Carmina, e posthumis mss. pietate nepotum eius, Matthiae ac Stephani, edita. Posonius [Bratislava]: Georg Aloysius Belnay, 1804.
8vo (193 x 118 mm). 160 pp. Two engraved plates: portraits of the author and of Franciscus Barkóczy, by Sebastian Mansfeld of Vienna. Contemporary marbled sheep, smoooth spine gold-tooled in six compartments, the second with beige calf gilt lettering-piece, floral Kattunpapier endpapers (covers a bit scratched, dent in front cover)..... More
Ad Capponianas Ruthenas tabulas commentarius. Rome: Giovanni Generoso Salomoni [for the author], 1755.
4to (310 x 216 mm). [40], 136 pp. Title in red and black with engraved vignette of the arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Millo held aloft by two cherubs, text in two columns, 5 engraved plates on thicker paper, two historiated initials, one engraved, signed by Gravignani, woodcut tailpiece. Light..... More
De la condition sociale des femmes au dix-neuvième siècle, et de leur éducation publique et privée. Brussels: (H. Rémy for) Berthot, Libraire du Roi et de la Cour, 1834.
18mo (155 x 100 mm). [8], 161, [3] pp. Half-title preserved. Wove paper. Some soiling, a few creases. Contemporary dark violet leather-backed marbled boards, title gilt-lettered on spine (extremities worn). Marginal reader’s marks in first chapter (Première Lettre).*** First edition in book form of a foundational text of Belgian feminism. This..... More
Die brösamlin. Compiled by Johann Pauli. Strassburg: Johannes Grüninger, 4 February - 24 March 1517.
Folio (313 x 205 mm). 2 parts: 110 (recte 106); 92 leaves. Gothic types, double column. Title printed in red and black within a woodcut Renaissance-style border block, thirty-four text illustrations printed from 32 blocks (including several repeats and two illustrations printed from two or three blocks) by the Master..... More
Leipziger Messscenen. Erstes (-Zweites, -Drittes) Heft. Leipzig: E. Z. Steinacker, 1804-1805.
3 parts, small oblong 4to (178 x 219 mm.). 20; 18; “19” (recte 20) pp. Each part with half-title only, titles supplied on the wrappers. 12 plates of oval hand-colored tinted aquatints by Geissler. Occasional light foxing to text. Publisher’s original pale green printed wrappers (some wear and creasing, sewing..... More
Bibliothecae Alexandrinae Icones symbolicae ... elogiis illustratae. Milan: Io. Bapt. Bidellinm [recte Bidellium], 1628.
4to (221 x 168 mm). [8], 140, [4] pp. + 32 leaves: engraved title on f. [1]r, signed Bassano, and 16 full-page engravings, also attributed to Cesare Bassano, each printed on the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium with a letterpress list of inscriptions or epithets for each..... More
Die Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes. Bern: Abraham Wagner, 1760.
3 vols., 8vo (205 x 123 mm). I: 41, [3], 237, [1 blank], [3], [1 bl.] pp.; II: 14, 219, 2, [1 bl.] pp.; III: [4], 9, [3], 224 pp. 21 engraved plates: frontispiece, 2 folding maps of the Swiss Alps, including one mineralogical map, and 17 folding plates, by..... More
Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: Lorenzo (son of Francesco) di Alopa, 11 August 1494.
Median 4to (226 x 162 mm).Collation: [Greek type:] A-O AA-KK8; [LL]8 (A1r blank, A1v Greek alphabet and diphthongs, title and table of contents, A2r-KK8v text; [LL]1r Lascaris' verse epilogue in Greek, [LL]v-7v editor's dedicatory letter to Piero de' Medici in Latin, [LL]7v Latin colophon, [LL]8 blank). 280 leaves. Types: 5a..... More
Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 27 February 1479.
Royal folio (414 x 284 mm). Collation as in BMC & GW. 246 leaves, unfoliated, including first and final blanks. 51 lines and headline, double column. Gothic types 4:160 (headings and headlines), 3:110a (text). Initial spaces. Fine large opening initial supplied in pink with foliate modelling, green filigree geometric infill..... More
Haandbog til Brodering og Tegning ... Förste Deel. Med XXVI illuminerede Kobbere, som angive de behörige Farver. Copenhagen: Glydendal, 1794.
