[BONFILS, Félix].

Jerusalem.[Palestine, 1880s]. Oblong album (44.5 x 31.5 cm) With 71 large photographic albumen prints, mostly ca. 22 x 28 cm, signed and captioned in the negative (in French and English), mounted on both sides of the album's leaves. Includes a three-part folding panorama of Jerusalem from Mount Olivet, measuring 82 x 21 cm. Original auburn morocco with gold-stamped front board, gilt edges.

A rare and unusually massive Palestine souvenir album containing 71 photographs by the renowned studio of Félix Bonfils (1831-85), the French-born photographer who had come to the Levant with General d'Hautpoul in 1860 and remained active in the East. Based in Beirut, Bonfils produced thousands of photographs depicting Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Greece and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. In the early days of western tourism to the Middle East, his works soon became popular as souvenirs. The photographs were available both separately and as customized albums, but sets of this scope were uncommon,very few exceeding fifty images. The sumptuous binding, which the owner would have commissioned, underlines that this was a deluxe souvenir for a more than ordinarily wealthy traveller. It features landscapes and city views, famous sights such as Jaffa Gate (Bab el-Khalil), sites sacred to the three religions (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Church of the Flagellation, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Mosque of Omar, Wailing Wall), but also sights outside Jerusalem, including Hebron, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, the River Jordan, Jericho, Wadi el-Kelt, Khan-el-Ahmar, Bethany, Nazareth and Emmaus.The photographs occasionally show some insignificant loss of contrast, but are in good condition overall. The paperboard album leaves show a few flaws along the edges, including a chafe mark across the lower edge where the paper has buckled. Binding in good condition, with occasional scuffing (more obvious on the back board). A fine album of photographs of Palestine.

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BONFILS, G. LEKEGIAN & CO, Brothers ZANGAKI, Collection MERLIN and Carlo NAYA.

[Souvenir album with photographs of the Holy Land, Cairo, Athens and Venice].[Palestine, Cairo, Athens, Venice, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (41.5 x 31 cm) containing 62 albumen prints, mostly 23 x 28 cm, with 2 smaller prints of ca. 16 x 28 and 5 large prints of 35.5 x 27 cm. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French, and sometimes also in English, on the negative. Contemporary brown half morocco.

[59], [11 blank] pp.Interesting photo album, probably compiled as a souvenir of a journey through the Holy Land, Egypt, Athens and Venice in the 1890s. Complete souvenir albums were sold by photographer's studios and dealers alike. However, the fact that the current album has several blank pages at the end, lacks a binding title and contains photographs showing several different countries, suggests that it was compiled by an individual traveller. Among the photographs of Athens, is an image of the statue of Themis, excavated in 1890 in Rhamnous and subsequently transported to Athens. The inclusion of this photograph suggests the album was compiled in or soon after 1890.The largest part of the album contains photographs of Egypt and Jerusalem. After a view with numerous watermelons at the market of Jaffa, it shows views of Ramlah, Bethany (al-Azariya), Khan al-Ahmar ("scene of the ‘good Samaritan’ episode") and the convent Mar Saba. Before the views of Bethlehem on Christmas day, are two photographs showing local inhabitants: a single rider with his horse before the river Jordan and a Bedouin camp near Jericho. All the major sites of Jerusalem are present, including the Mount of Olives, Wailing Wall, Solomon's Stables and the Jaffa Gate with more watermelons. A misplaced image of the coppersmiths of Cairo appears before images of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The images of Egypt mostly show the river Nile and the Pyramids, but also a busy market in the garden of Gezireh, the interior of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali and a mummy. Typical images of Athens and Venice follow, with the final image showing a gentleman and two ladies feeding the pigeons on the Piazza San Marco.With the captions of several of the photographs transcribed in pencil or ink. Binding worn at the extremities. Paperboard album leaves with a few spots and several tears, most of the header corners damaged and several repaired. Photographs in excellent condition, a few with some spots and light damage at the sides.

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BONHOMO, Gabriele.

Automatum inaequale sive horologium antiquum automatis animatum. Opusculum sanè perutile, ac pro rei novitate jucundum, in quo multiplex datur. Hoc nondùm excogitatum automatum condendi methodus. ..Palermo, Francisco Valenze, 1747. 4to. With numerous woodcut headpieces and tailpieces and decorated initials, some tables in the text and 15 numbered, folding engraved plates showing timepieces and clockwork mechanisms. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

[8], 122 pp.Important treatise on timepieces, describing a clockwork mechanism that indicates the solar hours of variable length. Riccardi calls Gabriele Bonhomo (1694-1760) one of the best mathematicians of the 18th century. In the present publication he includes an appendix with two interesting mathematical treatises and some astronomical tables. Bonhomo published all his works in Palermo, Sicilia.Good copy. Binding skilfully restored.l Riccardi I 155; not in Honeyman.

