Highlights

ALBERTI, Leon Battista. Della pittura e della statua.
Milan, Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani (monogram of Giusti, Feriario & Co), 1804. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author and 6 engraved plates (including 4 folding). Early 19th-century half sheepskin parchment, Stormont on shell marbled sides, title lettered in ink on the spine, yellow edges. XVII, 136 pp. Full description

BARLAEUS, Caspar (BAERLE, Kasper van). Marie de Medicis, entrant dans Amsterdam: ou histoire de la reception faicte à la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien, par les bourgmaistres & bourgeoisie de la ville d'Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1638. Folio (ca. 41 x 28 cm). With 18 engraved plates (1 frontispiece, 14 double page, and 3 folding), a woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam on the title-page, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in the centre of both boards, set in a double fillet frame with flowers in the corners, the manuscript title on the spine, green closing ties. 97, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOGHE, Jan (Joannes BOCHIUS), Maximus Aemilius de VRIENDT & Henri d'OUTREMONT. Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae archiducum.
Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, apud J. Moretum, 1602. 5 parts in 1 volume. Large folio. With 28 engraved plates (15 double-page, 13 full-page), two pages of musical score, an engraved divisional title page for each of the first four parts, the large woodcut printer's device of the Plantin Press at the end of the work, and numerous woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary blind tooled vellum with overlapping fore edge, the manuscript title and author on the spine, a triple fillet line on both boards, the year of publication upside down in ink on the front board, remnants of closing ties. 500, [12] pp. Full description

[BROADSIDE - CIRCUS]. Mit hoher Bewilligung wird heute die hier angekommene Gymnastische- und Athleten-Gesellschaft unter der Direction des Hrn. Bartholomäus Ramini die Ehre haben sich zu produciren......
[Austria, ca. 1827]. Oblong folio (ca. 40 x 46 cm). With a large woodcut illustration (ca. 27 x 38 cm). The text is set in a Gothic type. [1] l. Full description

[BROADSIDE - FIREWORKS - DELFT]. Keure teegens het schieten ende opsteeken van vuurpylen, klackebossen en andere vuurwerken binnen de stad Delft.
Delft, Adrianus Sterck, 31 March 1763. Ca. 52 x 42 cm. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of Delft, and a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description

[BUONANNI, Filippo]. Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chineesch vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc. ...
Leiden, Jacobus Willeke, 1742. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, 4 full-page engraved plates illustrating the necessities for varnishing and lacquering. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers. 16, 218, [24] pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. De nieuwe toverlantaarn.
Amsterdam, [Johannes Roelof Poster, ca. 1795]. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With a hand-coloured engraved title page, 24 full-page hand-coloured engraved plates, and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled brown half calf, sprinkled paper sides. 41, [5], "64" [= 58], 63, [1], "64" [= 56] pp. Full description

COURTONNE, Jean. Traité de la perspective pratique, avec des remarques sur l'architecture, suivies de quelques edifices considerables mis en perspective, & de l'invention de l'auteur. Ouvrage très-utile aux amateurs de l'architecture & de la peinture.
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1725. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 33 engraved plates (32 folding, 1 double-page), an engraved frontispiece, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces (both woodcut and built up from typographical ornaments). Contemporary gold and blind tooled mottled brown calf. [2 blank], [14], 116, [2] pp. Full description

CROCUS, Cornelius. Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.
Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf. [40] ll. Full description

DANDRÉ-BARDON, Michel François. Traité de peinture, suivi d'un essai sur la sculpture. Pour servir d'introduction à une histoire universelle, relative à ces beaux-arts.
Paris, Desaint, 1765. 2 volumes. 12mo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, marbled endpapers. LX, 325, [1 blank]; VIII, 253, [7] pp. Full description