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BINDING, Etc: a collection of 18th & 19th century, mainly leather bound books; plus 24 Armorial Bookplates (loosely inserted); Plus modern first editions, including: A SIGNED LIMITED edition of: W. H. DAVIES: A poet's Alphabet, Number 75 of 125 copies, signed by Davies; Etc. (qty.)

DEFOE, Daniel: 1- The Political History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts. Part I: Containing a State f the Devil's Circumstances and Various Turns of his affairs. Part II: Containing his More Private Conduct, Down to the Present Times. London, Printed for T. Warner, 1726, first edition. PP: Engraved Frontis, (viii), 408. Later full calf; rubbed. Few worm holes to top margins of pages 15-35; pencil marks to the margins of few pages; 2- [Abbe Olivier]; [Defoe, Daniel] supposed translator: Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signor Rozelli, At the Hague... Done into English, from the Second Edition of the French..., London: John Morphew 1709, first English edition. Six Engraved Plates. PP: (x), 325, (i) blank. Cont. full panelled calf and later spine with gilt lettering. Browning to the last 100 pages. (2)

Star Wars - Episode II Attack Of The Clones - unique autographed 'Collectors' Souvenir Edition' magazine. Autographed to the first page by: Director George Lucas, Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker), Warwick Davis (various roles) and Rick McCallum (Producer). Signed in black ink, undedicated. Supplied with the original photographs showing each person signing the magazine, and authenticated by ACOA #SB56778. Condition 8/10 - would benefit from framing.

A full set of 97 facsimile reprints of the first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey of England and Wales - pub. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon, in their original sleeves. 

FLEMING, IAN: A COLLECTION OF JAMES BOND NOVELSthe first edition facsimiles by Jonathan Cape, comprising 'Thunderball', 'Goldfinger', 'The Man with the Golden Gun', 'Dr. No', 'The Spy who Loved Me', 'From Russia, With Love' and 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', two still sealed within plastic wrap (7)

Buddhist caves/wall paintings, etc. a large quantity, including: Wall paintings of ancient shrines in Central Asia; Flying Devis of Dunhuang, Kharosthi Inscriptions Discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan. Transcribed and Edited by P. S. Noble, E. J. Rapson. Part III, Text of Inscriptions Discovered at the Niya and Lou-Lan Sites, 1913-14: With Complete Index Verborum. Original First Edition, 1929; etc. (qty.)Provenance: Arthur Probsthain bookshop, London.

ROWLING (J.K.) 'Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone' 1st paperback Edition, Second printing, numbered 10-2, Bloomsbury 1997 and inscribed by the author'To Jan (which was the name of my first boyfriend)' - some discolouration, corners bent, back coverwith creases and taped over (1)

Milne, A.A., Shephard E.H (Illustrator), The House at Pooh Corner, 1928 first edition, Methuen & Co, gilt-tooled pink cloth binding

Fleming, Ian, You Only Live Twice, 1964 first edition, London, Jonathan Cape, publisher's imitation black cloth letter in silver and gilt, clipped dust jacket, (priced 16s); with On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963 first edition, London, Jonathan Cape, brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine, clipped dust jacket, (priced 16s) (2)

Volume of Valour by Granville S Angell Freemason, Victoria Cross Winners first edition book, signed by the author

[Angling] Collection of books largely on salmon and fly-fishing to include Fishing for Salmon by Cyril Marson 1929 first edition, Floating The Line To A Salmon by Major Simpson (1947), The Running Of the Salmon by Taverner & Browne 1954, Salmon Fishing by Waddington 1947, Flying Salmon by Balfour-Kinnear 1947, Salmon & Trout Fishing (Lonsdale Library), Advanced Salmon Fishing by Righyni (signed), The Great Salmon Beats, Salmon by Arthur Oglesby, Trout Salmon & Sea Trout Fishing, Rods On Fast Rivers 1937, Life in Lakes & Rivers (The New Naturalist) 1951, Classic Salmon Flies by Frodin, Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley, Still Water Fly Fishing by Ivens 1952, The Complete Fly Fisher 1963, Casting by Terry Thomas, Science of Spinning for Salmon & Trout 1946, Fishing With Float & Fly by William Child 1966, Fly Tying by Major Sir Gerald Burrard, Modern Salmon & Sea Trout Fishing by Major Dawson, Bass Fishing, Profiles in Saltwater Angling, Rod & Line by Arthur Ransome, Spinning Up To Date etc (82)

First Edition, Signed Editions & Limited Edition - A UK first edition of Stephen King's "Cujo" Limited edition: "John Boyne - The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas" which states 19 of 1000 near the signature. "Stella Muller-Madej - A girl From Schindlers List" and "Ai Weiwei - 1000 Years Of Joys And sorrows, A Memoir". Also included is a further Stephen King Hardback, "Gandhi Autobiography" and "Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey" (This does not constitute a guarantee) [L]

An assortment of figurines, primarily Coalport, to include, 1997's On Court, The First Serve, limited edition 13/500, and Pretty Jessica, limited edition 497/1000. (1 box)

Collection of Eight Thomas The Tank Engine Publications with original covers to include:Three first editions, Main Line Engines, Enterprising Engines and Small Railway Engine also to include five second edition publications all with original dust covers. Please see images.

