Highlights

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

NICODEMUS. Gesta Saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi ... ex hebraica lingua in latinam translata, hactenus non excusa.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Guiliemus Montanus), March 1538. 16vo. With a woodcut frame on the title page, 1 large woodcut decorated initial, 2 small woodcut decorated initials and a woodcut printer's device at the end. Later limp vellum. [24] ll. Full description

[PANCHATANTRA/BIDPAI - CAPUA, Johannes de, and Anton von PFORR (translators)]. Der alten Weisenn exempel sprüch, mit vil schönen Beyspilen und Figuren erleüchtet.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, printed by Jacob Frölich, 1539. Folio. With half-page woodcut illustration on title-page, further 1 full-page and 112 smaller (ca. 9 x 14 cm) woodcut illustrations in the text (including a small number of repeats), a woodcut royal procession above and woodcut device of a swan playing a viol below the colophon, numerous woodcut pictorial and decorative strips. Modern blind-tooled calf in 16th-century style. [4], CVII ll. Full description

PARADIN, Claude. Alliances genealogiques des rois et princes de gaule.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1561. Folio. With 1068 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut armorial devices, a woodcut title frame, the woodcut device of De Tournes, a woodcut headpiece, and two woodcut decorated initials. 17th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. With a separate paper bearing the number 1311 at the head of the spine, and with brown sprinkled edges. [12], “1201” [= 1021], [3] pp. Full description

PARÉ, Ambroise. Opera chirurgica Ambrosii Paraei, Galliarum regis primarii, et parisiensis chirurgi.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Feyerabend, printed by Peter Fischer, 1594. Folio. With 314 woodcut illustrations, 3 woodcut portraits, a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final leaf, and numerous decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 20th-century vellum. [1], [1 blank], [10], 851, [1 blank], [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PEETERS, Jacob and Johannes. [Drop title on first letterpress leaf:] Briefve description et demonstration des places et villes continuées en ce livre: exactement delinées comme elles sont à present.
(colophons: Antwerp, Jacob Peeters, [1686/87?]). letterpress text plus 3 print series, the last in 5 parts, the whole in 1 volume. Small oblong folio (18 x 29.5 cm). Collection of 128 engraved prints published by Jacob Peeters, starting with a print with medallion portraits of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and his third wife (occasionally described as title-page), followed by 11 equestrian portraits of ruling monarchs and other leading figures after Pieter Stevens, 10 numbered engraved scenes of the 1683 Battle of Vienna after Romeyn de Hooghe, and 106 engraved city views after drawings by Jacob Peeters, engraved by Lucas Vorsterman and Gaspar Bouttats. The 106 city views are arranged as 6 series, the second, third and fourth with a title in the first print, but the intended division between the last two is unclear: [Cities of Austria and Upper Hungary] (40 views); Civitates Hungariae inferiores (20 views); Diverse viste della cita in Candia, Malta, come nel archipelago (11 views); Diverse vis te delli Dardaneli del' dtrecio come delle città e castelli nel archipelago (10 views); and Divarse viste delli Luoghi e Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibaltar (11? views); [Cities and other views in the Holy Land and the Arabian peninsula] (14 views?). The letterpress text is intended to provide information about the cities shown in 108 numbered descriptions, but the correspondence with the prints is only approximate and the present copy was accidentally issued without descriptions 51-70 and with descriptions 89-108 repeated without numbers. Late 17th- or early 18th-century sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, marbled pastedowns (in red, blue, yellow and white, combed with teeth irregularly spaced but on average 3 mm), red sprinkled edges. In modern half calf clamshell box, with gold-tooled spine. 20 pp. plus plates. Full description

PETZOLD, Eduard. Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei.
Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1853. Small 4to (ca. 23 x 18.5 cm). With 7 variant diagrams of the colour spectrum printed on 4 full-page plates, all richly coloured by hand. Contemporary quarter black cloth. IX, [3], 68 pp. Full description

FILELFO, Francesco. Satyrarum hecatostichon prima decas.
(Colophon:) Milan, Christophorus Valdarfer, 13 November 1476. 4to. With most of the initial spaces filled with simple manuscript initials in brown ink. 19th-century vellum. [149] ll. Full description

PIRSTINGER, Berthold. Tewtsche Theologey.
(Colophon:) München, Hans Schobser, 31 August 1528. Small folio (19.6x28.5). With the title printed in red and set inside a woodcut frame, depicting God the Father, the Virgin and Child, SS. Peter and Paul, and the four evangelists. Near-contemporary (ca. 1586?) panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and with remnants of 2 pairs of closing ties. [251], [1 blank] ll. Full description