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ALMANAC – Etrennes mignonnes Curieuses et utiles Augmentées pour l’Année 1743. Paris: de la boutique de M. Jouenne chez Durand rue S. Jacques à S. Landry et au Grison, [1742/43].

24mo (binding size 99 x 57 mm). [64] pp. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, double-page engraved map of France at end. Contemporary gold-blocked brown goatskin, an emblematic binding with a panel stamp incorporating at center a scythe and hourglass, framed in a riot of curving lines, drawer-handle ornaments, leaf plants... More

Price: $1,750.00

ALMANAC – Le Petit Glaneur Lirique. Paris: chez Le Fuel, [1814/1815].

24mo (binding size 103 x 65 mm). [32] leaves. Engraved title, 5 stipple-engraved plates by Duthé after F. Mossard, 6 leaves with engraved vignettes of reclining ladies or girls in empire dresses at top of each recto and verso, the rest blank for reader’s notes, fold-out letterpress calendar for 1815... More

Price: $1,500.00

ALMANAC – Les Etrennes à la Rose ou le Rosier d’amour. Paris: chez Janet, [1800/1801].

24mo (binding size 95 x 63 mm). Engraved title, 24 leaves text, partly engraved, paginated 13, [24], 14-24 pp.,12 plates, two calendars: traditional folding letterpress calendar with woodcut vignettes, and Republican calendar in 6 leaves. Embroidered binding of ivory silk, covers with metallic ribbom border enclosing oval cartouche of leafy... More

Price: $1,500.00

BERAIN, Jean I, artist [and others] WOLFF, Jeremias, publisher. 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

Price: $8,500.00

BERTIN, Théodore-Pierre; DAY, Thomas. Le Nouvel ami des enfans, ou le Berquin anglais...Traduction libre de l'anglais ... Cinquième édition, considérablement augmentée. Paris: (Imprimerie de Casimir for) Ledentu, 1827.

4 vols. in two, 18mo. viii, 202; 204; 215, [1]; 214, [2] pp. 24 engraved plates, including 12 stipple engravings in vol. 1, faintly signed Dien sc. Contemporary tree calf gilt (scraped and worn). Inscription on front flyleaf of vol. 1: Souvenir de Thse de Butler à son frère Maurice... More

Price: $500.00

BIBLE, Latin. Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita... Lyon: Jacques I Mareschal [for Simon Vincent], 17 November 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

Price: $7,800.00

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). [Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher, Philomusus, in collaboration with Brant. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 June 1497.

4to (195 x 135 mm). Collation: A-B6 C-H4.6 I4 K-X4.6 y6. 112 leaves, foliated with errors 1-”116”. 35-38 lines (variable) and headline. Types: gothic type 17:145 (title and headlines), roman type 22:89 (text). A few spaces for initials, unrubricated. 118 woodcut illustrations printed from 78 blocks. Title stained and soiled... More

Price: $20,000.00

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). 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

Price: $40,000.00

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). Varia carmina. With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe. Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 May 1498.

4to (203 x 145 mm). Collation: A-C8 D-I8.4 K4; a8 bc4 d-h8 i4 k-m8 n4. 148 leaves, unfoliated. 30 lines, printed shoulder notes. Roman types 1:109 (title and Latin text), 3:77 (marginalia), gothic types 4:220 (title and headings) and 5:109G (German text). 7 woodcut illustrations printed from 6 blocks, including... More

Price: $14,000.00

BROADSIDES: Notre Dame de la Délivrance. La Dévotion à l’Image de la très Ste Vierge dite Notre Dame de la Delivrance. [And:] Notre Dame de Bonne Delivrance protectrice des Femmes Enceintes. [Both:] Paris: chez Jean, rue Jean de Beauvais no. 32 [but imprint cropped in first broadside], [ca. 1797-1800].

Two hand-colored engraved broadsheets: 1) Large broadside, trimmed to borders (482 x 389 mm.), and laid down on modern paper; showing large central figure of Our Lady of Deliverance holding in her left arm the crowned Christ Child, on an altar with maritime background, surrounded by ex-votos, flanked by eight... More

Price: $2,800.00

CALLIGRAPHY – COMINOTTI, Carlo. Esemplari di caratteri scritti e incisi... Livorno: Calcografia Vignozzi, 1830-1852.