Alfred Wainwright book - Wainwright in Lakeland, signed first edition No. 250 with dust wrapper and folded map in rear sleeve.

Alfred Wainwright book - Kendal in The 19th Century first edition with dust wrapper

51 Boxed EFE Exclusive First Editions diecast model buses to include De-Regulation, Anniversary Model and Limited Edition examples, diecast ex, boxes vg overall with some showing signs of wear

10 Boxed Playmates Star Trek Collectors Series figures featuring Movie Edition Capain Jean-Luc Picard, Elim Garak, Federation Edition Captain Christopher Pike, First Contact Zafram Cochrane, Bajor Edition Major Kira Nerys, etc, boxes showing some wear and dusting from previous display

57 Boxed / cased diecast models buses to include 34 x Corgi Original Omnibus models including Limited Edition and Metro Bus Pack examples and 23 x EFE Exclusive First Editions models featuring De-Regulation, War Time Buses, De Luxe Series, etc examples, all diecast ex, boxes / cases vg overall

Philately. Three albums of first day covers relating to The Olympics, three albums of mint commemoratives and first days covers for the 25th Anniversary of The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, two folders of locomotive philatelica, containing mint commemoratives from St Vincent, St Lucia, Tuvalu, etc., and limited edition New Zealand mint commemoratives, for The Gold Rush and the Scott Base Camp, with slip covers. (10)

Barker (Cicely Mary). Flower Fair books, circa 1930s, including first eight edition volumes of Flower Fairies of the Spring, of the Summer, and of the Autumn, Fairies of the Trees, of the Trees, A Flower Fairy Alphabet, other first edition volumes and later editions, including the Flower Fairy Picture Book, some with dust wrappers (a quantity)

Stuart (Robert), a Dictionary of Architecture, 3 vols, first edition, green half Morocco with marble boards, published by Jones & Company, London.

PETRONIUS, J. (=J. DAVID). Kettersche spinnecoppe waer in, deur de natuere der spinnecoppe, claerlijck bewesen wort, hoe deghelijck en orboorlijck een saecke dat een ketter is, en kettersche voere. 2e ed. Bruss., R. Velpius, 1598. (4), 398 (= 368), (16) pp. W. woodcut vignet on title repeated as headpiece (a cobweb) & engr. plate with Dutch quatrain bound after title. 12°. Later full vellum. (New endpapers, margins cut a bit shortly in places, sl. browned).NOTE: Second (= third) edition of a vehement anti-Calvinist treatise by the Flemish Jesuit Jan David (1543-1613), first published in Brussels 1595 (enl. 1596). This was the first work of a prolific Dutch and Latin writer, later famous for his religious emblem books. Printed in gothic type. - Rare. Machiels D50; Adams P860. Other editions in Belg. Typ. & Bibl. Belg.

WISSENBACH, J.J. In libros IV. priores codicis Dn. Justiniani repetitæ prælectionis comm. Cathedrariæ. Franeker, J. Arcer, 1660. (12), 887, (1) pp. W. engr. portr. Cont. vellum w. overl. sides. (Bound too tight, lower margin portr. cut too short, else a fine copy). -- Id. In liber septimus codicis Dn. Justiniani repetitae praelectionis commentationes cathedrariae. Franeker, 1665. - Bound with: Th. HÖPINGK. Consilia sive responsa juris posthuma (…). Frankfurt, 1654. (Pagination after 440 erroneously 451, etc.). - 2 in 1 vol. (2), 245; (8), 675, (10) pp. 4°. Cont. vellum w. overl. sides. (A bit browned in places, but a sound copy).NOTE: Ad 1: First edition. - Roberts, 339 (later edition); Dekkers, 195; Stintzing/Landsberg II, 259 (Anm. 2). Ad 2: Dekkers, 195:10 (not listing this edition). Ad 3: VD17 12:152905W.

COMPUTERS AND AI -- ZUSE, K. Der Computer mein Lebenswerk. (München, 1970). 221, (2) pp. Ocl. w. dust-j.NOTE: Konrad Zuse (1910-1995), German computer pioneer who built the world's first computers. His Z4 computer was the only computer on the European mainland for a long time after the war. - First edition and fine copy. W. ms. dedication and signed by the author.

BODEGRAVEN -- (WICQUEFORT, A. de). Advis fidelle aux veritables hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'Armee du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre. (The Hague, Steucker), 1673. (2), 202 pp. W. 8 fine double-p. engr. by R. de Hooghe. 4°. Later hcl. (Spine, sides & extremities chafed & worn, edges worn, but remarkably clean inside, 1 print w. paper flaw in lower margin).NOTE: First edition, valuable due to the impressive engravings by Romeyn de Hooghe, which show the horrors of the war, carried on by Louis XIV against the Netherlands (1671-79). Copy on large paper. - Landwehr, RdH, 30; Willems 1874.

MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- (EXQUEMELIN, A.O.). Historie der boecaniers, of vrybuyters van America. Amst., N. ten Hoorn, 1700. 3 parts. (8), 219; 136, (8) pp. (last leaf blank). W. engr. front. by C. Huijberts, 1 fold. map of South-America and 7 engr. plates (1 fold.), some signed J. Lamsvelt in the plate. - Bound with: G. TACHARD. Reis van Siam. Waar in veele tot noch toe onbekende Zaaken, so omtrent de gelegentheid van dit Land, als omtrent de Religie, Zeden, en andere dingen worden verhaald. Waar by komt het Verhaal van 't Ambassaadtschap des Ridders van Chaumont Aan 't selve Hof. Utr., J. Ribbius, 1687. 2 parts. (4), 196, (8); 77, (3) pp. - Tog. 5 parts in 1 vol. 4°. Cont. vellum. (A bit browned throughout, a bit loose, outer blank margin a bit stained in places/traces of use in places, some remarks and a kind of accolades (highlighting paragraphs) in pencil in outer margins in places, but altog. a sound copy).NOTE: Ad 1: Scarce second edition of a book which became immensely popular and that was almost immediately translated in various languages. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678. - Sabin 23469; Muller, 580. Ad 2: Tachard was sent in 1685 with five other Jesuits under Superior Jean de Fontaney, on a first French embassy to Siam led by Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy, and accompanied by Claude de Forbin. The objective of the Jesuits was to complete a scientific expedition to the Indies and China. Enticed by the Greek Constantine Phaulkon, he returned to France to suggest an alliance with the king of Siam Narai to Louis XIV. - Tiele 1076: De Backer/S.VII, 1803; Cordier, Bibl. Indosinica p. 947.

MILL, J.S. (& H. TAYLOR HARDY). The Subjection of Women. Lond., Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869. (2), 188 pp. Cont. hcf. extra w. raised bands & red letterpiece. (Top of spine chipped, corners scuffed, previous owner stamp of J. (& J.W) v. Woensel Kooy on free endpaper, blind stamp of the 'Edinburg Subscription Library' on title). -- Added: A. REYER. Auszug aus John Stuart Mill's 'Unterordnung der Frauen'. Graz, 1869. 71 pp. Or. printed wrps. (Wrps. a bit soiled). -- (2).NOTE: Ad 1: First edition of one of the great statements on the equality of the sexes. Mill had long been a women's rights advocate, having been influenced by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Hardy (1807-1858), a passionate advocate for equality. Harriet Taylor's influence on this work was substantial, and acknowledged by Mill: "All that is most striking and profound in what was written by me belongs to my wife, coming from the fund of thought that had been made common to us both by our innumerable conversations and discussions on a topic that filled so large a place in our minds" (Autobiography, 1873, p. 266).

TSCHUDI, R., hrsg. Das Asafnâma des Lutfî Pascha nach den Handschriften zu Wien, Dresden und Konstantinopel. Berl., Mayer & Müller, 1910. xxi, (1), 38; (2), 45, (1) pp. W. front.-portr. Or. printed stiff wrps. (Spine ends and edges a bit chipped, sm. annot. on series title).NOTE: Edition of the Turkish text (in Ottoman Arabic script) with the first German translation of the "Asafname", a mirror for ministers written by the Albanian-born Ottoman statesman Lütfi Pasa (1488-1564), grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent. Published as vol. 12 of the "Türkische Bibliothek" edited by Georg Jacob.

BIBLES -- BIBLIA LATINA -- BIBLIA. Habes in hoc libro (…). (Old Testament only). (Lyon, Antoine du Ry for Franciscus Turcus, Dominicus Bertus of Lucca and Jacobus de Giuntis), 1528. (30), 303 lvs. W. title printed in red and black within figurative woodcut border & num. woodcut initials. 4°. Later hcf. (Top of spine chipped, corners worn/dam., stained in places, sev. lvs. browned, without 'Apocrypha' and 'New Testament').NOTE: Present here: a-c8, d6; A-Z, AA-PP8 (P8=blank) (without: QQ8-YY4, a-l8, m10, n-v8, x6). First edition of Pagninus' translation of the OT. The Pagnini Bible was the first to divide the biblical text into numbered verses and one of the first revisions of the Latin Vulgate using the original languages. Sante Pagnini was an Italian monk and biblical scholar who eventually settled in Lyon, France. Like other scholars at this time, he became interested in studying the Bible in its original Greek and Hebrew sources. He completed his Latin translation in 1528, dividing his Bible into numbered verses for easier reference. His divisions, however, are different from the system used today, which was developed by Robert Estienne in 1551. Pagnini's translation of the Old Testament was widely known for its literal reading of the Hebrew and remained popular until the end of the 1500s. - Adams B1008; Darlow-Moule 6108; Heitzmann, Lat. Bibeldr., D361.

