Maker’s mark at the bottom of the silver case: CS PS “Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Hollings Shepherd. Floral open-worked cassette with two figures and a silver ring. H. 9 x W. 3,5 x D. 1,5 cm. Contents a Common Prayer book, London 1889.

The 4.25 inch. (10 cm.) spheres applied with twelve printed gores and polar calottes pivoted via the poles within brass half-meridian rings, each mounted on top of alabaster columns with molded capitals, notable entasis to the shafts and Tuscan-style bases, the plinths with gilt fluted black marble cavetto top moldings and roundel-centered skirts incorporating shaped [...]

Folding coloured map, 182 (1) p. 12°. White velvet with silver thread and glass lozenge, marbled endpapers with folding hand-coloured map of Portugal. Sizes: 10 x 5.5 cm.

A very rare Dutch miniature terrestrial globe with a diameter of 2,5 inches / 6 cm. 2 legends are inscribed and seen. One is in the Pacific Ocean in a small cartouche: t’AMSTERDAM / Excudit / Iohannes Deur. The second is in the Indian Ocean: I. Deur Fecit. There are only three recorded examples of [...]

3 delen, (16, 56, 4) 757, (2) 798, (2) 788 (28) p. Origineel Leer met ribben, 4°

Attractive Worldmap, published in the first atlas by Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724). It shows an early double hemisphere, which swirls with activity. The world is shown in two hemispheres with a double hemisphere representation of the celestial world as construed in Classical astronomy above and below. Outside of these circles are many unusual things. At [...]

(titelprent, 22) 620 (12) p. Opnieuw gebonden half oud Perkament, 8°. Stichtelijke en ontdekkende verhandeling van de puritein Daniel Dyke, overleden in 1614 en de broer van Jeremiah Dyke (1584-1639). Uitgave in quarto, dus met een grotere letter dan de duodecimo editie. Keurig exemplaar, Laatste pagina in kopie op oud papier.

A rare pair of miniature terrestrial and celestial globes, each with 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere. Diameter globes: 7 cm. Total high: 14,5 cm. The globes have been cleaned and re-varnished, and the stands are later.

2 works in 1 binding, (titleplate, 214 (2), 424 (8), 96 p. 8°. Multipainted and gold embossed vellum binding. The central field with a large tree of life growing from a heart: “Singet und spielet dem Herrne in eurm Herzen”.

(gegraveerde titelpagina, 7, portret, uitvouwbare kaart) 671, 3 (12) folia. Opnieuw gebonden Perkament met ribben, Folio. Historisch standaardwerk over de Nederlandse geschiedenis vanaf de veertiende eeuw tot 1608 door de historicus en annalist Emanuel van Meteren (1535-1612). Van Meteren baseerde zijn werk op documenten en zijn eigen ervaringen en vulde de geschiedenis aan bij het [...]