Oblong folio (307 x 204 mm). 12 pp., 25 (of 26) engraved plates (without plate 1), all delicately colored in watercolor under the direction of the artist-publisher. Title within type-ornament border. First plate (pl. 2) somewhat soiled and with small ink splashes or spots, some marginal soiling elsewhere, a few..... More
Vita et miracoli di S. Antonio de Padoa con le figure in rame. Venice: Nicolò Honorato, 1602.
4to (197 x 145 mm). [6 leaves], 206 pp. (some mispaginations). Engraved title and 20 full-page engravings. Page 197 (f. N3r) left blank except for headline, for an illustration that was not supplied. Historiated woodcut initials, a few typographic passe-partout initial borders, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces. Printing flaw..... More
Odysseia (Greek): Odyssea. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, aliaq(ue) eius opuscula, seu catalecta. Edited by Hubert van Giffen. Strassburg: Theodosius Rihel, [ca. 1572].
8vo (183 x 115 mm). Collation: *8 A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Fff8 Ggg10 hhh8 iii10 (inner bifolium of sheet Ggg misbound between iiii5 and iii6). [8 leaves], 837, [1] pp., [25] leaves. Rihel’s woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. Editor’s dedication to Count Ludwig von Oettingen (*2r-A1v). Text in Greek on versos..... More
Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et biblianis cum triumphis cesaris. [Paris]: Simon Vostre, [ca. 1508].
Printed on paper. 4to in 8s (249 x 167 mm ). Collation: A-E8 F2 G6 H-N8 O6. [102] leaves. Batarde type 98, 29/31 lines. Title in four lines below large metalcut Vostre device (Renouard 1105), within a metalcut border; Anatomical man metalcut within an architectural border; 26 large metalcuts of..... More
Kurtz abgefasstes sehr nutz- und erbauliches Berg- und Saltzwercks-Buch. Frankfurt & Leipzig: Carl Christian Neuenhahn, 1702.
Bound with: Wohlangerichtetes Aerarium Chymicum Antiqvo-Novum, oder Alt-erneuert-und reichlichst vermehrte Chymische Schatzkammer. Leipzig: Johann Herbord Klotz (printed in Delitzsch by Christian Koberstein), 1702. [Bound with:] Praxis Metallica Curiosa, oder Curieus-angestellt und experimentirte Schmelz Proben, so bisher als grosse Arcana, von den Besitzern des Manuscripti sehr secretiret und geheim gehalten worden..... More
Oesers neueste Allegoriegemälde. Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1782.
Small 8vo (166 x 102 mm). 60 pages. Etched title vignette of the Sphinx, etched vignette on final page of a winged flying cupid having just released a wreath, the latter signed R. f[ecit]. Contemporary green gilt-ruled paper over pasteboards, mottled edges (slight wear to corners and extremities of spine).*** First..... More
Schöne und rahre Landschafften in Italien und andern Ländern nach dem Leben gezeichnet von Joh. Wilhelm Baurn Solche von Melchior Küßel in Kupffer gestochen. Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krauss, [ca. 1700?].
Oblong 4to (240 x 282 mm). 18 plates: engraved title and 17 numbered etchings, engraved captions in German, by Melchior Küsel after Baur. Watermarks: 1) hunting horn, 45 x 32 mm., lettered below A I F; 2) serpent (95 x 37 mm.) coiled around an anchor(?) with leaf-shaped upper escutcheon..... More
Les Considérations des quatre mondes, à savoir est: Divin, Angélique, Celeste, & Sensible : comprinses en quatre Centuries de quatrains, Contenans la Cresme de Divine & humaine Philosophie. Lyon: Macé Bonhomme [for Jean Mounier and Jean Perrin at Toulouse], 1552.
