Highlights

PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, Aurelius; Johannes SICHARD and Elio Antonio de NEBRIJA (editors). Opera multo quam antea castigatiora, praeterea et Aelij Antonij Nebrissensis commentarijs haud poenitendis illustrata, quibus insuper adglutinata sunt scholia Joannis Sichardi, quae omnia nunc primum in philomusorum gratiam excusa sunt ...
Antwerp, Merten de Keyser, 1536 (preface dated march 1537). 8vo (14.9 x 9.5 cm). With some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Later overlapping vellum. [16], 563 [=576] pp. Full description

QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS. Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim, Iodoco Valar[a]eo interprete. Coluti Thebani Raptus Helenae eodem interprete.
Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1539. Small 8vo. With 16 decorated woodcut initials. Modern blind-tooled calf by the Period Bookbinders in Bath. [4], "CCVII" [= 208] ll. Full description

[REPGOW, Eike von]. Den spiegel van sassen van alle keyserlijcke rechten.
Antwerp, Marie Ancxt [= widow of Jacob van Liesveld, 31 October 1550. 4to (19 x 13.2 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut of the emperor (10.8 x 7.2 cm) holding a sword with coat of arms in the lower left hand corner, between two ornamental borders. 18th-century mottled calf. XLIIII ll. Full description

[REYGERSBERCH, Jan Janse]. Dye cronijcke van Zeelandt.
Antwerp, Widow of Heyndrick Peetersen, 1551. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut title with the coat of arms of the province of Zeeland, Charles V and Maximilian, a folding woodcut map of Zeeland, a small woodcut portrait of Charles V, a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the verso of the last leaf, and 6 mostly full-page woodcut coats of arms of Maximilian, the province of Zeeland, and of the cities Middelburg, Veere, Zierikzee and Cortgene in the text, further with numerous decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [194] ll. Full description

ROBIDÉ VAN DER AA, Christianus Petrus Eliza . Oud-Nederland in de uit vroegere dagen, overgeblevene burgen en kasteelen geschetst en afgebeeld.
Nijmegen, C.A. Vieweg, 1841-1846. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 72 full-page lithographed views of the old Dutch castles and mansions, mostly after designs by J.F. Christ. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled purplish-blue half calf. Each plate is accompanied by 8 to 20 pages of description and historical notes. Full description

ROSEN VON ROSENSTEIN, Nils. Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras bote-medel: tilförene styckewis utgifne uti de små allmanachorna, nu samlade, tilökte och förbättrade.
Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1764. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut gothic initials and cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Contemporary half calf. [2], 363, [11] pp. Full description

SANTINI, Giuseppe. Picenorum mathematicorum elogia.
Macerata, Bartolomeo Capitani, 1779. 4to. With a woodcut ornament on the title page, 1 illustration in the text, 23 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red mottled edges. XVI, 112 pp. Full description

[SENETERRE, Henri-Charles de]. Nouveaux contes de fées.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. XVI, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BODONI]. SOPHOCLES and Giambatista GIUSTI (editor). Edipo Coloneo ... recata in versi Italiani dal Cavaliere Giambatista Giusti.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With: GIUSTI, Giambatista. All'Amica. Odi ... Terza edizione riveduta e corretta dall'autore.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. Contemporary orange boards. [4], LI, [1 blank], 170, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 87, [1 blank] pp. Full description

THEOPHILUS ANTECESSOR and Jacobus CURTIUS (translator). Institutionum juris civilis libri quatuor ... è Graeco in Latinum per D. Iac. Curtium Brugensem Iurisconsultum conversi, ac iterum excusi.
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1539. 8vo (15.4 x 10.4 cm). With a large woodcut folding table at the end, a woodcut device of Steelsius on the recto of the otherwise blank last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 221, [3] ll. Full description