PLASTIC SURGERY -- ESSER, J.F.S. Biologische lappen. (…) bewerkt in het Nederlandsch door J.G. Remynse. Leiden, Brill, 1938. 242, 8 pp. W. many b&w plates. Fol. Privately bound in cloth. (Spine & other extremities worn, inside condition clean & unblemished).NOTE: First edition in Dutch, w. several forewords by the translators of the eds. in other languages: J.-L. Faure, F. Demmer, L. v. Blaskovics. - Deriving from the Esser estate.

STUMPF, J. Gemeiner loblicher Eydgenossenschafft Stetten, Landen und Völckeren Chronick wirdiger thaaten beschreybung. Zürich, Chr. Froschauer, 1548. 2 in 1 vol. W. 4 double-p. maps (of Europe (partly dam.), Germany, France and Switzerland), and num. woodcuts (portraits, battle scenes, plans & maps) in the text. Fol. Mod. hcf. (Loose in bind., lacking at least 40 lvs. throughout and a large portion of the 2nd part (all lvs. after folio 116), title-p. dam. and loose, a bit stained, especially towards end, some wormholes in places).NOTE: The woodcuts are best in the first edition, and this chronicle remained till Scheuchzer's day (early 18th century) the chief authority on its subject. - Sold w.a.f., sold primarily as a collection of woodcuts, not subject to return.

WELSER, G. Opera historica et philologica, sacra et profana (…). Nuremberg, W. Möritz & J.A. Endter Sons, 1682. (18), 68, (40), 908, (26), (1 blank leaf), (64) pp. W. engr. front., engr. portr., 51 text-engrs. (some double-p.; of which 14 maps) and 2 double-p./fold. engr. maps as well as 16 engr. head- & tailpieces and 1 engr. initial. Fol. Cont. vellum. (Part of vellum of lower spine gone, browned/foxed in places).NOTE: First complete edition. Lavishly printed and illustratively decorated collection. Comprises the famous Tabula Peutingeriana (copy of a Roman world map, made in the 12th century and first released by Welser in 1591), rendered in 12 nice copper maps. Also comprising writings about the history of Augsburg, the history of Bavaria and accounts of saints, among them Welser’s Rerum Boicarum libri quinque (pp. 1-176), which was first published in 1602, counting among the first critical works on the history of Bavaria. – The maps show Venezuela, Würtemberg-southern Bavaria, France, Spain and Italy. - "The American interest lies in the Vita of the author which includes an account of his family, the merchant house of Welser. Under authority from Charles V. they governed Venezuela for their own profit from 1528-1555" (Sabin). - With 26 pages with typographic figures printed in red and black. - This copy is a print variant (of two) with the portrait on verso (see VD 17). - VD 17, 12:130131B; Graesse V, 246 & VII 275; Sabin 102615.

MARTIN, H. Demokratie oder Diktatur? Berlin, Verlag für Politik & Wissenschaft, (1926). 296 pp. Sm-4°. Or. clothbacked brds.NOTE: Current text about anti-Semitism, fascism (Mussolini) and the rise of the NSDAP. Very rare (first) edition. Numbered (?) '251' and signed by the author in purple ink on the first free endpaper. We have not been able to find a biography of the author. No copy in NCC.

TRAVELLING -- TAITBOUT DE MARIGNY, J.V. Three Voyages in the Black Sea to the Coast of Circassia. Lond., 1837. W. 1 front. & 1 fold. map. Modern cl. w. gilt title on spine, inside clean & tightly bound.NOTE: First edition in English, translated from the French edition of 1836. - Atabey 1191.

NEURATH, O. Bildstatistik nach Wiener Methode in der Schule. Vienna/Lpz., Deutscher Vlg. für Jugend und Volk, (1933). 57, (3) pp. W. 24 isotype charts partly in colour after designs by G. Arntz, loosely inserted at the back. Or. clothbacked brds. (Spine ends sl. worn, small remnant of tape visible on both sides). -- Added: F. STADLER, hrsg. Arbeiterbildung in der Zwischenkriegszeit: Otto Neurath - Gerd Arntz. Wien, (usw.), Löcker Verlag, 1982. (16), 463 pp. Sm-4°. Or. pictorial brds. -- And 1 o. (3).NOTE: Rare first edition of the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics. The work addresses many issues still of great relevance today - globalization, war and economy, emigration. Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological and historical connections in pictorial form.

