Highlights

[ESTAING, Charles Hector count d' (subject)]. Extrait du journal d'un officier de la marine de l'escadre de M. le comte d'Estaing.
[Paris?], 1782. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles Henry Comte d'Estaing, a woodcut device on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary grey wrappers. 126 pp. Full description

ESTIENNE, Robert (editor). Tῆò Káéíῆò ÄéáèÞêçò ἅπáíôá [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] | Novum Testamentum.
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546. 2 volumes. 16mo (12 x ca. 7.5 cm). With Estienne's woodcut devices: the basilisk on both title pages and the olive tree on the otherwise blank last page of volume 2. Further with several woodcut decorated headpieces and initials. 18th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spines with the French (part) title lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, green and gold decorated endpapers. 528; 361, [3] pp. Full description

EUCLID and Christopher CLAVIUS (editor). Elementorum Libri XV.
Including: Posteriores libri IX.
"Cologne" [= Venice], Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1591. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. The title page of each part is set within an elaborate woodcut border, with woodcut decorated initials (at least 3 series), headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, numerous woodcut mathematical figures in the text, large woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank verso of the last leaf of both parts. Later blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [15], [1 blank], 359, [1 blank]; 355, [1 blank], [40] pp. Full description

FAUCHARD, Pierre. Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remédier à leur maladies, à celles des gencives, & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers.
Paris, chez Servieres, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by J.B. Scotin after a painting by J. le Bel, and 42 full-page engraved plates with illustrations of teeth, dentures, artificial teeth, protheses, and a large variety of dental instruments. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled tree-marbled calf. XXIV, 494, [8], [2 blank]; [20], 424 pp. Full description

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description

FILELFO, Francesco. Satyrarum hecatostichon prima decas.
(Colophon:) Milan, Christophorus Valdarfer, 13 November 1476. 4to. With most of the initial spaces filled with simple manuscript initials in brown ink. 19th-century vellum. [149] ll. Full description

FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.
Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description

FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.
Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates, by Benard. Contemporary mottled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description

FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Johannes le. Natuurlyke historie van Holland.
Amsterdam and Leiden, Yntema & Tieboel, 1769-1811. 9 parts in 16 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait, a hand-coloured engraved map, 78 engraved plates, mostly folding, including one beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, and 12 folding tables. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper sides. [4], 513, [1]; [8], 342; [4], 343-962, [2]; [2], 963-1257, [43]; [8], 333; [4], 335-1094; [4], 1095-1330; [4], 1331-1782; [2], 1783-2078, [1]; [4], 314;[10], VIII, 320; [8], 470; [7], 375;[8], 425; [8], 526; [8], 470 pp. Full description

FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Johannes le. Zinspelende gedigjes, op de geestige printjes ge-etst door Pieter de Mare, na de teekeningen van mejuffrouw Christina Chalon.
Leiden, Frans de Does, 1779. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author and 32 etched illustrations by Pieter de Mare after Christina Chalon. Splendid contemporary (late 18th-century) gold-tooled red morocco, with a smooth spine, bound by the so-called Second Dissertation Bindery (Leiden ca. 1780-ca. 1794; Storm van Leeuwen IIA, pp. 350-358). Both boards show two gold-tooled connected floral frames (all the same roll) with 4 corner pieces on the inside of the inner frame and a large lozenge shaped centrepiece built up from multiple impressions of 3 different floral stamps. Further with a gold-tooled spine and board edges, marbled endpapers. 32 pp. Full description