Highlights

ABRANCHES, Joaquim Candido. Album Michaelense.
Ponta Delgada, Manoel Corrêa Botelho, 1869. 8vo. With 35 lithographs (1 folding, 34 full-page). Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled calf. XIV, 138 pp. Full description

[AERTS VAN BOCXTEL, Henrick]. Den spiegel der jonckheyt dienende voor alle jonckheyt, d'eerbaerheyt en deught beminnende tot eenen spiegel, daer sy in siende, moghen leeren hoe sy hun selven behooren te houden in hun inwendigh gemoet, in hun uytwendigh gaen, staen, kleedinge, spreken, eten, ende alle ander gelaet.
Antwerp, Johannes Petrus Willemsens, [ca. 1766]. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and final leaf, numerous decorated civilité initials, and a headpiece built up from typographical materials. Contemporary overlapping wrappers. 79, [1] pp. Full description

AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas. L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs.
Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1720. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author as a frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title, and 34 engraved folding plates. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [8], 261, [1 blank]; [4], 146, [8] pp. Full description

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus. De inventione dialectica libri omnes et integri & recogniti... nunc demum ad autographi exemplaris fidem, per Alardum Aemstelredamum accuratius emendati & additis annotationibus illustrati. Cum aliis non parum multis eodem pertinentibus, (atque iis non sanè iam nunc primum aeditis) quae versa monstrabit pagina...
Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, 1539. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with Gymnicus woodcut device on the title page and several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with Wilckes woodcut device on the title page. With:
(2) IDEM. Lucubrationes ... in hanc usque diem nusquam prius aeditae ... nunc demum ad autographorum exemplarium fidem per Alard um Aemstelredamum emendata, et additis scholiis illustrata. Epistola Ioannis Phrissemii. Erudita cum primis Philippi Melanthonis epistola, mores, eruditionem, vitamque Rodolphi compendio perstringens. Cum aliis cognitu perquàm necessariis ... Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, (colophon:) 1539.
(3) FUGMANN, Johann Christoph. Vetus et nova philosophia moralis: opusculum humanarum literarum cultoribus haud fortè in jucundum.
Wittenberg, Johann Wilcke, 1678.
18th-century half mottled calf, decorated paper sides, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the gold-tooled spine, with a light brown paper label on the spine with the authors name and title lettered in gold ("Agricola De Inventione Dialectica"), and blue and red sprinkled edges. [16], 471, [1 blank]; [20], 321, [1 blank]; [8], 128 pp. Full description

ALARDUS AMSTELREDAMUS. Selectae similitudines sive collationes, tum ex bibliis sacris, tum ex veterum orthodoxorum commentariis. per ... tomis tribus accurativs concinnatae, plurimum allaturae adiumenti verbi dei concionatoribus, iuxta ac scripturaesacrae tractatoribus.
Lyon, (colophon:) Jean and Francois Frellon, 1543. 8vo. With the title set in a woodcut frame, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum. [48], 304 ll. Full description

ALBERTI, Giuseppe Francesco Antonio. I Giuochi numerici fatti arcani palesati.
Venice, Giovanni Battista Locatelli, 1788. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates, and many printed tables and figures in the text. Modern half vellum. 156 pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Friesch comptoir almanach, op het jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1779. Waar in de voornaamste jaar-, paarde, beeste en leermarkten te vinden zijn: als mede de maans op- en ondergang: mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Friesland, enz.
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1779.
With (bound before ad 1): [MEMO BOOK]. Practisijns dagwijser, begrijpende de XII. maanden des jaars 1779. Benevens de maanden January en February van Ao. 1780.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schouten and Reinier Ottens, [1779]. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page of ad 2, the first two quires of ad 1 are interleaved with blank leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the coat of arms of Friesland in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a double fillet frame with corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, red sprinkled end papers. [88]; [132] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Kooker en tas almanach voor het jaar 1782.
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1781]. Ca. 6.7 x 2.7 cm; type area: 5.8 x 2.2 cm. With 14 full-page numbered engraved plates, 13 showing various jobs, nationalities, and naval scenes, with an 8-line verse underneath, and 1 with a time-table of the tolling of the gate-bells in Amsterdam, the work has been printed in red and black. Contemporary quarter silver with mother-of-pearl boards, a clasp and catch plate in the middle of the fore edge, gilt brocade paper pastedowns. [32] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor 't jaar 1782. Bevattende eene beschryving der provincie Zeeland ... ten dienste der jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden.
Middelburg, Jan Dane, 1782. 16mo. With an engraved title by R. Vinkeles, and 5 folding plates. Original publisher's printed boards, with the title and the arms of Zeeland in black on the front, and the arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back, both within an ornamental border, red sprinkled edges. [70], 475-568 [=22] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1807.
With:
(2) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1809.
(3) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1814.
(4) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1815.
(5) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1824.
(6) IDEM. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour lannée 1825.
Paris, imprimerie de J.M. Eberhart (volumes 3-6: imprimerie de Richomme) for Janet, [1806-1824]. 6 volumes. 12mo (ca. 11.5 x 6.5 cm). Each volume with an engraved title and 4 full-page steel-engraved plates protected by tissue paper guards, volume 4 with an extra portrait of Louis XVIII. Contemporary coloured boards (green, pink, blue or grey), gilt edges, volume 3 with lithographed boards and the title printed in black on the spine, volumes 5 and 6 in a matching slipcase, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [32], 190, [2], [12]; [32], 196, [4], [12]; [32], 240, [8]; [32], 228, [4]; [32], 254, [2]; [32], 254, [2] pp. Full description