Livres anciens - modernes
Location: 1566
Date: Lyon, Antoine Gryphe, 1566
Format: 340 x 220mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Petit in-folio de 4 ff., 365 pp. & 12 ff.n.ch. , veau fauve, plats conservés ornés d'un médaillon doré au centre, filet doré encadrant les plats. (reliure de l'époque). Reliure en partie restaurée, dos et coins refaits. Coupes et plats frottés.
Unique édition de cet ouvrage, rare lorsqu'il est complet de ses planches. L'illustration entièrement gravée sur bois compren..
3 500€
Location: 1588
Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588
Format: 276 x 204mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Folio. With the famous large folding engraved map "Leo Belgicus", engraved title page, portrait of von Aitsingzer, 207 (of 208) double-page engravings, 430pp. Apparently there are at least two different editions from 1588 with different contents. Contemporary brown calf binding, gold tooled label, Spine gilt in compartments, Wanting 1 double-page engraving (373-374). Corners, edges and joints somewhat rubbed and used. Tear at top left of title repaired, a few tiny holes along the folds of the map.
ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belg..
39 000€
Location: 1618
Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
Format: 130 x 180mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Oblong 8vo (text) & small oblong 4to (plates) (13 x 18 cm). With 2 portraits, 8 engraved armorial plates. The first 2 sheets of text are cropped and have extended lower margins. These are followed by 30 engraved views or scenes most with a Latin text at the foot. Interleaved. Contemp. calf, gold-tooled spine.
Charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and , 8 engraved armorial plates. Followed by..
4 500€
Location: 1669
Date: Paris, l'Auteur, s.d., ca.1669
Format: 210 x 290mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-8 oblong ; veau brun (reliure de l'époque restaurée).Traces de mouillures sur le contreplat. Exemplaire frais intérieurement malgré d'infimes trous de vers marginaux n'affectant pas les cartes. - 3 parts in one. 8vo oblong, contemp. Brown calf. Binding used. Small marginal wormholes not affecting the maps, otherwise maps in very good condition. The general title "Diverses cartes et tables… is lacking.
Edition C sans date, variante. Cartes géographiques dressées pour bien entendre les Historiens… / La Chronologie en plusieurs..
7 000€
Location: 1672
Date: Paris, P. Duval, ca. 1667-1672
Format: 142 x 90mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Contemp. brown calf with gilt raised spine. 4 parts in 1 vol. Paris: P. Duval around 1667-72. 13.5 x 8.3 cm. With an additional 5 double-page engraved titles, 43 maps, and 28 double engraved text sheets. Partly slight marginal tears, minor signs of wear and a little age-spotted in the 4th volume are missing the panels of the province of Artois and Franche comté.
Compilation of Duval's Pocket Atlas, with an archbishoprics and dioceses description of the world, here right at the beginnin..
3 000€
Location: 1673
Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1673
Format: 395 x 265mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-folio ; 327, 18, 106pp., frontispice gravé, une carte de la Chine, un plan de Canton, 18 illustrations à pleine page et 93 in-texte gravées sur cuivre. Intérieur un peu bruni avec rousseurs.
FIRST ENGLISH TEXT EDITION of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by Jo..
8 500€
Location: 1685
Date: Paris, ca. 1685
Format: 460 x 330mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-folio brown marbled calf, spine in 5 raised bands with gilt compartments, red morocco label (rebound in a 17th century binding) Book block 46x33cm. In-folio brown marbled calf, spine in 5 raised bands with gilt compartments, red morocco label (rebound in a 17th-century binding) Book block 46x33cm. The atlas includes 90 maps together with a manuscript list of the maps.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I J..
95 000€
![SILVESTRE, I. - [Plans et vues du château Versailles et autres villes de France.]](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/13792-275x210h.jpg "SILVESTRE, I. - [Plans et vues du château Versailles et autres villes de France.]")
Location: 1689
Date: Paris, 1664-1689
Format: 480 x 370mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-folio de 28 planches ; veau fauve marbré, encadrement de triple filet doré, armoiries royales frappées or au centre des plats, dos à nerfs orné du chiffre royal couronné répété 5 fois au sein de fleurs de lys et roulette fleurdelysée, roulette dorée sur les coupes, roulette intérieure dorée, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
Recueil sans titre contenant 23 planches gravées par Israël Silvestre, dont 14 vues de Versailles et 9 autres vues de Marsal,..
