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ANDRIESSEN, Pieter Jacob. Lotswisselingen op den troon. Twee bladzijden uit het boek der geschiedenis. Amsterdam, Gebroeders Binger, (1873).Original embossed cloth, with gilt decoration on frontcover, spine gilt. With 4 tinted lithographed plates by Emrik & Binger. IV,232 pp. I. De laatste vorst van een groot geslcht (set in Spain); II. Het slachtoffer der heerschzucht (set in England). [Boeknr.: 37373 ]

€ 35,00

BENNET, J. Henry. Winter and spring of the shores of the Mediterranean: or, the Riviera, Mentone, Italy, Corsica, Sicily, Algeria, Spain, and Biarritz, as winter climates. 4th edition. London, John Churchill & Sons, 1870.Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. With chromolithographed frontispiece, folding table, 6 folding coloured maps, 11 engraved plates and 20 illustrations. XVI,621 pp. First published in 1861, its success led to subsequent editions. A handsome companion guide. [Boeknr.: 37321 ]

€ 275,00

BORROW, George (Henry). The Zincali; or, an account of the gypsies of Spain. 4th edition. London, John Murray, 1846.Sm.8vo. Contemporary polished calf with gilt fillets on both sides, spine richly gilt. XX,264 pp. First published in 1841 in an edition of 750 copies. - A very nice copy.Black 558. [Boeknr.: 9716 ]

€ 295,00

BORROW, George. The bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in attempt to circulate the scriptures in the peninsula. 3rd edition. London, John Murray, 1843.3 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spines lettered in gilt (binding J. Carss & Co). XXIII,370; VIII,398; VIII,391 pp. First published in 1842. - George Borrow (1803 - 1881) joined the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1833. In Spain, civil war made his expeditions risky, while the hostile attitude of the authorities, coupled with his own provocative approach, led twice to his imprisonment. The Bible in Spain was 'a runaway success' (Oxford DNB). - A very fine set.Foulché-Delbosc 358 [Boeknr.: 36613 ]

€ 495,00

BOURGOING, Jean François. Modern state of Spain: exhibiting a complete view of its topography, government, laws, religion, finances, naval and military history, establishments; and of society, manners, arts, sciences, agriculture, and commerce in that country. Translated from the last Paris edition of 1807, to which are added, essays on Spain by M. Peyron and the book of post roads. London, John Stockdale, 1808.4 volumes. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, with morocco lables on spines. With large folding map of Spain and 28 folding engraved plates, including 6 of bullfighting, plan of the Bay of Cadiz, Madrid, Gibraltar, Aranjuez, Seville, Alhambra, Cordova, etc. First published in Paris in 1807 Tableau de l'Espagne moderne. The title calls for an atlas volume, but this seems to have been issued separately and is not present here. - A very attractive copy. Foulché-Delbosc 189J; Palau 34062. [Boeknr.: 36620 ]

€ 650,00

CERVANTES SAVEDRA, Miguel de. Den verstandigen Don Quichot de la Mancha. vroomen ridder En uyt de Spaensche in onse Nederlandsche tale overgeset door L(ambert) v(anden) B(osch). Op nieuws overzien, en van veele misstellingen gezuiverd door G. van Broekhuysen. 5e druk. Amsterdam, Willem de Coup, Willem van Lamsveld & Philip Verbeek, 1699.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco title label to spine (foot of spine sl. dam., 1 lower hinge cracked but firmly holding). With engraved frontispiece and 24 engraved plates by L. Scherm. 412; 426,(30) pp. First Dutch edition was published in 1657; first published in Spanish in 1605 - 1615 El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. This Dutch edition has the newly made plates by L Scherm after the original plates by Jacobus Savry. It was the variety, the livelines, and the gibes at the famous, which won it instant fame. Its larger claims, the subdued pathos, its universal humanity, where slower to be appreciated. Don Quixote is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times (Printing and the mind of man 111). All 17th and 18th century editions of the Don Quixote are very rare because they were almost always read to shreds (Muller). - Some stains otherwise a fine copy. Muller 73; Buisman 364. [Boeknr.: 37225 ]

€ 1250,00

FORD, Richard. Gatherings from Spain. Bij the author of the Handbook of Spain; chiefly slected from that book, with much new matter. New edition. London, John Murray, 1851.Original red embossed cloth. X,342 pp. + A descriptive catalogue of Mr. Murray's home and colonial library. London, 1851. 32 pp. First published in 1846. - Including a.o. 2 chapters on bullfighting.Palau 93502; Foulché-Delbosc 415. [Boeknr.: 36780 ]

