Highlights

HEEMSKERCK, Maarten van. [The seven planets].
[Antwerp], Hieronymus Cock, [ca. 1568]. With 7 engraved plates (ca. 22.5 x 26.5 cm). Each engraving is tipped onto a passepartout (ca. 50 x 38.8 cm). Full description

HELYOT, Pierre. Histoire des ordres religieux et militaires, ainsi que des congrégations séculières de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont été établies jusqu'à présent ...
Paris, Louis, 1792. 8 volumes. 4to. With 812 full-page hand-coloured engravings, along with woodcut devices on the title pages and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, volume number set within black circular label, the initials "P.W.S." lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers. Each volume around 400-500 pp. Full description

HOBBES, Thomas [and Samuel de SORBIÈRE (translator)]. Le corps politique ou les elements de la loy morale & civile. Avec des reflections sur la loy de nature, sur les serments, les pacts, & les diverses sortes de gouvernemens; leurs changemens, & leurs revolutions.
Leiden, Jean & Daniel Elsevier, 1653. 12mo. With Elzeviers woodcut device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. Early to mid-18th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [1], [1 blank], [4], [2 blank], 231, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HOBBES, Thomas and Abraham van BERKEL (translator). Leviathan: of van de stoffe, gedaente, ende magt van de kerkelycke ende wereltlycke regeeringe.
Amsterdam, Jacobus Wagenaar, "1667" [= 1672 (engraved title page)]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved portrait of Thomas Hobbes, and a folding table on the classification of sciences. 18th-century sprinkled paper over contemporary gold-tooled calf. [16], 744, [64] pp. Full description

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528.
With:
(2) IDEM. Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked. 183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll. Full description

HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon and Jacob vander BURGH (ed.). Gedichten.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1636.
With: (2) HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon. Henrik de Gróte. Zijn leven en bedrijf. Naerder overzien, ende vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1638. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work, an engraved portrait of Pieter Dirkszoon Hasselaer in the text, and 30 engraved emblems by Christoffel le Blon in ad 1, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik de Grote in ad 2, and several decorated woodcut initials, head-, and tailpieces in both works. Contemporary vellum. [2 blank], [6], "464" [= 460]; [8], 203, [5] pp. Full description

HOUSTOUN (of Clerkington), Colonel Alexander. [Fungi painted by Colonel Houstoun of Clerkington].
[Inverness, 1862-1863]. 4to (25 x 18 cm). With 41 watercolours of fungi on paper or card, most approximately 20 x 12 cm (sheet size), and 1 watercolour of a butterfly. Contemporary brown morocco over boards, rebacked with "FUNGI" stamped in gold on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. [2], 41, [5 blank] ll. Full description

[HULLE, Anselmus]. [Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati].
[Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649]. Folio. With 76 full-page engraved portraits mounted onto the leaves of an album, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2), and 2 unsigned, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [76] ll. Full description

HUNTER, John. Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur ... Anglice consscripta; a Johanne Huntero ... In linguam Latinam et Batavam versa a Petro Boddaert / Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd worden. Uit het Engelsch in het Latyn en Nederduitsch vertaald; door Pieter Boddaert.
Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1773. 4to. With 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption ("Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson"). Contemporary tree-marbled boards. XXII, 213, [1] pp. Full description

HUYGENS, Christiaan. Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae.
Paris, François Muguet, 1673. Folio. With a full-page woodcut of the pendulum on A2v, approximately 100 woodcut diagrams in the text, a woodcut coat of arms of Louis XIV on the title page, and several woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges. [14], 161, [1] pp. Full description