Autumn Catalogue 2016

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front cover: no. 163 on p. 90. v 1.1 · 12 Dec 2016 p. 136: no. 230 on p. 123. inside front cover: no. 32 on p. 23. inside back cover: no. 231 b on p. 124. p. 2: no. 13 on p. 12. back cover: no. 110 on p. 64. p. 3: no. 65 on p. 40. “Travels to the West Indies during the years 1521–1524”

1. [A A, Pieter van der]. Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën, ... gedaan; zedert het jaar 1521 tot 1524 ... [ 10]. , , 1707. Comprising: (1) Vervolg der roemwaardige zee- en land-reysen des dapperen Ferdinand Cortes; aan de vaste kust van Mexico en Nieuw-Spaanje. Gedaan in 't jaar 1521, en vervolgens. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. (2) Drie verscheyde togten ter zee en te land in de West-Indien, gedaan in 't jaar 1523 en vervolgens. De eerste door Franciscus de Garay van Jamaica na Panuco; de tweede door Pedro d'Avarado van Mexico na Guatemala; de derde door Diego de Godoy; mede van Mexico. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1707. (3) Scheeps-togt van Johan de Verrazano, Florentyner, na Florida. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 3 works in 1 volume. 8º. With 15 engraved double-page plates and 4 engraved folding . Contemporary calf, gold- tooled spine and board edges. € 2500

First of the tenth volume of the 8º edition of a of travelogues, compiled by the publisher and cartographer Pieter van der Aa (1659–1733). The complete collection, consisting of 28 volumes, covers important voyages to the East and West Indies and other countries from 1246 to "this day" (1696), undertaken by all European countries other than the Dutch. The present volume deals with voyages during the years 1521–1524 to the "West Indies", including North America, Mexico, and Nicaragua. The three works were meant for publication, with a general title-page and index. The first work gives a chronological account of the explorations and conquests of the Spanish conquistadors Hernán (Ferdinand) Cortes (1485–1547) and Dil Gonzales Davila, and the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521). The second text, entitled Drie verscheyde togten..., deals with voyages to the West Indies by Franciscus de Garay, Pedro d'Alvarado and Diego the Godoy. The ends with a small work on the voyages of the Florentine navigator Giovanni de Verrazano (ca.1485–1528), including a report on French voyages and colonies in Canada and Florida. With bookplate. Minor browning and a waterstain on some of the last pages. Binding rubbed and slightly damaged. Overall in very good condition. Alden & Landis 707/2; Howgego, to 1800, C193, C194, M16 and V32; Sabin 3; Tiele, Bibl. 5.

Comprehensive 12th-century Arabic treatise on agriculture

2. ABU ZAKARIYA IBN AL-AWWAM. Libro de agricultura... Including: — BROECK, Victor van den. Catecismo de agricultura. — VILLE, Georges. Abonos químicos conferencias agrícolas. Seville, Biblioteca Científico Literaria; Madrid, Victoriano Suarez (colophon: printed by Salvador Acuña y Comp., Seville), 1878. 2 volumes. Imperial 16º (18 × 11.5 cm). Later half turquoise sheepskin. € 1750

Second Spanish edition of a classic 12th-century Arabic treatise on agriculture, known in Arabic as Kitab al-filaha. Most of the book deals with agriculture, including fruits, vegetables, grains (including rice), legumes and cotton, with discussions of soils, the benefits of letting fields lie fallow, crop rotation, fertilizers, irrigation, pruning, grafting, ploughing, making preserves, and plant diseases. The last few chapters discuss animal husbandry, including horses and animal diseases. It was the most comprehensive Arabic treatise on the subject,

5 incorporating large parts of the most important earlier works on the subject, most notably the work of Ibn Wafid. Zakariya also made use of classical Greek sources. With bookplates. Slightly browned and with two or three leaves with minor marginal defects, but still in good condition. Bindings very good. A comprehensive practical guide to agriculture, originally written in Arabic ca. 1185. REBUIN (4 copies?); cf. Schnurrer 425 (1802 ed.).

Venice school edition of Aesop with numerous fables by other authors, the 3rd edition of this collection

3. AESOP. Fabellae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum index proxima refertur pagella. , (colophon: Giovanni Farri and brothers), 1542. Small 8º (16 × 11 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial but further with spaces left for manuscript Greek and Latin initials (with printed guide letters). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with fragments of a vellum manuscript used to reinforce the spine. € 2500

Venice school edition of Aesop's fables with parallel text in Greek and Latin. The book is neatly printed and the clear Greek type has relatively few ligatures. Besides the life of Aesop and Aesop's fables, the book contains several collections of fables and single fables by other authors (pp. 232–364): [Ignatius von Nicaea], Gabriae Graeci fabellae (often added to the Aesop canon); Aphthonius, Excercitamentis de fabula; Philostratus, De fabula; pseudo Homer, Batrachomyomachia (the battle of frogs and mice, a parody of Homer's Iliad); Musaeus, De Ero & Leandro (Hero and Leander; Agapetus, De officio regis; Hippocrates, Ius iurandum (the Hippocratic oath!), and [Theodorus Prodromus], Galeomnomachia (the battle between the cats and the mice), the last two in Greek only. The book ends with a 4-page index and the colophon. With a few contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink. With some marginal worm holes, mostly in the gutter of quires r and s, and some mostly marginal water stains, more serious in quire c, and a dark stain in the upper outside corner of 2 leaves, not approaching the text, otherwise in good condition. The binding is wrinkled, with a 1½ × 2 cm gap in the backstrip, some small tears and the 2 pair of ties lost. A nice early student edition of Aesop with very extensive additions. EDIT 16, CNCE 364; STC Italian, p. 8; USTC 807871.

One of the earliest records of Charles V’s Italian financier

4. AFFAITATI, Giovan Carlo. Ratificatio facta p[er] m[agnifi]cu[m] d[ominum] Jo[hannes] Carolu[s] de Affaytalis, in favorem m[agnifi]ci et r[everen]di d[omino]. Guidi d[e] Crema et Rafaelis Krumani p[e]r Castro S[anc] ti Laurentii et terris. Antwerp, 20 January 1546. Manuscript notarial document in Latin, written in a Latin hand on one side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (31 × 54.5 cm), opening with a large capital and closing with the notary's decorative signature, with the title and "M. Johan Carlo" on the back. Folded and loosely inserted in a paper folder (ca. 1690s?). € 1250

An Antwerp notarial declaration made voluntarily by Giovan Carlo Affaitati, also known as Johannes Carolus de Affaytadi (Cremona 1500 or 1510–Lier 1555 or Ghistelle 1587) soon after he moved to Antwerp, on behalf of Guido de Crema, citizen of Mantua, and Raphael Brumani, citizen of Cremona. It was drawn up before the Antwerp notary Anthony Amala and three named witnesses and appears to concern De Crema and Brumani's inheritance. Affaitati testified to the content of a document drawn up on 31 December 1545 before the Mantua notary Hieronimus de Zizolis. Affitati came from a merchant banking family in Cremona. He set up in Lisbon but moved to Antwerp in 1545, when the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V made him Baron of Ghistelle. He was active in the spice trade and is said to have been the most important financier of the wars of Charles V and Philip II. Formerly folded to a smaller size, leaving traces of the old folds, but still in very good condition. A primary document recording Charles V's financier in Antwerp, only months after he moved there. For Affaitati: Kellenbenz, "Die Konkurrenten der Fugger als bankiers der Spanischen Krone", in: Zeitsch. Unternehmensgeschichte XXIV (1979), pp. 81–98.

6 Ethnography of the Xhosa people of South , with the very rare album with four attractive hand-coloured aquatints

5. ALBERTI, Lodewyk and Ludwig Gottlieb PORTMAN. [Drop-title:] Zuid-Afrikaansche gezichten. , Evert Maaskamp, [1810]. Oblong 1º (45 × 60 cm). Letterpress text leaf and 4 large aquatint plates coloured by a contemporary hand, engraved by Ludwig Gottlieb Portman after drawings by Jacob Smies and Christopher Howen. Contemporary stiff, marbled paper wrappers, kept in a modern green half clamshell box. With: (2) ALBERTI, Lodewyk. De Kaffers aan de zuidkust van Afrika, natuur en geschiedkundig beschreven. Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1810. 8º. With engraved title-page, aquatint folding plan, with coastal view, of Algoa Bay, and 2 stipple-engraved plates, all but the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf; rebacked, with new endpapers. (3) ALBERTI, Lodewyk. Description physique et historique des Cafres, sur la côte méridionale de l'Afrique ... Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1811. 8º. With the same plan and 2 plates as ad. 2, also coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. € 25 000

Very rare album with four beautiful hand-coloured aquatint views to Alberti's ethnographic monograph on the Xhosa people ("Kaffers"), of South Africa, together with both the first edition, in Dutch, as the first edition of the French translation of this monograph. Even though the plates are mentioned in the preface of the text volume, they are rarely found together. All the plates are brightly coloured and remarkably fresh and lively, evoking the beauty of the African landscape and the culture of the Xhosa. Lodewyk Alberti (1768–1812) came to the Netherlands in 1784 as lieutenant in the Dutch army, and left for the Cape in 1802. He suc- cessfully kept the peace between Xhosas, Khoisan and European colonists, but conflicts flared up soon after he left in 1806. He describes the situation and climate of Caffria, as well as the appearance and physical strength of the Xhosa, but mainly focuses on their culture. Ad 1: small tear in the text leaf of , but restored, plates fine except for a tiny blemish on the first plate; ad 2: slightly browned, and recased, as noted; ad 3; some sentences marked in pencil the margins and an occasional annotation, plates slightly browned and binding rubbed along the extremities. Very good set. Bobins collection 68; Gay 3153 (text only); Mendelssohn I, p. 17–18; Landwehr, Coloured plates 217–218.

7 Rare early edition of a popular book of botanical, mineralogical and zoological wonders, with a large woodcut of the author among his books

6. ALBERTUS MAGNUS (pseudo). Liber secretorum ... De virtutibus herbarum: & animalium quorundam. Eiusdemq[ue] liber De mirabilibus mundi: & etiam de quibusdam effectibus causatis a quibusdam animalibus &c. (Colophon: Venice, Johan Baptist Sessa, 12 February 1502). Small 4º (21 × 15.5 cm). With a large woodcut portrait of the author at his desk. Gold-tooled maroon morocco (ca. 1870/90?) for James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk (1827–1905), gilt edges. € 12 500

Rare early edition (one of perhaps four or five early editions with the main text set in a roman type) of two works written ca. 1300 by an unidentified follower of Albertus Magnus concerning the extraordinary properties (magical, astrological, medicinal, etc.) of 16 plants, 45 minerals or gems and 18 animals (including many birds), and concerning the "wonders of the world". The first includes means to become invisible, feel no pain, arouse love, interpret dreams and make proph- esies. The second includes mental manipulation of matter, cures for diseases, magic made with fire or light, means of breaking charms, and seeing the future in dreams. The woodcut is remarkable for its depiction of both numerous books with bosses, clasps, etc., and numerous accoutrements, such as a wedge-shaped book stand, a copy stand in the form of a four-sided pyramid on a pedestal, pens, ink wells and penknives. Senna used it again in 1504 on the title-page of John Pecham's Perspectiva communis. Though this edition, like many others, attributes the works to Albertus Magnus (ca. 1194?–1280) on the title-page and at the end of the texts, the attribution is believed to be spurious. An attribution to his follower Henry of Saxony (d. ca. 1378) has also been challenged. With a faded inscription in red ink below the colophon, in a 16th-century italic hand. With the engraved armorial bookplate of James, Earl of Southesk, on the front pastedown. With a short worm trail at the head of the last 2 leaves, and a small marginal chip (repaired) and tear, neither approaching the text, but otherwise in very good condition. The binding shows some small minor blemishes and its spine is slightly faded, but it is otherwise fine. A rare early edition of a popular book of botanical, mineral and zoological wonders. Earl of Southesk sale, Sotheby, 18 October 1954, 255 (this copy); EDIT16 CNCE 29555 (2 copies); Honeyman 51 (this copy); KVK & WorldCat (5 copies).

Extensive description of what is now Namibia, 40 years before Stanley's "Dark "

7. ALEXANDER, James Edward. An expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa, through the hitherto undescribed countries of the great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras. London, Henry Colburn (on back of title-page: printed by William Wilcockson), 1838. 2 volumes. Large 12º (20 × 12.5 cm). With a lithographed folding illustrating Alexander's route through South Africa in red, 7 etched plates by William Heath depicting African landscapes, villages, animals and people, and 7 wood-engraved illustrations in text. Richly gold-tooled green morocco (ca. 1890), with gold-tooled illustrations of African animals in 5 of the 6 spine com- partments. € 2750

First edition of an account of an expedition into Namaqualand and Damaraland, in present-day Namibia, undertaken by Sir James Edward Alexander (1803–1885) on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. He was "the first European to travel overland from Cape Town to Walvisbay. En route he discov- ered deposits of copper, and in 1836 at Alexander Bay (named after him, at the mouth of the Orange River), discovered diamonds. He covered nearly 6500 kilometres without losing a man, brought back many specimens of birds and plants, and produced a good map of the region" (Howgego). Besides various

8 anecdotes, the work discusses the indigenous population and its natural history. The African interior remained little known and Alexander's account must have fascinated the public in his day, forty years before Henry Morton Stanley made a media sensation with his Through the dark continent. Added is an appendix on natural history, including descriptions of birds, botanical specimens, minerals and more, followed by extensive notes on the social conditions of the Namaquas, Boschmans and Damaras, the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, the Boer Trekkers in Natal and the Zulus, and some notes on whaling. With the plates browned, with minor offsetting on the facing pages, and a small tear in the folding map, but otherwise in very good condition. The spines are faded to brown but otherwise also very good. Gay 3126; Howgego, 1800–1850, A4; Mendelssohn I, p. 20; South African I, p. 49.

First English edition of the greatest classic of Arabic literature, an entertaining satire

8. AL-HARIRI, al Qasim ibn Ali (Leonard CHAPPELOW, editor). Six assemblies; or, Ingenious conversations of learned men among the Arabians,… together with … proverbial sayings among the Arabians, … Cambridge, J. Archdeacon for T. & J. Merrill [etc], 1767. 8º. Tanned half goatskin(?) (ca. 1800?). € 3500

First and only edition of the first English translation of part of the Maqamat (literally "Oratorical address") by al-Hariri (1054–1122), which added "extra linguistic and literary sophistication" (Classe) to the fictional narrative form invented by al-Hamadhani (969–1008). Each of the six stories is followed by notes, longer than the stories themselves, providing the reader unversed in the Arabic language and Mediaeval Islamic culture with a great deal of information about the context of the stories, the language, etc. The story, tells of the narrator al-Harith as he travels in Arabia. In each place he visits he comes across the same eloquent con artist Abu Zayd (Abuzeid), who charms and dupes all around him, including the narrator. The book provides an entertaining and educational satire of Mediaeval Islamic society and has remained popular to the present day. With a couple contemporary marginal notes in ink. With some browning (slight except in the margins of the first 2 leaves). Otherwise in very good condition, with only a small marginal tear in one leaf. Binding also very good. First English edition of an Arabic classic still underappreciated in the West. Classe, Encyclopedia of literary translation into English (2000), pp. 912–913; ESTC T121565; Schnurrer, p. 226.

Al-Idrisi's geographical account of northern Africa

9. AL-IDRISI, Muhammad and Joannes Melchior HARTMANN (translator). Africa. Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1796. 8º. Slightly later black half goatskin. € 4500

Second edition of a Latin translation of a work on the geography of Africa, written by the Islamic geographer and botanist Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100–1165). It deals specifically with the geography of northern Africa, Egypt and the Sahara desert, covering its soil, cities, population, mountains, deserts, rivers and monuments. Al-Idrisi also mentions various travel routes from one city to the other. Around 1138, al-Idrisi was invited to the court of the king of , Roger II, who asked him to map the world as it was then known. This map is now lost, but RogerII also asked for supplemental texts to comment on the map. "Emissaries were sent far and wide, and from the information they brought back the Kitab al-Rojari [Book of Roger] was compiled, and completed by January 1154" (Howgego). Various manuscripts containing (parts of the) Kitab al-Rojari have survived, and the present transla- tion was based on one of them. The present work was translated and edited by the Johannes Melchior Hartmann (1764–1817), who worked from a medieval Arabic manuscript at the University of Jena. With a stamp. Somewhat browned and foxed throughout. Binding worn at hinges and along the extremities. Otherwise in good condition. Gay 345; Howgego, to 1800, I5; not in Atabey; Blackmer.

9 A love story from the Arabian Nights in Portuguese, extremely rare second edition

10. [ALF LAYLA WA LAYLA]. Historia de Ganem, filho de Abou Aibou, denominado o escravo de amor. Traduzida do Arabio em Francez, e ultimamente no idioma Portuguez, por B.A.E. (Colophon: Lisbon, Francisco Borges de Sousa, 1792). Small 4º (21 × 15 cm). Disbound, spine lined with a strip of black paper. € 4950

Extremely rare second edition of a rare Portuguese translation of the History of Ganem, the slave of love, a story from the Arabian Nights. The story tells of Ganem, a son of a merchant from Damascus, who upon his father’s death travels to Baghdad to sell his father’s leftover stock. Once in Baghdad the young Ganem falls in love with the favourite concubine of the caliph. The story is translated into Portuguese from the French translation of Jean Antoine Galland from the beginning of the 18th-century. With spots on the first and last leaves, a stain on leaf B1 and a couple tiny holes in the outer margin of the last leaf. In good condition. Porbase (1 copy); WorldCat (1 copy); cf. Rodrigues, Novelística estrangeira 268.

Engaging view of ships before Amsterdam

11. ALLARD, Abraham. Scheepvaart in het Y, voor Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Abraham Allard, [ca. 1720/29]. Large engraving (image size: 49.5 × 58 cm) printed on 1 sheet, with the arms of Amsterdam at the head, below the title in a banderole with the publisher's information on the left, surrounded by 9 putti on and around clouds. In passepartout and framed (77 × 84 cm). € 7800

10 Engaging engraving of ships in the IJ (waterway) before Amsterdam, showing two galleons and two smaller ships in the foreground and Amsterdam with its harbour in the background. Amsterdam is depicted from 's Lands Zeemagazijn–then the arsenal of the Admiralty of Amsterdam and now the Dutch Maritime Museum–on the left and the Oosterkerk ("east church") on the right. The two galleons in the foreground could be either merchant or war vessels: since merchant ships also had to be well armed the two were sometimes used interchangeably. The two shown are three-masted with about 32 and about 18 cannons. The print was also issued in 1729 in Van der Aa's extraordinaryLa galerie agréable du monde, the most extensive map- and print-book ever published. With an old vertical fold just visible in the centre of the print, a horizontal fold hardly visible, minor wear where they cross and some minor ink smudges from the in the corners of the margins. Still a very good copy. Koeman, AA 9, v.17 no. 13; not in De Groot & Vorstman.

Extremely rare satirical print series lampooning Louis XIV with the total eclipse of the Sun King, showing 1 major and at least 3 minor variants not recorded in the literature

12. [ALLARD, Carel]. Koninglyke almanach: beginnende met den aanvang der oorlog, van anno 1701 .... Waer in duydelijk de loop der zon der ongeregtigheid, met zyn eclipsen, of de regtvaardige straf des heemels, door XVIII zinnbeelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word; ... | Almanach royal. Commencant[!] avec la guere de l'an 1701 jusques .... ou est exactement observé le cours du soleil d'injustice; avec ses eclips; ou la juste punition du ciel. Demonstré dans XVIII emblemes. ... "Paris" [= Amsterdam], "imprimé â l'imprimerie royale du Petit Louis" [= Carel Allard, 1706?]. Small 2º (32 × 21 cm). Engraved print series with an engraved title-page and 24 engraved prints (9 single-page and 15 double-page; 18 bound in and 6 loosely inserted), the double-page prints with extensive letterpress text flanking and/or below the engraving. Contemporary marbled-paper wrappers. € 8750

Extremely rare complete emblematic print series (plus alternative versions of several prints) mercilessly satirizing and ridiculing King Louis XIV of France, his grandson King Philip V of Spain, the Marquise de Maintenon (whom Louis XIV had secretly married after she had been his mistress for years), many others in Louis XIV's court and his allies in the War of the Spanish Succession (1700/01–1714). Most prints, like the title-page, have texts in both Dutch and French. The title and many of the prints gleefully note the total eclipse of the sun that occurred on 12 May 1706, supposedly the day Philip V abandoned his siege of Barcelona (which had been taken by the British six months earlier), presenting it as the total eclipse of the Sun King. In 1877 Muller noted the "great rarity" of all these prints, surviving in far fewer numbers than satirical prints of poorer quality and less importance. "Their value as expressions of the spirit and life of the common people is inestimable: indeed, there is almost no period in our history for which we possess such a rich treasure of prints." They also influenced the better known series on the 1720 South Sea Bubble, two of the present prints serving as direct models for prints in that series. The title-page attributes the emblems to "the leading masters of our century" and some of the plates have been attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe and/or someone from his school, Laurens Scherm and the publisher Carel Allard himself. Although no two copies of the print series have the same makeup, and many of the emblems exist in variant forms, the present set of prints includes the engraved title-page, at least one of each of the 19 emblems noted by Muller, and two versions of some, so it may be called "complete". The present copy includes a major variant not recorded by Muller (or elsewhere). With 6 prints loosely inserted, 3 of them with a slightly tattered fore-edge, 1 also with a marginal tear along an old fold repaired with tape, and 1 bound print slightly browned, but still generally in very good condition. The spine of the marbled wrapper is mostly lost and the sides rubbed, with a few small and minor tears and stains, but the binding structure remains sound. One of the best and most extensive copies of an extremely rare and important popular satirical print series from the War of the Spanish Succession. Atlas van Stolk 3182; Brunet I, pp. 194–195; Cohen, col. 28; KVK & WorldCat (3 copies); Muller, Historieplaten 3038–3071.

11 Maritime atlas of the Middle East, Africa, Indian Ocean, , Far East and South Pacific: a magnificent display of colonial power ca. 1780

13. APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste d’. Le neptune oriental, ... Paris, Antoine Guénard Demonville; Brest, Romain-Nicolas Malassis, 1775. With: (2) APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste d'. Supplément au neptune oriental, ... Paris, Antoine Guénard Demonville; Brest, Romain-Nicolas Malassis, 1781. 2 text volumes bound as 1, plus 1 atlas volume. Imperial 2º (55 × 42 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 72 large engraved nautical charts (33 double-page and 39 single-page, plate size about 50 × 68 and 48 × 35 cm). Uniform con- temporary mottled, gold-tooled calf, with the crowned French royal arms on each board and "Conseil de la Marine" below it on each front board. Rebacked, with most of the original backstrips laid down. (3) APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste d'. Instructions sur la navigation des Indes orientales et de la Chine, pour servir au Neptune oriental, dédié au roi ,... Paris, Jean-Claude Dezauche (colophon: Brest, printed by Romain-Nicolas Malassis), 1775. (4) APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste d'. Supplément au Neptune oriental, ... Paris, Antoine Guénard Demonville; Brest, Romain-Nicolas Malassis, 1781. Large 4º (26 × 21 cm). 2 volumes bound as 1. "Maroquin"-pattern sheepskin (ca. 1840?), gold-tooled spine. € 75 000

Greatly expanded second edition, plus the rarer posthumous supplement published a year after the author's death, of one of the greatest maritime in the history of French , devoted to exotic regions (the Middle East including the Gulf, the African coasts, the Indian Ocean and East Indies, Southeast Asia, parts of the Chinese coast, and the Pacific islands). Each section starts with a large territorial overview map and closes in on particular area in the subsequent charts. For example the Arabian Peninsula is first displayed on a large overview map showing the coasts along the Indian ocean, which is followed by a chart of the Arabian Sea, and separate charts of the coasts along the entry to the Red Sea, the complete Red Sea, in front of Jeddah and the Arabian Gulf. It was compiled by Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d' Après de Mannevillette (1707–1780), hydrographer to the French navy, supported by the French East India Company and the Académie des Sciences. "It was at once hailed as a major achievement and welcomed by naviga- tors throughout the world" (Cat. Nat. Mar. Mus.). D'Après continued to improve and expand it for the rest of his life, serving as director of the Company's nautical chart office from 1762. One rarely finds two copies of Le neptune oriental with the same make-up, but the present copy shows its full extent immediately after D'Après's death. The whole is not only a magnificent collection of sea charts, but also an essential key to understanding European colonial power ca. 1780. The present copy of theNeptune may have first belonged to the Secrétairerie d'État. In 1806 Napoleon revived the Conseil de la Marine, which had been replaced by the Secrétairerie d'État in 1723, so those words must have been added in 1806. Also with bookplates. With a couple charts slightly browned (one of them also with an unintended crease), a few pages in the Instructions (mostly in its supplement) with a marginal worm trail, and an occasional very minor hole or spot, but generally in very good condition (most leaves of the Instructions fine). The Neptune has been expertly rebacked as noted, with the loss of parts of the backstrips, but the bindings of the Neptune and Instructions are otherwise very good. A splendid maritime atlas, beautifully bound for the French navy. Cordier, Sinica 134; Cat. Nat. Mar. Mus. 204; Howgego A107; Phillips & Le Gear 3166, 3167 & 3168.

12 13 Aquinas's Summa theologiae in Chinese

14. [AQUINA S, Thomas]. Tchao sin hio yao. [China, early 20th century]. 7 (of 30) volumes. 8º. Traditional Chinese binding with new wrappers, title label with Chinese characters and titles in contemporary manuscript on front wrappers, preserved in a modern blue cloth slipcase with ivory clasps. € 5000

Early 20th-century Chinese translation of Thomas Aquinas's most famous work, theSumma theolo- giae. The Chinese translation of theIndex was completed, but the translation of the Summa theologiae was, just like the original work, never finished. The first Chinese edition was published in Beijing in 1654–1678. The work was intended as a theological manual for beginners and summarizes the rea- sonings for almost all points of Christian theology. The topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God. It is famous for its five arguments for the existence of God, the quinquae viae. Throughout his work, Aquinas cites Augustine, Aristotle, and other Christian, Jewish and even Islamic and ancient pagan scholars. Some water stains and restorations. Good set. De Backer & Sommervogel II, col. 364 (under Buglio); Cordier, L'imprimerie Sino-Européenne en Chine, cols. 52–53 (idem).

100 stereographic views of Egypt in original box, with the text volume and a stereoscope viewer

15. [BAKER, Charles H.]. Egypt through the stereoscope. [New York and London. Underwood & Underwood, 1905]. 100 stereographic views, loose in original publisher's book-shaped cloth box (19.5 × 16 × 10 cm). With: (2) BREASTED, James Henry. Egypt through the stereo- scope[.] A journey through the land of the Pharaohs. [New York and London, Underwood & Underwood, 1905]. 8º. Original publisher's brown cloth, with booklet "Maps and plans accom- panying Egypt through the stereoscope" in original publisher's wrappers and loosely inserted in pocket on back board. (3) [Original stereoscope viewer]. [New York and London], Underwood & Underwood, 1901. Sold

A fine set of 100 stereographic views of Egypt, together with an original stereoscope viewer and the guide book by the eminent Egyptologist James Henry Breasted (1865–1935). The American company Underwood & Underwood, led by the brothers Bert and Elmer, began producing stereographs in 1882 and by 1901 the company was America's leading manufacturer of stereographs. Around 1900 the brothers introduced a new market strategy, a system of "stay-at-home travel", consisting of boxed sets of 100 stereographs accompanied by a text book, illustrated with detailed folding maps. The text opens with an introduction, followed by a survey of Egypt's history and extensive explanatory text of the 100 views. The views show cities, monuments, mosques, tombs, palaces as well as scenes from modern Egyptian daily life. The views in very good condition, the box with some light wear. The wrapper of the booklet present but damaged and detached, otherwise in very good condition. Cf. Abt, American Egyptologist: The life of James Henry Breasted (Chicago, 2011), pp. 83 ff.; Evans, "In the sandals of Pharaoh: James Henry Breasted and the stereoscope, occasional paper" (http://mcclungmuseum. utk.edu/breasted-and-stereoscope/).

14 Rare print series by celebrated marine painter Ludolf Bakhuizen

16. BAKHUIZEN, Ludolf. d'Y Stroom, en zeegezichten. Amsterdam, "1701" [= ca. 1751]. Foolscap oblong 1º (33 × 42 cm). Engraved calligraphic title-page (16.5 × 23.8 cm), mezzotint portrait of Bakhuizen (18.5 × 14.4 cm), probably by Jacob Gole, with a 4-line Latin verse by Joan van Broekhuizen printed from a separate plate, and 10 etched plates, the first with a 6-line Dutch verse by Bakhuizen printed from a separate plate. The first plate measures 19.7 × 25.9 cm, the others ca. 17.5 × 23.5 cm. Loose sheets inserted in modern portfolio. € 18 500

Very rare third state of a remarkable maritime print series by Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630–1708), one of the leading marine painters of the . After the calligraphic title and the portrait of Bakhuizen follow an impressive personifi- cation of the city of Amsterdam, showing the Maid of Amsterdam riding in Neptune's triumphal chariot, with in the background the 64-gun man-of-war Amsterdam (built in 1688) and the shipyard and depot of the , and below, a 6-line verse celebrating the Dutch overseas trade. The other plates show coastal, harbour, river and sea views, including the IJ (Amsterdam), the Maas (Rotterdam) and a family picnicking on the shore of a river, with a wide variety of ships and boats, from large men-of-war to small rowboats, on calm seas and in violent storms. Bakhuizen was already a celebrated marine painter when, at age 71, he turned his hand to etching, producing the present evocative plates, the only prints he ever produced. Slightly foxed, a few light insignificant water stains, otherwise in very good condition. An important series of maritime views, of high artistic quality, here unbound and wholly untrimmed. De Groot & Vorstman 110–115; Hollstein I, pp. 54–57, 1–10; STCN (1 copy); WorldCat (3 copies).

Old Testament history in Maori

17. BAMBRIDGE, William and Robert MAUNSELL (translator). He whaka­ papa ara. Nga mahi me nga aha noa a te Atua raua ko tana Hahi (= A record. The works and the dealings of God with his Church). Auckland, J. Williamson for the Church Mission, 1847. 12º. Blue paper wrappers. € 950

First and only Maori edition of a biblical history, retelling the Old Testament stories up to Solomon. The text is a translation of a summary, made by Bambridge for Bishop Selwyn, of an English trans- lation of Friedrich Strass's Storm der Zeiten from 1804. The book ends with "Ka mutu te pukapuka tuatahi" (end of the first book), thereby announcing a continuation (up to the life of Christ) which appeared in 1849. Translator and missionary Robert Maunsell was an authority on Maori language and culture. He supported the establishment of several boarding schools by the Bishop of New Zealand, George Selwyn, where Maori children lived in European style. The current booklet was probably printed for use at these schools. With the wrappers slightly damaged and missing a piece at the bottom left of the front. Title-page and first page slightly stained and a small fold and tear in the final quire, which is unopened; in good condition. Hocken, p. 521; Williams 155.

15 The Dutch in Brazil: first edition of the "small Barlaeus"

18. BARLAEUS, Caspar. Rerum per octennium in Brasilia, et alibi gestarum, sub praefectura illustrissimi Comitis J. Mauritii, Nassauiae, etc. comitis, historia. Cui accesserunt Gulielmi Pisonis Medici tractatus 1. De aeribus, aquis & locis in Brasilia. 2. De arundine saccharifera. 3. De melle silvestri. 4. De radice altili mandihoca. Kleve, Tobias Silberling, 1660. Small 8º (15.5 × 10 cm). With frontispiece, portrait of Johan Maurits, coat of arms of Johan Maurits, 3 folding maps and 5 folding views, all engraved. Contemporary vellum. € 8950

First edition of the so-called "small Barlaeus", a smaller edition of the classic work on the history of the Dutch in Brazil, originally published in folio at Amsterdam, 1647, by . This present edition contains four extra treatises on the climate, water, medical plants, sugar cane, wild honey and manioc root of Brazil by G. Piso, who sailed to Recife in 1638 as Johan Maurits's personal physician and returned with him in 1644. The maps of South America and Africa (1), Brazil (2), Mauritiopolis, Recife and surroundings (3) and the 5 views are the same as those of the German edition published by Silberling in 1659. With bookplates of John Carter Brown and M. Pinta Camargo; as often the extra full-page engraved plate of a solar eclipse, originally facing p. 330 is not present. Good copy of a classic on the Dutch in Brazil. Borba de Moraes, pp. 78–79; Bosch 127; JCB III, p. 26; Rodrigues 346; Sabin 3409; VD17 3:008042H.

One of the earliest European descriptions of Arabia, 1485 edition

19. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. Liber de pro­ prietatibus rerum Bartholomei Anglicus. (Colophon: Strasbourg, [Georg Husner], 14 February 1485). 2º. Set in two columns of 47 lines each, plus running heads, in a rotunda gothic type. Rubricated throughout and with the man- uscript initials in red and blue. Recased in 19th-century vellum, modern endpapers. Sold

Early edition of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s medieval encyclopedia, known in English as On the order of things, containing one of the earliest European descriptions of Arabia. It is thought to have been written in Magdeburg, Saxony, around 1245, and was first printed around 1471. In book X V, each of the 173 alphabetically arranged paragraphs is devoted to a different region. The 20-line paragraph on the Arabian peninsula opens with the words, “Arabia Asie est provintia sacra et thurifera nu[n]cupata …”, a highly important document for the cultural heritage of the region and an early record of European knowledge of it (both ca. 1245 and ca. 1480). Other paragraphs cover Armenia, Asia, Africa, Crete, Ethiopia, Scotland, the East Indies, China and even “Amazonia” (not in Brazil, of course, but near Albania). While Anglicus claims only that his “De regionibus” covers regions mentioned in the Bible, Gautier-Dalché notes that he actually goes far beyond that. With bookplate, a few old marginal annotations and underscoring, and a contemporary owner’s inscription. Title-page reinforced in the gutter and stained, a long tear in leaf z6 partly repaired. Occasional browning and some marginal staining, otherwise in very good condition. Binding with backboard replaced. Goff B138; GW 3410; ISTC ib00138000; Proctor 592; cf. Pitts, Le livre des regions (2006), p. 425; Thorndike II, p. 424.

16 Important 16th-century view of Amsterdam as seen from the IJ

20. BAST, Pieter. Amstelredam. [Antwerp], , 1599. Large engraved panorama on 2 sheets (ca. 27 × 76 cm as assembled). Framed. € 67 500

Rare first state of a 16th-century view of Amsterdam as seen from the inlet known as the IJ made by Pieter Bast, a Dutch engraver from Antwerp best known for his city map of Amsterdam and this view. "In its amplitude and the sheer audacity of the presentation, this engraving is indisputably one of Bast's most significant creations. It is as much a portrait of the harbour of Amsterdam as of the city itself and underscores the unique importance of maritime trade as the principle source of the city's wealth and power". With its distinc- tive orientation he not only initiated the series of representations of Amsterdam as seen from the IJ, but also "established the standard for an entire genre of Dutch maritime painting" (Keyes). In 1611 a second state (edition) was published by Claesz Jansz. Visscher, who drastically altered the composition. In very good condition. Hollstein I, p. 168, 8; Keyes, Pieter Bast 8 and p. 19.

Encyclopaedic account of Batavia with 13 maps, plans and views, including 6 views by Mathias de Sallieth

21. [BATAVIA]. Batavia, de hoofdstad van Neêrlands O. Indien, in derzelver gelegen­heid, opkomst, voortreffelyke ge­bouwen, hooge en laage regeering, geschiedenissen, kerkzaaken, koophandel, zeden, luchtsgesteldheid, ziekten, dieren en gewassen, beschreeven. Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi; Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1782–1783. 4 volumes bound as 1. 4º. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 13 illustrations on 11 engraved folding plates: 4 maps and plans and 9 views (including 6 by Mathias de Sallieth after H. Kobell). Contemporary stiff paste-paper wrappers. € 2500

First edition of a beautifully illustrated encyclopaedic account of Batavia (Jakarta), with extensive informa- tion on its history, government, economy, inhabitants, religion, natural history, climate and tropical diseases (including beriberi), and on the trade carried on by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the East Indies.

17 The plates, some by the celebrated engraver Mathias de Sallieth, show ships anchoring off the coast of Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope, the island of Onrust near Batavia, the colonial government residence, the market, the Diestpoort, castle and laboratory of Batavia, as well as birds of paradise and reptiles. The maps and plans include a large folding plan of Batavia (48 × 70 cm). With a tear in the folding plan of Batavia repaired with tape (running 8 cm into the image), but otherwise in very good condition, with only an occasional smudge or minor stain, and nearly untrimmed, leaving very large margins. A monumental account of Batavia, beautifully and extensively illustrated. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC, 499; Tiele, Bibl. 77.

Signed autograph letters of a leading French naval official at Toulon up to the Second Empire

22. BAUDIN, Charles. [Collection of 14 signed, mostly autograph letters]. Toulon, 1842–1849. 8º and 4º. Letters in black and brown ink on paper (11 with the "prefecture maritime" letterhead), 1 with its original envelope and 3 originally folded, addressed and sealed for posting without an envelope. € 11 500

Collection of 14 signed letters, all but 3 autographs, written by Charles Baudin (1792–1854) and dated 1842–1849, when he served as Maritime Prefect at Toulon. He was one of the leading naval figures of the 19th century, whose naval service, mostly as Vice Admiral, began under Napoleon Bonaparte and ended in the early days of the Second Empire. Charles Baudin lost his right arm in battle in 1808 and had to write with his left hand, leading to the distinc- tive back-sloped handwriting evident in his signature and the 10 autograph letters. All letters are in good or very good condition. Letters 4, 7 and 14 are very slightly browned and 14 also shows some small stains. Letter 2 has a corner torn off and a small hole (neither affecting the text). A valuable primary source for French naval affairs in the last decade of Louis Philippe I's reign. For Charles Baudin: Howgego, 1800–1850, B16 (see also B17).

Source of information for Watt & Boulton when developing their steam engine

23. BAUMÉ, Antoine. Chymie expérimentale et raisonnée. Paris, Pierre François Didot le jeune, 1773. 3 volumes. 8º. With a different engraved vignette on the title-page of each volume by Jean Michel Moreau Le Jeune, an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Charles Nicolas Cochin and 12 folding engraved plates. Contemporary French mottled calf, spines richly gold-tooled. € 1250

Mathew Boulton's fine copy of the first and best edition of a thorough handbook of practical chemistry by one of France's most distinguished 18th-century chemists, pharmacists and equipment makers, with 12 plates showing a wide variety of furnaces, boilers, distilling equipment and other glassware, crucibles, etc. Baumé (1728–1804) worked for decades as a pharmacist and designed and produced laboratory apparatus. The present book, his most important publication, grew out of a series of courses he taught in the years 1757 to 1772. At the end of the latter year he was elected to the Académie des Sciences. Distillation (including the distillation of wine) was one of his specialties. A fine copy, with the two-leaf cancel (volumeI , pages 71–74), and with only a minor tear in the text

18 of 1 leaf and an occasional minor spot. Bindings with minor damage to the spines, but still very good. With the18th-century letterpress bookplates of Mathew Boulton. A fine copy of a classic chemistry manual, especially interesting as a source for Watt and Boulton's steam engine. DSB I, p. 527; Ferguson, Bib. Chem., I, pp. 83–84; Wellcome, p. 118;

Important work on landscape gardening

24. BECKER, Wilhelm Gottlieb (editor). Der plauische Grund bei Dresden, mit Hinsicht auf Naturgeschichte und schöne Gartenkunst. Nuremberg, Frauenholzischen Kunsthandlung, 1799. 2 parts in 1 volume. 2º. With an engraved folding plan, and 24 engraved plates, including 8 hand-coloured. Early 19th-century green half morocco. € 3500

First edition of a work on landscape gardening, including the part on natural history, often lacking, written by Wilhelm Gotlieb Becker (1753–1813). The first part consists of a description of the area around Dresden, its geology, vegetation, villages and the ruins that can be found there. Twelve of the fine views of the first part are made after drawings by the famous Johann Christian Klengel (1751–1824). "Meisterwerk der Dresdner Landschaftskunst des späten 18. Jahrhunderts" (Lanck.-Oehler). The second part, describing the natural history of the region, contains three texts, each with its own divisional title: Mineralogische Beschreibung des Plauischen Grundse bis Tharand by Andreas Tauber, with four hand-coloured plates on geology and minerals, Verzeichniss der im Plauischen Grunde und den zunächst angrenzenden Gegenden wildwachsenden Pflanzen, by Friedrich Traugott Pursch and Verzeichnis der merkwürdigsten Insecten welche im Plauischen Grunde gefunden werden, by Ludwig Heinrich Freihern von Block, also with four hand-coloured plates, displaying various insects. Foxed with some marginal waterstains. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Otherwise in good condition. Lanck.-Oehler III, 49; Stafleu & Cowan 8403.

Rare Dutch translation of a defence of “Uncle Tom’s cabin”

25. BEECHER STOWE, Harriet. De slavernij … Vervolg en sleutel op De negerhut van dezelfde schrijfster. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1853. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 8º. Later half cloth. Sold

Rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of A key to Uncle Tom's cabin, a thorough defence of Stowe's famous anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's cabin. "Even as the early press runs for the books version of Uncle Tom's Cabin were being snatched up in America and Europe, Stowe was already at work on her Key, a hybrid expository text defending her first anti-slavery book against charges mounted by pro-slavery opponents. … Stowe realized that defending her novel would require presenting evidence for the anti-slavery claims she made there. But it would also entail showing that she herself was worthy of trust from readers, while her attackers were devoid of the very Christian principles central to American life" (Robbins). The present copy has the title-page of part 2 bound as title-page to the second volume (parts 3-4) and omits the title-pages of parts 3-4. With some spots throughout, otherwise in very good condition. Brinkman, p. 64; NCC (4 copies); WorldCat (8 copies, incl. the same 4); cf. Robbins, Cambridge introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe (2007), pp. 61–66.

19 Jamestown on the island Helena, seen in 1805, painted in oils on brass

26. [BE L L A SI S, George Hutchins, after]. [Jamestown, , seen from the sea in 1805]. [Place of production unknown, ca. 1815? after an 1806 print]. Oil painting on a thin brass plate (11.5 × 15.5 cm) showing the town of Jamestown on the island Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, with 2 ships and a smaller sailboat in the bay before the town, the fortress on the promontory to the left, the houses, governor's residence and church in the centre with the valley and mountains behind. In an ebonized wooden frame and gilt inner frame (24 × 27.5 cm). € 7500

An oil painting on brass, showing Jamestown on the island of Saint Helena, with its houses, fortress, governor's residence and Church of St James, and with two ships and a boat in the bay before the city. Although the painting is unsigned and undated, it clearly matches the 4 June 1806 print published by Edward Orme in London, which was engraved by John Heaveside Clarke & J.R. Hamble after George Hutchins Bellasis (1788–1822). The interest in Saint Helena rose enormously when Napoleon was imprisoned there in 1815, so that is the most likely time for someone to have copied the 1806 print. Bellasis took a commission in the British army at Bombay, where his father was commander of the forces. Illness forced him to leave Bombay for home in 1804, but his condition worsened underway and he had to disembark at Saint Helena on 4 November 1804 and remain there eight months to recover before returning home. Bellasis was an amateur artist and when he recovered sufficiently, presumably in the new year, he made a series of views of the spectacular island almost 2000 kilometres from the nearest land. The print made from Bellasis's view of Jamestown, published on 4 June 1806, only months after he returned to England, is so close to the present painting that one must have copied the other. It seems most likely that the painting is a direct copy of the print. In very good condition, with only a few minor surface scratches in the varnish. A lovely painting of Saint Helena on brass, following a view made there in 1805.

Rare work on falconry and cormorant fishing

27. BELVALLETTE, Alfred. Traité de fauconnerie et d'autourserie suivi d'une étude sur la pêche au cormoran. Évreux, Charles Hérissey, 1903. Large 8º (28.5 × 21.5 cm). With 35 plates and numerous illustrations in text. Modern red half sheepskin, with the original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. € 2750

Rare first and only edition of a work on falconry, followed by a short treatise on cormorant fishing by Alfred Belvallette, "well known in France as a skilful falconer, and he writes with a thorough knowledge of his subject… French falconers apply the term fauconnerie only to flights with the long-winged hawks (Peregrine, Merlin, Hobby, and Jerfalcon), flights with the short-winged Goshawk autor( ) and Sparrow- hawk (épervier) coming under the expressive and very convenient term autourserie" (Bibl. accipitraria). The work partly contains original illustrations, including many photographs of falconers in action, but also copies of Schlegel and others. With only a couple spots, otherwise in very good condition. Thiebaud, p. 66; WorldCat (9 copies); cf. Bibl. accipitraria 219.

20 A watercolour view of Ceylon ()

28. [BE RG, Albert]. Bei Point de Galle. Ceylon, 1860. Watercolour on paper (25.5 × 36 cm), inscribed and dated in pencil (lower left) "Bei Point de Galle. Ceilon [18]60"; signed "AB" and numbered "334" on the back. Mounted in a passe-partout. € 4750

A very attractive watercolour view of Point de Galle in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Albert Berg (1825–1884), German diplomat, explorer and landscape painter. The view looks out over the water, with a group of palm trees close by on the left next to an outcropping, and another group further away at right, with several boats and a small building. Berg was part of the "Eulenberg Expedition", a Prussian diplomatic mission to Japan, China and Thailand (1859–1862), led by Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenberg. The expedition sailed to Japan by way of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), where Berg drew the present view. The official account, partly edited by Berg, was published in seven volumes from 1864 to 1873 as Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien (1860–1862). In fine condition. For Berg: Thieme & Becker III, p. 385; for the Eulenberg Expedition: Howgego, 1850 to 1940, E19.

South African flora

29. BERGIUS, Peter. Descriptiones plantarum ex capite bonae spei, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus et synonymis auctorum justis. Secundum systema sexuale. Stockholm, L. Salvus, 1767. 8º. With 5 folding engraved plates. Modern boards. € 1950

First edition of Bergius's first major publication, and the first Linnean flora of South African plants. "One of the rarest and oldest works treating the of the Cape of Good Hope" (Mendelssohn). Bergius had been Linnaeus's pupil, and based this flora on the collections of Cape plants assembled by Mikael Grubb, a director of the Swedish East India Company. Library stamps on back of title-page; some browning. A good copy of an early and important South African flora. Mendelssohn I, p. 116; Soulsby 649d; Stafleu & Cowan 458.

21 Beautifully illustrated work on camellias, with 301 coloured plates

30. BERLÈSE, Lorenzo and Johann Jakob JUNG. Iconographie du genre camellia ou description et figures des camellia les plus beaux et les plus rares. Paris, H. Cousin (plates printed by N. Rémond), [1839–]1841–1843. 3 volumes. 2º. With 301 engraved plates, printed in colour a la poupée and finished in colour by hand, engraved by Duménil, Gabriel and Oudet after Johann Jakob Jung. Contemporary half morocco, gold-tooled spine. € 69 500

First edition of a beautifully illustrated work on camellias by the Italian abbot Lorenzo Berlèse (1784–1863), perhaps the greatest authority on the subject during the 19th century. The three volumes include 300 different types of camellias, each illustrated with a brightly coloured engraved plate. Each plate is accompanied by one leaf, with the description of the flower printed on the upper half, and a scientific monograph on camellias printed on the remaining space running through all the text leaves. The flowers were drawn from nature in Berlèse's greenhouses at Paris (where he held more than 800 camellia species and types) by the German artist Johann Jakob Jung (1819–1844?). Jung was among the various painters who were influenced by the great French flower artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840), who was praised for his brilliant and prolific illustrations. The first flower in the first volume, theCamellia derbiana, is illustrated with two plates. In very good condition, only slightly foxed. Blunt, p. 229; Buchanan, Nature into art, p. 59; GFB, p. 75; Nissen, BBI 150; Cat. De Belder 73.

22 "On pesche les perles ... dans le Golfe Persique, principalement ... aupres de Baroyn [= Bahrain]"

31. BERQUEN, Robert de. Les merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales ou Nouveau traitté des pierres precieuses & perles, ... Paris, Christophe Lambin, 1669 (colophon 1668). 4º. With an engraved portrait of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans facing the dedication. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf. € 28 000

Second, enlarged edition of a rare work on precious stones and pearls found in what the title calls the East and West Indies (but including the Gulf region). It is most important for the author's new information on diamonds, pearls and pearl fishing, this last with considerable detail on the various pearl fishing sites in the Gulf. The extensive chapter devoted to pearls and pearl fishing notes the Persian Gulf as the most important source and names specific sites: "on pesche les perles en divers endroits du monde. Dans le Golfe Persique, principalement aux environs de l'Isle d'Ormus & Bassora: aupres de Baroyn [= Bahrain], Catiffa, Juffa, Camaron, & autres lieux de ce Golfe ..." (p. 68). The present second edition includes an entirely new 17-page appendix on the history of the Spanish conquest in the New World with further remarks on pearl fisheries, natural history and trade. Several new chapters have also been added, on the pricing of diamonds according to size and quality, on the pricing of pearls, two chapters on alchemy and tables of the fineness of silver and gold. This material, not included in the 1661 edition gives the present second edition its greater value: "In terms of substance, this [second] edition is considerably superior to the first; both are rare" (Sinkankas). With an occasional faint stain and a couple leaves with very minor foxing, but still in very good condition. The binding is slightly worn, with cracks in the hinges and damaged corners (some repaired), but otherwise good, with most of the tooling well preserved. An important work on gems and pearls, especially interesting for pearl fishing in the Gulf, in an attractive French binding. Alden & Landis 669/18 (6 copies); Duveen, p. 71; Sabin 4957; Sinkankas 593

The second book printed in Arabic from movable type and a primary source for Columbus's second voyage to America

32. [BIBLE—PSALMS—POLYGLOT]. Psalterium, Hebr[a]eum, Gr[a]ecu[m], Arabicu[m], & Chald[a]eu[m], cu[m] tribus Latinis i[n]terp[re]tat[i]o[n] ibus & glossis. (Colophon: Genoa, Pietro Paulo Porro, November 1516). 2º (33.5 × 25 cm). Title-page and first double-page opening of the main text printed in red and black, the former with a woodcut arabesque border, Porro's white on black woodcut leek device on the final leaf. With parallel text in Hebrew, Latin (3 versions), Greek, Arabic and Chaldean Aramaic (set in roman, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic type), giving 8 columns to each double-page spread (the 8th for notes) with 41 lines per columns, and 13 woodcut floriated initials (5 Latin, 4 Hebrew, 2 Greek and 2 Arabic). 16th-century blind-tooled brown calf. Rebacked and with later endpapers. € 85 000

First polyglot edition of any part of the Bible, and the first signif- icant polyglot work ever published: a psalter in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Chaldean Aramaic and Latin, and a pioneering work of both biblical scholarship and book production. It is of the utmost importance in several further respects: the second book

23 printed in Arabic from movable type (following Gregorio de Gregorii's Kitab salat as-sawa'i, a book of hours for the Lebanese Melchites, printed in 1514), and the earliest Arabic printing of any portion of the Bible. It also contains the first edition of the Aramaic text of the Psalter and offers for the first time Kabbalistic texts from the Zohar. Furthermore, Giustiniani's commentary provides the first substan- tial biographical reference to Columbus, making it an important Americanum. With a contemporary owner's inscription and marginal and interlinear manuscript notes. With water stains, mostly confined to quires A, E and F, and an occasional leaf slightly browned. Binding rebacked as noted and carefully restored with the edges and corners repaired. A pioneering work of biblical scholarship, Arabic printing and the study of Christopher Columbus. Alden & Landis 516/4; Darlow & Moule 1411, 1634 & 2401; Sabin 66468; Smitskamp, Philologia Orientalia 236.