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BONNET, Charles.

La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l' état passé et sur l' état futur des êtres vivans. Ouvrage destiné à servir de supplement aux derniers écrits de l'auteur ...Genève, Claude Philibert and Barthelemi Chirol, 1770. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.

XXVI, [2], 431, [1 blank]; [2], II, 448 pp.Third edition of an important work in theoretical biology. "Yet Bonnet was less doctrinaire than his colleagues; he supported, for example, a very elastic thesis of the germ cell, which according to him, was not only "an organized body reduced in size ... " but "every kind of original preformation out of which may result an organic whole, as of his immediate principle". This theory, which Bonnet christened "palingenenis," set forth the functional and structural notion of the cell, which was not stated formally until a hundred years later" (DSB).A very good copy, some spots throughout and a small tear in the title-page of volume one.l DSB II, pp. 286-287.

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BONTEKOE, Cornelis.

Fundamenta medica sive de alcali et acidi effectibus per modum fermentionis & effervescentiæ. Acedit ... Pharmocopaea ...Amsterdam, Cornelis Blankaart, 1688.With: (2) BLANKAART, Steven. Praxeos medicæ idea nova.Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1685.(3) VIGANI, Giovanni Francesco. Medulla chymiæ, variis experimentis aucta, multisq; figuris illustrata. ...“London”, [= northern Germany?], “Henry Faithorne & John Kersey” [printer and publisher unknown], 1685.3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a divisional title for the Pharmacopaea, woodcut tailpieces, 1 woodcut decorated initial and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Ad 2 with Ten Hoorn's woodcut JCTH cypher monogram on the title-page, the engraved arms of the dedicatee Abraham Johannes Kuffler, 6 engraved illustration plates showing 10 numbered figures, 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with 3 numbered engraved folding plates, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few fleurons. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, each board with a centrepiece and in each corner a fleur-de-lis, the whole in a frame of double fillets, red sprinkled edges.

[8], 228, [11], [1 blank]; [16], 170, [6]; [10], 70 pp.Three rare editions in one volume, two by Cartesian physicians on medicine and pharmacology, the third on practical chemistry, also with medical applications:Ad 1: First edition of a general introduction to medicine and pharmacology by the Dutch Cartesian physician Cornelis Bontekoe (1647-1685), who served from 1682 as physician and advisor to Friedrich Wilhelm I, Elector of Brandenburg in Berlin, and as professor at the university in Frankfurt an den Oder. It reflects the modern scientific method that had made Bontekoe a controversial figure, beginning with matters of chemistry before moving on to medicines, then discussing various ailments. Part 2, with its own divisional title, comprises a 58-page pharmacopoeia.Ad 2: First edition of a Latin adaptation of a Dutch handbook of practical medicine by the Dutch Cartesian physician, chemist, pharmacologist and entomologist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704), who worked in Amsterdam. It is based on his Dutch Nieuw lichtende praktyk der medicynen, first published in 1678, also by Ten Hoorn, which saw its third edition in 1685. It discusses a wide variety of ailments and their treatment, giving recipes for medicines. Blankaart was an early user of Van Leeuwenhoek’s new microscopes, and the blood vessels shown in one of the plates may have been based on microscopic views. The plates are new for this edition, the Dutch Praktyk having shown only equipment. Blankaart dedicated the book to Abraham Johannes Kuffler (ca. 1637-1694?), a follower of Spinoza.Ad 3: Rare third edition of a Latin treatise on practical chemistry by Giovanni Francesco Vigani (ca. 1650-1712) from Verona, who apparently had no university education but was to become professor of Chemistry at Cambridge in 1703. He published the first edition at Gdansk without illustrations while staying there and the expanded and illustrated second edition in London in 1683, when he was living in Cambridge. The imprint of the present third edition also gives London as the place of publication and names the same publishers as the 1683 edition. The authenticity of its imprint does not appear to have been previously questioned, but it was almost certainly printed in northern Germany and we suspect it was published there as well. With an early owner’s name at the head of the title-page struck through and another written below it by the medical writer Jacob(us) l’Hommart (1666/67-post 1702). All three works somewhat browned, but otherwise in good condition, ad 2 with a small marginal tear in 1 leaf and the foot of the margin of the outer 2 bifolia of its last quire cut 1 to 6 mm short. The binding good. Rare editions spreading what were then considered radical ideas concerning medicine.l Ad 1: STCN (6 copies); Wellcome II, p. 201; cf. Krivatsy 1525 (1691 German ed.); ad 2: Krivatsy 1325; STCN (2 copies); ad 3: ESTC R227433? (described as 4to and not noting the plates: 2 copies); Ferguson , Bib. chem. II, p. 510; Wing V373A4 (as ESTC).

