Search Results: Authors starting with C from Antiquariaat FORUM BV

X, 201-280 pp.First edition of volume 84, no. 3 of The geographic journal. This volumes includes an interesting article on the exploration and exploitation of oil in the Middle East: Middle East geography in relation to petroleum by Sir John Cadman. In this piece the author describes his pionering search for crude oil in south-western and western Persia and in the eastern regions of Iraq. The exploitation of oil in these area was still in a very early stage by the time of writing. The work is illustrated with a map of the Middle East with oil fields and pipe lines indicated and with photographs of several oil fields.In very good condition.

[1], [1 blank], [14], 272, [5], [2 blank], XVII pp.First edition of a study of Arabic grammar in Spanish, including an Arabic-Spanish dictionary and a translation of a general Christian doctrine text into Arabic. It was written by Francisco Cañes (1730-1795), who was an Arabist and a Franciscan missionary in the Near East. In the preface, he states his reasoning for producing and publishing the present work: "[I] therefore, present this Arabic grammar to the public, wishing to contribute on my part to the ease of learning a language that is not rude, barbarous, and useless, and that some out of ignorance despise; but elegant, erudite, and very useful, as learned men recognize: in view of how much is written in it, and of the numerous nations that speak it in Asia, Africa and part of Europe." (p. [4], translated from the Spanish). He produced the present grammar and his great Arabic - Latin - Spanish dictionary (1787) by Royal order of the court of Charles III of Spain, for the profit of the general… Read More

[24], 561, [71] pp.The first and best Elzevier edition of the three editions published in 1635 of the collected works of Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), edited by Josephus Justus Scaliger, distinguished by the buffalo's head in the headpieces of the dedicatory epistle and on p. 1 and the pages 149, 335 et 475, misnumbered 153, 345 et 375, containing all Caesar’s authentic reports of his campaigns in Gaul and during the Civil War. Julius Caesar’s war commentaries are some of the most prolific military writings of antiquity! It would become a mainstay in the Latin literature canon. They are here continued by reports on Caesar's campaigns in Alexandria, Africa and Spain, which are usually found together with Caesar's own writings, but have most probably not been written by Caesar himself. They are usually attributed to Aulus Hirtius, a legate to Caesar and writer on military subjects who also completed the 8th book of De bello Gallico. With the owner's inscription of J. Knoop dated 1676 on the… Read More

189" [= 179], [1 blank] ll.Rare edition of a popular school textbook on dialectics (logic) by the important German humanist Johannes Caesarius (Jülich ca. 1468-Weidenbach near Cologne 1550). Here edited and enlarged with notes by his student Hermann Rayanus (Welsdalius) (fl. 1555-1577), also a celebrated German humanist teacher, and with the introduction to Aristotle's rules on rhetoric by Johannes Murmellius (1480-1517), famous Dutch humanist, poet and teacher, author of one of the most popular Latin primers, the Pappa puerorum. These additions appeared in Gabriel Cotier’s 1556 Lyon edition, which others appear to have followed, including Leni’s 1573 and present 1579 editions (both with the present device and factotum). We haven’t seen the 1540 Paris edition by Colines, but we doubt Buisson’s claim that it includes Rayanus’s notes. It quickly joined the earlier and influenced the later standard textbooks on the subject by Rudolph Agricola (1515), Philip Melanchthon (1520) and Petrus Ramus… Read More

XVI, 496; [4], 622 [= 582] pp.First Dutch edition of Caillié's travels to Timbuktu. In 1826 the Société de Géographie had offered a reward of 10,000 francs to the first European to visit Timbuktu (and return alive). Caillié, by that time already travelling in Africa, was determined to reach the fabled city. Dressed as a Muslim and well-versed in Arabic, he embarked on his journey in April 1827, reaching Timbuktu on 19 April of the following year. "Caillié was sorely disappointed with what he saw: a dreary, sleepy little town on the edge of the desert ..." (Howgego). Nothing was left of the legendary riches of the city, and the population lived in constant fear of Tuareg attack. Caillié remained in Timbuktu for only two weeks, leaving for Morocco on 4 May. He crossed the Sahara, and after many hardships reached Morocco's Tafilet region on 23 July. By way of Fez, Meknes and Rabat he arrived in Tangier from where he sailed for France.Caillié was preceded Benjamin Rose and by Alexander Gordon… Read More

