Books

C. Plinii Secundi
Naturalis Historiae. Tomus Tertius. (Liber XXV-XXXVII). Volume 3 only
Lugd. Batavorum. Ex Officina Elseviriana. 1635. 582 pp. Index XVII., Original vellum binding with gold-tooled supralibros on both sides. Some underlining with pencil (can easily be removed). Title page missing, but added in facsimile. Blank endpapers missing. Library stamp on page 3 and last page. Some slight damp-stains on the last few pages, but in general the paper is in a very nice and clean condition. Ref: Willems 428; Berghman 2116; Rahir 420; Schweiger 2,790; Brunet 4,716; Graesse…

Pierre de Besse
Besse, P. Conciones sive conceptus theologici ac praedicailes, de quatuor hominum novissimis.
Cologne, J. Kinck, 1613, (16),708,(20)pp., woodcut printer's vignette, contemporary blindstampted panelled pigskin with 2 brass clasps and catches. Slightly yellowed; hinges weak; two old owner's entries on title-page; a few leaves with underlining/ small stains. Lower catch broken; pigskin darkened and worn. Very rare. Pierre de Besse , born in 1567 in Meymond, village of Laroche-près-Feyt , and died on November 11, 1639 in Paris is a French priest, preacher of king Louis XIII , passed to…

Mentz, A. and Ostenfeld, C.H.
Billeder af Nordens Flora with 663 coloured lithographed plates
Copenhagen, G.E.C. Gad, 1917-1927, 2nd revised enlarged edition, 4 volumess., 663 coloured lithographed plates, illustrations, contemporary uniform gilt red halfleather bindings. Volume 1: bookblock loosening and occasionally trifle foxed. Volume 1 and 3 spine-ends slightly worn.

Lavater, Jean Gaspard
Essai sur la Physiognomonie, destiné à faire connaître l’Homme et à le faire aimer. 3 volumes.
3 volumes, folio, La Haye, 1781-1786. 145 full-page portraits (o.a. portraits of Da Vinci, Durer, Erasmus, Rubens) & 390 engravings in the text. Gilt tooled, all edges gilt. Fine large paper copy. - Without the fourth volume which was published much later, after the French Revolution in 1803. Condition: some foxing and slight damp staines, but not much. Some rubbing on the edges of the bindings. Volume 2: title page partly loose from the binding and has some folds. Front hinge a bit loose.…

Melchior Junius; Zetzner.
Orationvm quae argentinensi in Academia, exercitii gratia scriptæ & recitatæ ab illvstr. generos. nobil. & aliis ... a` Melchiore Ivnio Witebergensi ... Tomi dvo, iuxta tria causarum genera dispositi: quorum primus tomus, orationes ad genus causæ demonstr
Argentorati, sumptibus hæredum Lazari Zetzneri. Anno M. DC. XX., [1620] [XVI], 1474 pp. Size: 185 x 115 x 95 mm. Beautiful blind-stamped German vellum binding. Blind stamped with a plate of Emperor Karel V size 5 x 7.5 cm. on the front cover. On the back cover a plate of Johann Friedrich von Sachsen. Previous owners name written in ink on title page. Blank end-papers missing. Some slight damp stains at the bottom part of some of the pages, but overall a nice copy. Very rare. No other copies for…

A collection of Statutes of the Parliament of Great Britain. A very rare run of the reign of Queen Victoria from 1838 - 1901 in 59 (of 60) volumes.
London, Printed by George Eyre. Starts as: A collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the First and Second Year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the First Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1838. THROUGH to: The Public General Acts passed in the Sixty-Fouth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria and in the first year of of the reign of His Majesty King Edward the Seventh being the First and Second…

A collection of Statutes of the Parliament of Great Britain. A very rare complete run of the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria from 1838 right to the reign of Queeen Elizabeth until 1972 in 155 volumes.
London, Printed by George Eyre and others. Starts as: A collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the First and Second Year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the First Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1838. THROUGH to: The Public General Acts 1972. Hardbacks, half-leather, Ex Library County of Brecon. With 4 volumes boards detached, 3 volumes spine damaged, 1 volume spine missing, 1 volume part spine missing, 5…

Worlidge, T.
A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; Most of Them in the Possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; Etched after the Manner of Rembrandt.
London, Dryden Leach 1768. Complete with 48 text pages and 180 plates. Front and back cover detached. Half leather with marbled boards. 31 x 23 cm.

