[ALPAGO, Cesare et al.]. Per le nozze del Sig.r. Marchese Guglielmo de' Fulcis, cavalier di Malta, maggiore attuale al servizio delle LL. MM. II. RR. con la Sig'.ra. Contessa Francesca de' Migazzi de Vaal e Sonnenthurn.
[Venice], (colophon: nella stamperia Albrizzi con privilegio dell' Ecc.mo Senato per tutti li rami che adornano le di lui stampe, 1776). Folio (35 x 25 cm). Engraved frontispiece with a decorative rococo border, engraved title in a rococo border incorporating the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf; 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one on C3 signed ''Piazzetta inv.''. Contemporary light green paper wrappers with gold rococo ornamental borders and a gold centre piece with allegorical seated figure on the front and back side of the wrappers, probably made for presentation to the bride, groom or an important person who attended the wedding. [57], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ALUNNO, Francesco. Della fabrica del mondo ... libri dieci. Ne'quali si contengono le voci di Dante, del Petrarca, del Boccaccio, & d'altri buoni auttori, mediante le quali si possono scrivendo esprimere tutti i concetti dell'huomo di qualunque cosa creata.
Venice, Paolo Ugolino, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each part, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces.
With: PORCACCHI, Tomasso. Vocabolario nuovo ... Sopra molte voci, che per avanti nella Fabrica erano grandemente desiderate. Contemporary Italian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [34], "263" [= 262], [1 blank]; 17 ll. Full description

AL-ZAMAKHSHARI, Abu al-Quasim Mahmud ibn Umar and Hendrik Albert SCHULTENS (editor). [Arabic type: Al-kalim al-nawabi]. Anthologia sententiarum Arabicarum.
Leiden, Jean Le Mair (colophon: printed by Daniel van Damme), 1772. Small 4to. With the large engraved arms of Willem V, Prince of Orange, by A. v. d. Meer, above the dedication, and several dedicated woodcut initials. 19th century gold-tooled quarter calf. [20], 171, [1] pp. Full description

AL-ZAMAKHSHARI and Jens Peter BROCH. Al-Mufassal, opus de re grammatica Arabicum.
Oslo, W.C. Fabritius, 1859. 8vo. Near contemporary cloth with title in gold on spine, covered with protective plastic. 229, [5] pp. Full description

AMPHIAREO DA FERRARA, Vespasiano. Opera, nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere, et massime una lettera bastarda da lui novamente con sua industria ritrovata, laqual serve al cancellaresco et mercantesco. Poi insegna a far linchiostro negrissimo con tanta facilita, che ciascuno per semplice che sia, lo sapra far da se. Anchora a macinar loro & scrivere con esso come si fara con linchiostro, parimente a scrivere con lazurro, & col cinaprio, opera utilissima e molto necessaria alluso humano.
Venice, 1555. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut of two hands, one holding a compass and the other holding a pen, 6 charming woodcut initials in text and 85 engraved models of calligraphic text and initials, all set within black-lined borders. 18th-century gold-tooled vellum. [48] ll. Full description

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 printers 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

ANACREON. Anakreontos Teiou mele praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur.
Parma, in aedibus Palatinis [Typis Bodonianis], 1791. 16mo in 4s (15 x 11 cm). With a small engraved portrait of Anacreon in a roundel on the title-page, a small engraved portrait of the dedicatee J. N. de Azara in a roundel on the dedication page. Part of the text is set in Greek type. Contemporary gold-tooled green morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, shiny pink endpapers, with a frame of small silver leaves mounted on the pastedowns. [4], CXVIII, [2], 111, [1] pp. Full description

ANSINGH, Lizzy; Nelly BODENHEIM (illustrator); Tine BAANDERS (decorated script). 'n Vruchtenmandje. Versjes Lizzy Ansingh. Illustraties Nelly Bodenheim. Sierschrift Tine Baanders.
Amsterdam, De Spiegel (printed by Dieperink & Co.), 1927. Folio (29.5 x 23 cm). With the classic illustrated front board, a small illustration of a tea set on the title-page, 21 full-page illustrations of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts, and vegetables. All illustrations, including the illustrated front board, are lithographs designed by the illustrator herself on stone and coloured by hand by her as well. The verses by Lizzy Ansingh are written by Tine Baanders by hand in a decorative script. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper of the Dutch "Van Gelder" paper factory. Original half parchment and (hand-coloured lithographed) paper over boards, bound in the Japanese style with green ribbon through 5 holes. [1], [1 blank], [41], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

APHTHONIUS of Antioch; Rodolphus AGRICOLA and Giovanni Maria CATANEO (translators). Aphthonii sophistae progymnasmata. Partim à Rodolpho Agricola, partim à Ioanne Maria Catanaeo latinitate donata. Cum luculentis & vtilibus in eadem Scholiis Reinhardi Lorichii Hadamarii. Nunc verò omnia multò quàm antea & emendatiora & meliori artificio disposita.
Paris, Gilles Gourbin, 1580. 16mo in 8s. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 3 woodcut headpieces in the beginning of the work, and 9 decorated woodcut initials throughout. 17th-century limp vellum. [12], 259, [3 blank] ll. Full description

[ARABIC-SCRIPT PRINTER’S WOODBLOCK]. Hand-cut woodblock bearing the text "Safr Nishd al-nishad li-Süleyman ..." (Book of the Song of songs of Solomon) in naskh Arabic script.
[Probably Ottoman provinces, mid-18th century (ca. 1750)]. A single hand-cut woodblock (17 x 9 x 2.2 cm, with protrusions to the left and right making it wider - 11 cm - near the head to accommodate the wider 2nd line) intended for use as printing block, with 6 lines of text, together with an inked impression on 18th century paper (16.5 x 10.5 cm). Full description