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APICIUS, Caelius.

Apicii Coelii de Opsoniis et Contimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria Libri Decem. Cum Annotationibus Martini Lister, è Medicis domesticis serinssimae Maje- statis reginae annae, et notis selectioribus, variisque lectionibus integris, Humelbergii, Barthii, Reinesii, A Van der Linden, & Aliorium, et & variarum lectionum libello. ¹ Amstelodami [Amsterdam] : Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1709. Second edition of the text as edited and annotated by Martin Lister; first privately published London, 1705 in a limited edition of 120 copies. Octavo (175x110mm) contemporary full sheep boards, raised bands, gilt decorated spine in 5 compartments, tan gilt spine label, all edges decorated, 'antique spot' marbled endpapers to pastedowns, [40], 277,[43]pp : π², ✱⁶, ✱✱⁸, ✱✱⁴, A - V⁸. Monochrome engraved frontispiece by Jan Goeree (1670-1731) showing five cooks in a kitchen preparing a meal; title page in red and black; several engraved floriated initials and ornamental tailpieces. Boards faintly sprung, edges faintly rubbed; spine label chipped; ownership notes in ink from 1800 to front free endpaper; ex-libris label "Skjenket til Fyens Stiftsbibliothek af Biskop Dr. Fr. Plum. 1834" to front paste-down; pages lightly and evenly agetoned, some light buckling; faded dampstain to top edge.

Sachgebiete: Gastronomie, Kochbücher, Medizin

01.09.2026 - 14:37

1350,- EUR

Books for Cooks

Barrière, (?)

Les oiseaux de volières et de parcs avec planches coloriées d’après nature. Bordeaux, Imprimerie Nouvelle Typo-Lithographique A. Bellier et Cie 1886. (4), 120 pages, 50 chromolithographed plates after Barrière, very decorative chromolithographed front wrapper bound in. Cont. red calf spine on five raised bands, second compartment with gilt stamped title, all others with floral gilt stamped vignette. Front cover with blind stamped initials "J. D. de N.". Marbled end-papers. 4to (275 x 215 mm). Upper spine end with tiny defect.

Sachgebiete: Ornithologie

01.09.2026 - 14:36

3200,- EUR

Antiquariat Banzhaf

Barthélemy d‘Herbelot de Molainville

Bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Leurs histoires et traditions veritables ou fabuleuses. Leurs religions, sectes et politique (…). Paris, par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1697. Title printed in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (32), 1059, (1) pages (recte 1057 pages) printed in two columns. Cont. French red morocco on six raised bands, second compartment with gilt stamped title, all others richly gilt, covers framed by gilt triple rules, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. Endpapers lined with marbled paper. Folio (385 x 248 mm). Extremities rubbed, covers with a few stains.

Sachgebiete: Orient

01.09.2026 - 14:33

2500,- EUR

Antiquariat Banzhaf

Odet-Julien Leboucher

Histoire de la dernière guerre, entre la Grande-Bretagne, et les États-Unis de l'Amérique, la France, l'Espagne et la Hollande, depuis son commencement en 1775 jusqu'à sa fin en 1783. Paris, Brocas, 1787. XXXIV, 357, (3) pages, 7 engraved large folding maps on guards, 2 large folding tables. Extra-illustrated with 9 engravings among others with portraits of B. Franklin, J. Hancock, W. Pitt, G. Washington, members of the Première Assemblée du Congrès, a conflagration in New York, and other allegorical and historical subjects. Two strictly contemporary and relevant manuscripts further added: 1. A 10-page quarto size manuscript dated decembre 1789 with a focus on maritime issues, with signature of the anonymous author "Votre très humble et très obeissant serviteur, un ami de l’auteur de l’histoire de la derniere guerre. Paris le 27 decembre 1789"; and 2. A single sheet of manuscript in quarto format with drop-head title, text on recto and verso, in black and reddish ink: "Recit entierement conforme à la vérité supprimé dans le manuscrit original, par ordre superieur en juin 1786, à inserer de la maniere suivante, page 344 après le mot famine." Last leaf of the first part (O2, pages 107/108) in two states with significant differences in text. Cont. green boards on five raised bands, with gilt stamped red morocco label in second compartment, all edges uncut. 4to (284 x 206 mm). Extremities lightly rubbed.

