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LAIRESSE, Gerard de. Groot schilderboek ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, both title pages with a woodcut vignette, title to part 1 printed in red and black, an engraved portrait of De Laraisse, and 64 engraved plates. 19th-century richly gold-tooled mottled calf (dated 1841). The work has been re-backed with the original spine laid down. [3], [1 blank], [52], 434, [33], [1 blank]; 400, [28] pp. Full description

LOZANO, Francisco Xavier. Verdades eternas, confirmadas con la Sagrada Escritura, y expuestas en decimas castellanas para conservarlas facilmente en la memoria.
Mexico, Heirs of Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page engraving of San Ignacio de Loyola by Aguera and several woodcut borders and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XIV, 168; 172, [1] pp. Full description

[MALLÈS DE BEAULIEU, Jeanne-Sophie]. Begebenheiten eines französischen Schiffsjungen auf einer unbewohntern Insel, oder der zwölfjährige Robinson.
Zürich & Leipzig, Trachslerschen Buch- u. Kunsthandlung, [1824]. Small 8vo. With an illustrated engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, all aquatints which are richly and beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary green cloth, gold-tooled spine. 324 pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - NAVIGATION - DUTCH]. De schat kamer ofte de konst der stuurlieden.
[The Netherlands], [ca. 1702/13?]. Folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm). With more than 300 mathematical figures and illustrations, mainly full-, half- and quarter-circle diagrams. The Dutch text is written in a clearly legible, 18th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary flexible paperboards. [213], [4 blank], [1] pp. Full description

MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). [Epigrammata]. Nova editio.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With the woodcut printer's device of Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii on the title pages of ad 1 and 2, and the woodcut device of Maire on the title page of ad 3. With: (2) Petrus SCRIVERIUS. Animadversiones in Martialem. Opus invenile, & nunc primum ex intervallo quindecim annorum repetitum.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1618.
(3) Justus LIPSIUS, Janus RUTGERSIUS, Johannes Isacus PONTANUS (Janus GRUTERUS, Josephus Justus SCALIGER, and others). Notae in Martialem. Ad Petrum Scriverium.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [8], 16, 312; 283, [1 blank]; 24, 280 pp. Full description

[MEDICAL MANUAL AND RECIPE BOOK]. Examen: vor ein neuer angehender Chirurgus, der sich will examiniren lassen, daß er in seinem examen bestehet, und wohl erfunden wird, so muß er dieses alles auswendig lernen, daß er antworten kann, über dasjenige was ihm gefragt wird. Anno 1806.
Franconia and Alsace (Augsburg, Nuremberg, Strasbourg), 1800-1826. 4to (17 x 23 cm). German (and Latin) manuscript by various hands. Contemporary boards with vellum corners and modern cloth spine. [47], "286" [= 285], [47] pp. Full description

MEURS, Jacob van. [Collection of 84 original drawings for Economische Liedjes].
[Amsterdam, 1792-1798]. With 84 drawings, each ca. 7.3 x 12.7 cm. All drawings carefully tipped onto board leaves, several mounted within elegant grey ink-washed borders. Full description

[MINIATURE BOOKS - DUTCH]. Bibliotheek in miniatuur.
Comprising:
(1) De aardrijkskunde.
(2) De gewijde geschiedenis.
(3) Vaderlandsche geschiedenis.
(4) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der viervoetige dieren.
(5) De natuurlijke geschiedenis der vogelen.
(6) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der insekten, kruipende dieren en visschen.
(7) De kruidkunde.
(8) Zedelijke verhalen.
(9) Arabische vertellingen.
(10) De mythologie.
Amsterdam, M. Westerman, 1823. 10 volumes. Ca 7.7 x 6.5 cm. With 31 engraved plates and 5 engraved maps, including a folding world map. In the original pink and green cardboard case with glass lid, green printed paper wrappers, with cream paper dust jackets with the titles in manuscript on the front. Full description

[MONTALVO, Garci Rodríguez de]. Het XIIII.de - XVIII.de, boeck van Amadis de Gaule. Uyt de Fransche in onse Nederduytsche Tale over gheset.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Barentsz., 1615-1623, 5 parts in 1 vol. 4to. With ornamental woodcut borders and woodcut illustrations on 5 titles. Contemporary vellum, with red painted edges. [8], 166; [2], 145, [2, 3 blank]; 94, [2]; 200, [8]; [8], 402 pp. Full description

MUHAMMAD ALI UTAY. [Egyptian ABC book].
[Cairo, ca. 1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations in the text. The title-page with a frame of foliage (oval inside, rectangular outside) and part of its text printed from a woodblock. Further with a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt and illustrations of animals, etc. Original publisher's printed-paper wrappers, matching the title-page but with the frame in green and the text in red. 46, [2 blank] pp. Full description