History, Law & Philosophy

CARACCIOLI, Antonio and Francesco BOLVITO (editor). De Sacris Ecclesiae Neapolitanae Monumentis Liber Singularis ... Opus posthumum Francisci Bolviti ... Studio, et industria in lucem editum. Qui cuncta digessit: stylum alicubi mutavit: omissas ab Auctore curas secundas adiecit: et innumeras penè hiantes lacunas implevit.
Naples, Ottavio Beltrani, 1645. Folio. With large engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Pope Innocent X on the title page, 2 half-page engravings of the martyrdom of S. Maximus Levita from Cumma (5th century; ca. 153 x 103 mm), many woodcut tailpieces and initials.19th-century half vellum. [20], 365, [14], [1 blank] pp. Full description

CARBEN, Johannes Petrus von. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de beneficio cessionis vulgo vom weiblichen Recht.
Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1727. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, blind-tooled spine, gold-tooled sides, gilt edges; with a later crowned cypher ainted in silver on the front board and a coat of arms painted in silver on the back. [4], 62 pp. Full description

[CARDUCCI, Alessandro, Giovanni Andrea MONIGLIA, and Stefano DELLA BELLA]. Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cav allo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.
Florence, Nella stamperia di S.A.S., 1661. 4to. With 3 fold-out engravings, 1 woodcut initial, and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], 7-66, [2 blank] pp. Full description

CARPENTIER, Jean-Baptiste le. Histoire généalogique de la noblesse des Païs-Bas, ou histoire de Cambray, et du Cambresis, contenant ce qui sy est passé sous les empereurs, & les rois de France & dEspagne ...
Leiden, for the author, 1668 (part titles: 1663-1664). 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With the general title of both volumes printed in red and black, with a hand coloured coat of arms on the verso, a large folding engraved map of North-West France, a hand coloured large folding plate of Cambrai nobles with their coats of arms, and 27 hand coloured coats of arms of 21 families (22 full-page, 5 half-page). 18th-century gold-tooled marbled polished calf. [16], 534; 344, [1], [1 blank]; [2], 345-1110; 99, [25] pp. Full description

CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.
Lyons, Etienne Michel (colophon: printed by Guichard Julliéron), 1581 (colophon: August). 4to. With Michel's woodcut publishers device on the title-page (an Ottoman man and a fruit tree with motto "virtutes sibi invicem adhaerent"), a full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier, a small woodcut illustration and 89 beautiful large woodcuts (13 x 9.5 cm) of classical mythological gods and heroes in the text. Modern sheepskin parchmen. [8], 359, [57] pp. Full description

[CARVALHO, Bernardo Teixeira Coutinho Álvares de]. Observações sobre o voto, que Domingos Alves Branco Moniz Barreto, como eleitor da parochia do Sacramento da Corte do Rio de Janeiro apresentou no dia 25 de dezembro de 1821 na junta eleitoral para a installação do governo desta provincia. Nas quaes se mostra, que semelhante voto he contrario ao pacto social da nação portugueza, e aos direitos, e liberdade das provincias do Brasil, escriptas ror [!] hum amigo da união, e da justiça.
Lisbon, Na Typographia de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1822. 4to (ca. 20 x 14 cm). 20th-century gold-tooled brown morocco. 65, [3 blank] pp. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.
[Vienna or Venice?], 1785. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary blue-grey marbled wrappers. LXX, [2 blank] pp. Full description

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases. [4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp. Full description

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Garnier frères, [1880]. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 145 full-page engravings, the wrappers and titles of each volume are printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled half morocco by Lambert, marbled paper sides, the title, author, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, surrounded by a gold-tooled frame with onlaid morocco ornaments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. [6], XVII, [1 blank], 507, [1 blank]; [6], 530, [4]; [6], 516; [6], 533, [3]; [6], 569, [3]; [6], 563, [1]; [6], 567, [1 blank]; [6], 551, [3] pp. Full description

CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
The Hague, Van Cleef brothers, 1865. 8vo. With a wood-engraved device on the title page and 5 tinted lithographed folding maps. Modern half sheepskin, with the original publisher's wrappers (with Dutch flag on front and back, coloured by hand) bound in. XII, [2], 150 pp. Full description