Morison, Douglas
Views of Haddon Hall
Published by Henry Graves, 1842. Half-leather. Complete with 25 tinted lithographs printed by Hullmandel. Loose in binding. With a list of subscribers and and a list of the plates. Large folio. Size: 56 x 38 cm. Condition: some wear on the binding. Some wear on the edges of the title page. The lithographs are generally in good condition. Morison, Douglas (1814 -1847), watercolour painter and lithographer, was born at Tottenham, in Middlesex, on 22 August 1814, the son of Richard Morison, a…

Harding, James Duffield, 1798-1863.
Picturesque selections : drawn on stone
London : W. Kent and Co., Paternoster Row; Winsor and Newton, Rathbone Place, [1861]. Some of the plates dated 1859 or 1860. Letterpress title page, "Notice by the artist", and 30 (as called for) tinted lithographs by Harding showing black and white chalk drawings of rustic landscape and architectural subjects; the prints mounted on leaves of card. Half-leather, spine missing. Front and back board detached. Large folio. Size: 57 x 44 cm. Very rare. According to Worldcat.org only 12…

Famiano Strada
De Bello Belgico in twee delen.
Deel 1: Strada, Famianus: De Bello Belgico Decas Prima Ab Excessu Caroli V, Imp. usque ad initia Praefecturae Alexandr Farnesii Parmae Ac Placentieae Ducis III. Additis hominum illustrium ad historiam praecipue spectantium imaginibus ad vivum expressis. Roma : Hermannum Scheus, 1653. Frontispice, IV, 520 pp. + uitgebreide index. Met 13 portretgravures.Ex-libris Roger Newdigate en label Arbury Library op de binnenkant van het voorplat. Handschrift in inkt op de eerste blanco pagina. Op…

Duaren, Francois
De Sacris Ecclesiae ministeriis ac beneficiis libri VIII, 2 parts in one
1st edition printed in England, London: G. Bishop, 1585, woodcut device to titles, N5 with closed tear in text, occasional underlining and annotations, ink splashes to Y6-7, occasional water stains and light soiling, hinges tender, contemporary calf, covers with oval blindstamped decoration, spine mostly worn away, one corner worn, a little rubbed, 8vo XI lvs. 113 lvs., 67 lvs. STC 7262. First printing in England of an important work on the study of law by Francois Duaren (or Douaren,…

Augusteijn, Joost
Historische plattegronden van de steden van de Veluwe. Deel 8/1: Arnhem, Elburg, Harderwijk, Hattem, Wageningen alsmede Nijkerk en Staverden. 27 kaarten in facsimile
Lisse & Alphen a.d. Rijn, 1997. Losbladige kaarten in portfolio. Zonder tekstdeel. Formaat 43 x 30,5 cm. Nieuw

Samshuijzen, Jelle
Antiquarisch woordenboek in vier talen. Antiquarian Dictionary in four languages. Nederlands-Français-English-Deutsch. Met hoofdstuk: De beschrijving van boeken in catalogi
New. 4e druk. Rockingstone, Wageningen. 2018. 124 pp. Paperback. 20,5 x 14 cm.

Ledoux, Tanja
Berlage als boekbandontwerper, illustrator en typograaf. Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling Beurs van Berlage januari 1988.
Reflection, Wageningen 1996 2e druk. Japanse binding. 32 pp. 21,5x21 cm. 2e druk. Genummerde oplage van 950 exemplaren. Nieuw. 9071249042