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BONTEKOE van HOORN, Willem Ysbrantsz.

Gedenkwaardige beschryving, van de achtjarige en zeer avontuurlyke reise van Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe van Hoorn, gedaan na Oost-Indien, bevattende vele wonderlyke en gevaarlyke zaken, my op dezelve reise wedervaren. Ook is hier bygevoegt een verhaal van Dirk Albertz. Raven, kommandeur op 't schip Spitsbergen, gedestineert na Groenland.Amsterdam, Barend Koene, [ca. 1820]. 4to. With a half-page woodcut portrait of Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe with the city of Hoorn in the background, 7 (near) half-page woodcut illustrations in the text and a small (typographic) floral tailpiece on the last page. The text of the Bontekoe story is set in Gothic type in two columns, while the tale of Dirk Albertz. Raven is set in a single column in Roman type. Modern half vellum.

64 pp.Chapbook-edition of the famous voyage by the famous Dutch VOC skipper and merchant Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe (1587-1657), including the account of the voyage undertaken by another Dutch skipper and later commander in the whaling industry Dirk Albertsz. Raven (ca. 1589-after 1639) to Greenland. Bontekoe's voyage, which took him eight years, from 1618 to 1625, is realistically told in a vivid and imaginative style, and includes all sorts of curious details. It was first published in the middle of the 17th century, Waller calls it an "immortal work", and Buisman lists over 60 editions published between 1646 and 1930. Used as a school book for centuries, the story of Bontekoe still inspired 20th century authors of children's books, like the popular author and journalist Johan Fabricius (1899-1981), who published De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe in 1924, which is still read today.With the bookplate of the Buijnsters-Smets collection on the front pastedown, remnants of an owner's stamp on the title-page and some manuscript annotations in pencil in the margins of a few leaves. Browned and slightly stained throughout, edges are very slightly frayed. Otherwise in good condition.l Buisman 261; Buisman auction 1205; Cat. Ned. Hist. Scheepv. Mus. p. 178; Landwehr, VOC, 401; Muller 838; Tiele, Mémoire, 201; Verhoeven-Verkruijsse, Bontekoe Bibliogr., 1810-1830-01; Waller 307; not in Scheepers, Boekenoogen, etc.; cf. Bibelebontse Berg p. 305.

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BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz.

Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse. Begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en ghevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in weder-varen. Begonnen den 18. December 1618. en vol-eynd den 16. November 1625. Waer by gevoegd is het Journael van Dirck Albertsz Raven, als oock verscheyden gedenckwaerdige geschiedenissen, op veel plaetsen verbetert en een groot deel vermeerdert.Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a double-page engraved plate with 6 views of the ship at fire and in a storm, the islands St. Mary, Samatra and Princes Eyland, and an image of flying fishes. Modern marbled wrappers.

[4], 76 pp.One of the most compelling and entertaining travel accounts of Dutch literature, in one of the earliest and most important editions, the first to be published by Hartgers. Bontekoe details his eventful 8-year voyage to the East Indies. The vivid description of his ship accidently exploding in the Sunda Strait, killing almost a third of the crew, no doubt made a huge impression on his readers. Bontekoe returned in 1625, but his travelogue was not published until 1646. It was an immediate success and went through numerous editions. From the beginning Raven's short account of a voyage to Greenland, during which he too suffered shipwreck, was added to Bontekoe's voyage. Almost all editions of Bontekoe's narrative are rare. Jan Jansz. Deutel, who published the first edition in 1646, also published the first significantly revised edition in 1648, in part to better compete with the pirated edition with new and better illustrations by Salomon Saverij. Hartgers took the best of both, following Deutel’s revised text but Saverij’s illustrations, establishing one of the two principal branches in the lineage of editions.Trimmed close to the text, slightly shaving an occasional shoulder note, the two corners at the foot of the plate are torn off, one just touching the corner of the image, and a dark stain on 2 facing pages, but still generally in good condition. Important early edition of the vivid description of Bontekoe's voyage to the East Indies.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 381; Tiele, Bibl. 159; Verkruijsse & Verhoeven 1648-03.

