Art, Architecture & Photography

BRUGGE, Geerard ter, and Willem GOEREE. Verligterie-kunde, of, regt gebruik der water-verwen. In welke desselfs kennis, en gebruik tot de schilderkunde, en de illuminatie of verligterie noodig zijnde, kortelijk geleerd word. Eertijds uytgegeven door den voortreflijken verligter Mr. Geerard ter Brugge. Ende nu tot nut der liefhebbers, doorgaans met noodige aanmerkingen vermeerderd, om neffens het illumineeren of afzetten, insonderheid het schilderen met water-verwen te oeffenen, ... Den derden druk.
Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1697. 8vo. With an engraved title. Modern half sheepskin parchment, marbled paper sides. 92 pp. Full description

BRUUN, Johan Jacob. Novus atlas Daniae eller Prospecter af alle hoved-og kiöbstaederne, af alle kongelige slotte, samt andre kongelige lyst-slotte og staeder udi begge konge-rigerne Dannemark og Norge og underliggende fyrstendömme. Iste tome af Siaelland.
Copenhagen, Johan Jacob Bruun, 1761[-ca. 1789?]. Oblong folio (26.5 x 40 cm), preliminaries upright folio, bound with foot folded in. With 60 engraved views, including one folding plate with a view of the Royal Castle near Copenhagen, engraved by Jonas Haas and Hans Quist after designs by Johan Jacob Bruun. Contemporary Danish mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine. [8] pp. text. Full description

BUIJS, Jacobus. [Set of 22 drawings and 1 engraving].
[Ca. 1781]. Various sizes. 22 washed pen and ink drawings and 1 engraving on paper. Mostly loose, nos. 8, 10, 20-23 pasted on paper support. Full description

BUNON, Robert. Essay sur les maladies des dents, ou l'on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne confirmation dès la plus tendre enfance, & d'en assurer la conservation tout le cours de la vie. Avec une lettre où l'on discute quelques opinions particulieres de l'auteur de l'orthopedie.
Paris, Briasson, Chaubert, et De Hansy, 1743. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 ornamental woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. With: IDEM. Dissertation sur un prejugé très-pernicieux, concernant les maux de dents qui surviennent aux femmes grosses.
Paris, Chaubert, Briasson, Nully, Prault, 1741. Contemporary gold- and blind tooled mottled brown calf. XII, 237, [3]; 20 pp. Full description

[BUONANNI, Filippo]. Verhandeling over de vernissen, waar in de wyze opgegeeven wordt, om 'er een toe te stellen, dat 't Chineesch vernis volmaakt gelykt: benevens verscheyde andere zaken rakende de schilderkunst, 't vergulden, 't etsen, etc. ...
Leiden, Jacobus Willeke, 1742. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, 4 full-page engraved plates illustrating the necessities for varnishing and lacquering. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers. 16, 218, [24] pp. Full description

[BURG, Dirk van der (formerly attributed to Nicolaas WICART)]. [View of Vianen across the river Lek with fishermen and their boats and houses in the foreground].
[North bank of the Lek River, near Vianen], [Ca. 1760/70]. Oblong Elephant 4to or possibly cut down oblong whole sheet (1mo) (19.5 x 31 cm). Original watercolour view on laid paper, looking southwest across the river, with Vianen in the background on the opposite bank, and a tree, houses, 11 people (mostly fishermen) and 3 fishing boats in the foreground. Mounted with 2 paper hinges on green laid paper in a passe partout (35 x 50 cm). Full description

BURNET, John. A practical treatise on painting. In three parts. Consisting of hints on composition, chiaroscuro, and colouring. The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools.
London, James Carpenter, 1826-1827. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 25 full-page partly handcoloured etched and aquatint plates with 105 reproductions by Burnet of famous paintings. Contemporary calf, covers blind-tooled in a checkered pattern, marbled edges. [4], 31, [1 blank]; VI, 45; V-IX, [3], 64 pp. Full description

[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. BURTON, Richard Francis. A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights' entertainments, now entituled the book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
Including: Supplemental nights.
[London?], Richard Burton Club, [ca. 1910]. 17 volumes. Royal 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With numerous illustrations (including the series by Albert Letchford), each repeated on laid paper (the 17 frontispieces repeated in colour). Contemporary half green morocco, gold-tooled spine. Full description

BUTRON, Juan Alonso de. Discursos apologeticos, en que se defiende la ingenvidad del arte de la pintura; que es liberal, de todos derechos, no inferior a las sie te que comunmente te se reciben.
Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1626. 4to. With an engraved architectural title-page by Juan Schorquens. Early 19th-century Spanish gold-tooled, sheepskin (root or maroquin pattern). [36], 122, [37] pp. Full description

BUTTURA, Antonio. Sonetti a Bonaparte.
Paris, Pierre Didot laîné, An VIII [after Floréal, so 1800]. 8vo. Finely printed on vellum. Contemporary long-grained and gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, each board with a frame made from a decorated roll with palm leaves between 2 fine-line fillets, the smooth spine with the title in the 2nd of 6 fields, an acorn with leaves in each of the others, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, light green watered silk endleaves. [2 blank], [1], [1 blank], [8], [4 blank] pp. Full description