[2 blank], XVII, [1], 120; [12], 28 pp.Ad 1: first edition of the account of Cailliaud's travels in the Oasis of Thebes and his expedition to locate the ancient emerald mines of the Red Sea coast. Together with an account of Drovetti's discovery of the Oasis of Dakel. The plates include a map of the Eastern Desert ("Déserts fréquentés par les Arabes A'babdeh") and plans and beautiful views of antiquities discovered.Ad 2: after Cailliaud returned to Paris in 1819 he went back to Egypt on an official mission to continue the exploration of Egypt and its monuments in areas where Napoleon's scholars had been unable to penetrate. He set out on a journey to the oasis of Siwa, where he studied the temple of Umm al-Ibeida. Afterwards he joined up with Drovetti, who was part of the Hasan Bey expedition, a military expedition to get control over the inhabitants of Siwa. The plates include a map of the Siwa Desert and plans and beautiful views of antiquities discovered.The journals and notes of Cailliaud and… Read More

Painting of a souk in Cairo, by the German orientalist Carl Wuttke (1849-1927). Paintings such as these were made to be reproduced as picture postcards, an archetypal consumer product from the early 20th century. Postcards, as a convenient alternative to the letter, had first appeared in the 1870s. The simultaneous improvements in photographic and printing techniques, led to the introduction of full-colour postcards in the 1890s. Although photographs were used as a basis for the creation of half-tone blocks, which were then used to print the postcards, well-made paintings such as these by Wuttke, were just as popular. For the numerous visitors to Egypt, picture postcards were a way of "collecting" the visited sights, thereby documenting their travels.Carl Wuttke was one of the most well-travelled artists of his time, visiting Italy, North-Africa, the United states, China and Japan. During his travels, he painted various views in Egypt and China for the Dresden firm of Römmler & Jonas that were… Read More

Magnificent and rare colour-printed print series, the second part of the Admirandorum quadruplex spectaculum, published by Schenk ca. 1695.The prints are the result of an early experiment with multi-colour printing using a technique patented by Jan Teyler in Nijmegen, though it had already been used on rare occasions. With this so called “à la poupée” technique, each printing plate is inked in different colours (dabbed onto the plate with a cloth pad or ball) and then printed in multiple colours in a single print run. Since the colours had to be inked again after each run (like a monotype, but using an engraved or etched image), each print is unique, varying slightly in the composition of the colours. The result was a “printed painting” with deep purples, vivid oranges, cool turquoise blues and lush greens, with up to eight colours per impression to enhance perspective in landscapes, represent the volume of objects and record natural colours of birds, flowers and human figures.Colour printing… Read More

[39], [1 blank] ll.Album containing a collection of 45 engravings and etching by Jacques Callot (1592-1635), from different series, spanning his whole career. Callot was a French print maker with a remarkable production of 1400 prints and 2000 drawings on various subjects. Although he was born in Nancy in France, he worked in Rome from 1608-1611, in Florence for the Medici family from 1612 to 1621 and then returned to Nancy, where he settled for the rest of his life. He is often considered one of the greatest printmakers of the 17th century, not only because he invented a new type of etching ground and the échoppe (a type of etching-needle), but also because he sometimes combined engraving with etching, allowing him constantly to create subtle gradations of line. His prints were extremely popular and much copied and he influenced generations of European artists, including the great Dutch master Rembrandt and the Italian etcher Stefano della Bella. He produced particularly military or religious… Read More