LEEUWEN, S. v., (ed.). De origine & progressu juris civilis Romani. Authores & fragmenta veterum jurisconsultorum, cum notis Arn. Vinnii. Leyden, A. Doude & C. Driehuysen, 1671. (16), 850, (10) pp. W. engr. ti. Cont. vellum w. overl. sides.NOTE: This work is a collection of annotated excerpts from the Corpus Juris Civilis and essays. The first essay, "De Origine Juris" is by Vinnius. Van Leeuwen compiled the excerpts and wrote two of the essays. Both authors provide annotations and cite additional annotations from other authors. - First edition. Dekker 99.

JAPAN -- IKEBANA -- CONDER, J. The flowers of Japan and the art of floral arrangement. Tokyo, 1891. xii, 136 pp. W. 54 plates (14 cold.) after Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Kawanabe Kiosui, (a.o.) & text-ills. Fol. Or. pictorial stiff wrps., cord binding, with silk spine. In custom made blue cloth clamshell box with fasteners. (Spine ends dam., wrps. a bit soiled/worn).NOTE: The first book in English on ikebana or Japanese flower-arranging. - First edition.

PSALMS -- GHYSEN, H. Den hoonig-raat des psalm-dichten, ofte Davids Psalmen met d'andere lof-sangen, op sang-maate gestelt door verscheide autheuren. Amst., G. Borstius, 1686. (592), 32, (2) pp. W. engr. front. & num. musical scores. Cont. vellum. (Small blank corner of front. torn off, lower outer corner faintly stained in places, sl. yellowed).NOTE: Rare first edition (=8°!). Containing at the end 'Catechismus'. - Scheurleer I, p. 86.

ZEELAND -- (REYGERSBERCH, J.). Dye Cronijcke van Zeelandt. (Antwerp, Widow of Henrick Peetersen, 1551). 204 unnumb. lvs. W. ti. within woodcut border, 1 fold. map, 1 portr. in the text, 4 large city arms (of Middelburg, Zierikzee, Veere & Kortgene), arms of Zeeland (repeated), large heraldic coat of arms, & several initials, all executed in woodcut. 4°. Cont. vellum. (Ties fail, last free endpaper lacks, blank corner last leaf torn off, sm. owner's entry on ti., some sl. foxing, a few lvs. w. waterstains in lower blank corner, but else a good copy).NOTE: Meertens, Letterk. leven in Zeeland, pp. 52-3: "Reygersberchs kroniek is nog geheel en al middeleeuws van opzet. (...) Het is het eerste geschiedwerk (over Zeeland) dat aan de niet-politieke geschiedenis wat meer plaats inruimt (...); naast gewone geschiedkundige feiten bevat het hoofdstukken over bodemveranderingen, bedijkingen, overstromingen, opkomst van steden, handel, visserij en andere onderwerpen op het gebied der economische en beschavingsgeschiedenis in 't algemeen." - Rare first edition. Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem 397a; Nijhoff/v. Hattum 262.

WEYL, H. Mind and nature. 1935. Ocl. w. label. First edition. -- J. SNEED. The logical structure of mathematical physics. (1971). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- W.I. KING. The elements of statistical method. 1924. Ocl. -- G. SALMON. A treatise on conic sections. 1917. Ocl. -- R. COURANT. Differential and integral calculus. 2nd ed. transl. by E.J. McShane. (1949). 2 vols. Ocl. -- And 3 o. (9).

CRONIKE van BRABANT, Vlaenderen, Hollant, Zeelant. Antw., J. van Doesborch, 1530. With large woodcut on title-p., 62 large & 84 small woodcuts in the text, 1 full-p. woodcut (geneal. tree), a large printer's device on the verso of the last leaf, and several woodcut vign. & initials. Printed in 2 cols. Sm-fol. Cont. richly blind tooled cf. over wooden brds. w. brass clasps and catches. (1 clasp lacks, spine ends a bit dam., title-p. repaired on v°, inner margin first & last lvs. strengthened/repaired, lack leaves 51-56 (genealogical tables, as often), margins a bit thumbed/soiled in places, a few marg. stains).NOTE: Abundantly illustrated chronicle divided into two parts: the first part describes the region, the walled towns, the abbeys, local saints, etc. The second part is devoted to the history of the duchy from the earliest times up to the present. The text was much extended in comparison to the edition of 1518, also published by Jan van Doesborch. The 1530 edition was extended with a supplement in which the historical events between 1518 and 1530 were incorporated. Seven new illustrations were also added, more or less free copies after Burgkmaier's woodcuts for the allegorical chivalric poem 'Teuerdank', written by Maximilian I (1459-1519). Copy with this line on title-page: "Dese boecken vintmen te cope tot Michiel van Hoochstraten inden rape". - Nijhoff-Kronenberg 655; De vijfhonderdste verjaring v.d. boekdrukkunst i.d. Nederlanden pp. 506-8; Machiels 300; H. v.d. Waal, Drie eeuwen vaderl. geschied-uitbeelding, 1 pp. 163-4; P.J.A. Franssen, 'De bruidstocht van Maximiliaan van Oostenrijk in de kroniek van Brabant uit 1530'. In: Literatuur 6, 1 (1989), pp. 2-9.

