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Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit.London, [Library of the British...
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Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit.London, [Library of the British Museum], 1791. Folio (42 x 26.5 cm.). With 59 etched plates, (8 are double-page), by Daniel Mackenzie. Slightly later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled monogram AL on spine.

by KAEMPFER, Engelbert (Sir Joseph BANKS, ed.).

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[4], 3, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of one of the rarest books on Japanese flora. The author Engelbert Kaempfer (1651 - 1716) was a professor from Lemgo, Germany, who joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a medical doctor in 1685. After periods in what are now India and Indonesia he travelled in 1690 to Japan to work as a doctor on Dejima (Deshima), the Dutch trading post or factory in Nagasaki. Sir Hans Sloan acquired his manuscripts, alsong with his drawings and herbarium, and arranged for their translation and publication, the first to appear in translation was The history of Japan in 1727. This English translation established Kaempfer's reputation as the 18th-century authority on Japan and deeply influenced Japan's image in Europe. The renowned botanist and companion of the 1768 Cook expedition Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was responsible for the editing and publication of the present work and dedicated it to the curators of the Library. In most cases no plates had previously been… Read More
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7 ll.First and only edition of an artist's book on trees, combining text with illustrations that resemble nature printing, the sixth publication of publisher and book artist Gunnar A. Kaldewey (1946). With the prints and letterpress text (set in 30 point Futura) on hand-made Japanese paper by Shusaku Tomi. The illustrations include patterns that give the impression of leaves, bark and branches, often printed on green backgrounds. With the leaves folded (twice, without creasing) to fit in the publisher’s box.In very good condition.l Von Lucius & Kaldewey, The artist book in a global world, pp. 1, 14 (no. 6); Von Lucius & Kaldewey, Making artist books today, p. 54 (no. 6).
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Travels into North America.London, T. Lowndes, 1772. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding map...
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[2], XII, 414; IV, 423, [8].Second English edition. Kalm's account met with great success and is a classic in North American travel literature. A Swedish botanist, Kalm travelled in America from 1748 to 1751. His primary purpose was to discover plants that could thrive in Sweden, but his observations range much wider. He discusses the American Indians, the value of colonies and numerous other subjects. His work contains a truthful account of the countries visited. Linnaeus, who instigated Kalm's voyage, immortalized the him by naming the America Laurel "Kalmia" in his honour. J.R. Forster, a German naturalist who accompanied Captain Cook, translated Kalm's account into English.Kalm's observations have little scientific value, but they possess a certain freshness that commends them to every lover of the wayside. … His observations give us a glimpse of historical background -- a bit of real bird life in America more than half a century before the father of American Ornithology began his work”… Read More
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Relation des Îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'océan pacifique; composée...
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[4], 282; [4], 274, [6] pp.First French translation of one of the most popular 18th-century books on the Pacific, and the main source of early knowledge of the Pelew or Palau Islands in Micronesia. In 1773, the Antelope under command of Captain Henry Wilson was shipwrecked near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group. The crew managed to reach shore, where they were well treated by the natives. They built a small boat from the wreck, in which they reached Macao. They took Lee Boo, the son of Abba Thulle, King of the Palau Islands, with them to England where he made a very good impression. Unfortunately, he soon died of smallpox. George Keate (1729-1797), a friend of Captain Wilson and of Voltaire, composed the relation from the journals and oral communications of the Captain and some of his officers. Keate also published books on poetry and history. With manuscript owner's inscription on title-page. Binding worn along the extremities. Some faint browning along the extremities and a… Read More
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Historie van mevrouwe de hartoginne van Pompadour. [Wrapper-title: Levensbeschryving van de...
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Historie van mevrouwe de hartoginne van Pompadour. [Wrapper-title: Levensbeschryving van de hartoginne van Pompadour]. Zaltbommel, Johannes Willem Kanneman, 1761. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. Recased in 18th-century vellum, later endpapers, preserving the original publisher's printed wrappers.

by [KERSTEMAN, Franciscus Lievens].

