Varia from Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books

Leiden,: D. Noothoven van Goor,, (1869-1873).. 2 volumes printed in double columns (4832), x, 1248; [iv], 1168 pp. Large 8vo (16,5 x 25 cm.). Contemporary half dark brown calf, spines gilt lettered and numbered on black and red morocco labels .-- (spines & joints partly rubbed; front joint of volume 2 weak and bottom partly damaged; corners slightly bumped;… Read more about this item

Paris,: Librairie Centrale des Sciences,, (1933).. 231, [i] pp. Small 8vo (12 x 19 cm.). Original printed wrappers, (slightly soiled), uncut. With 62 illustrations. ¶ Loosely inserted 20 coloured plates of gems.-- (Underlinings; paper age toned).

Amsterdam,: Architectura & Natura,, 1991.. 32, 64, [ii] pp. Oblong 4to (24 x 21,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With test illustrations 64 magnificent coloured photographs by Jan Derwig. ¶ A photographic guide to The famous Dutch architectural movement from ca, 1910-1930.

Paris,: Gallimard,, (1979).. 242, [iv] pp. Small 8vo (11 x 17,5 cm.). Original simili leather, spine gilt decorated. With the printed dust jacket. and original slip-case. With 392 illustrations. ¶ Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Conçu et réalisé spécialement à l'occasion de la Quinzaine de la Pléiade 1979.

Padova,: Giuseppe Corona,, 1732.. [vi], 156 pp. 12mo (8 x 14,5 cm.). Contemporary vellum & red marbled edges (slightly stained). ¶ Good copy of the first italian translation of Duguet's famous 'Traité des Scrupule' (1717). No copy in the BNF nor in the N.U.C.

Bruxelles,: Ern. Thille, (n.d. ca. 1950).. 21 plates in helio-engraving. Oblong 8vo (20,5 x 15 cm.). Original decorative wrappers.

Amsterdam,: Johannes van Heekeren,, (1705).. [x], 316, 11, [i] pp. 12mo (8 x 13,3 cm.). Bound in a fine contemporary (speudo) "reliure à la Fanfare in the style of Le Gascon. Sides richly tooled in gold, panel design with drawer handle motifs and interlacings à la pointillé. Spine with 6 raised bands, in compartments gilt decorated with floral motifs… Read more about this item

Paris,: E. Flammarion,, 1919.. [iv], vii, [i, blank], 288 pp. 12mo (12 x 18,5 cm.). Half green cloth over marbled boards, spien gilt lettered, original coloured lithographed wrappers bound in. With numerous black & white illustrations by Louis Morin. ** First illustrated edition. An almost forgotten novel about Opium, set in the exotic location of Indocine, and with many… Read more about this item

Paris,: G. Fortin,, (1930).. [xxxii], 511, [i] pp. 8vo. (16 x 25 cm.). Original half cloth (slightly faded; some small stains). With several plates, art-deco decorations and an 20 pp. illustrated catalogue of piano's. ¶ The complete catalogue of musical scores published by Fortin up to that date, including piano, vocal, dance and instrumental music arranged by composer. -… Read more about this item

[s.l.n.d.], [ca. 1910].. Pictorial; post card of the brewing room of the former brewery of the Hoogstraten (Antwerpen) seminary. Inscribed on the verso, with a stamp. Size: 13,8 x 9 cm.

Bruges,: L. de Plancke,, 1901.. vi, [ii], 56 pp. Small8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly dust soiled and some slight rubbings), uncut. With 2 plates. ¶ The rare original edition, including a description of Hôpital Saint-Jean. Copy with some pensil annotations. Added are 4 newspaper cuts related to Memling and Jan van Eyck.

Bruxelles,: J. Moris,, 1759.. vi, 283, [xiii] pp. Small 8vo (10,5 x 16,5 cm.). Bound in 19th century half olive morocco, spine divided into 5 compartments with 7 quadruple gilt rulers, gilt lettered; 4 blind tooled floral ornaments in 4 compartments; marbled end papers (partly some very slight rubbing). Title printed in red and black. With some… Read more about this item

Namur,: D. Gerard,, (n.d. ca. 1838).. 2 parts in one volume: 89, [iii, blank] pp. 8vo (14 x 22,5 cm.). Contemporary full long grained red morocco, sides gilt tooled with a double border and corner pieces, floral decoration in the centre; spine gilt tooled with decorative lines and 5 dots in the compartments; edges gilt; marbled end-papers (partly very… Read more about this item

Lille,: Emile, Raoust,, 1929.. [iv], xlii, 502 pp. 8vo (14 x 23 cm.). Original orange printed wrappers, entirely unopened and uncut. With 24 black and white plates. ¶ The standard reasoned catalogue of the work of Cornelis Engebrechtsz (1475-1527), who lived in Leiden and established a large and productive workshop there that trained many important painters. He primarily painted… Read more about this item

Paris,: Chez Guillot, Libraire de Monsieur,, 1785.. viii, [9]-193, [i], 8 pp. 12mo. (11 x 18 cm.). Sewn, entirely uncut (à la barbe), loose contemporary grey wrappers (spine strip gone); preserved in modern blue blind wrappers and a wooden drop box. ¶ The very rare first edition of a series of letters by a French naval officer who was… Read more about this item

Leiden,: P. van Santen, [n.d. ca. 1879]. [iv], 231, [i] pp. Small 8vo (14 x 20 cm.). Contemporary half brown Marocco, raisen bands, gilt lettered (slightly rubbed & faded; corners rubbed). With numerous xylographic (wood engravings) plates in the text. An early Dutch edition of Verne's most popular text. Bound with: Jules VERNE, Avonturen van drie Russen en drie… Read more about this item

Paris,: Delarue,, (1893?).. [iv], v, 166 pp. Small 8vo (12,5 x 18,5 cm.). 8vo (12,5 x 18,5 cm.). Original coloured printed wrappers (nice skating scene), uncut (back strip gone; some minute loss of paper from the outer corners of the first side). With 52 illustrations (engravings) in the text. Rare. One of the few 19th century French works on… Read more about this item

Amsterdam,: G. Theod. Bom,, (1876).. [viii], 96, [iv, publisher's catalogue] pp. Small 8vo. (13.5 x 20 cm.). Original printed wrappers (spine strip and rear side gone; front side dust soiled and some holes, mice?). With 24 finely made-up stage portraits on 4 lithographed plates. A classic on the make up art in a rare Dutch translation.--(Half title spotted; partly… Read more about this item

'Paris,: A. Desrez,, 1836.. 2 volumes: [viii], xii, 636; viii, 876 pp. 4to (17,6 x 25,6 cm.). Uniformly bound in red polished calf. A splendid and most exuberant Simier binding: Front and rear sides with large blind stamped center medaillion (un beau décor à plaque romantique, 111 x 196 mm.) showing ornamental and peacock motifs, octavo gilt rullers… Read more about this item

Paris,: Albin Michel,, (1927).. 268, [iv] pp. Small 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers, uncut. With 18 photographic plates. ¶ First French edition of the narrative of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile flight over the North Pole in 1926, in the airship 'Norge', from King's Bay in West Spitzbergen to Teller, Alaska. The airship 'Norge' was in fact the Italian airship 'Italia' which was… Read more about this item