SMYRNA/IZMIR -- ICONOMOS, C. Etude sur Smyrne. Trad. du Grec p. B.F. Slaars et enrichie. Smyrne, 1868. viii, 152 pp. Hcl. w. or. front side laid down. (Top of spine worn, small stamp on ti., sl. foxed).NOTE: First French edition of an important study on Smyrna (Izmir) and a rare Smyrna imprint: a greatly enlarged translation of the much smaller Greek edition (48 pp.). This is the only 19th century specific study book for Smyrna, still a reference. This copy with a dedication by Slaars, and warranted by him. - Rare. Atabey 883; not in Blackmer.

LOBEL, M. de. Kruydtboeck oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten. Antw., C. Plantin, 1581. 2 parts in 1 vol. (2), 15, 994, (blank); 312, (blank), (68) pp. W. engr. ti., full-p. allegorical woodcut representing De Lobel's device 'Candore et spe', and c. 2100 (!) woodcut ills. in text (a selection (?) of which in cont./old colouring). Fol. Cont. blind tooled cf. over wooden brds. w. brass bosses, 1 (of 2) brass catches and central lozenge shaped brass ornament on both sides. (Back gone, 1 (of 2) clasp loose, upper front side loose, engr. ti. trimmed and laid down on upper endpaper, 2 preliminary lvs. loose/last leaf of 2nd part also loosening, some worming throughout (but not severe and foremost in part 1), obvious traces of use, but else a rather clean and reasonable copy).NOTE: The first Dutch edition of this magnificent herbal, which is in all literature invariably described as (very) rare. This is the revised and augmented version of De Lobel's 'Plantarum seu stirpium historia', Antwerp 1576. - Nissen, BBI, 1219; Pritzel, 5548; Stafleu/Cowan, 4908; Voet, 1579. - Awaiting a loving restoration, but sold w.a.f. not subject to return.

MEINONG, A. Über philosophische Wissenschaft und ihre Propädeutik. Wien, A. Hölder, 1885. viii, 182 pp. Old hcl. w. marbled paper sides. - First edition.

GREECE -- POUQUEVILLE, F.C.H.L. Istoria della Grecia dal 1740 al 1824. Napoli, 1837-40. 4 in 2 vols. W. fold. maps & portrs. Cont. hcf. -- Id. Storia della rigenerazione della Grecia dal 1740 al 1824. Trad. da. S. Ticozzi. Lugano, 1838. Cont. hcf. w. dec. gilt spine. (A bit foxed). -- Id. Histoire de la régénération de la Grèce, comprenant le précis des évènements depuis 1740 jusqu'en 1824. Tom. 1-3. Par., 1824. 3 (of 4) vols. W. 3 fold. maps & engr. portrs. Cont. hcf. (Sm. stamp on ti-pp.). First edition. -- (6).NOTE: Books from the library of Prof. Dr. A.H. de Groot may contain some annotations in pencil.

ANDREAE, J. In titulum de regulis iuris Commentarii (vulgò Novella) insignes (…). Lyon, Haer. I. Giunta, 1550. 2 in 1 vol. 255, (1); (18) lvs. W. woodcut printer's mark on both ti-pp. and at the end of first part. Cont. blind tooled cf. w. raised bands and small gilt dec. on spine and sides. (Joints partly split, top of spine chipped, old owner's entry on ti. ("Bazemont"), stamp on ti. almost erased (causing a small hole), some marg. waterstaines, a bit foxing/browning in places, sm. wormtrack in blank top margin of last ff.).NOTE: Very rare Lyon edition of a textbook of Canon law by Giovanni d'Andrea (1270-1348). Old armorial bookplate 'Royer des Granges, Avocat' on paste down. - Baudrier VI, 266. Not in Adams.

BREDEKAMP, H., (ed.). Galileo's O. Vol. I: Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius. A comparison of the proof copy (New York) with other paradigmatic copies. Vol. II: Paul Needham: Galileo Makes a Book. The first edition of Sidereus Nuncius, Venice 1610. Vol. III: A Galileo forgery. Unmasking the New York Siderius Nuncius. 2014. 3 vols. W. ill. 4°. Obrds. -- S. MACLANE & G. BIRKHOFF. Algebra. 3rd ed. (2010). Ocl. -- (4).

BIBLES -- BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- DEN BIBEL. Tgeheele Oude ende Nieuvve Testame[n]t met grooter naersticheyt nade[n] Latijnsche[n] text gecorrigeert. (…) Met schoonen Figueren ghedruckt ende naerstelijck weder oversien. Item oock een schoone zeer profitelicke Tafel (…) niet ghedruct gheweest. (Antwerp, W. Vorsterman, 1533-34). 3 parts in 1 vol. (14), 196; 168; 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 (rep. in the middle but a strip of 2 cm lacking), 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, completely rubricated in red. Fol. Old cf. w. raised bands & dec. gilt backs. (Sides renewed, bind. skilfully restored, new endpapers, lower blank margin ti-p. renewed, some scribbling on v° ti-p., some stains in places, margins a bit thumbed/soiled in places, a bit browned).NOTE: Rare, complete copy of the 3rd 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. - Nijhoff-Kronenberg 405; Le Long 579; Poortman I, pp. 92-94; Poortman & Augusteijn, Kaarten in bijbels, pp. 63-65.

