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1684NC0196not stated printed by Tho. Braddyll 1684. Hardcover. Very Good. London 1684; rebound in marbled paper covered boards; brown leather spine; minimal shelf wear; 8vo 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; corner of original leather cover pasted to rear paste-down; pages wavy; interior is clean and unmarked; 207 pages. not stated, printed by Tho. Braddyll hardcover
169162895à Paris: Chez Guillaume Desprez 1691. Fine. Chez Guillaume Desprez à Paris 1691 9.50 x 16 cm relié First edition. Ruled copy. Contemporary full burgundy morocco binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Gilt title. Gilt roll on edges and turn-ins. A dark stain at the top of the upper cover. A second large one on the lower cover. Foxing. Handsome copy. Before appearing in its entirety in 1696 under the secular title Bible de Port-Royal Pierre Thomas du Fossé gathered the various manuscripts left by Le Maistre de Sacy at his death in 1684 and edited them punctually. He continued the work left unfinished and published separately first the translations of the Vulgate by Le Maistre de Sacy. Each chapter is followed by its explanation and commentary. Before this considerable work on the part of the Port-Royal writers never had the Bible been so accessible to a wide public; this work which was inaugurated by the translation of the New Testament as early as 1666 by Antoine Arnaud and Le Maistre de Sacy. Chez Guillaume Desprez hardcover
169162895Chez Guillaume Desprez | à Paris 1691 | 9.50 x 16 cm | relié
1601446031601. Basileae: Typis Conradi Waldkirchii 1601 Kl.4° 11 pp. Pappband. De ffectu hypochondriaco theses / Quas . pro Medicinae laurea Doctorali consequenda 9 Iulii publice defendere conabitur Iohannes Isacius Helsingorensis Danus Impressum Basileae : typis Conradi Waldkirchii 1601. Husner: Verzeichnis bas. med. Univ.Schriften Nr. 408 unknown
1687446111687. Basileae: Typis Jacobi Bertschii 1687 Kl.4° 20 pp. Pappband. Dissertatio medica inauguralis de dysenteria / quam . pro summis in medicina honoribus & privilegiis doctoralibus rite consequendis publicae . disquisitioni submittit Isaacus Maisterus Scaphus. Helvet. Ad diem . Februar Anno M.DC.LXXXVII. Husner: Verzeichnis bas. med. Univ.Schriften Nr. 1215 unknown
16632753Hagae-Comitis The Hague: Ex Typographia Adriani Vlacq 1663. FIRST EDITION 4to pp. xii 123 1. Contemporary vellum boards bordered in gilt with a central gilt tool. Lightly toned and soiled. Rebacked to style hinges neatly relined boards soiled and marked ties lost. Ownership inscription of Henry Williamson to flyleaf crossed out price of 10s 6d to endpapers and further ownership inscription of Gasparis Delahoyde surgeon dated 1747. One of Vossius’s ‘more scientific tracts. which attracted considerable attention among his contemporaries’ ODNB: he sought to explain the motion of the tides a question of increasing interest with reference to the heat of the sun exclusively instead of the stars the moon or other forces. At the end he also discusses the use of a mercury barometer for predicting storms at sea. The following decade the text was translated into English to help it reach a wider audience. Ex Typographia Adriani Vlacq hardcover
168033623Oxoniae Oxford Oxford: E theatro Sheldaniano 1680. Fine. E theatro Sheldaniano Oxoniae Oxford Oxford 1680 12 x 19.9 cm relié Second edition rare after the first published in 1679 also rare. Fine printer's device of Sheldon's theatre. Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Joint split with lacks. Corners heavily bumped. Worn binding. Studies by the famous scholar and learned Isaac Vossius on the oracles and predictions that preceded the birth of Christ. Follow the objections and criticisms then Vossius's response. At the end of his life Vossius was settled in England where he was appointed canon of Windsor; this writing appears to date from his English period. E theatro Sheldaniano hardcover
168033623E theatro Sheldaniano | Oxoniae (Oxford) 1680 | 12 x 19.9 cm | relié