Oblong (170 x 338 mm). [18] leaves. Engraved title dated 1830, 16 engraved plates of calligraphic specimens by Cominotti, extra inserted leaf dated 1852, engraved by C. Castellini. Leaves of varying heights, some deckle edges. Occasional light foxing. Stab-stitched in original yellow printed wrappers, dated 1852, title on front cover... More

Price: $1,250.00

CIBOULE, Robert (ca. 1403-1458). Le Livre de la perfection de la vie crestienne [sic]. Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, [ca. 1510].

8vo (141 x 91 mm). [128] leaves. Bâtarde types. Title with small metalcut device of Simon Vostre (Renouard 1108), on verso a full-page metalcut of the Trinity and All Saints, large Pigouchet device on verso of last leaf (Renouard 919), 3- and 4-ine metalcut initials. All quires with printed quire... More

Price: $7,500.00

COLOR RECIPES AND PATTERNS FOR WEAVERS – 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

Price: $3,800.00

CONFRATERNITY of JERUSALEM. Carta de Irmandade de Jerusalem. Lisbon: Royal Press, 1813.

Broadsheet (434 x 325 mm). Printed text in two columns, fulfilled in manuscript; surmounted by a row of three woodcuts, at bottom the seal of the Portuguese Commissary General of the Holy Land. Fine condition, untrimmed, minor creases at folds.***An illustrated printed form granting induction into the Confraternity (Irmandade) of... More

Price: $1,500.00

CREUTZER, Peter. 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

Price: $12,000.00

DEVOTIONAL BROADSIDE. Sainte Solange, Vierge et Martyre, patronne du Berry. Chartres: chez Garnier-Allabre, [between 1805 and 1815].

Broadsheet (378 x 310 mm.) on laid paper, deckle edges. Large central stencil- colored woodcut of Saint Solange, framed by letterpress text: a three-line title in large type, narrow bands of text on either side consisting of lyrics to a song about the Saint, and a litany, with imprint at... More

Price: $1,650.00

[DU VERDIER, Antoine, attributed to]. La biographie et prosopographie des roys de France. Paris: Leon Cavellat, 1583.

8vo (170 x 105 mm). [8], 85, [3] leaves (the last blank). Title with woodcut arms, woodcut royal device of Charles IX on title verso (Renouard 796), large woodcut Cavellat gryphon device on final verso (Renouard 130), 62 woodcut portraits of sovereigns, each on its own page with a caption... More

Price: $5,750.00

EGELANTIER – Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam opentlijck ghespeelt, Anno 1591. Amsterdam: Herman Jansz. Muller, 1591.

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

Price: $9,500.00

EMBLEMS FOR THE DEAF — ASSAROTTI, Ottavio Giovanni Battista (1753-1829). 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

Price: $22,000.00

EMBROIDERED BINDING – Le Triomphe d’Apollon ou les chefs d’oeuvres de ses favoris Almanach lyrique et galant. Paris: Jubert, doreur, [for] Bailly, libraire, [1785/1786].

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

Price: $3,000.00

FALCONI, Niccolò Carminio (1681-1759). 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

Price: $7,500.00

FARLEY, Robert. Kalendarium humanæ vitæ. The Kalender of mans life. London: for William Hope, 1638.

8vo (142 x 91 mm). [152] pp. (plus 2 extra leaves). Final blank removed. Engraved title by George Glover, 16 full-page emblematic woodcuts, the oval emblems set within repeating ornamental cartouches (using 3 series of blocks), with inset letterpress Latin and English captions; typographical ornaments, woodcut factotum initials. This copy... More

Price: $6,500.00

GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, Johann. Die brösamlin. Compiled by Johann Pauli. Strassburg: Johannes Grüninger, 4 February - 24 March 1517.

Folio (313 x 205 mm). 2 parts: 110 (recte 106); 92 leaves. Gothic types, double column. Title printed in red and black within a woodcut Renaissance-style border block, thirty-four text illustrations printed from 32 blocks (including several repeats and two illustrations printed from two or three blocks) by the Master... More

Price: $22,000.00

GLACIERS – GRUNER, Gottlieb Sigmund (1717-1778). Die Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes. Bern: Abraham Wagner, 1760.

3 vols., 8vo (205 x 123 mm). I: 41, [3], 237, [1 bl.], [3], [1 bl.] pp. II: [4], 9, [3], 224 pp.; III: 14, 219, 2, [1 bl.] pp. 21 engraved plates: frontispiece, 2 folding maps of the Swiss Alps, including one mineralogical map, and 17 folding plates, by... More

Price: $4,800.00

HORAE B.M.V., use of Rome. 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

Price: $32,000.00

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