Highlights

BORGHINI, Raffaello. Il riposo ... in cui della pittura, e della scultura si favella, de piu illustri pittori, e scultori, e delle piu famose opere loro si fa mentione; e le cose principali appartenenti à dette arti s'insegnano.
Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584. 8vo. With Marescottis woodcut "et vult et potest" device on the title page (ship in an oval cartouche with motto, and a monogram at the foot) and a full-page allegorical woodcut on art and on fame in an oval cartouche, a woodcut tailpiece, and 6 woodcut decorated initials (4 series). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment (ca. 1890?). [48], 648 pp. Full description

BOSWELL, James. An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
London, for Edward & Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved coat of arms on the title page, and a large engraved folding map of Corsica. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf. XII, [2], 384 pp. Full description

[BOURGOING, Jean François de]. Nouveau voyage en Espagne, ou tableau de l'état actuel de cette monarchie.
Paris, chez Regnault, 1789. 3 volumes. 8vo. Volume 1 with a folding general map of Spain coloured in outline (23.8 x 28.4 cm) as a frontispiece, a folding plan of Madrid (23 x 33.8 cm), both engraved by P.F. Tardieu, 4 folding and 2 full-page engraved plates; volume 3 with a folding plan of Cadiz by Tardieu and 3 folding engraved plates. Contemprary gold-tooled mottled calf. [1], [1 blank], IV, 368, [1], [1 blank]; [1], [blank], [1], [1 blank], 382; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 404, [2] pp. Full description

BRAUN, Konrad, and Johannes COCHLAEUS (editor). De seditionibus libri sex, rationibus et exemplis ex omni doctrinarum et authorum genere locupletati... Ioannis Cochlaei de seditionibus Appendix triplex, contra quosdam rebelles huius temporis.
Mainz, Franz Behem, 1550. Folio (ca. 30.8 x 20 cm). With Behems large woodcut device on the final leaf, made by Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, as indicated by his "HS" monogram, and with decorated woodcut initials throughout. Late 17th- or early 18th-century gold-tooled calf. [20], 355, [1] pp. Full description

BRESCHET, Gilles. Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur l'organe de l'ouïe des poissons.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, for J.B. Baillière in Paris and London, 1838. 4to. With 17 folding lithographed plates (ca. 560 x 210 mm.) of the auditory organs, and other details, of various fishes. Original blue publisher's wrappers. [6], 126 pp. Full description

BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis & Louis Charles DESNOS. Coup d'oeil général sur la France, pour servir d'introduction au tableau analytique et géographique de ce Royaume. Dressé par différens géographes, dont les ouvrages sont aussi connus qu'estimés, faisant partie de l'atlas historique de la France ancienne & moderne ...
Paris, Grangé, Guillyn, Desnos, et al., 1765. 2 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. With a double-page frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, 2 large folding engraved maps of France by Rizzi Zannoni, 40 double-page engraved maps and charts of France, 10 folding road maps, 2 "Cartes odographiques" with the distances between French cities, and 3 double-page engraved part-titles, all but the frontispiece and titles in a contemporary hand colouring.
Comprising: (2) DESNOS, Louis Charles. Tableau analytique de la France.
Paris, chez l'auteur, 1765.
(3) ZANNONINI, Rizzi. Le petite Neptune François ou carte des côtes maritimes du Royaume.
Paris, chez le Sr. Desnos, 1765.
(4) MICHEL. L'indicateur fidèle ou guide des voyageurs.
Paris, à l'enseigne du globe, 1765.
With: (5) [CATALOGUE]. Catalogue des Ouvrages, tant anciens que modernes, du Fonds du Sr. Desnos.
Paris, à l'enseigne du globe et de la sphere, 1765. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled marbled calf. 15, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank], 8, 10; 16 pp. + 56 plates Full description

BROUGHTON, William Robert. Voyage de découvertes dans la partie septentrionale de l'Océan Pacifique, fait par le capitaine W.R. Broughton, commandant la corvette de S.M.B. la Providence et sa conserve, pendant les années 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798; dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d'Asie, depuis le 35° degré nord, jusqu'au 52°; l'île d'Insu, ordinairement appelée Jesso; les côtes nord, est et sud du Japon; les îles de Likeujo et autres îles voisines, ainsi que la côte de Corée.
Paris, Dentu, 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map of the North-East coast of Asia and Japan, a folding engraved map of the islands Likeujo and Madjicosemah, 4 large folding engraved plates with plans and views of harbours and coastlines in Japan, Taiwan, and China, and a full-page engraved plate showing the costumes of Volcan's Bay. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter sheepskin. [6], XXXII, 243, [3]; [4], 341, [1] pp. Full description

BUCHANAN, George and Alexander JULIUS (editor & commentator). Ecphrasis paraphraseos Georgii Buchanani in psalmos Davidis ... in adolescentiae studiosae gratiam elaborata.
London, George Eld, 1620. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page, a few woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, retaining one clasp and the remnants of a second, with catches intact, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, red edges. [16], 364, [6 blank] pp. Full description

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. Oeuvres complètes, suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffroy St. Hilaire.
Brussels, Th. Lejeune, 1828-1833. 20 volumes (14 text and 6 atlas). 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, a lithographed portrait of Daubenton, 2 lithographed emblematic frontispieces, 2 lithographed double-page maps of the Old and the New World, 6 numbered lithographed plates of teeth, 16 numbered lithographed plates of scientific instruments etc., and 6 numbered lithographed plates of seeds in the first 4 introductory volumes, lithographed frontispieces of a naked man, woman and child, and 26 lithographed plates of human heads and species, including 10 are nicely coloured by hand in volume 5 on the natural history of man, illustrations of mammals and mammalian anatomy on 469 lithographed plates, including 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10, and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates, all beautifully coloured by hand, and including 8 heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14. Contemporary half calf. Each volume ca. 500 pp. Full description

BURIGNY, Jean Lévesque de. Histoire generale de Sicile, dans laquelle on verra toutes les différentes revolutions de cette isle depuis le tems òu elle a commencé à être habitée, jusq'à la derniéree paix entre la Maison de France, & la Maison d'Autriche.
The Hague, Isaac Beauregard & Pierre Gosse, 1745. 2 volumes. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on both titles, the titles printed in red and black, 2 large folding engraved maps, an engraved headpiece by B. F. Immink (1743), and several decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [16], 511, [1 blank]; [8], 454, [8] pp. Full description