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Lion and Unicorn
Lot 134

This Swarovski crystal mother elephant belonged to the Rare Encounters theme group. She flaunts a faceted clear crystal body and Jet crystal eyes. Her legs, trunk, tail and tusks are in unfaceted crystal. A beautiful replica of an African elephant complete with tusks, large ears and flat back. Swarovski etched backstamp. This item has its original box which measures 8"L x 8"W x 4"H. Artist: Heinz TabertshoferIssued: 2005-2011Dimensions: 4.5"L x 2.25"W x 4.25"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

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Lion and Unicorn
Lot 136

This retired Swarovski crystal elephant was part of the Rare Encounters group and is made from clear crystal, with black eyes. Item includes original box measuring 3.25"dia. x 4.75"H. Artist: Heinz TabertshoferIssued: 2005-2007Dimensions: 2.25"L x 1.5"W x 1.5"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

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Lion and Unicorn
Lot 151

This Swarovski crystal zebra was part of the Rare Encounters collection. The eye-catching stripes are achieved with a Crystal Marron coating and are highlighted beautifully by the animal€™s clear crystal body. Swarovski etched backstamp. This item has its original box which measures 8"L x 8"W x 5.25"H. Artist: Elisabeth AdamerIssued: 2011-2012Dimensions: 5.25"L x 2.25"W x 4.25"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

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Lion and Unicorn
Lot 158

Part of the Rare Encounters group. The kangaroo is made from clear crystal, both the kangaroo and joey have black eyes. Crystal clear with black crystal eyes. Swarovski etched backstamp. This item has its original box: 4"L x 3.5"W x 6"H. Artist: Gabriele StameyIssued: 1994-2006Dimensions: 2.25"L x 1.25"W x 2.25"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

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Lion and Unicorn
Lot 167

This Swarovski crystal mother panda is part of the Rare Encounters theme group. The Panda was the first animal produced by Swarovski to use so much black crystal, as up until then black crystal had mainly only been used for eyes/noses. Swarovski etched backstamp. Artist: Adi StockerIssued: 1994-2006Dimensions: 2"L x 1.5"W x 1.75"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

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Lion and Unicorn
Lot 169

This Swarovski crystal baby panda part of the Rare Encounters theme group. To stop the black crystal being viewed through the clear crystal, a mirror coating is used. Please note this item is tiny! Swarovski etched backstamp. This item has its original box which measures 2.5"H x 3.25"dia. Artist: Adi StockerIssued: 1994-2006Dimensions: 1"L x 0.5"W x 0.75"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

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Revere Auctions
Lot 119

One Chinese early 19th century Mughal-style jade bowl. A stunning example of Mughal-style jade carving, this is a rare and highly sought after form. This bowl is larger than most. The entire form profusely carved with flower petals. This carving has rendered the entire form extremely thin.Provenance: B. Manheim Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana, purchased 1970; Private Minnesota Collection; Revere Auctions "Fine Asian Art," April 26, 2019, Lot 183; Private California Collection.Height: 1 3/4 in x diameter: 5 1/2 in. Weight: 166.7 grams. />Condition: There are a few small chips along the edges. There is one small hole, possibly original to the carving, along the lower edge. Very light wear including some accretions. Please use the following link to view additional photos of this lot: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7de4ih206uzqo96/AADrqBgT4BejVso1bHzAXTcGa?dl=0

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Lot 147

A very fine pair of Chinese Qing dyansty silk seat covers with phoenixes and a foo dog chasing a ball with excellent gold wrapped threads and very delicate embroidery. Excellent quality and rare to find a pair together.Each; length: 53 in x width: 21 in. />Condition: Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.

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Lot 154

A very fine and rare piece of 19th century Vietnamese furniture in a high Chinese style. Carved from a high quality of rosewood. The surface retains some old black varnish or lacquer. The surface needs some oil and care.Height: 38 in x width: 37 in x depth: 22 12 in. />Condition: There is a slight wobble to the table due to drying organic glue. The work has been lacquered a dark brown/black at some point. This lacquer has been poorly removed which has resulted in a streaky coloration throughout. Remnants of this dark lacquer paint visible throughout the work including some dark streaks underneath the table. There is at least one missing applied wooden piece along the skirting along the front of the table. Some pieces are slightly loose. Some seperation along the joints. There is at least one glue repair to a leg along the back, visible from underneath the table (back right leg). There is a small split to the front skirting. Some seperation along the panel of the top of the table. There are waterstains along the top of the table. Wear along the feet as expected. Moderate wear throughout as expected.

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Lot 160

A fantastic Japanese 1920s journal or scrapbook filled with letters, mail and numerous photos and pieces of rare ephemera. Much of the subject matter relates to translated poems, schools, and possibly military subjects.Height: 17 in x width: 11 in x depth: 2 1/4 in. />Condition: Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.

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Lot 166

Japanese woodblock print in the manner of Kogawa Hosai Mitsukata (active 1894). Diptych depicting what appears to be a United States civil war battle. A very rare print.(Each) Sight; height: 13 3/4 in x width: 9 in. Matted: 18 in x width: 24 in. />Condition: The colors are bold and bright. Both sheets are toned with some small areas of foxing and staining. Both prints have a horizontal crease through running the width of the print in the center. Wear along the edges including some small fleabite chips. Some light creases throughout. The right print has several small holes, mainly along the center and left margin. The left print has a small hole along the center of the left margin. Both prints area housed between two non-acidic mats with clear acetate corners for mounting; both prints can be easily removed. The prints are not framed.