BRAGA. Dichterlijke Mengelingen uitgegeven door Een Dichtlievend Gezelschap, onder de nooit gebruikte Zinspreuk: "Utile Dulci". Utr., v. Paddenburg, 1843-44. 2 vols in 1. iv, 96; iv, 92 pp. Cont. hcl. (Discrete bookplate on paste down: Bibliotheek Robidé van der Aa).NOTE: First edition of the entire run of the satirical periodical Braga. The first year was filled entirely by A.W. Winkler Prins and J.J.L Ten Kate; the second year (which seems to be of lesser, and less good-natured, quality) was mostly from the hands of H. Kretzer and J.G. de Hoop Scheffer. The magazine's one and only goal was to mock the literati of its time, especially the ones taking themselves too seriously. Only in 1863, when Winkler Prins edited a reprint, was it revealed who the authors of the satire where. (Cf.: D. de Lange. Nederlandse nonsens op rijm. Het Spectrum, Utrecht / Antwerpen, [1953]).

WEST INDIES -- CURAÇAO -- HERING, J.H. Beschryving van het eiland Curaçao, en de daar onder hoorende eilanden, Bonaire, Oroba en Klein Curaçao. Benevens een kort bericht, wegens het gesprongen schip Alphen. Amst., J. v. Selm, 1779. (6), 89 pp. W. engr. fold. map & engr. fold. plate. Hcl. extra.NOTE: First edition of a description of the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba, with a folding map of Curaçao incl. a plan of Fort Amsterdam, and a folding plate showing the explosion of the Dutch warship Alphen on 15 September 1778. - Muller, Cat. of books on America, 506; Sabin 31486 (see also 17983); Tiele 469 (misdated 1789).

LOON, G. v. Beschryving der aloude regeeringwyze van Holland. Leiden, P. v.d. Eyk, 1744-50. 5 in 3 vols. (32), 284, (30); 306, (38); (30, 348, (48); 400, (58); (20), 713, (99) pp. Cont. h. sheepkin, spines w. raised bands. (Spines a bit worn, bindings rubbed, some browning/foxing in the text).NOTE: First & only edition of a collection of treatises on early & medieval Dutch/Germanic history. - Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem 311f.

KOREA -- KEITH, E. (illustr.) & E.K. ROBERTSON SCOTT (text). Old Korea. Lond., Hutchinson & Co. (Publ.) Ltd., (1946). 72 pp. W. cold. front. & 39 (cold.) plates after watercolours by Elizabeth Keith. 4°. Or. green cl. with or. illustrated dust-j. (Jacket a bit spotted and chipped, 1 small tear, tiny stamp on inner flap, letters on spine faded, endpapers sl. foxed. F/NF).NOTE: First edition, first printing, presenting paintings and sketches made by Keith (1881-1956) during several visits to Korea before the Second World War. Text was written by her sister, Elspet Keith Robertson Scott (1875-1956). With the very rare dust-jacket.

PSALMS -- LUSCINIUS, O. (= O. Nachtigall). Allegoriae psalmorum Davidis prophetae. Augsburg, S. Ruf for S. Grimm, 1524. 3 in 1 vol. (46); (50), (8 lvs. in ms. on 10 lvs.), (16); (68) lvs. W. 2 ti. printed within woodcut border, sev. historiated initials and woodcut vignet of Hercules at the end. Cont. blind tooled vellum over wooden brds. w. raised bands, and brass clasps & catches. (1 clasp gone, ticket on spine, ti-p. loosening and upper inner corner torn off (sl. affecting woodcut border), lower blank margin B6 (in 2nd part) torn off, quire H (in second part) in manuscript in an old hand (red & brown ink) by Buxheim Carthusians?, sl. browned).NOTE: First edition of this rare psalter explanation by the versatile humanist, theologian, translator and musician Ottmar Nachtigall (1478-1537). - VD 16 N22. Not in Adams. Collation a-e8f6; A2-G8, H1-8 in manuscript on 10 lvs., I-K8; A-G8, H4, I8. - From the Charterhouse in Buxheim, w. their entry on title and small stamp on leaf 2.

