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Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'
First French edition, published by P.Gosse, J.Neaulme and B.Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden to forei...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...
Second Italian edition (variant B) and first Plantin edition (1st Silvius 1567) and the most sought-after edition of the famous description of the Low Countries, updated ...
Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581
Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Date: Nuremberg, 1681
![Quaestiones quodlibetales. Edited by Thomas Penketh. [bound with] Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.](/uploads/cache/34339-500x500.jpg)
Quaestiones quodlibetales. Edited by Thomas Penketh. [bound with] Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.
The second edition of the first work and third edition of the second, both printed in the same year by Koberger and frequently bound together. On extraordinarily Strong a...
Date: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481
Histoire des Plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence.
One of the most attractive early French local floras, with delightful engraved plates. The work describes the flora of the Provence, especially the plants growing near Ai...
Date: Aix, J. David, 1715
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
Het gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. . .
Third edition of this beautifully illustrated work on China. The first edition was published in 1665.Jan Nieuhof was a "Dutch traveler and adventurer" (1618-72)...
Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693
Deliciae Batavicae.
Charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and , 8 engraved armorial plates. Followed by 30 engraved views or scenes most with a Lati...
Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
ALBUM with 170 engravings of animals, landscapes, months, figures, ornamentations, etc. from the 17th century.
A collection of 170 engravings, for the greater part engraved by Jacob Honervogt but also by Mérian, Tempesta and others. - LANGLOIS (François). A series of 12 plate...
Date: Paris, ca. 1642
Cruydt-Boeck van Remberus Dodonaeus. . .
Scarce, the last edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck, one of the most influential and important botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries. With richly engraved frontisp...
Date: Leyden, 1612