Highlights

ALBERTI, Leon Battista. Della pittura e della statua.
Milan, Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani (monogram of Giusti, Feriario & Co), 1804. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author and 6 engraved plates (including 4 folding). Early 19th-century half sheepskin parchment, Stormont on shell marbled sides, title lettered in ink on the spine, yellow edges. XVII, 136 pp. Full description

ARANEA, Vincenzo. In praecepta decalogi secundae tabulae dicta tractatus.
Including: [IDEM]. Disputationes de sacramentis novae legis.
[L'Aquila, ca. 1640]. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in a neat Italian cursive hand, some parts in other hands. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum. [8], 270, [4] ll.; [4], 655, [10] pp. Full description

BARLAEUS, Caspar (BAERLE, Kasper van). Marie de Medicis, entrant dans Amsterdam: ou histoire de la reception faicte à la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien, par les bourgmaistres & bourgeoisie de la ville d'Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1638. Folio (ca. 41 x 28 cm). With 18 engraved plates (1 frontispiece, 14 double page, and 3 folding), a woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam on the title-page, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in the centre of both boards, set in a double fillet frame with flowers in the corners, the manuscript title on the spine, green closing ties. 97, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOGHE, Jan (Joannes BOCHIUS), Maximus Aemilius de VRIENDT & Henri d'OUTREMONT. Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae archiducum.
Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, apud J. Moretum, 1602. 5 parts in 1 volume. Large folio. With 28 engraved plates (15 double-page, 13 full-page), two pages of musical score, an engraved divisional title page for each of the first four parts, the large woodcut printer's device of the Plantin Press at the end of the work, and numerous woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary blind tooled vellum with overlapping fore edge, the manuscript title and author on the spine, a triple fillet line on both boards, the year of publication upside down in ink on the front board, remnants of closing ties. 500, [12] pp. Full description

BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin and Léon DUFOUR. Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour.
Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. With a folding lithographed map of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after drawings by the author, and 3 full-page lithographed views. Contemporary gold tooled quarter brown calf. [4], 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BOTANICAL MANUSCRIPT - FRIAR LUC DAVID]. [Drop title:] Traite des plantes universelles par figures au naturel par le frere Luc david Recollet, chirrugien oculiste ...
[France], 1742. Large folio (ca. 45 x 28 cm). With 423 botanical drawings in bright watercolour. Manuscript with French text (including Latin names of the depicted plants), written in an 18th-century cursive hand. Most leaves contain a "Strasbourg bend" watermark: a fleur-de-lis above a shield with a diagonal band and the countermark "L Laroche" (identical to Heawood 65, but erroneously listed by him as "I Laroche", date: 1718-1721). The French papermaker Léonard Laroche (1646-1721) was active in the French province of Angoumois (now Charente) in the period 1673-1721.
Contemporary vellum, later endpapers. [2], 423, [1 blank], [19] ll. Full description

[BROADSIDE - CIRCUS]. Mit hoher Bewilligung wird heute die hier angekommene Gymnastische- und Athleten-Gesellschaft unter der Direction des Hrn. Bartholomäus Ramini die Ehre haben sich zu produciren......
[Austria, ca. 1827]. Oblong folio (ca. 40 x 46 cm). With a large woodcut illustration (ca. 27 x 38 cm). The text is set in a Gothic type. [1] l. Full description

[BROADSIDE - FIREWORKS - DELFT]. Keure teegens het schieten ende opsteeken van vuurpylen, klackebossen en andere vuurwerken binnen de stad Delft.
Delft, Adrianus Sterck, 31 March 1763. Ca. 52 x 42 cm. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of Delft, and a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description

[BUONANNI, Filippo]. Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chineesch vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc. ...
Leiden, Jacobus Willeke, 1742. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, 4 full-page engraved plates illustrating the necessities for varnishing and lacquering. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers. 16, 218, [24] pp. Full description

CAMERARIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum centuria una.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
With:
(2) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum et animalibus quadrupedibus desumtorum centuria altera.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
(3) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volatilibus et insectis desumtorum centuria tertia.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1654.
(4) CAMERARIUS, Joachim and Ludwig CAMERARIUS. Symbolorum et emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus desumtorum centuria quarta.
Heidelberg, Ludwig Bourgeat, 1664. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Each work with an engraved title page, 100 round engraved emblems (a total of 400), and numerous woodcut initials. (Near) contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with a beige leather title label lettered in gold on the spine. 102 (the first ll. after the title page paginated 1-6); 103, [1 blank]; 104, [1 blank]; 100, [1], [1 blank] ll. Full description

CHESNÉE MONSTEREUL, Charles de la. Le floriste François. Traittant de lorigine des tulipes. ...
Caen, Eleazar Mangeant, 1654. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and numerous head- and tailpieces, both woodcut and made up of typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the title printed in red on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [44], 250, [4], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. De nieuwe toverlantaarn.
Amsterdam, [Johannes Roelof Poster, ca. 1795]. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With a hand-coloured engraved title page, 24 full-page hand-coloured engraved plates, and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled brown half calf, sprinkled paper sides. 41, [5], "64" [= 58], 63, [1], "64" [= 56] pp. Full description

COURTONNE, Jean. Traité de la perspective pratique, avec des remarques sur l'architecture, suivies de quelques edifices considerables mis en perspective, & de l'invention de l'auteur. Ouvrage très-utile aux amateurs de l'architecture & de la peinture.
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1725. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 33 engraved plates (32 folding, 1 double-page), an engraved frontispiece, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces (both woodcut and built up from typographical ornaments). Contemporary gold and blind tooled mottled brown calf. [2 blank], [14], 116, [2] pp. Full description

CROCUS, Cornelius. Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.
Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf. [40] ll. Full description

CROON, Petrus. Keirs en kandelaer snutter en horen voor eenen nieuwe-jaer ver-eert aen alle lichts-gesinde.
Bruges, widow of Joannes Clouwet, 1664. 12mo. With (letterpress?) diamond-head music notes. 19th-century gold-tooled half calf, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers. "67" [= 77], [4], [3 blank] pp. Full description

DANDRÉ-BARDON, Michel François. Traité de peinture, suivi d'un essai sur la sculpture. Pour servir d'introduction à une histoire universelle, relative à ces beaux-arts.
Paris, Desaint, 1765. 2 volumes. 12mo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, marbled endpapers. LX, 325, [1 blank]; VIII, 253, [7] pp. Full description

[FIREWORKS - NUREMBERG - after Peter TROSCHEL and Michael HERR]. [Fireworks display celebrating the end of the Thirty Years' War in Nuremberg in 1650].
[Nuremberg, ca. 1750]. Ca. 39.5 x 71.5 cm. One large etching. Kept in a white passe-partout. Full description

FOKKE, Simon, Paulus Constantijn LA FARGUE and Pieter DE SWART (illustrators). Afbeelding van de kaamer en 't parade-bed waar op het lyk van Haare Koninklyke Hoogheid Anna, Kroon princesse ... in de maand February 1759 ten toon is gesteld geweest/ Description de la chambre et lit de parade sur lequel le corps de son Altesse Royale Anne, pricesse Royale ...
The Hague, Pierre Gosse junior, 1759. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (ca. 50 x 36 cm). With 20 engravings, each mounted on a double-leaf of heavy paper, the text is printed in Dutch and French with a separate title page for each language, the engraved coat of arms of Princess Anna on each, and 4 decorated woodcut initials.
With: [FOKKE, Simon]. Lyk-Staetsie van haere koninglyke hoogheid Anna, kroon princesse van Groot-Brittannien, princesse douariere van Oranje en Nasau ... Gehouden den 23. February 1759/ Convoi-Funebre de son altesse royale Anne, ...
The Hague, Pierre Gosse, 1761. 19th-century half green morocco, a red morocco label on the spine with the title in French, lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. [4], 4; [4], 27 pp. Full description

FOURNIER, Pierre Simon le Jeune. Dissertation sur l'origine et les progrès de l'art de graver en bois, pour éclaircir quelques traits de l'histoire de l'imprimerie, & prouver que Guttemberg n'en est pas l'inventeur.
Paris, J. Barbou, 1758.
With: (2) IDEM. De l'origine des productions de l'Imprimerie primitive en taille de bois; avec une réfutation des préjugés plus ou moins accrédités sur cet art; pour servir de suite à la dissertation sur l'origine.
Paris, J. Barbou, 1759. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut border on the divisional title pages of both parts, and 2 woodcut head- and tailpieces (one in each part). Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf, with an orange title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. 92, [3], [1 blank]; 263 pp. Full description

