Black Dog Rare Books | Books & Ephemera

ABOUT

Dedicated to the weird and wonderful, Black Dog Rare Books was established in December 2018. Based in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, I offer quirky, unusual, interesting and rare books and ephemera from four centuries.

I have a BA (Hons.) in German and an MA (Hons.) in Book and Manuscript Studies (University of Amsterdam). Having worked as a bibliographer at the National Library of the Netherlands and as a cataloguer and dealer at Antiquariaat Forum, I have broad experience in the world of rare books.

I am a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). My clients include libraries, museums, private collectors and fellow members of the trade.

If you have any queries, wants or comments, please get in touch.

Steven de Joode

CONTACT

Germaine Haak

Steven de Joode

+31 (0)6 30642066

+31 (0)6 46076471

Visitors welcome by appointment only.

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RARE BOOKS

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First edition of a foundational work of forensic medicine

2nd edition of a foundational work of forensic medicine

Demystifying the unicorn, 1678, with frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe

A popular introduction to female physiognomy, 1815, with 30 hand-coloured plates

Instructie voor den opziener der koornbeurs, 1825

A popular introduction to male physiognomy, with 32 hand-coloured plates

Lovely binding from the library of Jan Willem Six van Vromade

The first book to feature Burmese type

A rare collection of 18th-century medical cases

First edition of a thorough treatise on the use of opium

Groundbreaking work on crime and policing in London

Newtonian physics explained to the Dutch, with portrait, map and 34 plates

Essay on the Dendera zodiac, Egypt, now in the Louvre

Fishery legislation for Zeeland. Rare broadside

A disciple of Mesmer vigorously defending mesmerism

An early 19th-century case of intersexuality, gender and sex, with 5 plates

Cuthbertson's improved vacuum pump, with 2 plates

A defence of mesmerism by the preeminent magnetizer of Lyon

First edition of a rare Dutch algebra textbook, with a frontispiece portrait

3rd copy located of Antwerp medical textbook, with treatise on syphilis, 1726

One of the most important works in the history of public health

Coats-of-arms of monarchs, noblemen and clergy, 70 plates

The Marriage Progress of Marie Antoinette, one of only 25 copies printed

Important account of the Atacama Desert with folding map and 27 plates

An account of croup, lovely unopened copy, 1808

An 1873 manual to cure stuttering

Four medical works by Jean Varandal in one volume, from the library of Bob Luza

1842 Auction catalogue of Artaria & Compagnie

Dutch astrological manual by mysterious author, untrimmed

Spinozistic work published by Aart Wolsgrein in 1693, banned in 1708

A large etching of Brunings's flow velocity instrument, 1798

Unique(?) poster advertising the auction sale of 1,300,000 Havana cigars, 1838

't Geheim van't Fransche hof, 1680. With 8 plates, possibly by Romeyn de Hooghe

Large micrographic mizrah plaque by Levi(e) David van Gelder, ca. 1845

An engraved portrait of celebrated Dutch dwarf Simon Paap, 1823

Indagine's influential occult manual, with dozens of wonderful woodcuts, 1543

Pirate edition of Frezier's fireworks manual, The Hague, 1741, with 8 plates

An 1784 defense of animal magnetisme

Lovely copy of Linnaeus's Genera plantarum, with 2 plates and a table

The life of a deaf-mute, with an image of a manual alphabet, 1855

Blankaart, De nieuw hervormde anatomie, 1696, complete with 84 full-page plates

Colour plate book with 32 finely hand-coloured etchings after Christina Chalon

A 1598 edition of Lemnius's Secrect miracle of nature

Rhyming Dick and the Strolling Player: a lovely chapbook, ca. 1805

Enlarged edition of Frezier's influential fireworks manual, 1747, with 13 plates

Atheistic utopian novel, banned upon publication

Medical dissertation on drinking warm water, 1689

Specimen observationum academicarum, ad monstrorum historiam, 1765, 7 plates

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