On with the Show

Greystone Books Ltd. Paperback ISBN: 1870157222, Condition: New.

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AL-JAZULI, Muhammad ibn Sulaiman.

Dala'il al-khayrat. [= "Waymarks of benefits"].[Eastern Turkestan, now Xinjiang, China, early 17th century CE]. 4to (19 x 14 cm). Manuscript written in black ink on paper in Arabic script, with a red single- or double-line frame around each page, rubricated throughout, and two illustrations on pages 47 and 48) showing the "Ka'ba of Allah" (!) and the burial sites of the first three Rashidun Caliphs. The Arabic script is in the sini calligraphic style used in China, an archaic form mixing features of naskh and muhaqqaq. Contemporary(?) black, red and gold painted and lacquered leather over paper and cloth. The painted sides show floral designs in black and gold on a red background, in a black border with red wave designs. With remnants of leather on the brown cloth spine.

[1], 337 pp.An extremely rare early 17th-century Turkestani example of the famous Sunni prayerbook “Dala’il al-khayrat”: an Arabic manuscript written in what is today Xinjiang, China.The Dala’il al-khayrat (“Waymarks of benefits” or “Proofs of good deeds”), an extensive book of poems in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, was compiled by the Moroccan Sufi scholar Muhammad ibn Sulaiman al-Jazuli (807-870 AH / 1405-1465 CE) and was quickly received throughout the Islamic world, functioning as a kind of Muslim catechism. The present manuscript, written in so distant an Islamic community as that of Eastern Turkestan, a territory dominated throughout by Mongols or Chinese, where Muslims were commonly viewed as strangers, gives striking evidence of the range and scope of a tradition lasting for almost six centuries: the utopia of Islam as the religion of oneness, aiming to unite all the Muslim peoples in a single community reaching from Europe to the Far East.Occasional notes and/or corrections in the margins. With 4 leaves (pp. 12-19) that were not originally part of the manuscript, consisting of Arabic text (which is also rubricated) written on lilac-lined (printed) white paper with Chinese characters in the head margins of the pages. The numbering in Western Arabic numerals is most likely not contemporary, since the inserted pages are included in the consecutive page-numbering. With some annotations, some in Chinese characters on the front paste-down. The spine is worn, without affecting the integrity of the binding, the boards are somewhat worn but the painted designs remain clearly visible, edges somewhat frayed, the leaves are somewhat browned and stained, mainly finger staining in the bottom outer corners, showing the manuscript's popularity in extensive use. Otherwise the text is still very clearly legible and the whole is altogether well preserved.

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Anon.

A Catalogue of Agricultural Implements, and Machines for Farm Purposes, exhibited at the Society's Show, at Tiverton, on Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday, 6th, 7th, & 8th June 1855. [Bound With] A Catalogue of Agricultural Implements, and Machines for Farm Purposes, exhibited at the Society's Show, at Yeovil, on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 4th, 5th & 6th June, 1856. [Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Established 1777].

Plymouth: printed by Roger Lidstone, 1855/56 115[1] pp, 34 page advert section. 129[1] pp, 48 page advert section. Double page plan of each venues show yard. Purple cloth gilt, speckled leaf edges. 21 cm x 14 cm. Spine & board margins well faded, random markings to cloth with minor wear to corners, contents lightly age browned. Pp 4-8 missing from the Yeovil advert section.

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ARCH CHARLES, EENEZER LYN

On with the Show the Cardi at the Royal Welsh Show

Llandysul: Gwas Gomer, 2010. Paperback. ISBN: 1848512058. 196pp, bi lingaul text [Welsh and English] illustrated new softback; Square Octavo. New .

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[BIBLE - DUTCH].

Biblia, dat is de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.Including: De boecken genaemt apocryphe ...Leiden, widow and heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (44.5 x 28 cm). With 3 letterpress title-pages (the first in red and black, and each with the same Elzevier woodcut tree device with “non solus”), a complete series of 6 double-page engraved maps (the Nicolaes Visscher maps, 5 published ca. 1657 and including the world map added ca. 1663), without the engraved title-page (as usual). Further with numerous woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 8 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with grand silver fittings (with the hallmarks of an unknown silversmith) dated on the inside of one of the clasps "1665", gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins. Further with gilt, painted, and elaborately gauffered and decorated edges; the fore edge shows the coat-of-arms of Jeremias de Bont with some floral decorations, these floral decorations can also be found on the top and bottom edges. The boards show a very intricate gold-tooled symmetric design of ribbons with small geometric stamps and with ornamental curling stamps - better known as "petit fers" - within the different parts of the bigger pattern. The binding contains 4 ornamental corner pieces on each board and two catch plates (front board) and two hinge plates (back board) connected by two decorated massive silver clasps, engraved on the inside "Ieremias de Bont (top) and "1665" (bottom).