168748832Gouda: Justus van der Hoeve 1687. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Three parts quarto. asterisk-2 asterisk4 A-3A4 3B = 197 leaves; K2 signed H2. 16 364 14 indexpp. Title in red and black printed marginalia woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary paneled calf expertly rebacked to style gilt lettering piece. Occasional touch of mild foxing else a fine crisp amply-margined copy. <br /> <br /> First edition of this remarkable collection modeled on a work of Hugo Grotius with the same title including the transcription of an epistolary debate between the Dutch theologian Phillip van Limborch 1633-1712 and the Jewish scholar Isaac Orobio de Castro ca.1617-1687. Jonathan Israel views the work as "a key exemplum of the new 'enlightened' method of upholding Christianity." Limborch was a leading Dutch theologian aligned with the Arminians and professor in the Seminary of the Remonstrants at Amsterdam. Orobio de Castro had been Professor of Theology at Salamanca who was imprisoned by the Inquisition on account of his sympathy with the Jews of Spain. He fled the country going first to France and then to Holland where he abjured Christianity and became deeply involved in the philosophico-religious controversies in the Low Countries. In the present work Limborch publishes three letters written by Orobio de Castro along with his own detailed responses. In arguing against the "truth" of the Christian religion "Orobio retorted that the advent of Christ has done nothing to render mankind less sinful or to lessen suffering that the rise of Christianity far from being unparalleled was surpassed by the expansion of Islam. and that far from being unchallengeable Christ's miracles had not been performed publicly like the miracle at Mount Sinai but virtually in secret a circumstance which renders them entirely dubious. These responses and his further claims that the New Testament is unreliable providing no basis for trust in Christ's miracles since the text exists only in Greek a language neither Jesus nor the Apostles had the slightest knowledge of. made no impact on Limborch Le Clerc or Locke who were convinced of their triumph over Orobio. Nevertheless Orobio's arguments were fully and objectively reported in the text and subsequently widely read across Europe and some of those who read it were not so sure that Orobio was 'vanquished'. Boulainvilliers who meticulously examined the text concluded that Limborch's arguments were less securely grounded on reason than he and his allies supposed and that even without their realizing it it was Orobio who won the contest a verdict echoed in other anti-Christian clandestine philosophical literature of the early eighteenth century" Israel.<br /> <br /> Edited from a manuscript formerly in the possession of the Leiden professor of theology Simon Episcopius and now in the University Library Amsterdam the Exemplar Humanae Vitae is the autobiography of the Portuguese Jew Uriel da Costa ca.1585-1640 who was excommunicated from the Sephardi Jewish community of Hamburg in 1618 after addressing a polemical broadside to the leaders of the Sephardi congregation of Venice in which he criticized rabbinic Judaism as incompatible with the Torah. He later settled in Amsterdam where he submitted to a public recantation of his views before the Portuguese Jewish congregation and committed suicide shortly thereafter. A radical freethinker who here makes an imposing plea against dogmatics da Costa may be viewed as a forerunner of Spinoza. An English translation was published at London in 1740; a complete edition of his few works was edited in 1922 by Carl Gebhardt Schriften des Uriel da Costa and published as the second volume of the Bibliotheca Spinozana. At the conclusion Limborch offers his refutation of da Costa's challenge to revealed religion. References: Bamberger no. 67. Fürst 1:17. De Graaf Cat. 70: Spiritualists Nonconformists & Dissenters no. 360. J. Israel Radical Enlightenment OUP 2001 esp. pp. 464-466. Oscott Catalogues: Recusant Books part 2 no. 2286; The Old Library part 2: Bible Collections no. 895. For Da Costa's Exemplar cf. Roth B18.30 citing the English version of 1740. The work was already scarce and much sought after in the early modern era as evidenced by: DeBure Theology no. 583: “ouvrage estime & recherche les exemplaires en sont peu communs†and Osmont Dictionnaire vol. 1 p.406: “rare et estimé.†In his 1694 catalogue of Christian Hebraic works Bibliotheca Latino-Hebraica Carlo Imbonati offers a surprisingly long discussion of De Veritate on pp. 201-209. Justus van der Hoeve hardcover
161415340Paris:: Robert Fouet 1614. 15 x 22cm. Single leaf. Title page only. Red and black print. Vignette woodcut at center. Some minor wear to edges trimmed few minor ink marks. Mounted at corners to larger plain white leaf. Suitable for framing. Robert Fouet, unknown
16149197P., Robertum Foüet 1614 3 parties en un volume fort & grand in-8 plein vélin souple de l’époque, titre manuscrit au dos, [16]- 531- 273- [48]- [2]- [8]- 290 pp. Index. Bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe. Manque 4 ff. 473 à 480. Petite humidité en pied et brunissures 6 ff. en début de volume. Plats ternis, dos fendillé en tête.
