Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le Jugement de Pâris, Poëme en IV Chants. Paris: chez Chaignieau aîné, 1797.
18mo (150 x 85 mm). 205, [1 blank], [2] pp. Half-titles, two engraved titles, after Charles Eisen (Narcisse) and Moreau (Jugement), and 8 engraved plates, four in part 1 after Gabriel Jacques de St. Aubin, and four in part 2 after Moreau, most engraved by L. Duval. 2-page publisher’s catalogue... More
Mammotrectus super Bibliam. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 23 Sept. 1479.
4to (212 x 146 mm). Collation: A10 B-C8; a-y8 1-68 710 (A1 blank, A2r-C8v subject index; a1r author’s prologue, a1r-7/9v text, colophon on 7/9v, 7/10r-v table of contents). [260] leaves. Double column, 38 lines and headline. Types: 3:106G (headlines and openings of each book), 6:84(75)G (text). Capital spaces with guide..... More
[Hebrew: Gan’ Eden]. Hortvs Eden. Grammatica lingvae sanctae.... Secunda aeditio. Venice: Giovanni De Gara, 1585.
8vo (168 x 110 mm). [2], 102 ff. Hebrew, roman and italic types. Folding letterpress table (a syllabary). Title within type ornament border, printer’s device of three small woodcut crowns. Contemporary limp vellum, ms. title on upper edges (restored patch on lower cover, a few other small restorations). Provenance: Domenicus... More
Das Buech der Warheit. Munich: Adam Berg, 1603.
Bound with: OSUNA, Francisco de and ALBERTINUS. Spiegel der Reichen. Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich, 1603. [Bound with:] DALNER, Andreas. Ein Tractat: Von Auffruhr od[er] Empörungen auß Geistl- und Weltlichen Historien... Ingolstadt: Andreas Angermaier, 1601. I: [12], 207, [4], [1 blank] ff. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut headpiece with hunters... More
La Demauxesia Aumentacion del pueblo por los medios de procurar que no mueran 50.000 personas que ... se pierden anualmente en las Casas de Espósitos, en los Ospicios, y en las Carceles de España. Venice: Antonio Curto son of Jacopo, 1805.
4to (222 x 157 mm). [8], xvi, 76 pp. Engraved arms of the dedicatee Josefa Juaña Nepomucena Alvarez de Faria, flanked by personifications of hope and charity, on first dedication page (*2r), flanked by allegorical figures of pity and charity. A fine, wide-margined copy. Contemporary Italian mottled sheep-backed grey pastepaper... More
Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Paris: the Associated Booksellers to the Church (apud Societatem Typographicam Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici), 1600.
Folio (362 x 245 mm). Collation: ã6 ê6 î4 (i4 blank) õ6 ũ6 ãã6 êê4; A-Z Aa-Yy6. [38], 228, 42 leaves. Double column, printed in red and black, double rule page-borders throughout. 57 pages with printed music (staves red-printed). Woodcut title illustration of Saints Peter and Paul, seven full-page woodcuts... More
24 etched designs for cartouches and other ornaments. Etched text on first plate: All’ Ill.mo Sig.r Fran.co Bandini. Humilissimo servitore Giovan Batista Paganelli DD. Agost.o Mitelli In Ventor [sic]. [Milan: Giovanni Battista Paganelli, after 1650].
Sheet size 267 x 195 mm. 24 unnumbered plates of etchings after Mitelli by an unknown engraver, including title etching, on stubs. Platemarks: 241/ 246 x 166/168 mm. Most printed in brown ink (bistre). Watermarks: six-pointed star (cf. Briquet 6033) or no watermark. First plate slightly soiled and with small... More
Les Bienfaits du sommeil ou Les quatres reves accomplis. Paris: (François Ambroise Didot for) Brunet, 1776.
