Highlights

AESOP Les fables d'Esope phrigien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enriche de discours moraux & historiques, & de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours. On a joint à cette nouvelle traduction les Fables diverses de Gabrias, d'Avienus, & Les contes d'Esope.
A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1708. Two parts in one volume, 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece showing Aesop standing on a gallery holding an armillary sphere, hunting horn and spear, surrounded by a mixed crowd (including children), with a group of wild and domestic animals standing and lying below, 117 half-page engravings (6,5 x 8 cm) for the 117 numbered Aesop fables, initials, endpieces. Marbled half-morocco binding. [12], 297, [7], [4], 287, [5] pp. Full description

ALCIATI, Andrea. Emblematum libri duo.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes et Guillaume Gazeau, 1547. 16mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a variant woodcut printer's device on the verso of the last leaf, and 113 half-page woodcut emblems by Bernard Salomon. 19th-century gold-tooled orange morocco by Marcellin II Lortic in Paris, with the author, title, and imprint lettered in gold on the spine, the gilt armorial supralibros of the Prince d'Essling in the centre on both sides, and his initials "VM" on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled end papers. 143, [1] pp. Full description

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...
Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printers device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges. [88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp. Full description

[ARGUELLES, Diego and Antonio LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA]. Aprobacion del plan de Republica popular federativa, proclamado por el ciudadano General Santana en San Luis Potosi el cinco de Junio del año pasado.
Mexico [= Mexico City], imprenta de Tomas W. Lorrain, 1824. Small 4to (ca. 21.5 x 16 cm). Disbound, the leaves are held together with glue. 16 pp. Full description

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio decerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atq[ue] utilitatem.
Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and final page of the first 3 works, each work with a decorated woodcut initial. With: (2) IDEM. De vasculis libellus.
Idem.
(3) ESTIENNE, Charles. De re hortensi libellus.
Idem.
(4) SENALUS [= CENEAU], Robert. De vera mensurarum ponderumque ratione.
Paris, Ioannes Roigny, 1535.

Later vellum, with a brown morocco label on the spine with the author and title lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 65, [11], [3 blank], [1]; 54, [7], [2 blank], [1]; 97, [15] pp.; [18], 119, [1 blank] ll. Full description

BECCARIA, Giambatista. Dell' elettricismo artificiale, e naturale libri due.
Torino, Filippo Antonio Campana, 1753. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 6 decorated woodcut initials, 8 headpieces (3 woodcut, 5 made up of typographical ornaments), and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 245, [1] pp. Full description

[BEVIER, B.]. [Portfolio with vivid portraits of famous painters and illustrations based on famous works of art].
[France or Belgium?], 1809-1811. Portfolio: ca. 75.5 x 60 cm. With 15 large format portraits (all 65.5 x 48 cm. except the last portrait: 49 x 38 cm), executed in chalk and colour, all signed by the artist "B. Bevier" and dated between 1809 and 1811. All manuscript captions are written by the same hand in brown ink. All portraits are mounted on otherwise blank leaves in a large portfolio. Later half calf. [1 blank], [15] ll. Full description

[BRANDT, Gerard]. Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.
Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [12], 207, [1], 167, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description

[COLLAERT, Adriaen?]. [The five senses:] Visus ... Gustus ... Tactus ... Olfactus ... Auditus.
Antwerp, Jan Adriaensz. Collaert, [ca. 1618/28]. Large 24mo(?) album (14.5 x 10.5 cm). A complete series of 5 engraved prints on vellum (13 x 8.5 cm; oval image 10 x 7.5 cm) each illustrating one of the five senses with a female figure. Richly and very beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, in colour gouaches (red, blue, purple and green), extensively highlighted with gold. Each print mounted on a paper leaf in a small album. Green silk (ca. 1820?) over flexible boards. [5] engraved ll. Full description

[DECREE - MEXICO]. [In upper left corner:] 1a. Secretaria de estado. Seccion de Gobierno.
Mexico, 21 December 1822. Ca. 31.5 x 21.5 cm. [2] ll. Full description

DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste. Wercken door Zacharias Heijns.
[Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns], [1621]-1628. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title pages, the engraved publisher's device on the title page of part 2, the engraved portrait of Zacharias Heyns in the text of part 1 and 34 full-page engravings (incl. 1 large folding plate and 1 plate outside the collation) illustrating the days of the two weeks and the other texts by Du Bartas. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Both volumes bound in almost matching 17th-century vellum, both spines with manuscript title in black ink. Volume 1: part 1: [12], 1-168, 168-183, [1], 184-313, [1] pp.; part 2: [8], 634, [6] pp. Volume 2: part 3: [8], 150, [2], 231, [1] pp. Full description

[DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt en gesloten tusschen de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten Genereael der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen en Potentaten ter andere zyde.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [not before 1701]. 73 pamphlets in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page with the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General. 70 of the 73 treaties have a separate title page, the other 3 were published without thus the work is complete. 67 of these 70 treaties with a title page contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General, 2 of the earlier treaties bear Van Wouw's woodcut printer's device on their title pages, 1 title page shows a simple woodcut floral vignette, 1 title page does not contain any (woodcut) decoration, and 1 treaty without a title page does contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General at the start of the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout the treaties. The text is set in both roman and gothic type. Later vellum. Full description

EHRENBERG, Christian Gottfried. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones avium quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem ... Decas secunda
Berlin, Officina Academica, Mittler, 1829. Large folio (48 x 35 cm). With 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Original publisher's printed gray portfolio. Full description

[FIRST EMPEROR of MEXICO - INSTATING AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE]. [Drop title:] El honor de la Capital del Imperio está comprometido en el decoro y magnificencia con que debe celebrar la Jura solemne ....
Sala Capitular del Ayuntamiento Constitucional de México [= City hall, Mexico City], 3 December 1822. Ca 20 x 15.5 cm. [4] pp. Full description

FLINDERS, Matthew. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in his majesty's ship the investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island.
London, W. Bulmer & Co., for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 4to and large folio. With 9 full-page engraved plates by J. Byrne, John Pye, W. Woolnoth, L. Scott, W. Finden, S. Middiman after William Westall in the text volumes. Further with 16 charts (9 folding, 7 double-page), 2 plates of coastal views (on 4 leaves each) after William Westall, and 10 double-page etched botanical plates by Elizabeth Byrne, F. Sanson and I. Pye after drawings by Ferdinand Bauer in the atlas volume. The text volumes in contemporary gold-tooled brown calf, the atlas volume in contemporary half brown calf. [2], IX, [11], CCIV, 269, [1 blank]; [2], 613, [1 blank] pp. Full description

GARNIER, Francis. Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission Française présidiée par M. le capitaine de frégate Doudart de Lagrée et publié dans les ordres du ministre de la marine sous la direction de M. le lieutenant de vaisseau Francis Garnier avec le concours de M. Delaporte, lieutenant de vaisseau et de MM. Joubert et Thorel, médécins de la marine, membres de la commission.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1873. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume in 2 parts. Large 4to text volumes, and folio atlas. With a lithographed portrait of Doudart de Lagrée, 53 full-page maps and views, and 157 illustrations in the text. The atlas with 69 lithographed maps, plans and views. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled quarter red morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red cloth sides with blind tooled borders on the front and back, gilt edges, watered silk end papers. V, [3], 580, [4]; [6], 523, [5]; [6], XII pp. Full description

[GOETTHEM, Pieter van (attributed)]. La lyre d'Apollon en poësies meslées, et les mieux choisies de ce temps. Composées par un Zelandois, & amateur dicelles. En cançons, Aïrs, rondeaux, estrenes, & epitaphes, &c.
Middelburg, Pieter van Goetthem, 1657. Oblong 16mo. With the title-page, and page 5 and 7 printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints. 432 pp. Full description

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[KALILA WA DIMNA]. SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine Isaac (editor). Calila et Dimna, ou Fables de Bidpai, en Arabe.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1816. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 19th-century purple-ish cloth, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. The cloth around the spine is faded and browned. [2], VIII, 140; [8], 315, [1] pp. Full description

KERHALLET, Charles-Marie Philippe de. Description nautique de la côte occidentale dAfrique depuis le Cap Roxo jusquaux Îles de Los, comprenant larchipel des Bissagos.
Paris, Paul Dupont, 1849. 8vo. Later half black cloth, with the title and year of publication lettered in gold on the front, the logo of the Royal Danish Navy library gold-tooled on the front, black and pink marbled paper sides. 102 pp. Full description

LA COURVEE, Jean-Claude de. De nutritione foetus in utero paradoxa.
Danzig, G. Förster, 1655. 4to. With an engraved title. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [22], 254 pp. Full description