1679032848<p>A Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1679 A fair copy of the 1st edition of the Description de la Grotte de Versailles bound with a very good copy of the 2nd edition of Labyrinte de Versailles in contemporary elephant folio full leather binding. La Grotte has had 5 of the 20 plates cut out but Labyrinte is complete. The binding is sound with raised bands and title label to spine. It is very worn with a lot of wear to corners with leather loss and to spine joints spine ends and edges. The surface of the boards is a little rough. All page edges red. There is an old bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper - Earl Vane from the Library of the Rev. John Vane. Contents: 3 blanks; title 1679; blank verso; Description pp 1-11; Imprimerie to verso p 11; plates 13 single and 2 double; title to Labyrinte 1697; blank verso; Description pp 3-34; blank recto with Explication du Plan du Labyrinte to verso; plate 1; fables quatrains by Isaac Benserade and plates Sebastien Leclerc on opposing pages - 78 pp 39 plates; table 3 pp with L'Imprimerie to verso final leaf; 4 x final blanks. The binding is 50 cm x 35 cms; the page size in Labyrinte matches that of the Grotte but the actual text and plate size is 15.8 x 10.2 cm. Contents are in very good clean condition. Please enquire if you would like to see further images.</p> De L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
16377249Hardervici Gelrorum: Nicolaus Wieringen 1637. First Edition — Primera edición. Hardcover — Tapa dura. Hardervici Gelrorum Nicolaus Wieringen 1637. En 8º. 16 431 1 pp. Encuadernación de época en pergamino tÃtulo rotulado en la lomera. Primera edición de este tratado de derecho marÃtimo internacional y la libertad en los mares. Al fin incluye un texto dedicado a la navegación "<em>De Ophyra</em>" de Gaspar Barreiros y la "<em>Problemata nautica</em>" de Bartholomaus Keckermann. El danés Joannes Isaac Pontanus 1571-1639 discÃpulo de Thyco Brahe se trasladó primero a Francia y luego a Holanda donde percibió el clima polÃtico cultural que llevó a la elaboración de las teorÃas del derecho internacional expresadas en esta obra una viva refutación de las teorÃas de John Selden sobre el mar cerrado. Buen ejemplar. Nicolaus Wieringen hardcover
166249294Basel: Johann Jakob Decker 1662. Second edition. Hardcover. Good-. Two parts small quarto. rev. par.4 2rev. par.2 A-3R2 = 256 leaves. 12 499 1 privilegiumpp. Pagination and register continuous. Title within double-ruled border; second work with half-title. Woodcut lettrines and ornaments. Later half vellum over speckled paper boards; manuscript title at spine. Upper two inches of spine perished. Text moderately embrowned or foxed throughout. A fairly good complete copy.<br /> <br /> Second augmented edition reprinting six of the seven dissertations from the 1645 edition and adding two new ones: Vindiciae praecedentis Dissertationes and De lotione manuum Judaica. Selections in Latin translation from Isaac Abravanel's biblical commentaries follow on a variety of topics: the longevity of the patriarchs; the state and the king's law; the miraculous stoppage of the sun in Joshua's time; the sin of David in conducting a census; the name of Moses; the types of idolatry mentioned in Sacred Scripture; and the division of the biblical books. Father and son each relied upon the works of the Portuguese Jewish philosopher exegete and statesman Isaac ben Judah Abravanel 1437-1508 a staunch opponent of the philosophical allegory exemplified in the exegetical approach of Maimonides. Abravanel's commentaries on the earlier prophets excerpts of which appear in the present work emerge in part as a response to the political difficulties he faced in the wake of the rebellion of Portuguese nobels against Joao II. "Abrabanel attributed his misfortunes to the fact that he had wasted his time in the service of an earthly ruler. He therefore decided to devote the rest of his life to religious study" Enc. Jud. 2:104.<br /> <br /> The son of the celebrated Hebraist of the same name Johann Buxtorf II 1599-1664 followed his father as professor of Hebrew at Basel in 1629. In addition to completing the elder Buxtorf's Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon Basel 1639 the younger Buxtorf edited a new Latin translation of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed and gained notoriety for defending the antiquity of the Hebrew vowel points against the correct view of their later date advanced in his day most effectively by Louis Cappel.<br /> <br /> Provenance: old stamp of the University of Heidelberg at the verso of the title page; paper label with shelf-mark in ink at the spine. References: Prijs 268. Library of John Locke 551a along with various of the elder Buxtorf’s standard aids to Hebrew grammar and lexicography. Johann Jakob Decker hardcover