8vo (162 x 109 mm). 16 pp. Half-title. Etched & engraved title and 4 plates by N. de Launay after Moreau le jeune. Woodcut headpiece by Beugnet, woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides with triple fillet panel, spine gold-tooled, turn-ins richly gold-tooled, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru. Provenance: Georges Danyau, bookplate.*** First... More
L’Ibraim svltano. Drama postvmo. Venice: il Nicolini, 1692.
12mo (141 x 78 mm). “46” (recte 64), [2] pp. Correction leaf at end containing four arias. Engraved frontispiece, title within type-ornament and double rule border, woodcut title ornament, headpieces, tailpiece and initials. Slight staining, small wax stain in gutters of pp. 44-45, but a fresh copy, in contemporary carta... More
Ordinaire de la Messe. Avec les Vespres. Les Complies. Les Sept Pseaumes de la Penitence... Paris: Durand, 1756.
32mo (binding size 97 x 59 mm). Single quire of 32 leaves. [64] pp. Some browning. Contemporary mosaic binding of white calf, the covers almost completely covered with onlays and inlays: at top and bottom a gold-tooled red-morocco double cornerpiece frame enclosing at each corner an inlay of painted clouds... More
Code de Police pour les villes et fauxbourgs de Nancy. Nancy: J. B. Hiacinthe Leclerc, 1769.
12mo (147 x 90 mm). 212, [3] pp. Woodcut thistle ornament on title, woodcut tailpieces. Half-title tearing slightly along gutter, old paper reinforcements to gutters of A8v and B1r, 2 or 3 short marginal tears, occasional light foxing. Contemporary red morocco, double gilt fillet border to sides, smooth spine gold-tooled... More
Manuscript memoir of a captured French officer's experiences in Spain, 1808-1809. Title: Recollections / By / H de Montvaillant. [Hunthill House, Scotland, 1814].
4to (230 x 185 mm). [10], 233, [4] pp. Written in an italic hand in English, with occasional corrections or additions in a different hand, on wove paper, watermarked Budgen & Wilmott / 1812. Four unnumbered pages of French text at front and four at back, the latter dated 27... More
Galerie de Portraits de Personnages Celebres [wrapper title]. Paris: Osterwald l’ainé, [ca. 1816].
16mo (135 x 96 mm). Two livraisons (all published): 1) 4 pp., [9] stipple-engraved plates, a few signed by Bosselman, one after Coeuré. 2) [1] leaf, [7] plates. Light foxing to first text page. On guards. Original blue printed wrappers, edges untrimmed, preserved in late 19th or early 20th-century straight-grained... More
Postilla super totam Bibliam. With the Additiones of Paulus de Sancta Maria, bishop of Burgos (ca. 1350-1435) and commentaries of Gulielmus Brito (d. 1356) and of Matthias Döring (d. before 1465). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 22 January 1481.
2 volumes, royal folio (415 x 285 mm). Collation: (Vol. 1:) [1-58 6-146 158 16-346 3510 366 37-388 39-676 6810]. (Vol. II:) [1-26 38 4-256 268 27-366 376(6+1) 386 (38/6 a cancel) 39-828 8310]. 430 leaves (of 432, without first and last blank leaves) and 506 leaves (of 507, without... More
Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno, Con le dichiarazioni, e spiegazioni dell' Abate Alessandro Mazzinelli. Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni, 1756.
8vo (208 x 133 mm). [24], 407, [1] pp. 2 parts, the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus (Giuseppe Passaro), two engraved title vignettes, 12 engraved tailpiece vignettes, most... More
Advice to a Son. Or Directions For your better Conduct, Through the various and most important Encounters of this Life. ... The Sixt Edition. Oxford [i.e., London]: H[enry]. H[all]. for Tho. Robinson, 1658.
Bound with: Advice to a Son. The Second Part. London: printed for Tho. Robinson in Oxford, 1658. 2 vols. in one, 12mo (139 x 83 mm). [8], 188, [8] pp., including final ad leaf. Part 2: [12], 189, [3] pp. Woodcut initials, type ornaments. Tear in leaf I1 in part... More
Gold-tooled morocco portfolio with papal arms. [Italy, probably Rome, ca. 1710-1750].
