Europe

MANUEL Y VASCONCELOS, Augustin. Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana. Y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo.
Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627. 4to. With 3 woodcut tailpieces and 11 woodcut initials (at least 6 series). Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [5], 167, [3] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. TROMP, C.H. [Collection of an illustrated manuscript diary, and travel journals, including some views and photographs of Russia and Germany].
[The Netherlands, 1824-1911]. Manuscript on paper in Dutch. Preserved in a card-board box (27 x 23.5 x 7 cm), covered with marbled paper. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY]. Death certificate of a former employee of the French East India Company.
Puducherry (Pondichéry), 2 November 1786. Folio. [2] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN - SWEDISH POLICIES]. Relation. Von dem gegenwartigen Zustande des Konigreichs Schweden.
With: [MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. Journal de LAmbassade envoyée de la part de S. M.té le Roy de Suède vers le Grand Duc de Moscovie lan 1684, dressé par un des Gentils-hommes de la Suite.
1684-1688. Folio (ca. 30 x 20 cm). The German part is neatly written in a Kurrent script, and the French part in a cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the initials "M.F.K" in the centre of the front board, red and black sprinkled edges, green closing ties. 167 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - MORLOT DE WENGI, Alcibiade]. Etude de diverses parties de l'art de la Guerre
[France], January 1820. Small 4to (ca. 20.5 x 16 cm). With 6 hand-coloured folding illustrations, 3 full-page plates (on pp. 36, 57, and 83), 1 half-page plate (on p. 79), and numerous smaller mathematical figures, tables, and other illustrations in the text, most with grey washes and some in colour. The work is written in French in a very neat cursive hand. Contemporary half green painted sheepskin, red sprinkled paper sides. 151, [152-155 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PARAGUAY RIVER]. Discripças do Rio Paraguay en 1794. [Description of the river Paraguay in 1794].
[Paraguay and/or Brazil], [ca. 1794]. 34 x 22 cm. Written in brown ink in a very legible late 18th-century cursive. Stitched through 2 single holes, only one remains intact. [1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER AND HYMN BOOK - LATIN]. [Devotionarium].[Incipit leaf 2r:] Or[ati]o deuota q[ue] debet dici[t] i[n] ficem diei ante dormitione[m].
[Northern Germany(?), 15th century]. 8vo. Written in Latin on relatively thin parchment (leaf 11.5 x 8.5 cm, text block 7.8 x 5.2 cm), in a gothic hand in one column of 17 lines per page using black/dark brown ink. The manuscript is rubricated throughout, with a 3-line red and blue initial at the start of each part, and 2- or 1-line lombards, alternating in red and blue, at the start of each smaller section, ruled in pencil. Early 19th-century(?) gold-tooled vellum showing a gold-tooled floral frame on both boards, with a leather closing tie on the front, gold-tooled board eges, gilt edges. [131] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYERBOOK]. [1st rubric:] Form zu betten unser liebe[n] frawen mantel, Gebet. [incipit:] Cegrüest seiestu o süesse aller heiligste junckfraw maria ...
[Ravensburg?], [ca. 1670]. Small 16mo in 8s (10 x 8.5 x 4 cm; leaf: 9 x 7.5 cm). German manuscript in red and black ink on paper, written in an upright, semi-cursive gothic hand, with so-called lombardic initials in red, rubricated throughout. With 11 lines per page, text block 7 x 5.5 cm. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden (beechwood?) boards, sewn on 3 double supports, In total more than 100 impressions of about 9 stamps. Further with 2 strap fastenings with brass clasps (each with an owners(?) stamp: 1.5 mm roman capital initials "LH" above a 3 mm head in profile, facing right), catchplates and anchor plates, plain headbands, blue edges. With 27 mm roman capital initials "BR" in brown ink on the foot edge. [423], [3 blank] pp. plus 3 endleaves at the front and 5 at the back. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SPANISH - Vincent MORALES]. Compendio de la exemplar vida, y santa muerte, [d]el p[adre] Juan de S[an]tiago...
[Córdoba?], ca. 1770. 8vo. With a large engraving of Juan de Santiago on the second leaf and a pen drawing on page 102. Contemporary limp parchment. [4], "159" [= 162] pp. Full description

[MAP - CENTRAL EUROPE]. DANCKERTS, Justus. Accuratissima Germaniae tabula.
Amsterdam, Justus Dankerts, [before 1701]. Engraved map (48.5 x 57.5 cm) on a sheet of laid paper (51.5 x 61 cm), coloured in outline in a contemporary hand, with the title in an illustrated cartouche at the upper left, and a scale at the lower right (ca. 1:2,400,000). Full description