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[8], 207, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of Kersteman's extremely rare "histoire scandaleuse", describing the flagrant life of Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), mistress of Louis XV. The book is described on the title-page and in the preface as a defence against the slanderous biographies published by the French and English. This apparently couldn't convince the French ambassador Louis Augustin d'Affry, who had, immediately after publication, destroyed the full run after buying all available copies for their full price, to defend Madame de Pompadour her good name. With modern bookplate on pastedown. The engraved frontispiece is possibly transferred from another work and has a small restored tear in the margins. Faint dampstain in the last quire and a few spots throughout. Good untrimmed copy. The original wrappers soiled, but the vellum very good.l Buisman 1029; STCN (2 copies); Ter Horst no. X; Waller 745.
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[6], IX, [1], VI, 665, [1]; [2], VI, 817, [13] pp.The Mishcàt-ul-Masábìh (niche for lamps) by al-Khatib al-Tabrizi (also known as Wali al-Din, d. 741 AH or 1340/41 CE), a revised and expanded version of the Masábìh al-Sunnah by al-Baghawi, adding approximately 1500 hadith (short non-Quranic texts by or approved by Muhammad). This important Sunni text was first translated into English by Capt. Matthews of the Bengal Artillery. Although some of the original hadith are not included and others incorrectly translated, this attempt to publish a translation from the Arabic was a noted accomplishment for its time. The list of subscribers accounts for 122 copies, with an additional 100 copies noted as being published on order of the Governor General in Council for the Honourable Company. A statement in a 1848 issue of the Journal of Sacred Literature suggests that most copies of the work were destroyed at sea, yet it was still advertised for sale in 1817 in the Literary panorama (at the price of… Read More
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Beschryvinge van den archipel, tot nut van den krygsman, zeevaarenden en...
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Beschryvinge van den archipel, tot nut van den krygsman, zeevaarenden en handeldryvenden.Amsterdam, 1792. 8vo. With a large folding engraved sea chart (57.5 x 68.5 cm). Publisher's original flexible boards covered with blue paper, with the title and decoration printed letterpress on the spine.

by [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van].