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Lot 28

Chinese Wanli period (1573-1619) porcelain blue and white wine pot with cover. Rare and unusual, the wine pot is decorated along the sides with four cartouches, each depicting a man and attendant in unique settings. The cartouches are separated by a key fret pattern. The shoulder and foot are painted with bands of lotus petals and geometric designs. With two U-shaped metal handles along the shoulder. The cover is surmounted by an unglazed finial pierced with a cash motif. With a marked wooden box.Provenance: Private Japanese Collection, acquired before 1940; Christie's Hong Kong, November 27, 2013, Lot 3517; Private Collection; Christie's New York, "Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art," Sale 16320, March 22, 2019, Lot 1632; Private California Collection.Height: 7 1/2 in x width: 8 in x depth: 6 1/2 in. />Condition: The teapot appears to be in overall good condition with no major chips, cracks, losses, or repairs. There is fritting and minute glaze gaps along the edge of the cover, the mouth rim, and the spout. There is a polished kiln grit to the base. Small firing or glaze flaws throughout. Light wear throughout. Discoloration and some corrosion to the metal handles. Wear to the box.

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Revere Auctions
Lot 44

Large rare Chinese porcelain famille noire "dragon" seal, late Qing dynasty. Of square form with a pair addorsed dragon head finials. The top of the seal with a dragon in relief coiling around a flaming pearl amidst clouds and flames. The four sides with striding dragons. The seal face inscribed with eight characters reading "Kangxi huangdi yulan zhibao (seal for the appreciation of the Kangxi emperor)."Provenance: Collection of George H. Taber (1859-1940); Collection of Graham and Margaret Groves, Coral Gables, FL (by repute); Private Collection; Sotheby's New York, "Important Chinese Art," September 12, 2018, Lot 351; Private California Collection.Exhibition: The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (on loan), 1935-1940.Literature:Berthold Laufer, Copy of a note, "Three Imperial Porcelain Seals," Field Museum of Natural History, September 25, 1933."A Rare Collection of Chinese Art: Porcelains, Jades and Horn Carvings Shown in the Exquisite Examples in the George H. Taber Loan to the Carnegie Institute," Carnegie Magazine, vol. 10 (March 1937), 293. Figs. IV, V.Chao Ming Chen, "Symbolism in Chinese Porcelain Decoration," The Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 20, no. 6 (June 1941), 197.Lot Essay:The seal has been well-documented throughout the early 20th century. The present seal appears to be the mate to an identical example sold at Freeman's, Philadelphia, 12th March 2016, lot 146. That seal was incised with the mark "xiao yi huang hou yu shang zhi bao" referring to the imperial consort, Lady Tunggiya, who was posthumously honored by the Kangxi emperor as Empress Xiao Yi Ren in 1689. Both that seal and the present seal are referenced as a pair in a short description written in 1933 by Berthold Laufer, then serving as the curator of Chinese art at the Field Museum, Chicago and again in an article by Chen Ming Chen in 1941. In his 1933 description, Laufer thanks Chen for the opportunity to view the seals, implying that the pair was with Chen in 1933. However by 1935, the pair of seals are recorded as belonging to the well-known collector and patron of the arts, George Hathaway Taber (1859-1940) and on loan to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The present seal and seal face are illustrated in an article in the Carnegie Magazine, vol. 10, March 1937. The seal also appears as a hand drawing in "Notes on the Taber Collection of Oriental Art by A. Avinoff after Consultation with Mr. C.T. Loo, Chinese Dealer in the Art Objects, Paris and New York," Carnegie Museum of Art archives, done while the seals were on loan sometime between 1935-40, with a comment that the pair was on display in "Case II" and it was considered to have been made later than the Kangxi period.Height: 5 3/4 in x width: 9 1/2 in x depth: 7 1/2 in. />Condition: There are a couple of minor restorations to the applied dragon heads with a few small losses. The surface with wear throughout consistent with age.

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Lot 61

An excellent group of 49 rare early Chinese bronze coins or money objects.Height ranges from 3/4 in to 2 in; width ranges from 3/4 in to 5 in. />Condition: Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.

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Bonhams
Lot 50

Krishen Khanna (B.1925)Untitled (Dhaba) circa 1980pastel and pencil on paper, framed48 x 38cm (18 7/8 x 14 15/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceProperty from a private collection, India.Acquired from the artist;Property from a private collection, India;Acquired from Asta Guru, Modern Indian Art Auction, 19th-20th December 2018, lot 61;Untitled (Dhaba) is a rare and striking example of Khanna's ability to capture the essence of everyday life. This pastel and pencil on paper offers an intimate glimpse into the vibrant and bustling world of a roadside dhaba (an Indian eatery). The turbaned worker is pouring the famed dhaba chai in the quintessential glass that can be found in these establishments whilst the onlooking customer is waiting for his glass to be filled. Khanna's success with this work lies in his ability to convey this narrative using a medium that demands a delicate touch and sensitivity. Devoid of colour, the blended hues of black contribute to the overall dreamlike quality of the work.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Stacey's Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 1609

A rare collection of photographs by Snowdon in a Issey Miyake Permanente portfolio. 1988 Spring-summer collection. Postage C

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Stacey's Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 1644

A rare early 19th century Celanese Colonial Specimen wood occasional table. circa 1830-40 the hexagonal top inlaid and decided by specimen woods above a frieze drawer on elaborate carved ebony base. Top width 63cm height

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Stacey's Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 930

A rare 19th century Kiribati shark tooth knife with a hardwood handle and attached shark teeth length 29cm

