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

[ALMANAC]. Almanac généalogique pour lan 1787 avec lapprobation de lAcadémie Royale des sciences et belles lettres à Berlin.
Berlin, George Jacques Decker, [1786]. 24mo (10.7 x 6.2 cm). With an engraved portrait of Princess Frederique of Prussia by C. Tounley after Cuningham, dated 1786 as a frontispiece. This is printed on one double-leaf with the engraved title page. Further with a folding engraved map (13 x 18.2 cm) by D.F. Soltzmann after C.L. Oesfeld (1785) showing the projected Kiel Canal, 12 numbered etchings illustrating the 12 months of the calendar by Daniel Chodowiecki. Text of all pages printed within a frame with small corner pieces. Contemporary German embroidered binding: ivory silk over boards, sides purled with (blackened) silver threat, a double row of silver sequins enclosing on the front cover the embroidered year "1787" within a wreath of silver thread hanging on an embroidered knot and on the back cover a basket with colored flowers also hanging on a knot, spine ornamented with silver thread, gilt edges. [240] pp. Full description

AMY, Joseph. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives.
Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1752. 6 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 6 folding woodcut plates, and 8 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; a series of 3 large folding engraved plates on the "Empire of Copper" (1x signed "Le Brun inv. et f."), 6 handcoloured woodcut plates of which 4 (large) folding in ad 2; a hand coloured woodcut dedication, and 2 folding woodcut plates in ad 3. With: (2) IDEM. Suite du livre intitulé Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes (...) avec trois dissertations ...
Ibid., idem, 1754.
Bound before ad 1 and 2: (3) IDEM and [François THIÉRY]. Nouvelles fontaines domestiques approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Première édition./ Question de medecine.
Ibid., J.B. Coignard and A. Boudet, 1750.
(4) [BROADSIDE]. Filtroirs militaires, marins et domestiques.
[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside/ advertorial leaflet, ca. 240 x 140 mm.
(5) [BROADSIDE]. Instruction générale et sommaire, pour la conduite des nouvelles fontaines.
[ca. 1750]. Folding letterpress broadside, ca. 250 x 140 mm.
Bound after ad 2: (6) BERTHIER, Joseph. Projet d'une pompe publique pour la ville de Paris.
(Colophon:) Paris, Chardon, 1769.
Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, red edges. VIII, 72, 46; LXXXII, 332, [4]; 48, 61, [9], 72, 24; 2; [1], [1 blank]; 3-15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[ATLAS - HISTORICAL]. Atlas historique. - Souvenirs historiques. - Tableaux et cartes.
[Montpellier?], [date on spine of vol. 1:] 1851. 3 volumes. Folio (vol. 1) and large 4to (vols. 2-3). Neatly written manuscripts on paper with 23 graphically vibrant maps, coloured in outline with subtly shaded washes in grey (for the coasts) and numerous bright colours (for political boundaries), and with calligraphic headings. Contemporary bindings: vol. 1 red half goatskin; vol. 2 black half goatskin; vol. 3 black sheepskin. [1], [26 double]; [1], [22 double]; [1], 30 double, [1] ll. Full description

AURELIUS, Cornelius Gerardi. Batavia, sive de antiquo veroque eius insulae quam Rhenus in Hollandia facit situ, descriptione & laudibus; adversus Gerardum Noviomagum, libri duo ...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1586. 8vo (16.6 x 10.7 cm). With a woodcut device on the title page and woodcut initials throughout. Limp vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints (top one broken), with a green morocco label lettered "Batavia Ant. 1686" in gold on the spine. [16], 135, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BAILLARD, Edme [= Jean le Royer DE PRADE]. Discours du tabac. Ou il est traité particulierement du tabac en poudre.
Paris, Martin le Prest, for the author, 1668. 12mo. With 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of tobacco plants in the text and several woodcut borders, initials and headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [30], 125, [1 blank], [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[BARNAUD, Nicolas]. Le miroir des Francois, compris en trois livres. contenant l'estat et maniement des affaires de France ... Et generalement tous les secrets qu'on a peu recueillir pour l'ébelissement, & enrichissement du royaume, & soulagement du public. Le tout mis en dialogues par Nicolas De Montand. A la royne regnante.
[Geneva/France?], 1581.
Bound after: (2) [Nicolas BARNAUD], Le cabinet du Roy de France, dans lequel il y a trois perles precieuses d'inestimable valeur: par le moyen desquelles sa maiesté s'en va le premier monarque du monde, et ses suiets du tout soulagez.
[Geneva/France?], 1582. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Ad 2 with a small woodcut initial. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [7], "497" [=495], [1 blank]; [16], 647, [1 blank], [10], [2 blank] pp. Full description

BAUMÉ, Antoine. Élémens de pharmacie théorique et pratique...
Paris, widow Damonneville, & Musier fils, P.F. Didot Jr & De Hansy, 1762. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved plates depicting utensils for the laboratory. Contemporary mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, marbled end papers. XVI, 854, [2] pp. Full description

[ALGERIA - BAZÁN, Alvaro de]. Relacion de la interpressa, y saquea miento de la villa del carte en Africa, por el excelentissimo senor D. Aluaro Bacan Marqnes del Viso, general de la escuadra de las galeras de Sicilia, governador, y capitan general de Oran, y macalquibir, aveinte de febrero, deste ano de 1642.
Madrid, Juan Sanchez, 1642. Folio (28 x 20.6 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial. Unbound. [2] ll. Full description