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7. PHAEDRUS - Ezopische fabelen van Fedrus, gevryden 4to. (1) 24 pages and 90 plates with flags (12). Thus with 6

slaef des keizers Augustus. In Nederduytsch Dicht leaves of Table at end (often lacking) with catchword on verso of
vertaelt en met Aenmerkingen verryckt door D. van final plate, This is the first French edition. Originally published
Hoogstraten. Amsterdam, Fraņois Halma, 1704. 4to. in Dutch as Allard, C. - Nieuwe Hollandsche Scheepsbouw.
1695. In spite of repairs a very good copy. - € 2.750,-
[36],198, [12]pp. Allegorical frontispiece, title-vignette,
fold. portr., 10 (large) vignettes, 9 historiated initials and
106 circular ills. by J. VAN VIANEN. Cont. vellum.
9. 18th century calligraphical manuscript – VEERSEN,
* Landwehr F181; cat. The Children's World of Learning 3181.. Diemmer van – [Nijmegen], 1725. Written in black & red

Handwritten correction of date at title page. - € 795,-
ink on 29 lvs. 8vo, oblong, original boards in modern
clamshell box. * Two folding lvs.: 1 illuminated folding page
with fine illuminated figures depicting birds, flowers, etc. in

green, gold and red, the other titled ‘Den Gulden A.B.C. Seer
Bequaem Voor Alle Menschen”, written in blue, black and red &
illuminated with flowers in green, gold & red. Further: 25 very
fine illuminated pages. with birds, flowers, large initials, a lion,

a dragon and animals in blue, green, gold and red. The
manuscript ending: “Zwygt en Bedenkt. Looft De Heer in
Nijmegen, den 30, Mey Anno 1725”. With coat-of-arms of the

town of Nijmegen. Provenance : The library of Gerrit Komrij. In
his handwriting on back of the box: “Diemer van Veerssen.
Nijmegen – 1725”. A very fine Dutch illuminated manuscript
with texts of daily life. - € 4.000,-

10. [Satire] – [LISCOW, C. L.] - Vitrea Fracta, Oder des
Ritters Robert Clifton Schreiben an einen gelehrten

Samojeden, betreffend die seltsamen und
nachdencklichen Figuren, welche Derselbe den 13. Jan.
st. v. An. 1732. auf einer gefrornen Fenster-Scheibe

wahrgenommen. Frankfurt und Leipsig, n.p., 1732. Small
8vo., etched frontisp. 46 p., later boards.
* Sl. yellowed/ browned; sm. hole in frontisp.; a few contemp.

scribblings/ underlinings. Christian Ludwig Liscow (1701-
1760), considered the first German satirist of the Enlightenment,
who "verlachte mit treffendem Spott die geschmacklose
hochmutige Schulweisheit der Gelehrten, die fanatische

Orthodoxie der Geistlichkeit und die kriechende Schmeichelei der
Furstendiener" (Goed. V,1, p.35), directs this writing against
the theologician and physician Heinrich Jacob Sivers, who had

recently published a somewhat farfetched and rashly published
theory on the supposed existence of musical notes on stones
8. ALLARD, Carel, a.o. - L’art de batir les vaisseaux et which he had found along the Ostsee coast. In the parody Vitrea
Fracta Liscow, employing the 'Sieverian method', claims to have
d’en perfectionner la construction, de les garnir de leur
apparaux, les mettre en funin, les manœuvrer, &c. Avec discovered a knight's writings to a learned dog in the ice flowers
La coupe d’un vaisseaux du premier rang, les Devis du on a window pane. Liscow's literary qualities have been
considered quite equal to those of the important 18th century
plusieurs fortes de Vaisseaux, les outils & machines des
ateliers de construction, les instruments de poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. - € 125,-
math́matique servans ̀ la navigation, leurs descriptions
& figures; diverses listes & tables concernant la 11. [Spain - Portugal] - [ALVAREZ de COLMENAR,

construction, l’́quipement &c. 2 vol.. Amsterdam, chez Juan] - Beschryving van Spanjen en Portugal; Waar in,
David Mortier. 1719. 4to. (4) 82 pages ; (1) 94 pages. 2 vol. Op het naauwkeurigste, al het geene, dat, zoo ten opzigte
bound in one, in full calf, with a skillfully restored spine van hunnen ouden, als tegenwoordigen staat,
aanmerkens-waardig, noodig en vermaakelijk om te
with raised bans and gilt decorative stripes, with a
contrasting morocco letter-piece, also gilt-lettered. New weeten is, verhaald en door kunstige Print-
endpapers. * Volume one in two parts, (tome I) with one folded verbeeldingen en Land-kaarten aangeweezen werd;
Dienende daar-en-boven (...) tot een duydelijke Weg-
plate, one decorative printer’s mark depicting Desiderius
Erasmus on the title-page, and one text-illustration. (tome II), wijzer, om alle der zelver Landschappen, Grens-paalen,
also with a decorative printer’s mark depicting Desiderius Steeden, Vlekken en Dorpen, op het kortste, veyligste en
gemakkelijkste, te bereyzen. Leyden, P. van der Aa, 1707.
Erasmus on the title-page, 4 folded plates, 15 full-page plates
and 35 text-illustrations (complete).
5 parts in 1 vol. Folio, (16), 80; 84; 128; 52; 56, (64)p., engr.
Volume two : Les pavillons ou bannìres que la plupart des frontisp., title-vignette, dedic. plate, large folding map of
nation aborent en mer, comme sont ceux d’Angleterre, the Iberian Peninsula, fold. profile of Barcelona from the
harbour, 31 mainly half page maps/ plans, 133 mainly half
d’Ecosse et d’Irlande, des provinces unies du Pais-bas, de
l’Espagne, du Portugal, de l’Italie, de France, dus page views and plates, large tailpiece (showing the
Dannemarc, de la Sùde, de la Pologne, de Prusse, de "Burcht" of Leyden), contemp. gilt calf, folio. * Browned/
yellowed throughout. Joints restored. Folding map of the Iberian
l’Allemagne, de Moscovie, de Turquie, de Barbarie, et des
Indes Orientales, &c. Amsterdam, chez David Mortier. 1718.
Peninsula expertly restored. First and only edition of the Dutch

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