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Strikingly hand-coloured third corrected state of this finely engraved wall map. In 1745 the waterboard of Rijnland ordered the surveyor Melchior Bolstra to correct the outdated map of Dou and Broeckhuysen of 1647. The results of Bolstra's new survey were engraved into the original plates by David Coster. A map of the Haarlemmermeer with dotted lines to indicate its increasing size from 1531 untill 1740 and a plate with technical drawings of sluices and waterlevels were added. A very good, hand-coloured copy of this renowned map of the Rijnland district. Some slight signs of wear to the spine, some minor water staining to the bottom margin near the gutter throughout and the margins are very slightly soiled, all barely affecting the plates.l Donkersloot-De Vrij 715.
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Third corrected state of this finely engraved wall map. In 1745 the waterboard of Rijnland ordered the surveyor Melchior Bolstra to correct the outdated map of Dou and Broeckhuysen of 1647. The results of Bolstra's new survey were engraved into the original plates by David Coster. A map of the Haarlemmermeer with dotted lines to indicate its increasing size from 1531 untill 1740 and a plate with technical drawings of sluices and waterlevels were added. A very good copy of this beautiful map of the Rijnland district. Minor wormholes in margin, in one plate very slightly affecting plate image, one map slightly spotted in lower left corner.l Donkersloot-De Vrij 715
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[32], “272” [= 268], 202, [2] pp.Robert Estienne’s ground-breaking critical edition of the Greek New Testament, including variant readings from 15 manuscripts (plus the printed New Testament text of the 1514 Computensian Polyglot), mostly of the manuscripts from the French King François I’s Bibliotheque Royale, but most importantly including for the first time the 5th-century manuscript later known as the Codex Bezae, then in a monastic library in Lyon. Each of these sources was designated by a Greek letter in Estienne’s shoulder notes in the gutter mergin giving the variants. Estienne proved himself the consummate scholar-printer, strongly influenced by Erasmus, producing one of the greatest monuments of Renaissance erudition. This opened up opportunities for further research and for new interpretations of the New Testament text, opportunities often more appreciated by Protestants than by the conservative Catholics of the Council of Trent. The book frequently came under fire. The three sizes of… Read More
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'T hooghe heymraedtschap vanden lande van Woerden.[Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth], 1740. Wall map of...
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A large wall map of the water district Woerden in the province of South Holland (on the border of the province of Utrecht), including the cities of Woerden, Oudewater and Montfoort, as well as many smaller towns (including Bodegraven) and the surrounding polders. Altogether it covers a region smaller than 20 by 20 kilometres at a scale of 1:17,000 (north above and to the right) and if assembled it would have a map image of 122 by 152 cm. It shows the fortifications and principal buildings of the three main cities, other forts and (outside the three main cities) every house, church and windmill. It gives the names of the individual polders (with their boundaries), the roads, waterways and dikes, and some wind mills and houses. The map was first engraved and printed in 1670 and 1671 by the Vingboons brothers, draftsmen, engravers and printers. The present is the sixth printing by Hendrik the Leth, who published the maps with and without the coats of arms, which were updated with most printings. The… Read More
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Tableau méthodique et descriptif des Mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais.Paris,...
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[4], 209, [4], [1 blank]; 30, [1], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: First edition of a monograph on the land and fresh-water molluscs that can be found in Agen and surroundings (France), by the French malacologist Jean-Baptiste Gassies (1816-1883). He describes four classes of snails and mussels, some of which are depicted on the hand-coloured lithographed plates.Ad 2: First separately published edition of a brief work on the land and fresh-water molluscs of Aquitaine, also by Gassies. The text was originally published in the 26th part of the Actes de la Soc. Linn. de Bordeaux.With a presentation inscription by the author to "Monsieur le professeur Milne-Edwards de l'Institut" on the half-title of ad 1. Overall in good condition.l Junk, Thes. libr. conchyliorum, 141.
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Tableau des corps organisés fossiles, précédé de remarques sur leur pétrification.Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine.

by DEFRANCE, Jacques Louis Marin.