[22], "368" [= 370]; [13], "167" [= 168]; [2], 77 ll.The first Dutch "States Bible" to be printed in roman type, printed by the famous Leiden printers, publishers and booksellers Elzevier. The present copy in the splendid binding was made for a high official within the Dutch Republic, Jeremias de Bont. His family's coat-of-arms can be found on the gauffered, painted, and gilt fore edge and Jeremias' name is engraved in the inside of the top silver clasp (the bottom one shows a date "Anno 1665"). The "States Bible" is the first officially authorized translation of the Bible into Dutch (the “Statenvertaling”), commissioned during the Synod of Dordrecht (1618-1619). The States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands were asked to pay for it, hence its name. The translation was completed in 1635 and approved, authorized and published in 1637 in Leiden. For the present 1663 edition, the Elzeviers followed the text of the 1657 revised and corrected edition. In a sense, it could be seen as a revolutionary publication, even though it still is an authorised version of the Bible; the present copy contains the live signature of a Leiden city clerk - as usual - to indicate its authorization. The decision to set the main text in roman type rather than the conventional gothic textura, was unprecedented in such publications and not only contributed to the spread of roman type in Dutch-language printed matter generally (works in Latin were often set in roman more than a century earlier), but also contributed to the prolonged popularity of the authorised translation itself and of the present edition.The present copy is illustrated with 6 double-page maps published by Nicolaes Visscher; this series includes 5 maps of Jerusalem and the Holy Land published ca. 1657 and 1 world map published ca. 1663 (as usual) all in their first state.Jeremias de Bont (?-1687) was 17th-century politician in the Dutch Republic. He was a member of the "Vroedschap van Gorinchem" (in/since 1674, city council of Gorinchem, in the present-day province of South Holland), burgomaster in Gorinchem in 1679 and 1681-1683, and member of the Dutch "Raad van State" (Council of State) of Holland on behalf of the city of Gorinchem.We thank dr. J. Storm van Leeuwen for his in-depth analysis of the present binding. Through his findings we know that the present binding is contemporary to the work (1663) and judging by the style of the decorations possibly produced by a German binder in the Netherlands (Amsterdam or The Hague). In his research, Storm van Leeuwen came across 3 other bindings in the same style and all produced around the 1660s. These bindings cannot be ascribed to a hitherto known 17th-century Dutch bindery, thus - for ease of reference - Storm van Leeuwen named the bindery after the present binding: "De-Bont Binderij".With the signature of J. van der Werve, a city clerk, below the coat of arms of the city of Leiden on the verso of the first title-page, below the privileges. The binding shows slight signs of wear, browned and foxed throughout, the edges are slightly dust-soiled but still showing the highly detailed decorations. Without the engraved title-page (as usual). Otherwise in good condition, a splendidly bound copy for Jeremias de Bont of the famous Elzevier Dutch States Bible.l Bijbel tentoonstelling statenvertaling, Amsterdam 1937, 105; Darlow & Moule II, 3321; Delaveau & Hillard, Bibles imprimées, 1200; Le Long, Boekzaal der Nederduytsche Bybel, p. 821; STCN 840822693; Willems 884; for the maps: Poortman & Augusteijn, Kaarten in Bijbels, 27-pp. 179-185; for Jeremias de Bont and his positions within Gorinchem: C. van Zomeren, Beschryvinge der stadt van Gorinchem en landen van Arkel (Gorinchem, Teunis Horneer, 1755); for the De Bont family: De Nederlandsche Leeuw 40 (1992) cols, 121-122 "Bondt (de)?".

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[BINDING VOC - MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH - VERNET, Jacob].