GALLE, [Theodoor and] Johannes. Levenschetsen van de twaalf apostelen.
[Antwerp, ca. 1640-1650]. Ca. 12.5 x 9.5 cm. With 14 engravings (ca. 9 x 6.5 cm) printed on fine vellum, in an oval with ornamented corners with subscriptions and number underneath, with protective tissue paper, bound with 17 paper leaves (ca. 11.5 x 8.5 cm) containing short and concise biographies of the apostles written in a neat 19th-century hand. 19th-century vellum over boards with the manuscript title on the spine ("Levens van de XII Apost. MS"). [17] ll. and 14 engravings on vellum. Full description

JEAURAT, Edme-Sebastien. Traité de perspective a l'usage des artistes. Ou l'on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & ou l'on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspective, leur reverbérations dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau.
Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 engraved headpieces by P. Soubeyran, 72 large tailpieces by P. E. Babel (including 1 full-page), and 129 engraved plates (including 19 repeats, as usual). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf. VI, [2], 240, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering over het belang van het teekenen naar het naaktmodel. Bij gelegenheid van het uitdeelen der prijzen, uitgesproken in de akademiezaal van Pictura. Op den 31sten van Louwmaand 1816.
The Hague, Johannes Allart, 1816. 8vo. With a full-page engraved allegorical frontispiece, and an engraved plate with the seals of the academy. Contemporary red sprinkled paper wrappers, kept in brown kraft paper wrappers. [18], [2], 33, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.
Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon: printed by Christoffel Plantin), 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards. [16], 473, [22], [1 blank] pp. Full description

LE MUET, Pierre and Cornelis DANCKERTSZ (translator). Verhandeling vande vijf orderen der bouw-konst, die byde ouden zijn in 't gebruyk geweest, getrocken uyt den beroemden Italiaenschen bouw-meester A. Palladio, vermeerdert met een tweede deel: inhoudende de konst om wel te bouwen.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckertsz, 1646. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (ca. 17.5 x 12 cm). With 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces (1 for each part), and 77 full page engraved plates. Early 19th-century half vellum. 30; 31, [1 blank] pp. Full description

L'ISLE (DELISLE), Joseph Nicolas de. Mémoire sur trois cartes nouvellement publiées en juillet 1764, destinées a servir de suite a la carte de l'ancienne Palestine ou Terre-Sainte, publie l'année dernière; Sçavoir: 1. Une carte particuliere de la Syrie, ou seulement de la partie septentrionale à la Palestine. 2. Une carte plus générale de la Syrie, qui comprend en même tems la Palestine avec les pays voisins, pour servir à l'histoire des croisades, etc. 3. Une carte encore plus générale & plus étendüe pour la recherche de la situation du paradis terrestre.
Paris, Imprimerie Veuve Delatour, 1764. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a large woodcut headpiece, and a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled quarter brown calf. 15, [1] pp. Full description

MAIGNAN, Emmanuel. Perspectiva horaria, sive de horographia gnomonica tum theoretica, tum practica libri quator ...
Rome, Philippus Rubeus, 1648. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 45 engraved plates (2 folding, 43 full page), a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved headpiece with portrait to the dedication, a folding table, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations in the text. Contemporary Southern European limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [28], 705, [1] pp. Full description

[MARCHE, Olivier de La] and Hernando de ACUÑA (translator). El cavallero determinado, traduzido de lengua Francesa en Castellana por Don Hernando Acuña.
Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana (the widow of Plantin, Jeanne Rivière and Jean Moretus), 1591. 8vo. With an etched vignette on the title page, 20 full-page etchings, a full-page printer's device at the end, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut tailpieces. Late 18th- or early 19th-century diced and blind-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, with an almond shaped ornament in the center of both boards, surrounded by two fillet frames, blind tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled end papers. [32], 208, [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description

