Highlights

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Scrutinio del libro eloges de M. de Voltaire par differens auteurs.
Venice, Presso Modesto Fenzo, 1779. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, and 1 woodcut initial. Later gold-tooled brown morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 96 pp. Full description

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases. [4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp. Full description

CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1865. 8vo. With hand coloured, lithographed wrappers, and 5 folding tinted lithographed maps by S. Lankhout. Early 20th-century gold- and blind-tooled calf by Pieter Adam Happel, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a green morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, a central ornament on both boards, green head edge, decorative endpapers. XII, [2], 150 pp. Full description

CATHARINUS, Ambrosius and Girolamo SAVONAROLA. Discorso ... contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1548. 8vo. With a large engraved portrait of Savonarola mounted on the verso of the blank leaf before the title page, a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials throughout.
Contemporary limp vellum. [1], [8], 100, [1 blank] ll. Full description

[CHAPBOOK - FRENCH]. L'Histoire des nobles proüesses et vaillances de Gallien restauré, fils du noble Olivier le marquis, & de la belle Jacqueline, fille du roi Hugon, empereur de Constentinople. Avec les figures propres, mises de nouveau sous chacun chapitre.
Troyes, Jacques Oudot, 1709. 2 works in 1 volume, the 2nd in 2 parts. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work, 35 woodcut illustrations in the text of ad 1; 2 woodcut headpieces and a woodcut tailpiece in ads 2 and 3. With: (2) [CHAPBOOK]. Histoire de Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France, et Duc de Guienne.
Troyes, Jacques Oudot, [1705]
(3) [CHAPBOOK]. Livre second de Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France, et Duc de Guienne.
Idem. Later dark blue leather 138; 141, [1]; [136] pp. Full description

CHAPELLE, Vincent la. Le cuisinier moderne, qui aprend à donner toutes sortes de repas, en gras & en maigre, dune manière plus délicate que ce qui en a été écrit jusquà present ...
The Hague, printed by Antoine de Groot for Antoine van Dole ["aux dépens de lauteur"], 1736. 4 volumes bound as 2. 8vo. With the title pages printed in red and black, a series of 7 (large) folding engraved plates (numbered I-VII in the plate) depicting table settings for 12 to 100 "couverts" and 4 folding printed text-leaves (numbered I-VII on recto and verso) with descriptions of the menues for the various diners, 4 folding engraved plates depicting various silver plates ("Modelle des plats") & 3 silver table showpieces for the various courses, and 1 woodcut armorial head-piece (on the dedication to Stadtholder William IV in part 1). Uniform contemporary half mottled calf, sprinkled paper sides, gold-tooled spine with greenish-blue and brown morocco title-labels lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], 261, [1 blank], [15], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 258, [14]; [1], [1 blank], 288, [16], [1], [1 blank], 313, [1 blank], [20] pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Les quatre elemens.
Comprising:
(1) La terre.
(2) L'air.
(3) L'eau.
(4) Le feu.
[Paris], Imprimerie de Maulde et Renou, [ca. 1840]. 4 volumes. 32mo. With 8 full-page steel-engraved plates (2 in each volume). Original publisher's glazed pastel boards (light blue, yellow, pink, or light green), with the title and a steel-engraved illustration of one of the four elements in the centre of the front board, within an embossed ornamental border. Each 24 pp. Full description

[CHILDREN'S BOOK - FRENCH]. Petite histoire grotesque de Pierrot Goulu.
Paris, Marcilly, typographie de Firmin Didot frères et compagnie, [ca. 1835]. Oblong 32mo (ca. 5.6 x 7.3 cm). With a hand coloured engraved title, and 7 hand coloured full-page engraved plates. Contemporary publisher's pink boards, with the title on the front board, an illustration of Pierrot printed in the centre of the front board, surrounded by an ornamental embossed border, marbled edges. [4], 122, [2] pp. Full description

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