8vo (167 x 106 mm). [236] pages (of 240, last 2 blank leaves removed). Printer’s woodcut device on title (Baudrier no. 2), full-page portrait of the author, eight different sets of four-part woodcut page borders of grotesques, including a lion’s head, fruits and scrollwork, typographic tail-piece ornaments, woodcut historiated initials..... More
![Opera. [With:] Venantius FORTUNATUS (ca. 530-ca.610). De resurrectione Christi. Lucius Coelius...](/pictures/thumb/3133.JPG?v=1473012029)
Opera. [With:] Venantius FORTUNATUS (ca. 530-ca.610). De resurrectione Christi. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Median folio (324 x 224 mm.). Collation: [112 212 310 4-228 2312; 248] (1/1 blank, 1/2 list of Lactantius's errors found by Antonius Raudensis, 1/12v blank, 2/1r in praise of the works of Lactantius, 2/2r text, 23/11v metrical colophon, 23/12 blank, 24/1 24/1 Epythomon, 24/8 blank). 205 leaves (of 206..... More
Areostiade, ossia il mongolfiero. Poema di V.L.C. Milan: presso Agnello Nobile, 1803.
2 vols. in one, 12mo (157 x 97 mm.) xi, [1], 296; [4], 383, [1] pp. Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine with red and dark green morocco lettering pieces, small gilt Montgolfier balloon tool at top and bottom, yellow red-sprinkled edges. *** First complete edition of an epic poem on ballooning..... More
Meintzisch hoffgerichts Ordnu(n)g zu allen andern gerichten dienlich. Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 4 September 1521.
Bound with: Undergerichts ordnung des Ertzstiffts Meyntz. Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 23 May 1534. 2 vols. in one, small folio (278 x 193 mm). 1) [23] leaves (of 24, final blank removed). Woodcut title border composed of ten blocks. incorporating whimsical scenes, ornamental borders, and at bottom the arms of the..... More
Le Dialogue de consolation entre lame et raison: faict & compose par ung religieux de la reformation de lordre de Fontevrault: nouvellement imprime a Paris. Paris: [Étienne Caveiller for] Denis Janot, 1537.
8vo (164 x 102 mm). Collation: A-V8. [160] leaves. Bâtarde type, shoulder notes. Title printed in red and black within four-part metalcut border with grotesques and flowering plants, full-page metalcut of the Trinity and All Saints on title verso. Metalcut and woodcut 5-line initials. Foremargins of ff. D2-4 with tear..... More
Spécimen des divers caractères, vignettes et fleurons des Fonderie et Stéréotypie de L. Leger graveur, neveu et successeur de P. F. Didot. Paris: Place de l’Estrapade, No. 28 (Impr. de Panckoucke), [not before 1831].
4to (280 x 220 mm). 64 leaves, plus 4 large folding specimen broadsides bound at end. 3 preliminary leaves: title, with Leger’s monogram, 2-page Avis to printers and booksellers, 2-page price list, the latter bearing the official royal inkstamp (Timbre royal); 61 specimen leaves and 4 large folding plates, printed..... More
Almanach utile et agréable de la loterie de l’Ecole Royale Militaire pour l’année 1759 ... Enrichi de quatre-vingt-dix figures en taille douce, qui pourront servir de devises. Amsterdam & Paris: chez Prault père [and] Laurent-Fr. Le Clerc, 1759.
16mo (113 x 62 mm). viii, 97, [1] pp. (folding table counted as 4 pages). Ninety-one etchings after Gravelot, including allegorical frontispiece signed by N. Le Mire and dated 1758, and 90 etched plates of girls and women engaged in various activities of daily life. Text within double rule border..... More
Traité des songes et des visions nocturnes avec leurs significations, selon la doctrine des Anciens, expliquées par ordre alphabétique. [Caen: Chalopin, ca. 1800].
12mo (137 x 84 mm). 12 pp. Drop-title. Stab-stitched in original blue printed wrappers. Modern folding moroco-backed chemise and slipcase.*** A late chapbook incarnation of Vulson de La Colombière’s treatise on dream interpretation (first published 1660), this pocket-sized alphabetical list of dreams and their meanings had a practical purpose, being sold..... More
Histoire secrette du Prince Croque’Etron et de la Princesse Foirette. “A Gringuenaude [i.e., Paris?]: chez Vincent d’Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant, rue du Gros Visage, a l’Enseigne du Privé Conseil, attenant l’Hôtellerie de la Fleur,”, [ca. 1740-1780].
12mo (129 x 76 mm.). viii, 64 pp. Half-title. Expressive woodcut vignette on title (a chamber pot and its contents). Occasional light spotting. 19th-century citron morocco, sides gilt panelled, spine gilt lettered longitudinally, turn-ins gilt, gilt edges, pair of vellum flyleaves, by Koehler, with his signature on verso of front..... More