Highlights

CROLL, Oswald. Basilica chymica oder alchymistisch königlich Kleynod: ein philosophisch durch sein selbst eigne Erfahrung confirmirte und bestättigte Beschreibung und Gebrauch der aller fürtrefflichsten chimischen Artzneyen so auss dem Liecht der Gnaden und Natur genommen in sich begreiffent. Beneben angehengtem seinem newen Tractat von den innerlichen Signaturn oder Zeichen der Dinge.
Frankfurt am Main, printed by Caspar Rötel for Gottfried Tampach, [1629]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 21.5 x 16.5 cm). With a richly engraved title page designed by Aegidius Sadeler, with circular alchemical diagrams at the top and below (the one below surrounded by alchemical equipment) and portraits of 6 famous alchemists in oval scrollwork cartouches (3 on either side), further with 5 small woodcut illustrations in the text (depicting alchemical instruments). All text is set within a printed single or double fillet frame. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 248, [15], [1 blank]; 72, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DAM, Meyndert Dirksz. van. D'erven Stichters comptoir almanach, op t schrikkel-jaar onses heeren Jesu Christi, 1788 ...
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1788]. 4to. With the title-page and 23 calendar pages printed in red and black, a half-page woodcut vignette (depicting Father Time pointing at an armillary sphere) by Hendrik Numan on the title-page and 12 half-page woodcut illustrations for the 12 months (each ca. 7 x 11 cm) by Hendrik Numan, nearly all signed in the block (including two dated "1779"). Contemporary gold-tooled brown mottled calf, bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date "Anno 1788", all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners. [16] ll. interleaved with 24 blank (except for manuscript annotations) ll. Full description

DIEU, Louis de. Animadversiones sive commentarius in quatuor evangelia, in quo collatis, Syri imprimis, Arabis, evangelii Hebræi, Vulgati, Erasmi & Bezæ versionibus ...
Leiden, Ex officina Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, 1631. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page (le Solitaire), three woodcut decorated initials, two woodcut headpieces and one woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2 with a frame built up from typographical ornaments on the title-page, three woodcut decorated initials, a woodcut headpiece, plus eight headpieces and two tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. With: (bound before ad 1): (2) CHRISTEN, Johannes. Speculum harmonicum, hoc est: Genesis et analysis harmoniæ quatuor evangelistarum, synoptica; perpetuâ dichotomiâ illustrata, secundùm seriem temporum, locorum & rerum gestarum accuratissimam ... Bern, Georgius Sonnleitnerus, 1642.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with overhanging fore-edge, with the manuscript title on the head of the spine, blue edges. [16], 87, [1 blank]; [16], 548, [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DUPUY DU GREZ, Bernard. Traité sur la peinture pour en apprendre la teorie, & se perfectionner dans la pratique.
Toulouse, Widow of J. Pech, and A. Pech, 1699. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 4 full-page engraved allegorical plates after A. Rivatz, the first dated 1694, and 8 engravings showing perspecive, 2 of which are full-page. Further with large flowered and emblematic woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf. [20], 396 pp. Full description

ERPENIUS, Thomas. Grammatica Arabica; cum varia praxios materia, cujus elenchum versa dabit pagella.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1656. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. The title-page is printed in red and black, lacking the printer's device, with a few woodcut decorated initials and some head- and tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. The text is set in both roman and Arabic type. Quarter vellum and blue decorated paper sides, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], [1 blank], [5], 172, "282" [= 284] pp. Full description

FABRE, Pierre Jean. Myrothecium spagiricum; sive pharmacopoea chymica, occultis naturae arcanis, ex Hermeticorum medicorum scrinijs depromptis abundè illustrata...
Toulouse, Pierre Bosc, 1646. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the divisional title page of part two, 9 woodcut headpieces, 4 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and numerous decorated woodcut initials. 20th-century blind-tooled brown morocco. 448, [22], [2 blank] pp. Full description

GARNIER, Francis. Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission Française présidiée par M. le capitaine de frégate Doudart de Lagrée et publié dans les ordres du ministre de la marine sous la direction de M. le lieutenant de vaisseau Francis Garnier avec le concours de M. Delaporte, lieutenant de vaisseau et de MM. Joubert et Thorel, médécins de la marine, membres de la commission.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1873. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume in 2 parts. Large 4to text volumes, and folio atlas. With a lithographed portrait of Doudart de Lagrée, 53 full-page maps and views, and 157 illustrations in the text. The atlas with 69 lithographed maps, plans and views. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled quarter red morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red cloth sides with blind tooled borders on the front and back, gilt edges, watered silk end papers. V, [3], 580, [4]; [6], 523, [5]; [6], XII pp. Full description

GHEYN, Jacob II de. [The riding school or exercise of cavalry].
[Leiden, workshop of Jacob II de Gheyn, 1599]. Oblong folio (25 x 32 cm). With 22 numbered engraved plates (varying sizes, ca. 15.4-16 x 19.7 x 21.5 cm), including the engraved title-page. The illustrations are designed by De Gheyn and possibly engraved by him or by Zacharias Dolendo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with the large gold-tooled coat-of-arms of the Stuart Princes of Wales (Stuart Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick (1594-1612)) within a gold- and blind-tooled double fillet frame on both boards, with small gold-tooled flowers on the spine, gold-tooled board edges. [22 engraved plates]. Full description

GODINHO, Manuel. Relação do novo caminho que fez por terra, e mar, vindo da India para Portugal no anno de 1663.
Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1665. 4to (19.5 x 14.5). With an engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa (1636-1720), 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor, at the head of the dedication, and with numerous woodcut decorated initials. 20th-century gold-tooled sprinkled brown calf, bound by the Lisbon bookbinder Frederico de Almeida. [1], [1 blank], [10], 188 pp. Full description

GROENEWEGEN, Gerrit (engraver). Verzameling van vier en tachtig stuks Hollandsche schepen, geteekend en in koper gebragt door G. Groenewegen.
Rotterdam, J. van den Brink, [1829]. Oblong 4to (ca. 17.5 x 22.5 cm). With a letterpress title page and 84 finely designed and engraved views of Dutch sailing vessels (image size ca. 13.5 x 15.5 cm), divided into 7 series of 12 etchings each, lettered A-F (the 7th and last series without a letter) and numbered 1-12 in the plates, all with a Dutch title below. The first plates of the first and second series show the author's name and the original title in Dutch and French in the main sail, the first plates of the other series are signed by Groenewegen in the upper blank part of the plate. Modern vellum with the name of G. Groenewegen written in black ink on the spine. [85] ll. Full description