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Bonhams
Lot 13

MALTACHRISTOPHORO D'AVALOS (FELICE ANTONIO DE) Discorso sopra la riunione definitiva di Malta alla Gran Brettagna, FIRST EDITION, full red straight-grained morocco gilt, sides elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., extremities of spine rubbed but generally very bright, 8vo, Printed by Cox & Baylis, 1814Footnotes:'Maltesi!... Malta è riunita alla Gran Brettagna'. Finely bound copy of a rare treatise, with no copies traced as selling at auction, celebrating British sovereignty over Malta, as confirmed at the Treaty of Paris in May 1814. It is probable that this specially bound copy belonged to Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), who at the time of the Treaty, held the position of under-secretary for War and Colonies.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 31

BOYLE (ROBERT)The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, 2 titles printed in red and black (the second additional, bound after D1), R2 a cancel, with the final blank, woodcut ornaments, fore-margins softened with some light damp-stains throughout (with no loss to text, but minor loss of fore-margin at beginning and end, and some old stains touching text to some leaves), contemporary calf, worn and detached from text block [ESTC R37449; Dibner 39; Fulton 33; Norman 299; PMM 141], 8vo (168 x 108mm.), J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY, AND BOYLE'S 'MOST FAMOUS BOOK' (ODNB), of which approximately only 35 copies are known.'The importance of Boyle's book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton's modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter... His argument was designed to lead chemists away from the pure empiricism of his predecessors and to stress the theoretical, experimental and mechanistic elements of chemical science. The Sceptical Chymist is concerned with the relations between chemical substances rather than transmuting one metal into another or the manufacture of drugs. In this sense the book must be considered one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revolution of Lavoisier in the eighteenth century' (PMM).Provenance: Private UK collection, given to the owner by his grandfather in the 1970s.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 55

ALBUM - WRITERS & SCIENTISTSAlbum of over 150 autograph letters from eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers, scientists, and other notables, from the collection of Lady Maria Theresa Lewis (née Villiers) (1803-1865), to Lady Lewis, Mary Berry and others, some loose, including:Horace Walpole, three autograph poems, the first titled 'To/ My Pen/ on my cessation of our correspondence/ by her...', 10 lines beginning 'Here rest thou faithful servant of my heart!', signed 'O', one page, affixed to an album leaf, 98 x 160mm.; the second 'To Miss Mary Berry', 8 lines beginning 'Thine Beauty, Learning, Eloquence/ With wry Grace of social sense...', one page, affixed to an album leaf, 115 x 165mm.; the third titled 'An Apology for her paleness', 9 lines beginning 'True, on her cheek the damask Rose/ Too seldom, or two faintly blows...', signed beneath 'By the Honble Horace Walpole/ December 1789', one page, loose, 120 x 194mm.Johann Wolfang von Goethe, two-line couplet from Angedenken an das Liebe ('Angedenken an das Liebe/ Glücklich! Wenn's lebendig bliebe!'), signed beneath ('Goethe'), one page, 100 x 170mm., Weimar, March 1826; presented on an album leaf with a printed notice of his death Edward Gibbon, unpublished autograph letter signed ('E.Gibbon') to Horace Walpole, thanking him for his '...elegant and entertaining present...' [Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting] and complimenting him on the contents, 2 pages, 4to (216 x 185mm.), Sheffield Place, 22 October 1780Charles Babbage, two autograph letters signed ('C. Babbage') to Mrs Lister, the first an invitation '...Lady Lovelace, Faraday and a few friends are coming to drink tea with me...', the second on the difficulties of translating his On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers into Spanish ('...they have adopted a very curious arithmetic...') and sending her a book, 2 pages, the second letter affixed to the second leaf of the first, 8vo, Dorset Place, 2 May and February/March 1836With many others including: Sheridan (regarding a legacy left by Edward Drakeford); Walter Scott (introducing Major Price Gordon); Sara Coleridge ('I am in sorry and anxiety now about dear Mr Wordsworth' March 1850); Thomas Moore; Thomas Talfourd; George Grote (2); James Mackintosh (3); Macaulay (4); Francois Guizot; Robert Ker Porter (2, regarding collection of rare seeds of the vegetable cow or Palo de Vaca 'when an incision is made in the bark, the milk flows very rapidly'); Joseph Dalton Hooker (2); William Empson (3, 'glad to kill a fatted calf for Macaulay on his return'); Robert Bunsen (2); Alexander Humboldt (autograph envelope addressed to George Cornewall Lewis); William Rowan Hamilton; Humphry Davy ('...The analyses have been made by Mr Faraday the operator of the Royal Institution upon whose accuracy Sir H. Davy can depend...'); John Horne Tooke (receipt for The Diversions of Purley); William Harrison Ainsworth; archaeologist A.H. Layard; the Duke of Wellington; Robert Southey (to Henry Taylor, '...I danced a solo round my room on Saturday upon writing end of the Second Volume...', October 1833); William Wilberforce (2, one sending an autograph); Frederic, Lord Leighton Group of correspondence to and from Mary Berry, including John Wilson Croker (anxious to know why she had not included Horace Walpole's 'Miscellaneous Antiquities' in the Works, '...I presume they were omitted for some good reason which if it lingers in Miss Berry's memory I should be anxious to know...'); R.D. Sharp (regarding the 'charlatan' Dr James Graham, '...he puffs his 'Celestial Bed' as the altar of health...'); Joseph Wolfe (listing places on his travels and wishing to talk about Jesus and the '...restoration of the Jews to their own land...'); Thomas Hope (asking for the return of his notebook); Benjamin Constant (3, in French); William Roscoe (2, discussing the four volumes of Madame du Deffand's letters, his visit to the real Castle of Otranto, offering fulsome praise of Horace Walpole); Mary Berry (2); two-page manuscript account, in French, on reading Mary Berry's works, published in Lady Lewis's Extracts, under the title 'Criticisms by M. Benjamin Constant' (Vol.3, p.375-376), with pencil annotations for the printer, etc.; interspersed with portrait prints and annotations by Lady Lewis, index titled 'Authors' on several loose pages of blue paper at front, c.300 leaves (some blank, some excised), half maroon roan gilt, decorative spine gilt stamped 'Autographs', worn, 4to (235 x 280mm.), [late eighteenth-/nineteenth-century]For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 11

LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY)Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the plea to subscribers 'to pay 7s-6 on receiving this first part...') on the first title, 2 engraved titles, 64 engraved plates (numbered 1-62, and A-B, signed by one or both of the Langleys and dated 1741 or 1742), letterpress dedications, list of subscribers, and 4pp. of text, modern red half morocco gilt [Berlin Katalog 2278; Harris 409], 4to, 1742Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the Langley's work, intended 'to restore the Rules of the Ancient Saxon Architecture, (vulgarly, but mistakenly called Gothic) which have been lost to the public for upwards of seven hundred years' (Dedication), which instigated the Gothic Revival movement. The plates include designs for temples, pavilions, windows, doorways and chimneypieces.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 110

PLATH (SYLVIA)The Colossus. Poems, FIRST EDITION, light spotting, ink correction to one word in the poem 'Sculptor', publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, dust-jacket (light spotting, mostly to spine and lower cover, slightly frayed at head of spine) [Tabor A2a], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1960Footnotes:Rare first edition of Plath's first major work.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, Sylvia's daughter, ownership inscription. Frieda was born in April, some seven months prior to the publication of Colossus.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 30

ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECEAristoteles Master-piece, or, The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof., Containing, 1. The Signes of Barrenness. 2. The Way of Getting a Boy or Girl. 3. Of the Likeness of Children to Parents....7. The Prejudice of unequal Matches. 8. The Discovery of Insufficiency... 11. How a Midwife ought to be Qualified... 14. The Fabrick of the Womb. 15. The Use and Action of the Genitals. 16. Signs of Conception, and whether of a Male or Female. 17... 18. Instructions for Women with Child... to which is added a Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation: and the Pictures of several Monsterous Births drawn to the Life, FIRST EDITION, woodcut frontispiece of 'a Maid all Hairy, and an Infant that was black by the Imagination of their Parents', with blank H12, 6 woodcuts of monstrous births (including repeat of frontispiece) at end, blank free endpapers, final gathering frayed with short tears at fore-edge with minor losses just touching image and 1 letter of I6, and catch-word of I4, contemporary sheep, rubbed with small loss at upper margin of lower cover [ESTC R504793; Wing A3697fA], 12mo, J. How, and are to be sold next door to the Anchor Tavern in Sweethings-rents in Cornhil, 1684Footnotes:SCARCE COMPLETE COPY OF 'THE DIRTY BOOK OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD'.'Aristotle's Masterpiece was the most popular book about women's bodies, sex, pregnancy, and childbirth in Britain and America from its first appearance in 1684 up to at least the 1870s. More than 250 editions are known, but all are very rare... It was sold furtively by country peddlers and in general stores and taverns; regular booksellers seldom advertised it, though they usually had it under the counter' (The Library Company of Philadelphia, 'Treasures', online catalogue). The work 'was still on sale, contents largely unaltered, in Soho sex shops in the 1930s' (Books and Babies, Cambridge Library, 2011) and James Joyce's protagonist Leopold Bloom peruses an edition of the book in Ulysses. The work was in fact assembled from Levinus Lemnius's The Secret Miracles of Nature (1564) and Jakob Rüff's midwifery manual De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554), and the attribution to Aristotle is of course totally spurious and probably a vain attempt to give the work some measure of respectability.This is the earliest publication date for the Master-piece, ESTC listing three variant settings of 1684, all printed by J. How, with no priority having been established. ESTC records only the incomplete British Library copy (which lacks final gathering I1-6) of our setting, which has line 11 of title ending 'both', line 18 of title ends 'Ge-', and the first line of the imprint ending 'sold', the first line of imprint ends 'sold', signature B5 is under the 'nt Bl' of 'effluent Blood' and on p.190 the fifth line from bottom begins with a capital 'Q'.Provenance: '?J. Riam... [scuffed] his book 1740 February the 21', light ink ownership inscription on the verso of the title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 39

FERRI (ALFONSO)De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione, FIRST EDITION, title with large woodcut arms of Pope Paul III, lower margins trimmed occasionally shaving catchwords (M3v-M4v with catchword cropped), light damp-stain to A2, nineteenth[?] century limp boards [USTC 829334], 4to, Rome, Antonio Blado, 1537Footnotes:VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF FERRI'S TREATISE ON THE TEATMENT OF SYPHILIS USING GUAIACUM WOOD, AND THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF WINE. Only copies of the second or later editions have been traced in post-War auction records.The Neapolitan doctor-surgeon Alfonso Ferri was called to Rome in 1535 to take care of Pope Paul III, the dedicatee of this work, and to teach at the university. In this popular treatise Ferri refers to the discovery of America as insulis aetate nostra repertis and discusses the exportation from Jamaica and Haiti of Guaiacum, the 'holy' wood which was imported from America during the early sixteenth-century and whose resin was supposedly a cure for venereal disease. The author also adds a fourth chapter on the healing properties of wine and its use together with the wood.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 10

