Highlights

AGRICOLA, Daniel [and Urs GRAF (illustrator)]. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi s[ecundu]m serie[m] q[ua]ttuor eva[n]gelistaru[m].
(Colophon: Basel, Adam Petri de Langendorff, 31 July 1514). 4to. With large woodcut (12 x 9.5 cm) on title-page and 20 small woodcuts in text (ca. 4.5 x 3.5 cm), all by Urs Graf. Modern light-brown calf. 39, [1] ll. Full description

ALLARD, Carel. Niewe[!] Hollandse scheeps-bouw, vertoonende een volmaakt schip ... noch een doorgesnede schip ... voorts allerhande scheeps vlaggen.
Amsterdam, Carel Allard, 1705. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 208 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding, 23 double-page, 184 single page), the title pages of volume 1 and 2 are printed in red and black. Modern gold- and blind-tooled vellum (mimicking contemporary style), a black paper label on the spine with the title and author lettered in gold, green closing ties, dark blue edges. The work is kept in a marbled paper and brown book cloth clamshell box, with a brown paper label on the spine. 56; 72; [8] pp. Full description

AMPZING, Samuel. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. in rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude en nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kronijken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen, ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd, ende bevestigd. Mitsgaders Petri Scriverii laure-kranz voor Laurens Koster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boek-druckerye. de voor-rede aen den leser geeft enig onderwijs van onse Nederduytsche sprake, ende spellinge, in desen gebruykt, onder den tytel ofte opschrift van Nederlandsch tael-bericht: handeld ook een weynig van rijm-konste, tot nut ende lust der weet-gierigen.
Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With large printer's device at the end of the first part and on title of the second part, richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with view of Haarlem at the top by T. Matham after I. Bouchorst, 3 full-page engraved plates, 1 with the coat-of-arms of Haarlem by J. van Velde, 1 with the seals of the city of Haarlem, and a view of a printing shop, both by J. van Velde after Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 11 double-page engraved plans and views of Haarlem by J. van Velde and W. Akersloot after designs by Saenredam, and 2 original full-page etchings by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam: of the Houses of Assumberg and of Berkenroede. Ad 2 With a full-page engraved portrait of Laurens Koster after J. van Campen and a second, different view of a printing shop. With:
(2) SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. (88), 520; 124, (6) p. Full description

BAUDEMENT, Émile. Les races bovines. Études zootechniques.
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, [1864]. 2 volumes (text & plates). Oblong folio (36 x 49.5 cm). With 5 hand-coloured maps and 87 numbered plates. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, gold-blocked boards with the note "offert par le Minstre de l'Agriculture", gilt edges. [6], LXXIV, [2]; [4], [10] pp. Full description

BEATTIE, John Watt. [Album with 32 photographs of Tasmania].
Hobart, [ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (30 x 41cm). With 32 original photographs (ca. 17 x 23 cm), pasted on paperboard. Later gold-tooled red morocco. Full description

BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin CARON DE Vers de M. de Beaumarchais sur Ameliswert pres d'Utrecht au Marquis de Saint Simon.
[Amsterdam, ca. 1793]. Folio. Poem written on paper in brown ink in a regular cursive hand in two columns of 46 lines each on recto and finished on one column on verso with another 8 lines, followed by an "Envoi" of 22 lines. Folded. [2] pp. Full description

[BECH, Philipp (editor)]. De disciplina puerorum, recteque formandis eorum & studiis & moribus ...
Basel, Joannes Oporinus (colophon:) Bern, Samuel Apiarius, March 1556.
With: (2) [MOREL, Guillaume (editor)]. Graecorum veterum selectae brevesque epistolae.
Paris, Guillaume Morel, King's printer for Greek, 1562. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut device on the title page. The Greek text set in Claude Garamont's famous Grec du Roi and the Latin translation set in his Aldine-style italic. Richly gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700), each board with a border made from double fillets and a floral roll, diapered with fleurs-de-lis, the spine with a double-fillet border in each of the 6 compartments, the title in the 2nd and the others diapered with smaller fleurs-de-lis, gilt edges. 31, [21]; [16], "840" [= 804] pp. Full description

BESSON, Jacques. Art et moyen parfaict de tirer huyle et eaux, de tous medicaments simples & oleogineux.
Paris, pour Galiot du Pré, 1573. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 16 woodcut illustrations in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. Early to mid-19th-century half marbled calf. "31" [= 32] ll. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. Biblia. Dat is, de gantsche H. Schrift, grondelick ende trouwelick verduytschet.
Delft, Bruyn Harmansz. Schinckel (colophon: printed by Aelbrecht Heyndricksz.), 1590. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to (23.5 x 17.5 cm). With a general title page and three part-titles, each with the same woodcut device in a separate elaborately decorated cartouche, 3 engraved folding maps drawn by Petrus Plancius and executed by Baptista van Doetecum and ca. 20 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold panel-stamped and gold-tooled calf over wooden boards, with spectacular finely engraved silver furnishings: 8 corner pieces, 2 clasps, 2 catch plates and 2 anchor plates, the catch and anchor plates with four female virtues; the corner pieces engraved with winged heads that appear to represent the four compass winds; and each clasp with an oval martyrdom scene flanked by birds, all 14 pieces of silverwork with floral and other decoration and with their edges cut to decorative shapes. Each board has the same central rectangular panel-stamp (98 x 61 mm), with an oval scene of Charity or Love/Caritas, with strapwork decoration around the oval (containing the maker's initials B and H) and inside the rectangle; gilt and elaborately gauffered edges. Rebacked in gold-tooled calf. [20], 236; 92; 84; 108, [54] ll. Full description

[BIBLE - DUTCH - VULGATE]. Biblia sacra. Dat is de geheele heylighe schrifture bedeylt int out ende nieu Testament ...
Antwerp, (colophon: printed by Daniel Vervliet and Hendrik Swingen for) Jan I Moretus & Jan I van Keerberghen, 1599. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With an engraved title page (coloured by a contemporary hand with extensive use of gold) showing Moses on the left, David on the right, and the four evangelists below, and 90 woodcuts in the text of both the Old and the New Testament, all except one vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports, with brass catchplates, remnants of leather strap fastenings, brass corner pieces on all corners and a brass centrepiece on each board, all with brass bosses. [4], 410; [106] ll. Full description