Highlights

DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.
[Paris], Aubert, [1833]. Ca. 36 x 56.2 cm. Under a white and gold passe-partout, framed in a dark reddish brown wooden frame (ca. 54 x 66.5 cm). Full description

[DUMAS, Antoine-Joseph]. L'art de la musique enseigné et pratiqué par la nouvelle methode du bureau typographique.
Paris, Sr. Auguste [for the author], [1753]. Large oblong 4to (26 x 33.5 cm). Wholly engraved, including an engraved title-page, two-page engraved dedication, a double-page folding engraved musical table ("Elémens de la musique. Plan général du bureau typographique musical") and 427 engraved text pages by Mademoiselle Vandôme. Contemporary gold-tooled dark green (goatskin) morocco, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, gold-tooled boards with the coat of arms of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1725-1785) on both sides, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges (attributed to Jean-Charles-Henri Lemonnier). [4], 12-427, [1 blank]; 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PAINTING]. [EECKHOUDT, Gerbrand vanden, attributed to].

[Portrait of Johannes Commelin].
[Amsterdam], [ca. 1670]. 63 x 48.5 cm (frame 86 x 71 cm). Oil painting on linen. Contemporary richly ornamented gilt wooden frame.

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FERNANDEZ DE ENCISO, Martin. Suma de Geographia que trata de todas las partidas y provincias del mundo: en especial de las Indias.
Seville, Jacobo Cromberger, 1519. Folio (27.5 x 19.6 cm). 17th- or 18th-century vellum over boards, manuscript title on the spine. 75 ll. Full description

FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret, Count d'Eveux de. Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1768 et 1769, à différentes parties du monde, pour éprouver en mer les horloges marines inventées par M. Ferdinand Berthoud. Première[-seconde] partie, ...
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1773. 2 volumes. Large 4to (27 x 20.5 cm). With 5 numbered folding engraved plates in volume 1 (4 maps of the Atlantic Ocean, the Canaries, the Azores, etc., and 1 plate with topographic diagrams), 1 folding engraved plate with geometrical figures illustrating the determination of latitude[!], and 5 folding letterpress tables in volume 2. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [2], LXXIX, [1 blank], 803, [1 blank]; [2], 622, XL, [2 blank] pp. Full description

FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus. [Epitome rerum Romanarum].
Leiden, Adriaen Wijngaerden (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy), 1648. 8vo (18 x 12 x 3 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Cornelius van Dalen. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf. The decoration on the binding is believed to have been executed in Bologna ca. 1880/1900 by a group of forgers: each board with the same scene, showing 2 women in Ottoman costume, one kneeling to play a qanun (Turkish zither) at left and the other perhaps dancing at right, framed by drapery as though on a stage, with a crescent moon and 5-pointed star in each corner and the name "IBRAHIM" at upper left, the whole in a frame of double fillets. The figures' skin is painted white and the clothes and drapery red and green. The crescent moon and star repeat in spine compartments 1 and 3-5. [32], “595” [= 535], [69], [4 blank] pp. including the integral engraved title page. Full description

FRIES, Bengt Fredrik, Carl Ulric EKSTRÖM & Carl Jakob SUNDEVALL. Skandinaviens Fiskar.
Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söners forlag, (1892-1895). 2 text volumes and one atlas volume. Large 4to. With many lithographed illustrations of fish and details of fish in the 2 text volumes and 55 chromolithographed plates in the atlas volumes, with beatifully depicted fish, mostly 3 to one page. Drawn and lithographed by W. von Wright assisted by Erdman, Thornam and others. Plates are intrerleaved with the original blue tissues. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt. [8], 566, [10]; [6], 671 (pp. 568-1279), [3] pp. Full description

GABBEMA, Simon Abbes. Friesche lust-gaarde ofte boom-heester-bloem- en kruyd-waarande, bestaande uyt der gewaszen beschrijvinge, die in d'Europesche en d'aangrenszende landschappen bekent zijn ...
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1687 (frontispiece: 1686). 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, 10 decorated woodcut initials, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled half calf. [1], [1 blank], [38], 660, [60] pp. Full description

GALIANO, Dionisio Alcalá. Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar.
[Madrid], widow of Joaquin Ibarra, 1796. Narrow 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut crowned cypher monogram (of a Spanish Duke?) on the title page and 7 folding leaves containing 13 numbered letterpress tables. Early 19th-century gold-tooled tree calf. [2], 87, [1] pp. Full description

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti di astronomia, et cosmografia, ove si vede la somma della teorica, et pratica di queste due nobilissime scienze.
Venice, Roberto Meietti, 1598. 4to (22 x 16.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a folding woodcut plate, 3 woodcut volvelles with moving parts, and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Including a world map in two hemispheres (incl. America and a scattering of islands at the location of Australia) on two facing pages, they reappear with volvelle attachments on both sides of leaf 149 and leaf 153. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 228 ll. Full description