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[8], 190, [2 blank] pp.Rare first Dutch edition of a detailed account of the Greek islands (the first edition to include the sea chart), by the great Dutch-German Admiral and naval strategist Kinsbergen, known as the Hero of the Black Sea for his successes in battles against the Turks in the 1770s. He gives a detailed description of the region, island by island, with the emphasis on navigation along the coasts, but also with information on fortifications. The book is explicitly directed to military men, seamen and merchants active in the area, and expresses the hope that political changes may in the future lift these islands out of their present state.The map of Greece and the surrounding seas is in Mercator projection at a scale of about 1:1,400,000, with rhumb lines (with a fleur-de-lis indicating north toward the head), parallels and meridians, and reticulated scales of latitude in the left and right border. Neither book nor map bears Kinsbergen's name, but both give his initials R.v.K. (R… Read More
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Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo ... [vol. 2 half-title:]...
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[18], 482, [10] pp. (including 2 integral frontispieces), plus 4 inserted tables & 2 plates.First edition of a seventeenth-century attempt to organise all knowledge of the universe into a classified system with nine primary categories (represented by icons made for the present edition) and to discover an underlying universal language, the most ambitious work (and one of the most extensive) of the great eccentric Jesuit genius Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680): a bizarre mixture of philosophy, science, religion and fantasy. On 29 July 1661 Kircher contracted to have the Amsterdam bookseller Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (1616/17-1681) publish his books including new editions of some previously published works as well as works he had not yet written. Kircher also had Van Waesberghe arrange for some copies of the books to be luxuriously bound for presentation to various luminaries.No expense was spared to produce the present binding and it bears the owner's inscription of Giovanni Paolo Oliva… Read More
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Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus...
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[32], 618, [28] pp.The third, last, best and only folio edition, much enlarged, thoroughly revised and with the engraved and many other illustrations newly made for it, of one of the major scientific works of the famous German Jesuit scholar, Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a truly encyclopedic work on magnetism. Kircher published his first major work, Ars Magnetica, in 1631. Only 63 pages in length, it extensively reports on his invention of a method for measuring magnetic power by means of a balance. The present work on magnetism was for Kircher an omnibus of scientific and also phantastic theories. He researched and measured magnetism in numerous situations and applied it to numerous fields of study, including cosmology, astronomy, geography, optics, electricity, medicine, metallurgy, animals, music, love, etc. He was the first to propose using magnetic declination to determine longitude.With the armorial bookplate of Hyacinth Theodore Baron (1706/07-1787), Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris,… Read More
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De funeribus Romanorum libri quatuor.Including: RIGAULT, Nicolas. Funus parasiticum sive L....
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[48], 649, [45], [2 blank], 24; [8], 64 pp.Ad 1: Late edition, the first published in the Netherlands, of an historical work on the funeral rites in ancient Rome, by the German Philologist Johann Kirchmann (1575-1643), illustrated with a frontispiece and four vivid engravings by the Dutch engraver Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), published here for the first time. The book is divided into four parts, each opening with one of the folding engraved plates, showing pyres, processions, people in mourning and more. The text covers the many different funeral rites and ceremonies that were common in ancient Rome, citing numerous ancient authors. It deals with burial sites, cremations, tombs and graves, offerings, processions, etc. Added at the end is a brief treatise by the French librarian Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654), describing how to keep parasites away from corpses.Ad 2: Late edition of the eulogy by Johann Kirchmann written for the Leiden professor, historian and classicist Paulus Merula, who died in 1607… Read More
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Neues Weberbild- und Musterbuch, ... zur Beförderung der edlen Leinen- und Bildweberkunst, und...
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6 pp. plus plates.Fifth edition, printed from the plates of the 1771 first edition, of an extremely rare and richly decorative weaver's sample book containing about 300 models for weaving cloth in all sorts of patterns (some wholly abstract, some with acorns, flowers, trees, etc.) and colours. The title-page indicates that it intended for master and journeyman weavers, as well as amateurs. Kirchenbaum (1725-1782) was a master weaver in Heilbronn. Some of the patterns create odd visual affects reminiscent of 1960s op-art. Others resemble patchwork quilt patterns. Since all follow the grid of the warp and woof they foreshadow today's digital art based on a grid of pixels. All editions are extremely rare. We have located only one other copy of the present edition, at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.The letterpress text provides explanations plate by plate and also includes the text of Kirchbaum's preface to the first edition of 1771 and the publisher's new preface for the… Read More
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Kitchin's general atlas, describing the whole universe. London, Robert Laurie, James Whittle,...
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1 leaf plus maps.Rare revised and enlarged edition of an English world atlas. Eleven of the maps are made from 4 sheets each, each numbered and bound in 2 parts, and the map of Asia with the islands of the Indian Ocean, Arabia, the East Indies, Australia and the Southwest Pacific is made from 6 sheets numbered and bound as 3 parts. The 4-sheet maps include the world in 2 hemispheres, Europe, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Holy Roman Empire, the East Indies, Africa, North America and South America. The extraordinary 4-sheet map of the world by Samuel Dunn, with the routes of various voyages of discovery (the main map after D'Anville), includes an inset map in Mercator projection, celestial hemispheres, the solar system (with orbits of comets) and even a map of the moon, hence the atlas title's reference to "the whole universe". Kitchen was a cartographer, engraver, and hydrographer to King George III.In very good condition. The marbled sides are badly rubbed and the spine cracked, chipped, and… Read More
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Kort en grondig onderwijs, in het kweeken der meest gezochte bolgewassen. Gevolgd naar het Hoogduitsch van C.H. Kleeman, systematisch gerangschikt, met de geslachts- en soortkenmerken en eenige bolgewassen vermeerderd door J.A.B. Kuijper van Wäschpenning, voorafgegaan van het geslachtsstelsel van Linnaeus.Breda, F.P. Sterk, 1829. 8vo. Original publisher’s printed stiff paper wrappers.

by KLEEMANN, C.H, Johannes Augustinus Bernardus KUYPER VAN WASCHPENNING, transl.