The Acts of the Apostles in Kosraean translation, printed at Honolulu

33. [BIBLE—KOSRAEAN]. Orekma lun met sap. Published by the Hawaiian Board. Honolulu, Henry M. Whitney, 1869. 12º. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Rebacked with brown cloth. € 2500

Rare edition of the Acts of the Apostles in Kosraean (Kusaiean), spoken on the islands of Kosrae, the Caroline Islands and Nauru. The translation is by Benjamin G. Snow, a pioneer of Micronesian Mission. He settled in Kosraea in 1852 and published several translations of parts of the New Testament from 1862 until his death in 1880, all printed at Honolulu. The printer of the present booklet, Henry M. Whitney, was born at Waimea in 1824. He was educated in the United States, where he became acquainted with the printing trade, working as foreman in the printing office of Harpers & Bros, New York. Upon his return to Hawaii, Whitney became the editor of the newspaper Polynesian. He later founded an independent newspaper at Honolulu and imported the first power press to Hawaii. In very good condition. WorldCat (without any location); cf. Darlowe & Moule 6036–6045; for Whitney: The Independent vol. XVIII, no. 2894, August 18, 1904.

Bodoni imprint on the public utility of the sciences and art, written by a friend of Goethe, Schiller and Wieland

34. [B OD ON I]. [DA L BE RG, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von]. De l'influence des sciences et des beaux-arts sur la tranquillité publique. Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1802. 8º. Contemporary green crushed morocco, richly gold-tooled sides and spine. € 2750

First edition of a short tract on aesthetics by Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744–1817), printed by Giambattista Bodoni. The author demonstrates the fundamen- tal public utility of the sciences and arts. The work is preceded by an idyll on the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II's abolition of serfdom, written by the Duchess Juliane Giovane di Girasole, born de Mudersbach (1766–1805). Dalberg was an influential and enlight- ened statesman in times of upheaval. Dalberg also distinguished himself as a scholar and notable patron of letters, befriending Goethe, Schiller and Wieland. With bookplate. Some marginal spotting and the bottom of front hinge cracked, but otherwise in very good condition and beautifully bound. Brooks 865; Palaia-Moscatelli 286.

24 Boerhaave's famous catalogue of plants in ’s botanical garden

35. BOERHAAVE, Herman. Index plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo reperiuntur. Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1710. 8º. With an engraved frontis- piece and title-page with Boutesteyn's engraved device. Near con- temporary sprinkled half calf. Sold

First edition of Boerhaave's famous catalogue of about 3700 plants in the botanical garden at the University of Leiden. Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) was appointed professor of botany in 1709 and took over the direction of the Leiden University botanical garden. The plants had not been catalogued since his predecessor Paul Hermann published Florae Lugduno-Batavae in 1690. His first task therefore was to prepare an up-to-date catalogue for both himself and his students. It is an important primary source for the expansion of the garden's collection, especially for the many new South African species being introduced from the Cape at this time. The frontis- piece depicts the garden with 2 large sculptures, 7 people (workmen and visitors), many plants, and the university buildings in the background. With an early owner's name "Whitaker" at the head of the title-page, perhaps the botanist Joseph Wittaker (1813–1894), and with extensive marginal manuscript notes in Latin in quires A-C. With the frontispiece somewhat dirty and a part of its margin torn off, not affecting the printed image, and with some foxing, but otherwise in very good condition, almost wholly untrimmed and with the bolts mostly unopened. The binding is slightly rubbed and has some cracks in the hinges, but is otherwise also very good. One of the most important early botanical catalogues, of special interest for South African botany. Hunt I, p. liv; Kuijlen & Wijnands 83; Lindeboom 431; Stafleu & Cowan 592.

Description of plants in Leiden University's botanical garden

36. BOERHAAVE, Herman. Historia plantarum, quae in horto academico Lugduni-Batavorum crescunt cum earum characteribus, & medicinalibus virtutibus. London [printed in the Netherlands], S. Knebel and James Knapton, 1731. 2 volumes. Large 12º. Contemporary red half sheepskin. Sold

Second edition of Boerhaave's description of the plants in Leiden University's botanical garden. It gives an account of the various species, including the origins of the plants, their names, characteristics and possible medicinal properties. It includes trees, herbs, flowers, mushrooms and marine plants, including cannabis. Upon his appointment as professor of medicine and botany at Leiden University in 1709, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) auto- matically became head of the botanical garden. He published his first catalogue of plants, Index plantarum, in 1710, and added more than two thousand species by the second edition in 1720, reflecting Boerhaave's extensive additions to the garden. Although the present work bears Boerhaave's name, it is believed to have been prepared by one of his students with the aid of lecture notes. It therefore provides insights into Boerhaave's teaching methods. With library stamps. With a small tear in one leaf running 1 cm into the text, the title-pages slightly foxed and further and occasional minor spot, but still in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. The marbled paper of the binding is scuffed and torn, the spines are rather dirty and show a few cracks, tears and worm holes, but the binding remains structur- ally sound. Henrey 462; Kuijlen & Wijnands 90; for Boerhaave: DSB II, pp. 224–228.

25 Compelling account of shipwreck and survival

37. BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse. Begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en ghevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in weder-varen. Begonnen den 18. December 1618. en vol-eynd den 16. November 1625. Waer by gevoegd is het Journael van Dirck Albertsz Raven, als oock verscheyden gedenckwaerdige geschiedenissen, op veel plaetsen verbetert en een groot deel vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4º. With a double-page engraved plate with 6 views of the ship at fire and in a storm, the islands St. Mary, Samatra and Princes Eyland, and an image of flying fishes. Modern marbled wrappers. € 6500

One of the most compelling and entertaining travel accounts of Dutch literature, in one of the earliest and most important editions, the first to be published by Hartgers. Bontekoe details his eventful 8-year voyage to the East Indies. The vivid description of his ship accidently exploding in the Sunda Strait, killing almost a third of the crew, no doubt made a huge impression on his readers. Bontekoe returned in 1625, but his travelogue was not published until 1646. It was an immediate success and went through numerous editions. From the beginning Raven's short account of a voyage to Greenland, during which he too suffered shipwreck, was added to Bontekoe's voyage. Almost all editions of Bontekoe's narrative are rare. Jan Jansz. Deutel, who published the first edition in 1646, also published the first significantly revised edition in 1648, in part to better compete with the pirated edition with new and better illustrations by Salomon Saverij. Hartgers took the best of both, following Deutel's revised text but Saverij's illustrations, establishing one of the two principal branches in the lineage of editions. Trimmed close to the text, slightly shaving an occasional shoulder note, the two corners at the foot of the plate are torn off, one just touching the corner of the image, and a dark stain on 2 facing pages, but still generally in good condition. Important early edition of the vivid description of Bontekoe's voyage to the East Indies. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 381; Tiele, Bibl. 159; Verkruijsse & Verhoeven 1648–03.

A Flemish didactic satire, illustrated by Antoine van der Does

38. BORCHT, Willem van der. Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ... , Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4º. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum. € 2750

First edition, in Flemish Dutch, of a didactic satire, mostly in verse, by the Flemish poet and lawyer Willem van der Borcht or Guilelmus a Castro (1621/22–1668) in Brussels, with elegies and epigrams alternating with prose passages. It allegori- cally presents a mirror of self-knowledge and knowledge of the world, intended to improve the faults of the age and show the foolishness and vanity of the world. The fine plates by Antoine van der Does, showing scenes of rich and frivolous society, are of interest for the costume and morals of the time. The "Toe-ghifte", an integral part of the edition, but with its own title-page on 2D1, represents the world as a capri- cious woman. The portrait shows Van der Borcht at age 21 with the motto "nosce te ipsum", and a 2-line verse by Ericus Puteanus below. The 3 illustrations show realistic genre scenes, influenced by Rubens. Half the copies listed by the STCV lack the portrait and/or the engraved title-page. One illustration was printed over a crease in the paper, leaving a white line through part of the scene. In very good condition, with a minor water stain in the head margin of the engraved title, just touching its border. Binding lacking ties, with 1 sewing support broken at the back hinge, slightly wrinkled and a bit dirty, but still good. First edition of a satire of society, with plates made for it by Antoine van der Does. Bibl. Belg I, p. 319; BCNI 9630; Funck, pp. 282–283; STCV (8 copies incl. 4 incomplete).

26 Attractive hand-coloured concertina-fold panorama of , 5.8 meters long

39. BOS, Jan and Pieter Wilhelmus van de WEIJER. Panorama van Utrecht vervaardigd in het etablissement van P.W. van de Weijer. Utrecht, widow of Herfkens and son, 1859. Oblong concertina-fold book (9 × 18.5 cm). With 32 wood-engraved views, each measuring 7.5 × 18 cm, coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-blocked red cloth. € 1500

Rare first edition of a charming hand-coloured panoramic view of the city of Utrecht, consisting of 32 separate leaves hinged together like an accordion, a so called "leporello" or "concertina-fold" book. The panoramic view starts at the "Witte-vrouwen-barrière" and shows, among other things, the Willemskazerne, Wolvenplein, Plompetorengracht, Begijnen bolwerk, Barthelomeus Gasthuis, Geertekerk, Diakonessenhuis, Tolsteeg, Sterrenkundig observatorium, Lepelenburg, and more. The illustrations are drawn from the opposite side of the city's canal, providing a 360-degree view of the centre of the city, depicting both public and private buildings as well as the parks designed by the famous architect Zocher, replacing the former city walls which had been demolished in the 1830's and 1840's. The total length of the panorama is almost 5.8 meters. Separated at one hinge, breaking the panorama in half, slightly browned. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities, but still in very good condition. WorldCat (4 copies).

"The first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa"

40. BOSMAN, Willem. Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ... Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12º (17 × 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards. € 1750

First edition of the French translation of a work on the trade-settlements on the West Coast of Africa. The author, Willem Bosman (b. 1672), was Chief Factor at Fort Elmina for the Dutch West Indian Company. "He stayed on the coast for fourteen years, his Voyage de Guinée ... being regarded as the first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa. It is a major source for the Dutch slave trade during second half of the seventeenth century, and provides an interesting picture of international rivalry, current trade, and the wretched and depraved existence of the European factors stationed permanently at the coast" (Howgego). It contains detailed information of areas which were hardly described by other travel- lers, and remained the most important source for over a century. The book is written in the form of letters to a friend, Dr. D. Havard, living in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With library stamp. Some occasional spots and one plate heavily browned, but otherwise in good condition, wholly untrimmed. Binding worn along the extremities and spine discoloured. Gay 2808; Howgego, to 1800, F58; Tiele 174, note.

First French edition of the biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel de Ruyter

41. BRANDT, Geeraert. La vie de Michel de Ruiter duc, chevalier, lieutenant amiral général de Hollande & de Oüest- Frise. Où est comprise l'histoire maritime des Provinces Unies, depuis l'an 1652. jusques à 1676. Traduite du hollandois ... Amsterdam, Pieter and Joan Blaeu for Waesberge, Boom, Van Someren and Goethals, 1698. 2º. With engraved fron- tispiece, full-page engraved portrait, 7 double-page engraved plates by Bastiaen Stoopendaal, and 1 full-page engraved plate by J. Mulder. Early 18th-century calf, gold-tooled board edges. € 2500

27 First edition in French of the standard biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel Adriaansz. de Ruyter (1607–1676), who scored several major victories against the French and English, the best known abroad being the Raid on Chatham, one of the worst defeats of the British . For the present work Brandt used numerous original documents from De Ruyter's son and other private individuals, as well as from official government sources. "This resulted in a book that was not only based on good information, but through his exalted, lucid and engaging style also became a true folk-book in the best sense of the word" (NNBW). De Ruyter fought the English off the coast of West Africa, the Caribbean, temporarily took St John's, New Foundland, and even considered retaking New York. With armorial bookplate and manuscripts notes on pastedown. In very good condition, slightly browned and stained at places. Spine chafed and slightly damaged at the foot. An important life of Michiel de Ruyter. Alden & Landis 698/27; Cat. NHSM, p. 844; Sabin 7406; for the author: NNBW VI, cols. 184–187.

About 150 medicinal recipes, with 4 excellent woodcuts of apothecaries at work

42. BRUNFELS, Otto, Lorenz FRIES and “Q. APOLLINARIS” [= Walther Hermann RYFF]. Von allerhandt apoteckischen Confectionen, Lattwergen, Oel, Pillulen, Trenchen, Trociscen, Zuckerscheiblin, Salben unnd Pflastern &c. Wie, wann, und warzu man ides brauchen soll, eyn kurtzer Bericht ... Strasbourg, Jakob Cammerlander, [ca. 1540]. 4º. With 4 woodcut illustrations. Modern half parchment. € 8500

Rare first edition of more than 150 medicinal recipes, with 4 excellent large woodcuts showing people growing medicinal plants and preparing and selling medicines. One woodcut on the title-page shows a man and two women in a garden, attending and plucking plants. The other shows a man (or perhaps a boy apprentice) grinding or mixing ingredients, with other apparatus and medicine containers in the background. The two full-page woodcuts show apothecar- ies or pharmacologists with their customers, one at an outdoor table and the other in his shop. The title-page attributes the work to Brunfels, but the note to the reader by "C. Appollinaris", pseudonym of the physician and apothecary Walther Hermann Ryff (ca. 1500?–1548), suggests that he compiled it and notes that parts came from Brunfels and parts from Lorenz Fries. With contemporary marks or manuscript notes next to many recipes. With a small tear repaired in the title-page and some marginal restorations in the fore-edge and gutter. Whoever restored the gutter margin interchanged A3 and A4. One woodcut is very slightly shaved, with no significant loss, and several marginal manuscript notes have been shaved. Still generally in good condition, the modern binding very good. Benzing & Müller, Bibl. Strasbourgeoise 1587? (not seen); USTC 710288 (6 copies); Wellcome I, 1098.

16th-century print series with more than 450 costumes from around the world

43. [BRU Y N, Abraham de]. Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae gentium habitus. | Habits de diverses nations de l[']Europe, Asie, Afrique et Ameriqe[!].| Trachtenbuch: Der furnembsten Nationen und Volcker Kleydungen beyde Manns und Weybs personen in Europa Asia Africa und America. [Antwerp, successors to] Joos de Bosscher, [ca. 1600]. Engraved print series with title-page, a leaf with a 10-line verse about clothing, a leaf with 2 portraitsm, and 61 costume plates (numbered 1–58 plus 28.1, 28.2 and 28.3). With: (2) [BRU Y N, Abraham de]. Exhibemus hoc libello Romani Pontificis, Episcoporum, Monachorum, alio- rumque sacerdotum, quorum aliquid scire potuimus, imagines. Antwerp, [successors to] Joos de Bosscher, "1581" [= ca. 1600]. Engraved print series with title-page and 18 numbered costume plates. 2 works in 1 volume. Small oblong 1º (25.5 × 36.5 cm). 19th-century half red goatskin morocco, gold- tooled spine. € 11 500

28 Two beautiful and complementary 16th-cen- tury series of costume prints by the engraver Abraham de Bruyn (1540–1587), together showing over 450 different costumes, both first published in 1581. The first print series starts with the rich and elaborate costumes of the Emperor and Kings of the Holy , followed by the costumes of the Electors. Military costumes are also shown with twelve or more to one plate. The European costumes come from Antwerp, Brabant, Spain, England, France, including Venice, Rome and Naples, and elsewhere. The more exotic costumes come from Turkey, the Arabic lands, Persia, Africa, Tartary and America. The second series starts with the Pope, cardinals and bishops, and continues with male and female members of various religious orders. With bookplate. The 3 preliminary leaves and plate 1 of part 1 have been cut down and mounted on backing leaves and show a few repaired tears, but both series are further in very good condition, with only an occasional minor stain, smudge or marginal tear. Several leaves are bound out of sequence. Colas 475; Hollstein IV, A. de Bruyn 248–306 "4th" ed.; Vinet 2087; cf. Lipperheide Aa 18.

Very rare book of photographs of the trees and shrubs near Leny House, through the seasons

44. BUCHANAN, John Hamilton. Photographs of trees and shrubs in the grounds of Leny Perthshire. [Scotland], 1907. 4º (29.5 × 24.5 cm). With 50 platinum print photographs, mounted on gray cardboard, with the largest measuring ca. 15 × 30 cm, and the smallest ca. 9 × 12 cm; and a letterpress title-page and index.. All photographs protected by tissue guards. Contemporary green half morocco, gilt edges, decorated endpapers. € 6500

Very rare book of photographs, showing the various trees and shrubs in the garden of Leny House, Perthshire, Scotland. The photographs show the garden change through the seasons with some pictures taken in the summer and others taken in the winter. Two photographs with an identical composition show a group of beech trees, with the summer version showing only the trees in front of green foliage. The absence of the background foliage in winter reveals a wide view of the Perthshire behind these trees, thereby making a complete new scene of the same group of trees. The plot around Leny House had been property of the Buchanan family since the . It is centred around a Jacobean-style mansion, the result of an extensive rebuilt in 1845–1846, which can be seen on one of the photographs. The photographs were taken by John Hamilton Buchanan (1861–1919), a banker, amateur pho- tographer, owner of Leny House and, judging from this publication, a great lover of his garden. The publication of this volume of photographs was apparently a private project, with only two others copies located (National Library of Scotland and Polesden Lacey). Nevertheless, great care was taken in providing a prestigious photo album, with the photographs being expensive platinum prints and a letterpress title-page and index. The index provides a list of all the photographs, sometimes identifying the photographed species and/or season. With the spine slightly faded and rubbed; some foxing. An excellent copy of a very rare volume of garden photography. WorldCat (1 copy).

29 Extremely rare Dutch book of sermons in a VOC binding

45. BULAEUS, Justus Jacobi and Viglius Cornelius DOMINUS. Huis-postille, ofte predikatien, over de zondaagsche evangelien, die men in de Christelyke kerke 't geheele jaar door van ouds gewoon is te verklaren. Dewelke uit Gods H. Woord, op de toestant dezer eeuwe, bekwamelyk toegepast ende geappliceert worden. Amsterdam, Casparus Lootsman and Jacob Konijnenbergh, [between 1696–1711]. 4º. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled in a panel design with the VOC-A monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), lacking clasps; rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. € 6500

Extremely rare, fourth surviving edition (the previous three only surviving in one copy) of a popular Dutch book of sermons intended for everyday home use, explaining biblical texts to the layman. It is known the work was officially to be included in the inventory of a "ziekentrooster" (literally a comforter of the sick) on board of ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and indeed the present copy has been supplied by the VOC as is apparent from the monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the company on its binding. With modern library stamps. Rebacked as noted, with some wear along the corners and the foot of the spine, otherwise in good condition and still a good copy. STCN (3 copies); WorldCat (same 3 copies).

782 Arabic proverbs collected before 1817, with explanatory notes

46. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig. Arabic proverbs, or the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, illustrated from their proverbial sayings current at Cairo, translated and explained ... London, John Murray (colophon: printed by C. Roworth), 1830. Large 4º (28 × 22 cm). With a large folding engraved map of the Sinai, the Holy Land and parts of Egypt and Syria, showing Burckhardt's travels, and a few small woodcut illustrations in the text. Set in roman and italic type with the proverbs also in the original Arabic. Mid-19th-century half tan calf, spine with gold-tooled bands. € 8000

First edition of a ground-breaking trove of 782 Arabic proverbs, published here in the original Arabic with English translations and (sometimes extensive) expla- nations of their meaning. Burckhardt took some from a collection assembled by the Egyptian scholar Shered ad-Din Ibn Assad, adding others "as he heard them quoted in general society or in the bázár ... Several Scriptural sayings and maxims of ancient sages will be found here naturalized among Arabs; as well as some Proverbs which have generally been supposed of European origin" (preface). This makes the present publication an essential primary source for Islamic, Egyptian and Arabic oral history, preserving popular proverbs collected before 1817. The Swiss explorer, orientalist and archaeologist Burckhardt (1784–1817) travelled through Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Nubia and the Arabian Peninsula, and rediscovered the ancient city of Petra. Disguised as an Arab, he crossed the Red Sea to Jeddah under the name "Sheikh Ibrahim", passed an examination in Muslim law and par- ticipated in a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. With bookplate. Endpapers browned, slightly affecting the title-page, last page and folding map, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding somewhat worn and scuffed, but structurally sound. An expert Arabist's annotated collection of Arabic sayings, giving insights into Arabic culture. Gay 1963; Howgego, 1800–1850, B76.

30 Important biography of one of the leading figures of the Protestant Reformation

47. CAMERARIUS, Joachim. De Philippi Melanchthonis ortu, totius vitae curriculo et morte, implicata rerum memorabilium temporis illius hominumque mentione atque indicio, cum expositionis serie cohaerentium. Leipzig, (colophon: Ernst Voegelin, 1566). Large 8º (19.5 × 12 cm). With woodcut printer's device on title-page. Contemporary pigskin, richly blind-tooled in a panel design, monogrammed and dated "I.V.S | 1566", by the Swabian bookbinder Wolfconrad Schwickart. € 3500

First edition of an important biography of the German philosopher and theologian of the Protestant Reformation Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), who worked closely with Martin Luther. It was written by Melanchthon's close friend Joachim Camerarius (1500–1574), a classical scholar who was able to consult a large amount of personal correspondence, which makes this work a valuable source. From the library of Neidstein castle in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria. With some manuscript notes on the first flyleaf and marginal notes throughout, some minor restorations to the title-page, slightly browned and a faint waterstain in the upper margin. A very good wide-margined copy. Ebert 3391; IA 130.520; VD 16 C502; for the binding: Goldschmidt, Gothic & Renaissance 227.

The advantages of steam vessels, with 5 large folding plans

48. CAMPAIGNAC, Antoine Bernard. De l'état actuel de la navigation par la vapeur et des améliorations dont les navires et appareils a vapeur marins sont susceptibles; suivi de notes explicatives, tableaux, projets, etc. Paris, L. Mathias (back of half-title: printed by Guiraudet & Jouaust), 1842. 4º. With 5 large engraved folding plans and a letterpress folding table. Contemporary green half sheepskin, gold- and blind-tooled spine. € 1250

First and only edition of a treatise on the advantages of steam vessels over sailing ships, with chapters on steam engines, calculation of horse power of steam engines, use of steam for inland shipping and ocean trade, notes on transatlantic freighters, advantages of iron over wood, etc. With a list of technical terms in English with their French translations at the end. Written by the French engineer Antoine-Bernard Campaignac (1792–1866). Some spotting and manuscript annotations in the margins of one leaf. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Good copy. Cat. NHSM, p. 781; NBG VIII, cols. 360–361; Polak 1420.

Acclaimed study of Thévenot's Relations des divers voyages curieux, including Balbi's Viaggio dell' Indie-Orientale

49. CAMUS, Armand Gaston. Memoire sur la collection des grandes et petites voyages et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thévenot. Paris, Baudouin, 1802. 4º. 19th-century brown half morocco. € 8500

Rare and important bibliographical study of Melchisédech Thévenot'sRelations des divers voyages curieux (1663–1672), the first large-scale French collection of travel accounts, which included extracts from Abu al-Fida's Geography and the earliest (and most detailed early) map of Iraq. Melchisédech Thévenot (1620–1692) was a noted French orientalist who spoke Arabic and Turkish; his nephew Jean Thévenot travelled widely in the Levant. The essay on Thévenot is preceded by a study of the De Bry collection of voyages to the East and West Indies (1590–1634). This collection includes Balbi's Viaggio dell' Indie-Orientale, an extremely important account of a voyage to the Arabian Gulf. Camus's essay is "an excellent specimen of bibliographical analysis" (Sabin). In very good condition, with only some spotting and the binding slightly worn. Sabin 10328; Chadenat 538; Harisse, p. XXIII.

31 Manuscript report advising Great Britain to send an envoy to Tibet to negotiate with the Chinese Emperor

50. [CHINA—GREAT BRITAIN]. Suggestions respecting the means of improving our connexion with China on the side of Napaul & Thibet 1797. [Great Britain?], 1797. 2º (31 × 20 cm). 5 folded sheets tied together at the top inner margin with a green ribbon. The title written twice in different hands on the back. Sold

Interesting manuscript report advising a new direction in British diplomacy with China after the failure of Lord McCartney's embassy to that country in 1793. Since all of McCartney's requests had been rejected by the Chinese, the author of the report proposes that further envoys will not be sent to Beijing, but to "the states in alliance with the East India Company, whose territories border the nearest on the Chinese Empire. -These are Napaul & Thibet". By sending an envoy to the Chinese province of Tibet, the author proposes that intelligence can be gathered on the territory bordering the "British possessions", and at the same time "it could carry on a secret intelligence with the Emperor himself". In this manner it would be easier to negotiate with the Chinese, for "they have uniformly refuted, from a jealousy of the Imperial dignity, to comply with the demands or proposals of any public Embassy, least such compliance should appear in the light of humiliating concessions to the eyes of their own subjects, or should indicate to the latter the existence of some other Power equal to China". Similarly, the author believed, the Chinese would be more impressed if the British gave the impression that their first priority was the protection of their borders: "The obvious political interest which the English have to enquire into every new position or encroachment of power, on the part of their neighbours adjoining to Bengal, would, it is probable, impress the Chinese, who affect to dispise [sic] trade, with ideas of the greater importance of the mission, than if mere Commercial regulations formed the object of it…" Slightly soiled and thumbed, with a small tear at the back and creases where the manuscript has been folded. For the political background: Anderson, A narrative of the British Embassy to China; Lamb, British- India and Tibet, pp. 17–23.

Attractive Chinese watercolours of children at play

51. [CH I N A]. [Album of children at play with a lady in attendance]. [Canton, ca. 1840?]. 2º (38 × 26 cm). 12 watercolour paintings of children at play in the manner of Sunqua, on pith paper and mounted in an album, each painting framed with strips of coloured paper. Modern red silk cloth. Sold

Album with attractive Chinese watercolours of children at play. Each painting shows two or three children at play, either with toys such as a rattle drum, a kite and even a large pig on wheels, or playing games including piggyback riding and blind man's bluff. In all instances a lady is in attendance, sometimes holding a fan or playing the flute. The hairstyle and dress show the traditional fashions of the Qing era, with the girls with their hair in bangs, divided by a part, and the boys having multiple plaits of hair, indicating they are younger than seven years old. The paintings were done in the manner of Sunqua (or Sun Qua; active ca. 1830–1870), who was one of the most important Chinese artists painting for the European market in the 19th century. He was nicknamed the "Chinese Hogarth" due to his series of the declining fortunes of an opium addict being compared to William Hogarth's series The rake's progress. Slightly thumbed, with a few spots and an occasional stain; endpapers repaired; some small tears and holes in several paintings, with a hole in the 8th painting leading to some loss in the image, which has been repainted on the underlying paper; otherwise in good condition. For Sunqua: Brewington, Dictionary of marine artists, p. 429.

32 Massive Spanish manuscript choir book in Latin, with a Peruvian credo

52. [CHOI R BOOK]. [Graduale Romanum]. [Spain?, ca. 1700? with additions to at least 1767]. An extremely large manuscript choir book (75.5 × 57.5 × 15.5 cm) in black and red ink on sheepskin parchment, with plainchant music and hundreds of large interlaced gothic initials and other elaborately decorated initials. 18th-century(?) black half goatskin with black sheepskin sides, over wooden boards, with iron fittings. Sold

A massive manuscript choir book (the second of two volumes), with music and text for the proprium missae (proper of the mass) and including a Peruvian credo. Such choir books were produced at this massive scale so that they could be set on a lectern and the entire choir could gather around them to sing. The index has a note at the end mentioning masses for four who were canonized in the years 1746 to 1767. The four are Saint Camillus de Lellis (1550–1614) from Naples, who established Ministers of the Infirm or Camillians; Gerolamo Emiliani (1486–1537) from Venice, who established the Somaschi; José de Calasanz (1557–1648) from Aragon, who established Piarists; and Giuseppe da Copertino (1603–1663), a Franciscan from Apulla. The Franciscans were the most active missionaries in Peru from the 16th to the 18th century, though many were martyred and many of their missions were destroyed by uprisings in 1742. The combination of a mass for the Franciscan Copertino and the Peruvian credo may suggest that the choir book came from Spanish Franciscans. Some leaves with small tears, mostly repaired at an early date, some with the text retouched on the repair, but generally in good condition. The binding has numerous small worm holes in the boards, but is also generally good.

33 Chorier's famous erotic dialogues in a rare edition

53. [CHOR I E R, Nicolas] (presented as Aloisia SIGEA translated by Johannes MEURSIUS). Elegantiae Latini sermonis. [On the part-title for part 2, under "Aloisae Sigeae":] Satyrae sotadicae, de arcanis amoris et veneris, ... [The Netherlands? ca. 1750?]. 12º. With a title-page that looks more like a half-title and gives the impression that the book is a collection of sermons by Meursius, and a part-title for part 2 that gives the author's female pseudonym and the true title. Boards (ca. 1900), covered with paste-paper. Untrimmed. € 1500

Rare edition, in the original Latin, of a famous erotic prose dialogue by Nicolas Chorier (1612–1692), recounting the sexual initiation of Ottavia, an innocent but intensely motivated young girl. Chorier first published it in Latin in the 1660s under the pseudonym "Aloisia Sigea" and claimed it was translated by Johannes Meursius from a Spanish manuscript. It went through numerous editions and was trans- lated into several European languages, including Dutch, English, French and German. This "vastly dilated and wholly libidinous parody of women's educational aspirations" (Turner) had a profound influence on European erotic literature. The title-page, which looks more like a half-title, was probably intended to hide the true nature of the book, making it appear to be a collection of sermons by Meursius. This title is found already on editions thought to date from ca. 1680. The part-title for the second part gives the pseudonym and title used for the earliest and many later editions. With library stamp, flyleaf with manuscript note in German on Chorier, some soiling. Overall in good condition. KVK & WorldCat (3 copies?); cf. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 218–19 (other eds.); Kearney, The private case 363–408 (idem); Rose, Register of erotic books 4240–80 (idem).

1000 species of Hungarian spiders with 700 detail figures

54. CHYZER, Cornelius and Wladyslaw KULCZYNSKI. Araneae Hungariae secundum collectiones a Leone Becker pro parte perscrutatas ... Tomus I. [, II-di pars prior., II-di parts posterior.]. Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1891–1897. 2 volumes (vol. II in 2 parts) bound as 1. Royal 4º (30 × 23.5 cm). With 16 lithographed containing about 700 detail figures, nearly all combining line images and shading, and many in vol. I in duotone (grey and blue). Near contemporary green half cloth. € 1750

Rare first and only edition, in Latin (with the preface to each part also in Hungarian/Magyar), of an extensive and thorough study of Hungarian spiders, with about 700 figures illustrating details of spider anatomy (mostly showing parts of the exoskeleton). It describes about 1000 spider species in XXII numbered families, with the genera numbered per family and the species per genus. The Hungarian physician Cornelis Chyzer (1836–1909) in Budapest and the Polish professor of Wladyslaw Kulczynski (1854–1919) in Krakow are best known as arach- nologists. Their present collaborative book was their great masterpiece. They note in the title and preface that many of the species had been collected and described by the Belgian painter and arachnologist Léon Becker (1826–1909), who published his account of Belgian species in four volumes, 1882–1896. With a presentation inscription from the author Cornelis Chyzer to the German Arachnologist Ludwig Koch (1825–1908) and library stamps. Paper browned as usual. Water stains in the plates to vol. I and in the foot margin of the plates to part 1 of volume II, those to part 2 of vol. II slightly browned. Otherwise in good condition. Rare standard work on Hungarian spiders. BMC NH, p. 350; Pierre Bonnet, Bibliographia araneorum, p. 306; not in Horn & Schenkling; Nissen, ZBI.

The first monographs on the legendary coco de mer and the mayfly

55. CLUTIUS, Augerius. Opuscula duo singularia. I. De nuce medica. II. De hemerobio sive ephemero insecto, & majali verme. Amsterdam, Jacques Charpentier, 1634. 4º. With 3 title-pages with woodcut illustration and 14 woodcut illustrations in text. Late 19th-century(?) sheepskin parchment. € 1950

34 First and only edition of two treatises by the Dutch naturalist Outgert Cluyt, the eldest son of Dirck Outgaertsz Cluyt. The first is the earliest monograph on the legendary coco de mer nut. Prior to the discovery of the Seychelles in 1743 were its trees grow, this strange double coconut was sometimes found on distant shores, such as those of the Maldives. These rare nuts were traded for hefty sums, and were said to have several miraculous properties. Clutius prescribed the coco de mer, in combination with other drugs, for a dozen of different ailments, including epilepsy, paralysis, convulsions, dysentery and difficult labours. The second treatise is the earliest monograph on mayflies. Since classical antiquity the mayfly, which in its adult status lives only for a few hours, had been popular as a metaphor for human existence. Clutius states in his book that he wanted to compare his own obser- vations with the accounts of classical authors. Interestingly, he also devotes a large number of pages to observations made by acquaintances and anonymous commoners. "There is no indication that he had seen the insect alive, nor is there any evidence that he examined dead specimens with a microscope or magnifying glass" (Jorink). Clutius's text would form a starting point for Johannes Swammerdam, who in 1675 solved the riddle of the mayflies' short lifespan by describing their long infancy. With an owner's annotation (in French) on the back of the first endpaper. Binding somewhat damaged at the spine. Browned throughout, notably quire N, with some spots, and the foot margin of the title-page and O3 crudely reinforced, but still in good condition. Rehder II, p. 70 & III, p. 327; STCN 085069728; Wellcome I, 1515; cf. Jorink, the book of nature, pp. 198–201.

Magnificent showpiece of medical botany, with 223 large botanical plates

56. COMMELIN, Jan and Caspar COMMELIN. Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum tam Orientalis, quam Occidentalis Indiae, aliarumque peregrinarum plantarum ... descriptio et icones [= on the following leaf:] Beschryvinge en curieuse afbeeldingen van rare vreemde Oost- West-Indische en andere gewassen vertoont in den Amsterdamsche kruyd-hof. [vol. 2 titles differs, adding references to African plants]. Amsterdam, Pieter & Joan II Blaeu, Abraham van Someren [vol. 2 with Van Someren replaced by his widow], 1697– 1701. 2 volumes. Large 2º (41.5 × 28 cm). Each volume with an engraved title-page, 5 full-page engraved coats of arms of the botanical garden's commissioners (including Jan Commelin himself), and 225 engraved botanical figures on 223 plates printed on 222 leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. € 22 000

Stunning first edition, in Latin and Dutch, of one of the most magnificent examples of botanical art and science in the Dutch golden age, with 225 large botanical illus- trations drawn from life by Jan Moninckx (ca. 1655/56–1714) and his young daughter Maria (1673–1757) and engraved for the present edition, the father beginning work already in 1686. "Fine plates, beautifully engraved" (Dunthorne). In 1682 Jan Commelin (1629–1692) had helped establish the Amsterdam Botanical Garden, which introduced many new exotic plants to Europe, collected during the voyages of the Dutch East and West India Companies (VOC and WIC) in the East Indies, the Americas, Africa and the Far East. His nephew Caspar Commelin (1668–1731) took charge of the garden's exotic plants in 1696, while Frederik Ruysch took charge of the domestic plants. Jan Commelin prepared most of the present volume 1, with special emphasis on plants of the East and West Indies, his "most important contribution to botanical knowledge" (Hunt), posthumously published by Caspar, who also prepared most of volume 2, with special emphasis on South African plants. Frederik Ruysch and Frans Kiggelaar provided editorial help and contributed additional notes. Each volume with an inscription noting the bequest of Mary Watson-Wentworth, Marchioness of Rockingham (1735–1804) to Charles William Wentworth, Viscount Milton (1786–1857), later 5th Earl Fitzwilliam and the 1920 armorial bookplate of William Charles de Meuron Wentworth, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872–1943). Loosely inserted is a 1789 letter from Robert Hamilton to the same marchioness. With an occasional very small spot or rust hole, but still in very good condition. With cracks repaired in the spine and hinges and minor stains and scratches but the binding is otherwise good. famous botanical work. A magnificent medical-botanical work. Dunthorne 81; GFB, p. 54; Hunt 399; Nissen, BBI 389; Plesch, pp. 180–181; Wijnands, Botany of the Commelins, pp. 14–22.

35 Extensively illustrated guide to seamanship

57. COMTE, Pieter le. Praktikale zeevaartkunde en theoretische kennis, voor handel en scheepvaart. Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1842. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4º (27 × 25 cm). With numerous tables in text and 121 engraved plates (numbered I–CXX plus LIII A), showing 684 numbered illustrations (1 coloured by hand) all engraved by D. Veelwaard after drawings by Le Comte. Modern brown morocco. € 1350

First edition of the minute and extensively illustrated guide to seamanship by the former navigating officer Pieter le Comte (1802–1849), who was attached to the Amsterdam maritime academy, and also active as a maritime draughtsman. He published several maritime works, including a series of 50 maritime prints with descriptions titled Afbeeldingen van schepen en vaartuigen (1831). The present guide extensively treats all practical and theoretical aspects of ships: anchors, cargo, insurance, knots, navigation, rigging, sails, vocabulary, weights & measurements, etc. With owner's inscription. Title-page thumbed, some soiling, thumbing and water stains (especially in plates part) and small tear in p. 304. Despite its apparently extensive use, still a good copy of this classic guide to seamanship. Cat. NHSM, p. 757; NCC (9 copies); Van Keulen et al., "In de Gekroonde Lootsman" (1989), p. 57; for Le Comte: Scheen, p. 97.

Seminal first edition of nearly all works of a pioneering botanist, with 280 woodcut illustrations, including the first tulip in Europe

58. CORDUS, Valerius. In hoc volumine continentur ... Annotationes in pedacii Dioscorides ... Historiae stirpum lib. IIII. ... Sylva, qua rerum fossilium in Germania plurimarum, metallorum, lapidum & stirpum ... De artificiosis extractionibus liber. Compositiones medicinales ...hic accedunt [Benedikt Marty,] Stocc-hornii et Nessi in Bernatium Helvetiorum ditione montium, & nascentium in eis stirpium, ... item Conradi Gesneri De hortus Germaniae liber recens, ... With: (2) CORDUS, Valerius. Stirpium descriptionis liber quintus: qua in Italia sibi visas describit: ... Strasbourg, Josias Rihel, 1561–1563. 2 parts in 1 volume, con- taining 8 works. 2º (33 × 22 cm). With 2 title-pages, each with Rihel's large woodcut device, and about 280 woodcuts in the text (2 of distilling equipment and the rest botanical, at least some by David Kandel). Contemporary pigskin, richly blind- tooled in a panel design with owner's initials "IZV" and date "1567". € 28 000

Posthumous first edition of nearly all writings of Valerius Cordus (1515–1544), the "amazing young genius" (Hunt) whose premature death robbed him of the fame awarded the other great pioneers of sci- entific botany. Besides his famous works, also including shorter works on trees, distillation and pharmacology. Conrad Gesner (1516–1565) edited and published most of Cordus's writings for the first time in the present edition, nearly twenty years after his death, advancing knowledge of every aspect of botany, but especially phytography and pomology. Many of the 280 or so woodcuts were executed by David Kandel (1520–1592), one of the greatest botanical woodcut artists of all time. Gesner added some further descriptions, including the first Tulip recorded in Europe, seen in April 1559 at the Augsburg garden

36 of Johann Heinrich Herwan and illustrated here for the first time, with a woodcut. Most botanical reference works describe the present edition without the 1563 supplement present here. With early owner's name at the foot of the title-page, several long marginal manuscript notes and more short ones, occasional under- scoring and one opening clearly showing in the gutter the shadow of a plant that had been pressed between the book's pages. With the first leaf and last few leaves somewhat thumbed and with a small chip at their lower outside corners, a couple small marginal tears, and in the last leaves some mostly marginal water stains, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is dirty and worn, but most of the tooling remains clear. An essential keystone for any botanical collection. Durling 1025; Heirs of Hippocrates 30 note; Hunt 56 note; Johnston 86; Nissen, BBI 405.

One of the most important manuals for painting the human body

59. COUSIN, Jean. La vraye science de la pourtraicture descrite et demontrée ... Representant par une facile instruction plusieurs plans & figures de toutes les parties separées du corps humain: ensemble les figures entieres, tant d'hommes que femmes & de petits enfans, veuës de front, de fil, & de dos, avec les proportions, mesures & dimensions dícelles: et certaines regles pour racourcir par art toutes lesdites figures. Paris, Guillaume Le Bé III, 1676. Oblong 4º. With a woodcut border on half-title and 36 full-page woodcut illustra- tions. Later limp vellum. € 2500

1676 edition of a celebrated drawing book, written by Jean Cousin the younger (ca. 1522–1595), intended for the use of all kinds of draughtsmen and artists, including painters, sculptors, archi- tects, goldsmiths, embroiderers and cabinetmakers. The woodcuts show anatomical figures or body parts, with notes on the proper perspectives and proportions, influenced by the theories of Vitruvius. Most sources cite a 1571 4º edition as the first USTC( noting "no known surviving copy"), while some note a 1560 folio edition, but the latter may merely be inferred from an advertise- ment for Jean Cousin the younger's forthcoming Livre de pourt- raicture in a 1560 Livre de Perspective, an influential work by his father, the famous painter Jean Cousin the elder (ca. 1490–1560). With a restoration to half-title and some marginal restorations throughout. Very slightly browned and with some occasional small spots. In good condition. Choulant, 354; Didot, Cousin, p. 118–124; Vagnetti EIIb26.

Rare emblematic work intended for New Year's Eve

60. CROON, Petrus. Keirs en kandelaer snutter en horen voor eenen nieuwe-jaer ver-eert aen alle lichts-gesinde. Bruges, widow of Joannes Clouwet, 1664. 12º. 19th-century half calf. € 2500

Rare first and only edition of a devotional and educational work written by Petrus Croon (1634–1682), a regular canon and literary author from Louvain, . The work was intended to serve as a gift for the new year, and contains emblematic poetry about candles, candlesticks, candlestands, candle-snuff- ers, and all things to do with candles, traditionally lit on New Year's Eve. The emblematic verses and songs are interwoven with explanatory text in prose. At the end a new song called "domp-horentje" (little candle-snuffer) is set to music and accompanied by printed musical notation. The charming little book proves that the text of emblematic verse can invoke images so well that no pictures are needed. And without engravings the New Year's gift would be less expensive for young people. As a convinced Roman Catholic, Croon wanted to educate and edify his readers by way of amusing verse, emblems, riddles, proverbs, and the like. With bookplate and owner's stamps. Only slightly browned, with a very small restoration on the lower outer corner of page 63/64. In very good condition. BNCI 12057; Scheurleer, Liedboeken, p. 74; STCV (3 copies); WorldCat (3 other copies).

37 3 very rare pint series on garden ornament, architecture and architectural ornament

61. DANREITER, Franz Anton. Lust-Stück der Gärten ... [=] Parterres ou broderies des jardins ... [Erster-]Anderer Theil. Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1730/35]. With 2 engraved illustrated title-pages from the same plate, plus 22 and 20 numbered illustration plates showing garden plans, decorations, fountains, etc. With: (2) STEINGRUBER, Johann David. Archi­tecture civile erster Theil ... [=] Architecture civile premiere partie ... [all published]. Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48]. With an engraved plate with a German note to the reader, and 25 numbered plates of architectural plans, elevations and sections engraved by J.D. Ringlin after Steingruber. With: (3) CHARMETON, Georges. Plans de divers edifices et corniches choisies ... [=] Abrisse unterschiedener Gebälcke und Kronwercke ... Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48]. With 12 engraved plates, including the title-page, the illustrations showing the entablatures of various classical Roman buildings. 3 works (1 in 2 parts) in 1 volume. Large oblong folio (25 × 38.5 cm). Near contemporary white half vellum. € 18 000

A remarkable volume containing three rare print series on architecture, architectural ornament and garden ornament, all published by the important Augsburg engraver and print publisher Johann Andreas Pfeffel the elder (1674–1748). Ad 1: First and only edition of a very rare ornamental garden pattern book (part 2 is especially rare) by the recently appointed court gardener and inspector of the Salzburg gardens, Franz Anton Danreiter (1695–1760). In 1728 Danreiter was appointed court gardener and inspector to related buildings by the ducal bishop of Salzburg. He trans- lated Dezallier’s La theorie et la pratique du jardinage into German, helping introduce French garden design to German-speaking countries. His own designs in the present work show more than 100 ornamental and fanciful planting patterns on 42 plates, many including fountains. This was his first and rarest model book with garden plans for parterres. They show that far from endlessly repeating the strict symmetrical canon of French Baroque garden design, Danreiter developed a never-ending variety of orna- mental designs which herald the German rococo. Ad 2: First edition of Johann David Steingruber’s first published architectural book, showing working drawings with plans, elevations and sections of town houses and palaces, mostly with scales. It includes several designs for a garden pavilion in an aris- tocratic park, lavish town houses for the haute bourgeois, and finally a ducal residence. Each design is shown in as much detail as possible. The grander houses are shown including streets and gardens. The Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach appointed Steingruber (1702–1787) court architect in 1734. In the course of his near sixty-year tenure he transformed the townscape of Ansbach following his own designs. He is best remembered for his playful “Architektonisches Alphabet” (1773), a remarkable series of designs in which each building has a ground plan based on a different letter in the alphabet. Ad 3: Rare 18th century copy of selections from the equally rare Diverses corniches choisies sur l’anticque, originally issued in 30 plates ca. 1670 by the ornamentalist and painter George Charmeton (1623–1674). It shows ornamental designs from classical Roman entablatures (architraves, friezes and cornices). With an early owner’s list of the content and a library stamp. In very good condition, with only a crease across the corner of a couple leaves and an occasional minor spot. The paper sides are foxed, with a small water stain and a few chips, but the binding is otherwise also very good. Three rare architectural and ornamental print series, especially valuable for the garden layouts. Ad 1: Berlin Kat. 3332 (part 1, bound with part 2 of a different work); Millard coll. Northern European 18; WorldCat (3 copies of part 1 only); not in Springer, Tuinkunst; ad 2: Berlin Kat. 2006; Cicognara 676; WorldCat (7 or 9 copies); not in BAL; ad 3: Berlin Kat. 3929; WorldCat (Czech description without location); not in BAL; Fowler.

38 Celebrated account of two VOC missions to China, richly illustrated

62. DAPPER, Olfert. Gedenkwaerdig bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maetschappye, op de kuste en in het keizerrijk van Taising of Sina: behelzende het tweede gezandschap … en het derde gezandschap … Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670. 3 parts in 1 volume. 2º. With engraved frontispiece (dated 1671), a double-page engraved map, 38 engraved plates (mostly double-page and one large folding) and 57 half-page engravings in text. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. € 7000

First edition of Dapper's renowned account of two VOC trade missions to China, following in the footsteps of Niehof's Gedenkwaerdig bedryf, which described an earlier mission. Dapper details the two embassies, led by Jan van Kampen and Konstantijn Nobel, and Pieter van Hoorn respectively, in the first and second parts. The third part, Dapper's general description of China, covering its geography, religion, natural history, art and customs, is mentioned on the general title-page, but has its own title-page, pagination and signatures so that it could also be sold sep- arately. The volume further includes an account of Balthasar Bort's expedition along the coast of southern China (1663–1664). With owner's inscription on endleaf. Small hole in the lower margin of the frontispiece, a few leaves browned, otherwise in very good condition, with all plates in crisp impression. Spine of the binding heavily restored, leaving most of the tooling intact, rubbed along the extremities, and likely recased during restoration. Cordier, Sinica, col. 2348; Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 544; Tiele, Bibl. 304.

First Russian edition of Darwin's "Origin of species"

63. DARWIN, Charles. [In Cyrillic type:] O proischozhdenii vidov [= On the origin of species]. St. Petersburg, Alexander Illich Glazunov (printed by Glazunov), 1864. 8º. With 1 lithographed plate showing Darwin's famous branching tree of life, and 4 pages of Glazunov's publisher's advertisements at the end, describing 25 publications. Set entirely in Cyrillic type. Modern half brown morocco, with the original publisher's printed back wrapper bound in. € 7500

Rare first Russian edition of Darwin's On the origin of species, translated by Sergei A. Rachinskii, professor of botany at Moscow University. Like the first English edition it includes one plate, showing Darwin's famous branching tree of life, an icon of his theory of evolution. Darwin was both very popular and very influential in Russia. The present translator published an article presenting some of these ideas early in 1863, calling Darwin's Origin "one of the most brilliant books ever to be written in the natural sciences" (Vucinich, pp. 18–19). It helped give birth to a new generation of natural scientists in Russia whose students included the great Ivan Pavlov. But in Russia Darwin's influence went far beyond science. It inspired anti-czarist democratic political movements as well as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky also refer to Darwin and his ideas became firmly imbedded in Russian culture generally. Foxed throughout, severely in a couple quires but not affecting the plate. Otherwise in good condition. It probably lacks an initial blank leaf. First Russian translation of Darwin's Origin, inaugurating a hey-day of natural science in Russia. Freeman 748; Alexander Vucinich, Darwin in Russian thought (1988), p. 19 & passim; WorldCat (4 copies).