MERIAN, Maria Sybilla. Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Oosterwyk, 1719. Imperial folio (53 x 38 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, drawn and engraved by Frederik Ottens (representing the author in her youth seated at a table with flowers and insects, assisted by 6 putti, while a large decorated arch reveals a tropical landscape in the background with buildings and 2 men stand conversing while Merian, nearby on her knees, is catching a butterfly with a net), and 72 etched counterproofs, numbered I-LXXII in the facing letterpress descriptions (not numbered in the plates themselves). Further with Van Oosterwyks engraved device (a bearded man sitting on the forest floor playing a lyre, with motto, "vigilanter et quieté"), a large engraved headpiece above the dedication, incorporating the arms of the dedicatee, Balthazar Scott, 3 woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and a woodcut factotum. The frontispiece, publishers device and dedication headpiece and illustration plates coloured by contemporary hands, probably by Merians daughters. The frontispiece, title-page (lettering and the divice), and the dedication (both the arms and the lettering) highlighted in gold. Further with 4 woodcut decorated initials (3 series). Gold-tooled vellum (early 1800s), sewn on 8 supports, each board with a large arabesque centrepiece (15.5 x 12.5 cm) with flowers and foliage, with an empty central oval, 2 frames made from 2 different rolls (the inner 9 mm and the outer 10 mm, the latter edged inside with a sawtooth roll), the inner frame with a built-up cornerpiece inside and a crown (26 x 33 mm) outside each corner, the spine with each of the upper 4 and lower 4 compartments containing a built-up centrepiece and 4 cornerpieces, the larger central compartment with 3 lines of text reading up the spine, partly illegible, but probably reading "M S MERIAEN|VERANDERINGEN DER|INSECTEN" and across the head and foot a roll with crossed, dotted diagonal lines. With a built-up armorial centrepiece, apparently preserved from the books first binding in gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, on-laid on the front board near the centre of the fore-edge: a large cartouche (16 x 10.5 cm) with an oval centre (6 x 5 cm), with, around the oval inside the cartouche, floral and interlaced decorations, foliage and 5-pointed stars, and inside the oval the blind-tooled Cervantes coat of arms (37 x 26 mm: 2 stags - though here without antlers - the upper standing and the lower grazing, above "EX ANTIQUIS", with a gold-tooled bishops cross and hat, the hat with 6 + 6 tassels). Further with gilt edges, headbands in green and beige (around a double vellum strip). The work is kept in a modern, custom-made case (half red morocco and marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine). [8], 72 pp. plus frontispiece and 72 plates. Full description

[MOLENAAR, Jan Miense (attributed), after Adriaen BROUWER]. [Tavern scene with five farmers singing and making music].
[Ca. 1635-1640]. Painting: 25.2 x 20.7 cm.; grame 39.5 x 34.5 x 5 cm. Painting, oil on oak panel with bevelled edges. In a richly modelled gilt frame. Full description

MORRELL, Abby Jane. Narrative of a voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831.
New York, J. & J. Harper, 1833. Large 8vo (ca. 19.5 x 11 cm). With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary (browned) pink cloth with a printed title label mounted on the spine, in a later clamshell box. 230, 9, [1], pp. Full description

OZANAM, Jacques. Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges élémentaires.
Paris, Jacques Rollin, 1750 (vol. 2: 1749). 4 volumes. 8vo. With 136 engraved plates (9 folding, 127 full-page), numerous woodcut diagrams and printed tables in the text. Contemporary mottled calf. [16], 460, [20]; [4], 462, [14]; [2], 482, [12]; [8], 446, [5] pp. Full description

PASSE the Younger, Crispijn van de. Den blom-hof, inhoudende de rare oft ongemeene blommen die op den tegenwoordighen tijdt by de lief-hebbers in estimatie ghehouden werden. Ghedeelt naer de vier deelen des jaers ... Noch hier by ghevoecht de manier soomen dese bloemen naer haer eyghen coleuren ofte verven sal illumineren ofte afsetten ...
Utrecht, for Crispijn van de Passe, 1614. 2 parts in 1 volume, the first in 4 sections. Oblong folio (ca. 18.5 x 26.5 cm). With a full-page plate of Flora embracing the cornucopia in a landscape with an epigram by Arnoldus Buchelius in a cartouche in the left hand corner, engraved by Simon van de Passe after Crispijn van de Passe, 2 different frontispieces (both appearing twice) of ideal gardens full of flowers, and 174 full-page engraved plates of flowers, fruits, fruit trees, and medicinal plants, mainly by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger, 3 by his brother Willem van de Passe. Later half calf, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, and red sprinkled edges. [26] pp., [118] engraved ll.; [1], [1 blank] pp., [61] engraved ll. Full description

