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[RAY, John (1627-1705)]. A Collection of English Proverbs, Digested into a convenient Method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion; with Short Annotations.... By J. R. Cambridge: John Hayes for W. Morden, 1670.

8vo (155 x 95 mm). [8], 296 pp. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials, type ornament headpiece. Some soiling and discoloration, corners softened at front and back, a few small edge chips. Contemporary sheep, covers simply ruled with double blind fillets, no upper pastedown, lower pastedown from a.... More

Price: $1,100.00

RELICS – DURAZZO FAMILY. A collection of printed and manuscript documents relating to religious relics in the private chapels of the Durazzo family palace and villa, including 12 printed and 2 manuscript relic authentications. Genoa, Rome and other places, 1661-1794.

Binding size 335 x 233 mm. Contents: 18 documents: 12 printed authentication forms (”authentics”), all completed in manuscript, most with woodcut arms of the issuing cleric at top, some with woodcut or typographic three-quarter borders; all with official wax seals or stamps, of which most attach a second sheet of... More

Price: $18,000.00

RÉMI de BEAUVAIS. La Magdeleine. Tournai: Charles Martin, 1617.

8vo (150 x 98 mm). Engraved title, 746, [5] pp., [1] blank leaf. 2 engraved plates. Shoulder notes. Woodcut and typographic head- and tail-piece ornaments. Rust-stain in quire D, small stain or adhesion on fol. Tt3v affecting a couple of words, soiling to a page or two, else very good... More

Price: $1,800.00

RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mézières (1713-1792) – Henry FIELDING. Amélie, roman de Mr Fiedling [sic, corrected in titles of parts 2 and 3], Traduit de l’Anglois Par Mdme Riccoboni. Paris: Brocas & Humblot, 1762.

3 vols. in one, 12mo (162 x 97 mm). [2] ll., 176 pp.; [2] ll., 208 pp.; [2] ll., 271 pp. Fine. Contemporary French mottled calf, flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece, edges stained red (foot of spine slightly chipped).***First Edition of Mme. Riccoboni’s free adaptation of Fielding’s... More

Price: $1,350.00

RITTMEYER, Johann (1636-1698). Himmlisches Freuden-Mahl der Kinder Gottes auff Erden. Oder Geistreiche Gebete, so vor, bey und nach der Beicht und heiligem Abendmahl, kräfftig zu gebrauchen. Lüneburg: Cornelius Johann Stern, 1730.

Long 12mo (150 x 67 mm). [24], 621, [3] pp. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, letterpress title in red and black, 10 engraved emblematic plates, the engravings by Johann-Benjamin Brühl. Bericht an die Buchbinder, listing the plates, at end. Contemporary German “sharkskin” (rayfish) binding, covers with mounted silver frames with... More

Price: $5,500.00

ROCHEFORT, César de (1630-1691). Abbregé des metamorphoses ou Fictions poetiques, reduites en questions, pour les curieux de l'Histoire profane, & pour l'instruction de la Jeunesse... Premiere edition. Lyon: Pierre Guillimin, 1685.

12mo (144 x 75 mm). [12], 206, [16] pp. Engraved arms of the dedicatee Marin Curty as headpiece, two woodcut initials, type ornaments. A bit dust-soiled. Contemporary French speckled calf, spine gold-tooled, edges red-sprinkled (worn).***Only Edition. A question-and-answer guide to classical mythology for children. The gods and heroes are listed... More

Price: $1,250.00

RÖSSLIN, Eucharius and Johannes de CUBA (attributed to). Kreutterbuch von allen Erdgewächs. Frankfurt: Christoph Egenolff, 26 March 1533.

[Bound with:] BRUNFELS, Otto (1488-1534). Contrafayt Kreüterbüch nach rechter vollkommener art. Strassburg: Johann Scott, 1532. [Bound with:] [IBN BUTLAN (d. ca. 1068), et al.] Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1533. 3 volumes in one, folio (294 x 194 mm.) 1) Rösslin: [16], 212, [8] pp. Double column, gothic types... More

Price: $35,000.00

[ROUGET de LISLE, Claude Joseph (1760-1836), and others]. Chansons Patriotiques. Nouvelle Edition. Dord: B. F. Morks, 1795.

Bound with: ROUGET de LISLE. Autograph letter signed. 8vo (159 x 99 mm). 136 pp. Half-title, engraved title with revolutionary emblems. Very good, 2 or 3 marginal tears. Hand-colored etching of a Revolutionary tribunal cut round and mounted on front flyleaf. Modern marbled boards, preserving earlier gilt leather lettering-piece on... More

Price: $2,200.00

RUIZ ALCOHOLADO, Pedro. Ceremonial romano para Missas cantadas y rezadas. En el qual se ponen todas las Rubricas generales y particulares del Missel Romano, que divulge el Papa Pio. Alcalá de Henares: heirs [widow] of Juan Gracián for Juan de Montoya, bookseller at the Court, 1589.

