Highlights

MAGENS, Nicolas. The universal merchant: containing the rationale of commerce, in theory and practice; an enquiry into the nature and genius of banks, their power, use, influence and efficacy ...
London, C. Say for W. Owen, 1753. 4to (21.5 x 28.3 cm). Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [6], XXII, 131, [5] pp. Full description

MAGNI, Jacobus [Jacques Legrand]. Sophologium.
[Strasbourg, R-printer (Adolf Rusch), ca. 1468]. Folio (21 × 28.2 cm). With the text set in 35 lines in Roman type, spaces for initials show tiny guide letters, rubricated throughout, with 3- and 5-line blue or red Lombardic initials. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco, with a triple-fillet frame on the boards and elaborate ornaments and a title-label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and bluish flyleaves. 217 (of 218) ff. (lacking the final blank). Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN - SWEDISH POLICIES]. Relation. Von dem gegenwartigen Zustande des Konigreichs Schweden.
1684-1688.
With: [MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. Journal de LAmbassade envoyée de la part de S. M.té le Roy de Suède vers le Grand Duc de Moscovie lan 1684, dressé par un des Gentils-hommes de la Suite. Folio (ca. 30 x 20 cm). The German part is neatly written in a Kurrent script, and the French part in a cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the initials "M.F.K" in the centre of the front board, red and black sprinkled edges, green closing ties. 167 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PRIVATE DEVOTION - MÖHLMAN, Geertruy]. Möchte meiner Seuftzer schallen, möchte das Vergnügte wallen...
[Germany], 1746. 8vo (ca. 16.7 x 9.4 cm). With a colourful hand-drawn title page. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. [33] ll. Full description

MELLING, Antoine-Ignace and Joseph-Antoine CERVINI. Voyage pittoresque dans les Pyrénées Françaises et dans les départements adjacents, ou collection de 72 gravures de Basque, de la Navarre, du Béarn, du Bigorre, des Comtés de Comminges et de Foix, et du Roussillon.
Paris, chez l'auteur, et chez Treuttel & Wurtz, 1826-1830. Large oblong folio (ca. 43 x 59 cm). With a full-page lithographed portrait of Melling by Villain after Pierre Roch Vigneron, a full-page engraved map of the Pyrenees by Pierre Tardieu, and 72 full-page numbered aquatint plates by Piringer and Salathé after Melling, with the publisher's blindstamp in the lower right corner. Contemporary gold- and blind tooled mottled half calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, marbled paper sides, marbled end papers. The work is housed in a modern half brown buckram slipcase (ca. 44 x 60 cm) with decorated paper sides. [4], 80 ll. Full description

MELVILL VAN CARNBEE, Pieter and Willem Frederik VERSTEEG. Algemeene atlas van Nederlandsch Indië. Uit officieele bronnen en met goedkeuring van het gouvernement zamengesteld.
Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia), Van Haren Noman & Kolff, 1853-1862. Oblong folio (39.3 x 50.5 cm). With 60 lithographed maps, coloured in outline, and 3 lithographed index maps. Contemporary blind-tooled half black morocco. [68] ll. Full description

MENDEL, Gregor. "Ueber einige aus künstlicher Befruchtung gewonnenen Hieracium-Bastarde" in: Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins in Brünns. VIII Band, I. Heft. 1869.
Brno, im Verlage des Vereines (printed by W. Burkart), 1870.
With: [JOURNAL - NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY BRNO]. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins in Brünns. V Band, 1866.
Brno, im Verlage des Vereines, 1867. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a folding plate at the end, and mathematical figures and tables in the text. Original printed publisher's wrappers, housed in a sturdy blue cloth folder, which has been inserted in a blue cloth slipcase. Ad 2: contemporary half black sheepskin, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled edges. 26-31 [= 6] pp. Full description

MOLDENHAWER, Johann Jacob Paul. Beyträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen.
Kiel, Königlichen Schulbuchdruckerei (printed by C.L. Wäser), 1812. 4to. With 6 engraved folding plates, 3 partly handcoloured. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, black spine label. xii, 335, [1] pp. Full description

MÜLLER, Philipp. Miracula chymica et misteria medica. Libris quinque enucleta, quorum summam pagina versa exhibet.
[Wittenberg], Laurens Seuberlich for Clemens Berger, 1611. 12mo. With 12 woodcuts of 19 chemical instruments and retorts in the text, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, the title is printed in red and black.
Later paper boards, red sprinkled edges, in a modern burgundy solander box. [24], "189" [=191], [1 blank] pp. Full description

NATALIBUS, Petrus de, and Antonius VERLUS (editor). Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum ex diversis aoluminibus collectus editas a reverendissimo in christo patre domino pietro de natalibus de venetiis dei gratia episcopo eq vilino.
(Colophon on R8v:) Vicenza, Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus`, 12 December 1493. Folio. With the title printed in red and black, numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout, and a woodcut printers device on R8v. 17th-century blind-tooled half pigskin. [332] ll. Full description