KOHLMEISTER (BENJAMIN) AND GEORGE KMOCHJournal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh; Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in that Unknown Region, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR 'Henry Goulburn Esq. from the editor C.I.G. Latrobe' on the front free endpaper, folding engraved map, contemporary tree calf, spine tooled in gilt (short tear, upper joint slightly weakened) [Sabin 38225], 8vo, Printed by W. M'Dowall, for the Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel Among the Heathen, 1814Footnotes:Fine association copy of a rare journal of exploration in Labrador, the last copy traced on Rare Book Hub sold in 1939, with an inscription offering the name of the book's previously unrecorded editor, C. Latrobe. The authors were Moravian missionaries who, in 1811, set out in the company of fifteen Inuit to explore northwards of the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, making new discoveries. 'However, when the Moravians attempted to negotiate with the British government [see provenance below] for a mission at Ungava Bay they were told they would be infringing on the privileges granted to the Hudson's Bay Company' (Howgego).Provenance: Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), presentation inscription from the editor, and bookplate. At the time of publication Goulburn held the position of under-secretary for war and colonies, and was 'principally responsible for colonial administration.. [playing a] key role as a negotiator at Ghent in July 1814 charged with negotiating the final arrangement of frontiers, fisheries, and maritime rights at the cessation of the Anglo-American War of 1812–14' (ODNB); by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Capitolium Art
Lot 67

Rare ceremonial container consisting of three sticks used for the production of lime, a foodstuff very dear to some Sepik River dwellers. Lime was obtained by burning pieces of whitefish and shells together with betel nut (or areca nut).

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Capitolium Art
Lot 32

This rare double-bladed sword had exclusively ceremonial use within Bantu ethnic groups. It was forged for high-ranking personalities.

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Capitolium Art
Lot 73

Rare taxidermy of deformed lamb suffering from a disease involving the growth of additional limbs. A total of eight legs are counted. These types of specimens were jealously guarded within Victorian Freak Shows.

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Capitolium Art
Lot 16

Rare sword complete with scabbard with refined blade in Damascus steel. Near the hilt is inscribed AG. 1440 indicating that the object belongs to the collection of Roland Grunewald De Mortillet, director of the Trocadero Museum in the early decades of the 20th century.77 cm 

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Lot 9

War shield, very rare, made of animal skin. From the Arussi tribe that lived in Ethiopia.75 cm 

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Capitolium Art
Lot 39

Rare short sword consisting of two rows of teeth attached to the central wooden part by human hair. Both the central part and the handle weave are made from coconut palm.

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Lot 56

Rare Libyan desert glass fragment mounted on ancient base. The controversial story that still challenges the scientific community describes this material as a ''foreign body from planet Earth.'' This would indicate that it is of meteoritic origin. A breastplate found in Tutankamun's tomb contains a scarab engraved in this desert glass. The story tells how pleased Pharaoh was to see the impact of a meteorite in Egypt, regarding it as a Gift from the Gods. As a result he had the meteorite and all the fragments in its wake recovered.

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Capitolium Art
Lot 23

Rare engraved and decorated Mangbetu ceremonial knife. On both sides of the blade we find curious references to the previous owners or place of ownership. On one side we read: 'CI MOGOMAS', on the other: 'BUNIE LE 29/11/57'. The fine handle is embellished with the classic leopard spots typical of the Congo. 20th century.

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Capitolium Art
Lot 59

Pedal drill of American invention. In 1790 in Greenwood, Washington dentists devised a drill consisting of a wheel moved by a foot pedal. This idea was taken up in the first half of the 1800s by many European dentists. Editor's note: The lot is accompanied by a rather rare book that features one of these drills inside. ''History of Dentistry,'' Ars Medica Antiqua Editrice, Milan.

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Bloomfield Auctions
Lot 415

RARE BUTTERFLY COMPASS & CARNELIAN & GOLD MOUNTED SEAL

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Lot 1010

MINTURNO, A.S. Poemata, ad Consalvum Pyretium. 45, (1) pp. - Bound with: Id. Poemata, ad (…) M. Antonium Columnam. 38, (1) pp. - And: Id. Epigrammata, et elegiae. 15 pp. - Venice, A. Valvassore, 1564. 3 in 1 vol. W. printer's mark on title-p. & last p. Cont. vellum. (Slight waterstaining in last vol., small wormholes in last free endpaper & lower paste-down). NOTE: All first editions, all rare. - EDIT16 49516, 39558, 49513.

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Lot 1012

(PLACENTIUS, J.L.). Pugna porcorum per P. Porcium, poëtam. Braunschweig, 1831. 22, (1) pp. W. engr. front. & engr. plate. Mod. brds. (A bit foxing). NOTE: A rare reprint of this word-play poem completely consisting of words starting with a 'p'. The work is written in a grotesque neo-latin, also incorpating words from vernacular languages (to get enough p-words?), often in bizarre combinations.

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Lot 1031

BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- DEN BIBEL. Tgeheele Oude ende Nieuvve Testame[n]t met grooter naersticheyt naden Latijnsche[n] text gecorrigeert. (…) Met schoone[n] Figueren ghedruckt ende naerstelijck weder oversien. Item oock een schoone zeer profitelijcke Tafel (…) niet ghedruct geweest. (Antwerp, W. Vorsterman, 1542). 3 parts in 1 vol. (14), 196; 166; 102 lvs. W. letterpress ti. to O and NT within border consisting of 4 woodcut illustr. (the one for the NT slightly deviant), 1 fold. woodcut map of the Holy Land (270 x 390 mm), a calendar printed in red & black on 3 pp., c. 250 woodcuts of uneven size in text, partly by Jan Swart, num. decorated woodcut initials and ornaments, and printer's device of two-headed eagle on verso of final page. Fol. Later vellum, spine raised in compartments & gilt dec., black ti. label. (Inner margin of some lvs. reinforced, rep. in places, fold. map. rep. on v°, a bit stained/thumbed throughout, tear in leaf e6 (OT), small hole in inner margin leaf C6 (NT), occasional stains/small defects, but a very good copy). NOTE: Rare, complete copy of the 5th edition of the Vorsterman Bible (first 1528), richly illustrated with an abundancy of fine woodcuts, including the map of the Holy Land after Lucas Cranach. The text follows the Liesvelt Bible, was read by protestants and catholics alike and became a large success. One of the rarest 16th c. bibles. - Den Hollander 73; Belgica Typ. 464 &5201; Darlow & Moule 3285; Poortman I, pp. 92-94; Poortman & Augusteijn, Kaarten in bijbels, pp. 63-65.

