Highlights

LITHGOW, William. Nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world.
London, for John Wright & Thomas Passinger, 1682. 8vo. With a folding woodcut frontispiece and 6 folding woodcut plates and 1 woodcut in the text. 19th-century dark brown sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, brown spine label, Stormont on shell marbled endpapers. [8], 481, [7] pp. Full description

LOBEL [also L'OBEL or LOBELIUS], Matthias de. Kruydtboeck oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1581. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. Large folio. With an engraved title-page, the author's large "candore et spe" woodcut device on leaf *6r, approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts in the text, 8 woodcut decorated (sometimes interlaced) initials plus repeats (6 series) and 1 typographic interlaced initial. Set in fraktur types with extensive roman and textura and incidental italic and civilité. Later (17th-century?) blind tooled vellum. [10], 994, [2 blank], "312"[= 312, 294 + 2 blank], [2 blank], 15, [1 blank], [67], [1 blank] pp. Full description

LOOSJES, Adriaan. Hollands arkadia of wandelingen in de omstreeken van Haarlem.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title with a hand coloured view by F.A. Milatz, an engraved silhouette portrait of Hermina Christina Bicker in the text, 4 engraved folding views of Haarlem, Beverwijk and surroundings, all beautifully hand coloured, and 9 full-page engraved plates with musical scores. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. VI, 532 pp. Full description

[MADOU, Jean Baptiste and Jean Louis van HEMELRYCK]. Costumes Belgiques anciens et modernes, militaires, civils et réligieux.
Brussels, Lithographie Royale de J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1830. Folio. With a hand-coloured lithographed title, and 124 hand-coloured full-page numbered lithographed plates, of which some heightened with gold, all protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter polished calf. II, 26, [27-198], IV pp. Full description

MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.
Including: [MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco, with the title, author, and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, contemporary marbled end papers. [1], [1 blank], [10], 570, XXII pp. Full description

MANDER, Karel van and Henri HYMANS (translator). Le livre des peintres. Vie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands (1604). Traduction, notes et commentaires par Henri Hymans.
Paris, J. Rouam, 1884-1885. 2 volumes. Folio. With 77 portraits of painters in the text. Contemporary half red morocco. 415, [2], [3 blank]; 491, [3] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - ART - PAINTING]. Manuel des arts d'agréments. Ou traité des différentes peintures, applications et procédés emproyés sur bois, sur etoffes et sur papiers.
[France, ca. 1830-1840]. 8vo (ca. 19 x 14 cm). With 30 illustrations, including 4 folding leaves with 3 illustrations each. Half beige sheepskin and red leather-patterened paper sides. [1], 56, [10 blank], [2] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - Lucas WALKIER (subject)]. [The official graduation diploma awarded to Lucas Walkier on the occasion of obtaining the doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua on 22 February 1662]
Padua, 22 February 1662. Ad 1: ca. 24.5 x 19 cm.; ad 2: 12.6 x 20 cm.; ad 3: 47 x 45.5 cm.; ad 4: 46 x 29.3 cm. Ad 1: with the beautifully hand-coloured painted oval portrait of Lucas Walkier in a laurel wreath, facing his coat of arms, both within a hand-coloured and heightened with gold floral border. This is followed by the neatly calligraphed text in dark brown ink and highlighted in gold, written within frames of double gold lines. All written and drawn on vellum. Ad 2: a hand-coloured and hand-drawn coat of arms, captioned below in manuscript: Walkier. Ad 3: a broadsheet (folded, printed text within ornamental woodcut border: 30 x 45.5 cm) with the blind-stamped seal of the "Natio Germanica" in Padua, and 4 engraved coats of arms (ca. 7 x 6.5 cm) printed in the four corners. Ad 4: printed on blue silk, within a floral border of 4 blocks, and crowned. With:
(2) [Leaf with the hand-coloured and -drawn coat of arms of Walkier].
(3) [Application form for the "Natio Germanica" at the University of Padua, and admission to the doctoral degree, under the auspices of the Collegium Venetum, (drop-title:) Ex voluntate, et decreto Serenissimi Principis excelsique Senatus Veneti ...].
(4) BÉRIGARDUS, Nicolaus. Augurium Apollinis in auspicatissimam Phil. & Med. Laur. Nobilissimi, & Excellentissimi Domini Lucae Walckier Nob. Lugdunensis Batavi.
Padua, Giovanni Battista Pasquati, 1662.
In a magnificent contemporary gold-tooled vellum over boards, in a so-called Italian fan design, remnants of ties (the silk ties are kept loose in behind the final leaf of ad 1). [4]; [1]; [1]; [1] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN - SWEDISH POLICIES]. Relation. Von dem gegenwartigen Zustande des Konigreichs Schweden.
With: [MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. Journal de LAmbassade envoyée de la part de S. M.té le Roy de Suède vers le Grand Duc de Moscovie lan 1684, dressé par un des Gentils-hommes de la Suite.
1684-1688. Folio (ca. 30 x 20 cm). The German part is neatly written in a Kurrent script, and the French part in a cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the initials "M.F.K" in the centre of the front board, red and black sprinkled edges, green closing ties. 167 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - RELIGION - DUTCH - KLAUBER, Joseph Sebastian and Johann Baptist KLAUBER (engravers)]. [Stigtelyke uytbreiding der Litanie van O.L. Vrouwe van Loretten. Op rym gestelt tot geestelyk vermaak en vermeerdering der devotie tot de selve alder-heyligste Maget en Moeder Godts Maria. In 't ligt gegeven door M.V.D.L.].
[Flanders?, 1792]. 8vo. With 56 tipped in numbered engraved plates, and a hand-drawn frame in brown ink on every page, in which the text is written. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf in a clear plastic protective sleeve. [8], [1 blank], "55" [= 90] pp. Full description