39 11 articles on the history of the Islamic world, including the autobiography of Ibn Khaldun

64. DEFRÉMERY, Charles and others. [Collection of 11 French offprints and extracts on the Islamic world]. [Paris (1 Leipzig), 1831–1859]. 11 items in 1 volume. 8º. With many passages in Arabic. Contemporary half vellum. € 6500

Collection of 11 French offprints and extracts of articles concerning the history of the Islamic world, all by notable orientalists, covering diverse topics such as the architecture of the Arabs and Moors, the astronomy of the Chaldeans, the Hindustani language, the Persian chronicle Mojmal al-tawarikh, the Ghurid dynasty, the kings of Achlath and Mardin (modern day Turkey), the Persian Mozaffarid dynasty, the Persian Sultan Barkiarocq, and India, but also including the autobiography of the famous Arab historiographer and historian Ibn Khaldun. Most of the authors were students of the distinguished orientalist Silvestre de Sacy. "it was inev- itable that French Orientalism in the first half of the nineteenth century should be dominated by de Sacy's students. The most prominent of these was Etienne-Marc Quatremère (1782–1857)" (Irwin). Four of the articles are written by a student of Quatremère, Charles Defrémery (1822– 1883), who had a "high reputation as an orientalist" (Cooper) himself. With a manuscript index to the articles. A couple leaves slightly browned and a small tear in the title-page of the third article, otherwise in very good condition. Binding very good as well. Cf. Irwin, For lust of knowing, p. 148; for Defrémery: Cooper, Men of the time (1884), pp. 330.

An album of colour mushroom drawings made for Cordier’s chromolithographed plates by his adopted daughter

65. [DE LV I L L E- C OR DI E R, Aimée-Eugénie]. [Les champignons de la France]. [Paris, ca. 1869]. Imperial oblong 4º (25 × 35.5 cm). An album containing 60 original mycological (mushroom) drawings in brown ink and coloured gouaches (light brown, orange, yellow, red, blue, green, dark brown, black). Sewn and loosely inserted in later(?) gray-brown paper wrappers. € 5000

A complete set of 61 drawings (about 300 figures) of about 110 species of mushrooms, prepared as models for the 60 chromolithographic plates in François-Simon Cordier's Les champignons de la France (Paris, Jules Rothschild, 1870; printed by Adolphe Lainé). The drawings are unsigned, but the book notes that they were drawn from life by "A.D. Cordier" (title-page) or "Mlle Delville-Cordier" (pp. ix-x). This was the author's adopted daughter Aimée-Eugénie Delville-Cordier (1822 or 1826–1899). François-Simon Cordier (1797–1874), a Paris physician, mycologist and founding member and president of the Société Botanique de France, published several books on mushrooms beginning in 1826. Les champignons de France is his most important work. We find no record of his ever having married, but in 1852 he adopted Aimée-Eugénie. One must wonder if she was either Cordier's biological daughter or his mistress's daughter from an earlier relation, but we have found no further information. She showed two portraits at the 1855 Exposition des Beaux-Arts and had a successful career as a portrait painter. In very good condition. Cf. Myko Libri 427; Nissen, BBI 404; Stafleu & Cowan 1229.

40 With early forged(?) Is[aac?] Newton owner’s inscriptions, signatures and notes

66. DESCARTES, René. Epistolae, partim ab auctore Latino sermone conscriptae, partim ex Gallico translatae. Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier, 1668. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4º. With about 180 woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in the text. 18th-century(?) sprinkled calf. € 4950

First Latin edition of Descartes's collected correspondence, edited by Johannes de Raey (1622–1702), professor of philosophy at Leiden University, whom Descartes himself called the best teacher of his doctrines, and translated by Jan Hendriksz. Glazemaker (1619/20– 1682). Including descriptions of the experiments he presented to his students to demonstrate principles of physics. Descartes (1596–1650), who revolutionized scientific thought, lived in the Netherlands from 1628 to 1649, teaching for several years at the University of Utrecht. His collected correspondence, Each title-page of the present copy has an inscription in what appears to be a late 17th- or early 18th-century hand: "Ex libris Is newtoni", a twelve-line inscription in French on the back of the first title-page signed "Is newton" and a few short inscriptions in the same hand elsewhere in the book. While it might have been tempting to believe this was Sir Isaac Newton's book, several things argue against that. Isaac Newton is not a common name, yet there are problems with the suggestion that the inscription is simply a forgery. One would expect a forger to at least attempt to imitate Newton's signature and why would a forger write the note in French? So it is possible the book belonged to a different Isaac or Isaiah Newton. Unfortunately the reworking of the binding in the mid-19th century has removed any record of provenance that might have been on the endpapers. The revisions to the binding have slightly affected the gutter margin of the first four and last four leaves, but the book is otherwise in very good condition, with only an occasional minor and usually marginal spot and tiny (barely visible) worm holes in the upper outside corner of about 6 leaves. The binding is worn, with cracks in the hinges and spine and the (later) spine label damaged. One of the most important and influential Descartes editions, but alas not with inscriptions and signatures of Sir Isaac Newton! Guibert 9 (pp. 88–90); Rahir 1462; STCN (8 copies); Willems 1393.

Detailed account of a journey from Suez to Ta’if to meet the Sharif of Mecca

67. DIDIER, Charles. Ein Aufenthalt bei dem Groß-Scherif von Mekka. Leipzig, Bernhard Schlicke, 1862. Small 8º (17.5 × 12 cm). Later boards covered with marbled paper. € 2500

First and only German edition of Didier's colourful account of his journey from Suez to Ta'if to meet the Sharif of Mecca, Abd al-Mutalib ibn Ghalib (ca. 1794–1862 or later), first published in French in 1857 as Séjour chez le Grand-Chérif de la Mekke. Didier (1805–1864) met Sir Richard Burton in Cairo months after his famous 1853 visit to Mecca, and briefly travelled with him (Burton mentions him in his own account of his pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina). He departed on his the present voyage from Suez in 1854, travelling through the Sinai to the Red Sea and Jeddah on the way to Ta'if. At this time the region was largely under Ottoman control and in 1856 they ousted Abd al-Mutalib, who had the support of the Bedouins, and returned his predecessor and rival Muhammed bin Adb al-Muin ibn Aun to power. Didier gives detailed accounts of the ruling families and the events of the period, and his book served as a basis for Karl May's German adventure story for children, In Mekka (1923). Foxed throughout, but otherwise in good condition. An account of travels on the Arabian peninsula that inspired adventure stories. WorldCat (5 copies); cf. Blackmer 484 note (French ed.).

41 Rare early Dutch science fiction novel set in London in the year 2065

68. DIOSCORIDES [=Pieter HARTING]. Anno 2065. Een blik in de toekomst, door Dr. Dioscorides. Tweede druk. Utrecht, J. Greven (back of title-page: printed by P.W. van de Weijer), 1865. 8º. Modern black calf (faux morocco). € 1950

Very rare second edition, published in the same year as the first, of an early Dutch science fiction novel, written by Pieter Harting (1812–1885), a Dutch biologist and early supporter of . While reminiscing about the technological advances of the 19th-century, the main character suddenly finds himself in the year 2065, on a city square in "Londinia", the future London. There he meets a reincarnation of the 13th-century Roger Bacon, who guides him along a selection of several interesting scientific advancements. It was "the very first [literary] work to be translated in the Meji Era" (Lindberg-Wada), appearing in its first year 1868. With a small note about the author in pencil. Very slightly browned, some minor spots and the outer margins of the title-page slightly soiled, otherwise in good condition and wholly untrimmed. NCC (6 copies of this ed. & 6 copies of the first); cf. G. Lindberg-Wada (ed.), Literary history: towards a global perspective I, p. 104.

"The most influential treatise of classical antiquity in Greek on the natural substances used for the preparation of medicines"

69. DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius. De medica materia libri sex. Basel, Michael Isengrin, 1539. 8º. With woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. € 7500

Isengrin's rare 1539 edition of Jean Ruel's translation into Latin of Dioscorides's standard work on pharmacology, for 1500 years the most important botanical text in Western civili- zation. Dioscorides (ca. 40–90 AD) a Greek in the service of the Roman Empire, assembled all that was then known concerning the medicinal uses of plants, animals and minerals, adding information from his own experience accompanying the Roman army to Spain, the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere, where he came to know many Persian, Indian and other exotic medicines. "[It] contains just over one thousand chapters [each dealing with another medicine, with] the following information: the most common name of the drug; a description of the natural element producing the drug; the part used as a drug; the therapeutic properties of the drug; the diseases for which the drug was used, including the preparation and administration of the medicine; when appropriate, the falsifications and methods of authentication of the drug; and other uses of the drug, such as in cosmetics, veterinary medicine, of handicraft" (Glick). Binding slightly soiled and detached at one hinge. Title-page a bit worn and partially restored, some marginal waterstains throughout and a corner torn from the outer margin of leaf X1, not reaching the text; otherwise still good.Binding slightly soiled and detached at one hinge. Title-page a bit worn and partially restored, some marginal waterstains throughout and a corner torn from the outer margin of leaf X1, not reaching the text; otherwise still good. Durling 1149; USTC 601710 (6 copies); VD16 D2002 (5 copies); cf. T. Glick, Medieval science, technology and medicine: an encyclopedia.

1558 declaration signed by the great botanist Dodoens in his capacity as Mechelen churchwarden

70. DODOENS, Rembert. [Declaration of financial and other documents received as incoming churchwarden of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Mechelen]. [Mechelen], 27 December 1558. Oblong 4º (19 × 21.5 cm). A document written in dark brown ink on paper, with the opening words filled in afterwards in light brown ink and the signature in light brown ink. € 12 500

42 An official declaration signed by the great botanist and physician Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585), acknowledging financial and other documents received in his new capacity as churchwarden of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul (now known as the old Pieterskerk) in his native Mechelen (Malines) in what is now Belgium. This was a highly desirable post granted to him in 1558 addition to the post of city physician that he had held since 1548. He received seven receipts signed by Christiaen Verhayct for church property from the seven years 1542–1543 and 1547–1551. Also a signed, authenticated copy of a document of the foundation established in memory of Margaret of Austria (1480–1530), Archduchess of Austria and Savoy, who had been governor of the Habsburg Low Countries from 1507 to 1515 and from 1519 to her death in 1530. Further a 1538 inventory of the church's jewels, also made by Verhayct, and finally a document concerning the service drawn up by the sacristan in 1553. He received all of these documents from Catherine van Loon, widow of the deceased churchwarden Niclaes du Guesne. The document is written on one side of a quarter sheet of paper with no watermark in this quarter. With some old horizontal and vertical folds and with several small pin holes, but still in very good condition. A primary source for the life of the great botanist Rembert Dodoens. For Dodoens: DSB III, pp. 138–139; Greene, Landmarks, 847–876; NBW (Belgium) 1, p. 419.

Herbal with ca. 1470 botanical woodcuts, including American and East Indian plants, with engraved title-page coloured by an early hand

71. DODOENS, Rembert and Carolus CLUSIUS. Cruydt-boeck ... volgens sijne laetste verbeteringe: met bijvoegsels achter elck capittel, uut verscheyden cruydtbeschrijvers: item in't laetste een beschrijvinge vande Indiaensche gewassen, ... Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1618. 2º. With engraved title-page with letterpress title and imprint, coloured by an early hand and highlighted in gold, and about 1470 botanical woodcuts in the text (mostly 13 × 7 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, with brass clasps. € 9500

Second Dutch edition of Dodoens's last, most important and most exten- sively illustrated work, with Clusius's extensive appendix of American and East Indian plants that adds nearly 100 woodcuts. Besides the usual herbs and medicinal plants, the book describes and illustrates seaweed, coral, sponge, mushrooms, grains, beans, peppers, thistles, fruit trees, cactus, nut, date, olive and other trees, coconut, pineapple, cacao, tobacco and papyrus. It also made an important contribution to systematic botany by defining the parts of plants in general. The Stirpium represents Dodoen's best and last great work: a monumental botanical study divided into 6 large sections, each containing 5 books, with the plants classified in 26 groups. This system was far superior to all his earlier classifications. Joost van Ravelinghen, Christophel Plantin's grandson, first published the present translation in 1608, adding extra information in a smaller type at the end of each chapter. These additions give information on the qualities of the plant as well as new information or descriptions of new plants taken from the work of other authors, including Carolus Clusius and Mathias de Lobel. At the end Van Ravelinghen added a whole new part on exotic plants taken from the works of Clusius, Garcia da Orta, Nic. Monardès, Chr. Acosta and others. The present edition includes the same woodcuts as the first Dutch edition, with some additions for the parts by Clusius. Slightly browned, with some minor spots throughout and the margins slightly thumbed. Binding cracked at hinges, bottom of spine slightly damaged and some traces of use along the extremities. Overall a very good copy. Nissen, BBI 518; Stafleu & Cowan 1491; Wellcome ,I 1812.

43 18th-century sale of bonds funding planters in Suriname and the Danish West Indies, issued under supervision of unscrupulous fund managers

72. DOM, Cornelis (broker). Willige verkoopinge, op maandag den 8. april, 1771. ten huize van Arnoldus Dankmeyer, ... van een partytje obligatien ten lasten van eenige planters in de colonie van Suriname, ten comptoire van de heeren Herman van de Poll en Comp., en de Heer G.H. de Wilde, als meede op de Deensche Americaansche eylanden, St. Croix, St. Thomas en St. Jan, ten comptoire van de heeren Abraham ter Borch en zoonen: alle in blanco. Amsterdam, Hendrik Willem Dronsberg, 1771. 1º broadsheet (59.5 × 48.5 cm). € 4850

Only copy located of a broadsheet announcing the sale of bonds funding plantation owners in Suriname and the Danish West Indies sold by the Cornelis Dom, a broker specialized in bonds, loans, realty and furniture. These bonds were issued during the height of these investments and here sold just two years before the Amsterdam stock market crash of 1773 which dealt a severe blow to the plantation economy. These funds were established under the supervision of a fund manager, in this case Herman van de Poll & Co., G.H. de Wilde and Abraham ter Borch & sons, primarily funding new coffee plan- tations of inexperienced planters, including some who spent a large sum on luxurious accommodations. But Van de Poll let the planters' debts rise far above the total amount mortgaged. The debtors had to pay interest on the entire debt while the investors only received interest on the amount mortgaged, resulting in unaccounted profit for the fund manager Van de Poll, who was supposed to receive only the transaction commission. Formerly folded in eight and some minor creases in the margins, otherwise in very good condition especially considering its ephemeral nature. Not in NCC; for the circumstances, see: A. van Stipriaan, Surinaams contrast: roofbouw en overleven in een Caraïbische plantage-economie, 1750–1863 (1993), pp. 205–225.

Epic poem on the discoveries of Christopher Columbus

73. DUBOCCAGE, Marie Anne. La Colombiade, ou la foi portée au Nouveau Monde. Poëme. Paris, Desaint and Saillant, 1756. 8º. With full-page engraved portrait, 10 numbered engraved plates, engraved vignette and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, front board with gold-tooled initials ''M.G.'' (= M. Gaillard) and date 1757. € 1500

First edition of an illustrated epic poem on the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, the illustrations including a portrait of the author Marie Ann Du Boccage (1710–1802), who entertained famous French writers at her literary salon at Paris. Also with 10 numbered engraved plates depicting Columbus meeting the indige- nous Americans, a scene of Columbus's ship in a storm at sea by Chedel, etc. With owner's signatures. Very good copy of an epic poem on Columbus. Sabin 21007.

44 Important collection of 45 rare “Ordre du jours” from the French campaign in Egypt, printed in Cairo by Jean Joseph Marcel

74. [EG Y P T I A N C A M PA IGN]. Au quartier-général du Kaire … Ordre du jour. Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 1799–1801. Small 2º. Collection of 45 placards, mostly single leafs printed on both sides, but also some single leafs printed on one side and a few folios with three to four pages. All with the woodcut symbol of the French Republic showing Marianne, and with the header: Liberté. Egalité. Republique Francaise. Preserved in a modern faux-leather box. Sold

Important collection of 45 rare "Ordre du jours" (orders of the day) from the French campaign in Egypt, published from 1799 to 1801 by the Imprimerie Nationale in Cairo headed by Jean Joseph Marcel. It includes regulations for the payments of wages, the treatment of the injured and the sick, clothing, public safety, sanctions etc., giving an interesting view of the daily affairs of the French military in Egypt. "The expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt from 1798 until 1801 was a prelude to modernity. It was to change permanently the traditional Arab world ... The French brought Arabic typography to Egypt, where it was practised under the supervision ... of Jean Joseph Marcel... Only a few days after the French troops landed ... they set up the Imprimerie Orientale et Française there. It was an extraordinarily important turning point. For, leaving aside the Hebrew printing presses in Egypt of the 16th to the 18th centuries, until this date announcements and news addressed to Arabs there, as well as in other parts of the Arab-Islamic world, had been spread only in hand-writing or orally, by criers, preachers or storytellers" (Glass & Roper). All placards are very well preserved, especially considering there ephemeral nature, and are wholly untrimmed. Cat. de l'hist. de France VII, pp. 631–633; cf. Glass & Roper, The printing of Arabic books in the Arab world, in: Middle Eastern languages and the print revolution (2002), pp. 177–225.

A classic work on Brazilian ethnography and exploration

75. EHRENREICH, Paul. Anthropologische Studien über die Urbewohner Brasiliens vornehmlich der Staaten Matto Grosso, Goyaz und Amazonas (Purus-Gebiet). Nach eigenen Aufnahmen und Beobachtungen in den Jahren 1887 bis 1889. Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg and son, 1897. Large 4º (31.5 × 24 cm.). With 30 tables with photographic illustrations, 9 tables, and 96 illustrations in the text. Red cloth. € 850

Comprehensive work recording the results of somatological researches made among indigenous tribes in the southern and central regions of Brazil. Ehrenreich collected the scientific data (mainly physical) among the tribes Ipurinas, Yamamadis and Paumaris on his journey along the Amazon (in the Purus region) in the years 1887 to 1889. Ehrenreich measured some 184 individuals belonging to 17 tribes and of these he took all the measurements that could be demanded by the most enthusiastic votary of science. The shyness of the women prevented him from obtaining as many facts with reference to the female sex as to the male. The four great racial groups of Brazil—the Caribs, Tupis, Arowaks and Gés—are all rep- resented. An interesting chapter is devoted to a pathological discolor- ation of the skin noted on many individuals on the Purus river and vicinity. The preface of 44 pages is intended to instruct the reader as to the point of view from which the study of ethnography should be undertaken, which makes this, according to Gatschet, "one of the best works on this subject we have ever seen". With library and deaccession stamps; good copy of a classic work on the ethnography of Brazil. Borba de Moraes, pp. 285–286 ("a classic work"); A.S. Gatschet, [review of Ehrenreich's book, without title], in: The American Anthropologist 10/11 November 1877, pp. 382–383.

45 Inspiring children to learn botany in 1539

76. ESTIENNE, Charles. De re hortensi libellus, vulgaria herbarum, florum, ac fructicum, qui in hortis conseri solent, nomina Latinis vocibus efferre docens ex probatis authoribus. In puerorum gratiam atque utilitatem. Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1539. 8º. With Gryphe's woodcut griffon device on the title-page, a larger woodcut griffon device on the otherwise blank final page. Half sheepskin parchment (ca. 1800?). € 1750

Early Lyon edition of one of the first real children's books, in Latin. Charles Estienne (1504– 1564), served as private tutor to Jan Antoine de Baïf, son of the humanist and diplomat Lazare de Baïf (ca. 1496–1547). He planned a series of books that were to be instructive, but also specially written to entertain children and give them pleasure in learning. This was a radical Renaissance notion at a time when most school books merely contained standard texts, often from classical antiquity, that children were to memorize and recite. Estienne first abridged an adapted some of Lazare de Baïf's own scholarly monographs on Roman antiquities, clothing and ships, but with the present work he wrote a new book of his own, designed to introduce children to botany. It contains 210 numbered entries, many giving names and descriptions of individual plants, including trees, with indexes to the Latin and French names. Gryphe's typography and presswork for the present edition is excellent. Book and binding in very good condition. Early edition of one of the first true children's books, on botany. Baudrier VIII, pp. 125–126; Durling 1395; Hunt 45; cf. Horodisch, "Die geburt eines Kinderbuches im 16. Jahrhundert", in: Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1960), pp. 211–222, item III.

How to manage a country house and estate: a rare edition with much text and some images not found elsewhere

77. ESTIENNE, Charles. Hof-stede en landt-huys. ... Daar beneffens een ontwerp van den gehelen land-bouw. ... Als mede, de verhandeling van kinder-pokken en maselen, ... Dordrecht, Abraham Andriesz. (colophon: printed by Gillis Neering), 1662. 4º. With engraved frontispiece, and 4 engravings on integral leaves (1 full-page; 3 more than half-page). Contemporary vellum. Sold

Rare Dordrecht Dutch edition (the only edition with the present title, content and arrangement) of a very popular work on country house-keeping (including medical and culinary matters) by Charles Estienne (1504–1564), physician and King's printer in Paris. The Latin edition appeared under the title Praedium rusticum, containing a collection of treatises on different aspects of the country household, such as planting trees and creating gardens, including a herb-garden, vineyards etc., keeping cattle, fish, bees, distill- ing, cheese-making, even creating a park for wild animals. It includes the first book and part of the second book of the earlier editions, but chapter XII, has been expanded from about 10 to more than 40 pages, including a new engraving. An appendix adds a treatise by the Dordrecht Mennonite physician Cornelis van Someren (ca. 1593–1649) on smallpox and measles, which we have also not seen elsewhere. The new frontispiece shows a country house with gardens in the style of "Hofwijk". With an owner's name and inscriptions. The pubic area of the female figure in the full-page engraving has been slightly abraded, there are occasional minor stains, mostly marginal but running through the middle of the first few leaves, and the fore-edge margin of frontispiece has been repaired, but still generally in good condition. Binding slightly soiled and with some of the tapes broken at the hinge. Bibl. Belg. II, pp. 1058–1059 (E43); BMN I, p. 58; STCN (6 copies).

46 Comparative anatomy of Goethe's "cornerstone to man"

78. FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, Gotthelf. Ueber die verschiedene Form des Intermaxillarknochens in verschiedenen Thieren. Leipzig, Schäfer, 1800. 8º. With 20 engraved figures on 3 numbered plates (plates 1 & 2 printed together and in this copy undivided). Contemporary paste-paper over boards. € 1500

First and only edition of one of the earliest contributions to comparative anatomy. In Goethe's first essay in the field of what we now call biology,Versuch aus der vergleichenden Knochenlehre ... (Jena, 1784), he showed that the tiny intermaxillary bone in the upper jaw, could be found not only in animals but in humans as well. This seemingly trivial discovery demolished one of the principal supports for the then general notion that humans were not related to animals, and Goethe called these bones "the cornerstone to man." Goethe's study also signalled the begin- nings of comparative anatomy and paved the way for modern scientific biology and Darwin's theory of evolution. Goethe's and most other studies had concentrated primarily on mammals. The present work broadens the scope, not only adding new species of mammal (including some from the East Indies and Brazil), but also covering reptiles, amphibians and fish. With a manuscript note on the flyleaf. In fine condition, with only very minor browning in the text leaves and a blue mark in an open area of one plate. Binding only slightly worn at the corners and hinges. A remarkably early study of comparative anatomy, largely overlooked in the medical and zoological . Blake, p. 147; not in BMC NH; Dean; Garrison & Morton; Nissen ZBI; Wellcome; Wood.

Three articles on Jupiter's moons, their eclipses & a lunar eclipse, with an engraved astronomical calculating dial

79. FLAMSTEED, John. Observationes defectus lunaris Grenovici habitæ in observatorio regio februarii 11/21 1682. p.m. [London, 1683]. From Philosophical Transactions, vol. 13, pp. 89–92. With: (2) FLAMSTEED, John. An abstract of a letter from Mr. J. Flamsteed, ... giving an account of the eclipses of [Jupiter]s satellits, anno 1686; and containing a table of the parallaxes of [Jupiter]s orb, and an ephemeris of [Jupiter]s geocentric places for the same year. [London, 1685]. From Philosophical Transactions, vol. 15, pp. 1215–1230. (3) FLAMSTEED, John. An abstract of a letter from Mr J. Flamsteed. ... giving the description & uses of an instrument for finding the distances of [Jupiter]s satellits from his Axis, with the help of the table of parallaxes and catalogue of eclipses; printed in the preceding Transactions. [London, 1685]. From Philosophical Transactions, vol. 15, pp. 1262–1265. With an engraved astronomical instrument for calculating the positions of Jupiter's moons. 3 parts. 4º. Disbound. € 1850

Three astronomical articles (2 in the form of letters) by England's first Royal Astronomer, John Flamsteed (1646–1719) at the Greenwich Observatory from its establishment in 1675, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the British Royal Society in the years 1683 and 1685. The first article gives observations of a 1682 lunar eclipse by Flamsteed himself, Edmund Halley and a certain Haynes. The second gives Flamsteed's calculations of the eclipses of Jupiter's four moons for the coming year 1686, intended in part as an aid to the determination of longitude. The third gives an engraved dial with four scales around its perimeter, with Flamsteed's description of its use to calculate the positions of Jupiter's moons.. Flamsteed's magnum opus, his great star catalogue and charts, appeared posthumously in 1725 and 1729, so his most important publications during his own lifetime were a single book in 1680 and a dozen short astronomical articles in the years 1672 to 1686, three of them present here. The articles and plate have been disbound, but they are otherwise in very good condition, with only some minor spots in the text and a couple tears (one repaired). Three of Flamsteed's rare non-posthumous astronomical publications, with an engraved plate of his calculating dial. For Flamsteed's life: DSB V, pp. 22–26.

47 The standard handbook on geomancy, a divination system with Arabian origins, including a 12th-century translation of a work by the Arab Alfakini, published here for the first time

80. FLUDD, Robert, Henri de PISIS and ALFAKINI. Fasciculus geomanticus, in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continentur. [= Frankfurt am Main], 1687. With5 (of 6) large folding letterpress tables, 1 double-page engraved folding plate with 2 engraved illustrations, and some woodcut illustrations and numerous letterpress geomantic figures in text. With: (2) Tabulae geomanticae, seu liber singularis de tribus ultimis ex antiquo manuscripto de anno MDXXXV. Iam primo luci datus, annexis duabus tabellis huic studio mirè inservientibus, caeteroquin utilibus & jucundis. Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Zunner, 1693. With 2 letterpress folding tables following text, and nearly 200 pages of letterpress tables with geomantic figures. 2 works in 1 volume, bound in reverse order. 8º. Contemporary vellum. € 4500

First edition of a collection of three texts on geomancy, a divination system with Arabian origins. Geomancy comes from the Ancient Greek "geômanteía", a trans- lation of the Arabic term " 'ilm al-raml", the "science of the sand". It includes texts by the English physician and astrologer Robert Fludd (1574–1637), the French physician Henri de Pisis and the Arab Alfakini. It is preceded by its separately published supplement Tabulae geomanticae, together forming "the standard printed Latin source for the rules of geomantic practice … a handbook and compendium not since rivalled for clarity and completeness" (Skinner). "Fludd ... tried to present [geomancy] as a science of intellectual soul in which intellectual rays emanated from the mind to mundane affairs and then returned to the center with tidings of the future. ... Fludd's treatise is immediately followed by a longer geomancy by H. de Pisis … divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar" (Thorndike). The last treatise contain the geomantic questions of the Arab Alfakini, son of Abizarch, based on a manuscript from 1535 and published here for the first time. The manu- script was a Latin translation by Plato of Tivoli (fl. first half of the 12th century), known for his translations of Arabic texts. A supplement to this last text, contain- ing almost 200 pages of tables, is bound first. Lacking one letterpress folding table in the main work. Browned throughout, as usual, some occasional smudges, a few tears along the folds of the folding tables, and some wormholes in the first two leaves, resulting in a small hole in the gutter of the title-page, otherwise internally still good. Binding soiled and with crudely restored spine. Caillet 4035; S. Skinner, Terrestrial astrology: divination by geomancy (1980); Thorndike VIII, p. 481–482.

Very rare Amsterdam edition of a popular collection of medical recipes for the poor, extensively annotated

81. FOUQUET, Marie. Recueil et suite des remedes faciles et domestiques, … Septiéme edition. Amsterdam, [widow of?] Pierre Mortier, [ca. 1715?] 2 volumes bound as 1. 8º. With engraved frontispiece, repeated in volume 2. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin). € 3500

Very rare Amsterdam edition of Madame Fouquet's enormously popular collection of medical recipes for the poor. It appeared in more than 50 editions in French and was trans- lated into German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The book opens with a contemporary three-page manuscript note in French retelling the information the bookseller gave the buyer regarding this book. Further with numerous terms translated into Dutch in the margins, including the complete index, in a different, but early hand. With spots throughout, otherwise in good condition and wholly untrimmed. Binding soiled and heavily rubbed, but structurally sound. KVK & WorldCat (3 copies); Wellcome III, p. 47; cf. BMN I, p. 377 .

48 Very rare contemporary account of an abortive Muslim slave revolt in Malta

82. [FREIRE, Manuel Tomás da Silva?]. [Drop-title:] Sucinta relaçam do ultimo naufragio, e fim que teve o famozo Baxá de Rhodes, primeiro, e o mais perfido autor da conspiraçaõ ideada contra toda a ilha de Malta. [Lisbon, Jozé da Silva da Natividade?, 1749?]. 4º. First page with a woodcut of a sinking ship (4 × 5.5 cm). Set in roman types with incidental italic. Disbound. Kept in a modern portfolio. Sold

Very rare first and only edition, in Portuguese, of an account of the abortive Muslim slave revolt that was to take place in Malta in June 1749. The Ottoman governor of Rhodes, Pasha Mustafa (here called the "Baxá de Rhodes"), was on his way to Rhodes in a galley manned by Christian slaves when they rose up and mutinied, taking over the ship and bringing it to Malta, where they landed on 2 February 1748. They handed Mustafa over to the Christian Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John, who held him under house arrest in Malta but allowed him to communicate with people outside. Many of the Order's servants were Turkish Muslim slaves, and Mustafa, with promises of support from Constantinople, attempted to organise an uprising among the Muslim slaves throughout the island and take control of the entire island for the Ottoman Empire. The uprising was to occur during the feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul on 29 June 1749, but on 6 June one of the conspirators attempted to enlist the support of a Maltese guard of the Portuguese Grand Master of the Order, Manuel Pinto de Fonseca. This lead to a public brawl and the exposure of the plot. Mustafa and several dozen other leaders of the conspiracy were consequently tortured, executed, quartered and beheaded. With the page numbers altered in manuscript to 17–24, indicating the pamphlet's place in its former binding with other works. Browned and with minor tears in the fold resulting from the disbinding, an occasional small dark stain in the text, and marginal water stains. A con- temporary Portuguese account of an aborted Muslim slave revolt in Malta. WorldCat (1 copy); Porbase (1 copy).

Calculating the perfect shapes for the construction of merchant ships, with 17 lithographed plates

83. FUNCH, Diderich Hansteen. Afhandling om coffardiskibes construction. , printed by Bianco Lunos for the author, 1842–1843. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4º (32.5 × 24 cm). With 7 numbered lithographed plates in the first part (including 5 folding and 4 in red & black) and 10 numbered litho- graphed plates in the second part (including 9 folding and 5 in red & black). Also with 7 double-page tables in the first part and 2 double-page tables in the second part. Somewhat later tree-pattern tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine, with the original gray printed wrappers on paper-boards bound in. € 6000

Rare first and only edition of a work on the construction of merchant ships by the royal Danish shipbuilder Diderich Hansteen Funch (1791–1856). Funch was both a master ship- builder at the royal dockyard, and a reputable author, known for several books on shipbuilding. The work is divided into two parts, the first covering the ship's hull and the second its masting and rigging. It "contains a complete system for the determination of all of a ship's calculated figures as well as its shape. The latter can be ascertained by consulting a table and following certain rules. Ships designed according to Funch's system had parabolic waterlines and curves; all the curves were thus mathematically determined. Funch's system seems to have influenced ship design in the provinces from about 1830 to 1845–50. Sheer draughts from the period show that the ships had parabolic curves as well as the fish shape prescribed by Funch. The interdependent proportions of the hull are also recognisable as the ones stipulated by Funch" (Nielsen). With the bookplate of the Swedish shipbuilder Nils Ljungzell (1885–1964) on pastedown, library stamp on title-page and a deaccession stamp on the title-pages of both parts. Slightly browned, some occasional minor spots, and a minor water stain in the foot margin of the second part (not affecting the plates). Good copy. Bruzelius, p. 152; KVK/WorldCat (7 copies); E.M. Nielsen, Skibsbygning i Danmark: Om træskibets konstruktionshistorie ca. 1800–1920, pp. 139–140.

49 Treating the plague in Ottoman Turkey

84. [GAUDEREAU, Abbé Martin]. Relation des differentes especes de peste que reconnoissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remedes qu'ils prennent pour en empêcher la communication & le progrès; et de ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guerir. Paris, Etienne Ganeau and Jacques Quillau, 1721. 12º. Contemporary calf, richly gold- tooled spine. € 12 500

First edition of a work on the treatment of the plague in the Middle East, by the French priest Martin Gaudereau (1663–1743). In 1689 Gaudereau went to Persia (Iran) in the company of Bégnine Vachet (1641–1720), a director of the seminary of foreign missions, arriving at Isfahan in 1690. After negotiating a military and commercial alliance between Persia and the French East India Company, Gaudereau started his travels back to Europe in 1703. In 1704 however, on his way from Trabzon to Constantinople, he got very ill and nearly died of an infectious disease. He described this "plague" in the present work, with remarks on the nature and symptoms of the disease together with the treatment and the precautionary methods of the "orientals". With bookplate. Slightly browned with occasional minor foxing, but still in very good condition. Binding rubbed along the extremities, some restorations along the spine and the front hinge cracked. Blake 169; WorldCat 495355672; not in Waller; Wellcome.

“A conspectus and summation of the finest research of its age” with about 2800 hand-coloured botanical woodcuts

85. GERARD, John, Thomas JOHNSON [and Rembert DODOENS]. The herball or generall historie of plantes. ... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson ... London, Adam Islip, Joyce Norton, Richard Whitakers, "1636" (1633 edition with the 1636 title-page). 2º. With an integral engraved title-page by John Payne and about 2800 woodcut botanical illustrations, all coloured by an early hand. Calf (ca. 1700?), gold-tooled spine; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down and later endleaves. € 45 000

Rare coloured copy of the second and best edition (the first with the extensive corrections and additions by Thomas Johnson) of the greatest English herbal of its time and here illustrated with about 2800 botanical woodcuts showing flowers, trees (including fruit and nut trees), berries, gourds, root vegetables, herbs and spices, mushrooms, medicinal plants and more. Plants shown include potatoes, tobacco, cannabis, tulips, maize and others from various exotic lands, many from the Americas. The present 1633 edition is "a conspectus and summation of the finest research of its age. ... a lasting monument of Renaissance botany." (introduction to the 1975 facsimile) "in every respect immeasurably superior to its predecessor" (Blunt). The present copy appears to be entirely or almost entirely the 1633 edition, except that it has the 1636 title-page. Copies mixing the 1633 and 1636 editions are probably common but only occasionally noticed. With a few manuscript notes and a few dried and pressed plant specimens between the leaves. Lacking the initial and final integral blanks. With the first few and last few quires stained (mostly in the gutter margin), with some old repairs and the last few leaves of the index tattered; elsewhere an occasional stain, small hole or marginal tear. But most of the leaves remain in good condition. The binding scuffed and flaked, but now structurally sound. Rare coloured copy of the greatest early monument of British botany, with about 2800 hand-coloured botanical woodcuts. Alden & Landis 633/39; Blunt, pp. 164–165; Hunt 223; Johnston 185; Nissen, BBI 698.

50 Only copy located of first Spanish edition of Giulio's meditations, printed in Havana

86. GIULIO, Giovanni Domenico. Noches de Santa Maria Magdalena en forma de meditaciones. Havana, press of the Capitanía General de Cuba, 1808. Small 8º (14 × 10 cm). Contemporary half tanned, sprinkled sheepskin(?), gold-tooled spine. € 3500

Only copy located of the first Spanish edition, written, printed and published in Havana, of Le notti di S. Maria Maddalena penitente. Meditatazioni, a penitential work in the form of nightly meditations on sin, faith, redemption, Christ's Passion, death, etc., asso- ciated with Mary Magdalena, written by Giovanni Domenico Giulio. Each of the eight numbered nights has a different theme. A 4-page note to the reader suggests the book was inspired by Edward Young, The Complaint, or: Night-thoughts on life, death & immortality, London, 1742–1745, which contains nine nights. But Giulio has made a very different and Catholic work of it, perhaps also influenced by A.G. Brignole-Sale,Maria Maddalena, peccatrice e convertita, 1636. With a contemporary manuscript table of contents on the flyleaf, and 1817 owner's inscrip- tion on the back of title-page and below in a different hand a motto. An attempt to obscure the 1817 owner's name has left a brown smudge on that (blank) page and the heading of the facing page. Further with an occasional small smudge and the last few leaves with minor browning and faint water stains, but still in good condition. Binding slightly rubbed and with a hole in one hinge. An extremely rare early Havana imprint and the first Spanish edition of popular penitential meditations. A. Bachiller y Morales, Apuntes para la historia de las letras ... de Cuba (1859–1861), vol. 3, p. 138; Medina, Imprenta en La Habana 221 (p. 160, citing Bachiller y Morales); cf. De Bakker & Sommervogel III, col. 1481.

"One of the most interesting of the Dutch 19th century books on West Africa", with coloured plates

87. GRAMBERG, Jan Simon Gerardus. Schetsen van Afrika's westkust. Amsterdam, Weijtingh and Brave, 1861. 8º. With a lithographed title-page, a chromolithographed illustration, and 8 folding chromolithographed plates by Carel Christiaan Anthony Last after Gramberg (the first as frontispiece). Original publisher's blind- and gold-blocked cloth. Sold

First edition of "one of the most interesting of the Dutch 19th century books on West Africa" (Bulletin d'information) by the Dutch military physician Jan Simon Gerardus Gramberg (1823–1888). Gramberg arrived in Elmina (São Jorge da Mina) in 1856, where he explored the coast and inlands of the Gold Coast. Later he founded a cotton plantation at the Bossum-prah (Pra) river in present-day Ghana. The book is divided into three parts. In the first part Gramberg gives a concise description of West Africa: its history (with remarks on the Spanish and Portuguese properties there) climate, geology, religion, education, flora, fauna etc. As a physician, Gramberg included some interesting information on common diseases in the area. The second part contains Gramberg's own travelogue, in which he gives descriptions of Elmina, Cape Coast, Accra, Ouidah and other places, with an illustration of a trading post and Gramberg's own plantation, and at last a part on the Dutch prop- erties in West Africa. The chromolithographed plates by Carel Christiaan Anthony Last (1808– 1876) after Gramberg depict native inhabitants and several forts. With an owner's inscription. The plate used as frontispiece has a minor water stain in the lower margin, further with only a few occasional spots, but otherwise very good. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Bulletin d'information III (1977), p. 30; Landwehr, Coloured plates 287; Tiele, Bibl. 409; not in Gay; Kainbacher.

51 3 militaria: on understanding the "human heart" of soldiers and on battles in the West Indies

88. GR ASSE-TILLY, Francois Joseph Paul de. Memorie van den Graave de Grasse, betreffende de actien in de West- Indiën voorgevallen. [Amsterdam?, 1782]. With 8 large folding engraved nautical nautical charts. With: (2) [K I NSBE RG E N, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte schets over de noodzaaklykheid van de kennisse van het menschlyk hart voor een chef. Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791. (3) [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte verklaringe van verscheidene actiën tusschen de Engelsche en Fransche vlooten, geduurende den laatsten oorlog. In de West-Indiën voorgevallen. Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791. With 21 folding engraved plates including nautical charts showing the French and English fleets near Grenada, Basseterre, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts and Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. 3 works in 1 volume. Royal 4º (29 × 23.5 cm). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. € 5950

Three first editions of works on naval tactics and accounts of battles between the English and French fleets in the West Indies, written (2 & 3) or translated (1) by Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735–1819), the famous Dutch admiral. Ad 1: An account of the British Admiral George Rodney's defeat of the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies in 1782, written by Count F.J.P. de Grasse-Tilly (1722–1788), the commander of the French fleet (who was imprisoned by Rodney), with extensive descriptions of naval tactics. Ad 2: An unusually early discussion of military psychology, namely an argument that a naval officer needs to understand the ''human heart'' of his soldiers. Ad 3: An account of the naval battles and tactics of the French and English fleets in the West Indies. Sloos describes a "large paper copy". If copies were produced on large and small paper the present copy must also be on large paper, for it has margins of about 8 cm at the fore-edge and foot. With a hole restored in first title-page, an occasional small marginal tear or water stain in the folding maps, and toward the end a few marginal browned patches, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding scuffed and the hinges of the binding have been reinforced. Most of the tooling remains clear. Cat NHSM, pp. 925–926; Sloos, Warfare 09118 bis, 09163, 09169; cf. Sabin 28333 (French ed. of ad 1).

A 1780s voyage through Turkey via Aleppo to Basra and via Muscat back to Europe

89. GRIFFITHS, John. Neue Reise in Arabien, die europäische und asiatische Türkey. Nach dem Englischen für Deutsche bearbeitet von K.L.M. Müller. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs, 1814. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8º. With an engraved folding frontispiece view and 3 engraved maps (2 large folding), the view coloured, 1 map with the Ottoman-Persian border coloured in blue and red, and all three maps with the route coloured in red. Mid 19th-century boards covered with marbled paper, with the arms of Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia in gold on the front board. € 2500

First and only German edition of Griffith's account of his journey (leaving England in 1785) from Smyrna (Izmir) through the Dardanelles to Constantinople (Istanbul) and back by ship, then from Smyrna overland through Turkey and (after crossing the corner of the Mediterranean) from Antioch via Aleppo and by caravan across the desert in what is now Syria and Iraq to Basra. On his return trip by ship he visited Muscat, which he also describes. At Muscat he saw beautiful Indian girls per- forming a nautch dance, which initially disgusted him, though he notes that more intimate acquaintance with the music and dance turned him into a nautch admirer. The three maps show a detail of the Dardanelles, Asia minor, and the regions between the Mediterranean and the Gulf.

52 With a contemporary black ink owner's stamp on first and last text page; arms on the binding of Friedrich WilhelmIV (1795–1861), King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861; several stamps. Some defects and occasional minor stains, but otherwise in good condition. Binding somewhat rubbed, and spine damaged at the head and foot. Account of a 1780s journey through Turkey and the Middle East to the Gulf and back via Muscat. Cf. Atabey 530–531; Blackmer 755; Gay 3573; for Griffiths, see also: R. Schiffer, Oriental panorama: British travellers in 19th century Turkey (1999), pp. 376–377.

Carpets and rugs from Turkey and Persia, with 120 colour-printed plates

90. GROTE-HASENBALG, Werner. Der Orientteppich[:] seine Geschichte und seine Kultur. Berlin, Scarabaeus (colophon: Dr. Selle & Co.), 1922. 3 volumes (26 × 26 cm). The text volume with colour-printed frontispiece, 28 plates numbered I–XXII (13 colour-printed), 139 numbered and 14 unnumbered illustrations in text, and a folding map; the two plate volumes with a total of 120 colour-printed plates mounted on grey-black paper. Original publisher's cloth. € 1250

First edition of an extensively illustrated work on carpets and rugs primarily from Turkey and Persia, in three volumes. The first volume contains the general text, giving a description of the 120 colour-printed plates of carpets and rugs. The plates were originally postcards issued by the Berlin rug dealer Von Oettingen, col- lectively bought by Grote-Hasenbalg after Von Oettingen's business went bankrupt. With owner's inscriptions on half-title (vol. I) and title-pages (vols. II & III). Some minor foxing on bindings and title-pages, not affecting the illus- trations. A very good set. BMC (compact) XI, p. 139.

Guicciardini’s celebrated description of the Low Countries, coloured by a contemporary hand

91. GUICCIARDINI, Ludovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore. Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. 2º. With title-page within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures, coat of arms and portrait of Philip II, each within the same architectural frame, and 17 double-page plates, maps and views (15 woodcuts, 2 engravings), all coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary limp vellum, gilt edges. Sold

A coloured copy of the first edition of the first illustrated description of the Low Countries. Most of the cities shown in the plans and views had never before been depicted in a book. Not only was Guicciardini’s book a great success, going through dozens of editions in a wide variety of languages, its maps, plans and views were also copied for decades, both for use in other books and for separate publication. Some minor stains and spotting, and insignificant old restorations to binding. A very good copy of the first great overview of the Low Countries, coloured by a contemporary hand. Belg. Typ. 1360; Deys, Guicciardini illustratus 1; Tiele, Bibl. 420; STCV (2 copies, 1 incomplete).

53 Botanical observations (and a description of the bird of paradise) by the second director of the Padua Botanical Garden

92. GUILANDINO, Melchior(re). De stirpibus aliquot, epistolae V. Melchioris Guilandini Borussi R. IIII. Conradi Gesneri Tigurini I. Eiusdem Guilandini ad illustrem Comitem Nicolaum a Salmo &c. Manuco diattae, hoc est aviculae Dei descriptio. Adiecta est Andreae Patricii ad Gabrielem Falloppium praefatio. Padua, Grazioso Percacino, 1558. 4º. 19th-century(?) limp vellum. € 9000

Second edition of important botanic observations made by Melchior Guilandino (ca. 1544–1589) during his voyage to the Orient. It contains five letters from Guilandino commenting on the work of the botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli. One addressed to the famous naturalist Konrad Gesner (1516–1565), is followed by Gesner's answer. These letters are of great interest for botanical nomen- clature in the 16th century. They are preceded by a prefatory letter by Patricius and followed by an essay by Guilandino describing the bird of paradise. Guilandino studied botany and pharmacology in Rome and became the protégée of Senator Marino Cavalli, Venice's ambassador there. He was a member of the board of the University of Padua and made journeys to Syria, Palestine and Egypt. In 1561, he was asked to become the second director of the Botanical garden at Padova. Manuscript trimmed down when rebound in the 19th-century(?, shaving off an early manuscript inscription on title-page, with a couple faint traces of foxing, thumbing and a minor marginal waterstain, a very small restoration in the lower gutter of the title-page and possibly washed, but still a very good copy. Adams G-1561; DSB XIV, pp. 335–336; Pritzel 3637.

The best Syriac New Testament, with the Lexicon and extensive notes made to accompany it

93. GUTBIER, Aegidius. Novum Testamentum Syriacè, cum omnibus vocalibus, & versione latinâ Matthaei ita adornatâ, ut unico hoc evangelistâ intellecto, reliqui totius operis libri, sine interprete, facilè intelligi possint. Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1664 (engraved title-page "1663"). With engraved title-page. With: (2) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Lexicon Syriacum, continens omnes N.T. Syriaci dictiones et particulas, cum spicile- gio vocum quarundam peregrinarum, & in quibusdam tandum novit. codicibus occurrentium, & appendice, quae exhibed diversas punctationes... Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667. (3) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Notae criticae in Novum Testamentum Syriacum... Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667. 3 works in 1 volume. 8º. Contemporary vellum. € 2500

First edition of by far the best edition of the Syriac New Testament published before the 19th-cen- tury, edited by Aegidius Gutbier, which remained the standard Syriac text until Samuel Lee's 1823 edition. For the first book (the gospel of Matthew) it includes Gutbier's Latin translation of the Syriac at the foot of the page. With the New Testament are two complementary works by Gutbier, produced in matching format and intended to accompany it: his Syriac lexicon giving the Syriac words with their Latin equivalents, followed by an index of the Latin words; and his extensive notes on the Syriac text of the New Testament, with alternative from the many sources he examined. The New Testament relates stories that would have first been told (and in some cases probably also written down) in Aramaic, the vernacular language of Palestine in Jesus's time. Syriac, another dialect of Aramaic, served as the vernacular language of much of the Middle East. The Syriac text therefore provides valuable clues to the Aramaic sources of the New Testament. With a 1691 Amsterdam purchase inscription and two 1859 owner's inscriptions. In good condition, with the lower right corner of the engraved title-page under-inked, the paper slightly browned and an occasional minor spot or small stain. Binding with some of the vellum tapes broken at the hinge, some cracks in the hinges and with the back of the bookblock reinforced, but still generally good. Three complementary books forming the most important reference work for 17th- and 18th-century Syriac studies. Darlow & Moule 8966; VD17, 39:142375F, 3:316277C, 75:689489C.

54 Poem in praise of Chateau Agimont near Maastricht

94. HALMA, François. Het kasteel van Aigermont, en d'omleggende landtstreeken in de heerlykheit van Nederkan, nevens de stadt Maastricht... Leeuwarden, François Halma, 1715. 4º. With title-page printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device and 3 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double page). Contemporary vellum. € 4500

First and only edition of a Dutch poem in praise of Chateau Agimont or Neercanne on the Dutch-Belgian border near Maastricht, and in praise of other attractions in the vicinity, by François Halma. It starts with a six-page verse dedication to Daniel Wolf, Baron van Dopff, who had the chateau built in 1698, followed by an acknowledgement in verse to the Maastricht city officials, and a four-page note to the reader. The double-page plates show the chateau and estate itself with elaborate gardens (and a ship sailing in the artificial lake), a view of the city of Maastricht, and the great stone-vaulted interior of the St. Pietersberg mine south of Maastricht. The chateau and probably the other illustrations were drawn by Guillaume de Bruyn (1649–1719) and engraved by J. Karrewyn. On its publication in 1715, Halma's book received an enthusiastic 19-page report in Boekzaal der geleerde wereld, which gave particular attention to the typography. With the bookplate and library stamps. Endleaves waterstained, browned throughout with some occasional spots and stains. Otherwise a good copy. Nijhoff & .V Hattum 126; STCN (5 copies).

13th-century treatise on falconry, in the original Turkish with a German translation, with two other early falconry treatises

95. HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Joseph von. Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey. ... Pest (now part of Budapest), Conrad Adolf Hartleben (verso of title-page: [Vienna], printed by the widow of Anton Strauß), 1840. 8º. With lithographed frontispiece, elaborately decorated Turkish title-page and opening page. Set in fraktur, Arabic and Greek types with incidental roman. With a modern index of ornithological, zoological and botanical names. Later 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, with the publisher's original tinted lithographed wrappers bound in; the modern index is separately bound in modern goatskin, designed to match the main volume. € 8500

First printing in any language of three important manuscripts on falcons and falconry: a 12th-century Turkish treatise on falconry by Mahmud Ibn Mehmed al-Bargini, "Baz nama" [= Falcon book] (in the original Turkish and in German translation); the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I's ca. 1515(?) "Über die Falknerey" in the original German; and a shorter Greek treatise on hawking, "Hierakosophion" [= Hawking apprenticeship] in the original Greek and in German translation, a variant form of part of a 13th-century work by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII (1223–1282). Little is known about the author of the Turkish treatise, but he came from Anatolia on the southeastern coast of what is now Turkey, where he apparently worked in service of the Bey of Mentese. Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856), a leading Austrian orientalist with an extensive knowledge of languages, found the Turkish manuscript on falconry at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in in 1825 and the other two manuscripts at the Hofbibliothek in Vienna. He not only translated and edited the present texts but also contributed a 32-page introduction and a list of 63 works on the subject of falconry, from the 15th-century to his own day. The book, printed in only 300 copies, has been largely overlooked in the literature on ornithology and Islamitica, but Schwerdt notes that it is "particularly important to lovers of falconry, its origin and history". It also provides insights into the Turkish language and Islamic culture. With some modern pencil notes on the flyleaf and in the margins. Somewhat foxed throughout, as usual, but otherwise in very good condition and nearly untrimmed. The original publisher's illustrated wrappers, rarely preserved, show a few small chips, tears and scrapes but are still in good condition. The binding is chipped at the foot of the spine and slightly worn, but still generally good. Harting 112; Schwerdt I, p. 228; not in Atabey; Blackmer.

