Highlights

CHOCOLAT FOUCHER. [Almanac chocolat Foucher].
Paris, (colophon:) Duffit, 1922 Ca. 5.8 x 4 cm. The calendar has been printed in red and black. Contemporary wrappers stapled to the bookblock, with a blue floral design on the front. [20] ll. Full description

CHOUL, Guillaume du. Discorso ... Sopra la castrametatione & bagni antiche i Greci & Romani. Nivamente revisto & ricorretto dallistesso Auttore. Con laggiunta della figura del campo Romano.
[Padua], Marc Antonio Olmo, 1558. 8vo. The word "Discorso" printed in woodcut border at the top of the title-page, with woodcut printers device: an elm with the words: "Ulmus amica viti" (the elm is friendly for vines). With 43 full-page woodcuts (ca. 11 x 7.5 cm), a large folding woodcut plate in two leaves (as issued, in total ca. 40.5 x 36 cm) of a plan of a Roman camp: "Figura del Campo de Romani", and 2 large historiated woodcut initials of 10 lines and 3 capital spaces with guide letters for initials of 5 lines. Modern vellum. 80, [4] ll. Full description

CLENARDUS, Nicolaus. Tabula in grammaticen Hebraeam.
Paris, Christian Wechel, 1534. 8vo (15 x 9 cm). With a woodcut printers device on the title page and the verso of the final leaf, a decorated metalcut initial. 20th-century blind-tooled half light brown calf. 155, [5] pp. Full description

CRESPIN, Jean. Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.
Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.
With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.
[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.
(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.
1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e). [18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.
Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers. [4] ll. Full description

DELESSERT, Adolphe. Souvenirs dun voyage dans lInde execute de 1834 a 1839. Ouvrage enrichi de trente-cinq planches.
Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclercq (facing title-page: printed by Béthune et Plon), 1843. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. With engraved title-vignette signed by A. Vien, 8 lithographed plates in the first part by V. Dolet showing Ile Bourbon, Pondichéry, Malacca, Chase au tigre, Madras, a bivouac and Chûte de la Rivière de Gutpurba; 27 numbered full-page engraved plates in the natural history part by Forget, Annedouche, Sebin, Mme. Douliot, Bourgeois, Giraud, Davesne and Dumesnil after Jean Gabriel Prêtre, Delahaye, Mme Bury and Vaillant of mammals, birds, insects and butterflies, 24 of which are exquisitely coloured by hand by "Gérard". Also with one folded map (43 x 44 cm) of the world (except for the Americas) with Delessets journey marked, coloured in outline and printed by Kaeppelin, Paris. Half calf, decorated paper sides. [6], III, 134; [4], 107 pp. Full description

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. [Collection of two devotional prints and a drawing].
[Antwerp, mid 17th century].
With: [DRAWING]. De liefde alleen maeckt twee maer een.
[18th century?]. 2 prints and 1 drawing. Prints: ca. 9 x 7 cm; drawing: ca. 12.5 x 9.5 cm. With 2 full-page engravings on vellum, silk embroidered, hand coloured, and heightened with gold, and 1 ink drawing on vellum, partly made with golden ink. The three works are housed in a clear plastic folder. Full description

[DU BOIS, Nicolas (attributed)]. Jansenismus omnem destruens religionem.
Cologne, Johann Wilhelm Friessem junior, 1693. 3 broadsides. Ad 1: ca. 96.5 x 76 cm; ad 2 and 3: ca. 138 x 77 cm. Each broadside is printed on 2 sheets, divided in 8 (ad 1) or 12 (ads 2 and 3) columns, and includes 2 decorated woodcut initials, and an ornamental border between the columns. With: (2) IDEM. Jansenismus plurimas haereses et errores damnatos pertinaciter defendens.
Idem.
(3) IDEM. Jansenismus in multis exotice rigidus.
Idem. Framed in a modern wooden frame. Full description

[DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt en gesloten tusschen de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten Genereael der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen en Potentaten ter andere zyde.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [not before 1701]. 73 pamphlets in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page with the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General. 70 of the 73 treaties have a separate title page, the other 3 were published without thus the work is complete. 67 of these 70 treaties with a title page contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General, 2 of the earlier treaties bear Van Wouw's woodcut printer's device on their title pages, 1 title page shows a simple woodcut floral vignette, 1 title page does not contain any (woodcut) decoration, and 1 treaty without a title page does contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General at the start of the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout the treaties. The text is set in both roman and gothic type. Later vellum. Full description

EEKHOFF, Wopke. Nieuwe atlas van de provincie Friesland, bevattende kaarten van de dertig grietenijen of gemeenten, met de daarin gelegene elf steden en haar grondgebied, alsmede van de eilanden Ameland en Schiermonnikoog.
Leeuwarden, W. Eekhoff, 1849-1859. Large folio (68 x 41 cm). With 32 large double-page maps, of which 2 folding, engraved by D. & H. Veelwaard after J.W. Witteveen. Further with the engraved coat of arms of the Province of Friesland on the title page. Contemporary half brown morocco and pebble-grained brown cloth sides. [4] pp. + 32 maps. Full description