Highlights

[BAVELAAR, Cornelis (attributed)]. [Octagonal mahogany tea caddy inset with cut-paper dioramas].
[The Netherlands?, ca. 1800]. Ca. 15 x 11 x 9 cm. Octagonal mahogany tea caddy with four elaborate cut-paper dioramas inset behind glass panels against a light blue paper background, marquetry on the sides of the lid, a floating lid with a brass handle inside. Full description

[BERSE, Gaspar, Francis XAVIER et al.]. Epistolae Indicae et Iapanicae de multarum gentium ad Christi fidem, per Societatem Iesu conversione. Item de Tartarorum potentia, moribus, & totius penè Asiae religione. Tertia editio cum indice castigatior & auctior.
Louvain, Rutger Velpius, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With general title page and a title page for the second part, both in a frame built up from fleurons, and each part with woodcut publisher's device on last blank and numerous decorated woodcut initials. Including: Epistolae Iapanicae, de multorum in variis insulis gentilium ad Christi sidem conversione.
Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, traces of ties. [24], 361 [= 316], [20]; 401 [= 399], [25] pp. Full description

BUSTAMANTE, Carlos Maria de. Mañanas de la alameda de México. Publícalas para facilitar a las señoritas el estudio de la historia de su país.
Mexico, Imprenta de la testamentaria de Valdés, 1835-36. 2 volumes. 4to. With a woodcut a vignette on both titles, 2 lithographed plates of Mexican calendars in the first volume, and a woodcut illustration of a house in the second volume. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco. [6], 325, [1 blank]; [4], XIX, 309, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BUTEL DUMONT, George Marie]. Histoire et commerce des colonies Angloises, dans l'Amerique septentrionale. Ou l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline, & de la Géorgie.
Londres, et se vend a Paris, chez Le Breton, Desaint, Pissot, Lambert, 1755. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, a woodcut headpiece and several woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XXIV, 336 pp. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo and Antonio PIAZZA]. Discorso all'orecchio di monsieur Louis Goudar.
London [=Venice], 1776. 8vo. With the engraved portrait of Louis Goudar on the title-page. 19th-century blank wrappers. 55, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CATHARINUS, Ambrosius and Girolamo SAVONAROLA. Discorso contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1548. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. Later overlapping vellum. [8], 100 ll. Full description

[DAMASCUS – VENETIAN TAXES]. [Promissory note for Venetian customs taxes on goods from Damascus].
Venice, 22 Feb. / 5 March 1488. Italian notarial document on vellum (44.5 x 16 cm; text block ca. 27 x 14 cm). Written in two fine cursive hands. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. GROOT (GROTIUS), Hugo de. [Autograph letter, signed, to the President and councillors of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands].
[Netherlands], 1609. Letter on 2 half-sheets (31 x 20.5 cm). In Dutch. Full description

[HAYM, Niccolo Francesco]. Biblioteca Italiana, o sia, Notizia de' libri rari nella lingua Italiana, divisa in quattro parti principali: cioe' istoria, poesia, prose, arti e scienze, annessovi tutto il libro dell' Eloquenza Italiana di Mons. Giusto Fontanini col suo ragionamento intorno alla stessa materia. Con tavole copiosissime, e necessarie.
Venice, Angiolo Geremia, 1728. 4to. With woodcut historiated initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century vellum, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, red and blue sprinkled edges. [24], 264 pp. Full description

[JOMARD, Edmé François]. Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.
[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum. [1], 88, [1 blank] ll. Full description

[MEYER von SCHAUENSEE, Maurus]. Lettres familieres sur la Carinthie et la Stirie, adressées a madame Bianchi, de Bologne. Par un officier général Français, prisonnier de guerre en Autriche. 1799.
Leoben (Austria) and Paris, Louis-François Prault, an IX [= 1800/01]. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 208 pp. Full description

[MONTALVO, Garci Rodríguez de]. Het XIIII.de - XVIII.de, boeck van Amadis de Gaule. Uyt de Fransche in onse Nederduytsche Tale over gheset.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Barentsz., 1615-1623, 5 parts in 1 vol. 4to. With ornamental woodcut borders and woodcut illustrations on 5 titles. Contemporary vellum, with red painted edges. [8], 166; [2], 145, [2, 3 blank]; 94, [2]; 200, [8]; [8], 402 pp. Full description

