Highlights

GABBEMA, Simon Abbes. Friesche lust-gaarde ofte Boom-heester-bloem- en kruyd-waarande, bestaande uyt der gewassen beschrijvinge, die in Hoog- en Neder-duyds-land en de aangrenzende land-schappen bekent zijn.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1687. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, ascribed to Jan Luyken, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and some woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 40, 660, [60] pp. Full description

GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf. [79] ll. Full description

GOOS, Abraham. Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden, soo in t geheel, als elck besonder met grote neersticheyt ende kosten gesneden ende in t licht gebracht. Mitsgaders een nieuwe beschryvinge uijt verscheyden autheuren ordentlyck tsamen gestelt door Reinier Telle ... .
Amsterdam, Abraham Goos in de Kalverstraet, [1616]. Oblong 4to (ca. 16 x 21 cm). With an engraved title page (signed by P.S[erwouter] scul. (bottom right) after D.V[inck] B[oons] (bottom left)), 23 full page maps, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century quarter calf. [7], "305" [=294], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[GRONINGEN]. Effigies & vitae professorum academiae Groningae & Omlandiae; cum historiolâ fundationis ejusdem acad.
Groningen, Johannes Nicolai (colophon: Hindrick Lussinck), 1654. Small folio (ca. 29 x 19 cm). With an engraved title page, and 31 full-page engraved portraits. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 225, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, and 17 double-page plates, maps and views (15 woodcuts, 2 engravings).Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later vellum. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of the Low Countries (Belgia), an engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, an engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with the coat of arms of Philip II in the centre pasted in, an engraved plate with an allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and an architectural border with the portrait of Philip II in the centre, a large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with an oval centrepiece on both boards within a decorative frame, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [24], 432, [18] pp. Full description

HEEMSKERCK, Maarten van. [The seven planets].
[Antwerp], Hieronymus Cock, [ca. 1568]. With 7 engraved plates (ca. 22.5 x 26.5 cm). Each engraving is tipped onto a passepartout (ca. 50 x 38.8 cm). Full description

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528.
With:
(2) IDEM. Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked. 183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll. Full description

HUNTER, John. Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur ... Anglice consscripta; a Johanne Huntero ... In linguam Latinam et Batavam versa a Petro Boddaert / Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd worden. Uit het Engelsch in het Latyn en Nederduitsch vertaald; door Pieter Boddaert.
Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1773. 4to. With 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption ("Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson"). Contemporary tree-marbled boards. XXII, 213, [1] pp. Full description

[JESUITS - EMBLEMS]. Imago primi saeculi Societas Iesu a provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraesentata.
Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1640. Folio. With an engraved title page and 126 engraved emblems, including the Leo Belgicus map. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, remnants of clasps, 4 small brass corner pieces. (8), 952, (22) pp. Full description