Europe / France, Greece & Italy

DUPUY, Dominique. Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce qui vivent en France.
Paris, Masson, 1847-1852. 2 volumes (text and atlas). 4to. With a letterpress folding table and 31 lithographed plates. Contemporary green half sheepskin. XXXI, [1 blank], 737, [1 blank] pp. Full description

DUPUY DU GREZ, Bernard. Traité sur la peinture pour en apprendre la teorie, & se perfectionner dans la pratique.
Toulouse, Widow of J. Pech, and A. Pech, 1699. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 4 full-page engraved allegorical plates after A. Rivatz, the first dated 1694, and 8 engravings showing perspecive, 2 of which are full-page. Further with large flowered and emblematic woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf. [20], 396 pp. Full description

DURAND, Guillaume (Guillelmus DURANDUS or DURANTI). Rationale divinorum officiorum.
Strasbourg, [Johann Prüss], 1486. Chancery folio (32.5 x 22 cm). Printed in 2 columns, with 48 lines to the column. Set in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic types, Prüss types 2 (180G) and 3 (90G), with spaces left (some with and some without printed guide letters) for manuscript initials (1 8-line, 2 7-line, 4 6-line, 3 5-line and numerous 3- and 4-line). From the beginning to h3r these spaced have been filled in with manuscript lombardic initials in red and the text has been rubricated (the first fifth of the book). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden (beechwood?) boards by an Augsburg bindery (Eindbanddatenbank workshop w002998, active ca. 1488-1497). [3], 272 ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT]. Book I-[II] Egypt 1906-7. Book III Naples, Rome, Florence. Book IV Criccieth N. Wales, Zara, Khargeh Upper Egypt, Cairo, Freshwater Bay I.W.Egypt, Naples, Rome, Florence, Criccieth and the Isle of Wight, 1906-1908. Oblong (23 x 32 cm). An album in 4 volumes with 323 silver gelatin prints (8 x 5.5 cm to 14 x 8 cm, mostly ca. 10 x 7 cm). Side-stitched.
With:
(2) LEHNERT & LANDROCK. Souvenir of Cairo. 12 real artistic photos. Serie A.
Egypt, [late 1920s]. Envelope containing 12 silver gelatin prints (12 x 9 cm).
(3) [PHOTOGRAPHY - SINGAPORE?]. Photograph of a woman and a baby sitting in a rickshaw, with a child in front and the rickshaw puller.
[Singapore?], [late 1920s]. Silver gelatin print (7.5 x 12.5 cm). 9; 7; 12; 11 ll. Full description

EMMIUS, Ubbo. Vetus Graecia, illustrata studio & operâ Ubbonis Ebbii. Opus distinctum in tomos tres: quorum I. Descriptionum habet regionum à Graecis habitatum ... II. Complectitur Res gestas Graecorum. III. Representat Statum ...praecipuarum ejus gentis rerumpublicarum ...
Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1626. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With the printer's device of the Elzeviers on all three title-pages, woodcut initials. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum. [24] 194, [22]; [4], 536, [32]; [4], 519, 25 pp. Full description

[ENGLAND & DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Traitté dalliance defensive, entre lAngleterre et les Estats Generaux, conclu le 3. Mars 1678.
Cologne [recté: Amsterdam?], "Pierre Marteau", 1680. 4to. With the woodcut English royal arms on the title-page. 19th-century brown paper wrappers. [8] pp. Full description

ÉON DE BEAUMONT, Charles G.L.A.A.T. d'. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire generale des finances.
Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1760. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. Two title-pages printed in red & black. Contemporary calf. [4], LXVIII, 108; [4], 216 pp. Full description

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthelémy. Minéralogie des volcans ou description de toutes les substances produites ou rejetées par les feux souterrains.
Paris, Cuchet, 1784. 8vo. With 3 full-page engraved plates.Contemporary goatskin, gold-tooled spine with a yellow-brown morocco spine label, sprinkled edges. XV, 16-20, 511, [1 blank] pp. Full description

FELICIANO, Francesco. Libro di arithmetica & geometria speculativa & praticale ... intitulato Scala Grimaldelli: novamente stampato
(Colophon: Venice, Francesco de Leno), 1563. 4to. With the title in a 5-piece woodcut border with an allusive woodcut illustration (ladder and key), and with numerous woodcut diagrams, geometric figures and other illustrations printed in the large fore-edge margin. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [80] ll. Full description

FENESTELLA, Lucius (pseudonym of Andrea Domenico FIOCCO). Il Fenestella d'i sacerdotii, e d'i magistrati romani.
Venice, apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 42 woodcut decorated initials of professions, sports and past times in ad 1, and a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work. With (bound before ad 1): ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus. Expositio in IIII. orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis contra C. Verrem.
Venice, apud Paulus Manutius, 1553. Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping for edges. 43, [1]; [8], 96 ll. Full description