Confessionum Libri tredecim. Rouen: Romain de Beauvais, 1608.
16mo (114 x 78 mm). Collation: A-Z AA-QQ8. [2] ff., “580” [i.e., 569], [51] pp. With pagination errors: p. 188 misnumbered 189; from that page forward odd numbers appear on versos and even numbers on rectos; pp. 520-529 are omitted. Printer’s woodcut device on title. Clean tear in gutter of... More about Confessionum Libri tredecim
Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments. Paris: Firmin Didot frères [for the author], sold by Didot, Jules Renouard and Techener, 1850.
Large 4to (308 x 230 mm). [8], 360; 35 pp. Large-paper issue on heavy wove paper (papier vélin). Includes Greek printing. 61 plates of pen-and-ink lithographs with text, lithographed by Lalanne, printed by Lemercier, including one double-page plate and two chromolithographs with gold-printed captions. Occasional light foxing. presentation binding commissioned... More about Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments
Collected volume of ornament prints. Augsburg: Jeremias Wolff, [ca. 1712-1724].
Broadsheets (378 x 301 mm). [58] leaves of engravings by various German engravers, mainly after Jean Bérain. Platemarks av. 34 x 28 mm. Condition: Fine impressions; old traces of horizontal folds to plates, occasional small marginal dampstain in last few plates, lower margin of last plate strengthened and verso stained... More about Collected volume of ornament prints
Liber bibliae moralis. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 9 April 1474.
Royal folio (402 x 275 mm). Collation: 1-610 78 88 (8/7 + 1) 910 (9/8 + 1) 10-1510 16-178 18-2610 2712]. 266 leaves, unfoliated. 50 lines & headline, double column. Gothic type 1:116. Zainer’s two-sided woodcut border with foliage, flowers, and a jester (BMC 6a) on first page, 10- and... More about Liber bibliae moralis
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Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita... Lyon: Jacques I Mareschal [for Simon Vincent], 16 October 1519.
8vo (180 x 126 mm). [30], 500, [54] pp. (with pagination errors). Title and first table printed in red and black, text in two columns, indices and Gothi summary in 3 columns, publisher’s woodcut device (Baudrier no. 2) on title and verso of final leaf (otherwise blank), full-page Creation woodcut... More about Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita
Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace poete florentin, auquel il traicte des faictz & gestes des illustres & celebres dames. Paris: [Jean Réal for] Philippe Le Noir, [Guillaume Le Bret, and others], 1538.
8vo (144 x 85 mm). [8], 196 leaves. Title printed in red and black. Bâtarde type. Small typographic pointing hands used in text throughout. Half-page woodcut opening text of an author presenting his book to a seated dignitary, with reserved space for letterpress name, here “Jehan bocasse”; a variety of... More about Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace poete florentin, auquel il traicte des faictz &...
La grand nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin version by Jakob Locher (1471-1528). Lyon: François Juste, 1530 (colophon: 29 June 1529).
4to (212 x 154 mm). 101 ff. (of 102, lacking final blank). Gothic types. Title printed in red and black within nine-part woodcut & metalcut title border, woodcut printer’s device in red and black. Red underlining to title. 119 woodcut illustrations printed from 108 blocks. Cuts on e6r and f2r... More about La grand nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin...
Nouveau Traité des Oeillets. La façon la plus utile & facile de les bien cultiver, leurs noms, leurs couleurs, & leur beauté. Avec la Liste des plus nouveaux. Par L. C. B. M. Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1676.
12mo (148 x 85 mm). [4], 162, [2] pp. Publisher’s woodcut device on title, woodcut head- and tailpiece and opening initial. Contemporary parchment over flexible pasteboards. Front pastedown unglued showing liners of printed waste. Dampstain to first few leaves, foxing and softening, corners creased, binding soiled and stiffened. Provenance: from... More about Nouveau Traité des Oeillets. La façon la plus utile & facile de les bien cultiver, leurs...
Almanac Généalogique pour l’an 1787, avec l’approbation de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et belles Lettres. Berlin: (George Jacques Decker), [1786/1787].
24mo (binding size 105 x 60 mm). Collation: A8 [chi]4 *-**12 ***6 B-G12 H6. [240] pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Princess Friederike of Prussia, engraved title, folding engraved map by D. F. Soltzmann, showing the projected Kiel Canal, 12 engraved plates by Chodowiecki; colophon on p. [238], final leaf a.... More about Almanac Généalogique pour l’an 1787, avec l’approbation de l’Académie Royale des...
Manuscript weaving and dyeing manual: Färbebuch für Gottlob Friedrich Rose in Frohburg Anno 1769. Frohburg, 1769.
Manuscript on paper (186 x 160 mm). [47] leaves plus two blanks. Fraktur & cursive script. Illustrated with 11 pages (ff. 41v-46v) of weaving patterns. No visible watermarks. Leaves 2-8 with remnants of red wax adhesive. Some soiling and staining. Contemporary half calf (sheep?), the boards covered in very crude... More about Manuscript weaving and dyeing manual: Färbebuch für Gottlob Friedrich Rose in Frohburg Anno 1769
Novveav livre d’Eglise à l’vsage de Rome, pour la commodité vuniverselle des Laiques. Premiere Edition reduite en un Volume... Auec un Exercice du Chrestien pour les Ames deuotes... Enrichy de nouuelles Figures. Paris: Pierre Rocolet, Pierre Charpentier, Mathurin Denis, Claude Calleville, 1644.