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BONTEKONINGH, Joannes and Dirk (brokers).

... presenteeren (uyt der hand) te verkoopen, een extraordinary welbezeylt galjoot-schip, genaamt De Maria: is in 't jaar 1711 nieuw uytgehaalt,... en tegenwoordigh in de Nieuwe Zyds Waal, agter de Oude Stads Herbergh, is leggende. Amsterdam, Karel van Rijschooten II, [ca. 1750]. Half-sheet (ca. 32.5 x 21 cm). Tipped onto a piece of paperboard.

A rare and possibly unique poster with a detailed inventory of equipment, advertising a sale to be held in Amsterdam (ca. 1750) of the galleon (galjoot) De Maria and equipment such as the anchors, the complete ship's gear, galley contents and sea chests.A few minor tears, good copy.

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[BONTIUS, Reinier? and others].

Vorstelick geschenk, dat is, een medecynboeck, inhoudende vele geproefde ende goet gevonden medecijnstucken, ...Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1662. 8vo. With Van Ravesteyn’s woodcut device on the title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Contemporary(?) vellum, manuscript title on spine.

“206” [= 208], [8] pp.Fourth(?) edition of a very rare anonymous medical guide with 639 numbered entries, most of them discussing a particular ailment and recommending a medicine and/or other treatment. At the end is an alphabetical index of the ailments. The earliest edition known, Vorstelijck gheschenck, dat is: een medecyn-boeck, Amsterdam, Hendrick Barentsz., 1621, matches the present edition almost word for word, with the same 639 numbered entries. The 1621 edition says it was translated from the German into Dutch and improved for this second edition, but neither an earlier Dutch edition nor a German edition has been located. One must wonder if it was mistakenly associated with Carel Baten’s Dutch translation of Christoph Wirsung’s 1572 Ein newes artzney buech, which appeared as Medecyn boec, Dordrecht, 1589. Wirsung went through several Dutch editions before and after 1621, its structure and arrangement are completely different, with 9 parts containing about 126 chapters subdivided into hundreds of sections, and we find little relation between the texts of the two works. After 1621 the present work appeared as Vorstelijck gheschenck in 1628 and 1631 (the former also issued as an appendix to an undated edition of Wirsung: called the sixth, but not identical to the sixth edition of 1624). All editions are rare.The Dutch title can be translated as “Princely gift, or: A medicine book”. The title suggests that the printed book is the Prince of Orange’s gift to the people. The printer’s note to reader in 1621 says that “treffelijcke ende hoochgheleerde mannen” (respected professors) provided these recipes for the noble houses of the Princes of Nassau. With the corner of one leaf burnt off, affecting a few words of text, and ink marks or dirt on an occasional leaf, but otherwise in good condition, with only an occasional minor marginal defect. The binding is rather dirty, with a small chip at the head of the spine and the sewing somewhat loose. A rare and detailed practical medical handbook, especially interesting as a window into medical practices in the household of the Dutch Princes of Orange.l BMN I, p. 377; Krivatsy 12484; KVK & WorldCat (2 copies); Picarta (2 copies); STCN (2 copies); A.J.J. van de Velde, “Zuid- en Noord-Ned. Bibliographie over natuur- en geneeskunde tot 1800”, in: Verslagen ... Kon. Acad. v. Taal- en Letterkunde I (1937), pp. 255-300, at p. 281; Waller 595.

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BOODT, Anselm Boetius de.

Gemmarum et lapidum historia, qua non solum ortus, natura, vis & precium, sed etiam modus quo ex iis, olea, salia tincturae, essentiae, arcana & magisteria arte chymica confici possint, ostenditur.Hanau, Claude de Marne and heirs of Johann Aubry (printed by the heirs of Andreas Wechel), 1609. 4to. With Wechel's elaborate woodcut device on the title-page and the otherwise blank final page, 34 woodcut illustrations in the text (some with multiple figures), and 2 folding letterpress hierarchical tables. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