€ 150,00

KELLER, Gerard. Bergen en dalen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (1878).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),215 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on cities in the mountains of Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Norway and Switzerland. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32908 ]

€ 75,00

KELLER, Gerard. Wouden, kusten en rotsen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (ca. 1880).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),216 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on North-Italy, France, Norway, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Gibraltar. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32910 ]

€ 75,00

KONETZKE, R. Geschichte des spanischen und portugiesischen Volkes. Lpzg., (1939). Half leather. With many illustrations (several in colours). 429 pp. - (Die grosse Weltgeschichte). [Boeknr.: 24265 ]

€ 35,00

LEARY, Lewis Gaston. Andora the hidden republic. Its origin and institutions, and the record of a journey thither. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.Original decorated cloth gilt. With 3 maps and 34 photographic plates. X,(4),191 pp. First edition; title page is embossed 'Presentation Copy' with cover letter from the publisher. - Interesting description of Andorra, a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. [Boeknr.: 36779 ]

€ 75,00

LUDWIG SALVATOR. Alboran. Prag, Heinr. Mercy Sohn, 1898.Folio. Original pictorial cloth. With 2 folding coloured maps, and many plates after drawings by the author. VII,89 pp. First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. Alboran Island is a small islet of Spain (province of Almería) in the Alboran Sea, part of the western Mediterranean Sea, about 56 km north of the Moroccan coast - Fine. [Boeknr.: 36834 ]

€ 575,00

LUDWIG SALVATOR. Columbretes. Prag, Heinr. Mercy, 1895.Folio. Original blue cloth, with illustration on cover in silver. With folding frontispiece, 2 folding coloured maps, mounted on linen, and many illustrations and plates. (14),177 pp. First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. The Columbretes Islands are a group of small uninhabited islets of volcanic origin, in the Mediterranean Sea, 49 kilometres off Orpesa, Spain. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 36815 ]

€ 575,00

MARTENS, Friedrich. Hispanische Reise-Beschreibung de anno 1671. Herausgegeben von W. Junk. Berlin, W. Junk, 1925. Wrappers. With 37 plates. 26 pp. First edition in print of the voyage to Spain by Friedrich Martens, (1635 - 1699), a German physician and naturalist. [Boeknr.: 34647 ]

€ 45,00

MASCART, Jean. Impressions et observations dans un voyage a Tenerife. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, (ca. 1911).Modern half green calf (original wrappers preserved). With map and 211 photographic illustrations. 366 pp. [Boeknr.: 36725 ]

€ 125,00

SALMON, Thomas. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van Spanje en Portugal. Behelzende eene beschryving van de gelegenheid dier ryken .. vaart op de Oost- en Westindien; de natuurlyke historie, enz. Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1759.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine restored). With engraved frontispiece, folding map of Spain and Portugal, folding map of the Strait of Gibraltar and folding plate of Gibraltar, 2 folding plates of Lissabon after the Earthquake and 1 other folding plate depicting an auto da fé (inquisition). (4),662,(18) pp. Part of the series Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. An historical, geographical and ethnological description of the world of encyclopaedical proportions. This volume, published without a number, contains an ample description of Spain and Portugal with a special chapter on their colonies. - (Age-browned).Tiele 1033. [Boeknr.: 21574 ]

€ 375,00

WATSON, (Robert). Histoire du regne de Philippe II, roi d'Espagne. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam, D.J. Changuion, 1778.4 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf (spine ends sl. dam., sl. rubbed). With engraved portrait. Philip II (1527 - 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 and of Portugal from 1581. From 1554 he was King of Naples and Sicily as well as Duke of Milan. During his marriage to Queen Mary I (1554-58), he was also King of England and Ireland. From 1555, he was lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. [Boeknr.: 7007 ]

€ 125,00

WEISS, M.Ch. L'Espagne depuis le règne de Philippe II jusqu'a l'avénement des Bourbons. Paris, Hachette, 1844.2 volumes. Original printed wrapppers. VIII,442; 408 pp. Analysis of the causes of Spanish decline in the 16th and 17th centuries in industry, agriculture and commerce, as well as in literature and art, and examination of the new policies introduced by the Bourbons.Palau 374537. [Boeknr.: 10229 ]

€ 65,00

(ZECH, Sigmund Christian von). Erweiss dass vor Holland, und vor die Freyheit von Europa nichts nützlicher wäre, als wenn Spanien in den Besitz der Oesterreichischen Niederlande gesetzt würde, geführet von A.S. v. Z ( Sigmund Christian von Zech). Strassburg, 1759. 20 pp. It would be more useful if the Austrian Netherlands were to become the property of Spain. [Boeknr.: 34113 ]

€ 45,00

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