165189641Paris: Pierre DAVID 1651. Fine. Pierre DAVID Paris 1651 10.6 x 16.8 cm 4 volumes reliés en 1 Second edition. Full forest-green morocco binding spine with five raised bands framed with gilt dotted lines and decorated with double gilt panels gilt rolls at head and tail triple gilt fillets bordering the covers marbled paper endpapers and doublures gilt dentelle frame on the inside covers all edges gilt double gilt fillets along the edges an elegant binding signed by Krafft. Bound following it are: - Nicolas Papins De pulvere sympathico dissertatio printed in Paris by Siméon Piget in 1650 8 unnumbered leaves the last blank and 40 pp. - By the same author La poudre de sympathie deffendue contre les objections de Mr. Cattier médecin du Roy printed in Paris by Siméon Piget in 1651 4 unnumbered leaves and 56 pp. - Isaac Cattiers Response à Monsieur Papin Docteur en Medecine touchant la poudre de sympathie printed in Paris by Edme Martin in 1651 87 pp. A fine copy beautifully preserved in a splendid binding signed by Krafft. The treatise on the Scoter occupies pp. 119 of the second part. This exquisite duck has been the subject of numerous and lengthy controversies The history of the scoter deserves our attention as it holds both gastronomic and theological interest. Because of the peculiar beliefs surrounding their origin these birds were considered lean meat and therefore permitted during Lent. This curious privilege arose from the fact that they appeared suddenly in countless flocks upon the waters surface and aided by a taste for the marvellous people imagined that they were born from seaweed decayed wood or shells. The poet Du Bartas echoed this notion in his Création du Monde when he celebrated this strange creature: Ainsi le vieil fragment d'une barque se change En des canards volants ô changement étrange Même corps fut jadis arbre verd puis vaisseau Naguère champignon et maintenant oyseau! It is easy to see how such a belief could reassure the most timid consciences; it thus required Pope Innocent III to issue an explicit prohibition placing the flesh of the scoter among forbidden meats. In vain did he launch his prohibitions for enthusiasts continued to eat them; and when the truth about these birds became known thanks to Graindorge and the accounts of navigators other pretexts were sought to preserve the old regulations. It was suggested that the scoters blood was cold even claimed that its fat resembled fish oil and the custom which lasted into the nineteenth century of eating scoters during Lent was extended to other waterfowl such as brant geese coots and teal which were conveniently confused with the species sanctioned by the councils. Cf. G. Oberlé Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus no. 869 concerning Graindorges Traité de lorigine des macreuses 1680. Pierre DAVID hardcover
165189641Pierre DAVID | Paris 1651 | 10.6 x 16.8 cm | 4 volumes reliés en 1
166598MCBSHUHD3NAmsterdam 1665. 4to. Gillis Joosten Saeghman Late 19th-century vellum with the title stamped on the spine with black foil a black single fillet border on both boards. With a woodcut vignette of ships on the title page 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves 1 full-page signed by Christoffel van Sichem IV and 9 half-page and smaller with his monogram and a woodcut ship in a cartouche plus 1 repeat woodcut decorated initials and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. 