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MOFFAT, James. Vexation and strife.
Kolkata (Calcutta), 1797. Oblong folio. Aquatint etching on paper (leaf: ca. 29 x 38 cm.; plate: 27 x 35 cm; illustration: 24.5 x 31.5 cm). Aquatint etching showing domestic scene of a couple fighting at a table, with a dark figure watching on in the background. Signed "Calcutta J M del. et sculp. 1797" and captioned "vexation and strife". Printed on laid paper made by James Whatman the younger, watermarked. Full description

[MOSAIC BINDING - BIBLE]. LEEMPUTTE, Henricus van den (editor). Het nieuwe testament ons salighmaeckers Jesu Christi, mitsgaders: d'epistelen uit het oude testament, soo die door 't jaer in den dienst der H. Kercke gelesen worden.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen (for Niclaes Braau in Haarlem), 1696. 8vo. With 39 detailed woodcut illustrations in the text, and woodcut decorated initials and small printed manicules. The text is set in a Gothic letter, with incidental use of Roman type. Exquisite 18th-century gold-tooled multi-colour morocco mosaic binding. Gilt edges and green silk covered end papers. [1], [1 blank], [14], 837, [27] pp. Full description

[MOUNTAINEERING]. [A collection of brochures and folders on mountaineering].
[Austria and Switzerland, ca. 1920- ca. 1980]. Ca. 653 brochures (including a few duplicates and variant issues).
With: [A collection of books relating to mountaineering].
[Globally, ca. 1830- ca. 2000]. Ca. 875 books (including a few duplicates and variant issues, and several multiple-volume titles). Full description

[NETO, Estêvao Gonçalves, circle of (attributed)]. [Historiated initial - Capital "G"].
[Viseu?, first quarter of the 17th century]. Frame: ca. 36.5 x 33.5 cm. Tempera on parchment (ca. 20 x 21 cm), heightened with gold. Mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 28.5 x 25.5 cm), framed behind glass in a later gold frame. Full description

[NETO, Estêvao Gonçalves, circle of (attributed)]. [Illuminated initial - Capital "S"].
[Viseu?], 1617. Frame: ca. 39.5 x 38 cm. Tempera and gold leaf on parchment (ca. 33 x 30 cm). Mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 33.5 x 32.5 cm), framed behind glass in a later gold frame. Full description

NICERON, Jean François. La perspective curieuse, divisée en quatre livres. Avec l'optique et la catoptrique du R.P. Mersenne, mise in lumiere après la mort de l'autheur. Oeuvre tres-utile aux peintres, architectes, sculpteurs, graveurs, & à tous autres qui se meslent du dessein.
Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651-1652. With engraved allegorical title-page by Daret, full-page engraved portrait of Niceron by Michel Lasne, several woodcut diagrams in text and, bound at the end of the book, 49 full-page plates and 1 double-page engraved plate with numerous illustrations of drawing in perspective, in optical illusions and in trompe l'oeil.
With: (2) MERSENNE, Marin. L' optique et la catoptrique.
Paris, the widow of F. Langlois, dit Chartres, 1651. With numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in the text. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, gilt double fillet borders on both sides and on the spine. [16], 191, [1]; [12], 134 pp. Full description

OGAWA Kazamusa. Famous castles & temples in Japan.
Tokio, [Kazamusa Ogawa?], (colophon in Japanese: Meiji 28 = 1895). Oblong (27 x 36.5 cm). With 35 hand-coloured collotypes, with captions. Slightly later black, gold-tooled morocco, with initials C.R. at the foot of the spine. 36 ll. Full description

OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (OVID). Den metamorphosis ofte herscheppinghe ... In onse Nederduytsche tale overgeset ende met figuren verciert elck tot sijnder historien dienende. Seer nut voor alle schilders, beeltsnijders, goutsmeden, ende liefhebbers der historien.
Rotterdam, Pieter van Waesberge, [1635]. 8vo. With engraved title-page, a full-page woodcut depicting the Creation in 6 small scenes, and 178 nearly half-page woodcuts in text after Virgil Solis. Contemporary vellum. Engr. t.-p. plus 425, [3 blank] pp. Full description

OZANAM, Jacques. Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges élémentaires.
Paris, Jacques Rollin, 1750 (vol. 2: 1749). 4 volumes. 8vo. With 136 engraved plates (9 folding, 127 full-page), numerous woodcut diagrams and printed tables in the text. Contemporary mottled calf. [16], 460, [20]; [4], 462, [14]; [2], 482, [12]; [8], 446, [5] pp. Full description

[PAUWELS, Jan Antoon Frans]. Berigt, van constig-gemaeckte sneeuwe beelden van half Januario tot het begin Februarii tot Antwerpen gezien . . .
Antwerp, Joannes Petrus de Cort, 1772. 4to. With title-page in a geometric border built up from cast fleurons and each page in a thick-thin border built up from cast units. 19th-century(?) decorated cloth, modern endpapers. 30 pp. Full description