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Description of the world with 645 plates: a rare complete copy

Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706).
Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V.
Frankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719.
5 volumes in 2. 8°. (IX), (VIII), (IV), 263, (1); 276, (24); 170 (22); 519, (1 blank), (XLV), (1 blank); 418, (LXXXIV) pp. = complete with errata leaves.With 645 plates (618 numbered, 5 frontispieces, 17 portraits, 5 unnumbered or wrongly numbered plates). The main title in vol. 1 erroneously mentions 650 plates. See full index of plates below.
An exceptionally rare complete copy of Alain Manesson Mallet's "Description of the World". This remarkable work, here in the second edition of the German translation, provides the reader with a guide to countless places in the world, divided in four parts: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. This is preceded by an introduction to cosmography and geography. The illustrations show maps, cities, people and particularities of the places that are… Read More

A masterpiece of Dutch Golden Age printmaking
Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629).
Maniement d'armes d'arqvebuses, movsquets, et piqves. En conformité de l'ordre de Monseigneur le Prince Maurice, Prince d'Orange, Comte de Nassau etc. Gouverneur et Capitain General de Geldres, Hollande, Zeelande, Utrecht, Overijssel etc. Representé par figures, par Jaques de Gheijn. Ensemble les enseignemens par escrit, a l'utilite de tous amateurs des armes, et ausi pour tous capitaines & commandeurs, pour par cecy, pouvoir plus facillement enseigner a leurs soldatz inexperimentez, l'entier et parfait maniement dicelles armes […].
Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, On les vend' ausi a Amsterdam chez Henrij Laurens, 1608 [= imprint date changed in the plate from 1607 to 1608, but according to STCN, in fact not before 1610].
Folio. Three parts in one volume. [5], 42 pl.; [4], 43 pl.; [5], 32 pl.
Collates: π, X, A-B1, 42 ll; A-B1, 43 ll; a-b1, [c]1, 32 ll.
Getty: [14] p., 32, 43, 42 leaves of plates.
Contemporary vellum… Read More

Unrecorded Dutch anti-Catholic treatise, with prominent Utrecht provenance


François [de la Salle] Monginot (1569-1637); Daniel Costerus (1620(?)-1646) [translator].

Ontbindinge der twijffelingen ofte corte en clare verhandelinge van de voornaemste verschillen tusschen de Gereformeerde ende de Roomsche Kercke […].

Utrecht, Amelis Janssz van Paddenburgh, 1631.

8°. [34], 83, [3] pp. A-G8, H4.

Contemporary vellum.



Rare (not in STCN) first and only Dutch edition of a plea to Catholics to convert as Protestants. First published in French in La Rochelle, 1617 as Résolution des doutes, ou Sommaire décision des controverses entre l'Église réformée et l'Église romaine, in which Monginot explains why he converted from the Catholic to the Protestant faith.
This translation was dedicated to the magistrates of Utrecht and approved by the Dutch Synod. Translator Daniël Costerus, a preacher in Houten near Utrecht, added a 14-page preface and a 3-page prayer at the end. The only STCN record of… Read More

Large VOC watercolour view of Porto Praia, Cape Verde
Johann Christian Friderici [= Frederici] (Heldburg 1766 - Cape Town 1804).
Prospect van het eyland, en de rheede van St. Iago. Geteekend van Johann Christian Friderici / Verbeelding van de inwoonders op St Iago.
Porto Praia, Cape Verde, 1783.
Watercolour with ruled black ink border on laid paper, watermarked Pro Patria with Maid of Dort. 29,5 x 120,5 cm.
The largest recorded early modern panoramic view of Cape Verde, by "the best VOC map maker in South Africa" (Koeman). This is his earliest known work.Santiago's Porto Praia is the main harbour of Cape Verde. It served as an important transportation hub of enslaved African people to the Americas and for the restocking of ships bound for the Cape with salt and fresh foods. These two functions of the island are depicted in the cartouche in the top right. It shows an African family and examples of livestock: a turkey and a goat. The man wears clothes that are also seen in depictions of plantation… Read More