Highlights

MONGE, Gaspard. Géométrie descriptive. Cinquième édition; augmentée d'une théorie des ombres et de la perspective, extraite des papiers de l'auteur, par M. Brisson.
Paris, Bachelier (Successeur de Mme Ve Courcier), 1827. 4to. With 53 illustrations on perspective projections of geometrical bodies, in all positions in space and connections with each other, on 28 folding engraved plates by Stevigny after designs by the author. Contemporary half beige morocco. XX, 188 pp. Full description

MONTESINOS, Manuel. Relacion de la entrada del Exercito Imperial en Italia, I puestos que su Magestad Cesarea ha ocupado en la Valtelina, I la ratificacion de las paces con el Rei de Dinamarca, y el Gran Turco.
Madrid, Bernardino de Guzman, 1629. Folio (ca. 29 x 20.5 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial. Early 20th-century browned light purple paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [4], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MORELLY, Etienne-Gabriel]. Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******.
A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece with the portrait of the "author/translator", both titles printed in red and black, and two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary marbled calf with triple gilt fillet along the edges. [4], XLI, [2], 216; [4], 307 pp. Full description

MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich. Voyages et découvertes faites par les Russes le long de côtes de la Mer Glaciale et sur l'Océan Oriental, tant vers le Japon que vers l'Amérique. On y a joint l'histoire du fleuve Amur et des pays adjacens.
Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1766. 2 volumes. 12mo. With a large folding engraved map of the Russian Far East, from Novaya Zemlya to Kamchatka, with parts of Japan and North America. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. X, [2], 388; IV, 207, [25] pp. Full description

NAZIANZENUS, Gregorius and Gregorius NYSSENUS. Orationes novem elegantissimae. Gregorii Nuysseni liber de homine, quae omnia nunc primum, emendatissima, in lucem prodeunt.
[Venice, heirs of Aldus Manuzius and heirs of Andrea Torresano], 1536. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the Aldine woodcut device on the title page and repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with the author, title, publisher, and year lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, gold-tooled tan morocco doublures, pink silk ribbon marker. Bound by François Bozerian (known as Bozerian le Jeune (the Younger), 1765-1826, fl. 1801-1818) and signed in gold lettering by the binder at the foot of the spine: "Rel. P. Bozerian Jeune". 148, "68" [= 76], [4] ll. Full description

NECKER, Jacques. Sur ladministration de M. Necker. Par lui-même.
Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Gabriel Dupour, 1791. 12mo. With a small tailpiece on the final page. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a large gold-tooled centerpiece on both boards (a crowned shield with a "W", flanked by a crowned lion and a wild man with a club), with red morocco author and title labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], "328" [= 340] pp. Full description

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans comptoir almanach op 't Jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi M.DC.LXXXI. na de Nieuwe en Oude-stijl. Versien met de jaer-marckten, paerde, beeste- en leer-marckten: daer neven een prognosticatie, op alle nieuwe, volle en quartier-maenden. De dagelijkse uuren van des maens op en onder-gangh door Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, mathematicus. Mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Hollant in 's Graven-Hage, Utrecht, Vrieslandt, Groeningen, en de Stadt Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Zaagman, [1680]. 4to. With the title and calendar printed in red and black, a large woodcut view of the Amsterdam stock-exchange on the title page, 12 large woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each month, depicting the main activities practised during this month), a small woodcut of an eclipse and a larger woodcut of a Zodiac man. Contemporary silver-tooled vellum, with on the front a central panel with a maid carrying a lance next to a book (the Bible?) on a column, and on the back a central panel with three drummers, both surrounded by an elaborate large frame block with the coat-of-arms of Holland in the "garden" of the Dutch Republic flanked by the other provincial arms at the top (the arms of the major Dutch cities at the left and right and a view of Amsterdam from the IJ at the bottom). [16] ll. Full description

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans almanach na de nieuwe en oude-stijl. Op 't schrickel-jaer onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1680. Met de jaer, paerde, beeste en leer-marckten, s maens op en ondergang door D.R. van Nierop.
Including:
(2) Zaagmans tijt-wijser.
(3) Korte chronyck van alle de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen t' sedert de geboorte onses Heeren Iesu Christi, tot desen tegenwoordigen jare.
(4) MAGINO, Antonio. De Italiaensche waer-segger op het jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi 1680.
[Amsterdam], Gillis Joosten Zaagman, 1680. 4 parts in 1 volume. 24mo. With the title page and calendar printed in red and black, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 13 woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each months and 1 for the eclipses), and 4 half-page woodcuts in the text. Contemporary dark brown shagreen with blind ruling along the edges, gilt edges. [80] pp + 12 interleaved blanks and 6 thick cardboard leaves Full description

NIEUWENTIJT, Bernard. Gronden van zekerheid of de regte betoogwyse der wiskundige so in het denkbeeldige, als in het zakelyke: ter wederlegging van Spinosaas denkbeeldig samenstel; en ter aanleiding van eene sekere sakelyke wysbegeerte.
Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1720. 4to. With the title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by J. Mulder, woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [54], 458 pp. Full description

OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., A. KOSTER Mz. and C. de VOS (editors). Nederlandsche flora en pomona.
Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1879. 2 volumes. Large 4to. With 81 full-page chromolithographed plates after A.J. Wendel. Original publisher's gold- and black stamped red cloth. [8], XII, 127, [1 blank]; [3], 131-235, [1 blank], IX, [1 blank]. Full description