Art, Architecture & Photography

CROCE, Giulio Cesare and Nikola PALIKUCA (translator). Himbenost pritankogh Veleznanstva Nasradinova.
Ancona, Pietro Paolo Ferri, 1771. 12mo. With a woodcut of the main character on the title page. Contemporary plain wrappers. 71 pp. Full description

CROCUS, Cornelius. Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.
Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf. [40] ll. Full description

CURTIS, G. W. (compiler). [Album of photographs documenting a British military tour on the Northwest Frontier].
Waziristan/Pakistan, 1923-1925. 4to album (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With 97 black & white photographs (each ca. 11 x 6.5 cm) inserted in "frames" on 24 paperboard leaves, with 2 "frames" on each page (1 frame has 2 photos in it). Contemporary cloth. [48] pp. with 97 photographs. Full description

CUSTOS, Raphael. Patriciarum stirpium in S. Rom. Imp. Urbe Augusta Vindelicor ... | Der herren Gschlechter deß Hail. Röm. Reichs Statt Augspurg ...
Augsburg, Christoph Mang, 1613. 4to. With an engraved title, and 122 numbered engraved full-page illustrations of knights. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with a floral ornament within an oval frame in the centre of both boards, set within a double fillet frame with floral corner pieces, remnants of closing ties, gilt edges. [24], "123" [= 124] ll., 124-136, [1 blank] pp. Full description

D'ALLEMAGNE, Henri-René. Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris. Trois mois de voyage en Perse.
Paris, Hachette et compagnie, 1911. 4 volumes. 4to (ca. 32.5 x 25.7 cm). With approximately 960 photographic illustrations in the text and 255 full-page plates, including 47 in colour. Contemporary paper covers decorated with coloured symmetrical designs, featuring a central medallion and ornate borders, and utilising detailed geometric and arabesque floral motifs. The decorated spines bear the author, title, volume number, and printer, lettered in yellow on blue. All volumes are in their original brown sheer paper printers wrappers and are housed in brown paper publishers boxes with paper spine labels with the author, title, and volume number lettered. [6], VIII, 228; [4], 250, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank]; [2], 271, [1]; [2], 322, [1] pp. Full description

[DAHLBERG, Erik]. Suecia antiqua et hodierna.
[Stockholm, 1769? (engraved ca. 1670-ca. 1750)]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 355 engraved plates (including 3 engraved title-pages and the large view of the Swedish Church in London, often lacking); most plates double-page, several folding. Only the index is printed letterpress. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. In a modern slipcase. 13, [1 blank] pp. plus 355 plates. Full description

DAM, Dirk Jansz. van. Almanach, d'erven stichters comptoir op 't jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1771. Voorzien met alle de jaar-, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten, als mede de vacantien, het varen der trekschuyten en beurtschepen, het ryden der posten, &c. Nevens de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1770].
With: [ALMANAC]. Schutters wagt-almanach, anno 1771, aanwijsende wat compagnien, en op wat nagt zy te zamen waken moeten, om de vijftiende nagt. Nevens een ordre wat posten yder heeft te besetten. Onder de E. E. Heeren Colonellen Jacob Elias. Arent Hartjes. Theodorus Wynants. Hendr. Balth. van Aalst. en S. J. B. Barchm. Wuytiers.Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichters, [1770]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, a large coat of arms of Amsterdam on the title-page of ad 2, and 12 half-page woodcuts, one for each month, printed in red and black in ad 1. Contemporary elaborately silver-tooled vellum, with the coat of arms of Amsterdam in the centre of the front board, and an impression of three drummers on the back, both signed "Duisburg F[ecit]", both boards with a baroque ornamental border, with the coats of arms of each of the seven Dutch provinces at the top (with that of Holland prominently in the middle), the coats of arms of the 20 largest Dutch cities on the sides (Dordrecht, Delft, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Leiden, Gouda, Hoorn, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen on the left side; Middelburg, Vlissingen, Amersfoort, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Zwolle and Deventer on the right side), and at the bottom an image that probably shows the transfer of goods near a city. [32]; [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DAMMANN, Carl Victor and Friedrich Wilhelm. Ethnologischer Atlas sämmtlicher Menschen-Racen in Photographien, . . .
Hamburg, Otto Meissner, [1876]. With letterpress title-leaf and 179 albumen prints mounted on 25 paperboard leaves (31.5×46.5 cm), each leaf with a short general description in German, and all photos with irregularly numbered captions. Loose in a modern black half cloth clamshell box, with the original printed title-wrapper mounted on front. 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

[DANCE OF DEATH]. La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Avec: le débat du corps & de l'ame. La complainte de l'ame damnée. L'exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir. La vie du mauvais Antechrist. Les quinze signes du jugement.
Troyes, Jean-Antoine Garnier, [1728]. 4to. With 60 woodcuts in text, including 3 repeats, most of them half-page. 19th-century half cloth. 76 pp. Full description