Highlights

[BOOK OF HOURS - USE OF ROME]. Horae beatissimae Virginis Mariae, ad usum Romanum repurgatissima.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1570. Large 8vo (ca. 25 x 13 cm). With a large vignette (7.3 x 7.3 cm) on the title page with Plantin's printer's device and the coat of arms of King Philip II of Spain by Joannes Wiericx, 17 full-page engravings with the four evangelists and biblical scenes from the New Testament by Joannes Wiericx, Hieronymus Wiericx, and Pieter Huys, after the designs by Pieter van der Borcht, 36 full-page woodcut illustrations (ca. 2.1 x 1.7 cm.; the first 3 x 2.3 cm) with representations of the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, and the saints, and several woodcut initials, all pages, including the title and blanks, within very fine engraved borders (there are 8 different borders - one signed by Pieter Huys - each used twice in every quire). The work is printed in red and black, all pages are ruled in brown ink. 19th-century gold-tooled black morocco, bound by the French bookbinder Capé, lavishly tooled in a 16th-century style with arabesque ornaments, branches and petals, the title and imprint lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [232] ll. Full description

BOSSCHE, Johannes Baptista van den. Instructie om deuchdelick synen tyt, oft den dach over te brenghen, en religieuselick naer syn vocatie Godt te dienen, ghemaeckt by den Eerwerdighen heere, Johannes Baptista vanden Bossche, prior en pater, van het Syon, tot oorbaer ende profyt van syn religieusen int jaer 1617.
[The Netherlands?], 1617. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red painted edges. [88] ll., last blank pasted to back cover. Full description

[BRANDT, Gerard]. Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.
Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [12], 207, [1], 167, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description

[CAMPEN, Jacob van, Hubert QUELLINUS and Jacob VENNEKOOL]. Architecture peinture et sculpture de la maison de ville d'Amsterdam, representée en CIX. Figures en taille-douce.
Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1719. Royal folio. With a title-page in red and black with an engraved device (a portrait of Erasmus in an elaborate cartouche with allegorical figures), and 124 engraved architectural and sculptural illustrations on 109 numbered plates (6 double-page, 103 full-page).
Contemporary quarter brown sheepskin. 22 pp. + 109 plates Full description

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius and Francisco TORRESANO (editor). Opera quam diligentissime castigata, quorum indicem in sequenti pagina reperies.
Venice, heirs of Aldus I Manutius, and Andrea I Torresano, 1523. 8vo. With the Aldus anchor woodcut vignette on the title page and the verso of the last leaf, both hand-coloured and highlighted in gold. 17th-century gold-tooled quarter calf, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, 18th-century gold-tooled polished and sprinkled calf sides, red sprinkled edges. 176 ll. Full description

CLOET, Jean-Joseph de. Voyage pittoresque dans le Royaume des Pays Bas, dédié a S.A.I. & R. Madame la Princesse d'Orange ...
Brussels, J. B. A. Jobard, 1825.
With: [IDEM]. Chateaux et monumens des Pays-Bas faisant suite au voyage pittoresque.
Brussels, J.B.A. Jobard, 1827-1829. 2 parts in 4 volumes. Oblong 4to. Each volume with a lithographed title page. The whole work comprises 407 full-page lithographic plates protected by tissue paper guards, 2 folding maps, and a lithographic portrait. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. Full description

[COELHO, Gaspar? and others]. Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl'anni M.D.LXXXIX & M.D.XC. Scritte al R.P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesu.
Rome, [Giacomo Tornieri for?] Luigi Zannetti, 1591. 8vo. 17th-century limp vellum. “114” [= 214] pp. Full description

[COLLAERT, Adriaen?]. [The five senses:] Visus ... Gustus ... Tactus ... Olfactus ... Auditus.
Antwerp, Jan Adriaensz. Collaert, [ca. 1618/28]. Large 24mo(?) album (14.5 x 10.5 cm). A complete series of 5 engraved prints on vellum (13 x 8.5 cm; oval image 10 x 7.5 cm) each illustrating one of the five senses with a female figure. Richly and very beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, in colour gouaches (red, blue, purple and green), extensively highlighted with gold. Each print mounted on a paper leaf in a small album. Green silk (ca. 1820?) over flexible boards. [5] engraved ll. Full description

DAPPER, Olfert. Historische beschryving der stadt Amsterdam: waer in de voornaemste geschiedenissen ... die ... hier ter stede voor-gevallen zijn, verhandelt, en al de ... gebouwen, in meer als tzeventigh kopere platen ... vertoont worden ...
Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1663. Folio (ca. 30.5 x 20 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the Witsen family and a loosely inserted extra engraving of the same coat-of-arms, 72 double-page (of which 4 somewhat larger and folded, including the well-known profile view of Amsterdam seen from the IJ, and 3 bird's-eye plans from 1482, 1613, and the plan published by Dapper for this 1663 edition) maps, plans and views of Amsterdam buildings and churches after the drawings of Jan Veenhuysen, and 1 half-page engraving in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [12], 48, [8], 49-152, 145-152, 145-456, 449-456, 449-456, 449-552, [84] pp. Full description

DAVIES, John (translator). Te mau Episetole a te Aposetolo ra a Paulo. I to Galatia, Ephesia, Philipi, Colosa, Tesalonia, ia Timoteo hoi, Tito, e Philemona. Te taio ra, e haapao oia iaite. Iesu Christi.
Tahiti, i neia i te nenei raa a te mau misionari ra [colophon: printed at the Windward Mission Press], 1824. 12mo (17.5 x 11 cm). The text is printed in Tahitian, in two columns. Contemporary diced brown Russia, kept in a green slipcase. 71, [1 blank] pp. Full description