Highlights

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

GUEVARA, Antonio de. Libro de los inventores del arte de marear, y de muchos trabajos que se passan enlas galeras. ... Tocanse enel muy excellentes antiguedades, y avisos muy notables para los que navegan en galeras.
Antwerp, Martin Nutius, [ca. 1545/46]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. Set in rotunda gothic type with a few words in a large roman. Blind-tooled brown goatskin (1920s?) in 16th-century style by Victor Arias (1856-1935) in Madrid, gold-tooled turn-ins. XXIX, [1], [2 blank] ll. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, 5 double-page woodcut maps (including 1 folding), 4 double-page woodcut views of cities, 6 double-page woodcut plans of cities, and 2 double-page illustrations of buildings (1 woodcut, 1 engraved). Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 parchment tapes laced through the joints. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Description de tout le Païs-Bas autrement dict la Germanie inferieure, ou Basse-Allemaigne ... Avec diverses cartes geographiques dudit païs. Aussi le pourtraict daucunes villes principales ... Avec un ample discours sur le faict de la negotiation et trafique des marchandises qui se fait audit pays. Plus une table ...
Antwerp, Guillaume Silvius, 1567. Folio. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 1 folding engraved map of the Low Countries by Cornelis de Hooghe, 1 folding engraved view of the town hall of Antwerp, the woodcut coat of arms and portrait of King Philip II, and 15 double-page woodcut maps, plans and (bird's-eye) views after Jacob van Deventer in the text, the title is set within a frame of ornamental typographical elements (also used for the half-titles and head-pieces) and woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled calf. [24], "389" [=405], [26] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, and 17 double-page plates, maps and views (15 woodcuts, 2 engravings).Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later vellum. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of the Low Countries (Belgia), an engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, an engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with the coat of arms of Philip II in the centre pasted in, an engraved plate with an allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and an architectural border with the portrait of Philip II in the centre, a large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with an oval centrepiece on both boards within a decorative frame, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [24], 432, [18] pp. Full description

HEEMSKERCK, Maarten van. [The seven planets].
[Antwerp], Hieronymus Cock, [ca. 1568]. With 7 engraved plates (ca. 22.5 x 26.5 cm). Each engraving is tipped onto a passepartout (ca. 50 x 38.8 cm). Full description