32 pp. First Dutch translation of the accounts of three voyages to Greenland by Jens Munk John Monck Martin Frobisher and Godske Lindenau searching for a passage to the East Indies through the Hudson Strait. Also containing a description of Greenland and an account of whaling including an unsigned illustration of a beached sperm whale with new illustrations by Christoffel van Sichem IV 1642-1693. It is a Dutch translation of La Peyrère's 1647 Relation du Groenland 1647 via the somewhat abbreviated German translation published in Hulsius's 1650 collection which contains the additional description of Spitsbergen and a discourse on whaling. La Peyrère included revised versions of Jens Munk's account of his voyage to Hudson Bay originally published in Navigatio septentrionalis 1624 and the accounts of voyages by Martin Frobisher and Godske Lindenau. Red armorial library stamp of the Forschungsstelle Volk und Raum on the title page: this was a research institute active at The Hague during the occupation of The Netherlands by Nazi Germany. Good copy.l Alden & Landis 663/79; Gosch Danish Arctic expeditions II pp. lxii-lxiii; JCB III pp. 98-99; Tiele Mém. 256; Sabin 28641 & 51334; STCN 4 copies; cf. Howgego to 1800 F80-F81 L128 and M180. ABE CAT Alaska Canada & Greenland hardcover
1678SS13405London:: J. Redmayne 1678. 1678. 2 parts bound as 1. Small 8vo. xvi 352 363-401 1 i.e. 391 pp. Title woodcut vignette figs. "Euclidis data" with separate title at p. 347. Contemporary full blind-stamped calf handsomely re-backed with matching calf. PROVENANCE: Inscribed at rear "R. Redding e Castro Windsor preb: . . . " Very good. Scarce. Third edition. Barrow was an English mathematician remembered for discovering the fundamental theorem of calculus. He was the first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. "The elementary portion of Euclid's Elements was part of Barrow's college syllabus but some time before 1652 he went on to read not only Euclidean commentaries by Tacquet Héigone and Oughtred but also more advanced Greek works by Archimedes and possibly Apollonius and Ptolemy. His first published work his epitomized Euclidis Elementorum libri XV probably written by early 1654 is designed as a quadrivium undergraduate text with emphasis on its deductive structure rather than on its geometrical content its sole concessions to contemporary mathematical idiom being its systematic use of Oughtred's symbolism and a list'ex P. Herigono' of numerical constants relating to inscribed polyhedra." :: DSB I p. 474. REFERENCES: Max Steck Bibliographia Euclideana IV 67; Wing 2nd ed. 1994 E3395. J. Redmayne, 1678. unknown books
1698016971Paris: Guillaume Desprez's 1698. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Full brown calf raised bands with decorated gilt fillets leather spine label inner edges dentelle 24 794pp 14. Sporadic foxing and browning two bookplates on front endpapers a small ex-library stamp and early owner name on title page small tear along upper front free endpaper lower hinge of front board cracked with rear bottom hinge starting small chip at spine head .5" kuggt wear to boards. Very Good. This vulgate and translation done by Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy with commentary by Pierre Thomas Du Fossé following line by line the 1692 edition.The Book of Ezekiel is translated into French with an explanation drawn from the Holy Fathers and ecclesiastical authors. Guillaume Desprez's hardcover
1646BB64100Frankfurt 1646. unknown. gebraucht gut mit geglätteter Mittelfalz Papier altersbedingt etwas fleckig sonst GUTES EXEMPLAR. 175 x 258 cm. Für Ihre Zufriedenheit versenden wir mit DHL und ausschließlich mit Trackingcode für eine sichere Sendungsverfolgung! Weitere Angebote unter antiquariat-kastanienhof unknown
169314641Ienae i.e. Jena; Heinr. Chirstoph. Crokeri i.e. Heinrich Christoph Cr�cker d. 1727 1693. 1693. The stated fourth edition and the first recorded edition published in Germany. Octavo pp. 30 864 sig. 8 27 31 A-Z8 2A-2Z8 3A-3H8 with engraved frontispiece plus four folding engraved diagrammatic plates numerous tables within text. Title-page printed in black and red printer's device to centre. Contemporary mottled sheep spine on three bands triple fillet borders in blind to boards; all edges speckled red. Ownership inscription of 'Gottlieb Schuyl' to front paste-down partially obliterated numerous other numerical marks of ownership in ink to the same; inscription to half-title dated 1778 'Pro Coirtu Hradistiensi // Fruim Minor Reformator. // Provicie Hungarie poe // uatoris' i.e. 