Naauw-kuurig verhaal van de opgank, vordere successen en voornaamste voorvallen der Franse Oost-Indise compagnie tot haar einde toe

  Dutch translation by Jan van Hoogstraten (1662-1756) of the extremly rare original French edition "'Histoire des indes Orientales"  published in the same year in Paris, by the secretary of the French East India Company, Urbain Souchu de Rennefort (ca. 1630-1689). Content: (24) 660p Uncut.Size 10 by 16,6,5 cm. PRESS THE LEFT BUTTON to see several photos with detail. Click on the photo and use "<" button under the photo to see additional photos

1) Vermaakelyk tractaat. Waar in op een Satyrische en aangename wyse ondersogt en aangetoon wwerd dat het Vrouwelyk Geslagt in agtong en waarde, vrij meer in Luister en aanzien gehouden moet werden als dat van Mannen in de Vyftiende Eeuw in het Latyn Beschreven door Henricus Cornel. Agrippa neevens een kort uittreksel van desselfs Leeven;in welke deselve geweest is history-schrijver van Keiser Karel de Vijfde. 2) Ernstige en Boertige Redenvoering tot bewys Dat de Vrouwen verre van Edeler dan de Mannen zyn, ten voordeligste genomen in de waereld niet anders dan een noodzakelyk kwaad zyn. Tegenstrydig met het werkje van H.C. Agrippa die 't vrouwelyke geslagt in agting en waarde meer houdt als dat van Mannen opgedragen Alle Heeren, Meesters, en Opperbevelhebbers der vrouwen en Huysgezinnen door Simon van Leeuwen, S.J. Zoon.PRESS THE LEFT button to see several photos with detail.

Two separately issued satiric works in Dutch comparing women and man: The first work highlighting the merits of women. The second book is a direct response to the first book highlighting the merits of men and the weaknesses of women. The first work is a (first edition?) and very rare translation in Dutch  (only 2 copies in the NCC)  of the following latin work: De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus Koln 1532 second edition. by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535).   Content. viii, 74,10p. The second work is an amusing  and very rare treatise (only 3 copies in NCC) about the lack of merits of woman. As the title says: women are seen as a necessary evil. Content 6p, 69. Old half vellum binding and boards covered with marbled paper. This the only copy known with these both very rare works bound together. Size 10 by 16 cm A great item in very good condition. Of interest to feminists and mail chauvinists!  Click on the photo and use "<" button under the photo to see additional photos

The first edition of Marin's celebrated history of Saladin. Very rare: only one copy in the NCC. Drawing from the Crusading chronicles, Schulten's edition of Baha-ed-din, and a Parisian Arabic manuscript of Ibn-el-Athir's Atabegs, Marin weaves one of the earliest and most informed printed histories of the great Moslem general. By contemporary standards his scholarship was excellent, but the work was somewhat lost in obscurity and was not translated. It did, however, achieve significant enough recognition to earn him the title of Royal Censor. 12mo, 2 volumes (size 16cm) , [xvi + 464pp] & [518pp.] + 3 folding plans. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, morocco labels. All edges gilt. Spine and corners rubbed with some wear at the extremities.  Interior is clean and fresh. Click on the photo and use "<" button under the photo to see additional photos.

Studentenhaver, in mogelijke peperhuisjes de liefhebbers van Drooge snouperijtjes omgedeelt: door de Poëet van 't gelukkig eiland eerste deel. A second part was never published.

Studentenhaver means student food. Very rare and interesting book by Jordaan Laurens including poems, songs, games etc. Great book for collectures of Dutch literature and student publications. The very long Introduction of the book was re-issued as "het gelukkige eiland" (the happy Island) by E.K Grootes in 2006. Size 15,5 by 10cm.  Consists of 100 numbered satirical poems  and 635 verses. (Polemec verses in the defence of Descartes). In the introduction the writer menstions that the leaves of his book will probably end as peper-huisjes (meaning pepper houses, the term used for paper sacks used by grocery shops). There are two imprents in the same year: a) the condensed version: 37 lines per page b) the normal version 28 lines per page. Our copy has 28 lines per page. Both imprints are very rare. Collation / signature are: This is the variant with collation A8(-A2) B-K8 L1 and signature 165804 - b1 A3 epe$ : b2 L a.  The STCN records 3 similar copies (with no A2 but with L1). Click on the photo and use "<" button under the photo to see additional photos.

