4to (212 x 154 mm). 101 ff. (of 102, lacking final blank). Gothic types. Title printed in red and black within nine-part woodcut & metalcut title border, woodcut printer’s device in red and black. Red underlining to title. 119 woodcut illustrations printed from 108 blocks. Cuts on e6r and f2r... More about La grand nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin...

Two hand-colored engraved broadsheets: 1) Large broadside, trimmed to borders (482 x 389 mm.), and laid down on modern paper; showing large central figure of Our Lady of Deliverance holding in her left arm the crowned Christ Child, on an altar with maritime background, surrounded by ex-votos, flanked by eight... More about La Dévotion à l’Image de la très Ste Vierge dite Notre Dame de la Delivrance. [And:] Notre...

Oblong (170 x 338 mm). [18] leaves. Engraved title dated 1830, 16 engraved plates of calligraphic specimens by Cominotti, extra inserted leaf dated 1852, engraved by C. Castellini. Leaves of varying heights, some deckle edges. Occasional light foxing. Stab-stitched in original yellow printed wrappers, dated 1852, title on front cover... More about Esemplari di caratteri scritti e incisi

Chancery half-sheet 4to (216 x 155 mm). Collation: a10 b-n8 o10 (a1r blank, a1v table, a2r-o10v text); a10 b12. (a1r blank, a1v a1v dedication to Doge Nicolò Marcello, a2r-b12v text). 116; 22 leaves, unfoliated. 40 lines, 2 columns. Type: 2:78G2. Capital spaces with guide letters. Rubrication: opening 7-line initials in..... More about Sermones de adventu, Sermo de S. Joseph, Sermo de beatitudine, Sermones de divina caritate,...

Bound with: THOMAS À KEMPIS. Opera: Sermones, epistolae et alia opuscula. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder [for Peter Dannhauser], 29 November 1494. Two volumes in one, chancery folio (284 x 195 mm). Cassianus: collation: 10 A-B8 C-F6.8 G8; a-b8 c-d6 e-h6.8 i8 k-n6.8 o-t8 v6. 208 leaves, unrubricated. 47 lines and headline... More about De institutis coenobiorum. - Collationes patrum XXIV

4to (207 x 167 mm). 326 pp. Title woodcut of Chronos, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, the tailpiece on p. 66 with the author’s name in intertwined letters, final tailpiece showing Mercury, the head-pieces with the imperial double-headed eagle. Occasional light browning. Contemporary Brokatpapier (Dutch-gilt paper)- covered boards, decorated with figures... More about Talpa literaria operi utili vacans et ter mille chronographicos exstruens, et exaltans a cervos...

Manuscript on paper (186 x 160 mm). [47] leaves plus two blanks. Fraktur & cursive script. Illustrated with 11 pages (ff. 41v-46v) of weaving patterns. No visible watermarks. Leaves 2-8 with remnants of red wax adhesive. Some soiling and staining. Contemporary half calf (sheep?), the boards covered in very crude... More about Manuscript weaving and dyeing manual: Färbebuch für Gottlob Friedrich Rose in Frohburg Anno 1769

Broadsheet (434 x 325 mm). Printed text in two columns, fulfilled in manuscript; surmounted by a row of three woodcuts, at bottom the seal of the Portuguese Commissary General of the Holy Land. Fine condition, untrimmed, minor creases at folds.***An illustrated printed form granting induction into the Confraternity (Irmandade) of... More about Carta de Irmandade de Jerusalem

12mo (141 x 75 mm). [12], 81, [1] pp. Woodcut title ornament, headpieces by Vincent Le Sueur (signed Vi L S) and initials. 18th-century calf, smooth spine gold-tooled, red morocco lettering-piece, edges red-stained (wear to extremities, covers rubbed). ***First Edition of a social satire of the privileged classes. The preface... More about Eloge des paysans. Aux paysans

Bound with: CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. Paris: for Pierre Gaudoul, 1531 [And:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. Paris: [Jean Kerbriand], 1531 [And:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Paris: (Jean Kerbriand), 1531. 8vo (155 x 98 mm). Four parts... More about Sext[us] decretalium liber ... Cui adiecta sunt recenter summaria. [Part 2:] CLEMENT V, Pope....

Printed on vellum. Folio (285 x 185 mm). [6] leaves, clxiii, [1]; [4], 84, 4, 4, [6], 11 pp. [1] leaf. 2 blank leaves at front and 4 at back. Title with Grolier Club device, three engraved vignettes by Max Rosenthal in the first part (Fowler’s introduction), unsigned lithograph on... More about Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York....

2 works in 4 volumes, 12mo, bound dos-à-dos (binding size 134 x 74 x 50 mm). Thirsis Minnewit: 3 volumes: [8], 160; 164, [4]; [8], 160. Volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, all 3 letterpress titles with a woodcut vignette of men and women at a banquet, woodcut initials and tail-piece... More about Thirsis Minnewit. Bestaande in een verzameling der moyste en aangenaamste minne-zangen en voysen

12mo (161 x 99 mm). [1], 56 (recte 65) ff. Woodcut title vignette (harvesting scene with lion at top), woodcut headpiece and initial. Publisher’s binding? of 18th-century French olive morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, flat spine gold-tooled and -lettered, gilt edges (joints and extremities scuffed, spine a trifle faded).***Counterfeit... More about Question royalle et sa décision