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[2 blank], [4], III, [1 blank], V, [1 blank], 127, [1] pp.Rare first edition of the Dutch translation of a practical handbook flower lovers to enable them to grow their own flowers from bulbs. Dutch translation of Kurze und gründliche Anweisung zur Kultur der beliebtesten Zwiebelgewächse zum Zimmer- und Gartenflor für angehende Blumenfreunde (1828) by C.H. Kleemann, who was the court gardener of Schloss Carolath in Siedlisko, Poland. Kleemann used the system of Linnaeus to organize the bulbous plants in the first part of this handbook. The Dutch translator Johannes Augustinus Bernardus Kuyper van Wäschpenning here adds descriptions of more bulbs to the original text. He was highly regarded in his time and known for his discovery of the Crocus vernus. Kleemann is always referred to as "C.H. Kleemann", however this stands for his title "Carolathischen Hofgärtner", not the initials of his name, which we could not trace.Front wrapper stained, small tear in the back wrapper, otherwise in good… Read More
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Entomologiae Brasilianae specimen. [Bonn, Wolfgang Schwarzkopf, 1821]. With 3 hand-coloured...
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277-324; 419-476 pp.Both parts of a description of entomological specimens from Brazil by the German entomologist Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (1775-1856). It includes descriptions and illustrations of specimens collected by Grigory Langsdorff, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, Ignaz von Olfers and others. The parts were published in volumes 10 and 12 of Nova acta physico-medica Academia…, the journal of the Academia Leopoldina in Schweinfurt.Untrimmed, first part a bit foxed and plates lightly browned. Good copy.l Horn & Schenkling 11967 & 11970; Nissen, ZBI 2214; not in Borba de Moraes.
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[24], 203, [5] pp.Second and last issue of the rare first and only edition of a heraldic game for young noblemen to learn the heraldry, genealogy, geography and history of the main European kingdoms, duchies, counties, electorates and other states. This was considered very important, since many of these young men were to one day take part in political and governmental activities. The game is to be played with a pack of ordinary playing cards and a map of the world spread over the playing table. Each player takes a turn by randomly drawing a card and describing the genealogy, heraldry, geography and history of the region that the book associates with that card. One of the players serves as arbiter and when a player fails to give a correct and sufficient description, he must pay a fine. The book itself provides the information for describing the heraldry, genealogy, geography and history of the regions it associates with the cards. The preface presents not only the rules of the game, but also several… Read More
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Oud en nieuw Japan. Grepen uit het leven.Rotterdam, W.L. & J. Brusse's Uitgevers-Maatschappij,...
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Oud en nieuw Japan. Grepen uit het leven.Rotterdam, W.L. & J. Brusse's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1921. With 119 black and white illustrations. Original publisher's cloth.

by KOL, Henri Hubert van.