Book 1) Remarques nécessaires pour la culture des fleurs, la manière avec laquelle il faut les cultiver, & les ouvrages qu'il faut faire selon chaque mois de l'année 1658 

 Book 2) Instructions pour les arbres fruictiers par M.R.T.P.D.S. 3em edition, revue, corrigee et augmentee par ''autheur d'un Traite de taille des arbres, dela culture des orangers, citronniers, grenadiers, oliviers et jasmin d'Espagne

Two very rare and important French books on gardening in one volume:  Book 1: consists of two parts: Full-page engraved frontispiece, printed title, introduction 12p, 144 numbered pages;printed title  Catalogue de Quelques plantes a fleurs qui sont de present au Iardin de P. Morin. 144-222 numbered pages (plus 4 printed subtitles followed each by a blank) ; advys aux curieux plus table 9p;privilege. NOTE: that the 8p table des matieres and privilege  is sometimes bound in front of the 144 pages (giving 24 introduction pages). Pages 145 to 148 ar enot numbered as always! So the book is complete!!! Contemporary overlapping vellum: title . First edition of Morin's popular handbook on flower growing, which includes the second edition of his catalogue of the plants in his own garden. The book contains a calendar of work to be done in the garden each month of the year, followed by lists of plants that flourish in different types of soil and those that do not flourish in various degrees of cold, lists of plants flowering in each month of the year etc. The catalogue has its own title-page and four section-titles: Anemones, Ranunculuses, Tulips and Irises. 

 Book two: Instructions pour les arbres fruictiers. Title page, blank, 8p introduction and content,blank, 122 numbered p, privilege 4p,blank. Triquel was the prior of Saint-Mars. Size of the text pages: 9 by 15 cm.

Click on the photo and use "<" button under the photo to see additional photos.

Extremely rare map holder / slipcase (11 by 7cm) from around 1730 -1750 with 4 coloured continental maps: Asia, Europe, Africa and South America (each 21 by 27cm) . The original mapholder has an allegorical engraving showing the different continents! The mapholder and the beautifully contemporary coloured maps are all in fine condition. Accurata Globi terrestris delineatio (contains the following maps of continents by Seutter / Lotter:

 Nordenskold 283 ; Philips and le Gear 3493; Thieme en Becker

The text is browned but the coloured plates are fine. Simple binding.

 Book: Simple original binding.  The paper cover boards are well worn and the vellum spine is half missing, however the actual binding is still tight.  Still a good.

Overall a very good  copy of a very rare book at a low price and

 with 60 extra architectural prints!!

Im Deutsch: Dass sehr seltenes werk ist vollstandig und sehr gut und mit 58 extra grosse schone kupfern: click auf "more images" um die foto's zu sehen

Nouvel Atlas des Enfans, Ou principes clairs pour apprendre facilement en peu de tems la GEOGRAPHIE suivi dún trate methodique de la sphere qui explique le mouvement des astress, les sistemes du monde & lúsage du globe; et enrich de xxiv cartes enlunminees. Sixieme edition considerablement corrige.

Very rare children's atlas. In addition to the geographical section there is in this edition a chapter on the use of the globe and to understand movements of the earth.   The plates are significantly larger than in earlier editions (the copper-plate-imprint of the world-map is 18 by 15 cm, the other maps a bit smaller) and made by Cornelis van Baarsel (his signature is on the world map). Content: frontispiece with a child carrying a celestial globe, ships and some man with surveying tools. A world-map followed by 21 maps, plus one  armillary sphere (globe) print and a print showing the orbit of the planets . The prints are in contemporary colour. The pages are uncut and entirely clean (unused copy) . The paper covers have been renewed. The original frontispiece and the world-map have been reinserted. The book is 18cm by 11cm.  Click on the photo and use "<" button under the photo to see additional photos

Very rare book (only one copy in the NCC) Title in red and black and illustrated with engraved vignette. Rare popular book about the lives of the wives of the first twelve Romasn Empeprors. The main part treats at lenght the lives of the wives of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, the three wives of Caligula, the two wifes of Claudius and he first two wifes of Nero and the wives of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasianus, Titus and Domitianus. Fine woodcut ornaments and initials. Collation: 7 leaves 448pp 103pp Size 16 by 10cm Original Vellum binding. Very good condition.   Click on the photo and use "<" button under the photo to see additional photos