Highlights

[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