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GUEVARA, Antonio de. (Aegidius Albertinus, translator). Aegidius Albertinus speculum religiosorum & exercitium virtuosorum oder: Der geistliche Spiegel: darinn nit allein die geistlichen Closter: vnd Ordenszperseonen, mit schonen herzlichen Lehren vun Warnungen erwiesen werden.
Munich, Adam Berg, 1601. 8vo. Title in red and black. Contemporary vellum over wooden board [12], 414 (= 829), [9] pp. Full description

[GUILLAS, Denis]. Histoire de la bataille navalle faite par les Dieppois & Flamans: qui est l'une des plus furieuses & soudaines expeditions de mer, qui ayt esté entreprise de nostre temps sur les ennemis du Roy.
Paris, Estienne Denise, [1557?]. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials and one cast fleuron (Vervliet, Vine leaf ornaments 173). Set in roman type with incidental italic. Finely executed late 19th-century(?) French red morocco by René Aussour, gold-tooled turn-ins, title, place of publication and date 1555 in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments, gilt edges. [51], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GUILLOU, Élie le [and Jules DUMONT D'URVILLE]. Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée.
Paris, Brequet et Pétion, 1842. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 31 lithographed plates, including engraved frontispieces for both volumes and a reproduction of a letter. Contemporary gold-tooled deep purple moroccowith the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Emperor of Brazil, with the title etc. lettered in gold on the spine ("J. Arago - Voyage du Monde"), gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers. [4], IV, 381, [1]; [4], 382, [2] pp. Full description

GUIOT. Catalogo de flores.
[Barcelona, Francisco Suria y Burgada, ca. 1775]. Small 8vo (14 x 9.5 cm). Later(?) decorated-paper wrappers. XX pp. Full description

HALLER, Albrecht von Nomenclator ex Historia plantarum indigenarum Helvetiae excerptus auctore.
Bern, Societatis Typographicæ [colophon: [D.] Brunner & [Albrecht von] Haller], 1769. 8vo. With title-vignette. 19th-century boards, covered with sprinkled paper. [4], 216 pp. Full description

HAMILTON, Frederick William. The origin and history of the first or Grenadier guards. From documents in the state paper office, war office, horse guards, contemporary history, regimental records, etc.
London, John Murray, 1874. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 17 portraits (3 serving as frontispieces), 60 maps and plans (3 folding), 7 chromolithographed plates and 1 view in total. Original publisher's red cloth. Each volume with a ticket of "Metchim & son...". XXXIV, [6], 458; XXXIV, 548; XVIII, 496 pp. Full description

HAMILTON, Hugh. De sectionibus conicis. Tractatus geometricus. In quo, ex natura ipsius coni, sectionum affectioens [!] facillime deducuntur. Methodo nova.
London, William Johnston, 1758. 4to. With numerous illustrations on 17 folding engraved plates. Contemporary French gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, with the arms of the French King Louis XV in the centre of each board and his crowned monogram in each compartment (except that with the title) of the spine. [4], VIII, 211, [1] pp. Full description

HARPER, Robert Goodloe. Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França.
Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 322 pp. Full description

HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers, beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English Ramusio, Alamandini, Carreri, &c. in Italian ... Together with such other histories, voyages, travels, of discoveries, as are in general esteem; ... containing whatever has been observed worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ...
London, Printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Bird (and 12 others), 1744-48. 2 volumes. Large folio (41 x 25 cm). With the title-pages printed in red and black, 22 maps (16 folding, 6 full-page), 2 full-page plans, 37 full-page plates, and numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf, richly gold-tooled spines with red morocco title labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, red edges. [12], XVI, [4], 984; [10], 1056, [10] pp. Full description

[COSTUMES]. HECKEL, Catharina SPERLING. [Four young ladies in fancy gowns].
[Augsburg, ca. 1725?]. Four drawings in brown ink, watercolour and coloured gouaches on vellum, highlighted with gold (each 5.9 x 9.0 cm). Each mounted in a later passe-partout with a gold border, in an ebonized wooden frame (23.5 x 20.5 cm). Full description