SCHLIEMANN, H. Ilios. Stadt und Land der Trojaner. Forschungen und Entdeckungen in der Troas und bes. auf der Baustelle von Troja. Lpz., 1881. W. 6 fold. plans, 1 fold. map, 32 plates, 2 double-p. plates & num. text-ills. Lge-8°. Ohcf., spine w. gilt lettering. (Spine loose, upper joint very delicate, slight water damage at the beginning of the book, library tickets on first free end-p.). First edition. -- W. DÖRPFELD. Troja und Ilion. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen in den vorhistorischen und historischen Schichten von Ilion 1870-1894. Athens, 1902. 2 vols. W. 471 text-ill., 68 plates and 8 fold. maps. 4°. Ocl. (Spines & sides faded, minor foxing in a few places). -- (3).

STOKE, M. Hollandtsche Riim-Kroniik. Inhoudende de gheschiedenissen der Graven van Hollandt tot het Iaer M.CCC.V. Met een voorrede des (…) J. vander Does. Amst., Barendt Adriaensz., 1591. (12), 100, (3) pp. W. woodcut ti-vign. Fol. Mod. hcf. extra antique style w. red letterpiece. (Some marg. stains, sl. foxed).NOTE: First edition. Scheepers I, 13: "(...) zeer zeldzame uitgave. Door een brand in de drukkerij werden de meeste exemplaren dezer uitgave vernietigd". - Typographia Batava 2489.

JOYCE, J. Ulysses. Hamb. (e.a.)., Odyssey Press, (1939). 8°. Or. stiff wrps. w. or. tissue paper. In or. slipcase. (NB tissue paper is yellowed & slightly worn at the top but spines are bright & spotless, in very fine condition indeed). -- Id. Letters. Ed. by S. Gilbert & R. Ellmann. (1957-67). 3 vols. Ocl. (vol 1). w. dust-j. (vols 2&3). (Some wear to extremities, note in pen on first free endp.). -- Id. Finnegans Wake. (1976). Ohcl. w. dust-j. -- And 8 o. by or concerning J.J. (13).NOTE: Ad 1: 4th impression. "This edition, revised by S. Gilbert at the request of Joyce, is generally considered to be the most accurate and authoritative text of Ulysses." Slocum & Cahoon, 30.

(AURELIUS, C.). Die Cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en Vrieslandt beghinnende van Adams tiden (…) voertgaende tot de iare MCCCCC ende XVII. (Leyden, J. Severs, 18 aug. 1517). (2), 436, (4) lvs. W. title printed in red and black and with a large (partly handcold.) woodcut, 241 woodcuts of various (large) sizes. (Without the worldmap as usual, but besides that a complete copy even with the rare 4 index leaves at the end loosely added (margins of this 4 lvs. cut too short, affecting text)). - Bound with: Incomplete copy of: VANDEN ALDER VICTORIEUSTEN, ende onverwinlijcsten Prinche Karolus, Keyser van Romen, Coninck van Spaengien (…). Antw., W. Vorsterman, (1531). W. a large three-quarter portrait of Charles V on ti-p. & sev. woodcuts in the text. (11 lvs. lack). - 2 in 1 vol. Rubricated in red. Fol. Old blind tooled cf. over wooden brds. w. brass clasps and catches, brass bosses on every corner and in the centre. (Skilfully rebacked, 1 clasp missing, margins stained in places, especially lower margin).NOTE: Extremely rare first edition with fabulous woodcuts of the so-called "Divisiekroniek" written by Cornelius Aurelius de Gouda who lived & worked in the monastery Sint Hieronymusdal or Lopsen near Leiden. The work is based on several medieval chronicles, like the "Chronicon Hollandiae" by Joannes a Leydis, the "Cronica van Coellen" (1499), "Fasciculus temporum" by Veldenaer (1480), Richard de Bury's "Philobiblon" and the "Kroniek van Holland" by the Clerc uten Lagen Landen. The woodcuts i.a. by Lucas van Leyden, and copies after Hans Burgkmair. The work is one of the most famous publications of the Leyden printer Jan Severs who started printing ca. 1501. - Nijhoff-Kronenberg 613; Adams A-2253; Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem 20a; De Wind 112-13.

PLASTIC SURGERY -- ESSER, J.F.S. Biological- or Artery Flaps. Antw., De Vos & Van Kleef, (1932?). 150 pp. W. 420 figs. Fol. Privately bound in full cf. w. red letterpiece. (Some wear to extremities, slight yellowing to the margins).NOTE: First edition. - J.F.S. Esser, (1877-1946), Dutch surgeon, a pioneer of reconstructive / plastic surgery from WWI on. - Deriving from the Esser estate.

LANGUAGE -- COMIDAS de CARBOGNANO, C. Primi principi della gramatica turca ad uso dei missionari apostolici de Constantinopoli. Rome, Nella stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop. Fide, 1794. 12, 730 pp. 4°. Hcl. (Bind. a bit warped, half-ti. rep., small stamp on ti., some marg. stains).NOTE: First edition of the first Turkish grammar in Italian. Comidas de Carbognano was an Armenian minister of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies in Constantinople, who also wrote an important Descrizione Topografica di Constantinopoli, published in 1794. - Atabey 266; Blackmer 386.