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Lot 1039

CALVIN, J. Harmonia, dat is, een tsamenstemminghe gemaect vvt de drie evangelisten, namelick, Mattheo, Marco ende Luca. Ouergheset vvtden Lat. by G. Gallinaceum. Hier by zijn geuoecht de handelingen der Apostelen van nieuws ouergesettet by I. Florianum. (Leiden, A. Verschout for:) Antw., J. Troyens, 1582. 2 in 1 vol. (14), 721, (1 blank); 349, (1) pp. W. woodcut printer's mark on ti. & sev. initials. Fol. Old cf. w. raised bands & richly dec. gilt back (Top of spine rep., new endpapers, last blank leaf lacks, underl./marginal stripes in red pencil, pencil annot. in upper margin, some marg. waterstains (at the end sl. moulded)). NOTE: First Dutch translation of the 'Harmony upon the three Evangelists' to which are added the Acts of the Apostles and Calvin's Commentary upon the Gospel of St. John (pp. 469-721 of the first part), the latter not announced on the title-page. This voluminous work was produced by the Leiden printer Andries Verschout, whose name is duly mentioned in the impressum at the end. Three different issues of this edition are known: One with the address of Verschout himself and two others with the Antwerp addresses of resp. Nicolaes Soolmans and Jasper Troyens. Except for these adresses, the issues are entirely identical and form part of one and the same edition. - Rare. Index Aurel. 130.194; Typ. Batava 929; Belg. Typ. 540.

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Lot 1054

BÓGAERT, A. De gedichten. Amst., W. Barents, 1723. (16), 626, (2) pp. W. engr. ti-vign., engr. portr. & 4 fold. engr. plates. 4°. Beautiful cf. w. raised bands, richly dec. gilt back & mottled edges. NOTE: Excellent copy of this rather rare work, seldomly found at the market. - Contains i.a.'Geuzevelt', 'Keurstoffe', 'Alexander de Groote', 'Lofdichten', 'Bruiloftdichten', 'Geboortedichten', Mengeldichten'. Scheepers I, 174; V.d. Steur, Cat. 25 dl. 1, p. 144 (incompl.).

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Lot 1055

BRANDT, G. Poëzy. Amst., W. Barents, 1725-27. 3 in 1 vol. (24), 76, (2), 92, (4); (16), 240, (4); (4), 372, (12) pp. W. engr. front., 3 engr. ti-vign., engr. portr. of the author, 1 engr. section ti. & 12 engr. portrs. in the text. 4°. Cont. cf. w. raised bands & richly dec. gilt back. (Name entries on ti.). NOTE: Good copy of this rare collected work. Not in the usual reference works.

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Lot 1057

CATS, J. Self-stryt, dat is crachtige beweginghe van vlees en gheest, poëtischer wijse verthoont in den persoon ende uytte gheleghentheyt van Joseph, ten tijde hy by Potiphars huys-vrouwe wiert versocht tot overspel. Middelb., H. v.d. Hellen, 1620. (32), 119 pp. W. woodcut ti-vign., engr. front. by F. Schillemans & 3 text-engrs. by P. Serwouters, F. de Jode etc. after A. v.d. Venne. 4°. Cont. vellum. (Upper paste down detached, inner margin ti-p. strengthened, faintly stained in places, a bit browned/foxed). NOTE: Rare first edition. - Mus. Cats. 72; Cats Cat. 144.

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Lot 1101

JUSTINIANUS -- CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS. (Ed. F. Duarenus & L. Russardus). Digestorum seu pandectarum (I-VII), Codices (VIII-XIX) (&) Index (XII). Antw., Ex Off. Chr. Plantini, 1567. 10 (of 12) in 7 vols. Uniformly bound in fine 18th c. full cf. w. raised bands, richly dec. gilt backs & red labels. (A few marg. wormholes, old owner's entries (partly scratched out), on ti-pp., some annot. in an old hand on free endpapers, a few tiny wormholes, margins a bit stained in places, sl. browned). NOTE: First Plantin edition of the Corpus Iuris Civilis with the complete Digests/Pandects and Codex. Volume five of the Digests (Books XXVIII-XXXVI) present (no title page) but from a different edition (by J. Pacius, Geneva, E. Vignon d'Arras, 1580, fol. 729-1076). - Extremely rare. Voet 1034 (I, II, III, IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX & XII); Adams J-516, 584, 585, 613.

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Lot 1105

ALIBERT, J.-L. Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tom. 1 (=all published). Paris, Caille & Ravier, 1817. (6), lxxxviii, 616 pp. W. 24 cold. engr. plates. Fol. Cont. hcf. w. raised bands, dec. gilt back. (Spine skilfully restored, a bit foxing in places). NOTE: Rare first edition of this ambitious and luxurious publication of which only the first volume appeared. With this work Alibert intended to describe the diseases of the human body classified by the name of the organ from which they originate. This first (& only) volume describes 10 families: Gastroses - Enteroses - Choloses - Uroses - Pneumonoses - Angioses - Leucoses - Adenoses - Ethmoplecoses - Blennoses. Alibert was chief physician at the Saint-Louis Hospital (1768-1837), first ordinary physician of King Charles X and founder of the French school of dermatology. - Cf. Waller 358 (3rd ed. 1838).