[8], 335, [19] ll.First (and only early) edition, in the original Spanish, of an eyewitness account of the future King Philip II of Spain's travels from Spain through Italy and the German states to the Low Countries from 1548 to 1550 or 1551, intended as preparation for the duties he would face when he succeeded to (in the event only some of) the titles of his father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who was also King Charles I of Spain. The Aragon humanist scholar Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella (ca. 1510/20?-1593) served in the Spanish court of Charles V, who appointed him tutor to Prince Philip (1527-1598) in 1541. He accompanied Philip on these travels, so that his book forms an essential primary source for both the life and personality of the future King Philip II, who was to bring Spain its golden age and its greatest power and wealth, and for the early beginnings of his relations with the Netherlands, which was to revolt against the King, bring about Spain's fall from power and develop its… Read More

[6], "464" [= 462], [16] ll.Rare first edition of the first Dutch translation of Calvin's commentaries on the Epistles of Saint Paul and the Epistle to the Hebrews. By 1539 Calvin had planned to write commentaries on all the Pauline Epistles, and he began with the book of Romans (first published in 1540). In 1551 all parts were finished and published together with the Epistle to the Hebrews as In omnes D. Pauli epistolas, atque etia in epistola ad Hebraeos commentaria luculentissima. It was translated into Dutch by Johannes Dyrkinus (ca. 1530-before 1592) and Johannes Florianus (1522-1585) and contains a new preface by Calvin addressed to Simon Grynaeus as well as a dedication to Unico Manninga. "… although Calvin was read and certainly influential in the Netherlands from an early date, surprisingly few of his works were translated into Dutch before 1572" (Pettegree, p. 230). It was printed and published in Emden by Gillis van der Erve and Willem Gailliart. "Emden printing represented possibly the… Read More

[6], 65, [7]; 99, [5] pp.Second edition of a work on fortification by Chevalier de Cambray, first published in 1681 at Paris. It is divided into two parts, starting with a treatise on geometry. It explains all the different geometric shapes, both two and three dimensional, how to properly draw them, how enlarge the figures once drawn, how to measure height, distance, surface area, etc., clarified in numerous illustrations on 8 engraved plates. The second part deals with fortifications as described by Sebastien le Prestre, Marquis de Vauban (1633-1707), the most influential military engineer of his age. It contains an index on fortification terms and their definitions, and a thorough description of all the different elements, corners and shapes of both regular and irregular fortresses, illustrated with 22 engraved plates.Leaf a1 damaged in the margin, corner torn off plate Q and a small water stain in the lower margin of several plates, none affecting the illustrations. Binding chafed and slightly worn… Read More

Two pictures, both showing scenes from the camel market in Dubai, depicting resting camels on the ground as well as several customers and cameleers on foot or riding mules.Rare photographs in good condition.

[20], 423[=424], [2 blank], [18] pp.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.l Ebert 3391; IA 130.520; VD 16 C502; for the binding: Goldschmidt, Gothic & Renaissance bookbindings 227.

[12], 298 ll.Rare first and only(?) edition of the Italian translation of the first (and only published?) part of a chivalric romance, generally known as the Félix Magno, translated by Camillo Camilli (d. 1615). The original Spanish was first published in four parts at Barcelona by Carlos Amorós in 1531 entitled Los cuatro libros del valerosisimo caballero Félix Magno. The romance deals with the life and history of Félix Magno, the son of King Falángriz of Great Britain and Queen Clarinea, on a quest for glory. A large part of the work is dedicated to struggles with Moors and Turks. Like most chivalric novels, it was heavily influenced by stories of King Arthur and similar romances like Amadis de Gaule. Our copy contains only the first part (with the running title Fatti di Felicemagno - parte prima through the whole work), and it appears the other parts were not published in translation at all. Lacking the final leaf containing only the colophon and its blank verso. With two owner's entries on… Read More