PINGERON, Jean Claude. L'art de faire soi-même les ballons aérostatiques, conformes à ceux de M. de Montgolfier.
Amsterdam, for Hardouin, Libraire à Paris, [1783]. 8vo. With a full-page engraved plate, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary wrappers, side stitched through 2 holes, with the manuscript title and publication details on the front wrapper. The work is housed in a dark green clamshell box. [2], 42 pp. Full description

RITCHIE, Alexander (engraver). Clans of the Highlands of Scotland.
Edinburgh, C. Sinclair, [between 1850 and 1873]. 15.5 x 12 cm. With 12 very detailed, hand-coloured engravings of Scottish men representing 12 clans in their traditional tartans. All engravings are mounted on dark green moiré-grained cloth in 2 sets of 6, respectively folding out from the front and back pastedowns. All engravings are captioned in the plate, giving the name of the clan depicted and a short description of the scene, and signed by the engraver, Alexander Ritchie. Original publisher's gold- and blind-stamped green wave-grained cloth, with the title in gold within an elaborate gold-stamped frame on the front board and a blind-stamped ornamental oval centrepiece (a personification of Scotland?) within an elaborate blind-stamped frame on the back board, remnants of red cloth ties. [2 sets of 6 engravings folding out]. Full description

[RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, August Johann and Cornelius Heinrich HEMMERICH (engravers)]. A collection of curious insects.
London, printed for Robert Sayer, [between 1760-1766]. Oblong 4to (ca. 20 x 30 cm). With a hand-coloured engraved title page, and 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. 19th-century gold tooled quarter brown calf, sprinkled paper sides. [13] ll. Full description

RUE, Louis Félix de la. Etat armorial de noblesse, chevalerie, & dignités accordés par S.M.I.R.A. depuis son avenement au Thrône jusqu' aujourd'hui dédié a monsieur de Wavrans ...
Brussels, 1775.
With: [Collection of hand-painted coats of arms of European noble families in the Southern Netherlands].
8vo. With an engraved title page and 16 engraved plates containing a total of 342 coats of arms (6 blank; mostly 20 or 24 to a page), together with a collection of 415 hand-drawn and painted coats of arms (6 to a page), vividly coloured and highlighted with gold and silver paint, with the names of the noble families captioned below in a neat 18th-century hand in brown ink. Later half calf, marbled paper sides, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers, red edges. 45, [2], [1 blank]; [102] ll. including some blanks. Full description

SAAR, Johann Jacob. Ost-Indianische Funfzehen-Jährige Kriegs-Dienst und wahrhaftige Beschreibung ...
Nuremberg, printed by Wolfgang Eberhard Felssecker and sold by Johann Tauber, 1662. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved title page of a ship engaged in a sea battle, an engraved portrait of the author, and 15 engraved plates. Further with woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Set in fraktur type with incidental schwabacher, roman, and italic. Contemporary vellum. [12], 50, 170, "20" [= 18], [12] pp. Full description

[SOUDRY, Antoine]. [Collection of 6 watercolours of birds].
[France, 1780-1800]. All ca. 42 x 34 cm. Six watercolours, finished with an egg wash.
The drawings are housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [6] ll. Full description

STARTER, Jan Jansz. Friesche Lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den derden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert ... Midtsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende verçierd met schoone kopere figuren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.
Amsterdam, Widow of Dirck Pietersz. Voscuyl, [1624]. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, 10 engraved plates in the text, musical annotation, and decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled brown calf. [14], 206, [40] pp. Full description

