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BARGAGLI, Scipione. Dell' imprese die Scipion Bargagli ... Alla prima parte, la seconda, e la terza nucoamente aggiunte.
Venice, Francesco de Franceschi, 1594. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With oval engraved device on title-page, full-page engraved portrait of Rudolf II, full-page engraved dedicatory emblem, and 138 engraved oval emblems in text. 19th-century half sheepskin parchment. [24], “573” [=604], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BASAN, Pierre-François (engraver). Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosites dans les sciences et arts, qui composoient le cabinet de feu Mr. Mariette Controleur général de la Grande Chancellerie de France, honoraire Amateur de l'Academie Rle. de Peinture, et de celle de Florence.
Paris, the author and G. Desprez, 1775. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, an engraved title page, 4 engraved plates (3 full-page, 1 folding), and 1 folding leaf with extensive engraved notes on one of the objects. Further with woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century marbled paper over boards. XVI, 418 pp. Full description

BATE, George and James SHIPTON. Pharmacopoea Batheana. Ofte den apotheek van de heer Georgius Bath ...
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1698. 12mo. With an engraved title-page by Jan Luyken. 19th-century marbled wrappers. 6, [8], 242, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BATE, Georgius. Pharmacopea Bateana, na qual se contem quasi oytocentos medicamentos tirados da pratica de Jorge Batea ... escrita pela ordem alphabetica, Traduzida de Lati mem Portuguez ... por D. Caetano de S. Antonio ...
Lisbon, Officina real Deslandesiana, 1713. 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Calf over boards. (8), 310 pp. Full description

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VÅGEN - VOC]. Zee-journael, ofte autentijcq verhael, uyt d'annotatien van de heeren haer hoogh-mogende volmachtighde inde vloot, der doorluchtighste geunieerde Republique, en andere schriften, aengaende al het ghepasseerde, 't zedert 't vertreck van de vloot uyt Spanjaerts-gat na de Noort, tot het wederkeeren voor Goeree, met alle voorvallen in zee, ontmoetingen, ghevecht in Noorwegen, tempeesten, en wat in 't generael en particulier voorgevallen en geschiedt is, van den 13 juny tot den 6 octob. 1665.
[Amsterdam?, Jacobus Venckel?], 1665. 4to. With an ornamental woodcut title-vignette. Contemporary half vellum, marbled sides. 35, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. BAUDIN, Charles. [Collection of 14 signed, mostly autograph letters].
Toulon, 1842-1849. 8vo and 4to. Letters in black and brown ink on paper (11 with the "prefecture maritime" letterhead), 1 with its original envelope and 3 originally folded, addressed and sealed for posting without an envelope. Full description

[BAVARIA - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Pharmakopoe für das Königreich Bayern. Neue Bearbeitung. Auf königlichen Befehl herausgegeben.
München, Johann Palm, 1856. Large 8vo. With the royal coat-of-arms of Bavaria on the title-page. Half light brown buckram. XII, 378 pp. Full description

[ALGERIA - BAZÁN, Alvaro de]. Relacion de la interpressa, y saquea miento de la villa del carte en Africa, por el excelentissimo senor D. Aluaro Bacan Marqnes del Viso, general de la escuadra de las galeras de Sicilia, governador, y capitan general de Oran, y macalquibir, aveinte de febrero, deste ano de 1642.
Madrid, Juan Sanchez, 1642. Folio (28 x 20.6 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial. Unbound. [2] ll. Full description

BECCARIA, Giambatista. Dell' elettricismo artificiale, e naturale libri due.
Torino, Filippo Antonio Campana, 1753. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 6 decorated woodcut initials, 8 headpieces (3 woodcut, 5 made up of typographical ornaments), and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 245, [1] pp. Full description

BECKER, Wilhelm Gottlieb (editor). Der plauische Grund bei Dresden, mit Hinsicht auf Naturgeschichte und schöne Gartenkunst.
Nuremberg, Frauenholzischen Kunsthandlung, 1799. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved folding plan, and 24 engraved plates, including 8 hand-coloured. Early 19th-century green half morocco. XII, 128; [4], 120 pp. Full description