8, [8], “288” [= 284], [16] pp. plus 2 folding ll.Rare first edition, in the original Latin, complete with the folding hierarchical tables (often lacking), of a comprehensive account of precious stones and their origin, cutting and tooling, use and properties, along with other stones and crystals, as well as things we would not now call stones, including coral, fossils and shells. "By far the most thorough and complete up to date, easily surpasses [all earlier works] in quantity and quality of information; ... further distinguished by its intimate knowledge of the art of the lapidary ... an impressive work by any standard" (Sinkankas). It is the first attempt to systematically describe minerals, "in many respects the most important lapidary of the seventeenth century and exerted a widespread influence" (Adams). The illustrations show equipment, the stones themselves (including several fossil teeth), and a few diagrams. Boodt was physician to the emperor Rudolph II in Prague and also acted as his advisor in all matters relating to gems and precious stones. With an early owner's name(?)stamped below the end of the text: "Cernaza". Browned throughout (as usual) and with worm holes (primarily in the title-page and the margins of the first four and last four leaves), the title page also with further damage, repaired by backing the title-page with modern wove paper, a tear repaired in one other leaf and in one folding table, and an occasional stain. These defects cause no loss of text or illustrations and the book has generous margins. The boards and endleaves show additional worm holes (fairly extensive at the front) and the binding is somewhat soiled, but it remains structurally sound. Rare first edition of a landmark lapidary.l Adams, Birth and development of the geological sciences, pp. 162-163; Bibl. Partington II, pp. 101-102; Riviniana 7289; Sinkankas 778; Thorndike VI, pp. 318-324; USTC 2106041 (7 copies); VD17 23:292164Z (7 copies); Ward & Carozzi 251 (lacking folding tables); for Boodt: DSB II, p. 295.

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[BOOK OF HOURS - DUTCH].

[15th-century manuscript book of hours, written in Middle Dutch]. [Incipit 1r:] Here du saltste op doen mine lippen en[de] mijn mo[n]t sal voert-kundige[n] dijn lof.[Southern Netherlands, 15th century]. Small 4to (binding 15.5 x 12 cm; leaves ca. 14.5 x 11.5 cm). Manuscript in Middle-Dutch, written in one column (18 or 19 lines to a page) in a very neat gothic textura script, by one or maybe two hands. The vellum leaves are (lightly) ruled in red ink, the main body of the text is written in black ink. Leaf 1r shows a large 9-line painted initial (blue and white on a golden field) and elaborate green vines and blue, gold, and pink leaves in the margins, all tekst on 1r is written within a blue and gold frame. With 37 3- or 4-line painted initials (gold on a blue or pink field) with the same green, blue, gold, and pink vine-and-leaves decorations in the left margins of the leaves and 7 3-, 4-, or 5-line penwork initials (green, blue, and red) with simple red and green penwork decorations in the left margin of the leaves. Further with numerous 1- and 2-line red and blue initials throughout and occasional 6-line red or blue initials in the left margin of the leaves. 17th- or 18th-century gold- and blind-tooled half mottled calf and sprinkled paper sides, red sprinkled edges.