STEINGRUBER, Johann David. Architecture civile erster Theil ... | Architecture civile premiere partie ... [all published].
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48].
With:
(2) DANREITER, Franz Anton. Lust-Stück der Gärten ... | Parterres ou broderies des jardins ... [Erster-]Anderer Theil.
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1730/1735].
(3) CHARMETON, Georges. Plans de divers edifices et corniches choisies ... | Abrisse unterschiedener Gebälcke und Kronwercke ...
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48]. 3 works, ad 2 in 2 parts, in 1 volume. Oblong folio (25 x 38.5 cm). Ad 1: with an engraved plate with a German note to the reader, and 25 numbered plates of architectural plans, elevations and sections engraved by J.D. Ringlin after Steingruber, plate 1 with the German title in and French title flanking a decorative cartouche, each further plate with a heading in German and French. Ad 2: with 2 engraved illustrated title pages from the same plate (ruins in a landscape, with 2 putti holding a drape with the title, the second title page with "Anderer Theil" in the foot margin) plus 22 and 20 numbered illustration plates showing garden plans, decorations, fountains, etc. Ad 3: with 12 engraved plates, including the title page, the illustrations showing the entablatures of various classical Roman buildings. Near contemporary half white vellum and beige paper sides, sewn on 4 vellum tapes, laced through the joints, with a hollow back, gold-tooled author and title for the Steingruber (with ornaments) near the head of the spine, with that part of the vellum coloured red, red sprinkled edges, headbands in yellow and blue. [1], 25; [1], 20, [1], 22; 12 engraved ll. Full description

TIRON, Antoine (translator). Recueil de plusieurs plaisantes nouvelles, apophtegmes, et recreations diverses ...
Antwerp, Hendrick Henricsz, 1578. 8vo. With 18 half-page woodcuts in the text, including the one on the title page. 19th-century brown morocco, with the title, year of publication, and name of the bookbinder (Bauzonnet) lettered in gold on the spine. [6], 165, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description

TITSINGH, Isaac. Bijzonderheden over Japan, behelzende een verslag van de huwelijkse plegtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen. De Gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat Rijk.
The Hague, the widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 4 hand-coloured folding aquatint plates, and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page of each volume. Contemporary marbled boards. XVI, 250; [1], [1 blank], 264 pp. Full description

TIXIER, Victor. Voyage aux prairies Osages, Louisiana et Missouri, 1839-40.
Clermont-Ferrand & Paris, Perol & Roret, 1844. 8vo. With a somewhat crude lithographed frontispiece and 3 lithographed plates in the same style by Perol after designs by the author, depicting people of the Osage Nation, and 1 lithographed sheet of music. Original printed yellow wrappers, with a white/translucent protective paper wrapper, the whole preserved in a modern red half morocco slipcase, gold-tooled spine. 260, [4] pp. Full description

VERGNAUD, Armand Denis. Manuel de perspective, du dessinateur et du peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage.
Paris, Roret (colophon: imprimerie de Crapelet), 1826. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half calf. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1 blank], 260, 12 pp. Full description

[WEYNSEN, Matthias (editor)]. Fascicul[us] mirre. Hier beghint een seer sonderlinghe ende devote materie van die passie ons Heren Jesu Cristi gheheten (dat busselkijn of dat bondekijn van mirre) vergadert ende gecompileert van eenen gheestelijcken ende seer verlichten broeder vander minrebroeders oerden van die familie der observanten in die provincie van Colen ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 18 January 1518. 4to. With the first word of the title printed in red, 35 woodcut illustrations in the text (of which 8 repeats), with Christ's wounds coloured in red, and 53 decorated woodcut initials. The work is rubricated throughout. 17th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf. [196] ll. Full description

WILDEMAN, Jan Ernst. Verslag eener proeve van het vormen, bakken en gebruiken van zware tigchelsteenen, voor het maken van steenglooijingen, of tot dekking der glooijingen van dijken.
Amsterdam, Pieper en Ipenbuur, 1825. 8vo. With 3 large, folding engraved plates. Contemporary red sprinkled boards. 24 pp. Full description

[ZUMBACH VON KOESFELD, Lothar] and Gerard VALK (engraver and publisher). 't Werkstellige der sterre-konst ...
Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, [late 17th or early 18th century (ca. 1701?)]. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, and 4 folding engraved plates. Further with a few tables in the text, some woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Contemporary stiff orange-brown sprinkled paper boards. [1], [1 blank], [2], 140 pp. Full description