[Instruction chrétienne, ou catechisme familier; avec quelques prières a l’usage des petits enfans].[The Netherlands?, ca. 1780?]. 4to (ca. 19 x 15 cm). Manuscript in French, written in black ink on paper, in a neat cursive script by one hand. With chapter divisions (numbered 39-75) and headings. The text is written upside down in relation to the binding. Most leaves show an identical watermark, depicting a lion rampant on a pedestal with “Vryheyt” in a crowned ring with “Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate” and the letters “CR” below, which is very close to Heawood 3149 (date: 1753). Late 18th-century gold-tooled brown mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports, bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date “Anno 1780”, all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners, spine gold-tooled in six compartments, red sprinkled edges.

[28] ll.Late 18th-century manuscript copy of a French children’s catechism by the Swiss theologian Jacob Vernet (1698-1789), bound in a remarkable late 18th-century binding, originally produced for the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery which was active between ca. 1760 and ca. 1784 (Storm van Leeuwen).It shows the large monogram of the Amsterdam Chamber of the VOC sandwiched between the date "Anno 1780" on both boards. These bindings were usually commissioned as gifts to persons important to the VOC, often containing an almanac for the relevant year but possibly also produced as blank notebooks. The present work comprises chapters 39-49 and 58-75 of Vernet's work, which form almost the second half of printed editions. The chapters included in the present work are complete and exactly follow the order of the printed text in the Geneva 1742 edition (pp. 75-140, checked using a digital copy) with a slightly different spelling and replacing some words. For unclear reasons, chapters 50-57 (dealing with the fourth through tenth commandment) have not been copied and several leaves between the end of chapter 49 and the beginning of chapter 58 have been left blank.Vernet’s religious text was first published in 1741 under the title Instruction chrétienne, ou catechisme familier; avec quelques prières a l’usage des petits enfans .... In 1742, a revised edition appeared with a slightly different title Instruction crhetienne [!] ou catechisme familier. Avec quelques passages de l’Ecriture Sainte & quelques prières à l’usage des petits enfans. Nouvelle edition. Revuë, corrigée & augmentée. Both works were printed in Geneva for the Swiss bookseller Emanuel Du Villard (Emmanuel Duvillard, 1693-1776) and subsequently reprinted several more times until 1769. With the book block showing the remnants of 12 removed leaves, probably already removed before the manuscript was finished. Both pastedowns partly detached, an old annotation (“Ao. 44305”) in black ink on the lower pastedown, some foxing. Otherwise in good condition.l For the binding: Landwehr/Van der Krogt, VOC, pp. XXVII-XXVIII; Storm van Leeuwen I, p. 175, p. 196 (VOC A-stamp) and pp. 612-616 (the bindery); for Vernet's work: Google Books digital copy of the 1742 ed. (title: Instruction crhetienne [ ! ou Catechisme familier; physical copy at the Biblioteca Universitaria di Torino); WorldCat 951908419 (1 copy, 1767 ed.); WorldCat 1040828976 (1 copy, 1769 ed. (no author noted)); for the watermark: Heawood 3149.

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Bolingbroke, Henry St. John Lord Viscount.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS Of the Late Right Honourable ... Published by David Mallet, Esq. London 1754. 5 volumes. Volumes 1 & 3 rebacked with original spine laid down, volumes 4 & 5 lightly cracked though firm hinges, some loss to heads of spines of volumes 2, 4 and 5 with 2 sl. chipped labels. ESTC No: N20935 ‘ Variants identified in vols. 1-2. Variant 1: vol. 1-last line on contents leaf reads -358, vol. 2-p. 2 ultimate line reads: at several periods, men may have gone from ido-, catchword: latry [as in our copy] Part (v.3) printed by William Bowyer; his records show 2000 copies printed; the client is named as Andrew Millar. Strahan printed v.4-5.’ [And] LETTERS ON THE STUDY AND USE OF HISTORY. Printed for A. Millar ... 1752. 2 vols. Volumes 1 rebacked with original spine laid down, sl. loss to head of spine of volume 2. ESTC T88772 [Lacking half title]. [And] LETTERS on the Spirit of Patriotism: On the Idea of a Patriot King: And on the State of Parties, As the Accession of King George the first. London: Printed for A. Millar ... 1749.: ESTC No: T38534. ‘With a half-title [lacking in our copy]. a: Part printed by William Bowyer; his records show 5000 copies printed.’ Upper joint cracked though firm. [And]. AN ANSWER To the latter Part of Lord Bolingbroke’s Letters on the Study of History. By the Late Lord Walpole of Woolterton. In a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord. 269pp. Title page device. ESTC No: T111684. ‘With a half-title [lacking in our copy]. Sl. loss to head and tail of spine.

