Highlights

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius and Desiderus ERASMUS. Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ab innumeris mendis repurgata, adiectis nonnullis libellis ex vetustissimis exemplaribus, quae hactenus non habebantur, ac semotis iis, quae falso videbantur inscripta, una ... cu[m] annotatiunculis. Atq[ue] haec omnia nobis praestitit ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus, vir juvandis optimis studiis natus...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1520. Folio. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page and on the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, numerous woodcut decorated initials by Ambrosius Holbein throughout, and some ornamental woodcut headpieces. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge and brass edge guards around the corners and on the bottom board edge near the spine, manuscript waste pastedowns, re-backed. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius, and Desiderus ERASMUS Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ab innumeris mendis repurgata, adiectis nonnullis libellis ex vetustissimis exemplaribus, quae hactenus no[n] habebantur, ac semotis iis, quae falso videbantur inscripta, una ... cu[m] annotatiunculis. Atq[ue] haec omnia nobis praestitit ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus vir juvandis optimis studiis natus...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1521. Folio. With a detailed woodcut border on the title page and the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf and with woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with brass catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge of the boards, lacking the clasps. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. 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

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enarratio in primum psalmum davidicum potissimum iuxta tropologiam. Martini Dorpii ... ad eundem epistola, de moriae encomio, deque novi testamenti ad graecos codices emendatione. Erasmi ad Dorpium suos labores defendentis copiosa & plaenae eloquentiae apologia ...
Leuven, Thierry Martins, October 1515. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a full-page woodcut printers device at the end of the work. 19th-century gold-tooled half brown morocco. [44] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Sileni Alcibiadis ... Cum Scholijs Ioannis Frobenij, pro graecarum uocum & quorundam locorum apertiori intelligentia ad calcem adiectis.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, April 1517. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 4 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of each part. Including: IDEM. Scarabeus. Cum shcoliis[!], in quibus Graeca potissimum, quae passim inserta sunt, exponuntur.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, May 1517. Late 19th-century or early 20th-century boards, red edges. 42 ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Plutarchi Chaerone[n]s opuscula quaeda[m] Des. Erasmo Roterodamo, Stephano Nigro, Angelo Barbato, Bilibaldo Pirckheymero, & Philippo Melanchthone Brettano, interpretibus.
(Colophon) Basel, Johann Froben, September 1518. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page, the first page of the dedication, the first page of the text (A3r), and the first page of the text by Stephanus Niger (H2r), 18 woodcut decorated initials, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device. 19th-century richly gold-tooled quarter red morocco. 194, [2] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Eximii doctoris Hieronymi Stridonensis vita, ex ipsius potissimum literis contexta.
Basel, (Colophon) Johann Froben, May 1519. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page and on page 3, a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern beige paper boards. 70, [2] pp. Full description