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Groot schilderboek ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, both title pages with a woodcut vignette, title to part 1 printed in red and black, an engraved portrait of De Laraisse, and 64 engraved plates. 19th-century richly gold-tooled mottled calf (dated 1841). The work has been re-backed with the original spine laid down. [3], [1 blank], [52], 434, [33], [1 blank]; 400, [28] pp. Full description

[LAW - COURT OF HOLLAND] Alle de proceduren in der zake van Jacob Coren vander Mieden, heere van Calantsoogh, en den heere advocaat fiscael en procureur generael Anthony van Weesele, alsmede de proceduren daer uit geresulteert.
[The Netherlands, 1743-1747]. 24 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 32 x 21.5 cm). With some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 15, [1], 31, [1], 30, [2], 7, [1], 9, [2 blank], [1], 4, 10, [2], 2, [2], 21-27, 3, [1], 6, 20, 67, [1], 9, [2 blank], [1], 48, 8, [1], [2 blank], [1], 8, 4, 10, [1], [1], 2, [2] pp. Full description

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Histoire de la navigation... aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à present descouverts par les Portugais: observations de coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations. Deuxiesme edition augmentee.
Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburg, 1619. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. Folio (31 x 21 cm) With an engraved title page for each work, 42 engraved plates (31 double-page and 11 folding), including 6 maps, and a full-page portrait of the author within collation. Including: LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van. Le grand routier de mer, ...
[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van]. Description de lAmerique & des parties dicelle ...
Near-contemporary gold-tooled calf. [1], [1 blank], [6], "205" [= 206]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 181, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], "86" [= 80]. Full description

LUSSAN, Raveneau de. Journal du voyage fait a la Mer du Sud, avec les filibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684 & années suivantes.
Paris, Jean Baptise Coignard, 1689. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 headpieces built up from typographical materials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf. [16], 448, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT - Willem DOES]. [Drop title:] H. ende Ed. Mo. Heeren de Raden van State der Vereenighde Nederlanden ...
The Hague, [1637]. Folio (31.6 x 20.2 cm). Manuscript in Dutch on paper, with the "clein segel" (seal) of the Dutch Republic in the upper left corner of the first leaf. Kept in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] ll. Full description

[NUMISMATICS - BANK NOTES]. Report of the committee of the Society of Arts, &c. together with the approved communications and evidence upon the same relative to the mode of preventing the forgery of bank notes.
London, Printed by order of the Society (colophon: printed by T.C. Hansard), 1819. 8vo. With 6 engraved plates (5 full-page, 1 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [IV], 59, [1 blank], 57-72 [= 76] pp. Full description

[ORLERS, Jan Jansz. & Hendrik Lodewijksz. HAESTENS]. La genealogie des illustres comtes de Nassau nouvellement imprimée ...
Leiden, Jan Orlers, 1620 (colophon: Amsterdam, Jan Jansz. [= Johannes Janssonius I], 1624). Folio. With an engraved title by Jacques de Gheyn II, a full-page coat of arms of Prince Maurice, a full-page engraved portrait of Maurice, 13 half-page engraved portraits of counts and princes of the Nassau family, 2 double-page engraved maps of the Netherlands and Brabant, and 41 engraved plans and bird's-eye views of cities and battles (39 double-page, 2 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [78], 305, [2] pp. Full description

PREMPART, Jacques. Récit, ou brefve description de ce qui s' est passé durant le très-fameux Siège de Bois-le-Duc. ...
Leeuwarden, Claude Fontaine, 1630. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 2 large folding engraved maps, showing the city of 's Hertogenbosch, its fortifications, and the besieging army under Prince Hendrik of Orange, and 7 folding engraved plans of the "approches" of the besieging army at various quarters. Contemporary vellum. [2], 26, [4] pp. Full description

REINZER, Franz. Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, das ist: Philosophische und Politische Beschreib- und Erklärung der Meteorischen, oder in der obern Lufft erzeugten Dinge ...
Augsburg, Peter Detleffsen for Jeremiae Wolffen, 1712. Folio. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A.M. Wolffgang after Wolfgang Josephus Kadoriza and 83 large engraved circular emblems in text with motto above and various verses in text, all after designs by Kadoriza. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with orange label, red sprinkled edges. [4], 424, [4] pp. Full description

[RIEGEL, Christoph]. Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung der freyvereinigten Staaten und Spannischen Niederlanden, in gewisse und sonderbare XVII. Länder abgetheilet ...
Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1691. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, 61 full-page engraved plans, and 59 full-page engraved views of the cities and fortifications of the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum with an oval supralibros mounted in the centre of both boards, red edges, leather closing ties. [8], 1078, [8] pp. + 120 engravings. Full description

