History, Law & Philosophy

STRADA À ROSBERG, Octavius de. Newe Keijser Chronick: das ist, warhaffte und vollkommene Beschreibung aller Römischen Keyser, so wol deren gegen Nider- als gegen Auffgang, von C. Julio Caesare, dem ersten Römischen Monarchen, biss auff jetztregierende Keyserl. May. Ferdinandum II. und das Jahr 1628 ...
Frankfurt am Main, Eberhard Kieser, 1629.
With:
(2) IDEM. Continuation der Keyser Chronick, oder eigentliche, und wahrhaftige, historische Beschreibung der Leben unnd Thaten, beyder grossmächtigen Römischen Keyser, Matthiae I. und der jetznoch regierenden Keys. May. Ferdinandi II. Königen in Böhmen, &c. ...
Frankfurt am Main, Caspar Röteln for Eberhardt Kieser, 1628.
(3) IDEM. Genealogia, das ist, Geschlecht Register, oder Stammbaum, und Verzeichnusz aller Potentaten, Keyser, Königen, Ertzhertzogen und Fürsten ...
Frankfurt am Main, for Eberhard Kieser, 1629.
3 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with the title set in a richly engraved border, a half page engraving of the coat of arms of the dedicatee Don Guillermo Verdugo on f. (2)r, and numerous engravings of coins with the portraits of the emperors in the text. Ad 2: with 10 engravings of both sides of coins in the text. Ad 3: with a large folding engraving (92 x 46.5 cm.) of the genealogical tree of the Dukes and Archidukes of Austria. With numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout.
(Near?) Contemporary mottled calf with a large gold-tooled armorial centre piece on both arms (with the letters "R. M. F." inside the coat of arms), a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, red and light blue sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [4], 596, [10], [2 blank]; 87, [1 blank]; 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm. Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est, Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et aliarum gentium monarchae potentissimi, cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum rege florentissimo comparatio: utriusq[ue] regis historiam breviter complectens, quam regum & principum speculum possis appellare.
(Colophon: Zürich, Johann Wolf), 1592. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a woodcut portrait of Charlemagne and Henry IV on title-page, two woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device on the last leaf. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 79, [1] ll. Full description

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius. Caesarum XII libri, iam denuo bonorum exemplarium & commentariorum ope emendati, cum M. Antonii Coccii Sabellici commentariis, nihil annotatu dignum dissimulantibus. Jo. Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, annot. in Suetonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restitutae per D. Erasmum Roterodamum.
Antwerp, Jan van der Loe, 1548. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and numerous woodcut initials in text. Later marbled boards. [24], 661, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius [and Guillaume Michel de TOURS (translator)]. Des faictz et gestes des douze Caesars, nouvellement imprime.
Paris, Arnoul l'Angelier, 1540. 8vo. With a half-page woodcut illustration on the title page, and 11 half-page woodcuts in the text (repeats with different names in the cartouche), a smaller woodcut illustration at the start of the work by Denis Janot, numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout, and l'Angelier's woodcut device on the final page. Mid- to late-19th-century red morocco (not before 1861), signed by Chambolle-Duru. [8], 276 ll. Full description

[PRIZE BINDING - GORINCHEM]. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius. Ex recensione Joannis Georgii Graevii cum ejusdem animadversionibus, ut et commentario integro Laevini Torrentii, Isaaci Casauboni, Theodori Marcilii, et cum notis ac numismatibus quibus illustratus est a Carolo Patino accedunt notae selectiores aliorum.
Utrecht, Anthonius Schouten, 1703. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a title vignette, numerous illustrations of roman coins in the text, and 2 folding textual cenotaphs. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a floral ornament in each compartment of the spine, the arms of Gorinchem in the centre of both boards surrounded by two ornamental borders, red and blue sprinkled edges. [14], 829, [2], 110, [152] pp. Full description

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Ephemeri vita, of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, vertoont in de wonderbaarelijcke en nooyt gehoorde historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent haft of oever-aas. ...
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675. 8vo (15.6 x 9.5 cm). With detailed illustration of the mayfly or ephemeron on 8 engraved plates (including 2 folding). Further with woodcut decorated initials and a woodcut ornamental tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with title in ink on the spine. [32], 422, [8] pp. Full description

[SWANENBURG, Isaac Claesz. van (after); DOLENDO, Zacharias?]. Vertoninghe der tegenwoordighe stant int vrye-Nederlandt.
[The Netherlands], 1618. (ca. 22 x 29,5 cm). Engraved print on paper. In passe-partout. Full description

SWART, Henri Nicolas Alfred. Two autograph letters to Horace Gybland Oosterhoff.
Brussels, 3 October and 7 October 1936. Folio. Folded. [1] and [2] ll. Full description

[SWETNAM, Joseph] and Willem CHRISTIAENS (translator). Recht-banck, tegen de luye, korzelighe, en wispeltuyrighe vrouwen.
Leiden, Willem Christiaens van der Boxe, 1641. Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut on the title-page showing several women assaulting and name-calling a writer. Decorated paper over boards (ca. 1900). [3], [1 blank], [14], 53, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SYTZAMA, Clara Feyoena van. Bellingeweerder uitspanningen, behelzende eenige geestelyke- en mengel-stoffen, in rym ... benevens een voorrede en aanhangsel, betreffende het doorlugtigste huis van Orange en Nassau.
Groningen, Jurjen Spandaw, 1746. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, the title page is printed in red and black, several decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, a central floral ornament on both boards, surrounded by an ornamental and a floral border, gold-tooled board edges, brocade paper pastedowns, gilt and gauffered edges. [92], [58], 92, [3] pp. Full description