55 Drawings and watercolours illustrating an artist’s career in Batavia

96. HARDOUIN, Ernest Alfred. [Album with drawings and watercolours of Batavia]. [Batavia, ca. 1850]. Oblong 2º (25.5 × 33 cm). Album with 14 pencil drawings, 5 watercolours and 1 grisaille, all in a similar style. The first two watercolours inscribed "Batavia 1850 | Ernest Hardouin". Contemporary blind- and gold-blocked green morocco, gold-tooled turn-ins, watered silk endpapers, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. € 8500

Interesting album with pencil drawings and watercolours, by the French artist Ernest Hardouin. These drawings show various types of inhabitants of Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, including several Javanese women, a European sailor and various members of the Chinese community. Other drawings, including sketches of what appear to be musketeers and a highly finished watercolour of a Greek brigand or klepht, have nothing to do with the Dutch East Indies but can perhaps be related to Hardouin's work for the theatre. His finished watercolours show a fine control of the medium and a wonderful eye for details, as can be seen in the watercolour of a standing Javanese woman and the fine batik on her kebaya and sarong. Ernest Alfred Hardouin (1820–1853), born in Versailles, arrived in Batavia in 1837 as a decor designer with the French theatre. After the dissolution of the theatre company in 1843, Hardouin chose to remain in Batavia, working as a painter, draughtsmen and decor designer until his death in 1853. In the early 1850s this "artist of genius" made a number of drawings "exuding a joyousness and spontaneous good humour often underlaid by serious social comment" (Bastin & Brommer), which were reproduced in W.L. Ritter's Java: tooneelen uit het leven (1854). Watercolours by Hardouin can be found in the collections of Leiden University and the , Amsterdam. With the album seller's ticket on flyleaf. First two leaves with some small restorations along the extremities; paper browned and slightly soiled in the margins, with a few spots; in good condition. Binding with a couple small restorations along the extremities and rebacked, otherwise good and still attractive. On Hardouin: Bastin & Brommer, pp. 30–33 & 318–320; De Loos-Haaxman, De Franse schilder Ernest Hardouin in Batavia; Scalliet, "Beelden van Oost-Indië", in: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 49 (2001), no. 4, pp. 371–372.

Introducing the modern form of distillation to the Netherlands

97. HERMANNI, Phillipus. Een constich distillierboeck, inhoudende die rechte en[de] waerachtige conste, om alderhande wateren, cruyden, bloemen, wortelen en[de] alle andere dingen te leeren distilieren. Utrecht, Reynder Wylicks, 1596 (colophon: 1597). 8º. With woodcut illustration on title-page and 3 woodcuts in text. 19th century half sheepskin. € 3750

Second copy located of the sixth(?) edition of a rare work on distillation, written by Philippus Hermanni, which introduced the modern form of distillation to the Netherlands. The work describes how to obtain specific waters and oils from different flowers, herbs and spices, men- tioning the medicinal powers of the waters and for which ailments they can be used. Besides explaining how to make the waters, Hermanni informs on how to properly store them so they won't perish or lose their medicinal powers. The main text is followed by an extensive descrip- tion on how to make brandy (brandewijn), illustrated with three woodcuts. All editions are very rare. With restoration in the gutter of the title-page, slightly affecting text and woodcut. Browned, with soms occasional small spots and waterstains, dog-eared leaves, and a hole in the upper margin of the last three pages, just touching the text. Binding rubbed but still firm. Overall a very good copy. Forbes, pp. 105, 159; Typ. Batava 2369 (Antwerp copy); USTC (same copy); WorldCat (same copy).

56 Flower watercolour with insects, by the daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian

98. HEROLT, Johanna Helena. [Watercolour of a branch of a French roses, with several flowers and insects]. [Amsterdam, ca. 1700]. Watercolour drawing (38.5 × 29 cm) on extremely fine white parchment, said to be uterine lamb, showing a branch of French roses with three fully opened flowers, five buds or partly opened flowers, four ants (with and without wings) and probably a hover fly. Framed. € 79 500

Characteristic original watercolour botanical drawing by Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-post 1721), the eldest daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff. It shows a branch of French roses Rosa( gallica) with three large, fully-opened flowers and five buds or partly opened flowers, four ants (one winged) and probably a hoverfly (Syrphidae). She probably drew it in Amsterdam around 1700. Though she still remains in the shadow of her mother, she was a fine flower and insect artist in her own right and there is growing appre- ciation of her work. Her watercolours, more baroque than her mother's and often with brighter colours, radiate vigour and vivacity: the flowers, painted with intensity in every detail, really come to life. A series of Herolt's works from 1698 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig includes similar sheets of roses (nos. 10, 26, 28, etc.). Reitsma, p. 135, notes that the prices for the flower watercolours increased with the number of insects. Most of Herolt's work is numbered and we understand the highest number known is 164. No number is visible in the present watercolour. In the finest state of preservation, with certificate of authenticity from Dr. S. Segal, Amsterdam. Cf. Reitsma, Maria Sibylla Merian & dochters (2008), ills. 103 & 110 (pp. 139 & 147); Wettengl, ed., Maria Sibylla Merian 1647–1717, kunstenares en natuuronderzoekster (1998), p. 85 (both showing Herolt watercolours of other flowers in a similar style).

57 5 rare polemical works: 3 epistles by a leading French Counter-Reformationist, a Protestant reply and the defence against the reply

99. HERVET, Gentian. Epistre ou advertissement au peuple fidele de l'Eglise Catholique, touchant les differens qui sont aujourd'huy en la religion Chrestienne. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1561. With: (2) HERVET, Gentian. Deux epistres, aux ministres, predicans et supposts de la congregation & nouvelle eglise de ceux qui s'appellent fideles, & croyans à la parolle: ... Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1562. Including: (3) HERVET, Gentian. Seconde epistre aux ministres, predicans & suppostz de le nouvelle eglise, de ceux qui s'appellent fideles, & croyans à la parole. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1561. (4) [TOUS S A I N, Daniel?]. Response a une certaine epistre envoyee par M. Gentian Hervet, curé de Crevant, aux fideles de l'eglise reformee d'Orleans. [Paris?], [publisher unknown], 1561. (5) HERVET, Gential. Apologie ou defense, contre une response des Ministres de la nouvelle eglise d'Orleans, escripte en leur nom, par Je ne sçay qui, se nommant, L'un pour tous. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1561. 5 works in 1 volume. 8º. 18th-century(?) sheepskin parchment. € 7500

Five rare French polemical works on the Counter-Reformation, all first published in 1561, here with three or four in their first editions: 3 barbed anti-Protestant "Epistres" by the translator, patristic scholar and defender of the Catholic faith Gentien Hervet (1499–1584), with the third known copy of the first and only edition of an anonymous Protestant Response to one or both of the Deux epistres and the first edition of Hervet'sApologie defending his views against the claims of the Response. Hervet states in his Apologie that he does not know the name of the author of the Response and therefore addresses him as "Monsieur l'Un pour Tous", but the Response was addressed to "fideles de l'Eglise Reformee d'Orleans" and the Apologie title-page supposes the Response came from the "Ministres de la nouvelle eglise d'Orleans", so it may have been written by Daniel Toussain (1541–1602), ordained in the Orléans Reformed Church in 1561. The first epistle (ad 1) is addressed to the devout Catholics, warning them of the Protestants, but the next two (ads 2 & 3) are more provocatively addressed to the ministers and supporters of the new Protestant Church. This provoked the Response, which in turn provoked Hervet's Apologia. All five editions are rare, but especially the anonymous Response (ad 4). The USTC records only 2 copies, and records no other edition. With 3 contemporary or near contemporary inscriptions on the title-page, 2 struck through (1 perhaps reading "Robert Rey" or "Reny" or "Reng") and the third by "Francois Thiboult", this last repeated on the Response title-page. With contemporary ms. annotations in ink in all 5 works. First title-page sightly soiled and some light, most marginal waterstains in the last work, but still in good condition. Five rare works by and responding to the French Counter-Reformationist Gentian Hervet. J.N. Bakhuizen van den Brink, "De seconde epistre van Gervien Hervat", in: Ned. Archief v. Kerkgesch., 48 (1968), pp. 169–212 (discussing all 4 Hervet works); USTC 45253 (cf. 88267, barely distinguishable), 4528, 20245, 41867, 740 (ads 1-5); cf. Brunet III, 137–138; STC French p. 224; none in Adams; for Hervet: Nouv. Biogr. Gén. 24, cols. 536–40; G. Wylie Sypher, "'Faisant ce qu'il leur vient a plaisir': the image of Protestantism in French Catholic polemic on the eve of the religious wars", in: Sixteenth century journal, 11/2 (1980), pp. 59–84.

Popular story of an East Indiaman wrecked off the coast of Bengal

100. HEYDEN, Frans Jansz. van der. Vervarelyke schip-breuk van 't Oost- Indisch jacht Ter Schelling, onder het landt van Bengale; ... beneffens een bondige beschryving der Koningryken van Arrakan, Bengale, Martavan, Tanassery, … Den vyfden druk doorgaens met platen verciert. Harderwijk, Jan Rampen, 1722. 4º. With 18 woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat. Modern half vellum. € 2250

Extremely rare fifth edition, the second illustrated with woodcuts, of a popular account of the story of the East Indiaman Ter Schelling, which was wrecked off the coast of Bengal. The author, a member of the crew, kept a journal of his experiences, and the 18 woodcuts illus- trate the crew's adventures both at sea and on land. The ship left Batavia with 85 men and about 28 canons under captain Jacob Jansz. Stroom on 3 September 1661 and came within sight of Bengal on 8 October. They wrecked on a sandbank off shore, however, and had to

58 make rafts to travel further, 32 of them managing to reach an uninhabited island. Van der Heyden describes the crew's desperate hunger, when they were tempted even to eat a worm-filled human corpse. They survived on turtles, snakes, iguana and occasionally rotten buffalo meat. By chance they reached mainland Bengal in the middle of the region's greatest war (1660–1662), so once ashore they were conscripted into the enormous Mogul army to fight against the kingdom of Assam, said to be cannibals. The gruesome massacre of captives by the Nabob is described and illustrated. Following the story of the voyage are descriptions of the kingdoms of Arrakan, Martaban, Tanassery, Bengala and Patan along the coast of the Bay of Bengal from modern Bangladesh to Burma. Though all editions are rare, those with woodcut illustrations aimed at a lower market seems to be the rarest. Slightly browned throughout, a minor dampstain in the inner margin of the foot of the title-page and a tiny dampstain in the lower outer corner throughout. A good copy of a very rare edition of a gripping true-life adventure story. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 422 note; STCN (1 copy); Tiele, Bibl. note; WorldCat (2 copies, incl. 1 the same).

Music, drama, poetry, costumes & heraldic art by Dutch and Flemish rhetoricians, with 28 engraved illustrations (13 large folding)

101. HEYNS, Zacharias and others. Const-thoonende juweel, by de loflijcke stadt Haerlem, ten versoecke van Trou Moet Blijcken, in't licht gebracht. ... In twaelf spelen van sinne. Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1607. 4º. With 13 folding engraved panoramic views of the processions of the participating societies (ranging from 13 × 56 cm to 13 × 140 cm), 13 nearly full-page engraved coats of arms and 2 engraved elevations showing the stage and the triumphal arch used during the festivities. 17th-century gold-tooled vellum. Recased, later endpapers. € 8500

First issue of the first and only edition of an extraordinary record of texts, music and imagery from the greatest Dutch rhetoricians' contest, held in Haarlem in October 1606, and a masterpiece of the book arts in the opening years of the Dutch golden age: "the most extensive and most impressive in its genre" (Ramakers). The magnif- icent views of the processions show about 250 people, most dressed as allegorical, historical or religious figures, many in fantastic costumes. The chambers of rhetoric also put a great deal of artistic effort into the design and execution of their coats of arms, all shown here. The "rederyker kamers" were rather broader than the usual translation "chambers of rhetoric" suggests, concerning themselves not only with rhetoric but also with poetry, song, art and especially drama. The present book gives an unparalleled view of the work of these societies. With a water stain in the head margin throughout, often only faintly visible, and a couple pages foxed; the plates are printed on somewhat thin paper and are folded several times because of their size causing a couple false folds and creases, and an occasional minor tear along a fold; the water stain in the head margin occasionally touching the image, one plate with some smudges, and curiously in the plate of the procession of the chamber of Amsterdam the letterpress poem in the foot margin below the letterpress caption has been removed and replaced with blank paper. Still generally in good condition. Recased, as noted, with a couple small restorations to the top of the spine. A landmark book for drama, music, poetry, costumes, artistic heraldry, rhetoricians and book production at the dawn of the Dutch golden age. Bibl. Belg. III, pp. 614–618; Hiler, pp. 182; Praz, p. 307; B.A.M. Ramakers, De Const Getoond (2001).

59 1472 incunabula of an encyclopaedia of the world, containing references to Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and the Saracens

102. HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS. [Incipit:] … de ymagine mundi. [Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1472(?)]. 2º (31 × 22 cm).Rubricated through- out and about half of the spaces left for initials filled in by hand in red ink. 19th-century red sheepskin. € 45 000

First edition of Honorius Augustodunensis's (1080–1154) popular Imago mundi, an ency- clopaedia of popular cosmology and geography combined with a chronicle of world history. He takes the river Nile as the boundary between Africa and Asia and calles the whole latter continent "India". This places Arabia, found in the subsection on Mesopotamia, under "India". Mesopotamia, found along the Tigris and the Euphrates, also includes the Kingdom of Sheba, home of the Queen of Sheba, and is inhabited by the Moabites, Syrians, Saracens and others. After Mesopotamia we find Syria, including Phoenicia, which is followed by sections on Palestine and Egypt Augustodunensis's Imago mundi exemplified the picture of Africa and the Orient prevalent in the West ca. 1100 as lands full of marvels. It is one of the five earliest books printed by the great and prolific Nuremberg printer Anton Koberger. With bookplate on pastedown and some early manuscript annotations in the margins. Lacking the second of the two last blank leaves. With a few wormholes, a couple leaves attached to stubs, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding slightly rubbed. BMC II, p. 411; Goff H323; Hain 8800; ISTC IH00323000; not in Atabey; Blackmer.

The Franco-Dutch War, strikingly illustrated

103. HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Schouburgh der Nederlandse veranderingen, geopent in ses tooneelen, waer op de wisselbeurten des Vereenigde Staets door den Fransen oorlog gebrouwen, in historieele sinnebeelden, vertoont en beschreven zijn. Amsterdam, the author, 1674. Small 2º (28.5 × 19 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 6 large engraved folding plates by Romeyn de Hooghe (plate size ca. 23 × 35 cm). Contemporary vellum. € 2250

Rare first edition, with fine emblematic plates, illustrating the injustice and cruelty of the war waged by Louis XIV of France against the free and independent . Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708) was unquestionably the most gifted and the most prolific Dutch book illustrator of the second half of the 17th century. His work displays the political grandeur and disasters of war in the Dutch Republic, including the disastrous year 1672, depicted dramatically and with great splendour. The large plates are richly designed and full of intricate emblems and allegories, fully explained in the accompanying text; an emblematic poem is added to each plate. With manuscript annotation in ink on pastedown. Slightly browned throughout with some thumbed margins, edges of fron- tispiece slightly frayed, otherwise in very good condition. Head of front board restored, binding otherwise good. Hollstein IX, p. 120, 103–108 (lacking frontispiece); Landwehr, De Hooghe book illustrator 38; STCN (7 copies).

60 History of the world, dealing with the Middle East, China and America

104. HORNIUS, Georgius. Arca Noae. Sive historia imperiorum ex regnorum à condito orbe ad nostra tempora. Leiden & Rotterdam, Petrus Hackius, 1666. 12º. With engraved title-page by Wingendorp. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. € 1750

One of the two first editions published simultaneously of a historical work written by the German historian Georgius Hornius (1620–1670). "In the dusk of his life, he moved to universal history, an endeavor that culminated with his Arca Noae, which comprised the chronicles of Europe, alongside descriptions of the cultures of China, Egypt, Assyria, ancient Greece, Rome, and pre-Colum- bian America, and surveys of their religion, art and literature" (Kowner). Entitled "Noah's ark", it contains the history of the world from its creation to the 17th century. It successively deals with all the great empires and kingdoms and their important founders and rulers. It contains narra- tives about the founding of Damascus, the founding of Arab kingdoms by Ishmael and Isaac, the caliphates, and the Turks. Besides sections on the Middle East, the book discusses Chinese and American history, struggling with sources that predate the biblical sources. With an old shelf mark on spine and a library stamp on flyleaf. Browned with some small spots throughout, engraved title-page slightly thumbed, a water stain on leaf *2 and a small tear in leaf *3, and frequent wormholes, slightly affecting the text near the end of the book. Bookblock only loosely attached to binding. Otherwise a good copy. Alden & Landis 666/75; R. Kowner, From white to yellow (2014), 9; Sabin 33013.

1799 manuscript on horology, with 24 exquisite folding illustrations, 3 devoted to marine chronometers

105. [HOROLOGY]. [BE RT HOU D, Ferdinand?]. Theorie pratique de l’horlogerie, avec quelques manieres de regler les horloges, et de tracer les méridiennes les plus utiles. ... [Paris?], 1799. 4º (20 × 16.5 cm). Manuscript in dark brown ink on paper, with XXIV extremely detailed numbered folding illustrations (image size: 14.5-16 × 13.5-26 cm). Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. Sold

Beautifully illustrated 1799 treatise on clock-making, covering pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks and instruments, and most notably marine chronometers. The 24 folding illustrations are extremely precise, with many detail drawings showing pendulums, winding and escapement mechanisms, gear systems, bells, clock faces and hands, etc. Three plates are devoted to the marine chronometer. The illustra- tions are also meticulously executed as numbered plates. This level of finish suggests the manuscript was prepared for publication, but it was never published. Some of its phrases can be found in the article, “Horlogerie” in Diderot’s Encyclopédia. On p. 77 the author refers to a 1798 voyage to North America.

At this date, the English and French had a virtual monopoly on the manufacturer of marine chronometers, and in France Paris was the centre of the trade. Moreover, a contemporary loosely inserted manu- script fragment refers to a sundial made in Paris in 1790. Yet even in Paris few people were active in the manufacture of marine chronometers at this date. Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807) was nearing the end of his illustrious career, but continued writing to his death. Some of the figures for the marine chronometer are clearly based on some in Ferdinand Berthoud’s 1773 Traité des horloges marines, though not exact copies. With a pencil note on a free endleaf, and with two manuscript fragments loosely inserted, one clearly contemporary, the other probably 19th-century. Slightly foxed throughout and with an unobtrusive traces of old vertical folds, not sharply creased, but still in very good condition. With the binding rubbed, the corners worn and a few drops of white paint on the front board, but the binding is structur- ally sound. An important primary source for 18th-century clock-making in general and for the history of the marine chronometer in particular, with stunningly precise and detailed illustrations. No publication likely to contain the present text in Baillie, Clocks and watches (1951); Watkins, Mechanical watches (2011); for the Berthouds in general: Baillie, Watchmakers (1951), p. 25; Gould, Marine chronometer (1960), pp. 94-104.

61 Construction drawings for staircases, skylights and their decoration

106. HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale, of nieuwe algemeene bouwkunde, waarin op eene naauwkeurige, klaare en wiskundige wijze wordt voorgesteld en geleerd het maaken van veelerleije soorten van trappen, met derzelver gronden en opstallen, mitsgaders het uitslaan derzelven, als mede ... Lantaarens, en wat meer tot dit soort van bouwkunde behoort: ... Amsterdam, J.S. van Esveldt-Holtrop, [ca. 1810]. Large 2º (49 × 35 cm). With engraved vignette on the title-page and 30 double-page engraved plates by Jan Schenk. 19th-century half calf. € 1750

Very rare second edition of this classic set of architec- tural construction drawings in 30 large double-page plates primarily showing staircases and their decoration, but with the last five plates covering skylights intended for stairwells, some in the form of elaborate cupolas. The plates show straight, spiral and more complicated staircases, with their geometrical constructions, as well as many elaborate decora- tive forms for the posts, railings, skylights, etc. A few plates with brown stains, mostly in the margins, small marginal tears (some repaired) or minor offsetting. A very good copy of Horst's famous staircase book. BAL 3929 (note); cf. Berlin Kat. 2253 (1739 ed.); STCN (1739 ed.); not in Fowler.

Ancient Hebrew & other Middle Eastern, Greek, Roman and Arabic numbers, coins, weights and measures

107. HOST, Matthäus. Historiae rei nummariae veteris scriptores aliquot insigniores ... Including: — HOST, Matthäus. Tres libros de veteribus mensuris ... — HOST, Matthäus. Quaedam opuscula variae ... — [SARDI, Alessandro] (misattributed to John SELDEN). Liber de nummis ... — L A BBE, Philippe. Bibliotheca nummaria ... — BUDÉ, Guillaume. De asse et partibus ejus libri quinque. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1695 (colophon at the end of Host's works: Jena, Johann Zacharias Nisius, 1692). 15 works in 5 volumes, paginated as 3 and bound as 2. 4º. With 2 engraved portraits (vol. I) and 3 folding tables. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum. € 4500

A collection of works devoted primarily to the ancient Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Arabic number systems, numismatics and men- suration, more than half (nominally 3 volumes) comprising the collected works of Matthäus Host (1509–1587), numismatist and professor of Greek philology in Frankfurt an der Oder. After these follow works by Alessandro Sardi (1520–1588) (misattributed to John Selden), Philippe Labbe (1607–1667) and Guillaume Budé (1468–1540). Host published his most important works on the Hebrew and other Middle Eastern, Greek, Roman and Arabic number systems (plus "astronomical" numbers probably taken from Agrippa and Noviomagus), coins and related subjects in the years 1578 to 1582. Budé's De asse is generally regarded as the best Renaissance attempt to determine the values of ancient coins relative to each other and to contemporary money. With bookplates. Lacking a divisional title. With some browning and foxing throughout, a small tear into the text of 1 leaf and in the margin of the first folding table. Otherwise in good condition. The binding of the first volume is somewhat dirty and each has one or two of the vellum tapes broken at the hinge, but they are still in good condition. STCN (6 copies, incl. 2 incompl.); cf. Smith, Rara arithmetica, pp. 372–375; for Host: ADB XIII, p. 191.

62 First substantial English translation of Ibn Batuta's travels through the Islamic world and beyond

108. IBN BATUTA and Samuel LEE (editor). The travels of Ibn Batuta; translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge. With notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work. London, printed for the Oriental Translation Committee (colophon: by J.L. Cox). Large 4º (32 × 26). With various passages including the original Arabic text. Later half calf. € 17 500

First edition of the first substantial English translation of the travel account of Abu Abdullah Mohammed ibn Batuta (1304–1368/69), known in the West as the Arabian Marco Polo, with extensive footnotes. "While on a pilgrimage to Mecca he made a decision to extend his travels throughout the whole of the Islamic world. Possibly the most remarkable of the Arab travellers, he is estimated to have covered 75,000 miles in forty years" (Howgego). His journeys included trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China. The account known as the Rihla, is esteemed for its lively descriptions of his travels, giving notable information on the history, geography and botany of the countries and cities Ibn Batuta visited. He describes, for example, the city of Aden as follows: "From this place I went to the city of Aden, which is situated on the sea-shore. This is a large city, but without either seed, water, or tree. They have, however, reservoirs, in which they collect the rain-water for drinking. Some rich merchants reside here: and vessels from India occasionally arrive here. The inhabitants are modest and religious" (p. 55). Endpapers, half-title and subscription leaf foxed, some spots on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy, only slightly trimmed leaving generous margins. Binding very good as well. Howgego, to 1800, B47.

Editio princeps of Ibn Hawqal's famous geography

109. IBN HAWQAL and William OUSELEY [translator]. [Kitab Masalik wa-mamalik tasnif ibn Hawqal]. The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century. Translated from a manuscript in his own possession ... by Sir William Ousely, Knt. LL.D. London, Oriental Press, Wilson & Co., for T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, 1800. Large 4º. With 1 folding engraved map. Modern mottled half calf. Sold

First edition of Ibn Hawqal's famous Mediaeval geography, Surat al-'Ard ("The face of the Earth"), translated into English by the Oriental scholar William Ouseley (1769–1842), from manuscripts in the original Arabic and in Persian translation, with parallel titles in English and Arabic. Clearly more than a mere editor, Ibn Hawqal (recorded 333–368 AH or 943–978 AD) was a traveller who spent much of his time writing about the areas and things he had seen. He spent 30 years of his life traveling to remote parts of Asia and Africa. One of his travels brought him 20 degrees south of the equator along the East African coast. One of the things he noticed was that there were large numbers of people living in areas that the Greeks said must be uninhabitable. His accurate descriptions were very helpful to travellers. The book describes the Islamic caliphate of Códoba in southern Iberia and refers to Yemen, Oman and Bahrain. Contemporary front marbled wrapper bound in (with old pencil notes on the back). Title-page slightly damaged, last leaf restored. Rare. OCLC 83518086.

63 16th-century collection of nine alchemical tracts, including one by Ibn Sina

110. IBN SINA (AVICENNA), Raymond LULL and ARISTOTLE. De alchimia opuscula complura veterum philosophorum, quorum catalogum sequens pagella indicabit. (Dedication: Frankfurt, Cyriacus Jacob, 1550). Part 1 (of 2). Small 4º (19.5 × 15 cm). With a large woodcut illustration on title-page, hand coloured by an early hand, and Jacob's woodcut printer's device on the last otherwise blank page. 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. € 18 000

First edition of a collection of nine alchemical tracts, including De tinctura metallorum by Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna. Ibn Sina was one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic golden age and his bibliography comprises nearly 270 titles. "Ibn Sina studied the philosophi- cal and scientific foundations of this subject [alchemy] and even undertook alchemical experiments. His conclusion regarding its validity, however, is negative" (DSB). It also includes two works by Raymond Lull, one of the most interesting scholars of the Middle Ages, one by Aristotle; and five anonymous ones. A second part was published in the same year containing only one work: the famous Rosarium philosophorum. It can be regarded as a separate publication and is not included here. With contemporary manuscript annotations in the margins, underscoring throughout, an early owner's inscription (struck through) and some other notes on the title-page. The annotations slightly shaved, somewhat browned throughout and waterstains in the first half of the book, but otherwise in good condition. Binding very good. Duveen, p. 11 ("excessively rare"); Ferguson, Bib. chem. I, p. 18; MacPhail I, 20; for Ibn Sina: DSB XV, pp. 494–500.

Rare practical medical handbooks for the Prince of Orange and the common people

111. JACOBS, Heyman. Den kleynen herbarius ofte kruydt-boecxken, ... Amsterdam, printed by the widow of Gerrit Hendricxsz. van Breughel (colophon: for "Harmen Jansz Muller"[!]), 1638. With: (2) [BONTIUS, Reinier? and others]. Vorstelick gheschenk. Dat is: een medecynboeck. Inhoudende veele geproefde ende goet ghevonden medecijn stucken: ... Amsterdam, Hendrick Barentsz., 1631. 2 works in 1 volume. 8º. Near contemporary blind-tooled vellum (dated 1650). € 3250

Ad 1: Unrecorded "Muller" issue of a very rare early edition of a very popular home medical guide by Heyman Jacobs (active 1596–1645). After the prelims, the medical herbal proper, with the text divided into two parts, gives accounts of the medicinal properties of 52 and 183 numbered nuts, berries, herbs, grains, fruits, roots, flowers and other plants, foods or substances, with instructions for their preparation and use to cure or prevent illnesses. The account of tobacco, not yet cultivated in the Netherlands when Jacobsz. wrote, notes that it is imported from the West Indies and can be smoked in a pipe or steeped in wine overnight for drinking. The book continues with a "Remedie boecxken" with medicinal recipes intended for the poor, arranged by the various ailments, and ends with a a guide for visiting and comforting the sick and dying, followed by a few additional recipes. Ad 2: Third known edition of a very rare anonymous medical guide with 639 numbered entries, most of them discussing a particular ailment and recommending a medicine and/or other treatment. At the end is an alphabetical index of the ailments. The Dutch title can be translated as "Princely gift, or: a medicine book". It provides a remarkable window into medical practices in the household of the Dutch Princes of Orange. We have not identified the owner BS" " who had the book bound in 1650. With 1 quire signature and a couple catchwords slightly shaved, the first title-page slightly worn and several corners folded, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is somewhat worn, with 8 of the 13 different binding stamps crisply impressed and the other 5 rather faint. Two rare popular editions on practical medicine. Ad 1: cf. BMN I, p. 502; Krivatsy 6187–6190; Waller 858; ad 2: BMN I, p. 377; KVK & WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Krivatsy 12484 (1662 ed.).

64 Herbarium containing about 250 original botanical specimens, many of oriental plants

112. JAUBERT, Hippolyte François. [Herbarium]. [Paris (collected in Egypt, Abyssinia, China, the Americas, New Caledonia and elsewhere), ca. 1840–ca. 1868]. About 250 pressed and dried botanical specimens, mounted on paper leaves (mostly about 42 × 26 cm), some with partly printed and others with manuscript labels. With a signed autograph letter from Jaubert in Grenoble to the Italian botanist Eugène de Reboul in Florence, a photographic portrait of Jaubert, a green painted ferrous metal collecting canister (10 × 14 × 36 cm) and a wooden plant press with leather and metal fittings (29 × 22.5 × 5 cm).The leaves with specimens are loosely inserted in 42 paper folders, the whole kept in a contemporary ferrous metal chest with built-in lock (key also present), painted with a light brown wood-grain pattern (34 × 32 × 50 cm). The lock on the trunk has the maker's stamp of John Bates in Wolverhampton, England, who was active in the 1860s, and the metal handle of the press has the stamp of its manufacturer "R & L" in Paris. € 25 000

An extensive herbarium comprising about 250 pressed and dried botanical specimens, often with a small packet of seeds attached. They were collected by or for Jaubert, mostly in the 1840s and 1850s, many in exotic lands, including Egypt, Abyssinia, China, South America, Cuba and New Caledonia. The dates on the labels range from 1822 to 1868, but most appear to have been collected in the 1840s and 1850s, when Jaubert was publishing his Illustrationes plantarum orientalium. Nineteen specimens (in 3 folders) cover the genus Nicotina, the tobacco family. Besides the specimens themselves, the collection includes a collecting tin and a wooden plant press. Parts of Jaubert's herbarium are preserved at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, with some duplicates at the Conservatoire at Jardin Botanique in Geneva. Parts of many specimens have inevitably broken over the years, but most nevertheless survive in good condition. The paper leaves and folders show occasional water stains and a few have had a corner nibbled by mice, but they still remain in good condition. An extensive herbarium, completed around 1868, with about 250 specimens. For Jaubert and his botanical work: Stafleu & Cowan II, pp. 427–428.

Early engraved map of Gelderland

113. JODE, Gerard de. Geldria. En tibi, amice lector, nobilis ille clarusq[ue] ducatus Geldriae, cum omnibus eius limitibus, multis navigeris fluminibus abunde insignis, agrorumq[ue] fertiliate dives, praesertim apud Batavos, quorum crebra fit mentio apud veteres, cum ob miram glebae ubertatem, tum ob gentis celebratissimam in armis dexteritatem, Iam recens ad exemplar eius descriptionis, quae pridem excusa est Roma per Mich. Tramesini castigatior. [Antwerp, , 1593]. Double-page engraved map (plate size: 36.5 × 48 cm; paper size: 41 × 56 cm), with the title in a cartouche in the upper left, a note from the publisher at lower left, a scale at lower right (ca. 1:400,000) and letterpress text on the back. In a grey passe-partout (43.5 × 65 cm). € 2250

Second printing of an early engraved map of the Dutch province Gelderland (the fifth map in Vredenburg-Alink’s chronological list) by the Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (1509–1591). The map, orientated with west at the head, shows the area of 16th-century Gelderland and slightly beyond, from Utrecht in the west to Vreden in the east and from Kampen in the north to Roermond in the south. The map was first published in De Jode’s Speculum Orbis Terrarum (1578), and printed unchanged in the 1593 : an enlarged edition of the earlier atlas, now published by De Jode’s son, Cornelis (1568–1600). Gerard de Jode based his map on Tramesini’s map, who based his in turn on that of the cartographer Jacob van Deventer (d. 1575). Margins slightly foxed and slightly discoloured along the fold, otherwise in very good condition. F. van Ortoy, L’oeuvre cartographique de Gérard et de Corneille d Jode, p. 117; Vredenburg- Alink, Kaarten van Gelderland 5.

65 La Borde's famous and richly illustrated encyclopaedic account of music, with essays on the music of Egypt, Turkey, Persia and Arabia

114. LA BORDE, Jean-Benjamin de. Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne. With: (2) [LA BORDE, Jean-Benjamin de]. Mémoires sur les proportions musicales, le genre énarmonique des Grecs et celui des modernes … Supplément a l'Essai sur la musique. Paris, printed by Denys Pierres and sold by Eugène Onfroy, 1870–1781. 2 works in 4 volumes. 4º. Each title-page with engraved vignette, numerous engraved head- and tailpieces, letterpress music notes, 3 folding letterpress tables and 463 engraved plates (several folding). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spines. € 14 000

Very rare first edition of a wide-ranging account of music, finely illustrated and including complete compositions by Claude le Jeune, Lassus, Ronsard and several others. It "remains an extremely valuable source of information on 18th-century music, as well as that of earlier periods and its his- toriography" (Fend). La Borde, a popular composer, writer and farm tax collector, assembled a vast amount of information on music, both European and non-European. The first volume describes, amongst others, the music of Chaldea, Egypt, Persia, Turkey and Arabia, followed by chapters on individual instruments, with illustrations of a marabba, tambura, semendsje, and a surma. Volumes 2-4 are devoted to composition and songs and the supplement describes harmony and proportion, concluding with the engraved text and music of a song, with the several parts ("basse", "taille" and "haute contre") engraved separately. Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734–1794) studied the violin with Dauvergne and composition with the great Jean-Philippe Rameau. He composed many "opéras comiques" and wrote a number of books on topography, music, history and literature, but he is best remembered as the author of the present encyclopaedic work on music. In very good condition. A renowned work on music, attractively bound in contemporary calf. Cohen 538; Fétis II, 26; Honegger II, 682; for La Borde: Fend, "La Borde, Jean-Benjamin de", in: Grove Music Online.

Colour-printed mezzotints of the brain of an unborn child: pioneering work of 4-colour printing

115. LADMIRAL, Jan and Frederik RUYSCH. Icon durae matris in concavâ superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani ... desumtae. With: (2) LADMIRAL, Jan and Frederik RUYSCH. Icon durae matris in convexâ superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani ... desumtae. Leiden, Dirk Haak; Amsterdam, Jacob Graal, Hendrik de Leth, 1738. 2 volumes. 4º. With 2 title-pages, each with the same engraved illustra- tion by l'Admiral (a seated skeleton left, facing a putto on a table with specimens in jars of fixative right, the sun at the putto's hand), and each with a different colour-printed mezzotint, each printed from 4 plates (3 colours plus black, ca. 17 × 12.5 cm) by Jan Ladmiral after Frederik Ruysch, pasted on inside of back wrapper, with green background and gilt border. Later stiff paper wrappers. € 12 500

First editions of two anatomical descriptions of parts of the brain of a fetus, originally preserved and drawn by the Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch and here colour printed by Jan Ladmiral. They are pioneering applications of colour printing, among of the earliest colour-printed anatomical illustrations. The first depicts the interior brain tissue of a fetus about 8 months after conception, The second (which refers to the other as already published) shows the surface tissue of the same brain. Each gives the explanation of the plate in Latin, French and Dutch, These explanations also note that the illustrations are not painted but "tot verwondering" (amazingly) printed at a press "door een ongehoorde konst" (by use of an unprecedented art). The painter Jan Ladmiral (1698–1773) and his brother Jacob were pupils and assistants of Jacob Christoph le Blon in London, who invented the method of mezzotint colour printing. It seems that when Ladmiral offered his services to the famous Albinus in Leiden, he presented this technique as entirely new and his own, without ever mentioning Le Blon. Ladmiral produced 6 such anatomical illustra- tions for 6 separate publications, later published together under the joint title: Anatomische voorwerpen door Jan Ladmiral. With the letterpress leaves browned, but the illustration in very good condition. Franklin, Colour printing, pp. 41–42, items 3 & 4; Landwehr, Coloured Plates 107 (mistakenly giving the title of 108) & 108; Lilly library 101; STCN (8 & 7 copies); Wellcome Lib., p. 428; not in Norman Library.

66 More than 550 emblems explained

116. LA FEUILLE, Daniel de. Essay d'un dictionnaire contenant la connoissance du monde, des sciences universelles, et particulierement celle des medailles, des passions, des moeurs, des vertus et des vices, &c. Representé par des figures hyerogliphiques, expliquées en prose & en vers. Wesel, Jacobus van Wesel, 1700. 4º. With engraved frontispiece and 48 engraved plates (incl. 2 double-page). Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 1250

First edition, Wesel issue, of an extensive collection of emblems compiled by Daniel de la Feuille (ca. 1640–1706). The text leaves explain all the emblems displayed in the plates, and each explanation is preceded by a four-line verse in French. The first plate is an engraved title-page, followed by 9 plates with 4 emblems, each accompanied by a banderole with a motto in Latin. Next are 36 plates with 15 small circular emblems with a Latin word within the emblem. They show allegorical and symbolic depictions of words and concepts like logic, freedom, humility, blood, the seasons, the months etc. Also included are two double-page plates with 65 portraits of French kings. With bookplate and library stamps. Slightly browned with some occasional spots and foxing. Binding chafed at corners and hinges cracked. Overall a good copy. Adams, Rawles and Saunders F.362; Landwehr, Emblem and fable books, 437; Praz, p. 393.

Colour-printed emblematic polemics for and against war with the Ottoman Empire

117. [LA HAYE, Jean de]. Peristromata Turcica, sive dissertatio emblematica, praesentem Europae statum ingeniosis coloribus repraesentans. With: (2) [HARSDÖRFFER, Georg Philipp]. Germania deplorata, sive relatio, qua pragmatica momenta belli pacisque expenduntur. (3) [MILAG, Martin]. Aulaea Romana, contra Peristromata Turcica expansa: sive dissertatio emblematica, concordiae Christianae omen repraesentans. (4) [Anonymous French critic of Cardinal RICHELIEU]. Gallia deplorata, sive relatio, de luctuoso bello, quod rex Christianissimus contra vicinos populos molitur. [Nürnberg, Wolfgang Endter] (ad 1 with a false colophon: Paris, Toussaint du Bray), 1641–1642. 4 editions published together in 1 volume. 4º. With 2 engraved title-plates plus 12 full-page engraved emblematic illustrations, all on integral leaves, each with a small plate nested in a larger plate (7 in the Peristromata with a varying plate black and the same outer plate of a Persian carpet in orange). Gold-tooled light brown calf (ca. 1820?) by Charles Murton in London. € 25 000

Rare first and only Latin editions (probably the first and only early editions in any language) of four closely related polemical pamphlets on European policy toward the Ottoman Empire. The publication was instigated by the prominent Nürnberg poet and jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607–1658), who somehow got access to the French manuscripts of the pro-RichelieuPeristromata Turcica (Turkish carpets), and the anti-Richelieu Gallia deplorata, translated them into Latin, edited them for publication and added what is believed to be his own anti-French Latin rebuttal of the former, Germania deplorata. On 26 November 1641 he sent all three to the Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, founding president of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft in Weimar, who found the Peristromata Turcica shocking and dangerous, not only for its content but also because its remarkable and "seductive" graphic form. At a spring 1642 meeting of the society Ludwig initiated the writing and production of an emblematic rebuttal, the Aulaea Romana (Roman ). Besides the political importance of these pamphlets as records of differing European attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire, they are remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing and important emblemata. With owner's inscription of the lawyer and diplomat Georg Achatz Heher (1601–1667) and bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839–1909), one of the greatest book collectors of all time. With the last quires (E-H) of the Aulaea Romana misbound following the last quire (G) of Gallia. With a small marginal worm hole in the first work and the first leaves of the second, and an occasional small marginal chip or tear, but still in good condition. The binding with cracks in the hinges and some wear at the extremities, but otherwise good. Although these four editions were clearly designed to be published together, only about a dozen complete sets are known to survive, nearly all in Germany, Austria and Poland. Faber de Four 497–500; Praz, pp. 448–449; M. Reinhart, "Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and the emblematic pamphlets of 1641–42... ", in: Emblemata XX (2013), pp. 313–376 & XXI (2014), pp. 277–375; Stijnman & Savage, p. 46 (ad 1); not in Atabey; Blackmer.

67 Extremely rare work on the Dutch East Indies, together with 2 translations of a Chinese fable by Pétrus Ky

118. LANDES, Charles Célestin Anthony. Les Indes orientales Néerlandaises[.] Conférences faites au Collège des Interprètes. With: (2) [KY, Pétrus]. Ngô Báo An abandonne sa famille pour sauver son ami. (3) [KY, Pétrus]. L'heureuse rencontre du tableau des hibiscus. Saigon, Collège des Interprètes, 1885–1886. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4º (26.5 × 21.5 cm). Photo-engraved reproduction of a manuscript in two hands. Late 19th-century half calf, richly gold-tooled spine. Sold

A contemporary photo-engraved reproduction of a 19th-century manuscript in three parts, by two authors from the Saigon interpreters college. Since the binding dates from the late 19th-century, the manuscripts must have been reproduced soon after they were written down in 1885/1886 and they may have been written explicitly for reproduction. Ad 1: The first work is a lecture on the Dutch East Indies by the Frenchman Charles Célestin Anthony Landes, director of the college of interpreters in Saigon. It contains chapters about each of the islands that belong to the archipelago: Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, and some other small islands. For each island it gives an extensive description of the people, the government, the products, etc. Furthermore it contains chapters about the general geography, climate, the physical constitution, the natural products, minerals and fauna. Cordier mentions an autograph without giving a location. The online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France records the only printed copy we have located. Ad 2-3: The other two parts are translations of two stories from the Chinese fable Chin-ku chi-kuan ("wonders of the present and the past") translated by the well- known Vietnamese scholar Pétrus Ky (1837–1898), who was also associated with the Saigon interpreters college. Jean Bouchot called him "the only scholar in Indochina and even the modern China". Very good copy, flyleaves slightly foxed and spine a bit rubbed. Ad 1: Cordier, Indosinica, col. 1710 (autograph); ad 2-3: not in Cordier, Indosinica.

Notebook of a pupil of the orientalist Louis-Mathieu Langlès, learning the Persian language

119. [L A NG L È S, Louis-Mathieu]. [Wrapper title:] Cahier de langue Persanne. Dicte par le citoyen Lenglés. An 7e de la Republique. Paris, 1799. 4º (23 × 18.5 cm). Manuscript on paper, also including a leaf with a letterpress table of the Latin and Arabic alphabet, entitled "Alphabetum Arabicum". Contemporary plain paper wrappers. € 5000

Manuscript notebook of a student learning the Persian language, apparently one of the pupils of the French philologist and orientalist Louis-Mathieu Langlès (1763–1824) as indicated by the note on the wrapper. Most of the leaves contain either longer text passages or lists of cases or glossaries, with text in Latin and Persian script. Langlès had studied Arabic and Persian, and "played a leading part in the foundation of the Ecole spéciale des langues orientales vivantes, an institution that was unusual in teaching spoken languages ..." (Irwin). He became the first head of the school after its foundation. With pencil notes on the back of the paper wrappers. Slightly browned and with some occasional spots or ink blotches. Paper wrappers slightly soiled. Overall in good condition. Cf. R. Irwin, For lust of knowing: the orientalists and their enemies (2006), pp. 137, 141.

68 Curious and rare treatise on a newly-invented life belt: author’s annotated copy

120. LANQUER, Richard. Le naufrage sans peril, ou l'invention d'une machine qu'on peut porter à la poche, qui nous fait passer les rivieres tous vestus, & ester plusieurs jours sur la mer, sans aucun péril pour nostre vie, & sans moüiller nos armes ny nos habits. Paris, printed by C. Blageart, 1675. 8º. Modern light brown half cloth, with original paper wrappers mounted on sides. € 4500

Author's annotated copy of the extremely rare first and only edition of Lanquer's treatise on his newly-invented life belt, known in early dictionaries as a "Lanquerre" and described on the title-page as a "machine that fits in a pocket and allows travelling on rivers and seas without any danger to life, and without wetting weapons and clothes". Brunet describes it as "Pièce curieuse et d'une grande rareté" and mentions a copy withdrawn from the De Lassize auction. That is clearly the present copy, for the auction catalogue notes it is annotated by the author, quoting a manuscript comment on page 22: "Laquelle machine depuis que j'ai mon privilége, j'ai encore tellement perfectionnée que c'est à présent un prodige. [etc]". The treatise is also mentioned in Thevenot's classic swimming manualL'art de nager. With bookplate. Some minor wear in the corners, otherwise in very good condition. Brunet, Suppl. I, col. 775; Cat. … la bibliothèque de M.H. de Lassize (1867), no. 1363 (this copy); Thomas, Swimming, p. 74; WorldCat (3 copies).

Autograph of La Pérouse requesting 340 metres of canvas for his schooner

121. LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup de. [Short autograph note signed by La Pérouse]. [At sea, ca. 1781–1785]. Short manuscript note in ink on a small sheet of laid paper (12 × 13.5 cm). € 22 500

An exceptionally rare autograph note signed by the great French explorer La Pérouse. The extraordinary story and achievements of La Pérouse are well known, and recounted in the handsome official account of his expedition. However, because he was lost without trace mid-voyage, manuscript material relating to his life is very rare indeed. In the present note La Pérouse asks that his boat be given an impressive 286 "aunes" of canvas which is needed on board. An "aune" is an old-fashioned French measure usually translated as ell or cubit: its length could vary but the normal French/Parisian aune was about 118 cm, meaning that La Pérouse is in fact asking for about 340 metres of canvas. The sheer quantity of the request speaks to La Pérouse having written the note while in charge of a large vessel. The document is counter-signed and noted as "delivered" by one "Deletombe": it seems very likely that this is Philippe-André-Joseph de Létombe, who arrived in the United States in 1781, and was the French Consul in Boston and a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson. If this identification is correct, the note would possibly date from La Pérouse's cruising in the West Indies and along the coast to Hudson Bay in 1781 and 1782. With old folds, clearly and legibly written and docketed; in very good condition.

69 First Dutch translation of voyages in search of a by Munk, Frobisher and Lindenau, illustrated by Van Sichem

122. [LA PEYRÈRE, Isaac de]. [MUNK, FROBISHER and LINDENAU]. Drie voyagien gedaen na Groenlandt, om te ondersoecken of men door de Naeuwte Hudson soude konnen seylen; om alsoo een doorvaert na Oost-Indien te vinden. Alle ten versoecke van Christianus de IIII. Koningh van Denemarcken, &c. de eerste door Joan Monnick, de tweede door Marten Forbisser[!], ende de derde door Gotske Lindenau. Als mede een beschryvinghe, hoe, en op wat wijse men walvisschen vanght. Item, een korte beschrijvingh van Groenlandt, met de manieren en hoedanicheden der inwoonderen aldaer. Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [ca. 1665]. 4º. With woodcut vignette of ships on title-page, 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves (1 full-page signed by Christoffel van Sichem IV and 9 half-page and smaller with his monogram). Late 19th-cen- tury vellum. € 28 500

First Dutch translation of the accounts of three voyages to Greenland by Jens Munk (John Monck), Martin Frobisher and Godske Lindenau, searching for a passage to the East Indies through the Hudson Strait. Also containing a description of Greenland and an account of whaling (including an unsigned illustration of a beached sperm whale), with new illustrations by Christoffel van SichemIV (1642–1693). It is a Dutch translation of La Peyrère's 1647 Relation du Groenland (1647), via the somewhat abbreviated German translation published in Hulsius's 1650 collection, which contains the additional description of and a discourse on whaling. La Peyrère included revised versions of Jens Munk's account of his voyage to Hudson Bay, originally published in Navigatio septentrionalis (1624), and the accounts of voyages by Martin Frobisher and Godske Lindenau. Red armorial library stamp of the Forschungsstelle Volk und Raum on the title-page: this was a research institute active at The Hague during the occupation of The Netherlands by Nazi Germany. Good copy. Alden & Landis 663/79; Tiele, Mém. 256; Sabin 28641 & 51334; STCN (4 copies); cf. Howgego, to 1800, F80-F81, L128 and M180.

South Africa at the beginning of the 19th century

123. LATROBE, Charles Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4º. With folding map (53 × 27 cm), partly hand- coloured, 12 full-page hand-coloured aquatints, and 4 full-page engravings. Later half calf. € 2950

First edition of a voyage to South Africa by Latrobe on behalf of the Moravian Church to visit the mis- sionaries at Genadendal and Groenekloof and to search for locations to establish new mission- aries. There is a full description of the district of Groenekloof and of the missionary settlements north of Cape Town. Latrobe travelled from Genadedal via Zwellendam, Zeekogat, Welgelegen, Uitenhage to the Witter River and thence to the Little Fish River, visiting Plettenberg Bay and Mossel Bay on the way back. The fine plates show mostly scenic views. Some browning and spotting. A good copy. Abbey, Travel 325; Mendelssohn I, pp. 866–867; Tooley, Coloured plates 292.