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Lot 1109

BARTHOLINUS, Th. De Cruce Christi Hypomnemata IV. I, De sedili medio. II. De vino myrrhato. III. De corona spinca. IV. De sudore sanguineo. Amst., A. Frisius, 1670. 290, (22) pp. W. engr. ti-vign. & 6 engrs. (4 full-p.). - Bound after: C.F. CURTIUS. De Clavis Domini Liber Cura secundae. Antw., A. Frisius, 1670. (36), 158, (20), (2 blank) pp. W. engr.front., engr.ti-vign., & 18 text-engrs. (all but 1 full-p.). - 2 in 1 vol. 12°. Fine cont. vellum. (Old owner's entry on free endpaper). NOTE: Very fine copy. Ad 1: Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was a Danish physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anatomist who greatly expanded our knowledge of the working anatomy of various glands, the biliary system, and the lymphatics. This rare work discusses the medical and physiologic aspects of the crucifixion of Christ. There are also essays on myrrh and wine and the transubstantiation of wine to blood. - Wellcome II p. 108; Osler 1944. Ad 2: Treatise on the nails of the Holy Cross and on the Lord's Passion. - Wellcome II p. 422; BCNI 8703.

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Lot 1120

CONCHOLOGY -- KNORR, G.W. Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest, of verzameling van allerley bekende hoorens en schulpen, die in haar eigen kleuren afgebeeld zyn. Amst., Erven F. Houttuyn, 1770-1775. 6 parts in 3 vols. (10), 44; (2), 45-82; (2), 83-118; (2), 34; (2), 35-62; (2), 63-117, (25 index) pp. W. tog. 190 engr. plates, all delicately cold. by hand. 4°. Fine cont. marbled cf. w. raised bands, richly dec. gilt backs, red labels, all sides w. gilt dec. floral borders, fine marbled edges and beautiful marbled endpapers. NOTE: Splendid set of this rare Dutch edition of Knorr's famous work on shells. Knorr (1705-61) was a German paleontologist, engraver and art dealer who, in his lifetime, put together a handsome collection of drawings based on the amateur cabinets and collections in Holland and Germany in the early 18th century. The beautifully coloured plates are by i.a. G.P. Trautner and A. Hoffer. - Nissen ZBI, 2236; Landwehr, Bks. w. cold. plts., 96.

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Lot 1125

EUCLIDES -- COETS, H. De ses eerste boeken der beginselen van Euclides gedemonstreert. 2e dr. Leyden, S. Luchtmans, 1715. (8), 388 pp. W. printer's mark on ti. & num. mathematical text-fig. Sm-8°. Cont. blind tooled vellum. (Paste-downs detached). NOTE: Rare. - Geerebaert 9a; De Rynck/Welkenhuysen 174.

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Lot 1129

GYNAECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS -- COUDRAY, A. M. LE BOURSIER DU. Abrégé de l'art des accouchements. Nouv. éd. Chalons-sur Marne, Bouchard, 1773. x, 185, (4) pp. W. front.-portr. & 26 handcold. engr. Sm-4°. Cont. red mor. w. gilt dec. spine w. green label, gilt dec. sides, gilt edges & marbled endpapers. (Spine faded, manuscript note on flyleaf, price on title-p. rubbed out, exlibris on paste-down, otherwise a very good, clean copy w. crisp colours). NOTE: Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (1712?- 1794) was an influential and pioneering midwife and educator in scientific midwifery, a rare woman of influence in a time when men where taking over the field. From 1760 to 1783 she travelled France at the request of Louis XV; during this time she directly educated around 4000 midwives in the provinces. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angélique_du_Coudray).

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Lot 1162

ARTIST'S MANUALS -- EELKEMA, E.J. Grondig onderrigt in de teeken- en schilderkunst, inzonderheid in miniatuur, ten nutte van jonge kunstoefenaren. Naar het Fransch van Mansion. Leeuwarden, L. Schierbeek, 1830. xii, 131, (1) pp. W. fold. lithogr. front., cold. by hand. Or. printed limp brd. (Sides loose(ning), brds. a bit soiled/stained). -- Id. Handleiding tot de kennis en beoefening der teeken- en schilderkunst. Gedeeltelijk gevolgd naar de 4e uitg. in het Fransch van L. Libert. Leeuwarden, L. Schierbeek, 1836. 10, 95, (3) pp. W. 4 plates. Or. printed limp brds. (Brds. stained/soiled & sl. dam.). -- (2). NOTE: Both rare schoolbooks on art, teaching beginners the basic rules of drawing and painting.

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Lot 1178

ECONOMICS -- BENTHAM, J. Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the terms of Pecuniary Bargains. In a series of letters to a friend. To which is added, a letter to Adam Smith, on the Discouragements opposed by the above Restraints to the Progress of Inventive Industry. Dublin, D. Williams (etc.), 1788. (6), 232 pp. Cont. cf. (Rebacked, some sm. dam. to bind., corners worn, name entry on ti., margins faintly waterstained in places, sl. browned). NOTE: Rare second edition (First Irish edition). - Goldsmith 13615; Kress B.1368.

