Highlights

OVERMEER FISSCHER, Johannes Frederik van. Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.
Amsterdam, J. Müller & Comp., printed by C. A. Spin, 1833. 4to. With a hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, and 14 hand-coloured full-page lithographic plates, all highlighted with gum arabic. Contemporary richly gold-and blind-tooled brown calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, blind-tooled boards edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. VII, [3], 320 pp. Full description

[PAINTING - SKATE]. [Oil study of a skate].
[19th century]. Oil on canvas (ca. 20.5 x 26.5 cm), unsigned. In a contemporary wooden frame (ca. 28.5 x 34 cm). Full description

[PERIODICAL - DUTCH - FASHION]. Kabinet van mode en smaak.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., [1791]-1794. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 95 (of 96) engravings, primarily depicting costumes, but also including 4 portraits, furniture, buildings, and sheet music, most of them hand-coloured, including one not mentioned in the binder instruction, each volume features a woodcut illustration on the title page, along with small woodcut headpieces and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled half beige calf, marbled paper sides, with title and volume labels lettered in gold on the spine. Full description

[PERIODICAL - WOMEN]. Elegantia, of tydschrift van mode, luxe en smaak, voor dames. Eerste (- vierde) jaargang.
Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, 1807-1810. 4 volumes. 8vo. With 137 engravings, mostly hand-coloured, the majority depicting fashion subjects such as costumes and embroidery patterns (several folding). Also including plates of furniture and a folding view of Constantinople, with three small uncoloured engravings on the separated title pages. Contemporary vellum. VIII, 392, [8]; VIII, 384, [2 blank]; VIII, 384, [2 blank]; 200, [2 blank] pp. Full description

PERRAULT, Claude. A treatise of the five orders in architecture. to which is annex'd, a discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture ...
London, Printed for J. Senex and R. Gosling; W. Taylor, W. and J. Innys, and J. Osborn, 1722. Folio. With 6 full-page engravings of columns, 6 half-page engravings, 23 engraved initials, 23 engraved headpieces, 18 engraved tailpieces, as well as an engraved title page and an engraved dedication. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, marbled paper sides, red sprinkled edges. [6], XXI, [5], XII, 131, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHAH JAHAN ALBUM]. [20th-century photographic reproduction of the Shah Jahan Album].
[20th century]. 2 volumes. Folio. With 50 photographic reproductions in black and white mounted onto thick passepartout leaves, separated by thinner leaves, onto which typed descriptions are mounted. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled burgundy buckram, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the front and spine, a double fillet border on both boards, blind-tooled turn-ins, gold and burgundy floral end papers, gilt edges. [1 blank], [26], [2 blank]; [2 blank], [25], [2 blank] ll. Full description

PIGNORIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo PIGNORIO). Mensa Isiaca, qua sacrorum apud Aegyptios ratio & simulacra subjectis aeneis simul exhibentur & explicantur.
Including: IDEM. Magnae deum matris idaeae & attidis initia.
And: TOMASINUS, Jacobus Philippus. Manus aeneae, cecropii votum referentis, dilucidatio.
Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1669. 2 works published and bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece (with Egyptian and other antiquities), a general title page with a small engraved scene, 3 divisional title pages, the first two with the same larger engraving (a small scene similar to that on the general title page, but flanked by figures of Minerva/Athena and Mercury/Hermes), the frontispiece, large engraving and probably the unsigned small engraving by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 1 full-page engraved plate outside of collation, 5 full-page engraved plates in the text, and 16 smaller engravings in the text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with the gold-stamped coat of arms of Arnhem on both boards, (faded) manuscript title on the spine, remnants of green ties. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [6], 96, [12]; [1], [1 blank], [6], 96 pp. Full description

POLANO, Pietro Soave (pseudonym of Paolo SARPI) and Nathaniel BRENT (translator). The historie of the Councel of Trent. Containing eight Bookes. In which (besides the ordinarie Actes of the Councell) are declared many notable Occurrences, which happened in Christendomme, during the space of fourtie yeeres and more. And, particularly, the practises of the Court of Rome, to hinder the reformation of their errors, and to maintaine their greatnesse ...
London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1629. Folio. With the woodcut arms of king Charles I of England on the title page, 117 decorated woodcut initials, 17 woodcut headpieces, and 6 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the crowned arms of King Charles I of England in the centre of both boards with the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" and the monogram "A W", surrounded by two single fillet borders with cornerpieces, gold-tooled board edges, remnants of closing ties. [2 blank], [10], "881" [= 879], [16], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PUGET DE LA SERRE, Jean. L'isthoire [!] et les portraits des imperatrices, des reynes, et des illustres princesses de l'auguste maison d'Austriche, qui ont porte le nom d'Anne.
Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1648. Folio (44 x 30.5 cm). With 10 (of 14) hand-coloured full-page engraved plates, 14 contemporary hand-coloured engraved initials, 14 hand-coloured engraved headpieces, 8 engraved tailpieces, and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page, all heightened with gold. The leaves have been outlined in red, and the title page has been outlined and decorated in red and gold, lacking the frontispiece. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the coat of arms of Anne of Austria onlaid in the centre of both boards, surrounded by two triple fillet frames, with ornaments in the corners of the inner frame, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, marbled pastedowns. [6], "51" [= 45], [1] pp. Full description

[QURAN - ENGLISH]. SALE, George (translator). The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed. Translated from the original Arabic with explanatory notes, taken from the most approved commentators to which is preffixed a preliminary discourse. A new edition.
Bath, Printed by S. Hazard for J. Johnson, Vernor and Hood, Ogilvy and Speare, J. Sewell, H. Gardner and C. and G. Kearsley, 1795. 2 vols. 8vo. Engraved fold-out map of Arabia, 3 genealogical tables of which two folding, 1 plate illustrating the Temple of Mecca, all taken from the first editon of 1735. Old calf. Full description