, 9 vols. Some browning, inner gilt dentelles, marbled e.ps., contemporary calf boards with intricate gilt tooled border, edges of boards with gilt tooling, intricate gilt tooling with gilt lettered labels to spines.

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Catalogue: HISTORY: HISTORY

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BRADNA, FRED; SPENCE, HARTZELL (AS TOLD TO)

The Big Top: My 40 Years with the Greatest Show on Earth

NY, Simon and Schuster. 1952, First Printing. Cloth Spine, Paper Boards, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Hardcover, Gift inscription on ffep (not the author), light age toning down the gutters, else textblock is in great condition, clean and tight, b&w photographs; Yellow cloth spine with light bumping to head and foot, blue paper boards, scuffed and bumped corners; Unclipped, spine-sunned dust jacket, very edge worn, torn and scuffed; 332p. including index. Very Good/Good (in mylar).

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Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

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CALVIN, Jean.

Uutlegghinghe ... op alle de Sendbrieven Pauli des Apostels: ende oock op den Sendbrief tot den Hebreen. Met een schoon register.Emden, Gillis van der Erve and Willem Gailliart, 1566. Folio. With Van der Erve's woodcut device on title-page and several woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with 4 different rolls, engraved brass catchplates (remains of straps but clasps lost), later(?) brass decorated corner and centre pieces, each with a boss, rebacked. The rolls show (from outside to inside) decorative crests and foliage, 4 half-length portraits with mottos, and 4 nude putti, 1 with a saint's halo.

[6], "464" [= 462], [16] ll.Rare first edition of the first Dutch translation of Calvin's commentaries on the Epistles of Saint Paul and the Epistle to the Hebrews. By 1539 Calvin had planned to write commentaries on all the Pauline Epistles, and he began with the book of Romans (first published in 1540). In 1551 all parts were finished and published together with the Epistle to the Hebrews as In omnes D. Pauli epistolas, atque etia in epistola ad Hebraeos commentaria luculentissima. It was translated into Dutch by Johannes Dyrkinus (ca. 1530-before 1592) and Johannes Florianus (1522-1585) and contains a new preface by Calvin addressed to Simon Grynaeus as well as a dedication to Unico Manninga. "… although Calvin was read and certainly influential in the Netherlands from an early date, surprisingly few of his works were translated into Dutch before 1572" (Pettegree, p. 230). It was printed and published in Emden by Gillis van der Erve and Willem Gailliart. "Emden printing represented possibly the most important, certainly the community's most individual contribution to the shaping of Dutch Protestantism in this period" (Pettegree, p. 87).Some insignificant water stains; rebacked; clasps missing. Although there are some small holes and (especially on the back board) small gouges and cuts in the leather covering the boards, the tooling remains extremely crisp and clear. Good copy of Calvin's commentaries on the Epistles of Saint Paul.l Erichson, p. 31; Pettegree, Emden 161; STCN (7 copies); Typ. Batava 935; USTC 401254; cf. NNBW IV, cols. 547-550 & 604-605.

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CAMPOS, Joaquim Pinto de.

O Senhor D. Pedro II imperador do Brasil, biographia.Porto, typographia Pereira da Silva, 1871. 8vo. With a small portrait (5.5 x 9 cm) of the emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II, pasted on a separately inserted leaf before the title-page. The original orange publisher's printed paper wrappers show the title, author and imprint information set in a decorative frame on the front wrapper and a similar frame with an ornamental centre-piece on the back wrapper. Gold-tooled calf with the author, title, and year of publication lettered in gold on the front board. Bound with the original orange printed paper wrappers.

[1], [1 blank], VIII, 96, [1 blank], [1] pp.Joaquim Pinto de Campos was born in Brazil, in the province of Pernambuco, in 1819. He became active in provincial politics in 1845, shortly before the Praieira revolt in Pernambuco of 1848-1849. He actively helped maintain public order during this revolt and was rewarded for it by the government by being elected as a general and provincial deputy continuously from then on. He corresponded personally with the emperor in this role, so he could write his work partly from his own observations.In general, Dom Pedro II was well liked. His father and grandfather had helped Brazil win it's independence and he himself was seen as a good ruler. The country flourished while he was on the throne. Pinto de Campos also paints him in a positive light in his biography.With a bookseller's label on the front paste-down (Livraria Olisipo in Lisbon). The bindings shows very slight signs of wear around the spine and corners of the boards, the edges of the leaves are very slightly browned, slight foxing throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Innocencio IV, p. 145; cf. Stephen Basdeo, the Brazilian Revolt of 1848. Reynolds's News and Miscellany, May 2022 (read online via: https://reynolds-news.com/2022/05/22/prareira-brazilian-revolution-of-1848-stephen-basdeo/)

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DAM, Meyndert Dirksz. van.