Sachgebiete: Amerika, Geschichte

01.09.2026 - 13:57

9000,- EUR

Antiquariat Banzhaf

[PROPAGANDE FIDE]

Augusto Friderico, magnae Britanniae principi, Georgii Regis filio, Carmina linguis exoticis in honorem Dei pueri a tribus magis adorati … [Rome : Propaganda Fide Press, 1793], Folio (360 x 230 mm), original decorative paper wrappers (upper wrapper almost detached, and lacking backstrip); ff. [1 blank], I-XXIII (i.e. 23 numbered leaves); printed on recto only and within an ornamental border; engraved arms of the Duke of Sussex at the head of title-page; verso of first blank with early library shelf mark in manuscript, title-page with two old Propaganda Fide stamps, ‘CVPF’ and ‘BMPF’, indicating the volume was at one time in the library of the Collegium Urbanum and also (probably later) in its main library; scattered light spotting, a very good example, housed in a handsome quarter crimson morocco clamshell box with black leather title-labels in gilt. A rare polyglot publication printed in Rome on 13 January 1793 by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Propaganda Fide), consisting of 36 versions of a Latin panegyric poem in praise of the Christ Child adored by the Magi, rendered in 36 different languages. The original poem was composed by an alumnus of the Pontifical Urban College, and these 36 versions were recited in the presence of Prince Augustus Frederick (the son of King George III of Great Britain and his queen consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) to honour his visit to the college on New Year’s Day, 1793. Pope Pius VI approved the dedication to the Prince. Not only do the various versions represent a wide range of Indo-European, non-Indo-European and ancient languages, but they are rendered in their own scripts. The many typographical specimens showcase the considerable variety of exotic metal typefaces developed by the Propaganda Fide press which were in use in the eighteenth century, and which reflect the global extent of Catholic missions. The languages (and their relevant scripts) include Ethiopic, Coptic, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Syriac, Hebrew, Chaldean, Sanskrit, Brahmi, Illyrian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Greek (Classical and Modern), Etruscan, Irish Gaelic, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Tibetan, Tangut, and Turkish.

Sachgebiete: Sprachwissenschaft

29.08.2026 - 07:44

1500,- EUR

Douglas Stewart Fine Books (Australia)

RIEMER, Gustav Adolf (1842-1899)

Reise S.M.S. Stosch nach China und Japan 1881-1883. Photographirt und herausgegeben v. G. Riemer, Marine Zahlmeister. Band II [of 2] See- und Schiffsbilder. Leipzig : F. A. Brockhaus, 1883. Oblong folio (300 x 400 mm), original red cloth over boards decorated and lettered in gilt, upper board with titles in German, Chinese and Japanese (some light flecking and minor stains, lower board with damp staining), original red morocco spine lettered in gilt; all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated endpapers; title leaf, contents leaf, 6 pp. text, illustrated with 59 Woodburytypes (numbered 59-117) mounted on rectos of 19 boards (“Taf. 20-38”); most images 100 x 165 mm, some larger, with captions printed below the images on the mount; contents – including all prints – in very fine condition. Gustav Adolf Riemer (1842-1899) joined the Prussian Marines in 1859. He served as paymaster on the voyage of the S.M.S. Hertha to the Far East and the South Sea islands in 1874-77. Riemer was a keen amateur photographer and took several hundred photographs during this expedition, documenting his ship’s visits to the Philippines, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Vladivostock, Canton, Amoy, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, the Palau Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Auckland, and King George’s Sound (Albany, Western Australia). In 1878 Riemer self-published a photographic album of the voyage, Tagebuchs-Auszug betreffend die Reise S.M.S. “Hertha” nach Ost-Asien und den Sudsee-Inseln, 1874-1877 (Wilhelmshaven : G. Riemer, 1878). After serving on the S.M.S. Meteor, Riemer was appointed paymaster on the S.M.S. Stosch. The photographs in the present album – the second in a set of two, of which the first volume is rarely found – were taken on trips which the Stosch made to China and Japan in 1881-83. The photographs record in detail the great variety of duties of a German naval crew during a long sea voyage at this time, documenting its activities above and below decks, as well as the ship undergoing repairs in dock.

