History, Law & Philosophy

FÉDIX, P. A. L'Orégon et les côtes de l'Océan Pacifique du Nord, aperçu géographique, statistique et politique, avec une carte du pays d'après les documens les plus récens.
Paris, Librairie de Amyot (printed by Éd. Proux et Cie), 1846. 8vo. With a large folding map (40 x 52.5 cm) depicting what the United States called Oregon Country, dated 1846 and partly coloured in outline. Modern maroon half morocco. 258 pp. Full description

FERRARI, Ottavio. Prolusiones vigintisex. Epistolae. Et formulae ad capienda doctoris insignia. Item variae inscriptiones. Editio altera auctior & emendatior.
Padua, heirs of Paolo Frambotti, 1668. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With a general title-page and a volume 2 title-page, the former printed in red and black, each with the woodcut device of the printer-publisher Frambotti (Pallas Athena standing next to a tree with a scroll reading "Pacis opus"); some interesting woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled green morocco, each board with the coat of arms of Gomez de la Cortina in a frame of double fillets. [12], 579; [8], 144 pp. Full description

FERWERDA, Abraham and Rienk JELGERHUIS (engraver). Nauwkeurige afbeelding der lijk-statie van haare doorluchtige hoogheid Maria Louisa, geboren Princesse van Hessen-Kassel, douairière van Johan Willem Friso, Prins van Orange en Nassau ...
[Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, 1765]. Oblong folio. With an engraved coat-of-arms as a headpiece, and 22 full-page engraved plates by Rienk Jelgerhuis. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [10] 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

[FIOCCO, Andrea Domenico] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Rom[anorum]. Item Valerii Probi grammatici de literis antiquis opusculum.
Including: POMPONIO LETO, Giulio. De Ro[manorum]. magistratibus, ...
Basel, (colophon: Valentino Curio, May 1523). With the general title in a woodcut border, Curio's large architectural woodcut device on the otherwise blank final page.
With:
(2) LUCIANUS OF SAMOSATA. Complures ... dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo ... in Latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524).
(3) MOSELLANUS, Petrus (Peter SCHADE). Paedologia ..., in puerorum usum conscripta & aucta. Dialogi XXXVII. Dialogi pueriles Christophori Hegendorphini. XII. ...
Including: HEGENDORF, Christoph. Dialogi pueriles ... XII. ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523).
3 editions in 1 volume. 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary panel-stamped calf, each board with the same 3 panel stamps: 2 virtually identical panels with 6 animals in 2 grape vines (the animals from head to foot in the left vine: a monkey, dog and wyvern; and in the right vine: a squirrel, hare and lion) in a border of a diaper of quatrefoils in lozenges, the two separated by a small panel stamp sith a peacock, paste-downs made from a leaf from an Aristotle manuscript on vellum. 91, [1]; 26, [2]; [40] ll. Full description

[FIREWORKS - GERMANY]. Heute werden die Unterzeichneten die Ehre haben, ein großes Wasser-Feuerwerk nach Wiener Art, unter dem Namen: Die Jagd der Riesenschlange, auf der Elbe, der Brühlschen Terrasse gegenüber, abzubrennen.
[Dresden, 1829]. 1mo broadside (46.7 x 39.1 cm). Full description

[FIREWORKS - NUREMBERG - after Peter TROSCHEL and Michael HERR]. [Fireworks display celebrating the end of the Thirty Years' War in Nuremberg in 1650].
[Nuremberg, ca. 1750]. Ca. 39.5 x 71.5 cm. One large etching. Kept in a white passe-partout. Full description

[FIRST EMPEROR of MEXICO - INSTATING AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE]. [Drop title:] El honor de la Capital del Imperio está comprometido en el decoro y magnificencia con que debe celebrar la Jura solemne ....
Sala Capitular del Ayuntamiento Constitucional de México [= City hall, Mexico City], 3 December 1822. Ca 20 x 15.5 cm. [4] pp. Full description

FOKKE, Simon, Paulus Constantijn LA FARGUE and Pieter DE SWART (illustrators). Afbeelding van de kaamer en 't parade-bed waar op het lyk van Haare Koninklyke Hoogheid Anna, Kroon princesse ... in de maand February 1759 ten toon is gesteld geweest/ Description de la chambre et lit de parade sur lequel le corps de son Altesse Royale Anne, pricesse Royale ...
The Hague, Pierre Gosse junior, 1759. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (ca. 50 x 36 cm). With 20 engravings, each mounted on a double-leaf of heavy paper, the text is printed in Dutch and French with a separate title page for each language, the engraved coat of arms of Princess Anna on each, and 4 decorated woodcut initials.
With: [FOKKE, Simon]. Lyk-Staetsie van haere koninglyke hoogheid Anna, kroon princesse van Groot-Brittannien, princesse douariere van Oranje en Nasau ... Gehouden den 23. February 1759/ Convoi-Funebre de son altesse royale Anne, ...
The Hague, Pierre Gosse, 1761. 19th-century half green morocco, a red morocco label on the spine with the title in French, lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. [4], 4; [4], 27 pp. Full description

FOLLIN, Herman (Hermanus FOLLINUS). Den Nederlandtsche sleutel van t'secreet der philosophie, in welck grondelijc bewesen wert, d'aert, so in 't generael, als in 't bysonder aller metallen, als goudt, silver, coper, etc. En die gheheele alchijmie, met haer verborghentheden. Midsgaders d'eerste materie der Philosophen, dat is: Quinta essentia des wijns, met haren volcomen ghebruyck, en verclaringhe aller duystere woorden des voorsz. constes, op dat Paracelsus claerlijck in alles mach werden verstaen.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman for Daniel de Keyser, 1613. Small 8vo. With 3 half-page woodcuts in the text, one repeated on the title-page, all showing distilling equipment. Modern vellum. 76 ll. Full description