D'erven Stichters comptoir almanach, op ’t schrikkel-jaar onses heeren Jesu Christi, 1788 ...Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1788]. 4to. With the title-page and 23 calendar pages printed in red and black, a half-page woodcut vignette (depicting Father Time pointing at an armillary sphere) by Hendrik Numan on the title-page and 12 half-page woodcut illustrations for the 12 months (each ca. 7 x 11 cm) by Hendrik Numan, nearly all signed in the block (including two dated "1779"). Contemporary gold-tooled brown mottled calf, bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date "Anno 1788", all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners.

[16] ll. interleaved with 24 blank (except for manuscript annotations) ll.Popular Dutch almanac for the year 1788 in a remarkable contemporary Dutch East India Company (VOC) binding. The work was bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery (Storm van Leeuwen) and shows the large monogram of the Amsterdam Chamber of the VOC sandwiched between the date "Anno 1788" on both boards. As noted by Storm van Leeuwen, in the 18th-century this VOC A stamp "... was apparently used on almanacs that were given as gifts to persons important to the VOC. Examples form the Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery ... are known, containing almanacs from 1777 and 1784." (p. 175). We are certain that the present binding is by this Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery, as it is practically identical to their 1777 VOC A binding (see Storm van Leeuwen I, p. 614, no. 200). Interestingly, this means that the present binding is the latest Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery now known; Storm van Leeuwen noted that the bindery was active between c. 1760 and c. 1784 but it clearly continued for a few years after.The present almanac was compiled by Meyndert Dirksz. van Dam (1730-1812), a Dutch mathematician and astronomer who calculated the tides and phases of the sun and moon for almanacs, who is mainly known for his contribution to more than 230 editions of almanacs since 1774. Van Dam did not only contribute to "comptoir" almanacs for the VOC and similar organisations, he was also directly linked to the VOC as an examiner (of helmsmen etc.) for the Hoorn Chamber of the VOC.This copy is interleaved with 24 blank leaves (2 leaves between the facing pages of each month) including 12 containing several 19th-century manuscript annotations in black or red ink (a few are crossed out in red ink). These inscriptions detail the birthdays and other personal information, presumably, of relatives and acquaintances of an unidentified owner. Thus, it was more a birthday calendar and notebook than an almanac for one specific year, meaning that the owner(s) could make use of the work in its remarkable binding for years to come. Most of the inscriptions seem to refer to dates of birthdays etc., but only a few include a clear mention of a year; one is "10 juni 1859" and the other is "23 januari - 30 augustus } 1891". This suggests that the 1788 almanac was most heavily used during the second half of the 19th century.With 19th-century annotations on the interleaved blank leaves and on the recto of the first free flyleaf ( "Verjaardagen etc."). The binding is somewhat rubbed and the hinges show signs of wear, without affecting the integrity of the binding. Internally only very slightly browned along the edges of the margins. Otherwise in very good condition.l Landwehr/Van der Krogt, VOC, pp. XXVII-XXVIII; STCN 292197853 (2 copies); Storm van Leeuwen I, pp. 174-176 (for the almanac) and p. 196 (VOC A stamp) and pp. 612-616 (the bindery).

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DAPPER, Olfert.

Naukeurige beschryving van Morea, eertijts Peloponnesus ...Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, firm Janssonius van Waesbergen, Dirk and Hendrik Boom, Joannes van Someren and Rembertus Goethals, 1688. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title-page, 2 folding maps, 9 double-page plates and maps, 6 single-page plates and 29 half-page engravings in the text. Further with a woodcut ornament on the typographical title-page (printed in red and black) and 4 woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled speckled brown calf, a red morocco title lable lettered in gold and a black morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. Both boards show a gold-tooled ornamental frame, with gold-tooled royal coat-of-arms of the United Kingdom beneath a gold-tooled banner lettered in gold “military depot” as a centre piece on the front board. Further with gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers.

