History, Law & Philosophy / Philosophy & Humanism

DECKER, Jeremias de. Rym-oeffeningen, verdeelt in dry boecken vervattende gedichten van verscheyden stijl en stoffe.
Amsterdam, Abraham van Blancken (colophon: Gouda, Willem van der Hoeven), 1659.
With: (2) DECKER, Jeremias de. Lof der geldsucht.
Amsterdam, Jacobus vander Deyster and Jan Blom, 1687. 2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 3 parts. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title pages of both works, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum over boards. [8], 2, [12], 18, [4], 112, [4], 164, [2], "183"[= 185], [1]; [16], 128 pp. Full description

DESCARTES, René. Principia philosopiae.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
With:
(2) DESCARTES, René. Specimina philosopiae: seu dissertatio de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: dioptrice, et meteora.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
(3) DESCARTES, René. Passiones animae.
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650.
3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With 3 title pages, each with Elzevier's woodcut Athena and tree device (Rahir M19), ads 1 and 2 with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, ad 1 with a woodcut tailpiece (Rahir fleuron 102) and all three with a few woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Sprinkled calf (old boards rebound on 4 recessed cords with a blind-tooled spine, a spine label, and new endpapers ca. 1800?). [40], “302” [= 292]; [16], 316; [24], 98, [6] pp. Full description

DIDEROT, Denis. Oeuvres de Denis Diderot, publiées, sur les manuscrits de l'auteur, par Jacques-André Naigeon, de l'Institut National des Sciences, etc. Tome premier[-quinzième].
Paris, Desray, Deterville (back of half-title, vol. I: printed by [Charles] Crapelet), an VI [=] 1798. 15 volumes. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Charles Étienne Gaucher after a 1766 drawing by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 16 engraved plates and a folding letterpress table of all kinds of human knowledge for the Encyclopédie (52 x 37.5 cm). Contemporary, uniform half sprinkled calf, richly gold-tooled spines. [in total about 7500 pp.]. Full description

DILHERR, Johann Michael. Heilig-Epistolischer Bericht, Licht, Geleit und Freud. Das ist: emblematische Fürstellung, der heiligen sonn- und festtäglichen Episteln.
Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolffgang der Jüngere, 1663.
With: (2) DILHERR, Johann Michael. Augen- und Hertzens-Lust. Das ist Emblematische Fürstellung der Sonn- und Festtäglichen Evangelien.
Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolffgang der Jüngere, 1661. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut printer's device, and 85 large engraved emblems by M. Küsell after G. Strauch. Further with numerous woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Ad 2: with an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut printer's device, and 91 large engraved emblems by M. Küsell after G. Strauch. Contemporary calf with the coat of arms of the Nürnberg patrician family Holzschuher Von und Zu Haszlach stamped in gold in the centre of each board, gold-tooled spine, gilt edges, floral chintz end papers. [8 blank], [30], 631, [33]; [8], 234, [4], 235-365, [31], [8 blank] pp. Full description

DUPUIS, Charles-François. Mémoire sur l'origine des constellations, et sur l'explication de la fable, par le moyen de l'astronomie.
Paris, widow Desaint, 1781. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary cat's paw calf, gold-tooled spine. 228 pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De ratione studii, ac legendi interpretandique auctores libellus aureus. Officiu[m] discipulorum ex Quintiliano. Qui primo legendi, ex eodem. Erasmi concio de puero Iesu in schola coletica Londini instituta p[ro]nu[n]cia[n]da. Eiusdem expostulatio Iesu ad mortales. Eiusdem carmina scholaria.
(Colophon) Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, April 1516. 4to. With a woodcut decorated title frame and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern brown pigskin. XXIII, [1 blank] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Sileni Alcibiadis ... Cum Scholijs Ioannis Frobenij, pro graecarum uocum & quorundam locorum apertiori intelligentia ad calcem adiectis.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, April 1517.
Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Scarabeus. Cum shcoliis[!], in quibus Graeca potissimum, quae passim inserta sunt, exponuntur.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, May 1517. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 4 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of each part. Late 19th-century or early 20th-century boards, red edges. 42 ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Plutarchi Chaerone[n]s opuscula quaeda[m] Des. Erasmo Roterodamo, Stephano Nigro, Angelo Barbato, Bilibaldo Pirckheymero, & Philippo Melanchthone Brettano, interpretibus.
(Colophon) Basel, Johann Froben, September 1518. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page, the first page of the dedication, the first page of the text (A3r), and the first page of the text by Stephanus Niger (H2r), 18 woodcut decorated initials, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Froben's device. 19th-century richly gold-tooled quarter red morocco. 194, [2] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Eximii doctoris Hieronymi Stridonensis vita, ex ipsius potissimum literis contexta.
Basel, (Colophon) Johann Froben, May 1519. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page and on page 3, a small woodcut illustration incorporating Froben's device on the verso of the last leaf, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern beige paper boards. 70, [2] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli, ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, et ad Philemonem unam ... recens ab illo conscriptae, et nunc primum typis excusae...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.
With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios, Philippenses, et Colossenses, et in duas ad Thessalonicenses, cum epistola nuncupatoria ad ...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.
(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Modus orandi deum.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Johann Knobloch, March 1525.
(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Consilium in caussa evangelica.
[Leipzig, Michael Blum], 1526. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page of each work, a woodcut printer's device at the end of the first 2 works, 9 decorative woodcut borders in the text, 16 decorative woodcut initials, and 4 woodcut headpieces. Later blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with a lozenge-shaped ornament and cornerpieces in the central panel, surrounded by a decorative border, 2 metal clasps and catches, the manuscript title at the head edge, a blank paper label on the spine, and 4 pigskin tabs. 141, [3]; 167, [1]; [91], [1 blank]; [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description