Highlights

[HUYSUM, Michiel van]. [Watercolour with fruits on paper].
[Netherlands, ca. 1733-1777]. 18.5 x 30.5 cm. Watercolour on paper with a branch of redberries, two peaches, a blue plum, an opened walnut, an opened hazel nut and a large green/blue pumpkin. Full description

JEANNIN, Pierre. Les negotiations de monsieur le President Jeannin.
Paris, Pierre Petit, 1656. Folio. With an engraved vignette on the title page, a full-page portrait of Jeannin R. Nanteuil, several decorated woodcut initials, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [12], 757, [11] pp. Full description

[JESUITS - EMBLEMS]. Imago primi saeculi Societas Iesu a provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraesentata.
Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1640. Folio. With an engraved title page and 126 engraved emblems, including the Leo Belgicus map. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, remnants of clasps, 4 small brass corner pieces. (8), 952, (22) pp. Full description

JOUSSE, Mathurin. Le theatre de l'art de c[h]arpentier enrichi de diverses figures avec linterpretation dicelles faict & dresse par Mathurin Jousse.
La Fleche, Georges Griveau, 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a richly engraved title page, 125 woodcut illustrations (7 double page, 118 full-page), and 5 large half-page woodcuts in the main work; 2 general perspectival model designs on 2 full-page plates, and 5 half-page woodcuts in the treatise.
Including: [IDEM]. Brief traicte des cinq ordres des colomnes. 19th-century gold-tooled green half morocco, with the author, title, year of publication, and bookbinder (Vogel) lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers. [4], "176" [= 172]; 14 pp. Full description

JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.
Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges. 64 ll. Full description

KÖNIG, Franz Niklaus & Gabriel LORY & OTHERS. Nouvelle collection de costumes Suisses de XXII cantons. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen.
Zürich, bey Orell, Füssli und Comp., [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, separated by tissue paper guards, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary gold-tooled red paper 223, [4] pp. Full description

LA CHAPELLE, Vincent. Le cuisinier moderne, qui apprend à donner toutes sortes de repas, en gras & en maigre, dune manière plus délicate que ce qui en a été écrit jusquà present; divisé en cinq volumes (...)
The Hague, for the author ["Aux dépens de lauteur"], 1742. 5 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With the title page of each part printed in red and black, 13 large folding engraved plates, of which 1 has been printed on 4 attached leaves and is exceptionally large (ca. 28 x 150 cm), 5 folding printed text-leaves, and a woodcut armorial headpiece.
Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 (vols. 1 and 2) or 4 (vol. 3) supports laced through the joints, red edges. [12], 261, [1 blank], [15]; [4], 258, [14]; [4], 288, [16]; [4], 313, [1 blank], [20]; [10], 346, [13] pp. Full description

LANGENDIJK, Pieter. De stad Kleef, haar gezondheidbron, en omleggende landsdouwen, in kunstprenten verbeeld.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1747. 4to. With a title-vignette with the Iron man and the amphitheatre in Cleve, and 10 engraved plates (5 folding, 5 double-page plates) by Hendrikus Spilman after Jan de Beijer. Contemporary half calf. [1], [1 blank], 63, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Opuscules physiques et chymiques.
Paris, Laurent François Prault for Durand neveu (Pierre Etienne Germain), François Ambroise Didot le jeune, & Jacques Esprit, 1774. 2 parts in 1 volume [= all published]. 8vo. With several fine woodcut borders, head- and tailpieces, some tables in the text, and 23 figures on three folding plates by and after Pierre-Claude de la Gardette (1745-1792). Contemporary marbled calf. [1], [1 blank], II, XXX, [1], [1 blank], "436" [= 448] pp. Full description

LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriaensz. Haarlemmermeer-boek. Of beschryving, hoe men de Haarlemmer en Leytse-Meer bedyken en droog maken zal ... Mitsgaders: van meest alle de meeren die in Noort-Holant tegen den Huigen-dyk en Saardam bedykt, en tot land gemaakt zyn, zedert het jaar 1608 tot het jaar 1641.
Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved map of the Haarlemmermeer on the title page of ad 1, and a woodcut vignette on the title pages of the other works, a full-page portrait of the author engraved by Jan Lamsvelt after J. de Keyser, 3 folding engraved maps, 3 half-page engraved plates, 2 half-page woodcut diagrams, several decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. With: (2) LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriansz., Een kleyn chronykje ende voorbereidinge van de afkomste ende t vergoten van de dorpen van Graft en de Ryp ...
Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724.
(3) COLEVELDT, Claes Arentsen. Bedenckingen over het droogh maken van de Haerlemmer ende Leydse Meer ... tegen tHaarlemmer Meer-boek van Jan Adriaansen Leeghwater.
Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1727.
(4) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer.
Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727.
(5) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat, van de Haerlemmer Meer. Waar in wert aangetoont hoe noodszaakelyk die moet werden droog-gemaakt, en op wat wyze dit kan geschieden ... Tweeden druk, ... verbetert en verrykt.
Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727. Original quarter red roan, marbled paper sides. 48, 47, [1], [4], 27, [1 blank], 40, 40 pp. Full description