An agenda-format portfolio or letter-holder of gold-tooled reddish-brown goatskin (334 x 135 mm.), both covers with dense pointillé tools surrounding a large coat of arms in the upper compartment, consisting of the Papal arms on the front cover (the original Papal shield overlaid by a brown morocco onlay with the... More
Nouvelles étrennes spirituelles, dédiées à Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris: (Clousier for) de Hansy, 1778.
16mo (122 x 65 mm). xlviii, 288 pp. Text in French and Latin partly in parallel columns. Table of moveable feasts for 1782-1794. Woodcut frontispiece, title vignette, and 25 woodcut illustrations including six circular calendar emblems, 4 cuts signed Papillon inv. et f., a few woodcut headpieces. Marginal tear or... More
Scrutinium scripturarum. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after May 1470].
Chancery folio (289 x 209 mm). Collation: [a-b10 c12 d-k10 l8 m-r10 s12 sz10 t-v10 x6]. 217 (of 218) leaves, unfoliated, blank leaf g10 removed, blank leaves x5-6 preserved. manuscript quiring largely preserved, in two series, in red ink, possibly by the rubricator, and in brown ink at extreme outer... More
Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 7 December 1531.
Bound with: JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Des hochberümptesten Geschicht schreybers Justini warhafftige Hystorien die er auss Trogo Pompeio gezoge[n]... Translated into German by Hieronymus Boner. Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19 August 1531. [And with:] HERODIANUS. Der Fürtrefflich Griechisch geschicht schreiber Herodianus. Trans. by H. Boner from Poliziano’s Latin version. Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19..... More
[Odes]. Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, in Greek. Rome: Zacharias Kallierges for Cornelio Benigno, 13 August 1515.
4to (220 x 154 mm). [240] leaves, including blanks 6 and 10. Woodcut devices on title of Benigno (caduceus, Kristeller 149) and Kallierges (double-headed eagle, Kristeller 206), Kallierges’ device reprinted on final verso. Fols. 1 and A3 (opening pages of Olympia and Pythia respectively) with headings, woodcut initials, and a.... More
Versuch an dem Menschen, In Vier Sitten-Briefen an Henrich St. Jean, Grafen von Bolingbroke, über Die Natur und den Zustand des Menschen. Frankfurt: Franz Varrentrapp, 1741.
8vo (193 x 121 mm). [46], 191, [1] pp. Title in red and black with engraved publisher’s device, text in French and German on facing pages in roman and gothic types, eight engraved illustrations, each printed twice, by Martin Tyroff after G. A. Koch, woodcut tail-pieces and passe-partout initial borders... More
Proverbes commvns, et belles sentences pour familierement parler Latin & Francois a tous propos. Paris: Pierre Ménier II, [ca. 1605].
16mo (108 x 75 mm). [64] ff. Type ornament title border, printer’s woodcut device, woodcut initial and headpiece. Discreet marginal paper repairs to first half dozen leaves, causing loss to portions of title border, supplied in neat facsimile, a few other small marginal repairs. 19th-century green morocco, central gold-stamped arms... More
Raimundi Eucharisteria. Venice: Bernardino Vitale, 9 November 1521.
4to (199 x 140 mm). Collation: [a]4 b6. [10] leaves. Three-line title in large caps on a1r, colophon on b6v. Roman types. 26 lines. Hinges of first and last leaves reinforced, marginal browning; removed from a Sammelband and rebound in modern buckram-backed boards. *** Only edition, the only published work by... More
Hortorum libri IV, et cultura hortensis. Hortorum historiam addidit Gabriel Brotier. Paris: J. Barbou, 1780.
12mo (149 x 82 mm.). [2] ff., xxxvi, 319, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece of a gardener in classical setting, by Benoît Louis Prévost, Barbou’s woodcut device on title, woodcut, typographic and engraved head- & tailpieces. Publisher’s list of other works from the Collection d’Auteurs Latins on last page. Printed on..... More
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