Rare Books Berlin - Internationale Messe für Bücher und Graphik

Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin.

Les délices de l'esprit. Dialogues dediez aux beaux esprits du monde. 4 volumes in one. With 4 engraved titles, 18 engraved plates and numerous woodcut vignettes. 35,5 x 23 cm. Contemporary marbled calf (slightly rubbed, scratched and spotted) with gold pressed spine title and gilt spine. Paris, Florentin Lambert, 1661.

800,- EUR
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Robert Estienne.

Dictionarium Latinogallicum. 2 leaves., 575 pages. With large woodcut printer's device on title page and 19 woodcut 14-lines initials. 31,5 x 21 cm. Brown calf of the late 16th century (scratched, restaured) with some blind fillets. Paris, Estienne, 1538.

2000,- EUR
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Libri de Horas de los Reyes Católicos - Voustre Cemeure.

Book of Hours by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Ms. Vit 25-5 - 78 B 13 of the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid, the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. Facsimile and commentary. 2 volumes. 14 x 10.5 cm and 33 x 23.5 cm respectively. Green calf leather over wooden boards with narrow gold-embossed borders on the spine and covers, featuring a metallic-enamelled coat of arms on the front cover, 2 clasps and gold edging on three sides, housed in a green old leather slipcase (hardly rubbed) with a gold-embossed title on the spine. Commentary with bound in brown gilt linen with an illustrated dust jacket. Valencia, Patrimonio, 2009.

2400,- EUR
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José Rodríguez de Castro. - The Library of the Spanish Monarchs in Madrid

Biblioteca española. 2 volumes. 17 leaves., 668 pages., 84 leaves; 5 leaves., 748 pages., 1 leaf. 32,5 x 22 cm. Contemporary marbled calf (scratched, bumped, rubbed, capitals worn scratched, with tears and small missing sections, and covers with slight losses) with a gold-embossed coat of arms and rich gilding. Madrid, Real de la Gazeta, 1781-1786.

1000,- EUR
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

Opera quae exstant omnia: a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholis illustrata. Editio quarta, atque ab ultima Lipsi manu. 8 leaves, XXXVI, 911 pages. With engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, full-page portrait engraving and 3 (2 full-page) engravings. 41 x 25 cm. Contemporary brown calf (capitals worn and torn, a little scratched, bumped and rubbed) with formerly gold embossed spine and spine label (oxidized). Amsterdam, Plantin-Moretus, 1652.

500,- EUR
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Utagawa Kunisada

Yoshida. Ukiyo-e color woodblock print from the “Tokaido” series. Tokyo (Edo), circa 1863.

150,- EUR
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Kobayashi Kiyochika

Battle between Japanese and Chinese troops at Songhwan. ‘A great victory for our troops at Seikan’ (in Japanese: ‘Seikan ni oite Nisshin gekisen, waga hei daisho zu’). Triptych. 3 ukiyo-e colour woodblock prints mounted on Japanese paper. Oban tate-e format (38.5 x 27 cm). Tokyo, c. 1894.

200,- EUR
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

A double portrait of two Kabuki actors, one of whom is dressed as a geisha. Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tobi-no-mono Omatsuri Kingorô and Bandô Shûka I as the geisha Gaku no Kosan. Ôban tate-e format. 35.5 x 24 cm. Edo (Tokyo), after 1852.

120,- EUR
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Kanadehon Chushingura (The Loyalty of the Forty-Four Ronin). Ukiyo-e colour woodblock print. Ôban yoko-e format. 25 x 37 cm. Edo (Tokyo), c. 1855.

250,- EUR
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