8vo (143 x 95 mm). Collation: A-T8 (T8 blank). [302] pp. Text in gothic types, stage directions and lists of actors in italic. Title woodcut of a family meal, six text woodcuts of which 5 half-page and one smaller. Wormtrack in gutter of first few leaves, dampstaining to foremargins and... More about Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam...

Manuscript on laid paper, 4to (236 x 176 mm). 126 leaves, foliated [3], 1-3, [1], 4-42, [1], 43-51 [1] 52-61 [1] 62-103 [1] 104-118 (apparently complete). The numbered leaves containing one hundred and eighteen highly finished emblematic drawings, all full-page, explanations written on versos, the unnumbered leaves containing the title... More about Emblemi sulla Dottrina Cristiana ad uso de' Sordo-Muti inventati da S. R. Il Padre Gio. Bat[is]ta...

24mo (binding size 97 x 60 mm). Collation: A12 (text ) [B]12 (gaming tables). 12; 24 (gaming tables); 13-24 pp., but bound without A5.8 (pp. 9-10 and 15-16). Hand-colored engraved title and 9 hand-colored engravings, printed two to a bifolium, fold-out engraved calendar for 1786 wrapped around the text block... More about Le Triomphe d’Apollon ou les chefs d’oeuvres de ses favoris Almanach lyrique et galant

Folio (397 x 250 mm). 110 leaves [plus 29 blanks], of varying sizes, many on guards, of which 6 are large and folding, and 2 small loose sheets, containing dozens of highly finished pen-and-ink or watercolor floral and foliate embroidery designs. Some dampstaining at front with traces of mold, some... More about Album of watercolor and pen-and-ink designs for embroidery

8vo (155 x 93 mm). [30] pp., [1 blank leaf], 560 pp. Woodcut title ornament, woodcut initials. Fresh, clean copy (single wormhole in text). Contemporary vellum tooled in silver-gilt, edges gauffered and gilt'; lacking fore-edge ties, slightly rubbed, small tear to front pastedown at gutter. PROVENANCE: ownership inscription on title... More about De Lipsii latinitate (ut ipsimet antiquarii antiquarium Lipsii stylum indigitant) Palaestra I,...

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 about Ad Capponianas Ruthenas tabulas commentarius

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 about Leipziger Messscenen. Erstes (-Zweites, -Drittes) Heft

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 about Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus...

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 about Haandbog til Brodering og Tegning ... Förste Deel. Med XXVI illuminerede Kobbere, som angive de...

8vo (134 x 90 mm). Collation: a-z8 et8 A-D8. [224] leaves, including final blank. Batarde types, 27 lines. Publisher’s woodcut device on title (not in Renouard), 8- and 4-line metalcut initials. Colophon printed in a cruciform X-shape. Title and last leaf stained, occasional small stains elsewhere, minor worming in lower... More about Le Jardin de contemplation

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 about Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris...

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 about Schöne und rahre Landschafften in Italien und andern Ländern nach dem Leben gezeichnet von Joh....

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 about Opera. [With:] Venantius FORTUNATUS (ca. 530-ca.610). De resurrectione Christi