniguez de Lequerica, 1575. 4to in 8s. With woodcut of the Crucifixion on verso of the colophon (2R4v), woodcut Japanese characters in the text (I8v), and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary limp vellum, with ties. [6 (of 8)], 315, [5] ll. Full description
€ 18,000
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Parisian luxury jewelry catalogue

[JEWELRY MODELS]. [Album with hand-drawn jewelry models].
[Paris?, in or soon after 1872]. Oblong (17.5 x 28 cm). With 101 very neat drawings in ink, some hand-coloured (blue and yellow). Half purple morocco and purpleish-brown weave-grained cloth sides, with "album" lettered in gold on the front board. 52 ll. Full description
€ 3,750
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How to teach arithmetic according to the 19th-century educational system of mutual tuition

[JOMARD, Edmé François]. Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.
[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum. [1], 88, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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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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