12 500€
Location: 1690
Date: Paris, Nicolas Langlois, ca. 1690
Format: 290 x 390mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-folio oblong de 232 planches ; veau brun, dos à nerfs orné, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque). Reliure frottée, coins et coiffes émoussés. Coiffe en pied en partie détachée. Dos frotté et petit manque de peau au niveau de la pièce de titre. Quelques planches ont été réemmargées pour les adapter à la dimension du volume.
Recueil de vues de Perelle père et fils dont la composition est la suivante : - Vues des belles maisons de France (10 pl.). -..
8 500€
Location: 1700
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Format: 415 x 265mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 2 Volumes in contemp. brown calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, 2 red title-labels. Engraved titles, 2 portraits, 3 double-page plates, and over 400 engravings.
A very good example of the collected works of the most celebrated Dutch author of the seventeenth century. Illustrated with o..
1 900€
Location: 1726
Date: Dordrecht /Amsterdam, 1724-1726
Format: 370 x 235mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Five folio volumes in eight luxury later half leather bindings, including 266 plates and maps, including a folding portrait of the author, an allegorical title and engraved dedication leaf with vignette, numerous text illustrations (two full-page), and 9 folding tables. Volume 1; complete, in excellent condition with just some minor professional restorations; Volume 2; complete with minor professional restorations. Volume 3-1: complete, some water stains and damage on the bottom right side of the book; Volume 3-2; complete with some foxing on title page; Volume 4-1; missing 4 portraits p 296,297,346 and 350, map p 26 is professionally restored, two maps of Batavia later added; Volume 4-2: complete, some water stains throughout the whole book in the top right corner. Volume 5-1: complete only plate 32 is upside down. Volume 5-2: complete but with water stains in the top part of the second half of the book. Overall: All plates and maps are in excellent condition if not otherwise stated. The book block 37 x 23.5 cm.
"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give..
23 500€
Location: 1730
Date: Augsbourg, ca. 1730
Format: 390 x 240mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-folio de 157 planches ; plein vélin, dos à 5 nerfs, tranche mouchetée, titre au dos inscrit à la plume en italien (reliure postérieure). Coins frottés. Ex-libris armorié avec la devise : "Bene vivere et laetari" (bien vivre et se réjouir).
Rare recueil composite d'estampes publiées à Augsbourg par les célèbres éditeurs Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel et les..
9 500€
Location: 1734
Date: Venice, 1734
Format: 200 x 130 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 8vo. Contemp. vellum. 512pp. Illustrated with 4 plates including one with Japanese people. 1 folding view of Deshima and two folding maps of Japan and the Philippines with Italian text after I. Tirion.
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Besi..
1 000€
Location: 1742
Date: Paris, 1742
Format: 170 x 100mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Printed title, 252pp. Good condition.
Third edition, Voume I, second part containing "Catalogue des meilleures cartes geographiques", starting with a list of globe..
375€
Location: 1746
Date: Paris, 1746
Format: 540 x 400mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Paris, Chez l'Auteur Sur le Quay de l'Horloge du Palais à l'Enseigne de LA PLACE DES VICTOIRES a la descente du Pont-Neuf. Avec Privilege du ROI. 1746.<br>Folio. With a frontispiece, 123 mostly double page maps in original outline colour and a 4 pages manuscript list of contents. 18th century brown calf, gilt spine with raised bands (binding carefully restored). Maps in very good condition despite some small restoration work, the paper is very slightly age-toned as is usual, with a few brown spots. Generally in very fine condition.<br>The frontispiece in this example has like in the other known examples the engraved date 170[.], for this example the manuscript addition changing the date into 1746. Bound at the end we find a 4 page manuscript table of contents, according to this list the title page and 3 maps are wanting (36, 91 and 101).
The present example of the Théâtre du monde is the reissue of 1746 by Jean-Baptiste Nolin II. This scarce atlas is illustrate..
115 000€
Location: 1748
Date: Augsbourg, 1748
Format: 205 x 170mm.
Color: Beau col. ancien.
Condition: Contemp. half calf spine with gilt label. Fronti, title page,pp. 12,9,cxixi; 368;3,30 double page maps414,7,140, table 19pp. illustrated with 17 folding maps, 556,10pp.
A rare manual and containing geographical descriptions of all continents. Illustrated with 30 very finely engraved and colour..
6 000€
Location: 1750
Date: Delft, 1712-1750
Format: 580 x 430mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Large-folio. Cont. mottled calf with raised bands, richly decorated. gilt back, gilt lettering 'Delfland' on both sides, surrounded by 2 gilt decorated. borders. Engraved title in 2 parts, engr. general map (2nd, altered edition, dated 1750) 25 numbered maps.