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[4], XVI, 136 pp.Rare first and only edition of this important early contribution to the founding of paleobotany: the study of fossil plants. The study expands on the first works that formulated the basic conceptions of this new field of research by Rhode, Pflanzenkunde der Vorwelt (1820) and Kaspar Sternberg’s Flora der Vorwelt (1820-1825). "Defrance was one of the most industrious and careful of the early papaeontographical annotators. In his Tableau … he gave a short account of all known fossils, with accurate mention of their localities and state of preservation" (Zittel).Jacques Louis Marin Defrance (1758-1850) was founder member of the Geological Society of France and was one of the first to work on the chemistry of fossilization. With the owner's entry of "Holmi" on the front endpaper and an 1849 inscription by Holmi to "Lhörch" on the title page. Binding worn at the hinges and sides.l Ward & Carozzi, 613; Zittel, p. 126; Cat.. du livres … de feu J.B. Huzare, no. 2135; Bibl. of the… Read More
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Tableaux des costumes, moeurs, coutumes et vues, de la Nord-Hollande, de Zaandam, Broek, Alkmaar,...
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[2] ll. + 10 plates.Very rare work with 12 engraved plates displaying architecture and inhabitants of the Dutch province North Holland, engraved by Willem van Senus (ca. 1770-1851), all but one after designs by Hendrik Greeven (1787-1854). The work was published by Evert Maaskamp, who at the turn of the 19th century was the foremost publisher of luxurious Dutch view and costume books. The title-page and table of contents are both in French, but the engravings are all captioned in Dutch. One engraving shows the so-called "Czar Peter House" in Zaandam, where Peter the Great resided incognito in 1697 studying shipbuilding. Other plates show the village of Broek, some scenes at Zaandam, costumes of girls from Zaandam, Purmerend and Alkmaar, a family from Assendelft and two children at play. The last plate is in proof-state, still without a descriptive caption.With a bookseller's ticket on paste-down. Some minor marginal thumbing and only a few small spots, otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed… Read More
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Tafereelen uit eene reis naar Noord-Amerika.Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1818. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides.

by SVINYIN, Pavel Petrovic (here Paul SWININ, elsewhere SVIN'IN or SUININE).

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[4], IV, 127 pp.Very rare first and only edition of the only Dutch translation of a Russian description of the United States of America. The title-page notes that it is translated from the German translation (1816) and the preface notes that the first edition, in Russian, appeared in 1815. A second Russian edition appeared at St. Petersburg in 1818 and has sometimes been described as the first.The great Russian author Pavel Petrovic Svinyin or Svin'in, here westernized to "Paul Swinin", is best known for his Sketches of Russia, published in the West under the name "Suinine". The identity of the Dutch translator of the present work is unknown. It gives an interesting "picturesque" travel account of the United States spanning the year 1813 and provides five main accounts covering different subjects: a statistical survey; a religious overview with descriptions of the several Christian communities (naming Methodists, Quakers, Shakers, Baptists and more); a description of the different types of steamboats… Read More
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Tarif général ou table alphabétique des droits que payeront les marchandises dans tous les...
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155, [1 blank] pp.Second known copy of a commercial publication of statutes, promulgated in French by the Russian Empress Catharine the Great, concerning import duties for commercial merchandise in Russian ports and at other frontiers of the Russian Empire as they were determined and accepted in 1782. There is an exception for Astrakhan, a major port and market city in southern Russia at the head of the Volga river, which was under the government of Siberia, which apparently maintained its own commercial regulations.This publication is very rare, WorldCat lists only 1 copy (Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University). Other libraries worldwide have only the microfilm of the Kress copy.A faint stain and one tiny hole in the margin of the first 20 pp. Cover slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition.l Goldsmiths'-Kress 12431.16.
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Tariffa de i pesi, e misure corrispondenti dal Levante al Ponente: e da una terra, e luogo...
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[11], [1 blank] 200 ll.Third edition of a practical handbook for international merchants, giving information for the conversion of monetary units, weights and measures from countries in the Mediterranean and Near East. It covers not only units from cities in the Italian states but also from Constantinople (Istanbul), Aleppo, Tripoli, Damascus, Cyprus, Corfu, Rhodes and Crete. Venice was at this time the centre of European trade with the Near and Middle East and the present work is invaluable as a record of the panoply of commodities traded in the Mediterranean at the beginning of the 16th century, including pearls, silks, wool, saffron, chestnuts, figs, galangal, vegetable oils, gold and silver. On leaves 3, 11, and 12, Pasi records the tariffs on pearls in Damascus, Aleppo, Cairo, Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice.With a few contemporary manuscript annotations. The preliminary matter foxed and the bookblock slightly trimmed, shaving some of the manuscript annotations, otherwise in very good… Read More
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Tartaros en China, historia.Madrid, Joseph Fernadez de Buendia for Lorenço de Ibarra, 1665....
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Tartaros en China, historia.Madrid, Joseph Fernadez de Buendia for Lorenço de Ibarra, 1665. Small 8vo (14.5×10 cm). Late 18th-century gold-tooled mottled goatskin.

by MARTINI, Martino.

