Highlights

CHOUL, Guillaume du. Discorso ... Sopra la castrametatione & bagni antiche i Greci & Romani. Nivamente revisto & ricorretto dallistesso Auttore. Con laggiunta della figura del campo Romano.
[Padua], Marc Antonio Olmo, 1558. 8vo. The word "Discorso" printed in woodcut border at the top of the title-page, with woodcut printers device: an elm with the words: "Ulmus amica viti" (the elm is friendly for vines). With 43 full-page woodcuts (ca. 11 x 7.5 cm), a large folding woodcut plate in two leaves (as issued, in total ca. 40.5 x 36 cm) of a plan of a Roman camp: "Figura del Campo de Romani", and 2 large historiated woodcut initials of 10 lines and 3 capital spaces with guide letters for initials of 5 lines. Modern vellum. 80, [4] ll. Full description

[COLLECTIO PISAURENSIS]. Collectio Pisaurensis omnium poematum, carminum, fragmentorum Latinorum, sive ad Christianos, sive ad ethnicos, sive ad certos, sive ad incertos poetas, a prima Latinae linguae aetate ad sextum usque Christianum seculum & Longobardorum in Italiam adventum pertinens, ab omnium poetarum libris, collectionibus, lapidibus, codicibus exscripta.
Pisauri (Pesaro), Ex Amatina Chalcographia (Paschalis Amatus), 1766. 6 volumes. 4to. With an engraving on the title page, and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces in the first volume. The fifth volume with 9 folding tables printed in red and black, all volumes with some woodcut initials and tailpieces.
Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper boards, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, with the title and volume number lettered on the spine, and red sprinkled edges. LII, 522; [1], [1 blank], XXXV, [1 blank], 480; [1], [1 blank], XXIV, 529, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], LXXIV, 514; [1], [1 blank], XVIII, 388; [1], [1 blank], XII, 306 pp. Full description

COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. De vyerighe colom klaer vertoonende in vyftich onderscheydene curieuse caarten de XVII Nederlantsche provincien, alsmede de hartogen, houtvesters en graven van Vlaenderen, Hollandt ende Zelandt. Met desselfs beschryving.
Amsterdam, Jacob Aertsz. Colom, [ca. 1660]. Oblong 4to (ca. 23 x 28 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Experiens Sillemans, and 50 full-page numbered engraved plates (47 maps, and 3 plates containing 117 portraits of the Counts of Brabant, Flanders, and Holland). Contemporary vellum. [2], 4, [14], 223, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

CRESPIN, Jean. Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.
Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.
With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.
[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.
(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.
1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e). [18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.
Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers. [4] ll. Full description

DAMSEAUX, Émile de. La Belgique pittoresque. Les chateaux.
Mons, J. Dacquin; Paris, Aug. Ghio, 1872 [-1878]. 7 volumes. Oblong (ca. 21 x 30 cm). With 168 full-page lithographs. Original publisher's gold- and blind-stamped purple cloth. Each volume contains 24 lithographed plates. Full description

DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 headpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. Later half vellum, title in ink on spine. 60 ll. Full description

[DU BOIS, Nicolas (attributed)]. Jansenismus omnem destruens religionem.
Cologne, Johann Wilhelm Friessem junior, 1693. 3 broadsides. Ad 1: ca. 96.5 x 76 cm; ad 2 and 3: ca. 138 x 77 cm. Each broadside is printed on 2 sheets, divided in 8 (ad 1) or 12 (ads 2 and 3) columns, and includes 2 decorated woodcut initials, and an ornamental border between the columns. With: (2) IDEM. Jansenismus plurimas haereses et errores damnatos pertinaciter defendens.
Idem.
(3) IDEM. Jansenismus in multis exotice rigidus.
Idem. Framed in a modern wooden frame. Full description

EEKHOFF, Wopke. Nieuwe atlas van de provincie Friesland, bevattende kaarten van de dertig grietenijen of gemeenten, met de daarin gelegene elf steden en haar grondgebied, alsmede van de eilanden Ameland en Schiermonnikoog.
Leeuwarden, W. Eekhoff, 1849-1859. Large folio (68 x 41 cm). With 32 large double-page maps, of which 2 folding, engraved by D. & H. Veelwaard after J.W. Witteveen. Further with the engraved coat of arms of the Province of Friesland on the title page. Contemporary half brown morocco and pebble-grained brown cloth sides. [4] pp. + 32 maps. 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