[S.l.]: [S.n.], 1667. First edition. In contemporary vellum. Short title and date in ink on front panel. (8º); (2), 90, (2) p. The book concerned with the War of Devolution (1667–1668) the conflict between France and Spain over the possession of the Spanish Netherlands. After the Thirty Years'... More
![Türkische Schau-Bühne […]; [Bound before:] [Francisci, Erasmus]: Der Türkischen Groß-Sultanen Ursprung, Macht und Herrlichkeit […].](/pictures/thumb/1432.jpg?v=1530566570)
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
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1649. With numerous illustrations of diagrams in the text. First separate and first Latin edition of “La Géometrie” (second printing overall). Title page in red and black, with printer’s device. In 18th century blind-stamped leather, spine with four raised bands. Spine lettered in... More
![Histoire generale, des isles des Christophe, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique, et autres dans l’Amerique. [...]. Jean Baptiste Du Tertre.](/pictures/thumb/1326.jpg?v=1510765904)
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
![Utrum Pentateuchus a Samaritano Sacerdote sit Conscriptus (Q. D. B. V., […] Adversus Auctorem Judicii de Richardi Simonii Historia V. T. Critica, publice different Praeses M. Sebastian Ezradus, & Respondens Hermannus Pfingsten, Buxtehuda Bremensis. Ad diem Dec. Anno MDCXCV.). Sebastian Edzardi, Hermann Pfingsten.](/pictures/thumb/455.jpg?v=1432137311)
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: Chet Hervé Du Mesnil, ruë sainct Iacques, à la Samaritaine, M. D. C. XXIX [1629]. First edition. Illustrated with a woodcut figure and charts in the text and two large folding woodcut plates of star charts inserted at the end. Ornamented with numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials. In... More
A Paris: Chez Tuossainct du Bray, rue Sainct Jacques, aux Epics-meurs, M. DC. XXIIII [1624]. First edition. In 18th century leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt ornament and title. Edges tinted in red and brown. Woodcut initials and headpieces. (16), 1115, (3 [last 2 blank]) p. Collation... 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
Impresso em Lisboa: na officina de Luys Estupina, Anno de M. DCVIII [1608]. First edition. In later leather. Panels, spine, inner edges richly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece (not cited by bibliographies). Woodcut initials, typographical head, and tailpieces. Woodcut printer’s device on last leaf. Pages framed by double-line. Housed in... 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
Hamburg: Härtel und Weyrauchs Erben (Hertelii et Haeredum Matth. Weyrauchii. Typis v. Rebenlinianis), 1682. First edition. With 153 woodcut illustrations. In contemporary vellum. (8°); (12), 163 (i. e. 164.), (4) p.; 21 plates, [2] p. Scarce book on chiromancy. Contains 153 woodcut illustrations of palms, showing different shapes of hands... More
A Paris: Chez Charles Sercy au Palais en la Galerie Dauphine á l’enfeigne de la Foy Couronnée, 1650. First edition. In somewhat later leather. Spine with gilt ornaments, and red title vignette. Panels ruled with gilt lines on turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Ornamented with typographical head-pieces and woodcut tail-pieces... More
Amstelædami (Amsterdam): Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios (Elzevier), 1661. With an engraved portrait of Regius (by Theodor Matham after Hendrick Bloemaert on a4 verso), an engraved folding map and a celestial map. With numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, some full-page. Third edition (first in 1654, under the title “Fundamenta... More
![[Martires del Japon] Gerarchia serafica. Propio de las festividades de la Orden de nuestro Padre S. Francisco, y común de los Evangelios de la Iglesia. […]. Va anadido en esta segunda impresión un elencho para los Evangelios comunes de los Santos. Jorge Antonio Riojano.](/pictures/thumb/1485.jpg?v=1535123376)
En Madrid: en la Imprenta Real (a costa de Gabriel León, Mercader de libros), Año de 1640. Scarce second edition (first in 1633). In contemporary vellum. Spine lettered in ink. (16), (1)–481, (15) p. Page 39 and 132 misnumbered. A scarce collection of Franciscan sermons, among them “Sermon de los... More