Highlights

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus and Caspar VOLLAND (editor). Longe elegantissima oratio de nativitate Christi ... Heydelbergae dicta. Ann. A Christo nato M.CCCC.LXXXVI.
Tübingen, (colophon) Ulrich Morhart, 1527. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern marbled boards. [8], [10 blank] ll. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Almanac généalogique pour lan 1787 avec lapprobation de lAcadémie Royale des sciences et belles lettres à Berlin.
Berlin, George Jacques Decker, [1786]. 24mo (10.7 x 6.2 cm). With an engraved portrait of Princess Frederique of Prussia by C. Tounley after Cuningham, dated 1786 as a frontispiece. This is printed on one double-leaf with the engraved title page. Further with a folding engraved map (13 x 18.2 cm) by D.F. Soltzmann after C.L. Oesfeld (1785) showing the projected Kiel Canal, 12 numbered etchings illustrating the 12 months of the calendar by Daniel Chodowiecki. Text of all pages printed within a frame with small corner pieces. Contemporary German embroidered binding: ivory silk over boards, sides purled with (blackened) silver threat, a double row of silver sequins enclosing on the front cover the embroidered year "1787" within a wreath of silver thread hanging on an embroidered knot and on the back cover a basket with colored flowers also hanging on a knot, spine ornamented with silver thread, gilt edges. [240] pp. Full description

[ASTRONOMY - APIAN and others]. S.D.V.B (compiler). Een nieu constich boeck inde geometrie en de astronomiae, voor desen noyt in druck gheweest, ende is in ses stucken afghedeylt ...
(Colophon:) Rees, Abraham Wijlicx, 1608. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With a half-page woodcut illustration and some decorations built up from typographic ornaments on the title-page, 74 woodcuts of various sizes in text, many (near) full- and half-page, with some woodcut decorated initials (various series), a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on four supports laced through the joints. 111, [1] pp. Full description

[BARNAUD, Nicolas]. Le miroir des Francois, compris en trois livres. contenant l'estat et maniement des affaires de France ... Et generalement tous les secrets qu'on a peu recueillir pour l'ébelissement, & enrichissement du royaume, & soulagement du public. Le tout mis en dialogues par Nicolas De Montand. A la royne regnante.
[Geneva/France?], 1581.
Bound after: (2) [Nicolas BARNAUD], Le cabinet du Roy de France, dans lequel il y a trois perles precieuses d'inestimable valeur: par le moyen desquelles sa maiesté s'en va le premier monarque du monde, et ses suiets du tout soulagez.
[Geneva/France?], 1582. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Ad 2 with a small woodcut initial. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [7], "497" [=495], [1 blank]; [16], 647, [1 blank], [10], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[BEER, Johann Christoph]. Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung deß Königreichs Franckreich. Welcher Gestalt nemlich selbiges in 12. Haupt-Theile, oder Provintzien und Gouvernementen eingetheilet wird ... was vor Städte, Schlösser und Vestungen darinnen befindlich ... Alles durch Beyhülffe bewährter Scribenten vorgestellet.
Frankfurt and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1689. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, and 116 (4 folding, 112 full-page) engraved bird's eye views of French cities. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a manuscript shelf mark on the spine, a central ornament on both boards surrounded by a floral border, the initials "M Z" and year "1690" lettered in gold on the front board, remnants of clasps, dark blue edges. [6], 1095, [17] pp. Full description

BODIUS, Hermann. Unio dissidentium, omnibus unitatis & pacis amatoribus utilissima, ex praecipuis Ecclesiae Christianae doctoribus ... selecta, & iam denuo aucta & locupletata ...
(Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Gymnich, September 1531. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. [32], 539, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOUTTATS, Gaspar (engraver). Korte en nette beschryvinghe van de koninckrycken Hongheryen en Dalmatien, Midts-gaeders de vorstendommen van Sevenberghen, Wallachien, Moldavien, Burgarien, etc. ...
Antwerpen, Hendrick van Dunewalt and Gasper Bouttats, 1688.
With: (2) [BOUTATTS Gaspar (compiler) and Vincenzo Maria CORONELLI (engraver)]. Korte, beknoopte, en nette beschryvinghe van het koninck-ryck Morea. ...
Antwerpen, Hendrick van Dunwalt and Gaspar Bouttats, [ca. 1685?].
Oblong 8vo (ca. 12 x 19 cm). With 82 full-page engraved plates (44 in ad 1 and 38 (including 1 folding) in ad 2). Contemporary gold-tooled calf (or sheepskin), sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. 47, [1 blank] and 44 engraved plates; [1], [1 blank], 24 pp. and 38 engraved plates. Full description

BRY, Theodor de. [The small voyages in Latin].
Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, Matthaeus Becker, 1598-1613. 10 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for each part, 11 maps (folding and double-page), 243 engraved plates (double-page, full-page and in text), and numerous decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum with overlapping fore edge, the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of closing ties. Full description

BULLINGER, Heinrich. Von dem unverschampten Fraefel ergerlichem Verwyrren unnd unwarhafftem Leeren der selbsgesandten Widertoeuffer vier Gespraech Buecher ... Ein gueter Bericht vonn Zinsen. Ouch ein schoene Underwysung von Zaehenden.
(Colophon:) Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1531. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (14.6 x 9.5 cm). With woodcut decorated initials throughout. 19th-century vellum. [8], CLXXVIII ll. Full description

CAVRETTO, Pietro. Anterotica sive De amoris generibus.
(Colophon: Treviso, Gerardus de Lisa, 13 Oct. 1492). 4to. Modern blind-tooled burgundy morocco,housed in a burgundy cloth slipcase. [VI], XCVII ll. Full description