[189] ll.Strikingly decorated and heigthened with gold 15th-century Dutch-language book of hours, from the collection of the noble Dutch-Belgian Van Aefferden family.In the first quarter of the 15th century, the production of books of hours exploded. The success of the Devotio moderna, a religious movement started by Geert Grote in the Netherlands in the 14th century, largely generated the high demand for these books. This movement encouraged laymen to adjust their daily rhythm of prayer to the regular prayer of the cleric. Although books of hours show many variations, some texts are often present: the Hours of the Virgin, the Hours of the Cross, the Hours of the Holy Spirit, the Office of the Dead, the Seven penitential psalms, a litany and often a calendar and other prayers. The present manuscript is very clearly part of the popularisation of this genre of religious works by the Devotio Moderna - movement. Large parts of the text in the present manuscript follow the translation attributed to Geert Grote (here matched to the text in the 1940 annotated print edition of Het getijdenboek van Geert Grote) and more importantly, the present manuscript contains the so-called "Hours (or Office) of Eternal Wisdom" which does not appear in Latin books of hours and mainly appears in the area where the Congregation of Windesheim and Devotio Moderna-followers were active.The work opens with a captivatingly beautiful decorated page, showing a large 9-line decorated blue intial on a field heightened in gold and abundant marginal decorations. Throughout the whole manuscript, beautifully decorated intials can be found, often also heightened in gold, together with delicate decorations consisting of green vines and blue, pink, and gold leaves in the margins. This style of manuscript decoration is quite typical in the 15th-century Low Countries (northwestern Europe), but the particular style of the margin decorations might point to a more southern place of production instead of somewhere in the Northern Netherlands. Lieftink, in his 1972 typescript assessment of the present manuscript (copy included), found the decorations to be in the "French style", which further supports the assumption that it was produced somewhere in the Dutch-speaking Southern Netherlands. Interestingly, on the recto of the last page a later scribe added a date: "Anno d[o]m[ini] 1499". We, together with Lieftink (1972), assume that the date must be 1499, even though it looks like it says "1299". The style of writing, decorating and the language of the text, and the appearance of the "Office of Eternal Wisdom", ascribed to Geert Grote (1340-1384) all point to a production date of sometime during the 15th century.The manuscript in its present form was highly likely part of a larger manuscript book of hours. At the end of the 17th-century or beginning of the 18th-century, the work reached its final form when being bound in the present leather and paper binding. While most key parts of any 15th-century book of hours can be found in the present manuscript, the texts doe not appear in their regular (or common) order and upon closer inspection it becomes clear that parts of the text are missing. Nevertheless, it remains a beautiful example of a 15th-century Dutch-language beautifully decorated book of hours.With 16th- or 17th-century(?) annotations (religious rhymes) in the margins of several leaves, probably written with metalpoint. The boards and spine are scuffed but otherwise the integrity of the binding remains very good. Internally somewhat dust-soiled, the last few leaves are somewhat browned. Occasionally the text is slightly faded, Lieftinck (1972) reckoned the vellum was not uniformly well-prepared for the writing, meaning the ink was not able to attach to the writing surface as well, the majority of the text remains clearly legible. Overall in good condition. A remarkable decorated and heightened with gold 15th-century manuscript book of hours.l Typescript assessment of the manuscript "Getijdenboek van Vicomte Charles van Aefferden te Spa" by G.I. Lieftinck (1972).

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[BOOK OF HOURS].

[Book of Hours - use of Rouen].Rouen, Normandy, France, ca. 1480. Small 4to (14.3 x 19.3 cm). Latin and French illuminated manuscript on vellum. Ruled in red ink for 14 lines per page (16 in the calendar). Gothic textura, major feasts in calendar in burnished gold, others alternately red or blue. Text pages illuminated with panel borders of flowers and plants on gold, and blue and gold stylised acanthus on a plain ground. Calendar has 24 small square miniatures set into panel borders; major text divisions marked by 12 large miniatures; 2 historiated initials; hundreds of smaller initials and line-fillers throughout. 18th-century French gold-tooled red calf over pasteboards, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

