Highlights

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de]. Opera posthuma, quorum series post praefationem exhibetur.
[Amsterdam, Israel de Paull for Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr.], 1677.
Comprising:
- Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata.
- Tractatus politicus.
- Tractatus de intellectus emendatione.
- Epistolae doctorum quorundam virorum.
- Compendium grammatices linguae Hebraeae.
With (bound before ad 1):
(2) IDEM. Tractatus theologico-politicus continens dissertations aliquot, quibus ostenditur libertatem philosophandi non tantum salva pietate, & Reipublicae pace posse concede: sed etiam nisi cum pace Reipublicae, ipsaque pietate tolli non posse ...
Hamburg, Henricus Künrath [= Amsterdam, Israel de Paull for Jan Rieuwertsz sr.], 1670. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (19.8 x 16.2 cm). Ad 1 with several woodcut mathematical figures in the Epistolae, small diagrams in the Ethica and Epistolae, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Ad 2 with woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the preface. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine with Spinoza's initials lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, red painted edges. (Ad 2 bound before ad 1:) [1], [1 blank], [10], 233, [3 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [38], 614, [31], [1 blank], [2], 112, [8] pp. Full description

STEVIN, Hendrik. Plaetboec. Vervangende de figuren of formen gehorig tottet wiscontich filosofisch bedryf van Hendric Stevin Heer van Alphen van Schrevelsrecht &c. Begrepen in XIV boeken met een aenhang.
[Leiden, Philippe de Croy], 1668. Folio. With 29 double-page engraved plates, a woodcut device on the title page and a woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with a paper (shelfmark?) label at the foot of the spine ("115"). [2] letterpress ll. and 29 double-page engraved plates. Full description

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid ...
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black and 79 engraved plates (including 1 repeat of plate 54, 3589 Muller), most double-page and several larger folding sheets, including several maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards (Pasquin variant). The copy contains the register listing 74 items and 4 plates not in Mullers principal list (Muller 3611-3613 and 3615), but unfortunately lacks plate 18 (3553 Muller). (Near-) Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title and year lettered in gold on the spine, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. Bound by the Bird's Head Bindery in Amsterdam (ca. 1728-1765?), see Storm van Leeuwen. [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, 31, [1 blank], 8, 10 pp. and 79 engraved plates (2 before the title page). Full description

THIBAULT, Gerard. Academie de l'espée ... ou se demonstrent par reigles mathematiques sur le fondement d'un cercle mysterieux la theorie et pratique des vrais et jusqu'a present incognus secrets du maniement des armes a pied et a cheval.
[Amsterdam?, Thibault heirs?, printed in Leiden by Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevier, sold in Frankfurt by Lucas Jennis], "1628" [= 1629]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal 1mo (53.5 x 41 cm). With an elaborate engraved title page with; engraved portrait of the author (drawn by David Bailly after his own painting); 9 full-page engraved armorial plates, 1 full-page and 45 double-page numbered illustration plates, and hundreds of large woodcut arabesque initial letters, headpieces, tailpieces and factotums, at least most of them specially made for this book. With 2 text leaves in a meticulously pen-drawn, 18th-century(?) facsimile. With all plates beautifully coloured by the painter David Bailly with highlights in gold and silver. Contemporary(?) vellum over boards (modified in the 18th century), with the velvet covering and metal bosses and fastenings removed, dark blue edges. With tissues guards loosely inserted before the coloured plates. With a dedicatory inscription on the front free endleaf to Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, by the colourist David Bailly, signed from Antwerp, 17 March 1629. Also with a carefully hand-lettered contemporary note to the reader at the foot of the dedication page. [4], [222]; [54], pp. + engraved title page and other plates. Full description

[VARENNE, François-Pierre de la (attributed)]. Le pastissier[!] François. Où est enseigné la maniere de faire toute sorte de patisserie, tres-utile à toute sorte de personnes. Ensemble le moyen dáprester toutes sortes d'oeufs pour les jours maigres, & autres, en plus de soixante façons.
Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier, 1655. 12mo. With an engraved title page, Elzeviers woodcut device on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials and headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, bound by Georges Trautz ("Trautz-Bauzonnet"). The book is kept in a protective red paper slipcase, the whole kept in a custom-made beige cloth box, lined with red cloth. [12], 252 pp. Full description

VEEN, Otto, van. Amorum emblemata.
Antwerp, Henrik Swingen for the author, 1608. Oblong 4to (15 x 19.7 cm). With 1 full-page engraving, and 124 full-page engraved emblems, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum, remnants of ties along all edges, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [14], 247, [1] pp. Full description

[VIGNE, David de la] and Mr. De CHERTABLON. La maniere de se bien preparer a la mort, par des considerations sur la cene, la passion & la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de très-belles estampes emblematiques, expliquées par Mr. De Chertablon.
Antwerp [= Amsterdam?], George Gallet, 1700. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece ("numbered" A), mainly showing Death knocking on a door, the title page is printed in red and black, 39 numbered full-page engraved plates, and two additional full-page engraved plates ("numbered" B-C). All plates are copies (the majority in reverse) of etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary gold-tooled tan calf, with the coat of arms of the Vignerot du Plessis family, dukes of Richelieu, as a centrepiece on both boards, a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, red edges. 63, [1] pp. Full description

[VISSIER, Paul]. Histoire de la tribu des Osages, peuplade sauvage de l'Amérique septentrionale, dans l'état du Missouri, l'un des États-Unis d'Amérique. Écrite d'après les six Osages actuellement a Paris. Suivi de la relation du voyage de ces sauvages, et d'une notice historique sur chacun de ces Indiens célèbres dans leur tribu par leurs exploits guerriers.
Paris & Rennes, Charles Béchet & Duchesne, 1827. 8vo. With the title on the front wrapper set within a decorative frame, the frame repeated on the back wrapper with a sailing ship as a centerpiece. Original printed paper wrappers, sewn through two holes. 92 pp. Full description

[VOC]. [Collection of printed VOC orders, resolutions, instructions and other documents, assembled and published with a printed contents list.]
Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere, Nicolaas Byl, Adriaan Wor and others, 1747-1790. Folio. With 2 woodcut illustrations in item 20, 1 leaf inserted in item 23 printed in red, and several items with a woodcut ship on the title page and/or one or more woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary (ca. 1790) sheepskin parchment. Full description

WIT, Frederick de. Atlas maior.
Amsterdam, Johannes Covens & Cornelis Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Imperial folio (53 x 35.5 cm). With engraved title page and 76 double-page (or in 8 cases larger folding) engraved maps, the title page and all maps and their decorations coloured by a contemporary hand. Half tanned sheepskin (ca. 1900), gold-tooled spine. Full description