'For the council of Hradcany minor reformer of the province of Hungary poet of the poets'. Scuffs and gouge to boards brown paint and historic paper shelf label to spine. Lacks preliminary and final blanks text-block and plates collated and complete; loss to third plate affecting one quarter of area see photo; light foxing and some intermittent heavier toning commensurate with the famously poor quality of German paper of the seventeenth century throughout. A fair copy. Newton published this edited and revised edition of the German Bernhardus Varenius' 1622-1650 textbook on the mathematics of geography and navigation for his students at Cambridge in 1672 making this Newton's first publication mere months before the publication of the Opticks. While the English editions were much reprinted in Cambridge and then London this first German edition is scarce outside of continental Europe. Published while Newton was Luasian Professor of Mathematics of Cambridge 1669-1702 Newton's version became the standard text on the subject for over a century. This edition reproduces Newton's Latin text with copies of the plates seen in the earlier Elsevier edition of 1650. While Newton's works were read and received within Germany from their first publication this is the first of his works published in Germany. USTC 2647283. VD17 39:115486D. USTC locates copies multiple copies in Germany one in Norway at Trondheim and three unconfirmed copies without shelf-marks in Sweden; WorldCat locates two in France one in the U. S. University of Connecticut and one in Slovenia; in the UK we locate one copy only at Trinity College Cambridge. Ienae [i.e. Jena]; Heinr. Chirstoph. Crokeri [i.e. Heinrich Christoph Cr�cker (d. 1727)], 1693. hardcover
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16190036661619 Lugduni Batavorum [Leyde], ex officinâ Elzeviriana [Isaac Elzevier], 1619. Trois ouvrages reliés en un volume petit in-quarto (153 X 210) veau havane foncé, double encadrement de filet doré sur les plats, dos cinq nerfs, caissons de double encadrement de filet doré avec fleuron central, dentelle dorée en queue et tête, titre doré (reliure de l'époque). (3) ff. blancs, 341 pages (dont titre), (1) page d'achevé d'imprimer, (1) f. blanc ; (8) ff. (dont titre), 104 pages ; (4) ff. (dont titre), 48 pages, (3) ff. blancs. Restauration à la coiffe supérieure, trace de frottement sur les nerfs.
1650191392Utrecht ; Simon de Vries 1649 1650. 1st Edition in this form. Hardcover. Very good copy bound in contemporary limp vellum over bevelled boards; the title applied in ink manuscript to the upper spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 668 pages; Description: 12 Bl. 668 S : Kupfert. ; 12°. Referenced by OCLC 551884455. Auteur is Matteo Bandello. Vertalers uit het Italiaans naar het Frans zijn Pierre Boaistuau en Franc¸ois de Belleforest.Contents: I III V. . Inhoudende xviii waerachtige geschiedenissen welckers begin lief ende genuechlijck is maer het eynde vol swarigheyts ende verdriets / eerst beschreven in het Italiaans : ende nu uyt de Franc¸oysche in de Nederlantsche tale over-geset door Isaac de Bert. II. . in welcke begrepen sijn seer jammerlijcke feyten waarachtich geschiet tot spiegel van alle menschen / . in onse Nederlandsche sprake overgeset door M. Merten Everaerts. IV VI-VII. . in welcke begrepen sijn seer jammerlijcke feyten waarachtich geschiet tot spiegel van alle menschen. IX. Thoonneel van de wereltsche veranderinge deses tijdts : zijnde het neghende ende laeste deel van de tragedische historien waerlijk geschiet in Asia en Europa : getrocken uyt verscheyde schrijvers / nu nieuwelijcks uyt de Franc¸oische in onse Nederduytsche tale over-geset door Felix van Sambix Impressum dl. 2: Tot Utrecht : by Lambert Roeck. Utrecht ; Simon de Vries (1649) hardcover
169780205Rotterdam: Reinier Leers 1697. Hardcover. Good. Two massive leather bound volumes with text in French. The leather to the front board of volume one is split board still attached. Each vol approx 10 x 15 x 2.75. Illustrated throughout. Age related toning and foxing. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Reinier Leers hardcover