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XII, 268 pp.First edition in the original Dutch of a work mainly on Japanese culture, written by the Dutch politician Henri Hubert van Kol (1832-1925). It deals with Japanese holidays, samurai, geisha's, the seppuku (harakiri) and more. This work can be seen as a sequel to one of his earlier works on Japan, called Japan: indrukken van land en volk (1917). Van Kol was one of the founders of the Dutch socialist party, the SDAP. Good copy.
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Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop.Amsterdam, Balthazar Lakeman,...
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[20], 529; [6], 449, [87] pp.Best (and first Dutch) edition of the most important account of the Cape of Good Hope and one of the most important works of all time on South Africa, with twice as many copperplates as the first German edition. Much of the material is based on Kolbe's own observations in the years 1705 to 1713, but he also compares them with the observations and theories of earlier writers. The zoological plates show numerous mammals, birds, fish and other marine animals and reptiles, and other plates cover topography, agriculture, hunting, buildings, etc. In addition to these subjects, the text provides detailed information on the customs and habits of the Hottentots, a well-documented account of the VOC government of the Cape, the earliest list of South African animals and much information about plants. It remains an essential primary source for any study of South Africa. Some minor thumbing and foxing in the margins of the textleaves, some of the folds of the plates reinforced and a… Read More
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Verslag van eene reize naar de westkust van Afrika, Rio de Janeiro en Rio de la Plata, door Z.M....
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Verslag van eene reize naar de westkust van Afrika, Rio de Janeiro en Rio de la Plata, door Z.M. schroef-stoomschip Cornelis Dirks, ...1859-1860.[Amsterdam, widow of G. Hulst van Keulen, 1863]. 8vo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers.

by KOOPMAN, J.F.

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[2 blank], [2], 127, [1 blank] pp.Separately published edition of the journal of a voyage of the screw-propeller steam ship Cornelis Dirks to the west coast of Africa (Guinea, the Gold Coast, the Congo), Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Montevideo in Uruguay, Buenos Aires in Argentina and other sites along the South American coast. It was written by the ship's captain, Lieutenant first class J.F. Koopman and edited for publication by Jacob Swart. Besides the daily account of events on board, lists of provisions purchased, etc., the journal gives descriptions of the lands, peoples, costumes and activities in the regions visited, including accounts of the indigenous peoples and the Dutch and Portuguese troops and colonists. It gives an extensive account of slavery and the slave trade, carried out both within Africa and by Europeans for their colonies or former colonies.Slightly foxed, a few pages slightly frayed along the margins. Paper wrappers worn, spine damaged, book block somewhat loose. Otherwise in good… Read More
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The very first beautifully illustrated comprehensive description of the wild flora of the Netherlands: an absolute highlight of 19th-century botanical book production. The present set consists of the first 24 (of 28) volumes, complete with all 1920 hand-coloured engraved and lithographed botanical plates, and 2 index volumes. Each plate is accompanied by a detailed description in both Dutch and French, giving the plant's scientific and generic names in multiple languages (Latin, Dutch, French, German, and English) and its characteristics, habitats, and uses.The Flora Batava was first published in 1800 and the total of 28 volumes containing 2240 coloured plates showing more than 2630 kinds of wild plants, fungi, mosses, and algae together with approximately 5000 pages of text. The fine plates are considered to be among the best of Dutch botanical illustration. The work appeared in instalments - each containing 5 plates, which were gathered into volumes of 80 plates each - over the course of the entire… Read More
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Sibylla trig-Andriana, seu virginitate, virginum statu et jure tractatus novus et jucundus ...Including:De annulo triplici: usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio: ...Linea amoris sive commentarius in versiculum glossae, ...The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1654. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

by KORNMANN, Heinrich.

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[24], 214; 69, [3]; 117, [3] pp.Rare first complete Netherlands edition of three curious Latin works on women, love and marriage, by Heinrich Kornmann: Sibylla trig-Andriana, De annulo usitato and De linea amoris, published together, at least the first two first published at Frankfurt in 1610. The first discusses the rights and duties of women and their conduct in matters of sex, the second is devoted to rings, including engagement rings and the third is about the commonplace of the five stages of love (sight, conversation, physical contact, kissing and consummation). Kornmann refers to a wide variety of sources, including classical authors and church fathers. He defends women's rights to some degree, but also repeats superstitious beliefs such as that a tree is injured by a virgin's plucking its first fruit. He further discusses incubi and succubi (male and female demons that have sexual relations with humans), astrology and the colour of women's cloths (preferably blue, pink, green and white).… Read More
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