70 Illustrated eye-witness accounts and tall tales: sixty years of a sailor's world travels

124. LE BLANC, Vincent. De vermaarde reizen van de heer Vincent Le Blanc van Marsilien, die hy sedert d'ouderdom van veertien jaren, tot aan die van zestig, in de vier delen des werrelts gedaan heeft ... Amsterdam, Jan Hendricksz. Boom, Jan Rieuwertsz., 1654. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4º. With engraved title-page and 7 engraved plates. 19th-century boards. € 4500

First Dutch edition and first illustrated edition in any language of a colourful account of the author's travels through Persia (Iran), Arabia, Burma (Myanmar), the East Indies, and in the second part Morocco, Guinea, the African interior, the Cape, Constantinople (Istanbul), the Middle East, North and South America and even China. It was first published in French as Les voyages fameux (Paris, 1648) and here translated by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker (1620–1682). Le Blanc (ca. 1553–ca. 1633), born in Marseille, took to sea for the Middle East at age fourteen and sailed all over the world for 64 years. His stories, a mixture of his genuine experiences with fantasy, were revised for the press by Pierre Bergeron. He and the author present them in an enter- taining manner. With two bookplates. An occasional very faint spot or slight browning, but otherwise in fine condition. A feast for the armchair traveller. Borba de Moraes I, p. 460; Sabin 39592; STCN (9 copies); Tiele, Bibl. 647.

A "short but weighty treatise" on protozoa and spermatozoa, with a section on microscopes and 6 plates

125. LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius. Versuch zu einer grundlichen Vertheidigung derer Saamenthiergen; nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung derer Leeuwenhoeckischen Mikroskopien und einem Entwurf zu einer vollständigern Geschichte des Sonnenmikroskopes, als besten Rechtfertigung derer Leeuwenhoeckischen Beobachtungen. Nuremberg, G.P. Monath, 1758. 4º. With 6 engraved plates. Contemporary wrappers. € 1650

First and only edition of a "short but weighty treatise" (Meyer) on protozoa and spermatozoa by the German natural historian Martinus Frobenius Ledermüller (1719–1769). He wrote the essay as a defence of his earlier publication Physicalische Beobachten derer Saamenthiergens (1756). "Ledermüller's brief as well as his comprehensive treatises were accompanied by numerous good illustrations both of spermatozoa and of the microscopes he used, of which he was a connoisseur" (Meyer). Included at the end is a short description of Leeuwenhoek microscopes. Foxed throughout. Bookblock detached from paper wrappers. Otherwise in good condition with untrimmed edges. Cole 1694; A.M. Meyer, The rise of embryology, pp. 151–152; Nissen, ZBI 2412.

Journal of a 1674/75 overland voyage through India, Iran, Iraq and Syria to Amsterdam

126. LEEUWENSON, Joannes (Pieter Arend LEUPE, ed. & intro.). Eene overlandreis uit Indië naar Nederland, in 1674–1675. [Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1863]. 8º. Offprint, retaining the original pagination and collation, of an article in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6 (1863). 20th-century stiff paper wrappers, with a printed label on the front. € 1250

71 First publication of the manuscript journal of Joannes Leeuwenson's 1674/75 overland journey from Colombo (Ceylon/Sri Lanka), along the west coast of India to Banda Abbas (Iran, at the Strait of Hormuz), Basra (Iraq), Aleppo (Syria), and Iskenderun (Turkey), then on to Livorno (Italy), and through Italy and Germany to Amsterdam. The manuscript itself is titled "Daghregister van de Landreijs, gedaeen bij mij Joannes Leeuwenson, ..." Although described as an journey over land, parts naturally had to be made by sea as well, and Leeuwenson names numerous ships in the various Dutch fleets, as well as the enemy ships they encountered. He quotes in full (4 pp.) the letter with orders given to him by VOC director François de Haese at Banda Abbas as well as several other letters he received or wrote. He gives a detailed description of the terrain and the difficulties in finding and acquiring supplies, beasts of burden, etc., and relates his encounters with Persians, Ottomans and other Islamic peoples. In very good condition. An important early journal of an overland voyage through India, Iran and the Middle East.

First edition of Le Maire’s journal and first Dutch edition of Herrera’s description of the New World, with 19 newly engraved maps, including the first two to show California as an island

127. LE MAIRE, Jacob. Spieghel der Australische navigatie, ... Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622. With an engraved world map on the title-page, engraved portrait of the author on the back of the title-page, 3 double-page engraved maps, 5 nearly full-page numbered engraved views on integral leaves. With: (2) HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. Nieuwe werelt, anders ghenaempt West-Indien. [engraved title-page:] Descriptio Indiae Occidentlis. Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622. With engraved Latin title-page and 14 numbered double-page engraved maps. (3) ORDONEZ DE CEBALLOS, Pedro. Eyghentlijcke beschryvinghe van West-Indien: … Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1621. With a woodcut view on the title-page. 3 volumes bound as 1. Small 2º (28.5 × 20 cm). 19th-century vellum. € 28 000

First edition, in the original Dutch, of Jacob Maire's journal of his famous 1615–1617 voyage to circumnavigate the globe, together with the first Dutch edition of Herrera's description of the New World, and the first Dutch edition of Ordóñez de Caballos's description of the what was then called the West Indies (in fact including material on South and Central America). Le Maire's discoveries showed for the first time that Tierra del Fuego was an island and advanced our topographic knowledge on many other matters. The three works together include 19 maps and give the most detailed and up-to-date information then available about the topography of the Americas and parts of New Guinea, the East Indies and the Pacific islands. It also contains the first two maps to show the Baja peninsula and southern California as an island, an error that was copied for more than a century. These two new maps also show the non-existent northwest passage. Maps A-C (Tierra del Fuego, the South Pacific and the coast of New Guinea) include the route of Le Maire's voyage. The map of the Americas (with parts of the coasts of China and West Africa) includes the meridians that divided the world between Spain and Portugal according to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas . With the bookplate of the great Dutch book collector Isaac Meulman (1807–1868) and several owners' inscriptions. With a few leaves trimmed close to the folio number but with no loss beyond one full point, and an occasional minor spot, smudge or small stain, but otherwise in very good condition. The boards are slightly bowed and show a few spots and smudges, with one corner bumped, but the binding is otherwise very good. A milestone in the history of exploration, especially for the America's, with 19 maps including the first two to show California as an island. Alden & Landis 622/77, 622/69, 621/93; Howgego L84; Palau 114296; Robert, Bibl. of 433 & p. 109 between 529 & 530; Sabin 14348, 14352, 14353, 31542, 44059; Tiele, Bibl. 479.

72 Detailed itineraries and maps for travel to, in and around New Caledonia, printed in New Caledonia

128. LEMIRE, Charles. La colonisation Française en Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances; … Paris, Challamel ainé (colophon: Nouméa, Imprimerie du Gouvernement), [1878/79]. Including: LEMIRE, Charles. Itinéraire kilométrique voyage à pied en N[ouve]lle Calédonie … 1877. Nouméa, lithographed by Ernest Melin, [ca. 1878]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 4º (22 × 17 cm). With 1 original photo- graphic albumen print with a view of Nouméa; 3 (of 4) folding lithographed maps (1 tinted, 2 chromolithographed); 3 chalk lithographic views of indigenous New Caledonians by Ernest Melin (2 tinted); 2 lithographic illustrations; and 2 extra folding double-tinted lithographic plates. Bound with the wholly lithographic Itinéraire kilométrique: LXXIII pages on 37 leaves, also called for in the list of plates. The general map of New Caledonia is lacking. Later black goatskin morocco. € 3500

An extremely detailed guide book for French colonists trav- elling to and/or living on the island of New Caledonia or the surrounding islands, about 1600 kilometres east of Australia, by Charles Lemire (1839–1912), a French government official with responsibility for both telegraphy and colonization. Though the book was published in Paris the text and most of the plates, as well as the accompanying lithographic Itinéraire were printed in Nouméa in New Caledonia. It provides detailed information about both the voyage from France to New Caledonia and life in New Caledonia. The 73-pageItinéraire kilométrique bound at the end gives an extremely detailed itinerary for an 1100 kilometre walk around the perimeter of New Caledonia. Several pages with owner's stamp. Lacking the general map of New Caledonia. The world map has torn at the folds and been repaired with tape. The book and theItinéraire bound with it are further complete and in good condition, some browning and with an occasional tear. An extraordinary source of information on New Caledonia ca. 1878. De Indische gids 1 (1879), p. 672; not in Ferguson; Robert; Wantrupl.

First western book on bonsai trees

129. LIEGELSTEINER, George. Wohlgezogener Zwerg-Baum oder Gründlicher Unterricht wie die Frantz- Bäume gewartet werden müssen, … Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1747. 8º. With woodcut frontispiece, 8 engraved figures on 1 folding plate, and about 30 woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 3500

Very rare last and most extensive edition of the first Western book on the cultivation of dwarf trees, exten- sively illustrated. All editions are very rare and this important and remarkably early account appears to have been wholly overlooked in the botanical, arbocultural and horticultural literature. "[Liegelsteiner] under- stands tree physiology like only a small minority of bonsai enthusiasts today" (Walter Pall). The technique he describes is exactly the traditional "Chinese" technique, and he explains in detail how, when and where to clip both roots and branches, advises transplanting trees regularly, notes correct and incorrect clipping techniques, gives instructions for correcting a lopsided tree, and for encouraging the bearing of tasty fruit. He also includes a chapter on training peach, apricot, plum and cherry trees on latticework, and an 8-page appendix (apparently new to this edition) on improving poor soil and enhancing wood growth. The 9-page "Vorrede" by an unidentified hortophile, also apparently new, gives valuable and detailed information about the introduction of the cultivation of dwarf trees to the European gardens. With a manuscript shelf(?) number on title-page, otherwise in very good condition. Endpapers browned, and binding slightly rubbed, but still good. WorldCat (8 copies); cf. W. Pall, "Dwarf Trees of George Liegelsteiner", Bonsai Magazine III, pp. 38–39 (1725 ed.); not in Arnold Arboretum; BMC NH; Nissen; Pritzel; etc.

73 Beautifully illustrated work on orchids, with 812 colour plates

130. LINDEN, Jean, Lucien LINDEN and Émile RODIGAS. Lindenia. Iconographie des orchidées. , F. Meyer-Van Loo (parts 1–2); Eugene vander Haeghen (parts 3–17), 1885–1901. 17 parts in 16 volumes. 2º. With 812 (of 813) chromolithographed plates (including 12 double-page plates), many highlighted with gum arabic, by P. de Pannemaeker, J. Goffart, S. de Leeuw, G. Severeyns and others, mostly after Alphonse Goossens. All plates protected by tissue guards. Uniform half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. All but the second volume including the original publisher’s printed paper wrappers. Sold

First edition of the complete run of an extensive and beautiful print series on orchids, compiled by the Belgian botanist and orchid-collector Jean Jules Linden (1817–1898), director of the botanical garden of Brussels. Linden travelled through South America, Mexico and Cuba from 1835 to 1840 to collect plants, discovering, amongst others, the “ghost orchid” (Dendrophylax lindenii) in Cuba, later named after him. The present work includes 812 chromolithographed plates each showing a different species of orchid, each followed by one or two pages of descriptive text. Most of the illustrations are based on drawings and watercolours by the botanical illustrator Alphonse Goossens (1866–1944). The plates were issued in two series, the first from 1885 to 1894 (parts 1–10), and the second from 1895 to 1901 (parts 11–17). Lacking plate 28 (Cattleya aurea) in the first volume, but text and plates otherwise in very good condition, with only some of the margins slightly browned. Bindings rubbed along the extremities, but otherwise good. GFB, p. 160; Nissen, BBI 2348; Stafleu & Cowan 4628.

74 Drawing of a scene on the Coromandel Coast for an engraving in a book by Johann Georg Jacobi

131. LIPS, Johann Heinrich. Die Küste Coromandel. [Zürich, 1803]. Pen drawing (10.3 × 6.3 cm) in grey ink with washes on paper (12.5 × 8.5 cm), signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the illustration and with the title in pencil in the lower margin. The whole mounted on a larger paper leaf (with notes: "dessin no 522" and "Lips f." in ink), with a passepartout and in a gilt wooden frame. € 6500

Skilfully executed pen and ink drawing by the notable Swiss draughtsman Johann Heinrich Lips (1758–1817), showing a naval officer on a tropical beach on the Coromandel Coast, being welcomed by four half-naked local women with their five children. In the background are three native men in a small rowing boat touching the beach. The present drawing was made for an illustration in Johann Georg Jacobi's Iris. Ein Taschenbuch für 1804 to accompany a text by Franz Xaver Schnetzler titled "Le Vaillant und Mungo Park" (pp. 157–184). The illustration was engraved by Lips himself and contains, besides the caption "Die Küste von Coromandel", the subtitle "Au seiner französischen Handschrift", suggesting the drawing was made after one found in a French manuscript. Slightly browned along the edges of the paper (covered by the passepartout) and a few tiny specks. Otherwise in very good condition. Cf. Andreas Klein, Johann Georg Jacobi (2012), 359; Nagler VIII, pp. 555–558; Thieme & Becker XXXIII, p. 279.

"the finest work on seventeenth-century Thailand"

132. LOUBÈRE, Simon de la. Du Royaume de Siam. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1691. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12º. With the same woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, 17 double-page engraved plates with printed music, Siamese alphabets, inhabitants etc., 21 full-page engraved plates, engraved headpiece and several woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. € 8950

Second edition, published in the same years as the first, of a comprehensive work on the history of the kingdom of Siam, "Universally regarded as the finest work on seventeenth-century Thailand" (Wyatt). The French diplomat Simon de La Loubère (1642–1729) was appointed as LouisXIV 's envoy extraordinary to the court of Siam, and while he stayed in Siam for only three months he diligently and systemically asked questions, "probably stimulated by the Jesuit scientists who accompanied the mission to take more than a passing interest in Siamese cosmology, astronomy, and mathematics" (Lach & Van Kley). Loubère compensated his short stay with a thorough study of earlier writers, referring to twenty-three European authors from Pinto to Gervaise in the first volume and collecting French translations of native works in the second. Besides presenting information on Siam itself, Loubère also incorporates information on India and China and their influence on Siam's past. With the armorial bookplate of Anton Ernst Burckhard van Birckenstein (active 1686–1744) on pastedown. Very good copy. STCN (6 copies); Walravens 92; cf. Lach & Van Kley III, pp. 1194–1196; Wyatt, "Introduction" in: A new historical relation of the Kingdom of Siam (1966).

Second copy located of 1524 edition of Erasmus's translation of Lucianus's Dialogues

133. LUCIANUS SAMOSATENSIS. Complures Lucani dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo utriusq[ue] linguae doctissimo in latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus. cum tabula ... (Colophon: Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524). Small 8º (15 × 10.5 cm). With the main text set in an Aldine-style italic, the long commentary following each dialogue in a "Basel"-style roman and 2 words in Greek. 18th-century half vellum. € 5950

75 Extremely rare fourth Buscoducensis edition of Erasmus's Latin translation of satirical dialogues by Lucianus Samosatensis (2nd cent. AD), the most important Greek author of the second gener- ation of the Sophists. Taken from his Dialogues of the dead and Dialogues of the gods, they satirize many human vices as well as mocking the Homeric picture of the gods. Erasmus worked on the translation with Thomas More in the first years of the 16th century and published it in 1506. We have located only one other copy of the present edition, at the Rotterdam Municipal Library. With some contemporary marginal annotations, extensive on a few pages, and Latin proverbs and sayings on the blank verso of the last leaf. In good condition, with only very minor browning and the margins of a few leaves slightly dirty. Nijhoff & Kronenberg 1401 (1 copy); Erasmus Roterodamus Catalogus tentoonstelling 1936, p. 52 (Rotterdam Mun. Lib. copy).

Pioneering study of Ethiopia, by the future master of the subject

134. LUDOLF, Job. Sciagraphia historiae Aethiopicae, sive regni Abessinorum, quod vulgo perperam Presbyteri Johannis vocatur, deo volente, aliquando in lucem proditurae. Jena, Samuel Krebs, 1676. 4º. Set in roman types with some italic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and especially Ethiopic type. Late 19th-century textured blue half cloth. € 9500

First and only edition of a brief history of Ethiopia by Job Ludolf (1624–1704), who was to become the leading Ethiopic scholar of his generation. Since the 1640s Ludolf had been working in Gotha in the diplomatic service of Duke Ernst I of Sachsen-Gotha, who encouraged his Ethiopic studies, and since 1675 in the service of his son and successor Friedrich I. He is best known for his monumental history of Ethiopia, Historia Aethiopica (Frankfurt, 1681, with sup- plemental works to 1694). The present little book is his first publication seriously devoted to the history of Ethiopia and marks the beginning of the work that was to lead to his magnum opus. With bookplate, owner's inscription and library stamp. Foxed and browned, especially in the last 2 leaves. A pioneering early work by the leading Ethiopic scholar of his generation. VD17, 12:150041K; Winterton collection of East Africa & Zanzibar (2002), p. 29; not in Gay.

Arabic fables by “the greatest figure in the whole corpus of pre-Islamic myth and legend”, second edition, incorporating Erpenius’s manuscript revisions to his first edition

135. LUQMAN AL-HAKIM (notes by Thomas ERPENIUS). Fabulae et selecta quaedam Arabum adagia. Cum interpretatione latina & notis Thomae Erpenii. Leiden, Joannes Maire (colophon: "excudebat" Willem Christiaens van der Boxe, "typis" Johannes Janssonius), 1636. 4º. With Maire's woodcut device on the title-page and Van der Boxe's woodcut device above the colophon. Early 19th-century boards covered with blue brocade paper. € 6500

Second edition, in the original Arabic with a Latin translation and notes by Thomas Erpenius (1584–1624), of the classic fables by Luqman (Lokman). Luqman "the greatest figure in the whole corpus of pre-Islamic myth and legend" (Cambridge history of Arabic literature, p. 378) is to Arabic what Aesop is to Greek, a real but much mythologized figure, said to have gathered his wisdom from observation of (and by some accounts conversation with) animals. Surat 31 of the Quran is named after him. Luqman's animal fables became an important part of pre-Islamic Arabic culture, were incorporated into early Islamic culture and remain popular today in both Western and Islamic culture. The fables are first given in Arabic, followed by a translation in Latin and Erpenius's notes. Erpenius, appointed professor of Arabic at Leiden University in 1613, set up a printing office for Arabic and other "oriental" languages and had Arabic type cut under his supervision by Arent Corsz. Hogenacker. He printed the first edition of Luqman's fables as his first trial publication, still without vowel points for the Arabic type. He annotated his own copy of the first edition

76 extensively, and these revisions were incorporated into the present second edition, printed with vowel points. The present edition uses a new Arabic type, also by Hogenacker. The larger Arabic type (a single line on the title-page) was also new and this is almost its only use in the Netherlands. Some manuscript notes on the title-page and later owner's pencil notes in Arabic in margins and on final flyleaf. Lower outer corner torn off title-page, some marginal thumbing and waterstains and a few small wormholes. Otherwise in good condition. Definitive edition of Erpenius's seminal Luqman text, bringing the greatest Arabic fables to the Western World. J.A. Lane, "Arent Corsz Hogenacker", in: Quaerendo XXV (1995), pp. 83–111, 163191, at p. 174; Smitskamp, Philologia orientalis 70); STCN (3 or 4 copies); for Luqman: A.F.L. Beeston et al., eds., Cambridge history of Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period (1983), pp. 378–381.

Ottens reprint from the plates of the 1695 pirated edition of the most famous book by the Luykens, fine copy

136. LUYKEN, Jan & Caspar and Anthony JANSSEN van ter GOES. Afbeelding der menschelyke bezigheden, bestaande in hondert onderscheiden printverbeeldingen. Amsterdam, Reinier & Josua Ottens, [ca. 1726/50]. 4º. With richly engraved emblematic frontispiece, engraved publish- er's device on title-page, and 100 numbered engraved plates (plate size ca. 12 × 8 cm) of trades and professions, engraved after the designs by Jan and Caspar Luyken. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, gilt and gauffered edges. € 9500

A wholly engraved edition except for the letterpress title-page, printed by Reinier and Josua Ottens (ca. 1726/50) from the plates of the pirated edition of 1695 of the most celebrated and most famous work of Jan and Caspar Luyken. The plates in the pirated edition may have been engraved from the original Luyken drawings and are not in mirror image. The pirated edition, and consequently our edition as well, is quite differently arranged: all trades and professions are put in alphabetical order, thus presenting a rational and handy dictionary of Dutch contemporary trades and professions. Also the texts are totally different: instead of Luyken's 2-line mottos above and 6-line emblematic poetry below, this edition has single titles engraved above, and an elegant quatrain by the Dutch poet Anthony Janssen van ter Goes (ca. 1626–1699) below. This pirated edition was clearly intended for the very different market of a more worldly public. The depic- tions of the trades and professions themselves are virtually the same, except for the fact that the plates are somewhat firmer and the impressions stronger than in any of the Luykens' editions. With a slip of paper covering the contemporary owner's name. In fine condition, with only an occasional minor spot or marginal defect, and with generous margins (leaf size 20.5 × 16 cm). Fine collection of prints by two of the best Dutch engravers of their day. V. Eeghen & V.d. Kellen 244; Klaversma & Hannema 740; Landwehr, Emblem books Low Countries 531.

A classic history of Dutch commerce worldwide, including Brazil and Surinam

137. LUZAC, Elie. Hollands rijkdom, behelzende den oorsprong van den koophandel, en van de magt van dezen staat;... Leiden, Luzac en Van Damme, 1780–1783. 4 volumes. 8º. With a large folding letterpress table in volume 4. Uniform red half sheepskin, gold-tooled spines with modern title labels. € 1750

First edition of Luzac's classic study on the Dutch commercial expansion, based on Accarias de Sérionne's Le commerce de la Hollande (1768), and still consulted today. Luzac augmented Accarias's work with many historical documents, including the 1621 charter of the , a report of Lieut. Schoppe on the state of Brazil in 1654, and about 37 other documents relating to the WIC and the Dutch colonies in Surinam, Berbice, Essequibo, etc. The second volume is largely devoted to the commerce with America, and includes an extensive chapter on Surinam; Brazil is treated at length in the first volume. Bindings rubbed along the extremities and sides. Text in very good condition with only a few small spots. Borba de Moraes, pp. 501–502; Muller, America 761; Sabin 32521.

77 Charming aquatints of Dutch historical monuments and folklore

138. [M A A SK A M P, Evert (editor)]. Merkwaardige gezigten, gebouwen, monumenten en standbeelden in de noordelijke provintien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. | Vues remarquables, edifices, monumens et statues dans les provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas. Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1816. Oblong 8º. With an engraved illustration on title-page and 37 sepia aquatints by Ludwig Portman after Gerrit Jan Michaëlis, Franciscus Aandreas Milatz, and Cornelius Overman. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue boards. € 1750

Fine copy of the first edition, one of three simultaneously published issues, of a touristic series of aquatint views of the Netherlands, published by Evert Maaskamp (1769–1834). It contains 37 sepia aquatints, showing architecture (including the Royal Palace of Amsterdam and the ruins of the castle at Wijk bij Duurstede), statues of Dutch national heroes such as Michiel de Ruyter and Erasmus, and several cities and harbours: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Broek in Waterland, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Vlissingen etc. Others depict scenes of Dutch culture, like ice skating and a funeral procession. Each aquatint is accompanied by a letterpress leaf explain- ing the illustration in both Dutch and French. Fine copy, only two small stains, not touching the plates, and some subtle, minor restorations to the spine. Landwehr, Coloured plates 369; WorldCat (10 copies, including 2 undated).

Discovery of the Canary Islands in classical Greek and Roman, Arabic and Portuguese sources

139. MACEDO, Joaquim José da Costa de. Memoria em que se pertende provar que os Arabes não conhecerão as Canarias antes dos Portuguezes. Lisbon, printing office of the Academia Real das Sciencias, 1844. 2º. With a woodcut Portuguese coat of arms on the title-page. Modern brown paper wrapper. € 1500

A detailed scholarly study of ancient sources for the history and geography of the Canary Islands, attempting to prove that the Portuguese discovered them before Islamic explorers, and that Islamic geographers knew them only through classical Greek and Roman sources. The main text is followed by extensive notes from a wide variety of sources and transcriptions of numerous primary sources, some in Greek or Arabic. In passing it also provides a wealth of information about navigation in the Mediterranean and Atlantic by classical Greek and Roman and by Islamic explorers. While Macedo's claim for Malocello's discovery of the Canaries in 1336 is no longer accepted, the Islamic geographer Idrisi noted a Portuguese voyage to the Canaries already before 1154. In fine condition and wholly untrimmed, giving very large margins. The modern wrapper is slightly tattered. Porbase (1 copy); cf. Innocêncio IV, 96 and XII, 80 (issue in proceedings); for the author: www.academia.edu/6742675.

Maffei's account of the East and West Indies

140. MAFFEI, Joan Petro. Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri IV. Accessit liber recentiorum epistolarum; à Ioanne Hayo ... Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605. 8º. Contemporary vellum. € 6500

Early 17th-century edition of a classic work on "the Indies", including both the West and East Indies, considered the best (Sabin) and the most complete (Borba de Moraes) of the many Latin editions. Most of Maffei's work is concerned with the Portuguese conquests and the Jesuit stations in India, the East Indies, and regions around the Arabian Sea to about 1557. The first 5 books appear to follow rather closely the model of Barros. Book VI, dealing with China and book XII, which is mainly concerned with Japan, are heavily indebted to Valignano's account of those countries. The second part includes a selection of Jesuit letters written from the Indies and translated by Maffei.

78 The work by John Hay (1546–1618),De rebus Japonicis, Indicis, et Peruanis Epistolae recentiores, called for on the title, is not present as with the most copies. It has its own title-page and was issued (also) separately. Title-page somewhat frayed, some quires a bit browned and some faint marginal water stains, otherwise in very good condition. Lacking endpapers, and top of the spine slightly damaged, otherwise good. Borba de Moraes, p. 509; Cordier, Japonica, col. 64; Sabin 43773 ("The best of the various editions in Latin").

Account of the Haitian revolution, with valuable information on Haitian voodoo

141. MALENFANT (Colonel). Des colonies, et particulièrement de celle de Saint- Domingue; mémoire historique et politique. Paris, Audibert, 1814. 8º. Later half vellum (New, Binder, Eton). € 3500

First edition of a work on the French colony Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti, by the French colonel Malenfant. It starts with an historical background and the causes leading to the Haitian Revolution and the "Haiti massacre" of 1804. Colonel Malenfant led a battalion during the Saint-Domingue expe- dition from 1801 till 1803, initiated by Napoleon and carried out by the French general Charles Leclerc to restore French control of the colony. Describing this expedition, Malenfant gives some unique and valuable information on Haitian voodoo and the role of native women in the revolution. Malenfant's troops, for example, had captured a "great voodoo priestess" (p. 215), who tried to prevent the French troops from finding the revolutionists camps. Other chapters compare the colony of Haiti with other French colonies, including Cayenne and Senegal, discussing methods for creating durable peace and prosperity in Haiti. Some leaves browned or foxed, a few minor marginal waterstains and some bolts unopened. Otherwise a very good copy. M.L. Daut, Tropics of Haiti (2015), pp. 206–207; Sabin 44114.

14th-century tales of travels in Turkey, the Middle East, Near East, India and the East Indies

142. [MANDEVILLE, John]. The travels and voyages of Sir John Mandevile, knt. Containing an exact description of the way to Hierusalem, Great Caan, India, the country of Preston-John, and many other eastern countries: with an account of many strange monsters, and whatever is curious and remarkable therein. London, printed for John Osborne and James Hodges, [1730?]. 12º. With woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustration on title-page and 12 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary sheepskin, subtly rebacked. € 6500

Very rare 18th-century English edition of a classic and partly fictional 14th-century account of travels presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Persia, Arabia, India and the East Indies. According to the story he set off on his travels in 1322 from Saint Albans in England, returned in 1343, wrote the present account in 1364 and died in 1371. It was originally written in French and is thought to have been compiled from various sources by Jehan d'Outremeuse (1338–1400) of Liege. It includes many well-known stories and illustrations of monstrous people and animals in exotic lands. The book also includes genuine descriptions of the regions covered and gave many Europeans their first notions of the Near East, Middle East, India and East Indies. The part on Arabia includes an account of the birth of Mohammed. Slightly browned and with spots throughout, a few smudges, stain in A4/5, three lines on p. 60 struck through and made illegible, apparently the same happened on pp. 79/80 but the part is cut out and replaced with manuscript in pencil, this caused some offsetting on the facing pages. A fair copy. Without pastedowns (possibly never present) and rebacked, as noted. ESTC T100830 (3 copies); Lust 276; WorldCat (1 copy, incomplete).

79 Most complete copy of 1618 edition seen, with 8 armorial plates and 30 views

143. MARCUS, Jacobus. Deliciae Batavicae[.]... Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618. Oblong 8º (text) & small oblong 4º (plates) (14.5 × 19 cm). With 8 engraved armorial plates. These are followed by 30 engraved views or scenes most with a Latin distich at the foot. Interleaved. Sprinkled calf (ca. 1700), gold-tooled spine. € 12 500

The most complete copy we have seen of the 1618 edition of a rare book of noteworthy sights, views, and scenes from daily life and from trade and industry in the Netherlands (primarily Holland). It was intended in part for students to use as an album amicorum. The plates include salting and smoking haring, ship-building, making hemp rope ("cannabis" in Holland in 1618!), Dutch peasants, ice skating, wind-powered and horse-drawn ice sledges, wind-powered carts on the beach and many more. One copy of this edition at Amsterdam University has exactly the same plates as the present, while another copy there, and copies at Leiden University and the Pierpont Morgan Library, have fewer.The heraldic plates vary even more from copy to copy and were probably assembled according to the wishes (and pocketbook) of the buyer. Ours has 8, the Van Stolk copy of the undated edition has 4 and the most complete Leiden copy of the 1616 edition has 7, but each has heraldic plates not in the others. Atlas van Stolk 1027 note; STCN (4 copies); WorldCat (5 copies); cf. Hollstein XXXVIII, C. J. Visscher 116a–120a, 122a–123a (8 views); Muller, Hist. prenten, suppl., 1285B; Simoni, D38.

On the success of missionary work among the indigenous Americans. An early example of American fine binding by one of the best binderies: the Bradstreet Bindery in New York

144. MATHER, Increase. De successu Evangelii apud Indos Occidentales, in Novâ- Angliâ; epistola. Ad cl. virum D. Joannem Leusdenum, linguae sanctae in Ultrajectina Academia professorem, scripta, ... Including: SPECHT, Herman, and others. De successu Evangelii apud Indos Orientales, epistolae aliae conscriptae[.] Tum â D. Hermanno Specht, V.D.M. in urbe Colombo, sitâ in insula Ceilon. Tum etiam, à D. Adriano de Mey, V.D.M. in Jaffanapatnam, sitâ in eadem insula, praefecto Collegii Malabarici; et à D. Francisco Valentino, V.D.M. in Amboina, ad eundem Johannem Leusden. Utrecht, Willem Broedelet, 1699. 8º. Grained, gold-tooled red morocco (ca. 1875?) signed by the Bradstreet Bindery in New York (stamp on the verso of the first free endleaf), with 5 bands on the spine, gold-tooled spine with the author and title in the second compartment, an X-form decoration in each of the others and the publication date at the foot, gold double fillet borders on sides, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on board edges, marbled endpapers. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. € 5000

Third edition known to survive in the original Latin of a letter on the success of spreading the Gospel among the indigenous American Indians, written by Increase Mather, the second of three generations of famous Puritan ministers in Boston and rector of Harvard College, addressed to Johannes Leusden, Professor of Hebrew at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The letter is dated from Boston, 12 July 1687. The present Utrecht edition adds letters to Leusden on the progress of spreading the Gospel among the populations in Ceylon and the East Indies, written by Herman Specht (1684; 1688), Adrianus de Mey (1690; 1692) and Franciscus Valentijn (1686). These additional letters appear here in the first edition of the original Latin known to survive. The work is bound by the Bradstreet Bindery in New York. John M. Bradstreet (1815–1863) established one of the first credit rating companies and they apparently came into through their publishing activities, but when Henry and his siblings took over the firm "fine binding" was largely a European phenomena, William Matthews in New York being the only major American exponent. They carried out work for J.P. Morgan, the Grolier Club and other bibliophiles. In 1883, Du Bois praised their bindings higher than any others in America, noting their "solidity, strength and squareness of workmanship ... Certainly none can put a varied coloured morocco coat on a book, and gild it with greater perfection in choice of ornament and splendor of gold, and with greater care, taste and success, ...". He even hints that they might excel the French and English, then regarded as the best binders. Church's copy of the present edition was also bound by Bradstreet, but in green morocco. Slightly browned, but still in very good condition. The binding has been expertly and unobtrusively rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, and the corners are scuffed, but the binding is otherwise very good. Alden & Landis 699/146; Church 783; for the bindery: Du Bois, Historical essay on the art of bookbinding, 1883, p. 35.

80 Stunning collotypes and chromolithographs of Pompeii wall paintings in situ soon after their excavation

145. MAU, August. Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji … Mit 20 Tafeln in einer Mappe. Berlin, G. Reimer, 1882. 1 text volume & 1 portfolio with plates. 8º (text volume) and 1º (plates portfolio 53 × 43 cm). With 20 large numbered plates showing Pompeii wall paintings in situ, mounted on card stock, loose in a separate portfolio with letterpress title-leaf and contents leaf: 9 sepia collotypes (21 × 16 to 26.5 × 24.5 cm) and 11 chromolith- ographs (21.5 × 19 to 37 × 36 cm), no. 18 actually comprising 7 small chromolithographs on 1 card, each plate with a letterpress label on the back; and 7 black and white floor plans in the text. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment (text); contemporary blue half cloth portfolio (plates). € 7500

First and only edition of a detailed and beautifully colour-illustrated study of Pompeii wall paintings by Augustus Mau, who "knew as much about Pompeii as any other scholar at the time and seems always to have been willing to share the latest information from new excava- tions with visiting scholars" (Pedley, p. 23). In the present book he established the classification scheme still often used today, distinguishing four different styles that he believed represented chronological phases, though this remains a point of dispute among archaeologists. Most importantly his stunning and richly-coloured chromolithographs and detailed collotypes show the wall paintings in situ and in the state they were found during the archaeological excava- tions. Besides their extraordinary beauty and their interest as examples of the scientific use of these reproduction techniques, they therefore also provide an extremely important record of the material, before attempts at restoration, the removal of items from their original context, The portfolio with a contemporary owner's inscription and library stamps. With tears along the gutter fold of the final leaf and a couple others, but otherwise in very good condition, with only an occasional minor spot in the text and probably lacking a final blank leaf. The front board of the portfolio somewhat spotted. A stunning display of Pompeii wall paintings in situ, soon after their excavation. Estelle Lazer, Resurrecting Pompeii (2009), p. 9; John G. Pedley, Life and work of Francis Willey Kelsey (2012), pp. 23–24, 53–55; not in BAL.

Collection of 11 sermons in Maori

146. [M AU NSE L L, Robert]. [A series of sermons]. Including: Ko te Whakapono. | Ko nga Mahi Hou. | Ko te Hapa Tapu. | He mahi aha ta nga Minita. | Ko te inoi a te tahae. | Ko te tino Tohunga Nui. | Ko te Manawanui o Hopa. | Ko te Iriiri Tapu. [Purewa], Church-Mission Press, [1846–1847]. With: (2) [MAUNSELL, Robert]. He patai. [Purewa, 1845?] (3) [WILBERFORCE, Samuel and William COLENSO? (translator)]. Te Motu Kohatu. Purewa, St John's College, 1850. (4) [FURQUHAR, Barbara H. and Mary Ann MARTIN (translator)]. Ko e tahi Hua o te Whakapono Purewa, St John's College, 1852. 4 works in 1 volume. 8º. 19th or 20th-century green cloth. € 2500

Collection of several sermons in Maori bound together, originally published as four separate editions. Ad 1 and ad 2 were written by Robert Maunsell, a missionary and an authority on Maori language and culture. Ad 3 is a Maori translation of a sermon by Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of London, possibly translated by the missionary and botanist William Colenso. Ad 4 is a condensed translation of The pearls of days, or, The advantages of the Sabbath to the working classes, probably made by Mary Ann Martin, who was highly active in converting the Maori to Christianity. From the library of the New Zealand ornithologist Arthur Thomas Pycroft (1875–1911). With handwritten annotations, translating the titles into English and noting the authors on the title-pages, and a handwritten table of contents bound at the front. The binding slightly rubbed. The paper with a few spots, with especially ad 2 and ad 3 browned and with a large water stain on the final page and following blank of ad 3; a good copy of several sermons from the 1840s in Maori. Hocken, pp. 519–520 (ad 1), 519 (ad 2 & ad 3), 522 (ad 4); Williams 145 (ad 1), 110 (ad 2), 202 (ad 3), 237 (ad 4).

81 Presentation copy of a Thai hymnal produced by the mission press in Phetchaburi, 8 years after the death of King Mongkut (of The King and I)

147. MCFARLAND, Samuel Gamble, ed. Siamese hymnal. Phetchaburi (in Thailand), Samuel Gamble McFarland, 1876. 8º. With Western round-head letterpress music notation. Set in Thai type with incidental roman. This copy with the letterpress presentation slip on blue paper tipped in (from McFarland and his wife), for people who contributed to the project. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, probably bound for presentation. € 7000

Very rare first edition (first issue) of McFarland's Thai (Siamese) hymnal, one of the first books printed by the mission press at Phetchaburi (Petchabury) in Thailand, with the 86 hymns selected by donors who contributed at least five dollars for the production of the hymnal. Each hymn appears on a single double-page spread (with the music at the head of the left page) except the last, whose text continues on nine additional pages. The texts of the hymns themselves appear only in Thai, but the title, introductory note and hymn titles also appear in English and each hymn gives the name of the person or organisa- tion that selected it in English only. Some of the donors who selected the hymns lived in Thailand (both Europeans and natives) but most lived in the United States. Each hymn also indicates the metre, either with abbreviations for the common, long, short, hallelujah or particular metre, or with an indication of the number of syllables per line. The music was apparently set and electrotyped by J.M. Armstrong in Philadelphia and the electrotype blocks shipped to Phetchaburi for printing, for the Newberry Library copy of the second issue has a manuscript note "Music typography by J.M. Armstrong, Philadelphia, Pa.". With the title-page somewhat browned, water stains in the head margin and occasional minor foxing or small smudges, but generally in good condition. The binding with some scuff marks and stains, the head and foot of the spine damaged and the endleaf with the presentation slip detached, but otherwise good and structurally sound. Cf. KVK & WorldCat (4 copies of the 2nd issue); not in Cordier, Indosinica; for the history of the presses: J.F. Coakley, "Printing offices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ...", in: Harvard Library Bulletin IX (1998), pp. 5–34, at pp. 26–27.

About 135 lithographic paper cut-outs (not cut out) for a caravan to Mecca

148. [MECCA—PAPER CARAVAN CUT-OUTS]. Carawane nach Mecca. Vienna, Matthias Trentsensky (printed by E. Sieger), ca. 1855. Oblong 2º (25 × 40 cm). With 19 (of 24) numbered leaves containing about 135 lithographic pen-drawings, each drawing including a base so that one can cut them out, paste them on card stock, stand them up and arrange them in three-dimensional scenes. Loose leaves in a later paper folder. € 8500

All but the first five leaves of a very rare lithographic print series issued in parts. Most copies were probably cut up (and perhaps coloured) by children and destroyed in play. The human figures to be cut out include Turkish, Arabic, African and Near Eastern men and women (black and white) in Islamic clothing, some of the men with a variety of firearms, spears, daggers, pipes, prayer rugs, and other gear and goods. There are also camels, horses and donkeys, often with their gear for riding or for carrying loads. The wild animals include wolves, a hyena and an ostrich. Inanimate objects include containers for water, an incense burner, baskets, chests, barrels, camel saddles and much more. The series must have provided many children and adults with their first notion of Islamic society and culture and is rich in authentic details. With an occasional pencil mark. Lacking leaves 1-5, but otherwise in remarkable good condition. The whole is slightly browned and the edges somewhat tattered. Kleine Welt des Bilderbogens: der Wiener Verlag Trentsensky (1977), 111; Siefert (ed.), Paläste, Panzer, Pop-up-Bücher (2009), with a chapter, "Die Carawane nach Mecca", pp. 31–38; not in KVK; WorldCat.

82 16th-century Dutch manual of folk medicine, mostly unpublished

149. [M E DICI N E]. Dit is den rechten swaelmen nest want al soomen siet dat die nest van menegerhande eerde, hoy stroy, haer, veren, ende andere materye te zamen gebrocht is soo is dit boek oock van menegerley stucks te samen gevoecht dienende meest al tot gesontheyt van het menschelicke geslacht … Met noch een tractaet vanden cautelen der urynen .. vanden wijtberoemden … Arnoldus de Vyla Nove. [The Netherlands, ca. 1595]. Small 4º (19 × 14 cm). Manuscript in Dutch, written in dark brown ink in a Dutch gothic cursive on paper, with a small drawing of a heart-shaped plaster and marginal additions to the text in gothic and Latin hands (and a German poem in a German hand). Half parchment (ca. 1900?). Sold

A 16th-century manuscript collection of works on folk medicine, the title calling it The true swallow's nest (noting that, like a swallow's nest, it is assembled from various pieces) and indicating that the recipes and advice are taken not only from the most expert authors but also from people at home, ship's captains, sailors, soldiers, old wives and common manual labourers, and that the anonymous author has tried out most of them himself. It therefore provides a rare detailed view of medical practice, pharmacology, health and hygiene among the common people in the 16th-century Netherlands, at the dawn of the Dutch golden age. The title-page also notes a treatise on urine that it attributes to the Catalan physician Arnaldus de Villa Nova (ca. 1240–1311), which in fact precedes the main text. This Dutch translation had already appeared in Den groten herbarius (1514), and many later editions, but it is here followed by a few additions. The main text appears not to have been published, though some parts may have been influenced by Johann Schöner'sMedicinael boeck (1551). The manuscript contains medical recipes and instructions for curing or ameliorating a wide variety of ailments. The anonymous compiler of the book occasionally names his sources, but we know little or nothing about most of them. With bookplate and numerous contempo- rary and near contemporary additions in several hands. A few leaves have clearly been removed, but all texts before them end with a full paragraph and all after them begin with a heading. On the recto of leaf 34, in the section on worms, about half the text has been blacked out. With some stains at the head of the last few leaves, the title-page uniformly discoloured and occasional minor stains, thumbing and small marginal tears, but still in good condition. Binding very good. A unique primary source for daily medical-pharmacological practice and health among the common people in the 16th-century Netherlands.

A conversation in an Amsterdam tavern about the Dutch West India Company in Brazil

150. [MELYN VAN DOORNINCK, Cornelis?]. Amsterdams tafel-praetje, van wat goets en wat quaets en wat noodighs. Gouda, Jasper Cornelisz, 1649. Small 4º (20 × 14 cm). Modern half vellum. € 1750

First and only edition of a pamphlet on the strife in Brazil between the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and Portugal, in the form of a dialogue between four Dutchmen and a bartender in an Amsterdam tavern. It is one of a series of anonymous pamphlets published on the subject in that year, "much superior to anything which had as yet been written on the subject" (Asher, p. 197). The men discuss the latest news concerning Brazil, including the Zeeland privateers, the sugar trade, the establishment of the Portuguese Brazil Company (Companhia Geral para o Estado do Brazil), and the causes of the failure to make peace with the Portuguese. They also discuss the poor position of the WIC and suggest it would be better to revoke the Company's monopoly and allow merchants free trade with Brazil. Slightly browned, two small stains on last leaf, not affecting the text, otherwise in very good condition. Binding also very good. Asher 260; Borba de Moraes, p. 33; Knuttel 6479; Sabin 1352; STCN (8 copies); not in Bosch.

83 Conversation between five men concerning the WIC's conduct in Brazil

151. [MELYN VAN DOORNINCK, Cornelis?]. Amsterdams Dam-praetje, van wat outs en wat nieuws en wat vreemts. Amsterdam, Jan van Soest, 1649. 4º. With woodcut illustration on title-page, repeated as tailpiece. Modern half sheepskin parchment. € 1750

First edition of a pamphlet criticizing the conduct of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in Brazil, in the form of conversations between five men on Dam square in Amsterdam. It's a vehement attack on the WIC and the Dutch government concerning their strife with Portugal in Brazil. Since 1645 the Portuguese had violently resisted Dutch rule in Brazil, which depleted the treasury of the WIC. This, exacerbated by internal corruption, nearly bankrupted the WIC. The Dutch government's debate whether to financially support theWIC or not, led to many pamphlets by opponents and supporters of the government's plans. The conversation is held between two Dutchmen, a Portuguese, an Englishman and a director of the WIC. The pamphlet argues that Portugal must protect itself against Dutch privateers and that the Netherlands should not try to retake Brazil and Angola. It also urges peace, and claims the Portuguese are making efforts in the peace negotiations in contrast to the "monster" WIC. Slightly browned, with a few small spots, otherwise very good. Binding in very good condition as well. Asher 263 and pp. 197–198; Borba de Moraes, p. 33; Knuttel 6477; Sabin 1351.

History of the Gulf region, with descriptions of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Oman

152. MILES, Samuel Barrett. The countries and tribes of the Persian Gulf. London, Harrison and Sons, 1919 [= 1920]. 2 volumes. Large 8º (24.5 × 18.5 cm). With a fron- tispiece portrait of the author and 8 plates with reproductions of photographs. Original publish- er’s grey cloth. € 35 000

Second printing of the first edition of a history of the Persian Gulf and its surrounding countries by the British army officer Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), “a most significant contribution to the European knowledge of Oman” (New Arabian Studies). It starts with the ancient civilizations in the region, followed by chapters on the advent of Islam on the Gulf coast, the Portuguese era in eastern Arabia, and various dynasties, including the Yaareba and the Al-Bu Saeedi dynasty. Other chapters describe the commerce and economy of the Gulf, its pearl fishery and the different tribes living there, with an entry on the Al-Kowasim, “a powerful Maadic tribe occupying the sea ports on the Pirate coast” (p. 430) and the Beni Yas and “their two towns Abu Thabi and Debaye” (p. 438). The book remains an authoritative source on Omani history and provides a storehouse of knowledge for any reader interested in the Gulf states. The final two lines of text on the title-page have been removed by a previous owner, including the note “Reprinted 1920”. Title-page of first volume browned and some occasional minor foxing in both volumes. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities. Overall in very good condition. Diba, p. 45; cf. New Arabian studies II (1994), pp. 31–33.

84 Spanish pamphlet on England's ill-fated attack on Cádiz in November 1625

153. [MILITARIA—CÁDIZ EXPEDITION]. [Drop-title:] Copia de un papel impresso en Olanda, hecho en noviembre passado de 1625. En el qual no se nombra el Autor, ni tampoco la parte adonde fue impresso. Y contienne lo siguiente en nuestra lengua Castellana. Zaragoza, "Imperial ciudad de Augusta" [= Zaragoza], 1626. 2º. Disbound, with a blank endleaf at the end. € 1950

First and only Spanish edition of a pamphlet giving an account of the ill-fated British attempt in November 1625 to capture the Spanish fleet laden with silver and other precious goods from the West Indies and harass Spain with an armada of 100 ships, a debacle that cost the British £250 000 and the lives of more than a thousand men without yielding any booty. The present anonymous account of the events is said to have been written in Spanish but was first published in Dutch in 1626 by Anthony Jansz. Tongerloo in The Hague. George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, planned the mission as a glorious military triumph like the sinking of the Spanish Armada 37 years before. He sent an armada of 100 ships, but they were poorly maintained and provisioned merchant ships and were led by Sir Edward Cecil, a celebrated army commander with no naval experience. Reaching Spain too late to attempt to take the West Indian fleet, Cecil instead decided to attack Cádiz. Given the insuf- ficient provisions, he let his landing party take wine vats from the local stores. The result was that the Spanish army slaughtered a thousand drunken soldiers who never fired a shot. The captains of the ships, more concerned with protecting their ships than with fighting, let the Spanish ships escape. With some tears and chips along the gutter fold, not approaching the text, but otherwise in good condition. The blank endleaf is nearly detached. CCPB 000039164-6 (5 copies); Palau 61143; WorldCat (5 copies); cf. Knuttel 3663 (Dutch ed.).

Rare 1st edition with 12 large hand-coloured plates of uniforms of Napoleon’s Dutch honour guard

154. [M I L I TA R I A—U N I FOR MS]. Uniformes des gardes d'honneur des différens corps dans les sept départe­ mens de la Hollande; formés pour la réception de... l'Empereur et Roi...| Uniformen van de gardes d'honneur, van de onderscheiden corpsen in de zeven départementen van Holland; opgericht tot de ontfangst van... den Keizer en Koning. Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [1811]. Royal 2º (42.5 × 32 cm). With 12 aquatint costume plates (plate size 32.5 × 23 cm), in the publisher's original hand-colouring, with the original tissue guard leaf tipped onto each plate. Recent boards, with the original plain paper wrappers laid down. Kept in a matching green half morocco clamshell box. € 12 500

Beautifully coloured copy (with both a wide variety of bright colours and subtle shading) of the rare first (and only early) edition of a series of large aquatint plates showing the uniforms of Napoleon's honour guards (cavalry, infantry and marine) in 11 Dutch cities, with the letterpress leaves providing both an explanation of the figures in the plates (in French and Dutch) and a list of the names of all the guards for each city. Since each city appears to have developed its own uniforms, the colours and style vary greatly. "Not only visually attractive but also extremely rare" (Legermuseum); "l'original est de la plus grande rareté" (Colas). When the French Revolutionary army toppled the Dutch Republican government in 1795 they found much support in the population and established the nominally independent Batavian Republic under French-sympathisers. After Napoleon declared himself Emperor in 1804 he established his brother Louis Napoleon as King of the Netherlands in 1806, but finding him more partial to his subjects than to the French he recalled him in 1810 and annexed the Netherlands. The honour guard was first set up under Louis Napoleon's reign to receive him when he toured his realm, but it was reconstituted in the form shown here in preparation for the Emperor Napoleon's visit to the recently annexed Netherlands. Book and binding in fine condition, with only an occasional very minor spot, tiny hole or smudge. The old wrappers mounted on the new binding are tattered. Colas 2937 note; Landwehr, Colour plates 457 (2 copies); Legermuseum, Boek van de maand, oktober 2011; WorldCat (5 copies).