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Lot 1182

EMBLEM BOOKS -- CATS, J. Spiegel vanden ouden ende nieuwen tijdt, bestaende uyt spreeck-woorden ende sin-spreucken. 's-Grav., I. Burchoorn, 1632. 3 in 1 vol. (18), 168; 104; 160, 56, 24, 16 pp. W. engr. ti. & 127 text-engrs. by A. Matham, (a.o.) after A. v.d. Venne. 4°. Cont. blind tooled vellum w. raised bands. (Bind. sl. warped, margins cut, outer margin faintly stained at the end, sl. browned). NOTE: Rare first edition. Fine take on proverbs, not only Dutch, but from all over Europe. - Landwehr, Emblem Bks., 146; Mus. Cats. 152.

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Lot 1191

GASTRONOMY -- CIERLIJCKE VOORSNYDINGE Aller Tafel Gerechten. Amst., H. Sweerts, 1670. 96 pp. W. engr. ti. and 31 (of 32) engr. 8°-obl. Cont. vellum. (Vellum a bit stained, first free endpaper loose, old owner's entry on ti., margins sl. foxed in places). NOTE: Rare manual for cutting game. Unfortunately (as often) lacking the double-page plate depicting knives and forks, all other plates present and in fine condition. - Landwehr 17-3; Witteveen & Cuperus 6510; Waller 1790.

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Lot 1198

MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- CLERK, J. Krijgskunde ter zee, of zee-tacticq, systematisch en historisch onderzocht. Uit het Engelsch vert. & met een aanhangsel d. J.W. de Winter. Amst., W. Holtrop, 1806. 4 parts in 2 vols. W. tog. 55 fold. plates. 4° (not equal in size). Cont. hcf. w. red labels. Not uniformly bound, libr. stamps on ti-pp., else a fine set). NOTE: First & only Dutch edition of an older standard work on naval tactics. The English edition appeared London, 1790-'98. - Extremely rare. Cat. NHSM p. 926.

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Lot 1202

MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- HULSIUS, L. Erste -, Siebende -, Neuntzehende -, Zwanzigste Schiffa(h)rt(h). (=Vols. 1, 7, 19, and 20). Frankfurt a/M, (etc.), 1624-29. 4 vols. of the series. W. tog. 4 (of 5) fold. maps, 11 extra full-p. engr. maps (not called for), and tog. 19 (of 33) engr. views. Sm-4°. Mod. hcf. w. marbled paper brds., new endpapers. (Large part of text vol. 7 fails which is also dam., all a bit browned). NOTE: All four volumes incomplete in some way, but with the rare world map in vol. 1 and the map of New England by Smith. - Church (Vol. 2): 260, 287, 311 and 312. - Sold w.a.f., not subject to return.

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Lot 1214

NICOLAI, J. Tractatus de siglis veterum omnibus elegantioris literaturæ amatoribus utilissimus, in quo continentur, quae ad interpretationem numismatum, inscriptionum, juris et fere omnium artium requiruntur, cujus subsidio facile literae explicari possunt. Leiden, A. de Swart, 1703. (22), 314 pp. 4°. Cont. vellum. (Lower edges of vellum a bit dam./worn, lower outer corner dampstained). NOTE: J. Nicolai (1653-1708) was professor of Classical Studies in Tübingen, but founded also a reputation as oriental and Hebrew scholar by his notes on the Jewish antiquarian works of Bertram, Sigonius and Cunaeus, and his publication of Abudacnus' Historia Jacobitarum. In this work he describes seals, secret signs, abbreviations in jurisdiction, medical science, arts and crafts, as well as musical notes and magical signs. - Rare.

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Lot 1222

PHILOSOPHY -- (SPINOZA, B. de). Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes. Amst., J. Smith, 1678. (14), 531, (31), 30 pp. 12°. Cont. mottled cf. w. dec. gilt back & red label. (Spine ends dam., joints (partly) split (front side loosening), first 8 lvs. of preface lack). NOTE: First French edition of the Tractatus theologico-politicus, translated by G. de Saint-Glain. The French translation was published at the time with three different title-pages (each with a different title and a different address), as the first Latin edition was banned almost immediately after publication in 1670. This edition is also important because of the second part, which consists of Spinoza's Remarques Curieuses, et necessaires pour l'Intelligence de ce Livre. These annotations were made by Spinoza a few months before his death in 1677 and are here published for the first time. Rare. - Linde 12; Cat. Wolf Coll. 372. Cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 153.

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Lot 159

CANCIK, H. & J. RÜPKE, hrsg. Römische Reichsreligion und Provinzialreligion. Tübingen, (1997). Owrps. Rare. -- W. SPEYER. Frühes Christentum im antiken Strahlungsfeld. Tübingen, (1989). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (2).

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Lot 246

NAPOLEON -- DE VELDSLAG van het Schoon Verbond, op den 18n junij 1815. Uit officieele berigten en aanteekeningen van ooggetuigen. Amst., E. Maaskamp, 1815. (4), 63, (1), 11 pp. W. engr. title-p., 2 handcold. fold. engr. maps and 1 fold. engr. plate. Mod. hcl. w. owrps. pasted on. (Spine ends scuffed, pp. yellowed at the edges, but otherwise clean, maps delicate at the attachment but very good and the colouring is remarkably well-preserved, a very nice copy). - Rare.

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Lot 291

JAPAN -- HOFFMANN, J.J. & L. SERRURIER. Japansch-Nederlandsch woordenboek. Leyden, E.J. Brill, 1881-1892. 3 vols. xi, 188; (4), 76, (2 blank); vi, (104) pp. Wrps. (=vol.1) & or. printed wrps. (=vols. 2-3). (Wrps. vol. 3 sl. dam., sl. browned). NOTE: The very rare first and only edition. - All published. Cordier p. 502.

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