Highlights

[HUGO, Victor]. [Théatre. Gravures sur soie].
[Paris, J. Lemmonyer, G. Richard and Cie, E. Testard, between 1885-1895]. 4to (ca. 27 x 24.5 cm). With 30 full-page engravings on silk. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, marbled end papers. Bound by the French bookbinder Louis Guétant (1848-1936), signed in the bottom turn in of the front board. [30] silk ll. Full description

HUYGENS, Constantijn. Ses boecken van de ledige uren, zijnde ghedichten van verscheyden talen, stijlen, ende stoffen. - Otiorum libri sex. Poëmata varij sermonis, styli, argumenti.
Haarlem, Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch, 1641. Oblong 16mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. [2], 543, [1] pp. Full description

HWIID, Andreas Christian. Specimen ineditae versionis Arabico-Samaritanae Pentateuchi e codice manuscripto Bibliothecae Barberinae.
Rome, Praesidum Facultate, 1780. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, two decorated woodcut initials and a woodcut tailpiece. Latin, Samaritan and Arabic type throughout, and occasionally Coptic and Greek type. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, with a red morrocco title label lettered in gold on the spine. 63, [1], XXXVIII, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[INUIT - WATERCOLOUR]. [Watercolour of an Inuit hunting seals in a kayak].
[ca. 1839?]. Watercolour on laid paper (18.5 x 19.3 cm), in a passe-partout (44 x 43.5 cm). Full description

[JEWELLED BINDING - FRENCH PRAYER BOOK]. L'abbé de la HOGUE.

La journée du chrétien, sanctifiée par la prière et la méditation.
Lyon and Paris, Librairie Catolique de Perisse frères, 1844. 16mo. Binding: ca. 11 x 7 x 2.5 cm. With a small printer's device on the title page. 17th-century elaborately jewelled and decorated gilt silver binding with a gilt silver imperial double-headed eagle and two hands holding a heart centre piece, below Jesus on the cross (with an added skull and bones at the foot of the cross) and ornamental gilt silver corner pieces connected to the gilt silver board edge fittings on both boards. The whole is set with numerous jewels (amethysts, garnets, turquoise, and (simulated) sapphires). With two jewelled clasps closing on pegs in the fore edge of the front board, gilt edges, red velvet paste-downs and blue silk flyleaves backed with paper. VIII, 524, [5], [3 blank] pp.

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[KEULEN, Gerard and Johannes van, and others]. [Composite sea atlas containing 56 detailed charts including 3 manuscript charts].
Amsterdam, [Johannes van Keulen and others, 1700-1753, engraved title page dated 1734]. Large folio (61.5 x40.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Aernout Nagtegael after Jan Luyken, and 56 detailed sea charts, the whole expertly coloured by a contemporary hand. The atlas includes 22 large folding charts, including 3 highly interesting manuscript charts, 27 double-page charts, 1 full-page chart, and 6 half-page charts, most of them with beautiful cartouches, depicting views, local people, and merchandise. The maps are engraved and originally edited by the most famous Dutch cartographers and map-publishers of the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with green cloth closing ties. Title page and 56 charts. Full description

LABORDE Y NAVARRO, Ángel. Orden del dia dada por el Señor Comandante general del Apostadero de Marina de la Habana.
[Havana], Imprenta de Boloña, [1829]. Folio (ca. 30.5 x 21 cm). Broadside with 16 lines of Spanish text set in a decorative woodcut border with a large woodcut at top depicting an anchor and the flag of Spain (ca. 6.5 x 6.5 cm). [1] l. Full description

LANSBERGE, Johan Philip. Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuae ...
Middelburg, Zacharias Roman (colophon: Leiden, Willem Christiaens van der Boxe), 1632. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page, an engraved full-page portrait of the author, a divisional title page for the tables with a small woodcut figure representing the solar system as a vignette, a folding letterpress table (all within collation). Further with numerous figures and tables in the text, several woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 79, [1 blank]; 180, [1 folding leaf]; 186, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

MAIGNAN, Emmanuel. Perspectiva horaria, sive de horographia gnomonica tum theoretica, tum practica libri quator ...
Rome, Philippus Rubeus, 1648. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 45 engraved plates (2 folding, 43 full page), a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved headpiece with portrait to the dedication, a folding table, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations in the text. Contemporary Southern European limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [28], 705, [1] pp. Full description

[MANUEL I, king of Portugal, and Diego PACHEGO]. Emanuelis Lusitan. Algarbior. Africae Aethiopiae Arabiae Persiae Indiae reg. invictiss obedientia.
[Rome, Marcello Silber, 1514]. Small 4to (ca. 19.5 x 14 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of King Manuel I on the title page, surrounded by a woodcut floral border. 19th-century decorative paper with a pattern of green flowers. [1], [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description