Highlights

BOEMUS, Joannes. Omnium gentium mores, leges & ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum opus, Aphricam, Asiam, & Europam describentibus. Accessit libellus de regionibus septentrionalibus
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1538. 8vo (14.7 x 9.6). With a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and some woodcut initials. Later vellum. 149, [3] ll. Full description

BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas. Oeuvres. Avec des éclaircissemens historiques, donnez par lui-même.
Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1718. 2 volumes. Folio. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, incorporating a portrait of the author, an engraved vignette with portrait of Erasmus on the title page of both volumes, both titles are printed in red and black, all text pages are set within a fine typographical woodcut border, an engraved part-title, 6 full-page engraved plates, 2 engraved headpieces, 2 engraved initials, and 27 engraved tailpieces by Bernard Picart.
Late 18th or early 19th-century gold-tooled straight-grain dark blue morocco, with the title and imprint lettered in gold on the spine, a single fillet and two ornamental borders on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt and gauffered edges, orange end papers. [4], XVIII, [4], 450; [4], VII, [1], 370, [20] pp. Full description

BONTEKOE, Cornelis. Korte verhandeling van 's menschen leven, gesondheid, siekte, en dood, begrepen in een drie ledige reden, I. Over 't lighaam en sijne werkingen in gesondheid; II. Over de siekte en desselfs oorsaken; III. Over de middelen, om het leven en de gesondheid te bewaren en te verlengen ...
Including: [BONTEKOE, Cornelis]. Drie verhandelingen, I. Over de natuur. II. Over de bevinding. III. Over de sekerheit in de genees- en heel-kunde.
The Hague, Pieter Hagen, 1685. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, a purple ownership stamp on the front board. [124], 409, [14]; [4], 76 pp. Full description

[BOOK OF HOURS]. Officium b[eatae] Mariae virg[inis], nuper reformatum et Pii V. Pont. Max iussu editum. Ad instar Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII recogniti. Ubi omnia suis locis sunt extensa. Cum Indugentiis & Orationibus ... & Hymns ab Urbano VIII correctis. Accedunt Psalmi Vesperarum & completorii ... una cum Rosario B. Mariae.
Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, widow of Balthasar Moretus, 1677. 32mo. Printed in red and black, within frame of double ruling, with 16 full-page engravings (ca. 60 x 34 mm). 19th-century gold-tooled dark blue grained morocco. [64], 712, [4] pp. Full description

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

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. Examen omnium catapotiorum, vel pilularum, quarum apud pharmacopolas usus est.
Lyon, Jean Pullon, 1545. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum. 188, [4] pp. Full description

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. Examen omnium electuariorum, pulverum, et confectionum.
Venice, Vincent Valgrisi, 1548. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and a larger version on the last page. Later stiff paper wrappers. 140, [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