Highlights

AGUILAR, José de. El intérprete chino. Colección de frases sencillas y analizadas para aprender el idioma oficial de China.
Madrid, Manuel Anoz, 1861. 8vo. The text is printed in two columns. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter purple sheepskin. [2], IV, 242, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

[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

ALTAMIRANO Y CERVANTES, José. Sermon que en la solemnissima accion de gracias, que hizo la muy noble, y leal Ciudad de Manila a Nuestra Señora de Guia en su santuario de extramuros, por el feliz viaje de el Galeon Capitana Nuestra Señora de el Rossario.
Manila, en la Universidad de Sancto Thomas de Aquino por Ambrosio Tongol, 1696. Small 4to. The title page is set within a border made up of typographical ornaments, with a woodcut border with putti around the first word, 4 decorated woodcut initials, and several head- and tailpieces made up of typographical ornaments. Modern blue morocco. [5], 9 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

[ARGOTE Y CORDOBA, Vicente]. Relacion extraordinaria, de el felize sucesso, que tuvieron las Galeras de España, mandadas por el muy Ilustríssimo señor D. Vicente Argote y Córdova, Quatralvo de ellas, el día 26 e Noviembre de el año passado de 1696 aviendo apresado dos embarcciones de Moros en el Golfo entre Cartagena, y Alicante.
Seville, Lucas Martinez de Hermosilla, 1697. 4to (19.5 x 14.5 cm). Disbound. [4] pp. 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

[BERSE, Gaspar, Francis XAVIER et al.]. Epistolae Indicae et Iapanicae de multarum gentium ad Christi fidem, per Societatem Iesu conversione. Item de Tartarorum potentia, moribus, & totius penè Asiae religione. Tertia editio cum indice castigatior & auctior.
Louvain, Rutger Velpius, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With general title page and a title page for the second part, both in a frame built up from fleurons, and each part with woodcut publisher's device on last blank and numerous decorated woodcut initials. Including: Epistolae Iapanicae, de multorum in variis insulis gentilium ad Christi sidem conversione.
Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, traces of ties. [24], 361 [= 316], [20]; 401 [= 399], [25] 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.
With:
(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

BLAEU, Willem Jansz. Zeespiegel, inhoudende een korte onderwijsinghe inde konst der zeevaert, en beschryvinghe der seen en kusten van de Oostersche, Noordsche, en Westersche schipvaert.Wt ondervindinghen van veel ervaren zeevaerders vergadert, en t'samen ghestelt.
Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1627. 3 parts in 1 volume, parts 2 and 3 consist of 6 books each. Folio. With 108 numbered engraved charts (1 folding, 104 double-page, 3 full-page), 2 half-page engraved charts, 2 volvelles, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title (2x) and shelfmark ("15" and "32') on the spine. The work is preserved in a gold-tooled half red morocco clamshell box, with two green morocco title labels, lettered in gold, red buckram sides, and a green felt lining. [16], 64; 39, [1], 43, [1], 48, 32, 28, 24; 32, 52, 46, 43, [1], 40, 23, [1 blank] pp. Full description