[8], "168" [= 264]; [12], "164" [= 181], [6], [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of an important and richly illustrated work on the Peloponnese and the Adriatic Sea, with descriptions of Venice, the Dalmatian coast, and several of the major Greek Islands. The work is notable for its fine plates, after Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), Jacob van Meurs (ca. 1620-1679), Joan Blaeu (ca. 1598-1673) and others. It was probably published in response to the Morean War (1684-1699), the sixth conflict between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, in which Venice took control of the Peloponnese peninsula (also known as Morea). The maps show various locations from this battle.The Dutch physician and scholar Olfert Dapper (1639-1689) wrote several highly esteemed descriptions of various parts of the world, based on travel narratives from the late seventeenth century. With remarkable frequency, he published historical and geographical works on Africa, Asia (India, China, and the Dutch East Indies), the Middle East (Palestine, Persia), and the Mediterranean, all richly illustrated. The present work is one of his last. He never travelled himself, but read widely, and the numerous sources he cites throughout his texts testify to the wealth of knowledge he possessed. Some of the authors he cites in the present work are: Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, Plutarch and John Chrystostom.The present copy bears the royal arms of the United Kingdom on the front board, with the text "Military Depot" in a banner above. It must have been part of the collection of a British military regiment, but it is unknown which one. The work may have been bought by the British army as a source on the region.The page numbers in the first part have been corrected by an 18th-century hand. The work has been rebacked, with the original spine laid down, the leather is slightly rubbed and scratched, somewhat affecting the clarity of the gold-tooling. Page 48 of the first part has some loss of material in the fore-edge margin, without affecting the text, the plate of Zante has been bound upside down. Overall in very good condition.l Navari, L., Cyprus and the Levant: Rare books from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation I, p. 117; STCN 841792194 (17 copies including 2 incomplete); Tiele 303; USTC 1821186 (15 copies, same as STCN); Zacharakis 824-828.

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[Exhibition Catalog] Catalogue of Modern Loan Exhibition.  November, 1917 [with Notes on the Paintings by a Contemporary Visitor to the Show]

London, The Gallery, 1917. String-Bound Wrappers. Scarce catalogue of an exhibition, held November, 1917, at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51A New Bond Street, London, featuring works by Corot, Degas, Augustus John, Monet, Pissarro, Rodin, Rossetti, Sargent, Sickert, and Whistler, among others. Foolscap 8vo (151 x 125mm): 48pp. Original blue string-bound wrappers printed in black. Neatly annotated in light pencil with fascinating comments and several corrections to text. An excellent example, with light creases and small stamp of Bethnal Green Museum to verso of some pages. Worldcat lists just two institutional copies: The Frick Art Reference Library and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York. Not the somewhat infamous Victorian "Palace of Art" specializing in artists of the Aesthetic Movement, which Sir Coutts and Lady Blanche Lindsay established in 1877 as an alternative to the Royal Academy and which closed its doors in 1890, but one of several successor. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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GHEYN, Jacob II de.

The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes, and pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange Count of Nassau etc. Governour and captaine generall over Geldreland, Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Overijssel, etc. Sett forthe in figures by Jacob de Gheyn. With written instructions for the service of all captaines and comaundours. For to shewe hereout the better unto their jong or untrayned souldiers the playne and perfett maner to handle these armes.The Hague, [1607 (added in manuscript on the title page)]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 37 x 27 cm). With engraved title page with at the head of the page the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Prince Henry Frederick, eldest son of King James I of England within a wreath of lilies and roses, which - together with the title and the imprint were engraved on 3 separate slips of paper pasted over areas left blank for that purpose; and 117 (including one repeat) expertly engraved plates (ca. 26 x 19 cm): 42 numbered plates in part 1, 43 partly-numbered plates in part 2 and 32 numbered plates in part 3. All engravings including the engraved title-page are magnificently coloured and highlighted in gold and silver by a contemporary hand. The plates show exercises with the arquebus (part 1), musket (part 2), and pike (part 3). Mid-19th-century gold-tooled half (faded) red morocco and red cloth sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, bound in 1840-ca. 1860 by the celebrated British bookbinder Robert Riviere (1808-1882) with his stamp "Bound by Riviere" in the bottom outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf.

