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Spécimen des divers caractères, vignettes et fleurons des Fonderie et Stéréotypie de L. Leger...

LEGER, L. 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 about Spécimen des divers caractères, vignettes et fleurons des Fonderie et Stéréotypie de L. Leger...

Price: $7,500.00

Almanach utile et agréable de la loterie de l’Ecole Royale Militaire pour l’année 1759 ......

LOTTERY ALMANAC – GRAVELOT, Hubert François (1699-1773). 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 about Almanach utile et agréable de la loterie de l’Ecole Royale Militaire pour l’année 1759 ......

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Histoire secrette du Prince Croque’Etron et de la Princesse Foirette. Marie-Madeleine de...

[LUBERT, Marie-Madeleine (”Marguerite”) de (1702-1785)?]. 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 about Histoire secrette du Prince Croque’Etron et de la Princesse Foirette

Price: $1,250.00

De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]. Edited by Simon Goulart; translated by...

L’ESPINE, Jean de (ca. 1505-1597). De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]. Edited by Simon Goulart; translated by Théodore Gautier. [Geneva]: Jacob Stoer, 1591.

8vo (173 x 110 mm). [24], 761, [15] pp. Roman and italic types, shoulder notes, woodcut printer’s device on title (Silvestre 1002), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary blind roll-tooled alum-tawed skin, edges stained green (some minor rubbing). Provenance: Jesuits of Amberg (Bavaria), 18th-century inscription on title, later paper... More about De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]. Edited by Simon Goulart; translated by...

Price: $2,500.00

Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le...

MALFILÂTRE, Jacques Charles Louis (1733-1767). 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 about Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le...

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Mammotrectus super Bibliam. Johannes MARCHESINUS

MARCHESINUS, Johannes. 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 about Mammotrectus super Bibliam

Price: $32,000.00

Orationes Partheniae in Conventibus Ordinariis et Generalibus Ad Sodales Marianos in...

MARIAN DEVOTION, SALZBURG – Orationes Partheniae in Conventibus Ordinariis et Generalibus Ad Sodales Marianos in Congregatione Academica Salisburgensi dictae: Et jam ab eadem Congregatione Salisburgensi sub titulo Beatissimae Virginis Matris Dei Mariae Gloriose In Coelos Assumptae Partheniis DD. Sodalibus In Xenium oblatae. Salzburg: Johann Joseph Mayr, (1755).

8vo (148 x 89 mm). [30], 267, [23] pp. 12 engravings in text, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces, large folding letterpress table. Fine condition. Stitched with a drawn-on Brokatpapier cover, the edges cut flush and sprinkled with a red pigment.***A devotional confraternity book produced for members of the Marian... More about Orationes Partheniae in Conventibus Ordinariis et Generalibus Ad Sodales Marianos in...

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Hebrew: Gan’ Eden]. Hortvs Eden. Grammatica lingvae sanctae.... Secunda aeditio. Marco MARINI

MARINI, Marco (1541-1594). [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 about Hebrew: Gan’ Eden]. Hortvs Eden. Grammatica lingvae sanctae.... Secunda aeditio

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Das Buech der Warheit. Pedro de MEDINA, Aegidius ALBERTINUS

MEDINA, Pedro de; Aegidius ALBERTINUS, translator. 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 about Das Buech der Warheit

Price: $2,800.00

La Demauxesia Aumentacion del pueblo por los medios de procurar que no mueran 50.000 personas que...

MEGINO, Alberto de (1759-1820). 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 about La Demauxesia Aumentacion del pueblo por los medios de procurar que no mueran 50.000 personas que...

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Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu...

MISSAL, Roman. 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 about Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu...

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24 etched designs for cartouches and other ornaments. Etched text on first plate: All’ Ill.mo...

MITELLI, Agostino (1609-1660). 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 about 24 etched designs for cartouches and other ornaments. Etched text on first plate: All’ Ill.mo...

