Europe

SANSON, Alexandre-Jacques and Jean-François DUPUIS-DELCOURT. Navigation dans l'air. Le point d'appui aérien applicable a l'aérostation, précédé d'un projet de société aéronautique ... suivi d'une lettre sur l'aérostation et de la liste des principeaux aéronautes, de M. Dupuis-Delcourt.
Paris, De Boulé et Comp., for Ledoyen March 1841. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed plate (40 x 23,5 cm) of the dirigible, and a smaller woodcut of the same dirigible on p. 5. Original green wrappers in a protective plastic wrapper, with a large lithographed plate on the front, showing a dirigible flying over the globe underneath a floating angel, who is blowing a trumpet with the motto "Conquête de l'aire". 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SANTINI, Giuseppe. Picenorum mathematicorum elogia.
Macerata, Bartolomeo Capitani, 1779. 4to. With a woodcut ornament on the title page, 1 illustration in the text, 23 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red mottled edges. XVI, 112 pp. Full description

SAPPHO [=Vincenzo Maria IMPERIALE]. La Faoniade. Inni ed odi di Saffo tradotti dal testo Greco in metro Italiano da S.I.P.A.
Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1801. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. [2], VIII, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SARMENTO, Francisco Joseph. Instrucçam militar para o serviço da cavallaria, & dragôes ...
Lisbon, Ferreira, 1723. 4to. With a folding woodcut plate. Later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spine and spine-label, marbled endpapers, red edges. [24], 157, [1] pp. Full description

SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté de l'espee Francoise.Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With engraved emblematic heraldic device on title-page (right hand holding a sword, emerging from a cloud, with crosses and fleurs-de-lis on the sword's blade and in the background, the whole representing King Louis XIII protecting France and the Church) with the motto "Pro religione et regno".
With: (2) SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté contre les duels. Avec l'edict de Philippes le Bel, de l'an M.CCC.VI. non encores imprimé.
Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With Périer's woodcut compasses device on title-page with motto "labore et constantia", borrowed from Christoffel Plantin. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century sprinkled calf. 56; [16], 125, [3 blank] pp. Full description

SAVORGNANO, Mario. Arte militare terrestre, e maritima; secondo la ragione, et uso de piu valorosi capitani antichi, e moderni. gia descritta, e divisa in quattro libri.
Venice, Seb. Combi, 1614. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 double-page tables, and 23 double-page woodcut plates. Contemporary vellum. [20], 266 pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHS - MAFIA - SICILY]. SCAFIDI, Nicola. [Photographs showing mob killings, grieving families and funerals].
Palermo, [ca. 1961-1966?]. 5 loose silver gelatin photographic prints on baryta paper, ca. 24 x 30 cm, all but one with manuscript captions on the reverse. Full description

SCHARSTRÖM, Theodoro and Jacob Georg AGARDH. Novitae florae Sveciae ex Algarum familia, quas in itineribus ad oras occidentales Sveciae annis 1832-35 collegit et cum observationibus diagnosticis et geographicis, ...
Lund, Berling, 1836. 4to. Disbound. [4], 16 pp. Full description

SCHEEL, Heinrich Otto de. Memoires d'artillerie, contenant l'artillerie nouvelle, ou les changemens faits dans l'artillerie Françoise en 1765. Avec l'exposé et l'analyse des obiections qui ont été faites à ces changemens.
Copenhagen, Claude Philibert and August Frédéric Stein, 1777. 4to. With an engraved illustration on the title-page, 29 folding engraved plates and 6 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. [4], XVI, [8], 440, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ... Met noch een kort bericht van den toestand der Finnen.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1682. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 16 engraved plates by Jan Luyken, and 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary vellum. [6], 99; 146; 73, [7] pp. Full description