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Stichting A D & L, 1996. hardcover. First edition. Contains a complete, detailed, and well-illustrated bibliography of the works of Pieter van Foreest. Includes a chapter explaining the life of Petrus Forestus through a compilation of his poems and letters. Numerous scholars have contributed to this Dutch language bio-bibliography. Well-illustrated and annotated throughout. Includes a glossary. ... more information

Claremont, CA: Scripps College Press. 2006. Limited edition, one of 101 copies, all on Somerset Book paper, each signed and numbered by the 12 students and Professor Kitty Maryatt. Page size: 5 x 6.5 inches; 120pp. Bound: loose as issued in octavo gatherings, five to a wrapper, three sets with wrappers printed with author / artist names, all housed in larger wrapper printed with title; housed in Tyvek mounted to Somerset Book paper to form slipcase with unusual accordion fold at spine opening. Published for... more information

Most of the cataloges are from the 1960s, and all are illustrated in color & b/w. Various sizes and languages, mostly English & French, but also German, Dutch & Italian. All are in very good(+) to near fine condition. An interesting group which would be priced much higher if sold individually. A few examples: Ustensiles, Demeures, Escaliers de Dubuffet (Galerie Bucher), 1967. Jean Dubuffet Paintings 1961 (Robert Fraser Gallery), 1964. Landscaped Tables, Landscapes of Mind... (P. Matisse Gallery... more information

Yokohama, 1867. 16mo, pp. [79] including parallel title in Japanese which is used as the pastedown; illustrated title-p., Roman character throughout; original red wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover in English and Japanese; worn, but sound. Contained in a brown cloth Japanese case. Elementary textbook in English for native Japanese speakers. University of Hawaii only in OCLC. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies, F-4. ... more information

New York, 1856. hardcover. very good. A History. 3 vols. Thick large 8vo, blind stamped cloth, slipcase. New York, 1856. First Edition. A work of wide acclaim, which was translated into four languages and ran through many editions, despite the author's lack of training in historical research. "It is a picturesque, dramatic narrative of a striking series of events, gathering around a group of clearly marked personalities, and is suffused with a warm glow of love of political and religious liberty... more information

Amsterdam Kornelis Vander Sys 1734 References: Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books, 497. 2 parts in 1 volume. 17 cm; [10], 300, [8], including engraved title page and 23 engraved plates in text ; 17, [1] pages including engraved title page and 7 engraved plates in text. Bound in contemporary speckled calf, worn at edtes and extremities. Gilding worn from spine. Yet free of foxing, clean, sound and entire. A good copy. The Dutch poet and engraver Jan Luyken perfected in his language the "Metaphysica... more information

[?Tokyo], 1871. 12mo, pp. [94]; 1 full-p. illustration, alphabets, syllabaries, tables of numbers and roman numerals, and a brief vocabulary; original yellow wrappers folded and sewn in the Oriental manner, printed paper label on upper cover; some soiling but very good. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies, B-16. Not found in OCLC. ... more information

Lipsiae, 1692. Folio, 12 p.l., 2934 columns (thus paged), [92] leaves; engraved pictorial title-p., vignette title-p. printed in red and black; text in double column; woodcut head-pieces and initials; full contemporary Dutch vellum, blindstamped panel and arabesques on both covers, spine in 7 compartments, manuscript lettering in 1; front joint cracked, vellum soiled; good and sound. Basil Faber (1520–1576), Lutheran schoolmaster and theologian, was born at Zary in 1520. In 1538 he entered the Univers... more information

hardcover. 2 vols., 12mo, 3/4 morocco, gilt- stamped raised bands. Andover: John King, 1840. Allibone p. 1026: "The author's attempt is to explain everything from the Dutch, which he believes was the same language as the Anglo- Saxon. ... more information

Osaka, 1869. First edition, oblong 12mo approx 3º x 7" (8 x 18 cm), [118] pages printed and sewn in the Japanese manner, front pastedown with a woodblock illustration on blue paper of 6 young students seated around a teacher, occasional neat annotations in red ink; old paper wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover, covers with old manuscript annotations; a good copy, or better. Japanese version of Webster's Elementery Spelling Book, adapted and translated by Eisuke Shinakawa. O... more information

Yedo [i.e. Tokyo], [1866]. Slim 12mo, pp. [4], 76; orig. blue cloth-backed drab wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; spine worn and partially perished, some chipping to the cover label (minute loss to border), occasional spots and stains; good copy. Text consists entirely of an English-Japanese vocabulary divided into 5 sections based on subjects. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue of Dutch and English Studies, C-11; Harvard and the National Diet Library only in OCLC. ... more information

