Highlights

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

SACHS, Hans. Wie syben Weyber uber ihre ungeratene Menner klagen.
(Colophon:) Nuremberg, Hermann Hamsing, [ca. 1553].
With:
(2) IDEM. Der Teuffel lest kein Landsknecht mer inn die Helle faren.
(Colophon:) Nuremberg, Georg Merkel, 1559.
(3) IDEM. Drey guter nützlicher lehr einer Nachtigal.
Nuremberg, Valentin Neuber, [ca. 1560]. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work. Modern marbled boards. [4]; [4]; [4] ll. 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

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de]. Opera posthuma.
[Amsterdam, Israël de Paull], 1677.
Comprising:
(1) Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata.
(2) Tractatus politicus.
(3) Tractatus de intellectus emendatione.
(4) Epistolae doctorum quorundam virorum.
(5) Compendium grammatices linguae Hebraeae. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several woodcut figures in the text, 9 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern gold-tooled brown calf, with a dark red morocco title and author label on the spine, lettered in gold, the year of publication lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, red edges. [40], 614, [32]; [2], 112, [8] 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

VALERIUS, Cornelius. In universam benedicendi rationem tabula, summam artis rhetoricae complectens: recognita & emendatius excusa.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1573. 8vo (16.1 x 10.2 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VALERIUS, Cornelius Physicae, seu de naturae philosophia institutio.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. 8vo (16.1 x 10 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title, and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 103, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VALERIUS, Cornelius Grammaticarum institutionum libri IIII. I. De primis grammatices Latinae rudimentis. II. De etymologiae, seu analogia. III. De syntaxi, seu recta partium orationis consecutione. IIII. De carminum ratione, seu de versibus faciendis.
Including:
- II. De etymologiae, seu analogia.
- III. De syntaxi, seu recta partium orationis consecutione.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1575.
With: (2) IDEM. IIII. De carminum ratione, seu de versibus faciendis.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1573. 4 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (16.1 x 10.3 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on all 4 title pages, some woodcut initials throughout. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 94, [1], [1 blank]; 97-207, [1 blank]; 209-285, [1], [2 blank]; 259-287, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium exempla. adjecto indice propriorum nominum rerumq[ue] memoria dignarum locupletissimo
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535. 8vo (14.6 x 9.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end. Old half vellum. 237, [11] ll. Full description

VERMEULEN, Gerrit Gedenkwaardige voyagie van Gerret Vermeulen naar Oost-Indien, in't jaar 1668, aangevangen, en in't jaar 1674. voltrokken...
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1676. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 6 almost half-page engravings in the text, and a decorated woodcut initial. Modern blind-tooled sprinkled half calf. [4], 91, [1 blank] pp. Full description