4to (200 x 139 mm). Collation: ¶8 A-B4 C-Q8 R4 (R4 blank). [8], 113, [10] leaves. Index in two columns. Title woodcut of Saints Peter and Paul, woodcut floriated initials. Wormtracks in gutters, scattered dampstaining, dark marginal stains to corners in quires K-L. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, stained, upper... More

Price: $1,800.00

SAILER, Sebastian (1714-1777). Christliche Tageszeit in auferbaulichen feinen Bildern, zu Morgen, Messe, Reise, und Abend, mit geistreichen Gebethern entworfen. Vienna: Kurzböck (”mit Kurtzböckischen Schriften”), [ca. 1769].

Bound with: STATIONS OF THE CROSS – Der Creutzweg Jesu Christi durch Betrachtungen in Versen entworfen ...Verbesserte Auflage. Vienna: Joseph Kurzböck, 1769. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (173 x 108 mm). Sailer: 3 parts, [36] leaves, 31 engraved plates. Title within floral woodcut border. Extra-illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by... More

Price: $1,600.00

SCHREIBKALENDER. Grätzerischer Schreibkalender, auf das Jahr nach der gnadenreichen Geburt unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi 1795. Graz: Andreas Leykam, [1794/95].

4to (206 x 155 mm). [48] pp. Pictorial woodcut title border, title and calendar printed in red and black, woodcut astrological symbols. Interleaved with 11 leaves of contemporary manuscript notes in two different hands, in brown ink and graphite, on heavier paper. Small inkstamp on title with initial G and... More

Price: $2,750.00

SCRAPBOOK – Baroness DARU. An album containing over four hundred clipped illustrations from printed books and periodicals of the Romantic period. [France, ca. 1855].

Oblong album (257 x 333 mm). [55] leaves of thick paper including sheets of blue, green and brown paper, on the rectos and some versos of which are carefully mounted approximately 425 cut-out illustrations from French books and periodicals, most from the 1830s and 1840s (but with 5 eighteenth-century illustrations... More

Price: $2,500.00

SEITZ, Johann Baptist (1786-1859). Tableau de calligraphie. Munich: Anton Dreer, 1816.

Large folio engraved broadsheet (775 x 590 mm.) of calligraphic samples, with five engraved vignettes. Thick wove paper, deckle edges. Fine condition.***A splendid calligraphic sample, beautifully preserved. The imprint states that it was “composed, engraved and published by J. B. Seitz.” Seitz was an engraver for the Royal Bavarian Bureau..... More

Price: $3,600.00

SOZZINI, Fausto Paolo (1539-1604). Christianae religionis brevissima Institutio, Per Interrogationes & responsiones, quam Catechismum vulgò vocant ... Opus imperfectum. Raków: Sebastianus Sternacius, 1618.

8vo (154 x 94 mm). 180 pp., [1] leaf (errata). Text in italic types, shoulder notes in roman. Ruled in red throughout. Slight overall discoloration due to paper quality, repaired tears in fol. A6, small abrasion on B1r. Eighteenth-century dark citron morocco, sides with triple gilt fillet borders, spine gold-tooled... More

Price: $9,000.00

[STEYRER, Philipp Jakob (1715-1795)]. Leben, und Wunder-Thaten des heiligen Udalrici oder Ulrich, Beichtigers, aus dem Orden des heiligen Benedicti, der Cluniacenser Congregation, und ersten Priors des Closters der hh. Apostlen Petri und Pauli, jetzt von ihm St. Ulrich genannt, im Schwarzwald. Augsburg and Freiburg: Ignaz and Anton Wagner, 1756.

8vo (165 x 90 mm). [22], 340, [10] pp. Title printed across two pages, in red and black. Folding engraved frontispiece and three engraved plates (one loose), by and after Peter Maÿer of Freiburg. Typographic head-piece ornaments and initial borders, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Errata page at end. Some browning... More

Price: $1,800.00

TEXTILE MERCHANT’S ACCOUNT BOOK. “Brouillard no B Commencé le 26 aoust 1771 et fini le 27 fevrier 1774, de M & E” [cover title]. Grenoble, 1771-1774.

Folio (277 x 184 mm). 193 leaves, paginated 1-167 166-167 168-384. Densely written in several cursive hands, some rapidly written but most quite legible, approximately 36 lines per page. 3 columns, for date, debtor or creditor and items, and prices. First leaf wrinkled and darkened, a few corners creased, dusty... More

Price: $3,000.00

THOMAS A KEMPIS. Opuscules... Traduits du Latin d’Horstius par le R. P. Colomme. Paris: Guillot, Libraire de Monsieur, 1785.

