Highlights

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...
Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges. [88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp. Full description

ARANEA, Vincenzo. In praecepta decalogi secundae tabulae dicta tractatus.
Including: [ARANEA, Vincenzo]. Disputationes de sacramentis novae legis.
[L'Aquila, ca. 1640]. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in a neat Italian cursive hand, some parts in other hands. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum. [8], 270, [4] ll.; [4], 655, [10] pp. Full description

[ASSAROTTI, Ottavio Giovanno Battista]. Dottrina Christiana. [Manuscript in Italian].
[Genoa, ca. 1815/20]. 8vo. With 117 (of 118) full-page hand-coloured drawings, each in a frame of double rules (20.5 x 14 cm), with lively illustrations of the Christian doctrine, and text in Italian. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. 117 (of 118), [3 blank] ll., including the last 3 blanks. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). Explanatio Psalmorum. [Incipit:] Annotatio principaliu[m] sententiariu[m]/ principaliu[m] sente[n]tiariu[m] in expla-natione psamo[rum]...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1489. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 31 x 21.5 cm).
Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with 1 brass clasp and remnants of a 2nd. [1 blank], [14], [1 blank]; [146]; [192]; [192], [5 blank] ll. Full description

BIE, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten vrede tusschen de twee machtighe croonen van Spaignien en Vrancryck, waer-inne begrepen is den ontsterffelijcken loff vande verrmaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw ...
[Antwerp, printed by Juliaen van Montfort for Jan Meyssens, 1662]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (ca. 23 x 17.5 cm). With an allegorical title-page engraved by Cornelis Meyssens after Abraham van Diepenbeeck (printed by Jan Meyssens and dated 1661 in the plate) depicting 'Pictura' and 'Poêsis' standing next to the engraved title in a cartouche above a chained god Mars, 95 full-page engraved portraits (one - the portrait of Gaspar de Witte - apparently not yet available when printing this copy, see annotation below) of painters, engravers and other artists (including the dedicatee Anton van Leyen, Cornelis de Bie himself, Peter Paul Rubens, Abraham Bloemaert, Gerard van Honthorst, David Teniers, Roelant Savery, Herman Saftleven, Jacob Jordaens, Wenceslaus Hollar and Henricus Hondius, most of them printed by Jan Meyssens after many different artists including Erasmus Quellinus, Anthony van Dyck, Wenceslaus Hollar and many self-portraits). One allegorical plate (depicting the goddess Roma with helmet, at her right Tiberinus (the bearded god of the river Tiber) and at her left the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus with the city of Rome in the background) after an engraving by Cornelis Cort after Jan van der Straet (called Stradanus), this plate is used five times (on pp. 321, 329, 371, 391 and 519) apparently because the portraits of the artists (who are described on the facing pages) were not available. Many woodcut tail-pieces.
Attractively bound in 19th-century grained red morocco, ribbed spine lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles and gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 585, [2] pp. Full description

BONAVENTURA (pseudo) [= Conradus de SAXONIA]. Speculum beate Marie virginis: compilatum ab humili fratre Bonauentura.
Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1476. Folio (26.5 x 21.2 cm). Set in a Gothic letter in 40 lines to the page, printed in 1 column. Rubricated throughout. With a large Maiblumen woodcut-initial and 16 smaller initials (of which 11 hand-coloured in red). Modern vellum, with a manuscript title on the spine. [48] ll. Full description

BOUTTATS, Gaspar (engraver). Korte en nette beschryvinghe van de koninckrycken Hongheryen en Dalmatien, Midts-gaeders de vorstendommen van Sevenberghen, Wallachien, Moldavien, Burgarien, etc. ...
Antwerpen, Hendrick van Dunewalt and Gasper Bouttats, 1688.
With: (2) [BOUTATTS Gaspar (compiler) and Vincenzo Maria CORONELLI (engraver)]. Korte, beknoopte, en nette beschryvinghe van het koninck-ryck Morea. ...
Antwerpen, Hendrick van Dunwalt and Gaspar Bouttats, [ca. 1685?].
Oblong 8vo (ca. 12 x 19 cm). With 82 full-page engraved plates (44 in ad 1 and 38 (including 1 folding) in ad 2). Contemporary gold-tooled calf (or sheepskin), sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. 47, [1 blank] and 44 engraved plates; [1], [1 blank], 24 pp. and 38 engraved plates. 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

CATS, Jacob. 's Werelts begin, midden, eynde, besloten in den trou-ringh, met den proef-steen van den selven.
Including: CATS, Jacob. Lof-sangh op het geestelick hovwelick van Godes sone.
Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Matthias Havius, 1637. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 3 engraved frontispieces including 1 double-page, 2 engraved portraits, one of Anna Maria Schurmans and one of Jacob Cats, 51 engravings in text, the title page printed in red and black, and some woodcut initials, head- and tail pieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, marbled edges. [47], [1 blank], 772; [10], 136 pp. Full description

[CIVIL AND CANON LAW]. [Methodus utriusque juris].
[Cologne], (colophon:) Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 24 December 1481. Folio. With an anonymous engraved portrait in a sprinkled frame on the verso of the second flyleaf, the whole rubricated in red. 18th-century gold-tooled beige calf. 34 ll. Full description