29.08.2026 - 07:39

1500,- EUR

Douglas Stewart Fine Books (Australia)

HAY, John, 1546-1607

De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores. A Joanne Hayo Dalgatttiensi Scoto Societatis Jesu in librum unum coacervatae. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Martini Nutij, ad insigne duarum Ciconiarum, Anno M. DC. V. [Antwerp : Martin Nutius, 1605]. Octavo, fine Jesuit binding of full calf ruled in gilt with ornamental cornerpieces; upper board with central Jesuit device, lower board with heraldic crest; flat-panel spine tooled in gilt, contrasting red morocco title label; all edges gilt; pp 968, [46]; printer’s device on title page of two storks fighting over a snake with the motto ‘Pietas homini tvtissima virtus’; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; a few leaves browned; pale stain across upper section. First edition of this compilation by Scottish Jesuit John Hay of 55 letters from missions in Japan, India, Peru, the East Indies and the Philippines, dated between 1577 and 1604. The section on Japan is the most substantial (the first 636 pages), and contains letters by notable Japanese Christians and by Frois, Cabral, Organtino and Valignano, including one of the earliest reports of the persecution of Christians in Japan. Approximately 200 pages are devoted to letters from missions in India (“Mogor”), the majority sent from Goa. There are also shorter sections containing letters from Peru and the Philippines. It has been suggested that this volume was conceived as a companion to Nutius’ 1605 edition of Maffei’s Historiarum Indicarum: often bound in is Maffei’s Ignatii Loiolae vita (also published in 1605). Its compiler, John Hay, was expelled from Scotland in 1579 and fled to France, where he became rector of the Jesuit college at Pont-à-Mousson in Lorraine. Cordier, Japonica, 246; de Backer-Sommervogel, IV, 165, 12; Palau, 112581; Alden, 605.57; Streit, V, p. 58 (with a detailed list of contents)

Sachgebiete: Asien, Japan, Jesuiten, Orient

29.08.2026 - 07:35

6750,- EUR

Douglas Stewart Fine Books (Australia)

POLO, Marco (1254-1324)

Marco Polo Venetiano, delle merauiglie del mondo per lui vedute : del costume di varij paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli, della descrittione de diuersi animali, del trouar dell’oro, & dell’argento, delle pietre preciose : cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Venetia: Appresso Ghirardo & Iseppo Imberti, MDCXXVI [1626]. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum, spine with faint manuscript lettering; gutters reinforced, title in ornamental border and with vignette printer’s device; pp. [2], 3-128; illustrated with a frontispiece woodcut initialed ‘V. F.’; head and tail-pieces, decorated initials; title with small area of restoration to worming lower left (not affecting any text), last 8 leaves with some staining and minor restoration to worming at lower margins, otherwise very good throughout. A rare later Venetian edition of the Travels of Marco Polo, originally published in Italian in 1496 (also in Venice) as Marco Polo da Veniesia De le merauegliose cose del mondo. Unquestionably, the famous account of Marco Polo is the single most important travel narrative of the Middle Ages, one that shaped Western perceptions of Asia and the Islamic world for centuries. Columbus carried a copy of the first Latin edition (1485) with him on his first voyage to the Indies, which he annotated extensively. It might also be argued – as Sabin has done – that it provided a major impetus for the exploration of the New World: ‘The travels of Marco Polo in the East claim a place in an American collection in consequence of the remarks of distinguished geographers that they were perused by Columbus, and that the revelations made by him of the wonders of Cathay and Zipanga stimulated the great navigator to accomplish through the sea, what the Venetian traveller had by land’ (Sabin). The Rare Book Hub database traces no copy of this 1626 Venice edition at auction since 1929.

Sachgebiete: Asien, China, Reisen/Reiseliteratur

29.08.2026 - 07:30

15000,- EUR

Douglas Stewart Fine Books (Australia)