[160] ll.A Rouen Book of Hours of outstanding quality and in slightly larger than usual format, commissioned by a female patron who is portrayed in the last miniature awaiting the arrival of the Messiah.The style of illumination is typical of that practised in Rouen during the late 15th century. Characteristic features include the profuse use of gold highlights on draperies and hillsides, often cross-hatched; cross-hatching of grassy areas in landscapes; a palette predominantly based on pink, blue, brown and green, and the use of grey for the modelling of facial features, men having rather swarthy flesh, and women very pale skin; the rather peremptory manner of painting hands; the grey-blue acanthus on flat gold backgrounds for borders. Also the liturgical use points to Rouen as the place of production: the sparse calendar includes St Romanus (23 October) in gold, as well as St Evodius (8 October) and Mellonus (22 October), all three were bishops of Rouen; Romanus and Mellonus also appear in the Litany. Prayers are written for the use of a female supplicant, and a conventional portrait of the original owner appears in the final miniature.Contents: calendar, in French (f. 1r); Gospel extracts (f. 13r); prayers "Obsecro te" and "O intemerata", using feminine forms (ff. 20v); Hours of the Virgin (f. 31r), Lauds followed by suffrages to the Holy Spirit, Nicholas, and Katherine; Seven Penitential Psalms (f. 83r) followed by (f. 98r) a Litany of saints (Clement, Fabian, and Sebastian, at the bottom of f. 100r, are mistakenly repeated at the top of the verso); Hours of the Cross (f. 105) and of the Spirit (f. 109r); Office of the Dead (f. 113r); "Les quinze joies nostre dame" (f. 151r) and "Les sept requestes" of the Lord (f. 157r), both in French.Illumination: the calendar (ff. 1r-12v) has occupations of the months on rectos, and zodiac signs on versos. January: feasting; Aquarius. February: warming at a hearth; Pisces. March: pollarding; Aries. April: half-length man in a garden; Taurus. May: man and woman on horseback, hawking; Gemini: a naked man and woman embracing. June: scything; Cancer. July: reaping; Leo. August: threshing; Virgo. September: treading grapes; Libra. October: sowing seed; Scorpio. November: knocking acorns from trees to feed pigs; Sagittarius. December: killing a pig; Capricorn.The major texts are each introduced by a large miniature, including the individual Hours of the Virgin, except Vespers and Compline which have historiated initials:1. (f. 13r) The Four Evangelists, in a four-part miniature characteristic of Rouen.2. (f. 31r) The Annunciation, surrounded by a border composed of nine smaller compartments: three with angels, the other six with scenes from the life of the Virgin: Gabriel appearing to Joachim; Meeting at the Golden Gate; Nativity of the Virgin; Presentation of the Virgin; Virgin at the Loom; and Marriage of the Virgin to Joseph.3. (f. 44v) The Visitation.4. (f. 59r) The Nativity.5. (f. 65v) The Annunciation to the Shepherds.6. (f. 69v) The Adoration of the Magi.7. (f. 73r) The Presentation in the Temple; the infant has his arms outspread, visually prefiguring his Crucifixion.8. (f. 76v) The Flight into Egypt (historiated initial).9. (f. 78r) The Coronation of the Virgin (historiated initial).10. (f. 83r) King David in Penitence; the border with smaller miniatures depicting David and Goliath, and David Spying on Bathsheba.11. (f. 105r) The Crucifixion; the border with smaller miniatures depicting the Flagellation, and Christ carrying the Cross.12. (f. 109r) Pentecost.13. (f. 113r) A Funeral Service; the border with smaller miniatures depicting Death in the form of a cadaver killing a man, and a priest officiating at a burial.14. (f. 151r) The Virgin and Child enthroned, adored by an angel and a female patron.Provenance: 1) Purchased in 1949 from William H. Robinson, Pall Mall booksellers, per pencil note on verso of front flyleaf: "From Robinsons, 25/8/49", by 2) William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), British bookseller, with his burgundy morocco gilt bookplate to front pastedown. 3) By descent to his grandson William Richard Mervyn Christopher Foyle (1943-2022), aviator and bookseller.Front board somewhat stained. A few minor blemishes (e.g. slight pigment loss in the lower right corner of the miniature on f. 31r, and slight water-staining in the lower left corner), but generally in fine, clean condition throughout, with ample margins. An erased 17th-century(?) inscription in the lower margin of fol. 2r reads "Mon dieu qui voicy [?] est bon"; the same hand may have been responsible for lightly disguising the nudity that occurs in some marginal scenes, including Aquarius (leaf 1v), Gemini (leaf 5v) and Bathsheba (leaf 83r).

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[BOOK-SHAPED BOX - QUEEN ANNE].

[Gold and tortoise shell book-shaped box made for Queen Anne of Great Britain].[Portugal?], [ca. 1702?]. Ca. 15.5 x 12 x 5.5 cm. Early 18th-century, possibly Portuguese, tortoise shell box, with elaborate gold filigree rococo decorations: birds and foliage within a floral frame on the front and back "boards" with gold filigree decorated fastenings around the "fore edge", complete with: 2 catch plates, 2 anchor plates and 2 clasps. The "spine" is divided into 4 compartments, separated by gold filigree decorative horizontal strips, with a gold engraved plaque in the 2nd compartment reading in a banner "BY ME KINGS REIGNE" and below "ANNE [a crown] REGINA" and a filigree basket of flowers in the 1st, 3rd and 4th compartments. The edges are embossed and covered in fine gold foil. The inside of the box is covered in red velvet and the front "board" is, once the box is open, connected to the outer corners of the "fore edge" by fine gold chains.

A unique, exquisitely decorative, tortoise shell and gold book box, made for and given to Queen Anne of Great Britain. The book-shaped box was made especially for Queen Anne (1665-1714) early in her reign (ca. 1702), possibly in Portugal. She succeeded her brother-in-law King William III of Orange as sovereign of England Scotland and Ireland in 1702 and from 1707 until her death, she was known as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. A tipped in note (not present here) stated that Henrietta M.S. Stuart received this box as a gift from her husband William Stuart for their 31st wedding anniversary on 9 August 1852. Queen Anne was the last Stuart monarch and the present box apparently remained in the Stuart family until well into the 19th century.It later became part of the impressive book historical collection of Cornelius John Hauck (1893-1967), an American bibliophile. His collection was sold by Christie's in New York in 2008.From the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck. The inside of the box shows some signs of use: some parts of the velvet are slightly crushed and the lower chain has been detached from the "fore-edge" of the box, though still connected to the inside corner of the "front board". The tortoise shell box is exquisitely decorated and overall in very good condition.

