Highlights

CLERCQ, Louis De. Voyage en Orient - Voyage en Espagne, 1859-1860.
[Paris, France], J. Blondeau et Antonin, 1860. 6 volumes bound in 5 albums. Oblong 1mo (ca. 45 x 60 cm). With 218 (of 222) photographs, albumen prints from waxed paper negative, including 23 panoramas, all mounted on cardboard, each plate with a lithographed number and caption. Album I contains photos of cities, monuments, and other picturesque views of Syria (49 prints including 11 panoramas); II: castles from the time of the Crusaders in Syria (36 (of 37) prints including 5 panoramas); III: views of Jerusalem and holy places in Palestine (29 (of 30) prints including 1 panorama); IV (bound together with III): the stations of the cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem (14 prints); V: monuments and picturesque sites in Egypt (40 (of 41) prints including 1 panorama); VI: cities, monuments, and other picturesque views in Spain (50 (of 51) prints including 5 panoramas). The sizes of the albumen prints vary from ca. 20 x 27 cm. to ca. 112 x 20 cm. Uniform, original red leather-grained cloth with the title and name of the author lettered in gold on the front board. Full description

COMENIUS, Johannes Amos. Eerste deel, prima pars, erster teil, der school-geleertheid, scholasticae eruditionis, der schule-gehehrtheit, genoemt, dicta, genennt, het portael: vestibulum: die vorthure: inhoudende, continens, welche begriffet, de grondveste der dingen, en onser wijsheydt omtrent, fudamenta rerum, & nostra sapientiae circa, die grundlage der dinge, und unserer weisheit üm, de dingen.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved title and ca. 300 engraved illustrations on 38 full-page plates. Contemporary vellum sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author, title and imprint on the spine. [16], 166, [90] pp. Full description

[COOK, James (subject)]. Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Seereisen des berühmten Capitain Cook.
Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.
With: (2) Briefe aus England historisch-statistisch und artistischen Inhalts. 1s Heft.
Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut ship on the title page of ad 2 and woodcut headpieces in both works. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown morocco spine label with title in gold. 48; [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description

CROON, Petrus. Cocus bonus ofte geestelijcke sinne-beelden ende godtvruchtighe uyt-legginghen op alle de gereetschappen van den kock.
Bruges, Franciscus Beernaerts, [between 1739 and 1762].
With:
(2) CROON, Petrus. Cocus Bonus. Tweede deel, ofte geestelycke bemerckingen op de tafel ende spysen maeltyt.
Bruges, Widow of P.J. Vincent, [between 1731 and 1769]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Ad 1: with an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614-1662) mounted on the verso of the second flyleaf as a frontispiece. Further with a woodcut ornament on the title page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Ad 2: with a woodcut ornament on the title page and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with a black title label lettered in gold, simple blind-tooled fillets on the boards, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [18], 207, [1]; "314" [= 312] pp. Full description

CUSTOS, Raphael. Emblemata amoris.
Augsburg, 1622-1631, (colophon first volume: Augsburg, printed by Luca Schultes, for the engraver Raphael Custos, 1623). 2 volumes bound as 1. Small 4to. With 2 engraved title pages, each with the title in a large scrollwork cartouche and the arms of the dedicatee, Philipp Heinhofer or Hainhofer, 50 numbered oval emblems in rectangles (8.5 x 12 cm) in the first volume. The second volume has, besides the engraved title page, 23 wholly engraved leaves, each with an emblem (9.5 x 10.5 cm) with the German motto above, a Latin distich below, and below that a 4-line German verse. The emblem pages in both volumes are printed on the rectos only except for the colophon on the back of the last emblem in volume 1. 17th-century sheepskin parchment. [6], 50; [24] ll. including the engraved title pages and 23 engraved emblem leaves. Full description

DAMIRI, Muhammad ibn Musa al-. Kitab Hayat al-Hayawan [= Book of the life of animals].
Meknes, Morocco, 1267 AH [= 1851 CE]. 4to (19 x 23 cm). Arabic manuscript on paper, brown maghribi script in two hands with important words and phrases in red and blue. With an illuminated headpiece at the start of the text in red, blue, green, and gold. Contemporary gold-tooled red leather with a fore-edge flap. 62 ll. Full description

D'AULNOY, Madame. Reyse door Spaignien, neffens memorien van des selfs hof.
Including: D'AULNOY, Madame. Memorien van het Spaenssche hof.
Utrecht, Willem Broedelet, 1695. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken and 10 engraved plates by Caspar Luyken, the title page is printed in red and black, with a woodcut device on the title page, several woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [12], 335; [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [6], 247, [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DILICH, Wilhelm. Peribologia oder Bericht ... von Vestungs Gebewen, vieler Örter vermehrett wie auch mit gebürenden Gründt und Auffrissen versehen ...
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (colophon: printed by Anton Humm), 1640. 2 parts plus plates in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved general title page and 2 engraved part-titles, each part with 2 additional engraved divisional titles dividing it into two "books", 234 unnumbered engraved plates by the author's son, Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1 large folding, plate size 46.5 x 60.5 cm; and as bound in the present copy 198 double-page and 35 single-page). Vellum (ca. 1695/1700?). 163, [8], [1 blank] pp. (including 7 engraved titles) plus plates and 3 engraved titles. Full description

[DRAWING - GERMANY]. View of a church and a ruin on a hill.
[Germany, early 19th century]. Pen and ink with a grey wash (ca. 15,1 x 21 cm). Kept in a white passe-partout. Full description

[DRAWING - RIO DE JANEIRO - MARY, Benjamin (attributed)]. [Ink drawing of Guanabara Bay].
[Rio de Janeiro?, 1837?].
With: (2) [LEBSCHÉE, Carl August (attributed)]. [Drawing of Guanabara Bay].
[Germany?, 1837?].
Ad 1: 19 x 32 cm. Passe-partout: 36,5 x 47 cm. Sepia ink on paper. Ad 2: 24,5 x 34 cm. Passe-partout: 37 x 44 cm. Sepia ink on paper, with blue and sepia ink washes. Full description