Americas

LOZANO, Francisco Xavier. Verdades eternas, confirmadas con la Sagrada Escritura, y expuestas en decimas castellanas para conservarlas facilmente en la memoria.
Mexico, Heirs of Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page engraving of San Ignacio de Loyola by Aguera and several woodcut borders and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XIV, 168; 172, [1] pp. Full description

LUSSAN, Raveneau de. Journal du voyage fait a la Mer du Sud, avec les filibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684 & années suivantes.
Paris, Jean Baptise Coignard, 1689. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 headpieces built up from typographical materials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf. [16], 448, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI.
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605.
With: (2) [MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro]. Ignatii Loiolae vita, postremo recognita.
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605. 2 works in 1 volume (the first in 2 parts). 8vo. Contemporary vellum, remains of ties. [72], 478, [2 blank]; 401, [7]; 152, [12] pp. Full description

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. L'Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales …
Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1665. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Each volume with a (different) woodcut coat of arms of France and Navarre on the title page. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [32], “353” [= 351], [1 blank]; [2], "292" [= 296], [24] pp. Full description

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. l'Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales …
Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1665. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [32], “353” [= 351], [1 blank]; [2], "292" [= 296], [24] pp. Full description

MAFFEI, Joan Petro. Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri IV...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with faint manuscript title on spine and a small gilt-stamped rooster in the centre of the boards, remains of ties. [72], 478, [2 blank]; 401, [7] pp. Full description

[MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES]. [Large collection of more than 400 glass positive magic lantern slides].
[Kopenhagen?], [early 20th century]. More than 400 glass slides depicting various motifs related to coal mining, chemical processes and astronomy, as well as topographical motifs from Asia, Africa, China, Europe and America. Housed in the original publisher's wooden boxes. Includes 2 original projectors and 1 camera. Full description

[GLOBE - TERRESTRIAL]. MALBY & CO. Malby's terrestrial globe.
[London], Malby & Co. (engraved by Chas. Malby), 1 January 1848. Diameter: 45.5 cm (18 inch), height in stand: 64.5 cm. An engraved terrestrial globe with 12 gores and 2 polar caps over a plaster-covered core, and the engraved horizon ring on the wooden stand, all coloured by a contemporary hand. In a contemporary wooden stand with 3 turned legs supporting the horizon ring, and 3 turned stretchers with a cylindrical centrepiece with a knob on the underside. Further with a contemporary brass hour circle and a slightly later iron meridian ring (and probably the axis pivots). Full description

MALOUET, Pierre-Victor. Lettre à M.S.D., membre du parlement, sur l'intérêt de l'Europe, au salut des colonies de l'Amérique.
London, Thomas Baylis, Joseph de Boffe, A. Dulau & co., 1797. 8vo. Marbled paper wrappers. [4], 36 pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - BRAZIL - FREDERIK HENDRIK, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau]. [18th-century copy of a letter to the States General originally written on 20 September 1645].
Oosteeklo, originally written on 20 September 1645, this transcription: 18th century. Ca. 23 x 14.5 cm. Kept in a plastic folder between tissue paper. [1] l. Full description