Rare Books Berlin 2026
International fair for books and prints, 18 – 20 September 2026
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# 50733
MÜLLER, Andreas
Andr. Mülleri Greiffenhagii Besser Unterricht Von der Sineser Schrifft und Druck/ Als etwa in Herrn Doct. Eliae Grebnitzen Unterricht Von der Reformirten Und Lutherischen Kirchen enthalten ist.
Berlin : bey Christoff Runge, 1680. Quarto, modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to front; pp. 28 (including title), lacking the four unnumbered Addenda leaves at rear; woodcut headpiece, Chinese character (p. 12) and various other symbols in text; first two leaves with minor restoration at gutter, paper browned; ex libris label of …
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# 51316
[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 …
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# 51229
LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807,
von G. H. von Langsdorff, Kaiserlich-Russischen Hofrath, Ritter es St. Annen-Orens zweiter Classe, Mitglied mehrerer Akademien und gelehrten Gesellschaften … … Frankfurt am Mayn : Im Verlag bey Friedrich Wilmans, 1812. Two volumes, quarto (270 x 220 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners somewhat worn), spines in compartments …
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# 51227
[HARTGERS, Joost]
Wonderlijcke Voyagie, by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes, ende voorts den gantschen kloot des Aertbodems om, met vier Schepen : onder den Admirael Olivier van Noort,
uytghevaren Anno 1598. Hier achter is by-gevoeght de tweede Voyagie an Iacob van Neck, naer Oost-Indien. t’Amstelredam : Joost Hartgerts, 1648. Quarto (240 x 185 mm), later vellum-backed marbled papered boards; pp. 88; title with large woodcut, one foldout plate with 6 woodcuts; decorated initials, tailpieces; a very good copy with wide margins. The fourth European …
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# 51213
[LOUIS-LE-GRAND]
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque des ci-devant soi-disant Jésuites du Collége de Clermont, dont la Vente commencera le Lundi 19 Mars 1764.
Paris : Saugrain & Leclerc, 1764. Octavo, contemporary sheep-backed speckled papered boards (joints expertly repaired), flat spine with gilt lettering and decoration; edges stained red; half-title leaf, pp. xviii, 488; later pencilled annotation on the title notes that the sale was finished on the 18 August 1764; a few marginal annotations, (quite possibly by the …
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# 50758
MAIORICA, Girolamo; SEMEDO, Àlvaro; TRIGAULT, Nicolas
De novis Christianae Religionis progressibvs, et certaminibus in Iaponia, anno M. DC. XXII. in Regno Sinarvm, M. DC. XXI. et M. DC. XXII. Litterae; ad Reuerendum in Christo Patrem Mvtivm Vitellescvm Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Iesv
ad Reuerendum in Christo Patrem Mvtivm Vitellescvm Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Iesv. Monasterii Westphaliae [Münster] : Ex Officina Typographica Michaelis Dalii [Michael Dalius, or Daly], 1627. Quarto (200 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript lettering to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, early ownership inscription of the Collegium Embricense (the Jesuit college at Emmerich …
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# 50759
HULSIUS, Levinus
Four German-language editions from Hulsius’ collection of voyage accounts, chronicling early Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies.
The publishing enterprise of Flemish-born scientific instrument maker, linguist, and bookseller Levinus Hulsius (1550-1606) was inspired by Theodor De Bry’s celebrated series of voyage accounts. The first volume in the collection published by the Hulsius workshop appeared in 1598; and, although Hulsius died in 1606, his publishing project was continued by his widow and heirs, with 26 …
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# 51228
MENDES PINTO, Fernão
Les voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto.
Fidelement traduicts de Portugais en François par le Sieur Bernard Figuier, Gentil-homme Portugais. Et dédiez à Monseigneur le Cardinal de Richelieu. Le contenu de la présente histoire se verra à la page suivante. Paris : Mathurin Henault, 1628. Thick quarto (230 x 170 mm), contemporary full calf, boards with double-gilt rule (minor staining, one corner restored), spine …
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# 51220
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 …
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# 51191
KIÖPING, Nils Mattsson; WILLMAN, Olof Eriksson; [CARON, François]
Een kort beskriffning uppå trenne resor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungarijket Japan:
I. Beskrifwes een Reesa, som genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedniska Konungarijken, sampt Öjar; medh flijt är förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping … II. Förstelles thet stoora och machtiga Konungarijke Japan, samt thes invånares handel och wandel. III. Beskrifwes een Reesa till Ost Indien, China och Japan, giordh och beskrefwen aff Oloff Erickson Willman … IIII. Uthföres een reesa …
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# 49978
KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]
Album of the kings & queens of Victoria
[Melbourne : compiled and published by H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, c.1880]. Duodecimo, pink papered boards with gilt-stamped lettering and ornament, cloth spine; containing folding concertina of [12] panels with lithographic illustrations after Kruger’s photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken at various times between around 1866 and …
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# 49733
SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)
Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,
verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. St. Petersburg : Gräff ; Leipzig : Voss, 1839. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), contemporary red calf, richly gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; blue endpapers; pp. xv, [1 blank], 318, [2 Errata]; text in German (roman) and Tibetan script; scattered light foxing, a …
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# 48548
HEIDEN, Frans Janszoon van der
Vervarelyke schip-breuk van’t Oost-Indische jacht ter Schelling onder het landt van Bengale
Harderwiljk : Dirk en Jan Rampen, 1707. Quarto, contemporary vellum; pp. [1]-81 (Vervarelyke schip-breuk), 82-96 (accounts of Arakan, Martavan, Tanassery, Bengal, and the Pathans); title with woodcut vignette of Terschelling during the fateful storm in the Bay of Bengal, a further [18] woodcuts in the text; [BOUND WITH] Joosten, Jaques. De kleyne wonderlijke wereld, waar onder …
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# 49431
KIÖPING, Nils Mattsson; WILLMAN, Olof Eriksson; [CARON, François]
Een kort beskrffning uppå trenne reesor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungariket Japan:
I. Beskrifwes een Reesa, som genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedniska Konungarijken sampt Öijar; med flijt är förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping, fördetta Skepz-Lieutnat. II. Beskrifwes een Resa till Ost Indien, China och Japan: III. Med förestlliande om förbenembde stoora och mächta konungarijketz Japan tillstånd, sampt thetz Inwånares Handel och Wandel: förrättat och beskrefwen …
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# 46939
Martínez de Zuñiga, Joaquín
Historia de las Islas Philipinas
Impreso en Sampaloc : Por Fr. Pedro Arguelles de la Concepcion, Religioso Francisco, 1803. First edition. Quarto, modern tree calf, boards decorated in gilt, spine gilt and with contrasting title-piece in gilt, name label stamped in gilt ‘Al. Malavois’ at foot of spine; pp. [2], [7], 687; printed on rice paper; historiated initial, tail-piece; some insignificant worm holes …
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# 48557
ANDRADE, Padre Antonio
Relatione del Novo Scoprimento del Gran Cataio, overo Regno di Tibet. Fattodal P. Antonio di Andrade Portoghese della Compagnia di Gesù l’anno 1624
Rome : F. Corbelletti, 1627. Duodecimo, early vellum, lettered in manuscript on spine, ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to from pastedown, pp. 40, a fine copy. Antonio de Andrade, Portuguese member of the Society of Jesus, was dispatched to India in 1600 where he would spend over twenty years in sevice, including as …