85 Detailed account of missionary work in the Far East 1807–1819, printed in Malacca on Asian paper

155. MILNE, William [and Robert MORRISON]. A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China, ... Malacca, Anglo-Chinese Press, 1820. 8º (22.5 × 14.5). Dozens of pages with a few Chinese characters set in movable type. Printed on Asian paper with horizontal chainlines. Contemporary half blue paste-paper, with a near contempo- rary printed label of K.J. Ford's Circulating Library, London. € 6500

First edition, printed in Malacca at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula, of a detailed account of a wide variety of missionary activities in China, Southeast Asia and the East Indies by the Scottish Protestant missionaries Robert Morrison (1782–1834), who arrived in Macau in 1807, and William Milne (1785–1822), who joined him there in 1813. They were the first Protestant missionaries in China, made the second complete Chinese translation of the Bible, set up two printing offices (including the press at Malacca that produced the present book) and established the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca under the auspices of the London Missionary Society in 1818. The book gives detailed information of the various books Morrison and Milne translated and printed, with a 66-page chapter giving a remarkably detailed account of the techniques and economics of Chinese printing. This chapter also includes extensive and detailed lists of Chinese books printed by the missionary presses and an appendix gives an account of Malay books. With a printed label, a rare and remarkable documentation of the lending library of Kanes James Ford (1792–1886), who learned the bookseller's trade under George Lackington. With an early owner's name, inscription and library stamp. With occasional marginal chips and small tears and occasional minor and mostly marginal foxing, but otherwise in very good condition and nearly untrimmed. The binding is slightly rubbed and stained, with the spine and corners worn, but otherwise good. An essential primary source. Cordier, Sinica, col. 1222; J. Lust, Western books on China 927.

Catalogue of plants in the Bologna botanical garden, published together with the director’s dissertation, with a large folding plan of the garden

156. MONTI, Giuseppe. Plantarum varii indices ad usum demonstrationum quae in Bononiensis archigymnasii publico horto quotannis habentur. Iis praefixa est Dissertatio ibidem habita anno MDCCXXIII. ad easdem demonstrationes auspicandas. Amplissimo excelsoque studiorum ... including: MONTI, Giuseppe. Dissertatio rei herbariae nec non horti publici Bononiensis historium ... MONTI, Giuseppe. Exoticorum simplicium medicamentorum varii indices ... Bologna, Constantino Pisarri (colophon: printed by Laelio Dalla Volpe), 1724. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8º. With a large folding engraved plate (plate size 41.5 × 29 cm). Modern gold-tooled tanned and mottled sheepskin in an 18th-century style. Sold

First edition of a catalogue of plants at the Bologna botanical garden, established in 1568 in close association with the University, compiled by the garden's new director Giuseppe Monti (1682–1760) together with the text of his 1723 dissertation on the plants in the garden. Part 1 gives the text of his 1723 dissertation, records 1050 numbered genera, arranged under XXIII numbered classes, followed by an alphabetical index, an alphabetical list of medicinal plants with their class numbers according to a scheme of XXXIV classes. Part 1 was apparently issued alone before part 2 was finished, so that the two parts are sometimes listed separately. Part 2 gives a classified list of 331 numbered pharmacolog- ical animal, vegetable and mineral simples followed by an alphabetical index. Finally, the medicines are rearranged into XXXVI numbered classes. The plan of the garden shows 106 plant beds. With browned patches, worm trails and restorations at the head throughout, occasionally slightly affecting the text, but otherwise in good condition. Binding very good. A pre-Linnean catalogue of an important botanical garden, with a large folding plan of the garden. Pritzel 6395 & 6396; Wellcome IV, p. 163; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 6261.

86 Important work on the Dutch-Portuguese wars in Brazil

157. MOREAU, Pierre. Klare en waarachtige beschryving van de leste beroerten en afval der Portugezen in Brasil; daar in d'oorsprong dezer zwarigheden en oorlogen klarelijk vertoont worden. Met de reisbeschrijving van de zelve schrijver naar Brasil. Amsterdam, Jan Hendriksz. Boom and Jan Rieuwertsz., 1652. 4º. With engraved plan of Mauritsstad on title-page (9.5 × 13.5 cm) and 4 half-page engravings in text. Modern half calf, filled-out with blank leaves. € 4500

First and only edition of the Dutch translation of a work on the Dutch-Portuguese wars in Brazil by Pierre Moreau, a French secretary in Dutch service who came to Pernambuco in 1646. His clear description contains many curious details about the reason for the war, mentioned nowhere else. "Historians universally praise his work. It is undoubtedly an essential source book for information about the events which occurred at the beginning of the Dutch war, as well as giving an idea of the socioeconomic aspect of life in Pernambuco under the Dutch occupation" (Borba de Moreas). The work was translated into Dutch by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker, known for his translations of Descartes and Spinoza. Slightly browned, a few water stains and a rubbed spine, but in good condition. An essential work on the Dutch-Portuguese wars in Brazil. Asher 277; Borba de Moreas, p. 595; Rodrigues 1711; Sabin 50580; STCN (7 copies).

Most extensive edition of a monumental, extensively illustrated description of the world

158. MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt, … Basel, heirs of Sebastian Henricpetri 1628. 2º (38 × 24.5 cm). With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Münster on the back, 26 numbered double-page woodcut maps, 72 dou- ble-page woodcut maps, plans and views, and about 1500 woodcut illustrations in the text (including repeats) showing maps, plans, views, plants, animals, monsters, etc. Contemporary vellum; in modern brown cloth slipcase. € 48 000

Most extensive edition of Münster's monumental, extensively illustrated description of the world, which set a new standard in the field, following both a regional and encyclopaedic approach. The first edition appeared in 1544, but it was greatly expanded over the years, the present edition adding many new maps. The most highly valued of all cos- mographies, it passed through dozens of editions in 100 years and was of paramount importance for the revival of geography in 16th-century Europe From the library of Ericsberg Castle near Katrineholm, Sweden, built for the Swedish statesman Erik Karlsson Gyllenstierna (1602– 1657), in the 1650s (two engraved views of the castle, from Dahlberg's Suecia antiqua et hodierna, are loosely inserted; several annotations in Swedish on the pastedowns). One leaf of the register restored affecting part of the text (replacement from a smaller copy of the 1614 edition), frontispiece reinforced in the gutter margin, some occasional thumbing and a few dog-eared leaves, otherwise a very good and clean copy, with the paper nearly untrimmed. Binding also very good, lacking the flyleaves. Burmeister 86; Nordenskiöld II, 159; Sabin 51396; VD17 23:230709C (7 copies); for Münster: DSB IX, pp. 580–581.

87 Elegant watercolours of Naples and Pompeii, made for the Grand Tourist

159. [N A PL E S]. [Binding title:] Panorama von Neapel. [Naples, ca. 1822–1830]. With 24 gouaches on parchment, made by an artist working in Naples, mounted in an album in passepartouts. Near contemporary (?) embossed brown morocco (14.5 × 11 cm). € 8500

Collection of 24 watercolours showing Naples, including its surroundings, and Pompeii. Before the invention of photogra- phy, small paintings such as these were very popular with the many tourists visiting Naples, including young aristocrats making a grand tour. These views were manufac- tured in large numbers from ready models, by artists working in the workshops near the port in Naples. Many of them worked in the style of the School of Posilippo, who in their vedute combined the traditions of Dutch 17th-century landscape painting with the free brushwork of 18th-century Venice. As the largest city in Italy, Naples was an important stop for travellers on the 18th-cen- tury Grand Tour. This became even more so after the excavations in Pompeii began in earnest in the second half of the 18th century. Visitors to the capital of the Kingdom of the Two-Sicilies, collected images of the many highlights of their trip. In the present album this includes the market square (modern Piazza Dante), views of the bay, the palace of Casserta and the highlights of Pompeii, including the Temple of Isis. Two views show the eruption of Vesuvius in October 1822. Slightly foxed, with some discolouring of several images near the edges. An attractive album in good condition. Cf. Pagano, C'era una volta Napoli; Alisio e.a., Napoli com'era nelle gouaches del Sette e Ottocento.

The New Zealand Government Gazette of 1848

160. [NEW ZEALAND]. The government gazette of the province of New Ulster, New Zealand. Volume I. Auckland, Williamson and Wilson, 1848. 2º. With a general title-page with woodcut arms (repeated on the individual instalments), general index, and 34 instalments with continuous pagination. Further with a letterpress folding table. Slightly later green half sheepskin. Sold

First volume of one of the two governmental newspapers of New Zealand, "after the territorial division into the provinces of New Ulster and New Munster" (Hocken). The Gazette, first published in 1841, was split into The Government Gazette of province of New Ulster, published in Auckland, and the province of New Munster, published in Wellington, during the years 1848 to 1853. The present is the first volume of the New Ulster Gazette that appeared after the division, with the instalments numbered 1–34 (January 1, 1848–December 29, 1848). The volume includes numerous proclamations by George Grey (1812–1898), the governor of New Zealand, along with several magistrate appointments, many notices of tenders and sales, and much more. The pages 15–26 consist of a "List of men within the town and district of Auckland, in the province of New Ulster, liable to serve on Juries for the year 1848", including their names, residence and profession. With a manuscript dedication to sir William Martin ("His honor chief justice Martin"), the first Chief Justice of New Zealand. Spine slightly damaged, sides rubbed. Holes in the gutter from early stitching, besides that in very good condition, only slightly browned. Hocken, pp. 79–80.

88 The VOC in 17th-century China

161. NIEUHOF, Joan. Het gezantschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China:... Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670. 2º. With engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait, large folding engraved map of China, 34 double-page engraved plates and views, and 110 half-page engraved illustrations in text, all in fine and strong impressions. The coats of arms of Spiegel and Witsen, apparently optional elements in the preliminaries of the Dutch, French and Latin editions, are not present. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. € 12 500

Third edition, in the original Dutch, of "the definitive account" (Howgego) of the embassy that the VOC (Dutch East India Company) sent to the Emperor of China, the entire trip occupying the years 1655 to 1657. Nieuhof's eyewitness account, first published in 1665, was the first extensively illustrated book describing China and is, among works on China, "bis heute eines der bedeutendsten und gesuchtesten" (Walravens). The second part gives a general description of the Chinese empire, including botany and zoology. The first part covers the East Indies and Southeast Asia before going on to China itself. Japan, Korea and Formosa appear as well. Nieuhof served as steward, artist and chronicler on Pieter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer's VOC embassy to the Chinese Emperor. The party got a more intimate view of China than almost any other Dutch visitors of the 17th century, and the breadth of Nieuhof's interests and the large number of drawings he made provided a wealth of new material that makes the present work an essential primary source. Good copy with the owners stamp of Friedrich Emanuel Hurter (b. 1787; ''Reichshistoriograff in Wien'') on the verso of the frontis- piece and his signature on the first flyleaf, dated 1805. Howgego G-85, N-25; Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 539; Löwendahl 147; Tiele, Bibl. 800.

Rare Swedish edition of Norris' journey to Africa and defence of slavery

162. NORRIS, Robert. Resa På Neger-kusten Til Kongl. Hofvet i Dahomej. Gothenburg, Sam. Norberg, 1792. 8º. Old paper boards. € 800

A very rare translation into Swedish of Norris' travels in the West Guinean country Dahomey. Robert Norris (d. 1791) was a slave trader. In February 1772, he visited the court in Dahomey, and provides his readers with curious and horrifying details of a mass execution taking place as part of various "customs" or royal ceremonies. "In 1788, when, owing to the vigorous action of the advocates of abolition, a committee of the privy council was appointed to inquire into the slave question, Norris was delegated to lay before it the views of the Liverpool trade, a circumstance which probably led to the publication of his … His account of the slave trade is a defence of slavery" (DNB). Additionally, the Swedish translation contains many interesting notes by Samuel Ödman (1750–1829). With embossed library stamp on first endleaf. Some traces on title-page and last leaf of earlier binding. Spine of the boards slightly soiled and the top a bit damaged. A very good copy. Cf. Compact DNB I, p. 1504; Gay 2881; Maggs, Bibliotheca Asiatica et Africana 841.

89 Famous work on birds in the Netherlands, with 250 hand-coloured plates

163. NOZEMAN, Cornelius, Martinus HOUTTUYN and Jan Christiaan SEPP. Nederlandsche vogelen; volgens hunne huishouding, aert, en eigenschappen beschreeven. Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp (volumes III–V: and son), 1770–1829. 5 volumes. Imperial 2º (52 × 35.5 cm). With hand-coloured engraved title-page to each volume, 250 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates (50 in each volume), and some woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 75 000

First edition of a famous and beautifully illustrated ornithological work, one of the most important works on birds in the Netherlands. The text was written by the Dutch remonstrant preacher and naturalist Cornelis Nozeman (1720–1786), and after his death continued by the naturalist Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798). As the title suggests, the work is restricted to native Dutch birds, which are depicted in 250 hand-coloured engravings. They show a wide variety of birds, including waterfowl, poultry, birds of prey, songbirds etc., mostly shown in their natural surroundings and sometimes accompanied by their nests and/or eggs. Nozeman starts his descrip- tions with information from earlier sources, followed by the bird's appearance, characteristics and way of living, partly based on his own observations, occasionally even mentioning the taste of the bird. The engravings were made by Jan Christaan Sepp (1739–1811). After his death the last two volumes were finished by his son Jan Sepp (1778–1853), probably accompanied by the zoologist C.J. Temminck. The work was published in instalments of 5 or 6 and later 4 plates a year, starting in 1770 and completed in 1829 and therefor took over 59 years. Because of this long period, complete copies of these series are rather rare. In very good condition and only slightly trimmed, with only the tissue guards slightly foxed. Bindings restored along the extremities and with the corners bumped, otherwise good. Zimmer, pp. 469–470; Fine Bird Books, p. 98; Landwehr, Coloured plates 145.

90 Account of an interesting scientific expedition to Bolivia

164. ORBIGNY, Alcide d'. Fragment d'un voyage au centre de l'Amérique Méridionale; contenant des considérations sur la navigation de l'Amazone et de la Plata, et sur les anciennes missions des provinces de Chiquitos et de Moxos (Bolivia). Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, widow Levrault (printed by Berger-Levrault), 1845. 8º. With a large folding lithographed map (43 × 52 cm) of the centre of South America. Modern half red morocco. € 6750

First edition in this form of a detailed account of an important series of scientific expeditions in central South America, mostly in the Bolivian provinces of Chiquitos and Moxos, by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857). He organized expeditions in South America carried out in the years 1826 to 1833 under the auspices of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, established in Paris in 1793. He covered Brazil, , Paraná, the pampas of Argentina, Patagonia, Chili, Bolivia and Peru, publishing the results in three volumes: Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridional, Strasbourg and Paris, 1835–1845. The present single volume, by the same Strasbourg publisher with a different Paris collaborator, is extracted from the larger work. The folding map, covering Bolivia and surroundings, includes an inset map showing its location within South America. Somewhat browned and the map with one large and some small tears along folds (some small ones repaired with tape). In good condition. Borba de Moraes, p. 632; Palau 202177; Sabin 57454; not in Numa Broc.

Very rare complete naval print series

165. OZANNE, Jeanne-Francoise and Pierre OZANNE. Différents sujets de marine. Paris, Auguste Jean, [ca. 1830?]. Oblong 8º and large 12º (16 × 24 cm). With 144 engraved plates (plate size ca. 6 × 6 to ca. 10 × 12 cm), numbered as 12 series of 12, plate 1 of part 1 serving as engraved title-page. Unbound, as issued, in a modern half cloth clamshell box. € 15 000

Very rare complete print series of boats and ships, published in 12 parts, each part consisting of 12 engravings. Drawn by Jeanne- Francoise Ozanne (1735–1795) and Pierre Ozanne (1737–1813), brother and sister from the well-known Ozanne-family of naval artists. The prints all illustrate single ships, except those in the last part depicting ships in different settings. Including 2 series with "Diverses Manoeuvres de barques et batteaux" (parts 1-2), 6 "Cahiers de vaisseaux dessinés par Ozanne" (parts 3–6 & 10–11), 3 "Mélanges de vaisseaux" (parts 7-9) and 1 "Différents petits bâtiments" (part 12). Parts 10–12 differ from the titles noted in Polak (7253), but part 10 matches the description in the supplement (Polak 10708). The first leaf slightly soiled. A very good copy of a rare print series by Ozanne. Cohen-De Ricci, col. 777 (116 plates); Polak 7253 & 10708 (138 plates); Cat. NHSM, p. 750 (parts 7-9); not in KVK; WorldCat.

91 Contemporary account of early 19th-century Ottoman culture

166. PALAIOLOGUE, Grégoire. Schetsen der Turksche zeden in de XIX eeuw; ... Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1829. 8º. With hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece showing 3 Turkish military costumes. Lacking the half-title. Contemporary stiffened wrappers, covered with somewhat later marbled paper. Untrimmed. Sold

First and only Dutch edition of Esquisses des moeurs Turques au XIXe siècle (1827), written by a sympathetic Greek born and raised in Istanbul. In 20 dialogues Palailogue discusses Ottoman culture, religion, dress and manners, followed by 74 pages of well-informed explanatory notes. Grégoire Palaiologue (ca. 1794–1844) was the son of a Phanariote Greek. He wrote the present account in France during the Greek War of Independence. Preserving the last leaf with letterpress directions for the binder and 1 (of 2) letterpress spine labels. Back of frontispiece with owner's entry. Lacking the half-title and with the edges of its conjugate tattered and dirty, occasional minor spotting, otherwise in very good condition. The wrappers show wear, most notably along the spine. Saalmink, p. 1473; cf. Atabey 916 (1st French ed.); Blackmer 1235 (1st French ed.).

Pills, cheese and medical ethics in the 15th-century

167. PANTALEONE DI CONFIENZA. Pillulariu[m] omnibus medicis q[uam] necessarium … Summa lacticiniorum completa omnibus idonea. Including: ZERBI, Gabriele. Cautele medicorum no[n] inutiles. (Colophon: Lyon, Antoine Blanchard [and Laurent Hyllaire], 7 January 1525[=1526]. Small 4º (20 × 14 cm). Title-page with a 4-piece a woodcut border. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment; modern grey cloth clamshell box. € 8500

Third edition of a collection of three medical and gastronomical texts by two 15th-century Italian physicians. The first,Pillarium by Pantaleone di Confienza, is one of the earliest treatises dealing exclusively with pills as remedies for all kinds of diseases. The second,Summa lacticiniorum, by the same author, is the first treatise specifically devoted to cheese, a "landmark" in the literary discourse about cheese. "It outlines the variety of cheeses [and] in part two Pantaleone surveys the regional and local cheeses known to him, beginning in his own native northern Italy, … He continues his cheese itinerary through Savoie and across France" (Dalby). The third, a treatise on medical ethics by Gabriele Zerbi (1445–1505), aims to protect the integrity of physicians and the medical profession. With bookplate removed from pastedown and a manuscript place and date on title-page. Faint water stain in the head margin of the first ten leaves, minor ink stains on the first two leaves and the last, occasional other small stains and a tiny hole in the title-page; still in good condition. Binding very good, with a couple small stains. Baudrier II, p. 431 & V, p. 98; Durling 3438; cf. Dalby, Cheese: a global history (2009), p. 117.

Parry's account of his first Arctic expedition. Together with "The North Georgia gazette and winter chronicle"

168. PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819–20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. Large 4º (27 × 21.5 cm). With 6 engraved maps and charts (4 folding), and 14 plates (9 lithographed and 5 engraved); many figures and tables in the text (1 folding). Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf. With: (2) SABINE, Edward. The North georgia gazette and winter chronicle. London, (printed by William Clowes for) John Murray, 1821. 4º. Later half calf. Untrimmed, leaving deckles intact. € 4500

92 Second, corrected edition of Parry's account of his voyage in search of the Northwest Passage. Having sailed to the Arctic under John Ross, Parry believed that Lancaster Sound could provide the opening to the western sea. Equipped with two ships, the Hecla and the Gripper, he set out to confirm his suspicion in 1819. Parry discovered Prince Regent's Inlet, Melville Sound, and Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait. He reached 110° West longitude, but ice halted further westward advance. The crew wintered in Winter Harbour, and during this long winter Edward Sabine edited a periodical journal, The North Georgia gazette, and winter chronicle. This periodical was afterwards published by John Murray, and is here offered together with Parry's narrative. Our copy, moreover, has a hand-written inscription by Parry, pasted on the front flyleaf: "Admit the bearer, W.E. Parry". Front board of the narrative slightly damaged; with the engraved bookplate of Samuel Neale. An attractive set, kept together in a slipcase. Ad 1: Arctic bibl. 13145 note; Howgego, 1800–1850, P9; Sabin 58860; cf. Hill 1311 (1st edition); ad 2: cf. Chavanne 1438 (different imprint).

Dutch translation of Parry's account of his first Arctic expedition

169. PARRY, William Edward. Reis ter ontdekking van eene noordwestelijke doorvaart, uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee, gedaan in de jaren 1819 en 1820 door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper... Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822. 8º. With engraved title-page, 1 large folding map and 3 plates (2 folding). Contemporary half calf. € 1250

First edition of the Dutch translation of Parry's account of his voyage in search of the Northwest Passage. Having sailed to the Arctic under John Ross, the English naval officer William Edward Parry (1790–1855) believed that Lancaster Sound could provide the opening to the western sea. Equipped with two ships, the Hecla and the Gripper, he set out to confirm his suspicion in 1819. Parry discovered Prince Regent's Inlet, Melville Sound, and Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait. He reached 110° West longitude, but ice halted further westward advance. Parry commanded two further expeditions to the Arctic. "The immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history" (Hill). Some occasional minor foxing, a few (water) stains. Binding rubbed along the extremities, sides slightly chafed. Overall in very good condition and only slightly trimmed, leaving generous margins. Sabin 55863; cf. Arctic bibliogaphy 13145; Howgego, 1800–1850, P9; Hill 1311.

Emigrant's guide to New South Wales, Australia

170. [PATTISON, John]. Neu-Südwales. Seine Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, oder Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen während eines zwölfjährigen Aufenthaltes in Australien. Leipzig, Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1850. 8º. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin. € 1750

First edition of the German translation of an emigrant's guide to New South-Wales, Australia. The work was written by John Pattison and published anonymously, based on his own experiences during his twelve year stay in Australia. It was first published in 1849, entitled New South-Wales: its past, present and future condition, with notes upon its resources and capabilities. The short preface states that is was published "with the hope that it may add to the diffusion of truthful information respecting Australia, and the knowledge that is will not mislead" (English edition). It starts with a brief history of "" and its first settlers, and continues with a description of its population, the high need for skilled labourers, and all kinds of information the emigrant should know before going to Australia. With a library stamp on title-page and the first and last few pages foxed. Otherwise a very good copy. Bodi 4717; Engelmann I, p. 241. cf. Ferguson IV, 5137.

93 Magnificent engraving of the 17th-century warship the “Sovereign of the Seas”, surpassing all her contemporaries in size and gun power

171. PAYNE, John. The true portraicture of His Ma[jes]ties. royall ship the Soveraigne of the Seas built in the yeare 1637. [London, Peter Pett, 1637/38]. Large engraving (66.5 × 91 cm), printed from two plates on two sheets, assembled to make a single print. With title in English across the head, a slightly different Latin title across the foot (both outside the image area), Payne's name and privilege to the right of the Latin title, and two decorated cartouches with laudatory verses in the upper corners. In passepartout (not mounted) and easily detachable framed (90 × 114 cm). € 58 000

Rare and magnificent engraving of the extraordinary 17th-century English warship the Sovereign of the Seas, shown in full sail, flying 5 flags and more than a dozen pennons. With her more than 1500 tons and more than 100 guns, she surpassed all her contemporar- ies in size and gun power and cost about ten times as much as an average naval gunship. Besides being "one of the best known naval prints belonging to the seventeenth century … extraordinarily rich of detail and of the greatest possible interest" (Chatterton), it is also by far the largest English engraved view to survive from the first half of the century. For the engraving, Payne had, most likely, access to the builder's draughts and plans and must have collaborated with Peter Pett for the engraving to be as representative of the ship as possible. Trimmed to the printed image at the two sides, not always completely straight, a few small tears (mostly repaired) at the head and foot, a few tiny spots and a tiny blemish, but still generally good, very attractive and printed in a crisp impression. BM online cat. 1854,0614.252; H. Busmann, Sovereign of the Seas (2002), pp. 39–46 (locates 7 copies); Chatterton, Chats on naval prints, pp. 56–57.

108 engraved prints centred around the Great Turkish War, with 14 views of the Arabian Peninsula

172. PEETERS, Jacob and Johannes. [Drop- title of letterpress text:] Korte beschryvinghe, ende aenwysinghe der plaetsen in desen boeck, naar hunnen tegenwoordighen standt, pertinentelyck uyt-ghebeeldt, in Oostenryck. [Antwerp], Jacob Peeters, [ca. 1685]. Small oblong 2º (17.5 × 29 cm). Collection of 108 engraved prints published by Jacob Peeters, starting with 9 engraved scenes of the siege of Vienna after Romeyn de Hooghe (numbered 1–10, but lacking plate 1), and followed by 99 engraved city views after drawings by Jacob Peeters, engraved by Lucas Vorsterman and Gaspar Bouttats. The city views are preceded by a 12 page letterpress text giving descriptions of the towns. Contemporary red paper-covered boards. € 12 500

Interesting collection of engraved prints centred around the Great Turkish War (1667–1683), a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and Europe. The collection can be divided into 2 general parts: the first with engraved scenes of the siege of Vienna after Romeyn de Hooghe, and the second with nearly a hundred views of the involved cities. This second part contains 5 separate series, with views

94 of Lower Hungary, Crete and the Maltese Archipelago, the Dardanelles and the Aegean archipelago, the Strait of Gibraltar and North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. The series of 14 views of Arabia, includes Mecca, Jerusalem (2), Bethlehem, Kidron Valley, Mount Sinai, Antiochia, the Valley of Terebinthu, Hurcasdin near Aleppo, the springs of Marah, Ramma Valley, a valley near Jerusalem with the Mar Elias Monastery, and a view of Suez with the mountains of Arabia in the background. The collection was published by Jacob Peeters (1637–1695), and most of the engravings are made after drawings by his brother Johannes, or Jan, Peeters (1625–1677), best known for his drawings of city views engraved by Merian. Johannes Peeters was a pupil of their eldest brother Bonaventura Peeters, a well-known painter and draughtsman, and specialized in maritime scenes as well-shown in the present views, often depicting harbours with several ships. The number of plates vary from copy to copy, but the present collection seems to lack at least 1 plate: the first of the scenes of the siege of Vienna. Some occasional foxing and minor stains. Binding rubbed and spine worn and cracked. Good copy. Atabey 933 (Dutch edition, 63 plates); Landwehr, De Hooghe Book Illustrator 82 (French ed. with unclear amount of plates); Weber 816 (Dutch edition, 125 plates); for related series: cf. Atabey 934; Blackmer 1276–1277; Hollstein XVIII, p. 28, 1, III, p. 175, 23 & XLII, pp. 123–133, 60–78; Le Blanc, p. 156; Nagler XI, pp. 165–166; Weber 821.

Tulips and Tobacco in Zeeland in 1610, plus 1600 other local and exotic plants

173. PELLETIER, Caspar. Plantarum tum patriarum, tum exoticarum, in Walachria, Zeelandiae insula, nascentium synonymia. Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1610. 8º. Contemporary vellum. € 2000

First edition of a record of about 1600 plants that could be found on the island Walcheren (including the cities of Middelburg, Vlissingen and Veere) in Zeeland, connected to the mainland since 1871. It covers not only the native species, but also garden plants brought from other regions and even many exotic plants in Middelburg's important botanical gardens, including 4 pages on tulips and a page on tobacco, cultivated at Veere on Walachria before any other Dutch site. It therefore serves as an important primary source for Dutch botany as the Netherlands was establishing its position as the leader in that field. The plants are arranged alphabetically, with alternative names used by other authors and in various languages, as well as references to the literature. The concordance of plant names also makes the book "indispensable for a modern reconstruction of the old catalogues" (Kuijlen et al.) and shows the growing problems of nomenclature in the early seventeenth century before Caspar Bauhin began to normalize plant names. With a small tear in the title-page and some worm holes in the upper outside corner, slightly affecting an occasional page number, but not touching the text. Otherwise in very good condition. The binding is slightly dirty but also very good. Arendts, supp. 148; Kuijlen & Wijnands, pp. 32–34; Pritzel 7027.

Standard work on Dutch bird eggs, in the English edition limited to 100 copies

174. PELT LECHNER, Arnold Anthon van. Oologia Neerlandica[.] Eggs of birds breeding in the Netherlands. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1910–1913 [1914]. 2 volumes. Large 8º (25 × 20 cm). With 191 plates containing 667 illustrations of bird-eggs, namely 50 collotypes and 617 four-colour process engravings, after specimens in the author's collection. The illustrations mounted on thin card and the text printed on laid paper watermarked: Van Gelder Zonen. Contemporary morocco, gold-blocked spine. Sold

The comprehensive account of Dutch bird eggs, giving brief introductions to the different species and extensive data relating to the eggs and breeding habits. It is the first Dutch work on eggs and still considered the standard work on the subject by Balis in 1968. Zimmer also praises the work because of its "unusual merits ... This study embraces the texture, composition and pigmentation of the shell, the dietary and other causes for variation or peculiarity in ground-color or markings, and similar topics not usually discussed in oological handbooks". It was originally published in 7 parts from 1911 to 1914 in both English and Dutch, with 100 copies of the English edition and 150 of the Dutch. In fine condition. Anker 390; Nissen, IVB 709; Zimmer, pp. 651–652; cf. Balis, Van diverse pluimage 134 (Dutch edition).

95 A glimpse of one of the most famous French "Wunderkammer"

175. PETAU, Paul. Explication de plusieurs antiquités. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757. 4º. With 47 engraved plates, including 13 hand-coloured. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment. Sold

Second edition of a catalogue of the famous collection of Paul Petau (1568–1614), a counsellor of the Parliament at Paris but also an avid collector of books and antiquities. His collection comprised Egyptian statues, lamps, pottery, Roman statues, sacrophags, numerous coins and more, all illustrated in this catalogue with 47 engraved plates. One exquisite plate shows Isis nursing Horus, one of the earliest European illustrations of an Egyptian god. The first 13 plates, mainly showing statues, are watercoloured by hand. The catalogue was first published in 1610, without additional text. With owner's inscription dated 1785 and bookplate. Binding worn along the extrem- ities, scuffed boards. Text leaves only slightly browned with some occasional minor foxing. Overall a good copy. Jammes, Cat. Cabinets de Curiosités 277; cf. Graesse V, p.218.

First official Antwerp and Brussels pharmacopoeias, presented to St Bernard’s Abbey near Antwerp by the principal compiler of the former

176. [PHARMACOPOEIA—ANTWERP]. [B OU DE W I J N S, Michiel, and others]. Pharmacia Antverpiensis Galeno-chymica. Antwerp, Joris Willemsens I, 1660 [engraved title-page 1661]. With engraved title-page by Petrus van Caukercken after Abraham van Diepenbeeck With: [JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. [engraved title-page:] Pharmacopoeia Bruxellensis: ... Brussels, Jan Mommaert II, 1641. With engraved title-page by Cornelius Galle the elder after Anthonis Sallaert. 2 editions in 1 volume. 4º. Brown calf (ca. 1700?). € 6750

First (and in the case of Antwerp only) editions, in Latin, of the first and only official pharmacopoeias for Brussels and Antwerp, containing hundreds of medicinal recipes and throwing a great deal of light on 17th-century medical practice in the Low Countries. The Antwerp work’s separate part with the title “Selectiora chymica” shows the rising importance of chemistry in the pro- duction of medicines. In 1624 the magistrates of Antwerp set up a Collegium Medicum, which did declare that medicines were to be prepared following Cordus until further notice. Brussels had begun to discuss plans to establish a Collegium Medicum already ca. 1605, but failed to do so. A 1636 plague gave city magistrates the impetus to compile a pharmacopoeia, however, and they commissioned four leading city physicians to compile the present Brussels phar- macopoeia, which appeared in 1641. In 1659 the Antwerp Collegium Medicum decided to produce their own official pharmacopoeia. With a 5-line presentation inscription on the flyleaf from the principal compiler of the Antwerp pharmacopoeia, Michiel Boudewijns to St Bernard’s Abbey in Hemiksem, south of Antwerp, undated, but clearly between 1661 and Boudewijn’s death in 1681. With an occasional correction in an early hand, an inscription at the end of the Brussels work by Godefridus Bouvaert (1685–1770), and the bookplate of Oscar van Schoor (1873–1936) on pastedown. Second work browned with occasional small marginal tears or spots, but otherwise in very good condition. The binding is rubbed, with some mostly superficial cracks in the spine and hinges, but remains structurally sound. Two important pharma- copoeias with a remarkable provenance. Daems & Vandewiele, Noord- en Zuidned. stedelijke pharmacopeeën, pp. 62–63 (5 copies) & 70–71 (7 copies); STCV 12879911 (5 copies incl. 1 defective) & 12879890 (4 copies, incl. 1 lacking title-page).

96 First edition of the official pharmacopoeia of Brussels

177. [PHARMACOPOEIA—BRUSSELS]­ . [JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. Pharmacopoeia Bruxellensis: jussu amplissimi senatus edita. Brussels, Jan Mommaert II, 1641. Small 4º (19.5 × 15 cm). With engraved title-page by Cornelius Galle the elder after Anthonis Sallaert. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 3250

First edition of the first official pharmacopoeia of Brussels, containing numerous medicinal recipes and offering much insight into the 17th-century medical practice in the Low Countries. Brussels had begun discussing plans to establish a Collegium Medicum ca. 1605, but failed to do so. A 1636 plague gave city magistrates the impetus to compile a pharmacopoeia, however, and they commissioned four leading city physicians to compile the present Brussels pharmacopoeia. No apothecaries were officially consulted in the com- pilation of the Brussels pharmacopoeia, reflecting the growing status of physicians and declining status of apothecaries. Amsterdam had produced the first official pharmacopoeia in the Low Countries in 1636, based in part on Valerius, but the Brussels physicians chose to take the 1638 Paris Codex medicamentarius Parisiensis as their principal model. With early owner’s inscription on title-page and early manuscript annotations in the margins of pp. 169, 175 and 213. Trimmed when rebound in the 19th-century, shaving the top of the title-page and the manuscript annotations, smudges and small waterstains throughout, and some minor damage to the lower inner corner of the first few leaves including the frontispiece. A fair copy. Spine partly restored, hinges cracked and some wear along the extremities. Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 70–71; Wellcome IV, p. 357.

Unpublished translation of the last Haarlem pharmacopoeia

178. [PHARMACOPOEIA—HAARLEM]. KLOTS, Fredrik Hendrik Willem (translator). Haarlemse kruidmengkunde Galenisch-scheikundig, gesterkt door het gezag der vroedschap. Including: Verklaaring van de meest gebruikelijke caracters welke voorkoomen bij de genees, en scheikundigen. [Copy imprint:] Haarlem, Pieter van Assendelft, 1741 [= Westzaan?, ca. 1795/1800?]. 4º. Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, written in Dutch in a Latin hand, with an engraved frontispiece (drawn and engraved by Jan Caspar Philips after Romeyn de Hooghe) and 10 numbered engraved plates giving the meaning of 88 medical and chemical symbols and abbre- viations, arranged alphabetically. Each engraved plate has been given a wide black ink border, and the frontispiece has also been coloured, probably at the time the manuscript was written. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 5000

A carefully executed manuscript translation, perhaps prepared for publication but never published, of the extensively revised and updated second Latin edition of the Pharmacopoea Haarlemensis. It includes the engraved frontispiece and engraved 10-page table of medical and chemical symbols and abbreviations made for the Latin edition. In 1692 the city of Haarlem established its Collegium Medico-Pharmaceuticum, which set up a committee of doctors and apothecaries to compile the 1693 pharmacopoeia. For the frontispiece they turned to Romeyn de Hooghe. The Dutch translation of the first edition, made against the will of the authorities, went through several editions, but no further Latin edition appeared until a new committee of doctors and apothecaries was charged with the compilation of a new and extensively revised edition in 1740. It appeared in 1741 and was reissued in 1790, but no translation appeared. With the translator’s 1843 presentation inscription to his grandson, describing it as “translated in my youth”. Fredrik Hendrik Willem Klots (Spaarndam 1775–Westzaan 1855), a surgeon in Westzaan when he married in 1800, probably made the translation shortly before that. With an occasional minor spot, smudge or wrinkle, but otherwise in fine condition. The binding is slightly rubbed, has some cracks in the spine and hinges and probably lost a spine label, but is still good. The only translation, never published, of the last Haarlem pharmacopoeia. For the 1741 Latin ed.: Blake, p. 348; Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 138–139 (4 copies); STCN (5 copies).

97 Original edition of the pharmacopeia of Joubert, one of the most celebrated members of the medical faculty at Montpelier

179. [PHARMACOPOEIA]. JOUBERT, Laurent and Jean Paul ZANGMAISTRE (editor). Pha[r]macopoea. Lyon, Antonius de Harsy [printed by Jacob Stoer, Geneva, using the device of Jean & François Frellon], 1579. 8º. With the woodcut printer’s device of Frellon on title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with its back side completely replaced. Sold

Rare first edition, in the original Latin, of the important pharmacopoeia of the French physician Laurent Joubert (1529–1582), personal physician to Catherine de Medici and King Henry III and “one of the most celebrated members of the medical faculty at Montpelier” (Heirs of Hippocrates). “This work, less well known than the controversialErreurs , is the more important study, [its translation is] probably the first comprehensive pharmacopeia in French” (Brooks). The preliminaries contain a census of pharmaceutical literature, treating famous names such as Masawaih Al-Mardini (known in the West as Mesue the Younger), Jacobus Sylvius Cordus, Fuchs, etc. The pharmacopoeia itself is divided into four sections: syrups and preserves; laxatives and linctuses; opiate confections, troches and powders; and oils, ointments, cerates, and plasters. It not only contains the ingredients for these medicines, but also gives instructions for preparations, medical specifications, and the origin of the recipes, often naming Masawaih Al-Mardini (Mesue) as source. With contemporary owner’s inscription on pastedown of J[?] Maillard, dated 1580 and the title corrected in manuscript. With a small waterstain throughout the upper and lower margins, causing damage to the lower outer corner of the last 20 leaves, otherwise in good condition. Binding with back side replaced, and a couple small defects along the extremities. USTC 156315 & 452217; Waller 5207; cf. rooks, A critical bibliography of French literature II (1985), 4240; Brunet suppl. I, col. 703 note (1581 French transl. “ fort rare”); for Joubert: Heirs of Hippocrates 109.

Unpublished Dutch translation of the standard Leiden pharmacopoeia

180. [PHARMACOPOEIA—LEIDEN]. Leydsche apotheek. [Leiden?, ca. 1795]. 8º (22 × 15 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on paper. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers with a vellum spine. € 5000

A manuscript Dutch translation, never published, of about three quarters of the third (1751) edition of the first full-fledged Leiden pharmacopoeia, published in Latin as Pharmacopoea Leidensis. The first edition appeared in 1718, but was improved and expanded in 1732 and 1751. The engraved frontispiece of the third edition has been loosely inserted. The manuscript includes the text of the dedication (but without the names of the dedicatees), preface, printer’s note to the reader (explicitly noting that it is the third edition), and the main text of part 2 (pp. 48–176), but not the title-page, laudatory verses, table of contents, prologomena, main text of part 1 (pp. 7–47) and index. The anonymous translator began to translate the list of pharmacological terms with their symbols (on engraved plates in the printed editions) but stopped after listing 5 terms. Part 2 has been translated page for page, retaining the original page numbering. The frontispiece shows Aesculapius below the Leiden coat of arms held by 2 putti, with a view of people preparing medicines in an apothecary shop in the background. Parts of the preliminary texts appear to have been added at a slightly later date than the rest, though possibly by the same person. With some minor foxing and a few minor stains, but otherwise in very good condition. The binding is rubbed and dirty, but structurally sound. Unpublished 18th-century Dutch manuscript translation of the standard Leiden pharmaco- poeia, published only in Latin. Cf. Daems & Vandewiele, pp. 147–150.

98 Rare pharmacopoeia with prescriptions for the poor

181. [PHARMACOPOEIA—LEIDEN]. [H EU R N I US, Otto]. Pharmacopoea, et hortus, ad usum pauperum reipublicae Leydensis. Leiden, Elzevier, 1638. 8º. With woodcut coat of arms of the University of Leiden on title-page. Modern boards. € 3500

Rare first and only edition of a pharmacopoeia for the benefit of the poor of the Dutch city of Leiden, authorized by the city’s council. The work is said to have been initiated by Otto Heurnius (1577–1652), a Dutch physician who became professor of medicine at the University of Leiden. It lists simple medicines (“simplicia”) and compound medicines (“composita”), together with some brief comments on the ingredients and the preparations of the medicines. “Remedies for the patients in the Caecilia Hospital [Leiden] were in accordance with the prescriptions in this ‘poor-pharmacopoeia’” (Beukers). Very slightly browned, with minor thumbing on the first and last page and a few small spots. Otherwise in very good condition. H. Beukers (ed.), Clinical teaching, past and present XXI, p. 143; Daems & Vandewiele, p. 147; STCN (1 copy); Worldcat (3 copies).

Dutch manuscript pharmacopoeia from ca. 1675, with about 900 recipes

182. [PHARMACOPOEIA]. PIJPEN, Hendrik vander. [Manuscript pharmacopeia in Latin and Dutch]. [Dordrecht?, ca. 1675]. 8º. Manuscript in dark brown ink on a single stock of laid paper, in a legible Latin hand with some gothic elements. With the name Hendrik vander Pijpen written on the pastedown, in the same hand as the text of the manuscript. The double-page openings numbered (each with a single number in both upper corners). Contemporary vellum, two brass fastenings (one anchor plate broken, with the clasp present but detached). € 4500

Dutch manuscript pharmacopoeia in Latin and Dutch from ca. 1675 by Hendrik vander Pijpen, with about 900 medicinal recipes. Vander Pijpen appears to be a Dordrecht name, with several Hendriks in the family, including a lumber or timber merchant (1635–1676). The author must have been a practicing pharmacologist and physician, for he occasionally refers to recipes of his own and also relates his experiences of the effects of certain medicines on his patients. At least twice he refers to Dutch colleagues, making the manuscript a primary source for unknown or little-known figures in the trade: Ary Jansen vande Vaerde, appointed poxmaster of the city Delft in 1660 and the pharmacologist Mr. Wilm van Liewaerde. The book opens with dictionaries of pharmaceutical symbols and abbreviations, symbols and abbreviations of measurements and pharmacological terms (especially the Dutch meaning of Latin terms). The pharmacopoeia gives the ingredients and recipes primarily in Latin, while most of the detailed explanations of the effects and the administering of medication are in Dutch. The first part is alphabetical by the name of the medicine, followed with composite medicines. Very well preserved manuscript, with only a few occasional spots and in very good condition. The binding has a couple tiny smudges and one of the clasps is detached, otherwise also very good. An extensive Dutch manuscript pharmacopoeia with about 900 recipes, probably compiled in Dordrecht ca. 1675. Author not in Hirsch; Schelenz; Stoeder; Vandewiele; Wittop Koning.

16-century royal decree on marine insurance, printed by Plantin

183. [PHILIP II, King of Spain]. Ordinancie, statuyt ende policie gemaect byden coninck onsen aldernadichsten Heere, op tfeyt vande contracten vande asseurancien ende versekeringen in dese Nederlanden. Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1571. 4º. With armorial woodcut on title-page. Modern vellum. € 7500

99 Rare royal decree on marine insurance addressed to the Council of Brabant, replacing the decree of 27 October 1570. In 1569 the Duke of Alba took a radical measure by banning all marine insurance. "This "provisional" decree of 31 March 1569 was abolished by an ordinance of 27 October 1570 of Philips II. Marine insurances were again allowed. … Ships could only leave the port with the permission of an officer after an inspection of their armament. This decree also charged that all policies should contain a detailed report of the goods on board. … Diego Gonzalez Gante was appointed to inspect these contracts. He also had to prepare an new instruction. This decree contained as well a formulary of an marine insurance. After a petition of the merchants and Nations of Antwerp, a new ordinance was promulgated three months later, on 20 January 1571. This decree provided that only ten percent remained to the own risk of the insurance taker. The goods, the name of the vessel and the captain had to be mentioned in the insurance policy. To prevent fraud, Diego Gonzalez Gante was also appointed to control everything. An insurance policy which was not recorded by him was to be declared null and void. Not only in Antwerp, but also in Bruges, Amsterdam and Middelburg people under his authority had full powers to verify this" (Huybrechts). This decree also prohibited life assurance. With three lines underscored, otherwise a very good copy and wholly untrimmed. USTC 401508 (6 copies); Voet 1981 (4 copies, incl. 3 the same); WorldCat (3 the same copies); cf. M. Huybrechts (ed.), Marine insurance at the turn of the millennium II (2000), p. 18.

First edition of a well-illustrated account of Phipps's arctic expedition

184. PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London, printed by William Bowyer and John Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4º (29 × 23.5 cm). With 15 large double-page and larger folding engraved plates with maps, coastal profiles, ice flows, diagrams, and illustrations of equipment and marine animals, and many letterpress tables in the text (and 11 on folding leaves signed as separate quires). Contemporary calf, rebacked, modern endpapers. € 3750

First edition of Phipps's account of his expedition to the Arctic. The expedition with the shipsRacehorse and Carcass sailed north by way of the Shetlands, reaching the coast of Spitsbergen on 29 June 1773. They passed Magdalena Hoek in early July, but were unable to penetrate the pack ice. A second attempt, reaching 80°37' N latitude, also failed. Notwithstanding this failure, the crew was successful in making numerous scientific observations and discovering several new species of animals, among them the ivory gull (Pugophilu eburnea). "Phipps was also incidentally the first to give an adequate description of the polar bear Thalarctos( maritimus Phipps) and to give it a scientific binominal" (Savours). The crew included the future Admiral Horatio Nelson as mid- shipman and Olaudah Equiano, a former slave whose autobiog- raphy would cause a huge sensation. The first couple leaves slightly soiled in the upper margins, a small and faint waterstain in the last 50 leaves, some occasional spots and a couple minor smudges, otherwise in very good condition, with large margins. The binding with restorations along the extremities and rebacked. A lovely and well illustrated account of an important arctic voyage. ESTC T152604; Hill 1351; Sabin 62572; cf. Savours, '"A very interesting point in geography': the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole", in: Arctic XXXVII (December 1984), no. 4, pp. 402–428.

Plates of Duke of Osuna’s ornate sculptural coach, used for his entry during the Treaty of Utrecht

185. PICART, Bernard. Premier des magnifiques carosses de Monseigneur de le duc d'Ossuna, ambassadeur extraordinaire et premier plenipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Catholique Philippe: V. pour la paix faits pour l'entreé publique de son Excellence a Utrecht MDCCXIII. Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1714. 2º. Series of 7 engraved plates (including title-page and 1 double-page). 19th-century gold-tooled green morocco, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gilt edges; bound by Durvand Thivet. € 17 500

100 Rare first and only edition of a series of prints illustrating the ornate sculptural coach used for the entry of the Duke of Osuna into the Dutch city of Utrecht in 1713, and a title-page decorated in the same style. The sixth 6th Duke of Osuna, Francisco de Paula Téllez-Girón y Benavides (1678–1716), visited Utrecht as the Spanish delegate for the peace negotiations that resulted in the Treaty of Utrecht, which helped end the War of the Spanish Succession. The Duke is known to have given several extrav- agant feasts during his stay of two years. The carriage has a so-called "Boulle" floor, which was also used for John V of Portugal's coach used during the parade in Lisbon of about 1715. From the library of the notable theatre decorator and interior designer Polycarpe Charles Séchan (1803–1874), with his small red library stamp on each of the seven plates. The top 5 mm of six plates very subtly strength- ened and one on the fore-edge, and some spots throughout, otherwise in very good condition. Binding with some faint traces of wear along the hinges, but otherwise fine. Collection Séchan 152 (this copy); Berlin Kat. 1411; Huth, p. 28; Muller, Historieplaten 3516.

An elaborate compilation of available literature on horsemanship, with 26 engraved plates

186. PINTER VON DER AU, Johann Christoph. Neuer, vollkommener, verbesserter und ergäntzter Pferd-Schatz. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Philipp Andrea for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1688. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 2º (31.5 × 20.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved folding plates (with figured numbered 1–40). 19th-century half calf. € 6500

Second, enlarged and corrected edition of a "very elaborate compilation of the available literature on horse- manship, Pinter von der Au referred to his sources without restraint, from Xenophon and Vegetius, via Rusio and Ruellius to Carraciolo and Zechendorff. Quotations from Cicero and Caesar, Strabo, Plinius and Varro testify to his classical education. With regards to the methods for dressage Pinter leans heavily on Antoine Pluvinel and he is much less inclined to use cruel methods and devices than other stable and riding masters of the 17th century. … The work is divided into three main parts: (1) on horses in general, horse breeding, care and treatment of horses, livery stable and stud farm, (2) on riding, training and dressage, including bits and reins, and (3) on horse medicine" (Dejager). With library on frontispiece. Binding slightly rubbed and some small restorations to the spine. Some minor thumbing in the margins of the frontispiece, a couple spots on the plates, large tear in the first plate and some false folds; a good copy. Dejager 136; Nissen, ZBI 3185 (calls for 24 plates); VD17 3:311219G (7 copies, incl. 2 incomplete).

101 The first English voyage to Hawaii after Captain James Cook's

187. PORTLOCK, Nathaniel. Reis naar de noord-west kust van Amerika. Gedaan in de jaren 1785, 1786, 1787 en 1788. Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1795. 4º. With folding engraved map (34.5 × 46 cm) showing the routes of the ships King George and Queen Charlotte, 1 plate with engraved music and 8 folding engraved plates (last plate partly hand-coloured). Modern red half leather. € 2750

First edition of the Dutch translation of Portlock's account of "the first commercial voyage to the northwest coast [of America] and the first English voyage to visit Hawaii after that of Captain James Cook" (Forbes). The object of the voyage was to trade furs between China and the northwest coast of America. The expedition was fitted out with two ships, the King George commanded by Portlock and the Queen Charlotte by George Dixon: both commanders had accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage. They rounded Cape Horn and sailed for the northwest coast of America by way of Hawaii. The expedition cruised Cook Inlet and the Gulf of Alaska and the King George called three times at Hawaii, visiting Kealakekua, Aohu, Niihau, Kawaihae, Waimea and Kauai. The plates include an illustration of Hawaiian artefacts and a portrait of Hawaiian chief Kiana (here spelled "Tijaana") in feather cape and helmet. Slightly browned, some marginal stains, occasional foxing and small spots. In good condition. Forbes 253 (cf. 177); Howgego, before 1800, P141; Sabin 64395; Tiele, Bibl. 878.

