Highlights

PIGRAY, Pierre and Pieter Rutgersz. VAN NIEUSTADT (translator). Kort begryp van de genees ende heel-konst.
Amsterdam, widow of Jacob Theunisz Lootsman, 1661. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [12], 450, [10] pp. Full description

PELLETIER, Caspar. Plantarum tum patriarum tum exoticarum in Walachria, Zeelandiae insula, nascentium synonymia.
Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1610. 8vo. With 3 woodcut initials, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut head- and tailpiece. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [14], 398, [2 blank] pp. Full description

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. 8vo (14.4 x 6.6 cm). With a woodcut coat of arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck within a 4-piece woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut illustrations, each enclosed in the same four-piece woodcut border (distinct from that on the title page), a large woodcut incorporating Vorstermans printers device on the last page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century half calf. [116] ll. Full description

PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius and Antonius MORETUS (editor). Epistolae; Panegyricus Traiani; De viris illustribus.
[Venice, Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, ca. 1492]. 4to. 18th-century limp vellum. 108 ll. Full description

PORTA, Giovanni Battista della. De hum. Physiognomonia ... De humana physiognomonia libri IIII ...
Vico Equense, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1586. Folio (32.5 x 23 cm). With a full-page engraved portrait of the author on the title page, set within an architectural frame incorporating animal and human heads, a full-page engraved portrait of the dedicatee, 85 engraved illustrations throughout, including four full-page plates, a woodcut diagram of a syllogism, and numerous woodcut historiated initials, headpieces, and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum. [4], 265 (=272) pp. Full description

PORZIO, Luca Antonio. In Hippocratis librum de veteri medicina.
Rome, Angelo Bernabò, 1681. 12mo. With 4 illustrations on an engraved folding plate. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [1], [1 blank], [4], 205, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description

PORZIO, Simone. De coloribus oculorum.
Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550. 4to. With 2 large historiated engraved initials. Half vellum (ca. 1900). 57, [3 blank] pp. Full description

PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, Aurelius; Johannes SICHARD and Elio Antonio de NEBRIJA (editors). Opera multo quam antea castigatiora, praeterea et Aelij Antonij Nebrissensis commentarijs haud poenitendis illustrata, quibus insuper adglutinata sunt scholia Joannis Sichardi, quae omnia nunc primum in philomusorum gratiam excusa sunt ...
Antwerp, Merten de Keyser, 1536 (preface dated march 1537). 8vo (14.9 x 9.5 cm). With some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Later overlapping vellum. [16], 563 [=576] pp. Full description

[PSALTERIUM - ELZEVIER]. Psalterium Davidis, ad exemplar Vaticanum Anni 1592.
Leiden, Johannes and Daniel Elzevier, 1653. 12mo. With an engraved title, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Slightly later red morocco. 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[QUELLINUS, Hubertus]. Prima pars. Praecipuarum effigierum ac ornamentorum amplissimae Curiae Amstelrodamensis. - Het eerste deel van de voornaemste statuen ende ciraten van konstryck stadthuys van Amsteldam. - La premier partie. De plusieurs figures et onrements, de la maison de ville d'Amsterdam, le plus grand part faict d'marbre.
Amsterdam, Frederik de Witt, 1665. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page and index for each part, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, part 1 with 48 plates (4 double-page, 44 full-page); part 2 with 51 plates (2 double-page, 49 full-page), and 2 very large folding plates of the 2 tympana. 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. With 105 engraved plates. Full description