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Romeyn de Hooghe's stunning etchings of royal festivities in The Hague

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Voyage de sa Majesté Britannique en Hollande.
The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1692. Large folio (49.5 x 36 cm.). With an engraved portrait of King William III by Pieter van Gunst after J. Brandon, 11 full-page engraved plates (32.5 x 44 cm) and 4 half-page engraved plates (32.5 x 21.5 cm., including the engraved title-page) all finely engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe. Later half vellum and yellow paper side, with a brown leather title-label lettered in gold on the spine. [14] ll. Full description
€ 3,975
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The origins of the American Indians, together with the life and teaching of David Joris

HORNIUS (HORN), Georgius. De originibus Americanis. Libri quatuor.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq (colophon: printed by Phillipe de Croy, Leiden), 1652.
With: (2) BLESDIJK, Nicolaas van. Historia, vitae, doctrinae, ac rerum gestarum Davidis Georgii haeresiarchae. Conscripta ab ipsius genero Nicolao Blesdikio. Nunc primum prodit in lucem ex musaeo Iacobi Revii.
Deventer, Nathanael Cost, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [9], [11], 282; [8], 189 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Rare account of an important Russian diplomatic visit to China, with one of the first Western descriptions of Siberia

IDES, Evert Ysbrants. Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovicen afgezant, E. Ysbrandts Ides...
Including: KAO, Dionyzius. Korte beschrijving van t magtig keizerryk China ...
Amsterdam, Pieter de Coup, 1710. 4to. With an engraved title-page bound as a frontispiece before the typographical title-page, which is printed in red and black, a large folding map of Russia and parts of Asia, 8 folding engraved plates of cities and other views, 1 full-page engraving, and 21 half-page engravings in the text. Further with woodcut and engraved decorated initials, a large engraved head-piece at the start of the main text, 2 woodcut floral tail-pieces, and a small woodcut floral vignette on the typographical title-page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown splattered paper with a red title-label on the spine. [30], 243, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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Beautiful work on Austrian plants and fungi, with a pioneering article on Stapelieae

[JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von; Joachim Friedrich Plappart; Joseph Sonnauer]. Miscellanea Austriaca ad botanicam, chemiam, et historiam naturalem spectantia, cum figuris partim coloratis.
Vienna, ex officina Krausiana, 1778-1781. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 44 contemporary hand coloured, full-page copper-engraved plates of flowering plants, fungi and lichen. All plates are numbered and a few are signed ("J. Adam sculp."). Later gold-tooled quarter mottled calf. [4], 212; 423, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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Jesuit emblems from the Southern Netherlands

[JESUITS - EMBLEMS]. Imago primi saeculi Societas Iesu a provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraesentata.
Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1640. Folio. With an engraved title page and 126 engraved emblems, including the Leo Belgicus map. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, remnants of clasps, 4 small brass corner pieces. (8), 952, (22) pp. Full description
€ 3,000
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Early humanist edition of Lactantius' most important works, printed in Venice

LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus and Giovanni Andrea BUSSI) (editor) [and others]. Opera [and additional works].
Comprising:
(1) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De divinis institutionibus
(2) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De ira Dei.
(3) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De opificio Dei.
(4) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. De phoenice carmina.
(5) LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. [Epitome divinarum institutionem]. Nephytomon.
Additional works:
(6) RAUDENSIS, Antonius. [Lactantii Firmiani errata].
(7) GENUENSIS, Adam. His carminibus frater Adam Genuensis increpat fratrem Antonium. [Incipit:] Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius aussis.
(8) BUSSI, Giovanni Andrea. Ioannis Andreae episcopi Aleriensis ad Paulum secundum Venetum pontificem maximum epistola.
(9) OVIDIUS, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses (extract).
(10) ALIGHIERI, Dante. Comedia, inferno XXV (extract).
(11) FORTUNATUS, Venantius. [De christi resurrectione]. [Incipit:] Lactantii fir. de resurrectio[n]is dominicae die/ [S]alve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.
(Colophon:) Venice, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 1390 [=1490]. 5 works and 6 additional texts in 1 volume. Folio. The text is set in Roman type with some incidental Greek.20th-century goatskin parchment, with the author and title stamped on the spine with black foil, the name of the author added in manuscript on the bottom edge of the book block. [1 blank], [147] ll. Full description
€ 6,000
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First edition of Peter Lauremberg’s influential treatise on horticulture with copperplates from Merian’s workshop

LAUREMBERG, Peter. Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis, Apparatus plantarius primus...
Frankfurt am Main, Matthaeus Merian, [1632].
With: (2) LAUREMBERG, Peter. Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis, Horticultura libris II. comprehensa;...
Frankfurt am Main, Matthaeus Merian, [1631].
2 works bound in one volume. 4to. Illustrated title pages (18,0 x 13,5 cm), headpieces, initials, 63 copperplate illustrations, endpieces. Vellum with a manuscript title on the spine. 168, [44]; 196 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Very rare issue with the 7 corrected leaves of Lavoisier's first major separately published work

LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Opuscules physiques et chymiques.
Paris, Laurent François Prault for Durand neveu (Pierre Etienne Germain), François Ambroise Didot le jeune, & Jacques Esprit, 1774. 2 parts in 1 volume [= all published]. 8vo. With several fine woodcut borders, head- and tailpieces, some tables in the text, and 23 figures on three folding plates by and after Pierre-Claude de la Gardette (1745-1792). Contemporary marbled calf. [1], [1 blank], II, XXX, [1], [1 blank], "436" [= 448] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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Colourful Dipodidae

LICHTENSTEIN, Martin Hinrich Carl. Über die Springmäuse oder die sämtlichen bis jetzt bekannten Arten der Gattung Dipus.
Berlin, Druckerei der Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1828. 4to. With 10 numbered hand-coloured lithographs on 6 folding plates by and after J.A. Schmidt. Contemporary marbled boards. [2], 29, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Very rare early 19th-century naval prints of the Dutch East Indies

[LUTZ, J.A. (engraver) and Haatje Pieters OOSTERHUIS (draughtsman)]. De roemryke overwinning, der Palembangsche expeditie op de rivier de Sounsang in de Oost-Indien, door de Nederlandsche land en zeemagt op den 24 Juny 1821.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
With:
(2) IDEM. Het naar boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin naar Z: M: Schooner de Johanna op de rivier de Sousang in de Oost-Indien op den 27 Junij 1821, na de roemrijke overwinning der Palembangsche expeditie.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
Plate size ca. 32.5 x 43.5 cm. Two hand-coloured aquatint plates with engraved Dutch title and "Proefdruk" below the image. In passepartouts and uniformly framed behind glass (ca. 53.5 x 63.5 cm). Full description
€ 3,750
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