Account of the Via Appia, one of the oldest roads in Italy

188. PRATILLI, Francesco Maria. Della Via Appia riconosciuta e descritta da Roma a Brindisi. Libri IV. Naples, Giovanni di Simone, 1745. 2º. With engraved illustration on title-page, 3 folding engraved maps and 1 full-page engraved map in text. Contemporary vellum. € 2800

First edition of a comprehensive account of the entire Via Appia, one of the main ancient roads through Italy, by the Italian priest Francesco Maria Pratilli (1689–1763). It is divided into 4 "libri", each treating a different part of the road from Rome southeast to Brindisi, mentioning places to eat, historical monuments (it passes some of the finest Republican and Imperial inscriptions), markets, cities etc., which can be found along the road. In the 19th century it was discovered that Pratilli was involved in a vast series of skilled forgeries, referring to and making up sources that never existed. Nevertheless, the present work contains some new and valuable infor- mation and remained an important work on the Via Appia for a long time: "Travail important et rempli d'érudition" (Brunet). With bookplate and library stamp. Endleaves smudged, but text in very good condition. Binding only slightly rubbed along the extrem- ities, but otherwise good. Ebert 17903; Brunet IV, col. 857.

102 Novena prayerbook associated with the 1714 image of Christ as patron of La Paz, Bolivia

189. [PRAYERBOOK—SPANISH AMERICAN]. Novena del Señor de las piedades patron jurado de la valerosa ciudad de La Paz, que se venera en la iglesia auxîliar de los curas rectores, al cuidado del Colegio Seminario de ella. Reimpresa á solicitud de su humilde mayor domo Estavan de Asin. , Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos, 1798. Small 8º (15 × 10 cm). Modern red sheepskin. € 4000

An extremely rare "Novena" prayer book perhaps first compiled in 1714, when the city of La Paz in Bolivia (after surviving an earthquake) made Christ its patron and erected an image under the name "Señor de las Piedades". After a preliminary note on the events of 1714 (pp. 3-4) the book gives orations and prayers for each of the nine days of the Novena. We have located neither another copy of the present Argentine edition nor an earlier edition of the same text, but the title-page indicates that an earlier edition existed. The prayers for the nine days are followed by a closing note with additional prayers, which includes a reference to another book: Juan Gabriel de Contreras, Despertador eucarístico, Madrid, 1786, which is known in the literature. With bookplate and stamp. The binder has trimmed the margins, just touching the text on 1 page, but without loss, and there is a stain on the title-page, but the book is in very good condition. The binding has some tears and chips to the spine and corners, but is still good. Anuario de estudios Bolivianos, 13 (2005), p. 680; Parke-Bernet 12 March 1968 (Carbone auction), lot 2664 (this copy); not in KVK & WorldCat; Medina; Palau.

First Dutch translation of the Quran, together with a life of Mohammed and a work on the Ottoman Empire

190. [QU R A N]. De Arabische Alkoran, door de Zarazijnsche en de Turcksche prophete Mahometh. Hamburg,for Barent Adriaensz. Berentsma, 1641. With: (2) [MOHAMMED]. Historie van den oorsprongh, geslacht, geboorte, opvoedinge, en leere des grooten valschen propheets Mahomets. Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1640. With engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved illustrations in the text. (3) [OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. Prophetien, of voorseggingen der beyde Keyseren Severi en Leonis, die beyde in Orienten geregeert hebben. Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1640. With 15 numbered engraved illustrations. 3 works in 1 volume. 4º. 18th-century calf with the coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto stamped in gold on both boards, gold- tooled spine. € 12 500

First Dutch translation of the Quran, translated after the first German version by Salomon Schweigger (1616). Schweiger, a protestant minister who sojourned in Istanbul for three years, knew little Arabic and translated from an Italian version of 1547, which on its turn was based on a Latin rendering of the original Arabic. The work is bound with a rare second edition of a (critical) life of Mohammed with an account of the early spread of Islam (ad 2), and a second Dutch edition of the prophetic visions of the Byzantine Emperors Leo VI and Severus on the end of the Ottoman Empire (ad 3), both works first published in 1627. The book comes from the library of the wealthy Amsterdam merchant Aaron de Joseph de Pinto (1710–1758), a distinguished book collector who had his books bound by the so-called "Fleur-de-Lis Bindery" at The Hague. Some owner's entries on flyleaf; slightly shaved. Very good copies, with an inter- esting provenance. Ad 1: STCN (6 copies?); Waller 46; ad 2: STCN (3 copies, including 1 incomplete); ad 3: STCN (3 copies); Waller 1389; on the binding: Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated bookbinding (2006), IIA, pp. 111–112.

103 Portoviejo joins Bolivár’s Gran Colombia

191. [RAMÍREZ Y FITA, Cayetano?]. Exposicion que hase [sic] el Canton provincia de Porto-viejo, de los motivos legales y políticos que há tenido para declararse unanimente incorporada a la Republica de Colombia segun la ley fundamental del estado dictada por el Congreso general, y sancionada por el voto de los pueblos. Lima, San Jacinto, [1822]. 4º. Side stitched. € 8500

Very rare pamphlet, printed in Lima, proclaiming the decision of the Canton of Portoviejo (in modern Ecuador) to join the Republic of Greater Colombia. The text was presumably written by the priest and revolutionary Cayetano Ramírez y Fita (1776–1854) and adapted in December 1821. Since the text was printed in Lima and refutations of the text appeared in a Guayaquil newspaper between May and June 1822, it is likely that the pamphlet appeared at the beginning of 1822. As part of the Spanish colonies in South-America, Portoviejo had been an important centre for conquistadors. In October 1820, as the Spanish empire in South-America was disintegrating, Portoviejo joined the other cities in the region of Guayaquil in declaring independence. The future of the region was uncertain as president Simón Bolívar of Colombia considered the region to be part of his state, while a number of movements in Guayaquil advocated joining the Republic of Peru. Portoviejo opposed to the rest of Guayaquil when in December 1821 its "cabildo" (administrative council) declared the canton to be part of the Republic of Colombia. Bolivár annexed the rest of the Province of Guayaquil in July 1822. With library stamps. Some small waterstains in the inner margins and a large waterstain at the head. Some small tears and folds near the edges and the title-page and last pages somewhat soiled; otherwise in good condition, edges untrimmed. Biblioteca de ex-coronel Pineda, vol. II (1873), p. 158; Dueñas de Anhalzer, "Marqueses, cacaoteros, y vecinos de Portoviejo", p. 289; WorldCat (2 copies); not in Medina; Palau; Sabin.

Descriptions of insects noxious to trees and shrubs, with attractively hand-coloured plates

192. RATZEBURG, Julius Theodor Christian. Die Forst- Insecten oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der in den Wäldern Preussens und der Nachbarstaaten als schädlich oder nützlich bekannt gewordenen Insecten. Berlin, Nicolai'schen Buchhandlung, 1837–1844. 4 volumes. 4º. With lithographed frontispiece, 54 lithographed and engraved plates (35 partly hand-coloured), 13 letterpress tables (3 full-page and 10 folding), numerous woodcut-engravings in text. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spines. € 1250

Complete set, including the supplement to volume one, of Ratzeburg's highly esteemed and comprehensive work on forest insects in "die einzige wertvolle Original-ausgabe mit dem guten Hand-colorit" (Junk). Julius Ratzeburg (1801–1871) was appointed professor of natural history at the Forst-Academie established at Berlin in 1821 and moved to Neustadt- Eberswalde in 1830. He devoted his life to the study of dendrology with special attention for the relation between trees and insects. In the present work he gives extensive descriptions of on individual species of coleop- tera, lepidoptera and hymenoptera that are noxious to trees and shrubs. He accompanies his detailed descriptions with letterpress tables that give surveys of the species discussed, and the names of trees and shrubs in which they may appear. Several leaves foxed and/or browned, a few plates slightly foxed; supple- ment to volume 1 with water stain in gutter margin; a fair copy. The spines slightly rubbed, but otherwise very good and attractive bindings. Bradley IV, p. 91; Horn & Schenkling 17680; Junk, Rara, p. 4; Nissen, ZBI 3307.

104 A Danish traveller in Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Bahrain, meets Mubarak al-Sabah and Ibn Saud, presentation copy

193. RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Gennem Wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg. Beretning om den af det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab planlagte og bekosterde forskningsrejse i Ost- og Centralarabien 1912. Copenhagen, Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1913. 8º. With a frontispiece showing the author in Arab garb, 88 illustrations in text, most of them reproductions of drawings and photographs by the author, and a folding map loosely inserted in a pocket at the end. Publisher's green cloth. € 5000

First and only edition, in the original Danish, of an account of a journey through the Arabian peninsula. Sponsored by the Royal Danish Geographical Society, Barclay Raunkiaer (1889–1915) set out to penetrate the hitherto unexplored deserts of south-east Arabia. Although he came equipped with a modest amount of scientific instruments and a camera, the use of these became almost impossible. The Arabs looked on foreigners with suspicion and Raunkiaer could use his camera only with great risk at certain unwatched moments (p. 12). Nevertheless, Raunkiaer was received by Sheikh Mubarak in Kuwait­—where he photographed the Sheikh and the Kuwaiti pearl fishers— and later by Ibn Saud in Riyadh. From Bahrain he travelled back to Copenhagen via Bombay. Shortly after the appearance of the Danish edition, the book was translated into German. T.E Lawrence, who considered it to be one of the "readable Arabian books", helped facilitate an English translation in 1916, privately printed by the Arab bureau in Cairo. With a dedication by the author to the Danish historian of religion Ditlef Nielsen (1874–1949) and a few annotations in pencil in the final chapter. Binding slightly worn along the edges, with a small stain on the title. Endpapers foxed with the text browned; some small random pen marks at the lower margin of p. 47. The map with a few tears along the folds, most of them expertly repaired; a very good copy. Facey, Kuwait by the first photographers, pp. 50–51; "Danish expedition to Arabia", The geographical journal XLIV (1914), pp. 85–86.

First illustrated issue of a critical work on the French East India Company in and India

194. [R E N N E FORT, Urbain Souchu de]. Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des Indes Orientales contenans une description des Isles du Cap Verd, de Sainte Helene, du Cap de Bonne Esperance, de l'Isle de Ceilon, & generalement de toutes les Indes Orientales ... [Amsterdam], "Aux dépens de La Societé", 1702. 12º. With 6 large folding engraved plates by Petrus Schenk, showing views of the Cape of Good Hope, Pernambuco, Punto Gale, Colombo, Goa and Surat. 18th-century mottled calf, blind-tooled sides, gold-tooled spine. Sold

First illustrated issue of a critical work on the French East India Company, by its secretary Urbain Souchu de Rennefort (ca. 1630–1689), who served the company during its early and ill-fated venture in Madagascar. It is "primarily an attack upon the company for its abandonment of Madagascar" (Lach & Van Kley). The first part was separately published in 1668 inRelation du premier voyage … and is a relation of the first French enterprise in Madagascar and the founding of the French East India Company in 1664. The second part contains another journal by an unspecified author of a voyage passing by Brazil and includes details on the French activities in India in 1669 and 1770. While focusing on the information regarding the Company, it also includes some descriptions of customs of the inhabitants of Brazil, Madagascar, India and other countries visited. The first edition was published at Paris 1688 and appeared in two issues with the titles Histoire des Indes Orientales and Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des Indes Orientales. In the same year a second edition was published in Leiden, which was reissued in 1701 in The Hague. The present edition is also a reissue of the Leiden edition, but includes a new preface and illustrations. The illustrations were engraved by Petrus Schenk in Amsterdam, and all are signed: "Amsterdam, C.P.". Very good copy. Borba de Moraes, p. 820; Chadenat 7182; South African bibliography IV, p. 266; STCN (2 copies); cf. Bosch 152 (Paris, 1688); Lach & Van Kley III, pp. 423, 748–749; Polak 8880 (Paris, 1688).

105 A French voyage to the Far East, presentation copy

195. RENOUARD DE SAINTE-CROIX, Felix. Voyage commercial et politique aux Indes Orientales, aux Iles Philippines, a la Chine, avec des notions sur la Cochinchine et le Tonquin, pendant les années 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 et 1807. Paris, Clament frères (printed by Crapelet), 1810. 3 volumes. 8º. With 2 folding engraved maps (India and Southeast Asia, coloured in outline), and 4 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary gold-tooled tree calf, € 7500

First (and only French) edition of an account of a voyage to India, Indonesia, China and the Philippines. Felix Renouard de Sainte-Croix, a French cavalry officer, arrived in Pondicherry (India) in 1802 and was almost immediately imprisoned by the English. After his liberation, he stayed for 2 more years in India, travel- ling to the coasts of Coromandel and Malabar, Bengal, Madras, Tharangambadi, Chalambron and elsewhere in India. He then proceeded to the Philippines where he visited Manila, the gold mines of Mabilao, and the provinces of Tondo, Cavite, Valangas, Bulacan, Batangas, Tayabas, Pampanga, Zambales, Pangasinan, Ylocos and Cagayan. He then continued to the Babuyab Islands, Camarines, the archipel- ago of Bissayes, the island of Mindanao, the Moluccas, and Macau in China. His travels in China are recorded in the third volume, which includes details about local trade, customs, laws, geography, etc. With a presentation inscription by the author on first flyleaf to "Monsieur Forestier, chef de Bureau at the Ministère de la Marine". In very good condition. Bindings slightly worn near the hinges. Cordier, Sinica, cols. 2106–2107; Lust 384; Vindel 2372.

On the first marriage of the founder of Rensselaerswijck (now Albany, NY)

196. RENSSELAER, Kiliaen and Hillegonda van BYLER. [4 autograph letters preceding a marriage in 1616]. Frankfurt and Utrecht 1615–1616. 2º and 8º. 3 of the letters with red wax-seals and gold thread. € 7500

Collection of four letters, two by Killiaen Rensselaer to his fiancée Hillegonda van Byl(la) er, who was living in Utrecht and whom Van Rensselaer would marry in 1616, written at Frankfurt, shortly after his arrival there to attend the "Messe", and two letters by Hillegonda. Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586–1643), a Dutch diamond and pearl merchant from Amsterdam, was one of the founders and directors of the Dutch West India Company. He played a pivotal role in the establishment of New Netherland. In very good condition. Spinoza Catella Jessurun, Kiliaen van Rensselaer van 1623–1636 (1917); Spooner, The Van Rensselaer family (1907).

Of the utmost importance on the knowledge of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, by the first Deshima doctor to describe the medicine and culture of Japan to the West

197. RHYNE, Willem ten. Verhandelinge van de Asiatise melaatsheid, na een naaukeuriger ondersoek ten dienste van het gemeen. Amsterdam, Abraham van Someren, 1687. With: (2) BEINTEMA VAN PEIMA, Joannes Ignatius Worp van. Tabacologia, ofte korte verhandelenge over de tabak, desselvs deugd, gebruyk, ende kennisse: waar door aangeweesen wordt een wegh om lang, vroolijk, ende gesond te leeven. The Hague, Levijn van Dijck, 1690. Lacking blank and frontispiece. 2 works in 1 volume. 8º. Contemporary vellum. € 25 000

106 Ad 1: Very rare first edition of an extensive treatise on leprosy, also called the Asian illness or leprosy, by the resident physician of Deshima, Willem ten Rhyne (ca. 1647–1700). Ten Rhyne was "the first Deshima doctor to describe the medicine and culture of Japan to the West (Bowers).'' Besides writing this pioneer work on leprosy, Ten Rhyne also was the first scholar to introduce knowledge of acupuncture and moxibustion in to Europe in his Dissertatio de Arthritide (1683), the earliest important Western report on acupuncture. He also wrote the first detailed study of tea and an account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentotes, which describes the lives of the Khoikhoi (then Hottentots) during the early days of Dutch settlement in the Cape. Ad 2: First edition of a treatise on tobacco, with the virtue, use, and knowledge of the same by J.I.W. Beintema van Peima (1662–1694), professor in Medicine. Accoring to the author tobacco is one of God's herbs; it induces tranquility of mind in lonely or unhappy moods. The tobacco work (ad. 2) is lacking ll. a1-2 (blank and engraved frontispiece), the work by Ten Rhyne in very good condition. Ad 1: Bowers, Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan (1971), p. 31; Krivatsy 9605; Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 834; STCN (2 copies); ad 2: Arents 407.

A milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature

198. [RICETTARIO FIORENTINO]. Ricettario Fiorentino nuovamente compilato e ridotto all'uso moderno diviso in due parti. Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. Large 4º (28 × 21 cm). With engraved illustration on title-page and a decorated engraved initial. 19th-century sheepskin parchment. € 2950

Last edition of the Nuovo ricettario, "a milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature" (Cowen & Helfand), emanating from the guild of Florence physicians and pharmacists and first published in 1498. This pharmacopeia appeared in dozens of editions until 1696 and was followed after almost 100 years by the present and last edition of 1789. "It embodies a list of approved drugs and describes the various methods of preparing them for administration or use, together with the proper weights and measures to be employed for accurate compounding" (Hagelin). Spots and minor water stains throughout, some of the lower corners smudged. In very good condition. Binding very good as well. Hagelin, p. 82–85; ICCU 023464 (7 copies); cf. Cowen & Helfand, Pharmacy an illustrated history (1990).

Horses in action: a great series of 50 horse plates, with the original drawing for the second plate

199. RIDINGER, Johann Elias. Vorstellung der Pferde, nach ihren Hauptfarben, und derselben verschiedenen Abtheilungen, Complexion, und der daraus entspringenden Beschaffenheit. | Description du cheval, selon ses poils principaux, & leurs diverses divisions, sa complexion, & les qualités qui en resultent. [Augsburg, Martin Elias Ridinger and Johann Jakob Ridinger, 1770 or ca. 1768]. 4º. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 50 plates with captions in German and French, conceived, drawn and engraved by Ridinger. All plates, including frontispiece, beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand as published, some highlighted with white chalk. Mottled, tanned half sheepskin (ca. 1840); recased. With: (2) RIDINGER, Johann Elias. [Die guthe Gestalt eines Pferdes| La beauté et les parties exterieures du Cheval]. [Augsburg, ca. 1765]. Drawing in pen and brown ink, ink washes and white chalk on grey-blue paper (24 × 17 cm, frame of pen-drawn rules 18.5 × 13.5 cm, with an empty panel at the foot for the title), for the second plate of Vorstellung der Pferde. In a passe partout. € 59 500

107 Rare first edition, in German and French, of a great coloured print series, with a 39-page letterpress text, showing horses in a wide variety of colours and patterns by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767), a German painter, graphic artist and engraver of animals, most famous for his horses: "one of the most beautiful illustrated animal books of the 18th century ... lavishly illustrated and also very rare" (Dejager). Together with the book we offer Ridinger's fine original pen and ink, ink wash and chalk drawing for the second plate. While many books or print series on horses show them standing or occasionally running in a race, most portraits in the present series show them much more naturally: stamping or pawing the ground, rearing up, jumping, kicking, sitting and rolling on the ground. When they do stand still they are often turning their heads. With significant tears in 2 plates, unobtrusively repaired without loss, but otherwise in good condition, with minor, mostly marginal repairs, small smudges or stains, or minor browned patches in a few other plates. The drawing with the small ink stamp of an eagle (9.5 × 7 mm) from the collection of Aldalbert Freiherr von Lanna (1836–1909). It has a minor crease in the paper, affecting only the background, but is otherwise in fine condition, with only a couple minor marginal defects, not approaching the drawn image. A beautiful and charming horse book, essential to any collection, with the original drawing for one of the plates in fine condition. Cobres 310; Dejager 252; Mennessier de la Lance II, 429; Nissen, ZBI 3418; for the Adalbert von Lanna collection: Lugt I, pp. 516 ff. (no. 2773).

Surprising respect for Australian Aboriginal languages, with 4 botanical wood engravings and colour-printed decorations

200. RIDLEY, William. Kamilaroi, Dippel, and Turrubul: languages spoken by Australian Aborigines. Sydney, Thomas Richards (New South Wales government printer), 1866. 4º. With an armorial vignette printed in several colours and gold (the unofficial "Advance Australia" Australian coat of arms), 4 fine full-page wood engravings of plants and flowers. Original publisher's maroon textured cloth. € 1950

First edition of grammars and vocabularies for three languages spoken by Australian Aborigines, compiled by William Ridley, professor at Sydney University and Minister of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. Ridley (1819–1878), an English missionary, came to Sydney in 1850. He wished to learn these languages in order to teach the Aborigines and carry out missionary work among them. Since the Aborigines had no written language, the present book forms a primary source for the languages as they existed more than 150 years ago, when they had had less contact with the Western world. He writes that he found these Aboriginal languages to posses a remarkable regularity and exactness, and that they "indicate an accuracy of thought, and a force of expression, surpassing all that is commonly supposed to be attainable by a savage race". In 1866 that was a remarkably progressive notion. He also adds some notes on Aboriginal names and customs. The book is nicely produced, with lovely wood engravings and interesting as an early example of Australian colour printing. The coat of arms is much like the earliest one known, which dates from 1821, but the third quarter shows a barrel and other goods rather than a harpoon and anchor. With library stamps (including a cancellation stamp) on the endpapers and blank parts of the title-page, and a paper label with manuscript shelf-mark on the binding. In very good condition. The spine is somewhat faded and there is minor damage to the board edges, but the binding is also very good. Ferguson 14914.

The frogs and toads of Germany in the manner of Maria Sybilla Merian

201. RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, August Johann. Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium in qua omnes earum proprietates, praesertim quae ad generationem ipsarum pertinent, fusius enarrantur. | Die natürliche Historie der Frösche hiesigen Landes worinnen alle Eigenschaften derselben, sonderlich aber ihre Fortpflanzung, umständlich beschrieben werden. Nuremberg, Johann Joseph Fleischmann, [1753]–1758. 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal 2º (48 × 33 cm). With hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 2 sets of the 24 engraved plates. Each of the 24 plates is present twice: beautifully hand- coloured with the figures still unnumbered, and in black and white with the figures numbered (and key letters added) but with Rösel's name erased. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 22 500

108 First and only edition, in Latin and German, of a beautiful work on frogs and toads, important from both an artistic and scientific point of view. August Johann Rösel (1705–1759), the author and artist, was the only natural historian of his time who studied both entomology and amphibians and reptiles, an essential combina- tion in today's study of ecosystems. The text is printed in 2 columns, Latin on the left and German on the right, describ- ing the natural history of all German frogs and toads in great detail. While the text proved valuable, the book's greatest fame lies in its plates. They are well designed from a practical point of view, highly artistic and skilfully executed, providing detailed and accurate information, and are beautifully and naturally coloured by hand. The 24 plates are present twice as intended by the publisher. One suite, in the earlier state without figure numbers or key letters, is beautifully coloured by hand, while the other, in the later state with figure numbers and key letters added, but with Rösel's name erased, is in black & white. In fine condition and virtually untrimmed, with only the half-title slightly spotted and occasionally very minor foxing or spots in the text. The binding is worn and scuffed but remains structurally sound. A beautiful copy of a beautiful book: a classic of natural history illustration in colour and an important contribution to the study of frogs and toads. Nissen ZBI 3464; DSB XI, pp. 502–503; Junk, Rara, pp. 162–163.

Baghdad, Wahhabis, Yezidis and Persian poetry

202. [ROUSSEAU, Jean-Baptiste (Antoine-Isaac SILVESTRE DE SACY, ed.)]. Description du Pachalik de Bagdad, suivie d'une notice historique sur les Wahabis, et de quelques autres pieces relatives a l'histoire et à la literature de l'Orient. Paris, Treuttel & Würtz (back of half-title: printed by J.B. Sajou), 1809. 8º. Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled edges. Sold

First edition of three texts by the promising orientalist and diplomat Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1780– 1831) and a French translation of a text on the Yezidis by the pioneer of European Kurdish studies Maurizio Garzoni (1734–1804). The texts are edited by the founder of modern orientalism Antoine- Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838).The first two of the texts by Rousseau concern Baghdad and the Wahhabis, while the third provides translations of Persian poetry. With a 3 × 3 cm square cut out of the title-page and replaced by blank paper, removing a library stamp (its offset still visible on the facing page). Occasional browning, foxing and spots, but still in good condition. The binding has some minor damage near the foot of the spine and is slightly rubbed at its head, otherwise very good. G. Bonacina, The Wahhabis seen through European eyes (2015), pp. 53–60; Macro 1962.

Important catalogue of the Leiden University botanical garden, with a folding table presenting Linnaeus’s first hierarchical classification scheme

203. ROYEN, Adrianus van. Florae Leydensis prodromus, exhibens plantas quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo aluntur. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans I, printer to the university, 1740. 8º. With an engraved folding plan (plate size 41 × 24 cm) and a folding letterpress table. Contemporary half red roan. Sold

First and only edition of Van Royen's catalogue of plants in the Leiden University's botanical garden, with a large engraved folding plan of the garden and especially important for the folding table headed "Clavis classium", contributed anonymously by the 32-year-old Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778),

109 his first attempt to present a hierarchical classification scheme for plants. It shows 20 named classes indicating their relations with an eight-level hierarchical tree, not only the beginning of the classification system that was to remain the standard to our time, but also the seed of the methodological thought and analysis that helped pave the way for Darwin's evolutionary family trees. The catalogue lists 835 genus names, with the items under it separated numbered for each genus (the number of entries varies at least from 2 to 33). Linnaeus cited it frequently in his 1753 Species plantarum. With embossed library stamp. With manuscript notes throughout, giving a single sequence of numbers for the 835 genus names and occasionally adding notes to the entries. The folding plan has a 6 cm tear along a fold and a couple marginal tears, but otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. The binding is tattered and worn, but it remains structurally sound. Hunt 515; Kuijlen & Wijnands 92; Stafleu & Cowan 9730.

With 60 plates containing beautiful and accurate figures drawn by Maria Sibylla Merian, beautifully and subtly hand-coloured

204. RUMPHIUS, Georg Everard. Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum; ... ut et cochlearum; ... quibus accedunt conchylia, ... denique mineralia; ... The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1739. Large 2º (44.5 × 27 cm). With an engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, and 60 numbered engraved plates with hundreds of figures drawn by Maria Sibylla Merian coloured in an early hand. Recased in con- temporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled board edges. Rebacked with a gold-tooled spine. € 35 000

Second Latin edition of a beautiful pictorial record of one of the finest early collections of East Indian marine specimens, with scientifically accurate engravings drawn by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) apparently in the year of the death of the owner Georg Everard Rumphius (1627/28–1702). The engraved title-page and 60 illustration plates are beautifully and subtly coloured by hand in a wide variety of colours. The book excludes vertebrate fish but shows crustaceans, sea urchins, sand–dollars, starfish, shellfish, barnacles and coral, along with crystals, minerals, amber, fossils and even some man-made artefacts, such as axe heads. Some plates show one large figure, others more than twenty small ones. Rumphius, a German physician and naturalist, worked for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from 1652 to his death, mostly on Ambon in the Moluccas. The illustrations never bore Merian's name (only those of the engravers), but she mentioned them in a 1702 letter, Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach saw them at her house in 1711 and wrote that she drew them, and her drawings survive in St Petersburg. With a marginal tear in plate XLIX, but further in very good condition and wholly untrimmed, giving generous margins. Beautifully coloured plates of crustaceans, shells, etc. that formed a landmark in the development of scien- tific illustration for natural history. Landwehr, VOC 951 note; Wood, p. 546; cf. E. Reitsma, Maria Sibylla Merian, pp. 207–210.

The most important German legal code, in a contemporary signed binding

205. [SACHSENSPI EGEL]. [R E P G OW, Eike von and Wolf LOSS]. Sachsenspiegel auffs new fleissig corrigirt, an Texten, Glossen, Allegaten, auch mit vermehrung des emendirten Repertorij, und vieler newen nützlichen Additionen. Leipzig, Nicolaus Wolrab, 1545. 2º. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin, each board in a panel design, including one roll with 4 medallion portraits and another with 4 biblical portraits; both rolls signed "M.R." for the Leipzig binder Matthias Radmann. Sold

110 Second edition printed by Nicolaus Wolraub (ca. 1500–1560) of the most important and oldest German legal code and first extensive work in German prose. The Sachsenpiegel, or "The Saxon mirror" was compiled between 1215 and 1235 by Eike von Repgow, who worked as a counsel in law courts and arranged his practical knowledge of Saxon judicial customs in the present work. The Sachenspiegel contains two types of law: Landrecht (customary law) and Lehnrecht (feudal law). The Landrecht deals mostly with rules and regulations for each individual, men and women, concerning marriage, property, inheritance, criminal law, etc., whereas Lehnrecht "delineates the legal customs governing relations and feudal land tenure among the nobility in Saxony" (Dobozy). It appeared for the first time in print in 1481 at Augsburg, and numerous editions followed. With an extensive manuscript note on the first flyleaf, underscoring and numerous annotations in the margins by a contemporary hand, and several owners' inscriptions on title-page. A water stain in the upper margin, some occasional minor foxing and small spots. Binding somewhat soiled and worn along the extremities, bottom of spine damaged and lacking one of the two clasps, but most of the tooling still clear. In good condition. M. Dobozy, The Saxon mirror: a "Sachsenspiegel" of the fourteenth century (1999), p. VII; VD16, D746; for the binder: Haebler I, pp. 380–382.

5 original glass lantern slides with the earliest photographs of Mecca and Medina

206. SADIQ BEY, Muhammad, Christiaan SNOUCK HURGRONJE and Al-Sayyid ‘Abd al-GHAFFÂR. [5 photographic lantern slides of Mecca and Medina (silver gelatin glass positives), taken in the years 1880 to 1889]. Stuttgart, Lichtbilderverlag Theodor Benzinger, [ca. 1910]. 5 glass positive lantern slides (8.5 × 10 cm), each with a black paper mask, paper tape around the edges, a letterpress slip at the foot giving the publisher's name and city, and a slip at the head with the manuscript title. Kept in a contemporary purpose-made wooden box with brass fittings, with the word "Mekka" on the top of the hinged lid. € 35 000

Five of the earliest and best photographs of Mecca and Medina, beautifully preserved as silver gelatin glass plates, including the first photograph of the Ka'ba in Mecca's Masjid al-Haram (Great Mosque). Two of the photographs were taken by the first person to photograph Mecca and Medina, the Egyptian Colonel Muhammad Sadiq Bey (1832–1902), who made them in 1880 for the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. The others were taken by the first European to photograph Mecca, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffâr, who worked closely with him. Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936), one of the greatest pioneering Dutch Arabists, converted to Islam and lived in Mecca from January to about July 1885. The photographs by these three men are best known and most often reproduced from the published collotype facsimiles, and the rare surviving early albumin prints are usually faded and often otherwise in bad condition. The present five plates, sold as lantern slides for magic lantern presentations, are therefore of the greatest importance as well-preserved high quality images of these famous photographs, providing the best early images of the mosques of Mecca and Medina. All five slides are in very good condition, with only a bit of dust and an occasional smudge on the glass. They show: 1) The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca (the Great Mosque) 2) A closer view of the Ka'ba in Mecca 3) A portrait of an unidentified Mu'ezzin in Mecca 4) A portrait of an unidentified East Indian pilgrim 5) The al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina (the Prophet's Mosque) Cf. D. v.d. Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (2011); J. J. Witkam, new introduction to the 2007 reprint of the 1931 English translation of Hurgronje, Mekka.

111 Genealogy and portraits of the Peruvian Inca rulers, by a descendant

207. SAHUARAURA, Justo Apu. Recuerdos de la monarquia Peruana ó bosquejo de la historia de los Incas. Paris, Rosa, Bouret & Co. (on back of half-title: printed by Jules Clay & Co), 1850. Large 8º (27 × 17 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author with his coat of arms, 1 lithographed plate with 4 coats of arms and 16 tinted lithographed plates of Peruvian Inca rulers. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked black cloth with the title and arms of Peru impaled with an unidentified (Inca?) arms on front board. € 5500

Rare work on the genealogy of the Inca rulers, with 16 portraits and several coats of arms, written in Spanish by Justo Sahuaraura (1775–ca. 1853), a descendant of the last pre-Hispanic Inca ruler. It begins with the semi-legendary Manco Cápac in the 12th or 13th century, continues to Huayna Cápac (ca. 1465–ca. 1526), the ruler in the time of Cortes and the Spanish conquest, but then continues with the small kingdom set up independent of the Spanish in 1540. The last ruler covered is therefore Tupac Amaro (1545–1572). Sahuaraura's father had been loyal to the Spanish and he himself became a Catholic priest. He fought for Peruvian independence in 1825. Some version of at least parts of Sahuaraura's genealogy was published in 1836 in the series Biografías genealógicas de los coronados hijos legítimos del sol, but he produced a manuscript version with portraits in 1838. With some minor foxing, but still in very good condition. The ink used for the tint in the portraits has caused a browned shadow on the facing blank guard leaves. The front board is very slightly bowed, but the binding is also very good. With a contemporary gift inscription in French on a front endleaf. Palau 285017; Rene-Moreno, Biblioteca Peruana 1413; WorldCat (9 copies).

A rare Brazilian botany with 70 lithographed plates, in wrappers with publisher´s lists

208. SAINT-HILAIRE, Auguste de, Adrien de JUSSIEU and Jacques CAMBESSEDES. Plantes usuelles des Brasiliens. Paris, Grimbert (printed by Casimir), 1824–1828. In 14 instalments. Large 4º (29.5 × 22.5 cm). With 70 lithographed botanical plates, all by Langlumé. Original publisher´s blue printed wrappers, the back wrapper with lists of Gimbert´s publications (4 versions). Preserved in a modern green morocco box, with transparent acrylic windows for sides. € 16 500

Rare series on Brazilian botany with 70 beautiful lithographed plates, published in 14 instal- ments by the French explorer, botanist and entomologist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire (1779–1853). Beginning with part 9 his two co-authors are named on the wrapper as well. After a journey of six years through Brazil (1816–1822), he brought home to France a vast collection of plants, mammals, birds and reptiles. There he dedicated himself to the publication of the results of his Brazilian journeys by working on several publications at the same time. The long journey and the pressure of work took their toll, however, and Saint-Hilaire fell ill. He was able to continue his work but not alone. Two respected colleagues took over the largest part of the work. De Saint-Hilaire recovered to some degree and together they continued their work. A note in part 9 assures the readers and subscribers that the style and quality will not suffer from this change. Saint-Hilaire intended to issue 50 parts, but only these 14 were actually printed. Each instalment contains 5 plates with accompanying text. Some text leaves in the last 3 parts foxed, a tear in the back wrapper of one part and a marginal worm hole in the front wrapper and first leaf of another. In very good condition, with the bolts opened at the head, but wholly untrimmed. Borba de Moraes, p. 762; Nissen, BBI 1717; Stafleu & Cowan 10032.

Leading botanist on Brazilian agriculture, presentation copy

209. SAINT-HILAIRE, Auguste de. Mémoire sur le système d'agriculture adopté par les Brésiliens, et les résultats qu'il a eus dans la province de Minas Geraes. (Colophon: Paris, A. Pihan de La Rorest, imprimeur de la Cour de Cassation), [1837 or soon after]. 8º. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. € 1500

112 A little-known account of Brazilian agricultural techniques, especially in the province of Minas Gerais, by the leading botanist and explorer Auguste de Saint-Hilaire (1779–1853), born in Orléans. Saint-Hilaire explored Uruguay and central and southern Brazil in the years 1816 to 1822, taking special interest in their flora and serving as a correspondent for the Académie des Sciences already before he returned to France and began publishing his findings. He became a member of the Academy in 1830 and its president in 1835. The present essay is undated but cites one of the author's publications of August 1837. With a presentation inscription from the author on the first page: "Offert à Mr. Fée par l'auteur". Slightly foxed but otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. Quérard VIII, 339; not in Borba de Moraes.

Enlarged Dutch edition of a description of Southeast Asia

210. SALMON, Thomas and Matthias van GOCH. Hedendaegsche historie, of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren; … I. deel. Behelzende de tegenwoordige staet der keizerryken China en Japan, als mede van de Ladrones, Filippynsche en Molukkische eilanden, en van Makassar. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1729. 6 parts in 1 volume. 8º. With engraved frontispiece by Jan Caspar Philips, 3 engraved folding maps and 7 engraved plates (2 full-page and 5 folding, including 4 signed by Philips and dated 1728–1729). The maps show: (1) China, (2) Japan and (3) the Philippines, including the greater part of Indonesia. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. € 2500

First edition of parts 5-6, with parts 1-4 in the second printing, of the Dutch transla- tion of the first volume of Thomas Salmon's Modern history, or The present state of all nations, covering China, Japan, the Philippines, the Moluccas and Celebes (the present Sulawesi). The original English series appeared in 3 volumes while the enlarged Dutch translation was to appear in 44 volumes, treating the geography, history and culture of nearly every part of the world. The present volume is translated and much enlarged by Matthias van Goch and contains new maps by Isaak Tirion, later used in the German and Italian editions. The present first volume was originally issued in 6 parts, but by the time parts 5 and 6 came out the stocks of parts 1-4 were apparently depleted. Those parts were therefore reprinted for issue in the complete sets of 6 parts. Occasional foxing and browning, but still in very good condition. Cordier, Indosinica, col. 731; Cordier, Japonica, col. 431; STCN (9 copies); Tiele, Bibl. 1033.

The authority on British falconry

211. SALVIN, Francis Henry and William BRODRICK. Falconry in the British isles. London, John van Voorst, 1855. 4º (29 × 19.5 cm). With 24 hand-coloured lith- ographed plates by William Brodrick. Original publisher's blind- and gold- blocked cloth, front board with title and large illustration of a falcon. € 3000

First edition of a complete and important treatise on the art of falconry by Francis Henry Salvin (1817–1904), in which he describes the various species of birds used in England, both hawks and falcons. ''The best English book on falconry and a very attractive publication'' (Schwerdt). The treatise is illustrated with lithographs by William Brodrick (1814–1888); they show 21 falcons and 5 hawks; plates 22–24 depict equipment used for falconry. The stones for the first edition were destroyed after publication so the plates for the second edition (London, 1873) had to be redrawn. With bookplate. Some pages and plates reinforced, two plates loose, some spotting, but still in good condition. Binding discoloured and slightly worn. Nissen, IVB 147; Souhart 419; Schwerdt II, p. 145; Wood p. 541; not in Thiebaud.

113 Virtues and vices in 100 engraved emblems after Casper and Jan Luyken

212. SANCTA CLARA, Abraham à. Huy! und Pfuy! der Welt. Huy, oder Anfrischung zu allen schönen Tugenden. Pfuy oder Abschreckung von allen schändlichen Lastern. Durch unterschiedliche sittliche Concept, Historien, und Fabeln vorgestellt. Worinnen der Poet, Prediger, und waserley Standes-Personen für ihren Kram etwas finden können. Nuremberg, Christoph Weigel; Würzburg, Martin Frantz Hertzen, 1707. 2º. With engraved allegorical title-page and 100 engraved emblems in text (measuring 10.5 × 12 cm). Contemporary vellum. € 8500

First edition of a German emblem book addressing virtues and vices in 100 emblems, compiled by the German preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara (born Johan Ulrich Mergerle; 1644–1709). As the title states, the book's purpose is to refresh the reader's virtues and to deter from vices by way of emblems. The concepts are explained in well-known fables and accessible symbols and allegories, like the sun, moon, fire, sea, weather, seasons, metals, gems, animals etc. Each concept is illustrated in an emblem accompanied by a motto in Latin and a poem in German and Latin. The emblems were engraved by Christoph Weigel after illustrations by Caspar and Jan Luyken from the Ethica Naturalis (ca. 1700). Each emblem is followed by two pages of text explaining the emblem. With a library inscription on flyleaf. Some marginal thumbing, occasional foxing and some occasional spots and smudges. Binding slightly soiled. Otherwise in good condition. Landwehr, German emblem books 11; Faber du Faur 1125; Goedeke III, 25, 240.

Zoological work with 50 half-page engravings, also describing mythological animals

213. [SARTORIUS, Johann Christoph and Caspar WUSSIN]. Neües Thier-buch, oder: merckwürdige Beschreibung der Thieren und Vögeln, ... Erster und anderter Theil. Prague, Caspar Wussin, 1718. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 4º (19 × 14.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece, engraved illustration on title-page, and 50 engravings in text. 19th-century turquoise paste paper over boards. € 2950

Rare first and only edition of a zoological work in which the anonymous authors describe fifty animals. The book is divided into two parts, describing thirty mammals in the first, and twenty birds in the second part, also including dragons and griffins. Each animal is illustrated on a half-page engraving, which is followed by a poem, a zoological description, and stories or sayings mostly of a moralistic nature. The names of the animals are given in German, Latin and Czech. The mythological animals, like the unicorn, , dragon, etc., are included with the added remark that their existence has not been proven con- clusively. The large engraved frontispiece shows Adam in the Garden of Eden, playing a harp and surrounded by listening animals. Slightly browned, some thumbed margins and a few small spots, otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed along the extremities, otherwise good. Nissen, ZBI 3587; Wood, p. 489; WorldCat (6 copies).

114 Very rare diary of Sarychev's hydographic expedition in the Baltic Sea

214. SARYCHEV, Gavriil Andreevich. Dnevnye zapiski plavania ... Gavrily Sarycheva po Baltyskomu moryu i Finskomu zalivu v 1802, 1803, 1804 i 1805 godakh .... [=Journal of the voyage of ... Gavriil Sarychev in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland in 1802, 1803, 1804 and 1805 ...]. St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1808. 4º. With 4 letterpress folding tables. Modern half leather. € 7500

Rare first and only edition of a diary of a Russian expedition in the Baltic Sea, by captain Graviil Sarychev (1763–1831), a veteran of the Billings-expedition of 1785–1794. Finland and the Baltic Sea had been the traditional front in which Russia fought most of its wars with its European rivals, most recently during the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790. When in 1800 a British fleet entered the Baltic Sea intending to destroy the Russian fleet, due to Russia's (armed) neutrality in Britain's struggle with France, the importance of the Baltic Sea was once again confirmed. Under the leadership of the new Tsar Alexander I, Russia's hostilities with Britain were quickly ended but to fortify Russia's borders, a hydro- graphic expedition was set up to chart the Baltic Sea. Led by Sarychev, this expedition worked for six years to correct the existing charts of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland. Sarychev's journal of this expedition is full of nautical and astronomical observations but is also deeply spiritual regarding the dangers of the sea. The paper of some quires has a slightly blue cast. With four bookplates on the pastedowns, including that of the Library of Congress with a suppressed stamp, perforated initials on the title-page and two small stamps on the back of the title-page. A small spot of gold paint on the title-page, a few browned spots throughout and the sides of the binding rubbed; otherwise in very good condition. Smirdin 4188; on Sarychev: DSB XII, pp. 114–115; Howgego to 1800, S50; not in WorldCat.

Portrait of John Sturges in Turkish costume

215. SAUNDERS, John. [John Sturges in Turkish costume with turban and gold-trimmed coat.] Peterborough, 1739. Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas (41 × 30.5 cm), stretched over (original?) wooden board. € 12 500

A pastel portrait drawn by the prolific itinerant portraitist John Saunders (1682– ca.1758) at Peterborough in September 1739. Saunders is recorded as active in East Anglia, the Midlands and elsewhere in the mid-18th century. The sitter John Sturges appears in Turkish costume, wearing a white turban with blue feather and a coat with gold trimmings and a fur collar. Saunders probably based it on a 1733 mezzotint drawn and engraved by Francis Kyte (d. 1744) after a painting (or the ink-wash drawing noted below?) by John Vanderbank (1694–1739). The pastel is of interest as an example of mid-18th century depiction of Turkish costume. With a paper label on the back with a manuscript note repeating information from the autograph pencil inscription by Saunders on the front, top right: "Saunders pinxit after Mr. J[oh]n Vanderbank Peterborough Sept. anno d. 1739". Two negligible scratches to surface, otherwise in good condition. Jeffares, "John Saunders 1682-p. 1758", in: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (online ed.).

First and only catalogue of a private Rotterdam botanical garden, listing nearly 2000 plants

216. SCHINNE, Isaac Evert Cornelis van. Catalogus plantarum, indigenarum & exoticarum, quae in Horto Medico Rotterdamensi aluntur, secundum systema sexuale Caroli a Linné dispositarum. [Rotterdam, the compiler], 1809. 8º. Contemporary marbled wrappers. € 2500

115 Rare first and only edition of the catalogue of the private botanical garden of the wealthy Rotterdam merchant Isaac Evert Cornelis van Schinne (1741–1819), established in 1788 at the suggestion of the physician Johannes van Noorden (1749–1800) and containing near 2000 domestic and foreign plants. Van Noorden used the garden to give classes in botany. The catalogue is arranged according to the Linneaen classification and makes references to the catalogues of the Prague botanical garden and Kew Gardens in England, but notes that there are also "wholly new" species, not in those catalogues. Van Schinne's four-page dedication to the Burgermasters and Councillors of the city of Rotterdam and his two-page note to the reader give some information about the history and use of the collection. The collection was sold on Schinne's death in 1819 and the garden closed. With the embossed stamp and 2 different ink stamps of Johannes Hendrik Willem Eldermans (1904– 1985), who collected books on magic and occult. One of the stamps indicates that this book was part of his forensic library. In very good condition. Kuijlen et al., Paradisus Batavus 103 (& exhib. 86); Picarta (1 copy); WorldCat (2 copies).

Standard hymenopterological catalogue

217. SCHMIEDEKNECHT, Otto. Opuscula ichneumonologica. Blankenburg, 1902–1927[–1936]. 6 volumes + 25 supplement volumes. 8º. Contemporary half cloth; supplement volumes original publisher's printed-paper wrappers. € 4250

Complete set of a standard hymenopterological work on ichneumon wasps by the German entomologist Otto Schmiedeknecht (1847–1936). The set consists of 6 volumes, including a register, and 25 supplement volumes, numbered Fasc. I–XXV. "... (at the turn of the 20th century) extensive work was carried out by ichneumonologists … All of the research done in this period has been recorded in Schmiedeknecht's (1902–1936) multi- volume work, Opuscula ichneumonologica. In the division of the subfamily Tryphoninae, Schmiedeknecht followed Holmgren's system but treated the tribe Tryphonini within the limits set by Thomson … He included 13 genera comprising some 120 species of Palearctic (predominantly European) fauna" (Kasparyan). With some owner's annotations in the margins, slightly browned. Most of the supplements with spine reinforced and an occasional crease, but wholly untrimmed. In very good condition. Junk, Rara, pp. 150, 215; Kasparyan, Fauna of the USSR, Hymenoptera (1989) p. 92.

About 1500 plants in the Leiden botanical garden, including South African ones

218. SCHUYL, Florens. Catalogus plantarum Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi quibus is instructus erat anno MDCLXVIII. ... Accedit index plantarum indigenarum, quae prope Lugdunum in Batavis nascuntur. Heidelberg, Johann Peter Zubrod, 1672. 12º. Recent marbled boards. € 2000

Second edition of an alphabetical catalogue of about 1500 plants in the botanical garden of Leiden University, with an appendix listing about 300 plants native to Leiden, first published by Johan Elzevier in 1668. Though clearly based on Vorstius's catalogue, which the Elzeviers had published in 1636, Schuyl's catalogue expands the list considerably, including for the first time South African plants, theVOC having established a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. It also includes the date palm and some Far Eastern plants. Schuyl (1614–1658) studied philosophy, medicine and botany at Leiden and elsewhere, became professor of medicine there in 1664 and took charge of the botanical garden in 1667. He is believed to have thrown a barb at Spinoza in a 1662 publication, noted in Spinoza's correspondence in 1663. With a faint inscription at the foot of the title-page. Lacking the 2 final blank leaves. With a couple minor stains on the title-page and some bifolia reinforced at the fold, but still in good condition. Extensive catalogue of the Leiden botanical garden, including South African plants. Pritzel 8519; VD17 (2 copies).

116 One of the greatest bird books of all time, with 446 coloured plates, plus 1 extra plate

219. SELIGMANN, Johann Michael, George EDWARDS and Mark CATESBY. Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel, ... [erste- neunter … Theil]. Nuremberg, Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1749–1776. 9 parts in 3 volumes. 2º. With 3 different engraved frontispieces, 1 large engraved folding map, 445 (of 473) engraved illustration plates numbered in 5 series plus 1 plate by Seligmann numbered "115" in part 4 but not normally included. With all the usual illus- tration plates (plus the map) coloured by a contemporary or near contemporary hand, but the extra plate uncoloured. Near contemporary uniform gold-tooled calf, gilt edges. € 48 500

First German edition, with the plates newly made for this edition and including new material, the text combining German translations by Georg Leonhard Huth of three important English ornithological works: George Edwards's A natural history of uncommon birds (1743–1751) and Gleanings of natural history (1758–1764), and Mark Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (second ed. 1748–1754). Seligmann (1720–1762) brought these materials together and engraved the illustration plates and two of the frontispieces. The book is especially strong for American and Asian birds. The parts and plates were published in instalments and while many copies lack the whole of part 9, the present copy includes the plates and accompa- nying leaves of text of this part up to plate XXIV. It further includes one (uncoloured) plate, a portrait of an indigenous North American man, not recorded in the literature, though engraved by Seligmann. With 2 tears in the folding map, almost entirely in the sea, but generally in very good condition. The bindings are slightly scuffed and have some professional restorations along the extremities, but are otherwise very good with most of the tooling clear. Anker 462; Fine Bird Books, p. 73; Nissen, Vogelbücher 857.

117 American settlers more cruel than the Indians

220. SEMALLÉ, René de. Les Indiens des États-Unis. Including: SEMALLÉ, René de. [Drop-title:] Note sur les Indiens de l'Amérique du Nord. Paris, A. Marc (colophon of second offprint: E. Martinet), 1869. 2 offprints published as 1. 8º. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers. € 2950

Offprint of two articles on North American Indians by René de Semallé. The first article origi- nally appeared in L'illustration, the second in Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, both in 1868. The former gives some general information on the Indian tribes in North America, with special attention to their way of living and their customs. De Semallé states that the Indians, contrary to what the American newspapers try to make people believe, weren't cruel at all and even showed a chivalrous nobility. Moreover, he criticises the attitude of the American settlers, who continued to attack or harass the indigenous Americans. The second, well-documented article states that during the last few years indigenous American population has not continued to decrease, as the newspapers still claimed, but has increased. With offsetting from correction slips on a few pages, the lower corners rounded and the upper corners frayed; otherwise good. Wrappers slightly frayed and the spine tattered. Sabin 79045; not in Streeter.

