Highlights

FAGUNDES VARELA, Luís Nicolau. O estandarte auri-verde cantos sobre a questao Anglo-Brazileira.
São Paulo, Typ. Imparcial, de J.R. de A. Marques, 1863. 8vo. Half dark green leather, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, and with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. [1], [1 blank], 24, [2] pp. Full description

FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jacinto and Peter WYCHE (translator). The life of Dom John de Castro, the fourth Vice-Roy of India. Wherein are seen the Portuguese's voyages to the East-Indies; their discoveries and conquests there; the form of government, commerce, and discipline of warr[!] in the East, and the topography of all India and China. Containing also a particular relation of the most famous siege of Dio, with a map to illustrate it.
London, Henry Herringman, 1664. Folio. With a full-page engraved portrait of D. João de Castro, the fourth viceroy of India as a frontispiece, signed "W. Faithorne sculp.", one full-page engraved illustration of the shrine of St. Thomas in Meliapor - including its inscriptions in Sanskrit - which already existed at the time of the Portuguese arrival in India, and one double page engraved map (view) of Diu and its fortress. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. [1], [1 blank], [18], 272, [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[GASTRONOMY - CARVING]. De cierlycke voorsnydinge aller tafel-gerechten; onderwijsende hoe allerhande spijzen, zo wel op de vork als zonder dezelve, aardiglik konnen voorgesneden, en in bequame ordre omgedient worden. Alles met zinlicke konst-platen afgebeelt.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1664. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates (1 folding, 31 full-page). Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints. 96 pp. Full description

GAY, John. Fables.
London, printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727 (volume 1); printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738 (volume 2). 2 volumes. 4to. Volume 1 with an engraved illustration on the title page, and 51 engraved illustrations (1 for each fable) engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, Paul Fourdrinier, Bernard Baron and Andrew Motte. Volume 2 with an engraved frontispiece, showing Gay's memorial monument, a small engraved author's portrait on title page, and 16 engraved plates (one for each fable), engraved by Gérard Scotin after drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot. Green morocco (ca. 1900), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gold fillets on boards and board-edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Riviere & son). [14], 173, [1 blank]; [12], 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description

GILDAS and Polydore VERGIL (editor). Opus novum ... de calamitate excidio, et conquestu Britanniae, quam Angliam nunc vocant ...
[Antwerp, Christopher van Ruremund?, 1525]. Small 8vo. With 3 decorated criblé initials. Modern blind-tooled dark green calf by the Period Bookbinders in Bath. [44] ll. Full description

GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques. L'antique Rome ou description historique et pittoresque de tout ce qui concerne le peuple Romain, dans ses costumes civiles, militaires et religieux, dans ses moeurs publiques et privées, depuis Romulus jusqu'à Augustule.
Paris, chez Deroy, 1796. 4to. With 50 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a black morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [4], 221, [3] pp. Full description

HELYOT, Pierre. Histoire des ordres religieux et militaires, ainsi que des congrégations séculières de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont été établies jusqu'à présent ...
Paris, Louis, 1792. 8 volumes. 4to. With 812 full-page hand-coloured engravings, along with woodcut devices on the title pages and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, volume number set within black circular label, the initials "P.W.S." lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers. Each volume around 400-500 pp. Full description

HOUSTOUN (of Clerkington), Colonel Alexander. [Fungi painted by Colonel Houstoun of Clerkington].
[Inverness, 1862-1863]. 4to (25 x 18 cm). With 41 watercolours of fungi on paper or card, most approximately 20 x 12 cm (sheet size), and 1 watercolour of a butterfly. Contemporary brown morocco over boards, rebacked with "FUNGI" stamped in gold on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. [2], 41, [5 blank] ll. Full description

HUYGENS, Christiaan. Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae.
Paris, François Muguet, 1673. Folio. With a full-page woodcut of the pendulum on A2v, approximately 100 woodcut diagrams in the text, a woodcut coat of arms of Louis XIV on the title page, and several woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges. [14], 161, [1] pp. Full description

[JONG, Dirk de]. De walvischvangst, met veele byzonderheden daartoe betrekkelyk.
Including: Beschryving der haringvisschery.
Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, and Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1784-1786. 4 parts bound as 1. 4to. With 6 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved plates by H. Kobell and M. Sallieth, 3 additional folding and 10 full-page engraved plates. Every title page features a small woodcut illustration, and several woodcut tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half marbled calf and marbled paper sides. VII, [1], 96; [4], 116; [4], 116; [4], 116 pp. Full description