History, Law & Philosophy

TOMASINI, Jacopo Filippo. De Tesseris Hospitalitatis. Liber singularis.
Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1670. With a frontispiece by Abraham Bloteling depicting travellers, 2 folding engraved plates and engravings in text, some of which are full-page.
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TOMASINI, Jacopo Filippo. Titus Livius Patavinus.
Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1670. With a printer's device on title-page,engraving on title, 2 folding
engraved plates including a portrait, 1 engraving in text. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in ink on spine. [12], 227, [25]; 125, [17] pp. Full description

[TORINUS (THORER), Albanus (ed).]. De re medica huic volumini insunt...
[Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528]. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on final page, 2 pages with 4-piece decorative woodcut borders and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century half calf, with marbled paper in a tree pattern on sides, gold-tooled spine with the coat of arms of the Russian Tsars. [12], 125, [1] ll. Full description

TORNBERG, Carl Johan. Numi Cufici regii numophylacii Holmiensis, quos omnes in terra Sueciae repertos.
Uppsala, Leffler and Sebell, 1848. 4to. With 14 lithographed plates. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth. [6], LXXXVIII, 315, [1] pp. Full description

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus. Elucidarius carminu[m] et historiaru[m] vel vocabularius poeticus co[n]tine[n]s fabulas: historias: provincias: urbes: insulas: fluvios: et montes illustres.
(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann, 1510. 4to. 19th-century blind-tooled red morocco, with a gold-tooled centre-piece on both sides, title, date and location of printing lettered in gold on the spine, gold- and blind-tooled broad turn-ins, gilt edges, blue endpapers. [1 blank], [60], [1 blank] ll. Full description

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der BEKE). Elucidarius poeticus co[n]tinens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas regiones, urbes, fluvios, mo[n]tesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, ...
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1527. With the title in an elaborate woodcut border.
With: (2) [FIOCCHI, Andrea Dominico (Andras Dominicus FLOCCUS)] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus.
[Cologne, Hero Fuchs, 1527]. With the title in a finely cut 4-piece woodcut border. 2 editions in 1 volume. 8vo. 16th-century(?) limp vellum (formerly used for a slightly thinner book). The binding is an interesting example of a spine reinforced with a horizontal metal rod at the central sewing support to give more support and prevent the bookblock from becoming concaved or developing sharp kinks; probably bound in Flanders. [88]; [88] ll. Full description

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der BEKE). Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, montesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, omnib[us] adolescentibus in poesi versantibus oppidoquam necessarius, ...
Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus (colophon: Godefried Hittorp), July 1529. With the title in an elaborate woodcut architectural border with the Cologne coat of arms in the head, the death of Cleopatra in the foot, further figures in the right and left sides and 3 putti, one holding a shield with a monogram or mark, perhaps of the artist or woodblock cutter. Set in roman types with 8 and 14 mm roman capitals used as initials.
With: (2) FREUDENBERG, Aethon Johann von. De abusu & impostura medicantiu[m] libellus perquam utilis jucundusq[ue] omnibus, quibus cum medicis erit negocium.
Marburg, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1538. With 1 woodcut decorated initial (white on black with floral decoration) and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 7). Set in roman type with the dedication in an Aldine-style italic and with occasional words in Greek.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?), sewn on 4 supports, red edges, first title lettered in ink in the second spine compartment. [85], [1 blank]; [23] ll. Full description

[TRANSVAAL ROYAL COMMISSION]. Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into and report upon all matters relating to the settlement of the Transvaal territory. Part 1[-2].With:- Further correspondence respecting the affairs of the Transvaal and adjacent territories.- Further correspondence respecting the affairs of the Bechuanaland and adjacent territories.- Report of the commissioners appointed to determine land claims and to effect a land settlement in British Bechuanaland.- Correspondence respecting the affairs of Pondoland [3 parts].
London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1882-1888. 2 volumes. Folio. With a total of 21 folding lithographed maps, many coloured in outline. Contemporary brown cloth. 249, [1]; 121, [1]; VI, 58; VI, 129, [1]; [2], 97, [1]; IV, 25, [1]; XI, [1 blank], 187, [1]; IV, 19, [1] pp. Full description

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaaten, gemaackt en geslooten tusschen de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre ende verscheyde koningen, princen en potentaaten ter andere zyde. Eerste deel.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [between 1742 and 1759]. 4to. With a general title page, followed by an index and 73 treaties, nearly all with their own title page containing the original imprint and a woodcut of the Dutch lion (the arms of the States General) and a few with Van Wouw's printer's device of a snail with the motto "Avec le temps paulatim". Contemporary vellum, straight-sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, with manuscript title on spine. Full description

[FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Tractaat van commercie, navigatie en marine gemaakt, geslooten en vastgestelt to Versailles den 21 December 1739. Tusschen Syne Majesteit van Vrankryk, en de Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740. 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial.19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description

[TREATY - FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Traité de commerce, navigation & marine, fait, conclu & arrêté a Versailles le 21 Decembre de lan 1739, entre sa Majesté Tres-Chretienne, & les Seigneurs Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies du Pais-Bas.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial. 19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description