[4]; [2]; [3] ll.Splendid copy of this very rare English edition of De Gheyn's illustrated major military manual, with the plates in their first state, before they were numbered and with some details added during the colouring stage instead of being engraved (several puffs of smoke in the illustrations). The present copy is one of the three "presentation copies" of the first English edition (New Hollstein, The De Gheyn family, II, p. 159, 1b).The history of the publication of the book is complex. It appears that Count Johann II of Nassau-Siegen (1561-1623) commissioned De Gheyn in about 1596 to publish the work, together with, or with the support of, his nephew, the great military commander and Stadtholder Prince Maurice who had re-organised the army of the Dutch Republic. Many copies have the engraved date “1607” on the title-page changed to “1608”, suggesting that this may have been the true date of issue. The same “title-border” was used for the various early editions with the engraved texts on slips of paper to be pasted onto the places left blank on the engraved title-page. Different coats-of-arms were used for the different languages. The Dutch issues show for instance the coat-of-arms of Prince Maurice.This work is of the highest interest for military history regarding the early 17th century. It constitutes a simple, transparent, and well-illustrated manual for the instruction of recruits in the rapid and skilful handling of “calivers” (an obsolete name for the arquebus), muskets, and pikes, which had proven to be essential for the successful and revolutionary way of warfare introduced by Prince Maurice through reforming the Dutch army by introducing exercises and strict discipline in the past years. Fully coloured copies like the present were produced largely for princes and other important persons and were probably coloured by De Gheyn himself who was certainly responsible for the high standard of the colouring. In our copy the title is in the first undated state. All the early editions use the same main plate for the title-page, so the text and arms for the editions in various languages and with various dedications were engraved on three separate slips of paper to be pasted over blank spaces: for the coat of arms (above), the engraved title (centre), and the imprint and privilege (below). The book met immediate success and makes a considerable contribution to our knowledge of military history. The large format editions like the present were followed in 1609 and 1619, by smaller quarto editions with woodcut copies of the original engravings. The present copy varies slightly from other similar copies, in that the compiler of this particular copy added plate 34 in part two twice (unfortunately omitting part 2 plate 2 in that process) and adding 2 plates with minor variants to this copy (part 2 plates 29 and 35). Arguably, this makes the present copy even rarer.The provenance of the present copy is impressive to say the least. It was most likely the presentation copy from De Gheyn for Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612), judging by the paper slip mounted on the recto of the second flyleaf which contains in early 17th-century manuscript the following text: "For my Lord ye(?) Earl(e) of Salisbury". This note is accompanied by a later, more extensive annotation below the slip of paper reads: "This appears to have been a presentation copy to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. The above inscription was on the fragment of a flyleaf, and is probably the autograph of the author - De Gheyn. [signature]". Robert Cecil was Secretary of State to Queen Elisabeth I of England and King James I of England. In 1608, around the time the present work was published, Cecil was appointed Lord Treasurer. Furthermore, the splendour of the expert and strictly contemporary colouring of all engravings including the title-page prove that the present copy was made for a very important person like a nobleman or high statesman. Other bookplates show that the present work was, at least, part of two other collections. The first of the two is Christopher Turnor (1809-1886) with his bookplate on the front pastedown, who was an English Conservative Party politician, MP for South Lincolnshire between 1841 and 1847, founder of Stoke Rochford Hall, and the son of English antiquarian, author, and politician Edmund Turnor (1755/56-1829). The second of the two is Hermann Marx (1881-1947), a famous German-born stockbroker and banker, and a noted book and print collector. His "very choice and valuable library" was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1948.With the book plate of Christopher Turnor on the front pastedown, the book plate of Hermann Marx on the recto of the first flyleaf, and the paper slip with the 17th-century dedication to the Earl of Salisbury (with the 19th-century(?) note below) on the recto of the second flyleaf. The numbers of the plates are added in a contemporary hand, since the plates here appear in their first (unnumbered) state. The first plate of each part also contains Gheyn’s signature ("J. De Gheyn. in.") in manuscript instead of as part of the engraving. The binding shows some signs of wear (some rubbing along the edges, corners and the spine and fading of the leather and cloth on the front board and spine), plate 2 in plate in part 2 has been replaced by a duplicate of plate 34 from the same part, internally some minor marginal browning or staining, but the coloured and highlighted engravings remain fine and clean. Overall in very good condition.l Cockle 79; Keynes, ‘New observations on Jacques de Gheyn’s “The Exercise of Arms”’, in: The Print Collector’s Newsletter, 13 (1983), pp. 211-212; Kist, Commentary to the facsimile of the Dutch edition (1971); Lipperheide, nos. 2057-2060; Meij, Jacques de Gheyn II als tekenaar, p. 12, nos. 15-20 (pp. 45-47); Muller, Historieplaten, no. 1117 (& Suppl.); New Hollstein, The De Gheyn family, nos. 340-457 (descriptions and illustrations of all plates); Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn, Three generations, vol. 2, pp. 64-78, nos. 342-464; Simoni, ‘A present for a Prince’, in: Ten studies in Anglo-Dutch relations (1975); STCN 85107989X (3 copies); cf. Jähns, pp. 1005-1007 (other eds.).

