Em Lisboa [Lisbon]: Na Officina de Domingos Lopes Rosa. Acusta de Lourenço Liureiro do Estado de Bragança. Taxão este papel em 4 reis., Riberiro Menezes [Domingos Lopes Rosa], 23 de Junho de 1642. First edition. Papered spine. Woodcut illustration of dueling horsemen on the title page. Title page in a...... More

Spoleto: 1663. Manuscript on vellum. In very finely tooled, gilt, painted, red leather armorial binding. Spine and all edges are gilt. Marbled pastedowns. Written in golden and dark ink. Dated: 6 August 1663. Twelve lines, with a golden double line around the mirror and golden ruling. Title page with with..... More

Nürnberg: Joh. Hofmanns, 1685. First editions. Two works in one volume. In contemporary limp vellum. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Both works illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates. Extremely scarce and only editions on the Ottoman Empire, both published in 1685, during the time of its greatest extent, under..... More

Dated, 1621. Signed by Bertius, as "cosmographe ordinaire”.Written in French. One page, vellum. Scarce signed document by famous cartographer Petrus Bertius (1565–1629). Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at the University of Leiden and in 1618 became "cosmographe ordinaire” to the court of Louis XIII of..... More

Amsterodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium [Elzevier], MDCXLIII [1643]. First edition. In later red maroquin. Gilt panels, spine, and inner edges. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Woodcut device on the title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. [12] 282 p. The scarce first edition of this fundamental text for the history of philosophy..... More

Paris: Jacques Langlois et Emmanuel Langlois, 1654. First edition. Complete, with the three folding maps. With several woodcut head and tailpieces, and initials. In somewhat later leather. The gilt spine is with five raised bands and red title vignette. Front and rear panels ruled with gilt double-line at the edges..... More

Vitembergae (Wittenberg): Literis Schrödterianis, Acad. Typ (Schrödter), 1695. First edition. Papered spine. (4º) A1–B4.; (16) p. Sebastian Edzardi (1673–1736) was a German philosopher, theologian and Lutheran missionary. Studied philosophy and theology at the Wittenberg University and became a professor of logic and metaphysics at the Academic Gymnasium of Hamburg. He..... More

A Paris: Chez Daniel Hortemels, Saint Jacques, au Mecenas, M. DC. LXXXVII [1687]. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments gilt, titled. Tinted edges. (30), 370, (4) p. [Complete.]. First edition of Du Vignau’s important work dealing with the decline of the Ottoman Empire... More

Madrid: Juan Delgado, 1624. First edition. Bifolio. (4) p. First edition of this scarce, Spanish, first-hand account about the first phase of the Siege of Breda, a significant battle of the Thirty (and Eighty) Years' War, whose end was immortalized by Velázquez’s famous painting The Surrender of Breda (Las lanzas)... More

A Paris: Chez Louys Billaine, au second Pilier de la grande Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Celar, M. DC. LXX. [1670]. First French edition. In somewhat later leather. Panels blind-ruled, spine with five raised bands, gilt, with red title vignette. Edges painted. (8), 165, (1) p...... More

London: Printed for John Crook, and are to be Sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Ship in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1654. First English edition. With an engraved frontispiece portrait and an engraved folding map (Situs provinciarum imperii Sinici M.DC.LIV.). In later full mottled calf, gilt borders, gilt..... More

Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1682. First edition. Printer’s device on title page, head-pieces and initials throughout. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with five raised bands, with red title vignette. Marbled pastedown. (24), 174, [In this copy pp. 107–110 bound here second time], (6) p. First edition of the earliest book about..... More

A Paris: Chez Pierre le Petit, Imprimeur & Libraire ordinaire du Roy, rue Saint Jacques à la Croix d’or, M.DC.LXXIV [1674]. First edition. Woodcut printer’s device on title page. In contemporary vellum. (20) p., (1 [engraved frontispiece]) leaf, 353, (7) p. The origin of the science of modern hydrology on..... More