Highlights

[SALES CATALOGUE - DE VERHULST COLLECTION]. Catalogue d'une riche et precieuse collection de tableaux des meilleurs & plus célébres maîtres des ecoles d'Italie, des Pays-Bas & de France, qui composent le cabinet de Feu Messire Gabriel-François-Joseph de Verhulst, dont les héritiers proposent l'acquisition en total & en masse.
Brussels, Imprimerie d'Antoine d'Ours, 1779.
With: (2) [SALES CATALOGUE - DE VERHULST COLLECTION]. Catalogue d'une belle collection de desseins, estampes et livres delaissés par Feu Le Chevalier De Verhulst, dont la vente se fera (en argent de change) à sa mortuaire, ... immediatement après celle des tableaux.
Brussels, chez Antoine d'Ours, [1779]. Ad 1: 4to. Ad 2: 12mo. With a full-page engraved portrait of De Verhulst, a woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Ad 1: Contemporary marbled calf, blue sprinkled edges. Ad 2: Contemporary wrappers, side stitched through two holes. [4], 56, [10]; 31, [1] pp. Full description

SANTINI, Giuseppe. Picenorum mathematicorum elogia.
Macerata, Bartolomeo Capitani, 1779. 4to. With a woodcut ornament on the title page, 1 illustration in the text, 23 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red mottled edges. XVI, 112 pp. Full description

SAVIGNY, Marie Jules-César Lelorgue de. Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis.
Paris, Allais, 1805. 8vo. With 6 engraved plates, including 3 folding, designed by Redouté and Barraband and executed by Bouquet. Contemporary half red morocco. XIV, 224 pp. Full description

SAVORGNANO, Mario. Arte militare terrestre, e maritima; secondo la ragione, et uso de piu valorosi capitani antichi, e moderni. gia descritta, e divisa in quattro libri.
Venice, Seb. Combi, 1614. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 double-page tables, and 23 double-page woodcut plates. Contemporary vellum. [20], 266 pp. Full description

SCHLEGEL, Hermann. De vogels van Nederland beschreven en afgebeeld.
Leiden, D. Noothoven van Goor, [1859]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 362 hand-coloured lithographed plates of Dutch birds, highlighted with an (egg) wash; plates 1-178 in plates volume 1 and plates 179-362 in plates volume 2. All illustrations are captioned in the plate. Contemporary half gold- and blind-stamped tan sheepskin, decorated paper sides, blue floral endpapers. VIII, 699, [1] pp. and 362 plates in the two other volumes. Full description

SCHWEICKHARDT, Leonardus. [Business cards].
The Hague, Leonardus Schweickhardt, 1850. 2 cards. Both ca. 4.8 x 7.8 cm. The cards are housed in the original pink paper case. Full description

[SENETERRE, Henri-Charles de]. Nouveaux contes de fées.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. XVI, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyser en Alkmaerder liede-boeck, versiert met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.
Amsterdam, Pieter van Ryschooten, 1702. 32mo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, a full-page woodcut illustration on the verso of the title page, and musical annotation. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a clasp. 310, [10] pp. Full description

[SONGBOOK]. 't Nieuw groot Hoorns lied-boekje, bestaande in veel stigtige en vermakelyke bruylofts liedekens.
Hoorn, Reinier Beukelman, [between 1713 and 1735]. 24mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, and several leaves with musical annotation. Later marbled paper pasted over brown cloth. "210" [= 310], [10] pp. Full description

[SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyzer, Alkmaarder en Purmerender liede-boek. Vercierd met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.
Amsterdam, Joannes Kannewet, [3rd quarter of the 18th century].
With: [SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyzer, Alkmaarder, Edammer en Purmerender liede-boek, zijnde een vervolg op 't voorgaande, verciert met verscheyde nieuwe en aangenaame bruylofts-liedekens en snaakze gezangen.
Amsterdam, Joannes Kannewet, [3rd quarter of the 18th century]. 2 works in 1 volume. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of both parts, a full-page woodcut illustration in ad 1, and a decorated woodcut initial in each part. Slightly later gold-tooled red morocco. 312, [8]; 312, [8] pp. Full description