Rare Books Berlin 2026
International fair for books and prints, 18 – 20 September 2026
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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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# 13336
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 …
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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![[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_2011-300x300.jpg)
# 49953
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CLANVOWE, Sir Thomas
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale
London (Hammersmith) : Kelmscott Press, 1896. Small quarto, publisher’s Holland-backed boards, the linen spine with edge wear and traces of handwritten title, printed blue papered boards (a few small spots), bookplate for Harry Mansfield to from pastedown, printed in black and red, one of 300 copies printed on paper (an additional 10 copies were printed …
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# 49217
SIONITA, Gabriel
Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia:
accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur. Amsterdam : Johann Jansson, 1633. Duodecimo, contemporary vellum, early ownership name to pastedown, notes to final leaf, engraved title page, pp. 297 (actually 287, with the pagination skipping pages 270 – 279), internally clean. “This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, …
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# 38352
STALKER, John
A treatise of Japaning and varnishing, being a compleat discovery of those arts.
With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for Japan, wood, prints, plate or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing and lackering, with the art of guilding, seperating, and refining metals, and the most curious way of painting on glass, or otherwise. Also rules for counterfeiting tortoise-shell, and marble, and for staining or …
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# 49742
Tavares de Velles Guerreiro, João, active 1718
Jornada, que o senhor Antonio de Albuquerque Coelho, Governador, e Capitão General da Cidade do Nome de Deos de Macao na China, fez de Goa atè chegar á dita Cidade no anno de 1718.
Dividida em duas partes. Escrita pelo Capitão João Tavares de Vellez Guerreiro, e dedicada a o Duque … … Lisboa Occidental : Na Officina da Musica, por D. Jayme de la Te y Sagau, 1732. Octavo, full calf binding by Aquarius. spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting label lettered in gilt; title with …
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![[VIRGINIA] Historien und Bericht von dem newlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreich China,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/09/2025_DSFB_5850-300x300.jpg)
# 48547
González de Mendoza, Juan (1545-1618); Hariot (Harriot), Thomas (c.1560-1621); Dresser, Matthaeus (1537-1607) (compiler)
[VIRGINIA] Historien und Bericht von dem newlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreich China,
wie es nach umbstenden, so zu einer rechtmessigen Beschreibung gehören, darumb beschaffen : item, von dem auch new erfundenen Lande Virginia : jetzund auffs newe ubersehen, unnd mit einem Zusatz vermehret, nemlich, wie es umb die Religion in Perser unnd Mohrenland, unter Priester Johan bewand sey. Jn Druck verfertiget / durch MATTHAEVM DRESSERVM D. der …