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Leiden,: D. Noothoven van Goor,, (1869-1873).. 2 volumes printed in double columns (4832), x, 1248; [iv], 1168 pp. Large 8vo (16,5 x 25 cm.). Contemporary half dark brown calf, spines gilt lettered and numbered on black and red morocco labels .-- (spines & joints partly rubbed; front joint of volume 2 weak and bottom partly damaged; corners slightly bumped;… Read more

Paris,: Librairie de France,, (1927-1928).. [vi], x, 431, [iii] pp. Tall folio (26 x 33 cm.). Original publisher's half dark brown blind tooled basane, spine with 5 raised bands, (top of spine slightly damaged; joints slightly rubbed), top edges gilt, uncut. Abundantly illustrated with several headers and footers, 335 figures and 49 plates of which 15 in full colour.… Read more

Paris,: Librairie Centrale des Sciences,, (1933).. 231, [i] pp. Small 8vo (12 x 19 cm.). Original printed wrappers, (slightly soiled), uncut. With 62 illustrations. ¶ Loosely inserted 20 coloured plates of gems.-- (Underlinings; paper age toned).

Amsterdam,: Architectura & Natura,, 1991.. 32, 64, [ii] pp. Oblong 4to (24 x 21,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With test illustrations 64 magnificent coloured photographs by Jan Derwig. ¶ A photographic guide to The famous Dutch architectural movement from ca, 1910-1930.

Paris,: Gallimard,, (1979).. 242, [iv] pp. Small 8vo (11 x 17,5 cm.). Original simili leather, spine gilt decorated. With the printed dust jacket. and original slip-case. With 392 illustrations. ¶ Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Conçu et réalisé spécialement à l'occasion de la Quinzaine de la Pléiade 1979.

Padova,: Giuseppe Corona,, 1732.. [vi], 156 pp. 12mo (8 x 14,5 cm.). Contemporary vellum & red marbled edges (slightly stained). ¶ Good copy of the first italian translation of Duguet's famous 'Traité des Scrupule' (1717). No copy in the BNF nor in the N.U.C.

Bruxelles,: Ern. Thille, (n.d. ca. 1950).. 21 plates in helio-engraving. Oblong 8vo (20,5 x 15 cm.). Original decorative wrappers.

Amsterdam,: Johannes van Heekeren,, (1705).. [x], 316, 11, [i] pp. 12mo (8 x 13,3 cm.). Bound in a fine contemporary (speudo) "reliure à la Fanfare in the style of Le Gascon. Sides richly tooled in gold, panel design with drawer handle motifs and interlacings à la pointillé. Spine with 6 raised bands, in compartments gilt decorated with floral motifs… Read more

Paris,: E. Flammarion,, 1919.. [iv], vii, [i, blank], 288 pp. 12mo (12 x 18,5 cm.). Half green cloth over marbled boards, spien gilt lettered, original coloured lithographed wrappers bound in. With numerous black & white illustrations by Louis Morin. ** First illustrated edition. An almost forgotten novel about Opium, set in the exotic location of Indocine, and with many… Read more

Paris,: Librarie Nony & Cie,, 1901.. [iv], 363, [i, blank] pp. Very large 8vo (22 x 32 cm.). Recent half green grained morocco, spine gilt lettered, marbled boards. With 302 engravings and photographs. ** First edition of one of the most comprehensive work on the subject, and an important iconography. NB. this is a heavy item which requires additional… Read more

Paris,: G. Fortin,, (1930).. [xxxii], 511, [i] pp. 8vo. (16 x 25 cm.). Original half cloth (slightly faded; some small stains). With several plates, art-deco decorations and an 20 pp. illustrated catalogue of piano's. ¶ The complete catalogue of musical scores published by Fortin up to that date, including piano, vocal, dance and instrumental music arranged by composer. -… Read more

[s.l.n.d.], [ca. 1910].. Pictorial; post card of the brewing room of the former brewery of the Hoogstraten (Antwerpen) seminary. Inscribed on the verso, with a stamp. Size: 13,8 x 9 cm.

Bruges,: L. de Plancke,, 1901.. vi, [ii], 56 pp. Small8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly dust soiled and some slight rubbings), uncut. With 2 plates. ¶ The rare original edition, including a description of Hôpital Saint-Jean. Copy with some pensil annotations. Added are 4 newspaper cuts related to Memling and Jan van Eyck.

Bruxelles,: J. Moris,, 1759.. vi, 283, [xiii] pp. Small 8vo (10,5 x 16,5 cm.). Bound in 19th century half olive morocco, spine divided into 5 compartments with 7 quadruple gilt rulers, gilt lettered; 4 blind tooled floral ornaments in 4 compartments; marbled end papers (partly some very slight rubbing). Title printed in red and black. With some… Read more

Paris,: Bordas,, 1947.. 184, XCII, [iv] pp. 4to (23 x 28 cm.). Bound in simili leather, spine gilt letterd, original printed front wrapper bound in. Title printed in red and black. With 20 illustrations in the text, numerous vignettes, and ca. 175 photographs printed on 128 pages coated paper. The standard work on the subject. The first… Read more

Namur,: D. Gerard,, (n.d. ca. 1838).. 2 parts in one volume: 89, [iii, blank] pp. 8vo (14 x 22,5 cm.). Contemporary full long grained red morocco, sides gilt tooled with a double border and corner pieces, floral decoration in the centre; spine gilt tooled with decorative lines and 5 dots in the compartments; edges gilt; marbled end-papers (partly very… Read more

Lille,: Emile, Raoust,, 1929.. [iv], xlii, 502 pp. 8vo (14 x 23 cm.). Original orange printed wrappers, entirely unopened and uncut. With 24 black and white plates. ¶ The standard reasoned catalogue of the work of Cornelis Engebrechtsz (1475-1527), who lived in Leiden and established a large and productive workshop there that trained many important painters. He primarily painted… Read more

Paris,: Chez Guillot, Libraire de Monsieur,, 1785.. viii, [9]-193, [i], 8 pp. 12mo. (11 x 18 cm.). Sewn, entirely uncut (à la barbe), loose contemporary grey wrappers (spine strip gone); preserved in modern blue blind wrappers and a wooden drop box. ¶ The very rare first edition of a series of letters by a French naval officer who was… Read more

Leiden,: P. van Santen, [n.d. ca. 1879]. [iv], 231, [i] pp. Small 8vo (14 x 20 cm.). Contemporary half brown Marocco, raisen bands, gilt lettered (slightly rubbed & faded; corners rubbed). With numerous xylographic (wood engravings) plates in the text. An early Dutch edition of Verne's most popular text. Bound with: Jules VERNE, Avonturen van drie Russen en drie… Read more

Paris,: Geroeges Hurtrel, artiste-éditeur,, 1887. 279, [iii] pp. Large 8vo (21.5 x 29,5 cm.). Finely bound in half red shagreen, spine with 5 raised band with gilt rullers, in compartments gilt decorated with a floral pattern, gilt lettered on a red morocco label, marbled end-papers (buckram sides with some scattered very slight staining). Richly illustrated with 3 chromolithograpgical plates,… Read more