[8], 328 pp.Rare second issue of the first and only edition of a Dutch translation of A concise history of the Spanish America (1741), by the prolific Scottish author John Campbell (1708-1775). The work is divided into 4 parts, the first on the discovery of America, the second on the Spanish settlement in North America, the third a description of South America, and the fourth on the trade with America. The second and third part contain chapters on Buenos Aires, California, Charcas, Chile, Cuba, Florida, Guatemala, Lima, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama, Tucuman Province and Quito."Grub Street provided some indifferent manuals, of which the most informative - despite its author's capacity, if Boswell is to be believed, for drinking thirteen bottles of port at a sitting - was A concise history of the Spanish America, published by Dr. John Campbell in 1741" (Hanke). It contains 4 maps, not included in the original English editions.With modern bookplate on pastedown and an earlier owner's name covered with… Read More

IV, 264 pp.First edition of a manual for the art of falconry, explained "in a plain and simple manner" (Edinburgh magazine and review). The author, James Campbell, was falconer to the Earl of Eglington. He here discusses many aspects of falconry in many chapters, covering different kinds of hawks and falcons. He explains how to raise and train young hawks, dwells upon the proper times of feeding hawks in order to have them ready for flying at any particular time and the proper food for them, and speaks of the management of hawks during games and of birding them. He also discusses bathing hawks and treating their illnesses. The several kinds of hawks and falcons covered include the merlin, hobby, gyrfalcon, goshawk and sparrowhawk as well as circumstantial categories, such as the haggard falcon. Pages 259-264 contain a glossary.Central split in the spine and joints cracked but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed. Some foxing, occasional water stains at the head, slightly browned.l ESTC… Read More

[8]; [1]; [1] ll. plus the part-title, double portrait and XIV, XII, XII prints.First complete edition of a series of engraved views of Venice by Visentini after Canaletto's paintings, which were in the collection of the book collector, patron of the arts and British Consul of Venice Joseph Smith (ca. 1673/4-1770). Canaletto, also known as Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) was an Italian painter renowned for his paintings depicting Venice and its canals. Visentini's plates are not only the best known among the many engravings made after Canaletto's famous views of Venice, but also the best and most influential: "crucial to forming the image of Venice in the mind of its visitors" (Millard). The British Consul Smith commissioned the painter, engraver and architect Antonio Visentini (1688-1782), connected to the Academia and to the artistic and publishing circle around Smith, to engrave the plates after Canaletto’s paintings.The series of 38 plates is divided into three suites of respectively XIV, XII… Read More

[2], 16, [4] pp.First Dutch translation of the accounts of two travels to Virginia in 1603 from Samuel Purchas' Purchas his pilgrims, here published as part of Van der Aa's Nauwkeurige versameling. Written by Thomas Canner. Another Dutch edition from the same year was published in folio as part of Van der Aa's Wijdberoemde voyagien na Oost- en West-Indiën. The first is an account of the second English voyage to New England (only after that of Bartholomew Gosnold) by Martin Pring. In 1603 he reached the coast of Maine then known as Virginia. The second is the account of Bartholomew Gilbert who was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to search for the lost colonists of the Roanoke settlement in North Carolina, then known as Virginia, but was killed by Indians. Slightly browned. In very good condition.l Alden & Landis 706/182; Cox II, p. 41; Howgego, to 1800, G45 & P156; Sabin 10690; STCN (8 copies).

XXVIII, 29-234 pp.First edition of a rare geographical and meteorological treatise on the winds and weather in different places around the world, written by James Capper (1743-1825). Capper was a former colonel in the East India Company, but after his return to England, he devoted much of his time to meteorology. In his present Observations of the winds and monsoons, Capper especially concentrates on the winds and weather of the East Indies, the coast of India and the Arabian and Persian Gulf, using information he obtained by his own observations, some ships' logs and earlier publications. He also discusses the meteorology of the Mediterranean, including Greece and the climate between the Adriatic and the Archipelago. Capper also introduces a new hypothesis in this work, namely that hurricanes are a type of whirlwind. With the bookplate, stamps and inscription of Francis Druce on the front pastedown, recto and verso of the first free endpaper and the title-page. Bookbinder's label on verso of the… Read More