Highlights

ALDINUS, Tobias [or Pietro CASTELLI?]. Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, quae cintinentur Romae in Horto Farnesiano ...
Rome, Jacobi Mascardi, 1625. Folio. With the integral engraved architectural title-page, 22 full-page engraved botanical illustrations on integral leaves, woodcut illustrations in the text, 3 woodcut tailpieces, numerous woodcut decorated initials, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments, each page in a frame of rules. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [XII], 100, [8] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - HERALDRY - ENGLAND]. CLEMENTS, Joseph and J. GOLDING. (title-page:) Heraldry.
[England (Kent?), ca. 1775-1795]. Large 4to (ca. 27 x 21 cm). Manuscript in English on paper, mostly containing coats of arms with captions and a hand-written index. Completely written in brown ink in a neat 18th-century hand. With a hand-drawn and contemporary hand-coloured title-page, 108 contemporary hand-coloured smaller coats of arms showing motives on the crest and 1050 contemporary hand-coloured larger coats of arms of English noble families. Contemporary sheepskin, blind-tooled boards and spine, marbled endpapers. [2], 183 ll. Full description

CLENARDUS, Nicolaus. Nic. Clenardi Epistolarum libri duo. Quorum posterior iam primum in lucem prodit.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1566. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8to. Both title-pages with Plantin's woodcut printer's mark, Arabic type interspersed. Contemporary vellum with 4 raised bands and a manuscript title on the spine. 112, 258 [= 241], [4] pp. Full description

DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige beschryving van Asie: behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie. Beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gansch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie.
Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1680. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, 16 engraved views and maps (2 folding, 14 double-page; 4 drawn by Charles Vasteau), and 22 engraved illustrations in the text (3 signed by Johannes Kip), further with 5 woodcut decorated initials (3 series) plus repeats and a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, gold-tooled title in red morocco to spine. [8], 357, [3], 324, [4] pp. Full description

DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph. La theorie et la pratique du jardinage...
La Haye, Pierre Husson, 1715. 4to. Coat of arms to title page, 38 fold-out copperplate leave of plates, various copperplate illustrations throughout. Contemporary brown calf. [16], 293, [11] pp. Full description

[FAGEL, Caspar?]. Trouwhartige aanspraak, aan alle borgers en ingeseetenen der stadt Amsterdam.
[No place, no publisher], 1684. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Modern brown wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

GAUBIUS, Hieronymus David. Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum. Editio altera revisa & aucta.
Leiden, Coenraad Wishoff & Georgius Jac. Wishoff, Conr. Fil., 1752. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on title-page and 3 interesting historiated woodcut initials. Full calf over boards. (16), 437 (pp. 422-432 numb. 522-532), (19) pp. Full description

[JESUITS]. GUERREIRO, Fernão. Relaçam annual das cousas que fizeram os padres da companhia de Jesus na India, & Japão nos annos de 600. & 601. & Do processo da conversaõ, & Christandade daquellas partes: tirada das cartas gêrae que de lâ vierão pello padre Fernão Guerreiro da Companhia de Iesus.
Evora, Manoel de Lyra, 1603. 4to. With a woodcut ornamental device on the title page with the initials of the Societatis Jesu and another (slightly different design) on leaf 3, woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and an ornamental headpiece built up from typographic material. Contemporary overlapping vellum with a manuscript title on the spine and remnants of ties. 12 ll, 13-259, 1 blank pp. [= 272 pp]. Full description

KIRCHNER, Christian. Holland, oder Beschreibung der sieben vereinigten niederländischen Provintzen, nebenst denen darzu eroberten Oerten, darinnen alle Städte, Festungen, Flecken, Seen und Flüsse samt andern merckwürdigen Sachen, auch die vornehmsten Städte und Festungen darbey in Kupffer gestochen.
Leipzig, Christian Kirchner, 1672. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 31 folding engraved plans of various cities in the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum. [14], 229, [3 blank], 32, [8] pp. Full description

KITTEL, Ferdinand. Ueber den Ursprung des Lingakultus in Indien.
Mangalore, [printed by Stolz & Hirner, Basel Mission Press, Mangalore, for:] Basel mission book & tract depository, 1876. 8vo. With the title on the front wrapper in a printed decorative frame. Orange printed paper wrappers. [2], 48 pp. Full description