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SANTANS Y TAPIA, Juan. Relacion verdadera de la entrada que hizo la armada del Frances en compania de la del Olandes, en la embocadura del puerto del real presidio y ciudad de la Coruña ...
1639. Folio (19.3 x 29 cm). Two unbound sheets, housed in a plastic folder. [2] ll. Full description

SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté de l'espee Francoise.
Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With engraved emblematic heraldic device on title-page (right hand holding a sword, emerging from a cloud, with crosses and fleurs-de-lis on the sword's blade and in the background, the whole representing King Louis XIII protecting France and the Church) with the motto "Pro religione et regno".
With: (2) SAVARON, Jean (Sieur de Villars). Traicté contre les duels. Avec l'edict de Philippes le Bel, de l'an M.CCC.VI. non encores imprimé.
Paris, Adrien Périer, 1610. With Périer's woodcut compasses device on title-page with motto "labore et constantia", borrowed from Christoffel Plantin. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century sprinkled calf. 56; [16], 125, [3 blank] pp. Full description

SCHEEL, Heinrich Otto de. Memoires d'artillerie, contenant l'artillerie nouvelle, ou les changemens faits dans l'artillerie Françoise en 1765. Avec l'exposé et l'analyse des obiections qui ont été faites à ces changemens.
Copenhagen, Claude Philibert and August Frédéric Stein, 1777. 4to. With an engraved illustration on the title-page, 29 folding engraved plates and 6 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. [4], XVI, [8], 440, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SHOBERL, Frederic]. Verhaal der merkwaardigste gebeurtenissen die plaats gehad hebben in- en nabij Leipzig, onmiddelijk voor, gedurende, en na de veelvuldige bloedige gevechten tusschen de geallieerde legers en de Franschen, van den 14den tot den 19den October 1813. Door een ooggetuige te boek gesteld, verrijkt door een zeer onderhoudend bijvoegsel. Uit het Engelsch en Hoogduitsch vertaald.
Rotterdam, bij de Wed. Locke en Zoon, 1814. Large 8vo. Contemporary marbled paper over hard boards. [1], [1 blank], 146, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SENAULT, Elisabeth (engraver). Heures nouvelles dédiées à Monseigneur Dauphin. Ecrites et gravées par Elisabeth Senault.
Paris, Chez Claude De Hansy, [before 1715 (ca. 1690?)]. 12mo. With the text fully engraved and set within a decorative border, several engraved floral initials, and head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by Charles Petit. [4], 212 pp. Full description

SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.
Paris, "l'autheur" and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker. [1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece. Full description

SEUTTER, Matthäus. XVII provinciae Belgii sive Germaniae inferioris.
Augsburg, Tobias Conrad Lotter, [1762-1777]. Ca. 20.5 x 26.3 cm. With a hand coloured engraved map. The map is folded and housed in a contemporary sprinkled paper case, with an engraved title label mounted on the front. Full description

STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm. Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est, Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et aliarum gentium monarchae potentissimi, cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum rege florentissimo comparatio: utriusq[ue] regis historiam breviter complectens, quam regum & principum speculum possis appellare.
(Colophon: Zürich, Johann Wolf), 1592. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a woodcut portrait of Charlemagne and Henry IV on title-page, two woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device on the last leaf. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 79, [1] ll. Full description

THOMASSIN, Simon. Recueil des statues, groupes, fontaines, termes, vases, et autres magnifiques ornements du chateau & parc de Versailles. Avec les explications en François, Latin, Italien & Hollandois.
The Hague, Rutgert Alberts, 1724. 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). With the title printed in red and black, fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, large folding engraved plan of the town and the castle of Versailles, and 218 finely engraved numbered plates, 5 of which are folding by several artists such as P. le Gros, Garnier, I. la Clerion, N. Coustous, Cornu, and more, all after the designs by Simon Thomassin, illustrating the garden sculpture at Versailles. Contemporary marbled calf. 59 pp. Full description

[TRADEMARKS - FRANCE]. Les marques de fabrique Françaises. Sauvegarde du producteur français.
Paris, Nélaton & Cie., 1876 (Preface dated 31 December 1875). Oblong folio. With 93 full-page lithographed plates with product logos, several leaves with chromolithographed product labels mounted onto the page. Contemporary gold- and blind-stamped red cloth by Charles Magnier. [10], 93 ll. Full description