Price: $2,750.00

Les Bienfaits du sommeil ou Les quatres reves accomplis. MOREAU le jeune, Barthélemy IMBERT

MOREAU le jeune, illustrator. IMBERT, Barthélemy (1747-1790). 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 about Les Bienfaits du sommeil ou Les quatres reves accomplis

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Ordinaire de la Messe. Avec les Vespres. Les Complies. Les Sept Pseaumes de la Penitence. MOSAIC...

MOSAIC BINDING. 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 about Ordinaire de la Messe. Avec les Vespres. Les Complies. Les Sept Pseaumes de la Penitence

Price: $8,500.00

Code de Police pour les villes et fauxbourgs de Nancy. MUNICIPAL LAW &ndash

MUNICIPAL LAW – 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 about Code de Police pour les villes et fauxbourgs de Nancy

Price: $1,700.00

Manuscript memoir of a captured French officer's experiences in Spain, 1808-1809. Title:...

NAPOLEONIC WARS, PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN – MONTVAILLANT, H. de. 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 about Manuscript memoir of a captured French officer's experiences in Spain, 1808-1809. Title:...

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Galerie de Portraits de Personnages Celebres [wrapper title]. NAPOLEONICA &ndash

NAPOLEONICA – 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 about Galerie de Portraits de Personnages Celebres [wrapper title

Price: $650.00

Suite of etched floral embroidery designs, in two states, colored and uncolored. Johann Friedrich...

NETTO, Johann Friedrich (1756-1810). Suite of etched floral embroidery designs, in two states, colored and uncolored. Leipzig, [ca. 1800].

Oblong folio (200 x 327 mm). 36 etched plates, comprising 18 plates each in two states, colored and uncolored (all the colored plates bound first, followed by the uncolored plates), all numbered in the plate at upper right, “Tab. I [-XVIII] 3ter Bd.,” nearly all signed by Netto, some with... More about Suite of etched floral embroidery designs, in two states, colored and uncolored

Price: $3,500.00

Postilla super totam Bibliam. With the Additiones of Paulus de Sancta Maria, bishop of Burgos...

NICOLAUS DE LYRA (ca. 1270-1349). 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 about Postilla super totam Bibliam. With the Additiones of Paulus de Sancta Maria, bishop of Burgos...

Price: $28,000.00

Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno, Con le dichiarazioni, e spiegazioni dell'...

OFFICE OF THE VIRGIN, Latin and Italian. 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 about Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno, Con le dichiarazioni, e spiegazioni dell'...

Price: $7,500.00

Advice to a Son. Or Directions For your better Conduct, Through the various and most important...

OSBORNE, Francis (1593-1659). 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 about Advice to a Son. Or Directions For your better Conduct, Through the various and most important...

Price: $850.00

Nouvelles étrennes spirituelles, dédiées à Monseigneur le Dauphin. Jean-Michel PAPILLON,...

PAPILLON, Jean-Michel (1698-1776), engraver. 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 about Nouvelles étrennes spirituelles, dédiées à Monseigneur le Dauphin

Price: $2,500.00

Scrutinium scripturarum. PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA, SALOMON HA-LEVI

PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA (SALOMON HA-LEVI). 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 about Scrutinium scripturarum

Price: $57,500.00

Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Marcus Tullius...

PETRARCA-MEISTER – CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 7 [i.e., 17] December 1531.

Bound with: JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Des hochberümptesten Geschicht schreybers Justini warhafftige Hystorien die er auss Trogo Pompeio gezoge[n]. [And with:] HERODIANUS. Der Fürtrefflich Griechisch geschicht schreiber Herodianus. [Both:] Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19 i.e., [29] August 1531.Three vols. in one, folio (303 x 203 mm). Cicero: [8], 91 ff. Title woodcut... More about Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber

Price: $22,000.00

Odes]. Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, in Greek. PINDAR

PINDAR. [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 about Odes]. Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, in Greek

Price: $16,000.00

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