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[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - SYRIAC]. GUTBIER, Aegidius. Novum Testamentum Syriacè...
Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1664 (engraved title-page "1663").
With:
(2) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Lexicon Syriacum, continens omnes N.T. Syriaci dictiones et particulas...
Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.(3) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Notae criticae in Novum Testamentum Syriacum... Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.
3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an architectural title-page, a woodcut vase of flowers on the letterpress title-page and decorations built up from typographic ornaments. With woodcut decorated initials and other decorations built up from typographic ornaments throughout the volume. Set in roman, italic and Syriac types, with incidental Greek and Hebrew. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [32], “606” [= 604]; [16], 146, [50]; 55, [1] pp. Full description

GUYOT, Edme Gilles. Nieuwe natuur- en wiskonstige vermaaklykheden ...
Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, 1771-1775. 4 volumes. 8vo. With 24, 16, 23, and 10 numbered engraved folding plates with illustrations of scientific instruments, experiments, games, perspective and optical compositions, code languages, fireworks, and more. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines with title labels, red sprinkled edges. XXVIII, 29-414, [4], [2 blank]; VIII, 9-622, [2]; VI, 7-396, [4]; XII, 13-338, [2] pp. Full description

HAEFTEN, Benedictus van. Regia via crucis.
Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus (Officina Plantiniana), 1635. 8vo. With an engraved title page and 38 full-page emblematic engravings. Richly gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), each board with the arms of (apparently) Abbot Placidus Buechauer (1611-1669) of Kremsmünster, gilt and elaborately gauffered edges. XL, 404, [26], [2 blank] pp. Full description

HAEGHEN, Ferdinand van der and Marie-Thérèse LENGER (editor). Bibliotheca Belgica, bibliographie générale des Pays-Bas.
Bruxelles, 1964-1975. 7 volumes (including index vol.). Large 4to (28 x 21 cm). With numerous black and white illustrations. Uniform red cloth. Full description

HAMILTON, Hugh. De sectionibus conicis. Tractatus geometricus. In quo, ex natura ipsius coni, sectionum affectioens [!] facillime deducuntur. Methodo nova.
London, William Johnston, 1758. 4to. With numerous illustrations on 17 folding engraved plates. Contemporary French gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, with the arms of the French King Louis XV in the centre of each board and his crowned monogram in each compartment (except that with the title) of the spine. [4], VIII, 211, [1] pp. Full description

HAMMEN, Ludwig von. De herniis dissertatio academica. Accedunt de crocodilo ac vesicae, mendaci calculo, epistolae et responsiones.
Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1681. 12mo. With a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary blue wrappers. [6], 135, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[HAYM, Niccolo Francesco]. Biblioteca Italiana, o sia, Notizia de' libri rari nella lingua Italiana, divisa in quattro parti principali: cioe istoria, poesia, prose, arti e scienze, annessovi tutto il libro dell' Eloquenza Italiana di Mons. Giusto Fontanini col suo ragionamento intorno alla stessa materia. Con tavole copiosissime, e necessarie.
Venice, Angiolo Geremia, 1728. 4to. With woodcut historiated initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century vellum, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, red and blue sprinkled edges. [24], 264 pp. Full description

HEINSIUS, Nicolas. Bibliotheca Heinsiana sive catalogus librorum, quos, magno studio, & sumtu, dum viveret, collegit.
Leiden, (Abraham Elsevier, for) Johannes de Vivie, (1682). Two parts in one volume. 12mo. With the title page printed in red and black, and a woodcut printer's device. Contemporary marbled calf. [2], 374, [2 blank]; 286, [2 blank] pp. Full description

HELVETIUS, Claude Adrien. De L'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume.
London [= France?], La Société Typographique, 1773. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. XXXII, 326, [2 blank]; [2 blank], 412 pp. Full description