Highlights

QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS. Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim, Iodoco Valar[a]eo interprete. Coluti Thebani Raptus Helenae eodem interprete.
Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1539. Small 8vo. With 16 decorated woodcut initials. Modern blind-tooled calf by the Period Bookbinders in Bath. [4], "CCVII" [= 208] ll. Full description

RADEMAKER, Abraham. Kabinet van Nederlandsche en Kleefsche outheden.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, [between 1728 and 1766]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title page in each part, and 300 numbered engraved half-page views. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. [76]; [76] ll. Full description

REIMARUS, Hermann Samuel. Allgemeine Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Tiere, hauptsächlich über ihre Kunsttriebe. Zum Erkenntniß des Zusammenhanges der Welt, des Schöpfers und unser selbst vorgestellet.
Hamburg, Johann Carl Bohn, printed by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1762. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut vignette on the last page. Contemporary calf. [16], 400, 104, [24] pp. Full description

[REPGOW, Eike von]. Den spiegel van sassen van alle keyserlijcke rechten.
Antwerp, Marie Ancxt [= widow of Jacob van Liesveld, 31 October 1550. 4to (19 x 13.2 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut of the emperor (10.8 x 7.2 cm) holding a sword with coat of arms in the lower left hand corner, between two ornamental borders. 18th-century mottled calf. XLIIII ll. Full description

[REYGERSBERCH, Jan Janse]. Dye cronijcke van Zeelandt.
Antwerp, Widow of Heyndrick Peetersen, 1551. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut title with the coat of arms of the province of Zeeland, Charles V and Maximilian, a folding woodcut map of Zeeland, a small woodcut portrait of Charles V, a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the verso of the last leaf, and 6 mostly full-page woodcut coats of arms of Maximilian, the province of Zeeland, and of the cities Middelburg, Veere, Zierikzee and Cortgene in the text, further with numerous decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [194] ll. Full description

RICARD, Samuel. Traité général du commerce, contenant des observations sur le commerce des principaux etats de l'Europe... les productions naturelles, l'industrie de chaque païs... des détails sur les monnoies, poids et mesures... des règles sur différentes opérations de négoce... enfin les ordonnances et usages établis à Amsterdam, touchant les assurances et le réglement des avaries.
Amsterdam, E. van Harreveld and A. Soetens, 1781. 2 volumes. 4to. With the title pages printed in red and black, a woodcut headpiece in each volume, and numerous tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a modern spine. [8], 624; [8], XVI, 530 pp. Full description

ROBIDÉ VAN DER AA, Christianus Petrus Eliza . Oud-Nederland in de uit vroegere dagen, overgeblevene burgen en kasteelen geschetst en afgebeeld.
Nijmegen, C.A. Vieweg, 1841-1846. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 72 full-page lithographed views of the old Dutch castles and mansions, mostly after designs by J.F. Christ. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled purplish-blue half calf. Each plate is accompanied by 8 to 20 pages of description and historical notes. Full description

ROLLAND D'ERCEVILLE, Barthélemy-Gabriel. Recherches sur les prerogatives des dames chez les Gaulaois, sur les cours d'amour.
Paris, chez Nyon I'ainé, Libraire, 1787. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled dark blue morocco. [4], xii, 212, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ROSEN VON ROSENSTEIN, Nils. Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras bote-medel: tilförene styckewis utgifne uti de små allmanachorna, nu samlade, tilökte och förbättrade.
Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1764. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut gothic initials and cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Contemporary half calf. [2], 363, [11] pp. Full description

ROY, Jacob le. Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ, coenobiaque celebriora, ad vivum delineata, in quatuor partes divisa: complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antverpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem. Cum brevi eorundem descriptione, & gentilitiis toparcharum insignibus | Chateaux et maisons de campagne des gentilhommes du Brabant ... | Kasteelen en heeren huysen der edelen van Brabant ...
Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1699.
With: (2) [ROY, Jacob le]. L'erection de toutes les terres, seigneuries, & familles titrees du Brabant.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1699. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece to part 1, 2 engraved title vignettes, 2 full-page engraved dedicatory plates, 1 engraved headpiece, vol. 1 with 211 engravings (4 folding maps, 1 folding plan, 14 folding plates, and 192 views in the text); vol. 2 with 1 folding map and 7 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary sprinkled quarter calf, sewn on 8 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, sprinkled paper sides, red and blue sprinkled edges. [6], 143, [4], 108 ll. Full description