[NEEDLE CASE]. [Elaborate gilded openwork metal needle case in the form of a miniature book].
[The Netherlands?, circa 1700]. 45 x 43 cm. The "boards", as well as the "spine" of the gilded metal case are in an openwork floral design with scrolling foliage with a standing eagle in the centre. One clasp closure in the middle of the front edge. Both "boards" set with 8 small round cabochon agates (diametre: 7 mm). Full description

[NEWBURYPORT - BROADSIDE - MASSACHUSETTS]. [Drop-title:] United States of America. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Town of Newburyport. ...
[Massachusetts, United States of America, in or just before 1830]. Folio. Two identical forms printed on the rectos of a bifolium. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PRINT ALBUM]. Spiegel der natuur en school ter teekenkunde, bevattende LXXVI. Afbeeldingen van Landschappen, Landsdouwen, Watergezichten, enz. enz. Allen zoo veele Studiën van Silvestre, Perelle, Quinault, Du Moulin, Della Bella, Zaftleven, Almeloveen, Van Schyndel, Nolpe, Vermeulen, Visscher en Schenk, ten dienste van Teekenaaren, Plaatsnijders, Goud- en Zilversmeden en drijvers: bijzonder nuttig voor hun, die zichzelven het teekenen willen leeren zonder hulp van meester. Vooräfgegaan de eerste beginselen der Teekenkunst.
Amsterdam, Jan Steven van Esveld-Holtrop, [ca. 1808-1833]. Oblong 8vo. With 76 full-page engraved plates in various styles and sizes. The last 6 folding. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine, blue title-label and marbled sides. IV pp. text. Full description

ROY, Jacob le. Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ,...in quatuor partes divisa, complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antwerpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem.
Antwerp, for the author, 1697. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, a letterpress title page with the engraved coat of arms of Spain, 3 double-page engraved maps of Brabant (2) and Antwerp (1), 214 engraved and/or etched plates (including engravings and etchings by Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar), one engraving in text on page 8 of part one. 19th-century polished mottled gold-tooled calf, yellow painted edges. [4 (half-title and engraved title page)], 8; 4; 4; 4; pp. Full description

RYCAUT, Paul and Pierre BRIOT (translator). Histoire de l'etat present de l'empire Ottoman: contenant les maximes politiques des Turcs; les principaux points de la religion Mahometane, ses sectes, ses héresies, & ses diverses sortes de religieux; leur discipline militaire, avec une supputation exacte de leurs forces par mer & par terre & du revenu de l'etat.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1670. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, 18 engraved folding plates, and 1 woodcut illustration of a turban in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. 498, [6] pp. Full description

TARENGHI, Enrico. [Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].
[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic. Full description

WILLIAMSON, Hugh. The history of North Carolina.
Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson, 1812. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of the state of North Carolina. Contemporary marbled calf, with the supralibros of the Signet Library in the centre of both boards, brown sprinkled edges. XIX, [1 blank], 289, [1 blank]; VIII, 289, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ZURLAUBEN, Béat Fidèle Antoine Baron de and Jean Benjamin LABORDE. Tableaux de la Suisse, ou voyage pittoresque fait dans les treize cantons et états alliés du corps Helvétique.
With: QUÉTANT, François Antoine. Table analytique et raisonnée des Tableaux de la Suisse.
Paris, Lamy, 1784-1786, 1788. 5 volumes. Imperial folio (55 x 35.5 cm). With 1 engraved title-page (with a view with obelisk) and 4 letterpress title-pages (3 with a woodcut French royal arms and 1 with a different woodcut), 2 engraved vignettes, 7 engraved maps and plans, 332 engraved views, 6 engraved plates with medals and coins, 10 engraved plates with 63 portraits and 1 engraving in text. Lacking the engraved frontispiece after Moreau and the unnumbered map of Switzerland. Uniform contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, sprinkled-paper sides. [5], [1 blank], LXXXIV, [1], [1 blank], 134; [3], [1 blank], 135-368, LXVI, [5], [1 blank]; [4], 322; [1], [1 blank], 323-578, 8; [3], [1 blank], II, 129, [1 blank] pp. Full description