Highlights

[MARITIME HISTORY - PIRACY - CLAES COMPAEN]. 't Begin, midden en eynde der zee-rooveryen, van den alder-fameusten zee-roover, Claes G. Compaen, van Oostzanen in Kennemerlandt. vervattende sijn wonderlijcke, vreemde landts schadelijcke drijf-tochten. waer in vertoont wordt hoe hy met weynigh schepen de zee onveyligh ghemaeckt, een ongelooflijcken buyt, en groot getal van schepen, van alle landen gerooft, en af geloopen heeft.
Amsterdam, Michiel de Groot, 1675. 4to (19.1 x 14.5 cm). With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a repeat of the woodcut on the title page), and a large decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary multicolour brocade paper wrapper, covered with protective clear plastic. [6], 42 pp. Full description

MASCARENHAS, José Freire de Monterroyo. Epanaphora Indica na qual se dà noticia da viagem, que o illustrissimo, et excellentissimo senhor Marquez de Castelo Novo fez com o cargo de Vice-Rey ao Estado da India, e dos primeiros progressos do seu governo; e se referem tambem os successos da viagem do excellentissimo, e rev.mo senhor D. Fr. Lourenco de Santa Maria, Arcebispo Metropolitano de Goa, Primaz da Azia Oriental ...
Lisbon, Parts 1-5: unknown; part 6: Francisco da Silva, 1746-1753. 6 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With a large, folding, engraved map of Goa, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Later quarter vellum. 59, [1 blank]; 70; [20], 67, [1 blank]; [2], 109, [1 blank]; [2], 86; [12], 72 pp. Full description

MELVILL VAN CARNBEE, Pieter and Willem Frederik VERSTEEG. Algemeene atlas van Nederlandsch Indië. Uit officieele bronnen en met goedkeuring van het gouvernement zamengesteld.
Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia), Van Haren Noman & Kolff, 1853-1862. Oblong folio (39.3 x 50.5 cm). With 60 lithographed maps, coloured in outline, and 3 lithographed index maps. Contemporary blind-tooled half black morocco. [68] ll. Full description

MENDELSSOHN, Moses; Daniel JENISCH; and Johann Georg MÜCHLER (editor). Kleine philosophische Schriften. Mit einer Skizze seines Lebens und Charakters von D. Jenisch.
Berlin, Friedrich Vieweg, 1789. 8vo. Slightly later gold-tooled half calf. [6], "250" [= 248] pp. Full description

MENDOÇA (MENDOZA), Bernardino de. Comentarios de lo sucedido en las guerras de los Payses Baxos, desde el año de 1567 hasta el de 1577.
Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 5 half-page engraved plates in the text including a map of East Friesland with Emden, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary black-tooled mottled calf. [8], 336, [12] ll. Full description

MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon Pierre. Fables et contes.
Parma, Bodoni, 1792. 2 volumes. 12mo. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf by Loutrel, with a pink morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, a blind-tooled single fillet border on both boards, fleurons on the spine, head edge gilt, marbled endpapers. 44, 25 (bis.) - 44 (bis.), 45-144; [8], 168 pp. Full description

MEYERE, Jacobus de. Flandricarum rerum tomi X ... Cum Hymno de sanctissimo nomine Iesu. Chronica Flandriae.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1531. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Vorsterman's device at the end. 17th-century mottled calf, with a gold-tooled spine, and the title lettered in gold, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. 67, [5] ll. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. Le petit volage. Pour l'an 1819.
Paris, [chez Louis Janet, 1818]. 128mo (ca. 2.7 x 1.7 cm). With 8 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, with an upside down fleuron in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. La miniature.
Paris, A. Marcilly, [1843]. 128mo (ca. 2.5 x 1.8 cm). With 6 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, a fleuron in the centre of the front and back, surrounded by an ornamental border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

MOLINET, Charles du. Figures des differents habits des Chanoines Reguliers en ce siecle. Avec un discours sur les habits anciens et modernes des Chanoines tant seculiers, que reguliers.
Paris, Simeon Piget, 1666. 4to. With an engraved title-page, 2 engraved headpieces, 1 engraved tailpiece, 2 finely engraved initials and 31 full-page engraved illustrations of the clerical clothing of Regular Canons from numerous European countries. All engraved by Le Doyen. Contemporary vellum. [6], "144" [= 140], [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description