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GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit (engraver).

Verzameling van vier en tachtig stuks Hollandsche schepen, geteekend en in koper gebragt door G. Groenewegen.Rotterdam, J. van den Brink, [1829]. Oblong 4to (ca. 17.5 x 22.5 cm). With a letterpress title page and 84 finely designed and engraved views of Dutch sailing vessels (image size ca. 13.5 x 15.5 cm), divided into 7 series of 12 etchings each, lettered A-F (the 7th and last series without a letter) and numbered 1-12 in the plates, all with a Dutch title below. The first plates of the first and second series show the author's name and the original title in Dutch and French in the main sail, the first plates of the other series are signed by Groenewegen in the upper blank part of the plate. Modern vellum with the name of G. Groenewegen written in black ink on the spine.

[85] ll.Very rare early 19th-century reissue of a very attractive series of engravings by the Dutch artist Gerrit Groenewegen (1754-1826), illustrating the ships and boats that were in use for both inland and maritime shipping in the Netherlands at the end of the 18th century. These maritime prints were first published between 1786-1801 in seven separate series, the first series under its original title Verscheide soorten van Hollandse vaartuigen geteekent en gesneeden door G Groenewegen ... Plusieurs sortes de batiments hollandoise dessiné et gravé par G: Groenwegen a Rotterdam ... They were subsequently reissued into one volume (presumably around 1801), with the divisional titles and the dates erased from the plates. The present reissue is very scarce, as it has not been recorded in WorldCat.Our edition is an undated reissue of this second collected edition, with the address "Noordblaak, D. 295" of the publisher J. van den Brink in Rotterdam on the title-page. This reissue is listed in the Naamlijst, van uitgekomen boeken, kaarten, prentwerken, enz. 1829-1833. Deel 9 (Amsterdam, C.L. Schleijer, p. 80) for the year 1829, together with a reissue of Groenewegen’s maritime print series “Schepen” which was also published by J. van den Brink in Rotterdam. The paper of most plates show parts of the same watermark: a crowned shield enclosing a horn, with a small beehive as appendage under the shield and below the lettering “C & I Honig”, which is identical to Voorn, no. 183 (date: 1824).With a manuscript ownership entry of Belgian marine painter Louis Jacques Serruys (1820-1873), dated 1847 in pencil crossed out in brown ink and in that same ink also a later annotation “Vente Mr Louis S., Dec: 1873”, both on the first preliminary blank leaf. Further with a manuscript ownership entry of C.H. van Dam, Rotterdam (dated May 1952) in black ink on the recto first free endpaper, stating that this copy was formerly owned by the Dutch artist and curator Cornelis Gerardus ‘t Hooft (1866-1936), whose collection was sold at auction in Amsterdam in 1952 (Menno Hertzberger, 21-23 April 1952). Additionally with two small annotations in pencil on the title-page. The boards are slightly warped, the first free endpaper has a small hole in the foot margin, the edges of the leaves are very slightly browned, and a few etchings are very slightly soiled in the blank margins. Otherwise in good condition.l De Groot/Vorstman, Zeilschepen, no. 191-202 (listing only the F-series); Scheen I, p. 404; Thieme/Becker XV, pp. 66-67; Von Wurzbach I, p. 619; cf. for the [1786-1801] ed. Cat. NHSM II, p. 751; STCN 298746026 (2 copies); WorldCat 740253847, 1090204154 and 1121289165 (7 copies); for the watermark see Voorn, De papiermolens in de provincie Noord-Holland, 183 (date: 1824).

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