![Item #BB2328 [Movable Book] [Novelty Book] [Paper Engineering] Wat er alzoo in de wereld te zien...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2328.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650637513)
Amsterdam: G. Theod. Bom, n.d. [c. 1874]. Pictorial Wrappers. Crown 8vo (180 x 128mm): [8]pp, with six color lithographs (printed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem), each with flaps that, when flipped, reveal a completely different image (a ship at sea becomes Bedouins in the desert, a volcano erupts into walruses..... more
![Item #BB2705 [The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy] Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2705.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1657030003)
Basel: Druck und Verlag der Schweighauser'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1860. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this classics of Renaissance historiography, from the library of Otto Wesendonck, patron of the composer Richard Wagner. Demy 8vo (221 x 133mm): 4],576pp. Original moire-pattern purple cloth, covers blocked in blind with intricate oval device, spine lettered..... more
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t' Amsterdam: Abrah[am] van der Putte, [1728?]. Half Calf. Seven works by the Dutch statesman and poet bound as one, each separately paginated. 16mo (100 x 172m): [14],246,[2]; 94,[2]; 82; 86; 32; 205,[3]; 46pp (lacking the final blank), with four engraved title pages (two of which folding) by C. V...... more
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t' Amsterdam: Hendrick vander Putte, Papier en Boekverkooper op't Water, in de Lootsman, [n.d.]. Vellum. Early eighteenth century edition (based on imprint) of the Dutch poet and politician's rhymed dissertations on marriage and conjugal fidelity, first published in Dordrecht, in 1637. 16mo (159 x 97mm): [44],673,[3]pp, with additional engraved title..... more
![Item #BB1034 [Emblem Book] Alle De Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe van den Heer Jacob Cats, Ridder,...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1034.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1499794177)
T'Amsterdam / T'Utrecht: Daniel van den Dalen. François Halma. De wed. van A. van Someren / J. en Wilhelm vande Water. Boekverkopers, 1700. Early Reprint. Vellum. Profusely illustrated edition of Cats's complete collected works, first published in 1655. Two folio volumes bound in one, each separately paged and signed, and..... more
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t' Amsterdam: Anthony Schoonenburg, 1723. Three-quarter Calf. Eighteenth-century edition of Cats's masterpiece, with engravings by Breugel’s pupil Adriaan van de Venne. 16mo (152 x 99): [22],538pp, including additional engraved title page and with two hand-colored plates (one folding), showing children playing with crossbows, flying kites, doing handstands, and the like..... more
![Item #BB1554 [Circus] The memoirs of J. Decastro, comedian. In the course of them will be given...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1554.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626092958)
London: Sherwood, Jones, & co, 1824. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this cornerstone of any circus collection (Toole-Stott lists it among his hundred best circus books). Edited by R. Humphreys. Crown 8vo (187 x 107mm): [xx],279,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece and two folding plates, including the certificate of birth, "often wanting." (Lowe)..... more