12mo (147 x 81 mm). [60], 911, [1], clxviii pp. Engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved plates. Red and black printing. Woodcut tailpieces. Tear to the Table des feste mobiles (a5), slight mold in gutter of pp. 896-7. Contemporary calf, sides framed in double gilt fillets, central motif of the Cross... More about Novveav livre d’Eglise à l’vsage de Rome, pour la commodité vuniverselle des Laiques....
Les Oeuvres. Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1579.
16mo (118 x 72 mm). 256 pp. Roman type. Title woodcut of a convivial feast, woodcut initial. Tiny rust-hole in fol. E3, trifling foxing to title and second leaf. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides panelled with triple fillet border and central gold-stamped arms of the Marquis de Coislin, spine gold-tooled... More about Les Oeuvres
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Sext[us] decretalium liber ... Cui adiecta sunt recenter summaria. [Part 2:] CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. [Part 3:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. [Part 4:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Paris: Jean Kerbriand (at least in part for Pierre Gaudoul), 1531.
Bound with: CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. Paris: for Pierre Gaudoul, 1531 [And:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. Paris: [Jean Kerbriand], 1531 [And:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Paris: (Jean Kerbriand), 1531. 8vo (155 x 98 mm). Four parts... More about Sext[us] decretalium liber ... Cui adiecta sunt recenter summaria. [Part 2:] CLEMENT V, Pope....
Planeten Büchlin. Wie mann eines jeden Menschen Art Natur unnd Complexion nach dem er unter einem Planeten und Zeichen geboren ist erkennen soll Anfenglich seines Lebens biss ans ende. Frankfurt: Weigandt Han, [not before 1556].
Small 4to (183 x 128 mm). Collation: A-G4. [28] leaves. Gothic type. Title printed in red and black, large title woodcut of the wheel of fortune, thirty-two woodcut text illustrations consisting of 12 cuts of the astrological signs, 7 cuts of the planets, one zodiac man cut, and 12 small... More about Planeten Büchlin. Wie mann eines jeden Menschen Art Natur unnd Complexion nach dem er unter...
Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York. At New York printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to their Majesties King William & Queen Mary, 1694. Edited and annotated by Robert Ludlow Fowler. New York: (Theodore Low de Vinne for) The Grolier Club, January, 1894.
Printed on vellum. Folio (285 x 185 mm). [6] leaves, clxiii, [1]; [4], 84, 4, 4, [6], 11 pp. [1] leaf. 2 blank leaves at front and 4 at back. Title with Grolier Club device, three engraved vignettes by Max Rosenthal in the first part (Fowler’s introduction), unsigned lithograph on... More about Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York....
Thirsis Minnewit. Bestaande in een verzameling der moyste en aangenaamste minne-zangen en voysen. Amsterdam: Joannes Kannewet II, [ca. 1750-1760].
2 works in 4 volumes, 12mo, bound dos-à-dos (binding size 134 x 74 x 50 mm). Thirsis Minnewit: 3 volumes: [8], 160; 164, [4]; [8], 160. Volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, all 3 letterpress titles with a woodcut vignette of men and women at a banquet, woodcut initials and tail-piece... More about Thirsis Minnewit. Bestaande in een verzameling der moyste en aangenaamste minne-zangen en voysen
Question royalle et sa décision. “Paris: chez Toussainct Du Bray, 1609” [i.e., mid-18th century].
12mo (161 x 99 mm). [1], 56 (recte 65) ff. Woodcut title vignette (harvesting scene with lion at top), woodcut headpiece and initial. Publisher’s binding? of 18th-century French olive morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, flat spine gold-tooled and -lettered, gilt edges (joints and extremities scuffed, spine a trifle faded).*** Counterfeit... More about Question royalle et sa décision
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Emblemi sulla Dottrina Cristiana ad uso de' Sordo-Muti inventati da S. R. Il Padre Gio. Bat[is]ta Ottavio Assarotti, delle scuole Pie. Genoa, 1824.
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...
Compendiöses Wirthschafts-Buch für Frauenzimmer. Quedlinburg: Friedrich Joseph Ernst, 1806.
8vo (171 x 105 mm). [iv], 107 pp. Contemporary brown speckled paper boards, edges sprinkled red.*** Only Edition, only known copy, of a household guide for the German lady of the house, with instructions on domestic and personal care, from the pantry to the boudoir. 216 short chapters arranged by subject... More about Compendiöses Wirthschafts-Buch für Frauenzimmer
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 about Ad Capponianas Ruthenas tabulas commentarius
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 about Quadragesimale
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 about Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris...
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 about Schöne und rahre Landschafften in Italien und andern Ländern nach dem Leben gezeichnet von Joh....
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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 about Opera. [With:] Venantius FORTUNATUS (ca. 530-ca.610). De resurrectione Christi
![La decoratio[n] Dhumaine nature et aornement des dames. Co[m]pile et extraict des tres...](/pictures/thumb/2009.jpg?v=1464284620)
La decoratio[n] Dhumaine nature et aornement des dames. Co[m]pile et extraict des tres excelle[nts] docteurs et pl[us] expers medecins ta[n]t anciens q[ue] modernes… Lyon: Claude Veycellier, 1 March 1531.
8vo (133 x 90 mm). 50, [6] leaves. Bâtarde type. Title in red and black within woodcut border printed from four blocks, woodcut initials. Bound ca. 1830 in crimson polished calf, covers with double gilt fillet surrounding two blind roll-tooled borders, smooth spine gilt with title lettered longitudinally within decorative... More about La decoratio[n] Dhumaine nature et aornement des dames. Co[m]pile et extraict des tres...