Itineraries for an unidentified French-speaking traveller through South and Central America

221. [SOU T H A M ER IC A]. Itinéraire de Carthargène[!] à Popaya, Lima et Santa Crux. [No place, ca. 1855]. 4º. Manuscript in brown ink on blue-lined (machine-made?) wove paper without watermark. Half tan cloth. € 3500

A series of itineraries in French for trips through South and Central America by an unknown traveller, the title-page covering only the first two. The first runs through Cartagena, Santafé de Bogotá and Popayan (Colombia), Quito (Ecuador), Lima (Peru); followed by itineraries for trips from Lima to Santa Cruz (Bolivia); Lima to Santiago (Chile); Santa Cruz to Asunción (Paraguay); Asunción to (Brazil); Rio de Janeiro to (Uruguay); and finally from Santafé de Bogotá via Medelin (Colombia), Panama City (Panama) and Nicaragua to Antigua (Guatemala). Although the heading for the last itinerary indicates that it continues to Mexico, the description does not. Many additional sites are mentioned along the way including important archaeological sites, such as Cusco. The itineraries give a great deal of information about the sites (more than 2 pages on Lima, for example), including the populations of most of the cities. With some leaves not used for the present manuscript lacking. In good condition, with the lower edge of 1 leaf dirty and an occasional minor spot.

Bestseller of illustrated 17th-century travel literature, probably printed by Izaak Elzevier

222. SPILBERGEN, Joris van and . Miroir Oost & West-Indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres navigations, faictes es années 1614. 1615. 1616. 1617. & 1618. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius [printed by Izaak Elzevier?], 1621. Oblong 4º (17.5 × 23 cm). With 24 (of 25) engraved plates, including 5 double-page and 10 larger folding. Modern vellum. € 16 500

First and only edition of the French translation of one of the of illustrated 17th-century travel literature, describing one of the most famous early voyages around the world by Joris van Spilbergen (1568–1620), a veteran Dutch East Indies naval officer-turned- pirate, undertaken from 1614 to 1618. A short survey of another of the most important early voyages around the world, by Schouten and Le Maire in the years 1615 to 1617, is added at the end (pp. 117–172) with drop-title "Navigationes Australes". It reports Le Maire's proof that Tierra del Fuego is an island and his discovery of what is still called the Strait of Le Maire, an alternative route to the Pacific. Rich in ethnographic detail, the numerous illustrations in the Miroir include oversized penguins, llamas and an Andean condor with a

118 nine-foot wing span. Naval battles, beleaguered Spanish settlements, and newly discovered islands are also depicted in detail, making the work a valuable compendium of adventure on the high seas during the Age of Discovery. With several owner's inscriptions. With a few manuscript annotations in the margin. Lacking the world map. Washed with a brush, leaving light brown steaks on most leaves, and further with an occasional leaf foxed or smudged and an occasional minor tear. Otherwise a good copy of an extraordinary journal. Borba de Moraes, p. 826 ("This French edition is much sought after"); Landwehr & .V d. Krogt, VOC 362; Sabin 89451; Tiele, Bibl. 1030.

Important early voyages to the East Indies and the impetus for the discovery of Australia

223. SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Steven van der HAGEN. Historis journael van de voyage gedaen met 3 schepen uyt Zeelant naer d'Oost-Indien onder het beleyt van den commandeur Joris van Spilbergen, syn eerste reyse. In den jare 1601. 1602. 1603. 1604. Als meede beschrijvinge van de tweede voyage ghedaen met 12 schepen na d'Oost- Indien onder den admirael Steven vander Hagen. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 4º. With a woodcut of 2 ships on the title-page and a folding engraved plate with 6 illustrations (each about 8 × 9 cm). Modern brown goatskin. € 8000

Account of the famous first voyage to the East Indies by the German naval officer in Dutch service, Joris van Spilbergen (1558–1620), first published in 1605. Appended are Potanus's description of Java (pp. 57–61) and, with its own drop-title, an account of Steven vander Hagen's second voyage to the East Indies (pp. 62–96), first published in 1606. Funded by the entrepreneur Balthasar de Moucheron, Spilbergen left for the East Indies with three ships: Het Lam (the lamb), De Ram (the ram) and Het Schaap (the sheep). He sailed from Veere in Zeeland on 5 May 1601. In November he rounded the Cape of Good Hope to reach Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in May 1602. Until September the fleet was anchored at Batticaloa on Ceylon's east coast where Spilbergen negotiated with the king of Kandi, promising him military assistance against the Portuguese. Between September 1602 and March 1603 he was at Banda Atjeh, in Sumatra, negotiating with the sultan and hunting for Portuguese ships. In February 1603 ships of the newly founded Dutch East India Company arrived at Atjeh and were joined by Spilbergen's fleet. After spending the summer of 1603 at Bantam in Java, Spilbergen returned to Holland with his two remaining ships, arriving at Vlissingen on 24 March 1604. In 1603 the VOC appointed Steven vander Hagen to lead a voyage to the East Indies, which sailed in December 1603 with twelve heavily armed vessels taking about 1200 men. His instructions were to attack the Portuguese trading ports in India, take Malacca, and expell the Spanish from the Moluccas. Also with Vander Hagen's fleet was the yacht Duyfken under command of Willem Jansz., who was to discover Australia in 1606. In September 1605 Vander Hagen sailed for Holland leaving the Duyfken and another vessel in the Indies for further exploration, and leaving three manned forts in the Spice Islands. With a small tear in the folding plate, slightly affecting the background of 1 illustration, and faint marginal water stains in a few leaves, but generally in good condition. Alden & Landis 648/181 (5 copies); Howgego, to 1800, S158; Sabin 89448; STCN (5 copies); Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 198.

119 14 photographic portraits of sheiks & tribesmen, by Lawrence of Arabia's Chief of Staff

224. STIRLING, Walter Francis. Arab Types. Syria, [ca. 1918–ca. 1921]. Oblong album (18 × 26 cm). An album containing 14 black and white photographic portraits (mostly about 17 × 12 cm) plus a smaller print of one. Mounted in a ca. 1930 album of black paper leaves (boards covered with black cloth). € 50 000

Fascinating collection of 14 photographic portraits showing 13 sheikhs and tribesmen from several tribes in and around Syria, all with captions that usually give the subject's name and tribe. The photos, often highly expres- sive profile studies, were taken and assembled by Lt. Col. Walter Francis Stirling (1880–1958), T. E. Lawrence's Chief of Staff in 1918. The named tribes are the Shammar (nomadic Bedouins in northern Arabia, Syria and Iraq), Ruwalla (semi-nomadic Bedouins led by the Sha'lan family, also in northern Arabia and Syria), Hadidiyin (nomadic Bedouin sheep herders in Syria and northern Iraq), Walda (Kurds in Syria), Yazidis (Kurds in northern Iraq), Agaidat (Beduoins in Syria) and "Abu Klamin"[?] (not identified). The best known subjects are Fawaz al Sha'lam, Emir of Ruwalla (grandson of Nuri Sha'lan (1847–1842!), who commanded a large portion of the troops that entered Damascus with Faisal in 1918) and Daham al-Hadi, Sheikh of the Shammar. The latter is described as "Paramount Sheikh"of the Shammar (in Iraq), a title granted him by the British in 1920 that he lost when Faisal became King of Iraq in 1921. One photograph slightly damaged, mostly outside the image area, but further in very good condition, with only an occasional small surface scratch or spot. Rare photographic portraits of sheiks and tribesmen in T.E. Lawrence's Damascus circle of friends and enemies.

Best edition of Strabo’s “Geographika”, including Casaubon’s notes, with descriptions of the Arabian Peninsula

225. STRABO. Rerum geographicarum libri XVII. Paris, typis Regiis [Fédéric Morel], 1620. 2 parts in 1 volume. 2º. With title-page printed in red and black with the engraved coat of arms of Louis XIII, and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled pigskin, gilt edges. € 8500

Enlarged and corrected second edition of Strabo’s Geographika including the notes by the French scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614): one of the earliest and most important scientific treatises on historical geography. It contains the Greek text together with the Latin translation by Wilhelm Xylander (1532–1576) and is followed by Casaubon’s notes. “Casaubon was but 28 years of age when he published his first celebrated edition of Strabo [in 1587]... The [present] second edition, published by Frederick Morel at Paris, is much more accurate and splendid than the first” (Dibdin). Together with the works of Ptolemy and Solinus, Strabo’s Geographika constitutes the first attempt at a unified treatise of geographical knowledge. It was first printed in 1516 by the Aldine press at Venice. Strabo visited Egypt and sailed up the Nile in 25 BC. Books 15 and 16 are devoted entirely to the Orient in general and Arabia in particular, while the final book discusses Egypt and Libya. With two bookplates on pastedown. Title-page browned, with the lower outer corner torn off, a single minute wormhole in the gutter margin through the first half of the book, otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed and front hinge partly split, but otherwise good. An essential source for Europe’s earliest relations with the Middle East. Brunet V, col. 554; Dibdin II, p. 433; Graesse VII, p. 604.

120 Richly illustrated description of Switzerland

226. [SWITZERLAND]. La Suisse illustrée: description et histoire de ses vingt-deux cantons. Paris, Didier, 1851. 4º. 2 volumes. With 2 title-pages, each with a steel-engraved view, double-page coloured map of Switzerland, double-page coloured map of Lake Geneva and the Chamonix Valley, 20 coloured plates of Swiss costumes and 70 steel-engraved views of Switzerland. With: 10 chromolithographed picture postcards of the wine festival in Vevey, 1905. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth, each board with central coloured and gold ornaments and blind borders, gilt edges. € 1000

Richly illustrated work on Switzerland, with a general description of the country, its geographic characteristics, flora and fauna, history, folklore and art. After that each of the 22 cantons is extensively described by a specialist on the region and illustrated with views and coloured costume plates, ending with a description of the Chamonix valley and a chapter on travel in Switzerland, including a table of distances between the important cities and a table of money values in the various cantons. Map of Lake Geneva slightly browned and spines slightly faded. In very good condition. Andres 841; Waeber II, 15; not in Colas; Cox; Lipperheide.

First great international investment fraud and scandal

227. [TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankrijk, Engeland en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX. [Amsterdam], 1720[=ca. 1740?]. 2º. With 75 engraved plates (1 included twice). Most are double-page and several are larger folding sheets, including several maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. € 6000

A famous collection of texts and plates satirizing the Englishman John Law, his Mississippi Company, and the international land and trading speculation in worthless shares of the South Sea Bubble of 1719– 1720, which resulted in an international scandal. The speculation began in Paris, London and Hamburg, spreading to the Netherlands in the summer of 1720. While plays satirizing the speculation already opened in September 1720, the bubble really burst in October. The book also provides the texts of official documents relating to the Dutch trading companies involved. Text and plates were originally issued in parts, and were continuously supplemented over a longer period. Work on the book as a whole must have begun after the Amsterdam disturbances of 5 October 1720, though some of the plays and other items had been separately published before that. Within each edition the number and makeup of the plates varies greatly from copy to copy. Binding rubbed along the extremities, front hinge cracked. Textleaves browned and several foxed, affecting some of the plates, most plates in good condition, some with a marginal tear, three plates with a larger tear affecting the illustration (Muller nos. 11, 51, 56). Overall a good copy. Kress 3217; Muller, Historieplaten II, pp. 103–124; Sabin 28932.

121 Transport regulation from France to Tahiti and New Caledonia

228. [TAHITI & NEW CALEDONIA]. MINISTÈRE DE LA MARINE ET DES COLONIES. [Drop-title:] Cahier des conditions particulières relatives à l'adjudication sur soumissions cachetées du transport régulier de passagers, de vivres et de matériel à effectuer pendant trois ans entre la métropole et les colonies de Taïti et de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. (Colophon: Paris, Paul Dupont), [1865]. 2º. With a letterpress table. Modern boards. € 3500

Extremely rare first edition of a regulation concerning the import of food, materials and pas- sengers from the French city Bordeaux to the French colonies Tahiti and New Caledonia. It consists of 29 articles, followed by a table showing the possible routes from Bordeaux to one of the colonies, along with export products and their units. Spaces are left blank in both the text and the table for shipping information, which the shippers apparently sent to the ministry at the last minute, so that it had to be filled in as the books were distributed. The treaty was valid for three years, starting on 1 November 1865 and ending on the same date in 1868. O'Reilly note what seems to be this regulation, stating that Armand-Louis Ballande (1817– 1882) ordered Bordeaux to serve as starting point for all transport from France to the colonies Tahiti and Caledonia, for a period of three years. His account disagrees with the present book only in stating that the period began in October 1866, rather than November 1865. Ballande was a French maritime merchant and ship owner, who, seeing the potential of the islands, was requested by the French government to organize the transport and trade routes. We could locate only one other copy, in the library of the "Centre culturel Tjibaou". In very good condition, with only a few small spots. Title-label on spine slightly damaged. Cf. O'Reilly, Calédoniens, p. 11; not in WorldCat; Kroepelien; O'Reilly & Reitman.

A history of the kings of Persia and Hormuz, one of the earliest Western books mentioning Qatar

229. TEIXEIRA, Pedro, [Mir KHWAND and Turan SHAH]. Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y succession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un viage hecho por el mismo autor dende la India Oriental hasta Italia por tierra. Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1610. 8º. With a woodcut decoration on title-page, a woodcut initial and some woodcut tailpieces. Early 20th-century gold-tooled brown morocco, gilt edges. Sold

First edition of a "history of the kings of Persia compiled from the Persian histories of Mir Khwand and Turan Shah" (Howgego), in the original Spanish, by the Portuguese merchant adventurer Pedro Teixeira (1563–1645?). It is one of the earliest European sources to mention Qatar, with notes on the pearl fishing in the region that may be translated: "The pearl fishery at Bahrain begins some years in June … They generally go to Qatar to fish, a port on the coast of Arabia, 10 leagues south of the Island Bahrain... The pearls of this sea surpass all others in goodness and weight…". The work is divided into three parts. The first, which is the largest, deals with the kings of Persia. It is a summarized translation of the voluminous Rawzat as-safâ ... by the Persian historian Mir Khwand (ca. 1434–1498), and is probably the first translation of the text into a European language. The second part is a translation of the chronicle of the kings of Hormuz by the Ayyubid emir Turan Shah (d. 1180), a text that survives only in translations. Both parts contain a chronological account of the kings, but also provide a more general history of the region. The third and last part contains an account of Teixeira's later travels from India to Italy in the 1600–1601 and 1604–1605, visiting China, Mexico and the Middle East. With the bookplate of the political leader and U.S. senator Boies Penrose. Slightly browned, lower corner of the second leaf restored, head margin closely trimmed, shaving the run- ning-title on the first few and a couple later leaves. Otherwise in very good condition. Binding only very slightly rubbed, with a few small superficial wormholes on the sides. Howgego, to 1800, T19; Palau 328892; not in Atabey; Blackmer.

122 "the most monumental work of the post-Napoleonic period", with 600 hand-coloured ornithological plates

230. TEMMINCK, Coenraad Jacob and Meiffren L AUGIER DE CHARTROUSE. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complement aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault; Amsterdam, Legras Imbert and comp. (back of half-title: printed by A. Belin and comp., [Paris]), [1820–] 1838 [–1839]. 5 text and 5 plates volumes. Large 4º (37 × 28 cm). With 600 engraved plates (5 double page) all in beautiful publisher's hand-colouring, some highlighted with gum arabic, after drawings by Nicolas Huet and Jean Gabriel Prêtre. Uniform reddish brown half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. Sold

Complete set of the large 4º issue of a beautifully executed bird book, intended as a continuation to Buffon'sHistoire naturelle des oiseaux (1770–1786) and considered to be "the most monumental work of the post-Napoleonic period" (Balis). The beautifully hand-coloured and skilfully engraved plates were made after drawings by the respected artists Nicolas Huet and Jean Gabriel Prêtre. "In January 1820, he [Temminck] visited Baron Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse who, like Temminck, owned a collection of exotic birds. … the Baron steered the conversation towards a plan that he had been nursing for some time. This was nothing less than to continue the series of pictures in which the younger Daubenton, with his 973 plates of birds for the Planches enluminées, had sought to represent most of the species known in his day. Because the Baron did not feel capable of writing a scholarly commentary, the connection with Temminck, a specialist both learned and well-to-do, was very important to him. Temminck was ready to cooperate immediately... The artists were his old favorite, Prêtre, and Laugier's man, Huet. … At first none of them [the instalments] was accom- panied by a text, but served only to illustrate and name species of birds that had been discovered only recently, because, as if Napoleon's fall had signalled to adventurous naturalists that their moment had come, new items soon began to arrive from all over the world" (Streseman). Text volumes foxed, mostly in the outer margins, and the plate volumes with spots throughout, mostly in the margins as well. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities. Overall a good copy. [Detail on inside back cover]. Balis, Van diverse pluimage 75; Nissen, IVB 932; Streseman, Ornithology from Aristotle to the present, pp. 121–122; Zimmer, pp. 626–628.

123 PRÊTRE, Jean Gabriel. [Original watercolours for Temminck’s Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux]. [France], 1823-1825. All the birds numbered in pencil and with the plate numbers and bird names in pencil in lower left corners. Paper slightly browned.

231 a. [Traquet oreillard, Traquet à queue noire & Traquet leucomèle (= plate 257)]. Signed and dated: “JG Prêtre/ 1823”. € 1650 231 b. [Oiseau mouche médiastin, male adulte & jeune male & femelle (= plate 317)]. Signed and dated: “JG Prêtre/ 1824”. [detail on p. 136]. Sold 231 c. [Synallaxe damier & Synallaxe à filets (= plate 311)]. Signed and dated: “JG Prêtre/ 1824”. € 1500 231 d. [Oiseau-mouche superbe, mâle, Oiseau-mouche huppe-col blanc, mâle & Oiseau-mouche écussonné, mâle (= plate 299)]. Signed and dated: “J.G. Prêtre/ 1824”. € 1500 231 e. [Souimanga de Kuhl, mâle & femelle & Souimanga à ventre écarlate, mâle (= plate 376/388)]. Signed and dated: “JG Prêtre 1825”. € 2000 231 f. [Souimanga métallique, mâle & femelle & Souimanga souci, mâle (= plate 347)]. Signed and dated: “JG Prêtre/ 1825”. € 1500 231 g. [Gobe-mouche yetapa, femelle (= plate 296)]. Signed and dated: “JG Prêtre/ 1824”. € 1750

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124 Introducing Dutch medicine into Japan

232. UDAGAWA, Genshin. Ihan Teiko. Edo (Tokyo), 1805. 2 volumes: 3 parts in 1 text volume., and 1 atlas volume. Text volume (8º), atlas vol. large 8º (30 × 21 cm). With numerous anatomical illustrations on 16 engraved plates, mounted on thick paper, by the Japanese artist Aodo Denzen. Both volumes in contemporary Japanese book-bindings; rice-paper (text) and boards (atlas). € 11 500

Extremely rare original edition of a highly influential Japanese medical text book, theIhan Teiko, (General outline of medical precepts). The work contains the 3 parts summary of the Ensei Ihan (Medical precepts of the West), compiled by the celebrated Japanese physician and successful Rangaku-sha (Scholar of Dutch learning) Udagawa Genshin (1769–1834, or 1824/5?), first published in 30 volumes in the same year and containing translations and excerpts of imported Dutch books on anatomy and physiology.Owing to the vast volume of this book, his pupil Fujii Hohtei summarized it to the present 3 volumes. With these procedures, the book became widely known and read among physicians who had an interest in Dutch style medicine, especially the function of the organs, and tissue. Although this book shows some classical immaturities, it had great influence on Japanese physicians in promoting the level of knowledge from pre-mod- ern to modern medicine, even in the time of the closed–door policy. The work has been of great service in diffusing Western medical knowledge The atlas-volume contains a foreword in which the engraver Aodo Denzen is praised. It is the first engraved anatomical atlas published in Japan. The engravings were printed on rice paper, and mounted on thick paper, with explanatory text on the opposite page. In 1808 a second, revised edition of the Ihan Teiko was published. Serious wormholes in the margins of the last half of the atlas volume. Good set of the rare first edition. Goodman, Dutch impact on Japan (1987), p. 133; Ranzaburo Otori, “The acceptance of Western Medicine in Japan”, in: Monumenta Nipponica XIX, 3/4 (1964), pp. 254–74.

Anglo-Turkish trade promoted

233. [U RQU H A RT, David]. Turkey and its resources: its municipal organization and free trade; the state and prospects of English commerce in the East, the new administration of Greece, its revenue and national possessions. London, Saunders and Otley (back of title-page: printed by Botson and Palmer), 1833. 8º. With lithographed map as frontispiece. Contemporary boards. € 5000

First edition; flyleaf with presentation inscription from the author to "Mr ... Regnaudiu". Important overview of Turkish trade, resources, infrastructure and municipal organisation by the diplomat David Urquhart (1805–1877). After two and a half years fighting in the Greek war of independence, Urquhart was invited to accompany Sir Stratford Canning to Istanbul in November 1831 as an advisor during negotiations to settle the Greek boundary. In 1832 Urquhart was sent to Albania to cultivate the support of Rechid Pasha, leading advisor to the Turkish sultan. Urquhart became a great supporter of Turkey, spending most of 1834 in the country, and encouraged the British government to ally with Turkey against Egypt. The present substantial book was written to inform the British political class of the possible commercial benefits of an Anglo-Turkish alliance. Some negligible discolouration in first few leaves, light wear to extremities. In very good condition and untrimmed. Scarce, particularly in original condition as here. Goldsmiths' 27883.

A banned pamphlet on Dutch colonization and trade in America

234. [USSELINCX, Willem]. Naerder bedenckingen, over de zee-vaerdt, coophandel ende neeringhe, als mede de versekeringhe vanden staet deser vereenichde landen, inde teghenwoordighe vrede-handelinghe met den Coninck van Spangnien ende de aerts-hertoghen. [Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4º (19 × 14.5 cm). Modern plain paper boards. € 1250

125 First and only(?) edition of one of the most important and best argued pamphlets on the Dutch in America, written to promote the establishment of the West India Company and to warn of the dangers and disadvantages of making peace with Spain. Usselincx's writings "are models of precision and of reasoning, clear and concise, the style simple and popular, the plan plainly laid down and well followed out. [They] teem with the most varied information, and possess an historical importance of the first order" (Asher, p. 74). Here he argues that peace with Spain would promote trade in the Spanish- controlled at the expense of the Northern, would hinder Dutch trade in the East Indies and prevent them from establishing a West Indian Company. When Spain proposed peace negotiations with the Dutch in 1607, they demanded above all else that the Dutch accept strict limits to their trading in the East and especially West Indies. This made the peace-loving Usselincx the most vehement opponent of the peace and set him at odds with the leading statesmen on both sides of the negotiations, and he issued several pamphlets setting out his views. When the truce finally came in 1609 it gave the Dutch more trading rights than the Spanish had wished, but it did indeed delay the establishment of the WIC until the truce ended in 1621, when it assumed a paramilitary role completely at odds with Usselincx's intentions. Good copy, with the title-page slightly foxed, the upper right corner dog-eared and the spine tattered. Front of wrapper detached. A seminal work on the colonization of and trade with America, and far ahead of its time. Alden & Landis 608/171; Asher 32 (= 26–28/14); Knuttel 1441; Sabin 98200[b].

Della Valle's travels in the Near East, Persia and Arabia: "one of the finest works of travel literature" (Howgego)

235. VALLE, Pietro della. Reiss-Beschreibung in unterschiedliche Theile der Welt, nemlich in Türckey, Egypten, Palestina, Persien, Ost-Indien, und andere weit entlegene Landschaften ... Geneva, Johann Hermann Widerholds, 1674. 4 volumes bound as 1. 2º. With 31 engraved plates (1 folding), including frontis- piece and portraits of the author and his wife, by Jean Jacques Thourneyser. Contemporary vellum. € 15 000

First edition in German of Pietro della Valle's deservedly famous narrative of his travels in the Middle East, with an excellent account of Muscat and the Arabian Gulf and reference to Dibba. Della Valle arrived in Istanbul in August 1614, spending a year to explore the city. He continued to Rhodes, Alexandria, Rosetta, Cairo, crossing the Sinai desert to Jerusalem, Damascus and Aleppo. From there he proceeded to Isfahan (Iran) to meet the Safavid ruler Shah Abbas I. He sojourned in Persia until early 1623, witnessing and commenting on the escalating conflict between Shah Abbas and the Portuguese empire. By way of India he sailed for Muscat in January 1623, from where crossed the Arabian Gulf to Basra, continuing overland to Aleppo, arriving in Europe in 1626. "Della Valle displayed excellent narrative and descriptive skills, powers of acute observation, and a genuinely scholarly breadth of learning." (Gurney). Engraved armorial bookplate on pastedown. Evenly browned through- out, some spotting, few quires in volume 3 with wormholes in gutter margin, not affecting the text, otherwise in very good condition. VD17 39:135561Q; cf. Atabey 1269–1271; Blackmer 1712; Gurney, "Della Valle, Pietro", in: Encyclopaedia Iranica (online ed.).

126 First edition of a classic book of international costume figures with 420 woodcuts, in splendid gold-tooled morocco (ca. 1865) by Hardy-Mennil with the arms of the Prince d’Essling

236. VECELLIO, Cesare. De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo, libri due, ..., & con discorsi da lui dichiarati. Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1590. 8º (19 × 12 × 4.5 cm). Title-page with an elab- orately decorated woodcut scrollwork border, a divisional title with a 4-piece woodcut border, an emblematic woodcut medallion, 5 full-page woodcut views of Venice, and 413 full-page woodcut costume figures from around the world (each in a 4-piece woodcut border). Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (Paris, ca. 1865) by the celebrated French binder C. Hardy and his partner, signed in the front turn-in "HARDY-MENNIL", each board with the crowned and supported arms of the Prince d'Essling, monogram AM (for André Masséna, Prince d'Essling), richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, double fillets on board edges, edges gilt over swirl marbling. € 25 000

First edition, in the original Italian, of a famous early woodcut book of ancient and modern costumes by Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1530–1600), a nephew of Titian and himself a gifted painter and ornament draughtsman. This edition shows the 420 fine woodcuts at their freshest, revealing many details of the costumes. The third edition attributes the drawing of the figures to Titian, but they are usually regarded as the work of Vecellio himself. They were cut in wood by Christoph Krieger, a Nürnberg woodblock cutter working in Venice, where he was known as Christoforo Guerra. The presswork is good, showing the woodcut illustrations and decorated initials to excellent effect. The work is divided into two "libri", the first devoted to the costumes of Europe with 349 beautiful ancient and modern figures and 5 charming views of Venice; the second devoted to costumes of Asia and Africa with 64 figures. Vecellio added explanatory text, not only for the ancient but also for the modern costumes, the first time anyone had provided this information, so that the text is also an important primary source for clothing of the period. The part on Europe includes several beautiful Russian and East European, as well as numerous Turkish/Ottoman and Greek costume figures. C. Hardy learned bookbinding under Jean-Edouard Niédrée and set up his own Paris bindery around 1850. The firm signed its bindings Hardy-Mennil from ca. 1865, but little is known about either partner. The Princes d'Essling had been Niédreé patrons and André Prosper Victor Masséna (1829–1898/99), Prince d'Essling, was also an early Hardy-Mennil patron. An anonymous writer in 1870 named Hardy-Mennil as one of the six "most celebrated French binders of modern times" and went on to single out [Marcellin I] Lortic, Hardy-Mennil and [Bernard] David, all in Paris, as standing out internationally "for delicacy and refinement of tooling" ("Book-binding", in:American bibliopolist, pp. 176–178, 220–222, 316–320, at p. 320). In very good condition. A small scrap of paper (about 14 × 35 mm) apparently fell on the type during the printing, masking a parts of a few words of text on P3. A couple endleaves nearly detached and slightly chipped, the hinges, board edges and gilt edges of the bookblock slightly worn, and with a few small spots, but the binding is otherwise fine. Beautifully bound copy of an important and extensive book of woodcut costume figures. Hiler, p. 873; Lipperheide Aa 33; USTC 862177; Vinet 2093; for the binder and arms: Flety, p. 89; Olivier et al., Reliures armoriées 2466 & 2467.

"New and little known plants" illustrated by Redouté, including many species from the Americas, the Middle-East and Australia

237. VENTENAT, Étienne Pierre and Pierre-Joseph REDOUTÉ (illustrator). Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivées dans le jardin de J.M. Cels. Paris, Crapelet, an VIII[–X] [= 1800–1803]. 4º (32.5 × 25 cm). With 100 engraved plates of plants, including 60 after drawings by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Contemporary dark blue half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 15 000

127 Beautifully illustrated catalogue of "new and little known plants" from the garden of Jacques Philippe Martin Cels in Paris. Originally published in ten instalments between 1800 and 1803, the book presents 100 rare species from Cels's garden, most of them illustrated by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and his brother Henri-Joseph. Cels operated a commercial nursery in Montrouge, just south of Paris, where he collected and sold numerous rare species. Among the species in his garden and reproduced in the catalogue were exotics from North America, Africa, the Near East and the Pacific. Many of the species described in the catalogue originated from the Middle East, including one discovered during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition. Among the 100 plants, are ten species from Australia, all wintering in the green- house, including types of Mimosa, Goodenia, Bassiaea, Casuarina, Metrosideros, Embothrium and Melaleuca. Seven of these were drawn by Redouté and this pub- lication gave five their first scientific notice. The wars between Britain and France following the French Revolution of 1789, had made Australian species very rare on the European continent. The Australian species in the Description des plantes were nevertheless acquired after 1792, with Cels's garden subsequently being an important source for other botanical gardens on the continent. Jacques Philippe Martin Cels had originally been a tax collector at the Paris barriers. With the French Revolution leaving him out of trade, he converted his hobby garden into one of the foremost commercial nurseries in Europe, providing numerous species for, among others, the Empress Josephine's garden at Malmaison. Binding worn at the extremities and spine damaged; a small hole at the spine with a larger hole visible from plate 91 onwards. With a few stains throughout, a water stain in the gutter margin of the first half of the book and a larger one at the head of the gutter margin of the last third of the book; some minor damage to several of the tissues with the tissue for plate 79 lacking. Still a very good and attractive copy with the plates in crisp impressions and printed on heavy paper. Nissen BBI, 2048; Cat. Redoutéana 7; Stearn,"Ventenat's 'Description des plantes de J. M. Cels,' 'Jardin de la Malmaison,' and 'Choix des plantes'", in: Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History I (1939), pp. 199–201.

"The only notable colour plate book in English dealing with the Argentine”

238. VIDAL, Emeric Essex. Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, consisting of twenty-four views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c. of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs. London, R. Ackermann (printed by L. Harrison), 1820. Elephant 4º (36.5 × 30 cm). With 24 unnumbered hand- coloured aquatint plates, including 4 folding, all drawn by Vidal and executed by G. Maile, T. Sutherland, G. Bluck and D. Havell. 20th-century gold-tooled, black morocco. € 18 000

First printing of beautiful hand-coloured aquatint views of Argentina, all conceived and drawn from life by Emeric Essex Vidal in the years 1816 to 1818, accompanied by descriptions of the scenery, costumes and habits of the peoples and regions depicted. The plates were executed by various engravers between May and October 1820 and first issued in 6 monthly parts. 750 copies, including the present, were issued in Elephant 4º format. There was also an issue in Atlas folio and apparently a reprint in large and small 4º, still dated 1820, not normally distinguished in the literature from the present first printing (Palau and Sabin describe the work as a folio, but the Elephant 4º is often described as a folio). Tooley notes "the importance of its subject" and describes this publication as "the only notable colour plate book in English dealing with the Argentine". With the red leather Beeleigh Abbey armorial bookplate of William Alfred Foyle (1885–1963). With two stitching holes from the previous binding in the margins. With old folds in some of the folding plates and occasional minor browning, but still in very good condition and largely untrimmed, with most deckles intact. With a tiny tear in the morocco of one corner but binding otherwise fine. First printing of beautiful views of life in Argentina in the period 1816 to 1818. Abbey, Travel 698; Palau 363371; Sabin 99460; Tooley 495.

128 Attractive watercolour of a cockscomb, with interesting provenance

239. [V IN NE, Jan Jansz. van der]. [Celosia cristata]. [Lekzigt near Dordrecht?, 1780?]. Watercolour on a half sheet of laid paper (42.5 × 27.5 cm), mounted on wove paper. In a passepartout. € 15 000

Attractive watercolour drawing of a cockscomb (Celosia cristata), a plant with bright ornamental flowers native to the Asiatic tropics, with a diverse herbal use, cultivated in European gardens as early as 1570. The drawing is not signed, but can be easily attributed to the Dutch flower painter Jan Jansz. van der Vinne (1734–1805), one of the members of a family of notable artists. The watercolour has a 19th-century(?) inscription in pencil on the back: "Op Lekzigt in den Jare 1780 gewasschen" (Grown on Lekzigt in the year 1780), indicating that the plant illustrated was grown in 1780 in the gardens of Lekzigt, a country house near Dordrecht, likely owned by Aarnout Gevers (1714–1788), alderman of Rotterdam, as his wife Margaretha Maria Brouwer died there in 1784. The old index number ("3.11.65 Gevers") also indicates it belonged to a member of the Dutch Patrician family Gevers, all known collectors. Dozens of botanical drawings by the Van der Vinne family ended up at a Christies auction in 1989, but it didn't include our present drawing. This sale did include four other watercolours by Jan Jansz. van der Vinne, each with a Gevers reference number very close to the present and three with the same C & I Honig countermark. A 5 cm area of the paper's surface has been scraped away and part of one leaf of the plant has been painted over it. Further in very good condition. Cf. Christie's, Dutch, Flemish and German drawings (Amsterdam, 21-11-1989), 126–129; for Gevers: Engel, Alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries, pp. 93–95.

The ill-fated voyages of two East Indiamen

240. [VOC—SHIPWRECK & PIRACY]. Twee-rampspoedige zee-reyzen, den enen ... met een Fransch Oost Indiesch Compagnie- schip, genaamt Le Prince, ... Den anderen, met het Hollandsche Oost- Indische Compagnie schip, genaamt Rustenwerk, ... Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1752 or soon after]. 4º. With 2 etched plates. Disbound. € 2250

The first edition of a compelling account of two fatal voyages, of the French East Indiaman Le Prince, and the VOC ship Rustenwerk. Le Prince, commanded by Captain Morin, left the port of Lorient on 19 February 1752, sailing for Pondicherry. The voyage passed quietly until fire was discovered in the ship. It spread fast, and the ship exploded when the fire reached the gunpowder magazine, leaving only 10 survivors. The second account relates the seizure of the ship Rustenwerk, a 650-ton Dutch East Indiaman. Moored off Ternate, it was taken by the pirate Frans Fransz on 28 June 1751 and some 12 passengers (including the Captain) were killed. The survivors reached Batavia by way of Makassar and sailed for Holland. TheVOC eventually managed to retake the ship, but Frans Fransz escaped with the valuable cargo. The account includes a list of 210VOC ships lost in the period 1688–1752 through disasters, mutiny, piracy etc. In good condition. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt 437; STCN (4 copies); Tiele, Bibl. 1238.

129 Pamphlet supporting the merger of the Dutch East and West India Companies

241. [VOC—W IC]. Aenwysinge: datmen vande Oost en West-Indische Compagnien, een compangie dient te maken. Mitsgaders twintich consideratien op de trafyque, zeevaert en commertie deser landen. The Hague, Jan Veeli, 1644. 4º. With woodcut illustration on title-page. 19th-century red morocco. Sold

Rare first edition of a pamphlet with "proof that one ought to make one Company out of the East and the West India Companies" (Asher). Due to failing attempts to destroy the Spanish and Portuguese hegemony in South America and to conquer Brazil in the 1630s and 1640s, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) made hardly any profit. With the WIC's charter expiring in 1645, the Dutch gov- ernment "decided to investigate if it would be feasible to merge the powerful VOC (United East India Company) and the WIC" (Barreveld). This led to series of pamphlets written by opponents and supporters of the merger, the present pamphlet being by one of the latter. The text gives twenty "considerations con- cerning traffic, seafaring and commerce", with very valuable information on the commerce in Brazil, followed by three small chapters explaining how to merge the two companies and why it will be prosperous. In the end, governors of both the WIC and the VOC were against the plan. TheVOC reluctantly agreed to pay an enormous sum of money to the WIC, and both their charters were extended for 25 years. Binding rubbed along the extremities. A very good copy. Asher 187; D. Barreveld, Henry Hudson and the rise and fall of New Amsterdam (2009), pp. 162–164; STCN (6 copies).

24-volume set of famous voyages and travels, with 23 aquatints and 1 folding map

242. [VOYAGES]. Magazijn der nieuwste en meest belangrijke reisbeschrijvingen tot nut en vermaak voor alle klassen van lezers, … [part-titles:] Nieuwe reisverhalen. Een tijdschrift, ... Amsterdam, widow G.A. Diederichs and son (parts 1–12), Diederichs brothers (parts 13–24), 1820–1826. 24 parts intended as 12 volumes, here still in parts (as published). 8º. With 23 aquatint frontispieces and 1 folding engraved map. Original publisher's green and blue stiff paper wrappers printed letterpress, many lined with the publisher's advertisements. € 4950

Complete set of an attractive collection of travel accounts, finely illustrated with aquatint views. Each volume contains excerpts of famous narratives (most running over several volumes), the later volumes also including short news articles on countries, regions, cities, etc. The volumes detail travels and voyages in Africa (Mungo Park), Ceylon, Greenland, Russia, Nubia, Brazil (Spix, Langsdorf, Wied- Neuwied), Turkey, Persia and Armenia (Jaubert), the Arctic, New South Wales, the Himalayas, the Cape of Good Hope, Myanmar, but also in Europe (Italy, Switzerland, France, Greece). The news articles cover Haiti, Jamaica, China, the Pacific, Istanbul and other regions. The illustrations show Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian hunters and Aimoré (or Botocudo), the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II, Ali Pasha, Jerusalem, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Malacca, Camels, an Eskimo, Kiev, etc. The folding map shows Myanmar (Burma), the Escorial in Madrid, Parry's ships in the Arctic, etc. Part 13 (the last part of vol. 6) includes a leaf containing the letterpress title-labels intended for the spines of vols. 1-6. Some part-titles loose, several volumes with marginal waterstains, the wrappers rubbed and most spines damaged. Overall in good condition, untrimmed and in the original publisher's wrappers. Rare collec- tion of voyages. Saalmink, p. 1212; cf. Tiele, Bibl. 186 (note).

130 Shipwreck of the Dutch East India Company frigate "Woestduin"

243. [WATER, Jona Willem te]. Bericht wegens het verongelukte Oost- Indische schip Woestduin; en de reddinge der schepelingen door de gebroeders Naerebout. Middelburg, Pieter and Jan Gillissen, 1780. 8º. With engraved double portrait on title-page, showing the Naerebout brothers. 19th-century paperboard wrappers. € 2250

First and only edition of an account of the shipwreck of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) frigate Woestduin. It gives a detailed account of the events of that day. The ship wrecked near the coast of the island Walcheren (now joined to the mainland) in the Netherlands on 23 July 1779, on its way back from Batavia (Jakarta). Some fishermen, among them the brothers Frans and Jacob Naerebout, sailed out to rescue crew and pas- sengers. With their fishing boats they managed to save 87 of the 100 passengers on board. The preliminaries note that the impetus for the publication was a set of four engraved views of the events by Engel Hoogerheide (published in 1779). The STCN indicates that some copies of the book include a non-integral frontispiece before the title-page A1. Landwehr & Van der Krogt mention no frontispiece and none appears in digitized copies. Perhaps the title-page with the engraved double portrait has been mistakenly recorded as two leaves or perhaps some copies have one of the previously published engravings bound in. Slightly browned, title-page and some margins thumbed, and a minor water stain in upper margin. A corner torn off the "agathe" paper, reveals the "maroquin" paper underneath. A good copy. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 445 (1 copy); STCN (8 copies, 3 described as lacking frontispiece); not in Huntress.

A guideline for orators, poets, painters, architects and sculptors

244. [WEIGEL, Johann Christoph]. Viel nützende und Erfindungen reichende Sinnbild-Kunst, oder hieroglijphische Bilder Vorsellung der Tugenden, Laster, Gemuts-bewegungen, Künste und Wissenschafften, wodurch Rednern, Poeten, Mahlern, Bau verständigen, Bildhauern, durch Zeignungen, und einer kurzen Beschreibung Ansatz ihre Gedancken ferner aus zu üben gegeben oder beij gäh verfallenden Gelegenkeiten ihne gnugsame Materi vor Augene gelegt wird, damit sie sich nicht lang besinnen dörffen. Nuremberg, (widow of?) Johann Christoph Weigel, [ca. 1730]. 4º. With engraved title-page and 25 engraved plates, each with 12 circular emblems. 19th-century half calf. Sold

First and only edition of a work with 300 emblems showing all kinds of virtues, sins, emotions, arts and sciences. Each emblem is accompanied by a short explanation in German, Latin and French. The work was meant as a guideline for orators, poets, painters, architects and sculptors: the images and texts were to inspire the users and to enable them to create their own versions or themes after them. The engraved title-page shows several women and a little boy painting and drawing amidst statues and a fountain. The work was published by Johann Christoph Weigel (1661–1726), who worked closely with his famous brother, the engraver and publisher Christoph Weigel (1654–1725). After Johann's death in 1726, publishing was continued by his wife, who may have published the present work. Binding rubbed and worn along the extremities, top and bottom part of hinge slightly damaged. Some marginal thumbing and occasional spots throughout. A good copy. Landwehr, German emblem books 641; Praz, pp. 533–534.

131 The Dutch whaling trade in the waters around Greenland, with extensive manuscript additions

245. [W H A L I NG]. [S A N T E , Gerrit van]. Naamlyst gesteld naar ‘t alphabeth van alle de commandeurs, die sederd den jaare 1700. op Groenland en sedert den jaare 1719. op de Straad Davids, voor Holland hebben gevaren. Zaandam, for the author, by Jan Broekhuysen, 1753. 8º. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers, preserved in half cloth chemise and matching slipcase. € 8000

Extremely rare first edition of a list of Dutch data concerning the whaling trade in and around Greenland, compiled by Gerrit van Sante (1728– 1779). The book was designed with blank spance to add new data in the years following 1753. The present copy has been updated, probably by the first owner, till the year 1761. Besides the names of the commanders for every Dutch voyage to Greenland and the Davis Strait and the names of the directors for whom they sailed, it also includes an annual record of the number of whales caught, tonnes of blubber and barrels of whale oil, both for each commander individually and for the industry as a whole. “Van Sante understood completely the enormous economic importance of whaling for the Netherlands, and mentions the results of every voyage of every ship” (Catalogue library of G.J. Honig). “Greenland” is broadly interpreted to include the waters around Spitsbergen and Island, and the Davis Strait fleets (fishing between Greenland and America) are not separately recorded until 1719. With manuscript owner’s inscription, the warrant signature of the author on the back of the title-page, and manuscript additions throughout. Otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. JBC III, p. 1766; Sabin 76854; STCN (1 copy); WorldCat (2 other copies).

Peace treaty ending the Dutch-Portuguese war in 1661

246. [WIC—BRAZIL]. Articulen van vrede ende confoederatie, gheslooten tusschen den doorluchtighsten Coningh van Portugael, ter eenre, ende de Hoogh Mogende Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Nederlanden, ter andere zyde. The Hague, Hillebrant van Wouw, 1663. 4º. With woodcut device on title-page. Stiff plain paper wrappers. € 1500

Second edition, of the Dutch translation of the peace treaty ending the Dutch- Portuguese war. The WIC (Dutch West India Company) and VOC (Dutch East India Company) were at war with the Portuguese Armada, mainly to gain hegemony in the overseas colonies and trade. The war officially ended in August 1661, though the peace treaty was not ratified until 1663. "The main provisions of the treaty were as follows. Portugal was to pay the United Provinces 4 million cruzados in sixteen years as an indemnity for the loss of Netherlands Brazil, ... The Dutch were to be granted trade and residence in Portugal and her overseas posses- sions on the same terms as those already enjoyed by the English, or which might be granted to the latter in the future… The treaty was to be ratified within three months and published within six; but owing to the subsequent disputes and delays, the formal publication did not take place until March and April 1663" (Boxer). Slightly browned and the margins somewhat thumbed. Paper wrappers soiled and spine damaged. Still a good copy. Borba de Moraes, p. 50; Boxer, The Dutch in Brazil, pp. 253–255; Knuttel 8730.

132 Satirical resolution concerning the Dutch West Indian Company in Brazil

247. [WIC—SATIRE]. Copye vande resolutie van de heeren burghemeesters ende raden tot Amsterdam op’t stuck vande West-Indische Compagnie. Genomen in August 1649. Utrecht, Jan Havick, 1649. 4º. Modern brown half morocco. € 1250

Second edition of a splendid satire of the burgomasters and council members of the city of Amsterdam, presented as an official resolution of the city government concerning the West India Company (WIC)’s troubles with the Portuguese in Brazil. The Portuguese had retaken Brazil and other possessions from the WIC and there was a great debate in the Netherlands as to whether the government should step in to support the WIC and if so how far they should go. Many invest ors would loose everything if the WIC permanently lost its trade in Brazil. The present fake resolution gives a statement from each of the burgomasters and councillors (under their real names). Many at the time apparently thought the resolution genuine and were furious at the authorities, who were not amused. They immediately published anExamen vande valsche resolutie ... (Examination of the false resolution ...) accusing the anonymous perpetrators of the hoax of deliberately trying to turn the populace against the council. This may have merely served to advertise the original pamphlet as a satire, for it was reprinted soon after the original appeared. Slightly browned, a few small marginal tears and corner of the fifth leaf torn. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Otherwise in good condition. Asher 252; Borba de Moraes, pp. 211–212; Sabin 16744; STCN (6 copies); WorldCat (6 other copies).

Fighting the plague with amulets to ward off the devil

248. WICHMANS, Augustinus Franciscus. Apotheca spiritualium pharmacorum contra luem contagiosam aliosque morbos, ... Including: [WICHMANS, Augustin]. Diarium ecclesiasticum de sanctis contra pestem tutelaribus, ... Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1626. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4º. With Verdussen's woodcut lion device on title-page. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (front board with gold-tooled initials "G*F*A*G" — George Falb, Abbot of Göttweig Abbey — and date "1630"), with 2 strap fastenings with engraved brass clasps and catchplates, and brass anchorplates. € 3250

First and only edition of the first extensive work and most unusual work of the Premon­ stra­tensian monk, Augustinus Wichmans (1596–1661) from Antwerp, later Abbot of Tongerlo. Like all his works it is primarily religious in nature but in this case it is also medical, a spiritual regimen against the plague and other contagious diseases. It describes itself as an apothecary of spiritual pharmaceuticals, with the second part providing a month by month calendar of patron saints who can protect one from the plague. But Wichmans's pharmacopoeia is concerned not with the preparation of medicinal plants but with, for example, a Saint John's gospel that one can wear around one's neck and various other amulets (including wearable reliquaries). His instructions for constructing and blessing these amulets are very precise, for the devil was always lurking, hoping to lead the maker astray and turn the devices into his own evil weapons. Wichmans notes that witches tortured in Roermond in 1613 had confessed that the devil had helped them make such devices to give them supernatural powers, for example of flight. He also notes that leaves of the original species of palm for use as amulets come only from Palestine and Arabia, but that a local species can substitute for it. The book has been largely overlooked in the literature on medicine and on witchcraft. From the library of George Falb (1612–1631), Abbot of the Benedictine Göttweig Abbey, about 60 km west of Vienna. Somewhat browned throughout and with an occasional minor and usually marginal stain, but still in good condition. A remarkable window into early 17th-century Catholic views on amulets for protection from disease. C. Caspers, "Tegen de pest en tegen de ketters", in: A.L. Molendijk, ed., Materieel Christendom (2003), pp. 249–272; Krivatsky 12981 (part 2 only); STCV (5 copies); not in BMN; Caillet; Coumont; Thorndike; etc.

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249. WILDE, Jacob and Maria de. Signa antiqua e museo Jacobi de Wilde. Veterum poeatrum carminibus illustrata et per Mariam filiam aeri inscripta. Amsterdam, Maria de Wilde, 1700. 4º. With engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait, 1 engraved folding plate and 60 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. € 4500

First and only edition of an attractive display of the statues of the Museum Wildeanum, once housed on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. The Dutch tax collector Jacob de Wilde (1645–1721) began the collection, containing gems, coins, scientific instruments and statues. "This attractive account of a Dutch cabinet of the late seventeenth century is as much a eulogy of Maria de Wilde's gifts as an engraver as of her father's museum" (Grinke). The 60 plates by Maria de Wilde (1682–1729) show the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman statues in the museum. The 6 text leaves include a brief introduction and several laudatory poems directed at Maria de Wilde and her engravings. The collection drew some important visitors, including the Russian tsar Peter the Great in 1697, whose visit is illustrated on the engraved folding plate. After De Wilde's death, the tsar acquired part of the collection for his "Kunstkamera", the first museum in Russia, which was completed in 1727. Some minor thumbing and some occasional small spots, not affecting the illustrations, otherwise in very good condition. Grinke 61; Murray I, p. 38 & III, p. 272; Tavernier, Russia and the Low Countries 3178.

Unique panoramic photographs of Zanzibar and Madagascar in 1900

250. [ZANZIBAR—MADAGASCAR—MAYETTE]. [Album with unique panoramic photographs of Zanzibar and Madagascar]. [Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mayette, 1900]. Oblong album (25 × 34 cm) with 47 silver gelatin photographic prints, many with handwritten captions in French. The photographs vary in size from 8 × 5.5 cm to 27 × 20.5 cm. The 30 panorama photo- graphs measure 5.5 × 17.5 cm. Brown cloth album made by M. Andouard in Paris, with decorated endpapers. € 4500

A unique set of views from Zanzibar and Madagascar, taken five years after the French military intervention of 1894/95, also called the Second Madagascar expedition. The unidentified photographer can be seen in three of the photographs, wearing a white coat and white pith sun helmet. This was the French tropical style as used by white colonial troops since 1878, suggesting his involvement in the French colonial army. His travel partner is occasionally shown as well. Their visit took place during the final years of Tippu Tip's (1837–1905) notorious slave trading activities in Zanzibar. The photo album opens with a portrait of a young Sakalavan woman in a beautiful dress. Three other photographs show other native women as well, including one family with a baby. The majority of the photographs are panoramic views, showing villages, harbours, coasts and landscapes, the first dated 28 November 1900. The only full-page photograph in the album shows an Arab caravan marching along the beach. Rare are the few photographs taken in Mayotte, giving some highly uncommon scenes of the island nation's pre-development era. Binding somewhat scratched, spine slightly worn. The front endpaper clipped. Only a few photographs slightly faded: in very good condition.

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