[RIJCKE, Lambertus de, Nathane (de) VAY & Job de RIEU]. Bergues sur le Soom assiegée le 18 de Jullet 1622, et des-assiegée le 3 d'Octobre ensuivant. Selon la description faite par les trois pasteurs de l'église d'icelle.
Middelburg, Jean vander Hellen for Rombout van Hamerste, 1623. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and several headpieces made up of typographical ornaments.19th-century gold-tooled red morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [16], 281, [11] pp. Full description

SAVONAROLA, Girolamo. Triumphus crucis: de veritate fidei. Fra. Hieronymi de Ferraria. Prædicatoris.
(Colophon:) Venice, per Lazarro Soardi, 4 January 1504 8vo. Modern brown calf. [114], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[SCHENCKENSCHANS FORTRESS]. Breve y verdadera, descripcion, del ynexpugnable fuerte Schencken como por yndustria de la gente de su magestad catolica se gano en 28 de julio anno 1635 annos ...
Madrid, printed for the widow of Juan Gonçalez, 1635. Broadsheet (ca. 40 x 26 cm). With a large engraving in the top half of the sheet (20 x 22.1 cm). Full description

SLICHTENHORST, Arend van. XIV. Boeken van de Geldersse Geschiedenissen, van 't begin af vervolghd tot aen de afzweeringh des Konincx van Spanien; ...
Arnhem, Jacob van Biesen, 1654. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page, a letterpress half-title, a large folding engraved map, 20 double-page plans and maps, 28 woodcut coats of arms in the text, as well as woodcut medals, and letterpress genealogical tables. With exception of some medals all plates and illustrations are coloured by a contemporary hand and partly highlighted with gold. Early 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called "Vase Block Bindery". [16], 116, [4]; 596, [24] pp. Full description

TREW, Cristoph Jacob. D. Christophori Jacobi Trew, ... Beschreibung der Grossen Americanischen Aloe: Theils aus bewährten autoribus, theils aus eigener Erfahrung zusammen getragen ...
Nuremberg, Bey Wolfg. Moritz Endters seel. Erben, und Jul. Arn. Engelbrecht. Gedruckt bey Joh. Ernst Adelbulner, 1727. Oblong 4to (ca. 16.7 x 21.2 cm). With a full-page engraved plate with 6 figures, an additional engraved folding plate by Busch, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers. 36, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[VENEMA, Pieter] and M. JANSEN. Beginselen van de algebra, uytgewerkt door M. Jansen.
[The Netherlands?], 1765 (29 November 1763-5 July 1765). Folio (ca. 32 x 21 cm). With a calligraphed title page, the text in the rest of the manuscript is neatly written within a reddish brown ruled border, with calligraphed headings. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 311, [50 blank] pp. Full description

[VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. Speculum Zelandiae dat is: een beschryvinge ofte afbeelding der steden, ambachts-heerlijckheden, dorpen, castelen, ridderlijcke hofsteden, huysen en gebouwen gelegen inde eylanden en de graeflijckheyt van Zeelandt.
Amsterdam, Widow of [Joachim] Ottens and sons, [ca. 1720]. 1mo (32 x 32.5 cm). With an engraved armorial title page and 36 full-page engraved views. Contemporary gold-tooled brown half calf. [37] ll. Full description

[WADDEN ISLANDS - TEXEL] Akte van kaveling van Eijerland, (eiland Texel.) verdeeld in zes hoofddeelen.
[The Netherlands], 1840. Folio. With the large folding map (87 x 74.5 cm) of Eijerland with hand-coloured in outline.
Half beige leather, marbled paper sides. [1], [1 blank],128 pp. Full description

WINSEMIUS, Pierius. Chronique ofte historische geschiedenisse van Vrieslant. Beginnende vanden jaere nae des Werelts scheppinghe 3635. ende loopende tot den jaere nae de gheboorte Christi.
Franeker, Jan Lamrinck, 1622. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, a large engraved coat of arms of the province of Friesland, a large folding engraved map of Friesland, 3 folding engraved plans. Further with (in the text) 49 half-page, full-length engraved portraits, 2 engraved costume plates, 2 plans of sieges, 1 view 6 seals and coats of arms of Friesland at the end. Also with many woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. All engraved and woodcut illustrations are beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [10], 913, [61] pp. Full description