Highlights

MACDONALD, George Grant (silversmith). [Engraved silver cigar box commissioned by the Assarain Group of Companies].
London, Assarain Group of Companies, Oman, 1990. With the map of Oman and 2 views engraved on the polished top. The cigar box (15 x 23 x 5 cm) is made of sterling (925) silver, with an engraved map and illustrations of Oman on the polished top, surrounded by a gilded frame, decorative engraving on the sides, a lined hardwood (mahogany?) inside, hallmarks on the underside. The cigar box is in a protective gold-tooled green morocco box (20 x 27 x 8 cm) with gold clasps, lined with green velvet and a white silk-like fabric. Full description

MACROPEDIUS, Georgius. Methodus de conscribendis epistolis, ... secundum veram artis rationem tradita. Eiusdem. Epitome praeceptionum de paranda copia verborum & rerum, per quaestiones: item de novem speciebus argumentationum rhetoricarum, rem omnem breviter explicans. Accessit Christophori Hegendorphini Epistolas conscribendi methodus.
Cologne, heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1570. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm). With Birckmann's birch tree and hen device on the title page, 3 woodcut initials (with a head in profile, St George and the dragon, and lions), and a tailpiece built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, sewn on 3 leather thongs, spine lettered in ink; traces of thong ties. [2], "123" [= 125] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - EAST ASIA - LAGRENÉ MISSION]. [Ship's log of the "Archimède"].
At sea between Macao and Calcutta, 1846. 2 volumes. Folio (ca. 32 x 22 cm). With two pencil sketches on pp. 58 and 59. Contemporary blue cloth, blue sprinkled edges, pink paste paper endpapers. 65, [40 blank]; 76-106 [=30], [100 blank], [1], [2 blank], [2], [10 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYERBOOK]. [1st rubric:] Form zu betten unser liebe[n] frawen mantel, Gebet. [incipit:] Cegrüest seiestu o süesse aller heiligste junckfraw maria ...
[Ravensburg?], [ca. 1670]. Small 16mo in 8s (10 x 8.5 x 4 cm; leaf: 9 x 7.5 cm). German manuscript in red and black ink on paper, written in an upright, semi-cursive gothic hand, with so-called lombardic initials in red, rubricated throughout. With 11 lines per page, text block 7 x 5.5 cm. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden (beechwood?) boards, sewn on 3 double supports, In total more than 100 impressions of about 9 stamps. Further with 2 strap fastenings with brass clasps (each with an owners(?) stamp: 1.5 mm roman capital initials "LH" above a 3 mm head in profile, facing right), catchplates and anchor plates, plain headbands, blue edges. With 27 mm roman capital initials "BR" in brown ink on the foot edge. [423], [3 blank] pp. plus 3 endleaves at the front and 5 at the back. Full description

MAPPUS, Marcus and Johan Christian EHRMANN (editor). Historia plantarum alsaticarum.
Strasbourg and Amsterdam, Johann Daniel Dulsecker and Pieter Mortier, 1742. 4to. With 7 folding copper-engraved plates of plants, an engraved printer's device on the title-page, an engraved coat-of-arms of François-Joseph de Klinglin, baron de Hattstatt etc. as a headpiece above the dedication, 3 woodcut initials, a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments at the start of the main text and the index, a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the main text, and the title-page is printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled, polished calf. [8], 335, [32] pp. Full description

MONTULÉ, Edouard de. Voyage en Amérique, en Italie, en Sicile et en Egypte, pendant les années 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819.
Paris, Delaunay & Bélon, 1821. 3 volumes (2 text and 1 atlas). 8vo and oblong folio. Atlas with 59 lithographed plates and two folding maps by Bracas and C. de Lasteyrie after the original drawings by Montulé; 14 of these plates are tinted green or yellow. 17 plates of the 59 are plates of America; views of New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Niagara Falls, the Mississippi. Uniform gold-tooled half red morocco,red leather-grained paper sides, with yellow morocco title and volume labels lettered in gold on the spines. The text volumes with yellow painted edges. X, 466; VIII, 448 pp; 59 numbered plates (including the title plate). Full description

NECKER, Jacques. Sur ladministration de M. Necker. Par lui-même.
Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Gabriel Dupour, 1791. 12mo. With a small tailpiece on the final page. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a large gold-tooled centerpiece on both boards (a crowned shield with a "W", flanked by a crowned lion and a wild man with a club), with red morocco author and title labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], "328" [= 340] pp. Full description

OZANAM, Jacques. Recreations mathematiques et physiques ... Avec un traité nouveau des horloges elementaires.
"Paris" [= Northern Netherlands?], Jean Jombert, 1694. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. With diagrams and tables in text, and numerous geometrical, perspectival, technical and scientific illustrations on 64 full-page plates in the main work, and numerous illustrations of parts and details of clocks and watches on 20 full-page engraved plates in the added treatise. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [32], 400; [16], 303, [1], 163, [1], [4] pp. Full description

PÉROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup de la. Voyage autour du monde.
Paris, Imprimerie de la République, An V (= 1797). 9 volumes: ad 1 in 4 volumes; ad 2 in 2 volumes; ad 3 in 2 volumes, with the atlases of the 3 works bound together in 1 volume. 4to (30 x ca. 23 cm.) and large folio (ca. 57 x 40 cm.). Ad 1: with an engraved portrait of De la Pérouse by Tardieu and tables in the text. The atlas contains an engraved title-page, 1 large double-page folding map of De la Pérouse's journey, 20 double-page maps, and 48 full-page maps, views, and illustrations. Ad 2: with tables in the text. The atlas contains an engraved title-page, 1 double-page map, and 43 full-page plates. Ad 3: with 33 folding engraved plates and with tables in the text. The atlas contains an engraved title-page, an engraved table of contents, 37 large double-page folding maps, 2 large double-page folding views, and 10 full-page maps and illustrations. The three atlases for ads 1-3 are bound together in a large folio matching contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf binding.
With:
(2) LABILLARDIÉRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Voyage à la recherche de Lapérouse.
Paris, H.J. Jansen, An VIII (= 1799-1800).
(3) ENTRECASTEAUX, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'. Voyage envoyé à la recherche de Lapérouse.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

Contemporary uniform gold-tooled marbled calf, richly gold-tooled spines with a red title-label and a small green volume number label, both lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Collection of photographs of Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia].
[France, late 19th and early 20th century]. Oblong album (ca. 19 x 27 cm). With 137 photographs mounted onto the leaves. Contemporary quarter black cloth, dark grey cloth sides, marbled end papers. [50] ll. Full description