BAIF, Lazare de (d. 1547). Annotationes in Legem II de captivis & postliminio revesis... De re navalis... De auro & argento legato... Vestimentorum & Vasculorum. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1541. 4° (196 x 150mm.). Title and final leaf with woodcut printer's device, 33 woodcut illustrations, some full-page, 4 woodcut diagrams and several woodcut initials. (Small rust hole n2, one wormhole from E3 to the final leaf.) Contemporary vellum (ties lacking). Provenance: Cornelius van Dham (inscription). Adams B-36. -- Thomas RYVES (1583-1652). Historia Navalis, Antiqua libris quatuor. London: Robert Barker and Heirs of John Bill, 1633. 8° (171 x 110mm.). 1 folding woodcut plate. (Light worming to most leaves, including the plate.) Contemporary vellum gilt (some staining). Provenance: R. Weckherlin (signature); R. Kennedy (signature); Robert Buchanan Stewart (bookplate); Institute of Naval Architects, Scott Library (bookplate, sale Christie's 5 December 1974, lot 427, sold #80 to Francis Edwards.) STC 21475; Historia navalis mediae Libri tres. London: Richard Hodgkinson, 1640. 8° (170 x 110mm.). (Some light browning.) Contemporary vellum gilt (ties lacking, inner hinges split). Provenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (signature). STC 21476. -- Melchisedech THÉVENOT. L'art de Nager, avec des avis pour se baigner utilement. Paris: Lamy, 1782. 12° (141 x 80mm.). Half-title, engraved frontispiece, 22 numbered engraved plates, extra-illustrated with one folding leaf tipped-in at the end. Contemporary French mottled calf gilt. Provenance: Vonzan (armorial bookplate). New edition. Brunet V.813). (4)