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[40], 188 pp.First edition of the Spanish translation of an “important and extremely popular work on the history of China. Many editions followed [after the original Latin edition of 1654], … testifying of the enormous interest for China all over Europe and the impact the book had on the European image and conceptions of the Empire” (Hanotiau). The Italian Jesuit Martino Martini (1614-1661), travelled to China in 1643 at a time of great internal unrest, witnessing the violent overthrow of the ancient Ming dynasty in the years 1643-1644. Besides the present work, Martini is also well-known for the atlas of China that he published together with Joan Blaeu.With owner’s inscription on title-page. The title-page is somewhat worn, a small corner of D2 torn off, a minor ink stain in the outer margins of 3 leaves and the head margin trimmed close to the running heads. Still a good copy. Some very minor damage to the spine of the binding, otherwise very good.l Cordier, Sinica, col. 626; Lust 45; cf… Read More
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Taxa medicamentorum in pharmacopoea Austriaco-provinciali contentorum. = Taxe der in der österreichischen Privincialpharmakopee enthaltenen Arzneyen.Vienna, Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattner, 1777. 8vo. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, brown morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, red edges.

by [AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA - TAXES].

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[8], 95 pp.Medical ordinances and a list of the new taxes on nearly 2000 named medicinal components. As the Habsburgs in the 1770’s attempted to strengthen their control over the professional standards and business activity of pharmacists and medical personnel in their realms, the authorities imposed new taxes on behalf of Empress Maria Theresa, covering all components of medicaments described and prescribed in the Pharmacopoea Austriaco-Provinciali the official book of pharmacological recipes for the entire Habsburg empire, with editions published almost every year from 1776 to ca. 1822. The ordinance on the subject was promulgated on 25 November 1775 and took affect on 1 January 1776, so the 1776 edition was clearly the first, but the 1790 edition calls itself the second. It is therefore not certain whether the present copy is the true second edition or a reissue of the first. The ordinance (pp. [3]-[8] of the preliminaries) is signed by Christian August Graf von Seilern, Statthalter, and Thomas… Read More
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Tell-Halâf-Stadt 1913.[Tell Halaf], 1913. 92 x 126 cm. Whiteprint (diazotype) on thick paper....

Tell-Halâf-Stadt 1913.[Tell Halaf], 1913. 92 x 126 cm. Whiteprint (diazotype) on thick paper. Title, scale and compass executed in manuscript in blue pen.

by [OPPENHEIM, Max von].

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Impressive plan of the excavation site of Tell Halaf (now on the Syrian-Turkish border), the location of the great ancient Aramaean town of Guzana, and one of the most important archaeological revelations of the modern era. Then in the Ottoman Empire, it was discovered in 1899 by the German diplomat Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) while travelling through northern Mesopotamia on behalf of Deutsche Bank, working on establishing a route for the Bagdad Railway. This is a working copy of the official, authoritative plan of the site produced during the 1911-13 excavation led by Oppenheim, printed at Tell Halaf for the use of the senior archaeological team. It was almost certainly never intended for publication and if multiple copies were made, most were probably destroyed.Signed in the upper right-hand corner by Theodor Dombart (1884-1969), a professional architect and one of Oppenheim’s principal associates, later an esteemed professor of ancient Middle Eastern architecture and an authority on Munich… Read More
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Tent work in Palestine. A record of discovery and adventure.London, Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, 1879, 2 vols., Many half- and some full-page Illustrations and maps throughout. Contemporary green morocco, with gold-tooling to boards and spine.

by CONDER, Claude Reignier.

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XXVI, 381, [1]; VII, 352 pp.The Survey of Western Palestine began in January 1872 under the direction of Captain Stewart, who had to return home soon after due to illness. Lieutenant Claude Reignier Conder (1848-1910) took over and arrived in Palestine later that year. He returned to England in October 1875 after completing a survey of 4,700 square miles. The remaining 1,300 square miles were surveyed by Lieutenant Kitchener in 1877. This volume includes Lieutenant Conder's personal account of his work. Tent work in Palestine is Conder’s thrilling and deeply personal narration of his encounters during geological work in Palestine. Conder was part of the expedition to Egypt in 1882, under Sir Garnet Wolseley, to quell the rebellion of Arabi Pasha. He was appointed a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general on the intelligence department's staff, where his excellent knowledge of Arabic and Eastern people proved useful. Although he was present at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir and the advance to… Read More
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Ternarius Bezoarticorum ou trois souverains medicaments Bezoardiques, contre tous venins et...
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[28], 91, [1] pp.Second(?) edition of a rare treatise on the use of bezoar stones (hardened accumulations of matter - often partly hair -¬ taken from the gut of a goat or other animal) as a universal antidote to poisons, by Angelo Sala (1576-1637), an Italian chemist and Paracelsist doctor, who seems to have belonged to the circle of Michael Maier in The Hague. The word “bezoar” derives from the Persian for “antidote” and Islamic medical treatises had discussed them since the 12th century. Around 1610 Sala became personal physician to a cousin of William of Orange, Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau, whom he followed in the Protestant camp in the Upper Palatinate. In 1612 he settled in The Hague, where he worked as a doctor and taught German, French, English and chemistry. Sala's experiments with silver salts, moreover, laid the foundations for the development of the photographic process.The present edition is the first book by Sala that Govert Basson in Leiden published. Bögels states (in error?)… Read More
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XLIX, [1], 522, 160 pp.Scarce work by William Fraser Hume (1867-1949), printed and published in Cairo, giving a detailed account of the origin and development of the earth and weighing various recent theories. The book begins with a broad perspective in chapters on the nature of the universe, the origin of the solar system, etc., and narrows down to the earth's internal structure and its pre-Cambrian state. The first half of the twentieth-century saw several revolutions in this field, and the present book gives special emphasis to these new developments, as well as to specific applications of these theories to the geology of Egypt. Discussed in detail are geological radioactivity, pioneered by George Darwin and John Joly in 1903, and Arthur Holmes's 1911 application of it to radiometric dating, finally debunking Lord Kelvin's famous 1862 dismissal of the idea that the earth might be more than a few tens of millions of years old (Lord Kelvin dated the earth based on thermodynamic principles, though one… Read More
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Testacea minuta rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris Sandvicensis; ... | A collection of...
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Testacea minuta rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris Sandvicensis; ... | A collection of the minute and rare shells lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich.London, J. March, [1784]. 4to. With 3 engraved plates depicting 90 species of shells. Later purple, gold-tooled half morocco.