12mo (167 x 95 mm). xxiv, 525, [3 blank] pp. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary French calf gilt, sides with triple gilt border and central gold-blocked arms of Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Perigord (variant of Guigard I:368), cardinal and archbishop of Reims (1736-1821), smooth spine gold-tooled, olive morocco gilt lettering-piece, g.e.... More

Price: $1,850.00

[THOMAS A KEMPIS]. De imitatione Christi libri quatuor. Paris: e Typographia Regia, 1736.

4to (251 x 182 mm). 390, [10] pp. Engraved frontispiece after Jacques Stella, engraved title vignette and four figurative initials opening each book, thick and thin double rule page-borders throughout. Title a bit dusty, small tear and wrinkling in lower margin of G1, occasional minor stains, some dust-soiling to outer... More

Price: $3,500.00

THOMAS AQUINAS. Summa theologiae: Secunda secundae. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 6 March 1467.

Royal folio (404 x 295 mm). Collation: [1-510 612 7-1010 11-138 14-1910 206 21-2310 24-2610 276]. 258 leaves. 59 lines, double column. Gothic type 3:91. Rubrication: opening 12-line initial with reserved decoration and purple penwork infill and filigree extensions, 4- to 6-line initials in red throughout, the major initials with... More

Price: $180,000.00

THOMAS AQUINAS. Super quarto libro sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 2 February 1480.

Royal folio (390 x 287 mm). Collation: [a12-1 [b8 c-d8 e8] f8 g-m10 n-z8 A-L8 M6 N8 O8 P-Y8 Z8 (numerous missignings, last leaf blank (lacking). 388 (of 389)] leaves, unfoliated. Double column. 53 lines and headlines. Types: 2:150 (headlines and headings), 1:102 (text). First page with a four-part historiated... More

Price: $17,500.00

TOMÁS DE JÉSUS (ca. 1564-1627). Stimulus missionum: Sive de propaganda a Religiosis per universum Orbem Fide. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1610.

8vo (162 x 99 mm). [8], 234, [5] pp. Title woodcut of Saints Peter and Paul flanking papal arms, woodcut initials. Some minor marginal dust-soiling, final errata leaf slightly creased. Contemporary parchment over flexible pasteboards, traces of two fore-edge ties, manuscript spine title. Provenance: Rouen, Cathedral library, 18th-century printed label... More

Price: $3,500.00

TURRECREMATA, Johannes de. Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis. [With:] [NICOLAS de BYARD. Summa distinctionum secundum ordinem alphabeti, sive Dictionarius pauperum sive:] Flos theologiae. [Vienne]: Eberhard Frommolt, 24 July 1481.

Chancery folio (296 x 205 mm). Collation and contents as in BMC. 450 leaves, unfoliated, the first and last blank. Type 1:98G. Double column, 41 lines & headline (in the Flos only). Initial spaces, those in the Flos theologiae mainly with guide letters. Rubrication: opening 6- and 7-line initials in... More

Price: $28,000.00

VAENIUS, Ernestus. Tractatus physiologicus de pulchritudine, Juxta ea quae de Sponsa in Canticis Canticorum mysticè pronunciantur. Brussels: Franciscus Foppens, 1662.

Small 8vo (154 x 86 mm). [8], 60, [1], [3 blank] pp. Line-engraved title vignette & 28 engraved illustrations in text, some two to a page, most of female busts, four of animals' heads, the last two showing full-length female figures including a saint next to a palm tree. Faint... More

Price: $2,800.00

VAN DE VENNE, Adriaen, artist; CATS, Jacob (1577-1660). Tooneel van de Mannelicke Achtbaerheyt, aen-gewesen in de Voor-sprake, teghen-sprake, ende uyt-sprake, gedaen over de weygheringhe van de Koninginne Vasthi. Middelburg: Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne, 1622.

4to (233 x 176 mm). [16], 60, [19], [1 blank] pp. Large emblematic publisher’s mark on title-page, four half-page engraved illustrations, by Pieter de Jode (2), Pieter Serwouters, and Willem van der Passe after Adriaen van der Venne. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Title a bit soiled and with... More

Price: $2,200.00

VANNINI, Artemio. Vita e miracoli della Beata Limbania Vergine, et Monaca del Monasterio di San Tomaso di Genova. Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1615 (colophon: 1612).

4to (197 x 137 mm). [8], 101, [3] pp. Title within woodcut architectural border with allegorical figures, emblematic motifs, and four armorial shields including the arms of Genoa (St. George’s cross), below the title a bird’s-eye view of the port of Genoa; four full-page engravings, historiated woodcut initials, type-ornament page... More

Price: $3,200.00

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