Tokyo, 1871. 12mo, pp. [58] including first and last leaf used as pastedowns, as issued; orig. blue wrappers printed and sewn in the Japanese manner, printed paper label on upper cover; some wear, dampstain entering text at bottom margins, but generally good or better, and preserving the original printed wrap-around sleeve. Spelling book in English, with a Japanese translation by YÙyÝ Shisui. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue of Dutch and English Studies, B-5. NYPL only in OCLC... more information

Coloniæ Agrippinæ [but Amsterdam] Apud Cornelium ab Edmond [i.e. G. J. Blaeu], 1634. 12mo. 4 7/16 x 2 inches), contemporary burgundy morocco with a series of triple gilt fillet borders forming an inner panel with a coat of arms in the center; spine with four raised bands, gilt tooling and titling. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a.e.gA characteristic 17th century Dutch book (with its false Cologne imprint) opens with an historiated engraved title-page featuring an elegantly dr... more information

London: Moll, Midwinter, and Thomas Bowles, 1712 [but c. 1720]. Engraved with period outline colour. Browning at edges, some small marginal tears. 24 1/8 x 39 3/4 inches. 24 7/8 x 40 7/8 inches. Herman Moll clearly undertook the making of this map of Germany with great enthusiasm. With its portrait of the Diet, it suggests Germany, Austria, Hungary and Eastern Europe as far as the Ottoman Empire as a vast confederation, essentially a parliamentary Holy Roman Empire. The complex array of dominions is lai... more information

Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph by Albert Newsam (signed on stone). Very good condition.14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. 20 14 x 14 3/4 inches. A fine image from McKenney and Hall's "Indian Tribes of North America": with Albert Newsam's signature in lithograph Tah-Chee, (d. 1848) also known as "Dutch," and "Captain William Dutch" was a revered Cherokee chief and talented hunter, who acquired a significant amount of land for his tribe along the Canadia... more information

Lipsiae, 1749. Gesner (1691-1761), a classical scholar, was professor of rhetoric at Gottingen and was subsequently its librarian. "This is an improved edition of [Robert Estienne's] Thesaurus, and is a very valuable publication. It is magnificently published … The works of Gesner and Facciolatus are so comprehensive, and executed with such indefatigable industry, that it may not perhaps be too much to assert, that if every other book on the subject had perished, these two alone might have su... more information

1768. first edition. Boswell’s "Highly Esteemed" Account of CorsicaBOSWELL, James. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica. Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768.First edition. Octavo (8 1/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 125 mm.). xxi, [1, blank], [1, table of contents], [1, blank], 382 pp. Bound without the final blank leaf (Aa8). La... more information

Tokyo, 1861. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [99] including the title-p. used as a pastedown; [44]; original blue wrappers folded and sewn in the Oriental manner, printed paper labels on upper covers; about fine throughout. With an unusual American provenance: each volume with the early ownership signature of "L. A. Waterman, U. S. N." Inside the cover of the first volume is tipped the note "1852-62. Lt. L. A. Waterman sailed from San Francisco to Honolulu & Calcutta on the Marathon." Lucius A... more information

1672. Weytsen, Quintyn (Quintijn) [1518-1565]. van Leeuwen, Simon [1625/6-1682], Notes. Wicq, Matthaeus de, Translator and Editor. Tractatus de Avariis: Id est, Communi Contributione Mercium Rerumque in Navi Repertarum ad Sarciendum Damnum Bonis Mercatorum Sive Nautarum Quorundam Ultro Illatum Eum in Finem ut Vita, Navis, ac Reliqua Bona Salva evadant. Compositus per Quintinum Weitsen, Quondam Regiae Majestatis in Curia Hollandiae Consiliarium. Denuo Perlustratus, Atque Allegatione Legum, Jureconsultorum, E... more information

London: Moll, Midwinter, T. Bowles, P. Overton, 1708 [but c. 1720]. Hand-coloured engraving. Excellent condition, except for slight browning, mild marginal foxing and small repair at the top of the center fold. 22 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches. 24 1/4 x 38 1/2 inches. Moll's map of Europe is a good example of his mature cartographic style: large scale, clear, bold, with incidental notes that seem to derive from an exuberant curiosity, quite unlike the more restrained and formal French and Dutch maps of the pr... more information