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AGRICOLA, Rodolphus and TOSCANELLA, Orazio (translator). Della invention dialettica; Tradotto da Oratio Toscanella ... con alcune annotationi utilissime, & affronti importantissimi.
Venice, Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page and last leaf (variant), several historiated woodcut initials, tables in the text. Mid to late 19th century gold-tooled quarter calfl. [12], "290" [= 294], [2] pp. Full description

ALKEMADE, Cornelis van, and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Beschryving van de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn, behelzende, I. De beschryving zelf... II. De historie, genealogie, en successie van de heeren, en vrouwen van Voorn ... III. De politike regering, nevens de regten, ... mitsgaders de regtspleging ... omtrent het jaar MCCCC in de stad Briel, en 't Land van Voorn in gebruik geweest zynde. IV. De privilegien, octroyen ... betreffende de stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn ...
Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, a double-page plan of Den Briel, 3 folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne (each ca. 50 x 70.5 cm), and an additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called Stag Bindery in Rotterdam, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a black morocco author and title label on the spine lettered in gold, the coat of arms of Den Briel in the centre of both boards, surrounded by two ornamental borders, gold-tooled board edges, mottled edges. [28], 1-224, [8], 225-376; [8], 1-306, [20] pp. Full description

[ALLARD, Carel]. Koninglyke almanach: beginnende met den aanvang der oorlog, van anno 1701 .... Waer in duydelijk de loop der zon der ongeregtigheid, met zyn eclipsen, of de regtvaardige straf des heemels, door XVIII zinnbeelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word; ... | Almanach royal. Commencant[!] avec la guere de l'an 1701 jusques .... ou est exactement observé le cours du soleil d'injustice; avec ses eclips; ou la juste punition du ciel. Demonstré dans XVIII emblemes. ...
"Paris" [= Amsterdam], "imprimé â limprimerie royale du Petit Louis" [= Carel Allard, 1706?]. Small folio (32 x 21 cm). Engraved print series with an engraved title page and 24 engraved prints (9 single-page and 15 double-page; 18 bound in and 6 loosely inserted), the double-page prints with extensive letterpress text flanking and/or below the engraving. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Engraved title plus [25] engraved plates., some with letterpress text. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor den jaare 1777 (1778-1780, 1785-1788, 1790, 1791-1792). Bevattende eene beschryvinge der Provincie Zeeland ... Ten dienste der Jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden, voorzien met alle het noodige, behooorende tot een Almanach. Als mede veele byzonderheden betrekking hebbende tot de Provincie Zeeland.
Middelburg, Jan Dane (1777-1780); P. Gillissen & Zn. (1785-1788, 1790); W.A. Keel & Comp., (1791), 1777-1791. 11 volumes. 16mo. With an engraved emblematic frontispiece in each volume, 18 folding engraved maps, plans, and views, and 18 full-page engraved plates. With the 1777 volume included twice. The second volume in contemporary beige printed wrappers with the coat of arms of Zeeland with the title on the front, and the coat of arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back. Contemporary gold-tooled red, green, or brown morocco, with the coat of arms of Zeeland in a medallion in the centre of both boards, a banderol underneath with the title, both in an ornamental frame, gilt or marbled edges, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers in all except the first volume. Each ca. 200 pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Historische, geographische, konst- en reis almanach, voor den jaare 1779. Bevattende het voornaamste dat onder het opzigt van het Koninklyk Genootschap der Geleerden te Berlijn is uitgegeven. Overzien, en het nodige op de breette en lengte van Amsterdam overgebragt, als ook met eenige bijvoegselen vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, The widow Van Esveldt and Willem Holtrop, [1778].
With: [AMANAC]. Historische, geographische, konst- en reis almanach, voor den jaare 1783 ...
Amsterdam, Willem Holtrop, [1782]. 2 volumes. 12mo. Both volumes with an engraved title page within an ornamental border, an engraved page with the signs of the Zodiac, a folding map of Malakka, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo in vol. 1, and of the west coast of Africa in vol. 2, coloured in outlines, and 12 full-page engraved plates in the calendar. Contemporary sprinkled boards. [16], 216; [16], 204 pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Friesch comptoir almanach, op het jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1779. Waar in de voornaamste jaar-, paarde, beeste en leermarkten te vinden zijn: als mede de maans op- en ondergang: mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Friesland, enz.
Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1779.
With (bound before ad 1): [MEMO BOOK]. Practisijns dagwijser, begrijpende de XII. maanden des jaars 1779. Benevens de maanden January en February van Ao. 1780.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schouten and Reinier Ottens, [1779]. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page of ad 2, the first two quires of ad 1 are interleaved with blank leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the coat of arms of Friesland in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a double fillet frame with corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, red sprinkled end papers. [88]; [132] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Kooker en tas almanach voor het jaar 1782.
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1781]. Ca. 6.7 x 2.7 cm; type area: 5.8 x 2.2 cm. With 14 full-page numbered engraved plates, 13 showing various jobs, nationalities, and naval scenes, with an 8-line verse underneath, and 1 with a time-table of the tolling of the gate-bells in Amsterdam, the work has been printed in red and black. Contemporary quarter silver with mother-of-pearl boards, a clasp and catch plate in the middle of the fore edge, gilt brocade paper pastedowns. [32] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor 't jaar 1782. Bevattende eene beschryving der provincie Zeeland ... ten dienste der jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden.
Middelburg, Jan Dane, 1782. 16mo. With an engraved title by R. Vinkeles, and 5 folding plates. Original publisher's printed boards, with the title and the arms of Zeeland in black on the front, and the arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back, both within an ornamental border, red sprinkled edges. [70], 475-568 [=22] pp. 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

[ALMANAC]. Almanach der weetenschappen en geleerdheid voor 't jaar 1793.
Amsterdam, J. van Gulik, [1792]. 24mo. With an engraved title with allegorical vignette, and 12 full-page engraved plates by J.C. de Huijzer. Contemporary mottled boards. [32], 96 pp. Full description