Literature & Linguistics

BREDERO, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Alle de wercken, soo spelen, gedichten, brieven en kluchten.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgersz., 1644. 12 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine and board edges. Full description

BREDERO, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Alle de wercken. So spelen, gedichten, brieven en kluchten van den gheest-rijcken poëet. Verbetert en daer by ghevoeght eenighe die noyt voor desen ghedruckt zijn gheweest.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Lodewijckz. van den Plasse, 1638. 14 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author on the general title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van de Velde, an almost full-page engraved portrait of the author by Hessel Gerrits, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title of each part. Further with decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Comprising:
(1) Treur-Spel van Roddrick ende Alphonsus.
(2) Griane. Op syn Spreuck het kan verkeeren.
(3) Lucelle.
(4) Moortje.
(5) Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo.
(6) Stommen ridder.
(7) Angeniet.
(8) Schyn-Heylich.
(9) Spel, op 't oud liedt Het daget uyt den Oosten, op de reghel, Die quaet doet, quaet ontmoet.
(10) Nederduytsche poëmata.
(11) Kluchten als Vande koe.
(12) Klucht, van Symen sonder soetigheydt.
(13) Klucht van den molenaer.
(14) Klucht vanden Hoogduytschen quacksalver.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum [ca. 800 pp.] Full description

BRESNIER, Louis-Jacques. Anthologie Arabe élémentaire, choix de maximes et de textes variés, la plupart inédits; accompagné d'un vocabulaire Arabe-Français.
Algiers and Paris, Bastide, Challamel, and L. Hachette et Cie., 1852. 12mo. Printed in French and Arabic, with the Arabic title printed in gold on the Arabic title page, a chromolithographed headpiece, and several printed Arabic calligraphy examples. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [4], 387, [5], 138 pp. Full description

BRETON, Raymond. Petit catechisme ou sommaire des trois premieres parties de la doctrine chrestienne. Traduit du françois, en la langue des Caraibes Insulaires.
Auxerre, Gilles Bouquet, 1664. 8vo. With a small woodcut on the title page showing the Virgin and a woodcut of the Crucifixion on p. 16. Modern half maroon morocco, gold-tooled spine. 70 pp. Full description

[BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme]. Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, ouvrage théorique, historique et à l'ordre du jour, dédié aux gastronomes Parisiens.
Paris, Auguste Sautelet et Cie. (back of title-page: printed by David), 1826 [1825]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut device on both title-pages. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines, marbled edges and endpapers. [2], XIV, [1], 6-390; 442 pp. Full description

BRISSON, Barnabé. De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, Libri VIII...
Frankfurt, Joannes Wechel and Petrus Fischer and consorts, 1592. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- & tail pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [8], 750 [= 760], [84] pp. Full description

BRUMMELKAMP, Anthony. Verzameling van gedichten van A. Brummelkamp.
[The Netherlands?], 1860. 4to. Manuscript in Dutch, written in black ink on paper, with the title page decorated in black and grey. Later boards covered with decorated paper with a fleur-de-lis pattern. [47] ll. Full description

BRUNE, Johannes de. Emblemata of zinne-werck: voorgestelt, in beelden, ghedichten, en breeder uijt-legginghen, tot uijt-druckinghe, en verbeteringhe van verscheijden feijlen onser eeuwe.
Amsterdam, Jan Evertsen Kloppenburch, 1624 (colophon: Middelburg, printed by Hans vander Hellen, 1624). 4to. With an engraved emblematic title page, and 51 emblems in text, engraved by W. Passe, Cr. le Blon, J. Gelle, A. Poel, and J. Swelinck after designs by Adriaen van de Venne, some woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum. [12], 360 pp. Full description

BRUNE, Johan de, the younger. Iok en ernst: dat is; Allerlei deftige hofredenen, quinkslagen, boerteryen, raadsels, spreuken, vragen, antwoorden, gelikenissen; en al wat dien gelijkvormigh met de naam van apophtegmata verstaan wordt. ... 't Eerste deel [all published].
Amsterdam, Jacob Lescaille, 1644. 4to. With engraved vignette on title-page. Contemporary vellum, traces of ties. [8], 352 pp. Full description

BUNON, Robert. Essay sur les maladies des dents, ou l'on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne confirmation dès la plus tendre enfance, & d'en assurer la conservation tout le cours de la vie. Avec une lettre où l'on discute quelques opinions particulieres de l'auteur de l'orthopedie.
Paris, Briasson, Chaubert, et De Hansy, 1743.
With: (2) BUNON, Robert. Dissertation sur un prejugé très-pernicieux, concernant les maux de dents qui surviennent aux femmes grosses.
Paris, Chaubert, Briasson, Nully, Prault, 1741. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 ornamental woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind tooled mottled brown calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment on the spine, fleurons in the other compartments, a blind tooled border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers. XII, 237, [3]; 20 pp. Full description