Highlights

FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.
Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates, by Benard. Contemporary mottled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description

FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica; in qua octingentorum, contra omnis generis morbos probatissimorum selectissimorumque medicamentorum, in nullo dispensatorio obviorum, sed partim ex optimis & hoc tempore celeberrimis practicis desumptorum, partim ab amicis communicatorum, partim ex privatis manuscriptis erutorum, partim denique propria industria inventorum, fidelis & accurata descriptio, ordine, ut vocant, alphabetico, insculpta legitur. Cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & & pharmacopoeisperutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus.
Nuremberg, Johann Fr. Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Narrow 12mo. With a folded title page printed in red and black, and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments.19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine, with dark green title-label. [22], 468, [48] pp. Full description

GARNIER, Francis. Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission Française présidiée par M. le capitaine de frégate Doudart de Lagrée et publié dans les ordres du ministre de la marine sous la direction de M. le lieutenant de vaisseau Francis Garnier avec le concours de M. Delaporte, lieutenant de vaisseau et de MM. Joubert et Thorel, médécins de la marine, membres de la commission.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1873. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume in 2 parts. Large 4to text volumes, and folio atlas. With a lithographed portrait of Doudart de Lagrée, 53 full-page maps and views, and 157 illustrations in the text. The atlas with 69 lithographed maps, plans and views. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled quarter red morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red cloth sides with blind tooled borders on the front and back, gilt edges, watered silk end papers. V, [3], 580, [4]; [6], 523, [5]; [6], XII pp. Full description

GENTIL, Emile. Souvenirs d'Orient. Anecdotes de voyage. - Légendes. - Moeurs, coutumes, etc. Détails nouveaux sur Malte, le Liban, la Syrie & l'Egypte, avec un grand nombre de dessins inédits, et les plans des principaux sanctuaires de Terre-Sainte.
Paris, Lyon, Metz, Librairie Catholique de Pétisse frères, 1856. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 engravings and 4 engraved plans, one of which folding, and numerous illustrations in text by J. Verronnais after the original drawings by Emile Gentil. Original brown half morocco, gilt spine, title on spine lettered in gold. 580 pp. Full description

GODINHO, Manuel. Relação do novo caminho que fez por terra, e mar, vindo da India para Portugal no anno de 1663.
Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1665. 4to (19.5 x 14.5). With an engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa (1636-1720), 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor, at the head of the dedication, and with numerous woodcut decorated initials. 20th-century gold-tooled sprinkled brown calf, bound by the Lisbon bookbinder Frederico de Almeida. [1], [1 blank], [10], 188 pp. Full description

GRANDVILLE, Jean-Ignace-Isidore. Les fleurs animées. Texte par Alph. Karr, Taxille Delord & Le Cte Foelix. Nouvelle edition avec planches très-soigneusement retouchées pour la gravure et le coloris par M. Maubert.
Paris, Garnier Frères, 1867. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 2 hand-coloured frontispieces, 52 steel engravings, of which 50 hand-coloured, by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville and numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled dark green buckram. [4], 339, [5]; [4], 324, [2] pp. Full description

GRUITHUISEN, Franz von Paula. Ueber die Natur der Kometen, mit Reflexionen auf ihre Bewohnbarkeit und Schicksale - Bey Gelegenheit des Kometen von 1811.
Munich, Ignatz Joseph Lentner, 1811. 8vo. With an aquatint frontispiece showing 5 illustrations above a 2-line verse by Schiller, 3 folding engraved plates, and 2 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half sheepskin. 368 pp. Full description

[GUANGZHOU SCHOOL]. [A bird's-eye view of Macao].
[Macao, ca. 1849-1865]. Painting 350 x 150 cm. Watercolour on paper on contemporary wooden roll. Full description

GUILLOT, P. Cours de dessin géométrique. Projections et perspective.
De Villeneuve, Les Béziers, 1878. Oblong large folio (31.4 x 48.7 cm). With manuscript title in black and grey ink and 39 full-page manuscript plates with beautifully drawn and professionally executed washed pendrawings and watercolours of the projections of solid bodies and of plans and designs on perspective for architects and stone cutters, all versos blank. Contemporary half red calf. [1 blank], [40], [2 blank] ll. Full description

GUILLOU, Élie le [and Jules DUMONT D'URVILLE]. Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée.
Paris, Brequet et Pétion, 1842. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 31 lithographed plates, including engraved frontispieces for both volumes and a reproduction of a letter. Contemporary gold-tooled deep purple morocco with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Emperor of Brazil, with the title etc. lettered in gold on the spine ("J. Arago - Voyage du Monde"), gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers. [4], IV, 381, [1]; [4], 382, [2] pp. Full description