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

ANDREAE, Johann Gerhard R. Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschrieben, in dem Jare 1763.
Zurich and Winterthur, Johann Casper Fussli the younger, 1776. 4to. With engraved map of Switzerland on the title-page, 10 engravings in the text, and 18 engraved plates (including 3 folding), partly signed by Joh. Rod. Schellenberg, the first being a large folding plate by J. R. Holzhalb after J. C. Vogler of the wooden roofed bridge of Schaffhausen. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges. XXII, "245"[=345], [3] pp. Full description

AQUINAS, Thomas. Super quarto libro Sententiarum (Petri Lombardi).
(Colophon:) Venice, Leonardus Wild, 18 March 1478]. Folio. The text is rubricated throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on four supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, and with the author and title lettered in black ink on the front board. Re-backed, with part of the original spine (containing the author, title, and year lettered in gold) laid down in the second compartment, original brass catch- and anchorplates and clasps, with the leather part of the clasp renewed, and red sprinkled edges. [386] ll. 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

[BIBLE - CLEMENTINE VULGATE - MINIATURE]. Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis. Sixti V Pont. M. jussu recognita, et Clementis VIII auctoritate edita.
Cologne [= Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu?], for Balthsar ab Egmond & Sociorum, 1670; sold in Paris, Fr. Leonard, 1670. 6 volumes. 16mo. With 6 engraved title pages (an engraved general title in vol. 1, and a separate title in vols. 1-5), several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, housed in two slip cases (3 volumes in each). [48], 358; 446; 456; 528; 488; 81, [118] 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

[BOOK OF HOURS]. Heures nouvelles dédiées a Madame la Dauphine. Contenant les offices, vespres, hymnes, & proses de lEglise ...
Paris, widow of Gourault & François Nivelle (colophon:) printed by Pierre Le Mercier, 1686. 4to. With 6 full-page engravings, coloured by a contemporary hand and highlighted in gold, a small woodcut ornament on the title page, the text on the title page and at the start of each chapter is highlighted in blue and gold, the majoritiy of the woodcut headpieces are highlighted in gold (and blue). Further with several woodcut tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials (highlighted in gold and blue) throughout. Near contemporary red morocco. [16], 558, [2] pp. Full description