Auction 181 - 14 October 2024

Facsimile edition after the copy in the State Library Berlin. Decorated with twelve colours and gold leaf. Idion Verlag, 1979. 431/895 numbered. 2 volumes in leather bound (Fuldaer bookbinding) with brass fittings and locks. With commentary.

La Chine illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de qauntité de recherchés de la nature & de l'art [...]. Amsterdam, Waesberge, 1670. Folio, with handcoloured title page and several handcoloured engravings and fold out maps (3 plates and 177-78 missing). Full leather binding (spine damaged, some brown spotting and damp staining).

Perspective contenant la theorie, practique et instruction fondamentale d'icelle. A la Haye, chez Henr. Hondius et Ars Perspectiva quae continet... Amsterdam, chez Jean Jansson,1621. engr. t-pl. 13, Pl.1-23, 25-39, 48-49, engr.t-pl., Pl.1-7, 11, 16-18, 20-22, 24. Convolute binding (lacking some plates).

pro tribus ordinibus Sancti Francisci [...]. Mechelen, H. Dessain, 1924. Folio (some foxing, corr. and annot.). Contemp. black shagreen, gilt.-orn. frame on boards decorated with 19th-c. large Rococo style chiselled silver ornaments incl. corners., two clasps with chiselled Sacred Hearts and St Francis's face (?) on straps, central oval cartouche with Ascension on upper board, Christ in Heaven on lower board, four embroidered silk bookmarks.

ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum [...] Regensburg, F. Pustet, 1923. Folio. Contemp. black long-grained morocco decorated with 19th-c. Roccoco style embossed and chiselled silver ornaments incl. borders with, corners with oval cartouche orn. with figures of cherubs and Evangelists, two clasps and central circular cartouche with Crucifixion on upper board, Christ's Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, two embroidered silk bookmarks. With chromolith. front. and title frame and black in-text, printed liturgical music. The silver ornaments were made by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Crone in Groningen. Prov. "1847 H.G. Jnden J. Zoon 1872". (leather sl. rubbed).

ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum [...]. Regensburg, F. Pustet, (approbatio: 1929). Folio. Contemp. red Burgundy morocco decorated with mid 19th c. large embossed and chiselled silver ornaments incl. borders corners, two claspsand central oval cartouche with Virgin Mary and Child Jesus on upper board, St. Vincent de Paul. Six embroidered silk bookmarks (leather sl. rubbed).