The so-called Kruquius map is a wall-map of the Delfland water board district. The map consists of 25 engraved map sheets. Se..
4 500€
Location: 1760
Date: Ballard, Paris, 1760
Format: 97 x 60mm.
Color: Beau col. ancien.
Condition: In-16. 1 volume in 16 relié en plein maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs fleurdelysé, plats richement ornés. Bel exemplaire entièrement gravé et illustré d’un frontispice, 1 titre, catalogue 2ff., avertissement 1 ff. et 26 cartes sur double page rehaussées en couleur.
Les cartes, gravées par Durand et Le Roy, portent toutes le nom de l’auteur et ont été réduites par Giovanni Antonio Battista..
2 200€
Location: 1763
Date: Paris, Savoye, Despilly, Duchesne, Dessaint et Saillant, Guillyn, Grange et Dufour, et l'Auteur, 1763
Format: 275 x 215mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-4 de VIII-XXXIV-122-XII pp. et (1) f. ; titre gravé, une planche à double page et 25 cartes aquarellées à double-page ; demi-veau fauve, dos à cinq nerfs orné de roulettes dorées, étiquette de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges. Plats recouverts de papier (reliure restaurée). Les pp. 21 à 24 reliées après la p. 28, 2 cahiers numérotés 97 à 100 mais avec un autre texte, les pp. 105 à 108 n'existent pas mais pas de manque dans le texte.
Illustré d'un titre gravé à double-page, d'une planche gravée à double-page (Statue Equestre de Louis le bien Aimé) et de 25 ..
1 200€
Location: 1763
Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
Format: 242 x 283 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: (2pp), title page with engraved vignette, table of contents, 630pp, (2pp), 9 fold-out maps (cpl.), contemporary full calf leather binding with ribbed spine with floral motif, and a mention of title and volume, red edges.<br />Paper very slightly browned,
Volume 21 of this informative publication with a description of the discoveries, conquests, and settlements by the Portuguese..
1 100€
Location: 1771
Date: London, S. Crowder and S. Gamidge, 1771
Format: 310 x 200mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: [iii], 48 p., [8], 64pp. many leaves of have engraved plates, illustrated with : ill., 7 maps. ; 31 cm (fo.). Third edition.
Two works bound together. Small folio. (c.30 x 20 cm). 2ll.+pp.48; 2ll.+64. Bound in modern half calf over marbled boards, re..
1 750€
Location: 1773
Date: Zurich, Johann Kaspar Ziegler, 1754-1773
Format: 206 x 167 mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: 4to. 3 parts in 3 volumes, titles printed in red and black, frontispiece and 326 engraved views, plans and maps (most folding). Contemporary vellum, titles printed in gold on spines. - 1rst volume : [1] leaf, [2], VIII, [34], 15, pp, page 3 to 98 (page 1 missing), page 103 to 270 (two times pages 193 to 196), [6] pp. - 2nd volume : [2] leaves, page 173 to 257 (wrong numbered), page 459 to 476, 277 to 442 (wrong numbered). - 3rd volume : [1] leaf, [6], 8 pp, page 1 to 22, 25 to 30, 34 to 38, 41 to 59 (recto), 224 (verso) to 225, 62 (verso) to 70.
First edition of Herrliberger's work on the topography of Switzerland. - The rarest book on Switzerland rarely found complete..
5 000€
Location: 1778
Date: Amsterdam 1778
Format: 210 x 120mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Contemp. half, spine ribbed and gilted. Frontispiece, title page, 202pp. description in Dutch of all countries, Empires, index and 42 folding maps.
Second edition of this charming travel compendium which is becoming rather scare now-a-days.Illustrated with a charming front..
2 750€
Location: 1786
Date: Paris, 1732- 1786
Format: 580 x 375mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Atlas in elephant folio (book block measuring 580x375 mm.), bound in modern. half calf with gilted label on spine "ATLAS DE D'ANVILLE", 59 pages multisheet maps, actual map sheet count is 42. Maps dated 1743-1786. This set is accompanied by a 4 pages printed broadsheet "Mémoire instructif. . . En Mars MDCCXXXII D'Anville, Geographe ordinaire du Roy. Permis d'imprimer ce 21 Mars 1732, Herault" and 4 pages manuscript text in pen and brown ink "Mémoire instructif pour faire la carte (de d'Anville)…"<br>Very good condition inside the book block, the two sheet map of Africa has slight overall browning, the others printed on fine white thick paper and coloured in outline.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was perhaps the most important and prolific cartographer of the 18th century.He engraved ..
19 000€