Highlights

BIE, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten vrede tusschen de twee magtighe croonen van Spaignien en Vrancryck, waer-inne begrepen is den onsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw, hier inne meest naer hrt leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke rijmen ende spreuken.
Antwerpen, Jan Meyssens, 1662 (colophon: Juliaen van Montfort, 1661). 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Cornelis Meyssens after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, a full-page portrait of the dedicatee Antoine van Leyen by Richard Collin (1661), a full-page portrait of the author by Jan Meyssens after Erasmus Quellinus, and 97 full-page engraved and etched portraits of painters, engravers, architects and sculptors, engraved by Jan Meyssens, Wenceslaus Hollar, and numerous others, after drawings by Anthony van Dyck, Paulus Pontanus, Jan Lievens, etc. 18th-century gold-tooled half sheep. [2], "584" [= 586], [3] pp. Full description

[BLONDEL, François]. Beschryving van de beroemde, en van ouds vermaarde vrye keiserlyke ryks- en krooning- stad Aken, mitsgaders van alle desselfs fonteinen en minerale wateren en baden (...) tot herstelling van veele elendige en sieke menschen hunne gesontheid.
Leiden, Johannes du Vivier, 1727. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 18 engraved plates (15 folding, 3 full-page), several engraved illustrations in the text. Ad 2 with an engraved title vignette, and 10 engraved folding plates by H. Spilman after Jan de Beyer. With: LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidsbron, en omleggende landsdouwen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. Early 19th-century half brown calf. [22], 223, [1 blank]; 63, [11] pp. Full description

BOCCONE, Paulo. Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eiusdem classis facile distinguitur.
[Oxford], Sheldonian Theatre, 1674. 4to. With an engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title page, and 52 engraved illustrations of plants in the text. Early 19th-century gold-tooled tree-marbled calf. [8], 96, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOEMUS, Joannes. Omnium gentium mores, leges & ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum opus, Aphricam, Asiam, & Europam describentibus. Accessit libellus de regionibus septentrionalibus
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1538. 8vo (14.7 x 9.6). With a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and some woodcut initials. Later vellum. 149, [3] ll. Full description

BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas. Oeuvres. Avec des éclaircissemens historiques, donnez par lui-même.
Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1718. 2 volumes. Folio. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, incorporating a portrait of the author, an engraved vignette with portrait of Erasmus on the title page of both volumes, both titles are printed in red and black, all text pages are set within a fine typographical woodcut border, an engraved part-title, 6 full-page engraved plates, 2 engraved headpieces, 2 engraved initials, and 27 engraved tailpieces by Bernard Picart.
Late 18th or early 19th-century gold-tooled straight-grain dark blue morocco, with the title and imprint lettered in gold on the spine, a single fillet and two ornamental borders on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt and gauffered edges, orange end papers. [4], XVIII, [4], 450; [4], VII, [1], 370, [20] pp. Full description

BONTEKOE, Cornelis. Korte verhandeling van 's menschen leven, gesondheid, siekte, en dood, begrepen in een drie ledige reden, I. Over 't lighaam en sijne werkingen in gesondheid; II. Over de siekte en desselfs oorsaken; III. Over de middelen, om het leven en de gesondheid te bewaren en te verlengen (...).
The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1685. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black. Including: [IDEM]. Drie verhandelingen, I. Over de natuur. II. Over de bevinding. III. Over de sekerheit in de genees- en heel-kunde.
Contemporary vellum. [124], 409, [14]; [4], 76 pp. Full description

BORGHINI, Raffaello. Il riposo ... in cui della pittura, e della scultura si favella, de piu illustri pittori, e scultori, e delle piu famose opere loro si fa mentione; e le cose principali appartenenti à dette arti s'insegnano.
Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584. 8vo. With Marescottis woodcut "et vult et potest" device on the title page (ship in an oval cartouche with motto, and a monogram at the foot) and a full-page allegorical woodcut on art and on fame in an oval cartouche, a woodcut tailpiece, and 6 woodcut decorated initials (4 series). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment (ca. 1890?). [48], 648 pp. Full description

BOSWELL, James. An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
London, for Edward & Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved coat of arms on the title page, and a large engraved folding map of Corsica. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf. XII, [2], 384 pp. Full description

BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis & Louis Charles DESNOS. Coup d'oeil général sur la France, pour servir d'introduction au tableau analytique et géographique de ce Royaume. Dressé par différens géographes, dont les ouvrages sont aussi connus qu'estimés, faisant partie de l'atlas historique de la France ancienne & moderne ...
Paris, Grangé, Guillyn, Desnos, et al., 1765. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. With a double-page frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, 2 large folding engraved maps of France by Rizzi Zannoni, 40 double-page engraved maps and charts of France, 10 folding road maps, 2 "Cartes odographiques" with the distances between French cities, and 3 double-page engraved part-titles, all but the frontispiece and titles in a contemporary hand colouring.
Comprising: (2) DESNOS, Louis Charles. Tableau analytique de la France.
Paris, chez l'auteur, 1765.
(3) ZANNONINI, Rizzi. Le petite Neptune François ou carte des côtes maritimes du Royaume.
Paris, chez le Sr. Desnos, 1765.
(4) MICHEL. L'indicateur fidèle ou guide des voyageurs.
Paris, à l'enseigne du globe, 1765.
With: (5) [CATALOGUE]. Catalogue des Ouvrages, tant anciens que modernes, du Fonds du Sr. Desnos.
Paris, à l'enseigne du globe et de la sphere, 1765. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled marbled calf. 15, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank], 8, 10; 16 pp. + 56 plates Full description

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo ... (&c.).
[Antwerp, Johannes Grapheus?], 1533. 8vo. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco. 96 ll. Full description