Highlights

[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. Le joli Pont-Neuf, ou recueil de chansons; vaudevilles, &c. Almanach nouveau.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris?], sold in Paris, Duchesne, [1763]. 24mo (9.5 x 5.6 cm). Each page printed in simple woodcut border, with several small head and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled French red morocco, fine green, gold, and white brocade paper endpapers with a foral pattern. [40] ll. Full description

[AMSTERDAM - WALLOON COMMUNITY]. Ordres et reglemens de la Maison des Orphelins, des vieillards, & des vielles femmes de l'église Walonne d'Amsterdam. Avec des prières à l'usage de cette maison. Nouvelle edition.
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772. Large 4to (21.5 x 27 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page and a divisional title page for the Prieres, a l'usage de la maison des orphelins walons (on leaf I3r). Further with 2 woodcut headpieces. Near contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. VIII, 91, [8], [1 blank], [6] pp. interleaved with blank pages. Full description

BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Nieuwe kerkelyke geografische zak- en reisatlas der vereenigde Nederlanden. Als mede van de landen der generaliteit, ingericht, naar de kerkelyke verdeeling dezer landen, in synoden, benevens derzelver onderhoorige klassen. Zeer dienstig en gemakkelyk, niet alleen voor de Eerw. heeren proponenten, om te zien onder welke classen de vakante plaatzen leggen, maar ook voor anderen, die de provintien willen doorreizen, om de reisroute te neemen.
Amsterdam, De erven Dirk onder de Linden en zoon, 1794. Large, narrow 8vo. With a folding typographical title page and 13 folding double-page engraved maps by J. van Jagen, all coloured by a contemporary hand. The maps are mounted on stubs for ease of use (the maps fold out/open flat). Contemporary half tan mottled calf, red and black decorated paper sides, with remnants of a white paper label at the foot of the spine, and with two 20th-century library labels (of the "Verzameling Oudheidkamer Twente") on the back board. [14] folded leaves. Full description

BEDDOME, Richard Henry The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency.
Madras (now Chennai), printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. Large 4to (31 x ca. 24.5 cm). With 272 lithographed line illustrations of Indian ferns, numbered I-CCLXXI plus XXVIIIA, all signed "Govindoo del. G. Winchester Lith. Madras". Contemporary half brown leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 88, VII, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonycke boeken des Oude en des Nieuwen Testaments ...
Amsterdam, Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1676.
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(2) [BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - DUTCH]. Het Nieuwe Testament ...
Amsterdam, for Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1677.
(3) [PSALMBOOK - DUTCH]. De CL Psalmen des propheten Davids ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgang, Michiel de Groot, Hendrick and Dirk Boom, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15.3 x 9.3 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved general title page, the woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on the verso of the title page, a small woodcut decorated initial , and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, the woodcut coat of arms below the "acte van consent" on the verso of the title page, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with a woodcut vignette on the title page, all psalms are accompanied by musical notation. Late 18th- or early 19th-century brown sheepskin with late 17th-century silver fittings, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. 338; [2], "109" [= 107], [1 blank]; [98] ll. Full description

BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius [and Tobias FENDT (engraver)]. Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis.
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll, 1671. Small folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved plates (including 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all showing grave-stones and tombs of famous men. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [2], 176 pp., [37] engraved ll., 8, [3], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4] pp. Full description

BOYMANS, Johannes Andreas. Le garde d'honneur, ou episode du règne de Napoléon Buonaparte.
Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1822. 8vo. With 2 large folding maps after designs by G.F. Baron de Derfelden de Hinderstein, partly coloured by hand, a white on black phantasmagoric folding lithographed plate, and 4 folding lithographed views by Kierdorff after E. van Boeckhoven. Later gold-and blind tooled half green calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, green decorative paper sides, green decorative paper end papers. XXXIV, 69, XLI, XVIII, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

CRUZ, Manuel da. Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus, Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India.
(Colophon:) Lisbon, Lourenço de Anveres for Andre Godinho, 1642. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut crowned Portuguese coat of arms on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], [20], [2 blank] pp. Full description

DUHAMEL DE MONCEAU, Henri Louis. Traité de la culture des terres, suivant les principes de M. Tull, Anglois.
Paris, Hyppolite-Louis Guerin and Louis-François Delatour, 1753-1761. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 41 folding plates, and a table in the text. Uniformly bound in contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. Full description

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pieters Berg bij Maastricht. ... Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. 8vo. With an engraved title-page with a small illustration by D. Vrijdag, a folding engraved map and folding engraved plan of the St. Pietersberg, and numerous illustrations of minerals and fossils on 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, [4], 340, [4] pp. Full description