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[BOOK OF HOURS].

Hore [= Horae beate Marie Virginis] secundum usum Romanum ad longum.(colophon: Paris, Thomas Kees), [ca. 1511, with an almanac for the years 1511-1530]. 8vo (18 x 12 cm). Printed on vellum in red and black throughout, with illustrations printed from (mostly metal?) relief blocks: 17 nearly full-page plus 1 repeat, 27 small plus 2 repeats in the text, many additional small in the decorated border pieces that surround nearly every page. Dark brown gold- and blind-tooled goatskin morocco (ca. 1870?), signed "HARDY-MENNIL" in the foot of the front turn-in.

[216] pp.Second known copy, apparently the only known copy printed on vellum, of a Paris book of hours in Latin, probably published in 1511 (the almanac and calendar for 20 years covers the years 1511 to 1530), the only known book of hours printed by Thomas Kees (or Caseus) from Wesel in the Rhine valley, recorded as a printer in Paris from 1507 to 1516. The illustrations are finely cut, many with criblée backgrounds, and many are thought to have been printed from metal relief blocks, rather than woodcuts. Most of the small illustrations in the text depict saints. The illustrations in the border strips include scenes from the Old and New Testament, dance of death scenes, apostles, saints, scenes from daily life, fantastic beasts and more. The large illustrations may have been cut for Antoine Vérard ca. 1503 to 1507. The work was rebound by Hardy-Mennil in Paris, ca. 1870. Little is known about Hardy himself. "Mennil" is not separately recorded. He used the name Hardy-Mennil by 1864 and was certainly a celebrated binder by 1868, when the books he bound were often gold-tooled by one of the most famous finishers of all time, Jean Michel (1821-1890).Possibly from the great library assembled by Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, chief advisor to Queen Anne, and his son Edward Harley (1689-1741), which descended to Edward's daughter Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), Duchess of Portland, many of whose printed books were sold in London 1816-1817.Trimmed close to the decorative borders at the head, shaving a border on 1 page and just touching a few others, with a tiny chip slightly affecting the corner of another border, but generally in very good condition, the binding fine.l Bohatta 932; French vernacular books 67388 (BN Paris copy only); KVK & WorldCat (BN Paris copy only); Moreau II, 115 (p. 83) (BN Paris copy only); Robins, Bibliotheca Harleiana: a catalogue of … the Harleian Library 18352 (vol. IV (1817), p. 781)? (not seen, possibly the present copy); USTC 183113 (BN Paris copy only); cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 295; not in Alston & Hill, Books printed on vellum in … the British Library; Van Praet, Cat. livres imprimés sur vélin … Bibl. Du Roi.

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BOOTHBY, Richard.

A breife discovery or description of the most famous island of Madagascar or St. Laurence in Asia neare unto East-India.London, Printed by E[dward]. G[riffin]. for John Hardesty, 1646. Small 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). Gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1850). Rebacked, with original backstrip laid down.

[12], 72, [1], [1 blank] pp.First separately published edition of Boothby's description of Madagascar and its opportunities for trade and colonization, detailing the trade with India, Persia (including Ormuz, captured in 1622 by a joint Anglo-Persian force) and other countries along the Arabian Sea and touching on a large variety of subjects including Saint Augustine's harbour, culture of the natives, opportunities for plantations, natural resources, pearl fishery and trading practices of the English, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch.The British merchant Richard Boothby had reinvested his capital in the East India Company around 1615, after which he sailed to India where he was jailed as a result of a dispute with company officials. Upon his release he returned to London by way of Madagascar, which inspired his enthusiasm so much that he wrote the present book advising the East India Company's rivals to take advantage of it as the ideal location for a European colony.With the bookplate Crosby Gaige (1882-1949). Several chapters are heavily annotated in English in an early hand. These give information about a voyage or voyages and would reward further study. With the gutter margin of the title-page and all margins of the last leaf restored but otherwise in good condition, with a small tear in the fore-edge margin of the title-page and a couple minor spots. Rebacked, but binding otherwise good.l BMC III, p. 943; Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et l'Arabe 3204 (note); ESTC R200937; cf. G. Campbell, David Griffiths and the missionary "History of Madagascar" (2012), p. 416.

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