by WALKER, George and William BOYS.

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[1], [1 blank], [1], V, 25, [3 blank] pp.First edition of a work on tiny and miniscule shells found at the seashore near Sandwich (Kent) by the naturalist, surgeon and topographer William Boys (1735-1803). The shells are depicted on three engraved plates ater drawings by George Walker, who studied the shells under the microscope. The text-pages contain a brief description of each shell, with text in both Latin and English. The work starts with a dedication to the Duchess of Portland and Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the famous naturalist who took part in Captain Cook's first great voyage, followed by an introduction. Some minor spotting, otherwise in very good condition.l ESTC T97429; Nissen, ZBI 524.
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T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus...
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T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius. Franeker, Rombertus Doyema, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut imperial coat of arms on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

by GUEVARA, Antonio de.

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223, [2] ll.Very rare edition of Guevara's extremely popular and partly fictional biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), which made the emperor a paragon of virtue and a popular subject in art and literature. Guevara claimed to have discovered an ancient manuscript containing twenty letters written by Marcus Aurelius, publishing them in the second half of his book, but in fact he invented them and used them as a didactic and literary device. This imaginative fictional basis for his biography no doubt resulted in a much more popular book than any true story could have, for it spoke to his contemporaries and provided a model for a wise ruler. With 2 owner's inscriptions on title-page. Some occasional browning and a small tear and hole in title-page, otherwise in very good condition.l STCN (1 copy); not in Bibl. Belg.; Simoni.
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[The seven ages of the horse].London, S. & J. Fuller, 1825. Oblong 4to (28.4 x 38.2 cm). With 7...

[The seven ages of the horse].London, S. & J. Fuller, 1825. Oblong 4to (28.4 x 38.2 cm). With 7 hand-coloured etched plates. Red half morocco, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

by ALKEN, Henry.

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[7] ll.A rare and important work by Henry Alken (1785-1851) showing the progression of a race horse through successive stages of life, at one point pampered and adored, at another rejected and scorned by man. In this re-working of The High Mettled Racer, Alken extends the stages of a horse's life from six to seven, in line with Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. He shows the seven stages: the foal, the colt, the race horse, the hunter, the harness horse and the horse after all this, ending with the horse in his last days. The common thread in this series of plates is the evolution from a fiery and strong race horse to a poor, weakened old horse.Expert repairs to plate corners, light marginal finger-soiling, occasional browning, plates 2 and 4 with very minor marginal tears with two very small repairs to versos.l Dixon 80; Mellon; 62; Tooley 48.
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[8], 278, [2] pp.First and only French edition of a book of “splendid ceremonies”, bringing accounts of the magnificent royal funerals of various Habsburgs (both Spanish and Austrian) together in one edition.Impetus for the book was the Brussels funeral procession of Albert VII (1559-1621), Archduke of Austria, who in 1598 had married the Infanta Isabella, daughter of King Phillip II of Spain, who appointed them co-governors of the Spanish Low Countries. Meerbeeck dedicated the book to Aubert Lemire, dated 18 June 1622 and Adrian de Meerbeeck (1563-post 1627) wrote the text. In the same year the Ferdinand de Hoeymaker also published an edition in Dutch (Landwehr 72).With an owner's inscription on the title-page: “Ex bibliotheca Corn. Boullvens[?]”. Some browning; folded plate repaired with a hole in one fold, but still in good condition.l Biogr. Nat. Belg. 14, cols. 252-254; Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 71; Picarta (1 copy); STCV 6643304 (4 copies); WorldCat (6 copies).
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