Highlights

[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. BURTON, Richard Francis. A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments, now entituled the book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
[Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1904]. 14 (instead of 17) volumes. Royal 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With frontispieces and numerous illustrations (vol. 8 lacking one image). With: Supplemental nights to the book of the thousand nights and a night with notes anthropological and explanatory.
[Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1940]. Contemporary richly gilt and sometimes also silver full cloth, some top edges gilt, some red. Full description

[CAAN, Hendrik Johan]. Vorsten uit het Huis van Oranje geboren op het Lustslot Soestdijk.
[The Hague, A.P. Van Langenhuijsen, 1842].
With: (2) CAAN, Hendrik Johan. Toast bij de aanbieding van het Gedenkschrift Diligentia den 13 September 1843.
[Den Haag, A.P. van Langenhuijsen, 1843]. 2 works. 8vo. Ad 1: with 4 full-page lithographed plates and 17 leaves of lithographed text, partly in calligraphic script and partly in typographic lettering, all printed in gold using bronze powder. Ad 2: fully lithographed. Unbound. [18]; [2] ll. Full description

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo.
Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1532. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. 19th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. 75, [1 blank] ll. Full description

CARAMUEL Y LOBKOWITZ, Juan. Caramuelis apparatus philosophicus quatuor libris distinctus, in primo de omnium scientiarum quae schlastice tractari possunt quidditate, dignitate, ordine, utilitate, de artibus vanis, superstitiosis, viribus naturae & daemonis conjurationibus, hominum pactis, divinationibus per Deum, astra, ignem, aquam, manum, terram, aerem, sacra, sortes, literas &c. ...
Cologne, Johann Arnold Cholinus, 1665. Folio. With a small woodcut ornament on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Further with some tables in the text. Stiff paper wrappers with (remnants of) a manuscript title label at the head of the spine. [1], [1 blank], 144, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.
[Vienna or Venice?], 1785.
With:
(2) [CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Supplimento alla esposizione ragionata della controversia, che suffifte tra la repubblica di Venezia, e quella d'Olanda.
1785.
(3) [CASANOVA, Giacomo], Signed at end: L.A.S.D.V. Lettera ai signori Giovanni e Stefano Luzac contenente alcune offervazioni sopra la Narrazione dell'affare che ha prodotto la differenza vertente fra la repubblica di Venezia e quella di Olanda, pubblicata nei numeri xxi. C xxii. della loro gazetta.
1785. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Ads 1 and 2: with a woodcut decoration on the title page, rococo-decorated titling capitals used for one word in the title and one initial, thick-and-thin rules, ad 3: with the same decorated initials as ad 1 and 2, and with woodcut headpieces throughout. Contemporary half vellum with marbled boards, gold-tooled spine, and a black leather spine label lettered in gold: "Miscellanea". LXX, [4 blank]; LXIX, [5 blank]; 48 pp. Full description

[CATS, Jacob], Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus, Vitae humanae ideam, Emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius [= Hans van der Hellen], 1618.
With: (2) [CATS, Jacob]. Maechden-plicht ofte ampt der ionck-vrouwen, in eerbaer liefde, aenghewesen door Sinne-beelden.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius, 1618.
(3) [CATS, Jacob]. Selfstryt, dat is crachtighe beweginghe van vlees en gheest ... (&c.).
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius for Jan Pietersz van de Venne, 1620. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved frontispiece for each of the three parts; 51 numbered emblems in the first part, the well-known folding engraved plate of the "Kinderspelen" at the end of part 2, decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; Ad 2 with a full-page engraved plate, a half-page engraved plate, 44 emblems, and extra inserted is the famous full-page portrait of Galathee; Ad 3: with a woodcut vignette on the title page, 4 half-page engravings in the text, decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold. [40], 120; 111, [1 blank]; 107, [5]; [16], 92, [20]; [34], 119, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[CESSOLIS, Jacobus de and FRANCO (translator)]. [Drop title a1v:] Boeck dat men hiet dat scaecspel. [Incipit on a2r:] Hier beghint eç suuerlijc boec vanden tijtverdrijf edelre heren ende vrouwen als vande scaecspul ...
(Colophon on i6v:) Gouda, Geraert Leeu, 2 October 1479. Small folio (ca. 26 x 20 cm). The text is set in Gothic type in double columns of 35 lines to a page, with large manuscript initials in red ink at the start of every chapter, rubricated throughout. Further with Geraert Leeu's printer's device and his initials below the colophon on i5v. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, gold-tooled spine with a burgundy morocco title label lettered in gold. [67], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[CHARRIÈRE, Isabelle de (Belle van ZUYLEN)]. Considération sur l'affaire des canoniers[!] français ...
[Switzerland?], 1787. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, and 4 woodcut tailpieces. Disbound. "35" [= 31] pp. Full description

CORDES, Jan Willem Hugo. In Oranje's lusthof. Wandeligen in het Koninklijk park van het Loo.
Apeldoorn, T.D.H. Pull, [1895]. Small 4to. 19th-century gold-tooled black sheepskin. [8], 64 pp. Full description

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