Europe

[DAMASCUS – VENETIAN TAXES]. [Promissory note for Venetian customs taxes on goods from Damascus].
Venice, 22 Feb. / 5 March 1488. Italian notarial document on vellum (44.5 x 16 cm; text block ca. 27 x 14 cm). Written in two fine cursive hands. Full description

[DANCE OF DEATH]. La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Avec: le débat du corps & de l'ame. La complainte de l'ame damnée. L'exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir. La vie du mauvais Antechrist. Les quinze signes du jugement.
Troyes, Jean-Antoine Garnier, [1728]. 4to. With 60 woodcuts in text, including 3 repeats, most of them half-page. 19th-century half cloth. 76 pp. Full description

DANCKAERT, Jan. Beschryvinge van Moscovien ofte Ruslant: gestelt in twee deelen.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1615. Small 4to (17.5 x 13.5 cm). With the title in a border built up from 4 woodcuts, 2 woodcut initials and a wood-cut head- and tailpiece. 19th-century half sheepskin. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DANCKERTS, ALLARD, VISSCHER, DE WIT, MORTIER and others]. Atlas.
[Amsterdam, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts?, ca. 1706 (dated maps 1694-1706)]. Imperial folio (53.5 x 33.5 cm). Composite atlas, with an engraved title-page, 43 double-page engraved maps and 4 double-page engraved tables, all beautifully coloured in a consistent and balanced manner by a contemporary hand, probably in the workshop of the publisher. With maps by Johannes, Justus, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts, Carel and Abraham Allard, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Frederik de Wit, Pieter Mortier, Caspar Specht and even Alexis-Hubert Jaillot in Paris. Modern maroon sheepskin. Full description

D'AULNOY, Madame. Reyse door Spaignien, neffens memorien van des selfs hof.
Including: D'AULNOY, Madame. Memorien van het Spaenssche hof.
Utrecht, Willem Broedelet, 1695. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken and 10 engraved plates by Caspar Luyken, the title page is printed in red and black, with a woodcut device on the title page, several woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [12], 335; [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [6], 247, [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.
[Paris], Aubert, [1833]. Ca. 36 x 56.2 cm. Under a white and gold passe-partout, framed in a dark reddish brown wooden frame (ca. 54 x 66.5 cm). Full description

DAVIES, Hugh. Welsh botanology. A systematic catalogue of the native plants of the Isle of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh; with the habitats of the rarer species, and a few observations.
Including: An alphabetical catalogue of the Welsh names of vegetables rendered into Latin and English; with some account of the qualities, economical or medicinal, of the most remarkable.
London, for the author by W. Marchant, 1813. 2 works (the 1st in 2 parts) in 1 volume. 8vo. With 1 engraved plate, often lacking.
With: (2) PAGE, William Bridgewater. Page's prodromus; as a general nomenclature of all the plants, indigenous and exotic, cultivated in the Southampton Botanic Gardens: arranged, alphabetically … trees, shrubs herbaceous … an appendix, containing selected lists of annuals; all the choicest kinds of fruit …
London, John Murray, 1818.19th-century black half sheepskin with marbled sides, new endpapers. [2], XIV, [2], 152; XVI, 256; 8, [2], 270, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DEIDIER, L'abbé]. Le parfait ingenieur François, ou la fortification offensive et défensive, contenant la construction, l'attaque & la défense des places régulieres & irrégulieres, selon les méthodes des plus habiles auteurs de l'Europe, qui ont écrit sur cette science. On y trouvera aussi des manieres de fortifier les places irrégulieres, plus facilement & beaucoup mieux, qu'on n'a fait jusqu'ici.
Amsterdam, la Compagnie des Libraires, 1734. 4to. With an engraved architectural frontispiece by Le Pautre after Santer, the title page is printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, and 42 engraved plates with numerous illustrations on 41 folding engraved leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 346, [2] p. Full description

DELLE CHIAJE, Stefano. Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Fascicolo I.
Naples, Fernandes brothers, 1823. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 4 engraved plates. Modern black cloth, original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. XII, 84 pp. Full description

DELLON, Charles & Archibald BOWER. An account of the inquisition at Goa, in India; translated from the French. With an appendix; containing an account of the escape of Archibald Bower, from the inquisition of Italy.
Boston, Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. 12mo. Later half gilt calf. 214, (2) pp. Full description