Highlights

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description

FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. M. Antonii Flaminii in Librum Psalmorum Brevis Explanatio, ad Alexandrum Farnesium Cardinalem amplissimum ...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.
With: (2) FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. M. Antonii Flaminii De Rebus Divinis Carmina ad Margaritam Henrici Gallorum Regis sororem.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.
2 works in 1 volume. 16mo (11.4 x 7.7 cm). With woodcut printer's device on both title pages: "Labore et constantia" and a different one on the verso of the final blank page of the second work: "Christus vera vitis". Ruled in brown/red throughout, 2 decorated initials at the beginning of the first work and 3 in the second work. Contemporary brown leather, gold-stamped frame and ornamental centrepieces on both covers, gold-tooling on spine, gold edges with blind-tooled arabesques. 365, [3]; [24] ll. Full description

[FLORIS VAN HAARLEM]. Den wech des levens. Een gheestelijc boecxken leerende hoe dat ee[n] goet kerste[n] mensch moet beginne[n] en[de] voortgaen in duechden, met veel devote ghebede[n] en[de] gheestelike corte vermaninghe[n] om tot een warachtich gheestelijc leven te comen.
[Antwerp, Heyndrick Peetersen van Middelburg, 1547?]. 8vo. With title printed in black and red, within woodcut borders. Contemporary slightly overlapping parchment, remnants of ties. [200] ll. Full description

FUENTES, Diego de. Conquista de Africa donde se hallaran agora nuevamente recopiladas muchas y muy notables hazanas de particulares cavalleros.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570.
With (bound before ad 1): (2) VALLES, Pedro. Historia del fortissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de Avalos Marques de Pescara con los hechos memorables de otros siete ... Capitanes del Emperador Don Carlos V.
Antwerp, Philippo Nutio, 1570. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Late-19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco "71" [= 72]; [8], "255" [=354], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[GELDERLAND]. Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.
Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides. [64] ll. Full description

[GERSON, Jean]. Opus tripartitu[m] Tractans de preceptis. De confessione et de arte bene moriendi.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten), [ca. 1512]. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page, the title printed in red and black, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later vellum, red edges. [16] ll. 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

GIOVIO, Paolo. De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens aeditus.
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1528. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a full-page woodcut decorated illustration, incorporating Grapheus device on the verso of the last leaf. Modern vellum. [64] ll. Full description

GONZALES DE MENDOÇA, Juan. Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del Gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de religiosos y otras personas que an estado en eldicho reyno.
Antwerp, Pierre Bellère I, 1596. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device and some woodcut initials. With a few (woodcut?) Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary mottled calf. [24], 380, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GRAPHEUS, Cornelius Scribonius, and Gilles COPPENS VAN DIEST (translator). De triumphe van Antwerpen. De seer wonderlijcke, schoone, triumphelijcke incompst, van den hooghmogenden prince Philips, prince van Spaignen ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1550. Folio. With 24 mainly full-page woodcut illustrations, 4 double-page woodcut illustrations, and 1 folding plate, a half-title within a woodcut ornamental frame, and a frame on the colophon leaf. With several woodcut initials throughout, including 1 coloured in red. 17th-century gold-tooled vellum, bound by Albert Magnus for the Dutch book collector Paulo van Uchelen, each board showing a gold-tooled double fillet frame with small floral cornerpieces surrounding a gold-tooled frame built up from 2 double fillets with crown cornerpieces on the outside corners of the inner frame. The title lettered in black on the spine, and with the number "315" written in brown ink at the head. Sewn on six supports, with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [56] ll. Full description